From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: New Project: "Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:37:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 1 (1)


Preserving Variable Media Art"

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

May 6, 2002

     Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art

               <a href="http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/avant_garde.html">http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/avant_garde.html</a>

Below is the outline of a new consortial project aimed at the

problems of collecting, documenting, and preserving digital art,

and other variable media art forms. The project includes mechanisms

for broad input from artists and other professionals and the designers

are curious to hear of other current efforts relating to these same

problems. Comments to <mailto:rinehart@uclink.berkeley.edu>

David Green

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ARCHIVING THE AVANT GARDE: DOCUMENTING AND PRESERVING VARIABLE MEDIA ART

Works of variable media art, such as performance, installation,

conceptual, and digital art, represent some of the most compelling

and significant artistic creation of our time. These works are key to

understanding contemporary art practice and scholarship, but because

of their ephemeral, technical, multimedia, or otherwise variable

natures, they also present significant obstacles to accurate

documentation, access, and preservation.

The works were in many cases created to challenge traditional methods of

art description and preservation, but now, lacking such description, they

often comprise the more obscure aspects of institutional collections, virtually

inaccessible to present day researchers. Without strategies for cataloging

and preservation, many of these vital works will eventually be lost to art

history.

Description of and access to art collections promote new scholarship and

artistic production. By developing ways to catalog and preserve these

collections, we will both provide current and future generations the

opportunity to learn from and be inspired by the works and ensure the

perpetuation and

accuracy of art historical records. It is to achieve these goals that

we are initiating the consortium project Archiving the Avant Garde:

Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art.

The collaboration includes of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

(BAM/PFA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Walker Art Center,

Rhizome.org, the Franklin Furnace Archive, and the Cleveland Performance

Art Festival and Archive.


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From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: OCR and handwriting
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:33:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 2 (2)


Bianca Feldmann, "OCR von Handschriften", in Manfred Thaller, editor,

*Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis: Eine mittelalterliche

Kathedralbibliothek in digitaler Form* (Goettingen: Duehrkohp &

Radicke, 2001), 107-143, is a survey of work on OCR for handwriting.

There are lots of references (the bibliography is ten pages long), but

the general sense is that it's still not adequate for actual use yet.

John Lavagnino

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London



From: "Malcolm Hayward" <mhayward@iup.edu>
Subject: Re: 15.638 cultural divisions
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:34:46 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 3 (3)


On the issue of care in transmitting ideas across cultures: Absolutely. Or,

with this topic, pretty absolutely. As I was teaching a theory class this

semester, I was struck by how much the  very structured nature of French

culture informs the background of such writers as Foucault and Althusser.

It seems kind of obvious to me now--that an ideology would seem more

determined and determining on the streets of Paris than those of New York

or Los Angeles, and yet students and probably many critics might assume our

"always already" positions are equally structured. Similarly, trying to put

Derrida's early work into a context, I mentioned May 1968. But of course my

students, most in their 20s and 30s, had no memory of those days. All of

which is to say that the "application of ideas" from one culture to another

must always be modified by as acute an historical awareness as the

teacher/writer can muster.

Malcolm Hayward

On Mon, 06 May 2002 10:57:50 +0100

   "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard

McCarty             <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>)"

<willard@lists.village.virginia.edu> wrote:
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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 15.638 cultural divisions
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:36:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 4 (4)


Willard,

A very French syntactic move... reversing the order of your quotation and

your question...
[deleted quotation]
* see above *
[deleted quotation]
* is it a problem of understanding, communication of understanding,

communication of critique, cultural sensitivity or just plain diplomacy

and tactfulness? *
[deleted quotation]
* how is the situation you describe any different than any

intellectual exchange in a common language? *
[deleted quotation]
* what of officially bilingual countries such as Belgium and Canada? and

what of unofficial biligualism of such states as California? there is a

limit to the application of an analogy based on the geographic proximity

of former empire states ... *
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The frontiers of understanding may be located differently. It does not

follow that the paths to understanding are different except perhaps in

their empirical realization. A multi-story house with a ladder in the

pueblo fashion versus a two story house with built-in stairs versus a

skyrise appartment building with an elevator : all have a vertical axis

and a special conveyance to move from one level to the other. Different

frontiers. Same understanding (vertical, level, connection). Now,

pedagogical traditions may differently stress one or the other of the

components of the gestalt. However, whatever the pedagogical stories

recounted, hunans can "go meta".

"failures" in communication between two parties or "failures" in

comprehenison between multiple parties provide the information (like a

flock formation) which other parties can read, interpret and even on

occasion reformulate for the two or more parties to "succeed" (and thus

fail by moving certain components to the background of communication or

to the great cultural unconscious).

What on earth prompted such a two-solitudes dichotomous question? Why

would one automatically believe the account provided by the Ennals? Isn't

the definition of "linguistic" restrictive even in this context? Isn't

pragmatics a part of linguistics?  I don't get the rhetoric of "this is

more difficult than mere X". It seems snobbish. I prefer a hint of modesty

as in ... It's only an omlette with a touch of tarragon. Mais quel

omlette!

N'est-ce pas?


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/pedagogy/tcc2002.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/pedagogy/tcc2002.htm</a>
Hand, Eye and Brain: designing for voice, vision and mind



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: now we are 15
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:28:33 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 5 (5)


Time is again -- the 15th time, to be exact -- to look up from the work --

nose from off the grindstone, ear up from the ground, shoulder away from

the wheel -- and notice that we've been hanging out in this virtual here

for a while -- in the life of dogs and computers quite a while. And in the

life of humans the teens seem forever, especially to the parents. Will

Humanist make it out of its teenage years? Will I? It's been quite an

adolescence so far!

But now time to celebrate our persistence (or survival, if you wish) and

see what the horizon looks like. Refulgent with bright promise, yes, of

course, even if one cannot see "Eternity's sunrise", and despite the

formidable darknesses visible and invisible. But it's the present and

immediate past I want to talk about, as I think from them we may get some

direction into the future of emergent and unrealized possibilities for the

field.

Recently I attended a meeting in Pisa hosted by Antonio Zampolli (to whom

many thanks), the purpose of which was to sketch out a "roadmap" for the

field. Various people reported on activities in the various disciplines,

concentrating on the new and interesting in order to triangulate on the

way(s) ahead. More will come of this very productive meeting in due course,

at the forthcoming ALLC/ACH in Tuebingen. My own contribution in Pisa was

chiefly in the form of an actual map of a kind, "a rough intellectual map

for humanities computing" <<a href="http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/map/">http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/map/</a>>.

What's new about this map -- the question *was* asked -- isn't anything in

it, rather our impulse and ability to engage in this sort of activity.

Gradually over the last 10 years, as voices from outside the older

disciplines have gained confidence and been heard, the methodological

commons has come into focus, and the interchange of intellectual goods

between the disciplines and the commons taken shape. More recently (though

with great debt to earlier work) the "clouds of knowing", as Harold Short

called them, have become visible in relation to this commons: broad areas

of learning that, we are beginning ever more clearly to realize, must

become part of the background knowledge that cultivating this commons

requires. But -- this is the point which my birthday message is to make --

what matters isn't this or any other map, my scheme or anyone else's,

rather it's the activity of mapping, or in verbal terms, the conversation

enlivened and deepened by questionable and questioning statements.

Also quite recently I felt the need to look through one of our journals,

Computers and the Humanities, from its inception in 1966 to the present.

What struck me almost immediately was the number of articles in the first

half-dozen years devoted to critical questioning of the field, its nature

and possibilities. How refreshing, and how typical of the humanities, are

those critical essays! In a chronological reading of CHum, however, one

encounters fewer and fewer of those. Why is this? One cannot, I think,

successfully explain the apparent decline in disciplinary

self-consciousness by referring to unrealistic expectations which in time,

with experience, are abandoned. A better understanding is, I think,

provided by Sunryu Suzuki-roshi's sentence, "In the mind of the beginner

there are many possibilities, in the mind of the expert there are few."

As the map suggests, humanities computing is a formidable undertaking, but

I think not quite in the sense one first has from the map -- that one

should have at least half a dozen PhDs :-). The real difficulty is rather in

figuring out how responsibly to be the right kind of amateur -- how to be a

scholar with a beginner's mind. Another way of putting the same thing, I

suppose, gets back to the importance of conversation. The scholar with the

beginner's mind needs a different kind of discourse, or rather, we need for

the conversational modes we have, such as Humanist, to be looked at rather

more carefully.

Yesterday, as another message from Humanist announces this morning, Jerome

McGann received the new Lyman Award for his contributions to humanities

computing.  (Mazel tov!) What seems to me most important about this is the

role that McGann has played in furthering the long scholarly conversation

in which we are engaged. Yet again I use this word "conversation" because

it is a social process of coming to know that with intelligence and care

gets the balance of careful work (scholar) to heuristic adventure

(beginner's mind) just right. It's something I know he regards as central

to the intellectual life. And let us speak plainly: it is all too often

snuffed out by a pervasive intellectual timidity, which the often

frightening, demoralizing process of getting an established academic post

doesn't help with. The late Don Fowler, a fellow as playful as McGann, used

to talk about  "the continuing fertility of problematization"; his ideal

for scholarship, which he found exemplified in the great Eduard Norden, was

not to solve problems but to make them worse. Conversation, interactive

engagement, risk-taking, play.

And in that mischevous spirit of serious play (in the fields of the Lord) I

wish us all a happy birthday. With closed eyes, about to blow out the

candles, I make a great wish for more and better conversation about the

things that matter to us in this field of ours. Regret is a state of mind I

save for the most important things which have not happened or which have

gone wrong. And regret is what I feel for the absence, due to

life-circumstances, of all those living whom we need in this conversation

-- most desparately need. An essential way ahead, out of the silence, is to

get the field on better institutional footing so that more people can be

paid to think and talk without first having to wander in the desert for

years. The way to do that, I remain convinced, is to make a totally

unassailable, ravishingly attractive, irresistibly delicious, compellingly

beautiful intellectual case for humanities computing. Which is exactly what

this forum is for. So let the party commence!

Yours,

WM



From: "Patrick T. Rourke" <ptrourke@methymna.com>
Subject: Urgent Business Proposals and the Ontario Provincial Police
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:34:25 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 6 (6)


The address phonebusters.com is listed on VeriSign whois as belonging to

     Phonebusters: Ontario Provincial Police (PHONEBUSTERS3-DOM)

     Box 686

     North Bay, Ontario P1B 8I8

     CA

However, based upon recent experience, not all registrars are as careful

about checking registration information as they should be.  So this is not a

guarantee that the address does belong to the Ontario Provincial Police; but

it is very likely.

----- Original Message -----
[deleted quotation]


From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 15.633 violations of copyright
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:36:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 7 (7)


Also be sure to see Lawrence Lessig's new book, The Future of

Ideas--very readable, and addresses the progressive lengthening of

copyright and destruction of public domain.

Pat Galloway



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: Lyman Award to Jerome McGann
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:29:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 8 (8)


Press release

National Humanities Center

Research Triangle Park, N.C.

<a href="http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us">http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us</a>
[deleted quotation]
theory."
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From: "danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@loc.gov>
Subject: New Collections in American Memory
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:33:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 9 (9)


Good afternoon,

This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our

apologies for duplicate postings.

The American Memory online collections announces the addition of two new

collections to the over 100 currently available on the website

Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting presents

approximately 500 interview excerpts and approximately 3800 photographs

from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife

Center <<a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife">http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife</a>> at the Library of Congress. This

collection can be found at the following URL:

<<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/</a>>

The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was

conducted in 1994.  Paterson is considered to be the cradle of the

Industrial Revolution in America.  It was founded in 1791 by the Society

for Establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.), a group that had U.S.

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton as an advocate.  The basis for

Paterson's manufacturing potential was the Great Falls on the Passaic

River.  Paterson went on to become the largest silk manufacturing center in

the nation as well as a leader in the manufacture of many other products,

from railroad locomotives to firearms.

The documentary materials presented in this online collection explore how

this industrial heritage expresses itself in Paterson today: in its work

sites, work processes, and memories of workers. The online presentation

also includes interpretive essays exploring such topics as work in the

African-American community, a distinctive food tradition (the Hot Texas

Wiener), the ethnography of a single work place (Watson Machine

International), business life along a single street in Paterson (21st

Avenue), and narratives told by retired workers.

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was created by

Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife." The Center

incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established at the

Library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. The Center and its

collections have grown to encompass all aspects of folklife from this

country and around the world.

The second new American Memory collection is Emile Berliner and the Birth

of the Recording

Industry.  Available at <<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/</a>>, the

collection is a selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner

Papers and 108 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's

Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.  Berliner

(1851-1929), an immigrant and a largely self-educated man, was responsible

for the development of the microphone, the flat recording disc and the

gramophone player.  Although the focus of this online collection is on the

gramophone and its recordings, it includes much evidence of Berliner's

other interests, such as information on his businesses, his crusades for

public-health issues, his philanthropy, his musical composition, and even

his poetry.  Spanning the years 1870 to 1956, the collection comprises

correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs,

catalogs, clippings, experiment notes, and rare sound recordings.

More than 100 sound recordings from the Berliner Gramophone Co. are

featured on the site, demonstrating the various genres produced in the

1890s, including band music, instrumentals, comedy, spoken word, popular

songs, opera, and foreign-language songs. Noted performers such as the

Sousa Band appear, and rarities are featured such as a recording of Buffalo

Bill giving his Sentiments on the Cuban Question just prior to the

Spanish-American War and Native-American ghost dances recorded by the noted

ethnologist James Mooney.

Please direct any questions to <<a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html">http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html</a>>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: FIRST MONDAY: Papers from IMLS WebWise conference
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 06:37:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 10 (10)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

May 6, 2002

                    First Monday: May 2002 issue available

                  Features Papers from IMLS WebWise Meeting:

     Third Annual Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World

                   <a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/</a>

The May issue of FIRST MONDAY is dedicated to the memory of Sharon Hogan,

University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who died

suddenly Saturday, April 27.

David Green

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Table of Contents

Volume 7, Number 5 - May 6th 2002

In Dedication: Sharon Hogan, 1945-2002

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/hogan/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/hogan/</a>

Building Digital Communities: Web-Wise 2002

Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Libraries and Museums in

the Digital World sponsored by the U.S. Institute for Museum and

Library Services (IMLS) and Johns Hopkins University, 20-22 March

2002, Baltimore.

Digital Collections, Digital Libraries and the Digitization of

Cultural Heritage Information

by Clifford Lynch

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/lynch/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/lynch/</a>

Rochester Images: From Institutional to Production Models of Collaboration

by Rodney Perry

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/perry/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/perry/</a>

Voices: Bringing Multimedia Museum Exhibits to the World Wide Web

by Matthew Nickerson

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/nickerson/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/nickerson/</a>

Museums in the Online Archive of California (MOAC): Building Digital

Collections Across Libraries and Museums

by Robin L. Chandler

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/chandler/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/chandler/</a>

Museums and the Online Archive of California

by Richard Rinehart

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/rinehart/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/rinehart/</a>

Feeding America: Lessons from a Project Demonstration

by Michael Seadle

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/seadle/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/seadle/</a>

Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections

by Timothy W. Cole

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/cole/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/cole/</a>

vPlants: a Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region

by Matthew Schaub and Christopher P. Dunn

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/schaub/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/schaub/</a>

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From: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 15.638 cultural divisions
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:31:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 11 (11)


I've experienced this disjunction in very mild form while collaborating with a

French colleague, but I've long suspected that my impression was misleading

and,

as the book is in English and targeted at an Anglo academic audience, she was

actually absorbing the lion's share of any differences.

Her response:

"I agree totally: I have often felt that what seemed really interesting and

relevant to me (us in France) had no bearing with what people in Britain and

in America were doing. And vice versa. But there are common territories,

thank God. I think it is due to very different academic traditions. For one

thing, French people (in literary studies) have elevated 'close

study/reading' to the status of an art form, which ties in with our very

formalist approaches in teaching AND research. A result, partly, of

structuralism (although it must correspond to a deep engrained cultural

trait, and structuralism itself might have been a manifestation of that).

This might explain why historical studies are not so hot in this country.

Foucault is supposed to have said something quite funny about this: 'In

France we don't have any good libraries, there we have ideas'. "

(L. Cottegnies, University of Paris 8)



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: cultural differences
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:57:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 12 (12)


It seems to me that the issue of cultural differences we are discussing

with respect to work in humanities computing is a special case of cultural

differences as a whole. Are they not, as a whole, both good and bad? I

think of Clifford Geertz's fine essay, "Anti- Anti-Relativism", in his book

Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics

(Princeton, 2000), pp. 42-67, in which he treats such things in the light

and darkness of current intellectual cross-winds, as instances of the

genuine problem of coming to know and interact with other kinds of people.

Our own, local traditions are to be treasured, not treated as kinds of

mental imperalism (unless of course they're used that way), to be disposed

of in favour of a cultural esperanto -- but also to be realized as partial.

This all ends in a question, because, I realize, I am arguing for the

ex-pat's view of nationality and the adventurous cook's view of cuisine,

i.e. I am being autobiographical. I suppose we all are, and that's just

another statement of the problem. Your cookbooks will give you away every

time. But -- I guess I'm hungry -- when I'm in Italy (all too rarely) I

realize that however hard I may try in the kitchen it's not the same, and

without the Real Thing going on there as a natural expression of that

culture, my poor imitations would cease. Perhaps they should anyhow, but I

do enjoy the results.

Where does this get us? Back to the problem, as a real problem. Of course

we should all speak, read and write all languages, and we all should be

reading everything relevant to our field (which is limitless) written in

all those languages, including Romanian (among many other languages in

which such work is done). But that would clarify the problem, not solve it.

And, in our ignorance, we're not *completely* wrong.

Further comments?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: "Rosemary A. Franklin" <franklra@email.uc.edu>
Subject: research problem
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:30:43 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 13 (13)


Might anyone know the complete cite for the short story: "Elder Lott's

Sunday Night Sermon"?  I have check all the usual sources and still draw a

blank for the author and publication in which it appeared.

Kind thanks,

Rosemary

Rosemary Aud-Franklin

English/Theater/Communication Bibliographer

University of Cincinnati/Langsam Library



From: Bill Schipper <schipper@mun.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.007 Urgent Business Proposals and the Ontario
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:22:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 14 (14)


Provincial Police

Thank you Willard, for reminding me and telling others that I'm still flesh and

blood.   Sometimes I wonder.

The phonebusters.com address was given to me by a member of the St John's, NF,

RCMP detachment.   I saw no reason to question its reliabitity, and see

none now.

I did, out of curiosity, briefly follow up one of these scams, and know

they read

their email.   If you are greedy enough, and can convince yourself this is a

legitimate plea for assistance with sound business proposition, you will soon

discover that you have to send money -- lots of it -- to an address in Nigeria.

You may even be invited to deliver it in person, at your own expense, of

course.

Happy computing.

Bill

"Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote:
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not a
[deleted quotation]
Police; but
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indicate
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to any
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really
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Newfoundland. As
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From: "Prof S.R.L. Clark" <srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: The 419 Scam
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:21:54 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 15 (15)


The Nigerian scam comes from many imaginary addresses (of which the most

nauseating one was a supposedly repentant born-again torturer who just

happened to have $35 million left over from his association). It

preceded email and has cost people their wealth, health and mental

tranquillity. Do not respond to it.

THere is an informative UK site at

<a href="http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm">http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm</a>

Stephen



From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA news
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:58:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 16 (16)


                          ELRA

          European Language Resources Association

                          ELRA News

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We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA:

S0123 Basque Spoken Corpus, by John Aske (Professor Assistant,

Foreign Languages Department, Salem State College)

A description is given below.

*** Basque Spoken Corpus, by John Aske (Professor Assistant,

Foreign Languages Department, Salem State College) ***

This is a collection of forty two narratives in the Basque language

(Euskara) by native speakers. It includes sound files (MP3 format)

and full detailed transcripts. Each of the narratives is a recounting

of a short, silent movie that the speaker has just watched to a friend

or acquaintance who has not seen the movie (no other person was

present in the room, just the recording equipment). Two short silent

movies were used to elicit the narratives: Twenty one of the narratives

correspond to the 7-minute silent movie The Pear Story (Chafe, ed., 1980)

and the other 21 are about a 12 minute collage from Charlie Chaplin's

Modern Times. The recordings were made as a part of a study on Basque

word order in 1993 (Aske 1997). The transcriptions are made following a

modified version of the guidelines given in Edwards and Lampert 1993. The

speakers were from different age groups, different dialects, and had differing

language abilities. Profiles of the speakers are also included. In addition to

the 42 narratives with transcripts, 53 additional sound tracks of

extemporaneous

speech and description of still images are also included.

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For further information, please contact:

ELRA/ELDA

55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin

F-75013 Paris, France

Tel +33 1 43 13 33 33

Fax +33 1 43 13 33 30

E-mail mapelli@elda.fr

or visit the online catalogue on our Web site:

<a href="http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html">http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html</a>

or <a href="http://www.elda.fr">http://www.elda.fr</a>

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "What's New in Digital Preservation?" December 2001-April
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:59:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 17 (17)


2002

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

May 7, 2002

                      "What's New in Digital Preservation?"

                            December 2001-April 2002

Below is a very useful compilation of selected recent activity in the field

of digital preservation created by the UK's Digital Preservation Coalition

and the National Library of Australia as part of their joint Memorandum of

Understanding.  This is the first issue of a continuing service. The

compilers are interested in feedback to improve the service. Contact:

preservation@jisc.ac.uk

David Green

===========

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

What's New in Digital Preservation?

A joint service of the Digital Preservation Coalition and PADI compiled by

Michael Day (UKOLN, University of Bath)

This is a summary of selected recent activity in the field of digital

preservation compiled from the Digital Preservation  and padiforum-l email

lists and the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway.

1. Organisations

1.1 The Digital Preservation Coalition

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) was officially launched at the

House of Commons on the 27 February 2002. This event was very

successful  and gained a large amount of press-coverage for digital

preservation issues.

On the 25 March 2002 in London, the coalition organised a DPF Forum on

Web-archiving. Presentations included a general introduction to

Web-archiving issues and the UK Web domain; also descriptions of

Web-archiving activity in the BBC and the Bibliothque nationale de France.

A workshop report and links to all presenters' PowerPoint slides are

available on the DPC Web-site:

<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/webforum.html">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/webforum.html</a>

A more detailed review of recent DPC activity can be found in:

Neil Beagrie, "An update on the Digital Preservation Coalition," D-Lib

Magazine, 8 (4), April 2002.

<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/beagrie/04beagrie.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/beagrie/04beagrie.html</a>

1.2 The US National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation

Program (NDIIPP)

This initiative began in late 2000, when Congress called for the Library of

Congress (LC) to take the lead in a national collaborative planning effort

for the long-term preservation of digital content. The April 2002 issue of

D-Lib Magazine contained a progress report by Amy Friedlander (Council on

Library and Information Resources). . Friedlander outlines the results of

some stakeholder meetings held lastNovember, including the support for a

national initiative from stakeholder groups that are not part of the

traditional scholarly community, e.g. the entertainment industry. A

research programme - which will be a key part ofNDIIPP - also aims to be

collaborative in nature and LC is already workingwith the National Science

Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies in drawing up a research

agenda. An invitational  workshop to discuss theresearch agenda was held in

April 2002 in Washington and information is beingposted to a website

mounted at the University of Michigan (www.si.umich.edu/digarch/).

An additional theme in NDIIPP is the importance of building operational

systems. It is acknowledged that mistakes may be made, but that it is

important to learn lessons from these. LC have also worked on devising a

conceptual framework in order to see how the many andvaried entities and

functions related to the long-term preservation of digital content might

interact. This is also described briefly in this paper.

Amy Friedlander, "The National Digital Information Infrastructure

Preservation Program: expectations, realities, choices and progress to

date," D-Lib Magazine, 8 (4), April 2002.

<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/friedlander/04friedlander.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/friedlander/04friedlander.html</a>

1.3 OCLC/RLG Working Groups

In April 2002, the OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group published a

proposed metadata element set for what the OAIS model refers to as

'Preservation Description Information' (PDI). Previous documents from the

group had provided a state-of-the-art survey of preservation metadata

activities and a recommendation for OAIS 'Content Information.' Publication

of the PDI recommendation means that the group has almost completed its

commissioned task. A final document bringing together both metadata

recommendations is currently being compiled. All working group documents

are available in PDF from: <a href="http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/documents.shtm">http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/documents.shtm</a>

The other joint OCLC/RLG digital preservation initiative, the Digital

Archive Attributes Working Group, published a draft document entitled

Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository in August 2001, This has been

very well received and is available in PDF from:

<a href="http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attribswg.html">http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attribswg.html</a>

2. Projects:

2.1 The Cedars project

Work on the Cedars (CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives) project finished in

March 2002. The project had been going for almost four years and a final

workshop was held in Manchester on the 25-26 February in order to

disseminate information about the project, put that work into a wider

context and to look forward to what should happen after the project had

ended. A short summary of this event has been published in the April

edition of RLG DigiNews, while a longer version is available on the Cedars

Project Web-site: Michael Day and Maggie Jones, Cedars Final Workshop,

Manchester Conference Centre, UMIST, Manchester, 25-26 February 2002,

Leeds: Cedars Project, 22 April 2002.

<a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/pubconf/umist/finalWorkshopRep.html">http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/pubconf/umist/finalWorkshopRep.html</a>

Michael Day, "The Final Cedars Workshop: a report from Manchester, UK," RLG

DigiNews, 6 (2) April 2002.

<a href="http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews6-2.html#conference">http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews6-2.html#conference</a>

In the first quarter of 2002, the Cedars project has also published a

series of guides to various digital preservation issues. Available in print

form (and in PDF) are guides to intellectual property rights, preservation

metadata and digital collection management. Each of these is about 20 pages

long, and are intended to provide non-technical introductions for anyone

interested in aspects of digital preservation, including librarians,

archivists, records managers and the creators of digital content. The

guides describe some specific outcomes of the Cedars project (e.g. the

draft metadata specification) but also attempt to provide a more general

view and give indications of further reading. In the same series, a guide

to digital preservation strategies is now available in HTML and an

introduction to the Cedars digital archive prototype is under preparation.

These guides are available in digital form (PDF or HTML) from the Cedars

project Web-site: <a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/pubconf/pubconf.html">http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/pubconf/pubconf.html</a>

2.2 ERPANET

ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork) has been

funded by the European Commission to help bring together all types of

organisation interested in digital preservation issues. It will primarily

provide awareness about digital preservation by providing information and

advice services, thematic workshops, training seminars, guidelines, etc.

The project started in November 2001. Project partners are the Humanities

Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University

ofGlasgow, the Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Swiss Federal Archives), the

Rijksarchiefdienst (National Archives of the Netherlands) and the Institute

for Archival and Library Science at the University of Urbino. More

information on ERPANET can be found on the project's Web pages at:

<a href="http://www.erpanet.org/">http://www.erpanet.org/</a>

2.3 Preservation of electronic scholarly journals

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded seven major US libraries to

investigate the development of digital repositories for e-journals. Work on

these projects is continuing, but the Harvard University E-Journal

Archiving project has recently (December 2001) published a report produced

by Inera, Inc. on the feasibility of developing a common archival article

Document Type Definition (DTD). The report recommended the creation of an

XML DTD (or Schema), which would permit "successful conversion of

significant intellectual content from publisher SGML and XML files into a

common format for archival purposes." Also in December, the Harvard project

published a draft proposal for the technical specifications of a Submission

Information Package (SIP) that defined data formats, file naming

conventions, metadata, etc. Both of these documents are available in PDF

from the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Web-site: Inera, Inc., E-Journal

Archive DTD feasibility study: commissioned by the Harvard University

Library, Office for Information Systems, E-Journal Archiving Project, 5

December 2001. <a href="http://www.diglib.org/preserve/hadtdfs.pdf">http://www.diglib.org/preserve/hadtdfs.pdf</a>

Harvard University Library, Harvard E-Journal Archive: Submission

Information Package (SIP) specification, v. 1.0 draft, 19 December 2001.

<a href="http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf">http://www.diglib.org/preserve/harvardsip10.pdf</a>

General information on the Mellon-funded programme can be found on the DLF

Web-site: <a href="http://www.diglib.org/preserve/presjour.htm">http://www.diglib.org/preserve/presjour.htm</a>

3. Other events

A meeting of the US National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Book

Industry Study Group (BISG) took place during the American Library

Association's Midwinter 2002 Conference on the 20 January. This was

entitled 'Archiving Electronic Publications' and included progress

reportsfrom two of the Mellon funded e-journal projects: Harvard

University's E-Journal Archiving project and Elsevier Science's

collaboration with YaleUniversity Library. A final presentation reported on

collaboration between OCLC and the US Government Printing Office (GPO) on a

Web Document DigitalArchive pilot project. A short summary of the meeting

can be found at: <a href="http://www.niso.org/presentations/niso-bisg-rpt.html">http://www.niso.org/presentations/niso-bisg-rpt.html</a>

4. Other recent publications:

Michael K. Bergman, "The deep Web: surfacing hidden value," Journal of

Electronic Publishing, 7 (1), August 2001.

<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html</a>

This 'white paper' is concerned with the so-called 'deep Web,' whereby

information is buried deep within dynamically generated sites and which can

not, therefore, be easily reached by standard search engines. The paper is

essentially marketing a product (search technology from a company called

BrightPlanet) and is not about preservation, but it may be able to inform

harvesting-based Web-preservation initiatives on the nature of dynamic or

database-driven Web-sites.

Hilary Berthon, Susan Thomas and Colin Webb, "Safekeeping: a cooperative

approach to building a digital preservation resource," D-Lib Magazine, 8

(1), January 2002. <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/berthon/01berthon.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/berthon/01berthon.html</a>

This paper describes the National Library of Australia's Safekeeping

project, which has funding from the Council on Library and Information

Resources (CLIR). The project is trying to facilitate a distributed network

of 'safekept' resources relating to digital preservation (selectedfrom the

PADI database) by encouraging resource owners to take responsibility for

providing long-term access - or to nominate third parties who could do so

on their behalf. The co-operative model of the Safekeeping project is

interesting because it might encourage the creators and owners of resources

to face up to the responsibilities that they hold with regard to

maintaining long-term access.

Stewart Granger, "Digital preservation and deep infrastructure," D-Lib

Magazine, 8 (2), February 2002.

<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february02/granger/02granger.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february02/granger/02granger.html</a>

This is an 'opinion' piece by Stewart Granger of the University of Leeds.

Anne R. Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Peter Botticelli, Richard Entlich,

CarlLagoze and Sandrea Payette, "Preservation risk management for Web

resources: virtual remote control in Cornell's Project Prism," D-Lib

Magazine, 8 (1), January 2002.

<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/kenney/01kenney.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/kenney/01kenney.html</a>

This paper suggests that Web preservation strategies could use risk

management methodologies. It is based on the work of Cornell University's

Project Prism, funded as part of the second phase of the US Digital

Libraries Initiative.

Julia Martin and David Coleman, "Change the metaphor: the archive as an

ecosystem," Journal of Electronic Publishing, 7 (3), April 2002.

<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/martin.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/martin.html</a>

The authors of this paper are researchers at the University of New South

Wales and the University of Sydney. The paper argues that there is unlikely

to be any single solution to the digital preservation problem butthat rapid

technological change will mean that preservation solutions willneed to be

in a state of constant change.

Michael L. Nelson and B. Danette Allen, "Object persistence and

availability in digital libraries," D-Lib Magazine, 8 (1), January 2002.

<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/nelson/01nelson.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/nelson/01nelson.html</a> This paper -

produced by researchers working at the NASA Langley Research Center -

looked at the persistence and continued availability of 1,000 digital

library objects. These were mostly found in Web-based e-print services like

arXiv, CogPrints and PubMed Central. The authors found that in just over

one year, 3% of the tested objects no longer appeared to be available. With

an assumption that objects placed in e-print services should persist longer

than the average Web page, the authors cautiously conclude that this

finding may have relevance for those concerned with long-term preservation.

However, Nelson and Allen consider that more detailed studies of digital

library object persistence need to be made.

Elizabeth Yakel, "Digital preservation," Annual Review of Information

Science and Technology, 35, 2001, 337-378. A general overview of digital

preservation issues by an assistant professor in the School of Information

at the University of Michigan.

5. Other links:

  From the Digitale Duurzaamheid Digital Preservation Testbed

(<a href="http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/">http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/</a>): Migration context and current

status. Digital Preservation Testbed White Paper, 5 December 2001.

<a href="http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/Migration.pdf">http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/Migration.pdf</a>

- Approaches towards the long term preservation of archival digital records.

Digital Preservation Testbed Infosheet,v. 1.7, 19 September 2001.

<a href="http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/index.cfm?paginakeuze=186&categorie=2">http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/index.cfm?paginakeuze=186&categorie=2</a>

Also (from the digital-preservation@jiscmail.ac.uk and

padiforum-l@nla.gov.au e-mail lists):

Andreas Aschenbrenner, Long-Term Preservation of digital material -

building an archive to preserve digital cultural heritage from the

Internet, Masters Thesis, Technical University Vienna, December 2001.

Available in various formats from:

<a href="http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications.html">http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications.html</a>

Arthur Smith, Long Term Archiving of Digital Documents in Physics, report

of an IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) Conference

held in Lyon, 5-6 November 2001.

<a href="http://publish.aps.org/IUPAP/ltaddp_report.html">http://publish.aps.org/IUPAP/ltaddp_report.html</a>

Dollar Consulting, Archival preservation of Smithsonian web resources:

strategies, principles, and best practices. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian

Institution Archives, 20 July 2001.

<a href="http://www.si.edu/archives/archives/dollar%20report.html">http://www.si.edu/archives/archives/dollar%20report.html</a>

VERS (Victorian Electronic Records Strategy) Web-site:

<a href="http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/">http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/</a>

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Neil Beagrie                         JISC Digital Preservation Focus

Programme Director             Secretary, Digital Preservation Coalition

JISC London Office,              Tel/Fax/Voicemail :+44 (0)709 2048179

King's College London          email:       preservation@jisc.ac.uk

Strand Bridge House            url:

www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/

138 - 142, The Strand,          email list:

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digital-preservation

London WC2R 1HH

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From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com>
Subject: Summer Seminars in Networked Cultural Heritage
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:59:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 18 (18)


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CONNECTING WITH the K-12 Teaching and Learning Community

June 15-21, 2002

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     Scott Sayre, Director of Media and Technology, The Minneapolis

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July 5-7, 2002

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     Dominique Negel, DN Consuel, Paris, France

WEB SITE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE: Planning and Designing Information

Collections

July 8-12, 2002

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     Paul Kahn, teacher, writer, and information architecture consultant

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     Jim Devine, Head of Education and Digital Media Resources, Hunterian

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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: On to sweet 16
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:57:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 19 (19)


Willard,

Long before I encountered Roland Barths _SZ_, I always pointed to the

English as a second language for my often repeated cross-spelling of

voiced and unvoiced fricatives, /z/ and /s/, when orthographically

challenged by "desert" and "dessert". More of either is not necessarily

better. Neither more nomads on the go nor more sedate confectioners

ensconced in institutional settings will necessarily improve the quality

of the intercourse or the excellence of the thinking.
[deleted quotation]
Did the party ever end?

        Making the Case for Para-academics

   <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/para.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/para.htm</a>


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large


From: Mary-Louise Craven <mlc@yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.001 Happy 15th Birthday!
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 06:58:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 20 (20)

RE: happy 15th birthday..
As readers and contributors to Humanist appreciate, the longevity and civility
of this listserv is due in large part to its moderator, Willard. But labelling
him a "moderator" doesn't do justice to his role:  he's more like Norbert
Wiener's  "helmsman" (helmsperson)--charting the listserv's course through the
important debates we've had over the years, encouraging the views of many
humanists--and even a few social scientists...(see his "rough intellectual map"
in his earlier message).    Thanks, Willard.
Mary-Louise Craven
Social Science Division, York University
Toronto



From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: OCRing Handwriting
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:20:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 21 (21)


Very few problems are really insurmountable, but OCR of handwriting

comes close.  It is not likely that we will see it any time soon,

particularly for medieval manuscripts. You need to look upon each

hand as a font-type, containing several fonts.  For example, I

trained my OCR software to read the font of SUGNL, which contains

the largest collection of Old Norse literature, because I realized

that I need Old Norse, but its collection is larger than that of

any medieval scribe.  If you remember the problems we had, still

not all solved, with the various fonts in which a modern book is

printed, you can see the problem more clearly. Although

schoolmasters have tried hard in the past to get all their students

to write the same way, they have only rarely been even close to

getting it done (one might cite the Carolingian minuscule).

Remember all those people who claim not to be able to read their

own notes (J. W. Marchand, for example).  Of course, we have to

make a difference between `print' and `cursive' (we learn to print

up to about mid-fourth grade, then cursive). This points out the

difficulty of the major move in OCR, pattern recognition. We can

all remember (and still suffer from) the advent of transitional

probabilities and guesses into OCR, and how much it helped out.

Who has not had to remember to turn off `recognition' (of English)

when scanning German?  Transitional probabilities and lexicon check

are mainly there for English, though other languages use them, too.

For a Carolingian manuscript, to look at Bill Schipper's problem,

pattern recognition is difficult if not impossible; think how many

scholarly arguments we have over the reading of a letter or two.

Transitional probabilities are not available for Latin, although

God only knows why not.  We have only very few Latin lexica

available in electronic form.

We might be able to train an OCR program like the old Kurzweil to

read the hand of a single scribe (though, as Wilhelm Braun pointed

out, "wer schreibt an allen Tagen gleich?"), but a quoi bon? Some

hands are very uniform; Ihre thought the Codex Argenteus's Gothic

to be so uniform that he thought Wulfila had invented (4th C. AD)

movable type, but even there it is easy to see places where there

is little uniformity, and modern authorities have seen two `hands'.

Of course, there is always the possibility of teaching us to write

more uniformly and with recognizable distinctive features, as in

the case of a hand-held, but that does not help those of us who

crave an OCR program for those medieval (ancient, foreign, etc.)

manuscripts. Unfortunately, it does not seem likely.



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: New CHIN website includes Guide to "Creating and Managing
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:24:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 22 (22)


Digital Content" for museums

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

May 8, 2002

            Canadian Heritage Information Network Releases New Web Site

                     <a href="http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html">http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html</a>

                 Includes "Creating and Managing Digital Content"

             <a href="http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html">http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html</a>

           CHIN is also executive producer of the Virtual Museum of Canada

              <a href="http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Gallery/index.html">http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Gallery/index.html</a>

The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) was created in 1972 "to

foster sound management of the knowledge and collections developed by

museums and to provide public access to that knowledge through a national

inventory of museum collections across the country." Its new web site was

launched May 1.

More than 700 Canadian museums have joined in the collaborative effort to

develop content for on-line audiences and the results can be seen at the

groundbreaking portal coordinated by CHIN: The Virtual Museum of Canada

<a href="http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Gallery/index.html">http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Gallery/index.html</a>.

One of the most useful and interesting components of the new CHIN site is a

Guide to "Creating and Managing Digital Content" designed to "guide museum

managers through the planning and implementation of a digitization project.

It covers issues such as non-digital images, new photography, the exposure

and care of objects, copyright, storage and much more."

(<a href="http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html">http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/index.html</a>).

David Green


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: U.S. National Digital Preservation Program Web Site Launched
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:24:48 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 23 (23)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
May 9, 2002
       The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
                                 Web Site Launched
                     <a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/</a>
                            Background Environmental Scans
           <a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back.html</a>
                        Papers also available as a CLIR Report
               "Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation:
                         Issues in Digital Media Archiving."
                  <a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html">http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html</a>.
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
was established by Congress to "develop a national strategy to collect,
archive, and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content, especially
materials that are created only in digital formats, for current and future
generations."
As an initial step, the Library of Congress scheduled a series of meetings
with various stakeholder groups from the technology, business,
entertainment, academic, legal, archival, and library communities.
Background papers were commissioned to give "environmental scans," for the
meetings. These papers are available on the new NDIIPP web site together
with a summary of background findings and a summary of the meetings.
This material is also available as a CLIR Report and in PDF, at
<a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html">http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html</a>
* Peter Lyman, Archiving the World Wide Web
<a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_web.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_web.html</a>
* Dale Flecker, Preserving Digital Periodicals
<a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_perio.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_perio.html</a>
* Samuel Brylawski, Preservation of Digitally Recorded Sound
<a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_sound.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_sound.html</a>
* Frank Romano, E-books and the Challenge of Preservation
<a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_ebooks.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_ebooks.html</a>
* Mary Ide, Dave MacCarn, Thom Shepard, and Leah Weisse, Understanding the
Preservation Challenge of Digital Television
<a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_tv.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_tv.html</a>
* Howard D. Wactlar and Michael G. Christel, Digital Video Archives:
Managing through Metadata
<a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_archi.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/repor/repor_back_archi.html</a>
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Subject: IMLS Funding for Libraries & Museums
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:25:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 24 (24)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
May 9, 2002
                        FUNDING FOR LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
                FY 2003 IMLS Grant Program Booklet Available Now
               <a href="http://www.imls.gov/pubs/pdf/2003ProgramsFinal.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/pubs/pdf/2003ProgramsFinal.pdf</a>
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From: Andrew Brook <abrook@ccs.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.014 Urgent Business Proposals (419)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:21:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 25 (25)


Willard and others with an interest in Canada:

It turns out that one of the biggest recent Nigerian scam operations was

actually run out of Toronto! Canadian police arrested I think four

people there who were sending millions of emails a month representing

themselves as in Nigeria with millions of dollars of clandestine booty

to get out of the country. Does it count that the scammers at least

*were* Nigerian? Apparently they were: Nigerians legally living in

Canada as immigrants.

Andrew


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Director, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
President, Canadian Philosophical Association
2217 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada    K1S 5B6
Phone: 613 520-3597   Fax:   613 520-3985
Email: abrook@ccs.carleton.ca
Web:   www.carleton.ca/~abrook


From: "Al Magary" <al@magary.com>
Subject: Re: 16.014 Urgent Business Proposals (419)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:21:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 26 (26)

Bill Schippers commented:
[deleted quotation]flesh and
[deleted quotation]One of my PCs got the Badtrans virus yesterday and started sending (or
trying to send) random emails to my address book with, of course,
attachments containing the virus.  I  think I stopped it but Windows
deposited a copy of the purported message from "Al Magary" in my inbox
anyway, making me wonder if a doppelganger lurked in cyberspace.  It's as
offputting as seeing one's name within quotation marks.
"Al Magary"
(I think)



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: My Humbul Summer Seminar : Online Resource Discovery and Use
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:22:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 27 (27)


Online Resource Discovery and Use - Humbul Humanities Hub

<a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/summerseminar.html">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/summerseminar.html</a>

University of Oxford, Friday, 19 July

9:30am - 5:00pm

Part of the OUCS Summer Seminars 2002.

The Humbul Humanities Hub finds and describes online resources for

teaching and research in humanities subjects.  This one-day seminar will

introduce participants to the discovery, evaluation and cataloguing of

online resources, making use of Humbul's cataloguing systems. Humbul's

catalogue, however, is not merely a static repository of descriptions and

metadata. It is also an active tool for use in teaching and learning.

Participants will be introduced to the 'My Humbul' set of services and

shown how to select sets of records within Humbul, provide personalised

annotations, and re-use these sets within their own Web pages.

Humbul, based at Oxford University, is part of the Resource Discovery

Network, which is dedicated to discovering, cataloguing and providing easy

access to quality online resources for higher and further education in the

UK.

Format:

The seminar will comprise a mixture of formal presentations and practical

sessions. Teaching will be carried out by Humbul staff and the seminar

will take place at Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road,

Oxford

Who should attend:

This seminar will be of use to humanities researchers, teachers and

librarians and academic support staff.

Booking:

The workshop costs 65 pounds or 35 pounds for students.

Further details about this event together with other seminars taking place

during that week are available at

<a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/courses/summer/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/courses/summer/</a>

The booking form is available at

<a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/courses/summer/booking.html">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/courses/summer/booking.html</a>

A discount is available for those booking workshops for the entire

week.

Enquiries regarding the booking process or the seminars in general should

be addressed to Jenny Newman (jenny.newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Enquiries about

the content of Humbul's seminar should be addressed to Randy Metcalfe

(info@humbul.ac.uk).


---
Dr Michael Fraser
Head of Humbul Humanities Hub
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283 343
Fax: 01865 273 275
<a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/</a>


From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)"
Subject: Symposium on Social Communication: Hotels
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:23:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 28 (28)

EIGTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 20-24, 2003
PRICES OF THE HOTELS: (Payment covers lodging,
breakfast and dinner)
SAN JUAN HOTEL (***)
Single Room:    47.00 USD daily
Double Room:    36.00 USD per person daily
Triple Room:    33.00 USD per person daily
Payment:        Cash, VISA or MasterCard or EuroCARD credit cards
****************************************************************************
LAS AMERICAS HOTEL (***)
Single Room:    52.00 USD daily
Double Room:    36.00 USD per person daily
Payment:        Cash, VISA or MasterCard credit cards
****************************************************************************
MELIA-SANTIAGO DE CUBA HOTEL (*****)
Single Room:    76.00 USD daily
Double Room:    66.00 USD per person daily
Payment:        Cash, VISA or MasterCard or EuroCard credit cards
****************************************************************************
BIRRET HOTEL (University Hotel)
Single Room:    20.00 USD daily
Double Room:    17.00 USD per person daily
Triple Room:    15.00 USD per person daily
Payment:        Cash
****************************************************************************
LODGING IN PRIVATE HOUSES
Price: 25.00 USD per person daily
Rooms are air-conditioned and bath with hot water.
Payment: Cash


From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: K-12 digital libraries monograph: Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:26:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 29 (29)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
May 9, 2002
            Call for Papers: Monograph on K-12 Digital Libraries
                     Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2002
                       <a href="http://www.teacherlib.org/cfp.pdf">http://www.teacherlib.org/cfp.pdf</a>
Below is an interesting call for papers by the ERIC Clearinghouse on
Information & Technology for a monograph on K-12 Digital Libraries that
will demonstrate lessons learned so far in developing educational digital
library collections
and services in a variety of disciplines for K-12 educators and students.
We trust that the arts and humanities will be well represented in the
papers submitted.
David Green
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From: "Dina Pavlopoulou" <vakisp@otenet.gr>
Subject: tei latin drama?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:22:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 30 (30)


Hello,

Does anybody know where i can find TEI marked up classic latin drama texts?

I would appreciate any assistance.



From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@uni-bremen.de>
Subject: Re: 15.638 cultural divisions
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:20:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 31 (31)


As a cultural anthropologist by training, I feel addressed personally when

WM raises "a core problem in ethnography." As a human being, I can only

draw upon my own personal life experience that is necessarily subjective

and limited. But it is also the only concrete material to start with and

work upon. In other words: I can only write about the experience of an

"independent scholar" in Germany during the last decades of the 20th

century. The new millennium has not yet begun for me.

Theoretically speaking, cultural differences arise from different modes of

communicating. Communication is an expression of the basic human capacity

to symbolize and to negotiate a shared agreement upon the meaning of such

symbols. Traditions of meaning and usage are transmitted within communities

that we call cultures. The identity of such a community is embedded in the

meanings that it attaches to more or less arbitrary symbols. We are not

born humans, we are made humans by way of culture. Culture is the second,

the proper nature of human beings. We can achieve this final and perfect

state of true humanity by way of learning, literature, and the musical

arts. Endeavours to reach this stage have been part of all humanisms that

have come into being during the long course of history.

One might expect that the problems of crossing the "frontiers of

understanding" and of "translating the literature and interpretations of

one research community to the other" have been solved already. Those are no

new problems at all. And it is quite obvious that their lingering presence

becomes even more pressing, as we are given the digital instruments that

allow us at least potentially to encode all the knowledge of this world in

one single language. But just take the word "the humanities" and you will

encounter unsurpassable difficulties translating it into German. There is

no equivalent in the German language describing all the nuances of its

meaning adequately. To make matters worse, the "post-modernistic turn" of

recent years has amounted to an inflation of subjective and often odd

meanings attached to words of which they have never formed a part.

In line with this disoriented post-modernity of interdisciplinarianism and

misunderstood interculturalisms, there has grown a mainstream of academia

that establishes its consensus through trivializing Genglish babbling.

Sarcastically speaking, a fair share of the scientific establishment in

Germany resembles a strange concoction brewed from such ingredients as the

Prussian Civil Service applied to intellectual freedom, post-Cold War needs

to control unwanted convictions by way of swamping fields of inquiry with

trivial content (Gresham's Law applied to knowledge) and an uncontrolled

race for public recognition of mediocre results. I may be excused for this

harsh judgment by pointing out that similar problems seem to exist at least

in France where efforts are under way to limit the effects of its

scientific Mandarinate. At the root of this problem rests the fundamental

question of who is given the material security to publish whatever he or

she regards as scientifically valid. If your  research duplicates studies

that have been successful in the United States, you avoid the uncomfortable

question if your findings are right or wrong. Your paper may even get

quoted abroad and the stylish international look of your research

annihilates any doubts about your political correctness. I do not want to

waste your time discussing provincialism in science, although it may

characterize an influential segment of a country's current scientific

production. Very obviously that is a one-way street.

The problems of bridging cultural traditions of meaning by finding a common

denominator have been known to generations of scholars. There are several

feasible solutions that are time-consuming. Although international

collaboration among scholars is needed in a final stage, we must not be

mistaken that only dedicated research in the course of several decades can

pave the way in a terrain that has not been mapped before. The usual length

of a research project will not be sufficient. The tendency to give

employment to inexpensive "junior professors" immediately upon the receipt

of their doctor's degrees will not bring about results that by definition

are time-consuming. We are speaking of traditions that have taken centuries

to develop. I am thinking of books of which there is only one single copy

left, whose pages have not been opened for years, sticking together like

the thin layers of a tissue-paper. I know what I am writing about.

If you have read this far, you may want to learn more about the reasons why

my research (about which I can only speak) has remained unpublished in

Germany. Suffice it to say that I felt called as an anthropologist-to-be,

when a group of Native Americans occupied a small village in South Dakota

on the morning of my 22nd birthday, a few weeks before the Vietnam War came

to an end. I then founded a society that became recognized as charitable

under German law to provide information completing the picture behind the

news headlines. To give it direction, I defined as one more field of

anthropological practice all processes whereby communication is brought

about between cultures through technical media (this was no new idea, of

course, but my later terms "ethnopraxis" and "ethnotechnics" were). The

American Indian leaders were finally acquitted by a well-meaning judge when

he learnt that the FBI had amassed over 5.000 files on their activities,

some of them illegally. Comparing my limited possibilities as an

anthropologist to "observe" foreign cultures with those state-of -the-art

surveillance techniques, I began to study the history of anthropological

research techniques. In my dissertation ("An Image of the World") I have

compiled a multitude of quotations from rare books that you will not find

elsewhere, beginning with Magnus Hundt's definition of "anthropology" in

1501. One hundred copies were printed photomechanically in 1989. Although

my book traces the origin of scientific racism and although I was granted

the second to best grade (magna cum laude) after five long years of

litigation in German courts, my career had ended before it had begun. I had

no other choice than to extend the scope of my research to comprehend other

disciplines. This has led me to study on my own in special collections

throughout Germany.

On the negative side, I am looking back at twenty years of unemployment,

interrupted by a total of fours years of short-term positions in local

historical collections and four years of teaching as an Appointed Professor

on a contract basis. On the positive side, I am aware that I have been able

to spend an incomparable greater amount of time researching than any

professor burdened with office work, examinations, grant proposals, etc.

One might expect that I have an unrivalled store of information to feed a

flood of publications making my name known in Academia. But before the

advent of the Internet and electronic publishing, I was left at the mercy

of slow-handed journal editors and publishers controlled by the same tacit

assumptions and allegiances that govern the filling of academic positions.

Even worse: I had to rent a safe-deposit at a local bank for my core

material and pack up and seal three dozens of document files, when I came

to know that nowadays even security locks can be opened without leaving any

traces. When I apply for a position or grant in Germany, I can congratulate

myself if my research proposal is not turned into somebody else's

colloquium, symposium, or exploratory paper.

Having studied psychology for a couple of years, I am aware of the dangers

of paranoia and the narrow dividing line between delusion and reality. An

old friend of mine, now a distinguished professor, head of a university

department and referee for a national granting institution, has convinced

me in long personal talks that my situation is no exception at all. Rather

it follows from the customary procedures of how research grants and

university positions are distributed among the shareholders in this game.

If you are outside, there is no way to get in, no matter how dignified the

research material may be that you happen to control.

So, how can we solve the problem of "translating the literature and

interpretations of one research community to the other" ? There is one

simple truth that I have learnt over the years, a truth that even those

will acknowledge whose business it is to prevent the emergence of

applicable knowledge: Without at least one dedicated individual, nothing

will ever happen in human affairs. Contrary to WM's suggestion, I do not

think that there is so much cultural difference between the mainstreams of

science and the humanities in Western countries nowadays. Rather the

situation of the independent scholar remains unsettled.

What do we need ? Independent scholars from foreign countries should be

invited to co-teach courses and co-edit publications on their individual

merits rather than their institutional affiliations. Although they may have

spent much more time on their research than their institutional colleagues

to qualify their findings, they are handicapped twice: in the application

process and following the cease of their appointments. Also travel grants

to international conferences should be available to independent scholars

first and preferably from the conference organizers rather than third

parties to avoid conflicts of interest. Both measures could resolve the

difficulties of independent scholars to receive professional credits and a

fair judgment of their research within their own countries. For example, I

cannot apply for an academic position in a foreign country, because I lack

the "three letters of recommendation" that are usually required

In order to bridge cultures, we should begin to invest in individual human

beings, as we already do in software and hardware. And we should be aware

of individual biographies, the unlimited perfectibility of the human mind,

as we should be aware of the persistence of cultural traditions that only

in the eyes of some individuals appear to be counter-productive, inhuman,

perhaps even cruel. Let me repeat: The philosopher's stone has been found,

much of the way to make it useful has been gone, but we are still lacking

the confidence in an individual's dedication and we still refuse to extend

the material security that is necessary if we want to bridge cultural divides.

If you feel called upon to help qualify the results of my research, please

feel invited to get in touch. Thank you for your attention.

Dr. Hartmut Krech

The Culture and History of Science Page

<a href="http://ww3.de/krech">http://ww3.de/krech</a>



From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 16.001 Happy 15th Birthday!
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 06:14:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 32 (32)


Happy birthday, indeed! And I know that I speak for all of us in thanking

Willard for his nurturing of Humanist from birth into its adolescent

years.

This virtual, and real, community, could not exist without him.

Charles Faulhaber       The Bancroft Library    UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

(510) 642-3782          FAX (510) 642-7589    cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: kinships and differences
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 06:14:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 33 (33)


A book for the attention of anyone interested in our disciplinary kinships:

The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines. James J. Sheehan and

Morton Sosna, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. This

collection of essays is based on the papers given at a conference at

Stanford University in April 1987 under the auspices of the Stanford

Humanities Center <<a href="http://shc.stanford.edu/">http://shc.stanford.edu/</a>> (which also once published the

fine journal, Stanford Humanities Review

<<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/">http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/</a>>, now defunct).

In the Boundaries volume the most obviously relevant essays are those in

Part II, Humans and Machines, esp. Allen Newell, "Metaphors for Mind,

Theories of Mind: Should the Humanities Mind?"; Terry Winograd, "Thinking

Machines: Can there be? Are we?" (reprinted in D. Partridge and Y. Wilks,

The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.

Press, 1990, pp. 167-189); Sherry Turkle, "Romantic Reactions: Paradoxical

Responses to the Computer Presence"; Stuart Hampshire, "Biology, Machines,

and Humanity". Of those the essays by Newell and Winograd come close to

*required* reading for us -- and make a very interesting contrast of

attitudes within the AI community of which we must be aware.

Winograd is an important ally, as the book he did with Fernando Flores,

Understanding Computers and Cognition, demonstrates. In this piece he

recognizes the grains of truth from both sides, from the futurologists

proclaiming the dawn of machina sapiens and from the critics pointing to

"the vain pretensions of those who seek to understand mind as computation".

Then he finds the much more complex and interesting picture these grains

lead us to.

Newell's learned arrogance and very interesting rhetorical moves are also

worth close study. These moves are typical of the genre of pronouncements

ex cathedra to non-specialists: (1) dismissal of a set of questions, kind

of knowledge or area of study as unimportant, irrelevant etc.; (2) deferral

of a promised fulfilment, or what Jerry Pournelle used to call the "Real

Soon Now" strategy. By the first he relegates metaphor to the realm of the

literary, i.e. subjective and decorative, so that computation as a

"metaphor for mind" can be dismissed as essentially meaningless, in favour

of a contrastingly scientific "theory of mind". A sideswipe at science

studies, with reference only to Latour and Woolgar, is supposed to restore

the notion of clean, unproblematic objectivity to science. From there it's

a relatively short step to diagrams of cognitive processes as these are

implemented in a system he is working on -- to which, of course, none of us

have access. What he says about the system and the research strategy for

understanding mind is indeed very interesting, but the unexamined notion of

"theory" in relation to this kind of work undermines its value. Better, I

would think, to call it a "model of mind", i.e. roughly, a useful,

tractable fiction employed as a heuristic convenience. The deferral of

promise is more subtle than in the early days, for example in the article

he did with Herbert Simon, "Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in

Operations Research", Operations Research 6.1 (Jan-Feb 1958): 1-10 -- the

article is in JSTOR. I quote:

"We are now poised for a great advance that will bring the digital computer

and the tools of mathematics and the behavioural sciences to bear on the

very core of managerial activity--on the exercise of judgment and

intuition; on the process of making complex decisions.... Even while

operations research is solving well-structured problems, fundamental

research is dissolving the mystery of how humans solve ill-structured

problems. Moreover, we have begun to learn how to use computers to solve

these problems.... And we now know, at least in a limited area, not only

how to program computers to perform such problem-solving activities

successfully; we also know how to program computers to *learn* to do these

things.... Intuition, insight, and learning are no longer exclusive

possessions of humans: any large high-speed computer can be programmed to

exhibit them also." (p 6)

A number of predictions follow: that within the next 10 years (they

specifically set the date at 1 January 1968), a  computer "will be the

world's chess champion... will discover and prove an important new

mathematical theorem... will write music that will be accepted by critics

as possessing considerable aesthetic value... [and that] most theories in

psychology will take the form of computer programs, or of qualitative

statements about the characteristics of such programs" (pp. 7-8). I also

direct your attention to their reply to criticisms in Operations Research

6.3, pp. 449-50, which digs the hole deeper still. A year before the set

date, Marvin Minsky (the brain-is-a-meat-machine man), in Computation:

Finite and Infinite Machines (1967), said somewhat more cautiously that

fulfilment would happen quite soon.

Given Simon and Newell's pioneering work, which (if I am not wrong) began

in managerial science, Terry Winograd's observation at the beginning of his

article, made about 20 years after Simon and Newell's line in the sands of

time, has a particularly accurate bite: "Indeed, artificial intelligence

has not achieved creativity, insight and judgment. But its shortcomings are

far more mundane: we have not yet been able to construct a machine with

even a modicum of common sense or one that can converse on everyday topics

in ordinary language.... '[A]rtificial intelligence' ... can usefully be

likened to bureaucracy in its rigidity, obtuseness, and inability to adapt

to changing circumstances. The weakness comes not from insufficient

development of the technology but from the inadequacy of the basic tenets"

(pp 198-9) -- by which he means essentially philosophical tenets that

largely still prevail. One is reminded of John F Sowa's statement in

Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational

Foundations (2000): "Perhaps there are some kinds of knowledge that cannot

be expressed in logic." (p. 12).

Michael Williams' point, in Problems of Knowledge (2001), is worth

recalling: "Demarcational projects use epistemological criteria to sort

areas of discourse into factual and non-factual, truth-seeking and merely

expressive, and, at the extreme, meaningful and meaningless. Such projects

amount to proposals for a map of culture: a guide to what forms of

discourse are 'serious' and what are not. Disputes about demarcation... are

disputes about that shape of our culture and so, in the end, of our lives"

(p. 12).

The debate is ongoing and important, and as it goes on it gets, as Winograd

says, more complex. Putting our debate about computing into the broader

context of humans, animals and machines shows us just how important it is.

Comments?

Yours,

WM



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.13
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 06:58:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 34 (34)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 13,  Week of May 13, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

Emotion and Affect

Don Norman on the value of beauty, fun and pleasure in design.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/d_norman_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/d_norman_2.html</a>

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: "Worth, Celia" <c.worth@lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: corpus building in the indigenous minority languages of
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:02:21 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 35 (35)


the British Isles

The Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University is currently undertaking

some research into the needs of language engineers and linguists as regards

corpus building in the indigenous minority languages of the British Isles (i.e.

Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Scots, Ulster Scots and Welsh). As part

of assessing such needs we have developed a short web-questionnaire. The

answers will be made anonymous and eventually contribute to a report which we

are happy to send, free of charge, to all who participate in the survey.

If you could spare a few minutes to complete the questionnaire it would be

appreciated. Even if you are not working directly with these languages at

present, it would be useful if you could fill it in with an eye to possible

future work within this area.

The questionnaire is at:

<a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml/LERqnaire.htm">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml/LERqnaire.htm</a>

Apologies if you receive this more than once!

Thank you for your time.

Celia Worth

Research Associate

Dept. Linguistics & Modern English Language

Lancaster University

Lancaster UK

LA1 4YT

tel: +44 (0)1524 593521

email: c.worth@lancaster.ac.uk

<a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml</a>

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: <JAD@sun.ac.za>
Subject: RfI: anti-plagiarism software
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:02:51 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 36 (36)


Dear Fellow Humanists:

I am sending this query in the hope that you may assist a colleague, Edward

Foster <ejff@sun.ac.za> in his quest .w.r.t. anti-plagiarism software. He

is seeking recommendations on the efficacy of such software, the range of

options available (freeware, shareware,  etc), and any other relevant

information. Any and all opinions are most welcome.

Many thanks,

Jennifer De Beer

Web Administrator - Universiteit Stellenbosch University, ZA

(W3) sun.ac.za & (W3) geocities.com/jennifer_de_beer/

   Alt e-mail: jennifer_de_beer@acm.org



From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca>
Subject: WorldCALL Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 06:59:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 37 (37)


     WorldCALL 2003 - First Call for Papers

Following the success of WorldCALL I at Melbourne in 1998, we are looking

forward to WorldCALL 2003 in Banff, Alberta, in the heart of the Canadian

Rocky Mountains, May 7-10th 2003.  Our Hosts are the University of Alberta

and the University of Calgary.

WorldCALL is a little different from other CALL conferences you may have

been to. How different? You can find out by going to:  <a href="http://worldcall.org">http://worldcall.org</a>

The WorldCALL 2003 Conference theme is "CALL from the Margins".

Full details for submitting proposals are at:

<a href="http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/worldcallcfp/">http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/worldcallcfp/</a>

Deadline is October 15, 2002.

Presentations will be in either of Canada's two official languages, French

or English.

Peter Liddell,  Chair,                Graham Davies

WorldCALL Program Committee           President, WorldCALL



From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: CATaC'02 Conference - program update, registration info
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:01:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 38 (38)


Dear sister and fellow Humanists:

I'm very pleased to pass on the program and registration information for

CATaC'02.  Without wanting to speak for them, I hope that Willard and other

hardy pioneers of the 1998 CATaC conference in London will take pleasure in

seeing the third iteration of this conference - including its representation

of some 14 countries/cultures, including Francophone and Arabic-speaking

countries/cultures (unfortunately _not_ among the 9  countries/cultures

represented in 1998).

We look forward to a diverse range of perspectives and research on "The

Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology" - and warmly invite

interested Humanists who can to join us in lovely Montral this July.  (BTW:

CATaC is scheduled to follow the famous Montral jazz festival: you can come

for the jazz and stay for CATaC!)

Cheers and all best wishes,

Charles Ess

==

*** SAVE and Register Early by May 17 ***

International Conference on

CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02)

12-15 July 2002, University of Montral, Quebec, Canada

Conference theme:

The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology

Website: www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/

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

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.

PROGRAM

An exciting program has been arranged, including presenters from Australia,

Canada, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Philippines, Saudi Arabia,

South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, UK and USA. See the conference

website for paper details. Ample time is allowed for open discussions at the

end of each session. The conference concludes with a panel discussion. The

panel is led by session discussants and integrates the themes of the

conference, focusing on future research directions in the converging areas

of culture, technology and communication.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Susan Herring (Associate Professor of Information Science, Adjunct Associate

Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University) will be speaking on "The

language of the Internet: English dominance or heteroglossia".

INVITED SPEAKER

Laurie Walker, University of Lethbridge, Canada

LOCAL CHAIR

Lorna Heaton, University of Montreal, Canada

ACCOMMODATION

Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the university residences and at the

Royal Terrasse Hotel. Be sure to make your reservation early, particularly

at the hotel where rooms are limited.

CONFERENCE DINNER

The conference dinner will be held on Sunday 14 July at Fairmont Le Chteau

Montebello, a stunning red cedar log chteau famed for its rugged luxury in

beautiful surroundings. Dinner and bus transport to Montebello are included

in the registration fee. Montebello is approximately a one-and-a-half hour

drive from Montreal.

REGISTRATION

Until 17 May, the conference registration fee is USD300 with further

discounts for authors (one author discount fee per paper) and full-time

students. After 17 May, each fee type will increase by USD40. Conference and

author registration fees include technical sessions, conference dinner and

transport, reception, proceedings, satchels, breakfasts, lunches, morning

and afternoon coffees, panel and closing cocktails. Student registration fee

excludes the conference dinner and transport. All fees include the panel on

Monday 15 July. The panel is also open to the public for a fee of USD30.

See the registration form on the conference website for more information and

REGISTER NOW.

CONTACTS

Charles Ess

Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center

Drury University

900 N. Benton Ave.

Springfield, MO  65802  USA

Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435

Fay Sudweeks

Senior Lecturer

School of Information Technology

Murdoch University

Murdoch WA 6150 Australia

Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941



From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: ACL-02 Call for Participation and Online Registration
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:42:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 39 (39)


                                ACL-02

                40th  ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE OF THE

              ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

                      PLEASE WATCH THIS WEBSITE

       FOR FURTHER INFORMATION  and  FOR ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

                        <a href="http://www.acl02.org">http://www.acl02.org</a>

**We now have a secure server to handle registrations.  It is preferred

that registrations be made online at the conference website if

possible**

Dear ACL members and past members:  This year, we are trying something

new-We are experimenting with online registrations and providing all

information via the web.  Please note that this is an abbreviated

announcement.  The website will provide full details of the meeting,

including Main Conference Preliminary Program, Tutorial and Workshop

descriptions, and EMNLP Conference information plus registration and

housing.

We hope you will join us in Philadelphia for our 40th anniversary.  We

have a wonderful program planned. And, the ACL Executive Committee has

instituted a Lifetime Achievement Award, the first of which will be

presented this year to a prominent member of our research community who

will then give a special invited talk.  There will also be a Best Paper

Award presented at the closing session  Additionally, we have an

incredible surprise for each attendee!  So, do plan to come!

Conference dates:

Tutorials: Sunday, July 7, 2002

Main Conference: Monday, July 8th  through Wednesday, July 10th, 2002

Workshops: Thursday, July 11th and Friday, July 12th, 2002

Conference locations:

Main Conference: Perelman Quadrangle on the campus of the University

                of Pennsylvania

Parallel Sessions: Houston Hall

Exhibit Hall: Logan Hall

Plenary Sessions: Irvine Auditorium

Open House: Institute for Research in Cognitive Science



From: "Worth, Celia" <c.worth@lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: corpus building questionnaire
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 07:09:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 40 (40)


The Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University is currently undertaking

some research into the needs of language engineers and linguists as regards

corpus building in the indigenous minority languages of the British Isles (i.e.

Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx, Scots, Ulster Scots and Welsh). As part

of assessing such needs we have developed a short web-questionnaire. The

answers will be made anonymous and eventually contribute to a report which we

are happy to send, free of charge, to all who participate in the survey.

If you could spare a few minutes to complete the questionnaire it would be

appreciated. Even if you are not working directly with these languages at

present, it would be useful if you could fill it in with an eye to possible

future work within this area.

The questionnaire is at:

<a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml/LERqnaire.htm">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml/LERqnaire.htm</a>

Apologies if you receive this more than once!

Thank you for your time.

Celia Worth

Research Associate

Dept. Linguistics & Modern English Language

Lancaster University

Lancaster UK

LA1 4YT

tel: +44 (0)1524 593521

email: c.worth@lancaster.ac.uk

<a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/biml</a>



From: "Humanist Discussion Group
Subject: Re:      16.025 anti-plagarism software?
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:41:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 41 (41)


<w.mccarty@btinternet.com>)" <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu>

To: <humanist@Princeton.EDU>

Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:05 AM
[deleted quotation]


From: <JAD@sun.ac.za>
Subject: RE:      16.029 anti-plagarism software
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 06:43:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 42 (42)


Dear Nancy,

Many thanks for the pointer to, what seems to be, a quite comprehensive

resource. Given a cursory glance, what caught my eye especially was the

redefinition of the term 'paper mill' and that we now have essay "banks".

Which is on par with another term I recently learnt of 'malware'.

This  leads me to wonder if most word coinages are technology driven these

days...

Greetings, Jennifer
[deleted quotation]


From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.029 anti-plagarism software
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 06:44:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 43 (43)


[Are The Anti-Plagiarists Plagiarizing, And Charging For YOUR Works?]

ANTI-PLAGIARISM TOOL MAY INFRINGE ON COPYRIGHT

One of the most popular anti-plagiarism Web sites, Turnitin.com, has

come under scrutiny because of its practice of adding students' works

to its database, sometimes without the students' knowledge. Unlike

other plagiarism-detection Web sites that compare submitted works only

to material on the Internet or to other papers in the class, Turnitin

also adds submitted papers to its database, thereby expanding the reach

of its detection program. However, many students are not told that

their papers will be submitted and added to the database at Turnitin.

This has some worried that students' copyright is being violated and

has led the University of California at Berkeley to decide not to use

Turnitin. Others have opted to use Turnitin but only after informing

students, giving them the option not to have their work sent to Turnitin.

Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 May 2002

[Review from Newsscan, republished with permission in:

The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, May 15, 2002

[Comments in brackets are mine]

Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!

Michael S. Hart

<hart@pobox.com>

Project Gutenberg

"*Ask Dr. Internet*"

Executive Coordinator

"*Internet User ~#100*"



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Special issue
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 06:48:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 44 (44)


on Hypermedia and the Web

                     Call for submissions

          New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 2002

NRHM is a refereed annual review journal covering research on practical

and theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and

related technologies. Issues (normally 10-12 papers) review and explore

one or two topical themes from diverse perspectives.

The main theme for NRHM 2002 is hypermedia and the World Wide Web,

encompassing all aspects of the use, creation and management of hypermedia

links and structures in documents of all sorts available via the Web. With

this issue we are continuing the open topic sub-theme introduced last year

for high quality papers meeting NRHM's scope in general (see website). We

aim to include a small number of high quality original papers that report

on a substantial body of research or undertake a significant review of a

topic.

[material deleted]

For additional information on NRHM, see <a href="http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/">http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/</a>

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

Best regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: hepu@spock.bf.rmit.edu.au
Subject: Final Call for Papers: ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSK'02
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 06:42:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 45 (45)


     [We have so far received about 600 submissions, not including

      about 30 special sessions currently being organized.

      Due to numerous requests, especially from participants

      to some major conferences held in May 2002, we are pleased

      to revise the submission deadline as below.]

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

      9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing

                           (ICONIP'02)

      4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning

                            (SEAL'02)

     International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery

                            (FSKD'02)

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

          November 18 - 22, 2002, Orchid Country Club, Singapore

             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

               Home Page: <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef">http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef</a>

             Mirror Page: <a href="http://www.cic.unb.br/~weigang/nef">http://www.cic.unb.br/~weigang/nef</a>

             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

            *** (NEW!) Submission Deadline: June 30, 2002 ***

                           Organized by:

             School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

               Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

                           Sponsored by:

                 Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly

                   SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees

                  Singapore Neuroscience Association

                        In Co-Operation with:

                     IEEE Neural Network Society

                 International Neural Network Society

                    European Neural Network Society

                              SPIE

                           Supported by:

                          Lee Foundation

                         US AOARD, ARO-FE

              Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau

              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

              FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS, SPONSORSHIPS, AND

                     SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS

              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ICONIP'02, SEAL'02, and FSKD'02 will be jointly held in Orchid Country

Club, Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not

only feature the most up-to-date research results in natural and arti-

ficial neural systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and

knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over these

exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to any one of the

conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and

the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference

banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to two of the major attractions in

Singapore, i.e., Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island. Many well-

known researchers will present keynote speeches, panel discussions,

invited lectures, and tutorials.

[material deleted]



From: "Salih Bicakci" <bicakci@zahav.net.il>
Subject: Post Graduate query
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 06:41:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 46 (46)


Dear Colleagues,

I am Ph.D. candidate in Tel Aviv University in Department of Middle

Eastern and African History and also webmaster of the department. I have

introduced with humanities computing in 1999 in University of Bergen

under supervision of Prof. Manfred Thaller. Before that, I was thinking

to combine my computation abilities with the humanities, therefore this

field is somehow a miracle for me.

Now, I am on the eve of fulfillment of my dissertation. I am writing on

the modernization process of Uzbekistan in the beginning of 20th

century. I am intending to have Post-graduate in the humanities

computing. I have various prospective projects about my field, which is

going to be interesting challenge for the use of "non-European scripts"

on the net. For example, one of them is embedding explanatory metadata,

which is in XML format, on PNG formatted graphics. I prefer to use Linux

to achieve this project. On the other hand, I am ready to go into other

project as a team member, which would progress my computation abilities.

The biggest problem is to find the right place to pursue my studies.

Most of the centers had no experts neither on Islamic Studies nor

Central Asian Studies. However, I should start from a point. If now

there is no humanities computing expert on Central Asian Studies, it

does not mean, this will continue forever... Someone might accept me to

host in their institute, where would be a starting point for the

popularization of Humanities computing in Islamic Studies and Central

Asian Studies.

My query is starting from this point, would you please help me to find

right and fruitful address to pursue my studies in humanities computing?

Thanks for your consideration

Salih Bicakci

Ph.D. candidate

Tel Aviv University

Dept. Middle Eastern

& African History

Ramat Aviv/Israel



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 06:45:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 47 (47)


Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality by

Ken Hillis, University of Minnesota Press (October 1999, 248 Pages, 5

black-and-white photos, 2 figures IS AVAILABLE!!)

"Digital Sensations is the best critique of virtual reality's implications

we now have. Rather than breathlessly celebrating the limitless digital

future, Hillis carefully explores its continuities with certain earlier

tendencies in Western culture and shows their common dangers." --Martin

Jay--

Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air.

Why is the technology--or the idea of the technology--so prevalent

precisely now? What does it mean--what does it do--to us? Digital

Sensations looks closely at the ways representational forms generated by

communication technologies--especially digital/optical virtual

technologies--affect the "lived" world.

Virtual reality, or VR, is a technological reproduction of the process of

perceiving the real; yet that process is "filtered" through the social

realities and embedded cultural assumptions about human bodies,

perception, and space held by the technology's creators.

Through critical histories of the technology--of vision, light, space, and

embodiment--Digital Sensations traces the various and often contradictory

intellectual and metaphysical impulses behind the Western transcendental

wish to achieve an ever more perfect copy of the real. Because virtual

technologies are new, these histories also address the often unintended

and underconsidered consequences--such as alienating new forms of

surveilance and commodification--flowing from their rapid dissemination.

Current and proposed virtual technologies refelct a Western desire to

escape the body.

Exploring topics from VR and other earlier visual technologies, Digital

Sensations' penetrative perspective on the cultural power of place and

space broadens our view of the interplay between social relations and

technology.

"His discussion is ambitious; not only does he bring together multiple

disciplines and philosophies, he traces history from the Renaissance to

the present." [Technical Communication Quarterly]

Ken Hillis has written a wise interrogation of the impact of virtual

environments and the marriage of new digital and visual technologies.

Carefully balancing between the dangers of all-too-common and too-easy

skepticism and the risk of being seduced by the new medium, this book

analyses the manner in which the use of technologies to produce virtual

environments (VEs) changes the bases on which assumptions concerning

democratic politics and identity flourish." Space and Culture

Ken Hillis received his Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of

Wisconsin at Madison in May, 1996. His dissertation -- Geography, Identity

and Embodiment in Virtual Reality -- looked at Information Technologies

(IT), new media, and more specifically at Virtual Reality (VR). He argued

the importance of distinguishing the technologies that collectively

constitute the "platform" that individuals rely on to "enter" virtual

environments from these environments or "worlds" in and of themselves.

((Ken Hillis is assistant professor in the Department of Communication

Studies and adjunct professor of geography at the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill.))

Thank you!

best regards,

Arun



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Writing Machines
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 06:45:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 48 (48)


A new book, "Writing Machines" (November 2002, ISBN 0-262-08311-6) SERIES:

Mediaworks Pamphlets by N. Katherine Hayles and Designed by Anne Burdick

is available!

Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles

uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has

transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of

print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the

diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts.

Weaving together Kaye.s pseudo-autobiographical narrative with a

theorization of contemporary literature in media-specific terms, Hayles

examines the ways in which literary texts in every genre and period mutate

as they are reconceived and rewritten for electronic formats. As

electronic documents become more pervasive, print appears not as the sea

in which we swim, transparent because we are so accustomed to its

conventions, but rather as a medium with its own assumptions,

specificities, and inscription practices. Hayles explores works that focus

on the very inscription technologies that produce them, examining three

writing machines in depth: Talan Memmott.s groundbreaking electronic work

Lexia to Perplexia, Mark Z. Danielewski.s cult postprint novel House of

Leaves, and Tom Phillips.s artist.s book A Humument. Hayles concludes by

speculating on how technotexts affect the development of contemporary

subjectivity.

Writing Machines is the second volume in the Mediawork Pamphlets series.

More details at

<<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=0045A09C-DE12-4330-8A49-2353CA15F25B&ttype=2&tid=9159">http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=0045A09C-DE12-4330-8A49-2353CA15F25B&ttype=2&tid=9159</a>>

Thanking you!

With regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: Fwd: 4th Annual University of Virginia Summer Publishing
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 06:40:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 49 (49)


Institute for Professionals

Posted on behalf of a colleague: inquiries and other responses should go to

Beverly Jane Loo, at the address given below.
[deleted quotation]


From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.14
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 06:40:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 50 (50)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 14,  Week of May 20, 2002

In this issue:

View --

Crying Klez:  Maybe the Sky IS Falling

A fast-spreading virus exploits well-known bugs and security loopholes.

by Robert Slade

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/r_slade_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/r_slade_1.html</a>

Review --

XML, Web Services, and the Data Revolution

Harnessing the power of XML for Web-based development

Book Review James F. Doyle

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/j_doyle_6.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/j_doyle_6.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH at ALA: June 17 LITA President's Program
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:23:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 51 (51)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

May 22, 2002

                                NINCH at ALA 2002

          NINCH Highlighted in 2002 LITA President's Program

          Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) Presents

                "Building Our Cultural Heritage--Electronically"

                     ALA Conference, Atlanta: June 17, 2-4pm

                    <a href="http://www.lita.org/ac2002/presprog.html">http://www.lita.org/ac2002/presprog.html</a>

On June 17, NINCH will be featured at the American Library Association

conference in the President's Program of the Library & Information

Technology Association (LITA)'s meeting. This follows the successful May 10

OCLC seminar, New Directions, New Collaborations, which also used NINCH's

programs as examples of cross-sector collaboration.

David Green

===========

  From the LITA Web page:

Join LITA President Flo Wilson as she welcomes David Green from the

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, Virginia Kerr from

Northwestern University Library, Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. from the Center for

Research Libraries, and Richard Rinehart from the Berkeley Art

Museum/Pacific Film Archive to discuss why and how collaboration across the

many sectors of the educational and cultural sectors is key for the

construction of a rich, widely accessible body of cultural resources.

The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a

diverse coalition of 100 associations and institutions collaboratively

tackling some of the problems inhibiting the rich and integrated deployment

of cultural material. This session will explore some of the collaborative

and innovative approaches taken by this group to look at, for example, new

approaches to guidance in good practice, engagement of scholars, librarians

and computer scientists in creating future environments and the

investigation of new economic models and institutional structures necessary

for our digital future.

David Green, is the founding executive director of the National Initiative

for a Networked Cultural Heritage, created in 1996 to assure leadership

from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment.

Previously he was Director of Communications at the New York Foundation for

the Arts, where he helped develop Arts Wire, an online network for the arts

community. His publications include "Beyond Word and Image: Networking

Moving Images," (D-Lib Magazine, 1997) and "NINCH: Intellectual Needs

Shaping Technical Solutions," (Cultivate Interactive 3, 2001). He has a

Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University (1982).

Virginia Kerr has been Digital Technology Librarian in the Preservation

Department of Northwestern University Library since 1996. She has

coordinated numerous projects for digital conversion of selected

distinctive collections in the library, including: "Edward Curtis's The

North American Indian: Photographic Images," funded by the Library of

Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition and mounted on LC's

"American Memory" digital collections site; "League of Nations: Statistical

and Disarmament Documents" funded by the Institute of Museum and Library

Services (IMLS); and most recently, a project to convert the text of the 20

volume Curtis publication, also funded by IMLS. She serves on the Illinois

Digital Imaging Advisory Committee and the Digital Initiatives Advisory

Committee of the Visual Resources Association.

Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. is the president of the Center for Research

Libraries. The Center for Research Libraries is a consortium of over 200 of

the major North American college, university and research libraries. CRL

promotes scholarly inquiry and the diffusion of knowledge by providing a

framework for the cooperative development, delivery and preservation of

scholarly resources. As chief executive officer, Bernard Reilly plans and

directs the Center's activities, programs and services. From 1997 until

2001, he was director of the Department of Research and Access at the

Chicago Historical Society and, prior to 1997, chief curator in the Prints

and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

Richard Rinehart holds a joint appointment at the University of California,

Berkeley, as Director of Digital Media for the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific

Film Archive, and as Faculty for Digital Media in the Department of Art

Practice. Richard is project manager for two museum consortium projects:

"Museums and the Online Archive of California", bringing together 12

museums with the archives and libraries across the state of California to

provide standards-based access to collection; and "Conceptual and

Intermedia Arts Online" a consortium of 14 art organizations providing

standards-based access to non-traditional art material. Richard serves on

the Boards of Directors for New Langton Arts, and for the Museum Computer

Network, the international organization for museums and technology.

Immediately following the President's Program stay for the LITA President's

Reception at 4pm in the Hilton, West Ballroom.

Program and reception made possible with support of Blackwell's Book

Services and Sirsi Corporation.


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From: Han Baltussen <han.baltussen@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:24:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 52 (52)


Latin Commentaries

FOR NEWS ON THE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE in JUNE 2002

IN HONOUR OF R. SORABJI :

"Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries"

SEE OUR website

       <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/frames/Research">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/frames/Research</a>

(under Ancient Commentators Project)

Organised by Peter Adamson, Han Baltussen, Martin Stone

Announcements also found on

Digressus (c) Online Journal <a href="http://www.digressus.org">http://www.digressus.org</a>

APA Classics: <a href="http://www.apaclassics.org/">http://www.apaclassics.org/</a>

SPONSORED BY

Ancient Commentators On Aristotle Project

Institute of Classical Studies (ICS)

School of Advanced Studies, Philosophy Programme

King's College Philosophy Department

King's College Theology Department

Mind Association (Conference Grant)

British Academy (Conference Grants)

Wellcome Trust, History of Medicine Programme

Henry Brown Trust (ICS, Senate House)

Oxford University Press

British Society for the Philosophy of Science

Duckworth Publishers

Mr. C. Leventis (London)

King's College Humanities Fund (small grants programme)

Classical Association (student support)

Greek Foundation for Hellenic Culture (Greece in Britain)



From: Susan Hockey <s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Wanted: work placement opportunities in the London area
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:22:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 53 (53)


The School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL is looking

for summer work placement opportunities (internships) for 4-12 weeks in

the London area for students on the MA in Electronic Communication and

Publishing. See <a href="http://www.ecp.ucl.ac.uk">http://www.ecp.ucl.ac.uk</a> for more information about this

programme, which covers the theory and practice of digital media and is

designed especially to meet the needs of humanities graduates who wish

to move into electronic publishing and digital media.

Possibilities are web site development, publishing, content management,

technical writing, and digital resources in the humanities. Students have

skills in HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, and some imaging and database

tools as well as essay and report writing.

Please contact me if you have anything suitable.

Susan Hockey

s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk

****************************************************

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: Center for Biographical Research <biograph@hawaii.edu>
Subject: "Online Lives": A _Biography_ Special Issue
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 06:40:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 54 (54)


Call for Articles: A _Biography_ Special Issue

Online Lives

The Winter 2003 issue of _Biography_ will feature critical essays on how

auto/biography and other forms of life writing are engaging the Internet,

hypertext, digital multimedia, and the immersive interactive environments of

MOOs, virtual worlds, and role-playing games. Guest editor John Zuern seeks

contributions that address topics such as personal home pages, online

diaries and web logs, web-based genealogical research and family histories,

the stability and/or flux of identity in virtual communities, and the

creative use of webcams and other surveillance and tracking technologies for

self-representation. Interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, as well

as explorations of the theoretical, methodological, and ethical challenges

of studying online lives are particularly encouraged.

TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and ideally between 3,000 and

10,000 words. A double-blind submission policy will be followed; the

authors name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, but an

accompanying cover letter should contain the authors name and address.

Consultation on manuscript ideas is welcomed.

Deadline for receipt of entries: September 1, 2002.

For more information, or to submit an entry, contact the Center for

Biographical Research, University of Hawaii at Mnoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

96822 USA; Tel./Fax: (808) 956-3774; biograph@hawaii.edu



From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: interest in Visual Anthy webcasts?
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 06:39:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 55 (55)


As part of the planning for the new Visual Anthropology MSc at UKC which

will start in September 2002 we are wondering whether to provide some

occasional webcasts of  guest lectures, workshops and the like. Before

going further in the planning of this I would appreciate feedback on

whether people would actually be interested in such a thing...

many thanks

david

p.s. some info on the MSc is  available via

<a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/courses/pgvisanth.html">http://www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/courses/pgvisanth.html</a>


--
Dr David Zeitlyn,
Director of Graduate Studies,
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
<a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/</a> (personal)
http:/www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/
<a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/gradapply.html">http://www.ukc.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/gradapply.html</a> (online application
forms)



From: csmr2003@unisannio.it
Subject: CSMR 2003  - CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:53:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 56 (56)


Dear colleague:

      We would like to invite you to participate in the Seventh European

      Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, which will be

      held in Benevento, Italy, March 26-28,  2003, and to submit a paper.

      ========================================================================

      (Please apologize for multiple copies)

                             Seventh European Conference on

                         Software Maintenance and Reengineering

                                     Benevento, Italy

                                    March 26-28,  2003

                             <a href="http://rcost.unisannio.it/csmr2003">http://rcost.unisannio.it/csmr2003</a>

                                      CALL FOR PAPERS

      CSMR is  the premier  European Conference on  Software Maintenance

      and Reengineering.  Its purpose is to promote  both discussion and

      interaction about evolution, maintenance and reengineering.

      Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

      Evolution, maintenance and reengineering:

              + pattern languages

              + experience reports (successes and failures)

              + tools

              + enabling technologies

              + formal methods

              + system assessment

              + web-site

      Metrics and economics

      Software evolution and architecture recovery

      Migration and maintenance issues

      Dealing with legacy systems towards new technologies

      Wrapping and interfacing legacy systems

      Data reengineering

      Reverse engineering of embedded (control, mobile, ...) systems

      Evaluation and assessment of reverse engineering tools

      One  of the  basic intentions  of this  conference is  to  offer a

      European forum  for discussion  and exchange of  experiences among

      researchers  and practitioners.  Therefore, besides  academics, we

      kindly invite all those in companies developing maintenance tools,

      offering  reengineering services or  going through  legacy systems

      migration  experiences  to  contribute  by  submitting  papers  or

      presenting innovative tools, solutions or experience reports. This

      conference is  not limited to European  participants; authors from

      outside Europe are also welcomed.

[material deleted]



From: "Domenico Fiormonte" <mc9809@mclink.it>
Subject: CLiP 2002 conference
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:02:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 57 (57)


[Summary of the CLiP conference series is given below.]

Estimados amigos y amigas:

Tenemos el placer de enviarles informacin acerca del Congreso

Internacional CLiP 2002 "Computers, Literature and Philology", que tendr

lugar en la Facultad de Humanidades de Albacete del 5 al 7 del prximo mes

de diciembre.

Pueden obtener informacin ms detallada en la siguiente direccin en Internet:

<a href="http://www.uclm.es/gcynt/clip2002/">http://www.uclm.es/gcynt/clip2002/</a>

Confiamos en que esta informacin sea de su inters.

Reciban un saludo muy cordial,

Oficina del Espaol en la Sociedad de la Informacin

_________________________________________________________________

Proyecto EUROMAP Tecnologas Lingsticas

Oficina del Espaol en la Sociedad de la Informacin (OESI)

Instituto Cervantes

Libreros, 23, E-28801 - Alcal de Henares, Madrid

Tel.: 91.888.72.94; Fax: 91.888.18.26

euromap@cervantes.es

<a href="http://oesi.cervantes.es/euromap">http://oesi.cervantes.es/euromap</a>

Boletn de noticias EUROMAP: <a href="http://www.hltcentral.org/page-900.0.shtml">http://www.hltcentral.org/page-900.0.shtml</a>

LangTech 2000 (Berln, 26 y 27 de septiembre de 2002):

<a href="http://www.lang-tech.org">http://www.lang-tech.org</a>
[deleted quotation]


From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)"
Subject: Symposium in Cuba, 2003
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:08:09 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 58 (58)


EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON

SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA

JANUARY 20-24, 2003

The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the

Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce

the Eight International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will

be held in Santiago de Cuba January 20th through the 24th, 2003. This

interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from

the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine,

Voice Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore.

[See <<a href="http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/">http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/</a>> for details,

<<a href="http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/english.html">http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/english.html</a>> for details in English.

Remainder of this message deleted.]



From: "Waters, Donald" <DJW@Mellon.org>
Subject: Report of the Workshop on Digital Imagery for Works of Art
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:10:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 59 (59)


Friends,

The following announcement may be of interest to members of the Humanities

Computing discussion group.

Regards,

Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation

Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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

On November 19-20, 2001, the National Science Foundation, The Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation, and the Harvard University Art Museums jointly sponsored

an invitational workshop on Digital Imagery for Works of Art.  This workshop

was organized by Kevin Kiernan (University of Kentucky), Charles Rhyne (Reed

College), and Ron Spronk (Harvard University), and was designed to bring

together computer and imaging scientists who have been active in digital

imagery research with a particular group of end users, namely research

scholars in the visual arts, including art and architecture historians, art

curators, conservators, and scholars and practitioners in closely related

disciplines.

The specific purpose of the meeting was to explore how the research and

development agenda of computing, information and imaging scientists might

more usefully serve the research needs of research scholars in the visual

arts. At the same time, participants looked for opportunities where

applications in the art history domain might inform and push information

technology research in new and useful directions.

The final report of the workshop is now available at

<a href="http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/mellon/report.html">http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/mellon/report.html</a>.  This Web page contains a copy

of the report in HTML and a link to a printable version in Adobe Acrobat

format.  This Web page also contains a link to a comment form.  The

organizers and sponsors would very much welcome comments and other feedback

from readers of the report.  Of particular interest would be links to

ongoing efforts in the various areas emphasized in the report, as well as

pointers to resources (collections, tools, etc.) that may be useful for

future collaborative work.



From: "Michael Gerych" <welcome@ameritech.net>
Subject: postprints
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:55:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 60 (60)


Can you direct me to the individual or organization acting as a

clearinghouse for who's working on what postprint project?

I'm a volunteer who's almost given up on finding this & I've just started in

on some 19th century books.

Thank you.

Dorothy Gerych

Troy, Michigan USA

<welcome@ameritech.net>

[Please reply directly to the above as well as to Humanist.]



From: Stuart Lee <stuart.lee@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Oxford Vacancy: John Ruskin Project
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:55:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 61 (61)


UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM

PROJECT MANAGER

Salary: Research Staff 1A: 17,626 - 26,491

The Ashmolean Museum wishes to appoint a Manager to supervise  a two year

project to catalogue and digitise the drawings, paintings and notes in

John Ruskin's Teaching Collection, and to present it on the World Wide Web

as a research and teaching resource. This is a joint project, funded by

AHRB, with the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and the University's

Academic Computing Development Team who will respectively offer expertise

in design, and provide all of the technical development support needed.

The successful applicant will have a postgraduate degree or equivalent

experience in the history of art, previous management experience and

knowledge of cataloguing systems for Fine Art. S/he will have a proven

ability to organise and prioritise a heavy and varied workload, the

ability to work to deadlines, and excellent communication and presentation

skills. Knowledge of the works of John Ruskin and of working with digital

images would be an advantage.

Please contact the Personnel Officer, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford OX1 2PH

(tel: 01865 278008; fax: 01865 278018; e-mail:

julia.allen@ashmus.ox.ac.uk) for further details and an application form.

The closing date for applications is 28 June, 2002. Interviews will be

held on 15 July, and it is expected that the successful candidate will be

in post from 1 September.

***************************************************************************

Dr Stuart D Lee                 | Head of the Learning Technologies

Oxford University Computing     | Group (<a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/</a>)

Services                        |

13 Banbury Road                 |

Oxford OX2 6NN

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From: "Bramson, Leon" <LBramson@neh.gov>
Subject: 2003 SUMMER STIPENDS AWARDS: $5,000     Deadline: October
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:54:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 62 (62)


1, 2002

        The NEh Summer Stipends program received 751 applications last fall,

and made 117 awards for the summer of 2002. We are now making plans for the

October 1, 2002 deadline. This year, for the first time, applications for

Summer Stipends will be submitted electronically through the NEH website.

Individuals who are interested in obtaining access to the guidelines and

application instructions are invited to visit the NEH website at

                        <a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html</a>

The list of awards for the summer of 2002 is available on the website,

giving project titles, names, and institutional affiliations of successful

applicants. Questions about the program can be sent via e-mail to

<stipends@neh.gov> or via telephone: (202) 606-8200

Leon Bramson

Senior Program Officer

Division of Research Programs

202/606-8340

Lbramson@neh.gov



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Regarding "Winograd & Flores" and "Understanding
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:14:54 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 63 (63)


Computers & Cognition

Dear Dr. Willard McCarty,

Hermeneutics: From Textual Explication to Computer Understanding? The

paper is discussion of the theoretical foundation of AI extensively refer

to Hermeneutics. Hubert Dreyfus and Terry Winograd draw heavily on

hermeneutics to question the feasibility of AI and cognitive science.

Details at

<<a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers/cs/142/ftp:zSzzSzftp.ai.mit.eduzSzpubzSzuserszSzjcmazSzpaperszSz1986-ai-memo-871.pdf/hermeneutics-from-textual-explication.pdf">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers/cs/142/ftp:zSzzSzftp.ai.mit.eduzSzpubzSzuserszSzjcmazSzpaperszSz1986-ai-memo-871.pdf/hermeneutics-from-textual-explication.pdf</a>>

How to Read Winograd's and Flores's Understanding Computers and Cognition

This paper is a navigating tip to scholars to read Understanding Computers

and Cognition (A New Foundation for Deisgn) by Terry Winograd and Fernando

Flores. The book should be significant to cognitive scientists, including

researchers of AI. It is more than a guide to reader. Details at

<<a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers/cs/17362/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.ucsb.eduzSz~mcguirezSzpaperszSzwf_accomp.pdf/how-to-read-winograd.pdf">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers/cs/17362/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.ucsb.eduzSz~mcguirezSzpaperszSzwf_accomp.pdf/how-to-read-winograd.pdf</a>>

Citation: Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and

Cognition. Addison-Wesley, 1986.

<<a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/71212/0">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/71212/0</a>>

Thank you!

Sincerely yours,

Arun Tripathi



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 15.471 poetry & the online medium
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:14:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 64 (64)


[The following just surfaced from wherever it had gone. Again, if you do

not see your posting in the subsequent issue of Humanist, please let me

know. --WM]

Willard,

The momentary indeed! Revised URL

<a href="http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/education/under.htm">http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/education/under.htm</a>
[deleted quotation]
and more on Tube Poems by searching the WWWspace of thetube.com

<a href="http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1001ad5c&sp-q=poem&GO.x=25&GO.y=13">http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1001ad5c&sp-q=poem&GO.x=25&GO.y=13</a>

[a search likely to produce different results with the passage of time]

enjoy a bit of Ibadan by John Pepper Clark

<a href="http://www.thetube.com/content/metro/02/0205/17/">http://www.thetube.com/content/metro/02/0205/17/</a>

and perhaps discover how the line breaks are marked up and thus

apparently preserved across changes in scale of rendering :)

<td>Running splash of rust<br>and gold - flung and scattered<br>among

seven hills like broken<br>china in the sun</td>

which one would expect to be rendered as :

Running splash of rust

and gold - flung and scattered

among seven hills like broken

china in the sun

but a browser setting of a certain font size operating on a screen of

a certain dimension and set to respect the value of the width

attributes of the table elements can lead to this:

Running splash

of rust

and gold - flung

and scattered

among seven

hills like broken

china in the sun

Layout likely to be read aloud differently. Couple this phenomenon with

the question of just how accessible is table markup to voice-synthesis

software?

What might it mean to encourage electro-cultural practices that value

favourably scrolling across as much as scrolling down? Screen-as-window

(or view finder) versus screen as bounded-table (sandbox)....

111

101

111


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Sean Lawrence <seanlawrence@writeme.com>
Subject: New issue of Early Modern Literary Studies
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:52:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 65 (65)


Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the publication of its May

issue. The table of contents appears below; the journal can be accessed free

online at <a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html">http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html</a>

The September issue will be a special issue on the topic of Gold, but the

journal continues to welcome submissions in all areas of early modern

literature.

Articles:

"Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night: Contemporary Film and Classic British Theatre."

Nicholas R. Jones, Oberlin College.

"Surpassing Glass: Shakespeare's Mirrors." Philippa Kelly, University of New

South Wales.

"Common-words frequencies, Shakespeare's style, and the Elegy by W. S." Hugh

Craig, University of Newcastle, New South Wales.

"New Sects of Love: Neoplatonism and Constructions of Gender in Davenant's The

Temple of Love and The Platonick Lovers." Lesel Dawson, University of Bristol.

Professional Note

"An Online Index of Poetry in Printed Miscellanies, 1640-1682." Adam Smyth,

University of Reading.

Reviews

Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, and Dympna Callaghan, eds. Feminist Readings

of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Martine van Elk, California State University,  Long Beach.

Ewan Fernie. Shame in Shakespeare. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Jerry

Brotton, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Cyndia Susan Clegg. Press Censorship in Jacobean England. Cambridge: Cambridge

UP, 2001. Michael Ullyot, University of Toronto.

Helen Hackett. Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance. Cambridge:

Cambridge UP, 2000. Carrie Hintz, Queens College / CUNY.

Theatre Reviews:

Twelfth Night, performed by the Company of Shakespeare's Globe at the Middle

Temple Hall, London, February 2002. David Nicol, University of Central England.

Othello. Adapted for television by Andrew Davies. Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield

Hallam University.

Richard III. Directed by Michael Grandage at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield,

13 March - 6 April, 2002. Annaliese Connolly, Sheffield Hallam University.

The Taming of the Shrew at the Nottingham Playhouse, February-March 2002. Chris

Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University.

Macbeth. Northern Broadsides, directed by Barrie Rutter. At the West Yorkshire

Playhouse, Leeds, April, 2002. Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University.

Camb & Fenland Springshax 2002. Michael Grosvenor Myer.

Dr Lisa Hopkins

Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University

School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent

Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K.

Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a>

Teaching and research pages:

<a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm">http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm</a>



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: My Humbul - embed our records in your web pages (fwd)
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:03:54 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 66 (66)


The Humbul Humanities Hub (<a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/</a>) is pleased to announce

the launch of My Humbul Include.

My Humbul Include allows you to select records from within Humbul's growing

catalogue of evaluated online resources, and dynamically include sets of

those records within your own web pages. You can even add your own custom

descriptions. Including Humbul's records within your Web page is simply a

matter of copying and pasting 3 lines of HTML into your webpage. From then

on, whenever users visit your webpage it will dynamically retrieve the

records you have chosen to export from Humbul.

If you need to add more records, delete records or change your custom

descriptions, you can do all of that from within My Humbul. This should be

especially useful for course web pages and other academic-support pages.

My Humbul Include is part of the My Humbul set of services which includes an

alerting service. Registered users of My Humbul will notice the change to

their user interface immediately. New My Humbul users will be asked to

register their name, email address and select a username and password.

It is also strongly recommended that users read through the help pages for

My Humbul Include before employing this new functionality. Help for My

Humbul can be found at <a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/myhumbul.html">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/myhumbul.html</a> and help

for My Humbul Include can be found at

<a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/myhumbulinclude.html">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/myhumbulinclude.html</a>

The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service of the Resource Discovery Network

funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and

Humanities Research Board and is hosted by Oxford University.


--
Randy Metcalfe
Information and Publications Officer
Humbul Humanities Hub
Oxford University
13 Banbury Road
Oxford, OX2 6NN
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 283 416
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 273 275
randolph.metcalfe@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
www.humbul.ac.uk


From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.15
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:04:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 67 (67)

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM
Volume 3, Number 15,  Week of May 27, 2002
In this issue:
Views --
Reestablishing the Value of Content
Everything has a cost, even so-called "free" content
by Gerry McGovern
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/g_mcgovern_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/g_mcgovern_1.html</a>
Peer-to-Peer Interactions in Web Brokering Systems
Global structure and local dynamic messaging support a
wide range of applications
By Geoffrey Fox and Shrideep Pallickara
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/g_fox_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/g_fox_2.html</a>


From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- May 2002
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 12:09:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 68 (68)

CIT INFOBITS    May 2002                No. 47          ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.
......................................................................
Online Teaching and the 24-Hour Professor
Papers from Reading and Writing Technologies Conference
Creative Commons Copyright Clearinghouse Launched
Scholarly Journal Boycott a Bust
Papers from Digital Communities Conference
The True Value/Cost of Web-Based Information
More About ADL and SCORM
Recommended Reading
[material deleted]
INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at
<a href="http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/">http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/</a> (HTML format) and at
<a href="http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html">http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html</a> (plain text format).
[material deleted]



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: apologies for the silence then flood
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:51:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 69 (69)


Dear colleagues:

My apologies for the total silence from Humanist for the last week,

followed by the virtual tsunami about to hit you. I was attending the

conference of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium

pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH), in the Congress of the

Social Sciences and the Humanities, at the University of Toronto. See

<<a href="http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/Program.htm">http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/Program.htm</a>> for details. The

COCH/COSH event, ably organized by Ray Siemens, gave abundant evidence that

(as more than one speaker remarked) humanities computing has come of age --

and that Canadian humanities computing, from British Columbia in the west

to Newfoundland in the east, has the full and much deserved attention of

the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Technologies

de l'esprit / Mind Technologies, a full day of the conference co-sponsored

by SSHRC, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and others, offered a

rapid survey across many different projects and thus provided a good

overview of the variety.

The conference programme shows such variety but cannot of course give you

any idea of quality or qualities. Although I know many of the participants

and their good work, I was surprised as well as delighted by the overall

impression of vitality. Roughly this came from two sources: the fruits of

efforts over many years by senior people in the field and new research by

young scholars, including one entering PhD student. (Our young turks are

scarily competent! :-) Papers ranged from reports on projects that have

benefitted from computing -- the

without-this-I-wouldn't-have-been-able-to-do-that kind -- and

demonstrations of maturing and matured resources, to considerations of

questions in humanities computing itself. Some of the papers, that is,

could easily have been given in conferences on modern language study or

history, for example. It is in the nature of humanities computing, I would

think, that the range of material presented to us is interdisciplinary. In

other words, I find it a very healthy sign that people are not simply

decamping to their disciplines-of-origin but wisely cultivating multiple

audiences. If this is a tendency that selects for the young scholars, who

need all the exposure and help they can get, then so much the better for

humanities computing.

Now for that tsunami I promised you....

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Alan Burk <burk@unb.ca>
Subject: RE: Announcement - Summer Institute 2002 - Creating
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 06:40:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 70 (70)


Electronic Texts and Images

This announcement is a reposting; please excuse any duplication.

********************************************************************

   Announcing the Sixth Summer Institute at the University of New

            Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada

          <a href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2002/index.html">http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2002/index.html</a>

   *************************************************************

Creating Electronic Texts and Images -- a practical "hands-on"

exploration of the research, preservation and pedagogical uses of

electronic texts and images in the humanities.

DATES: August 18 - 23, 2002

INSTRUCTOR: David Seaman, University of Virginia

PLACE: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Sponsored by the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New

Brunswick Libraries and the Department of Archives and Special

Collections

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course will centre around the creation of a set of electronic texts and

digital images. Topics to be covered include:

        XML tagging and conversion

        Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines

        Ebooks

        The basics of archival imaging

        The form and implications of XML

        Publishing XML on the World Wide Web

        EAD - Encoded Archival Descriptions

The course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who are

planning to develop electronic text and imaging projects, for scholars who

are creating electronic texts as part of their teaching and research, and

for publishers who are looking to move publications to the Web.

Course participants will learn how to create TEI encoded XML files from a

selection of manuscripts from UNBs Archives and Special Collections; and,

then, how to turn these XML files automatically into multiple formats,

including HTML, PDF, and EBook.  Participants will also have the opportunity

to tag an EAD finding aid and explore issues in creating digital images.

The work of the class will be made available on the Internet through the

Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries Web

Page.

[material deleted]



From: Katja Mruck <mruck@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: FQS 3(2) "Using Technology in the Qualitative Research
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 07:35:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 71 (71)


Process" online

Dear All,

The 8th issue of the on-line journal FQS -- "Using Technology in the

Qualitative Research Process" -- is now available at

<a href="http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm">http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm</a>

Enjoy reading!

Katja Mruck

Former issues:

- FQS 1(1) Qualitative Research (January 2000)

- FQS 1(2) Qualitative Psychology (June 2000)

- FQS 1(3) Text, Archive, Re-Analysis (December 2000)

- FQS 2(1) Qualitative and Quantitative Research (February 2001)

- FQS 2(2) Special Issue: FQS Reviews I (May 2001)

- FQS 2(3) Cultural Sciences (September 2001)

- FQS 3(1) Criminology (January 2002)

All full texts are available for free.

***********************************************************************

A) FQS 3(2) USING TECHNOLOGY IN THE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PROCESS

Edited by Graham R. Gibbs, Susanne Friese & Wilma C. Mangabeira

The following contributions are available online:

F Full text, A Abstract

E English, F French, G German, S Spanish

Graham R. Gibbs, Susanne Friese & Wilma C. Mangabeira: The Use of New

Technology in Qualitative Research. Introduction to Issue 3(2) of FQS

(FE, AG, AS) [The German full text will be available in June]

Roberta Bampton & Christopher J. Cowton (UK): The E-Interview (FE, AG,

AS)

Sharon A. Bong (UK): Debunking Myths in Qualitative Data Analysis (FE,

AG, AS)

Sylvain Bourdon (Canada): The Integration of Qualitative Data Analysis

Software in Research Strategies: Resistances and Possibilities (FE, AG,

AS)

David Brown (UK): Going Digital and Staying Qualitative: Some

Alternative Strategies for Digitizing the Qualitative Research Process

(FE, AG, AS)

Patrick Carmichael (UK): Extensible Markup Language and Qualitative Data

Analysis (AE, AG, AS) [The English full text will be available in June]

Digenes Carvajal (Columbia): The Artisan's Tools. Critical Issues when

Teaching and Learning CAQDAS (FE, FS, AG)

Bibi Holge-Hazelton (Denmark): The Internet: A New Field for Qualitative

Inquiry? (FE, AG, AS)

Thomas Irion (Germany): Collection, Presentation and Analysis of

Multimedia Data with Computers (FG, AE, AS)

Anne Marie Kanstrup (Denmark): Picture the Practice-Using Photography to

Explore Use of Technology Within Teachers' Work Practices (FE, AG, AS)

Sabine C. Koch & Joerg Zumbach (Germany): The Use of Video Analysis

Software in Behavior Observation Research: Interaction Patterns in

Task-oriented Small Groups (FE, AG, AS)

Marc Koerschen, Jessica Pohl, H. Walter Schmitz & Olaf A. Schulte

(Germany): New Techniques in Qualitative Conversation Analysis:

Computer-based Transcription of Videoconferences (FG, AE, AS)

Thorsten Meyer, Harald Gruppe & Michael Franz (Germany): Microsoft

Access for the Analysis of Open-ended Responses in Questionnaires and

Interviews (FG, AE, AS)

Connie M. Moss & Gary Shank (USA): Using Qualitative Processes in

Computer Technology Research on Online Learning: Lessons in Change from

"Teaching as Intentional Learning" (FE, AG, AS)

Bruno Nideroest (Switzerland): Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis

with Word (FG, AE, AS)

Kathryn A. Roberts & Richard W. Wilson (UK): ICT and the Research

Process: Issues Around the Compatibility of Technology With Qualitative

Data Analysis (FE, AG, AS)

Cory Secrist, Ilse de Koeyer, Holly Bell, & Alan Fogel (USA): Combining

Digital Video Technology and Narrative Methods for Understanding Infant

Development (FE, FS, AG)

Robert Thompson (Australia): Reporting the Results of Computer-assisted

Analysis of Qualitative Research Data (FE, AG, AS)

Elaine Welsh (UK): Dealing with Data: Using NVivo in the Qualitative

Data Analysis Process (FE, AG, AS)

Josef Zelger & Andreas Oberprantacher (Austria): Processing of Verbal

Data and Knowledge Representation by GABEK-WinRelan (AE, AG, AS) [The

English full text will be available in June]

SINGLE CONTRIBUTION

Ronald Hitzler (Germany): The Reconstruction of Meaning. The State of

the Art in German Interpretive Sociology (FG, AE, AS) [pre-published:

April 2002]

FQS REVIEW

Guenter Mey: Editorial Note: 2 Years FQS Review: 18 Publishers, 74

Reviews, 3383 Mails (FG, AE, AS)

REVIEW ESSAYS

Volker Barth (France, Germany): Society as a Dialectical Process -

Victor Turner in Between Ndembu and Bob Dylan (FG, AE, AF, AS)

[pre-published: Febr. 2002]

Jaan Valsiner (USA): Ethnography Lost and Found: Qualitative Methodology

Between Science, Art, and Social Powers (FE, AG, AS) [pre-published:

Febr. 2002]

FQS REVIEW NOTES

David Howarth (2000). Discourse

reviewed by John Cromby (UK) (FE, AG, AS) [pre-published: April 2002]

Stefan Beck (Ed.) (2000). Technogene Naehe. Ethnographische Studien zur

Mediennutzung im Alltag [Technogenetic Closeness. Ethnographic Studies

on the Use of New Media in Everyday Life]

reviewed by Nicola Doering (Germany) (FG, AE, AS) [pre-published: March

2002]

Dorothe Ninck Gbeassor, Heidi Schaer Sall, David Signer, Daniel Stutz &

Elena Wertli (1999). Ueberlebenskunst in Uebergangswelten:

ethnopsychologische Betreuung von Asylsuchenden [The Art of Surviving in

Transitional Worlds: Counselling for the Asylum Seekers]

reviewed by Victoria Hegner (Germany) (FG, AE, AS) [pre-published: Febr.

2002]

Michael Beisswenger (Ed.) (2001). Chat-Kommunikation. Sprache,

Interaktion und Sozialitaet in synchroner computervermittelter

Kommunikation. Perspektiven auf ein interdisziplinaeres Forschungsfeld

[Chat Communication. Language, Interaction, and Sociality in Computer

Mediated Communication. Perspectives on an interdisciplinary research

area]

reviewed by Matthias Petzold (Germany) (FG, AE, AS) [pre-published:

March 2002]

Thomas Bruesemeister (2000). Qualitative Forschung. Ein Ueberblick

[Qualitative Research: An Overview]

reviewed by Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany) (FG, AE, AS)

[pre-published: March 2002]


--
FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
English -> <a href="http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm">http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm</a>
German -> <a href="http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm">http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm</a>



From: "Matthew L. Jockers" <mjockers@stanford.edu>
Subject: Job Opening at Stanford
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 07:37:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 72 (72)


Academic Technology Specialist, Job #1253

Description: The Academic Technology Specialist for Anthropological Sciences

and Cultural And Social Anthropology will work with faculty in conjunction

with both their teaching and research, devising and developing technological

solutions for academic needs. This will include researching and implementing

data collection, qualitative analysis, and quantitative analysis tools to

support Anthropological research; developing web-based programs and

databases for use in teaching and research, and teaching faculty how to best

employ multimedia tools for use in their teaching and research. The ATS will

have a background in Anthropology, Archeology, and/or a related field and

possess a fundamental understanding of the ideas that form the foundation of

Anthropological research in order to assist the faculty with the

discipline-specific educational and research tools available and to

disseminate knowledge of these tools appropriately through the departments.

The ATS must have some programming knowledge and experience in the

development of academic technologies, be resourceful and creative in using

current technologies, and demonstrate excellent organizational,

instructional, and communication skills.  The ATS will have a proven record

of developing technology solutions and teaching others how to employ these

solutions.  The ATS will actively encourage and support the use of

educational and research technology. He/she must have a willingness and

interest in working with faculty at different levels of technical experience

and expertise. Responsibilities include: Advising the two departments on

technical matters and providing leadership in technology. Initiating ideas,

implementing solutions, and finding resources. Staying abreast of

technological advances, testing and integrating those that foster learning

and effective communication.

Qualifications: A record of innovation and creativity in making technology

accessible, understandable, and appealing to an academic audience and

demonstrated leadership and resourcefulness in identifying and integrating

technological solutions to pedagogical and research needs. A baccalaureate

degree in Anthropology, Archeology, or a related field plus at least five

years experience in academic computing and technology project management or

the equivalent combination of education and experience. An advanced degree

is desirable. Excellent teaching, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Ability to interact effectively and tactfully in oral and written

communications with members of the academic community. Experience teaching

technology skills (including multimedia and database applications) to novice

and expert computer users. Excellent time management and project management

skills. Demonstrated experience managing projects and a complex workload,

prioritizing tasks, and using good judgment in defining goals and objectives

based on general strategic directions. Familiarity with applications,

resources and techniques used in teaching and research within the fields of

Anthropology and Archeology. Expert knowledge of Windows and Macintosh

environments, and facility with UNIX. Expert knowledge of database

applications such as Microsoft Access, FileMaker Pro, and/or Oracle. Expert

knowledge of digital imaging and web authoring software. Experience

developing multimedia projects and web sites utilizing digital imaging, web

and multimedia authoring software. Knowledge of and experience with digital

video editing tools. Knowledge of and experience with statistical

applications and qualitative analysis software. Knowledge of and experience

with GIS and CAD software. Knowledge of and experience with a programming

language. See <a href="http://acomp.stanford.edu/atsp/anthro.html">http://acomp.stanford.edu/atsp/anthro.html</a> for more details.


--
Matthew L. Jockers, Ph.D.
Lecturer and Academic Technology Specialist
Departments of English and Academic Computing
Building 460, Room 207
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2087
650/723-4489 (V)
650/725-0755 (F)



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.16
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 07:32:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 73 (73)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 16,  Week of June 3, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

Cherri M. Pancake on Usability Engineering

How we perceive, interpret and use information; applying human

factors research to product design

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/c_pancake_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/c_pancake_1.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Besser article on interoperability featured in June FIRST
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 07:37:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 74 (74)


MONDAY

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

June 5, 2002

                       Howard Besser article, "The Next Stage:

   Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to  Interoperable Digital

Libraries,"

                    featured in the June issue of FIRST MONDAY

                  <a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/besser/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/besser/</a>

Amongst the usual good mix of articles in the monthly online FIRST MONDAY

is a timely review article by Howard Besser of the important next step in

our creating truly interoperable digital libraries.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
Dear Reader,

The June 2002 issue of First Monday (volume 7, number 6) is now

available at <a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/</a>

-------

Table of Contents

Volume 7, Number 6 - June 3rd 2002

Electric Symbols: Internet Words And Culture

by John Fraim

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/fraim/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/fraim/</a>

The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to

Interoperable Digital Libraries

by Howard Besser

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/besser/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/besser/</a>

The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights Conflict and Access to

Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities

by George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/kerscher/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/kerscher/</a>

Cave or Community? An Empirical Examination of 100 Mature Open Source Projects

by Sandeep Krishnamurthy

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/krishnamurthy/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/krishnamurthy/</a>

Open Source Intelligence

by Fleix Stalder and Jesse Hirch

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/stalder/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/stalder/</a>

Censoring the Internet: The Situation in Turkey

by Kemal Altintas, Tolga Aydin, and Varol Akman

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/altinta/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/altinta/</a>

The Place of Law in Cyberspace

by David Altheide

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/altheide/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/altheide/</a>

The Medical Journal Meets the Internet

by Charles Curran

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/curran/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/curran/</a>

FM Interviews: Stephanie Mills

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/mills/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/mills/</a>

Book Reviews

<a href="http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/reviews/">http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_6/reviews/</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: H-Net Launches H-MUSEUM: Network for Museum Professionals
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 07:38:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 75 (75)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

June 5, 2002

           H-Net Launches H-MUSEUM: Network for Museum Professionals

                           <a href="http://www.h-museum.net">http://www.h-museum.net</a>

               <a href="http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~museum/welcome.html">http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~museum/welcome.html</a>

The international H-Net network announces a new online network for museum

professionals with a particular emphasis on museums and the internet.

David Green
[deleted quotation]
Launch of H-MUSEUM

H-NET Network for Museum Professionals

<a href="http://www.h-museum.net">http://www.h-museum.net</a>

H-MUSEUM (ISSN 1618 - 0534) is a moderated mailing list and information

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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: seeing the sharp edges
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 08:32:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 76 (76)


In the first of his Sillman Foundation Lectures, The Origins of Knowledge

and Imagination, Jacob Bronowski declares that, "... in many ways you can

say about all human problems, whether in science or in literature, whether

physical or psychological, that they always center around the same problem:

How do you refine the detail with an apparatus which remains at bottom

grainy and coarse?" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978, p. 14)

Brownowski is generalizing from a discussion of how we manage to see sharp

boundaries (e.g. the edges of the pages of a book we are reading) when what

we begin with is the coarse, grainy image produced by rods and cones in the

eye, "which is rather like that of old-fashioned newspaper photographs." We

see sharp edges rather than "an extremely wavy edge of shadow", he

concludes, "because the eye is so wired up among the rods and cones that it

actually looks for straight edges" (15f).

Indeed, it would seem that we are always doing this sort of thing --

*making* sharp, categorical divisions among things that on other inspection

aren't like that at all. In other words, we simplify in order to reach a

provisional understanding. Later on, in the third lecture, Brownowski notes

(echoing the Talmud) that in experimental science one must "put a fence

around the law", i.e., decide what is relevant to one's experiment and what

is not -- despite the interconnectedness of all things. This falsifies the

experiment, makes it partial in order that some results may be obtained.

The revolutions in science happen, he notes, when the fence gets pushed

back further, by some audacious act of imagination, such as Max Planck's or

Albert Einstein's (58-60). We do the same, e.g. in literary studies,

selecting what to pay attention to, excluding other things, though we tend

not to speak in ways which suggest expanding the fenced-in domain, rather

only shifting it to another patch of ground.

When (as always?) one's instrument is crude, for example the computer,

selection is imposed by the logic of the instrument. So my question: are

not the sharp boundaries we see through computation valuable to us in

proportion to our awareness that we are making them up? This is, of course,

a very slippery slope, with the slough of desponding relativism at the

bottom. Bronowski (perhaps with the terms of the Sillman Lecture series in

mind, "to illustrate the presence and providence of God as manifested in

the natural and moral world") speaks repeatedly of his *belief* in the

reality of physical nature. A philosopher might alternatively declare him-

or herself a realist and then work out the consequences in philosophical

terms. Particularly attractive to me is, to quote the title of a chapter in

Clifford Geertz's Available Light (Princeton, 2001), "anti-

anti-relativism". But what seems to be excluded, whichever path one takes,

is dead certainty.

Comments?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Susan Hockey <s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Summer Courses at SLAIS, UCL
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:31:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 77 (77)


The School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL

is offering a number of short courses in August 2002.

For more and a booking form information see

<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/events/index.html">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/events/index.html</a>

or e-mail slais.summer@ucl.ac.uk

1. Javascript - A First Course in Web Programming, Browser Manipulation

and Dynamic HTML

Intended for those who have some familiarity with HTML and

want to learn the basic principles of scripting to control the browser

and create dynamic pages.

Dates: 14-16 August 2002, 10am - 4.30pm

Instructor: Rob Miller

2. Managing Digital Records

Intended for practising archivists and records managers as well as

librarians and other information professionals, who want to increase

their knowledge and expertise in managing records in the electronic

environment.

Dates: 5-9 August 2002, 10am - 4pm, 10am - 4pm (starts 1pm on 5 August,

finishes 12.30pm on 9 August)

Instructors: Margaret Crockett and Janet Foster

3. Creating, Managing and Using Digital Resources for Humanities

Research and Teaching

Intended for all who want to gain a better understanding of the creation,

delivery and use of humanities digital library materials.

Dates: 5-7 August 2002, 10am - 4pm

Instructors: Susan Hockey and Claire Warwick

4. Introduction to Cataloguing Using AACR2

Intended for beginning cataloguers, and for any information professionals

who find they have to be cataloguers and have forgotten how.

Dates: 12-13 August 2002, 10am - 5pm

Course leader: John Bowman

5. Construction of Thesauri from Faceted Classification Schemes

Intended for practising librarians, archivists and information

managers with a need to develop vocabulary management tools for

specific subject areas.

Dates: 14-15 August 2002, 10am - 5pm

Course leader: Vanda Broughton

All courses will be held at UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

****************************************************

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

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From: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova <esslli@coli.uni-sb.de>
Subject: ESSLLI2003 Call for Proposals
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 07:33:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 78 (78)


Fifteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and

Information

                                  ESSLLI-2003

                       August 18-29, 2003, Vienna, Austria

                   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-2003 is organised under the auspices of the

European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI).

The ESSLLI-2003 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational,

introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 15th annual

Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their

relevance 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 that

will shortly be available through <<a href="http://www.folli.org">http://www.folli.org</a>>.

All proposals should be submitted no later than Wednesday July 17,

2002.  Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no

later than Wednesday September 18, 2002.  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-2003, 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 17, 2002: Proposal Submission Deadline

     Sep 18, 2002: Notification

     Nov 15, 2002: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract,

                   lecturer(s) information, course description

                and prerequisites

     Jun  2, 2003: 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 (if available).

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, 2002.  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). Sessions are

normally 90 minutes.

Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions

     Jul 17, 2002: Proposal Submission Deadline

     Sep 18, 2002: Notification

     Nov 15, 2002: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers

                   (by ESSLLI PC chair)

     Dec  2, 2002: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call

for Papers

     Mar 14, 2003: Deadline for Papers (suggested)

     May  2, 2003: Notification of Workshop Contributors

(suggested)

     May 16, 2003: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme

     Jun  2, 2003: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy

of Workshop

                   notes

     Jun  2, 2003: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme

FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop

proposals is accessible at

<<a href="http://www.esslli.org/2003/submission.html">http://www.esslli.org/2003/submission.html</a>>.  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 (in at most 150 words, describe the

proposed contents and

                   substantiate timeliness and relevance to

ESSLLI)

     * 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

Vienna.  Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Chair:

     Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova

     Attn: ESSLLI-2003

     Computational Linguistics

     University of the Saarland

     Postfach 15 11 50

     D-66041 Saarbruecken (Germany)

     Phone:  +49.(681).302.4502

     Email:  korbay@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE

Local co-chair:

     Alexander Leitsch (leitsch@logic.at)

Language and Computation:

     Karen Sparck Jones (Karen.Sparck-Jones@cl.cam.ac.uk)

     Gosse Bouma (gosse@let.rug.nl)

Language and Logic:

     Wojciech Buszkowski (buszko@amu.edu.pl)

     Johan Bos (jbos@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)

Logic and Computation:

     Thomas Eiter (eiter@kr.tuwien.ac.at)

     Ian Horrocks (horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

     Matthias Baaz (chair)

     Email: baaz@logic.at

FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit

the ESSLLI site through <<a href="http://www.folli.org">http://www.folli.org</a>>.  For this

year's summer school, please see the web site for

ESSLLI-2002 at <<a href="http://www.esslli2002.it">http://www.esslli2002.it</a>>.


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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Oliver Grau on "History of Telepresence and Rejection of
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 07:36:49 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 79 (79)


the Body"

Dear Professor McCarty,

[Hi, this might interest to humanist scholars --an abstract of the paper

on "Legend, Myth and Magic in the History of Telepresence" by Dr. Oliver

Grau is available (For the complete article, please contact me at

<tripathi@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> ]

Telepresence combines three technological principles: robotics,

telecommunication, and virtual reality.

The historical evolution of these technologies is wrought with distinctly

mythical, magical and utopian connotations.

Telepresence unites the timeless dream of "artificial life" with the

aesthetic tradition of virtual realities and telecommunication

technologies with their mystical predecessors. The history of media has

always been the history of its utopias that shine forth the transgressive

human endeavour. The quality of Telepresence's actual media phenomenology

can only be characterised with historical adequacy in comparison to its

predecessors and their by and large subconscious sub-history.

In this paper, Oliver Grau describes three historical lines of development

will be discussed on interrelated levels:

a) The "Archaeology of the Robot": The idea of artificial automations

reaches back to antiquity and had attained actualisation as early as the

sixteenth century. (Androids, Robots, Software Agents, A-Life)

b) "Telecommunication": The pre-history of the "idea" stepping out of the

human body and by means of other media travelling to other places:

apocryphal, mystic and canonised writings - the idea of omnipresence -

Hermes Trismegistos, the Myth of Electricity. (We will examine

developments in the Thirties, in particularly, the Italian Futurists,

Marinetti, who envisioned a cyborglike telesensoric metal-body), Norbert

Wiener, who published 1964 the idea of copying knowledge, psychic

character and consciousness of people and sending it with telegraph lines

in networks.

c) The "virtual optical presence" that places the observer "in" the image

and allows for suggestive visions of picturesque journeys -- as in the

movement of the "Sacri Monti" (1496-~1600), Agippa von Nettesheim's (1529)

and Athanasius Kircher's journeys to distant places through mirrors

(1646). Also representative of this phenomenon are travels through time

and space in public Panoramarotundas, Edison's "Telephonoscope" (1879) as

well as the current fantasy of the fusion of man and computer as

envisioned in VR-Art.

((Author of the article, Dr. Oliver Grau is Art Historian and works in a

research program at the Humboldt-University of Berlin on the History and

Theory of Virtual Reality which is financed by the Deutsche

Forschungsgemeinschaft. His latest book (in German) is "Virtuelle Kunst in

Geschichte und Gegenwart: Visuelle Strategien," published by Reimer

Verlag, Berlin 2001. And, the English version as "The History of Virtual

Art and it's Future," will be published by Cambridge/Mass., MIT-Press in

2002.))

Comments are welcome!!

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images: Draft
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 07:34:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 80 (80)


Standard Released by NISO

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

June 7, 2002

   NISO Releases Draft Standard for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images

Z39.87 released for 18-month community community review in collaboration with

            Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)

                            <a href="http://www.niso.org">http://www.niso.org</a>

          <a href="http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39_87_trial_use.pdf">http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39_87_trial_use.pdf</a>

A new data dictionary Z39.87, has been released for community review

defining a standard set of technical metadata elements for digital images.

Such a standard should enable users "to develop, exchange, and interpret

digital image files. The dictionary has been designed to facilitate

interoperability between systems, services, and software as well as to

support the long-term management of and continuing access to digital image

collections."

David Green

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IMLS Report on Status of Technology and Digitization in
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 07:34:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 81 (81)


the Nation's Museums and Libraries

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

June 7, 2002
[deleted quotation]
  From the Internet Scout Report:

               IMLS REPORT: Status of Technology and Digitization

                      in the Nation's Museums and Libraries

              <a href="http://www.imls.gov/Reports/TechReports/intro02.htm">http://www.imls.gov/Reports/TechReports/intro02.htm</a>

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a primary funder of

digitization projects in US libraries and museums, issued this report in

May, 2002. Based on a survey sent to state library agencies, academic

libraries, public libraries, and museums, the report presents key statistics

such as: 87% of museums, 99% of public libraries, and 100% of academic

libraries and state library agencies use some kinds of technology, including

desktop computers with standard office software, access to the Internet, and

e-mail.

The report provides a breakdown of which technologies are the most

commonly used in different agency types. State library agencies ranked

highest in digitization, with 78% reporting digitization projects in the

last year. Many libraries -- 34% of academic and 25% public -- as well as

about 30% of museums, had ongoing efforts. Overall, the report provides a

wealth of statistics on what types of materials institutions would like to

digitize and technologies they plan to implement. Also included are brief

mentions and links to selected, exemplary digitization projects (funded by

IMLS) in all agency types. The report is available in both HTML and Adobe

Acrobat (.pdf) formats. [DS]


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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: the dead heats of haste
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:46:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 82 (82)


Willard,

In a recent missive to Humanist you inquired about the status of "dead

certainty". It is very much alive for the pragmatist, especially the

pragmatist enlivened by the many variations of the trope of Cretan

paradox including this one:

it is certainty that there is no certainty.

Some variations are more enabling than others. I am particular struck by

the one the involves the two sides of a sheet of paper. The one side

reads: "the statement on the other side of the sheet is false" which by a

trick of diectics remains true because the "other side" is always "other"

even when one side reads "This statement is false." I raise this example

because it seems to me that the ontological and epistemological issues you

raise deserve some triangulation.

Some of the paradoxes disappear when one considers the relations between

mapping and memory. The "other side" is like a variable held in memory

whose value can be flushed.  The use of computing machines acquaints us

with the distinction between a variable and its value. The "other side"

need not be the recto of a verso nor a position in a numbered sequence.

The computing model here helps us understand, I hope, that codex reading

induces a form of memory and recall that is prone not necessarily to

paradox generation but to loops. The wish to have "The Book" and the "Book

of the World" in alignment is perhaps a desire to avoid delicate etiquette

questions. For "The Book" read cultural artefact. For "World" read the

wonderful playground where the actual and the possible intertwine and the

place where cultural artefacts are both repositories of the traces of

actual processes and recipes for possible experience.  Or to borrow

Turing's famous words about computing machines: both states and

instructions.

I wonder if the preoccupation with "dead certainity" could not be slightly

shifted to a bemusement with "dead centredness". Could we not dawdle over

a "hasty pudding"? I offer the following conceit:

<cite>

The hasty-pudding being spread out equally on a plate, while hot, an

_excavation_ is made in the middle of it with a _spoon_, into which

_excavation_ a piece of butter as large as a nutmeg is put, and upon it a

spoonful of brown sugar, etc. The butter, being soon heated by the heat of

the pudding, mixes with the sugar and forms a sauce, which, _being

confined in the excavation_, occupies the _middle of the plate!_

Thus for the array -- now for the battle! Dip each _spoonful_ in the

_sauce, before it is carried to the mouth_, care being had in taking it up

to begin on the outside and near the brim of the plate, and to approach

the centre by gradual advances, in order not to demolish too soon the

_excavation_ which forms the reservoir of _sauce_.

Source: Marie Kimball _The Martha Washington Cook Book_ New York:

Coward-McCann, 1940.

</cite>

I leave it to braver and more patient souls to digest the possible

analogies between the methods and practices of humanities computing and

the preparation and delectation of hasty puddings. I have misplaced my

spoon and an Ethiopian stew awaits to be sopped up with a spongy piece of

injera.

For those interested in adopting a different culinary conciet:

<cite>

Injera is described as a soft, porous,

     thin pancake, which has a sour taste. Teff is low in gluten and

     therefore, the bread remains quite flat. When eaten in Ethiopia, teff

     flour is often mixed with other cereal flours, but the flavor and

     quality of injera made from mixtures is considered less tasty. Injera

     made entirely from barley, wheat, maize or millet flours is said to

     have a bitter taste. The degree of sour taste is imparted by the

     length of the fermentation process. If the dough is fermented for only

     a short period of time, injera has a tasty sweet flavor. Research

     studies on the techniques used to make injera have indicated that a

     yeast, Candida guilliermondii [...]

<a href="http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-231.html">http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-231.html</a>

</cite>

Before I branch out further into botany, let me conclude with an appeal to

temporality in order to avoid the category mistake of attributing

"deadness" to certainty. In my limited experience "deadness"  is a

possible attribute of beings (as in lively dead poets). The category of

"certainty" is not a being --- at least not for the algorithms of this

computing machine.

   --

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large

        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>

per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Luisa Carrer <L.Carrer@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: DRH2002-Booking now open!
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:26:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 83 (83)


DRH 2002:  Digital Resources for the Humanities

University of Edinburgh

8 - 11 September, 2002

* * *

A conference that brings together the creators, users, distributors, and

custodians of digital resources in the Humanities.

* * *

Booking now open!

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 University of Edinburgh,

Scotland, UK, from 8 - 11 September 2002. Themes include:

- Provision and management of access

- Digital libraries, archives and museums

- Time-based media and multimedia studies in music and performing arts

- Other social sciences where these overlap significantly with the

humanities

- Network technologies used to support international community programmes

- The anticipated convergence between televisual, communication and

computing media and its effect on the humanities

- Information analysis, design and modelling in humanities research

- Knowledge representation, including visualization and simulation

The academic programme will comprise papers, panel discussions and poster

presentations. This years plenary speakers are:

Ted Nelson

Visiting Professor of Environmental Information, Keio University, Japan

Bernard Smith

Head of Unit, Cultural Heritage Applications, European Commission

Sarah Tyacke

Keeper of Public Records, UK Public Record Office

An exhibition of products and services of interest to participants will form

an important part of the conference. The conference is known for its

friendly atmosphere and an enjoyable range of social activities will also be

provided.

The conference fee of 245 includes full conference attendance and all

social activities (student concession available). Daily registration is also

available.

For further information and the online booking form visit:

<a href="http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/">http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/</a>



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: expressive power of highly constrained language?
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:28:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 84 (84)


Inspired by the avant-garde coterie Oulipo, the poet Christian Bok has

written individual poetic paragraphs each of which uses only a single

vowel, e.g. from chapter U in his remarkable book of poetry, Eunoia

(Toronto: Coach House Books, 2001) --

Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks

dump much underdug turf: clunk, clunk -- thud. Scum

plus crud plugs up ducts; thus Ubu must flush such

sulcus ruts. Scump pumps pump: chuff, chuff. Such

pumps suck up mush plus muck -- dung lumps (plus

clumps), turd hunks (plus chunks): grugru grubs plus

fungus slugs mulch up humus pulp. Ubu unplugs

flux. Ubu scrubs up curbs; thus Ubu musty brush up

sulfur dust plus pugnut rust: scuff, scuff. Ubu burns

unburnt mundungus. Ubu lugs stuff; Ubu tugs stuff.

Ubu puts up fulcrums. Ubu puts up mud huts, but

mugwumps shun such glum suburb slums: tut, tut.

(Some here will recognize Ubu from Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi.) In a concluding

note, "The New Ennui", Bok notes that, "The text makes a Sisyphean

spectacle of its labour, wilfully crippling its language in order to show

that, even under such improbable conditions of duress, language can still

express an uncanny, if not sublime, thought" (p. 103). He then lists a

series of constraints in addition to the obvious one.

Has anyone studied the poetics of such highly constrained language (perhaps

starting with Georges Perec's)? I ask because computational metalanguages

are also highly constrained, although in a different way. I'm raising the

further question of the expressive power of these metalanguages. Perhaps

studies of people with damage to or inhibitions of their ability to produce

language would be relevant?

Comments?

Yours,

WM

PS The vowel in Bok's surname is written with an umlaut. (Alas, that

problem is still with us.)

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Humanist Discussion Group
Subject: Re: 16.064 highly constrained language?
Date: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:02 AM
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 85 (85)

[deleted quotation]


From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft)
Subject: Re: 16.064 highly constrained language?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:18:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 86 (86)


I guess this was a test to see who was alert? I see the vowel "e" in line

two ("underdug" -- perhaps read "dugup"?). Also later, what seems to be an

unnecessary vowel-like "y" clutters up the line "...Ubu musty brush

up...." Un-ugly but ucky? And he never uses "but"!

Bob Kraft
[deleted quotation]

--
Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827
kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html</a>


From: George Whitesel <whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu>
Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: 16.064 highly constrained language?]]
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:34:44 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 87 (87)

Willard:
       Poets of the avant guard in France and Russia did much prior to WWI
which inspired poets in English afterwards during l'entre deux
guerres.
       The poets of the Twenties and Thirties did a lot of experimenting:
inventing new langauges, trying various language games, and reviving
old techniques, such as Carmen Figuratum (see also concrete poetry).
Bowra wrote about the explosion of experimentation.  I believe Auden
tried his hand; Thomas certainly did.  Is this your "highly constrained
language"? (All poetic forms involve constraint, especially in English
which doesn't have as many rhyme words as Italian, say.)
       Best of luck - I have seen books on this but can't find them.
George
whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu



From: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova <korbay@coli.uni-sb.de>
Subject: ESSLLI2003 topic suggestions
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:39:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 88 (88)


Hi all,

as Karen suggested,
[deleted quotation]
The links to this-year as well as previous ESSLLIs are (to

be) available at

<a href="http://www.esslli.org/">http://www.esslli.org/</a>

--although the present moment, the links don't work (I've

written to the administrator).

So, here is a list of links that do work (now):

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/2002/esslli-2002.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/2002/esslli-2002.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/2001/esslli-2001.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/2001/esslli-2001.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/2000/esslli-2000.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/2000/esslli-2000.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1999/esslli-1999.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1999/esslli-1999.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1998/esslli-1998.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1998/esslli-1998.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1997/esslli-1997.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1997/esslli-1997.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1996/esslli-1996.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1996/esslli-1996.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1995/esslli-1995.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1995/esslli-1995.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1994/esslli-1994.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1994/esslli-1994.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1993/esslli-1993.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1993/esslli-1993.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1992/esslli-1992.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1992/esslli-1992.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1991/esslli-1991.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1991/esslli-1991.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1990/esslli-1990.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1990/esslli-1990.html</a>

<a href="http://www.folli.uva.nl/1989/esslli-1989.html">http://www.folli.uva.nl/1989/esslli-1989.html</a>

Under these links you'll find the lists of courses and

workshops at each of the ESSLLIs.

Where (still) available, also links to the respective local

ESSLLI websites are provided.

You will see that up to 2000, there were more courses in

more sections (in particular, the programme included also

"pure" sections for Logic, for Language and for

Computation). The decision to concentrate on the

intersections between fields was motivated by the desire to

strengthen the interdisciplinary character of ESSLLI, which

has anyway been its string point.

Best,

Ivana


--
Dr. ing. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova
Computerlinguistik, Universitaet des Saarlandes,
tel: +49 681 3024501, fax: +49 681 3024351
<a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~korbay/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~korbay/</a>



From: Alexander Huber <huber@thomasgray.org>
Subject: The Thomas Gray Archive website re-launched
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:19:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 89 (89)


Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the re-launch of our much expanded and revised

Thomas Gray Archive website at:

<a href="http://www.thomasgray.org/">http://www.thomasgray.org/</a>

The Thomas Gray Archive is an interactive hypermedia repository for the

study of the life and work of English poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The

Archive consists of two major sections, the Primary Texts section and the

Materials section. The former contains searchable electronic editions of

Gray's English texts, extensive collaborative commentary, a concordance,

and the digital library of important editions. The latter comprises

secondary resources such as a biographical sketch, a chronological table of

Gray's life and works, a select bibliography of printed materials, a

picture gallery, and links to related online resources.

The new Archive website offers Gray's complete English poetry online, an

online concordance to the English poetry, and an evolving digital library

of important 18th-century editions of Gray's works. In addition, the

bibliography has been updated, many new items have been added to the

picture gallery, and an Archive FAQ is now maintained as part of the help

pages. The website is updated on a regular basis. Feedback on the new

website and its added features is highly appreciated, please see the

contact details below.

Yours sincerely,

Alexander Huber.


--
Alexander Huber MA
General Editor, The Thomas Gray Archive
Oxford, UK
mailto:huber@thomasgray.org
<a href="http://www.thomasgray.org/">http://www.thomasgray.org/</a>


From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: The Future of Literary Studies
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:39:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 90 (90)

Proceedings of "The Future of Literary Studies," a conference of the
English Department at the University of Virginia (April 5-6, 2002), are now
available on the Web at <a href="http://bodoni.village.virginia.edu/futures/">http://bodoni.village.virginia.edu/futures/</a>
Faculty Papers:
     1.Gordon Braden, "What's a Dissertation Supposed to Do?"
     2.Peter Brooks, "Lit Crit as an Export Commodity"
     3.Johanna Drucker, "Intermedia and Critical Imagination"
     4.Jessica R. Feldman, "House of Cards"
     5.Dell Hymes, "Oral Narratives: One Kind of Poetry"
     6.Daniel Kinney, "Some Philologies of the Future"
     7.Victor Luftig, "K-21: Working with the Schools"
     8.Jerome McGann, "The Ivanhoe Game"
     9.James Nohrnberg, "The Singing School: The Future of
Literary-Historical Study upon Past Example"
     10.Caroline Rody, "Ethnic American Literature: Two New Paradigms and an
Anecdote"
     11.John Unsworth, "Using Digital Primary Resources to Produce
Scholarship in Print"
     12.David L. Vander Meulen, "Profession's Progress"
Student Papers:
     1.Ben Bateman, "I'm Mad As Hell And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore":
A New Mantra For English
       Students.
     2.Denis Ferhatovic, "Justify My Love, or Amor Vincit Omnia
     3.John Andrew Hicks, "Turning the Tables on/or the Future of Literary
Study"
     4.Lauren Rooker, "Too Many Poets Kill Themselves"
     5.Virginia Weckstein, "Connect the Dots"



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: New Book: Model-Based Reasoning, Magnani and Nersessian, eds.
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:38:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 91 (91)


[The following was submitted by Lorenzo Magnani <lmagnani@cc.gatech.edu>,

to whom apologies for the rather different appearance of this important

announcement. It arrived in multi-coloured format, with considerable other

formatting effects whose survival through the various machines and

processes involved in Humanist I could not even guess at. So I did my best

by hand to reduce the message to plain text. --WM]

Model-Based Reasoning

Science, Technology, Values

<a href="http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9">http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9</a>

edited by

Lorenzo Magnani

University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

and

Nancy J. Nersessian

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers

   Hardbound, ISBN 0-306-47244-9

April 2002 , 418 pp.

EUR 149.00 /  USD 130.00 /  GBP 91.00

The study of diagnostic, visual, spatial, analogical, and temporal

reasoning has demonstrated that there are many ways of performing

intelligent and creative reasoning that cannot be described with the

help of traditional notions of reasoning, such as classical logic.

Understanding the contribution of modeling practices to discovery and

conceptual change in science requires expanding scientific reasoning to

include complex forms of creative reasoning that are not always

successful and can lead to incorrect solutions. The study of these

heuristic ways of reasoning is situated at the crossroads of philosophy,

artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and logic; that is, at

the heart of cognitive science.

There are several key ingredients common to the various forms of

model-based reasoning considered in this book. The term `model'

comprises both internal and external representations. The models are

intended as interpretations of target physical systems, processes,

phenomena, or situations. The models are retrieved or constructed on the

basis of potentially satisfying salient constraints of the target

domain. Moreover, in the modeling process, various forms of abstraction

are used. Evaluation and adaptation take place in the light of

structural, causal, and/or functional constraints. Model simulation can

be used to produce new states and enable evaluation of behaviors and

other factors.

L. MAGNANI AND N.J. NERSESSIAN, EDS., Model-Based Reasoning: Science,

Technology, Values KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBLISHER, NEWYORK, 2002

Table of Contents

Metaphor-Based Values in Scientific Models. Mark Johnson

Analogy in Scientific Discovery: The Case of Johannes Kepler. Dedre Gentner

Model Experiments and Models in Experiments. Mary S. Morgan

Models, Simulations, and Experiments. Francesco Guala

Calibration of Models in Experiments. Marcel Boumans

The Developmnt of Scientific Taxonomies. Hanne Andersen

Production, Science and Epistemology. An Overview on New Models and

Scenarios. Simone Turchetti, Mauro Capocci, Elena Gagliasso

Modeling Practices and Tradition. Elke Kurz-Milcke and Laura Martignon

Modelling Data: Analogies in Neural Networks, Simulated Annealing and

Genetic Algorithms. Daniela M. Bailer-Jones and Coryn A.L. Bailer-Jones

Perceptual Simulation in Analogical Problem Solving. David L. Craig, Nancy

J. Nersessian, and Richard Catrambone

Building Demand Models to Improve Environmental Policy Process. Bryan G.

Norton

Toward a Computational Model of Hypothesis Formation and Model Building in

Science. Joseph Phillips, Gary Livingston, and Bruce Buchanan

Models as Parts of Distributed Cognitive Systems. Ronald N. Giere

Conceptual Models, Inquiry and the Problem of Deriving Normative Claims

from a Naturalistic Base. Andrew Ward

Dynamic Imagery: A Computational Model of Motion and Visual Analogy. David

Croft and Paul Thagard

Model-Based Reasoning and Similarity in the World Qiming Yu

Epistemic Artifacts: Michael Faraday's Search for the Optical Effects of

Gold. Ryan D. Tweney

Epistemic Mediators and Model-Based Discovery in Science. Lorenzo Magnani

Deterministic Models and the Unimportance of the Inevitable. Claudio Pizzi

A Cognitive Development Approach to Model-Bases Reasoning. Stella Vosniadou

Modeling Core Knowledge and Practices in a Computational Approach to

Innovation Process. Stefania Bandini and Sara Manzoni

Author Index

Subject Index



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: of models and memory lapses
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:21:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 92 (92)


Willard,

You recently spoke at the opening plenary of the COCH/COSH meeting at the

end of May. Your topic was modelling. Unfortunately though the event was

but recent my unaided memory does not serve me well. I recall being struck

by the typology you presented. If I recall correctly you outlined two

approaches to modelling:  a model _for_ and a model _by_. I believe that

my recollection of the number of types you discussed is correct but I fear

that I have failed to correctly recall the prepositions that labelled and

characterized the two approaches.

I beg your indulgence and ask if you would be so kind as to offer a brief

recap of the argument since the typology is not set out in the abstract

that I and others can access using the URL

<<a href="http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/Program.htm">http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/Program.htm</a>>

With gratitude for your forbearance,

   --

Francois Lachance, Scholar of the fading faculties



From: lhomich <lhomich@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.064 highly constrained language?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:07:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 93 (93)


re: highly constrained language

The 'constraints' of language, particularly written language, are always

exceeded by the imagination of its users. I've always wondered what the poet

bp nichol would have made of the textual capabilities and constraints of

computers. See, for example, The bp nichol Project site,

<a href="http://www.chbooks.com/projects/bp/index.html">http://www.chbooks.com/projects/bp/index.html</a>

Eric Homich

M.A. Student,

Humanities Computing

University of Alberta



From: "Aikin, Jane" <JAikin@neh.gov>
Subject: John W. Kluge Fellowship Competition announcement
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:03:57 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 94 (94)


The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress

Kluge Fellowship Competition

Deadline for receipt of applications: August 15, 2002

The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research

in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library's collections

and resources for tenure periods of six months to one year. The Center

especially encourages humanistic and social science research.

Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multilingual research is particularly

welcome.

Eligibility: Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within

the past seven years in the humanities, 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.

Tenure and Stipend.  Fellowships may be held for periods from six to

twelve months at a stipend of $3500 per month.  Constraints of space and the

desirability of accommodating the maximum number of Fellows may lead to

an offer of fewer months than originally requested.  Fellows may begin

tenure at any time during the fourteen-month window between June 1 of the

year in which the Fellowship is awarded and August of the year following,

providing space is available.  Stipends will be paid monthly, usually by

electronic transfer to a bank account.

Applications:  All applications must be written in English.  The application

must include a research proposal (no longer than three single-spaced pages),

a two-page curriculum vita which should indicate major prior scholarship, an

indication of the collections at the Library of Congress that will be used

for research and two letters of reference (in English) from individuals who

know the quality of the applicant's scholarship.  The application form and

reference form may be printed from the website: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/kluge">http://www.loc.gov/kluge</a>

Deadline: Applications (including nine collated copies) must be received at

the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, by August 15, 2002.

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 twelve Kluge Fellowships will be awarded annually

by the Library of congress.  Awards will be announced no later than

March 15 of the year following that in which the application is due.

For further information: Contact The John W. Kluge Center,

Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, LJ120,

101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540-4860

phone: 202-707-3302; fax: 202-707-3595

email: scholarly@loc.gov

web: <a href="http://www.loc.gov.kluge">http://www.loc.gov.kluge</a>



From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: JoDI: Interactivity in Digital Libraries special issue
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:03:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 95 (95)


Journal of Digital Information announces

A SPECIAL ISSUE on Interactivity in Digital Libraries

(Volume 2, issue 4, June 2002)

Special issue Editors: Anita Coleman and Maliaca Oxnam, University of

Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

   From the special issue editorial

Advances in Internet technologies have made it seemingly possible and easy

to create digital collections, repositories and libraries. However,

facilitating interaction beyond searching and browsing is in the early

stages. Interactive digital libraries are still evolving.

The problems facing digital library design can be reframed as three

challenges, in the areas of:

* Information Spaces

* Learning Spaces

* Interaction Spaces

The information-learning-interaction spaces challenge provides a framework

and directs digital library research and development to the human rather

than just the technical problems. It is also grounded in the realization

that libraries, whether they are digital or traditional, are socially

constructed, and that the values of a society are embodied in the use of a

library. We invite the community to discuss and explore. The papers in this

issue show how current projects and initiatives are handling some of the

challenges.

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/editorial">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/editorial</a>

The issue includes the following papers:

J. Clark, B. Slator, W. Perrizo, J. Landrum, R. Frovarp, A. Bergstrom, S.

Ramaswamy, W. Jockheck

Digital Archive Network for Anthropology

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Clark/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Clark/</a>

B. Domenico, J. Caron, E. Davis, R. Kambic, S. Nativi

Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS):

Incorporating Interactive Analysis Tools into NSDL

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Domenico/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Domenico/</a>

S. Hoban, M. desJardins, N. Farrell, P. Rathod, J. Sachs, S. Sansare, Y.

Yesha, J. Keating, B. Busschots, J. Means, G. Clark, L. Mayo, W. Smith

Virtual Telescopes in Education

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Hoban/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Hoban/</a>

C. Klaus, K. Andrew, G. Mace

Atmospheric Visualization Collection: Developments in the NSDL

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Klaus/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Klaus/</a>

H. Lee, A. Smeaton

Designing the User Interface for the Fischlar Digital Video Library

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Lee/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Lee/</a>

X. Liu, K. Maly, M. Zubair, Q. Hong, M. Nelson, F. Knudson, I. Holtkamp

Federated Searching Interface Techniques for Heterogeneous OAI Repositories

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Liu/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Liu/</a>

S. Moore, A. Baker, J. Dongarra, C. Halloy, C. Ng

Active Netlib: An Active Mathematical Software Collection for Inquiry-based

Computational Science and Engineering Education

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Moore/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Moore/</a>

M. Salampasis, K. Diamantaras

Experimental User-Centered Evaluation of an Open Hypermedia System and Web

Information Seeking Environments

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Salampasis/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Salampasis/</a>

D. Yaron, D. Milton, R. Freeland

Linked Active Content for Digital Libraries for Education

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Yaron/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i04/Yaron/</a>

[material deleted]

The Journal of Digital Information is an electronic journal published only

via the Web. JoDI is currently free to users thanks to support from the

British Computer Society and Oxford University Press

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/</a>

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: "lorna" <lorna.dubidat@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Summer seminars
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:23:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 96 (96)


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Summer Seminars at Oxford University

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15th - 19th July

9:30am - 5:00pm

The Learning Technologies Group (LTG), Humbul Humanities Hub, Oxford Text

Archive (OTA) and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) at Oxford University

Computing Services (OUCS) are jointly running a week-long series of

seminars on the use of technology in online teaching, learning and research.

Each seminar lasts a full day, and includes a practical, hands-on element

as well as formal presentations. All teaching will be carried out by

members of the participating services and will take place at Oxford

University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford.

Seminar titles:

        Putting your Database on the Web

        Using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in Manuscript Studies

        The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Framework and How to Use It

        Support Your Students! Building Good Course Websites

        Publishing Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Documents

        Tools and Techniques for Online Learning and Teaching

        Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Digitisation Workshop

        Creating and Using Digital Video

        Online Resource Discovery and Use - Humbul Humanities Hub

        Developing Linguistic Corpora

The cost of each seminar is:

65 standard booking

35 student booking

Discounts are available for those attending the full week.

Further details are available from

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and the booking form is

available at

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If you have any queries about the OUCS 2002 Summer Seminars, email:

<mailto:jenny.newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk>jenny.newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk

or contact her at:

Summer Seminars 2002

Oxford University Computing Services

13 Banbury Road,

Oxford OX2 6NN

Tel: +44 (0)1865 273221

Fax: +44 (0)1865 273275



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Open Archives Initiative Version 2.0
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:25:09 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 97 (97)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

June 14, 2002

                  Open Archives Initiative Releases Version 2.0 of

                          Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

           <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm">http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm</a>.
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For immediate release June 14, 2002

Open Archives Initiative Releases Version 2.0 of the Protocol for

Metadata Harvesting

Ithaca, NY & Los Alamos NM-The Open Archives Initiative is pleased to

release version 2.0 of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata

Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The release of OAI-PMH v.2.0 comes after 16 months

of worldwide experimentation with version 1.x of the protocol, an 8 month

revision process by the OAI-tech group, and 4 months of alpha/beta

testing. Thanks to this rigid testing and revision, we feel confident to

release the OAI-PMH version 2.0 as a stable specification.

A full copy of this press release with information about the features of

OAI-PMH version 2 is available at

<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/news/oaiv2press020614.html">http://www.openarchives.org/news/oaiv2press020614.html</a>.

The OAI-PMH version 2 specification is available at

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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Mats_Dahlstr=F6m=22?=
Subject: Re: 16.071 highly constrained language
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:23:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 98 (98)


In response to Eric Homich's question what the Canadian poet bp Nichol

would have made of the textual capabilities and constraints of computers,

I'd like to point to Robert Kendall's excellent 1998 article ("The

Hypertexts of Yesteryear". SIGLINK Newsletter. Vol. 7 (1998) : 1/2. URL:

<a href="http://www.wordcircuits.com/comment/htlit_3.htm">http://www.wordcircuits.com/comment/htlit_3.htm</a>), where Kendall i.a.

discusses the editing of Nichol's kinetic poems in BASIC. Kendall writes:

"When the Canadian poet bp Nichol died, he left behind a collection of

kinetic poems called First Screening, which were written in BASIC for the

Apple II. J.B. Hohm created a posthumous HyperCard edition of this work,

but wasn't able to replicate all the original animation effects. [Nichol,

bp. First Screening. J.B. Hohm, Ed. (Red Deer College Press, 1993).

Diskette Macintosh edition.] Hohm considers the new version a translation,

and in the preface describes some of the conversion problems as "like

translating a verb tense from a foreign language with no equivalent verb

tense." Though the problems of preserving animated text are more severe

than those involved with hypertext, the issues are similar."

I think this case poses a lot of interesting questions as to what critical

editions of primary digital material, i.e. literary work *born digital*,

might look like. Does anyone know of any other attempt to produce a

scholarly edition of an originally digital work? When e.g. Joyce's

"afternoon" is ripe (i.e. canonized) for scholarly editing, what kind of

media form might editors use? What kind of tough problems await the

scholarly editors, "merely" due to the new media?

Yours / Mats D

Mats Dahlstrm, PhD student and lecturer

Swedish School of Library and Information Studies

Univ. College of Bors / Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden

mad@adm.hb.se ; +46 33 16 44 21 ; <a href="http://www.adm.hb.se/personal/mad/">http://www.adm.hb.se/personal/mad/</a>

The history of structuralism is one from Saussure to not saussure.

(Malcolm Bradbury)



From: Stefan Sinclair <ss@huco.lang.arts.ualberta.ca>
Subject: highly constrained language
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:24:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 99 (99)


Dear Willard,
[deleted quotation]
Indeed, applying computational methods to the study of Oulipian texts is

my primary area of research. I've come at it at a slightly different angle

than the one you suggest about the similarities between contrained

literature and artificial languages, concentrating instead on how the

formal aspects of Oulipian texts can provide a very useful foot-hold for

our current analysis methods (our two perspectives overlap of course, but

with important differences).

For instance, I've tried to examine in Perec's lipogrammatic _La

Disparition_ (a novel without the letter "e", translated in English as _A

Void_) how the "removal" of the grapheme "e"  influences and interacts

with other linguistic levels (morphological, lexical, syntactical,

semantic...).

A bit more information here: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~stefan/Oulipo/en.html">http://www.ualberta.ca/~stefan/Oulipo/en.html</a>
[deleted quotation]
BTW, Bok might not be too insulted by the missing umlaut - his surname was

originally the far less exotic "Book" - he decided to change the spelling

(not the pronunciation) for reasons we might divine.

Yours,

St&eacute;fan

______________________________________________________________

Stfan Sinclair, University of Alberta

Phone: (780) 492-6768, FAX: (780) 492-9106, Office: Arts 218-B

Address: Arts 200, MLCS, UofA, Edmonton, AB (Canada) T6G 2E6

M.A. in Humanities Computing: <a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/">http://huco.ualberta.ca/</a>



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.067 highly constrained languages (& who was alert?)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 07:24:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 100 (100)


For constrained poetry, you really can't beat medieval Latin.

There's Hucbald (of St. Amand), _Ecloga de calvis_, for instance:  a 146

line poem in which every word begins with the the letter "c", the first

letter of 'calvus' (bald).  For a text and translation

see:

www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmrs/publications/comitatus/26/v26klei.htm

Other constrained poems, just a sample (these courtesy of John Dillon

and Jim Marchand -- Jim's contribution originally appeared here in

HUMANIST).

One form of constrained poem is lipogrammatic verse (characterized by

the programmatic exclusion of a particular letter or letters).
[deleted quotation]
Another example of constrained verse, this time not lipogrammatic, is

poem

22 in the Sylloge of Eugenius Vulgarius (Campanian; late 9th/early 10th

cent.):

(DE SYLLOGISMIS DIALECTICE) IPOTHETICALI(TER).

Si sol est, et lux est; at sol est: igitur lux.

Si non sol, non lux est; at lux est: igitur sol.

Non est sol et non-lux; at sol est: igitur lux.

Aut sol est aut lux; at sol est: non igitur lux.

Aut sol est aut lux; at non est sol: igitur lux.

Non est sol et lux; at sol est: non igitur lux.

Non est sol et lux; at non sol est: igitur lux

(text from Paul von Winterfeld, ed., Poetae latini aevi carolini, IV, 1

[Berlin: Weidmann, 1899; MGH, Poetae latini medii aevi, IV, 1], p. 426;

Hucbald's Ecloga de calvis also in this vol.).  In the title, the final

E

of DIALECTICE is printed with a cedilla.  Eugenius is well known for his

acrostics and his figure poems.  But this seems to be his only

constrained

poem.  I have seen it (or a version thereof) cited in comment on Abelard

as

a 12th-century text.



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: attending from highly constrained language
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 06:15:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 101 (101)


In his justly famous book, The Tacit Dimension (1966; rpt Peter Smith,

1983), Michael Polanyi proposes that in an act of tacit knowing -- e.g. of

how to carve wood -- we *attend from* the instrument of our action (the

chisel) so that we may *attend to* its object (the wood). To follow my

example, clearly this instrument is highly constrained and so constraining,

yet in attending from it, being thus constrained, a Donatello (say) is

capable of the most marvellous things. (Was it Edward Johnston who said,

"Within the limits of my craft I have perfect freedom"?) My point is that

within the game, as it were, the rules having vanished from sight (though

not action), the constrained intelligence of the player is at least under

some conditions shaped rather than attenuated. To expand outward from the

game, or the practice of woodcarving, to ordinary life, Polanyi notes that

in the production of language a great deal of mechanical action is involved

and that should we pay direct attention to it we may even be unable to

speak at all. (I am reminded of the story about the millipede, who asked

how possibly he could coordinate so many legs so well, began to wonder

himself, as a result of which he lost the ability to walk and starved to

death.) In other words, the problem I'm after isn't only with highly

constrained language, it's with all means of expression.

Again, I raise the matter with respect to computing, specifically with

respect to computational metalanguage. Computing tools are very crude

instruments, very highly constraining. But how is this important? To what

degree is such a metalanguage like a chisel? What is involved in attending

from the computational instrument, and how may the object we get to (e.g. a

poem, an image) then be understood?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@unc.edu>
Subject: The University is Dead! Long Live the University! Webcast
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:42:25 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 102 (102)


"The University is Dead! Long Live the University!" is the title of a

presentation that I am giving at the forthcoming World Future Society

(<a href="http://wfs.org">http://wfs.org</a>) meeting July 19-23, 2002 in Philadelphia. It is a takeoff

on the words used by town criers in historic England upon the death of the

king and the forthcoming crowning of a new king, representing the change

of reigns. My theses for the presentation is that the forces of

demographics, globalization, economic restructuring, and information

technology are rapidly changing the landscape of higher education and are

leading us into new conceptions of institutional markets, how we teach,

and what we teach. There will be a question and answer session after the

presentation.

This session will be Webcast courtesy of ULiveandLearn

(www.uliveandlearn.com) on Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 11:00 AM EST. If you

cannot attend the WFS meeting in person, you are invited to attend this

presentation via the Webcast.  Please go to

<a href="http://www.quickslides.com/quickreg/sq.cfm?ObjectID=470">http://www.quickslides.com/quickreg/sq.cfm?ObjectID=470</a> to

signup for the Webcast and receive instructions as to how you can

participate. "Seats" are limited and will be distributed on a first come,

first served basis.

BTW, if you are attending the conference, please consider joining me in a

pre-conference seminar titled, "'Futurizing' Your Organization." The

seminar objectives, readings, and program are described on our conference

page at <a href="http://horizon.unc.edu/conferences">http://horizon.unc.edu/conferences</a>

Many thanks.

Jim


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From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: TEI P4 press release
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:41:32 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 103 (103)


******************************************************************

15 June 2002:NEW XML EDITION OF TEXT ENCODING GUIDELINES PUBLISHED

******************************************************************

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium (www.tei-c.org) announces

publication of a new, updated version of their Guidelines for Electronic

Text Encoding and Interchange, known as P4. The Consortium, now in its

second year, is an international non-profit corporation set up to maintain

and develop the TEI system, which has become the de facto standard for

scholarly work with digital text since its first publication in 1994.

The launch of a fully XML-compliant version of the TEI Guidelines is a

significant advance, placing the TEI firmly in the mainstream of current

digital library and World Wide Web developments. The new edition has been

available online for a few months, and will continue to be so, but the

print edition now available from the University of Virginia Press

(<a href="http://www.upress.virginia.edu/">http://www.upress.virginia.edu/</a>) marks a new milestone in the history of

this long standing exercise in scholarly communication and international

co-operation.

In simple terms, the TEI Guidelines define a language for describing how

texts are constructed and propose names for their components. By defining a

standard set of names the Guidelines make it possible for different

computer representations of texts to be combined into vast databases, and

they also provide a common language for scholars wishing to work

collaboratively. There are many such standard vocabularies in the

industrial world -- in banking, in aircraft maintenance, or in chemical

modelling, for example. The TEI's achievement has been to try to do the

same thing for textual and linguistic data -- both for those working with

the written culture of the past and for those studying the development of

language itself.

Membership in the TEI Consortium has climbed steadily during its first year

of operation, standing at 56 members worldwide in May 2002, ranging from

small university research projects to major academic libraries and

institutions.  The consortium offers a range of membership benefits

including participation in TEI elections, special access to training,

consultation on grant proposals, and free or discounted copies of the TEI

Guidelines. The Consortium is actively recruiting and welcomes inquiries at

info@tei-c.org.

The Consortium is now planning its second annual members' meeting, to be

held at the Newberry Library in Chicago on October 11 and 12, 2002. At the

annual meeting members have the opportunity to learn about new developments

and future plans for the TEI Guidelines, share research with other TEI

members, and attend special training sessions. The annual meeting is also

the venue for elections to the TEI Board of Directors, which oversees the

TEI's strategic and fiscal planning, and the TEI Council, which governs the

technical work of the TEI. Members attend the meeting at no charge;

non-members pay a nominal fee of $US50.

Detailed information on P4 and the TEI Consortium is available from the web

site at <a href="http://www.tei-c.org">http://www.tei-c.org</a>. The Editors of the Guidelines are Lou Burnard

(University of Oxford, lou.burnard@oucs.ox.ac.uk, tel +44 1865 273 221) and

Syd Bauman (Brown University, syd_bauman@brown.edu, +1 401 863 3835).

NOTES TO EDITORS

1. Copies of P4 may be ordered from the University of Virginia Press

(or via the TEI website at <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Services/">http://www.tei-c.org/Services/</a>) at a cost

of $US90. Consortium members will receive a free copy, and may order

additional copies at the discounted members' price of

$US60. Subscribers may also order discounted copies. Individual

chapters of the Guidelines are available free of charge in PDF format

to members and subscribers from the TEI web site.

2. The TEI Consortium has executive offices in Bergen, Norway, and is

hosted at four university sites worldwide: the University of Bergen,

Brown University, Oxford University, and the University of

Virginia. The Consortium is managed by a Board of Directors, and its

technical work is overseen by an elected Council. Work is typically

carried out by small groups of interested experts worldwide, and there

are two editors, one based in North America, and one in Europe.

3. The TEI began work in 1988, under the sponsorship of three leading

      professional associations in the field of literary and linguistic

      applications of computing, and with the aid of substantial funding

      from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, the European

      Union's Language Engineering Directorate, the Canadian Social

      Science and Humanities Research Council, and the Mellon

      Foundation.

4.  With the assistance of nearly 200 technical and academic experts

      worldwide, the TEI has formulated recommendations for the

      efficient representation in computer readable form of almost every

      kind of textual resource, independently of language, culture, or

      computer system. Originally these recommendations were expressed

      using a computer standard called SGML; more recently, the TEI has

      converted to using XML, the new language of the web.

4. The TEI has had a major impact in several areas: in the development

      of the digital library, in the development of language engineering,

      and in the development of the web. Many of those responsible for

      the development of XML, including one of the editors of that

      standard, are also closely identified with the development of the

      TEI.

5. As digital communication becomes the norm, there is a growing need

      for standards which are less ephemeral than today's computer

      systems. By defining standards for interchange of textual data

      independent of today's computer systems, the TEI guarantees a

      future for the digital heritage we are building up all around

      us. Hence its slogan: "yesterday's information tomorrow".



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.18
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:19:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 104 (104)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 18,  Week of June 17, 2002

In this issue:

View --

Infrastructure: The Things We Take For Granted

What it is, what it does, what it doesn't

By Espen Andersen

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_3.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_3.html</a>



From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: highly constrained languages
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:30:48 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 105 (105)


Greetings,

Those who enjoyed the discussion on highly constrained languages might

also enjoy an article by Guy Steele at

<<a href="http://www.research.avayalabs.com/user/wadler/steele-oopsla98.pdf">http://www.research.avayalabs.com/user/wadler/steele-oopsla98.pdf</a>>

Guy Steele is a (programming) language designer, most recently famous

for his participation in the design of the Java language.  The central

bulk of the paper is about suggestions for enlarging that language, and

is of rather specialised interest, but the organising principle of the

paper, which is part of its point, is fun to watch unfold; and if you

work out the precise rule involved before the explanation on page three,

you're clearly awake enough this morning.

Best wishes,

Norman


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From: Jing-Shin Chang <shin@lang-tech.csie.ncnu.edu.tw>
Subject: [COLING-02] Tutorials -Call for Participation, early
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:35:57 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 106 (106)


registration

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posts]

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                            COLING-2002 TUTORIALS

         24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN

             URL: <a href="http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html">http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html</a>

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** REMINDER: Early Registration extended to June 22 !! (30+% saving!!)

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Special Issues on:

        Computational Linguistics && Chinese Language Processing (*) 08/24

am/pm

                      Bio-Informatics && NLP Issues                  08/25

am/pm

                 Open-Domain Textual Question Answering              08/25 am

              Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics          08/25 pm

(*) Co-Sponsored by ACL-SIGHAN: Special Interest Group on Chinese Language

      Processing (<a href="http://www.sighan.org/">http://www.sighan.org/</a>)

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COLING has been the most important international conference on Computational

Linguistics and Natural Language Processing for nearly 40 years.

The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING

2002) will be held in the Howard International House and Academia Sinica,

Taipei, Taiwan, from August 24 to September 1, 2002.

The biennial conference COLING 2002 this year will provide both

pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops, in addition to the

main conference. There will be four major tutorial issues divided into

six 3-hour units during COLING 2002.

The first major issue will be Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language

Processing. This tutorial will focus on Chinese language processing topics

including Intelligent Character Encoding (Ching-Chun Hsieh, Academia Sinica),

Treebanking and Parsing (Keh-jiann Chen, Academia Sinica), and Corpus-Based

Methods in Chinese Morphology (Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs). The whole scope

will cover most of the interesting and special characteristics that make

Chinese language processing a different and difficult task. It will be

co-sponsored with the ACL-SIGHAN.  People interested in Chinese language

processing issues should not miss the two tutorial units and the SigHan

Workshop (<a href="http://www.sighan.org/swclp/">http://www.sighan.org/swclp/</a>).

