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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SIGN UP NOW button.

All Forums are this coming Tuesday, October 22

11:00-11:45 AM EDT. Carl Berger, one of the pioneers in using information

technology tools in education, discusses the next killer app in education.

See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995</a>

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

community resources to develop a much needs distance education program. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=939">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=939</a>

4:00-4:45 PM EDT. Peter Suber, a leader in the free online scholarship

movement, and James Morrison, discuss the main advantages and barriers to

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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Fax  +33 3 83 41 30 79
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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

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: "Susan Schreibman" <ss423@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
Subject: Irish Resources in the Humanities
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:44:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 404 (404)


Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to

announce Irish Resources in the Humanities (IRITH) <<a href="http://irith.org">http://irith.org</a>> an

XML-based online gateway/finding aid.

Developed and maintained by Susan Schreibman since 1998 as a series of

static web pages, MITH recently converted the gateway into a dynamic

database which allows users to access content through general subject

headings (such as literature, history, art), or through an advanced search

interface which provides for more sophisticated search combinations. For

example, users can search by key words such as "The Famine" or "1798", or

through a combination of terms, such as 19th Century Art, or Mediaeval

History.

Suggestions for links are always welcome. IRITH can be found at

<a href="http://irith.org">http://irith.org</a>



From: "A.IJ. van Gosliga" <a.y.van.gosliga@let.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: manuscript editing and e-publishing
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:11:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 405 (405)


Dear All,

I'm collecting information about projects that combine(d) manuscript editing

(both facsimile and critical) and electronic publishing technology.

I realize this is a very broad topic, as it may include themes like text

encoding (SGML/XML, TEI, ..), digital imaging, text archiving, electronic

libraries, etc. Nonetheless, if you're involved in such a project yourself,

or if you know about any existing overviews, please help me by replying to

this e-mail.

It would be interesting to learn about:

   - names of projects you know about

   - subject, scope, goals, objectives

   - technologies used

   - publication form (web/cd/dvd/paper/..)

   - related publications (including url's)

Zooming in from the general to the specific, my special interest is in

electronic publishing projects that have to do with Islamic manuscripts and

editions, and related topics.

Many thanks,

Aernold van Gosliga

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Drs. A.IJ. van Gosliga

Centrum Praktijkstudies Letteren

Universiteit Leiden

Web: www.praktijkstudies.nl

E-mail: a.y.van.gosliga@let.leidenuniv.nl

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From: Marija Dalbello <dalbello@scils.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2003
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:54:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 406 (406)


LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2003

to be held in

Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia

26-30 May, 2003

As every year, the conference has two related themes - one more research

and the other more practice oriented. For 2003 they are:

I. WORLD WIDE WEB AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR) and

II. WORLD WIDE WEB AND LIBRARIES

Please consider participation. Also, please distribute to your colleagues

and if possible post on your distribution list or listservs.

Course web site: <a href="http://www.pedos.hr/lida">http://www.pedos.hr/lida</a>

Course email: lida@pedos.hr

The general aim of the annual conference and course Libraries in the

Digital Age (LIDA), started in 2000, is to address the changing and

challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services

in the digital world, with an emphasis on examining contemporary problems,

advances and solutions. Each year a different and 'hot' theme is addressed,

divided in two parts; the first part covers research and development and

the second part addresses advances in applications and practice. LIDA seeks

to bring together researchers, practitioners, and developers in a forum for

personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by holding in

memorable locations.

Themes LIDA 2003

I. WORLD WIDE WEB AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR)

Web is huge, highly diverse, for the most part poorly organized, hard to

search, and more often than not overwhelming for a great majority of users.

For these reasons, effective search and retrieval techniques are critical

for use of the Web. Information retrieval (IR) has become a important, even

integral, component of the Web. But the problems encountered are also an

ongoing challenge for research, development and applications.

The first part of LIDA 2003 is devoted to research, and demonstrations

related to retrieval of information from the Web. Invited are contributions

(types described below) covering the following and related topics:

  advances in IR techniques specific to the Web and to a variety of objects

- texts, images, audio, multimedia

  organization and representation of Web information for retrieval

  study of search engines - algorithms, evaluation, performance, comparisons

  approaches to related processes, such browsing and navigation on the Web

  searching the Web - users, uses, queries, patterns, effectiveness

  information seeking and the Web

  research methodologies, metrics, models

  critical overview of the research and advances in these areas

II. WORLD WIDE WEB AND LIBRARIES

Great many libraries worldwide have entered the Web and even greater number

is using the Web. Yet, libraries are building on their values, strengths,

tradition, and trust to engage with the Web and enter into a new

environment for themselves and their users. Among others, digital libraries

are making available their collections and services in unique ways through

the Web. The Web is providing libraries and librarians with opportunities

to foster a significant library evolution in new directions, if not even a

revolution. But challenges are significant as well.

The second part of LIDA 2003 is devoted to studies, advances and

demonstrations related to library applications on the Web. Invited are

contributions (types described below) covering the following and related

topics:

  digital library collections - making, managing, digitizing, licensing,

linking

  dealing with various media (texts, images, multimedia) and specialized

domains

  providing digital library services - access, reference, delivery,

guidance, and other

  evaluating performance, impact, value; study of users and use

  Webmetrics related to libraries, methodologies, models

  library Web interfaces - principles, how to build?

  Web software and packages for libraries; middleware, searchware

  education and training of librarians and users

  how can small libraries enter and use the Web?

[material deleted]


--
Marija Dalbello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Department of Library and Information Science
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, N.J. 08901-1071
Voice: (732) 932-7500 / 8215
Fax: (732) 932-2644
Internet: dalbello@scils.rutgers.edu
<a href="http://scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello">http://scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello</a>


From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "The New Gatekeepers: Conference on Free Expression in
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:12:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 407 (407)

the Arts," Nov. 20-21, Columbia University
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 23, 2002
          Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program Presents:
         "The New Gatekeepers: A Conference on Free Expression in the Arts"
        Nov. 20-21, 2003: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
               <a href="http://www.najp.org/conferences/gatekeepers/panels.htm">http://www.najp.org/conferences/gatekeepers/panels.htm</a>
A broad and wide-sweeping conference, in which the issues of particular
interest to those on this list, online copyright and the reconciliation of
interests of  the commons and the marketplace, are addressed on the second day.
David Green
[material deleted]



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.289 the archaeological imagination
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:54:54 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 408 (408)


The issue of "making of the absent present," simply because it has been

used in a colonialist context so much to shape the histories of people

who had no say in the shaping, has got a bad name in archaeology among

those who adhere to a liberatory ideology. Meantime, there has been a

determined adherence to materialist methods by those who wish to make an

exclusive claim to objective knowledge. In fact, archaeology as

intrinsically a colonialist enterprise, meant to replace indigenous

histories, has been and is being rethought seriously by the former camp.

This is why the idea of an "archaeological imaginary" is such a red flag

these days. The question is whose imagination? All too often indigenous

histories have been ignored by positivist archaeologists just because

such histories are seen to be so "unscientific." So there is a very

schizophrenic thrust to archaeological work these days, which has split

departments just as it has in anthropology proper and for the same

reasons. Even pattern-recognition cannot but be value-laden.

Pat Galloway



From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.289 the archaeological imagination
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:55:51 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 409 (409)


Dear Willard,

This may be off topic, but I can think of one project that is trying to

archive the wealth of digital information around an event (in this case

9/11). That is the Sept. 11 Archive at <a href="http://911digitalarchive.org/">http://911digitalarchive.org/</a>. This

is a serious attempt by historians to preserve the wealth of materials

created online around the event so that there is a record of the reactions

at the time. In a conversation I had with someone near the project the

issue of capturing all the Bin Laden Group (by which I mean the family

engineering/banking firm) www sites (that dissappeared within days of the

event) came up. The Sept. 11 archive would welcome people who cached such

materials or saved other related materials.

This raises an interesting issue. Within days of 9/11/2001 a large

corporate entity was able to erase their presence on the WWW by removing

sites and abandoning domain names. The only things I could find were the

google caches. Without archiving projects there may be little for digital

archaeologists to study. I know in Canada there has been a process to

discuss the establishment of a Digital Research Data archive to maintain

funded research data/texts over time. I assume there are similar projects

elsewhere. Is this a topic of interest to our community?

Yours,

Geoffrey Rockwell



From: "Arianna Ciula" <ciula@media.unisi.it>
Subject: Re: 16.289 the archaeological imagination
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:11:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 410 (410)


Even if it is a bit out from the present discussion subject, I would like to

suggest a wonderful book about a scientific paradigm which involves all

sciences based on clues grasping: History, Art history, Palaeography...may

be Archaeology...

Carlo Ginzburg, Miti, emblemi e spie: morfologia e storia, Einaudi, 1986,

Torino.

I am sorry, but I don't know if an English edition exists.

Sincerely,

Arianna Ciula

Dipartimento di documentazione e tradizioni culturali

Universit degli Studi di Siena (Italy)

[The book referred to above is in its 1st English edition: Myths, Emblems,

Clues (Chatham, Kent: Mackays, 1986). I would guess that this is the same

as Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins

University Press, 1989), which is still in print. --WM]



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@gslis.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.293 the archaeological imagination
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 06:53:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 411 (411)


Digital preservation is a dense and much-discussed issue; see:

<a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/">http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/</a>

In the digital preservation field, "digital archaeology" has come to be

a term of art: it means what you have to do to recover and make readable

a file in a long-outdated format for which hardware and software have

died.

Pat Galloway



From: Martin Holmes <mholmes@uvic.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.294 manuscript editing and e-publishing?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 06:52:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 412 (412)


Hi there,

These are two projects we've done recently on manuscript markup and

rendering for the Web (using TEI/XML/XSLT):

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

(Section from the mediaeval Lydgate MS.)

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

(Extracts from the diary of Robert Graves.)

Both sites have detailed diagrams explaining the markup and rendering process.

Hope this helps,

Martin

______________________________________

Martin Holmes

University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre

mholmes@uvic.ca

mholmes2@compuserve.com

mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com

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

<a href="http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com">http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH Museums Meeting Report and S.N. Katz Paper Available
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 06:47:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 413 (413)


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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "XML & Digital Preservation" - one of several new reports
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 06:51:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 414 (414)

from Netherlands' Digital Preservation Testbed
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 24, 2002
                           "XML & Digital Preservation"
                         New Publications & Demonstrator
               from the Netherlands' Digital Preservation Testbed
                      <<<a href="http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl">http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl</a>><a href="http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl">http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl</a>>
[deleted quotation]New Publications and a Demonstrator on Digital Preservation
The Digital Preservation Testbed has recently posted a number of new
publications about digital preservation on its website.
The first publication is a White Paper entitled XML and Digital
Preservation.  This White Paper reports on the current status and recent
preservation work being carried out with XML.  XML stands for Extensible
Mark-Up Language and is a world-wide format and language with great
potential for the successful preservation of digital information.
The Testbed has further developed a demonstrator that shows how email can
be saved and stored in a well-ordered and preservation-friendly manner.  By
making a number of adjustments to MS Outlook, every email User can have the
basic set of tools to create and store durable and authentic emails. This
is described in a new report, Email - XML Demonstrator: A Technical
Description on our website.
XML Implementation Options for Emails is the title of a paper given by
Maureen Potter, one of the Testbed team, to a recent Erpanet workshop. This
workshop was held in Urbino, Italy, where an international audience of
archivists and preservation professionals met to discuss the current status
and potential of XML for digital preservation.
You can find all of the aforementioned publications in the Knowledge Bank
and Publications section of the Testbed website: see
<<<a href="http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl">http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl</a>><a href="http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl">http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl</a>>.
Kind regards,
Maureen Potter and Carolien Nout
**********************************************************************
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Experiment Operator
Testbed Digitale Bewaring.
24 - 26 Nieuwe Duinweg
2508 AA, Den Haag
Netherlands.
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From: Magali Jeanmaire <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA News - 1/2
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:13:18 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 415 (415)


*******************************************************************************************************

ELRA is happy to announce that the following language resources have been

catalogued:

*******************************************************************************************************

Short descriptions of the resources listed below are given in this message.

We invite you

to visit the on-line catalogue on our web site, at <a href="http://www.elda.fr">http://www.elda.fr</a> or

<a href="http://www.elra.info">http://www.elra.info</a>,

to get more detailed descriptions.

Please visit the following web site to get further information:

www.oup.co.uk/digital_reference

1/ Written resources

Monolingual

- L0045 New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), 2nd Edition

- L0046 NODE + DIMAP

- L0047 New Oxford Thesaurus of English (NOTE)

- L0048 Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, 2nd edition

Bilingual

- M0027 Oxford French Minidictionary

- M0028 Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary

- M0029 Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary

- M0030 Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary

- M0031 Oxford Business French Dictionary

- M0032 Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary

2/ Spoken resource

- S0134 Concise Oxford Dictionary  Audio Files

********************************************************************************************************

L0045 New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), 2nd Edition

The NODE contains 170,000 entries covering all varieties of English

world-wide. It has been

designed for language engineering and to be used in NLP applications, and

is available in

XML or in SGML. The NODE data set includes morphological information linked

to the

lemma, phrases and idioms, subject classification, with over 200 key

domains, semantic

relationships

L0046 NODE + DIMAP

The first edition of the DIMAP version of NODE is a machine-tractable

version of the machine

-readable dictionary files in the DIMAP dictionary maintenance programs,

adding syntactic and

semantic information in the conversion. Apart from mechanisms which will

allow research into

representational formalisms and explorations of the use of these

representations in extending the

lexical database and in processing text for information extraction, text

summarisation, discourse

analysis and other LE applications, DIMAP also includes semantic links

between entries, thus

making NODE+DIMAP a semantic network of the English language.

L0047 New Oxford Thesaurus of English (NOTE)

This thesaurus contains  628,000 alternative words, including 573,000

synonyms, the rest being

antonyms, related terms, combining forms, and hyponyms, and is available in

SGML. Nearly

38,000 senses are also presented with a corpus-based example.

L0048 Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, 2nd edition

The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus, available in SGML, contains 15,000

headwords, over

300,000 synonyms, and 29,000 different senses presented with corpus-based

examples.

M0027 Oxford French Minidictionary

Over 100,000 words, phrases and translations are included in this bilingual

minidictionary,

which is available in SGML. Complementary information, such as usage notes,

is also

provided.

M0028 Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary

This bilingual dictionary contains 150,000 words and phrases, and 240,000

translations,

and is available in XML and SGML.

M0029 Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary

This is a mid-sized dictionary to cover essential terms and vocabulary,

available in XML

and SGML. It contains 80,000 words and phrases, and 115,000 translations.

M0030 Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary

The coverage of this concise Oxford Spanish dictionary includes 24

varieties of Spanish

as it is written and spoken throughout the Spanish-speaking world. This

bilingual dictionary

contains 170,000 words and phrases and 240,000 translations. It is

available in SGML and

XML.

M0031 Oxford Business French Dictionary

This dictionary covers the general language of Business across a range of

core areas.

It contains over 50,000 words and phrases, and is available in SGML

M0032 Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary

This dictionary covers the general language of Business across a range of

core areas.

It contains over 50,000 words and phrases, and is available in SGML

S0134 Concise Oxford Dictionary  Audio Files

The acoustic dictionary contains 60,000 soundfiles recorded from the

Concise Oxford

Dictionary, with the British-English pronunciation. The format in use is

22kHz 16-bit WAV.

*******************************************************************************************************

If you are interested in buying some resource mentioned above, please

contact Valrie

Mapelli <mapelli@elda.fr>.

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Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33

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LREC: <a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org">http://www.lrec-conf.org</a>

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From: cbf@SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU
Subject: Research methodology
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:12:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 416 (416)


For my sins I have been handed the research methodology course in the

Department of Spanish which I last taught in 1990.  It will, obviously,

have to be entirely redone.

I would be very grateful for references to online syllabi of similar

courses, whether they are devoted exclusively to humanities computing or

not.

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

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

[Please reply to Humanist as a whole. This is a very interesting question! --WM]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Second Open Archives Forum Workshop. December 6-7, 2002:
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:12:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 417 (417)


Lisbon

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 25, 2002

                        Second Open Archives Forum Workshop

                            December 6-7, 2002: Lisbon

                        <<a href="http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/">http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/</a>>
[deleted quotation]
OPEN ACCESS TO HIDDEN RESOURCES

2nd Open Archives Forum Workshop

The organizing committee is very pleased to announce the 2nd Open

Archives Forum Workshop, which will be held in Lisbon

on 6-7 December, 2002. Registration will open soon on the Open

Archives Forum website (<a href="http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/">http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/</a>).

The objective of this workshop is to bring together organizations that

work in the archival and library fields in order explore whether, and

under what conditions, the open archive approach is viable for these

organisations. It also intends to promote the establishment of new

collaborative links aimed at building interoperable infrastructures

for supporting the dissemination of both archival and library

resources. A tutorial on the implementation of the Open Archives

Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) will be held the

afternoon before the workshop for those people who are not familiar

with this protocol.

The workshop will consist of both presentations given by invited

speakers and small groups' breakout sessions where the participants

can discuss key issues, such as:

* How far OAI-PMH is applicable to the electronic records of

traditional archives, whether historical or "born digital";

* To what extent OAI-PMH and Dublin Core have been tried out and

accepted in the library community;

* Can OAI-PMH enable innovative ways of cross-domain collaboration

between archival and library communities?

* How far OAI-PMH crosses over with other interoperability standards

and concepts, such as Z39.50 and web services.

One of the workshop speakers will be Carl Lagoze (NSDL) representing

the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) with an update on OAI activities.

Other speakers will include:

* George Mackenzie (National Archives of Scotland)

* Jose' Borbinha (National Library of Portugal)

* Mark Bide (Rightscom)

Who should attend.

* archivists and librarians who are considering opening their

repositories of information;

* technical, research and project managers who are interested in

providing services on interoperable open archives and libraries

* decision makers in the area of libraries and archives looking for

new strategic opportunities to promote their organizations and working

areas

      - - - - - - - - - -

      About Open Archives Forum.

The Open Archives Forum provides a Europe-based focus for

dissemination of information about European activity related to open

archives and, in particular, to the Open Archives Initiative. The aim

of the Forum is to facilitate clustering of IST projects, national

initiatives and other parties interested in the open archives

approach. In order to do so, OA-Forum brings interested parties

together to build a community of interest, enable exchange of

information and establish a web-based European information source for

open archives. In addition, OA-Forum undertakes comparative reviews of

technical and organisational issues. OA-Forum is funded as an

accompanying measure within the Information Societies Technology (IST)

Programme, a theme of the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme

managed by the Information Society Directorate-General of the European

Commission. The partners of OAF are: University of Bath-UKOLN (United

Kingdom), Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione-CNR (Italy) and

Computing Center of Humboldt University (Germany).

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Electronic Publishing Group

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From: "Domenico Fiormonte" <mc9809@mclink.it>
Subject: grants for CLiP 2002
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:22:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 418 (418)


Dear all,

the local organizers of CLiP 2002

(<a href="http://www.uclm.es/gcynt/clip2002/clip">http://www.uclm.es/gcynt/clip2002/clip</a>) this year have generously

made available a total of seven bursaries for young HC researchers

who have papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Bursaries

are organized and distributed as follows:

-- Three grants of 120 euros each to UCLM students who do not reside

in Albacete.

-- Four grants of 420 euros each to students from other Spanish or

foreign universities.

Successful proposals might, for example, focus on [a list of topics is

available from: <a href="http://www.uclm.es/gcynt/clip2002/clip/index.asp">http://www.uclm.es/gcynt/clip2002/clip/index.asp</a>]

- teaching applications and distance education, especially if related to

issues of multilinguism and multiculturalism;

-  text encoding, hypertext, text corpora;

- computational lexicography, and text analysis;

- digital philology, computer-assisted literary criticism and electronic

textual criticism;

   - information design and architecture;

   - the institutional role of humanities computing within the academy,

including research and teaching in the subject.

Candidates should send to conference organizers (gcynt@uclm.es),

possibly before 30 October, 1) paper proposal (1000-1500 words); 2)

short CV and a summary of current and past projects (max 150 words).

Recipients will be notified as soon as possible thereafter. The list of

bursaries recipients will appear on the conference web site soon after

November 10.

Bests

Domenico Fiormonte

on behalf of the CLiP 2002 Organization Committee

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: "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" <sobkow@amu.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: 16.300 research methodology?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:29:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 419 (419)


Charles Faulhaber wrote:
[deleted quotation]
Here it is:

<a href="http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow/sem_meth.htm">http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow/sem_meth.htm</a>

Enjoy! (and ask, if you will).

WS

===========================

prof. Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak

Instytut Filologii Angielskiej UAM

al. Niepodleglosci 4

61-874 Poznan

================

tel. (48-61) 8293506

fax (48-61) 8523103

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e-mail: sobkow@amu.edu.pl

e-mail: swlodek@ifa.amu.edu.pl

e-mail: sobkow@grand.ath.cx

office web page: <a href="http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/sobkowiak.html">http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/sobkowiak.html</a>

private web page: <a href="http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow">http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow</a>

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From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: research methods
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:54:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 420 (420)


In response to Charles Faulhaber's query for help with teaching a research

methods course. I would suppose that as his course is being offered by a

department of Spanish, it will need to have all of its examples drawn from

that disciplinary area. But to the (large) extent it is about

computer-assisted & -affected research, it can draw on courses in

humanities computing with or without a specific disiplinary focus. The

curricula of our undergraduate minor programme,

<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/undergraduate.html">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/undergraduate.html</a>, our new

introductory module, <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/AY1003/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/AY1003/</a>, and our

MA, www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ma/, should therefore be grist to his

mill. Courses taught at other centres can be discovered through the

directory to institutional forms of humanities computing that Matt

Kirschenbaum and I have put together,

<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/allc/archive/hcim/hcim-021009.htm">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/allc/archive/hcim/hcim-021009.htm</a>

(current draft only).

At induction sessions, both for undergraduates and postgraduate students, I

usually put up a table showing a highly generalized scheme for the research

process, against each stage of which is a list of the computing tools and

techniques that apply at that stage. I've found this a useful way to think

in designing and presenting a curriculum. (Of course no one scheme fits all

people nor all projects done by one person or even, strictly speaking, any

one project, really, but having one does provide a good jumping-off point.)

I usually emphasize the parts of the process (such as thinking about and

assimilating the results of research) which cannot in principle be helped

directly. Best way to make friends among the sceptical.

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: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.303 research methods
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:28:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 421 (421)


Colleagues:

Let me also note two online resources on Internet research ethics that may

be of value.

One,

<<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/projects_ethics.html">http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/projects_ethics.html</a>>

is a collection of essays from researchers and ethicists across the

disciplines - including the humanities - and from a variety of countries,

based on a panel on Internet research at the Computer Ethics: Professional

Enquiries (CEPE) conference last December in Lancaster, sponsored by the

(U.S.) National Science Foundation.  (I also provide an overview - follow

the link from the brief introduction on the opening page - of not only the

specific articles but also larger patterns in the development of Internet

research ethics as a field.)

These essays will also appear soon as a special issue of _Ethics and

Information Technology_

Two,

the most recent report of the ethics working committee of the Association of

Internet Researchers is available at

<www.aoir.org/reports/ethicsfinal.pdf>

It will be of interest to HUMANIST readers, again, because it calls

attention to important differences  between the social sciences and the

humanities with regard to ethical approaches to online research.

Comments and suggestions also welcome!

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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative:
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:25:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 422 (422)


deadlines

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 29, 2002

              Deadlines Approach for National Science Foundation's

                 Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative

                            <a href="http://www.itr.nsf.gov/">http://www.itr.nsf.gov/</a>

        Pre-proposals ($4-$15 million projects only): Nov. 18, 2002

            Proposals: December 12, 2002: Small projects (<$500K)

                  February 12, 2003: Medium projects  (<$4M)

                    March 24, 2003: Large projects (<$15M)

A reminder for those who know of the NSF's ITR program and a heads-up for

those who don't. ITR has funded a number of ambitious cultural-based

projects with core IT or CS problems to be solved. To see last-round awards

type "cultural" into the search engine at

<a href="http://www.itr.nsf.gov/awds/index.html">http://www.itr.nsf.gov/awds/index.html</a>

David Green

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Intellectual Property Policy in the Museum: Report on
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:24:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 423 (423)


Copyright Town Meeting Available

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 29, 2002

          Creating Museum Intellectual Property Policy in a Digital World

                  Report on NINCH Copyright Town Meeting Available

              <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.report.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.report.html</a>

Full and summary reports are now available on "Creating Museum Intellectual

Property Policy in a Digital World," a NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, hosted

by the Museum Computer Network at its Toronto conference (September 7,

2002), and co-sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).

This meeting follows "Copyright Policies in the University," a NINCH

Copyright Town Meeting hosted by the University of Oregon in November 2001,

<<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html</a>>.

For Lolly Gasaway, Director of the Law Library at UNC, and a presenter at

both meetings, Intellectual Property (IP) policy not only protects an

institution, it can also educate its community and encourage creative use

of copyright material, while establishing best-practice norms.  The digital

expectation of easy universal access has heightened the copyright stakes

and policy is one mechanism that can ease the transition into this new

territory.

For Rina Pantalony, CHIN's legal counsel, museum IP policy can guide good

fiscal management and drive better management of IP assets, while balancing

the interests of users, curators and the institution. It can also enable

museums to join IP debates in the broader community more effectively.

The Toronto meeting focused on practical steps and key considerations to be

included in creating effective policy. The Guggenheim's Maria Pallante

recommended a broad and on-going audit of an institution's IP as the best

way to start and outlined how to do it. Such an audit grounds policy, she

said, by declaring what a museum owns, while it can also trigger new

creative projects using assets that it uncovers.

While Brian Porter of the Royal Ontario Museum convincingly demonstrated

the role of IP Policy in effective asset management, the Smithsonian's

Rachelle Browne, showed why and how economic and legal concerns have to be

balanced by moral values. An institution's core values can measure how a

proposed policy fits a museum's mission, enhances its services to the

community and respects and supports innovation.

A practical workshop enabled participants to try out outlining policy

responses to a range of situations in which many interests needed to be

balanced. The report of this meeting will form the basis of a book on

"Creating Museum IP Policy," to be written by Diane Zorich and co-published

by NINCH and CHIN in Spring 2003.

The NINCH Copyright Town Meeting series has been generously supported by

grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. For information on all the Town

Meetings, see <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/</a>.



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: European Newsletter on Digital Culture: Issue 2 Available
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:27:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 424 (424)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

October 29,2002

           European DigiCULT.Info newsletter, issue 2 now published

             <a href="http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_info2.pdf">http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_info2.pdf</a>
[deleted quotation]
Colleagues,

News from the European Commission of the DigiCULT.Info newsletter, issue 2.

Download it from: <a href="http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_info2.pdf">http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_info2.pdf</a>

The electronic press release says:

Issue 2: A Newsletter on Digital Culture

October 2002

Welcome to the second DigiCULT.Info. In this issue we have added reviews of

conferences and workshops; the 2002 Digital Resources in the Humanities

Conference and the Pistoia Meeting on Creativity in Technology R&D are among

the first of these.

We have added a new section on challenges/ Strategic Issues/New Initiatives

beginning with an interview with Jon Ipplito of Guggenheim's Variable Media

Initiative and an examination by Gregory Crane of the specific needs of

cultural heritage digital libraries.

Finally, a review by Hans Hofman of the Preservation Metadata and the OAIS

Model is the first of a series of forthcoming investigations of key

technological

topics.

We welcome suggestions for further development to make DigiCULT.Info better

serve the cultural and scientific heritage sector.

(c) <a href="http://www.digicult.info">http://www.digicult.info</a> (2002)

Forwarded for information by:

Rosalind Johnson

European Consultant

CILIP: The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

7 Ridgmount Street

London WC1E 7AE

rosalind.johnson@cilip.org.uk

www.cilip.org.uk


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From: Leo Robert Klein <leo@patachon.com>
Subject: History of Baruch, 1847-1987
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:29:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 425 (425)

I'm pleased to announce the availability online of the History of Baruch,
1847-1987.  The exhibit looks at the development of CUNY's preeminent
school of Business and Public Administration in the context of City
University itself, of New York City, and of events, people and places from
further a field.  With its over 1,000 pages of original documents, images,
audio and video files, most drawn from the College's own Archives and
selected and annotated by Archivist Sandra Roff, the History of Baruch is
sure to be one of the larger exhibits ever devoted to the history of a
college or university.
<<a href="http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/history">http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/history</a>>
Leo Robert Klein
Library Web Coordinator



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: living in a cyborg world
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:27:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 426 (426)


Allow me to recommend to your attention the following review article:

Donald MacKenzie, "The Imagined Market", rev of Philip Mirowski,

Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (London Review of

Books, 31 October 2002, p. 22-4). MacKenzie in support of Mirowski

presents Michel Callon's argument, in The Laws of the Market (1998),

that "economics does not describe an already existing 'economy',

but helps to bring that economy into being. Economics is not a descriptive

but a performative endeavour.... world-shaping, not just ... world-

describing". For performative economics he cites as well Francesco

Guala (Centre for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Exeter), whose

article "Models, Simulations, and Experiments", in Model-Based Reasoning,

ed. Magnani and Nersessian (Kluwer 2002): 59-74, goes well beyond economic

theory and is one of the best pieces in that book.

What does all this have to do with us -- other than the fact that we

live in the world described by MacKenzie et al? The word "cyborg" gives it

away, I suppose: we're living in an artifically constructed, cybernetic

world. Not only that. What particularly fascinates me about the situation

which MacKenzie depicts is its deep ontological ambiguity. It reminds me

of something someone said about England, that people have been living

here for so long that the entire country is in fact a garden. (Some parts

of this garden do not particularly engender respect for the gardeners

responsible, but you get the point.)

Along with many others I have been worrying recently (and not so recently)

about how we reach the public which pays our salaries, in particular how we

do this with humanities computing. Here is an answer. If ever there was a

subject for humanities computing to use in building bridges and opening

windows, computational modeling is it. We may not be able to follow the

mathematics of the economic modellers, but we do study what they're up to.

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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: research methodology
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:03:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 427 (427)

[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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: research methodology
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:14:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 428 (428)


For a few years now I have required students to buy Wayne C Booth, Gregory

G Colomb and Joseph M Williams, The Craft of Research (Chicago: University

of Chicago Press, 1995), which I supplement with lectures. Every year I

look for something better and am disappointed. A book along those lines but

with issues which arise out of humanities computing would be a very fine

thing. I am not thinking of a book about humanities computing, or a lab

workbook, rather something that discusses research as this now is when one

uses a computer. An opportunity for someone....

One trouble with Booth et al is that there's not enough of the humanities

in it to suit me. The book goes on as if questions had answers and problems

solutions, end of story. We live and breathe in the part of the story they

do not tell.

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: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- October 2002
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:01:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 429 (429)


CIT INFOBITS    October 2002            No. 52          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 Copyright

Distance Education Best Practices

Computer Literacy in Schools: How Much Has Changed in 30 Years?

E-Journals and Reading Behaviors

Golden Age of Publishing

Halloween Links: Poe, Monsters

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: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org
Subject: EACL2003 Workshop CfP: 9th European Workshop on Natural
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:46:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 430 (430)


Language Generation

                             Call for Papers

            9th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION

                       (in conjunction with EACL2003)

                            13-14 April 2003

                            Budapest, Hungary

             (<a href="http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~horacek/EACL-EWNLG03.html">http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~horacek/EACL-EWNLG03.html</a>)

Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language

processing that focuses on the generation of written texts in English

or other human languages, generally from some non-linguistic data or

knowledge. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of

different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual

reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and

embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the

automated production of language is associated with a large number of

highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality

poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues

include content selection, text organization, the production of

referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface

realization, as well as coordination with other media.

This workshop is part of a biennial series of workshops about natural

language generation that has been running since 1987. Previous European

workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa,

Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse.

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: MIT Launches its DSpace project with Symposium
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:54:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 431 (431)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

November 1, 2003

                 "Scholarly Communication in the Digital World"

                        Launch of MIT's DSpace Project

                  open source institutional digital repository

           <a href="http://libraries.mit.edu/about/news/dspace-symposium.html">http://libraries.mit.edu/about/news/dspace-symposium.html</a>

Clifford Lynch (Executive Director, CNI), Hal Abelson and James Boyle (Duke

University School of Law) are among the speakers at "Scholarly

Communication in the Digital World," a symposium to celebrate the worldwide

launch of MIT's DSpace, on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4.  Video of the speakers will

be available via the MITWorld Web site at  <a href="http://mit.edu/mitworld/">http://mit.edu/mitworld/</a> after

the symposium.

DSpace is an open source institutional digital repository developed by the

MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company. See <a href="http://www.dspace.org">http://www.dspace.org</a>

For more information see the symposium Web site at:

<a href="http://www.http://libraries.mit.edu/about/news/dspace-symposium.html">http://www.http://libraries.mit.edu/about/news/dspace-symposium.html</a>


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From: carolyn guertin <cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Interactive futures conference
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:50:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 432 (432)

INTERACTIVE FUTURES: New Stories, New Visions
Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival - <a href="http://www.vifvf.com/">http://www.vifvf.com/</a>
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
February 7 - 9, 2003.
CALL FOR PAPERS, PERFORMANCES, & INSTALLATIONS
INTERACTIVE FUTURES:
New Stories, New Visions is a forum for showing recent tendencies in
time-based new media art. Drawing on diverse technical and artistic
traditions, many artists and writers of post-millennial era are exploring
the aesthetic and discursive possibilities of digital technologies.
Simultaneously, critics and theorists are beginning to approach new media
art as a distinct medium, with a growing history, a diverse body of work
and developing traditions.
INTERACTIVE FUTURES, held as part of the Victoria Independent Film & Video
Festival, will bring together an international field of artists, critics,
and technologists engaged in the work of making these technologies
meaningful for contemporary culture. An academic conference and an artistic
exhibition, INTERACTIVE FUTURES will represent a unique forum for
celebrating and critiquing the techniques, forms, and aesthetics of new
media. Scholars and artists working in new media arts, theory, and
criticism are encouraged to submit proposals to present their work at the
conference. Presentations may be in the form of scholarly papers or
presentations; or performance, installations, or sculpture incorporating
digital technologies, interactive or digital video, virtual environments,
or network-based elements. Conference sessions may combine academic
presentations with performances; we encourage proposals that push the
boundaries of the traditional conference paper in form and content.
THEMES
Interactive New Media Art How have artists developed alternative approaches
to the design of interactive digital environments? The explosion of new
approaches to new media art will require the use of a wide spectrum of
traditions, genres, styles and disciplines, ranging from theatre to music
to film. Virtual and Mixed Realities How has virtual reality affected our
perception of the real? What artistic traditions have arisen from
virtuality? What is mixed reality and how can it be implemented today?
Exploring these questions regarding virtuality is an important theme for
INTERACTIVE FUTURES. Storytelling and New Narratives How is storytelling
and narrative evolving with the development of new interactive forms such
as the hypertext novel and the interactive film? How is the notion of
reading/writing communities affected by major changes in writing technology
such as the current developments occurring around the phenomenon of the
Internet and the World Wide Web?
INVITED SPEAKERS / ARTISTS (to be confirmed)
* Toni Dove is an artist/independent producer who works primarily with
electronic media, including virtual reality and interactive video
installations, performance and DVD ROMs that engage viewers in responsive
and immersive narrative environments. Her work has been presented in the
United States, Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and
television. A recent installation, Artificial Changelings, an interactive
time travel drama that uses video motion sensing to engage viewers in a
responsive environment, debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, 1998 and
was part of the exhibition Body Mcanique, at the Wexner Center for the
Arts, Ohio. It has been shown in numerous other venues and will be released
next year on DVD ROM. Her current project Spectropia, is an interactive
supernatural thriller, a time travel drama set in the future and in New
York City 1931. Spectropia is a feature length interactive movie for two
players that will be presented both as a DVD ROM for Internet and two
remote players and as a full scale cinematic performance event for an
audience. A DVD ROM for mouse and microphone, Sally or the Bubble Burst, an
interactive scene from the Spectropia project translated to desktop for
single players, will be distributed on the Cycling '74 label to be released
fall 2002. Dove has received numerous grants and awards including support
from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois
Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the
Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, and the Eugene
McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T.
* Don Ritter's large scale interactive installations, performances and
video tapes have been exhibited in 15 countries, including Ars Electronica
(Austria), Sonambiente Festival (Berlin), Siggraph 99 (Los Angeles), SAM
Museum (Osaka), STEIM(Amsterdam), European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck),
Art Institute of Chicago, New Music America 89 (New York, Images du Futur
(Montreal), the Verona Jazz Festival (Italy), and ArtFuture 2000 (Taipei).
The interactive sound installation Intersection has been experienced by
over 500,000 visitors in 7 countries. Using custom designed hardware and
software systems, Ritter's installations and performances present
interactive video and sound controlled by live music, body position, and
motion of viewers. His collaborative performances with musicians include
George Lewis, John Oswald, Trevor Tureski, David Rokeby, Amy Denio, Tom
Walsh, Tom Dimuzio, Richard Teitelbaum, Robert Rowe, Kathleen Supov and
Ben Neill. Ritter's digital video imagery and interactive software have
been used in installations by New York artists Paul Garrin and Laurie Anderson.
* Anita Pantin, painter and stage designer, has studied, worked and
exhibited in Latin America, Europe and North America. Since 1992 she has
worked in interactive multimedia with Do While Studio in Boston, Chants
Libres in Montreal, and the University of Texas at Austin's Advanced
Communications Technologies Laboratory (ACTlab) and Institute for Latin
American Studies.
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Proposals should not exceed 500 words in length. Please indicate which of
the above themes your paper falls under. If your presentation requires
specific media or technical support (computer or network access, 35 MM
slides, videotape, etc.), describe your needs in detail, including specific
OS or hardware requirements (Mac OS or Windows), if appropriate. Proposals
should be submitted to electronically to: sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca All
proposals *must* be submitted in WWW-ready format (ASCII text, or simple
HTML code), either as attachments to email correspondence or within the
body of the email message.
PERFORMANCES / INSTALLATIONS / "NET"WORK
INTERACTIVE FUTURES is generally interested in artistic work that advances
new concepts of technology, and more particularly in electronic art in
which content is directly informed by an understanding of technological
theory. Pieces which address concerns related to the above-stated themes
will have the best chance of success. INTERACTIVE FUTURES will screen
installations, video tapes, performances, games, and anything in-between.
Please submit a 2-page description of your project, a 1-page biography, a
complete list of technical requirements, plus examples of your work on NTSC
VHS tapes, PC or Mac CD-ROM, DVD, or Audio CD to:
Dr. Steve Gibson, Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Visual Arts, Faculty
of Fine Arts,
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Canada.
Please be aware that INTERACTIVE FUTURES has a limited budget for equipment
rental. Those projects in which the artist provides his or her own
equipment will have the greatest chance of being accepted to INTERACTIVE
FUTURES.
DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: November 15, 2002. Notification of acceptance
of proposals will be sent out by December 15, 2002.
CONTACTS:
Festival Director:
Kathy Kay <director@vifvf.com>
INTERACTIVE FUTURES Curator:
Steve Gibson <sgibson@finearts.uvic.ca>
INTERACTIVE FUTURES address:
Dr. Steve Gibson, Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Visual Arts, Faculty
of Fine Arts,
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Canada.
Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival:
Mailing Address - PO Box 8419, Victoria, BC, V8W3S1, Canada.
Office Address - 808 View Street, Victoria, BC, V8W1K2, Canada.
Tel: (250)389.0444. Fax: (250)389.0406
festival@vifvf.com
WEB-SITE:
<a href="http://www.vifvf.com/program_special_newmedia.html">http://www.vifvf.com/program_special_newmedia.html</a>
Check regularly for updates.
___________________________________________________
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: w.mccarty@btopenworld.com
Subject: Fw: Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:52:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 433 (433)

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From: Vika Zafrin <vika@wordsend.org>
Subject: associative thinking
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:50:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 434 (434)


Dear Humanists,

Vannevar Bush voiced the idea that the human mind "operates by association"

and ran with it to explain the Memex:

"With one item in its grasp, [the mind] snaps instantly to the next that is

suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate

web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. It has other

characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently followed are

prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory. Yet the

speed of action, the intricacy of trails, the detail of mental pictures, is

awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature." (As We May Think)

He never did follow up to that with references, though, and I wonder if

some of you might be able to point me to relevant literature on the subject

of -- not associative memory, but associative thinking, the stream of

consciousness taken out of the context of creative writing.  I've already

been directed toward Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory, which is

interesting, though not directly relevant.

Please feel free to answer off-list.

Thanks much,

-Vika Zafrin


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Comment Period on DMCA Anticircumvention Exemptions: Nov
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:53:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 435 (435)

19-Dec 18
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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November 1, 2002
              First Notice on Copyright Rulemaking Proceeding on
                    Anticircumvention Exemptions of DMCA
                 Comments to be made: November 19 - Dec 18
        Comment Form: <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment_forms/">http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment_forms/</a>
                       See Full Notice of Inquiry:
          <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2002/67fr63578.html">http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2002/67fr63578.html</a>
We will be hearing more from many other sources, but here is the first
notice of the second triennial rulemaking proceeding undertaken by the
Copyright Office and mandated by the DMCA to examine whether any particular
"classes of work" need to be exempt from the controversial
"anti-circumvention" section (1201) of the DMCA. Are there particular
classes of works, whose users "are, or are likely to be, adversely affected
in their ability to make noninfringing uses due to the prohibition on
circumvention" of protection measures?
This then is a call for examples particularly of "fair use" or any other
legitimate use of digital materials that are protected by technological
locks which is being prohibited by this legislation. What legal use of
protected material is being prevented by this section of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act?
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From: Marian Dworaczek <Marian.Dworaczek@USASK.CA>
Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:03:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 436 (436)


Information

The November 1, 2002 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic

Sources of Information" is available at:

                       <a href="http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM">http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM</a>

The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of

Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A

Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of

electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials,

periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected

works. This edition includes 1,472 titles. Both the Index and the

Bibliography are continuously updated.

Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the

Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at:

                       <a href="http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM">http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM</a>

This message has been posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse

any duplication.

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From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.38
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:04:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 437 (437)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 38,  Week of November 4, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

Random Thoughts and Prime Numbers

Jin-Ye Cai on the nature of theoretical computer science research.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_cai_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_cai_1.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Rosetta Project
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:05:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 438 (438)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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November 6, 2002

                             The Rosetta Project

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

                          Wired News, 4 November 2002

            <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54345,00.html">http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54345,00.html</a>

Edupage and Wired magazine recently reminded us of this Long Now Foundation

project to preserve the wealth of the world's languages. With a goal of

creating a "meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000

languages," the project is also aiming at curating word lists for all 7,000

human languages within three years (they are currently at 1,200).

But of course this opens many preservation questions. The Wired article

quotes Gary Simons, coordinator of the Open Language Archives Community

<<a href="http://www.language-archives.org/">http://www.language-archives.org/</a>>, who comments on the importance of

archiving data captured by contemporary field linguistics "in stable

formats by stable institutions."

David Green

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Eldred v Ascroft Transcript Now Available
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:07:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 439 (439)


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                    Transcript of Eldred v Ascroft Now Available

   <a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/01-618.pdf">http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/01-618.pdf</a>

The 50-page transcript of the October 9 Supreme Court hearing of oral

arguments in the Eldred v. Ascroft case is now available at

<a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/01-618.pdf">http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/01-618.pdf</a>

As the commentator below notes, this document is in the public domain.

David Green

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From: "A.IJ. van Gosliga" <a.y.van.gosliga@let.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: manuscript editing and e-publishing
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:06:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 440 (440)


Dear All,

I would like to thank anyone who responded to my earlier query. Below, you

will find a summary of the reactions I received.

Project:        Advanced Papyrological Information Systems (APIS)

URL:            <a href="http://test.images.umdl.umich.edu/a/apis/">http://test.images.umdl.umich.edu/a/apis/</a>

Descr.: Virtual library to provide online access to papyrological

collections

Project:        Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)

URL:            <a href="http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de">http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de</a>

Descr.: Digital medieval manuscript library

Project:        Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari

URL:            <a href="http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~cmcl">http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~cmcl</a>

Descr.: Coptic MS database: Grammar, History of Literature, Clavis,

Manuscripts, Bibliography

Project:        Digitale Bibliotheek Nederlandse Letteren

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

Descr.: Collection of information on Dutch language and literature and its

context

Project:        Lydgate Manuscript Markup Project; Extracts from the Diary of

Robert Graves

URL:            <a href="http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/lydgate/">http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/lydgate/</a>; <a href="http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/graves/">http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/graves/</a>

Descr.: Experiences with the Berkeley Digital Scriptorium DTD and XML tags

for the mark up of medieval documents.

Project:        Newton Project

URL:            <a href="http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk">http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk</a>

Descr.: Text-encoded transcripts of Newton's manuscript legacy

Project:        Project Runeberg

URL:            <a href="http://runeberg.org">http://runeberg.org</a>

Descr.: Free electronic editions of classic Nordic literature on the

internet

Project:        Religion and Technology Center

URL:            <a href="http://www.reltech.org">http://www.reltech.org</a>, <a href="http://purl.org/TC">http://purl.org/TC</a>, <a href="http://purl.org/BibleMSS">http://purl.org/BibleMSS</a>,

<a href="http://purl.org/DDBDP">http://purl.org/DDBDP</a>, <a href="http://purl.org/CLP">http://purl.org/CLP</a>

Descr.: Makes high quality images and transcriptions of important Bible

manuscripts and early printed editions freely available through the

Internet; Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri; Corpus of Literary Papyri

Project:        The Versioning Machine

URL:            <a href="http://mith2.umd.edu/products/ver-mach/index.html">http://mith2.umd.edu/products/ver-mach/index.html</a>

Descr.: Electronic environment for creating a critical electronic edition

Project:        Walt Whitman Archive

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

Descr.: Rendering of TEI encoded poetry manuscripts; Developing EAD based

finding aids for manuscripts

Thanks again,

Aernold van Gosliga

=========================================

Drs. A.IJ. van Gosliga

Centrum Praktijkstudies Letteren

Universiteit Leiden

Web: www.praktijkstudies.nl

E-mail: a.y.van.gosliga@let.leidenuniv.nl

=========================================

Below my original query:

I'm collecting information about projects that combine(d) manuscript editing

(both facsimile and critical) and electronic publishing technology.

I realize this is a very broad topic, as it may include themes like text

encoding (SGML/XML, TEI, ..), digital imaging, text archiving, electronic

libraries, etc. Nonetheless, if you're involved in such a project yourself,

or if you know about any existing overviews, please help me by replying to

this e-mail.

It would be interesting to learn about:

   - names of projects you know about

   - subject, scope, goals, objectives

   - technologies used

   - publication form (web/cd/dvd/paper/..)

   - related publications (including url's)

Zooming in from the general to the specific, my special interest is in

electronic publishing projects that have to do with Islamic manuscripts and

editions, and related topics.



From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu>
Subject: ACH/ALLC 2003 Deadline for proposals extended
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:56:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 441 (441)


*ACH/ALLC 2003: Call for papers - Deadline extended!*

*ACH/ALLC2003: The joint conference of the Association for Computers and

the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing*

May 29 - June 2, 2003

The University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia USA

This year's theme is: Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web

**New Deadline for proposals: Nov. 30th, 2002**

Keynote speakers will be:

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."

John Maeda, Sony Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Design and Computation

Director of the Aesthetics & Computation Group (ACG)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jos Antonio Milln, Philologist, lexicographer, and net analyst

Author of "Internet y el Espaol" ["Internet and Spanish"]

For a copy of the call for papers, details on how to submit a proposal, and

information about the ACH/ALLC Affiliated Organizations program, please go

to the conference website:

<a href="http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/">http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/</a>

best,

Lorna


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From: Patty Keefe Durso <pkd1@optonline.net>
Subject: Announcing MLA Special Session
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:57:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 442 (442)

Announcing a special session at this year's MLA -- "Literary Studies in
Cyberspace: Transforming Texts, Contexts, and Criticism."   The four
panelists--John Unsworth, Martha Nell Smith, Jack Lynch, and Stephanie
Browner--will each provide brief presentations, after which our respondent,
Alan Liu, will provide commentary.  The floor will then be opened for
discussion.  The session will be held Sunday, December 29, 2002, from
9:00-10:15 P.M. in Concourse G, Hilton, New York City.  More information
may be found at the session website--
<a href="http://blake.montclair.edu/~dursop/mla647.htm">http://blake.montclair.edu/~dursop/mla647.htm</a>
<<a href="http://blake.montclair.edu/%7Edursop/mla647.htm">http://blake.montclair.edu/%7Edursop/mla647.htm</a>> .
--------------------
Patty Keefe Durso
Assistant Professor of English
Montclair State University
dursop@mail.montclair.edu



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Subject: TEACH ACT BECOMES LAW
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:08:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 443 (443)


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November 4, 2002

                        TEACH ACT BECOMES LAW

               American Library Association Release on Implications

          of the "Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act"

                     <a href="http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html">http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html</a>

            "New opportunities [but also] new limits and conditions"
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In This Issue: Major Copyright Bill Affecting Distance Education

Becomes Law

On November 2nd, 2002, the "Technology, Education and Copyright

Harmonization Act" (the TEACH Act), part of the larger Justice

Reauthorization legislation (H.R. 2215), was signed into law by

President Bush. TEACH redefines the terms and conditions on which

accredited, nonprofit educational institutions throughout the U.S. may

use copyright protected materials in distance education-including on

websites and by other digital means-without permission from the

copyright owner and without payment of royalties.

TEACH establishes new opportunities for educators to use copyrighted

works without permission and without payment of royalties, but those

opportunities are subject to new limits and conditions.  The American

Library Association joined with numerous other associations and groups

representing educators, librarians, and academic administrators to

negotiate the language of the TEACH Act and to vigorously support its

passage.  The process of drafting the TEACH Act necessarily reflected

the views of diverse interests, and some terms we would like to have

seen in the law met with strong opposition from copyright owners

concerned about protecting their creations and preventing widespread

threats to their markets.  On the other hand, the ALA and many other

library and education groups were successful in adding many provisions

in the bill that can significantly enhance distance education.

To put the complexity of the issue in perspective, we need to grasp not

only the growth of distance education, but also the magnitude of the

copyright concerns at stake.  Many materials that educators use in the

classroom and in distance education are protected by copyright law.

Copyright protection applies to most text, videos, music, images, motion

pictures, and computer software; protection usually applies even if the

work lacks a copyright notice and is not registered with the U.S.

Copyright Office.  Unless the work is in the public domain, or you have

permission from the copyright owner, or you are acting within fair use

or one of the specific, statutory exceptions, your copying, digitizing,

uploading, transmitting, and many other uses of materials for distance

education may constitute infringement.

Previous law did include such a statutory exception for the benefit of

distance education, but it was enacted in 1976 and has failed to meet

modern needs.  That statute (Section 110(2) of the Copyright Act)

generally encompassed closed-circuit television transmissions, and it

could not foster robust and innovative and digital educational programs

that might reach students at home, at work, or at any other location.

The TEACH Act repeals that statute and replaces it with a more complex,

but more beneficial, revision of Section 110(2) and related provisions.

Among the benefits of the TEACH Act for distance education are an

expansion of the scope of materials that may be used in distance

education; the ability to deliver content to students outside the

classroom; the opportunity to retain archival copies of course materials

on servers; and the authority to convert some works from analog to

digital formats.  On the other hand, the TEACH Act conditions those

benefits on compliance with numerous restrictions and limitations.

Among them are the need to adopt and disseminate copyright policies and

information resources; implementation of technological restrictions on

access and copying; adherence to limits on the quantity of certain works

that may be digitized and included in distance education; and use of

copyrighted materials in the context of "mediated instructional

activities" akin in some respects to the conduct of a traditional

course.

Therefore, to secure full benefits of the law, educators and their

colleges, universities, schools, and other qualified institutions will

need to take deliberate and careful steps.  Full implementation will

likely involve participation by policymaking authorities, technology

officials, and instructional faculty.  Librarians will invariably be

closely involved as they make their collections and other resources

available to students at remote locations.  Moreover, you will most

assuredly need to consult legal counsel at your institution to be

certain you are properly implementing the new law's provisions.

To help with this effort throughout the country, the American Library

Association is launching an initiative to provide guidance and to help

interested persons so that they may better understand the new law and

implement its requirements.  Please watch for developments at this

dedicated website: <a href="http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html">http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html</a>.  We have

posted and will continue to update summaries and explanations of the

law, together with guidance and other information to help the community

enjoy the advantages of the new law and to strengthen innovative

educational programs through the sharing of important information

resources.

Moreover, we will take this opportunity for a fresh examination of the

more general law of "fair use" as applied to distance education.  Fair

use was, and remains, a vital alternative whenever a more specific

statute-such as Section 110(2) of the Copyright Act-fails to meet your

needs.  However, fair use also has limits.  In the meantime, you can

find a great deal of information about fair use on numerous websites,

and in many books, including some copyright publications available from

the ALA at <a href="http://alastore.ala.org">http://alastore.ala.org</a>.

We welcome your comments and observations at any time about this

project. For more information, contact Carrie Russell, Copyright

Specialist at ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy,

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Linguistic Bibliography 1998
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:01:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 444 (444)


<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7320273120X1644662X137607Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7320273120X1644662X137607Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>Bibliographie

linguistique de l'anne 1998/Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1998

and supplement for previous years

edited by

Mark Janse

Sijmen Tol

assisted by

Kuniko Forrer

Theo Horstman

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7320273120X1644663X137607Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7320273120X1644663X137607Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>LINGUISTIC

BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 1998

Bibliographie linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual

bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International

Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of

Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than

forty-five years (the first two volumes, covering the years 19391947, were

published in 19491950), Bibliographielinguistique iss by far the most

comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of

linguistics and related disciplines, both theoretical and descriptive, from

all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with

particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world.

Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some fifty

contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 23,000 titles

arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification,

Bibliographielinguistique remains the standard reference book for every

student of language and linguistics.

CONTENTS

Table des matires

Periodicals/ Periodiques. Abbreviations/ Abreviations. Directions for use/

Directives pratiques. General works/ generalites. General linguistics and

related disciplines/ Linguistique generale et disciplines connexes.

Interrelationships between families of languages/ Rapports entre familles

de langues. Indo-European languages/ Langues indo-europeennes. Asianic and

Mediterranean languages/ Langues asianiques et mediterraneennes. Basque and

the ancient languages of the Iberian Peninsula/ Basque et anciennes langues

de la peninsule iberique. Hamito-Semitic (Afro-Asiatic) languages/ Langues

chamito-semitiques (afro-asiatiques). Caucasian languages/ Langues

caucasiennes. Eurasiatic languages/ Langues eurasiatiques. Burushaski/

Bourouchaski. Dravidian languages/ Langues dravidiennes. Languages of

Mainland South-East Asia/ Langues de l'Asie continentale du Sud-Est.

Austronesian, Papuan and Australian languages/ Langues austronesiennes,

papoues et australiennes. Languages of Negro-Africa/ Langues de l'Afrique

noire. Amerindian languages/ Langues amerindiennes. Pidgins and Creoles/

Pidgins et creoles. Sign languages/ Langues des signes. Author index/ Index

des auteurs.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1005-2 Date: December 2002 Pages: 1568 pp.

EURO 460.00 / USD 442.00 / GBP 294.00

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: Dirk Kottke <dirk.kottke@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Einladung zum 86. Kolloquium
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:55:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 445 (445)


            U N I V E R S I T  T   T  B I N G E N

    Z E N T R U M   F  R   D A T E N V E R A R B E I T U N G

    Abteilung Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung

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

                         E I N L A D U N G

                         zum 86. Kolloquium

ber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung

in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universitt Tbingen

Diese Kolloquien sollen einerseits dem Erfahrungs- und Meinungs-

austausch dienen, andererseits einfhrende Information

darber geben, welche Hilfestellung die EDV dem Geistes-

wissenschaftler bieten kann. Jede(r) Interessierte ist willkommen.

                            T H E M E N

    Erschlieung und Auswertung des Binswanger-Archivs

    Referenten:

        Prof. Dr. Albrecht Hirschmller

          Institut fr Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin,

          Universitt Tbingen

        Irmela Bauer-Klden und Dr. Michael Wischnath

          Universittsarchiv Tbingen

    Zur Edition der Korrespondenz eines Universalgelehrten:

    Wilhelm Schickards Briefwechsel

    Referent: Dr. Friedrich Seck

              Tbingen

Zeit: Samstag, 23. November 2002, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr

Ort:  Seminarraum des ZDV, Wchterstrae 76 (EG)

                                            gez. Prof. Dr. W. Ott

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

Das Protokoll des 85. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter:

     <a href="http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot85.html">http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot85.html</a>

Falls Sie keinen oder keinen bequemen Zugriff auf das Protokoll

im WWW haben, schicken wir Ihnen die Protokolle auch

weiterhin gerne mit der Post zu, wenn Sie uns dies mitteilen.

====================================================================

Dirk Kottke                    |

Universitt Tbingen           | Tel. 07071/29-70309

Zentrum fr Datenverarbeitung  | FAX: 07071/29-5912

Wchterstrae 76               | e-mail: kottke@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de

D-72074 Tbingen               |

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From: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org
Subject: 4th Int Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:51:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 446 (446)


        Apologies to those of you who receive this more than once

                          ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

                      4th International Workshop on

             Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03)

                A workshop to be held at EACL-03

               the 11th Conference of the European Chapter

             of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                     Budapest, 14 April 2003

                  <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03</a>

                  <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03</a>

ORGANIZED BY:

Anne Abeill (Paris 7 & LLF, Paris)

Silvia Hansen (Saarland University, Saarbrcken)

Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University & DFKI, Saarbrcken)

TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly

important role for machine learning, evaluation,

psycholinguistics as well as theoretical linguistics.  Many

groups have started to create corpus resources annotated with

morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse

information for a variety of languages.  Linguistic annotation

may consist of morphological analyses, trees, dependencies,

grammatical relations, word senses, (co)references, information

structure, semantic representations, discourse relations

and other types of linguistic information.

[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: International Electronic Publishing Conf: ELPUB2003
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 10:53:09 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 447 (447)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

November 6, 2002

                   ELPUB 2003 - FROM INFORMATION TO KNOWLEDGE

                       <a href="http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003">http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003</a>

                        Call for Abstracts: Jan 15, 2003
[deleted quotation]
Call for Papers - ELPUB 2003

ICCC/IFIP 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC

PUBLISHING, to be held in Guimares, Portugal, 25 - 28

June 2003

ELPUB 2003 - FROM INFORMATION TO KNOWLEDGE

<a href="http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003">http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003</a>

This 7th conference will be hosted by the Department of Information Systems

at the University of Minho, in Guimares, (Northern Portugal), a beautiful

XII century city that recently became part of world's cultural heritage.

The 7th ELPUB attempts to keep the tradition of the six previous

international (annual) conferences on electronic publishing, held in the

United Kingdom (1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia

(2000), and the Czech Republic (2002) which is to bring together

researchers, lecturers, developers industrials, businessmen, entrepreneurs,

managers, users and all those interested in issues regarding electronic

publishing in the most different contexts. These include human, cultural,

economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and any other relevant

aspect that such an exciting theme encompasses.

[material deleted]



From: FRISCHER49@aol.com
Subject: Summer 2003 Workshop on Digital Archaeology in Rome, Italy
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:32:17 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 448 (448)


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

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT (November 10, 2002):

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Workshop in Rome, Italy on Digital Archaeology and 3D Computer Modeling

Location: Rome, Italy

Season dates: July 06, 2003 - July 18, 2003

Session dates: July 6-18, 2003

Application Deadline: Exact Date - March 15, 2003

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

Program Type:

Workshop or Practicum

Affiliation:

UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory

Project Director:

Bernard Frischer, Director, UCLA CVRLab

Description:

This two-week workshop will introduce you to the use of computer

technologies in archaeology. Topics to be covered include: history and

theory of digital archaeology (DA); data capture (including use of the

laser theodolite and of digital photography) for DA; introduction to the

MultiGen Creator software package for 3D computer modeling; introduction to

Autocad and its use in DA; making QuickTime panoramas; computer databases

for recording fieldwork; use of DA in the field and for site presentation,

education, and publication (print and digital). Of these topics, the

emphasis will be on learning the rudiments of MultiGen Creator. There will

be several guided tours of archaeological sites in Rome, one of which will

be used for your workshop project. Class will meet six hours per day (three

hours in the morning and three in the afternoon). You will be free to

travel and/or work on your workshop project on the weekend of July 12-13,

2003.

Important Notes:

(1) No credit is offered, but students successfully finishing the course

will receive a certificate of completion.

(2) Participation is limited to ten (10) students.

(3) The course will be cancelled if a minimum of five (5) students have not

been accepted by March 15, 2003.

(4) All participants must bring their own laptop running Windows ME or

better;Pentium III or better; 256 megabytes of RAM or better; 5 gigabytes

of space free on the hard disk, or better. It will be an advantage to bring

a digital still camera. Feel free to contact the Director for advice about

the purchase of this equipment.

(5) Rome is very hot and humid in mid-July. Please make sure your physical

condition is up to the challenge!

Minimum length of stay for participants:

13 days

Minimum age:

19

Experience required:

Use of the Windows operating system

Room and Board arrangements:

You will receive housing in a simple but clean single room (without bath,

no a/c). All meals will be provided Monday through Friday. You provide your

own meals on Saturday and Sunday.

$1,100 per session

Airfare:

Not included

Contact information:

Bernard Frischer

3441 Butler Avenue

Los Angeles, California 90066

USA

310 266-6935

310 391-1460

frischer49@aol.com

Bibliography:

Bernard Frischer et al., "From CVR to CVRO: The Past, Present, and Future

of Cultural Virtual Reality." available online at www.cvro.org.

Juan Barcelo et al., "Virtual Reality in Archaeology." British

Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series vol. 843. Oxford, 2000.

Maurizio Forte, Colin Renfrew, Virtual Archaeology. Re-creating Ancient

Worlds. New York, 1995.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:22:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 449 (449)


Cornell University Library Announces:

Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art

Under the sponsorship of The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

of the Cornell University Library, the Rose Goldsen Archive serves as a

research repository of new media art, with a current emphasis on digital

interfaces and experimentation by international, independent artists.

Named after the pioneering critic of the commercialization of mass

media, Professor Rose Goldsen of Cornell University, the Archive houses

art works produced on CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, and the internet, as well as

supporting materials, such as unpublished manuscripts and designs,

catalogues, monographs, and resource guides to new media art.

Emphasizing multimedia artworks that reflect digital extensions of

twentieth-century developments in cinema, video, installation,

photography, and sound, its holdings include the vast selection of

international works exhibited in the exhibition, Contact Zones: The Art

of CD-Rom, as well as net.art archived on the CTHEORY Multimedia site

maintained by the Cornell Library

<<a href="http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu">http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu</a>>. The aim of the Goldsen Archive

is to provide researchers, faculty, and students with a better

understanding of the transformation wrought on the artistic process by

digital multimedia experimentation and development. To this end, access

to the archive will be available via computer workstations in the Kroch

Library and eventually via campus internet servers that will permit the

artworks to be accessed from Cornell libraries, classrooms, and

dormitory spaces. A novel research archive of international

significance, the collection complements holdings in The Division of

Rare and Manuscript Collections of illuminated manuscripts and the early

modern printed book, and adds to the breadth of its important

collections in human sexuality and Asian Studies.

The Archive is curated by Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative

Literature and English, Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video,

at Cornell University. Author of books on new media, film, and

performance, Murray has curated new media exhibitions internationally

and is Co-Curator of CTHEORY Multimedia. The curator reviews new

materials for inclusion in the archive, and recommends the addition of

reference materials that would contribute to the intellectual context of

the archive. The Archive actively solicits materials for consideration

and/or contribution. Please contact:

Timothy Murray

Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art

The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Carl A. Kroch Library

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853

tel: 607-255-3530. fax: 607-255-9524

e-mail: tcm1@cornell.edu

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: Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:43:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 450 (450)


David Gants, currently assistant professor of English at the University of

Georgia, has been appointed Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing

at the University of New Brunswick. As many will and all here should know,

David has been assistant editor of Humanist for many years, stepping in

on several occasions when I have had to step out. He will, I very much

hope, remain in the virtual here after the physical move to a lovely part

of that fine country, where our field is indeed prospering. Congratulations

to David, to the University of New Brunswick and to our Canadian colleagues.

The appointment of someone to a post directly in humanities computing is of

course a highly significant event. There are very few such posts in the

world. The fact that this is a new one is especially encouraging. I also

find it significant that the appointment is of a textual editor and

bibliographer with a focus on electronic publication. The close

relationship between humanities computing and textual editing may seem

obvious enough, but the causes of its fruitfulness, demonstrated for years

by Jerome McGann, for example, is important to understand in detail. The

consequences go far beyond the broad confines of David's speciality,

promising e.g. a healthy (and badly needed) revolution in literary studies.

The following is taken from the official announcement:
[deleted quotation]
For details about the Canada Research Chair scheme and David's appointment,

see the news release published by the Canadian government at

<<a href="http://www.chairs.gc.ca/english/Media/news/News2002/nov2002.html">http://www.chairs.gc.ca/english/Media/news/News2002/nov2002.html</a>>.

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: Fwd: analogy research
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:05:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 451 (451)


Willard and HUMANISTS:

In connection with his doctoral work in Computer Science at George Mason

University, a friend is pursuing a very interesting project on analogies as

a pedagogical technique, and in particular on how analogies may be

represented and managed in structured information systems. He is now at the

stage of research where he is beginning to solicit feedback from "expert

practitioners". That means, to my mind, readers of this list.

Please consider looking at the project (described below), and if you feel

yourself able to provide Harry Foxwell with useful feedback, send email to

me and I'll send along the passwords for the Users' and Authors' Evaluation

sections of the site.

As for prizes, I'll ask.

Thanks!

Wendell
[deleted quotation]
[This is the point at which you need the passwords that Harry has provided

me -- send email to wapiez@mulberrytech.com. Until November 31, 2002 only,

please! --wap]
[deleted quotation]
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Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com">http://www.mulberrytech.com</a>

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From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: CaSTA -- The First Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:04:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 452 (452)


Research / Le Premier symposium canadien sur l'analyse de

You are invited to:

CaSTA  --

The First Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research

Le Premier symposium canadien sur l'analyse de texte informatisee

which is being held at the Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec,

November 23, 2002

Sponsored by TAPoR and LexUM

Registration is free.

Limited space still available for posters; please e-mail

toms@fis.utoronto.ca by November 15th if you wish to display by

.............................................................

Program

9:00-9:10    WELCOME

               Elaine Toms, University of Toronto

               Chair, Program Committee

9:10-9:40    PLENARY

               MIMes and MeRMAids: On the possibility of computer-aided

interpretation

               Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster University

9:40-11:40   SESSION I

               Chair: Alan Burk, University of New Brunswick

               Text analysis and the dynamic edition? Some concerns with an

algorithmic approach in the electronic scholarly edition

               Ray Siemens, Malaspina University College

               Digitizing the European emblem: issues, problems and prospects.

               Peter Daly, McGill University

               SATIM : a software design for the humanities

               Jean-Guy Meunier, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

               Ismail Biskri, Universite du Quebec a Trois Rivieres

10:40-11:00  Break

               Refreshments compliments of LexUM

               Time to view posters.

11:00-12:00  SESSION II

               Chair: Ray Siemens, Malaspina University College

               NUMEXCO : A text mining approach to thematic analysis of

philosophical corpus

               Dominic Forest, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

               Jean-Guy Meunier, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

               Text as product: confessions of the middleman in the making

of the Chadwyck-Healey Canadian Poetry Database

               Lisa Charlong, University of New Brunswick

               The extraction of the complex terms : a semi-automatic

modular approach

               Isma<l Biskri, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

               Jean-Guy Meunier, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

               Sylvain Joyal, Universite du Quebec a Trois Rivieres

12:00-1:00   PANEL:

               TAPoR: Its promise, Its future

               What can and should TAPoR do? How should it serve the

humanities research community?

               Moderator: Stefan Sinclair, University of Alberta

               Panelists:

                 Michael Best, University of Victoria

                 Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto

                 Daniel Poulin, Universite de Montreal

                 Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster University

Symposium concludes at 1:00.

..................................................

LOCATION

Salon des professeurs (A-3464)

Facult de droit (on the main floor)

Pavillon Maximilien-Caron

3101, chemin de la Tour

Directions:

Queen Mary becomes "Chemin de la Tour" when you enter the University of

Montreal.

| |________________  _______________ |

|  ________________  _______________ |          X (CRDP) 343-2139

| |                ||              | |          Facult de droit

| |________________||______________| |_________ 3101, Chemin de la Tour

|    Queen Mary Road                  Chemin de la Tour

| ________________  ______________   _____

| |                ||              | |

   ^                                  ^

   |Ctes des Neiges                  |Decelles

On Saturday, parking is free on the Campus. People can park right

in front of the Faculty of Law.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new book on ethics
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:52:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 453 (453)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture

edited by

Jozef Keulartz

Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Michiel Korthals

Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Maartje Schermer

Dept. of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam and Center for Ethics and

Health of The Netherlands, Zoetermeer/The Hague, The Netherlands

Tsjalling Swierstra

Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands

THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL, AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ETHICS -- 3

Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of

reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually

replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food

production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being

put up for discussion. This constantly confronts us with new moral problems

and dilemmas. In discussion with other approaches this book argues that

pragmatism, with its strong emphasis on the interaction between technology

and values, gives us both procedural help and stresses the importance of

living and cooperating together in tackling these problems and dilemmas.

The issues in this book include the interaction of technology and ethics,

the status of pragmatism, the concept of practice, and discourse ethics and

deliberative democracy. The book has an interactive design, with original

contributions alternating with critical comments. The book is of interest

for students, scholars and policymakers in the fields of bioethics, animal

ethics, environmental ethics, pragmatist philosophy and science and

technology studies.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction.

Part 1: Prologue. 1. Ethics in a Technology Culture; J. Keulartz, et al.

Part 2: Technology

and Ethics. 2. Pragmatic Resources for Biotechnology; L.A. Hickman.

3. Philosophical Tools and Technical Solutions; H. Zwart.

4. How Pragmatic is Bioethics?; M. Schermer, J. Keulartz.

5. Healthcare as a Relational Practice: A Hermeneutic-Pragmatic

Perspective; G.Widdershoven, L.van der Scheer.

Part 3: The Status of Pragmatism. 6. A Modest Proposal: Methodological

Pragmatism for Bioethics; A. Light.

7. Methodological Pragmatism in Bioethics: A Modest Proposal?; B.Gremmen.

8. Pragmatic Epistemology in the Activity of Bioethics; G.McGee.

9. Pragmatism and Pragmata; P.-P. Verbeek.

Part 4: Pragmatism

and Practices. 10. A Multi-Practice Ethics of Domesticated and "Wild"

Animals; M. Korthals.

11. Weak Ethics, Strong Feelings; H. Barbers.

12. Pragmatism for Medical Ethics; G.de Vries.

13. Competitiveness, Ethics and Truth; J. Vorstenbosch.

14. A Pragmatist Epistemology for Adaptive Management; B.G. Norton.

15. How Much Doubt Can a Pragmatist Bear?; H.van den Belt.

Part V: Discourse Ethics and Deliberative

Democracy. 16. Pragmatism, Discourse Ethics and Occasional Philosophy; P.B.

Thompson.

17. Minimalism with a Vengeance; P. Pekelharing.

18. Moral Vocabularies and Public Debate; T. Swierstra.

19. Debating Pragmatism; R.de Wilde.

Part 6: Epilogue. 20. Pragmatism in Action; J.Keulartz, et al.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0987-9 Date: December 2002 Pages: 292 pp.

EURO 135.00 / USD 130.00 / GBP 86.00

To purchase this book, click here to visit our website's shopping cart

feature.

Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1115-6 Date: December 2002 Pages: 292 pp.

EURO 75.00 / USD 72.00 / GBP 48.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: book on systems theory
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:53:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 454 (454)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Architecture of Systems Problem Solving, Second Edition

by

George J. Klir

State University of New York at Binghamton, USA

Doug Elias

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

IFSR INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING --

This is the definitive text for one of the major schools of thought in

systems science. It presents both a comprehensive framework for

characterizing all forms of systems problems, and a set of specific

methodologies for some key problems. These methodologies are based on a

combination of classical and fuzzy set theories, probability and

possibility theories, graph and hypergraph theories, and information

theory, among others. The hardcopy text contains a revised, updated and

condensed version of the first edition, accompanied by a CD containing

supplementary material including additional chapters on related topics,

explanatory material drawn from many years of class presentations and

lectures, exercises, and fully worked out examples showing both the

framework and methodology in operation on actual real-world problems. Fully

operational software is made available on an associated website. The

material is suitable for upper-level undergraduates and first-year graduate

students with a modest background in discrete math, probability and statistics.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction.

2. Source and Data Systems.

3. Generative systems.

4. Structure Systems.

5. Metasystems.

A. Complexity.

B. Goal-Oriented.

C. System Similarity.

6. Architecture, Use, Evolution. Appendices. References. Subject Index.

Author Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47357-7 Date: November 2002 Pages: 354 pp.

EURO 128.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 80.00

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

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: on pattern recognition & string matching
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:59:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 455 (455)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Pattern Recognition and String Matching

edited by

Dechang Chen

Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

Xiuzhen Cheng

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota,

Minneapolis, USA

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION -- 13

This volume is the most comprehensive one in its field. It is a collection

of 28 state-of-the-art articles contributed by experts of pattern

recognition, string matching, or both. It contains fundamental concepts and

notations, as well as reports on current research with respect to both

methodology and applications. In particular, it includes string matching

related techniques for structural pattern recognition. It also explores

many applications of pattern recognition strategies to image segmentation,

intrusion detection, handwriting recognition and others.

Audience: This book is a good reference tool for scientists who depend on

problems in pattern recognition and string matching. Target readers include

researchers in computer science, statistics, mathematics, and electrical

Engineering, as well as students. It is suitable for both specialists and

uninformed readers.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Foreword. Correcting the Training Data; R. Barandela, et al. Context Free

Grammars and Semantic Networks for Flexible Assembly Recognition; C.

Bauckhage, G. Sagerer. Stochastic Recognition of Occluded Objects; B.

Bhanu, et al. Approximate String Matching for Angular String Elements with

Applications to On-Line and Off-line Handwriting Recognition; S.-H. Cha,

S.N. Srihari. Uniform, Fast Convergence of Arbitrarily Tight Upper and

Lower Bounds on the Bayes Error; D. Chen,et al. Building RBF Networks for

Time Series Classification by Boosting; J.R. Diez, C.J.A. Gonzlez.

Similarity Measures and Clustering of String Patterns; A. Fred. Pattern

Recognition for Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks; G. Giacinto, F.

Roli. Model-Based Pattern Recognition; M. Haindl. Structural Pattern

Recognition in Graphs; L. Holder, et al. Deriving Pseudo-Probabilities of

Correctness Given Scores (DPPS); K. Ianakiev, V. Govindaraju. Weighed Mean

and Generalized Median of Strings; Y. Jiang, H. Bunke. A Region-Based

Algorithm for Classifier-Independent Feature Selection; M. Kudo. Inference

of K-Piecewise Testable Tree Languages; D.Lpez, et al. Mining Partially

Periodic Patterns With Unknown Periods From Event tream; S. Ma, J.L.

Hellerstein. Combination of Classifiers for Supervised Learning: A Survey;

S. Ma, C. Ji. Image Segmentation and Pattern Recognition: A Novel Concept,

the Historgram of Connected Elements; D. Maravell, M.. Patricio.

Prototype Extraction for k-NN Classifiers using Median Srings;

C.D.Martnez-Hinarejos, et al. Cyclic String Matching: Efficient Exact and

Approximate Algorithms; A. Marzal, et al. Homogeneity, Autocorrelation and

Anisotropy in Patterns; A. Molina. Robust Structural Indexing through

Quasi-Invariant Shape Signatures and Feature Generation; H. Nishida. Energy

Minimisation Methods for Static and Dynamic Curve Matching; E. Nyssen, et

al. Recent Feature Selection Methods in Statistical Pattern Recognition; P.

Pudil, et al. Fast Image Segmentation under Noise; R.M. Romano, D.

Vitulano. Set Analysis of Coincident Errors and Its Applications for

Combining Classifiers; D. Ruta, B. Gabrys. Enhanced Neighbourhood

Specifications for Pattern Classification; J.S. Snchez, A.I. Marqus.

Algorithmic Synthesis in Neural Network Training for Pattern Recognition;

K.Sirlantzis. Binary Strings and multi-class learning problems; T.Windeatt,

R. Ghaderi.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0953-4 Date: December 2002 Pages: 772 pp.

EURO 257.00 / USD 245.00 / GBP 164.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: on women in research universities
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:00:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 456 (456)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes

Women in American Research Universities

edited by

Lilli S. Hornig

The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard, Little Compton, RI, USA

INNOVATIONS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY --

This book is based on a conference held at Harvard University in November

1998. It is sponsored by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Sloan

Foundation, and the Albert Gordon Foundation. The intent of the conference

is to focus on women faculty in research universities, seeking to identify

and disseminate innovative approaches to increasing faculty positions and

opportunities for women there. Faculty positions in these institutions are

essential to establishing productive scholarly careers, especially so in

the natural sciences, but also in the social sciences and humanities. The

contributors are considered quite stellar and are some of the most

important leaders in their individual fields of study.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Introduction; L.S. Hornig.

Part I.

1. Dreaming and Scheming: Moving Towards Our University; C.R. Stimpson.

2. The Current Status of Women in Research Universities; L.S. Hornig.

3. A National Profile of Academic Women in Research Universities; H.S.

Astin, C.M. Cress.

Part

II.

4. Gender, Faculty, and Doctoral Education in Science and Engineering; M.F.

Fox.

5. You've Come a Long Way: Data on Women Doctoral Scientists and Engineers

in Research Universities; C.V. Kuh.

6. The Presence and Participation of Women in Academic Science and

Engineering: 1973-1995; J.S. Long.

7. Explaining Sex Differences in Publication Productivity among

Postsecondary Faculty; K.A. Shauman, Y.Xie.

Part III.

8. Women in the Academy: Confronting Barriers to Equality; C. Hollenshead.

9. Organizational Change to Support Success of Women: A Model and Its

Lessons; L.P. Fried, et al.

Part IV.

10. Primatology, Archaeology, and Human Origins: Feminist Interventions; L.

Schiebinger.

11. Transforming Knowledges: Anthropology's Encounters with Feminism(s); P.

Chatterjee.

Part V.

12. Women's Uneven Progress in Academia: Problems and Solutions; M.A. Ferber.

13. Work/Family/Life Issues and Programs in Higher Education  What's

New; K.Sullivan. Old Issues, New Solutions: Family and Work; Response to

Kathleen Sullivan; R. Simpson.

Conclusions.

14. Conclusions; L.S.Hornig, B. Lazarus. Bibliography. Index.

Paperback ISBN: 0-306-47351-8 Date: November 2002 Pages: 394 pp.

EURO 43.00 / USD 42.50 / GBP 27.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "What's New in Digital Preservation" - Third Issue
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:57:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 457 (457)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

November 14, 2002

               Latest issue of "What's New in Digital Preservation"

              <a href="http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue3.html">http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue3.html</a>

The Digital Preservation Coalition of the UK and the Australian Preserving

Access to Digital Information (PADI) announce the release of the third

issue of "What's New in Digital Preservation," a compilation of information

on digital preservation activity covering the months July-October 2002 and

organized under the headings of Organizations; Projects; Events; and Other

Recent Publications.

David Green

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Digital Repositories for Scholarly Work: in US and Europe
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:58:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 458 (458)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

November 14, 2002

                 Technology Review Article on MIT's DSpace Archive

      <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/atwood1202.asp">http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/atwood1202.asp</a>

               Dutch DARE Project (Digital Academic Repositories)

                 <a href="http://www.surf.nl/en/actueel/index2.php?oid=7">http://www.surf.nl/en/actueel/index2.php?oid=7</a>

On the heels of the launch and discussion of MIT's DSpace, an institutional

repository for faculty and researchers to save their intellectual output on

the Web, built on open-source software, is the announcement of a Dutch

collective effort, under the auspices of SURF, the Dutch higher education

and research partnership organization for network services and information

and communications technology.

David Green

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: thinking physically
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:38:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 459 (459)


In "Perceptual Simulation in Analogical Reasoning", David Craig, Nancy

Nersessian and Richard Catrambone argue that such similations can be

especially effective for solving problems by analogical means in that they

reactivate patterns of neural activity in the perceptual and motor parts of

the brain initially activated by encountering something first-hand. In

other words, we have a wealth of "image schemas" that we can put together

in spatial and kinaesthetic representations to engage our cognitive powers

with real-world problems. In other other words, thinking physically can

help. Craig et al. note that diagrams play a useful role in analogical

thought but that animations are better, or can be, precisely because they

engage the kinaesthetic powers. So in thinking about visualizing the

results of our analyses, we are encouraged to go further, to animate them.

The cited article is one of several interesting pieces in Lorenzo Magnani

and Nancy Nersessian, Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values

(Kluwer, 2002). I wonder, given Craig et al., if anyone is bothered, as I

am, by the word "reasoning" in the title of that book? It seems to me to

identify the wrong sort of cognition.

The argument in Craig et al. sounds to me quite Heideggerian and very much

in line with recent work on embodied thought. There would seem to be a rich

ground here shared by philosophy and cognitive psychology, leading into

other areas of cognitive science -- as already suggested by Winograd and

Flores, Computers and Cognition, and by recent writings on the imagination.

I appeal to any cognitive science types here to recommend books or

articles, whether or not they deal directly with Heidegger. Am I right to

think that the notion of "embodied thought" makes the boundaries between

philosophy, psychology, neuroanatomy etc very difficult to draw?

On the shelf of books to be read along these lines is Lakoff and Johnson,

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western

Thought (Basic Books, 1999). Other items have been mentioned on Humanist

before (no, I haven't forgotten! :-). Further recommendations would be

greatly appreciated.

And comments, of course, as always.

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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Automatic keywording & HTML authoring
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:38:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 460 (460)


Willard,

Perhaps the subscribers who follow HTML authoring tools may be able to

indicate the state of the art.

I found it interesting to note recently that Microsoft Front Page does not

appear to automatically create a Meta element for keywords. Is it not

relatively trivial to produce a tool that compares frequency of words in a

document with a list of stop words and place the top five or six as the

value of the content attribute of a meta element.

<meta name="keywords" content="humanities computing frequency stop word">

Given the low volume of documents I produce, I am quite content to hand

code the HTML I produce. However, I can see a nifty XSLT stylesheet coming

into play for electronic scholarly publication enterprises that handle

large documents sets and wish to ensure for their collections the best

number of affordances for indexing and search tools. Has any one done

this?


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/miles/five.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/miles/five.htm</a>



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.326 thinking physically
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:43:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 461 (461)


Willard,

Philologically "reasoning" invites one to the physicality of the "ratio".
[deleted quotation]
Given a stimulus:

_____ ------  _____

**** ____ ---- ___

*** ----- &&&&&

one could generate a grammar rules such as a grouping of hyphens (---) is

never found in an initial position in a line or found in a terminal

position.

The static image has become animated in the mind.

Can you explain what might bother you in applying the term "reasoning" to

cognitive work and play that involves entities that are not words or

verbal artefacts? Am I off the mark in assuming the source of what may be

bothering you?

The animated universe can be stilled in the mind.

Is it the emphasis on movement in Craig et al. that jars associations one

may have of "reasoning" with "contemplation?


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
every cul-de-sac is 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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: messy science
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:46:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 462 (462)


Having just finished the book I can recommend with fresh enthusiasm James D

Watson's The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the

Structure of DNA (New York, 1968). It of course makes a  very important bit

of science accessible to the likes of us (delete yourself if you're a

biochemist or similar). But what particularly fascinated me was the close,

daily account of the "context of discovery", as it is called, and the role

of physical modelling in discovery. The messiness of it all is instructive,

and a useful defense against arguments that would have algorithmic thought

(in the form, say, of an expert system) as an adequate representation of

what actually happens when new knowledge is discovered -- or perhaps more

accurately, made.

The setting -- the Cavendish Lab at Cambridge and environs, with some

attention to wrongly neglected activity at King's College London -- might

lead one to think that for cultural reasons the portrayal is of casual,

even quirky but brilliantly effective research. Watson is an American,

however, and Linus Pauling, another American (who almost got there first),

is famous for equally unalgorithmic approaches to research. A child at play

comes to mind. No, it would seem there's something very important about how

knowledge is made in this account, don't you think?

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

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE RELEASED
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:41:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 463 (463)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

November 18, 2002

                     NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE

                        FIRST EDITION RELEASED

                         <<a href="http://www.ninch.org/guide.html">http://www.ninch.org/guide.html</a>>

                                 Comments Invited

               <a href="http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/comments.html">http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/comments.html</a>

The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is pleased to

announce the release of the First Edition of the NINCH Guide to Good

Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage

Materials.

Already described as a resource that "will become a touchstone for new

practitioners for years to come," the NINCH Guide is designed for those in

all sectors of the cultural community who are digitizing and networking

cultural resources.

The NINCH Guide is unique in several ways. It is community-based (created

by practitioners working in different disciplines and media in museums,

libraries, archives, the arts and academic departments); it is

principles-based (driven by core principles in networking cultural

resources); and it is empirical (partly derived from interviews at

distinguished digitization programs in the U.S. and abroad, conducted by

Glasgow University's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute).

The Guide creates a high-level pathway through the issues and decisions to

be made in networking heritage materials. Thirteen sections follow the

life-cycle of digital projects: from Project Planning, Selection of

Materials and Copyright Issues, through the technical questions of

digitizing all formats, to the issues of Sustainability, User Assessment,

Digital Asset Management and Preservation. The Guide also includes a

bibliography, an edited set of interview reports, and the extensive

interview instrument.

We strongly encourage readers of the Guide to send us comments and

suggestions (using the form provided on our web site) in order to make it a

living document that is responsive to the community it serves. Some

suggestions will be incorporated into this edition, others will be used in

the production of a Second Edition.

Thanks are due to Lorna Hughes, her staff and students at the Humanities

Computing Group of New York University, for their dedication and high

standards in mounting pre-publication versions of the text leading up to

this final version and for hosting the Guide. Thanks also to Meg Bellinger,

Vice President, OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources, for services that

will mirror the Guide on OCLC web sites in the U.S. and abroad.

The NINCH Working Group on Best Practices produced the Guide, in

association with the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information

Institute (HATII) of the University of Glasgow.

The Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust made the Guide possible

through a generous grant, for which the NINCH Board of Directors expresses

its thanks.

The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is a diverse

nonprofit coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations

created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution

of the digital environment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.  Introduction

2.  Project Planning

3.  Selecting Materials: An Iterative Process

4.  Rights Management

5.  Digtization & Encoding of Text

6.  Capture and Management of Images

7.  Audio/Video Capture and Management

8.  Quality Control and Assurance

9.  Working With Others

10. Distribution

11. Sustainability: Models for Long-Term Funding

12. Assessment of Projects by User Evaluation

13. Digital Asset Management

14. Preservation

    Appendix A: Equipment

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    Appendix C: Digital Data Capture: Sampling

    References

    Bibliography

    Interview Reports and

    Interview Instrument

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From: Willard McCarty <willard@mccarty.me.uk>
Subject: call for revisions: "Institutional Models for Humanities
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:39:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 464 (464)


Computing"

Call for updates and corrections to

Willard McCarty and Matthew Kirschenbaum,

"Institutional Models for Humanities Computing",

forthcoming in Literary and Linguistic Computing.

<<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/allc/archive/hcim/hcim-021009.htm">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/allc/archive/hcim/hcim-021009.htm</a>>.

Unavoidable delays in publishing "Institutional Models for Humanities

Computing" give us the opportunity to include unaccountably overlooked

departments, centres, institutes, programmes &al. in or closely related to

humanities computing and to correct errors for those we have listed. Please

refer to the penultimate draft at the above URL. Send any additions or

corrections to <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> by 16 December 2002.

Please note that "Institutional Models" is planned as an annual publication

in LLC and will be kept updated online.

Many thanks.

Yours,

Willard McCarty (King's College London)

Matthew Kirschenbaum (Maryland)

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 <willard@mccarty.me.uk>
Subject: reason
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:39:41 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 465 (465)


With regards to the title of a recent book on modelling, Model-Based

Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values, Francois Lachance asks why I said I

was bothered by the word "reasoning" in the title, esp. in light of the

physicality in perceptual simulations that one article in this book

discusses. Good question.

Elijah Millgram, in his article on "practical reasoning" in the online

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind,

<<a href="http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/practicalreasoning.html">http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/practicalreasoning.html</a>>, asks a

series of questions that seem to me a better response than I could give. In

other words, I think I'm bothered because we need to ask precisely what we

mean by "reasoning" when used to describe what happens in modelling. I

quote below a somewhat edited version of the entry on "reason" from the

Oxford English Dictionary to indicate that the semantic field of

possibilities is vast. It is also useful to consider what happens to the

idea when it is automated, for which see Frederic Portoraro's article on

"automated reasoning" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

<<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-automated/">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-automated/</a>>.

Yours,

WM
[deleted quotation]
Obs.
[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

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From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.328 physical reasoning
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:40:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 466 (466)


What is "physical reasoning" ?  I can't discern any meaning in the

phrase.



From: Matthew Stephens <matt@panopticon.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.326 thinking physically
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:41:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 467 (467)


Dear Willard,

I have recently been alerted to an entire movement in psychology devoted to

this issue; what's known as 'ecological psychology' dates from the 60s

onward, and there's lots to choose from on the issue of perception, bodily

awareness, etc., and their relation to thought. One classic source is The

ecological approach to visual perception (1979) by James Gibson.  There is

also a periodical entitled Ecological Psychology you might want to

peruse.  I must express my indebtedness to Stan Ruecker here at the

University of Alberta (and a participant in our Humanities Computing

programme!) for this tip.

Not to plug the U of A too shamelessly, but there is some other business

here you might find interesting.  Drs. David Miall and Don Kuiken are

pursuing some questions related to your issues (specifically, the physical

reaction to texts and the way meaning influences the physiology and

phenomenology of reading), and they have some material online.  You can

visit their site by visiting

<<a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/">http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/</a>><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/">http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/</a>

They are proceeding from a Husserlian tradition, which I trust is not too

far removed from your own point of departure.

Finally, I would recommend William James's Principles of Psychology (1890);

it is a classic source of what was then known as 'functional psychology',

and there and in his Pragmatism James tried to analyze knowing in terms of

the function knowledge plays in leading an organism to its desired

end.  James wrote a psychology essay entitled "The Function of Cognition"

that I have found stimulating on these questions.  Imagery and stimulation

of motor programmes played a major role in James's account of

knowledge.  It's amazing to see how James anticipated many of the

techniques of phenomenologists, despite his rather different

background.   James has had an (albeit subtle) influence on phenomenology

(Husserl was a fan), but also on a vibrant strand within neuroscience:

Gerald Edelman's Bright Air, Brilliant Fire (1993) is a wonderful read, and

very much in the vein you mentioned.

In any case, good luck with your research, and feel free to distribute this

letter to others as you see fit.

Yours most,

Matthew Stephens

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB

Canada



From: "Al Magary" <al@magary.com>
Subject: Re: 16.329 messy science
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:39:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 468 (468)

[deleted quotation]
Watson's is a most human book, and quite scandalous when it was

first published (1968) because it was refreshingly candid,

gossipy, and, by the way, full of intrigue.  It does convey a

lot about how science *can* proceed--true, anyway, for Watson

and Crick in the early 50s.

That's for readers.  For society the book is as problematical as

its controversial contemporary, Thomas Kuhn's _The Structure of

Scientific Revolutions_ (2nd ed. enl., UChicago, 1970; pbk,

1996).  Yes, that's the book that introduced the now popular

notion of "paradigm shift" as indicative of how science

progresses.  This is vastly upsetting to those who believe in

science as a steady day-by-day accretion of knowledge and

continual improvement of comprehensive theories.

I find Kuhn persuasive, but the Kuhnian heritage may be

generally regrettable.  It cannot help but give hope to fringe

theorists and cranks and those for whom "they laughed at

Columbus too"--generally, the X-Files crowd--is plausible

scientific argument.   It gives the media reason to play up

stories of cold fusion and cloning of complete humans.   It

gives aid and comfort, basically, to those who wish for

political reasons to challenge scientific consensus, as for

example the Bush White House cavalierly dismisses global

warming.  Worse, I think, is that Kuhn gave birth to the idea

that science is a social construct that may be critiqued in the

same way as any other human institution, and thus undermines the

fundamental effectiveness of the scientific method.

In this context, Watson's _The Double Helix_ is the case

example:  "Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward

logical manner imagined by outsiders," Watson wrote.  Theirs was

not your billion-dollar NIH program run by the science

establishment.  No, it was a daring, hardly authorized effort in

one corner of a Cambridge lab--hardly a program at all--run by a

couple of cowboys.  These young, even ignorant scientists did a

lot of talking and imagining and dreaming up half-cocked ideas,

and not all that much research and experimentation.  But through

luck and some dealing that was not entirely above board, hit on

the structure of DNA, and carried off the Nobel Prize a few

years later.

Needless to say, the Watson-Crick-Kuhn picture of science is

pretty entertaining.  Watson's book was made in 1987 as a

British TV movie, variously called Life Story, The Double Helix,

and The Race for the Double Helix (it's title on A&E in the US),

with gloriously intellectual cast:   Jeff Goldblum as Watson,

Tim Pigott-Smith as Crick, Alan Howard as Maurice Wilkins, and

Juliet Stevenson as Rosalind Franklin.  If you can find it, this

is terrific viewing in high school or college--and not just in

science classes.

Al Magary



From: "Prof. R. Sussex" <sussex@uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: 16.329 messy science
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:39:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 469 (469)


With reference to Willard on Watson and Pauling: bricolage and its relation

to scientific discovery is something that one doesn't find in Popper or

Kuhn, but I suspect it has become a large part of much work (bottom-up

tinkering, inductive hit and miss...) in much science since: I also think

it is part of the blurring of the artificial boundary between pure and

applied research.


--
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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
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From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.329 messy science
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:40:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 470 (470)

Willard, I agree --Double Helix is a great book.
I also have thought for years that "organized thinking" is a fraud. I
wouldn't say that Joyce had it right in Ulysses, but he was closer than
most people who try to analyze it.
I recall a story about Alfred North Whitehead, who, while at Harvard,
agreed once to join a dissertation committee if he could interview the
candidate alone at his (Whitehead's) home.  The young man sent his
dissertation -- a long, complex, highly structured analysis of the
Process of Knowing.
Whitehead invited him for tea.  While they were sipping, he referred the
candidate to a fly on the ceilng and asked what that fly might make of
the two them sitting there.  He and the student talked rather a long
time, after which Whitehead said "Yes..so complex, so messy, so beyond
analysis. So unlike your dissertation....."



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.40
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:40:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 471 (471)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 40,  Week of November 18, 2002

In this issue:

Interview --

Robert Aiken on the Future of Learning

In the hands of skilled teachers, technology will provide students

with the best possible education -- both face-to-face and distant,

collaborative and individualized, and entertaining and instructional.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_aiken_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_aiken_1.html</a>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: review of Pinker's The Blank Slate
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:13:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 472 (472)


Members of this group may know about Steven Pinker's latest book, The Blank

Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Even if not you'll likely find

Simon Blackburn's review of it, "Meet the Flintstones", in the New

Republic, at

<<a href="http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021125&s=blackburn112502">http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021125&s=blackburn112502</a>>,

very interesting -- by turns funny and depressing. Intellectual

weed-control is a full-time job.

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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: book on Symbolizing, Modeling and Tool Use
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:16:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 473 (473)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Symbolizing, Modeling and Tool Use in Mathematics Education

edited by

Koeno Gravenmeijer

Freudenthal Institute/Dept. of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University,

The Netherlands

Richard Lehrer

Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Bert van Oers

Dept. of Education and Curriculum, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lieven Verschaffel

Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology, University of Leuven,

Belgium

MATHEMATICS EDUCATION LIBRARY -- 30

The almost universal rejection of the notion of symbols as `carriers of

meaning' has created the need to find an alternative for the use of models

as embodiments of mathematical concepts. By taking its point of departure

as a concern for the way students actually use tools and symbols, and for

what these signify for them, this book explores the option of building on

symbolizing, modelling and tool use as personally meaningful activities of

students. This theme is approached from different angles and different

perspectives. One dimension is that of setting, varying from the study of

informal, spontaneous activity of students, to an explicit focus on

instructional design, and goals and effects of instruction. Another

dimension is the theoretical framework of the researcher, varying from

constructivism, to activity theory, cognitive-psychology and

instructional-design theory. This book will appeal to a wide audience,

varying from researchers, instructional designers, educators, and graduate

students.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Introduction and overview; K. Gravemeijer, et al. Preamble: from models to

modelling; K. Gravemeijer.

Section I: Emergent Modeling. Introduction to Section I: Informal

representations and their improvements; B.van Oers. The mathematization of

young childern's language;B.van Oers. Symbolizing space into being; R.

Lehrer, C.Pritchard. Mathematical representations as systems of

notations-in-use; L. Meira. Student's criteria for representational

adequacy; A. diSessa. Transitions in emergent modeling; N. Presmeg.

Section II: The Role of Models, Symbols and Tools in Instructional

Design. Introduction to Section II: the role of models, symbols and tools

in instructional design; K. Gravemeijer. Emergent models as an

instructional design heuristic; K. Gravemeijer, M. Stephan. Modeling,

symbolizing, and tool use in statistical data analysis; P. Cobb. Didactic

objects and didactic models in radical constructivism; P.W.Thompson. Taking

into account different views: three brief comments on papers by Gravemeijer

and Stephan, Cobb and Thompson; C. Selter.

Section III: Models, Situated Practices, and Generalization. Introduction

to Section II: models, situated practices, and generalization; L.

Verschaffel. On guessing the essential thing; R.Nemirovsky. Everyday

knowledge and mathematical modeling of school word problems;L. Verschaffel,

et al. On the development of human representational competence from an

evolutionary point of view: from episodic to virtual culture; J. Kaput, D.

Shaffer. Modeling reasoning; D. Carraher, A. Schliemann. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1032-X Date: December 2002 Pages: 318 pp.

EURO 112.00 / USD 108.00 / GBP 72.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: carolyn guertin <cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: <fwd> Job Posting, University of Regina
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:14:32 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 474 (474)


please forward
[deleted quotation]
___________________________________________________

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: "askthephilosopher" <askthephilosopher@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.333 messy science
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:13:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 475 (475)


Talking about messy science--does anyone know whether there is a biography,

or even intellectual history of Hugh Everett and his relative wave theory of

QM, now known as the multiverse theory?

I am doing research on how that theory and the various debates about and

within QM concerning the collapse of the wave function which actually is an

anomoly to Kuhn's theory of scientific revolution.  However, what I would

like to know is--why did Everett leave physics given that he developed one

of the most revolutionary and original theories in the history of QM?

[Sheldon Richmond]



From: Dorothy Day <day@bluemarble.net>
Subject: Obituary for Dottie Day, long time Humanist member &
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:54:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 476 (476)


unsubscribe

Dear Willard and Humanist Discussion Group members,

     Dottie and I have been involved in Humanites computing for almost 2

decades now. I haven't been a member of the Humanist list for some time,

but she has remained a faithful member. Unfortunately, she was diagnosed

with unresectable pancreatic cancer the day after Thanksgiving 2000 and

after a long tenacious struggle finally died on Nov. 13, 2002. For those

of you who remember her or me, you might want to look at the memorial web

site I have set up for her at <a href="http://php.indiana.edu/~daym/dottie.html">http://php.indiana.edu/~daym/dottie.html</a>

As you'll discover, if you didn't already know, humanities computing was

central to her life in these last several years.

     I am in the process of closing out her email account and its massive

number of email messages. The account will be shut down at the end of the

year (Dec. 31, 2002). Would you please unsubscribe her from this list?

Thank you.

    Any messages that you wish for me to receive now or in the future can be

sent to my email account: daym@indiana.edu

    We'll miss all of you and your lively discussions.

    Mark T. Day

    Associate Librarian, Reference and Middle Eastern Studies

    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405

    Home: 2536 E. 8th Street

          Bloomington IN 47408

          (812) 332-0496

***********

Dorothy Day

day@bluemarble.net



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@KCL.AC.UK>
Subject: best OCR software?
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:58:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 477 (477)

[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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: possibly relevant book on epistemology in science
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:56:32 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 478 (478)


Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Quantum Mechanics, Mathematics, Cognition and Action

Proposals for a Formalized Epistemology

edited by

Mioara Mugur-Schchter

Centre pour la Synthse d'une pistmologie formalise, Paris, France

Alwyn van der Merwe

Dept. of Physics, University of Denver, CO, USA

FUNDAMENTAL THEORIES OF PHYSICS -- 129

The purpose of this book is to initiate a new discipline, namely a

formalized epistemological method drawn from the cognitive strategies

practised in the most effective among the modem scientific disciplines, as

well as from general philosophical thinking. Indeed, what is lacking in

order to improve our knowledge and our domination of the modes which

nowadays are available for the generation and communication of knowledge,

thoroughly and rapidly and with precision and detail? It is a systematic

explication of the epistemological essence encrypted in the specialized

languages and algorithms of the major modern scientific approaches, a

systematic cross-referencing of the explicated results, and a final

elaboration of a new coherent whole.

Quantum mechanics, like a diver, can take us down to the level of the very

first actions of our conceptualization of reality. And starting from there,

it can induce an explicit understanding of certain fundamental features of

the new scientific thinking.

A formalized epistemology should not be mistaken for a crossdisciplinary or

a multidisciplinary project. The latter projects are designed to offer to

nonspecialists access to information, to results obtained inside

specialized disciplines, as well as a certain understanding of these

results; whereas a formalized epistemology should equip anyone with a

framework for conceptualizing himself in whatever domain and direction he

or she might choose. A formalized epistemology should not be mistaken

either for an approach belonging to the modern cognitive sciences. These

try to establish as neutrally as possible descriptions of how the human

body-and-mind work spontaneously when knowledge is generated; whereas a

method of conceptualization should establish what conceptual-operational

deliberate procedures have to be applied in order to represent and to

achieve processes of generation of knowledge optimized accordingly to any

definite aims.

This book addresses philosophers of science, physicists, mathematicians,

logicians, computer scientists, researchers in cognitive sciences, and

biologists, as well as any intellectual who is interested in scientific and

philosophical thinking.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1120-2 Date: December 2002 Pages: 504 pp.

EURO 195.00 / USD 191.00 / GBP 123.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Shattered embodiment & technology of Cyberspace
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 06:55:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 479 (479)


Recently during my (re)search of "Embodiment and Cyberspace" I

found an article on "Shattered embodiment, Cyberspace as Cartesian

Project" by Dr. Elke Mueller -which I thought might interest to humanist

scholars..

In the Western world, we are still proceeding from a Cartesian worldview.

In the paper "Shattered embodiment: Cyberspace as Cartesian Project" Dr.

Mueller first illustrates that this dualistic worldview is objectified in

Virtual Reality technologies. In order to illustrate this, she first

explains the main ideas of Descartes 'Optics with respect to his vision on

sense perception, space and the body. Secondly, she compares the described

topics of Descartes' philosophy with the phenomenological critique and

alternative of Merleau-Ponty.

These elaborations will serve as a background for my illustration. She

distinguishes three kinds of virtual spaces, of which the CAVE seems to

arouse the strongest kind of Cartesian ruptures, which later she will

refer to as experiences of "shattered embodiment."

PS: If anybody wants to read the entire article, then please contact Arun

Tripathi at <tripathi@mail.waoe.org>

Any thoughts are most welcome!!

Sincerely yours,

Arun Tripathi



From: Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVInternet.com>
Subject: Re: 16.338 best OCR software?
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:03:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 480 (480)


At 01:05 AM 11/22/02, you wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I can only offer a straw poll entry based on casual use.

In this category, TextBridge Classic, a Xerox product,

appears to do well enough. It makes the usual proportion of

mistakes which are intuitive - so that a lower case d might

traduce to c and l.   I don't find that correcting this proportion

   - under 0.1% -  is onerous. I have used two scanners - both

cheap, and as is the custom, cheap is getting more capable

   as time passes. The usb port which the current Canon

scanner uses is a blessed relief from unwieldy printer ports

formerly used for input. I use Win98.

Brian Whatcott

    Altus OK                      Eureka!



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: OCR hardware
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:06:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 481 (481)


In response to Chris Koch's query about OCR software, allow me to suggest

beginning with the Information Science Research Institute, University of

Nevada (US), which has for years been concerned with evaluation of systems.

See <<a href="http://www.isri.unlv.edu/">http://www.isri.unlv.edu/</a>>, esp under Publications / Journal Articles

and Technical Reports. Note also Center of Excellence for Document

Recognition and Analysis, State University of New York (Buffalo). Then

there are the extensive activities of the Centre for Pattern Recognition

and Machine Intelligence at Concordia University (Canada),

<<a href="http://www.cenparmi.concordia.ca/">http://www.cenparmi.concordia.ca/</a>>, esp under publications. Many of these

publications are about the sort of leading-edge research not of much use to

someone wanting to scan documents accurately NOW.

Allow me also to report on a wonderful gadget that does more than well

enough under circumstances of note-taking. This is the C-Pen, www.cpen.com,

a handheld, pen-like device for scanning lines of printed text and

producing e-text. I purchased the C-Pen 600C some time ago and have been

using it for capturing passages from books I am reading. One's arm and hand

guiding a rigid device over the curved surface of a book-page cannot easily

achieve smooth accuracy of movement, but the character-recognition

capability of the device is usually good enough to compensate for minor

variations and the deep valley of the book's gutter. The pre-installed

software compensates for hyphens at the ends of lines, i.e. deletes them

and brings the severed parts of the affected words together.

I have not attempted to measure accuracy, but then I don't care as much

about that as I had thought I might. If I were attempting to digitize

significant amounts of text for subsequent analysis or publishing, I would

never, never use the C-Pen -- for one thing, line-at-a-time scanning is

simply too slow. But in combination with a handheld computer, such as a

Palm (into which one can beam the newly scanned text), it is a marvel.

Note-taking is a very individual thing -- I suppose that's true almost by

definition. In my practice I want sometimes to paraphrase, sometimes to

capture exactly. The C-Pen allows for much less troublesome capture. Of

course, as a result, nowadays I end up with many more and much longer exact

transcriptions. It will take some time before I can observe the effects on

my research, which is bound to be affected somehow. But at this early stage

I am certainly pleased enough not to be regretting the expense.

I have tried using the C-Pen with Palm in public places, e.g. on trains,

but find that its use attracts too much (admittedly polite, this being

London) attention and the amount of space one has makes the fiddling too

fiddly. But settled in a chair, at home or in the library, one has all one

needs.

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: Ron Tetreault <tetro@dal.ca>
Subject: CFP: COCH/COSH 2003
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:07:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 482 (482)


       **Call for Papers and proposals for Panels**

COCH/COSH 2003

The annual conference of the Consortium for Computers in the

Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines

at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities will be held

27-28 May 2003 at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA.

This year's theme: Humanities Computing and Pedagogy

Advances in computing technology and the growing availability of

information technology resources have had an enormous impact on the way we

teach.  Papers are invited on such topics as:

          the use of WWW resources in the classroom

          application of IT to teaching writing

          development of interactive learning programs

          use of text-analysis in humanities teaching

          the teaching of humanities computing itself

It is hoped to present a joint session with ACCUTE (Association of Canadian

College and University Teachers of English) devoted to this year's theme.

In addition to papers on this subject, proposals for papers or panels on

any other area of humanities computing research are also welcome.

DEADLINE for submissions: 28 February 2003

Proposals for papers and panels must be submitted to the program chair:

Ronald Tetreault

Dept. of English

Dalhousie University

6135 University Avenue

Halifax, Nova Scotia

B3H 4P9 CANADA

e-mail: tetro@dal.ca


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+ Department of English                               Fax: (902) 494-2176  +
+ Dalhousie University                    e-mail: Ronald.Tetreault@Dal.Ca  +
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+                                                                          +
+               Visit the Dalhousie Electronic Text Centre at              +
+                         <<a href="http://www.dal.ca/etc/">http://www.dal.ca/etc/</a>>                         +
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From: "Arianna Ciula" <ciula@media.unisi.it>
Subject: Re: 16.338 best OCR software?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:26:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 483 (483)


Just a suggestion for people interested in progress on OCR development and

document analysis:

<a href="http://tev.itc.it/OCR/HomePage.html">http://tev.itc.it/OCR/HomePage.html</a>

Yours,

Arianna Ciula



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.343 OCR software and hardware
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:26:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 484 (484)


I've used TextBridge Classic, TextBridge 98, and TextBridge 11.0.  I

like the 11.0 the best.

But when I have to do things like scan in pictures that don't take up

whole pages, I revert to PaperPort (Visioneer).



From: Susan Hesemeier <sah4@ualberta.ca>
Subject: Humanities Computing Graduate Conference Program
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:28:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 485 (485)


"New Perspectives in Humanities Computing"

December 5-6, 2002

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB  Canada

This year's Humanities Computing Graduate Conference, "New Perspectives in

Humanities Computing", promises to be a lively and interesting affair with an

international collection of 28 speakers.  The conference will take place

December 5-6, 2002, and we have sessions covering the following topics:

Online Communities

Gender, Identity, and Nation

Reproduction, Representation, and the Politics of New Media

Databases and Archiving

Tool Making and Tool Use

Hypertext and the Interface

Language and Linguistics

Technology and Pedagogy

The keynote address will be provided by David Miall of the Department of

English at the University of Alberta.

If you are planning to attend from outside of Edmonton, please contact us for

accommodation information at hucoconf@huco.ualberta.ca.

The complete conference program is available on the conference website at

<a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf">http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf</a>.

......................................................................

