From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy Sweet 16 Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 00:14:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1 (1) Dear colleagues, Origins and ends provide for interesting meditations and the telling of stories tall enough to exceed measure. As a poet friend of mine once wrote about a flight of crows, [deleted quotation] In all their mythological contingencies still these stories are what give some shape and sense of purpose to the muddle in the middle. Which is where we are. And that, perhaps, is one reason we celebrate birthdays and other anniversaries ("turns of the year") -- to take our bearings from where we think we have come and from where we desire (or perhaps fear) to go. I won't tell the story of Humanist's beginnings, which by now has become a story charged with far more significance for me than whatever might have actually happened at the time. But to the point. Humanist has just turned 16, a very sweet 16 in my book of life, and accordingly I send you warmest greetings on this cool late evening in London. As for the "never having been kissed" which this sweetness of 16 proverbially, quaintly evokes -- I shudder to think what age a modern version of this statement would specify -- we can relax at Humanist's constant kissing and being kissed, by the joy as it flies, from day 1 of its virtual existence. No chasing this one out of the village with hooting and rock-throwing. If only Athena were not such a hard, martial character, the story of her birth would be a useful one here. So allow me to rewrite that story of origins, being orientated as I am, with Aphrodite in her stead. (You may, of course, prefer a luscious Apollo or a tender Hyacinthus, or even a Gladiator.) One must blow the whistle on anthropomorphizing, yet late adolescence seems just about right for the field Humanist grazes in (enter cow-eyed Hera, without the jealous fits, and no philandering husband). Thanks at the moment mostly to the Canadians, it seems, we can point to junior and senior academic positions that have recently been filled or are currently being advertised. We can point to a robust, healthy relationship between the academic and the non-/semi-academic sides of the equation. The collegial intermingling of humanities computing with computer science, with mathematics and with the history and philosophy of the natural sciences is very encouraging indeed. And all the other disciplinary kinships by means of which we are acquiring wisdom and stature. I certainly would not want to blink at the brutalities of the job market and various other challenges that may strengthen one's character but don't allow for the kind of intellectual growing we so desparately need from all the arising talent. Nor would I want to be understood as making light of the severe intellectual and social challenges that our interdiscipline by nature faces. But the vigour of the field seems to me unmistakable in the rapid growth of things to do, books to read, neighbouring disciplines to explore, friends in them to make. But the witching hour (by British Summer Time) is upon me, so I bid you goodnight with the Happy Birthday and look forward to a long life of conversation to come. 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: Julia Flanders Subject: Mentoring in Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 06:46:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 2 (2) This is a quick reminder about this year's ACH Jobs mentoring services. If you work with graduate students or run a humanities computing training program, please feel free to this information along to your students, even if they won't be attending ACH-ALLC this year. The ACH will be offering mentoring services again this year at ACH-ALLC 2003. The goal of the mentoring program is to help people get their bearings within the humanities computing job market. Whether you are a graduate student, a recent graduate, someone changing fields or or jobs, or just thinking of doing so, mentoring can help you learn more about the jobs that are out there and what training and experience they require. It can also give you a more personal perspective on humanities computing jobs, careers, and research. Sign up for a mentor now (see below), or stop by the ACH Jobs poster session for an informal chat. In addition to the conference mentoring, ACH offers year-round mentoring services, matching those who want advice with those who can provide it. To sign up to meet with a mentor at ACH-ALLC 2003, or to request a mentoring contact during the year, please send email to Julia_Flanders@brown.edu or visit the ACH Jobs page at http://www.ach.org/jobs/. Julia Flanders for the ACH Jobs group From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 16.665 gray/grey literature? Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 06:46:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 3 (3) [deleted quotation] Sounds like it may be similar in some ways to the papyrologists distinction between "literary" (written for unknown wider audience to read; published) and "documentary" (everything else) papyri, with "sub-literary" (e.g. for a restricted wider audience, as in "magical" recipes) complicating the formal simplicity of it all. Bob Kraft -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 16.610 POS tagging for Latin? Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 06:45:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 4 (4) Some time ago, a member of the list asked as follows: [deleted quotation] This is, of course, a problem of flective languages (with relatively free word order), connected with the problem of parsing (in Latin, Russian, Croatian, Greek...). As far as I know, there is some research into parsers for Latin (Italian LEMLAT project, Portuguese OLISSIPO project--both traceable on the WWW), but it seems yet to linger on purely academic level (restricted to certain word types, or to certain text groups--in any case, nothing readily available for us end-users). However, this seems related to the _consumptive humanities_ theme. If I want to parse, or to tag parts of speech in a Latin text, or texts--do I build a parser first, or do I do it the _old-fashioned_ way, relying on human linguistic intelligence? The first way has an obvious advantage--when I build the parser, with necessary adaptations, I sell it to any and all who need to parse / spellcheck any flective language, and get quite comfortably rich (so I can even devote the rest of my life to purely academic classical philology). Neven From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.11 Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 06:44:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 5 (5) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 11, Week of May 5, 2003 In this issue: Interview -- The Virtues of Virtual Abbe Mowshowitz talks about virtual organization as a way of managing activities and describes the rise of virtual feudalism. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/a_mowshowitz_1.html Excerpt -- Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated by Information Technology By Abbe Mowshowitz http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/a_mowshowitz_2.html From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: TOC Literary & Linguistic Computing 17/4 Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 06:45:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 6 (6) Literary and Linguistic Computing Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2002 <http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_17/Issue_04/> Articles - A Complete and Comprehensive System for Modern Greek Language Processing Proposed as a Modern Greek Language Call Method Developer S. D. Baldzis, E. Eumeridou and S.A. Kolalas pp. 373-400 In this paper, we put forward a fully developed system for the teaching of Modern Greek Language (MGL). The system comprises a parser and generator for Modern Greek sentences as well as a computational lexicon, encoding morphological, syntactic, and semantic information for words. In this paper, we present the major components of the system, highlighting their suitability for the teaching of MGL in an experimental, open, and cooperative educational environment. The proposed system can be used either in a classroom environment or by Internet correspondence for the teaching of MGL as a native or foreign language. - Automatically Categorizing Written Texts by Author Gender Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon and Anat Rachel Shimoni pp. 401-412 The problem of automatically determining the gender of a document's author would appear to be a more subtle problem than those of categorization by topic or authorship attribution. Nevertheless, it is shown that automated text categorization techniques can exploit combinations of simple lexical and syntactic features to infer the gender of the author of an unseen formal written document with approximately 80 per cent accuracy. The same techniques can be used to determine if a document is fiction or non-fiction with approximately 98 per cent accuracy. - Developing Conceptual Glossaries for the Latin Vulgate Bible Andrew Wilson pp. 413-426 A conceptual glossary is a textual reference work that combines the features of a thesaurus and an index verborum. In it, the word occurrences within a given text are classified, disambiguated, and indexed according to their membership of a set of conceptual (i.e. semantic) fields. Since 1994, we have been working towards building a set of conceptual glossaries for the Latin Vulgate Bible. So far, we have published a conceptual glossary to the Gospel according to John and are at present completing the analysis of the Gospel according to Mark and the minor epistles. This paper describes the background to our project and outlines the steps by which the glossaries are developed within a relational database framework. - Web-based Dictionaries for Languages of the South-west USA Sonya Bird, Michael Hammond, Maria Amarillas, Melody Jeffcoat, Heidi Harley, Mizuki Miyashita, Laura Moll, Mary Ann Willie and Ofelia Zepeda pp. 427-438 This paper outlines a project currently under way in the Linguistics Department at the University of Arizona to create electronic dictionaries of indigenous languages of the south-west USA and make them available over the Web for language instruction as well as for linguistic, psycholinguistic, and anthropological research. Working with three languages-Tohono O'odham, Navajo, and Hiaki-we have created an XML scheme that serves as a general template for structuring and archiving language databases. We describe the process of compiling databases for different languages and converting these databases to XML, which contains all the relevant information in a manner that is easily accessible. We discuss the general programming scheme used for searching, and the interfaces used for presenting the dictionary on the Web, which include several front ends for different user groups. We end with a discussion of how to ensure that special characters are displayed properly on the Web. - Interpolations, Pseudographs, and the New Testament Epistles George K. Barr pp. 439-455 Scale-related patterns are found in all thirteen Pauline epistles. To test their distinctiveness, graphs of other texts, ancient and modern, comprising more than a million words, have been scrutinized; this survey has failed to detect any similar patterns. They may therefore be related to Pauline authorship. The longer passages claimed to be interpolations are tested against these scale-related patterns and are found to be essential parts of the original texts. Further scale-related patterns are found in 1 and 2 Peter (which received wisdom claims are pseudonymous writings) and in Hebrews. Consideration of these patterns and of the partnership of Paul and Silvanus in mission, leads to a possible solution to the problem of the hapaxes and throws light on the points of contact between the Paulines (including the Pastorals), 1 and 2 Peter, and Hebrews. - An SDRT Approach to the Temporal Structure of Modern Greek Narrative Texts Eleni Galiotou pp. 457-474 We describe an attempt to analyse the temporal structure of discourse in Modern Greek following the principles of Asher's Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. We focus on discourse relations of a temporal and causal interest and the use of linguistic knowledge for the determination of these relations. This analysis is applied to a corpus of short newspaper articles reporting car accidents in Modern Greek and the discourse grammar is implemented using the Attribute Logic Engine. - Modelling a Morpheme-based Lexicon for Modern Greek E. Papakitsos, M. Grigoriadou and G. Philokyprou pp. 475-490 This paper presents a method for designing and organizing a multi-purpose morpheme-based lexical database for Modern Greek. The authors are in favour of multi-purpose lexical databases, to avoid a repetition of effort from one application to another, and of morpheme-based lexica, to achieve flexibility, reusability, expandability, and compact representation of data for future developments. The suggested method for modelling the lexical database in the word-processing function is the Entity/Relationship model, according to the linguistic theory of Generative Lexical Morphology. In the framework of this model, which depicts rich linguistic information, we can introduce new data structures for storing the morphemes. These new data structures are matrix encoding schemes; one type, called the Cartesian Lexicon, has been designed as a part of our research. The matrix data structures combine the advantages of hash-tables and tries, which are very popular data structures in supporting machine readable dictionaries. Our system was tested on the Modern Greek language, and demonstrated a satisfactory overall performance in word-processing. These methods could also be applicable to other languages having morphological systems similar to Modern Greek. Review Article - 'Pioneers! O Pioneers!`: Lessons in Electronic Editing from Stijn Streuvels's De teleurgang van den Waterhoek Daniel Paul O'Donnell pp. 491-496 Reviews - CD-Rom Georgian Cities: La ville en Grande-Bretagne au sicle des Lumires: Bath, Edimbourg et Londres Reviewed by Patricia Whatley and Charles McKean pp. 497-498 - Jerome McGann: Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web Reviewed by Dirk Van Hulle pp. 498-501 -- ============= 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 http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:46:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 7 (7) (1) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments edited by Barbara Wasson InterMedia, University of Bergen, Norway Sten Ludvigsen InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway Ulrich Hoppe University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING SERIES -- 2 Designing for Learning in Networked Learning Environments is of interest to researchers and students, designers, educators, and industrial trainers across various disciplines including education, cognitive, social and educational psychology, didactics, computer science, linguistics and semiotics, speech communication, anthropology, sociology and design. Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a genuinely interdisciplinary field that strives to create a better understanding of collaborative learning that is mediated by a diverse set of computational technologies. The theme of CSCL 2003 "Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments" reflects a commitment to influence educational practice in times of the Internet. The contributions in this volume include discussions on knowledge building, designing and analysing group interaction, design of collaborative multimedia and 3D environments, computational modelling and analysis, software agents, and much more. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1383-3 Date: June 2003 Pages: 650 pp. EURO 150.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 104.00 (2) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation edited by Michael Carl IAI - Institut der Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Informationsforschung e.V. an der Universitt des Saarlandes, Saarbrcken, Germany Andy Way School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Ireland TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY -- 21 Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation is of relevance to researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information retrieval. It is also of interest to translation technologists and localisation professionals. Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation fills a void, because it is the first book to tackle the issue of EBMT in depth. It gives a state-of-the-art overview of EBMT techniques and provides a coherent structure in which all aspects of EBMT are embedded. Its contributions are written by long-standing researchers in the field of MT in general, and EBMT in particular. This book can be used in graduate-level courses in machine translation and statistical NLP. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1400-7 Date: May 2003 Pages: 520 pp. EURO 180.00 / USD 173.00 / GBP 115.00 Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1401-5 Date: May 2003 Pages: 520 pp. EURO 59.00 / USD 57.00 / GBP 38.00 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 Subject: "Collecting, Connecting, and Creating Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:44:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 8 (8) Knowledge: Libraries, Archives and Research in the C21st" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 8, 2003 Collecting, Connecting, and Creating Knowledge: Libraries, Archives and Research in the C21st June 20-22, 2003: Wellington, New Zealand http://www/humanz.org.nz [deleted quotation] Collecting, Connecting, and Creating Knowledge: Libraries, Archives and Research in the C21st A conference organized by the Friends of the Turnbull Library and the Humanities Society of New Zealand. National Library of New Zealand, Molesworth Street, Wellington, 20-22 June 2003 The purpose of this conference is to explore the topic of libraries, archives and research in the multiple contexts of national, university, specialist and public libraries and archives, new and old media, and the changing environment for research and new knowledge creation, especially in the humanities and arts. The conference aims to bring together researchers and representatives of the principal components of the New Zealand library system, broadly interpreted to include all repositories of information sources. Exploring the topic will require assessing the principal changes occuring in the conception and functions of information repositories and the different ways in which research can be understood as a characteristic of the knowledge society. FRIDAY 20 June 8.00pm: Conference Opening by Hon Marian Hobbs followed by the 2003 Turnbull Founder Lecture: Dr Charles Henry Vice President and CIO at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and President of NINCH, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage in the USA "Transcending the Material: the Library of the 21st Century" Full programme information and registration details can be found under "Conferences" on the HUMANZ website: http://www/humanz.org.nz A reduced rate for the conference is available for members of the Friends of the Turnbull Library and HUMANZ. Robin Anderson Librarian Wellington District Law Society E-Mail: library@wdls.org.nz http://www.wellaw.co.nz/ Ph: +64 4 473 6202 or 0800 36 75 29 Fax: +64 4 471 2568 or 0800 32 95 29 From: info@folli.org Subject: ESSLLI-2004 Call for Proposals Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:47:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 9 (9) Sixteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2004 August 9-21, 2004, Nancy, France 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-2004 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2004 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 16th 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 available through <http://www.esslli.org/2004/submission.html>. All proposals should be submitted no later than Wednesday July 16, 2003. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Wednesday September 17, 2003. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the ESSLLI site through <http://www.esslli.org>. For this year's summer school, please see the web site for ESSLLI-2003 at <http://www.logic.at/esslli03/>. From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 17.004 gray literature, papryologically defined Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:44:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 10 (10) Gray literature is a librarian's term for that which lies between the purely personal and commercial publication: reports of governmental and non-governmental organizations, unpublished research reports, environmental impact reports, and a very long etc. Since it never comes on the market there is no systematic way to acquire it despite the fact that some of it may be extremely interesting and useful for either policy or academic concerns. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lecturer in Electronic Communication at University Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:45:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 11 (11) College London [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 Subject: Papers from Nov 2001 "Public Domain" conference Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 06:43:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 12 (12) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community [deleted quotation] Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume 66 (Winter/Spring 2003), Numbers 1 & 2 The Public Domain <http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/>http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/ The Winter/Spring Issue of Duke University's Law and Contemporary Problems Journal is devoted to papers delivered during the November 2001 conference on The Public Domain, organized by James Boyle at the Duke University Law School. LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 66 Winter/Spring 2003 Numbers 1 & 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Public Domain James Boyle Special Editor * James Boyle, "Foreword: The Opposite of Property?" * James Boyle, "The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain" * Mark Rose, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: The English Copyright Debates and the Rhetoric of the Public Domain" * Carol M. Rose "Romans, Roads, and Romantic Creators: Traditions of Public Property in the Information Age" * Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom, "Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource" * Pamela Samuelson, "Mapping the Digital Public Domain: Threats and Opportunities" * Yochai Benkler, "Through the Looking Glass: Alice and the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Domain" * William K. Van Alstyne, "Reconciling What the First Amendment Forbids with what the Copyright Clause Permits: A Summary Explanation and Review" * Negativland, "Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain" * David Nimmer, "'Fairest of them All' and Other Fairy Tales of Fair Use" * Arti K. Rai and Rebecca S. Eisenberg "Bayh-Dole Reform and the Progress of Biomedicine" * J. H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir, "A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment" * David Lange, "Reimagining the Public Domain" _____________________________ James Boyle William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law Duke University Law School Science Drive & Towerview Box 90360 Durham, NC 27708-0360 919 613-7287 ph. Home Page & Essays http://james-boyle.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Lupia Subject: Re: 17.009 gray literature Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:33:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 13 (13) Gray Literature (variant orthography, not exclusively British, "Grey Literature"), was probably first coined in the last quarter of the 19th century to designate a manuscript copy or pre-print distributed and circulated to a select few for peer review of a written work in advance of and intended for final and formal publication. This is not identical with a blue-line copy, or galley proof since these are terms used by a publisher to describe printed materials from signatures prepared for mass production. The term "grey paper" first appeared in John Ruskin's description of drawings produced by Joseph William Mallard Turner made on artist's drawing stock called "grey paper". (See Notes by Mr. Ruskin on his drawings by the late J. M. W. Turner, R. A. : exhibited at the Fine art society's galleries, 148 New Bond street, in the spring of 1878 (London : Elzevir press, 1878): 50) This form of paper was an unbleached stack and was produced as a wrapping paper and for artist's drawing. Since "gray literature" originally referred to an author's unfinished work it probably became an adopted term since it paralleled the artist's sketch that served as a preliminary idea in various degrees of refinement that preceded and led to a final production. The term "gray literature" has now taken on a broader meaning and includes all non-commercially produced literature inaccessible to the mass market for acquisition since its original target audience was private rather than open to the public forum. ===== John N. Lupia, III 31 Norwich Drive Toms River, New Jersey 08757 USA Phone: (732) 341-8689 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News God Bless America __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: what's gray? Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:35:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 14 (14) While I accept Charles Faulhaber's definition of gray literature in Humanist 17.009 in the terms in which it was given, I wonder if it would not be helpful to look beyond the immediate institutional classification. I would suppose that gray literature does not always coincide with that which is "privately published" -- a volume of poetry, say, produced by letterpress and given to friends of the poet-printer; a samizdat publication; a serious work of scholarship put online by the author because he or she cannot get it published commercially. These things, it seems to me, differ rather significantly from a research report issued by a laboratory so that its preliminary work may be distributed to colleagues. In the former case, the work is the final form; it is the thing itself, not a preliminary or interim version. The problem with the institutional definition, as Charles pointed out, lies in the discrepancy between classification and actual importance. If I am writing a history of work on DNA, for example, all the interim reports of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and the corresponding material from King's College London, plus the material at Caltech and the correspondence e.g between Linus Pauling and James Watson, are primary. Indeed, the historian typically works (does he or she not?) with "literature" which at the time of production was regarded as gray in one sense or another. If I have not fallen off my limb, then it follows that our situation with regards to research in computing is the same. Take the case of hypertext research. Those who are building systems tend to publish non-commercially in the form of conference papers, which can be frustratingly difficult to get to if you don't go to the right conferences and your institution does not pay for the rights of access to the contents of www.acm.org/dl. Even if your institution does, the huge amount of stuff you need to plough through shows quickly that the attitude of the authors tends to be very different from those in the humanities who write for publication. It's gray literature one finds -- gray to the authors because, I am guessing, it's quite secondary as far as they are concerned to the real work, which is manifested in the building of systems. But from the perspective of humanities computing, as to the historian, this literature is primary. So, I conclude, this topic is very important to us. And I salute Manfred Thaller's wit in calling the series he published at the Max Planck Institut fuer Geschichte (Goettingen) the "Halbgraue Reihe zur historischen Fachinformatik", the "Half-Gray Series on Historical Information Technology" http://www.geschichte.mpg.de/deutsch/hgr.html. 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: webir@yahoogroups.com Subject: First Monday table of contents Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:38:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 15 (15) [Forwarded from webir@yahoogroups.com with thanks. --WM] [deleted quotation] From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 17.012 gray literature Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 07:38:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 16 (16) Apropos Willard's longish posting, there seem to be lots of graey areas here (when you check online OED for "grey areas" you'll find a 1963 British report on semi-slumish urban areas in need of rebuilding [between healthy and terminal]!). "Gray/grey" designates that which is inbetween, if only we could determine what lies on either side. Maybe this works in a black and white situation ("grayscale"), but we seem to have lots of colorful shades inbetween. Bob Willard wrote: [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 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: conference in London Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:50:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 17 (17) <> Colloque International, Institute of Romance Studies, Londres, 20-21 Juin 2003 Vendredi, 20 Juin 9.30 Ouverture du Colloque 9.45-11.15: La Création en acte et la théorie littéraire Prof Julie LeBlanc (Toronto): 'Les dossiers préparatoires et les carnets d'écriture comme laboratoire de l'oeuvre' Dr Daniel Ferrer (ITEM, Paris): 'La génétique modifie-t-elle notre conception de l'intertextualité?' 11.15-11.30 Pause Café 11.30-1.00 Enjeux de l'écriture Prof David Nott (Lancaster): 'La difficile gestation de La Truite de Roger Vailland Prof Eric Le Calvez (Atlanta): 'Madame Bovary: génétique de la scène du fiacre' 1.00-2.00 Déjeuner 2.00-4.30 Avant-Texte/ Intertexte/ Hypertexte Dr Paolo d'Iorio (ITEM Paris/ LMU Munich): 'Comment publier les manuscrits sur le Web: Le cas de l'HyperNietzsche' Prof Tony Williams (Hull): 'Avant-texte, intertexte, hypertexte: l'épisode du Club de l'Intelligence dans L'Éducation sentimentale' Dr Domenico Fiormonte (Rome), 'Digital Philology' 4.30-5.00 Pause Café 5.00-6.00 Marie Darrieussecq, 'Comment j'écris'. Entretien avec Jean- Marc Terrasse (BnF) 7.00 Réception à L'Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place (Métro: South Kensington) Samedi, 21 Juin 9.45-11.15 Les enjeux herméneutiques Prof Robert Pickering (Clermont-Ferrand): 'La génétique entre singularité et pluralité de ses possibles herméneutiques' Prof Paul Gifford (St Andrews): 'L'herméneutique et la création en acte: le cas de La Jeune Parque' 11.15-11.30 Pause Café 11.30-1.00 Intentions, Aboutissements, Finalités Prof Brian Stimpson (Newcastle): 'Au commencement fut la fin: l'écriture en devenir chez Valéry et Duras'' Dr Nathalie Mauriac (ENS, Paris): 'Proust entre deux textes: réécriture et 'intention' dans Albertine disparue' 1.00-2.00 Déjeuner 2.00-4.15 Horizons de la génétique Prof Pascal Michelucci (Toronto): 'La Création virtuelle' Dr William Marx (Lyon 3): 'Quelques enjeux culturels de la critique génétique' Prof Almuth Grésillon (ITEM, Paris): '"Nous avançons toujours sur des sables mouvants". Espaces de la critique génétique' 4.15-4.30 Pause Café 4.30-6.00 Table Ronde: 'Les études génétiques renouvellent-elles notre regard sur le texte littéraire?' Prof Louis Hay (ITEM, Paris), Prof Edward Hughes (Royal Holloway), Prof Joseph Jurt (Freiburg), Prof Robert Pickering (Clermont-Ferrand), Prof Almuth Grésillon (ITEM, Paris) To register please contact IRS@sas.ac.uk. From: "Teresa Numerico" Subject: Computers in the Humanities - new Italian book Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:52:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 18 (18) I am glad to announce that from May 10 the following new book is available in all on- and off-line Italian bookshops: T. Numerico, A. Vespignani (a cura di) Informatica per le scienze umanistiche, il Mulino, Bologna, 2003. This book is a clear and rigorous introduction to "Informatica Umanistica" and was designed as a text book for Humanities Computing undergraduate courses, now taught in many Italian Humanities Faculties. For more details please go to: http://www.mulino.it/aulaweb/numerico_vespignani/index.html. In the website you can find: Table of contents Introduction Glossary A list of links organized by issues Auto-evaluation tests for students In the website you can also find an area (accessible by subscription) dedicated to teachers and educators. In order to access this area, please contact the publisher (Il Mulino: Tel. +39 051256011, E-mail: universita@mulino.it). To request a free sample copy of the book in order to evaluate it as a text book for your courses, please fill in the form available at: http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/universita/modulo_saggio.htm. Do not hesitate to contact me if you need further information. Best Regards Teresa Numerico ------------------ Contract Prof. Univ. degli Studi di Bologna Philosophy Dept. V. Zamboni, 38 - 40126 - Bologna E-mail: t.numerico@mclink.it From: Peter Suber Subject: Directory of Open Access Journals (fwd) Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:20:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 19 (19) Reply-To: BOAI Forum To: boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk LUND UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS May 12, 2003 Lund, Sweden - Lund University Libraries today launches the Directory of Open Access Journals ( DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org ), supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute ( http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/ ), along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, ( http://www.arl.org/sparc ). The directory contains information about 350 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in all languages and subject areas will be included in the DOAJ. The database records will be freely available for reuse in other services and can be harvested by using the OAI-PMH ( http://www.openarchives.org/ ), thus further increasing the visibility of the journals. The further development of DOAJ will continue with version 2, which will offer the enhanced feature of allowing the journals to be searched at the article level, and is expected to be available in late fall 2003. "For the researcher DOAJ will mean simplified access to relevant information said Lars Bjrnshauge, Director, Lund University Libraries. The directory will give open-access journals a simple method to register their existence, and a means to dramatically enhance their visibility. Moreover, by enabling searches of all journals in the database at the article level, the next stage of DOAJ development will save research time and increase readership of articles." If you know a journal that should be included in the directory, use this form to report it to the directory: http://www.doaj.org/suggest. Information about how to obtain DOAJ records for use in a library catalog or other service you will find at: http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions/#metadata. From: SpringerLink-Alert-Service Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:27:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 20 (20) Lecture Notes in Computer Science http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm LNCS 1723: Robert France and Bernhard Rumpe (Eds.) UML'99 - The Unified Modeling Language. Beyond the Standard Second International Conference, Fort Collins, CO, USA, October 28-30, 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1723.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1723.htm LNCS 1683: Jrg Flum and Mario Rodrguez-Artalejo (Eds.) Computer Science Logic 13th International Workshop, CSL'99, 8th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Madrid, Spain, September 20-25, 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1683.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1683.htm LNCS 1655: Seong-Whan Lee and Yasuaki Nakano (Eds.) Document Analysis Systems: Theory and Practice Third IAPR Workshop, DAS'98, Nagano, Japan, November 4-6, 1998. Selected Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1655.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1655.htm LNCS 1654: Edwin R. Hancock and Marcello Pelillo (Eds.) Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Second International Workshop, EMMCVPR'99, York, UK, July 26-29, 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1654.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1654.htm LNCS 1578: Wolfgang Thomas (Ed.) Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures Second International Conference, FOSSACS'99, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS'99, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1578.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1578.htm LNAI 1555: Jrg P. Mller, Munindar P. Singh, and Anand S. Rao (Eds.) Intelligent Agents V. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages 5th International Workshop, ATAL'98, Paris, France, July 4-7, 1998. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1555.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1555.htm LNCS 2641: P.J. Nrnberg (Ed.): Metainformatics International Symposium, MIS 2002 Esbjerg, Denmark, August 7-10, 2002. Revised Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2641.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2641.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:31:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 21 (21) (1) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: UML for Real Design of Embedded Real-Time Systems edited by Luciano Lavagno Politecnico di Torino, Italy and Cadence Berkeley Laboratories, CA, USA Grant Martin Cadence Berkeley Laboratories, CA, USA Bran Selic Rational Software Canada and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada The Unified Modeling Language is rapidly gaining acceptance as the mechanism of choice to model complex software systems at various steps of their specification and design, using a number of orthogonal views that illustrate use cases, class diagrams and even detailed state machine-based behaviors of objects. UML for Real: Design of Embedded Real-Time Systems aims to show the reality of UML as a medium for specification and implementation of real-time systems, illustrating both the current capabilities and limits of UML for this task, and future directions that will improve its usefulness for real-time and embedded product design. It will also cover selected applications examples. The book is an edited volume of solicited chapters. The table of contents covers: * UML and the Real-time/Embedded Domain, with chapters on the role of UML in software development and on UML and Real-Time Systems. * Representing Key Real-Time Concepts with UML, with chapters on logical structure, on modeling system-level behavior using MSCs and extensions, on platform modeling, on hardware and software object modeling, on fine-grain and high-level patterns for real-time systems, on modeling Quality Of Service and metric time, and finally on performance and schedulability analysis using UML. * Specific Applications, with chapters on UML in the automotive and telecom domains. * Process and Tools, with chapters on software performance engineering and on UML tools for real-time processes. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7501-4 Date: May 2003 Pages: 369 pp. EURO 128.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 80.00 (2) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Philosophy and Neuroscience A Ruthlessly Reductive Account by John Bickle Dept. of Philosophy and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA STUDIES IN BRAIN AND MIND -- 2 Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account is the first book-length treatment of philosophical issues and implications in current cellular and molecular neuroscience. John Bickle articulates a philosophical justification for investigating "lower level" neuroscientific research and describes a set of experimental details that have recently yielded the reduction of memory consolidation to the molecular mechanisms of long-term potentiation (LTP). These empirical details suggest answers to recent philosophical disputes over the nature and possibility of psycho-neural scientific reduction, including the multiple realization challenge, mental causation, and relations across explanatory levels. Bickle concludes by examining recent work in cellular neuroscience pertaining to features of conscious experience, including the cellular basis of working memory, the effects of explicit selective attention on single-cell activity in visual cortex, and sensory experiences induced by cortical microstimulation. This final chapter poses a challenge both to "mysterians," who insist that empirical science cannot address particular features of consciousness, and to cognitivists, who insist that addressing consciousness scientifically will require experimental and theoretical resources that go beyond those used in neuroscience's cellular and molecular core. Bickle develops all scientific and philosophical concepts in detail, making this book accessible to specialists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in either philosophy or the empirical brain and cognitive sciences. Philosophers of science, mind, neuroscience, and psychology, neuroscientists working at a variety of levels, and cognitive scientists-or anyone interested in interactions between contemporary philosophy and science and the nature of reduction-in-practice that informs current mainstream neuroscience-will find discussions pertinent to their concerns. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7394-1 Date: June 2003 Pages: 252 pp. EURO 100.00 / USD 96.00 / GBP 64.00 (3) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Yearbook of Morphology 2003 edited by Geert Booij Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jaap van Marle Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands YEARBOOK OF MORPHOLOGY -- 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, and which are frequently referred to. Thus it has set a standard for morphological research. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2003 a large number of articles is devoted to the phenomenon of complex predicates consisting of a verb preceded by a preverb. Such complex predicates exhibit both morphological and syntactic behaviour, and thus form a testing ground for theories of the relation between morphology and syntax. Evidence is presented from a wide variety of languages including Germanic, Romance, Australian, and Uralic languages. A number of articles present historical evidence on the change of preverbal elements into prefixes. Topics such as grammaticalization, constructional idioms, and derivational periphrasis are also discussed. In addition, this Yearbook of Morphology contains articles on morphological parsing, and on the role of paradigmatical relations in analogical change. Audience: Theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists will find this book of interest. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1272-1 Date: May 2003 Pages: 288 pp. EURO 122.00 / USD 117.00 / GBP 77.00 (4) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information For Movie Content Extraction, Indexing and Representation by Ying Li IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA C.C. Jay Kuo University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information For Movie ContentExtraction, Indexing and Representation is on content-based multimedia analysis, indexing, representation and applications with a focus on feature films. Presented are the state-of-art techniques in video content analysis domain, as well as many novel ideas and algorithms for movie content analysis based on the use of multimodal information. The authors employ multiple media cues such as audio, visual and face information to bridge the gap between low-level audiovisual features and high-level video semantics. Based on sophisticated audio and visual content processing such as video segmentation and audio classification, the original video is re-represented in the form of a set of semantic video scenes or events, where an event is further classified as a 2-speaker dialog, a multiple-speaker dialog, or a hybrid event. Moreover, desired speakers are simultaneously identified from the video stream based on either a supervised or an adaptive speaker identification scheme. All this information is then integrated together to build the video's ToC (table of content) as well as the index table. Finally, a video abstraction system, which can generate either a scene-based summary or an event-based skim, is presented by exploiting the knowledge of both video semantics and video production rules. This monograph will be of great interest to research scientists and graduate level students working in the area of content-based multimedia analysis, indexing, representation and applications as well s its related fields. CONTENTS Dedication. List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1: Introduction. 1. Audiovisual Content Analysis. 1.1. Audio Content Analysis. 1.2. Visual Content Analysis. 1.3. Audiovisual Content Analysis. 2. Video Indexing, Browsing and Abstraction. 3. MPEG-7 Standard. 4. Roadmap of The Book. 4.1. Video Segmentation. 4.2. Movie Content Analysis. 4.3. Movie Content Abstraction. 2: Background And Previous Work. 1. Visual Content Analysis. 1.1. Video Shot Detection. 1.2. Video Scene and Event Detection. 2. Audio Content Analysis. 2.1. Audio Segmentation and Classification. 2.2. Audio Analysis for Video Indexing. 3. Speaker Identification. 4. Video Abstraction. 4.1. Video Skimming. 4.2. Video Summarization. 5. Video Indexing and Retrieval. 3: Video Content Pre-Processing. 1. Shot Detection in Raw Data Domain. 1.1. YUV Color Space. 1.2. Metrics for Frame Differencing. 1.3. Camera Break Detection. 1.4. Gradual Transition Detection. 1.5. Camera Motion Detection. 1.6. Illumination Change Detection. 1.7. A Review of the Proposed System. 2. Shot Detection in Compressed Domain. 2.1. DC-image and DC-sequence. 3. Audio Feature Analysis. 4. Commercial Break Detection. 4.1. Features of A Commercial Break. 4.2. Feature Extraction. 4.3. The Proposed Detection Scheme. 5. Experimental Results. 5.1. Shot Detection Results. 5.2. Commercial Break Detection Results. 4: Content-Based Movie Scene And Event Extraction. 1. Movie Scene Extraction. 1.1. Sink-based Scene Construction. 1.2. Audiovisual-based Scene Refinement. 1.3. User Interaction. 2. Movie Event Extraction. 2.1. Sink Clustering and Categorization. 2.2. Event Extraction and Classification. 2.3. Integrating Speech and Face Information. 3. Experimental Results. 3.1. Scene Extraction Results. 3.2. Event Extraction Results. 5: Speaker Identification For Movies. 1. Supervised Speaker Identification for Movie Dialogs. 1.1. Feature Selection and Extraction. 1.2. Gaussian Mixture Model. 1.3. Likelihood Calculation and Score Normalization. 1.4. Speech Segment Isolation. 2. Adaptive Speaker Identification. 2.1. Face Detection, Recognition and Mouth Tracking. 2.2. Speech Segmentation and Clustering. 2.3. Initial Speaker Modeling. 2.4. Likelihood-based Speaker Identification. 2.5. Audiovisual Integration for Speaker Identification. 2.6. Unsupervised Speaker Model Adaptation. 3. Experimental Results. 3.1. Supervised Speaker Identification Results. 3.2. Adaptive Speaker Identification Results. 3.3. An Example of Movie Content Annotation. 6: Scene-Based Movie Summarization. 1. An Overview of the Proposed System. 2. Hierarchical Keyframe Extraction. 2.1. Scene Importance Computation. 2.2. Sink Importance Computation. 2.3. Shot Importance Computation. 2.4. Frame Importance Computation. 2.5. Keyframe Selection. 3. Scalable Movie Summarization and Navigation. 4. Experimental Results. 4.1. Keyframe Extraction Results. 4.2. User Study. 4.3. System Interface Design. 4.4. Applications. 7: Event-Based Movie Skimming. 1. Introduction. 2. An Overview of the Proposed System. 3. Extended Event Set Construction. 4. Extended Event Feature Extraction. 5. Video Skim Generation. 6. More Thoughts on the Video Skim. 6.1. When More Judging Rules Are Needed. 6.2. Sub-sampling the Video Skim. 6.3. Discovering the Story and Visual Structure. 7. Experimental Results. 8: Conclusion And Future Work. 1. Conclusion. 2. Future Work. 2.1. System Refinement. 2.2. New Research Topics. References. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7490-5 Date: June 2003 Pages: 224 pp. EURO 127.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 72.00 (5) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory by Annalisa Marcja University of Florence, Italy Carlo Toffalori University of Camerino, Italy TRENDS IN LOGIC -- 19 Since its birth, Model Theory has been developing a number of methods and concepts that have their intrinsic relevance, but also provide fruitful and notable applications in various fields of Mathematics. It is a lively and fertile research area which deserves the attention of the mathematical world. This volume * is easily accessible to young people and mathematicians unfamiliar with logic; * gives a terse historical picture of Model Theory; * introduces the latest developments in the area; * provides 'hands-on' proofs of elimination of quantifiers, elimination of imaginaries and other relevant matters. A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory is for trainees and professional model theorists, mathematicians working in Algebra and Geometry and young people with a basic knowledge of logic. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1330-2 Date: June 2003 Pages: 384 pp. EURO 120.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 77.00 (6) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences edited by Maria Carla Galavotti Dept. of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Italy BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 232 Traditionally, philosophers of science have distinguished between a "context of justification" and a "context of discovery". Only the first was conceived as the proper field of application of philosophy of science, while the second was regarded as concerning scientists, not philosophers. Recently it was admitted that the context of justification forms a continuum with the context of discovery, and as a result observation and experimentation have become an important field of inquiry. The present volume is meant as a contribution to the ongoing debate on this topic. This volume is meant for researchers and advanced students in Philosophy of Science, and for natural and social scientists interested in foundational topics. It combines the viewpoint of philosophers and scientists and casts a new interdisciplinary perspective on the problem of observation and experimentation. It spans a wide range of disciplines, including physics, economics and psychology. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1251-9 Date: April 2003 Pages: 356 pp. EURO 109.00 / USD 105.00 / GBP 70.00 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: Ray Siemens Subject: Humanities Computing Workshops (Victoria, BC) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:21:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 22 (22) *Announcement: Local Humanities Computing Workshops* University of Victoria 23-28 June, 2003 Sponsored by the University of Victoria and Malaspina University-College < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCSeminar/2003.htm > 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 digitisation, 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 if the participant 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 schedule, fuller course descriptions, attendance costs, and local accommodation - can be found via http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCSeminar/2003.htm. 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 http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm From: Charles Ess Subject: 2nd Global Information Village Plaza Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:24:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 23 (23) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd Global Information Village Plaza: Connecting Multi-Cultural, Multi- Lingual and Multi-Media Universes -What is the Global Information Village Plaza? The Global Information Village Plaza was born out of the idea of going beyond the hype, rhetoric and expert analysis by the happy few involved in the preparation of policies and programs supposed to support the transition into the information society" or "digital economy. Instead, it sought to give ASIS&T members -and information professionals at large- an opportunity to informally and vigorously express their views about the challenges and opportunities that the so called "information society" represents in their personal and professional lives. -Outcomes of the of 1st Global Information Village Plaza: Between July and December 2002, individuals were invited to post short position statements and engage in discussion about these issues on the SIG-III listserv. The archive of the event can be seen at http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/plaza.htm. The position statements and major discussion threads (originating from the USA, Canada, Europe, Africa and Latin America) revolved around a number of recurring themes: * Multiculturalism and multilingualism * Lifelong learning for information professionals * Public sphere and its information spaces * Strategies for coping with information overload and pollution * Switching focus from information systems toward interactive learning systems * User-friendliness and reliability of ICT applications * New patterns of work and social life * ICT and information as instruments of domination and/or liberation on the international scene * The state of information post 9/11 -Global Information Village Plaza 2: What is next? The goal of this second edition of the Global Information Village Plaza is to deepen the definition of the issues and propose research and action agendas. In addition to collecting statements about the considered issues, new features are added: multimedia presentations and a graphic arts contest. 1- OPINION STATEMENTS All ASIS&T members and information professionals at large are invited to express and share their personal views on the list of themes identified at the previous Plaza (see above). The statements should articulate what is really new and challenging aboutin the issue; what should be investigated and how; what individuals, information services and professional societies should do in order for all to better deal with the issue. Additions to the list of topics are of course welcome. 2- MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS Since most colleagues around the world have no chance to attend an ASIS&T Annual Meeting, we invite digital video testimonies to be recorded and provided for display at the Plaza. They should address the selected issues or any relevant one, and provide, as far as possible, appropriate background and illustration for people not familiar with the particular context to understand the points made. It his hoped that these videos could offer a virtual trip to remote corners of the global information village. The videos could be either MPEG films or Slideshow compatible with standard software; they may be edited by the moderators for content and length. 3- GRAPHIC ART Do you express yourself better through graphic arts? Then, consider entering the contest for the best cartoon, poster, drawing, or graphic art pieces of any kind that illustrates the issues under discussion at the Plaza. The award for the best poster, cartoon, drawing, etc. will be presented during the session. -The Plaza Spirit: How to participate? In keeping up with the spirit of the Plaza i.e., the 'public place' or shared community space reminiscent of the public sphere- the social interaction between the various participants and contributors is an important part of the 2nd Global Plaza. Participate in three easy steps: STEP #1: Send a short position statement (300 words maximum) to the SIG/III discussion list (sigiii-l@asis.org) on the following questions: 1 Which of the issues listed do you consider most important for your personal or professional life?Why? What is challenging about this issue? How should this issue be investigated and dealt with? What should the information science & technology community do to help you and itself cope with the issue(s)? 2 Are there other issues that are equally or more important in your opinion, and which result from the globalization of the information society? What should be done in order to cope with these? What can the information science & technology community do to address these issues? All messages should clearly indicate "Plaza" in the subject line. Anyone can post messages to the sigiii-l list but if you wish to see what others have posted and participate in further discussion, we recommend that you subscribe to the list (see http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l for details on how to subscribe). Note that the list will be moderated to avoid spamming and unrelated announcements. Note: In the case of video shows and graphic art presentations, please send a message to the list with a short description of the format, duration (for videos) and content (e.g., relationship to the topics under consideration). A copy of all multimedia products should be sent to the moderators for display at the ASIS&T meeting. Contact the moderators for more information. STEP #2: Send your comments about the statements posted on the list. STEP #3: Attend the "Global Information Plaza" session at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/) and participate in the debates. -What will happen at the ASIS&T Annual meeting? A special session on the Global Information Village Plaza 2 will be held at the annual ASIST conference in Long Beach. The moderators, Nadia Caidi and Michel Menou will summarize the contributions: a) The posters will be placed on the walls around the room showing teaxt and graphic contributions; a few laptops will be used to present the video shows. Participants will be able to move around the room and contribute to the topics by adding their comments on stickers that will be made available at the various panels and booths. They will also be able to discuss with other participants. b) After 30 to 40 minutes, individual discussions will stop. The moderators will summarize the position statements, as well as the main concept(s) and proposals that emerged from the contributions. c) A presentation of the position statements by the moderators standing on a platform in the middle of the room issues and contributions will ensue, followed by a general discussion that will be recorded. A summary of the session will be subsequently posted on the Sigiii-l discussion list along with edited position statement(s). It is our hope to revise and expand these contributions and discussion threads for publication in a professional journal, along with reflections on the process and outcomes of the experience. Don't miss the opportunity to say your word (politically correct language NOT required). It might not change the course of history but it may make you feel better. THE MODERATORS: Nadia Caidi, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto (caidi@fis.utoronto.ca) and Michel J. Menou, Department of Information Science, City University London (menou@soi.ctiy.ac.uk) Check the Global Plaza Archive on the SIG-III website (http://proto-www.slis.kent.edu/~yinzhang/sigiii/) and stay tuned! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nadia Caidi Assistant Professor Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto 140 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6 Canada Tel: (416) 978 4664 Fax: (416) 971 1399 Email: caidi@fis.utoronto.ca From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.12 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:28:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 24 (24) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 12, Week of May 13, 2003 In this issue: Views -- What Makes a Publisher Important? Maximization of Internet Citations Methodology By Avi Rushinek and Sara Rushinek http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_rushinek_2.html From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human Tick-tock, time clicking away By M.O. Thirunarayanan http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_thirunarayanan_8.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Call for projects & demos, SEPLN Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:26:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 25 (25) Call for Projects and Demonstrations 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) SEPLN 2003 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) 10, 11 and 12 September, 2003 University of Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing and the Office for Spanish in the Information Society at Instituto Cervantes Conference website: <http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln> Introduction The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcalá 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 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 Alcalá de Henares. Projects and Demos As in previous editions, depending on the number of proposals, it is planned to organise oral presentations of projects and product demos in any of the Conference topics. Proposals must meet certain format and style requirements for presentations. The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and product demos 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: https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html Documents must not include headers or footings Maximum length will be 2 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included references and figures. 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 Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003 Deadline for submitting final versions: June 27, 2003 Program Committee Chairman: Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universitat dAlacant) Members: Prof. José Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla) Prof. Toni Badia i Cardús (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid) Prof.ª Irene Castellón Masalles (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof.ª Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez (Universitat dAlacant) Prof. Mikel Forcada Zubizarreta (Universitat dAlacant) Prof.ª Ana María García Serrano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo) Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Prof. José Miguel Goñi Menoyo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Prof. Javier Macías Guarasa (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. José B. Mariño Acebal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof.ª M. Antonia Martí Antonín (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof.ª Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia) Prof. Lluis Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universitat dAlacant) Prof. José Manuel Pardo Muñoz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof.ª Natividad Prieto Sáez (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia) Prof. Germán Rigau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén) Prof.ª Mª Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidade de Vigo) Organising Committee Chairman: Mr. Jesús Antonio Cid Martínez, 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 Mª García García, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Raquel Tapias Aparicio, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Mr. John Michael Urresti Graña, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Collaborators: Ms. Eva Mª Gómez Gómez, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Rosario Guijarro Huerta, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Advisors: Ms. Esmeralda de Luis Martínez, Chief at the Department of External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Gloria Gamarra Alonso, Technician at the Department of External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes Further Information Full information is available at the official website of the Conference: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln 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 Español en la Sociedad de la Información C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94 Fax: +34 91 888 18 26 E-mail: sepln@cervantes.es Conference website: <http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln>http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln ____________________________________________________ Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26 informaoesi@cervantes.es <http://oesi.cervantes.es>http://oesi.cervantes.es 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 Subject: Stanford's Digitization Robot Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:57:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 26 (26) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 13, 2003 Stanford's Digitization Robot "The Evelyn Wood of Digitized Book Scanners," By John Markoff New York Times, May 12, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/technology/12TURN.html (requires simple registration) This item in Monday's New York Times, cited by Ann Okerson on the liblicense list, should be of some interest to this list. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.022 a digitization robot Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:56:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 27 (27) I bet it costs more than a student worker. Monday's New York Times included an interesting article on an impressive [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: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib 5/03 Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:56:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 28 (28) Greetings: The May 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are six articles, a book review, 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 May is Albumen Photographs: History, Science and Preservation, courtesy of Timothy Vitale, Preservation Associates; Paul Messier, Boston Art Conservation; Walter Henry, Stanford University Libraries; and John Burke, Oakland Museum of California. The articles include: Usage Analysis for the Identification of Research Trends in Digital Libraries Johan Bollen, Soma Sekhara Vemulapalli and Weining Xu, Old Dominion University; and Rick Luce, Los Alamos National Laboratory Keepers of the Crumbling Culture: What Digital Preservation Can Learn from Library History Deanna Marcum and Amy Friedlander, Council on Library and Information Resources Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases Carol Tenopir, Matt Grayson, Yan Zhang and Mercy Ebuen, University of Tennessee; Donald W. King, University of Pittsburgh; and Peter Boyce, Maria Mitchell Association Developing a Content Management System-based Web Site Clare Rogers, National Trust, and John Kirriemuir, Ceangal Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage in Europe Simon Tanner, University of Hertfordshire, and Marilyn Deegan, Oxford University Visions: The Academic Library in 2012 James W. Marcum, Fairleigh Dickinson University The book reviewed is: XML for Libraries Roy Tennant, Editor, Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2002 Reviewed by: Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation D-Lib has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University Sunsite, Canberra, Australia http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the May 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From: Willard McCarty Subject: Procesador Morfólogico gratuito en Internet Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 06:02:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 29 (29) [Sent on behalf of "Octavio Santana Suárez" -- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 07:09:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 30 (30) (1) Arguing to Learn Confronting Cognitions in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments edited by Jerry Andriessen Dept. of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Michael Baker GRIC Laboratory, CNRS and Universit Lyon 2, France Dan Suthers Dept. of ICS, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING SERIES -- 1 Arguing to Learn: Confronting Cognitions in Computer-SupportedCollaborative Learning Environments focuses on how new pedagogical scenarios, task environments and communication tools within Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments can favour collaborative and productive confrontations of ideas, evidence, arguments and explanations, or arguing to learn. This book is the first that has assembled the work of internationally renowned scholars on argumentation-related CSCL research. All chapters present in-depth analyses of the processes by which the interactive confrontation of cognitions can lead to collaborative learning, on the basis of a wide variety of theoretical models, empirical data and Internet-based tools. Given its depth and breadth of coverage, this collection will be of interest to a wide audience of researchers in the fields of education, psychology and computer science, as well as communication and linguistic studies. Special Offer Available at 25% discount to ISLS: International Society of Learning Sciences (http://www.isls.org) (Please refer to promotional code 738020 when ordering.) CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of Contributors. 1. Argumentation, Computer Support, And The Educational Context Of Confronting Cognitions; J. Andriessen, M.Baker, D. Suthers. 2. Representational Guidance For Collaborative Inquiry; D.D. Suthers. 3. Computer-Mediated Argumentative Interactions For The Co-Elaboration Of Scientific Notions; M. Baker. 4. Argumentation As Negotiation In Electronic Collaborative Writing; J.Andriessen, G. Erkens, C. van de Laak, N. Peters, P. Coirier. 5. Constructive Discussions Through Electronic Dialogue; A. Veerman. 6. Using CMC To Develop Argumentation Skills In Children With A 'Literacy Deficit'; R. Pilkington, A. Walker. 7. Designing External Representations To Support Solving Wicked Problems; J.M. van Bruggen,P.A. Kirschner. 8. Elaborating New Arguments Through A CSCL Script; P.Jermann, P. Dillenbourg. 9. The Blind And The Paralytic: Supporting Argumentation In Everyday And Scientific Issues; B.B. Schwarz, A.Glassner. 10. CSCL, Argumentation, And Deweyan Inquiry: Argumentation Is Learning; T. Koschmann. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1382-5 Date: June 2003 Pages: 270 pp. EURO 99.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 63.00 (2) Applied Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Problems by Natali Hritonenko Dept. of Mathematics, Prairie View A&M University, TX, USA Yuri Yatsenko Dept. of Mathematics, Houston Baptist University, TX, USA APPLIED OPTIMIZATION -- 81 The subject of the book is the "know-how" of applied mathematical modelling: how to construct specific models and adjust them to a new engineering environment or more precise realistic assumptions; how to analyze models for the purpose of investigating real life phenomena; and how the models can extend our knowledge about a specific engineering process. Two major sources of the book are the stock of classic models and the authors' wide experience in the field. The book provides a theoretical background to guide the development of practical models and their investigation. It considers general modelling techniques explains basic underlying physical laws and shows how to transform them into a set of mathematical equations. The emphasis is placed on common features of the modelling process in various applications as well as on complications and generalizations of models. The book covers a variety of applications: mechanical, acoustical, physical and electrical, water transportation and contamination processes; bioengineering and population control; production systems and technical equipment renovation. Mathematical tools include partial and ordinary differential equations, difference and integral equations, the calculus of variations, optimal control, bifurcation methods, and related subjects. Audience: The book may be used as a professional reference for mathematicians, engineers, applied of industrial scientists, and advanced students in mathematics, science or engineering. It provides excellent material for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematical modelling. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7484-0 Date: June 2003 Pages: 308 pp. EURO 160.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 109.00 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: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 17.023 a digitization robot Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 07:10:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 31 (31) On Mon, 19 May 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] machine [deleted quotation] potential [deleted quotation] Did this end that abruptly? And, of course, the real 900 pound gorilla question no one will ask: "Will these be publicly accessible?" Thanks!!! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Principal Instigator "*Internet User ~#100*" You can now download ~7950 free eBooks from Project Gutenberg at: http://gutenberg.net Next week, hopefully at over 50 more! Please send us your suggestions! Hand out free copies! From: Hamish Cunningham Subject: CFP/extended deadline HLT for the Semantic Web Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 07:08:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 32 (32) CALL FOR PAPERS -- note extended deadline Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html 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 (http://ontoweb-lt.dfki.de/). Audience: The issues addressed by the workshop are at the core of the Semantic Web enterprise. The killer applications that demonstrate the potential of this technology to a mass market have yet to emerge, and will likely not do so until a much larger amount of data is available. The techniques covered by this workshop are one of the most important routes to generating this data. The workshop is relevant to: * researchers from the Human Language Technology areas; * researchers from the Ontology and Knowledge Acquisition and Management areas; * industrial technology providers involved in Knowledge Management, Information Integration, Information and Library Science, Web Services. Organizing Committee: Dr. Hamish Cunningham - http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish, hamish@dcs.shef.ac.uk Atanas Kiryakov - http://www.sirma.bg/ak.htm, naso@sirma.bg Dr. Ying Ding - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ying, ying.ding@uibk.ac.at May 31st 2003 deadline for submission of papers June 30th 2003 notification of acceptance July 15th 2003 final copy due 20-23 October 2003 conference The fee for the workshop will be $50. Participants will be required to register for the main ISWC2003 conference. Submissions: Submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to the organising committee: hamish@dcs.shef.ac.uk naso@sirma.bg ying.ding@uibk.ac.at Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The emphasis during reviewing will be on content, not format, however. Programme Committee: Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, British Telecom, UK John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Jon Patrick, Univeristy of Sydney, Australia * Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, UK Marin Dimitrov, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, GE Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK * to be confirmed From: Wendell Piez Subject: nested narrative Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 06:32:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 33 (33) Willard and HUMANIST: I'd be interested in getting some facts on how deeply nested narratives can get, especially in the oral tradition. For example, as I see it, Homer's _Odyssey_ goes three levels deep, since direct discourse is quoted in Odysseus's narrative embedded in Homer's narrative. (I'd be thrilled if I could remember four levels deep as early as Homer, but I can't.) In literary traditions, of course organizations can get many levels deep (I found Conrad bewildering to follow as I recall). Can my fellow readers confirm for me that Homer only goes three levels deep? Can anyone provide an example from an oral tradition that goes further? For that matter, any occasions anyone can recall of things going four levels or deeper might be of interest. Plays within plays.... Regards, 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: ileibrandt@unav.es Subject: literature Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 06:32:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 34 (34) Dear Willard, for my thesis I'm searching bibliography about didactics of literature in general and about the application of the ICT in teaching literature in particular. I would appreciate any hint. Thank you very much! Isabella Leibrandt Dep. de Alemán Instituto de Idiomas Universidad de Navarra Este mensaje ha sido enviado con Buzón - www.unav.es From: rddescha Subject: RE: FWD: 17.029 nested narrative? bibliographies of Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 07:10:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 35 (35) didactics & ICT in literature? Sorry I am not following this list, but a colleague forwarded this message to me and I thought I could help a little. One of the tales in _Arabian Nights_ (Arabic et. al. tradition -- and I don't think this particular tale is one of the "orphan" tales) goes well beyond three levels. I think its called "Fisherman and Genie" Also, I think Thomas King's _Green Grass, Running Water_ (Cherokee tradition) gets quite complicated with the nested narratives, running at least three levels (if not more) AND having simultaneous plots running to boot. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Candidate -- Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 17.029 nested narrative Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 07:11:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 36 (36) Re nested narrative--a zillion years ago I wrote this about logical nesting that is indirectly relevant to Wendell's question in such a way that it may relate to the confusion of such nesting (I've scanned it in case people find it not very accessible in physical form): Yngve's Depth Hypothesis and the structure of narrative: the example of detective fiction. In Maxine McCafferty and Kathleen Gray (eds.), The Analysis of Meaning: Informatics 5, 104-109. ASLIB, London, 1979. (see <http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/%7Egalloway/aslib2.pdf>http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/%7Egalloway/aslib2.pdf) Patricia Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: 17.029 nested narrative? Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 07:11:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 37 (37) There's a (non-oral) example of nested narrative in Joseph Conrad that goes four levels deep. In his novel Chance, there's a point in Part I where these stories are all going at once: We're hearing the tale of Mr Powell, who was second mate under Captain Anthony; this is interrupted by Marlow for the story of: Marlow's acquaintance with the Fynes, and presence on the scene when the elopement of Flora de Barral with Captain Anthony is revealed; he pauses in the middle of this story to tell us about: The financier de Barral, Flora's father, in his heyday; this is mostly not firsthand, but Marlow interrupts this account to tell us about: His private-financier acquaintance through whom he once met de Barral, or at least had a chance to observe him closely. Now an objective judge would have to say that this book consigns Homer to the dustbin of history. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: 17.029 nested narrative? bibliographies of didactics Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 07:12:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 38 (38) & ICT inliterature? I can't add anything to Wendell's comment about deeply nested narrative in Homer or other oral narrative, but Chaucer has no trouble with five levels in the Nun's Priest's Tale, depending on just how you are counting. That is, Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales in which the Nun's Priest tells the story of Chauntecleer and Pertelote, in which Chauntecler's narrative about dreams includes a story in which Cicero tells about a man who has a dream in which the man's friend appears and tells about the friend's own murder. And four levels are, I think, quite common in Chaucer. Although it is a bit more doubtful, there may be four levels in the Anglo-Saxon Dream of the Rood, which is presumably closer to oral tradition (it is a VERY old poem): the poet tells writes a poem in which a dreamer tells about his dream in which the cross speaks to him about its suffering and (perhaps) reports God's words Good hunting, David Hoover David L. Hoover, Assoc. Chair & Webmaster NYU Eng. Dept., 212-998-8832 http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "We easily perceive that the peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are the furthest apart and consider this one of the signs of savagery. But we are so stupid that we can't see that we thus plainly admit that no civilization can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included." (Mark Twain's Notebook, 1895) From: johnsone7@sio.midco.net Subject: Re: nested narrative? Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 07:13:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 39 (39) In answer to Wendell's question, Emily bronte's _Wuthering Heights_ comes to mind. In one spot (page 118 of my Riverside paperback) Lockwood is telling the story that Nelly told him and she quotes a letter from Isabella that quotes Hindley and he quotes Heathcliff. That is five levels deep (I think). -- Eric Johnson From: Willard McCarty Subject: narrative nesting Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 07:14:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 40 (40) This in response to Wendell Piez's question about locating nested narratives. One example is provided by Ovid's Metamorphoses. In some places how many levels one can say there are is a matter for interpretation, but in places I count at least 5, in others possibly 7. An example of the former is the so-called Aeneid (i.e. the story of Aeneas's wanderings) 13.623-14.608. Several stories there go 4 deep, one goes 5 levels down: inside the Aeneid is the story at Caieta 14.154-444, inside of which is Macareus & Achaemenides 14.158-440, inside of which is Polyphemus 14.165-222 and the Laestrygonians and Circe 14.223-440, inside of which is Picus 14.132-434. There are two more of those in book 14 and another in book 15. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/analyticalonomasticon/base/narrative.html for my handy chart. But as in so many other cases, declaring anything to be thus-and-so in the Met is very tricky. But then perhaps what you want is a bag of hard tricks. Another example is certainly in The Saragossa Manuscript, a film by Wojciech Has (for which see http://www.cowboybi.com/saragossa/main.htm) based on the 19C novel by Jan Potocki. This has to be one of the most interesting and intricate films I have ever seen. (I caught it during my undergraduate days at Reed College, when one or two prints were making the underground scene at colleges and universities in the U.S.) The film is also available on DVD, it seems, via (of course) amazon.com. (He turns aside to do a one-click.) All, apparently, thanks to Jerry Garcia. Anyhow, at one point, if counting from those days can be trusted, I counted 7 levels. Furthermore, on the 7th level, characters from other levels show up, and then things really become complex. I suspect but do not know that such intercalation (the technical term, about which some has been written by Ovidians) is commonplace in Near Eastern narrative traditions. I would ask someone who knows his or her way around Arabic literature. I also note that intercalation together with the epic convention of "in medias res" (as in Homer) are two very ancient ways of playing against so-called linear narrative. Flashbacks are another; a milder form of that would be embedded reminiscences; milder yet references to previous events and occasions; mildest of all, perhaps, word-meanings that evoke past times in the reader. I wonder how commonplace strictly linear narratives actually are. Are there any that are *strictly* linear, or is this a rather unproductive notion of the hypertext evangelists? How can one tell the difference between a story and a reference to a story? In a number of places in Ovid's Met the difference seems purely arbitrary, i.e. a matter of counting words and lines. 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: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de (RAM-Verlag) Subject: Glottometrics 4, 2002; to honor G. G. Zipf Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:11:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 41 (41) Interested in "Glottometrics 4, 2002" which is edited on the occasion of G. K. Zipf' s 100th birthday? Then visit our web-site: <http://www.ram-verlag.de>www.ram-verlag.de and look at the contents including abstracts. If you can't link directly from here, see attachment, please. Glottometrics 4, 2002 is available as: - Printed edition: EUR 25.00 plus PP - CD-ROM: EUR 10.00 plus PP - PDF format (internet download): EUR 5.00 Questions? Do not hesitate to contact me (e-mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de) Best regards Jutta Richter For: RAM-Publisher From: Willard McCarty Subject: linear narratives & nesting Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:06:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 42 (42) [On behalf of Ryan Deschamps --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: "OESI Informa" Subject: scholarships for attending SEPLN03 Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 07:54:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 43 (43) YOUNG RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ATTENDING THE 19TH CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (SEPLN03) The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, in order to spread research conducted in the field of Natural Language Processing at pre-doctoral levels, will be offering 5 scholarships for attending the 19th SEPLN Conference (<http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln>http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln). 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[1] If the applicant is not a SEPLN member, registration to become a SEPLN member is a must ___________________________________________________ Oficina del Espaol en la Sociedad de la Informacin C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcal de Henares (Madrid) Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26 informaoesi@cervantes.es <http://oesi.cervantes.es>http://oesi.cervantes.es From: Willard McCarty Subject: VR research on Pompeiian wall paintings Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 08:04:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 44 (44) A report on Richard Beacham's application of VR techniques to the study of Pompeiian wall paintings is online at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030521092430.htm. 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: "OESI Informa" Subject: scholarships for attending SEPLN03 Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 07:54:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 45 (45) [Apologies for the inadvertent mangling of some characters in the previous version of this message. --WM] YOUNG RESEARCHERS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ATTENDING THE 19TH CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (SEPLN03) The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, in order to spread research conducted in the field of Natural Language Processing at pre-doctoral levels, will be offering 5 scholarships for attending the 19th SEPLN Conference (<http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln>http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln). REQUIREMENTS Pre-PhD young researchers who meet the following requirements: " they are developing their PhD thesis " they have not been granted another scholarship for the same purpose " they are SEPLN members[1] COVERED COSTS Scholarships will cover the following costs: " transportation to the conference venue " accommodation, in a nearby residence to the conference venue " registration The maximum amount due is 400 EURO. APPLICATION Applicants must send their CVs to the following e-mail address: ayudasXIXsepln@dlsi.ua.es, accompanying a certificate, signed by their thesis director in which he states the researcher is currently developing a PhD thesis, together with a statement in which the applicant states not to have been granted any another scholarship for the purpose of attending this conference. The deadline for submitting applications is June 30, 2003. [1] If the applicant is not a SEPLN member, registration to become a SEPLN member is a must ___________________________________________________ Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26 informaoesi@cervantes.es <http://oesi.cervantes.es>http://oesi.cervantes.es From: rddescha Subject: The Internet, Humanism and Interdisciplinary Studies Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 07:53:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 46 (46) Hi there, I am interested in hearing anyone's experience about using collaborative software (webct/yahoo groups etc.) for interdisciplinary seminar-style courses: especially those with a geographic/ethnographic slant (Canadian Studies, American Studies, African Studies, Eastern European Studies etc.). For example, I could imagine the ability for student(s) to engage in discussion with many professors from many disciplines through chat sessions or newsgroups being something that would be very rewarding, but does it work in practise? Are students and/or professors usually willing to participate in such things? Thanks in advance for your input! Sincerely, Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Candidate -- Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 06:55:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 47 (47) Toward an Anthropology of Graphing Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives by Wolff-Michael Roth University of Victoria, BC, Canada Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-TheoreticPerspectives presents the results of several studies involving scientists and technicians. In Part One of the book, "Graphing in Captivity", the author describes and analyses the interpretation scientists volunteered given graphs that had been culled from an introductory course and textbook in ecology. Surprisingly, the scientists were not the experts that the author expected them to be on the basis of the existing expert-novice literature. The section ends with the analysis of graphs that the scientists had culled from their own work. Here, they articulated a tremendous amount of background understanding before talking about the content of their graphs. In Part Two, "Graphing in the Wild", the author reports on graph usage in three different workplaces based on his ethnographic research among scientists and technicians. Based on these data, the author concludes that graphs and graphing are meaningful to the extent that they are deeply embedded in and connected to the familiarity with the workplace. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1374-4 Date: June 2003 Pages: 356 pp. EURO 135.00 / USD 130.00 / GBP 86.00 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 Subject: senior position in humanities computing Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 06:54:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 48 (48) Dear colleagues: I wish to draw your attention to a senior position in humanities computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada, one of the top-level Canada Research Chairs, broadly defined for "Language and Culture" in order to attract applications from a wide variety of scholarly backgrounds. The competition is open until 15 June. A description of the position is at http://www.universityaffairs.ca/career_ads/current/languageculture05_e.html. Anyone who wishes to discuss the position is welcome to contact Dr Riemer Faber, Chair, Department of Classics, . According to my sources, the competition is in fact wide-open, and because it is at a senior level, considerable flexibility would be possible for the right sort of candidate. Whatever we do we should ensure that a genuinely strong field is represented and that the person who is appointed will do well for us. Canada is a wonderful country in which to live, as I know from having spent 20 years there. The CRC scheme is a remarkable attempt to strengthen research across the disciplines in Canada. It has already benefitted our field considerably. The University of Waterloo is the top engineering school in the country, with a very strong department of computer science, and one that I suspect would be quite friendly to the holder of this CRC position. You may recall the pioneering work on the Oxford English Dictionary carried out at Waterloo in conjunction with members of that department. Please circulate the advert as widely as possible. 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: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 17.032 nesting and linear narratives Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 06:56:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 49 (49) Willard and all, Thanks to everyone who's responded so far on my "nesting of narrative" question. (Thanks especially to Ryan Deschamps for the Symposium reference. Of course! This is also an interesting example on the cusp of a shift between oral and literary, perhaps where the literary "breaks out". Chaucer is also in an interesting shift between oral and literary, at any rate if the Tales were meant for oral presentation.) Part of why I'm interested in whether there's a distinction apparent here between oral and literary narratives is that I wonder whether the literary, because of both its means of composition (signs on a page as well as sounds in the air) and its means of transmission, doesn't "tolerate" deeper nesting. Plato and Chaucer (experimenters with written forms) giving us such deep examples may lend weight to this idea. Nonetheless, I agree whole-heartedly that it is evidently an ancient (and beautifully effective) technique of drawing attention to the contingency and, frequently, dubiousness, of what we hear and see, the narrativity of narrative.... I'll also have to return to Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller", which IIRC deals rather directly with this. Cheers, Wendell From: Virginia Knight Subject: linear narratives and nesting Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 06:57:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 50 (50) The _Odyssey_ reaches four levels, for example at Od. 9.508-514. During Odysseus' extended account of his journey from Troy to Scheria, Odysseus quotes a speech made by the blinded Cyclops Polyphemus in which he (Polyphemus) recalls in turn a prophecy given to him by the seer Telemos. Irene de Jong's recent _A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey_ has invaluable discussions of embedded narratives within the poem. Dostoevsky may furnish further examples, not perhaps of multiple levels of narrative but of extended episodes two or three levels deep, especially if we allow the narrators of _The Brothers Karamazov_ or _The Devils_, who take a back seat almost all the time, to put us at one remove further from the action. Virginia Knight -- Virginia Knight, Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7154 Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7112 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: membership statistics Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:06:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 51 (51) The Humanist homepage now has a link to statistics on the membership in the form of an Excel spreadsheet with charts showing the raw numbers and percentage by population of the 45 countries in which we are represented. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ or http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/. Note the 12 addresses whose origin the Listserv software could not compute. 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: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Nested Orality Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 05:22:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 52 (52) Hi, This is not a subject I'm directly familiar with, but orality does have a bearing on my work. As this list does seem to allow "thinking out loud," here are my thoughts. Memory is certainly a major theme in the study of orality, especially in works comparing it with writing (written-ity?). Yet, at first glance, it seems cognitively awkward to "memorize" stories with so many levels of nesting. In fact, there has to be psychological writings on the fact that the human mind can't remember more than three levels of nesting. Yet, it seems to be happening in oral traditions, It doesn't seem likely that, for oral texts available in written form, the nesting would have been added by transcription. Now, don't we in fact use a similar process in conversation? What I mean is that, anecdotally, I used to have playful conversations with a friend of mine in which the main challenge was to switch from one topic to another ("coq l'ne") and then tracing back these topics and closing them. I do advise you to try it, not only because it can be fun, but also because it helps one experiment the beauty of orality. Which brings me to a possible explanation of nesting in oral literature, namely the cognitive appeal of the challenge. Nowadays, writers often (?) use tools to keep track of plots, characters, dates, and such. Oral performers, on the other hand, often take great pride in the power of their memory. How hard could it be to say that we can get our mind to work as an outliner with the in-built ability to, like Panurge, "go back to our sheep" and close the open ends. The mind truly is a beautiful thing. My guess would be that narrative landmarks are a prominent device to make nesting and recursiveness work in the oral medium. Surely, some of you must have good examples on how an oral narrative goes from a nested level to its parent. I do hope these ramblings are appropriate enough here. From: Natasha Smith Subject: Job announcement: Director of Library Digital Publishing Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 05:31:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 53 (53) (UNC-CH) ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL VACANCY POSITION: Director of Library Digital Publishing AVAILABLE: Immediately DESCRIPTION The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks qualified candidates for the position of Director of Library Digital Publishing. 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John Bruni Department of English University of Kansas From: Subject: Re: 17.040 nested orality Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:25:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 57 (57) I can speak to this anecdotally. I began my creative journey as a print writer/poet, found acting and presently am venturing into digital storytelling. Since it is said that hypertext literature employs methodology conducive to orality, I've been studying theory of orality with great interest. Several of the tools of memorization associated with orality and indigenous to oral storytelling are, I believe, used in print writing (for those of us who write character-based without strict outlines for everything) and in digital storytelling. How we employ these in our various creative acts is what intrigues me the most. In January, I scripted and performed a brief play to unveil the completion of my novel and fulfill requirements of my undergraduate degree. When I first began to memorize the lines I had written, I experienced several problems (which was frustrating to me -- a writer and a veteran actor). In print, the script read with a great deal of emotion. In practice, that is dramatic storytelling, they did not have the same effect. What's more, I had problems memorizing the monologue, which was out of character for me. Think about it: I wrote the novel, I ought to be able to recite the monologue verbatim after a single reading, eh? Onward I went, determined that rather than read from the novel, I wanted to give a performance on the core theme. When I began to employ gestures and movement, words and the expression thereof would come out completely different than I had scripted them . I know this because I taped my rehearsals. (How else was I to judge what it looked like?) I determined that certain gestures triggered me to say certain words and to say them in specific ways. What's more, when I re-scripted the monologue based on my taped performances and when I added repetition (to help me with memorization)the piece took on a life of its own. I have performed this piece numerous times since and each time, it seems to change a bit based on to whom I am telling the story and their reaction as the monologue unfolds. Yet, the key elements are always there and certain terms and gestures trigger the story to come from my mind to my lips. I have not performed the piece since reading Ong last month, but you can bet, I will be interested to see what happens now that I have a little theory under my belt. What's more, it is going to be interesting to see what happens with my innate oral and print storytelling practices when I employ them, enhance them or perhaps remake them to use to digital storytelling. Great topic. I hope others chime in. Christine Goldbeck cgoldie@epix.net www.christinegoldbeck.com [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] Christine Goldbeck Author www.christinegoldbeck.com www.minecountry.com From: lhomich Subject: RE: 17.044 nesting and linear narratives Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:52:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 58 (58) The topic of nesting prompts me to wonder about 'nested' acronyms. "SAX," for instance, is a 2-level acronym: SAX = Simple API (Application Programming Interface) for XML (eXtensible Markup Language). I'm sure there are acronyms with more levels of 'nesting,' but I can't think of any off the top of my head. I'd be naive to expect such nested acronyms (NAs? NeAcs?) to be the exclusive domain of computing; can other areas claim such clarification/obfuscation? How deep do they go? Eric Homich M.A. Student, Humanities Computing / English University of Alberta From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Re: 17.045 nesting Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:43:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 59 (59) As regards the acronyms: there are not only 'nested' but also 'recursive' (which is then a special sort of nesting) acronyms like "GNU's Not Unix" where the G stands for "GNU's Not UNIX" ... Patrick Sahle At 10:55 30.05.03 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________________ Universitt zu Kln Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Kerpener Str. 30 50923 Koeln http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/ Privat: Blankenheimer Strasse 19 50937 Kln 0049 - (0)221 - 2805695 Sahle@uni-koeln.de http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26/ From: Clifford Wulfman Subject: Re: 17.045 nesting Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:45:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 60 (60) Eric might be interested to know that there's quite a tradition of "recursive acronyms" in the naming of software: names that are acronyms, one of whose letters refers to the name. The GNU project is an exmple: GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix"). The name of the popular email reader PINE ("Pine Is Nearly Elm" and "Pine Is No-longer Elm") is another; see Laurence Lundblade's discussion of the etymology at <http://www.island-resort.com/pine.htm>). I don't recall whether or not ELM is an acronym; if it is, then PINE would be both recursive and "nested." From: Robin Smith Subject: Re: 17.045 nesting Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:47:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 61 (61) This is still within the computing world, but surely you're familiar with the ultimate form of nesting: recursive acronyms. The classic example is `GNU' (= `GNU's Not Unix'). Robin Smith From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 17.045 nesting Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:48:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 62 (62) MOO = MUD, Object-Oriented MUD = Multi-User Dungeon John From: Willard McCarty Subject: nesting Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:49:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 63 (63) [On behalf of Jan Christoph Meister -- WM] 20:45 30.05.2003 (Willard tells me he never received this message which I originally posted on 22 May. In case it turns out as a double posting please accept my apologies.) I think one can better the count for maximum nesting on the basis of the evidence which Willard pointed out: Yes, there are about 7 or 8 levels in the FILM version of Jan Count Potocki's 'Saragossa Manuscript'. But - - oh my, Wojciech Has's movie... I sat in a Hamburg cinema in the late 1970s, if I recall correctly, watching it. There was a guy in a seriously altered state of mind sitting next to me (quite a number of people were >)who, after we had jointly, pardon the pun, descended to the 5th level exclaimed: "I'm going crazy!" - Whis goes to serve that one should avoid reading literature, because: 5 or 7 or 8 levels is still peanuts. In the original narrative (I mean, in the BOOK) Potocki's story is actually nested somewhere in the region of 11 or 12 levels deep. Not everybody can handle that sort of thing. Neither could the author: legend has it that Potocki shot himself with a bullet which he had manufactured over the course of a couple of years. Whenever the count was depressed - those long winter nights in Poland can get to you - he spent the evening filing away at the knob on top of a little silver sugar pot. Until one night it was, well, perfectly round. Anyway: though I love Potocki's story (the one he told; mind you the one about him has its merits too) it is a game which narrators can in theory keep on playing infinitely. As a narratologist I think the trick only becomes really interesting when, on top of nesting the ontological domains of narrator/narrated, the narrator arranges for the transgression across domain boundaries. Cortazar's 'Park without End' (in short: the story of a guy reading a book in which he watches another person going through a park to a house in which he then watches someone reading a book, approaches the reader from behind, and then ... b.t.w.: are you the only person reading this e-mail on this very screen right now?) Personally, I prefer Borges' 'Aleph': the story of someone finding a particular spot under a staircase - the 'aleph' from which he can see everything at the same time, including himself seeing everything etc. etc.. Escher comes to mind. Anyway 2: Gerard Genette's defines this type of structure as a case of 'metalepsis'. As far as I know Marie-Laure Ryan was the first to address this particular variant of the aesthetic problem of embedding from a computational perspective, interpreting it in terms of infinite recursion as it occurs in a badly written program (the proverbial 'loop' - but let me quickly read Patricia Galloway's article which probably already discusses the problem from the same angle.) Which brings me, I hope, back to Wendell's initial point: is anybody aware of a true example for metaleptical embedding in a= case of ORAL tradition? And Wendell: what exactly is it that interests you in the phenomenon? Chris ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Forschergruppe Narratologie Universit=E4t 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 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 Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- May 2003 Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:51:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 64 (64) CIT INFOBITS May 2003 No. 59 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 Support in Distance Education New Models of Scholarship New Models for Research Publishing Report on Use of Course Management Systems MIT Press Launches Print-on-Demand Program Recommended Reading Editor's Note: Rob Kling .. [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). From: Willard McCarty Subject: report from Athens Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:04:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 65 (65) Dear colleagues, This is not a full report on the ACH/ALLC conference now in progress at the University of Georgia in Athens GA. Rather it is a single reflection on the most directly visible manifestation of our community. While it is true that our numbers are small, even in relation to the size of Humanist, the signs of genuine strength are everywhere here. A young postgraduate student remarked to me how much more welcoming and simultaneously challenging this community is in comparison to the other parts of the academic world she has encountered. And today I saw this in particularly vivid form, in a paper that took the form of a dramatic dialogue between Geoffrey Rockwell and Stephen Ramsey, "Programming as Writing as Programming" -- Socratic, Phaedrus-like and great good stimulating fun. Next year the conference is being held in Goteborg, Sweden. Not your last chance. 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: Oxford Text Archive Subject: Investigating Free E-books, Workshop, Oxford June 13th Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:53:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 66 (66) Would you be interested in attending the workshop 'Investigating Free E-books' in Oxford on June 13th? The workshop is free, and travel expenses can be paid by Oxford University. The Oxford Text Archive (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk) is undertaking an investigation into free e-books and their potential use within the HE and FE communities on behalf of the JISC/DNER E-Book Working Group. You can see more about this project at http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ebooks/JISC/. UK academics and librarians are invited to participate in the workshop 'Investigating Free E-Books' at Oxford University Computing Services on Friday 13th June 2003, running from 11am to 4pm. This workshop will have two parts: in the morning there will be talks highlighting free e-book resources available on the web and explaining what can be done with them in learning and teaching. In the afternoon there will be two parallel focus group sessions investigating in some depth the issues which are addressed by this survey. A free buffet lunch will be provided for all focus group participants. There will also be an opportunity over the lunch break to use and explore some of the relevant resources, software tools and devices. It is also possible to come just for the morning session, but we are keen to find out your reactions to the information presented in the morning and any other relevant experience you have. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please email ebooks@ota.ahds.ac.uk. Please indicate your name, contact email address and the nature of your experience or interest in ebooks in teaching and learning. The number of places is limited, and in order to organise lunch, expenses and the focus group discussions the participants will need to register in this way in advance. If you are unable to come, or know someone who is better suited to take part, please feel free to pass this invitation on. We are keen to find out more about the potential and the problems of uptake of free ebooks from teachers, librarians, resource creators or developers, managers or other interested parties. For any further information about the project, the survey or the workshop, please email ebooks@ota.ahds.ac.uk. Programme for the day: 1030 Registration, tea and coffee 1100 Welcome and introduction to the day 1115 Talks - free ebooks on the web: what they are, where to find them and how to use them in teaching and learning. 1245 Discussion 1300 Lunch and opportunity to use resources in the multimedia lab 1400 Focus Group discussions 1550 Prize draw and close of workshop Travel expenses from within the UK will be paid to focus group participants producing valid receipts (within certain limits). There will be a prize draw for 2 Palm PDAs. The names of focus group participants will be entered into the draw. (This will take place in addition to the draw for a further two Palms in which all respondents to the FE questionnaire will be entered.) Venue: Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX3 6NN We regret that car-parking facilities are not available, but Oxford does offer an excellent park & ride service. OUCS is 20 minutes walk from Oxford railway station, or a 10 minute taxi ride. From: fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Subject: open source software for e-journals Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:14:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 67 (67) Hello, I am looking for pointers to open source software which models the work-flow for electronic journals in the Humanities (which mainly means, it must be able to handle footnotes and winword documents) from contacting an author up to the publication in HTML and PDF. Ideally it is would use XML as storage format and use XSLT to convert to the output formats. Is there a list of such software? Or even some evaluation report? Thanks in advance for your help, Fotis Jannidis PS: I know of these projects, which cover some of the features: Open Journal Systems <http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/> GNU EPrints 2 <http://software.eprints.org/> From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: 17.051 open-source software for e-journals? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:34:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 68 (68) Although designed with theses in mind, the open source software Cyberdoc is quite capable to output any XML DTD with some tweaking (presently, it handles TEI light by default). To find more about it, please contact Martin Svigny (sevigny@ajlsm.com) who has been copied on this message. He will provide more details and tell you how to get this software. Jean-Claude Guédon From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 17.051 open-source software for e-journals? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:38:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 69 (69) Hi there, OpenOffice should fit the bill: www.openoffice.org Much recommended. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes@uvic.ca mholmes2@compuserve.com mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Early Modern Information Overload Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:41:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 70 (70) Willard, The latest issue of The Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64, number 1 (January 2003) has a delightful series of articles on Early Modern Information Overload. David Rosenberg provides an introduction to the topic, followed by: Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700, by Ann Blair The Many Books of Nature: Renaissance Naturalists and Information Overload, by Brian W. Ogilvie From Philology to Fossils: The Biblical Encyclopedia in Early Modern Europe, by Jonathan Sheehan A Solution to the Multitude of Books: Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopedia (1728) "the Best Book in the Universe", by Richard Yeo I think a close examination of the analog methods devised to deal with this information overload and issues related thereto, could well provide some insight into possible strategies for digital methods addressing the same problem. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: Steven Krauwer Subject: ESS2003: ELSNET Summer School on CALL Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:40:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 71 (71) REMINDER: Still places available 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 http://www.univ-lille3.fr/ESS2003 Organized by the University of Lille 3 For the 11th ELSNET Summer 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). All students attend the same full programme, except for the hands-on sessions, where students can sign up for either NLP or Speech oriented streams. In special student sessions students can present their own work. The presentations will be published on the ELSNET website. The working language of the Summer School will be English. [material deleted] For detailed information about programme, registration procedures and deadlines, fees, accommodation, grant possibilities, venue, course and social programme, etc visit the ESS2003 website at http://www.univ-lille3.fr/ESS2003 or send an email to the local organizers at elsnetadmin@univ-lille3.fr Creditcard payment is now possible. A limited number of grants (covering the cost of accommodation) may be available. Details and application forms can be found on the website. __________________________________________________________________________ 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 http://www.elsnet.org From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 4(2) "Subjectivity and Reflexivity in Qualitative Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:33:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 72 (72) Research II" online Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you that FQS 4(2) -- Subjectivity and Reflexivity in Qualitative Research II -- is available at http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt2-03-e.htm (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-02-e.htm for Part I). We hope that this most extensive collection on subjectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research thus far will promote further understanding and initiate discussions -- whether one agrees with or is critical against it. This hope is supported by the fact that authors from various disciplines and nations joined this adventure and gave insights from their practices and knowledge. Of course, everyone is invited to join us in these reflection and discussion processes at FQS also in the future! Katja Mruck, Editor Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research *********************************************************************** FQS 4(2) -- SUBJECTIVITY AND REFLEXIVITY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Edited by Wolff-Michael Roth, Franz Breuer & Katja Mruck Katja Mruck & Franz Breuer: Subjectivity and Reflexivity in Qualitative Research -- The FQS Issues http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03intro-1-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth & Franz Breuer: Reflexivity and Subjectivity: A Possible Road Map for Reading the Special Issues http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03intro-2-e.htm Franz Breuer & Wolff-Michael Roth: Subjectivity and Reflexivity in the Social Sciences: Epistemic Windows and Methodical Consequences http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03intro-3-e.htm Bruce Bolam, Kate Gleeson & Simon Murphy (UK): "Lay Person" or "Health Expert"? Exploring Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Reflexivity in Qualitative Health Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03bolametal-e.htm Gert Dressel & Nikola Langreiter (Austria): When "We Ourselves" Become Our Own Field of Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03dressellangreiter-e.htm Carolyn Ellis (USA): Grave Tending: With Mom at the Cemetery http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03ellis-e.htm Wolfgang Fichten & Birgit Dreier (Germany): Triangulation of Subjectivity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03fichtendreier-e.htm Mary Hanrahan (Australia): Challenging the Dualistic Assumptions of Academic Writing: Representing Ph.D. Research as Embodied Practice http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03hanrahan-e.htm Silvia Heizmann (Switzerland): "Because of You I Am an Invalid!"-Some Methodological Reflections About the Limitations of Collecting and Interpreting Verbal Data and the Attempt to Win New Insights by Applying the Epistemological Potential of Ethnopsychoanalytical Concepts http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03heizmann-e.htm Olaf Jensen & Harald Welzer (Germany): One Thing Leads to Another or: Self-Reflexivity as Method http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03jensenwelzer-e.htm Helen Kay, Viviene Cree, Kay Tisdall & Jennifer Wallace (Guyana, Scotland, UK): At the Edge: Negotiating Boundaries in Research with Children and Young People http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03kayetal-e.htm Ernst Langthaler (Austria): (Hi)stories on (Hi)stories. Historical-Anthropological Fieldwork as Reflexive Process http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03langthaler-e.htm Stuart Lee & Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Becoming and Belonging: Learning Qualitative Research Through Legitimate Peripheral Participation http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03leeroth-e.htm Stephan Marks & Heidi Moennich-Marks (Germany): The Analysis of Counter-Transference Reactions Is a Means to Discern Interview-Contents http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03marks-e.htm Judith McMorland, Brigid Carroll, Susan Copas & Judith Pringle (New Zealand): Enhancing the Practice of PhD Supervisory Relationships Through First- And Second-Person Action Research/Peer Partnership Inquiry http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03mcmorlandetal-e.htm Harriet W. Meek (USA): The Place of the Unconscious in Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03meek-e.htm Chaim Noy (Israel): The Write of Passage: Reflections on Writing a Dissertation in Narrative Methodology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03noy-e.htm Sarah Riley, Wendy Schouten & Sharon Cahill (UK): Exploring the Dynamics of Subjectivity and Power Between Researcher and Researched http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03rileyetal-e.htm Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): The Interaction between Research Method and Subjective Competence in Systematic Metaphor Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03schmitt-e.htm Maria de Ftima de A. Silveira, Dulce Maria Rosa Gualda, Vera Sobral, & Ademilda Maria de S. Garcia (Brazil): Workshops of Sensitivity, Expressiveness and Creativity: A Path to Integrate Subjectivity and Reflection in Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03silveiraetal-e.htm Tilo Weber (Germany): There Is No Objective Subjectivity in the Study of Social Interaction http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03weber-e.htm ***** SINGLE CONTRIBUTIONS Nicole Capezza (USA): The Cultural-Psychological Foundations for Violence and Nonviolence. An Empirical Study http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03capezza-e.htm Monica Colombo (Italy): Reflexivity and Narratives in Action Research: A Discursive Approach http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03colombo-e.htm Marisela Hernndez (Venezuela): Recovering the Objects: Towards a "Tasty" Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03hernandez-e.htm Helmar Schoene (Germany): Participant Observation in Political Science: Methodological Reflection and Field Report http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03schoene-e.htm *** FQS DEBATE "QUALITY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH" Franz Breuer: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Positions and Position Changes in Psychology. A Comment on Texts by Jochen Fahrenberg and Juergen Rost http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03breuer-e.htm Jochen Fahrenberg (Germany): Interpretation in Psychology and Social Science-New Approach or a Neglected Tradition? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03fahrenberg-e.htm Juergen Rost (Germany): Zeitgeist and Fashions in the Analysis of Empirical Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03rost-e.htm *** FQS DEBATE "DOING SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES-ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE CAREER POLITICS OF AN OCCUPATIONAL GROUP" Franz Breuer, Jo Reichertz & Wolff-Michael Roth: Taboos of Thematization and Gate Keeping in the Social Sciences: Moderators' Comments http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03breueretal-e.htm Angelika Birck (Germany): Laura's Doctorate http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03birck-e.htm Guenter Burkart (Germany): On Taboos of Thematizing and the Impossibility of Doing a Sociology of Sociology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03burkart-e.htm *** FQS REVIEW Valerie Malhotra Bentz (USA): Review Note: Arthur P. Bochner & Carolyn Ellis (Eds.) (2002). Ethnographically Speaking: Autoethnography, Literature and Aesthetics http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-bentz-e.htm Michael B. Buchholz (Germany): Review Note: Klaus Antons, Andreas Amann, Gisela Clausen, Oliver Koenig & Karl Schattenhofer (2001). Gruppenprozesse verstehen. Gruppendynamische Forschung und Praxis [Understanding Group Processes. Group Dynamics-Research and Practice] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-buchholz-e.htm Thomas Doebler (Germany): Review Note: Edmund Ballhaus (Ed.) (2001). Kulturwissenschaft, Film und Oeffentlichkeit [Cultural Science, Film, and Public] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-doebler-e.htm Susanne Friese (Germany): Review Note: Andreas Wernet (2000). Einfuehrung in die Interpretationstechnik der Objektiven Hermeneutik [Introduction to Interpretation Techniques of Objective Hermeneutics] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-friese-e.htm Ralf Ottermann (Germany): What is the Sociology of Crime? Disciplinary Conspicuousnesses and Qualitative Links. Review Essay: Stefanie Eifler (2002). Kriminalsoziologie [Sociology of Crime] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-ottermann-e.htm Carl Ratner (USA): Reply to Wolff-Michael Roth's Review Essay Culture and Identity, published in FQS 4(1) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-ratner-e.htm Dietmar Rost (Germany): Inside the Ghost Train of Collective Identity. Lutz Niethammer's Criticism of the Concept's Boom. Review Essay: Lutz Niethammer (2000). Kollektive Identitaet. Heimliche Quellen einer unheimlichen Konjunktur [Collective Identity. Clandestine Sources of an Eerie Boom] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-rost-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): The Dialectic of the General and Particular in Social Science Research and Teaching Praxis. Review Essay: Carol R. Ember & Melvin Ember (2001). Cross-Cultural Research Methods http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-roth-e.htm Wilhelm Schwendemann (Germany): Review Note: Harald Welzer (Ed.) (1999). Auf den Truemmern der Geschichte: Gespraeche mit Raul Hilberg, Hans Mommsen und Zygmunt Bauman [On the Ruins of History: Discourses with Raul Hilberg, Hans Mommsen and Zygmunt Bauman] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-schnwendemann-e.htm Achim Seiffarth (Italy): Qualitative Research for the Education of Mankind. Review Essay: Andreas Mueller-Hartmann & Marita Schocker-v.Ditfurth (Eds.) (2001). Qualitative Forschung im Bereich Fremdsprachen lehren und lernen [Qualitative Research in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-seiffarth-e.htm Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review Note: Beate Krais & Gunter Gebauer (2002). Habitus http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-spetsmann-e.htm Peter Stegmaier (Germany): Review Note: Thomas Samuel Eberle (2000). Lebensweltanalyse und Handlungstheorie. Beitraege zur Verstehenden Soziologie [Life-world Analysis and Action Theory. Contributions to Interpretative Sociology] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-stegmaier-e.htm Benjamin Stingl (Germany): Youth-Youth Culture-Techno. Review Essay: Ronald Hitzler & Michaela Pfadenhauer (Eds.) (2001). Techno-Soziologie: Erkundungen einer Jugendkultur [Techno-Sociology: Exploration of a Youth Culture] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-stingl-e.htm Tilmann Walter (Germany): Review Note: kea. Zeitschrift fuer Kulturwissenschaften [kea. Journal for Cultural Sciences] (2001), Ausgabe 14: Heteronormativitaet [Heteronormativity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-walter-e.htm Till Westermayer (Germany): Review Note: Peter Berger (2001). Computer und Weltbild. Habitualisierte Konzepte von der Welt der Computer [Computer and Worldview. Habitualized Concepts of the World of Computers] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-westermayer-e.htm -- FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) Deutsch -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm English -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm Espanol -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm Please sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Visit http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm for Workshop and Conference Announcements. From: Sean Lawrence Subject: Latest issue of EMLS Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:34:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 73 (73) Early Modern Literary Studies is delighted to announce the launch of its May issue, which is, as usual, available free online at http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-1/09-1toc.htm The table of contents is below. Articles Romancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and the Body Divisible in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World. [1] Geraldine Wagner, College of the Holy Cross. Elizabeth Cary's Mariam and the Critique of Pure Reason. [2] William M. Hamlin, Washington State University. Propaganda or a Record of Events? Richard Mulcaster's The Passage Of Our Most Drad Soveraigne Lady Quene Elyzabeth Through The Citie Of London Westminster The Daye Before Her Coronacion. [3] William Leahy, Brunel University. Religion, Politics, Revenge: The Dead in Renaissance Drama. [4] Thomas Rist, University of Aberdeen. "The Legend of the Bischop of St. Androis Lyfe" and the Survival of Scottish Poetry. [5] David J. Parkinson, University of Saskatchewan. How to Read an Early Modern Map: Between the Particular and the General, the Material and the Abstract, Words and Mathematics. [6] Jess Edwards, London Metropolitan University. "Thy temperance invincible": Humanism in Book II of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Regained. [7] Sung-Kyun Yim, Sookmyung Women's University. Reviews Nicholas Canny. Making Ireland British, 1580-1650. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. [8] Joan Fitzpatrick, University College Northampton. Julie Stone Peters, Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe. [9] Andrew Murphy, St Andrews University. Christie Carson and Jacky Bratton, eds. The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM: Text and Performance Archive. [10] Michael Best, University of Victoria. Heather Wolfe. Elizabeth Cary Lady Falkland: Life and Letters. Cambridge: Renaissance Texts from Manuscript no. 4 and Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies vol. 230, 2001. [11] Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland, Galway. Shankar Raman. Framing "India": The Colonial Imaginary in Early Modern Culture. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002. [12] Mark Aune, North Dakota State University. Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram. A Guide to English Illustrated Books 1536-1603. Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 1998. [13] Joseph Jones, University of British Columbia Library. Christina Luckyj, 'A moving Rhetoricke': Gender and Silence in Early Modern England. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002, and Eve Rachele Sanders, Gender and Literacy in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. [14] Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin. Michael Neill, Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. [15] Christopher Ivic, SUNY Potsdam. Rhonda Lemke Sanford. Maps and Memory in Early Modern England: A Sense of Place. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. [16] Jess Edwards, London Metropolitan University. Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. [17] Adam Smyth, University of Reading. Tom Cain, ed. The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. [18] Andrew McRae, University of Exeter. James Grantham Turner. Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. [19] Jim Daems, Simon Fraser University. Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews. Theatre Reviews Coriolanus, directed by David Farr, at The Dukeries, Ollerton and on tour. [20] Katherine Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy. [21] Jerome de Groot, University College Dublin. Lent Term: Cambridge Drama, 2003. [22] Michael Grosvenor Myer. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 5/6/03 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:37:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 74 (74) [This forwarded from a rather heavily formatted e-mail message; I pass it on as an example of access to material that otherwise would be unlikely to be published. --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: "danna c. bell-russel" Subject: Courage, Patriotism, Community Web Site at Library of Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:39:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 75 (75) Congress Good afternoon, This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for duplicate postings. Please direct any questions about the site to the email address provided below not to the poster. Courage, Patriotism, Community Web Site Debuts on Library of Congress website In honor of Memorial Day and in celebration of the American spirit, the Library of Congress is launching a new Web site highlighting its collections of veterans stories, patriotic music and community life. The new site, called Courage, Patriotism, Community, is accessible at http://www.loc.gov/courage. Courage, Patriotism, Community comprises three Web presentations: Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project; Patriotic Melodies: Selections from I Hear America Singing; and Community Roots: Selections from the Local Legacies Project. Experiencing War (http://www.loc.gov/warstories) features selected stories from the Librarys Veterans History Project in the American Folklife Center. Created by an act of Congress in 2000, the Veterans History Project provides veterans and the civilians who supported them the opportunity to record for posterity their wartime experiences. These poignant stories, which reflect the Web sites theme of courage, patriotism and community, are told through video, audio and written personal accounts from 21 veterans and civilians. They include such stories as that of James Walsh, veteran of the Korean War, who describes the numbing cold and horrifying scenes he endured with the 25th Infantry. Also included are photographs, diaries and scrapbooksall digitized and presented on the Web site. This initial release of personal narratives will be followed by many more from the 7,000 collections the Veterans History Project has received to date. Patriotic Melodies (http://www.loc.gov/patrioticmusic) illustrates the close connection between patriotism, music, and the expression of the American spirit; it features some of the nations most beloved patriotic tunes as well as the story behind the creation of each melody. The 26 initial selections include national songs like The Star Spangled Banner, America and My Country Tis of Thee; military theme songs like The Army Goes Rolling Along, Anchors Aweigh and The Marines Hymn; and music like Over There and Yankee Doodle Boy drawn from musical theater. A trip to the Web site will allow visitors to turn the pages of Aaron Coplands Fanfare for the Common Man, listen to Kate Smith sing God Bless America, and learn interesting factssuch as the title of George M. Cohans renowned song, Youre a Grand Old Flag, which was originally titled Youre a Grand Old Rag. Community Roots (http://www.loc.gov/folklife/roots) documents Americas local festivals, community events and other grassroots activities. The events selected for this presentation come from the larger Local Legacies collectiona joint project of the Library of Congress and the U.S. Congress that was initiated during the Librarys bicentennial celebration in 2000 to document the nations multicultural traditions at the turn of the 20th century. For the purpose of the online presentation, one local tradition has been selected to represent each state, the District of Columbia, the territories and trusts. These include Buccaneer Days in Texas, which celebrates a time in history when pirate ships sailed the Gulf waters, and the Worlds Largest Pancake Breakfastserving some 40,000in Springfield, Mass. Viewed as a whole, Community Roots highlights the ways in which Americans celebrate their diverse cultural backgrounds. The Library of Congress is the largest repository of human knowledge in the history of the world. During the last decade, the Library took advantage of the power of the Internet and the unparalleled resources of its collections and curators to become the leading provider of free noncommercial educational content on the World Wide Web. Its award-winning Web site is accessible at http://www.loc.gov. From baseball cards to presidential diaries, from Edisons first films to Mathew Bradys Civil War photographs, more than 8 million items are now available online showcasing the creativity and courage of the American people. Please direct any questions to the Library of Congress Public Affairs Office at (202) 707-2905 or via email at pao@loc.gov From: "David L. Green" Subject: Cleveland NINCH Copyright Town Meeting Report Available Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 07:42:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 76 (76) NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING REPORTS AVAILABLE "Copyright for Artists and their Public" Cleveland Museum of Art: April 12, 2003 http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/cleveland.report.html Full and summary reports are now available on the 22nd NINCH Copyright Town Hall Meeting hosted April 12, 2003 by the Cleveland Museum of Art and sponsored by the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. "Copyright for Artists and their Public: Artists' Rights and Art's Rights," divided into three parts: an expert review of copyright law and its evolution in the digital age, a discussion of the copyright and contract issues artists face when they go to work for, or sell work or rights to, organizations, and an exploration of the legality and consequences of art that appropriates work that is copyright protected. June Besek, Executive Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School, masterfully reviewed copyright law, emphasizing among other topics: the distinction between ownership of an object and ownership of its intellectual property rights; the number of rights included in the copyright bundle; moral rights (generally downplayed in the US); the range of exceptions to copyright control and the particular challenges of the digital landscape, the legal response to date and what may be expected down the road. While some of the more over-protective elements of the DMCA were being countered in new proposed legislation, June Besek saw the future in a combination of enforcement of the law and development of new business models. Turning to the intertwined issues of copyright, contracts and work for hire, Alberta Arthurs gave a rich contextual introduction to the conflicts, invoking the 2002 American Assembly report on this topic. Legal scholar, Maureen O'Rourke, powerfully demonstrated the situation of the individual creator in the post-Tasini digital world, in which corporate publishers force creators to give up all rights for the same price paid a few years ago for print-only rights. With copyright law offering little protection and contract law favoring large industrial players, O'Rourke proposed more collective action along the lines of the National Writers Union to redress current grievances. O'Rourke's legal perspective was given heft and color by photographer Richard Kelly, who said he spent more time negotiating contracts than taking photographs, but felt lucky when he could negotiate, as most publishers cannot afford the time for individual negotiation. Artists needed a just and balanced regime in which they were compensated for electronic rights to their work. Kelly expressed dismay that the legal hurdles facing artists are not discussed in art schools, and noted the need for artists to become educated about their rights. Attorney Deborah Coleman followed with an informed discussion of a museum's perspectives. She registered the frequent conflict between educational mission and economic survival and the need to rely on contracts in a sea of legal uncertainty. The Cleveland Museum was concerned about the integrity of images and their fate in the world but was not satisfied by the efficacy of legal or technical protection measures to date. In questions, Alberta Arthurs expressed her disappointment that the goals and balance of copyright were currently being displaced and needed re-adjustment. She particularly felt it was difficult to organize the many voices of the arts community into a unified viewpoint to match that of the corporate world (which, though often disparate, was more unified and forceful on these issues). In the third section of the meeting, allowable access and re-use of artistic work online was examined by a lawyer/musician, a new media musician and a photographer. Attorney Mark Avsec, recounting his own experience defending himself against the charge of misappropriation, outlined the "test" of the elements needed to prove infringement as proclaimed by the landmark 1946 case, Arnstein v. Porter. Although supporting copyright's monopoly, Avsec questioned whether copyright was successfully serving its purpose today. This challenge was illustrated in style by Mark Gunderson, who demonstrated the signature music collage format of his audio art band, The Evolution Control Committee (ECC). Giving full credit to their sources, ECC's work (in for example playing radically edited sections of Dan Rather's CBS Evening News reports against AC/DC in the "Rocked by Rape" piece) was probably illegal art, but should it be allowed, encouraged or squashed? Photographer Walt Seng recounted his involvement in a case of unauthorized commercial use of his photographs and concluded that strong and clear copyright education was very badly needed and could save many people's time in unnecessary lawsuits. In a final discussion about international law and copyright, the utility of registering copyright and creators' ability to choose their own licenses through the new Creative Commons organization, there was final agreement that artists need to collaborate and to educate and be educated further about copyright issues, especially in the digital world of today. -- David L. Green davidlesliegreen@earthlink.net 202.494.9846 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to Visit the NINCH-ANNOUNCE list web archive at <https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/NINCH-ANNOUNCE/>. From: Willard McCarty Subject: post-Fordism Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:46:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 77 (77) Simone Turchetti, Mauro Capocci and Elena Gagliasso, in "Production, Science and Epistemology", argue that the industrial, economic and social organization of developed countries has had a profound effect on how science and its epistemology have been conceived and practiced. Although few of us here actually do science properly so-called (in English), what Turchetti &al. have to say is at least relevant to us indirectly in how we conceptualize our nascent practice. In the 20th Century, as they tell the story, the development of new technologies moved production from linear mechanisms such as the Fordist assembly line to complex industrial networks of smaller, interdependent units, in which communication plays a major role. Hence the post-Fordist world in which we now operate. They analyze production under four headings: organization and architecture, production policy, the role of the state and production-subjects or workers. Under Fordism, then, the organization and architecture of science are hierarchical and linear, as in "big science" laboratories exemplified in the Manhattan Project; production policy is defined by mass-production of knowledge; the state is heavily interventionist, providing the funding and therefore controlling research; and the production-subjects are subordinate to machinery that embodies job-descriptions, with alienation of these subjects as a result -- typically the scientist-as-craftsman becomes a machine-tender or manager of machine-tenders. Under post-Fordism organization is "fractal", typically embodied in interlinking networks of small laboratories, exemplified by the Human Genome project; production policy, as in the just-in-time model, depends heavily on communication, much less on fixed process; the state backs away from support, so that the individual scientist becomes his or her own fund-raiser; and the production-subjects are left to their own devices in a free-market economy, broadly speaking. I am radically simplifying an already simplified argument -- to draw your attention to an interesting set of ideas. Again, we need to think carefully before we construct for ourselves a model of "knowledge production" (a binomial whose two terms both give me trouble and whose conjunction in our context DEMANDS an apology) that fails to recognize the post-Fordist revolution. 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: Kálmán Abari Subject: ALLC/ACH 2004 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:43:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 78 (78) The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) hereby announce their 2004 joint conference to be held in Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden Computing and Multilingual, Multicultural Heritage 16th Joint Annual Conference of ALLC and ACH June 11-16, 2004, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden The joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community of scholars at the forefront of their fields. The 2004 conference has two aims. First, we invite papers and contributions in all areas related to humanities computing and the application of advanced information technologies in humanities subjects, including linguistics, literature, cultural and historical studies, translation studies, media studies and digital collections. Papers on research and on teaching are both of interest. Papers may report on new theoretical and methodological advances in any relevant field. Second, within this context, the conference is expected to address the increased challenges of multilingualism, an issue manifested by the further enlargement of Europe and the process of integration of nations world wide. We thus also encourage papers related to the linguistic and cultural issues of multilingual communities. It is clear that specialists in humanities computing can help achieve these aims through individual scientific and educational tasks and joint projects, as well as by making available their research base through educational and electronic library resources. We believe that responding to these new challenges will also have a fertilizing effect on humanities computing as a whole by opening up new ways and methodologies to enhance the use of computers and computation in a wide range of humanities disciplines. The Call for Papers for the 2004 Joint ALLC/ACH Conference will be published in June 2003. We welcome presentations in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. Further information on the research and educational activities as well as on past conferences of the two associations can be found at www.allc.org (ALLC) and www.ach.org (ACH). For an overview of the range of topics covered by humanities computing please refer to the journals of the Associations, Literary and Linguistic Computing (www.oup.co.uk) and Computers and the Humanities (www.kluweronline.com). The conference website can be visited at: www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004 From: Martin Wynne Subject: JOB: Oxford Text Archive Research Officer Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:40:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 79 (79) Oxford University Computing Services Research Technologies Service Oxford Text Archive Research Officer (grade RS1A, 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 http://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 Centre for Literature, Languages and Linguistics, which is part of the national Arts and Humanities Data Service (see http://ahds.ac.uk/), and is now seeking to fill a key post involving high-level support at a national level for research in the subject areas of English Language and Literature, Modern Languages and Linguistics. Further details and application forms are available from Mrs Wendy Simmonds, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 01865 273289, fax: 01865 273275, email: wendy.simmonds@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Details are also available at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/. Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 4th July 2003. Interviews will be held in the week commencing 21st July. From: SpringerLink-Alert-Service Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:48:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 80 (80) Lecture Notes in Computer Science http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm LNAI 1701: Wolfram Burgard, Thomas Christaller, and Armin B. Cremers (Eds.) KI-99: Advanaces in Artifical Intelligence 23rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bonn, Germany, September 13-15, 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1701.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1701.htm LNCS 1693: Prasad Jayanti (Ed.) Distributed Computing 13th International Symposium, DISC'99, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, September 27-29, 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1693.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1693.htm LNCS 1689: Franc Solina and Ales Leonardis (Eds.) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns 8th International Conference, CAIP'99, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1-3, 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1689.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1689.htm LNCS 1684: Gabriel Ciobanu and Gheorghe Paun (Eds.) Fundamentals of Computation Theory 12th International Symposium, FCT'99, Iasi, Romania, August 30 - September 3, 1999. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1684.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1684.htm From: Tim van Gelder Subject: May Additions to Critical Thinking On The Web Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 06:51:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 81 (81) 5 Jun in Argument Mapping, and Teaching <http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy/Papers/reasonpaper.pdf>Argument Maps Improve Critical Thinking, by Charles Twardy. "Computer-based argument mapping greatly enhances student critical thinking, more than tripling absolute gains made by other methods. I describe the method and my experience as an outsider. Argument mapping often showed precisely how students were erring (for example: confusing helping premises for separate reasons), making it much easier for them to fix their errors." [5 Jun 03] 4 Jun in Great Critical Thinkers - Chomsky But for a view from the other side, see <http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/may03/chomsky.htm>The Hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky, by Keith Windschuttle. Australia's roughest intellectual street-fighter goes a round with the greatest heavyweight of the Left. A knockout blow, or a kick below the belt? [4 Jun 03] 3 Jun in Intelligence <http://intellit.muskingum.edu/analysis_folder/di_catn_Folder/contents.htm>A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes CIA-produced guide to good practice in producing and delivering intelligence. Lots of good material here for the intelligence analyst wanting to improve critical thinking, or the critical thinker interested to learn more from intelligence analysts. [3 Jun 03] in Miscellaneous and Fun <http://www.sar.bolton.ac.uk/ltl/Workbooks/at_p3.htm>Thinking critically about theories in psychology, Learning to Learn, Bolton Institute Useful overview of how to tell whether a theory is any good. "they should meet the standards implied by the criteria of comprehensiveness, parsimony, clarity of constructs, internal consistency, testability, empirical support and heuristic value." [20 May 03] 12 May in Health and Medicine - Essays <http://www.1freespace.com/ziggyzap/naturopa.htm>The Truth about Natural Therapists by Helen Chyrssides Intrepid reporter consults 25 randomly-selected naturopaths about a supposed feeling of tiredness; she found out "I may have everything from poor digestion and a malfunctioning liver to intestinal parasites, breast cancer, a blocked ovary, thyroid imbalance and brain lesions, and that I could be pregnant (I'm not). They have told me that the true colour of my eyes is green or blue, though I'm of Greek ancestry and all my Greek relatives have brown eyes, to exercise more, eat less meat, eat more meat, cut out dairy foods, consume more dairy foods, avoid wheat, tap water and startling noises. In consultations costing from $35 to $170 I have been urged to buy supplements ranging in price from a few dollars to over $9000." [12 May 03] 9 May in Intelligence (new section) <http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030512fa_fact>Selective Intelligence by Seymour M. Hersh Discusses how "the Cabal," a small group in the Pentagon, dominated intelligence in the lead-up to the 1993 Iraq war, including promoting the view that Iraq had extensive WMD, weapons which (at time of writing) have not been found. Contains interesting insights into the nature of intelligence and the kind of political and bureaucratic forces which can corrupt it. See also this <http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?030512on_onlineonly01>interview with Hersh. [9 May 03] in Language and Thought - Reviews <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/arts/03ASIA.html?position=&pagewanted=print&position=>Writing as a Block for Asians by Emily Eakin, New York Times Discussion of William C. Hannas' book The Writing on the Wall, in which he argues (according to Eakin) "because East Asian writing systems lack the abstract features of alphabets, they hamper the kind of analytical and abstract thought necessary for scientific creativity." I don't know whether Hannas is right, but it is an interesting idea. And if true, it would help explain the apparent "scientific creativity gap" between the West and East without reference to different intrinsic abilities. In that sense, it is anti-racist thesis. Nevertheless, it is amusing to see the PC-squirming of various people quoted in the review. [9 May 03] 5 May in Health and Medicine <http://www.policyreview.org/FEB03/gorman.html>Prevention Programs And Scientific Nonsense by D.M. Gorman Discusses the cancer of anti-science and pseudo-science in the area of critical evaluation of programs aimed at promoting health. Seems like in many areas the patient is already dead. The article covers some standard terrain, but adds some interesting touches. I liked the idea of "lapses into reality": it is difficult for postmodernists to consistently maintain their confused affectations of rejection of notions such as truth and rigorous evidence, so occasionally they fall into playing the game they purport to reject. [5 May 03] 4 May in Health and Medicine <http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15744>Sex, Lies and Abstinence by Jennifer Block. Allowing ideology to trump truth and objective inquiry is hardly a prerogative of the left/progressive/PC crowd. "Revising the CDC website is just one of the many ways the Bush administration has sought to distort and suppress scientific inquiry, not to mention sound public health policy, that contradicts its so-called family values..." [4 May 03] 1 May in Language and Thought - Reviews <http://www.calendarlive.com/books/reviews/cl-et-book28apr28,0,4911708.story?coll=cl-books-reviews>Tests, textbooks: Only men bake cookies in these parts by Merle Rubin Review of The Language Police, How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch. Horrifying. "Ravitch made it her business to investigate "the Language Police." What she discovered about the roots and ramifications of this eerily Orwellian system is the story told in this book. As the subtitle suggests, it is a story of how pressure groups -- left-wing and right-wing, large and small -- have managed to control not only the language, but even the very subject matter and ideas that appear in the textbooks being used in our schools." [1 May 03] 30 Apr in Health and Medicine <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/health/nutrition/29VITA.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=>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] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT The "critical" email list is moderated with a view to ensuring that all postings make substantial contributions on the topic of critical thinking likely to be of interest or value to a majority of list subscribers. General discussion related to issues raised on this list can be sent to the unmoderated group critical_discuss@yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: critical-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. From: Julia Flanders Subject: ACH jobs services Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 06:52:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 82 (82) A brief message conveying our deep thanks to all those who participated in the ACH's mentoring service at ACH-ALLC 2003, and at other times during the course of the year. I spoke to most of the mentees (the new term "telemachoi" has been suggested) who were at the conference and they all seemed delighted the contacts they made--they remarked on the generosity of the mentors in taking time not only to talk with them but also to introduce them to others and generally make them feel welcome. ACH-ALLC is not a large or forbidding conference, but its very close-knit character can make it a bit awkward if you're new, so having a personal contact seems to have been a help. Our mentoring services will continue throughout the year, so if you are interested in serving as a mentor (usually via email or telephone), or if you'd like to sign up to speak with a mentor, please send email to me at Julia_Flanders@brown.edu. This past year 10 people received mentoring, and we hope to expand on that this year. The ACH Jobs database continues to be a place to find up-to-date job postings in humanities computing (and I note that recently a number of new jobs have been added). Since April 2002, nearly 50 jobs have been posted including professorships (assistant, associate, and full), library posts (including digital library directors), consulting staff, digitization staff, programmers, and many other kinds of jobs. If you have a job to post, please consider using the database--it's easy to do. Both services can be found at the ACH jobs page: www.ach.org/jobs Thanks again to all who participated-- Julia -- Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Scholarly Technology Group Box 1841, Brown University Providence, RI 02912 401-863-2135 http://www.wwp.brown.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: an engineer's understanding? Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:13:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 83 (83) Armand de Callatay, in "Computer Simulation Methods to Model Macroeconomics", states that, "An engineer understands... a real system when he can design a (virtual) machine that is functionally equivalent to this system" (The Explanatory Power of Models, ed. Robert Franck, Kluwer 2002, p. 105). Three questions: (1) Is this a correct and complete description of what it means to understand something from an engineering perspective? If so, then (2) are we to articulate our complete understanding of a real system, such as a tool, at least in part by simulating it? (3) If the artifacts of engineering comprise an intellectual tradition, as I think Eugene Ferguson has argued in Engineering and the Mind's Eye (MIT, 2001), then would it not follow that within the tradition only a machine is a proper response to a machine -- and not words, however many, however apt? And does this not have strong implications for how we write a history of our technology? 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: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 17.046 nesting Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 06:53:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 84 (84) Willard and HUMANIST: At 12:52 PM 6/1/2003, Jan Christoph Meister wrote: [deleted quotation] Thanks for this reference: I wasn't aware Genette had identified it this way. [deleted quotation] Yes, at ACH/ALLC in Georgia (USA) last week, we were privileged to hear Marie-Laure Ryan speak to this. It was marvelous. Not least because of a fortuitous warning her machine imposed on the proceeding, just as she was about to demonstrate a recursive program (or what would prove to be a mock-up of one): low battery, plug the machine in or data may be lost.... the Trickster phenomenon. (Anyone interested in following *this* reference can look at www.tricksterbook.com, and yes it is relevant to this entire conversation.) As it happens, I myself have used the term "metaleptic" in a more restricted context, namely the design of markup languages. A markup language is metaleptic when the tags seek to reflect or elicit some feature or aspect of the text marked up. So, for example, the typography and organization of a complex text such as Robert Burton's *Anatomy of Melancholy* (which has a rather large and elaborately nested structure) can't be represented directly by a plain text transcription, but must be represented by markup. The typography represents something about the text, and the markup must represent that representation, or at any rate re-express it to convey what it represents. A distinction I draw between different markup applications' needs to be "proleptic" (looking forward to future processing) and "metaleptic" (looking backward to an extant, authoritative source of some kind) allows one to avoid many design pitfalls, by better isolating requirements and guiding the designer in dealing with inevitable tradeoffs. (Note that *both* these are "descriptive" strategies in distinction to a "procedural" strategy, in which the implied semantics of the language are not generally descriptive, but are rather more tightly tied to its processing.) Of course, it hasn't escaped me that perhaps in this sense (and particularly in light of Ryan's discussion), "proleptic" technologies are rather a special type of "metaleptic" technologies, and that all markup languages are metaleptic in a more general way (as representing representations), as indeed are all languages for computers from Assembler on up. Prolepsis is merely the special case in which the representation that is represented hasn't occurred yet, such as when one designs a language as input for a process that has not yet been built. You can imagine that I am intrigued and gratified to find two threads of my interest in all this to interweave in this way. (Anyone interested in that reference can find my papers on this topic at www.piez.org/wendell/critique.htm.) [deleted quotation] Well, this particular question came up because I'm thinking about tracing the origins of what markup practitioners in the Humanities have called, since the seminal paper by Renear et al. "What is Text, Really?" (1990), the OHCO (Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects). It occurred to me that nested narratives are the original and perhaps pre-eminent examples of such ordering, even (especially) when such orderings are sometimes breached by the invasion of one narrative thread by another. How these nestings appear in oral and pre-literate traditions, and how deep they can get, would apparently bear on the issue of how "natural" they are. (Or possibly less tendentiously, how characteristic of narrative generally, as opposed to being a characteristic of works in print particularly.) On the other hand, it is also apparent that the issue itself has more levels than I expected. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: history in terms Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:12:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 85 (85) I would very much like comment on the hypothesis that the development of our field is historically marked in three stages by the terms we have used to name it, as follows: (1) "computers and the humanities", which posits two distinct and separated entities that put in juxtaposition suggest an initial realization that they have or might have something to do with each other; (2) "computing in the humanities", which shifts attention from the rapidly shrinking physical box and names an activity that is commonly found within the practices of the humanities; (3) "humanities computing", which takes advantage of the ability in English to adjectivize the noun "humanities" but simultaneously to counterbalance its subordination by placing it before its now governing noun "computing" -- which is, as above, present-participial in force; the result nicely encapsulates a computing that is of as well as in the humanities. 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: Stevan Harnad Subject: THES article on research access Friday June 6 2003 Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:13:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 86 (86) The brief article (full-text below) appears today, Friday June 6, 2003 in the Times Higher Education Supplement. Toll access: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y5DE124D4 Toll-free access to fuller versions, with links: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/thes.html and http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/theshort.html "Why I believe that all UK research output should be online" Stevan Harnad Unlike journalists or book authors, researchers receive no royalties or fees for their writings. They write for "research impact", the sum of all the effects of their work on the work of others and on the society that funds it. So how research is read, used, cited and built on in further research and applications needs to be measured. One natural way to measure research impact would be to adopt the approach of the web search engine Google. Google measures the importance of a website. It does this by rank-ordering search results according to how many other websites link to them: the more links, the higher the rank. This works amazingly well, but it is far too crude for measuring research impact, which is about how much a paper is being used by other researchers. There is, however, a cousin of web links that researchers have been using for decades as a measure of impact: citations. Citations reference the building blocks that a piece of research uses to make its own contribution to knowledge. The more often a paper is used as a building block, the higher its research impact. Citation counts are powerful measures of impact. One study has shown that in the field of psychology, citation counts predict the outcome of the research assessment exercise with an accuracy of more than 80 per cent. The RAE involves ranking all departments in all universities by their research impact and then funding them accordingly. Yet it does not count citations. Instead, it requires universities to spend vast amounts of time compiling dossiers of all sorts of performance indicators. Then still more time and effort is expended by teams of assessors assessing and ranking all the dossiers. In many cases, citation counts alone would save at least 80 per cent of all that time and effort. But the Google-like idea also suggests ways to do even better, enriching citation counts by another measure of impact: how often a paper is read. Web "hits" (downloads) predict citations that will come later. To be used and cited, a paper first has to be accessed and read. And downloads are also usage (and hence impact) measures in their own right. Google also uses "hubs" and "authorities" to weight link counts. Not all links are equal. It means more to be linked to by a high-link site than a low-link site. This is the exact equivalent to co-citation analysis, in which it matters more if you are cited by a Nobel laureate than by a new postdoc. What this new world of webmetrics needs to be mined and used to encourage and reward research is not a four-yearly exercise in paperwork. All university research output should be continuously accessible and hence assessable online: not only the references cited but the full text. Then computer programs can be used to extract a whole spectrum of impact indicators, adjustable for any differences between disciplines. Nor are time-saving, efficiency, power and richness of these webmetric impact indicators their only or even principal benefits. For the citation counts of papers whose full texts are already freely accessible on the web are more than 300 per cent higher than those that are not. So all of UK research stands to increase its impact dramatically by being put online. Every researcher should have a standardised electronic CV, continuously updated with all the RAE performance indicators listed and every journal paper linked to its full-text in that university's online "eprint" archive. Webmetric assessment engines can do all the rest. At Southampton University, we have designed (free) software for creating the RAE CVs and eprint archives along with citebase, a webmetric engine that analyses citations and downloads. The only thing still needed is a national policy of self-archiving all research output to enhance and assess its impact. Details: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 49, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:13:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 87 (87) Version 49 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,900 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new resources) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 155 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 430 KB. The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information 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: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: Mark Stevenson Subject: Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on Word Sense Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 07:14:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 88 (88) Disambiguation Second Call for Papers: Journal of Computer Speech and Language Special Issue on WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION Guest editors: Judita Preiss, Judita.Preiss@cl.cam.ac.uk Mark Stevenson, M.Stevenson@dcs.shef.ac.uk The process of automatically determining the meanings of words, word sense disambiguation (WSD), is an important stage in language understanding. It has been shown to be useful for many natural language processing applications including machine translation, information retrieval (mono- and cross-lingual), corpus analysis, summarization and document navigation. The usefulness of WSD has been acknowledged since the 1950's and the field has recently enjoyed a resurgence of interest including the creation of SENSEVAL, an evaluation exercise allowing a basic precision/recall comparison of participating systems, which has been run twice to date. The current availability of large corpora and powerful computing resources has made the exploration of machine learning and statistical methods possible. This is in contrast to the majority of early approaches which relied on hand-crafted disambiguation rules. This special issue of Computer Speech and Language, due for publication in 2004, is intended to describe the current state of the art in word sense disambiguation. Papers are invited on all aspects of WSD research, and especially on: * Combinations of methods and knowledge sources. Which methods or knowledge sources complement each other and which provide similar disambiguation information? How should they be combined? Do better disambiguation results justify the extra cost of producing systems which combine multiple techniques or use multiple knowledge sources? Can any method or knowledge source be determined to be better or worse than another? * Evaluation of WSD systems. Which metrics are most informative and would new ones be useful? Can WSD be evaluated in terms of the effect it has on another language processing task, for example parsing? Can evaluations using different data sets (corpora and lexical resources) be compared? Can the cost of producing evaluation data be reduced through the use of automatic methods? * Sense distinctions and sense inventories. How do these affect WSD? How does the granularity of the lexicon affect the difficulty of the WSD task? Are some types of sense distinction difficult to distinguish in text? What can be gained from combining sense inventories and how can this be done? * The effect of WSD on applications. To what extent does WSD help applications such as machine translation or text retrieval? What kind of disambiguation is most useful for these applications? What is the effect when the disambiguation algorithm makes mistakes? * Minimising the need for hand-tagged data. Hand-tagged text is expensive and difficult to obtain while un-tagged text is plentiful and, effectively, limitless. What techniques can be used to make use of un-tagged text, would weakly/semi-supervised learning algorithms be useful? What use can be made of parallel text? Can un-tagged text be made as useful as disambiguated text? Submission Information Initial Submission Date: 1 October 2003 All submissions will be subject to the normal peer review process for this journal. Submissions in electronic form (PDF) are strongly preferred and must conform to the Computer Speech and Language specifications, which are available at: http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/csl Any initial queries, should be addressed to Judita.Preiss@cl.cam.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: anti-spamming devices? Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:07:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 89 (89) The sight just now of a message promising in its subject-line "a lean, fit and young humanist" -- surely a challenge to us all (present company excepted, of course :-) -- put me in mind of anti-spamming software. To date I have tried the Blue Squirrel offering, Spam Sleuth (ca $30 US), and more recently Spam Assassin http://au.spamassassin.org/ (free). The former has numerous intriguing bells and whistles and works quite well -- except for the fact that in my experience it on occasion keeps back messages that it has nevertheless classified as good. (A message of complaint to the manufacturer received only a "do it right"-style response, and since I was already doing it right, I was annoyed.) Spam Sleuth also keeps messages back by storing them in its own internal files, and as far as I know provides no way other than an executive rating-change to forward a message to the in-box of one's e-mail client, which as noted doesn't always work. The latter works only slightly less well but so far has not kept back any messages that it shouldn't have. The messages thought to be spam are simply put in a folder in one's e-mail client and so are easily fetched if need be. The price is persuasive. Are there other anti-spamming devices we should all know about? 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@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.063 an engineer's understanding Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:07:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 90 (90) Willard, I think that the passage you quote has three terms in play: "system", "machine" and "equivalent". Having followed your meditations on models (and their purposes), I think I might be able to translate your three questions into one: how is it that a model which ostensibly represents a pattern of experience (history of a system) comes to be used as an instrument to discover novelty (limits of a system)? My transaltion asks you if your question is indeed: How is a model to serve a mode of exploration? Is there an answer in the practice of question-making and testing the adequacy of the equivalency or model. And is not such a practice a dialogical enterprise? And if so, the "we" is split between the articulators and the non-articulators : some of us formulate models; some of us formulate the naive questions. Or read literally "an engineer understands _ellipsis_" and interpret modelling as akin to a poesis of difference :) [deleted quotation] -- François Lachance Scholar-at-large Actively visiting gork structure, savour content, enjoy form From: "Leo Robert Klein" Subject: RE: THES article on research access Friday June 6 2003 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:06:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 91 (91) On Sat, 07 Jun 2003, Stevan Harnad wrote: [deleted quotation] Funny, I've often wondered why database vendors don't look into this. I mean, with all the interest in improving search results in subscription databases, you'd think this would be a promising way to go. Operations like ISI seem pre-built for such an approach. Other vendors with growing collections of full-text material could do the same. LEO - ----------------- Leo Robert Klein http://leoklein.com From: Charles Ess Subject: CATaC conference publication Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:11:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 92 (92) Excerpted from a message to the organizers of and participants in the "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication" (CATaC) conference, with thanks. --WM] We're very pleased to announce that a second set of papers, largely from CATaC'00, have likewise been published in EJC / REC: Volume 12 (3-4) 2002: Liberation in Cyberspace ... Or Computer-Mediated Colonization / Liberation en Cyberspace ou Colonisation Assistee par Ordinateur? Edited by Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess. [See http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v12n34.htm.] This special issue is made up of the introduction and the following: How Cultural Differences Affect the Use of Information and Communication Technology in Dutch-American Mergers /Comment les Différences Culturelles Affectent l'Usage de l'Information et de la Communication Technologique dans les Fusions Hollandaises et Américaines Frits D. J. Grotenhuis KPMG, Amsterdam Intrinsic and Imposed Motivations to Join the Global Technoculture: Broadening the conceptual discourse on accessibilit y/ Les motivations intrinsèques et imposées pour faire partie de la techno culture mondiale: Elargissement du discours conceptuel sur l¹accessibilité. Dineh Moghdam Davis University of Hawaii at Manoa Internet: Clusters of Attractiveness/ Internet: Poles d¹attraction Alexander E. Voiskounsky Moscow Lomonosov State University The Internet: Producing or Transforming Culture and Gender? /L¹Internet est-il en voix de Générer ou de transformer la culture ou le genre? Nai Li and Gill Kirkup The Open University Nerdy No More: A case study of early Wired (1993-96) /Une étude des précurseurs de l¹Internet (1993-96) Ann Willis Edith Cowan University, Australia Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace /Cyberpower Culture et politique du Cyberspace Tim Jordan Open University Transformations in the Mediation of Publicness: Communicative Interaction in the Network Society /Les Transformations dans la Médiation du Publique: l'Interaction Communicative dans la Société de Réseau David Holmes University of New South Wales The Kindernetz: Electronic Communication and the Paradox of Individuality /The Kindernetz: Communication Electronique et Paradoxe de l'Individualité Hans-Georg Möller Bonn University == In addition, we have just learned that Teri has accepted for publication in EJC/REC a set of papers from CATaC'02, by the following authors: Hasan Cakir, Barbara Bichelmeyer and Kursat Cagiltay Penne Wilson, Ana Nolla and Charlotte Gunawardena Charlotte Gunawardena, Sharon Walsh, Leslie Reddinger, Ethel Gregory, Yvonne Lake and Annie Davies Ylva Hård af Segerstad Hans-Juergen Bucher Dineh Davis Jean-Paul Van Belle and Adrie Stander If all goes according to plan, these should appear as issue 3 or 4 in 2004. Finally, in addition to the special issue on "Liberatory Potentials and Practices of CMC in the Middle East," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 8, issue 2, 2003. <http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/> that features papers from CATaC'02, we have also submitted additional collections of CATaC'02 papers for consideration to two other journals (one print and one electronic), and are awaiting what we hope will be equally positive news. In the meantime, please take a moment to congratulate these authors - and spread the word about CATaC'04! With all best wishes in the meantime, Charles Ess Fay Sudweeks From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: ALA/ALCTS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS DISCUSSION GROUP Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:33:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 93 (93) MEETING | June 23 | ALA ANNUAL TORONTO DATE: MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2003 TIME: 9:30-11:00 PLACE: (MTCC) -METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 206E **************************************************************************** Come join our program and engage in a lively discussion on current scholarly communications issues! Our DG session will be led by: Dr. Susan Martin, ACRL Visiting Program officer for Scholarly Communications & President, SKM Associates, Inc., - martin@skmassociates.net Julia C. Bixrud, Director of Information Services, ARL & Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC, - jblix@arl.org Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University, - gerrymck@iastate.edu ********************** Discover how new modes of research and initiatives within university frameworks are revolutionizing access and distribution patterns; learn how programs of scholarly advocacy, where academics serve as both creators and consumers, are adopting new models while still retaining refereeing and editorial standards are progressing; learn about SPARC's latest efforts to provide support for extending access to scholarly literature; hear about the impact of public policies and private enterprise on the availability of scholarly information; become familiar with a variety of initiatives that take advantage of the inherent potential of the Web and other digital environments that offer open and enhanced access to the personal and collective scholarship of individuals, organizations, and nations.... ****************************************************************************** Opportunity for audience participation and reactions will be provided during the Q&A period at the end of the program! ****************************************************************************** Co-Chair: Michelle Sitko -Marywood University, Coordinator of Collection Management Services/Serials - sitko@es.marywood.edu Co-Chair: Anne McKee -Greater Western Alliance (formerly Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium), Program Officer for Resource Sharing - mckeea@lindahall.org Former Co-Chair: Dr. Taemin K. Park, (Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington)/IU SLIS Adjunct Faculty - park@indiana.edu ******* ******** ********* Co-Vice Chair: Carolyn K. Coates (Eastern Connecticut University) -Acquisitions and Technical Services - coatesc@easternct.edu Co-Vice Chair: Ann S. Doyle (University of Kentucky Libraries) - Serials Acquisitions - asdoyl2@uky.edu From: "Matthew L. Jockers" Subject: Openings at Stanford Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:34:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 94 (94) Academic Technology Specialist in Art, Art History, and Drama For Details See http://jobs.stanford.edu/openings/display.cgi?Job_Req=003263&JFam=NIL Academic Technology Specialist in Political Science For Details See http://jobs.stanford.edu/openings/display.cgi?Job_Req=003169&JFam=NIL Academic Technology Specialist in Sociology and Communication For Details See http://jobs.stanford.edu/openings/display.cgi?Job_Req=003114&JFam=NIL Several others to be announced soon--I will post them to the list ASAP -- Matthew L. Jockers, Ph.D. Consulting Assistant Professor Academic Technology Specialist Department of English Stanford university Stanford, CA 94305-2087 650/723-4489 http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers From: "Hugh A. Cayless" Subject: Re: 17.068 anti-spamming software? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:27:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 95 (95) Willard, Mozilla 1.4 (still in beta, I think) has a built in Bayesian spam-identification tool, which marks messages as "junk" automatically. Junk messages can be forwarded to a folder, or simply deleted en masse. It takes a while to learn what you consider to be junk, and it does still give some false positives and negatives, but on the whole it seems to work quite well. It has certainly made my inbox more manageable. Cheers, Hugh From: Patrick Rourke Subject: Re: anti-spamming software? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:28:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 96 (96) Although I use SpamAssassin in the office, with the Guinevere tool for GroupWise (Guinevere is far from free, but it is after all intended for businesses and provides more than just anti-virus and anti-spam capabilities), at home I use POPFILE, which is also free software, and provides email categorization as well as spam elimination. Patrick Rourke From: Stan Ruecker Subject: RE: 17.068 anti-spamming software? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:29:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 97 (97) I don't have any personal experience with it, but someone gave me a reference a while ago to Spamnet, which is apparently a system that allows a community of like-minded recipients to collectively block spam. Here's the URL: http://cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/ yrs, Stan Ruecker **************************** Stan Ruecker Department of Art and Design University of Alberta lab: 780-492-7877 "Well, now I say good-bye to you. I think we shall meet again soon. In any case, whether we see each other again or not, we must lead constructive lives. We must have compassion. Life should not be destructive. That is the essential thing." - H. H. The Dalai Lama. Buddha Heart, Buddha Mind: Living the Four Noble Truths. Trans. Robert R. Barr. NY: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999, p. 157. From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 17.063 an engineer's understanding Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:32:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 98 (98) [See below for the questions to which the following are replies.] (1) Yes and No. The description is complete only to the extent that the behavior of the system is known. That is, any such virtual machine which correctly and fully replicates the behavior of the system is limited by the knowledge of what behavior the system is capable. If, for example, one were describing a very complex system of whose behavior we have only a limited understanding, the virtual machine might well omit vast parts of the system's capabilities because nobody has knowledge of those capabilities. To model the question-answering capabilities of a rock, one need only have a simple model that doesn't say anything. To model the weather in any but vague terms for short periods of time is unattainable. (2) Yes. Modeling something is never without its merits. (3) Not as you use the term "machine". A machine is another artifact, it has practical problems. The only effective response to modeling a machine is a virtual machine, i.e., a theoretical response. We largely learn about the world by building mental/theoretical models of parts of it we identify and then discovering where these mental/theoretical models differ from the observed behavior of the real world. The problem is how do you describe a mental/theoretical model? Words cannot do it because there is no way to assure a unique interpretation to those words. Computer programs are pretty good models because their interpretation is left to a machine which will operate independent of the creator of that program and operate consistently for all who run the program, regardless of how they believe the program would work. Computer programs are perhaps the most reliable modeling tool yet developed by human beings. They are not the most powerful tool, but they are the most reliable one. They are more reliable than any other of the more powerful symbol systems because of their independent evaluation mechanism. Logic and mathematics, formidable representation tools, lack this ability since they have to be checked by other human beings. Mathematicians can "think" they have solved a problem only to discover a flaw in their proof. Language is another even more powerful modeling tool, but one that is even less reliable than mathematics. Language cannot be "checked" since it is open to many interpretations. [deleted quotation] [mailto:willard@lists.village.virginia.edu] [deleted quotation] From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Course Title and Field Terminology Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:33:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 99 (99) Recently thinking about what I would like to teach, I turned my attention to a course that could possibly be called "humanities computing" if I were to give it in a Faculty of Arts. What I have in mind is a course in which talk both about practical computer use in our fields and using computing as a subject of research. For instance, some lessons could be on Perl hacking skills or the proper use of citation programs while other lessons could be on the history of the Free Software and Open-Source movements or the cultural impact of the Internet. The course I had in mind would be better set in the context of what is sometimes called "human sciences" and sometimes captured by the fixed "social sciences and the humanities" as used in North America. Such a course would attempt to satisfy the needs of social scientists as well as humanists both practically (e.g. statistics and qualitative data analysis) and theoretically (social and cultural issues in computer use). While it may sound broad, it could be done. What should be the title of this course? While it may well be that the historical development of the field discussed on this list as been a shift away from the juxtaposing "and" of "computers and the humanities," it seems that neither "computing in the humanities" nor "humanities computing" capture the potentially dual nature of both the field and the aforementioned course. Ethnomusicology, a similarly dual disciplines, has developed lengthy arguments on the use of "music in culture," "music as culture," and "music and culture." When this issue became somewhat moot, it seems that the preferred connection was that of the broad juxtaposition of the "and" connector. Interesting to see "humanities computing" moving in the opposite direction. From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 17.066 history in terms Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:09:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 100 (100) )" To: Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 8:44 AM [deleted quotation] separated [deleted quotation] they [deleted quotation] English [deleted quotation] From: "Jessica P. Hekman" Subject: Re: 17.068 anti-spamming software? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:10:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 101 (101) On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] I feel like maybe I already mentioned this on this list, but just in case -- I use TMDA (http://tmda.net/). It's a whitelist system (mail is disallowed by default, allowed only if the address is in your whitelist). You can do one of several things with the mail from someone not on your whitelist, but the interesting feature of TMDA is the ability to send the person a confirmation request: "answer this email and I'll believe you're not a spammer, and your original mail will be released to Jessica." The idea is that spammers don't generally send from legitimate email addresses, so a confirmation request will be ignored. Real people have a chance to say they're legit, and their mail gets through. I skim the list of messages which didn't get confirmed daily, and I do find some people who fail to answer the confirmation message; I release their message myself at that time. The downside is that some people find confirmation messages annoying. I sympathize with this, but TMDA is still the best answer to spam I've seen yet. Jessica From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Re: 17.046 nesting - terminology Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:08:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 102 (102) 12:08 10.06.2003 Wendell, your analysis of markup in terms of the underlying concept of representation is very interesting - as is this entire thread! However, the narratologist in me finds it difficult to accept the proposed adaptation of what, after all, is a well defined terminology in his particular field of research. Don't get me wrong: I am not advocating a purist approach for the sake of purism. My concern is rather that the somewhat metaphorical use of concepts such as 'metalepsis', 'prolepsis' etc. in the description the non-narrative phenomenon of textual markup (or does markup indeed constitute a kind of narrative? One might wish to explore that idea as well) does not exploit the analytical potential of the theoretical and conceptual import to its full extent. Metalepsis is certainly a very important and intriguing phenomenon in narratives. Current aesthetic production thrives on it, and so does literary criticism; the reason why 'La metalepse aujour d'hui' was the topic of an international narratological conference held in Paris in November 2002 in which Marie-Laure Ryan, Gerard Genette and other narratologists (including yours truly) discussed it from various angles. (For details see www.narratology.net/archive) . In our present day and age cultural artefacts prove to be obsessed with this age-old self reflective twist in representational technique. Like always, it comes in different qualities. I just saw 'Matrix Reloaded' - mentioned as one current example in Ryan's talk - and found it to be a dissapointingly puerile and illogical attempt at something which we know from Don Quichotte, or Tristram Shandy, or ... well, see Kaufman's/Jonze's recent 'Adapation' or their previous 'Being John Malkovitch' for an intelligent and ironically self-conscious version of metalepsis and embedding in contemporary film narrative. Back to our debate: you state that [deleted quotation] In terms of representational logic I would rather call this an 'iconic' mode of markup and not a 'metaleptic' one. As Marie-Laure aptly demonstrated it is important to understand that metalepsis is MORE than just an iconic form of representation falling into the onomatopoetic vein. Metalepsis in the sense of the narratological definition amounts to a calculated conflation of the representational dichotomy (sign/signified or tag/text marked up) with an assumedly (!) natural underlying ontological dichotomy: namely that of narrator/narratee; or in our case, of meta-text/text. Note that when we call something 'metaleptic' the prefix 'meta' in compounds such as 'meta-text' needs to be understood as an existential and ontological qualifier, and not just as an innocent qualifier in terms of the origin of speech acts as in discourse theory. This ontological problematic - which in itself should not be misread for an empirical fact: it is merely a consequence of turning the idea of representation which we accept as 'natural' in our particular cultural context on itself - is at best implicit in the two related cases of representational anomaly discussed in narratology, namely prolepsis (the narratorial flash-forward) and analepsis (flash-back). This too has consequences for your suggestion to use the former narratological term in order to characterize different types of markup, namely [deleted quotation] I understand where you're coming from and what it is that you try to capture here, but I suspect that this use (or is it indeed another tongue in cheek 'adaptation'?) of terminology downplays the actual philosophical problem. 'Proleptic' might still be OK - on the other hand, why not simply call it 'anticipatory'? But the proposed use of 'metaleptic' is definitely problematic since what you want to highlight is mainly the legitimizing gesture embedded in this type of markup, and not the idea of a presumed 'ontological divide' being transgressed. Your argument that [deleted quotation] seems to confirm this. As so often the problem actually seems to be rooted in our understanding of what a language is. I would hold that as long as we talk about 'language' in the sense of 'conventionalised system of symbolic representation' neither markup languages nor first order languages in general are inherently 'metaleptic' - viz Cassirer for the opposing mythical concept of signification which by contrast is based on an entirely different and in fact decidedly 'metaleptic' notion of 'sign' in which the sign IS the signified. In other words, as long as we remain aware that in markup, as in any other language or symbolic system, we are by necessity (!) representing representations (an awareness which any Platonian worth his or her money should uphold) there simply is no possibility for anything becoming existentially 'metaleptic' - because the realm of the 'meta', that higher-order ontological dimension, will be correctly identified as an illusion or an aesthetic artefact. The whole idea of 'metalepsis' is about suspending, of cancelling this Platonian insight into the nature of representation. There's nothing in TEI or SGML that leads me to believe that this discourse is being alluded to, and hence I am somewhat reluctant to go pomo on this. But then again this is perhaps exactly what we should do in order to understand markup better. In other words, as a narratologist I may find your retooling of narratological terminology problematic, but as a computing humanist I find it extremely instructive nevertheless - the reason being that this approach ultimately raises the profoundly philosophical question whether the current notion of textual markup with its heavy emphasis on technological doability and standardization is not based on an unduly simplistic and materialist concept of signification and representation. And that would surely be a question worth to be debated in the HC community. 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: Dene Grigar Subject: Re: 17.077 history in terms Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:03:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 103 (103) What is interesting about any of the terms put forward is that they still designate a separation between computers and the discipline of the Humanities. Perhaps the 4th iteration of the field will assume no such separation. It will be assumed that the Humanities involves computers for research, teaching, and learning. That one cannot be a Humanties scholar without it. Much in the way that it is assumed that one cannot be a scholar without the involvement of books. . . Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.16 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:05:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 104 (104) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 16, Week of June 10, 2003 In this issue: Views -- Lowering the Cost of Computation Efficient support for sophisticated interactions between entities in distributed brokering systems By Shrideep Pallickara and Geoffrey Fox http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/s_pallickara_1.html Hasta Luego, Mi Amiga Looking back fondly on an old friend By Trevis J. Rothwell http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/t_rothwell_4.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cultural Policy and the Arts (CPANDA) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:06:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 105 (105) Many members of this group will, I suspect, be interested in the U.S. national data archive, Cultural Policy and the Arts (CPANDA), at http://www.cpanda.org/. Browse it tonight. 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 Subject: JoDI (V3i2): Economic Factors of Digital Libraries Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:06:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 106 (106) Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Economic Factors of Managing Digital Content and Establishing Digital Libraries (Volume 4, issue 2, June 2003) Special issue Editor: Simon Tanner, HEDS Digitisation Services, University of Hertfordshire, UK From the special issue editorial: "This special issue is an eclectic mix of articles covering much of the lifecycle and value chain of digital content and digital libraries, reflecting the pervasive nature of economics - influencing every decision, technology, implementation and evaluation made of digital resources and libraries." http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/editorial The issue includes the following papers: M. Barton, J. Walker (May 2003) Building a Business Plan for DSpace, MIT Libraries Digital Institutional Repository http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Barton/ S. Chapman (May 2003) Counting the Costs of Digital Preservation: Is Repository Storage Affordable? http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Chapman/ A. Geyer-Schulz, A. Neumann, A. Heitmann, K. Stroborn (May 2003) Strategic Positioning Options for Scientific Libraries in Markets of Scientific and Technical Information - the Economic Impact of Digitization http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Geyer-Schulz/ F. Heath, M. Kyrillidou, D. Webster, S. Choudhury, B. Hobbs, M. Lorie and N. Flores Emerging Tools for Evaluating Digital Library Services: Conceptual Adaptations of LibQUAL+ and CAPM http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Heath/ J. Willinsky (April 2003) Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Willinsky/ -- The Journal of Digital Information is an electronic journal published only via the Web. JoDI is currently free to users thanks to support from the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ From: Methods for Modalities Subject: Second Call for Papers: M4M-3 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:04:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 107 (107) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES 3 (M4M-3) INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France. September 22-23, 2003 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 30, 2003 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-3 is the third installment of this bi-anual workshop series. SUBMISSIONS We invite three kinds of submissions: A. Research papers on proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic as well as their applications. Submissions in this category need not be unpublished work; they can be up to 10 A4 size pages. B. System descriptions can be up to 4 A4 size pages, they should focus on actual implementations explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at M4M. C. Application descriptions can be up to 6 A4 size pages, they should focus on experiences of using modal-like languages to solve specific real-world tasks. A description of the problem should be given, together with an explanation of how modal like inference systems were used to tackle/analyse it. If available, demos of the final product/solution can be organized during M4M. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF format. Final versions should be done in Latex, using the styles provided in the Workshop home pages. Submissions should be sent to m4m@science.uva.nl. PROGRAM COMMITTEE The program committee for M4M-3 consists of Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair); Torben Brauner, Roskilde University; Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University in Berlin; Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester; and Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2003 * Notification: August 8, 2003 * Camera ready versions: September 8, 2003 * Workshop dates: September 22-23, 2003 FURTER INFORMATION Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M. -- M4M: Methods for Modalities www.science.uva.nl/~m4m From: Willard McCarty Subject: text & context from a computational perspective? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:05:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 108 (108) In the last chapter of The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1987), Hayden White has the following to say about the issues involved in rethinking intellectual history: [deleted quotation] How do we in humanities computing respond to the "undecidable, elusive, uncreditable" text-context relationship? 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: "Arianna Ciula" Subject: Medieval Poetry and Digital resources Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:58:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 109 (109) Dear all, I would like to diffuse the following offer of grants for the first international workshop on medieval poetry and digital resources. Yours, Arianna Ciula Dottorato in Scienze del Libro Università degli Studi di Siena Erasmus Intensive Program of the European Commission Università degli studi di Siena in collaboration with Universidad de Burgos Ecole des Chartes de Paris University of Pécs offer 12 grants for the participation to the first Intercultural Workshop on Medieval Poetry and Digital Resources Burgos, 14-25 July 2003 Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, German, Arabic, Latin Poetry of the Middle Ages with readings from the manuscripts and study of the digital resources for the medieval texts and manuscripts Teaching staff: Pascale Bourgain Nicolás Castrillo Benito Pedro Manuel CatÉdra GarcÍa José Antonio Fernández Flórez Joan Gómez Pallarés Carmen Isàsi Martinez Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena David López Vázquez Victor Millet Schröder Carlos Pérez Gonzàlez Cleofé Sánchez Montealegre Juan SigneS Codoñer Salah Serour Francesco Stella Vitalino Válcarcel Martínez Visits to the Huelga and Silos monasteries visits to the laboratories of the Spanish archives visit to the cathedrals archives The Grants are reserved to young European students (up to 35 years) and cover the costs for travel, hospitality, and courses fees. Lectures and workshops will be held in Spanish, French, Italian Applications with curriculum vitae et studiorum are to be sent by e-mail to stella@unisi.it or to Dipartimento di Teoria e Documentazione delle Tradizioni Culturali, v.le Cittadini 33, I-521009 Arezzo. Deadline 30 June-Selection by 3 July Next programs will be held in Paris (2004) and Arezzo (2005) From: diabruck@coli.uni-sb.de Subject: DiaBruck 2003, call for demos and project notes Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:58:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 110 (110) (Submission deadline: July 11 2003) Call for Demos and Project Descriptions DiaBruck 2003 SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) Saarland University Sept 4th-6th 2003 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ Endorsed by SIGSEM http://www.sigsem.org/ the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics Endorsed by SIGdial http://www.sigdial.org/ 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 abstracts describing software demonstrations and/or actual projects relevant to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues. [material deleted] From: "Sarah J. Segura" Subject: Fourth Open Archives Forum workshop: Bath, Sept 4-5 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:59:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 111 (111) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 12, 2003 Fourth Open Archives Forum: In Practice, Good Practice September 4-5, 2003: UKOLN, University of Bath, UK <http://www.oaforum.org/>http://www.oaforum.org/ ***** The Fourth Open Archives Forum will take place at UKOLN, University of Bath, UK, on the 4th and 5th of September. The title of the workshop is: 'In Practice, Good Practice'. This workshop is our first to be held in the UK. The event will focus on good practice in the implementation of open archives. A particular theme of the workshop will be the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting [OAI-PMH] in the area of Cultural Heritage. The workshop will also be looking at the use of the OAI protocol as a way of publishing information about university theses, and how that might contribute to developing useful content for institutional (as opposed to subject-based) eprint archives. The workshop will build on issues discussed during the whole project, and facilitate exchange of information about best practice. The workshop will consider European experience of open archives regarding technical issues, organisational issues and Intellectual Property Rights. A report on organisational issues written by an OAForum working group will be presented at the workshop. Breakout sessions will offer the opportunity to discuss issues of practice with others working at the sharp end of implementation. There also will be an introduction to one of the project's key deliverables: an online tutorial which will give guidance to those wishing to implement a project using the OAI-PMH. This tutorial will be based on the experience of the successful pre-workshop tutorials held in Lisbon (2002) and Berlin (2003). There will be a poster session to allow you to disseminate information about your project, and to allow time and space (and coffee) for all-important networking. Our keynote speaker will be Mogens Sandfaer. We hope to have at least one representative of the Open Archives Initiative present at the workshop, as we have had at earlier workshops, and there will be other important figures in the open archives world present. A panel session closing the second day of the workshop will offer the opportunity to exchange views about the future direction of open archives, and about our experience of the open archives approach so far. The Open Archives Forum is a EU funded project, whose purpose is to explore the possibilities of the open archives idea in the European context, and to facilitate access to relevant information. Further information and a draft programme will appear in the near future on the Open Archives Forum website: <http://www.oaforum.org/>http://www.oaforum.org/ Workshop Contact: Sara Hassen s.hassen@ukoln.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/NINCH-ANNOUNCE/>. From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Digital scholarship, digital culture" at King's College Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:56:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 112 (112) London 2003-4 [The following is an early announcement of a major lecture series in humanities computing to be held at King's College London during the 2003-4 academic year. We in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and in the School of Humanities at KCL are delighted to extend a cordial invitation to attend these evening public lectures. A further announcement will be made once the times and locations in London are set. Please circulate this announcement widely. --WM] Digital scholarship, digital culture Lecture series at King's College London October 2003 to May 2004 Schedule. Stanley N. Katz, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton. www.wws.princeton.edu/~snkatz/. Thursday, 16 October 2003. "Why Technology Matters: the Humanities in the 21st Century." Gordon Graham, Department of Philosophy, Aberdeen; Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy. www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/graham.hti. Thursday, 13 November 2003. "Strange bedfellows? Information systems and the concept of a library". Yorick Wilks, Professor, Computer Science, Sheffield. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/. Thursday, 11 December 2003. "Companions: Explorations in machine personality". Timothy Murray, Professor, Comparative Literature and English, Cornell; Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library. people.cornell.edu/pages/tcm1/cv.html. Thursday, 15 January 2004. "Curatorial In-Securities: New Media Art and Rhizomatic Instability". Ian Hacking, Chaire de philosophie et histoire des concepts scientifiques, Collège de France, and University Professor, Philosophy, Toronto. www.college-de-france.fr/site/phi_his/p998922592913.htm. Thursday, 19 February 2004. "The Cartesian Vision Fulfilled: Analog Bodies and Digital Minds". Michael S. Mahoney, Professor of History, Program in the History of Science, Princeton. www.princeton.edu/~mike/. Thursday, 18 March 2004. "The Histories of Computing(s)". Marilyn Deegan, Director, Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University, and Editor-in-Chief, Literary and Linguistic Computing. www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/deegan.html. Thursday, 15 April 2004. "No Stately Pleasure Dome: Interconnected Things in the World-Wide Digital Library". Jerome J. McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor, Virginia; Thomas Holloway Professor of Victorian Media and Culture and Director, Victorian Centre, Royal Holloway College, London. www.iath.virginia.edu/~jjm2f/home.html. Thursday, 20 May 2004. "But What Does It All Mean? Computing, Aesthetics, Interpretation". Rationale. The word "digital" refers in origin to the digits or fingers of the human hand, hence discrete, countable units, and so the data into which computerization fragments the continuous world of human experience. "Digital" also suggests what the hand does: it manifests skill in the making of things, intervening in the world in order to change it. Digital is thus artificial, signifying the use of tools in a familiar cycle of breaking apart and putting back together again, in order not just to understand what we are given but also, as Northrop Frye said, to remake it in our own image. So much of what computers bring is deeply familiar, present within human culture since Homer imagined Hephaistos's autonomous agents in Iliad 18. But what is new or newly strengthened, what consequences and opportunities for scholarship and for our culture are now becoming visible? "Digital scholarship, digital culture" is a year-long series of lectures by distinguished scholars asked to explore this question from the perspectives of their own disciplines. "Digital", they remind us, means hands-on human choice of what to make and how to make it, not submission to the inexorable workings of a super- or sub-human fate. At the same time, tools embody tendencies of mind and practice, so choice is not exactly unconstrained: we have made our wheels and put them in motion. The question these scholars address, then, is not what the future will bring. Rather it is what potential futures may be read with the help of the linguistic, literary, historical, philosophical and technical imaginations that our academic practices help us to exercise. It is how those imaginations may prepare us to remake the world. 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 Subject: Re: 17.079 anti-spamming software Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:46:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 113 (113) Jessica P. Hekman writes: [deleted quotation] For what it's worth, every time I've gotten a confirmation message, its text said something to the extent of "sorry, I know this is a nuisance, but once you've replied, you'll be added to the whitelist and won't get any more of these." I don't know whether these people were using TMDA, or indeed whether TMDA has such a feature, but just to clarify - it is minimally intrusive, and doesn't make sender confirm every message they send to a person. -Vika -- -- vika@wordsend.org http://www.wordsend.org/log/ http://www.brown.edu/decameron/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: the irony of spam Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:47:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 114 (114) This in response to Humanist 17.79 on the "whitelist" approach to control of spam. I agree that the odd confirmation message is hardly a chore, but I do wonder about the impact of a whitelist design on people who get massive amounts of e-mail. My average is about 315 messages/day. SpamAssassin appears to be working very well for me. So far in ca 2 weeks of using it, spam has been reduced by at least 90% and no message I have wanted to read has been wrongly classified. I can certainly live with the 10% while the mechanism for filtering is improved. It will be interesting to see if spammers continue to learn from the techniques used against them. Here, for example, is a typical analysis of a spamming message: [deleted quotation]The above testifies to a rather crude message that leaves itself open to rather obvious identification as spam. But I wonder if in the push to get messages by such tests as the above and the countermeasures devised against them we don't learn something useful about language. Look on the bright side? Develop a better sense of irony? Warfare has always driven technological progress; apparently the online porn industry is responsible in part for ever better bandwidth. Could spamming yield breakthroughs in text-analysis? Yours, W 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: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 17.085 lecture series at King's College London 2003-4 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:49:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 115 (115) Willard, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] Sounds like a great group of lectures. Any chance that they will be recorded and made available over the WWW as streaming video? One of the most pressing needs of humanists is to overcome the requirement for travel to enjoy the benefit of such events. I think computing humanists should take the lead in demonstrating a solution to that particular problem. Not a deep theoretical problem concerning the use of computers in the humanities but not every worthy problem has that status. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! [In response to the above: we're grateful for the suggestion and will see if this cannot be done. --WM] From: Willard McCarty Subject: image enhancement manual? Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:43:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 116 (116) I am involved in a project to produce an electronic edition of a single medieval manuscript. This edition will of course provide high-definition images of the ms pages. Some of the pages in the manuscript are in poor condition, with among other things bleed-through of ink from the other side of the leaf. We anticipate that users of the edition will want digitally to enhance these pages or parts of them. If "enhancement" were a simple matter then of course we would provide enhanced images, but it is not. Deformative play of various sorts, yet to be discovered or problematic but fruitful, needs to be encouraged. It occurs to me that the best approach would be to provide in the introductory material to this edition a description of how particular filters, say in Photoshop, can be used under particular circumstances to bring out features of an image. I can imagine, for example, addressing the problem of a word originally written in silver ink or paint for which the metal has mostly fallen off, leaving small bits behind. What filter, or what filters used in what sequence with what settings, would be best to show the remaining metallic bits? Does such a image-manipulation manual for manuscript scholars exist? If not, would there be sufficient interest to motivate the collaborative production of such a manual? More ambitious would be a project to devise such filters specifically for the purpose. Has anyone undertaken to do that? 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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.087 streaming video for lecture series? Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:44:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 117 (117) I agree with Patrick Durusau wholeheartedly; what's more, in most cases, I think audio alone is probably sufficient. The Electronic Literature Organization's recent "e(X)literature" conference on preserving technologically endangered works of electronic fiction and poetry (co-sponsored with the University of California's Digital Cultures project) adopted just such an approach, with complete MP3s of all the talks, including speaker introductions and audience Q&A: http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference2003.html In most cases full-text papers or slides are available too. We've already heard from people who have used and appreciated these resources who were not able to be at the event in person. Obviously this kind of documentation imposes more technological overhead on those running an event, but think of the possibilities: computing humanists could trade their favorite conference mixes with one another and we could all walk around listening to great talks on our iPods. Matt [deleted quotation] From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco Subject: Re: 17.088 an image-enhancement manual? Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:04:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 118 (118) Dear Willard, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] a single [deleted quotation] As I've begun working on a similar project, I am very much interested in a manual or best practices guide on this subject. I think that, with a little experimenting, we could single out the most useful filters for our purposes. [deleted quotation] Yes, the project I'm currently working on is described at this address: http://islp.di.unipi.it/bifrost/vbd/dvb.html For a first, experimental GUI including image filters go here: http://islp.di.unipi.it/bifrost/vbd/interfaccia.html Italian only, sorry, but you can have a look at the screenshots. If you need more information just ask. P.S.: Thanks for the Humanist list, I find it very useful. Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco e-mail: rosselli at cisi.unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: image enhancement Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:04:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 119 (119) Hi Willard, Not quite what you were after in your query on Humanist, but I did want to draw your attention to the Virtual Lightbox I did here at MITH: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/applet.html The Lightbox is free, open source, and ready to use. It will allow you to place multiple images on the screen and visually compare them with one another by dragging them around the display area (much the way we drag icons across a windows desktop). There's a zoom feature, and some basic image processing functions (inversion, contrast, greyscale). We could add others if they were specifically requested, or, since the tool is open source, they could be added on your end. Best, Matt Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: 17.089 streaming video for lecture series Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:05:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 120 (120) "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" writes: [deleted quotation] This is a great idea and wonderful for those of us who could not attend this conference. I am however mildly surprised to see all the papers, and even the images(!) sitting on the server wrapped up in a variety of the MS-WORD format that even my wordview program can not grok! Does it cost so much more ressources to save these documents as HTML or some other portable format that is usable across different computing platforms? All the best, Christian Wittern -- Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is an "inage"? Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:21:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 121 (121) Clearly an "inage" is something needing enhancement! My apologies for the typo in Humanist 17.090. But it is perhaps not totally without interest as an illustration of how difficult tiny errors make the problem of automatic searching.... Mea cupla. 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: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: 17.086 anti-spam Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:40:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 122 (122) --On 14 June 2003 08:51 +0100 "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] I was given a peep at some of the code for just one of the SpamAssassin rules and it proved to be pretty complicated. This was in the course of reporting a bug (since fixed). I was finding that reviews from an e-journal were being flagged as spam because the abbreviation 'pp' was occurring near words such as 'longer'! If you run a SpamAssassin installation you can tweak it to reweight the various tests it performs. Failing that, you can still customise it by altering the points threshold for spam, or (as I do) combining SpamAssassin with a procmail filter which automatically sends a message which tests positive on certain SpamAssassin tests to a spam folder. This is because spam often falls below even a low points threshold. I find for example that treating messages with a large amount of HTML in them as spam catches some spam that SpamAssassin misses, at the price of treating as spam some genuine messages which come from people who aren't regular correspondents of mine. I know others have a similar rule for filtering email, so maybe people who compose email in HTML should note that it is risky to use a format so associated with spammers. Virginia Knight ---------------------- Virginia Knight, Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7154 Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7112 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 17.088 an image-enhancement manual? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:36:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 123 (123) The best experiments, to my knowledge, have been done by Fotoscientifica Re.co.rd, a small very specialized firm based in Parma (Emilia, Italy), in collaboration with teams of scholars and archive people. You may consult their web page: http://www.fotoscientificarecord.com/ which has also an English version. On the other hand, I think that what Chiara Faraggiana di Sarzana writes, prefacing the publication of one such experiment, is very true: [my translation] Our experiment has confirmed once more the peculiarity of the material of EACH palimpsest folio. It is manifestly impossible to propose one technique universally valid, and applicable with similar results to every kind of manuscript. (_Manoscritti Palinsesti Criptensi_, Ravenna-Parma 1998) Tito Orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39+06.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39+60.4991-3945 00185 Roma http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alan Burk" Subject: Summer Institute - Creating Electronic Texts - David Seaman Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:39:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 124 (124) There are still a few spaces left for Creating Electronic Texts and Images with David Seaman (http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2003/index.html). If you are interested, I urge you to register by the end of June. This may be the last year that we will be offering this workshop in its present form. Alan Burk Director, Electronic Text Centre, University of New Brunswick ******************************************************************** 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 (http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm) 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. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: You may also obtain further information by contacting Karen Kilfillen (klk@unb.ca or 506-453-4740). Information on prior institutes, including comments from participants, is available at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/projects.html, under the heading of Educational Initiatives. ***************************************************** REGISTRATION FORM To register, use our Web Registration Form: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2003/register_2003.htm or fill out our email version: [material deleted] From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: 17.094 image-enhancement Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:46:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 125 (125) My colleagues at TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images: http://www.tasi.ac.uk) may have some advice, although problems relating specifically to manuscripts aren't covered in their online guides AFAIK. They may also be interested in hearing about what you learn from your experiences! If you search the TASI site on 'manuscripts' you get links to case studies of various projects which have digitised manuscripts. Virginia Knight ---------------------- Virginia Knight, Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7154 Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7112 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: image-enhancement Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:47:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 126 (126) Tito Orlandi's quotation from the Manoscritti Palinsesti Criptensi (Ravenna-Parma 1998) in Humanist 17.94 is very much to the point: "It is manifestly impossible to propose one technique universally valid, and applicable with similar results to every kind of manuscript". That's exactly why I suggested a bit earlier that what we need is a brief manual of techniques -- a "tricks-of-the-trade" approach. Although no one universal technique would work, surely the common problems, such as bleed-through, call for common approaches with tools such as Photoshop's --- or Roberto Rosselli Del Turco's (Humanist 17.90). The original image in the sequence of transformations shown at http://islp.di.unipi.it/bifrost/vbd/interfaccia.html is quite legible, the sequence itself shows the kind of operation I have in mind. Fotoscientifica re.co.rd. http://www.fotoscientificarecord.com/, cited by Orlandi, and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/ show what can be done with significant investment of resources. But in many circumstances, even ideally, I would think, putting the tools and/or instruction in how to use common tools into the hands of the individual scholar is what we want to see happen. The palaeographer's job can be made easier. Citations of other experiments in manuscript image-manipulation 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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.095 anti-spam Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:48:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 127 (127) I downloaded SpamAssassin, but I did not understand the directions at all, and though I wrote and asked for help, none was forthcoming. It's just sitting there unused on my hard drive.... From: Constantin Orasan Subject: RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN QUESTION ANSWERING (£7,500 per year) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:48:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 128 (128) RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN QUESTION ANSWERING (£7,500 per year) The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences invites applications for a four-year-funded research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate is expected to develop a question answering system for English which employs coreference resolution and temporal reasoning. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing. Required skills: - degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences - experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Perl, C++ - experience in Natural Language Processing - good command of the English language Desirable skills: - Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences - experience in question answering, coreference resolution or temporal reasoning - familiarity with a wide range of programming environments and operating systems Applications should be sent to Constantin Orasan School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom E-mail: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk and must include: - completed application form (available for download from http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/news/studentship2003.php) - CV - copy of university degree - copy of transcript listing all university marks (in English) - evidence of postgraduate qualification if applicable - a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of their research interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. Applications should be made both by email and surface mail. The closing date for applications is 21st July 2003. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed by email and telephone in the week beginning 28th July 2003. The studentship includes a maintenance grant of £7,500 GBP a year and also covers the tuition fees for 4 years. The successful candidate is to start the studentship on 1st October 2003, joining the Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) at the University of Wolverhampton. She or he will be working in a vibrant research environment, engaging in active research. For further information/queries, please contact Constantin Orasan, tel. +44 1902 322 623, Email: C.Orasan@wlv.ac.uk -- Constantin Orasan Researcher Computational Linguistics Group University of Wolverhampton http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The June 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:47:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 129 (129) Greetings: The June 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are five articles, 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 June is PapaInk: The Children's Art Archive, courtesy of Marc Feldman and Audrey Manring, PapaInk. The articles include: Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space Donald Beagle, Belmont Abbey College Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers Anne R. Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Ida T. Martinez, and Lance J. Heidig, Cornell University Trends in Use of Electronic Journals in Higher Education in the UK - Views of Academic Staff and Students Karen Bonthron, University of Edinburgh; Christine Urquhart, Rhian Thomas, David Ellis, Jean Everitt, Ray Lonsdale, Elizabeth McDermott, Helen Morris, Rebecca Phillips, Sin Spink, and Alison Yeoman, University of Wales Aberystwyth; and Chris Armstrong and Roger Fenton, Information Automation Ltd. DOI: A 2003 Progress Report Norman Paskin, International DOI Foundation Understanding the International Audiences for Digital Cultural Content Paul Miller, UKOLN; David Dawson, Resource: the Council for Museums, Archives & Libraries; and John Perkins, CIMI Consortium D-Lib has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University Sunsite, Canberra, Australia http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the June 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From: Magali Jeanmaire Subject: ELRA news - Call for Participation: ESTER campaign Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:03:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 130 (130) **************************************************************************** Call for Participation: **************************************************************************** Introduction: ------------- Introduction: ------------- The aim of the ESTER campaign (l'Evaluation des Systèmes de Transcription enrichie d'Emissions Radiophoniques / Evaluation of automatic broadcast news transcription systems) is to promote the evaluation of speech processing systems for the French language, to establish a permanent evaluation infrastructure and to disseminate, as widely as possible, the information and the resources acquired in the campaign. The ESTER campaign forms part of the EVALDA project and is funded by the French Ministry of Research in the context of its Technolangue programme. In the context of the ESTER campaign, the transcriptions are to be annotated with additional and associated information such as speaker turns, named entities etc. On the one hand, such an enriched transcription aims to provide an orthographic transcription of an audio signal and on the other hand, a structured representation of an audio document enabling information extraction from audio files. The aim of evaluating the quality of the associated annotations, along with the evaluation of the orthographic transcriptions, is to establish a reference or benchmark of present performance levels of each component of an indexation system whilst also providing an idea of overall system performance. Participation: -------------- Research and development centres, public or private, wishing to take part in the ESTER campaign are invited to make themselves known to the campaign organisers (see below) in order to register as participants. On registering as a participant and signing an end-user contract, you will receive the data available for Phase 1 of the campaign. The contract will be sent to you after declaring your interest in the campaign. Those participating in the ESTER campaign will receive the training/development/test data free of charge (providing results obtained during the evaluation campaign are returned). The data provisionally available for distribution are listed below: - Le Monde: 1997- 2002 - MLCC: Transcriptions of debates from the European Parliament (1992-1994) - France Inter: 25 hours of transcribed broadcast news - Radio France International (RFI): 15 hours of transcribed broadcast news Participants that return results for the obligatory evaluation tasks are permitted to keep the data mentioned above, for no additional cost. For more information on the project and the timetable, please consult the project website: http://www.afcp-parole.org/ester. Organisers ------------- The ESTER campaign forms part of the EVALDA project under the aegis of the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) with the support of the Délégation Générale de l'Armement (DGA) and ELDA (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency). 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Zomaya, Y.E. Gorbachev (Eds.): Computational Science - ICCS 2003 International Conference Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2-4, 2003. Proceedings, Part I http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2657.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2657.htm From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: 17.094 image-enhancement Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:05:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 132 (132) Dear Willard et al At the risk of blowing my own trumpet (or publishing my own manuscript?) I recently completed my doctorate at the Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford, which looks into this problem, namely, how image processing techniques, and artificial intelligence techniques can be used to aid historians in reading damaged and deteriorated texts. Terras, Melissa (2002). Image to Interpretation: Towards an Intelligent System to Aid Historians in the Reading of the Vindolanda Texts. D.Phil Thesis, Engineering Science, Oxford University. However, to cover the main points: - Each document is different, and it is very difficult to come up with one technique that can be used on all. However, there are some points which become clear: 1. The most helpful technique developed so far uses infra red photography to make carbon ink visible. This is well documented in papers such as Bearman, B. H. and S. Spiro (1996). "Archaeological Applications of Advanced Imaging Techniques." Biblical Archaeologist 59:1. Advanced techniques, such as those for the Vindolanda texts, can only be used prescriptively for documents with very defined and similar physical characteristics - see below for papers. There are various projects going on at CSAD involving digital imaging and AI. The website, again, is www.csad.ox.ac.uk 2. There was a really interesting special edition of literary and linguistic computing that came out in 1997 which covered various techniques. ie Bagnall, R. S. (1997). "Imaging of Papyri: A Strategic View." Literary and Linguistic Computing 12(3): 153-154. Bowman, A. K., J. M. Brady, et al. (1997). "Imaging Incised Documents." Literary and Linguistic Computing 12(3): 169 - 176. etc 3. As far as individuals using photoshop... this is entirely anecdotal. But with the experts I have worked with, it has become obvious that certain simple filters and techniques are the most helpful. a. reversal of images - inversion of colour. this often brings out points the human eye could not see easily when the image was "the right way round". inversion of black to white is the most helpful. b. messing about with contrast and brightness. again, this can highlight areas which had been previously missed or overlooked. c. sharpening filters in photoshop are useful. Although it should be obvious that whenever filters are applied to a source image, that image is distorted, and the user has to be careful to always look back to the original so that they dont see things which are "not there" in the first place. This is always an interesting problem when using imaging techniques and visualisation techniques in the humanities. d. reversing images - back to front. it sometimes helps the human eye to see things. Papyrologists and palaeographers often like to read things backwards, funnily enough. e. obviously, zoom is really useful. It should be pretty simple to write a pared down manual of photoshop to cover these points. we tried to teach some of the experts to use layers but generally no can do.... 4. trivia hounds, the first use of computing/imaging and papyrology was actually back in the 1960s,with these two independent studies Levison (1965). "The Siting of Fragments." Computer Journal 7: 275 - 277. Ogden, J. A. (1969). The Siting of Papyrus Fragments: An Experimental Application of Digital Computers. Mathematics. Glasgow, University of Glasgow. Ph.D. Thesis. 5. Other interesting articles? Brady, M., X. Pan, et al. (Forthcoming, (2003)). Shadow Stereo, Image Filtering and Constraint Propagation. Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World, London, British Academy. Brown, M. S. and W. B. Seales (2001). 3D Imaging and Processing of Damaged Texts. ACH/ALLC, New York University. Kiernan, K. S. (1991). "Digital Image Processing and the Beowulf Manuscript." Literary and Linguistic Computing 6: 20-27. Lundberg, M. J. (2002). "New Technologies: Reading Ancient Inscriptions in Virtual Light", West Semitic Research Project, University of Southern California. 2002. http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/information/article.html Prescott, A. (1997). "The Electronic Beowulf and Digital Restoration." Literary and Linguistic Computing 12: 185-95. Schenk, V. U. B. (2001). Visual Identification of Fine Surface Incisions. Department of Engineering Science. Oxford, Oxford University. D.Phil Thesis. Seales, W. B., J. Griffioen, et al. (2000). "The Digital Athenuem: New Technologies for Restoring and Preserving Old Documents." Computers In Libraries 20(2): 26-50. Stark, J. A. (1992). Digital Image Processing Techniques With Applications In Restoring Ancient Manuscripts. Cambridge, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. EIST Project Report. My thesis is in press at the moment. Well, its still being written into a book, but should be getting put together soon. when I get round to finishing it (and stop looking at the internet....) Hope this helps! Melissa --------------- Dr Melissa Terras Assistant Manager Engineering Policy Royal Academy of Engineering 29 Great Peter Street London SWIP 3LW --- "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ From: "Arianna Ciula" Subject: Re: 17.088 an image-enhancement manual? Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:07:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 133 (133) I am working on digital reproductions of medieval manuscripts for a research project of palaeographical analysis and what I have missed from the beginning of my research is such a manual. Surely everyone could experiment the best solution for his own case, but a directional methodology is still needed. What we have for physical restoration and conservation of old books, we do not have for treatment of digital images. This is valid not only for the general digital image processing (the features and opportunities regarding filters and the purposes of the digital edition), but even for the process of scanning of old books and charts as a whole (for instance: which product or scanner fits better which document and which material conditions?). The link I might suggest is the web site that tells the story of another project I am involved with: a relational database on musical manuscript http://www.unisi.it/ricerca/centri/cislab/ritmi/ritmi.htm Actually, in this case the images are not really seen as primary instruments of analysis (as it is the case of the purposes of my Ph.D. research and in general of the palaeographers' studies), but as terms of comparison and verification of the digital edition. Yours, Arianna Ciula From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: Re: 17.088 an image-enhancement manual? Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:08:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 134 (134) Dear Willard, Here are a few comments on your questions. I am glad that you started this discussion because I feel for quite some time that imaging experts and people who work on digitisation projects need to develop some instructional material together. [deleted quotation] This one is very difficult to answer without seeing the images. [deleted quotation] I think so. Most people develop their own ways of enhancing page images but it would be very useful to have a proper instruction how to use various features of popular software packages. It would be great to have a regular review of a new Photoshop release that would list new features which could be used to enhance page images. Regards, Suzana _______________________________________________________ Suzana Sukovic Rare Books and Special Collections Library University of Sydney Library, NSW 2006 Australia tel: (02) 9351 2992 fax: (02) 9351 2890 e-mail: s.sukovic@library.usyd.edu.au http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/index.html From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI CfP joint with NKOS Workshop ECDL2003 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:09:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 135 (135) JoDI is pleased to announce a Call for Papers in cooperation with the NKOS Workshop at ECDL2003. This is an extract from the full CfP: "Presentations from the Workshop may be selected for consideration in a forthcoming (early 2004) JoDI special issue on NKOS themes (edited by Koch, Tudhope). Download statistics show that articles from the April 2001 NKOS JoDI issue (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=1&iss=8), based on the ECDL 2000 NKOS Workshop, have been among the most read/downloaded articles in JoDI (http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sec.php3?content=editorial-v4i1)." Deadline for papers: 1st July 2003. The full Workshop announcement can be found at http://www.glam.ac.uk/soc/research/hypermedia/NKOS-Workshop.php From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 17.078 nesting Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:06:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 136 (136) Chris, I wish I could do justice to the questions you raise. At 02:12 AM 6/11/2003, you wrote: [deleted quotation] advocating a [deleted quotation] I'm not quite ready to concede that a somewhat 'looser' sense to these terms isn't perfectly legitimate. As a classicist (poor though I may be as such), I am very conscious that in some sense these words have been somewhat 'metaphorical' for most of their long histories. I plead also that we've barely *started* to talk about the way markup languages signify (as indeed they apparently do, so differently yet so intertangled with our more ordinary significations) ... and that some terminology is, perforce, necessary. To whatever extent my (mis)use of the terms may accidentally correspond, or fail to, with more advanced sciences with which I'm not familiar, is a risk that would seem to come with the territory. I concede that this may only muddy the waters when it comes to a strictly "narratological" study of markup, in which suddenly the real import of the terms is thrown into question. Yet this only gives us occasion, if we do it right, to examine what we actually mean by these terms -- "far-fetching" was Putnam's English-language gloss on Quintillian's 'transumptio' or 'metalepsis' -- rather than simply reify what we take them to represent into hard categories. (And incidentally -- keep reading -- it happens I did not draw the terms originally from narratological theory, with which I am acquainted only to the extent that I know it's there ... which certainly accounts for some of the confusion.) Of course, this does leave the more important task of "exploit[ing] the analytical potential of the theoretical and conceptual import to its full extent". But I'm glad to see I don't have to do that by myself.... [deleted quotation] Mm, perhaps I'm not clear about the nature of the markup I'm trying to describe. Take TEI for example. There are parts of TEI that might indeed be seen as "iconic" or perhaps "mimetic" in this way; there are others that are more-or-less confessedly interpretive of the matter they mark up. ( comes to mind as an example, which is described in the guidelines as for "words or phrases which are stressed or emphasized for linguistic or rhetorical effect" -- the judgement of whether a given word or phrase actually falls into this category being left to the encoder.) Yet they are (perhaps naively) taken to imply that they mirror or reflect that matter transparently. Their signification is thus, in a strange way, layered ... they constitute a narrative of a narrative of the text. (I am not the first to point this out: cf. Sperberg-McQueen, "markup encodes a theory of the text".) [deleted quotation] Exactly: just what happens in markup languages, I believe. [deleted quotation] I concede that this may be the trend, without finding that it makes the phenomenon any less interesting to think about (however awkwardly). The term "analepsis" ("pulling up", "taking back" -- I see, "restoring") is an interesting one, which I'll think about. As for why "proleptic" I wanted to distinguish "descriptive" markup (that seems to attempt to be representational in some way) from merely "prospective" applications of markup that have a more fixed semantic binding to some kind of processing (and hence that are more "procedural") -- and yet that are more fully formalized (typically they are described by a metalanguage such as a DTD, against which instances can be validated) than ad-hoc markup schemes, which perhaps only verge on a consistent representation. Again, a term for a representation of a representation seemed appropriate. [deleted quotation] Ah, well this may be closer to the rub. Understand, I am not alluding to this discourse -- in fact was quite unaware of it at the time of writing. Rather, the allusion, to the extent there is one, is to the work of John Hollander (cf. "The Figure of Echo") and Harold Bloom (in various places) -- neither of whom could ever be justly accused of being pomo. (And they were deploying the terms some years ago now.) Also, I don't think it's necessary to suppose that either SGML or TEI alluded to any such tradition for us to inquire as to what gestures towards representation are actually made by markup languages. Indeed, the whole point of my 2001 paper "Beyond the 'Descriptive vs. Procedural' Distinction", in which these ideas are explored, is that the descriptive vs. procedural distinction has tended to mask an equally fundamental distinction between different kinds of representation, all in markup that takes a "descriptive" approach to its design. So you find that many markup languages in use actually mix proleptic with metaleptic motives, without directly facing the design challenges that are raised thereby (albeit sometimes finessing them very nicely). [deleted quotation] I'm glad you think so. Signification and representation do turn out to be more problematic than engineers would like.... Thanks for taking the time to write! Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: Stefan Sinclair Subject: Re: 17.066 history in terms Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:10:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 137 (137) Dear All, For reasons that it would be wasteful to speculate about here, I haven't been receiving my regular doses of Humanist in my inbox. There was a thread started just about 10 days ago on the naming of our field ("computers and the humanities" => "computing in the humanities" => "humanities computing"). I think the question of how we identify ourselves is crucial, particularly as we continue our efforts to attract the attention of people who may be encountering the terms for the first time (institutional adminstration, funding agencies, prospective students to our programmes, prospective employers for our students, etc.). Rather than engage at this point in the ongoing (and important) discussion of what might be the most appropriate label for our activities, I'd simply like to point out what seems to me an interesting phenomenon related to the *teaching* of "humanities computing" at the University of Alberta. I usually see the discipline's name abbreviated as "HC". However, at Alberta we've gotten use to branding both the researching and teaching activities as HuCo, which I believe has emerged directly from the need to reference short course titles in the M.A. programme: HUCO-500, HUCO-612, etc. (ie. the convention of 4 letter acronyms for course names). I find it intriguing that a relatively trivial practicality of administration has driven a reformulation of our identity. Is HuCo used anywhere else? Stfan (Stéfan) -- Stfan Sinclair, University of Alberta Phone: (780) 492-6768, FAX: (780) 492-9106, Office: Arts 218-B Address: Arts 200, MLCS, UofA, Edmonton, AB (Canada) T6G 2E6 M.A. in Humanities Computing: http://huco.ualberta.ca/ From: "Paul Groves" Subject: Re: 17.102 image-enhancement Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:12:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 138 (138) [With reference to Humanist 17.102 (1).... WM] BTW just thought I would remind everyone that the Vindolanda tablets (including zoomable images and academic edition, plus lots of supporting material) are online at: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/ regards Paul *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* 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/ Oxford University Computing Services | University of Oxford | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX2 6NN | Tel: 01865 273290 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* From: Eric Dubois Subject: bleed-through removal Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:43:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 139 (139) Hello, I was forwarded today a copy of your message http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v17/0085.html on image enhancement. I have recently done work on bleed-through removal. You can see a paper from a couple of years ago at the IS&T PICS conference (dubo01pics.pdf) and a master's thesis that was recently completed in the following we directory: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~edubois/documents/ I put there both the complete thesis PatrickDanoThesis2003_final.pdf (30.1 MB) and the main text without appendices PatrickDanoThesis2003_final_main.pdf (9.5 MB) We have obtained interesting results but I think there is still much to be done and I am looking for other students to pursue this work further. I would appreciate hearing from you if you think there is any scope for collaboration. Regards, Eric Dubois, Eng. Vice-doyen (recherche) Vice-Dean (Research) Facult de gnie Faculty of Engineering Universit d'Ottawa University of Ottawa 161 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 Canada http://www.genie.uottawa.ca/ Tel: +1-613-562-5915 Fax: +1-613-562-5174 http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~edubois/ From: Jennifer T. Garner, for the INCITS Secretariat Subject: Call for Volunteer: V1 International Representative Date: June 18, 2003 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 140 (140) Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Due to the recent appointment of Mr. Patrick Durusau as Chairman of INCITS/V1, the office of V1 International Representative is currently vacant. This first call for volunteers to serve as International Representative of V1 is being issued the the members of V1 and will close on July 19, 2003. Any member of the INCITS Subgroup is welcome to volunteer to serve. Before one considers doing so, however, the commitment in time and responsibilities should be considered. Officers must actively support the administrative structure that ensures due process to all participants, assists in reaching consensus and protects the accreditation of the entire system. [There is no limit to the number of terms an individual may serve. 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The statements from candidates wishing to serve in the above referenced position on the INCITS Subgroup should be sent to the attention of Jennifer Garner no later than July 19, 2003. -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Research on Blogging? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:43:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 141 (141) [Yes, the informality is intended. Let's hope it doesn't rub against the grain...] Hello, Anyone here doing research on blogging and related phenomena (Wiki, RSS, Slashdot...)? Just curious. The reason for this query is that there are interesting trends developing in "impulse writing" that some list members might be working on. Worth a discussion. IMHO (quick list), possible topics could include: Tendencies in informality? (Dude! Acronyms are k00l...) Poetic dimensions? (Sometimes involuntary emphasis on form) Comparison to other online genres, formats, and methods? (Mailing-list posts, Web forums, BBSes, Usenet, chat, op-ed pieces, topical Web pages...) Journalism used as reference genre? Usual length of posts. Cognitive reasons? Benefits of quick and dirty "stream of thought" posts? Multiple edits on same post as linear projection of writing process? Legitimacy/popularity/authority/authorness of poster? Publicized notes to self? Blurring of private/public, individual/group boundaries? Importance of time? Archiving ephemeral content? Mundane content? (I ate these avocados and they're really good) Intertextuality? Networked ideas? Memes? Cross-media? (I'm listening to Barenaked Ladies) Common themes? ("Current Events," Microsoft is the Evil Empire, Open Source works) Blogger culture? Social capitalization? Repurposing content? Use/avoidance of first person pronouns? As diaries? As requests for help? As auto-analysis? Fast typing ("Wrods and there orthegraphy") Merging of genres? Self-/communal censorship? ... Well, sorry if these are too disparate. Been thinking about 'stuff... Should really put it in Da Blog... From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: RE: 17.066 history in terms Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:45:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 142 (142) Dear Willard, This is an interesting issue (thanks for bringing it up). I wonder about what is progress or development here. I feel that both "computing in the humanities" and "humanities computing" have an "instrumental ring" to them. We use "the humanities and information technology" (in Swedish) to put emphasis on the importance of bringing the two together (as approximate equals but with "the humanities" first), and to include studies of "cyberspace" as well as the use of technology as a tool and creative/artistic use of technology etc. I find "information technology" more inclusive and less instrumental than "computing" or "computers". I am not saying that this is necessarily better, but I think it reflects our goals: promoting humanities perspectives on technology and creating a meeting place between the humanities and technology (and the people representing these sides) starting out from the humanities side and not excluding technology as an integral part of what we do (and as a consequence the physical HUMlab abounds with technology as well as books, an aquarium, colors, sofas and people communicating). We have had no problems with "selling" this label, and there has been a great deal of national interest in the area (we are probably helped here by our name as well - HUMlab - which is concise and to the point). Patrik Svensson --------------------------------------------------- Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Ume University, Sweden http://www.humlab.umu.se/patrik/ http://www.humlab.umu.se/ [deleted quotation] From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: RE: 17.087 streaming video for lecture series? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:45:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 143 (143) Dear all, We use streaming regularly in our seminar series, and I agree with Matt's point about the overhead /cost/. You need the necessary technology (which does not need to be very expensive), and more importantly, you need people who know how to use it (or who are willing to learn it). We do not normally post power point slides etc., but have them integrated into the film. We do live streaming as well as archiving, and these days we also have a moderated chat room available. The chat room is projected on a second screen in the lab, and is a way of creating presence. The local audience can see who is present in the chat room as well what the virtual participants have to "say". See http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/mamamusings/archives/000077.html for a screen shot of what it might look like for a user. For us, it is a way of actively using technology ourselves and making the most of bringing interesting guests to our environment. If you are interested, here are a couple of links to streams of recent HUMlab seminars: Katherine Hayles: Computing the Human rtsp://www2.humlab.umu.se:7070/archive/humlabseminariet/katherine_hayles .rm Mark Stephen Meadows: Parallax: The Role of Perspective in Reactive Stories rtsp://www2.humlab.umu.se:7070/archive/humlabseminariet/20030226_meadows .rm Brenda Laurel: Transmedia Design rtsp://www2.humlab.umu.se:7070/archive/humlabseminariet/brenda_laurel.rm We are learning all the time, and soon (hopefully), we will install a new lighting system to improve lighting conditions. If there is interest I will post information about fall semester seminars when we have the program ready. Patrik Svensson --------------------------------------------------- Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Ume University, Sweden http://www.humlab.umu.se/patrik/ http://www.humlab.umu.se/ [deleted quotation] From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Cognition is Categorization Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:18:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 144 (144) To be presented at UQaM Cognitive Science Summer Institute on CATEGORISATION, Montreal June 30-July 11, 2003 http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html COGNITION IS CATEGORIZATION Stevan Harnad SUMMARY: All of our categories consist in ways we behave differently toward different kinds of things, whether it be the things we do or don't, eat, mate with, or flee from, or the things that we describe, through our language, as prime numbers, affordances, or absolute discriminables. That is also all that cognition is for -- and about. [Full text: http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00003027/ ] From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.110 research on blogging? Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:18:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 145 (145) [deleted quotation] If research consists in doing, then yes. I keep a blog at: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/ And I'd be curious to know about other Humanists who blog. FWIW, here's something I had posted to my blog several months ago: "Earlier I had said, none too originally, that the blog seems to represent the next stage of evolution for the personal homepage. I still think that's true, but my recent immersion in blogging has also brought home to me the importance of feedback, interaction, multi-directionality. You post and then wait for comments and trackbacks. You log on in the morning and look at your blogroll to see who's updated. It seems to me that blogs are filling the vacuum created by the demise of many listserv discussion groups, at least in those corners of the academic world I inhabit. Conversations that would have once taken place on list have moved to the blogosphere, which functions as a richer, more granular, and--this is what's most important--self-organizing discourse network." Blogs (and some of the other networked writing enviroments like Wikis) are really pushing the technical edge these days in terms of hypertext and collaborative discourse. Trackback, which is implemented in Movable Type and several other blogging tools, is particularly worthy of note because it's enabled what are essentially the first true peer-to-peer links on the Web. Matt From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Cognition is Categorization Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:18:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 146 (146) To be presented at UQaM Cognitive Science Summer Institute on CATEGORISATION, Montreal June 30-July 11, 2003 http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html COGNITION IS CATEGORIZATION Stevan Harnad SUMMARY: All of our categories consist in ways we behave differently toward different kinds of things, whether it be the things we do or don't, eat, mate with, or flee from, or the things that we describe, through our language, as prime numbers, affordances, or absolute discriminables. That is also all that cognition is for -- and about. [Full text: http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00003027/ ] StartOfEnvelope: ExternalSender:y From:willard@lists.village.virginia.edu HelloName: Recipient:linda.l.bandy@Vanderbilt.Edu ReplyTo:owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU SenderIP:255.255.255.255 Subject:17.113 Harnad, "Cognition is Categorization" Priority:Normal Validated:y SenderPtrRecord: Message-ID:<5.2.0.9.0.20030622092453.01f573b8@mail.kcl.ac.uk> PickupDirectory:C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\PickUp ExchangeRecipientProperties:bGluZGEubC5iYW5keUBWYW5kZXJiaWx0LkVkdT1wYjpJTU1QSURfUlBfUkVDSVBJRU5UX0ZMQUdTPXN0cjpBQUFBQUE9PVxuCgA= EndOfEnvelope:00000241 From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.110 research on blogging? Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:18:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 147 (147) [deleted quotation] If research consists in doing, then yes. I keep a blog at: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/ And I'd be curious to know about other Humanists who blog. FWIW, here's something I had posted to my blog several months ago: "Earlier I had said, none too originally, that the blog seems to represent the next stage of evolution for the personal homepage. I still think that's true, but my recent immersion in blogging has also brought home to me the importance of feedback, interaction, multi-directionality. You post and then wait for comments and trackbacks. You log on in the morning and look at your blogroll to see who's updated. It seems to me that blogs are filling the vacuum created by the demise of many listserv discussion groups, at least in those corners of the academic world I inhabit. Conversations that would have once taken place on list have moved to the blogosphere, which functions as a richer, more granular, and--this is what's most important--self-organizing discourse network." Blogs (and some of the other networked writing enviroments like Wikis) are really pushing the technical edge these days in terms of hypertext and collaborative discourse. Trackback, which is implemented in Movable Type and several other blogging tools, is particularly worthy of note because it's enabled what are essentially the first true peer-to-peer links on the Web. Matt StartOfEnvelope: ExternalSender:y From:willard@lists.village.virginia.edu HelloName: Recipient:linda.l.bandy@Vanderbilt.Edu ReplyTo:owner-humanist@Princeton.EDU SenderIP:255.255.255.255 Subject:17.114 research on blogging Priority:Normal Validated:y SenderPtrRecord: Message-ID:<5.2.0.9.0.20030622092538.00e2f140@mail.kcl.ac.uk> PickupDirectory:C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\PickUp ExchangeRecipientProperties:bGluZGEubC5iYW5keUBWYW5kZXJiaWx0LkVkdT1wYjpJTU1QSURfUlBfUkVDSVBJRU5UX0ZMQUdTPXN0cjpBQUFBQUE9PVxuCgA= EndOfEnvelope:00000230 From: "Steven D. Krause" Subject: Re: 17.114 research on blogging Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 06:43:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 148 (148) Greetings-- In the composition and rhetoric community in the U.S.-- particularly for folks concerned with computers and writing-- there are many people doing research of different flavors on blogs. I've given a couple of presentations about blogs at conferences, one about blogs as a tool for scholarship and one about blogs as a (failed) tool for writing instruction. There is a link to this last presentation (and a discussion about the conference where I gave it, the annual Computers and Writing conference) as what is currently the last entry of my own blog, which is at http://people.emich.edu/skrause/blog I'm using a somewhat problematic software to run this blog, but that's another story... There's a woman named Clancy Ratliff who has a good blog at http://www.culturecat.net/ and who also has links to a lot of good blogs done by people who identify themselves as computers and writing academic-types. Most of those folks are at a minimum using blogs in their own writing and/or their own teaching. --Steve Steven D. Krause Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature 614 G Pray-Harrold Hall * Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 * http://krause.emich.edu From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 17.114 research on blogging Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 06:43:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 149 (149) )" To: Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 4:26 AM [deleted quotation] the [deleted quotation] RSS, [deleted quotation] ExchangeRecipientProperties:bGluZGEubC5iYW5keUBWYW5kZXJiaWx0LkVkdT1wYjpJTU1Q SURfUlBfUkVDSVBJRU5UX0ZMQUdTPXN0cjpBQUFBQUE9PVxuCgA= [deleted quotation] From: Peter Scott Subject: Re: 17.114 research on blogging Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:55:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 150 (150) For more information on blogging and listings of tools, hosts, directories, etc. see: The Weblogs Compendium at: http://www.lights.com/weblogs From: Willard McCarty Subject: demographics of blogging? Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:55:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 151 (151) Has anyone studied the demographics of blogging? The linguistics? Is there a particular kind of discourse characteristic of this mode (as would seem impressionistically to be the case)? Is it conducted by particular kinds of people, e.g. esp. by Americans, not so much by Canadians, or more so? those under or over the age of 30? Is it more a nocturnal than a daytime habit, more personal than professional? 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: "Prof. Shlomo Argamon" Subject: CFP: JASIST special issue on Computational Approaches to Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:54:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 152 (152) Style Call for Papers Special Topic Issue of _JASIST_ Computational Methods for Style Analysis and Synthesis The next Special Topics Issue of the _Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology_ (JASIST) is scheduled to come out in early 2004 on the topic of Computational Methods for Style Analysis and Synthesis. The guest editor for this special issue will be Shlomo Argamon of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. In recent years a growing number of researchers working in a variety of different areas have focused on explicitly addressing recognition and generation of style in their various disciplines, research that contrasts with traditional emphases on 'performance' or 'content' or 'meaning'. Indeed, in some media such as music, visual art and to a lesser extent, film and even expressive speech, 'meaning' itself comprises mainly factors such as excitation and calmness or other emotional expressions that can be considered aspects of style instead of what is usually thought of as content. Recent achievements in style research include systems for authorship attribution, organizing and retrieving documents based on their writing style, composing new music in a given composer's style, rendering animation in different motion styles, and more. Work in all media shares the problem of formalizing a notion of style, and developing a modeling language that supports the representation of differing styles. The precise methodology used may depend upon the use of stylistic variation in a domain. Often, style is used to place a work into a genre, i.e. a context of other works. In other cases, style can be used to connect affect to content, as in the generation of animation sequences. Such different uses of style in some medium can be analyzed and such analysis used to categorize or identify particular works as well as to enable automatic generation of works with particular styles. Beyond purely utilitarian considerations are other important issues specifically related to using computers as an adjunct to artists in various media (graphics, music, text, etc.), and here we may examine the expressive qualities expressed by different stylistic mechanisms. Here the fundamental questions are: How may stylistic features be formalized? How may they be extracted from a given performance or piece? How do such features correlate with the "feeling" being conveyed? How may style be incorporated or added to a performance or piece? We seek submissions that address all aspects of style analysis and synthesis from a computational perspective, but are particularly interested to see work that addresses some of the following questions: - What is style, and how may it be formalized? - What kinds of features indicate style (as opposed to function or meaning)? - How is style related to short- and long-term temporal dependencies, such as found in music or text? - How do stylistic features correlate with affect of the observer/performer? - How may style be effectively combined with pre-existing content? - What sorts of formal modeling methods are useful in representing style? - How may one effectively learn a style of expression and then execute it? - How does perceived style depend on the observer's context? - How may presentation style affect comprehension? - What connections can be drawn from stylistic methods used for one domain to another? We seek papers that discuss research in the area of Style Analysis and Synthesis in all media and from many angles. Inquiries can be made to the guest editor at argamon@iit.edu. Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to: Professor Shlomo Argamon Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 10 W. 31st Street Chicago, IL 60616 (312) 567-5289 voice (312) 567-5067 fax argamon@iit.edu email The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is August 31, 2003. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue of _JASIST_. Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web as is further information about _JASIST_, at http://www.asis.org/. From: Margot Brereton Subject: an engineer's understanding Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:54:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 153 (153) Re: Willard McCarty's email of Sat 7th June 2003, which has provoked a good debate in our research group: [deleted quotation] I think there are two halves to the story development of an engineer's understanding. An good engineer can analyse a real machine and produce an analytic model or simulation of it that predicts its behavior under a variety of different external conditions. Depending on how complex the machine is the accuracy of the model might vary but.... There could be a lengthy debate here on what actually demonstrates and constitutes understanding but I would prefer to address my comments to the second part of the story. The second half of the story is that a good engineer can design a real device in response to a set of requirements (an abstraction). The only reason that engineers model things in the first place is because it enables them to understand, in order that they may design. [deleted quotation] Yes. If one can get an accurate simulation that predicts the correct behaviour under a variety of different input conditions then one has probably understood the device. [deleted quotation] of [deleted quotation] Not quite. I think Ferguson in effect showed that the response to an abstract idea is a real machine. For example in Chapter 1 or 2 where he discussed the development of the Newcomen engine, he correctly identifed that while elements of ideas for producing power from steam or explosions had existed as far back as Da Vinci, it was Newcomen that designed and actually built the first working steam engine. Ferguson rightly attributed the credit to Newcomen for this marvellous achieevement. Any history of technology has to preserve both the machines themselves, the notebooks that describe the machine's development, and means by which models of phenomena that led to understanding the machine came about - ( e.g the Wright brother's early aerofoil tests, engineering models that allowed the steam engine to be refined etc. ) And of course understanding the social, political and economic circumstances under which new technologies were achieved. May I humbly refer any interested readers to my PhD dissertation, which addresses this topic of how engineering students learn by negotiating between abstract representations and physical devices - the way to develop real engineering understanding. The Role of Hardware in Learning Engineering Fundamentals: An empirical study of engineering design and product analysis activity. PhD dissertation by Margot Brereton 1999 Stanford University available to download at http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/CDR/publications.html Best regards, Margot [deleted quotation] From: Gerd Willée Subject: availability of LEMMA3 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:56:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 154 (154) ANNOUNCEMENT: LEMMA3, a wordclass tagger and lemmatizer for unrestricted German texts (cf. the abstract of the paper describing it presented in Tuebingen/Germany last summer http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/cgi-bin/abs/abs?propid=35) is now available (for the moment, Windows-platforms only). To obtain a free copy of the system, please send a request to dr. Gerd Willée, IKP - University of Bonn, Germany (willee@uni-bonn.de) -- Dr. Gerd Willée IKP - Universität Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn +49 (0)228 - 73 56 20 skrupel - wort, das außer gebrauch gerät, da es eine idee birgt, die nicht mehr existiert (ambrose bierce) From: "OESI Informa" Subject: SEPLN 2003 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:32:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 155 (155) SEPLN 2003 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) 10, 11 and 12 September, 2003 University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing and the Office for Spanish in the Information Society at Instituto Cervantes Introduction The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcalá 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. The conference website (http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln) offers full information concerning the conference, the organisers, the scientific committee, the programme, attendants, travelling, accommodation and information about Alcalá de Henares, NLP related links, links to previous editions of the SEPLN Conference, etc. 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 Alcalá de Henares. [material deleted] Important dates Registration dates: - Deadline for reduced-fee registration: July 14, 2003 - Registration deadline: dates of the conference Dates of the 19th SEPLN Conference: 10 - 12 September, 2003 Venue Faculty of Law University of Alcalá Libreros, 17 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Contact details Should you need further information, please contact: Secretaría del XIX Congreso de la SEPLN Conference coordinator: Dª Isabel Bermejo Rubio Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94 Fax: +34 91 888 18 26 E-mail: sepln@cervantes.es __________________________________________________________ Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información Dpto. de Tecnología y Proyectos Lingüísticos Área Académica Instituto Cervantes C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26 informaoesi@cervantes.es http://oesi.cervantes.es From: Ray Siemens Subject: Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Digital Humanities Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:30:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 156 (156) Brock University seeks applications for a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in: Digital Humanities: The Faculty of Humanities at Brock University invites applications for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities to begin July 1, 2004. The purpose of this Chair is to enhance awareness of Humanities Computing and potentially to deepen and broaden connections between Humanities/Fine Arts and the Sciences. Candidates will have an outstanding interdisciplinary research record connecting computing to one or more of the following fields: Classics, Archeology, Visual Arts, Dramatic Arts, Music, Applied Linguistics, History, Philosophy, or Language Studies and Literature. In keeping with Brock University's Strategic Research Plan, the successful applicant will be a pioneer in the area of computer-generated and technologically mediated research, whose work participates in creating new foundations for evaluating the impact of digital resources on teaching and research. Applicants should demonstrate an ability to design and deliver courses of interest to graduate and undergraduate students in one or more of the Humanities/Fine Arts disciplines and possibly some area of the Sciences. Brock University is committed to multidisciplinary research and encourages scholarship at the interface of disciplinary traditions. For Brock's Canada Research Chair priorities see: http://www.chairs.gc.ca/english/research/strategic/index.html. Appointments are expected to be at the Associate Professor level and commence January1or July 1, 2004. Applicants are emerging leaders in their field, have a strong (emerging) national and international scholarly presence, have an excellent teaching and graduate supervision record; have significant, programmatic, externally funded research, and a commitment to multidisciplinary and collaborative research. Candidates will have the opportunity for cross-appointments between departments and Faculties (Applied Health Sciences, Education, Social Sciences, Humanities). The positions come with the opportunity for funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Hiring decisions will be made on the basis of demonstrated research excellence, teaching ability, potential for interaction with colleagues, and departmental and University needs. For information on Brock University's Strategic Research Plan, see: http://www.chairs.gc.ca/english/research/strategic/index.html. Submit curriculum vitae, statements of research interests and plans, statements of teaching interests and lists of potential referees to: Dr. Jack Martin Miller, Associate Vice-President Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A. Fax: 905-684-2277. Applications for these competitions will be received and considered until a suitable candidate has been identified. Applicants or nominations from Canada and elsewhere are encouraged. Brock University hires on the basis of merit and is committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. _____________ R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 335/120. Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 740-6459. siemensr@mala.bc.ca http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Scholar-Based Innovations in Publishing Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:54:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 157 (157) _Scholar-Based Innovations in Publishing_ I am pleased to announce the availability of a most 'exciting' [:-)] PowerPoint presentation prepared for the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Discussion Group meeting at ALA Toronto on Monday, June 23, 2003 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. The revised presentation is available at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased.ppt ] In recent years, a number of innovations have emerged that seek to provide sustainable alternatives to the predominant publishing paradigm. In this presentation, a variety of initiatives that exploit the inherent potential of the Web and other digital environments to offer open and enhanced access to the personal and collective scholarship of individuals, organizations, and nations will be profiled. In its concluding section, the presentation focuses on the two major discipline-based repositories for library and information science scholarship,_ DLIST Archive: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology_ (http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/) and _E-LIS_ (http://eprints.rclis.org/ ), "an electronic open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities." To expedite the adoption and further development of scholar-based innovations in publishing, librarians and other information specialists are encouraged to 'Lead By Example' by depositing their own scholarship within either or both these repositories. The 'References' section of the presentation includes four of my publications that served as the basis for this presentation, the first three of which are linked to their respective full-text: "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part I: Individual and Institutional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 2 (March 2003): 19-26. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-I.pdf ] "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part II: Library and Professional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 3 (April 2003): 19-27. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-II.pdf ] "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part III: Organizational and National Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20 no. 5 (June 2003): 15-23. [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-III.pdf ] "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature," in E-_Serials Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities_, ed. David Fowler (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, Fall 2003). [Of course, I wll deposit these full-text items, as well as other scholarship, including this ALCTS presentation {:-), in _DLIST_ and _E-LIS_]. Enjoy! BTW: Don't forget to explore the embedded (and non-embedded)hyperlinks! {:-> /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Circumstantial Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu NOTE: Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was unable to attend ALA to deliver this presentation in person. I am most grateful to Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC, and fellow panelist, for presenting on my behalf. Thanks!, Julia! | Gerry McKiernan From: Willard McCarty Subject: be of good cheer Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:51:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 158 (158) Dear colleagues, Tomorrow morning early I'm off to the Tyrol, in Austria, for a week of hill-walking. (Please note, before envy overcomes you (as otherwise it might), that this is my sole holiday until Christmas or thereabouts.) Having left no time for our assistant editor to pick up the various bits and pieces concerned with publishing Humanist, I am constrained to let our long conversation fall silent for the week. You may of course continue to submit messages. Please do, if the spirit moves you. A recent enquiry about a lost message, asking if perhaps it might not have been deemed suitable for publication here, reminds me that it's been a while since I issued my standard reassurance: that no message is ever made to disappear without the author of it being told, and told why. This happens so seldom that it would almost be right to say it never happens. Surely these days everyone is vexed by spam, and I suspect many of you receive as much or more e-mail as I do (an average of 315 messages/day). So I am sure you can understand how easily a message from Humanist, or from anyone to me, can get lost. Again, if you do not see a submission published on Humanist within 48 hours of submitting it, please send it to me again. I apologise on behalf of a very flawed world. Remember when we used to say that electronic communications would liberate us from its problems? 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: AITOPICS@aol.com Subject: AI Topics revised Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:30:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 159 (159) RE: Humanist Discussion Group: 16.411 AI Topics http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v16/0400.html Dear Dr. McCarty, I thought you might like to know that our two articles about the development of the AI TOPICS web site can be found at > http://www.aaai.org/aitopics/articles&columns/articles.html Regards, Jon Glick at AI Topics aitopics03@aaai.org www.aaai.org/aitopics [deleted quotation] is subject to the notices & disclaimers set forth at www.aaai.org/aitopics/html/notices.html From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 17.116 research on blogging Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:14:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 160 (160) At 7:01 +0100 24/6/03, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] Jill Walker: http://www.huminf.no/~jill/ is a good place to start, including her old list of research blogs (no longer maintained due to number of research blogs out there). There are a lot of education blogs now, and a lot of blogs on blogs. (I'm offline, if people want a list of beginning URL's I'll send if needed.) There is work on what is characterised as the 'blogosphere' which is measuring, visualising, and mapping it in various ways. The field is rapidly expanding and I'd assume you'd find at a minimum PhD researcher on each of these topics. In my own research I am wanting to develop tools to visualise a blog community of students in a common subject area to see if that aids in what I tend to characterise as 'emergent networks', 'emergent communities', and 'emergent knowledge objects'. Also just noticed this on the AoIR list: At 12:01 -0400 21/6/03, air-l-request@aoir.org wrote: [deleted quotation] cheers Adrian Miles -- + MelbourneDAC2003 digital arts and culture conference [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/] + interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no] From: "gerda" Subject: Re: 17.116 research on blogging Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:33:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 161 (161) forgive my ignorance. I must have missed/deleted something - what is "blogging?" Gerda Elata-Alster [PS -- Here is an *excellent* opportunity to produce a simple, straightforward definition. Who could resist? --WM] From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Call for reviewers, "Computers, Literature and Philology" Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:28:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 162 (162) INFORMATICA UMANISTICA: DALLA RICERCA ALL'INSEGNAMENTO Proceedings of the seminars "Computers, Literature and Philology", held at University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy (1999), and University of Alicante, Spain (2000) Edited by Domenico Fiormonte Bulzoni, 2003 pp. 304, Euro 21,00 ISBN 88-8319-824-7 Further info + table of contents: www.selc.ed.ac.uk/italian/digitalvariants/events/Clip99_2000.htm Colleagues interested in reviewing the volume can contact me at d.fiormonte@mclink.it Please remember to include in your reply name and address of the periodical, journal, etc. where you intend to submit the review, your academic/research affiliation details, and a complete mailing address. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte Professore a contratto di Informatica umanistica Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata / Universita' di Roma La Sapienza http://www.digitalvariants.org From: David Zeitlyn Subject: C19th photo album: collaborative research project Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:31:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 163 (163) Apologies for (selected) cross-posting Hello and greetings I have put online some scanned versions of 22 C19th photos taken from an album I got at a car boot sale. I hope that these might form the basis of a collaborative research project - if everyone who can contributes what they know then the result may be a fascinating and useful resource for teachers, historians and who knows who else... The images are at http://stirling.ukc.ac.uk/Anthropologists/dz3/Album_Project/ yours sincerely davidz -- Dr David Zeitlyn, Reader in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS, UK. Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ From: SpringerLink-Alert-Service Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:18:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 164 (164) Lecture Notes in Computer Science http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs.htm LNCS 2759: O.H. Ibarra, Z. Dang (Eds.): Implementation and Application of Automata 8th International Conference, CIAA 2003, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, July 16-18, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2759.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2759.htm LNCS 2749: J. Bigun, T. Gustavsson (Eds.): Image Analysis 13th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2003, Halmstad, Sweden, June 29 - July 2, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2749.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2749.htm LNCS 2734: P. Perner; A. Rosenfeld (Eds.): Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition Third International Conference, MLDM 2003; Leipzig, Germany, July 5-7, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2734.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2734.htm LNCS 2733: A. Butz, A. Krger, P. Olivier (Eds.): Smart Graphics 2003 Third International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2003, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2-4, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2733.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2733.htm LNCS 2728: E.M. Bakker, T.S. Huang, M.S. Lew, N. Sebe, X.S. Zhou (Eds.): Image and Video Retrieval Second International Conference, CIVR 2003, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, July 24-25, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2728.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2728.htm LNCS 2726: E. Hancock, M. Vento (Eds.): Graph Based Representations in Pattern Recognition 4th IAPR International Workshop, GbRPR 2003 York, UK, June 30 - July 2, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2726.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2726.htm LNCS 2722: J.M. Cueva Lovelle, B.M. Gonzlez Rodrguez, L. Joyanes Aguilar, J.E. Labra Gayo, M. del Puerto Paule Ruiz (Eds.): Web Engineering International Conference, ICWE 2003, Oviedo, Spain, July 14-18, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2722.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2722.htm LNCS 2718: P.W.H. Chung, C. Hinde, M. Ali (Eds.): Developments inApplied Artificial Intelligence 16th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2003, Loughborough, UK, June 23-26, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2718.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2718.htm LNCS 2715: T. Bilgi, B. De Baets, O. Kaynak (Eds.): Fuzzy Sets and Systems - IFSA 2003 10th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 - July 2, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2715.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2715.htm LNCS 2709: T. Windeatt, F. Roli (Eds.): Multiple Classifier Systems 4th International Workshop, MCS 2003, Guilford, UK, June 11-13, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2709.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2709.htm LNCS 2708: R. Reed, J. Reed (Eds.): SDL 2003: System Design 11th International SDL Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, July 1-4, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2708.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2708.htm LNCS 2697: T. Warnow, B. Zhu (Eds.): Computing and Combinatorics 9th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2003, Big Sky, MT, USA, July 25-28, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2697.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2697.htm LNCS 2695: L.D. Griffin, M. Lillholm (Eds.): Scale Space Methods in Computer Vision 4th International Conference, Scale-Space 2003, Isle of Skye, UK, June 10-12, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2695.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2695.htm LNAI 2685: C. Freksa, W. Brauer, C. Habel, K.F. Wender (Eds.): Spatial Cognition III Routes and Navigation, Human Memory and Learning, Spatial Representation and Spatial Reasoning http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2685.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2685.htm LNCS 2675: M. Marchesi, G. Succi (Eds.): Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering 4th International Conference, XP 2003, Genova, Italy, May 25-29, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2675.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2675.htm LNCS 2672: M. Endler, D. Schmidt (Eds.): Middleware 2003 ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16-20, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2672.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2672.htm LNCS 2664: M. Leuschel (Ed.): Logic Based Program Synthesis and Tranformation 12th International Workshop, LOPSTR 2002, Madrid, Spain, September 17-20, 2002. Revised Selected Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2664.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2664.htm LNCS 2644: D. Hogrefe, A. Wiles (Eds.): Testing of Communicating Systems 15th IFIP International Conference, TestCom 2003, Sophia Antipolis, France, May 26-28, 2003. Proceedings http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2644.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2644.htm LNCS 2630: F. Winkler, U. Langer (Eds.): Symbolic and Numerical Scientific Computation Second International Conference, SNSC 2001, Hagenberg, Austria, September 12-14, 2001. Revised Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2630.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2630.htm LNCS 2614: R. Laddaga, P. Robertson, H. Shrobe (Eds.): Self-Adaptive Software Second International Workshop, IWSAS 2001, Balatonfred, Hungary, May 17-19, 2001. Revised Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2614htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2614htm LNCS 2608: J.-M. Champarnaud, D. Maurel (Eds.): Implementation and Application of Automata 7th International Conference, CIAA 2002, Tours, France, July 3-5, 2002. Revised Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2608.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2608.htm LNCS 2450: M. Ito, M. Toyama (Eds.): Developments in Language Theory 6th International Conference, DLT 2002, Kyoto, Japan, September 18-21, 2002. Revised Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2450.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2450.htm From: SpringerLink-Alert-Service Subject: more Lecture Notes in Computer Science Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:19:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 165 (165) LNCS 2616: T. Asano, R. Klette, C. Ronse (Eds.): Geometry, Morphology, and Computational Imaging 11th International Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, April 7-12, 2002. Revised Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2616.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2616.htm LNCS 2563: Y. Manolopoulos, S. Evripidou, A.C. Kakas (Eds.): Advances in Informatics 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2001, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 8-10, 2001. Revised Selected Papers http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2563.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2563.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: books from Kluwer Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:24:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 166 (166) (1) <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432052033X2560098X215864Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>Video<http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432052033X2560098X215864Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk> Mining edited by Azriel Rosenfeld University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA David Doermann Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, USA Daniel DeMenthon University of Maryland, MD, USA <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432052033X2560099X215864Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN VIDEO COMPUTING -- 006 Video Mining is an essential reference for the practitioners and academicians in the fields of multimedia search engines. Half a terabyte or 9,000 hours of motion pictures are produced around the world every year. Furthermore, 3,000 television stations broadcasting for twenty-four hours a day produce eight million hours per year, amounting to 24,000 terabytes of data. Although some of the data is labeled at the time of production, an enormous portion remains unindexed. For practical access to such huge amounts of data, there is a great need to develop efficient tools for browsing and retrieving content of interest, so that producers and end users can quickly locate specific video sequences in this ocean of audio-visual data. Video Mining is important because it describes the main techniques being developed by the major players in industry and academic research to address this problem. It is the first time research from these leaders in the field developing the next-generation multimedia search engines is being described in great detail and gathered into a single volume. Video Mining will give valuable insights to all researchers and non-specialists who want to understand the principles applied by the multimedia search engines that are about to be deployed on the Internet, in studios' multimedia asset management systems, and in video-on-demand systems. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7549-9 Date: July 2003 Pages: 352 pp. EURO 133.00 / USD 130.00 / GBP 84.00 (2) <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432070897X2560262X215869Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>Genetic<http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432070897X2560262X215869Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk> Programming IV Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence by John R. Koza Dept. of Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA Martin A. Keane Econometrics Inc., Chicago, IL, USA Matthew J. Streeter Genetic Programming, Inc., Los Altos, CA, USA William Mydlowec Pharmix Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA, USA Jessen Yu Pharmix Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA, USA Guido Lanza Pharmix Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA, USA <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432070897X2560263X215869Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>GENETIC PROGRAMMING -- 5 Genetic programming (GP) is method for automatically creating computer programs. It starts from a high-level statement of what needs to be done and uses the Darwinian principle of natural selection to breed a population of improving programs over many generations. Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence presents the application of GP to a wide variety of problems involving automated synthesis of controllers, circuits, antennas, genetic networks, and metabolic pathways. The book describes fifteen instances where GP has created an entity that either infringes or duplicates the functionality of a previously patented 20th-century invention, six instances where it has done the same with respect to post-2000 patented inventions, two instances where GP has created a patentable new invention, and thirteen other human-competitive results. The book additionally establishes: * GP now delivers routine human-competitive machine intelligence. * GP is an automated invention machine. * GP can create general solutions to problems in the form of parameterized topologies. * GP has delivered qualitatively more substantial results in synchrony with the relentless iteration of Moore's Law. CONTENTS 1. Introduction. 2. Background on Genetic Programming. 3. Automatic Synthesis of Controllers. 4. Automatic Synthesis of Circuits. 5. Automatic Synthesis of Circuit Topology, Sizing, Placement, and Routing. 6. Automatic Synthesis of Antennas. 7. Automatic Synthesis of Genetic Networks. 8. Automatic Synthesis of Metabolic Pathways. 9. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies for Controllers. 10. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies for Circuits. 11. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies with Conditional Developmental Operators for Circuits. 12. Automatic Synthesis of Improved Tuning Rules for PID Controllers. 13. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies for Improved Controllers. 14. Reinvention of Negative Feedback. 15. Automated Re-Invention of Six Post-2000 Patented Circuits. 16. Problems for Which Genetic Programming May Be Well Suited. 17. Parallel Implementation and Computer Time. 18. Historical Perspective on Moore's Law and the Progression of Qualitatively More Substantial Results Produced by Genetic Programming. 19. Conclusion. Appendix A: Functions and Terminals. Appendix B: Control Parameters. Appendix C: Patented or Patentable Inventions Generated by Genetic Programming. Bibliography. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7446-8 Date: June 2003 Pages: 624 pp. EURO 133.00 / USD 130.00 / GBP 84.00 (3) <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432087536X2560395X215874Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>Feyerabend<http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432087536X2560395X215874Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk> and Scientific Values Tightrope-Walking Rationality by Robert P. Farrell School of Liberal Arts, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432087536X1712302X215874Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Every philosopher of science, and every student of the philosophy of science, has heard of Paul Feyerabend: the iconoclast who supposedly asserted that science is not rational, nor objective, but is characterised by anarchism, relativism, subjectivism and power. In this book it is argued that this picture of Feyerabend is false. Though Feyerabend was an iconoclast, his destructive philosophy was also creative. Feyerabend was deeply critical of a particular theory of scientific rationality, herein labelled 'Rationalism' - characterised as the algorithmic application of universal, necessary, atemporal rules - but he did not completely reject the idea of scientific rationality. It is argued that Feyerabend implicitly supported an alternative theory of rationality, herein labelled tightrope-walking rationality, characterised as the context-sensitive balancing of inherently irreconcilable values. The first half of the book deals with the entrenched misunderstandings of Feyerabend's philosophy that have arisen through a lack of appreciation of the target of Feyerabend's criticisms. The second half of the book brings together the positive elements to be found in Feyerabend's work, and presents these elements as a coherent alternative conception of scientific rationality. This book is of interest to all philosophers of science, students of the philosophy of science, and anyone interested in science and the rationality of science. It constitutes the first book-length study of Feyerabend's post-1970 philosophy and will be an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the views of one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1350-7 Date: July 2003 Pages: 260 pp. EURO 90.00 / USD 86.00 / GBP 56.00 (4) <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432118548X2560762X215879Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>The<http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB9432118548X2560762X215879Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk> Consilient Brain Second Edition The Bioneurological Basis of Economics, Society, and Politics by Gerald A. Cory Jr. San Jose State University, CA, USA This book considers neuroscience as the bridge between the natural and social sciences, and examines the applicability for sociology, economics, and political science of new concepts in cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience. This work applies current research in evolutionary neuroscience to the foundation of economics and politics. Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47880-3 Date: August 2003 Pages: 240 pp. EURO 115.00 / USD 135.00 / 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 www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: CIRAS Subject: CIRAS - Singapore 2003 CFP Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:11:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 167 (167) (Please accept our apologies if you have received this CFP before.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Int. Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 15-18 December 2003, Singapore [http://ciras.nus.edu.sg] [ciras@nus.edu.sg] Online Paper Submission: [http://act.ee.nus.edu.sg/ciras2003/] Keynote addresses: Professor Larry Hall - Adapting Computational Intelligence to Large Data Sets Professor Toshio Fukuda - Yet to confirm the title Professor Jong-Hwan Kim - Humanoids (tentative) Special Issue in a Journal: Selected good quality papers from the CIRAS technical sessions and the Humanoid Robotics special session will be considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. Special Sessions: 12 Special sessions are planned. For further details, visit the conference homepage. Important Dates - Paper Submission deadline extended Submission: 15 July 2003 Acceptance: 15 August 2003 Final Submission: 15 September 2003 [material deleted] From: Michael Fraser Subject: DRH2003: call for registrations / posters Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:12:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 168 (168) DRH2003: CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND LATE-BREAKING NEWS http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003 Registration is now open for the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities conference. DRH (http://www.drh.org.uk/) is the major forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the digitization of our cultural heritage. It is a unique forum bringing together scholars, teachers, publishers and broadcasters, librarians, curators and archivists, and computer and information specialists. It provides an opportunity to consider the latest ideas in the creation and use of digital resources in all aspects of work in the humanities, in an informal and enjoyable atmosphere. WHERE? This year's conference will be held at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham UK, 31 Aug - 3 Sept 2003. WHAT? Conference themes include: - The impact of access to digital resources on teaching and learning - Digital libraries, archives and museums - Time-based media and multimedia studies in performing arts - Network technologies used to support international community programmes - The anticipated convergence between televisual, communication and computing media and its effect on the humanities - Knowledge representation, including visualization and simulation LATE-BREAKING NEWS This year we are also offering an extra opportunity for delegates to discuss the very latest DRH developments. There will be a special space for anyone wishing to present a poster on any topic relating to the themes of the conference. The object of this "late breaking news" call is to enable you to share ideas and discuss work in progress which has not yet reached the stage of being a formal academic paper. Space will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, but we will go on accepting proposals up to the end of July. Please contact drh2003@glos.ac.uk with a brief (200 word max) description of your topic if you have something you'd like to present! THE PROGRAMME The academic programme for the conference includes over 50 refereed papers, and a range of panel discussions, as well as poster presentations. This year's plenary speakers are Meg Bellinger, formerly of OCLC and now of Yale University Library, a key figure in the world of digital preservation; and Kim Veltman, Scientific Director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute and co-ordinator of a European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage. The conference will also feature an exhibition of leading-edge products and services of relevance to the DRH communities, and a range of social activities -- including dinner at the celebrated Cheltenham Gold Cup Race Course. THE COST The conference fee of 240 pounds includes full conference attendance and all social activities. Special rates are also available for students and those wishing to attend on a daily basis. AND NOW? For further information and the online booking form visit: http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003 Lou Burnard and Peter Childs From: Dirk Kottke Subject: Einladung zum 88. Kolloquium Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:25:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 169 (169) U N I V E R S I T Ä T T Ü B I N G E N Z E N T R U M F Ü R D A T E N V E R A R B E I T U N G -------------------------------------------------------------------- E I N L A D U N G zum 88. Kolloquium über die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen Diese Kolloquien sollen einerseits dem Erfahrungs- und Meinungs- austausch dienen, andererseits einführende Information darüber geben, welche Hilfestellung die EDV dem Geistes- wissenschaftler bieten kann. Jede(r) Interessierte ist willkommen. T H E M E N Altfranzösische Urkundensprache in der Grafschaft Luxemburg: Die Rolle der EDV bei Quellenedition, Sprachanalyse und Registererstellung Referent: Dr. Harald Völker Seminar für Romanische Philologie, Universität Göttingen "Hyper-Shakespeare": Interaktivität in elektronischen Editionen am Beispiel von Shakespeares "King Lear" Referentin: Dr. des. Alexandra Braun-Rau Universität München Zeit: Samstag, 12. Juli 2003, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Wächterstraße 76 (EG) Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 87. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot87.html Falls Sie keinen oder keinen bequemen Zugriff auf das Protokoll im WWW haben, schicken wir Ihnen die Protokolle auch gerne mit der Post zu, wenn Sie uns dies mitteilen. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-2970307 Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-295912 c/o Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: wilhelm.ott@uni-tuebingen.de Waechterstrasse 76 D-72074 Tuebingen From: diabruck@coli.uni-sb.de Subject: DiaBruck 2003, call for participation and for demos and Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:26:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 170 (170) project notes Call for Participation Call for Demos and Project Descriptions DiaBruck 2003 SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) Saarland University Sept 4th-6th 2003 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ Endorsed by SIGSEM http://www.sigsem.org/ the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics Endorsed by SIGdial http://www.sigdial.org/ 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. The following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation, one more invited talk is being arranged: * Nicholas Asher, University of Austin, Texas * Andreas Herzig, IRIT - Universit Paul Sabatier, France There will also be a tutorial addressing good practice in empirically-based dialogue research. For a list of accepted papers, see the DiaBruck website. [material deleted] From: Methods for Modalities Subject: M4M-3: Deadline Extension!!! Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:29:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 171 (171) METHODS FOR MODALITIES 3 (M4M-3) INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France. September 22-23, 2003 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 7, 2003 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-3 is the third installment of this bi-anual workshop series. [material deleted] From: info@FOLLI.ORG Subject: ESSLLI 2004 final call for proposals Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:32:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 172 (172) Sixteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2004 August 9-21, 2004, Nancy, France %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FINAL CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------------- - proposal deadline: Wednesday July 16, 2003 - 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-2004 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2004 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 16th 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 available through <http://www.esslli.org/2004/submission.html>. All proposals should be submitted no later than Wednesday July 16, 2003. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Wednesday September 17, 2003. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. [material deleted] From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 17.088 an image-enhancement manual? Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:15:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 173 (173) In a message dated 6/15/2003 2:03:33 AM Mountain Daylight Time, willard@lists.village.virginia.edu writes: [deleted quotation] It sounds to me that the multi-spectral imaging that BYU is using to read various unreadable texts might be what you are looking for. If they can read carbonized scrolls then anything else would be easy I would say. The following is a quote from a press release about the successful attempt to read the scrolls found at Herculaneum. Originally developed by NASA to study the surfaces of other planets, multi-spectral imaging involves viewing an object in different portions of the light spectrum. When the technology is applied to ancient texts, it makes it possible to differentiate between the reflective properties of the ink and the background of the document, even when those differences are not visible to the eye. "With multi-spectral imaging, there are infrared components and ultraviolet components that your eye cannot see, but which the sensor can detect. So we use different narrow-band filters in the infrared region where the eye can't see and the background becomes light while the ink stays black," says Doug Chabries, dean of BYU's College of Engineering who helped adapt MSI technology to the study of ancient documents. In 1999, BYU was invited to use its MSI system to image an ancient library, a collection of 2,000 Greek and Latin scrolls that was carbonized by the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Buried in a wealthy villa in the city of Herculaneum, the charred scrolls were so badly damaged that some of them have not been unrolled or read, even though they were discovered 250 years ago. From: berna ignatius Subject: more jobs at Stanford Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:25:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 174 (174) Position: Academic Technology Specialists: Department of Political Science & Department of Communication and Department of Sociology Institution: Stanford University Location: California Date posted: 6/13/2003 Academic Technology Specialists Several centers, schools, and departments within Stanford University have been selected to participate in the Academic Technology Specialists (ATS) Program. ATSs assist faculty in basic tutorial and advanced development activities in the use of technology resources. Two new ATS positions are focused in the social sciences: Department of Political Science (Req # CHE-003169) Department of Communication and Department of Sociology (Req # CHE-003114) In these positions you will devise and develop technological solutions for academic needs, including researching and implementing data collection and qualitative and quantitative analysis tools to support research, developing web-based programs and databases for teaching, and teaching faculty how to best employ multimedia tools. To qualify for the Political Science Dept. position you must hold a BA in Political Science or other social science. You must have a proven record of success in leading and implementing technology projects. Expert knowledge of statistical applications, S-Plus, R, and SPSS are required. Experience programming in C, C++, Java, and Fortran, and expert knowledge of Photoshop, PowerPoint, iMovie, Flash and Director is desired. For the Dept. of Communication and Dept. of Sociology position, you must hold a BA in Communication, Sociology, or other related field. You 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. Experience with digital video editing tools such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or Discreet Cleaner is required. Experience with programming languages such as Perl, Java, and C++ is highly desired. Both positions require at least 5 years experience in academic computing and technology project management. Excellent teaching, communication, and time management skills, as well as demonstrated success applying statistical applications and qualitative analysis software for data analysis are essential. Experience providing computing resources in a networked environment, and experience developing websites are also necessary. We offer excellent salaries, comprehensive benefits, and a wonderful environment for our employees. For consideration, please email your resume, indicating the Req # via our website http://jobs.stanford.edu. AA/EOE. Dear Sir , This is in response to the above advert . I wish to apply for this post in your organization . I will assure you to meet all challenges and work with a high degree of commitment if given an opportunity . I am interested in working in your country . I have skills in teaching developing educational materials and conducting research in education and health field I will be very grateful if you will give me an opportunity to work for you . Thanking you yours sincerely Berna Mary victor . BERNA IGNATIUS - RESUME PERSONAL DATA Objective: To work for a progressive company / institution or non-government organization in the field of education or health education that will utilize my skills and experience and allow me to advance into even more challenging management roles. Employment summary: 12 years experience in the field of education and health mostly in non-governmental organizations and teaching institutions combined with field visits to around 5 states in south India for staff training, direction and management. Industry: Health & Education Discipline: Health and Hygiene Promotion Company: Water Aid India International Organization Branch of Water Aid London Organization that Works in 12 Countries. No.22 A, New Colony, 1st street, Mannarpuram, Trichy District, Tamil Nadu, India. Present Position: Senior Hygiene Educator Nationality / Passport # India / B 1891473 Date of expiry 04/05/2010 Age / Date of Birth: 37 Years, August 24, 1965 State of Health Excellent Religion Catholic Marital status Married Contact Address No.2, E.B.Colony, Khajanagar Post, Trichy 620023, Tamil Nadu, India. Work Telephone 91+431+422276 Home Number 91+431+352213 Email Address ign_5berna@yahoo.com EDUCATION Education 7 Years 1985/1990 at Tamil Nadu, Bharathidasan University. Majored in: Rehabilitation Science Education Specialization: In Education of Blind for 2 years BERNA IGNATIUS - RESUME Achieved MRSc. (Masters of Rehabilitation Science) 1990 BRSc, (Bachelor of Rehabilitation Science) 1988 B.Ed ( Bachelor of Education) 1994 Abilities: Able to plan, organize, frame strategies methods and approaches, documentation methods, plan field training workshop and conduct teaching learning sessions where an organisation can be helped to grow with creative thinking given the freedom for development. Can plan and conduct research studies. Dependable, committed, as demonstrated by my continuous progress within the company. Languages: English: speak, read and write fluently Tamil: speak, read and write Malayalam: Speak fluently Telugu: Can understand, speaking rusty Computer Literacy: Proficient in: Ms Word, Excel and Power Point. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION S.No Qualifications University/Board Percentage Class 01. High School Tamilnadu Govt. Exam 65% 1st 02. Higher Secondary Tamilnadu Board 68% 1st 03. B.R.Sc.[Bachelor in Rehabilitation Science] Bharathidasan University 78% 1st 04. M. R .Sc [Master in Rehabilitation Science Bharathidasan University 78% 1st 05. B. Ed. [Correspondence] English, & Social Studies Annamalai University 48% 2nd BERNA IGNATIUS - RESUME Educational Background Schooling done in English medium. Studied Science group for intermediate and did Rehabilitation for graduation and Masters course. Also done one year Bed. as correspondence The Rehabilitation course was a unique course in Rehabilitation which is the only kind in the whole of Asia. It was designed by Dr.Jeanne Kenmore of U.S.A., and was Funded by Christofel Blinden Mission of West Germany. The Rehabilitation department started by her in Holy Cross College also won the Job Memorial award in 1990 for the best teaching Institution. The graduation course though basically meant to know and understand handicapped persons and how to provide services to them . Some of the subjects dealt were Human Development Health And Health Care Sanitation & Hygiene Language for communication skills. Human Development Health and Health Care Fine Arts. Significance in education Applied mathematics Structure and function of eye, ear and the loco-motor system Psychological and Sociological implications of Handicapped History Modern India, 1526 to present. Political cultural, sociological influences Theories of learning Physical fitness and training Practical vision screening, diagnosis of diseases, testing of hearing and preparation of teaching aids Specialized services to the Handicapped Cost effectiveness of specialized programs Rural Development Personality development Abnormal behaviours Research methodology Counseling & Guidance Government laws Special subject teaching for Blind Public relations, Audio visual equipments/computer Financial & Personal management Project and Field placement. BERNA IGNATIUS - RESUME Employment History 1. June 1996 To Date (6 years) International NGO - Water Aid, WaterAid is an international NGO working with 70 NGOs, in the southern states of India. The organization not only supports projects financially but also through all types of support services to the Partners both technical and software services to see that the project is caried out successfully. Position : Senior Hygiene Educator Responsible to : Mr. Shunmugha Paramasivan , WaterAid Country Representative Duties : 1. Helped in planning and design and strategy of Hygiene promotion work of the organization among the Partners NGO`s. 2. Imparted training to the health and hygiene workers and other PIO Project implementing officers and their staff on hygiene education and its methodologies periodically . 3. Developed and implemented standard working procedures for the agencies working in partnership. 4. Assisted in methodologies of PRA participatory exercises and Carrying out BLS baseline surveys and fixing success indicators and directions for consolidation and analysis for applying to the work . 5. Monitor the impact of projects with a comparative analysis of events after every visit made with specific case studies and incidences . 6. Documented and updated project files to reflect progress on project activities and problems encountered on projects. 7. Promoted the take up amongst communities safe disposal of excreta by construction and use of toilets From: kaskew@umich.edu Subject: Brecht quote Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:24:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 175 (175) Dear Prof. McCarty, I am a professor at the University of Michigan and am trying to locate the source of a Brecht quote -- "Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it" -- that you too were once interested in, according to the following posting to the Humanist Discussion Group from February 2000. I am wondering, did you ever find the source of this quote? Thanking you in advance, Kelly Askew Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies The University of Michigan tel: (734) 764-2337 email: kaskew@umich.edu [NB One problem with locating the source for the above quotation is that it's also attributed to Karl Marx, not surprisingly -- at more than one place on the Web, "Kunst ist nicht ein Spiegel, den man der Wirklichkeit vorhaelt, sondern ein Hammer, mit dem man sie gestaltet." Unfortunately no one online, as far as I can determine, says where in Marx or Brecht these words or ones close to them may be found. Again, your kind help please. --WM] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.18 Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:11:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 176 (176) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 18, Week of June 23, 2003 In this issue: Views -- From PostGrad to Professional Useful tips for choosing and executing a doctoral thesis. By Sam Lubbe http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/s_lubbe_1.html Fractal Generation From the "Luque Method" for Simplification of Logic Fractions A new way to simplify of logic functions. By David Luque Sacaluga http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/d_luque_1.pdf From: Michael Fraser Subject: New Humbul Topic: English Local History Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:13:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 177 (177) New Humbul Topic: English Local History Interest in English local history has never been greater. Now staff at the Centre for Metropolitan History based at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, have brought together some useful internet resources tackling different aspects of English local history into a Humbul Topic: English Local History http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/localhistory.html Humbul Topics gather together Internet resources that share a particular relevance found in the Humbul internet resource catalogue. Explore them all http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/ 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 the University of Oxford. --- 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 http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: "Sarah J. Segura" Subject: Report on "The Price of Digitization" Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:15:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 178 (178) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 24, 2003 Report on "The Price of Digitization" http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.report.html A report is now available on the April 8 NINCH/Innodata Symposium, "The Price of Digitization: New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions," hosted by the New York Public Library and co-sponsored by the NYPL and New York University. A full report by Lorna Hughes, a summary report by Michael Lesk and copies of speakers presentation slides are available at the NINCH website <http://www.ninch.org/forum.price.report.html> and the website of Innodata. It will also be available shortly on the web site of the Canadian Heritage Information Network <http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html>. The success of the meeting has prompted Innodata to plan a series of follow-up meetings around the country. An announcement will be made shortly (see <http://www.innodata.com>). The meeting underscored the importance of the subject and (in the face of quoted prices for digitizing a book ranging from $4 to $1,000) the urgent need for useable cost models for established good practice in calculating costs and determining prices for digitizing cultural resources. It also underscored the importance of cross-sectoral guides to good practice, as exemplified by THE NINCH GUIDE <http://www.ninch.org/guide>. In his keynote, the Mellon Foundation's Don Waters emphasized the difference between cost, price and value, putting the current short, pioneering phase of digitizing cultural materials in the context of the long history of printing. He identified three key cost barriers to digitization: workflow and technology; intellectual property and institutional costs and variables. And he left us with the important message of not forgetting a focus on mission and institutional values in our engagement with the economics of digitization. A panel presented a mix of nonprofit and commercial vendors explaining how they determined costs for particular projects and presented reasons for working in-house or for working with a vendor. All speakers emphasized the importance of careful planning from start to finish of any project. In a session devoted to the critical place of digital preservation in any digitization program or project, Harvard University's Stephen Chapman spoke on his research into the comparative costs of analog versus digital preservation. According to his research (just published at <http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Chapman/>, there is an enormous gap between these two modes of preservation and much more work is needed. A particularly interesting and important panel examined the evolving approach that institutions are taking to digitization: accepting it as a core budget item rather than taking a project-by-project approach. Three very different presentations showed the approaches of the New York Public Library (that has made the switch), the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (that is re-thinking the entire approach to collection building and the role of digitization as it prepares to inhabit its new building in DC) and the American Museum of Natural History (where Tom Moritz emphasized the importance of providing integrated access to publications, archival records, field notes, specimens and more; the wide range of potential income for such digital material; and the broader constraints on the public access to such rich, integrated information). Standing apart in this session was the National Archives' Steve Puglia, who presented his own broad survey of digitization costs at many institutions (building on his seminal 1999 RLG DigiNews article, "The Cost of Digital Imaging," <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-5.html#feature>). He noted that projects broke down typically with 1/3 of the cost on digitization, 1/3 on cataloging, description, and indexing, and 1/3 on administrative costs, quality control, and overhead. He made the point that to reduce digitization costs, you need both to work on scanning and on the other elements of the overall workflow. Revenue generation was the topic of the last panel, with Christie Stephenson demonstrating how the University of Michigan Library's Digital Conversion Services works not only for the library but also other University units and non-profits. The unit charges a range of fees currently, while it explores new funding models. Dependence on revenue brings uncertainty and insecurity and Stephenson concluded by citing the UK's Higher Education Digitization Service (HEDS), which has shown that the presence of a community mandate, the provision of adequate business support and the removal of some economic uncertainty might result in both a more viable model and a "learning" model, where customer and service provider might together explore new methods to achieve better results. Kate Wittenberg, who has directed a pioneering electronic publishing initiative at Columbia University, then gave a thumbnail guide to the issues involved in trying to create sustainable digital resources, critiquing four potential revenue sources and a rich set of questions that need to be answered before engaging on a product launch. Two conclusions were offered by Innodata President, Jack Abuhoff, and by Michael Lesk. Abuhoff, underlining key points made by the speakers - critical document analysis and workflow design, clearly defined project goals, thinking through future needs - emphasized that digitization is a highly complex activity and should not be approached lightly. Lesk asked the audience to think through the value of what was being digitized and to judge whether costs were justified by the value of the material. While a few high-profile projects demanded the very best treatment, many materials could be digitized using automation and cheap foreign labor. -- NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/NINCH-ANNOUNCE/>. From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- June 2003 Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:27:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 179 (179) CIT INFOBITS June 2003 No. 60 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. ...................................................................... Instructional Technology and Faculty Perceptions Emotions in the Online Classroom Is the Scholarly Book Dead? More on Scholarly Publishing A Forensic Method for Evaluating Journal Quality Search Smarter, Not Harder ...................................................................... [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: the hammer of art Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:21:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 180 (180) With regards to the authorship of "Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it", as requested again in Humanist 17.131, I've turned up the following from Leon Trotsky, "Futurism", in Literature and Revolution (1924; rpt. New York, 1957), online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1924/lit_revo/. (I have corrected a few typos but not checked this against a hardcopy edition.) Note that Trotsky himself cites it as something like a proverb, though in this translation the words are not quite what was asked for. [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: rddescha Subject: RE: 17.131 quotation from Brecht -- or Marx? Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:23:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 181 (181) Kelly, The _Times Book of Quotations_ has this quotation as written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in _The Guardian_, 1974. (HarperCollins, 2000, p. 70) Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Candidate -- Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University From: rddescha Subject: RE: 17.131 quotation from Brecht -- or Marx? Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:24:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 182 (182) Noticed the unclear citation. The _Times Book of Quotations is published by HarperCollins, 2000, not _The Guardian_. Ryan. . . ________________ Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Candidate -- Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.131 quotation from Brecht -- or Marx? Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:25:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 183 (183) Here's another possibility: Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it. ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930), "The Guardian" 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" Subject: Extreme deadlines: Late-breaking News and Hotel Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:30:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 184 (184) Extreme Markup Languages - Two deadlines approaching: July 7 - last day to get hotel reservations at conference rate July 8 - last day to submit proposals for Late-breaking News -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2003 details: http://www.extrememarkup.com August 4-8, 2003 sponsor: http://www.idealliance.com Montreal, Canada mailto:extreme@mulberrytech.com ====================================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:27:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 185 (185) Interdisciplinary Computing in Java Programming Language by Sun-Chong Wang TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 743 Books on computation in the marketplace tend to discuss the topics within specific fields. Many computational algorithms, however, share common roots. Great advantages emerge if numerical methodologies break the boundaries and find their uses across disciplines. Interdisciplinary Computing In Java Programming Language introduces readers of different backgrounds to the beauty of the selected algorithms. Serious quantitative researchers, writing customized codes for computation, enjoy cracking source codes as opposed to the black-box approach. Most C and Fortran programs, despite slightly faster in program execution, lack built-in support for plotting and graphical user interface. This book selects Java as the platform where source codes are developed and applications are run, helping readers/users best appreciate the fun of computation. Interdisciplinary Computing In Java Programming Languageintroduces Java Programming language within the first part of the book. The second part includes ten chapters of algorithms. Each chapter includes a detailed example application. The approach is therefore to elucidate the algorithm(s) in the first half of the chapter, while devoting the rest of the chapter to materializing the algorithmic concepts in Java with a judiciously chosen example application. Other distinctive features of this book include distributed/parallel computing and animation in Java. Interdisciplinary Computing In Java Programming Language is designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in science and technology. This book is also suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate-level students in computer science, as a secondary text. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7513-8 Date: July 2003 Pages: 282 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 www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: nesting, framing, resting Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:29:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 186 (186) Wendell, I have been meditating upon the "nesting" thread. I wonder if the "reading" narratives initiated in a given textual sequence as residing one inside the other is not due to the application of a particular content model. [Of course, I, myself, am skewing the discourse here with the term "textual sequence".] I am suggesting that certain design parameters of languages like XSLT used to process XML may favour attention to "nesting". Empty elements that serve milestone functions, i.e. elements that introduce a before/after structure, are available in XML. XSLT can handle transformations of such "textual situations" but other languages may be suited to the task. I raise this because I believe that an encoders experience with what is possible affects what they perceive to be the structures of a textual sequence or situation. And it is not only the language one may be using to encode that affects encoder outlook. It is worth considering in this context the impact of the introduction of the
element in HTML 4.0 and try to imagine the sense of text that one develops when non-nesting elements such as

provide the main rule to guide text production (and reading). Consider also the case of COCOA used to markup text for TACT -- an act or a scene ends when the next begins, a line of verse or a stanza ends when the next begins. What I am seeking to do is to try to understand to what degree the "nesting narrative" question is inflected by considerations of navigation and to what degree considerations of transformation affect the what is navigated. Am I moving from anchor to anchor or from node to node? Nesting is haunted by a need for closure. Nodes have middles, beginnings and ends. Wendell's invocation of narratology can point not only to the analysis of narrative but also to that of narration. For, even the infinite nesting There was a storyteller who began a story "There was a storyteller who began..." has a finite frame. Frames are the spectres of beginnings. Anchors end in the middle of a beginning. Anchors begin the end of the middle. "Frames are often taken to be equivalent to schemata, plans and scripts [...]" Gerald Prince, _Dictionary of Narratology_ Frame switching is very much about machinery for staging. The narratological concerns of markup certainly touch upon theatricality. I am indebted for my next example to Pat Galloway who kindly pointed me to _The Diving Bell and the Butterfly_ by Jean-Dominique Bauby, trans. Jeremy Leggatt, in relation to the theme of "machine-for-the-other". ESARINT [...] The jumble appearance of my chorus line stems not from chance but from cunning calculation. More than an alphabet, it is a hit parade in which each letter is placed according to the frequency of its use [...] It is a simple enough system. You read off the alphabet (ESA version, not ABC) until, with a blink of my eye, I stop you at the letter to be noted. The maneuver is repeated for the letters that follow, so that fairly soon you have a whole word, and then fragments of more or less intelligble sentences. That, at least, is the theory. In reality, all does not go well for some visitors [...] A machine translation would be able to restore for every character the string prior to the blink. esa...T esa...H esA esa...T Nested narratives? Not quite. The point I want to emphasize is that the serial performances are nested in a retrospective reading. Julia Kristeva's terminology of genotext/phenotext is useful here (For a brief explanation and bibliography see Irena Makaryk, ed. _Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory_). Markup is not just about recording what is perceived but also about constructing what is imagined. In markup, an event, a reading experience, becomes reified and becomes retold as event, a re-staging of the event of reading. For me, this activity speaks to the intersections of Poeticity, Theatricality and Narrativity (for an exploration of such intersections in the context of possible world semantics, see http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/dolezel.htm). I don't know if I have succeed in reframing the nesting question. I do know that the investigation has allowed me to dwell upon once again performance in the name of form and revisit the pleasure, bittersweet, of that odd incipit: The End. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 17.125 research on blogging Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:54:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 187 (187) Hello Humanists, Adrian mentioned aoir.org, and looking at their site, I see a conference in Toronto this coming October. The whole thing is dedicated to Internet research, and there are at least a few panels on blogging. More information, including a link to a detailed program schedule, is at: http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/ Also, Gerda and Willard write: [deleted quotation] Jill Walker, whom Adrian also mentioned, has written a definition of "weblog" on her, well, weblog. This will go into an encyclopedia of narrative theory, which looks interesting as a whole. The URL of the post is: http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/blog_theorising/final_version_of_weblog_definition.html And while I'm on a roll with URLs, I've finally written up ACH/ALLC 2003. It's a very personal account; I do not pretend to have covered everything or even everything that's important. But for what it's worth, if anyone is interested, the post is at http://www.wordsend.org/log/archives/000052.html Humbly, -Vika -- vika@wordsend.org http://www.wordsend.org/log/ http://www.brown.edu/decameron/ From: Peter Suber Subject: SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 7/4/03 Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:29:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 188 (188) Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #63 [Formerly called the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter] July 4, 2003 The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter has changed its name to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. With this issue, it resumes regular publication. The new name reflects two welcome changes. First, "open access" is now widely accepted as the standard term for the barrier-free online availability of scientific and scholarly literature. My old term for this, "free online scholarship" or "FOS", is still widely recognized, but has been steadily eclipsed by "open access" since the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002. I now use "open access" instead of "FOS" in my own writing and see it much more often in the writings of other researchers, journalists, editors, and publishers. I could continue to ride on the branding identity that "FOS" has built up, but I decided that it was time to use the same term that I was encouraging others to use. (For the same reason, I've changed the name of the FOS News blog to Open Access News.) The second welcome change is that SPARC is now publishing the newsletter. SPARC's support has enabled me to leave full-time teaching for full-time research and writing on behalf of open access. I'm very grateful. On a more technical front, SPARC's excellent listserv software (CommuniGate Pro) means that I'm no longer looking for a new host for the newsletter or forum. No more advertising in newsletter issues. No more intrusive questions during sign-up. No more issues blocked by spam filters, I hope. The newsletter was weekly during the 01-02 academic year, and will now be monthly. Formerly, my writing time was supported by a sabbatical from Earlham College and a grant from the Open Society Institute (OSI). Now, the newsletter will be directly supported by SPARC and the rest of my writing time will be supported by OSI and Public Knowledge. I hope to say more on my open-access work for OSI and PK work in a future issue. I mention my relationships to SPARC, OSI, and PK partly because they explain my new freedom to write, and partly because I'll inevitably write about them as important players in the open-access movement. I see no conflict of interest, but I do want to make a full disclosure. I see no conflict because these three organizations support true open access, as I do. They are supporting me because of our convergent interests and positions, not in order to steer me in a new direction. When I write about SPARC, OSI, and PK in the future, I'll remind readers of my connection to them. But I don't plan to bend over backwards to avoid covering them when they make news or to disguise what I think of them. I trust you to see whether I start exaggerating or waffling --and to let me know. One more point that doesn't go without saying: the views I express in the newsletter are my own and not necessarily SPARC's. I'm pleased to say that this disclaimer is as important to SPARC as it is to me. I feel free to say what I wish, and I feel supported in this freedom. ---------- Some housekeeping details about the changes * The last issue of FOSN came out on September 15, 2002. That's a while back, in internet time, so you might have forgotten that you subscribed. You did. Instead of inviting all of you to join the revived newsletter, I simply transferred your subscriptions. This is the same publication to which you subscribed; it simply has a new name and publisher. But if you want out, it's easy to unsubscribe. (Info below.) * To emphasize that SOAN continues FOSN, I've started numbering the issues. This is issue #63. * The FOS Forum is moving to SPARC too, and undergoing an analogous name change. It will be called the SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF). All subscribers to the FOS Forum are automatically subscribed to SOAF. Like the FOS Forum, SOAF is unmoderated. Like the FOS Forum, subscriptions to it are separate from newsletter subscriptions, in order to give readers a choice about how much email to receive. Starting today, the FOS Forum is closed to further postings, although its archive of past postings will remain online. * I thank Dru Mogge of ARL for helping to set up the CommuniGate Pro lists for both the newsletter and forum. * I launched the FOS News blog (now called the Open Access News blog) during the 02-03 school year. It was a way to gather and disseminate news about the FOS movement that took less time than writing a newsletter. I count it a big success. It lets me offer other contributors' voices, other methods of dissemination (including RSS), and daily updates. While the blog started as a newsletter substitute, it will now be a newsletter supplement. The two vehicles serve different purposes and I'll keep them both. In fact, each issue of the newsletter will have a section of news highlights and new publications since the previous issue, borrowing largely from the blog. Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html * While the newsletter was dormant, during the past academic year, I launched a page of information on conferences and workshops related to the open-access movement. Formerly, I put a couple of months' worth of conference info at the end of each issue of the newsletter. The web page is so much easier for users than the newsletter list that I'm keeping it too. Conferences related to the open-access movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm * If you use a challenge-response (CR) system to block spam, then please add this newsletter to your whitelist. If you don't, I'll receive a challenge every time I send you an issue, requiring me to validate my mailing. I will not have time to respond to challenges and you'll never get your issues. Currently the forum is unmoderated, but I may have to moderate it to prevent spam blockers from broadcasting challenges to all members. Again, the better and simpler solution is for subscribers to add the forum to their whitelists. (More on this in the second story below.) * Finally, here's how to subscribe and unsubscribe and a few other details. SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) --to subscribe, send any message to --to unsubscribe, send any message to --to read and search back issues, go to https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OANews/List.html SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF) --to subscribe, send any message to --to unsubscribe, send any message to --to post, send your message to (subscribers only) --to read and search SOAF postings, go to https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html --to read and search postings to the FOS Forum (SOAF's predecessor), go to http://www.topica.com/lists/fos-forum/read Newsletter & Forum home page at SPARC http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html (subscription, posting, archiving info for both the newsletter and forum) Newsletter & Forum home page at my personal site http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm (same info and more, including the newsletter editorial position) Open Access Project at Public Knowledge http://www.publicknowledge.org/projects/open-access.html (the other job in my post-teaching career) * Please help the cause by updating your bookmarks and spreading the word. Many thanks. ---------- Martin Sabo's Public Access to Science Act On June 26, Rep. Martin Sabo, a Minnesota Democrat with 25 years in the House, formally introduced H.R. 2613, the Public Access to Science Act (PASA). PASA is the boldest and most direct legislative proposal ever submitted on behalf of open access. US Copyright law already holds that "government works" are not subject to copyright. PASA extends this exemption to works that are "substantially funded" by the federal government. The preamble to the bill estimates that the federal government spends $45 billion a year on scientific and medical research. If all works "substantially" based on this funding were in the public domain, taxpayers would get a significantly higher return on their investment in research. These works might be published in conventional, priced journals, but anyone who wanted to extend their reach and impact beyond the small set of paying subscribers would be free to do so. All this literature would suddenly be much more useful. Sabo aides have told the press that the word "substantially" was not defined in the bill so that the many federal agencies that fund research could define it in their own ways. Hence, one agency could say that any publication based 25% or more on its grant must be in the public domain, while other agencies could set the threshold at 50% or 75%. While PASA would be a giant step forward for open access, it may be bigger than necessary --for open access and for the political realities of Congress. For example, open access to research articles does not require open access to all the products of federally funded research, like software and new physical materials. Moreover, open access to research articles does not require that the articles be in the public domain. It only requires that there be no copyright or licensing restrictions (statutory or contractual barriers) preventing open access. Putting works into the public domain is a simple and effective way to remove these barriers. But consent of the copyright holder is equally effective. The Creative Commons has many good examples of licenses that authorize open access and yet stop short of transferring works into the public domain. Since there is no need to jettison copyright in order to achieve open access, there is no reason to lose the votes of those members of Congress who would be unwilling to jettison copyright. Copyright also gives authors the legal basis to block the distribution of mangled or misattributed copies of their work, although in the real academic world authors rarely need copyright to preserve the integrity of their work. The policy argument for exempting government-funded research articles from copyright is essentially identical to the argument, already embodied in the statute, for exempting government works from copyright. But if the current copyright climate makes Congress more likely to rethink this fundamental policy than to extend it, then PASA could broaden its appeal by allowing federally funded works to be copyrighted, provided the copyright holder consented to open access. The result for open access would be the same, and the move would disarm a host of objections. Copyright holder consent could be manifest by submitting the work to an open-access journal or depositing it an open-access archive. Obtaining copyright holder consent for open access is difficult or hopeless for works that generate revenue. But scientific research articles earn no royalties for their authors and never have. Scientists are rewarded by making advances to knowledge, and to their careers, and would gladly consent to open access in exchange for research funding. Even in the absence of research funding, more and more scientists consent to open access as the best path to a larger audience and increased impact. Sabo's office has made clear that PASA is a conversation starter. In the spirit of advancing the conversation, let me suggest a few revisions that would enhance its political chances and at the same time improve its effectiveness in providing open access to taxpayer-funded research. (1) Recognize that copyright-plus-consent works as well as the public domain in creating the legal conditions for open access. If broadening the political support for the bill turns out to be necessary, then this is an easy way to do it that doesn't compromise the bill's commitment to open access. (2) Limit the scope of PASA to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints. This will prevent colliding with Bayh-Dole on software, machines, materials, processes, and other patentable discoveries. We should avoid these collisions not because Bayh-Dole is wise legislation, but simply in order to keep separable issues separate. This limitation would keep unrelated controversies from slowing progress on open access to research articles. (3) Putting works into the public domain and obtaining copyright holder consent to open access are not themselves open access. They are merely two ways to clear the legal path to open access. PASA could go further and require actual open access. It could require funded researchers to submit their work to open-access journals or deposit it in open-access archives. OA journals are growing in number and prestige, and OA archives make open access compatible with publication in a conventional journal. This would take us all the way to the goal, not just to one of its important preconditions. (4) Finally, PASA could require federal research grants to cover the processing fees charged by open-access journals --that is, could treat open-access publication as a cost of research. This would not only help assure open access to articles arising from funded research, but answer the complaints of journals that they cannot justify the expense of refereeing and publishing a paper without a revenue stream or an upfront fee to take its place. The first two suggestions are aimed at helping the bill gather support in Congress and with the many stakeholders in scholarly communication. The last two are aimed at taking the bill further in promoting open access; they could be incorporated into PASA now or wait for supplemental legislation at a later time. Text of the bill http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c108:./temp/~c1089s3ljW Summary, status, and co-sponsors of the bill http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.02613: Press release from the Public Library of Science first announcing the bill http://www.plos.org/news/announce_wings.html News coverage http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/politics/26LIBR.html http://makeashorterlink.com/?K28E11D15 http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030626/APF/306261032 http://online.wsj.com/login?URI=%2Farticle_print%2F0%2C%2CSB105657708191796800%2C00.html http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/06/2003062702n.htm http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030627/04 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/healthscience/stories/063003dnlivnewjournals.4a6a6.html http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/01/plos/ http://makeashorterlink.com/?J4BE25D15 http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030630/05 http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/01/plos/index_np.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/02/HNscience_1.html * PS. Section 105 of the Copyright Act says that "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government...." It does not explicitly extend this exemption to government-funded works, which creates the need for a bill like PASA. However, it has been an open question whether Section 105 could be extended to government-funded works without an explicit amendment. Here's a passage from the legislative history of Section 105: [deleted quotation] What's interesting is that Section 105 has always been open to the reading that PASA makes explicit. PASA would settle a previously unsettled point of law, or close the open texture of a deliberately flexible statute, not reverse the effect of a clear rule. Moreover, in Section 105 Congress acknowledged the important policy argument that Sabo cites on behalf of PASA. Those who say that PASA is contrary to US law and policy need to reread the legislative history. Legislative history of Section 105 of the Copyright Act (U.S. Code, Title 17) http://www.title17.com/contentLegMat/houseReport/chpt01/sec105.html ---------- Saving the oodlehood and shebangity of the internet The internet makes open access possible. Open access wasn't physically or economically possible in the age of print. These commonplace assertions are true but slightly out of focus. Let's be more specific. The internet has many properties (it's digital, it's packet-switched, it has end-to-end architecture, it has a certain number of nodes, a certain throughput capacity, a certain level of traffic at a given time, a certain degree of saturation, and so on), but one property above all others makes open access possible. It's the capacity to disseminate perfect copies of a digital file to a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. Now that this property is in focus, notice that it's the very same property that makes spam and large-scale digital piracy or mass infringement possible. I wish this property had a name. That would do a lot to advance the discussion of open access, spam, and mass infringement. In the absence of an accepted name for it, and for lack of a better term (like oodlehood? shebangity?) let me call it the "prodigality" of the internet. Open access proponents like to focus on the revolutionary potential of the prodigality of the internet for the public good. But our strategic thinking must address the fact that the same prodigality also has revolutionary potential for mass infringement, economic harm, loss of privacy, and spam hell. The forces at work to curb these harms are powerful and well-funded --and not especially cautious about the goods they destroy in order the crush the evils they fear. It's time to realize that the obstacles to open access don't lie merely in the inertia and ignorance of scholars, and the dysfunction of the journal market, but include a coordinated campaign to limit the prodigality of the net itself. We could be collateral damage in the war against piracy and spam. I've written often in the past about how the reaction to mass infringement has given up on surgical responses to online crime and turned to crude remedies that threaten the prodigality of the internet. For example, we see this in the denial of the first-sale doctrine to digital content, in retroactive extensions of copyright, in the hardware mutilations contemplated by Hollings' SSSCA, and in the DMCA ban on circumvention even for fair use or other non-infringing purposes. New question: will the reaction to spam be equally harmful? It may be. Many spam filters block mass mailings, whether or not they are spam. Or, they create a presumption that every mass mailing is spam, and put the responsibility on senders and receivers to rebut the presumption. This harms newsletters, discussion forums, and the open-access current-awareness services of free and priced journals. Many spam filters are too crude to distinguish opt-in services from others, and many that make this distinction are hard to awaken to the fact that a wrongly blocked list is really opt-in. Even mailings that are not blocked because they are addressed to multiple recipients may be blocked because of their content. Vanilla discussions of breast cancer, safe sex, pedophile priests, and national security legislation might trigger a filter. Forthright discussions of sex and political opposition are at even higher risk. The problem is aggravated when spam filters use secret criteria, and aggravated further when they are imposed by schools, employers, ISP's, or governments without user knowledge or consent. New challenge-response systems for blocking spam may be even more harmful to open-access mailings. Instead of blocking requested content, so that recipients never see it, they confront the sender with a challenge that takes human labor to satisfy. (This is the point; if the validating responses could be automated, spammers would automate them.) Senders of newsletters and other email-borne forms of open-access content will be showered with challenges and never have time to answer them. Either that, or answering them will create a new cost of doing business that threatens the open-access business model. This problem can be averted if users of challenge-response spam blockers put their subscription newsletters and journals on their whitelists. But it's probably easier to design a perfect spam filter --impossible to date-- than to educate all their users. Other spam remedies, like Sen. Charles Schumer's Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing (SPAM) Act, could ban anonymous remailers, which are essential to the free circulation of ideas in repressive parts of the world. If my keyboard had a key that sent a non-fatal electric shock to the sender of a piece of spam, then I confess: mine would be worn out. I'm ominously attracted to a direct, Skinnerian remedy that combines text and voltage. ("Thanks for the spam. Here are 100 volts just for you.") People who hate copyright infringement hate it even more than I hate spam. On June 19, Senator Orrin Hatch said in public what many no doubt think in private, that the music industry needs a method to destroy the computers of copyright infringers. If executives at the RIAA and MPAA had remote detonation keys on their keyboards, they would be worn out. You may not hate mass infringement, but you probably hate spam, and that's enough to put you on both sides of this problem. The prodigality of the net carries the potential for momentous good and the potential for momentous harm. Those who fight the harm have a bad track record at limiting themselves to the harm, and a proven tendency to fight the prodigality of the net itself even at the cost of momentous good. Watch the campaign against spam and mass infringement. You don't have to love either one to love the prodigality of the internet that makes them possible. Fight to defend it and to prevent remedial overreaching. Don't hastily blame only the defenders of indefensible intellectual property theories. All of us who hate spam are now implicated. So while watching others, who might encroach on the prodigality that makes open access possible, we should also watch ourselves. Can we hate spam surgically? Finally, let's watch for escalations of mischief and harm that create excuses to sacrifice the good potential of the net in order to block the bad. Will the dream of open access live only as long as the internet's prodigality is endurable, and die when terrorist viruses (let's call them Hatchlings) can be delivered to every desktop? On the threat from challenge-response spam systems http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1009745.html http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59156,00.html http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=E5F01452-1B4B-4B33-B94A-F4E719E3C874 Sen. Charles Schumer's Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing (SPAM) Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:1:./temp/~c108a62RGp:: Orrin Hatch's remote detonation fantasy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12441-2003Jun19.html http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/19/commentary/wastler/wastler/ http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=usa&q=orrin+hatch+destroy+computers * PS. In light of this, it's especially depressing (1) that the Supreme Court just upheld the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), requiring federally funded libraries to use internet filters, and (2) that Ben Edelman and the ACLU lost their suit for permission to circumvent copy protection in order to learn the blacklist of N2H2, a commercially available internet filter. There will now be more filtering than ever, according to secret criteria, against the will of users, blocking much of what the Supreme Court concedes is constitutionally protected speech. On the upholding of CIPA http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-361.pdf http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=usa&q=%22supreme+court%22+cipa On the Edelman-ACLU defeat http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/edelman-v-n2h2 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=edelman+aclu+dmca ---------- News highlights and bibliography since June 1, 2003 In future issues of SOAN, I'll recap the important news stories, and list the important publications, appearing since the previous issue. I'll take most of these from the Open Access News blog, which I write with other contributors and update daily. I'll give both the item URL and blog entry URL so that you can read the original story as well as what I or another blog contributor had to say about it. I'll omit items covered elsewhere in the newsletter. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html ..... Developments * Lawrence Lessig and Lauren Gelman have created an online petition in support of the Public Domain Enhancement Act. Add your signature today. http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95285995 Also see this Lessig interview about the petition. http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-1013830.html?part=cht&tag=chl Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) officially introduced the Public Domain Enhancement Act on June 25. http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ca16_lofgren/pr_030625_PublicDomain.html http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/06/2003062401t.htm http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=usa&q=%22public+domain+enhancement+act%22 * The ACRL made webcasts of the sessions of its National Conference (Charlotte, April 10-12) and is charging $25-160 for access to them. Even ACRL members must pay for access. http://acrl.telusys.net/webcast/session.