The second major issue focuses on NLP and Bio-Informatics. People

nowadays are becoming more and more interested in knowing how the

languages of humans differ from the languages of God. NLP researchers

and biologists feel strongly that the two communities can work together

to make things different. Our biologists, Toshihisa Takagi, Takako Takai

(University of Tokyo), Ken-ichiro Fukuda (National Institute of

Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Tokyo, JAPAN) will

discuss some theoretical issues in Bio-Informatics and how NLP techniques

can help extracting and migrating biological data from the huge amount

of historical archives and databases to speedup biology study. Our

computational linguists, Jun-Ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo and UMIST,

ICCL permanent member), and Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania,

ICCL permanent member), on the other hand, will talk about the application

of Information Extraction techniques in Bio-informatics and some applications

of NLP Techniques for Modeling Biological Sequences in this tutorial.

You could expect that such interaction between the biologists and

computational linguists will bring to our communities many brand new ideas.

While simple information retrieval and information extraction techniques

are useful for many language processing tasks, including mining biological

rules as discussed in the above major issue, such techniques combined

in an intuitive way may not really provide us with good answers for

many critical questions. In the third major tutorial issue, our QA experts,

Professors Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas) and Dan Moldovan

(University of Texas) will tell us how an Open-Domain Textual Question

Answering system could be constructed to serve well. Professor Harabagiu's

systems had proved to be outstanding in the community. Therefore, you

should really attend this course if you want more secrete behind the scenes.

The forth major tutorial issue is Probabilistic Computational

Psycholinguistics. This issue is important because every sentence that

we processed has its psycholinguistics and cognitive process behind it.

The more we know such psycholinguistic models the more we can process

the sentences better. Professor Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado)

will lead you to the world of computational psycholinguistics and

cognitive modeling in the sentence, lexical and discourse levels

through this course.

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Course Outlines:

Please refer to the following web-page for course outlines and further

information:

          <a href="http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html">http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html</a>.

Additional information about on-line registration can be found on:

          <a href="http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html">http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html</a>.

Official URL of COLING-2002 is: <a href="http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/">http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/</a>

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ICCL Advisor on Workshops and Tutorials

     Prof. Antonio Zampolli

     Istituto di Linguistica

     Computazionale, CNR

     Via della Faggiola 32

     I-56100 Pisa,

     ITALY  tel:+39-50-560481

     fax:+39-50-589055

     Email: glottolo@ilc.pi.cnr.it

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TUTORIALS CHAIR

     Chu-Ren Huang

     Institute of Linguistics

     Academia Sinica

     Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

     Email: hschuren@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw

TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS

     Kathleen Ahrens

     Graduate Institute of Linguistics

     National Taiwan University

     1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road

     Taipei 106, Taiwan

     Email: ahrens66@hotmail.com

     Jing-Shin Chang

     Computer Science & Information Engineering

     National Chi-Nan University

     1 University Road, Puli

     Nantou 545, Taiwan

     Email: jshin@csie.ncnu.edu.tw

     Martha Palmer

     Computer & Information Science

     University of Pennsylvania

     200 S. 33rd Street

     Phila. PA 19104-6389, USA

     Email: mpalmer@linc.upenn.edu

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                              COLING-2002 (Taipei)

          The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

                        24 August  -  1 September, 2002

               Official URL:<a href="http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/">http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/</a>

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Important Dates:

* Early Registration Deadline: 22, June.

Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002 (Academia Sinica)

Conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002 (Howard International House)

Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) - 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica)



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: UCLA/Getty: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:36:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 107 (107)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

June 18, 2002

                  UCLA/Getty: Museums, Libraries and Archives:

                     Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing

                       July 29-August 1, 2002: Los Angeles

             Early registration deadline extended to June 30, 2002

                          <a href="http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si">http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si</a>

<a href="http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si">http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si</a>
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From: Aime Morrison <ahm@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.080 highly constrained languages
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:06:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 108 (108)

[deleted quotation]
what a great paper!  it's heartening to see a technical talk that is so clear

and engaging.  we ought all aim to write so simply and powerfully.  steele

obviously works to engage his audience in the problem he presents, and makes

them part of the solution-finding process.  the paper is remarkably free of

jargon (and, i might say, smarty-pantsing), is enlivened by good humour and

goodwill, and enriched by interdisciplinary secondary texts and historical

examples.  i'm a big fan.

but steele's writing style is to me hardly surprising -- remember how we've

been recently discussing eric raymond's jargon file / _new hacker's

dictionary_?  the original publication has steele as first author.

[Steele, Guy L., et al. The Hacker's Dictionary:  A Guide to the World of

Computer Wizards. New York: Harper and Row, 1983. -- in addition to the terms,

steele writes the 'confessions of a happy hacker']

boy, if i had to define every word > (2 syllables) in my diss, i'd be in big

trouble ;-)

aimee

.                  ++++++++++++++++++++++++

Aime Morrison                     "It is our national joy

PhD Program, Dept. of English       to mistake for the first

University of Alberta               rate, the fecund rate."

ahm@ualberta.ca                       -- Dorothy Parker,

                                           on literary productivity



From: William Cole <bill@donutage.org>
Subject: Re: 16.073 highly constrained language
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:05:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 109 (109)


Humanists:

Regarding the intersection of language-constraint and computers, I'd like to

call attention to the work currently being done by Nick Montfort. Among the

works relevant to this discussion are his "2002: A Palindrome Story" (with

William Gillespie) -- a 2002-word palindrome written with the help of a

computer program designed by the authors -- and "Ad Verbum" -- an

"interactive fiction" in the spirit of "Adventure" that incorporates a

number of constrained-language puzzles. The latter was featured in the

Hnypertext Reading Room at the just-completed ACM Hypertext 02 conference at

the University of Maryland. Both texts are available on the web: 2002 is at

<a href="http://www.spinelessbooks.com/2002/">http://www.spinelessbooks.com/2002/</a> and Ad Verbum at

<a href="http://www.nickm.com/if/adverbum_web.html">http://www.nickm.com/if/adverbum_web.html</a>

Cheers...


--
William Cole <w.cole@morehead-st.edu>
Instructional Technology Director, College of Education
Morehead State University
801 Ginger Hall || (606) 783-9326
<a href="http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/w.cole/">http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/w.cole/</a>



From: <R.J.Evans@wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: New book announcement: Anaphora Resolution (Longman)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:21:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 110 (110)


++++++ NEW BOOK ++++ NEW BOOK ++++++

         Title:  Anaphora resolution

            Author:  Ruslan Mitkov

               Publisher: Longman

The above book has just been published.

Further information on the table of contents can be obtained at

<a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/Longman/index.html">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/Longman/index.html</a>

For orders email enq.orders@pearson-ema.com

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

This mail sent through IMP: mail.wlv.ac.uk



From: "elpub2002" <elpub2002@mbv.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: ELPUB2002
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:10:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 111 (111)


[Attachments and all but the first part of the first version of this

invitation have been deleted. --WM]

[1]               We would like to invite you

[2]               Wir laden Sie ein

[3]               Le invitamos

[4]               Nous vous invitons

[5]               Vi har ran att inbjuda er till

[6]               Czech readers, please find attached: _ elpub2002_cz.pdf

[7]               Russian readers, please find attached: _ elpub2002_ru.pdf

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + +

[1]               We would like to invite you

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ + + + + + +

                     ELPUB 2002 ++ Technology Interactions

                     6th International ICCC / IFIP Conference on Electronic

Publishing

                     November 6th to 8th, 2002

                     Carlsbad, Czech Republic / Karlovy Vary, Ceska Republika

                     Conference fee:            350 EURO

                     Early registration fee:    290 EURO      (before July

30th, 2002)

                     Conference language: English

                     Extensive conference papers publication

                     Further information:

                     <a href="http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02">http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02</a>

ELPUB 2002  ++  Technology Interactions ++

Electronic publishing is a dynamic technology field that affects various

areas of research and

application, such as e-commerce, digital libraries, and distance learning.

This scientific conference will explore the various interrelations between

the areas of electronic

publishing. 49 authors from 16 countries will present their work. The

presentations will deal with

development and application concepts of new digital technologies as well as

with broader

sociocultural aspects and organizational issues and scenarios of electronic

publishing. The program

will be completed by cutting edge product presentations and a couple of

social events in the unique

atmosphere of one of Europe's oldest and most beautiful hotels, the

Grandhotel Pupp.

ELPUB 2002

is the sixth event in a series of annually held international conferences

on electronic publishing.

The objective of ELPUB conferences is to bring together researchers,

developers, managers, and users

who work on electronic publishing issues in the public, scientific, and

commercial field.

ELPUB 2002

is your chance to experience intensive learning. You will explore new

content strategies, hear about

successful solutions, and discover the latest content techniques and tools.

Meeting face-to-face

with experts and researchers from all over the world and different

professional backgrounds will be

a highly effective way to extend your knowledge, broaden your horizons, and

grow professionally.

Please register via the conference website. There you will also find a

detailed program as well as

all further information.

I would like to invite you to the conference in the name of the organizing

committee !

Sincerely,

      Prof. Dr. Arved C. Hbler

     (ELPUB 2002 Conference Chair)

[material deleted]



From: Magali Jeanmaire <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: Press Release: LangTech 2002
Date: September 26-27, 2002
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 112 (112)


Venue: Hotel Schweizerhof, Berlin

Description: LangTech 2002 is the international forum for people and

organisations involved in

the development, deployment and exploitation of spoken and written language

technologies in

real world applications. It will feature keynote talks from leading

players, presentations from a

wide range of developers and solution providers, panel discussions of key

issues affecting the

market in Europe and beyond, and an exhibition of applications, products,

services and research

prototypes. Special sessions will enable start-up companies to promote and

pitch their

products and services and explore funding possibilities.

LangTech 2002 will cover a wide range of language technologies with three

focus areas:

VOICE SOLUTIONS: for the control of software and machinery, customer

relationship

management, systems for the handicapped and multimodal communication in an

ambient

intelligence setting.

KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS: for information and knowledge management, content

management, e-learning, document authoring and management.

MULTILINGUAL SOLUTIONS: for software localisation, automatic text

translation, translation

memories, interactive speech translation and crosslingual information

retrieval.

LangTech 2002 is organised by EUROMAP Language Technologies, assisted by

the German

National Competence Center for Language Technology funded by the German

Ministry for

Education and Research, the Investmentbank Berlin, the European Language

and Speech

Network (ELSNET), European Language Resources Association and Evaluation

and Language

resources Distribution Agency (ELRA and ELDA) and several other corporate

sponsors.

Email: organisation@lang-tech.org

Conference website: <a href="http://www.lang-tech.org">http://www.lang-tech.org</a>

Press Registration: organisation@lang-tech.org

Contact:

Michael Huch

VDI/VDE-Technology Centre for Information Technologies

Email: organisation@lang-tech.org

Tel: +49 33 28 435 193

<a href="http://www.lang-tech.org">http://www.lang-tech.org</a>

****************************************************************************

Magali Jeanmaire

Marketing & Communication

55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin

75013 Paris FRANCE

Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33

Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30

Internet: <a href="http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/">http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/</a> or <a href="http://www.elda.fr">http://www.elda.fr</a>

LREC: <a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org">http://www.lrec-conf.org</a>

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From: "Hamilton-Locke, Inc" <mail@hamilton-locke.com>
Subject: Document Explorer
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:23:27 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 113 (113)


Hamilton-Locke and Brigham Young University are pleased to announce the

completion of Document Explorer 6.0 and the incorporation of nearly 800

literary classics, political and legal documents.  This is a tremendous

discovery and analysis tool that we hope will service your research needs.

Document Explorer is the culminating product of WordCruncher's developmental

efforts at BYU.  The analytical tools, the interface design tools, the

concordance builder, and the foreign font capabilities of WordCruncher are

built on a new framework called Document Explorer.  Now interactive with

Microsoft Word, this product contains enhanced graphics on frequency

distributions and many other additional discovery and statistical analysis

tools.  In addition, a new manual gives both faculty and students many

examples of document analysis and procedures for statistical analysis.  We

are excited about this new tool and hope your faculty will not only order

this for their own research, but will make this tool available for the

students.

...

Sincerely,

David Neubert, President

Hamilton-Locke, Inc.

1902 N. Canyon Rd, Ste. 120

Provo, Utah 84604

mail@agexplorer.com

www.agexplorer.com

801.356.3512 V

801.226.2971 F

[Sent to me directly; a presentation in the form of an attachment has been

deleted. --WM]



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: Samuel Butler on prosthesis
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:40:43 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 114 (114)


To all those who know the writings of Samuel Butler well, this query: did

he say (and if so where) that tools are an extension of the body?

Many thanks for any suggestions.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: ALLC/ACH 2002 Job Seekers and Mentors wanted
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:38:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 115 (115)


MENTORS AND JOB SEEKERS WANTED

Dear ALLC/ACH Delegate:

Continuing our efforts to make the annual ALLC/ACH meeting an especially

useful event for graduate students, the Association for Computers and the

Humanities is offering several activities for job seekers in humanities

computing (both academic and industry positions) at this year's conference

in Tuebingen.

This year, while the conference is in session, we plan to facilitate

one-to-one mentoring meetings with prospective job seekers, probably over

breakfast or lunch. Mentors will be drawn from the ACH's pool of mentoring

volunteers, all of whom have had first-hand experience with the "markets"

in this field. We'll also have information on the ACH Jobs database and a

listing of current jobs.

Please reply to Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com> 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 eager to

hear from anyone interested in serving as a mentor themselves, or with

suggestions for the kind of activities this committee might undertake in

the future. Finally, please pass the word about this opportunity to any

students or associates who might be interested, encouraging them to take part.

Thank you,

Julia Flanders

Lorna Hughes

Matthew Kirschenbaum

Wendell Piez

Geoffrey Rockwell

======================================================================

Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com

Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com">http://www.mulberrytech.com</a>

17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635

Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631

Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285

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    Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: [ACM Ubiquity] Digital Resources in Education
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:23:54 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 116 (116)


Digital Resources in Education by Arun Kumar Tripathi

How does technology change learning and teaching in formal and informal

education? (in Issue 17 June 11-17, 2002)

Complete article is available at

<<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_tripathi_3.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_tripathi_3.html</a>>

((Ubiquity, a new web resource from the ACM, provides a moderated,

interactive community for IT professionals and others to discuss important

issues))

Thoughts are welcome!!

Best regards,

Arun Tripathi

=============================================================================

"If we have the courage to be faithful to central things and practices,

then we know what we should appropriate technology to." (Albert Borgmann,

in The Good Life and Appropriate Technology)

=============================================================================

"Language is the house of Being. In the home of language, man dwells."

(Albert Borgmann, in Philosophy and the Concern for Man)

=============================================================================



From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@uh.edu>
Subject: Version 43, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:38:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 117 (117)


Version 43 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over

1,600 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources

that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing

efforts on the Internet.

       HTML: <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html</a>

       Acrobat: <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf</a>

The HTML document is designed for interactive use.  Each

major section is a separate file.  There are links to sources

that are freely available on the Internet.  It can be can be

searched using Boolean operators.

The HTML document includes three sections not found in

the Acrobat file:

(1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm</a>

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related

Web sites)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm</a>

(3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new

resources that is updated on weekdays)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm</a>

The Acrobat file is designed for printing.  The printed

bibliography is over 130 pages long.  The Acrobat file is over

370 KB.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are

marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*

2 Electronic Books and Texts

       2.1 Case Studies and History*

       2.2 General Works*

       2.3 Library Issues*

3  Electronic Serials

       3.1 Case Studies and History*

       3.2 Critiques

       3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals

       3.4 General Works*

       3.5 Library Issues*

       3.6 Research*

4 General Works

5 Legal Issues

       5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*

       5.2 License Agreements*

       5.3 Other Legal Issues

6  Library Issues

       6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*

       6.2 Digital Libraries*

       6.3 General Works*

       6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*

7 New Publishing Models*

8 Publisher Issues

       8.1 Digital Rights Management

9 Technical Reports and E-Prints*

Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author

Appendix B. About the Author

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes

the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*

Digital Libraries

Electronic Books and Texts*

Electronic Serials*

General Electronic Publishing*

Images*

Legal*

Preservation

Publishers

SGML and Related Standards

Technical Reports and E-Prints

An article about the bibliography has been published

in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:

<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html</a>

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.  <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm</a>



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Speaking Cyborg
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:54:56 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 118 (118)


The article on "Speaking Cyborg: Technoculture and Technonature" is

published IN Zygon, June 2002, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 279-288(10) The article

is written by A. Kull, University of Tartu, Estonia --might interest to

Humanist Scholars.

Abstract:

---------

According to author, [T]wo ways of self-interpretation merged in Western

thought: the Hebrew and the Greek. What is unique, if anything, about the

human species? The reinterpretation of this problem has been a constant

process; here I am referring to Philip Hefner and the term created

co-creator, and particularly to Donna Haraway and the term cyborg.

Simultaneously, humans have been fascinated by the thought of

transgressing the boundaries that seem to separate them from the rest of

nature. Any culture reflects the ways it relates to nature. Our nature is

technonature, and our culture is technoculture. Our reality can be best

approached by the metaphor and symbol cyborg. Donna Haraway.s cyborg is

not just an interesting figure of speech, it is also a description.of

ourselves and our culture. Also, contemporary fiction reflects the return

of ontological questions: What is a world? What is the self? The cyborg

acknowledges our mode of existence and destabilizes the traditional

procedures of identity construction."

((Keywords are created co.creator; cyborg; Donna Haraway; Philip Hefner;

human being; Bruce Mazlish; technoscience))

Feeback is always welcome!

Best regards,

Arun



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:55:48 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 119 (119)


An interesting article on "Creating in Our Own Image: Artificial

Intelligence and the Image of God" is published in the Zygon, June 2002,

vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 303-316(14) --written by N. Herzfeld, St. John.s

University, Collegeville.

Abstract:

There is remarkable convergence between twentieth-century interpretations

of the image of God (imago Dei), what it means for human beings to be

created in God.s image, and approaches toward creating in our own image in

the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

Both fields have viewed the intersection between God and humanity or

humanity and computers in terms of either (1) a property or set of

properties such as intelligence, (2) the functions we engage in or are

capable of, or (3) the relationships we establish and maintain. Each of

these three approaches reflects a different understanding of what stands

at the core of our humanity. Functional and relational approaches were

common in the late twentieth century, with a functional understanding the

one most accepted by society at large.

A relational view, however, gives new insights into human dignity in a

computer age as well as new approaches to AI research.

((Keywords are: artificial intelligence; Karl Barth; creation; image of

God; imago Dei; robots; Gerhard von Rad))

Your ideas are most welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Arun



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Materiality Has Always Been in Play
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:56:32 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 120 (120)


Hello, this might be an interesting venture for humanist scholars --An

Interview with N. Katherine Hayles by Lisa Gitelman is available at

<<a href="http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/hayles/NKHinterview.pdf">http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/hayles/NKHinterview.pdf</a>>

Her most recent book, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in

Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, won the Rene Wellek Prize for the

best book in literary theory for 1998-99. Prof. Hayles is currently at

work on two books on electronic textuality, Writing Machines (MIT Press)

and Coding the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to the

Computer.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: Deena Larsen <textra@chisp.net>
Subject: chat event for artists & writers
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:53:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 121 (121)


If you can't come to trAce's Incubation conference

<<a href="http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/index.cfm">http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/index.cfm</a>> in person, be there in

electronic spirit!

TrAce  is sponsoring a  Live Chat event at Incubation in collaboration

with ISEA, Fine Art Forum & The  Electronic Literature Organisation

Communicate and hobnob with your  creative counterparts as part of a

series of online meetings at real life conferences to help bring

members of the creative electronic community together.  We will talk

about important points in the conference and foster relationships

between online writers and artists with questions such as:

How can we use the online environment to further collaborations

between artists and writers?

How do the online environment and other new media tools modify the

relationship between writing, language, imagery, culture, and

ethnicity?

How has online communication and coordination changed art and writing?

How are lines between art and literature blurring?

What new ways are we using to communicate with art and writing?

WHEN AND WHERE

Monday, July 15, 2002, at 21:00 London time, 16:00 New York,  13:00

Los Angeles, and 0:600 Tuesday Sydney

For your time, see

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From: Terry Butler <Terry.Butler@ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.087 Butler on prosthesis?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:45:33 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 122 (122)


At 08:43 AM 6/22/02 +0100, you wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I recollect you will find the idea developed in Butler's scientific works:

Life and Habit: An Essay After a Completer View of Evolution, 1878;

Evolution, Old and New, 1879; Unconscious Memory, 1880; and especially Luck

or Cunning as the Main Means of Organic Modification?, 1887.

In the latter, according to the Gutenberg on-line version at

ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/lckc10h.htm:

"It should be observed also that the distinction between the organism and

its surroundings - on which both systems are founded - is one that cannot

be so universally drawn as we find it convenient to allege.  There is a

debatable ground of considerable extent on which res and me, ego and non

ego, luck and cunning, necessity and freewill, meet and pass into one

another as night and day, or life and death.  No one can draw a sharp line

between ego and non ego, nor indeed any sharp line between any classes of

phenomena.  Every part of the ego is non ego qu organ or tool in use, and

much of the non ego runs up into the ego and is inseparably united with it;

still there is enough that it is obviously most convenient to call ego, and

enough that it is no less obviously most convenient to call non ego, as

there is enough obvious day and obvious night, or obvious luck and obvious

cunning, to make us think it advisable to keep separate accounts for each."



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Reference related to Butler on prosthesis?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:48:57 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 123 (123)


The article on "The Internet as a Medium for Science Communication"

written by Henry S. Rzepa, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College,

London might interest you regarding your query of Butler on prosthesis!

According to excerpts of the article, In modern times, the first

individual to foresee how technology could help people communicate on a

global scale was Samuel Butler. A contemporary of Darwin, he wrote in

1863; "I venture to suggest that ... the general development of the human

race to be well and effectually completed when all men, in all places,

without any loss of time, at a low rate of charge, are cognizant through

their senses, of all that they desire to be cognizant of in all other

places. ... This is the grand annihilation of time and place which we are

all striving for, and which in one small part we have been permitted to

see actually realised"

The complete article is available at <<a href="http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ou/">http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ou/</a>>

With best regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Re: Reference related to Butler on prosthesis?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:50:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 124 (124)


Dear Dr. Willard McCarty,

Hi, the exact reference related to the query of "Butler on prosthesis."

In 'Erehwon', Samuel Butler characterizes *technology as an extension of

the human* - more or less remote senses, limbs and intellects that amplify

our innate capabilities. ((Cf: Erehwon, The Book of the Machines, Chapter

25, Samuel Butler, first published 1872))

Quoted in the article on "Like a Second Skin" at

<<a href="http://comp.uark.edu/~tkrueger/metadermis/meta.html">http://comp.uark.edu/~tkrueger/metadermis/meta.html</a>>

I hope this helps!

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
Subject: Conference Announcement
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:44:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 125 (125)


Apologies for any cross posting that may occur.

This announcement may be of interest to some list members.

----------

[keywords]

computer games, hypertext, graphic narrative, new media narrative, digital

arts and culture conference, streaming media, interactive performance,

digital aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art, academics, artists.

[announcement]

Digital Arts and Culture::2003

MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds

The 2003 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) international

conference series is to be held on the city campus of RMIT University,

Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003.

MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds will bring together an international cohort

of artists, practitioners, developers, theorists and teachers to define and

explore major themes and ideas confronting contemporary new media practice.

The 2003 event will explore the theory and practice of computer gaming,

ergodic narrative, distributed and/or immersive performance environments,

and streaming media with a particular focus on the real, imagined and

wished for worlds that these things create.

[what is the Digital Arts and Culture conference?]

DAC was founded in 1998 by Espen Aarseth as an international conference

focusing on new media theory and practice in critical contexts. DAC seeks

to bring together new media artists and theorists in a spirit of

collaboration and exploration. It has nurtured a significant international

community of young and innovative researchers, artists and scholars in the

interdisciplinary field of new media, and has become the benchmark

conference for research and collaborative endeavour in new media. DAC

offers a forum that recognises the importance of bringing together leading

practitioners from art and theory for the exchange of ideas and to develop

international professional networks and knowledge economies.

MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds intends to continue this role through the

papers, panels, forums, and exhibition it hosts, and the innovative series

of collaborative workshops and events that will be undertaken by all

conference participants. The mission of MelbourneDAC is to exchange ideas

and promote new developments in digital arts and culture and to ensure that

all participants develop relevant and sustainable professional communities.

A call for papers will be distributed shortly.

A call for entries for the MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds exhibition will

be distributed shortly.

All conference material will be published (all participants will receive

their copy during MelbourneDac).

A mentoring process will be available to postgraduate students and new

academics who wish to have feedback in the development of their contributions.

A moderated announcement list for all interested in receiving additional

information and updates is available. Subscription details at

<a href="http://monaro.adc.rmit.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/dac/">http://monaro.adc.rmit.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/dac/</a>

a web site containing this and other information is located at

<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/</a>

[and this is from?]

adrian miles <adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au> conference chair

antoanetta ivanova <antoanetta@novamediaarts.net> conference producer

-----

end of announcement


--
+  lecturer in new media and cinema studies
[<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog</a>]
+  interactive desktop video developer  [<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/</a>]
+  hypertext rmit [<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au</a>]
+ InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [<a href="http://www.intermedia.uib.no">http://www.intermedia.uib.no</a>]



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: detachment from attachments
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:40:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 126 (126)


Willard,

[Given your recent asides], I was wondering if those engaged in marketing

exercises for conferences use the WWW to store additional information more

than those engaged in marketing products. In either case, the URL-less

nature of certain promotions over the Internet is at times not only

irksome for the receipients (who may or may not successfully conduct a

search to glean more information) but also bothersome for moderators

having to purge attachments from email.

As I know you are fond of typologies, I offer the following

* email with no URL and no attached file

* email with URL and no attached file

* email with no URL and with attached file

* email with URL and with attached file

I was also wondering if any of the students of cyberculture would care to

venture a sociological reading of the behaviours that fall into the

categories of the four part typology. Also, I wonder if the teachers of

human-computer interface design might speculate on the apparent collapse

into a single category of experience of the Internet and the World Wide

Web (they are equivalent in some user's vocabularies) and whether this

apparent collapse can be associated with the convergence of applications

that handle both hypertext and email through a set of Graphical User

Interfaces with similar look and feel [not to forget the receeding from

the screen (and sound output) of feedback regarding conectivity a la

dial-up].

In general terms, one asks: at what cost transparency? Or how does the

deployment of interfaces designed for so-called transparency affect access

to information and fora for exchange?

[Sent to you via a telent connection to a unix account and composed in

elm from the console of a Macintosh Performa 611CD.]

Pining for gophers,

Francois


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@uni-bremen.de>
Subject: Re: 16.089 Samuel Butler on prosthesis
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:35:56 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 127 (127)


Dear Willard,

Butler's statement on prosthesis quite obviously draws upon the older

anthropomorphological theory of technics. The German philologist and

cultural historian Ludwig Geiger (1848-1919) seems to have been the first

to write that all human tools can be considered as "organic projections" of

the human body parts (in his "Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit.

Vortrge," Stuttgart: Cotta, 1871). This theory was popularized by the

German-American freethinker and philosopher Ernst Kapp (1808-1896) in his

"Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik. Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der

Cultur aus neuen Gesichtspunkten" (1877), long before Samuel Butler

(1835-1902) in his "Erewhon" (1910) was to write "(...) that the machines

are still in their infancy; they are mere skeletons without muscles and

flesh." (Chapter 25, page 265).

On Kapp and the idea of "organic projections" please see the following links:

<a href="http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/KK/fka1.html">http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/KK/fka1.html</a>

<a href="http://www.hans-hass.de/Rahmenbedingungen/130_137_Das_erweiterte_Lebewesen.html">http://www.hans-hass.de/Rahmenbedingungen/130_137_Das_erweiterte_Lebewesen.html</a>

The other excerpt quoted by Arun-Kumar Tripathi making Butler a visionary

of modern world-wide electronic communication is itself preceded by various

statements by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), like the following from

the second volume of his "Cosmos" (1847): "Der Begriff eines Naturganzen,

das Gefhl der Einheit und des harmonischen Einklanges im Kosmos werden

umso lebendiger unter den Menschen, als sich die Mittel vervielfltigen,

die Gesammtheit der Naturerscheinungen zu anschaulichen Bildern zu

gestalten." Please see:

<a href="http://www1.uni-bremen.de/~kr538/licht.html#Abreise">http://www1.uni-bremen.de/~kr538/licht.html#Abreise</a>

Best regards,

Hartmut Krech

Bremen, Germany

<a href="http://ww3.de/krech">http://ww3.de/krech</a>



From: Aime Morrison <ahm@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.089 Samuel Butler on prosthesis
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:37:21 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 128 (128)


hello:

serendipitously, i happen this very day to be writing about samuel butler's

_erewhon_, and specifically, those two chapters that address the topic

currently under discussion.

what interest me about "The Book of The Machines" is the ambivalence of the

portrayal of machines, and the way this section stands out from the rest of

the text.  for your potential enlightment, i offer two paragraphs i've got

under construction, which will give you a general sense of the book, if you

haven't read it, and a sense of the ambivalence of the treatment of machines

as competitors to humanity rather than prostheses:

"Samuel Butlers satirical novel _Erewhon_ (1872) manifests a different fear

of technology [than the book previously under discusion]. Explorer and

colonialist Higgs discovers a closed society where all the cherished values of

his own Victorian England are reversed.  Put on trial for owning a mechanical

watch, Higgs learns that the Erewhonians maintain a sort of technological

stasis, having destroyed all their own machines, and not allowing the

invention of any new ones.  The reasoning behind this practice is explained

across two chapters entitled The Book of the Machines. Claiming to

transcribe from memory the original tract that called for the breaking of the

machines, narrator Higgs relates the Erewhonian view of an analogous

relationship between machine and human evolution. In a not too distant future,

warns the transcribed Erewhonian philosopher, human beings would become a race

of slaves to the needs of superior machines of which they were once masters.

The tract chillingly notes that if the histories of machines and humanity are

considered together, it is clear that machines are quickly outstripping

humankind in the pace of their development, undergoing a shockingly efficient

and rapid evolution:  any race for survival of the fittest would seem

increasingly weighted in favour of machines.

"_Erewhon_ lampoons many aspects of high-Victorian society, but this extended

musing on the nature of high technology, in this case mechanical and

industrial, presents a tone of seriousness and ambivalence not to be found

elsewhere in the novel.  In contrast to their English brethren, the

Erewhonians universally agree that the machine evolution must be stopped, and,

further, that many of the machines they already have must be destroyed.  The

satire in these chapters does not mock the decistion to de-mechanize, but

instead derides the bureaucratic means by which the Erewhonians decide where

to draw the line on their machine-breaking:  The Erewhonians quibble over what

degree of mechanization is essential to the maintenance of their quality of

life, and of course certain lobby groups demonstrate pecuniary interest in

saving a particular technology from banishment, by means of spurious logic.

Ultimately, though, most machines are destroyed, and the Erewhonians seem none

the worse for itexcept that they are an illogical race of godless people that

Higgs concocts plans to enslave."

cheers!

aimee

.                  ++++++++++++++++++++++++

Aime Morrison                     "It is our national joy

PhD Program, Dept. of English       to mistake for the first

University of Alberta               rate, the fecund rate."

ahm@ualberta.ca                       -- Dorothy Parker,

                                           on literary productivity



From: "J. Stephen Downie" <jdownie@uiuc.edu>
Subject: Input sought: Evaluation of Music IR and Music DL systems
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:42:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 129 (129)


Dear Colleagues:

Dr. Ellen Voorhees, of the National Institute of Standards and

Technology (United States), has just submitted her keynote white paper

for the Music Information Retrieval/Music Digital Library Evaluation

Workshop (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002, 18 July 2002). I

am pre-releasing Dr. Voorhees' excellent discussion of the background of

the Text REtrival Conference (TREC) and its potential applicability as a

model for MIR/MDL evaluation. I hope that the early release of the paper

will prompt responses from all those interested in MIR/MDL evaluation

issues in particular, and IR/DL evaluation in general.

Whither Music IR Evaluation Infrastructure: Lessons to be Learned from

TREC

<a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation/voorhess.pdf">http://music-ir.org/evaluation/voorhess.pdf</a>

also at:

<a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/works/papers/jcdl_wkshop.pdf">http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/works/papers/jcdl_wkshop.pdf</a>

If anything in Dr. Voorhees paper prompts a comment or an argument or a

suggestion, please share it with the group or with me personally at

jdownie@uiuc.edu. Even if you do not have a compelling interest in

MIR/MDL issues, but have some experience in other evaluation projects, I

both welcome and encourage your feedback.

If possible, I would like to gather up some of the salient responses for

inclusion as an appendix to handouts that will be given to participants

of this workshop and the upcoming Panel on MIR evaluation at the

International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002,

Paris), etc. to aid in our discussions. So, if you would be so kind as

to indicate that it would be acceptable to you that we reproduce your

comments, etc., I would appreciate it greatly.

Cheers, and I hope all is well with each of you.

J. Stephen Downie

Background URLS:

Conference and Workshop URLS

<a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/">http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/</a>

<a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/ws.html#W4">http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/ws.html#W4</a>

Please visit the following URLs for other important details:

<a href="http://music-ir.org/MIR_MDL_evaluation.html">http://music-ir.org/MIR_MDL_evaluation.html</a>

<a href="http://music-ir.org/JCDL_Workshop_Info.html">http://music-ir.org/JCDL_Workshop_Info.html</a>


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**********************************************************
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Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2000-01)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 351-5037



From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt@kub.nl>
Subject: IWCS-5 2nd Call for Papers/Special Event/Invited Speakers
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:49:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 130 (130)


                      Fifth International Workshop on

                          COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                               (IWCS-5)

               January 15-17, 2003, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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

                               Endorsed by

      SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics

           SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon

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

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

   |                          SPECIAL EVENT                         |

   |                                                                |

   |  On Tuesday January 14, the day before the start of IWCS-5,    |

   |  the first meeting will take place of the SIGSEM Working Group |

   |  on Multimodal Meaning Representation (see www.sigsem.org).    |

   |  All IWCS-5 participants are invited to attend this meeting.   |

   |  More information about the meeting will soon be available on  |

   |  the SIGSEM and IWCS-5 websites.                               |

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

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

Tilburg University will host the Fifth International Workshop on

Computational Semantics (IWCS-5), which will take place from 15-17

January 2003. The aim of the workshop is to bring together

researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of

meaning in natural language, in language-based multimedia objects,

or in multimodal messages.

[material deleted]

                           FURTHER INFORMATION

Secretariat: Ms Anne Adriaensen

               Computational Linguistics and AI

               Tilburg University

               PO Box 90153

               5000 LE Tilburg

               The Netherlands

               Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10

               Phone: +31-13 466 30 60

               Email: computational.semantics@kub.nl

Website: <a href="http://let.kub.nl/research/TI/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs5/index.htm">http://let.kub.nl/research/TI/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs5/index.htm</a>

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

IWCS-5 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in

Computational Semantics (see <a href="http://www.sigsem.org">http://www.sigsem.org</a>)

and by SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon

(see 3<a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mpalmer/siglex2.html">http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mpalmer/siglex2.html</a>).

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

   Harry C. Bunt

   Chair of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence

   Tilburg University

   P.O. Box 90153

   5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands

   Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)

                       2653 (office, room R 102)

   Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110

   Harry.Bunt@kub.nl

   WWW: <a href="http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm">http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm</a>

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: CEPE2001 Proceedings on "IT and the Body"
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:51:19 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 131 (131)


CEPE2001: IT and the Body

Conference Objectives and Key theme

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

The aim of CEPE2001 is to establish an international multidisciplinary

forum for the development of innovative debate and dialogue between moral

philosophy and the emerging field of information and communication

technology (ICT). The conference aims to foster and promote philosophical

work, which is intended to make a constructive contribution to the ethical

questions associated with the adoption, use, and development of ICT. The

conference committee welcomes work of high quality regardless of school of

thought or philosophical tradition from which it derives.

The special theme of CEPE2001 is IT and the Body

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

Information and Communication Technology is becoming increasingly

pervasive. We use ICT in most human activities. McLuhan describes ICT as

the world's nervous system (others talk of it as an extension of the

senses of human beings). ICT is not just a metaphor of the body (and

vice-versa) or a metaphor for the empowerment of the human body. It can be

viewed as a real extension of the human body. Examples of this are Bionics

(the science studying the possibilities of partly or totally implanting

artificial pieces of human bodies as eyes, arms, legs, brain, etc.) and

the advances in the Human Genome Project (which is, to a large extent, a

bio-informatics research programme). Furthermore, in health care, many of

the medical procedures are computer assisted (for example NMR - Magnetic

Nuclear Resonance).

Important philosophical and ethical questions arise from examples such as

these. Are the inner connections between ICT devices and our nervous

system a loss for our privacy and human dignity? Is it fair to repair

damaged brains with computer-assisted interfaces? Are there limits to

using computer technologies as a support for artificial pieces in the

human body? Should a human be considered a cyborg if most of his body is

artificial? Do they have rights to citizenship? Is there an ethics of the

post-human? Such questions involve many philosophical and ethical concepts

such as: personhood, personal identity, the right to privacy, the right to

health, the right to personal data ownership. Other philosophical

challenges about our body are raised from Virtual Reality and Artificial

Intelligence.

CEPE2001: Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries on *IT and the Body*

List of abstracts and full papers can be read at:

<<a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/cepe/accepted%20papers.htm">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/cepe/accepted%20papers.htm</a>>

The Conference website is available at:

<<a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/</a>>

Thanks,

Arun

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Sascha Ossowski <sossowski@escet.urjc.es>
Subject: SAC 2003 Coordination Track: CfP&R
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:58:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 132 (132)


                      CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES

                      ============================

               (Apologies if you receive multiple copies)

            18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003)

     Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications

                <a href="http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac2003/">http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac2003/</a>

                            March 9-12, 2003

                        Melbourne, Florida, USA

SAC 2003

~~~~~~~~

Over the past seventeen 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 2003 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on

Applied Computing (SIGAPP)  and is presented in cooperation with other

ACM Special Interest Groups.  SAC 2003 is hosted  by the Department of

Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology.

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.

[material deleted]

Track Home Page

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Further information can be found at the special track home page:

                  <a href="http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac03/">http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac03/</a>

Important Dates

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     * September 6, 2002: Paper Submission

     * October  18, 2002: Author Notification

     * November  8, 2002: Camera-Ready Copy



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.19
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:45:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 133 (133)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 19,  Week of June 24, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

Moving From Here to There without Getting Lost

David Baar on new display technology that addresses

the screen real estate problem

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/d_baar_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/d_baar_1.html</a>



From: Marian Dworaczek <Marian.Dworaczek@USASK.CA>
Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:46:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 134 (134)


Information

The July 1, 2002 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic

Sources of Information" is available at:

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The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of

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Literature:

Abbott, Edwin A.;  Flatland

Alcott, Louisa May;  Little Women

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey;  Ponkapig Papers

Alger, Horatio;  Paul Prescott's Charge

Alger, Horatio;  Paul the Peddler or the Fortunes of a Young Street

Alger, Horatio;  The Errand Boy; Or How Phil Brent Won Success

Alger, Horatio Jr.;  Phil, the Fiddler

Alger, Horatio Jr.;  Ragged Dick

Alger, Horatio Jr.;  Struggling Upward

Alger, Horatio, Jr.;  Joe the Hotel Boy

Allen, James;  As a Man Thinketh

Alverez, Robert & Walters, Eleanor ;  Killing Our Own

Amelia E. Barr;  Remember the Alamo

Andersen, Hans Christian;  A Cheerful Temper

Andersen, Hans Christian;  Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by the

Anderson, Sherwood;  Winesburg, Ohio the Tales and the Persons

Anne Bronte;  Agnes Grey

Anthony Hope;  Frivolous Cupid

Appleton, Victor;  Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

Aristotle;  Categories

Aristotle;  The Athenian Constitution

Arnold, Edward L.;  Gulliver of Mars

Arthur Conan Doyle;  Beyond the City

Atherton, Gertrude;  Rezanov

Austen, Jane;  Emma

Austen, Jane;  Northanger Abbey

Austen, Jane;  Persuasion

Austen, Jane;  Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane;  Sense and Sensibility

Austin, Mary Hunter;  The Land of Little Rain

Azuela, Mariano;  The Underdogs

Bacon, Francis;  Essays of Francis Bacon

Bacon, Rev. J.M.;  The Dominion of the Air

Bacon, Sir Francis;  The Essays

Badger, Joseph E. Jr.;  The Lost City

Barber,;  The Aeroplane Speaks

Barker, Nettie Garmer.;  Kansas Women in Literature

Barr, Amelia E.;  The Man Between

Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew);  Margaret Ogilvy, by Her Son J. M. Barrie

Barrie, James Matthew;  Peter Pan

Baum, L. Frank;  Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz

Baum, L. Frank;  The Emerald City of Oz

Baum, L. Frank;  The Enchanted Island of Yew

Baum, L. Frank;  The Magic of Oz

Baum, L. Frank;  The Marvelous Land of Oz

Baum, L. Frank;  The Master Key

Baum, L. Frank;  The Road to Oz

Baum, L. Frank;  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank);  A Kidnapped Santa Claus

Baum, Lyman Frank;  Life/Adventures of Santa Claus

Beerbohm, Max;  A. V. Laider

Beerbohm, Max;  Enoch Soames

Beerbohm, Max;  James Pethel

Bellamy, Edward;  Looking Backward, 2000-1887

Benton, Thomas Hart;  On the Expunging Resolution

Bierce, Ambrose;  An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Bierce, Ambrose;  Fantastic Fables

Bird, Isabella L.;  Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Blackmore, R. D.;  Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor

Booth Tarkington;  The Conquest of Canaan

Borrow, George;  The Bible in Spain

Borrow, George;  The Romany Rye

Borrow, George;  Wild Wales: Its People, Language & Scenery

Borrow, George Henry;  Lavengro

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth;  Boyhood in Norway

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth;  Tales from Two Hemispheres

Brann, William Cowper;  Brann the Iconoclast

Bronte, Charlotte;  Jane Eyre

Bronte, Charlotte;  Two Short Pieces

Bronte, Emily Jane;  Wuthering Heights

Brown, Charles Brockden;  Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

Brown, Charles Brockden;  Wieland: Or the Transformation an American Tale

Bryant, Sarah Cone;  How to Tell Stories to Children

Buchan, John;  Greenmantle

Buchan, John;  Mr. Standfast

Buchan, John;  Prester John

Buchan, John;  The Moon Endureth

Buchan, John;  The Thirty Nine Steps

Burnett, Frances (Hodgson);  Little Lord Fauntleroy

Burnett, Frances (Hodgson);  Sara Crewe

Burnett, Frances Hodgson;  The Secret Garden

Burnett, Frances Hodgson;  The Shuttle

Burnett, Frances Hodgson;  The White People

Burnett, Francis Hodgson;  A Little Princess

Burnett, Francis Hodgson;  The Lost Prince

Burnett, Hodgson;  The Dawn of a Tomorrow - Frances

Burroughs, E.R.;  The Land That Time Forgot

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  A Princess of Mars

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Beasts of Tarzan

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Pellucidar

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Return of Tarzan

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Son of Tarzan

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Tarzan of the Apes

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Gods of Mars

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Lost Continent

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Mad King

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Monster Men

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Mucker

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Oakdale Affair

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Outlaw of Torn

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The People That Time Forgot

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  The Warlord of Mars

Burroughs, Edgar Rice;  Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Burton, Sir Richard;  The Arabian Nights

Cabell, James Branch;  The Certain Hour

Campbell, Anthony;  Peer Gynt's Onion

Carroll, Lewis;  Sylvie and Bruno

Casson, Herbert N.;  History of the Telephone

Cather, Willa;  The Song of the Lark

Cather, Willa Sibert;  Alexander's Bridge

Cather, Willa Sibert;  My Antonia

Charles Alexander Eastman;  Old Indian Days

Charles Dickens;  David Copperfield

Charles Dickens;  The Battle of Life

Charles Dickens;  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Eastman;  Indian Boyhood

Chesnutt, Charles W.;  The House Behind the Cedars

Chesterton, G.K.;  Heretics

Chesterton, G.K.;  Orthodoxy

Chesterton, G.K.;  The Innocence of Father Brown

Chesterton, G.K.;  The Wisdom of Father Brown

Choplin, Kate;  The Awakening & Other Short Stories

Christie, Agatha;  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Churchill, Winston;  The Crossing

Clay, Henry;  Remarks in the House & Senate

Coke, Henry John;  Tracks of a Rolling Stone

Collins, Wilkie;  The Haunted Hotel

Collins, Wilkie;  The Moonstone

Collins, Wilkie;  The Woman in White

Conrad, Joseph;  A Personal Record

Conrad, Joseph;  Almayer's Folly

Conrad, Joseph;  An Outcast of the Islands

Conrad, Joseph;  Falk

Conrad, Joseph;  Heart of Darkness

Conrad, Joseph;  The End of the Tether

Conrad, Joseph;  The Secret Sharer

Conrad, Joseph;  The Shadow Line - a Confession

Conrad, Joseph;  To-Morrow

Conrad, Joseph;  Youth

Coombs, Norman;  The Black Experience in America

Count Leo Tolstoy;  The Forged Coupon

Craft, William and Emily;  Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock;  The Little Lame Prince

Crane, Stephen;  Maggie: a Girl of the Streets

Crane, Stephen;  The Blue Hotel

Crane, Stephen;  The Red Badge of Courage

Darwin, Charles;  The Origin of Species

Davis, Rebecca (Harding);  Frances Waldeaux

Davis, Richard Harding;  Soldiers of Fortune

Davis, Richard Harding;  The King's Jackal

Davis, Richard Harding;  The Reporter Who Made Himself King

Davis, Richard Harding;  The Scarlet Car

De Bury, Richard;  The Love of Books: the Philobiblon of Richard De Bury

De Montaigne, Michel;  Essays

Defoe, Daniel;  A Journal of the Plague Year

Defoe, Daniel;  Giving Alms to Charity

Defoe, Daniel;  Robinson Crusoe

Defoe, Daniel;  The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll

Defoe, Daniel;  The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Descartes, Rene;  Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting

Detroyes, Chretien;  Four Arthurian Romances

Dewey, John;  Democracy and Evolution

Dickens, Charles;  A Child's History of England

Dickens, Charles;  A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles;  A Tale of Two Cities

Dickens, Charles;  American Notes for General Circulation

Dickens, Charles;  Dombey & Sons

Dickens, Charles;  George Silverman's Explanation

Dickens, Charles;  Hard Times

Dickens, Charles;  Holiday Romance

Dickens, Charles;  Hunted Down

Dickens, Charles;  Master Humphrey's Clock

Dickens, Charles;  Pictures from Italy

Dickens, Charles;  Speeches: Literary and Social

Dickens, Charles;  The Chimes

Dickens, Charles;  The Cricket on the Hearth

Dickens, Charles;  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Dickens, Charles;  The Old Curiosity Shop

Dobie, James Frank;  Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest

Doddridge, Phillip, D.D.;  The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul

Dodge, Mary Maples;  Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates

Dornford Yates;  The Brother of Daphne

Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich;  The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich ;  Crime and Punishment

Douglass, Frederick;  My Escape from Slavery

Douglass, Frederick;  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an

Doumic, Rene;  George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings

Doyle, A.C.;  Valley of Fear

Doyle, Arthur Conan;  Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Arthur Conan;  Return of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Arthur Conan;  Tales of Terror and Tales of Mystery

Doyle, Arthur Conan;  The Parasite

Doyle, Arthur Conan;  The Poison Belt

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir;  The Captain of the Polestar

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan;  A Study in Scarlet

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan;  His Last Bow

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan;  Hound of the Baskervilles

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan;  Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan;  Sign of Four

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan;  The Lost World

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan;  The Vital Message

Dreiser, Theodore;  Sister Carrie

Du Bois, W.E.B.;  The Souls of Black Folk, Essays & Sketches

Dumas, Alexandre;  The Man in the Iron Mask

Dunbar, Alice;  The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

Dyer, Frank Lewis;  Thomas Edison

Eastman, Charles;  Indian Heroes & Great Chieftains

Eastman, Charles Alexander;  The Soul of the Indian

Ed by Charles Belmont Davis;  Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding

Davis

Edgar Rice Burroughs;  At the Earth's Core

Edited by Samuel Smiles, Lld.;  James Nasmyth, Engineer, an Autobiography

Edith Wharton;  Bunner Sisters

Edith Wharton;  The Age of Innocence

Edna Ferber;  Buttered Side Down

Edna Ferber;  One Basket

Edwards, Jonathan;  Sinners in Th Ehands of an Angry God

Edwards, Jonathan;  The Excellency of Christ

Eliot, George;  Adam Bede

Eliot, George;  Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life

Eliot, George;  Silas Marner

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell;  Cranford

Ellis, Edward;  Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch

Emerson, Ralph W.;  The Conduct of Life

Emerson, Ralph Waldo;  English Traits

Emerson, Ralph Waldo;  Essays "First Series"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo;  Essays "Second Series"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo;  Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Epictetus;  The Discourses

Eugene Field;  The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

Euripides;  The Cyclops

Fairless, Michael;  The Gathering of Brother Hilarius

Fairless, Michael;  The Grey Brethren

Fairless, Michael;  The Roadmender

Ferber, Edna;  Fanny Herself

Ferber, Edna.;  Emma Mcchesney & Co.

Finney, Charles G.;  Lectures to Professing Christians

Finney, Charles G.;  Letters on Revival Or Revival of Fire

Finney, Charles G.;  Power from on High

Finney, Charles G.;  The Backslider in Heart

Fitzgerald, F. Scott;  This Side of Paradise

Flavel, John;  Life

Flavel, John;  The Fountain of Life

Fox, John;  Hell Fer Sartain, and Other Stories

France, Anatole;  Penguin Island

Frank Norris;  Blix

Franklin, Benjamin;  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Frederic, Harold;  The Market-Place

Freud, Sigmund;  A Young Girl's Diary

Fries, Adelaide;  The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740

Gaboriau, mile;  The Count's Millions

Gaboriau, Emilie;  Baron Trigault's Vengeance

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins;  Herland

Gorki, Maxim;  Creatures That Once Were Men

Gould & Pyle;  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Grahame, Kenneth;  The Golden Age

Grahame, Kenneth;  The Wind in the Willows

Gregory, Eliot;  The Ways of Men

Gregory, Eliot;  Worldly Ways and Byways

Grey, Zane;  The Readheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories

Guthrie, Rev. William;  The Christian's Great Interest

H. G. Wells;  Ann Veronica

H. H. Munro;  The Unbearable Bassington

H.H. Munro;  Beasts and Super-Beasts

Haggard, H. Rider;  Allan Quartermain

Haggard, H. Ryder;  King Solomon's Mines

Haggard, H. Ryder;  She

Haldane, J.B.S.;  Daedalus Or Science and the Future

Hardy, Thomas;  A Pair of Blue Eyes

Hardy, Thomas;  Far from the Madding Crowd

Hardy, Thomas;  Jude the Obscure

Hardy, Thomas;  Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Hardy, Thomas;  The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hardy, Thomas;  The Return of the Native

Hardy, Thomas;  The Woodlanders

Harold, Frederick;  Damnation of Thereon Ware

Hawthorne, Nathaniel;  Mosses from an Old Manse

Hawthorne, Nathaniel;  The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel;  The Snow Image

Hawthorne, Nathaniel;  Twice Told Tales

Headland, Issac Taylor;  Court Life in China

Henry James;  Daisy Miller

Henry James;  The Altar of the Dead

Henry James;  The Aspern Papers

Henry James;  The Death of the Lion

Henry, O.;  The Gift of the Magi

Holmes, Oliver Wendell;  Autocrat of Breakfast Table

Homer;  The Iliad

Homer;  The Odyssey

Honore De Balzac;  The Duchesse De Langeais

Hooker, Richard;  A Sermon by Richard Hooker

Horace Walpole;  The Castle of Otranto

Horatio Alger;  Cast Upon the Breakers

Horatio Alger;  The Cash Boy

Horatio Alger Jr.;  Driven from Home

Hornung, E.W.;  Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Horry, P. and Weems, M.L.;  The Life of General Francis Marion

Houdini, Harry;  The Miracle Mongers

Howells, William Dean;  A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction

Howells, William Dean;  Emile Zola

Howells, William Dean;  Henry James, Jr.

Howells, William Dean;  Rise of Silas Lapham

Howells, William Dean;  The Man of Letters As a Man of Business

Howth, Margret;  A Story of Today

Hubbard, Elbert;  John Jacob Astor

Hugh Lofting;  The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Hugo, Victor;  Les Miserables

Hume, David;  An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Humphrey;  Handbook of American Daguerrotype

Hutsko, John;  Undo

Hyne, Charles;  The Lost Continent

Ignatius;  The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp

Ignatius;  The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

Ignatius;  The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians

Ignatius;  The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians

Ignatius;  The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans

Ignatius;  The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans

Ignatius;  The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians

Irving, H.B.;  A Book of Remarkable Criminals

Irving, Washington;  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Irving, Washington;  The Sketch Book

Isaac Taylor Headland;  The Chinese Boy and Girl

Jack London;  Before Adam

Jack London;  The Call of the Wild

James Whitcomb Riley;  Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol. X

James, Henry;  An International Episode

James, Henry;  Confidence

James, Henry;  Roderick Hudson

James, Henry;  The American

James, Henry;  The Europeans

James, Henry;  The Figure in the Carpet

James, Henry;  Turn of the Screw

Japp, A.H.;  Robert Louis Stevenson

Jefferies, Richard;  The Pageant of Summer

Jerome K. Jerome;  Three Men in a Boat

Jerome, Jerome K.;  Clocks

Jerome, Jerome K.;  Dreams

Jerome, Jerome K.;  Evergreens

Jerome, Jerome K.;  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome, Jerome K.;  On the Stage--and off

Jewett, Sarah Orme;  The Country of the Pointed Firs

John Fox, Jr.;  A Knight of the Cumberland

John Milton;  Aeropagitica

Johnson, Clarence;  The Life of Me

Johnson, Samuel;  Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Joly, Norman F.;  Dawn of Amateur Radio

Jonathan Swift;  Battle of the Books

Joseph A. Munk;  Arizona Sketches

Joseph Conrad;  Amy Foster

Kant, Immanuel;  Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Kay, Ross;  Go Ahead Boys and Racing Motorboat

Kenneth Grahame;  Dream Days

Kennon, J.L. (Eros Urides);  The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants, a Physic

Revelation

Kinglake, Alexander William;  Eothen

Kingsley, Charles;  Glaucus; Or the Wonders of the Shore

Kipling, Rudyard;  Puck of Pook's Hill

Kipling, Rudyard;  Rewards and Fairies

Kipling, Rudyard;  The Jungle Book

La Fayette, Madame De;  Princesse De Cleves

Lamb, Charles and Mary;  Tales from Shakespeare

Lang, Andrew;  Arabian Nights

Lang, Andrew;  The Blue Fairy Book, a Large Collection

Lang, Andrew;  The Yellow Fairy Book

Law, William;  A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Lawrence, D. H.;  Sons and Lovers

Laxer, Mark;  Take Me for a Ride

Le Bon, Gustave;  The Crowd: a Study of the Popular Mind

Le Bon, Gustave;  The Psychology of Revolution

Leroux, Gaston;  Phantom of the Opera

Lewis, Matthew Gregory,;  Ambrosio or The Monk, a Romance

Lewis, Sinclair;  Main Street

Linderman, Frank Bird;  Indian Why Stories

Locke, John;  Second Treatise of Government

London, Jack;  Burning Daylight

London, Jack;  John Barleycorn

London, Jack;  The Red One

London, Jack;  To Build a Fire

Long, Andrew;  The Red Fairy Book

Lucy Maud Montgomery;  Anne's House of Dreams

Luther, Martin;  An Open Letter on Translating

Maag, Carl and Rohrer, Steve;  Project Trinity 1945-1946

Macdonald, George;  At the Back of the North Wind

Macdonald, George;  Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men & Women

Macdonald, George;  The Light Princess

Macdonald, George;  The Princess and Curdie

Macdonald, George;  The Princess and the Goblin

Machen, Arthur;  The Great God Pan

Mackay, Charles;  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and

Mackay, Charles;  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Vol. I

Marquis, Don;  Danny's Own Story

Marquis, Don;  Hermione

Marquis, Don;  The Cruise of the Jasper B

Marthy Cannary Burk;  Life / Adventures / Calamity Jane

Mary Roberts Rinehart;  The Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart;  Where There's a Will

Maughan, W. Somerset;  The Moon and Sixpence

Mayo, Margaret;  Baby Mine

Mayo, Margaret;  Polly of the Circus

Mcgowan, Richard;  The Violists

Mclaughlin, Marie L.;  Myths and Legends of the Sioux

Mcspadden, J. Walker;  Robin Hood

Melville, Herman;  Billy Bud

Merritt, Abraham;  The Moon Pool

Mill, John Stuart;  On Liberty

Milton, John;  Areopagitica

Miriam Michelson;  in the Bishop's Carriage

Mitchell, S. Weir;  The Autobiography of a Quack

Montgomery, Lucy Maud;  Anne of Avonlea

Montgomery, Lucy Maud;  Anne of Green Gables

Montgomery, Lucy Maud;  Anne of the Island

Montgomery, Lucy Maud;  The Golden Road

Moore, Sir Thomas;  Utopia

Morley, Christopher;  The Haunted Bookshop

Morris, William;  A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson

Morris, William;  The Well at the World's End

Muir, John;  Steep Trails

Munro, H.H.;  Reginald

Munro, H.H.;  Reginald in Russia

Murray, John;  The Round Up - a Romance of Arizona

Nesbit, E;  The Wouldbegoods

Nesbit, E.;  The Phoenix and the Carpet

Nesbit, Edith;  Five Children and It

Nesbit, Edith;  The Amulet

Norris, Frank;  Mcteague

Norris, Frank;  Moran of the Lady Letty

Norris, Frank;  The Octopus

Norris, Frank;  The Pit

Olcott, Frances Jenkins;  Good Stories for Great Holidays

Olcott, Louisa May;  Flower Fables

Optic, Oliver;  Poor and Proud Or the Fortunes of Katy Redburn

Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness;  The Scarlet Pimpernel

Orr, Mrs. Sutherland;  Life and Letters of Robert Browning

Paine, Thomas;  Common Sense

Paterson, Andrew Barton;  Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

Phillips, David;  The Conflict

Phillips, David;  The Cost

Phillips, David Graham;  The Fortune Hunter

Phillips, David Graham;  The Grain of Dust

Phillips, David Graham;  The Prince She Paid

Plato;  Charmides, Or Temperance

Plato;  The Crito

Plato;  The Republic

Platt, Rutherford Hayes;  First Book of Adam and Eve

Plutarch;  Fabius

Plutarch;  Plutarch's Lives

Poe, Edgar Allen;  Tell-Tale Heart

Polycarp;  The Epistle of Polycarp

Porter, Eleanor;  Miss Billie Married

Porter, Eleanor (Hodgman);  Just David

Porter, Eleanor H.;  Miss Billie's Decision

Porter, Gene Strattor;  Laddie

Porter, Jean Stratton;  A Girl of the Limberlost

Porter, Jean Stratton;  At the Foot of the Rainbow

Porter, Jean Stratton;  Freckles

Porter, Jean-Stratton;  The Song of the Cardinal, a Love Story

Potter, Beatrix;  The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Prepared by Anthony Adam;  John C. Calhoun's Remarks in the Senate

Prevost, Antoine Francois;  Manon Lescaut

R. M. Ballantyne;  The Coral Island

Raleigh, Walter;  Robert Louis Stevenson

Reu, J.M, Editor;  Confutauio Pontifica

Rev. P. Power, M.R.I.A.;  Life of St. Declan of Ardmore

Rex Stout;  Under the Andes

Rhodius, Apollonius;  The Argonautica

Richard Harding Davis;  Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis;  The Princess Aline

Richard Harding Davis;  Van Bibber's Life

Rinehart, Mary (Roberts), Mrs.;  Bab: a Sub-Deb

Robert Harris;  Stories from the Old Attic

Roberts, Charles G.D.;  The Forge in the Forest

Rohmer, Sax;  The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano;  First Inaugural Address

Rowlandson, Mary;  The Captivity and Restoration

Rowson, Susanna;  Charlotte Temple

Rudder, R.S. (Trans);  The White Knight - Tirant Lo Blance

Rudder, Robert (Trans);  The Adventures of Lazarillo of Tormes

Ruskin, John;  The King of the Golden River

Russell, Bertrand;  Proposed Roads to Freedom, Socialism, Anarchism and

Scheherezade;  Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

Schiller, Friedrick;  History of Thirty Years War

Scott, Sir Walter;  Ivanhoe

Scott, Walter, Sir, Bart.;  Bride of Lammermoor

Shakespeare, William;  A Lover's Complaint

Shakespeare, William;  A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare, William;  A Winters Tale

Shakespeare, William;  All's Well That Ends Well

Shakespeare, William;  Anthony & Cleopatra

Shakespeare, William;  As You Like It

Shakespeare, William;  Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare, William;  Coriolanus

Shakespeare, William;  Cymbeline

Shakespeare, William;  Henry the Eighth

Shakespeare, William;  Henry the Fifth

Shakespeare, William;  Henry the Fourth, Part One

Shakespeare, William;  Henry the Fourth, Part Two

Shakespeare, William;  Henry the Sixth, Part One

Shakespeare, William;  Henry the Sixth, Part Three

Shakespeare, William;  Henry the Sixth, Part Two

Shakespeare, William;  Julius Caesar

Shakespeare, William;  King John

Shakespeare, William;  King Lear

Shakespeare, William;  King Richard II

Shakespeare, William;  King Richard III

Shakespeare, William;  Love's Labor's Lost

Shakespeare, William;  Macbeth

Shakespeare, William;  Measure for Measure

Shakespeare, William;  Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare, William;  Merry Wives of Windsor

Shakespeare, William;  Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare, William;  Othello

Shakespeare, William;  Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Shakespeare, William;  Rape of Lucrece

Shakespeare, William;  Sir Thomas Moore

Shakespeare, William;  Sonnets

Shakespeare, William;  Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare, William;  The History of Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare, William;  The Passionate Pilgrim

Shakespeare, William;  The Phoenix and Turtle

Shakespeare, William;  The Tempest

Shakespeare, William;  The Tragedy of Hamlet

Shakespeare, William;  The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet

Shakespeare, William;  The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare, William;  The Two Noble Kinsmen

Shakespeare, William;  Timon of Athens

Shakespeare, William;  Twelfth Night

Shakespeare, William;  Two Gentlemen of Verona

Shakespeare, William;  Venus and Adonis

Sharp, William;  Life of Robert Browning

Shaw, Anna Howard, D.D., M.D.;  The Story of a Pioneer

Sheldon, Charles M.;  Howard Chase, Red Hill, Kansas

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft;  Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus

Simms, W. Gilmore;  The Life of Francis Marion

Sinclair, Bertha (Muzzy), Mrs;  Jean of the Lazy A

Sinclair, Upton;  The Jungle

Smiles, Samuel;  Men of Invention and Industry

Smiles, Samuel, Lld.;  Jasmine

Smith, F. Hopkinson;  Tom Grogan

Snelling, Henry H.;  History and Practice of the Art of Photography

Sousa, John Phillip;  The Fifth String

Spooner, Lysander;  No Treason

Sprague, Ruth;  Wild Justice

St. Augustine;  On Christian Doctrine in Four Books

St. John of Damascus;  Barlaam and Ioasaph

Steedman, Amy;  Knights of Art

Stefnsson, Jn;  The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald

Stendhal;  La Duchesse De Palliano

Stendhal;  L'Abesse De Castro

Stendhal;  Le Rouge Et Le Noir

Stendhal;  Les Cenci

Stendhal;  Vittoria Accoramboni

Stephens, Kate;  American Thumb-Prints

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  A Footnote to History

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Across the Plains and Other Stories

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  An Inland Voyage

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  An Island Night's Entertainment

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Catriona

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Edinburgh Picturesque Notes

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Essays in the Art of Writing

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Fables

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Familiar Studies of Men & Books

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Father Damien

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Kidnapped

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Lay Morals

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Memories and Portraits

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Merry Men

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  New Arabian Nights

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Prayers Written at Vailima and a Lowden Sabbath

Morn

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Prince Otto, a Romance

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Records of a Family of Engineers

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  St. Ives

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Tales and Fantasies

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  The Black Arrow

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume I

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume II

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  The Master of Ballantrae

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  The Silverado Squatters

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  The South Seas

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Treasure Island

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Valima Letters

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Virginigus Puerisque and Other Papers

Stevenson, Robert Louis;  Weir of Hermiston

Stockton, Frank;  The Magic Egg and Other Stories

Stockton, Frank R.;  The Great War Syndicate

Stockton, Frank Richard;  The Lady, Or the Tiger?

Stoker, Bram;  Dracula

Stoker, Bram;  Dracula's Guest

Stowe, Harriet Beecher;  Uncle Tom's Cabin

Stratton-Porter, Gene;  The Harvester

Sun-Tzu;  Art of War

Swift, Jonathan;  Gulliver's Travels

Talbot, Frederick A.;  Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War

Tarkington, Booth;  Penrod

Tarkington, Booth;  The Flirt

Thackeray, William Make;  Vanity Fair

Thomas Nelson Page;  The Burial of the Guns

Thoreau, Henry David;  On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Thoreau, Henry David;  Walden

Tolstoy, Ilya;  Reminiscences of Tolstoy

Tolstoy, Leo;  Anna Karenina

Tolstoy, Leo;  The Kreutzer Sonata

Trollope, Anthony;  Hunting Sketches

Trollope, Anthony;  The Warden

Tuckwell, W[Illiam];  Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake

Twain, Mark;  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Twain, Mark;  A Ghost Story

Twain, Mark;  A Tramp Abroad

Twain, Mark;  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain, Mark;  Life on the Mississippi

Twain, Mark;  Niagra

Twain, Mark;  Political Economy

Twain, Mark;  The $30,000 Bequest

Twain, Mark;  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Twain, Mark;  The Great Revolution in Pitcairn

Twain, Mark;  The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Twain, Mark;  Tom Sawyer Detective

Twain, Mark;  What Is Man? and Other Essays

Tyler, Royall;  The Contrast

Tymon, Frank;  The Tarn of Eternity

Unknown;  Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga

US Army - Manhattan Engineers;  The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and

Nagasaki

Van Dyke, Henry;  The Mansion

Veblen, Thorsten;  The Theory of the Leisure Class

Verne, Jules;  Around the World in 80 Days

Verne, Jules;  De La Terre a La Lune

Verne, Jules;  Le Tour Du Monde En Quatre-Vingts Jours

Voltaire;  Candide

W. Somerset Maugham;  of Human Bondage

Washington, Booker T.;  Up from Slavery

Webster, Jean;  Daddy-Long-Legs

Webster, Jean;  Dear Enemy

Wells, H.G.;  Dr. Moreau

Wells, H.G.;  The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

Wells, H.G.;  The Time Machine

Wells, H.G.;  Tono Bungay

Whale, George.;  British Airships, Past/Present/Future

Wharton, Edith;  House of Mirth

Wharton, Edith;  Summer

Wharton, Edith;  The Bunner Sisters

Wharton, Edith;  The Reef

Wharton, Edith;  The Touchstone

White, Ellen G.;  Patriarchs and Prophets

White, Ellen G.;  Prophets and Kings

White, Ellen G.;  The Desire of Ages

White, Stewart Edward;  Arizona Nights

White, Stewart Edward;  The Mountains

Wiggin, Kate Douglas;  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Wilde, Oscar;  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories

Wilde, Oscar;  Picture of Dorian Gray

William Morris;  Child Christopher

Wilson, Harriet E.;  Our Nig

Wm Wells Brown;  Clotelle Or the Colored Heroine

Wollstonecraft, Mary;  Maria Or the Wrongs of Woman

Woolf, Virgina;  The Voyage Out

Wright, Harold Bell;  The Uncrowned King

Wu, T'ing-Fang;  America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat

Young, Martha;  Somebody's Little Girl

Zane Grey;  Desert Gold

Zitkala-Sa.;  Old Indian Legends

An Address

Buddha, the Gospel

Buddha, the Word

Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible

Literary Ethics

Man the Reformer

Oath and Law of Hippocrates

Scientific Secrets

Second Clement

Stories from Everybody's Magazine

The American Scholar

The Code of Hammurabi

The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Consolation of the Sick

The Critias

The Epistle of Barnabas

The Epistle of Diognetus

The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

The Letter of the Smyrnaeans or the Martyrdom of

The Second Story of Meno

The Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles by the 12

Political and Legal Writings:

The Constitution of the United States of America

English Bill of Rights

Declaration of Independence

The Monroe Doctrine

The Federalist Papers

Report of a Constitution

Constitution of North Carolina

Massachusetts Bill of Rights

Virginia or Randolph Plan

Patterson or New Jersey Plan

Letters of a Federal Farmer

Judiciary Act of 1789

Mayflower Compact

Washington's Farewell Address

The Magna Carta

Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

Constitution of Pennsylvania

Constitution of New York

Constitution of Rhode Island

Constitution of New Hampshire

Constitution of Connecticut

Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty

Declaration and Resolves

      of the First Continental Congress

Objections to the Federal   Constitution

Washington's First Inaugural Address

Constitution of Georgia

Albany Plan of Union

Virginia Bill of Rights

Resolution for Independence

The Petition of Right

Penn's Plan of Union

Common Sense

Constitution of Virginia

Constitution of New Jersey

Constitution of Maryland

Articles of Confederation

Constitution of Massachusetts

Constitution of Vermont

Constitution of South Carolina

Hamilton's Plan of Union

Constitution of Delaware

All Presidential Inagural Addresses to George W. Bush

Law Dictionary



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: urgent: humanities computing in Italy
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:51:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 137 (137)


Dear colleagues:

Action in support of humanities computing in Italy is urgently needed.

You may be aware that for some time now various individuals in Italy have

been working toward establishing our field in academic programmes at the

university level. The universities of Pisa, Venice, Rome and several others

have been preparing to launch next October two programmes in humanities

computing: a 'laurea breve' (3-year undergraduate degree) and a 'laurea

specialistica' (a sort of Masters). Unfortunately these efforts are now

threatened by the government. The Italian Minister of Education and

Research, Letizia Moratti, in the last three or four months has repeatedly

attacked the new Italian degrees in 'Informatica Umanistica' solely on

political grounds. (It seems that the Berlusconi government is intent on

dismantling changes made to the university system during previous

administrations; Informatica Umanistica is one of the new fields whose

recognition dates to those changes.) To add to the problem, major Italian

newspapers have published articles reporting uncritically the Minister's

thoughts.

I have sent the Minister a letter of my own and would invite you to do the

same. Further information on the problem, a copy of a petition to Ms

Letizia Moratti, the current Italian Minister of Education and Research,

and instructions on how to add your name to the petition are available at

<<a href="http://www.unitus.it/lingue/docenti/informatica/appello/index_e.htm">http://www.unitus.it/lingue/docenti/informatica/appello/index_e.htm</a>>

(English version, with a link to the Italian).

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Malvina Nissim <malvi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: ESSLLI Student Session - Call for Participation
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 07:24:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 138 (138)


                    ESSLLI-2002 STUDENT SESSION

                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                  August 5-16 2002, Trento, Italy

          www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~malvi/esslli02

The 7th ESSLLI Student Session will be held in Trento, Italy, as part

of the 14th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information,

from August 5-16.

The programme is available at

      <a href="http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~malvi/esslli02/programme/">http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~malvi/esslli02/programme/</a>

All those interested are invited to register for the Summer School

at the ESSLLI main site:

      <a href="http://www.esslli2002.it">http://www.esslli2002.it</a>

For further information:

      Malvina Nissim (chair)

      malvi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

      0044 131 650 4630 (tel)

      0044 131 650 6626 (fax)



From: Sascha Ossowski <sossowski@escet.urjc.es>
Subject: SAC 2003 Coordination Track: CfP&R
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 07:25:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 139 (139)


                      CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES

                      ============================

               (Apologies if you receive multiple copies)

            18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003)

     Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications

                <a href="http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac2003/">http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac2003/</a>

                            March 9-12, 2003

                        Melbourne, Florida, USA

SAC 2003

~~~~~~~~

Over the past seventeen 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 2003 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on

Applied Computing (SIGAPP)  and is presented in cooperation with other

ACM Special Interest Groups.  SAC 2003 is hosted  by the Department of

Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology.

[material deleted]

Track Home Page

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Further information can be found at the special track home page:

                  <a href="http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac03/">http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac03/</a>

Important Dates

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     * September 6, 2002: Paper Submission

     * October  18, 2002: Author Notification

     * November  8, 2002: Camera-Ready Copy



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: non-verbal thought
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 07:33:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 140 (140)


In his important and fascinating study, "The Mind's Eye: Nonverbal Thought

in Technology" (Science 197, no. 4306, 26 August 1977, pp. 827-36), Eugene

S Ferguson notes that as soon as printed books superceded ms codices, large

numbers of identical illustrations of mechanical devices began to be

reproduced. As a result the circle of technologists whose minds could be

engaged by the particular problems or stimulated by the particular ideas

these reliable illustrations expressed was indefinitely enlarged. Francis

Bacon, John Evelyn and others called for a "natural history of trades" to

make public the information that had long been available only in workshops.

Bacon in addition advocated a systematic study of the ingenious practices

in the various trades; his programme was on the agenda of the French

Academie almost as soon as it was founded. Ferguson argues that more

important to Renaissance engineers than scientific knowledge were the

inventions of the graphic arts that lent system and order to the materials

of nonverbal thought. Mechanical models, through the agency of printing,

could transmit such tacit knowledge widely.

Creative thought of the designers of our technological world, Ferguson

says, is largely nonverbal; its language is an object or picture or a

visual image in the mind. This intellectual component of technology, which

is nonliterary and nonscientific, has been generally unnoticed, he argues,

because its origins lie in art and not in science. Art was the guiding

discipline of Renaissance engineering. He traces this tradition into the 19C.

The situation now is, of course, quite different. The verbally tacit

knowledge of our technology isn't primarily of the sort that widespread

distribution of graphical images would particularly affect -- though the

Web has indefinitely expanded our ability to distribute accurate images.

Would our equivalent to the mechanical subassembly be coherent chunks of

code? Should we be looking to the digital library as the means for

publishing and distributing this sort of tacit knowledge?

Comments?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Robin Cover <robin@isogen.com>
Subject: Request for DRM Requirements
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 06:40:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 141 (141)


An OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee [1] has been

established to "define the industry standard for a rights

language" that would govern many application domains,

including (potentially) digital libraries and archive

projects.  The TC has is using an XrML markup language

specification from ContentGuard (Xerox and Microsoft)

as the basis for defining this common standard.

Requirements are now being collected as input to the

standard's design. A request is hereby made for input

from the academic community, (digital) libraries,

museums, archive centers [etc], including persons

affiliated with ALA or RLG.  The relevant OASIS

subcommittee will collect requirements through

August 7, 2002.

Current legislative proposals for incorporating

DRM technology and usage policies into computer

hardware, operating system software, and applications

level software raise the stakes for the humanities

community, especially as traditional notions of fair

use are being challenged as too burdensome to

implement in DRM systems.  The Creative Commons

Project [2] exemplifies the attempt of one group

to counter this trend, but the effects of a

government-mandated universal DRM technology are

of concern to a growing number of technologists [3].

Any interested party having access to DRM specifications

or implementations, or otherwise motivated to help

in the submission of 'rights management' requirements for

humanities computing applications is invited to send email

expressing this interest.

Robin Cover

robin@isogen.com

[1] <a href="http://xml.coverpages.org/oasisRightsLanguage.html">http://xml.coverpages.org/oasisRightsLanguage.html</a>

[2] <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org/">http://www.creativecommons.org/</a>

[3] <a href="http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html">http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html</a>



From: "Robert Batusek" <xbatusek@informatics.muni.cz>
Subject: TSD 2002 - Call for Demonstrations
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:47:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 142 (142)


Apologies for multiple copies of this document

*********************************************************

   TSD 2002 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARTICIPATION

*********************************************************

Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

(TSD 2002)

Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002

<<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</a>><a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</a>

[material deleted]

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between

researchers in both spoken and written language processing

from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues.

Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in

their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

[material deleted]



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Sometime subsequent to January and before the next January
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:42:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 143 (143)


Willard,

Towards the end of January, in describing Susan Hockey's presentation of

possible applications of different tag sets, I promised a subsequent post

in regards to  headers. See:

<a href="http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0456.html">http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0456.html</a>

In her contribution to _The Literary Text in the Digital Age_ Susan Hockey

astutely invites us to entertain the construction of a header, the place

for holding metadata, only after having moved through a series of what may

be called abstrations from the artefact to be encoded (she moves from

transcription to analytic & interpretative information via linking,

segmentation & alignment). She, I believe, points the way to more markup

and is considerate of the burdens this might impose upon an encoder or a

team of encoders. She writes:

<cite>

For many features in the header, one chooses between describing the

information inprose text and using a subset of elements that gives more

granularity to the information. The later format is more suitable for

computer processing, but users so far tended to prefer the prose format,

as it is simpler for them. Software to encourage the use of non prose

format would be helpful.

</cite>

In the years since the publication of _The Literary Text in the Digital

Age_, I do recall the becoming availible of a WWW interface to a form

which helps encoders generate TEI headers. I wonder however if the state

of affairs described by Susan Hockey persits. I wonder if it is not just

software which in essence would be a prompter that is necessary but an

actual human reviewer akin to a librarian.

I'm not suggesting a tool versus human contact dichotomy. Without the

technology there can be no discourse about its appropriate appropriation.

The machine as textbook is connected in the networked universe to a

machine as communications device putting users as co-explorers in touch

with each other and with more experienced explorers.

The fundamental question may be one of the social determination of

acceptable levels of granularity. One can think of search engine displays

of keywords in context as mitigating the need for granularity. But

searching is not the only type of processing. How many encoders have asked

themselves what they want done with the texts they encode? How many have

answered that all they want is an ability to represent the texts where

"representation" is taken in its restricted sense of "render"?

Granularity it seems stems from a desire to map. Mapping deals in parts.

To anatomize may be an old word for encode. And both, I wonder, forms of

abstraction. See again:

<a href="http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0456.html">http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0456.html</a>


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.092 detachment from attachments
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:43:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 144 (144)


What cost transparency, Francois? The complete loss of documents of

record that are increasingly sent by email attachment in a plethora of

forms that cannot be managed or permanently retained in digital form by

the recepients without investment in software and personnel. If W3C

would come up with two or three classes of email of increasing formality

and security so that performative speech acts could be transmitted

according to a universal email standard, this problem could be

eliminated. RFC822 (and RFC2822) forces people to enact serious speech

acts in attachments because they are unwilling to enact them within the

standard (which is a social problem, but not one that will go away soon

enough).

Pat Galloway

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

University of Texas-Austin



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@mivu.org>
Subject: July/August Issue of The Technology Source
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:41:21 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 145 (145)


Below is a description of the July/August 2002 issue of The Technology

Source, a free, refereed e-journal published by the Michigan Virtual

University as a service to the educational community at

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=165">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=165</a>

Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using

information technology tools more effectively in their work.

As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as

they face the challenge of using information technology tools in teaching

and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for

manuscripts at <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=call">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=call</a> and send me a note

if you would like to contribute such an article.

Many thanks.

Jim


--
James L. Morrison
Editor-in-Chief
The Technology Source
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org">http://ts.mivu.org</a>
Home Page: <a href="http://horizon.unc.edu">http://horizon.unc.edu</a>
IN THIS ISSUE:
In an engaging interview with editor James Morrison, David G. Brown
discusses current faculty development initiatives at Wake Forest
University, and addresses how such initiatives can be implemented to
encourage innovation by faculty members. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=997">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=997</a>
Linda P. Domanski describes her participation in Westminster College's
Teaching with Technology Made Simple (TWTMS) program, a traveling workshop
designed promote classroom application of information technology for K-12
teachers. See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=918">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=918</a>
In a case study of her work with an online music appreciation course, Mary
Cyr illustrates how distance education offers a vehicle for active,
collaborative learning, as well as a flexible medium for meeting the
schedule demands of its participants. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=975">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=975</a>
How can an online format be adopted for job training courses that require
"hands-on" apprenticeship in non-virtual settings? Lance Crocker found an
ideal way of addressing this challenge in his course in hotel and
restaurant management, and helped pave the way for similar approaches in
other professional programs in his institution. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=930">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=930</a>
John R. McBride outlines his combined use of a course management system
and Archipelago CD-ROM resources in a general chemistry course--a strategy
that not only allowed for a wide range of options in delivering content,
but also became successfully adopted for both the online and in-class
versions of the course. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=932">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=932</a>
Drawing upon her teaching experiences, Susan Hussein discusses three ways
in which using a course management system can respond to recurrent
challenges in teaching and learning: monitoring student progress,
addressing common obstacles to learning, and providing prompt, supportive
feedback to course exercises. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=931">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=931</a>
Janna Siegel Robertson gives an overview of current federal guidelines
regarding Web site accessibility for individuals with disabilities. While
they only apply to federal agencies, these guidelines offer a
comprehensive account of how Web authors can adjust their design to
accommodate readers who use assistive devices. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=948">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=948</a>
In a course entitled Thinking About Politics, Kenneth A.S.-S. Tan utilized
Storyspace, a hypertext writing tool, to generate a more dynamic
interaction between his students and the interlinked texts of the course.
Tan discusses the advantages of this valuable tool, and highlights the
particular features that made the difference in his course. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=965">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=965</a>
Stephen Downes, in his Spotlight Site review, introduces readers to
Britain's e-Learning Centre--a site that offers a broad spectrum of
e-learning resources and research suited for experts and novices alike.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1028">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1028</a>
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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.101 non-verbal thought
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:46:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 146 (146)


Willard,

How does one graph slippage? I ask because your 101 message posted Jun 29

moves from discussing non-verbal thought through to knowledge and its

representations.

                |

                |

                \

                \

I reread the posting to try and determine the point at which the

discourse deflects itself and the point which could be mapped onto the

bend in an elbow representation. This what I found... the mention of

"natural history" builds upon the enlarging circle image (*supply graphic

at will*).
[deleted quotation]
The concern is spatial: a multiplication of the sites of engagement. The

story told is one of greater admission to the scenes of knowledge

exchange and production. The technologically-impelled history meets social

condidtions (and the historiographic crux of which determines which).
[deleted quotation]
How did "tacit knowldege" sneek in here? Is it by way of a proposed

synonymity with "nonverbal thought"? Nonverbal thought can be expressed

and indeed that is the point made by the invocation of the development of

imaging arts. Tacit knowledge is in a sense held in reserve. It can be

converted to explicit knowledge: it is available to expression (at a

certain cost).

The bend, the hinge, the articulate turn, perhaps explains the ambivalence

of the penultimate paragraph:
[deleted quotation]
Alongside the improvements in image reproduction there was an improvement

in the postal system. Hence the images did not stand alone, they could be

referenced and discussed. Hence the key and single word of the last

paragraph:
[deleted quotation]
The images printed on a rectangular surface allowed for a grid to be

imaginatively imposed upon illustrations and diagrams. One can imagine the

exchange of letters that indicate upper left quadrant ... Likewise the

means for knowledge exchange and production rely less on distinctions

between verbal and non-verbal (or auditory and visual in some discussions)

but on the development of a shared means of orienting attention. The

shared means is sometimes a feature of tacit knowledge among experts (one

can think of acronyms and short forms in biblio references that are never

expanded in an artefact at hand; one can think of all the technical

symbols that dot a survey map or a blueprint). The tacity of shared means

fails when novices engage with complex artefacts or even simple artefacts.

One could be clever and suggest that thinking out of the box depends upon

what you put into it. However it might be a tad more accurate to stipulate

a mindfulness of who and when.

An image in the hands of illiterate persons -- illiterate in the sense of

not being able to "parse" the image -- is no more capable of circulating

in the social imaginary than an image without story along the songlines.


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.102 call for input on digital rights management
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:44:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 147 (147)


Greetings,

I deeply appreciate Robin Cover's post to the list requesting DRM

requirements and would urge the academic community to response

appropriately, even given the rather short deadline for requirements (7

August 2002).

In terms of deciding to devote summer hours to this task, please consider

the membership of this TC:

Hari Reddy, Chairperson ContentGuard

Carlisle Adams, Entrust

Bob Atkinson, Microsoft

Thomas DeMartini, ContentGuard

John Erickson, H.P.

Brad Gandee, Secretary ContentGuard

Bob Glushko, CommerceOne

Thomas Hardjono, Verisign

Hal Lockhart, Entegrity

M. Paramasivam, Microsoft

David Parrott, Reuters

Harry Piccariello, ContentGuard

Peter Schirling, IBM

Xin Wang, ContentGuard

While I am sure all the members of the TC will try to develop a standard

that represents the interests of everyone affected by the DRM standard, I

fail to see any representation of the academic, library or other

communities. That is not to imply any fault on the part of the TC or OASIS,

as a community academics have tended to absent themselves from such

discussions.