Susan Hesemeier

Department of Comparative Literature,

Religion, and Film/Media Studies

University of Alberta

M.A. in Humanities Computing Program

website: <a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/~sah4">http://huco.ualberta.ca/~sah4</a>

"A backwards poet writes inverse"



From: Otmar.K.Foelsche@Dartmouth.EDU (Otmar K. Foelsche)
Subject: Re: 16.345 OCR research & favourites
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:53:41 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 486 (486)


My list of favorites-

FineReader 5.0, a Russian product, is available for PC  and Mac. We have

had excellent results. Go to www.abbyyusa.com.

We have also had good results with various versions of OmniPage. Their

product for Mac OS X, on the other hand, does not install correctly and the

company is less than helpful, to put it mildly. Go to www.scansoft.com.

Otmar Foelsche

Dartmouth College



From: Glenn Everett <geverett@stonehill.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.338 best OCR software?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:53:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 487 (487)


The most current review I know of is PC Magazine's October 15, 2002 "OCR:

The Best Yet"

<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,551936,00.asp">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,551936,00.asp</a>

See also the "boxed" information at <a href="http://www.scantips.com/">http://www.scantips.com/</a>

My impression is that the scanner itself (unless VERY cheap) makes much

less difference than the software.

Glenn S. Everett, PhD

Director of Instructional Technology

Stonehill College

Easton, MA 02357

geverett@stonehill.edu

(voice) 508-565-1541

(fax) 508-565-1119

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: w.mccarty@btopenworld.com
Subject: Call for Papers / Humanities Computing and Narratology
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:07:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 488 (488)

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narratological concepts in
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From: w.mccarty@btopenworld.com
Subject: Announcement of Second Release of An American Time
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:08:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 489 (489)


Capsule:  Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
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Capsule:  Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
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online.
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From: Claire Gardent <Claire.Gardent@loria.fr>
Subject: EACL03 Last call for Research Notes and Demos
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:05:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 490 (490)


                              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>

           +---------------------------------------------------+

Last Call for Research Notes and Demos

Important dates:

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

         . Paper Registration deadline: 01 December

          . Paper Submission deadline: 06 December

Important URLs:

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

Main conference: <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>

Research notes and Demos: <a href="http://tcc.itc.it/people/lavelli/eacl2003/">http://tcc.itc.it/people/lavelli/eacl2003/</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Portal Toolkit Developed by internet Scout Project
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:04:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 491 (491)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

November 26, 2002

              Internet Scout Project Releases Scout Portal Toolkit

                     <a href="http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/SPT/">http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/SPT/</a>
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The Internet Scout Project is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of the

Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT)!

This open source software package, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation, allows groups or organizations to develop a portal online

without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise. This

release marks the first post-beta release of SPT.

Interested users and current beta testing organizations are strongly

encouraged to offer feedback by taking a brief (12 questions) survey. This

survey will help us gather information to refine SPT in future releases and

evaluate our work to date. The survey can be found at

<a href="http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?AQCFEBSRABAHA8YT38NW3520">http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?AQCFEBSRABAHA8YT38NW3520</a>

The SPT 1.0.0 package features include:

* Shipped with a MySQL database with  Dublin Core compliant metadata

default  fields;

* Cross-Field Searching (Advanced Search);

* Metadata field editor, which allows portal  administrators the ability to

add, delete, or disable a variety of metadata fields;

* Resource comments by Users;

* Intelligent User Agents;

* Resource Quality Ratings by Users;

* Suggested Resource Referrals (Recommender System);

* Accessible to users with disabilities;

* -Support for RSS channel export and the Open Archives Initiative

(OAI)Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0;

* Discussion forum options;

For more information on SPT and its features, to explore a demo

installation, or to download the software go

to   <a href="http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/SPT/">http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/SPT/</a>

Specific comments, question and bug reports can be sent to

<SPTSupport@scout.wisc.edu>.

Also, the November issue of D-LIB Magazine has an article on the SPT

software. Discussed are the key features and functionality. The article may

be found at

<a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/almasy/11almasy.html">http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/almasy/11almasy.html</a>

The development team looks forward to hearing your feedback!

Thanks,


--
David J. Sleasman
Metadata and Cataloging Services Coordinator
Internet Scout Project
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Phone: 608-263-2674
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From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.41
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:05:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 492 (492)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 41,  Week of November 25, 2002

In this issue:

View --

Internet Access for African Countries

Exploring the factors that hinder and help the development of

Internet access in Africa

by Kofi de Heer-Menlah

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/f_kofi_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/f_kofi_1.html</a>

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Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in

the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is

copyrighted 2002 by the ACM and the individual authors.

To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org.

Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org.

For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: <<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/</a>>

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This method allows you to unsubscribe if the address you are subscribed

with is a forwarding alias.

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From: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org
Subject: EACL2003: 2nd Call for Workshop Papers
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:30:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 493 (493)


             EACL 2003 in Budapest, April 12-17, 2003

      Workshop Programme and Second Call for Workshop Papers

Important dates for all workshops:

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

Submission deadline:       Jan 07, 2003

Notification:              Jan 28, 2003

Deadline for final papers: Feb 13, 2003

Workshop dates:         Apr 13/14, 2003

Conference dates:       Apr 12-17, 2003

Important URLs:

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

Main conference: <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>

Workshops:       <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/workshops">http://www.elsnet.org/workshops</a>

[material deleted]



From: "Miran Hladnik" <miran.hladnik@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: The Slovene Novel
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:30:33 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 494 (494)


The Program of the 21th international Symposium Obdobja (Ljubljana, Dec.

5.-7.), this year dedicated to the Slovene novel, is available at

<a href="http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/center-slo/l5.asp?L1_ID=31&L2_ID=16&L3_ID=58&L4_ID=1">http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/center-slo/l5.asp?L1_ID=31&L2_ID=16&L3_ID=58&L4_ID=1</a>

7.

There will be 85 papers presented by the participants from 13 countries.

Among 26 Sessions there are: Nation and politics, Women, Historical novel,

Ivan Cankar, Vladimir Bartol, Detective novel, South Slavs, Translation,

Myth, Slovene novel and English language.

Miran Hladnik



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: VIRTUAL ART: From Illusion to Immersion', Oliver Grau
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:31:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 495 (495)


It is an exquisite hono(u)r for me to tell you about the new book of Dr.

Oliver Grau.. The book is breaking new ground in the field of Computer

technology and virtual art.

Virtual reality (VR) is a constant phenomenon in art history that can be

traced back to antiquity. It can involve an area of ritual action, a

private, artificial paradise, or a public sphere with politically

suggestive power--in short, it encompasses a visual history that is

characterized by totality. The concept of transposing viewers into an

enclosed, illusionary visual space has been revived and expanded in the VR

art of the current age. The more intimately an interface nestles into

viewers' senses, the more intense their immersion will be. Such an

interface weakens the viewers' sense of psychological distance and puts

the relationship between art and consciousness into question. (Into the

Belly of the Image: Historical Aspects of Virtual Reality, Oliver Grau)

New Book: VIRTUAL ART: From Illusion to Immersion' by Oliver Grau

(forthcoming from MIT Press, January 2003)

See below the TOUR DATES, in which Dr. Oliver Grau will be presenting his

book and giving the lecture on the book, "Virtual Art."

Although many people view virtual and mixed realities as a totally new

phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive

images. The search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to

antiquity. Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of

illusion and immersion and shows how each epoch used the technical means

available to produce maximum illusion from Pompeiis Villa dei Misteri via

baroque frescoes, panoramas, immersive cinema to the CAVE. He describes

the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those

concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and

image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to

understand the phenomenon of immersion beyond the hype.

Doing that, Grau draws on the work of contemporary artists like Maurice

Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Eduardo Kac, Christa

Sommerer, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Jeffrey Shaw et al.

For extra details, please visit the below web site

<<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=CA3369AD-CACF-445C-93C9-6063445BD225&ttype=2&tid=9214">http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=CA3369AD-CACF-445C-93C9-6063445BD225&ttype=2&tid=9214</a>>

About the author: Oliver Grau is lecturer in Art History at Humboldt

University, Berlin, and head of the German Science Foundation's project on

"Immersive Art". He is creating the International Database of Virtual Art

with the aid of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science. Grau is

visiting professor in Linz.

LECTURE TOUR (sponsored by Goethe Institute and various hosts).

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

San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Monday Dec. 2

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium

160 Kroeber Hall

Curated by Ken Goldberg with ATC Advisory Board

7:30-9:00pm

Stanford University, Tuesday Dec. 3

4:15 pm

Stanford University, Lane History Building 200, Room 307

Los Angeles, UCLA (Department of Design and Media Arts), Wednesday Dec. 4

6 pm 7 pm

Kinross North Bldg. Room 104 EDA

Chicago, School of the Art Institute, Friday Dec. 6

Noon talk from 12-1p.m.

SAIC Auditorium

280 S. Columbus Dr. (Corner of Jackson and Columbus Dr.)

Toronto, Goethe-Institut, Sunday Dec. 8

Goethe-Institut Toronto

11:00 am, New Media

Kind regards,

Arun Tripathi



From: "Michel Lemaire" <mlemaire@uottawa.ca>
Subject: L'Astrolabe
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:26:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 496 (496)


Hello,

"L'Astrolabe" is a website, in French, dedicated to "Literary Research and

Computing". The first section of the site offers more than thirty original

peer-reviewed articles on various topics, ranging from the evaluation of

Internet resources to theoretical and methodological reflections about

hypertext, text analysis software, and new directions of research in

humanities.

          <<a href="http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe">http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe</a>>www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe

The authors, from Canadian, French and American universities, include:

Lorraine Albert, Michel Bernard, Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy, Etienne Brunet,

Stephane Haffemayer, Dominique Labbe, Michel Lemaire, Paul Marchand, Sophie

Marcotte, Damon Mayaffre, Christian Milat, Nhu-Hoa Nguyen, Sylvain Rheault,

Stefan Sinclair, Danielle Trudeau, Christian Vandendorpe and Alain Vuillemin.

The second section of the site consists of a database offering detailed

evaluations of websites about literature. It contains at the moment more

than four hundred files.

Submissions of article resumes are welcome.

Michel Lemaire

Departement des lettres franaises

Universite d'Ottawa

<mailto:mlemaire@uottawa.ca>mlemaire@uottawa.ca



From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- November 2002
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:29:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 497 (497)


CIT INFOBITS    November 2002           No. 53          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.

......................................................................

Student Criticisms of the Online Classroom

Educational Technology and Academic Labor

Teaching as a Clinical Profession

Business Technologies in the Classroom

EDUCAUSE 2002 Proceedings Papers

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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: significant deviations
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:48:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 498 (498)


In Nelson Goodman's extraordinary book, Languages of Art

(Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1976), is the most precise and clearest argument I

have encountered for the nature of algorithmically constrained thinking --

and, among many other questions, what makes digital different from analog.

Goodman is concerned to articulate the idea of a notational language to

resolve questions in aesthetics, centrally on the nature of representation.

His prime example of a notational system is the musical score. Goodman's

argument is, as I said, clear, but it is also as difficult as it is

rewarding. So I will not attempt any summary. But I do wish to recommend

the entire book in passing, hoping to solicit comments on it from others

who know the work, while speeding to a particular question that he raises.

In discussing alternate musical notations, Goodman very briefly outlines

John Cage's (pp. 187ff): "dots, for single sounds, are placed within a

rectangle; across the rectangle, at varying angles and perhaps

intersecting, run five straight lines for (severally) frequency, duration,

timbre, amplitude, and succession. The significant factors  determining the

sounds indicated by a dot are the perpendicular distances from the dot to

these lines." For the purposes of my question it's not important that you

understand much about Cage's notation, except that in Goodman's terms it is

not notational: since no limit is set on how small the differences in

position can be to distinguish one note from another, no measurement can

ever determine that any mark belongs to one note rather than to another.

Thus no measurement can determine if any given performance complies with a

given diagram.

Now here's the point I wish to question. Goodman asks, aren't such diagrams

good enough, given precise means of reproduction? The answer is no: however

small the inaccuracy, a chain of successive reproductions can lead to

significant deviation. And one has to ensure not only a limit on

significant deviation, also disjointness of characters -- i.e. you have to

be able in principle *always* to tell two characters apart in the system.

Consider the rationale of an electronic textual edition, in particular

consider the argument that all one needs in such an edition are

high-definition images. The usual contrary is that, after all, we really do

need the investment of editorial intelligence in our editions, and in fact

we can have the best of both worlds by combining images with commentary. My

question is as follows: does Goodman's point about Cage-like systems lend

new and fundamentally more interesting support to editorial intervention

than the argument from efficiency of accumulated scholarship (we need

editors to do their thing because we want to do other things)? No matter

how good the imaging, the digital image, as it is actually seen, is not the

original: choices are made during the imaging, and the process of putting

the result before one's eyes inevitably causes changes. But the editor,

having viewed the original, can record insights obtained from direct

inspection, e.g. as markup.

So, then, if I am right, the digital less can be more than imaging is able

to provide. Could this be what it means to reimagine a work in the new medium?

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: Stefan Sinclair <ss@huco.lang.arts.ualberta.ca>
Subject: report on M.A. in Humanities Computing at the UofA
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 07:19:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 499 (499)


Dear Colleagues,

Last spring I had planned to produce a report for Humanist describing the

successes and difficulties encountered during the first year of operation

of the M.A. in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta. In many

ways the circumstances of the programme represent a microcosm of our

discipline: we are confronting the issues of defining ourselves for at

least three potentially very different purposes: teaching, research, and

administration.

At about the same moment that I began drafting the report for Humanist, I

was invited to prepare an article on the programme to be considered for

publication in another venue. Although this distracted me from my original

purpose, it did provide me a context for examining the M.A. programme in

more depth. The result, co-authored with Sean Gouglas (my colleague in the

M.A. programme), is available in _Arts & Humanities in Higher Education_:

"Theory into Practice: A Case Study of the Humanities Computing Master or

Arts Programme at the University of Alberta" (volume 1, issue 2, pp.

167-183).

The tone and content of the article are (more?) appropriate for a wide

audience in the liberal arts. For instance, I don't imagine that many

subscribers to Humanist need to be convinced of the potential for

technology to promote interdisciplinary research and teaching. Similarly,

the description of the circumstances leading to the conception and

development of the M.A in Humanities Computing may be more engaging for

administrators than researchers. On the other hand, the philosophy behind

the curriculum and the descriptions of the primary courses may be of

interest to readers of Humanist, particularly those who teach in our

field.

Given that "Humanities Computing" still has considerable mystique in

academe (read: is still not widely known or understood), Sean and I made

an effort in the article to focus on the many positive sides of the field,

especially for those who may be encountering it for the first time. In the

context of a posting to Humanist, I'm much more prepared to expose and

debate our vulnerabilities as well. What follows is an attempt to identify

more frankly the principal successes and challenges that we have

encountered.

Challenges:

a) convincing people that Humanities Computing for us includes not only

the Humanities, but also the Social Sciences and Fine Arts (students have

a "home" department from any one of these major divisions, so the name

issue is important to us)

b) teaching the technical components of the programme to students who have

widely divergent skill sets when entering the programme (we don't want to

exclude students without technical skills - on the contrary); it's worth

noting that divergence in theoretical and disciplinary background has

proven to be much less an issue

c) offering social space to accompany the excellent lab space that we have

- Humanities Computing should certainly be aware of the importance of

human interaction in the work we do

d) covering the broad range of topics through essentially the two

professors who were hired to teach the programme (I'd also be tempted to

put this under "successes" because I think we have managed quite well,

particularly with topics that were new to us, but it has certainly been a

challenge)

e) offering a diversity of optional courses for the second year students

(this has partly to do with the administrative difficulties in "sharing"

resources with other departments - we are finding solutions through

cross-listing courses and sessional instructors)

f) providing funding for students (again, we have succeeded well here -

nearly all students are receiving substantial funding, often as a direct

result of their new found skills - but it has been a challenge,

particularly since most of the funding has to come from the students'

administrative home departments)

Some of these challenges (and others) are not necessarily problems to be

resolved; strategic choices have been made (like calling ourselves

"Humanities Computing" or anchoring the programme in more traditional

disciplines) and though they present challenges, they are not decisions

that we regret.

Successes

a) our first year we received 8 students into the programme, this

September we received 15 new students - this two year ramp-up is

remarkable considering there is no direct feeder programme (B.A. in

Humanities Computing)

b) there is considerable interest from international students - nearly

half of the new students this year are from outside of Canada and we

receive many more inquiries

c) we have established an impressive lab specially designed for the

programme with a large seminar table and high-end computers

d) this year's annual Humanities Computing Graduate Conference has an

international collection of 28 speakers

e) as an outcome from a course project last year, the students have

established a Humanities Computing consulting company, run almost entirely

by themselves, that will provide management experience for upper year

students and work experience for lower year students

f) we have now established a solid curriculum and taught six new graduate

courses: Survey of Humanities Computing, Technical Concepts in Humanities

Computing, Project Management and Design, Theoretical Aspects of

Humanities Computing, Electronic Texts, Multimedia in the Humanities

Needless to say, many of these successes (and others) are the product of

the dedication of many people, particularly the planning committees and

the current students. We are also indebted to many of you who have

supported the programme in various ways, particularly in suggesting you're

upper year undergraduate students to apply (and please continue to do

so!). The success of our Humanities Computing programme is very much an

indication of the success of Humanities Computing in general.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions or comments

about this message or the programme in general.

M.A. in Humanities Computing at the UofA: <a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/">http://huco.ualberta.ca/</a>

______________________________________________________________

Stefan 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: Eve Trager <etrager@umich.edu>
Subject: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS TO PUBLISH THE JOURNAL OF
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:50:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 500 (500)


ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS TO PUBLISH THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

Newly Revamped Journal to Publish Again in Spring

The Journal of Electronic Publishing and Columbia University Press

announce with pleasure their new partnership. With the release of the

Spring 2003 issue, The Journal of Electronic Publishing will be published

by Columbia University Press and will be re-launched with a new design,

augmented content, enhanced search capabilities, and a new home address on

the Columbia University Press Web site. Publication of JEP will be on a

brief hiatus until spring.

The University of Michigan Press published JEP since its inception in

1995. The University of Michigan Press and Columbia University Press have

agreed that all archives of the journal will be moved to Columbia, and

calls to the old URL addresses will be automatically redirected to JEP's

new home. In partnership with Columbia, JEP can reach a far wider

audience, including many of the subscribers to CUP's renowned electronic

publications. William Strachan, director of CUP said, "This move comes

just as we ready the publication of The Columbia Guide to Digital

Publishing. Columbia's staff and its committee of top experts in the field

of digital publishing will now be available to work with the members of

the JEP staff to strengthen JEP's position as the definitive journal in

the field."

The Journal of Electronic Publishing has been published since January,

1995. It currently  delivers three issues a year, in April, August, and

December.  Judith Axler Turner and Eve Trager, who both joined the journal

in 1997, will continue in their respective positions of editor and

managing editor. JEP is available by free subscription, and has 1,700

subscribers and thousands more readers, mostly in the publishing industry,

libraries, and the academy. Readers have access to close to 200 articles

written by industry professionals in library science, private publishing,

and academic presses.


--
           Judith Axler Turner
                  Editor
The Journal of Electronic Publishing
      <a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/jep">http://www.press.umich.edu/jep</a>
             (202) 986-3463



From: Balder ten Cate <b.ten.cate@hum.uva.nl>
Subject: CfP: ESSLLI'03 Student Session
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:49:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 501 (501)


                       ESSLLI-2003 STUDENT SESSION

                     August 18-29 2003, Vienna, Austria

                        Deadline: February 24, 2003

                     www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03

We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 15th European

Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2003),

which will be held in Vienna from August 18-29 2003. We invite

submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2003 Student

Session and for appearance in the proceedings.

PURPOSE:

This seventh ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the previous

editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to

present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior

researchers and fellow-students.  The ESSLLI Student Session

encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates

(before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates

(before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by

non-students will not be accepted.  Papers may be accepted for full

presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for

a poster presentation.  All the accepted papers will be published in

the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session proceedings, which will be made

available during the summer school.

[material deleted]

Balder ten Cate

ILLC, University of Amsterdam

Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15

1012 CP Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Phone:  +31.20.5254552

Fax:    +31.20.5254503

E-mail: b.ten.cate@hum.uva.nl



From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: The Future of Web Publishing: Call for Participants
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:50:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 502 (502)


The Future of Web Publishing:

Hyper-reading, Cybertexts and Meta-Publication

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

This conference is a virtual complement to the Centre Jacques Cartier

conference : The Future of Web Publishing that will be held in Lyon from

9th to 11th December 2002. The corresponding virtual conference will

allow people who are not able to be in Lyon to take part in the

discussion and will keep the discussion going on the papers presented at

the conference. Texts will be also available after December 11th at the

on line archive Archivesic <a href="http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/">http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/</a>

You are invited to participate online.



From: "Ferguson, Joyce" <JFerguson@NEH.GOV>
Subject: NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 06:51:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 503 (503)


University Tea chers

ANNOUNCING: Summer 2003

National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.)

Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers

Application Deadline: March 1, 2003

* * *

Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports a variety of

study opportunities in the humanities for faculty who teach American

undergraduates.  Seminars and institutes are national, residential, and

rigorous.  Designed to strengthen the quality of the humanities teaching and

scholarship, they are led by some of the nation's outstanding scholars and

take place at major colleges and universities and archival facilities across

the United States and abroad.

Topics considered among the 29 seminars and institutes during the summer of

the year 2003 include the Civil Rights Movement, the Risorgimento, British

Romantic fiction, the English Reformation, Pacific Island cultures, and

major figures such as Emerson, Aristotle, Leibniz, and Faulkner.  For a

complete list of both seminars and institutes, go to the NEH Web site, or

phone (202/606-8463), or e-mail (sem-inst@neh.gov).

                  <a href="http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html">http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html</a>

The listings contain seminar and institute titles and the means to contact

each director. Prospective applicants can request information from as many

seminar and institute directors as they wish but may apply to only two NEH

summer offerings.

In response to a request for information, seminar and institute directors

will send a letter describing the content, logistics, expectations, and

conditions of that project.  Each letter will be accompanied by application

instructions as well as information about the program's costs.  Participants

receive from the National Endowment for the Humanities a stipend based on

the length of the seminar or institute.  Year 2003 stipends are $2,800 for

four weeks, $3,250 for five weeks, and $3,700 for six weeks and are intended

to help cover travel costs and living expenses, as well as books and

miscellaneous expenses.

Requests for information and completed applications should NOT be directed

to the National Endowment for the Humanities; they should be addressed to

the individual projects as found in the listings.  The application deadline

is March 1.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: supping with a long spoon
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:34:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 504 (504)


Carl Elliott, in the "Diary" column(s) of the latest London Review of Books

(24.23 28/11/02, pp. 36-7), gives a disturbing portrait of what can happen

when a field of the humanities is applied in partnership with strong

commercial interests. The field is bioethics, the commercial partners are

the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

After reviewing the strong evidence for bribery and influence-peddling (his

terms), Elliott argues that, "Bioethicists are not supposed to be mere

agents for their employers: they are expected to be moral critics as well."

But, he notes, implicit in a recent report compiled by the American Society

for Bioethics and Humanities and the American Society for Law, Medicine and

Ethics -- whose presidents were then working for Geron Corporation

(<a href="http://www.geron.com/">http://www.geron.com/</a>) and DNA Sciences (<a href="http://www.dna.com/">http://www.dna.com/</a>) -- "is a

distinctive (though not altogether unexpected) view of what bioethics is,

according to which bioethicists are not primarily scholars, teachers or

clinicians but professional service providers in a market economy,

advertising and selling ethics to paying customers." "It is possible to

describe bioethics as a commodity in a market economy," Elliott continues,

"and if the right social and institutional structures are developed, that

it exactly what it will become. But would that development be good for

anyone other than the bioethics entrepeneurs?.... The initial shock that

many outsiders have expressed at the idea of ethics-for-hire comes partly

from the sense that words like 'honour' or 'duty' stand on a different

plane from phrases like 'advertising revenue', 'profit margins' and

'consulting contract'. The point here is not to deplore the wickedness of

the market, only to keep the market in its proper place." But how is that

to be achieved?

Of course few of us in humanities computing have any occasion to require

the long spoon that a number of bioethicists seem to have left back in

their philosophy departments. But the rhetoric by which teaching and

research become service provision in a marketplace is not entirely

unfamiliar either, and it doesn't come only from outside the academy. What

is the attraction of such a notion for those within it? Might the root

problem be a crisis of confidence in the academic professions? It does

sometimes seem as if the old "mandate of heaven" (as the Chinese emperors

used to call their basis of legitimacy) having crumbled, the academy is

struggling to come up with a new one -- to reinvent itself as a social

entity. Computing seems an obvious point of connection and so, at least

potentially, a way of doing the humanities that bridges intra- and

extramural worlds. Thus we enter the scene with talk of "transferrable

skills" and the like -- but without the distracting temptations, at least

for the moment. So we are in a very good position to work out in small what

a productive (and indeed ethical) relationship between academic and

non-academic worlds might be like.

Comments -- particularly from those who are doing it?

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: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.42
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 06:54:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 505 (505)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 42,  Week of December 2, 2002

In this issue:

View --

Demographic Profiling:  A Euphemism for Corporate Spying?

If recent figures on PC and Internet usage are any indication,

many of us spend as much time with our computer as we do with

our spouse.

by John Hudson

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/j_hudson_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/j_hudson_1.html</a>



From: "Al Magary" <al@magary.com>
Subject: Old computer technology resurrected from 1980s
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:00:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 506 (506)


BBC Domesday book resurrected

Boffins recreate extinct technology to read 1980s discs

By Nick Farrell

VNUnet.com, December 3, 2002

<<a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137300">http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137300</a>><a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137300">http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137300</a>

The BBC's Domesday book project has been resurrected from technical death

by researchers.

The huge digital archive of life in the 1980s was stored on two interactive

video discs that could be accessed using a special BBC microcomputer system.

But the discs outlived the computers they were stored on, and could not be

read by today's machines.

Now, however, researchers on the Camileon project - based at Leeds

University and the University of Michigan in the US - say they have cracked

the discs.

They have developed software which emulates the obsolete BBC computer and

video disc player and makes the material accessible on a modern computer.

Developed to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the 1086 Domesday book, the

BBC's project formed a snapshot of life in the UK during the mid-1980s.

More than one million people were involved in the project, including

photographers, journalists, academics, researchers, Ordnance Survey

mapmakers and statisticians for the UK Census.

[See also the BBC story at

<<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2534391.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2534391.stm</a>>. --WM]



From: Stuart Lee <stuart.lee@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Oxford Digitization Project: Ruskin Teaching Collection
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:46:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 507 (507)


Digitising the Ruskin Teaching Collection at the Ashmolean Museum

Work has begun at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on the digitisation of the

Ruskin Teaching Collection. During his time as Slade Professor of Fine Art

at the University of Oxford (1869-79 and 1883-5), John Ruskin assembled a

collection of exemplary works to use as aids to the teaching of drawing in

the classes he established at the University. The Ruskin Teaching

Collection comprises watercolours, drawings, prints and photographs by old

masters, Ruskin himself, his assistants and his friends and

contemporaries, and is currently preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. The

collection, organised into different series according to the objects'

roles in Ruskin's schemes of instruction, was described by Ruskin himself

in several published and manuscript catalogues produced whilst he was

Slade Professor. The different editions of the catalogues reflect the

arrangement of the collection - which was continuously changing - at

certain fixed points.

Funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board's Resource Enhancement

Scheme has allowed work to begin on digitising the collection, Ruskin's

catalogues, and the Ashmolean's catalogue information on the objects. This

material will be made available on the web using an interface which allows

it to be browsed and searched. A copy of the images and data will also be

deposited with the Visual Arts Data Service. The opportunities provided by

digital technology should allow for the collection to be reconstructed

virtually according to the different catalogues - something that has not

been possible until now.

Work is now underway on the collation of Ruskin's catalogues with the

collection as it now stands. Once this is complete, a pilot phase of the

project will take a trial set of objects, digitise them and their

accompanying information, and use this material to create a prototype

system; the lessons learnt from the pilot phase will inform the

digitisation of the main body of material. We expect the pilot phase to be

completed by the end of summer 2003; the project as a whole will be

completed by the end of October 2004.

The project represents a collaboration between the Ashmolean Museum,

Oxford University Computing Service's Learning Technologies Group, and the

Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. It is advised by a steering

committee representing the interested parties and notable Ruskin scholars.

For further details of the project, please consult the projects homepage

at <<a href="http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/amulets/ruskin/">http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/amulets/ruskin/</a>>, or contact the

project manager, Dr Rupert Shepherd, at:

Department of Western Art

Ashmolean Museum

Beaumont Street

Oxford OX1 2PH

U.K.

T: +44 (0)1865 278050

F: +44 (0)1865 278056

E: rupert.shepherd@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

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Oxford University Computing     | Group (<a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/</a>)

Services                        |

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From: "Humanist Discussion Group
Subject: Re: 16.362 BBC Domesday Book resurrected: a cautionary tale
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:46:09 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 508 (508)


<willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu>

To: <humanist@Princeton.EDU>

Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:11 AM
[deleted quotation]
[material deleted]



From: "David L. Hoover" <david.hoover@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: 16.363 supping with a long spoon?
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:48:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 509 (509)


Willard's comments about how bioethics can be seen to have become a

"commodity in a market economy" and how such a notion might impact

humanities computing, especially with respect to "transferrable skills,"

stuck a note with me.

One of the clearest arenas in which this relates to humanities computing is

forensic linguistics, especially issues of trademarks, semantics,

plagiarism, and authorship. Those of us who have done work for law firms in

areas like these have to face these questions repeatedly. There really can

be a strain between looking at the issue impartially and looking at it as

part of an advocacy team. The issue might also be more widely framed as one

of the responsibility of any expert witness to treat the questions they are

asked to explore with intellectual honesty.

My own practice (not called upon very often) has been to agree to look into

an issue for a preliminary fee, and then to take, or refuse to take, the

case depending on whether my own view of the matter accords with the

interests of the client.

Even when one does this, there are other difficulties, chiefly in the area

of certainty. I may agree that the client's view of the matter is

"probably" right, or "more likely" right, but that is rarely of much value

to the client. For the scholarly advocacy of an idea is not the same thing

as the legal advocacy of an idea. (Clearly I do not agree with people like

Stanley Fish, who argue that the only truth is the one established by the

most effective argument, so that, for instance, there is no such thing as a

correct interpretation of a clause in the Constitution.)

This is an extremely thorny problem, but one that, perhaps quixotically, we

can only hope will be more common in humanities computing.


--
                      David L. Hoover, Assoc. Chair & Webmaster
NYU Eng. Dept., 212-998-8832       <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/">http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/</a>



From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 2002 MLA Convention
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:47:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 510 (510)


Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language

Association convention in New York City at the end of the month.

There are a number of talks on humanities computing and related

subjects at the MLA, and to help those interested in finding them, the

Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide to

these talks, based on the convention program.  It is available at:

        <a href="http://www.ach.org/mla02/guide.html">http://www.ach.org/mla02/guide.html</a>

As always, the list has some interest even if you're not attending:

comparing this list with those from past years is a good way to get an

idea of changing trends, both in computing and in the field of

literary studies in general.  One can see a slight downward trend in

sheer numbers compared to the last year or two, but I suspect one

reason is that talks involving computing in some way trumpet this less

obviously than they once did; in compiling this list I'm mostly just

going on the titles of talks, because there is usually no other

information available about them.

Special offer for Humanist readers: if you want a link from your talk

to your home page, or if your talk is not there but should have been,

just ask me and these lapses will be magically corrected!

John Lavagnino

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



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: stand to deviate - deviate to stand
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:43:17 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 511 (511)


   Willard,

   Not quite sure how the three categories I identity at work in your

   reading of Goodman on the languages of art interact

          notation        interpretation

                  reproduction

   and how they could map onto "deviations" created by the productive acts of

   either digital imaging (preservation) or editing (transcription) OR how

   the notation-interpretation-reproduction trio could map onto the

   performative acts involved in the consumption of cultural artefacts.

   In any case would not this dynamic also be at work in any viewing of the

   "orginal" whether it resulted in the production of an image, a

   transcription or a reading? And does this not almost make your question:
[deleted quotation]
medium?

   moot?

   Do not such questions revolve not only around the materiality of the

   artefact that serves as a notation, interpretation or reproduction but

   also around and through the skill and knowledge of the observers,

   interpretants and performers? The judgement on the felicity of any

   deviance is social.

   If one were to consider the phenomenology of the genesis of a cultural

   artefact and apply it to a trans-media context, one could supplement

   (supplant?) the deviance question by analogy with the verbal being

   composable of the auditive and the visual and assume that the objects of

   one medium (digital image) and another (transciption) can be so housed in

   the mind of a human being so that a complex decomposable object comes into

   being. I know that this is a convoluted way to suggest that "multimedia"

   events are at work/play even in the simplest encounter between a human

   being and an artefact or rather that resident in such objects are

   themselves the traces of previous events.

   Cage reminds us of the irreducible singularities (accidents of time and

   place) that make each human body an individual sensing machine with its

   own tolerances for deviation. What Goodman does is remind us of the human

   body as self-and-other observing --- we communicate about our sensing

   through our senses. What allows us to circumvent some difficulties in

   logical typing that such an arrangement could produce is the

   "multi-sensory" nature of the human sensorium. We can parse with the ear,

   the eye and touch at different rates. And the memory of those parsings is

   comparable. What we compare are memories not sensations. By now I've

   substantially deviated from your propos. Allow me to conclude by

   indicatiting that a notation, an interpretation, a reproduction, all bring

   us into the ambit of the question "what does it mean to compare" for all

   three are objects in themselves as well as tools to indicate relations

   between objects. Let me emphasize the last point: reproductions,

   interpretations and notations are "tools". And tools have contexts of use.

   That may be a felicitously devious turn of phrase that complicates a

   reading of Goodman but it does try to point towards the anthropological

   literature that contextualizes the aesthetic in the social. Readers of

   Margaret Mead or Gregory Bateson will recognize a pattern as a

   technology for living. Non-readers of the anthropological literature will

   also recognize that a pattern is a technology for living.  It is a

   recognition that is not always forgrounded -- it brings intimations of

   mortality in its wake... disintegration like deviance is patterned.

   I probably have failed to reproduce your interpretation which in my

   case is not that queer.

   tending to query

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,

knows no "no exit" in a hypertext

every cul-de-sac is 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: Magali Jeanmaire <duclaux@elda.fr>
Subject: ELRA News
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 06:26:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 512 (512)


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catalogued.

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Short descriptions of the resources listed below are given in this message.

We invite you to visit the on-line catalogue on our web site, at

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

or <a href="http://www.elra.info">http://www.elra.info</a>, to get more detailed descriptions.

You should contact Ms Valrie Mapelli <mapelli@elda.fr> if you would like

to receive information regarding the distribution of the resources.

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

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S0142 Austrian SpeechDat(AT) FDB-1000 database

The Austrian SpeechDat(AT) FDB-1000 database comprises the recordings of

1000 Austrian speakers recorded over the fixed telephone network, and who

uttered around 60 read and spontaneous items.

S0143 Austrian SpeechDat(AT) MDB-1000 database

The Austrian SpeechDat(AT) MDB-1000 database comprises the recordings of

1000 Austrian speakers (543 males, 457 females) recorded over the Austrian

mobile telephone network, and who uttered around 60 read and spontaneous items.

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LREC: <a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org">http://www.lrec-conf.org</a>

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 06:27:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 513 (513)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

December 6, 2002

                   Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

                              May 27-31, 2003

                            Houston, Texas, USA

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

      Deadline for papers and panel/tutorial proposals: January 13, 2003

This is an important community-wide conference in which all readers and

NINCH Members should consider participating.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
Jointly sponsored by:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)

Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Web (ACM SIGWEB)

and

Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Computer Society (IEEE Computer Society)

Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL)

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum

focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and

social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital

libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information

institutions; operational information systems with all types of digital

content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing

digital content; digital preservation and archiving; and theoretical models

of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing.

The intended community for this conference includes those interested in

aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata;

content; services; digital preservation; system design; implementation;

interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation;

usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property;

privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social,

institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated

theoretical topics.

Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range

of disciplines and professions involved in digital library research and

practice, including computer science, information science, librarianship,

archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology,

medicine, social sciences, and humanities. All domains -- academe,

government, industry, and others -- are encouraged to participate as

presenters or attendees.

[material deleted]



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: encoded text vs database?
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 07:54:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 514 (514)


A technical question: what might be reliable criteria for determining when

a given research problem involving textual data is approached with

relational database technology, when with text encoding? A related

non-technical question: how does one cultivate the ability to keep such

questions always in mind? As has been said, we tend to view each thing

as something to be hammered with the hammer in hand.

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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.367 Computer-related sessions at the MLA 2002
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 07:51:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 515 (515)


Williard, John and especially subscribers who are members (or officers) of

the US-based Modern Languages Association,

John Lavagnino's Thursday posting about sessions relating to computing at

the upcoming MLA Convention provoked a bit of speculation about

information management and the tools for automating linking

John generously offers with good humour...
[deleted quotation]
However I wonder if such information could not be complied at source and

published (along with abstracts of the papers) by the MLA itself. I ask

because of John's description of his retrieval method:
[deleted quotation]
Other learned societies publish as much as possible abstracts along with

programs. Some interesting questions arise about the sociology of

knowledge and access to "information about scholarly presentations",

"presentations themselves," "data sets pertaining to those presentations,"

"reactions of respondents," and "conferences as the transactional setting

for the exchanges between presenters, respondents and the locus where

reporters gather information to share".

Yes, the MLA is big, but surely somewhere one of its committees is

considering leveraging the public relations potential of publishing

abstracts online, let alone its value for scholarly research. Anyone know?


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
every cul-de-sac is 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: Roy Flannagan <roy@gwm.sc.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.363 supping with a long spoon? and "He who eats
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 07:51:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 516 (516)


with the devil must use a long spoon"

The idea of buying ethics is an amusing one, from a distance, though all of

us are wary about being bought or sold.  It is tempting to buy off the

academies, the untouchable scholars, the impeccable reputations of a

Harvard Kissinger or a Brandeis Reich.  I asked students in a Renaissance

Literature class this semester, apropos Dr. Faustus, what they thought

their souls might be worth, and one of them found a soul going for sale on

eBay (it was only bid up to something like $2.47).

It is sad when a chemist testifies on behalf of a tobacco company that

there is no established truth to the rumor that smoking causes cancer, and

it is sad when the lobbyists of pharmaceutical companies convince senators

to vote against the release of the generic versions of drugs the companies

have a patent on.

I have seen academics who refuse to be bought out and other academics whose

institutions begged, borrowed, or stole their profitable intellectual

property.  As an editor of a scholarly journal, I need to be wary whenever

I am taken out to dinner by a publisher or even by a scholar on the make,

someone who needs to be published.  Even the lowly academic needs to ask,

constantly, Is he or she trying to buy me out? or Am I for sale?  We may

get asked out for lunch before a departmental election, by a candidate or a

candidate's shill.

We who are protected by the academy and by tenure think that our opinions

are arrived at objectively, yet we are blind followers of fashion, and

petty-minded grubbers for the 2% raise pool.  When the head monkey in

Paris, as Thoreau put it, gets a new hat, the news travels fast and all the

academic monkeys in the U.S. or U.K. have to buy that hat.  When the Apple

corporation donates a new Mac lab to the English Department, giving all the

old Mac to faculty members, we may be hooked into that technology for

life.  When IBM or Microsoft donates to our electronic text project, it

buys little pieces of our hearts and minds.  We begin putting capital

letters in the middle of words, as in WordPerfect or Quark XPress, to

follow fashion and to go where the money is.

We are all whores, at least potentially, though some of us may elect to be

pimps, and the annual Pimp and Ho ball in Los Angeles attracts many

professionals who are no longer on the street.  At least we see

professional athletes get their bones broken to justify their large

salaries, but corrupt CEOs, or deans, may get off with a large pension at

the end of a nefarious career. And at the high school, Pepsi donates to the

impoverished schools, to get rid of the Coke machines in the cafeteria. My

point is that, no matter where you work, your soul may be for sale, and in

order to maintain any sense of integrity or individuality, you need to be

on guard constantly about selling out.

Roy Flannagan



From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: 16.372 encoded text vs database?
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 07:51:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 517 (517)


Willard asks:
[deleted quotation]
This is of more than theoretical interest for librarians and cataloguers.

Having used both database technology and text encoding for medieval

manuscript cataloguing. There is no question that databases allow much

more sophisticated query and sorting capabilities. Right now the text

encoded projects with which I am familiar only allow string searches,

sometimes within a given tag, but with no way to sort the output or do the

"find me all the MSS written in Florence between 1400 and 1450 on

parchment and with illustrations and sort them by author and date."

On the other hand, text encoding captures much better the messiness of the

data. I don't know positively, but I do not think it is possible to OCR a

printed text and then put it into a relational database without losing a

lot of the stuff that doesn't fit in any particular field. Text encoding

is quite good at this.

I know that Timino is making it possible to do database-like searching on

text encoded material, e.g., materials encoded using the Encoded Archival

Description format.

I'd love to have my cake and eat it, too.

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

(510) 642-3782          FAX (510) 642-7589    cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu
[deleted quotation]


From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: encoded text vs database?
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 07:54:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 518 (518)


A technical question: what might be reliable criteria for determining

when

a given research problem involving textual data is approached with

relational database technology, when with text encoding? A related

non-technical question: how does one cultivate the ability to keep such

questions always in mind? As has been said, we tend to view each thing

as something to be hammered with the hammer in hand.

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: "Malcolm Hayward" <mhayward@iup.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.373 Computer-related sessions at the MLA 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:59:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 519 (519)


If you are in New York for the 2002 MLA, you may be interested in Session

334. Computer Studies in Language and Literature Discussion Group Session:

Mining Digital Resources. Saturday 28 December. 7:15-8:30 pm, Concourse B,

Hilton.

The panel&#8217;s focus is on recent work in computer-related studies,

particularly those that might be useful for future work, hence the title,

&#8220;Mining Digital Resources.&#8221; I will provide here the titles and

a brief note on the proposed materials for the presentations.

Chair: Malcolm Hayward (mhayward@iup.edu)

    David Holmes (dholmes@TCNJ.edu), &#8220;A Widow and Her Soldier: A

Stylometric Analysis of the Pickett Letters&#8221;

    David provides a statistical analysis of the Pickett letters in order to

find who actually wrote them, Pickett or Pickett&#8217;s wife, as an

example of the possibilities of stylometric analyses.

    Perry Willet (pwillett@indiana.edu), &#8220;&#8217;A Bibliographical

Impossibility&#8217;&#8221;: Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

    Perry describes the &#8220;Wright American Fiction Project,&#8221; a

collaborative effort of 9 midwest universities, to digitize the 3,000 works

of (mostly forgotten) American fiction from 1851-1875, and discusses the

implications of this on-line resource for scholars of the period.

    Susan Schreibman (ss423@umail.umd.edu), &#8220;Mining Deeply Encoded

Text: The Versioning Machine&#8221;

    Susan will demonstrate an open-source XML editing and display tool

called The Versioning Machine that is being developed at The Maryland

Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) which will be freely

available for scholarly use. This tool will enable the display of multiple

witnesses of deeply-encoded text on the World Wide Web and will discuss the

work of Peter Robinson on text editing in a computer environment.

    Clifford Wulfman (cwulfman@perseus.tufts.edu), &#8220;The Perseus

Garner: A Testbed for Digitized Early Modern Resources&#8221;

    Clifford&#8217;s paper will present the Perseus Garner, a digital

archive of materials from and pertaining to the early modern period,

describe the unique features of the collection and the tools it provides,

and raise questions about the utility of resources like the Perseus Garner

for various kinds of literary research.

    Respondent: Peter Robinson (peter.robinson@dmu.ac.uk)

    Peter will respond to the papers and will remark briefly on his latest

work.

    A business meeting of the Discussion Group (place to be announced at the

panel) will follow, to which all are invited.



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.372 encoded text vs database?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:05:46 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 520 (520)


Willard,

Willard McCarty wrote:
[deleted quotation]
With the advent of native XML databases as well as relational databases

that store XML, is the question of "relational database technology vs. text

encoding" really relevant? The XSTAR project at the Oriental Institute,

University of Chicago, is building an XML database for archaeological data

that includes textual data.  Much of the data that will be used by that

database once resided in relational databases but it will also have a

substantial amount of textual data that uses text encoding.

At least in the early stages, I think projects should be formulated without

regard to available technology (either locally or read about) so that

researchers can state fully what they would like to do, without regard to

whether that is actually possible with current technology. A very precise

formulation of the research problem and goals of the project would provide

a basis for evaluating available technologies for the one that most closely

meets the needs of the project.

That I can approach some problem using MySQL, which is free and familiar,

is not the same as formulating the problem separate and apart from the

known limitations of MySQL. After precise formulation of the research

problem or goals of the project, I may find that MySQL is sufficient but on

the other hand, its limitations may provoke a search for other technology

for the project.

Technology is changing rapidly enough that I think that computing humanists

should ignore it in assisting in the formulation of research projects. This

avoids overlooking new technologies that have not become widely known or

simply using the tools already at hand. Perhaps the ACH should provide web

space for posting of project proposals so researchers could draw on upon

diverse expertise and awareness of new technologies in the computing

humanities community? (I started to suggest the Humanist but adequate

project proposals would be too long for a discussion list.)

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu


From: "Fotis Jannidis" <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: 16.375 encoded text vs database
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:00:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 521 (521)

[deleted quotation]Isn't this more a question of query interfaces? As far as I know many xml
databases use relational databases to store the data, but the user has an
extended xpath or an xquery interface. In other words, we don't really care
what technology is used to really store the data but which interfaces to
the data are available. If you only have an SQL interface your data must be
highly and consistently structured but if you have an xquery interface you
can formulate all queries which are possible in SQL and a lot which are not
possible there. If you only have extended xpath (extended by some free text
search abilities like eXist uses) you are more or less confined to context
aware queries.
If your research is mainly limited to retrieving texts by meta data it may
be more effective to store the meta data seperately and do the query over
the meta data alone but this would probably only be interesting for very
large corpora. I don't know enough about statistical approaches to text
analysis to answer your question in this respect.
Fotis Jannidis


From: Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders@brown.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.375 encoded text vs database
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:01:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 522 (522)

[deleted quotation]when
[deleted quotation]I suspect this really depends more on your delivery software than on the
nature of text encoding. The publication framework that the Women Writers
Project currently uses (which is a customization of DynaText/DynaWeb)
certainly supports the kind of complex searching and sorting that Charles
describes, and we expect to duplicate that functionality in any future
delivery mechanism we use.
It might help here to distinguish between the data structures being
described, and the publication/interface systems that are currently
available to publish those data structures--so we could parse out Willard's
question into two separate questions:
"how can one determine whether a given research problem involving textual
data is best served by a database-like structure for the data, and when it
is best served by a looser 'text-encoded' structure?"
"how can one determine...best served by database software or by XML
publication software?"
As Charles suggests, there's now software emerging that really is both. But
the fact that until recently there has been a dearth of good, affordable
SGML/XML publication software and a whole lot of very powerful database
software shouldn't obscure whatever differences there are between the two
ways of representing the data itself, which is in itself a very interesting
question.
Best, Julia


From: Chris Powell <sooty@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.375 encoded text vs database
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:02:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 523 (523)

I'm not certain that this is necessarily a case of encoded text systems
vs. databases.  We have an encoded text system for transcription of
speech online at
     <a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/">http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micase/</a>
that combines the features of text searching with those of
restricting/sorting based on metadata features for each transcription
(about the speaker and the speech event).  I can search for the phrase
"you know" and restrict it to use by male native speakers of English in
advising sessions, and then sort my results by context words and other
variables I preset prior to searching.  The system is built on
transcriptions encoded in a TEI-based DTD.
We're also enhancing our more widely known encoded text systems, like the
Making of America, to permit sorting of results by frequency of the search
term, author, title, and date.  This should be available early next year.
Both of these systems rely, however, on the consistent application of
standard metadata across all the texts in a collection.  This can be
difficult to ensure, and it's also difficult to specify system behavior
when inconsistent metadata is encountered (if you are going to sort by
date and there is no date for a text in the result set, what should
happen?).  This may be why such sorting and specifying features are not
commonly seen outside of database applications like library catalogs and
related indexes, where a great deal of effort is put into the metadata.


From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.375 encoded text vs database
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:02:41 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 524 (524)

Believe it or not, the first CDROM of full text eBooks allowed for these
kinds of searches a dozen years ago:  I saw the Library of the Future,
from World Library, at the ALA Midwinter conference, Chicago, Jan. 6, 1990.
[deleted quotation]It is somewhat dependent on your proposed target audience.
There *used* to be various database structures that would allow
for the reconstruction of the original full text document.
Thanks!!!
Happy Holidays!!!
Michael S. Hart
<hart@pobox.com>
Project Gutenberg
Principal Instigator
"*Internet User ~#100*"


From: "George H. Williams" <WilliamsGH@umkc.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.375 encoded text vs database
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:03:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 525 (525)

I think this example would fulfill your criteria: <a href="http://www.irith.org">http://www.irith.org</a>
For general technical details, see <a href="http://www.irith.org/about.jsp">http://www.irith.org/about.jsp</a>
"[An] XML database [that] runs on Tamino, with a JSP interface that runs
off a Tomcat Server."
--GHW
George H. Williams
Department of English
University of Missouri-Kansas City
[deleted quotation]

From: yvind Eide <oyvind.eide@muspro.uio.no>
Subject: Re: 16.375 encoded text vs database
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:04:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 526 (526)

In the Museum project, we digitize catalogues of archaeological
artefacts and tag them using SGML. In addition to making the texts
searchable, we also import the content of the elements into a
relational database, thus creating the historical part of the
Norwegian university museums' archaeological find database.
More information can be found in Jon Holmen and Espen Uleberg:
"Getting the most out of it - SGML-encoding of archaeological texts."
at <a href="http://www.dokpro.uio.no/engelsk/text/getting_most_out_of_it.html">http://www.dokpro.uio.no/engelsk/text/getting_most_out_of_it.html</a>
I think this is a good way to have the best of two worlds, but of
course, the task is simplified by the static nature of our data.
--
/ Kind regards,
/ yvind Eide, Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo
| Postal adr.: P.O. Box 1123 Blindern, N-0317 OSLO, Norway
\ Phone: + 47 22 85 49 82   Fax: + 47 22 85 49 83
\ <a href="http://www.dokpro.uio.no/">http://www.dokpro.uio.no/</a>



From: "Canevali, Ralph" <RCanevali@NEH.GOV>
Subject: NEH Summer Internships 2003
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:05:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 527 (527)


The National Endowment for the Humanities Announces Internships for Summer

2003.

NEH is offering up to 15 internships in Washington, D.C., for the summer

2003.  College students entering their junior or senior year in fall 2003

are eligible.  NEH interns receive $4,000 for 10 weeks of work.  Applicants

must be U.S. citizens, foreign nationals who have been legal residents in

the United States for at least 3 years or territorial residents of Puerto

Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands.  Past interns have written articles for Humanities

magazine, researched emerging fields in the humanities, and developed

web-based tools for gathering humanities-related information.

The application deadline is Tuesday, January 21, 2003.  Applications are

being accepted online at <<a href="http://www.neh.gov">http://www.neh.gov</a>>.  Questions should be directed

to Ralph Canevali in the Office of Strategic Planning at

internships@neh.gov.



From: "Joel Elliott" <joel_elliott@unc.edu>
Subject: Lyman Award Nominations Open
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:00:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 528 (528)


Lyman Award Nominations Open

The National Humanities Center welcomes nominations for the second

Richard W. Lyman Award, established this year to recognize humanities

scholars who make imaginative use of information technology to advance

scholarship and teaching.

The first scholar to receive the award, Jerome McGann of the University

of Virginia, gave a public lecture at the Center on October 3. His talk,

"Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World," was the

first at the Center to be broadcast live over the Internet.

To learn more about the Lyman Award, submit a nomination, or view

McGann's lecture in digital video or text, visit the Center's Web site,

www.nhc.rtp.nc.us.



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IMLS RFP for Major User Study
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:13:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 529 (529)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

December 11, 2002

                       IMLS Request for Proposals

   National Study of Users and Potential Users of Online Information

This RFP is clearly of major significance as the results could be of great

practical importance in designing the delivery of networked cultural resources.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
Request for Project Proposals

To Conduct a National Study of Users and Potential Users of Online

Information

Program Overview

   Award amount:  up to $500,000

   Deadline for submission:  February 1, 2003

   Award announcement:    mid-September 2003

   Grant period:  2 years beginning September 30, 2003

Introduction

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invites proposals for

a project to conduct a large national study of the information needs and

expectations of users and potential users of online information, and of

the impacts of having such information.  Online information includes but

is not limited to information that is currently available online through

libraries, museums and other cultural heritage institutions, and the

Internet. The study will include a survey of user needs, which should

include both current and potential user segments for online information,

including students at all levels, teachers, parents, researchers, and

other categories of adults. The project will be carried out in

collaboration with IMLS.  IMLS intends to make a single award for this

project.

IMLS wishes the study to provide data and recommendations about:

* content that should be made available online to meet information and

enterprise needs of the public, using broad definitions of both information

and public; and

* mechanisms and resources necessary to efficiently and effectively connect

users to that content.

Funding

Applicants may request up to $500,000 for this project.  No cost sharing

is required because the project meets the IMLS criteria for research.

However, the cost proposal, including any cost sharing, will be considered

as an evaluation factor.

Eligibility

Only institutions and organizations that meet the IMLS National Leadership

Grant criteria for eligible library applicants are eligible to apply.

This includes all types of libraries except federal and for-profit

libraries.  Eligible libraries include public, school, academic, special,

private (not-for-profit), archives, library agencies, and library

consortia.  In addition, research libraries that give the public access to

services and materials suitable for scholarly research not otherwise

available to the public and that are not part of a university or college

are eligible.  Institutions of higher education, including public and

not-for-profit universities and colleges, are also eligible.  Graduate

schools of library and information science may apply as part of an

institution of higher education.  Library applicants may apply

individually or as partners.

IMLS recognizes the potential of for-profit entities as well as public,

non-profit, and non-US entities to contribute to this project.  Although

such entities may not serve as the official applicants, they are

encouraged to participate as partners.

Terms and Conditions

This project will be carried out through a Cooperative Agreement with

IMLS.  Except as otherwise stated in this Request for Proposals, all terms

and conditions of IMLS National Leadership Grants will apply.  The

proposals will be evaluated on the following criteria, selected from the

2003 National Leadership Grant Guidelines, pages 3.2 and 3.3, available at

<a href="http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf</a> :

Design

Management Plan

Budget

Personnel

Project Evaluation

Dissemination

The proposal should include the following:

   A plan for collecting and analyzing relevant existing literature and

results of previous studies;

   A preliminary outline of a proposed survey design, including discussion

of the methodology for identifying survey participants; for selecting

appropriate survey methodologies (including but not limited to focus

groups, telephone, online and mail surveys, etc.); and for development of

the survey instrument(s);

   A budget of up to $15,000 for three to five persons to contribute to the

project by working with the successful applicant and its partners to

ensure that the survey design, implementation, analysis of results,

dissemination of results, and project evaluation meet the needs of the

library and museum communities.

   A budget of up to $25,000 for an additional group of up to 12 persons to

contribute to the project by providing comments on the survey design,

implementation, analysis, and dissemination plans. This group will include

representatives of libraries and museums designated by IMLS and including

non-U.S. institutions that have conducted or are interested in conducting

related projects; and

   A proposed timetable for preliminary and interim meetings and for

activities and deliverables including the proposed survey design, testing

and implementation of the survey, analysis and dissemination of results,

and project evaluation.

Deadline and Requirements for Submission

Proposals must be postmarked by February 1, 2003 (see page 4.9 of the

Guidelines for instructions).  Applicants must comply with all

requirements for preparing and submitting the application specified in the

2003 National Leadership Grant guidelines.

Review and Award Process

IMLS will determine whether an applicant is eligible and whether an

application is complete.  All eligible and complete applications will be

competitively reviewed by individual field review and/or panel review.

Reviewers will be drawn from professionals in the field and from the areas

of expertise required.  The IMLS Director will make funding decisions

based on evaluations by reviewers, the stated priorities for funding, and

the overall goals of the National Leadership Grant program and of IMLS.

Award

The award will be announced mid-September 2003.

Grant Period

The award will be for a maximum of two years, beginning September 30, 2003

and ending September 30, 2005.


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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: thinking with the technology
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:13:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 530 (530)


Surely there is considerable wisdom in Patrick Durusau's remark in Humanist

16.377 that
[deleted quotation]
I think, however, that the problem we face is much harder than that would

suggest. Are not these technologies (text-encoding, relational database

&al.) imaginative forms that give you a way of thinking not available

otherwise? Do they not tend to lead the mind in directions it would not

otherwise go? How, in fact, can one formulate a research problem completely

independently of the tool? Winograd and Flores, in Computers and Cognition,

observe that the commonplace assumption of so-called expert systems -- that

one can extract knowledge from experts then code it into computing systems

-- makes no sense at all because the experts themselves do not work (or at

least not entirely) in a way that can be extracted from them (pp. 98f).

Knowledge, they note, isn't captured in building an expert system, rather

what happens is that people work together to create a systematic domain

(pp. 175f). They *imagine* their research problems and strategies anew.

So how do we not get trapped within the scope defined by any particular

tool? I think this must be *very* difficult. A kind of controlled two-(or

more-)mindedness, a detached engagement, seems the only answer.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.43: computing curricula
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:11:17 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 531 (531)


[Those involved in design of humanities computing curricula may be

interested in the major review of curriculum guidelines for undergraduate

programs in computing undertaken by the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM

Education Board. See the first of the two articles listed below; see also

<<a href="http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001/index.htm">http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001/index.htm</a>>. --WM]

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 43,  Week of December 9, 2002

In this issue:

Views --

Squeeze It In or Spread It Out?

The conundrum of content and context

By Rick Duley

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/r_duley_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/r_duley_1.html</a>

Points of Learning and Teaching Systems (POLTS), Part II

Proposed teaching system will reflect a learner's cognitive skills

By M.O. Thirunarayanan

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_thirunarayanan_7.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_thirunarayanan_7.html</a>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: solstitial greetings
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:49:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 532 (532)


Dear colleagues:

We are but a few days from the darkest of the year, and for those of us

here in SE England the late rising of the sun and early fading out of it,

combined with dim streetlamps and old, wet brick, makes for a gloomy time

indeed. It is my habit and yearly pleasure to take the opportunity on or

about the solstice to reflect on all manner of things connected or

connectible with humanities computing, as everyone but the recently joined

will know. Often seasonal observations crowd in -- since 1996, when I moved

to this country, the chill, the damp, the dark and the cozy joys of an

English Christmastide. This is a wonderful place to live, despite what many

natives say.

But it is all too true that there are problems, and very serious ones.

British higher education, for example, is not in good shape, as I have been

recently and repeatedly reminded. Physical decay of buildings,

deteriorating services and so on are not the problem, only one of the

effects. The cause seems obvious: many years of systematic underfunding,

which both expresses and tends to bring out the worst in people. But I

think the

real cause goes much deeper -- and, paradoxically, is something we have it

in our hands to do something about.

Two stories.

The first is a fragment of an interview I overheard on Radio 4

(<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/</a>) a couple of weeks ago. Someone fairly senior

was commenting on research his department had done into what the commercial

sector wanted from British higher education. Every time we ask our

informants in the commercial sector, he said, they tell us, students who

can think critically. They don't want us to do job-training, he continued,

since they can do that far better than we can. Yet we persist in behaving

as if our new mandate depends on our ability to train the future workforce

in job-related skills. Why?

The second is an experiment I conducted with my students during a review of

the material covered this term in my first-year humanities computing

course. The review consisted of two parts, first the "mechanical skills"

covered in the units on electronic publishing and text-analysis, then the

"cognitive skills". Between these two parts I gave them the following

(admittedly in the latter parts a straw-man, but one with serious

quantities of annoying straw):
[deleted quotation]
I asked them how many of the above could they give their assent to. I was

enormously gratified that they balked even at the first of these and could

get no further without qualifying what is meant by "practical

applicability" and "real-world problems". One young woman commented, "it

isn't enough that a subject is useful, it also has to be interesting". Ah,

in the depths of our darkness there is light. It's coming from the students

-- and, actually, there's no small measure of it from our immediate colleagues.

I said I thought we could do something about the root-cause of the problems

in higher education. This cause, I would argue, hides its true nature -- a

fundamental loss of confidence in the ends of higher education -- with

garments of practical applicability almost as crude as the above. I think,

however, that as computing humanists we're in exactly the right place at

the right time to demonstrate not merely that the most applicable tool of

all raises problems fundamental to the humanities (which are their

life-blood) but also that in so doing so it gives us exactly what we need

to equip our students to handle the problems of the world and to make the

kind of difference we hope for.

Three years ago, on New Year's Eve, at the turn of the millennium (as here

in London the Dome was providing its brief moment of costly glory, such as

that was), I was privileged to hear Desmond Tutu preach a sermon on the

last 1,000 years and what we can hope for in the years to come. (See

<a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~hammondja/tutu4.htm">http://home.earthlink.net/~hammondja/tutu4.htm</a>> for the text.) His review

of our bloody and cruel past was unblinking, yet he somehow managed to

extract out of human experience a vigorous message of joyous hope. I try no

such thing here, but following Tutu's example I think that real hope

depends on not making the situation out to be better than it is. The point,

I would think, is to see as clearly as we can, to derive our mandate and

larger agenda from the situation in which we find ourselves.

What does this have to do with the solstitial crisis? Light from darkness,

and all that, of course. Renewal. Except, of course, that for us no

clockwork planets make it happen automatically. We must reach for and use

well the tool at hand -- like the young boy in that fine movie, Black

Orpheus, who makes the sun rise by playing his guitar from the hilltop slum

in Rio.

Humanist will be silent in the coming week but will resume shortly after

the 23rd.

Happy Christmas, a good Yule to you all!

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: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.380 thinking with the technologies
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:54:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 533 (533)


Willard, this is the best possible way of looking at the problem: it's

what I would expect from you, and if things work that way, it's

marvelous.

Over the past 30+ years, though, l I've seen, over and over again,

people doing types of investigations because the technology leant itself

to the particular kind of approach -- apparently without any attempt to

make the technology work for them instead of the other way around.  A

good example is the proliferation of KWIK concordances, whether we need

the or not.  I truly prefer deciding what I want to do and then forcing

the technology to do it, or failing that, gong ahead and doing it

without the technology,even though that may slow my work down by factors

of ten and prevent me from getting the job done for a year or so. (Or in

one case, for a decade.)  I guess it's what Humpty Dumpty said -- "the

question is who's to be master, that's all."

And of course it's also fun to learn the technology well enough to see

ways to make it do things it isn't 'supposed' to do.



From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@acm.org>
Subject: Re: 16.380 thinking with the technologies
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:53:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 534 (534)


At 2002-12-12 00:27, in 16.380, Willard McCarty wrote:

      So how do we not get trapped within the scope defined by any

      particular tool? I think this must be *very* difficult. A kind of

      controlled two-(or more-)mindedness, a detached engagement, seems

      the only answer.

It's good to hear you mention two-mindedness; I had been tempted to

reply to your earlier query (in Humanist 16.372):

      A technical question: what might be reliable criteria for

      determining when a given research problem involving textual data

      is approached with relational database technology, when with text

      encoding? A related non-technical question: how does one cultivate

      the ability to keep such questions always in mind? As has been

      said, we tend to view each thing as something to be hammered with

      the hammer in hand.

by observing that the solution is to cultivate a knowledge of a larger

toolkit, in order to have something more than a hammer ready to hand

when work needs doing.  Concretely, that means one cultivates the

ability to keep such questions always in mind by doing enough work

both with encoded texts and with relational or post-relational

database management systems to be comfortable with either tool.

The technical indicia I use are fairly simple though

non-deterministic: think about it each way and do it the way that

seems likely to be simpler.  If the data fit naturally into relational

form, use SQL.  If reducing the data to third normal form, on the

other hand, produces more than ten or twenty tables with real data,

and another ten or twenty which serve solely to identify many-to-many

links among other tables, and there is a reasonably simple textual

form for the data, then using XML is almost surely the way to go.  If

the kinds of summary reports at which dbms excel are important and

numerous, a dbms is probably preferable to XML (although if there are

only a small number of reports, hard-coding them in XSLT may be

preferable; I do my time-logs in XML + XSLT, because at the time it

was more convenient to do it that way).

In the future, as others have pointed out, the availability of XQuery

implementations from various sources, including (I expect) most

vendors of commercial SQL systems, will make XML more usable for data

manipulation which now seems most easily handled with SQL.

That said, the problem does not seem to me "*very* difficult".  For

any given (finite, delimited) set of tools / ways of thinking, one can

avoid unsuitable bias by working enough with each of them to become

comfortable using it -- the reason our tools risk biasing us is,

surely, that using other tools would be uncomfortable.  And for an

undefined and undelimited set of tools, the problem is not soluble.

Nothing we can do can prevent us by being surprised by something we

did not know.

Let me put that again in different words: if you are worried about

succumbing to an inappropriate and unconscious bias toward either XML

or SQL, you can avoid it by acquiring facility in each.  This won't

always protect you from bias, but it will help make it conscious and

help reduce the chance that it's inappropriate.

If on the other hand you are worried about an inappropriate and

unconscious bias toward XML or SQL, and against something you do not

know about and cannot identify or characterize, then I don't think

there is any way to guarantee that what you worry about will not come

true.  And the only way to try to keep from it is, as Patrick Durusau

suggests, to listen carefully to your data:

      At least in the early stages, I think projects should be

      formulated without regard to available technology (either locally

      or read about) so that researchers can state fully what they would

      like to do, without regard to whether that is actually possible

      with current technology. A very precise formulation of the

      research problem and goals of the project would provide a basis

      for evaluating available technologies for the one that most

      closely meets the needs of the project.

There is, of course, no guarantee that the goals thus formulated are

achievable: you may discover that your goals include fully automated

translation from one natural language to another, or the solution of

the traveling salesman problem in time linear to the number of cities

visited.

You (Willard) respond to Patrick by saying

      I think, however, that the problem we face is much harder than

      that would suggest. Are not these technologies (text-encoding,

      relational database &al.) imaginative forms that give you a way of

      thinking not available otherwise? Do they not tend to lead the

      mind in directions it would not otherwise go? How, in fact, can

      one formulate a research problem completely independently of the

      tool?

By formulating the research problem in terms of the entities in the

research domain, and without reference to the entities of the tool

domain.  (I grow confused: what is the mystery here?)

I think you are confusing the formulation of the research problem with

the formulation of a plan of attack, or of a solution to the problem.

The bias introduced by tools is, at least in part, the bias of

thinking about problems which that tool will help us solve and not

about other problems.  One corrective is to know about more than one

tool -- that helps ensure we are not unduly biased toward a single

tool.  This is the answer to your original question about encoded texts

and dbms.

Another is to cultivate the ability to ignore, in formulating

the problem you really want to solve, anything you know about how it

might be solved; this would help ensure that we are not unduly biased

toward the soluble.  The fact that technologies give us ways of

thinking which otherwise would not be available seems to suggest that

our tendency to focus on the soluble is not a function of our tools

but is somewhat more deeply rooted.

Michael



From: Leo Robert Klein <leo@leoklein.com>
Subject: Re: 16.380 thinking with the technologies
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:54:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 535 (535)


At 07:27 AM 12/12/2002 +0000, you wrote:
[deleted quotation]
Willard, like anything, the best option would be expertise at both ends of

the question -- both theoretical/visionary and technical.  There are not

many individuals like that but where they exist (and a few exist here for

example), you can see the quality of their work.

LEO

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From: Silvia Hansen <hansen@coli.uni-sb.de>
Subject: First CfP: Pre-Conference Workshop on Multilingual Corpora
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:56:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 536 (536)


       Apologies to those of you who receive this more than once

                          ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

                          Multilingual Corpora:

            Linguistic Requirements and Technical Perspectives

     A pre-conference workshop to be held at

                        Corpus Linguistics 2003

        Lancaster, 27 March 2003

             <a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003</a>

      <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/mocu03">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/mocu03</a>

ORGANIZED BY:

Stella Neumann (Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and

Interpreting)

Silvia Hansen (Department of Computational Linguistics)

Saarland University, Saarbrcken, Germany

TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

How do researchers go about building multilingual corpora? For the

development of a linguistically interpreted corpus on the basis of more

than one language there seem to be two methods: First, the multilingual

corpus is split up into monolingual sub-corpora which are then annotated

independently. For the second method, one language serves as the basis

for building up and interpreting a multilingual corpus, whereas the

other has to be adapted. Both methods, however, are rather problematic.

They do not take sufficiently into account the differences and

commonalities between the languages in question at each stage of

corpus-based research, involving the comparability of the corpus design,

the different kinds of segmentation, the diverging annotation schemes,

the corpus representations and finally the again converging querying

across different languages. Mistakes or inconsistencies which happen at

one stage of the multilingual corpus development have negative

influences on the following steps and result in worse mistakes or

inconsistencies. Not only do these problems arise at each methodological

step. They also multiply with the growing complexity of the research

design. If the research aims at interpreting linguistic data on several

levels, cross-linguistic comparability has to be taken into account on

each level.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who formulate

specific requirements of how to work with corpora under a linguistic

perspective and engineers who can offer technical solutions but need the

input of users to adapt their tools to the needs of the linguists.

Within this context, questions like the following are to be discussed:

- What happens, if the units under investigation diverge on the

different levels?

- At present, the preferred solution is to use XML at all stages and on

all layers. But is this really practicable?

- Do linguists get along with stand-off mark-up?

- Is this maybe a technical compromise?

The workshop should result in a requirement catalogue in combination

with technical solutions. It could thus serve as a starting point for

the development of an annotation typology which takes into account

different languages as well as different annotation layers. On the basis

of this typology, the comparability of a multilingual multi-layer

annotated corpus can be guaranteed. With this in mind, a multilingual

corpus builder should be able to cope with possible problems in each of

the above explained steps in corpus development.

Papers are expected on the following questions:

- linguistic requirements in the different methodological steps

- state-of-the-art technical solutions

- international standards which facilitate the development and exchange

of multilingual corpora

WORKSHOP PROFILE:

The workshop will take a full day comprising about 8-10 papers. Short

presentations are expected leaving enough time for discussion and

assessment of the used methodologies as well as the development of

possible solutions. This already points to the workshop agenda: The

first third will deal with linguistic fundamentals, the second part will

discuss the technical aspects and the last third will provide a platform

for integrating both perspectives. Workshop proceedings will be

produced.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

to be announced!

SCHEDULE:

20 January 2003: Deadline for submitted papers

21 February 2003: Notification of acceptance

7  March 2003: Camera ready copy

27 March 2003: Workshop

REGISTRATION:

Please refer to the main conference web page

(<a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003</a>) for registration details.

SUBMISSIONS:

Please send submissions in English as RTF or plain text files

(preferably

by email) to the address below.  Paper length should be 8-10 pages,

formatted

in the same way as for the main conference

(see <a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/style.html">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/style.html</a>

for paper format guidelines).

Stella Neumann (st.neumann@mx.uni-saarland.de)

Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting (FR 4.6)

Saarland University

Postfach 15 11 50

66041 Saarbrcken

Germany



From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@uh.edu>
Subject: Version 46, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:55:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 537 (537)


Version 46 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over

1,750 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 145 pages long.  The Acrobat file is

over 390 KB.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are

marked with an asterisk):

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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>



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X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 539 (539)


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From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.380 thinking with the technologies
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 06:06:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 540 (540)


Willard,
[deleted quotation]
I did not suggest the problem was easy and noted that what is required at

the "early stages" is a precise statement of the problem. Once a problem

has been articulated without tools, then examining various tools and their

limitations in addressing the problem may indeed lead to greater insight

into the problem.

Actually I would say that technologies are limitations on thinking rather

than imaginative forms, but then I suppose that depends on the imagination

of the researcher. Robin Cover gave me the best advice on markup projects

(and I think technology in general) when he advised: "Decide what you want

to do and then look for markup to do it." It was following that advice that

lead to the research Matt O'Donnell and I have been pursuing over the last

couple of years on overlapping markup. The notion of words (PCDATA to you

markup folks) having membership in a hierarchy of markup was something I

happended upon while sketching the overlap problem while riding public

transportation to the airport. I was sans my laptop, various markup

volumes, the lastest 1-unambiguous grammar research, etc. It was the

absence of all those tools and references that forced me to consider what I

wanted to do as opposed to what my tools said could be done.

That is not to say that any problem can be formulated completely separate

from the tools we habitually use, just as we can't formulate a problem

without using a particular written or spoken language, which carries its

own set of limitations. To some degree, however, we can exercise a choice

to formulate a problem with a particular tool. An awareness of a large

range of tools and their limitations can illuminate particular problems but

the original choice of relational database vs. markup is far too crude to

lead very far.
[deleted quotation]
I appreciate the supporting quote for not viewing a problem through a

particular technology but was there some other reference you meant to

insert here? There are cases where expert systems work quite well,

screening of cancer tests for example, where a very precise formulation of

the problem is posssible in a tightly controlled domain.
[deleted quotation]
I did not mean to suggest the we can escape the trap of our tools

altogether any more than we can escape using language to formulate

problems. I do think focusing on a precise formulation of the problem,

deliberately ignoring tools to the extent possible is a promising

beginning. Another positive step is to have a fairly aggressive reading

list that includes sites like sourceforge.org or freshmeat.org, research

publications of the ACM and other computing research journals. It is

cultivation of a broad knowledge of what is possible that will help prevent

beating textual research problems into a form where tired and familiar

approaches can be used.

Patrick


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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: thinking with tools
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 06:23:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 541 (541)

I agree with Michael Sperberg-McQueen in Humanist 16.384 that having as
large a toolkit as possible helps to avoid single-tool mentality. His first
answer:
[deleted quotation]I think the metaphor of "domains" here is (though conventional in
discussing such things) seriously misleading. Thought about something is
sometimes usefully conceptualized as a space, but not in this case. It
seems to me that the "entities" of research cannot always (often? ever?) be
defined independently of the tools one has to deal with them. Tools, even
chisels, aren't free from designed intentionality and perceptual effect;
one "sees" wood differently, treats it differently depending on the tools
one has and knows about.
[deleted quotation]The first sentence speaks to a powerful discipline; I'm just not at all
sure it can ever be completely successfully practiced, or that if it can,
that one really wants to. Perhaps "our tendency to focus on the soluble"
(which I agree is deeply rooted) is part of the problem.
A mystery remains, I think.
Yours,
WM
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X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 542 (542)


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software that will enable creators to donate their work to the public

domain and metadata that can be used to associate a work with its public

domain or license status in a machine-readable way. The organization is

working to enable us to use software to find "for example, photographs that

are free to use provided that the original photographer is credited, or

songs that may be copied, distributed, or sampled with no restrictions

whatsoever."

David Green



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: JOBS: Digital certificate services project/Humbul, Oxford
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:43:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 543 (543)


University (fwd)

The Information & Evaluation Officer post which is shared with the Humbul

Humanities Hub, might be of particular interest to readers of Humanist.

Note that everything is online and we will accept applications by 6 Jan if

you let us know in advance that you can't make the 3 Jan deadline.

Mike

-----

This email contains details of three posts within the Research

Technologies Service at Oxford University Computing Services in

connection with the Digital Certificate Operation in a Complex

Environment (DCOCE) Project and the Humbul Humanities Hub.

The posts are:

1. Project Manager

2. Systems Programmer

3. Information & Evaluation Officer

Further details and an application form are available via

<a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/</a> or may be obtained from Jo

Heath, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2

6NN (tel: 01865 273235, email: jo.heath@oucs.ox.ac.uk). NB: although the

advertised deadline is 3 Jan 2003, we are willing to accept applications

by 6 Jan if you let us know in advance.

The Research Technologies Service (RTS), based at Oxford University

Computing Services, brings together local, national and international

initiatives focusing on the support of research activities and utilising

leading edge technologies. These include the Oxford e-Science Centre, the

Humbul Humanities Hub, and the Oxford Text Archive.  See

www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/

The new two-year JISC-funded Digital Certificate Operation in a Complex

Environment (DCOCE) Project will develop a detailed evaluation and

implementation report of 'real world' digital certificate services at the

University of Oxford.

For all three posts applicants should have a genuine enthusiasm for

developing online services, and want to join a friendly multidisciplinary

team. The ability to manage deadlines and to communicate well is

essential.

PROJECT MANAGER

Grade: RS2

Salary: GBP25,451 -GBP33,679

You will be responsible for project management which will include

complying with reporting and evaluation requirements, supervising staff,

allocating resources, representing the project, developing the project Web

site, and liaising with partners and stakeholders.

We expect you to have a relevant postgraduate degree or equivalent

experience. You will have a proven ability for managing a technical

project and its team. You will also have a strategic knowledge of

technologies and standards for access management within online digital

environments. Particular knowledge of X.509 digital certificate policy and

practice statements would be useful.

SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER

Grade: RS2

Salary: GBP25,451-GBP33,679

You will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining the

technical infrastructure for managing the digital certificate lifecycle

over the two-year period of the project.

We expect you to have an appropriate degree or relevant experience. You

will have a working knowledge of languages or tools for developing online

information systems (e.g. JAVA, XML, LDAP) and have experience of

Unix/Linux server administration. You will also be knowledgeable about

emerging technologies and standards for access management systems (e.g.

x.509; OpenCA; SSL).

INFORMATION AND EVALUATION OFFICER

Grade: RS1A

Salary: GBP18,265-GBP27,339

This post has a dual role: to provide evaluation services and publish

reports for the DCOCE Project and to negotiate and manage partnerships for

content development within the Humbul Humanities Hub (www.humbul.ac.uk/).

We expect you to have a library or information science degree.  You will

be knowledgeable about different methods for enabling access to online

resources within higher education. You will also be familiar with the

issues relating to resource discovery and access management. You will have

demonstrable experience of undertaking evaluation activities.



From: Manfred Thaller <manfred.thaller@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Thinking with the technologies / XML vs. RDM
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:41:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 544 (544)


For obvious reasons I have been very intrigued by the recent discussion

on "Data Bases v. XML" in Humanist, and had indeed the intention of

contributing to it. The usual information / work overload has prevented

me so far to react to it in a more appropriate way, weighting all the

arguments in the most recent Humanist-incarnation of a discussion in

which outside of Humanist I have taken part for quite some time and

formulate specificlly addressed responses to the individual

contributions.

Christmas being here, and me becoming incommunicado for the next two and

a half weeks, I either participate now or never.

So let me formulate a few general theses, not addressed particularly at

any one contribution so far, rather in the medieval tradition of a

"thesis" summing up ones own point of view.

(1) Humanities' sources contain texts which have some properties, which

as such are different from the types of information handled by computer

science at large, totally INDEPENDENTLY of the sub-field of computer

science we think of, or of the tools this particular field of computer

science has eventially developed. Certain types of ambiguity are always

a good starting example.

(2) Data Bases. Please remember, as far as Comp.Sc. is concerned,

relational data bases are a special case of a far more general

phenomenon. Albeit a case which (a) for virtue of the ease with which it

can be handled by fairly conventional mathematical tools has intrigued

the theoretical Comp.Sc. community for some time and (b) because of the

cornucopia of implemented and easily available tools has dominated

training in the software engineering branches of Comp. Sc. to a degree,

where even Comp. Sc. tend to forget that RDBMS-es are only a very

special case of a broader phenomenon.

In my opinion, Humanities practitioners of Computing tend to obscure the

situation further, by mixing up the need for an "information system",

which is a rather special animal in the herds of DBMS applications, with

the implications of a specific data model. Any information system can

rather easily be described as a set of objects out of which any subset

pertaining to a specific query can be extracted and displayed - possibly

processed a bit before displaying -  by ways of an access mechanism

which usually involves some kind of index structure.

In that sense, a Humanities information "bridging the gap between RDBMSs

and XML" might be construed as a solution, which extracts some kind of

information from an XML encoded text - say words - indexes them need

with the help of a relational table for which the word or its lemma

become the primary keys, maintains a link to the textual document from

which the word or wordform have been taken and fires a suitable XML

editor when a specific document selected via that index becomes due for

display.

Well, technically that is not exactly brilliant: A simple B-Tree

indexer, avoiding the overhead of a full blown RDBMS would be

incomparably more effective; but it would be a solution.

In both cases however - indexing via data base or indexing via a more

directly controlled tree - the genuinely Humanistic problem, that the

indexed term might contain examples of ambiguity (doubtful readings,

e.g.) which could easily be marked up in XML, that quality would be

lost, as the tools used for handling the indexing problem, bw it RDBMS

or plain indexer, would have no concept of a "textual atom with embedded

ambiguity".

(3) XML. Well - here the problem is, that "XML" as such does not say

very much. As most of us are aware, the more recent versions of

StarOffice / Open Office use XML for encoding the texts it is

processing. A truly XML based wordprocessing package! Unfortunately that

still does NOT mean, that StarOffice or OpenOffice would be able to

handle textual variance, because the underlying abstract data model -

what Star Office / OpenOffice understand "a text" to be - does not

support that notion. Which is exactly the problem, why it is irrelevant

for fast searching purposes, whether textual ambiguity can be coded in

XML or not, as long as tool which is derived from RDBMS technology or

soemwhere else does not support a underlying data model supporting that

concept.

(4) Metaphorically: A Human being born in North America is not able to

read "War and Peace" in Russian, just because the Russian has been

transcribed from Cyrillic into Latin characters. Only if (s)he has

learned Russian - acquired a "Russian Proecssing Capability" in Comp.Sc.

terms - will (s)he be able to understand it. Unwinding the metaphor: A

RDBMS will only support such things, for which the RDBMS provides -

efficient processing of regular structures. "XML" will only support such

things, for which "XML" provides - formally representing everything that

can be expressed as a tree structure ("tree" here not in the sense of a

B-Tree or offshot of one). A RDBMS able to handle a data type "text with

embedded markup" may provide support for irregular structures; an XML

encoded texts targetted at a processing module which supports a concept

of "textual ambiguity carried through to a search engine" may be able to

support data base like applications on XML-encoded texts.

(5) I am afraid 99.5 % of the current plethora of XML applications or

DBMS development are totally irrelevant for this. When most people speak

about "XML enabled databases" they talk about RDBMSs using XML as a

vehicle transporting RDBMS content from one vendor to the next

(transcribing Cyrillic into Latin, as that is the more widely spread

alphabet). Sigh, even the "native XML data bases" - as Tamino - have

usually as their primary goal for their tools the closest possible

proximity to SQL, as that is what all the Comp.Sc. students have learned

in first year the "natural" data base language to be (cf. 2 above);

which is another way of saying that they fall far short from supporting

meaningful processing of structures easily expressed in XML but alien to

RDM thinking.

(6) Ceterum censeo: This will change only, if Humanities' practitioners

think less about the SURFACE of an IT application - relational table v.

XML encoding, which software product to use - and more about the

underlying data model / data type / knowlegde representation of

Humanities' information in a Comp.Sc. definition. Let us see first, what

a FORMAL representation of a "Humanities Text" means, before we write a

DTD for it or throw it at an innocent and naive RDBMS engine.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2003 to all Humanists,

Manfred



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.44
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:42:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 545 (545)


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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Artist Domiziana Giordano's Exhibition of
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:45:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 546 (546)


"digitalsistersindeed.org"

This news might interest to Humanist readers and scholars. Following

message is forwarded with thanks and courtesy to famous Italian artist Ms.

Domiziana Giordano. Congratulations to Ms. Giordano on her artistic

achievements. Details of the exhibition are below. Best regards.-Arun
[deleted quotation]

----



From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: 16.390 thinking with the technologies / XML vs. RDM
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:05:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 547 (547)


Willard and HUMANISTS --

Manfred's deeply-considered post prompted me to think of only one

qualification to add to this important thread--

05:49 AM 12/26/2002, he wrote:
[deleted quotation]
Yes, verily. This proves to be particularly difficult in practice due to

the confusion between this task -- identifying what a formal representation

of a "Humanities text" would be, building a system instantiating such a

representation in a useful way -- and a different task, which (though

closely related at many levels) is quite separable: the (further)

development of *text itself* as a technology of representation. I think one

reason markup technologies such as XML have proven so tantalizing to many

of us is that they involve us not only in the first project mentioned, but

also in the second, whereas the application of DBMS technologies or even

object technologies tend to elide the second project in favor of the first.

Both projects are deeply interesting, worth pursuing, and of the essence of

humanities computing; but it is probably also worth keeping in mind

(Manfred's and Patrick's points) that just because XML (or markup

generally) is itself "textual" in a way that (arguably) database

applications are not, does not necessarily make it the best available means

to *model* one kind of thing or another. "Build a resource that can provide

X and Y and Z", and "develop an XML-based approach to X, Y and Z" are goals

that may be in accord, or at odds, depending on the fit between XML and

XYZ; nonetheless either might be a worthy goal even if they *are* at odds.

(And it can be a research goal to determine how much in accord, or at odds,

they are, and why.)

In a way, this is merely to come full circle (though hopefully at a higher

level of understanding): the fact that markup (or a particular kind of

markup, such as XML) may be poorly suited to certain kinds of problems or

tasks, is very much of interest to the student of text and text-based

technologies.

Warm regards,

Wendell

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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.387 thinking with tools
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:07:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 548 (548)


Willard,

Would it not be fair to infer from your gloss on Michael

Sperberg-McQueen's posting (Humanist 16.384) that the shift to "domains"

implies multiple participants and/or multiple perceptions embodied

through a single participant?
[deleted quotation]
Space can be represented as reticulinated. Representations of space do not

necessarily lead to a uniform flatness. I'm intrigued as to how the subtle

move to the plural "domains" is underwritten (undermined?) by the

suggestion that useful conceptualization is sometimes a function of

thinking of something in terms of a [single] space. Domains suggest rules.

Space too is represented by rules. A rule is a tool and hence your

suggestion that one cannot avoid the perceptual effects of technology:
[deleted quotation]
Now then. If I may. Harp. Intentionalities. Percpetual Effects. Different

parsing. Punctuation and grain. How is a humanist and a computing humanist

to account for resistences in the reading (i.e. application of tools)?

Sometimes ax in hand the wood is to burn. Sometimes chisel in hand the

wood is to burn. There is a lore of dendrology that precedes a technology

of woodwork. Both lore and technology inhabit the spaces of conversations.

It is archeologically accurate to assume purposiveness of design in the

tools and texts one inherits. It is folly to assume that the tools and

cultural artefacts will be used in the same way by every one who inherits

them. And likewise retroactively to assume that the purposes of the past

are transparent, always, to the present.

Yes there is a mystery and because it points in several temporal

directions it may be a set of mysteries. The uniformity of the phenomenon

can not be assumed or ruled out. Just how the holders of the single

mystery approach the releasers of multiple mysteries is fascinating; the

one, a sieve separates, for the others, operates a series of

homogenizations.

Why the chisel and the sometimes ubiquitous hammer? I suspect it is not

the mere gendered history of the certain tools and arts that leads to

certain comparisons between computing machines and hand tools of the

carpenter or mason. There is a further metaphor of building at work. What

would computing filtered througn an alchemical metaphor of distillation

and abstraction be like?

Back in 1997, a text by Katheryn Sutherland was read at the thirty-third

conference on editorial problems in Toronto. If I recall correctly, the

discussion wend its way through two metaphors (text as architecture; text

as vehicle) to reach a certain rather commonplace assertion that

both synthetic and analytic moments are necessary for thinking through a

research problematic. Perhaps that particular assertion can be inscribed

in the current context to pause and consider that the application of a

tool does not in itself lead either to synthetic or analytic moments (a

easiest to make the case with a distillation however a building can be

approached as an analysis of space as well as synthesis of a structure).

In which case, there can be little done to factor out the human element,

those mediating instances where the memory of participants reaches out not

only intertextually across domains of cultural production but also

ingenuously hacks.


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
every cul-de-sac is 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: Tim van Gelder <tgelder@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Latest Additions to Critical Thinking On The Web
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:08:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 549 (549)


30 Dec

in Experts and Expertise

<<a href="http://www.jacketmagazine.com/17/">http://www.jacketmagazine.com/17/</a>>Ern Malley Feature from Jacket Magazine

Can poetry critics distinguish serious poetry from nonsense dressed up as

poetry? The "Ern Malley" hoax suggests they have serious problems. Poetry

criticism is akin to reading horoscopes - try hard enough and you can find

some apparently profound meaning in just about any babble. This website is

a rich repository of resources on one of the great literary hoaxes of all

time. [30 Dec 02]

29 Dec

in Cognitive Biases and Blindspots - Essays

<<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,858608,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,858608,00.html</a>>Hostages to

Fortune by David Newnham

Interesting, entertaining essay on why we are superstitious and the

survival of superstitions in an age of science. "Ask a psychologist, a

sociologist or an anthropologist what makes us superstitious... and they

will tell you the same thing. When people feel that they have no control

over events, they will suspend their belief in the rational and step into a

world where the rules seem more flexible." On the down side, the essay does

ramble, is disjointed and confuses the topic of cold reading with that of

superstition as a response to anxiety founded upon our inherent weaknesses

in identifying correlations and causal connections. [29 Dec 02]

23 Dec

in Skepticism

<<a href="http://www.watchingyou.com/woowoo.html">http://www.watchingyou.com/woowoo.html</a>>The Woo Woo Credo from Watching You

Dot Com

"To be a proper woo-woo, you must follow these rules: 1. Never look for the

simplest, most obvious cause of something. Refrain from mentioning Occam's

Razor (it's your nemesis)... [40 more].  As compiled from various posts on

sci.skeptic and alt.fan.art-bell. Original idea by Reality Check." [23 Dec 02]

16 Dec

in Postmodernism - Essays

<<a href="http://www.vocabula.com/VRNOV02Halpern.asp">http://www.vocabula.com/VRNOV02Halpern.asp</a>>The Meaning of Objectivity Part

1 and <<a href="http://www.vocabula.com/VRDEC02Halpern.asp">http://www.vocabula.com/VRDEC02Halpern.asp</a>>Part 2, by Mark Halpern

Quality philosophical discussion of the dangers of postmodernism, if at

times a little melodramatic: "PM, problematic and potentially dangerous

even in normal times, is for a civilization under deadly attack a corrosive

acid that weakens us where we are most vulnerable: not in our airports or

office buildings or shopping malls, but in our will and our spirit. It is

bitter beyond irony to observe that what began as an attempt to prevent us

from being tyrannical and intolerant to others has become a weapon in the

hands of those who would be so to us." NOTE: to read this you will need to

subscribe to TVR (well worth it). [16 Dec 02]

14 Dec

in General Resources

<<a href="http://www.christianlogic.com/index.html">http://www.christianlogic.com/index.html</a>>ChristianLogic.com by Nathianel

and Hans Bluedorn

A website all about logic for Christians, with a home-schooling

orientation.  In many ways this is a wonderful, delightful site, with lots

of interesting material and useful resources.  Even as an atheist, I can't

help admiring the authors for their efforts, though it seems to me that

logic should be used not only to defend one's faith but to subject it to

critical scrutiny and to question its fundamental tenets. [14 Dec 02]

12 Dec

in Definitions

<<a href="http://assets.cambridge.org/0521009847/sample/0521009847WS.PDF">http://assets.cambridge.org/0521009847/sample/0521009847WS.PDF</a>>What is

critical thinking and how to improve it (pdf file) by Alec Fisher

Nice introductory survey of many of the most well-known or influential

definitions of critical thinking.  A chapter from Fisher's recent book

Critical Thinking: An Introduction.  Fisher is one of the leading figures

in the field. [12 Dec 02]

8 Dec

in Language and Thought

<<a href="http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/less-than-words-can-say/">http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/less-than-words-can-say/</a>>Less Than

Words Can Say, by Richard Mitchell, the Underground Grammarian

The entire text of Mitchell's excellent book on bad language and its

<<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pas">http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pas</a> de deux>pas de deux with bad

thinking. "Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into

the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks

reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders

thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of

inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like

buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of

thought." [8 Dec 02]

7 Dec

in Hoaxes and Scams - Essays

<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/opinion/05BUDI.html?pagewanted=print&position=bottom">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/opinion/05BUDI.html?pagewanted=print&position=bottom</a>>Dog's

Best Friend by Stephen Budiansky

Dogs are running a gigantic scam on humans. "Dogs are not merely emotional

con artists: they are also intellectual con artists. They've learned not

only to fake love; they've managed to convince us that they are a lot

smarter than they really are. In both cases they play us for the saps we

are." [7 Dec 02]



From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: perhaps worthy of notice..
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:08:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 550 (550)


Colleagues:

While it may not be quite central to humanities computing as it is regularly

discussed and (reasonably) well defined by Willard and many others who

participate on this list - I cannot repress the impulse to pass on the

following...

As was announced yesterday (Friday, 13 December) on the listserv of the

Association of Internet Researchers (<www.aoir.org>),

the ethics committee document on Internet research ethics was unanimously

approved by voting members at the close of the vote on midnight, Wednesday,

November 27, 2002.

The document may be retrieved from <www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf>.

Quoting from the announcement:
[deleted quotation]
As I also noted to the aoir membership:
[deleted quotation]
Why might all of this be of interest to HUMANIST folk?  If nothing else, it

may suggest that for all the challenges and difficulties of utilizing these

technologies in humane ways towards humane ends - and that across the great

diversity of cultural differences and ethical traditions connected so easily

by these new media -- it _can_ be done, at least in small measure, in even

one of the most contentious and yet central domains of humanist inquiry,

i.e., ethics.

In my mind, moreover, this work and its results fits reasonably well with

what I perceive to be an emerging coherence to our working definitions of

"humanities computing" - though, of course, it is a first marker of humane

discourse that we may well want to debate that claim (smile)!

In any case, I hope you will find this document of interest.  Additional

comments and suggestions always welcome.  And let me echo Willard's

solstitial greetings with my own.

Cheers and best wishes for the new year (as measured by the calendar

prevailing in these parts...) -

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



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:44:41 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 551 (551)


(1)

Informatics and the Digital Society

Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues

edited by

Tom J. van Weert

Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands

Robert K. Munro

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

IFIP

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 244

This volume considers general issues covering the contribution of

information and communication technology (ICT) to the development of

learning, the role and potential of E learning, computer supported

collaborative learning and innovative pedagogy, as well as very focused

issues such as online knowledge communities, the characteristics of agents

and multimedia animation. With many "state of the art" contributions,

Informatics and the Digital Society:Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues

addresses the following themes:

     * The e-literate society the role of informatiics, computer science and

ICT;

     * ICT agent of change and soccial conflict;

     * E-learning meeting the challenge of technollogy on society through

new partnerships;

     * Paradigm shifts in education and professional life.

The thought-provoking and controversial papers in this volume make a

powerful contribution to the debate that surrounds the increasing pervasion

of ICT in all sectors of our lives especially the education sector.

Evidence from contributors drawwn particularly from Europe, but also

representing the Americas and Australia supports the contention that all

countries are urgently addresssing the issues and problems raised by ICT.

Each country will have to derive its own, unique solution. This collection

of papers will certainly inform and should considerably assist that

decision making and problem resolution.

Informatics and the Digital Society: Social, Ethical and CognitiveIssues

contains the edited proceedings of SECIII, the Open Conference on Social,

Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and Information and

Communication Technology (ICT), which was sponsored by the International

Federation for Information Processing (WIP) Working Groups 3.1 (Secondary

Education) and 3.2 (Higher Education). It was held in July 2002 at the

University of Dortmund, Germany, in cooperation with the German Computer

Society (Gesellschaft fr Informatik).

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Acknowledgements. Preface. Key Issues in IFIP-SIG9.2.2 Approaches to Ethics

of Computing; J. Berleur. Informatics - The Science of Minimal Systems with

Maximal Complexity; A. Schwill. ICT in Education: Aspirations and Tensions;

D. Wood. e-Learning Technology: Convergence with the Mainstream; C.

Harrison. Knowledge Management in Education; J. Andersen. Learning and

Teaching in Socio-technical Environments; T.Herrmann.

Working Group Reports:- Intelligent Agents in an e-Literate Society: Some

Ethical Considerations; C. Dowling. Critical Thinking and an Ethical

Approach to Studying History - The Case for ICT; A.Kassam. A Look at the

Impact of ICT on the Informational Power Relationship Between Corporations

and Consumers; C. Lueg. Exploration of Object-Oriented Models in

Informatics Education; T. Brinda, S.E.Schubert. Learning Software

Engineering with EASE; D. Draheim. Object Models of IT-Systems Supporting

Cognitive Structures in Novice Courses of Informatics; P. Hubwieser. Let's

Teach Informatics - Empowering Pupils, Students and Teachers; L. Humbert.

Key Decisions in Adopting Algorithm Animation for Teaching; G. Rxling.

Design Pattern - A Topic of the New Mandatory Subject Informatics;

M.Schneider. Learning to Solve ICT/Informatics-Based Problems; M. Webb.

Development of Multimedia Animations - A Contribution of Informatics

Teaching to Media Studies; M. Weigend. ICT: An Aid to Inclusion?

Reflections on the Potential of ICT for the Changing Role of the Special

School; C. Abbott, J. Galloway. Various Modelling Aspects of Tutoring

Systems for People with Auditory Disabilities; N. Baloian, W.Luther.

Regional Learning Networks - Building Bridges Between Schools, University

and Community; A. Breiter. Online Knowledge Communities: Meeting Places for

Continuing Professional Development; S. de Vries. Distribution of Internet

Community Knowledge Based on Traditional Communication Media; J.F. Hampe,

S. Schnert, C. Dietze, NhiemLu. Taking the Best from Real Teaching

Environments; I. Bueno deCamargo Cortelazzo. A Role-Based Adaptive CSCL

Environment for Intensive Hands-on Teaching and Learning under Rigid Time

Constraints; H.F. Wedde, F.T. Breuer, M. Farooq. KOLUMBUS: Context-Oriented

Communication Support in a Collaborative Learning Environment; T.Herrmann,

A. Kienle. Teaching Social Informatics as a Knowledge Project; I.

Jackewitz, M. Janneck, D. Krause, B. Pape, M. Strauss. Using a Lecturer's

Personal Web Site to Enhance the Social Interchange among Students in an

Academic Course; D. Passig. Potential Problems of Computer-Mediated School

Education; G. Russell. Modern Curriculum Development for Informatics

(Computing Science); T.J. van Weert, F.Mulder. Innovative Pedagogical

Practices Using ICT - Results of the German SITES-M2; R. Dalmer, T. Petzel,

R. Schulz-Zander. e-learning@alma-mater.de - Net-Based Distance Education

in the Traditional University; P.-Th. Kandzia. Teacher Training - The

Interplay of IT and Society; C. Grlich, L. Humbert. Author Index. Keyword

Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7363-1 Date: January 2003 Pages: 344 pp.

EURO 164.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 103.00

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Learning in School, Home and Community

ICT for Early and Elementary Education

edited by

Gail Marshall

Gail Marshall & Associates, USA

Yaacov Katz

School of Education, Bar-llan University, Israel

IFIP

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 241

Schools, homes and communities, including after-care centres, resource

centres and libraries, have increased and acquired more technologies, and a

wider range of applications are being used. Research shows that students

use ICT differently in each setting. School-based technology use is often

viewed by students as routine and disconnected from their interests and

abilities. Many teachers are hesitant as to how to teach about ICT and, at

the same time, integrate ICT into subject-based learning. Parents and the

community-at-large have goals that differ from the goals espoused by

teachers and students. This volume highlights the concerns of all students,

teachhers, parents, policy makers and the general public.

Major themes in Learning in School, Home and Community: ICT for Earlyand

Elementary Education include:

     * Teachers' and researchers' studies of ICT use in school, home and

community.

     * National strategies and policies affecting ICT use in school, home

and community.

     * ICT tools designed to promote learning and the optimal settings to

promote learning.

     * School and community responses to ICT use that promote the

integration of ICT for all members of the community.

This volume contains the selected proceedings of the Working Conference on

Learning with Technologies in School, Home and Community, which was

sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

and held June 30-July 5, 2002 in Manchester, United Kingdom. Contributions

from experts around the world, working as teachers, teacher educators,

researchers and government officials, make this volume an essential

contribution to the development and implementation of ICT policies and

programs for schools, homes and communities.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Preface.

Part One: Learning. Learning in school and out: Formal and informal

experiences with computer games in mathematical contexts; N.Yelland. Using

technology to encourage social problem solving in preschoolers; M.B.

Medvin, D.Reed, D. Behr, E. Spargo. Using electronic mail communication and

metacognitive instruction to improve mathematical problem solving; B.

Kramarski, A. Liberman. Online searching as apprenticeship; M. Pearson. The

use of virtual reality three-dimensional simulation technology in nursery

school teacher training for the understanding of children's cognitive

perceptions; Y.J. Katz. Exploring visible mathematics with IMAGINE:

Building new mathematical cultures with a powerful computational system; I.

Kalas,A. Blaho. Cooperative networks enable shared knowledge: Rapid

dissemination of innovative ideas and digital culture; K. Crawford.

Part Two: Teaching. Developing an ICT capability for learning; S.Kennewell.

Separated by a common technology? Factors affecting ICT-related activity in

home and school; D. Benzie. The interaction between primary teachers'

perceptions of ICT and their pedagogy; A.M.Loveless. Capacity building in

tele-houses: A model for tele-mentoring; M. Turcsnyi-Szab

Part Three: Policy. ICT for rural education: A developing country

perspective; P. Hepp, E.Laval. National plans and local challenges:

Preparing for lifelong learning in a digital society; S. Rsvik. Learning

online: E-learning and the domestic market in the UK; M. Scanlon,

D.Buckingham. Glimpses of educational transformation: Making choices at a

turning point; B.S. Somekh. How do we know that ICT has an impact on

children's learning? A review of techniques and methods to measure changes

in pupils' learning promoted by the use of ICT; M.J. Cox. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7367-4 Date: January 2003 Pages: 182 pp.

EURO 133.00 / USD 130.00 / GBP 84.00

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Entertainment Computing

Technologies and Applications

edited by

Ryohei Nakatsu

Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

Junichi Hoshino

University of Tsukuba, Japan

IFIP

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 240

With the advancement of computers and networks, new types of entertainment

have emerged such as video games, entertainment robots, and network games.

This volume brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners

working in the area of entertainment computing, and covers a wide range of

issues, from theoretical to hardware/software, systems, human interfaces,

and applications.

Entertainment Computing presents the latest research and developments in:

     * Computers and Games:- Computer game algorithms, modeling of players,

web technologies for networked games, human interface technologies for game

applications;

     * Home/Arcade Games and Interactive Movies:- Video game computer

technologies, motion capture technologies, real-time computer graphic

technologies, interactive movie systems, story generation for games/movies,

human factors of video games;

     * Entertainment Robots and Physical Systems:- Entertainment robot

systems, toy robots and pet robots, entertainment robots for man- machine

interfacing, physical games and mental games;

     * Music Informatics:- MDI and its extensions, acoustic computation,

computer music for home entertainment, new musical instruments, sound and

voice for entertainment;

     * Sociology and Psychology of Entertainment:- Modeling and

representation of emotion, mind model for entertainment, psychological

aspect of immersion, future of entertainment; social significance of

entertainment;

     * Virtual Reality Technologies for Entertainment:- Generations of

virtual entertainment environment, interactions in virtual environment,

mixed reality technologies for entertainment.

This volume comprises the proceedings of the First International Workshop

on Entertainment Computing (IWEC 2002), which was sponsored by the

International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), organized in

cooperation with the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and

held in Japan in May 2002.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7360-7 Date: January 2003 Pages: 552 pp.

EURO 189.00 / USD 185.00 / GBP 119.00

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Reworking the Bench

Research Notebooks in the History of Science

edited by

Frederic L. Holmes

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Juergen Renn

Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

Hans-Joerg Rheinberger

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

ARCHIMEDES

-- 7

Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in

the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the

established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of

research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself

however is a recent development in the history of science.

With Eduard Dijksterhuis, we could address them as a veritable

"epistemologiCal laboratory". The purpose of a workshop entitled "Reworking

the Bench: Laboratory Notebooks in the History of Science", held at the Max

Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was to bring together

historians who have been exploiting such resources, to compare the

similarities and differences in the materials they had used and and to

measure the potential and scope for future explorations of "science in the

making" based on such forms of documentation. The contributions which form

this volume are based on papers presented at this workshop or written

afterward by participants in the discussions.

This is the first book that addresses the issue of research notes for

writing history of science in a comprehensive manner. Its case studies

range from the early modern period to present and cover a broad range of

different disciplines.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Editor's Introduction. The Hanging Chain: A Forgotten "Discovery" Buried in

Galileo's Notes on Motion; J. Renn, P. Damerow. The Chymical Laboratory

Notebooks of George Starkey; W. Newman, L.M. Principe. Newton's Optical

Notebooks: Public Versus Private Data; A.E. Shapiro. At Play with Nature:

Luigi Galvani's Experimental Approach to Muscular Physiology; M. Bresadola.

The Practice of Studying Practice: Analyzing Laboratory Records of Ampre

and Faraday; F. Steinle. From Agents to Cells: Theodor Schwann's Research

Notes of the Years 1835 1838; O. Parnes. Narrating by Numbers: Keeping an

Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences; O. Sibum. Exploring

Contents and Boundaries of Experimental Practice in Laboratory Notebooks:

Samuel Pierpoint Langley and the Mapping of the Infra-red Region of the

Solar Spectrum; A. Loettgers. The Pocket Schedule. Note-Taking as a

Research Technique: Ernst Mach's Ballistic-Photographic Experiments;

C.Hoffmann. From Lone Investigator to Laboratory Chief: Ivan Pavlov's

Research Notebooks as a Reflection of His Managerial and Interpretive

Style; D.P. Todes. Carl Correns' Experiments with Pisum, 1896 1899; H.-J.

Rheinberger. Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General

Relativity from Einstein's Zurich Notebook; J. Renn, T. Sauer. Hans Krebs'

and Kurt Henseleit's Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea

Cycle: Reconstructed with Computer Models; G.Graxhoff, M. May. Laboratory

Notebooks and Investigative Pathways; F.L. Holmes.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1039-7 Date: February 2003 Pages: 352 pp.

EURO 127.00 / USD 119.00 / GBP 81.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "Kiril Simov" <kivs@bultreebank.org>
Subject: Shallow Processing of Large Corpora - Second Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:47:18 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 552 (552)


                          Second Call for Papers

        Workshop on Shallow Processing of Large Corpora

           <a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/SProLaC.html">http://www.bultreebank.org/SProLaC.html</a>

                        (SProLaC 2003)

                   CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2003

          Lancaster University (UK), 27 March, 2003

The workshop will take place on the 27th of March 2003 at the

CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2003 Conference at Lancaster University (UK).

<a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/</a>

Workshop motivation and aims:

Corpora have developed with respect to two main directions:

      - large corpora  of size min. 100 mln. tokens, and

      - small corpora of size up to 1 mln. tokens.

The data in the former is only morpho-syntactically annotated

and the data in the latter is assigned more detailed syntactic

(and) semantic information. Needless to say, both types of

language corpora are valuable. However, a question arises,

whether it is possible to build a really large corpus, which is

fully processed linguistically. Since it is a hard task and

concerns metadata problems (theories, availability of appropriate

tools etc), we put the stress on shallow parsing of unrestricted

data. In our view, the creation of such a resource, using

automation, is a task of great importance. It would serve as a

template for linguistic research, consistency checking and

validation, large-scale applications in Information Retrieval

and Information Extraction, testing of machine learning

algorithms and many others. This task is related to other

subtasks, such as: an adequate combination of diverse

shallow processing techniques in a sound and robust

processor, and smoothing shallow parsing approaches

for stages of deeper linguistic analyses.

The workshop aims at being a forum for researchers to

present their work in the area of Computational Corpus

Linguistics and Language Engineering and to discuss

the problems in design, management, linguistic interpretation

and exploration of unrestricted data from both perspectives.

We envisage a one-day workshop and 10-12 presentations.

Topics of interest:

      - design principles for shallow-parsed large corpora;

      - text segmentation and preprocessing;

      - definition of  the connection between the levels

        of processing;

      - chunk and partial parsing of  large amounts of texts;

      - machine learning methods with large coverage;

      - software systems for management and accessibility

        to shallow-parsed large corpora;

      - applications  of shallow-parsed large corpora

There will be a general discussion at the end of the workshop.

Important dates:

Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 10th January 2003

Notification of acceptance: 3rd February 2003

Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 3rd March 2003

Submissions:

Papers should describe existing research connected to

the topics of the workshop. The presentation at the

workshop will be 25 minutes long (20 minutes for

presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion).

Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s);

and contact author's e-mail address, postal address,

telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 500 words,

plain-text format) should be sent to:

Kiril Simov

Email: kivs@bultreebank.org

The final version of the accepted papers should follow

the format for the main conference and should be no more

than 10 pages long. Instructions for formatting can be

found on the main conference page.

There will be a proceedings of the workshop.

Registration:

The registration will be managed by the local organisers

of the main conference.

Programme committee:

Michael Barlow, USA

Tomaz Erjavec, Slovenia

Silvia Hansen, Germany

Atanas Kiryakov, Bulgaria

Sandra Kuebler, Germany

Ghassan Mourad, France

Joakim Nivre, Sweden

Kemal Oflazer, Turkey

Karel Oliva, Austria

Petya Osenova, Bulgaria (co-chair)

Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic

Adam Przepi'orkowski, Poland

Geoffrey Sampson, UK

Kiril Simov, Bulgaria (co-chair)

Milena Slavcheva, Bulgaria

Marko Tadic, Croatia

Dan Tufis, Romania

Tylman Ule, Germany

Tamas Varadi, Hungary

Nikolaj Vazov, Bulgaria

Andreas Wagner, Germany

Organizing committee:

Kiril Simov

BulTreeBank Project

Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP,

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A

1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

Tel: (+359 2) 979 2825

Fax: (+359 2) 70 72 73

Email: kivs@bultreebank.org

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

Petya Osenova

BulTreeBank Project

Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP,

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A

1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

Tel: (+359 2) 979 2825

Fax: (+359 2) 70 72 73

Email: petya@bultreebank.org

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



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Ramble on the Random Slide
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:46:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 553 (553)


Willard

Months drift by. Years come to an end.