The interests of the academic community in issues such as "fair use" and

allowing free (or at least non-commercial) use of texts and research will

not be well served by a standard that protects the commercial rights in the

"Lion King" and similar artifacts. Our requirements are different and any

standard for DRM should not attempt a one size fits all solution. I am sure

that the TC would welcome academic input that would lead to a more nuanced

standard that meets a wide range of needs, one of the hallmarks of a

successful standard.

Note that a DRM standard will eventually find its way into

hardware/software and it will be too late to complain at that point that it

does not meet the needs of the academic community.

Please forward Robin's note (and my comments if you think appropriate) to

anyone you know who is interested in "fair use" or more generally access to

academic materials, since a DRM standard will deeply affect both issues.

Patrick
[deleted quotation]

--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu



From: Massimiliano Bampi <bampi@itc.it>
Subject: Old High German corpus
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 06:40:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 148 (148)


Hi everybody,

I'm currently attending a PhD programme (Germanic Philology and

Linguistics) at the University of Siena and I'm looking for an Old High

German corpus.

Can anybody help me?

Best regards

Massimiliano Bampi (Italy)



From: "Kurt Gaertner" <gaertnek@mailer.uni-marburg.de>
Subject: Re: 16.106 Old High German corpus?
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 07:22:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 149 (149)


The TITUS-project holds a coprus of OHG texts, see

<a href="http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/texte2.htm#ahd">http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/texte2.htm#ahd</a>
[deleted quotation]
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Prof.Dr. Kurt Gaertner            <gaertnek@mailer.uni-marburg.de>

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: M.Stolz-Hladky@unibas.ch
Subject: Re: 16.106 Old High German corpus?
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 07:23:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 150 (150)


Dear Massimiliano,

with such questions it is best to join and address the mailing list "Das

deutschsprachige Mittelalter":

<a href="http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/aedph/mediaevistik.htm">http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/aedph/mediaevistik.htm</a>

But you should specify your question. What exactly do you need? An

anthology of Old High German texts?

See the following:

Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, 1994 (hg. v. Wilhelm Braune, 17. Auflage

bearbeitet v. Ernst A. Ebbinghaus), Tbingen, M. Niemeyer

Althochdeutsche Literatur. Eine Textauswahl mit bertragungen, 1998

(hg. v. Horst Dieter Schlosser), Berlin, E. Schmidt

There is also an older (and better) edition of Schlosser's anthology, which

unfortunately is not available any more:

Althochdeutsche Literatur. [...], hrsg., bers. u. m. Anmerkungen versehen

v. Horst Dieter Schlosser, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1970

und fter (Fischer Taschenbuch 6455)

There are also editions and anthologies with translations (of different

quality), published by Ph. Reclam, Stuttgart.

Best wishes

Michael Stolz



From: "Fay Sudweeks" <sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: CATaC Conference
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 07:21:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 151 (151)


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

International Conference on

CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02)

12-15 July 2002, University of Montral, Quebec, Canada

Conference theme:

The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology

Website: www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/

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

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).

PROGRAM

An exciting program has been arranged, including presenters from Australia,

Canada, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Philippines, Saudi Arabia,

South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, UK and USA. See the conference

website for paper details. Ample time is allowed for open discussions at the

end of each session. The conference concludes with a panel discussion. The

panel is led by session discussants and integrates the themes of the

conference, focusing on future research directions in the converging areas

of culture, technology and communication.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Susan Herring (Associate Professor of Information Science, Adjunct Associate

Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University) will be speaking on "The

language of the Internet: English dominance or heteroglossia".

INVITED SPEAKER

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LOCAL CHAIR

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CONFERENCE DINNER

The conference dinner will be held on Sunday 14 July at Fairmont Le Chteau

Montebello, a stunning red cedar log chteau famed for its rugged luxury in

beautiful surroundings. Dinner and bus transport to Montebello are included

in the registration fee. Montebello is approximately a one-and-a-half hour

drive from Montreal.

REGISTRATION

The conference registration fee of USD340 includes all technical sessions,

conference dinner and transport, reception, proceedings, satchels,

breakfasts, lunches, morning and afternoon coffees, panel and closing

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CONTACTS

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Drury University

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Fay Sudweeks

Senior Lecturer

School of Information Technology

Murdoch University

Murdoch WA 6150 Australia

Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941

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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: publication & recognition of software & systems
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 08:17:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 152 (152)


The historian of technology Michael S Mahoney (Princeton) notes in "Issues

in the history of computing" a number of historiographical problems that

fields like ours present. Among these is the difficulty of recovering what

we might roughly call the intellectual content of their primary artifacts

-- the difficulty of reading them, if you will. In "We Would Know What They

Thought When They Did It", R. W. Hamming argues that for such artifactual

fields of work the traditional historian's focus on evidence produces a

systematically biased result. We can demonstrate this, he says, because

some of us are old enough to remember that for which there is no other

evidence than unrecorded anecdote or even an inchoate sense that something

important happened at a particular time. (Writing the history of something

recent thus has rather interesting problems of its own.) Furthermore, he

argues, those of us in practically orientated fields want a different sort

of history, and thus his title. He calls for the participants, those who

are making the history of computing now, to write things down.

My question is somewhat different though closely related. In building a new

academic field one has to establish it in the eyes of others as academic.

In the humanities this is done largely through refereed publication, as we

all know. Since for humanities computing a large part of the intellectual

work is, as in computer science, manifested in crafted objects, how do we

publish these objects such that their intellectual value may be judged? Of

course one can write *about* them in ordinary academic prose, but clearly

that is not good enough: any writings about will to some degree suffer from

reductive translation. Since Michael Polanyi's work on tacit knowledge

(brought into mainstream history & philosophy of science by Thomas Kuhn),

we have known better than to think that (as it were) the mind of an

artifact can be separated from its body.

My question is an immediately practical one: how do we behave in a

recognizably and responsibly academic way with respect to our intellectual

goods?

Yours,

WM

Works referenced.

Hamming, R. W. 1980. "We Would Know What They Thought When They Did It". In

A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century: A Collection of Essays.

Ed. N. Metropolis, J. Howlett and Gian-Carlo Rota. New York: Academic

Press. 3-9.

Kuhn, Thomas S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd edn.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (see p. 43).

Mahoney, Michael S. 1996. "Issues in the History of Computing". In History

of Programming Languages II. Ed. Thomas J. Bergin and Rick G. Gibson. New

York: ACM Press. 772-81. <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html">http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html</a>

(viewed 3/7/02).

Polanyi, M.1958. Personal Knowledge: Toward a Post-Critical Philosophy.

London: Routledge.

-----. 1966. The Tacit Dimension. New York: Doubleday and Company.

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: humanities computing in Italy
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 06:42:21 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 153 (153)


[The following is sent on behalf of Domenico Fiormonte,

<d.fiormonte@mclink.it>. --WM]

In a private message sent to several foreign colleagues, computing

humanists, regarding the situation of HC in Italy, I gave some political

background that reflected - inevitably - my personal thoughts.

These thoughts of course do not represent the 123 signatoires of the

document sent out to our Minister of Education (see

<a href="http://www.unitus.it/lingue/docenti/informatica/appello/">http://www.unitus.it/lingue/docenti/informatica/appello/</a>).

Consequently, I owe my apologies to all, and especially to Willard McCarty,

who have generously supported our initiative.

Thanks again to all the people who have signed the online document.

If interested in further developments (including the Minister's answer, if

any), please check regularly the web site mentioned above.

Bests

Domenico Fiormonte

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Carl Vogel <vogel@cs.tcd.ie>
Subject: Postgraduate funding, Trinity College, University of Dublin
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 07:38:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 154 (154)


Ph.D. Research Funding (2 Positions)

(Possible Part-Time Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship)

The Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, University of

Dublin is pleased to announce the availability of two Broad Curriculum

Teaching Fellowships to support high quality research at the

postgraduate level and high quality teaching at the undergraduate

level.

Remit:

      The successful Teaching Fellows will be expected to apply for

      admission as a Ph.D. student with the Department of Computer

      Science.  Computational linguists are encouraged to apply;

      however, the area of research is not restricted.  The research

      area is open subject to the availability of suitable research

      supervision in the candidate's intended research area.  The

      successful candidates will be expected to integrate fully into the

      local research community.

      The Teaching Fellows will each provide up to six hours of teaching

      each week of the academic year in Broad Curriculum modules for

      computer science students on a range of four year honors degrees

      offered by the department:

            BA (Mod) in Computer Science, Linguistics and a Language

            BA (Mod) in Computer Science

            BA (Mod) in Information and Communication Technology

            BAI (Degree in Engineering)

      Teaching will be targeted for second year students intending to

      spend the third year of study in a partner university abroad, and

      courses will be conducted through French or German.  The teaching

      will be arranged into small groups, with each students receiving

      three contact hours each week -- two hours per week on data

      structures and algorithms, and one hour per week on cultural

      issues (including comparative academic systems).

Qualifications:

      Candidates:

      "Those eligible to receive Postgraduate Teaching Studentships will

      be senior postgraduate research students registered in Trinity

      College with some prior experience in teaching undergraduates"

      The positions are open to those who have not yet taken up postgraduate

      positions in Trinity College; see below.

      Necessary qualifications include:

      - a strong undergraduate degree result in an appropriate area from

      a recognized third level institution;

      - capacity to complete a Ph.D. by research (through English);

      - qualification to teach the intended content;

      - high proficiency (oral and written) in French or German (native

      speakers are strongly encouraged to apply).

Tenure and Remuneration:

      The award period is for a maximum of three years.

      The value of the Postgraduate Teaching Studentship will be a

      stipend of 19,000 euro per annum, rising by 1,000 euro per annum

      in each subsequent year, plus fee remission at the level of EU

      postgraduate student rate.

      The value of (part-time) Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowships (if

      applicable) will be remuneration at the rate of 16,967 euro per

      annum, rising by 894 euro per annum, and will be subject to income

      tax and PRSI.

      Candidates for postgraduate study will be preferred over

      post-doctoral candidates.  Postgraduate teaching fellowships are

      not subject to tax in Ireland.

      The successful candidates must be able to take up the position on

      October 1, 2002.

Application Process:

      Candidates who are not already registered as postgraduate students

      at Trinity College should submit an application for admission as a

      Ph.D. student by research (see

      <a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/index.html">http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/index.html</a>).

      To apply for the Teaching Fellowships, candidates should submit

      the following:

      1) A letter of introduction and application inclusive of a

      personal  statement demonstrating qualification for the position;

      2) A research proposal;

      3) A CV;

      4) Three letters of recommendation composed with reference to the

      terms and qualifications associated with the positions, along with

      contact details for the three referees;

      5) Transcripts of past academic experience;

      6) Evidence of proficiency in English and in French or German;

      7) Copies of any other supporting materials the candidate wishes

      to be considered.

      Materials should be posted to:

      Carl Vogel

      Computational Linguistics Lab

      Trinity College

      University of Dublin

      Dublin 2

      Ireland

      facsimile: 353 1 677 2204

      Informal inquiries can be made by email to Carl Vogel at

      vogel@tcd.ie; please send only plain text messages without

      attachments.

Relevant Timeline Details:

      Deadline for receipt of applications*:    Monday, July 22, 2002

      Shortlisting:                             Monday, July 28, 2002

      Interviews**:                             Friday, August 2, 2002

      Offers made:                              Friday, August 9, 2002

      Positions begin:                          Tuesday, October 1, 2002

      *Application in advance of the deadline is warmly welcomed.

      **Interviews may be conducted by telephone, email or in person, as

      practicality permits with respect to individual shortlisted

      candidates.

Additional Information on the Web:

      Trinity College's Web Pages:

            <a href="http://www.tcd.ie/">http://www.tcd.ie/</a>

      Postgraduate Studies:

            <a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/index.html">http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/index.html</a>

      Department of Computer Science:

            <a href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/</a>

      Computational Linguistics Group:

            <a href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg/">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg/</a>

      All Departmental Research Groups:

            <a href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/</a>



From: Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@dmu.ac.uk>
Subject: De Montfort Bursaries
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 07:38:57 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 155 (155)


Dear friends, acquaintances and supporters of the Centre for Technology and

the Arts

De Montfort University is to award some fifty bursaries for postgraduate,

doctoral study.  These provide for payment of all fees and offer a

satisfactory level of living support over three years.  In the past, the CTA

and the Canterbury Tales Project has had three students under this scheme:

one has now finished her doctorate (Orietta Da Rold); another is close to

completion (Barbara Bordalejo) and the third is about halfway through (Jacob

Thaisen).  We are able also to offer the chance to work part time on CTA

editorial projects (such as the Canterbury Tales and also the Commedia

projects).

This bursary offers the chance to work with a leading research group, in a

range of ground-breaking projects.  Please bring this opportunity to the

attention of any students you think might profit from it!

best wishes

Peter Robinson

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Doctoral Bursaries Summer 2002

In the 2001 RAE the Faculty of Humanities was rated as the leading East

Midlands university for Arts and Humanities research. The Faculty combines

the strengths of traditional scholarship with modern applied research in new

technologies and in innovative research fields such as sports history,

electronic editing, digital composition and cultural policy. There are two

pioneering research centres: the Centre for Technology in the Arts and the

International Centre for Sports History and Culture, and in the last three

years the Faculty has won research grants worth over 1.5 million.

The Faculty has a thriving postgraduate research culture, with an

outstanding range of facilities, including a dedicated graduate centre. Many

of our recent PhD graduates have gone on to work in academia, and have

continued their research at the postdoctoral level. We invite applications

for projects in English, Media, History (including Sporting History), Dance,

Theatre and Music Technology. All projects will be supervised by senior

staff with international reputations who also possess a wealth of

supervisory experience. As part of the PhD training all PhD students in the

Faculty will undertake a specific Humanities research training course to

ensure that they are fully equipped to successfully complete their studies.

To be eligible to apply for one of the bursaries, students must meet the

following requirements:

MPhil or MPhil with PhD transfer option:

Applicants normally have at least a good second-class honours degree from a

British university or equivalent academic or professional qualifications.

International qualifications may also be acceptable.

PhD

In addition to the above, PhD applicants normally have a UK masters degree

or equivalent in a relevant subject area, which should have been awarded

within five years prior to application, including a component dealing with

research methods. An equivalent academic or professional qualification,

including international qualifications, may be acceptable

Applications are invited to study in the following areas. In your

application you should specify clearly which of the proposed areas you wish

to be considered for, and how your own research interests to date would be

applicable.

If you have any informal queries please e-mail:

Dr Mike Cronin, Faculty Head of Research, at: mjcronin@dmu.ac.uk

Department of English

Centre for Technology and the Arts

Research group: Canterbury Tales Project; electronic scholarly editing work

First Supervisor: Dr Peter Robinson/Professor Norman Blake

The Centre is leading, and collaborating in, several projects applying

electronic methods to the research and publication of large textual

traditions.  These include editions of the Canterbury Tales, Dantes

Commedia, and the Greek New Testament.  In the course of this work, the

Centre has developed software tools now used in many other projects. A

bursary is offered for work in one of the following areas:

1. Study of the manuscripts and text of the Canterbury Tales.

2. The application of electronic methods to research and publication of

textual traditions, including analysis using methods drawn from statistics,

mathematics, and evolutionary biology.

3. The development and use of advanced software tools for collation,

analysis and publication.

There will be opportunities for the successful applicant to work on

the externally-funded projects run by the Centre.



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: TEI Training RFP
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 07:37:25 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 156 (156)


Text Encoding Initiative Training:

Request For Proposals

Introduction

The Text Encoding Initiative invites proposals for the development and

delivery of training courses and materials to be recognized by the TEI. We

invite interested parties to contact us or submit proposals in writing that

will meet the training needs of the community. We are committed to working

with one or more parties to help develop the proposals so that they can be

certified by the Text Encoding Initiative.

Venues and Specific Opportunities

The TEI specifically invites proposals for the following venues in the

immediate future:

1.A short intensive training course to be offered in conjunction with the

October, 2002

     members meeting of the TEI. More information on this specific RFP is

available at

     TEI October 2002 Opportunity.

2.A short intensive training course to be offered in conjunction with the

ACH/ALLC

     joint conference in Athens, Georgia in the summer of 2003. More

information on this

     specific opportunity is available in the Appendix below ACH 2003

Opportunity.

In addition, the TEI solicits proposals for general, reusable training

materials; for repeatable training courses; and for courses or workshops to

be offered in conjunction with conferences.

What sorts of proposals will be considered?

Generally the types of proposals we are looking for are of the following sorts.

1. Proposals for short intensive courses, typically 1-5 days, coordinated

with a

     conference or other event. (See the specific events listed above for

which we

     encourage proposals in the short term.)

2. Proposals for short courses or workshops of one to two weeks offered

annually, to

     serve a specific audience or geographic region.

3. Proposals for self-study materials to be available online.

4. Proposals for distance education courses that could be offered repeatedly.

5. Proposals for text books or training manuals.

This list is not exhaustive. We welcome any imaginative proposals that

would help educate the community in appropriate ways.

What should be in the proposal?

While we invite interested parties to enter into a conversation with us,

the following are some of the features of a complete proposals that need to

be addressed before the TEI will endorse the proposal.

1. Audience. The proposal should make clear the audience targeted by the

training. Is

     the training for novices, advanced users, users with specific needs? Is

the training

     opportunity open to the community? How many participants can the course

     accommodate?

2. Timing and Location. How long will the training take and where will it

take place?

     When will it take place? Will it be offered at regular intervals? Will

it be offered at

     the same place repeatedly? Proposals should demonstrate that the

location and time

     allocated are appropriate to the audience and content.

3. Content. How will the curriculum be developed? What exactly will be

taught and in

     what order? How will the content meet the needs of the audience? What

sorts of

     hands-on activities will enhance the content?

4. Financing. How will the development and delivery of the training be paid

for? What

     will its cost to participants be? Will the targeted audience be able to

afford the

     proposed training? What discount will TEI members get? (Please note

that all

     proposals must include some provision for a TEI members' discount.)

The TEI

     recognizes that quality training needs to be financed in a manner that

will ensure its

     ongoing development and which will appropriately reward the sponsoring

institution.

     The TEI is also willing to endorse and assist with fund-raising efforts

in support of

     training courses, particularly those which might assist under-served

populations (see

     below).

5. Outreach and Application Process. How will the training be advertised?

How would

     people apply for the course and how would applicants be selected?

6. Evaluation. How will the training be evaluated and by whom? How will the

     evaluation process inform the ongoing development of the training? Is

the proposing

     party interested in involving the TEI in the evaluation process?

7. Instructors. Who will do the training and what experience do they have?

Proposals

     should include the trainers' credentials and relevant experience.

8. Facilities. What facilities are needed for the training? If specific

facilities are

     envisioned, are they appropriate to the content and adequate for the

audience

     sought?

9. Will the training cover some specific set of software tools? If so,

please supply

     details.

10. Materials. What self-study, reference, or exercise materials will be

given to

      participants? Will any software be provided?

Why submit a proposal to the TEI?

The TEI recognizes that quality training is regularly offered without the

endorsement of the TEI. This Request For Proposals is not meant to

discourage initiative--rather, we wish to encourage appropriate training by

recognizing excellence in training and assisting those who wish to develop

new opportunities. The following are some of the specific ways we can help

you through the RFP process.

1. Members of the TEI Training Committee and others can assist in the

development of

     quality training by reviewing proposals, sharing of expertise, and by

providing

     contacts with other interested parties. We can and will help you.

2. Proposals that have been accepted by the TEI as of appropriate quality

will be listed

     on the TEI site as certified training opportunities. Such training

opportunities will

     appear in a redesigned TEI training area in a way that clearly

distinguishes certified

     proposals.

3. Accepted proposals can publicly describe their training opportunities, where

     appropriate, as "Certified by the Text Encoding Initiative" or

"Developed in

     conjunction with the TEI." Use of the TEI logo will also be granted where

     appropriate. Alternative wording is also negotiable where appropriate

and useful.

4. Appropriate proposals that are seeking funding can ask for a letter of

support from

     the TEI or work with the TEI as a co-applicant. Please note that

parties wishing to

     get support for funding proposals from the TEI need to give the TEI

sufficient time to

     review the proposal and write letters of support.

5. The TEI will assist in promoting certified training through its membership.

6. The TEI can assist in the review of existing training in a confidential

manner designed

     to help trainers upgrade their courses.

Where should proposals be sent?

Inquiries should be addressed to members of the TEI Training Committee (see

below.) Proposals should be sent by e-mail to the TEI Training Committee,

c/o Geoff Rockwell, at grockwel@mcmaster.ca. Proposals will be reviewed by

the TEI Training Committee: it will make recommendations to the Chair of

the TEI Consortium for a final determination, which will then be

communicated in a timely manner.

Appendix: Specific Opportunities

The following is a list of specific opportunities for proposals with details.

     October 2002 TEI Meeting. The TEI seeks proposals for a one day advanced

     training course to be run on October 10th, the day before the TEI

Members Meeting

     in Chicago. The training would be run in a PC lab at Northwestern

University that

     can hold a maximum of 24 participants. Proposals should be coordinated

with the

     local organizer, Martin Mueller, martinmueller@northwestern.edu.

Proposals sent

     before August 15th, 2002 will be considered.

     2003 ACH/ALLC. The TEI seeks proposals for a two day intensive training

course

     to be offered in conjunction with the ACH/ALLC joint conference in Athens,

     Georgia in the summer of 2003. The conference organizers have set

aside May

     27-28, 2003 (and possibly the morning of the 29th) for this training

opportunity.

     Proposals should be coordinated with the conference by Bill Kretzschmar,

     kretzsch@arches.uga.edu. In particular, proposals should take into

account fees that

     will be charged by the University of Georgia for use of labs. Proposals

sent before

     December 1st, 2002 will be considered.

TEI Training Committee:

        Geoffrey Rockwell, grockwel@mcmaster.ca

        Julia Flanders, Julia_Flanders@brown.edu

        Sebastian Rahtz, sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk

        Perry Willett, pwillett@indiana.edu



From: Fabio Ciravegna <F.Ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Advances
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:42:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 157 (157)


in Natural Language Processing

Call for paper:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

             IEEE Intelligent Systems:

             Special Issue on Advances in Natural Language Processing

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Co-editors:

     Fabio Ciravegna University of Sheffield, UK

     Sanda Harabagiu , University of Texas at Dallas, USA

The inherent complexity of processing human language imposes several

challenging difficulties for the integration of the Natural Language

Processing (NLP) technology in current systems.

This special issue intends to present the state-of-the-art in

Natural Language Technology when applied to either text or speech

processing. We invite original and high quality submission reporting on

NLP applications or describing implemented NLP systems either in

isolation or as part of broader systems.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

     Question answering

     Information Extraction

     Dialogue

     Summarization and generation

     Machine translation

In particular we welcome papers focusing on:

      Applications involving the use of NLP;

      Opportunities for the use of NLP;

      Challenges and requirements of current state-of-the-art Natural

      Language Processing techniques (e.g. portability, robustness,

                                 efficiency and effectiveness

issues);     Novel applications of NLP techniques.

Schedule:

----------

September 15, 2002: Deadline for submission.

October 15, 2002: Notification of acceptance

November 7, 2002: Deadline final versions.

Format of Submission

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

Please follow the instruction at

<a href="http://www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm">http://www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm</a> Manuascript should be no

longer than 35 double-spaced pages.

For any information, please refer to Fabio Ciravegna,

F.Ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk, or Sanda Harabagiu, sanda@cs.utdallas.edu"

Please visit the workshop page at:

<a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/IEEE_IS.html">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/IEEE_IS.html</a>


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Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Tel:+44(0)114-22.21940  Fax:+44 (0)114-22.21810
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street
Sheffield   S1 4DP   UNITED KINGDOM
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From: <ss423@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: Geoffrey Rockwell, "Turing's Reaction"
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:43:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 158 (158)


Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is delighted to

announce that Geoffrey Rockwell's March 2002 talk, 'Turing's Reaction:

Dialogue as a model for interactivity in multimedia' delivered as part of

MITH's Distinguished Speaker Series,  is now available electronically at

<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu/publications/dss/">http://www.mith.umd.edu/publications/dss/</a> in both HTML and XML. An abstract

of the talk appears below:

'It is common to describe certain computer-based artifacts as interactive.

We think we know what this means, but like many terms it vanishes before

the definition. In this talk I will try to first argue that it is important

to ask about interactivity and I will then defend a definition of

interactivity in multimedia with special attention to the discourse around

interactivity in computer games.'



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@mivu.org>
Subject: July 11 TS Author Forums
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:44:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 159 (159)


The following Technology Source Author Forums are scheduled on July 11th.

These forums are offered in collaboration with ULiveandLearn, an

e-learning company that uses the HorizonLive platform to allow

participants to interact directly with TS authors via their desktops. You

may sign up to participate in any of these free webcasts by going to

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=165">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=165</a> and clicking on the

SIGN UP NOW button.

Thursday, July 11, 2002--12:00 PM EST

A webcast on the effective use of course management systems, featuring

Susan Hussein, whose current article in The Technology Source

(<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=931">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=931</a>) discusses three ways

in which a course management system helped her to address challenges in

her teaching.

Thursday, July 11, 2002--1:00 PM EST

A webcast on Section 508 Guidelines and Web design, featuring Janna Siegel

Robertson, whose current article in The Technology Source

(<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=948">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=948</a>) offers an overview of

these guidelines, as well as practical advice about how to make Web sites

more accessible to individuals with disabilities.

Thursday, July 11, 2002--2:00 PM EST

A webcast on the use of WebCT in college chemistry courses, featuring John

R. McBride, whose current article in The Technology Source

(<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=932">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=932</a>) discusses his

combined use of a course management system and Archipelago CD-ROM

resources in an online general chemistry course.

Thursday, July 11, 2002--3:00 PM EST

A webcast on how online learning can support "hands-on" job training,

featuring Lance Crocker, whose current article in The Technology Source

(<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=930">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=930</a>) illustrates his

adoption of an online course in a hotel and restaurant management program.

We hope that you can join us. If not, the archives of all webcasts will be

available via the webcast button on the Interact! options menu within each

article a few hours after the webcast.

Please note that the server will be down from 9:00 a.m. until

approximately 10:30 a.m. this Thursday.

Best.

Jim


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From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.21
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:44:54 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 160 (160)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM
Volume 3, Number 21,  Week of July 8, 2002
In this issue:
Views --
The Answer is Out There
Distributed problem solving on the cheap
By Espen Andersen
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_4.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_4.html</a>
View from Israel: The Intergeneration Project
Preserving culture in a technological environment
By Edna Aphek
<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_aphek_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_aphek_2.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: MCN Conference: Sept 4-7, Toronto
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:36:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 161 (161)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

2002 Museum Computer Network Annual Conference

with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)

In It for the Long Haul - Programs That Go the Distance

September 4-7, 2002: Toronto, Canada

<a href="http://www.mcn,edu/mcn2002/">http://www.mcn,edu/mcn2002/</a>
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Network
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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Fwd: Best of History Website
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:36:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 162 (162)


The following may be of interest to Humanists who teach history and to

others who are in need of examples for exercises on evaluation of Web-sites.

Yours,

WM
[deleted quotation]
Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: "Toavs, Kathy" <KToavs@NEH.GOV>
Subject: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Application
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:12:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 163 (163)


Deadlines

The National Endowment for the Humanities announces its September 1, 2002

deadline for both the Collaborative Research and Scholarly Editions programs.

Collaborative Research grants support original research undertaken by a

team of two or more scholars or research coordinated by an individual

scholar that because of its scope or complexity requires additional staff

or resources beyond the individual's salary.  Scholarly Editions grants

support preparation of authoritative and annotated texts and documents of

value to humanities scholars and general readers. These materials have been

either previously inaccessible or available only in inadequate editions.

Projects involve the editing of significant literary, philosophical, and

historical materials, but other types of work, such as the editing of

musical notation, are also eligible.

Final decisions on applications are made in late May for funding beginning

as early as July 1, 2003.  Application materials can be obtained via the

Internet at <a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html</a>.  For further

information, call 202/606-8210, or send an email to collaborative@neh.gov

or editions@neh.gov.

Kathy A. Toavs

Division of Research Programs

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC  20506

202/606-8474

ktoavs@neh.gov



From: "Kimberly Bento" <Bento@dhm.de>
Subject: Virtual Library: The Bamberg Apocalypse
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:11:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 164 (164)


Virtual Library: The Bamberg Apocalypse

The Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) in Berlin,

Germany and the State Library of Bamberg would like to present a digital

reproduction of the Bamberg Apocalypse.

The Bamberg Apocalypse was written in Latin and decorated with 49 pictures

around 1000 A.D. on an island in southern Germany in Lake Constance called

Reichenau.  Kaiser Heinrich II and his wife, Kunigunde, later presented it

to the St. Stephan Diocese in 1020.  Today it is kept in the State Library

of Bamberg, and in 2002 it will be added to the UNESCO World Cultural

Heritage list. The CD-ROM makes it possible to leaf through the document as

if with a real book and see the full magnificence of the script on a

computer monitor.  In addition, explanations to the pictures are

superimposed, details can be seen the help of a magnifying glass, and with

a mouse click, the Latin text is translated into German or English.

Consequently, an excellent, not to mention affordable and easy to use

"virtual book" of one of the most significant medieval miniature scripts,

has been developed.

More information and ordering available at:

<a href="http://www.dhm.de/publikationen/apokalypse">http://www.dhm.de/publikationen/apokalypse</a>

As of 9 July 2002 the original Bamberg Apocalypse can be seen in the

Bavarian state exhibition, "Kaiser Heinrich II".  The digital reproduction

will be available at the exhibition for 20 EUR.

Other important medieval scripts, such as the famous song script "Codex

Manesse", the "Sachsenspiegel" and the "Golden Bull" ("Goldene Bulle"), in

addition to the Bamberg Apocalypse, will be available to be read page for

page in the virtual library of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  The

virtual library will offer visitors of the permanent exhibition an insight

into the fascinating world of the medieval art of bookmaking.

Contact:

Deutsches Historisches Museum  Multimedia

Michael Truckenbrodt

Unter den Linden 2

10117 Berlin

trucken@dhm.de

Tel: +49 (030) 20 30 4-213

Fax: +49 (030) 20 30 4-543



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Social Thinking--Software Practice
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:20:49 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 165 (165)


Hi, this new publication "Social Thinking--Software Practice" edited by

Yvonne Dittrich, Christiane Floyd, and Ralf Klischewski -might interest to

humanist scholars..
[deleted quotation]
Arun-Kumar Tripathi



From: schut@cs.vu.nl (Schut Martijn)
Subject: Master programmes at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 07:25:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 166 (166)


                         Announcement

     **New** Master programmes at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam

                   <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/masters/">http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/masters/</a>
[deleted quotation]
new two-years Master of Science programmes in

* Organisation Dynamics and Self Organisation

* Knowledge Technology and Management

* Intelligent Internet Applications

These programmes have all been developed with the idea in mind of

educating people to be knowledgeable in and sympathetic to a wide

variety of fields and techniques within the different programme

areas. The programmes emphasise the combination of developing

theoretical insight, the ability to form a practical perspective on

the learned theoretical techniques, and to consequently apply acquired

theoretical insight in practice. Our Master programmes are open to

people from a wide variety of disciplines, having minimally obtained

an HBO or University Bacholor degree, or 'Drs' diploma. The programmes

are full time studies, but it is possible for students to plan their

studies in part time.

== Overview ===========================================

Currently, organisations become increasingly more dynamic,

informational and knowledge intensive. The incorporation of the

internet as to extending and replacing conventional organisational

services with digital information services, is an important reason for

the increase in these factors. Within our Master programmes

* Organisation Dynamics and Self Organisation

* Knowledge Technology and Management

* Intelligent Internet Applications

we offer the possibility to learn about novel developments in the

multi-disciplinary information sciences that have recently had many

important practical implications. As to the dynamics of organisations,

we mention the management sciences that incorporate organisational

concepts from the study of organisms, the brain, chaos and

complexity. As to knowledge technology, this area has proven its

successfulness by the deliverance of knowledge-based systems and, more

recently, the "next-generation" semantic world wide web. For internet

applications, the concepts of intelligent agents and multi-agent

systems have contributed to the advancement of using artificial

intelligence techniques in upcoming generations of the internet.

== Programmes =========================================

Organisation Dynamics and Self Organisation

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

This multi-displinary Master programme focuses on the study of

organisations, their dynamics, and the emergence of organisational

structures. The curriculum contains courses taught in the Faculty of

Social Sciences and the Department of Biology.

The focus in the multi-disciplinary studies as contained in this

programme, is on the analysis and modeling of, and simulating and

experimenting with organised dynamic processes. The research

disciplines as studied are from artificial intelligence, biology,

social sciences, economics, and computer science. The curriculum

includes lectures and practical work (some of which are subject to

choice) in topics as datamining, modeling and simulation of

organisations, organisation theory, economic models, evolution

biology, evolutionairy genetics, neurobiology of behaviour and

organisational behaviour.

This programme is under responsibility of prof.dr. Jan Treur and

prof.dr. Guszti Eiben.

Knowledge Technology and Management

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

This Master programme concentrates on knowledge, its structure and

applications. It focuses on both the organisational aspects of

knowledge management, as well as the technical aspects of designing

and building knowledge-based systems.

Companies that subscribe the significance of automating knowledge that

is available within the organisation, often incorporate knowledge

acquisition and modelling techniques from the research area of

artificial intelligence to perform this automation. The management of

knowledge in such an automated fashion is one of the key issues of

this Master programme. As such, elements from economics and psychology

(management and organisation, organisation psychology, knowledge

models) are studied. A second issue of interest is knowledge

technology, in which people are to be supported by automated

knowledge-based systems. Techniques from knowledge acquisition,

knowledge representation, software engineering and human computer

interaction are taking part in this process. Finally, the world wide

web is a development inherent related to the importance of knowledge

as a production factor in companies. Incorporating knowledge in the

world wide web requires the study of knowledge management and

technology with respect to the development of the next web

generations.

This programme is under responsibility of prof.dr. Frank van Harmelen.

Intelligent Internet Applications

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

In this Master programme, the focus is on the way that Artificial

Intelligence techniques can play an important role in the context of

the current and upcoming generations of the Internet.

This programme contains elements so that the student has a good

overview of the contemporary literature regarding applications of

intelligent web-sites and intelligent agents on the Internet. The

student learns techniques and methods from Artificial Intelligence

that are used in Internet applications and is a capable designer of

intelligent web-sites applications based on intelligent agents.

Examples of such intelligent applications are knowledge-based advisory

systems that are integrated within intelligent websites, intelligent

agents that are active on the Internet (e.g., search-bots, personal

assistants of e-shops), and various advancements of the Semantic

Web. Subjects that characterise this Master programme are Intelligent

Internet Applications, E-commerce, User Interface Design and

Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems.

This Master programme is under responsibility of prof.dr. Frank van

Harmelen, prof.dr. Jan Treur, and dr. Catholijn Jonker.

Other programmes

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

Besides these Master programmes, the Department of Artificial

Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit offers a Master programme in

cognitive science and interdisciplinary programmes with linguistics

and law. The Cognitive Science programme is built around the study of

behaviour and cognition and the curriculum is mainly provided by the

Department of Cognitive Psychology, in cooperation with the Department

of Artificial Intelligence. In the interdisciplinary programmes,

courses are followed at the Faculty of Linguistics and the Faculty of

Law, respectively.

== Admission ===========================================

For the Master programmes

    Organisation dynamics and self organisation

    Knowledge technology and management

    Intelligent internet applications

    Cognitive Science

    Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics

    Artificial Intelligence and Law

students may enroll who have a Bachelor or Drs diploma in Artificial

Intelligence obtained at a dutch institute (Utrecht, Nijmegen,

Amsterdam (VU, UvA), Groningen, Maastricht).

The programmes are also open to people with other diplomas, University

or HBO, who are kindly invited to contact us if interested in

following a Master programme at our Department.

== Contact information ================================

For more information on the Master programmes, contact:

    dr. Martijn Schut

    Department of Artificial Intelligence

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    De Boelelaan 1081a

    1081 HV Amsterdam

    The Netherlands

    tel: +31 20 44 47668 / +31 20 44 47700

    fax: +31 20 44 47653

    email: schut@cs.vu.nl

== More information ===================================

More detailed information on the Master AI Programmes can be

found at the following website:

<a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/masters/">http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/masters/</a>

More general information on our Department can be found at

the departmental website:

<a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/index-en.html">http://www.cs.vu.nl/ai/index-en.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Congress holding Digital Rights Management hearing Wed
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:17:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 167 (167)


July 17

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

June 12, 2002

               Workshop on Digital Content and "Rights Management"

      Officials Joined by Entertainment and Tech Industry Representatives

                     Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:00pm

                  U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 4830

          14th and Constitution Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230

                  <a href="http://www.ta.doc.gov/PRel/ma020710.htm">http://www.ta.doc.gov/PRel/ma020710.htm</a>

You may be interested in this roundtable discussion to be held in DC next

week - one in a series, but nonetheless there has been concern over who the

stakeholders really are in such discussions.

David Green
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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: How troubling are the Dialogues of Hume!
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:16:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 168 (168)


Some of you will know how much fun Monte Python had with philosophy and

philosophers. The NB column in the latest TLS (5180, 12 July, p. 16), under

the title "Philosophy can be fun", draws our attention to the summer issue

of Philosophers' Magazine, on philosophers in the movies, and to the themed

Hotel Filosof in Amsterdam. The hotel has a Bishop Berkeley room, which

isn't there at all. But we can be especially glad for the mention of the

Philosophy Songs website,

<<a href="http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/phisong.htm">http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/phisong.htm</a>> (MIDI and MP3s

included, the latter featuring Professor Alan White singing the lyrics). I

recommend it to your attention, as a fine example of an online pedagogical

resource. Imagine being able to sing, to your students, of course, "now I

got a right, right, right, episteme!" (to the music of "I Can See Clearly

Now").

One does have to wonder about the possibilities of music in the performance

of philosophy, but here one needs professional help. Is there a doctor (of

and in philosophy) in the house? Anything can be *discussed*

philosophically, including of course music. But is a performative

philosophy out of the question? (Face-to-face dialogue comes to mind.) If

not, then could there be ways of doing philosophy in multimedia? Or do we

simply declare all this silly business? Is a multimedia of (as well as in)

scholarship possible?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: "Humanist Discussion Group
Subject: Re: 16.126 how troubling the Dialogues of Hume could be
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:13:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 169 (169)


<w.mccarty@btinternet.com>)" <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu>

To: <humanist@Princeton.EDU>

Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 12:35 AM
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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: mapping humanities computing at ALLC/ACH and after
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:11:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 170 (170)


The ALLC/ACH humanities computing conference will shortly take place in

Tuebingen, Germany, 24-28 July. The last event in this conference is a

plenary roundtable on "New Directions in Humanities Computing", which is

also the theme of the conference as a whole. Those of us involved are very

much hoping for vigorous discussion. As a starting point, discussion will

begin with the outcome of a meeting held in Pisa in April, at which a

number of us were brought together to sketch a preliminary "roadmap" of the

field. The roundtable will raise the question, how do the conference

proceedings cause us to modify, develop or add to the points listed there?

To aid discussion, Harold Short and I have produced an augmented version of

the reports submitted by the attendees of the meeting. In this version the

reports and additional commentary are hyperlinked from "A rough

intellectual map of humanities computing". See

<<a href="http://maple.cc.kcl.ac.uk/mccarty/map/">http://maple.cc.kcl.ac.uk/mccarty/map/</a>>; this URL is also accessible from

the main ALLC page, <<a href="http://www.allc.org/">http://www.allc.org/</a>>.

This is (as far as I am aware) the first attempt graphically to represent

where humanities computing fits into our intellectual and professional

topography, although it is but one of many attempts over the years to

figure out the lay of the land. Interestingly, I think, it subordinates

explanatory text to a graphical image whose suggestive potential goes well

beyond what the words themselves do. But this also is not a particularly

new area of work; see, for example, Xia Lin, "Graphical Table of Contents",

<<a href="http://faculty.cis.drexel.edu/~xlin/DL96/DL96.HTM">http://faculty.cis.drexel.edu/~xlin/DL96/DL96.HTM</a>>. (Other pointers of

interest would be welcome.)

Based on the discussion at the ALLC/ACH, we will be adding to our map and

will occasionally publish new versions. We would be most grateful for

suggestions on how the map might be improved better to reflect the field as

it is now coming into focus. Clearly bits of the map are very sketchy

indeed. There are doubtless many omissions for want of sufficient

knowledge. What we hope to accomplish with this map is not to define

canonical boundaries and relationships -- not only is it too early to do

so, but many of them are by nature unstable. Rather we wish to stimulate

the activity of mapping. Help us fill in the details -- or alter the larger

parts.

(Suggestions for the best kind of software for such purposes would be

welcome. The original was done -- here imagine a bit of blushing -- with

Word, the result image-mapped with LiveImage. We're reluctant, however, to

go so far as to require specialized plugins or other viewing software

beyond current browsers.)

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Stephen Ramsay <sjr3a@virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.125 hearing on digital rights management (US Congress)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:12:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 171 (171)


On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 08:29:55AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way

of Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]
The membership of this panel says it all.  We are not talking about

the rights of users to use and share information, but the "rights"

of large corporations to impose restrictions (they prefer the term

"management") on individuals.

Does anyone know who first coined the propagandistic phrase "digital

rights management?"


--
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Currently at 38.03745 N, 78.48574 W
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PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: change of wizards
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:52:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 172 (172)


Dear colleagues,

By "wizards" I mean in full irony to refer to the Wizard of Oz -- though

without implying that you are actually in Kansas, living in

black-and-white, except when dreamily wandering up the Yellow Brick Road,

through Humanist to its Emerald City. From tomorrow until 5 August my able

colleague, David Gants, will be pulling the cords. So, be warned: any

messages intended for Humanist that are sent to me directly are likely to

be delayed between stops while I wend my way via Nederlandse Spoorwegen and

Deutsche Bahn around the two countries. Hope to see *everyone* in Tuebingen

at what promises to be a very fine conference.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: snkatz@princeton.edu
Subject: TEACH Act Approved by House Judiciary Committee
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:03:24 -0400 (EDT)
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 173 (173)


     Education

  ---------- Forwarded message ----------

  This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education

    Thursday, July 18, 2002

    House Committee Votes to Ease Copyright Restrictions on

    Distance Education

    By ANDREA L. FOSTER

    The enactment of a bill that would make it easier for

    educational institutions to use films and songs in online

    instruction was all but assured Wednesday after a key House of

    Representatives committee approved the legislation.

    The House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the bill,

    the Technology Harmonization and Education Act (S 487), on a

    voice vote without debate. It is identical to a bill the

    Senate approved in June 2001.

    The legislation would expand the exceptions under the

    Copyright Act of 1976 that allow colleges and schools to use

    copyrighted material for instruction without securing

    copyright holders' permission.

    The act allows distance-education providers to digitally

    transmit nondramatic literary and musical works. Under the

    bill, they would also be able to show students selected

    portions of movies, plays and other dramatic works.

    The legislation applies only to accredited, nonprofit

    educational institutions.

    Educational and media interests, which had long been at odds

    over easing copyright law for online instruction, had

    negotiated a compromise -- later formalized in the bill --

    more than a year ago.  But the chairman of the Judiciary

    Committee, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., had held up the

    legislation. Mr. Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, had

    indicated that he would only move the bill forward in tandem

    with another piece of legislation to create new protections

    for databases.

    Mr. Sensenbrenner relented, however, when higher-education

    interests made a recent push to have the technology

    legislation passed into law, and when he realized that

    database legislation would be difficult to move forward.

  _________________________________________________________________

  This article from The Chronicle is available online at this address:

  <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071801t.htm">http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071801t.htm</a>

  If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web

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From: Robin Chandler <Robin.Chandler@ucop.edu>
Subject: Online Archive of California: New Version Available
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:38:23 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 174 (174)

On July 15, 2002, a version of the  Online Archive of California (OAC) was
released to the public at www.oac.cdlib.org.   The Online Archive of
California (OAC) describes and provides access to over 6000 collections of
primary source materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art
held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across
California.
The new OAC homepage  simplifies browsing and searching the finding aids of
the collections and, in many cases, digital versions of the photographs,
manuscripts and other objects themselves. The new interface is based upon
software from the University of Michgan's Library's Digital Library
eXtension Service (DLXS) for the provision of EAD encoded finding aids.
A "finding aid" describes and provides an inventory of primary source
materials.  Primary sources include letters, diaries, manuscripts, legal and
financial records, photographs and other pictorial items, maps,
architectural and engineering records, artwork, scientific logbooks,
electronic records, sound recordings, oral histories artifacts and ephemera.
The OAC has finding aids for collections as diverse as the Japanese American
Relocation photograph collection from the University of Southern California
and the Keystone-Mast stereoscopic collection from the California Museum of
Photography, among the thousands of collections from over 60 libraries,
museums and historical societies.
What's the impact?
Compared to the already widely used interface for OAC, the new presentation
of finding aids will feature improved searching, better access to finding
aids that have online images, enhanced display options and faster delivery
of content with the DLXS software.  Responding to the suggestions of users,
the new search interface and results pages results are similar to what users
encounter on many other web sites.
For those familiar with the content or with the structure of finding aids,
advanced search functions allow targeting a search to the title of finding
aid, its full-text, including overview notes, or only the specific
descriptions of collection contents.  While browsing finding aids or
reviewing search results, icons indicate when digital versions of the source
materials are available.   Users will have the ability to limit a search to
finding aids that include online images.
Finding aids can be browsed by the name of the contributing institution or
by a complete listing of finding aid titles.  Display of individual finding
aids can be based on keyword in-context, an outline view or as a printable
(full-text view) version all on one page.
In order to provide time for current OAC users to explore the new interface,
the old interface will continue to be available until December 31st, 2002.
Since the OAC's 1993 origins as the Berkeley Finding Aid Project (BFAP), a
form of the SGML-based publishing system known as Dynaweb has been the
software foundation for the OAC finding aids.
Future enhancements
The new version of OAC provides a robust platform for service development.
In future releases, the OAC team plans to offer users more direct searching
for the digitized source materials  and increase the ability to search
across multiple formats (finding aids, online texts, online images, online
multimedia) at once. These enhancements to the discovery and use of these
unique materials are meant to complement the growth of the OAC  itself, with
many new collections being prepared for addition.
The OAC is hosted by the California Digital Library and draws its support
from the University of California, the California State Library, and dozens
of partner universities, museums, and archives. We encourage you to browse
the content of the OAC by trying out its new interface at www.oac.cdlib.org.
For more information contact Robin Chandler (510) 987-0370 or
robin.chandler@ucop.edu
Robin L. Chandler
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The California Digital Library
University of California - Office of the President
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From: Catherine Rey <crey@cnri.reston.va.us>
Subject: D-Lib Magazine: July-August Issue Released
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:55:15 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 175 (175)

  To: dlib-subscribers@dlib.org
  Sending For Bonnie Wilson:
Greetings:
The July/August 2002 issue of D-Lib Magazine <a href="http://www.dlib.org/">http://www.dlib.org/</a> is now
available. The table of contents is at
<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july02/07contents.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july02/07contents.html</a>.
There are six full-length features, several smaller features in D-Lib
Magazine's 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news
of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.
The Featured Collection for July/August is the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
web site.
The articles are:
* A Framework for Evaluating Digital Library Services
 - Sayeed Choudhury, Benjamin Hobbs, and Mark Lorie, Johns Hopkins
University, and Nicholas Flores, University of Colorado
* Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries
 - Anita Coleman, University of Arizona
* Federated Digital Rights Management: A Proposed DRM Solution for Research
and Education
 - Mairead Martin, David L. Kuhlman, John H. McNair, William A. Rhodes, and
Ron Tipton, University of Tennessee, and Grace Agnew, Rutgers, the State
Univserity of New Jersey
* Learning Lessons Holistically in the Glasgow Digital Library
 - Dennis Nicholson and George Macgregor, Strathclyde University
* Digitizing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for a Full Color,
Publicly-accessible Collection
 - Kenning Arlitsch, University of Utah
* My Library at Virginia Commonwealth University: Third Year Evaluation
 - James Ghaphery, Virginia Commonwealth University
D-Lib has mirror sites at the following locations:
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From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.128 mapping humanities computing at ALLC/ACH and
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:43:44 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 176 (176)


after

One apparent omission from the map is the area of computer pedagogy, which

of course, might be said to underlie or otherwise be contained by the

various disciplines represented on the map. However, under, say, "Literary &

linguistic studies," I do not see any mention of the large amount of work

that has been done in the study of computers and writing. Given that the use

of  word-processing in composition classes (and the theorizing of this use)

is one of the original (and still one of the most common) entry-points of

computers into English departments, I would think this area could be made

more visible.

--Bill Cole

On 7/15/02 2:27 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty

<w.mccarty@btinternet.com>)" <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu> wrote:
[deleted quotation]
...
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as
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larger
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From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.128 mapping humanities computing at ALLC/ACH and
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:43:45 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 177 (177)

after
In response to Willard's note about mapping humanities computing:
1. Two books of interest might be Dodge & Kitchin, _Mapping
Cyberspace_, (Routledge, 2001) and _Atlas of Cyberspace_,
(Addison-Wesley, 2001). The first is more theoretical, the second
makes a good coffee-table book. Most of the examples can be seen at
their www site: <a href="http://www.cybergeography.org/">http://www.cybergeography.org/</a>.
2. I tend to think of Humanities Computing (HC) as both a commons of
shared methods with which to explore the humanities AND as a
collection of humanities practices with which to study computing and
the culture of computing. I therefore suggest that Willard's diagram
can be inverted so that something called "Computing" is in the
middle. The traditional humanities have much to contribute to the
study of culture and computing. Some of the ways in which the
humanities have contributed are:
2.1 Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics - contributed to the
foundations of computing
2.2 Ethics - contributed to issues in privacy, computer ethics,
professional ethics, and intellectual property
2.3 History - contributes to the study of history of computing and
related issues
2.4 Culture Studies - contributes to the study of popular culture and
computing (games, MUDs and so on)
2.5 Language Studies - contributes to instructional technology
2.6 Literary Theory - contributes to hypertext theory
2.7 Art and Design - contribute to digital art, human-computer
interface design and so on
2.8 Linguistics and Comp. Ling. - contributes with Philosophy to AI and NLP
The list could go on, but my point is that we could put computing in
the centre and talk about a variety of practices which contribute to
our understanding of computing.
3. I would also suggest that we are missing some of the forms of
expression which have been of interest to the humanities, namely
moving-pictures, performance, sculpture, and architecture. Images as
a category is too limited to cover these.
Yours,
Geoffrey R.



From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING, Toronto, Sept 7: Museum
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:43:42 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 178 (178)


Policy Creation

NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING, Toronto, Sept 7: MuseumNINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

July 18, 2002

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

             NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: TORONTO

       Presented in collaboration with the Museum Computer Network

              and the Canadian Heritage Information Network

          "Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World"

             <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.html</a>

                                 *   *   *

                    Museum Computer Network Conference

                           Hilton Toronto Hotel

                      Saturday September 7, 9am-4pm

                       Free of Charge * Open to All

      Registration Required: <a href="http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm">http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm</a>

 This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress

Foundation

In a world where many content-providers are worried about digital

misappropriation of material, and users are concerned about inaccessible,

expensive or low-grade resources, how important is it for museums to have

clear and fair intellectual property policy to monitor and control the use

and distribution of digital content and how do they go about creating it?

"Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World," will attempt to answer these

questions.

The 19th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, presented at the Museum Computer

Network (MCN) conference in Toronto, in collaboration with MCN and the

Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) will be held in the Hilton

Toronto Hotel on Saturday September 7, 9am-4pm. The meeting is open to all

and is free of charge but registration is required.

The Toronto Town Meeting will be part presentation, part practicum. It will

open with several speakers defining what policy is, what core values it

represents and why it is important for an institution to have an IP policy.

A keynote address will situate the role of institutional policy within an

international context. Museum legal expert Maria Pallante will then analyze

the key issues to consider when preparing a policy.

In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will examine

policy-building. Brian Porter will report on his experience at the Royal

Ontario Museum, while Rachelle Brown of the Smithsonian Institution will

examine the importance of understanding an institution's larger values in

constructing policy. These talks will introduce the workshop component of

the Meeting, at which participants will break into working groups to

construct policy solutions to particular museum situations. The results of

the working groups will be reviewed by a panel of all the speakers.

The focus of this meeting is designed to complement that of the NINCH

Copyright Town Meeting, held November 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, on "Creating

Policy: Copyright Policies in the University." Laura Gasaway, a key

presenter and organizer of the Eugene meeting, is a featured speaker at this

meeting. A report on the Eugene Town Meeting and workshop can be seen at

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html</a>

Featured speakers:

*  Rachelle Brown, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution

*  Laura N. Gasaway, Director of Law Library and Professor of Law,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

*  David Muls, Senior Counsellor, Office of Legal and Organization

Affairs, World Intellectual Property Organization [invited]

*  Maria Pallante, Associate General Counsel, Guggenheim Museum/Foundation

*  Rina Pantalony, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian Heritage Information

Network

*  Brian Porter, Media Resources Director, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings seek to 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 <a href="http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm">http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm</a>. If you are not

otherwise attending the MCN conference, please still register online:

complete your name, organization and email address, check the NINCH Town

Hall Meeting option and type "no payment required" under credit card and

expiration date. For questions, call 877.626.3800, or email

<mailto:sarah@ninch.org>.

For information on all NINCH Copyright Town meetings, see

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/</a>

*  *  *

Agenda

Creating IP Policy in Museums

The Importance of Institutional IP Policy: The Scope of this Meeting

- Laura N. Gasaway

- Rina Pantalony

- Questions & comment

Institutional IP Policy from an International Perspective

- David Muls [invited]

- Questions & comment

The Process of Policymaking: From I.P. Audit to Valuation and Management

- Maria Pallante

- Questions & comment

OPEN FORUM

Lunch

WORKSHOP:

Putting Together a Museum's IP Policy: A Case Study

- Brian Porter

Constructing Values: What to Put into a Policy

- Rachelle Brown

Policy Building Scenarios

Report Outs

OPEN FORUM

With All Speakers

                                     *  *  *

Toronto organizing Committee

Amalyah Keshet, Jerusalem Museum, Israel

Rina Pantalony, Canadian Heritage Information Network

Leonard Steinbach, Cleveland Museum of Art

Diane Zorich, Consultant

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From: Jim Marchand
Subject: Restricted Code
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:05:47 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 179 (179)


We were talking about restricted code and its problems.  Being a

medievalist, I have a cute example from the Middle Ages, reported,

among others, by B. L. Ullman, Ancient Writing and its Influence.

Our Debt to Greece and Rome (repr. NY: Cooper Square Publishers,

1963), 133. Medieval students were not serious like our students

are, and they liked to play games.  Gothic script had many ups and

downs in it, much like the Suetterlin-Schrift ones German

grandmother used to use, so that often all you seemed to have were

short up and down strokes.  This was particularly true of m, n, i,

u, whence all the mistakes of modern editors, who read iudeorum as

videorum (heaven knows what that is supposed to mean), etc. etc.

You have to see this to get the effect: The students offered a

story of short actors not wanting to give up their function of

distributing wine obtained from certain vineyards near the walls

and wrote: mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum

imminui uiui minimum uolunt, where only the last word is clear.

Note that in the Middle Ages, i's did not have dots over them, and

no distinction was made between u and v, both modern inventions.

The sentence means: "The very short mimes of the gods of snow do

not at all wish that during their lifetime the very great burden of

the wine of the walls be lightened." For those who hold Ullman in

high regard, as I do, note the error in his English.  Auch an

Ullman habe ich Fehler entdeckt. Back to restricted code: the

sentences so formed could use only i, u, m, n.

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From: "J. Trant - AMICO Executive Director" <jtrant@amico.org>
Subject: [Asis-l] AMICO's move to University of Toronto
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:36:49 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 180 (180)


  Art Museum Image Consortium

  www.amico.org

  Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia

  AMICO Press Release

  For Immediate Release: August 1, 2002.

AMICO Research and Editorial Offices

Move to The University of Toronto,

Robarts Research Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is delighted to announce that the

University of Toronto has been selected as its new institutional host.

Beginning in the fall of 2002 the AMICO Research and Editorial Offices will

move to Robarts Library at the University of Toronto. The University of

Toronto was selected following an open Request for Proposals, issued in the

spring of 2002.

"We're delighted to be moving to the University of Toronto", says Jennifer

Trant, AMICO's Executive Director. "The diversity of academic computing

activities and the breadth of interest in AMICO from across university

departments bodes well for fruitful collaborations."

Carole Moore, University Librarian, concurred. "Our proposal to AMICO

demonstrated the diversity of activity at U of T. We're pleased to have

AMICO join the many other digital library initiatives within the University

of Toronto Library and across our campuses. We're excited not only to host

AMICO but to see AMICO as a partner in our many on-going activities."

The University of Toronto Library is in an ideal position to facilitate

collaboration across departments, as its mandate is wider than most,

including support and coordination of academic computing for instruction and

provision of access to digital resources for research and teaching. In the

words of U of T's outgoing Provost, Adel Sedra, the Library provides, "one

stop shopping for information and information technology." Through its

digital and print library resources, its Information Commons access

services, and its Resource Center for Academic Technology support for

teaching, the Library works with all faculties to integrate resources for

user convenience.

The University of Toronto, which is among the largest in North America, has

a strong entrepreneurial faculty culture and common interests in exploring

utilization of new media and technology. "We're looking forward to exploring

ties with the Museum Studies Program, the Faculty of Information Studies,

the Knowledge Media Design Institute and others across the Faculty of Arts

and Science and the School of Education," says David Bearman, AMICO's

Director of Strategy and Research. "The time is ripe to integrate networked

cultural heritage with research, teaching and learning across the

disciplines."

New Address:

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)

Robarts Library 7th Floor

University of Toronto

130 St George St.

Toronto, ON M5S 1A5

 About AMICO

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent non-profit

(501c3) corporation.  Founded in 1997, the Consortium today is made up of

over 35 major museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

It's an innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares,

shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections

and enables its educational use.  Membership is open to any institution with

a collection of art.

Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM a compilation of multimedia

documentation of works in their collections.  The 2002 edition of The AMICO

Library documents over 100,000 different works of art, from prehistoric

goddess figures to contemporary installations; new works are added annually.

More than simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented

and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple

views, and other related multimedia.  Subscribers find The AMICO Library

valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with

the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference

sources.

The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed subscribers

such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums. Over 3

million users on four continents include faculty, students, teachers, staff,

researchers, and public library patrons. Educational subscribers receive

access to The AMICO Library through one of our Distributors. A subscription

to The AMICO Library provides rights to use works for a broad range of

educational purposes. Potential Members and Subscribers may preview a

Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our

Distributors, and get further information at <a href="http://www.amico.org">http://www.amico.org</a>.

Contact Information

Jennifer Trant

Executive Director

Art Museum Image Consortium

Phone: +1 412 422 8533

Fax: + 1 412 291 1292

Email: info@amico.org

AMICO Members

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Art Gallery of Ontario

The Art Institute of Chicago

Asia Society Gallery

Center for Creative Photography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art

Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College

Denver Art Museum

The Detroit Institute of Arts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library

George Eastman House

J. Paul Getty Museum

The Library of Congress

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Louisiana State Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Muse d'art contemporain de Montral

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

National Gallery of Canada

National Museums of Scotland

The Newark Museum

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia Museum of Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Terra Museum of American Art

Victoria & Albert Museum

Walker Art Center

The Walters Art Museum

Whitney Museum of American Art

Membership is open: Join Us! See <a href="http://www.amico.org/join.html">http://www.amico.org/join.html</a>


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From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo@voicenet.com>
Subject: Eldred v. Ashcroft on Oct. 9, 2002
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:04:37 -0400 (EDT)
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 181 (181)

  I thought that some of you may be interested to know that
  Eldred v. Ashcroft will have an argument before the Supreme
  Court on October 9, 2002.  See:
<a href="http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/22july20021430/www.supremecourtus.go">http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/22july20021430/www.supremecourtus.go</a>
v/oral_arguments/argument_calendars/monthlyargumentcaloctober2002.pdf
  (Or, go to <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/index.html">http://www.supremecourtus.gov/index.html</a>, click on "Oral
  Arguments", click on "Argument Calendars", click on "Session Beginning
  October 7, 2002".)
  <<SNIP>>
  Joseph Pietro Riolo
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From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts Opens
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:05:49 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 182 (182)

Center for Law, Technology & the Arts OpensFrom:
owner-ninch-announce@ninch.org
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
July 30, 2002
                New Center for Law, Technology & the Arts Opens
                      Case Western Reserve University
                <a href="http://lawwww.cwru.edu/academic/lta/intro.htm">http://lawwww.cwru.edu/academic/lta/intro.htm</a>
I think the opening of this new Center at Case Western will be of some
interest.
David Green
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A Unique Program: An Introduction from the Director
The ongoing technological revolution of recent years has presented new
opportunities and challenges for our legal system pertaining to
technological innovation and related proprietary rights. There have also
been significant national and international legal and cultural developments
in the visual and musical arts that offer their own opportunities and
challenges. Law and technology and law and the arts are burgeoning fields
that present some of the most exciting, important, and complex issues facing
not only our legal system, but also the business and technology communities.
The Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts ("LTA") at the Case Western
Reserve University School of Law was established to be an internationally
recognized forum for the inter-disciplinary study of law, technology, and
the arts. The Center for LTA focuses on teaching, research, and programs
pertaining to intellectual property, technological innovation and technology
transfer, the intersection of science, economics, philosophy, and the law,
legal issues concerning biotechnology and computer technologies, and laws
and cultural issues relating to the creative arts.
Students at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law have the
opportunity to address some of today's most intriguing issues, such as the
relationship between patent law and the sequencing of the human genome,
copyright law's relevance to music and art on the Internet, the
applicability of trademark law to domain names and metatags, and
international issues relating to plundered art, biodiversity, and cultural
property.
Craig Allen Nard
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From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: [Asis-l] 2002 IP in Academia Online Workshop Series
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:27:36 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 183 (183)

ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION
*Please Distribute Widely*
2002 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series
www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland
University College is hosting an asynchronous online workshop series
that is of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians,
instructional design and information professionals.  Each workshop will
last approximately three weeks, providing the participants with an
in-depth understanding of core intellectual property issues facing
higher education.
* The Shrinking Public Domain
September 16- October 4, 2002
Moderated by Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, Esq
Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
There is considerable concern among academics and copyright scholars
that the public domain is being treated as a commodity, thereby
resulting in the loss of access to users and others who appreciate great
scholarly, literary, musical and audiovisual works. This workshop will
explore this complex issue particularly as it relates to the use of
digital information in the teaching and learning enterprise.
* Academic Integrity Compliance on College Campuses
October 28 - November 15, 2002
Moderated by Diane M. Waryold, PhD
Executive Director of Center for Academic Integrity, Program
Administrator of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Fundamental to the mission of many schools is the concept of academic
integrity. What role do campus and departmental policies play in student
compliance? What is the role of faculty, librarians and students in
assisting faculty and policy enforcement? And what are the various means
for detecting plagiarism? What are the pros and cons of using these
plagiarism detection services? Gain an in-depth understanding of the
academic integrity issues facing higher education today
* Preventing Plagiarism in the Online and face-2-face Classrooms
February 10-February 28, 2003
Moderated by Gary Pavela, Esq
Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development at the
University of Maryland-College Park
Can assignments be redesigned to avoid plagiarism in the online and
face-to-face classrooms? Is the relationship of writer/reader to text
profoundly changed online? Learn about proven, successful methods for
designing assignments that will enhance learning and lessen plagiarism.
Share your experience with fellow classmates and share successful
assignments and methods.
These online workshops will include course readings, chats and online
discussions. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from
the workshop moderators. Please visit the web site for all course
objectives:
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/workshops.html">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/workshops.html</a>
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Regular $150 each, Two workshops $225, Three workshops is only $300! A
significant discount is given for full time graduate students until
places are filled; please consult the website for details. To register
online- www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
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From: edilog@COGSCI.ED.AC.UK
Subject: EDILOG 2002: CFP
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:05:51 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 184 (184)


                Call for Participation and Demonstrations

                            EDILOG 2002

        SIXTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

                      The University of Edinburgh

                           Sept 4th-6th 2002

               ** Early registration deadline: Aug 9 **

                   <a href="http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/">http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/</a>

EDILOG 2002 will be the sixth in a series of workshops that aims to

bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of

dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics

and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Susan Brennan (Stony Brook University)

Jan van Kuppevelt (IMS Stuttgart)

Stanley Peters (CSLI Stanford)

Manfred Pinkal (University of the Saarland)

Enric Vallduvi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

ACCEPTED PAPERS:

Thomason, Stone:

 "Context in Abductive Interpretation"

Kempson, Otsuka:

 "Dialogue as Collaborative Tree Growth"

Schlangen, Lascarides:

 "Resolving Fragments Using Discourse Information"

Padilha, Carletta:

 "Simulating Small Group Discussion"

Taboada:

 "Centering and Pronominal Reference: In Dialogue, In Spanish"

de Jager, Knott, Bayard:

 "A DRT-based framework for presuppositions in dialogue management"

Buchwald, Schwartz, Seidl, Smolensky:

 "Centering Theory as Recoverability in Bidirectional Optimality

  Theory"

van Rooy:

 "Relevance Only"

Mann:

 "Dialogue Analysis for Diverse Situations"

O'Donovan-Anderson, Okamoto, Perlis:

 "The Use-Mention Distinction and its Importance to HCI"

Tsovaltzi:

 "Formalizing Hinting in Dialogue"

Kreutel:

 "From Dialogue Acts to Dialogue Act Offers: Building Discourse

  Structure as an Argumentative Process"

Piwek, van Deemter:

 "Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some

  Time-Honoured Strategies"

Lvckelt, Becker, Pfleger, Alexandersson:

 "Making Sense of Partial"

Krause:

 "An algorithm for processing referential definite descriptions

  in dialogue based on abductive inference"

Bard:

 "Towards a psycholinguistics of dialogue: defining reaction

  time and error rate in a dialogue corpus"

Lewin, Gorrell, Rayner:

 "Measuring Linguistic Mastery for Spoken Dialogue Systems"

Kruijff-Korbayova, Karagjosova, Larsson:

 "Enhancing collaboration with conditional responses in

  information-seeking dialogues"

Percus:

 "Modeling the common ground: the relevance of copular questions"

Amores, Quesada:

 "Cooperation and Collaboration in Natural Command Language

  Dialogues"

Howarth, Anderson:

 "Word duration and referential form in video-mediated and

  face-to-face communication"

Grasso:

 "Towards a Framework for Rhetorical Argumentation"

Cooper, Ginzburg:

 "Using Dependent Record Types in Clarification Ellipsis"

Quesada, Amores:

 "Knowledge-based Reference Resolution for Dialogue Management

  in a Home Domain Environment"

Pease, Smaill:

 "Semantic Negotiation: Modelling Ambiguity in Dialogue"

SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS:

We invite poster presentations of actual projects and software

demonstrations relevant to the topics of EDILOG.  Authors should

submit a one page abstract including names, affiliation, address, and

e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in plain

text format) to edilog@ed.ac.uk with subject "Submission of

Demonstration" by August 5.  Submissions have to be in English, which

is the workshop language, and will be selected on the basis of

relevance to the workshop.

ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place at The University of Edinburgh. The local

organizers are Johan Bos, Colin Matheson, and Margaret McMillan.  Send

email to edilog@cogsci.ed.ac.uk for questions about local arrangements.

SPONSORS:

The British Academy (www.britac.ac.uk)

Siridus (www.ling.gu.se/projekt/siridus/)

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From: Robert Batusek
Subject: TSD 2002 - CFP
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:06:53 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 185 (185)


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 TSD 2002 - SECOND CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARTICIPATION

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Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

(TSD 2002)

Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002

<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</a>

The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics,

Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences,

University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported

by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS

Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and

hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the

conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the

abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission

must be made using an online form available at the conference www

pages.

The organisers will prepare the computers with multimedia support for

demonstrators. Faculty of Informatics has at its disposal a fast internet

connection allowing internet-based projects to be demonstrated. The faculty

network provides a wireless (IEEE 802.11b - WiFi) connection to the internet

as

well.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of demonstration papers:

July 31, 2002

Conference date:

September 9-12, 2002

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between

researchers in both spoken and written language processing

from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues.

Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in

their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

TOPICS

Topics of the TSD 2002 conference will include:

text corpora;

automatic morphology;

word sense disambiguation;

lexical semantics and semantic networks;

parsing and part-of-speech tagging;

machine translation;

multi-lingual issues;

information retrieval;

text/topic summarization;

knowledge representation and reasoning;

speech modeling;

speech coding;

speech segmentation;

speech prosody;

automatic speech recognition;

text-to-speech synthesis;

speaker identification and verification;

facial animation and visual speech synthesis;

dialogue systems;

development of dialogue strategies;

prosody and emotions in dialogues;

user modeling;

assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;

markup languages related to speech and dialogue (VoiceXML, SSML, ...).

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The conference program will include oral presentations and

poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of

the issues raised. The demonstration papers will not appear in the

Proceedings of TSD 2002 but will be published electronically at the

conference website. Preliminary program of the conference is already

available there.

The program includes two invited talks.

Prof. Ronald Allan Cole (Monday, September 9)

Perceptive Animated Interfaces: The Next Generation of Interactive Learning

Tools

Prof. James Pustejovsky (Tuesday, September 10)

When Corpus Meets Theory: Creating Lexical Semantic Databases

The Wednesday afternoon of the conference is reserved for a trip

to the South Moravian region Lednice - Valtice. We will see the

chateau at Lednice with its large botanical gardens and

beautiful surroundings. In the evening there will be the

conference dinner in the famous wine cellar in Valtice chateau,

where a traditional cembalon band will play.

TSD 2002 is supported by International Speech Communication

Association (ISCA).

CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your

status. It includes one copy of the Proceedings, refreshments,

social events and a daytrip. The fee does not include

accommodation.

Full participant:

Payment by August 15th:  Euro 300

On-site payment:  Euro 350

Student:

Payment by August 15th:  Euro 200

On-site payment:  Euro 250

The payment may be refunded up until August 15th at the cost

of 50 Euros. No refund is possible after this date.

ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange an accommodation in a

student dormitories in a walking distance from the place of the

Conference at a reasonable price. The actual list of available

hotels and prices is accessible at the website.

ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

Dana Komarkova

TSD 2002 Faculty of Informatics

Masaryk University

Botanick 68a

CZ-602 00 Brno

Czech Republic

telephone: +420 5 41 512 359

fax: +420 5 41 212 568

e-mail: tsd2002@fi.muni.cz

The official TSD 2002 homepage is: <a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</a>

LOCATION

The conference will take place at the Faculty of Informatics,

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Brno is the the second largest city in the Czech Republic with

population of almost 400,000, and is the country's judiciary and

trade-fair centre. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in

the south-east part of the Czech Republic. It had been the King's

town since 1347 and with its six Universities it forms a cultural

center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct trains or buses from

Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, some nearby

places may also be of interest.

The local ones include:

Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, Old and New

City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church

and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Bishops

Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole,

famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe

and other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with

Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three

emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - battle

by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle,

Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice

Chateau, Mikulov with one of the greatest Jewish cemeteries in

Central Europe, Telc - the town on the list of UNESCO and many

others are all within an easy reach.

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       Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>>

              <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>>

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From: "Najma Hussain" <nh32@soas.ac.uk>
Subject: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:31:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 186 (186)


Dear all

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme has just

published its first invitation to apply for funding.  Full details of

the programme and application forms are available on the ELDP web page

www.eldp.soas.ac.uk

....

Please direct any queries to myself (contact details below) or my

colleague Mrs Maureen Gaskin 020 7898 4022 mailto:m.gaskin@eldp.soas.ac.uk

Many thanks

Jacqueline Arrol-Barker

mailto:j.arrolbarker@eldp.soas.ac.uk

Mrs Jacqueline Arrol-Barker

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

SOAS, Thornhaugh Street

Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

United Kingdom

Tel +44 (0)20 7898 4021

Fax +44 (0)20 7898 4199

[material deleted]



From: "John E. Benneth" <zeus@zzz.com>
Subject: The War of the Apostrophe
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:22:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 187 (187)


Francois Lachance's letter in Vol. 15 (15.463) of The Humanist calls

attention to a CBC broadcast concerning efforts by the American Apostrophe

Association to bring Albertsons, a U.S. supermarket, to insert the required

apostrophe in its name as it appears on all of its 2,400 U.S.

storefronts.   I am one of the two officers of the AAA (not to be confused

with the other AAA) and our campaign produced a lively exchange of letters.

However, not only did we lose the battle, we lost the war.  Albertsons has

now filed SEC papers to eliminate the apostrophe from its corporate filing

where this punctuation originally appeared and where, curiously, it

continues to appear on the company's letterheads and telephone directory

listings. So we are left feeling like Hamlets of the apostrophe--having

dithered much but accomplished little.

It occurs to us that you might enjoy having the file of correspondence

generated by our undertaking.  There are about a half dozen letters, and if

Wolpole wrote in this vein--as Mr. Lachance suggests--the man did indeed

have a sense of humor.   However, inasmuch as we do not maintain a website,

would you be willing to post our file in The Humanist archives so that we

might be aable to direct others to it as need be?  (And do let us know

where to find the posting.)  The file, incidentally, includes an

interesting response from the company, defending its signage.

John Benneth, President

American Apostrophe Association

Tigard, Oregon



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: visualizing and knowing
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:29:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 188 (188)


Recently I had the good fortune of attending the Congress of the Deutsche

Gesellschaft fuer Semiotik (German Society for Semiotics) in Kassel and so

also Documenta11 <<a href="http://www.documenta.de/">http://www.documenta.de/</a>>, the international contemporary

art exhibition held there every few years since its founding in 1955.

Subsequently I attended the ALLC/ACH in Tuebingen. Among the memorabilia

uniting these three events, allow me to report on the following.

First a book that all those who are interested in visualization will be

glad for (esp those who read German): Bettina Heinz und Joerg Huber,

Hgg.  Mit dem Auge denken: Strategien der Sichbarmachung in

wissenschaftlichen und virtuellen Weiten. ith Institut fuer Theorie der

Gestaltung und Kunst. Zuerich: Edition Voldemeer; Wien und New York:

Springer Verlag, 2001. (For more about ith see

<a href="http://www.hgk-zuerich.ch/institut.htm">http://www.hgk-zuerich.ch/institut.htm</a>.)

Second a remark made by one of my fellow contributors to a session at the

Congress, Peter Stokerson (Illinois Institute of Technology), who expressed

profound unease with the phrase "visual language" -- because it commits us

to a distorting analogy when used to think about the semiotics of visual

objects. This in turn brought back to mind the problem of tacit knowing,

since it raises the question of whether by "tacit" (L. taceo, be silent) we

mean not expressible/expressed at all or not expressible/expressed in

words. Both are problems for us: the latter because we craft objects, i.e.

software, the former because these become what they are in use, in a

performative social context.

The communication of software objects is, of course, greatly aided by the

online medium, though how we as computing humanists publish and evaluate

these in the scholarly sense isn't clear (anyhow, not to me). The use of

the word "object" here suggests slippage toward the visual. Would it be

profitable to look to the ways and means of visual artists for help with

this problem? The performative dimension, of knowing-in-engagement,

suggests the possibility of alliance with work in multimedia, not in its

application e.g. to teaching but as a means of thinking.

Third, along those lines, allow me finally to direct your attention to a

very interesting paper by John Zuern (Hawaii-Manoa), "Interpreting

Animation and Vice Versa: Can We Philosophize in Flash?", which he gave at

the ALLC/ACH conference in Tuebingen, 27 July. The abstract is online, at

<a href="http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/cgi-bin/abs/abs?propid=34">http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/cgi-bin/abs/abs?propid=34</a>.

Comments?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Workshop on Transcription of Medieval MSS at Berkeley
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:25:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 189 (189)


August 19

The Digital Scriptorium Project has prepared another revised version of

the Document Type Definition (DTD) for the encoded transcription of

medieval manuscripts using XML, documentation of that DTD, and a set of

software tools to facilitate their use. These materials will be available

after 8/19/02 to anyone, at UC Berkeley or elsewhere, at

        <a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/transcription.html">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/transcription.html</a>

The Bancroft Library, U. of California, Berkeley, will sponsor a one-day

hands-on workshop (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.) on Monday, August 19 (place TBA). The

workshop will be led by Sharon Goetz and Charles Faulhaber and will cover

all aspects of the use of the transcription guidelines and the software:

downloading and installation, overview of text encoding principles for the

preparation of machine-readable texts, and step-by-step instruction in the

encoding and transcription of medieval manuscripts using the software.

Participants may use manuscripts available on the Digital Scriptorium

website or provide their own.

The workshop is open to anyone, whether affiliatied with UC Berkeley or

not. Therre is no fee, but we can accomodate only 17 participants. If you

are interested in attending the workshop, please contact Charles Faulhaber

(cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu).

The original DTD was prepared by Michael Sperberg-McQueen, former U.S.

editor of the Text Encoding Initiative. An XML version was prepared by

David Seaman (Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia). This in turn has

been extensively revised by Sharon Goetz (UC Berkeley). We are deeply

indebted to all three for their work.

Charles Faulhaber       The Bancroft Library    UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

(510) 642-3782          FAX (510) 642-7589      cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu



From: Mike Gismondi <mikeg@athabascau.ca>
Subject: New Online Graduate Course in Information Aesthetics
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:25:43 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 190 (190)


Some of your readers may be interested in this new online graduate course

MAIS 656: Datascapes: Information Aesthetics and Network Culture

from Athabasca University, offered this fall.

<<a href="http://www.athabascau.ca/mais/syllabi/mais656.html">http://www.athabascau.ca/mais/syllabi/mais656.html</a>><a href="http://www.athabascau.ca/mais/syllabi/mais656.html">http://www.athabascau.ca/mais/syllabi/mais656.html</a>



From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- July 2002
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:26:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 191 (191)


CIT INFOBITS    July 2002               No. 49          ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the

CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a

number of information and instructional technology sources that come to

her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to

educators.

......................................................................

E-Learner Competencies

Do Libraries Really Need Books?

How College Students Use the Web for Course Assignments

Report on Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Recent Reports on the State of U.S. Education

Recommended Reading

[material deleted]

INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at

<a href="http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/">http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/</a> (HTML format) and at

<a href="http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html">http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html</a> (plain text format).



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.23
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:27:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 192 (192)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 23,  Week of July 22, 2002

In this issue:

Views --

Talking with Terry Winograd

Ambient technology, convergence, and success in innovation

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/t_winograd_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/t_winograd_1.html</a>



From: carolyn guertin <cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: positions in Copenhagen: computer games & digital aesthetics
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:29:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 193 (193)


Please forward
[deleted quotation]
___________________________________________________

Carolyn Guertin, Dept of English, University of Alberta, Canada,

& trAce Online Writing School, Nottingham Trent University, UK

E-Mail: cguertin@ualberta.ca; Tel/FAX: 780-438-3125

Website: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/">http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/</a>

Assemblage, The Online Women's New Media Gallery, at trAce:

<a href="http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm">http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Update on Open Archives Initiative Search interface
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:38:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 194 (194)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

August 2, 2002

                      OAIster Search Interface Updated.

      <a href="http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple">http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple</a>

A new, simpler search interface has been provided for users who want to try

out the University of Michigan's OAIster retrieval service. OAIster is a

proposed information retrieval service of the University of Michigan

library for information about publicly available digital library resources

provided by the research library community.

It is being built using a suite of Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-based

metadata harvesting services developed by the Library of the University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to enable the discovery and retrieval

of scholarly works, hidden on the Web (in databases, finding aids, and XML

documents) beyond the reach of search engines. For more on the UIUC

metadata harvester, see <a href="http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/index.htm">http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/index.htm</a>.

Give it a try.

David Green

===========

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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.142 visualizing and knowing
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:42:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 195 (195)


Willard,

A twist of reversal helps me construct a useful blindfold.
[deleted quotation]
I'm tempted to develop an alter ego (MW = Mirror Willard) so that I can

contemplate the pairings doubled by the redoubtless*** WM

Teaching is a mode of thinking, no?

Heidegger in the second part of What is Called Thinking? plays with an

etymological twist on a saying of Parmenides to arrive at and depart from

        Useful is the letting-lie-before us also (the) taking-to-heart

        too... (trans. J. Glenn Gray)

Now I ask if objects invite contemplation, is contemplation always already

a slide towards the visual? Is it possible that appeals to the primacy of

vision (or conversely a rhetoric "deeveeing"** the visual mode) spring

from the defense politics and reaction formations to those defense

politics which underpin the history of cybernetics? I ask because c3i

(command, control, communicate, intelligence) may lie at the edge of the

hesitancy of calls to invoke the performative. There is an economy here

which the very term "visual language" can undercut. If language is a

virus, as William Burroughs writes and Laurie Anderson rewrites, then as

with any language, thinking, that taking to heart what is allowed to lie

before us can be infectious. The vectorness of the viral is mutable (it

can change direction and speed). The modularity of language challenges

attempts to totally control the effects induced by users playing with its

granularity and combinatorial powers. The visual may be imbued with

neither the mobility of the viral nor the modularity of language. One can

imagine such a visual. Can what is in the objects that we may shape that

can neither be controlled nor communicated be commanded? The sentence may

appear contorted upon first reading. It deserves perhaps less a second

reading (with eyes) or even a sounding aloud as an ammendation in the form

of a further question: is Humanities Computing a site where scholars

create and command through a set of performances that could be mapped to a

semiotic square:

        control lost                    communication regained

        communication lost              control regained

This becomes remarkable when the possible paths are envisioned less as a

two-player game and more as a community dynamic.

And so can provide in their being allowed to lie-there for the

taking-heart for a kind of two step digital imagination:

        visual                  language

        not language            not visual

Maybe?

** See John Brunner's 1975 novel _Shockwave Rider_

*** Yes, I meant "redoubtless" and not "redoubtable".

Hoping to be redoubtable in redoubtlessness as WM someday: my initials do

not however form such nice symmetries, though FL does tend to sonorous

flow....

AX

OT

IV

UH

HU

VI

TO

XA

I wonder if the Romans made visual puns on the numbers 4 and 6.

xox


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
Subject: MelbourneDAC: call for papers
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:35:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 196 (196)


Digital Arts and Culture::2003::Streaming Wor(l)ds

The 2003 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) international

conference series is to be held on the city campus of RMIT University,

Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003.

keywords: Augmented Reality, Cyberculture, Electronic Fiction, Electronic

Music, Electronic Nonfiction, Electronic Poetry, Electronic Spatiality,

Electronic Temporality, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Games Culture,

Games Sociology, Games System Design, Games Theory , Hypertext

Literature  , Hypertext Theory , Interactive Architecture, Interactive

Cinema and Video  , Interactive Graphic Narrative, Interactive Performance,

MOOs, MUDs, RPG, Networked Improvisation, Networked performance, Streaming

Narrative, Time Based Interactive Media, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, ,

++proposals++

Artists, scholars, developers and practitioners working in these and

cognate fields are invited to submit 500 word proposals for papers and

panels by September 15, 2002. All proposals for papers and panels must be

submitted via the submission page which will shortly be available from the

conference web site:

<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/</a>

All contributions will be reviewed by the conference academic board and

short listed nominations will be contacted by November 1, 2002.

Short listing does not mean that your work has been accepted for the

conference. Short listing means you will be invited to write a full paper,

panel proposal, or forum description for review by the program committee.

Only complete papers, panel submissions and forum descriptions will be

considered for acceptance and this is subject to full peer review by the

program committee.

Paper and panel submissions must be completed and submitted by February 1,

2003 for final peer review and consideration. All accepted work will be

published in a full conference proceedings.

++papers++

Papers are academic presentations that reflect any of the conference

themes. Proposals for papers are limited to 500 words and should give the

program committee an indication of your major argument or arguments, and

your theoretical approach. It is expected that only abstracts that suggest

an original contribution to the field will be short listed.

++panels++

Panels are themed discussions that concentrate on any of the conference

themes. Panels are to consist of a position statement (that may or may not

be collectively authored) that panel members respond and contribute to.

Panel proposals ought to include a draft position statement (maximum of 500

words) and list the members of the panel. Panels are expected to make a

constructive and original contribution to debate and ideas in the field.

++what is dac?++

DAC is an international conference focusing on new media theory and

practice in critical contexts. It has nurtured a significant international

community of young and innovative researchers, artists and scholars in the

interdisciplinary field of new media, and has become the benchmark

conference for research and collaborative endeavour in new media. DAC has

always offered a specialised forum that has emphasised the importance of

bringing together leading practitioners for the exchange of ideas and to

develop international professional networks and knowledge economies.

MelbourneDAC:Streaming Wor(l)ds recognises and intends to continue this

role through the papers, panels, and forums it hosts, and the innovative

series of collaborative workshops and events that will be undertaken by all

conference participants. The mission of MelbourneDAC is to not only

exchange ideas and promote new developments in digital arts and culture but

to ensure that all participants develop relevant and sustainable

professional communities.