The bounty of demonstrations, resources and ideas exchanged at the annual

meeting of the COCH/COSH meeting at the end of May 2002 may perhaps excuse

my providing a late sampling of the rich offerings examined at that spring

gathering.

<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>

It is a selective sampling from four days of presentations devoted to

Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies. I'm never quite sure

how to parse that last bit: whether it is the technologies that are

emerging or the mind or both (in some proposed sequence). Parsing is one

way of threading two related groups of sessions: the one clustered around

the model of games and the other around the boundaries of perceivable

structure (that's my translation of some of the concerns raised in the

information aesthetics stream.

Marshall Soules through Computer Gaming and Protocols of Improvisation

offered a very suggestive presentation on "the voluntary discipline

required of improvised performance" Andrew Mactavish, the organiser of the

theorizing computer games sessions, nicely paired Soules's concerns with

performance as a procedural method with a paper presented by Patrick Finn,

Half-Life, Full Theory: Formalizing Video Criticism, where the audience

was quick to replay a familiar boundary question (user/coder) along the

lines of player/maker.  The discussion raised interesting epistemological

questions: just how far do researchers need to position themselves as

participant-observers in and around the discursive communities they

investigate? what authority does the non-expert have to formulate

hypotheses and interpretations about the behaviours of expert or

specialist groupings?

The ideological dimensions of games were an overt theme of the other

session devoted to social and cultural frameworks of theorizing computer

games. James Campbell problematized any easy answers in the examples he

presented in examining Computer Games as Complicitous Critique of Global

Capitalism. Gendered-perspectives offered by Carolyn Guertin and Aimee

Morrison with respectively From Complicity to Interactivity: Theories of

Feminist Game Play and Nerds Heroic and Social: Cinematic Video-gaming and

the Domestication of Computing led a consideration by those in attendance

of a distinction reminiscent of the literary criticism of Northrop Frye

(inspired perhaps by coincidence/remembrance that this part of the

COSH-COCH proceedings being held on the premises of Victoria College where

Frye taught). I cannot help but thinking that the matrix vs maze

distinction that emerged needs to be mapped onto the

procedural/declarative types of

languages. The maze was identified as the spatial pattern that suited the

directed quest. The matrix holds out other possibilities of movement and

brings the notion of game closer to Soules's considerations of

improvization.

Theorizing games can become rather giddying much like the engagement with

actual play -- just as pleasurable and cognitive challenging as the

aesthetics of codework which exposes the "generative material substrate"

of cultural-textual productions in their digital incarnations. Something

like a return of materialist-structuralist film making. The presentations

of Talan Memmott and Alan Sondheim (especially Sondheim's) demonstrated

the limits of de-cuing expectations. The currently accessible technology

allows for greater ease of shuffling images than sounds. Simply closing

one's eyes during an information overload session that is screen-centred

helps pace the cognitive apparatus. So does mediation. By happy

circumstance Maria Damon one of the organizers of the session read Rita

Raley's paper, The Object as Code. It was an interesting exercise in what

may be akin to sight-reading a score. A paper read in absentia of the

author gives the audience a sense of what carries.  Together, these

i-provizations, indicate how difficult it is to turn off sense making ---

there always seems to be a pattern to frame the noise.

I missed the other Information Aesthetics session. And it is too bad that

one of the presenters there missed the Sondheim, Memmott,

Raley-read-by-Damon pieces.

With a title offering an intertextual parody of Hayles's "posthuman" buzz

word, How We Became Automatic Poetry Generators, Katherine Parrish,

drew me in to discover some deliciously crafty MOOwerk

<a href="http://www.meadow4.com/moolipo">http://www.meadow4.com/moolipo</a>  Unfortunately, I missed the panel &

discussion.  Any subscribers in attendance care to report, rift or

improvise?

Parrish entices exploration.  I think she is wrong in invoking: <cite>

In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles asserts that pattern and

randomness are bound together in "a complex dialectic that makes them not

so much opposites as complements or supplements to one another" (Hayles

25).

                      The relationship between authorial control and its

relinquishment as it is realized in textual production involving random

procedures is  characterized by a similar supplementarity. Operating in

this splice, these procedures point to an emergent posthuman subjective

agency. <cite>

Post human? I wonder if any distinctions was made during the discussion

period to indicated the possibility that the procedures are not random,

the selection of the next procedure might be.

Loop back to Aimee Morrison who inspired me to go off and read Charles

Bernstein's essay, Play It Again, Pac-Man (collected in A Poetics), In the

subsection entitle "The Computer Unconscious" Bernstein invites readers to

contemplate the statement that "[t]he experiential basis of the

computer-as-medium is _prediction and control_ of a limited set of

variables. The fascination with all computer technology [...] is figuring

out all the permutations of a limited set of variables."

And so circling round the interplay between games and digital

performances/deconstructions, one can generate the sequence:

improvizaton --- i-provization --- hyperprovization

In Bernstein's discursive context, the military-industrial complex origins

of computer the aim is prediction and control. (This seems to hunt

Hayles). However the two activities may need to be separated out. The

aesthetic pleasure of figuring out the permutations may just complexify

notions of control. From there it is just a friendly disciplinary boundary

hop to cognitive psychology and the concerns of embodied knowing and

digital representations (a topos of many a post to Humanist).

Carolyn Guertin and Andrew Mactavish organizers of some very stimulating

sessions are to be thanked for some fine planning -- providing for some

hyper-improvisations worthy humanist scrutiny and ecoute.

-- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,

knows no "no exit" in a hypertext

every cul-de-sac is 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: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- December 2002
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:45:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 554 (554)


CIT INFOBITS    December 2002           No. 54          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.

......................................................................

Distance Learning Report from UNESCO

MIT Launches Digital Repository

Columbia University Press Takes Over Journal of Electronic Publishing

Journal Boycott Group Announces Its New Public Journals

Syllabus Radio

New Studies on Enterprise Systems and Distance Learning

Recommended Reading

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From: "NASSLLI'03 Bloomington, Indiana" <nasslli@indiana.edu>
Subject: NASSLLI-2003 ANNOUNCEMENT
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:45:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 555 (555)


                     Second North American Summer School

                                      in

                        Logic, Language and Information

                                NASSLLI-2003

                     June 17-21, 2003, Bloomington, Indiana

                        <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli">http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli</a>

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

The NASSLLI Steering Committee is pleased to announce the Second North

American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, to be held

in Bloomington, Indiana, June 17-21, 2003.  The event follows on from

the successful first school at Stanford in June, 2002. The school is

focussed on the interfaces among linguistics, logic, and computation,

broadly conceived, and on related fields.  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 hope

that the North American schools will follow in this tradition.

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   WEB SITE FOR NASSLLI'03, to be held at Indiana University in June   2003:

   <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/">http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/</a>



From: Ryan Stansifer <ryan@torpedo.cs.fit.edu>
Subject: SAC'03, Melbourne, Florida.  Call for participation
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:48:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 556 (556)


===========================================================================

                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                           SAC 2003 TUTORIALS

                     ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

                Melbourne, Florida, USA,  March 9 - 12, 2003

===========================================================================

                   Tutorials Program on Sunday, March 9

                       Holiday Inn, Ocean Front

T1: Resource and Mobility Management (Sajal Das, University of Texas

at  Arlington)

T2: Wireless/Mobile Network Security in Next Generation Wireless Systems

(S. R. Subramanya, University of Missouri)

T3:  Semantic Web and Ontologies (Raphael Volz, University of Karlsruhe)

T4:  Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems (David

Luckham, Stanford University)

             For more information go the SAC 2003 web site at:

                 www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2003/

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From: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org
Subject: EACL2003: Last Call for Workshop Papers
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:49:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 557 (557)


             EACL 2003 in Budapest, April 12-17, 2003

       Workshop Programme and Very Last Call for Workshop Papers

       [ DEADLINE FOR ALL WORKSHOPS IS TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 2003 ]

Important dates for all workshops:

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

Submission deadline:       Jan 07, 2003

Notification:              Jan 28, 2003

Deadline for final papers: Feb 13, 2003

Workshop dates:         Apr 13/14, 2003

Conference dates:       Apr 12-17, 2003

Important URLs:

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

Main conference: <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>

Workshops:       <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/workshops">http://www.elsnet.org/workshops</a>

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From: Silvia Hansen <hansen@coli.uni-sb.de>
Subject: Last Call for Papers: LINC-03
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:49:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 558 (558)


                         ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

                      4th International Workshop on

        Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03)

     A workshop to be held at EACL-03

               the 11th Conference of the European Chapter

             of the Association for Computational Linguistics

         Budapest, 14 April 2003

                 <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03</a>

      <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03</a>

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: diagramming
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:42:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 559 (559)


This is kindly to request comments, criticisms, corrections and additions

to a highly selective bibliography of work on diagramming, which I have put

online at <<a href="http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/diagram/">http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/diagram/</a>>. The intention behind

this and other bibliographies to come is to suggest directions of research

of which, I will shortly be arguing, we need to be aware. Since I am hardly

an expert in the topic, I ask those who are expert to treat this as an

invitation to teach. Your eager student awaits his instruction!

The effectiveness of the bibliography will be lost, I think, if many more

items are added. What I would hope for are items that are better or more

comprehensive than those I list. I would also be enormously grateful to be

pointed toward related topics that I have somehow missed.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "Joel Elliott" <jelliott@nhc.rtp.nc.us>
Subject: microcard scanning
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:44:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 560 (560)


Hello:

Does anyone know whether it is possible to scan the text of a microcard

with a conventional desktop scanner?  I have attempted this with a

"cheap" desktop scanner but the results were unacceptable -- it appears

that I would need to scan the original microcard at a much higher DPI

than my current scanner supports.  If you've experimented successfully

with this, what DPI would you recommend for a legible scan?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Joel

Joel Elliott

National Humanities Center

joel_elliott@unc.edu



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: review of Culture, Technology, Communication; CATaC
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:57:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 561 (561)


Humanists will likely be interested in a very recent review of Charles Ess

and Fay Sudweeks, eds., Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an

Intercultural Global Village (SUNY Press, 2001), by Michel J Menou (City

University, London), in the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, at

<a href="http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/booklist.asp">http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/booklist.asp</a>. Those who are unaware of

the conference series from which this book comes, Cultural Attitudes

Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC), the review and reply by Ess

and Sudweeks will provide a good introduction. As Menou says in the first

paragraph of his review,
[deleted quotation]
The interesting problem, of course, is how life in the balloon and life on

the ground interact, how life changes as a result of the choices we make,

don't make, cannot make. For me the work of CATaC is one of the several

signs that life in the large and ill-defined commons we inhabit and study

is maturing. In any case, if CATaC comes within physical range, I recommend

it strongly. Otherwise, there's the book reviewed above and the Proceedings

volumes of CATaC 2000 (Perth) and 2002 (Montreal), for which see

<a href="http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/">http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/</a>.

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: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.45
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:43:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 562 (562)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 45,  Week of December 30, 2002

In this issue:

View --

The Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise

Mother Nature knows best -- How engineered organizations

of the future will resemble natural-born systems.

By Kemal A. Delic and Umeshwar Dayal

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/k_delic_4.pdf">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/k_delic_4.pdf</a>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: on context
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:40:09 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 563 (563)


Humanists may be interested in a special issue of the journal Foundations

of Science <a href="http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1233-1821/">http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1233-1821/</a> edited by Bruce

Edmonds and Varol Akman, "Context in Context", vol. 7.3 (September 2002).

Description of the contents is at <a href="http://bruce.edmonds.name/cinc/">http://bruce.edmonds.name/cinc/</a>; the

Kluwer site gives access at minimum to abstracts.

The entire run of Foundations of Science is worth a look -- overall a very

interesting journal.

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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:45:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 564 (564)


(1)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929267435X1731366X152767Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929267435X1731366X152767Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>Learning

Discourse

Discursive Approaches to Research in Mathematics Education

edited by

Carolyn Kieran

Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada

Ellice Ann Forman

University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Anna Sfard

The University of Haifa, Israel

The authors of this volume claim that mathematics can be usefully

re-conceptualized as a special form of communication. As a result, the

familiar discussion of mental schemes, misconceptions, and cognitive

conflict is transformed into a consideration of activity, patterns of

interaction, and communication failure. By equating thinking with

communicating, the discursive approach also deconstructs the problematic

dichotomy between "individual" and "social" research perspectives. Although

each author applies his or her own analyses to the discourse generated by

students and teachers grappling with mathematical problems, their joint aim

is to put discursive research into the limelight and to spur thinking about

its nature and its possible advantages and pitfalls. This volume is

therefore addressed both to those interested in specific questions

regarding classroom communication, and to those who are looking for a

general conceptual lens with which to tackle the complexity of mathematical

teaching and learning.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Guest Editorial. Acknowledgements. There is more to discourse than meets

the ears: Looking at thinking as communicating to learn more about

mathematical learning; A. Sfard. Educational forms of initiation in

mathematical culture; B.van Oers. Cultural, discursive psychology: A

socio-cultural approach to studying the teaching and learning of

mathematics; S. Lerman. The multiple voices of a mathematics classroom

community; E. Forman, E. Ansell."Can any fraction be turned into a

decimal?" A case study of a mathematical group discussion; M.C.O'Connor.

The mathematical discourse of 13-year-old partnered problem solving and its

relation to the mathematics that emerges; C. Kiernan. Making mathematical

meaning through dialogue: "Once you think of it, the Z minus three seems

pretty weird"; V. Zack, B. Graves.

Commentary

Papers: From describing to designing mathematical activity: The next step

in developing a social approach to research in mathematics education?; C.

Hoyles. Research on discourse in the mathematics classroom: A commentary;

F. Seeger. Instructions for Authors.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1024-9 Date: January 2003 Pages: 304 pp.

EURO 109.00 / USD 105.00 / GBP 70.00

(2)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929273751X1731380X152769Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929273751X1731380X152769Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>Informatics

and the Digital Society

Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues

edited by

Tom J. van Weert

Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands

Robert K. Munro

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929273751X1482044X152769Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929273751X1482044X152769Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>IFIP

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 244

This volume considers general issues covering the contribution of

information and communication technology (ICT) to the development of

learning, the role and potential of E learning, computer supported

collaborative learning and innovative pedagogy, as well as very focused

issues such as online knowledge communities, the characteristics of agents

and multimedia animation. With many "state of the art" contributions,

Informatics and the Digital Society:Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues

addresses the following themes:

     * The e-literate society the role of informatiics, computer science and

ICT;

     * ICT agent of change and soccial conflict;

     * E-learning meeting the challenge of technollogy on society through

new partnerships;

     * Paradigm shifts in education and professional life.

The thought-provoking and controversial papers in this volume make a

powerful contribution to the debate that surrounds the increasing pervasion

of ICT in all sectors of our lives especially the education sector.

Evidence from contributors drawwn particularly from Europe, but also

representing the Americas and Australia supports the contention that all

countries are urgently addresssing the issues and problems raised by ICT.

Each country will have to derive its own, unique solution. This collection

of papers will certainly inform and should considerably assist that

decision making and problem resolution.

Informatics and the Digital Society: Social, Ethical and CognitiveIssues

contains the edited proceedings of SECIII, the Open Conference on Social,

Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and Information and

Communication Technology (ICT), which was sponsored by the International

Federation for Information Processing (WIP) Working Groups 3.1 (Secondary

Education) and 3.2 (Higher Education). It was held in July 2002 at the

University of Dortmund, Germany, in cooperation with the German Computer

Society (Gesellschaft fr Informatik).

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Acknowledgements. Preface. Key Issues in IFIP-SIG9.2.2 Approaches to Ethics

of Computing; J. Berleur. Informatics - The Science of Minimal Systems with

Maximal Complexity; A. Schwill. ICT in Education: Aspirations and Tensions;

D. Wood. e-Learning Technology: Convergence with the Mainstream; C.

Harrison. Knowledge Management in Education; J. Andersen. Learning and

Teaching in Socio-technical Environments; T.Herrmann.

Working Group Reports:- Intelligent Agents in an e-Literate Society: Some

Ethical Considerations; C. Dowling. Critical Thinking and an Ethical

Approach to Studying History - The Case for ICT; A.Kassam. A Look at the

Impact of ICT on the Informational Power Relationship Between Corporations

and Consumers; C. Lueg. Exploration of Object-Oriented Models in

Informatics Education; T. Brinda, S.E.Schubert. Learning Software

Engineering with EASE; D. Draheim. Object Models of IT-Systems Supporting

Cognitive Structures in Novice Courses of Informatics; P. Hubwieser. Let's

Teach Informatics - Empowering Pupils, Students and Teachers; L. Humbert.

Key Decisions in Adopting Algorithm Animation for Teaching; G. Rxling.

Design Pattern - A Topic of the New Mandatory Subject Informatics;

M.Schneider. Learning to Solve ICT/Informatics-Based Problems; M. Webb.

Development of Multimedia Animations - A Contribution of Informatics

Teaching to Media Studies; M. Weigend. ICT: An Aid to Inclusion?

Reflections on the Potential of ICT for the Changing Role of the Special

School; C. Abbott, J. Galloway. Various Modelling Aspects of Tutoring

Systems for People with Auditory Disabilities; N. Baloian, W.Luther.

Regional Learning Networks - Building Bridges Between Schools, University

and Community; A. Breiter. Online Knowledge Communities: Meeting Places for

Continuing Professional Development; S. de Vries. Distribution of Internet

Community Knowledge Based on Traditional Communication Media; J.F. Hampe,

S. Schnert, C. Dietze, NhiemLu. Taking the Best from Real Teaching

Environments; I. Bueno deCamargo Cortelazzo. A Role-Based Adaptive CSCL

Environment for Intensive Hands-on Teaching and Learning under Rigid Time

Constraints; H.F. Wedde, F.T. Breuer, M. Farooq. KOLUMBUS: Context-Oriented

Communication Support in a Collaborative Learning Environment; T.Herrmann,

A. Kienle. Teaching Social Informatics as a Knowledge Project; I.

Jackewitz, M. Janneck, D. Krause, B. Pape, M. Strauss. Using a Lecturer's

Personal Web Site to Enhance the Social Interchange among Students in an

Academic Course; D. Passig. Potential Problems of Computer-Mediated School

Education; G. Russell. Modern Curriculum Development for Informatics

(Computing Science); T.J. van Weert, F.Mulder. Innovative Pedagogical

Practices Using ICT - Results of the German SITES-M2; R. Dalmer, T. Petzel,

R. Schulz-Zander. e-learning@alma-mater.de - Net-Based Distance Education

in the Traditional University; P.-Th. Kandzia. Teacher Training - The

Interplay of IT and Society; C. Grlich, L. Humbert. Author Index. Keyword

Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7363-1 Date: January 2003 Pages: 344 pp.

EURO 164.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 103.00

(3)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929292500X1741339X152779Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929292500X1741339X152779Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>Computer-Supported

Collaboration with Applications to Software Development

by

Fadi P. Deek

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA

James A.M. McHugh

Dept. of Computer and Information Science, New Jersey Institute of

Technology, Newark, USA

<<a href="http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929292500X1481906X152779Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk">http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7929292500X1481906X152779Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk</a>>THE

KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 723

With the development of networked computing and the increased complexity of

applications and software systems development, the importance of

computer-supported collaborative work [CSCW] has dramatically increased.

Globalization has further accentuated the necessity of collaboration, while

the Web has made geographically distributed collaborative systems

technologically feasible in a manner that was impossible until recently.

The software environments needed to support such distributed teams are

referred to as Groupware. Groupware is intended to address the logistical,

managerial, social, organizational and cognitive difficulties that arise in

the application of distributed expertise. These issues represent the

fundamental challenges to the next generation of process management.

Computer-Supported Collaboration with Applications to SoftwareDevelopment

reviews the theory of collaborative groups and the factors that affect

collaboration, particularly collaborative software development. The

influences considered derive from diverse sources: social and cognitive

psychology, media characteristics, the problem-solving behavior of groups,

process management, group information processing, and organizational

effects. It also surveys empirical studies of computer-supported problem

solving, especially for software development. The concluding chapter

describes a collaborative model for program development.

Computer-Supported Collaboration with Applications to SoftwareDevelopment

is designed for an academic and professional market in software

development, professionals and researchers in the areas of software

engineering, collaborative development, management information systems,

problem solving, cognitive and social psychology. This book also meets the

needs of graduate-level students in computer science and information systems.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7385-2 Date: January 2003 Pages: 264 pp.

EURO 118.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 74.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Steven.Krauwer@elsnet.org
Subject: EACL2003: Submission for workshop papers extended till
Date: April 13, 2003
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 565 (565)


___________________________________________________________________

Contact info:

- for the workshops in general: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org

- for individual workshops:     workshop organizers

- for the main conference:      kindl@sztaki.hu

_______________________________________________________________



From: info@folli.org
Subject: ESSLLI'03 Student Session
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:38:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 566 (566)


!!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!!

             !!! Please circulate and post among students !!!

        We apologise if you receive this message more than once.

                        ESSLLI-2003 STUDENT SESSION

                          SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                    August 18-29 2003, Vienna, Austria

                       Deadline: February 24, 2003

                 <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03">http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03</a>

We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 15th European

Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2003),

which will be held in Vienna from August 18-29 2003. We invite

submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2003 Student

Session and for appearance in the proceedings.

PURPOSE:

This eighth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the previous

editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to

present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior

researchers and fellow-students.  The ESSLLI Student Session

encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates

(before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates

(before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by

non-students will not be accepted.  Papers may be accepted for full

presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for

a poster presentation.  All the accepted papers will be published in

the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session proceedings, which will be made

available during the summer school.

REQUIREMENTS:

The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished

work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity,

and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. We

welcome submissions with topics within the areas Logic, Language and

Computation.

[material deleted]



From: Fahri Yetim <fahri.yetim@njit.edu>
Subject: CfP: CHI 2003 Workshop: intercultural CMC
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:35:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 567 (567)


Supporting Intercultural Computer-Mediated Discourse:  Methods, Models, and

Architectures

CHI 2003 WORKSHOP

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Workshop Organizers

Fahri Yetim (New Jersey Institute of Technology),

<<a href="http://web.njit.edu/%7Eyetim">http://web.njit.edu/%7Eyetim</a>><a href="http://web.njit.edu/~yetim">http://web.njit.edu/~yetim</a>

Elaine Raybourn (Sandia National Laboratories),

<<a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/%7Eraybourn">http://www.cs.unm.edu/%7Eraybourn</a>><a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~raybourn">http://www.cs.unm.edu/~raybourn</a>

Objectives

This workshop explores the challenges in the intercultural

computer-mediated communication and cooperation environments and will

provide a platform for discussing empirical insights into the intercultural

communication barriers and practical and theoretical works for new designs,

tools and architectures that aims at overcoming them and enabling

computer-mediated intercultural communication and cooperation.

Important Dates

Jan. 17, 2003:    Position papers due

Feb. 7, 2003:     Notification of acceptance

Apr. 6, 2003:     Workshop day

For more information about the workshop:

<<a href="http://web.njit.edu/%7Eyetim/activities/chi2003/">http://web.njit.edu/%7Eyetim/activities/chi2003/</a>><a href="http://web.njit.edu/~yetim/activities/chi2003/">http://web.njit.edu/~yetim/activities/chi2003/</a>

Submit position papers to:

<mailto:Fahri.Yetim@njit.edu>Fahri.Yetim@njit.edu and

<mailto:emraybo@sandia.gov>emraybo@sandia.gov


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    College of Computing Sciences,  New Jersey Institute of Technology
    GITC 4400
    University Heights,  Newark, New Jersey 07102-1982  USA
    Email: <mailto:fahri.yetim@njit.edu>fahri.yetim@njit.edu
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From: "Susan Schreibman" <ss423@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: Beta Release of the Versioning Machine
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:39:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 568 (568)


Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to

announce the beta release of The Versioning Machine (VM) 1.0.

The Versioning Machine is a software tool designed to display and compare

multiple versions of texts. The display environment seeks not only to

provide for features traditionally found in codex-based critical editions

(such as annotation and introductory material), but to take advantage of

opportunities of electronic publishing by providing a frame to compare

diplomatic versions of witnesses side by side, allowing for images of the

witness to be viewed alongside the diplomatic edition, and providing users

with an enhanced typology of notes. The VM is TEI conformant and utilizes

parallel segmentation encoding.

The Versioning Machine is now ready, and we welcome beta testers. To aid

with the encoding process, we provide several sample encoded texts as well

as documentation in the Download Zip.

To register and download the beta version please go to

<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/ver-mach/">http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/ver-mach/</a>

and follow the link to "Download".

Please send any comments and suggestions to ver-mach-users@dev.umd.edu

Susan Schreibman, Amit Kumar, eriC White, Jarom McDonald, Lara Vetter



From: "B. Tommie Usdin" <btusdin@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Extreme Markup Languages 2003 - Call for Participation
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:17:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 569 (569)


            Call for Participation

         Extreme Markup Languages 2003

    Sponsored by IDEAlliance (Alexandria, Va.)

More Extreme!

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

It's happening again, and it's more Extreme than ever!

And Bigger! Principals of IDEAlliance's Knowledge Technologies conference

have joined the organizers of Extreme Markup Languages to expand the scope

of Extreme. We offer a single unabashedly hard-core conference as a

gathering place for the technically-oriented members of the information

interchange and knowledge representation community; a place for these

people to meet and refresh each other with ideas, advice, and camaraderie.

The conference is agnostic with respect to commercial and political

persuasion; it is passionate about providing a forum for technical ideas.

At Extreme Markup Languages we devote the better part of a week to the

unfettered pursuit of better understanding of:

    - markup practice and theory;

    - knowledge access and navigation;

    - formal languages;

    - information philosophy;

    - development of markup and knowledge aggregation software; and

    - ontologies, taxonomies, and vocabularies.

Logistics

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   What:      Extreme Markup Languages 2003

              Call for Papers, Peer Reviewers, Posters, and Tutorials

   When:      August 4-8, 2003

   Where:     Hilton Hotel, Montral, Canada

   Sponsor:   Idealliance

   Chair:     B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.

   Co-Chairs: Deborah A. Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.

              James D. Mason, Y-12 National Security Complex

              Steven R. Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting

              C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium/MIT

                 Laboratory for Computer Science

   How:       See details at: <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme">http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme</a>

   Schedule:  Peer Review Applications Due. . March 20, 2003

              Tutorial Proposals Due  . . . . March 20, 2003

              Paper Submission Deadline . . . April 3, 2003

              Speakers Notified . . . . . . . May 20, 2003

              Revised Papers Due. . . . . . . June 24, 2003

              Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . August 4, 2003

              Conference  . . . . . . . . . . August 5-8, 2003

Questions:  Email to extreme@mulberrytech.com or call Tommie Usdin

              +1 301/315-9631

More Information: For updated information on the program and plans for

             the conference, see <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/">http://www.extrememarkup.com/</a>


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Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com">http://www.mulberrytech.com</a>
17 West Jefferson Street                           Phone: 301/315-9631
Suite 207                                    Direct Line: 301/315-9634
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From: Nagib Callaos <nacallao@telcel.net.ve>
Subject: Invitation to participate in SCI 2003
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:18:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 570 (570)

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 7th WORLD MULTI CONFERENCE ON
SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS
SCI 2003
July 27 - 30, 2003
Orlando, Florida, USA
Sheraton World
<a href="http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/">http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/</a>
Honorary Presidents of Past Conferences: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and
George Klir
Program Committee Chair: William Lesso
General Chair: Nagib Callaos
Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez
MAJOR THEMES
* Information Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Communication and Network Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Control Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Optical Systems, Technologies and Applications
* Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing
* Applications of Informatics and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering
* Systemics
[material deleted]



From: "Gerhard Jan Nauta" <G.J.Nauta@LET.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
Subject: Computer Mediated Collaborative Scholarship
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:15:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 571 (571)


COMPUTER MEDIATED COLLABORATIVE SCHOLARSHIP

(request for references)

Most of us will be familiar with recommender systems such as used in

Amazon.com's webpublished database of books ("Hello, -your name-. We have

recommendations for you."). Another, related type of systems, aimed at the

growth of discipline-specific information, is what is sometimes denoted as

collaborative web projects.

In Leiden we are investigating the possibilities of organizing a two-day

conference on computer mediated collaborative scholarship, i.e. the use of

computer systems that, one way or another, support the "social construction

of knowledge" in the humanities. The conference should focus on existant or

experimental systems where views, pieces of information, or specialist

knowledge of a group of distributed people are accumulated by means of

computer technology.

Any references to people and projects in this field, especially in the

humanities, would be highly appreciated.

Gerhard Jan Nauta,

Humanities Computing

Department of Art History

Leiden University

Doelensteeg 16

Postbus 9515

2300 RA Leiden

The Netherlands

tel: +31 (0)71 5272741 (office)/+31 (0)71 5225864 (home)

fax: +31 (0)71 5272615

email: <mailto:G.J.Nauta@let.leidenuniv.nl>G.J.Nauta@let.leidenuniv.nl



From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Candidates for _All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources_
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:16:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 572 (572)


        Candidates for _All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources_

         With the Spring semester now UponOnUs, I would like to make

MyWebColleagues (re)aware of my registry devoted to Journal Abbreviation

Sources called _All That JAS_.

_All that JAS_ is located at

       [ <a href="http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm">http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm</a> ]

and is "  is a categorized registry of Web resources that list or

provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations or other types

of abbreviated publication titles (e.g., conference proceedings titles).

Selected OPACs that offer abbreviated title searching have also been

included. In addition, All That JAS includes select lists and

directories that provide access to the unabbreviated titles of serial

publications."

I am greatly interested in learning of other *free* Web-based journal

(or other publication) abbreviation sources (as well as *free* full

serial lists) for potential incorporation within  _All That JAS_.

The current collection of resources in _All That JAS_ included sites

organized in the following categories:

| GENERAL | AGRICULTURE | ANTHROPOLOGY | AQUATIC SCIENCES | ASTRONOMY |

BIOSCIENCES | BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS | CHEMISTRY | COMPUTER SCIENCE |

ENGINEERING | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | GEOLOGY | HISTORY | LAW |

MATERIALS SCIENCE | MATHEMATICS | MEDICINE | PHILOSOPHY | PHYSICS |

RELIGION | VETERINARY MEDICINE |

I am particularly interested in additional comprehensive LAW sites and

in sites for categories not presently listed.

As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, questions, queries,

Cosmic Insights, compliments [:->], Stimuli Packages, etc. etc. etc. are

Most Welcome!

BTW: Don't forget to see _All That JAS_ in Action in "Chicago"

               [ <a href="http://www.miramax.com/chicago/index.html">http://www.miramax.com/chicago/index.html</a> ]

/Gerry McKiernan

Abbrev.  Librn.

I.S.U. Libr

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: sic transit gloria verborum
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:41:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 573 (573)


  From the Prologue to Douglas Hofstadter, Fluid Concepts and Creative

Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought (New

York: Basic Books, 1995), p. 1:

'A word on the term "artificial intelligence"... In the 1970's, I

enthusiastically embraced this provocative phrase (or its acronym, "AI") as

a good way of describing my field of research and my own goals. For me and

probably for a good many other people, the term conjured up an exciting

image -- that of questing after the deepest secrets of the human mind and

expressing them as pure, abstract patterns. In the early 1980's, however,

that term, as words are wont to do, gradually started changing

connotations, and began to exude the flavor of commercial applications and

expert systems, as opposed to basic scientific research about the nature of

thinking and being conscious. Then, even worse, it slid down the slope that

ends up in meaningless buzzwords and empty hype. As a result I came to feel

much less comfortable saying or writing "AI". Luckily, a new term was just

then coming into currency "cognitive science" and I started to favor that

way of describing my research interests, since it clearly stresses the idea

of fidelity to what actually goes on in the human mind/brain, as well as

the pure-science nature of the endeavor. Nowadays, I seldom call myself an

"artificial-intelligence researcher" any more, choosing instead to say that

I am a cognitive scientist....'

It isn't as if Hofstadter has not enjoyed some benefits of the power coming

from the roaring commercial engines, so one may feel as if it's a bit much

for him thus to complain, though indirectly. But he does have a point.

Comment?

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: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Extended deadline for CFPs -- Shock of the Old, Oxford
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:30:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 574 (574)


* Please forward to relevant lists and individuals *

CALL FOR PAPERS -- deadline extended to 20th January

The Shock of the Old 3: Designing and Developing for the Disciplines 10th

April, 2003 University of Oxford

The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services is

pleased to announce our third annual conference on educational technologies.

Shock 3 will explore the problems and issues involved in designing and

developing learning technologies for particular disciplines and subjects.

We are interested in receiving abstracts for 20-minute talks that consider

one or more of the following questions:

* What kinds of technologies are becoming most widely used to teach

sciences, humanities, arts, social sciences? Why?

* What are the particular requirements for creating materials suited to

various disciplines/subjects?

* Are truly generic or completely non-disciplinary materials possible (or

desirable)?

* Should we be striving for the generic "ber-tool" or making the most of

disciplinary differences?

* In seeking to make generic tools might we be imposing the methodologies of

one discipline onto another?

* How can discipline- or subject-specific materials be adapted for different

disciplines or subjects? Are there any commonalities in tools for teaching,

say, literature, chemistry, economics?

* What differences are thus exposed or created in the underlying teaching

(and research) practices?

* Conversely, can disciplinary differences expose methodological assumptions

in the technologies?

* Do disciplinary differences affect the ways new technologies are best

integrated into teaching practice?

* Are proprietary solutions and "corporatization" of learning technologies

shaping the way subjects are taught? If so, is this leading to increased or

decreased choice and flexibility?

Talks that describe or demonstrate specific projects, tools and technologies

are welcome, but we will give priority to those that do so within the

context of the conference questions.

Please send 300-word abstracts (in-message or RTF) to ltg@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Email submissions strongly encouraged! (but address and fax below) REVISED

DUE DATE: 20th JANUARY, 5:00 pm.

The conference website is: <a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/</a>

[More information and registration instructions will be added to this site

as conference details are confirmed.]

As last year, this conference will be in conjunction with other events

during the week, which will be advertised shortly.

If you have questions, please contact the coordinators:

Dr. Nancy Weitz: nancy.weitz@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Dr. Marina Cacioppo: marina.cacioppo@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Learning Technologies Group

Oxford University Computing Services

13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX2 6NN

Tel: 01865 273221 | Fax: 01865 273275 <a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/</a>

* supported by the Association for Learning Technology *



From: "Gian Maria Greco" <gmgreco@yahoo.it>
Subject: Call for new or updated entries for FOLDOP (the "Free On
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:04:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 575 (575)


Line Dictionary Of Philosophy", published by SWIF)

Call for new or updated entries for FOLDOP, the "Free On Line Dictionary Of

Philosophy" published by SWIF.

ABOUT US

SWIF (<<a href="http://www.swif.it">http://www.swif.it</a>>) is the Italian Web Site for Philosophy, directed

by Prof. Luciano Floridi.

With texts in English and Italian, it is entirely based on the free

collaboration online among a large number of researchers and students in

philosophy.

FOLDOP (the Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy -

<<a href="http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop">http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop</a>>), is the English dictionary of

philosophy published by SWIF.

With 2.483 edited entries, it is the biggest and most complete dictionary of

philosophy freely available online.

Since its recent publication it has already had more than 28.000 visitors

and it is linked by several international philosophical sites.

ABOUT OUR PROPOSAL

After two years of work, we have now developed the project further and

created a new search engine, more functional and serviceable, thus entering

a second stage of the project.

The editorial team of FOLDOP would like to invite the international

philosophical community to contribute to the project.

Contributions can consist in new entries or corrections/addenda/updates of

old entries. Authors who would like to revise old entries substantially are

also welcome.

Our goal is to be as complete and comprehensive as possible, so no

contribution is too small or irrelevant, if it can improve the contents of

FOLDOP.

Anyone interested in collaborating to the project, especially authors

interested in writing or editing one or more new entries (possibly in

English, but Italian is also acceptable), can contact Prof. Gian Paolo

Terravecchia, the Project Coordinator, (<mailto:FOLDOP@swif.it>), suggesting

the entry or entries on which he or she wishes to work.

All new or substantially revised entries will be signed by the author.

To ensure the dictionary correctness and reliability, a scientific committee

of referees will evaluate all submitted entries.

For further information and instructions please consult the following page:

<<a href="http://lgxserve.ciseca.uniba.it/lei/foldop/structure.doc">http://lgxserve.ciseca.uniba.it/lei/foldop/structure.doc</a>>.

Best regards,

Dr. Gian Maria Greco

Press Office's Head

FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy

<a href="http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/">http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/</a>;

mailto:Foldop-PressRoom@swif.it

______________________________________________________________________

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: AI Topics
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:05:32 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 576 (576)


Humanists may be interested in the introductory publication of the American

Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI Topics

<a href="http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/">http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/</a>. The design is pure Fisher-Price, but the

content, as far as I have been able to check it out, is solid if

elementary. *Someone* -- authorship seems not to be attributed -- has been

thinking hard about how to reach the public at large.

Those who publish online may wish to reflect on how, without the kind of

aggressive marketing we tend to shun, such a Web-site would reach the

public.

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: "Amsler, Robert" <Robert.Amsler@hq.doe.gov>
Subject: RE: 16.408 a slippery slope
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:59:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 577 (577)


There is something disturbing about someone cloaking themselves in a

field's name because of the aura it adds to their work. To me the essence

of being in a field of work is the effort to take part in a conversation

going on among its practitioners, to critique their lines of thought, add

one's own comments on them, and ADVANCE THE FIELD. Hofstadter didn't really

do that. He admired the aura granted the AI practitioners and adopted their

banner for his soapbox. It doesn't seem to me that he cared what happened

to AI, only that he noticed that if he said he was in AI, more people would

listen to him. Then the winds changed direction and he bailed. Notice the

complete "outsider" element to his comments. He says "the term" started

changing. That's a fairly abstract view of a field, especially one someone

claims to be within. It is more like an observation from outside the field

that using the label no longer was gaining the right aura for their own

agenda. And luckily a new "term" was available, cognitive science.

AI is, was and will be. Cognitive science and AI split apart some time ago

over the issue of the priority for mimicking human performance. AI aspired

to the abstract goal of intelligence, regardless of whether it was

human-like or not. The analogy I've often used is between aeronautics and

ornithology. Does it matter to one whether the flying craft has feathers or

not? Depends on what you're interested in. For example, cognitive science

is rightfully concerned about the fallibility of human memory, AI need not be.

The fact of AI's commercialization and fall from favor as a commercial term

does not address its heart at all; any more than the commercial

applications of genetic engineering address the science of genome research.

AI hasn't lost anything of its knowledge because the business world hasn't

made as much cash as it expected to make off the applications it chose to

extract. It would be like saying that bad accounting practices have

tarnished the good name of mathematics--and like saying that one used to be

a mathematician until the recent spate of accounting scandals gave the

field a bad name.



From: Andrew Hawke <ach@aber.ac.uk>
Subject: Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru completed
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:05:18 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 578 (578)


Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, the great Welsh historical dictionary, has been

completed after over eighty years' work. The project began in 1921 with the

first 27 years being spent on collecting material for the dictionary. The

first 64-page part appeared in 1950, and the final part (the 61st) was

published at the end of 2002. Complete sets (4 volumes) of the dictionary

can now be ordered through bookshops or directly from the University of

Wales Press for 150 pounds sterling until the end of February 2003, when

the price will revert to the usual 190 pounds.

Work began in January 2002 on re-editing the A-B section of the Dictionary,

first edited in a very concise manner in the 1950s, and the first draft of

this work is available online at

<a href="http://www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/gpc_pdfs.htm">http://www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/gpc_pdfs.htm</a>. The second edition will

also be published in parts, and a shorter electronic version is also in

preparation.

For full details, please see the Dicitonary's website at:

<a href="http://www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/">http://www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/</a>. [Note: demand for sets has been so

great that some volumes are currently being reprinted. There may be a delay

of several weeks.]


--
Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk (01970)627513 (+44)1970 627513 (fx627066)
Golygydd Cynorthwyol/Rheolwr Systemau    Asst. Editor/Systems Manager
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru              University of Wales Dictionary
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru                National Library of Wales
                 Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, U.K.
                 URL: <a href="http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/">http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/</a>



From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Recent books in Natural Language Processing
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:02:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 579 (579)


RECENT BOOKS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

I would like to draw the attention of the NLP community

to the following books which have been published over

the past few months as part of John Benjamin's series

in Natural Language Processing:

The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing

Paola Merlo and Suzanne Stevenson

Natural Language Processing for Online applications:

text retrieval, extraction and categorization

Peter Jackson and Isabelle Moulinier

Exploring time, tense and aspect in

atural Language database interfaces

Ion Andoroutsopoulos

For more details on this NLP book series and on the

above books visit

<a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/JB/series.htm">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/JB/series.htm</a>

I would also seize this opportunity to notify

the community that my own book:

Anaphora resolution.

Ruslan Mitkov

Longman: London

which was published several months ago, but for

which initial problems were experienced with regard

to ordering, should now be widely available.

For more details on this book see

<a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/Longman/index.html">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/Longman/index.html</a>

Ruslan Mitkov



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Kluwer books
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:04:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 580 (580)


(1)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Modeling and Simulation

Theory and Practice

A Memorial Volume for Professor Walter J. Karplus

edited by

George A. Bekey

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Boris Y. Kogan

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Modeling and Simulation: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive

review of both methodologies and applications of simulation and modeling.

The methodology section includes such topics as the philosophy of

simulation, inverse problems in simulation, simulation model compilers,

treatment of ill-defined systems, and a survey of simulation languages. The

application section covers a wide range of topics, including applications

to environmental management, biology and medicine, neural networks,

collaborative visualization and intelligent interfaces. The book consists

of 13 invited chapters written by former colleagues and students of

Professor Karplus. Also included are several short 'reminiscences'

describing Professor Karplus impact on the professional careers of former

colleagues and students who worked closely with him over the years.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7062-4 Date: February 2003 Pages: 312 pp.

EURO 138.00 / USD 135.00 / GBP 86.00

(2)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Determinism, Holism, and Complexity

edited by

Claudio Pellegrini

Physics Dept., University of California at Los Angeles, USA

Paola Cerrai

University of Pisa, Italy

Paolo Freguglia

Universit  de L'Aquila, Italy

Vieri Benci

Unviersit  di Pisa, Italy

Giorgio Israel

Universit  di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

This volume is the proceedings of a workshop to discuss the recent work on

complex systems in physics and biology, its epistemological and cultural

implications, and its effect for the development of these two sciences. The

workshop is geared towards physicists, biologists, and science historians.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Preface. Contributing Authors.

Part I: Physics. Complexity and emergence of meaning; F.T. Arecchi. A

geometric optics experiment to simulate the betatronic motion; A. Bazzani,

et al. Some remarks on the arrow of time and the notion of information; V.

Benci. How real is the quantum world?; M. Cini. Decoherence and classical

behaviour in quantum mechanics; G. Dell'Antonio, et al. Scaling laws:

microscopic and macroscopic behavior; R. Esposito. Measure of diffusion

entropy of weak turbulence; L. Galeotti, et al. Complexity in physics of an

adhesive tape; B. Giorgini, et al. Reflections about the time arrow; A.

Lepschy. The big computer. Complexity and computability in physical

universe; I. Licata. On the uniqueness or multiplicity of physical

theories; C. Pellegrini. An interplay between determinism and one-parameter

semigroups; S. Romanelli. From dynamical systems to complex systems; G.

Turchetti.

Part II: Biology. Shape and size in biology and medicine; V. Capasso.

Assessment of the quality of waters and the environment; N. Ceccopieri, R.

Banchetti. Synchronization of neocortical interneurons; S. Chillemi, et al.

The fractal borderland; G. Damiani. Emergent properties and complexity for

biological theories; P. Freguglia. Ignoring complex interactions in natural

ecosystems; M. Giovannetti. A compression algorithm as a complexity measure

on DNA sequences; G. Menconi. Reductionism and history: the biology between

Scylla and Charybdis; R. Morchio. A characterization for a set of

trinucleotides to be a circular code; G. Pirillo. Deterministic and random

components of over time evolution; G. Pulina,et al. Toward creating life in

a test tube; M. Rizzotti. Phylogenies and the new evolutionary synthesis;

F. Santini. Cell system complexity and biological evolution; M. Sar

Self-organization and prebiotic environment; S. Traverso.

Part III: History and Philosophy

of Science. James and Freud on physical determinism; P. Casini.

Probabilistic aspects in George D. Berkhoff's work; L. Dell'Aglio. The

metamorphosis of holism; E. Gagliasso. Early approaches to the management

of complexity; A. Milln Gasca. The dignity of the natural sciences; P.

Omodeo. Holism: some historical aspects; S.Procacci. Towards a history of

complexity; T.M. Tonietti.

Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47472-7 Date: January 2003 Pages: 414 pp.

EURO 164.50 / USD 155.00 / GBP 110.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "Fotis Jannidis" <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: 16.406 Computer-Mediated Collaborative Scholarship?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:01:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 581 (581)


I think <a href="http://www.hypernietzsche.org/">http://www.hypernietzsche.org/</a> may be of interest to you.

Fotis Jannidis

________________________________________

Forum Computerphilologie

Hg.: Georg Braungart - Karl Eibl - Fotis Jannidis

<a href="http://www.computerphilologie.de">http://www.computerphilologie.de</a>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: a comment on online publication
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:08:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 582 (582)


  From rather intense recent experience trawling the Web for serious

publications in a number of areas, I can say that common practice in many

of these -- e.g. computer science; cognitive science; psychology;

philosophy, esp of science -- common practice is to put published articles

online. The example of Kevin Dunbar is not unusual; see his "Representative

Publications" page at <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kndunbar/pubs.html">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kndunbar/pubs.html</a>. Clearly

what appears on this page are items still under copyright, in most cases (I

would suppose) not by Dunbar himself. I cannot tell you (but don't need to,

I'm sure) how much the practice of "self-archiving" aids interdisciplinary

research -- more generally, aids the research of anyone who is not

comfortably settled (a) within a narrowly defined speciality and (b) in a

well-stocked library.

Why should we not all do as Dunbar does?

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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: powerful ethnocentricity of the disciplines
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:06:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 583 (583)


"Surrenders to conventionality are what disciplines are. The disciplines

are social systems that raise their partial 'as if' perspectives from mere

conventionality to mythic proportions. In the language of semiotics, their

models move from being symbols to being signs. They move from metaphor to

metonymy. From being known to be conventional and partial, they are

understood to be real and whole. All the boundary-making rituals of

everyday life in which the conventionalities of class and sex and race and

sect are transformed into social realities are the same rituals that make

for powerful ethnocentricity of the disciplines.

"We will flnd them all, these rites de passages, in examinations, in

selection, promotion, and establishment, in the residence rules of

departments and schools, in the special languages, in the professional

taboos. These are ways of making a blinkered view of the world seem

mythically true. No matter that every science properly protests its

rationality, the mood and sentiment created by each science's social

relations make the artificiality of its perspective as natural as good and

bad manners. As social and cultural systems, disciplines move from their

sense of the conventional and metaphoric quality of their models to a sense

of their naturalness and reality. Their models become signs of the whole of

reality, not just symbols of its parts.

"With the rise and fall of their political and social power, disciplines

transfer their own models to their culture's mythic understanding of the

environment. 'Supply and demand', 'id and ego', 'survival of the fittest'

move from being recognised analytical contrivances to being objective

descriptions of what actually happens, and reliable predictions of what

will happen as the models gain the strength to have an undeniable and

cosmological value in the culture at large."

Greg Dening, Performances (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996): 41-2

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: Dirk Kottke <dirk.kottke@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Einladung zum 87. Kolloquium
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:03:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 584 (584)


           U N I V E R S I T  T   T  B I N G E N

    Z E N T R U M   F  R   D A T E N V E R A R B E I T U N G

    Abteilung Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung

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

                        E I N L A D U N G

                         zum 87. Kolloquium

ber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung

in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universitt Tbingen

Diese Kolloquien sollen einerseits dem Erfahrungs- und Meinungs-

austausch dienen, andererseits einfhrende Information

darber geben, welche Hilfestellung die EDV dem Geistes-

wissenschaftler bieten kann. Jede(r) Interessierte ist willkommen.

                            T H E M E N

    Wolframs Parzival: Probleme der elektronischen Edition

    eines reich berlieferten Textes

    Referent: Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz

              Deutsches Seminar, Universitt Basel

    Ein Rahmen fr elektronische Studienausgaben im Internet

    Referent: PD Dr. Fotis Jannidis

              Institut fr Deutsche Philologie,

              Universitt Mnchen

Zeit: Samstag, 25. Januar 2003, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr

Ort:  Seminarraum des ZDV, Wchterstrae 76 (EG)

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From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com>
Subject: Museums and the Web 2003: Preliminary Program On-Line
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:08:32 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 585 (585)


          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>

The MW2003 Preliminary Program is now available.

Join us at the seventh annual Museums and the Web conference - the premier

international venue to review the state of the Web in arts, culture, and

heritage. The MW2003 program will Web-related issues for museums, archives,

libraries and other cultural institutions. If you are working with the Web

in these areas plan to join us.

The formal program of Museums and the Web 2003 consists of two plenary

sessions, eighteen parallel sessions, 60 museum project demonstrations,

dozens of commercial exhibits, seven full-day and 6 half-day pre-conference

workshops, and ten one-hour mini-workshops combined with a day-long

usability lab, a day-long design "Crit Room", and the Best of the Web awards.

The informal program involves full-day pre-conference tours, evening

receptions each night of the meeting, a dozen Birds-of-a-Feather breakfast

meetings, and hours of discovery and debate with hundreds of colleagues

from more that 35 countries.

All papers presented at MW2003 are peer reviewed. Full session

descriptions, abstracts, speaker biographies and lots more details are

on-line at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/</a> Papers will be published

on-line before the conference begins. Selected Papers will be available in

print.

Join us at the largest international gathering about cultural heritage

on-line. Register on-line at <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/register/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/register/</a>

We hope to see you in Charlotte the spring!

David and jennifer

(please note our new address)


--
Museums and the Web                     Co-Chairs:
Archives & Museum Informatics           David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
2008 Murray Ave, Suite D        <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html">http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html</a>
Pittsburgh, PA 15217                    phone +1 412 422 8530 / fax +1 412
291 1292
USA                                     email: info@archimuse.com


From: Licia Landi <licialandi@tin.it>
Subject: International Conference Announcement
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:05:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 586 (586)

Apologies for cross-posting.
We are pleased to announce the conference:
"La formazione degli insegnanti di discipline classiche - Il ruolo delle SSIS"
The conference will be held at the University of Padua (Italy) on 7 th
February 2003
Sponsored by Universit degli Studi di Padova
CIRED - Centro interdipartimentale per la ricerca educativa e didattica
SSIS- Scuola di specializzazione interateneo per l'insegnamento secondario
del Veneto
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichit
LIST OF SPEAKERS:
All the lectures will take place in Palazzo del Bo. Sala dell'Archivio Antico
Ore 9. Apertura dei lavori. Saluti del Prof. U. Margiotta, Direttore SSIS
del Veneto, del Prof. A. Costantini, Coordinatore dell'Indirizzo
linguistico-letterario, del Prof. P. Scarpi, Direttore del Dipartimento di
Scienze dell'Antichit.
Ore 9,30-10,00.  L. Scarpa, Cired di Padova, SSIS del Veneto. Insegnare
l'antico. Prospettive per una didattica disciplinare.
Ore 10,00-10,30.  E. Andreoni Fontecedro, SSIS del Lazio. Latino: metodi e
contenuti.
Ore 10,30-11,00.  G. Cajani, SSIS della Lombardia. La didattica
dell'approccio per il greco: il metodo lessicale.
Ore 11,00-11,30. F. Roscalla, SSIS della Lombardia. La didattica del
sistema verbale greco.
Ore 11,30 - 12,00.  A. Piva, SSIS del Veneto. Tirocinium Latinitatis.
Ore 12,00-12,30.  R. Valenti, SSIS della Campania. Lettere al futuro:
informatica e latino.
Intervallo
Ore 14,30-15,00. A. Menegazzi, Universit di Padova. Insegnanti e didattica
museale.
Ore 15,00 -15,30.  L. Landi, SSIS del Veneto. Quacumque ingredimur, in
aliqua historia vestigium ponimus: le tecnologie didattiche nella
formazione degli insegnanti di lingue classiche.
Ore 15,30-16,00.  J. Morgan, J-PROGS and Computing Coordinator of JACT. A
view from the UK - Computanda Britannica.
Ore 16,00-16,30.   V. De Troyer, Het Gemeenschapsonderwijs - Brussel. Quot
capita tot sensus. Classics & ICT in Flemish (and Dutch) class practice.
Ore 16,30-18,30.  Tavola rotonda sul tema: Formazione insegnanti: non si
parte da zero.
Partecipano:
E. Andreoni Fontecedro, SSIS del Lazio - G. Cajani, SSIS della Lombardia
-G. Cipriani, , SSIS della Puglia - A. De Vivo, SSIS della Campania -   G.
Luzzatto, Presidente CONCURED, SSIS della Liguria -U. Margiotta, Direttore
SSIS del Veneto-- P. Mastandrea, SSIS del Veneto - S. Rocca, SSIS della
Liguria - A. Tessier, SSIS del Friuli  Venezia Giulia.
Coordina: L. Scarpa.
Comitato scientifico
Sergio Celato   Aldo Costantini   Francesco Donadi  Pietro De Prico
Claudio Marangoni  Licia Landi  Paolo Mastandrea  Umberto Margiotta
Antonia Piva  Antonella Zinato


From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: Preventing Plagiarim Workshop Reminder!
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:06:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 587 (587)

REMINDER and INVITATION
*January 17, 2003* is the Early Registration Deadline for the Online
Workshop: Preventing Plagiarism in the Online and face-2-face Classrooms
<a href="http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa2002/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa2002/</a>
Moderated by Gary Pavela, Director of Judicial Programs and Student
Ethical Development at the University of Maryland-College Park, this
workshop will run from February 10 to February 28, 2003.
Learn successful methods for designing assignments that will enhance
student learning and lessen plagiarism. Share your experiences, proven
assignments and methods with fellow classmates.
The Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright at University of
Maryland University College is also pleased to announce that a **Live
Chat Session** with Patrick Scanlon, Professor of Professional and
Technical Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology will be a
part of this timely and important workshop!
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/ipa2002/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa2002/</a>
[Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.]



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books (Kluwer & Springer)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:55:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 588 (588)


Note esp. Springer LNAI 1898, Advances in Case-Based Reasoning [i.e. by

analogy]; LNAI 1889, Theory and Application of Diagrams. --WM

(1)

  From Kluwer:

Informatics

Curricula and Teaching Methods

edited by

Lillian Cassel

Villanova University, PA, USA

Ricardo A. Reis

Instituto de Informatica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

IFIP

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 245

Several aspects of informatics curricula and teaching methods at the

university level are reported in this volume, including:

     * Challenges in defining an international curriculum;

     * The diversity in informatics curricula;

     * Computing programs for scientists and engineers;

     * Patterns of curriculum design;

     * Student interaction;

     * Teaching of programming;

     * Peer review in education.

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the Working

Conference on Informatics Curricula, Teaching Methods and Best Practice

(ICTEM 2002), which was sponsored by the International Federation for

Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 3.2, and held in

Florianpolis, Brazil in July 2002.

The working groups were organized in three parallel tracks. Working Group 1

discussed the "Directions and Challenges in Informatics Education". The

focus of Working Group 2 was "Teaching Programming and Problem Solving".

Working Group 3 discussed "Computing: The Shape of an Evolving Discipline."

Each working group worked actively and prepared a report with the results

of the discussions; these reports are included as the second part of this book.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Foreword from the Program Chair. Preface. Conference Committees.

Acknowledgements. Benchmark Standards for Computing in the UK;

A.McGettrick. Student Experiments in Object-Oriented Modeling; T.Brinda.

Input/Output for CS1 Course in Java; E.B. Koffman. Learning Programming by

Solving Problems; A.N. Kumar. Teaching of Programming with a Programmer's

Theory of Programming; J. Reinfelds. Teaching Programming Broadly and

Deeply: The Kernel Language Approach; P. VanRoy, S. Haridi. Programming

Strategies using an Actor-Based Environment; R.S. Wazlawick, A.C. Mariani.

A Computing Program for Scientists and Engineers - What is The Core of

Computing; R. Denzer. Patterns of Curriculum Design; D. Blank, D. Kumar.

Variations in Computing Science's Disciplinary Diversity; L.E. Merkle, R.E.

Mercer. Variety in Views of University Curriculum Schemes for

Informatics/Computing/ICT; F. Mulder, K. Lemmen, M. van Veen.

Reports

of the Working Groups:- Directions and Challenges in Informatics Education;

J. Hughes, A. McGettrick, E.F. Barbosa, J. Kaasboll, V.M.Kern, A.P. Ludtke

Ferreira,E. Macome, J. Martins, C.A. de Oliveira,A.I. Orth, R. Sadananda,

E. da Silva, R. Tori. Teaching Programming and Problem Solving; E.

Koffmann, T. Brinda, J. Alvarez, A. Kumar,M.L.B. Lisboa, J. Reinfelds, P.

Van Roy, R.S. Wazlawick. Computing: The Shape of an Evolving Discipline; L.

Cassel, G. Davies, D. Kumar,R. Denzer, A. Hacquebard, R. LeBlanc, L.E.

Merkle, F. Mulder, Z.Panian, R. Reis, E. Roberts, P. Rocchi, M. van Veen,

A.F. Zorzo. Author Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7266-X Date: January 2003 Pages: 164 pp.

EURO 123.00 / USD 120.00 / GBP 77.00

(2)

  From Springer:

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

LNAI 1904:

Stefano A. Cerri and Danail Dochev (Eds.):

Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications

9th International Conference, AIMSA 2000,

Varna, Bulgaria, September 20-23, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1904.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1904.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1904.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1904.htm</a>

LNAI 1898:

Enrico Blanzieri and Luigi Portinale (Eds.):

Advances in Case-Based Reasoning

5th European Workshop, EWCBR 2000,

Trento, Italy, September 6-9, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1898.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1898.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1898.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1898.htm</a>

LNAI 1889:

Michael Anderson, Peter Cheng, and Volker Haarslev (Eds.):

Theory and Application of Diagrams

First International Conference, Diagrams 2000,

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, September 1-3, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1889.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1889.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1889.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1889.htm</a>

LNAI 1810:

Ramon Lpez de Mntaras and Enric Plaza (Eds.):

Machine Learning: ECML 2000

11th European Conference on Machine Learning,

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, May 31 - June 2, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1810.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1810.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1810.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1810.htm</a>

LNCS 1643:

Jaroslav Nesetril (Ed.):

Algorithms - ESA'99

7th Annual European Symposium,

Prague, Czech Republic, July 16-18, 1999. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1643.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1643.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1643.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1643.htm</a>

LNCS 1633:

Nicolas Halbwachs and Doron Peled (Eds.):

Computer Aided Verification

11th International Conference, CAV'99,

Trento, Italy, July 6-10, 1999. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1633.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1633.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1633.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1633.htm</a>

LNAI 1532:

Setsuo Arikawa and Hiroshi Motoda (Eds.):

Discovery Science

First International Conference, DS'98,

Fukuoka, Japan, December 14-16, 1998. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1532.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1532.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1532.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1532.htm</a>

LNAI 1484:

Helder Coelho (Ed.):

Progress in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA'98

6th Ibero-American Conference on AI

Lisbon, Portugal, October 5-9, 1998. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1484.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1484.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1484.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1484.htm</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: Ronaldo Menezes <rmenezes@cs.fit.edu>
Subject: CFP: Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing (PDPTA
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:57:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 589 (589)


'03)

                         CALL FOR PAPERS

            Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing

                    (Languages, Models, Systems)

               <a href="http://www.cs.fit.edu/~rmenezes/pdpta03/">http://www.cs.fit.edu/~rmenezes/pdpta03/</a>

                      a special session of

                            PDPTA'2003

         <a href="http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/2003/PDPTA/pdpta.html">http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/2003/PDPTA/pdpta.html</a>

                        June 23 - 26, 2003

             Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

======================================================================

IMPORTANT DATES:

        March 3, 2003 (Monday):     Draft papers (about 5 pages) due

        March 21st, 2003 (Friday) : Notification of acceptance

        April 22, 2003 (Tuesday):   Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due

        June 23-26, 2003:           PDPTA'03 International Conference

======================================================================

SCOPE OF THE SESSION:

Component-based software  is likely to be the  most promising approach

to  making  distributed  systems  and Internet  applications  fit  the

requirements   of  the   new   information-based  work   organization.

Component-based software  encompasses many disciplines  and application

domains,  such  as  groupware,  distributed  object-oriented  software

development, middleware, multimedia, CSCW, and distributed simulation.

The focus  of this session is on component-based in special coordination

issues that arise in these systems.  Models, languages, and

applications  for both architectural and behavioral aspects of systems

are of special concern.

The  purpose of  this session  is  to bring  together researchers  and

practitioners working on component-based computing and coordination

in the diverse disciplines this field encompasses.

The session serves as a forum to enable exchange of experience between

academia  and industry,  as  well as  between  researchers working  on

different aspects of coordination and component-based computing.

[material deleted]



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.416 on disciplinarity
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:57:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 590 (590)


Gosh, sounds like Bourdieu. Symbolic violence.

Pat Galloway



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: advancing the field
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:22:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 591 (591)


Conversation is what it's all about, as Bob Amsler says in Humanist 16.412:
[deleted quotation]
I am repeatedly struck, however, by the irony of conversations within

disciplines -- namely, by how much and how many they tend to exclude. It's

relatively rare that someone will try to communicate with outsiders in

terms the intelligent beginner can understand. For most disciplines we

brush up against that's precisely what we are. I'm not just talking about

density of jargon, though that is a problem. Rather more, I think, the

problem is tuning in on the debate, which in computing-related fields may

be hard to find if one doesn't attend all the right conferences. The ACM

Computing Surveys series is one good move in the right direction; the

Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science is another. But even

within such volumes the assumption seems often to be made that the contexts

for what is being said are already understood -- if indeed those saying it

actually know of the relevant contexts.

An example. Many of the essays in Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J Nersessian,

eds., Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values (Kluwer/Plenum,

2002), are quite important for the sort of work we do and represent

significant contributions to the literature on modelling. The editors have

not, however, taken the trouble to supply an introductory essay

establishing the context for these essays, something to orient the

beginner, something to indicate where they fit into a half a dozen or more

ongoing conversations in philosophy, history and philosophy of science,

cognitive science, psychology, AI & al. Contrast Robert Franck, ed., The

Explanatory Power of Models (Kluwer, 2002). The editor takes significant

trouble to sum up the arguments and give the book a real shape, and to

establish the context within the social sciences. Unfortunately he seems

unaware

of much outside the social sciences. Fair enough, you say -- the book is

ADDRESSED to social scientists. Yes, I reply, exactly my point. The

half-century of "deep malaise in the social sciences" that he speaks about

quite pointedly -- the gulf between empirical researchers and theoreticians,

across which they do not communicate -- is an instance of the problem.

I am suggesting that research outside the social sciences could help

a very great deal.

Sergio Manghi, in the Preface to Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature: A

Necessary Unity (Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press, 2002): xiii, speaks of "the

most precious, and also the most difficult thing we can learn from an

encounter with his work. Not to learn more, more than before, more than

others... but to know ourselves and the world we live in *in another way*.

A way that is self-reflective and participatory, a way that can reveal to

us -- by continually placing it *in a wider perspective* -- the

extraordinary story of what we already know, what we already are...."

It's not just that the interdisciplinarity of humanities computing requires

us to browse far and wide -- farther and wider than our own individual

turfs-of-origin -- and so to help others browse beyond theirs, even entice

them to do so. The very situation we are in as scholars and interested

parties in the life of the mind would seem to require wide-ranging

conversation. Those who pay the bills certainly require it of us -- or are

trying to. So far the forms of expression that we are being handed

(e.g. "transferrable skills" checklists & other forms of "quality assessment")

are mockeries of a truly helpful response. But there's no question about

the real imperative, which is intellectual, moral, social.

Comment?

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: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.46
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 06:56:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 592 (592)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 46,  Week of January 13, 2003

In this issue:

Excerpt --

Communications Policy and Information Technology

Policy analysis involves tempering enthusiasm with a sobering

dose of reality.

Edited by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Shane Greenstein

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/l_cranor_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/l_cranor_1.html</a>



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.417 HyperNietzsche; a comment on online self-archiving
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:33:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 593 (593)


Willard,

<snip>
[deleted quotation]
While I applaud Dunbar putting his publications online and support

self-archiving, that practice is not the best solution for archiving

research. The use of an archive like citeseer makes research much easier to

find due to indexing and searching services. Institutionally maintained

archives are much less likely to simply disappear after the retirement of

an author or upon their transfer from one position to another.

In the short term self-archiving provides no more access that the use of a

broader archive and in the long term, may provide a good deal less.

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Berkeley Digital Rights Management Conference
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:27:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 594 (594)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 15, 2003

                           The Law & Technology of

                    DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

                     Thur. Feb 27 - Sat. March 1, 2003

                    Bancroft Hotel, Berkeley, California

       <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/drm/index2.html">https://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/drm/index2.html</a>

         Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology

                  and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal
[deleted quotation]
[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Copyright and Libraries--this week on Bill Moyers NOW
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:28:32 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 595 (595)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 16, 2003

               Copyright and Libraries--this week on Bill Moyers NOW

                  Friday January 17, 2002 at 9pm (Eastern) on PBS

                       <<a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html">http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html</a>><a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html">http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html</a>
[deleted quotation]
[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Digitization Workshops
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:29:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 596 (596)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 16, 2003

           Digitization for Cultural and Heritage Professionals Workshop

                     May 11th-May 16th, 2003: UNC, Chapel Hill

                           <a href="http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/">http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/</a>

              Deadline for Early Bird Registration: March 1, 2003

                         School for Scanning: Los Angeles

               "Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets"

             Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center

           April 23-25, 2003: The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California

                       <a href="http://www.nedcc.org/sfsca/sfsca1.htm">http://www.nedcc.org/sfsca/sfsca1.htm</a>

             Deadline for Early Bird Registration: March 21, 2003

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From: Silvia Hansen <hansen@coli.uni-sb.de>
Subject: Last CfP: Multilingual Corpora: Linguistic Requirements
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:30:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 597 (597)


and Technical Perspectives

        Apologies to those of you who receive this more than once

                          ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

                          Multilingual Corpora:

            Linguistic Requirements and Technical Perspectives

     A pre-conference workshop to be held at

                        Corpus Linguistics 2003

         Lancaster, 27 March 2003

             <<a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003</a>><a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003</a>

      <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/mocu03">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/mocu03</a>

ORGANIZED BY:

Stella Neumann (Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and

Interpreting)

Silvia Hansen (Department of Computational Linguistics)

Saarland University, Saarbrcken, Germany

TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

How do researchers go about building multilingual corpora? For the

development of a linguistically interpreted corpus on the basis of more

than one language there seem to be two methods: First, the multilingual

corpus is split up into monolingual sub-corpora which are then annotated

independently. For the second method, one language serves as the basis for

building up and interpreting a multilingual corpus, whereas the other has

to be adapted. Both methods, however, are rather problematic. They do not

take sufficiently into account the differences and commonalities between

the languages in question at each stage of corpus-based research, involving

the comparability of the corpus design, the different kinds of

segmentation, the diverging annotation schemes, the corpus representations

and finally the again converging querying across different languages.

Mistakes or inconsistencies which happen at one stage of the multilingual

corpus development have negative influences on the following steps and

result in worse mistakes or inconsistencies. Not only do these problems

arise at each methodological step. They also multiply with the growing

complexity of the research design. If the research aims at interpreting

linguistic data on several levels, cross-linguistic comparability has to be

taken into account on each level.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who formulate

specific requirements of how to work with corpora under a linguistic

perspective and engineers who can offer technical solutions but need the

input of users to adapt their tools to the needs of the linguists. Within

this context, questions like the following are to be discussed:

- What happens, if the units under investigation diverge on the different

levels?

- At present, the preferred solution is to use XML at all stages and on all

layers. But is this really practicable?

- Do linguists get along with stand-off mark-up?

- Is this maybe a technical compromise?

The workshop should result in a requirement catalogue in combination with

technical solutions. It could thus serve as a starting point for the

development of an annotation typology which takes into account different

languages as well as different annotation layers. On the basis of this

typology, the comparability of a multilingual multi-layer annotated corpus

can be guaranteed. With this in mind, a multilingual corpus builder should

be able to cope with possible problems in each of the above explained steps

in corpus development.

Papers are expected on the following questions:

- linguistic requirements in the different methodological steps

- state-of-the-art technical solutions

- international standards which facilitate the development and exchange of

multilingual corpora

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From: parrishka [mailto:parrishka@sympatico.ca]
Subject: FW: AoIR 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:26:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 598 (598)


Sent: January 15, 2003 7:30 AM

To: coch-cosh-l

Call for Papers - IR 4.0: Broadening the Band

International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of

Internet Researchers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 16-19, 2003

Lead organizer Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto

Submission site opens: January 15, 2003

Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2003

Conference Website:

<a href="http://www.aoir.org/2003">http://www.aoir.org/2003</a> | <a href="http://www.ecommons.net/aoir">http://www.ecommons.net/aoir</a>

Digital communications networks such as the Internet are changing the

way people interact with each other, with profound effects on social

relations and institutions. Yet many remain excluded from access and

meaningful participation. It is timely to consider who is included,

who is excluded and what we now know about the composition and

activities of online communities.

Internet Research (IR) 4.0 will feature a variety of perspectives on

Internet, organized under the theme Broadening the Band. As in

previous conferences, the aim is to develop a coherent theoretical

and pragmatic understanding of the Internet and those that are

empowered and disenfranchised by it. IR 4.0 will bring together

prominent scholars, researchers, creators, and practitioners from

many disciplines, fields and countries for a program of

presentations, panel discussions, and informal exchanges.

IR 4.0 will take place at the Hilton Hotel in the heart of downtown

Toronto. The conference is hosted by a team led by the Knowledge

Media Design Institute (KMDI) and its partners at the University of

Toronto. The IR 4.0 steering and working committees reflect the

growing pan-Canadian network of Internet researchers, including

members from Quebec, Alberta, and New Brunswick, in addition to the

local contingent from Toronto, York and Ryerson Universities.

This year's theme, Broadening the Band, encourages wide participation

from diverse disciplines, communities, and points of view. Under the

umbrella theme, contributors are called to reflect upon, theorize and

articulate what we know from within the emerging interdisciplinary

space known as Internet Research.

In a cultural sense, the theme calls attention to the need to examine

access, inclusion and exclusion in online communities. What role do

race, gender, class, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, age,

geography, and other factors play in the degree of online

participation? What are the indicators of meaningful participation?

In a technical sense, the theme points to the development of

broadband, wireless and post-internet networks and applications that

are currently coming on-stream including community, private, public

as well as national research networks (e.g. CA*net 4, Internet 2).

We plan to use these technologies to make the conference an

internet-mediated and internationally accessible event.

In an organizational sense, the theme reflects a widening of AoIR's

reach to include more researchers and constituencies involved in the

evolution of the Internet. French language presentations will be

included in the call for papers for the first time. Researchers and

practitioners in the arts and culture sectors are encouraged to

participate alongside social scientists and humanities scholars and

researchers.

In a thematic sense, "Broadening the Band" suggests widening the

scope of topics and problematics considered within past conferences,

while retaining the consistent emphasis on rigorous research work.

This call for papers thus initiates an inclusive search for

theoretical and methodological correspondences between this expanding

theme and the many disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches that

are required to address it with precision.

Possible Topics:

- Who is bridging what: questions and answers on the digital divide

- New directions in digital art

- E-me, e-you? (E- Health, E-Governance, E-Commerce,E-Business,

E-games, E-entertainment, E-other)

- Ethnicity, Race, Identity, Gender, Sexuality, Language(s) and

Diverse Cultural Contexts Online

- Who Decides: Ethics, Law, Politics and Policy of the Internet

- We can't measure that, can we?  Meaningful Indicators for Internet

Access, Participation, Use and Effects

- Who owns what? Value, Space, and Commons on the Internet

- Is there an Author, a Publisher, or writing on the internet?

- Transformed by Technics: New Technologies and The Post-Internet Age

- Who is watching your computer, when You're not watching it....

- When we are glocal: the internet in global and local manifestations

- I put my lesson plans on the internet, what changed?  Teaching,

Learning and the Internet

- Digital media and terror/ism: global flows, economies, and surveillance

- Social movements, net-based activism, and hactivism in a global arena

- Which methods, whose theories? determining approaches to internet research

- Why did we digitize that, and what's it worth?  Exploring the value

of digital content

This list is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to trigger ideas

and encourage submissions from a range of disciplines. The organizers

will take an active role in generating and joining the various

interests into appropriate formats.

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Supreme Court Upholds Copyright Extension
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:31:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 599 (599)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 15, 2002

               SUPREME COURT RULES 7-2 ON COPYRIGHT EXTENSION

        Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act Declared "Not Unconstitutional"

                             Associated Press Story

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=509&u=/ap/20030115/ap_on_bi_ge/scotus_copyrights&printer=1">http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=509&u=/ap/20030115/ap_on_bi_ge/scotus_copyrights&printer=1</a>

We will be hearing more on this, but here is the first word on the

anxiously awaited Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the

Copyright Term Extension Act.

David Green
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Supreme Court Documents on Copyright Term Extension
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:32:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 600 (600)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
January 15, 2003
                SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION
                          Court Documents Available
                   <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/pr/eldred.html">http://www.copyright.gov/pr/eldred.html</a>
For the syllabus, the opinion of the court (by Justice Ginsburg) and the
dissenting statements, by Justices Stevens and Breyer, see the above pages
on the Copyright Office web site.
David Green
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From: Kate Lindemann <lindeman@msmc.edu>
Subject: book source
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:39:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 601 (601)


Members of this list might be interested in a new site, www.Choosebooks.com -

which offers listing of book sellers by specialties and newsletter on computers

and books by Ken Fermoyle.[on Resource page]

   <a href="http://www.choosebooks.com">http://www.choosebooks.com</a>  - worth book marking for future referfence.

Kate Lindemann



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Lyman Award: Deadline Extension for Nominations
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:33:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 602 (602)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 15, 2003

                    National Humanities Center Announces

                Nominations for $25,000 Lyman Award Invited

                   Deadline Extended to January 31, 2003

                         <a href="http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/">http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/</a>
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From: Paul Dekker <dekker@hum.uva.nl>
Subject: First Call for the Fifth Tbilisi Symposium on Language,
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:36:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 603 (603)


Logic and Computation

       The Fifth International Tbilisi Symposium

               on Language, Logic and Computation

                       Tbilisi, Georgia

                     October 06--10, 2003

The fifth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held

in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, at the Tbilisi State University from

October 6 to October 10, 2003. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for

Language, Logic and Speech of the Tbilisi State University in conjunction

with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the

University of Amsterdam.

Details for attending the symposium and for submitting abstracts will be

found at:

      <a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/">http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/</a>

With kind regards,

on behalf of the organizing committee,

Paul Dekker

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

Paul Dekker -- ILLC/Department of Philosophy -- University of Amsterdam

-- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 -- NL-1012 CP Amsterdam -- The Netherlands --

tel: +31 20 5254541 -- fax: +31 20 5254503 -- e-mail: dekker@hum.uva.nl

                                   <a href="http://remote.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/">http://remote.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/</a>



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@unc.edu>
Subject: January/February TS Author Forums
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:36:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 604 (604)


The following Technology Source Author Forums are scheduled in January and

February. 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

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SIGN UP NOW button.

Forums Scheduled for Thursday, January 23, 2003

11:00 A.M.  11:45 A.M. Eastern Time (ET): Janna Robertson, associate

professor of special education, and James Harris, a technology support

provider, both at the University of Memphis, explore how Web developers can

make the information conveyed through their graphics, tables, color, and

forms available to those with visual or motor impairments. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1008">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1008</a>

1:00 P.M.  1:45 P.M. ET: Verne Morland, an independent consultant, reports

how NCR University uses automated translation software to personalize

newsletters for its global audience, an innovation useful for any

educational organization. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1023">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1023</a>

2:30 P.M.  3:15 P.M. ET: Stevan Kalmon, a technology planning consultant,

describes how Colorado has twenty virtual high school programs that take

advantage of economies of scale through adopting common technology,

content, and standards in order to provide high school courses to half the

state's school districts.

See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1010">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1010</a>

Forums Scheduled for Tuesday, February 4, 2003

12:00 P.M.  12:45 P.M. ET: Parker Rossman, the author of three book-length

volumes concerning the future of higher education (all available free of

charge on his website), discusses his vision of the future. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1041">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1041</a>

   1:00 P.M.  1:45 P.M. ET: Darrell Butler, Ball State University professor

of psychological science, evaluates the use of a proctored, computer-based

testing (PCBT) facility as a way to increase the frequency of tests without

sacrificing class time. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1013">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1013</a>

4:00 P.M.  4:45 P.M. ET: Frank Newman, director of The Futures Project at

Brown University, relates why many observers point to this year as a

watershed moment for the incorporation of educational technology tools. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1003">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1003</a>

5:00 P.M.  5:45 P.M. ET: Matthew Pittinsky, chairman and co-founder of

Blackboard, discusses the mission and future prospects of established

course management systems. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1039">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1039</a>

We hope that you can join us. If not, the archives of all webcasts will be

available via the webcast button on the options menu within each article a

few hours after the webcast.

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: source of a Minsky-ism?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:35:33 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 605 (605)


I would be very grateful to anyone who could tell me where Marvin Minsky

says that the brain (or mind) is essentially a modelling machine. (I don't

need him saying, more famously, that "the brain is a machine made of meat".

Both statements have an equal amount of truth to them, but the former suits

my present purpose much better.)

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.47
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:16:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 606 (606)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 47,  Week of January 20, 2003

In this issue:

Views --

Intellectual Property Rights of Multimedia Enriched Websites

Can original print and music survive the multimedia technology hoax?

By Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_2.html</a>

Learning by Redoing

The availability of components that do a myriad of tasks could lead

programmer complacency

By Trevis J. Rothwell

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/t_rothwell_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/t_rothwell_2.html</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Request for User Evaluation Material & Results for Survey
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:17:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 607 (607)


and Synthesis

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 21, 2003

                              Cultural Content Forum

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

       SURVEY & SYNTHESIS OF USER EVALUATIONS OF DIGITAL CULTURAL RESOURCES

           Request for Survey Material and Results of User Evaluations

                        Deadline: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7th 2003

This announcement describes an important project to synthesize the results

of user evaluations of digital cultural resources in order to describe

results to date and to inform the next generation of such work.

Information is requested from cultural organizations worldwide. You can

email electronic material to Alice Grant at <agrant@alicegrant.com> or mail

material to her at the postal address given below.

We look forward to the early results of this important work.

David Green

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Cultural Content Forum - Evaluation of digital cultural resources

REQUEST FOR EVALUATION MATERIAL

The recently formed Cultural Content Forum (www.culturalcontentform.org) is

undertaking a research project to synthesize results from existing surveys

of user expectations and experiences with the digitized cultural heritage.

Cultural organizations worldwide are requested to submit existing published

or unpublished material relating to the evaluation of digital cultural

resources for review and analysis.

In collocating information about evaluation work the CCF aims to inform the

wider cultural community about existing user research and evaluation and to

inform the development of evaluation and user research strategies in the

future.

The scope of the review will encompass evaluation material relating to

digital resources delivered via:

*  in-gallery or other on-site applications within libraries, archives and

museums;

*  CD-ROM-based or other desktop or mobile applications;

*  the World Wide Web or other remote or internet-based applications.

The review will encompass existing qualitative and quantitative evaluation

and user information, including (but not limited to):

*  evaluation of specific applications and services;

*  user surveys;

*  non-user surveys and market research;

*  web site usage statistics (where these can be attributed to a cultural

resource).

It is envisaged that much of the material which to be reviewed will fall

within the category of "grey literature" - that is, material which has not

been formally published, and/or material developed for specific applications

within an organization as part of a development project. Contributions of

this type of material is particularly encouraged.

Bearing in mind the potentially sensitive nature of some evaluation projects

the confidentiality of evaluation material will be upheld if required; the

aim of the project is to draw common lessons from work undertaken across the

community, not to highlight or expose specific projects. Unless

confidentiality is requested, all material received will be acknowledged in

any resulting publication.

The review is being undertaken on behalf of the CCF by Alice Grant

Consulting. Evaluation material in digital form or queries about the review

should be submitted to agrant@alicegrant.com or in the case of paper-based

evaluation material, mailed to:

Alice Grant Consulting

Fengate Farm

Fengate Road

West Pinchbeck

Spalding

Lincolnshire

PE11 3NE

United Kingdom

Material is requested by FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7th 2003

The review of evaluation material will be undertaken in two stages through

to the middle of March 2003, as follows:

Stage 1:

Research and publish a catalogue of evaluation undertaken relating to

digital cultural information resources

Stage 2:

Undertake and publish an analysis of available evaluation material. The aims

of this analysis will be to:

*  identify common indicators and trends relating to the development and use

of cultural information resources;

*  identify common issues relating to the provision of digital cultural

resources;

*  identify gaps in available research and propose an evaluation research

agenda for the future.

Acknowledgement of receipt of material will be sent to all contributors,

however paper-based documents or digital media will not be returned except

by prior arrangement.

The Cultural Content Forum is a recently-formed international grouping which

exists to harness expertise and forge consensus amongst agencies worldwide

engaged in setting policy for the digitization and online delivery of our

global cultural heritage.

The Cultural Content Forum is facilitated by:

CIMI Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information

(www.cimi.org);

Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries

(www.resource.gov.uk)

UKOLN's Interoperability Focus (www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/)


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: MCN Conference 2003 (Nov 5-8) Features Charles Nesson;
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:18:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 608 (608)


Museums & Web Program Available

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 21, 2003

                      Museum Computer Network Conference, 2003

                          November 5-8: Las Vegas, Nevada

                          Keynote Speaker: Charles Nesson

                       Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2003

                       <a href="http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html">http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html</a>

                                    *  *  *  *

                              Museums and the Web 2003

                     March 19-22: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

                          Preliminary Program Now Available

                          <a href="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/">http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/</a>
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Cyberspace Visionary Charles Nesson to Address the Museum Computer Network

Conference

The Museum Computer Network is pleased to announce that Charles Nesson will

be the keynote speaker at its 31st annual conference, to be held in Las

Vegas, November 5 - 8, 2003. A leading expert in cyberlaw and the impact of

the Internet on Society, Prof. Nesson is a probing thinker and brilliant

speaker. He will address the museum community for the first time and set

the tone for this conference, Balancing Museum Technology and

Transformation. Conference participants will deal directly with the impact

of technology on how museums both present and participate in cultural

heritage. Nesson's keynote will undoubtedly challenge existing notions,

stimulate new thinking, and provoke transformation in the way museum

professionals approach technological opportunities in the future.

Charles R. Nesson is William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

and Co-Director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society

<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu</a>, a research program which he founded to

explore the implications of cyberspace, share in its study, and help

pioneer its development. It is Harvard University's first academic think

tank devoted exclusively to the Net.

www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,12376,00.html

Professor Nesson has participated in cases of national interest throughout

his career. He was an organizer of the Lawyer's Military Defense Committee,

which provided counsel to servicemen during the Vietnam War, and was

counsel in prominent cases related to the war, including United States v.

Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers case). Professor Nesson pioneered the use of

technology in teaching at Harvard Law School, and has appeared in many of

PBS', CBS' and Granada (U.K) Television's most acclaimed non-fiction

series. In his book about the landmark W.R. Grace pollution litigation, A

Civil Action, Jonathan Harr introduced Nesson and the crucial role he

played in this historic legal drama in a chapter entitled "Billion Dollar

Charlie." Most recently, Prof. Nesson played an important role in Eldred v.

Ashcroft, the Supreme Court challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term

Extension Act.

Prof. Nesson is co-editor of Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and

the Global Information Infrastructure (MIT Press, 1997), which investigates

issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social

and cultural values, in light of the emerging global information

infrastructure, and includes detailed analyses of some of the most visible

issues: intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.

Prof. Nesson was Chairman of Harvard's Internet & Society Conference this

past November. (More information at:

<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/i&s2002/index_flash.html">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/i&s2002/index_flash.html</a>)

Interview with Prof. Nesson, "The Debate Over Internet Governance,"

available at:

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The MW2003 Preliminary Program is now available.

Join us at the seventh annual Museums and the Web conference - the premier

international venue to review the state of the Web in arts, culture, and

heritage. The MW2003 program will Web-related issues for museums, archives,

libraries and other cultural institutions. If you are working with the Web

in these areas plan to join us.

The formal program of Museums and the Web 2003 consists of two plenary

sessions, eighteen parallel sessions, 60 museum project demonstrations,

dozens of commercial exhibits, seven full-day and 6 half-day pre-conference

workshops, and ten one-hour mini-workshops combined with a day-long

usability lab, a day-long design "Crit Room", and the Best of the Web awards.

The informal program involves full-day pre-conference tours, evening

receptions each night of the meeting, a dozen Birds-of-a-Feather breakfast

meetings, and hours of discovery and debate with hundreds of colleagues

from more that 35 countries.

All papers presented at MW2003 are peer reviewed. Full session

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on-line before the conference begins. Selected Papers will be available in

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From: George Angelos Papadopoulos <george@cs.ucy.ac.cy>
Subject: Academic Vacancies -- CS Dept -- Univ. of Cyprus
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:15:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 609 (609)


                *** ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIC POSITIONS ***

The University of Cyprus   announces the following tenure track  posts

(Assistant Professor or Lecturer):

                      DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

1 post in the field of Computer Networks

1 post in the field of Database Systems

1 post in the following fields of study:

* Agents and Artificial Intelligence    * Cooperative Information Systems

* Distributed Systems                   * Human-Computer Interaction

* Programming Languages                 * Theoretical Computer Science

For all   academic ranks, a   Ph.D. from  a  recognized  University is

required.

PLEASE NOTE:  The languages of instruction  are Greek and Turkish. For

the above mentioned posts, knowledge of Greek is necessary.

Applicants need not be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus.

The annual  gross salaries for  these  positions (including  the  13th

salary) are:

Assistant Professor     (Scale A13-A14)         CY23,587 - CY31,816

Lecturer                (Scale A12-A13)         CY19,919 - CY29,175

(At present 1 CY = 1.7401 sterling and 1 CY = 1.7865 dollars.)

Interested  individuals must submit  the  following items by  Thursday

17th of April 2003:

I     A letter stating the department, the academic rank or ranks for

        which the applicant is interested in, the field or fields of

        study and the date when he/she may be able to assume duties in

        the event of selection.

II    A Curriculum Vitae (6 copies).

III   A brief summary of previous work and a statement of plans for

        future research (up to 1500 words - 6 copies).

IV   A list of publications (6 copies).

V    Copies pf the three most representative publications (6 copies).

VI   Copies of degree certificates.

In addition, the  applicants must request  three academic referees  to

send letters of recommendation directly  to the University; the  names

and   addresses  of these   referees    must  be  submitted with   the

application.  Additional confidential  information may be sought.  The

letters of recommendation  must  reach the  University by  the 17th of

April, 2003.

The Curriculum Vitae and the brief summary of the research work should

be  written  in Greek  and  in one  international language, preferably

English.

Applications, other  documents and reference  letters submitted in the

past will NOT be considered and must be re-submitted.

Applications that are incomplete will not be considered.

The above must be  delivered to the University  by 2 pm, Thursday 17th

of April 2003 at the following address:

The Registrar

University of Cyprus

P O Box 20537

CY-1678 Nicosia

CYPRUS

Tel:  +357-22-892054

Fax:  +357-22-892005

For  more details  and  other information  interested individuals  may

contact  the Head  of the  Department of  Computer  Science, Associate

Professor Antonis Kakas:

Tel:    +357-22-892231

Fax:    +357-22-339062

E-mail: antonis@cs.ucy.ac.cy



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: references to Minsky
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:23:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 610 (610)


Thanks to Vika Zafrin and to some luck, on the trail of words attributed to

Marvin Minsky, "the brain is a modelling machine", I have found two rather

good, brief essays by the man:

"Conscious Machines"

<a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/documents/minsky.html">http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/documents/minsky.html</a>; and

"Matter, Mind and Models"

<a href="http://medg.lcs.mit.edu/people/doyle/gallery/minsky/mmm.html">http://medg.lcs.mit.edu/people/doyle/gallery/minsky/mmm.html</a>

The first makes the useful point that progress in research using models

increased dramatically when, because of computers, they "could be

conceived, tested, and discarded in days or weeks instead of years", the

second that modelling inherently involves a ternary relation between the

object of study, the model of it and the researcher.

More suggestions for where to look would be most welcome.

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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: promotion and archiving: self and others
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:19:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 611 (611)


Willard & Patrick

It with interested attention that I noticed the thread on self-archiving

take its turn towards questions of longeivity.

I just want to test some assumptions:

Did the site recommended as a model refer to itself as a "self-archive"?

If so, how in what context? If not, by whom and in what context?

I don't think that either of you are arguing for the in/out of archive

marker to be a value of what gets retained. There are items of value that

never make it into an archive, correct?

It struck me, after thinking about this for a while, letting the thinking

machine churn through some other cycles, that "self-archive" may be a

cross between "personal archive" and "self-promotion". (As an aside, I

came to this conclusion after disentangling a rather long standing

conflation of "terms of endearment" and "rules of engagement" in the

teamwork covenant of an organization which the team signed under the

rubric "terms of engagement".)

Could the making available through networked distribution of

material be considered as:

          an invitation to peek into a not so secret garden and depending

on the various permissions to take a clipping or too?

I've chosen the garden metaphor careful. For me, gardens are libraries and

they are laboratories. In a diachronic view of a garden it is its storage

capacity that makes it akin to a library. And subscribers to Humanist are

well capable of choosing what ever implement is at hand to work out the

analogy between garden as laboratory and the synchronic view.

If gardens offer multiple temporalities, so too do materials made

available through networked distribution. What I want to stress here is

that just because something is an archive, personal, public or self, does

not mean that it will be consulted (read, viewed, heard, sensed). It does

not mean that there will be a record of any consultations.

For the record, knowing that this little set of material may come to

occupy a place in a little growing archive (should moderator and

software and connectivity be willing) means that I as author understand it

is sharable. Indeed I intend to be so if but for a short time in the

turning of the seasons. Yes the garden path stretches to the centre where

upon a pedastal stands a sundial inscribed within its circular edge words

chasing words: compost grows archive grows compost.

Could we not call such offerings, for I believe we are re-inventing and

preserving the beauteous economy of the gift in intellectual and technical

matters, could we not call them these offerings "growing archives"?

I found a seedling in some compost and I hope transplanted to a bed in

which it will flourish.
[deleted quotation]
while the winter offers another view of the garden.

   --

Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,

knows no "no exit" in a hypertext

every cul-de-sac is 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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: self-archiving
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:19:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 612 (612)


While I take Patrick Durusau's point in Humanist 16.417, that centrally

organized and indexed self-archiving is better than the individual, the

latter is immediately possible at minuscule expense of time and effort.

Doing the latter does not rule out the former -- indeed, it might stimulate

demand for a humanities (computing) version of the arXiv.org e-print

archive (<a href="http://arxiv.org/">http://arxiv.org/</a>) or Cogprints (<a href="http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/</a>).

Various people have noted, some with alarm, the tendency of students

nowadays to look *only* on the Web for their research materials. Making

sure that the right stuff is online to be found may be the only practical

response to the growing trend.

I understand that in arXiv.org particle physists, for example, tend to rely

heavily on the archive, astronomers not so much. It seems unlikely that our

colleagues in other fields of the humanities will accept self-archived

writings on anything like the same footing as conventionally produced ones.

But we could continue to submit to the journals *and* self-archive in an

organized way. I continue to be not a little bemused that we in humanities

computing, as a whole, are not among the most radical experimenters. We

were once with e-mail discussion groups.

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: carolyn guertin [mailto:cguertin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca]
Subject: Especial sobre Ciberfeminismo/Cyberfeminism special issue
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:03:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 613 (613)


Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:24 AM

To: webartery@yahoogroups.com; ht_lit@consecol.org;

nettime-l@bbs.thing.net; coch-cosh-l
[deleted quotation]
___________________________________________________

Carolyn Guertin, Dept of English, University of Alberta

3-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton AB T6G 2E5 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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: education of engineers
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:20:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 614 (614)


Two interesting and relevant items for us, both on the education of engineers.

(1) Rosalind Williams, "Education for the Profession formerly known as

Engineering", in the Chronicle of Higher Education 49.20, 24 January 2003,

p. B12, which is adapted from her recent book, Retooling: A Historian

Confronts Technological Change (MIT Press, 2002).

In this article Professor Williams reviews the changes in engineering

driven by "interaction in interdisciplinary projects where the projects,

not the disciplines, define the terms of engagement". Many of these, she

notes, involve "the science that is now most dynamic -- biology", as a

result of which  "the relationship between science and engineering... no

longer summarized in a set of reliable equations... now includes all the

complexities of evolving life forms". Williams invokes historian of science

Peter Galison's "trading zone" metaphor to describe the combinations and

recombinations across the disciplinary boundaries which now largely define

the engineer's working life.

"A major factor in the success of this trading zone..." she comments, "is

the role of information technology in providing a common, readily

transferable language" -- so much so that "[m]ost engineering departments

are becoming, to a greater or lesser extent, departments of

applied-information technology." Williams describes the radical changes in

departments of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, and the growth

of new theoretical departments in engineering schools.

At the same time, she notes, there is a very strong "back to practice"

movement within engineering that she identifies with the growing

market-orientated forces. The consulting practice that once bridged

university labs with businesses has been drastically weakened as companies

realize that they "can get the benefit of good research ideas by investing

in and eventually buying up small companies, which pay more attention to

marketability, timeliness, and productivity than university labs."

Under this pressure, combined with the sea-change in which IT is so

intimately involved, engineers "seek to reclaim a distinctive identity for

engineering: to proclaim that here is something engineers do that

scientists and businessmen do not do. In the end, however, the reclamation

efforts only underscore engineering's loss of identity. In both design and

systems work, many people other than engineers are in on the act. In design

today, engineering, programming, science, language, and art converge. In

dealing with technological systems, it is even more obvious that engineers

have to collaborate with political scientists, economists, lawyers, and

managers, just for starters. In fact, the constant dilemma for engineers at

MIT and other universities is whether to hire these collaborators as

faculty members or to try to get other departments and schools to hire them."

"As a result, engineering education today is, as we say in the humanities,

contested terrain -- a site where different strategic goals collide." One

reaction is to pile ever more into the curriculum, hence the "curricular

logjam". "Everyone concerned with engineering education yearns for

dynamite, if only they could agree on where to set the charge."

To summon a very Canadian image, we in humanities computing are, at least

at the moment, much more like beavers than those lumberjacks.

(2) Eugene S. Ferguson, Engineering and the Mind's Eye (Cambridge MA: MIT

Press, 2001), which is a most welcome enlargement of his very fine article,

"The Mind's Eye: Nonverbal Thought in Technology", Science 197 (4306, for

26 August 1977): 827-36. My attention was originally directed to the

article, hence to the book, by Michael Mahoney's article, "The History of

Computing in the History of Technology", online from

<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html">http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html</a>. See the description of

Ferguson's book e.g. at <a href="http://www.asme.org/history/e_ferguson.html">http://www.asme.org/history/e_ferguson.html</a>.

Mahoney explains clearly enough the significance of Ferguson's work for a

deeper understanding of software and what we're doing with it.

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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Western Trails - New Best Practice Documents Available
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:45:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 615 (615)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 22, 2003

                 Western States Digital Standards Group Announces

                Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices

                and Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices

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

          <a href="http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/wt_bpmetadata.html">http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/wt_bpmetadata.html</a>
[deleted quotation]
The Western States Digital Standards Group is please to announce the

availability of the Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices

and Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices.  Both documents are

available through the Colorado Digitization Program website at

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

BACKGROUND

Western Trails is a multi-state collaborative initiative to create a

virtual collection of widely dispersed digital resources on this subject,

spearheaded by the University of Denver, Colorado.

As part of this IMLS-funded initiative, 23 institutions in four Western

states were awarded mini-grants to create digital content and metadata for

resources related to Western trails. In addition to creating a virtual

collection of digital resources, the project set about developing a set of

Dublin-Core based best practices by representatives from cultural heritage

institutions beyond the original four participating states.

Accordingly, in March 2002, 18 representatives from eight Western states

met in Denver, Colorado to begin exploring issues associated with

application of Dublin Core to digital objects by cultural heritage

institutions. This group, the Western States Digital Standards Group

(WSDSG) Metadata Working Group, formed two task forces to develop

guidelines for the Dublin Core metadata. The WSDSG Metadata Working Group

met again in Topeka, Kansas in July 2002 to finalize the guidelines and

determine the remaining components of a best practices document.

In November 2002 the resultant WSDSG Guidelines for the Dublin Core

Elements were posted on the web site of the Colorado Digitization Program

(CDP) and the Western Trails project website. In January 2003, the WSDSG

Best Practices document will be released. This Best Practices document is

based upon and supercedes the CDP's General Guidelines for Descriptive

Metadata Creation and Metadata.

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

Richard Urban

Operations Coordinator

Colorado Digitization Program

rurban@du.edu

(303) 871-4558

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From: Soraj Hongladarom <hsoraj@chula.ac.th>
Subject: Cfp: Panel on ethics of the digital divide
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:47:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 616 (616)


Dear Colleagues,

Abstracts are invited for presentation at the Computing and Philosophy

Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, from Oct.

31 to Nov. 2, 2003. Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to

Soraj Hongladarom at hsoraj@chula.ac.th by Feb. 1, 2003. (Extension of this

deadine may be possible. Please tell me first.)

The conference website is at <a href="http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/cappe/cap.htm">http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/cappe/cap.htm</a>

******************

THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

This panel aims at investigating the ethical and conceptual aspects

surrounding the digital divide issue. Nowadays "digital divide" has become

a hot topic in the discourses of information technology pundits and policy

makers who talk as if the divide is a problem which can be solved easily

through more diffusion of the technology. However, what is lacking in these

discourses is sustained reflection on what the term 'digital divide'

actually means, as well as on the many ethical issues involved. Albert

Borgmann, in Holding on to Reality, says that many people seem to rush

toward finding a solution to the digital divide problem, finding a

'bridge', without pausing to think whether it is really desirable to do so.

For Borgmann, rushing to close the divide would seem to mean that humans

are estranged more and more from bedrock reality. And there is the prospect

of humans becoming less diverse since they would all end up being 'wired'

to the Net. (But what is wrong with that really?) Moreover, there seems to

be a dearth in clear thinking as to what the availabililty and

accessibility of the technology would mean to those people to whom the

technology does not have a real meaning. There was an attempt by a former

government of Thailand to distribute computers to every school in the

country. What happened, however, was that many computers are now laying

there collecting dust, having become a sacred object or a symbol of the

government's power, with no meaningful connection to the lives of the

schoolchildren or to the villagers.

So some of the questions for the panel are: What exactly does 'digital

divide' mean? Is 'digital divide' an appropriate characterisation of

current trends in information technology distribution? What does it

actually mean for one to be separated by this 'divide' from another? Why

does the divide need to be closed? Or is it really a good thing to do so?

What else needs to taken into consideration? Is thinking about this issue

essentially the same or different from thinking about the familiar

indicators of social and international inequality, such as nutrition (the

food divide) or income (the money divide)? How does the digital divide

relate to globalization? What are the relations between it and local

cultures? How can we conceptualize the whole problem so that we could

understand it better?


--
Soraj Hongladarom
Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Tel. +66 (0) 2218-4756; Fax. +66 (0) 2218-4755
Home page: <a href="http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html">http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html</a>
**International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in
Asia, ITUA 2002** <a href="http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/IT">http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/IT</a>
Science in Thai Culture Project: <a href="http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/">http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/</a>



From: "David L. Hoover" <david.hoover@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: 16.435 self-archiving
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:45:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 617 (617)


I have been following this thread with interest. My Law librarian friends

report

that the trend of looking only at on-line sources is very strong among law

students as well. Fortunately, law materials have the financial resources

behind

them to get most important sources quickly on line.

One question that arises, though, is the nasty issue of copyright. Can we

legally

self-archive published work. It would seem not, at least in the case of journal

articles for which we have assigned copyright to the journal. Am I just too

timid? Is this really not a problem?


--
                      David L. Hoover, Assoc. Chair & Webmaster
NYU Eng. Dept., 212-998-8832       <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/">http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/</a>
            What he has now to say is a long
            wonder the world can bear & be.
            Once in a sycamore I was glad
            all at the top, and I sang.
            Hard on the land wears the strong sea
            and empty grows every bed.
                 John Berryman, The Dream Songs, #1


From: Philip Cadigan <pcadigan@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16.435 self-archiving
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:43:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 618 (618)

Dear Willard,
I think there is an attractive (and legal) middle ground between self
archiving and traditional scholarly publishing.  The MIT Press Journals
division allows our authors to web-publish/host their articles
independently one year after publication.  Our books division is a little
more flexible than that.  In our case the publisher still retains the
rights, but the author gets the added bonus of increased distribution as
well as the imprimatur of formal publication.
I know of other university presses that offer similar arrangements.
Thanks,
Philip
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Philip Cadigan
Journals Internet Marketing Manager
The MIT Press
Five Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
t 617-258-0598
f 617-258-5028
<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu">http://mitpress.mit.edu</a>
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From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@methymna.com>
Subject: Education of Engineers - Small Business Research
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:47:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 619 (619)


Dr. McCarty,

I don't know if this will interest anyone, as it is quite far from the

usual topics of conversation on Humanist (and so if it is not posted, I

will not be at all surprised or disappointed) and quite far, too, from the

interests of working humanists, but I thought it worth mentioning.
[deleted quotation]
Larger companies can get the benefit of good research by hiring small

companies, not only by investing in them and buying them up. That is what

my employers do (a small R&D company of about 150 persons, most of them

working scientists and engineers, more than half holding doctorates):

provide research to other companies as a contracted service.  A discussion

of such Contract Research Organizations can be found in the article linked

below:

Weiss, Robert F., "Science for Hire: The Emergence of Contract Research

Organizations"

<a href="http://www.psicorp.com/html/pubs/Annotated/CRO.plx">http://www.psicorp.com/html/pubs/Annotated/CRO.plx</a>

What this has to do (my own comments, not Prof. McCarty's) with the

concerns of the humanities computing discipline I cannot say. It has seemed

to me that the implications of Prof. McCarty's posting are that there are

parallels between humanities computing and for instance bioinformatics that

might have relevance to the growth of the former discipline, and that the

key distinction is in the obvious commercializability of bioinformatics'

core materials.

Patrick Rourke

ptrourke@methymna.com



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: CIDOC 2003 Conference: The Electronic Potential of a
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:50:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 620 (620)


Museum. St Petersburg (Sept 1-5, 2003)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 24, 2003

                             CIDOC 2003 CONFERENCE

            "World Cultural Heritage: Uniting by Understanding"

             "The Electronic Potential of a Museum: Incentives

                 and Limitations, Achievements and Problems"

                September 1 - 5, 2003: St. Petersburg, Russia

                 <a href="http://cidoc2003.adit.ru/english/default.asp">http://cidoc2003.adit.ru/english/default.asp</a>
[deleted quotation]
WELCOME TO CIDOC IN ST PETERSBURG

1-5  September  2003

St.-Petersburg, Russia

<a href="http://cidoc2003.adit.ru/english/default.asp">http://cidoc2003.adit.ru/english/default.asp</a>

"World Cultural Heritage: Uniting by Understanding"

Topic of the Conference: "The Electronic Potential of a Museum: Incentives

and Limitations, Achievements and Problems"

The objective of the conference is to review the results of the application

of information technologies in museums:

*  Analysis of the main achievements in the field of storage, restoration,

conservation and educational work.

*  Discussion of the pressing technical, technological, psychological and

social problems and restrictions.

*  Outline of prospective areas of development and the further penetration

of information technologies into the traditional museum environment.

*  Incentives for innovations.

The Secretariat of the CIDOC Conference and ADIT announces the  First Call

for Papers for CIDOC'2003 to be held in St. Petersburg, 1-5 September 2003.

This year's conference theme will be multifaceted, highlighting the most

pressing aspects of virtual heritage informatics.

Throughout CIDOC'2003 there are many different opportunities to share

experiences, meet your colleagues and learn from your peers. Social events

and cultural program will provide you a chance to meet with other delegates

in an informal environment in the Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum, and

brilliant suburb museums of the North Capital of Russia.

The conference will coincide with the year of celebrating the tercentenary of

Saint-Petersburg. We assume, that the conference will be the leader both by

quantity of the participants, level of expertise and proficiency of experts,

who will take part in its various programs.

More information on the conference can be found at:

<a href="http://cidoc2003.adit.ru/english/default.asp">http://cidoc2003.adit.ru/english/default.asp</a>

SCHEDULE

Paper Deadline 1 April 2003

Acceptance Notification 1 June 2003

Manuscript Submission 10 July 2003

CIDOC Conference  1-5  September 2003

INFORMATION

For more information, please email the conference Secretariat:

info@cidoc2003.adit.ru

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Looking forward to seeing you in St. Petersburg.

General Director of State Russian Museum Vladimir Gusev

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From: "Miran Hladnik" <miran.hladnik@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: Self-archiving
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:48:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 621 (621)


Since 1995 I have been used to put virtually everything I have published

onto the web, include it into my personal library (see

<a href="http://www.ijs.si/lit/hlad_bib.html">http://www.ijs.si/lit/hlad_bib.html</a>) and advertise it in the discipline's

discussion forum. From my point of view, the main difference between the

self-archiving and web-publication is in the extension of their announcement

and their availability to the audience. For the students' sake I digitised

and htmlized even my pre-computer and pre-web publications. As for

publishers: they mostly agree with the parallel web-publication. Some prefer

I wouldn't point to the web-version of the article prior it is published in

their newspaper or magazine. When it comes to a book, I have been pushing

enough to include the right of (at least partial) parallel web-publication

into the contract with the publisher (e. g.

<a href="http://www.ijs.si/lit/spisovn.html">http://www.ijs.si/lit/spisovn.html</a>). Being the publisher myself (e. g.

<a href="http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/sft/">http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/sft/</a>) I don't notice any significant flow of the

readers from the book to the web: the book is still being purchased by the

readers. Students grab more and more for web-publications, however I

wouldn't agree their knowledge is now much better than before.

Miran Hladnik



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.439 self-archiving
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:49:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 622 (622)


David,

David Hoover wrote:
[deleted quotation]
As Philip Cadigan reported, many university presses are fairly flexible on

the issue of posting published material to the WWW by authors.

It might be of interest to Humanist readers that Addison-Wesley, a

"commercial" publisher in every sense of the word,  has shown similar

flexibility. Consider Elliotte Rusty Harold's most recent work, "Processing

XML with Java," that is available in its entirety at:

<a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/">http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/</a>.  Another good example is

National Academy Press, which has more than 2,500 titles available for free

download from their website. (<a href="http://www.nap.edu/index.html">http://www.nap.edu/index.html</a>)

While both of those examples deal with monographs, you can check CiteSeer

(<a href="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/">http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/</a>) to see a large number of computer science

papers that also appear in journals and conference proceedings.

My suggestion to authors is to patronize publishers that allow such

practices and shun those that don't.

Patrick


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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu


From: Ross Scaife <scaife@uky.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.439 self-archiving
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:50:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 623 (623)

Mr Cadigan's choice of words strikes me as noteworthy:
[deleted quotation](emphasis added)
Alternative argument that scholarly authors should not *surrender* the
rights to what is after all their own intellectual property:
Peter Suber's "Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open
Access for Librarians,"  forthcoming in College & Research Libraries News,
64 (February 2003), available online at
<a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: DSpace Federation Announced
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:10:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 624 (624)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 28, 2003

                           DSpace Federation Announced

                 Next Step for the MIT-Based Open-Source Repository

                           for Digital Scholarly Production

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

       *** Mellon Grant Facilitates Building Initial Federation With Columbia,

      Cornell, Ohio State, Rochester, Toronto, and Washington Universities ***
[deleted quotation]
MIT and Six Major Research Universities Announce

DSpace Federation Collaboration

January 28, 2003, Cambridge, MA

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries have announced

initial development of the DSpace Federation with six major research

universities: Columbia University, Cornell University, Ohio State

University, and the Universities of Rochester, Toronto, and Washington.

DSpace, a digital repository for intellectual output, was launched

worldwide November 4, 2002 as an open source system, the result of a

two-year collaboration between the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard

Laboratories, HP's strategic research facility. The system is now in full

production at MIT, and holds approximately one thousand items from five

early-adopter communities.

"The DSpace repository is initially addressing a growing institutional

need: how to collect, preserve, index and distribute the intellectual

output of an organization that originates in complex digital formats, said

Ann Wolpert, Director of the MIT Libraries. "This is a time-consuming task

for individual faculty and their departments, labs, and centers to manage,

and something that the DSpace system will make easier and more affordable."

MIT is now seeking to extend the scope of DSpace by offering it to other

research-intensive institutions as an open-source system, and to build a

Federation among these institutions. By making the system freely available

as open-source software, DSpace will enable even small colleges to run

repositories with existing resources. This project will explore the

adaptability of DSpace to institutions beyond MIT, develop documentation

for future Federators, and investigate new types of services that can be

built on federated collections held in DSpace repositories at different

institutions. MIT believes that by developing a Federation of institutions

that employ the same software and protocols, the sustainability and

potential for continued development of the system are enhanced.

The one-year project is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which

has awarded a $300,000 grant to MIT to work with the six institutions on

the further development of the DSpace Federation.  "The goals of the DSpace

Federation include developing a critical corpus of content that represents

the intellectual output of the world's leading research universities,

promoting the continued development of the DSpace service through the

open-source community, and promoting interoperability of archival

repositories and long-term preservation of scholarly work by complying with

published standards and supporting national and international initiatives

to develop standards in this domain," said MacKenzie Smith, Associate

Director for Technology in the MIT Libraries.