Adrian Miles Conference Chair

adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au

Antoanetta Ivanova Conference Producer

antoanetta@novamediaarts.net

_______________________________

end of announcement


--
+  lecturer in new media and cinema studies
[<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog</a>]
+  interactive desktop video developer  [<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/</a>]
+  hypertext rmit [<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au</a>]
+ InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [<a href="http://www.intermedia.uib.no">http://www.intermedia.uib.no</a>]


From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: 2002 IP in Academia Online Workshop Series
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:36:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 197 (197)

The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland
University College is interested in advertising this non-profit workshop
series among interested educators and administrators. Could you please
post the message below to your listserve?
-------------------------------------------------------------------
ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION
*Please Distribute Widely*
2002 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series
www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland
University College is hosting an asynchronous online workshop series
that is of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians,
instructional design and information professionals.  Each workshop will
last approximately three weeks, providing the participants with an
in-depth understanding of core intellectual property issues facing
higher education.
The Shrinking Public Domain
September 16- October 4, 2002
Moderated by Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, Esq
Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
There is considerable concern among academics and copyright scholars
that the public domain is being treated as a commodity, thereby
resulting in the loss of access to users and others who appreciate great
scholarly, literary, musical and audiovisual works. This workshop will
explore this complex issue particularly as it relates to the use of
digital information in the teaching and learning enterprise.
Academic Integrity Compliance on College Campuses
October 28 - November 15, 2002
Moderated by Diane M. Waryold, PhD
Executive Director of Center for Academic Integrity, Program
Administrator of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Fundamental to the mission of many schools is the concept of academic
integrity. What role do campus and departmental policies play in student
compliance? What is the role of faculty, librarians and students in
assisting faculty and policy enforcement? And what are the various means
for detecting plagiarism? What are the pros and cons of using these
plagiarism detection services? Gain an in-depth understanding of the
academic integrity issues facing higher education today
Preventing Plagiarism in the Online and face-2-face Classrooms
February 10-February 28, 2003
Moderated by Gary Pavela, Esq
Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development at the
University of Maryland-College Park
Can assignments be redesigned to avoid plagiarism in the online and
face-to-face classrooms? Is the relationship of writer/reader to text
profoundly changed online? Learn about proven, successful methods for
designing assignments that will enhance learning and lessen plagiarism.
Share your experience with fellow classmates and share successful
assignments and methods.
These online workshops will include course readings, chats and online
discussions. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from
the workshop moderators. Please visit the web site for all course
objectives:
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/workshops.html">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/workshops.html</a>
Register early since space is limited.  Early Registration is $125 each,
Regular $150 each, Two workshops $225, Three workshops is only $300! A
significant discount is given for full time graduate students until
places are filled; please consult the website for details. To register
online- www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
For additional information call 301-985-7777 or visit our web site at
www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002
[Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.]


From: "Robert Batusek" <xbatusek@informatics.muni.cz>
Subject: TSD 2002 - Second Call for Demonstrations and Participation
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:37:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 198 (198)

*************************************************************
   TSD 2002 - SECOND CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARTICIPATION
*************************************************************
Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2002)
Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002
<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/">http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/</a>
The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences,
University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported
by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS
Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and
hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the
abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission
must be made using an online form available at the conference www
pages.
The organisers will prepare the computers with multimedia support for
demonstrators. Faculty of Informatics has at its disposal a fast internet
connection allowing internet-based projects to be demonstrated. The faculty
network provides a wireless (IEEE 802.11b - WiFi) connection to the internet
as
well.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of demonstration papers:
July 31, 2002
Conference date:
September 9-12, 2002
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing
from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.
TOPICS
Topics of the TSD 2002 conference will include:
text corpora;
automatic morphology;
word sense disambiguation;
lexical semantics and semantic networks;
parsing and part-of-speech tagging;
machine translation;
multi-lingual issues;
information retrieval;
text/topic summarization;
knowledge representation and reasoning;
speech modeling;
speech coding;
speech segmentation;
speech prosody;
automatic speech recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis;
speaker identification and verification;
facial animation and visual speech synthesis;
dialogue systems;
development of dialogue strategies;
prosody and emotions in dialogues;
user modeling;
assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
markup languages related to speech and dialogue (VoiceXML, SSML, ...).
[material deleted]



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.25
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:41:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 199 (199)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 25,  Week of August 5, 2002

In this issue:

Review --

Social Thinking -- Software Practice

Mind the Gap

Review by Paul Duguid

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/p_duguid_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/p_duguid_2.html</a>

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: digital-copyright Digest 7 Aug 2002 15:00:00 -0000 Issue 47
Subject: Eldred v. Ashcroft - Government Response Brief:
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:08:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 200 (200)


Eldred v. Ashcroft

Government Response Brief:

<a href="http://eldred.cc/legal/01-618.Eldred3.mer.pdf">http://eldred.cc/legal/01-618.Eldred3.mer.pdf</a>

*

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review Symposium

Intellectual Property, Congressional Power and the Constitution

<a href="http://llr.lls.edu/">http://llr.lls.edu/</a>

"This symposium, edited by Professor Lawrence B. Solum, presents a variety

of perspectives on Eldred v. Ashcroft, on which the United States Supreme

Court will hear oral argument in its October 2002 term.  Eldred may become

the most important copyright case to be heard by the Court in several

decades."

The decision ..., Eldred v. Reno, 239 F.3d 372 (D.C. Cir. 2001), affirming

74 F.Supp.2d 1, (D.D.C. 1999), rejected a challenge to the Copyright Term

Extension Act of 1998, Pub.L. No. 105-298, 112 Stat. 2827.

Examples of Essays in the symposium:

"Balancing Copyright Protections and Freedom of Speech: Why the Copyright

Extension Act Is Unconstitutional," by Erwin Chemerinsky, Sydney M. Irmas

Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science,

University of Southern California

"The Mythology Of The Public Domain: Exploring The Myths Behind Attacks On

The Duration Of Copyright Protection," by Scott M. Martin, Senior

Vice-President for Intellectual Property and Associate General Counsel,

Paramount Pictures Corporation. Former Adjunct Professor of Copyright Law

at USC School of Law, Associate in Law at Columbia University School of

Law, and Guest Lecturer at USC Thornton School of Music

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From: Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>
Subject: Momentum for Eprint Archiving (fwd)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:16:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 201 (201)


To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG

Resent-Subject: Momentum for Eprint Archiving

Momentum for eprint archiving

Institutional eprint archiving is currently undergoing an unprecedented

surge of acceptance and support. Years of patient work by many people

at many institutions around the world have slowly assembled the pieces,

spread the word, impressed the skeptics, and created a critical number

of interoperable archives. Now archiving has reached a tipping point. Its

rapidly spreading success is a pleasure to behold.

For these purposes, eprint archiving has three components: (1) the

software for building the archives, Eprints for large institutional or

disciplinary archives and Kepler for smaller individual "archivelets",

(2) the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol, the

standard for making the archives interoperable, and (3) the decision by

universities and laboratories to launch archives and fill them with the

research output of their faculty.

Here are the major developments on these three fronts going back only

six months. If you've been following the progress of the FOS movement for

any number of years, you'll agree that no other single idea or technology

in the movement has enjoyed this density of endorsement and adoption in

a six month period:.

February 1, 2002. JISC holds the meeting to launch its Focus on Access

to Institutional Resources Programme (FAIR), a program "inspired by the

vision of the Open Archives Initiative".

<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub02/c01_02.html">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub02/c01_02.html</a>

February 6, 2002. Eight major library organizations from eight nations

launch the International Scholarly Communication Alliance, which endorses

institutional eprint archiving and the Open Archives Initiative.

<a href="http://makeashorterlink.com/?A15D6226">http://makeashorterlink.com/?A15D6226</a>

February 14, 2002. Eprints launches version 2.0.

<a href="http://software.eprints.org/newfeatures.php">http://software.eprints.org/newfeatures.php</a>

February 14, 2002. The Open Society Institute launches the Budapest

Open Access Initiative, which endorses institutional eprint archiving

and the Open Archives Initiative.

<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/</a>

February 25, 2002. The University of Michigan Libraries Digital Library

Production Service announces the launch of OAIster, which creates an

OAI-compliant archive out of content previously invisible in the deep

internet.

<a href="http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple">http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple</a>

March 2002. The CARL/ABRC (Canadian Association of Research Libraries /

Association des bibliotheques de recherche du Canada) issues a report

endorsing the Open Archives Initiative.

<a href="http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/scholarly/open_archives.PDF">http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/scholarly/open_archives.PDF</a>

March, 2002. Francois Schiettecatte launches my.OAI, a flexible search

engine for OAI-compliant archives.

<a href="http://www.myoai.com/">http://www.myoai.com/</a>

March 12, 2002. MIT's OAI-compliant DSpace enters its Early Adopter

Phase <a href="http://libraries.mit.edu/about/news/early-dspace.html">http://libraries.mit.edu/about/news/early-dspace.html</a>

March 26, 2002. The first DELOS EU/NSF Digital Libraries All Projects

Meeting in Rome devotes a forum to the Open Archives Initiative.

<a href="http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/activities/internationalforum/All-Projects/us.html">http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/activities/internationalforum/All-Projects/us.html</a>

March 26, 2002. The OCLC Institute hosts the satellite videoconference,

"A New Harvest: Revealing Hidden Resources With the Open Archives

Metadata Harvesting Protocol" with host Lorcan Dempsey and featured

speaker Herbert Van de Sompel.

<a href="http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/sbs-new_harvest.htm">http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/sbs-new_harvest.htm</a>

April 3, 2002. The California Digital Library launches the OAI-compliant

eScholarship Repository.

<a href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/">http://repositories.cdlib.org/</a>

April 7, 2002. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign launches

its OAI-compliant Cultural Heritage repository.

<a href="http://library.wustl.edu/~listmgr/imagelib/Apr2002/0002.html">http://library.wustl.edu/~listmgr/imagelib/Apr2002/0002.html</a>

<a href="http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/oai/search">http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/oai/search</a>

April 11, 2002. Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner and John MacColl write

an important article for _Ariadne_ on their experience setting up

institutional eprint archives at the universities of Edinburgh and

Nottingham.

<a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/">http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/</a>

April 17, 2002. At the Museums and the Web 2002 conference in Boston,

Timothy Cole and five co-authors present their experience setting up

the UIUC Cultural Heritage Repository.

<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/papers/cole/cole.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/papers/cole/cole.html</a>

May-June, 2002. Colin Steele and Lorena Kanellopoulos visit each of the

Group of Eight universities in Australia to promote the creation and

use of eprint repositories. Queensland set up an archive, Monash plans

to do so, and Melbourne is experimenting; the rest of the Group of Eight

is expected to create archives shortly. The separate university archive

projects have web sites, but not the Steele-Kanellopoulos roadshow.

May, 2002. CARL/ABRC launches a project to create institutional archives

at seven Canadian universities and have the institutions exchange

ideas, suggestions and best practices. (Also see the November 21-22

conference, below.) The project itself does not have a web page, but

it does have this page of relevant resources.

<a href="http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/index.htm">http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/index.htm</a>

May, 2002. RLG (Research Libraries Group) and OCLC (Online Computers

Library Center) release their major report, "Trusted Digital Repositories:

Attributes and Responsibilities".

<a href="http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf">http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf</a>

May 6, 2002. The Perseus Project launches its Open Archives Initiative

services.

<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/oai.ann.html">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/oai.ann.html</a>

May 9, 2002. Colin Steele gives a seminar on eprint archives at University

of Adelaide.

<a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/pr/publications/inside_adelaide/2002/13may/news/eprint.html">http://www.adelaide.edu.au/pr/publications/inside_adelaide/2002/13may/news/eprint.html</a>

May 21, 2002. ARL (Association of Research Libraries) releases its

final report on its Scholars Portal project, and calls for it to be

OAI-compliant.

<a href="http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/final.html">http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/final.html</a>

May 29, 2002. _The Australian_ publishes a major article on eprint

repositories.

<a href="http://makeashorterlink.com/?O25423871">http://makeashorterlink.com/?O25423871</a>

June 14, 2002. The OAI releases version 2.0 of the protocol for metadata

harvesting.

<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/news/oaiv2press020614.html">http://www.openarchives.org/news/oaiv2press020614.html</a>

June 22, 2002. A group chaired by Colin Steele completes specifications

for a national center to promote eprint repositories in Australia. The

specifications were requested by the Australian Department of Education,

Science and Training department. There is no web site yet for this

project.

July 1, 2002. OAIster launches version 1.0 of its search interface.

<a href="http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple">http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple</a>

July 1, 2002. Eprints affiliates with GNU, assuring that it will remain

free and open source.

<a href="http://software.eprints.org/gnu.php">http://software.eprints.org/gnu.php</a>

July 1, 2002. Eprints forms a partnership with Ingenta, which will produce

a commercial version of the software (more in the Ingenta story above).

<a href="http://makeashorterlink.com/?G36A21741">http://makeashorterlink.com/?G36A21741</a>

July 4, 2002. Eprints launches version 2.1.

<a href="http://software.eprints.org/newfeatures.php">http://software.eprints.org/newfeatures.php</a>

July 5, 2002. Jeffrey Young publishes an important article on institutional

archiving in the _Chronicle of Higher Education_.

<a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm">http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm</a>

July 8, 2002. William Nixon writes an important article for _Ariadne_ on

the experience of setting up an institutional archive at the University

of Glasgow.

<a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue32/eprint-archives/">http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue32/eprint-archives/</a>

July 14, 2002. The Public Knowledge Project releases its Open Archives

Harvester.

<a href="http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/">http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/</a>

July 14, 2002. Michael Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Simeon

Warner present an "Advanced Overview of Version 2.0 of the OAI Protocol

for Metadata Harvesting" at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital

Libraries.

<a href="http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/jcdl02/oai-2.0-adv-final.pdf">http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/jcdl02/oai-2.0-adv-final.pdf</a>

July 16-17, 2002. The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries gives the

OAI two sessions at its 2002 meeting in Portland, Oregon. (Scroll down

to sessions 6B and 10A.)

<a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/main.cgi?opt=sked-pap&F">http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/main.cgi?opt=sked-pap&F</a>=

July 29, 2002. The University of Southampton, which developed the eprints

software, announces TARDIS (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and

dISclosure), a project to stimulate the practice of eprint archiving.

<a href="http://makeashorterlink.com/?E58D15271">http://makeashorterlink.com/?E58D15271</a>

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/TARDIS/">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/TARDIS/</a>

July 29, 2002. SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources

Coalition) releases its major position paper, "The Case for Institutional

Repositories".

<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html">http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html</a>  (HTML)

<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Final_Release_102.pdf">http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Final_Release_102.pdf</a>  (PDF)

August 1, 2002. Project SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research

Preservation and Access) begins operation. Funded by JISC-FAIR, SHERPA

is designed to stimulate eprint archiving in the UK CURL (Consortium of

University Research Libraries) institutions.

<a href="http://www.sellic.ed.ac.uk/publicat/updates/ud0502.html#eight">http://www.sellic.ed.ac.uk/publicat/updates/ud0502.html#eight</a>

<a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/">http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/</a>  (home page under construction)

August 2, 2002. Max Rauner writes an important story on institutional

archiving for _NZZ Online_.

<a href="http://www.nzz.ch/2002/08/02/em/page-article88LHN.html">http://www.nzz.ch/2002/08/02/em/page-article88LHN.html</a>  (In German)

<a href="http://makeashorterlink.com/?F22715371">http://makeashorterlink.com/?F22715371</a>  (Google's English translation)

August 3, 2002. Kendra Mayfield writes a major story  on eprint archives

for _Wired News_.

<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54229,00.html">http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54229,00.html</a>

August 8, 2002. And now this:

If we peek a little into the future, we see three important meetings

coming:

October 17-19, 2002. CERN will host its second annual workshop on the

Open Archives Initiative and eprint archives.

<a href="http://library.cern.ch/Announcement.htm">http://library.cern.ch/Announcement.htm</a>

<a href="http://documents.cern.ch/AGE/current/fullAgenda.php?ida=a02333">http://documents.cern.ch/AGE/current/fullAgenda.php?ida=a02333</a>

Here's the web site for the first CERN OAI workshop, in March 2001.

<a href="http://documents.cern.ch/AGE/current/fullAgenda.php?ida=a01193">http://documents.cern.ch/AGE/current/fullAgenda.php?ida=a01193</a>

October 18, 2002. ARL, SPARC, and CNI will host a workshop on

institutional repositories in Washington, D.C.

<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=h23">http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=h23</a>

(Rick Johnson of SPARC tells me that this workshop has already attracted

more than 100 registrations from 66 universities. This suggests widespread

interest in launching institutional repositories.)

November 21-11, 2002. CARL/ABRC will host a conference ("Research,

Innovation and Canadian Scholarship: Exploring and implementing some

new models for scholarly publishing") on the lessons learned from

its ongoing project to launch and monitor archives at seven Canadian

universities. (See the CARL/ABRC entry for May above.)  The conference

program and registration information will soon appear at the CARL web site.

<a href="http://www.carl-abrc.ca/">http://www.carl-abrc.ca/</a>

There are also some developments without specific dates:

The BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) is considering a program to

support institutional archiving.

<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/</a>

(No details on the site yet. Stay tuned; I'll report any developments.)

The BOAI self-archiving FAQ is growing steadily.

<a href="http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/">http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/</a>

(If you haven't seen it recently, see it now. It has become extremely

detailed and thorough.)

Helene Bosc reports that five eprint repositories have recently sprung up

in France:

        These-En-Ligne (theses only)

        <a href="http://theses-en-ligne.in2p3.fr">http://theses-en-ligne.in2p3.fr</a>

        l'Institut Jean Nicod

        <a href="http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr">http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr</a>

        l'Archive Lyon2

        <a href="http://eprints.univ-lyon2.fr:8050/">http://eprints.univ-lyon2.fr:8050/</a>

        Paristech (theses only)

        <a href="http://pastel.paristech.org">http://pastel.paristech.org</a>

        Archivesic

        <a href="http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/">http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/</a>

* Here are the URLs of some players mentioned above without links.

Eprints

<a href="http://www.eprints.org">http://www.eprints.org</a>

<a href="http://software.eprints.org/">http://software.eprints.org/</a>

Kepler

<a href="http://kepler.cs.odu.edu/">http://kepler.cs.odu.edu/</a>

Open Archives Initiative

<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/">http://www.openarchives.org/</a>

* Thanks to Helene Bosc, Sarah Faraud, Chris Gutteridge, Melissa Hagemann,

Stevan Harnad, Rick Johnson, Xiaoming Liu, Tim Mark, Stephen Pinfield,

Colin Steele, and Herbert Van de Sompel for providing details.

Peter Suber

<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters</a>

Copyright (c) 2002, Peter Suber

<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/copyrite.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/copyrite.htm</a>



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: A Historian Confronts Technological Change
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:07:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 202 (202)


A new publication from MIT might interest to humanist scholars,

"Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change" by Rosalind

Williams (August 2002, ISBN 0-262-23223-5, MIT Press)

When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to

enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that

would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the

death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later,

Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in

the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience

to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary

life.

Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education

at MIT from 1995 through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave

of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform many aspects of

social and working life--from how students are taught to how research and

accounting are done--at this major site of technological innovation. In

Retooling, she uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights

into contemporary society's obsession with technology.

Today technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties, memories,

imagination, and experiences of time and space in unprecedented ways. But

technology, and specifically information technology, does not simply

influence culture and society; it is itself inherently cultural and

social. If there is to be any reconciliation between technological change

and community, Williams argues, it will come from connecting technological

and social innovation--a connection demonstrated in the history that

unfolds in this absorbing book.

More details about the book is available at

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Best regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: Jing-Shin Chang <shin@lang-tech.csie.ncnu.edu.tw>
Subject: Call for Participation (Online registration due 8/15!!)
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:08:58 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 203 (203)


                    COLING-2002: Fourth Call for Participation

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From: Kluwer <Kluwer@Kluwer.m0.net>
Subject: Computational Methods in Decision-Making, Economics and
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:05:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 204 (204)


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From: Kluwer <Kluwer@Kluwer.m0.net>
Subject: Alert: Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:06:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 205 (205)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

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Acts, Mind, and Social Reality

Discussions with John R. Searle

edited by

Gnther Grewendorf

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Georg Meggle

University of Leipzig, Germany

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB6616722941X1481676X119418Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB6616722941X1481676X119418Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>STUDIES

IN LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY -- 79

Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality  these are the main topics in the

work of John R. Searle, one of the leading philosophical figures of the

present times. How language is based on intentionality, how intentionality

in turn is to be explicated by means of distinctions discovered in Speech

Act Theory, and how language and intentionality are both related to social

facts and institutions  these are questions to be tackled in this

volume. The contributions result from discussions on and with John R.

Searle, containing Searle's own latest views  including his seminal

ideas on Rationality in Action. The collection provides a good basis for

advanced seminar debates in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and

Social Philosophy, and will also stimulate some further research on all of

the three main topics.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Introduction. Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality; J.R. Searle. Interview

with John R. Searle; R. Stoecker.

Speech Acts. How Performatives Don't Work; G. Grewendorf. Are Performative

Utterances Declarations? R.M. Harnish. Expressibility, Explicability, and

Taxonomy. Some Remarks on the Principle of Expressibility; F.Kannetzky.

Expressing an Intentional State; A. Kemmerling. On the Proper Treatment of

Performatives; A. Martinich. Why Do We Mean Something Rather Than Nothing?

C. Plunze. What Is an Illocutionary Point? M. Siebel. Searle on Meaning and

Action; D. Vanderveken.

Mind. Understanding Utterances and Other Actions; T. Bartelborth, O.

Scholz. Intrinsic Intentionality; W. Lenzen. Causal Reduction, Ontological

Reduction, and First-Person Ontology. Notes on Searle's Views about

Consciousness; M. Nida-Rmelin. The Hidden Algebra of the Mind from a

Linguistic Perspective; T. Roeper. Identification and Misidentification; A.

Stroll.

Social Reality. Searle on Social Reality: Process Is Prior to Product; S.B.

Barnes. On Searle's Collective Intentionality. Some Notes; G. Meggle.

Searle's Theory of Institutional Facts: A Program of Critical Revision; J.

Moural. True Reality and Real Truth; D. Sosa. Searle, Collective

Intentionality, and Social Institutions; R. Tuomela.

New Perspectives. The Classical Model of Rationality and Its Weaknesses;

J.R. Searle. Contributors.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0853-8 Date: September 2002 Pages: 336 pp.

EURO 125.00 / USD 120.00 / GBP 80.00

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From: Kluwer <Kluwer@Kluwer.m0.net>
Subject: The Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:06:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 206 (206)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

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Internet Challenge: Technology and Applications

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop held at the TU

Berlin,Germany, October 8-9, 2002

edited by

Gnter Hommel

Dept. of Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Sheng Huanye

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China

The International Workshop on "The Internet Challenge: Technology

andApplications" is the fifth in a successful series of Workshops that were

established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universitt

Berlin. The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from

both universities in order to present research results to an international

community. Not only the enabling technology but also challenging

applications based on internet technology are covered in the workshop as

e.g.:Information extraction, content correlation analysis;Electronic

trading, electronic learning over the internet;Internet-based robot

control, telepresence, supply chain modeling;Communication techniques as

wireless LANs, multistage interconnection, quality of service;Metacomputing

and performance prediction;Image retrieval, spatial reasoning.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0903-8 Date: September 2002 Pages: 173 pp.

EURO 100.00 / USD 100.00 / GBP 65.00

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From: Kluwer <Kluwer@Kluwer.m0.net>
Subject: Internet Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:07:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 207 (207)


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Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact

edited by

Wojciech Cellary

The Pozn=C3=A1n University of Economics, Poland

Arun Iyengar

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA

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C.J. Bouras, A. Gkamas. A New Method of Predictive-substitutional Data=20

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W. Burakowski, M. Fuda=C5=82a.

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Jarupunphol, C.J. Mitchell. Measuring Internet Diffusion in Italy; A.=20

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EURO 171.00 / USD 155.00 / GBP 109.00

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From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.151 e-print archiving
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:07:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 208 (208)


Everybody who is interested in digital archiving should be aware that

two acronyms in this literature are frequently confused:

OAI: Open Archives Initiative, which defines a set of discovery metadata

that "exposes" archived materials to a harvester in a standard way so

they can be found;

OAIS: Open Archival Information System, which defines an underlying

system specification for the "trusted repository" that must securely

preserve the digitally archived objects. Wide acceptance of the OAIS

model and endorsement by OCLC and RLG has been crucial to these efforts

because it provides the roadmap for making a repository that can carry

the objects forward in an authentic way through time, even when software

and hardware change. Ideally, any e-print archive should comply with

both standards, unless it's assumed that its contents won't be of

interest for more than about five years.

Pat Galloway

GSLIS

University of Texas-Austin



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@mivu.org>
Subject: August TS Author Forums
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:08:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 209 (209)


The following Technology Source Author Forums are scheduled for August.

These free forums are offered in collaboration with ULiveandLearn, an

e-learning company that uses the HorizonLive platform to allow

participants to interact directly with TS authors via their desktops. You

may sign up to participate in any of these free webcasts by going to

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SIGN UP NOW button. Forums will last 45 minutes. To convert the time in

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to the "World Time Converter" section.

Thursday, August 15, 2002--11:00 A.M. U.S. Eastern time

A webcast on Britain's e-Learning Centre, featuring Jane Knight, founder

of e-Learning Centre, and Stephen Downes, Spotlight Site editor. In his

current review in The Technology Source

(<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1028">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1028</a>), Downes offers an

introduction to e-Learning Centre, a one-stop site for the latest

resources and research in this rapidly changing field.

Thursday, August 15, 2002--1:00 P.M. U.S. Eastern time

A webcast on online music instruction, featuring Mary Cyr, whose current

article (<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=975">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=975</a>) discusses how

she used technology to foster student engagement with the world of

classical music.

Thursday, August 15, 2002--2:00 P.M. U.S. Eastern time

A webcast on K-12 faculty development workshops in technology, featuring

Linda Domanski, whose current article

(<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=918">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=918</a>) describes her work in

Westminster College's Teaching with Technology Made Simple (TWTMS)

program.

Monday, August 19, 2002--3:00 P.M. EST

A webcast on faculty development programs, featuring David G. Brown, vice

president and dean of the International Center for Computer Enhanced

Learning at Wake Forest University, and Technology Source editor James

Morrison. In his current interview with Morrison in The Technology Source

(<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=997">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=997</a>), Brown discusses

current faculty development initiatives at Wake Forest, and addresses how

such initiatives can be implemented to encourage innovation by faculty

members.

We hope that you can join us. If not, the archives of all webcasts will be

available via the webcast button on the Interact! options menu within each

article a few hours after the webcast.

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH Copyright Town Meeting: Media Issues, Atlanta, Sept
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:09:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 210 (210)

30, 2002
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 12, 2002
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
                NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: ATLANTA
         Presented in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology
                School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
                    "Media Issues in the Digital Age:
           Copyright Strategies for Education and Culture"
                <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html</a>
                                   *   *   *
                          Monday September 30, 9am-5pm
                          Free of Charge * Open to All
        Registration Required:  <a href="http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH">http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH</a>
This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation and support from the Graduate School of the Georgia Institute of
Technology.
The 20th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting will be hosted in Atlanta by the
Georgia Institute of Technology, The Ivan Allen College and its School of
Literature, Communication, and Culture. It will be held at the Institute's
Student Center Ballroom on Monday September 30, 9am-5pm. The meeting is
open to all and is free of charge, but registration is required.
Although copyright law was originally written with text documents in mind,
the Internet and its increasingly wide bandwidth capabilities are demanding
changes. Napster dramatized the issues and as a result commercial companies
are scrambling to adjust their business models. Recent decisions about
license fees for radio webcasting, concerns about movie piracy and the
arrival of the TEACH Act have brought into focus many of the media issues
that have to be solved.
What are the implications of these issues for the educational and cultural
communities in the management, use and re-use of media online? Are film
studios so concerned about piracy that they will not give permission for
classroom use? Is licensing the only answer for digital access to media and
will it be prohibitively expensive for teachers and researchers? Is there a
way to get automated permissions? Is Fair Use still a viable option for
online use of media? What other issues are preventing the online
distribution of our rich heritage in dance?
Building on a 2001 Copyright Town Meeting held at the New York Public
Library, the Atlanta Town Meeting will examine the challenges and consider
practical strategies for taking advantage of the digital promise using
media online.
Program
The local organizing committee has assembled a first-rate team of speakers
taking advantage of the rich legal and media talent available in the
Atlanta region, together with national experts in the fields of copyright
and media law.
The meeting will open with two internationally known copyright experts, L.
Ray Patterson and Joseph Beck, giving their views on the key digital issues
that have serious implications for the deployment and use of sound and
moving images online. These will include the TEACH Act and the recent
webcasting licensing fee decision, among others. Patterson is universally
known for his classic work, Copyright in Historical Perspective and Joseph
Beck is now probably best known as the lead counsel for the defendent in
"The Wind Done Gone" case.
The major part of the meeting will be divided between Film, Television, the
Performing Arts and Sound, each panel taking a different perspective on the
issues of access to material, getting permission to use and re-use
material, and what is permissible and fair use in research, in the
classroom and online.
As with all NINCH Copyright Town Meetings there will be time for questions
and discussions throughout the program and the session will end with a
FORUM session for all participants
Featured speakers:
*  Ruta Abolins, Director, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody
Awards Collection, University of Georgia
*  Philip Auslander, Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and
Culture, Georgia Tech
*  Joseph Beck, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP; Adjunct Professor of
Copyright Law and of the First Amendment, Emory University
*  Kathy Christensen, Vice-President, News Archives and Research, CNN
*  Paul Gherman, University Librarian, Vanderbilt University
*  Jerry Goldman, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.
*  TyAnna K. Herrington, Associate Professor, School of Literature
Communication, and Culture
*  Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
*  Robert Kolker, Chair, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
*  Patrick Loughney, Head, Moving Image Section, Motion Picture
Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
*  Horace Newcomb, Lambdin Kay Distinguished Professor for the Peabody
Awards at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of Georgia
*  Madeleine Nichols, Curator of the Dance Collection, The New York Public
Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
*  L. Ray Patterson, Pope Brock Professor of Law, University of Georgia
*  Russ Reeder, President & CEO, RightsLine, Inc.
The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings seek to 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 <<a href="http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH">http://streamingquill.com/contract/NINCH</a>>. Lunch can be
purchased at the food court of the Student Center, and a special room will
be set up for participants to enjoy it.
Maps and directions can be found on the Town Meeting web
site:    <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/atlanta.html</a>
For information on all NINCH Copyright Town meetings, see
<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/</a>
*  *  *
Agenda
* Welcome & Introductions
Sue Rosser, Dean of the Ivan Allen College, the Humanities and Social
Sciences, Georgia Institute for Technology
Robert Kolker, School of Literature, Communication and Culture
David Green, NINCH
* An Overview: Digital Copyright Issues Today and Tomorrow
Joseph Beck, "The Transformative Use Defense to Copyright Infringement"
L. Ray Patterson, "The Unconstitutionality of the DMCA."
* FILM: Getting Permission - Four Perspectives
TBA,
Robert Kolker, "Rights & Permissions: Difficult But Possible"
Patrick Loughney, "An Archival Perspective"
Russ Reeder, "RightsLine: Automated (and affordable) Permissions"
* TV: Access and Use of the Archives
Paul Gherman, "Vanderbilt University Television News Archive: Online Access?"
Horace Newcomb, "The Peabody Awards: Building A Collection of Electronic
Media Based on Definitions of Excellence."
Ruta Abolins,
Kathy Christensen, "CNN: Granting Permission for Educational Use of Material"
Lunch
* Afternoon Keynote:
TyAnna K. Herrington, "Copyright for Academics"
* PERFORMING ARTS: Preservation and Access in the Performing Arts: the
Leading Rights Issues
Philip Auslander, "You Don't Own Me: Intellectual Property and Performance"
Madeleine Nichols,  "Challenges for Accessing Performance Online"
* SOUND: Copyright & Permissions
Jerry Goldman, "Teaching with Sound: a practical proposal for using sound
resources."
Peter Jaszi, "Sound Issues"
* FORUM
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From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@uh.edu>
Subject: Version 44, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:02:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 211 (211)


Version 44 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over

1,650 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources

that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing

efforts on the Internet.

       HTML: <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html</a>

       Acrobat: <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf</a>

The HTML document is designed for interactive use.  Each

major section is a separate file.  There are links to sources

that are freely available on the Internet.  It can be can be

searched using Boolean operators.

The HTML document includes three sections not found in

the Acrobat file:

(1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm</a>

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related

Web sites)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm</a>

(3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new

resources that is updated on weekdays)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm</a>

The Acrobat file is designed for printing.  The printed

bibliography is 140 pages long.  The Acrobat file is over

380 KB.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are

marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*

2 Electronic Books and Texts

       2.1 Case Studies and History*

       2.2 General Works*

       2.3 Library Issues

3  Electronic Serials

       3.1 Case Studies and History*

       3.2 Critiques

       3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*

       3.4 General Works*

       3.5 Library Issues*

       3.6 Research*

4 General Works*

5 Legal Issues

       5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*

       5.2 License Agreements

       5.3 Other Legal Issues

6  Library Issues

       6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*

       6.2 Digital Libraries*

       6.3 General Works*

       6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*

7 New Publishing Models*

8 Publisher Issues*

       8.1 Digital Rights Management*

9 Technical Reports and E-Prints*

Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author

Appendix B. About the Author

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes

the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata

Digital Libraries*

Electronic Books and Texts

Electronic Serials*

General Electronic Publishing*

Images

Legal*

Preservation

Publishers

SGML and Related Standards*

Technical Reports and E-Prints

An article about the bibliography has been published

in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:

<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html</a>

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.  <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm</a>



From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: JoDI: new issue (V3i1, August 2002)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:08:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 212 (212)


A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION

(Volume 3, issue 1, August 2002)

In this issue we are pleased to present a collection of papers including an

award-winning paper from the Hypertext 2002 conference, and papers on XML

and e-books, future research for the semantic Web, and on extending client

applications for Usenet news.

P. Brusilovsky, R. Rizzo

Map-Based Horizontal Navigation in Educational Hypertext

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Brusilovsky/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Brusilovsky/</a>

T. Hillesund

Many Outputs - Many Inputs: XML for Publishers and E-book Designers

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Hillesund/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Hillesund/</a>

C. Lueg

Enabling Dissemination of User-Specific Information in the Usenet Framework

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Lueg/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Lueg/</a>

J. van Ossenbruggen, L. Hardman, L. Rutledge

Hypermedia and the Semantic Web: A Research Agenda

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/VanOssenbruggen/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/VanOssenbruggen/</a>


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From: Edward Vanhoutte <evanhoutte@kantl.be>
Subject: call for referees & mentors
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:03:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 213 (213)


Dear Colleague,

Literary and Linguistic Computing is planning to publish two special issues

devoted to young scholars in IT and the Humanities. The submission period

for abstract has closed now and we are happy to inform you that we have

received 34 abstracts for papers by 38 young scholars from 15 countries all

over the world.

In order to put these abstracts into a refereeing system, and to guarantee

high quality contents of the planned issues of LLC, we seek your urgent

assistance in two ways:

Firstly, the guest-editors are still in need of willing specialists in the

fields of corpus linguistics and linguistic computing to referee a maximum

of three 500 word abstracts.

Secondly, we are planning to assign each young scholar a mentor who will be

able to coach them in their (often first) enterprise of writing a

high-quality paper. The coaching will typically consist of proofreading and

discussing a draft version of the paper, pointing out the weaknesses in the

argument, referring to further sources on the subject, and --why not--

introducing them to the welcoming community of Humanities Computing. With

this scheme, we hope to be of service to both the upcoming generation of

humanities computing specialists, and the growing field itself. More

mentors are still wanted.

Please let us know before August 20th by email on <evanhoutte@kantl.be> if

you would consider acting as a referee and/or a mentor. If so, please

select your field of interest from the following list (please copy and tick):

[] electronic scholarly editing

[] text encoding (TEI / SGML / XML / XSLT etc.)

[] (foreign) language learning

[] corpus linguistics

[] computational linguistics

[] lexicography

[] stylistic analysis

[] literary computing

[] hypertext theory / theory of the electronic text

[] multimedia

[] computer aided learning / educational software

Very many thanks in advance,

Melissa Terras & Edward Vanhoutte

guest-editors LLC issues on young scholars in IT and the Humanities


--
=============
Edward Vanhoutte
Co-ordinator
Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium
tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49
evanhoutte@kantl.be / evanhout@uia.ua.ac.be
<a href="http://www.kantl.be/ctb/">http://www.kantl.be/ctb/</a>
<a href="http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/">http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/</a>



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: commercial offerings
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:30:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 214 (214)


In Humanist 16.152 I circulated a number of publication notices from

Kluwer, sent to me from an "alert" service this publisher runs.

Subsequently a colleague and friend has written to object to the practice,

saying that notices from individuals about publication of their books are

welcome to him, but that he regards notices from commercial publishers as

unacceptable. How does everyone else feel about this?

My take on the matter is pragmatic: we need to know about new books, both

the sort that members themselves write and those further afield that are

still relevant to our concerns. I see no harm in exploiting a publisher's

desire to sell books, in order to satisfy our own intellectual purposes --

in fact I take pleasure in reversing the usual vector. But Humanist is a

commune of a sort. Let us all know your opinion, please.

Allow me again to invite everyone to send in notices of publication for

their articles and books. This happens all too seldom.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: article on e-commentary
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:31:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 215 (215)


Dear Colleagues:

In the spirit of the above invitation, I submit the following:

McCarty, Willard. "A Network with a Thousand Entrances: Commentary in an

Electronic Age?" In The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory.

Ed. Roy K Gibson and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus. Mnemosyne Supplementum

232. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002: 359-402.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,

Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,

+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.26
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:30:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 216 (216)


[NB esp the tribute to the life and works of Edsgar Dijkstra: "In their

capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our

culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without

precedent in the cultural history of mankind." His entire written output

has been scanned and put online -- here is an example for us all! -- at

<<a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/">http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/</a>>. --WM]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 26,  Week of August 12, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

Mastering Leadership

Richard Strozzi-Heckler on moving to the next level.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_strozzi-heckler_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_strozzi-heckler_1.html</a>

View --

In Memoriam

Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_dijkstra_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_dijkstra_1.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: European Workshops: School for Scanning, Hague; ERPANET
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:47:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 217 (217)


XML, Urbino

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

August 14, 2002

School for Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets

The Hague, The Netherlands: October 16-18, 2002

                      <a href="http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm">http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm</a>

                         U.S. Participation limited to 20

                               *    *    *    *

        ERPANET Announces Experts' Workshop on XML as Preservation Strategy

                     Urbino, Italy: October, 9th-11th 2002

                  <a href="http://www.erpanet.org/php/urbino/workshop.htm">http://www.erpanet.org/php/urbino/workshop.htm</a>
[deleted quotation]
Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets

The Hague, The Netherlands

October 16-18, 2002

Koninklijke Bibliotheek - The National Library of the Netherlands

The Hague, The Netherlands

The conference, which will be presented entirely in English, is funded in

part by The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the

Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).  It is co-sponsored by the European

Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) and the Koninklijke

Bibliotheek - The National Library of the Netherlands (KB).

What is the School for Scanning?  This conference provides current and

essential information for collections managers who are seeking to create,

manage, and preserve digital assets.  Participants will leave the

conference better equipped to make informed choices regarding management of

their digital projects.  Although significant technical content will be

presented, this is not a technician-training program.  Conference content

will include:

   Envisioning Our Digital Future

Quality Control & Costs

Copyright & Other Legal Issues

Content Selection for Digitization

Metadata

Digital Asset Management

Standards

Digital Longevity & Preservation

Text & Image Digitization

Who Should Attend?  Administrators within cultural institutions, as well as

librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural or natural resource

managers dealing with paper-based collections, including photographs, will

find the School for Scanning conference highly relevant and

worthwhile.  The complexion of this conference evolves with the

technology.  Although an audience of 150+ attendees is expected, the number

of North American participants will be limited to 20.

   Registration information and a detailed agenda can be found at NEDCC's

Website at

<<a href="http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm">http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm</a>><a href="http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm">http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm</a>

.  Questions specifically concerning registration procedures and

information should be directed to Ginny Hughes at

<mailto:ghughes@nedcc.org>ghughes@nedcc.org

============

URBINO, ITALY: October, 9th-11th 2002

EXPERTS WORKSHOP ON XML: Urbino, 9th - 11th October

2002

ERPANET, a European Commission funded project, is pleased to announce its

second workshop event. It will address the relationship between digital

preservation and XML. This event offers experts in this subject the

opportunity to take part in an investigation of key topics in digital

preservation.

See the following details.

*******************************************************

WORKSHOP ON XML AS A PRESERVATION STRATEGY: Urbino, 9th - 11th October 2002

XML is increasingly being used as a means for providing access to digital

information and for preservation purposes. The focus of this second ERPANET

workshop will concentrate on using XML as a tool in preserving the

long-term value of this digital information. After introducing some key

areas of digital preservation (metadata and trusted repositories), the

workshop will facilitate a forum for discussing the strengths and

weaknesses of XML. Practical experiences so far, issues with respect to

different types of digital objects, and XML in the context of digital

preservation strategies will be covered.

The workshop will focus on six main areas:

-Introduction in digital preservation (some principles) and the

possible/potential role of XML

-The role of XML as an exchange standard (e.g. METS) for distributed archives

-XML as a preservation strategy (San Diego project; persistent objects),

including different types of digital objects.

-Some practical experiences

-Preservation metadata and XML

-Issues that should be further explored, investigated (building the

research agenda)

Who will benefit from attending the seminar?

- Digital Information providers

- Digital Information archivists

- IT practitioners and experts

- Public sector bodies

- Content providers

- Organisations with a stake in the long-term preservation of digital objects

Benefits from attendance include:

- Discussion of XML as a preservation strategy

- An understanding of the variety of uses of XML

- Access to practical examples and case studies

- Interaction with experts and practitioners

- Knowledge of tools for access

- Knowledge of tools for preservation

Programme

Opening: 9th October at 9.30

Closing: 11th October at 16:30

Introductory speakers will include among others Andreas Rauber (ECDL),

representatives from S.Diego Supercomputer Center, Ministero delleconomia e

delle finanze. Specific experience will also be presented.

Venue: Facolta' di giuridsprudenza, Aula magna, Urbino

To register:

Registration costs: 100 Euros. To receive joining instructions, please

register before 20th September at: www.erpanet.org/php/urbino/workshop.htm

For more details, contact: Italian.Editor@erpanet.org

[material deleted]



From: R.C.Paton@csc.liv.ac.uk
Subject: Reminder - Visual Representations + Liverpool (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:33:46 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 218 (218)


To: srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

2nd International Workshop on

VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS (VRI 2)

Liverpool, September  9 - 12, 2002

VRI 2 brings together researchers working in a wide range of

subjects whose work concerns visual representations and

interpretations.

The programme, a preliminary version of which is available at

<a href="http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/programme.html">http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/programme.html</a>,

includes talks from artists, art historians, biologists,

cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, linguists,

logicians, mathematicians, medical scientists, philosophers,

physicists, psychologists and social scientists.

You can register for VRI 2 on-line: see

<a href="http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/registration.html">http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/registration.html</a>

for details.

SCOPE AND AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP

The value of multi-disciplinary research, the exchanging of ideas

and methods across traditional discipline boundaries, is well

recognised. It could be argued that many of the advances in

science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods

and the tools of thought from one discipline become re-applied in

others.

The topic of "the visual" has become increasingly important as

advances in technology have led to multi-media and multi-modal

representations, and extended the range and scope of visual

representation and interpretation in our lives.  Under this broad

heading there are many different perspectives and approaches,

from across the entire spectrum of human knowledge and activity.

The development of advanced graphics for computer games and film

animations, for example, has drawn on and led developments in

computational geometry.  Even outside the technological sphere,

recent controversies over artworks which some have considered to

be blasphemous show the power of the visual to manifest wildly

different interpretations, and to become a topic of everyday

conversation and a focus of political activity.

One goal of this workshop on Visual Representations and

Interpretations is to break down cross-disciplinary barriers, by

bringing together people working in a wide variety of disciplines

where visual representations and interpretations are exploited.

The first Workshop on Visual Representations and Interpretations

was held in Liverpool in 1998.  Contributions to the workshop came

from researchers actively investigating visual representations and

interpretations in a wide variety of areas including:

art, architecture, biology, chemistry, clinical medicine,

cognitive science, computer science, education, engineering,

graphic design, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics,

psychology and social science.

VRI 2 aims to build on this good beginning, and to provide a forum

for wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion on visual

representations and interpretations.

REGISTRATION

The Conference will take place at the Moathouse Hotel in the centre

of Liverpool.  Registration details, and the on-line registration form,

which also allows you to book accommodation, is available at

<a href="http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/registration.html">http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/registration.html</a>

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Caroline Baillie  (Liverpool, UK)

Michael Biggs (Hertfordshire, UK)

Ernst Binz  (Mannheim, Germany)

Nicola Dioguardi (Milan, Italy)

Andree Ehresmann  (Amiens, France)

Paul Fishwick (Gainesville, USA)

ean-Louis Giavitto (Evry, France)

Joseph Goguen (San Diego, USA)

David Goodsell (La Jolla, USA)

Leo Groarke (Waterloo, Canada)

Rom Harre  (Oxford, UK and Washington, USA)

Robin Hendry (Durham, UK)

Mike Holcombe (Sheffield, UK)

John Lee (Edinburgh, UK)

Charles Lund (Newcastle, UK)

Michael Leyton (New York, USA)

Peter McBurney (Liverpool, UK)

Grant Malcolm (Liverpool, UK; Conference Chair)

Mary Meyer (Los Alamos, USA)

Irene Neilson (Liverpool, UK)

Ray Paton (Liverpool, UK)

Walter Schempp (Seigen, Germany)

Questions and inquiries should be directed to:

Grant Malcolm or Ray Paton

Department of Computer Science

University of Liverpool

Email:  G.R.Malcolm@csc.liv.ac.uk or R.C.Paton@csc.liv.ac.uk



From: Stephen Ramsay <sramsay@arches.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 219 (219)


On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:33:12AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way

of Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I, for one, rely on book catalogues and (even more) on Humanist to

let me know about new publications in the field.  I would be very

sorry to see these notices disappear, and it seems to me that a

clearly identified subject line would solve the problem for all

concerned.

Steve


--
Stephen Ramsay
Department of English
University of Georgia
email: sramsay@arches.uga.edu
web: <a href="http://busa.village.virginia.edu/">http://busa.village.virginia.edu/</a>
PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11


From: "Price, Dan" <dprice@tui.edu>
Subject: RE: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:40:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 220 (220)

You asked for personal opinions.  To be honest, I was surprised by the
listing from a publisher as I am not recalling notices from publishers
before, just referrals, usually to MIT press.  Could be mistaken about
that; it is my AM recollection.
Agreed, we in the field need to know about recent publications.  At the
same time, this ListServ is not our only source of information about what
is happening in the field.
As a policy then, would prefer the referrals by individuals as well as the
notifications by individuals, not individual postings by individual
publishers.  Perhaps, though, could have a posting with listings from
several publishers and marked as such?
PS  And thanks for asking,  Appreciate that.
--dan
Sincerely,
Dan Price, Ph.D.
Professor, Center for Distance Learning
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<a href="http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/Price.html">http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/Price.html</a>
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From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:41:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 221 (221)

Willard,
<snip>
[deleted quotation]As a practical matter I rely upon the Humanist to make me aware of
publications and resources that I otherwise might not notice. That is not
to say that every publication that appears on the Humanist list is of
interest to me but tastes and interests vary and I appreciate your
filtering some of the noise from current publication lists.
Most books continue to be published by commercial publishers and I don't
know of any reason why notices from an author would be acceptable whereas a
notice from the publisher would not be acceptable. I favor continued
notices of publications without regard to source.
Patrick
--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu


From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it
Subject: Re: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:41:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 222 (222)

The main difference between "private announcements" and
advertisement is that the former are easily checked, while
the others, if you accept one, you have to accept all --
or people might believe that the moderator has special
sympathies etc. The subject could be the discriminating
criterion, but there also, where really to stop in
the interdisciplinary areas? Humanist might become full
of junk mail...
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From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:42:32 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 223 (223)

I suspect this links to an earlier thread on Humanist which I haven't
followed too closely (so apologies if I'm just repeating someone else's
call) but I would encourage writers of scholarly articles and essays (at
least, royalty-free publications) to make an electronic version available
via an institutional or subject eprint server. In the UK the JISC have
recently funded projects to develop institutional eprint servers (CURL -
SHERPA) and subject-based views of institutional servers (ePrints UK, see
<a href="http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/">http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/</a>). As a partner in the latter
project, I would be keen to encourage humanities scholars to make
available refereed eprints and members of this community in particular to
canvass their institutions and/or professional associations to set up
eprint services based on the Open Archives Initiative protocols (e.g. see
<a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/createchange/">http://www.gla.ac.uk/createchange/</a>).
I don't object too much to notices from Klewer etc but bearing in mind the
cost of journal subscriptions, for example, to institutions wouldn't it
be nice if new publications had a corresponding link to an eprint archive?
Michael
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From: Craig Bellamy <milkbar@milkbar.com.au>
Subject: publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:44:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 224 (224)

Hi Willard et.al.
At H-Net we have a strict policy not to promote commercial publishers books
(I am a list moderator). I think that I would prefer humanist not to
promote commercial publishers as well, as it probably crosses yet another
line of commercialism and opens up debates that are more of a distraction
than anything else. The more scholarly spaces free of commercialism the
better.
all the best,
Craig Bellamy
Craig Bellamy
PhD Candidate
School of Creative Media
RMIT University
Melbourne, 3000
Victoria, Australia
www.milkbar.com.au
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Camus


From: Joseph Rudman <rudman@cmuhep2.phys.cmu.edu>
Subject: Commercial Publishers
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:42:51 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 225 (225)

        Dear Willard,
        I find the notifications valuable.
        Thank you.
                              Joe Rudman


From: Dennis Cintra Leite <Dennis@fgvsp.br>
Subject: RE: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:43:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 226 (226)

   As long as the subject line warns of its contents publication notices
should be welcomed to this list. Not interested - don't read it!!


From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:44:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 227 (227)

Hi Willard,
Keep sending the book announcements.
Charles Faulhaber       The Bancroft Library    UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
(510) 642-3782          FAX (510) 642-7589    cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu


From: "Bonnett, John" <John.Bonnett@nrc.ca>
Subject: Please keep posting info from publishers
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:45:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 228 (228)

Dear Willard,
In contrast to your correspondent yesterday I was very glad for the
information from Kluwer, and hope you will continue to provide information
from it, MIT Press, and other relevant publishers.  I have to say that one
of your postings -- providing information from MIT Press -- played a key
role in helping me finish my dissertation.  The book in question was Alicia
Juarrrero's _Dynamics in Action_.
With best wishes,
-- John Bonnett
National Research Council of Canada
Institute for Information Technology
2 Garland Court
Fredericton, NB
E3B-9V3
Phone: (506) 451-2675
Fax: (506) 452-3859
e-mail:  john.bonnett@nrc.ca


From: "Bandy, Linda" <linda.l.bandy@Vanderbilt.Edu>
Subject: RE: 16.157 publications: commercial and individual notices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:45:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 229 (229)

I have to agree with your friend on all counts.  I'd like to see this
group remain the bright spot in my email box, and pure light, too!!  Too
much commercialization; let's keep it unsullied.
Besides, what do we get in return?  This 'service' has access to people
very likely to read and (therefore) buy books.  Now, if they were to
give us a review, or a sample, it might be a different story; something
to assist in the evaluation of the tome.  The service gets to say 'we
reach...', but give us nothing for our attention.
Besides, this list is so respected that I take any information here as
well-given, carrying an imprimatur.
Glad to hear about members' works of all sorts, though.
Count me in the 'con' column.
Linda Bandy



From: Brad Scott <Brad.Scott@semantico.com>
Subject: Re: 16.159 commercial & individual notices of publication
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:52:16 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 230 (230)


Hi Willard

If relevant book and journal notices from commercial publishers are banned,

surely one consequence would be that Humanist would be discriminating

against authors who are not good self-publicists?

Brad


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From: Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>
Subject: Re: 16.159 commercial & individual notices of publication
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:53:27 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 231 (231)

At 7:01 +0100 15/8/02, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard
McCarty wrote:
[deleted quotation]Willard
given that what was forwarded was from an electronic notification service
it might make more sense to send information about that inviting list
members to subscribe to receive notifications of those journals they feel
relevant?
cheers
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From: Richard Giordano <Richard_Giordano@brown.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.159 commercial & individual notices of publication
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:53:59 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 232 (232)

Willard,
I have no fear that Humanist will become commercialized if its readers are
kept aware of new publications of interest.  If they were collated and sent
in a single message (as you often do), then anyone who wants to ignore such
a message could simply delete it.
By the way, I've found announcements of publications very useful.
Moreover, your overviews (as well as others who contribute to this list)
are often quite stimulating.
/rich



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: digitization and work
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:45:45 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 233 (233)


Humanists interested in the broader effects of online communications will

likely be glad for the following newly published book by a former Secretary

of Labor in the U.S. government: Robert Reich, The Future of Success:

Working and Living in the New Economy (Vintage, 2002; also published

electronically). The book is reviewed by Paul Seabright, in the London

Review of Books 24.16, 22 August 2002, pp. 24f.

The reviewer asks what is genuinely new? Among other things, he notes the

standardization of procedures within organizations, "enabling knowledge of

them to be transmitted from one individual to another without the

apprenticeship of the craft tradition. This is not a new phenomenon -- it's

a pretty good description of what made the Roman army so much more powerful

than its predecessors and rivals...." What is new, however, are two aspects

of this communication of organizational method: (1) standardization to

higher orders of flexibility; and, note well, (2) recording of

standardization in digital form, hence ease and breadth of transmission.

"To learn the Roman Army's procedures you had to be a Roman soldier,

whereas to copy a rival firm's accounting system you just have to buy (or

pirate) its software."

By higher flexibility the reviewer means that whole processes of production

can be standardized in such a way as to allow the individual steps to be

modified. In scholarly work we are nowhere near that kind of thing -- for

quite obvious reasons. But what is implied about computerization -- that

its subject is the method by which things are done -- should be deeply

familiar. Perhaps because Reich's concern is with the economics of

industrial production , which is already mechanical and so more easily

digitized than scholarship, he does not (apparently, from the review) talk

about the discrepancy between human understanding and actual implementation

-- as we must. The argument gives us, however, a way of talking about what

we do to the public.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

King's College London

Strand

London WC2R 2LS

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From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@mivu.org>
Subject: Corporate University Conference
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:16:58 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 234 (234)


As you may know, the Technology Source has a corporate university section

because the challenges, issues, and solutions in using information

technology confront all sectors of education. Much of the innovation in

e-learning is taking place in the corporate university sector, both within

business organizations and government agencies.

Corporate University Xchange (CUX) specializes in the design, development,

benchmarking, and ongoing performance improvement of corporate

universities. CUX has an extensive research and publication program on

e-learning best practices, and produces conferences featuring presenters

from front-running corporate education programs. CUX's next conference,

Corporate Universities @ Work: Achieving Success in Business and

Government, is October 20-23 in Washington, D.C., where the program

focuses on such topics as creating strategic learning partnerships between

public and private sectors, developing blended learning solutions to build

leadership skills, leveraging e-learning to build workforce competencies,

and shifting the focus from training to performance. The complete program

is described at <a href="http://events.inetevents.com/corpu">http://events.inetevents.com/corpu</a>

CUX wants to participate more actively in using TS as an information

resource throughout the corporate community. Therefore, TS will have a

"Birds of a Feather" lunch session during the conference where we will

meet with people interested in discussing e-learning in all sectors (and

perhaps contributing an article or two). If you are interested in

attending this conference, forward this note to Christine Schmidt, CUX

Conference Manager (cschmidt@corpu.com). In the subject line, insert "TS

Inquiry." In the message box, explain that you are a TS reader who is

responding to the CUX offer of a registration discount.

If you decide to attend, please let me know if you will also be able to

attend our "Birds of a Feather" session.

Best.

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Two Proposed International Cultural Heritage Standards
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:16:08 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 235 (235)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

August 16, 2002

                       Two Proposed International Standards

                   Relevant to Cultural Heritage Out for Review

          ISIL: uniquely identifies libraries and related organizations

   CD 21127: Reference Ontology for Interchange of Cultural Heritage

Information

                 <a href="http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/sc4docs.html">http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/sc4docs.html</a>

              Comments <mailto:nisohq@niso.org> welcome by November 1
[deleted quotation]
You'll Want to Take a Look At. . . .

<a href="http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/sc4docs.html">http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/sc4docs.html</a>

Two new proposed international standards are  now out for ballot:

*The ISIL standard (DIS 15511) is a 16-character variable length code to

uniquely identify libraries and related organizations.  The standard can

accommodate existing national library identification systems.

Significance of the ISIL: For the first time we will have an agreed-upon

international identification system for libraries

Voting members are encouraged to review the standard and send comments (if

any) to nisohq@niso.org by September 27, 2002.

*CD 21127, A Reference Ontology for the Interchange of Cultural Heritage

Information was developed by TC46/SC4/WG9 chaired by Nick Crofts. The

standard is based on the framework drafted by CIDOC the international

organization focusing on the information and IT needs of museums. Tony Gill

at RLG was the U.S. expert contributing to this standard.

Significance of this standard:  It provides a framework for the exchange of

information about museum holdings and provides the basis for

interoperability in the cultural heritage community. Voting members are

encouraged to review the standard and send comments (if any) to

nisohq@niso.org by November 1.

The ISIL and the Reference Ontology are on the NISO website at this url:

<a href="http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/sc4docs.html">http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/sc4docs.html</a>


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From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.161 commercial & individual notices of publication
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:14:39 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 236 (236)


I don't like getting ads in my e-mail whether they are spam or for

scholarly publications.

In medieval studies, we have an on-line review List which brings scholarly

reviews of new medieval publications - the reviewing standards are the same as

in scholarly journals. I must prefer that.

But is they were all in one note and it hd a title like "ads", or "scholarly

spam" then we could skip them.



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: 16.159 commercial & individual notices of publication
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:15:07 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 237 (237)


Dear Dr. McCarty,

I think, members of the humanist list comprises of scholars who are having

varied interests with crossing many disciplines of science, technology and

application of computers to the humanities. I think, I come under critics

(currently) because I, for one always post the note of new publications

from MIT Press or others. I think, it is good if we allow to post certain

announcements of books and conferences related to application of the

computers to the humanities and at the same let people discuss

intellectually on the scholarly, pedagogical, and social issues.

At times, I feel like working as "a walking encyclopaedia of Cyberspace."

On the other note: I believe and appreciate that Humanist Listserv is have

limitations, and that again makes quite good and different than other

listservs on the internet. Thank you!

Sincerely yours,

Arun Tripathi

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"Die Wissenschaft wird nicht nur durch das gepraegt was sie tut, sondern

auch durch das, was sie nicht tut." So umreisst der Philosoph Gernot

Boehme seine Auffassung von forscherischem Handeln. Bei einem Gespraech im

Schloss der Universitaet Darmstadt berichtet er von abgelehnten

Forschungsantraegen, der Angst um den guten Ruf und verlorenen

Forschungsideen.

<<a href="http://www.sciencegarden.de/stein/082001/bxostanci/forschungsidee.php">http://www.sciencegarden.de/stein/082001/bxostanci/forschungsidee.php</a>>

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Understanding the world by virtue of having Bodies
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:17:37 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 238 (238)


Hubert Dreyfus argued many years ago that the fault at the root of what he

called Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI) is that we

understand the world by virtue of having bodies and a machine without a

body would never understand the world the way we do.

Any attempt to separate mind from body is flawed and that the presumed

location of the mind in the brain is inaccurate??

Why is it that we believe that consciousness is located exclusively in the

brain?

Your feedback & thoughts are most welcome!

Yours sincerely,

Arun Tripathi

=============================================================================

"Leaving the body behind would fulfill the dream of Plato, who held that

the body was the tomb of the soul and followed Socrates in claiming that

it should be a human beings highest goal to die to his body and become a

pure mind." SOCRATES_MIND (quoted in On the Internet: Hubert L. Dreyfus)

=============================================================================

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away,

the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.-PLATO

=============================================================================



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Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 239 (239)

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From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: The Shrinking Public Domain: an Online Workshop
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:01:11 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 241 (241)


ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION

The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland

University College is hosting an asynchronous online workshop series

that is of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians,

instructional design and information professionals. The first workshop

offered this year is titled The Shrinking Public Domain.

The Shrinking Public Domain

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002</a>

September 16- October 4, 2002

Moderated by Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, Esq

Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

There is considerable concern among academics and copyright scholars

that the public domain is being treated as a commodity, thereby

resulting in the loss of access to users and others who appreciate great

scholarly, literary, musical and audiovisual works. This workshop will

explore this complex issue particularly as it relates to the use of

digital information in the teaching and learning enterprise.

Goals for the course:

       *Develop an understanding and appreciation for the public domain.

       *Learn how to determine whether a work is in the public domain.

       *Explore the relationship between the public domain and academic

pursuits.

       *Explore why the public domain is shrinking.

       *Identify strategies for changing the trend.

       *Consider alternatives to the public domain.

The online workshops will each last approximately three weeks, providing

the participants with an in-depth understanding of core intellectual

property issues facing higher education. They will include course

readings, chats and online discussions. Participants will receive daily

response and feedback from the workshop moderators. Please visit the web

site for all course objectives:

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/workshops.html">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/workshops.html</a>

Register early since space is limited.  Early Registration is $125 each,

Regular $150 each, Two workshops $225, Three workshops is only $300! A

significant discount is given for full time graduate students until

places are filled; please consult the website for details. To register

online- <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002</a>

For additional information call 301-985-7777 or visit our web site at

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002</a>

-Olga Francois

Center for Intellectual Property

University of Maryland University College

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/</a>



From: Nancy Ide <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: Call for Participation : NLPXML-2002
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:52:34 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 242 (242)


********************************************************************

                                          NLPXML-2002

                                     Call for Participation

.********************************************************************

             2nd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2002)

                       Held in conjunction with COLING-2002

                                         Taipei, Taiwan

                                      September 1, 2002

            <<a href="http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML/">http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML/</a>><a href="http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML/">http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML/</a>

                                            Program

Session 1: Tools and Corpora

09:00-09:40  ** Featured Talk **

                Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Alex Lascarides and Maria Lapata:

                XML-based NLP Tools for Analysing and Annotating

                Medical Language

09:40-10:05  Jan-Torsten Milde:

                The TASX Environment: an XML-based Toolset for the

                Creation of Multimodal Corpora

10:05-10:30  Kiril Simov, Milen Kouylekov and Alexander Simov:

                Cascaded Regular Grammars over XML Documents

10:30-11:00  BREAK

Session 2: Document Generation

11:00-11:25  Guillermo Barrutieta, Joseba Abaitua and JosuKa Diaz:

                Cascading XSL Filters for Content Selection in

                Multilingual Document Generation

11:25-11:50  John Bateman, Renate Henschel and Judy Delin:

                An Introduction to the GeM Annotation Schema for

                Complex Document Layout

11:50-12:15  Holger Stenzhorn:

                XtraGen - A Natural Language Generation System Using

                XML- and Java-Technologies

12:15-13:30  LUNCH

13:30-14:15  Posters/project notes (parallel)

      Guadeloupe Aguado-de-Cea, Inmaculada Alvarez-de-Mon, Antonio

      Pareja-Lora and Rosario Plaza-Arteche:

      RDF(S)/XML Linguistic Annotation of Semantic Web Pages

      Christian Boitet, Mathieu Mangeot-Lerebours and Gilles Serasset:

      The Papillon Project: Cooperatively Building a Multilingual

      Lexical Database to Derive Open Source Dictionaries and Lexicons

      Petter Karlstrom and Robin Cooper:

      Towards a Web-based Information Centre on Swedish Language

      Technology

      Eugene Koontz:

      XML in a Web-based Grammar Development Environment

      Chieko Nakabasami and Naoyuki Nomura:

      A Proposal for Screening Inconsistencies in Ontologies based on

      Query Languages using WSD

Session 3: Discourse, Dialog and Speech

14:15-14:40  Daniela Berger, David Reitter and Manfred Stede:

                XML/XSL in the Dictionary: The Case of Discourse Markers

14:40-15:05  Michael Walsh, Stephen Wilson and Julie Carson-Berndsen:

                XiSTS - XML in Speech Technology Systems

15:05-15:30  Kuansang Wang:

                SALT: An XML Application for Web-based Multimodal

                Dialog Management

15:30-16:00  BREAK

Session 4: Semantic Web

16:00-16:40  ** Featured Talk **

                Boris Katz and Jimmy Lin:

                Annotating the Semantic Web Using Natural Language

16:40-17:10  Panel Discussion

                NLP, XML and the Semantic Web

17:10-17:15  Closing Remarks



From: Joseph Ferenbok <jferenbo@ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: Embodiment
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:51:41 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 243 (243)


Why is consciousness associated with the Brain?

Well, first of all, I'm not sure that that's the right question.  Generally,

consciousness is associated with the mind, and the Mind is then associated

with the Brain.  As Kurzweil points out, the Brain stores information in a

decentralized fashion, so the death or destruction of one brain cell or even a

small portion of the brain does not have dire consequences for the Mind.   I

think this is what has prompted people like Moravec to suggest that the Mind

is our identity, and that we are Pattern-Identities as he calls it; implying

that the Mind is like software that can be 'downloaded.'  And among others

Locke is to blame for this, by suggesting that we are nothing more than blank

sheets of paper to be imprinted by life.  I have a hard time believing that we

are simply our information patterns or minds like Moravec suggests, partly

because, as Kate Hayles points out, information needs a medium.  And the

medium that gives information 'substance' impacts the nature of the

information that it carries.

So why is the brain associated with consciousness?  Because more so than any

other organ in the body, changes to the Brain effect changes to the Mind.

Loosing a limb, may change the information patter of the Mind over a period of

time, but loosing a hemisphere of your brain will definitely impact your

notion of self (though separating the two hemispheres seems to have little

impact on consciousness or identity).

Sorry for the rant.

joseph

Humanities Computing MA (IP)

University of Alberta



From: Aimee Morrison <ahm@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.166 embodiment
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:00:40 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 244 (244)

[deleted quotation]
katherine hayles addresses this in _how we became posthuman_.  she notes that

writers most likely to trumpet the separation of Mind from Body are those

whose embodiment was least problematic to begin with:  generally, white,

middle class, educated men.  it is worth noticing that very few of those

subjects possessing more visible, problematized, contested bodies are rushing

to join the queue to disburden themselves of corporeality.  this recognition

ought to spur us to question, i think, the purpose of the drive to separate

mind and body.

the standard account from hayles and others is that in cyberculture this

tendency is exacerbated by trends in information theory from the 1950s

forward, most notably claude shannon's separation of 'information' from the

vehicle of its transmission.  that is, information is information and the

means by which it travels is literally immaterial.  that may be all fine and

good for information theory, but if you translate this insight to human

relations, you remove the context of communication from the determination of

its meaning -- and play into that long tradition of desiring transcendence

from this context in the search for 'pure' self and communication.

rooting consciousness in embodiment re-inserts concern with the sender and

receiver of information, with 'communication' and 'meaning' as contextually

bound, and information as interpretation-dependent.  of course, these contexts

are those of enculturation and embodied subjectivity.  this is human, i think.

   if the only kind of intelligence with which we are familiar is this

emobodied

human kind, then it makes perfect sense that trying to emulate this

'intelligence' in agents we design as bodiless is going to fail, at least by

the standards we are setting for intelligence.

hm.  i offer this telegraphed account for what it's worth,

aimee

.                  ++++++++++++++++++++++++

Aimee Morrison                     "Nothing in education is so

PhD Program, Dept. of English       astonishing as the amount of

University of Alberta               ignorance it accumulates in the

ahm@ualberta.ca                     form of inert facts."

                                           -- Henry Adams



From: "Bruni, John P" <jbrun@ukans.edu>
Subject: RE: 16.166 embodiment
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:01:28 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 245 (245)


My feedback on the issue of understanding the world through the body:

The mind/body split has historically meshed with dominant ideologies of

race, class, and gender that ascribe the "higher" function of thought/reason

to white upper class males, who then are granted the privilege of (an

imagined) non-corporeality, while those who differ in race, class, and

gender are seen as permanently bound to the "lower" realm of the body and

thus perceived as able to think, if at all, in limited, subjective, terms.

For more on this matter, it may be helpful to refer to Donna Haraway's

_Modest Witness_ and Laura Doyle's _Bordering on the Body_.

John Bruni

Department of English

University of Kansas



From: massbam@TIN.IT
Subject: stylometry and medieval texts?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:49:38 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 246 (246)


Hi everybody,

my name is Massimiliano Bampi and I'm currently attending a PhD program in

Germanic Philology and Linguistics at the University of Siena. At the end

of July I was in Tuebingen at the ALLC/ACH joint conference. I'm very

interested in the application of stylometric techniques to medieval texts

and I'd like to know whether there are interesting ongoing researches in

this field. Can anybody of you give me some hints?

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards

Massimiliano Bampi



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: nominations of scholarly work?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:59:00 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 247 (247)


Dear colleagues:

I would appreciate nominations in the following areas:

(1) methodologically self-aware projects that apply encoding techniques to

scholarly artifacts;

(2) critical (i.e. broadly philosophical rather than promotional) articles

on text-encoding methodology that are comprehensible by the intelligent

beginner and address fundamental issues

(3) a history of text-encoding

(4) discussions of text-analytic methodology

(5) discussions of the idea of grammar (philosophy of grammar?) likewise

comprehensible by the intelligent beginner

(6) discussions of problems in the design of electronic scholarly forms

(e.g. lexicons, commentaries &c)

Many thanks.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

King's College London

Strand

London WC2R 2LS

+44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk w.mccarty:btinternet.com

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: digital humanities curriculum seminar (UVa)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:58:23 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 248 (248)


Members of this list may be interested in the final report from this

seminar at the University of Virginia:

"The Digital Humanities Computing Seminar (DHCS) brought together

twenty-five members of the University community with the stated goal of

generating a syllabus for a graduate course in knowledge representation for

humanists. The working group included faculty, graduate students, and staff

from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and

Applied Sciences, the Libraries, and other units of the University.

Additional expertise was provided by six outside visitors who shared their

experiences applying and teaching the principles outlined in our plans for

the knowledge representation course."

The full report, course descriptions and syllabi, and an annotated

bibliography, is available at:

<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/hcs/dhcs/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/hcs/dhcs/</a>

Thanks to the NEH, for their support of this, and to all the participants,

and particularly to Andrea Laue, who compiled the final report.

John Unsworth



From: David J Birnbaum <djbpitt+@pitt.edu>
Subject: CFP: Technology at Kzoo (fwd)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:52:20 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 249 (249)


ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP session:

Sponsored by the Carolina Association for Medieval Studies

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,

May 8-11, 2003

Paper submissions are invited on the topic of advanced technology in

medieval scholarship.  Proposals dealing with new uses of technology for

academic research are eligible, as are proposals dealing with the

development of such technologies.  Possible subject matter might include,

but is not limited to, the following: databases, imaging, statistical

analysis, dictionaries/glossaries, online resources, library tools, etc.

Send abstracts or queries to Kathryn Wymer by email at

wymer@email.unc.edu, or by surface mail at the following address:

        Kathryn Wymer

        CAMS, c/o Department of English

        Greenlaw Hall, CB #3520

        University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

        Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520

If you send an abstract by surface mail, include your email address so we

can confirm receipt of your submission.

Submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2002.

This message is being sent to the listserv addresses below.  If it

does not reach one of these lists or you know others who may

be interested, please forward as appropriate.

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Open Forum on Metadata Registries
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:53:22 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 250 (250)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

August 21, 2002

             Sixth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries

                January 20-24, 2003: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

                <a href="http://www.metadata-standards.org/OpenForum2003">http://www.metadata-standards.org/OpenForum2003</a>

Although there is no track at this forum for arts and humanities issues,

readers may very well be interested in this forum as a whole and oher

tracks, such as Knowledge Management & Learning Technology.

David Green

===========
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You are invited to participate in the sixth international Open Forum on

Metadata Registries. It will be held January 20-24, 2003 in Santa Fe, New

Mexico, USA.

Please see the call for participation at:

www.metadata-standards.org/OpenForum2003

This is a preliminary announcement. The web site contains draft material

being developed by the organizing committee. It will be updated as speakers

are confirmed. Please check for updates. Participants will explore the

capabilities, uses, content, development, and operation of registries and

related technologies. Emphasis is on managing the semantics (meaning) of

data that is shared within and between organizations or disseminated via

the World Wide Web.

This Open Forum will concentrate on the following technologies: ISO/IEC

11179 Metadata Registries, Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration

(UDDI), XML Registries/Repositories, Database Catalogs (e.g., relational

DBMS/SQL), CASE Tool Repositories, Software Component Registries,

Terminology and Ontological Registries, and Dublin Core Registries.

Tutorials will be given on these technologies and on the relevant standards.

A theme will be cooperation and interoperation of these technologies. The

practical use of the technologies will be described and demonstrated in

"tracks". The tracks are:

* Standards, Technologies, and Tutorials;

* Bioinformatics & Genomics;

* Defense; Electronic Business; Environment (including Biology and Natural

Resource Management);

* Healthcare;

* Knowledge Management & Learning Technology;

* Statistics;

* Terminology and Ontologies;

* Transportation, Aviation, and Aerospace.

The tracks will gather standards developers, software developers, and

practitioners in these fields to demonstrate accomplishments and to discuss

experiences. Please mark your calendars and register to attend.

[material deleted]



From: Steve Krause <skrause@ONLINE.EMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16.167 commercial & individual notices of publication
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 06:59:35 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 251 (251)


Willard--

I quite frankly don't understand what all the fuss is about with postings

of notices of publication and such.  This mailing list is different than

others I'm on in that it really isn't much of a "discussion," at least in

the way that my other groups are "no moderation/post a message about

anything/almost anything goes" discussion groups.  Rather, I've always

thought of this group as primarily about announcements, be they for

(supposedly) non-commercial academic enterprises or (supposedly) commercial

presses.  So I for one hope these things keep coming.

--Steve


--
Steven D. Krause
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Eastern Michigan University * 614G Pray-Harrold Hall
Ypsilanti, MI 48197 * 734-487-1363 * <a href="http://krause.emich.edu">http://krause.emich.edu</a>


From: Aimee Morrison <ahm@ualberta.ca>
Subject: commercial research
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:00:05 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 252 (252)

hello all,
i've been thinking about advertising and books, and being an academic and
being a computing humanist in the 'digital age.'  i've had a couple of
spin-off ideas from the original discussion.
1.  i get a lot of paper spam from presses that both excites and depresses me:
   mostly, i can't afford what's on offer, but i'm grateful to hear of recent
publications in my field, and that this information has cost me nothing in the
way of research time.  however, this practice does add to the terrifying
feeling that no matter how fast i read, i'm falling ever further behind.  this
has a somewhat salubrious side effect, in that it encourages me to try to keep
on top of things.  peer pressure.  similarly digital notices -- even being
*aware* of recent work makes me feel more engaged in my field.  i'd like to
keep commercial spam out of my life, but the kinds of
forwarded--member-vetted--notices we get here don't bother me at all.
2.  i don't know about the rest of you, but one of my new(ish) research tools
is amazon.ca.  ditto university press web sites, and abebooks.com, and other
booksellers.  when i'm trying to get on top of a topic, i hit three or four
major library catalogues, periodical databases, and, increasingly, these
commercial sites.  i have to say, my research is definitely more effective for
this addition of commercial materials.  i know a *lot* of graduate students
who use the commercial booksellers as research tools.  it stands to reason
they'd be effective:  a lot of money goes into making the sites easy to use
and very helpful, so that you'll buy things.  for every book from amazon that
i buy, though, i probably visit the site 10 times just to do research on books
i later get out of the library.  interesting.
any thoughts?
aimee
.                  ++++++++++++++++++++++++
Aimee Morrison                     "Nothing in education is so
PhD Program, Dept. of English       astonishing as the amount of
University of Alberta               ignorance it accumulates in the
ahm@ualberta.ca                     form of inert facts."
                                           -- Henry Adams



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Internet Society on Digital Rights Management
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 06:51:03 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 253 (253)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

August 22, 2002

         Statement of the Internet Society on Digital Rights Management

                            <a href="http://www.ISOC.org">http://www.ISOC.org</a>
[deleted quotation]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 15, 2002

Contact: Julie Williams 703-326-9880, x111; 703-402-6715

cell

Statement of the Internet Society on Digital Rights

Management

Washington, D.C. - The Internet Society strongly opposes

attempts to impose governmental technology mandates that are

designed to protect only the economic interests of certain

owners of intellectual property over the economic interests

of much larger portions of society.  The current debate in

many countries of the world regarding digital rights

management (DRM) has illustrated the inevitable conclusion

of technology mandates in law: a world where all digital

media technology is either forbidden or compulsory. The

effect of these mandates is to grant veto power over new

technologies to special interest groups who have continually

opposed innovation.

There are many policy reasons that can be advanced to oppose

government intervention in technology.  Society at large has

a powerful economic interest in promoting research resulting

in the creation of new products and services as well as new

jobs. Many of the legislative proposals currently under

consideration would shackle technology and the research

needed to support it, solely for the benefit of one small

group. From the standpoint of sound public policy,

intellectual property rights must be respected but must also

be kept in balance with other rights and interests. In

particular, copyright law is a kind of "bargain" between

rights owners and consumers. Copyright, except in rare

instances, is not perpetual, and there are a wide range of

fair use exceptions to copyright that limit its restraints.

Without these limits, copyright would soon become an

oppressive burden on creativity and freedom of expression.

The Internet Society acknowledges these policy

considerations, but also believes that there are other even

more persuasive arguments, based on sound engineering and

technological principles, that show the folly of government

mandated technology.

Technology mandates are inherently anti-innovative. The

entire concept of a mandate is that it freezes a particular

technology at a point in time, and inhibits research and

development on new and better technology. Technological

standards are desirable and even necessary for widespread

implementation of new technology, but all standards sooner

or later must give way to new standards. This process should

not be impeded by legislation that effectively prohibits

research and development.

A classic illustration of the dangers of DRM legislation may

be found in legislation enacted by many countries as part of

their treaty obligations under the World Intellectual

Property Organization (WIPO) copyright treaties. The

so-called Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), passed by

the United States Congress in 1998, is an example. Under the

WIPO treaties, the United States, like the other countries

bound by the treaties, had an obligation to "provide 'legal

protection and effective legal remedies' against

circumventing technological measures, e.g., encryption and

password protection, that are used by copyright owners to

protect their works from piracy . . ." [See S. Rep. No.

105-190, at 8, 10-11 (1998)].  The DMCA, in responding to

this obligation, illustrates the "law of unintended

consequences." While purporting to help copyright owners, it

seriously threatens research in the field of encryption for

security.

The DMCA prohibits "circumvention" of existing technological

measures (such as encryption) that control access to a work

and encryption; it prohibits "trafficking" in technology

designed to circumvent access control; and it prohibits

"trafficking" in technology designed to circumvent copying.

These prohibitions are subject to certain exceptions; the

DMCA acknowledges rights of fair use, so that, in certain

limited circumstances, circumvention of copying protection

for purposes of fair use of an encrypted work does not

violate the act.

Another important exception is the separate provision of the

DMCA that allows circumvention of access controls for the

purpose of encryption research to identify flaws and

vulnerabilities of encryption technology. This provision is

narrowly drawn with explicit conditions relating to good

faith in performing research. Most significantly, the

exception is for access only; it does not permit what the

act refers to as trafficking in such research.

The danger to research presented by statutes like the DMCA

is best illustrated by a real world example of a researcher

in the field of encryption. Just because cryptography can be

or is being used for purposes other than copyright

protection, does not mean it is not also used for copyright

protection and therefore subject to the provision of the

DMCA. Although a researcher may be looking at a certain type

of cryptographic technology that is used to protect packets

containing information in the public domain, that same

technology might also be used to protect other packets that

contain copyrighted data, unknown to the researcher.

Likewise, a researcher might attempt to break the protection

on an item without realizing that the protected item is a

copyrighted work, which may not be discovered, if at all,

until it is too late. But the issue isn't whether the

researcher has cracked the protection - the issue is what

the researcher may do with the resulting information.

A central question for encryption researchers is whether

publishing the results of their research amounts to

disseminating something whose primary purpose is to

circumvent copyright protection. Under the DMCA, the act of

circumventing access controls for good faith research,

standing alone, is, generally speaking, legitimate. This

does not present great problems to researchers. However,

when the researcher then wishes to publish the results of

the research, the DMCA provides a test of the intent of the

original circumvention that depends on whether the

subsequent publication is made to "advance the state of

knowledge" of encryption research, or whether it is made "in

a manner that facilitates infringement." In other words, if

the researcher acts in good faith to circumvent access

control and publishes with the intent of reaching other

researchers, but the information ends up being "disseminated

in a manner that facilitates infringement," then the

original circumvention of the access controls may have been

illegal. Since there are both civil and criminal remedies

available to copyright owners, the researcher faces serious

dilemmas in deciding whether, how and when to publish.

There are already court decisions in the United States and

elsewhere involving both civil and criminal aspects of the

publication of encryption research. Many prominent figures

in the field have already spoken out against the chilling

effect of legislative interference with research in

technology. The Internet Society calls on the legislatures

of the world to limit the damage caused by shortsighted

legislative efforts, intended to carry out the seemingly

high-minded purposes of the copyright treaties, that instead

threaten the advancement of science and technology.

About ISOC

The Internet Society is a not-for-profit membership

organization founded in 1991 to provide leadership in the

management of Internet related standards, educational, and

policy development issues.  It has offices in Washington, DC

and Geneva, Switzerland. Through its current initiatives in

support of education and training, Internet standards and

protocol, and public policy, ISOC has played a critical role

in ensuring that the Internet has developed in a stable and

open manner.  It is the organizational home of the Internet

Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture

Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)

and other Internet-related bodies.

For over 10 years ISOC has run international network

training programs for developing countries which have played

a vital role in setting up the Internet connections and

networks in virtually every country that has connected to

the Internet during this time, while at the same time

working to protect the Internet's stability.  ISOC is taking

the next step in this evolution with the recent announcement

of its intent to bid for the .ORG registry based on the

belief that a thriving non-commercial presence is a key

element in developing a strong social and technical

infrastructure in all nations.  For additional information

see <a href="http://www.ISOC.org">http://www.ISOC.org</a>.

--- end forwarded text

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

R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>

The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

<<a href="http://www.ibuc.com/">http://www.ibuc.com/</a>>

44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA

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antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been

found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline

and Fall of the Roman Empire'


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From: "Joseph Jones (UBC Library)" <jjones@INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA>
Subject: commerce and research
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 06:49:44 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 254 (254)


Here is a "me too" comment on Aimee Morrison's note about commercial

research.  A bibliographic project now in its third year has

benefited significantly from research in the databases of amazon,

abebooks, and other booksellers.  These sources have yielded material

not found -- and not findable -- in academic library catalogues or

union catalogue derivatives like WorldCat.  And more and more I go

to bookstores to examine material that will make it into the library

only months later ...  This phenomenon reflects both the impoverishment

of the academy and the zest of enterprise.

Joseph Jones     University of British Columbia Library

jjones@interchange.ubc.ca     <a href="http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones">http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones</a>



From: lhomich <lhomich@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.172 embodiment
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 06:50:26 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 255 (255)


With my deepest apologies to Dr. Moravec, I offer:

The Ballad of Hans Moravec

or, Down(loaded) and Out on the World Wide Web

Hans Moravec worked out of MIT,

One day he'd an idea which filled him with glee:

"I am what I think, so I'll download my mind

On to a computer and leave body behind."

He enlisted his students' impressive mind power

And they all worked away in their ivory tower;

In a trice they devised a way to configure

Him digitally, which they tested with rigor.

They downloaded his mind into a machine

Each thought and idea, virtuous or obscene.

He glowed and stretched and transistored about;

Then cried with pleasure: "At last, I'm out!"

He left his body to gather the dust

As he exclaimed "I've no need of crust

or meat or drink to keep me alive,

Cyberspace is the place in which I will thrive!"

As Moravec multiplied and continued to grow

His friends all noticed their computers ran slow.

"He's using up all our processing power.

What used to take seconds now takes an hour!"

They tried to post warnings but alas they knew

He'd monopolized all of their CPU

He established himself on the hard drive,

"At last," he said, "I'm really alive!"

And soon he decided himself to copy

Since he was now too big to fit on a floppy;

His program-self made clone after clone,

He knew he'd never again be alone.

His copies attached to outgoing mail

To every address he arrived without fail

He established himself on every computer

A freewheeling cybernetic electronic freebooter.

He went searching for larger and faster machines

"I'll be more myself than I've ever been!"

He gloated, and grew, and soon he'd unfurled

His self on computers all over the world.

He was all places at once, and his omnipresence

Erected itself in a glowing tumesence.

He'd be wherever one happened to look

Unstoppable even by ol' Rodney Brooks.

Yet all was not well in Cyberland

Things, you might say, had got out of hand

If there was hand to be had (which there wasn't)

Since having a hand is now something Hans doesn't.