Eugenie Prime, Director of HP's Corporate Research Libraries, said

"Establishing the DSpace Federation is an important step for MIT and their

partner institutions.  It marks a transition in the way that academic

institutions and other enterprises provide stewardship for the digital

information that they produce.  HP Labs is proud to be deeply involved in

this transition."

Institutions participating in the DSpace Federation project represent a

range of organization types with varied motivations for investigating this

technology. Susan Gibbons, Director, Digital Library Initiatives,

University of Rochester, said "DSpace enhances learning by sharing

information as it develops and is exchanged through informal communication

by the academic community.  Perhaps most exciting is DSpace's potential to

create and enhance partnerships between libraries and those who generate

new knowledge on a university or college campus."

"Over a year ago Ohio State University began a project called the

'Knowledge Bank' to better organize the burgeoning amount of academic

digital assets being created by its faculty and students," said Joe Branin,

Director of the Ohio State University Libraries. "We quickly realized that

DSpace at MIT was an initiative and approach we needed to watch carefully.

Now, we are pleased to be one of the early partners to implement and

evaluate DSpace outside of MIT. We are, of course, interested in the

technical side of DSpace, but what impresses us most is the openness that

has characterized the whole DSpace development program at MIT, from their

open source system approach to their sharing on the Web all their planning

and policy documentation."

About DSpace

DSpace, a groundbreaking digital library system to capture, store, index,

preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university's

research faculty in digital formats.

It is designed with a flexible storage and retrieval architecture adaptable

to a multitude of data formats and distinct research disciplines. Different

communities of an institution can adapt and customize the DSpace system to

meet their individual needs and manage the data submission process

themselves. Furthermore, a customized user portal can be created for each

community, promoting a user environment closely matching a community's own

terminology and culture. For more information on DSpace see

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

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC Feb 22 College Art
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:09:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 625 (625)


Conference

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 24, 2003

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

              NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NEW YORK CITY

                            Digital Publishing:

         A Practical Guide to the Problem of Intellectual Property Rights

                        in the Electronic Environment, for

             Artists, Museums, Authors, Publishers, Readers and Users.

                  <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.html</a>

                 co-sponsored by Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

                 and the CAA Committee on Intellectual Property

                                   *   *   *

                      College Art Association Conference

                              Hilton New York Hotel

                    1335 Avenue of the Americas at 53rd St

                                 New York City

                         Saturday, February 22, 2003

                                 2:00 - 4:30pm

              $40 for one-day on-site CAA conference registration

In association with the College Art Association's Committee on Intellectual

Property, NINCH presents its 21st Copyright Town Meeting as part of the

2003 College Art Association Annual Conference.

The advantages of digital publishing online seem clear to many authors,

largely because of the potential for reaching wide and often new audiences.

However, owners of images and many publishers are not so convinced about

the benefits of moving online and some fear losing economic control of

their copyrighted material.

This NINCH Copyright Town Meeting will survey the rights challenges of

publishing art history and art criticism online. The impact of the TEACH

Act (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act) on digital

publishing will also be discussed as Distance Education products fit well

within the spectrum that includes both traditional publishing and

class-room teaching.

The meeting brings together authors, publishers, museum administrators,

legal counsel, and culture and media historians to discuss their

experiences and provide their advice for moving forward. As with all NINCH

Copyright Town Meetings, the audience is encouraged to participate and

ample time is reserved for that purpose.

Featured speakers:

*  Petra Chu, Professor of Art, Seton Hall University; Founding Managing

Editor, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

*  Susan Chun, General Manager for Electronic Information Planning,

Metropolitan Museum of Art

*  Robert Clarida, Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

*  Kenneth Crews, Professor of Law, Indiana University and Director,

Indiana University Copyright Management Center

*  Jeffrey Cunard, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton; CAA Legal Counsel

*  Christine Sundt, Visual Resources Curator and Professor of Art,

University of Oregon

*  Peter Trippi, Executive Editor, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

*  Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication,

New York University

This program is related to two other publishing programs at the CAA

conference: "Problems of Publishing for Tenure in the Arts and Art

History," (Friday, February 21, noon-1:30 p.m); and "Clearing Rights and

Permissions: How To, Why To, When To," (Saturday, February 22, 12:30-2:00

p.m).  For further details, see

<a href="http://www.studiolo.org/IP/2003NYTM/index.htm">http://www.studiolo.org/IP/2003NYTM/index.htm</a> and

<a href="http://www.collegeart.org/caa/news/2003/Jan/annualconference.html">http://www.collegeart.org/caa/news/2003/Jan/annualconference.html</a>

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>.

NINCH expresses its gratitude to Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

<<a href="http://www.cll.com/">http://www.cll.com/</a>>, for its generous sponsorship of this meeting,

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From: Maximiliaan van Woudenberg [mailto:mfv@ualberta.ca]
Subject: FW: Technology: Culture and the State (2/15/03;
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:08:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 626 (626)

Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:52 AM
To: Ray Siemens
Update: deadline extended to Feb. 15, 2003
**Call for Papers**
The theme of "State Technology - Technology and Culture," at the "Culture
and the State: Past, Present, and Future" conference will be held May 2-5,
2003, at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  A detailed
description of the conference can be accessed at:
<<a href="http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/cfp.htm">http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/cfp.htm</a>>
The "State Technology - Technology and Culture," theme examines the
relationship between technology (print, electronic, digital media, and
other forms) and such issues of state power, globalization, cultural
resistance, technological subcultures, and individual autonomy.
Papers and proposals for panels from all disciplines, at both practical
and/or theoretical levels, are invited on such topics as:
-- Pedagogy and Computing
-- Globalization as state rhetoric and cultural practice
-- The economic and cultural stakes of file-sharing
-- Media technologies and freedom of speech
-- The Internet as a new field of Colonialism/Imperialism?
-- Hacker sub-culture and censorship of the cultural mainstream
-- Constructions of identity on the WWW
-- The Bias of Communication' and shape of state or cultural discourses
-- The history of technological innovation and acts of social resistance
toward media technology
-- The 'electronic revolution' and the history of media culture
In addition to papers on these topics, proposals for papers and/or panels
on other topics within the framework of the "State Technology - Technology
and Culture" theme are welcomed.  Please forward abstracts of 250-300 words
for a proposed paper of 20 minutes, as well as a brief bio, to the theme
co-ordinator, Maximiliaan van Woudenberg.
Deadline: February 15, 2003.  E-mail submissions are welcomed.
Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
E-mail: mfv@ualberta.ca
Theme web site: <<a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~mfv/cms/">http://www.ualberta.ca/~mfv/cms/</a>>
The conference will also host workshops on variety of technical
applications.  See the theme web site for more details.
_________________________________________________________



From: "Marshall Soules" <soules@MALA.BC.CA>
Subject: ISTE Standards
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:11:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 627 (627)


Hello Humanists:

I'm supervising a Master's thesis on the appropriate use of computing

technologies in collaborative online learning, and the candidate referenced

the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) National

Educational Technology Standards (NETS) and Performance Indicators for

Teachers.  (<a href="http://cnets.iste.org/currstands/">http://cnets.iste.org/currstands/</a>) I have some concerns about

these guidelines and hope members of the group might direct me to an

alternative, or help me adjust my thinking.

The guidelines seem too general to be really useful to someone looking for

anything like best practices. More importantly, however, the standards can

be read as a blanket promotion of using technology to enhance learning and

don't seem to reflect any sense of the critical thinking about the use of

technology (included as a recommendation!).

I'm wondering, then, if there is a set of guidelines for the adoption of

educational technology that is more focused and reflective in its

recommendations.

Thanks in advance,

Marshall Soules, Ph.D.

Coordiantor, Media Studies

Malaspina University-College

<a href="http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/">http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Computer Science & Humanities Conference: Press Release;
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:12:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 628 (628)


Reports and papers Available Shortly

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

Monday January 27, 2003

              Humanities Scholars, Scientists, and Engineers

     Explore Common Ground in the New World of Digital Technology

            <a href="http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/2003conference.pr.html">http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/2003conference.pr.html</a>

                      <a href="http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/">http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/</a>

     Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities Conference

                            Held January 17-18, 2003

                  Full Report and Papers Available Shortly

For Immediate Release: January 27, 2003

Humanities Scholars, Scientists, and Engineers Explore Common Ground in the

New World of Digital Technology

Humanities scholars, museum administrators, librarians, publishers,

computer and information scientists, technologists, and engineers met at

the National Academies in Washington, DC, January 17-18, 2003, to celebrate

pioneering models of scholarship that employ digital technology and to

address the considerable challenges to further progress.

As the conference, "Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the

Humanities," convened, William Wulf (National Academy of Engineering)

suggested that humanists and engineers shared the problem of creating

"macro scale" systems out of billions of minuscule components - with

unpredictable results. If humanists could resolve this problem for

themselves and for engineers, they would usher in a revolution comparable

to the development of Einstein's theories and quantum mechanics at the

beginning of the twentieth century. The necessity - and revolutionary

potential - of cooperative working relationships between humanists and

computer scientists and engineers, and the notion that they might be able

to help answer essential questions in each other's disciplines, became an

important theme of the conference.

Presenters included historians, classicists, art historians, engineers,

media studies professors, computer scientists, and representatives of

cultural and educational institutions. Will Thomas (University of Virginia)

discussed his work with the American Historical Review to create a new

genre of scholarship, playfully titled "a work formerly known as an article."

In the related arenas of teaching and textbook publishing, Richard Baraniuk

(Rice University) offered an ambitious vision of the cooperative

development of a "commons of free teaching materials," based on the

collaborative model of Linux software development.

Taking advantage of the computer as a visual medium, art historian Stephen

Murray (Columbia University) presented a graphic simulation of the

construction of Amiens Cathedral, and Douglas Greenberg (Survivors of the

Shoah Visual History Foundation) gave conference participants a glimpse of

the complexities of indexing and making accessible the videotaped

testimonies of more than 52,000 survivors of the Holocaust.

All of the projects examined during the conference demonstrated both the

rich possibilities and the limits of current technology and led to

speculation about new tools, training, and shifts in disciplinary thinking

that might allow more fruitful relationships between the humanities and

computer science. Participants frequently returned to the problem of

inertia within disciplines-particularly in expectations for promotion and

tenure, minimal training in technology for graduate students, and the lack

of adequate cooperation with university libraries and librarians.

Resisting the general tide of multi- and cross-disciplinarity, Michael

Joyce (Vassar College) sounded a call in favor of the traditional

disciplines and the need to explore all that is not known within those

disciplinary bounds-to  "husband doubt, rather than suffocating in

knowingness." Janet Murray (Georgia Institute of Technology) argued that

perhaps lack of total understanding between computer specialists and

humanists is useful, creating a space of play and adaptation in which both

are able to formulate overly ambitious-and  creatively valuable-projects.

By the time the meeting adjourned, participants had developed a wish list

of new tools, training, and cooperation, but recognized that they must

balance the desire to experiment creatively with the constraints of

existing tools and models, limited departmental support, and looming cuts

in federal, state, university, and foundation budgets.

"Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities" evolved

from the 1997 Computer Science and Humanities Initiative and a subsequent

September 2000 workshop that began exploring cross-disciplinary

cooperation. The Initiative is supported by the American Council of Learned

Societies (ACLS), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), the National

Academies, and Princeton and Rice Universities and is funded by generous

grants from the Carnegie Corporation.

More information about the Computing and Humanities Initiative is available

on the NINCH Web site <<a href="http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/">http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/</a>>. The

conference Web site <<a href="http://carnegie.rice.edu">http://carnegie.rice.edu</a>> will soon include more

detailed information about the presenters and links to a variety of digital

humanities projects.


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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new book
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:30:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 629 (629)


[The following may not seem to have much to do with humanities computing. I

send it along because the argument for the cognitive relevance of sensory

and sensory-motor processes has considerable bearing on the further reaches

of developments in multimedia. The author's "geometric approach" likewise

expresses current attention to geometric forms of reasoning in cognitive

science and elsewhere. Comments on these developments would be most

welcome. --WM]

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

A Theory of Immediate Awareness

Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence

by

Myrna Estep

Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

This book presents a realist, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary

theory of immediate awareness showing it is the most primitive cognitive

network underlying all our natural intelligence. Including preattentive and

attention processes, as well as primitive relations of the senses,

imagination and memory, immediate awareness is a kind of knowing deeply

embedded and interwoven throughout our multiple kinds of natural

intelligence. It permits as well as drives our knowing how, our bodily

intelligence. Against the Cartesian mind-body split found in earlier and

current theories, the author shows how immediate awareness permits emergent

properties of mind in multilayered primitive relations of touching and

moving in bodily kinesthetic intelligence. Contrary to existing theories,

she argues that sensation is not cognitively "neutral," nor does it require

a "representation" in order to be accessible to cognitive processes. Dr.

Estep presents empirical evidence and arguments that sensation of immediate

awareness is itself cognitive and embedded within our sensory and

somatosensory-motor processes.

The author's aim is to turn to a more geometric approach to natural

intelligence, as opposed to the prevalent symbol-based view. In this

approach, she uses random Boolean networks as a way of obtaining law-like

properties of those primitive relations of immediate awareness in terms of

dynamical systems theory. This demonstrates the properties of

self-organization and adaptation of immediate awareness without committing

one to a physicalist/materialist theory. It gives us a way of understanding

core properties of our own inner conscious lives, and of understanding the

smooth and seamless sensitivity of primitive sensory and

somatosensory-motor awareness.

Dr. Estep's theory of immediate awareness also shows that the computational

view of mind is wrong. Though our minds do classify, classification is not

all they do. Our immediate awareness indexically selects sui generis

objects that are unique and of no kind or class. The influence of

nominalism and narrow naturalist theories have resulted in extremely narrow

concepts of the human knowing, mind and intelligence, leaving out immediate

awareness altogether. We slip into subtle nominalist fallacies when we take

our language metaphors and language itself too far.
[deleted quotation]
CONTENTS

Dedication. Contents. List Of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1: The Problem of Immediate Awareness. 1.1. The Influence of Nominalism,

Idealism, and Behaviorism.

1.2. A Place for Ontological Questions.

1.3. Historical Background of the Problem: The Dualist Legacy of Descartes'

Crooked Question.

1.4. From The Linguistic Turn to the Cognitive Naturalistic Turn.

1.5. The Knowing That and Knowing How Distinction: Manner of a Performance

and Multiple Intelligences.

1.6. The Limits of Representation (Classification): The Role of Indexicals

and Unique Objects Present.

1.7. Analyze This.

1.8. The Indexical Operator, Unlike Any Other: Sui Generis Objects.

1.9. The Basic Computational Idea and Argument.

2: The Primitive Relations

of Knowledge by Acquaintance. 2.1. A Realist Theory of Immediate Awareness.

2.2. Analysis of Experience: Russell's Knowledge by Acquaintance.

2.3. Acquaintance with Mathematical Objects: Problems with Unnameables,

Nameability and the Berry Paradox.

2.4. The Primitive Relations.

2.5. The Concept of Image.

2.6. Imagination and Sensation Defined.

2.7. Primitive Acquaintance with Relations Themselves.

2.8. Summary.

3: Arguments Against Immediate Awareness:

The Case of Naturalism.

3.1. Definitions of Certain Terms.

3.2. Non-Inferential Beliefs: Self-Evident Beliefs and a Vox Populi Theory

of Knowledge.

3.3. Indeterminacy of Translation and Other Problems.

3.4. Are There Immaculate Sensations?

3.5. Matching Up Stimulations.

3.6. Are Meaning Structures Equivalent to Neural Structures?

3.7. Critique of Naturalist Theory of Knowledge.

3.8. Summary.

4: What Does

the Evidence Show. 4.1. Problems with Subjective Definitions of Awareness.

4.2. Neurophysical Experiments.

4.3. Cortical Information, the Preattentive and Attentive Phases.

4.4. The Primitives of the Preattentive Phase.

4.5. Evidence for Cognitive Immediate Awareness.

4.6. Where Do We Enter the Circle of Cognition?

4.7. Learning All Over the Nervous System: Multiple Intelligences.

4.8. Bodily Kinaesthetic Intelligence.

4.9. Classification of Performances.

4.10. The Hierarchy of Primitive Relations of Immediate Awareness.

4.11. Primitive Relations of Preattending, Attending and the Problem with

Paying Attention.

4.12. Multiple Spaces of Primitive Immediate Awareness.

4.13. The Primitive Relation of Imagining; Hierarchy of the Senses,

Touching, Moving, Probing and Their Spaces.

4.14. Summary.

5: Boundary

Set S: At the Core of Multiple Intelligences. 5.1. Kinds of Knowing in

Boundary Set S.

5.2. A Framework for Thinking About Boundary Set S: Dynamical Systems

Theory and Kauffman's Random Boolean Nets for a Geometry of Knowing.

5.3. The Formal and Geometric Structure of the Knowing Universe.

5.4. Digraph Theory of Knowing Relations.

5.5. Properties of Relations: Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems.

5.6. Information-Theoretic (H) Measures of the Universal Epistemic Set.

5.7. Mechanism or Organicism.

5.8. Poincar Map and Random Graphs of Primitive Knowing Relations: From a

Symbol-Based View to a Geometric View.

5.9. A Toy Model of a Random Graph: Kauffman's Buttons and Threads for a

Tapestry of Knowing.

5.10. Autocatalysis of Knowing: Some Law-Like Properties of Immediate

Awareness and the Binding Problem: Rule-Boundedness.

5.11. A Random Boolean Network of Knowing: The Emergence Of Order.

5.12. The Boundary of Epistemic Boundary Set S.

5.13. Parameter Space and Rugged Landscape of Boundary Set S.

5.14. Summary.

6: Can Neural Networks Simulate Boundary Set S? 6.1. The Cocktailparty

Problem.

6.2. Kinds of Knowing at the Party.

6.3. Artificial Neural Networks.

6.4. Learning Algorithms.

6.5. Multilayered Synchronous Networks and Self-Organization of Boundary Sets.

6.6. Self-Organizing Neural Networks.

6.7. Adaptivity.

6.8. Critique of Artificial Neural Network Models.

6.9. Natural Language Semantics and Indexical Reference: More Limits of

Computation.

6.10. The Conflation of Grammatical and Indexical Meaning with Mathematical

Functions.

6.11. Summary.

7: Computability of Boundary Set S. 7.1. Computation and Complex Epistemic

Domains: Problems with the Classical Computational Approach to Boundary Sets.

7.2. The Decidability of the Epistemic Boundary Set S: Issues From the

Moral Universe.

7.3. Kinds of Knowing Found in the Moral Universe.

7.4. Recursively Enumerable but Non-Recursive Moral Sets: Is the Set of

Moral Considerations a Countable Set?

7.5. The Epistemic Universe as Complex Numbers, C, or the Real Plane, R2

and the Undecidability of Epistemic Boundary Set S.

7.6. Summary.

8: Summary and Conclusions. 8.1. What the Facts of Natural Intelligence Show.

8.2. Themes.

8.3. Comments on Some Contrasting Views.

8.4. Conclusion. Appendix. References. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1186-5 Date: April 2003 Pages: 310 pp.

EURO 99.00 / USD 97.00 / GBP 62.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: wedelmusic (NESI) <wedelmus@dsi.unifi.it>
Subject: WEDELMUSIC2003 Call-for-Papers, Leeds, UK, September 2003
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:35:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 630 (630)


WEDELMUSIC-2003

===============

   3rd International Conference on Web Delivering of Music

   15th - 17th September 2003

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

   <a href="http://www.wedelmusic.org/wedelmusic2003">http://www.wedelmusic.org/wedelmusic2003</a>

   wdm03@leeds.ac.uk, wedelmusic@dsi.unifi.it

Co-located with

MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop 2003

==============================

   17th-18 September 2003

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

   musicnetwork@dsi.unifi.it

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Both at the:

   University of Leeds Interdisciplinary Centre for

   Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM),

   School of Music

   Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

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

[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: International Symposium on Open Access and the Public
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:37:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 631 (631)


Domain in Digital  Data and Information for Science

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 30, 2003

           International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain

                  in Digital Data and Information for Science

                       March 10-11 2003: UNESCO, Paris

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

Although there are many differences in the kind of information being used

by the two communities, this summit on the role of Open Access and the

Public Domain on scientific research could represent model work that should

be undertaken by the international arts and humanities community in

formulating an international approach to these issues.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in

Digital Data and Information for Science

Announcement

This international symposium will be held 10-11 March 2003 at UNESCO

Headquarters in Paris. It is being jointly organized by the Committee on

Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the National Academies, US,

the International Council for Science (ICSU), UNESCO and the

International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI),

to address the following Statement of Task:

1.      Describe the role, value, and limits that the public domain and open

access to digital data and information have in the context of

international research.

2.      Identify and analyze the various legal, economic, and technological

pressures on the public domain in digital data and information, and

their potential effects on international research.

3.      Review the existing and proposed approaches for preserving and

promoting the public domain and open access to S&T data and information

on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing

countries.

4.      Identify and analyze important issues for follow up by the ICSU

family of organizations and for the development of an Action Plan in

this area by ICSU and UNESCO in preparation for the World Summit on the

Information Society (WSIS).

The symposium will bring together leading experts and managers from the

government and academic sectors in the developed and developing world,

who are involved in the creation, dissemination, and use of data and

information in public research. The symposium program and additional

background information are available on the CODATA Web site.

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

[material deleted]



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.48
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:35:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 632 (632)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 48,  Week of January 27, 2003

In this issue:

Interview --

Talking with John Stuckey

A conversation with the Director of University Computing at

Washington and Lee University

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_stuckey_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_stuckey_1.html</a>



From: Lily Diaz <diaz@uiah.fi>
Subject: "Digitally born" artifacts
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:36:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 633 (633)


Hello everybody:

A lot has been written about the use of digital replicas in museum

exhibitions. I have attended many conferences in which beautifully designed

digital artifacts have been presented to demonstrate the capacity of this

technology to augment conventional modes of exhibition.

I am now interested in knowing whether there are written case studies of

examples of situations in which "digitally born" artifacts have been

succesfully employed in museum exhibitions in place of the originals.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Lily

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

Dr. Lily Daz-Kommonen

Senior Researcher

Systems of Representation

Media Lab

University of Art and Design Helsinki/UIAH

135C Hmeentie SF 00560 FINLAND

+ 358 9 75630 338

+ 358 9 75630 555 FAX

+ 358 40 7256925 GSM

<diaz@uiah.fi>



From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mk235@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: virtual lightbox release
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:28:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 634 (634)


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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

January 31, 2003

We are pleased to announce a new release of the Virtual Lightbox, a

software tool for comparing images online:

<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/">http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/</a>

Begun at the University of Kentucky, this project is now supported by

the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the

University of Maryland.

The Virtual Lightbox exists in two versions, an application and an

applet (both programmed in Java). The *applet* version, which is newly

developed, furnishes what we believe to be an extremely flexible

environment for online image comparison. Its primary audience is

developers who wish to add an image comparison tool to a Web-based image

collection. Simple server-side scripting allows users to populate the

Lightbox applet in any number of ways. A live demo of the applet is

available here:

<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/sistine/example.html">http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/sistine/example.html</a>

The *application* version, which was developed earlier, allows users to

share images in peer-to-peer fashion: all users participating in a

common session see the same images in the same on-screen configuration

at the same time. Movement of an image and other operations are all

globally propagated in realtime. Thus the application version functions

as an image-based whiteboard.

Comparison, which John Unsworth calls a "scholarly primitive," is a

basic and probably intuitive operation that is nonetheless not well

supported--for images anyway--by conventional Web browser technology.

That is, users have no ability to move, juxtapose, or otherwise

reposition images beyond the configuration in which they are delivered

by a static page layout. As rich image collections continue to come

online, it's becoming increasingly apparent that end-users lack the

tools to exploit such resources to their full potential. The Lightbox is

one attempt to meet this need. Though its target audience is in the

academic humanities and the library and museum community, we expect the

Lightbox to find users far removed from this sphere; indeed, we

anticipate it will be of interest to anyone for whom images constitute

an important data type.

The Virtual Lightbox joins the recently released Versioning Machine as a

free and open source MITH Product, distributed under the terms and

conditions of the GNU General Public License. For more about MITH,

please visit its homepage:

<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu">http://www.mith.umd.edu</a>

Comments, questions, and bug reports may be addressed to:

lightbox-feedback@mith2.umd.edu

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Amit Kumar, Susan Schreibman

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Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

January 31, 2003

We are pleased to announce a new release of the Virtual Lightbox, a

software tool for comparing images online:

<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/">http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/</a>

Begun at the University of Kentucky, this project is now supported by

the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the

University of Maryland.

The Virtual Lightbox exists in two versions, an application and an

applet (both programmed in Java). The *applet* version, which is newly

developed, furnishes what we believe to be an extremely flexible

environment for online image comparison. Its primary audience is

developers who wish to add an image comparison tool to a Web-based image

collection. Simple server-side scripting allows users to populate the

Lightbox applet in any number of ways. A live demo of the applet is

available here:

<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/sistine/example.html">http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/sistine/example.html</a>

The *application* version, which was developed earlier, allows users to

share images in peer-to-peer fashion: all users participating in a

common session see the same images in the same on-screen configuration

at the same time. Movement of an image and other operations are all

globally propagated in realtime. Thus the application version functions

as an image-based whiteboard.

Comparison, which John Unsworth calls a "scholarly primitive," is a

basic and probably intuitive operation that is nonetheless not well

supported--for images anyway--by conventional Web browser technology.

That is, users have no ability to move, juxtapose, or otherwise

reposition images beyond the configuration in which they are delivered

by a static page layout. As rich image collections continue to come

online, it's becoming increasingly apparent that end-users lack the

tools to exploit such resources to their full potential. The Lightbox is

one attempt to meet this need. Though its target audience is in the

academic humanities and the library and museum community, we expect the

Lightbox to find users far removed from this sphere; indeed, we

anticipate it will be of interest to anyone for whom images constitute

an important data type.

The Virtual Lightbox joins the recently released Versioning Machine as a

free and open source MITH Product, distributed under the terms and

conditions of the GNU General Public License. For more about MITH,

please visit its homepage:

<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu">http://www.mith.umd.edu</a>

Comments, questions, and bug reports may be addressed to:

lightbox-feedback@mith2.umd.edu

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Amit Kumar, Susan Schreibman

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From: Ross Scaife <scaife@uky.edu>
Subject: Summer Workshop on Electronic Publication
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:22:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 635 (635)


The Center for Hellenic Studies invites applications for a Summer Workshop

on Electronic Publication, to be held in Washington DC from June 23 through

June 29, 2003.

The workshop will allow Classicists at any stage of their careers to spend

a week exploring new technologies, learning best practices, and sharing

ideas with each other, the CHS faculty and staff, and invited leaders in

the field of electronic publication in Classics.

The focus of the week will be the promise of XML, TEI standards for marking

up humanistic texts, ways of bringing XML to readers via the web, the

Unicode standard for Greek, and building interrelationships between

projects toward a distributed and networked library for Classics.

Persons interested in attending should have some initial awareness of the

basic technologies used for online publication and an interest in expanding

their knowledge via some particular project.

The CHS will provide housing for the week, all breakfasts and lunches, a

reception at the outset, one formal dinner, and some informal dinners;

participants should expect to provide some dinners for themselves.

The CHS cannot provide travel funds, for which participants are asked to

apply to their home institutions. Under extraordinary circumstances,

however, the CHS may be able to contribute to travel expenses.

Interested scholars should send a letter of application and CV by e-mail

(with "Summer Workshop" in the subject-line, please) to Ross Scaife

(scaife@uky.edu) by February 12th, 2003. The letter should explain the

applicant's reason for applying. This explanation can be more or less

specific, but should focus on a desire to do serious work with texts in

electronic media; the texts in question can be primary sources or secondary

works of scholarship, but should not be limited to use in the classroom.

Applicants should expect to hear back from the Center by March 1, 2003.

Upon acceptance, the CHS will provide a formal letter of invitation that

may help secure funding from home institutions.

Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested.



From: ambroise.barras@bluewin.ch
Subject: Texts in performance - call for contributions
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:26:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 636 (636)


Dear Collegues,

We are pleased to announce our colloquium:

      "Texts in performance"

      2003, november 27-29th

      University of Geneva, Switzerland

We would appreciate to receive propositions for presentations that address

the topic as described in the following call for contributions:

      <a href="http://www.unige.ch/lettres/framo/cernet/colloc/e_appel.htm">http://www.unige.ch/lettres/framo/cernet/colloc/e_appel.htm</a> (english)

      <a href="http://www.unige.ch/lettres/framo/cernet/colloc/appel.htm">http://www.unige.ch/lettres/framo/cernet/colloc/appel.htm</a> (french)

Abstracts of about 250 words (in English or in French) should reach the

organizers

(cernet@lettres.unige.ch) by March 31, 2003.

Yours,

Ambroise Barras

University of Geneva - Switzerland



From: Stephen Miller <Stephen.Miller@assoc.oeaw.ac.at>
Subject: Re: 16.450 case-studies of digitally born artifacts in
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:22:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 637 (637)


museums?
[deleted quotation]
Recently it has been the way around with digital artifacts showing how the

originals would look like if they were back in the place they came from, ie

the Parthenon.

See "Science reunites Elgin

Marbles"  <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2697307.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2697307.stm</a>

Stephen Miller

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

Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Austrian Academy Corpus / Kommission fuer literarische Gebrauchsformen

Sonnenfelsgasse 19/8,  A-1010 Wien, Austria.

Tel. +43-1-51581-2306 Fax +43-1-51581-2339 Handy +43-(0)669-123-147-06

WWW <a href="http://www.oeaw.ac.at/~litgeb/">http://www.oeaw.ac.at/~litgeb/</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: AHDS Resources: Virtual Reality Guide to Good Practice;
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:27:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 638 (638)


Workshop & Resources on GIS

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 31, 2003

                  UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service Announces:

     Creating and Using Virtual Reality: a Guide for the Arts and Humanities

                  edited by Julian Richards and Kate Fernie

                    <a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/vr_guide/">http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/vr_guide/</a>

                     and Workshop Report and Resources on

       Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Arts and Humanities

                       <a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm">http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm</a>
[deleted quotation]
The Arts & Humanities Data Service is pleased to announce the publication of

a new Guide to Good Practice.

'Creating and using virtual reality: a guide for the arts and humanities',

edited by Julian Richards and Kate Fernie, concentrates on accessible

desk-top virtual reality which may be distributed and viewed via the World

Wide Web.

The Guide introduces virtual reality to those who are interested in its use

within the arts and humanities and incorporates illustrative case studies.

It is geared to the needs of the creators of virtual reality (including

artists, illustrators and computer scientists) and of organisations who are

commissioning virtual reality (including museums, galleries, heritage

agencies and university-based projects). It covers the history, philosophy

and theory of virtual reality providing an introduction to the methods and

techniques used and to good practices in planning virtual reality projects.

The guide does not attempt to cover all virtual reality technologies. This

is a rapidly developing field and new methods are continually emerging. An

important consideration for all virtual reality projects will be ensuring

that the models produced can be used and enjoyed by the audiences for which

they are intended. This guide looks at how issues such as choice of virtual

reality format, hardware and software platforms relate to audience

requirements and also looks at the documentation procedures which support

maintenance and resource discovery. A section of the guide explores

longer-term strategies for preservation of virtual reality models as

technology evolves.

'Creating and using virtual reality: a guide for the arts and humanities'

has been produced by the Archaeology Data Service and the Visual Arts Data

Service and is online at:

<a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/vr_guide/">http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/vr_guide/</a>

Alastair Dunning

Arts and Humanities Data Service

King's College London

0207 9288 7848

=========================================================================

                        Workshop Report and Resources on

       Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Arts and Humanities

                       <a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm">http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm</a>
[deleted quotation]
Dear all,

The AHDS recently hosted a workshop on the use of Geographical Information

Systems (GIS) in the Arts and Humanities. Designed as an introduction to the

subject, the workshop dealt with definitions of GIS, glimpsed at the study

of time and space in the arts and humanities, considered software issues,

and discussed the problems inherent in using and exploiting maps. It also

had some case studies looking at how some projects have made use of GIS.

The detailed presentations are now available on the AHDS website from

<a href="http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm">http://ahds.ac.uk/gis_workshop.htm</a>

This page also contains an extensive suite of links on GIS. This includes

links to Guides to Good Practice, sources of data, support services, example

resources and other useful GIS-based tools.

The page also includes details of reduced-price software and mapping data. A

number of GIS / spatial analysis products are available to academic

institutions under specially-negotiated Agreements through CHEST - the

educational shop window for purchases of software, data, information,

training materials and other IT related products. The majority of these

Agreements are for site licences and if you are interested in any particular

product you are advised to check with CHEST (helpdesk@chest.ac.uk) before

placing an order, to establish whether your institution is already licensed.

The Agreement covers several software packages (ArcInfo, MapInfo etc.) and a

wide array of mapping data.

Alastair



From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- January 2003
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:25:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 639 (639)


CIT INFOBITS    January 2003            No. 55          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.

......................................................................

The Pursuit of Well-Structured Content

The TEACH Act and Distance Education

Is Instructional Technology a Must for Learning?

Distance Education Students and Attrition Rates

Virtual Technical Reports Center

Recommended Reading

Editor's Request for Information

Infobits Subscribers -- Where Are We in 2003?

[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: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" <bkg@nyu.edu>
Subject: RE: 16.454 digitally born artifacts in museums
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:14:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 640 (640)


The newly installed British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum

makes effective use of digital artifacts in the presence of the originals to

show aspects of them that viewers would not otherwise be able to see or

notice.

<<a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/british_galleries/?version=1&section=british_galleries">http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/british_galleries/?version=1&section=british_galleries</a>><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/british_galleries/?version=1&section=british_galleries">http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/british_galleries/?version=1&section=british_galleries</a>.

Compare with the marvelous cast court, which are after all just as

virtual as digital simulations, just another medium from another time.

<<a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/galleries/european_sculpture/cast_courts/?section=cast_courts">http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/galleries/european_sculpture/cast_courts/?section=cast_courts</a>><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/galleries/european_sculpture/cast_courts/?section=cast_courts">http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/galleries/european_sculpture/cast_courts/?section=cast_courts</a>.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

University Professor

Department of Performance Studies

New York University

721 Broadway, 6th fl

New York, NY 10003-6807

212-998-1628 (tel) / 212-254-7885 (fax)

<mailto:bkg@nyu.edu>mailto:bkg@nyu.edu



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Reviewed in Computing Reviews
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:15:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 641 (641)


Willard,

The February issue of "Computing Reviews" has reviews of several items that

I thought would be of interest to the list. (I tried searching the Humanist

archives for prior notices about these works but the search interface does

not seem to lend itself to that use. Are the archives available for dowload

so I could index and search them locally?)

"The intelligent wireless Web" Alesso, H. Peter and Smith, Craig F.;

Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., ISBN 0-201-73063-4.

Covers wireless technology, AI and web services.

"Distributed virtual worlds: foundations and implementation techniques

using VRML, Java, and Cobra" Diehl, Stephan; Springer-Verlag New York,

Inc., ISBN 3-540-67624-4.

Developing 3D web applications. Requires strong Java background.

"Digital developments in higher education: theory and practice" Roberts,

Peter, and Chambers, Mark; Taylor Graham Publishing, ISBN 0-947568-78-6.

High on my list to read as it is reported to contain papers by those who

*use* technology in education as well as those who theorize about its use.

Interesting description of the tension between the two. (No I won't say

what tension is described. Read the review or better yet, read the book and

report back to the Humanist list. I hope to do the latter myself.)

"Smart machines in education" Forbus, Kenneth and Feltovich, Paul; MIT

Press, ISBN 022561417

Good review of current educational technology.

"The wired tower: perspectives on the impact of the Internet on higher

education" Pittinsky, Matthew; Financial Times/Prentice Hall, ISBN 0130428299.

Covers a wide range of issues relating to the use of the Internet in higher

education. (Another one that I think will be a "must" read.)

"Digital watermarking: a guide for programmers and technical managers" Cox,

Ingemar; Miller, Matthew; Bloom, Jeffrey; Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc.,

ISBN 1-55860-714-5

I mention this one because of the growing interest in making original

manuscripts available over the Internet. This looks like a very good

collection of information on a new technology that may help relieve some of

the fears about placing images of original materials online.

Depending upon your interests, there are several other items in the latest

issue of Computing Reviews and the ones I mention are only those of

personal interest or that I recongize might be of more general interest.

Computing Reviews is highly recommended reading.

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend!

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu
Co-Editor, ISO Reference Model for Topic Maps



From: Tim van Gelder <tgelder@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Latest Additions to Critical Thinking On The Web
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 07:13:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 642 (642)


January was a quite lean month - only 3 additions (see below).  However one

significant change to CTOTW is the inclusion on the page of Critical

Reflections, my newly started and rather opinionated Weblog on topics

broadly related to critical thinking.  The main page for the "blog" is

<a href="http://www.austhink.org/critical_reflections.htm">http://www.austhink.org/critical_reflections.htm</a>

Of possible interest also to some members of this list are my

under-construction online tutorials in argument mapping - see

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

Eventually there will be six in the set; at the moment only the first two

are available in complete, first-draft form.  Feedback would be most

welcome.  The remaining four will be available in the coming weeks.

31 Jan

in Miscellaneous and Fun

<<a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3902/skeptic_pitied.html">http://www.theonion.com/onion3902/skeptic_pitied.html</a>>Skeptic Pitied -

from The Onion

"FAYETTEVILLE, AR Craig Schaffner, 46, a Fayetteville-area computer

consultant, has earned the pity of friends and acquaintances for his tragic

reluctance to embrace the unverifiable, sources reported Monday."

20 Jan

in Postmodernism and all that

<<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/comment/comment-goldblatt011603.asp">http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/comment/comment-goldblatt011603.asp</a>>Derrida<<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/comment/comment-goldblatt011603.asp">http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/comment/comment-goldblatt011603.asp</a>>,

Derrida, Etc. By Mark Goldblatt.  Review of the documentary Derrida.

Mostly a compact and witty summary of orthodox views regarding what is

wrong with Derrida, and by extension much of French "philosophy"; some

original flourishes add extra value.  Includes a brief introduction to

deconstruction.  Concludes strangely, in seeming mid-stride, with "et

cetera".  Derrida is "an intellectual con artist, a polysyllabic grifter

who has duped roughly half the humanities professors in the United

States... As a documentary, Derrida tells us little worth knowing about a

silly Frenchman named Jacques Derrida. The fact that such a film exists,

however, tells us much worth knowing about ourselves." [20 Jan 03]

2 Jan 2003

in Guides

<<a href="http://www.scientificmethod.com/index_nofla.html">http://www.scientificmethod.com/index_nofla.html</a>>The Scientific Method

Today by Norman W. Edmund.

"These pages contain today s most up-to-date, clear, concise and reliable

information about the scientific method that has ever been offered." Find

out about the "SM-14 Formula for the General Pattern of the Scientific

Method." Pitched somewhere between philosophy of science and a 12-step

self-help program. Definitely worth a look. Booklets available.



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Home plates and WWW sites
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 06:56:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 643 (643)


Willard,

My most recent post on "e disco" and "ex libris" (I've not retained a copy

-- it may be lost in the moderating swirls of the machine world wash.) led

me to a bit of design work:

I think there may be a genre that one could refer to as a "bookplate" for

a WWW site. In any case, visual and sonic identity are important elements

of both personal growing archives and institutional holdings.

For your viewing pleasure (no sound as of yet --- I'm thinking of three

crows of the cock but given the New Year bleating sheep, butting rams or

hoof stomping goats might be appropriate).

The sound, visual, verbal trio reminds me of a Radical Fairy publication,

RFD, that spells out a different acronym from its moniker depending upon

the theme of the issue. The current issue is "Really Fabulous Dwellings".

I leave you and the subscribers of Humanist to ponder what delightful

flaming royal naughtiness may lie between its pages cover-to-cover.

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

   --

Francois Lachance

Scholar-at-large,

Actively Visiting

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



From: "Dan Cristea" <dcristea@infoiasi.ro>
Subject: EUROLAN-2003 Call for workshop proposals
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 06:52:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 644 (644)


Call for Workshop Proposals

related to

EUROLAN-2003

Summer School on

"THE SEMANTIC WEB AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

Its Potential and Practicalities"

July 28- August 8, 2003

Bucharest, Romania

The EUROLAN-2003 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be

held in conjunction with EUROLAN-2003 summer school. One or two workshops

will be held, each during three consecutive evenings, during the two weeks

interval of the summer school.

Areas of Interest

We welcome proposals on any topic of interest within the school's main

theme (for details, please consult the EUROLAN-2003 pages at

<<a href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003/">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003/</a>><a href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003/">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003/</a>).

[material deleted]



From: "Dan Cristea" <dcristea@infoiasi.ro>
Subject: EUROLAN-2003 Summer School - First call for participation
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 06:52:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 645 (645)


EUROLAN-2003

Summer School on

"The Semantic Web and Language Technology - Its Potential and Practicalities"

28 July - 8 August 2003

Bucharest - Romania

<<a href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003</a>><a href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan/eurolan2003</a>

- First Call For Participation -

The Eurolan series of summer schools was established in 1993 and has been

held every other year, with the goal of stimulating young researchers from

all over the world to pursue high-level research in natural language

processing and language technology.

Theme

The fifth EUROLAN in the series will have as topic all aspects of the

developing Semantic Web technology and consider its potential and the

practicalities of applying it to enhance language processing applications.

[material deleted]



From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison@unc.edu>
Subject: February TS Author Forums
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 06:53:18 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 646 (646)


The following Technology Source Author Forums are scheduled for Tuesday,

February 4, 2003. 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=205">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=205</a> and clicking on the

SIGN UP NOW button.

12:00 P.M.  12:45 P.M. ET: Parker Rossman, the author of three book-length

volumes concerning the future of higher education (all available free of

charge on his website), discusses his vision of the future. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1041">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1041</a>

   1:00 P.M.  1:45 P.M. ET: Darrell Butler, Ball State University professor

of psychological science, evaluates the use of a proctored, computer-based

testing (PCBT) facility as a way to increase the frequency of tests as a

means of promoting greater student success without sacrificing class time.

See <a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1013">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1013</a>

4:00 P.M.  4:45 P.M. ET: Frank Newman, director of The Futures Project at

Brown University, relates why many observers point to this year as a

watershed moment for the incorporation of educational technology tools. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1003">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1003</a>

5:00 P.M.  5:45 P.M. ET: Matthew Pittinsky, chairman and co-founder of

Blackboard, discusses the mission and future prospects of established

course management systems. See

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1039">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1039</a>

We hope that you can join us. If not, the archives of all webcasts will be

available via the webcast button on the options menu within each article a

few hours after the webcast.

Jim


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From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mk235@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: umberto eco on information
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 06:56:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 647 (647)


I'm trying to track down a discussion by Umberto Eco where he defines

information as something like (I'm paraphrasing) the confirmation of

unlikely facts. For example, if I'm told by a landlord that an apartment

will cost $550 to rent, that's _information_ because it's unlikely that

the apartment would have cost $550 (as opposed to $449 or $551 or $448

or $552, etc.)

Can anyone help? Thanks, Matt

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________

_______________________<a href="http://www.glue.umd.edu/~mgk/">http://www.glue.umd.edu/~mgk/</a>



From: Andras Kornai <andras@kornai.com>
Subject: CFP: NAACL'03 Workshop on the Analysis of Geographic
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:16:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 648 (648)


References

Call for papers: NAACL'03 Workshop on the Analysis of Geographic References

This workshop is to discuss how existing NLP techniques can be adapted and

new ones developed that will advance core technology in geographic reference

analysis. Two-page extended abstracts due March 15 (electronic submissions

only to geowkshp@kornai.com). For details see <a href="http://www.kornai.com/NAACL">http://www.kornai.com/NAACL</a>

Andras Kornai and Beth Sundheim, co-chairs



From: oehrle@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Mathematics of Language: 2nd call for papers
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:17:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 649 (649)


                             MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE

                                  June 20-22, 2003

                             Bloomington, Indiana, USA

                               SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

MoL8 is the eighth Mathematics of Language Conference and will be held June

20-22,

2003, in conjunction with the North American Summer School in Logic,

Language and

Information, in Bloomington, Indiana.

AIMS and SCOPE

MoL8 hopes to provide a platform for presentation of new and original

research on all mathematical linguistics and the mathematical study

of natural languages.

Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal language theory;

* formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology;

* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;

* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;

* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;

* logical aspects of linguistic structure;

* mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis.

[material deleted]

FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for MoL8 : <a href="http://grail.let.uu.nl/mol8/">http://grail.let.uu.nl/mol8/</a>

Web site for NASSLLI: <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/">http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/</a>

The organizers:

Richard T. Oehrle       oehrle@linc.cis.upenn.edu

James Rogers            jrogers@cs.earlham.edu



From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.461 confirmation of likely words?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:17:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 650 (650)


Matt Kirschenbaum writes---
[deleted quotation]
I don't know about Eco's discussion, but much the same idea is part of

information theory as developed by Claude Shannon and the like.  One

discussion that has a good survey of manifestations of the idea is

Charles Cole, "Shannon Revisited: Information in Terms of

Uncertainty", *Journal of the American Society for Information

Science* 44:4, May 1993, 204-211.

John Lavagnino

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



From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.461 confirmation of likely words?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:18:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 651 (651)


You might try this on:

"It has been said that narrative worlds are always *little worlds*, because

they do not constitute a maximal and complete state of things...In this sense

narrative worlds are *parasitical*, because, if the alternative properties are

not specified, we take for granted the properties that hold good in the real

world.  In *Moby Dick* it is not expressly stated that all the sailors aboard

*Pequod* have two legs, but the reader ought to take it as implicit, given that

the sailors are human beings.  On the other hand, the account takes care to

inform us that Ahab had only one leg, but, as far as I remember, it does not

say which, leaving us free to use our imagination, because such a specification

has no bearing on the story."  -- from *Kant and the Platypus*

benjamin sTone

Freelance Agent of Chaos



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: sisTer aRTS
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:18:46 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 652 (652)


Re - Semantic Revisitations  - eR

Jerome Bruner

Acts of Meaning

1990

pp 2-3

[in the context of mentalism vs behaviourism]

It Was an altogether more profound revolution than that. Its aim was to

discover and to describe formally the meanings that human beings created

out of their encounters with the world, and then to propose hypotheses

about what meaning-making processes were implicated. It focusssed upon the

symbolic activities that human beings employed in constructing and in

making sense not only of the world, but of themselves. Its aim was to

prompt psychology to join forces with its sister interpretaive disciplines

in the humanities and in the social sciences. Indeed, <pb n="3"/> beneath

the surface of the more computationally oriented cognitive science, this

is precisely what has been happening -- first slowly and now with

increasing momentum.

[Note the grammatical asymmetry between "world" and "self".  Bruner begins

with "not only" but does not continue with "but also". A formation not

likely to get by Bruner's own series of drafts nor by a copy editor sans

comment, especially in a passage dealing with parrallelism!]

-- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large, knows no "no exit" in a hypertext

every cul-de-sac is 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: "Ray Siemens" <siemensr@MALA.BC.CA>
Subject: ACH 2003 election results, bylaw changes
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:12:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 653 (653)


I'm pleased to report the results of the 2003 ACH election:

   - ACH Constitution/Bylaw Changes were carried

   - as members of the Executive Council for 2003-6, the membership has

chosen

          Nancy Kushigan

          Michael Fraser

          Adrian Miles

In all cases the margins were not unnaturally large nor small, with all

candidates receiving significant support from the ACH membership.

With my heartiest congratulations to those who have been elected, and

with

my gratitude to all involved in this very important process,

Ray

_____________

R.G. Siemens

English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5.

Office: 335/120.   Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046.     Fax: (250) 740-6459.

siemensr@mala.bc.ca     <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a>



From: Ron Tetreault <tetro@dal.ca>
Subject: Reminder: COCH/COSH 2003
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:09:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 654 (654)


Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en

sciences humaines (COCH/COSH)

          **Congress 2003: 2nd Call for Papers and proposals for Panels**

The annual conference of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities /

Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines at the Congress of the

Social Sciences and Humanities will be held 27-28 May 2003 at Dalhousie

University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA.

This year's theme: Humanities Computing and Pedagogy

Advances in computing technology and the growing availability of

information technology resources have had an enormous impact on the way we

teach. Papers are invited on such topics as:

          the use of WWW resources in the classroom

          application of IT to teaching writing

          development of interactive learning programs

          use of text-analysis in humanities teaching

          the teaching of humanities computing itself

It is hoped to present a joint session with ACCUTE (Association of Canadian

College and University Teachers of English) devoted to this year's theme.

In addition to papers on this subject, proposals for papers or panels on

any other area of humanities computing research are also welcome.

DEADLINE for submissions: 28 February 2003

Proposals for papers and panels must be submitted to the program chair:

Ronald Tetreault

Dept. of English

Dalhousie University

6135 University Avenue

Halifax, Nova Scotia

B3H 4P9 CANADA

e-mail: tetro@dal.ca


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From: "Burstein, Jill" <jburstein@ets.org>
Subject: Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:12:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 655 (655)

Processing
Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing
HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop
May 31, 2003
Edmonton, Canada
<a href="http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL">http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL</a>
Overview
There is an increased use of NLP-based educational applications for both
large-scale assessment and classroom instruction.  This has occurred for two
primary reasons.  First, there has been a significant increase in the
availability of computers in schools, from elementary school to the
university. Second, there has been notable development in computer-based
educational applications that incorporate advanced methods in NLP that can
be used to evaluate students' work.
Educational applications have been developed across a variety of subject
domains in automated evaluation of free-responses and intelligent tutoring.
To date, these two research areas have remained autonomous. We hope that
this workshop will facilitate communication between researchers who work on
all types of instructional applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and
graduate school. Since most of this work in NLP-based educational
applications is text-based, we are especially interested in any work of this
type that incorporates speech processing and other input/output modalities.
We wish to expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the
hope that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in an
educational application.
Call for Papers
We are especially interested in submissions including, but not limited to:
*       Speech-based tools for educational technology
*       Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with
regard to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for
domain-specific responses
*       Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as
legal or business writing, or creative aspects of writing
*       Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP
methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based
analyses
*       Dialogue systems in education
*       understanding student input
*       generating the tutors' feedback
*       evaluation
*       Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education
*       Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building
*       Content-based scoring
[material deleted]


From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Internet2/New World Symphony Workshop and Symposium
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:14:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 656 (656)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
February 4, 2003
               Internet2/New World Symphony Workshop and Symposium
                             March 28-29: Miami, FL
               March 28: Internet2 Performance Production Workshop
                  March 29: Internet2 Music Education Symposium
                  <a href="http://events.internet2.edu/2003/NWSIndex.html">http://events.internet2.edu/2003/NWSIndex.html</a>
[deleted quotation]Hello all  --  I am pleased to announce that Internet2 and the New World
Symphony are  hosting a two-day event, March 28 and 29, at the New World
Symphony campus on Miami Beach.  The purpose of the event is to introduce
educators and technicians from major music schools to the power of
high-performance networking for distance education and music collaboration.
March 28 is an Internet2 Performance Production Workshop designed primarily
for technical personnel supporting schools of music and performing arts
departments involved in producing live performances and music education
events over Internet2. The focus will be on performance production
technologies designed to help members create successful multi-site,
interactive, digital video/audio productions. There is a charge of $125.00
to attend this event and registration is required.
March 29 is an Internet2 Music Education Symposium geared toward deans,
presidents, administrators and faculty of schools of music. Michael Tilson
Thomas, Artistic Director for the New World Symphony, will talk about the
New World Symphony's experience with distance education over Internet2. To
demonstrate the power and potential of using Internet2 for real time
interaction in music education, live demonstrations will be presented,
including several master classes with remote participants. There is no
charge for this event, but registration is required.
Those attending the March 28 Workshop are welcome to stay for March 29
Symposium. Saturday evening, March 29, all will be treated to a reception
and live New World Symphony concert at the Lincoln Theatre conducted by
Maestro Thomas.
For further information, registration and lodging details:
<a href="http://events.internet2.edu/2003/NWSIndex.html">http://events.internet2.edu/2003/NWSIndex.html</a>
For questions, please contact Ann Doyle at adoyle@internet2.edu or Tom
Snook at tsnook@nws.org.
Ann Doyle
Manager, Arts & Humanities Initiatives
Internet2
(734) 352-7011
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NSF Report on Cyberinfrastructure
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:13:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 657 (657)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 4, 2003

       Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure

                     Report of the National Science Foundation

                     Blue-Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure

           <a href="http://www.cise.nsf.gov/evnt/reports/atkins_annc_020303.htm">http://www.cise.nsf.gov/evnt/reports/atkins_annc_020303.htm</a>

                          NSF Press Release on Report:

                <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0318.htm">http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0318.htm</a>

With indirect (and possible direct) implications for the arts and

humanities, I want to pass along an important NSF Report on the

revolutionary changes needed to build national and international

infrastructure that can support future network-based research and teaching.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
Director, CNI

[material deleted]



From: Sean Lawrence <seanlawrence@writeme.com>
Subject: Latest number of EMLS
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:09:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 658 (658)


Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce its January issue, a

special issue on Middleton. It includes an Introduction by Mathew Martin of

Brock University, and five articles: 'Comedy, Carnival, and Class: A Chaste

Maid in Cheapside' (Rick Bowers, University of Alberta); 'A Yorkshire Tragedy

and Middleton's Tragic Aesthetic' (Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University);

'"Today, Vindici Returns": Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy' (Ben Spiller,

University of Warwick); '"O, how my offences wrestle with my repentance!": The

Protestant Poetics of Redemption in Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in

Cheapside' (Alizon Brunning, University of Central Lancashire); 'Realism,

Desire and Reification: Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' (Pier

Paolo Frassinelli, University of the Witwatersrand); and the usual complement

of reviews and theatre reviews. The issue can be found free online at

<a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-3/08-3toc.htm">http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-3/08-3toc.htm</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: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.49
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:10:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 659 (659)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 3, Number 49,  Week of February 4, 2003 [corrected version]

In this issue:

Views --

Genesis of An Anthill: Wireless Technology And Self-Organizing Systems

The future belongs to small, connected devices that will wirelessly

allow the user -- to self-organize, creating something smart out of

many small and simple nodes and connections

By Espen Andersen

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_8.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_8.html</a>

Clock Driven Scheme to Initialize the Sequence Number

Using TCP to deal with delayed duplicates of both old and new connections

By Chong Kim

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_kim_1.pdf">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_kim_1.pdf</a>



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.465 ACH 2003 election results &c
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 06:51:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 660 (660)


Willard & Ray

this is very good news... this being the election of A. Miles to the Exec

Council of the ACH.. for those of us interested in hypertext and

hypermedia..... could a further message be sent to the Humanist list with

bios of the three folks... not all subscribers to Hum. are members of the

ACH (moi, for one)? Thanks for your consideration... and again it looks

like a nice team judging from partial information

francois


--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
every cul-de-sac is 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: Peter Lunenfeld <peterl@artcenter.edu>
Subject: Writing Machines Web Supplement & WebTake
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 06:49:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 661 (661)


Writing Machines, written by N. Katherine Hayles, and designed by Anne

Burdick, is the latest in the Mediawork Pamphlet series. Writing Machines

has already been hailed for its exploration of 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.

Erik Loyer's delightful interactive, animated, WebTake, "Hollowbound Book"

has already been made available on the Mediawork site. It is now joined by

the Writing Machines Web Supplement, an extension of the book.

The Supplement includes an interactive lexicon linkmap, index, bibliography,

notes, and errata, and offers alternative mappings of the book's conceptual

terrain with functionalities unavailable in print.

Completing the cycle of remediation, the Supplement gives the user the

ability to customize his or her own copy of the book by providing Adobe

Acrobat .pdf files for each section, some of which are formatted in

"printer's spreads" that can be printed out, folded, and inserted into the

body of the book itself.

All this and more, including information on ordering the book and a

comprehensive interview with the author and designer is available at:

<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/mediawork">http://mitpress.mit.edu/mediawork</a>

Peter Lunenfeld

Editorial Director

Mediawork Pamphlet Series



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Update on "Digital Developments in Higher Education"
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 06:50:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 662 (662)


Greetings,

Last week I posted a note mentioning:

"Digital developments in higher education: theory and practice" Roberts,

Peter, and Chambers, Mark; Taylor Graham Publishing, ISBN 0-947568-78-6.

I looked for it on Amazon.com today only to discover that it was not

listed. Thinking I must have gotten the title/author/ISBN incorrect, I

looked for the website of Taylor Graham Publishing. The information I gave

is all correct but it is apparently not available via Amazon.com.

Interested readers should visit:

<<a href="http://www.taylorgraphm.com/">http://www.taylorgraphm.com/</a>><a href="http://www.taylorgraphm.com/">http://www.taylorgraphm.com/</a> and print out

the order form to obtain a copy of this work.

Hope this finds everyone at the start of a great day!

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
<mailto:pdurusau@emory.edu>pdurusau@emory.edu
Co-Editor, ISO Reference Model for Topic Maps



From: ALAF 2003 - Workshop <alaf03@ckl.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: First_Call_Reminder
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 06:50:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 663 (663)


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          ESSLLI'03 (<a href="http://www.logic.at/esslli2003">http://www.logic.at/esslli2003</a>)

                         Workshop on

         "Adaptation of Automatic Learning Methods for

             Analytical and Inflectional Languages"

                          (ALAF'03)

                     August 18-22, 2003

                       Vienna, Austria

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WORKSHOP WEBPAGE             <a href="http://ckl.mff.cuni.cz/~alaf03">http://ckl.mff.cuni.cz/~alaf03</a>

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From: "Ray Siemens" <siemensr@MALA.BC.CA>
Subject: RE: 16.468 ACH election results
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:19:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 665 (665)


Further information about those recently elected to the ACH Executive

Council -- and, indeed, information about all those involved in ACH

governance -- can be found via this URL,

<a href="http://www.ach.org/ACH_Officers/index.html">http://www.ach.org/ACH_Officers/index.html</a>, which is freely available to

all.

Cheers,

Ray

_____________

R.G. Siemens

English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5.

Office: 335/120.   Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046.     Fax: (250) 740-6459.

siemensr@mala.bc.ca     <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a>



From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: CMC Special Issue on the Middle East and Central Asia.
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:13:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 666 (666)


Volume 8, Issue 2

Journal of Computer Mediated Communications

"Technologies of Despair and Hope:

CMC in the Middle East"

<a href="http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol8/issue2/">http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol8/issue2/</a>

A Special Issue Edited by

Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks

In this Issue:

"Technologies of Despair and Hope: Liberatory Potentials

and Practices of CMC in the Middle East"

Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, and

Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia

"Habitus in Transition? CMC Use and Impacts among

Young Women in the United Arab Emirates"

James Piecowye, Zayed University, UAE

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Changing

Public Sphere of Palestinian Israelis "

Michael Dahan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and

The Interdisciplinary Center, Hertzeliva

"The Internet and Youth Subculture in Kuwait"

Deborah L. Wheeler, University of Washington, USA

"Weapons of Magic: Afghan Women Asserting Voice via the Net"

Beverly Bickel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Also in this issue:

"The Internet, Information Architecture and Community Memory "

Patrick Carmichael, University of Reading, UK

"Dicing with Deception: People with Disabilities' Strategies

for Managing Safety and Identity Online"

Natilene Bowker, University of Maryland, Baltimore County , USA, and

Keith Tuffin, Massey University, New Zealand

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is

published at the Annenberg School for Communication

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA

For further information, contact Margaret McLaughlin at

mmclaugh@usc.edu

==

kudos to James Piecowye, Michael Dahan, and Deborah L. Wheeler!

The special issue was inspired by the range of presentations from the Middle

East at CATaC'02.  And we're planning for some more publications drawn from

CATaC'02 as well.

Hope this finds everyone well - cheers!

Charles Ess

Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies

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: <a href="http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/">http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/</a>

Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: books
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:07:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 667 (667)


(1)

The Locales Framework

Understanding and Designing for Wicked Problems

by

Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Sapient Ltd., London, UK

THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK -- 1

Software design is becoming increasingly complex and difficult as we move

to applications that support people interacting with information and with

each other over networks. Computer supported cooperative work applications

are a typical example of this. The problems to be solved are no longer just

technical, they are also social: how do we build systems that meet the real

needs of the people who are asked to use them and that fit into their

contexts of use. We can characterise these as wicked problems, where our

traditional software engineering techniques for understanding requirements

and driving these through into design are no longer adequate.

This book presents the Locales Framework - and its five aspects of locale

foundations, civic structures, individual views, interaction trajectory and

mutuality - as a way of dealing with the intertwined problem-solution space

of wicked problems. A locale is based on a metaphor of place as the lived

relationship between people and the spaces and resources they use in their

interactions. The LocalesFramework provides a coherent mediating framework

for ethnographers, designers, and software engineers to facilitate both

understanding requirements of complex social situations and designing

solutions to support these situations in all their complexity.

CONTENTS

Preface.

Part I: Introduction.

1. The Wicked Problem of Design. 1.1. Systems Design as a Wicked Problem.

1.2. A Research Narrative.

2. The

CSCW Design Challenge. 2.1. Understanding Cooperative Work.

2.2. Designing Systems.

2.3. The Understanding - Designing Dialogue.

2.4. Summary.

Part II: Evolution to the Locales Framework.

3. The wOrlds

System. 3.1. A Brief wOrlds Tour.

3.2. Summary.

4. Systems Engineers

at Work. 4.1. Appearance of Work in Isolation.

4.2. Breakdowns in Work.

4.3. Summary.

5. How Systems Engineers Accomplish Work. 5.1. Making Sense of an

Unknowable Environment.

5.2. Working with Workspace Characteristics.

5.3. Work around Strategies.

5.4. Summary.

6. Moving

  From Space to Place. 6.1. Ethnography to Design.

6.2. wOrlds Away From the Systems Engineers' World.

6.3. From Space to Place in Systems Design.

6.4. Summary.

Part III: The Locales Framework.

7. Introduction

to the Locales Framework. 7.1. Locale as Unit of Analysis.

7.2. Overview of Framework Aspects.

7.3. Centres and Perspectives.

7.4. Summary.

8. Locales Framework Aspects. 8.1. Locale Foundations.

8.2. Civic Structure.

8.3. Individual Views.

8.4. Interaction Trajectory.

8.5. Mutuality.

8.6. Summary.

9. Locales Framework Approach. 9.1. Related Approaches.

9.2. Using the Locales Framework.

9.3. Summary.

Part IV: Working with the Locales Framework.

10. Distributed Research

Work: A Tale of Two Groups. 10.1. Introducing the Internet Exploration Unit

(IEU).

10.2. Introducing the Romany Initiative.

10.3. Key Features of Collaboration.

10.4. Conclusions and Reflections.

11.

Designing for Telehealth. 11.1. Current Intra-ICU Practice.

11.2. Current Remote Consultation Practice.

11.3. Evolving a Telehealth System in Practice.

11.4. Conclusions and Reflections.

12. CSCW

Environment Design: Orbit and Tickertape. 12.1. Evolving Orbit.

12.2. The Coincidental Tickertape Lesson.

12.3. Summary.

13. Conclusions,

Reflections and Future Work. 13.1. Review of the Locales Framework.

13.2. Reflections on Using the Framework.

13.3. Moving Forward - Future Work.

13.4. Postscript: Reflections from a Distance.

13.5. Conclusion. References. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1190-3 Date: March 2003 Pages: 254 pp.

EURO 90.00 / USD 88.00 / GBP 57.00

(2)

Cooperative Internet Computing

edited by

Alvin Chan Toong Shoon

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Stephen C.F. Chan

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Va Leong

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Vincent T.Y. Ng

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 729

Cooperative computing is an important computing paradigm to enable

different parties to work together towards a pre-defined non-trivial goal.

It encompasses important technological areas like computer supported

cooperative work, workflow, computer assisted design and concurrent

programming. As technologies continue to advance and evolve, there is an

increasing need to research and develop new classes of middlewares and

applications to leverage on the combined benefits of Internet and web to

provide users and programmers with highly interactive and robust

cooperative computing environment.

This book is a compilation of the papers that were presented at the

International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2002). The

contributed papers address a broad spectrum on cooperative internet

computing, ranging from the more fundamental modeling and specification

issues of cooperative systems, to the more application-oriented issues on

the popular XML-related system design and implementation. To help structure

the book, we have organized these papers into four broad areas of interests:

     * Distributed Objects and Videos,

     * Web and E-commerce,

     * XML and Query Processing,

     * Modeling and Specification.

Cooperative Internet Computing is designed to meet the needs of a

professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in

industry. This book is also suitable as a reference text for graduate level

students in Computer Science.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7419-0 Date: March 2003 Pages: 266 pp.

EURO 148.00 / USD 145.00 / GBP 93.00

(3)

Agent Supported Cooperative Work

edited by

Yiming Ye

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

Elizabeth Churchill

FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc., CA, USA

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES, AND SIMULATED ORGANIZATIONS -- 8

Improvements in computer networking have heralded great expectations for

computer-mediated distributed work. However, experience has revealed that,

as information flow improves, a central problem for distributed workers is

the administration, management and control of that information. Research

into Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) investigates design methods

and technologies for the support of collaboration, communication and

coordination of distributed group work, both within and among organizations.

In tandem with this focus on the support of distributed communication and

collaboration, there have been exciting developments in the fields of

Intelligent Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), notably

in the concepts, theories and deployment of intelligent agents as a means

of distributing computer-based problem solving expertise. The paradigm of

multi-agent systems forms a proposed basis for the design of CSCW

architectures, the support of CSCW operations and for addressing some of

the problems of cooperative working.

The application of a multi-agent approach to CSCW makes information

exchange among the participants easier by delivering support to the

participants, assisting workflows and procedures, and providing convenient

user interfaces to CSCW systems. Furthermore, the ideas inherent in such an

approach are also applicable to other domains, such as support for

interactive learning. Organizations that seek to exploit the advantages

offered through CSCW will benefit from the integration of agents in the

management and use of their corporate knowledge, especially with the

advancement of wired or wireless networking, pervasive computing, and other

information technologies.

Agent Supported Cooperative Work describes the state of the art in this

exciting new area, covering both theoretical foundations and practical

applications of ASCW. It is the first book explicitly dedicated to ASCW,

bringing together contributions from international experts in the field.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Agent Supported Cooperative Work:

an Introduction; Yiming Ye, E. Churchill. Agent-Augmented Meetings; C.

Ellis, J. Wainer, P. Barthelmess. Using Agents to Promote Effective

Co-ordination in a Community Care Environment; M.D. Beer, R.Hill, D. Wei

Huang, A. Sixsmith. Reactive Agents for a Systemic Approach to the

Construction of Coordination Mechanisms; M. Divitini,M. Sarini, C. Simone.

Actor Computing & Awareness for Collaborative Workgroups: a General Model

and its Web Application; w. Balzano, A.Dattolo, V. Loia. Active Calendars

and the Need for the E-social Contract; J.H. Kaufman, J. Ruvolo, D.A. Ford.

A Mobile Agent Framework for Digital Nomads; A.P. Meyer. Managing

Distributed Parallel Workflow Systems Using a Multi-agent Method; S.

Aknine, S. Pinson. Mobile Agent Supported Cooperative Work; Seng Wai Loke,

A. Zaslavsky. Agent Supported Web-based Cooperative Design; Weiming Shen,

H. Ghenniwa,Lihui Wang. A Complex Systems Perspective on How Agents Can

Support Collaborative Design; M. Klein, H. Sayama, P. Faratin, Y. Bar-Yam.

Privacy and Authentication for Agent Supported Cooperative Work; XunYi,

Yiming Ye, Chee Kheong Siew, M. Rahman Syed. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7404-2 Date: February 2003 Pages: 320 pp.

EURO 138.00 / USD 135.00 / GBP 87.00

(4)

Newton on Mathematics and Spiritual Purity

by

Ayval Leshem

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES D'HISTOIRE DES ID0ES/ INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE

HISTORY OF IDEAS -- 183

This book deals with Newton's understanding of the original divine design

hidden in the mathematical laws of nature and delivered to humanity by

messengers, such as Noah, Moses and Christ. It is written to an audience of

laymen and professionals alike. It is the first scholarly work to point out

that for Newton the three laws of motion the Principia and the two central

Biblical Commandments (worshipping and loving God alone and loving thy

neighbour) touch upon the practical applications of God's original design.

The book interprets Newtonematical method of fluxions (the calculus) as a

divine method through which human beings can purify and guard themselves

against material bondage (idolatry), whilst becoming more in tune with the

simplicity of the spiritual commandments of the true ancient religion. A

comparison with Leibnizulus and theological beliefs is given in order to

emphasize the uniqueness of Newton's science and spirituality.

CONTENTS

Preface.

1. The Search for Truth.

2. The Mathematical Principles of God's Design.

3. Newton's Methods of Fluxions.

4. Leibniz's Calculus.

5. Newton's and Leibniz's Notions of Space and Time.

6. God's Absolute Perspective According to Newton.

7. God's Infinite Perspective According to Leibniz.

8. The Sacrificial Fire and Alchemy.

9. The Tabernacle and the Two Jewish Temples.

10. Finale: Why does God Hide the Heavenly Music. Bibliography. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1151-2 Date: March 2003 Pages: 240 pp.

EURO 90.00 / USD 86.00 / GBP 58.00

(5)

Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:

Computer Architecture: A Minimalist Perspective

by

William F. Gilreath

Phillip A. Laplante

Penn State University, West Chester, USA

THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 730

The one instruction set computer (OISC) is the ultimate reduced instruction

set computer (RISC). In OISC, the instruction set consists of only one

instruction, and then by composition, all other necessary instructions are

synthesized. This is an approach completely opposite to that of a complex

instruction set computer (CISC), which incorporates complex instructions as

microprograms within the processor.

Computer Architecture: A Minimalist Perspective examines computer

architecture, computability theory, and the history of computers from the

perspective of one instruction set computing - a novel approach in which

the computer supports only one, simple instruction. This bold, new paradigm

offers significant promise in biological, chemical, optical, and molecular

scale computers.

Features include:

     * Provides a comprehensive study of computer architecture using

computability theory as a base.

     * Provides a fresh perspective on computer architecture not found in

any other text.

     * Covers history, theory, and practice of computer architecture from a

minimalist perspective. Includes a complete implementation of a one

instruction computer.

     * Includes exercises and programming assignments.

Computer Architecture: A Minimalist Perspective is designed to meet the

needs of a professional audience composed of researchers, computer hardware

engineers, software engineers computational theorists, and systems

engineers. The book is also intended for use in upper division

undergraduate students and early graduate students studying computer

architecture or embedded systems. It is an excellent text for use as a

supplement or alternative in traditional Computer Architecture Courses, or

in courses entitled "Special Topics in Computer Architecture".

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7416-6 Date: February 2003 Pages: 236 pp.

EURO 118.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 74.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: Correct URL on "Digital Developments in Higher Education"
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:16:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 668 (668)


The correct pointer on "Digital developments in higher education: theory

and practice" can be located on the Web at

<<a href="http://www.taylorgraham.com/books/rob2digdev.html">http://www.taylorgraham.com/books/rob2digdev.html</a>>

Thank you very much,

Arun tripathi



From: 
Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 669 (669)

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From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: Humanities Computing and other positions at Malaspina U-C
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:18:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 670 (670)


       Humanities Computing Instructor (Competition No. 03-4006)

        Summer Session

         NANAIMO

         Subject to Funding and Enrollment

         Temporary Part-time Six Hours Per Week, plus office hours

        Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon

         June 16 up to August 1, 2003

         AFFILIATION: MFA

         DUTIES: To teach one summer section of Humanities 210: Computing

in the

        Humanities, plus maintain regular office hours.

         QUALIFICATIONS:

         Required: Master's degree in a Humanities discipline from an

        appropriately accredited institution. Humanities Computing expertise.

         Preferred: Ph.D. in a Humanities discipline from an appropriately

        accredited institution.

         POSTING PERIOD: 8:00 am Monday, February 10, 2003 - 1:00 pm Friday,

        February 28, 2003

         Please Note: The posting period closes on Friday, February 28, 2003 at

        1:00 PM. Submit your curriculum vitae

        to the Human Resources Office, Nanaimo, prior to this date and time,

        either in person, by E-Mail to

         (APPLY@MALA.BC.CA) or by FAX (250 740-6469). All applications received

        after 1:00 PM on the closing

        date will be deemed late and, as such, would not be entitled to any

        existing contractual hiring provisions.

         Malaspina University-College regrets that only candidates selected for

        interview will be contacted.

         All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however,

Canadians and

        permanent residents will be given priority.

_____________

R.G. Siemens

English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5.

Office: 335/120.   Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046.     Fax: (250) 740-6459.

siemensr@mala.bc.ca     <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a>



From: diabruck@coli.uni-sb.de
Subject: DiaBruck 2003, 1st CFP (Submission deadline: May 1 2003)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:14:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 671 (671)


                          First Call for Papers

                              DiaBruck 2003

SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

                           Saarland University

                            Sept 4th-6th 2003

                    <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/</a>

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DiaBruck 2003 will be the seventh 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.

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From: info@FOLLI.ORG
Subject: CfP: ESSLLI'03 Student Session
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:16:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 672 (672)


                       ESSLLI-2003 STUDENT SESSION

                          * LAST CALL FOR PAPERS *

                     August 18-29 2003, Vienna, Austria

                        Deadline: February 24, 2003

                 <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03">http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03</a>

We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 15th European

Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2003),

which will be held in Vienna from August 18-29 2003. We invite

submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2003 Student

Session and for appearance in the proceedings.

[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities: Making
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:20:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 673 (673)


Digital Narratives - Feb 19, 2003

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 6, 2003

        The Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities Present:

            "Making Digital Narratives: Archive and Story in New Media"

        Judy Gradwohl, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and

                Bill Tally, Center for Children and Technology, NYC

                       Wednesday, February 19, 4:30-6:30pm

                     Georgetown University: Lauinger Library
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You are invited to "The Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the

Humanities."

Wednesday, Feburary 19, 4:30-6:30, dinner to follow.

Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at  George Mason

University and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS)

at Georgetown, these periodic forums will explore important issues in

humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars

interested in the uses of new technology in the humanities to meet and get

acquainted.

Our forum, the second in the series, will consider:

"Making Digital Narratives: Archive and Story in New Media"

How do we connect narratives to archives in digital spaces?  How do the

presentations of digital collections change narrative possibilities or even

challenge the idea of narrative and authority?   How do the tensions

between stories and archives change the roles of curators, teachers, and

other humanities practitioners?

The two panelists will be:

Judy Gradwohl (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)

and

Bill Tally (Center for Children and Technology, NYC)

Vigorous and engaging discussion by the audience will follow.

The Forum will be held at Georgetown University. We will meet in Lauinger

Library (The Murray Room, 5th Floor). (You must have a valid ID/Drivers

license, etc to enter).  Off the main quad near Healy Circle: 37th and 0

sts, NW.

An informal dinner will follow. The talk and ideas are free, but the cost

for the dinner will be $10. Please RSVP for dinner by 15 February. (but

please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make plans) to

Clarissa Hinds hindsc@georgetown.edu.

You can find directions to Georgetown

at  <a href="http://otm.georgetown.edu/directions.cfm">http://otm.georgetown.edu/directions.cfm</a>.

For information on parking see: <a href="http://otm.georgetown.edu/">http://otm.georgetown.edu/</a>. The nearest

metro station is Rosslyn, across Key Bridge. Parking can also be found on

the street.

   For more information contact:

Randy Bass  (bassr@georgetown.edu)

Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

<a href="http://cndls.georgetown.edu">http://cndls.georgetown.edu</a>

Roy Rosenzweig

Center for History & New Media

<a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/">http://chnm.gmu.edu/</a>

Please feel free to share this invitation with others who might be interested.


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From: Beryl Graham <beryl@stare.com>
Subject: Curating New Media Art web resource
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:31:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 674 (674)


CRUMB is a website for those who curate, exhibit, organise, or archive new

media art.  <<a href="http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/">http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/</a>>

Established in 2000, the site now includes NEW material from a CRUMB

research project at SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), and an

interview with curator Benjamin Weil. The site also  includes:

CRUMB INTERVIEWS with curators from MoMA (New York), Whitney (New York),

Tate (London), ZKM (Germany), C-Plex (West Bromwich).

LINKS to resources.

DISCUSSION LIST.

CONFERENCE DOCUMENTATION.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

This site is run by new media art curators. Visit often ... leave

crumbs of knowledge.

Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook


--
_________________________________________________________
Beryl Graham.
Post Doctoral Research Fellow in New Media, University of Sunderland
Tel: +44 191 515 2896     email:  beryl@stare.com
Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss
<a href="http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/">http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/</a>



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: jobs at Virginia
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:31:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 675 (675)


Positions in Digital Humanities

The University of Virginia Media Studies program seeks applicants for two

tenure-track positions, one at the Assistant Professor level, and one at

Associate or above. Applicants should have demonstrated record of research

and teaching interests necessary to contribute to core curriculum in a new

MA in Digital Humanities (technical knowledge of digital humanities,

knowledge representation, software or mark-up, data base creation, concept

modeling etc.). Applicants will have a discipline-base in a humanities

department and should have scholarly and teaching commitments in one of the

following areas: English, History, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Art

History, or other humanities discipline. The senior hire will have

administrative responsibility for Directing the MA and the undergraduate

program in Media Studies. Appointments will be in Media Studies and a home

department. Ability to teach in the undergraduate Media Studies program is

desirable. PhD required by the start date, August 25th, 2003. Deadline for

receipt of applications: April 4. Please include three references, cv,

cover letter indicating research and teaching interests. For more

information contact: Johanna Drucker, Director of Media Studies,

mediastudies@virginia.edu. The University of Virginia is an equal

opportunity/affirmative action employer. Application materials should be

addressed to: Professor Drucker, Media Studies Program, PO Box 400866, 142

Cabell Hall, Cabell Drive, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

22904-4866.



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: Labor Archives Fellowship
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:33:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 676 (676)


2003-2004 GEORGE MEANY MEMORIAL ARCHIVES FELLOWSHIPS

The George Meany Memorial Archives offers two fellowships: MUSEUM and

JOURNAL EDITING.

   ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be full-time graduate students pursuing a

degree in museum studies, history, editing or journalism.  Desirable

qualifications: museum fellowship experience in exhibit production and

installation, and collections management; journal editing fellowship

experience in copyediting, photographic research, copyright law, and

knowledge of electronic publishing and photographic software. U.S.

citizenship is required.  We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Women and

people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.

STIPEND: $12,500 for the academic year, September to May and, where

applicable, tuition remission (awarded by the fellows college/university).

WORK EXPERIENCE: Fellows work 19.5 hours each week for two semesters (28

weeks).  Supervised by archivists, fellows gain firsthand experience in:

MUSEUM (collections management, exhibit installation); JOURNAL EDITING

(copyediting, photographic research)

APPLICATION PERIOD: February 15, 2003 - April 30, 2003

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Send a cover letter (specifying the category to

which you are applying), current resume, one letter of recommendation,

official undergraduate and graduate transcripts and one writing sample to:

Fellowship Program, The George Meany Memorial Archives, 10000 New Hampshire

Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20903.

NOTE: Do not fax or e-mail applications.  Deadline for receipt of completed

applications and supporting documents is April 30.  Fellowships are

announced by May 15.  Selection is based on the archivists' review of the

applicant's academic record, work experience and career

interests.  Fellowships are not renewable and may not be

deferred.  Inquiries?  Call 301.431.5451.

INSTITUTIONAL SETTING: The George Meany Memorial Archives

(www.georgemeany.org/archives) is located on the forty-seven acre campus of

the George Meany Center for Labor Studies-National Labor College

(www.georgemeany.org), an educational institution in Silver Spring,

Maryland.  The Meany Archives, established in 1981, preserves the

historical records of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of

Industrial Organizations (www.aflcio.org).

LOCATION: The George Meany Center for Labor Studies-National Labor College

is situated one block north of U.S. 495 exit 28A, just west of the

intersection of New Hampshire Avenue and Powder Mill Road.  Free

parking.  On-site cafeteria.  By public transportation, take the Metrorail

red line to the Fort Totten station; transfer to the Metro K6 bus to Powder

Mill Road.



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Vacancies within the Oxford Text Archive
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:33:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 677 (677)


The following vacancies have arisen within the Research Technologies

Service at Oxford University Computing Services. Details are also

available online at <a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/</a>

Title: Head of Oxford Text Archive

Grade: RS2

Salary: GBP 25,451 - 36,712

The Research Technologies Service (RTS), based at Oxford University

Computing Services, brings together a number of local, national, and

international initiatives focussing on the support of research and

utilising leading-edge technologies. Its activities and strategy are

described at www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/.

The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) is a key component of the RTS. With

substantial funding from the JISC and the AHRB, it hosts the AHDS Subject

Centre for Literature Languages and Linguistics, which is part of the

national Arts and Humanities Data Service (see ahds.ac.uk).

This is a senior post involving strategic development as well as day to

day management. You will be expected to develop strategic aims and

objectives, supervise staff, allocate resources, and to work closely with

other components of the RTS, OUCS, and the University. You will be

responsible for representing the OTA at every level, liaising with

partners and stakeholders, and ensuring timely and cost effective delivery

of its services.

We expect you to have a postgraduate qualification (or equivalent) in an

appropriate discipline, with at least five years' relevant work

experience. You will have a strategic knowledge of current developments

and open standards in the creation, cataloguing, description, and

archiving of digital resources. You will have experience of the creation

and use of such resources within HE research and teaching, and you will be

able to demonstrate the ability to work well with research and teaching

staff at the local and national levels.

By playing a major role in the development of a key service within the

RTS, you will contribute to the establishment of a unique research-support

environment at a world class University.

--------

Title: OTA Collections Development Officer

Grade: RS1A

Salary: GBP 18,265 - 27,339

The Research Technologies Service (RTS), based at Oxford University

Computing Services, brings together a number of local, national, and

international initiatives focussing on the support of research and

utilising leading-edge technologies. Its activities and strategy are

described at www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/.

The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) is a key component of the RTS. With

substantial funding from the JISC and the AHRB, it hosts the AHDS Subject

Centre for Literature Languages and Linguistics, which is part of the

national Arts and Humanities Data Service (see <a href="http://ahds.ac.uk">http://ahds.ac.uk</a>).

You will be responsible for identifying, accessioning, cataloguing, and

documenting new deposits of digital resources. You will take a lead in

developing and validating descriptive metadata for digital resources held

at the OTA, and you will also assist with the preparation of OTA holdings

for preservation and delivery to end users.

We expect you to have an appropriate degree or relevant experience. You

should also have experience of working with traditional and electronic

bibliographic sources and information, as well as experience or interest

in working with digital resources. You should preferably have a

postgraduate qualification in library or information sciences, and ideally

should be familiar with relevant technologies and standards for resource

description and interoperability, such as Dublin Core, Open Archives,

OAIS, TEI headers.

For both positions candidates should have a genuine enthusiasm for the

creation and use of digital resources, and a willingness to work in a

multi-disciplinary team.  Good time management and communication skills

are essential.

For further details and application forms are available from Mrs Nicky

Tomlin, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 01865 273230, fax:

01865 273275, email: Nicky.Tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Details are also

available at <a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/</a>

Completed applications must be received by 4 pm on 21st February 2003

Interviews will be held during week commencing 3rd March 2003


---
Dr Michael Fraser
Joint Co-ordinator
Research Technologies Service, OUCS
University of Oxford
Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1865 283343



From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: Copyright in the Digital Age Seminar
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:34:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 678 (678)


             ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION

           The Center for Intellectual Property

     at the University of Maryland University College

            is hosting its 2003 seminar titled

                     *       *       *

   COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES FACING THE ACADEMY

      April 3rd - 4th 2003, Greenbelt Marriott, Maryland

             <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/seminar/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/seminar/</a>

Higher education institutions are facing an increasing number of issues

in an attempt to comply with copyright law and also maintain an

atmosphere that promotes learning and academic freedom. Seminar

participants will explore in depth some of the most pressing issues

facing intellectual property policy and higher education today.

Participants will explore in depth the following critical issues:

--Review the TEACH Act that promises possible expanded uses of

copyrighted works in digital distance education and poses the possible

peril of expanded institutional risks and responsibilities

--Analyze the relationship between P2P file sharing, comprehensive

copyright use policies and risks for university liability

--Assess the challenges to academic freedom and research posed by

section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

--Analyze the development of a scholarly commons as a viable alternative

to traditional publishing and various academic approaches to expanding

the public domain on the university campus

--Review recent intellectual property legislation that impacts higher

education

The Center encourages administrators, faculty, librarians and attorneys

with an interest in these issues to participate. Please register early

since space is very limited. Early registration ends March 20, 2003.

The Keynote speaker is Kenneth Crews, Associate Dean & Director,

Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University

Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Intellectual Property Scholar, Center for

Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College.

Additional confirmed presenters and panelist(s) include:

~  Allan Robert Adler, Vice President, Legal and Governmental Affairs,

Association of American Publishers

~  David Bollier, Senior Fellow, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg

Center for Communication

~  Joseph Branin, Professor and Director of Libraries, Ohio State

University

~  Julie E. Cohen, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

~  Edward W. Felten, Associate Professor, Princeton University

~  Charles B. Lowry, Dean of Libraries and Professor, University of

Maryland College Park

~  Arnold Lutzker, Partner, Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP

~  James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University

Librarian, Columbia University

~  Raymond Nimmer, Professor and Co-Director, Intellectual Property and

Information Law Institute, University of Houston Law Center

~  Miriam M. Nisbet, Legislative Counsel, American Library Association

~  Robert M. O'Neil, Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the

Protection of Free Expression, University of Virginia

~  Rodney J. Petersen, Director, Policy and Planning, Office of

Information Technology University of Maryland College Park

~  Kenneth Salomon, Attorney, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson LLP

~  Lee S. Strickland, Visiting Professor, College of Information

Studies, University of Maryland College Park

~  Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor, New York University

~  Sarah (Sally) Wiant, Professor, Washington & Lee University School of

Law

This 1.5 day seminar will explore the most pressing issues facing higher

education and the use of copyrighted works. Please register early since

space is limited. Early registration ends March 21, 2002.

         For additional information visit our Web site at

    <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/seminar/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/seminar/</a>  OR call 301-985-7777.

     [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.]



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: source for Kelvin's "if ye canna, ye dinna!"
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:32:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 679 (679)


William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, is often quoted as having said, "Can ye make

a model of it? For if ye can, ye understand it, and if ye canna, ye dinna!"

Unfortunately I have not so far been able to locate a reliable source for

these words. In the published Baltimore lectures on wave theory and

molecular dynamics (1884), edited by R Kargon and P Achinstein, he does

say, though less memorably, "I am never content until I have constructed a

mechanical model of the subject I am studying. If I succeed in making one,

I understand. Otherwise, I do not." I would be very grateful indeed to be

able to quote the former in good scholarly conscience, with a reference.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "La Sociedad Digital / A Sociedade Digital"
Subject: Comunicacion cientifica a la comunidad de Internet y de
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:35:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 680 (680)


la Sociedad de la Informacion

Versión español al frente, versión portuguesa a continuación,

versión inglesa al final.

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

Comunicación científica a la comunidad de Internet y a la comunidad

de la Sociedad de la Información.

La Sociedad Digital ­ www.sociedaddigital.org /

www.asociedadedigital.org

La presente comunicación tiene como objetivo informar a la comunidad

de Internet y a la comunidad de la Sociedad de la Información las

novedades de los últimos meses del Proyecto La Sociedad Digital.

La Sociedad Digital es un proyecto abierto a la comunidad de

Internet y de la Sociedad de la Información en el ámbito

iberoamericano principalmente, pero no restringido exclusivamente a

él. Se trata de la creación del primer espacio de convergencia para

los especialistas de habla castellana y portuguesa, bajo la forma de

un Portal de la Sociedad de la Información (www.sociedaddigital.org

/ www.asociedadedigital.org).

La estructuración de este espacio comprende, en primer lugar, una

subdivisión por áreas temáticas consideradas trascendentes para el

desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información, tales como lengua,

brecha digital, gobierno digital, estudios especiales, legislación,

situación por países, etc. Una segunda subdivisión apunta a

elementos de interactividad como noticias, proyectos, observatorios

de información, etc. que apuntan a generar un espacio de intercambio

y sinergia entre los especialistas de la región, en la búsqueda de

modelos de aplicación y resultados de investigaciones, para que

todos sus participantes puedan beneficiarse, construyendo, entre

todos, el espacio de la Sociedad de la Información en su tránsito

hacia la Sociedad del Conocimiento.

Invitamos, en consecuencia, a todos, a visitar el Portal,

integrarse, enviar sus aportes intelectuales y usar todos los

recursos en él disponibles, los que son, por supuesto, de uso libre

y gratuito. (www.sociedaddigital.org / www.asociedadedigital.org).

Pueden comunicarse a info@sociedaddigital.org.

Todos los comentarios, aportes y observaciones serán bienvenidos.

Muy cordialmente,

El Presidente del Consejo de Directores de La Sociedad Digital,

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Petrissans de Aguilar

ricardo@sociedaddigital.org

La presente comunicación se realiza por única vez. Se trata de una

comunicación científica destinada a los miembros de la Comunidad

Científica Iberoamericana. En caso que este mensaje sea considerado

por su receptor como carente de interés, rogamos se sirva deletear

el mismo. Muchas gracias.

__________________________________________________

Comunicação Científica à comunidade da Internet e à Comunidade da

Sociedade da Informação.

La Sociedad Digital comunica aos usuários da Internet e à comunidade

da Sociedade da Informação

La Sociedad Digital - www.sociedaddigital.org /

www.asociedadedigital.org

A presente comunicação tem como objetivo informar à comunidade da

Internet e à Comunidade da Sociedade da Informação as novidades dos

últimos meses do Projeto da Sociedade Digital.

La Sociedad Digital é um projeto aberto à comunidade da Internet e à

Sociedade da Informação no âmbito ibero-americano, principalmente,

porém não restrito exclusivamente a ele. Trata-se da criação do

primeiro espaço de convergência para os especialistas de idioma

castelhano e português, sob a forma de um Portal da Sociedade da

Informação (www.sociedaddigital.org / www.asociedadedigital.org).

A estruturação deste espaço compreende, em primeiro lugar, uma

subdivisão por áreas temáticas, consideradas transcendentes para o

desenvolvimento da Sociedade da Informação, tais como idioma, brecha

digital, governo digital, estudos especiais, legislação, situação

por país, etc. Uma segunda subdivisão aponta para elementos de

interatividade como notícias, projetos, observatórios de informação,

etc., no sentido de gerar um espaço de intercâmbio e sinergia entre

os especialistas da região, na busca de modelos de aplicação e

resultados de investigações, para que todos seus participantes

possam se beneficiar, construindo entre todos o espaço da Sociedade

da Informação em seu trânsito até a Sociedade do Conhecimento.

Convidamos, então, a todos para uma visita ao Portal, para se

integrarem, enviar suas contribuições intelectuais e usar todos os

recursos nele disponíveis, que são de uso livre e gratuito.

(www.sociedaddigital.org / www.asociedadedigital.org).

Para se comunicarem, utilizem info@sociedaddigital.org

Todos os comentários, contribuições e observações serão bem-vindos.

Cordialmente

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Petrissans de Aguilar

Presidente do Conselho de Diretores de La Sociedad Digital

ricardo@sociedaddigital.org

A presente comunicação se realiza uma única vez. Trata-se de

comunicação científica destinada aos membros da Comunidade

Científica  Ibero-americana. Caso esta mensagem seja considerada

pelo receptor como carente de interesse, pedimos que seja deletada.

Muito obrigado.

  ________________________________________________________________

Scientific message to the Internet Community and to the Information

Society Community.

The Digital Society ­ www.sociedaddigital.org /

www.asociedadedigital.org

This message has the objective of informing the Internet Community

and the Information Society Community the latest news about The

Digital Society Project.

The Digital Society is a project open mainly to the Internet

Community and the Information Society Community in Latin American,

however without restrictions to any other countries or regions in

the world. It is about the creation of the first forum to portuguese

and spanish speaking specialists, under the structure of an internet

gate (www.sociedaddigital.org / www.asociedadedigital.org).

The structure of this space is divided, in its first level, into

areas considered of extreme importance to the development of the

Information Society, such as language, (brechas digitais),

e-Government, special studies, legislation and country information.

On a second level, there are interactive elements such as news,

special projects and information centres designed to promote

interchanges and synergy between regional specialists, always

searching for new models, applications and research results,

benefiting all users and paving the road between the Information

Society and the Knowledge Society.

Therefore, we invite everyone to visit the Internet site, integrate

yourself in the community, contribute with your knowledge and use

all free available resources.

Our address : (www.sociedaddigital.org / www.asociedadedigital.org).

Please send any queries and comments to info@sociedaddigital.org.

All comments, queries and contributions are welcome.

Cordially,

President of the Digital Society Board of Directors

Ricardo Petrissans de Aguilar, MSc, PhD.

ricardo@sociedaddigital.org

This message will only be sent once, since it is intended to be

directed to the members of the Latin America Scientific Community.

If it is not of your interest, please delete it. Thank you for your

time and attention.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:26:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 681 (681)


Lecture Notes in Computer Science

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

LNCS 1929:

Robert Laurini (Ed.):

Advances in Visual Information Systems

4th International Conference, VISUAL 2000

Lyon, France, November 2-4, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1929.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1929.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1929.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1929.htm</a>

LNCS 1920:

Alberto H.F. Laender, Stephen W. Liddle, and Veda C. Storey (Eds.):

Conceptual Modeling - ER 2000

19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 9-12, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1920.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1920.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1920.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1920.htm</a>

LNCS 1803:

Stefano Cagnoni et al. (Eds.):

Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computing

EvoWorkshops 2000: EvoIASP, EvoSCONDI, EvoTEL, EvoSTIM, EvoRob, and EvoFlight,

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 17, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1803.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1803.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1803.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1803.htm</a>

LNAI 1695:

Pedro Barahona and Jos J. Alferes (Eds.):

Progress in Artificial Intelligence

9th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA'99

vora, Portugal, September 21-24, 1999. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1695.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1695.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1695.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1695.htm</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: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: DRH2003 Call for papers (fwd)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:15:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 682 (682)


[Please address any queries to drh2003@glos.ac.uk]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

                    CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DRH2003

                    ****Deadline: March 31st****

           DRH 2003: Digital Resources for the Humanities

                  University of Gloucestershire

                   31 August - 3 September 2003

             <a href="http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003/">http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003/</a>

The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and

international calendar as the major forum bringing together scholars,

librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing

professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information

about the creation, exploitation, management and preservation of digital

resources in the arts and humanities.

The DRH 2003 conference will take place at the University of

Gloucestershire's Cheltenham campus between 31 August and 3 September

2003.

Proposals for academic papers, themed panel sessions, posters and

workshops are invited. Themes include:

      * impact of access to digital resources on teaching and learning;

      * digital libraries, archives and museums

      * time-based media and multimedia studies in performing arts

      * impact of network and televisual technologies on humanities research

      and education.

The deadline for submission is 31 March 2003.

Please visit the website at <a href="http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003/">http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003/</a> for

full details of the conference and how to submit proposals. Email

enquiries are also welcome at drh2003@glos.ac.uk



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: pedagogical theory/best practice
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:17:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 683 (683)


"Beyond Theory: Educational best practice and the use of ICT

for teaching and learning"

11th April, 2003

Oxford Union Debating Chamber

Oxford, UK

Organised by Oxford University's Learning Technologies Group

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

Sponsored by the JISC Committee for Learning and Teaching

(<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk">http://www.jisc.ac.uk</a>)

Target audience: Schools, FE, HE, and lifelong learning

This event will discuss, at a high level, the development of C&IT material

for use in teaching. In particular has pedagogical theory/best practice

fed into this in the past, and if not, should we be trying to remedy the

situation for the future? Are commercial VLEs the answer to our prayers or

are we being pushed into a corner against our better judgement as teachers

and designers?

These questions and many more will be discussed, debated, and maybe even

answered in the one-day colloquium "Beyond Theory: Educational best

practice and the use of ICT for teaching and learning". For the last eight

years Oxford University has organised a series of successful events which

have discussed the place of technology in the spheres of learning,

culture, and society and 'Beyond Theory' continues this.

Speakers this year *include*:

Professor Oleg Liber (Bolton)

Vijay Kumar (MIT)

Dr. Gilly Salmon (Open University Business School)

Dr. Andrew Ravenscroft (UNL)

Professor Angela McFarlane (Bristol)

Professor David Unwin (UK eUniversities Worldwide)

Bill Olivier (CETIS)

Tom Franklin (TechLearn Centre)

Dr Andy Syson (Coventry)

Prof. Andrew Booth (Leeds)

The event will also include a lengthy debate on the motion:

"This house believes that commercial Virtual Learning Environments (LMS)

provide sufficient facilities for the teaching and learning needs of

Higher and Further Education"

More details can be found at:

Beyond Theory: <a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2003/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2003/</a>



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: TCC 2003 ONLINE CONFERENCE April 22-24, 2003: Call For
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:18:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 684 (684)


Participation (fwd)

[Apologies to those receiving multiple copies of this message. -byk]

TCC 2003

EIGHT ANNUAL TEACHING IN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES ONLINE CONFERENCE

April 22-24, 2003 (1000 GMT)

Pre-conference Dates: April 15-17, 2003

"THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE IN ONLINE AND HYBRID COURSES"

<a href="http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/">http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/</a>

THEME. This completely online event provides an opportunity for educators

to understand the student's perspective in online or hybrid classes.

College faculty, staff, students and administrators will describe their

experiences, views, imaginations and visions of the student experience in

Internet-mediated learning. Topic areas include instruction, learning

support, administration, counseling, student services, disability access,

and educational technology. This year's conference features presentations

by graduate and undergraduate students in collaboration with faculty and

other support professionals.

ACTIVITIES

* Papers and poster sessions

* Meet the presenter chat sessions

* Live web casts of keynote sessions

* Online board discussions

* Virtual tours and virtual cafe

* Vendor exhibits online

* Pre-conference readiness testing

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Open Archive Workshop (Berlin); Music Information
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:21:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 685 (685)


Retrieval (Baltimore)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 11, 2003

      Third Open Archives Forum Workshop: "Networking Multimedia Resources"

                            March 27-29, 2003: Berlin

                           ============================

     ISMIR 2003 - 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval

            October 26-30, 2003: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

                     and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

                           ============================

                        Third Open Archives Forum Workshop

                            March 27-29, 2003: Berlin

                        "Networking Multimedia Resources"

                             Call for Participation

                        <a href="http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/">http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/</a>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

NETWORKING MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES

3RD OPEN ARCHIVES FORUM WORKSHOP

The organizing committee is very pleased to announce the 3rd Open

Archives Forum Workshop, which will be held in Berlin on 27-29th March,

2003. Registration is opened on the Open Archives Forum website

(<a href="http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/">http://www.oaforum.org/workshops/</a>).

The aim of the Berlin workshop is to explore which specific requirements

and demands ought to be carefully weighed and considered before a digital

media archive is made available via the Internet. Within this workshop we

will discuss different approaches to network media repositories, libraries,

archives and other information resources using the Open Archives Initiative

technical framework for metadata harvesting.

The workshop will consist of both presentations given by invited speakers

and small group breakout sessions where the participants can discuss key

issues, such as:

*   Metadata for multimedia-objects

*   Demands for an Application profile for media archives

*   University services in this field

*   User needs/Usage conditions versus technical, legal, access issues

*   Cross searching distributed Internet information resources

*   Collaboration among different cultural heritage institutions

/Multi-Institutional ventures

A tutorial on the implementation of OAI-PMH will be held the day before

the workshop (on March 27th) for those who are not familiar with this

protocol. One of the workshop speakers will be Herbert van de Sompel

(Cornell University) representing the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) with

an update of OAI activities.

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============================================================================

      ISMIR 2003 - 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval

            October 26-30, 2003: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

                     and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

             Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Panels and Exhibits

                          <a href="http://ismir2003.ismir.net/">http://ismir2003.ismir.net/</a>
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Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Panels and Exhibits

========================================================

The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international

forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical

materials. It reflects the tremendous growth of music-related data

available either locally or remotely through networks and the

consequent need to search this content and retrieve music and musical

information efficiently and effectively.

This area presents vast challenges for those who need to organize and

structure musical data, provide tools to search and retrieve, and use

these tools efficiently. Music representation needs to be multi-

dimensional and time-dependent; audio data is voluminous, requiring

particular care in storage and transmission while preserving quality;

the need for descriptive information about what is musically

significant addresses a large spectrum of internal and external

characteristics, from acoustic to musicological and cultural features;

intellectual property rights issues (about what can be made available

to whom and how) are complex, involve a variety of individuals and

organizations, and vary from country to country.

All of these concerns are of interest to education, academia,

entertainment and industry. This conference thus aims at providing a

place for the exchange of news, issues and results, by bringing

together researchers and developers, educators and librarians,

students and professional users, working in fields that contribute

significantly to this multidisciplinary domain, to present original

theoretical or practical work in peer-reviewed contributions (papers,

posters). It will also serve as a discussion forum (panels), provide

introductory and in-depth information in specific domains (tutorials),

and show current products (exhibits).

Detailed information about the conference and its organization is

available on its Web site (<a href="http://ismir2003.ismir.net/">http://ismir2003.ismir.net/</a>).

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: UCITA Weakened
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:22:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 686 (686)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 11, 2003

      ALA Reports UCITA Fails to Receive American Bar Association Approval

                                     _____

         Chronicle Article on  "UCITA, The Law Against Sharing Knowledge"
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In This Issue: UCITA fails to receive American Bar Association

approval

On February 10, 2003, a resolution recommending approval of UCITA (the

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) by the American Bar

Association (ABA) House of Delegates  was withdrawn by the National

Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), the body

responsible for drafting UCITA. The ABA delegates were asked to vote on

a resolution approving UCITA's readiness for consideration by state

legislatures. A positive ABA vote is  a customary step in the process of

successfully passing proposed uniform laws such as UCITA.

The withdrawal of the UCITA resolution followed in the wake of

increasing  opposition to this controversial act  within the ABA.  Prior

to the opening of the ABA Midyear Meeting in Seattle this weekend, UCITA

failed to garner support from six ABA sections, including the Business

Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Torts and Insurance Practice and

Science and Technology sections. In addition, two committees , the

Section Officers' Council's Technology Committee and the ABA Standing

Committee on Law and National Security failed to support passage of the

resolution. Seven of the nine members of the ABA  Working Group

appointed  to review UCITA in 2001advised the House of Delegates that

recent amendments to UCITA still did not make UCITA appropriate for

approval at this time.

The withdrawal of the resolution indicates that UCITA lacks the

consensus and support needed for successful passage of a uniform state

law. Currently, UCITA is an active bill in Oklahoma.

ALA joined with the  Association of Research Libraries, the American

Association of Law Libraries, the Special Libraries Association, the

Medical Libraries Association, the Art Libraries Society of North

American and  the Association of American Universities in sending a

joint letter to all of the House of Delegates members last week.

(<a href="http://www.ala.org/washoff/ucita/ABAltr0203.pdf">http://www.ala.org/washoff/ucita/ABAltr0203.pdf</a>) The library

associations were founding members of AFFECT, Americans for Fair

Electronic Commerce Transactions, the national coalition of businesses,

financial institutions, consumer advocates and technology professionals

that has been the leading force in opposing UCITA.

For more information contact Carol Ashworth,  ALA UCITA Grassroots

Coordinator cashworth@alawash.org

www.ala.org/washoff/ucita.html

******

ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the

American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to

copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or

redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits.

      ===========================================================
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_________________________________________________________________

This article is available online at this address:

<a href="http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i23/23b01401.htm">http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i23/23b01401.htm</a>

                - The text of the article is below -

_________________________________________________________________

    The Law Against Sharing Knowledge

    By EDWARD R. JOHNSON

    I  remember the days when the only licenses that mattered

    were the ones that allowed you to drive, fish and hunt, or get

    married. Today it seems that licensing is taking over the

    world of academic libraries, and putting scholars' ability to

    exchange information at risk. Stories of draconian contract

    terms in licenses from software vendors and the publishers of

    electronic databases and periodical indexes circulate like

    tall tales -- but they are usually true. We will hear even

    more such stories if the state legislatures that are

    considering the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act,

    or Ucita, adopt it this spring.

    Ucita is a model law, proposed by the National Conference of

    Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, that would set new rules

    in all states for licensing software and every other form of

    digital information. So far, more than 20 states have

    considered it, but only Maryland and Virginia have adopted it.

    Most of the states' attorneys general are on record as

    opposing the law because of its potential for adverse effects

    on consumers: Ucita would enable vendors to restrict

    consumers' rights to read license agreements before accepting

    them, to sue vendors if their products were defective, or to

    donate a product to charity. But the conference amended the

    act last year, and its revised version will probably be

    introduced in many legislatures this year, including those

    that rejected the original version.

    What librarians object to most about Ucita is that it would

    permit software vendors and publishers to impose a wide range

    of terms on academics' use of electronic information -- terms

    that conflict with institutional policies and regulations --

    and that the act would tie our hands in negotiating fair

    licensing agreements. It might even undermine prevailing

    federal copyright laws: While the act's authors insist that it

    would not overturn copyright, they have rejected a proposal

    from several library associations to add wording that clearly

    asserts the pre-eminence of federal copyright law in

    "shrink-wrap licenses."

    [SNIP]

    Ucita would replace the public law of copyright with the

    private law of contracts. Under copyright law, a vendor that

    sells copies of information has only limited power to control

    the subsequent use of that information. But a contract under

    Ucita could prevent the user from reading the license in

    advance, reinforcing the vendors' view that opening the

    software box or breaking the shrink-wrap constitutes consent

    to the license's terms. It would extend that view to the

    online environment, making clicking on a virtual button the

    equivalent of opening a physical box.

    Edward R. Johnson is dean of libraries at Oklahoma State

    University.

_________________________________________________________________

You may visit The Chronicle as follows:

     <a href="http://chronicle.com">http://chronicle.com</a>

_________________________________________________________________

Copyright 2003 by The Chronicle of Higher Education


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Boucher Reintroduces Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:23:32 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 687 (687)

(DMCRA, H.R. 107)
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
February 11, 2003
                             Rep. Boucher Reintroduces
               Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 107)
            <a href="http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1565901">http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1565901</a>
            The Bill: <a href="http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/BOUCHE_025.pdf">http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/BOUCHE_025.pdf</a>
    Boucher's Statement: <a href="http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dccrastatement.htm">http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dccrastatement.htm</a>
               Electronic Frontier Foundation Encourages Support
            <a href="http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2421">http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2421</a>
[deleted quotation]Boucher Introduces Fair Use Rights Bill
By Roy Mark  Jan 8, 2003
Digital home recording rights became the first technology-related
legislation introduced in the 108th Congress Tuesday afternoon with the
filing of a bill intended to protect the fair use rights of consumers
purchasing copyrighted material.
Sponsored by Representatives Rick Boucher (D.-Va.) and John Doolittle
(R.-Calif.), the bill would amend two key provisions of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which currently prohibit the circumvention
of a technical protection measure guarding access to a copyrighted work
even if the purpose of the circumvention is to exercise traditional
consumer fair use rights.
Entitled the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (H.R. 107), the
legislation is identical to the bill introduced by Boucher last November
(H.R. 5544).
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Copyright Office News: California Meetings; Feb 19
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:24:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 688 (688)

Deadline for 1201 Reply Comments
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
February 11, 2003
                             COPYRIGHT OFFICE NEWS
         1. Reminder: February 19 Deadline for "Anti-Circumvention" Comments
                         <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/">http://www.copyright.gov/1201/</a>
                   2. Copyright Office Comes to California
                          March 3, 2003: Santa Monica
                          March 5, 2003: Los Angeles
                   <a href="http://www.calbar.org/ipsection/index.htm">http://www.calbar.org/ipsection/index.htm</a>
[deleted quotation]February 19 is the deadline for the second round of comments in the
Copyright Office triennial rulemaking proceeding on exemptions from the
prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access
to copyrighted works.
Those who oppose or support any exemptions proposed in the initial comments
will have the opportunity to respond to the proposals made in the initial
comments and to provide factual information and legal argument addressing
whether a proposed exemption should be adopted. (67 FR 63578)
"THE COPYRIGHT OFFICE COMES TO CALIFORNIA"
During the first week of March, top officials from the Copyright Office
will participate in a program in Los Angeles and San Francisco where they
will provide an update on the latest Copyright Office law and policy
activities, including rulemakings, legislation, and international
activities.  The program will also include presentations on fair use in the
twenty-first century and copyright registration issues for practitioners
and copyright owners.
Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of
California and the Los Angeles Copyright Society, the program will take
place March 3 in Santa Monica, Calif. and March 5 in San Francisco.
Participants may earn MCLE credits. For further information, go to
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Ray Siemens on "The Dynamic Textual Edition" Feb 20, U.
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:19:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 689 (689)


Maryland

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 11, 2003

                The Dynamic Textual Edition, Underpinnings and Above

                             A talk by Ray Siemens

   Sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

        Thursday, February 20, 2003, University of Maryland, College Park.

                          McKeldin Library, Room 6137

                                  3:00-4:00 p.m
[deleted quotation]
Announcement:

The Dynamic Textual Edition, Underpinnings and Above.

A talk by Ray Siemens, Founder and editor (1994-9) of the electronic scholarly

journal Early Modern Literary Studies.

Sponsored by MITH, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the

Humanities.

Thursday, February 20, 2003

3:00-4:00 p.m.

University of Maryland, College Park

McKeldin Library, Room 6137

The idea of the dynamic textual edition builds on earlier notions of the

dynamic text and the hypertextual edition. The dynamic text, as defined

some 15 years ago, consists of an electronic text and advanced textual

analysis software; it is, in essence, a text that indexes and concords

itself, allowing the reader to apply textual analysis techniques to

interact with the text in a dynamic fashion. More common today is the

hypertextual edition, which exploits the ability of encoded hypertextual

organisation to facilitate a reader's interaction with the text, the

apparatus (textual, critical, and otherwise) that traditionally

accompanies scholarly editions of texts, as well as relevant external

textual and graphical resources, critical materials, and so forth. Rarely

do the two notions of electronic editions meet. Mr. Siemens's talk will

address the necessary underpinnings and user-level functionality of an edition

where the two - the dynamic text and the hypertextual edition - do meet.

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From: Rare Book School <fac-fbap@virginia.edu>
Subject: EAD Etext XML courses at Virginia (RBS)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:19:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 690 (690)


[Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]

RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer 2003

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 list may find the following Rare Book School courses to

be of particular interest:

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 became Director of the Digital Library Federation in 2002. He

was the founding director of the internationally-known Electronic Text

Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia.

75. PUBLISHING EAD FINDING AIDS. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 4-8). This course

will introduce students to standards and software used for publishing

Extensible Markup Language (XML) encoded documents, with a focus on EAD

encoded finding aids. It is aimed at systems support personnel in archives,

libraries, and museums, or self-supporting archivists, librarians, and

museum staff who would like an introduction to EAD publishing technology

and methods. The course will focus on writing stylesheets using Extensible

Stylesheet Language-Transformation (XSLT), but will also cover Web server

technology, available software for indexing and searching XML encoded

information, and use of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Formatting

Objects to produce printed finding aids. Topics include: in-depth

introduction to the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL); authoring of

stylesheets using the XSLT language, focusing on XML to XML, and XML to

HTML transformations; use of multiple stylesheets and frames; survery and

functional evaluation of available indexing and searching software; use of

XSL Transformation and Formatting Objects to produce PostScript, PDF, RTF,

and other printable encodings; survey and functional evaluation of XSL and

XSLT software. The course will conclude with a discussion of management and

administrative issues presented by Web publishing. Instructor: Daniel Pitti.

DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in 1997, before which

he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California,

Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description

initiative.



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Time Zone Project
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:21:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 691 (691)


Forwarded message:
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--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
every cul-de-sac is 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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:22:18 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 692 (692)


(1)

The Turing Test

The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence

edited by

James H. Moor

Dept. of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

STUDIES IN COGNITIVE SYSTEMS -- 30

The Turing Test gives the most comprehensive, in depth and contemporary

assessment of this classic topic in artificial intelligence. This is the

first book to elaborate in such detail the numerous conflicting points of

view on many aspects of this multifaceted, controversial subject. It offers

new insights into Turing's own interpretation and traces the history of the

debate about the merits of the Turing test in more detail than anywhere

else. Turing's famous predictions (1950) are assessed fifty years after

they were made. The book also gives competing views about how the Turing

test should be interpreted, and novel contemporary criticisms of the test.

Justifications for the test and it's future applications are suggested and

alternatives to the Turing test are examined in detail. Recent results of

the Loebner competition are analyzed.

This highly readable volume is essential reading for research on the Turing

test and for teaching undergraduate and graduage students in philosophy,

computer science, and cognitive science.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1204-7 Date: March 2003 Pages: 288 pp.

EURO 103.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 66.00

Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1205-5 Date: March 2003 Pages: 288 pp.

EURO 39.00 / USD 37.00 / GBP 25.00

(2)

Foundations of the Formal Sciences II

Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics, Papers of

a Conference held in Bonn, November 1013, 2000

edited by

Benedikt Lwe

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, Germany

Wolfgang Malzkorn

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, Germany

Thoralf Rsch

Universitt Potsdam, Germany

TRENDS IN LOGIC -- 17

"Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) is a series of

interdisciplinary conferences in mathematics, philosophy, computer science

and linguistics. The main goal is to reestablish the traditionally strong

links between these areas of research that have been lost in the past decades.

The second conference in the series had the subtitle "Applications of

Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics" and brought speakers from

all parts of the Formal Sciences together to give a holistic view of how

mathematical methods can improve our philosophical and technical

understanding of language and scientific discourse, ranging from the

theoretical level up to applications in language recognition software.

audience: This volume is of interest to all formal philosophers and

theoretical linguists. In addition to that, logicians interested in the

applications of their field and logic students in mathematics, computer

science, philosophy and linguistics can use the volume to broaden their

knowledge of applications of logic.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1154-7 Date: February 2003 Pages: 304 pp.

EURO 110.00 / USD 106.00 / GBP 70.00

(3)

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

Volume XVIII

edited by

John C. Smart

Center for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Memphis, TN, USA

William G. Tierney

Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los

Angeles, USA

HIGHER EDUCATION: HANDBOOK OF THEORY AND RESEARCH -- XVIII

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

  From Number Crunching to Spirituality; A.W. Astin. State Governance Reform

of Higher Education: Patterns, Trends, and Theories of the Public Policy

Process; M.K. McLendon. College Environments, Diversity, and Student

Learning; S. Hurtado, E.L. Dey, P. Gurin, G. Gurin. Identity Research in

Higher Education: Communalities, Differences, and Complementarities; K.A.

Renn, P. Dilley, M. Prentice. What Can Labor Economics Tell Us About the

Earnings and Employment Prospects for Faculty? R.K. Toutkoushian. Studying

Faculty Salary Equity: A Review of Theoretical and Methodological

Approaches; L.W. Perna. Using Multilevel SEM to Study Leadership

Effectiveness in Higher Education; V.J. Rosser. Event History Methods:

Conceptual Issues and An Application to Student Departure from College;

S.L. DesJardins. Globalization and Universities; J. Currie. Evaluating

College and University Teaching: Reflections of a Practitioner; W.E.

Cashin. Confronting the Burden of the Past: The Historical Antecedents of

the Present Predicament of African Universities; Y.G-M. Lulat. An

Institutional Perspective on Higher Education Policy: The Case of Academic

Quality Assurance; D.D. Dill.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1231-4 Date: April 2003 Pages: 550 pp.

EURO 192.00 / USD 188.00 / GBP 121.00

Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1232-2 Date: April 2003 Pages: 550 pp.

EURO 65.00 / USD 62.00 / GBP 42.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Vika Zafrin <vika@wordsend.org>
Subject: CFP Electronic Theory and Criticism - MLA 2003
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:19:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 693 (693)


***CALL FOR PAPERS -- MLA 2003 (<a href="http://www.mla.org">http://www.mla.org</a>)***

27-30 December 2003, San Diego, CA

---Electronic Theory and Criticism---

Session sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities

(<a href="http://www.ach.org">http://www.ach.org</a>)

This session will focus on humanistic critical and theoretical exposition

composed in and for various forms of the electronic medium.  Submissions

are invited on any related topic.  The following are merely some examples:

- semantic encoding as critical exposition;

- audience, and readability with regard to scholarly hypermedia;

- the role of interface in critical electronic exposition;

- reception of critical electronic exposition.

The list above is meant to trigger new ideas and is in no way complete.

Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words; completed papers are also

acceptable.  Participants in all sessions must be listed on the membership

rolls by 7 April or have been granted a waiver of membership.  By

submitting a proposal you agree to travel to San Diego for the convention

in the event that your submission is accepted.  Unfortunately, we are

unable to provide travel funding; however, MLA does have some financial

assistance available on a year-to-year basis. Please see the MLA Web site

for more details.

Please use plain text, RTF, MS Word or PDF format.  The deadline is 3 March

2003.  Submissions and any questions should be e-mailed to

vika@wordsend.org.  Please pass on this Call For Papers as you deem

appropriate.


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vika@wordsend.org
blog: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/~hyperlit/">http://www.livejournal.com/~hyperlit/</a>
own: <a href="http://www.wordsend.org">http://www.wordsend.org</a>
work: <a href="http://www.brown.edu/decameron/">http://www.brown.edu/decameron/</a>



From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca>
Subject: New Humanities Computing CRC Chair at Victoria
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:17:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 694 (694)


The University of Victoria, BC, Canada is seeking candidates for a Canada

Research Chair in Humanities Computing (Tier II). Full details are

available at: <a href="http://humanities.uvic.ca/humcomp.htm">http://humanities.uvic.ca/humcomp.htm</a>

Deadline for applications is April 15, 2003.

Andrew Rippin

Dean, Faculty of Humanities

University of Victoria

Box 3045, STN CSC

Victoria BC V8W 3P4

Canada

Email: arippin@uvic.ca

======================

Peter Liddell,

Professor, Germanic & Russian Studies, and

    Academic Director, Humanities Computing & Media Centre

University of Victoria, BC, Canada

======================



From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: JoDI (V3i3): an innovative hypertext issue
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:18:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 695 (695)


We are pleased to announce a new issue of JoDI, which takes a slightly

different form to the usual issues.

Journal of Digital Information announces

A SPECIAL ISSUE on Hypertext Criticism: Writing about Hypertext

(Volume 3, issue 3, January 2003)

Special issue Editors: Susana Tosca (IT University, Copenhagen) and Jill

Walker (University of Bergen)

   From the special issue editorial:

"Rather than present a traditional collection of long papers, we decided to

attempt to rethink what an issue of an academic journal might be. We

invited submissions consisting of one or more brief nodes which we would

then link together to create a hypertextual journal issue: an

interconnected discussion of a topic rather than disconnected articles. We

also invited contributions from both scholars and artists, to assist in

bridging the gap that can appear between these groups. This diversity

characterises the collection of essays presented here.

"As editors, for us this has been a very exciting project. We think this

issue is innovative not only in content, but also in form, and we believe

it brings something interesting to the world of electronic publication.

"We hope that this issue can serve as a landmark in the way hypertext

criticism is perceived by authors, theorists and the general public alike.

The essays included succeed in relating hypertext criticism to a multitude

of humanities practices (print, visual and digital), so that hypertext

criticism is shown to be embedded in a rich context. In the light of these

contributions to the field, the picture becomes clearer than it has ever

been before."

Since this is a hypertext issue, we aren't listing the complete contents

with links to individual contributions. Instead go to the editorial and

start exploring

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i03/editorial.html">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i03/editorial.html</a>

You will find nearly 30 contributions from these authors: Mez Breeze,

Julianne Chatelain, Richard E. Higgason, Deena Larsen, Bill Marsh, Adrian

Miles and Jenny Weight.

A note on navigation. Each node stands alone but gains from being seen in

context, so each contribution includes a contents list linking to all other

contributions in this issue. Follow the links in the text to see connected

nodes, read the author details to see other nodes by the same author or use

the table of contents to choose another focus.

...

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>



From: Claire Gardent <Claire.Gardent@loria.fr>
Subject: EACL03 Registration now open
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:21:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 696 (696)


                                  EACL 2003

                   10th Conference of the European Chapter

              of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                    <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>

                              April 12-17, 2003

                              Budapest, Hungary

                  Early registration deadline : 15 March 2003

The EACL03 registration is now open. Note that early registration is a

lot cheaper (for you) and provides for a better conference (because we

can prepare it better). Please register before March 15th!

*** CONFERENCE SCHEDULE ****

Tutorials                                        Saturday 12 April 2003

Workshops                                       April 13-14, 2003

Main conference, Research Notes, Demos and       April 15-17, 2003

Student Research Workshop                       April 16, 2003

* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC Feb 22 College Art
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:22:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 697 (697)


Conference

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 14, 2003

REMINDER

              NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NEW YORK CITY

                            Digital Publishing:

         A Practical Guide to the Problem of Intellectual Property Rights

                        in the Electronic Environment, for

             Artists, Museums, Authors, Publishers, Readers and Users.

                  <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.html</a>

                 co-sponsored by Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

                 and the CAA Committee on Intellectual Property

                                   *   *   *

                      College Art Association Conference

                              Hilton New York Hotel

                              Sixth Ave at 53rd St

                                 New York City

                         * Beekman Parlor, 2nd floor*

                         Saturday, February 22, 2003

                                 2:30 - 5:00pm

                                (note new time)

                      Free to CAA conference registrants

      $40 (students, $30) for one-day on-site CAA conference registration

In association with the College Art Association's Committee on Intellectual

Property, NINCH presents its 21st Copyright Town Meeting as part of the

2003 College Art Association Annual Conference.

The advantages of digital publishing online seem clear to many authors,

largely because of the potential for reaching wide and often new audiences.

However, owners of images and many publishers are not so convinced about

the benefits of moving online and some fear losing economic control of

their copyrighted material.

This NINCH Copyright Town Meeting will survey the rights challenges of

publishing art history and art criticism online. The impact of the TEACH

Act (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act) on digital

publishing will also be discussed as Distance Education products fit well

within the spectrum that includes both traditional publishing and

class-room teaching.

The meeting brings together authors, publishers, museum administrators,

legal counsel, and culture and media historians to discuss their

experiences and provide their advice for moving forward. As with all NINCH

Copyright Town Meetings, the audience is encouraged to participate and

ample time is reserved for that purpose.

Featured speakers:

*  Petra Chu, Professor of Art, Seton Hall University; Founding Managing

Editor, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

*  Susan Chun, General Manager for Electronic Information Planning,

Metropolitan Museum of Art

*  Robert Clarida, Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

*  Kenneth Crews, Professor of Law, Indiana University and Director,

Indiana University Copyright Management Center

*  Jeffrey Cunard, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton; CAA Legal Counsel

*  Christine Sundt, Visual Resources Curator and Professor of Art,

University of Oregon

*  Peter Trippi, Executive Editor, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

*  Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication,

New York University

This program is related to two other publishing programs at the CAA

conference: "Problems of Publishing for Tenure in the Arts and Art

History," (Friday, February 21, noon-1:30 p.m); and "Clearing Rights and

Permissions: How To, Why To, When To," (Saturday, February 22, 12:30-2:00

p.m). For further details, see

<a href="http://www.studiolo.org/IP/2003NYTM/index.htm">http://www.studiolo.org/IP/2003NYTM/index.htm</a> and

<a href="http://www.collegeart.org/caa/news/2003/Jan/annualconference.html">http://www.collegeart.org/caa/news/2003/Jan/annualconference.html</a>

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>.

NINCH expresses its gratitude to Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

<<a href="http://www.cll.com/">http://www.cll.com/</a>>, for its generous sponsorship of this meeting,

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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.479 Kelvin's "if ye canna, ye dinna!" ?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:24:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 698 (698)


Willard,

My apolgies for not respecting any culturally-driven demands for alacrity

and not sending out a reply to spin out this thread a little further. I

have a question. What is the context in which you would like to quote the

words of Lord Kelvin, whose name is remembered by this school boy as

connected with the very deep freeze of absolute zero? I ask because, in

organisational design, practicioners and theorists invoke _functional_

models before say going on to produce an org chart. And I do think that

the mechanical-functional distinction has some salience in the worlds of

humanities computing and not just as a hardware-software divide. Can you

please provide more context for your invocation?

Thanks for provoking the thinking process and your indulgence with our

very very naive questions,

Francois
[deleted quotation]

--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large,
knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
every cul-de-sac is 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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Kelvin's actual words
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:49:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 699 (699)

I have it on good authority, from a curator in the Hunterian Gallery,
University of Glasgow (<a href="http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/">http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/</a>), that the shorter,
more emphatic version of Kelvin's statement is not genuine. Apparently what
we know of the man, how he spoke and thought, would alone make the emphatic
statement implausible.
Readers of Humanist may recall I was looking for a similar statement from
Marvin Minsky, which I have not found. (In his case, brashness is entirely
plausible.) What I was wanting in both instances was a simple statement of
the (partial) truth that we think by modelling.
Kelvin has curiously attracted some rather odd attention. See the "Kelvin
is Lord" page, <a href="http://zapatopi.net/lordkelvin.html">http://zapatopi.net/lordkelvin.html</a>, which comes up as the
first in a Google search for "Lord Kelvin".
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: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@KCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Humanities computing MA at King's College London
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:19:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 700 (700)


We're pleased to announce that we're accepting applications for next

year's class in our MA in Humanities Computing at King's College London.

Students in this one-year programme develop the analytical and

practical skills that will enable them to understand and apply

computing to the source materials and problems of the humanities.  A

representative selection of case studies drawn from a number of

disciplinary areas is used to exemplify analysis of typical problems

and the combination of techniques needed to approach them

successfully.  Students are expected to have a first degree in any

humanities subject; the degree can prepare students not only for

further research at the doctoral level but also for work in museums,

libraries, business and the public services.

Complete details are available at: www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/ma

John Lavagnino

Lecturer in Humanities Computing, King's College London



From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: Applications for M.A. in Humanities Computing at the UofA
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:19:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 701 (701)


      M.A. in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta

                   <a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/Info/">http://huco.ualberta.ca/Info/</a>

The M.A. in Humanities Computing is an interdisciplinary program of the

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. The program integrates

computational methods and theories with research and teaching in the

humanities. It addresses the demand for Arts graduates proficient in

computing skills, able to work either in the realm of humanities research

and teaching or in the emerging job markets of information management and

content delivery over the Internet.

The Core Curriculum: A Balance of Theory and Practice

In a set of core courses, students survey humanities computing and its

underlying technologies as they are employed in disciplines such as

history, literature, languages, cultural studies, philosophy, music and

visual arts. The aim is to show how computing is enabling and transforming

humanities research and teaching, and to impart technical knowledge

through hands-on experience with creation, delivery, and analysis of

electronic text and non-textual data and images.

In the second year, the students extend their knowledge of humanities

computing by taking elective courses, including at least one in a

humanities discipline in which they specialize, and a thesis in which they

address a research or teaching issue in their discipline.

Application procedures

Questions and requests for application materials may be directed to

huco@mail.arts.ualberta.ca. When requesting applications materials,

students should indicate their desired home department for graduate

admission (see the guidelines for a list of participating departments).

Some departments (such as English) require applications to be submitted by

the first week of January in order to be considered for certain

scholarships, although general admission is possible after this deadline.


--
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: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" <bkg@nyu.edu>
Subject: Tactical media, cultural activism, and 9/11: A new online
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:20:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 702 (702)


teaching resource

NEW TEACHING RESOURCE FOR TACTICAL MEDIA AND CULTURAL ACTIVISM, FOCUSES

ON POST-9.11 MEDIA WORLDS, FROM LOWER MANHATTAN TO THE WEST BANK AND

INDONESIA

"9-11 and after:  a virtual case book" (www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb)

After September 11, 2001, Manhattan overflowed with ephemeral media of

all sorts, expressing people's efforts to comprehend and communicate

their unprecedented experiences, losses, and confusion.

"9-11 and after:  a virtual case book", a project of the Center for

Media, Culture and History at New York University, collects essays,

interviews, web links and images that document and analyze these

responses, which are in danger of being forgotten.

The editors, Barbara Abrash and Faye Ginsburg, invite you to use this

resource for study and teaching on media, society and politics. Your

feedback is welcomed at cmch@nyu.edu.

Contributors: Pat Aufderheide,  Amahl Bishara, Joshua Breitbart, Amit

Breuer, Ted Byfield, David Garcia, DeeDee Halleck, Mariana Johnson,

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Marianne Hirsch, Daoud Kuttab, Geert

Lovink, Martin Lucas, Meg McLagan, Mike Murphy, Drazen Pantic, Patricia

Spyer, Ravi Sundaram, Diana Taylor and Leshu Torchin.



From: "Eric S. Rabkin" <esrabkin@umich.edu>
Subject: cfp: Computer Studies in Language and Literature
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:10:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 703 (703)


CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern Language Association, 27-30 Dec 03

San Diego, California

(<a href="http://www.mla.org">http://www.mla.org</a>)

A panel sponsored by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language

and Literature

Why I Do (Not) Use Digital Resources

Enormous amounts of labor, money, and creativity are expended each year in

the development of digital tools and archives for linguistic and literary

study (e.g, NVivo and The Rossetti Archive).  These resources are typically

developed by one set of people for use by others.  At MLA sessions, one

hears many reports from resource developers about the worthy intellectual

work that such development both requires and shapes.  What one does not

often hear are reports from non-developer users of these digital resources

indicating why and how the availability of these resources enabled or shaped

their work.  Is this silence perhaps a function of the genre of MLA paper,

as one would not expect a discussion of dictionaries in most MLA papers that

make some significant use of dictionaries?  If so, this session hopes to

foreground discussion of non-developer uses of digital resources, including

treatments of the ways in which these resources influenced both the practice

and the outcomes of research.  Is this silence perhaps a function of lack of

use?  If so, this session hopes to foreground discussion of the failure of

these developments to attract more users.  What are the impediments to use,

the rewards, the problems and possibilities of digital tools and archives?

Presentations should be 15-20 minutes.  Inquiries and/or abstracts should be

sent to via email to Eric S. Rabkin, Department of English, University of

Michigan (esrabkin@umich.edu) by 7 Mar 2003.

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

Eric S. Rabkin                          734-764-6330 (dept)

3243 Angell Hall                        734-764-2553 (direct)

Dept of English                         734-763-3128 (fax)

Univ of Michigan                        esrabkin@umich.edu

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

<a href="http://www.umich.edu/~esrabkin">http://www.umich.edu/~esrabkin</a>



From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: Digital Games Research Conference 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:12:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 704 (704)


Announcing the Digital Games Research Conference 2003

[February 17, 2003 - press release]

Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) has decided to award the

inaugural world conference in digital games research to University of

Utrecht, The Netherlands. The conference will be the first official

event of the new interdisciplinary association, aiming to promote

high-quality research of games, recognition of game studies as an

academic field of enquiry, as well as interdisciplinary collaboration in

games research, design and development.

University of Utrecht, Faculty of Arts, Department of New Media and

Digital Culture is collaborating closely with DiGRA and numerous

academic and other partners in the conference implementation. The

conference will include keynote lectures, workshops, paper sessions,

symposia and other events.

The conference will take place in 5-8 November, 2003. The call for

papers will be launched in February, extended abstract deadlines for the

submitting of abstracts (papers, symposia, workshops) at the end of

April.

Contact/University of Utrecht:

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein, j.goldstein@wxs.nl

Dr. Joost Raessens, Associate Professor, joost.raessens@let.uu.nl Drs.

Marinka Copier, bachsch@xs4all.nl

Contact/DiGRA:

Prof. Frans Myr, President; frans.mayra@uta.fi

Dr. Jason Rutter, Vice-President; Jason.Rutter@man.ac.uk

Celia Peirce, Liaison Officer; celiap@uci.edu



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Congress Approves Digital Preservation Plan
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:36:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 705 (705)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 18, 2003

          Congress Approves Plan for the National Digital Information

                Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)

              <a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/index.html">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndiipp/index.html</a>

                 <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-022.html">http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-022.html</a>
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_____

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Public Affairs Office

101 Independence Avenue SE

Washington DC 20540-1610

phone (202) 707-2905

fax (202) 707-9199

e-mail pao@loc.gov

February 14, 2003

Contact: Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217, glam@loc.gov

LIBRARY ANNOUNCES APPROVAL OF PLAN TO PRESERVE AMERICA'S DIGITAL

HERITAGE

Today the Librarian of Congress announced that the Library of Congress

has received approval from the U.S. Congress for its "Plan for the

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program"

(NDIIPP), which will enable the Library to launch the initial phase of

BUILDING a national infrastructure for the collection and long-term

preservation of digital content.

"The Library of Congress is grateful for the continuing support that

Congress has given us by asking us to lead this critical program to

collect and preserve America's cultural and intellectual heritage in

digital formats for generations to come," said Librarian of Congress

James H. Billington.  "Together with other federal agencies and the

library, archival, university and private sector communities, we will

work to develop a network of collaborative partners as well as a

technical architecture that will provide the framework for digital

preservation."

Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives Laura Campbell is

overseeing this effort for the Library.  "I echo Dr. Billington's

remarks and add that the Library of Congress has gained an enormous

amount of knowledge from its partners in this initiative.  We look

forward to a continued successful collaboration as we work together to

preserve digital materials before they are forever lost."

Congressional approval of the "Plan for the National Digital Information

Infrastructure and Preservation Program," means the Library can move

forward with developing the details of the plan and Congress will

release FUNDS for the next phase of NDIIPP.  The NDIIPP legislation asks

the Library to raise up to $75 million in private funds and in-kind

contributions, which Congress will match dollar-for-dollar.

Background

In December 2000, Congress authorized the Library of Congress to develop

and execute a congressionally approved plan for a National Digital

Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.  A $99.8 million

congressional appropriation was made to establish the program.

According to Conference Report (H. Rept. 106-1033), "The overall plan

should set forth a strategy for the Library of Congress, in

collaboration with other federal and nonfederal entities, to identify a

national network of libraries and other organizations with

responsibilities for collecting digital materials that will provide

access to and maintain those materials. ...

In addition to developing this strategy, the plan shall set forth, in

concert with the Copyright Office, the policies, protocols and

strategies for the long-term preservation of such materials, including

the technological infrastructure required at the Library of Congress."

The legislation mandates that the Library work with federal entities

such as the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of the White House

Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Archives and

Records Administration, the National Library of Medicine, the National

Agricultural Library, the National Institute of Standards and Technology

and "other federal, research and private libraries and institutions with

expertise in telecommunications technology and electronic commerce

policy."  The goal is to build a network of committed partners working

through a preservation architecture of defined roles and

responsibilities.

The Library of Congress digital strategy is being formulated in concert

with a study, commissioned by the Librarian of Congress, by the National

Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.  "LC 21:

A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress" was issued July 26,

2000, and made several recommendations, including that the Library,

working with other institutions, take the lead in the preservation and

archiving of digital materials.

The complete text of the "Plan for the National Digital Information

Infrastructure and Preservation Program" is available at

<<a href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov">http://www.digitalpreservation.gov</a>>.  This includes an explanation of how the

plan was developed, who the Library worked with to develop the plan and

the key components of the digital preservation infrastructure.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world.  Through

its National Digital Library (NDL) Program, it is also one of the

leading providers of noncommercial intellectual content on the Internet

(www.loc.gov).  The NDL Program's flagship American Memory project, in

collaboration with 36 institutions nationwide, makes freely available

millions of American historical items.



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: New Scholarly Communication Listserv Begins Feb 24
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:38:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 706 (706)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 18, 2003

             Association of College and Research Libraries initiates

              SCHOLCOM: a listserv on scholarly communication issues

                       <a href="http://www.ala.org/membership">http://www.ala.org/membership</a>
[deleted quotation]
==================================

To meet the increasing interest in scholarly communication issues and to

allow librarians and other interested parties to exchange opinions, views

and news, the Association of College and Research Libraries is proud to

announce the new listserv SCHOLCOMM.

SCHOLCOMM is a discussion group that provides a forum for the examination

and analysis of topics such as open access to scholarly information, new

models of scholarly publishing, increasing journal prices, copyright law

and policy, related technologies, and federal information law and policies

that impact the access of scholars, students, and the general public to

scholarly information. In addition to ongoing discussions of critical

issues, the list will contain:

  postings on upcoming conferences

  calls for papers

  legislative news announcements

  other relevant material

This listserv serves an audience of librarians, researchers, scholars,

policy makers, and all who have a vested interest in the sharing of

scholarly communication.

To subscribe to SCHOLCOMM list,

1) Go to the ALA web site by clicking on this link:

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

     (If clicking doesn't work, "Cut" and "Paste" the line above into your

     Web browser's address bar.)

2) Click on ALA Lists and Discussion Groups

3) If you are already registered within the ALA structure of listservs,

simply log in and scroll down to SCHOLCOMM.  Click on SCHOLCOMM, and you

will be registered for the list.

If you are not already registered, you will need to follow the directions

to register for access to the entire site -- a simple and familiar

procedure.  Once registered, you can continue the directions in the

paragraph above to register specifically for the SCHOLCOMM listserv.

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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: anti-spam
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:38:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 707 (707)


Willard

would any of the subscribers to Humanist have a wee bit of technical

knowledge to share? i've come across someone using a very smart automated

response system for dealing with spam. A message is sent on the first

occasion of contact requesting confirmation. I quote from one such

message:
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I still use ELM because of its bounce feature which has permitted me and

countless retro-Unix fans to make those offending servers take a hit. I do

like the method outlined above as being even more efficient and effective.

A would be spam sender would face server crash if the request for

confirmation was sent back for every message sent out.

Any one point me to the ELM-friendly version?

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From: "Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin@mail.wvu.edu>
Subject: Announcing E-Poetry 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:35:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 708 (708)


E-Poetry 2003

An International Digital Poetry Festival

West Virginia University, Morgantown

April 23-26, 2003

It is our pleasure to announce E-Poetry 2003: An International Digital

Poetry Festival, the second event in the acclaimed E-Poetry series

inaugurated in Buffalo in April 2001. E-Poetry is a series, directed by

Loss Pequeo Glazier from the University at Buffalo, which provides an

artist and practitioner-oriented series of events in the spirit of some of

the early poetry festivals, such as the Vancouver Poetry Festival, 1963,

and the Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965. The series allows artists the

opportunity to engage the state of their art and to advance its

possibilities through dialog, performance, and peer interaction.

We are doubly pleased to announce the host institution for this year's

event, West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. In collaboration with

E-Poetry 2003's co-director, Sandy Baldwin, we are planning a rich and

varied three and a half days of digital poetry, conversation, and

artist-oriented scholarship, in the inviting setting of West Virginia.

E-Poetry 2003 extends the frontiers opened with E-Poetry 2001, adding

numerous new voices and engaging new visions to the festival. This year's

focus is on the "poetry" in "E-Poetry".

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this event! Morgantown is 5

hours from Buffalo, 1 hour from Pittsburgh, 3 hours from Washington DC, and

5 hours from New York City. Further details about E-Poetry 2003 will be

available soon.

Check the EPC E-Poetry page for more information as it becomes available:

<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry">http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry</a>. Inquiries and proposals may be sent to the

organizers at the e-mail addresses below. All participants must register to

attend E-Poetry 2003 by April 1, 2003. A link to the registration form will

be provided on this page by February 25th.

Plan to join us in Morgantown to celebrate this next articulation of the

potentials of E-Poetry!

Loss Pequeo Glazier, E-Poetry Director [glazier@buffalo.edu]

Sandy Baldwin, E-Poetry 2003 Co-Director [charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu]

Sandy Baldwin

West Virginia University

Assistant Professor of English

359 Stansbury Hall

304-293-3107x452

Coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing

203 Armstrong Hall

304-293-3871

charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu

www.clc.wvu.edu

www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin



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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NYC Event: Feb 20: Eldred and Its Aftermath
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:31:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 710 (710)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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February 19, 2003

        "That's All Folks! Or Is It?: A Look at Eldred and Its Aftermath"

      Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law/Yeshiva University Brookdale Center

               55 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street), New York City

                 Thursday February 20, 2003: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
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Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law / Yeshiva University

Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media & Society

and  Intellectual Property Law Program

in conjunction with

The Copyright Society FA©E Initiative

(Friends of Active Copyright Education)

present

That's All Folks! Or Is It?: A Look at Eldred and Its Aftermath

PANELISTS

- Prof. Joseph J. Beard, St. John's University School of Law

- Prof. Barton Beebe, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

- Kieran Doyle, Esq., Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C.

- Prof. Monroe E. Price, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

- Eric Rayman, Adjunct Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and

President, Group XXVII Communications, Inc.

- Jonathan Tasini, President, National Writers Union

- Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Culture and

Commmunication, New York University

MODERATOR

Prof. Peter K. Yu, Executive Director, Intellectual Property Law Program,

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Free admission.  Reception to follow.

Thursday, February 20, 2003

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Room 206

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Brookdale Center · 55 Fifth Avenue (at 12th St.) · New York


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From: "Burstein, Jill" <jburstein@ets.org>
Subject: HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop: Educational Applications Using NLP
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:29:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 711 (711)

Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing
HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop
May 31, 2003
Edmonton, Canada
                                                                  ***EXTENDED
DEADLINE***
<<a href="http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL">http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL</a>>
Overview
There is an increased use of NLP-based educational applications for both
large-scale assessment and classroom instruction.  This has occurred for two
primary reasons.  First, there has been a significant increase in the
availability of computers in schools, from elementary school to the
university. Second, there has been notable development in computer-based
educational applications that incorporate advanced methods in NLP that can
be used to evaluate students' work.
Educational applications have been developed across a variety of subject
domains in automated evaluation of free-responses and intelligent tutoring.
To date, these two research areas have remained autonomous. We hope that
this workshop will facilitate communication between researchers who work on
all types of instructional applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and
graduate school. Since most of this work in NLP-based educational
applications is text-based, we are especially interested in any work of this
type that incorporates speech processing and other input/output modalities.
We wish to expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the
hope that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in an
educational application.
Call for Papers
We are especially interested in submissions including, but not limited to:
*       Speech-based tools for educational technology
*       Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with
regard to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for
domain-specific responses
*       Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as
legal or business writing, or creative aspects of writing
*       Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP
methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based
analyses
*       Dialogue systems in education
*       understanding student input
*       generating the tutors' feedback
*       evaluation
*       Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education
*       Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building
*       Content-based scoring
[material deleted]


From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: DATE CHANGE: DC Area Forum on Technology and the
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:32:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 712 (712)

Humanities: Making Digital Narratives - NOW FEB 24 2003
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
February 19, 2003
       The Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities Present:
            "Making Digital Narratives: Archive and Story in New Media"
        Judy Gradwohl, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and
                Bill Tally, Center for Children and Technology, NYC
                       Wednesday, February 19, 4:30-6:30pm
                     Georgetown University: Lauinger Library
                  NOW CHANGED TO MONDAY FEBRUARY 24, 4:30-6:30
[deleted quotation]interested.
[deleted quotation]--
David L. Green, Ph.D.
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036<a href="http://www.ninch.org">http://www.ninch.org</a>
david@ninch.org
tel: 202.296.5346
fax: 202.872.0886
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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Rhyme Zone (fwd)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:35:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 713 (713)


Forwarded message: > From lachance Sun Feb 16 09:10:35 2003
[deleted quotation]
McCarty at Feb 14, 2003 07:33:08 AM
[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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Robin Smith <rasmith@aristotle.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.497 anti-spam device for ELM?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:26:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 714 (714)

[deleted quotation]
<willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu> writes:
[deleted quotation]
This is probably a message from a whitelist generator.  Spam killers do

often block legitimate emails; one solution is to maintain a whitelist of

users from whom mail will be accepted.  On the assumption that spam usually

has forged return addresses or worse, one way to generate such a list is to

ask for confirmations from messages that come (or appear to come) from

addresses not on the whitelist.  A confirming reply to a request indicates

that (1) the reply path is real, not forged, and (2) there is something at

the other end with enough intelligence to respond to the request (a human,

one hopes).
[deleted quotation]
These things are usually implemented at the MRA level (Mail Relay

Agent), e.g. sendmail or packages like PerlMX, not at the level of

user agents such as Elm (though you could write your own procmail

rules).  If the spam isn't dropped at the mail relay level, then it's

still imposing a load on the system.
[deleted quotation]
Bouncing spam is generally a waste of time, since there's no reason to suppose

any of the reply information in the header is reliable. (You could perhaps

extract a reliable address from the 'envelope').  Moreover, spam often

comes from hijacked accounts or throwaway accounts, and the spammer doesn't

care

if such accounts are overwhelmed (the spammer's ISP might, of course).  The

reply also doubles the load on one's local mail relay.  In my opinion, the best

thing to do with spam is drop it silently (and, if there were only a way to

identify

it reliably, at the mail-relay level).

Robin Smith

Department of Philosophy            rasmith@tamu.edu

Texas A&M University                Voice (979) 845-5696

College Station, TX 77843-4237      FAX   (979) 845-0458



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Generations and Generators: KM
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:00:52 -0500 (EST) >
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 715 (715)


   feeling very australian today -- a la boomerang...

Are there any [humanities computing] students that might want to leave

their mark and grab some info and produce a resource? :)

Raises a very interesting question about the function of lists and their

archives... Wendell Piez and I have exchanged some messages on the

TEI-list about the XSL-list and the searchability of its archive. The

topic may be likewise of interest to the subscribers of Humanist.
[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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IMLS Study Shows 72% Museums Use Web to Reach K-12
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:33:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 716 (716)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 19, 2003

                         MUSEUMS SPEND OVER A BILLION,

           COMMIT OVER 18 MILLION HOURS TO K-12 EDUCATION PROGRAMS

                STUDY FINDS 72 PERCENT USE WEB SITES TO TEACH

               <a href="http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/012903.htm">http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/012903.htm</a>

  From Web Site:
[deleted quotation]
[material deleted]

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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Information visualisation
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:13:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 717 (717)


FYI

Information Visualization

Due Date: March 31, 2003

InfoVis is seeking papers, posters, and contest entries for the ninth

annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. InfoVis encourages

submissions of papers, interactive posters, and InfoVis Contest entries.

They are encouraging the use of digital video to support the submission,

particularly if part or all of the work covers interactive techniques. For

more information, contact Daniel Keim at <keim@fmi.uni-konstanz.de>.

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

For those interested in genre and the performative (and others too), a

note on the contest:

<quote>

     Our goal in organizing this new participation category is to initiate

     the development of benchmarks for information visualization, establish

     a forum to promote evaluation methods, and create a new interesting

     event at the conference.

</quote src="<a href="http://infovis.org/infovis2003/CFP/#contest">http://infovis.org/infovis2003/CFP/#contest</a>">.

As well the 1995 to 2001 online InfoVis proceedings from the IEEE Computer

Society Digital Library are linked via the document accessible at the

above URL.

enjoy


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From: "Jessica P. Hekman" <jphekman@arborius.net>
Subject: Re: 16.500 anti-spam
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:12:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 718 (718)

[deleted quotation]
The only package I know of which does this out of the box is TMDA

(<a href="http://tmda.net/">http://tmda.net/</a>). I use it and would be happy to answer any questions

about it.

Jessica



From: ian@chass.utoronto.ca (Ian Lancashire)
Subject: High Performance Computing applications in the humanities?
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:13:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 719 (719)


In 2001 the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) called for

pilot (small-scale) projects in e-social science that use Grid technologies,

that is, what can be termed applications of supercomputers or high

performance computing (HPC). (The ESRC site is at <a href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk">http://www.esrc.ac.uk</a>

...)

ESRC lists corpus-based computational linguistics (particularly corpus

tagging and content analysis) and qualitative data sharing as

pilot-project areas of potential interest.

Are readers of Humanist aware of any humanities projects that now use HPC

technology?

Ian Lancashire



From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@uh.edu>
Subject: Version 47, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:29:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 720 (720)


Version 47 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over

1,800 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 145 pages long.  The Acrobat file is

over 400 KB.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are

marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*

2 Electronic Books and Texts

       2.1 Case Studies and History

       2.2 General Works*

       2.3 Library Issues

3  Electronic Serials

       3.1 Case Studies and History*

       3.2 Critiques

       3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*

       3.4 General Works*

       3.5 Library Issues*

       3.6 Research*

4 General Works*

5 Legal Issues

       5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*

       5.2 License Agreements*

       5.3 Other Legal Issues

6  Library Issues

       6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*

       6.2 Digital Libraries*

       6.3 General Works*

       6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*

7 New Publishing Models*

8 Publisher Issues*

       8.1 Digital Rights Management*

9 Repositories 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

Repositories and E-Prints*

SGML and Related Standards

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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: JISC-NSF Fund "Digital Libraries in the Classroom" Initiative
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:31:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 721 (721)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 25, 2003

                   UK & US Collaborate on Digital Initiative

      JISC and NSF Fund "Digital Libraries in the Classroom" Projects

               <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pr_nsfjisc01">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pr_nsfjisc01</a>

Below is an announcement of the results of a collaborative JISC-NSF grant

program: four sizeable transatlantic projects that will both create and

deliver a major set of digital materials for the classroom and an

investigation of how such materials can best be used and what the results

may yield for the rest of us.

David Green

===========
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<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pr_nsfjisc01">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pr_nsfjisc01</a>

Press Release: JISC and NSF to collaborate on major digital initiative

24 Feb 2003

The UK and US to collaborate on major digital initiative

The JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the US National Science

Foundation (NSF) have agreed to fund a programme which will provide

exciting new content and a range of benefits to education sectors on both

sides of the Atlantic. The five-year programme, called 'Digital Libraries

in the Classroom' will cost around #6m ($9.5m) and will draw on best

practice in the creation and delivery of content from both the UK and the

US, resulting in a range of resources in four key subject areas.

The focus of the programme is to investigate and exploit the potential of

online resources in learning and teaching across a range of pre-selected

subject disciplines. But a key focus for each of the projects across the

programme will be to combine the application of sound pedagogic principles

in the creation, delivery and use of online materials, with new research

to develop the underlying information technology . The result will be

resources that will provide exemplars for the provision of digital

resources in disciplines beyond the ones chosen for development.

Malcolm Read, JISC Executive Secretary, welcomed the new programme,

saying: "The JISC and the NSF have a long history of collaboration, but

this is a particularly exciting programme which will bring a number of

important benefits on both sides of the Atlantic."

The programme consists of four projects, each of which will pool the

resources and expertise of British and US Universities with long and

distinguished track records in the use of information and communication

technologies. The projects are:

*The Spoken Word*

New resources for transforming teaching and learning - Glasgow Caledonian

University, Northwestern University, Michigan State University

Sound remains an educational resource as yet fully untapped, but its

possibilities in the digital realm are immense. Drawing extensively on BBC

and other sound archives and using the latest technology at their

disposal, this project will look at how audio resources can be

manipulated, applied, and used within a variety of learning situations.

*Teaching and Learning Anthropology*

Using 'scalable' digital library platforms and innovations in approaches

to content - London School of Economics and Columbia University

Digital resources provide the opportunity to deliver new insights in a

variety of ways. This project will develop digital tools and the

approaches and methods to use them successfully in undergraduate

anthropology courses. Many of the lessons of the project will be directly

relevant to teaching in many other disciplines.

*Digital Libraries in Support of Innovative Approaches to Teaching and

Learning in Geography* - University of Southampton, University of Leeds,

University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Pennsylvania

Important skills in the analysis of spatial information can be taught

online and made available to undergraduates. This project will explore

these and other possibilities and, crucially, will explore how

cross-national collaboration can enhance and enrich the learning

experiences of geography students.

*Accelerating Globally Distributed Team Innovation* - University of

Strathclyde and Stanford University

This project will enable students to take part in global team-based design

engineering projects in which they directly experience different cultural

contexts and access a variety of different information sources via a range

of appropriate technologies.

Crucial to these projects will be the cross-disciplinary lessons that

projects in other subject areas will be able to learn. They also represent

the first instance of combining the use of rich electronic content with

the technologies that enable innovative delivery in core use in the

learning process. They will therefore provide an important testing ground

for the application of digital technologies to the practicalities of

learning and teaching in the classroom. Peter Freeman, the NSF Assistant

Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, said: "NSF

is delighted to partner with JISC in the support of these innovative

projects. We anticipate that they will help set the standard for the

development of digital resources of the future."

Taking these resources and these methods of teaching with technology out

of the domain of the enthusiasts and into the broader arena where whole

departments and institutions will have to engage will mark a significant

cultural, educational and technological shift, one with important

implications for the future. Howard Newby, Chief Executive of the Higher

Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), fully endorsed this

approach, saying: "These projects provide a model for the future. These

institutions have put their full weight behind this programme. This will

mean that the resources created by these projects will have direct and

beneficial use in the classroom."

For further information, please contact:

Rachel Bruce - JISC

rachel.bruce@kcl.ac.uk

+44 020 7848 2572

Stephen M. Griffin - National Science Foundation

sgriffin@nsf.gov

+1 703-292-8930

Notes for editors

1. The JISC is a joint committee of the UK further and higher education

funding bodies, and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of

information and communication technology (ICT) to support learning,

teaching, and research.  It is best known for providing the SuperJANET

network and a portfolio of high-quality resources.  Information about the

JISC, its services and programmes can be found at <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/</a>.

Contact Philip Pothen on +44 (0)20 7848 2937, email

philip.pothen@kcl.ac.uk.

2. NSF is an independent agency of the United States government that

supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science

and engineering, with an annual budget of nearly $5 billion.  NSF funds

reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and

institutions.  Each year, NSF receives about 30,000 competitive requests

for funding, and makes about 10,000 new funding awards. NSF also awards

over $200 million in professional and service contracts yearly.

Information about NSF can be found at <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/">http://www.nsf.gov/</a>. Contact David

Hart at +1 703-292-8070, dhart@nsf.gov.


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From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics is out!
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:30:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 722 (722)


The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics is out!

(<a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/handbook/index.htm">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/handbook/index.htm</a>)

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

R. Mitkov (Ed)

Oxford University Press

2003

Contents

Preface (R. Mitkov)

Introduction (M. Kay)

Part I. Fundamentals

1. Phonology (S. Bird)

2. Morphology (H. Trost)

3. Lexicography (P. Hanks)

4. Syntax (R. Kaplan)

5. Semantics (S. Lappin)

6. Discourse (A. Ramsey)

7. Pragmatics and Dialogue (G.Leech and M.Weisser)

8. Formal grammars and languages (C. Martin-Vide)

9. Complexity (B. Carpenter)

Part II.  Processes, methods and resources

10. Text segmentation (A. Mikheev)

11. POS tagging (A.Voutilainen)

12. Parsing (J. Carroll)

13. Word-sense disambiguation (M. Stevenson and Y.Wilks)

14. Anaphora resolution (R. Mitkov)

15. Natural Language Generation (J.Bateman and M. Zock)

16. Speech recognition (L. Lamel and J.L. Gauvain)

17. Text-to-speech synthesis (T. Dutoit and Y. Stylianou)

18. Finite-state technology (L. Karttunen)

19. Statistical methods (C. Samuelsson)

20. Machine Learning (R. Mooney)

21. Lexical knowledge acquisition (Y. Matsumoto)

22. Evaluation (L. Hirschman and I. Mani)

23. Sublanguages and Controlled Languages (R. Kittredge)

24. Corpora (T. McEnery)

25. Ontologies (P.Vossen)

26. Tree adjoining grammars (A. Joshi)

Part III. Applications

27. Machine translation: general overview (J. Hutchins)

28. Machine translation: latest developments (H. Somers)

29. Information retrieval (E.Tzoukermann, J. Klavans

        and T. Strzalkowski)

30. Information extraction (R. Grishman)

31. Question answering (S. Harabagiu and D. Moldovan)

32. Text summarisation (E. Hovy)

33. Term extraction and automatic indexing (C. Jacquemin

        and D. Bourigault)

34. Text data mining (M. Hearst)

35. Natural language interaction (I. Androutsopoulos and

        M. Aretoulaki)

36. Natural language in multimodal and multimedia systems

        (E. Andre)

37. NLP in computer-aided language learning (J. Nerbonne)

38. Multilingual on-line NLP (G. Grefenstette and

        F. Segond)

Notes on contributors

Glossary

Index of authors

Subject index

(784 pages)

Oxford University Press is planning to expand in the area of Computational

Linguistics and welcomes submissions in the field.



From: info@folli.org
Subject: Deadline Extension: ESSLLI'03 Student Session
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:28:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 723 (723)


!!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!!

             !!! Please circulate and post among students !!!

        We apologise if you receive this message more than once.

                       ESSLLI-2003 STUDENT SESSION

                         * DEADLINE EXTENSION *

                    August 18-29 2003, Vienna, Austria

                  *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 7, 2003 ***

                 <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03">http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03</a>

We would like to remind you of the Student Session of the 15th

European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-

2003), which will be held in Vienna from August 18-29 2003. We

invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2003

Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings.

PURPOSE:

This eighth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the previous

editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to

present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior

researchers and fellow-students.  The ESSLLI Student Session

encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates

(before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates

(before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by

non-students will not be accepted.  Papers may be accepted for full

presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for

a poster presentation.  All the accepted papers will be published in

the ESSLLI-2003 Student Session proceedings, which will be made

available during the summer school.

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From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.1
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:29:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 724 (724)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 1,  Week of February 24, 2003

In this issue:

Review --

Bell Labs:  Life in the Crown Jewel

Competition in the telecommunications industry has come at a

tremendous cost.

Reviewed by Robert M. Siegmann

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/r_siegmann_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/r_siegmann_1.html</a>

View --

Hacking Primes

Visualization of prime numbers may further the understanding and

safeguarding of encryption techniques.

By Patrick Amato

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/p_amato_1.pdf">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/p_amato_1.pdf</a>



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
Subject: The Philosophy of the Matrix ed. Christopher Grau
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:29:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 725 (725)


The Philosophy of the Matrix by Christopher Grau with a quote "the

skeptical worry that one's experience may be illusory, and the moral

question of whether it matters."

Following essays can be found at

<<a href="http://www.onwardoverland.com/matrix/philosophy.html">http://www.onwardoverland.com/matrix/philosophy.html</a>>

Introduction

A. Dream Skepticism

B. Brain-in-a-Vat Skepticism

C. The Experience Machine

Christopher Grau

The Matrix of Dreams by Colin McGinn

The Brave New World of the Matrix by Hubert Dreyfus & Stephen Dreyfus

Reflections on the first Matrix by Richard Hanley

Reality, what matters, and the Matrix by Iakdvos Vasilou

The Matrix - Our Future? by Kevin Warwick

Wake up! - Gnosticism & Buddhism and the Matrix Francis Flannery-Dailey &

Rachel Wagner

If any readers and scholars want to know more about the articles

(mentioned above) and their concepts, then please free to mail Arun

Tripathi at <tripathi@mail.waoe.org>

Thanks in advance.

Your sincerely,

Arun Tripathi



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: data modelling for a history of the book?
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:27:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 726 (726)


Suppose that you were designing a computational basis for studying the

history of the book in 19C England. What sort of data model(s) would you

use? A relational database would seem right for several aspects of such a

study: authors, paper-makers, printers, book-sellers, binders and, of

course, suitably tabular facts about the books themselves, such as titles,

dates of publication, number of pages etc. Would the text of the books be

of interest? (Let us for the moment ignore how much work would be involved,

e.g. in obtaining those contents.) If yes, then how would these contents be

handled?

Furthermore, what would one do about the non-verbal aspects -- layout (of

the book *opening*, not just individual pages), design, typography, colour,

binding and so forth? How about the heft of the thing? Imaging can record

the visual aspects, allowing us to infer some others, but images (as

snapped by the digital camera) are not subject to automatic analytical

probing.

Many of us, I suspect, will be aware of the "complete encoding" fallacy --

the idea that it is possible completely to encode a verbal artifact. (One

imagines the equivalent of a typing pool, a vast factory filled with

text-encoders processing all works of literature in all languages....) This

is closely related to the mimetic fallacy -- the idea that a digitized

version will be able to replace its non-digital original. So we avoid the

extention of these fallacies to the current question, allowing that images

will show that which at the design stage we do not know might be designed

for. The student of 19C English book history will still need to be looking

through the books for whatever catches his or her eye. Certain developments

with image-processing suggest that a machine may at some point be able to

throw up examples of an automatically discerned pattern, which would be

helpful.

But at this stage what is the next step beyond the justaposed image and

descriptive text? Do we, for example, image-map the visual object to attach

hypertextual commentary? Do we record the location of objects (such as

marginalia, doodles, typographic devices etc.) within the book-opening so

that we may compute with them? Or is all this vanity and a vexation of the

spirit?

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: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.509 data modelling for a history of the book?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:35:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 727 (727)


Willard, I'd certainly include 'theme' or 'subject' or 'type' of book -- it

would be very useful to have handy available data on which booksellers

(etc.) tended to handle which sort of books.

As far as color, illustrations,  etc.....I think much of this is already in

many bibliographical analyses, isn't it ?  I tend to think of that

information as clogging up the db somewhat.  But then it depends on what

you want the db for, doesn't it ?



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: complex, labour-intensive data models
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:56:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 728 (728)


Thinking further from my question, about modelling the history of the book,

I am wondering along the lines suggested by the remark of a somewhat

annoyed student a couple of years ago. I had been trying to convince her, a

postgraduate in history, that relational database modelling was a Good

Thing. She commented that in her experience databases of historical data

tended to be so profoundly shaped by the interests of the makers that she

found them useless for research.  This criticism would, of course, also

apply to any large computing project and, I suppose, points to an

unavoidable problem: the more labour-intensive something like that becomes,

the more monumental (less politely, dinosaur-like) the result. Hence the

importance of prototyping.

Some years back I recall various universities in N America investing in

"rapid prototyping" laboratories, where a person with an idea could see it

take prototypical shape quickly, then use the result to argue for the

support required to build the full thing. Whatever happened to the idea of

rapid prototyping? Is it fair to say that the development of computational

tools has or is inevitably shifting the ability to prototype toward the

ordinary user?

We tell our students here at King's College London to think of their

projects as prototypes -- so that they can consciously engage with genuine

research but at a simpler level within the brief amount of time that they have.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org
Subject: CfP: ACL2003 Resources Infrastucture Workshop
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:19:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 729 (729)


          ACL2003 Resources Information Infrastructure Workshop

     _________________________________________________________________

                              CALL for PAPERS

               Towards a Resources Information Infrastructure

                   Workshop at ACL2003 in Sapporo (Japan)

                            July 11 and 12 2003

                       Organised by ENABLER / ELSNET

Description

   The problem addressed by this workshop is the well-known information

   problem. People are creating, exploring and exploiting language

   resources all over the world. Those who are working with resources

   know a lot about their own and other resources, and they are generally

   prepared to share this knowledge, their expertise and in many cases

   even their resources with others via publications in journals,

   presentations at conferences, and via the web.

   Unfortunately this information, however public, is not accessible in

   any systematic way for those who need resources, who want to know what

   sort of resources exist, how resources should be annotated, which

   standards to adhere to, which tools to use, etc etc. We will call this

   problem the 'Resources Information Problem'.

   The problem has also a geographical dimension: As work on specific

   languages is very often concentrated in specific parts of the world,

   much relevant information has a tendency to stay in one geographical

   place. This is an obstacle for those who are working on these same

   languages in different parts of the world, and it makes it harder to

   port knowledge and expertise gained on one language to other

   languages.

   The above observation are far from novel, and it would be naive to

   think that the problems will ever go away. At the same time one can

   observe that there are organisations (associations, agencies,

   projects, networks, etc) that have access to parts or fragments of

   this information and that have their own infrastructures that

   facilitate access to this information by internal or external people.

   The purpose of this workshop is to investigate how we can exploit the

   existing infrastructures to a maximum in order to facilitate

   world-wide access to information on language resources. The role of

   the workshop will be to bootstrap this process.

[material deleted]

   A full list of PC members will be published on the workshop

   website at <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/acl2003-workshop">http://www.elsnet.org/acl2003-workshop</a>



From: info@folli.org
Subject: Reminder: ESSLLI 2003 Call for Workshop Paper
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:34:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 730 (730)


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

                ESSLLI 2003

Workshop Programme and Call for Workshop Papers

       15th European Summer School in Logic,

            Language and Information

             August 18-29, Vienna

         <a href="http://www.logic.at/esslli03/">http://www.logic.at/esslli03/</a>

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

Title: Student Session

Dates: August 18-29, 2003

Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2003 (extended)

Website:  <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03">http://www.science.uva.nl/~bcate/esslli03</a>

Organizer(s):   Balder ten Cat

Contact email:  b.ten.cate@hum.uva.nl

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Title: Direct Reference and Specificity

Section: Logic&Language

Dates:  August 18.-22. 2003

Deadline for submissions: March 15st, 2003

Website: <a href="http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/DirRefSpec/">http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/DirRefSpec/</a>

Organizer(s):   Klaus von Heusinger and Hans Kamp

Contact email:  klaus.heusinger@uni-konstanz.de

                  hans@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

-----

Title:  Conditional and Unconditional Modality

Section: Logic&Language

Dates:  August 25.-29.2003

Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2003

Website: <a href="http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sigmod/ESSLLI03/">http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sigmod/ESSLLI03/</a>

Organizer(s):   Veltman, Frank and Condoravdi, Cleo and Kaufmann, Stefan

Contact email:  veltman@hum.uva.nl

------

Title:  Workshop on Interval Temporal Logics and Duration Calculi

Section: Logic & Computation

Dates:  August 25.-29.2003

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2003

Website: keine ofizielle Website

Organizer(s): Goranko, Valentin and Montanari, Angelo

Contact email:  vfg@na.rau.ac.za

                  montana@dimi.uniud.it

------

Title:  The Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles

Section: Language & Computation

Dates:   August 18.-22. 2003

Deadline for submissions: April 4, 2003

Website: <a href="http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~stede/essllicfp.html">http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~stede/essllicfp.html</a>

Organizer(s): Stede, Manfred and Zeevat, Henk

Contact email:  stede@ling.uni-potsdam.de

                  henk@illc.uva.nl

-------

Title:  Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development

Section: Language & Computation

Dates:   August 25.-29.2003

Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2003 to multigram@coli.uni-sb.de.

Website: <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~siegel/esslli/">http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~siegel/esslli/</a>

Organizer(s):  Fouvry, Frederik and Siegel, Melanie and

                  Flickinger, Dan and Bender, Emily

Contact email:  siegel@dfki.uni-sb.de

                  fouvry@coli.uni-sb.de

                  danf@csli.stanford.edu

                  bender@csli.stanford.edu

------

Title:  Adaptation of Automatic Learning Algorithms for Analytical

and Inflectional Languages

Section: Language & Computation

Dates:  August 18.-22. 2003

Deadline for submissions: Mar 14, 2003

Website:        <a href="http://ckl.mff.cuni.cz/~alaf03">http://ckl.mff.cuni.cz/~alaf03</a>

Organizer(s):   Hladka, Barbora and Ribarov Kiril

Contact email:  alaf03@ckl.mff.cuni.cz

------

Title:  Language Evolution and Computation

Section: Language & Computation

Dates:  August 25.-29.2003

Deadline for submissions: 28th February 2003

Website:        <a href="http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~simon/esslli.html">http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~simon/esslli.html</a>

Organizer(s):   Kirby, Simon (University of Edinburgh)

Contact email: simon@ling.ed.ac.uk


--
Dr. ing. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova
Chair of the Program Committee ESSLLI 2003
Computerlinguistik, Universitaet des Saarlandes,
<a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~korbay/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~korbay/</a>



From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: GIS in print culture studies
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:56:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 731 (731)


Willard,

Possiby relevant to your recent query on Humanist, about tools for studying

the history of the book:

Using GIS for Spatial and Temporal Analyses in Print Culture Studies:

                               Some Opportunities and Challenges

                                Bertrum H. MacDonald and Fiona A. Black

Social Science History 24.3 (2000) 505-536

<a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_science_history/v024/24.3macdonald.html">http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_science_history/v024/24.3macdonald.html</a>

John

434-825-2969 | jmu2m@virginia.edu | <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/</a>



From: Elisabeth Burr <Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: 16.509 data modelling for a history of the book?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:58:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 732 (732)


I have just taught a course on the influence of media revolutions on the

conception of language. A lot of the time was devoted to the beginnings

(invention and development of writing systems, manuscript culture and the

advent of the printing press. The present development was sketched out at

the end of the course. I say this because the experiences influence what I

am going to say.

The ideal would be, according to me, to retain as much as possible of the

information the individual book provides or seems to provide to us as

observers / users allowing, at the same time, for the possibility that the

information might change in the future because of the different position

with respect to new cultural objects in which the book might find itself.

As this is not possible just like that, the best thing to do would seem to

start such a project with a certain teaching aim in mind and make the

information to retain dependent on your needs:

The object of the above named course being the conception of language /

theory of language the text is certainly important when it comes to books

like Torry's Champ fleury which do not just propose a certain theory of

letters but of language, too.

With other books, above all manuscripts or early prints of vernacular

(literary) texts, say for example of Dante's Divine Comedy, the text itself

would be less important in my context. More important would be the printed

objects themselves, their contribution to the development of the structure

of the printed book (front pages, indices, page numbering etc.) and the

role they played in the context of the Italian linguistic, cultural and

political situation and the develop- ment of a linguistic norm for the

vernacular languages. This means, that it is more important, in this case,

that I can show pictures of the material object to my students.

With 19C printed books the teaching aim could very well be to get students

to look at books as an object providing manifold information and finding

itself in a complex interplay of diffe- rent types of context (see the

relational database  - I'd add information about the topic of the books

straight away ). When they will look at the book itself - I think they will

feel the need to do so eventually - or come across books of the 19C they

will  be able to look at them in a con- textualised way from the start and

then explore them further in a scholarly way.

To give an example: in my course on early grammatical descriptions of

Romance languages I introduce students also to the forerunners / models of

vernacular grammars like Donatus and Priscianus. One of the students went

to an exposition on Venice (if I recall rightly) and then wrote me an

e-mail that there she had seen the Institutiones of Priscianus. If it had

not been for this course she would probably not have seen it at all or she

would have seen it just as one of the objects, i.e. without being able to

put it into a certain context. Naturally, this would not be enough for

scholars of latin grammars. They would want to be able to analyse the text.

The result of such a project could then be made available to others in such

a way that they can add whatever other information they need for their

teaching aims. This collaborative effort would make reaching the ideal more

feasible in the long run.

Elisabeth Burr

At 07:39 26.02.03 +0000, you wrote:
[deleted quotation]
HD Dr. Elisabeth Burr

Fakultt 2 / Romanistik

Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt

Geibelstr. 41

D-47058 Duisburg

<a href="http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr">http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr</a>



From: "OESI Informa" <informaoesi@cervantes.es>
Subject: Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:55:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 733 (733)


SEPLN 2003

XIX CONGRESO DE

LA SOCIEDAD ESPAOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN)

(19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing SEPLN)

September 10-12, 2003

Universidad de Alcal de Henares

<a href="http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln">http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln</a>

Introduction

The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

(SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcal de Henares

(Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this Conference is

to promote the dissemination of research, development and innovation

activities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in the field of

Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a forum for

discussion and communication to facilitate an effective exchange of

knowledge and scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the

publication of relevant work and the establishment of means of

collaboration with national and international Institutions that are active

in this field.

Objectives

The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and

scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest

research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing,

as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and

to know about new projects. Consequently, the 19th SEPLN Conference is a

meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the

present state of development in this field of knowledge.

Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in

previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and

foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market

needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in

helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

Topics

Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project

abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics:

- Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language

- Corpus linguistics

- Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval

- Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis

- Computational Lexicography

- Monolingual and multilingual text generation

- Machine translation

- Speech synthesis and recognition

- Semantics, pragmatics and discourse

- Word sense disambiguation

- NLP industrial applications

- Automatic textual content analysis

Structure of the Conference

The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to presenting

papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product demonstrations or

products connected with topics addressed in the conference. Scientific

activities will be complemented by social and tourist activities, allowing

attendants to gain a better understanding about the social and cultural

dimensions of Alcal de Henares.

Communications

Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals, to

be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than April 30, 2003.

Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in

electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title, the

complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and e-mail.

Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final

version, please check the publication formatsection):

- Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words)

- Related topic

- Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract)

- The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate files

will be submitted, one will only include the title and author details, the

other will only include the title and the rest of the proposal

- Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the style

requirements that are described in the publication format section in this

website

The proposals will be sent through a web-based system. The exact address of

this system will be published in the official website of the Conference.

Any files with a size larger than 4 MB, must be compressed into any of the

following formats: zip, rar, tar or gz.

Projects and Demos

As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral

presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of

oral presentations, any session may be reserved to this purpose.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information

must be included:

- Project title

- Funding institution

- Participant groups in the project

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the project director

- Abstract (2 pages maximum)

- If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be

included, as indicated below

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors

- Abstract (2 pages maximum)

- Time estimation for the whole presentation

- This information must be received by June 29, 2001

Important Dates

Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance:

- Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 16, 2003

- Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2003

- Deadline for submitting the final version: June 27, 2003

- Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003

Program Committee

Chairman:

Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universidad de Alicante)

Members:

Prof. Jos Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla)

Prof. Toni Badia i Cards (Universidad de Pompeu Fabra)

Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodrguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid)

Prof. Irene Castelln Masalles (Universidad de Barcelona)

Prof. Arantza Daz de Ilarraza (Universidad del Pas Vasco)

Prof. Antonio Ferrndez Rodrguez(Universidad de Alicante)

Prof. Ana Mara Garca Serrano (Universidad Politcnica de Madrid)

Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Universidad del Pas Vasco)

Prof. Xavier Gmez Guinovart (Universidad de Vigo)

Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia)

Prof. Jos Miguel Goi Menoyo (Universidad Politcnica de Madrid)

Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universidad Autnoma de Barcelona)

Prof. M. Antonia Mart Antonn (Universidad de Barcelona)

Prof. Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universidad Politcnica de Valencia)

Prof. Lluis Padr (Universidad Politcnica de Catalua)

Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universidad de Alicante)

Prof. Natividad Prieto Sez (Universidad Politcnica de Valencia)

Prof. Germn Rigau (Universidad Politcnica de Catalua)

Prof. Horacio Rodrguez Hontoria (Universidad Politcnica de Catalua)

Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Universidad del Pas Vasco)

Prof. L. Alfonso Urea Lpez (Universidad de Jan)

Prof. M Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia)

Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidad de La Corua)

Organising Committee

Chairman:

Mr. Jess Antonio Cid Martnez, Academic Director at Instituto Cervantes

Coordinator:

Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio, Responsible for the Bureau of Spanish in the

Information Society OESI at Instituto Cervantes

Members:

Ms. Eva M Garca Garca, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes

Ms. Raquel Tapias Aparicio, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes

Mr. John Michael Urresti Graa, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes

Collabators:

Ms. Rosario Guijarro Huerta, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes

Ms. Eva M Gmez Gmez, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes

Further Information

Further information will be soon available at the official website of the

Conference: <a href="http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln">http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln</a>.

You may also contact the coordinator at any of the following addresses:

Secretary of the 19th SEPLN Conference

Conference coordinator: Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio

Oficina del Espaol en la Sociedad de la Informacin

C/ Libreros, 23

28801 Alcal de Henares (Madrid)

Spain

Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94

Fax: +34 91 888 18 26

E-mail: <mailto:oesi@cervantes.es>oesi@cervantes.es



From: lhomich <lhomich@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.511 data-modelling; rapid prototyping?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:57:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 734 (734)


Dr. McCarty:

I believe that tools for rapid, simple prototypes are available to us. I'm a

person who came from the business world (where I was a computer systems

developer) into academia (I'm now a student, doing my M.A. in Humanities

Computing/English at the U. of Alberta). In my business experience, I often

used Microsoft Access as a rapid RDBMS prototying tool. It is powerful enough

to model complex relationships, and allows the developer to rapidly change

table structure and connections between tables, and to build fform-based

interfaces.

Building complex applications (in any platform that I've had experience with)

*does* require a good deal of technical knowledge, but a set of basic skills

with a tool such as MS Access is sufficient for prototyping. My approach to

prototyping is that rather that try to design something complex from the

start, I can start with somthing simple and build on from there. I've found

it's beneficial to offer the user a model which gives her something to react

to. Her responses are informed by the model I build; she has something

'concrete' to look at, and can make decisions based on her experiences the

prototype.

And, as a former database administrator, I have to stress that a thorough data

analysis and database design is of great importance to the success of any

project.

Eric Homich

M.A. Student,

Humanities Computing/English

U. of Alberta



From: Stephen Miller <Stephen.Miller@assoc.oeaw.ac.at>
Subject: Re: 16.509 data modelling for a history of the book?
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:25:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 735 (735)

[deleted quotation]
One answer:

"I am inclined to think there is more in the flyleaf of a book than one

would at first expect. If one picks up at an old book-stall a relic "E

libris Joh. Smith," it certainly is not a very great treasure for its

owner's sake, but if the name be not quite so common, if it be that of a

great man or of a semi-great man, the volume commands a higher price for

the autograph... But the value becomes increased if there be, besides the

name, an ink-note in the same hand, letting you know some private feeling,

or some little circumstance, connected with the former possessor. If the

owner were not a great man, at least he will have been a reading man; and

thus, if one does not gain the pleasure of holding converse with a

master-spirit of the past, at any rate there is before him the type of a

class by no means uninfluential in bygone days. He gains a nearer insight

into the every-day life of our ancestors, and a minuter acquaintance with

their habits."

J.T. Jeffcock, "MS. Initial Book-Notes."  Notes & Queries. 12 (1855):298-99.

Stephen Miller

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From: SpringerLink-Alert-Service
Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:27:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 736 (736)


Lecture Notes in Computer Science

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

LNCS 2621:

M. Pezz (Ed.):

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

6th International Conference, FASE 2003,

Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of

Software,

ETAPS 2003, Warsaw, Poland, April 7-11, 2003. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2621.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2621.htm</a>

or

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LNCS 2620:

A.D. Gordon (Ed.):

Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures

6th International Conference, FOSSACS 2003,

Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of

Software,

ETAPS 2003, Warsaw, Poland, April 7-11, 2003. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2620.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2620.htm</a>

or

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LNCS 2619:

H. Garavel, J. Hatcliff (Eds.):

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

9th International Conference, TACAS 2003,

Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of

Software,

ETAPS 2003, Warsaw, Poland, April 7-11, 2003. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2619.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2619.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2619.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2619.htm</a>

LNCS 2618:

P. Degano (Ed.):

Programming Languages and Systems

12th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2003,

Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of

Software,

ETAPS 2003, Warsaw, Poland, April 7-11, 2003. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2618.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2618.htm</a>

or

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LNCS 2598:

R. Klein, H.-W. Six, L. Wegner (Eds.):

Computer Science in Perspective

Essays Dedicated to Thomas Ottmann

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or

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LNCS 2593

A.B. Chaudhri, M. Jeckle, E. Rahm, R. Unland (Eds.):

Web, Web-Services, and Database Systems

NODe 2002, Web- and Database-Related Workshops, Erfurt, Germany, October

7-10, 2002. Revised Papers

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2593.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2593.htm</a>

or

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LNCS 2591:

M. Aksit, M. Mezini, R. Unland (Eds.):

Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a

Networked World

International Conference NetObjectDays, NODe 2002, Erfurt, Germany, October

7-10, 2002. Revised Papers

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2591.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2591.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2591.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2591.htm</a>

LNCS 2590:

S. Bressan, A.B. Chaudhri, M.L. Lee, J.X. Yu, Z. Lacroix (Eds.):

Efficiency and Effectiveness of XML Tools and Techniques and Data

Integration over the Web

VLDB 2002 Workshop EEXTT and CAiSE 2002Workshop DIWeb. Revised Papers

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2590.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2590.htm</a>

or

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LNCS 2573:

L. Kucera (Ed.):

Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science

28th International Workshop, WG 2002, Cesk Krumlov, Czech Republic, June

13-15, 2002. Revised Papers

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or

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LNCS 2553:

B. Andersson, M. Bergholtz, P.  Johannesson (Eds.):

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

6th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to

Information Systems, NLDB 2002, Stockholm, Sweden, June 27-28, 2002.

Revised Papers

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or

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From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2003
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:25:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 737 (737)


CIT INFOBITS    February 2003           No. 56          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.

......................................................................

Does the Internet Foster Shallow Learning?

Student Citation Behavior

The Next Major Wave of Change in U.S. Higher Education

Learning Communities

Creative Commons and Copyright

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

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From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mk235@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: e(X)literature: the Preservation, Archiving and
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:18:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 738 (738)


Dissemination of  Electronic Literature

e(X)literature: the Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of

Electronic Literature

University of California Santa Barbara, April 3-4, 2003

<a href="http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference2003.html">http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference2003.html</a>

Thursday, April 3

9:00 - 9:15:

Welcome and Introductory Comments

Dean David Marshall (Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, English, UCSB)

Bill Warner (English, UCSB)

Jeff Ballowe (co-founder, Electronic Literature Organization)

9:15 - 10:25

"The Opposite of Property"

Keynote Speaker: James Boyle (Duke University Law School)

10:30 - 12:00

Archiving Digital Work: Defining the Present

Commentary:

Howard Besser (Director of Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program

at

New York University)

Alan Divack (Archivist for the Ford Foundation)

Presentation of Endangered Works:

Marjorie Luesebrink (M.D. Coverley; Hypermedia author (Califia) and

President, ELO Board of Directors)

12: 00- 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:45

Library of Congress to the Rescue

Keynote Speaker: Stewart Brand (Co-founder, Global Business Network;

president, The Long Now Foundation)

2:45 - 4:15

Other Digital Preservation and Archiving Initiatives: Panel

Chair, Jeff Ballowe (co-founder, Electronic Literature Organization)

Howard Besser (Director of Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program

at

New York University)

Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project Director, Associate Director for

Textbase Development, Brown University)

Merrilee Proffitt (Digital Library Development Specialist, The Bancroft

Library, University of California, Berkeley)

Joseph Tabbi (English, University of Illinois, Chicago)

4:30 - 5:15

The New Media Reader (MIT, 2003): Overview of Migration Strategies

Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Creative Writing Fellow Brown University)

Nick Montfort (Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer and Information

Science, University of Pennsylvania)

5:15 - 6:00

Refreshments, hors d'oeuvres

6:00 - 7:30

Good Vibrations: Writers, Artists, the Works

Producers:

Marjorie Luesebrink (M.D. Coverley; Hypermedia author (Califia) and

President, ELO Board of Directors)

Scott Rettberg (Assistant Professor of New Media Studies, Literature

Program, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)

Presenters:

Thomas Swiss (English and Rhetoric of Inquiry, University of Iowa;

Editor of

The Iowa Review Web), Rediscovers selections from The Iowa Review Web

TIRWeb

Lisa Jevbratt (Studio Arts & Media Arts and Technology, UCSB)., Demos

Softbot 1:1

Stephanie Strickland (Print and new media poet), reveals "V:Vniverse"

George Legrady (Studio Arts & Media Arts and Technology, UCSB),

Premieres

Melanie Wein's (Media Design, BA Ravensburg) "The Fleetingness of Bits"

Jason Nelson (Author of Flash narratives), A Flash Reading

Friday, April 4

8:30-9:00

Coffee and bagels

9:00 -10:00

Chair, Bill Warner (English, UCSB)

Matt Kirschenbaum (English, University of Maryland) "The Anatomy of a

Digital Object"

Geof Bowker (Communications, UC San Diego) "Remembrance, Commemoration,

Oversight and Oblivion: Collective Cultural Archives over the Millennia"

10:00 - 11:30

The Technology of E-Literature Preservation: The Shape of a Solution

Chair, Alan Liu (English, UCSB) PAD Technology Plan Overview: Issues and

Approaches

Nick Montfort(Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer and Information

Science,

University of Pennsylvania), "Reading" Works That Are No Longer

Readable:

Emulators and Interpreters

David Durand and Liam Quin, X-Literature: Building XML Representations

of

E-Literature

Robert Kendall and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Creative Writing Fellow Brown

University), X-Literature Authoring and Reading Solutions

11:45 - 1:00

Copyright/ Open Source roundtable

Chair, Bill Warner (English, UCSB)

Rob Swigart (English., San Jose State University)

Harvey Harrison, (UCLA and Liquid Knowledge)

Geert Lovink

Conference rationale:

At the 2002 Electronic Literature Online conference in Los Angeles,

Katherine Hayles' keynote address warned that the incessant development

of

the software and hardware is rendering old computer based works obsolete

and

inaccessible. Although obsolescence is a problem for every form of

cultural

production, the reliance of computer-based creations upon a constantly

evolving delicate matrix of software and hardware, makes preserving and

archiving digital work especially challenging. Out of last Spring's

discussions emerged the "PAD" initiative, and acronym for "preservation,

archiving, and dissemination." PAD is an effort to develop a software

standard (and perhaps eventually software products) that would give

writers

and artists some influence over the future development of the

hardware/software interface, especially with regard to three practical

goals

of preservation, archiving, and dissemination.

In the discussions of the last year, apparently available and relatively

simple solutions--for example, preserving digital works by creating

emulators that allow us to migrate them to new platforms--end up

becoming

complex, and implicated in many other issues. Here are a few: the value

of

earlier works (are they worth saving?); cost (at what expense?);

technical

feasibility (how can it be done?); ownership of works and software

platforms

(what sort of open-ness and access is necessary for this project). Such

a

project requires constant attention to creators and users (who benefits,

and

it what ways?).

The April conference has two primary purposes: to address the general

issues

surrounding an attempt to preserve, archive and disseminate works

created on

the computer, and, in dialogical spirit, by offering a public account of

the

PAD project, we hope learn from those participating in the conference.

For information contact Professor William Warner (English, UCSB) at

warner@english.ucsb.edu

Yours,

William B. Warner

Director, the Digital Cultures Project Professor English

University of California/ Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, 93106

805-685-1092

warner@english.ucsb.edu



From: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Oxford 'Shock' conference -- new date!
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:19:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 739 (739)


* Please forward to relevant lists and individuals *

CALL FOR PAPERS

Due to a change of date, we are reopening the CFP for

The Shock of the Old 3: Designing and Developing for the Disciplines

24th July, 2003

University of Oxford

Said Business School

The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services is

pleased to announce our third annual conference on educational technologies.

Shock 3 will explore the problems and issues involved in designing and

developing learning technologies for particular disciplines and subjects.

We are interested in receiving proposals for talks that consider one or more

of the following questions:

- What kinds of technologies are becoming most widely used to teach

sciences, humanities, arts, social sciences? Why?

- What are the particular requirements for creating materials suited to

various disciplines/subjects?

- Are truly generic or completely non-disciplinary materials possible (or

desirable)?

- Should we be striving for the generic "ber-tool" or making the most of

disciplinary differences?

- In seeking to make generic tools might we be imposing the methodologies of

one discipline onto another?

- How can discipline- or subject-specific materials be adapted for different

disciplines or subjects? Are there any commonalities in tools for teaching,

say, literature, chemistry, economics?

- What differences are thus exposed or created in the underlying teaching

(and research) practices?

- Conversely, can disciplinary differences expose methodological assumptions

in the technologies?

- Do disciplinary differences affect the ways new technologies are best

integrated into teaching practice?

- Are proprietary solutions and "corporatization" of learning technologies

shaping the way subjects are taught? If so, is this leading to increased or

decreased choice and flexibility?

- What are the possible benefits and/or dangers of off-the-shelf "content"?

Talks that describe or demonstrate specific projects, tools and technologies

are welcome, but we will give priority to those that do so within the

context of

the conference questions.

Please send 300-word abstracts (in-message or RTF) to ltg@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Email submissions strongly encouraged! (but address and fax below)

DUE DATE: 10th MARCH, 5:00 pm.

The conference website is: <a href="http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/">http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/</a>

[More information and registration instructions will be added to this site

shortly.]

If you have questions, please contact the coordinator:

Dr. Nancy Weitz: nancy.weitz@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Learning Technologies Group

Oxford University Computing Services

13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX2 6NN

Tel: 01865 273221 | Fax: 01865 273275

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

* supported by the Association for Learning Technology *



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.515 rapid prototyping
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:18:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 740 (740)


I must confess that my gut instinct is that if something is rapid and

simple, it's probably no use.



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH Guide to Good Practice now available as PDF file
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:20:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 741 (741)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 27, 2003

PLEASE CIRCULATE

                         NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE

                       NOW AVAILABLE AS PDF FILE

                          <a href="http://www.ninch.org/guide.pdf">http://www.ninch.org/guide.pdf</a>

                       ORIGINAL ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE AT:

                   <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/">http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/</a>

I am pleased to announce that a PDF version is now available of the First

Edition of the "NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation

and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials."

First published online in November 2002, the extensive NINCH Guide creates

a high-level pathway in its fourteen chapters through the issues and

decisions to be made in digitizing and networking heritage materials,

following the life-cycle of digital projects.

Created by practitioners from many disciplines and media who work in

museums, libraries, archives, the arts and academic departments, the NINCH

Guide is partly derived from extensive interviews at distinguished

digitization programs in the U.S. and abroad, conducted by Glasgow

University's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII).

The First Edition is only available online. The NINCH Working Group on Best

Practices, which created the Guide in association with HATII, is soliciting

comments on the content of the Guide in order to prepare a Second Edition

that may be published in print. In response to the very large number of

requests for an easily printable version of the entire Guide, we have now

produced a PDF version.

The PDF file is 242 pages in length and comprises the core 13 chapters and

appendices. A background bibliography and the individual reports of the 36

interviews conducted by HATII are available separately from the main NINCH

GUIDE website at <a href="http://www.ninch.org/guide">http://www.ninch.org/guide</a> or, directly, at

<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/">http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/</a>

I should like to thank the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and

CNI's Communications Coordinator, Shelley Sperry, as well as NINCH's own

Sarah Segura, for their time and expertise in producing this format.

Thanks again to the Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust for the

funding that enabled us to create the NINCH Guide, and to New York

University mfor producing and hosting the online version.

With this version 1.1 of the First Edition, we re-double our call for

comments, that can can be made via a form at

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/comments.html">http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/comments.html</a>.

David Green

Executive Director

on behalf of the NINCH Working Group for Best Practices:

Kathe Albrecht

Morgan Cundiff

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Katherine Jones

Mark Kornbluh

Joan Lippincott

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From: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de (RAM-Verlag)
Subject: online journal: Glottometrics 4, 2002
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:29:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 742 (742)

Interested in "Glottometrics 4, 2002" which is edited on the occasion of G.
K. Zipf' s 100th birthday? Then visit our web-site:
<<a href="http://www.ram-verlag.de">http://www.ram-verlag.de</a>>www.ram-verlag.de and look at the contents
including abstracts. [Click on Inhalt/Editorial for the abstracts.]
Glottometrics 4, 2002 is available as:
- Printed edition: EUR 25.00 plus PP
- CD-ROM: EUR 10.00
- PDF format (internet download): EUR 5.00
Questions? Do not hesitate to contact me (e-mail:
<mailto:RAM-Verlag@t-online.de>RAM-Verlag@t-online.de)
Best regards
Jutta Richter
For: Ram-Verlag



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: historiography of recent history
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:17:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 743 (743)


At the moment I am toying with the idea that as the temporal focus of

history approaches the present day, historiography becomes ethnography, in

other words, distance in time becomes distance in (metaphorical) space.

One's informants are no longer silent because they are dead, rather they

are silent, and we deaf to what we need to hear, because we share with them

what goes without saying. How, to paraphrase the ethnographer Greg Dening,

do we hear their silences?

Yes, I oversimplify, but I do so in order to provoke suggestions as to

where I might look for wisdom on the writing of recent history. I am

looking for a Momigliano or Finley or Collingwood whose focus is on the

historiography of the very recent past. If I cannot find a person of such

stature and interests then a lesser but thoughtful light would do. Any

suggestions?

The topic is ours because, not to put too fine a point on it, we deal daily

with legacy artifacts that we need to understand in their contexts of

origin, with practices which were formed around earlier media and with

people trained on the basis of these media.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Minsky's daughter
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:44:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 744 (744)


See the following anecdote, which might have some appeal to those of us too

busy for thinking. But then it does lead to the question of what kind of

thinking the poor man was able to do. I recommend to your attention,

Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly (London: Fourth

Estate, 1997), transl. from Le Scaphandre et le papillon

(Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1997). A Google-search on his name will

yield abundant material. What sort of a challenge, I wonder, do stories

like this pose for theories in cognitive science about kinaesthetics in

thought?

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Humanist Discussion Group [mailto:humanist@Princeton.EDU] On
Subject: 16.520 rapid prototyping
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:18:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 745 (745)


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 520.

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

                     www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/

                       Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu



From: "De Beer Jennifer <jad@sun.ac.za>" <jad@sun.ac.za>
Subject: RE: 16.520 rapid prototyping
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:31:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 746 (746)


Dear Willard,

In what can rather be regarded more as information modelling cf.

data-modelling, when teaching a Multimedia course to my second-year

undergraduates, it is the case that I emphasise that they create rapid

prototypes of their projects not only now, but also almost more

importantly, when they enter the multimedia industry. As indicated by E

Homich as well as yourself, rapid prototypes are invaluable in assessing

a client's/ end-user's/ funder's expectations/wants early on in the

design of the (in this case) Web-based information (delivery) system.

Regards, Jennifer


---
Jennifer De Beer
Lecturer in Informatics,
Dept. of Information Science,
Universiteit Stellenbosch University, ZA
<a href="http://www.sun.ac.za/InfoScience/staff.html">http://www.sun.ac.za/InfoScience/staff.html</a>
+27 (0)21 808 2071 (t)
+27 (0)21 808 2117 (f)


From: Leo Robert Klein <leo@leoklein.com>
Subject: Re: 16.511 data-modelling; rapid prototyping?
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:32:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 747 (747)

on 2/27/03 3:01 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
<willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) at willard@lists.village.virginia.edu wrote:
[deleted quotation]Willard,
[deleted quotation]design -- is used all the time.  You pencil in your idea on a piece of paper
and then rush down to the entrance of your particular institution, grab
about twenty students and see if the idea will fly.  The idea may be no more
than a simple list of options that you intend to expand into some more
ambitious application further down the road.
If this original idea turns out to be borderline cockamamie, you adjust it a
bit and run back down to the entrance of your particular institution for yet
more off-the-cuff testing.  All that's required is a pencil and a couple of
pieces of paper.  For the truly hardy, there's MS Word for doing the layout.
Eventually you refine your design down to a very precise document that
becomes the organizing guide (i.e. the design spec) for the entire project.
This without having touched a computer at any point.
Although technical oversight is essential, designing the system at least
initially really depends on your stomach for running down to the entrance of
your institution, testing the thing, and then making adjustments over and
over again.
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From: "Nate Combs (Home)" <ncombs@roaringshrimp.com>
Subject: Re: 16.511 data-modelling; rapid prototyping?
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 07:30:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 748 (748)

At 08:01 AM 2/27/2003 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
[deleted quotation]Dr. McCarty -
Rapid prototyping can mean many things to those in software development.
  From a languages perspective, it might mean to some being able to write an
application in LISP or a RAD (Rapid Application Development) language
(associated with some application framework) such as Visual Basic or
Macromedia Flash (emphasizing UI development).   It might mean "higher
level" interpreted/scripting languages such as Ruby.  These choices would
be in contrast to traditionally more time-consuming ("lower-level")
languages, say "C" or "C++".
  From a specification and development methodology perspective, it might
mean to some adopting a development cycle that is highly iterative and
results in constrantly revisiting design assumptions and
implementation.  This is an idea seen often, recently,  with such movements
as "Extreme Programming" (XP).
I've spent most of my career in sponsored research software development in
industry.  And in its various guises and flavors over the years, "rapid
prototyping" has been seen as a reasonable approach for quickly testing
ideas and applicaitons in poorly specified or understood problem
areas.   By the nature of research development - the technical solutions
are not often clear in the beginning, nor how it will be applied (e.g. from
a users/applications perspective) can change.  In these contexts, "rapid
prototyping" is often seen as a reasonable approach to refining a design
and testing an idea.
The caveat to "rapid prototyping" is that one needs to understand the
tehnical limitations of their approach and know when to "let go" their
prototype in favor of a more disciplined implementation / data-model etc.
once the problem is better understood and before transitioning to a more
exacting application/ user.
Nathan Combs
Scientist, BBN Technologies
Cambridge, MA
(Home: ncombs@roaringshrimp.com,
   Work: ncombs@bbn.com)



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: ethics of research
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:52:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 749 (749)


The following historical light on the ethics of collaboration is from

Sheldon Krimsky, "Science, society, and the expanding boundaries of moral

discourse", in Science, Politics and Social Practice, ed. K. Gavroglu et

al. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995): 113; the essay is online at

<a href="http://www.tufts.edu/~skrimsky/">http://www.tufts.edu/~skrimsky/</a> (Publications, Selected: Science and Ethics).

"The public's acclamation of science was in its ascendancy in the post war

period of the 1950s. Scientific achievements were credited with carrying

the allied forces to victory in Europe and Asia through the development of

radar, the modern technological anny, and of course the atomic bomb.

Governments throughout the industrialized world were now prepared to invest

heavily in science as insurance against future threats to their national

security. This change in the government's role was a mixed blessing for

scicntific institutions. Many disciplines flourished from the new riches of

public funds. Some new disciplines were formed out of the war effort and

the post-war arms race. But it also meant that scientific research in the

American academy became heavily politicized. The image of the lone

scientist, broadly educated with the grasp of the large picture, working

tirelessly in a makeshift laboratory fumished with hand-crafted equipment,

pursuing a path to knowledge according to some ineffable sixth sense, was

undergoing a great transformation. The new image was of a strategically

planned science consisting of teams of investigators, working on large

scale projects competing for limited funds, positioning themselves in a

social structure that would insure the continuity of funding through

volatile political times."

Most of Krimsky's work these days is on the ethics of biotechnology, but I

recommend him overall for a clear, unblinking portrait of research in its

socio-historical context. The point is not science-bashing, though the

natural sciences are particularly vulnerable to compromise, as Krimsky

shows, because they coincide with the public interest (as conceived and

shaped by the public's masters) so closely. We are further back from the

fire, but no one is untouched by the problems he discusses.

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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: prototyping and modelling
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:51:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 750 (750)


It would seem, then, from what has been said about rapid prototyping that

one could argue for the following analogy without strain: as modelling is

to the natural sciences so rapid prototyping is to software development. A

qualification does leap to mind, however. Because software development, as

a form of engineering, does actually have to come up with a product, the

objective is an acceptable prototype and beyond that a working system, not

only better knowledge. But then if one will allow that modelling aims at

producing theories -- even if a theory is but a model no one wants

fundamentally to tinker with -- there's still not much difference.

Fair? 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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "B. Tommie Usdin" <btusdin@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Extreme Papers due April 3
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 08:58:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 751 (751)


Reminder: start writing your Extreme papers now!

Submissions for Extreme Markup Languages:

     - due April 3, 2003

     - must be full papers (or partial papers complete enough to allow

       peer reviewers to judge the relevance of the topic, the interest

       of the results, and the quality and technical merit of

       presentation)

     - must be new material

Applications to be on the Peer Review panel and to teach Tutorials are

due March 20, 2003.

See: <a href="http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/index.html">http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/index.html</a> for the

     complete Extreme Markup Languages 2003 Call for Participation.


--
======================================================================
Extreme Markup Languages 2003          mailto:extreme@mulberrytech.com
August 4-8, 2003                   details: <a href="http://www.ideallaince.org">http://www.ideallaince.org</a>
Montreal, Canada                      or: <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com">http://www.extrememarkup.com</a>
======================================================================



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.2
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 08:57:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 752 (752)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 2,  Week of March 3, 2003

In this issue:

Interview --

Information Access on the Wide Open Web

RLG's James Michalko discusses the issues surrounding the access and

retrieval of scholarly information in today's environment of choice.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_michalko_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_michalko_1.html</a>



From: Hamish Cunningham <H.Cunningham@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: Special issue of JNLE on Software Architecture for
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:21:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 753 (753)


Language Engineering

                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Special Issue of Journal

                 Journal of Natural Language Engineering

             Software Architecture for Language Engineering

                Editors: Hamish Cunningham, Donia Scott

A number of researchers argued in the early and middle 1990s that the field

of computational infrastructure, or architecture, for Natural Language

Processing, merited an increase in attention. The reasoning was that the

increasingly large-scale and technologically significant nature of NLP

science was placing increasing burdens of an engineering nature on R&D

workers seeking robust and practical methods. Over the intervening period a

number of significant systems and practices have been developed in what we

may call Software Architecture for Language Engineering. Of the most

prominent are:

    * RAGS, Reference Architecture for Generation Systems

      (Brighton and Edinburgh)

    * LT XML (Edinburgh)

    * TEI, CES, XCES (Oxford, Vassar, etc.)

    * ATLAS (LDC, NIST)

    * Galaxy Communicator Software Infrastructure (Mitre)

    * JENA (Hewlett Packard)

    * Protg (Stanford)

    * GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering (Sheffield).

This special issue represents an opportunity for pracititioners in this

area to report their work in a coordinated setting. The value to the

community at large will be to get a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in

infrastructural work, which may indicate where further take-up of these

systems can be of benefit. A wide range of topics are relevant, from

reference architectures to web services, from component repositories to

language resource standardisation, from grid-based distribution to

comparative studies of different architectures.

Important dates:

1st July 2003           deadline for submission of papers

1st November 2003       notification of acceptance

15th December 2003      final copy due

1st June 2004           special issue publication date

Submissions:

Initial submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to

                Hamish Cunningham  -  hamish@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Formatting instructions for final submissions are available from CUP at

<a href="http://assets.cup.org/NLE/nle_ifc.pdf">http://assets.cup.org/NLE/nle_ifc.pdf</a>

Editorial Committee:

Steve   Appleby

Steven  Bird

Kalina  Bontcheva

Chris   Brew

Hennie  Brugman

Jean    Carletta

Walter  Daelemans

Robert  Dale

David   Day

Thierry DeClerck

Marin   Dimitrov

Roger   Evans

Nancy   Ide

Atanas  Kiryakov

Diana   Maynard

David   McDonald

Chris   Mellish

Jon     Patrick

Thomas  Rist

Laurent Romary

Valentin Tablan

Yorick  Wilks



From: Donna Reiss <dreiss@wordsworth2.net>
Subject: Computers & Writing 2003 and Computers in
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:22:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 754 (754)


Writing-Intensive Classrooms

On behalf of their organizers, I am pleased to invite you to these

conferences for writing with computers and new media throughout the curriculum.

COMPUTERS & WRITING

Discovering Digital Dimensions: Computers and Writing 2003 (3-D at Purdue

in 2003) will be hosted by Purdue s Department of English, the Professional

Writing Program, the Rhetoric and Composition Program, and the Writing Lab

from May 22 25, 2003, in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Keynote and Featured Speakers: Mark C. Taylor, Bob Stein, Victoria Vesna,

and Victor J. Vitanza

As in years past, the conference will provide diverse opportunities for

engagement on issues of central concern to teachers, scholars, and writers

in the emergent culture of the digital age. The theme 3-D at Purdue in 2003

stresses the importance of discovery in the many dimensions of learning,

teaching, and writing as digital networks proliferate and make possible new

forms of expression, suggest alternative rhetorics, and invite

(re)presentation of our disciplinary histories. Conference participants

will have opportunities to hear keynote addresses from well-known

intellectuals, attend poster and panel sessions, interact with vendors

specializing in communication technologies, and be entertained at special

multimedia (3-D) events. The conference again partners with the Graduate

Research Network and the CW 2003 Online Conference. Some participants may

have opportunities for earning course credit.

Special features include an onsite virtual caf, digital discovery zone,

open source workshop, 3-D hypnovista movie, pre-conference workshops, Wolf

Park excursion, and more. For more information and registration forms, see

<a href="http://www.cw2003.org">http://www.cw2003.org</a>. Full registration of $150 includes all meals and

special events. Registration for students and adjunct faculty is $100.

Contact: David Blakesley, Program Chair, help@cw2003.org.

COMPUTERS IN WRITING-INTENSIVE CLASSROOMS

June 16-27, 2003

Michigan Technological University

Houghton, Michigan

To all interested in higher education and K-12 writing instruction,

composition, communication, new media, and pedagogies incorporating

technology, I would like to announce a suite of summer institutes:

These institutes are coordinated by

Dr. Cynthia Selfe, Michigan Technological University

Dr. Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological University

Dr. Richard Selfe, Michigan Technological University

Dr. Gail Hawisher, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson University

INSTITUTE CONTENTS

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

_Approaches to Integrating Computers into Writing Classrooms (CIWIC-AIC)_

In its eighteenth year, CIWIC-AIC provides a space for participants to

explore the thoughtful integration of technology in composition and other

classrooms by examining the value of such tools as electronic

conferencing, text and visual composition software, print and Web design,

digital video, and sound editing, as well as technology-enhanced

assignment design and lab management strategies.

_Integrating New Media into Writing Classrooms (CIWIC-NM)_

In its third year, CIWIC-NM participants learn graphics and authoring

software for composing multimedia texts. They also use those texts--as

well as student- and commercially produced multimedia--as grounds for

discussing and developing compositional and rhetorical approaches for

teaching both the interpretation and the development of new media texts in

writing-intensive classrooms.

_Individual Projects (CIWIC-IP)_

CIWIC-IP is an institute for past CIWIC participants who want to take on a

more focused project. Past participants have worked on designing

distance-education courses that incorporate email, the Internet, and

Instructional Television; designing a Web-based student publication realm

using Perl, JavaScript, CGI scripting, and PHP; and composing articles for

publication. CIWIC-IP participants receive one-on-one instruction and

support from a CIWIC staff member specializing in the participant's field

of interest.

DATES AND FACILITIES

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

CIWIC-AIC, CIWIC-NM, and CIWIC-IP run concurrently for two weeks, June

17-28, 2003, consisting of 10 six-hour days with optional lunch and

evening sessions.

All three institutes use a state-of-the-art computer facility, Michigan

Tech's Center for Computer-Assisted Language Instruction (CCLI). In

addition to attending regularly scheduled sessions, participants have

24-hour access to the lab for additional explorations and practice.

Cynthia Selfe, Anne Wysocki, Richard Selfe, and a team of knowledgeable

student consultants provide one-on-one instruction--on both Macintosh and

PC platforms--in developing and using applications suited for

participants' own classrooms and Writing/English programs. All

participants receive three semester-hours of graduate credit.

Participants need have no previous computer knowledge; individualized

instruction will be provided. At the same time, participants who do have

extensive experience with computers will find plenty of challenges and

room to explore within the framework of the workshop. Participants from

all educational levels are encouraged to attend.

Enrollment is limited.  Apply early!

For more information and registration materials, visit our website at

<a href="http://www.hu.mtu.edu/ciwic">http://www.hu.mtu.edu/ciwic</a> or contact Cheryl E. Ball by email at

ceball@mtu.edu or by phone at 906-487-3272 (office) or 906-487-2582 (lab).

Donna Reiss mailto:dreiss@wordsworth2.net

<a href="http://wordsworth2.net/">http://wordsworth2.net/</a>

Associate Professor, English-Humanities

Tidewater Community College (Virginia)

Preferred postal mail: 203 Grove Drive, Clemson, SC 29631-2310

Home office: phone 864-654-2886 and fax 801-729-4925

TCC postal mail: 1700 College Crescent, Virginia Beach, VA 23453

TCC office phone: 757-822-7064 and Humanities office: 757-822-7183

TCC e-mail: <dreiss@tcc.edu>

TCC Website: <a href="http://onlinelearning.tcc.edu/faculty/tcreisd/">http://onlinelearning.tcc.edu/faculty/tcreisd/</a>

Moving--the Movie: <a href="http://wordsworth2.net/etcetera/moving.htm">http://wordsworth2.net/etcetera/moving.htm</a>

    ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~



From: Stefan Sinclair [mailto:ss@huco.ualberta.ca]
Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities Computing
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:20:09 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 755 (755)


Sent: March 5, 2003 7:11 PM

To: Humanist Discussion Group; coch-cosh-l

Dear Colleagues,

Please join me virtually in congratulating Stan Ruecker on receiving a

Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities Computing. This may well be

the first post-doc specifically in Humanities Computing, but more

importantly, it's another testimony to the broadening institutional

support for our disciplines, along with recent major research grants and

the creation of new academic programmes.

Stan epitomises interdisciplinary scholarship: he has a B.A. and an M.A.

in English, a BSc in Computing Science, a Masters in Design, and will soon

defend an interdisciplinary PhD thesis in Art & Design, English, and

Humanities Computing.

Stan's post-doctoral research with me will focus on interface design and

graphical visualisation in text analysis tools. His insights and

contributions to our field will certainly be welcome, as will his

participation with the University of Alberta's MA in Humanities Computing.

Yours,

Stéfan


--
Stéfan 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: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: Cleveland, Sat April 12, 2003
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:57:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 756 (756)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 6, 2003

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: CLEVELAND

Copyright for Artists and their Public:

Artists' Rights and Art's Rights

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.html</a>

Cleveland Museum of Art

* Saturday April 12, 2003 *

9:30am-4pm

A Copyright Town Meeting on Copyright Basics for Art and Artists

and the Changes Brought by the Internet

Co-sponsored by the

Case Western Center for Law, Technology and the Arts

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association and

Americans for the Arts

Free of Charge: Registration Required

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html</a>

   * * *

In association with the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts at Case

Western Reserve University School of Law

<<a href="http://lawwww.cwru.edu/academic/lta/">http://lawwww.cwru.edu/academic/lta/</a>>, NINCH announces a Copyright Town

Meeting, "Artists' Rights and Art's Rights."

Generously hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art, and co-sponsored by the

Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association and by Americans for the

Arts, this NINCH Copyright Town Meeting focuses on some of the issues that

artists and their audiences confront in creating, distributing and/or

re-using the arts online.

What has been the impact of the Internet on the creative community and how

has copyright law and practice and other legal structures affected what can

be done online? Practitioners, lawyers, legal scholars, and a critical

commentator on digital copyright law and practice come together to offer

their wisdom and experiences to those creating and using the arts online.

After an introductory keynote address by June Besek, in which she reviews

copyright basics and current key developments in digital copyright

legislation, the meeting will comprise three panels:

* Art & Work: Copyright, Contracts and Work-for-Hire

* Access & Use: Copyright, The Public Domain and the First Amendment

* Artists and Copyright: Experiences Working Online

The meeting will conclude with an open forum with questions, comments and

discussion on the issues raised by the presentations.

Confirmed speakers to date include:

* Alberta Arthurs, Arthurs.US

* June Besek, Executive Director, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the

Arts, Columbia Law School

* Richard Kessler, Executive Director, American Music Center

* Maureen O'Rourke, Professor of Law, Boston University

* Siva Vaidhyanathan, Asst. Professor, Department of Culture and

Communication, New York University; author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs".

Participation is free but registration is required. Register now online at:

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html</a>

   *  *  *

The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings balance expert opinion and audience

participation on the basics of copyright law, the implications of copyright

online, recent changes in copyright law and practice, and practical issues

related to the networking of cultural heritage materials.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Local committees have organized the town meetings, which have been

coordinated and reviewed by the NINCH Town Meetings Working Group.

CLEVELAND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Alberta Arthurs, Arthurs.US

Craig Nard, Case Western Center for Law, Technology and the Arts

Len Steinbach, Cleveland Museum of Arts

Patricia E. Williams, Americans for the Arts

NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WORKING GROUP:

Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association

Robert Baron, Independent Scholar

Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries

Kenneth Crews, Indiana University (Advisor)

Georgia Harper, University of Texas (Advisor)

Rina Pantalony, Canadian Heritage Information Network

Christine Sundt, University of Oregon/Visual Resources Association/NINCH BOARD

Marta Teegen, College Art Association

Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of

American University Presses

Patricia Williams, Americans for the Arts

Martha Winnacker, University of California (Advisor)

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "Sharing the Knowledge"  International Symposium: March
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:58:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 757 (757)

26-27, Washington DC
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 6, 2003
                       International Council of Museums (ICOM)
                  International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC)
                                     Presents
                              "Sharing the Knowledge"
                             International Symposium on
                 Interoperability for Cultural Heritage Information
                     26-27 March 2003: Smithsonian Institution
                <a href="http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/workshops.html#symposium">http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/workshops.html#symposium</a>
An important two-day international meeting presented by CIDOC that will
focus on the exchange of information between museums, libraries, archives
and beyond.
David Green
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From: Matthew Zimmerman <mz34@nyu.edu>
Subject: PHP Con East Conference
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:58:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 758 (758)

Students, Faculty and Staff get more at PHPCon East 2003
PHP is emerging technology at its best; an open source language with the
technical muscle to turn static information into a vigorous e-commerce
site and cogent, tailored customer messaging. Flexible and cost
effective, it's sought after technology by many of today's employers.
At PHPCon East 2003, we're bridging the gap between higher learning and
professional experience through three days of intensive learning. We've
assembled the gurus to show you what PHP can do, what new breakthroughs
are on the horizon, and why it's the scripting language of choice for
Yahoo, Inc. and nearly 9 million domains worldwide.
PHPCon East 2003 offers classroom-style tutorials and three technical
session tracks on Enterprise PHP, Applications Development and XML/Web
Services by PHP notables including PHP inventor Rasmus Lerdorf, Zend's
Zeev Suraski, MySQL's Zak Greant, Apache.org's Jim Winstead, NYU's Hans
Zaunere, and authors Luke Welling, Laura Thompson, Sterling Hughes, and
Christian Wenz.
Register by March 31st and take advantage of reduced tutorial and
conference rates. Currently enrolled students are eligible for an
additional 50% off registration rates. University Faculty and Staff
receive a 20% discount. Log on <a href="http://www.php-con.com/return.php?i=ny3">http://www.php-con.com/return.php?i=ny3</a>
for full program and registration details.
PHPCon attendees are eligible for reduced room rates at the Park Central
New York and 10% discounts off fares with American Airlines and Amtrack.
Log onto PHPCon East's web site and click on the Hotel & Travel section
for reservation numbers and authorization codes.
Like PHP? Love PHP? LIVE PHP!
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Register online at: <a href="http://www.php-con.com/return.php?i=ny3">http://www.php-con.com/return.php?i=ny3</a>
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From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: Announcement: Local Humanities Computing Workshops
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:56:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 759 (759)

(Victoria, BC)
*Announcement: Local Humanities Computing Workshops*
    University of Victoria
    23-28 June, 2003
    Sponsored by the University of Victoria and Malaspina University-College
    < <a href="http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCSeminar/2003.htm">http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCSeminar/2003.htm</a> >
In response to local needs for training in areas key to computing in the
Arts and Humanities, UVic and Malaspina U-C are offering a series of
interrelated workshops focusing on digitsation, text encoding, multimedia,
and text analysis tools.  We anticipate that institutional sponsors will
secure most seats, but we also welcome applications from those outside
sponsoring institutions, should additional seats be available.
The particulars of the workshops are found below and, in more detail, on the
website listed above.  For further information, and for inquiries regarding
space in the workshops, please contact Ray Siemens, Malaspina U-C, at
siemensr@mala.bc.ca.
    =========
*Stream 1: Text Encoding and Tools
Text Encoding (Susan Schreibman, U Maryland): Provides an introduction to
the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities.
This workshop is designed for individuals who are contemplating embarking on
a text encoding project, or for those who would like to better understand
the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible
Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines, and/or
Encoded Archival Description (EAD). No previous knowledge of XML, the TEI
or EAD is necessary. However, a familiarity with HTML would be useful.
Text Analysis Tools (Stefan Sinclair, U Alberta): Provides a thorough
introduction to the fundamental concepts and skills for computer-assisted
text analysis. It is appropriate for any scholar wishing to explore how the
computer can be used as an aid to textual research, with a particular focus
on literary criticism.
*Stream 2: Digitisation and Multimedia
Digitisation (Ray Siemens, Malaspina U-C, and staff from the M U-C Centre
for Digital Humanities Innovation): Conveys skills necessary to digitise
objects -- text (OCR), image, sound, video -- both via direct capture and
conversion processes.  This workshop is 'bootstrap' in orientation, assuming
participants have only basic computing competency.
New Media and Multimedia (Andrew Mactavish, McMaster U): Balancing theory
and practice, participants will learn how to create interactive works of
multimedia. The course is designed for individuals with interest in
exploring, in a hands-on fashion, a range of applications of multimedia,
from research and teaching documents to works of art and entertainment.
Experience digitising multimedia objects is required; these are imparted in
the digitisation workshop, but this requirement will be waived has
requisite skills. In addition, experience using examples of multimedia,
such as web pages, educational software, hypertext fiction, or computer
games, is recommended.
* Details and Contact
More complete details - including a tentative schedule, fuller course
descriptions, attendance costs, and local accommodation - can be found via
<a href="http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCSeminar/2003.htm">http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCSeminar/2003.htm</a>.
For additional details, and for inquiries regarding space in the workshops,
please contact Ray Siemens, Malaspina U-C, at siemensr@mala.bc.ca.
_____________
R.G. Siemens
English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5.
Office: 335/120.   Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046.     Fax: (250) 740-6459.
siemensr@mala.bc.ca     <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a>



From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Aim=E9e_Morrison=22?=
Subject: RE: postodocs in humanities computing
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:57:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 760 (760)


congratulations, stan!  your award certainly indicates the growing respect for

humanities computing research work.  your project sounds fascinating!  the

killam is a prestigious award, and to have a funding body external to the

discipline reward your work is indeed a feather all of our caps as well as, of

course, yours :-)

i would like to remind the list, though, that there are other humanities

computing postdocs.  i can name one right here at the university of alberta --

the orlando project has had numerous postdoctoral fellows on its team since

its inception.  at least one of those fellows was externally funded.  stan is

also associated with the project.  (as was i -- full disclosure!)  see

<a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/orlando">http://www.ualberta.ca/orlando</a> for project member profiles.

are there any others that list members can mention?

tooting as many horns as possible,

aimee

.                  ++++++++++++++++++++++++

Aime Morrison                       Office: 3-66 Humanities Ctr.

PhD Candidate, Dept. of English      Phone:  (780) 492-2432

University of Alberta                Fax:    (780) 492-8102

T6G 2E5                              Email:  ahm@ualberta.ca

        "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

                                         -- Hunter S. Thompson



From: "Miran Hladnik" <miran.hladnik@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: To write concisely
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:56:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 761 (761)


As the editor of a voluminous Sammelband, containing 80 articles on the

Slovene novel, I am faced with a numerous and persistent demand, expressed

by individual authors, that I should allow them to exceed 30.000 characters

posted as a maximum length for the publication. Two of them are excellent,

indeed. I would very much appreciate the experience of editors in other

disciplines and countries, concerning formal editorial postulations. I

assume that the tendency to write lenghthy papers is more common in

philology (or in the humanities on the whole?) than in other disciplines.

Besides this, too familiar conditions in a small size national philology

could be another reason, that individual respected authors expect privileged

treatment.

Miran Hladnik



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Humbul's History of the Book topic
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:59:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 762 (762)


Today is World Book Day which has prompted us to bring together some of

the resources we have catalogued relating to the history of writing,

manuscripts, printed books, publishing and electronic books.

See Humbul's History of the Book topic

at <a href="http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/hob.html">http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/hob.html</a>

We welcome suggestions of online resources we should be cataloguing and

topics and other services we should be developing.

Happy reading.

Michael


---
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: "Susan Schreibman" <ss423@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: Material Ireland / Virtual Ireland
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 08:33:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 763 (763)


Call for Papers

Mid-Atlantic Regional

Material Ireland / Virtual Ireland

24-25 October 2003

University of Maryland

<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/misc/acis2003/">http://www.mith2.umd.edu/misc/acis2003/</a>

The Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites

paper (20 minute) and "poster session" (15 minute) proposals for its

interdisciplinary conference at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The conference organizers welcome any papers that address Ireland's rich

material past and present, as well as its virtual present and future.