Each version of self on all those machines

Had their own ideas of just what it means

To be Doctor Moravec, and not all of them meshed

Out there in the land of identity de-fleshed.

Trouble was astir: "Oh, how can this be?"

Lamented the doctor, "since you're all me?

Each of you is I, whether in Paris or Guelph:

Oh how to maintain a coherent self?"

He pleaded for unity: "Why can't you, er, I see?

That really, I'm, er, you're all of me!"

But each of his selves declared "I'm the true one,

And as for the others, they must be undone."

The doc was in peril. He cried "Oh lawdy,"

"Now how I wish I kept my old body!"

As the selves of the doctor declared total war

He finally knew he had gone too far.

But what now has happened to our poor man?

He still has no body as per his original plan.

But his selves have deleted each other in a flick

And now he's now become Hans Lessavec.

-Eric Homich

Humanities Computing

University of Alberta

lhomich@ualberta.ca



From: "Jonathan Herold" <jherold@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: 2003 University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:22:35 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 256 (256)


Conference

Please note that the deadline for abstracts is 16 September, 2002.

Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

Call for Papers

Perceptions of the Past / Visions of the Future

An Interdisciplinary Conference

February 22, 2003

Nearly all world cultures view the present in relation to concepts of past

and future. Origins and end-times book-end the present and provide vanishing

points for perspectives on the present, past and future. Proposed papers

should explore aspects of how medieval cultures related their present to the

past and the future. Discussions of literary settings and historical studies

are a natural starting point for inquiry into this topic, but studies could

explore a broad range of ways in which medieval women and men depicted or

commemorated past events, or presented visions of the future in the medieval

present. Technologies of time-keeping, calendars, genealogy, and the social

and legal implications of past and future time are among many topics which

may be investigated.

Deadline for abstracts (1 page maximum): September 16, 2002

Abstracts may be submitted by e-mail, fax or post. Please address them to

the attention of the 2003 CMS Conference Committee.

Centre for Medieval Studies

University of Toronto

39 Queen's Park Crescent East

Toronto ON, Canada, M5S 2C3

fax: (416) 971 - 1398

email: medieval@chass.utoronto.ca



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: e-mail gone astray & other woes
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:21:40 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 257 (257)


Dear colleagues:

Recently I had to reinstall the operating system on my two main machines,

with the consequent loss of some files. I was able to rescue all but the

most recent e-mail. If you sent a message to Humanist that has not

appeared, it may have fallen foul of these recent events, so please resend.

Floods of junk e-mail continue to arrive into all of my accounts --

including this a.m. one offering (I quote from the subject line)

"humanist,Natural Breast Enhancement". I wasn't aware that Humanist needed

help in this area, nor am I personally dissatisfied with things as they

are. Be that as it may, this flood increases the likelihood that I will

accidentally delete a message genuinely addressed to the group. Again, if

you do not see your posting on Humanist within a day or two of sending, let

me know.

Other metaphorical floods connote changing times. Recently I received

several dozen applications to join Humanist from what appeared to be

undergraduate students, all from Malasia, none of whom had read what

Humanist is about or taken it seriously. ("I am interested in music!")

Perhaps someone had told them to go join a list and see what such things

are all about. Perhaps "Humanist" sounded friendly in a way that

"Philosophy-L" would not have.

Once upon a time I took it upon myself to investigate whether ancient

settlements as a matter of course were walled; I also needed to find out

(for reasons related to a question of interpretation in Milton's Paradise

Lost) if any significant number of instances a portcullis -- "A strong and

heavy frame or grating, formed of vertical and horizontal bars of wood or

iron (the vertical ones being pointed at the lower end), suspended by

chains, and made to slide up and down in vertical grooves at the sides of

the gateway of a fortress or fortified town, so as to be capable of being

quickly let down as a defence against assault." (OED) -- had been placed at

the inner end of the passageway leading into the fortified settlement.

Those of you with a proper education in ancient history will know

immediately that walls were only built when absolutely necessary -- they

were *very* costly affairs -- and possibly that (to my knowledge) there's

no evidence whatever of such a portcullis; they're always on the outside of

a fortification. (Go see A. W. Lawrence, Greek Aims in Fortification; F. E.

Winter, Greek Fortifications...) But to the point -- of being reminded that

we built the wall around Humanist only when provoked to do so, and that as

the siege-engines get taller and more sophisticated, the wall needs to get

more effective, as will happen shortly, I am told. Meanwhile I hope you can

have patience with your old gatekeeper, who sometimes is drowsy or

otherwise distracted.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

King's College London

Strand

London WC2R 2LS

+44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980

willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk w.mccarty:btinternet.com

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Just-In-Time-Trees (JITTs)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:17:41 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 258 (258)


Willard,

I thought Humanist readers might be interested in the latest line of attack

Matthew O'Donnell and I have taken on the problem of overlapping

hierarchies in texts. The presentation that was made at the Extreme Markup

conference (Montreal, 2002) is now available on the SBL website,

<a href="http://www.sbl-site2.org/Overlap/">http://www.sbl-site2.org/Overlap/</a> (follow the link to Just-In-Time-Trees

(JITTs).

We propose that the declaration of the document root and the markup to be

recognized should be moved from the syntax layer and made a part of the

processing of a text. That change in the model for handling markup removes

the various problems with overlapping markup that have been the subject of

numerous proposals but few widespread implementations since the rise of

SGML. Our latest proposal differs from all prior ones in that it allows the

use of standard XML software for the processing of texts, while allowing

extensive experimentation with markup languages for the encoding of texts.

Our argument for markup recognition is grounded in the text of ISO 8879

(concur) and extends that concept to XML by the use of filters to declare

the  document root and markup to be recognized.

The only resource available at this particular moment is the presentation

from the Extreme Markup conference but a more formal paper should appear at

that location by late September along with sample code for experimenting

with the technique.

The oddest question that has been voiced in response to our proposal is how

serious a problem is overlap for humanities texts? I consider it odd since

any number of humanities projects, including the TEI Guidelines, make

repeated references to the need to record overlapping hierarchies in texts.

There are also the questions raised by authors such as Jerome

McGann,  <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jjm2f/jj2000aweb.html">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jjm2f/jj2000aweb.html</a>,

about the use of markup for representation of texts. Still, the importance

of the problem is one more of personal experience for me than a systematic

analysis of texts of interest to humanists. As part of our research, I

would like to develop (or learn about) more convincing arguments for

overlapping hierarchies in texts.

Suggestions of prior studies, measures of overlap and its importance and

similar resources would be greatly appreciated. One possible candidate for

constructing a measure of overlap are  the minimum tree-to-tree editing

distance algorithms but I am sure there are others.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu



From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Seize the E!: The Eclectic Journal and Its Ramifications
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:09:21 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 259 (259)


           _ Seize the E!: The Eclectic Journal and Its Ramifications_

     I am pleased to announce the availability of my PowerPoint

presentation prepared for NASIG 2002 Transforming Serials: The

Revolution Continues

                         [ <a href="http://www.nasig.org/wm/">http://www.nasig.org/wm/</a> ]

                [ <a href="http://www.nasig.org/wm/program.htm">http://www.nasig.org/wm/program.htm</a> ]

SUMMARY.  In recent years, an increasing number of electronic journals

have embedded audio, video, and other multimedia within their

publication to augment their usefulness. In addition, some have further

enhanced access and use with a variety of 'eclectic' features,

functionalities, and content, such as advanced navigation; font, format,

and display control; modeling; personalization and customization

options; and reader participation. In general, most cataloging records,

however, do not reflect such components, depriving users of the

necessary information and instruction that could facilitate use. A

variety of recommendations and options are reviewed as possible

solutions.

   _Seize the E!: The Eclectic Journal and Its Ramifications_ is

available at:

          [ <a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SeizeTheE.ppt">http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SeizeTheE.ppt</a> ]

      In addition to relevant screen prints and summaries, the

presentation includes appropriate sound and special effects [Note: Use

those headphones/speakers for full enjoyment; 3D glasses are optional

[:->]

      A companion paper for the presentation has been prepared and

submitted for formal publication in the conference proceedings;

look for it in the NASIG 2002 issues  in The Serials Librarian in

2003.

      Joy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan

Eclectic Librarian

Iowa State University

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu

"The future of scholarship will be both diverse and complicated, with

rich options for publication using a variety of multimedia and eclectic

features, functionalities, and content. To facilitate access and use,

catalogers and cataloging should identify and delineate these

components"



From: "Alexander Gelbukh" <gelbukh@cic.ipn.mx>
Subject: CICLing-2003 -- Computational Linguistics, Mexico,
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:08:34 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 260 (260)


February, Springer LNCS

                  CICLing-2003

          Third International Conference

          on Intelligent Text Processing

          and Computational Linguistics

          February 16 to 22, 2003

          Mexico City, Mexico

SUMMARY

     PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS

     SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10, short papers: October 20

     KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

          Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, USA)

          Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton U., UK)

          Ted Pedersen (U. of Minnesota, USA)

          More are likely to be announced, see www.CICLing.org

     EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies,

                 great cave and colonial city, and more.

                 See photos of past events at www.CICLing.org

     URL: <a href="http://www.CICLing.org/2003">http://www.CICLing.org/2003</a>

The latest complete version of this CFP is at that website.

Just in case, below is ABRIDGED text. If you can read the website,

please go there and IGNORE the rest of this document.

[material deleted]



From: "C. Perry Willett" <pwillett@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.180 gatekeeping & its perils
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:10:01 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 261 (261)


Willard,

As A. Bartlett Giamatti was fond of pointing out, the root of

"paradise" is from Persian for an enclosed garden, or, as the

OED has it, "for a (Persian) enclosed park, orchard, or pleasure

ground." Giamatti, in his dual role of Commissioner of Baseball

and very public intellectual, liked the idea of a baseball park

as paradise, but perhaps virtual paradises require a wall as well.

Perry Willett

Main Library

Indiana University

pwillett@indiana.edu



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.166 embodiment
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:10:35 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 262 (262)


Arun-Kumar Tripathi recently invited the souls of Humanist to consider

"Understanding the world by virtue of having Bodies". There is in that

invitation a reference to "a machine without a body".
[deleted quotation]
machine? Another way of restating the question is to ask if the human

does not exist except in a prosthetic condition. The human is always in a

state of mediation.

If this inescability of the prosthetic condition and the necessity of the

state of mediation is the human destiny, then the question asked by our

learned colleague is unanswerable. We cannot know "a machine without a

body" and if we cannot know such a machine, how are we to judge whether it

is capable of understanding the world as we do?

I find it difficult to imagine humans as reasoning beings free of all

technological augmentation since for me reason proceeds by the use of

tools (rules are tools). I am also still to be convinced that unmediated

contact is possible between the human and the world. If I as a human being

were to know a "machine without a body" in that very act of knowing I

would be endowing the "machine without a body" with a body.

The computer and the user form a system. And in this system the human

gives mind to the machine. The question for our time is whether machines

give "mind" to the human or whether machines that appear to "give mind" to

humans are but mediating instances and instruments through which other

humans mind humans. It is a question if our time is the time and place of

Western-inspired ideological systems that place the human in a particular

situation vis-a-vis the natural in an exploiter-exploited relation.

The question of the autonomy of the artefact is familiar to text encoders

and ethnobotanists. It is a moral and aesthetic question that is older

than fancy talk of technological ecologies and textual economies. And yet

I am curious as to what the meme "machine without body" can do in the

streams of networked discourse.

Old enough to be curious,

f.


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVInternet.com>
Subject: Re: 16.182 a garden enclosed, no garden otherwise
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:50:11 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 263 (263)


At 10:19 AM 8/26/02, "C. Perry Willett"

<pwillett@indiana.edu>   wrote this:
[deleted quotation]
Here is how the Enc. Brit describes PARADISE. (1st ed.)

"A term principally used for the Garden of Eden, in which Adam

and Eve were placed immediately upon their creation.

As to this terrestrial paradise, there have been many enquiries

   about its situation.

It has been placed in the third heaven, in the orb of the moon,

   in the moon itself, in the middle region of the air, above the earth,

under the earth, in the place possessed by the Caspian sea, and

under the arctic pole.

The learned Huetius places it upon the river that is produced by

the conjunction of the Tigris and Euphrates, now called the river

   of the Arabs, between this conjunction and the division made

by the same river before it falls into the Persian sea.

Other geographers have placed it in Armenia, between the

sources of the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Araxis, and the Phasis,

which they suppose to be the four rivers

described by Moses. The celestial paradise is that place of pure

and refined delight, in which the souls of the blessed enjoy

everlasting happiness."

Brian Whatcott

    Altus OK                      Eureka!



From: William Craig Howes <craighow@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Deadline Extension for "Online Lives": A _Biography_
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:46:17 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 264 (264)


Special Issue to 9/15

Extension of Deadline for Call for Articles: A _Biography_ Special Issue

Online Lives

Due to a number of recent enquiries, and some adjustments in production

schedules, the deadline for the Winter 2003 issue of _Biography_ has been

extended to SEPTEMBER 16, 2002.

This issue will feature critical essays on how auto/biography and other

forms of life writing are engaging the Internet, hypertext, digital

multimedia, and the immersive interactive environments of MOOs, virtual

worlds, and role-playing games. Guest editor John Zuern seeks contributions

that address topics such as personal home pages, online

diaries and web logs, web-based genealogical research and family histories,

the stability and/or flux of identity in virtual communities, and the

creative use of webcams and other surveillance and tracking technologies

for self-representation. Interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, as

well as explorations of the theoretical, methodological, and ethical

challenges of studying online lives are particularly encouraged.

TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and ideally between 3,000

and 10,000 words. A double-blind submission policy will be followed; the

authors name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, but an

accompanying cover letter should contain the authors name and address.

Consultation on manuscript ideas is welcomed.

For more information, or to submit an entry, contact the Center for

Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i

96822 USA; Tel./Fax: (808) 956-3774; biograph@hawaii.edu



From: Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman@Brown.edu>
Subject: Announcement of TEI training at the Memebers' Meeting
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:44:26 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 265 (265)


A pre-meeting TEI workshop will be held the day before the Members'

Meeting in Chicago (see <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/chicago.html">http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/chicago.html</a>

for information on the TEI Members' Meeting). Here is the information

about the workshop itself.

This training session will use a case study model to provide advice

and discussion on specific topics in text encoding, based on real-

world problems supplied by the participants. The session is aimed at

those responsible for designing their project's encoding system. It

will provide a valuable opportunity to take a focused look at a par-

ticular problem or set of problems, in a group of knowledgeable peers

guided by TEI experts. Participants are expected to have some basic

familiarity with the TEI. The session will focus on the encoding of

literary and cultural documents, interpreted broadly.

The session will last from 1 to 6 pm on Thursday, October 10. Each

participant will be asked to bring a problem or encoding challenge

from their own project. The session will begin with a general discus-

sion of the topics raised, followed by focused attention to each

particular case in turn. The instructors will address each partici-

pant's questions in depth and also draw comparisons among the projects

represented. The goal of the session will be not only to answer the

participants' specific questions, but also to place them in the con-

text of issues such as retrieval, data interchange, and long-term

project goals. Any issues that are still unresolved at the end of the

session may be discussed further with the instructors via email.

The session can accommodate a maximum of 20 participants, and will be

led by three instructors. The instructors are Julia Flanders, Director

of the Women Writers Project; Syd Bauman, North American Editor of the

TEI; and Terry Catapano, Electronic Text Manager at the New York

Public Library.

The deadline for applications is September 20, and you will be

notified by September 24 whether or not you have been accepted. While

applications will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis,

in the event there are more applicants than can be accommodated,

Consortium members and subscribers will be given preference over

non-members. The fee for the session is $50 for TEI members and

subscribers, and $100 for non-members.

To apply, please send the following information to

Julia_Flanders@Brown.edu:

* Your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number

* The project you work with (a URL would be helpful)

* A paragraph describing your project's work (the materials you're

    encoding, the audience you're serving, the aims of your encoding)

* A paragraph describing the particular encoding problem you wish to

    bring to the session.

If your application is accepted, you will also be asked to send an

encoded sample and a copy of your DTD.



From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: special issue on Borgmann online
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:45:15 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 266 (266)


Dear Humanists:

Those of you interested in philosophy of technology as a framework for

thinking about humanities computing  may find the recent special issue of

_Techne: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology_

of value:

<a href="http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v6n1/">http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v6n1/</a>

The special issue is devoted to Albert Borgmann's 1999 _Holding on to

Reality: : The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium_, which I

think of a one of the two or three most important books around on IT from a

philosophy of technology perspective.

Borgmann replies to the essays, which makes for a very interesting read

indeed.

enjoy!

Charles Ess

Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center

Drury University

900 N. Benton Ave.                          Voice: 417-873-7230

Springfield, MO  65802  USA            FAX: 417-873-7435

Home page:  <a href="http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html">http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html</a>

Co-chair, CATaC 2002: <a href="http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/">http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/</a>

Education is what is left over after you've forgotten everything that you've

learned.  (source unknown)



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: mapping?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:20:56 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 267 (267)


Numerous popular accounts of the several variations on the theme of

diagramming ideas and arguments, otherwise known as "concept mapping",

declare the eponymous ancestor to be the technique worked out by Stephen

Toulmin in The Uses of Argument (Cambridge, 1958). Of the secondary sources

I have been able to discover so far, the most helpful has been Brian R.

Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw, "Concept Maps as Hypermedia Components",

<a href="http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/articles/ConceptMaps/">http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/articles/ConceptMaps/</a>. I would be grateful for

any references to a history and discussion of concept mapping, whether

called by that name or not. Especially useful would be one that dealt both

with its larger context in mapping as a whole and with its newer relations,

e.g. the now hugely popular subject of "topic maps". I am not interested in

straightforward engineering documents, i.e. that tell one how to map with

this or that system, though a philosophy of that engineering practice would

be gold to me. Rather I want to know about mapping as a technique for research.

I already know about and am reading John Ziman's work on scientific

practice, Reliable Knowledge (Canto, rpt. 1991) and the more recent Real

Science (Cambridge, 2000). Ziman in particular agues that mapping is a much

better metaphor with which to conceptualize scientific practice than is

modeling, but I feel a counterargument coming on and wish to encourage it.

I have the notion that mapping is centrally about getting a correct,

reliable version of its object, whereas modeling (in the sense common to

experimental physics, say) is centrally about probing it. Hence,

apparently, mapping is a kissing cousin of "knowledge representation" (in

computer science), whereas modeling is essentially present-participial,

experimental, heuristic.

Comments on any or all of the above are of course very welcome indeed.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "J Patrick Wagner" <aln@mail.ucf.edu>
Subject: Asynchronous Learning Networks 2002 Conference update
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:39:46 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 268 (268)


The Eighth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning

Networks (ALN)

November 8, 9 & 10, 2002             Orlando, Florida

Greetings,

The 8th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks

(ALN), The Power of Online Learning: The Faculty Experience will be held on

November 8-10, 2002 in Orlando Florida.

The conference is being hosted by the University of Central Florida in

cooperation with the Sloan Center for Online Education (SCOLE) at Olin and

Babson Colleges, American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) and The

Pennsylvania State University. The Rosen Centre Hotel, one of Orlando's

premier conference centers, is this year's conference site. The Rosen

Centre is just 15 minutes from the Orlando International Airport, and

convenient to many Orlando-area attractions.

This year's conference will be more exciting than ever. It features a

keynote speaker, five pre-conference workshops, an exhibit hall, and over

100 topics to choose from seven concurrent sessions.

Featured Keynote Speaker---Chris Dede

Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at

Harvard's Graduate School of Education. He is also Chair of the Learning &

Teaching Area in the School.

Here are some topic samples...

Eliminating Accessibility Barriers in Distance Learning

David Barrow-Britton, Conrad N. Hilton College

Morgan Geddie, Conrad N. Hilton College

The CSUSM Script-Interpreter Pair in Java: Tools for Creating

Conversational Tutoring Systems

Rika Yoshii, California State University

Alastair Milne, California State University

Online Laboratories and Interactive Simulations in ALNs

Haniph A. Latchman, University of Florida

Denis Gillet, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Jim Henry, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Oscar Crisalle, University of Florida

Register now and take advantage of the early bird discount. For

registration or more information about the conference, visit

<<a href="http://www.sloan-c.org">http://www.sloan-c.org</a>><a href="http://www.sloan-c.org">http://www.sloan-c.org</a>. You can also call our toll

free number, 1-800-204-7234, or email at aln@mail.ucf.edu.

November 8, 9 & 10, 2002             Orlando, Florida

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "J. Stephen Downie" <jdownie@UIUC.EDU>
Subject: ISMIR 2002: Panel I: Music Information Retrieval
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:49:37 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 269 (269)


Evaluation Frameworks

Dear friends and colleagues:

I have the pleasure of announcing that Dr. Edie Rasmussen has consented

to be the keynote presenter at the 3rd International Conference on Music

Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002, <a href="http://ismir2002.ircam.fr">http://ismir2002.ircam.fr</a>), Panel on

Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Frameworks (17 October 2002).

Professor Rasmussen's biographical information is attached below. I

think you will agree with me that Dr. Rasmussen will be bringing to the

panel session an extra-special expertise on evaluation from which the

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL)

communities will greatly benefit.

I would like to take this time to prompt all into considering the

submission of a White Paper on MIR/MDL evaluation. As

many of you know, we recently held an MIR/MDL valuation workshop at JCDL

2002 in Portland, Oregon. The White Papers and Dr. Ellen Voorhees'

excellent keynote presentation from the JCDL meeting are available at:

<a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation/">http://music-ir.org/evaluation/</a>

<a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation/wp1/wp1_voorhees.pdf">http://music-ir.org/evaluation/wp1/wp1_voorhees.pdf</a>

The ISMIR 2002 Panel on MIR Evaluation is intended to build upon and

extend the findings of the JCDL meeting. To get a better sense of how

the pieces fit together (i.e., the White Papers, the JCDL meeting, the

ISMIR 2002 Panel and the final set of recommendations) please consult:

<a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation/wp1/wp1_downie_proposal.pdf">http://music-ir.org/evaluation/wp1/wp1_downie_proposal.pdf</a>

and

<a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation/wp1/wp1_downie_intro.pdf">http://music-ir.org/evaluation/wp1/wp1_downie_intro.pdf</a>

The White Papers and the Panel session are strongly linked but not

wholly bound together. That is, it is possible--encouraged actually--to

submit a White Paper even though you cannot attend the meeting in Paris:

this way, attendees will be able to consider your viewpoints, wishes,

and arguments even in your absence! I wish to especially encourage White

Paper submissions from the business/commercial (i.e., catalogue holders,

researchers, and administrators) and practitioner (i.e., librarians,

retailers, etc.) communities. Of course, all others are also most

welcomed to submit.

The more White Papers we have, the stronger, and more useful, the final

set of MIR/MDL evaluation framework recommendations will be!

If this email has been at all persuasive, please contact me at

jdownie@uiuc.edu and I will get back to you with the necessary details

concerning submission formatting, deadlines, and the like.

***********

ABOUT DR. RASMUSSEN:

Edie Rasmussen is currently Professor in the School of Information

Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.  She has also held appointments at

the School of Library and Information Studies at Dalhousie University,

Nova Scotia, at the School of Library Science at the Institiut Teknoloji

MARA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore, and at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.  Dr.

Rasmussen holds a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and an

M.Sc. degree from McMaster University, both in Chemistry, an M.L.S.

degree from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. in

Information Studies from the University of Sheffield.  She has been

active in the Information Retrieval and Digital Library research

communities, having served as Conference Chair for the ACM International

Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, the ACM

International Conference on Digital Libraries, and currently as

Conference Chair for the ASIS&T 2002 Annual Meeting.  Her current

research interests include indexing and information retrieval in text

and multimedia databases.

*************

I hope this email finds everyone well.

Cheers,

Stephen


--
**********************************************************
     "Research funding makes the world a better place"
**********************************************************
J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2000-01)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 351-5037



From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.188 (concept, topic &al.) mapping?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:51:14 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 270 (270)


Willard and colleagues:

At the risk of over-filling your e-mail , I pass on the following notes I

made on Thierry Bardini's excellent book on Douglas Engelbart,

_Bootstrapping_.  This makes the historically interesting point that the

very interfaces we now take granted - including the visual display of our

monitors (modeled after WWII radar screens (Engelbart was a radar

technician), the keyboard, the mouse - rest on Engelbart's then-radical

notion that the _body_ of the user must be included in thinking about what

we call the Human-Computer Interface (Engelbart had his - more complex -

version).   As well, these interfaces are further tied to an explicit

understanding of the _use_ of the machine as symbol manipulator - one that

humans could use first of all to conceptually map their world -- a mapping

process, finally, that for Engelbart led to hypertext as a distinctive

capacity of the machine that would augment and enhance human intelligence

as concerned with building concept maps in distinctive new ways.

All of which is a very long way of saying and documenting that (a)

Willard's interest in embodiment and concept mapping is (as usual) spot on,

and (b) points to important historical roots in the development of

computing technologies as such. In particular: Engelbart's interest in

embodiment (which led directly to the idea of using the keyboard and the

mouse as input devices) anticipates the important work of Winograd and

Flores (1986) by something like thirty years.

Cheers!

Charles Ess

Interdisciplinary Studies Center

Drury University

Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA

<www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html>

<NOTES>

Bardini sees the emergence of natural-language interface out of the

artificial computer languages (FORTRAN and COBOL) as part of "a slow

process of teaching both the user and the computer how to talk to each other

to find a common language."  Moreover,

How that process worked out had significant consequences for the way the

personal computer developed.  The most significant consequence was Dougals

Engelbarts / inclusion of the body of the user in the interaction between

computers and their users. (33f.)

Contra the emphasis on the distinctiveness of this technology, Englebarts

conceptualization of the interaction between users and computers is as "a

process of information exchange that is not necessarily unique to humans

using computers.  All exchanges take place within a larger framework." (34)

This larger framework (for computers, Engelbart called it "H-LAM/T - Human

using Language, Artifact, Methodology, in which he is Trained"), the

"man-artifact interface"

has existed for centuries, ever since humans began using artifacts and

executing composite processes, exchange across this "interface" occurs when

an explicit-human process is coupled to an explicit-artifact process.  Quite

often these coupled processes are designed for just this exchange purpose,

to provide a functional match between other explicit-human and

explicit-artifact processes buried within their respective domains that do

the more significant things. (Engelbart 1962, 21-21)

Engelbart focused on language, influenced by Benjamin Lee Whorf (of the

famous Sapir-Whorf hypothesis).  One example:

A natural language provides its user with a ready-made structure of concepts

that establishes a basic mental structure, and that allows relatively

flexible, general-purpose concept structuring.  Our concept of "language" as

one of the basic means for augmenting the human intellect embraces all of

the concept structuring which the human may make use of . The other

important part of our "language" is the way in which concepts are

represented - the symbols and symbol structures. (Engelbart 1962, 35) (36)

Bardini:

Language was thus conceived as operating at two levels: it structures

concepts, but it also structures symbols in order to model and at the same

time to represent "a picture of the world." (36)

With specific reference to Whorf:

The Whorfian hypothesis states that "the world view of a culture is limited

by the structure of the language which this culture uses."  But there seems

to be another factor to consider in the evolution of language and human

reasoning ability.  We offer the following hypothesis, which is related to

the Whorfian hypothesis: Both the language used by a culture, and the

capability for effective intellectual activity, are directly affected during

the evolution by the means by which individuals control the external

manipulation of symbols (Engelbart 1962, 24) (36)

As Bardini illustrates:

It is not simply the case that language structures our world in a given way,

without our having any influence on the matter.  The computerized display of

new symbols should therefore allow us to affect the way we conceptualize our

world.  The computer thus could become an open medium that could be used to

"make sense of the world," to map the structure of the world as information

flows in order to manage their increasing complexity.  The computer medium

would change intellectual activity radically.  It would not just improve its

efficiency, make it faster, more economical, and so on, although it would do

these things, too.  The basic means to augment human intellect would lie in

the simultaneous development of computer and user in a way that would

exploit the potential of natural language to reconfigure our concepts and

change our world. (37)

Nice quote from Whorf:

Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are

culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not

only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of

relationships and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of

his consciousness" (Whorf 1956 [1942], 252)  (37)

A crucial turn (Bardini)

Engelbart thus decided to focus on the configurations themselves, the

"pattern-system" or "network" ordering the concepts that make up our world,

rather than on the linear expression of those concepts, the way in which

they usually are communicated:

With the view that the symbols one works with are supposed to represent a

mapping of ones associated concepts, and further that ones concepts exist

in a "network" of relationships as opposed to the essentially linear form of

actual printed records, it was decided that the concept-manipulation aids

derivable from real-time computer support could be appreciably enhanced by

structuring conventions that would make explicit (for both the user and the

computer) the various types of network relationships among concepts.

(Engelbart and English 1968, 398).

In this way, according to Bardini

Engelbart proposed to use this pattern system as a way by which computers

could become devices that would allow humans to expand the house of their

consciousness.  When one stretches the notion of technology to include the

way humans use language - as Engelbart realized very early, according to his

own account - it becomes clearer how it was the influence of Whorf - and

beyond that, of a nexus of independent thinkers like him - that was central

to the development of the personal computer.  --> hypertext (37)

</NOTES>



From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.188 (concept, topic &al.) mapping?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:52:09 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 271 (271)


Willard:

I've run into some literature on concept-mapping over the past five years -

in part, as part of a collaboration with a colleague in architecture, as

we've exported architectural pedgagogies into humanities teaching.  I'm not

sure I have any good bibliography to offer to complement yours - but I just

wanted to make sure: are you familiar with Edward Tufte's several books on

the visualization of information?  They are classics in both architecture

and other domains, so far as I can tell, and I'm pretty certain they've

already been mentioned on Humanist one way or another.

If so, grand.  If not, let me know and I'll get the more precise details.

Cheers,

Charles Ess



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new Kluwer books
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:40:15 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 272 (272)


Archaeologies of Remembrance

Death and Memory in Past Societies

edited by

Howard Williams

Cardiff University, Wales, UK

How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual

practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of

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Shape Analysis and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects

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Maytham H. Safar

Computer Engineering Dept., Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Cyrus Shahabi

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,

CA, USA

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS -- 23

With the explosive growth of Multimedia Applications, the ability to

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Traditional books on computer vision and informational retrieval are too

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2. Image Similarity Measures.

3. Image Shape Features.

4. Alternative Image Description Techniques.

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Index Structures. 5.Shape Similarity Matching Queries.

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11. Appendix. Bibliography. Topic Index.

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1990-2000

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Editor-in-Chief:

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The Hong Kong Institute of Education, PR of China

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The Series presents to readers a comprehensive knowledge base of literature

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Archaeological Survey

by

E.B. Banning

Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada

MANUALS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD, THEORY AND TECHNIQUE --

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Table of Contents. Preface.

I. Introduction.

II. The Goals of Archaeological Survey.

III. The Discovery of Archaeological Materials by Survey.

IV. Units, Sampling Frames, and Edge Effects in Archaeological Survey.

V. Sampling Space: Statistical Surveys.

VI. Purposive Survey: Prospection.

VII. Surveying for Spatial Structure.

VIII. Cultural Resource Management and Site Significance.

IX. Surveying Sites and Landscapes.

X. Evaluating Surveys.

XI. Surveying the Future. Appendix

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Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems

Volume 7: Agent-Based Defeasible Control in Dynamic Environments

edited by

John-Jules Ch. Meyer

Utrecht University, Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands

Jan Treur

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

HANDBOOK OF DEFEASIBLE REASONING AND UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS -- 7

This last volume of the Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning andUncertainty

Management Systems is - together with Volume 6 - devoted to the topics

Reasoning and Dynamics, covering both the topics of "Dynamics of

Reasoning", where reasoning is viewed as a process, and "Reasoning about

Dynamics", which must be understood as pertaining to how both designers of,

and agents within dynamic systems may reason about these systems.

The present volume presents work done in this context and is more focused

on "reasoning about dynamics", viz. how (human and artificial) agents

reason about (systems in) dynamic environments in order to control them. In

particular modelling frameworks and generic agent models for modelling

these dynamic systems and formal approaches to these systems such as logics

for agents and formal means to reason about agent-based and compositional

systems, and action & change more in general are considered.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Preface.

Part I: Introduction and Basic Concepts. Introduction; J.-J.Ch. Meyer, J.

Treur. Basic Concepts; J.-J.Ch. Meyer, J. Treur.

Part II: Modelling Frameworks and Generic Agent Models. Compositional

Design of Multi-Agent Systems: Modelling Dynamics and Control;

F.M.T.Brazier, et al. Control Techniques for Complex Reasoning: The Case of

Milord II; L. Godo, et al. Concurrent METATEM as a Coordination Language;

A. Kellett, M. Fisher. Compositional Design and Reuse of a Generic Agent

Model; F.M.T. Brazier, et al.

Part IIIA: Formal

Analysis: General Approaches. Semantic Formalisation of the Dynamic of

Compositional Agent Systems; F.M.T. Brazier, et al. A Descriptive Dynamic

Logic and its Application to Reflective Architectures; C.Sierra, et al.

Compositional Verification of Multi-Agent Systems in Temporal

Multi-Epistemic Logic; J. Engelfriet, et al.

Part IIIB:

Formal Analysis: Logics for Agents. Formalising Abilities and Opportunities

of Agents; B. van Linder, et al. Seeing is Believing (And so are Hearing

and Jumping); B. van Linder, et al. Motivational Attitudes in the KARO

Framework; J.-J.Ch. Meyer, et al. Modelling Social Agents: Towards

Deliberate Communication; F. Dignum, B. vanLinder.

Part IIIC: Formal Analysis: Reasoning about Dynamics. Reasoning about

Action and Change Using Dijkstra's Semantics for Programming Languages; W.

ukaszewicz, E.Madaliska-Bugai. Preferential Action Semantics;

J.-J.Ch.Meyer, P. Doherty. Reuse and Abstraction in Verification: Agents

Acting in Dynamic Environments; C.M. Jonker, et al. Compositional

Verification of a Multi-Agent System for One-to-Many Negotiation; F.M.T.

Brazier, et al. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0834-1 Date: September 2002 Pages: 480 pp.

EURO 225.00 / USD 207.00 / GBP 142.00

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

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7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

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From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- August 2002
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:40:01 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 273 (273)


CIT INFOBITS    August 2002             No. 50          ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the

CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a

number of information and instructional technology sources that come to

her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to

educators.

......................................................................

Faculty Attitudes Toward Electronic Resources

More on Increased Faculty Workload and Online Technologies

Tips for Online Instructors

Future of E-Books

Student Personalities and Instruction Delivery

EDUCAUSE Announces 2002 IT Award Winners

UNC-Chapel Hill's Accessible Electronic Content Website

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Digital Arts and Culture::2003::Streaming Wor(l)ds
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:31:14 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 274 (274)


Dear Humanist Scholars,

\:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Digital Arts and Culture::2003::Streaming Wor(l)ds

!!! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN !!!

The 2003 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) international

conference series is to be held on the city campus of RMIT University,

Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003.

KEYWORDS: Augmented Reality, Cyberculture, Electronic Fiction, Electronic

Music, Electronic Nonfiction, Electronic Poetry, Electronic Spatiality,

Electronic Temporality, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction, Games Culture,

Games Sociology, Games System Design, Games Theory , Hypertext Literature,

Hypertext Theory , Interactive Architecture, Interactive Cinema and Video,

Interactive Graphic Narrative, Interactive Performance, MOOs, MUDs, RPG,

Networked Improvisation, Networked performance, Streaming Narrative, Time

Based Interactive Media, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, ,

++proposals++ Artists, scholars, developers and practitioners working in

these and cognate fields are invited to submit 500 word proposals for

papers and panels by September 15, 2002. All proposals for papers and

panels must be submitted via the submission page which will be available

from the conference web site:

<a href="http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/">http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/</a>

All contributions will be reviewed by the conference academic board and

short listed nominations will be contacted by November 1, 2002.

Short listing does not mean that your work has been accepted for the

conference. Short listing means you will be invited to write a full paper,

panel proposal, or forum description for review by the program committee.

Only complete papers, panel submissions and forum descriptions will be

considered for acceptance and this is subject to full peer review by the

program committee.

Paper and panel submissions must be completed and submitted by February 1,

2003 for final peer review and consideration. All accepted work will be

published in a full conference proceedings.

++papers++ Papers are academic presentations that reflect any of the

conference themes. Proposals for papers are limited to 500 words and

should give the program committee an indication of your major argument or

arguments, and your theoretical approach. It is expected that only

abstracts that suggest an original contribution to the field will be short

listed.

++panels++ Panels are themed discussions that concentrate on any of the

conference themes. Panels are to consist of a position statement (that may

or may not be collectively authored) that panel members respond and

contribute to. Panel proposals ought to include a draft position statement

(maximum of 500 words) and list the members of the panel. Panels are

expected to make a constructive and original contribution to debate and

ideas in the field.

++what is dac?++ DAC is an international conference focusing on new media

theory and practice in critical contexts. It has nurtured a significant

international community of young and innovative researchers, artists and

scholars in the interdisciplinary field of new media, and has become the

benchmark conference for research and collaborative endeavour in new

media. DAC has always offered a specialised forum that has emphasised the

importance of bringing together leading practitioners for the exchange of

ideas and to develop international professional networks and knowledge

economies. MelbourneDAC:Streaming Wor(l)ds recognises and intends to

continue this role through the papers, panels, and forums it hosts, and

the innovative series of collaborative workshops and events that will be

undertaken by all conference participants. The mission of MelbourneDAC is

to not only exchange ideas and promote new developments in digital arts

and culture but to ensure that all participants develop relevant and

sustainable professional communities.

The first DAC conference was held at the University of Bergen, Norway, in

1998 under the auspices of the Norwegian Research Council. It has since

been hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology (1999), The University

of Bergen (2000), and Brown University (2001). MelbourneDAC:Streaming

Wor(l)ds is the first time that DAC will be held in the southern

hemisphere and will provide a regional focus within the international DAC

community.

END

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From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: Public Domain Workshop Reminder!
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:33:15 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 275 (275)


REMINDER AND INVITATION

*September 10, 2002!* is the Early Registration Deadline for the first

Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop:

The Shrinking Public Domain

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002</a>

The first online workshop in this series, The Shrinking Public Domain,

will be moderated by Laura N. Gasaway, Esq., Law Professor and Director

of the Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and

will run from September 16, 2002 to October 4, 2002. Participants will

receive daily response and feedback from workshop moderators. In

addition, each workshop will include live chats with the workshop

moderators and invited guests. This is an online, asynchronous seminar

in which participants are active at times convenient to them.

The syllabus for this workshop is available at:

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/syllabus_pd.pdf">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/syllabus_pd.pdf</a>

For additional information call 301-985-7777 or 1-800-283-6832,

extension 7777 or visit our web site at

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa2002/</a>

-Olga Francois

Center for Intellectual Property

University of Maryland University College

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/</a>

[Please distribute widely and

excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.]



From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: Garfield: "Acknowledged Self-Archiving is Not Prior
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:27:42 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 276 (276)


Publication"

These two papers by Eugene Garfield -- founder of the Insitute for

Scientific Information, Current Contents, Science Citation Index,

and originator of the Citation Impact Factor -- might be of interest to

the Open Access community:

      "I believe that posting and sharing one's preliminary publications

      [is] an important part of the peer... review process and does

      not justify an embargo by publishers on the grounds of 'prior

      publication'. It was not the case before the Internet, and exceot

      for unusual clinical situations, has not changed because of the

      convenience of the Internet." (Garfield, 2000)

      Garfield, E. (2000) Is Acknowledged Self-Archiving Prior

      Publication? Presented at Third International Symposium

      on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Mar 17 2000

      <a href="http://www.wvu.edu/~thesis/Presentations/Garfield-Web-Publishing.pdf">http://www.wvu.edu/~thesis/Presentations/Garfield-Web-Publishing.pdf</a>

      Garfield, E. (1999) Acknowledged Self-Archiving is Not

      Prior Publication. The Scientist 13(12): 12 (June 7, 1999)

      <a href="http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1999/June/comm_990607.html">http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1999/June/comm_990607.html</a>

I am of course in complete agreement with Eugene Garfield --

<a href="http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/com0509.htm#harn45">http://www.nih.gov/about/director/ebiomed/com0509.htm#harn45</a> --

and would demur only on one point -- minor for what Gene is saying, but

rather major for what should be motivating researchers to self-archive in

the first place -- namely, that self-archiving DOES provide far greater

visibility in the on-line age than on-paper publication alone does. This

too is documented (but it in no way changes the thrust of Gene's very

correct observation, and advice to authors and publishers).

Lawrence, S. (2001a) Online or Invisible? Nature 411 (6837): 521.

<a href="http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/">http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/</a>

Lawrence, S. (2001b) Free online availability substantially increases a

paper's impact. Nature Web Debates.

<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html</a>

Odlyzko, A.M. (2002) The rapid evolution of scholarly communication."

Learned Publishing 15: 7-19

<a href="http://www.si.umich.edu/PEAK-2000/odlyzko.pdf">http://www.si.umich.edu/PEAK-2000/odlyzko.pdf</a>

Harnad, S. & Carr, L. (2000) Integrating, Navigating and Analyzing

Eprint Archives Through Open Citation Linking (the OpCit Project).

Current Science 79(5): 629-638.

<a href="http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/97/index.html">http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/97/index.html</a>

Harnad, S. (2000) E-Knowledge: Freeing the Refereed Journal Corpus

Online. Computer Law & Security Report 16(2) 78-87. [Rebuttal to Bloom

Editorial in Science and Relman Editorial in New England Journal of

Medicine]

<a href="http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/17/01/index.html">http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/17/01/index.html</a>

Harnad, S. (2000) Ingelfinger Over-Ruled: The Role of the Web in the

Future of Refereed Medical Journal Publishing. Lancet Perspectives 256

(December Supplement): s16.

<a href="http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/17/03/index.html">http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/17/03/index.html</a>

Harnad, S. (2001) "Research access, impact and assessment." Times Higher

Education Supplement 1487: p. 16.

<a href="http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/83/index.html">http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/83/index.html</a>

Stevan Harnad

NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open

access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at

the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01):

      <a href="http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html">http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html</a>

                              or

      <a href="http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html">http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html</a>

Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org

See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:

      <a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess">http://www.soros.org/openaccess</a>

and the Free Online Scholarship Movement:

      <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm</a>



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@mivu.org>
Subject: September-October Issue of The Technology Source
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:30:19 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 277 (277)


Below is a description of the September/October 2002 issue of The

Technology Source, a free, refereed e-journal published by the Michigan

Virtual University as a service to the educational community at

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/">http://ts.mivu.org/</a>

Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using

information technology tools more effectively in their work.

As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as

they face the challenge of using information technology tools in teaching

and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for

manuscripts at <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=call">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=call</a> and send me a note

if you would like to contribute such an article.

Many thanks.

Jim


--
James L. Morrison
Editor-in-Chief
The Technology Source
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org">http://ts.mivu.org</a>
Home Page: <a href="http://horizon.unc.edu">http://horizon.unc.edu</a>
IN THIS ISSUE:
   Editor James L. Morrison interviews Peter Suber, a leading figure in the
free online scholarship movement. Suber describes the technological,
legal, and philosophical aspects of this exciting movement, and assesses
its future development within the academy. See
<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1025">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1025</a>
When instructors need to promote communication and collaboration online,
are there better alternatives than threaded discussion boards? In his
commentary, William R. Klemm argues that a shared document approach
offers significant advantages, and illustrates this in his use of a
customized software program.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1015">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1015</a>
In an interview with editor James L. Morrison, Carl Berger discusses the
potential of integrated software development in instructional technology.
Through his concept of the killer app-a software application that
assimilates a range of diverse functions-Berger anticipates a future in
which technology becomes further integrated in the daily experience of
learners.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995</a>
   Thierry R. H. Bacro illustrates how online technology allowed him to
deliver an anatomy course to a broader geographic range of students. By
illustrating the online component of this course, Bacro provides an
incisive account of how distance education can be adopted within highly
specialized forms of instruction.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=977">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=977</a>
In their case study, Gene Abrams and Jeremy Haefner describe their use of
the MathOnline system, through which they were able to combine traditional
and online methods of mathematics instruction, and thereby provide a more
flexible range of learning options for their students.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=970">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=970</a>
When building a distance education program, some institutions may already
have a substantial community of students and faculty-but still lack
financial resources. Carol Stroud and Brenda Stutsky show how they
addressed this challenge through a sharing of community resources, which
allowed them to develop an online course for regional nurses in Manitoba.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=939">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=939</a>
Jerome R. Koblo and Casey Turnage offer an overview of current efforts to
use technology to enhance faculty development programs in higher
education. After considering a range of different approaches, they offer a
prospectus for future efforts.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=943">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=943</a>
Michael M. Danchak illustrates how he has addressed the problem of
creating affective relationships in Web-based instruction. Recognizing the
difficulty of establishing instructor personality without face-to-face
contact, Danchak suggests several ways in which instructors can reassure
students of their presence and concern.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=962">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=962</a>
For our Spotlight Site, Stephen Downes reviews LearnScope Virtual Learning
Community (VLC), an Australian site that focuses on the use of information
technology in education. Through its multiple features, LearnScope VLC
lives up to its name by providing a comprehensive online learning
community to its participants.
See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1035">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1035</a>



From: Wilhelm Ott <wilhelm.ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: ALLC/ACH 2002 pictures and videos
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:31:45 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 278 (278)


The web page of the ALLC/ACH 2002 conference

<a href="http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002">http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002</a>

has been updated. By today, it contains not

only a picture gallery of some key events,

but also full length video recordings of the opening

session, of the two invited papers, and of the two

plenary sessions on the last day of the conference.

So, the updated page can serve not only as a souvenir

for the participants, but also as a source of information

on some key events.

Many thanks again to all who have contributed to make

this conference a successful event.

Wilhelm Ott

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

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott                 phone: +49-7071-2970210

Universitaet Tuebingen                fax:   +49-7071-295912

Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung        e-mail: ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de

Waechterstrasse 76                    <a href="http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/">http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/</a>

D-72074 Tuebingen



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.29
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:32:29 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 279 (279)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 29,  Week of September 2, 2002

In this issue:

View --

The Somatic Engineer

Engineers trained in value skills will be superior professionals

and designers.

By Peter J. Denning, PhD.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/p_denning_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/p_denning_2.html</a>



From: Alexander Gelbukh<gelbukh@cic.ipn.mx>
Subject: New journal on Computational Linguistics, in Russian and
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:29:12 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 280 (280)


English

Dear colleague,

[This is to ask you whether you or your library would subscribe to this

Journal.]

Soon we will start publishing a new journal on Computational Linguistics.

It will be published in Russia (in Russian and English, with summaries

in the other language); see description below.

To plan its printing and readership, we need to know whether you, or your

University's library, would subscribe to this journal. Especially

important are subscriptions outside ex-USSR, otherwise the project is just

not financially viable.

Please let us know [Gelbukh@Gelbukh.com] if you plan to subscribe (how

many copies can your library afford?), to count your help in. The price

will be similar to that of existing journals, such as Computational

Linguistics. We plan to issue monthly volumes of some 100 pages (A4 size).

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

IS RUSSIAN SCIENCE STILL ALIVE?

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

Yes. Recent annual conferences Dialogue (www.dialog-21.ru) have

gathered hundreds of Russian linguists, computational linguists, and

business representatives. About 150 best papers were selected for

publication in a 1250-page Proceedings volume of Dialogue-2002.

Dialogue conferences have more than 25 years of history.

In 2001, Russian Association for Computational Linguistics and Intelligent

Technologies (COLINT) was founded by several leading Russian research

institutes, software companies, and university groups, to promote the

full spectrum of activity in this domain, from fundamental research

to commercial product development.

The new journal will be oriented mostly to the vast community formed

around Dialogue and COLINT and will exploit its huge potential for

high quality novel publications.

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

WHY READ RUSSIAN PUBLICATIONS?

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

1. Russian science has earned excellent reputation in the past. Even

     though Russia has lost its military and financial strength, its

     scientists are the same and the quality of their research keeps

     the same.

2. Russian Computational Linguistics tradition, for historical reasons,

     is different from the Western mainstream. It's good news and bad news.

     Bad news because Western scientists sometimes have difficulties in

     understanding Russian papers, and it takes some effort to map the

     terminology and the basic assumptions to those traditional in the West.

     Good news because this gives a new (or just non-traditional)

     perspective, fresh (or just different) ideas, and thus enriches your

     horizon. Combining these new (different) ideas with the mainstream

     research directions would give you an advantage over your colleagues

     who do not have access to this source, not to mention the advantage

     for the science.

3. Many of these publications will deal with Russian as the object of the

     research. Taking into account the potentially huge Russian market and

     integration of Russia into world culture and economics, many companies

     and thus research institutes, conferences, publishers, etc. show

     constantly growing interest in Russian-related lingware, such as

     translation software, OCR, style checkers, text mining, etc. Russian

     as object might become (if not already is) a promising research

     direction for your group, too!

4. If you live outside of ex-USSR, know that with few dollars or euros you

     will help to save Russian science and to give access to scientific

     literature to thousands of Russian scientists who just do not have

     money to subscribe to existing computational linguistics journals.

5. If Russian is your native or second language, just enjoy reading in

     Russian! And hearing from your old friends and colleagues.

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

WHAT IF I DON'T KNOW RUSSIAN?

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

1. Each paper will be supplied with a sufficiently detailed English

     summary.

2. Ask your colleagues and students -- you will be surprised with that

     some of them do read in Russian (if it is not their native language!).

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

CONVINCED, WHAT TO DO?

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

1. Ask your librarian if they would subscribe for such a journal, and

     let us know [Gelbukh@Gelbukh.com] how many copies they can afford.

2. Pass this message on to your colleagues who might be interested, to

     mailing lists, etc.

3. Accept our most cordial thanks! We will contact you when the first

     issue is ready.

Thank you!

Alexander (www.Gelbukh.com)

=====================================

Welcome to CICLing-2003 conf: www.CICLing.org

Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

February 2003, Mexico

=====================================

Prof. Dr. Alexander Gelbukh (Alexandre Guelboukh Kahn),

Research Professor, head of NLP Lab,

Centro de Investigacion en Computacion (CIC),

Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico.

gelbukh@cic.ipn.mx, gelbukh@gelbukh.com, www.Gelbukh.com

=====================================

I send you this message because I found your address at a webpage related

to the topic of this journal. If you do not want to receive my messages,

please let me know at gelbukh@Gelbukh.com. I apologize for inconvenience.



From: "eckhard stasch" <eckhard.stasch@mbv.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: ELPUB 2002 Conference _  Nov 6 - 8 _  Karlsbad / Czech
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 06:57:50 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 281 (281)


Republic

     ++ The latest professional event in your working domain this year ++

     ELPUB 2002 _ _ 6th International Conference on Electronic Publishing

     Nov 6 - 8, 2002 ++ Karlovy Vary (Karslbad), Czech Republic

     ++ 2 full days of intensive conference activities

     ++ 47 speakers from 18 countries

     ++ one of the oldest and fanciest hotels in Europe

     ++ in famous Bohemian Spa Town of Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad)

     ++ Conference Fee: 350 EUR

     Online-Registration (and full info) at:

     <a href="http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02">http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: Toronto, Sept 7
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 06:58:23 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 282 (282)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

September 4, 2002

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

               NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: TORONTO

             "Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World"

               <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.html</a>

                                   *   *   *

                      Museum Computer Network Conference

              co-sponsored by Canadian Heritage Information Network

                             Hilton Toronto Hotel

                        Saturday September 7, 9am-4pm

                         Free of Charge * Open to All

        Registration Required: <a href="http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm">http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm</a>

This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Program and speakers are set and background resources and scenarios are now

available online for the day-long Copyright Town Meeting being held this

Saturday September 7 at the Hilton Toronto Hotel, as part of the Museum

Computer Network's annual conference. The meeting is free to all, but

registration is required to ensure that sufficient materials are available

for participants.

Focused on the creation of copyright policy in a digital environment, the

19th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting will be part presentation, part

practicum. It will open with several speakers defining what policy is, what

core values it represents, why it is important to have and what

international issues need to be considered.

In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will highlight the

details of policy building. Brian Porter will report on his policy

experience at the Royal Ontario Museum, while Rachelle Browne, Assistant

General Counsel at the Smithsonian Institution, will demonstrate how an

institution's larger values play in constructing policy. Participants will

then form working groups to construct their own policy solutions to

particular museum situations. The results of the working groups will be

reviewed by a panel of all speakers.

The Toronto meeting complements the NINCH Copyright Town Meeting held

November 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, on "Creating Policy: Copyright Policies in

the University." Laura Gasaway, a key presenter and organizer of the Eugene

meeting, is a featured speaker in Toronto. A report on the Eugene Town

Meeting and workshop can be seen at

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html</a>

The report on this meeting will form the basis for a book, to be published

next Spring by the Canadian Heritage Information Network in association

with NINCH, on "Creating IP Policy in Museums."

Featured speakers:

*  Rachelle Browne, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution

*  Laura N. Gasaway, Director of Law Library and Professor of Law,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

*  Christopher Hale, Partner, Blake, Cassels and Graydon, LLP., Toronto

*  Maria Pallante, Associate General Counsel, Guggenheim Museum/Foundation

*  Rina Pantalony, Legal Counsel, Canadian Heritage Information Network

*  Brian Porter, Director, New Media Resources, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings seek to balance expert opinion and

audience participation on the basics of copyright law, the implications of

copyright online, recent changes in copyright law and practice, and

practical issues related to the networking of cultural heritage materials.

The program will include plenty of time for audience questions, comments

and discussion. For information on all NINCH Copyright Town meetings, see

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/</a>

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neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We

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From: Thomas Kniesche <Thomas_Kniesche@brown.edu>
Subject: job at Brown
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 06:58:50 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 283 (283)


TENURE TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GERMAN STUDIES

Brown University invites applications for a beginning or advanced assistant

professor of German Studies (tenure-track), starting Fall 2003. Areas of

specialization: We are looking for a candidate who combines interest in one

of the periods of German literature from the 18th century to the present or

German film with expertise in digital media. Candidate should be critically

engaged at the intersection of the humanities and technology as well as the

social role of media. Interests might be web installations, web design,

internet  distribution and publishing practices, and other areas that may

as yet have only evolving designations. Candidate will help shape digital

practices as they relate to a transformation of humanities studies within

an interdisciplinary program located in the Department of German Studies.

Evidence of good teaching (preferably of advanced courses) and scholarly

potential required. Two-course teaching load per semester. Ph.D. and native

or near-native fluency in German and English required. Teaching at all

levels required.

Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae and three

letters of recommendation. The deadline for applying is November 15, 2002.

Brown University is an EEO/AA employer. Minorities and women are encouraged

to apply.

For further information or to apply write to:

Chair, Search Committee

Department of German Studies

Box 1979

Brown University

Providence, RI 02912



From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Economics of Digital Libraries: call for papers
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:08:02 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 284 (284)


Papers are invited for  a special issue of the Journal of Digital

Information on the Economics of Digital Libraries, to be edited by Simon

Tanner of the Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS) at the

University of Hertfordshire.

Submission deadline: 18 October 2002

Publication date: February 2003

   From the Call:

Economic Factors of Managing Digital Content and Establishing Digital Libraries

There are several aspects to the effective utilization of resources in

relation to digital information. The immediate start-up costs of either

creating or purchasing digital content; the further implementation costs

for establishing a digital library or even just basic access to bought

resources; which are followed by the costs implicit in managing and

maintaining a digital resource in the longer term. Hand-in-hand with

resource expenditure is the value and benefit derived from the resource

itself, and how these are measured and offset against costs.

Papers are invited for this issue of JoDI that can deliver new insights and

research findings related to the economic factors of managing digital

content and establishing digital libraries.

The full Call can be found at <a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/economics.html">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/economics.html</a>


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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: a for-the-first-time residue?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:45:40 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 285 (285)


In "What matters?", a recent keynote address at the Extreme Markup

Languages conference, Michael Sperberg-McQueen said that,
[deleted quotation]
   <<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/2002/whatmatters.html">http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/2002/whatmatters.html</a>>

This small section of his paper identifies, I think, two of the most

important topics in our field:

(1) the sense in which a computational approach to a pre-computational

artifact allows us to talk about it "coherently", to formulate a problem

arising from it "concisely", *for the first time*; and

(2) the question of the residue left over from a largely successful

approach to such a problem.

It seems to me that if we can be clear about what coherence and

concision mean in such a context and about the nature of

this residue, we will have a powerful argument for what we do.

Let me suggest two pre-conditions to working out the importance of what MSM

has said here (then I will go away). The first is that we hear and

understand the strenuous objections of our extra-computational colleagues

to that "for the first time" claim -- surely it must appear ridiculous if

unqualified; the second is that we pay close attention to the implications

of calling something a "residue". If one imagines a finite "problem-space"

(say, like a room), and one sees that one has taken care of 99% of the

problems in that space, then one is likely to regard the remaining 1% as

evidence that one has done really well. BUT (72-point bold) do we as

researchers, as humanists, work like that? What is that residue for?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 07:09:21 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 286 (286)


Software and Systems"

                                      FULL TEXT

                 Web-based Journal Manuscript Management

                                          and

                      Peer-Review Software and Systems

     I am pleased to announce the FREE availability of one of my recent

articles "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Software

and Systems"  _Library Hi Tech News_ 19(7) (August 2002): 31-43.

<a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/fm=html/rpsv/cw/mcb/07419058/v19n7/s5002/p2l">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/fm=html/rpsv/cw/mcb/07419058/v19n7/s5002/p2l</a>

In recent years, a variety of experimental and commercial systems have been

developed that facilitate the management and review of scholarly

manuscripts for electronic and paper publication. Among the established and

recent Web-based systems are:

        AllenTrack*

        Bench>Press*

        EdiKitSM

        ESPERE

        Journal Assistant*

        Manuscript Central*

        Rapid Review*

    For each, a brief overview is provided, as is a outline of the features

and functionalities of the system/service, contact information, Web site,

and vendor. In addition, a listing of select journals that are published

using a respective software/system are also listed within each profile.

     We are most grateful to Eileen Breen of Emerald /  MCB University

Press  [<a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/</a>] for facilitating access to this

article.

   Enjoy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan

Open Access Librarian

Iowa State University

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: New Review of Biblical Literature site!
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 07:07:05 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 287 (287)


Willard,

I thought Humanist readers would be interested in the recently updated

Review of Biblical Literature site. There are over 1,500 reviews and 242

books waiting for reviewers to volunteer (SBL membership required for

reviewers). See <a href="http://www.bookreviews.org">http://www.bookreviews.org</a>.

Please forward this notice to colleagues that would be interested in these

materials.

Enjoy!

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: our agenda
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:49:49 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 288 (288)


It would be good, I think, to collect stories about the beginnings of now

recognized fields of study. These will not only help us in our strategic

planning but (as in the case of computer science) also prove encouraging.

For example, the historian of computing Michael S Mahoney, in "Software as

Science -- Science as Software", discusses the beginnings of computer

science in terms of its agenda. "The agenda of a field," he says,
[deleted quotation]
[In History of Computing: Software Issues, ed. Ulf Hashagen, Reinhard

Keil-Slawik and Arthur Norberg (Berlin: Springer, 2002): 28;

<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html">http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html</a>.]

What is to be done? Perhaps not surprisingly :-), I would put on the list

of "those things that are to be done" such debating as we can and sometimes

do carry forward here. For scholars, as Northrop Frye used to say, talking

IS doing. Later on in his article, Mahoney quotes from Richard W Hamming's

Turing Prize lecture, "One Man's View of Computer Science", as follows:
[deleted quotation]
[Mahoney 2002: 28f]

Now we may not care what people in Washington DC think -- the ones he's

referring to probably don't know we exist nor would care if they did -- but

we do need to be concerned about those with the power to create new

positions and appoint people to them. I (again perhaps not surprisingly) am

tempted to say for that and other reasons, the conversation is all. Of

course it isn't, and especially in a field in which skilled people make

things. But especially in such a field, as ours, those who make things

must, if we are to go forward, be among the most vocal of the talkers.

Inevitably, I suppose, this leads to heat. Someone who has built something

very fine, which has in fact advanced the field enormously, will hardly

wish to be told that the primary value of his or her creation is to

establish the limitations of the approach it embodies. (Pride in

craftsmanship is one of life's great rewards, no?) In a field that has and

needs to develop the goals of both the builder and the pure-researcher (the

engineer and the scientist, if you will), there is always a danger of

imbalance and misunderstanding. The builder can forget that knowing always

stretches beyond what has been built, whose purpose is precisely to

stimulate that stretching. The pure-researcher can forget that without the

firm basis there is no stretching, and stretching is toward something to be

made.

Both can get into a huff, walk off and so the whole effort collapses. On

our agenda, I would think, is not merely loads of talking but learning how

to talk, and first to each other, and that we must. The potential for

strength in such collaboration promises an even greater reward.

Comments?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Steven Krauwer <steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl>
Subject: EACL2003: 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals, deadline Oct 1
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:57:14 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 289 (289)


[The following omits to say that it has to do with the 11th Conference of

the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. --WM]

                 EACL-03: 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals

               Proposal submission deadline: October 1, 2002

             The EACL-03 Organizing Committee invites proposals

                   for workshops to be held at EACL-03.

      EACL-03 will take place in Budapest, Hungary, April 12-17, 2003

   with workshops being held on Sunday and Monday, April 13 and 14, 2003.

*  Workshop topics

   EACL-03 workshops provide organizers and participants with an

   opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within

   computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific

   topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular

   areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP

   applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g.,

   standardization of resources and tools).

   We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the EACL

   community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the

   scope of our community through the consideration of new or

   interdisciplinary techniques or applications.

   We also encourage topics that are specific to the EACL community such

   as resources and tools for European or Mediterranean languages.

[material deleted]

*  Additional Information:

   Conference website: <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03</a>

   Workshop website: <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/workshops-eacl2003.html">http://www.elsnet.org/workshops-eacl2003.html</a>



From: Magali Jeanmaire <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA News
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:53:48 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 290 (290)


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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: paths through residue
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:51:09 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 291 (291)


Willard,

Rifting on M. Sperberg-McQueen's address
[deleted quotation]
<<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/2002/whatmatters.html">http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/2002/whatmatters.html</a>>
[deleted quotation]
In listing two consequences, you suggest imagining a finite space.
[deleted quotation]
The residue, if I may boldly precipitate a pun, there is Cantor "dew"

about the place, droplets divided in droplets divided yet again.  The

space may be finite but contain a rain of infinite particles. Or one can

think in terms of Peano curves. Would the work of the Humanist be that of

an explorer/proposer of paths?


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality


From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: 16.201 a for-the-first-time residue?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:53:11 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 292 (292)

Hi Willard,
At 10:51 AM 9/10/2002, you wrote (in reference to remarks made by Michael
Sperberg-McQueen in his Extreme keynote):
[deleted quotation]...well, surely, and yet. (No, stay!) Surely even (or surely, especially)
our extra-computational colleagues will concede that to remove statements
from their context, runs the risk of changing their meaning, or even
inevitably does so. Michael's remarks were made to a room of specialists
who, for the most part, are willing to share certain assumptions (at least
for the purposes of allowing him to present a "coherent" argument even in
the face of some known, but unstated caveats, which we are yet perfectly
willing to acknowledge and assert in other contexts). That is, this room of
specialists is able to provide, silently, any necessary qualifications. Not
being in the room, Willard -- or possibly, standing in the doorway as I
imagine you metaphorically to be -- you are alert to how differently a
given statement may sound outside of it.
Yet it is interesting here to note that the larger motive of Michael's
address appears to be to pay notice -- even while leaving it unsullied by
painful explication -- that which is not, and possibly may not be, stated
explicitly, but which we still recognize and respect. The mysteries may
keep those veils as are truly theirs.
[deleted quotation]We are always looking at our goblets, even be they full nearly to
overflowing, and seeing the gap between the froth and the rim. Especially
we humanists engaged in this computing business, who remain skeptical of
the machine (and rightly so) even while it remains stupidly, perfectly
obedient to our humanistic values and intentions, insofar as we've managed
to use the machine to express them.
But I believe it would be unfair to impute to Michael, who himself (with
colleagues in Bergen) is contributing a great deal to the ongoing
reconsideration of the "problem" of overlapping and multiple hierarchies,
the position that the 1% here is uninteresting or even negligible. (And
whence cometh the figure 1%? I might have said closer to 40%, or -- taking
the extreme position that we have often, so far, compromised our models,
albeit to good effect, to fit the Procrustean bed of our current tools --
maybe 70%. As if such numbers were meaningful at all apart from their
rhetorical tendencies.) Perhaps you mean to caution that the word "residue"
is ... misleading as to what we might really think of the 1%? even
undiplomatic? But I don't see why we can't have our cake and eat it too. We
*have* done well -- better than it seemed, in (say) 1995, we ever might.
And the 1%, or 40% or 70% ... is nonetheless of real interest. On which --
stay tuned. We may be at something of a resting station, looking over how
far we have come (isn't that one thing keynote addresses are for?). Yet the
climb is far from over.
Of course all of this is to agree with you.
Cheers,
Wendell
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From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha@sarai.net>
Subject: Call for Contributions to Sarai Reader 03: "Shaping
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:56:48 +0530
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 293 (293)


Call for Contributions to Sarai Reader 03 :  "Shaping Technologies"

Sarai, (www.sarai.net) an interdisciplinary research and practice

programme on the city and the media, at the Centre for the Study of

Developing Societies and Waag Society (www.waag.org), a center for culture

and technology based in Amsterdam, invites contributions to Sarai Reader

03 : Shaping Technologies,

We also invite proposals to initiate and moderate discussions on the

themes of the Sarai Reader 03 on the Reader List

(<a href="http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list">http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list</a>) with a view to the

moderator(s) editing the transcripts of these discussions for publication

in the Sarai Reader 03.

The Sarai Reader is an annual publication produced jointly by Sarai/CSDS

(Delhi) and the Waag Society (Amsterdam).Previous Readers have included :

'The Public Domain' : Sarai Reader 01,

2001(<a href="http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader1.html">http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader1.html</a>)  and 'The Cities of

Everyday Life' :  Sarai Reader 02, 2002,

(<a href="http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader2.html">http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader2.html</a> ).

The Sarai Reader series aims at bringing together original, thoughtful,

critical, reflective, well researched and provocative texts and essays by

theorists, practitioners and activists, grouped under a core theme that

expresses the interests of the Sarai in issues that relate media,

information and society in the contemporary world. The Sarai Readers have

a wide international readership.

Editorial Collective for Sarai Reader 03 : Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram,

Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai) and Geert

Lovink & Marleen Strikker (The Waag Society)

___________________________________________________________

The Concept - Shaping Technologies

Today, technology is second nature to us. If the landscape of earlier

times could be ideally represented by images of naturally occurring

objects, the landscape of the contemporary is one that can only be

imagined as being peopled by machines. The 'nature' of our times is

technological - we are embodied, articulated, located and governed by the

machines we make to extend our lives, bodies and faculties. We shape the

technologies that surround us and the technologies that surround us shape

the contour of our lives. This is what we mean by the term 'Shaping

Technologies', which as a term with two senses suggests both a subjective,

social appropriation of technological creativity, as well as the impact of

technologies on society and life in general.

One may even say that the technological ubiquity has gone so far as to

make it nearly impossible for us to reflect upon technology as a phenomena

separate from the general conditions of global urban life. We are what we

work, play and think with, and today we work, play and think with our

machines. We are users, inventors, practitioners, artists, hackers and

artisans who work with technologies; we are technology's consumers and

users, we are hobbyists, enthusiasts and addicts just as we are critics,

prophets, and analysts. We are masters, slaves, victims and rebels of

technology. No one remains untouched by the 'machine'.

Yet, we do not have an adequate language with which to understand and

articulate the presence of technology in culture, society and in politics.

We are accustomed to construct utopian and dystopic technological

imaginaries, even as we neglect the task of a sober and considered

reflection of the ethical and cognitive dilemmas that the presence of

technologies in everyday life confront us with. And even as technology

becomes increasingly ubiquitous, even as it touches wider populations,

even as an immersion in technoculture becomes the condition of the

contemporary moment, it becomes simultaneously the discursive monopoly of

experts and specialists, or of geeks and hobbyists, far removed from the

concerns that animate scholars, public intellectuals, and the average

curious person. Technology is the underpinning and the shadow of the

public domain. Technology is ubiquitous, yet discursively invisible.

Sarai Reader 03 seeks to contribute to the termination of this discursive

vacuum by asking what other imaginary space there may be, besides the

imperative to consume, the irrepressible desire to shop for the next

gadget that comes our way, and the whine of the perennial victim of the

machine, with which we can envision technology's presence in our lives ?

In this third volume in the Sarai Reader series we will also look into

alternative approaches towards technology, strategies to revitalize

forgotten concepts (and their authors), re-readings of past debates and

anticipations of future ones. We will weigh the utopian visions against

the dystopic nightmares, perhaps to arrive at assessments that suggest

sobriety and a 'cool' consideration of the cold touch of the machine, as

well as of the heat of the fuel that animates it.

If you feel these issues and questions are of interest to you. If your

practice, thought, curiosities, research or creative activity has impelled

you to think about some of these issues, we invite you to contribute texts

to Sarai Reader 03 : Shaping Technologies.

The Reader will have the following broad areas of interest:

I. Technologies of Urbanism : Making the City

II. The Everyday Experience of Technology

III. Philosophies of Technology - Being the Machine

IV. Technologies in History

IV. Imagining Technologies - The Machine in Art, Literature and Cinema

V. Technologies of the Body

VI. Gender and Technology

VII. Tactical Tech : Technologies of Power and Resistance

VIII. D.I.Y (Do it Yourself)

IX. Social Software

X. Technology and the Environment

XI. Networks and Transmissions

There will also be three additional special sections:

i. Selections from the Reader List on the violence in Gujarat in

February/March 2002,

ii. Design, Technology and the Urban Info Sphere : Case Studies from Amsterdam

iii. The book (like Readers 1 and 2) will end with the Alt/Option section,

which offers manifestos and alternative perspectives

_______________________________________

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

Word Limit : 1500 - 4000 words

1.Submissions may be scholarly, journalistic, or literary - or a mix of

these, in the form of essays, papers, interviews, online discussions or

diary entries. All submission, unless specifically solicited, must be in

English only.

2.Submissions must be sent by email in rich text format (rtf) or

star-office documents. Articles may be accompanied by black and white

photographs or drawings submitted in the tif format.

3.We urge all writers, to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, (CMS) in

terms of footnotes, annotations and references. For more details about the

CMS, please see the Florida State University web page on CMS style

documentation at :  <a href="http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/chicago.html">http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/chicago.html</a>

4.All contributions should be accompanied by a three/four line text

introducing the author.

5.All submissions will be read by the editorial collective of the Sarai

Reader 02 before the final selection is made. The editorial collective

reserves the right not to publish any material sent to it for publication

in the Sarai Reader on stylistic or editorial grounds. All contributors

will be informed of the decisions of the editorial collective vis a vis

their contribution after December 1, 2002.

6.Copyright for all accepted contributions will remain with the authors,

but Sarai and the Waag Society reserve indefinitely the right to place any

of the material accepted for publication on the public domain in print or

electronic forms, and on the internet.

7.Accepted submissions will not be paid for, but authors are guaranteed a

wide international readership. The Reader will be published in print,

distributed in India and internationally, and will also be uploaded in a

pdf form on to the Sarai website. All contributors whose work has been

accepted for publication will receive two copies of the Reader.

Last date for submission - December 1st 2002.

(but please write as soon as possible to the editorial collective with a

brief outline/abstract, not more than one page, of what you want to write

about - this helps in designing the content of the reader)

We expect to have the reader published by mid February 2003.

________________________________________

Please send in your outlines and abstracts

1. (for articles) to

Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Co Ordinator, Sarai Reader 03 Editorial Collective

(shuddha@sarai.net)

2. (for proposals to moderate online discussions on the Reader List) to

Monica Narula, List Administrator,  the Reader List

(monica@sarai.net)

_______________________________________________

Bytesforall_Readers mailing list

Bytesforall_Readers@mail.sarai.net

<a href="https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/bytesforall_readers">https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/bytesforall_readers</a>


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From: David Bearman <mw2003@archimuse.com>
Subject: Call for Participation, Museums and the Web 2003
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:41:53 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 294 (294)

Museums and the Web 2003, the largest international conference devoted to
cultural heritage institutions and new media technologies, invites your
participation, March 19-22, 2003, in Charlotte North Carolina, USA.
Proposals for papers, pre-conference workshops, in-conference
mini-workshops and other formats of presentations are being received at
<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/</a> until September 30, 2002. Proposals for
Demonstrations will be accepted until December 15, 2002. All proposals will
be peer reviewed by the program committee.
We sincerely hope that you will propose to take part in this important
information sharing event. Proceedings of all prior Museums and the Web
Conferences are available at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html">http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html</a> and
individual papers are available on-line at each annual conference web site.
Sincerely yours,
David Bearman, co-chair, Program Committee
Please note our new mailing address and phones:
Archives & Museum Informatics
158 Lee Ave.
Toronto On M4E 2P3
Canada
ph.  +1-416-691-2516
fax: +1-416-352-6025


From: Claire Gardent <Claire.Gardent@LORIA.FR>
Subject: CFP -- EACL'03, Budapest
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:42:48 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 295 (295)

* CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP **
                                EACL 2003
                   11th Conference of the European Chapter
              of the Association for Computational Linguistics
                            April 12-17, 2003
                              Budapest, Hungary
EACL03  invites submissions as follows:
Main conference papers          Registration deadline: 10 November
                                Submission deadline: 15 November
Research notes and Demos        Registration deadline: 01 December
                                Submission deadline: 06 December
Student workshop                Deadline: 15 November
Tutorials                       Deadline: 15 November
Workshops                       Deadline: 01 October
*** FURTHER INFORMATION ****
EACL03:                         <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>
EACL:                           <a href="http://www.eacl.org">http://www.eacl.org</a>
EACL03 Student Workshop         <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/eacl03-student/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/eacl03-student/</a>
*** ORGANISATION ****
Programme Co-Chairs             Ann Copestake (United Kingdom)
                                Jan Hajic (Czech Republic)
Research notes and Demos Chair  Alberto Lavelli (Italy)
Tutorial Chair                  Dan Cristea (Romania)
Publication Chair               Patrick Paroubek (France)
Workshop Chair                  Steven Krauwer (The Netherlands)
Student workshop Chair          EACL Student Board (M. Gabsdil,
                                J. Hockenmaier, J. Herring)
Local Organisation Chair:       Ferenc Kiefer (Hungary)
* CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP ** CFP **



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.201 a for-the-first-time residue?
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 07:43:18 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 296 (296)


Willard,

The notions that SGML/XML allowed "discovery" of overlap and that

overlapping is a "residual" problem in markup are seriously flawed. The

first confuses the limitations of a technique with the subject under

examination and the latter confuses the "solution" with the problem space.

On the first point, note that Michael Sperberg-McQueen says:

<snip>
[deleted quotation]
and,

<snip>
[deleted quotation]
It is true that overlapping was not a problem that could be described as an

SGML/XML parsing problem prior to the invention of those markup languages

but that seems to me to be a description of the poverty of structures

possible (in XML at least) rather than a commentary on the problem space.

As Michael noted, prior solutions had no such problems but he did not

contend that texts lacked such structures prior to the invention of SGML/XML.

It is in fact unfair to SGML to lump it in with the poverty of structures

that are possible to express in XML, where overlapping structures are

simply ignored for the sake of the solution. SGML could in fact represent

overlapping structures, a feature that was dropped from XML. One strategy

to support the XML solution is to marginalize overlap as a "residual"

problem and hence "interesting" but trivial in light of major problems

being solved. (SGML solves the same problems without the limitations of

XML, a fact that is often overlooked.)

The second, and perhaps more serious, flaw I see in Michael's argument is

that it confuses the solution with the problem space. I can best illustrate

that with the following analogy:

Consider the need for and use of maps prior to the invention of the

Mercator projection technique in the 16th century. Maps, which were

produced on flat surfaces, could not account for the known fact that the

surface being represented was in fact curved. This lead to serious

navigational errors and problems for sailors who wanted to venture beyond

the safety of shore lines.

If the problem space is defined as movement from one place to another where

the distances are not affected by the mapping distortion, that would mean

that pre-Mercator maps solve all but "residual" problems. After all, the

majority of travel involves distances (at least in the 16th century) that

are not affected by such problems. That solves the majority of cases and

leaves only a "residue" that is an "interesting" but hardly compelling problem.

To take the self-imposed limitations of XML as a definition of the problem

space puts markup languages in a similar position to pre-Mercator maps. It

works for a large number of cases but I would hardly describe the remaining

portion of the problem space as a "residue." In fact, I would suggest that

the flat-text view of XML makes apparent a number of interesting issues

with texts but leaves them just beyond our reach.

It is possible to simply flatten texts to conform to the limitations of

XML, but torturing a text to fit our technique seems to me to be a poor

solution. Just as living in a post-Mercator world had more possibilities

for successful navigation, markup strategies that more closely approximate

texts (rather than the reverse) will lead to richer analysis and discoveries.

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: call for book proposals
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:07:47 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 297 (297)


Call for Book Proposals: The Humanities and Technology

M.E. Sharpe, Inc., and the American Association for History and Computing

(AAHC) are proud to announce the launching of a new book series, The

Humanities and Technology, edited by David J. Staley, Jeffrey G. Barlow,

and Dennis A. Trinkle. We invite scholars and educators from history and

all the humanities disciplines to submit proposals for the series.

GOAL: The goal of this series is to explore how emerging technologies will

transform the presentation, communication, and our understanding of history

and the humanities.

SCOPE AND DESCRIPTION: The recent development of digital

technologycomputers, the Internet, virtual realityis transforming academia

and altering how scholars research, present, and communicate their

scholarship.  These technologies are evolving at a rapid pace, posing

challenges and presenting concepts never before encountered. This series

will examine the many issues the new technology raisessuch as scholarship,

methods, accuracy, and assessmentand trace its impact on teaching, tenure,

pedagogy, and other matters. It will also explore the philosophical aspects

of the new technology and how the digital revolution will influence

thought, communication, and the future of scholarship in the humanities.

The series will thus range from practical manuals, guides, and how-to books

to standard historical monographs and theoretical treatises on the

development, impact, and evolution of the new technology on history and the

humanities disciplines.

Books tentatively accepted for the series include:

Teaching History in the Digital Classroom

Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process: A Primer

Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our

Understanding of the Past

SUGGESTED TOPICS: The topics for proposed books should be broad and

wide-ranging, and should address academics, K-12 teachers, archivists,

librarians, and/or the general public in the United States and

internationally as well. Possible topics might include:

--New forms of digital scholarship.

--Archiving and storing data, and the effects on research practices.

--Using databases and quantitative methods.

--Use of technology by practitioners of the humanities disciplines.

--Alternative models for scholarly publishing using technology.

--Computing, cyberspace and the digital culture.

--Humanizing computing.

--Conference symposia and other collected works.

--Reference works.

M.E. Sharpe and the AAHC have already taken the lead in publishing books

dealing with history and computing. This series is a natural extension of

this partnership, adding to the impressive list of books already published

by Sharpe, such as The History Highway, History.edu, and Writing, Teaching

and Researching History in the Electronic Age. As this list attests, the

collaboration between Sharpe and the AAHC has already been fruitful--The

History Highway is widely regarded as the standard reference work on

history on the Web--and we anticipate that this series will be as

successful as these previous ventures.

To submit a proposal, send a two-page description, a table of contents, and

a sample chapter to one of the series editors:

David J. Staley

Department of History

Heidelberg College

310 E. Market St.

Tiffin, Ohio 44883

dstaley@heidelberg.edu

Jeffrey G. Barlow

Matsushita Chair of Asian Studies

Director, Matsushita Center for Electronic Learning

Faculty Director, Berglund Center for Internet Studies

Department of History

Pacific University

2043 College Way

Forest Grove, Oregon 97116

barlowj@pacificu.edu

Dennis A. Trinkle

Director of 361 Initiatives,

Associate Coordinator of Information Services and Technology,

and Tenzer University Professor in Instructional Technology

DePauw University

713 S. Locust Street

Greencastle, Indiana 46135-1669

dtrinkle@depauw.edu



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: Fwd: New Issue Alert!
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:41:14 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 298 (298)


The following "view", recommending aggressive action against "technology

virgins", will I suspect interest members of this group more for its

rhetorical clothing than for the action it clothes -- or do I have the

matter precisely reversed? In any case, were it not for the impossibility

of a time-warp I might think that somehow this bit of e-mail had been

written in the 1950s by someone imagining the technological future with

uncanny accuracy but the social future rather less accurately.

Yours,

WM
[deleted quotation]
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: problems, solutions and residue
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:21:42 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 299 (299)


Willard and Patrick

I am very intrigued by Patrick's call for sensitivity to solution/problem

mapping. I wonder if Mercator projections are analogous to XSLT? I ask

because by implication Patrick's posting invites us to separate the markup

(creation of a representation) from its processing:
[deleted quotation]
I'm not sure at what point in this discussion the term "overlap" was

introduced. If I recall correctly, SGML makes room for the representation

of _concurrent_ structures. Could it not be argued that, likewise the

namespace mechanism of XML provides for the representation of _concurrent_

structures. Take for example a scene of wafting scent marked-up for two

foci and one storyline:

        <beloved:scent>

<lover:body>

        <beloved:body>

<lover:nose>

        <beloved:erogenous_zone/>

<lover:nose/>

<lover:/body>

        <beloved:body/>

        <beloved:scent/>

The musicologists on the list may be in a position to contribute more

fulsome considerations to the more general question of notation systems

for the represenation of temporal aspect of artefacts in space --- the

question of _concurrent_ structures. Indeed, to musicologists on the very

complex notion of space, I am willing to lend an ear.

Coda:

In/between pages 77 and 78 of James Pritchett's _The Music of John Cage_

There is a wonderful chance operation in the typography where the page

break [a structure arising out of a process] interlocks nicely with the

semantics of the passage [a component of other structures]:

<quote>

[...] Cage's model of composition: there exists and infinte

completely non-dual space of unique but interconnected sounds; by means of

chance techniques, the composer can empty his mindf thoughts about sounds,

and thus identify wth this infinite space.  [...] and the resulting

musical form is the passage <pb n="78"/> one situation to another.

<quote/>

As suggested in an earlier post, a finite problem space can have an

infinite number of "solution" paths cross through it. Part of the

humanist's lore is a sensitivity to purpose: map projections may serve

navigation in a physical and actual world but they may also serve to chart

passages through possible futures: witness the sets of maps that depict

nation states by per capita ownership digital devices and those maps that

project access to networks. [the difference between "ownership" and

"access" is as clear to me as that between "concurrent" and "overlap"

though I admit to being temporarily befuddled if asked to map the pairs in

relation to each other -- *smile* concurrent:ownership::access:overlap ]

In short, would it not be historically more accurate to tell the story of

the emergence from SGML of XML and XSLT and the namespaces and the

schemas?


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
        <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality



From: Kevin Kiernan <kiernan@uky.edu>
Subject: job opening
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:31:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 300 (300)


I would like to draw the attention of members of the Humanist list to an

opening for a program coordinator in humanities computing at the University

of Kentucky.  Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any

questions that are not answered in the attached ad.

Kevin Kiernan

====

Program Coordinator II - JOB #SP32784

Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities

University of Kentucky

Counsels faculty members in potential for transforming research interests

into viable humanities computing projects. Assesses knowledge and skill

level of researcher and suggests strategies for implementation of

project.  Investigates potential funding sources for project and

participates in all grant research and grant writing activities of the

Collaboratory. Develops TEI, XML, XSL, XSLT, X-Schemas, and DTDs for

encoding image-based electronic editions in consultation with participating

researchers. Provides technical expertise, including tutorials and manuals

on mark-up, to faculty and students associated with the RCH Collaboratory.

Assists in preparation of digital presentation materials for researchers'

use at national and international meetings. Contributes to research and

writing of project publications. Provides production management for ongoing

projects. Schedules use of the RCH Collaboratory by researchers and

graduate assistants.  Maintains websites of RCH and associated projects.

Serves as staff liaison from the Collaboratory to personnel in

participating departments on campus.  Administers the operating budget of

the RCH Collaboratory.  Must have strong background in the Humanities and

Informatics, expertise in hypertext languages including XML and all related

XML technologies, proven abilities as a grant writer, and proven ability as

independent researcher.  Requires a Master's degree and 3 years related

experience.  Prefer background in Library Science, graduate certificate in

Informatics, and knowledge of Old English language and Anglo-Saxon

Paleography.  Salary will be in the mid-30's.

To apply, please send your resume to Job # SP32784, HR/Employment, 112

Scovell Hall, Lexington KY  40506-0064, FAX (859) 257-1736.  If you have

credentials on file, call (859) 257-3841 to nominate or visit our website

at www.uky.edu/HR/employ.  Application deadline is October 24, 2002.

The University of Kentucky is an equal opportunity employer and encourages

applications from minorities and women.