Especially welcome are papers which address the following themes:

the role of objects in Ireland in the production of knowledge;

   specific artefacts and their histories (physically and/or virtually);

the relations between ideal and actual historical audiences, or between

local, international, or virtual readers;

the relationship between peoples' material world and the society around

them;

the use of multimedia and/or the World Wide Web in Irish arts and

education;

how the study of objects enrich or problematise our understanding of Irish

culture and art;

how the study of objects reveal new perspectives on traditional fields of

study, such as the Irish Renaissance or the Eighteenth Century;

how certain objects have become engines of commodification of Irish

culture, such as the Book of Kells or the shamrock;

what manuscripts, books and other print culture reveal about the society

that produced/and or rejected them;

how the existence of the World Wide Web changes, alters, enriches knowledge

production in Irish arts, politics, culture;

how material artefacts and digital media reinforce perceptions of, for

example, imperial culture or post-colonialism, the Celtic Tiger or The

Troubles;

what are the relations between literature and its material production

(voice/text, embodied writing, theater props/dramatic space, changing modes

of printing and distribution, etc);

what the World Wide Web reveals about Irish society, politics, culture,

arts

We also welcome 15 minute "poster session" proposals in which conference

participants can depart from the traditional conference format. Proposals

for the poster session may involve, for example, creative work (readings

from one's own creative writing, or playing music), a response to material

culture (a reading from archival material, for example), or demonstrating a

virtual/multimedia site/product.

All correspondence and enquiries should be sent to: Dr Susan Schreibman

ss423@umail.umd.edu, Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology

in the Humanities, University of Maryland, McKeldin Library, College Park,

MD 20742. E-mail:  <ACIS-2003@mith2.umd.edu> Proposals for papers should be

submitted by 11 April 2003, preferably by email, and should include the

following information:

  proposal is for a paper or a poster session;

  speaker's name and affiliation;

  email address;

  250 word abstract



From: Helen Skundric <helen.skundric@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: ALLC conference bursaries
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 08:34:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 764 (764)


Hi Willard

Is there any chance you could put this notice out on humanist?

ALLC Conference 2003, University of Georgia

A reminder to young scholars who have had papers or posters accepted for

the Georgia Conference that they may be eligible to apply for an ALLC

bursary. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2003.

For more information, please visit:

<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/allc/awards/bursary.htm">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/allc/awards/bursary.htm</a>

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Tel: +44 20 7848 2684, Fax: +44 02 7848 2980

www.kcl.ac.uk/cch



From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH SYMPOSIUM: The Price of Digitization: April 8, New
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 08:37:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 765 (765)


York City

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 7, 2003

                             NINCH SYMPOSIUM

                       The Price of Digitization:

             New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions

                       <a href="http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html">http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html</a>

                            * Tuesday, April 8, 2003 *

                              New York Public Library

            Trustees Room, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City

                     A Digitization Symposium Presented by the

              National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage

                                       and

                                     Innodata

                   Co-sponsored by the New York Public Library

                             and New York University

                    Free to the Public: Registration Required

                  <a href="http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html">http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html</a>

                                     *  *  *  *

How does an institution begin to cost a digitization project? What are the

elements to be included? Are there available models that can assist? What

are the budgetary and structural ramifications for an institution when it

moves from producing digitization projects to implementing a digitization

program that is core to the future of the organization and its offerings to

its public? When and how does an institution figure out how and what to

charge for its digital resources?

These are some of the questions to be answered in a free, one-day symposium

organized by NINCH in collaboration with Innodata, a NINCH Corporate

Council Member.

The meeting will feature a keynote address by Donald Waters, Program

Officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has encouraged the

development of economic models of digital sustainability that include cost

and charging models. A panel of speakers, representing commercial vendors

and nonprofit projects will report on how costs are determined in text,

image digitization and scholarly publishing projects.

How does digital preservation fit into this? A panel will examine the cost

considerations of various digital preservation strategies.

These panels will be followed by a discussion of the institutional changes

that are being wrought as digitization projects are gathered into

sustainable programs that are becoming core to the organization.

Participants also will hear from those who have been engaged in determining

pricing strategies for distributing digital resources in various markets.

Confirmed speakers include:

* Howard Besser, New York University

* Maria Bonn, Making of America, University of Michigan

* Stephen Chapman, Harvard University

* Nancy Harms, Luna Imaging

* Heike Kordish, New York Public Library

* Tom Moritz, American Museum of Natural History

* Dan Pence, Systems Integration Group

* Steven Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration

* Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

* Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

* Eli Willner, Innodata

* Kate Wittenberg, Electronic Publishing Initiative, Columbia University

This symposium has been organized partly in support of the First Edition of

the "NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation &

Management of Cultural Heritage Materials," (<a href="http://www.ninch.org/guide">http://www.ninch.org/guide</a>)

and may be the first in a series of symposia on some of the key practical

digitization issues faced by cultural and educational organizations.

"The Price of Digitization" should prove particularly useful in further

developing and updating the information and advice given in the NINCH

Guide's sections on cost models and workflow - see the Guide's chapter on

"Project Planning" (<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/">http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/</a>).

The meeting is free but registration is required. Please register at

<a href="http://www.ninch/forum/price.register.html">http://www.ninch/forum/price.register.html</a>


--
David L. Green, Ph.D.
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036<a href="http://www.ninch.org">http://www.ninch.org</a>
david@ninch.org
tel: 202.296.5346
fax: 202.872.0886



From: cwulfman <cwulfman@perseus.tufts.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.533 postdocs in humanities computing
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 08:36:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 766 (766)


I'll jump on the band-wagon Aime Morrison started: the Perseus Project

currently employs three postdoctoral research associates (yours truly is

one) and, like the Orlando Project, has had numerous postdocs over the years.

I say this not so much to toot horns as to add more data to support the

contention that humanities computing research work is gaining respect: it

would be interesting to get some numbers on how many humanities-computing

postdocs there are out there, and, more important, how many of them are

going on to tenure-track jobs or other employment in academia, where the

real measure of respect for the field might be taken.

Clifford E. Wulfman

Editor for Literature in English

Perseus Project

Tufts University



From: Stefan Sinclair [mailto:ss@huco.ualberta.ca]
Subject: Geoffrey Rockwell Distinguished Visitor Lectures at Alberta
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 08:36:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 767 (767)


Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:54 AM

To: Humanist Discussion Group; coch-cosh-l

UofAlberta, March 24-28, 2003

Dear Colleagues,

It's my pleasure to announce that Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell will be at the

University of Alberta at the end of March for a series of three

Distinguished Visitor Lectures.

         GEOFFREY ROCKWELL - "New Media and Digital Criticism"

                <a href="http://huco.ualberta.ca/Events/GR/">http://huco.ualberta.ca/Events/GR/</a>

All lectures will be in the Old Arts Building at the UofA, room 326.

ANALYTICAL MULTIMEDIA: DOING AND STUDYING NEW MEDIA

Monday, March 24: 3:00 - 4:30 pm

How do we think through the new types of media created for the computer?

We can begin by naming them, but what names are there for these works of

human art in the digital age? Names have emerged like "digital media",

"new media", "hypermedia" and "multimedia". From each of these names we

can weave definitions, histories and theories that would think through the

issues in different ways. In this paper I will start with multimedia, one

possible name that captures one of the features of the emerging genre -

its multiplicity, including its multiplicity of names.

GAME CRITICISM: WHERE DO WE START WITH COMPUTER GAMES

Tuesday, March 25: 3:00 - 4:30 pm (followed by a reception)

Computer games are not getting a lot of good press. While many are worried

about the effects of prolonged game playing by adolescents, in the arts

and humanities we can study games as rhetorical works to be critiqued. In

this talk l will survey approaches to computer games and then ask about

their study as rhetoric. I will propose that we want to think about them

sensitive to the discourse around games that has emerged in the game

design community and in the community of consumers.

BETWEEN GAMES: DIALOGUE AS INTERACTIVITY IN MULTIMEDIA

Thursday, March 27: 10:00 - 1:30 am

It is common to describe certain computer-based artifacts as interactive.

We think we know what this means, but like many descriptive terms

interactivity 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 as dialogue in multimedia with

special attention to the discourse around interactivity in computer games.

These lectures are made possible through the support of the UofA

Distinguished Visitor Fund, the M.A. in Humanities Computing, the

Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, and the Department of

English.


--
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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IMLS RFP for Innovative Approaches to the Use of
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 08:38:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 768 (768)


Broadband Technologies

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 7, 2003

                                 IMLS Issues RFP:

           Innovative Approaches to the Use of Broadband Technologies

                       Library and Museum Collaborations

                        May 15, 2003 Proposal Deadline

             <a href="http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf</a>

An important RFP has been issued by the Institute for Museum and Library

Services under its National Leadership Grant guidelines for museum-library

collaborations to encourage innovative use of broadband technologies.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
6. RFP: Innovative Approaches to the Use of Broadband Technologies

IMLS has issued a request for proposals for projects to develop innovative

approaches to the use of broadband technologies.  The call is issued under

the National Library Grants program for library and museum collaborations.

Successful proposals will demonstrate the ability to develop innovative

educational programming drawing on content from libraries and museums and

using high-bandwidth capacity for delivery.

A collaboration between at least one eligible library applicant and at

least one eligible museum applicant is required.  See eligibility criteria

and partnership requirements under 2003 National Leadership Grant

guidelines, pages 1.3-1.4 at

<<a href="http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf</a>><a href="http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf</a>.

The postmark deadline for submission of applications is May 15, and the

period of performance is a maximum of two years.  All other terms and

conditions described in the National Leadership Grant guidelines will

apply.  Applicants should use the application forms provided in the

National Leadership Grant guidelines.  For further information contact

<mailto:imlsinfo@imls.gov>imlsinfo@imls.gov


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From: CCH Office <cch@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: postdoc researcher for Durham Liber Vitae
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 08:35:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 769 (769)


Post Doctoral Researcher in, Durham Liber Vitae project

A vacancy exists for a suitably qualified Post-Doctoral Researcher to work

on the Durham Liber Vitae project, based in the Centre for Computing in

Humanities King's College London. The project involves collaboration

between Kings College London, the North East England History Institute and

the British Library. Suitable candidates will have an excellent academic

track record, a PhD (or working towards one) in a relevant discipline and

have good skills in palaeography.

The project is an AHRB funded project. Appointment will be on a fixed term

basis for 3 years.

Salary offered is on the RA1A scale, spinal point 7 Currently 21,125 plus

2,134 London Allowance

Further information is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/dlv or you may

contact Harold Short by email on harold.short@kcl.ac.uk or by telephone on:

020 7848 2739.

Should you wish to apply for this position, please send your CV with the

names of 2 referees to: The Personnel Department, Strand Campus, London

WC2R 2LS Email: strand-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk

Please quote reference number W1/AAV/23/03 on all correspondence.

The closing date for the application is Thursday 20th March 2003.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 2nd April 2003.

Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Room 11bb,

King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Tel: +44 20 7848 2371

Fax: +44 20 7848 2980



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: respect and tenure
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:46:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 770 (770)


Willard & Clifford

Is there also a measure of success that counts people who have come into

contact with the field of humanities computing and are employed (job wise)

outside the academy and who through some sense of avocation continue to

contribute to the intellectual ferment (one can think of several

contributors to the TEI discussion list who are employed outside the

academy)? And then the numbers could be compared to traditional

institutional structures such as national literature departments and

various learned societies connected with their pursuits and determine just

who is making those connections with a wider intellectual community (and

how well).

To press the comparison into a historical mold: there was a time where

learned monks would make cheese and sell herbs while the universities

shunned all contact with commerce or the people. There are other ways of

mapping the spaces of exchange than the by now classic cathedral-bazar

distinction.

Keep tooting those horns. It is a precious form of self-respect. Most

post-docs de facto take vows of poverty to continue to do intellectual

work. It is wise to cast off the humility once and a while.

A little blare of the horns reminds some of us that it is also worth

considering the quasi-impossibility of institutions on certain

continents to recognize accomplishments garnered outside the academy.

Faculties of medicine and engineering seem to encouter the problem of

inadvertant brain-drain-by-enclosure less.

A true measure of tracks the successes of not only post-docs but as many

graduates as possible. The trick is that some of those graduates who have

done (and continue to do) humanities computing work did so outside of

humanities computing programs.

Apples, oranges, fruit, in celebration of a cornocopia of talents

Francois
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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: professionalization and its cost
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:48:17 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 771 (771)

Others here may know more than I about the professionalization of the
disciplines. I have little more than anecdotal experience to draw on -- of
reading around in classics journals of the 1930s and finding, for example,
an article on something in the Aeneid by a manager at  the Acme Tool and
Die Works. Unless I am quite mistaken, that doesn't happen any more because
of professionalization. I recall said article on the Aeneid as being a good
one. I can understand the desire to raise standards, and so to screen out
work which was more about Life than Latin poetry. But I also recall
arguments to the effect that in professionalizing the disciplines we have
lost something rather valuable -- and not only the odd article from a plant
manager. What about "public understanding of the humanities"?
The exuberance now in the air, in the springtime of humanities computing,
will not I hope prevent us from seeing that we have an opportunity here to
avoid the exclusionary aspects of professionalization. We're in a position
to negotiate the terms of our admission to the club -- not because we're
politically powerful but because it is up to us to say what humanities
computing is that, for example, it should have postdocs. Or am I too
intoxicated with the sight of budding plants, increasingly longer days and
doors open into the back garden?
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: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: success forgets
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:10:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 772 (772)


The history of recent science and technology is a new field with a

fascinating set of historiographical problems, a vigorous, multifaceted

research project underway at MIT (<a href="http://hrst.mit.edu/">http://hrst.mit.edu/</a>) and an upcoming

conference, "The New Web of History"

(<a href="http://hrst.mit.edu/hrs/public/conference/">http://hrst.mit.edu/hrs/public/conference/</a>). This activity is very much of

concern for us -- we share several of the problems, and the particular use

of the Web by the MIT project is worth paying close attention to.

  From what would appear to be the major book in this new field I quote the

following, about the effects of progress-talk. It could be extended, I

think, to the focus on success in the applications of computing, which are

all very recent. And it could be related -- thoughts on this also most

welcome --

to the ancient Greek idea of hybris.

"The process of forgetting the past is aided by the way our language is

constructed and how we domesticate human-made artefacts with cultural

metaphors like progress. On the basis of my experience working on a

commissioned history of the electrification of Iceland I would argue that

progress talk in all of its forms is a major reason for the difficulty one

encounters when one tries to unearth the recent technoscientific past;

progress talk induces forgetfulness. Gillian Beer notes: 'One of the most

remarkable powers of the human mind less often commented on than its power

to proliferate senses is its power to exclude, or suppress, feasible

meanings'. Progress with its deterministic connotations enshrines the

present at the cost of the past and naturalizes the omnipresent

technological environment in which we live. Here one might extend a concept

which Ian Hacking has advanced and think of the styles of reasoning that

accompany technological systems and contribute to their self-authenticating

character. Styles of reasoning are also styles of forgetting."

Skuli Sigurdsson, "Electric Memories and Progressive Forgetting", in Thomas

Soderqvist, ed., The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology.

Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, ed. John Krige.

Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997: 130.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Clifford Wulfman <cwulfman@perseus.tufts.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.541 postdocs of respect
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:45:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 773 (773)


I'm glad Willard and Francois took up my  contention (intentionally

controversial) that respect for humanities computing should/will be

measured by traditional academic rods. I agree that humanities computing,

as a discipline (or, better, as a space of discourse)  is refreshingly

non-hierarchical (Francois rightly cites the active participation in

important discussion forums by folks not employed in the academy). And I

echo Francois's call for more horn-tooting, for several reasons.

In such a diverse and rapidly-developing field as humanities computing, it

is difficult, as Francois notes, to track the careers of its affiliates,

and self-reporting can help the field understand where it's going. Those

statistics are also valuable data for academic departments to see. First,

the dearth of traditional academic jobs shows no sign of letting up, and

departments need to be able to offer their graduates career options that

capitalize on their hard-earned skills. Second, evidence of a vibrant

discipline might encourage departments and institutions to invest more

resources (funding, facilities, faculty slots) in humanities computing,

thus feeding the cycle.

Like Willard and Francois, I deplore the academic headlock on

intellectualism, but I think it is a difficult hold to break. In one of my

previous lives, as a medical informatics researcher, I quickly discovered

that without an M.D. one simply was not taken seriously: one certainly

couldn't expect to win funding for research. For better or for worse,

credentials count for much among those who have earned them. I agree with

Willard that humanities computing, with its roots in so many different

soils, has a better chance than some fields to bloom in its own way, but it

isn't going to be easy. (Spring hasn't come to Boston yet, Willard!)

--Cliff



From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: New Technologies and Renaissance Studies (RSA Special
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:41:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 774 (774)


Sessions, 28-29 March, Toronto)

*New Technologies and Renaissance Studies*

Special Sessions at the 2003 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America

Friday and Saturday, March 28-29, 2003

Colony Hotel Toronto, Giovanni Room

For the third consecutive year, the RSA program will feature a number of

sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is

being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community.  This

year's contributions follow this interest across several key projects

(among them the History E-Book Project, Iter, and the Records of Early

English Drama), through a number of thematic touchstones (scholarly

editing, publishing, preservation, and access), and in several emerging

areas of inquiry (active reading, atypical subjects for hypertextual

display, and beyond).  This year's sessions are outlined below.

*******

We invite you to join us and, also, to be in touch with the organisers

(before April 30, 2003) if you are interested in being involved in similar

sessions at the RSA 2004 meeting, March 25-27 in New York.

*******

*Organisers

- William R. Bowen (U Toronto; Chair of Electronic Media, RSA),

    william.bowen@utoronto.ca

- Raymond G. Siemens (Malaspina U-C), siemensr@mala.bc.ca

*Friday, March 28, 2003: Colony Hotel, Giovanni Room

- 8:45-10:15: Textuality and Electronic Textuality.

    Chair: Raymond G. Siemens (Malaspina U-C).

    - Ian Lancashire (U Toronto): Encoding Renaissance Electronic Texts.

    - Richard S. Bear (U Oregon): Nexus: Reflections on the First Eight

      Years of Renascence Editions.

- 10:30-12:00: The Book, and its Contemporary Representation.

    Chair: Rebecca W. Bushnell (U Pennsylvania).

    - Richard Cunningham (Acadia U): Coincidental Technologies: Moving Parts

      in Early Modern Books and in Early Hypertext.

    - Stephanie Thomas (Sheffield Hallam U): The Exploration and Development

      of Tools for Active Reading.

- 1:45-3:15: Reference Resources and Electronic Publishing I.

    Chair: William R. Bowen (U Toronto).

    - James H Forse (Bowling Green U): Spread Your Bibliography.

    - Deborah S. Lacoste (U Western Ontario): Computer-Aided Repertory Studies:

      Online Access to Chant Sources.

    - UMI/ProQuest: Early English Books Online

- 3:30-5:00: Reference Resources and Electronic Publishing II.

    Chair: Julia Flanders (Brown U).

    - Eileen Gardiner (Italica Press) and Ronald G. Musto (Italica Press): New

      E-Books from the ACLS History E-Book Project.

    - William R. Bowen (U Toronto): Iter: Building Gateways from Catalogue

      to Collection.

*Saturday, March 29: Colony Hotel, Giovanni Room

- 8:45-10:15: Electronic Scholarly Editing and Renaissance English Texts.

    Chair: Ian Lancashire (U Toronto).

    - Melinda Spencer Kingsbury (U Kentucky): Katherine Philips' Friendship

      Poems: An Approach to Building Image-based Electronic Editions of Early

      Modern Poetry.

    - Raymond G. Siemens (Malaspina U-C),  Barbara Bond (U Victoria),

      Terra Dickson (U  British Columbia), and Karin Armstrong (Malaspina U-C):

      Prototyping an Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS.

- 10:30-12:00: Image, Exhibition, Archive, and Access.

    Chair: Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody Institute).

    - Jennifer Trant (Art Museum Image Consortium) and David Bearman (Art

      Museum Image Consortium): Building Educational Partnerships on the Web:

      Museum Digital Documentation in Education.

    - Peter Lukehart (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National

      Gallery of Art): Virtual Knowledge and Early Modern Visual Culture.

- 1:45-3:15: Communities, Literary and Dramatic.

    Chair: Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam U).

    - Sally-Beth Maclean (U Toronto) and Alan Somerset (U Western Ontario):

      Performers on the Road: Tracking their Tours with the REED Patrons and

      Performances Internet.

    - Julia Flanders (Brown U):  Renaissance Women Online.

_____________

R.G. Siemens

English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5.

Office: 335/120.   Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046.     Fax: (250) 740-6459.

siemensr@mala.bc.ca     <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm">http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Further Information: Price of Digitization: 9-5; IMLS RFP
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:43:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 775 (775)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 10. 2003

FURTHER INFORMATION:

                            NINCH SYMPOSIUM

                       The Price of Digitization:

             New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions

                       <a href="http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html">http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html</a>

                            * Tuesday, April 8, 2003 *

                                  9:00am-5:00pm

                              New York Public Library

            Trustees Room, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City

                    Free to the Public: Registration Required

                  <a href="http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html">http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html</a>

Omitted from the above announcement was the time of the NINCH Symposium: it

is from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Registration is proceeding quickly and as there

is limited space, early reservation is recommended.

                                     *  *  *  *

                                 IMLS Issues RFP:

           Innovative Approaches to the Use of Broadband Technologies

                       Library and Museum Collaborations

                        May 15, 2003 Proposal Deadline

             <a href="http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf">http://www.imls.gov/grants/library/pdf/nlg03app.pdf</a>

Omitted from the Primary Source information about the IMLS RFP on

Innovative Approaches to the Use of Broadband Technologies was a URL that

further describes the RFP: <a href="http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/030703.htm">http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/030703.htm</a>

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From: "Olga Francois" <ofrancois@umuc.edu>
Subject: Copyright Seminar Early Registration
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:41:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 776 (776)

              Early Registration Reminder
                       *     *     *
COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES FACING THE ACADEMY
     April 3rd - 4th 2003, Greenbelt Marriott, Maryland
                (Washington, DC Metro Area)
           <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/seminar/">http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/seminar/</a>
Higher education institutions are facing an increasing number of issues
in an attempt to comply with copyright law and also maintain an
atmosphere that promotes learning and academic freedom. Seminar
participants, panelist and presenters will explore in depth some of the
most pressing issues facing intellectual property policy and higher
education today. These issues include:
      -    The application of the TEACH Act and compliance issues for
higher education institutions
      -    The rise in demands for universities to crackdown on the use of
university networks for P2P file sharing.
      -    The development of alternatives to scholarly publishing models
to expand the public domain
      -    The impact of the DMCA on academic freedom
      -     The impact of recently proposed IP legislation on the higher
education community
Nationally recognized experts in copyright will discuss these issues
during the day and half seminar. For more information about speakers and
the seminar agenda please review the following URLs:
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Early registration ends *March 21, 2003*. You may register online or you
may register by phone by calling 301-985-7777 or 1-800-283-6832,
extension 7777. For additional information, please call or visit our web
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From: Neven Jovanovic <neven.jovanovic@zg.tel.hr>
Subject: Re: 16.542 success forgets
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:42:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 777 (777)


Maybe it's my field talking (classical philology is notoriously

conservative), but there is e. g. computer software--not to speak of the

hardware--which is not yet obsolete when the new version arrives--in a way,

becoming history before it had time to mature; I mean, software with some

features which perfectly suit my needs, or with other I have not even had

an opportunity to explore. And then--all too quickly--there arise questions

of compatibility (with colleagues and students who regularly update)... A

case of head-over-heels progress? Hubris or aggressive marketing strategies?

Neven



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:55:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 778 (778)


(1)

Digital Design: Research and Practice

edited by

Mao-Lin Chiu

Dept. of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

Jin-Yeu Tsou

Chinese University of Hong Kong, PR of China

Thomas Kvan

University of Hong Kong, PR of China

Mitsuo Morozumi

Kumamoto University, Japan

Tay-Sheng Jeng

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

"CAAD Futures" is a bi-annual conference that aims to promote the

advancement of computer-aided architectural design in the service of those

concerned with the quality of the built environment. The conferences are

organized under the auspices of the CAAD Futures Foundation, which has its

secretariat at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

This book contains papers prepared for the 10th CAAD Futures conference

that took place at the National Cheng Kung University, 28 to 30 April,

2003. The chapters provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in research

on computer-aided architectural design at that time. Information on the

CAAD Futures Foundation and its conferences can be found at

<a href="http://www.caadfutures.arch.tue.nl">http://www.caadfutures.arch.tue.nl</a>

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1210-1 Date: April 2003 Pages: 476 pp.

EURO 175.00 / USD 172.00 / GBP 110.00

(2)

Science and Culture

by

Joseph Agassi

Dept. of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel and Dept. of Philosophy,

York University, Toronto, Canada

BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 231

In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism,

two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and

from tradition in particular. According to Agassi, science is an integral

part of culture, and both scientism and relativism ignore the cultural

value of science. This work helps break the isolation of science from the

rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of

science. Agassi provides examples of the value of science to culture at

large, discussions of items of the general culture and their interactions

with science, and practical strategies and tools. He offers a wide variety

of case studies to exemplify these. In this book Agassi puts significant

topics such as autonomy, tolerance, reason, philosophy and responsibility

on the agenda of democratic philosophy today.

Science and Culture is for practising professionals in the philosophy of

science and the sociology of science, and for political scientists and

science policy students and administrators, as well as for the general

educated public.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1156-3 Date: March 2003 Pages: 448 pp.

EURO 162.00 / USD 156.00 / GBP 104.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Elli Mylonas <elli_mylonas@brown.edu>
Subject: Wulffman 3/12 on Perseus
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:52:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 779 (779)


The Brown University Computers and the Humanities Users' Group

presents

The Perseus Garner: Early Modern Resources in the Late Modern Age

Clifford E. Wulfman

Editor for Literature in English

Perseus Project, Tufts University

5:30 pm, Wednesday, March 12

STG Conference Room, Grad Center, Tower E

This talk presents the Perseus Garner, a digital archive of materials

from and pertaining to the early modern period. I describe

features of the collection and the tools it provides, and raise

questions about the utility of resources like the Perseus Garner for

various kinds of literary research.

Clifford Wulfman earned his Master's Degree in Computer Science at

the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and worked for many years with

the Medical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence group at

Stanford University before returning to Yale and completing his Ph.D.

in English in 2000. He has written on psychoanalysis and Modernism,

Virginia Woolf, and Willliam Faulkner, as well as on topics in

humanities computing.

Directions to the STG Conference Room may be found at:

<a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/contact/stg_directions.html">http://www.stg.brown.edu/contact/stg_directions.html</a>



From: Claire Gardent <Claire.Gardent@loria.fr>
Subject: EACL03 -- Early Registration closing soon
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:53:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 780 (780)


[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]

* EARLY REGISTRATION SOON OVER ****** EARLY REGISTRATION SOON OVER **

                                 EACL 2003

                   10th Conference of the European Chapter

              of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                    <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>

                              April 12-17, 2003

                              Budapest, Hungary

                  Early registration deadline : 15 March 2003

The EACL03 registration is now open. Note that early registration is a

lot cheaper (for you) and provides for a better conference (because we

can prepare it better). Please register before March 15th!

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From: "Asynchronous Learning Networks" <aln@mail.ucf.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers - Orlando, Florida
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:54:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 781 (781)


CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on

Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN):

The Power of Online Learning: Implications for Teaching and Learning

November 14-16, 2003 ~ Rosen Centre Hotel ~ Orlando, Florida

We invite you to submit a proposal for the Ninth Sloan-C International

Conference on Asynchronous Leaning Networks. The conference strongly

encourages proposals that reflect the implications for the field of

specific online experiences and practices. Last year's conference attracted

over 500 people to more than 100 presentations and offered exhibits,

pre-conference workshops, a keynote address and a variety of other special

events.

Proposals must be submitted by April 18, 2003

Program Tracks

The Power of Online Learning: Implications for Teaching and Learning

   Implications for Faculty and Faculty Support

   Implications for Learner Satisfaction and Support

   Learning Effectiveness and Outcomes

   Institutional Mainstreaming

   Enhancing Access and Inclusion

SUBMIT ONLINE AT: <<a href="http://www.aln.ucf.edu/submit">http://www.aln.ucf.edu/submit</a>>www.aln.ucf.edu/submit

OR CALL 1-866-232-5834

Connie Stansell

UCF Division of Continuing Education

(407) 882-0260 fax (407) 882-0255



From: Jose Ferrer <sec_ccct@iiis.org>
Subject: Invitation to participate in CCCT 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:57:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 782 (782)


CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Computer,

Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT '03 and

the 9th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and

Synthesis: ISAS '03

July 31, August 1-2, 2003 - Orlando, Florida, USA

<a href="http://www.iiisci.org/ccct2003/">http://www.iiisci.org/ccct2003/</a> or <a href="http://www.iiis.org/ccct2003/">http://www.iiis.org/ccct2003/</a>

CCCT '03 and ISAS '03 Organizing Committees invite authors to submit their

original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical

thinking, problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies,

etc., in the fields of computer, communication and control, as well as in

the relationships between two of these areas or among the three of them.

Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not

be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings.

You can find complete information about the conference in our web page

<a href="http://www.iiisci.org/ccct2003/">http://www.iiisci.org/ccct2003/</a> or <a href="http://www.iiis.org/ccct2003/">http://www.iiis.org/ccct2003/</a> .

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From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity--New Issue Alert!
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:53:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 783 (783)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 3,  Week of March 10, 2003

In this issue:

Interview --

Putting it all together with Robert Kahn

The co-founder of the Internet recalls the non-commercial early days and

looks at today's issues of fair use, privacy and the need for security.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_kahn_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/r_kahn_1.html</a>



From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: palimpsestic syndrome
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:46:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 784 (784)


This was originally posted to Medtextl, which is why the examples are

medieval.  Modern ones are easy to come by.

In a recent conversation with colleagues, the use of the word

_palimpsest_ to mean `layering' came up, and this led me to

remember Robert Merton's (On the Shoulders of Giants) invoking of

the `palimpsestic syndrome', that is, the tendency to attribute a

striking term, concept or construction to the first person you

heard it from.

All of us have received on the net such things as `Errors my

students made', `cute jokes', etc. etc., almost always repeats of

things we heard in the hoary past and would just as soon forget. I

remember hearing last year: "We had a machine translating Russian

into English and input: `The spirit is willing but the flesh is

weak'; it came back: `The booze is good, but the meat has gone

bad'." I heard this first as a grad student back in 1952.

This sort of thing happens also in scholarship as it does in Ann

Landers.  An interesting article, "A Modern Medieval Story: `The

Soldier's Deck of Cards'," by D. K. Wilgus and Bruce A. Rosenberg,

Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies. Essays in Honor of

Francis Lee Utley, edd. Jerome Mandel & Bruce A. Rosenberg (New

Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970), 291-304, points to

a number of `inventions' and `inventors' of Tale Type 1613, Motif

H 603.

Albert S. Cook, The Christ of Cynewulf, ed. with intro., notes and

glossary (Boston: Ginn & Co., 1909), in treating the Anglo-Saxon

theme of the leaps of Christ, says: "The ultimate source of this

mystical interpretation of Canticles 2.8 is to be found ... in two

passages of Ambrose,"  though it appears in Hippolytus at least a

century earlier (N. Bonwetsch, Hippolyts Kommentar zum Hohenlied

[Leipzig, 1903], 55 f.; (translation mine:):  "Oh, plan (oeconomia)

of the New Grace!  Oh, great mysteries: "Behold my brother came

leaping.'  What was that leaping?  The Word sprang from heaven into

the body ofthe Virgin. It sprang from the tree into Hades, it

sprang again onto the earth.  Oh, the new arising:  Again it sprang

from the earth into heaven."

The most careful scholars do not appear to be proof against the

palimpsesting syndrome.  Thus, D. W. Robertson, Jr., A Preface to

Chaucer (Princeton: PUP, 1962), cites a famous passage from

Gregory's Moralia (English translation, 1845, vol. 2:514) as

deriving from Hrabanus Maurus rather than Gregory (out of pietas I

do not mention that he also gives the wrong column in Migne).

One needs to be careful in reading or making statements such as

"... was the first," "the ultimate source was ...", "not until",

etc., and one needs to realize that many of our concepts are

"layered" in their structure.



From: Paul Dekker <dekker@HUM.UVA.NL>
Subject: Second Call for the Fifth Tbilisi Symposium on Language,
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:48:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 785 (785)


Logic and Computation

       The Fifth International Tbilisi Symposium

          on Language, Logic and Computation

                  Tbilisi, Georgia

                October 06--10, 2003

The fifth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held

in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, at the Tbilisi State University from

October 6 to October 10, 2003. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for

Language, Logic and Speech of the Tbilisi State University in conjunction

with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the

University of Amsterdam.

For the general program 32 papers can be accepted for presentation. The

deadline is April 1, 2003. Details for attending the symposium and for

submitting abstracts can be found at:

      <a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/">http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/</a>

With kind regards,

on behalf of the organizing committee,

Paul Dekker

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

Paul Dekker -- ILLC/Department of Philosophy -- University of Amsterdam

-- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 -- NL-1012 CP Amsterdam -- The Netherlands --

tel: +31 20 5254541 -- fax: +31 20 5254503 -- e-mail: dekker@hum.uva.nl

                                   <a href="http://remote.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/">http://remote.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/</a>



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: TCC 2003 ONLINE CONFERENCE April 22-24, 2003: Call For
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:47:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 786 (786)


Participation
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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Canada Research Chair in Language and Culture
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:43:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 787 (787)


Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) - The Faculty of Arts at the University of

Waterloo invites applications for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in

Language and Culture to begin as soon as July 1, 2003. The purpose of this

chair is to design and develop pioneering research in technologically

mediated linguistic and cultural studies.

Based in UW's Canadian Centre for Cultural Innovation, the chair holder

will work with colleagues in Anthropology, Classical Studies, Drama and

Speech Communication, English Language and Literature, French Studies,

Germanic and Slavic Studies and Spanish and Latin American Studies to

develop new methods for understanding language learning and teaching, to

explore new design techniques for multimedia projects, and to create new

analytic/theoretical bases for evaluating the impact of technology on the

development and understanding of culture.

In keeping with the University of Waterloo's Strategic Research Plan, this

position will be of interest to a senior expert in the interaction of

technology and culture with experience in multimedia for humanities

computing, hypertext, text analysis and computational linguistics and the

interaction of technology and culture. The successful candidate will have

not only an outstanding research record in the theory of language, rhetoric

and discourse as applied to and through technology but also significant

applied experience in cultural activities such as film, video, museum

exhibits, etc. She/he will be expected to create a dynamic research program

designed to attract a significant number of graduate students and

postdoctoral fellows to the research laboratory. The lab will provide

facilities to create, produce, and edit digital texts, music, art and

cultural products such as exhibits.

Nominations and applications including a curriculum vitae, a five-year

research plan and three (3) confidential letters of reference sent under

separate cover should be forwarded by March 31, 2003 to Dr. Robert R.

Kerton, Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West,

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. Please note that all CRC appointments

are subject to final review by the CRC Secretariat. The University of

Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including

women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with

disabilities. This appointment is subject to the availability of funds.

Source:

<a href="http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career_ads/current/languageculture03_e.html">http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career_ads/current/languageculture03_e.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 <willard@mccarty.me.uk>
Subject: new book on design research
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:35:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 788 (788)


[The following will be of interest to many Humanists, I suspect. The text

is copied directly from the publisher's page at

<a href="http://www2.uiah.fi/julkaisut/kirjat/a37.html">http://www2.uiah.fi/julkaisut/kirjat/a37.html</a>. --WM]

ART, FACT and ARTIFACT PRODUCTION

Design Research and Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Lily Díaz-Kommonen

This dissertation analyzes how knowledge is produced by the different

actors working together at the intersection where arts, humanities, and the

new media meet. We are presented with two complementing voices: one

building theory of how art, facts and artifacts are produced, and the other

reporting the process that contributed to those insightsthe collaborative

design effort of creating the Raisio Digital Archive, which gathers

representations of archaeological finds and assorted material culture of

Southwestern Finland, from the periods of the late Iron Age to the early

Middle Ages.

"The work has a design activity as its empirical root. The author uses

activity theory to weave together history and theories of design, art, and

anthropology. The text illustrates the kind of interdisciplinary work that

computer aided communications increasingly enables. It is a demonstration

of what artists, archaeologists, and designers can teach each other while

excelling in their own disciplines."

Klaus Krippendorff, Gregory Bateson Professor of Communication, University

of Pennsylvania.

"The study presents design as an activity that is best conceived of as

intersecting with art and the substance domain of the system to be designed

(in this case, archaeology)."

Yrjö Engeström, Professor of Communication, University of California, San

Diego; Director of the Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work

Research, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Lily Díaz-Kommonen is a Senior Researcher at the Media Lab UIAH. She has a

B.A. in anthropology from Brandeis University and a M.F.A. in Computer Arts

from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

2002

271 pages, paperback, B&W illustration.

ISBN 951-558-107-9

University of Art and Design Helsinki

26,00 euros

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: SpringerLink-Alert-Service
Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:35:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 789 (789)


Lecture Notes in Computer Science

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

LNCS 2626:

J.L. Crowley, J.H.  Piater, M. Vincze, L. Paletta (Eds.):

Computer Vision Systems

Third International Conference, ICVS 2003, Graz, Austria, April 1-3, 2003.

Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2626.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2626.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2626.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2626.htm</a>

LNCS 2615:

N. Carbonell, C. Stephanidis (Eds.):

Universal Access

Theoretical Perspectives, Practice, and Experience

7th ERCIM International Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Paris, France,

October 24-25, 2002. Revised Papers

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2615.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2615.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2615.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2615.htm</a>

LNAI 2586:

M. Klusch, S. Bergamaschi, P. Edwards, P. Petta (Eds.):

Intelligent Information Agents

The AgentLink Perspective

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2586.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2586.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2586.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2586.htm</a>

LNCS 2584:

A. Schiper, A.A. Shvartsman, H. Weatherspoon, B.Y. Zhao (Eds.):

Future Directions in Distributed Computing

Research and Position Papers

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2584.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2584.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2584.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2584.htm</a>

LNCS 2583:

S. Matwin, C. Sammut (Eds.):

Inductive Logic Programming

12th International Conference, ILP 2002, Sydney, Australia, July 9-11,

2002. Revised Papers

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2583.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2583.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2583.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2583.htm</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: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: Cliff Lynch on Institutional Archives
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:36:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 790 (790)


Quote/Comments on:

      Clifford A. Lynch: "Institutional Repositories:

      Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age"

      <a href="http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html">http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html</a>

Cliff Lynch makes many very good points. I disagree with him only on one

point, but it is a fundamental one, with important practical and

strategic implications for the immediate future: What is the most pressing

reason for creating and filling institutional repositories at this

time? Cliff thinks it is to promote new forms of scholarship whereas

I think it is to promote refereed research. The new scholarship

is coming too, and will certainly grow in importance, but the immediate

rationale for creating and filling institutional repositories is for the

self-archiving of institutional research input, in order to maximize

its research impact, by maximizing user access to it, through open access:

<a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/">http://www.soros.org/openaccess/</a>
[deleted quotation]
This is the familiar and valid complaint that the university has not

been sufficiently supportive of online innovations by faculty, neither

in terms of resourcing it nor in terms of rewarding it. This is true,

and it is indeed a problem, and no doubt slowing innovation. But it is

also being remedied, by increasing recognition and support, and the

persistence of innovative faculty. It is *not* the reason universities

need digital repositories urgently at this time, and this is *not* the

(main) content that will fill them.
[deleted quotation]
This is a combination of the two kinds of content that are at issue

here. I am putting the primary emphasis on the "familiar forms" rather

than the new ones (important and valuable though they too are). The

progress, productivity and funding of scholarly and scientific research

depend directly on its visibility and accessibility: the degree to which

it is found, seen, read, used, cited, applied, built-upon by other

researchers. In a word, it all depends on *research impact.* And research

impact depends on research access. Whatever blocks access blocks impact.

There are 20,000 peer-reviewed research journals, across all disciplines

worldwide, publishing 2,000,000 articles annually. Almost all of these

articles are accessible to researchers (i.e., to their potential users)

only if their institution can afford the toll-access (subscription,

license) to the journal in which they were published. And most

universities cannot afford toll-access to most journals -- even the

richest can only afford a minority of the 20,000. This means that *all*

research on the planet is inaccessible to *most* of its potential

users. And every single case of access-denial is a case of potential

impact loss. The overwhelming, pressing rationale for institutional

repositories is accordingly: to put an end of this daily impact loss --

a legacy of the paper era when the true costs of paper access made it

unavoidable, but no longer necessary in the online era, when open access

can be provided by institutions for their own refereed research output.

It is quite natural for researchers to self-archive their own refereed

research output in their own institutional archives, giving it away to

all of its would-be users worldwide for free, in order to maximize its

research impact, for they have been giving it away free to their

publishers for the very same reason throughout the paper era: Unlike all

other authors, researchers have always given away their work, written

only for impact, not for royalty revenue from toll-income. Hence it is

only natural that now that it has become possible to do so, they should

self-archive it in their own institutional archives so as to put an end

to the needless daily impact loss that is a legacy of the paper era.

This -- and not new forms of scholarship -- is the immediate, pressing

rationale for creating and filling institutional repositories at this

time. And this (refereed research output) is the content with which they

need to be filled, as soon as possible. With it -- and their newfound

role as *outgoing* collections of a university's own research output

instead of *incoming* collections of the output of other universities --

the institutional archives will also become the repositories for new

forms of scholarship. But the first and most urgent step is to put an

end to the needless daily impact loss for peer-reviewed research.

What about the peer-reviewed journals? Their toll-access mechanism of

cost-recovery may continue to co-exist with the open-access versions in

the institutional repositories, with those researchers whose institutions

can afford it using the former and those who cannot using the latter

-- or the journals may eventually have to cut costs and downsize to

the essentials in the online era, which may well prove to be just

peer-review service-provision alone, with the access, storage and

distribution offloaded onto the institutional repositories.

Peer-review only costs about $500 per outgoing paper, whereas

those institutions who can afford it are paying an average of $2000

(collectively) per incoming paper in access-tolls -- in exchange for

the very limited access this provides, restricted to the minority who

can afford it.

<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html#B1">http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html#B1</a>
[deleted quotation]
Indeed they are, in the service of maximizing their research impact and

putting an end to its needless loss. But maximizing research impact is

in the interest of their institutions too, as the benefits of research

impact (research funding, prizes, prestige) are shared by faculty and

their institutions.

Let me count the three most obvious ways that the self-archiving of

institutional research output benefits researchers' institutions:

(1) Open access to an institution's research output maximizes its

impact and its rewards, as noted.

(2) Open access, being reciprocal if practised by other institutions too,

maximizes faculty access to the research output of *other* institutions,

generating better-informed and more current research (using the research

output of others, as you would have them use yours!).

(3) If/when there is ever an eventual downsizing of peer-reviewed

journals to the remaining online-age essentials (probably only peer

review itself), then there is also the prospect of eventual institutional

windfall savings of up to 75% on serials budgets.
[deleted quotation]
Cliff here means the time-consuming problem of maintaining a website for

self-archiving one's own research output. An institutional archive

is certainly a more sensible solution than having each researcher

maintain his own archive.
[deleted quotation]
Not only is the institutional archive a supplement rather than a

substitute when it self-archives data that could not be included with

the published article, but it is a supplement even when it self-archives

the article: The self-archived open-access version is a supplement to the

journal's toll-access version, to maximize its research impact. It is not

a substitute for journal publication -- and certainly not a substitute

for peer review -- though it might one day become a substitute for

toll-access (for those who can afford it: for those who cannot, it

is already a substitute today!).
[deleted quotation]
There is no need -- in the age of OAI-interoperability -- for

institutional archives to "feed" central disciplinary archives: They

need only feed OAI metadata harvesters. The institution is the natural

locus for self-archiving its own research output, for each of

its disciplines. And it is individual researchers, not disciplines,

who will overcome the old habits, with the incentive to self-archive

coming from the discipline-universal benefits of maximizing research

impact. These benefits are shared by researchers and their institutions,

not by researchers and their disciplines (which are more of a locus

for *competing* for impact than for *sharing* it!). And journals are not

holding back change (and cannot): They are themselves changing with the

new possibilities the online medium has provided to allow researchers to

maximize their research impact:

<a href="http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm">http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm</a>

But it is certainly true that university archives can help faculty take

the lead by providing the resources and policy that facilitates

self-archiving:

<a href="http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#institution-facilitate-filling">http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#institution-facilitate-filling</a>
[deleted quotation]
Here is where Cliff and I disagree. Exciting as they are, the new forms

are not the immediate priority: Open access to the "old forms" is. Then

the new forms will come too. But first the full research impact of the

old forms, at last. They will pave the way for the rest.
[deleted quotation]
I agree completely. The purpose of institutional archives and

archive-filling policies is not to assert control or ownership over

faculty research output! It is to maximize its research impact by

maximizing user access to it.

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm</a>

<a href="http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi">http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi</a>

Mixing up the open-access agenda with other university dreams about

generating new revenue streams from faculty intellectual output (software,

patents, courseware, distance education, electronic publishing) is not

only wrong-headed, but it risks delaying the real and sizeable benefits

of open access to refereed research output, turning the institutional

repository movement into aimless gridlock for some time to come.
[deleted quotation]
I agree. See above. And here is a model for an appropriate policy:

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/archpol.html">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/archpol.html</a>
[deleted quotation]
I agree again. It is not the business of universities to restructure the

economics of scholarly publishing. It is the business of universities to

do research, publish their findings, and make sure that those findings are

put to full use. Maximizing all would-be users' access to them is the

way to ensure the latter. And that might (but just might) eventually

have some effects on the economics of refereed journal publication. But

that would only be a side-effect, not the direct motivation or

justification at all: That direct motivation and justification is

to maximize the impact of institutional research output by making it

open-access -- by self-archiving it in the institutional repository.
[deleted quotation]
Correct. It is an open-access supplement to toll-access via the journals.
[deleted quotation]
In the era of OAI, institutional and disciplinary archives are equivalent,

because completely interoperable. However, the shared interest of

researchers and their institutions in maximizing the impact of their

research output makes institutional archives a better bet for hastening

open access, especially as they are in a position to modify their

existing publish/perish policies so as to mandate self-archiving in

order to maximize research impact.

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0293.html</a>
[deleted quotation]
The simple solution is available already: See the 60+ Eprints.org

institutional archives <a href="http://software.eprints.org/#ep2">http://software.eprints.org/#ep2</a>

in use for over 2 years and growing:

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/tim.ppt">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/tim.ppt</a>

The challenging part is not creating the free self-archiving software,

nor in making it simple, nor in getting it adopted, but in getting

the archives filled, which requires a clear, coherent institutional

self-archiving policy -- with a clear sense of *what* needs to be

self-archived, *how* and *why*:

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/archpol.html">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/archpol.html</a>
[deleted quotation]
Yes, but *far* more important than this advance long-lasting commitment

to an empty archive is a coherent policy for getting it filled!
[deleted quotation]
And I worry a great deal about worries about the permanence of empty

or even non-existent archives, instead of directing all energies and

resourcefulness to filling the archives! Get the precious intellectual

eggs into the basket, and their very presence there will be the best

guarantor that they will be maintained in perpetuum. Worry instead

about permanence now and all you do is add another item to the

long list of needless worries that are holding back self-archiving:

<a href="http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation">http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation</a>

And this is also the point to remind ourselves, again, that

self-archiving is a *supplement* to, not a *substitute* for journal

publication. Until and unless there is a transition and downsizing

from toll-access journal publication to open-access journal publication,

the primary preservation burden is not on the institutional archives!

Their burden is merely to provide open-access to it, now, as a supplement

for those who cannot afford toll-access.

So stop worrying about archives failing and work instead on archives

filling!
[deleted quotation]
Maybe. But it seems to me that this is only a substantive question if we

are talking about the industrial strength archive software such as

DSpace. For the "light" softwares such as Eprints, there is so little

start-up time and maintenance required that I would think any

institution that generated research output could and would run its own.

(Again, there is not enough *content* yet to talk about fancy consortial

schemes! Let's get the culture of self-archiving rolling before we worry

about the load being to great for an institution to manage on its own!)
[deleted quotation]
This can be managed at the metadata level without any special need to

"federate" (over and above OAI-interoperability). A metadata tag

indicating current institutions, and tags indicating prior institutions

and dates will allow all research to be triangulated upon (for where it

was done, and when).
[deleted quotation]
And I have here tried to give the reasons why the pressing challenge now

is not general-purpose archiving of arbitrary digital materials, but

the self-archiving of institutional refereed research output, to

maximize its research impact by maximizing its visibility and

accessibility, through open access.

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/unto-others.html">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/unto-others.html</a>

Stevan Harnad

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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 & 02):

      <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>

the BOAI Forum:

      <a href="http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php/">http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php/</a>

the Free Online Scholarship Movement:

      <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm</a>

the SPARC position paper on institutional repositories:

      <a href="http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm">http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm</a>

the OAI site:

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

and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:

      <a href="http://www.eprints.org/">http://www.eprints.org/</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: "by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>"
Subject: Research in Multimedia Conference - philos-l
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:35:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 791 (791)


1st Global Conference: Interactive Convergence: Research in

Multimedia

7 to 9 August 2003, Prague, Czech Republic

Keynote Speaker: Professor Bruce Klopfenstein

Director, Dowden Center

Grady College

University of Georgia

Call For Papers

(Please cross post where appropriate)

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference

marks the launch of a new annual project in the Critical

Issues series of research projects. The project aims to

provide a challenging forum for the examination and

evaluation of the theme of  'convergence' in media and

multimedia. Viewing multimedia research as a divergent

and multi-layered phenomenon, the conference series

seeks to provide a forum whereby people working in

differing disciplines and professions can become aware

of and share the perspectives generated by

developments in areas other than their own.

One of the primary goals of the project will be to evaluate

the issue of where the study of Interactive Multimedia

properly belongs. Is it a part of Computer Science, Art and

Design, Communication, Education, Business,

Psychology, Sociology or any of the many other

disciplines? Or is Interactive Multimedia an

interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary area in its own

right?

The aim of the inaugural conference will be to examine

Research in Multimedia in its many disciplines in an

attempt to identify and critique its characteristics, its

impact and the implications for its integration into our

every day lives.

Papers, reports, presentations and workshops are invited

on any of the following themes:

Usability and design

Visual design

Virtual communities and collaborative work

Social impacts such as online pornography, internet

addiction, and gender divides

E-commerce and E-Business

Games and game theory

Education

Hypermedia

Mobility and Wireless Access

This is an indicative list - and papers dealing with

related themes will be considered.

Papers will be peer reviewed. All papers accepted for and

presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN

e-Book. Selected papers will be developed and published

in a themed hard copy book.

500 word abstracts are to be submitted to the Joint

Organising Chairs by Friday 2nd May 2003:

Dr. Melissa Lee Price

PO Box 660

College Road

Staffordshire University

Stoke on Trent, UK ST4 2XN

email: m.l.price@staffs.ac.uk

Dr Rob Fisher

c/o Learning Solutions

Priory House

149B Wroslyn Road

Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

Email: rf@inter-disciplinary.net

Papers should be sent as an email attachment in Word or

WordPerfect; abstracts can also be submitted in the body

of the email text rather than as an attachment.

The conference is sponsored by Staffordshire University,

Learning Solutions and Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Further details and information about the Critical Issues

in Multimedia project can be found at

<a href="http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/cimm.htm">http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/cimm.htm</a>

For specific information about the conference, please go

to:

<a href="http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/rim03cfp.htm">http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/rim03cfp.htm</a>

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7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk

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From: Willard McCarty <willard@mccarty.me.uk>
Subject: the lone scholar in the sciences
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:37:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 792 (792)


Albert Einstein, from an address at a celebration of Max Planck's 60th

birthday (1918), delivered before the Physical Society in Berlin; published

in Mein Weltbild (Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934); the following is from

Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, transl. Sonja Bargmann (New York:

Three Rivers Press, 1954): 224-5.

"In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they

that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to

science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is

their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the

satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who

have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely

utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the

people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage

would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both

present and past times, left inside. Our Planck is one of them, and that is

why we love him.

"I am quite aware that we have just now light-heartedly expelled in

imagination many excellent men who are largely, perhaps chiefly,

responsible for the building of the temple of science; and in many cases

our angel would find it a pretty ticklish job to decide. But of one thing I

feel sure: if the types we have just expelled were the only types there

were, the temple would never have come to be, any more than a forest can

grow which consists of nothing but creepers. For these people any sphere of

human activity will do, if it comes to a point; whether they become

engineers, officers, tradesmen, or scientists depends on circumstances. Now

let us have another look at those who have found favor with the angel. Most

of them are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less

like each other, in spite of these common characteristics, than the hosts

of the rejected. What has brought them to the temple? That is a difficult

question and no single answer will cover it. To begin with, I believe with

Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and

science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless

dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever shifting desires. A finely

tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of

objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the

townsman's irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped

surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges

freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful

contours apparently built for eternity."

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/

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: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: wireless and the future of humcom
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:33:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 793 (793)


Willard

A short while ago James L. Morrison pointed pointed to the October 22

Technology Source Author Forums and an interview with Carl Berger, one of

the pioneers in using information technology tools in education

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995</a>

They discuss the next killer application in education. Prompted by

Morrison, Berger offers a snippet of a vision of collaborative

work-learning-play facilitated by technology.

<quote>

I envision a student walking to campus one day when, suddenly, something

inside her book bag starts to chime. She reaches down and pulls out a

miniature computer, one even smaller than what we have now. She opens it,

because it is chiming to tell her that she has received a series of

messages, notes, and comments concerning group assignments that she is

completing for a class. Of course, the entire campus is wired; her

notebook computer chimed because it knew she had walked onto campus. She

sits down on a bench and opens several documents on her computer. She

finds a pen and starts sketching on the screen and/or typing on the

keyboard. She makes changes to an assignment, circles them, sends a note

to one of her friends, sends another note to her professor, and closes her

computer, which chimes with a different tone to let her know that all of

her messages have been sent. She continues her walk across campus, never

realizing that she just used the next killer app.

</quote>

I know that various campuses have been experimenting with wireless

technologies. Are any observers or participants from humanities computing?

Curious

Francois

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: Matthew Zimmerman <mz34@nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.546 success forgets: premature senescence of equipment
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:31:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 794 (794)


Neven,

I would say your analysis is correct. It is a combination of the natural

desire to "progress" and aggressive marketing. I think most people use

about 5% of the features of a product like MS Word, even though it has been

"updated and improved" many times. I suppose if your job is to develop

software, you naturally keep trying to make it better. With the

"improvement" of software comes the need of faster hardware, even though

most do not need the better software or the faster hardware.

It would serve most of us well to really consider if we do need to

"updgrade" and then decide if compatibility is really an issue. Microsoft

makes most of its sales on this fear of incompatibility, but often this is

an unwarranted fear. Most word processors do the trick for the documents I

need to produce, and they all save in text and RTF format, so I stick with

my trusty BBEdit. But it is really hard to convince some people that they

wont be "behind the curve" if they don't upgrade.

Matt

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 01:49  AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way

of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]
MZ

_________________

Matthew Zimmerman

Humanities Computing Group, NYU

Tel: 212.998.3038

Fax: 212.995.4120

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: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.558 success forgets: premature senescence of equipment
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:01:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 795 (795)


Well, this may work some of the time, but for much software, the

manufacturers prevent you from hanging on to material -- I just tried to

get an answer from a vendor about some 3-years-old OCR software, and was

told that it is now regarded as "classic" and that they would no longer

answer questions about it.  Then they offered me an upgrade for $79.95 plus

shipping.

This is most annoying but of course I had very little choice.  I once

ignored a similar ploy from Norton and within a week I was wiped out by a

virus I could not get a defense against unless I paid $99.00 for the

'upgrade'. It gets one's attention.
[deleted quotation]


From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:33:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 796 (796)


Willard

A short while ago James L. Morrison pointed pointed to the October 22

Technology Source Author Forums and an interview with Carl Berger, one of

the pioneers in using information technology tools in education

<a href="http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995">http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=995</a>

They discuss the next killer application in education. Prompted by

Morrison, Berger offers a snippet of a vision of collaborative

work-learning-play facilitated by technology.

<quote>

I envision a student walking to campus one day when, suddenly, something

inside her book bag starts to chime. She reaches down and pulls out a

miniature computer, one even smaller than what we have now. She opens it,

because it is chiming to tell her that she has received a series of

messages, notes, and comments concerning group assignments that she is

completing for a class. Of course, the entire campus is wired; her

notebook computer chimed because it knew she had walked onto campus. She

sits down on a bench and opens several documents on her computer. She

finds a pen and starts sketching on the screen and/or typing on the

keyboard. She makes changes to an assignment, circles them, sends a note

to one of her friends, sends another note to her professor, and closes her

computer, which chimes with a different tone to let her know that all of

her messages have been sent. She continues her walk across campus, never

realizing that she just used the next killer app.

</quote>

I know that various campuses have been experimenting with wireless

technologies. Are any observers or participants from humanities computing?

Curious

Francois

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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 16.555 Harnad on Lynch on institutional archives
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:46:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 797 (797)


Willard

I want to address some of the points raised by Stevan Harnard's in his

comments to

        Clifford A. Lynch: "Institutional Repositories:

        Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age"

        <a href="http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html">http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html</a>

I especially want to ask some questions about the statements stacked

against using the argument of the emergence of new ways of doing

scholarship [the translation of "forms" into "ways of doing" is mine

for the particular purposes here] as the rationale for investing in

infrastructure.

Harnard sizes up the production:

<quote>

There are 20,000 peer-reviewed research journals, across all disciplines

worldwide, publishing 2,000,000 articles annually. Almost all of these

articles are accessible to researchers (i.e., to their potential users)

only if their institution can afford the toll-access (subscription,

license) to the journal in which they were published.

</quote>

The aggregate number appears daunting. I wonder what the "access" picture

would look like if the number were broken down on a per capita basis. How

many journals per discipline? How many articles per journal? How many

institutionally-backed reseachers per discipline? How many

corporate-backed researchers per discipline? How many articles with

multiple authors? How many of those articles represent work presented in

preliminary form in a variety of fora?

The networks of communication and production have permeable membranes. I

do want to emphasize the point that for the advancement of knowledge what

circulates need not be a complete, finished, peer-reviewed article. Indeed

such an article will point to other infosets.

To pick up the McCarty trader-merchant metaphor: it is important to pause

and think about not only the who we trade with (as does the toll-obsessed

Harnard) but also what we are trading/acquiring (thenew [or unfamiliar]

forms of scholarship).

Harnard himself points to a very important factor in scholarship review:

archiving the data sets that were not part of a published article.

Unfortunately this point gets lost in a shuffle around tolls and pitting

self versus institutional archives.

<quote>

Not only is the institutional archive a supplement rather than a

substitute when it self-archives data that could not be included with

the published article, but it is a supplement even when it self-archives

the article: The self-archived open-access version is a supplement to the

journal's toll-access version, to maximize its research impact. It is not

a substitute for journal publication -- and certainly not a substitute

for peer review -- though it might one day become a substitute for

toll-access (for those who can afford it: for those who cannot, it

is already a substitute today!).</quote>

I do want to challenge the notion that access to products is the best way

for the university community "to make sure [research] findings are put to

full use".  Harnard puts the pro-product position forcefully:

<quote>

I agree again. It is not the business of universities to restructure the

economics of scholarly publishing. It is the business of universities to

do research, publish their findings, and make sure that those findings are

put to full use. Maximizing all would-be users' access to them is the

way to ensure the latter. And that might (but just might) eventually

have some effects on the economics of refereed journal publication. But

that would only be a side-effect, not the direct motivation or

justification at all: That direct motivation and justification is

to maximize the impact of institutional research output by making it

open-access -- by self-archiving it in the institutional repository.

</quote>

Such dreams of plenitude threaten the univeristy's other critical mission:

education. The use of findings finds its place in process, in the

gathering together for exchange, to teach and to learn. Factories for

knowledge or laboratories for living.

There is an other set of tolls on the horizon: smart classrooms connecting

continents 24/7. There is an infrastructure to rent. Smart households -

there is an infrastructure to tap into. It is very much about

restructuring economics - what goes around - which is very much about

politics - who gets around. I don't mind those toll-barriers. It is a

great incentive for the responsible administrators to askthose paid to

read those articles to account for the quality of too much too fast.

   -- <sigilla>

<civic.name>Fran&ccedil;ois

Lachance</civic.name> <self.desig>Scholar-at-large</self.desig>

<activity>Actively visiting <?insert URN?></activity>

<motto><w corresp="grok">gork</w> structure, savour <w

corresp="peace">content</w>, <s ana="play-with-piece">enjoy

form</s></motto>

</sigilla>



From: Sara Monaci <monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org>
Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:40:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 798 (798)


At the National Cinema Museum we're usung PDA in a Wireless Lan network to

distribute multimedia contents to visitors.

In this phase we're testing a prototype of this application, using PDA iPaq

connected to the wireless lan with multimedia contents related to the

museum's exhibit.

We involved focus-groups of students in IT to test the application and we

had a good feedback.

We really hope to carry out a service fit to our audience's requirements.

in this way we could replace the more obsolete audioguides and give an

innovative service to the Museum.

Sara Monaci

Sara Monaci

New Media

Museo Nazionale del Cinema

Via Montebello, 15

10124 Torino  -  Italy

Tel. ++39 +11 8122814

Fax. ++39 +11 8398501

monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org

<a href="http://www.museonazionaledelcinema.it">http://www.museonazionaledelcinema.it</a>



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:47:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 799 (799)


Too bad the student couldn't just walk across campus and appreciate the

spring leafing instead of being chimed by her computer, chirruped by her

cell phone, or dinned at by music on her walkman (well, okay, Vivaldi might

be nice). Wireless computing on the University of Texas campus is so far

limited to individual buildings and is suffering from turf wars and serious

existing RF interference, particularly in the science-heavy parts of the

campus. I see that AT&T is looking to experiment with having pay phone

sites become also sites for wireless access to the Internet...

Pat Galloway



From: Bill Kretzschmar <kretzsch@arches.uga.edu>
Subject: Humanities Computing Workshops at ACH/ALLC
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:45:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 800 (800)


A full program of humanities computing training workshops will be offered

this year in conjunction with the annual joint meeting of the Association

for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and

Linguistic Computing, to be held at the University of Georgia, May 27-June

2, 2003.  See the conference web site at <a href="http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/">http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/</a>

for the full program and registration information.  The workshop program

and fee schedule appear below:

Tuesday, May 27  9:30AM to 6PM          Introduction to XML and the TEI I

Tuesday, May 27  9:30AM to 6PM          Creating an Image Gallery Database I

Wednesday, May 28  9:30AM to 6PM                Introduction to XML and the

TEI II

Wednesday, May 28  9:30AM to 6PM                Creating an Image Gallery

Database II

Wednesday, May 28  9:30AM to 6PM                TEI Training I

Thursday, May 29  9:30AM to 6PM         Introduction to XSLT

Thursday, May 29  9:30AM to 6PM         Intro to Document Type Definitions

(DTDs)

Thursday, May 29  9:30AM to 6PM         TEI Training II

Workshop instructors will plan activities within the time slot

available;  participants should plan to be available throughout the day of

the workshop.

Instructors include a team from the Maryland Institute for Technology in

the Humanities led by Susan Schreibman for the XML/TEI, XSLT, DTD, and

Image Gallery sessions, and a team of well-known TEI experts (Julia

Flanders, Terry Catapano, Syd Bauman, and Brett Barney) for the TEI

Training sessions.  Full information about the workshops is available

<a href="http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/workshops.html">http://www.english.uga.edu/webx/workshops.html</a>.

Costs for Workshops

Any single workshop:            TEI Members, $250; Not yet a Member of TEI,

$275

Any two workshops:              TEI Members, $400; Not yet a Member of TEI,

$450

Any three workshops:            TEI Members, $500; Not yet a Member of TEI,

$575

All workshops are open to the general public as well as to conference

registrants.  Participants who wish to become members of TEI (there are

institutional, project, and individual options) should consult the TEI

Consortium Web site: <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/">http://www.tei-c.org/</a>

Registration Deadline

In order to plan appropriately for workshops, we need to know the number of

registrants well in advance:  please register by April 15th.  Late

registrations for workshops will be accepted only on a space-available basis.



From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer@let.uu.nl>
Subject: EACL2003 Workshop Programme, April 13-14
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:44:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 801 (801)


             EACL 2003 in Budapest, April 12-17, 2003

            Workshop Programme and Call for Participation

Important dates:

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

Workshop dates:         Apr 13-14, 2003

Conference dates:       Apr 12-17, 2003

Important URLs:

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

Registration:    <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/Registration.html">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/Registration.html</a>

Main conference: <a href="http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/">http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/</a>

Workshops:       <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/workshops">http://www.elsnet.org/workshops</a>

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From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: Summer Institute - Creating Electronic Texts - David Seaman
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:44:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 802 (802)


*******************************************************************

   Announcing the Seventh Summer Institute at the University of New

            Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada

   *************************************************************

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 24-29, 2003

INSTRUCTOR: David Seaman, Director, Digital Library Federation

(<a href="http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm">http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm</a>)

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 UNB's 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.

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FURTHER INFORMATION:

You may also obtain further information by contacting Karen Kilfillen

(klk@unb.ca or 506-453-4740).  Information on prior institutes,

including comments from participants, is available at:

<a href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/projects.html">http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/projects.html</a>, under the heading of

Educational Initiatives.

   *****************************************************

REGISTRATION FORM

AS OF APRIL 1, you will be able to use our Web Registration Form located

at:

<a href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2003/register_2003.htm">http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2003/register_2003.htm</a>

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From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer@let.uu.nl>
Subject: ESS2003: Language and Speech Technology for Language Learning
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:46:18 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 803 (803)


                           FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

                                   and

                          CALL for PARTICIPATION

    The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication

        Topic: Language and Speech Technology in Language Learning

           Lille (France), Monday July 7 - Friday July 18, 2003

                  Organized by the University of Lille 3

We are happy to announce that registration for the 11th ELSNET Summer

School is now open. For this school we have chosen a topic of great

relevance to researchers and developers in Europe and in other

multilingual environments: the use of language and speech technology

in language learning, both of spoken and of written language. The goal

of this workshop is to get young researchers on a track that will

eventually contribute to an important application area. The underlying

vision (or dream) is The automatic animated language tutor.

+ Audience and aims:

We see the school as mainly research and development oriented, and

hence the primary audience are researchers, developers and integrators

who will make our vision happen (rather than teachers who would use

it). Both technological and pedagogical aspects will be taken into

consideration

The aims are:

    * to make the students familiar with the main principles and

      problems of language learning/teaching

    * to make them familiar with current best practice in computer

      assisted language learning

    * to make them familiar with the main challenges in computer

      assisted language learning

Participants are expected to have a general computational background

and some familiarity with language or speech research and/or

processing. After completion of the summer school participants should

be able to function in teams aimed at designing or implementing tools,

environments or courses for Computer Assisted Language Learning

(abbreviated CALL).

+ Course programme:

The provisonal programme is available at

   <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003/schedule.html">http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003/schedule.html</a>

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TM: Creating Museum IP Policy: Portland,
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:48:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 804 (804)


Oregon, May 22

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 17, 2003

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

                  NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: PORTLAND

               Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World

                  <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/portland.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/portland.html</a>

              Co-sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network

            and the Intellectual Property Section of the Oregon State Bar

          at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums

               Doubletree Hotel Portland Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon

                              Thursday May 22, 9am-4pm

                         Registration Required with AAM: $75

          <a href="http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf">http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf</a>

                    [Workshop 64: Intellectual Property Workshop]

              *  Advance Registrations Must Be Received By April 18  *

             After April 18, Registrations (if available) only on-site

                                     *  *  *  *

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From: Constanze Witt <constanze@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: CFP: "Closed Context" in Context deadline extended
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:41:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 805 (805)


Annual Meeting of the EAA [European Association of Archaeologists] in St.

Petersburg , Russia, 10-14 September 2003

<a href="http://www.eaa2003am.spb.ru/">http://www.eaa2003am.spb.ru/</a>

Session: The "Closed Context" in Context

What is a "closed context," a "closed find," or a "closed deposit"? These

are terms with which we work every day.  The phrases have entered the

vernacular and are used in a wide range of contexts.  In archaeology,

systems of relative and absolute chronology are based on confidently

declared "closed" finds. The arts of stratigraphic analysis, art historical

and stylistic analysis, historical and cultural interpretation, even the

discoveries of entire peoples have been profoundly impacted by certain key

"closed" finds.  Yet there does not appear to be a clear terminological

consensus on the identity of a "closed find" -- is it the same as a "closed

context"? a "geschlosssener Befund"?  How exactly does one determine the

precise degree of closedness of a context?  What is the history of the use

of the terms, and what theoretical underpinnings can we ascribe to them,

then and now?  what are the temporal and spatial aspects of a "closed"

context? How do we go about the interpretation of a "closed" find -- what

are the special considerations?  What of "heirlooms," residual finds,

multiple-use objects? What different types of contexts can be considered

"closed," and why?

Papers exploring the theoretical ramifications of a closer analysis of the

terms and their attendant phenomena are welcomed, as well as individual

case studies illuminating salient characteristics of the concepts.

Abstract deadline is MARCH 31.  Please e-mail abstracts to

constanze@mail.utexas.edu

Many thanks

Constanze Witt


--
[Note also Thematic block 1: Theory and Interpretation of Material Culture,
a very important topic for us; see <a href="http://www.eaa2003am.spb.ru/program.html">http://www.eaa2003am.spb.ru/program.html</a>
--WM]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Constanze Witt, PhD
UT Austin Classics Dept.
1 University Station C3400
Austin, TX 78712-0308
512 471 8684
fax 512 471 4111
<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/">http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/</a>



From: Thomas Krichel [mailto:krichel@openlib.org]
Subject: RE: 16.561 Lachance on Harnad on Lynch
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:38:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 806 (806)

Sent: 16 March 2003 08:57
To: BOAI Forum
Cc: September 1998 American Scientist Forum;
oai-eprints@fafner.openlib.org; OAI-general@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu;
SPARC-IR@arl.org
Archives
    Stevan Harnad writes
[deleted quotation]    I agree.
    But this is not what I mean by "not enough". I suggest that
    institutional archives will lie empty unless there are better
    incentives for scholars to contribute to them. If you tell
    them that it will open their scholarship to the world to
    read, they will listen. If you tell them, figures at hand,
    how much it does, and how much impact they gain---relatively
    to their colleagues in the offices next door---they will act.
    To be able to build such measures, you need to build complicated
    datasets. This is too complex a task to be done in all disciplines
    at once. Therefore you need to work discipline by discipline.
[deleted quotation]    Not really, these systems are quite different actually. But
    this is a matter for another email...
[deleted quotation]    RePEc is not a harvesting service. RePEc has pioneered the way
    OAI operates before there was OAI. The degree of interoperability
    that it achieves goes way beyond what OAI achieves at present,
    but we are only at the start with OAI, remember. Basically RePEc aims
to
    achieve a type of dataset that will allow to measure impact---as
    mentioned in my first paragraph---but it is not quite there yet.
    In the meantime, it acts as the starting point for a whole bunch
    of user and contributor services.
    (sorry, I could not resist...)
[deleted quotation]    Hmm, with you changing your mind, and with more than a little
    reflection over that many years, I think all of us on this
    forum will be convinced that the best road is not an easy topic
    to approach. I don't have the answer either, but I will show
    instead that there is no answer.
    The way I see it that if you want to achieve self-archiving,
    you have to get authors to self-archive. To do that, you need
    to find the right incentives. One way is to have Clifford Lynch
    running around campus, switching off every independent web
    service because it is a security risk, and then force faculty
    to digitally publish through a central facility. Granted, my
    vision of Clifford's intention is exagerated, but even a milder
    form of it will not succeed. This is no way to run a university.
    Right? So you are left off to find a way in which you have to give
    incentives to academics. Now, please accept my hypothesis that
    publishing is done more with the academic colleagues in mind
    rather than with the university's central administration
    in mind. Then you inevitably end up with a situation where
    you have to get a whole discipline along to self-archive. As
    long as others in the discipline are not doing it, there
    is little interest in the individual scholar doing it. They
    may send the paper directly to closed-access publisher facilities
    or, may be in addition, upload it on a web site somewhere.
[deleted quotation]    Sure, that is why we need institutional support to take the
competition
    head on, by maximising the impact of our work. But the object of
    the competition is still the discipline.
[deleted quotation]    I understand that. But you can aggregate and aggregate, as
    long as you not prove that formal archiving is improving impact,
    you are not likely to get far with your formal archiving.
[deleted quotation]    I do.
[deleted quotation]    If this is what authors feel, then this is wonderful. But the
    proof of the pudding is in the eating. If the authors do not
    deposit, you will have to think (yet again) about your best
    strategy.
    Incidentally, have you deposited all your papers in institutional
    archives? I see some ~harnad above. Heaven forbid I tell Clifford
    about this :-)
[deleted quotation]    Yes, but the arguing in the aggregate is not sufficient, I think.
    You have to demonstrate that to individual academics, figures at
    hand. In the meantime you have to collect formally archive contents.
    Institutional archives is one way, departmental is another way,
    discipline based archiving another, but there is no "right" or
    "wrong" way. Whatever way there is discipline-based services will
    be a key to providing incentives to scholars.
    With greetings from Minsk, Belarus,
    Thomas Krichel                         <a href="http://openlib.org/home/krichel">http://openlib.org/home/krichel</a>
                                       RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
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From: Hamish Cunningham <H.Cunningham@DCS.SHEF.AC.UK>
Subject: Call for papers: HLT for the semantic web and web
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:47:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 807 (807)


services at ISWC 2003

                               CALL FOR PAPERS

       Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services

              <a href="http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html">http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html</a>

                            Workshop at ISWC 2003

                    International Semantic Web Conference

                  Sanibel Island, Florida, 20-23 October 2003

                            Hamish Cunningham

                             Atanas Kiryakov

                                Ying Ding

The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable, re-purposeable layer to

compliment the existing web of natural language hypertext. In order to

realise this vision, the creation of semantic annotation, the linking of

web pages to ontologies, and the creation, evolution and interrelation of

ontologies must become automatic or semi-automatic processes.

In the context of new work on distributed computation, Semantic Web

Services (SWSs) go beyond current services by adding ontologies and formal

knowledge to support description, discovery, negotiation, mediation and

composition. This formal knowledge is often strongly related to informal

materials. For example, a service for multi-media content delivery over

broadband networks might incorporate conceptual indices of the content, so

that a smart VCR (such as next generation TiVO) can reason about programmes

to suggest to its owner. Alternatively, a service for B2B catalogue

publication has to translate between existing semi-structured catalogues

and the more formal catalogues required for SWS purposes. To make these

types of services cost-effective we need automatic knowledge harvesting

from all forms of content that contain natural language text or spoken data.

Other services do not have this close connection with informal content, or

will be created from scratch using Semantic Web authoring tools. For

example, printing or compute cycle or storage services. In these cases the

opposite need is present: to document services for the human reader using

natural language generation.

This workshop will provide a forum for workers in the field of human

language technology for the Semantic Web and for Semantic Web Services to

present their latest results. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the state

of the art, dealing with a wide range of issues, including but not limited to:

    * automatic and semi-automatic annotation of web pages;

    * semantic indexing and retrieval of documents, combining the strengths

      of IE and IR;

    * integration of data about language in language processing components

      with ontological data;

    * robustness across genres and domains;

    * ease of embedding in Semantic Web applications;

    * ontology learning, evolving and merging;

    * automatic web service description augmentation;

    * automatic semantic structure documentation;

    * language technology for automatic Web service discovery;

    * adaptation of generation techniques to SWS applications.

The themes of the workshop have partly emerged from the Special Interest

Group on Language Technologies and the Semantic Web (SIG5), part of the

OntoWeb thematic network.

[material deleted]



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.4
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:44:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 808 (808)


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

Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 4,  Week of March 17, 2003

In this issue:

Review --

The Power of Events

An overview of more than a decade of work on event systems, formal

specification and temporal reasoning.

Review by Frank P. Coyle

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/f_coyle_2.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/f_coyle_2.html</a>

View --

The Institutionalization of Hacking Practices

Diverse choices and practices shape innovation patterns in software

development.

By Yuwei Lin

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/y_lin_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/y_lin_1.html</a>



From: "Fotis Jannidis" <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Jahrbuch fuer Computerphilologie Vol. 4.
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:47:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 809 (809)


I am happy to be able to announce the 4th volume of the Jahrbuch fuer

Computerphilologie (Yearbook for Computer Philology) 2002.

As it contains mostly texts in English I hope it is of interest for

the international community of Humanist readers. Here is the table of

contents:

Essays

Willard McCarty: New Splashings in the Old Pond: The Cohesibility of

Humanities Computing.

Jan Christoph Meister: »Think Big«: Disziplinarität als

wissenschaftstheoretische Benchmark der Computerphilologie.

Tito Orlandi: Is Humanities Computing a Discipline?

Geoffrey Rockwell: Multimedia, Is it a Discipline? The Liberal and

Servile Arts in Humanities Computing.

John Unsworth: What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?

Gesine Boesken: Lesen am Computer - Mehrwert oder mehr Verwirrung?

Untersuchungen zur 'Konkurrenz' zwischen Buch und Hypertext.

Liliane Gallet-Blanchard/Marie-Madeleine Martinet: Hypermedia and

Urban Culture. A Presentation on the CD-ROM Georgian Cities.

Barbara Ravelhofer: Virtual Theatres.

Joseph Rudman: Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies in

Eighteenth Century. Stylistics Statistics and the Computer.

Michael Will: Die elektronische Edition von Jean Pauls Exzerptheften.

Conference reports

Frances Condron: Conference Report: Philology and Information

Technology - Computers, Literature and Philology.

Patrick Sahle: 'Sinnsuche in der Badewanne'. Tagungsbericht:

Standards und Methoden der Volltextdigitalisierung. Trier, 8. und 9.

Oktober 2001.

As usual the yearbook is published in printed format (www.mentis.de)

and on the internet:

<a href="http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jahrbuch/jb4-content.html">http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jahrbuch/jb4-content.html</a>

Best wishes,

Fotis Jannidis

________________________________________

Forum Computerphilologie

Hg.: Georg Braungart - Karl Eibl - Fotis Jannidis

<a href="http://www.computerphilologie.de">http://www.computerphilologie.de</a>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: anachronisms?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:39:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 810 (810)


In the new sub-field known as the history of recent (or contemporary)

science and technology, it is sometimes alleged that the clash between how

working scientists want to view their history and how historians tend to

view it is new, unique. Scientists, it is said, tend to see their history

as a triumphalist account in which everything that has happened is viewed

in "presentist" terms, as a gradual or fitful groping toward what we now

know. In other words, science progresses, the argument on one side runs, so

its history should witness that fact. But as Richard Rorty and Ian Hacking

both remind us (in their contributions to Philosophy in History, ed. Rorty,

Schneewind and Skinner), historians cause the same trouble when they insist

on historicizing philosophy as when they historicize science. Philosophers,

it seems, want to engage the dead in conversation about things that matter

now, in the way they matter now, but historians are quick to point out that

they didn't discuss those things, or not in the way we now want to discuss

them. In literary studies on the whole, I would think, an historical

awareness of the language and thought contemporary to the work is

essential, always, though various views are taken as to how thoroughly that

can be recovered or what priority doing so should have. But, as I recall

from my years spent in literary circles, a poem is timeless in a way that

an historical event cannot be.

Historians (such as Averil Cameron or Moses Finley) will admit that we

write the kind of history that we now need or want to have, but the

responsibility to reach toward what was is not lessened. Leopold von

Ranke's dictum, that history "wants only to show what actually was" ("er

will bloss zeigen, was eigentlich gewesen ist"), still seems to me to

capture the problem well, though only if you see those first two words, "er

will" -- which are often overlooked when the dictum is quoted. The

ethnographer Greg Dening argues that the burden of history is to recover

the living moment, in which (as in all our living moments) none of the

innumerable possibilities for the future, including the one that will later

turn out to have happened, is deterministically privileged.

Hacking, in "Five Parables" (the essay cited above) and elsewhere, argues

that whatever happens to the theories we have about things, the phenomena

we create continue to exist and the devices we invent continue to work. Our

interventions into the world persist, except when human backsliding

obscures them; it's our theories that are subject to revolutions. That's

his basis for being a realist, if I read him correctly. But can we say, in

a historically responsible manner, that there is progress, full stop? When

computing meets the humanities, are there anachronisms we must live with?

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: JoDI (V3i4): an issue on e-education
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:27:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 811 (811)


Journal of Digital Information announces

A SPECIAL ISSUE on E-education: Design and Evaluation for Teaching and

Learning

(Volume 3, issue 4, March 2003)

Special issue Editors: Monica Landoni (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

and Paloma Diaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

   From the special issue editorial:

"A number of products and prototypes to assist teaching and learning have

been produced and educational materials have been extensively published

electronically, but it is still unclear to what extent all of this is of

use to students and lecturers/tutors when it comes to real teaching and

learning. ... there is still lot of confusion about what electronic

learning objects are, standards are yet to be found and adopted

successfully, and usability issues have been almost completely neglected.

For this reason we hope that the papers presented in this special issue of

the Journal of Digital Information will be of great interest and utility to

people in education involved in the design, production, delivery and use of

electronic materials and tools."

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/editorial">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/editorial</a>

The issue includes the following papers:

C. Caracciolo

Towards Modular Access to Electronic Handbooks

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Caracciolo/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Caracciolo/</a>

L. Naber, M. Kohle

E-nhance Lectures

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Naber/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Naber/</a>

J. Ohene-Djan, A. Fernandes

Personalising Electronic Books

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Ohene-Djan/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Ohene-Djan/</a>

P. Polsani

The Use and Abuse of Reusable Learning Objects

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Polsani/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Polsani/</a>

N. Shiratuddin, M. Landoni, F. Gibb, S. Hassan

E-Book Technology and Its Potential Applications in Distance Education

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Shiratuddin/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Shiratuddin/</a>

R. Wilson

E-education in the UK

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Wilson/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Wilson/</a>

Readers of the last issue of JoDI (V3i3) on Hypertext Criticism: Writing

about Hypertext may be interested to know that the bibliography has been

supplemented with two new entries

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i03/bibliography.html">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i03/bibliography.html</a>


--



From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@acm.org>
Subject: Re: 16.556 the lone scholar in the sciences
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:27:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 812 (812)


At 2003-03-16 01:40, Willard wrote:
[deleted quotation]
Call me slow, but I don't see anything in Einstein's remarks that

corresponds to the subject line.  He talks about people without much

in the way of social graces, "odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows",

but Planck was in no way a "lone scholar" as I would understand that

term.  He held, on the contrary, a chair in Berlin and served as

secretary of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Section of the Prussian

Academy of Sciences and as president of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellshaft.

Einstein's tribute to Planck does seem to be a good example of the

pure-science form of part of what we today sometimes recognize as Geek

Mythology.

-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: lone scholar vs the collaborative
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:49:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 813 (813)


Thanks to Michael Sperberg-McQueen for pointing out the ambiguity of "lone"

in my message quoting Einstein -- as well as for the connection to geek

mythology. I thought that as we seem currently to be elevating

collaborative work from the status of a good thing (which I for one

certainly think it to be) to a superior thing, it might be salutory to

reflect on patterns of work in the sciences, which many think to be a model

for us.

As a much younger fellow I worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, on

"the Hill" in Berkeley, California, part of the time as a "scanner" for

Louis Alvarez, part as programmer in the Chamberlin-Segre group -- in other

words, at the heart of the industrialized, good-enough physics which Peter

Galison describes in Image and Logic. Galison talks about the factory,

mass-production model that Alvarez so successfully implemented in the

search for elementary particles. It got the job done, but as I know from

many conversations with graduate students, junior and senior physicists

(esp Willy Chinowsky, a fine and melancholy man), many were quite unhappy

for the loss of direct engagement with experiments, themselves "alone" in

their own laboratories. Yes, they were romanticizing an older-style

physics, but it is also true that they were not unlike factory workers

doing what was theirs to do as it came off the production line. Chinowsky,

for example, wanted to deal with some basic theoretical problems but didn't

have time, or so he said.

Again, it's salutory to examine the models we're given. Perhaps we can do

better.

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: diabruck@coli.uni-sb.de
Subject: DiaBruck 2003, 2nd CFP (Submission deadline: May 1 2003)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:47:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 814 (814)


                          Second Call for Papers

                              DiaBruck 2003

SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

                           Saarland University

                            Sept 4th-6th 2003

                    <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/</a>

                           Endorsed by SIGSEM

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

      the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics

                           Endorsed by SIGdial

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

      the ACL Special interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue

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

DiaBruck 2003 will be the seventh in a series of workshops that aims to

bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of

dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics

and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

We invite submissions on all topics related to the semantics and

pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

- models of common ground/mutual belief in communication

- modelling agents' information states and how they get updated

- multi-agent models and turn-taking

- goals, intentions and commitments in communication

- semantic interpretation in dialogues

- reference in dialogues

- dialogue and discourse structure

- interpretation of questions and answers

- nonlinguistic interaction in communication

- natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems

- multimodal dialogue systems

- dialogue management in practical implementations

- categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora

- designing and evaluating dialogue systems

[material deleted]



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.569 anachronisms?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:48:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 815 (815)


A good antidote to Ranke-an dicta comes in two parts: first Novick, That

Noble Dream; then Jenkins, Why History? There is always an allegation from

historians that everyone else is triumphalist, and in my experience working

with medical history the phenomenon Willard outlines exists, but it usually

turns out to be a matter of degree, as we see in the arguments about

American exceptionalism among historians.

Pat Galloway

UT-Austin



From: "Charles Baldwin" <Charles.Baldwin@mail.wvu.edu>
Subject: Reminder: E-Poetry 2003 Festival
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:48:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 816 (816)


E-Poetry 2003

An International Digital Poetry FestivalWest Virginia University, Morgantown

April 23-26, 2003

Inquiries and proposals may be sent to the organizers at the e-mail

addresses below. All participants must register to attend E-Poetry 2003 by

April 8, 2003. Registration and information are available at the E-Poetry

2003 Website: <a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2003/">http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2003/</a>

It is our pleasure to announce E-Poetry 2003: An International Digital

Poetry Festival, the second event in the acclaimed E-Poetry series

inaugurated in Buffalo in April 2001. E-Poetry is a series, directed by

Loss Pequeo Glazier from the University at Buffalo, which provides an

artist and practitioner-oriented series of events in the spirit of some of

the early poetry festivals, such as the Vancouver Poetry Festival, 1963,

and the Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965. The series allows artists the

opportunity to engage the state of their art and to advance its

possibilities through dialog, performance, and peer interaction.

We are doubly pleased to announce the host institution for this year's

event, West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. In collaboration with

E-Poetry 2003's co-director, Sandy Baldwin, we are planning a rich and

varied three and a half days of digital poetry, conversation, and

artist-oriented scholarship, in the inviting setting of West Virginia.

E-Poetry 2003 extends the frontiers opened with E-Poetry 2001, adding

numerous new voices and engaging new visions to the festival. This year's

focus is on the "poetry" in "E-Poetry".

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this event! Morgantown is 5

hours from Buffalo, 1 hour from Pittsburgh, 3 hours from Washington DC, and

5 hours from New York City. We recommend you find the best airfare

available to Pittsburgh.

Plan to join us in Morgantown to celebrate this next articulation of the

potentials of E-Poetry!

Loss Pequeo Glazier, E-Poetry Director (glazier@buffalo.edu)

Sandy Baldwin, E-Poetry 2003 Co-Director (charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu)

Loss Pequeo Glazier, Dept. of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo and Sandy Baldwin,

Dept. of English, West Virginia University

Co-sponsored by the Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo) and the Center

for Literary Computing (WVU)

Sandy Baldwin

West Virginia University

Assistant Professor of English

359 Stansbury Hall

304-293-3107x452

Coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing

203 Armstrong Hall

304-293-3871

charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu

www.clc.wvu.edu

www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin



From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: lone scholar
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:44:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 817 (817)


Speaking of the lone scholar, I have always liked Wordsworth's word on

Newton:

       Newton, with his prism and silent face,

       ..............

        Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

When I was a kid, this was my favorite quotation.  I always read _prism_ as

an adjective, and I am not sure I was wrong.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: History of Recent Science and Technology conference
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:35:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 818 (818)

[deleted quotation]
face.

Presenters whose names will be readily recognized by fellow Humanists are

Gregory Crane (Perseus Project) and John Unsworth (IATH, Virginia); those

familiar with work in the history of science and technology will recognize

several others. I am also giving a talk, "As it almost was:

historiography of the recent things".

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: "Melissa Terras (Dr)" <TerrasM@raeng.co.uk>
Subject: Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Fellows in
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:34:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 819 (819)


Communications

Applications are invited to a Visiting Fellows fund sponsored by the Royal

Academy of Engineering. The scheme will provide funding to enable an

academic department in a United Kingdom university to play host to a Senior

Visiting  Fellow from an overseas academic centre of excellence.    The

length of a visit will normally be between two and four weeks.

The scheme's objective is to promote international relations and networking

within the academic community on the broad topic of global and/or mobile

communications, in keeping with the general interests and mission of the

Vodafone Group Foundation.  Whilst it is likely that the Fellowships will

favour aspects of engineering and technology the assessment panel will also

give sympathetic consideration to proposals from other disciplinary areas

within the generality of ICT where a convincing case for support is made.

There is no reason why Humanities Computing scholars cannot apply -- but

note, the deadline Monday 31 March. Given the dearth of applications so

far, and the fact that we have to allocate the funds in the next few weeks,

I would urge anyone who is eligible and interested to think about it and

put an application in, as chances are very high....

Enquiries immediately to the undersigned.
[deleted quotation]


From: "Paul Groves" <paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Vindolanda Tablets Online launched
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:28:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 820 (820)


An online edition of the Vindolanda tablets:

<a href="http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/">http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/</a>

An online edition of the Vindolanda tablets was launched on March 20th 2003.

The website includes texts, translations, notes and new high-resolution

'zoomable' digital images of all the published tablets. A virtual exhibition

draws on the texts and archaeological evidence from Vindolanda and other

sites on Britain's northern frontier to introduce the content and context of

the tablets to a non-specialist audience. Other resources within the website

include a reference guide to specialised aspects of Roman life encountered

in these documents, such as currency and military terminology, the scholarly

introductions to the tablets and an account of the creation of digital texts

and images.

This freely accessible site will be of interest for research and teaching in

Latin, ancient history, classical civilization and archaeology in

universities and schools as well as to anyone with an interest in the

ancient world.

It is a collaborative project between the Centre for the Study of Ancient

Documents (Faculty of Classics) and the Academic Computing Development Team

at Oxford University, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.

regards

Paul Groves

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    Paul Groves paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk

    Senior Project Officer, Academic Computing Development Team

    www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/acdt/

    ACDT is part of the Learning Technologies Group

    www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/

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From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Humbul Call for Online Scholarly Humanities Resources
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:24:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 821 (821)


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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:27:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 822 (822)


(1)

Reading Complex Words

Cross-Language Studies

edited by

Egbert M.H. Assink

Psychology Dept., Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Dominiek Sandra

Centre for Psycholinguistics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

AND COGNITION -- 22

In a series of fourteen chapters this book brings together current research

findings on the involvement of word-internal structure for the purpose of

word reading (especially morphological structure). Contributors include

many leading experts in this research domain. The central theme of reading

complex words is approached from several angles, such that the chapters

span a wide variety of topics where this issue is important. The

experiments reported in the book involve:

     * different populations : children, expert readers, illiterates;

     * different languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Hebrew,

Italian, Turkish, Serbian;

     * different processing levels where morphology may play a role:

sublexical, supralexical;

     * different variables which may determine morphological effects:

morphological type, semantic transparency, branching relations among

morphemes.

Given this scope, the book offers a good state of the art platform in

current psycholinguistic research on the topic. Reading Complex

Words:Cross-Language Studies is a valuable resource for all researchers

studying the mental lexicon and to those who teach advanced courses in the

psychology of language.

Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47707-6 Date: March 2003 Pages: 362 pp.

EURO 102.00 / USD 99.95 / GBP 64.00

(2)

The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception

edited by

Rosolino Buccheri

CNR, Palermo, Italy

Metod Saniga

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatransk Lomnica, Slovak Republic

William Mark Stuckey

Dept. of Physics, Elizabethtown College, PA, USA

NATO SCIENCE SERIES: II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry -- 95

This book provides the reader with the most recent scholarly insights into

the nature of time - undoubtedly one of the most profound mysteries that

science has ever faced. The selected contributions are grouped into four

conceptually different yet mutually cohesive chapters, carefully woven into

a comprehensive whole that goes well beyond standard treatments. The

subjects discussed include the fine structure of psychological time(s) and

consciousness, novel algebraic geometrical and number theoretic models of

time dimension, different arrows of time, time travel, EPR paradox, quantum

non-locality, pregeometry, and a host of relevant epistemological and

ontological issues. The book shows that research is becoming necessarily

interdisciplinary and does not ignore even such delicate issues as

"altered" states of consciousness, religion and metaphysics. Although

focused primarily on an academic readership, the treatise can be read with

profit by anyone fascinated by the enigma of time.

A coherent, multidisciplinary sampling of the most up-to-date professional

research on the nature of time, addressing four major themes: internal

times and consciousness, mathematical approaches to the concept of time,

the physicist's view of time, and integrative science's views of time.

Essential reading for anyone, scientist or layperson, with a serious

interest in the topic.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Preface. List of participants. Group photo.

1: Internal Times and

Consciousness. An Overview; S. Grondin. The Human Sense of Time:

Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Considerations; A.D. Eisler. The

Parallel-Clock Model: a Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration; H.

Eisler. Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans; R.Nikolaeva-Hubenova.

Studying Psychological Time with Weber's Law; S.Grondin. Time and the

Problem of Consciousness; M. Binder. Temporal Displacement; G.B. Vicario.

Discrimination and Sequentialization of Events in Perception;H.

Atmanspacher, T. Filk. Time, Consciousness and Quantum Events in

Fundamental Spacetime Geometry; S. Hameroff. How Time Passes; G. Franck.

Reality, and Those Who Perceive It; J. Sanfey. The Conscious Universe;M.

Kafatos, S. Roy, M.Drgnescu.

2: Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of

Time. An Overview; M. Saniga. Geometry of Time and Dimensionality of Space;

M. Saniga. Time in Biology and Physics; J.D.H. Smith. Analysis of the

Relationship Between Real and Imaginary Time in Physics; G.Jaroszkiewicz.

Clifford Algebra, Geometry and Physics; M.Pavai. The Programs of the

Extended Relativity in C-Spaces: Towards Physical Foundations of String

Theory; C. Castro. Time Measurements, 1/F Noise of the Oscillators and

Algebraic Numbers; M. Planat. Internal Time and Innovation; T. Antoniou, Z.

Suchanecki. Quantum Computing: a Way to Break Complexity; V. Di Ges,

G.M.Palma. On the Relational Statistical Space-Time Concept; V.V. Aristov.

Self-organization in Discrete Systems with Fermi-Type Memory; D.B.Kucher,

A.G. Shkorbatov.

3: The Physicist's View of Time. An Overview; W.M. Stuckey. Thermodynamic

Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time; R.M. Kiehn. Time from Quantum

Uncertainty; Z. Jacobson. The Arrow of Time in Quantum Theories; G.

Vitiello. Conformal Time in Cosmology; T.T. Shevchenko. Acausality and

Retrocausality in Four- and Higher-Dimensional General Relativity; B.

Lukcs. Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality; F. Lobo, P. Crawford.

Is There More to T? A.C. Elitzur, S. Dolev. Global Causality in Space-Time

Universe; A.A. Chernitskii. Time at the Origin of the Universe:

Fluctuations Between two Possibilities; V. Dzhunushaliev. Q uantum Cellular

Automata, the EPR Paradox and the Stages Paradigm; J.S. Eakins. Planck

Scale Physics, Pregeometry and the Notion of Time; S. Roy. Causality as a

Casualty of Pregeometry; W.M. Stuckey.

4: Integrative Science's

Views of Time. An Overview; R. Buccheri. The Aristotelian Relation of Time

to Motion and to the Human Soul; C.C. Evangeliou. The Dynamics of Time and

Timelessness: Philosophy, Physics and Prospects for our Life; A.

Grandpierre. Spacetime Holism and the Passage of Time; F.-G.Winkler. The

Intelligibility of Nature, the Endophysical Paradigm and the Relationship

Between Physical and Psychological Time; R. Buccheri. Potential and Actual

Time Concepts; G. Darvas. Paradigms of Natural Science and Substantial

Temporology; A.P. Levich. Appendix. Time Questionnaire; G. Jaroszkiewicz.

Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1200-4 Date: April 2003 Pages: 464 pp.

EURO 165.00 / USD 162.00 / GBP 104.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: observations on disciplinarity, comparative epistemology
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:21:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 823 (823)


The following two passages are from a remarkable study in the history of

medicine: Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, ed.

Thaddeus J. Trenn and Robert K. Merton, transl. Fred Bradley and Thaddeus

J. Trenn, Preface by Thomas S. Kuhn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

1979). The story of its publication (in 1935, under the title Entstehung

und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftliche Tatsache: Einfuehrung in die Lehre

vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv), near disappearance, discovery and

promotion by Kuhn is itself fascinating, as is the life of the author. Ian

Hacking cites it particularly for the idea of "thought-style" (Denkstil) as

an alternative to problem-orientated philosophy, in his own remarkable

essay, "Five Parables", in Philosophy in History, ed. R. Rorty, J. B.

Schneewind and Q. Skinner (Cambridge, 1984). Read both tonight!

Fleck studies how the fact of syphilis was made and how it developed (i.e.

the fact, not the disease). When the book was published facts were not

thought to be "made" in his sense nor to have a developmental history. Now,

with books such as Mary Poovey's A History of the Modern Fact, Peter

Galison's historical studies of objectivity (see "Objectivity is Romantic",

<a href="http://www.acls.org/op47-3.htm#galison">http://www.acls.org/op47-3.htm#galison</a>) and Ian Hacking's arguments for the

making of knowledge Fleck seems very timely indeed. I for one think that's

what we're doing too, making knowledge, so guidebooks to the process(es)

are welcome indeed.

Meanwhile, these two snippets. The first echoes several other statements to

the effect that a clear, logically anatomized depiction of a living

discipline is a contradiction in terms. The second depicts a situation I

think we are in a very good position to address -- are addressing.
[deleted quotation]
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: Barbara Bordalejo <bb268@nyu.edu>
Subject: Computing methods on textual studies: Workshop and Conference
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:23:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 824 (824)


Conference and workshop announcements

in computing, scholarly editing and stemmatics

The Centre for Technology and the Arts (CTA) and the Canterbury Tales

Project (CTP), De Montfort University,

announce two events relating to the impact of computing methods on textual

studies in general, and scholarly editing in particular.

On 29-30 April the CTA will host a workshop in stemmatics and computer

methods organized by the STEMMA project.  STEMMA is an interdisciplinary

project which seeks to explore the application of the techniques of

evolutionary biology to the study of manuscript traditions. It is a

collaboration between The Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge, and the

CTA.  A major purpose of STEMMA has been to test different techniques

developed in evolutionary biology on various manuscript traditions, using

data developed in several text editing projects (notably, the Canterbury

Tales Project; the Greek New Testament Projects at Mnster and Birmingham;

the Parzifal project at Basel). This work has given us insights into which

methods of data collection, analysis and publication offer the most useful

results.  The workshop will show the methods we have developed, and give

workshop participants the chance to use these for themselves.  Twenty

places only will be available for participants.  There will be a charge

of  75 per person, including costs for lunches, refreshments and a dinner

on Tuesday evening. See the workshop website

<a href="http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/stemma/workshop.html">http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/stemma/workshop.html</a> for more details.

On 7-9 July, 2003 the CTA and the CTP will host a conference on 'New

Technologies, Old Texts'. Conference papers and sessions will address:

electronic editions, new technologies for the study of texts, the impact of

technology on editorial theory, the use of computers in textual studies,

computer software and the study of manuscripts, the role of the reader, the

role of the editor, the process of publication, printed vs. electronic

editions. The range of areas covered includes medieval English and Italian

texts; the Greek New Testament; Modernist texts; advanced search systems in

Old English and other texts.  Confirmed speakers include Peter

Shillingsburg, David Parker, Lou Burnard, Martin Foys, Peter Robinson,

Linne Mooney and Dirk Van Hulle.  The conference fee is 187 including all

accommodation and fees.  Day-only registration, not including

accommodation, is also available.  See the workshop website

<a href="http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/confprog.html">http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/confprog.html</a> for more details.

For further information contact Barbara Bordalejo at bb268@nyu.edu or

bbordalejo@dmu.ac.uk



From: Alan D Corre <corre@uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.577 lone scholar
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:25:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 825 (825)


I think the best comment on the "Lone Scholar," especially in the

Humanities, is by the English poet Robert Southey (1774-1843):

My days among the Dead are passed;

Around me I behold,

Wher'er these casual eyes are cast,

The mighty minds of old:

My never-failing friends are they,

With whom I converse day by day.

With them I take delight in weal

And seek relief in woe;

And while I understand and feel

How much to them I owe,

My cheeks have often been bedewed

With tears of thoughtful gratitude.

My thoughts are with the Dead; with them

I live in long-past years,

Their virtues love, their faults condemn,

Partake their hopes and fears,

And from their lessons seek and find

Instruction with an humble mind.

My hopes are with the Dead; anon

My place with them will be,

And I with them shall travel on

Through all Futurity;

Yet leaving here a name, I trust,

That will not perish in the dust.

Lord Byron did not much care for Southey, whose name he acidly rhymes with

"mouthey." Yet Southey's name has not perished, largely on account of his

anti-war poem "After Blenheim":

'With fire and sword the country round

Was wasted far and wide,

And many a childing mother then

And new-born baby died:

But things like that, you know, must be

At every famous victory...

'And everybody praised the Duke

Who this great fight did win.'

'But what good came of it at last?'

Quoth little Peterkin:--

'Why, that I cannot tell,' said he,

'But 'twas a famous victory.'

                          Alan D. Corre

                  Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies

                  University  of  Wisconsin-Milwaukee

                      <a href="http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/">http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/</a>



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.580 new on WWW: Vindolanda Tablets Online
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:25:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 826 (826)


A splendid resource: thank you!
[deleted quotation]


From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.5
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:24:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 827 (827)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 5,  Week of March 24, 2003

In this issue:

Interview --

Do You Know What's in Your Project Portfolio?

Cathleen Benko and Warren McFarlan, authors of "Connecting the Dots:

Aligning Projects with Objectives in Unpredictable Times" discuss

the dangers of ignoring your IT portfolio.

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/c_benko_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/c_benko_1.html</a>



From: lhomich <lhomich@ualberta.ca>
Subject: Visual Knowledges Conference
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:04:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 828 (828)

[deleted quotation]
Peter van

der Krogt <peter@vanderkrogt.net>) =====

    Non-member submission from ["Anthea Taylor" <ashats@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk>]

                             VISUAL KNOWLEDGES

              University of Edinburgh,  17-20 September 2003

            Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,

                          University of Edinburgh

       Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Glasgow

                          Edinburgh College of Art

This interdisciplinary conference will investigate the role of visual

technologies in informing, shaping and creating knowledge.  Its

overarching aim is to investigate the claims of scholars such as Barbara

Stafford, Martin Jay, and Timothy Binkley that our own culture is

currently, in the wake of the electronic revolution, undergoing a shift in

which the visual medium, traditionally playing a secondary role as the

illustration of text, is becoming the dominant medium of thought.

The conference will project forward by casting backwards in time to

survey the role of successive new technologies of vision in generating

new cultures of knowledge, perception, and experience.  From  the

seventeenth-century invention of the telescope and the microscope, and

the progressive elaboration of spatial representation in photography,

cinema, the x-ray, scanning technologies and the interactive computer

screen, the conference addresses the broad role of technologies of the

visible in culture.

Conference sessions will include both historical and thematic panels.  All

will be asked to reflect on the relationship of their topic to the emerging

history of the new media and its cultural consequences.

Plenary speakers will include:

John Bender (Stanford Humanities Center)

Tony Bennett (Open University)

Jonathan  Crary (Columbia University)

Simon During (Johns Hopkins University)

John Gillies (University of Essex)

Martin Kemp (University of Oxford)

Celia Lury (University of London)

Michael Marrinan (Stanford University)

Joel Snyder (University of Chicago)

Mark Wigley (Columbia University)

Conference Sessions:

           Diagrams and Visual Communication

           Microscopes and Macroscopes

           Cultures of Mapping

           Visual Technology and Artistic Practice

           The Camera's Eye

           Urban Planning in the Digital Age

           Vision and Illusion

           Viewing the Invisible: Medicine and Technologies of Viewing

           From Invention to Diffusion: A Social History of Viewing

           Exhibition and Display

           Image and Text in the New Media: Thinking on Screen

           Cultures of Virtual Interaction: Chat, Gameplay, Virtual

           Reality

           Logo and Brand: Advertising and Global Space

One-page proposals for papers should be sent to: iash@ed.ac.uk.  The

deadline for proposals is 31 March 2003.  Papers should be 30 minutes in

length.  For further details visit the conference website at:

<a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/iash/vkconf.html">http://www.ed.ac.uk/iash/vkconf.html</a>

Further information from:

Professor John Frow

Director

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

The University of Edinburgh

Email: iash@ed.ac.uk

Anthea Taylor

Mrs. Anthea Taylor

Assistant to the Director

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

The University of Edinburgh



From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: 3 forthcoming talks on open access through self-archiving
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:05:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 829 (829)


(April-May)

Here are three forthcoming talks on open access through self-archiving

(plus a related workshop):

Symposium on Scholarly Publishing and Archiving on the Web

University of Albany 7 April 2003.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

"Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional Self-Archiving"

<a href="http://library.albany.edu/symposium/program.html">http://library.albany.edu/symposium/program.html</a>

Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh PA 4 May 2003.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

"Author/Institution Self-Archiving and the Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals"

<a href="http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events_03Program_Schedule.shtml">http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events_03Program_Schedule.shtml</a>

International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical

(STM) Publishers "Universal Access: By Evolution or Revolution?"

Amsterdam, 15-16 May 2003.

INVITED ADDRESS:

"Open Access by Peaceful Evolution"

<a href="http://www.stm-assoc.org/infosharing/springconference-prog.html">http://www.stm-assoc.org/infosharing/springconference-prog.html</a>

International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) (with partial

support of the European Union)

Workshop on "Peer Review in the Age of Open Archives"

Trieste (Italy) 24-25 May 2003.

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 & 02):

      <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>

the BOAI Forum:

      <a href="http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php/">http://www.eprints.org/boaiforum.php/</a>

the Free Online Scholarship Movement:

      <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm</a>

the SPARC position paper on institutional repositories:

      <a href="http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm">http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm</a>

the OAI site:

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

and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:

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



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Practical Digital Copyright Workshop Series
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:06:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 830 (830)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 26, 2003

         Copyright in A Digital World - A Practical Workshop

                    Full 2003 Series Announced

         * Registration for June 20 ALA Workshop Opens Soon *

                <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/workshop.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/workshop.html</a>

           <a href="http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/copyright/about.html">http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/copyright/about.html</a>

The Colorado Digitization Program, NINCH and OCLC are collaboratively

producing a series of day-long practical workshops on copyright issues for

the cultural community in a digital age. The series is funded by IMLS.

After the success of the first workshop, held as an IMLS Webwise

preconference, January 26, the organizing committee is pleased to announce

the schedule for the rest of 2003.

* American Library Association Annual Conference (Toronto, June 20)

* Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (Los Angeles, August 20) and

* American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting

(Providence, September 17).

A key feature of the workshops is the production of a continuously

expanding Resource Set of materials designed to enable participants take

the lessons home to the workplace and organize their own workshops.

The next workshop, co-sponsored with the Canadian Heritage Information

Network, (CHIN), and partially funded by OCLC, will take place as a

pre-conference of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Library

Association on Friday June 20, 2003, from 9:00am to 4:30pm. It will be held

at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

ALA/CLA conference registration is NOT required for attendance at the

Toronto workshop and there is no fee; but you must register to attend.

Online registration begins in May. If you would like to be notified when

registration is available, please e-mail Amy Lytle at

<mailto:amy_lytle@oclc.org><amy_lytle@oclc.org>.

Rina Pantalony, Legal Counsel for the Canadian Heritage Information

Network, will open the Toronto meeting with a keynote address on critical

copyright issues facing the community. She will be followed by five

speakers, well-known for their expertise: Lolly Gasaway, University of

North Carolina; Georgia Harper, University of Texas; Maria Pallante-Hyun,

Pallante-Hyun, LLC; Rachelle Browne, Smithsonian Institution; and Linda

Tadic, ARTstor.

[material deleted]



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.584 lone scholar
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:06:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 831 (831)


"Blenheim" does remain in some anthologies, but don't forget that Southey

also wrote "The Three Bears".



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: DIGITAL PROMISE: Support and Action Requested
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:10:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 832 (832)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

Wednesday March 26, 2003

                        DIGITAL PROMISE PROJECT

                      Legislative Activity: Support Requested

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

The ambitious Digital Promise project is moving forward. There appears a

real opportunity to instantiate its proposed Digital Opportunity Investment

Trust (intended to transform education, training and lifelong learning in

the U.S.) through proposed legislation introduced by Rep Ed Markey (D, MA)

and Rep Fred Upton (R, MI). <<a href="http://www.digitalpromise.org/MARKEY_013_xml.pdf">http://www.digitalpromise.org/MARKEY_013_xml.pdf</a>>.

Below is an appeal to help forward a proposed merger of the Upton and

Markey bills, specifically to include Markey's Digital Dividends Trust

Fund. Read on for more details.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
URGENT - Immediate Action Necessary

The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet under

Chairman Fred Upton (R, MI) held a hearing yesterday on bills by Rep. Upton

and Rep Ed Markey (D, MA) to establish a trust fund to reimburse the

military and other federal agencies for the cost of moving from spectrum

they now occupy, which is needed for commercial users.  Their cost

reimbursement would come from future revenues earned from auctioning the

vacated spectrum.  Rep. Markey's bill also establishes a "Digital Dividends

Trust Fund" (essentially, DOIT) from revenues remaining from the auctions

after the federal agencies have been reimbursed.

At the invitation of Chairman Upton, Larry Grossman testified on behalf of

the Digital Promise project in favor of merging the two bills, to include

the educational trust fund in the Upton bill.  He received a sympathetic

hearing from members of the Subcommittee.  Reps. Dingell (D, MI) and Markey

issued statements strongly in support.  You can read his testimony and

their opening statements on the Digitalpromise.org web site.

The Upton, HR 1320 bill is due for mark-up on April 7.  Mr. Markey will

seek to add the DOIT provision at that time.  However, we face a key

obstacle.  As you know, Rep. Billy Tauzin (R, LA) is Chairman of the

Communications Committee.  We are told his staff director is strongly

opposed to including the educational trust fund in the Upton bill for

ideological reasons.  It is essential, therefore, to try to reach Rep.

Tauzin to let him know how important and beneficial such a fund can be for

the nation's educational system, libraries, museums, universities and other

public interest institutions.  It is also essential to have Republican

members of the Subcommittee you may know who might support this effort talk

to Chairman Tauzin personally, urge him to allow the education trust fund

to go forward, even with token funding from the military spectrum

revenues.  This would provide an ideal public dividend, supporting both the

needs of national defense and education, two of the country's most

important priorities.

Here's what we need to do:

1. Reach the Republican Members of the Subcommittee and request that they

personally speak to Tauzin.

2. If you have key Republicans in any of these districts ask them to

request the Member to talk to Tauzin

3. If you now any influential Republicans who can call Tauzin directly, NOW

is the time to make the call.

Staff suggests the following subcommittee Members may be helpful:

Bilirakis, FL; Deal, GA; Cubin, WY; Shimkus, IL; Bass, NH; Walden, OR;

Greenwood, PA; Burr, NC.

Below is a one page summary of the rationale for DOIT which may be of

help.  If you have any questions please call me at 202-244-7959 or cell:

202-531-7638.

Sincerely,

Anne G. Murphy

Project Director

Digital Promise Project

Phone: 202. 244.7959

cell: 202. 531.7638

email: digitalpromise@fas.org

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

=============================================================================

RATIONALE

We recommend the creation of a trust to provide research and innovation in

the areas of technology, education and training.  The Trust will have a

direct impact on the future of American society, just as the Morrill Act

and the GI Bill did. We cannot afford to deny national leadership and

coordination of research and improvement for education, training and

technology.  The trust created will be essential to American

competitiveness and security in the 21st Century.

Education:  America must make a new investment in education for all

citizens if we are to remain competitive in the new global knowledge economy

Jobs:   America is losing jobs to workers overseas because we don't have a

competitive, national IT training infrastructure.

Security:  America is no longer in a position to play "catch up" with

education and training for the general population..

Life-long Learning:  America must provide every opportunity for people over

65 to remain productive, contributing members of society.

Democracy:  Democracy thrives when an educated citizenry has access to

information and the critical thinking skills to make informed choices.

What types of projects will the Trust fund to meet these needs?

* Visualization, Modeling, and Simulation could enable students to learn by

doing to better understand difficult or abstract concepts and apply what

they learn in real-world contexts.

* Virtual worlds could offer sophisticated content and challenging

activities that, like popular communications media, are "stickier" and

engage individuals for large amounts of time.

* Intelligent Tutoring Systems could assess student strengths, weaknesses,

and mastery of subject material; generate instruction material tailored to

the progress of an individual student; serve as an "expert" in a subject

matter area; and use a variety of pedagogical approaches - explanations,

guided learning, and coaching among others.

* Large Scale Digital Libraries and Online Museums could offer a

mind-boggling array of multimedia information objects and digital artifacts

for student, teacher and scholarly use, and for building engaging curricula

and learning experiences.

* Distributed Learning and Collaboration could provide learners with

unparalleled opportunities for access to courses globally that integrate

rich multi-media curriculum, expert instruction, and peer collaboration.

* Learning management tools could help students, teachers and other

education professionals better manage learning opportunities, assignments,

and tasks, scheduling analysis of student performance, interventions of

teachers and other education professionals, teacher parent communications,

student account management; and student portfolios.

The Trust will help to overcome existing barriers to meeting these goals by:

- funding much-needed research and development in the areas of information

technology, software design, the process of cognition, learning and memory.

- funding the digitization of America's libraries, museums, universities

and other scientific and cultural repositories to preserve the foundations

of American history and learning and to develop the most comprehensive

learning experiences for the future.

- serving as a center for national leadership and coordination among

business, university and Federal initiatives in these areas which are

currently operating without coordination or integration.

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From: Jeffrey Garrett <jgarrett@northwestern.edu>
Subject: Vesalius's "Fabric of the Human Body" Site Released
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:09:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 833 (833)


SIXTEENTH CENTURY SCIENCE TREASURE MEETS TWENTY FIRST CENTURY TECHNOLOGY

EVANSTON, Ill. --- One of the world's great treasures of Renaissance

bookmaking and most ambitious and comprehensive surveys of human anatomy is

being translated into English from a densely complicated Latin and

published online by Northwestern University researchers. For the first time

ever, the first and longest book of the 16th century anatomical atlas, "On

the Fabric of the Human Body," can be viewed in its entirety on the World

Wide Web at <a href="http://vesalius.northwestern.edu">http://vesalius.northwestern.edu</a>.

Originally published in 1543 -- the year Copernicus published his

revolutionary "Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies," the "Fabrica" is the

work of Andreas Vesalius, a Flemish anatomist and physician today known as

the father of anatomy. (Vesalius revised his anatomical atlas in 1555).

Just as Copernicus' work forever changed ideas about the place of man in

the cosmos, Vesalius' Fabrica revolutionized the world's understanding of

human anatomy and the importance of direct observation in medicine and

science. With its publication, Vesalius put the study of science and

medicine on a new course that led to William Harvey's discovery of the

circulation of blood in 1628 and other important findings.

Vesalius' work provided a detailed account of the human body and 272

intricate anatomical woodcut drawings and diagrams to help describe that

account. Applying 2lst century computer technology to sixteenth century

images, the online Fabrica's illustrations have been edited and enhanced

for better viewing.

The Northwestern Web site includes the complete annotated text of the first

book of the atlas, representing about one quarter of the Fabrica.

Eventually all seven books of the original anatomical atlas and substantive

revisions in the 1555 edition will be translated and presented on the Web.

The site will include edited reproductions of all the diagrams and

anatomical woodcuts that appear in both the 1543 and 1555 Fabrica editions.

Vesalius of Brussels (1514-1564) produced his first anatomical atlas at age

28, relying more on direct observation and dissection than on the study of

ancient books (then the popular method of anatomical study). He challenged

the work of anatomists such as Galen (2nd century AD), whose understanding

of the human body was based on the study of farm animals and Barbary apes.

Vesalius' work transformed the study of human anatomy and his illustrations

- which may have been executed in the studio of the great Renaissance

painter Titian -- have had an enduring influence on medical art and

illustration. According to "The Oxford Medical Companion," Vesalius' atlas

is "probably the most influential of all medical works."

Vesalius, considered in his time a scientific "enfant terrible,"

revolutionized medicine and science by insisting that truth could be

established only by direct observation. The body itself, he insisted, must

be the "textbook" from which understanding of the human body arises.

At a time when Christians and Jews alike were still uncomfortable about the

use of human cadavers in the study of anatomy, this enfant terrible

presented dramatic dissections in large theatres in Pisa, Padua, and

Bologna to prove that anatomy could only be learned first-hand at the

dissection table.

Rather than bringing in butchers to do the handiwork of his dissections,

Vesalius himself worked on the human cadavers and said that students of

medicine should do the same. Vesalius vigorously asserted that surgery,

which had long been disregarded in science, was one of the central crafts

of medicine.

Northwestern's online edition of the atlas includes modern Latin names for

all parts of the body mentioned by Vesalius and footnotes on anatomy,

contemporaries mentioned by Vesalius, and ancient Greek and Roman sources.

The translation of the first book of the Fabrica represents 10 years of

work by Daniel Garrison, professor of classics in Northwestern University's

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Malcolm Hast, professor emeritus

of otolaryngology in Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine.

"The Latin of the Fabrica is hideously difficult," says Garrison, who has

been reading Latin since he was 13. "It's not so much the terminology that

makes it such a killer but the potential for unintentional ambiguity in the

language," he explains.

While the completed Fabrica is slated for very high-quality print

publication, the Web allows Garrison and Hast to make the work widely

available as translation progresses. In addition, the Web enhances the

environment in which readers can interact with the text and drawings.

"What makes this Web presentation unique is the linkage of text and

images," says Garrison. "The images can be enlarged and viewed next to the

text for each specific anatomical feature. This is something that doesn't

work well in a book, where you have to flip pages." Another useful feature

of the online edition is the ability to search text, references to figures,

and anatomical terms.

Developing the technology for the online edition of the atlas was the work

of staff at Northwestern's Galter Health Sciences Library, the University

Library, and Academic Technologies. One of the project's challenges

involved digitizing and editing the illustrations so they could be used in

the online edition.

"The chief object of the graphical editing was to clean up the tiny Greek

and Roman characters and other glyphs in the illustrations to make them

more legible," says Garrison.

Garrison has made repairs to two kinds of artifacts resulting from the

original production of the woodcuts on the spongy, irregular paper used in

16th century printing: dropouts where the inked block did not entirely meet

the surface of the paper, and blots where too much ink bled onto the paper.

Since no two woodcut impressions are identical, these repairs require close

attention to what Vesalius tells us in the figure legends and to evidence

found in original printed specimens and reproductions of these originals,"

Garrison says.

For this project, Garrison had access to a rare copy of the 1555 Fabrica

owned by the Galter Library of Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine.

The Vesalius project was made possible with support of the National

Endowment for the Humanities and National Institutes of Health, National

Library of Medicine. For further information, particularly about the

technology that has gone into the Web site, see the Fact Sheet that

accompanies this release.

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3/20/03

FACT SHEET NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY'S VESALIUS SITE

CONTENT

When complete, Northwestern's online edition of the Vesalius atlas will

include:

- A literal translation of the 1543 text and a translation of all

substantive revisions in the 1555 edition.

- Modern anatomical names for all body parts described in the atlas.

Vesalius believed that all anatomical terminology should be based on Latin.

- Footnotes designed to clarify Vesalius' account. These notes relate to

anatomy, to Vesalius' ancient Greek and Roman sources, and to his life in

general (the people, places, and events that influenced his work).

- Reproductions of every diagram and anatomical woodcut in both editions of

the atlas (272 figures), edited for legibility. In addition, there are 17

small and 4 large historiated capitals at the beginnings of the chapter

narratives and books.

- Historical introductions to each book. The introduction to book one has

been written by Vivian Nutton of the Wellcome Library, author of John Caius

and the Manuscripts of Galen, Medicine at the Courts of Europe 1500-1837

and a forthcoming book on ancient Greek medicine.

TECHNOLOGY

- The translated text was electronically encoded in Extensible Markup

Language (XML) according to the Text Encoding Initiative's (TEI) Guidelines

for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Using the XML-based markup

standard rather than a display-based standard such as HTML or a less open

format such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect assures the longevity and

preservability of this important new work.

- Northwestern continues to explore and experiment with different

technologies for delivering XML and XML searching to users through standard

Web browsers. This online atlas batch-translates the XML into XHTML for

browser display, and uses NativeX SDK (formerly Inktomi's XML Toolkit) to

handle searches and indexing.

- Images in the atlas are converted to FlashPix and delivered to the

browser as JPEGs with TrueSpectra's Image Server. The TrueSpectra server

and Flash client allow the user to zoom in and out on these intricate

high-resolution images. A vector graphics layer around the image server was

developed locally so that highlighted regions can be turned on and off by

clicking on the accompanying book text. This functionality is critical for

the complex images, which are accompanied by figure legends that explain

the various regions in great detail. The image regions, or overlays, were

drawn manually with Adobe Illustrator and exported as Scalable Vector

Graphics (SVG).


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M. Claire Stewart (ne Dougherty)
Head, Digital Media Services
Northwestern University Library
(847) 467-1437
claire-stewart@northwestern.edu
<a href="http://copyrightreadings.blogspot.com">http://copyrightreadings.blogspot.com</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Copyright Clearance Initiative
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:35:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 834 (834)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 1, 2003

                     Copyright Clearance Initiative Announced

                  Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic

                 at American University, Washington College of Law

                       <a href="http://www.wcl.american.edu/ipclinic/">http://www.wcl.american.edu/ipclinic/</a>

                       Call for Working Group Participation

                              Friday April 11, 2003

Below are details of an important new Working Group formed at the

Washington College of Law's Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic

to explore possible solutions to problems that creators and scholars face

in obtaining copyright clearances.  The group needs full public input and

response to some proposed legislative solutions the group has developed.

David Green

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[material deleted]



From: George Angelos Papadopoulos <george@CS.UCY.AC.CY>
Subject: Academic Vacancies -- CS Dept -- Univ. of Cyprus
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:25:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 835 (835)


                *** ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIC POSITIONS ***

The University of Cyprus   announces the following tenure track  posts

(Assistant Professor or Lecturer):

                      DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

1 post in the field of Computer Networks

1 post in the field of Database Systems

1 post in the following fields of study:

* Agents and Artificial Intelligence    * Cooperative Information Systems

* Distributed Systems                   * Human-Computer Interaction

* Programming Languages                 * Theoretical Computer Science

For all   academic ranks, a   Ph.D. from  a  recognized  University is

required.

PLEASE NOTE:  The languages of instruction  are Greek and Turkish. For

the above mentioned posts, knowledge of Greek is necessary.

Applicants need not be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus.

The annual  gross salaries for  these  positions (including  the  13th

salary) are:

Assistant Professor     (Scale A13-A14)         CY23,587 - CY31,816

Lecturer                (Scale A12-A13)         CY19,919 - CY29,175

(At present 1 CY = 1.7401 sterling and 1 CY = 1.7865 dollars.)

Interested  individuals must submit  the  following items by  Thursday

17th of April 2003:

I     A letter stating the department, the academic rank or ranks for

        which the applicant is interested in, the field or fields of

        study and the date when he/she may be able to assume duties in

        the event of selection.

II    A Curriculum Vitae (6 copies).

III   A brief summary of previous work and a statement of plans for

        future research (up to 1500 words - 6 copies).

IV   A list of publications (6 copies).

V    Copies pf the three most representative publications (6 copies).

VI   Copies of degree certificates.

In addition, the  applicants must request  three academic referees  to

send letters of recommendation directly  to the University; the  names

and   addresses  of these   referees    must  be  submitted with   the

application.  Additional confidential  information may be sought.  The

letters of recommendation  must  reach the  University by  the 17th of

April, 2003.

The Curriculum Vitae and the brief summary of the research work should

be  written  in Greek  and  in one  international language, preferably

English.

Applications, other  documents and reference  letters submitted in the

past will NOT be considered and must be re-submitted.

Applications that are incomplete will not be considered.

The above must be  delivered to the University  by 2 pm, Thursday 17th

of April 2003 at the following address:

The Registrar

University of Cyprus

P O Box 20537

CY-1678 Nicosia

CYPRUS

Tel:  +357-22-892054

Fax:  +357-22-892005

For  more details  and  other information  interested individuals  may

contact  the Head  of the  Department of  Computer  Science, Associate

Professor Antonis Kakas:

Tel:    +357-22-892231

Fax:    +357-22-339062

E-mail: antonis@cs.ucy.ac.cy



From: Edward Vanhoutte <evanhoutte@kantl.be>
Subject: TOC Literary & Linguistic Computing 17/3
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:24:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 836 (836)


Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2002

Articles

- 'Delta': a Measure of Stylistic Difference and a Guide to Likely

Authorship

John Burrows

pp. 267-287

This paper is a companion to my 'Questions of authorship: attribution

and beyond', in which I sketched a new way of using the relative

frequencies of the very common words for comparing written texts and

testing their likely authorship. The main emphasis of that paper was not

on the new procedure but on the broader consequences of our increasing

sophistication in making such comparisons and the increasing (although

never absolute) reliability of our inferences about authorship. My

present objects, accordingly, are to give a more complete account of the

procedure itself; to report the outcome of an extensive set of trials;

and to consider the strengths and limitations of the new procedure. The

procedure offers a simple but comparatively accurate addition to our

current methods of distinguishing the most likely author of texts

exceeding about 1,500 words in length. It is of even greater value as a

method of reducing the field of likely candidates for texts of as little

as 100 words in length. Not unexpectedly, it works least well with texts

of a genre uncharacteristic of their author and, in one case, with texts

far separated in time across a long literary career. Its possible use

for other classificatory tasks has not yet been investigated.

- The Pascal Digital Archive

Shuji Shiraishi, Yutaka Wada and Shou Fujimura

pp. 289-310

This paper presents an overview of the Pascal Database System. The

Pascal Database includes all the text from the Oeuvres completes de

Blaise Pascal in four volumes. The online database was released

experimentally in October 2000. It is possible to display material,

perform a vocabulary search, and make frequency lists of material in the

database via the Internet. The content display can access each volume,

plus manuscript data, edition, references, annotations of J. Mesnard,

and other documents, which is a great advantage when studying the

material. The vocabulary search can perform Boolean searches with 'And',

'Or', and 'Not', and can also use the wild card '[starf]'. Frequency

lists can be made using alphabetical or frequency order, and it is even

possible to create a list based on the alphabetical order of the

reversed words. Finally, we comment on the personal pronouns in Pascal's

letters and discuss the uses of the word figure in the second volume of

Pascal's work.

- How Accurate Were Scribes? A Mathematical Model

Matthew Spencer and Christopher J. Howe

pp. 311-322

Until printing was invented, texts were copied by hand. The probability

with which changes were introduced during copying was affected by the

kind of text and society. We cannot usually estimate the probability of

change directly. Instead, we develop an indirect method. We derive a

relationship between the number of manuscripts in the tradition and the

mean number of copies separating a randomly chosen pair of manuscripts.

Given the rate at which the proportion of words that are different

increases with the mean number of copies separating two manuscripts, we

can then estimate the probability of change. We illustrate our method

with an analysis of Lydgate's medieval poem The Kings of England.

- Computer-Assisted Teaching of Translation Methods

Chi-Chiang Shei and Helen Pain

pp. 323-343

This paper introduces an intelligent tutoring system designed to help

student translators learn to appreciate the distinction between literal

translation and liberal translation, an important and forever debated

point in the literature of translation, and some other methods of

translation lying between these two extremes. We identify four prominent

kinds of translation methods commonly discussed in the translation

literature-word-for-word translation, literal translation, semantic

translation, and communicative translation-and attempt to extract

computationally expedient definitions for them from two researchers'

discussions on them. We then apply these computational definitions to

the preparation of our translation corpus to be used in the intelligent

tutoring system. In the basic working mode the system offers a source

sentence for the student to translate, compares it with the inbuilt

versions, and decides on the most likely method of translation used

through a translation unit matching algorithm. The student can guess

where on the literal and liberal continuum their translation stands by

viewing this verdict and by comparing their translation with other

versions for the same sentence. In the advanced working mode, the

student learns some translation techniques such as the contrastive

analysis approach to teaching translation, while appreciating the

working of translation methods in relation to these techniques.

- Encoding Medieval Abbreviations for Computer Analysis (from

Latin-Portuguese and Portuguese Non-literary Sources)

Stephen R. Parkinson and Antnio H. A. Emiliano

pp. 345-360

This paper proposes a solution to the problem of handling scribal

abbreviations in TEI-conformant transcriptions of medieval texts,

following a conservative editorial strategy. A key distinction is drawn

between alphabetic abbreviations, which represent sequences of letters,

and logographic abbreviations which represent whole words. The TEI

elements [lang]expan[rang] and [lang]abbrev[rang] can be used

systematically to separate these two types: alphabetic abbreviations

will be expanded in the main text, recording the abbreviated form

(including TEI entities representing the main abbreviation marks) as an

attribute of [lang]expan[rang], while logographic abbreviations will be

represented in their abbreviated form, with the expanded form recorded

as an attribute of [lang]abbrev[rang]. The proposals are illustrated

from common abbreviations and short text samples from tenth-century

Latin-Portuguese and thirteenth-century Old Portuguese.

Reviews

- David Crystal: Language and the Internet

Reviewed by Jean Aitchison

pp. 361-367

- Darrel Ince: A Dictionary of the Internet

Reviewed by Jean Aitchison

pp. 361-367

- I. Dan Melamed: Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts

Reviewed by Dan Tufis

pp. 368-370

- M. Stubbs: Words And Phrases

Reviewed by Oliver Mason

pp. 370-372


--
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Edward Vanhoutte
Co-ordinator
Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL)
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature
Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium
tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49
evanhoutte@kantl.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: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.6
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:31:27 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 837 (837)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 6,  Week of March 31, 2003

In this issue:

View --

Organizing and Safeguarding Information on Disk

A guided tour of tools for optimizing your usage patterns

By M. E. Kabay

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_kabay_10.pdf">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_kabay_10.pdf</a>



From: Paul Dekker <dekker@HUM.UVA.NL>
Subject: 14-the Amsterdam Colloquium, First CfP
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:26:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 838 (838)


First Call for Papers for the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium

Amsterdam, December 19 --- 21, 2003

[The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers,

logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study

of the semantics of natural and formal languages.]

The call for papers for the 14-th Amsterdam Colloquium is now available at:

      <a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC03/">http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC03/</a>

With kind regards,

Paul Dekker, on behalf of the Organizing Committee,

14-th Amsterdam Colloquium



From: Patrick SAINT-DIZIER <stdizier@irit.fr>
Subject: workshop on prepositions
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:27:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 839 (839)


<<< NEW DEADLINE: April 25th !! >>>>

Call for Papers :

ACL-SIGSEM   Workshop on

The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and

their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications.

September 4-6,  2003, Toulouse, France

Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL's Special Interest Group in Computational

Semantics.

A great deal of attention has been devoted in the past ten years in

the linguistic and computational linguistics communities to the syntax

and the semantics of nouns, verbs and also, but to a lesser extent, to

adjectives. Related phenomena such as quantification or tense and

aspect have motivated a number of in-depth studies and projects. In

contrast, prepositions have received less attention. The reasons are

quite clear: prepositions are probably the most polysemic category,

possibly more so than adjectives, and linguistic realizations are

extremely difficult to predict, not to mention the difficulty of

identifying cross-linguistic regularities.

Let us mention, however, several projects devoted to prepositions

expressing space, time and movement in AI and in NLP, and also the

development of formalisms and heuristics to handle PP attachment

ambiguities. Let us also mention the large number of studies in

psycholinguistics and in ethnolinguistics around specific preposition

senses. Finally, prepositions seem to reach a very deep level in the

cognitive-semantic structure of the brain: cognitive grammar

developers often use prepositions in their metalanguage, in order to

express very primitive notions. An important and difficult question to

address, is whether these notions are really primitive or can be

decomposed and lexically analysed

In argument structure, prepositions often play the crucial role of a

mediator between the verb's expectations and the semantics of the

nominal argument. The verb-preposition-noun semantic interactions are

very subtle, but totally crucial for the development of an accurate

semantics of the proposition. Let us note that a number of languages

have postpositions or other markers like case instead of prepositions

that play a quite similar role. Finally, languages like English have

verbal compounds that integrate prepositions (compositionally or as

collocations) while others, like Romance languages or Hindi either

incorporate the preposition or include it in the prepositional

phrase. All these configurations are semantically as well as

syntactically of much interest.

Prepositions turn out to be a very useful category in a number of

applications such as indexing and knowledge extraction since they

convey basic meanings of much interest like instruments, means,

comparisons, amounts, approximations, localizations, etc. They must

necessarily be taken into account---and rendered accurately---for

effective machine translation and lexical choice in language

generation.

Prepositions are also closely related to semantic structures such as

thematic roles, semantic templates or frames. From a linguistic

perspective, several investigations have been carried out on quite

diverse languages, emphasizing e.g., monolingual and cross-linguistic

contrasts or the role of prepositions in syntactic alternations. These

observations cover in general a small group of closely related

prepositions. The semantic characterization of prepositions has also

motivated the emergence of a few dedicated logical frameworks and

reasoning procedures.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together linguists, NLP

researchers and practitioners, and AI people in order to define a

common ground, to advance the state-of-the-art, to identify the

primary issues and bottlenecks, and to promote future

collaborations. If appropriate, the workshop will also establish a

working group and the development of projects and resources.

[material deleted]

Contacts :

Submissions and inquiries : stdizier@irit.fr and submissions also to :

   patrick_saintdizier@yahoo.fr

Local organizing committee : Farah Benamara, Patrick Saint-Dizier

WEB site:  www.irit.fr/cgi-bin/voir-congres



From: "OESI Informa" <informaoesi@cervantes.es>
Subject: Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:30:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 840 (840)


SEPLN 2003

Second Call for Proposals

SEPLN 2003

XIX CONGRESO DE

LA SOCIEDAD ESPAOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN)

(19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing SEPLN)

September 10-12, 2003

Universidad de Alcal de Henares

Alcal de Henares (Madrid)

<<a href="http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln">http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln</a>><a href="http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln">http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln</a>

Introduction

The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

(SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcal de Henares

(Madrid, Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this

Conference is to promote the dissemination of research, development and

innovation activities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in the

field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a

forum for discussion and communication to facilitate an effective exchange

of knowledge and scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the

publication of relevant work and the establishment of means of

collaboration with national and international Institutions that are active

in this field.

Objectives

The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and

scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest

research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing,

as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and

to know about new projects. Consequently, the 19th SEPLN Conference is a

meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the

present state of development in this field of knowledge.

Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in

previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and

foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market

needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in

helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

Topics

Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project

abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics:

Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language

Corpus linguistics

Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval

Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis

Computational Lexicography

Monolingual and multilingual text generation

Machine translation

Speech synthesis and recognition

Semantics, pragmatics and discourse

Word sense disambiguation

NLP industrial applications

Automatic textual content analysis

Structure of the Conference

The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to presenting

papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product demonstrations or

products connected with topics addressed in the conference. Scientific

activities will be complemented by social and tourist activities, allowing

attendants to gain a better understanding about the social and cultural

dimensions of Alcal de Henares.

Communications

Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals, to

be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than May 16, 2003.

Proposals must meet certain format and style requirements

Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in

electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title, the

complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and e-mail.

Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final

version, please check the publication formatsection):

The proposals will be presented in Spanish or English

Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words)

Related topic

Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract)

The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate files

will be submitted, one will only include the title and author details, the

other will only include the title and the rest of the proposal

Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the style

requirements that are described in the publication format section in this

website

Authors will submit their proposals through the following web system:

<<a href="https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html">https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html</a>><a href="https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html">https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html</a>

Projects and Demos

As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral

presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of

oral presentations, any session may be reserved to this purpose. Proposals

must meet certain format and style requirements for presentations.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information

must be included:

- Project title

- Funding institution

- Participant groups in the project

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the project director

- Abstract (2 pages maximum)

- If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be

included, as indicated below

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors

- Abstract (2 pages maximum)

- Time estimation for the whole presentation

- This information must be received by June 10, 2003

Publication Format

The final version of the article will be sent before June 27, 2003 through

a web system:

<<a href="https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html">https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html</a>><a href="https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html">https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html</a>

- Documents must not include headers or footings

- Maximum length will be 8 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included references

and figures.

- In the case of demonstrations and projects, maximum length will be 2 pages.

Articles will be sent in Postscript or PDF format.

LaTeX format

Authors using LaTeX format may download from the Conference website the

following style package zip file: latex_new.zip which contains document and

bibliography styles, as well as an example showing existing possibilities.

Word format

Authors using Microsoft Word or compatible may download from the Conference

website the following zip file: word_new.zip which includes a pattern file

in RTF format and an example showing existing editing possibilities.

Important Dates

Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance:

- Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 16, 2003

- Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2003

- Deadline for submitting the final version: June 27, 2003

- Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003

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From: "NASSLLI'03 Bloomington, Indiana" <nasslli@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: NASSLLI 2003. Registration is open now.
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:33:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 841 (841)


                  Registration for NASSLLI 2003 is now open.

                          For details, please visit

             <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/registration.html">http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/registration.html</a>

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                             NASSLLI 2003

                  <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli">http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli</a>

The main focus of NASSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic,

and computation, broadly conceived, and on related fields. NASSLLI is a

week-long summer school featuring courses on many topics of interest to

students and researchers. Some of the course topics are introductory,

while others are advanced courses that bring students to areas of active

research.

The instructors are leading researchers who like teaching in

interdisciplinary settings. Three of the courses involve work in computer

labs as well.

Please join us for a week of learning!

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From: Evolab <cfp@evolab.ece.nus.edu.sg>
Subject: Call for Papers:  Evolutionary Scheduling Session in CEC'2003
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:30:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 842 (842)


Dear Researcher,

The Congress on Evolutionary Computation, co-sponsored by the IEEE

Neural Networks Society, the Evolutionary Programming Society, the

IEAust, and the IEE, is the leading international conference in the

field. The 2003 Congress will be held in Canberra, Australia, from

8-12th December, 2003.

Prof. Edmund K. Burke, Dr Graham Kendall and Dr Kay Chen Tan are

co-organizing a special session on Evolutionary Scheduling within the

CEC'2003 (<a href="http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cec_2003/index.html">http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cec_2003/index.html</a>). The session

will cover all aspects of evolutionary scheduling and related issues. It

hopes to attract a balance of applied and theoretical papers from across

the evolutionary computing and meta-heuristic research communities.

Typical examples of such problems include rostering, machine scheduling,

timetabling, vehicle routing, resource assignment, planning, etc.

All papers (Microsoft Word or PDF files) should be submitted to Prof.

Edmund K. Burke (ekb@Cs.Nott.AC.UK), Dr Graham Kendall

(gxk@Cs.Nott.AC.UK) or Dr Kay Chen Tan (eletankc@nus.edu.sg) with the

following schedule:

Submission of papers: 14th June 2003

Notification of acceptance/rejection: 9th August 2003

Camera-ready paper: 9th September 2003

Format of the paper could be obtained from

<a href="http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cec_2003/index.html">http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cec_2003/index.html</a>. Papers will be

peer-reviewed following the same procedure as regular papers submitted

to CEC'2003.

Evolutionary Scheduling Session Co-Organizers:

Prof. Edmund K. Burke

Dr Graham Kendall

Dr Kay Chen Tan



From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH SYMPOSIUM: The Price of Digitization: April 8, New
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 08:36:09 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 843 (843)


York City

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 1, 2003

                        REGISTRATION STILL OPEN

                             NINCH SYMPOSIUM

                       The Price of Digitization:

             New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions

                       <a href="http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html">http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.html</a>

                            * Tuesday, April 8, 2003 *

                                    9:00am - 5pm

                              New York Public Library

                                Celeste Bartos Forum

                   Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City

                     A Digitization Symposium Presented by the

              National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage

                                       and

                                     Innodata

                   Co-sponsored by the New York Public Library

                             and New York University

                    Free to the Public: Registration Required

                  <a href="http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html">http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.register.html</a>

                                     *  *  *  *

Given the very strong response to the initial announcement of this

NINCH-Innodata Symposium, a larger room has been found and registration is

still open. See the web page for all confirmed speakers, speaker

information and a growing resource page. Registration closes 1pm (Eastern)

Friday April 4.

                                     *  *  *  *

How does an institution begin to cost a digitization project? What are the

elements to be included? Are there available models that can assist? What

are the budgetary and structural ramifications for an institution when it

moves from producing digitization projects to implementing a digitization

program that is core to the future of the organization and its offerings to

its public? When and how does an institution figure out how and what to

charge for its digital resources?

These are some of the questions to be answered in a free, one-day symposium

organized by NINCH in collaboration with Innodata, a NINCH Corporate

Council Member.

The meeting will feature a keynote address by Donald Waters, Program

Officer at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has encouraged the

development of economic models of digital sustainability that include cost

and charging models. A panel of speakers, representing commercial vendors

and nonprofit projects will report on how costs are determined in text,

image digitization and scholarly publishing projects.

How does digital preservation fit into this? A panel will examine the cost

considerations of various digital preservation strategies.

These panels will be followed by a discussion of the institutional changes

that are being wrought as digitization projects are gathered into

sustainable programs that are becoming core to the organization.

Participants also will hear from those who have been engaged in determining

pricing strategies for distributing digital resources in various markets.

Confirmed speakers include:

* Jack Abuhoff, Innodata

* Carrie Bickner New York Public Library

* Maria Bonn, Making of America, University of Michigan

* Stephen Chapman, Harvard University

* Nancy Harm, Luna Imaging

* Michael Lesk, The Internet Archive

* Tom Moritz, American Museum of Natural History

* Dan Pence, Systems Integration Group

* Steven Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration

* Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

* Christie Stephenson Digital Conversion Services University of Michigan

Library

* Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

* Eli Willner, Innodata

* Kate Wittenberg, Electronic Publishing Initiative, Columbia University

This symposium has been organized partly in support of the First Edition of

the "NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation &

Management of Cultural Heritage Materials," (<a href="http://www.ninch.org/guide">http://www.ninch.org/guide</a>).

"The Price of Digitization" should prove particularly useful in further

developing and updating the information and advice given in the NINCH

Guide's sections on cost models and workflow - see the Guide's chapter on

"Project Planning" (<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/">http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/II/</a>).

The meeting is free but registration is required. Please register at

<a href="http://www.ninch/forum/price.register.html">http://www.ninch/forum/price.register.html</a>. If there is a problem with

registration please send your details to <mailto:ninch@ninch.org>.

Registration will close at 1pm (Eastern) Friday April 4.


--
David L. Green, Ph.D.
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036<a href="http://www.ninch.org">http://www.ninch.org</a>
david@ninch.org
tel: 202.296.5346
fax: 202.872.0886



From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- March 2003
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 08:17:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 844 (844)


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From: Steve Hitchcock <sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Metalist of open access archives (fwd)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:29:27 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 845 (845)


To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG

      Core metalist of open access eprint archives

      <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/archive-core-metalist.html">http://opcit.eprints.org/archive-core-metalist.html</a>

      Available soon:

      Metalist of open access eprint archives: the genesis

      of institutional archives and independent services

      <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/archive-metalist.html">http://opcit.eprints.org/archive-metalist.html</a>

      "This is not a list of individual open access archives of full-text

      research papers, but instead lists and comments on other lists of

      individual archives. This list and its categorisation gives a broad

      overview of the structure, size and progress of full-text open access

      eprint archives.

      "This list will be maintained and updated as far as is possible,

      and is intended to assist further quantitative research on the open

      access eprint phenomenon for those who want to measure the growth

      and quality of open access eprint archives."

Steve Hitchcock, Southampton University

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Note added by moderator:

Data on the numbers and growth of eprint archives of various kinds are

available in figures 15-25 of the powerpoint series of 37 in:

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.ppt">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.ppt</a>

<a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.htm">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving.htm</a>



From: "harnad@uqam.ca" <harnad@uqam.ca>
Subject: Categorization: Summer Institute (Montreal)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 08:18:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 846 (846)


Dear Dr. Mccarty,

In the 12 days from June 30th to July 11 2003, Montreal will be the

Categorization Capital of the Cognitive World.

<a href="http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html">http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html</a>

The latest developments in all aspects of categorization will be

described and debated across the cognitive sciences spectrum:

cognitive anthropology, computer science, linguistics,

cognitive neuroscience, philosophy and psychology.

The University of Quebec/Montreal will host this Cognitive Sciences

Summer Institute. I hope you and your colleagues and students will

attend and participate in this remarkable convergence.

I've attached a sample of only a few of the over 50 speakers.

For the full programme:

<a href="http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html">http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html</a>

Best wishes,

Stevan Harnad.

Canada Research Chair

University of Quebec/Montreal

Partial List:

Categorization in cognitive neuroscience,

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University

Brain basis of category learning,

John Gabrieli, Stanford University

Categorization in linguistics,

Pieter Muysken, Universiteit van Nijmegen

Color categories across languages,

Paul Kay, University of California at Berkeley

Shape recognition,

Irv Biederman, University of Southern California

Object perception,

Phil G. Schyns, University of Glasgow

Category representation,

Rob Nosofsky, Indiana University

A state of the art on syntactic categories,

Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University

On categorisation and acquisition,

Eve Clark, Stanford University

Inferential theory of learning

Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University

Simulation and embodiment in situated conceptualization,

Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University

Category learning,

Rob Goldstone, Indiana University

Self-organizing vocabularies,

Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Rome

Analogical reasoning,

Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University

Categorisation and conceptual change,

Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo

A biological theory of empirical concepts,

Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut

On category change,

Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge



From: "James J. O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Yale Library Special Collections Fellowship (fwd)
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 07:15:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 847 (847)


Forwarded -- of interest for junior scholars

Colleagues:  The Yale Library is pleased to announce that the Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation has provided funding for a series of library special

collections fellowships.  We ask you to share this information with

colleagues, subject specialist lists, and other appropriate venues.

Thank you, Ann Okerson/Associate University Librarian, collections

ann.okerson@yale.edu

___

Yale University Library

Special Collections Humanities Fellowship

The Yale University Library invites applications for its new post-doctoral

special collections humanities fellowship program.  The two-year

fellowship offers recent Ph.D. recipients (within 5 years of earning their

degrees) an opportunity for in-depth research using the Library's special

and archival collections, as well as an opportunity for limited

undergraduate teaching responsibilities.  Among the selection criteria is

a preference for applicants who demonstrate an interest in

multi-disciplinary or multi-collection endeavors.  For additional

information on selection criteria, the application requirements and other

details of the fellowship, see

<<a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/special_collections/spcfellowships.html">http://www.library.yale.edu/special_collections/spcfellowships.html</a>>

Materials should be sent directly to Alice Prochaska, Yale University

Library, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.  The fellowships offer

an annual stipend of $44,300 and an annual travel/research allowance of

$1,500.  Applications must be received by May 30, 2003.  Awards will be

announced on July 1, 2003.  Successful applicants must be in residence no

later than September 2, 2003.



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: DRH2003: deadline for submissions extended  (fwd)
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 07:15:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 848 (848)


DRH2003: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES: EXTENDED DEADLINE

Although we have already received a number of excellent proposals for

papers, it has been decided to extend the deadline for submissions to this

year's DRH conference to APRIL 30th.

The conference website, together with details of how to submit a proposal,

is at <a href="http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003/">http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003/</a>

DRH is the major forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the

digitization of our cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an

electronic resource to further research; the teacher gathering Web resources

into an online learning environment; the publisher or broadcaster

integrating print or analogue with the digital to reach new audiences; the

librarian, curator or archivist wishing to improve both access to and

conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary

culture and scholarship; the computer or information scientist seeking to

apply new developments to the creation, exploitation and management of

humanities resources.

DRH2003 will be held at the University of Gloucestershire's Park Campus in

Cheltenham, England, from Sunday 31st AUGUST to Wednesday 3rd SEPTEMBER

2003.

The provisional programme will be announced on May 31st.



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: New Tech Ren Studies Rpt
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 07:17:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 849 (849)


   Willard,

   Thanks to the judicious cross-posting of an open invitation to attend

   Special Sessions at the 2003 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America

   I was able to observe a group of researchers and pedagogues "document

   innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into

   the scholarly activity of our community."  I add that the invitation, "We

   invite you to join us", with rhetorical finesse reached out across the

   boundaries of community to the curious -- or so I interpreted the text of

   Bowen and Siemens, the organisers of the sessions gathered under the

   rubric New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, and document it here for

   future processing. Those of that community who participate by both posting

   and lurking in this Humanist community might gloss and enhance what is

   captured below.

   If there is a single theme that I can abstract from the two days of

   sessions it is that scholarly activity is in certain quarters presently

   centred on navigation and segmentation.  Many of the presentations dealt

   with the preparation or the appropriate chunking of a an object of study

   in order to trace the interpretations of that object of study. Interface

   was a marked concern. Segmentation of the source to provide "good"

   navigation of a representation or model was a recurrent theme whether the

   object of study was a single artefact or sets of metadata.

   - Ian Lancashire (U Toronto): Encoding Renaissance Electronic Texts.

   Reminds us that the purpose of a project guides the granularity of the

   encoding. He reminds us of the importance of taking personal

   responsibility for the tag sets one employs. Reminds us of the

   difficulties of picking up tag sets and instruction manuals geared to

   capturing content when features of the rendition are the important aspects

   for the researcher to investigate. The problem of characters sets and

   encoding challenges scholars wanting to make transcriptions shareable

   across platforms. And it is not a problem for the letter forms,

   brevigraphs and typographic signs of Renaissance book

   production -- witness diacriticals for euro-languages other than English.

   Even if the appropriate character sets were available to every terminal of

   every potential user, Ian reminds us tvocabulary counts. A tag name is not

   just an empty reference. It says something about the interpretation of the

   text element.  When in the history of lexicography is a lemma not a lemma

   but a name, a rubric, a headword? When in the history of lexicography is

   an entry not a definition but an explanation, an illustration, a

   translation? Cautious about inadvertant connotations of the element names

   used to encode, Ian takes are not betrathe evidence of a shift

   fromworld-centred to word-centred orientations, the shift from wordbooks

   full of thing-centred denotative entries used to explore the world towards

   dictionaries designed to make language use more precise.  Attention to

   detail and context marks the seasoned humanities computeris It is

   sensivity to the consequences of saying "x is y" even contingently thatI

   can just imagine the reverberation in conversations about paratactic and

   hypotactic composition, taxonomic or topical organization of knowledge

   representation, the parallels between lexicography and, for example,

   botanical illustration. Conversationsall enabled by careful steps in _not_

   encoding one phenenomena as an example of another. It is not hesitancy as

   a virtue. It is respect for one's responsibilities. In my emblem book the

   blazon for Ian has the motto adopt and adapt and remind".

    - Richard S. Bear (U Oregon): Nexus: Reflections on the First Eight

       Years of Renascence Editions.

   In my emblem book Richard's insignia is accompanied by a dizain devoted to

   craft and commitment".  As one of the distinguished scholar's in the

   audience remRichard's Renascence Editions is a tremendous resource that

   serves public readership and the profession. From the outset mindful of

   the goal of facilitating the performing of an action at a distance,

   Richard keeps alive the vision of a public domain by judiciously juggling

   copyright with availibility, suitability and link rot.  Some of the

   copytexts arefreely available 19th century editions are keyed in,

   marked-up and made accessible with the appropriate caveats.  Other texts

   make their way into the collection when a site is threatened with

   disappearance

   Renascence Editions is geared to works of literature being found by

   readers. Renascence Editionsleveragesthe advantage of serving up static

   files marked up in HTML -- the advantage of not being in deep Web.  WWW

   search engines can index and point users to the material. Links from

   instructor-authored class WWW resources remain stable.

   The careful distinction between work and text provides that chance for

   readers to find each other.  And again I invoke the trope of  negative

   space: what is not done to encode a text. No page numbers forces

   researchers wishing to report on their findings to reference scholarly

   editions.  The secret totext maintenance for readership attraction sites

   is to leave readers with something to do. And indeed one of the

   sophisticated researchers in attendence at the session provided the

   feedback on the welcome ability to access versions of the texts allowed

   for some preliminary testing of hypothesizes or in the language of the

   Renascence Editions disclaimer "for casual text searches to aid in the

   work [...]" and was apparently pleased to have this experience orient the

   reading of other the editions.  For further interesting and fine examples

   of the genre of the learned caveat see

   <darkwing.oregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm>

     - Richard Cunningham (Acadia U): Coincidental Technologies: Moving Parts

       in Early Modern Books and in Early Hypertext.

   If there is no thaumaturgy without ergatocracy in the nitty gritty world

   of electronic preparation and delivery, there are those magical moments

   where the appropriate challenge finds its team. Richard Cunningham's

   fascination wit volvelles in early modern printed books is contagious.

   Volvelles are moving parts to be cut out and assembled into working

   navigation instruments or serve as patterns for the construction of such

   instruments. Richard was drawn into this work via experiments in active

   reading: assembling the instruments as a way of reading the instructions.

   In bringing such experiences online, acsimile does not suffice. The

   digital gears have to spin.

   Practicalities of drawing upon the combined expertise of two different

   students, one well-versed in graphic programs to produce vector-based

   graphics using Macromedia Fireworks and the other with scripting

   experience to animate the the layered images using Macromedia Flash. I

   signal the use of a software suite and the smooth division of labour it

   permits.  What the production also revealed was that very little

   automation  is possible since each volvelle presents its own pecularities

   and arrangements. Few of the components can be reutilized from

   digitalization to digitalization.

   This situation presents many an administrative challenge in order to

   garner the necessary resources to produce a significant set of examples

   when having to produce source code for each exemplar. However from a

    humanities computing perspective, this work begins to permit some very

   interesting opportunities. One can imagine using such a regular

   representation to generate metadata: which of the volvelles have

   perforations, which have pointer bars, which have multiple disks. Indeed

   embedding comments in the source code help such cataloguing efforts.

   However the wo sets of representations of the artefact (the layering of

   the graphic and the animation scripting) also offer the chance to compute

   some interesting ratios of information density of these digital

   reproductions of artefacts which are themselves interfaces to a stored

   knowledge of calculation procedures pre-Babbage and pre-Napier.  Way cool

   and a challenge to any humanities computerists who have learnt or will

   learn languages such as SVG and SMIL to build upon such work in

   visualizing pre-video monitor interfaces.

     - Stephanie Thomas (Sheffield Hallam U): The Exploration and Development

       of Tools for Active Reading.

   One of the joys of interactive animation is that an author can

   periodically take control away from the click-and-point user through the

   clever updating of the screen after a given time out or a given count of

   clicks. That is not the type of interface game that Stephanie Thomas

   demonstrated. However what she did present invites us to consider some of

   assumptions of that animate the design of the display of textual variants:

   especially that of the single reader with all witness before their

   eyes.Actual readers explore a set of variants in different ways:

   systematic comparision of two witnesses, cycling through the variants at

   one locus, ignoring variants while reading through a witness. I was lucky

   during one of the breaks to hear Stephanie elaborate on the details from a

   test of the interface with a group of student users and provide some

   wonderful anecdotes. Working in pairs the students explored the material

   to collect evidence for answers to some guiding questions. One pair

   exported (using the by now traditional copy-and-paste method) two versions

   into a wordprocessing program from where they continued to conduct their

   reading and analysis.  I report the anecdote here to stretch the received

   notion of interface (from intra-application to intra-system to

   cross-platform) and to consider the constructivist possibilities of having

   one group of students work from one versions and another group from an

   other version and watch them discuss whose variant is a variant of whose.

   What's a variant for but to feed text analysis tools?

   In all seriousness in Stephanie's presentation we found once again the

   theme of reaching readers, cultivating audiences. At theme found from

   start to finish in the workings of creating these resources, from

   designing guided discovery to exportable results, invention finds eloque

   testimonies for a reading of places to serve a taking place of dialogue

   and interchange. The fortuitious is well-prepared.

     - James H Forse (Bowling Green U): Spread Your Bibliography.

   The wise ask questions. Wanting to trace the evidence of the assertions of

   critiques and literary historians of a rise in anti-Spanish prejudice in

   the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, James Forse undertook he tedious task

   of data entry himself. The use of spreadsheet software allowed him to

   conduct a historical analysis of re-issues and the formats. In the

   discussion period following the presentation of his results and showing

   the impressive breadth of information captured in simple sortable column

   and row layout, he reported seeking advice about database versus

   spreadsheet performance issues.During his introductory remarks he offered

   us a calculation of how many coordinated index cards it would take to

   reproduce such a manipulable data set. I failed to note the numbers. What

   I did not fail to note was determination to use a tool that was accessible

   and the choice not to jump to learning the intricacies of database

   software in a sense also keeps the data more accessible.

   Wanting to find out more, I located a reference to Forse's "Playwrights in

   Print, 1560-1642: A Case-Study in Using Spreadsheets for Bibliographic

   Analysis and Speculation." SRASP, 24 (2001).  Unfortunately it appears the

   electronic version of the SRASP (Shakespeare and Renaissance Association

   [of West Virginia]:  Selected Papers) has not appeared since 1999. Perish

   the thought that Professor Forse's data set be lost for lack of a proper

   repository.

     - Deborah S. Lacoste (U Western Ontario): Computer-Aided Repertory

   Studies: Online Access to Chant Sources.

   How lovely of the organisers to have placed in the same session another

   presentation that addressed the breadth-depth polarity of temptation: more

   records versus more fields in each record. Deborah Lacoste outlined some

   of the choices and modifications made to the indices of chants collected

   in the Cantus database. As well, she described the process for creating

   and contributing quality-controlled indices. It is not solely an in-house

   operation. Researchers world-wide participate in the growth of the

   database.

   <<a href="http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus">http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus</a>

     - Shawn Martin (UMI/ProQuest): Early English Books Online

   Offered a refreshing reminder that practicalities and technicalities are

   separate aspects of project management.

     - Eileen Gardiner (Italica Press) and Ronald G. Musto (Italica Press):

   New E-Books from the ACLS History E-Book Project.

   The question period generated a consideration of the administrative

   dimension of subscriptions. Subscriptions that are site-specific force

   institutions to administer proxy-servers for off-site access by their

   members. I predict that user-based subscription will quickly become a

   desideratum.  Some keeper of the academic economy will want to see the

   access statistics are analysed and perhaps force the hand of the

   e-publishers offer differential rates for access outside of peak times is

   cheaper. Data-mining by robots like set a video recorder. E-publishers

   will perhaps also be led to broker arrangements whereby 24/7 access is

   capitalized in a global context with institutions in sufficiently

   separated time zones sharing access on 12 on 12 off basis. If the premium

   on shelf space led in part to the support of annual subscriptions to

   electronic publishing services, I am willing to wager that the pressure

   will be on to realize true savings: it just might be more cost-effective

   for institutions to purchase electronic editions outright for use on local

   servers especially if those the rights permit scholars to excerpt segments

   for quotation which many a locked-down e-book in a subscription service

   does not currently allow.  E-books might just be too uncitable and

   therefore not be enticing for the circulation of ideas (or for assessing

   impact for merit purposes).

   Oh why not be polemical! Whether money exchanges hands or not, an e-book

   is a product distributed on stony ground, an electronic edition is a

   service to a community.

     - William R. Bowen (U Toronto): Iter: Building Gateways from Catalogue

       to Collection.

   From Willam Bowen's presentation I gathered that, in a sense, Iter is a

   portal topublishers, communities, markets. Its gateway function

   categorizes it for me in the space of the Internet accessed by HTTP that

   is not indexed by the robots of search engines that scout the WWW (it is

   space aka as deep web).  I think its orientation to service versus product

   is in part a function of a guild model at work. I was clear in the answer

   to a question (who does the work) that a practical outlook geared to

   sustainability guided the development of the partnerships and

   infrasctructure: graduate student apprentices learn their craft through

   association with Iter.

     - Melinda Spencer Kingsbury (U Kentucky): Katherine Philips' Friendship

   Poems: An Approach to Building Image-based Electronic Editions of Early

   Modern Poetry.

   Absent and no paper read in absentia. Maybe a URL will follow.

     - Raymond G. Siemens (Malaspina U-C),  Barbara Bond (U Victoria),

       Terra Dickson (U  British Columbia), and Karin Armstrong (Malaspina

   U-C):

       Prototyping an Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS.>

   A project by a research group focussed on a group of writers. Lots and

   lots of work, careful thinking, reading and listening with a view to

   create a "quickly, easily, intuitively, navigable" electronic edition.

   Barbara Bond's invocation of the metaphor of house construction is apt and

   it is one won from experience. Would that house builders follow her as

   well in the principles of consistency and documentation.

   The technology has assisted in the reading of the manuscript for

   transcription purposes and now the group is keen I believe to spread an

   enthusiasm for direct interaction with the digital image, initiate others

   to the reading of handwriting and widen the conversation about the genesis

   and signification of such a multi-authored record.

     - Peter Lukehart (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National

       Gallery of Art): Virtual Knowledge and Early Modern Visual Culture.

   It was one of those enjoyable segues to turn from manuscripts to an

   exhibit about the illustration of hanwww.writingonhands.org  Peter

   Lukehart provided some new vocabulary from the realm of museumology. He

   situated that the addition of "interactives" to static online catalogues

   in a conceptual space between the walking tour of manuscripts, books and

   prints in case and the hands-on programs to work with "manipulatives" (as

   much a fun educational experience for adults as for children).  Due to

   funding considerations on of the "deliverables" a CD-ROM fell by the

   wayside. It is not clear to me if the interactive multimedia would

   accompany the exhibition catalogue on the proposed CD-ROM. I suspect that

   the catalogue was not issued in a burnt to CD format -- it is out of

   print.  And the creator-shepherds have moved on to other institutions and

   own no rights in the product. Some university press just might have a

   chance to hooked up with galleries and museums to create a back list

   service for out of print catalogues available somewhere somehow in digital

   format.

     - David Bearman (Art  Museum Image Consortium): Building Educational

   Partnerships on the Web: Museum Digital Documentation in Education.

   A very interesting presentation where the role of the distributor is key

   in not only selling access to the database but also in providing the

   interface for users to query the database. Also continuing discussion of

   the license structure  [site (where you are) versus user (who you are)]

   Also a report on the success of the strategy to use social (versus

   technical) policing of the respect for intellectual property rights.

     - Sally-Beth Maclean (U Toronto) and Alan Somerset (U Western Ontario):

       Performers on the Road: Tracking their Tours with the REED Patrons and

       Performances Internet.

     - Julia Flanders (Brown U):  Renaissance Women Online.

   Unfortunately I could not attent the last session. Perhaps some one can

   contribute a report to Humanist.

   A final word of thanks to the organisers for a very stimulating two days

   of show and tell. It is a genre I have grown to appreciate anew.

Francois



From: "Kiril Simov" <kivs@bultreebank.org>
Subject: Proceedings of the Shallow Processing of Large Corpora
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 07:32:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 850 (850)


2003 Workshop

Dear All,

The electronic version of the proceedings of the workshop is available

online at our web page:

<a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/SProLaC03Proceedings.html">http://www.bultreebank.org/SProLaC03Proceedings.html</a>

With best regards,

Kiril

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Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP,

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A

1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

E-mail: kivs@bultreebank.org

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: jobs at York (Canada)
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 07:31:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 851 (851)


Position Information

        Position Rank: Contractually Limited

          Appointment  Discipline/Field: Information Technology (ITEC)

          Home Faculty: Arts

          Home Department/Area/Division: Mathematics and Statistics

          Affiliation/Union: YUFA

          Chairperson: Dr. Tom Salisbury

          Position Start Date: July 1, 2003

          Position End Date: June 30, 2004

Description

2 Positions

Applications are invited for two limited term one-year (with the

possibility of renewal for up to two years) Assistant Professor

appointments in Information Technology in the Faculty of Arts to commence

July 1, 2003. Appointments at the Associate level may also be considered.

The York Information Technology program is interdisciplinary. While

emphasizing core topics in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics,

the program also recognizes the need for graduates to work in multifaceted

organizations within today's information-centric economy. Thus, the program

also embraces disciplines such as Economics, Humanities, Social Science,

History, Philosophy, and Psychology. The program has over 1000 majors in

the Faculty of Arts. The program is seeking people who can contribute to

teaching courses in Java programming, database use and design, systems

analysis, and human-computer interaction. The positions are currently

housed in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Applicants should have a PhD and a strong record of teaching and research

related to information technology. Applicants with PhDs in fields other

than computer science are encouraged to apply but computing or information

technology should form a central component in the individual's education

and research. Preference will be given to candidates who can strengthen

existing areas of ongoing research activity in the unit.

Enquiries and applications, with curriculum vitae, should be sent to:

ITEC Search Committee

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Faculty of Arts

York University

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario

Canada M3J 1P3

Fax: (416) 736-5757

E-mail: <mailto:itec.recruit@mathstat.yorku.ca>itec.recruit@mathstat.yorku.ca

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 <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: humanities computing jobs not in humanities computing
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 07:19:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 852 (852)


departments

I draw your attention to Humanist 16.602, which contains an advertisement

for 2 positions in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York

University (Canada). The advertisement says that "Applicants with PhDs in

fields other than computer science are encouraged to apply but computing or

information technology should form a central component in the individual's

education and research."

This advert causes me to wonder whether humanities computing jobs (i.e.

jobs we can consider to be in this field) are increasingly to be found

within computer science departments. Mainline CS departments, I would

think, would hardly bother. But there have been persistent indications that

problems within the humanities are of increasing interest to those with CS

training. If so this is good news. But a number of questions come to mind.

(1) How are such problems construed and handled as a result? Do they become

grist for a mill alien to the humanities? Are the holders of these jobs

able to pursue them without pressure to conform to mainstream CS?

(2) What are the demographics both of such job-holders and of the students

they attract?

(3) What can academic humanities computing programmes learn from

manifestations of the subject within CS?

Information science and library science are also fields apt to attract

people with interests in humanities computing, so the above applies to

those fields as well.

In the background are the strictures of established categories -- for jobs,

for work. In the U.K., for example, we have a constant problem with the

categories established for review of funding proposals and for the Research

Assessment Exercise (see <a href="http://www.hero.ac.uk/">http://www.hero.ac.uk/</a>).  Intellectually there is,

I'd think, no problem at all with the fact that humanities computing is de

facto distributed over the fields relevant to its concerns. But the

institutionalization of the intellectual life results in some difficulties.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: catac@wirth.murdoch.edu.au
Subject: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:07:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 853 (853)


(CATaC'04)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth International Conference on

CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION

(CATaC'04)

27 June-1 July 2004

Karlstad University, Sweden

<a href="http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/">http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/</a>

Conference theme:

Off the shelf or from the ground up?

ICTs and cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization

The biennial CATaC conference series provides a continuously expanding

international forum for the presentation and discussion of current research

on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of

information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series

brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse

perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in

their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s)

through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in

the series was held in London in 1998, the second in Perth in 2000, and the

third in Montreal in 2002.

Beginning with our first conference in 1998, the CATaC conferences

have highlighted theoretical and praxis-oriented scholarship and research

from all parts of the globe, including Asia, Africa, and the Middle-East.

The conferences focus especially on people and communities at the

developing edges of ICT diffusion, including indigenous peoples and those

outside the English-speaking world.

Understanding the role of culture in how far minority and/or indigenous

cultural groups may succeed - or fail - in taking up ICTs designed for a

majority culture is obviously crucial to the moral and political imperative

of designing ICTs in ways that will not simply reinforce such groups'

marginalization. What is the role of culture in the development of ICTs

"from the ground up" - beginning with the local culture and conditions -

rather than assuming dominant "off the shelf" technologies are appropriate?

Are the empowering potentials of ICTs successfully exploited among minority

and indigenous groups, and/or do they rather engender cultural

marginalization, cultural homogenization or cultural hybridization?

Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks

with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short

papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results)

are invited.

Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:

- Culture: theory and praxis

- Culture and economy

- Alternative models for ICT diffusion

- Role of governments and activists in culture, technology and communication

- ICTs and cultural hybridity

- ICTs and intercultural communication

- Culture, communication and e-learning

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars

and researchers and accepted papers will appear in the conference

proceedings. You may purchase the conference proceedings from the 2000 and

2002 conferences from <a href="http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac">http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac</a>.

There will be the opportunity for selected papers from this 2004 conference

to appear in special issues of journals and a book. Papers in previous

conferences have appeared in journals (Journal of Computer Mediated

Communication, Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de

Communication, AI and Society, Javnost- The Public, and New Media and

Society) and a book (Culture, Technology, Communication: towards an

Intercultural Global Village, 2001, edited by Charles Ess with Fay

Sudweeks, SUNY Press, New York).

Initial submissions are to be emailed to catac@it.murdoch.edu.au as an

attachment (Word, HTML, PDF). Submission of a paper implies that it has not

been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted

paper is expected to present the paper at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers (10-20 pages): 12 January 2004

Short papers (3-5 pages): 26 January 2004

Notification of acceptance: end February 2004

Final formatted papers: 29 March 2004

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

   Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, cmess@drury.edu

   Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac@it.murdoch.edu.au

CONFERENCE VICE-CHAIR

   Malin Sveningsson, Karlstad University, Sweden, malin.sveningsson@kau.se



From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca>
Subject: New Humanities Computing CRC Chair at Victoria
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:06:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 854 (854)


This is a final  reminder that the University of Victoria, BC, Canada is

seeking candidates for a Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing

(Tier II).

Full details are available at: <a href="http://humanities.uvic.ca/humcomp.htm">http://humanities.uvic.ca/humcomp.htm</a>

Deadline for applications  to the Dean of Humanities is April 15, 2003



From: "Aguera, Helen" <HAguera@neh.gov>
Subject: NEH Guidelines for Preservation and Access Projects
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:05:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 855 (855)


   New Guidelines and Application Instructions for

Preservation and Access Projects

National Endowment for the Humanities

              The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making

agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports

projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and

organizations are eligible applicants.  NEH's Division of Preservation and

Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available

cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong

learning.  Projects may encompass collections of books, journals,

newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving

images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by

libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other

repositories.

              The division will be accepting applications in July 2003 for

three of its funding categories.

1)    Research and Development Grants support projects that address issues

of major significance to libraries, archives, and museums (such as efforts

that help establish standards or a consensus of best practice for the use

of digital technology to preserve or enhance access to humanities resources).

The application deadline is July 1, 2003 for grants beginning January 2004.

<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html</a>>http<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html</a>>://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html

2)      Reference Materials Grants may be requested to create dictionaries,

encyclopedias, databases, electronic archives, historical atlases,

bibliographies, descriptive catalogs, guides, and other types of research

tools and reference works.

The application deadline is July 15, 2003 for projects beginning May 2004.

<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html</a>>http<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html</a>>://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html

3)      Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections fund

the following activities: cataloging; arrangement and description;

documentation; preservation microfilming of brittle books and serials; mass

deacidification of items not yet embrittled; conservation treatment;

transfer of materials to more stable media; creating digital surrogates to

enhance intellectual accessibility; and creating oral histories; and

conducting archival surveys.

The application deadline is July 15, 2003 for projects beginning May 2004.

<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html</a>>http<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html">http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html</a>>://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html

Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to

contact the division's staff (at 202-606-8570 or at

preservation@neh.gov).  The staff will read draft proposals that are

submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of recent awards is also

available

at

<<a href="http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/PreservationFeb2003.html">http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/PreservationFeb2003.html</a>><a href="http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/PreservationFeb2003.html">http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/PreservationFeb2003.html</a>

The postal address is:

Division of Preservation and Access

NEH, Room 411

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC  20506 (U.S.A.)



From: sbwhite@Princeton.edu
Subject: Counting Horses teeth
Date: Wednesday 09 April 2003
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 856 (856)


Since the early 1960, substantial sets of data to support theory and test

hypothesis have been available to those working in the social sciences.

Both the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at

the University of Michigan, and some forward looking university computing

centers come to mind in this regard.  However, like access for topics in

culture and the arts has been very limited.

Therefore other readers of Humanist may be especially interested to learn

of a major new resource for data in culture and the arts just launched

here at Princeton University.  It is called CPANDA (Cultural Policy & the

Arts National Data Archive), and provides access to current research and

also to a variety of otherwise hard-to-find data on the arts, including

public opinion, city-specific data and newly released statistics.  It can

be found at <a href="http://www.cpanda.org">http://www.cpanda.org</a>.  A press release with more detail on

the launch, including the generous financial support of the Pew Charitable

Trusts, can be found at

<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/03/q2/0402-cpanda.htm">http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/03/q2/0402-cpanda.htm</a>

Anyone with comments or questions on the project, or wishing to suggest

data that might be made available through CPANDA, can contact Ann Gray,

project director, at 609 258-6052 or via email at agray@princeton.edu.

Susan Bennett White

Social Science Reference Center

Princeton University Library

sbwhite@Princeton.edu



From: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
Subject: COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS: CLEVELAND Registration Still
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:06:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 857 (857)


Open (Sat April 12); NYC Report Now Available on

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 8, 2003

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

REGISTRATION STILL OPEN

NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: CLEVELAND

Copyright for Artists and their Public:

Artists' Rights and Art's Rights

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.html</a>

Cleveland Museum of Art

* Saturday April 12, 2003 *

9:30am-4pm

========================

REPORT NOW AVAILABLE

NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NEW YORK

February 22, 2003

Digital Publishing: the Rights Issues

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.report.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.report.html</a>

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

REGISTRATION STILL OPEN

NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: CLEVELAND

Copyright for Artists and their Public:

Artists' Rights and Art's Rights

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.html</a>

Cleveland Museum of Art

* Saturday April 12, 2003 *

9:30am-4pm

Co-sponsored by the

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Center for Law, Technology and the Arts

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association and

Americans for the Arts

Free of Charge: Registration Required

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html</a>

   * * *

Registration is still open for the April 12 Copyright Town Meeting,

"Artists' Rights and Art's Rights," hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art

and co-sponsored   by the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts at Case

Western Reserve University School of Law

<<a href="http://lawwww.cwru.edu/academic/lta/">http://lawwww.cwru.edu/academic/lta/</a>>, the Cleveland Intellectual Property

Law Association and Americans for the Arts.

The meeting focuses on copyright issues that artists and their audiences

confront in creating, distributing and/or re-using the arts online.

What has been the impact of the Internet on the creative community and how

has copyright law and practice and other legal structures affected what can

be done online? Practitioners, lawyers, legal scholars, and a critical

commentator on digital copyright law and practice come together to offer

their wisdom and experiences to those creating and using the arts online.

After an introductory keynote address by June Besek, in which she reviews

copyright basics and current key developments in digital copyright

legislation, the meeting will comprise three panels:

* Art & Work: Copyright, Contracts and Work-for-Hire

* Access & Use: Copyright, The Public Domain and the First Amendment

* Artists and Copyright: Experiences Working Online

The meeting will conclude with an open forum with questions, comments and

discussion on the issues raised by the presentations.

Confirmed speakers to date include:

* Alberta Arthurs, Arthurs.US

* Mark Avsec, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff

* June Besek, Executive Director, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the

Arts, Columbia Law School

* Deborah A. Coleman, Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

* Mark Gunderson, Musician and New Media Artist

* Richard Kelly, Photographer

* Richard Kessler, Executive Director, American Music Center

* Maureen O'Rourke, Professor of Law, Boston University

* Walt Seng, Photographer

Participation is free but registration is required. Register now online at:

<a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.register.html</a>

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

REPORT NOW AVAILABLE

NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NEW YORK

February 22, 2003

Digital Publishing: the Rights Issues

                <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.report.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/nyc.report.html</a>

Full and summary reports are now available on "Digital Publishing: the

Rights Issues," a NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, hosted and co-organized

with the College Art Association and its Committee on Intellectual Property

at the CAA conference in New York Feb 22, 2003.

The Metropolitan Museum's Susan Chun explored the expanded universe of

digital publishing that ranges from digital versions of known forms to

digital-value-added e-journals to totally new forms like image databases.

Authors face a bewildering new rights landscape but museums were authors

too (as well as rightsholders, publishers and scholars). In trying to

understand and regularize digital publication, museums were establishing

policies and best practices. But these were still early days, much was

fluid and there was "a great deal of space at the table" for scholars and

art historians to help formulate new approaches and standards. She urged

scholars "to join with us in formulating a new strategy for making our

content available to you."

CAA's Legal Counsel Jeff Cunard spoke of how in creating a digital archive

of CAA's Art Reviews as part of JSTOR, there was no need to seek

permissions as the digital publication was a complete replica of the entire

publication (so the Tasini case did not apply)> However new e-publications

are demanding rights for potential e-publication. Those rights are hard to

get and often apply for three years.

Petra Chu and Peter Trippi, producers of the new e-journal "19th-Century

Art Worldwide," cited rights violations the journal has suffered but

focused on how they manage the rights issues for images. They include more

images than most regular journals, but insisted on authors acquiring

erights and paying the fees. They do assist authors, for example by

providing a sample request form, but highlighted the burden that young

scholars face (with bills of $1500 or more for image fees for a single

article)< They called for centralized and standardized image distribution

across institutions.

What to do when permission cannot be gained or is refused? Christine Sundt

encouraged more aggressive use of fair use and not asking permission when

it was a clear fair use and gave a list of still unanswered questions about

using material in the public domain or subject to the control of artists'

heirs. Siva Vaidhyanathan asked for more breathing room for scholars and

cited the experience of many scholars and publishers not publishing

material in fear of prosecution.

Kenny Crews aligned these issues and concerns about digital publishing with

the underground issues behind the 2002 Teach Act that updates the Copyright

Act with regard to what can be legally broadcast via distance education.

The Teach Act is a very complicated one and educators are bound by a

package of requirements and restrictions. The opportunity offered to

exploit the medium and expand distance education was balanced in the Act by

an interest in safeguarding future markets for commercial digital publishing.

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From: Ray Siemens <siemensr@mala.bc.ca>
Subject: ACH/ALLC 2003 Early Registration Deadline Extended
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:01:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 858 (858)

ACH/ALLC 2003 Early Registration Deadline Extended
The deadline for early registration for ACH/ALLC 2003 has been extended
to April 15.  All those who are thinking of coming to Athens for the
meeting should consider signing up now, before the rates change.  April
15 is also the target date for registration for training workshops at
the conference.  See the conference web site for full registration
details (including the cancellation policy), the full conference and
workshop program, and online registration and lodging reservations.



From: "Matthew L. Jockers" <mjockers@STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: Part Of Speech Tagging--Latin
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:01:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 859 (859)


Hi Folks:

I am looking for something equivalent to the CLAWS POS tagger that will work

with a Latin text.  I poked around on the web but nothing leaped out.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Matt


--
Matthew L. Jockers
Consulting Assistant Professor
Academic Technology Specialist
Department of English
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2087
650/723-4489 (V)
650/725-0755 (F)
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers">http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers</a>



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.7
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:01:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 860 (860)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 7,  Week of April 7, 2003

In this issue:

Excerpt --

The Art and Business of Speech Recognition

Writing Effective Prompts

By Blade Kotelly

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/b_kotelly_1.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/b_kotelly_1.html</a>



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new book on games
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:53:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 861 (861)


Introduction to the Theory of Cooperative Games

by

Bezalel Peleg

Institute of Mathematics and Center for Rationality and Interactive

Decision Theory, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Peter Sudhlter

Dept. of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY C: -- 34

Introduction to the Theory of Cooperative Games systematically studies the

main solutions of cooperative games: the core, bargaining set, kernel,

nucleolus, and the Shapley value of TU games, and the core, the Shapley

value, and the ordinal bargaining set of NTU games. To each solution a

separate chapter is devoted, in which its properties are investigated in

full detail. Moreover, important variants are defined or even intensively

analyzed. Separate chapters cover continuity, dynamics, and geometric

properties of solutions of TU games. This study culminates in uniform and

coherent axiomatizations of all the foregoing solutions (excluding the

bargaining set). Except for the Shapley value such axiomatizations have not

appeared in any book. Moreover, Introduction to the Theory of Cooperative

Games contains a detailed analysis of the main results on cooperative games

without side payments. Such analysis is very limited or non-existent in the

existing literature on game theory.

This book is of interest to Game Theorists, Economists, Mathematicians and

Researchers in Operations Research, Political Science and Social Science.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7410-7 Date: June 2003 Pages: 388 pp.

EURO 129.00 / USD 126.00 / GBP 84.00

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer@let.uu.nl>
Subject: CfP: ELSNET/ENABLER Resources Infrastructure Workshop at
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:03:51 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 862 (862)


ACL2003

          ACL2003 Resources Information Infrastructure Workshop

     _________________________________________________________________

                           Last CALL for PAPERS

               Towards a Resources Information Infrastructure

                   Workshop at ACL2003 in Sapporo (Japan)

                           July 11 and 12 2003

                      Organised by ENABLER / ELSNET

Description

   The problem addressed by this workshop is the well-known information

   problem. People are creating, exploring and exploiting language

   resources all over the world. Those who are working with resources

   know a lot about their own and other resources, and they are generally

   prepared to share this knowledge, their expertise and in many cases

   even their resources with others via publications in journals,

   presentations at conferences, and via the web.

   Unfortunately this information, however public, is not accessible in

   any systematic way for those who need resources, who want to know what

   sort of resources exist, how resources should be annotated, which

   standards to adhere to, which tools to use, etc etc. We will call this

   problem the 'Resources Information Problem'.

   The problem has also a geographical dimension: As work on specific

   languages is very often concentrated in specific parts of the world,

   much relevant information has a tendency to stay in one geographical

   place. This is an obstacle for those who are working on these same

   languages in different parts of the world, and it makes it harder to

   port knowledge and expertise gained on one language to other

   languages.

   The above observation are far from novel, and it would be naive to

   think that the problems will ever go away. At the same time one can

   observe that there are organisations (associations, agencies,

   projects, networks, etc) that have access to parts or fragments of

   this information and that have their own infrastructures that

   facilitate access to this information by internal or external people.

   The purpose of this workshop is to investigate how we can exploit the

   existing infrastructures to a maximum in order to facilitate

   world-wide access to information on language resources. The role of

   the workshop will be to bootstrap this process.

Approach

     * First of all we will try to make an initial map of the language

       resources landscape world-wide. This map will include actors,

       organisations, repositories, standards, projects, tool libraries,

       etc etc. All participants will be asked beforehand to submit

       pointers to such items. They will be collected and published.

     * At the workshop we will invite representatives of a number of

       organisations that can be seen as key actors in the field, and

       they will be asked to present ideas about the way their

       organisation could contribute to solving the Resources Information

       Problem. These ideas could range from very concrete and

       immediately implementable proposals to longer term and visionary

       actions.

     * A round table discussion at the workshop will aim at the creation

       of convergence, coherence and synergies between the proposed

       actions. The intended output is a catalogue of actions to

       facilitate access to resources information that could be

       implemented (almost) immediately, a skeleton plan for longer term

       actions, and firm commitment from key players to make these things

       happen.

[material deleted]

   A full list of PC members will be published on the workshop

   website at <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/acl2003-workshop">http://www.elsnet.org/acl2003-workshop</a>

   The workshop will be jointly chaired by Steven Krauwer (ELSNET) and

   Nicoletta Calzolari/Antonio Zampolli (ENABLER)

Historical note

   This workshop can be seen as a follow-up of the workshop organised at

   ACL2000 in Hong Kong, entitled 'Towards infrastructures for global

   collaboration'. One of the conclusions of this workshop was that the

   field of language resources would offer good opportunities for

   collaborative actions, and the first concrete goal was the creation of

   an international resources federation, a first step towards which is

   now embodied by the proposal to set up an International Committee for

   Written Language Resources.

   The workshop should lead to the definition of concrete

   actions to be carried out under the auspices of ICWLR, in

   collaboration with other organisations.

Contact info

   Steven Krauwer (steven.krauwer@elsnet.org),

   ELSNET (<a href="http://www.elsnet.org">http://www.elsnet.org</a>)



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: E-Book 2003: May 8-9, Dublin, OH
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:52:19 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 863 (863)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 10, 2003

                E-Book 2003: Print Collections, e-Books & Beyond

                 May 8-9, 2003: Marriott Northwest, Dublin, Ohio

                               Cost:  $175.00

                 <<a href="http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/ebc/">http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/ebc/</a>>
[deleted quotation]
The University of Michigan, the Ohio State University, Blackwell's Book

Services, the OCLC Institute and OCLC's Digital & Preservation Resources

invite you to attend

E-Book 2003: Print Collections, e-Books & Beyond

This 1.5-day conference brings together a distinguished group of users and

creators of e-books to

- Give participants the opportunity to hear and discuss the trends and the

growing impact e-books have on their user communities

- Explore the effects e-books will have on libraries and their patrons in

the near and mid-term future

- Examine the financial consequences of producing and managing e-books and

the cost components involved

- Look at the intersection of e-books and other digitization projects for

historic corpora, and how users incorporate e-books into their library use

We have an exciting line-up of speakers, including Cliff Lynch, CNI; Ed

McCoyd, AAP; Mary Jane Cavallo, Library of Congress; Martin Mueller,

Northwestern University; Allen Renear, University of Illinois, Rich Rosy and

Lynn Connaway, netLibrary; Louise Edwards, JISC; and others.

Location: Marriott Northwest, Dublin, Ohio

Cost:  $175.00

OHIONET & MLC Members, OCLC Canada Members, and Digital & Preservation

Cooperative Participants: $125.00

For Further Details:  www.oclc.org/institute/events/ebc/

<<a href="http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/ebc/">http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/ebc/</a>>  (Please note:  This URL does

not work with Netscape.  Our apologies for the inconvenience.)

If you have questions, please contact Amy Lytle, Grants & Education

Coordinator, OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources, at amy_lytle@oclc.org or

by phone at 800.848.5878 x 5212.

____

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From: Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders@BROWN.EDU>
Subject: ACH jobs mentoring
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:52:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 864 (864)


With apologies for cross-posting:

The ACH Jobs workgroup is happy to announce the third year of its jobs

mentoring service, held in conjunction with the ACH-ALLC 2003 conference in

Athens, Georgia.

This service matches job-seekers and new members of the humanities

computing community with mentors in their area of interest, who can help

them get their bearings in the complex humanities computing job market.

Mentors offer advice on training, research opportunities, education and

accreditation, job-seeking, and all the other ineffable questions...

We are seeking participants for both roles! If you would like to be a

mentor, or if you would like to be mentored, please send email to

Julia_Flanders@brown.edu. Please indicate your area(s) of interest,

expertise, and training (and for mentors, please also tell me what you are

currently doing).

We will put mentees in touch with an appropriate mentor and let you set up

a mutually convenient time to meet.  If you'd like to participate, but

won't be at ACH-ALLC, that's also fine--you can meet via email or

telephone. Our mentoring service continues throughout the year, so we are

glad to have mentors in reserve.

Thanks to all who have generously volunteered to mentor in the past, and

thanks in advance to those who join us this year.

Best wishes, Julia

ACH Jobs committee


--
Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Scholarly Technology Group
Box 1841, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-2135
<a href="http://www.wwp.brown.edu">http://www.wwp.brown.edu</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Nominations for Most Accessible Museum Website of the Year
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:53:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 865 (865)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 11, 2003

                 UK Museum Computer Group Invites Nominations for

                  The Most Accessible Museum Website of the Year

                           The Jodi Mattes Access Award

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

                             Deadline: April 30, 2003

A very interesting award, new this year, given to 'Best Large-scale Site'

and 'Best Shoestring Project' that are "most accessible." Websites from all

countries are eligible, but must contain some navigation and content in

English.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
The Jodi Mattes Access Award

The Museums Computer Group (MCG) invites nominations for a new award for the

most accessible museum website of the year - the first Jodi Mattes Access

award.  The winner will be announced at the RNIB (Royal National Institute

of the Blind)'s Talking Images conference on 20th May 2003.  In this, the

European Year of Disabled People, the award should generate significant

press coverage for the winner(s).

Criteria for the award will be usability and content accessibility.

Technical compliance will be measured to level A of the Web Accessibility

Initiative Guidelines.   If entries are sufficient in number, there will be

two prizes for 'Best Large-scale Site' and 'Best Shoestring Project' .

Websites from all countries are eligible, but must contain some navigation

and content in English.

[material deleted]



From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt@UVT.NL>
Subject: IWPT'03 Call for Participation
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:54:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 866 (866)


C a l l  f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n

IWPT 2003

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

8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies

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

Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE

23-25 April 2003

Nancy, France

<a href="http://iwpt03.loria.fr/">http://iwpt03.loria.fr/</a>

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

Nancy, "City of Art and History", the historical

capital of Lorraine (the north-eastern part of France)

welcomes you to the 8th International Workshop on Parsing

Technologies. The Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en

Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) in Nancy, France

will host the 8th International Workshop on Parsing

Technologies (IWPT'03) from 23 to 25 April, 2003.

IWPT'03 continues the tradition of biennial workshops

on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special

Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for

Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series

was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first

workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was

followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991;

Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993;

Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995;

Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy)

in 2000, and Beijing (China) in 2001.

[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: OpenURL Workshop: May 13, NYC
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:57:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 867 (867)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 14, 2003

                               OpenURL Workshop

                                 Presented by:

                NISO & The Palmer School, Long Island University

                          May 13, 2003: New York City

               <<a href="http://palmer.cwpost.liu.edu/csc/OpenURL_day.html">http://palmer.cwpost.liu.edu/csc/OpenURL_day.html</a>>

                              Registration: $99
[deleted quotation]
OpenURL Workshop: Learn how the new OpenURL standard puts the thinking

back in linking!

NISO Standards Committee AX has just released the trial implementation

version of the OpenURL. This standard enables context sensitive linking.

Tools built on the OpenURL offer a unified interface to the diverse

collections that a library hosts locally or has rights to externally.

This one-day meeting is organized by the Center for Scholarly

Communication at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science of

Long Island University and by NISO. Its aim is to introduce the library

and publishing communities to the path-breaking concepts at the heart of

the OpenURL and show you the tools that are facilitating a host of new

library services and will undoubtedly lead to new business opportunities.

This is your chance to learn from the visionary pioneers

behind this technology.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 13

WHERE: METRO; 57 East 11th St, New York, NY 10003

COST: $99

[material deleted]



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Iraqi National Museum Tragedy
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:56:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 868 (868)


Willard,

The news about the easily preventable looting of the Iraqi National Museum

in the New York Times this morning was quite depressing. I have no

expectation that the current US administration will be any more attentive

to cultural artifacts in subsequent foreign adventures. Rather ironic that

the robber barons of the 19th century funded any number of preservation

efforts in the area but those who follow in their footsteps have no sense

of culture at all. If it is not sold on a futures exchange or is a market

for US goods or services, it is simply unworthy of preservation.

Hopefully the shock of this loss will spur efforts to digitize entire

artifact and manuscript collections with replicated copies around the

world. It is obvious that we cannot rely on national governments to protect

the common cultural heritage of civilization, so I suggest that scholars

and academics take matters into their own hands. Writing protest letters

and calling elected officials will do less good than imaging a single

manuscript for replicated storage at multiple sites around the world. For

every artifact or manuscript imaged and replicated, the chances of its

total loss due to the excesses of any national government is greatly decreased.

Suggestions for spurring such work forward?

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu
Co-Editor, ISO Reference Model for Topic Maps



From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing.  Part I
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:51:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 869 (869)


                    Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing.

                 Part I: Individual and Institutional Initiatives

      I am proud to announce the publication of the first of a three-part

series on "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing" in _Library Hi Tech News_:

Gerry McKiernan (2003) "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part I:

Individual and Institutional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ Vol. 20

No. 2 (March), pp. 19-26

      Among the initiatives profiled in this first part are:

*Individual*

arXiv.org  <a href="http://xxx.arXiv.cornell.edu">http://xxx.arXiv.cornell.edu</a> )

CogPrints (<a href="http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/">http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/</a>) [DOWN?]

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) (<a href="http://repec.org/">http://repec.org/</a> )

*Institutional*

eScholarship Repository (University of California)

     (<a href="http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/">http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/</a>)

Glasgow ePrints Service (<a href="http://eprints.lib.gla.ac.uk/">http://eprints.lib.gla.ac.uk/</a>)

Knowledge Bank (Ohio State University)

    ( <a href="http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/Lib_Info/scholarcom/KBproposal.html">http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/Lib_Info/scholarcom/KBproposal.html</a> )

     Part II in the series is devoted to Library and Professional

initiatives and

scheduled to be published in the next issue of LHTN (20(3). The manuscript

for Part III was submitted earlier today and is scheduled for publication

in LHTN 20(5).

     Part I is also now available electronically  for subscribers to LHTN

via Emerald:

    ( <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1/cl=3/nw=1/rpsv/lhtn.htm">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1/cl=3/nw=1/rpsv/lhtn.htm</a> )

     Enjoy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

and

Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer

Iowa State University

Ames IA 50011

              "The Best Way To Predict the Future is to Invent It"

                                                                Alan Kay



From: "Domenico Fiormonte" <d.fiormonte@mclink.it>
Subject: Query on Bacon and Campanella
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:55:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 870 (870)


Dear colleagues,

I am currently working on a book that will be published in Italy next

September   ("Scrittura e filologia nell'era digitale" = Writing and

philology in the digital era). In the first part -- quite boldly I admit

it... -- I ventured a chapter on the relationship between technology and

their supports, i.e. the well-known (sometimes trivial) dicothomies orality

vs. writing, print vs. computer, etc.

I studied the contributions of Francis Bacon's  leading expert Paolo Rossi,

and found that Bacon is at the heart of all discussions about the emergence

of the technological determinism (from

Karl Marx up to Mumford and Leroi-Gourhan).

I hope that you will forgive my naivety, but I am not  an historian nor a

philosopher of science, only a poor student of 'humanae litterae', so my

link to Sir Bacon was initially the Italian XVII century thinker Tommaso

Campanella.

The dilemma I am facing, and on which I am asking the help of the learned

members of this list, is the following: is there any evidence that Bacon

came across Campanella's  works, namely his "De Monarchia Hispanica",

before writing the Novum Organum (published about 20 years later)?

Campanella wrote De Monarchia Hispanica in prison in around 1600, but it

was only later that this book was published.

As far as I know, there are few studies on the intellectual affinities

between Bacon and Campanella (see for ex. Rossi's "I filosofi e le

macchine"), but I could not found any clear reference to a direct

relationship between the two philosophers.

My curiosity (hence my query) was raised from this passage:

"[...] Constat denique, quod, dum hostis & equis bella administrata

fuerunt, Galli, Gothi, & Longobardi; dum vero gladiis, Romani

imperium latius propagarunt. At postquam Astutia plus voluit

Fortitudine, inventaeque Typographiae, & Tormenta bellica, rerum

summa rediit ad Hispanos, homines sane impigros, fortes, & astutos."

This incipit has extraordinary thematic similarities with a most- quoted

paragraph of the Novum Organum (CXXIX):

"[...] Rursus, vim et virtutem et consequentias rerum inventarum

notare iuvat: quae non aliis manifestius occurrunt, quam in illis tribus

quae antiquis incognitae, et quarum primordia, licet recentia, obscura et

ingloria sunt: Artis nimirum Imprimendi, Pulveris Tormentarii, et Acus

Nauticae. Haec enim tria rerum faciem et statum in orbe terrarum

mutaverunt: primum, in re literaria; secundum, in re bellica; tertium, in

navigationibus: unde innumerae rerum mutationes sequutae sunt; ut non

imperium aliquod, non secta, non stella, majorem efficaciam et quasi

influxum super res humanas exercuisse videatur, quam ista mechanica

exercuerunt."

I am reading others works by Campanella in search of more references to the

machine-progress (cause-and-effect) idea, but so far I did not find what I

was looking for.

Another way of putting the question is: who influenced whom?

Is Campanella the source of Bacon or the way round?

Perhaps that single -- but not isolated -- passage is a coincidence, but

even if we can already state that Sir Bacon was not unaware of Campanella's

thought, it would be interesting  to know to which extent...   (well, of

course I have an opinion, as Borges would say, no one would search for an

evidence without being certain about it...).

I would be very grateful if you could help me to shed some light upon this

dilemma; and of course any suggestion about readings on the

Bacon-Campanella relationship would be most welcomed.

Thanks in advance

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte Professore a

contratto di Informatica umanistica Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata /

Universita' di Roma La Sapienza

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



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Mind and Society
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:18:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 871 (871)


Humanists with an interest in modelling will be interested in the journal

Mind and Society: a Journal of Cognitive and Epistemological Studies on

Economics and Social Sciences, published by the Fondazione Rosselli

(Torino, <a href="http://www.fondazionerosselli.it/">http://www.fondazionerosselli.it/</a>). My attention was called to the

journal by volume 2, number 4 (2001), specifically by the section on

"Commonsense and Scientific Reasoning".  I pass along the table of contents

here:
[deleted quotation]
commonalities.
[deleted quotation]
Note also the forthcoming issue, "Scientific Discovery: Model-based

Reasoning", whose table of contents is even more promising.

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/



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Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:19:46 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 872 (872)


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LNCS 2648:

T. Ball, S.K. Rajamani (Eds.):

Model Checking Software

10th International SPIN Workshop, Portland, OR, USA, May 9-10, 2003.

Proceedings

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LNCS 2646:

H. Geuvers, F. Wiedijk (Eds.):

Types for Proofs and Programs

International Workshop, TYPES 2002, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands, April

24-28, 2002. Selected Papers

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X. Zhou, Y. Zhang, M.E. Orlowska (Eds.):

Web Technologies and Applications

5th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2003, Xian, China, April 23-25,

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LNCS 2633:

F. Sebastiani (Ed.):

Advances in Information Retrieval

25th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2003, Pisa, Italy, April

14-16, 2003. Proceedings

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Constraint Logic Programming, Cork, Ireland, June 19-21, 2002. Selected Papers

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Digital Watermarking

First International Workshop, IWDW 2002, Seoul, Korea, November 21-22,

2002. Revised Papers

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Essex, UK, April 14-16, 2003. Proceedings

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Third InternationalWorkshop, MABS 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 15-16, 2002.

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P. Petta, R. Tolksdorf, F. Zambonelli (Eds.):

Engineering Societies in the Agents World III

Third International Workshop, ESAW 2002, Madrid, Spain, September 16-17,

2002. Revised Papers

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5th International Conference, Porto, Portugal, June 26-28, 2002. Selected

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From: CIRAS <ciras@nus.edu.sg>
Subject: CIRAS - Singapore 2003 CFP
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:16:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 873 (873)


(Apologies, if you have received this CFP before.)

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

2nd Int. Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous

Systems 15-18 December 2003, Singapore

[<a href="http://ciras.nus.edu.sg">http://ciras.nus.edu.sg</a>]   [ciras@nus.edu.sg]

Online Paper Submission: [<a href="http://act.ee.nus.edu.sg/ciras2003/">http://act.ee.nus.edu.sg/ciras2003/</a>]

Important Dates

    Submission: 1 July 2003

    Acceptance: 15 August 2003

    Final Submission: 15 September 2003

Organized by: Centre for Intelligent Control, National Univ. of Singapore

Co-sponsored by:

        IEEE SMC Society Singapore Chapter

        IEEE R&A Society Singapore Chapter

Supported by: Lee Foundation

The Centre for Intelligent Control, National University of Singapore is

pleased to announce that the 2nd International conference on Computational

Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2003) is planned in

December 2003 in Singapore. The CIRAS'2001 was successfully held at the

National University of Singapore in November 2001. Prof. Zadeh L. A. and

Prof. Xin Yao delivered the keynote addresses at CIRAS'2001.

The Intelligence in automation systems is increasingly becoming a key and

important technology to be harnessed for enhancing productivity and

economic returns. CIRAS2003 will focus on research directions that are

broadly covered by the fields, Computational Intelligence (CI), Robotics

and Autonomous Systems.  CIRAS is intended to provide a common platform for

knowledge dissemination among researchers working in related areas. CIRAS

invites submissions from all areas related to, but not limited to,

Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TM: Creating Museum IP Policy: Portland,
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:17:33 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 874 (874)


Oregon, May 22

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 14, 2003

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

                                REGISTRATION STILL OPEN

                       (Advance Registration Closes April 18)

                  NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: PORTLAND

               Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World

                  <a href="http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/portland.html">http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/portland.html</a>

              Co-sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network

            and the Intellectual Property Section of the Oregon State Bar

          at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums

               Doubletree Hotel Portland Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon

                              Thursday May 22, 9am-4pm

                         Registration Required with AAM: $75

          <a href="http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf">http://www.aam-us.org/prof_ed/annual_mtg/2003RegistrationForm.pdf</a>

                    [Workshop 64: Intellectual Property Workshop]

              *  Advance Registrations Must Be Received By April 18  *

             After April 18, Registrations (if available) only on-site

                                     *  *  *  *

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 the use and

distribution of digital content and how do they go about creating it?

"Creating IP Policy in Museums," the subject of this NINCH Copyright Town

Meeting, will attempt to answer these questions.

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From: "J. Stephen Downie" <jdownie@uiuc.edu>
Subject: CFP: SIGIR 2003: Workshop on the Evaluation of Music
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:18:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 875 (875)


Information Retrieval (MIR) Systems

Greetings colleagues:

This CFP is intended to encourage all that have an interest in Music

Information

Retrieval and Music Digital Library research to consider submitting to, and/or

participating in, the upcoming SIGIR 2003: Workshop on the Evaluation of Music

Information Retrieval (MIR) Systems, August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada.

Please look at the more detailed workshop information page for more detailed

submission and expression of interest information:

<a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation/sigir03_workshop.htm">http://music-ir.org/evaluation/sigir03_workshop.htm</a>

This workshop is designed to enhance the important and significant work being

done by the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research community by

providing an

opportunity for the community to move forward on the establishment of

sorely-needed evaluation tools. This proposal builds upon the ongoing efforts

being made to establish TREC-like and other comprehensive evaluation paradigms

within the MIR research community.

The principal workshop themes are based upon expert opinion garnered from

members of the Information Retrieval (IR), Music Digital Library (MDL) and MIR

communities with regard to the construction and implementation of

scientifically

valid evaluation frameworks. As part of the "MIR/MDL Evaluation Frameworks

Project" (<a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation">http://music-ir.org/evaluation</a>), two recently held meetings form the

foundation upon which this workshop is grounded:

"The Workshop on the Creation of Standardized Test Collections, Tasks, and

Metrics for Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL)

Evaluation" was held at the Second Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL

2002) in July of 2002(<a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl">http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl</a>). "The Panel on Music

Information

Retrieval Evaluation Frameworks" held in Paris, FR, 17 October 2002, as part of

the 3rd International Conference on Music InformationRetrieval (ISMIR 2002)

(<a href="http://ismir2002.ircam.fr">http://ismir2002.ircam.fr</a>).The findings made at each of the prior meetings

have

been collected in successive editions of "The MIR/MDL Evaluation White Paper

Collection." See <a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation">http://music-ir.org/evaluation</a> for the most recent edition.

Information about SIGIR 2003: <a href="http://www.sigir2003.org/">http://www.sigir2003.org/</a>

Special thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its support of the

"MIR/MDL Evalution Frameworks Project".

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please contact me, J.

Stephen

Downie, at jdownie@uiuc.edu.

**********

Workshop Framework:

Two classes of participants are envisioned: 1) presenters;  and 2) audience

members.

Presenters will submit written briefing documents (i.e., White Papers) prior to

the workshop. I plan on including these briefing documents in the growing

collection at <a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation">http://music-ir.org/evaluation</a>. Based upon prior experience,

there

will be 8 to 12 formal presenters. Audience members, while not acting as formal

presenters, will be encourage to respond to the presentations as active debate

on recommendations being put forward is a key goal of the workshop.

Together, the presenters and the audience members will be asked at the

conclusion of the workshop to highlight central recommendations for the

advancement of MIR evaluation with regard to TREC-like and other evaluation

paradigms for MIR research. These recommendations will also be presented to the

MIR and IR communities via <a href="http://music-ir.org/evaluation">http://music-ir.org/evaluation</a> .

Major Workshop Themes:

Major general themes to be addressed in the workshop include:

--How do we adequately comprehend the complex nature of music information so

that we can properly construct our evaluation recommendations?

--How do we adequately capture the complex nature of music queries so proposed

experiments and protocols are well-grounded in reality?

--How do we deal with the "relevance" problem in the MIR context (i.e., What

does "relevance" really mean in the MIR context?)?

--How do we continue to the expansion of a comprehensive collection of music

materials to be used in evaluation experiments?

--How do we manage the interplay between TREC-like and other potential

evaluation paradigms?

--How do we integrate the evaluation of MIR systems with the larger

framework of

MIR evaluation (i.e., What aspects are held in common and what are unique

to MIR?)?

--Further prompting questions/themes can be found at

<a href="http://music-ir.org/evalution/sigir03_workshop">http://music-ir.org/evalution/sigir03_workshop</a>

To address these majors themes, participants will be prompted to provide

recommendations and commentary on specific sub-components of the themes. For

example, a non-exclusive list of possible presentations includes

suggestions and

commentary on:

--How best to ground evaluation methods in real-world requirements.

--How to facilitate the creation of data-rich query records that are both

grounded in real-world requirements and neutral with respect to retrieval

technique(s) being examined.

--How the possible adoption, and subsequent validation, of a "reasonable

person"

approach to "relevance" assessment might address the MIR "relevance" problem.

--How to develop new models and theories of "relevance" in the MIR context.

--How to evaluate the utility, within the MIR context, of already-established

evaluation metrics (e.g., precision and recall, etc.).

--How to support the ongoing acquisition of music information (audio, symbolic

and metadata) to enhance the development of a secure, yet accessible, research

environment that allows researchers to remotely participate in the use of the

large-scale testbed collection.

************************************************************

Open Workshop Questions and Topics:

The following, non-exclusive (nor all-encompassing) list of open

questions should help you understand just a few of the many possible

paper and discussion topics to be tackled at the Workshop:

--As a music librarian, are there issues that evaluation standards must

address for their results to be credible? Do you know of possible

collections that might form the basis of a test collection? What prior

research should we be considering?

--As a musicologist, what things need examination that are possibly

being overlooked?

--As a digital library (DL) developer, what standards for evaluation

should we borrow from the traditional DL community? Any perils or pitfalls that

we should consider?

--As an audio engineer, what do you need to test your approaches? What

methods have worked in other contexts that might or might not work in

the MIR/MDL contexts?

--As an information retrieval specialist, what lessons have you learned

about other traditional IR evaluation frameworks? Any suggestions about

what to avoid or consider as we build our MIR/MDL evaluation frameworks

from "scratch"?

--As an intellectual property expert, what rights and responsibilities

will we have as we strive to build and distribute our test collections?

--As an interface/human computer interaction (HCI) expert, what tests

should we consider to validate our many different types of interfaces?

--As a business person, what format of results will help you make

selection decisions? Are their business research models and methods that

should be considered?

--As a computer scientist, what are the strengths and weaknesses of the

CS approach to validation in the MIR/MDL context? etc.

These are just a few of the possible questions/topics that will be

addressed. The underlying questions are:

1.How do we determine, and then appropriately classify, the tasks

that should make up the legitimate purviews of the MIR/MDL domains?

2.What do we mean by "success"? What do we mean by "failure"?

3.How will we decide that one MIR/MDL approach works better than

another?

4.How do we best decide which MIR/MDL approach is best suited for a

particular task?

Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested.

Cheers, and thanks.

J. Stephen Downie


--
**********************************************************
     "Research funding makes the world a better place"
**********************************************************
J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2000-01)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 351-5037



From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.617 preservation by digitization
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:15:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 876 (876)


In response to Patrick Duruseau's thoughtful observations about the need

for replication of manuscript material for preservation, I have a comment

to add. In the history of archival efforts in the US, the earliest steps

taken were the collection, editing, and publication of documents--the

National Historical Publications and Records Commission, a granting arm of

the National Archives that supports long-running Great White Men publishing

projects (and was recently discouraged from dropping them) is the remaining

trace of that sentiment. But with the creation in the US of the National

Archives, a sigh of relief was breathed, and efforts turned to establishing

safe places (archives) and microfilming only the very most valuable

materials. As Durusau observes, archives are beginning to look like prime

targets these days. In the world of born-digital records we are trying to

find solutions to long-term preservation that will include decentralized

custodianship (one model for the preservation of digital scholarly journals

is a peer-to-peer system called LOCKSS: Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe).

This same task must be undertaken with images of archival materials, whose

preservation requires the same effort as that of born-digital materials.

The bad news is that market-driven changing technologies makes this kind of

preservation costly, and the problem is far from solved. But it's

interesting that in this respect the model of book publication (lots of

copies...) has still not been outrun. More darkly: in the dire funding

situation that archives find themselves, where state archives like

Florida's and New Jersey's are even being done away with, as a cost-saving

measure for digital preservation it may make sense to make use of spare

disk space on the PCs of volunteer "friends" groups to store some of those

copies. Lest this seem far-fetched, I report that right now the burned

Bosnian libraries are being pieced together from photocopies made by

researchers. One is reminded of Fahrenheit 451. What book or document will

you decide to preserve?

Pat Galloway

School of Information

University of Texas-Austin



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: reliance on the born-digital
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:16:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 877 (877)


This is in tangential response to Patrick Durusau's thoughtful remarks on

preservation, which were provoked by the immediate circumstance of looting

in the Iraqi National Museum. One might say that apart from everything else

the tragedy of loss has intimately to do with how much and what kinds of

knowledge were articulated in the lost and damaged artifacts. I take

Patrick's point that digitization offers a degree of preservation for

artifacts at risk. But there are problems, of course. Less immediately the

problem with digitization is not merely that such artifactual knowledge can

be but roughly preserved in digital form. More seriously for some areas of

work, this form, in which so many recent artifacts have been created, is

from the get-go demonstrably poor as a means of articulating certain kinds

of knowledge, which as a result may be entirely lost. The case is made

forcefully by Jed Z. Buchwald for the history of science in his forthcoming

piece, "The scholar's seeing eye", in "Reworking the bench - research

notebooks in the history of science", eds. F. L. Holmes, J. Renn,

H-J Rheinberger, ARCHIMEDES, vol. 7, pgs. 311-25. He argues that,
[deleted quotation]
Using Heinrich Hertz as example, Buchwald examines "three instances in

which scraps of paper provide historical evidence that in the one case

would not exist at all, and in the other would probably have been

eliminated, had electronic methods been available at the time".

This is a serious, well-considered argument from one of the leading

historians of science. I dare say you could find much agreement from

historians in other areas. Of course it is possible to argue that the Hertz

of today uses other sorts of recording methods, and for the history of

science in particular one can point to Peter Galison's study, How

Experiments End, with some discussion of the kinds of evidence more

recently available (from the perspective of the 1980s, mind you). But

Buchwald's point remains. As we help our colleagues refurbish their

research methods and materials, it does seem to me that we have a moral

responsibility to ward off the triumphalist attitude and the promotional

rhetoric which induces it, then to consider how to advance with minimal

loss. Are we really without qualification the preservers of knowledge?

It would seem to me that if humanities computing has any chance at being

considered a serious field of the humanities, an unblinkingly critical

attitude is one of the most important pre-requisites.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Mind and Society vol 3, nr 5
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:06:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 878 (878)


Here follows the table of contents for the journal Mind and Society vol 3,

nr 5. Enquiries about the journal should go to

Fondazione Rosselli

Via San Quintino 18/c

10121 Torino

Tel. +39 011 562 25 10

Fax +39 011 56 11 748

E-mail:

segreteria@fondazionerosselli.it

<a href="http://www.fondazionerosselli.it">http://www.fondazionerosselli.it</a>

WM

-----

MIND & SOCIETY

5, 2002, Vol. 3

Editorial

Daniel Kahneman: the Nobel Prize for Economics awarded for

Decision-making psychology

by R. Rumiati and N. Bonini

Special Issue on "Scientific Discovery: Model-Based Reasoning"

Articles

Preface by L. Magnani and N.J.

Nersessian

Lorenzo Magnani

Conjectures and Manipulations: External Representation in Scientific

Reasoning

The paper illustrates the most important features of theoretical

(sentential and model-based) and manipulative abductive reasoning in

science. "Epistemic mediators", as external things and representations

that play a basic cognitive role in reasoning processes, are introduced

and described.

Christian Haak

The History of Models. Does It

Matter?

This paper investigates how model based reasoning functions in

population biology. I argue that models play an important role in

scientific discourse about a balance of nature, but this role has to be

seen in a historical, philosophical, and social context.

Luca Pezzullo

Cheating Neuropsychologists: A Study of Cognitive Processes Involved

in Scientific Anomalies

Resolution

This research is related to cognitive processes in scientific anomalies

resolution. 40 experts were asked to explain 2 anomalous

neuropsychological cases. The produced "reasoning blocks" were analyzed,

to extract the inferential (deductive, inductive and abductive) and

analogical processes used. From data seems to emerge a "cognitive

switching", an unconscious alternation of inferential processes into a

context of diffused ambiguity. The use of analogical and inferential

reasoning in scientific anomalies resolution is also discussed.

Susan G. Sterrett

Physical Models and Fundamental Laws: Using One Piece of the World

to Tell about

Another

The method of physical similarity, which provides the basis for

inferences based upon the results of employing experimental scale

models, is a qualitatively different way in which fundamental laws can

be used in analogical reasoning that is truly informative.

Lillian Hoddeson

Toward a History-Based Model for Scientific Invention: Problem-Solving

Practices in the Invention of the Transistor and the Development

of the Theory of

Superconductivity

This paper examines problem-solving practices (including problem

decomposition, analogy, bridging principles, teamwork, empirical

tinkering) in scientific invention and discovery by studying two

outstanding cases in twentieth-century physics - the invention of the

transistor and the development of the theory of superconductivity.

Sang Wook Yi

The Nature of Model-Based Understanding in Condensed Matter Physics

The paper studies the nature of theoretical 'understanding' in condensed

matter physics, mediated by the successful employment of its models. I

propose a two-stage account of model-based understanding of condensed

matter physics: (1) understanding of a model and (2) matching a target

phenomenon with a wellmotivated interpretative model of the model.

Andrea Cerroni

Discovering Relativity Beliefs: Towards a Socio-Cognitive Model

for Einstein's Relativity Theory

Formation

A socio-cognitive model of Albert Einstein's discovery is proposed,

joining cognition and culture. Firstly, some orientative heuristics are

traced in Einstein's fundamental publications: inner perfection,

explain-orassume, explanatory correspondence, and covariance/invariance.

Then, well-known abstractive heuristics as analogical and imagistic

reasoning, thought experiment, limiting case analysis are shown

occurring, too. A sketch of a model for such discovery is then presented

following an idea of van Fraassen about discovery phases and the Humean

distinction between beliefs and ideas.

Francesco Amigoni, Viola Schiaffonati, Marco Somalvico

Multiagent System Based Scientific Discovery within Information

Society

We present powerful and flexible information machines called agencies,

which has been developed according to the multiagent paradigm within

distributed artificial intelligence. We discuss, both from a theoretical

and from a practical point of view, the roles they can play within

scientific discovery. The incresing social character of scientific

enterprise is addressed by agencies that both assist scientists in their

activity and represent the products of their research.

Nancy J. Nersessian

Abstraction via Generic Modeling in Concept Formation in

Science

A central issue of creativity is how genuinely novel representations can

be constructed from existing representations. It is argued that

abstractive reasoning processes are one means and that the construction

and application of 'generic' models is one significant kind of such

reasoning. The analysis examines the role played by model construction

and abstraction in James Clerk Maxwell's derivation of the

electromagnetic field equations.

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: Elisabeth Burr <Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: 16.622 preservation and absence
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:57:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 879 (879)


Just a very short remark,

when printing with movable letters was invented the tone was at least

as triumphalistic (see Luther and many others).

There are ways of keeping track. A good example seems to me the French

Government site

<a href="http://www.archives.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/home_ie.htm">http://www.archives.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/home_ie.htm</a>

or the Digital Variants project:

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

I don't think, we are the preservers of knowledge per se. We preserve in

any case only what we think interesting and valuable. Just think of what

happened to women's contribution to culture, knowledge, science.

Elisabeth

HD Dr. Elisabeth Burr

Fakultt 2 / Romanistik

Universitt Duisburg-Essen

Standort Duisburg

Geibelstr. 41

D-47058 Duisburg

<a href="http://www.uni-duisburg.de/Fak2/Romanistik/Personal/Burr/">http://www.uni-duisburg.de/Fak2/Romanistik/Personal/Burr/</a>



From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 16.622 preservation and absence
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:58:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 880 (880)


Willard writes---
[deleted quotation]
Having read the article in question I'd say it's interesting and

well-considered in what it says about Hertz, but lame, unscholarly,

and wrong on this point about digital records.  It's the sort of piece

that assumes we know the current situation so well that no evidence of

any sort is needed other than hand-waving reference to what we

supposedly all know; behind such discussions there's usually nothing

more substantial than the bitter memory of a floppy disk that stopped

working or a word processor that scrambled one's file.

The digital era continues a historical trend you can notice in what

survives of intellectual work over the past few centuries: on the

whole there's more and more preservation of more and more information.

Hertz is actually a bad example to use in kvetching about digital

stuff because the record is spotty: Buchwald has to admit that most of

Hertz's lab records are gone, for example.  But Shakespeare scholars

would be thrilled to have records for their man as substantial as what

remains of Hertz's letters and manuscripts.  Myself, if I look back at

the last paper I wrote, I've got 70 separate versions preserved

covering the entire process of composition, plus a dozen or so

subsequent documents showing exactly what the editors of the volume I

was contributing to suggested and what I chose to do in response.

None of that is on paper; I wouldn't keep most of it if it was because

of the expense.  Buchwald should write about me!--- there's a lot more

information, though admittedly Hertz's achievements are slightly ahead

of mine.

John Lavagnino

King's College London



From: Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.622 preservation and absence
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:59:09 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 881 (881)


Willard,

Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I don't recall advocating that digitization would result in preservation of

artifacts without loss of information. One cannot perform C-14 tests on the

image of a manuscript any more than the composition of an artifact be

determined from a 3-D scan at the limits of today's technology. There are

no doubt other losses as well but if the choice is between poor

preservation and none at all, I have no difficulty in choosing the former.

That loss of information is going to occur by digitization is well known

and is a worthy topic of discussion. However, I would discuss it as we are

performing digitization of artifacts so that at least we have poor

preservation rather than large blank spaces in the artifactual record. The

risk to the artifactual record is real, the indifference of national

governments is real and so the question is whether the humanities computing

community is going to push for less than perfect preservation in order to

safeguard as much of the artifactual record as possible.
[deleted quotation]
I have no doubt that there are many "originally digital" records today that

lack any "marks" from their authors. That is not, however, an inherent

condition of being "originally digital" but is an artifact of the

technology used to produce those records.

Consider the Inote program from IATH (<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/inote/">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/inote/</a>).

John Unsworth and company have done an excellent job of developing a tool

that allows annotation of digital images.

Or, consider the Annotea Project from the W3C

(<a href="http://www.w3c.org/2001/Annotea/">http://www.w3c.org/2001/Annotea/</a>). It allows annotation of documents.