--
______________________________________________
Kevin S Kiernan
T Marshall Hahn Sr Professor of Arts & Sciences
Department of English
University of Kentucky
Lexington KY 40506 USA
Tel  (859) 257-6989
Fax   (859) 323-1072
<a href="http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm">http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm</a>
______________________________________________



From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com>
Subject: Museums and the Web Proposal Deadline Approaching
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:34:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 301 (301)


Apologies for any duplication; please forward as appropriate.

*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

        Museums and the Web 2003

        March 19-22, 2003

        Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

        <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/</a>

Deadline: September 30, 2002.

Thousands of cultural and heritage institutions are now on-line, presenting

programs, creating communities and delivering information using the world

wide web. But museums, libraries, archives and others involved in creating

digital heritage have much to learn about what makes web sites successful,

and what users really need. To facilitate this exchange of information,

Archives & Museum Informatics organizes an annual international conference

devoted to Museums and the Web. Since the first Museums and the Web in

1997, the conference has grown steadily to become the largest gathering of

cultural heritage technologists world-wide.

Proposals for papers, pre-conference workshops, in-conference

mini-workshops and other formats of presentations are being received at

<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/</a> until September 30, 2002. Proposals for

Demonstrations will be accepted until December 15, 2002. All proposals will

be peer reviewed by the program committee.

Conference Papers from all previous Museums and the Web conferences are

available on-line. See <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html</a> for links. Printed

proceedings (with an accompanying CD-ROM) are also available.

Questions?

Email mw2003@archimuse.com. If you would like to receive the MW2003

Preliminary Program, please join our mailing list at

<a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mailinglist.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mailinglist.html</a>

We hope to see you in Charlotte.

jennifer and David

Jennifer Trant and David Bearman,

MW2003 Program co-chairs.

Please note our new address.

________

J. Trant and D. Bearman         mw2003@archimuse.com

Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web  Charlotte, North Carolina

Archives & Museum Informatics   March 19-22, 2003

158 Lee Avenue                  <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/</a>

Ontario M4E 2P3                 phone: +1 416 691 2516

Canada                          fax: +1 416 352 6025

________



From: "mike maclean" <hoopofjupiter@hotmail.com>
Subject: call for abstracts
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:35:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 302 (302)


Call for Abstracts:

New Perspectives in Humanities Computing:

Second Annual Humanities Computing Graduate Conference

December 5-6, 2002

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta

Deadline for abstract submissions: Friday October 25, 2002

The University of Alberta's M.A. in Humanities Computing program announces

its second annual graduate conference, "New Perspectives in Humanities

Computing", to be held December 5-6, 2002 at the University of Alberta in

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

This conference will bring together graduate students exploring the

exciting and interdisciplinary ground of computing and the humanities.

Presentations on all aspects of humanities computing are welcome, and we

encourage proposals from all humanities disciplines.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

     * Computers and culture

     * Information literacy and new media

     * Electronic publishing and dissemination

     * Metadata and learning objects

     * Humanities computing as a discipline

     * Pedagogical use of computing

     * Knowledge representation and mark-up languages

     * Digitization of text, sound, and image

     * Hypertext design and delivery

     * Databases

     * Text-analysis

     * Statistical methods and analysis

     * Simulation and modeling

300-word abstracts must be submitted by October 25, 2002. Please email your

abstract as a MS Word, RTF, or WordPerfect attachment to:

<mailto:hucoconf@huco.ualberta.ca>hucoconf@huco.ualberta.ca

   Or send to:

Humanities Computing Graduate Student Conference

3-5 Humanities Centre

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5

Please include your name, telephone number, e-mail address, and your

institutional and departmental affiliation.

Consult our website for more information:

<<a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf">http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf</a>><a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf">http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf</a>

For more information about the University of Alberta's M.A. in Humanities

Computing program, please visit <a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca">http://huco.ualberta.ca</a>

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From: hepu@spock.bf.rmit.edu.au
Subject: Call for Participation: ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSK'02
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:38:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 303 (303)


      9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing

                           (ICONIP'02)

      4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning

                            (SEAL'02)

   1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery

                            (FSKD'02)

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

          November 18 - 22, 2002, Orchid Country Club, Singapore

          *** Early Registration Deadline: October 31, 2002 ***

                           Sponsored by:

                 Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly

                   SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees

                  Singapore Neuroscience Association

                        In Co-Operation with:

                     IEEE Neural Network Society

                 International Neural Network Society

                    European Neural Network Society

                              SPIE

                           Supported by:

                          Lee Foundation

                         US AOARD, ARO-FE

              Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau

                      Novartis Pharmaceuticals

               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION & SPONSORSHIP

               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ICONIP'02, SEAL'02, and FSKD'02 will be jointly held in Orchid Country

Club, Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not

only feature the most up-to-date research results in natural and arti-

ficial neural systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and

knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over these

exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to any one of the

conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and

the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference

banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to two of the major attractions in

Singapore, i.e., Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island. Many well-

known researchers will present keynote speeches, panel discussions,

invited lectures, and tutorials.

[material deleted]

Nanyang Technological University

ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 Secretariat

Conference Management Centre/CCE

Administration Annex Building, #04-06

42 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815

Fax: +65 6793 0997

Tel: +65 6790 4826

[no WWW address given, mirabile dictu]



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: brief silence
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:30:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 304 (304)


Dear colleagues:

Apologies for the brief silence on Humanist. One of the two main machines

involved in the publication of Humanist, at Virginia, was hacked into and

damaged last week. Thanks to the strenuous efforts of several people there

over the weekend the machine is now up and running. Apparently the hacker

got into the machine by guessing someone's password, then laid waste to

everything within reach. As a Miltonist (as I was trained to be) I have

imagery ready to fit the circumstance and am not discouraged in its

application by the constant litter of slimy flostam that washes onto my

electronic shores every morning. This morning, for example, as I was

walking along them, so to speak, I looked down and saw one labelled, "GOD

BLESS" from "mmadamabacha". Those messages that read, e.g., "humanist,

honey...", have very little to say, comparatively speaking.  Consider, for

a rich bit of cultural history, the steps between that "GOD BLESS" and the

meaning I rightly read from it -- which, roughly, is this: "I want to cheat

you out of large sums of money by appealing to your naked greed!" Now, if

you are inclined to cry out, "o tempora, o mores" at all, here indeed is an

occasion.

Welcome back, Humanist.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: theory vs practice?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:32:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 305 (305)


I'm doing work that centres on the ancient distinction between theory and

practice. I'd very much appreciate references to anything large or small

that draws out the fruitful possibilities in this distinction. How do we

begin to think when we divide up the world in that way?

Many thanks.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: new Kluwer books
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:33:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 306 (306)


(1)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Metadecisions

Rehabilitating Epistemology

by

John P. van Gigch

Professor Emeritus, California State University, USA

CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS THINKING --

CONTENTS

A Pluralistic Approach To Artefact Design. Abstraction, Representation And

Metamodeling. Levels Of Logic In A Problem. Cognitive Functions. The Use Of

Cognitive Functions To Define And Formulate A Problem. The Paradigm Of The

Physical Sciences. The Paradigm Of The Social Sciences. The Process Of

Quantification. The Neglect Of Epistemology. The Paradigm Of Information

Sciences. Ethics. Aesthetics. Epilogue. Glossary. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47458-1 Date: December 2002 Pages: 363 pp.

EURO 126.00 / USD 120.00 / GBP 80.40

(2)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Yearbook of Morphology 2001

edited by

Geert Booij

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jaap van Marle

Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands

YEARBOOK OF MORPHOLOGY -- 11

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The

Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an

eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it

contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical

debates which are frequently referred to.

In the Yearbook of Morphology 2001 a number of articles is devoted to the

notion of productivity, and the role of analogy in coining new words. In

relation to this topic, constraints on affix ordering in a number of

Germanic languages are investigated.

A second topic of this volume is the necessity and the role of the paradigm

in morphological analyses; arguments for and against the formal role of the

paradigm are presented.

Thirdly, this volume discusses a number of general issues in morphological

theory such as the relation between form and meaning in morphology, the

accessibility of the internal morphological structure of complex words, and

the interaction of morphology and prosody in truncation processes.

Audience: Theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguists,

morphologists, phonologists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists

will find this book of interest.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Morphological selection and representation modularity; P. Ackema,

A.Neeleman. Syncretism without paradigms: remarks on Williams 1981, 1984;

J. Bobaljik. Defining "word" in Modern Greek: a response to

Philippaki-Warburton & Spyropoulos 1999; B.D. Joseph. Reconsidering Bracket

Erasure; C. Orhan Orgun, S. Inkelas. Morphological and syntactic paradigms:

arguments for a theory of paradigm linkage; G.Stump.

Theme: Affix ordering and productivity (Guest editor: Harald

Baayen). Affix ordering and productivity: a blend of phonotactics and

prosody, frequency, and lexical strata; H. Baayen. Prosodic constraints on

stacking up affixes; G. Booij. Parsing and productivity; J. Hay, H. Baayen.

A note on the function of Dutch linking elements; A. Krott, et al.

Neoclassical word formation in German; A. Luedeling, et al. The role of

selectional restrictions, phonotactics, and parsing in constraining suffix

ordering in English; I. Plag.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0724-8 Date: September 2002 Pages: 320 pp.

EURO 130.00 / USD 120.00 / GBP 82.00

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVInternet.com>
Subject: Re: 16.221 the brief silence, a critique
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 06:37:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 307 (307)


At 01:30 PM 9/23/02, Willard, you wrote:
[deleted quotation]
... As a Miltonist (as I was trained to be) I have
[deleted quotation]
...
[deleted quotation]
I will confess, the meaning of Dr. McCarty's piece was not pellucid.

Here was my difficulty:

I was alerted to the imminent onset of some well-schooled

Miltonist imagery by the text. But I discarded the 'slimy flostam on

Willard's electrinic shores'. This was not the allusion I was looking for.

I did not understand why a message with the salutation,

   "humanist, honey" would have little to say.

   Endearments are always welcome in my mailbox,

recalling that many of my transmissions end in "Love, Brian".

I don't understand why the linkage between God bless...

and a solicitation for money is a rich bit of cultural history.

    The solicitations which I rarely receive, purport to

emanate from Nigeria, and concern the secret and illicit

disposal of government-held funds on the American

   stock exchange. These are the only ones where amounts

figuring in the millions appear. My more usual spam centers on

investments of $20 in pyramid email schemes, no more.

These two kinds seem curiously empty of cultural history to

   me - but then I am probably culturally-enriched spam-challenged.

I was however, greatly cheered by the supposition that I might

   number among that small band for whom a cry of

"o tempora, o mores" would be at all likely. Sadly, I shake my head,

realising that not even I am so pretentious, despite the schooling

   demanded in some earlier age, in the prerequisites  of the language

   concommitant of seeking honest labor in the fields of Medicine or Law.

Sincerely

Brian

Brian Whatcott

    Altus OK                      Eureka!



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Center for Arts & Culture Distributes Four Key Studies on
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 06:36:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 308 (308)


Preservation & Cultural Heritage

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

September 23, 2002

                 New Resources on Preservation & Cultural Heritage

              Center for Arts & Culture Distributes Four Key Studies

                           <a href="http://www.culturalpolicy.org/">http://www.culturalpolicy.org/</a>

               * "Building on the Past, Traveling to the Future" *

                 <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org/help/traveling.html">http://www.nationaltrust.org/help/traveling.html</a>

                 * "Caring for the Past, Managing the Future" *

                    <a href="http://www.achp.gov/pubs-stewardship.html">http://www.achp.gov/pubs-stewardship.html</a>

                    * "Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis" *

              <a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/contents.html">http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/contents.html</a>

                          * "Preserving Our Heritage" *

                <a href="http://www.culturalpolicy.org/pdf/heritage.pdf">http://www.culturalpolicy.org/pdf/heritage.pdf</a>
[deleted quotation]
NEW RESOURCES ON PRESERVATION AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

CENTER FOR ARTS & CULTURE DISTRIBUTES FOUR KEY STUDIES

Washington, DC -- Public policies designed to help save America's cultural

treasures have failed to fully prevent the loss and decay of our national

heritage. Despite the tremendous growth of the cultural heritage field, much

work remains to ensure that preservation becomes as engrained into the

American consciousness.  Recent reports have found that:

*  A national crisis looms in the loss of digitally-created cultural works

*  Audio and visual collections suffer from deterioration and terminal neglect

*  Federal agencies have not fully complied with mandated preservation

requirements

*  Since the National Historic Preservation Act was signed into law in

1966, the Federal government has been charged "to be a good steward in

managing the historic resources under its administration."  Together with

the work of private entities, the government has made significant strides in

stewardship, and the cultural preservation movement has accomplished much,

including:

*  Transportation Enhancement funds for historic preservation

*  The Save America's Treasures movement as a first step to make

preservation part of our national consciousness

*  The United States is set to rejoin UNESCO after an 18-year absence

Ellen Lovell, President of the Center for Arts and Culture, and a longtime

advocate for cultural preservation, says of the four reports, "They are

extraordinary resources for journalists and others who need information on

the latest developments in cultural preservation and heritage. These

concise, reliable and insightful summaries of the state of federal

preservation efforts can help journalists shine a light on this often

underestimated and misunderstood field."

The Center for Arts and Culture, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to

improved public policies for the arts and culture, has assembled resources

on its website at www.culturalpolicy.org for the preservation field.  The

recommendations in the enclosed four reports shed light on possible courses

of action to slow the daily loss of our collective heritage.

* "Building on the Past, Traveling to the Future" is a guide to

preservation funding through the Transportation Enhancement program of the

Department of Transportation.

* "Caring for the Past, Managing the Future" is the Advisory

Council on Historic Preservation's own assessment of federal agency

stewardship of historic resources.

* "Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis," published by the

Council on Library and Information Resources, ties together the complexities

of access, rights management, and preservation.

* "Preserving Our Heritage" is an overview of federal efforts in

historic preservation, the preservation of artifacts, documents and

archives, living cultural heritage, and cultural property.


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From: Rare Book School <fac-fbap@virginia.edu>
Subject: Computing Courses of interest at Virginia
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:07:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 309 (309)


RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its 2002 Sessions, a collection of

five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts,

the history of books and printing, and special collections to be held at

the University of Virginia.

FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and

Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing additional details

about the courses offered and other information about Rare Book School,

visit our Web site at:

                  <a href="http://www.rarebookschool.org">http://www.rarebookschool.org</a>

Subscribers to the Humanist list may find the following Rare Book School

courses to be of particular interest:

14. IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION  (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JANUARY

6-10). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized

machine-readable access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed

at archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an

introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on

component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using

examples selected from among their own institutions' finding aids. Topics:

the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of SGML

authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of existing finding aids to

EAD. 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. He has

taught this course since 1997, usually twice annually.

24. ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 3-7).  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. Some experience

with HTML is a prerequisite for admission to the course. Instructor: David

Seaman

DAVID SEAMAN is the founding director of the internationally renowned

Electronic Text Center and online 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. He has taught this course at

Rare Book School many times since 1994.



From: "NASSLLI'03 Bloomington, Indiana" <nasslli@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:08:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 310 (310)


                        Second North American Summer School

                                        in

                          Logic, Language and Information

                                   NASSLLI-2003

                       June 17-21, 2003, Bloomington, Indiana

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

                   CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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

The main focus of the North American Summer School in Logic, Language and

Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and

computation, broadly conceived, and on related fields. The school is the

second NASSLLI, following the successful first school at Stanford in June,

2002. Our sister school, the European Summer School in Logic, Language,

and Information, has been highly successful, becoming an important meeting

place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in

the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.  We intend

for NASSLLI to similarly become an important setting. The NASSLLI Steering

Committee invites proposals for introductory and advanced courses, and for

workshops on a wide range of topics.

In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student

Session.   A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be

distributed separately.

A NOTE ON THE DATES OF NASSLLI   The Summer School comes at a time of year

when many conferences take place.  NASSLLI comes just after the

Federated Computing Research Conference (June 714) in San Diego:

see     <a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/fcrc/">http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/fcrc/</a>

and just before

the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (June 22 - 25) in Ottawa,

Canada:

          <a href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/als/lics/">http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/als/lics/</a>  .

NASSLLI also comes somewhat before the LSA Summer Institute (June 30-August 8)

in East Lansing:

          <a href="http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/">http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/</a>

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted

by email to nasslli@indiana.edu by October 15, 2002.

Proposers

should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions;

proposals that deviate might not be considered.

[material deleted]

Please send proposals and inquiries to  nasslli@indiana.edu



From: Steven Krauwer <steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl>
Subject: EACL03: Last Call for Workshop Proposals
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:09:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 311 (311)


                 EACL-03: LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

               Proposal submission deadline: October 1, 2002

             The EACL-03 Organizing Committee invites proposals

                   for workshops to be held at EACL-03.

      EACL-03 will take place in Budapest, Hungary, April 12-17, 2003

   with workshops being held on Sunday and Monday, April 13 and 14, 2003.

*  Workshop topics

   EACL-03 workshops provide organizers and participants with an

   opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within

   computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific

   topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular

   areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP

   applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g.,

   standardization of resources and tools).

   We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the EACL

   community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the

   scope of our community through the consideration of new or

   interdisciplinary techniques or applications.

   We also encourage topics that are specific to the EACL community such

   as resources and tools for European or Mediterranean languages.

[material deleted]

   Conference website: <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03</a>

   Workshop website: <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/workshops-eacl2003.html">http://www.elsnet.org/workshops-eacl2003.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Symposium on Copyright Term Extension Challenge
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:10:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 312 (312)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

September 25, 2002

               Symposium on Copyright Term Extension Challenge

                   The Rule of Law in the Information Age:

               Reconciling Private Rights and Public Interest

          October 9-10, 2002: Catholic University, Washington D.C.

              <a href="http://law.cua.edu/news/conference/informationage/">http://law.cua.edu/news/conference/informationage/</a>

                  October 9, 2pm-6pm; October 10: 9am-5:30pm

                 Walter A. Slowinski Court Room, Atrium Level

              The Catholic University of America School of Law

Below are details of an interesting symposium, free and open to all, to be

held following the Supreme Court's scheduled hearing of the Eldred v.

Ascroft case on the morning of October 9, 2002.

Speakers include:

*  Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School (keynote)

*  Edward J. Damich, Chief Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims

*  Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies

*  Margaret-Jane Radin, Stanford Law School

*  Marybeth Peters, United States Register of Copyrights

*  Shira Perlmutter, AOL Time Warner

*  Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School

*  Lillian R. BeVier, University of Virginia School of Law

*  Oren Bracha, Harvard Law School

*  Daniel Gervais, University of Ottawa

*  Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America

*  Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington University

*  Peter Levine, University of Maryland

*  Seana V. Shiffrin, UCLA.

[material deleted]



From: "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" <sobkow@amu.edu.pl>
Subject: theory vs practice?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:04:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 313 (313)


Answering Willard McCarty's query:
[deleted quotation]
... with an old piece of xerox lore:

"Theorie ist, wenn man alles weiss und nichts klappt.  Praxis ist, wenn

alles klappt und keiner weiss warum.  Bei uns sind Theorie und Praxis

vereint: nichts klappt und keiner weiss warum!"

Enjoy!

WS

=======================

prof. Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak

School of English

Adam Mickiewicz University

al. Niepodleglosci 4

61-874 Poznan

tel. (48-61) 8293506

fax. (48-61) 8523103

e-mail: sobkow@grand.ath.cx

e-mail: sobkow@amu.edu.pl

e-mail: swlodek@ifa.amu.edu.pl

office web page: <a href="http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/sobkowiak.html">http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/sobkowiak.html</a>

personal web page: <a href="http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow">http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow</a>

==========================================



From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.220 theory vs practice?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:05:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 314 (314)


Willard et al.

As it happens (?), I'm using Erich Fromm's _To Have or to Be_ in a class on

Global Futures this fall.  I think Fromm does a nice job of getting to

important elements in philosophical (as well as other sorts of) traditions,

and in a way that is clear to those outside the field.  While the following

section is directed to his (Marxian/Frankfurt School of Critical Theory)

concern with alienation, his summary seems useful and pertinent to your

query:

<quote>

In Athens, alienated work was done only by slave; work which involved bodily

labor seems to have been excluded from the concept of <ul>praxis</ul>

("practice"), a term that refers only to almost any kind of activity a

<it>free</it> person is likely to perform, and essentially the term

Aristotle used for a person's free activity.  (See Nicholas Lobkowicz,

<it>Theory and Practice</it>.) [....]

      That Aristotle did not share our present concepts of activity and

passivity becomes unmistakably clear if we will consider that for him the

highest form of praxis, i.e., of activity - even above political activity -

is the <it>contemplative life</it?, devoted to the search for truth.  The

idea that contemplation was a form of inactivity was unthinkable for him.

Aristotle considers contemplative life the <it>activity</it> of the best

part in us, the <it>nous</it>.  The slave can enjoy sensuous pleasure, even

as the free do.  But <it>eudaimonia</it>, "well-being," consists not in

pleasures but in <it>activities in accordance with virtue [excellence]</it>

(<it> Nichomachean Ethics</it>, 1177a, 2ff.). (80)

</quote>

What's of interest here, I think, is that the usual distinction between

theory and praxis does not, at least in Fromm's view, map neatly onto a

Cartesian mind - theory / body - praxis distinction.  While this latter

distinction is not entirely off-track (though I don't have time just now to

hunt down the references) - Fromm is correct, I think, to remind us that the

highest _praxis_ is an activity of mind.

On that happy thought,

Cheers,

Charles Ess

Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center

Drury University

900 N. Benton Ave.                          Voice: 417-873-7230

Springfield, MO  65802  USA            FAX: 417-873-7435

Home page:  <a href="http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html">http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html</a>

Co-chair, CATaC 2002: <a href="http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/">http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/</a>

Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
[deleted quotation]


From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
Subject: 16.220 theory vs practice? (fwd)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:05:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 315 (315)


I think you will find/recall my attitude about theory vs practice

as one of "just do it". . .and figure it out along the way. . . .

This is pretty good except when physical injuries may occur. . .

such as air travel, submarine travel, etc.

However, I must add that many of my friends and acquaintances

fear psychic injuries or psychological injuries nearly as much.

Thanks!!!

Michael S. Hart

<hart@pobox.com>

Project Gutenberg

Principal Instigator

"*Internet User ~#100*"



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.32
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:03:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 316 (316)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 32,  Week of September 23, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

The New Computing

Ben Shneiderman on how designers can help people succeed

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/b_shneiderman_3.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/b_shneiderman_3.html</a>



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Humbul's RSS Channels
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:06:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 317 (317)


Put Humbul's Latest Records on Your Web Site

The Humbul Humanities Hub is pleased to announce the launch of Humbul RSS

channels for new resource descriptions. RSS, or "Rich Site Summary",

enables users to deliver the most recent resource descriptions added to

Humbul on their own web pages. Humbul's channels employ RSS-xpress Lite,

developed by UKOLN, to provide a simple means of taking advantage of

Humbul channels without specialist knowledge. Copying a small fragment of

HTML into your own web page will enable you to begin receiving the fifteen

most recent record descriptions added to Humbul in the subject of your

choice, or simply the latest fifteen records added to Humbul in any

subject. All of Humbul's RSS channels are updated daily. Learn more about

Humbul's channels at <a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/rss.html">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/rss.html</a>.


---
Dr Michael Fraser
Head of Humbul Humanities Hub
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283 343
Fax: 01865 273 275
<a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/</a>



From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: Call for papers: ACH/ALLC 2003
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:15:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 318 (318)


Call for papers: ACH/ALLC 2003

University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

May 29 - June 2, 2003

<a href="http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/">http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/</a>

I. The ACH/ALLC Conference

The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities

and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing is the oldest

established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced

information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a

distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. The

theme for the 2003 conference is "Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web",

and it will include plenary addresses by leading scholars, including

Marie-Laure Ryan, author of "Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and

Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media" and "Cyberspace

Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory".

Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and a

corresponding growth in the use of IT resources for research and teaching

in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in

which humanities scholars work? What new and distinct methodologies is IT

now bringing to the humanities? How do we expect methodologies, and the

role of the humanities scholar, to change in the near future as a result of

the impact of IT? How are IT-related developments in one discipline

affecting or likely to affect those in others?

Now that we have reached the 10th anniversary of the World Wide Web, what

are the meanings and implications of these developments for languages,

communities, genders and cultures, and humanities research? The time is

ripe to survey and assess developments to date in humanities computing, and

its likely future directions.

II. Allied Organizations

ALLC and ACH are developing a new affiliated organizations program, which

will enable related professional organizations with a remit similar to that

of ACH and ALLC to present a panel of papers in a parallel conference session.

We welcome proposals from such organizations for the 2003 conference.

Suggested topics for inclusion could be on work which is being undertaken

in the libraries, museum and archival fields, or in areas of computing in

the humanities which have not previously been represented at ACH/ALLC.

We encourage representatives from other professional organizations to

consider submitting a proposal under this initiative on topics they think

might be relevant to the ACH/ALLC conference audience.

For more information about how to submit a proposal, or become an

affiliated organization, please contact the conference program chair,

lorna.hughes@nyu.edu

III. Submissions

ACH/ALLC 2003 invites submission of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words

on any aspect of humanities computing or new media, broadly defined to

encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in

humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any

area of the humanities, especially interdisciplinary work. We especially

encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities

computing, and on recent new developments and expected future developments

in the field.

Suitable subjects for proposals would also include:

*       new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital

resources dependent on images, audio, or video;

*       the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such

fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering;

*       traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including

(but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational

lexicography, statistical models, and text analysis;

*       applications in the digital arts, especially projects and

installations that feature technical advances of potential interest to

humanities scholars;

*       information design in the humanities, including visualization,

simulation, and modeling;

*       pedagogical applications of new media within the humanities;

*       thoughtful considerations of the cultural impact of computing and

new media;

*       theoretical or speculative treatments of new media;

*       the institutional role of new media within the contemporary

academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for

activities in these fields;

*       the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources

it develops.

The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the

Program Committee is November 15th, 2002, these will all be refereed.

Proposals for (non-refereed) demos and for pre- or post-conference

tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local

conference organizer as soon as possible. See below for full details on

submitting proposals.

For more information on the conference in general have a look at other

pages of this web site.

A. Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Program Committee may be of three types: papers, poster

presentations, and sessions. The type of submission must be specified in

the proposal. If the subject relates specifically to the theme of "Web X: A

decade of the World Wide Web ", please also make this explicit.

Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to facilitate the

reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in a language other than

English are submitted with an English translation.

*       Papers

Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either

completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the

development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical,

speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 30

minutes for presentation, including questions.

Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing

methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to

research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some

critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the

humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the

humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to

the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing

methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references

to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital

resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible.

*       Poster Presentations

There should be no difference in quality between poster presentations and

papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same

academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters may be a more

suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in

progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the

same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation

should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating

the scientific content of the proposal. Poster presentations may also

include software or technology and project demonstrations.

By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive

than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange

ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with

those most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is provided

with about 2 square meters of board space to display their work. They may

also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters

will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a

separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be

prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may

also be assigned for software or project demonstrations.

*       Sessions

Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:

*       Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word

statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words

for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in

the session; or

*       A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit

an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be

organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each

speaker is willing to participate in the session.

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

B. Format

All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line form,

which can be found at:

www.english.uga.edu/webx

Please pay particular attention to the information that is required about

each proposal. Submissions which do not contain the required information

will be returned to the authors, and may not be considered at all if they

are received close to the deadline.

The information required for all submissions includes:

TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, or session

TITLE: title of paper, poster, or session

KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the

paper or session

AUTHOR: name of first author

AFFILIATION: of first author

E-MAIL: of first author

AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary)

AFFILIATION: of second author

E-MAIL: of second author

CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for

session proposals

FAX NUMBER: of first author or contact person

PHONE NUMBER: of first author or contact person

If submitting a session proposal, the following information will be

required for each paper:

TITLE: title of paper

KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper

AUTHOR: name of first author

AFFILIATION: of first author

E-MAIL: of first author

Please note the following additional information:

* The order of participants provided on the form will be the order used in

the final program.

* If submitting a session proposal, please enter one abstract for the whole

session in the "session/paper abstract" box, noting clearly the title and

author of each paper in the session.

* In addition to requesting the above information, the form provides a way

for proposers to upload their proposal, which must be in TEI-XLite, HTML or

plain text (ASCII/ISO 8859-1) format, plus up to 5 image files. These

graphics, if uploaded, should be prepared in a manner appropriate for both

on-line publication and printing in black-and-white in the conference book.

* All text, whether it is provided in TEI, HTML or ASCII format will be put

into a standard XML format.  Please, therefore, restrict HTML tagging to

that required to make the abstract structure evident.

* Unfortunately, it is still true, even in this day of XML and

Unicode, that publishing systems and web browsers often limit access to

extended character sets.  Thus, although TEI-XLite format and therefore

Unicode can be used for submission, please try if possible to avoid

character sets that might not be viewable on reviewer's web browsers or

printable by the program's printer.

C. Examples from Past Conferences

Those interested in seeing examples of materials presented at previous

conferences can consult online abstracts and programs at:

<a href="http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml">http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml</a>

The conference has previously been held at:

*       University of Tuebingen (2002)

*       New York University (2001)

*       University of Glasgow, Scotland (2000)

*       University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (1999)

*       University of Debrecen, Hungary (1998)

*       Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1997)

*       University of Bergen, Norway (1996)

Because of the fast evolution of the field, however, work of a kind not

previously seen at the conference is especially welcomed.

IV. Publication

A book of abstracts of all papers, poster presentations and sessions will

be provided to all conference participants. In addition, abstracts will be

published on the conference web page.

A volume of selected proceedings is planned for publication after the

conference; all papers submitted in publishable form before the end of the

conference will be considered for this collection.

V. Deadlines

*       November 15th, 2002: Submission of proposals for papers, poster

presentations, sessions and software demos.

*       October 1st, 2002: Conference registration opens. To register, go

to: <a href="http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/">http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/</a>

*       February 14th, 2003: Notification of acceptance for papers, poster

presentations, sessions and software demos.

VI. Bursaries

*       from the ALLC

As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of

appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the Association for

Literary and Linguistic Computing will award up to five bursaries of up to

500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who have papers or poster

presentations accepted for presentation at the conference. Applicants must

be members of ALLC. The ALLC will make the awards after the Program

Committee have decided which proposals are to be accepted. Recipients will

be notified as soon as possible thereafter. A participant in a multi-author

paper is eligible for an award, but it must be clear that s/he is

contributing substantially to the paper.

Full details of the scheme may be found on the ALLC home page

<a href="http://www.allc.org/">http://www.allc.org/</a>

Applications must be made using the on-line form available on this website.

*       from elsewhere

The conference organizers are working on arranging other bursaries; details

will be published on the conference web site <a href="http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/">http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/</a>

VII. Further Information

*       Fees

The conference fee will be $275, which includes the printed abstracts,

morning and afternoon refreshment breaks, lunches and receptions.

*       Equipment Availability and Requirements

Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide projector, a

data projector for Windows and Macintosh OS, and an Internet connected

computer running Windows. Requests for other presentation equipment will be

considered by the local organizers. All submissions should indicate the

type of hardware and software required for presentation.

*       Location

Information on Athens, Georgia and its University, travel, accommodation,

and the social program can all be found linked to the

<a href="http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/">http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/</a>

*       Queries

Queries concerning the goals of the conference, the format or content of

papers, and other topics relating to the academic program should be

addressed to the Chair of the International Program Committee:

Lorna M. Hughes

Assistant Director for Humanities Computing

Information Technology Services

New York University

251 Mercer Street

New York, NY 10012-1185, USA

E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU

Phone: (212) 998 3070

Fax:    (212) 995 4120

Queries concerning conference registration, travel, local organization and

facilities, and other aspects of the local setting should be addressed to:

Bill Kretzschmar

Chair, Local Committee

The University of Georgia

Department of English

317 Park Hall

Athens, GA 30602-6205

Email: kretzsch@arches.uga.edu

VIII. International Program Committee and Local Organizers

Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make

recommendations to the Program Committee comprising:

Elisabeth Burr, Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt Duisburg

Lorna Hughes (Chair), New York University

Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen

Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland

Natasha Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ray Siemens, Malaspina University College

Michael Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium

Simon Horobin, University of Glasgow

The conference is hosted by the Department of English and the Georgia

Center for Continuing Education at the University of Georgia. The Chair of

the local organizing committee is Bill Kretzschmar, department of English,

University of Georgia.



From: Kluwer <Kluwer@Kluwer.m0.net>
Subject: new Kluwer book: The Explanatory Power of Models
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:11:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 319 (319)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB6972327600X1563388X128471Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB6972327600X1563388X128471Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>The

Explanatory Power of Models

Bridging the Gap Between Empirical and Theoretical Research in the Social

Sciences

edited by

Robert Franck

Centre of Philosophy of Science, Universit Catholique de Louvain, Belium

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB6972327600X1563389X128471Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB6972327600X1563389X128471Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>METHODOS

SERIES -- 1

Empirical research often lacks theory. This book progressively works out a

method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical

and theoretical research in the social sciences. This might improve the

explanatory power of models. The issue is quite novel, and it benefited

from a thorough examination of statistical and mathematical models,

conceptual models, diagrams and maps, machines, computer simulations, and

artificial neural networks. These modelling practices have been approached

through different disciplines.

The proposed method is partly inspired by reverse engineering. The standard

covering law approach is abandoned, and classical induction restored to its

rightful place. It helps to solve several difficulties which impact upon

the social sciences today, for example how to extend an explanatory model

to new phenomena, how to establish laws, and how to guide the choice of a

conceptual structure.

The book can be used for advanced courses in research methods in the social

sciences and in philosophy of science.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

List of Authors. General Introduction; R. Franck.

Part I: Statistical

Modelling and the Need for Theory. Introduction to Part I; R. Franck.

1. The determinants of infant mortality: how far are conceptual frameworks

really modelled? G. Masuy-Stroobant.

2. The role of statistical and formal techniques in experimental

psychology; G.Lories.

3. Explanatory models in suicide research: explaining relationships; A.-M.

Aish-v. Vaerenbergh.

4. Attitudes towards ethnic minorities and support for ethnic

discrimination, A test of complementary models; P. Scheepers, et al.

Conclusions of Part I; R.Franck.

Part II: Computer Simulation and the Reverse Engineering

Method. Introduction to Part II; R. Franck.

5. Computer simulation methods to model macroeconomics; A. de Callata.

6. The explanatory power of Artificial Neural Networks; M. Verleysen.

Conclusions of Part II; R. Franck.

Part III: Models and Theory. Introduction to Part III; R. Franck.

7. On modelling in human geography; D. Peeters.

8. The explanatory power of migration models; M. Termote.

9. The role of models in comparative politics; C.Mironesco.

10. Elementary mathematical modelization of games and sports; P. Parlebas.

Conclusions of Part III; R. Franck.

Part IV:

Epistemological Landmarks. Introduction to Part IV; R. Franck.

11. Computer modelling of theory, explanation for the 21st century; T.K. Burch.

12. The logistic analysis of explanatory theories in archaeology; J.-C.

Gardin. Conclusions of Part IV; R. Franck. General Conclusion; R. Franck.

Subject Index. Name Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0867-8 Date: October 2002 Pages: 320 pp.

EURO 115.00 / USD 110.00 / GBP 74.00

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Subject: Internet Archive: Digital Bookmobile Tour Gives Free
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:27:19 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 320 (320)


Internet Books

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

September 26, 2002

                    Internet Archive's Digital Bookmobile Tour

                         Gives Free Internet Books to Kids

           <a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/20020924_eff_bookmobile_pr.html">http://www.eff.org/IP/20020924_eff_bookmobile_pr.html</a>

"A healthy public domain means more books for more children," said IA

Founder Brewster Kahle. "It's tragic that 98% of all books controlled by

copyright are out of print, and therefore not available through the

Internet."
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Contact:

Lauren Gelman

     Bookmobile Project Director

     Internet Archive

     lauren@archive.org

     +1 650 724-3358

Jeff Ubois

     Public Relations

     Internet Archive

     jeff@archive.org

     +1 510 527-2707

Digital Bookmobile Tour Gives Free Internet Books to Kids

Goal Is One Million Public Domain Books Online

San Francisco - On September 30, the Internet Archive's (IA) Digital

Bookmobile will embark on a cross-country journey to deliver free digital

books to children nationwide.

The Bookmobile will stop at public schools, libraries, universities,

mobile home parks, retirement homes, a Bookmobile conference, Hewlett

Packard Digital Village schools, and the Inventors Hall of Fame, printing

free copies of public domain books along the way.

The Bookmobile will park and print books at the United States Supreme

Court building where, on October 9, the Justices will hear arguments in

Eldred v. Ashcroft, a landmark case that will decide how many books can be

part of the Bookmobile's digital library and all other digital libraries

in the U.S. The case will determine if the government can extend copyright

by another 20 years, effectively removing millions of books from the

public domain.

"A healthy public domain means more books for more children," said IA

Founder Brewster Kahle. "It's tragic that 98% of all books controlled by

copyright are out of print, and therefore not available through the

Internet."

Kahle and his eight-year-old son Caslon will pilot the Bookmobile on its

cross-country trip. Caslon says, "Bookmobiles rule!"

To celebrate the public domain and the launch of the Bookmobile, the

Archive is hosting a "going-away party" at the Archive from 4:30-7:30pm

PDT on Friday, September 27. IA invites anyone who loves books to join us

in wishing the Bookmobile a safe and fun-filled journey.

For directions to the Internet Archive party:

<a href="http://www.archive.org/about/contact.php">http://www.archive.org/about/contact.php</a>

For this advisory:

<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/20020924_eff_bookmobile_pr.html">http://www.eff.org/IP/20020924_eff_bookmobile_pr.html</a>

Bookmobile conference:

<a href="http://eagle.clarion.edu/~grads/csrl/great.htm">http://eagle.clarion.edu/~grads/csrl/great.htm</a>

Inventors Hall of Fame:

<a href="http://www.invent.org/index.asp">http://www.invent.org/index.asp</a>

Hewlett-Packard Digital Village Program:

<a href="http://grants.hp.com/us/digitalvillage/index.html">http://grants.hp.com/us/digitalvillage/index.html</a>

About the Bookmobile:

The Bookmobile is a rolling digital library capable of downloading public

domain books from the Internet via satellite and printing them anytime,

anywhere, for anyone. Just as the bookmobiles of the past brought

wonderful books to people in towns across America, this century's

bookmobile will bring an entire digital library to their grandchildren.

The Bookmobile is a Ford Aerostar with a satellite dish mounted on top,

and a card table, chairs, and laptops in the trunk. It is packed with a

high-speed printer, book cutter, and book binder, donated by Hewlett

Packard and the Computer History Museum. At each stop, using the laptops

hooked up to the Internet via satellite, a user will be able to access the

library of public domain works at www.archive.org and choose a book, which

will then be downloaded, printed, and bound.

For more information and pictures of the Bookmobile suitable for

publication, see: <a href="http://www.archive.org/bookmobile/">http://www.archive.org/bookmobile/</a>

About Internet Archive:

The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to

provide "universal access to human knowledge." Located in the Presidio of

San Francisco, IA is building a digital library of Internet sites and

other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, the

Archive provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the

general public.

For more information on the Internet archive, see: <a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>

About Eldred v. Ashcroft:

Eldred v. Ashcroft is a challenge to the Sony Bono Copyright Extension

Act, which extended copyright by 20 years both for existing copyrights and

for future copyrights. Under this law, copyright owners control their work

for their lifetime plus 70 years. That means for 20 years, not one new

book will enter the public domain, and this is just the most recent

extension. Copyright has been extended 11 times in the last 40 years.

Since works have been repeatedly and retroactively kept under copyright

control, the concept of a Public Domain must now be considered by the

Supreme Court.

The Internet Archive submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court

explaining that if Congress is allowed to keep on extending the copyright

term, it will take works even longer to enter the public domain. This will

stifle the vibrancy of digital libraries that depend on new technologies

to distribute works to people the publishers tend to forget.

For more information on the Eldred v. Ashcroft, see:

<a href="http://www.eldred.cc/">http://www.eldred.cc/</a>

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From: Susan Herring <susan@ling.uta.edu>
Subject: CFP: The Multilingual Internet
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:24:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 322 (322)


Call For Papers

THE MULTILINGUAL INTERNET: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

IN INSTANT MESSAGING, EMAIL AND CHAT

Co-editors:

Brenda Danet                            Susan Herring

Hebrew University of Jerusalem          Indiana University

and Yale University                     Bloomington

brenda.danet@yale.edu                   herring@indiana.edu

        In today's multilingual, global world, hundreds of millions

of people are communicating on the Internet not only in its

established lingua franca, English, but also in many other

languages. To date, the research literature in English on the

features of computer-mediated communication has focused almost

exclusively on emergent practices in English, neglecting

developments within populations communicating online in other

languages. This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a peer-reviewed online

journal. We may also edit a follow-up book on the same theme,

containing a wider selection of papers, with a major publisher.

Papers may relate to instant messaging, private email, postings to

listserv lists and newsgroups, text-only chat, e.g., on IRC or MOOs,

visually enhanced chat, or SMS (short message service) in mobile

phone use.

We invite papers on topics such as:

--The influence of the local language on the use of a medium, e.g.,

the distinctive features of email or chat in languages with specific

font-related requirements (e.g., French, Russian, Hindi, Arabic,

Korean, Chinese).

--Cultural constraints on the use of the medium, e.g., how traditional

requirements for deference in Japanese language and culture are

realized or modified in online communication; Italian non-verbal and

verbal expressivity as realized in typed chat.

--Comparison of the distinctive features of email or chat in two or

more language-culture groups or sub-groups with differing cultural

orientations, e.g., Austrian German versus German German.

--Chat in situations of diglossia--differentiation between spoken and

written languages and dialects (e.g., Moroccan spoken Arabic and how

it is being realized in typed chat).

--Code-switching in bilingual or multilingual online communication.

--The clash between requirements of formality in the letter-writing

tradition in a given language-culture constellation and the trend

toward speech-like patterns in online textual communication.

--Language and play with culture, including play with identity

(e.g., via nicknames).

--A comparison of online communication within the same language-

culture group but in different languages, e.g., Israeli chat in

English versus Hebrew.

--The effects of the English language or global "netspeak" (Crystal,

2001) on email and chat in the local language.

--Online communication in English by non-native speakers, focusing

on language and culture issues.

Submission procedures:

Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500-1000

words by November 30, 2002 (earlier submissions are encouraged).

The proposal should describe the research question, the data and

methods of analysis, preliminary findings/observations and their

broader significance, and should include selected references. The

proposal should also include a tentative paper title.

Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited

to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by April 15,

2003. Since JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should

plan for papers that will be accessible to non-specialists. If you

have a potentially suitable paper that is already published or

slated for publication elsewhere, we would also like to hear from

you, as it might be possible to republish high quality articles in

the follow-up book.

Questions? Proposal ideas? Please address all correspondence

electronically to both co-editors: Brenda Danet

(brenda.danet@yale.edu) and Susan Herring (herring@indiana.edu).

A Web version of this Call for Papers is available at:

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From: "De Beer Jennifer <jad@sun.ac.za>" <jad@sun.ac.za>
Subject: RE: 16.225 theory vs practice
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:25:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 323 (323)


Dear Willard & humanists,

On the theory and practice of encoding. In teaching a course on HTML I

stumbled across the following: Many reference sources on HTML will insist

that when encoding a/any color, the RGB color value should be preceded by

an hash e.g.

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">

and yet, quite by accident (memory failure), I omitted the hash in numerous

examples. Even so, the colors were rendered, both in IE5.5 and NN4.7 on

Win2000. Reminded of the recent anniversary of the :-)  I wondered about

the history of this hash. A cursory glance via Google on this matter

produced nothing substantive. Out of sheer curiosity I wondered whether

fellow Humanists had a clue or two as to why one uses the hash when it is

seemingly not required.

Advance thanks, Jennifer

PS: I'm not inclined to think that this is a browser compatibility matter.


---
Jennifer De Beer
* Web Administrator
* MPhil candidate: Information and Knowledge Management
Universiteit Stellenbosch University, ZA
(W3) sun.ac.za


From: Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVInternet.com>
Subject: Re: 16.225 theory vs practice
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:26:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 324 (324)

At 01:14 AM 9/26/02, Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak wrote:
[deleted quotation]If I construe this rather idiomatically as:
"Theory is, if one knows everything and nothing works.
Practice is, if everything works and no one knows why.
Around here, theory and practice are united:
     nothing works and nobody knows why! "
                ...then the natural follow-on is
"If it is working, don't fix it."
The theory/practice couple generates some hand-wringing among physicists,
as it happens. For them, a theory is the highest flowering of the modeling
activity which constitutes their region of science-space.
   This topic crops up when they discuss Creation Science (so called) which
dismisses  Darwin's Evolution as 'just a theory.'
(PHYS-L list has an accessible archive on listserv@lists.nau.edu).
   One detects a comparable usage from mechanics and technicians, who can
also be heard using the phrase, "In theory,...." dismissively.
Brian Whatcott
    Altus OK                      Eureka!



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: MacArthur Award recognizes Internet publisher
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:04:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 325 (325)


Paul Ginsparg, described by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

Foundation as "Internet Publisher / Physicist", has just been awarded one

of the 2002 MacArthur Fellowships (a.k.a. "MacArthur Genius Award) --

$500,000 U.S. with NO strings attached -- in recognition of his

contributions to "the way physics gets done" through his development of an

innovative online publishing mechanism. You have likely heard of it even if

you have no contact with physics -- the "xxx archive" (currently hosted at

Cornell University at <a href="http://arxiv.org">http://arxiv.org</a>), as it is informally known.

The official announcement says that, "Ginsparg's document server represents

a conscious effort to reorganize scientific communications, establishing a

marketplace of ideas of new submissions with minimal editorial oversight

and abundant opportunity for commentary, supporting and opposing, from

other investigators. Ginsparg circumvented traditional funding and approval

mechanisms by developing the software in his spare time and running it on

surplus equipment. This system... provides a new, interactive mechanism for

scientific communications that complements, and in some respects supplants,

more traditional paper publications. All documents are available without

charge worldwide through the internet, making the latest results available

even for those without access to a good research library. Ginsparg has

deliberately transformed the way physics gets done  challenging

conventional standards for review and communication of research and thereby

changing the speed and mode of dissemination of scientific advances."

(<<a href="http://www.macarthur.org/programs/fel/2002fellows/ginsparg_paul.htm">http://www.macarthur.org/programs/fel/2002fellows/ginsparg_paul.htm</a>>)

"In all our programs," Jonathan F Fanton, President of the Foundation

notes, "we are committed to nurturing those who are a source of new

knowledge and ideas, have the courage to challenge inherited orthodoxies

and to take intellectual, scientific, and cultural risks. For over two

decades, the MacArthur Fellows Program has been a vital part of the

Foundations efforts to recognize and support individuals who lift our

spirits, illuminate human potential, and shape our collective future."

Let this be encouragement to timorous beasties! Encouragement also to those

who no longer need be so timorous: to do whatever is required so that

innovation does not need to be at the cost of "spare" time and get no

better support than surplus equipment.

It should also be noted, I suppose, that the Ginsparg mechanism suits

physics as it could never suit the humanities. The genius of it lies in

that match between tool, material and its social context. Our publishing

needs, it seems to me, are a great deal more complex and demanding.

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 (fax -2980) | willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk

/www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/.



From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: 16.231 why the #? theory vs practice
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:05:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 326 (326)


At 01:32 AM 9/30/2002, Jennifer De Beer wrote:
[deleted quotation]
A quick excavation at the w3.org web site, where many of the web

specifications can be found, shows the six-digit hex codes showing up in

the HTML 3.2 specification of January 14 1997

(<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32</a>). It reads: "Colors are given in the sRGB

color space as hexadecimal numbers (e.g. COLOR="#C0FFC0"), or as one of 16

widely understood color names...."
[deleted quotation]
So the question becomes "what do you mean by 'required'"? The besetting

problem with HTML since its inception has been that "required" could mean

either of two things. If we mean "required by the specification", then the

questions come up of *which* specification, and how we detect and enforce

conformance. This color business in particular is a good example, since

SGML validation against an HTML DTD would not, in itself, enforce

validation of the color syntax described above (much less the more complex

color syntaxes allowed by later W3C specifications). Yet if we mean "who

cares about some document on the Internet, what matters is what's required

by the browser" then the question arises of which browser, which version,

etc. etc.
[deleted quotation]
Netscape and IE for some years tracked each others' exception handling

(viz.: error handling) to avoid being the browser that didn't work with one

or another popular trick or workaround. They may still be doing it, though

thankfully now the standards are much more robust and it actually makes

sense to refer to the public specification as the authority on what is and

is not "required".

Cheers,

Wendell

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From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Mon. Sept. 30, 2002 6:10AM
Subject: Re: 16.231 why the #? theory vs practice
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:06:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 327 (327)


Brian Whatcott's physics site seems interesting, but I think that the views

of physicists on theory vs practice are quite complicated (as a mathematical

physicist and mathematician and statistician myself), and similarly for the

views of mathematicians and other scientists and philosophers.  Roughly

speaking, there tends to be in almost all of these fields or disciplines an

imbalance between theory and practice, or more precisely the abstract and

the concrete.   The Creative Geniuses usually have the least imbalance

(Leonardo Da Vinci, Pierre De Fermat, Kurt Godel, etc.).   I suspect that

this is true in humanities as well.   The world or universe itself is, I

suspect, a delicate balance between the two.   This does not mean that the

Golden Mean is usually a better strategy or goal than taking a position that

is further away from the Mean, since Creative Geniuses usually are

nonconformists, but they do retain (I think) more of a Golden Mean view in

the abstract vs concrete case.

Osher Doctorow Ph.D.

One or More of California State Universities and Community Colleges



From: John Zuern <zuern@hawaii.edu>
Subject: theory/practice
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:12:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 328 (328)


Willard and others interested in theory/practice questions might find

Gadamer's work helpful, especially later essays in which he engages,

in tentative ways, with cybernetics. I'm thinking of the material collected

in Reason in the Age of Science (MIT P, 1981), especially "What is

Practice?" and "Hermeneutics as a Theoretical and Practical Task" and the

volume Praise of Theory (Yale UP, 1998). The section of Truth and Method

on "Language as the Medium of Hermeneutic Experience" contains what for me

is a very fine description of the dialectic of theory and practice in

terms of ongoing concept-formation (Begriffsbildung).

I'd like to add my own theory/practice query: can anyone direct me to work

on the concept of "application" that moves between the term's use with

reference to interpretation (the application of a theory or a rule to a

particular phenomenon) and its use in computing (an application program)?

In trying to think through hermeneutic problems that arise in critical

studies of new media literature and art, I'm wondering if it might be

useful to reflect on what we mean, exactly, by an "application" in both

criticism and programming. Any references and/or thoughts on this will be

welcome.

Thanks.

John

___________________________________________________

John Zuern

Associate Professor, Department of English

Kuykendall Hall 402, 1733 Donaghho Road

University of Hawai`i

Honolulu, HI 96822

zuern@hawaii.edu  (808) 956-3019 fax: (808) 956-3083

<a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zuern">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zuern</a>



From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.229 free e-books, e-records
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:19:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 329 (329)


More about free eBooks. . . .

This week contained several landmarks in the book and eBook world.

The archive.org bookmobile is being launched today, exactly 450 years

after the lanch of the original Gutenberg Press.

Project Gutenberg reached it's 6,000th eBook.

You can find these at gutenberg.net

Project Gutenberg of Australia reached it's 100th eBook.

PGofOz was started in August 2001 by Colin Choat, so it has taken

just over a year to create their first 100 eBooks.  [It took the

first Project Gutenberg about 23 years to reach 100.]

Don Lainson has contributed 30 ebooks to PGofOz as well as many to PG.

He lives in Canada. Sue Asscher of Australia has also been quite involved.

Our HUGE congratulations and thanks to each and every PGofOz volunteer!!!

These eBooks are held in TXT and/or ZIP formats.  To access these go to:

<a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty">http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty</a>

For more information about Project Gutenberg of Australia, including

accessing those etexts from outside of Australia, please visit:

<a href="http://promo.net/pg/pgau.html">http://promo.net/pg/pgau.html</a>

--Project Gutenberg of Australia--

--A treasure trove of Literature--

*treasure-trove n. treasure found hidden with no evidence of ownership

I hope you enjoy them all!

Michael S. Hart

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Project Gutenberg

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From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.232 MacArthur Fellowship recognizes Internet publisher
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:35:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 330 (330)


Willard,

Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote:
[deleted quotation]
In what way are the publishing needs of the humanities "a great deal more

complex and demanding"?

I have heard this asserted in a variety of contexts by humanities scholars

but other than the bare assertion, I have never heard any principled

justification for the statement. By principled justification I mean one

that uses facts or analysis to support of the notion that publishing in the

humanities is qualitatively different from publishing in  physics, for example.

Lack of peer review is the bogeyman that I have most often heard as a

criticism of the Ginsparg mechanism. As far as I know, the various journals

in physics have not abandoned peer review as a result of the Ginsparg

mechanism and physicists continue to publish in those journals. Does anyone

seriously contend that the quality of publishing in physics has declined as

a result of this mechanism? (While a judgment call, that would at least be

an attempt at a justification for not following this model.)

The Ginsparg mechanism can actually lead to more peer review since

materials posted can be reviewed and commented upon anyone with an interest

in a particular topic and not just the greatly reduced subset of peer

reviewers for a particular journal.

So if the issue is not peer review, which as noted is not necessarily

affected by such a model, what are these "complex and demanding" needs of

the humanities? (I realize your position is generally accepted dogma in the

humanities but I don't think it should go unchallenged.)

Patrick


--
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Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu


From: Greg Lessard <lessardg@qsilver.queensu.ca>
Subject: Your posting on Humanist
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:35:43 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 331 (331)

Hi Willard,
You said recently on Humanist:
[deleted quotation]I'm curious to know where you see the difference between the two areas.
Greg
Greg Lessard, Directeur
tudes franaises, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada  K7L 3N6
Courriel: lessardg@qsilver.queensu.ca
Tl: (1)(613) 533-2083   Fax: (1)(613) 533-6522



From: "Joel Elliott" <elliott@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Live Webcast: "Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:33:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 332 (332)


in a Quantum World"

Lecture Webcast

What: "Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World"

Public lecture by Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor,

University of Virginia

Where:    National Humanities Center

                 7 Alexander Drive

                 Research Triangle Park, NC

When:     Thursday, October 3, at 8 p.m. E.S.T

The RealPlayer is required to view the Webcast (a free version is available

at www.real.com). To view Professor McGann's lecture in real time and take

part in the discussion following, set your Web browser to:

<a href="http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/encoder/mcgann.rm">http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/encoder/mcgann.rm</a>

        or

<a href="http://video.metalab.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/encoder/mcgann.rm">http://video.metalab.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/encoder/mcgann.rm</a>

During the lecture, email questions or comments to:

      lyman-award@nhc.rtp.nc.us

Professor McGann is the first recipient of the Richard W. Lyman Award,

presented by the National Humanities Center to recognize outstanding

achievement in the use of information technology to advance scholarship and

teaching in the humanities. His digital/scholarly credentials include the

Rossetti Archive, a hypertextual instrument designed to facilitate the study

of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the Ivanhoe Game, a Web-based software

application for enhancing the critical study of traditional humanities

materials; and extensive scholarly writings on computing in the humanities,

including Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web

(Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2001). A noted scholar of the Romantic and Victorian

poets and of textuality and traditional editing theory, McGann has also

written several books of poetry.

(For more information, see <a href="http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/news/prlymanaward.htm">http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/news/prlymanaward.htm</a>)

The lecture, free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Center for

Instructional Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

and ibiblio, with additional support from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline

Educational and Cultural Outreach Endowment Fund. The Lyman Award is made

possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

National Humanities Center

Box 12256, 7 Alexander Drive

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

919-549-0661

Fax: 919-990-8535

www.nhc.rtp.nc.us



From: Magali Jeanmaire <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: ELDA - Open positions
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:34:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 333 (333)


****************************************************************************

Overall positions within the HLT evaluation department at ELDA:

ELDA evaluation department director & evaluation team

*****************************************************************************

ELDA has been strongly expanding its activities related to the evaluation

of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The evaluation department at

ELDA is intended to promote the HLT evaluation in Europe, and to act as

a clearing house for this area with the support of a network of evaluation

units based on a large number of European institutes (both public and private

ones).

In order to staff this recently set up evaluation department, ELDA is seeking

to fill the following positions.

1/ Department director:

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

He/she will be in charge of managing ELDA's activities related to evaluation

and co-ordinating the work of the evaluation team and ELRA evaluation network.

Profile:

- Advanced degree in computer science, computational linguistics, library and

information science, knowledge management or similar fields;

- Experience and/or good knowledge of the evaluation programs in Europe and

the US;

- Experience in project management, including the management of European

projects;

- Ability to work independently and in a team, in particular the ability to

supervise

the work of a multi-disciplinary team;

- Proficiency in English.

2/ Two junior engineers:

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

They will carry out specific activities in evaluation of HLT.

Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the evaluation department director, the junior

engineers

will be involved in the evaluation of Human Language Technologies at ELDA,

in the framework of collaborative European and international projects.

Profile:

- Advanced degree in computer science, computational linguistics, library and

information science, knowledge management or similar fields;

- Experience and/or good knowledge of the evaluation programs in Europe and

the US;

- Experience in project management, including the management of European

projects;

- Ability to work independently and in a team;

- Proficiency in English.

The positions are based in Paris and are open now. The candidates should

have the citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should E-mail, Fax, or post a cover letter addressing the points

listed

above, together with a Curriculum Vitae, to:

Khalid CHOUKRI

ELRA / ELDA

55-57, rue Brillat Savarin

75013 Paris FRANCE

Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33 ; Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30

E-mail : choukri@elda.fr

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making

organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission of

providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human Language

Technologies.

The Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA's

operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, evaluates and

distributes language

resources, and organises the evaluation of HLT, along with the

dissemination of general

information in the field of HLT.

To find out more about ELRA and ELDA, please visit our web site: www.elda.fr

Magali Jeanmaire

*********************************************************************

Marketing & Communication

55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin

75013 Paris FRANCE

Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33

Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30

Web site : <a href="http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/">http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/</a> or <a href="http://www.elda.fr">http://www.elda.fr</a>

LREC: <a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org">http://www.lrec-conf.org</a>

**********************************************************************



From: "Domenico Fiormonte" <mc9809@mclink.it>
Subject: Conference in Messina
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:36:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 334 (334)


                      FRANCESCO MAUROLICO AND THE

                       RENAISSANCE OF MATHEMATICS

    "Editing Scientific Texts and the Challenge of New Technologies"

                        INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

                      MESSINA, 16-20 OCTOBER 2002

The goal of this Symposium is to present and discuss with the

international scientific community the results achieved by the

"Maurolico Project" ( <a href="http://www.maurolico.unipi.it">http://www.maurolico.unipi.it</a>). Thus, this

meeting has been organized on a historical, philological and

computational level.

          * Maurolico's works: the analysis of his writings,

          * the reconstruction of his scientific  and intellectual career;

          * the influence of his works on the mathematical

          * community in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries.

          * The challenge of the critical edition of scientific

          * writings in the age of computers and Internet.

          * The use of computational tools and languages for

          * solving  philological and interpretative problems.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Pier Daniele NAPOLITANI (Un. Pisa)

Rosario MOSCHEO (Un. Messina),

Ottavio BESOMI (ETHZ, Zrich)

Jean-Pierre SUTTO (Revel, France)

Roshdi RASHED (Un. Paris VII),

Jochen BTTNER (Max-Planck-Institut fr Wissenschaftsgeschichte,

Berlin)

Carlo MACCAGNI (Un. Genova)

Roberta TASSORA (La Spezia, Italy),

Peter ROBINSON (De Monfort Univ., UK)

Ken'ichi TAKAHASHI (Kyushu Univ., Japan)

Ken SAITO (Osaka Prefectural Univ., Japan)

Paolo MASCELLANI (Un. Siena)

Walter Roy LAIRD (Carleton Univ., Canada)

Alessandra FIOCCA (Un. Ferrara)

Antonella ROMANO (Centre Koyre, Paris),

Michele CAMEROTA (Un. Cagliari),

Paolo d'ALESSANDRO (Un.Chieti),

Stefan HAGEL (Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria)

Francesco FURLAN (Un. Paris VIII & CNRS),

Andrea BOZZI (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa),

Mario Otto HELBING (ETH Zurich)

For more details about the conference and participation,

please email to:

maurolico@dm.unipi.it

or visit the web site:

<a href="http://viete.dm.unipi.it/symposium/">http://viete.dm.unipi.it/symposium/</a>



From: Matthew Sweegan Gibson <msg2d@etext.lib.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16.233 free e-books
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:36:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 335 (335)


Also of mention should be the University of Virginia Library's Electronic

Text Center (ETC).  Since August 8th, 2000, the ETC has delivered

well-over 7.5 million ebooks--the formats of which are *.lit files for the

MSReader and *.pdb files for Palm-reading formats.  Ebooks indeed have a

life beyond the for-profit publisher.

Matthew Gibson

msg2d@virginia.edu

Associate Director,

Electronic Text Center

The University of Virginia



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: new Kluwer book on model-based reasoning
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:42:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 336 (336)


NEW BOOK

Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning

<a href="http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4">http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4</a>

edited by

Lorenzo Magnani

University of Pavia, Italy and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Nancy J. Nersessian

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Claudio Pizzi

University of Siena, Italy

Book Series: APPLIED LOGIC SERIES : Volume 25

This volume is based on the papers that were presented at the

International Conference `Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery,

Technological Innovation, Values' (MBR'01), held at the Collegio

Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in May 2001. The previous

volume Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, edited by L.

Magnani, N.J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (Kluwer Academic/Plenum

Publishers, New York, 1999; Chinese edition, China Science and

Technology Press, Beijing, 2000), was based on the papers presented at

the first `model-based reasoning' international conference, held at the

same venue in December 1998.

The presentations given at the Conference explore how scientific

thinking uses models and exploratory reasoning to produce creative

changes in theories and concepts. Some address the problem of

model-based reasoning in ethics, especially pertaining to science and

technology, and stress some aspects of model-based reasoning in

technological innovation.

The study of diagnostic, visual, spatial, analogical, and temporal

reasoning has demonstrated that there are many ways of performing

intelligent and creative reasoning that cannot be described with the

help only of traditional notions of reasoning such as classical logic.

Understanding the contribution of modeling practices to discovery and

conceptual change in science requires expanding scientific reasoning to

include complex forms of creative reasoning that are not always

successful and can lead to incorrect solutions. The study of these

heuristic ways of reasoning is situated at the crossroads of philosophy,

artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and logic; that is, at

the heart of cognitive science.

There are several key ingredients common to the various forms of

model-based reasoning. The term `model' comprises both internal and

external representations. The models are intended as interpretations of

target physical systems, processes, phenomena, or situations. The models

are retrieved or constructed on the basis of potentially satisfying

salient constraints of the target domain. Moreover, in the modeling

process, various forms of abstraction are used. Evaluation and

adaptation take place in light of structural, causal, and/or functional

constraints. Model simulation can be used to produce new states and

enable evaluation of behaviors and other factors.

The various contributions of the book are written by interdisciplinary

researchers who are active in the area of creative reasoning in science

and technology, and are logically and computationally oriented: the most

recent results and achievements about the topics above are illustrated

in detail in the papers.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-0712-4

August 2002 , 360 pp.

EUR 132.00 /  USD 127.00 /  GBP 85.00

Paperback, ISBN 1-4020-0791-4

August 2002 , 360 pp.

EUR 35.00 /  USD 34.00 /  GBP 23.00

Contact Lorenzo Magnani <lmagnani@unipv.it>

Table of Contents

Logical Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning. A Case Study of the Design and

Implementation of Heterogeneous Reasoning Systems; N. Swoboda, G.

Allwein. A Logical Approach to the Analysis of Metaphors; I. D'Hanis.

Ampliative Adaptive Logics and the Foundation of Logic-Based Approaches

to Abduction; J. Meheus, et al. Diagrammatic Inference and Graphical

Proof; L.A. Pineda. A Logical Analysis of Graphical Consistency Proofs;

A. Shimojima. Adaptive Logics for Non-Explanatory and Explanatory

Diagnostic Reasoning; D. Provijn, E. Weber. Model-Guided Proof Planning;

S. Choi, M. Kerber. Degrees of Abductive Boldness; I.C. Burger, J.

Heidema. Scientific Explanation and Modified Semantic Tableaux; A.

Nepomuceno-Ferndez. Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning.

Computational Discovery of Communicable Knowledge; P. Langley, et al.

Encoding and Using Domain Knowledge on Population Dynamics for Equation

Discovery; S. Dzeroski, L. Todorovski. Reasoning about Models of

Nonlinear Systems; E. Stolle, et al. Model-Based Diagnosis of Dynamic

Systems: Systematic Conflict Generation; B. Grny, A. Ligeza. Modeling

Through Human-Computer Interactions and Mathematical Discourse; G.

Menezes da Nbrega, et al. Combining Strategy and Sub-models for the

Objectified Communication of Research Programs; E. Finkeissen. Subject

Index. Author Index.

[Forwarded from Lorenzo Magnani <lmagnani@unipv.it>]

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- September 2002
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:31:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 337 (337)


CIT INFOBITS    September 2002          No. 51          ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the

CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a

number of information and instructional technology sources

that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic

dissemination to educators.

......................................................................

Smart Mobs

The Internet Goes to College

Electronic Scholarly Publishing Articles

Is Fair Use Dying?

Educational Technology Shapers of the Future

Recommended Reading

Editor's Note

[material deleted]

INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at

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From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.33
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:32:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 338 (338)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 33,  Week of September 30, 2002

In this issue:

Views --

Collaborative Commerce

The next phase of the Internet's impact on business

By Scott Kownslar

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/s_kownslar_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/s_kownslar_1.html</a>

Digital Promises

The prospect of living online may not be so attractive

after all.

By Arun Tripathi

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_tripathi_4.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_tripathi_4.html</a>



From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.231 why the #? theory vs practice (fwd)
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:42:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 339 (339)


Greetings,
[deleted quotation]
The answer is that it's in principle required, but it's not actually required.

The definition of the <body> element [1] defines the content of the

bgcolor attribute thus:

      Colors are given in the sRGB color space as hexadecimal numbers

      (e.g.  COLOR="#C0FFC0"), or as one of 16 widely understood color

      names. These colors were originally picked as being the standard 16

      colors supported with the Windows VGA palette.

And the colours are Black, Silver, ..., Teal, Aqua.  Thus the hash is

required to distinguish colour names from colour specifications (also,

for a variety of historical reasons, it just `looks right' having a

hash before hexadecimal numbers).

Now, there are in fact no colours (from this set at least) which are

named with just the letters 0-9, A-F, so browsers are written to Do

The Right Thing if they see a colour specification without the hash, as

you've discovered.  Therefore the hash isn't practically required, in much

the way that apostrophes aren't practically required in modern english.

Whether this is in fact the Right Thing or the Wrong Thing is hotly

debated.  It will, however, depend on the browser.

The W3C, and HTML and browsers in particular, is an excellent example

of a battleground between theory and practice, with any number of

short and long term imperatives warring over it, and sometimes even

warring with themselves.  Quoth Roy Fielding:

      [...] I can say with authority that the W3C was created by big

      businesses specifically to prevent their own marketing departments

      from destroying the value inherent in the Web through their own,

      and their competitors', short-sighted, quarterly-revenue-driven

      pursuit of profits. [2]

All the best,

Norman

(language lawyer and standards junkie)

[1] <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#body">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#body</a> (for HTML 3.2: HTML 4 is the

      same, but HTML 2 did not include the bgcolor attribute)

[2] <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Apr/0235.html">http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Apr/0235.html</a>


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Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK     norman@astro.gla.ac.uk



From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.232 MacArthur Fellowship recognizes Internet
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:39:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 340 (340)


publisher (fwd)

Greetings,
[deleted quotation]
Really?

In the areas which arXiv covers, essentially all publication is in

the form of articles.  In the humanities, publications are, broadly,

articles, books or editions.  Editions require specialised typesetting

of the sort that doesn't sit on most folk's desktops.  But that leaves

books and articles in the humanities, which aren't importantly distinct,

from a publisher's point of view, from the articles published in the

physical sciences.

What do publishers give us?  Typesetting, payment, authority and

distribution.  Typesetting we can generally do ourselves, and significant

payment few of us hope for.  Distribution is what preprint servers like

arXiv do extremely well, getting articles (and books too, why not?) to

a hugely larger audience than would be covered by conventional journal

circulations.

That leaves authority.  Though there is a lot of variation, postings

on arXiv most commonly appear after the article has been accepted for

publication by a journal.  The actual paper publication many months

later, and even the journal's own electronic publication, will probably

be largely ignored.  That is, the only important function of the journal

is to manage its panel of referees, and so build for itself the authority

to give an imprimatur.

All of this appears to be as true in the humanities as it is in the

sciences.

The MacArthur citation:
[deleted quotation]
Although conventional standards have been challened by this process, and

Ginsparg has been particularly vocal in those challenges, the original

arXiv/xxx project succeeded largely, I think, because it did _not_

challenge `conventional standards for review'.  Particle physics (xxx's

original area) already had a strong preprint culture, and xxx simply and

brilliantly speeded that up.  It did not and does not review anything,

and publishers were unable to object to such pre-publication because if

they dared, they'd suddenly have no authors.

Thus it succeeded first in particle physics because of, yes, a match with

the social context, but I can't see any other than social reasons that

are slowing this movement's success in other scholarly areas.  For an

example outside the physical sciences, see Stevan Harnad's eprint server

for the Cognitive Sciences <<a href="http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/</a>>

Best wishes,

Norman


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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: styles of publication
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:40:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 341 (341)

My offhand remark about publishing in the humanities vs in physics provoked
peppery & puzzled responses. Let me say quickly, with hopes of further
argument, what I had in mind.
I take it that in physics publications are typically quite short and tend
to present a relatively limited number of research results that are quickly
assimilated into ongoing work, after which they tend to have only
historical interest. Hence paper publication tends not to suit actual
communication among working physicists. (Their communication practices
prior to the electronic medium tend to show the strain, I've been told.)
Electronic publication, e.g. via Ginsparg's mechanism, is just right
because it matches the rhythm and style of publication in the field.
Publication in the humanities is of course quite different than that:
longer things, far more slowly produced, tending to present not results but
arguments. In general they are meant to be read in a sense or style hardly
applicable to the shorter pieces in physics. On-screen publication of
things usually meant to be read slowly, whose "content" cannot easily or
satisfactorily be extracted from the continuous prose with which it is
presented, is not ideal because a screen-image is not (at least not yet)
good for sustained, careful reading. Therefore, I argue, the Ginsparg
mechanism is not such a good fit.
EXCEPT for those publications, such as book reviews, for which rapid
circulation has always been a good idea but which the paper medium never
has supported very well. Hence the genius of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
<<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/</a>>. We might reflect on the fact that the
MacArthur award went to a physicist rather than a classicist.
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |
w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/


From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: 16.239 styles of publication
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:41:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 342 (342)

Hi Willard and HUMANISTS:
At 05:05 AM 10/2/2002, Patrick wrote:
[deleted quotation]I believe Willard's characterization was meant as a way of packing up a
very complex problem in a few words, probably (knowing Willard) with at
least the unconscious hope that someone would take it up. (Thanks Patrick.)
One could characterize the difference between Physics and scholarship in
the humanities, in this respect, as being in their very different
orientations to the institutions of print culture. Since print media,
especially the scholarly article, scholarly monograph and academic journal,
along with the particular prose genres that have developed with them, have
themselves always been in some sense in and of the Humanities (in a way
that differs from Physics, whose relation to them has been much more
incidental to Physics as such), it is proving to be much more difficult for
us to disentangle our work, in both its processes and goals, from these media.
A cynic might argue this by asserting that articles in the humanities are
written to be printed, not to be read.
Cheers,
Wendell
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From: "Sean Lawrence" <seanlawrence@writeme.com>
Subject: Latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:43:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 343 (343)


Early Modern Literary Studies is delighted to announce its September

issue, a special issue on the theme of Gold containing a number of papers

from the Northern Renaissance Seminar conference on Gold held at Sheffield

Hallam University in November 2001, and a special contribution from Richard

Abrams on the highly topical question of the 'Elegy for William

Peter'.  The full list of articles appears below, and the issue also

contains the usual complement of reviews and theatre reviews.  As usual,

the journal can be accessed free online at

<a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html">http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html</a>

Articles on Gold:

"Powdered with Golden Rain": The Myth of Danae in Early Modern Drama.

[1]Julie Sanders, Keele University.

Orlando and the Golden World: The Old World and the New in As You

Like It.

[2] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University.

"In his gold I shine": Jacobean Comedy and the art of the mediating trickster.

[3] Alizon Brunning, University of Central Lancashire.

"O unquenchable thirst of gold": Lyly's Midas and the English quest for Empire.

[4] Annaliese Connolly, Sheffield Hallam University.

"The City Cannot Hold You": Social Conversion in the Goldsmith's Shop.

[5] Janelle Day Jenstad, University of Windsor.

"W. S.'s Elegy for William Peter": A Special Contribution: Meet the Peters.

[6] Richard Abrams, University of Southern Maine.

Sheffield Hallam University English department is also pleased to

announce the launch of Volume 4 of its inhouse journal Working Papers on

the Web.  The theme of this issue is teaching Renaissance texts, both the

centrally canonical and the lesser-known.  Three of the essays, by Michael

Best, Scott Howard, and Matt Hansen, focus on the period's most famous

author, Shakespeare, but all describe unusual methods of encouraging

students to engage with him.  Carrie Hintz looks at an equally major

figure, Milton, and discusses strategies for

teaching Paradise Lost to religiously committed students.  Other essays

stray further from the beaten track: Ty Buckman focuses on the literary

culture of 1590s London; Roze Hentschell considers ways of introducing

non-canonical literature into undergraduate teaching; and Rowland Wymer

describes how a course centred on the use of films such as La Reine Margot

can be used to introduce students to the study of the Renaissance.  The

journal can be accessed free online at

<a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/">http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/</a>

Dr Lisa Hopkins

Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University

School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate

Crescent

Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K.

Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a>

Teaching and research pages:

<a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm">http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm</a>



From: Enrico Pasini <enrico.pasini@unito.it>
Subject: Re: 16.242 why the #
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:24:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 344 (344)


Gioved, ottobre 3, 2002, alle 07:47 , Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>

ha scritto:
[deleted quotation]
The bgcolor attribute was first introduced by Netscape in the 1.1 release

as an alternative to background images, with same syntax as text, LINK,

VLINK, AND ALINK. There were at first no colour names, just #rrggbb values.

  From a Netscape doc of 1995 that can interestingly still be found at

<a href="http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/index.html">http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/index.html</a>:
[deleted quotation]
The proposed format was in fact one of four or five to be found in the 1995

CSS1 specs drafts that were developed in parallel to the unfortunate HTML

3.0. The hash was used there to identify hex rgb values and differentiate

"H1 { color: #FF0000 }" from "H1 { color: 255 0 0 }" (a big red heading,

anyway).

Ciao

ep

// enrico pasini           //

// enrico.pasini@unito.it  //



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.241styles of publication
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:22:13 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 345 (345)


Trust me, not all the sciences produce little bitty papers consisting of

one perspicuous equation, and scientists like holding things in their

hands and scribbling on them as well as we do (alas I hear echoes of the

return of the two cultures...). I can only say: everyone go read Homo

Academicus! This is about people other than academics holding the keys

to the gate--and holding them to ransom. Another thing this is

importantly about is allowing academic libraries to stay afloat--soon

they won't be able to buy anything except a cable-television-like bundle

of whatever the publishers are willing to give them. Additionally, as

the journal publishers lose their stranglehold on the sciences, they

will begin asking us for page fees (page fees! I hear everyone crying in

horror) for everything we publish too (as well as charging ridiculous

subscription fees for our work), and then maybe we will decide that it's

worth a little rebellion. Further: people who have tenure may be happy

with the gentlemanly leisure of humanities publication cycles, but those

of us who don't may not have time to wait.

Pat Galloway

GSLIS

University of Texas-Austin



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: ways of reading publishing
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:23:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 346 (346)


Willard,

A salty response to your elaboration of your
[deleted quotation]
I take it that some responses were peppery, others puzzled and

still others both peppery and puzzled. I raise the stylistice question of

the disjunctive conjunction because I believe it relates to the

permutations of discursive practices at which you hint in your outline how

genre and reading :
[deleted quotation]
Wendell in the same bundle of postings reminds us that
[deleted quotation]
Now I ask how does the act of producing printouts depend upon genre? You

seem to make a distinction between the book review and the edition that

echoes some interesting discussions from the last century about the

relation of paraliterature to the literary.

Some Humanists work off screen regularly. And indeed use multiple windows

to work more than one document at a time.

I would suggest that the "library-mode" of reading is a more generalized

form of the expert being abreast of the literature. It is a type of

hunter-gatherer activity that informs the the exchange between experts.

That an amateur can read in the same mode and "publish" i.e. participate

in some fashion in the exchanges enriches the intellectual enterprise. It

reminds me that the best pedagoges and researchers model a behaviour

in their encounters that exhibits an intellectual and cultural openness.

The best breathe and act by a simple value : there are

no naive questions, no stupid questions. (especially if participants are

willing to "go meta" and ask -- is this time to ask this particular

question?).

Why the science versus humanities formulation of this thread on publishing

mechanisms? Why map it out on a dichotomy of intermittent versus

sustained? By analogy one can imagine the peppered and puzzled expressions

of those that would argue that the advent of television destroyed

attention spans when asked to consider how channel surfing does not

require vast amounts of attention (following several narrative lines at

once).

Your sometimes slow reader,


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
          <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm</a>
per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality


From: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.241styles of publication
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:23:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 347 (347)

[deleted quotation]I thought articles in the Humanities (at least literary criticism) were written
to be cited and not read.
Nancy



From: <zoe@humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject: job at UCLA
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 07:31:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 348 (348)


Instructional Technology Coordinator (PA III)

Requisition Number: 813  Location: LOS ANGELES, CA

Salary: $3997 - $7198

Working hours are 8:30 am - 5:30 pm.

Description

Report to the Academic Services Manager and in coordination with the FLITC

(Foreign Language Instructional Technology Coordinator) the Instructional

Technology Coordinator co-manages a team of graduate student Instructional

Technology Consultants (ITCs) who provide technical support to faculty in

the use of instructional technology. Hire, train and supervise the ITCs.

Oversee the ITC laboratory. Oversee "front-end" aspects of the Humanities

E-Campus course web-sites, working in close collaboration with the system

administrator, individual faculty, departmental staff, the registrar's

office and other technical units on campus, to ensure that the class web

sites and syllabi are available for undergraduate classes each quarter.

Test features of E-Campus to ensure functionality and reliability. Assist

in the creation of digital content for class websites. Create clear and

concise documentation on instructional technology services and software.

Provide training to faculty, teaching assistants, CDH staff and other

divisional staff as appropriate. Assist in the planning and development of

CDH's technology services. Consult with faculty throughout the Division of

Humanities, analyzing instructional technology needs and making

recommendations about how to meet those needs. Keep abreast of issues in

the use of Information Technology in instruction both at UCLA and in the

wider higher education community.

Qualifications

Degree in Humanities or related academic discipline and/or teaching

experience preferred. Interpersonal skills to work with faculty, students

and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds to diplomatically pursue the

goal of enhancing teaching through the use of Instructional Technology.

Demonstrated proficiency in teaching users at all levels how to use

instructional software, with skill in making oral presentations on

technical issues. Knowledge of course management systems, such as WebCT or

Blackboard. General knowledge of issues in Instructional Technology and

demonstrated ability to keep abreast of issues in a fast changing and

complex environment. Writing skills to produce clear and concise

documentation about instructional technology for use by faculty, staff and

students. Demonstrated knowledge of desktop and network operating systems

(including at least Microsoft, Macintosh and Novell Netware). Proficiency

in writing HTML using both text editors and web authoring tools such as

Dreamweaver. Experience with multimedia development, including QuickTime,

Real and Flash. Demonstrated knowledge of issues in web development,

preferably with hands-on experience in developing interactive web sites

(using, for example, Perl, PHP, Cold Fusion or ASP). Knowledge of database

development (for example with Microsoft SQL or MySQL) preferred. Skill in

strategic and long-range planning to set goals and prioritize tasks in a

demanding and fast changing environment.

See <a href="http://careers.hodes.com/ucla/job_detail.asp?JobID=63335">http://careers.hodes.com/ucla/job_detail.asp?JobID=63335</a>. Job#813

Zoe Borovsky



From: "Totosy, Steven, Prof.Ph.D." <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
Subject: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture; new books, cfp
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 07:32:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 349 (349)


1) Issue 4.3 (September 2002) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

is online now <<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/</a>>. The issue contains

articles by Lois Parkinson Zamora (U of Houston) on comparative literature

and globalization,  Dora Salvador Sales (U Jaume I of Castellon, Spain)

with an interview with Itamar Even-Zohar (Tel Aviv U) on literary and

culture theory, Adrian Gargett (independent scholar, U.K.) on Nolan's film

Memento, Anne Garrait-Bourrier (Blaise Pascal U, France) on Baudelaire,

Poe, and translation, and Hugo Azerad (Magdalene College, Cambridge, U.K.)

on spaces in the poetry of Reverdy, Supervielle, and Michaux, and with a

book review article by Ralph Freedman (Princeton U, emeritus) on recent

books of memoirs. Comments to the authors are welcome (e-mail addresses are

with each article) and/or to the journal at <clcweb@purdue.edu>.

2) New book: Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Totosy de

Zepetnek <<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html</a>>.

Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 1

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm</a>> and

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html</a>>. West Lafayette:

Purdue University Press <<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu</a>>, 2002. ISBN

1-55753-240-0. 217 pages, bibliography, index. Paper, US 24.95. Orders to

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu</a>> or 1-800-247-6553. The volume contains

selected papers of conferences organized by the editor, Steven Totosy, in

1999 and 2000 in Canada and the US on various topics of culture and

literature in Central and East Europe. Based on the (contested) notion of

the existence of a specific cultural context of the region defined as

"Central Europe," contributors to the volume discuss comparative cultural

studies as a theoretical framework (Steven Totosy, Boston, U of

Halle-Wittenberg, and Purdue UP), modernism in Central European literature

(Andrea Fabry, SUNY Stony Brook), Central European Holocaust poetry

(Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, U of Texas Dallas), gender in Central European

literature and film (Aniko Imre, U of Washington), Austroslovakism in the

work of Slovak writer Anton Hykisch (Peter Petro, U of British Columbia),

Kundera and the identity of Central Europe (Hana Pichova, U of Texas

Austin), public intellectuals in Central Europe after 1989 (Katherine

Arens, U of Texas Austin), contemporary Austrian and Hungarian cinema

(Catherine Portuges, U of Massachusetts Amherst), the notion of

peripherality in contemporary East European culture (Roumiana Deltcheva,

independent scholar, Montreal), and Central European Jewish family history

in the film Sunshine (Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard U). The volume includes

a bibliography for the study of Central European culture (Steven Totosy,

Boston, U of Halle-Wittenberg, and Purdue UP), biographical abstracts of

contributors, and an index.

3) Call for papers: The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/clcwebcallsforpapers.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/clcwebcallsforpapers.html</a>>, an

international conference, will take place in Targu-Mures, Romania, 21-24

August 2003. The conference is hosted by the Gheorghe Sincai Research

Institute of the Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy

of Sciences (Targu Mures) and Petru Maior University (Targu Mures).

Abstracts of 200 words in English, German, or French with a biographical

detail of 200 words are invited in the following areas of post-1989 Central

and East Europen culture, whereby comparative papers are preferred: Culture

in general and including literature, the arts, film, music, etc.;

Comparative media studies (aspects of television, radio, film, journalism,

etc.); The politics of culture and cultural policy; The histories of

post-1989 Central and East Europe; Cultural traditions and European

integration; Intersections of society and socialization; Globalization,

economics, and culture; Aspects of minorities, the marginal, and

marginalization. Further topics and proposals of thematic panels are also

welcome. The deadline of abstracts is 31 March 2003. The abstracts are

invited to the conference conveners Carmen Andras at

<prognoze@cjmures.orizont.net> or <carmen_andras@yahoo.com> and Steven

Totosy <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de> or <clcweb@purdue.edu>.

The theme of the conference is contemporary Central and East European

culture after the 1989-90 demise of the Soviet colonial period. A debated

notion, Central and East Europe is defined here as a geographical region

stretching from Austria and the former East Germany (incl.

Mitteldeutschland) to Romania and Bulgaria, the Baltic countries, Serbia

and the Ukraine, etc., including the Habsburg lands and German influence

and their spheres of interest at various times including now. Since the

events of 1989-90 and the demise of the Soviet empire, the cultures of

Central and East Europe have engaged in a restructuring of their political,

economic, social, and cultural environments and societies. While this

reshaping of the region is still on-going, there is a new Central and East

Europe in place now, politically, socially, economically, and culturally.