I don't think these technologies are signs of a "triumphalist attitude" and

serious researchers in the field would admit that there is much to be done

in terms of using XLink/XPointer specifications to bring "marks" to digital

records. I am sure other Humanist subscribers could mention other

developing technologies that address one or more aspects of "originally

digital" records. All of these annotation strategies raise their own sets

of preservation issues.

The point being that to have "an unblinkingly critical attitude" should

lead to recognition of when a problem being described is an artifact of a

particular technology (or application) and not inherent in being "digital."

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu
Co-Editor, ISO Reference Model for Topic Maps


From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.622 preservation and absence
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:59:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 882 (882)

One tiny comment on Willard's observation: every word processing file has
some of its latest revisions hanging onto it; but more to the point,
born-digital objects of course don't capture every revision--but many
authors burn their drafts, and very few objects can bring with them the
experience of seeing and using them that their creators and their
contemporaries had. I think also that cultural achievement or evidence that
braves time tends to be that which transcends the medium. Nobody pretends
that microfilm is as good as paper in preserving the sensuous experience of
examining a century-old deed to a piece of land; but if the authenticity of
the microfilm (or image) of the deed can be guaranteed, then the claimant
can still claim the land. And we will still read and appreciate Beowulf
after the manuscript finally disintegrates. The question is preservation
for what and how much do we value it.
Pat Galloway
University of Texas-Austin



From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson@cnri.reston.va.us>
Subject: April 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:00:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 883 (883)


Greetings:

The April 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (<a href="http://www.dlib.org/">http://www.dlib.org/</a>) is now available.

In this issue there are five articles, a book review, a review of two

journals, several smaller features in D-Lib Magazines '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 April is Learning Curve, from The National Archives, London.

The articles include:

Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web: 1998 - 2002

Edward T. O'Neill, Brian F. Lavoie, and Rick Bennett, OCLC Office of Research

The Fedora Project: An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System

Thornton Staples and Ross Wayland, University of Virginia and Sandra

Payette, Cornell University

State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, April 2003

Makx Dekkers, DCMI, and Stuart Weibel, OCLC Office of Research

Preservation Metadata: Pragmatic First Steps at the National Library of New

Zealand

Sam Searle and Dave Thompson, National Library of New Zealand

How Many People Search the ERIC Database Each Day?

Lawrence M. Rudner, University of Maryland, College Park

The book reviewed is:

Encoded Archival Description on the Internet

Daniel V. Pitti and Wendy M. Duff, eds., Haworth Press, (December 2002)

Reviewed by: Helen R. Tibbo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The journal review is:

Enhancing the Marketplace of Archival Ideas

A review of two journals - Archival Science: International Journal on

Recorded Information and the Journal of Archival Organization

Reviewed by: Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:24:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 884 (884)


(1)

Life Time. Max Scheler's Philosophy of time

A First Inquiry and Presentation

by

Manfred S. Frings

PHAENOMENOLOGICA

-- 169

In comparison to Husserl and Heidegger, Max Scheler's philosophy of time as

first presented here, is considerably wider in scope. Using posthumous

manuscripts, Frings shows that Scheler conceived the origin of time in the

self-activating center of individual and universal life as threefold

"absolute" time of a four-dimensional expanse. This serves as a basis for

establishing the phenomenon of objective time in multiple steps of

constitutionality, including the physical field theory and theory of

relativity.

For Scheler, objective time, even though anchored in absolute time,

deserves "maximum attention" in a technological society. Frings focuses

here with Scheler on time experience of values and among social groups,

time experiences in the mind-set of capitalism, in politics and morals, in

population dynamics, and time experiences in the process of aging, all of

which were signposts in Scheler's thought before his early demise.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1333-7 Date: April 2003 Pages: 260 pp.

EURO 106.00 / USD 98.00 / GBP 68.00

(2)

Husserl's Logical Investigations

edited by

Daniel O. Dahlstrom

Boston University, MA, USA

SYNTHESE LIBRARY -- 318

By Husserl's own account, he composed the "Logical Investigations" over a

century ago in order to solve two problems: the problem of providing a

scientific, self-reflexive account of logical form and method, as a

condition of science, and the problem of relating the subjectivity of

knowing with the objectivity of the content of knowledge. The project took

shape as six distinct investigations into the respective themes of meaning,

universals, the logic of parts and wholes, the differences between

absurdity and nonsense and between the contents of naming and judging, and,

finally, the way knowing irreducibly combines meaning and perceiving.

Husserl's "Logical Investigations" is designed to help students and

specialists alike work their way through Husserl's expansive text by

bringing together in a single volume six self-contained, expository yet

critical essays, each the work of an international expert on Husserl's

thought and each devoted to a separate LogicalInvestigation.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1325-6 Date: June 2003 Pages: 200 pp.

EURO 85.00 / USD 82.00 / GBP 53.00

(3)

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism

Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy

edited by

Dale Jacquette

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES -- 91

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism presents a remarkable diversity of

contemporary opinions on the prospects of addressing philosophical topics

from a psychological perspective. It considers the history and

philosophical merits of psychologism, and looks systematically at

psychologism in phenomenology, cognitive science, epistemology, logic,

philosophy of language, philosophical semantics, and artificial

intelligence. It juxtaposes many different philosophical standpoints, each

supported by rigorous philosophical argument.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism is intended for professionals in

the fields indicated, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in

related areas of study, and interested lay readers.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Preface . Acknowledgments. Introduction: Psychologism The Philosophical

Shibboleth; D. Jacquette. Psychologjsm In Logic: Bacon To Bolzano; R.

George. Between Leibniz And Mill: Kant's Logic And The Rhetoric Of

Psychologism; C. Posy. Psychologism And Non-Classical Approaches In

Traditional Logic; W. Stelzner. The Concept Of 'Psychologism' In Frege And

Husserl; J.N. Mohanty. Psychologism And Sociologism In Early Twentieth

Century German-Speaking Philosophy; M.Kusch. The Space Of Signs: C.S.

Peirce's Critique Of Psychologism; V.Colapietro. Quinean Dreams Or,

Prospects For A Scientific Epistemology; M. Bradie. Late Forms Of

Psychologism And Antipsychologism; J. Margolis. Propositions And The

Objects Of Thought; M. Jubien. The Concepts Of Truth And Knowledge In

Psychologism; J.H. Dreher. Psychologism Revisited In Logic, Metaphysics,

And Epistemology; D. Jacquette. Why There Is Nothing Rather Than Something:

Quine On Behaviorism, Meaning, And Indeterminacy; P.A. Roth. Cognitive

Illusions And The Welcome Psychologism Of Logicist Artificial Intelligence;

S. Bringsjord,Yingrui Yang. Index.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1337-X Date: June 2003 Pages: 356 pp.

EURO 130.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 82.00

(4)

Simulation-Based Optimization

Parametric Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning

by

Abhijit Gosavi

University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, USA

OPERATIONS RESEARCH/COMPUTER SCIENCE INTERFACES -- 25

Simulation-Based Optimization: Parametric Optimization Techniques

andReinforcement Learning introduces the evolving area of simulation-based

optimization. Since it became possible to analyze random systems using

computers, scientists and engineers have sought the means to optimize

systems using simulation models. Only recently, however, has this objective

had success in practice. Cutting-edge work in computational operations

research, including non-linear programming (simultaneous perturbation),

dynamic programming (reinforcement learning), and game theory (learning

automata) has made it possible to use simulation in conjunction with

optimization techniques. As a result, this research has given simulation

added dimensions and power that it did not have in the recent past.

The book's objective is two-fold: (1) It examines the mathematical

governing principles of simulation-based optimization, thereby providing

the reader with the ability to model relevant real-life problems using

these techniques. (2) It outlines the computational technology underlying

these methods. Taken together these two aspects demonstrate that the

mathematical and computational methods discussed in this book do work.

Broadly speaking, the book has two parts: (1) parametric (static)

optimization and (2) control (dynamic) optimization. Some of the book's

special features are:

     * An accessible introduction to reinforcement learning and

parametric-optimization techniques.

     * A step-by-step description of several algorithms of simulation-based

optimization.

     * A clear and simple introduction to the methodology of neural networks.

     * A gentle introduction to convergence analysis of some of the methods

enumerated above.

     * Computer programs for many algorithms of simulation-based optimization.

This book is written for students and researchers in the fields of

engineering (electrical, industrial and computer), computer science,

operations research, management science, and applied mathematics.

Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7454-9 Date: May 2003 Pages: 584 pp.

EURO 164.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 103.00

(5)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm</a>

LNCS 1843:

David Vernon (Ed.)

Computer Vision - ECCV 2000

6th European Conference on Computer Vision, Dublin, Ireland, June 26 - July

1, 2000. Proceedings, Part II

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1843.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1843.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1843.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1843.htm</a>

LNCS 1842:

David Vernon (Ed.)

Computer Vision - ECCV 2000

6th European Conference on Computer Vision, Dublin, Ireland, June 26 - July

1, 2000. Proceedings, Part I

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1842.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1842.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1842.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1842.htm</a>

LNAI 1821:

Rasiah Loganantharaj, Gnther Palm, and Moonis Ali (Eds.)

Intelligent Problem Solving Methodologies and Approaches

13th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of

Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2000, New Orleans,

Louisiana, USA, June 19-22, 2000. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1821.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1821.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1821.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1821.htm</a>

LNCS 1649:

Ron Y. Pinter and Shalom Tsur (Eds.)

Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems

4th International Workshop, NGITS '99, Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel, July 5-7,

1999. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1649.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1649.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1649.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1649.htm</a>

LNCS 1639:

Susanna Donatelli and Jetty Kleijn (Eds.)

Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 1999

20th International Conference, ICATPN'99, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, June

21-25, 1999. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1639.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1639.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1639.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1639.htm</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: Carl Vogel <vogel@cs.tcd.ie>
Subject: CFP -- 14th AICS -- Dublin, Ireland
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:24:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 885 (885)


Call for Papers:  AICS 2003

The 14th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

The 14th Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS

2003) conference will be held in Trinity College Dublin from

Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th of September 2003.

The AICS conference has taken place annually since 1988 and

provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and the presentation of

results relating to work conducted both in Ireland and worldwide.

Closing date for submissions in Friday 14th June.

AICS 2003 will be held in TCD from Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th of

September 2003.

The closing date for submissions is Friday 14th June.

A preliminary version of the CFP for AICS 2003 is available at:

<a href="http://www.cs.tcd.ie/aiai/aics/">http://www.cs.tcd.ie/aiai/aics/</a>



From: "Asynchronous Learning Networks " <aln@mail.ucf.edu>
Subject: Call For Papers - Deadline April 30, 2003
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:25:49 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 886 (886)


The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning

Networks (ALN)

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2003

The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on

Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN):

November 14 - 16, 2003 f Rosen Centre Hotel f Orlando, Florida

The University of Central Florida in collaboration with the Sloan

Foundation, Pennsylvania State University, SCOLE, and American Distance

Education Consortium (ADEC) invite you to submit a proposal that reflects

implications for the field of specific online learning experiences and

practices.

Last year's conference welcomed over 500 college level faculty and

administrators, instructional technology professionals and instructional

designers from forty-three (43) states and nine (9) countries. Some

attendees traveled from as far as Nepal, Japan, and Israel to share their

experiences and practices in this three-day conference.

This year's tracks include:

- Implications for Faculty and Faculty Support

- Implications for Learner Satisfaction and Support

- Learning Effectiveness and Outcomes

- Institutional Mainstreaming

- Enhancing Access and Inclusion

Special Note: Those who register before October 17, 2003 will receive the

discounted registration conference fee of $350. Regular price $395.

SUBMIT ONLINE AT: <<a href="http://www.aln.ucf.edu">http://www.aln.ucf.edu</a>><a href="http://www.aln.ucf.edu">http://www.aln.ucf.edu</a>

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From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.624 preservation and absence
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:26:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 887 (887)


I'm always amused at the "post-paper age", or "we don't keep paper records

any more" school.  I have much more paper now than I ever had before the

days of PCs. If I have anything I really want to keep, a computer is the

least reliable, least trustworthy place to put it.  If someone sends me

really important email (it actually does happen once in a great while), I

send it to the printer right away instead of taking a chance of losing it

forever to bad software, viruses, wrong keypresses, computer obsolescence,

etc.  My files are fuller than ever and have spilled over to a nearby

storage room.  Just think what they would be if even 5% of the material on

the Net were accurate and scholarly!



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: preservation
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:27:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 888 (888)


I'm glad to see that my remarks on preservation struck some sparks off some

critically intelligent minds. These in turn sparked a few additional thoughts.

The sort of handwaving I am most worried about is the kind that distracts

us away from a genuine problem. Thus the definition of the verb in the OED:

"hand-wave": "to smooth the surface of (a measure of corn) with the hand,

instead of using a strike". And I thought that "handwaving" might encode

some cultural misunderstanding about the communicative value of

conversational gesturing....

I still don't see how the transition from one medium (in this case, paper)

to another (e-files) can possibly occur without loss as well as gain. I

suppose that one problem is the variation among individuals, some of whom,

I see, do not experience any significant loss at all, while others do.

Since, however, we are professionally engaged in thinking about how

research happens across the humanities, our own individual cases, while

perhaps useful, have limited value. Not no value, but limited value.

So, a limited-value but useful anecdote. I have somewhere still the

original of an article on a point in Hebrew grammar given to me by a former

teacher, who had just then (in the mid 1980s) made the transition to

wordprocessing, leaving behind the densely cut-and-pasted, white-out'd,

interlinearly corrected, typewritten article. He didn't want the original

any more, it being of no value to him. When occasionally I run across this

gift,  I am, of course, enormously relieved that I don't have to work that

way anymore. I recall the dark days of typewriting my PhD dissertation. I

play my wordprocessing computer like a musical instrument and am charmed.

All that. BUT looking on that old article through an historian's eyes, I

see immediately that "the tracks of my [old teacher's] tears" -- to quote

words from the title of a song -- today mostly evaporate, leaving not a

trace behind. Unlike some others I do not keep multiple versions of past

work. I couldn't be bothered to keep what I (accurately, I think, in my

case) regard as utterly valueless. Were I a Heinrich Hertz, this would be a

great historical loss. Fortunately I'm not, so it isn't, but today's Hertz

is now doubtlessly out there, perhaps working on his or her computer,

happily discarding the tracks of his or her discoveries.

Having realized the loss, the question is, what do we do about it? We

cannot change other people's habits, not immediately at least. But we can

begin by understanding with an historical imagination what the new world of

electronic records leaves behind so as better to understand what we're

dealing with now.

Thanks to Elisabeth Burr for pointing out that new-media triumphalism is

not new, and for suggesting that preservation involves choice -- which also

means that it can go too far as well as not far enough. Fr Leonard Boyle

(the great palaeographer) in one of his essays had some thrillingly

withering observations to make about the extreme preservationism that

afflicts keepers of manuscripts. Thanks to John Lavagnino for noting that

the amount that is preserved continues to grow. Is this a good thing?

People who live in old cities have constant reminders that our attitude

toward preserving the past is itself historically contingent. Thanks to

Patrick Durusau for the observation that there's nothing inherent in the

digital medium that keeps the tracks from going unrecorded. Perhaps,

however, there's no such thing as "the digital medium", only the artifacts

that we make with the tools we have, in which case the point is to look at

what we are in fact doing. No one will ever see the words I have written

but then deleted from this note, and I cannot even remember at the moment

what they were. A trivial case, perhaps, but not in its implications, I

think. What migh these be?

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Digital Preservation Management Workshop: August 4-8, Cornell
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:28:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 889 (889)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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April 17, 2003

                        Digital Preservation Management:

                  Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems

            August 4-8, 2003: Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY

               <a href="http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/">http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/</a>

           To Be Repeated October 13-17, 2003 and three times in 2004
[deleted quotation]
Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems

August 4-8, 2003

Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY

<a href="http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/">http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/</a>

Cornell University Library will offer a new digital preservation training

program with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Institutions are encouraged to send a pair of participants to realize the

maximum benefit from the managerial and technical tracks that will be

incorporated into the program. This limited enrollment workshop has a

registration fee of $750 per participant. Registration is now open for the

August workshop. A second workshop is scheduled for October 13-17

(registration will open this summer). There will be three workshops in

2004.

Gnter Waibel

Program Officer/RLG

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

Guenter_Waibel@notes.rlg.org

650-691-2304



From: "Joel Elliott" <jelliott@nhc.rtp.nc.us>
Subject: Invitation to Lyman Award Ceremony
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:26:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 890 (890)


Please join the National Humanities Center and the Library of Congress

for

The Second Presentation of the Richard W. Lyman Award

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Presentation of Award

Master of Ceremonies:

David K. Allison, Chairman

Division of Information Technology & Society

National Museum of American History

Smithsonian Institution

7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres

The Great Hall

Thomas Jefferson Building

The Library of Congress

10 First Street, S.E.

Washington, D.C.

R.S.V.P. to Susan Adesman at 919-549-0668 ext.156

or sadesman@unity.ncsu.edu

PLEASE NOTE:

Security at the library requires that we have the names of all attendees

by April 30.

Presented by the National Humanities Center through the generosity of

the Rockefeller Foundation

National Humanities Center

7 Alexander Drive

P.O. Box 12256

RTP, NC 27709-2256

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From: Charles Ess <cmess@lib.drury.edu>
Subject: JCDL'03 Cross-Cultural Usability Workshop - CFP
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 06:38:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 891 (891)


JCDL 2003 Workshop: Cross-Cultural Usability for Digital

Libraries

May 31, 2003

Rice University, Houston

<a href="http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/faculty/caidi/JCDL03.html">http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/faculty/caidi/JCDL03.html</a>

OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES:

The scope and reach of digital libraries (DL) is truly global, spanning

geographical and cultural boundaries, yet few scholars have investigated the

influence of culture as it pertains to the design and use of digital

libraries.

This workshop will examine cross-cultural issues around the use and

development of DLs, especially as they relate to

Supporting usability of DLs. This workshop brings together researchers from

a variety of disciplines to present current projects and contribute to a

collaborative research agenda.

The goals of the workshop are:

1- to increase awareness about the area of cross-cultural usability in the

digital library community;

2- to identify new tools, techniques and methodologies for cross-cultural

study of user behavior in DLs and international user interface design;

3- to provide a forum for generating new research directions and cross-

disciplinary collaboration.

[material deleted]



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: virtual reality reconstruction; ethnographic study
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:45:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 892 (892)


Humanists will be interested in some of the latest work from Richard

Beacham and colleagues at Warwick University. As you may know, Beacham &

Co. have been using VR techniques for some time as a means of studying

ancient and modern theatre.  Their latest work is a reconstruction of the

original Odeon, which shows that 40% of the audience couldn't see the

performance. The Warwick press release is at

<a href="http://www.newsandevents.warwick.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=pressrelease&id=1003">http://www.newsandevents.warwick.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=pressrelease&id=1003</a>,

a followup article in the Guardian at

<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,938264,00.html">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,938264,00.html</a> and a BBC

news item at <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2950661.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2950661.stm</a>.

The National Museum of Australia has recently published People of the

Rivermouth: The Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana, by Frank Gurrmanamana,

Les Hiatt and Kim McKenzie, in print with an accompanying CD-ROM. This must

be one of the most remarkable documentary ethnographic studies, the result

of 40 years of collaboration begun by Gurrmanamana (an Aboriginal elder of

the Anbarra society in Arnhem Land) and the ethnographer Les Hiatt, then

continued by Gurrmanamana's daughter and Kim McKenzie. A splendid example

of what can be done. See

<a href="http://www.nma.gov.au/aboutus/museum_publications/current_titles/people_of_the_rivermouth">http://www.nma.gov.au/aboutus/museum_publications/current_titles/people_of_the_rivermouth</a>

for further details.

Two splendid examples of what can now be done.

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: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.629 preservation
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 06:35:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 893 (893)


Two outstanding examples of re-writers are (as Willard knows) W.B. Yeats

and Walt Whitman.  If we did not have the early versions of their poems we

would be missing a number of great works of art.  In some cases the first

published versions were finer than the later ones.  (Cf. Auden's "Elegy on

the death of W. B. Yeats', in which the later milder final version has been

'cleaned up' to reflect Auden's later political views - it isn't nearly as

good.  (The same goes for the re-written "Under Which Lyre")  But we have

all the published versions, and we have all or most of Yeats' remarkable

drafts of "Sailing to Byzantium", for out eternal amazement. And we have at

least 9 versions of Whitman's _Leaves of Grass_ to read.



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: reading traces Re: 16.622 preservation and absence
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 06:36:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 894 (894)


Willard,

You quoted
[deleted quotation]
[...]
[deleted quotation]
And then you ask:
[deleted quotation]
The above is a "digital record" in which "spottedness" is highlighted by

"excision" and "interpollation". If I may be so bold to suggest that

historians will be reading not a prefected digital record but a series of

records, it is because I know that certain archives have received not just

the complete hard drive contents but the hard ware as well (I have in mind

the case the fonds bpnichol at Simon Fraser University). The problem is

not one of "leaving" traces but future access to those traces. Further the

"trace" problem is not inherent in the technology (some users save whole

series of versions). It is a deontological question: what traces do users

wish to be left. Whether it is the individual space of the "personal

computer" or the account on a mainframe, the digital realm provides for

information interchange between the semi-private space of the local file

storage and processing unit and the public space of data and applications

made available to other users. Out of some dream of the _complete_ record

and aspiration to a mastery of a plenitude of possible paths, the

historian of science may bemoan lack of access to the semi-private sphere

where work gets done. But how much work would get done if users couldn't

make a "mess" in a preserve free of the future prying eyes of historians?

I say "disposers of knowledge" -- without qualification -- i.e.

fabricators of dispositions.

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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: evaporation Re: 16.629 preservation
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 06:37:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 895 (895)


Willard,

I've taken your statement (quoted below) and by a few strokes composed a

version in the past tense in order to tease out those implications:

No one did ever see the words

[the projection of a future "will see"  assumes a having seen and exposes

the phenomenology of "to see" in relation to "recognize seeing"]

I had written

[note the subtle assumption of persistence in "have written" and the hint

of loss and decay in "had written"; the English tense system allows us to

ponder the relation we might conceive between the action (to write), the

act (the writing) and the product (the written)]

but then had [have?] deleted

[the temporal relations between

          "have written" and "have deleted"

          "have written" and "had deleted"

          "had written" and "had deleted"

          "had written" and "have deleted"

offer a mini display of the complexities of punctuating the past]

from this note,

[ the trickiness of the diectic "this" which can point to

the "note" as object on the screen and the "note" as object held in the

reading mind]

and I could not [was not able to] even remember at the moment

[tense and mode colour the statement of a failure of memory]

what they had been.

[they - the words considered -- have an independence from their

being written, deleted or remembered -- try remembering the unwritten

word]

Trying to remember the unwritten word -- for computing in the humanities

may be a move from instance to system, reading with a view that sufficient

manipulation of a string leads to a matrix. And in a non-verbal vein,

imagining a possible system or considering an artefact or a set of

artefacts as a sense-making machine (including the meaningful scrambling

of sense) depends in part on trying to remember the unproduced sign or

trace.

Humanities computing perhaps reflects that space of practice between

historical reconstruction of the genesis of a semiotic object and the

rhetoric that accompanies the changing contexts for the reception of such

an object. It is a space of practice where people can turn to the machine

model to make perceivable the ways of reading, ways of constructing

meaning and ways of configuring practice.
[deleted quotation]
In not seeing the not-remembering and the not-writing, I join you in the

labour of a machine-assisted hermeneutics - a lovely activity for finite

beings.


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Creativity and the Public Domain Forum: NYC, May 5, 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:49:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 896 (896)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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April 21, 2003

                        Creativity and the Public Domain:

                Does Copyright Protect Too Much or Too Little?

           <a href="http://www.abcny.org/calendar/2003_5/event_0505b.html">http://www.abcny.org/calendar/2003_5/event_0505b.html</a>

                   May 5, 2003: 42 West 44 St, New York City
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CREATIVITY AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN:

DOES COPYRIGHT PROTECT TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE?

While many copyright owners fear increasing threats to control over their

work, others fear diminished freedom to use copyrighted materials in new

works.  The panel will discuss concerns that have been raised from many

quarters and explore a variety of proposals to address them.

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2003, 6:30 P.M.

HOUSE OF THE ASSOCIATION, 42 WEST 44TH STREET

Moderator:

DAVID B. WOLF

Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP

Speakers:

DAVID LANGE

Professor of Law, The Duke Law School, Duke University

LYNN J. NOVICK

Producer (with Ken Burns), of the PBS documentary series Jazz and Baseball

MARYBETH PETERS

United States Register of Copyright

ERIC SALTZMAN

Senior Fellow, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at  Harvard Law

School; Board Member, Creative Commons

CHARLES S. SIMS

Proskauer Rose LLP

Sponsored by:

Committee on Copyright and Literary Property, Edward J. Davis, Chair;

Committee on Entertainment Law, Robert C. Harris, Chair; Committee on

Communications and Media Law, David A. Schulz, Chair; Committee on

Trademarks and Unfair Competition, Bret I. Parker, Chair

Members of the Association, their guests and all other interested persons

are invited to attend.  No fee or reservation is required.


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From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.629 preservation
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:47:49 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 897 (897)


One thought: in the days of typewritten, white-outed, etc. composition, I

think there was much less chance of capturing stages of composition,

because we were much more likely to cogitate more or scribble on little

scraps of paper before committing to the recalcitrant medium, and make

fewer revisions afterward. I think I remember that freewriting as a

composition method was either invented or really took off with word processing?

Pat Galloway



From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@UH.EDU>
Subject: Version 48, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:48:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 898 (898)


Version 48 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over

1,850 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)

       <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 150 pages long.  The Acrobat file is

over 410 KB.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are

marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*

2 Electronic Books and Texts

       2.1 Case Studies and History

       2.2 General Works*

       2.3 Library Issues*

3  Electronic Serials

       3.1 Case Studies and History

       3.2 Critiques

       3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*

       3.4 General Works*

       3.5 Library Issues*

       3.6 Research*

4 General Works*

5 Legal Issues

       5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*

       5.2 License Agreements*

       5.3 Other Legal Issues

6  Library Issues

       6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, 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 Repositories 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

Repositories and E-Prints*

SGML and Related Standards*

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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: May 15 NYC Symposium on National Academies Report:
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:06:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 899 (899)


"Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and

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                 The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

                         of the National Academies Present:

                             A Symposium on its Report

   "Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity"

                  Thursday, May 15: Cooper-Hewitt, New York City

           <a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/news_20030515.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/news_20030515.html</a>

A new report from the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

entitled, "Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and

Creativity", will be discussed at a public symposium on Thursday, May 15,

in New York at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian

Institution, at 2 East 91st Street.

Beyond Productivity

<<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_creativity.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_creativity.html</a>> examines the

dynamic intersection of information technology with the world of the arts

and design. This intersection has already yielded results of significant

cultural and economic value, including innovative architectural and product

designs, computer animated films, computer music, computer games,

interactive art installations, cross-cultural experimentation, and

Web-based texts. However, many opportunities for new collaborative ventures

remain to be explored.

Leading the discussion will be Professor William J. Mitchell, Dean of the

School of Architecture and Planning (which includes the Media Lab) at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Chairman of the study committee

that produced Beyond Productivity. He will be joined by members of the

study committee, as well as leaders from academia, philanthropy, and the

technology and art communities.

A continental breakfast will be available beginning at 9:30 a.m. and the

discussion will begin at 10:00 a.m. Each attendee will receive a

complimentary copy of Beyond Productivity and is also invited to explore

the Cooper-Hewitt after the conclusion of the discussion.

If you plan to attend this event, please RSVP by May 2, 2003 to Margaret

Huynh (202-334-2051, mhuynh at nas.edu). Responses received after May 2nd

will be accommodated as space permits. Please be sure to indicate your name

and organization, and update your contact information. Please contact

Margaret with any logistical questions.

About the Report:

The report examines the dynamic intersection of information technology with

the world of the arts and design. This intersection has already yielded

results of significant cultural and economic value, including innovative

architectural and product designs, computer animated films, computer music,

computer games, interactive art installations, cross-cultural

experimentation, and Web-based texts. However, many opportunities for new

collaborative ventures remain to be explored.

Committee on Information Technology and Creativity:

William J. Mitchell, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Chair

Steven Abrams, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Michael Century, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

James P. Crutchfield, Santa Fe Institute

Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, MIT Media Laboratory

Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University

Toni Dove, Independent Artist, New York City

N. Katherine Hayles, University of California at Los Angeles

J.C. Herz, Joystick Nation Inc.

Natalie Jeremijenko, Yale University

John Maeda, MIT Media Laboratory

David Salesin, University of Washington; Microsoft Research

Lillian F. Schwartz, Computer Artist-Inventor, Watchung, New Jersey

Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University

Barbara Stafford, University of Chicago

Staff

Alan S. Inouye, Study Director and Senior Program Officer

Marjory S. Blumenthal, Director, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

David Padgham, Research Associate

Margaret Marsh Huynh, Senior Project Assistant

Laura Ost, Consultant

David Walczyk, Consultant

Susan Maurizi, Senior Editor

Jennifer M. Bishop, Senior Project Assistant


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Copyright Office Amends Public Hearings on Circumvention
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:05:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 900 (900)


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from across the Community

         Copyright Office Amends Public Hearing Schedule (68 FR 19966)

                            on DMCA Section 1201

                      <<a href="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/">http://www.copyright.gov/1201/</a>>

     Washington DC: May 1, May 2 & May 9 - 1333 H Street, N.W. (3rd Floor)

               Los Angeles: May 14 and 15 - UCLA Law School

The Copyright office has changed the dates for the public hearings on the

"possible exemptions to the prohibition against circumvention of

technological measures that control access to copyrighted works." Instead

of April 15 and April 30, the Copyright Office has scheduled the hearings

for Thursday, May 1,

2003, and Friday, May 9, 2003. The Los Angeles scheule (May 14 and 15

remains unchanged).

David Green

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IP @ The National Academies
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:07:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 901 (901)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 23, 2003

                            IP @ The National Academies

                          <a href="http://ip.nationalacademies.org/">http://ip.nationalacademies.org/</a>

                       IP @ The National Academies Newsletter

                   <a href="http://ip.nationalacademies.org/special_5.html">http://ip.nationalacademies.org/special_5.html</a>

An important new Website and Newsletter debut from the National Academies.

They serve as guide to the Academies' extensive work on Intellectual

Property and provide a forum to discuss ongoing work. The first Newsletter,

published today, April 23, includes details about the following:

FEATURE

"Recent Patent Law Decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal

Circuit," by Jim Wright, General Counsel to the National Academies

UPCOMING EVENTS:

SYMPOSIUM -- "Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal

Publishing and Its Implications"

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cosepup/E-Publishing.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cosepup/E-Publishing.html</a>

19-20 May 2003

National Academy of Sciences Auditorium

2100 C St. NW, Washington, DC

SYMPOSIUM -- "Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation,

and Creativity" <a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/news_20030515.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/news_20030515.html</a>

May 15, 2003

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

2 East 91st Street, New York City

REPORTS:

"Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of

Authorship in the Life Sciences" (2003)

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_geospatialfuture.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_geospatialfuture.html</a>

"Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services" (2003)

<a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10610.html">http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10610.html</a>

"Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy" (2003)

<a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10656.html">http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10656.html</a>

"Youth, Pornography, and the Internet: Can We Provide Sound Choices in a

Safe Environment?" (2002)

<a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10261.html">http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10261.html</a>

PROJECTS:

"Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy"

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/step/STEP_Projects_Intellectual_Property_Rights.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/step/STEP_Projects_Intellectual_Property_Rights.html</a>

"Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science"

<a href="http://www.codata.org/03march-intlsymp.htm">http://www.codata.org/03march-intlsymp.htm</a>.

"The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public

Domain"

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Public%20Domain%20Symposium%20Announcement.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Public%20Domain%20Symposium%20Announcement.html</a>

"Licensing Geographic Data and Services"

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/besr/Licensing.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/besr/Licensing.html</a>

"Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration"

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_nara.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_nara.html</a>

"Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and

Policy Implications"

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_dns.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_dns.html</a>

"Privacy in the Information Age"

<a href="http://www.cstb-privacy.org">http://www.cstb-privacy.org</a>

"Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity"

<a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_creativity.html">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_creativity.html</a>

"Shortening the Time Line for New Cancer Treatments"

<a href="http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/NCPB+Timeline">http://www.iom.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/NCPB+Timeline</a>

If you are interested in subscribing to "IP @ National Academies

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Collections Online (Harvard)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:02:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 902 (902)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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April 22, 2003

                    Harvard University Art Museums Announce

                      Latest Edition of Collections Online

                        <a href="http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu">http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu</a>
[deleted quotation]
Please forgive the cross postings

Harvard University Art Museums (the Fogg, the Arthur M. Sackler, and the

Busch-Reisinger Museums) is pleased to announce the third data upload to

its searchable database, Collections Online, available to the public at

<a href="http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu">http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu</a>

This research discovery tool now provides basic information on about 76,000

objects  more than half of the permanent collection. Deeper cataloguing

data, such as bibliography, marks and inscriptions, provenance, and

exhibition history, are included for about 10,000 of these objects.

Approximately 12,500 object records are illustrated with images currently,

and this number is growing rapidly. Increasing the number of images

representing objects in the searchable database is one of the primary

objectives the Art Museums has articulated for its digital initiative in

the upcoming year.

Collections Online also includes a number of Tours, which are groupings of

objects, pre-assembled according to various thematic principles. Initially,

four Masterpieces of the Art Museums' Tours, chosen by the Art Museums'

former Director, James Cuno, were presented. In addition, these are now

augmented with tours of two special exhibitions, namely A Private Passion:

19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop

Collection, and  Bruegel To Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the

Maida and George Abrams Collection.

It is our hope that making this data available will prove useful to the

scholarly community as a reference and discovery tool, especially to those

preparing to visit the Art Museums to conduct research. Recognizing that

the amount and extent of information online will never be complete, email

and telephone contact information for each curatorial department is

prominently displayed, as is information about how to set up appointments

for close inspection of the objects. As internal cataloging and research

continues  a normal part of curatorial activity  future uploads of

additional information and images will increase the usefulness of

Collections Online over time.

For information about the technical infrastructure supporting Collections

Online, see

<a href="http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/collections/servlet/webpublisher.WebCommunication?ia=tr&ic=pt&t=xhtml&x=techinfo">http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/collections/servlet/webpublisher.WebCommunication?ia=tr&ic=pt&t=xhtml&x=techinfo</a>

We invite you to use this resource and welcome your comments and critiques.

____________________________

Sam Quigley, Director

Digital Information and Technology

Harvard University Art Museums

32 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA  02138

617-496-4292

www.artmuseums.harvard.edu



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: European "Technology Watch Report"
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:04:28 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 903 (903)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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April 23, 2003

                     DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 1 Available

                <a href="http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_low.pdf">http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_low.pdf</a>

                <a href="http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_high.pdf">http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_high.pdf</a>

                        First Draft Available for Comment of

                          "The XML Family of Technologies"

                      <a href="http://www.digicult.info/pages/twb.php">http://www.digicult.info/pages/twb.php</a>

The DigitCULT Forum is a European project, initially funded through August

2004 to provide a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific

heritage. It is based on a strategic study completed in 2001:

"Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural Economy - DigiCULT"

<a href="http://digicult.salzburgresearch.at/">http://digicult.salzburgresearch.at/</a>

The first of its regular Technology Watch Reports is now available. In

addition, the first draft of its Technology Watch Briefings, on "The XML

Family of Technologies", is now online and available for comments.

David Green

===========
[deleted quotation]
Technology Watch Report 1 - now available

New Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector

The Technology Watch Report identifies and describes technologies that

are either not currently used in the heritage sector or are under-utilised

by it. The Report provides accessible descriptions of new technologies,

suggests how these might be employed, and indicates the implications and

risks.

Technologies examined in Report 1 include:

- Customer Relationship Management

- Digital Asset Management Systems

- Smart Labels and Smart Tags

- Virtual Reality and Display Technologies

- Human Interfaces

- Games Technologies

Download DigiCULT Technology Watch Report 1:

Low-Res (2,56 MB) <a href="http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_low.pdf">http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_low.pdf</a>

High-Res (4,74 MB) <a href="http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_high.pdf">http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_high.pdf</a>

Comment Technology Watch Briefings:

During its initial thirty-month lifetime, the project will release three

Technology Watch Reports, each examining six core technologies. Each of the

briefings are made available for comment on the project website. The

first draft of the latest DigiCULT Technology Watch Briefing, subject

"The XML Family of Technologies", is now online. Comments and

suggestions to be implemented in the final draft are now cordially

invited. more: <a href="http://www.digicult.info/pages/twb.php">http://www.digicult.info/pages/twb.php</a>

The DigiCULT Publications: The Technology Watch Reports are only one of

four ways in which DigiCULT Forum contributes to improving the knowledge

about the use of technologies within the cultural heritage sector:

- Thematic Issues: results of themed expert fora

- DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about services, studies, technologies,

and activities

- DigiCULT Website: info, events, links, all publications online for download

more: <a href="http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php">http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php</a>

Subscribe to the Newsletter DigiCULT.info

<a href="http://www.digicult.info/pages/subscribe.php">http://www.digicult.info/pages/subscribe.php</a>

Read and comment on the Technology Watch Briefings

<a href="http://www.digicult.info/pages/twb.php">http://www.digicult.info/pages/twb.php</a>

Submit an Event <a href="http://www.digicult.info/pages/addevent.php">http://www.digicult.info/pages/addevent.php</a>

(c) DigiCULT Forum 2003 <a href="http://www.digicult.info">http://www.digicult.info</a>

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From: diabruck@coli.uni-sb.de
Subject: DiaBruck 2003, 3nd CFP (Submission deadline extended: May
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:00:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 904 (904)


12 2003)

                           Third Call for Papers

                (Extended Submission Deadline: May 12 2003)

                              DiaBruck 2003

SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

                           Saarland University

                            Sept 4th-6th 2003

                    <a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/</a>

                           Endorsed by SIGSEM

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

      the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics

                           Endorsed by SIGdial

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

      the ACL Special interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue

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DiaBruck 2003 will be the seventh in a series of workshops that aims to

bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of

dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics

and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

We invite submissions on all topics related to the semantics and

pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

- models of common ground/mutual belief in communication

- modelling agents' information states and how they get updated

- multi-agent models and turn-taking

- goals, intentions and commitments in communication

- semantic interpretation in dialogues

- reference in dialogues

- dialogue and discourse structure

- interpretation of questions and answers

- nonlinguistic interaction in communication

- natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems

- multimodal dialogue systems

- dialogue management in practical implementations

- categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora

- designing and evaluating dialogue systems

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From: Ross Scaife <scaife@uky.edu>
Subject: Fwd: 16.636 copyright; Web site and newsletter of the
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:59:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 905 (905)


National Academies (U.S.)
[deleted quotation]
Is this in fact the right URL for this report?

I see the piece in question at

<a href="http://www.nap.edu/books/0309088593/html/">http://www.nap.edu/books/0309088593/html/</a>

Maybe I just missed the link or something.



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: consumptive humanities
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:33:46 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 906 (906)


The following question I owe to Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller, Historisch-

Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung (roughly, as he says,

"humanities computer science"), at the University of Cologne. See

<a href="http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/">http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/</a> for details of his department. The question I

ask arose out of discussions with him -- but the articulation of it is

mine, so please hold me responsible!

The question is basically this: if we trapped by being users rather than

also creators of our tools, what do we do about getting out of the trap?

One can argue with some justification that easily available, user-friendly

tools (such as MS Access) have resulted in a degrading effect on the

humanities by imposing on us models of data and data-processing that are

significantly inadequate to our needs as researchers. The conclusion that

would appear to follow is that we should be working at a rather lower level

than we usually do. Hence the need for a "humanities computer science".

It's rather hard to argue against the proposition that as scholars we

should avoid the mind-set of the mere consumer whenever possible. Indeed,

we are trained to poke hard and deep at any resource that we use unless it

comes from hands we trust already. (I do not examine the Oxford Latin

Dictionary rigorously before use, for example, but I do take care with

anything I find online until assured that it is from trustworthy hands.)

But to what degree can we -- and can we afford to -- understand enough to

find the limitations in tools most of us take as basic? At some point a

devotion to acquiring that understanding and following it up takes over,

and concern for the humanities disappears. Another kind of degrading

effect, with which we are quite familiar, becomes the problem.

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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: "Martin Mueller" <martinmueller@northwestern.edu>
Subject: RE: 16.641 the consumptive humanities?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:02:51 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 907 (907)


Willard's question is excellent, but MS Access may not be the appropriate

villain (MS Word is a much better candidate. In fact, one can argue that MS

Access is an excellent example of a program that cannot be used

intelligently without a clear understanding of its underlying principles

while lowering technical entry barriers considerably. If the modal users of

information technology in the humanities had pushed the limits of that tool

and expressed frustration their inability to do subtler and more powerful

things, that would be wonderful. But the situation on the ground is much

worse. It's not a matter of going beyond Access; it's a matter of going

toward it.

What is true of relational database technology is even more true of XML,

arguably a better data modelling technology for the humanities. The

humanities computing world would be a much better place if there were a tool

or suite of tools that does for XML what Access does for relational

databases.



From: "Bonnett, John" <John.Bonnett@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.641 the consumptive humanities?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:03:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 908 (908)


Dear Willard,

If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that efforts by

humanities scholars to transcend the limitations of their tools, by

learning to program, will inevitably result in an abandonment of the

humanities discipline that gave rise to the effort in the first place.

I fail to see how such a conclusion follows.  Why would learning a

computer language lead to such an outcome, while presumably learning

a human language, from Coptic to Croatian, would not?

Best wishes,

John Bonnett

National Research Council of Canada



From: George Whitesel <whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.641 the consumptive humanities?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:03:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 909 (909)


Willard:

       Good point! Research in the humanities is being shaped by the

nature of the tools, not the needs of the discipline.  Researchers are

taking the easy way out, the electronic way.  This is understandable

but regrettable.  Articles have been written lamenting the failure to

consult older materials not covered in the 1963-0000 electronic

version of the MLA.  All the best!

George

whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu



From: "danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@LOC.GOV>
Subject: Announcement of Release of Chinese in California Collection
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:59:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 910 (910)


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 will complement and enhance

the collections of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of

Congress. The Chinese in California 1850-1925 is the last of twenty-three

collections coming from the LC/Ameritech competition. This collection can

be found at <<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/</a>>.

The Chinese in California 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early

twentieth century Chinese immigration to California from 1850 to 1925

through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included

are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters,

excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as

pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter.

These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in

California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also

document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and

business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and

cultural and social life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives

special treatment as the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the

United States. Also included is documentation of smaller Chinese

communities throughout

California, as well as material reflecting on the experiences of

individuals. Although necessarily selective, such a large body of materials

presents a full spectrum of representation and opinion. The materials in

this online compilation are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library,

University of California Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library, University

of California Berkeley; and The California Historical Society, San Francisco.

Those interested in learning about the Ameritech competition, the awards

made in each of the three years of the competition, and the guidelines that

were given to applicants can locate the information at the following url:

<<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/index.html">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/index.html</a>>.

Please use the form at <<a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html">http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html</a>> to

send questions regarding this collection.



From: Jan Christoph Meister <jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Visualizing dynamic experience of time
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:00:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 911 (911)


22:47

28.04.2003

Dear Colleagues,

I wonder wether anybody has ideas, information, examples, links etc. with

regard to the following:

I want to visualize the dynamic experience of time (to be more

specific, the experience of time as mediated by narratives. But that's

not really important here.)

By dynamic I mean that if a perceiving subject in a world W

moves along a time line from t1 to tn, he/she will at any given 'point

in time' (= position on the absolute time line) have different information

available as to what time phenomena lie/ occur in his/her subjective

(and hence relative) future, past and present. So the subject's model

of how events and phenomena are temporally located in W and how time on a

whole is structured in W will continuously change.

An added difficulty is that the perceiving subject will only be able

to accumulate information about the time indexes of phenomena in a

step by step fashion (meaning that a certain amount of time

data will be available at t1, and that the additional time data

available at t2 might then totally change the entire picture.)

Moreover, some of the information he/she gets will be absolute ("x

occurs at 14.00 GMT on 28.04.03"); other information will be relative

("X occurs after Y; Y will occur after Z").

I discussed this already with Willard who suggested some sort of

animated visualization. I'd be most grateful for any futher ideas!

Chris

*******************************

Jan Christoph Meister

Forschergruppe Narratologie

Universitt Hamburg

NarrNet - the Information hub for Narratologists:

             www.narratology.net

My site:   www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/JC.Meister

Mail:     jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de

Office:   +49 - 40 - 42838 4994

Cell:     +49 - 0172 40 865 41



From: "OESI Informa" <informaoesi@cervantes.es>
Subject: conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:47:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 912 (912)


Processing

SEPLN 2003

XIX CONGRESO DE

LA SOCIEDAD ESPAOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN)

(19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing SEPLN)

September 10-12, 2003

Universidad de Alcal de Henares

Alcal de Henares (Madrid)

<a href="http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln">http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln</a>

Introduction

The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

(SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcal de Henares

(Madrid, Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this

Conference is to promote the dissemination of research, development and

innovation activities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in the

field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a

forum for discussion and communication to facilitate an effective exchange

of knowledge and scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the

publication of relevant work and the establishment of means of

collaboration with national and international Institutions that are active

in this field.

Objectives

The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and

scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest

research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing,

as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and

to know about new projects. Consequently, the 19th SEPLN Conference is a

meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the

present state of development in this field of knowledge.

Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in

previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and

foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market

needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in

helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

Topics

Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project

abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics:

Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language

Corpus linguistics

Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval

Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis

Computational Lexicography

Monolingual and multilingual text generation

Machine translation

Speech synthesis and recognition

Semantics, pragmatics and discourse

Word sense disambiguation

NLP industrial applications

Automatic textual content analysis

[material deleted]

Further Information

Full information is available at the official website of the Conference:

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You may also contact the coordinator at any of the following addresses:

Secretary of the 19th SEPLN Conference

Conference coordinator: Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio

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From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer@let.uu.nl>
Subject: ESS2003: Language and Speech Technology for Language Learning
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:48:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 913 (913)


                           SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

                                  and

                         CALL for PARTICIPATION

    The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication

        Topic: Language and Speech Technology in Language Learning

          Lille (France), Monday July 7 - Friday July 18, 2003

                 Organized by the University of Lille 3

We are happy to announce that registration for the 11th ELSNET Summer

School is now open. For this school we have chosen a topic of great

relevance to researchers and developers in Europe and in other

multilingual environments: the use of language and speech technology

in language learning, both of spoken and of written language. The goal

of this workshop is to get young researchers on a track that will

eventually contribute to an important application area. The underlying

vision (or dream) is The automatic animated language tutor.

+ Audience and aims:

We see the school as mainly research and development oriented, and

hence the primary audience are researchers, developers and integrators

who will make our vision happen (rather than teachers who would use

it). Both technological and pedagogical aspects will be taken into

consideration

The aims are:

    * to make the students familiar with the main principles and

      problems of language learning/teaching

    * to make them familiar with current best practice in computer

      assisted language learning

    * to make them familiar with the main challenges in computer

      assisted language learning

Participants are expected to have a general computational background

and some familiarity with language or speech research and/or

processing. After completion of the summer school participants should

be able to function in teams aimed at designing or implementing tools,

environments or courses for Computer Assisted Language Learning

(abbreviated CALL).

[material deleted]

For information about the programme visit the ESS2003 website or

   <a href="http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003">http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003</a>

or contact the chair of the programme committee,

Steven Krauwer (steven.krauwer@elsnet.org)

__________________________________________________________________________

Steven Krauwer, ELSNET coordinator, UiL-OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL

phone: +31 30 253 6050,  fax: +31 30 253 6000, email: s.krauwer@elsnet.org

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From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16.642 consumptive humanities
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:49:22 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 914 (914)


Perhaps what we need is a catalog or database of homegrown tools that

have been developed by members of this community. In my experience, a

number of projects have developed tools or widgets that have either been

expressly offered up for re-use by others, or which could be repurposed

with only very modest effort--but it's still relatively rare to see that

kind of borrowing and cross-fertilization. Here are examples of the sort

of tools I have in mind:

<a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/researchTools.html">http://www.iath.virginia.edu/researchTools.html</a>

<a href="http://www.mith.umd.edu/research/projectlist.html#products">http://www.mith.umd.edu/research/projectlist.html#products</a>

Matt



From: "Liz Walter" <eawalter@email.arizona.edu>
Subject: RE: 16.642 consumptive humanities
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:50:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 915 (915)


I have to agree that XML is the way to go in humanities computing.

Microsoft has two tools which will help the budding XML builder.

1)XSD Inference Utility -"By using the Microsoft.XSDInference.Infer class, a

developer can easily infer a schema for an instance document. The inferred

schema can be refined with related document instances so that it can be used

to describe and validate a whole class of XML documents."

<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/ht">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/ht</a>

ml/xsdinference.asp

2)XML Diff - "By using the XMLDiff class, the programmer is able to

determine if the two files are in fact different based on the conditions

that are important to their application. The programmer is able to ignore

changes that are only superficial (for example, different prefixes for same

namespace). XMLPatch then provides the ability to update the original XML by

applying only the changes that matter to the original XML."

<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/ht">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/ht</a>

ml/xsdinference.asp



From: Patrick Sahle <sahle@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: 16.642 consumptive humanities
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:51:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 916 (916)

[deleted quotation]
I didn't read Willard that way. But now I'm tempted to agree to his point

of view as described by John. Learning to program - to some extend -

inevitably means to adopt a certain view (which stands behind those

languages), which is not a humanities-like one -- unless there would be a

humanities based programming language we could learn and use/implement for

our special needs.

1.: I am just kiddin'

2.: Are we back into the logical circle (as seen by John) with that?

(Shifting from one language to another doesn't change the discipline:

philology. But shifting from speach to calculation does)

3.: Mr. Thaller: Can (at least) programming languages be theory-free? If

not: do they adopt a certain subject-specific (e.g. natural sciences-) view?

4.: Maybe in the end: Is there something like a comprehensive "logic" which

maybe isn't discipline-specific but meta-disciplinary? Is there a

meta-discipline? Where do the boderlines begin?

Best regards,

Patrick Sahle

___________________________________________________________________

Universitt zu Kln

Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

Kerpener Str. 30

<a href="http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/">http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/</a>

Privat: Blankenheimer Strasse 19

50937 Kln

0049 - (0)221 - 2805695

Sahle@uni-koeln.de

<a href="http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26/">http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26/</a>



From: Stephen Ramsay <sramsay@uga.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.641 the consumptive humanities?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:53:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 917 (917)


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 07:40:57AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way

of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I have delved deeper than most into the gory details of programming

and software design, and I must say that I am not familiar with the

degrading effect you describe.  The technology is forever leading me

back to the fundamental questions of humanistic inquiry.

I was led into humanities computing because I began to realize that

teaching computers to read and manipulate text amounted to the

instantiation of a critical reading strategy; that code was the

narrative specification of an idea about the text; and that the

apparently unhumanistic details of engineering put forth powerful

metaphors for rhetoric and the hermeneutical process.  As a result,

in my own research, building things has become almost inextricable

from theorizing abouthem.  I am forever encouraging my students to

take off their gloves and get deep into the machine.  The fact that

I am teaching humanists schooled in the habits of mind requisite for

humanistic study makes wholesale abandonment a fairly rare event.

I cannot believe that I am an anomaly -- my anecdotal experience

from working with others on this list would suggest that the

experience is, in fact, quite common.  But perhaps we are speaking

of a less decisive degradation.  There can be no question that

"going deep into the machine" takes many years of fairly intense

training.  There may not be time (in the life of most graduate

students) to go deep into the machine *and* the cultural artifacts

which prompted that going, but, like most scholarly projects, this

is a lifetime (rather than merely a curricular) endeavor for which

one surely has world enough and time.

Steve


--
Stephen Ramsay
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Georgia
email: sramsay@uga.edu
web: <a href="http://cantor.english.uga.edu/">http://cantor.english.uga.edu/</a>
PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11


From: "Aimée Morrison" <aimee.morrison@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 16.641 the consumptive humanities?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:53:54 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 918 (918)

greetings, all.
willard, you've raised the great debate about how 'expert' we need to be to do
our humanities computing in as nuanced and careful a manner as we do our more
straightforwardly humanistic work.  ahh, the great question of mastery.  but i
think you might have begun to answer it with your subsequent musing on
'trust.'  'trust,' you suggest, is a key factor in our relationship to our
tools, humanistic or computational, and i want to pick up on that.
[pardon me if i indulge in the second person construction -- i'm trying to
think this through using a particular example, and willard, bravely as usual,
seems to have volunteered.]
the oxford latin dictionary you trust:  you are happy to be, simply, a user of
this resource.  we may well chafe at the idea that to use this resource in the
pursuit of research is 'simple,' or 'simplistic.'  after all, a certain expert
knowledge is required to unlock from it its secrets.  do not underestimate the
learning that goes into proper dictionary use.  still, this is a limited or
directed literacy:  to interrogate the nature of its bindings (materialist
study of the book notwithstanding) in this instance is counterproductive to
the task at hand, most tasks at humanist hand, presumably some sort of
scholarship in which precise latin is necessary.  the dictionary is a
necessary tool to the job at hand,  as a hammer to a nail, it is as
instrumental as it is vital -- and it is largely invisible as itself.
surely, to write one's own dictionary in this case would be overkill.
and thus, i think, (for example), with microsoft access for the relational
database, or even microsoft word.  i've written a text editor of my own, and
let me tell you, it didn't get my essays written any faster or better.  along
with another respondent, i'm tickled pink at any humanist who can wrap their
minds around relational databasing as *concept*, and acquire a sort of minimal
competence with an IDE.  this is not a trivial affair.  i recently lost a week
of my life trying to build a simple little database of organ music citations
-- and that was using access.
surely, to write my own relational database without this help would be
overkill.
so i ask:  why are some of our research resources trustworthy and other are
not?  another related question:  why trust book-tools more than computing
tools?  is this a matter of some sort of will to technical power?  an
overcompensation for an inequal geekishness/bookisness balance in our
training?  a matter of corporate versus academic provenance?  *who* and *what*
do we trust, and *why*?
i'm looking forward to the rest of this conversation.
thanks,
aimée [ <- i hope my name comes out right ...]
.                  ++++++++++++++++++++++++
Aimée Morrison                       Office: 3-66 Humanities Ctr.
PhD Candidate, Dept. of English      Phone:  (780) 492-2432
University of Alberta                Fax:    (780) 492-8102
T6G 2E5                              Email:  ahm@ualberta.ca
        "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
                                         -- Hunter S. Thompson



From: Jan Christoph Meister <jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Visualizing dynamic experience of time
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:00:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 919 (919)


22:47

28.04.2003

Dear Colleagues,

I wonder wether anybody has ideas, information, examples, links etc.

with regard to the following:

I want to visualize the dynamic experience of time (to be more specific,

the experience of time as mediated by narratives. But that's not really

important here.)

By dynamic I mean that if a perceiving subject in a world W moves along

a time line from t1 to tn, he/she will at any given 'point in time' (=

position on the absolute time line) have different information available

as to what time phenomena lie/ occur in his/her subjective (and hence

relative) future, past and present. So the subject's model of how events

and phenomena are temporally located in W and how time on a whole is

structured in W will continuously change.

An added difficulty is that the perceiving subject will only be able to

accumulate information about the time indexes of phenomena in a step by

step fashion (meaning that a certain amount of time data will be

available at t1, and that the additional time data available at t2 might

then totally change the entire picture.) Moreover, some of the

information he/she gets will be absolute ("x occurs at 14.00 GMT on

28.04.03"); other information will be relative ("X occurs after Y; Y

will occur after Z").

I discussed this already with Willard who suggested some sort of

animated visualization. I'd be most grateful for any futher ideas!

Chris

*******************************

Jan Christoph Meister

Forschergruppe Narratologie

Universitt Hamburg

NarrNet - the Information hub for Narratologists:

               www.narratology.net

My site:   www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/JC.Meister

Mail:     jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de

Office:   +49 - 40 - 42838 4994

Cell:     +49 - 0172 40 865 41



From: Mickie Husted <mickiesstory@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Visualizing dynamic experience of time? (fwd)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:50:12 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 920 (920)


Dear Jan-

The University of South Carolina in Columbia has a

listserv similar to our philosophical, but their list

is for for quantum studies. Many physicists, chemists,

and other scientists subscribe to this list.

This question about time is very interesting and I

think they might like playing around with it. Would it

be okay if I forwarded it to them?

Mickie



From: Stephen Ramsay <sramsay@uga.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.643 Visualizing dynamic experience of time?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:51:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 921 (921)


You are in luck.  Check out Johanna Drucker and Beth Nowviskie's

*Temporal Modelling* project -- still in progress, but more or less

precisely what you are imagining:

<a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/time/time.html">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/time/time.html</a>

Steve


--
Stephen Ramsay
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Georgia
email: sramsay@uga.edu
web: <a href="http://cantor.english.uga.edu/">http://cantor.english.uga.edu/</a>
PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11



From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 4.10
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:52:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 922 (922)


Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM

Volume 4, Number 10,  Week of April 28, 2003

In this issue:

View --

Is E-learning Really the Future or a Risk?

Can e-learning investment decisions be justifiable with the rate in which

technology evolves?

By Charles A. Shoniregun and Sarah-Jane Gray

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_3.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/c_shoniregun_3.html</a>

Job Applications and Network Security, or, How to Not Limit the Online

Applicant Pool

Employers discourage potential applicants by not offering secure methods

for submitting personal information.

By Trevis J. Rothwell

<a href="http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/t_rothwell_3.html">http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/t_rothwell_3.html</a>



From: Tim van Gelder <tgelder@unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: April Additions to Critical Thinking On the Web
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:52:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 923 (923)


----------

Subscribers in Australia might be interested in the following:

<<a href="http://www.austhink.org/courses/ara/index.html">http://www.austhink.org/courses/ara/index.html</a>>Advanced Reasoning and Analysis

Intensive, three-day workshops on analysing, evaluating, producing and

expressing complex reasoning and argumentation. Designed for high-level and

high-potential professionals in fields such as business, law, consulting,

and government.  Presented by Austhink at Trinity College, Melbourne,

Australia.  Now open for enrolment: June 18-20, August 29-31 and Nov 19-21.

----------

Latest Additions:

30 Apr

in Health and Medicine

<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/health/nutrition/29VITA.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/health/nutrition/29VITA.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position</a>=>Vitamins:

More May Be Too Many by Gina Kolata

Discusses evidence that "vitamin supplements cannot correct for a poor

diet, that multivitamins have not been shown to prevent any disease and

that it is easy to reach high enough doses of certain vitamins and minerals

to actually increase the risk of disease." Sample of what Kolata finds:

"Vitamin E supplements can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes,

and studies of vitamin C supplements consistently failed to show that it

had any beneficial effects. "The two vitamins that are the most not needed

are the ones most often taken," Dr. Russell said." [30 Apr 03]

29 Apr

in Group Thinking

<<a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html">http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html</a>>Why Do Some

Societies Make Disastrous

Decisions<<a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html">http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond03/diamond_print.html</a>>? by

Jared Diamond

"What I'm going to suggest is a road map of factors in failures of group

decision making. I'll divide the answers into a sequence of four somewhat

fuzzily delineated categories. First of all, a group may fail to anticipate

a problem before the problem actually arrives. Secondly, when the problem

arrives, the group may fail to perceive the problem. Then, after they

perceive the problem, they may fail even to try to solve the problem.

Finally, they may try to solve it but may fail in their attempts to do so."

[29 Apr 03]

26 Apr

in Miscellaneous and Fun

<<a href="http://www.brunching.com/argueusenet.html">http://www.brunching.com/argueusenet.html</a>>How to Argue on Usenet by Lore

Sjberg

"It saddens and distracts me to know how many out there don't know how to

properly behave on that great landfill of the intellect known as Usenet. It

is for them that this guide was created..." [26 Apr 03]

22 Apr

in Experts and Expertise

<<a href="http://www.vocabula.com/2003/VRAPRIL03Halpern.asp">http://www.vocabula.com/2003/VRAPRIL03Halpern.asp</a>>It's safe to predict...

yes, unfortunately by Mark Halpern. Target: media experts.

"Experts and authorities are forever making predictions (many of them about

the future), being proved wrong by events, and then continuing their career

as experts or authorities without missing a beat; there seems to be little

reason to be careful." Singles out one Ms. Judith Kipper for special

attention. [requires subscription] [22 Apr 03]

13 Apr

in Postmodernism and All That - Essays

See also Blackburn's

<<a href="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=11896">http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=11896</a>>Richard

Rorty, which explains how to keep your head while all about you are losing

theirs. "Piece by piece, then, it looks as if the traditional building

blocks of western thought - representation, truth, objectivity, knowledge -

can and must survive Rorty's battering...Meanwhile, there are morals to be

drawn. One moral is that we should beware of the level of abstraction at

which many postmodernists, including Rorty, tend to operate. We have to

drag them back to the everyday."

3 Apr

in Miscellaneous and Fun

<<a href="http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=390625">http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=390625</a>>Encyclopedia

of Stupidity - review by Stephen Bayley

Somewhat amusing, as you'd hope and expect on this topic. But there is some

good meat on this bone - particularly the many pointers to previous

classics in the literature on stupidity.  I didn't know so much had been

written on this topic. [3 Apr 03]

30 Mar

in Great Critical Thinkers

<<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?030331on_onlineonly02">http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?030331on_onlineonly02</a>>Noam

Chomsky's Moment from The New Yorker.

A rich trove of links to Chomsky's speeches, addresses, and writings

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Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:49:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 924 (924)


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LNAI 2663:

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4th International Conference, CICLing 2003 Mexico City, Mexico, February

16-22, 2003. Proceedings

<a href="http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2588.htm">http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2588.htm</a>

or

<a href="http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2588.htm">http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2588.htm</a>



From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part II
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:45:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 925 (925)


                 Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing.

                 Part II: Library and Professional Initiatives

      I am proud to announce the publication of the second in a three-part

series on "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing" in _Library Hi Tech News_:

Gerry McKiernan (2003) "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part II:

Library and Professional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ Vol. 20 No. 3

(April), pp. 19-27

      Among the initiatives profiled in this Second Part are:

*Library*

DSpace(tm) (<a href="http://dspace.org">http://dspace.org</a>) [MIT]

E-Print Repository (<a href="http://eprints.anu.edu.au/">http://eprints.anu.edu.au/</a>) [Australian National

University]

University of Michigan University Library Scholarly Publishing Office

[ <a href="http://spo.umdl.umich.edu">http://spo.umdl.umich.edu</a>]

*Professional*

SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

[<a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/">http://www.arl.org/sparc/</a> ]

ELSSS -The ELectronic Society for Social Scientists

[ <a href="http://www.elsss.org.uk/">http://www.elsss.org.uk/</a>]

The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities

[ <a href="http://www.stoa.org">http://www.stoa.org</a>]

     Part I in the series was devoted to Individual and Institutional

initiatives and was published in LHTN 20(2) [ Gerry McKiernan (2003)

"Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part I: Individual and

Institutional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ Vol. 20 No. 2 (March),

pp. 19-26] .  The last part, Part III, covers organizational and national

initiatives and is scheduled for publication in LHTN 20(5).

     Part II (as well as Part I) are also available electronically  for

subscribers to LHTN via Emerald:

    ( <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1/cl=3/nw=1/rpsv/lhtn.htmC">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1/cl=3/nw=1/rpsv/lhtn.htmC</a>)

NB: Please note each of these articles are contributions in my eProfile

column for LHTN.

     Enjoy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

and

Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer

Iowa State University

Ames IA 50011

              "The Best Way To Predict the Future is to Invent It"

                                                                Alan Kay



From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: JoDI: new issue (V4i1, April 2003)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:46:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 926 (926)


A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION

(Volume 4, issue 1, April 2003)

Taking a break from the recent run of JoDI special topic issues, we are

pleased to present a varied collection of papers from leading authors,

highlighting the quality and diversity of JoDI themes. Also, the issue

includes an editorial reflecting on the impact of JoDI papers.

M. Doerr, J. Hunter, C. Lagoze

Towards a Core Ontology for Information Integration

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Doerr/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Doerr/</a>

S. Jones, G. Paynter

An Evaluation of Document Keyphrase Sets

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Jones/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Jones/</a>

J. Kalbach, T. Bosenick

Web Page Layout: A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site

Navigation Menus

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Kalbach/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Kalbach/</a>

J. Levitt

Macro Approaches to Digital Searching and Secondary Research

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Levitt/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Levitt/</a>

R. Losee

Adaptive User-Centered Organization of Tabular Data for Display

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Losee/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Losee/</a>

G. Marchionini, B. Brunk

Towards a General Relation Browser: A GUI for Information Architects

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Marchionini/">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Marchionini/</a>

   From the editorial:

"One of the indicators of papers, themes and issues that appeal to users

are the journal's Web logs - an intriguing feature is how quickly the logs

reflect the most popular papers in an issue. Higher initial downloads are

typically sustained over longer periods. Good examples of this are the

papers that were downloaded most in the year from February 2002 to January

2003 ..."

<a href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sec.php3?content=editors">http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sec.php3?content=editors</a>

The next issue of JoDI (V4i2) will focus on

Economic Factors of Managing Digital Content and Establishing Digital

Libraries


--


From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: REPORT: Little Evidence for Effectiveness of Scientific
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:48:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 927 (927)

Reer Review
Little Evidence for Effectiveness of Scientific Peer Review
by  Caroline White  / BMJ 2003;326:241 ( 1 February )
[<a href="http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7383/241/a">http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7383/241/a</a> ]
DateLine: London
      Despite its widespread use and costs, little hard evidence exists that
peer review improves the quality of published biomedical research,
concludes a systematic review from the international Cochrane Collaboration.
[ <a href="http://bmj.com/cgi/reprint/326/7383/241/a.pdf">http://bmj.com/cgi/reprint/326/7383/241/a.pdf</a> ]
Yet the system, which has been used for at least 200 years, has only
recently come under scrutiny, with its assumptions about fairness and
objectivity rarely tested, say the review authors. With few exceptions,
journal editors-and clinicians-around the world continue to see it as the
hallmark of serious scientific endeavour. Published last week, the review
is the third in a series from the Cochrane Collaboration Methods Group.
...
Only the latter escapes a drubbing, with the reviewers concluding that
technical editing does improve the readability, accuracy, and overall
quality of published research.The Cochrane reviewers based their findings
on 21 studies of the peer review process from an original trawl of only
135.
[snip]
On the basis of the current evidence, "the practice of peer review is based
on faith in its effects, rather than on facts," state the authors, who call
forlarge, government funded research programmes to test the
effectiveness of the system and investigate possible alternatives.
"As the information revolution gathers pace, an empirically proven method
of quality assurance is of paramount importance," they contend.
Professor Tom Jefferson, who led the Cochrane review, suggested
that further research might prove that peer review, or an evolved form of
it, worked. At the very least, it needed to be more open and accountable.
But he said that there had never even been any consensus
on its aims and that it would be more appropriate to refer to it as
"competitive review."
[snip]
REPORT FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE
Editorial peer-review for improving the quality of reports of biomedical
studies
[ <a href="http://www.update-software.com/Cochrane/MR000016.pdf">http://www.update-software.com/Cochrane/MR000016.pdf</a> ]
Jefferson TO, Alderson P, Davidoff F, Wager E
This is a reprint of a Cochrane methodology review, prepared and maintained
by the Cochrane Collaboration and published in
The Cochrane Library 2003, Issue 1



From: cwulfman <cwulfman@perseus.tufts.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.646 consumptive humanities [degradation]
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:46:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 928 (928)


I'd like to address Stephen Ramsay's comments---as someone who has

traversed the technology-humanities  "divide" several times (my vita bares

the traces), I cheerfully confess to having been quite thoroughly degraded.

Like Stephen, I read encoding as interpretation, and vice versa, and I try

to impart the same in my teaching: learn to erode disciplinary escarpments

that impede progressive understanding (a humanistic goal if ever there was

one).

Perhaps, though, Stephen's metaphor of "going deep into the machine"

suggests the shifting of knowledge strata required for well-informed

humanistic study. Mastery of Latin and Greek was once prerequisite to

serious scholarship, but that requirement has been eroded in most

sub-disciplines as the objectives of scholarly pursuit have changed. Were

there world enough and time, one would surely strive to achieve prospective

knowledge, but in our professional lives we seem to labor in the mines:

even as we traverse the synclines and anticlines, we look for the most

productive veins (those yielding the most valuable ore in the current coin

of the realm) and delve deepest there. Will the most valuable ore for the

humanities next come from within the machine? If so, what are the best

tools with which to equip ourselves and our students to pursue it? If one

had to choose, would one favor the software engineering pick-axe or the

logic and semiotics astrolabe? (I'll take both, thank you, along with my

linguistics shovel and my philosophical drill, and a pack-full of good books.)

Clifford E. Wulfman

Editor for Literature in English

Perseus Project

Tufts University



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.646 consumptive humanities
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:46:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 929 (929)


Willard, I spent many years programming materials for various projects,

teaching and research, and I know the lure of it.  It is fun to [program

and I often did jobs for friends which had little to do with my own classes

or research, as a favor and because it was so enjoyable.

I don't think it made me less of a scholar or teacher, through.  IT was

just something else to do that I liked -- I also do photography, stamp

collecting, book collecting, fishing....all of which are fun and require

skills of one sort or another.  Programming was an ancillary skill, I think.



From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: 16.646 consumptive humanities
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:47:13 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 930 (930)


Willard --

What a collection of deeply thought-provoking postings you have inspired

with your latest!

One by one (warning: long)....

At 01:58 AM 4/30/2003, someone wrote:
[deleted quotation]
Matt, this is a great job to contemplate; the question being whether

there's finally enough critical mass amidst all the centrifugal/centripetal

forces. We should communicate further.
[deleted quotation]
At least for now! :->
[deleted quotation]
If you can put up with XSD (yet another schema syntax) this may be

tolerably good for getting started; there are also a range of other tools

and approaches to deriving schemas (apologies to those who prefer their

plurals in Greek where possible).
[deleted quotation]
XML Diffing is a challenging problem both practically and theoretically, as

it implicitly asks "what is the diff being run on", namely XML instance or

(parsed, in-memory) data object. (This is a theoretical topic I hope to

take up later this year.) It would also be great to have good solutions,

and for certain kinds of applications this one could well be very good

(haven't tried it myself).

In fact, the theoretical question raised by this tool is exactly the kind

of *humanistic* problem described by Steve Ramsay, below: it's all about

language and representations.

Not only that, but we're going to see more about data objects and object

models as XML matures, not less.
[deleted quotation]
...

Excellent points, only responding to one of them:
[deleted quotation]
Perhaps in the blurry boundaries between logic, letters and rhetoric?
[deleted quotation]
I couldn't agree more about how compelling the project is when we remember

to look at it in this light. (As Willard so often does, in his questioning

way.) Nonetheless we still wonder, don't we, how far along this path one is

able to go, and if one goes only so far, what distant problem, what

trickiness, still lurks unaccounted for in the shadows? ("I'm using Access

but I haven't mastered relational calculus!") It can be rather

anxiety-provoking, I think.

What I find reassuring is your account of how the solidity of the grounding

you are standing on comes not from any arcane wizardry you have mastered --

English professor as engineer! -- but rather from the foundations of

humanistic study itself -- as you say, "rhetoric and the hermeneutical

process". It is in knowing these, that is, that we face our puzzle -- and

our engineering (should our toys be so grand as to be dubbed "engineering")

is merely the device -- again as you say, the metaphor -- by which we

examine it.
[deleted quotation]
I agree. :-)
[deleted quotation]
Again, very well put and worth remembering, I think.
[deleted quotation]
Aime <-- name pasted :]

I found your whole analysis of the problem as one of trust, and your

comparison of the Oxford Latin Dictionary to the database application, to

be riveting, and right on. In another month I should be able to say more

about why, as it directly pertains to what I'll be saying at ACH/ALLC 2003

in Athens GA next month. <- plug :]
[deleted quotation]
Yes, precisely, and remains invisible as long as it is doing the job it was

designed for. Yet then someone comes along and makes the dictionary itself

an object of study (as they must if they want to encode it for some

reason), and we are off and running.
[deleted quotation]
Yet how many have tried, if not to write the dictionary, to derive a

running vocabulary from one, for some text under study? -- thus scholarship

itself becomes instrumental.
[deleted quotation]
Hee! I bet not. (I'm sure it had its fine points though.)

On the other hand, you may well also have made yourself an XML tag set that

rides on top of someone else's editor (as the running vocabulary rides on

top of the dictionary), and it *might* help you get essays written better

(at least by doing lots of scut work) or easier to publish, anyhow....

Personally I almost never use a word processor any more; my XML is just

better for what I need to do. (Haven't designed any killer db apps though.)
[deleted quotation]
Indeed. I suggest that *transparency* has much to do with this (and thus

back to Steve's argument) -- that being a rhetorical problem of how the

work is *presented* as much as a practical problem of what it actually does.

In this light, open specifications and public standards are indispensable

because they provide for the possibility, at least, of transparency.

(Last week I was taking a course on a high-powered XML database that

remains  nameless here. They were cooing about their powerful proprietary

query language. I asked, so is this language specified anywhere so I can

see what it actually does? They answered, "there's a spec, but it's not

public, since there are possible patents there, so they haven't released

it". I said "so I'm allowed to use the language, but not learn it?" The

rest of the class laughed.)
[deleted quotation]
*what*
[deleted quotation]
Psychology being one of the best humanistic disciplines (though

undervalued), when practiced well. :->
[deleted quotation]
Me too.

Cheers,

Wendell

___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&_&__&__&&____&&_&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&_

      "Thus I make my own use of the telegraph, without consulting

       the directors, like the sparrows, which I perceive use it

       extensively for a perch." -- Thoreau



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Visual Resources special issue
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 07:17:03 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 931 (931)

[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

www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: an essential tension
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 07:15:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 932 (932)


My original posting of a question raised in debate with Manfred Thaller, on

what has usefully become known as "the consumptive humanities" -- one

thinks of a weakened tubercular patient coughing his life out -- has

stirred a fair bit of further debate here. Let me restate and comment a bit.

One the one hand we have (Thaller argues) the intellectually degenerative

effect of pre-packaged, user-seductive applications, designed for other

purposes than ours, to which we adapt our problems and thereby corrupt them

and ourselves. The solution is to get involved in designing our own tools,

and to teach the requisite skills to our students. Programming skills, to

be specific.

On the other hand (which occasion demanded that I play) devotion to the

training and practice of such skills, to the degree of competency required,

is so demanding and enthralling that the practitioner hardly has time left

to pursue research problems in the humanities, with consequences I hardly

need to spell out. Furthermore, a programme in such matters will simply not

attract the sorts of students I see. The result? Perhaps better tools, but

not humanities computing for humanists of the mainstream sort.

The middle ground, where the humanities and computing interpenetrate, is

clearly the most interesting turf to be exploring, and there is clearly no

reason why our programmes need to follow the same curriculum. Let a hundred

flowers bloom, as Chairman Mao used to say -- with, I fear, an entirely

different purpose in mind.

I'd certainly never argue that becoming technically adept necessarily leads

to abandonment of the humanities, though becoming absorbed by the technical

problems may leave little or no time for scholarship, and so a gradual loss

of concern for or understanding of it as one's form of life. Nor would I

deny, ever, that a consumerist attitude to software, as a problem-solving

product, is at minimum intellectually dangerous, and very likely fatal. I

certainly would argue with all my heart for the proposition that deep,

technically competent engagement with computing tools in intelligent

application to cultural artifacts is one of the very best ways we now have

of thinking about those artifacts. That's exactly what humanities computing

is all about.

Someone -- perhaps it was Joseph Campbell in one of his writings about the

myth of the hero -- observed that in many traditional stories the ultimate

test of the hero is whether he can remain awake or properly alert. The

danger that Manfred points to is of this sort, and it is very real. The

promotional rhetoric of those pre-packaged "solutions" not only lies

directly -- our problems are often ill-matched by what's on offer -- but

also misleads with the assumption that solutions are what research strives for.

The computer scientist Meurig Beynon (Warwick), in a recent article

"Liberating the Computer Arts", argues that, "The power of the computer to

transform our interactions with our environment and each other through the

digitisation and symbolic representation of observables is patent. These

developments have enhanced the intellectual influence of a theoretical

framework  endorsed by classical computer science, yet -- at the same time

-- they disguise from the user and expose to the designer the limitations

of that very framework itself. In the process, received computer science

and its associated technologies have helped to legitimise and promote an

incomplete view of science, and detracted from the real and potential role

of the arts and humanities in shaping our lives." So, the problem is not

simply in the humanities, it is with a whole culture of computing across

all the disciplines. In sketching out an alternative software culture,

Beynon argues for software as resource rather than as product, place of

interactions rather than object for the consumer, unfinished rather than

polished. See his "Empirical Modelling" research project, at

<a href="http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/research/modelling/">http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/research/modelling/</a>, which embodies an idea of

computer science that greatly strengthens our case.

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: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Percentage of Grey/Gray Literature By Field/Discipline
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 07:17:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 933 (933)


        Percentage of Grey/Gray Literature By Field/Discipline

   I am greatly interested in  studies that have calculated the  relative

percentage of a discipline's literature that is considered grey/gray

literature.

A fabricated example:

Overall the literature of agronomy is 40% gray/grey literature

[CITE]

GRAY LITERATURE DEFINED

[ <a href="http://www.moyak.com/researcher/resume/papers/var7mkmkw.html">http://www.moyak.com/researcher/resume/papers/var7mkmkw.html</a> ]

"M. C. Debachere has written that it is easier to describe, rather than

define grey literature. Collectively the term covers an extensive range of

materials that cannot be found easily through conventional channels such as

publishers, "but which is frequently original and usually recent"

(Debachere 1995,94). Peter Hirtle in Broadsides vs. Grey Literature defines

it as:

The quasi-printed reports, unpublished but circulated papers, unpublished

proceedings of conferences, printed programs from conferences, and the

other non-unique material which seems to constitute the bulk of our modern

manuscript collections (Hirtle 1991)."

[ <a href="http://www.moyak.com/researcher/resume/papers/var7mkmkw.html">http://www.moyak.com/researcher/resume/papers/var7mkmkw.html</a> ]

    To such an amorphous list, one may also wish to add Web/Internet

resources, most notably e-prints (of course).

NOTE:   I am *particularly* interested in the Gray/Grey Literature of

Psychology.

   [I've just begun a literature review but thought I'd also tap The Wisdom

of the Web as well]

    As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries,

questions, basketball coaches,  or Cosmic Insights are Most Welcome.

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan

Gray/Grey Librarian

Iowa State University

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu



From: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.650 consumptive humanities
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 07:16:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 934 (934)


Willard,

This may be a new thread, but it piggybacks on the active and stimulating

discussion of practical as well as theoretical issues in how us humanists

can continue to operate effectively in relation to the rapidly moving

targets of computing technology and products. The immediate catalyst for me

is Wendell's comments about XML (below). Thus my problem:

As I edge my way into active retirement, one of the projects that I want to

address is the transfer of a large collection of old "gopher" files

(including important linguistic data on ancient Greek and Hebrew texts)

into something that can be accessed by the new generations of browsers

(they refuse to read the old files! I still use an old version of Netscape

for this purpose! Complaints from previous users abound, asking why we have

removed the files -- which we haven't!!). Can you still get to

<a href="gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:3333/11/Religious/Biblical">gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:3333/11/Religious/Biblical</a>

(as a stopgap, we have created -- but not yet publicized -- this "mirror" site

<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/text/religion/Biblical/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/text/religion/Biblical/</a> )?

I am skeptical about doing all the desired transfer myself -- and my old,

fondly remembered programming skills are certainly both badly outdated and

probably rusty beyond effective repair -- so I envision using graduate

student help from persons who know the relevant natural languages (Greek,

Hebrew, Latin, etc.) but have minimal computer skills even compared to my own.

The files need to be made much more useful, in addition to receiving

further verification for accuracy in some instances. Some of them would

perhaps be more effective in some sort of database configuration, although

over the years I have avoided abandoning "flat file" presentation to avoid

the vagrancies of incompatible updating in more complex formats. I have

become proficient in using Dreamweaver for HTML conversion and creation

purposes, but suspect that there are more efficient and effective ways to

proceed, and that I probably should be jumping directly to XML at this

stage and eliminating the middle element (HTML).

I'm wide open to suggestions. How does Wendell work directly in XML, and is

that something I should be doing -- or training my incipient staff to do?

If not, do I have better alternatives than mentioned above for my

particular purposes (web accessibility, linking of various sorts both

within and between files, addition of images [e.g.  paleographical

features, odd forms], and the like)? I'm looking for shortcuts to the most

effective path to the unforseen future, now that a relatively productive

past has become passe. This old dog is willing to try to learn new tricks!

Aimee wrote:
[deleted quotation]
Wendell responded:
[deleted quotation]
Thanks for the anticipated spate of conflicting but stimulating suggestions!

Bob Kraft

Faculty Director of CCAT

Co-director of the CATSS project (ancient scriptures)

PI for the Penn segment of the APIS project (papyri)


--
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: Alexandre Enkerli <aenkerli@indiana.edu>
Subject: consumptive humanities
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 06:53:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 935 (935)


I'm fairly new to the list and took it to be mostly announcements. But

Willard's thread seems interesting and I thought I'd jump in. I didn't read

the whole thread very carefully, though.

As an introduction, I'm a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology and part-time

faculty in anthropology. As I'm of "that" generation (being 30 years old),

computing technologies have been an important part of my life as an

individual and as an academic. As others, I simply enjoy computers. Which

does imply that I may sometimes do something in a specific way just because

it's "neat" in technological terms. I fully realize how dangerous this is,

but enjoying one's work is a major motivation for going forward.

Apart from deriving pleasure from computing, I was trained to see computers

as limits to overcome. One of my early teachers in computer music would

encourage us to see beyond the preset features towards our own thinking.

True, the technology does influence our thinking but, in a creative

process, this influence is simply part of the whole scheme.

Because of this attitude, we were able to do everything we wanted by

"hacking" our way through it but didn't necessarily learn programming

languages. Programming is a very specific process and some languages may

impose strict constraints on the way we think. But hacking things together,

while time-consuming, is more likely to be integral to our workflow.

In the current context, students in general need to learn how to use

computers effectively which does involve understanding the fundamentals of

how they're programmed, in the broadest possible sense. But they probably

don't need to become coders and sort binary trees just to finish a term

paper on Rousseau...



From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@methymna.com>
Subject: grey/gray literature?
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 06:54:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 936 (936)

[deleted quotation]
No studies, but to provide you with a single empirical example of gray

literature/published literature volumes from outside the bounds of

academia: in our company's electronic archive (mostly in the hard sciences), we

Have ~3000 presentations on hand (hard to tell, as there are a lot of

presentation fragments that are recombined, etc.)

Have 4200+ reports on hand

Have 2700+ proposals on hand

Have 1000+ published papers on hand

These are solely the circulated documents we have produced which are

present in the electronic archives (and so provide me with the ease to

provide off-the-cuff statistics); uncirculated documents are categorized

differently.  I suspect that the number of unreported/unarchived but

circulated reports and proposals is nearly 10% of those totals, and that

perhaps 5% of published papers are unarchived/unreported.  So the ratio for

us is (depending upon how strict you are in your definition of gray

literature) somewhere in the range of 4:1 . The reports have a much greater

range of size (from 1 page to over 1,000), but on average they are the same

size more or less as the published papers. Most of these reports are held

in the client('s|s') collection for at least a few years before they are

destroyed.

Patrick Rourke

ptrourke at methymna.com



From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: graey literature
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 07:00:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 937 (937)


On the importance of gra(e)y literature for research in the history of

science, see the preface to Peter Galison, How Experiments End (Chicago,

1987), where he briefly discusses the sources for writing the history of

relatively recent physics. The history of recent science and technology

could not even be contemplated without such literature. (Whether it should

be regarded as history properly speaking is another matter.) Note in

particular Michael Mahoney's plea for those involved in software and

hardware engineering to save and document, in "Issues in the History of

Computing" and other essays, for which see

<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html">http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/computing.html</a>.

Allow me to append the note on spelling of gray / grey from the OED:
[deleted quotation]
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: Hamish Cunningham <H.Cunningham@DCS.SHEF.AC.UK>
Subject: CFP: HLT for the Semantic Web / Web Services, Florida
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 06:51:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 938 (938)


Oct. 2003

                            SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

       Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services

              <a href="http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html">http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html</a>

                            Workshop at ISWC 2003

                    International Semantic Web Conference

                  Sanibel Island, Florida, 20-23 October 2003

                             Hamish Cunningham

                              Atanas Kiryakov

                                 Ying Ding

The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable, re-purposeable layer to

compliment the existing web of natural language hypertext. In order to

realise this vision, the creation of semantic annotation, the linking of

web pages to ontologies, and the creation, evolution and interrelation of

ontologies must become automatic or semi-automatic processes.

In the context of new work on distributed computation, Semantic Web

Services (SWSs) go beyond current services by adding ontologies and formal

knowledge to support description, discovery, negotiation, mediation and

composition. This formal knowledge is often strongly related to informal

materials. For example, a service for multi-media content delivery over

broadband networks might incorporate conceptual indices of the content, so

that a smart VCR (such as next generation TiVO) can reason about programmes

to suggest to its owner. Alternatively, a service for B2B catalogue

publication has to translate between existing semi-structured catalogues

and the more formal catalogues required for SWS purposes. To make these

types of services cost-effective we need automatic knowledge harvesting

from all forms of content that contain natural language text or spoken data.

Other services do not have this close connection with informal content, or

will be created from scratch using Semantic Web authoring tools. For

example, printing or compute cycle or storage services. In these cases the

opposite need is present: to document services for the human reader using

natural language generation.

[material deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TM: Creating Museum IP Policy: Portland,
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 07:04:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 939 (939)


Oregon, May 22

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               Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World

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              Co-sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network

            and the Intellectual Property Section of the Oregon State Bar

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Intellectual Property is arguably the museum's most valuable asset in the

21st century. Managed prudently, it can increase revenues from licensing

programs while maintaining low risks in both the commercial and

non-commercial/academic environments in this communication and media age.

However, good management depends on good policy, as many museums are

discovering.

Frequent questions on this topic include:

* Why do we need to develop policy in order to manage IP?

* What is museum IP and how do we determine what our institution owns?

* What can our institution gain from this exercise?

* Is an IP policy effective for all institutions, large and small?

* Are all disciplines covered or is this just for image-rich museum

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In response to such queries, and to introduce a book on this subject by

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* David Sturtevant, Head of Collections Information and Access, SFMOMA

* Nicole Vallires, Director, Collection Management and Information, McCord

Museum of Canadian History

* Diane Zorich, Museum Information Management Consultant; author of

"Developing Museum Intellectual Property Policies".

                                     *  *  *  *

The Portland Town Meeting and Workshop will be part presentation, part

practicum. Rina Pantalony (CHIN Legal Counsel) will open with a definition

of what museum intellectual property policy is, what core values it

represents and why it is critical for an institution to develop one. Museum

legal expert Maria Pallante-Hyun will then analyze the key issues to

consider when preparing policy and will discuss the value of an "I.P.

Audit." The specific concerns of smaller museums will be considered by

Nicole Vallires of Montreal's McCord Museum of Canadian History and author

Diane Zorich will conclude part one of the meeting with key lessons learned

in the research and writing of the forthcoming CHIN/NINCH publication,

"Developing Museum Intellectual Property Policies."

In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will examine policy

building. David Sturtevant will report on his experience of the San

Francisco Museum of Modern Art in developing its intellectual property

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the importance of understanding an institution's larger values in

constructing policy. These talks will introduce the workshop component of

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The focus of this meeting is designed to complement that of the NINCH

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From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: ontologies for modelling?
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 06:54:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 940 (940)


Part of my current research involves modelling the personifying capability

of verbs -- in Latin, as it happens, but that should make no difference to

the question posed here. My working hypothesis is that this capability

varies significantly with the ontology of the subject or object of the

verb. I have detailed the following rather rough ontological scheme:

(1) abstractions, such as 'fortune'

(2) insubstantial phenomena, such as 'night' or 'shade'

(3) substantial, nonliving, static entities, such as 'earth' or 'rock'

(4) substantial, nonliving, mobile entities, such as 'river' or 'wind'

(5) substantial, living, non-sentient entities, such as 'grass' or 'tree'

(6) substantial, living, sentient, sub-human entities, such as 'dog' or 'lion'

There are and have been for millennia all manner of ontological schemes.

Does anyone know of any better tuned to the purpose I have in mind yet not

unnecessarily elaborate? For my purpose the great difference between a

river and a wind, for example, hardly matters; in that case, what does

matter is that both are by nature in motion, therefore more life-like than

earth or rocks -- therefore requiring more verbal force to personify. For

practical reasons I do not want to have too many more divisions than the

above scheme exhibits, but at the same time the model is hardly persuasive

unless it represents well a sensitive reading of the text.

Yesterday morning, for example, I was forced most unwillingly to add (2)

because I realized that the potential personification in Ovid, Met 10.90,

"umbra loco venit", "shade came to the place" (where Orpheus was playing

his lyre, with the strong hint of mortality in the word "umbra"), is not

well served by a model that has no category for physical yet insubstantial

phenomena.

Suggestions most welcome.

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: Bethany Nowviskie <bethany@virginia.edu>
Subject: Temporal Modelling Project
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 06:53:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 941 (941)

[deleted quotation]
Steve's right; the problem of visualizing and modeling temporal

subjectivity in a dynamic way is exactly what we're working on.  Our work

in progress includes an XML-driven "PlaySpace" which uses Macromedia Flash

to allow the construction and manipulation of timelines (complete with

user-specified points, events, and intervals) and a Zope-powered "Data

Library" where users can save, clone, and share models or edit the XML

representations they've constructed visually in the PlaySpace in a direct,

text-based way.  Right now, we're implementing calendrical and granularity

features, so that users will be able to mark and translate lines based on

extrinsic calendars (Gregorian, Mayan, etc.) and on intrinsic notational

schemes that might emerge from whatever data they're modeling (when I was

happy, before the events of Chapter Two, etc.).  Our next steps involve the

implementation of more subjective features: temporal "inflections," (such

as moods, foreshadowing, causality, and the like), and a "nowslider," which

will allow users to model and present subjective alterations to a primary

timeline.

This last feature is very like Chris Meister's initial query.  In a

"catastrophic" nowslider, new line-iterations spring up when a perceiving

subject alters his view of the past or future based on new

information.  We're also building a "continuous" nowslider, in which past

and future morph seamlessly as a perceiving subject slides along a line in

the "present."  You can see my mock-ups of nowslider functionality here:

<a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/time/storyboard/">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/time/storyboard/</a> -- and other areas

of the site (accessible from the bottom menu on that page) will allow you

to read our research reports and tinker with the PlaySpace in progress.

Johanna Drucker and I will be presenting and doing a poster session on the

Temporal Modelling Project at this summer's ACH/ALLC conference, and there

are some pieces on it forthcoming in *Information Design*. In the meantime,

I'd be happy to answer any questions about the project or -- even better --

hear suggestions and criticism.

Bethany Nowviskie

<a href="http://www.speculativecomputing.org/~bpn2f">http://www.speculativecomputing.org/~bpn2f</a>



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?" Report by CLIR
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 07:02:58 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 942 (942)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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May 2, 2003

        Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Releases:

                 "New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?"

               <a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html">http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html</a>.

Article on "New Model Scholarship" in CLIR ISSUES #3, by Abby Smith

<a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues33.html#symp">http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues33.html#symp</a>

by Abby Smith

THE INTERNET HAS transformed the way in which scholarship is produced and

disseminated, most notably in the sciences. Digital technologies for

scholarly research, analysis, communication, and teaching have been adopted

more slowly in the humanities and social sciences, but there has been much

innovation in these fields as well. Libraries and special collecting

institutions are concerned about how to acquire, preserve, and make

accessible some of the digital content coming from historians, literary

scholars, and other humanists, as well as the primary sources in digital

format on which this scholarship is based.

Libraries face many challenges in ensuring long-term access to the

"new-model scholarship" that is born digital. This includes the variety of

Web sites and other desktop digital objects created on campuses that fall

somewhere short of "published" but are worthy of access in the future.

Humanists pose a special problem: they are adopting digital technologies to

create complex, often idiosyncratic digital objects that are in many ways

more challenging to preserve than scientific literature.

A new report from CLIR, entitled New-Model Scholarship: How Will It

Survive?, explores the following types of emerging scholarship:

*  experimental: designed to develop and model a methodology for generating

recorded information about a historical event or an academic discipline

that might otherwise go undocumented. The History of Recent Science and

Technology program at the Dibner Institute has initiated several projects

of this nature.

*  open-ended: generates digital objects that are intended to be added over

time. An example is George Mason University's 9/11 Project.

*  interactive: gathers content through dynamic interactions among the

participants. The creators intend that the interactions, as well as the

content, are part of what is to be preserved. The Dibner Institute's

Physics of Scales project is an example.

*  software-intensive: stipulates that the tools for using the data are as

important to preserve as is the content. The variety of software needed to

render dynamic three-dimensional models in the University of Virginia's

Monuments and Dust project illustrates the importance of preserving such tools.

*  multimedia: creates information in a variety of genres-texts, time

lines, images, audio, and video-and file formats. George Mason University's

Center for New Media and History has developed several such sites for

research and teaching.

*  unpublished: designed to be used and disseminated through the Web, yet

not destined to be published formally or submitted for peer review.

Libraries must determine what of this content has long-term value for

teaching and research. They must define the parameters of objects that

describe themselves as "open-ended" and "changing," decide what must be

done to make a complex digital object ready to place in a repository, and

determine how to support digital preservation over time.

Librarians, who are used to thinking about selecting and preserving

content, must now work closely with creators to identify attributes of the

resources that warrant preserving. This often entails preserving software

as well as content. Many of the new resources were designed as experiments,

and their creators neither expect nor want them to be kept forever.

Nonetheless, if longevity is to be considered, it is important that

creators work with librarians and archivists early on.

Several models of stewardship are emerging for resources that are worth

preserving. They can be roughly divided into two organizational types.

Enterprise-based models take some responsibility for keeping information

resources created by an institution or a discipline that are used primarily

by that community. The University of California, Harvard University,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University are

developing such repositories. Other enterprise-based models are seen in

various academic disciplines as well as among commercial and nonprofit

publishers. Few of these digital archives strive for long-term preservation

as defined by librarians and archivists. Most of the emerging models for

electronic publications serve other needs, such as lower-cost distribution

of and access to scholarly journals.

Community-based models offer third-party preservation services to digital

creators. None has developed so far to meet the needs of born-digital

scholarship, but both JSTOR and the Internet Archive offer interesting

models for future development.

Funders that support building digital resources, including federal funding

agencies, do not require the deposit of data into trustworthy digital

archives. This is a serious oversight that must be addressed. Equally

serious is the lack of planning and action by the universities and other

research institutions that support the creation of digital scholarship and

are its primary consumers.

Librarians, archivists, and digital scholars are well positioned to raise

awareness of this impending crisis of information loss and to articulate

the new roles and responsibilities to be assumed by each member of the

research community that has an interest in the future of scholarship.

New-Model Scholarship is available online at

<a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html">http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html</a>. Print copies may be

ordered through CLIR's Web site.


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management"
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 07:04:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 943 (943)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
May 2, 2003
      AAP and ALA Release White Paper to Promote User-friendly DRM Products
           "What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management (DRM):
                 Making Content as Widely Available as Possible
                    In Ways that Satisfy Consumer Preferences
              <a href="http://www.publishers.org/press/pdf/DRMWhitePaper.pdf">http://www.publishers.org/press/pdf/DRMWhitePaper.pdf</a>
Not a position paper, this white paper jointly released by the The
Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the American Library
Association (ALA), offers a 60-page snapshot of e-book users' experiences
and preferences, with a view to identifying those features that vendors
should take account of in implementing Digital Rights Management software
for e-books.
While specifically focused on e-books, the report may well have relevance
for the wider deployment of DRM software, especially as it relates to
practitioners' behavior and their requirements for the use and re-use of
digital material.
David Green
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From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: influenza computing
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:37:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 944 (944)


Willard,

A tangent to the "consumptive humanities" thread...

Deep deep in the machine one encounters the human.

I have been impressed by how the question of technicity (the relation to

the tools: who is to serve and who is to master) has turned to a question

of ethics (trust between human beings). If one were to recast this

familiar discursive twist for the puppet theatre one might stage the

entrance of the shade of Hegel  with a chorus of Luddite ghosts...  I am

reluctant to contribute to "done by" narratives that begin with the

"clash" [especially those that pit machine against "man"] and have in the

past posted to Humanist attempts to evade such (for me) inauspicious

narrative beginnings and hoped to reframe the discourse [in terms of

cogitation "done with" the human body]. In particular, I have called for

the potential in exploring the territory in the semantic field between "to

calculate" and "to compute".

As yet another variation on theme of the embodiment of mind,  I beg your

indulgence to let me introduce a mini-theatre of the hands.

I turn to Stoke, Casterline and Croneberg _A Dictionary of American Sign

Language on Linguistic Principles_ (1965; new edition 1976) and the entry

related to "calculate".  And I turn to them and the entry from within the

a particular environment of information interchange. I currently operate

across platforms where character sets beyond ASCII as well as super and

subscript notations are encodable but not necessarily renderable

adequately. The notation system of the Stoke, Casterline, Croneberg

dictionary of course depends upon super and subscripts and sigila not

contained in 96 printable ("screenable")  ASCII .  It is in this case a

translation limitation that supports a suggestive ekphraksis.

The sign for "calculate" differs from the sign "to multiply" only by

repetition. A repetition of multiplication

The sign for the verb "calculate" also has a nominative function --

"arithmetic".  It morphologically ressembles a series of signs

   "mathematics" "algebra" "trigonometry" and "geometry".  It differs from

them in one important respect: the plane of movement. The sign for

"arithmetic" moves towards the signer along what may be referred an in/out

axis. The signs designating the other mathematical branches move across a

plane parallel to the speaker (i.e. sideways motion).

It is possible to generate a new sign.  Scholars or signers far more

familiar with ASL than I will be able to inform us if such a sign has been

made and what lexical value it might hold.  Consider the possibility of

"arithmetic" signed in the plane of "algebra" or "calculus": a to and fro

movement rather than and in/out movement.  A possible ASL sign for "number

theory" which Robin Gandy describes as "fascinating because it combines

the paticular (each number has, so to speak, a personality of its own)

with the general, and because simply stated problems may require

sophisticated ideas for their solution" (Fontana Dictionary of Modern

Thought, 2nd edition) which may serve as an analogy to the relation

between object of study and humanities scholar?

[Aside:  The sign for "multiply" can also serve a modifier function

ranging comparative "worse" to superlative "worst". As well, the

lexico-narratological inclined reader or those fluent in ASL will find

"geometry" is morphologically close to "quarrel" and "hurt";

"arithmetic" close to "tournament" and "problem".  The anthropomorphics

at work in the play of expressing separations and conjunctions in ASL

might provide a fruitful field students interested in creating automatic

poetry generators as tools for the analysis of semantics.]

Apart from plane-of-motion there is another interesting morphological

difference from the set of other ASL signs for branches of mathematics,

the ASL sign for "arithmetic".  The sign for "arithmetic" is not composed

like that for "calculus," "algebra" or "trigonometry" by recourse to the

manual alphabet configuration for the first letter of that word in English

("c" for "calculus"). It so happens the ASL poet can evoke binary

conotations because it so happens that the ASL sign for "to calculate is

constructed from of the open two-finger configuration (like a "V") of the

active hand.   And those of you, forsaking for an instant interface

devices such as mouse or keyboard and waving with your hands in air will

feel how close the binary tones are to the sign for scissors.

The poetic reach is here meant to evoke the repetitive multiplication of

the activities that the binary machine (whatever its incarnations)

permits:

to cut, to parse, to analyse: choose choose choose.

And to exceed grasping:  those who in body are quadrapelgic, handless or

have a facial paralysis or can in mind imagine themselves such likely

understand that being a machine-for-the other is part of being human.

This being a machine-for-the-other is not just at heart a cyborg fantasy,

digital dream of occupying the ever-functional (until decommissioned) CPU

notwithstanding shifting arrays of peripheral devices and organs. There is

also here an encounter not so much with the wish for babble and noise as

with the fascination with the random.

Consideration of such soma-psychodynamics can lead to a reframing of the

initial position-question of the user-as-slave-of-the-tool. One can ask:

what kind of events can I direct to this machine (structure)?

What questions can I ask of this text-machine?

What multiplication can I repeat with this artefact-structure?

What question posed to a machine-structure is not a multiplication of

repeated answers?

--- wanting to generate the unpredictable depends to a certain degree on

suspending the determinations of trust and service

--- humanities computing, in part, operates in the open-air theatre of the

coin-toss


---



From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 16.659 grey literature
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:37:13 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 945 (945)


Will someone tell me what "gray literature is ?  or even "grey literature".

[Also perhaps someone would volunteer a definition of such literature for

(a) a typical field in the humanities other than humanities computing; (b)

humanities computing. --WM]



From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Arts & Humanities Online seminar series (fwd)
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 00:32:59 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 946 (946)


Reply-To: events@humbul.ac.uk

We would like to invite you to Arts & Humanities Online - a one-day

seminar introducing you to the full range of JISC and other

nationally-funded resources and services available online for the arts and

humanities.

The Resource Guide for Arts and Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Data

Service, Humbul Humanities Hub and ArtIfact, in collaboration with MIMAS,

Edina and British Universities Film and Video Council are providing a series

of one-day events for learners, teachers and researchers in arts and

humanities.  These events are designed to bring you up-to-date with high

quality digital resources across the arts and humanities, and to raise

awareness about how to most effectively use these resources.

When and where?

* Wednesday, 11 June, University of Manchester

* Tuesday, 17 June, King's College London

* Thursday, 26 June, University of the West of England, Bristol

* Wednesday, 10 September, University of East Anglia, Norwich

* Wednesday, 17 September, University of Glasgow

* Tuesday, 23 September, University of Oxford

Each seminar will provide you with:

* a comprehensive overview of all the major services and resources in this

    field

* a hands-on opportunity to explore the key resources

* interactive worksheets for use with students and staff in colleges and

    universities

* suggestions about how to keep yourself up-to-date with all the latest

    developments

* a valuable opportunity to question key representatives from the various

    different services in an open forum discussion

* an exploration of the ways in which future national developments in arts

    and humanities online provision can support and enhance institutional

    developments

Who should attend?

* Teachers and researchers and lecturers

* Subject librarians

* IT subject specialists

* Departmental IT representatives

* Staff development officers

* all those with responsibility for the promotion and provision of online

    resources in the arts and humanities with their institution.

The cost of the seminar is 70.00 pounds including lunch and refreshments.

For a booking form and further details, please visit:

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

Please contact events@humbul.ac.uk with any questions.

Arts and Humanities Online team



From: Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Abstracting/Indexing Service Inclusion of Eprints/Preprints
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:42:58 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 947 (947)


          _Abstracting/Indexing Service Inclusion of Eprints/Preprints_

     I am greatly interested in learning of commercial abstracting/

indexing  (A&I) services that include Eprints or Preprints as literature

types within the scope of the service.

     I am aware that Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) indexes

Eprints/Preprints [<a href="http://piug.derwent.co.uk/piugl2000/0571.html">http://piug.derwent.co.uk/piugl2000/0571.html</a> ]

[BTW: I find that CAS indexes select arXiv.org Eprints, but in a

preliminary search did not find Eprints from the Elsevier Chemical Preprint

Service (CPS)  [<a href="http://www.chemweb.com/preprint?url=/CPS">http://www.chemweb.com/preprint?url=/CPS</a> ] [Are CPS Eprints

included in _Chemical Abstracts_?].

    Eprints/Preprints of Any and All disciplines (not just Sci-Tech) are

of interest (e.g., [ <a href="http://dir.ansme.com/science/701796.html">http://dir.ansme.com/science/701796.html</a> ] ).

     As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, recommendations,

comments, queries, criticisms, critiques, Virtues, or Cosmic Insights, are

Most Welcome.

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan

Virtuous Librarian

Iowa State University

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck@iastate.edu



From: Marian Dworaczek <Marian.Dworaczek@USASK.CA>
Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:38:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 948 (948)


Information

The May 1, 2003 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic

Sources of Information" is available at:

                     <a href="http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM">http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM</a>

The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of

Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A

Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of

electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials,

periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected

works. This edition includes over 1,500 indexed titles. Both the Index and the

Bibliography are continuously updated.

Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the

Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at:

                       <a href="http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM">http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM</a>

This message has been posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse

any duplication.

*************************************************

*Marian Dworaczek

*Head, Acquisitions Department

*University of Saskatchewan Library

*E-mail:  <mailto:marian.dworaczek@usask.ca>marian.dworaczek@usask.ca

*Phone: (306) 966-6016

*Fax: (306) 966-5919

*Home Page:

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From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- April 2003
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:39:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 949 (949)


CIT INFOBITS    April 2003              No. 58          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 Versus Face-to-Face Courses

Reusing Online Resources in Education

AACE Digital Library Opens

Cyberspace Copyright Primer

Proposed Cuts To ERIC Services

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: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman@bi.no>
Subject: Free Electronic Edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:39:46 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 950 (950)


Performance Research has released a free digital edition of the long

unavailable Fluxus Performance Workbook, a collection of short performance

works and event scores by over forty artists.

The first examples of what were to become Fluxus event scores date back to

John Cage's famous class at The New School where artists such as George

Brecht, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, and Alison Knowles began to create art

works and performances in musical form. One of these forms was the event.

Events tend to be scored in brief verbal notes known as event scores. In a

general sense, they are proposals, propositions, and instructions for

different kinds of actions.

To accompany a special Fluxus issue of Performance Research, Ken Friedman,

Owen Smith, and Lauren Sawchyn edited a fortieth anniversary edition of the

Fluxus Performance Workbook. The workbook is now available in a free

electronic edition. This book can be viewed on-line or downloaded. The

download is a .pdf file that can also be printed.

This expanded and updated edition of the Workbook contains scores by George

Brecht, Jean Dupuy, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Bengt af Klintberg, Milan

Knizak, George Maciunas, Larry Miller, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi, Robert

Watts, and many more.

To get a copy of the Workbook, go to URL:

<a href="http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html">http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html</a>

Then, go to the line reading:

Click here to view [or download] a printable PDF version of the Workbook

And follow the instructions on the next line:

to download and save the document, right-click (PC) or control-click (Mac)

the link above and choose 'Save target as...'


--
For information on the special Fluxus issue of Performance Research, go to URL:
<a href="http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html">http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html</a>
And click on the line reading:
On Fluxus - PR 7:3 (September 2002)
--
On Fluxus
Performance Research Volume 7, Number 3 (2002)
Issue Editors: Ric Allsopp, Ken Friedman and Owen Smith
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From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: 16.656 help with the moving target
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:43:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 16 Num. 951 (951)


Hi Bob,
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Moving from a (structured) flat file format to a markup-based format is

generally straightforward, but significant. Markup has the advantage of far

greater self-containment, coming at the price of verbosity and legibility

tradeoffs. (It can be more legible; but it can also be less so, if your

parsing rules for your flat file are simple enough.) In the kind of dataset

you're looking at, you may find that a combination of old and new

approaches works -- e.g. bare markup to delimit token boundaries (thereby

making them accessible to markup-aware processors like XSLT engines), and

an external data set to track everything. This is sometimes called

"standoff markup".
[deleted quotation]
There are many questions here regarding how the data set is expected to be

used, but given a spec of the current data format(s) -- what fields are in

various positions -- it shouldn't be hard to render the stuff in XML. Even

in an XML table of HTML divs and spans... (on the way to TEI feature

structures, some might say).
[deleted quotation]
...well, commonly with a plain ASCII text editor (with support for regular

expressions and a way to call the shell to run a parse or transformation),

but not only...
[deleted quotation]
Well, it's the "unforeseen" part that rubs. A well-designed generic

encoding -- whether it's a tag set in common use, like TEI, or a private

tag set optimized to local requirements -- certainly opens the door. Yet

behind it is not all plush and comfort.

In order to assess whether XML is even really suitable, an honest

consultant would still look very hard at *specifically* what you want to

accomplish with the data. Then would come, no doubt, a prototyping phase,

testing some of the "how" as well as the "what".

Often this stuff reminds me of the Monty Python routine, "How to Do It".

"How to Rid the World of All Known Diseases": first, you become a famous

doctor, etc. A programmer who knows text-munging could XMLize your data

easily enough. That *opens* options; unfortunately once those options are

opened, the real work: selecting from among them, picking the right tools

for the job, and implementing.

It is worth noting that my conversation with AM presupposes these issues

are addressed, if only implicitly by drawing bounds around the problem. I

write my papers in XML these days -- largely because what constitutes a

"paper" for these purposes is, although fairly capacious, also quite well

known. If not in general, then at least to *me* for my own purposes. Add to

that the network effects of all that XML out there -- I don't have to make

my own tools -- and for the XML-experienced developer, the up-front costs

get to be well worth it. But note I've already absorbed much of what keeps

the initial investment prohibitive to many new users.

I know this comes as a poor answer to your question. IMO the learnability

of markup technologies -- notwithstanding various improvements in some

respects -- is still an issue. (And one I have hopes of addressing in one

way or another.) The technologies present, it seems, significant

challenges, both because though simple at their heart, the related

standards and technologies present ever more fiddly bits that are just hard

to assimilate, and also because -- again simple at their heart -- it's a

family of approaches to handling electronic data that is notably at odds

with many of the assumptions that otherwise tend to govern development.

(Much of the reason why the technologies are so promising and, when done

well, effective, starts in their questioning of assumptions that are

usually more appropriate for an IT department than they are for an academic

project.) While this may seem to leave many projects out in the cold, it's

a salutary point. It's important to note, in the context of the

"consumptive humanities" thread, that these things aren't either/or, but

rather half-full/half-empty. What use to you is the ubiquity of free tools

if you can't come by instructions in their use?

Let me know off list if you want more particulars.

Cheers,

Wendell

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