The objectives of the conference include explorations into aspects of the

social and cultural situation of the new Central and East Europe by

scholars working in the region: based on the notion of scholarship with

perspectives from the "outside" versus the "inside," the conference is with

focus on the work of scholars whose institutional affiliation is in Central

and East Europe (further conferences are planned to combine perspectives

from the "inside" and from the "outside," however). The conference at Targu

Mures is a continuation of previous gatherings such as the international

conference Central European Culture Today, organized by Steven Totosy and

hosted by the Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies (U

of Alberta, Canada, 1999) and the symposia "Comparative Culture and

Hungarian Studies" at the 24th Annual Conference of the American Hungarian

Educator's Association (John Carroll U, USA, 1999) and "Comparative

Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture" of the Hungarian

Discussion Group at the annual convention of the Modern Language

Association of America (Washington, D.C., USA, 2000), organized by Steven

Totosy. Selected papers from these conferences are published in Comparative

Central European Culture, Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek , in volume 1 in

the Purdue series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm</a>> and

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html</a>>. West Lafayette:

Purdue UP, 2002. Selected papers of the conference at Targu-Mures are

planned to be published in the Purdue series of Books in Comparative

Cultural Studies, Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html</a>>, series editor

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm</a>> and

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html</a>>.

4) New book: Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed.

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html</a>>. Purdue Books in

Comparative Cultural Studies 2. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu</a>>,

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm</a>>, and

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html</a>>, 2002 (forthcoming).

ISBN 1-55753-288-5 (ebook), ISBN 1-55753-290-7 (pbk). 327 pages,

bibliography, index. Paper, ca. US 40.00. Orders to

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu</a>> or 1-800-247-6553. The volume is the first

annual of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/</a>>, a thematic volume with selected

papers from material published in the journal in volumes 1.1-4 of 1999 and

2.1-4 of 2000. The papers are with focus on theories and histories of

comparative literature and the emerging field of comparative cultural

studies. Contributors are Kwaku Asante-Darko (National U of Lesotho) on

African postcolonial literature, Hendrik Birus (U of Munich, Germany) on

Goethe's concept of world literature, Amiya Dev (Jadavpur U, India) on

comparative literature in India, Marian Galik (Slovak Academy of Sciences,

Slovakia) on interliterariness, Ernst Grabovszki (U of Vienna, Austria) on

globalization, new media, and world literature, Jan Walsh Hokenson (Florida

Atlantic U, U.S.A.) on the culture of the context, Marko Juvan (U of

Ljubljana, Slovenia) on literariness, Karl S.Y. Kao (Hong Kong U of Science

and Technology, China) on metaphor, Kristof Jacek Kozak (U of Alberta,

Canada) on comparative literature in Slovenia, Manuela Mourao (Old Dominon

U, U.S.A.) on comparative literature in the USA, Jola Skulj (U of

Ljubljana, Slovenia) on cultural identity, Slobodan Sucur (U of Alberta,

Canada) on period styles and theory, Peter Swirski (U of Alberta, Canada)

on popular and highbrow literature, Antony Tatlow (U of Dublin, Ireland) on

textual anthropology, William H. Thornton (National Cheng Kung U, Taiwan)

on East/West power politics in cultural studies, Steven Totosy (Boston, U

of Halle-Wittenberg, and Purdue UP) on comparative cultural studies, and

Xiaoyi Zhou (U of Hong Kong, China) and Q.S. Tong (Peking U, China) on

comparative literature in China. The papers are followed by a bibliography

of scholarship in comparative literature and cultural studies, compiled by

Steven Totosy (Boston, U of Halle-Wittenberg, and Purde UP), Steven Aoun

(Monash U, Australia), and Wendy C. Nielsen (U of California Santa Barbara,

U.S.A.), and an index.

5) Call for papers: New Comparative Central European Culture

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/clcwebcallsforpapers.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/clcwebcallsforpapers.html</a>>.

Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html</a>>. Papers are invited for

a collected volume on contemporary Central European culture. To be

published in 2003 in the Purdue University Press series of Books in

Comparative Cultural Studies

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm</a>> and

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html</a>>, the volume will

contain new work in the field. The book will be the second volume with work

about Central European culture in the series, following Comparative Central

European Culture <<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/compstudies.htm</a>> and

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html</a>> (Purdue UP

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu</a>>, 2002; ISBN 1-55753-240-0. 217 pages,

bibliography, index. Paper, US 24.95. Orders to

<<a href="http://www.thepress.purdue.edu">http://www.thepress.purdue.edu</a>> or 1-800-247-6553). A contested notion,

the concept of a Central European culture is constructed based on real or

imagined and variable similarities emanating from historical, social, and

cultural characteristics apparent in cultures ranging from Austria and the

former East Germany to Romania and Bulgaria and Serbia to the Ukraine,

etc., thus including the Habsburg lands and their spheres of influence at

various times of history including now. With the tentative title of New

Comparative Central European Culture, the book will contain work that is

implicitly or explicitly comparative, following the notions proposed in

comparative cultural studies at

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html</a>>. That is,

instead of the single-language and culture approach, the authors of the

papers in the volume discuss topics in at least two cultures of the Central

European landscape or any other literary, media, communication, politics,

economics, etc., topic that fits the proposed framework of comparative

cultural studies. As well, papers on theory and methodology engaging

notions of/in comparative cultural studies as applied in the study of

Central European culture are invited. Papers should be between 6000-7000

words, in the MLA style of parenthetical sources and works cited but

without footnotes or end notes. The deadline of submission is flexible but

no later than December 2002. Please send papers to Steven Totosy at

<clcweb@purdue.edu>.

6) Call for papers: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, a

peer-reviewed, full-text , and public-access journal published by Purdue

University Press online at <<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/</a>> invites

papers for a thematic issue on Black African Literary Theory, guest edited

by Kwaku Asante-Darko (National University of Lesotho). Papers of 6000

words are invited to the guest editor at <k.asante-darko@nul.ls> by 31

December 2002. For the style guide of the journal please consult the

journal's Procedures of Submission at

<<a href="http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html">http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html</a>> (MLA parenthetical

sources and a works cited; no footnotes or end notes). The quest for

African identity in the face of racism, imperialism, and the aftermath of

colonialism provoked a revival of African values and a search for

authenticity. While some scholars and critics see a commonality of beliefs,

practices and historical experience on which to base a Black African theory

of literary interpretation, others contend that such basis for an

exclusively Black African criticism could not be upheld for want of any

authentic, wide, and genuinely Black African definition. They explain that

among others, these are sectional perspectives seeking to impose an ethnic

viewpoint on a multiplicity of African perspectives some of which are

patently irreconcilable. This approach raises debate about the implications

and justification for a theory of literary criticism whose point of

departure and assumptions about the purpose, methodology, and implications

of literature could be of authentic African origin and usefulness.The

thematic volume of CLCWeb intends to revive and to appraise the debate as a

way of assessing the current state of inquires into questions such as the

following: is there a general Black African way of reading texts?; is there

a way of reading Black African texts in particular?; from what values and

tenets are such precepts derived?; what would constitute the exclusivity or

peculiarities of an African aesthetics?; what features would distinguish an

African criticism from all hitherto literary theory?; what would be the

status and function of nationality, race, geography, gender and historical

experience in the formulation of this peculiar Black African theory. Since

these issues are closely related to political, philosophical, and

pedagogical concerns, articles merging these areas with the subject of

Black African literary theory are equally encouraged. Key questions for

consideration, therefore, include: 1) To what extent is it tenable to

uphold an universalist literary theory which overrides the exploration of

specific literary texts; 2) How do we critically evaluate the credentials

of an African theory of literacy criticism; 3) What will be exclusively,

permanently, and peculiarly African about such a theory a reading; and 4)

How do we decant the multiplicity of the heritage of the modern African

writer/critic from the residue that might finally be called African

literary theory.



From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.241styles of publication
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 07:04:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 350 (350)


Greetings,

It's true that the humanities and the sciences have different publishing

rhythms, and what Willard says amply supports the historical point that it

is particle physics' rapid rhythm that engendered the preprint culture,

which was in turn accelerated and broadened into the arXiv system which

now covers much of the physical sciences and, this time under the name

e-prints[1], other sciences and even the humanities.  That is distinct,

however, from the comtemporary claim that arXiv has prompted us to step

back and tease apart the separate strands of what publishers actually

do for us.  It is when you approach from that direction that you realise

(I believe) that the differences between the sciences and the humanities

here are not fundamental ones, but differences only of (financial) degree.

Science journal publishing is in crisis.  Even with authors doing

the bulk of the typesetting, and even with page charges, journals are

still extremely expensive[2], and the tension between library budget

committees and journal subscriptions is still far from equilibrium.

That is, the _currently_ important thing about arXiv is not the speed,

but the suddenly precarious position of publishers, who are no longer

the core of the publishing enterprise but merely contributors to it, and

whose contribution (administration of an imprimatur) was not hitherto the

core of their business.  Put another way, arXiv is interesting because

it demolishes the unexamined assumption that typesetter, distributor

and authority must all be the same entity.  If the humanities haven't

noticed this yet, it can only be because humanities publishing is so

cheap as to be beneath notice (ahem!).  Patricia Galloway made similar

points in today's bundle (and gets the prize for being the first to break,

and mention the two cultures).

But this is really a historical point as well.  Quite separate are

Willard's and Wendell's suggestions that the sciences and the humanities

have different relationships with print.

Recall that scientists do not write papers only in the odd moments when

they clamber up from the lab (`no lightning tonight, confound it!').

Though there is not the delicious tension between paraliterature and

literature that Francois Lachance referred to (also today), theorists,

for example, will have a very close relationship with their texts,

and will take just as much pleasure in the tactile and visual aspects

of books and printout as anyone else.

Also yes, papers in the sciences are short.  But it is not just page

charges that have produced this: concision and density have long been

almost independent virtues in scientific writing.  Thus, a few minutes

per page can count as skim-reading, and an hour per page for a tricky

paper, in some areas, would not be startling.  Assimilating, reordering

and relating the ideas are not necessarily trivial.  Surely very few

read like that on-screen.

I say this, not to start some `my prose is more turgid than yours'

contest, but to suggest that Willard's remark:
[deleted quotation]
... is not all of the story.  Sometimes a paper can take as long to

produce, and as long to read, as a book.

Collegially yours,

Norman

[1] <a href="http://www.eprints.org/">http://www.eprints.org/</a>

[2] <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/subscribe.html">http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/subscribe.html</a> and

      <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/pcharges_text.html#rates">http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/pcharges_text.html#rates</a>


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Norman Gray                        <a href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/">http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/</a>
Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK     norman@astro.gla.ac.uk


From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: styles of publication
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 07:27:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 351 (351)

I think the question (or at least one question) we need to be asking is,
what kinds of publication do we want to have and find most effective as
writers and readers in the humanities? We can approach an answer by saying
what we think we want and by describing our actual behaviours. Perhaps both
would be good; possibly the latter is more reliable.
As a reader of scholarly books and articles my actual behaviour goes
something like this.
I always look for material online and am *very* grateful to find articles
there, because this means that at least I can get started without going to
the library. (Although the research library within reach, the British
Library, is very fine indeed, getting there is a chore, using it requires
on the average half a day, the stacks are closed, books cannot be removed
from it and photocopies are *very* expensive.) I print out whatever I find
online, because reading on screen is neither convenient nor particularly
pleasant, read the printouts mostly (as I do books) while travelling on
public transport (ca 1+ hr/day actual reading time for 4 days/week). Most
of those I bother to print out are drafts or co-publications of things that
have appeared in print; anything very good leads me to seek out the printed
version, because more care has usually been put into it; its context is
often worth knowing about; and the physical care and rereading of
codex-bound material is considerably easier.
(I am speaking in terms of convenience here, but in the midst of a very
busy professional life, convenience often makes the difference between
doing something and not doing it. I can exhort myself to greater effort,
and I can heed my own exhortations, ignoring inconvenience, but I'd think
that the steady inconvenience of doing something will in most cases
effectively block it from being done.)
Anything worth reading for research purposes is of course worth the effort
to take notes. Articles already in electronic form can of course be
searched for particular phrases &c, and I often in fact do this across that
part of my hard disk where I keep such things -- to find where someone said
a particular thing in a clear and memorable way. (I hear that scanning pens
have improved greatly, that students who regularly work in the Bodleian,
for example, use them to avoid the high cost of photocopying there; I may
follow their example soon.) But most articles and books are not already in
e-form, so I do a fair amount of transcribing in my note-taking, for which
I use a Palm (with Quickword) -- a brilliant device which has transformed
my note-taking practice all to the good. Rarely I take notes at home, when
I use the fold-out keyboard with the Palm; otherwise I write in the script
of the machine, which I can do very rapidly with few errors. The machine
aside, however, nothing can beat the convenience for note-taking, where and
when I do it, of a bound book -- a matter of size and binding.
So the style of publication that fits best into the way I work is, for
example, the practice followed by the historian of technology, Michael
Mahoney (Princeton). It would seem that everything he publishes on the
history of computing, or a great deal of it, appears in penultimate form on
his Web-site and in final form in print. Such a style allows me rapidly and
conveniently to find what I need, verify its worth without stirring from my
study, identify and acquire the physical book. May his practice spread.
My practice as a writer follows the same pattern. Because I want to
communicate even more than I want to do interesting things with
e-publication, I prefer to get my stuff into print. I also of course want
to work toward the best research rating for my department, which in
practice requires going for print. I find the finality of the printed
product helpful in getting me to get things right, at least once.
(Allow me to note the danger here of becoming more committed to a
particular ideology of publication than to communicating with real readers
as they currently are. I'm all for improving the world, of course, but at
the same time I'd argue that the most important question is how best to
communicate to living readers.)
So, everything online and in print is my cup of tea. But of course my cup
of tea is based on an adjustment of what I do (read and write) to the
things and ways of the world as it is. It isn't wholly a product of desire,
though it does work very well. Nevertheless observations about the
brilliance of codex technology need to be separated from the sometimes less
than admirable behaviour of some publishers. And some writers -- who, as
Nancy Weitz remarked, write to be cited. Of course one tends to read them,
if at all, for their citations!
Again, I put it to you that we need to ask what would suit us best. Then we
can work toward it. I don't think the Ginsparg mechanism, however suitable
to working particle physicists, wins our (non-existent) MacArthur.
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20
7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |
w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "Joel  Elliott" <elliott@myaetherbb.com>
Subject: Webcast of McGann's lecture
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 07:10:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 352 (352)


Apologies to all for the delay in getting this material ready, but the

archived webcast of Jerome McGann's talk last night (10.03.02) is finally

ready.

Here is the main website with links:

<a href="http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/news/mcgannwebcast.htm">http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/news/mcgannwebcast.htm</a>

Direct Links:

56k part 1: <a href="http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/56-1.rm">http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/56-1.rm</a>

56k part 2: <a href="http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/56-2.rm">http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/56-2.rm</a>

256k part 1:

<a href="http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/256-1.rm">http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/256-1.rm</a>

256k part 2:

<a href="http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/256-2.rm">http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/256-2.rm</a>

500k part 1:

<a href="http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/500-1.rm">http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/500-1.rm</a>

500k part 2:

<a href="http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/500-2.rm">http://mediaserv.unc.edu:7070/ramgen/cit/media/lyman/500-2.rm</a>

FYI -- Joel

Joel Elliott

National Humanities Center

7 Alexander Drive

RTP, NC 27709

joel_elliott@unc.edu

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

Joel Elliott

National Humanities Center

Email: joel_elliott@unc.edu

Blackberry: elliott@myaetherbb.com

Page/voicemail: 877-375-8802 (toll-free)



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: gross measurements & stylistics
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 07:18:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 353 (353)


Surely Norman Gray is right about *some* papers in physics or mathematics,

say, taking as long and as much care to write as a book in the humanities

though they be considerably shorter. And I grant the fact that the

implications of some very brief, eloquently clear papers may take many

years to work out -- i.e. I am not saying that papers in the sciences

always consist of small ideas quickly tossed off. Einstein's 1905 paper on

special relativity is a pellucidly brilliant example of what we should all

hope to do: rock the intellectual world by saying something very important

very simply. Alas, some papers in the humanities consist of small ideas, or

none, in heavy language laboriously heaved off. But I would suppose that if

in a given university you compared the average number of publications per

person per year in, say, physics and English, the number in the former

would be MUCH greater than in the latter, everything else being equal. That

was the extent of my claim about rhythm of publication. Does this mean that

the e-medium by nature better suits the sciences for purposes of serious

publication?

A more interesting question, I think, is whether the e-medium has intrinsic

qualities that push us in the humanities, quietly but relentlessly, toward

faster turnaround of shorter papers, i.e. toward a more conversational

style? Or might we better say, as some have argued, that the e-medium

represents an opportunity, currently being realized, for a long-suppressed

or at least unexpressed style to emerge -- in addition, not instead of?

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Steve Krause <skrause@ONLINE.EMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16.249 styles of publication
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:43:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 354 (354)


Willard writes:
[deleted quotation]
My sense is that the "intrinsic quality" that will eventually push all

academic journals into electronic publishing, many of them kicking and

screaming, is money.  I have a colleague here who is the editor of the

*Journal of Narrative Theory* who claims that this isn't true, that most of

the money spent on academic publishing is labor.  And yet, no one "pays"

him (at least with real money) to edit the journal; rather, he teaches one

less course.  This strikes me as the sort of book-keeping fiction of

"costs" that I think most academic institutions are perfectly willing to

continue.  On the other hand, institutions tend to get a bit more tight

with their money when they actually have to write a "real" check, like the

ones that editors have to write to printers to produce their journals. And

when we English folk talk to our friends in the library about how they see

the costs of anything they buy differently (in terms of storage, in terms

of cataloging it, maintaining it, etc.), it just surprises me how slow the

change to electronic publishing for academic journals in things like

English has been.

As for a different style emerging:  That's there in some journals now,

things like *kairos* (which is a composition and rhetoric journal,

especially interested in writing-- the URL is

<a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/</a>) that seem to be very interested in

publishing hypertextualized texts.  But so far, it seems a lot more common

for web-based publications to merely replicate print and put up documents

that are either straight text or pdfs.  I suppose this will change, but I

think the rate of change will have less in common from the move from

writing to print (as happened with books way back when) and more to do with

the even more glacial movement of academia...

--Steve


--
Steven D. Krause
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Eastern Michigan University * 614G Pray-Harrold Hall
Ypsilanti, MI 48197 * 734-487-1363 * <a href="http://krause.emich.edu">http://krause.emich.edu</a>



From: Kluwer <Kluwer@Kluwer.m0.net>
Subject: new Kluwer book on Databases and Information Systems II
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:45:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 355 (355)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7049475574X1586515X131215Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7049475574X1586515X131215Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>Databases

and Information Systems II

Fifth International Baltic Conference, Baltic DB&IS'2002, Tallinn, Estonia,

June 3-6, 2002

Selected Papers

edited by

Hele-Mai Haav

Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn Technical University, Estonia

Ahto Kalja

Dept. of Computer Engineering of Tallinn Technical University, Estonia

The rapid growth of the Internet has dramatically changed the capabilities

of information systems (IS) and the role of database management. They have

become vital components of successful inter-networked enterprises and

organizations. This volume considers fundamental issues and technical

development in the integrated section of the fields of databases and modern

IS.

The book contains a collection of 24 high quality papers written by 56

authors. These articles present original results that constitute a survey

of both the research and technological dimensions related to the modern IS

and database development. The database research emphasises distributed

databases, XML and databases, mobile agents and databases, data mining and

knowledge management. The IS development issues include ontology-based and

knowledge-based approaches to systems development, UML based IS development

methodologies, and web IS. These papers are of particular interest to

researchers, developers, advanced students, and practitioners who are

concerned with the development of modern IS.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1038-9 Date: December 2002 Pages: 345 pp.

EURO 157.00 / USD 151.00 / GBP 99.00

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Congress Passes the TEACH Act
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:47:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 356 (356)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 7, 2002

                          Congress Passes the TEACH Act

             Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act

            See American Library Association's TEACH Act Web Site:

                     <a href="http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html">http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html</a>
[deleted quotation]
ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline

Volume 11, Number 82

October 4, 2002

In This Issue: Good News! Congress Passes the Technology Education and

Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH)

Critical distance education legislation, the TEACH Act, has now passed both

houses of Congress as an amendment to the Justice Department

reauthorization bill (H.R. 5512). According to Senator Leahy the language

of this legislation is identical to that of the Hatch-Leahy TEACH Act that

the Senate passed in June 2001 (CR S9889). ALA has long supported this

version. The President is expected to sign H.R. 5512 soon and the TEACH Act

will go into effect immediately.

The TEACH Act expands face-to-face teaching exemptions in the copyright

law, allowing teachers and faculty to use copyrighted works in the "digital

classroom" without prior permission from the copyright holder. The law is

complex and details numerous responsibilities that must be met before

educational institutions (including their libraries) can benefit from the

exemptions.

The ALA Washington Office has created a TEACH Web site to help members

understand the complexities of TEACH (www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html). In

addition, the Office for Information Technology Policy will offer an e-mail

tutorial on distance education and copyright in the near future.

Watch the Washington Office Web site and ALAWON for more information.

Reminder: Please ask Congressional representatives to co-sponsor fair use

legislation H.R. 5544

Ask your Congressional representatives to co-sponsor the "Digital Media

Consumers' Rights Act" (DMCRA) introduced by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va) and

John Doolittle (R-Ca) on October 3rd. The bill number, which was not

published until late yesterday, is H.R. 5544.

See yesterday's ALAWON for more information about this groundbreaking

legislation that will restore fair use.

DMCRA is the first legislation since 1998 to address the rights and needs

of library users, researchers, and consumers who wish to use digital works

or study digital technologies.

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From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: CFP -- CaSTA: The Inaugural Canadian Symposium on Text
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:46:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 357 (357)


Analysis Research

CaSTA

The Inaugural Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research

Montreal, November 23rd, 2002

sponsored by

TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research)

In 2001, a small group of Canadian researchers sought and

achieved the seemingly impossible -- an enhanced infrastructure for

computing in the humanities in Canada. With a approximately $6.8

million grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and

matching provincial and corporate funding, the group is in the

process of changing the face of humanities computing nationally

and globally.

In conjunction with its fall meeting in Montreal on November 23rd,

the group is holding its first Symposium. Researchers, graduate

students and others in the academic community are invited to

participate and/or attend.

The Symposium will have two parts:

1.About 75% devoted to research presentations; the author of the

best submission will be invited to give the keynote address

2.About 25% devoted to a panel on TAPoR -- its Future.

Submissions are invited for on a panel on visions of the future.

What can and should TAPoR do? How should it serve the

humanities research community? What should TAPoR be in 5

years? 10 years?

To participate, please submit a 300-500 word abstract by October

25th to interaction@fis.utoronto.ca. Authors will be notified within

one week of receipt.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

a) digitization and representation of text

b) TEI, XML and other encoding techniques

c) metadata issues for humanities text

d) use of humanities digital resources

e) needs of the humanities community

f) cross-disciplinary use of texts

g) other topics that you deem of interest to the community

The Symposium will be held at Faculty of Law, Universit de

*MONTREAL*, 3101, chemin de la Tour (close to Queen-Mary and

Decelles) on November 23rd, from 9:00-12:30.

You will find information about Montreal at: <a href="http://www.tourisme">http://www.tourisme</a>-

montreal.org/B2C/00/default.asp. Some hotels that you might

consider are:

Hotel Le Cantlie (<a href="http://www.hotelcantlie.com">http://www.hotelcantlie.com</a>) (about $119 per

night) which is downtown.

Htel Terrasse Royale (<a href="http://www.terrasse-royale.com">http://www.terrasse-royale.com</a>) (about

$85)which is walking distance to the Faculty.

Mention that you are with the Universit de Montral to get the

rates mentioned above.

Programme Committee

   Elaine Toms, Chair

   Alan Burk

   Ray Siemens

   Stefan Sinclair



From: "R. Allen Shoaf" <rashoaf@clas.ufl.edu>
Subject: Announcing EXEMPLARIA Webprints
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:44:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 358 (358)


          <i>Exemplaria</i> is pleased to announce the launch on its World

Wide Web site of two webprints: "A Most Uncourtly Lady: The Testimony of

the <i>Belle dame sans mercy</i>," by Gretchen V. Angelo (Cal State - LA),

and "Resisting the Psychotic Library: Periphrasis and Paranoia in Burton's

<i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i>," by Grant Williams (Nipissing U.). The URL is

<a href="http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/webprints/webprint.html">http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/webprints/webprint.html</a>

          The essays will remain on-line through the fall of 2003. The page

also contains e-mail links to the authors, and an e-mail link to

<i>Exemplaria</i> editors is available on our mainpage. Readers should feel

free to communicate with the authors about their essays; equally, they

should feel free to call to the attention of the editors of

<i>Exemplaria</i> any problems that they may have with the site itself.

          N.B. The webprints are .pdf files, which can be opened and read

with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, since this format enables

platform-independent download and printout of a given essay. We welcome

your comments on this practice, especially if you encounter any

difficulties with the files.

          In launching this essay on the World Wide Web, <i>Exemplaria</i>

subscribes to the "Principles for Emerging Systems of  Scholarly

Publishing" published on the World Wide Web by the Association of Research

Libraries at URL

<a href="http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html">http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html</a> (last accessed 10.07.02)

and we recommend this position paper to our colleagues using our website

who, like us, are concerned about the future of scholarly publishing.

Sincerely yours,

Al

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    Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities 1982-1983 & 1999-2000

    University of Florida, P.O. Box 117310, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310

    Senior Editor, EXEMPLARIA, exempla@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu; ras@ufl.edu

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NYPL & Morgan Library Digital Resources
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:48:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 359 (359)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 7, 2002

         New York Public Library launches the Picture Collection Online

                         <a href="http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco">http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco</a>

       Pierpont Morgan Library announces online catalog of its collections

                        <a href="http://corsair.morganlibrary.org">http://corsair.morganlibrary.org</a>
[deleted quotation]
The New York Public Library has launched the Picture Collection Online

(PCO).  PCO contains digitized historical public domain images of such

subjects as New York City, Costumes, and American History.  A total of

30,000 images, all selected from the Reference File of The New York Public

Library's Picture Collection, will be available on PCO by late 2003.  The

site, which is funded in part by a National Leadership Grant from The

Institute of Museum and Library Services, is accessible through a link from

the Picture Collection homepage or directly at <a href="http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco">http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco</a>.

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From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.254 styles of publication
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:40:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 360 (360)


It's not surprising if you're in the discipline -- as much as anything

else, it's the fact that a lot of schools do not count electronic

publishing as "real publishing", hence it does not count in tenure

decisions, promotions, pay raises, etc.
[deleted quotation]
Personally, I'd about 1000 times rather read something on paper than on

my computer screen, BTW. Also, if I really want to keep the info that I

find on-line, I print it out and put it in my files....I have about

twice as much paper now as I did in the days before "paperless offices".



From: Tom Crone <CRONE@cua.edu>
Subject: OCRing Latin?
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:43:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 361 (361)


I'm talking to a doctoral candidate with a vision problem who

is asking about scanning the Oxford Latin Dictionary, so she can

use it.  She already uses the CD version of the Oxford French,

German, etc., but they don't have a CD Latin dictionary.

Has anyone gotten good results scanning Latin, and if so, how?

A decent spelling dictionary for Latin? What OCR program is best?

Do you have any other suggestions for her?

Tom Crone       crone@cua.edu

The Catholic University of America



From: csmr2003@unisannio.it
Subject: CSMR2003 - New Deadline for Submission
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:42:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 362 (362)


Please note that the deadline for submitting papers to the European

Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering has been extended

to October 18, 2002.

========================================================================

      (Apologies for multiple copies)

                          Seventh European Conference on

                         Software Maintenance and Reengineering

                                     Benevento, Italy

                                    March 26-28,  2003

                             <a href="http://rcost.unisannio.it/csmr2003">http://rcost.unisannio.it/csmr2003</a>

                                      CALL FOR PAPERS

      CSMR is  the premier  European Conference on  Software Maintenance

      and Reengineering.  Its purpose is to promote  both discussion and

      interaction about evolution, maintenance and reengineering.

      Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

      Evolution, maintenance and reengineering:

              + pattern languages

              + experience reports (successes and failures)

              + tools

              + enabling technologies

              + formal methods

              + system assessment

              + web-site

      Metrics and economics

      Software evolution and architecture recovery

      Migration and maintenance issues

      Dealing with legacy systems towards new technologies

      Wrapping and interfacing legacy systems

      Data reengineering

      Reverse engineering of embedded (control, mobile, ...) systems

      Evaluation and assessment of reverse engineering tools

      One  of the  basic intentions  of this  conference is  to  offer a

      European forum  for discussion  and exchange of  experiences among

      researchers  and practitioners.  Therefore, besides  academics, we

      kindly invite all those in companies developing maintenance tools,

      offering  reengineering services or  going through  legacy systems

      migration  experiences  to  contribute  by  submitting  papers  or

      presenting innovative tools, solutions or experience reports. This

      conference is  not limited to European  participants; authors from

      outside Europe are also welcomed.

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From: Magali Jeanmaire <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA news
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:39:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 363 (363)


****************************************************

ELRA

European Language Resources Association

****************************************************

ELRA is happy to announce that the following news resources are available

in its catalogue.

- British English SpeechDat-Car (ELRA reference: S0131)

- Danish SPeechDat-Car (ELRA reference: S0132)

- Finnish SpeechDat-Car (ELRA reference: S0133)

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S0131 British English SpeechDat-Car

The British English SpeechDat-Car comprises the recordings of 300 British

English

speakers from 6 different regions (170 males, 130 females) who uttered over

120 items

(read and spontaneous).

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S0132 Danish SpeechDat-Car

The Danish SpeechDat-Car comprises the recordings of 300 Danish speakers from

5 different regions (162 males, 138 females), who uttered over 120 items

(read and

spontaneous).

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S133 Finnish SpeechDat-Car

The Finnish SpeechDat-Car comprises the recordings of 302 Finnish speakers from

3 major dialectal regions (151 males, 151 females), who uttered around 134

items

(read and spontaneous).

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Please consult our catalogue on the web, at www.elda.fr, to get detailed

descriptions.

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From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.34
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:40:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 364 (364)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 34,  Week of October 7, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

Inside PARC

Johan de Kleer talks about knowledge tracking, smart matter and

other new developments in AI.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_dekleer_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_dekleer_1.html</a>



From: "danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@loc.gov>
Subject: New Ameritech Collections in American Memory
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:41:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 365 (365)


Good afternoon,

This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our

apologies for duplicate postings.

With a gift from Ameritech in 1996, the Library of Congress sponsored a

three-year competition ending in 1999 to enable public, research, and

academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival

institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of

primary resources.  These digital collections complement and enhance the

collections of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of

Congress.  They will be part of a distributed collection of converted

library materials and digital originals to which many American institutions

will contribute. The most recent additions to the American Memory

collections are The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820,

Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869, and

Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934.

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 is drawn from the

holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical

Society of Louisville, Kentucky.  Among the sources included are books,

periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides,

letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records,

maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.  It incorporates roughly

15,000 pages.  The collection documents the travels of the first Europeans

to enter the trans-Appalachian West, the maps tracing their explorations,

their relations with Native Americans, and their theories about the

region's mounds and other ancient earthworks. Naturalists and other

scientists describe Western bird life and bones of prehistoric

animals.  Books and letters document the new settlers' migration and

acquisition of land, navigation down the Ohio River, planting of crops, and

trade in tobacco, horses, and whiskey. Leaders from Thomas Jefferson and

James Madison to Isaac Shelby, William Henry Harrison, Aaron Burr, and

James Wilkinson comment on politics and regional conspiracies.  Documents

also reveal the lives of trans-Appalachian African Americans, nearly all of

them slaves; the position of women; and the roles of churches, schools, and

other institutions. This collection can be found at

<<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/</a> >.

Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 incorporates

49 diaries, in 59 volumes, of pioneers trekking westward across America to

Utah, Montana, and the Pacific between 1847 and the meeting of the rails in

1869. The diarists and their stories are the central focus and the

important voices in this collection, which also includes 43 maps, 82

photographs and illustrations, and 7 published guides for

immigrants.  Forty-five men and four women wrote of their experiences while

traveling along the Mormon, California, Montana or Oregon trails.

Twenty-three writers (21 men and 2 women) were travelers along the Mormon

Trail, while 19 men and one woman were chroniclers of the California Trail.

Three men wrote about their travels to Oregon. John C. Anderson traveled

with his brother-in-law and a cook by "ambulance" to Montana and returned

by boat to the east, while Kate Dunlap traveled with her husband and

children to settle permanently in Bannock City, Montana. Benjamin Ross

Cauthorn, along with his parents and brothers, thought their destination

was the 1860s gold rush territory of Montana, only to discover, upon

reaching Montana, that it was late in the gold game and so they pushed on

to Oregon.  Stories of persistence and pain, birth and death, God and gold,

trail dust and debris, learning, love, and laughter, and even trail tedium

can be found in these original "on the trail" accounts. The collection

tells the stories of Mormon pioneer families and others who were part of

the national westering movement, sharing trail experiences common to

hundreds of thousands of westward migrants.

The source materials for this collection are housed at Brigham Young

University, the University of Utah, Utah State University, the Church

Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Utah State

Historical Society, the University of Nevada, Reno, the Churchill County

Museum in Fallon, Nevada, and Idaho State University. This collection can

be found online at <<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/</a>>

Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934

includes a rich diversity of unique or rare materials: personal

correspondence, essays, typescripts, reports and memos; photographs, maps

and postcards; and publications from individuals and the government.  Major

topics and issues illustrated include the establishment of the Everglades

National Park; the growth of the modern conservation movement and its

institutions, including the National Audubon Society; the evolving role of

women on the political stage; the treatment of Native Americans; rights of

individual citizens or private corporations vs. the public interest; and

accountability of government as trustees of public resources, whether for

the purposes of development, reclamation, or environmental protection. The

materials in this online compilation are drawn from sixteen physical

collections housed in the archives and special collections of the

University of Miami, Florida International University and the Historical

Museum of Southern Florida.  These collections are normally available only

by appointment at the holding library in Miami.  "Reclaiming the

Everglades" now makes these valuable materials freely accessible to users

worldwide.  This collection can be found online at

<<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/fmuhtml/">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/fmuhtml/</a>>.

Additional information on the LC/Ameritech competition can be found at

<<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/</a>>. Please direct any questions to

<<a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html">http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html</a>>.



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Martin Heidegger and Digital Future
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:42:48 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 366 (366)


Hyper-Heidegger by Arthur Kroker

Uncanny Thinking

Martin Heidegger is the theorist par excellence of the digital future.

Probably because Heidegger's was a deeply embittered vision of the ruins

of modernity to the extent that he wrote in a spirit of desolation about

the "gods having abandoned the earth," retreating back into an

impenetrable shroud of "forgetfulness," Heidegger was the one thinker who

did not shrink from thinking through to its deepest depths the unfolding

horizon of a culture of "pure technicity." While Heidegger began his

writing with a deconstruction of conventional ontology in Being and Time,

his lasting gift to the tradition of critical metaphysics was to perform

in advance an intense, unforgiving and unremitting deconstruction of his

own life in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude,

Solitude. [1] After the latter book, having nowhere to go other than to

wander in the shadowland between a reflection on Being that in its retreat

into forgetfulness was admittedly impossible to concretely realize and a

future driven forward by the "will to technicity," Heidegger was the one

thinker who literally deconstructed his own project to a point of

self-nihilation. With nothing to save, no hope to dispense, and no

critique that did not fall immediately into the dry ashes of cultural

cynicism, Heidegger's fate was to make of his own life of thought a

simulacrum of the will to technology. More than Marx who remained wedded

to the biblical dream of proletarian redemption and more so than Nietzsche

who countered the nihilism of the "will to power" with the possibilities

of reclaimed human subjects as their own "dancing stars," Heidegger was

the one thinker without hope in the dispensations of history.

Not broken by the vicissitudes of history, Heidegger was and is the

contemporary historical moment. In his thought, the new century is already

"overcome" at the very moment of its inception. Not overcome in the sense

of abandonment, but overcome to the extent that Heidegger summons up in

his thinking the anxieties, fears, and methods of the will to technicity.

A futurist without faith, a metaphysician without the will to believe, a

philosopher opposed to reason, Heidegger is the perfect representative of

the technological trajectory at the outer edge of its parabolic curvature

through the dark spaces of the post-human future.

If it be objected that we should not read Heidegger because of his

political complicity with German fascism, I would enter the dissent that

Heidegger's momentary harmony, but harmony nonetheless, with the politics

of fascism makes of him a representative guide to the next phase of

fascism.virtual fascism. More than liberal critics who fault Heidegger for

taking advantage of the fascist upsurge in pre-War Germany to gain a

University rectorship as well as to betray his philosophical

mentor.Husserl.I would go further, noting that in breaking with National

Socialism, Heidegger did not refuse fascism on the grounds of an

oppositional political ethics, but because its strictly political

determination in the historically specific form of National Socialism in

the Germany of the 1930s and 40s was not a sufficiently "pure" type to

fully represent the metaphysical possibility that was the German "folk."

[2] For Heidegger, National Socialists were not sufficiently

self-conscious metaphysically, too trapped in the particularities of

politics, to be capable finally of realizing the ontology of the fascist

moment: delivering the metaphysical possibilities of (German)

folk-community into concrete historical realization. To the tribal

consciousness of fascism, Heidegger remained a metaphysician of dasein.

Ironically, his prescience concerning the fading away of second-order

(National Socialist) fascism before the coming to be of first-order

(virtual) fascism ultimately made of his thought a historical

incommensurability: too metaphysically pure for the direct action, "hand

to mouth" politics of German fascism; and yet too radically deconstructive

of the claims of technological rationality to find its home in liberalism.

"Homeless thought."

An idealist in the tradition of German nationalism, Heidegger's fate was

to be that of the faithless thinker, ultimately disloyal to German fascism

because it was not sufficiently metaphysical, yet unable to reconcile

himself to western liberalism because it was, in his estimation, the

political self-consciousness of technicity. For this reason, Heidegger

ended the war digging ditches, having been ousted by German university

authorities acting at the behest of state fascism as the University of

Freiburg's "most dispensable Professor." It is also for this reason that

Heidegger in the post-war period was, except for a brief period before

retirement, expelled from university teaching. Always a metaphysician,

always in transition to the next historical stage of the "will," always in

rebellion against the impurities of compromised philosophical vision,

Heidegger's mind was fully attuned to the restless stirrings of the will

as its broke from its twin moorings in ethnic fundamentalism and

industrial capitalism and began to project itself into world-history in

the pure metaphysical form of the "will to will." [3] Beyond time and

space, breaking through the skin of human culture, respecting no national

borders, an "overcoming" that first and foremost overcomes its own

nostalgic yearnings for a final appearance in the theatre of

representation, the will to will, what Heidegger would come to call the

culture of "pure technicity," was the gleam on the post-human horizon, and

Heidegger was its most faithful reporter. In Heidegger's writings, the

main historical trends of the 21st century have their prophet and

doomsayer.

The complete article is available at

<<a href="http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=348">http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=348</a>>

Thank you!

Best regards,

Arun



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: OCRing the OLD
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:06:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 367 (367)


This in response to Humanist 16.259. Putting aside the legality of scanning

the Oxford Latin Dictionary (currently very much in print, and not cheap),

some experiments I did years ago with pages of the Dictionary suggest that

a great deal of proofreading and correction would be required. There are

three columns per page, which when I experimented with the scanning

required manual definition; things may have improved with the software

since then in that regard. A spelling dictionary, if one could be located,

would not help with the numerous abbreviations. The size of type for

quotations and references is very small. Overall it looks to me like a

manual-entry job.

Unfortunately the OLD was, as I recall being told, the last book or major

reference book for which OUP used metal plates. So there are no tapes or

other digital storage media to be accessed. My contact at the Press said it

would welcome a digitized version for research purposes -- as would

thousands of scholars, no doubt. Perhaps someone here knows whether the

Press has begun or is contemplating a digitization project with the OLD?

There is of course the Louis & Short provided online by Perseus,

www.perseus.tufts.edu.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: styles of publication - minor aside
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:13:33 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 368 (368)


No perfect time to delurk, I guess, after such a long silence...

Willard writes,
[deleted quotation]
Last summer saw an attempt - and failure - on my part to do just this,

precisely in the Bodleian.  They have a very strict no-scanning

policy.  Reference librarians told me that I could write an appeal to one

of the directors of the library, but would have to get special permission

every time I wanted to scan something.  This would have taken weeks, which

I did not have, and the librarians did their utmost to discourage me from

pursuing this.  It was only vaguely possible to get such permission,

because I would have wanted to scan in an entire book of over 300 pages,

out of copyright, that doesn't exist in any other WorldCat-linked

library.  They certainly do not allow scanning as a way of note-taking.

As for publication styles, the most significant change I see as having been

brought in specifically by the electronic medium is ease of

communication.  Theses are formulated, thoroughly developed, contested and

defended via lists such as this one, newsgroups and billboards (do people

even use those anymore?).  Posts get lengthy, and are often archived -- for

all practical (communication-with-live-readers) purposes, published.  It

seems not enough to hear/read conference and journal papers: they often

reference and are born out of list discussions. Information often

approaching in weight that found in short papers is disseminated habitually

in electronic space.

I wonder if "precise-scientists" - physicists, for example - discuss issues

at the same length in these venues.  It seems that discussion lists etc.

are more suited to speculative discussion than to, say, discussion of

ongoing empirical experiments.  From everything I've heard, you do not

publicize your experiments in any way until you have specific results to

share, and to claim.  From this would follow that published papers, short

and long, would play a more integral communicative part in physics etc.

than they do in the humanities, now that we have other means of (more

immediate) communication with our live readers.  But, really, I know very

little about how things work in the sciences, so please forgive me if these

impressions are off the mark.

-Vika Zafrin <vika@wordsend.org>

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 (fax -2980) | willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk

/www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/.



From: "Prof. R. Sussex" <sussex@uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: 16.258 styles of publication
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:13:58 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 369 (369)


In response to Norman Hinton's comments that a lot of schools don't fully

count e-publication for promotion and so on: I am on the editorial board of

a vigorous journal in ESL (English as a Second Language):

          <a href="http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/">http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/</a>

which has found wide acceptance by applying standard peer-review processes

and operating with the quality controls which one would expect of a full

paper journal.

I'd like to ask list members: are there examples of successful, substantial

e-book publication initiatives which have achieved proper recognition, in

Norman Hinton's terms, and which attract quality authors and MSS? This

question is partly motivated by rising book prices and the problems of

trying to advise our library on purchases and policies when book budgets

are falling so far short of modest needs.


--
Roly Sussex
Professor of Applied Language Studies
Department of French, German, Russian, Spanish and Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
The University of Queensland
Brisbane
Queensland 4072
AUSTRALIA
Office: Forgan-Smith Tower 403
Phone:  +61 7 3365 6896
Fax:    +61 7 3365 2798
Email:  sussex@uq.edu.au
Web:    <a href="http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/profiles/sussex.html">http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/profiles/sussex.html</a>
School's website:
          <a href="http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/">http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/</a>
Language Talkback ABC radio:
Web:    <a href="http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/languagetalkback/">http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/languagetalkback/</a>
Audio:  from <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/darwin/">http://www.abc.net.au/darwin/</a>
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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.258 styles of publication
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:14:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 370 (370)

Seymour Papert in the Acknowledgements to _The Children's Machine_ writes
that its style 'is more like a collection of finger exercises for the
imagination than a scholarly treatise'. I wonder how that description can
be related to the musings by Humanist subscribers on styles of
publication.
Some readers will twig to the 'more... than' formulation as a sign of
irony and relish the mastery of casting the performative in the idiom of
modesty. It is interesting that the junction of the diminutive and the
difficult was often rehearsed in discussions of comparative rates of
publication (volumes and frequency of information flows) within
disciplinary fields (aside: I would venture to note that in my experience
the junction of the difficult and the diminutive appears little in
discussions of information flows across disciplines).
The performative in the idiom of modesty is a theme not only reflected
perceptions of the size and value of the ideal knowledge nugget but also
refracted in descriptions of habits of consumption.
Stances of humility haunt descriptions of individual habits. Consider the
trope of the humble reliance on affordances: the print out to assist note
jotting;  the GUI interface that provides big type rendering to assist
failing eyes; the monochrome fixed type terminal connected to elm, lynx
and a Unix operating system too has its affordances for keyboard junkies.
Scratch a bit and one finds that these individual habits depend upon such
infrastructural elements as budgets to supply paper, the spread of a
discourse and demonstrations of assistive devices and even refresh rates
of technology available in public space (as recently as last year, one
major library system still had 'dummy' terminals and access to its
catalogue through telnet sessions alongside stations providing graphical
user interfaces and HTTP access).
When the stories are stacked together and their differences discerned and
their homologies drawn out, one discovers two narrative topoi:
choice within boundaries; investments that support those boundaries. Now
could it be that there is a correlation in these stories of
how-I-use-the-technology-available between the topoi and narrative
focalization? Could it be the academic tells the story of doing well
within the parameters of what is. The academic's discourse is governed by
institutional affiliation. The intellectual, the engage, is expected to
view the world beyond institutional arrangements and tends to the
dialectical tale of how what is came to be. The scholar?
The scholar is the stylists that allows the intellectual to communicate
with the academic (thoungh not necessarily vice versa). Take the masterful
eloquence in styling performative modesty in the image of finger
exercises. The figure is of course a reminder that even the master does
warm up exercises. But that is inflecting the commonplace into the
territory of humility. Is there not here  also a reminder of the scholar
as student? A little leap to the student pride that energizes broadcasting
projects and structures: on many campuses student levies have subsidized
student press and radio. No reason why the social organization of such
spaces not incorporate at some point server farms for webcasting or MOO
hosting. It may very well be that in these extracurricular spaces akin to
the common room, the college dining hall, the dorm, will emerge styles of
publication that appeal to scholar, academic and intellectual.
   --
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
reads the "end" as gateway and the
cul-de-sac an invitation to turn.
<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/miles/five.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/miles/five.htm</a>



From: "Humanist Discussion Group
Subject: Re: 16.262 OCRing the OLD
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:15:32 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 371 (371)


<willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu>

To: <humanist@Princeton.EDU>

Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:28 AM
[deleted quotation]
scanning
[deleted quotation]
it
[deleted quotation]


From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca>
Subject: last CfP for WorldCALL: la date limite s'approche
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:32:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 372 (372)


Apologies for multiple postings.

Dear Colleagues

This is a final reminder that the deadline for submitting Abstracts for

WorldCALL 2003 is almost on us. The online submission form is at

<a href="http://worldcall.org">http://worldcall.org</a>

WorldCALL is hosted by the Universities of Alberta and Calgary, and will be

held at the Banff Conference Centre, from May 7-10th, 2003.

PLEASE NOTE: Submissions will be accepted for 48 hours beyond the posted

deadline, because there was an unforeseen delay in posting this final Call.

NOTE ALSO: If you are a Canadian Graduate Student, and your proposal is

accepted for presentation, you will be entitled to register free for

WorldCALL, thanks to stipulations of the Social Science and Humanities

Council of Canada. For you, the deadline for submission is now extended to

October 31st. (You will be asked at the time of notification to confirm

your status, if your proposal is accepted.)

We look forward to seeing you in Banff.

Peter Liddell

Program Chair

WorldCALL 2003

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

Chers collgues,

    Je vous rappelle que la date limite pour soumettre des propositions au

colloque  WorldCALL s'approche.  On peut soumettre en ligne

<a href="http://worldcall.org">http://worldcall.org</a>.   Le colloque est organis localement par les

universits de l'Alberta et de Calgary, et aura lieu au Centre des Congrs

de Banff, du 7 au 10 mai, 2003.   WorldCALL traite de  l'enseignement des

langues par ordinateur.

    Nota: Nous accepterons les soumissions jusqu` 48 heures aprs la date

limite  du 15 octobre, puisqu'un problme imprvu a retard l'envoi de ce

message.

    Nous encourageons tout particulirement les tudiants de doctorat et de

matrise  soumettre des propositions, avec une date limite spciale pour

eux du 31 octobre.  Les tudiants canadiens qui prsentent des

communications  WorldCALL pourront s'inscrire gratis.  Nous encourageons

des communications dans l'une ou l'autre des deux langues officielles du

Canada.

     Peter Liddell

Program Chair

WorldCALL 2003



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: TCC 2003 - First Call for Proposals
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:33:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 373 (373)

[deleted quotation]
<snip/>
[deleted quotation]


From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@UH.EDU>
Subject: Version 45, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:33:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 374 (374)


Version 45 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over

1,700 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources

that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing

efforts on the Internet.

       HTML: <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html</a>

       Acrobat: <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf</a>

The HTML document is designed for interactive use.  Each

major section is a separate file.  There are links to sources

that are freely available on the Internet.  It can be can be

searched using Boolean operators.

The HTML document includes three sections not found in

the Acrobat file:

(1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm</a>

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related

Web sites)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm</a>

(3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new

resources that is updated on weekdays)

       <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm</a>

The Acrobat file is designed for printing.  The printed

bibliography is over 140 pages long.  The Acrobat file is

over 380 KB.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are

marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*

2 Electronic Books and Texts

       2.1 Case Studies and History

       2.2 General Works*

       2.3 Library Issues

3  Electronic Serials

       3.1 Case Studies and History

       3.2 Critiques*

       3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals

       3.4 General Works*

       3.5 Library Issues*

       3.6 Research*

4 General Works*

5 Legal Issues

       5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*

       5.2 License Agreements

       5.3 Other Legal Issues

6  Library Issues

       6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*

       6.2 Digital Libraries*

       6.3 General Works*

       6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*

7 New Publishing Models*

8 Publisher Issues*

       8.1 Digital Rights Management

9 Technical Reports and E-Prints*

Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author

Appendix B. About the Author

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes

the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*

Digital Libraries*

Electronic Books and Texts*

Electronic Serials*

General Electronic Publishing*

Images

Legal*

Preservation

Publishers*

SGML and Related Standards

Technical Reports and E-Prints

An article about the bibliography has been published

in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:

<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html</a>

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.  <a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm</a>



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.265 styles of publication
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:34:48 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 375 (375)


I might add, regarding electronic publication, that it took us several

years of hard arguing before we got our administration and faculty

committees to accept _writing computer programs_ as tantamount to

publication. They have never yielded on electronic publication of pieces

that might have been submitted for publication.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new Kluwer books
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:57:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 376 (376)


Super Intelligent Machines

by

Bill Hibbard

Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison,

Wisconsin, USA

IFSR INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING --

Super-Intelligent Machines combines neuroscience and computer science to

analyze future intelligent machines. It describes how they will mimic the

learning structures of human brains to serve billions of people via the

network, and the superior level of consciousness this will give them.

Whereas human learning is reinforced by self-interests, this book describes

the selfless and compassionate values that must drive machine learning in

order to protect human society. Technology will change life much more in

the twenty-first century than it has in the twentieth, and

Super-Intelligent Machines explains how that can be an advantage.

CONTENTS

Preface.

1. Goetterdaemmerung.

Part I: Humans Will Create

Super-Intelligent Machines.

2. The Basics of Machine Intelligence.

3. Computers as Tools.

4. Arguments Against the Possibility of Machine Intelligence.

5. The Current State of the Art in Machine Intelligence.

6. Neuroscience.

7. Dawn of the Gods.

Part II: Super-Intelligent

Machines Must Love All Humans.

8. Good God, Bad God.

9. Brain Engineering.

10. Current Public Policy for Information Technology.

11. Public Education and Control.

12. Visions of Machine Intelligence.

13. Endings.

Part III: Should Humans Become Super-Intelligent Machines?

14. Current Connections Between Brains and Machines.

15. Humans Minds in Machine Brains.

16. Humans Will Want to Become Super-Intelligent Machines.

17. Super-Intelligent Humans Must Love All Humans.

Part IV:

Conclusion.

18. The Ultimate Engineering Challenge.

19. Inventing God.

20. Messages to the Future. Bibliography. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47388-7 Date: October 2002 Pages: 236 pp.

EURO 127.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 80.50

-----

Computability and Models

edited by

S. Barry Cooper

School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK

Sergei S. Goncharov

Dept. of Mechanics and Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

UNIVERSITY SERIES IN MATHEMATICS --

This volume arises directly out of the activities of the INTAS-RFBR

Research Project, which is scheduled to run from December 1999 to November

2002. Participating scientists are leading scholars in their fields, and

their contributions make this book an excellent, up-to-date account of

recent and in some cases as yet unpublished achievements in the field of

Computability Theory and its Applications.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Preface. Contributing Authors. Introduction; P. Odifreddi. Truth-Table

Complete Computably Enumerable Sets; M.M. Arslanov. Completeness and

Universality of Arithmetical Numbering; S. Badaev, et al. Algebraic

Properties of Rogers Semilattices of Arithmetical Numberings; S.Badaev, et

al. Isomorphism Types and Theories of Rogers Semilattices of Arithmetical

Numberings; S. Badaev, et al. Computability over Topological Structures; V.

Brattka. Incomputability In Nature; S.B.Cooper, P. Odifreddi. Gems in the

Field of Bounded Queries; W.Gasarch. Finite End Intervals in Definable

Quotients of ; E.Herrmann. A Tour of Robust Learning; S. Jain, F.

Stephan. On Primitive Recursive Permutations; I. Kalimullin. On

Self-Embeddings of Computable Linear Orders; S. Lempp, et al. Definable

Relations on the Computably Enumerable Degrees; A. Li. Quasi-Degrees of

Recursively Enumerable Sets; R.Sh. Omanadze. Positive Structures; V.

Selivanov. Local Properties of the Non-Total Enumeration Degrees; B. Solon.

References.

Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47400-X Date: October 2002 Pages: 388 pp.

EURO 142.00 / USD 135.00 / GBP 90.50

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: traister@pobox.upenn.edu (Daniel Traister)
Subject: ERIC: The English Renaissance in Context
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:50:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 377 (377)


          I'm posting the following message to a number of lists,

          mostly Renaissance; but some of these materials may

          interest a readership interested in the humanistic

          use of computers and digital technpologies, as well.

          I apologize both for overlaps and for unwelcome intru-

          sions, if that is what this is. These materials can be

          very useful, however; and your suggestions about how to

          make them even more useful -- and to broad constituencies

          -- are, as my colleague Michael Ryan says in his message

          below, VERY welcome.

                                  Dan Traister

                                  Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

                                  University of Pennsylvania Library

The University of Pennsylvania Library and Penn's Department of English

invite you to browse and use the rich array of tutorials in its Project

ERIC website:

<a href="http://www.library.upenn.edu/extext/collections/furness/eric/eric.html">http://www.library.upenn.edu/extext/collections/furness/eric/eric.html</a>

ERIC, "The English Renaissance in Context," was co-developed by Professor

Rebecca Bushnell and Library staff in the Schoenberg Center for Electronic

Text & Image. It is based on the premise that teaching English Renaissance

Literature by using texts in their original formats (here reproduced

virtually) provides students with an important dimension that would

otherwise be unavailable to them. The site features a series of eight

tutorials on Shakespearean plays and on the nature of early modern

printing and publishing. And the site nestles within a corpus of over 300

facsimiles from the early modern period, which may be used in conjunction

with the tutorials.

Feedback is welcome!

Michael Ryan

Director,

SCETI/Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library

University of Pennsylvania

ryan@pobox.upenn.edu

215-898-7552



From: carolyn guertin <cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Call for works: Unfoldings
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:49:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 378 (378)


Unfoldings: An Exhibition of Information Art and Architectures

The Arts District, the City of Edmonton, Canada

February 2003

          Unfoldings are intrinsic dimensions that open indefinitely outward,

potentially encompassing an infinite expansion of space. Like an inflating

balloon, the computer interface is also a phenomenon whose infinite writing

surface is situated in ever-present temporal and incremental space,

perpetually dividing itself to reveal new moments of present-tense textual

time, and whose spatial dimensions are performed via the instantaneity of

mouse clicks and real time navigation. A temporal surface like the

interface is a self-contained discourse network and an organic system; such

a system is also familiar to us in the guise of the body, a system that is

both frame and material for its own performative narratives. This

expression of embodied presence is the world we navigate in an electronic

text. Virtual architectures call for a reunion of the mind and body in

space-time to heal the rift that has existed since Ren Descartes tore them

asunder. The text like the body rejects Cartesian dualism because the

text-as-body and the body-as-text write themselves and their archi-traces

as fluid expressions of the experiential and aesthetic realms.

          This kind of virtual architecture is an embodied fiction in both

cyberspace and the new media arts that inhabits a metaphysical dimension, a

dimension that allows us to insert ourselves -- like we do into memories.

Both Marcos Novak and Elisabeth Grosz call for an architecture of excess

for virtual space, one not contained or confined by the physical laws of

the real. Architecture of excess is a term that has traditionally been used

to describe imaginary architectures like Giovanni Battista Piranesi's

prisons, the Carceri d'Invenzione, or Hieronymous Bosch's visions of Hell.

Alternatively, Paul Virilio believes that there can no longer be

architectures of excess in a virtual age because we have moved into the

realm of 'post-architecture.' Paul Lunenfeld uses the term 'hybrid

architecture' to describe incursions of the virtual in real space, and

Marcos Novak uses the terms 'liquid architecture' and 'TransArchitecture'

to describe the new structures of and intrinsic to cyberspace. Once

architecture ceases to be material, there is nowhere to go but into virtual

constructs. Media theorists Mark Taylor and Esa Saarinen call the new

virtuality 'electrotecture.' Electrotecture, they say, blurs the boundaries

between building and builder, between programme and programmer, between

time and space. This latter term is perhaps the most useful and descriptive

terminology for constructs inhabiting the digital domain. Such an intense

preoccupation with architectures demonstrate that structures have not been

left behind as Virilio's term suggests, but instead have indeed been

redefined as more fluid, flexible, multiple, hybrid and complex, in part

through the interpolation of the dimension of time as a living system into

their forms.

          In virtual space, unlike Piranesi's Carceri, electrotectures are

infinite. The fold or the click is the systemic in the expanding

materiality of the somatic rooms of the interface. Unfoldings are dynamic

acts, the process of navigation in information space, and traces of

archi-writing contained therein. Unfoldings are both cartographic form and

behavioural dynamic, active motion and embodied context. They are

ultimately both the space of our interaction with the surface of the

interface and our interactive engagement with the mnemonic gestures they

represent and contain. Always operating within the framework of the visual,

unfoldings are an irreducible element -- gesture and membrane, link and

rupture -- between sensible codes.

__________________________

          You are invited to submit your own interactive new media unfoldings

to a show in the Arts District of the city of Edmonton, Canada in February

2003. Preference will be given to original electronic works created

specifically for this exhibit, but previously exhibited works will be

considered. Submissions may be web-based or on CD-ROM or other portable

media for on-site display in a public venue.

          The deadline for electronic or snail mail submissions dated no

later than 15 December 2002. Send the work and/or its link along with a

300-word abstract, biographical details, c.v. and/or website URL to:

Carolyn Guertin, Curator

Department of English

University of Alberta

3-5 Humanities Centre

Edmonton AB T6G 2E5

cguertin@ualberta.ca

Please do not send works as e-mail attachments.

___________________________________________________

Carolyn Guertin, Dept of English, University of Alberta, Canada

E-Mail: cguertin@ualberta.ca; Voice: 780-438-3125

Website: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/">http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/</a>

Assemblage, The Online Women's New Media Gallery, at trAce:

<a href="http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm">http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm</a>



From: "King's" <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: OAI Workshop - 17-19 October 2002 (fwd)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:45:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 379 (379)


The following on the Open Archives Initiative, from the Electronic Journal

Publishing List, with thanks.

WM
[deleted quotation]
Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: Academic Integrity Compliance Workshop Reminder!
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:47:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 380 (380)


REMINDER AND INVITATION

*October 21, 2002!* is the Early Registration Deadline for the Online

Workshop:

Academic Integrity Compliance on College Campuses

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa2002/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa2002/</a>

The first of two workshops offered on the topic of academic integrity,

*Academic Integrity Compliance on College Campuses*, will be moderated

by Dr. Diane M. Waryold, Executive Director of Center for Academic

Integrity, Program Administrator of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at

Duke University, and will run from October 28 to November 15, 2002.

The Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital

Environment at University of Maryland University College is also pleased

to announce that a Live Chat Session with Dr. Margaret (Peg) Monahan

Hogan, Philosophy Department Chair and Founding Director, Ctr. for

Ethics and Public Life Kings College, will be a part of this timely and

important workshop on Nov 13th.

This is an online, asynchronous seminar in which participants are active

at times convenient to them. For additional information call

301-985-7777 or 1-800-283-6832, extension 7777 or visit our web site to

register online at <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa2002/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa2002/</a>

-Olga Francois

Center for Intellectual Property

University of Maryland University College

<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/</a>

[Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.]



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From: Judy Reynolds <judyr@email.sjsu.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.272 new on WWW: tutorials in ERIC
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:13:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 382 (382)


Hi,

      There is an error in the url.  Omit the x in extext and you do get to the

page.

<a href="http://www.library.upenn.edu/extext/collections/furness/eric/eric.html">http://www.library.upenn.edu/extext/collections/furness/eric/eric.html</a>

      Judy



From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: E-prints: the future of scholarly communication?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:16:31 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 383 (383)

[deleted quotation]


From: "Kurt Gaertner" <gaertnek@mailer.uni-marburg.de>
Subject: Re: 16.259 OCRing Latin?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:15:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 384 (384)


There is an excellent electronic version of the Latin-German Dictionary by

K. E. Georges, 8th ed., 1913/1918, on CD-ROM; published by Directmedia,

Berlin, for only 39,90 Euro, see

<a href="http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de">http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de</a>

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

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FB II Sprach- und Literaturwiss.       office: Tel. 0651-201-2323

Germanistik                                    Fax  0651-201-3909

Universitaet Trier                  secretary: Tel. 0651-201-2321

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NYC Symposium: Copyright or Copywrong? Supreme Court,
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:09:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 385 (385)


Term Extension and The Arts

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 18, 2002

             International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) Presents:

                            "Copyright or Copywrong?

             The Supreme Court, Copyright Term Extension, and The Arts"

                    Wednesday, November 6, 2002: 6:00-8:30 p.m.

             NY Genealogical and Biographical Society, 124 E 58 St, NYC

                        <a href="http://www.ifar.org/prog_sub1.htm">http://www.ifar.org/prog_sub1.htm</a>

              Reservation Required: <a href="http://www.ifar.org/reg_sub4.htm">http://www.ifar.org/reg_sub4.htm</a>

The Eldred v Ashcroft case, challenging the constitutionality of the

Copyright Term Extension Act, has divided the arts community. While

scholars and artists have filed briefs on behalf of Eldred, some publishers

and other artists have supported the Government's case. As one of its IFAR

Evenings, the International Foundation for Art Research is organizing a

symposium on the impact this case may have on the arts community.

Speakers:

* Franklin Feldman, Chair, IFAR Law Advisory Council; Co-Author, Art Law

* Stephen E. Weil, Emeritus Senior Scholar, Center for Museum Studies,

Smithsonian Institution, Co-Author, Art Law

* Robert Baron, Chair, Committee on Intellectual Property, College Art

Association

* I. Fred Koenigsberg, White & Case LLP, NY General Counsel, ASCAP

* Alice Haemmerli, Dean, Graduate Legal Studies and International Programs,

Columbia Law School

Location:

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

124 East 58th Street (between Park and Lexington)

New York, New York

RECEPTION FOLLOWS TALK

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED


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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: archaeological imagination?
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:08:49 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 386 (386)


I would be very grateful for any recommendations of writings on what I am

calling the "archaeological imagination". Logically this must overlap quite

a bit with the historical kind, but I would suppose that because

archaeology deals so much with objects, it requires different qualities of

its imagination also. Something along the lines of Collingwood's

discussions in The Idea of History would be just right, but I would also be

interested to know how this imagination is cultivated, and whether anyone

has written specifically about this aspect of the training of archaeologists.

Tales are told about people who are extraordinarily good at sensing where

to dig, for example. This suggests perhaps a highly developed visual

imagination, which I'd guess an excavator is also much in need of once a

site has been located. I am aware of computational tools for visualizing

sites -- Richard Beacham's work with VRML comes to mind. But I'm really

wondering about the qualities of mind, visual and other.

Many thanks.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk |

w.mccarty@btinternet.com | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: JoDI: Chinese Collections in the Digital Library special
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:08:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 387 (387)


issue

We are pleased to announce a new issue, and a response to a paper

announced in the the previous issue.

Journal of Digital Information announces

A SPECIAL ISSUE on Chinese Collections in the Digital Library

(Volume 3, issue 2, October 2002)

Special issue Editor: Brian Bruya, University of Hawai'i, USA

   From the special issue editorial

"A floppy disk can store about 500,000 Chinese characters--compare that to

an ancient bamboo strip measuring about the same in area but maxing out at

about 28 characters. Text processing has come a long way. Still, some of

those bamboo strips have been dug out of the ground and are still legible

after 23 centuries. What are the chances of a floppy making it through two

millennia in the dirt, or of there being a device around that could then

decipher it? There is still much to be done in the field of text

processing, and the articles here, with their emphasis on technical

achievement and XML deployment, are samples of some recent work that

applies advanced computing techniques to pre-modern Chinese texts."

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/editorial">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/editorial</a>

The issue includes the following papers:

C. Ho

CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts): a comprehensive database of all ancient

Chinese texts up to 600 AD

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Ho/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Ho/</a>

M. Mohr

Linking Chan/Seon/Zen Figures and Their Texts: Problems and Developments in

the Construction of a Relational Database

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Mohr/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Mohr/</a>

C. Muller, M. Beddow

Moving into XML Functionality: The Combined Digital Dictionaries of

Buddhism and East Asian Literary Terms

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Muller/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Muller/</a>

C. Wittern

Chinese Buddhist texts for the new Millenium  The Chinese Buddhist

Electronic Text Association (CBETA) and its Digital Tripitaka

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Wittern/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Wittern/</a>

SEE ALSO

from Volume 3, issue 1, this previously unannounced Letter

N. Walsh

XML: One Input--Many Outputs

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Walsh/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Walsh/</a>


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From: Craig Bellamy <milkbar@milkbar.com.au>
Subject: Web Site of Interest: Milkbar: Globalisation and the
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:07:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 388 (388)


Everyday city

Dear Humanist,

I would like to introduce my (nearly complete) project to you. It is an

oral-history project that speculatively tries to understand some of the

ideas of globalisation within an inner-city Australian community. It is

almost due for submission as part of a Doctorate program here at RMIT

University in Melbourne. Your comments are most appreciated and I will try

and enact on them if you have any major suggestions (You may especially  be

interested in how I have utilised a film analysis engine developed at the

University of Bergen in Norway)

www.milkbar.com.au

Milkbar.com.au: Globalisation and the Everyday City

Description This is a project that seeks to offer a speculative encounter

with the set of ideas called 'globalisation' through utilising some of the

new tools offered to researchers. Using a mini digital video camera, I have

recorded a number of people in the suburb of Fitzroy, an inner city suburb

of Melbourne, Australia. I have asked people what they identify with in the

suburb, how this has changed over time, and what they see as negative or

positive changes. Succinctly, the raison d'tre of the project is to create

an oral history archive of the area in a period of rapid change and to try

and understand some of these changes within larger analytical frameworks.

take care,

Craig



From: "Al Magary" <al@magary.com>
Subject: Re: 16.277 the archaeological imagination?
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 07:10:43 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 389 (389)


English novelist Margaret Drabble, who also edited the Oxford Companion to

English Literature, devotes more than a few pages in her _The Realms of

Gold_ (1975) to exploring the archaeological imagination.  Her heroine is

Frances Wingate, an independent archaeologist with worldwide fame by her

mid-30s.  In her late 20s she was both lucky and intuitive enough to have

found the site of a (fictional) Sahara trade town.  See Part One in

particular; in my Penguin edition (1977), a description of how she found

the site starts on p. 33.

Later on, in revisiting (excavating) her own relationships and her family's

history, she exercises that imagination in the (fictional) town of Tockley,

Lincs.  Anyone interested in travel literature will be delighted by the

recounting of her visit to the town and exploration of a cottage in the

fens, starting on p. 103.

Al Magary



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@unc.edu>
Subject: October 22 Technology Source Author Forums
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 07:17:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 390 (390)


The October Technology Source Author Forums are offered in collaboration

with ULiveandLearn, an e-learning company that uses the HorizonLive

platform to allow participants to interact directly with authors about

their articles in the current issue via their desktops. You may participate

in any of these free webcasts by going to

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All Forums are this coming Tuesday, October 22

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technology tools in education, discusses the next killer app in education.

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1:00-1:45 PM EDT. Gene Abrams and Jeremy Haefner, University of Colorado at

Colorado Springs mathematics professors, discuss their MathOnline system,

which allows university instructors to combine traditional and online

methods in teaching regular math courses. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=970">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=970</a>

3:00-3:45 PM EDT. Carol Stroud and Brenda Stutsky discuss how they tapped

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4:00-4:45 PM EDT. Peter Suber, a leader in the free online scholarship

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free online publishing, assesses its current status in the academy, and

discusses its future development. See

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From: ssgrr2003w@rti7020.etf.bg.ac.yu
Subject: Invitation to SSGRR conferences in ITALY!
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 07:21:57 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 391 (391)


CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION AT SSGRR CONFERENCES IN YEAR 2003

The SSGRR (Scuola Superiore G Reiss Romoli) Congress Center,

Telecom Italia Learning Services, L'Aquila (near Rome), ITALY

(www.ssgrr.it).

Respected Dr.

We are honored to invite you to submit and present your paper(s)

at the two SSGRR conferences specified below:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON ADVANCES IN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONIC

BUSINESS, EDUCATION, SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES

ON THE INTERNET

WINTER Conference 2003:
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To submit paper or ask questions: ssgrr2003w@rti7020.etf.bg.ac.yu

     Keynotes: Lyman (Berkeley),

               Neuhold (Frauhofer), Neal (Tufts Medical School), ...

SUMMER Conference 2003:
[deleted quotation]
To submit paper or ask questions: ssgrr2003s@rti7020.etf.bg.ac.yu

     Keynotes: Kroto (Nobel Laureate), Patt (IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Laureate),

               Carlton (US Air Force Surgeon General), ...

For details, see IEEE COMPUTER, Aug 2002 (page 33) and the WWW site

www.ssgrr.it (written carefully+precisely, with answers to all FAQ).

Check with past participants (their names/emails are on the WWW).

Most of them believe this is the most interesting, rewarding,

and definitely the most hospitable conference they ever attended!

Fast professional and peer review in 15 days.

Capacity of the SSGRR congress center is 200 participants.

The list of participants will be closed after 200 papers accepted.

Consequently, SUBMIT YOUR PAPER(S) AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE!

______________________________________________________________________

Location (see WWW for details):

SSGRR is the DE-LUX congress and education center of the Telecom Italia

Learning Services, located about 60 miles from Rome, near Gran Sasso

(the highest Appenini peak), with fast access to the major Appenini ski

resorts (in winters, 15 minutes by car), and Adriatic sea beaches (in

summers, 45 minutes by car).

Keynotes (see WWW for details):

A Nobel Laureate was the keynote speaker each year in the past (Jerome

Friedman of MIT, Robert Richardson of Cornell, etc...), and the major

2003 keynote is also reserved for a Nobel Laureate (Harry Kroto from

United Kingdom). Other 2003 keynote speakers are Yale Patt from

UofTexas@Austin (an IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Laureate), Paul Carlton (US Air

Force Surgeon General), etc.

Schedule (see WWW for details):

Monday = Arrival day, registration, and cocktail

Tuesday = Gran Sasso Nat'l Lab tour, tutorials, and opening ceremony

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday = Presentation of research papers

Saturday = Tutorials and peripathetic discussions

Sunday = Departure day

Deadlines (see WWW for details):

For title and abstract (about 100 words):

October 30, 2002 (for Winter 2003)

April 30, 2003 (for Summer 2003)

For papers (IEEE Transactions format, min 4 pages, max 1MB):

November 20, 2002 (for Winter 2003)

May 30, 2003 (for Summer 2003)

For payment (stay, and fee if applicable):

December 10, 2002 (for Winter 2003)

June 30, 2003 (for Summer 2003)

Payment (see WWW for details):

No conference fee for those with papers to present (others: euro600).

No fee for tutorials.

All participants must stay inside SSGRR (no outside stays allowed).

Full 6-day stay (from Monday evening till Sunday breakfast): euro1200.

A 5-day stay (without one tutorial day): euro1000.

Minimal 4-day stay (for research papers only): euro 800.

Favourable conditions for accompanying persons (see the WWW).

For late payment rules see the WWW.

Important (see WWW for details):

When submitting your paper, insert the 3-letter field code (exact codes

on WWW), so the placement of papers per sessions is more efficient.

Insert your WWW site URL (if you have one). If you submit a paper,

you will get 2 other papers for a fast review (in up to 10 days).

Your presentation time is 25 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussions.

Chairman of the session is the presenter of the last paper in that session.

Moving of presentation slots is not permitted (in cases of non-show-up).

If you like to be reinvited for a future SSGRR conference, let us know.

If you like to be removed from the list, please let us know, too.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT SSGRR!

Professor Veljko Milutinovic,  General Chairman



From: "Dan Katz" <katzdan@earthlink.net>
Subject: NewZoid Invitation
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:41:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 392 (392)


I invite you to visit NewZoid, the artwork that is the world's only source

of computer-generated false headlines at

<<a href="http://newzoid.com/nzheadlinecombo.asp">http://newzoid.com/nzheadlinecombo.asp</a>><a href="http://newzoid.com/nzheadlinecombo.asp">http://newzoid.com/nzheadlinecombo.asp</a>.

A work of generative art, NewZoid has been producing a constant automatic

flow of false news headlines since April 2001. It also allows user

participation and voting.

It is considered humorous entertainment by some such as Yahoo and new media

art by others such as Rhizome. I am urging recognition as generative

literary art, in the great tradition of art that reflects and reacts to the

realities of its time.

<<a href="http://newzoid.com/nzgreat.html">http://newzoid.com/nzgreat.html</a>><a href="http://newzoid.com/nzgreat.html">http://newzoid.com/nzgreat.html</a>

Best Wishes,

Daniel Young

young@newzoid.com

Yahoo Picked NewZoid on 9/25/02

<<a href="http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20020925.html">http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20020925.html</a>><a href="http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20020925.html">http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20020925.html</a>

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: trivial problems are all that remain
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:40:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 393 (393)


Textbooks in physics that discuss relativity will typically say (if memory

serves) that just before Einstein changed things in 1905 it was commonly

thought that only a few relatively trivial problems remained to be solved.

Can anyone quote me chapter-and-verse, preferably by some respected figure?

Thanks very much.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20

7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.277 the archaeological imagination?
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:13:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 394 (394)


Professionally-trained archaeologists take a dim view of intuitional

site-finding and tend to depend upon various methods of remote sensing

(from satellites to magnetometers) as well as historical evidence. They

also take a dim view of hacking around to find gorgeous objects at the

expense of a whole site-full of vernacular architecture, rubbish pits,

and broken pottery, which can yield far more information. Classification

activities tend to use numerical taxonomy. VR reconstructions are

generally done very much after the fact and on the basis of measurements

made on the ground, and are always plainly labelled as reconstructions.

See Clive Orton's various works for the basics. Pattern-finding has by

now been so objectified that an archaeologist doesn't have to be

especially gifted with some special sense to do good work.

Pat Galloway



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH Museums Meeting Report and S.N. Katz Paper Available
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:14:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 395 (395)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 18, 2002

                 NINCH & Museums: Better Serving the Community

                               Report Available With

                      MCN Keynote Address by Stanley N. Katz:

                      "What Do We Want from the Cybermuseum?"

                      <a href="http://www.ninch.org/forum/museums.html">http://www.ninch.org/forum/museums.html</a>

As part of a review of the role it plays within its different

constituencies, NINCH is organizing a series of small "think-tank" meetings

within these sectors. The first, designed for museums, was hosted by the

Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, on July 23.

In his keynote address to this year's Museum Computer Network (MCN)

conference (Toronto, September 5), "What Do We Want from the Cybermuseum?"

NINCH past-president, Stanley Katz, frequently referred to the rich

conversation recorded in the report of the NINCH meeting as a key

articulation of current concerns in museums on the development of digital

technology. Because the paper generated broader interest in the meeting

report than we had anticipated, we have decided to make it more widely

available. All participants have agreed to its release on the understanding

that they speak only for themselves and not for their employers.

Some of the key themes of the conversation (and of Stan's paper) included

rethinking institutional infrastructure, especially for coordinating and

integrating digital production; new staffing models; the potential of

broadband for furthering museum education and outreach; the role of

technology in connecting museums with the communities of the future; the

relationship between digital presence and the number of visitors to the

physical museum; as well as the developing role of NINCH vis-a-vis its

museum members.

The report and paper are available online at the above url and as pdf

documents.

DISCUSSION LIST

Should there be interest in furthering the discussion represented in the

report and paper, we are setting up a discussion list. Contact David Green

<mailto:david@ninch.org> to be added to the list.


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From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.283 trivial problems are all that remain
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:10:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 396 (396)


Greetings,
[deleted quotation]
The most famous of these remarks is by Lord Kelvin [Philosophical Magazine

(6) vol.2, p.1 (1901)]

      The beauty and clearness of the dynamical theory, which asserts heat

      and light to be modes of motion, is at present obscured by two clouds.

      I.  The first involves the question, How could the earth move through

      an elastic solid, such as essentially is the luminiferous ether?  II.

      The second is the Maxwell-Boltzmann doctrine regarding the partition

      of energy.

The situation in physics at the end of the ninteenth century was

not, in fact, quite as clear at this remark might suggest.  Although

Thermodynamics, Classical Dynamics and Maxwell's Electromagnetism are

particularly successful theories, and we can now see that they can

gracefully account for most of the observed physics of the ninteenth

century, there were sufficient problems with them that there was no

such consensus amongst physicists of the time; indeed there was not

even an consensus that objects like atoms really existed.  Nonetheless,

the remark _does_ neatly illustrate the points where ninteenth century

physical theories run out of steam, and it shows Kelvin to have been

almost supernaturally prescient.

The first of these problems concerned theoretical and practical

difficulties with the assumed properties of the ether, which was

assumed to exist in order to allow light waves (newly described by James

Clerk Maxwell) to have a medium though which to propagate; a complex of

problems related to this were only resolved by Einstein's special theory

of relativity, first published in 1905.

The second problem required quantum mechanics to sort it out.

Best wishes,

Norman


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From: Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVInternet.com>
Subject: Re: 16.283 trivial problems are all that remain
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:12:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 397 (397)

"When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought
advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly... he portrayed
to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...
Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust
particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the
system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical
physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which,
for example, geometry has had already for centuries."
- from a 1924 lecture by Max Planck (Sci. Am, Feb 1996 p.10)
  From 1888:
"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about
   astronomy."
- Simon Newcomb, early American astronomer
  From 1894:
"The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical
science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly
established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted
   in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote....
Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place
of decimals."
- Albert. A. Michelson, speech at the dedication of
Ryerson Physics Lab, U. of Chicago 1894
  From 1900:
"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now.
All that remains is more and more precise measurement"
   - Lord Kelvin
I seem to recall that the  quote from Kelvin mentioned above,
is shortened from an address that began,
   "Some people think that...."
This list is due to Bill Beaty,  bill@eskimo.com
from his Science Hobyist URL:
<a href="http://www.amasci.com/weird/end.html">http://www.amasci.com/weird/end.html</a>
Sincerely,
Brian Whatcott
    Altus OK                      Eureka!



From: "Domenico Fiormonte" <mc9809@mclink.it>
Subject: The Digital Humanist
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:55:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 398 (398)


Dear Humanist members,

As another evidence of the strong vitality of Humanities Computing in

the southern areas of the Old Continent, I am sending this conference

announcement.

The "Residencia de Estudiantes" in Madrid is one of the most

distinguished instititution for the study of contemporary Spanish

culture. Its network of archives and libraries holds one of the most

important collection of original material (autographs, rare editions,

manuscripts, etc.) on XIX and XX centuries Spanish literature.

With this seminar the Residencia intends to present to a non-expert

audience some of the main HC practical and theoretical issues. The

seminar will also discuss the possibility of creating a postgraduate

programme in Digital Preservation aimed at improving and

empowering the Residencia's current digitalization projects (about

451.000 documents were already digitalized, see

<a href="http://www.archivovirtual.org/">http://www.archivovirtual.org/</a>).

As a member of both this list and the ACH association, I really hope

that this sort of initiatives would be discussed  -- or at least included --

in official ACH/ALLC meetings, websites and journal reports.

I dare to make a suggestion: it would be interesting that the ALLC and

ACH journals and/or website would create a specific section called

NEWS (or whatever you like) dedicated to conferences, meetings,

publications, etc. coming from the non-English speaking world.

Just an idea...

(or my 2 Euro-cents worth)

Domenico Fiormonte

p.s. Spanish accents -this time- have been expunged. My apologies to

all hispanic colleagues.

<<EL HUMANISTA DIGITAL>>

An International Seminar

Monday 4 November 2002

Residencia de Estudiantes

Pinar, 21-23. 28006 Madrid

Tfno.: 91 563 64 11

<a href="http://www.archivovirtual.org/seminario/elhumanistadigital.htm">http://www.archivovirtual.org/seminario/elhumanistadigital.htm</a>

Coordinator: Jose Antonio Millan (<a href="http://jamillan.com">http://jamillan.com</a>)

[material omitted]

For information and registration:

Cayetana Mora

Fundacion Francisco Giner de los Rios [Institucion Libre de

Ensenanza]

P. General Martinez Campos, 14

28010 Madrid

tel. 91.446.0197  fax. 91.446.8068

email:cayetana@fundacionginer.org

<a href="http://www.fundacionginer.org">http://www.fundacionginer.org</a>

Conference fees:

60 Euros

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 (fax -2980) | willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk

/www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/.



From: "Domenico Fiormonte" <mc9809@mclink.it>
Subject: another conference
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 399 (399)


"Philological Disciplines and Digital Technology"

Computational Philology: Tradition versus Innovation

Chair: Andrea Bozzi (CNRS Pisa, Italy)

Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy

6 - 11 September 2003

This conference is part of the 2003 Euresco Conference Programme and

directly available at <a href="http://www.esf.org/euresco/03/hc03194">http://www.esf.org/euresco/03/hc03194</a>

Corinne Le Moal

Publicity Officer & Conference Organiser

EURESCO Office

European Science Foundation - EURESCO Office

1 quai Lezay-Marnsia, 67080 Strasbourg, France

Tel +33 388 767 135

Fax +33 388 366 987

Email clemoal@esf.org

<a href="http://www.esf.org/euresco">http://www.esf.org/euresco</a>

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 (fax -2980) | willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk

/www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/.



From: Claire Gardent <Claire.Gardent@loria.fr>
Subject: CFP -- EACL03, Budapest, Hungary
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:53:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 400 (400)


                              EACL 2003

                   10th Conference of the European Chapter

              of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                            April 12-17, 2003

                            Budapest, Hungary

                    <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>

            +---------------------------------------------------+

EACL03  invites submissions as follows:

Main conference papers

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

          . Registration deadline: 10 November

          . Submission deadline: 15 November

Research notes and Demos

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

          . Registration deadline: 01 December

          . Submission deadline: 06 December

Student workshop

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

          . Deadline: 15 November

Tutorials

---------

           . Deadline: 15 November


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From: FRISCHER49@aol.com
Subject: Re: 16.285 the archaeological imagination
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:51:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 401 (401)


Those interested in the archaeological imagination, insofar as it involves

VR, might be interested in the following:

<a href="http://www.piranesi.dsl.pipex.com/cvro/frischer.pdf">http://www.piranesi.dsl.pipex.com/cvro/frischer.pdf</a>

USA contact information:

home tel. 310 313-3739

cell 310 266-6935

home fax 310 391-1460

email frischer49@aol.com

3441 Butler Avenue

L.A., CA, USA 90066

Rome contact information:

tel. 06 5373951

cell 349 473-6590

email frischer49@aol.com

Via F. Ozanam 75

00152 Rome

Italy



From: "Al Magary" <al@magary.com>
Subject: Re: 16.285 the archaeological imagination
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:51:27 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 402 (402)

[deleted quotation]
intuitional
[deleted quotation]
sensing
[deleted quotation]
evidence....

Well! So much for an exploration of the archaeological

imagination among today's diggers.

So many ways of looking into the past, aren't there?

Al Magary



From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: no imagination involved?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:52:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 403 (403)


Thanks to Patricia Galloway in Humanist 16.285 for the vigorous kick

delivered to diving-rod archaeology -- since that is not what I was after.

My example of intuitional site-finding wasn't a good one. But however

excellent the mechanization I have difficulty believing that archaeology

when done well requires no imagination at all. I have no difficulty

believing that the ground has shifted, some bits now requiring less

guess-work than before. The fact remains, however, that the archaeologist

like the historian is dealing with traces of a vanished past. Between those

traces and knowledge of that vanished past some human 'making of the absent

present' (as John Stuart Mill said of the imagination) has to occur.

Unless, of course, we conveniently define archaeology as the practice of

recovering the traces, not their meaning -- and even so, I'd guess (as I

must) that pattern-recognition is not in such a high state of perfection as

to rule out intelligent intervention into the mechanical reassembly of parts.

Yours,

WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the

H