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95159248 * The Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of Natal is using a grant from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to build a new, open-access HIV/Aids Information Gateway. http://www.witness.co.za/content%5C2003_06%5C15802.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95296999 * The National Library of Medicine announced a freely available standard content model for the electronic archiving and publishing of journal articles. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/dtd_ncbi03pr.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_08_fosblogarchive.html#a95507902 News coverage http://chronicle.com/free/2003/06/2003061201t.htm http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030623-1.shtml * Derk Haank said again that he supports journal access that is "free at the point of use". He means that when universities buy subscriptions, their faculty needn't pay again. http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/jul03/article4july.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_29_fosblogarchive.html#a105696126108653576 He also resigned as CEO of Reed Elsevier's science and medical division, effective immediately, to become the CEO of Springer in early 2004. http://www.pressi.com/int/nomination/68281.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95799078 * There are two more open-source packages for building OAI-compliant eprint repositories: Rapid Visual OAI Tool (RVOT), from the Old Dominion University Digital Library Group, and DLESE from the Digital Library for Earth System Education group RVOT http://rvot.sourceforge.net/index.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_08_fosblogarchive.html#a95590117 DLESE http://dlese.org/oai/docs/index.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_29_fosblogarchive.html#a105726056152562787 The other three open-source packages for building OAI-compliant archives are Eprints (Southampton), DSpace (MIT), and CDSWare (CERN). * On his last day in office as Director of the OMB, Mitch Daniels gave up on his attempt to let federal agencies outsource their printing jobs and bypass the Government Printing Office (GPO) and its open-access policies. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0603/060603b1.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_08_fosblogarchive.html#a95563629 Also see Miriam Drake's review of the controversy. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb030616-3.shtml http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95723297 * This fall the University of California will launch open-access journals using the tools and framework of its eScholarship Repository. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030616/03 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95724483 * JISC has bought institutional memberships in BioMed Central (BMC) for all 180 universities in the UK, a major national initiative for open access and endorsement of the BMC business model. http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=20030306 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95751503 News coverage http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,978753,00.html http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/06/2003062001t.htm http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7403/1350-d http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030630/05 * The Bethesda statement on open access publishing was released on June 20. An breakthrough endorsement of open access by a group of foundations, scientists, editors, publishers, and open-access proponents. Common ground and momentum are spreading. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_22_fosblogarchive.html#a95928525 * The first impact factors were reported for open-access journals published by BioMed Central. http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/update/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_22_fosblogarchive.html#a95978364 * Presses Universitaires de France wants to block Canadian Jean-Michel Tremblay from posting works to his web site that are in the public domain under Canadian law but still copyrighted under French law. http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=119335 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_22_fosblogarchive.html#a105671803668516059 * Steve Hitchcock's Core metalist of open access eprint archives has moved, reorganized, and changed its name to Explore Open Archives. It's now maintained by the OpCit Project. http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_22_fosblogarchive.html#a105682048480924768 * The Supreme Court has refused to hear SBCCI's appeal from the Fifth Circuit decision letting Veeck post a copyrighted statute (yes, a copyrighted statute) to his web site. http://66.220.130.210/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=104449?news http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_29_fosblogarchive.html#a105718260354825523 ..... New bibliography * Alison Buckholtz, Raf Dekeyser, Melissa Hagemann, Thomas Krichel, and Herbert Van de Sompel, "Open Access: Restoring scientific communication to its rightful owners", European Science Foundation http://www.esf.org/publication/157/ESPB21.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95389197 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_04_06_fosblogarchive.html#a92236843 * A section of Walt Crawford's July _Cites & Insights_ is devoted to open-access journals. http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ3i8.pdf * The Council of Europe has issued a "Declaration on Freedom of Communication on the Internet" http://www.coe.int/T/E/Communication_and_Research/Press/News/2003/20030528_declaration.asp http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95193609 * Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets, three articles: "How academics expect to use open-access research papers" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/RoMEO%20Studies%203.pdf "How academics want to protect their open-access research papers" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/RoMEO%20Studies%202.pdf "The impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving" http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/RoMEO%20Studies%201.pdf * Stevan Harnad, "Why I Believe That All UK Research Output Should Be Online," _The Times Higher Education Supplement_, June 6, 2003. http://www.thes.co.uk/search/search_results.asp?search=Why+I+believe+that+all+UK+research+output+should+be+online&searchwhat=both&searchYear=&searchMonth=&x=31&y=9 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95374072 * Elspeth Hyams, "Scholarly publishing on the road to Damascus", _Library Information Update_, July 2003. http://www.cilip.org.uk/update/issues/jul03/article4july.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_29_fosblogarchive.html#a105696126108653576 * LibLicense has a good discussion thread on library cataloguing of open-access journals. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0306/msg00057.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95827486 * Farhad Manjoo, "The free research movement", _Salon_, July 1, 2003. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/01/plos/index_np.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_29_fosblogarchive.html#a105708330859227018 * David Messerschmitt, "Research library responses to the NSF cyber-infrastructure program", a powerpoint presentation. http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/142/messerschmitt.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95253965 * OECD Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research Data, "Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific, Economic, and Social Development". From the OECD. http://dataaccess.ucsd.edu/Final_Report_2003.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95801615 * Some items by and about the Public Library of Science: Annalee Newitz, "TECHSPLOITATION: Science for Everybody," _AlterNet_, June 16, 2003. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16193 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95798723 Christoph Droesser interviewed Harold Varmus in _Die Zeit_, June 18, 2003. http://www.zeit.de/2003/26/N-Interview-Varmus (in German) http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?&u=http://www.zeit.de/2003/26/N-Interview-Varmus (Google's English) http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_15_fosblogarchive.html#a95808850 PLoS produced a TV spot to introduce the concept of open access to the general public. http://www.plos.org/video.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_22_fosblogarchive.html#a105663399863283828 * Michelle Romero, "Open Access and the Case for Public Good: The Scientists' Perspective", _Online_, July/August 2003. http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul03/romero.shtml http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_29_fosblogarchive.html#a105707724985457844 * Thomas Susman and David Carter, "Publisher Mergers: A Consumer-Based Approach to Antitrust Analysis", white paper from the Information Access Alliance. http://www.arl.org/scomm/mergers/WhitePaperV2Final.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_22_fosblogarchive.html#a95996695 * John Willinsky, "Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing", _Journal of Digital Information_, 4, 2 (April 2003). http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Willinsky/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_08_fosblogarchive.html#a95564188 * The presentations from the recent conference, Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide (Berlin, May 21-24), are now online. http://www.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_01_fosblogarchive.html#a95289025 * Some of the presentations from the workshop, Peer Review in the Age of Open Archives (Trieste, May 23-24), are now online. http://www.sissa.it/~marco/ws.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_08_fosblogarchive.html#a95632713 * Vol. 4, issue no. 2 of the _Journal of Digital Information_ is devoted to the economics of digital libraries. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=4&iss=2 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_06_08_fosblogarchive.html#a95563961 ========== This is the SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN), written by Peter Suber and published by SPARC. 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From: Stefan Sinclair [mailto:Stefan.Sinclair@ualberta.ca] Subject: FW: New SSHRC Program "Image, Text, Sound and Technology" Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:30:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 189 (189) Sent: July 6, 2003 8:42 PM To: Ray Siemens Title: Image, Text, Sound and Technology: A strategic research support program (Summer Institute, Workshop, and Conference Grants) Value: Up to $50,000 Duration: 1 year Deadline: September 15/03 http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/itst/ workshops_e.asp#1 "This program will provide funding for researchers and their graduate students to develop expertise in applying advanced technology through summer institutes, workshops and conferences." The overall objectives of this program are to: * reflect on, interpret, and analyze new digital media, multimedia, and text-based computing technologies. * facilitate applying these technologies for research, conception, modeling, analysis, testing, and dissemination-and in ways that reduce rather than increase workloads while also advancing research knowledge. * bring together theorists, experimentalists, and technologists from different disciplines, to share and nurture ideas and methods that challenge research to advance through the use of audio-visual and text-based technologies; facilitate the creation of national and international networks of, and partnerships among, researchers, industries, governments, and individuals that will promote and sustain social sciences and humanities research and resources worldwide Possible topics and areas to be addressed include: * electronic editing and publishing; * e-literature studies; * Web programming; * immersive and virtual environments in multimedia research; * textual analysis; * 3 -D imaging technology; * creativity, culture, and computing; * digital image design; * information aesthetics; * computer gaming; * knowledge transfer of research results to fellow researchers, decision makers and the public at large. Please note that the following are not eligible for support under this program: * digitization of collections of images, books, or sounds; * support for routine computer applications from which little new knowledge about image, text, and sound technology will emerge; * creation of stand-alone major research tools; * research activities, already funded under other SSHRC programs, that do not need transformative multimedia and new media technologies; * development of technological infrastructure. From: rddescha Subject: RE: 17.133 the hammer of art (or computing, for that matter) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:38:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 190 (190) For interest sake: Another contender to the art as mirror metaphor is Margaret Atwood's _Survival_ who contends that art is not only a mirror, but a map. Perhaps it could be useful to catalog these metaphors here? Mirror: art as an (imperfect/ultimately distorted) reflection of life; with the distinct advantage of allowing the viewer to see behind him/herself. (cf. Plato's "illusion"). Hammer: art as a tool with which to access a reflection of life, suggesting a more interactive role for the viewer (as well as the artist). Map: art as an orientation device -- not the real world, but representative enough that a viewer can use it to "find one's way around" real life. Any other significant metaphors for art? Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Candidate -- Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University From: "Sarah J. Segura" Subject: DRH2003: CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND LATE-BREAKING NEWS Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:39:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 191 (191) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 7, 2003 DRH2003: CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND LATE-BREAKING NEWS http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003 Registration is now open for the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities conference. DRH (http://www.drh.org.uk/) is the major forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the digitization of our cultural heritage. It is a unique forum bringing together scholars, teachers, publishers and broadcasters, librarians, curators and archivists, and computer and information specialists. It provides an opportunity to consider the latest ideas in the creation and use of digital resources in all aspects of work in the humanities, in an informal and enjoyable atmosphere. WHERE? This year's conference will be held at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham UK, 31 Aug - 3 Sept 2003. WHAT? Conference themes include: - The impact of access to digital resources on teaching and learning - Digital libraries, archives and museums - Time-based media and multimedia studies in performing arts - Network technologies used to support international community programmes - The anticipated convergence between televisual, communication and computing media and its effect on the humanities - Knowledge representation, including visualization and simulation LATE-BREAKING NEWS This year we are also offering an extra opportunity for delegates to discuss the very latest DRH developments. There will be a special space for anyone wishing to present a poster on any topic relating to the themes of the conference. The object of this "late breaking news" call is to enable you to share ideas and discuss work in progress which has not yet reached the stage of being a formal academic paper. Space will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, but we will go on accepting proposals up to the end of July. Please contact drh2003@glos.ac.uk with a brief (200 word max) description of your topic if you have something you'd like to present! THE PROGRAMME The academic programme for the conference includes over 50 refereed papers, and a range of panel discussions, as well as poster presentations. This year's plenary speakers are Meg Bellinger, formerly of OCLC and now of Yale University Library, a key figure in the world of digital preservation; and Kim Veltman, Scientific Director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute and co-ordinator of a European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage. The conference will also feature an exhibition of leading-edge products and services of relevance to the DRH communities, and a range of social activities -- including dinner at the celebrated Cheltenham Gold Cup Race Course. THE COST The conference fee of 240 pounds includes full conference attendance and all social activities. Special rates are also available for students and those wishing to attend on a daily basis. AND NOW? For further information and the online booking form visit: http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003 Lou Burnard and Peter Childs -- NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted; neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/NINCH-ANNOUNCE/>. From: "Milena Radzikowska" Subject: Re: 17.134 research on blogging Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:38:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 192 (192) Hello, I presented a paper on blogging at the Communicational Spaces 2003 Conference, at the University of Alberta, this past May. You can look at my abstract, references, and the PDF presentation on my blog: http://www.yardog.ca/blog/blogging.html. I am still putting the finishing touches on my paper and it should be available on my blog very shortly. Good luck! milena radzikowska From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.134 research on blogging Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:38:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 193 (193) Willard, Perhaps some of the Humansit subscribers who are participant-experts in blogging would care to venture a post or two on the following research topics: 1) searching the blogsphere Given the lag time search engines such as Google and Altavista have in indexing WWW sites, how does one navigate the blogsphere apart from the embedded links in postings or the lists of links to blogs found in the sidebars of many (but not all blog sites). 2) accessibility of the blogsphere A quick history of weblogging software might reveal some sociological indicators: which accessibility and cross-platform questions arose when in the discourse; what reactions did the questions sollicit. Try using a browser such as Lynx to access some weblogs and observe which features "translate". There is some dynamically generated data that doesn't cross in some cases (depending upon the software used to run the blog and the design principles incorporated in that software). In short, there is room for a machine-centred research agenda. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Categorizing loops Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:37:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 194 (194) 13:09 07.07.2003 My question concerns a possible typology of infinite loops occuring in combinatorial computer programs. The distinction that I have in mind is that between (a) infinite loops where recursion results in the continuous stacking of a processing instruction WITHOUT ever being able to output results, and (b) infinite loops where recursion is a consequence of continuously having to reconsult dynamically expanding data. This happens when a combinatorial program manages to instantiate its variables, then writes its newly computed result into its own memory as an additional 'fact'-clause, and then has to embark on a re-run because its combinatorial algorithm will now encounter an unflagged (hitherto unprocessed) fact. In PROLOG-practice the first results in (a) stack overflow, the second in (b)heap overflow. To my hermeneutically afflicted mind the two would seem to be logically related (i.e., both are cases of infinite nesting), but epistemologically significantly different : (a) is epistemologically completely redundant, (b) is epistemologically exponential. Of course, philosophically speaking this might very well amount to the same thing in that knowing nothing about the world (a) is about as bad as realizing that one will never be able to know how much it is that one doesn't know, and what proportionate value the knowledge produced thus far actually has - this because (b) in principle subverts the idea of approximation in knowledge. Anyway - does this type of distinction matter to CS and if so, what is the appropriate terminology? Many thanks, Chris ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Forschergruppe Narratologie Universitt Hamburg ACP - Computer Philology Working Group at Hamburg University www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de 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: "Hawaii International Conferences on Arts and Humanities" Subject: 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:48:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 195 (195) Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities January 8 - 11, 2004 Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA Submission Deadline: August 18, 2003 Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org/ Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org The 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 8 (Thursday) to January 11 (Sunday), 2004 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities and related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions are welcome. Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts and Humanities are Invited) *American Studies *Archeology *Architecture *Landscape Architecture *Art *Dance *English *Ethnic Studies *Film *History *Languages *Literature *Linguistics *Music *Performing Arts *Philosophy *Religion *Second Language Studies *Speech/Communication *Theatre *Other Areas of Arts and Humanities *Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities encourages the following types of papers/abstracts/submissions for any of the listed areas: Research Papers - Completed papers. Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research. Student Papers - Research by students. Poster Sessions/Research Tables - informal presentation of papers or abstracts. Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for future projects. Reports on issues related to teaching. Panel Discussions, Practitioner Forums and Tutorials are invited. Workshop proposals are invited. For more information about submissions see: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm [material deleted] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.20 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:47:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 196 (196) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 20, Week of July 7, 2003 In this issue: Interview -- Why New Ideas are Both Disruptive and Necessary Management consultant Laurence Prusak on Idea Practitioners, organizational fads, and where to look for new ideas (surprise! It's not on the Net). http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/l_prusak_1.html From: "Susan K Mordan" Subject: Library of Congress exhibition on Lewis and Clark Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:48:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 197 (197) Like so many other exploration stories, the Lewis and Clark journey was shaped by the search for navigable rivers, inspired by the quest for Edens, and driven by the competition for empire. Thomas Jefferson was motivated by these aspirations when he drafted instructions for the Corps of Discovery, sending them up the Missouri River in search of a passage to the Pacific. The Library of Congress exhibition Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis and Clark and the Revealing of America, opening July 24 through November 29, 2003, will present a century of exploration that features the expedition of the Corps of Discovery as a culminating moment in the quest to connect North America by means of a waterway passage. The exhibition will also feature other important expeditions including those lead by Zebulon Pike, Stephen Long, Charles Wilkes, and John Fremont and concludes with the construction of the transcontinental railroad, which replaced the search for a direct water route with a "river of steel." Check out a preview of this exhibition online at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/lewisandclark.html Online resources for teachers can be found at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/community/cc_lewisandclark.php If you would like to schedule a school tour of Rivers, Edens, Empires please call (202) 707-9203. On July 28 there will be a Teacher's Institute, at the Library of Congress, from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. using the exhibition Rivers, Edens, Empires to provide educators with an opportunity to engage in discovery learning and to develop strategies for teaching the exploration of North America. Other teacher institutes will be scheduled for the fall 2003. For more information contact Susan Mordan at smordan@loc.gov or (202)707-9203. From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Teaching Poetry Online Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:49:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 198 (198) Willard, I recommend Ian Lancashire's short, witty and entirely engaging piece about teaching online for the first time. You need not have experienced the tribulations of unbugged "star-crossed software" in the middle of deliverying a course to appreciate the interspersed quotations from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". The story does have a happy ending! http://www.utoronto.ca/english/news/Newsletter_SumFall2002.pdf Of course, now if some brave pioneers could contemplate (and execute) an all-online conference (a mini-seminar?) for humanities computing ... we might soon be reading another witty account perhaps interspersed with quotations from Dante. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: weblog accessibility Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:24:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 199 (199) Willard, Subscribers to Humanist and others interested in accessibility issues might be interested in Mark Pilgrim's remarkable engaging "30 Days to a More Accessible Weblog". http://diveintomark.org/archives/rooms/30_days_to_a_more_accessible_weblog/index.html Mark begins the series with five character sketches that serve to humanize the topic. Each day will focus on a single tip, explain the reasoning behind it, and show who will benefit once you implement it. That was the purpose of the character sketches, to change the question from "Why should I bother?" to "Who benefits?" I offer this example not only for the subject matter but also the manner in which the material is organized. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Cédrick Fairon Subject: JADT2004 - Call for papers Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 06:56:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 200 (200) JADT 2004 7th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data http://www.jadt.org Call for papers Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998), Lausanne (2000), Saint-Malo (2002) the 7th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), on March 10-12, 2004. This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first occurrence, is open to all scholars working in the vast field of textual data analysis; ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Belgium will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. Themes of interest Exploratory Textual Data Analysis Discourse Analysis Computational Linguistics Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions Stylometry Information Retrieval Textual Classification Text Corpora and Text Encoding Lemmatization Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis Semantic Web Text and Web mining Business and strategic intelligence Important dates Submission Deadline : October 31st, 2003 Notification : Decembre 2003 Camera ready papers : January 15th, 2004 Conference : March 10 - 12, 2004 Languages for the presentations Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages : French English Italian Spanish As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. Submission Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage the authors to include in their papers proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference. Participants wishing to submit a paper or present a poster should send to Gérald Purnelle of the program committee a short version for review by October 31st, 2004, giving the following information : Title of the proposed paper Name of authors, affiliations and full postal address with fax and/or e-mail Keywords A first version of the paper (8 pages max.) An abstract in the language of the paper An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) Bibliographical references. Proceedings All accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. Organization board Cédrick Fairon - CENTAL - Université catholique de Louvain Anne Dister - CENTAL - Université catholique de Louvain Gérald Purnelle - CIPL - Université de Liège Joseph Denooz - CIPL - Université de Liège Local Organization: Bernadette Dehottay - Michel Thomas - Claude Devis - Patrick Watrin - Laurent Simon Information Cédrick Fairon Address: place Blaise Pascal, 1 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Tel.: +32 (0)10/47.37.88 Fax.: +32 (0)10/47.26.06 Mail: fairon@tedm.ucl.ac.be Gérald Purnelle Address: Quai Roosevelt, 1b 4000 Liège Belgium Tel.: +32 (0)4/366.55.07 Fax.: +32 (0)4/366.57.84 Mail: gerald.purnelle@ulg.ac.be From: LREC 2004 Subject: LREC 2004 - First Announcement and Call for Papers Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 06:57:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 201 (201) ************************************************************************************ LREC 2004 ************************************************************************************ The fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004, is organised by ELRA in cooperation with other Associations and consortia, national and international organisations. Location: Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal Dates: - Pre-conference workshops: 24-25 May 2004 - Main conference: 26-27-28 May 2004 - Post-conference workshops: 29-30 May 2004 ************************************************************************************ Conference web site: http://www.lrec-conf.org ************************************************************************************ ------------------------------- CONFERENCE AIMS ------------------------------- In the Information Society, the pervasive character of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and their relevance to practically all fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been widely recognised. Two issues are particularly relevant: the availability of Language Resources (LRs) and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies, products and applications. Substantial mutual benefits are achieved by addressing these issues through international collaboration. The term "language resources" (LRs) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used in many types of areas/components/systems/applications: - creation and evaluation of natural language, speech and multimodal algorithms and systems, - software localisation and language services, - language enabled information and communication services, - knowledge management, - e-commerce, e-publishing, e-learning, e-government, - cultural heritage, - linguistic studies, - etc. This large range of uses makes the LRs infrastructure a strategic part of the e-society, where the creation of a basic set of LRs for all languages must be ensured in order to bring all languages to the same level of usability and availability. Examples of LRs are written or spoken corpora and lexica, which may be annotated or not, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc. LRs also cover basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customisation and use of the above mentioned examples. The relevance of evaluation for language technologies development is increasingly recognised. This involves assessing the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a programme, comparing different approaches to a given problem, assessing the availability of technologies for a given application, benchmarking, and assessing system usability and user satisfaction. The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding LRs, their applications, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the new e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones. LREC will also elaborate on evaluation methodologies and tools, explore the different trends and promote initiatives for international collaboration in the areas mentioned above. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:21:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 202 (202) With regards to the authorship of "Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it", as requested again in Humanist 17.131, I've turned up the following from Leon Trotsky, "Futurism", in Literature and Revolution (1924; rpt. New York, 1957), online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1924/lit_revo/. (I have corrected a few typos but not checked this against a hardcopy edition.) Note that Trotsky himself cites it as something like a proverb, though in this translation the words are not quite what was asked for. .... From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: geometric algebraic as critical vocabulary Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 06:56:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 203 (203) Willard, For a variety of reasons I found myself reading a piece by Dick Higgins, "The Strategy of Visual Poety". Higgins establishes a distinction between geometric and algebraic approaches to composition. I know about the difference between arithmatic and geometric progressions. However I am stumped in trying to locate any antecedants or parallels to Higgins geometric-algebraic distinction. Any help from Humanist subscribers and their contacts beyond list would be appreciated. [The impetus, for me, is to trace out some precursors to the discourse on linearity in textual criticism.] This is the passage from Higgins that entices and puzzles: [...] what syntax there is is geometric rather than, as in traditional poetry, algebraic -- cumulative rather than linear. The elements taken separately have no particular power or impact. But each line gets nearly all its meaning from its relation to the others, where in traditional poetry the lines normally make some sense even when isolated. In a geometric painting, shapes get their relevance from their relation to other shapes, and in a 'Proteus poem' the pattern of the components is far more important than just what they happen to be. I am intrigue by the possible typology of patterns that the Higgins piece suggests but unsure of its claims to the particular linkages between form and semantics. Comments and pointers to similar formulations might help elucidate the context which allowed Higgins to marshall the geometric-algebraic distinction. Thanks -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Bonnett, John" Subject: Job at University of Ottawa Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:36:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 204 (204) Project Coordinator Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project Institute of Canadian Studies University of Ottawa Full-time Four Year Contract Job Summary: Under the authority of the Principal Investigator and Team Leader of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project (CCRI), the incumbent will coordinate the CCRI Project, a pan- Canadian five-year initiative focussed on historic censuses and involving seven research centres across Canada as well as partnerships with Statistics Canada, the Library and Archives of Canada, IBM and other agencies. For more information on the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure project and the Institute of Canadian Studies, consult our website: www.canada.uottawa.ca. Qualifications: You hold a master's or doctorate degree in the Social Sciences or Humanities, preferably with a research focus on Canada, and have acquired solid experience in managing multidisciplinary projects including budget administration. You have well-developed computer skills (word processing, spread sheets, database software such as SPSS or MS Access). Strong organizational skills, a self-initiating work ethic, flexibility and effective communication and interpersonal skills are also required. Finally, you must be bilingual and able to exercise initiative and work both independently and as a leader in a team environment. With 10 faculties and 25,000 students, the University of Ottawa is Canada's university and North America 's premier bilingual university. In terms of employment, the University is recognized for its team spirit and approach of welcoming and integrating people. We invite women, Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to specify in their application that they belong to one of these groups targeted by our employment equity policy. The salary scale will be commensurate with experience and qualifications: an attractive benefits package is also offered. Please forward your resume and covering letter, as well as the names of three referees by 5 p.m. on July 31, 2003.Only short listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Contact: Chad Gaffield From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing - TOC 18/1 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:35:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 205 (205) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: April 2003; Vol. 18, No. 1 URL: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/ -Editorial Marilyn Deegan, p. 1 - Introduction: New Directions in Humanities Computing David Robey, pp. 3-9 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180003.sgm.abs.html - Towards the User: The Digital Edition of the Deutsche Wrterbuch by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Ruth Christmann and Thomas Schares, pp. 11-22 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180011.sgm.abs.html Since February 2002, a first version of the Deutsche Wrterbuch (DWB) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm has been available on the web. A CD-ROM beta version has been available since December 2002. This paper will focus on the steps involved in drawing up an electronic version of the DWB and, by demonstrating the design of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), will show how common standards of digitization were taken into account and user needs were anticipated during the production process. The history and structure of the DWB will be outlined first to point out some characteristics of the dictionary. The process of retrodigitization from printed page to electronic dictionary will be briefly described and, while giving an overview of the DWB GUI, the importance of content-based markup and a user-friendly but powerful GUI as a necessary precondition for sensible and effective access to the dictionary contents will be stressed. The title of this paper, Towards the User, can thus be interpreted in two ways: during the digitization of the DWB, we consider the needs of the users, and by digitization, we hope to open up this huge amount of data and lexicological information for researchers. - The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech: Problems of Corpus Design Fiona M. Douglas, pp. 23-37 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180023.sgm.abs.html In recent years, the use of large corpora has revolutionized the way we study language. There are now numerous well-established corpus projects, which have set the standard for future corpus-based research. As more and more corpora are developed and technology continues to offer greater and greater scope, the emphasis has shifted from corpus size to establishing norms of good practice. There is also an increasingly critical appreciation of the crucial role played by corpus design. Corpus design can, however, present peculiar problems for particular types of source material. The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) is the first large-scale corpus project specifically dedicated to the languages of Scotland, and therefore it faces many unanswered questions, which will have a direct impact on the corpus design. The first phase of the project will focus on the language varieties Scots and Scottish English, varieties that are themselves notoriously difficult to define. This paper outlines the complexities of the Scottish linguistic situation, before going on to examine the problematic issue of how to construct a well-balanced and representative corpus in what is largely uncharted territory. It argues that a well-formed corpus cannot be constructed in a linguistic vacuum, and that familiarity with the overall language population is essential before effective corpus sampling techniques, methodologies, and categorization schema can be devised. It also offers some preliminary methodologies that will be adopted by SCOTS. - A Logic Programming Environment for Document Semantics and Inference David Dubin, Allen Renear, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Claus Huitfeldt, pp. 39-47 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180039.sgm.abs.html Markup licenses inferences about a text. But the information warranting such inferences may not be entirely explicit in the syntax of the markup language used to encode the text. This paper describes a Prolog environment for exploring alternative approaches to representing facts and rules of inference about structured documents. It builds on earlier work proposing an account of how markup licenses inferences, and of what is needed in a specification of the meaning of a markup language. Our system permits an analyst to specify facts and rules of inference about domain entities and properties as well as facts about the markup syntax, and to construct and test alternative approaches to translation between representation layers. The system provides a level of abstraction at which the performative or interpretive meaning of the markup can be explicitly represented in machine-readable and executable form. - Forensic Linguistics: its Contribution to Humanities Computing Laszlo Hunyadi, Kalman Abari and Enik T[odblac]th, pp. 49-62 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180049.sgm.abs.html The paper is a report on a case in forensic linguistics in which linguistic and computational approaches are combined to answer the question whether it can be proved if a digital recording has been tampered with. With the growing use of digital applications, the chances of digital forgery are increasing significantly. Accordingly, the detection of tampering with audio recordings is also becoming an important task for forensic linguists. In the given case, we assumed that the most straightforward way of tampering with the given digital audio recording might have been the removal of some material and so our aim was to identify the location of this kind of tampering in the file. Due to the complexity of the given task the approach presented is interdisciplinary: first, it uses a traditional semantic analysis to identify possible discontinuous segments of the recorded text; secondly, it introduces an experimental phonetic approach to identify cues of the digital cutting of the audio signal; thirdly, it applies statistical calculations to specify the bit-level characteristics of audio recordings. The combination of these measurements proved to be quite helpful in answering the initial question, and the proposed new methodologies can be used in further areas of linguistics and computation. - The Publication of Archaeological Excavation Reports Using XML Christiane Meckseper and Claire Warwick, pp. 63-75 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180063.sgm.abs.html This paper looks at the usability of XML for the electronic publication of field reports by commercial archaeological units. The field reports fall into the field of grey literature as they are produced as client reports by commercial units as part of the planning process and do not receive official publication or widespread dissemination. The paper uses a small commercial unit called ARCUS at the University of Sheffield as a case study and to mark up a sample of excavation report using XML and the TEI Lite DTD. It also looks at the possibility of incorporating controlled archaeological vocabulary into the DTD. The paper comes to the conclusion that the electronic publication of grey reports would be very useful as it would allow a quicker response time and a rapid dissemination of information within the fast-moving and changing environment of commercial archaeology. XML would be a useful tool for the publication of field reports as it would allow practitioners to selectively download separate sections of field reports that are of particular importance to them and to improve the searchability of reports on the web. It is recognized that national archaeological institutions will also have to accept electronic versions of field reports in order for them to be able to be built into the financial framework of a commercial project design. - METAe-Automated Encoding of Digitized Texts Birgit Stehno, Alexander Egger and Gregor Retti, pp. 77-88 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180077.sgm.abs.html This paper explains why and how the digitization project METAe applies METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) as encoding scheme for automatically extracted metadata. In contrast to TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and other markup languages, METS allows encoding of the whole range of structural, descriptive, and administrative metadata in a systematic way. As the METS schema permits the integration of other existing standards, it provides a highly flexible output that can be converted easily to the individual needs of digital libraries. An innovative aspect of the METAe data structure is the ALTO file ('Analysed layout and text object'), which contains the layout structures as well as the text passages of book pages. Structural maps of the METS schema are used to compose the logical and the physical structures out of ALTO and image files. - Testing Structural Properties in Textual Data: Beyond Document Grammars Felix Sasaki and Jens Pnninghaus, pp. 89-100 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180089.sgm.abs.html Schema languages concentrate on grammatical constraints on document structures, i.e. hierarchical relations between elements in a tree-like structure. In this paper, we complement this concept with a methodology for defining and applying structural constraints from the perspective of a single element. These constraints can be used in addition to the existing constraints of a document grammar. There is no need to change the document grammar. Using a hierarchy of descriptions of such constraints allows for a classification of elements. These are important features for tasks such as visualizing, modelling, querying, and checking consistency in textual data. A document containing descriptions of such constraints we call a 'context specification document' (CSD). We describe the basic ideas of a CSD, its formal properties, the path language we are currently using, and related approaches. Then we show how to create and use a CSD. We give two example applications for a CSD. Modelling co-referential relations between textual units with a CSD can help to maintain consistency in textual data and to explore the linguistic properties of co-reference. In the area of textual, non-hierarchical annotation, several annotations can be held in one document and interrelated by the CSD. In the future we want to explore the relation and interaction between the underlying path language of the CSD and document grammars. - The Versioning Machine Susan Schreibman, Amit Kumar and Jarom McDonald, pp. 101-107 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180101.sgm.abs.html This article describes the background and architecture of The Versioning Machine, a software tool designed to display and compare multiple versions of texts. The display environment provides for features traditionally found in codex-based critical editions, such as annotation and introductory material. It also takes advantage of opportunities afforded by electronic publishing, such as providing a frame to compare diplomatic versions of witnesses side by side, allowing for manipulatable images of the witness to be viewed alongside the diplomatic edition, and providing users with an enhanced typology of notes. - Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing held at Tbingen, Germany on 27 July 2002 pp. 109-111 - Treasurer's Report: Financial year January to December 2002 Jean Anderson, pp. 112-114 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_01/180112.sgm.abs.html -- ============= 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 http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ From: "J. Trant" Subject: ichim03: Cultural Institutions and Digital Technology Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:07:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 206 (206) Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate. ichim03 -- the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting exploring Cultural Institutions and Digital Technology September 8-12, 2003 Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France http://www.archimuse.com/ichim03/ The Program: September 10-12, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------ See http://www.archimuse.com/ichim03/ for an overview. The ichim03 program includes a full range of papers, presentations and panel discussions. Five major themes will be explored, presented, analyzed and discussed by one hundred speakers: 1. The political, economic, legal and technical frameworks for cultural institutions and digital publishing in a digital age; 2. Management and technological strategies for digitization of cultural heritage; 3. Dissemination, exploitation and enrichment of digital assets; 4. Museum and interactive exhibitions; 5. Digital art and the creation of a digital culture today. Pre-Conference Workshops: September 8-9, 2003 -------------------------------------------------- See http://www.archimuse.com/ichim03/workshops/ for a full list. Experienced professionals offer in-depth training in an exceptional range pre-conference workshops September 8-9, 2003. Take this opportunity to learn a new skill, or deepen your understanding of an area you are working in. Registration ------------ You can register for ichim03 and pay in either US$ or Euros. * To register in US$ see http://www.archimuse.com/ichim03/register/ * To Register in Euros see http://www.ichim.org/ About ichim03 ------------- The International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) is, traditionally, the best international forum in which to examine the relationship between technology and Cultural Heritage. ICHIM has been held every two years since 1991, alternating between North America and Europe. We're meeting at the Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France, following successful meetings at Le Louvre in Paris (97), and Washington D.C. (99) and the Politecnico di Milano (01). We expect at least 500 specialists, from museums, cultural organizations, universities, research institutes, technology companies and organizations to join us this fall in Paris. Organization ------------- ichim03 is organized by Archives & Museum Informatics and Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe, in association with the Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France. Proceedings ------------- Published proceedings for this and all past ICHIM meetings are available. Order your copy at http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html We hope to see you in Paris! -- ________ ichim2003 Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France Archives & Museum Informatics September 8-12, 2003 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario, M43 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com/ichim03/ ichim03@archimuse.com ________ From: "Sarah J. Segura" Subject: new publications on cultural heritage Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:11:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 207 (207) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 15, 2003 Two new publications have been issued by DigiCULT, an initiative established in Europe to provide a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage. They are: New Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr2003_01_low.pdf and Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources. http://www.digicult.info/downloads/ti3_high.pdf From: Willard McCarty Subject: cultural heritage initiatives Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:12:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 208 (208) Many here will be interested in the recently published report from the U.S., Diane M. Zorich, A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and their Sustainability Concerns (Council on Library and Information Resources, June 2003), available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub118/contents.html. The following is from the Preface: [deleted quotation] and this from the Summary: [deleted quotation] It would seem that "short-term" and "short-sighted" are in this context uncomfortably synonymous. Indeed, in this context the irony of how the term "initiative" is used becomes obvious: "That which initiates, begins, or originates; the first step in some process or enterprise; hence the act, or action, of initiating or taking the first step or lead; beginning, commencement, origination" (OED). And this leads to a story. Once, a fair time ago, when one did this sort of thing as a matter of course and without any peril, I picked up a hitchhiker, and while driving asked him and got asked the usual sorts of questions. He said, explaining what he did, "I start communes." He then described a few he'd started before moving on to new initiatives. It wasn't until some time later, after I had dropped him off, that I realized I hadn't asked him why he didn't stick around to see what happened. I wondered. It wasn't until some months later, when I visited the commune Morning Star, then deep into the latter stages of its decay, that I realized why a commune initiator could find it easy to move on. When brownie-points are given for starting new things, what are the rewards for seeing to their long-term sustainability? 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 Subject: Ubiquity 4.21 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:14:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 209 (209) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 21, Week of July 14, 2003 In this issue: Views -- Falling Water, Crashing Windows: Making Computers More School Friendly Classroom teachers should not have to put up with the architectural equivalent of leaky roofs. By Mary Burns http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_burns_1.html Economies and Diseconomies of Scale in the Information Society An assessment by means of Situation Room Analysis By Adamantios Koumpis and Bob Roberts http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_koumpis_2.html From: "B. Tommie Usdin" Subject: Complete Extreme 2003 Program Now Available Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:32:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 210 (210) --------------------------------------------------------- ************* Complete Program Available ************** ************ Late Breaking News Added ************* *********** Extreme Markup Languages 2003 ************ --------------------------------------------------------- The complete program for Extreme Markup Languages 2003, including late-breaking presentations, is available at: http://www.extrememarkup.com EXTREME MARKUP: An unabashedly hard-core conference for the technically-oriented members of the information interchange and knowledge representation community. At Extreme, 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; modeling approaches, markup software development (and bold implementations); information philosophy; and ontologies, taxonomies, and vocabularies. (XML, Topic Maps, XSLT, RDF, XSL-FO, XML schemas, XPath, Semantic Web Servers, TMQL, alternative syntaxes, infosets, linking, STnG, FXSL, and more.) Posters. Daily polemics. Keynote from William Kent. -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2003 mailto:extreme@mulberrytech.com August 4-8, 2003 details: http://www.idealliance.org Montreal, Canada or: http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: Paul Dekker Subject: Last Call for Papers for the Amsterdam Colloquium 2003 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:36:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 211 (211) [For those unacquainted with the following Colloquium, it is specifically for "linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics of natural and formal languages". --WM] This is the last call for papers for the 14-th Amsterdam Colloquium (December 19 -- 21). Information about the Colloquium, as well as the electronic procedure for sending in submissions, can be found at our website at http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC03/ The (strict) deadline for sending in submissions is September 1. The call ... can also be downloaded from http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC03/. We thank you for posting this call. Paul Dekker on behalf of the organization committee the 14-th Amsterdam Colloquium From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 7-8/03 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:31:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 212 (212) Greetings: The July/August 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are four articles, two conference reports, several smaller features in D-Lib Magazine's 'In Brief' column (including four brief JCDL 2003 workshop reports), 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 University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) web site, courtesy of Colleen Whitney, UCMP. The articles include: Identifying Metadata Elements with URIs: The CORES Resolution Thomas Baker, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Makx Dekkers, PricewaterhouseCoopers Using the OAI-PMH ... Differently Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Jeffrey A. Young and Thomas B. Hickey, OCLC Office of Research What Do We Mean by Authentic?: What's the Real McCoy? H.M. Gladney, HMG Consulting; and J.L. Bennett, Independent Consultant User Evaluation of the Montana Natural Resource Information System (NRIS): In-Depth Evaluation of Digital Collections Using Snowball Sampling and Interviews Elaine Peterson and Vicky York, Montana State University-Bozeman The two conference reports are: Report on the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL): 27 - 31 May 2003, Houston, Texas Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide: Highlights of the ETD 2003 Symposium John H. Hagen, West Virginia University; and Susanne Dobratz and Peter Schirmbacher, Humboldt University D-Lib has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University Sunsite, Canberra, Australia http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.dlib.org.ar Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the July/August 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine at this time, please check back later. There is a delay between the time the magazine is released in the United States and the time when the mirroring process has been completed.) Bonnie Wilson Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From: Kluwer Subject: new book: Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 06:46:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 213 (213) Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel edited by Abhay Ashtekar Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA Robert S. Cohen Boston University, Center for Philosophy and History of Sciences, MA, USA Don Howard University of Notre Dame, IN, USA Juergen Renn Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany Sahotra Sarkar University of Texas, Austin, USA Abner Shimony Boston University, MA, USA BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 234 This book is for physicists, historians and philosophers of physics as well as students seeking an introduction to ongoing debates in relativistic and quantum physics. This title is unique in that: * it comprises contributions by leading physicists, philosophers and historians of science; * it covers the recent debates on the emergence of relativity and quantum theory; * it includes chapters with an introductory character, comprehensible to students and science teachers; * it can be used in graduate level courses in the history and philosophy of science; * it strengthens the bonds between the communities of scientists, historians, and philosophers. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1284-5 Date: August 2003 Pages: 672 pp. EURO 199.00 / USD 199.00 / GBP 126.00 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Philological Disciplines and Digital Technology conference Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 06:39:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 214 (214) Philological Disciplines and Digital Technology Computational Philology: Tradition versus Innovation Summary The meeting will focus on the scientific production of critical editions where the study sources are available in digital format. In this sense the discussion created between specialists from the sector will verify if, and in which way, the critical methodology will be forced to modify the traditional and consolidated approach adopted or if the technological instruments have not a particular impact on the methodological aspects, limiting them to the provision of some new services for an old discipline. This conference's aim is to highlight the relationship between digital technology, in particular archives of digital images from inedited documents, and critical edition of old, medieval and modern texts written both with alphabetical characters and non alphabetical ones (hieroglyphics, cuneiform, musical). Dates 06 - 11 September 2003 Location Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy Chaired by Andrea Bozzi - I, CNR, Pisa, I Vice-chair: Jean-Louis Lebrave - CNRS, Paris, F [This is an invitational event. For additional information see www.esf.org/euresco/03/hc03194. --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@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Call for Proposals: TOHE 11/10-14/2003 (fwd) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 06:45:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 215 (215) [deleted quotation] The focus of the 2003 Teaching Online in Higher Education online conference is on merging online classes into the mainstream. Contrary to initial expectations, online classes are often taken by traditional students with scheduling problems, family responsibilities or work constraints that interfere with traditional class schedules. Consequently, existing infrastructure may not sufficiently accommodate the flood of students taking online classes. This year we want to take a special look at what problems currently exist in how students enroll in online courses, how they are served by support services, and how faculty teaching online courses fit into the system. If you are aware of particular problems that exist in your infrastructure or you are working within one that is particularly suited for online courses, we want to extend a special invitation to you to submit a proposal to present a paper and chat with conference participants online this November. http://www.ipfw.edu/as/2003tohe/cfp.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 06:45:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 216 (216) The Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has just published the AAAS Handbook, "Traditional Knowedge and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity". A pdf version may be downloaded from http://shr.aaas.org/tek/handbook/. 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: "Craig Bellamy" Subject: on-line digital video thesis Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:38:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 217 (217) Dear Willard and Humanist, I would like to happily inform you that the on-line thesis 'Milkbar.com.au: Globalisation and the Everyday City' www.milkbar.com.au has been passed (subject to amendments) and awarded the PhD qualification. This type of research is still reasonably rare in the humanities in Australia (as an individual post-graduate student) and when I started this endeavour in 1998 there were very few models to use as templates. So in many ways it may be seen in the light as experimental practice. In reflection, the most pressing issue that the work addresses is the concept of on-line knowledge representation in the humanities through interactive digital video. I haven't really attempted to pursue established research methodologies in this work, but have attempted to pursue avenues of enquiry that are generated by exploring the possibilities of the technologies themselves. Many thanks to Adrian Miles my supervisor for providing the use of some of his own research at the University of Bergen and many thanks for Willard and Humanist subscribers for maintaining this most excellent of lists. best, (Dr) Craig Bellamy www.milkbar.com.au From: Elizabeth Subject: Studies in Bibliography available as EBooks Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:44:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 218 (218) The Bibliographical Society of UVa announces Studies in Bibliography First Scholarly Ebook Journal June 5 -- The internationally renowned journal Studies in Bibliography, edited at the University of Virginia by English professor David Vander Meulen, has become the first scholarly print journal to make its entire backlist available in ebook format. In collaboration with UVa's Electronic Text Center, the periodical offers fifty-two of its annual volumes on the website of its sponsor, the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/>, where readers can download the texts without charge as Microsoft Reader ebooks. [The Ebook Archive is at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/sbebooks.html.] Studies was founded in 1948 by UVa Professor Fredson Bowers and is one of the world's leading journals of analytical bibliography, textual criticism, manuscript study, and the history of printing and publishing. In partnership with the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center, Studies was among the earliest established scholarly journals to make a commitment to electronic publication when in 1997 it made its first forty-nine volumes available without charge on the worldwide web in fully searchable SGML format. Since then each subsequent volume of the journal has been added to the electronic collection a year after its appearance in print. The electronic version of Studies has attracted heavy international traffic from the start, in a recent month drawing 125,554 "hits" and 14,538 "visits," in which users explored the site at length. "More people now see Studies in a month than have read it over the first half-century of its existence," says Vander Meulen. He also points out that "we always assumed that our audience consisted mainly of advanced scholars, but to our surprise and delight a great number of our web readers are coming from high schools." His own students used the ebook texts in a seminar in scholarly editing he taught this spring. "It proved handy to be able to read an assignment while waiting for a bus," he says, "and it's wonderful to be able to pull a six-foot shelf of books out of your pocket during class to look closely at a passage." In addition to its steadily expanding file of Studies volumes, the website of the Bibliographical Society of UVa offers three other electronic publications: The Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, edited by G. Blakemore Evans, Emily Lorraine de Montluzin's award-winning Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868, and her Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. 18 July 2003 For additional information please contact: Anne Ribble (434) 924-7013 From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI cfp: Future Visions of Common-use Hypertext Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:14:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 219 (219) Call for Papers Journal of Digital Information announces a Special Issue on Future Visions of Common-use Hypertext *linked to a panel session at ACM Hypertext '03 Special issue Editors: Helen Ashman and Adam Moore, University of Nottingham Submission deadline: 18 September 2003 Publication: November 2003 Submissions are sought for a special issue for the Hypermedia Systems theme of JoDI on visions of the future of 'common use' hypertext. This special issue is linked to a panel session at ACM Hypertext '03, where alternative digital futures incorporating hypertext as a primary mechanism will be discussed by a panel of experts. The Web has been the dominant public perception of hypertext for over 10 years now. There are, of course, many other hypertext systems, that could augment, live alongside, or even completely replace the Web. The aim of this special issue, and of the related panel discussion, is to investigate the viability of these alternative systems, and to consider how their everyday use can simplify the processes of reading and writing, understanding and thinking in the working and recreational activities of large numbers of people. Submissions to the special issue should firstly describe the system or concept that the author proposes for everyday hypertext use, and outline the benefits they will bring to large sections of the population, discussing where would they be deployed, how would they be used, and by whom. These systems or concepts could include complete alternative hypertext management systems, scenarios for using hypermedia in ways that have a radical effect on some everyday activity (such as reading, writing, learning, imagining) or could comprise supplementary technologies for the Web, (such as addressing, searching, retrieving, authoring, or any other core technology of an everyday hypertext system). The remainder of the paper should then address the more speculative questions such as: with virtually unlimited resources, how should the vision of interconnected information, embodied by the hypertext system or concept, be realised over the next ten years? What technologies would be used? Would they be built on any existing infrastructure, and how far back would there be any useful foundations for a useful point to start again? What long-term impact on work and recreation could be expected from these changes? The primary characteristic of the system or concept in your submission should be that "one day, everyone will do it this way". There is no fixed length for submissions. Papers will be reviewed by at least one member of the conference panel discussion group together with other selected referees. Authors of accepted papers will be able to modify their papers, with final versions of papers due by 6th November. Submission Authors should submit their papers electronically using the submission form http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/form.php3 Selecting the title or editor for this issue from the Theme or Editor drop-down box will alert the editor to your submission automatically. Before submitting please take note of the journal's Guidelines for Submission: Notes for Authors http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sec.php3?content=submit Authors who wish to submit a paper with unusual features are requested to contact the Special issue Editor prior to submission. Please send any queries on the special issue or on the Hypermedia Systems theme to Helen Ashman, hla@cs.nott.ac.uk. A copy of this call can be found at http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/future-ht.html The Journal of Digital Information is an electronic journal published only via the Web. JoDI is currently free to all users thanks to support from the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ From: diabruck@coli.uni-sb.de Subject: DiaBruck 2003, call for participation Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:11:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 220 (220) Call for Participation DiaBruck 2003 SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) Saarland University Sept 4th-6th 2003 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ Endorsed by SIGSEM http://www.sigsem.org/ the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics Endorsed by SIGdial http://www.sigdial.org/ 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. The following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation: * Nicholas Asher, University of Austin, Texas * Andreas Herzig, IRIT - Universiti Paul Sabatier, France * Martin Pickering, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland There will also be a tutorial addressing good practice in empirically-based dialogue research. For a list of accepted papers, posters and demos see the DiaBruck website. [material deleted] From: info@folli.org Subject: call for participation Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:12:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 221 (221) ESSLLI 2003 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information August 18-29, Vienna http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ Each year the European Association for Logic, Language and Information, (FoLLi) organizes a European Summer School (ESSLLI) the main focus of which is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Courses at foundational, introductory and advanced level are given, the aim of which is to provide for researchers and postgraduate as well as advanced master students the possibility to familiarize themselves with other areas of research, and to enable students and researchers to acquire more specialized knowledge about topics they are already familiar with. The school also features several workshops, and a student session in which Master and PhD students can present their work. This year the 15th ESSLLI Summer School will take place at the Technical University of Vienna, the beautiful and cultural capital of Austria. During two weeks 43 courses will be given. They cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Language and Logic, Language and Computation, and Logic and Computation. There will be a series of invited lectures, and several workshops with open calls for papers. Please, visit our website at http://www.logic.at/esslli03/ for detailed information. For information about FoLLi and the previous editions of ESSLLI see http://www.folli.org/ [material delted] From: Ross Scaife Subject: Stoa reprint: Mueller, Children of Oedipus Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:13:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 222 (222) [deleted quotation] ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: a philosophy of tools? Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 07:13:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 223 (223) In his essay "The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science" (1961), reprinted in The Essential Tension (1977), Thomas Kuhn argues that "a quite highly developed body of theory is ordinarily prerequisite to fruitful measurement in the physical sciences" (201). To put a complex argument crudely, theory is needed to tell the researcher where and how to look and what sorts of numbers to expect; contrary to the popular notion, measurement seldom if ever leads to discovery. In consequence, it may seem to follow "that in these sciences theory must always lead experiment and that the latter has at best a decidely secondary role". But, as he notes, "that implication depends upon identifying 'experiment' with 'measurement'", which he disavows and which would seem obviously false. "It is only because significant quantitative comparison of theories with nature comes at such a late stage in the development of a science," he continues, "that theory has seemed to have so decisive a lead." If instead we were to focus on "the qualitative experimentation that dominates the earlier developmental stages of a physical science and continues to play a role later on, the balance would be quite different. Perhaps, even then, we would not wish to say that experiment is prior to theory (though experience surely is), but we would certainly find vastly more symmetry and continuity in the ongoing dialogue between the two" (201). Thomas K Burch, in "Computer Modelling of Theory: Explanation for the 21st Century", (in The Explanatory Power of Models, ed. Robert Franck, Methodos Series, vol. 1. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2002), notes that the word 'theory' varies widely in meaning across writers, disciplines and disciplinary groups (245); so also 'experiment'. So we have to be cautious in drawing conclusions for our own field(s) from Kuhn's argument. At the same time, however, we encounter the broad effects of what Ian Hacking calls a "theory-dominated" philosophy of science both in the classroom and in conversation with our colleagues. So mutatis mutandis: is our function (I can imagine being rhetorically asked) not to verify ideas thought by others about digitally represented cultural artifacts, events &c? Somehow, it seems to me, we have to get our idea of mind out of its bony cage right to the cutting edge of the tool, or as Edwin Hutchins says in Cognition in the Wild (MIT Press, 1995), move the boundary of the unit of cognitive analysis out beyond the skin of the individual so that we might begin dealing with what he calls "cognitive ecologies" (1995: 287). One of the greatest strengths of our practice is that through it we preside, more or less made self-aware by it, over the encounter of mind with stubborn data. In the encounter, as Kuhn suggests, theory does not always come first. Sometimes we come to it with no theory at all, or nothing worthy of being called a coherent idea. Sometimes -- is it not so? -- we find the ideas there, in that encounter. How? One thing that would seem to follow from this is the epistemological importance of the tool. Does not the person who designs and crafts the investigative instrument play a crucial, intellectual role? Our tools realize ideas in themselves. How might we begin to undestand the 'philosophy' (if you will) in and of tools? How might we begin to explain it to those who cannot read the tool? How might we communicate it? 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: "ATON" Subject: ATON (Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative) in the Chronicle Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:41:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 224 (224) of Higher Education ATON (Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative) in the Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education Thursday, July 24, 2003 BOOKMARK A Collection of Ancient Folk Tales From Turkey Meets Modernity on the Internet By BROCK READ For more than four decades, researchers interested in folklore and oral history have trekked to Lubbock, Tex., to use one of the world's most comprehensive collections of indigenous tales: the Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative at Texas Tech University. Now, through a digitization project, <http://aton.ttu.edu/> librarians at the university are making their unique archive accessible to a broader audience on the Web. Texas Tech came upon its sizable collection "by sheer luck," according to H.B. Paksoy, an adjunct professor of history at the institution who heads the online project. In 1961, Warren Stanley Walker, a professor of English at Iowa's Parson College, was teaching English in Turkey on a Fulbright grant. There he met Ahmet Edip Uysal, a professor of liberal arts at Ankara University. The pair shared an interest in Turkey's rich but largely unacknowledged history of folk narratives, and spent parts of several years journeying to small villages to document indigenous tales and traditions. When Walker returned to the States and took a position at Texas Tech, Uysal continued to send information collected from the field. The transcripts and recordings that Walker accumulated became the basis of the university's collection. (Uysal died in 1997, Walker in 2002. Walker is survived by his wife, Barbara, who worked with the oral-narrative archive until this year.) Online, the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative makes available all of Walker and Uysal's transcripts of Turkish epics, folk legends, and local stories. The Web site's highlights include versions of the Dede Korkut, an oral history of Central Asia that survived for almost a thousand years before it was committed to paper in the 19th century. Samples of Uysal and Walker's fieldwork include stories like "The Guessing Children" and "The Farmer and the Bear," gathered from Turkey's Konya province. Such narratives shed light not just on Turkish life, but on the central role of folk tales in cultures throughout the world, according to Mr. Paksoy. "These would be of great interest to anyone investigating cross-cultural stories," he says. "A great volume of what we have online applies to students of anything from Icelandic sagas to African narratives, because it provides a context and a sense of what themes develop across cultures and geographies." In addition to the transcripts, the site includes a growing number of multimedia elements. At present, Mr. Paksoy and his colleagues have digitized a small collection of images of modern-day Turkey, audio of indigenous-music performances, and many of Uysal and Walker's recordings of epic tales as narrated by Turkish citizens. Mr. Paksoy says he is working on placing recordings of key narratives alongside the transcripts so that researchers can listen to a reading in a Turkish dialect while examining its translation. Faculty members at a number of colleges offering courses in Turkish culture and linguistics -- including Princeton and Indiana Universities and the University of Pennsylvania -- have directed students to the site, Mr. Paksoy says. Erika H. Gilson, a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, is one such professor. Ms. Gilson and other professors say that the site is a useful tool in part because it provides students of Turkish with valuable exposure to the language as it is spoken. The Web site presents its information in a smorgasbord of languages. Most of the material is available in both Turkish and English, but many of the narratives are recorded in some of the many dialects -- including Kazakh, Turkmen, and Uzbek -- that appear in pockets throughout the nation. The site's use of multiple languages has increased its appeal, Mr. Paksoy says, noting that the project has attracted a strong contingent of international users. And Mr. Paksoy says that the archive's home on the Web has made the narratives available to an audience that would never have traveled to Texas to use the originals. In the first three weeks of 2003, when the project made its debut online, some 10,000 documents were viewed or downloaded -- more, according to Mr. Paksoy, than were read in the library's previous 41 years. The original collection can still be seen only by appointment. "This way we can reach the furthest corners of the earth without potential users' having to travel," he says. _____ From: gerda@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Subject: re 17.038 nesting and linear narratives Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:40:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 225 (225) As a latecomer to this discussion and re: the mentioning of the introductory section of Plato's Symposium. I've always felt that the contextualizing parts (the nested narrative) of Plato's dialogues subvert the "truth" these dialogues are ostentatiusly after, among others (the S. extremely so!) by foregrounding the unreliability of the report of the discussion (of which the written version is again a report, tainted - a Plato asserts elsewhere by the fact of being written). It's one of the functions of nested narratives in general, but of course noteworthy in the case of a philosphy of truth. By the way, has anyone written on this aspect of the Symposium? Gerda Elata-Alster [See Humanist 17.038. -- WM] From: "OESI Informa" Subject: Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing conference Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:12:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 226 (226) SEPLN 2003 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) 10, 11 and 12 September, 2003 University of Alcala Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing and the Office for Spanish in the Information Society at Instituto Cervantes Introduction The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcalá 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. The conference website (http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln) offers full information concerning the conference, the organisers, the scientific committee, the programme, attendants, travelling, accommodation and information about Alcalá de Henares, NLP related links, links to previous editions of the SEPLN Conference, etc. Programme 10 September, Wednesday 8:30 Document Delivery 9:00- 11:00 Conference Room 1: Automatic textual content analysis Conference Room 2: Semantics, pragmatics and discourse; NLP industrial applications 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12:00 Opening Session 12:00-13:00 Opening Lecture: Prof. Jim Cowie. Computing Research Laboratory. New Mexico State University 13:00-14:00 The new web portal for Language Technologies in Spain Office for Spanish in the Information Society (OESI) Department of Technology and Linguistic Projects, Academic Area, Instituto Cervantes 14:00-15:00 Cocktail 16:00-17:30 Conference Room 1: Speech synthesis and recognition Conference Room 2: Workshop: Looking for answers: Current state and future of technology and applications 17:30-18:00 Coffee Break 18:00- 19:30 Conference Room 1: Speech synthesis and recognition (cont.) Conference Room 2: Word sense disambiguation 11 September, Thursday 9:00-11:00 Conference Room 1: PROJECTS Conference Room 3: DEMOS All the demonstrations will be shown simultaneously and will be available from 9:00 to 14:00 h. 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30- 12:30 Guest Lecture: Prof. José B. Mariño Acebal. Technical University of Catalonia 12:30-14:00 Conference Room 1: PROJECTS Conference Room 3: DEMOS 14:00-16:00 Lunch 16:00-17:30 Conference Room 1: Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis Conference Room 2: Workshop: Speech technology: past, present and future. Technology for the Spanish Language 17:30-18:00 Coffee Break 18:00- 19:00 Conference Room 1 Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis (cont.) Conference Room 2: Workshop: Speech technology: past, present and future. Technology for the Spanish Language (cont.) 19:00-19:30 SEPLN Members Meeting 12 September, Friday 9:00-11:00 Conference Room 1: Corpus linguistics Conference Room 2: Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Guest Lecture: Prof. Bernardo Magnini. Instituto Trentino di Cultura 12:30-13:30 Conference Room 1: Computational Lexicography Conference Room 2: Machine translation 13:30-14:00 Closing Session [material deleted] Contact details Should you need further information, please contact: Secretaría del XIX Congreso de la SEPLN Conference coordinator: Dª Isabel Bermejo Rubio Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94 Fax: +34 91 888 18 26 E-mail: sepln@cervantes.es ____________________________________________________ Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información Dpto. de Tecnología y Proyectos Lingüísticos Área Académica Instituto Cervantes C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26 informaoesi@cervantes.es http://oesi.cervantes.es From: hinton@springnet1.com Subject: re 17.165 nesting and linear narratives Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:13:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 227 (227) And why would Plato do this ? "I've always felt that the contextualizing parts (the nested narrative) of Plato's dialogues subvert the "truth" these dialogues are ostentatiusly after, among others (the S. extremely so!) by foregrounding the unreliability of the report of the discussion (of which the written version is again a report, tainted - a Plato asserts elsewhere by the fact of being written). It's one of the functions of nested narratives in general, but of course noteworthy in the case of a philosphy of truth. " From: galloway@ischool.utexas.edu Subject: re 17.163 a philosophy of tools Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:17:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 228 (228) Willard, Heidegger has interesting things to say about "equipment," but "actor-network theory" is especially very relevant here: it includes objects as "actants" (bearing "captured agency" per Andrew Pickering) in a network of signification. Major players are Latour, Law, Callon. There has been a huge discussion in the social studies of science and technology literature about the theory-ladenness of tools ever since (most famously) Latour & Woolgar's Laboratory Life outed the implications of their construction. Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: info@eldp.soas.ac.uk Subject: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme deadline Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:13:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 229 (229) Reminder - Endangered Languages Documentation Programme - call for Preliminary Applications. Second round of an international programme of grants. Deadline: Friday, 8th August Full details at: http://www.hrelp.org/doc_home.htm. Contact for queries: Ellen Potts Research Support Officer, ELDP SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street London WC1A 0XG UK ep21@soas.ac.uk t: (+44)20 7898 4035 / f: (+44)20 7898 4199 http://www.hrelp.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:15:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 230 (230) (1)ECSCW 2003 edited by Kari Kuutti University of Oulu, Finland Eija Helena Karsten University of Turku, Finland Geraldine Fitzpatrick Sapient Ltd., London & University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Paul Dourish University of California, Irvine, USA Kjeld Schmidt IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark The emergence and widespread use of personal computers and network technologies has seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area which embraces both the development of new technologies and an understanding of the grounding of CSCW technologies in real-world social practices. These proceedings contain a collection of papers that encompass activities in the field. These include papers addressing new interaction technologies for CSCW systems, new models and architectures for groupware systems, studies of communication and coordination among mobile actors, studies of groupware systems in use in real-world settings, and theories and techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The papers present emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches to the development of this important class of applications. The work in this volume represents the best of the current research and practice within CSCW. The collection of papers presented here will appeal to both researchers and practitioners alike as they combine an understanding of the nature of work with the possibilities offered by new technologies. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1573-9 Date: August 2003 Pages: 401 pp. EURO 125.00 / USD 138.00 / GBP 86.00 (2) Data Mining and Decision Support Integration and Collaboration edited by Dunja Mladeni! Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Nada Lavra J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Marko Bohanec Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Steve Moyle Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 745 Data mining deals with finding patterns in data that are by user-definition, interesting and valid. It is an interdisciplinary area involving databases, machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics, visualization and others. Decision support focuses on developing systems to help decision-makers solve problems. 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Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7388-7 Date: August 2003 Pages: 304 pp. EURO 113.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 78.00 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: totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de Subject: editorial assistantships for CLCWeb: Comparative Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:20:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 231 (231) Literature and Culture Announcement: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu> invites graduate students to apply for volunteer work as editorial assistants. Founded at the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1999, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu> ISSN 1481-4374 is published by Purdue University Press. 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The series publishes annuals of the journal with selected papers from the year's work as well as other volumes (single authored and edited). Those interested please contact the editor of CLCWeb, Steven Totosy, at or . From: rddescha@dal.ca Subject: re 17.170 nesting and linear narratives Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:08:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 232 (232) I had a much more long-winded way of asking this question in my "draft" folder. I would argue that the more logical purpose for the framing structure is rhetorical rather than satirical or ironic. That is, although I agree the text itself is suspect, the "gist" of the story is, in fact, legitimized for a number of reasons, including: 1) Plato can "otherize" the message so to remove the appearance of self-interest from the subject -- a typical "Platonic/Socratic" methodology of making something sound more truthful. 2) Diotima's philosophy comes to the reader "prepackaged" as influential (ie. the story has already intrigued two people enough to pass it on before it comes to the reader). 3) The reader can see not only the content of the "love" philosophy, but also its practise by Socrates and its impact on others (ie Alcibiades). Now you could credit Plato with some sneakiness here, but that is not the same as suggesting he would purposely undercut his own philosophy -- especially since he appears to take parallel subjects so seriously in his other dialogues, and especially since the ironic force in the Symposium is already amply supplied through Aristophanes. Just my suggestions. Ryan. . . [deleted quotation] McCarty )" ===== [deleted quotation] Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Candidate -- Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University From: "Martin Mueller" Subject: Improved version of Chicago Homer Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:23:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 233 (233) An improved version of The Chicago Homer is now available at www.library.northwestern.edu/homer. The Chicago Homer is a bilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of the digital surrogate to make distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. In particular, the "digital page" of the Chicago Homer makes repetitions visible. It is a fundamental insight of twentieth-century scholarship that the Homeric poems are rooted in a tradition of oral verse making and that every hexametric line is shot through with idiomatic phrases that resonate in the listener's memory. For the modern reader these resonances are not easy to hear, but in any "page" of the Chicago Homer you can see just what is repeated, and links from any visible repetition let you navigate the neural networks of bardic memory. This is true even for readers who cannot read Greek: since they can see that something is repeated, they can follow the web of translations via interlinear translations. The Chicago Homer also includes a complete morphological description of every word occurrence in terms of the appropriate categories of tense, mood, voice, case, gender, person, and number. These morphological criteria can be combined with narrative, locational or frequency-based criteria and let you look for unknown words and phrases that meet specified conditions, such as accusative neuter plural adjectives, nouns in the speech of female goddesses, words that occur once in the Iliad and once in the Odyssey, phrases that are repeated more than a dozen times, are three words long and contain the name "Achilleus", occur in Iliad 16 and 22, but nowhere else, and so forth. The texts and associated data tables of the Chicago Homer are based on standard electronic texts and include the Iliad, the Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, the Homeric Hymns, and the pseudo-Hesiodic Shield of Herakles. The Chicago Homer includes Richmond Lattimore's translation of the Iliad, Daryl Hine's translations of the Theogony, Works and Days, and Homeric Hymns, and the 18th century German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johann Heinrich Voss. It does not at the moment include an English translation of the Odyssey. The Chicago Homer is associated with the still experimental Eumaios site, which includes access to the Iliad scholia in Hartmut Erbse's edition and to Dana Sutton's list of papyri, now maintained by the Center for Hellenic Studies. Wherever there is a papyrus reading or scholion for a Homeric line, a hyperlink in the margin of the Chicago Homer puts it immediately at hand with a single click. For the Homer scholia, this means that for the first time since the medieval manuscripts and earliest printed texts they have regained their status as true marginalia, albeit in a digital manner. All the functionalities of the Chicago Homer work with Mozilla 1.3 or Netscape 7.1 on Windows and Macintosh OS 10.2 computers, with Internet Explorer on Windows NT or later, and with the Safari browser on OS 10.2. Some routines do not work dependably on earlier browser/OS combinations. Transliterated Greek can be displayed on any browser, but the display of Greek characters requires a browser with a Unicode (UTF-8) font that includes the extended Greek character set. From: John Unsworth Subject: PMC 13.3 available Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:24:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 234 (234) P.O.S.T.M.O.D.E.R.N C.U.L.T.U.R.E A journal of critical thought on contemporary cultures published by Johns Hopkins University Press with support from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and from Vassar College Volume 13, Number 3 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/toc/pmc13.3.html a.r.t.i.c.l.e.s Michael Truscello, The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism Temenuga Trifonova, Is There a Subject in Hyperreality? Julie Hayes, The Body of the Letter: Epistolary Acts of Simon Hantai, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida Philip Metres, Barrett Watten's Bad History: A Counter-Epic of the Gulf War Krister Friday, "A Generation of Men Without History": Fight Club, Masculinity, and the Historical Symptom c.o.l.l.a.b.o.r.a.t.i.v.e h.y.p.e.r.t.e.x.t Thomas Swiss and George Shaw, The Language of New Media. r.e.v.i.e.w. e.s.s.a.y.s Matthew Hart, The Measure of All That Has Been Lost: Hitchens, Orwell, and the Price of Political Relevance. A review of Christopher Hitchens, _Why Orwell Matters_. New York: Basic, 2002 Kevin Marzahl, Poetry and the Paleolithic, or, The Artful Forager. A review of Jed Rasula, _This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry_. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2002. r.e.v.i.e.w.s Martin Wallace, A Disconcerting Brevity: Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination. A review of Pierre Bourdieu, _Masculine Domination_. Trans. Richard Nice. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001. Mimi Yiu, Virtually Transparent Structures. A review of Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel, _The Singular Objects of Architecture_. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Durham Liber Vitae Project Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:11:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 235 (235) DURHAM LIBER VITAE PROJECT www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/dlv/ Press release, August 2003. Please recirculate. A major project to produce an innovative computerised edition of the medieval Durham Liber Vitae, with full supporting scholarly material, is now underway in partnership with the British Library. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. This Liber Vitae, or "book of life" was one among several put together in Europe during the Middle Ages. As the name suggests, these books were modelled on the one envisioned in the biblical book of Revelation, hence to be inscribed therein was, at least originally, a highly meaningful act. The Durham Liber Vitae originated in the mid-ninth-century as a list of several hundred names of persons associated with a Northumbrian church, probably Lindisfarne, but possibly Monkwearmouth/Jarrow. (These names, written in alternating gold and silver, are arranged according to the status and functions of the persons who bore them and have the potential to provide remarkable insights into a 'dark age' of English history.) In the 10th and 11th centuries a few more names were entered. Then, around the year 1100, the book began to be used to record the names of all the monks of Durham, as well as a very large number of lay people, some great persons, others so humble that nothing else is known of them. Family groups also appear, especially the families of the last monks of Durham before Henry VIII dissolved the cathedral monastery in 1539, when the book ceased to be used. The kinds and arrangements of these names raise several important historical questions. Why, for example, were the names listed in this way? What light can they shed on the political, social and cultural history of medieval England, e.g. the emergence of Scandinavian and Norman names in the eleventh century? What can be learned from the innumerable examples of handwriting which the book contains? What patterns are discernible in the development of the languages (Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian, Britonic, Irish) in which the names are written? Despite its great historical importance, the book has not been as widely studied as it deserves because access to the manuscript itself has been limited, and it has been impossible to edit by conventional means. Hence the current project to design an electronic edition that will not only provide high-definition images of all pages but also make possible complete representation of all that is known about the manuscript and its contents. The edition will represent a major step forward in the computer representation of medieval manuscripts. The Durham Liber Vitae project is led by Prof. David Rollason and Mr Alan Piper (AHRB Centre for North-East England History, University of Durham) and by Dr Willard McCarty and Mr Harold Short (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London). The major part of the work is currently being undertaken by the project's researcher, Dr Andrew Wareham (King's College London) and by the technical officer (Dr Gabriel Bodard, King's College London). A second researcher will be appointed to start work in November 2003 at the University of Durham. 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 Subject: OAI Service Providers Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:18:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 236 (236) OAI Service Providers I am greatly interested in identifying Any and All Major and Minor OAI Service Providers. I am aware of the Open Archives list of registered Service Providers [ http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html ] but realize that this is incomplete [Not that Any List Can Ever Be Complete][:-)] The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) [http://www.openarchives.org ] was conceived to develop and promote interoperability, with the aim of making it easy to disseminate and share content. Within the framework of the (OAI), participants are divided into two classes, 'data providers' and 'service providers': *Data Providers* support the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) [ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ] as a means of exposing metadata that describes their resources, while *Service Providers* harvest metadata using the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services. So far, I have identified the following OAI Service Providers: AmericanSouth.org [ http://www.americansouth.org/ ] ARC: A Cross-Archive Service [ http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ] citebaseSearch [ http://citebase.eprints.org/ ] CYCLADES [ http://www.ercim.org/cyclades/ ] MetaArchive.org [ http://www.metaarchive.org ] NDLTD Union Catalog [ http://rocky.dlib.vt.edu/~etdunion/ ] Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library [ http://www.ncstrl.org ] OAISter [ http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/ ] Open Language Archives [http://www.language-archives.org ] Perseus [ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor ] Public Knowledge Project Open Archives Harvester [ http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/ ] Scirus [ http://www.scirus.com ] Sheetmusic Service [Sheet Music Consortium] [ http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ ] TORII [ http://torii.sissa.it/ ] UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials [ http://nergal.grainger.uiuc.edu/ ] As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, critiques, questions, or Cosmic Insights are Most Welcome! Regards, Gerry Gerry McKiernan Service Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: cmess@lib.drury.edu Subject: re 17.173 nesting and linear narratives Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:18:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 237 (237) Re. the Symposium and nesting ... The comments made so far might be helpfully complimented with the following. [deleted quotation] Yes - Stanley Rosen (one of my teachers long ago at Penn State and now of Boston University) wrote a masterful analysis, _Plato's Symposium_ many years ago. Rosen comes out of the Leo Strauss school of Platonic interpretation, and so has much to say about Plato's "salutary rhetoric," starting with his comments in the 7th letter that highest philosophical truth cannot be written down, nor has he ever written what he himself thinks. What I find most interesting in this turn in the Symposium, however, is that it accomplishes two (correlated) shifts - one logical and one having to do with the obvious issues of gender in a party / symposium intentionally devoid of women (the flute-girls are kicked out at the outset, in a striking inversion of the usual social structure - along with the slaves being told that they are to be the masters). Logical: the earlier speeches in praise of _eros_ , including those of Agathon (in whose honor - as the winning poet/playwright of the previous day's competition - is held), are marked by a simple dualism: as Socrates points out, their strategy is simply to affiliate eros with everything good, in sharp contrast with everything bad. By contrast, Socrates prepares the introduction of Diotima by demonstrating the limitations of that logic - and thereby undermining the authority of the poets. He further attributes his understanding of this to Diotima, and the first stages of their recounted conversation consist of her in turn leading the young Socrates away from his (youthful / male) logic of dualism to a complementarity logic - one that places eros squarely in the middle between the previous polarities (or, in PM jargon, binaries) of Beauty / Ugliness, Good / Bad, Divine / Human, and Wisdom / ignorance. (Eros, as a daimon, is thus the intermediary and bridge between the two - and philosophy is the eros for wisdom, marked by a recognition of one's ignorance and the desire to move towards wisdom, while not claiming to possess it.) Gender. Much has been made of Diotima, whose presence here is striking for many reasons, especially among the (relatively early) analyses of "Plato as a feminist" in the 1970s. There is something, I think, in Diotima being represented as a wise woman, and in the affiliation - remarkably contemporary, in my view - between her more complimentary logic vis-a-vis the more dualistic logic of the male protagonists. But she is, of course, a fictive creation by a male author, etc. [For that - Socrates in the Republic presents the first philosophical argument in the Western tradition for the equality of males and females; it's a start, at least.] This immediately plunges us into unending debate as to whether a male author can ever present an authentic woman's voice, etc., etc. However all that might turn out - it remains of interest, I think, to note that Diotima is re-presented here as a perfect Sophist - one whose teaching accomplishes a significant move beyond that of the poets. At the same time, however, especially if she is a poetic creation of Plato - the point is made that, unlike more commonplace readings of Plato as opposing philosophy and poetry, philosophy and sophistry (i.e., binary oppositions) what happens here, in keeping with the non-dualistic logic Diotima (and Socrates) teach, is rather the (erotic) conjunction across these polarities. That is, as in the Republic, the dialogue - including its critiques of poetry (in this case, because of the poets' dualistic logic) - is itself a poetic (in the Greek sense of _poeisis_) creation that fosters a philosophical critique and discourse that seeks to incorporate rather than separate the two. This is a long way of getting around to agree with Ryan's reading that Plato is not undercutting his own philosophy. On my view, at least, the reading of Plato as a dualistic idealist simply opposed in binary fashion to rhetoric, sophistry, poetry, etc., can emerge only by failing to take account of Plato's use of all of these in the dialogues. This reading turns that one on its head, and instead sees Plato as incorporating rhetoric, sophistry, poetry, etc. And I think it particularly brilliant to have some of those central teachings re-presented by a female figure in anotherwise all male audience - thereby instantiating the more abstract argument for the equality of men and women in the Republic. I don't know what all of this does with regard to the original question regarding nesting and linear narratives - but I'll be interested in seeing what others make of it? 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 [from August 20 - December 19, 2003: Visiting Professor Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication IT-University of Copenhagen 67 Glentevej DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Denmark] Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 [deleted quotation] From: r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk Subject: RANLP 2003 call for participation Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:13:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 238 (238) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING International Conference RANLP-2003 10-12 September 2003 Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003/ ****************************** Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd and 3rd conferences on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), the 4th RANLP conference will be held from 10 to 12 September this year. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The following is a list of RANLP'2003's keynote speakers: Branimir Boguraev (IBM) Shalom Lappin (King's College) Inderjeet Mani (Georgetown University) Stephen Pulman (Oxford University) Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarland) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) See the conference web page (http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003/) for the list of accepted papers and the pre-conference tutorials which will take place from 7 to 9 September 2003. The conference will be also preceded by the workshop on "Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern European Languages" (8-9 September 2003). For registration details please visit the conference site. From: tgelder@trinity.unimelb.edu.au Subject: latest additions to Critical Thinking on the Web Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:12:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 239 (239) 21 July in Textbooks <http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/primer.htm>Steve's Primer of Practical Persuasion and Influence by Steve Booth-Butterfield An online textbook on persuasion, influence and attitude. Developed for use in a university course. Very "bare bones" (no pictures) but written in a very accessible, colloquial style. [21 July 03] 18 July in The Enlightenment <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/opinion/12DENN.html>The Bright Stuff by Daniel Dennett Come out as a bright. "What is a bright? A bright is a person with a naturalist as opposed to a supernaturalist world view. We brights don't believe in ghosts or elves or the Easter Bunny or God." Being a bright is not quite the same as being a critical thinker, but they are closely aligned. (Yes, I count myself a bright.) [18 July 03] 5 July in Guides <http://vm.uconn.edu/~wwwphil/logic.pdf>A Quick Introduction to Logic by Scott Lehmann A 29 page document (pdf file) covering the basics of logic. Too succinct and technical to be much use the first time you try to learn about logic, but may be handy for someone wanting to refresh on core topics. [5 Jul 03] 24 Jun in The Enlightenment (new section) <http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/173/focus/Sweep_of_reason+.shtml>Sweep of reason By Darrin M. McMahon Reviewing the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment is just the pretext for this excellent, highly compact overview of the Enlightenment and reactions to it. [24 Jun 03] in Experts and Expertise - Literary Critics, and Language and Thought <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/myers.htm>A Reader's Manifesto by B.R. Myers. Scathing attack on the sloppy thinking behind the pretentiously literary style of today's acclaimed fiction, and on the goggle-eyed idiocy of critics who applaud it. "Nothing gives me the feeling of having been born several decades too late quite like the modern "literary" best seller...Clumsy writing begets clumsy thought, which begets even clumsier writing. The only way out is to look back to a time when authors had more to say than "I'm a Writer!"; when the novel wasn't just a 300-page caption for the photograph on the inside jacket." [24 Jun 03] 18 Jun in Guides <http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/ImageCache/cgov/content/careers/study_5fguides/critical_5fthinking_5ftest12_2edoc/v1/critical_5fthinking_5ftest12.doc>Study Guide for the U.S. Customs Service Critical Thinking Skills Test (Word document) You may well find this useful even if you're not applying for promotion in the US Customs Service. Much of the document consists of a fairly technical introduction to basic logic. Working through this study guide would probably be good preparation for a range of standard tests involving logical thinking, eg the LSAT. [18 Jun 03] 14 Jun in Language and Thought <http://www.dc.com/bullfighter/>Bullfighter "Stripping the bull out of business." This program works like a spell-checker, but helps you remove consultant-speak (leverage, mindshare, etc.) from your documents. From Deloitte Consulting, who were partly responsible for creating the problem in the first place. At least they're giving it away free. [14 Jun 03] ---------- Hans Farkas sent the following interesting query. It is not about critical thinking as such, but it does involve applying critical thinking. Please respond directly to Hans, hfarkas@yahoo.com I would like to know if anyone has come across information describing the fallacies of "ballistics experts" testifying that they can positively identify a gun via comparison of the markings on a test bullet fired from that gun, and a bullet recovered from the scene of the crime. I have never seen a challenge to these claims, but from what I know about how guns are manufactured, specifically, how the rifling (i.e., grooves and lands) is cut into the barrel, the "expert" claims of being able to match a specific gun to a crime have got to be wrong. Here's why. The rifling is cut into the barrel via a hardened cutter die, called a button, which has the design ground into it, and when it is pulled or pressed through the barrel's smooth bore, it cuts the high and low spirals (called rifling) into the barrel. Now this cutter die (i.e., button) is either made from hardened tool steel, or perhaps tungsten carbide. At any rate, the same button is used to cut the rifling into many barrels. How many times a specific button can be used before it is worn out depends on a number of factors, and a tungsten carbide cutter will last considerably longer than a tool steel cutter. But certainly a significant number of barrels are rifled by the same button. And the number of barrels a specific button can rifle is probably in the hundreds, and perhaps even in the thousands, before it has to be replaced. What this means is that essentially all the barrels of a specific manufacturing run that are cut by the same button, are going to have the same rifling pattern. Undoubtedly, assuming that the same button can be used on 1,000 barrels, there might be a microscopic difference in the sharpness of the cut when comparing the first barrel with the thousandth one. But surely there is no practically distinguishable difference between between the first 100 barrels with each other, or between the last hundred with each other. In other words, while one might distinguish a microscopic difference between the first barrel as compared to barrel number 999, surely the difference between the first barrel and the second barrel, etc., are virtually indistinguishable. If this is true, then the "experts" claiming that a positive identification was made are actually only able to say (in the best case, assuming they have made a careful comparison) that the bullet recovered at the scene of the crime probably came from a gun manufactured by the same button as the gun in question. In other words, instead of claiming it is the same gun, they are only able to state (if they are honest and competent) that one of hundreds of guns from the same manufacturing run could be the actual gun. Furthermore, it is probable that even if multiple buttons are used in a specific manufacturing run (i.e., same model and year of manufacture), each button is made to the same close tolerances and design. This would make it impossible to distinguish the grooves made even from a group of buttons, from each other, certainly by the relatively crude methods of comparison (low-power microscopic alignment of rifling) used by these experts. Realistically, it is one thing to distinguish between a bullet from a Smith & Wesson 38 caliber, from a Colt 38 caliber since each manufacture is making his own buttons, undoubtedly to different designs. And probably different models of the same caliber from the same manufacture, or from different years of manufacture are distinguishable. But to distinguish between any one of a thousand barrels rifled by the same button is probably not possible in the way these "experts" do their comparison. Undoubtedly on a theoretical basis, say with very high magnifications of electron microscopes it might be possible to actually distinguish, for example barrel number 48 from barrel number 49, by seeing extremely minute changes in the button due to wear. But that is not how these "experts" practice their craft. It is one thing to use this type of comparison to exclude a gun, but quite another to be able to state with certainty it is the same gun. For example, if the gun is a 38 caliber and the bullet recovered from the crime scene is a 44 caliber, it is easy to be certain that they are mutually exclusive. Similarly, in the case of the same caliber comparison, if the rifling does not match (perhaps because the grooves are of a different number, or the depths are different, or the widths differ), exclusion can be done with certainty. But if everything matches, the best that can be stated is that they are similar enough to be from the same make and model, or even from the same manufacturing run. But that may mean there are thousands of other guns from that make, model, caliber and year that are essentially identical. But where is the expert that ever states such caveats? With DNA analysis, we used to hear that either a suspect was cleared because the markers didnt match, or that there was a 1 in 50,000 (or 1 in 10,000,000, etc.,) chance that this was indeed the guilty person. Of course this also meant that, however remote, a certain number of other individuals would also match the DNA evidence. But we dont hear such things from the ballistics experts. But has anyone actually come across information to validate these shortcomings? If so, please let me know. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT The "critical" email list is moderated with a view to ensuring that all postings make substantial contributions on the topic of critical thinking likely to be of interest or value to a majority of list subscribers. General discussion related to issues raised on this list can be sent to the unmoderated group critical_discuss@yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: critical-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. 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From: han.baltussen@adelaide.edu.au Subject: re 17.175 new on www improved Chicago Homer; PMC 13.3 Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 06:17:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 241 (241) Am I right in thinking that the link to Chicago Homer is incomplete: I only got in at www.library.northwestern.edu/homer/splash.html Best wishes Han [The referenced URL was www.library.northwestern.edu/homer, which works from here, using IE 6.0. --WM] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 06:11:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 242 (242) (1) Philosophy of Arithmetic Psychological and Logical Investigations - with Supplementary Texts from 18871901 by Edmund Husserl translated by Dallas Willard School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA EDMUND HUSSERL Collected Works -- 10 In his first book, Philosophy of Arithmetic, Edmund Husserl provides a carefully worked out account of number as a categorial or formal feature of the objective world, and of arithmetic as a symbolic technique for mastering the infinite field of numbers for knowledge. It is a realist account of numbers and number relations that interweaves them into the basic structure of the universe and into our knowledge of reality. It provides an answer to the question of how arithmetic applies to reality, and gives an account of how, in general, formalized systems of symbols work in providing access to the world. The "appendices" to this book provide some of Husserl's subsequent discussions of how formalisms work, involving David Hilbert's program of completeness for arithmetic. "Completeness" is integrated into Husserl's own problematic of the "imaginary", and allows him to move beyond the analysis of "representations" in his understanding of the logic of mathematics. Husserl's work here provides an alternative model of what "conceptual analysis" should be minus the "linguistic turn", but inclusive of lannguage and linguistic meaning. In the process, he provides case after case of "Phenomenological Analysis"fortunately unencumbered by that tittle of the convincing type that made Husserl's life and thought a fountainhead of much of the most important philosophical work of the twentieth Century in Europe. Many Husserlian themes to be developed at length in later writings first emerge here: Abstraction, internal time consciousness, polythetic acts, acts of higher order ('founded' acts), Gestalt qualities and their role in knowledge, formalization (as opposed to generalization), essence analysis, and so forth. This volume is a window on a period of rich and illuminating philosophical activity that has been rendered generally inaccessible by the supposed "revolution" attributed to "Analytic Philosophy" so-called. Careful exposition and critique is given to every serious alternative account of number and number relations available at the time. Husserl's extensive and trenchant criticisms of Gottlob Frege's theory of number and arithmetic reach far beyond those most commonly referred to in the literature on their views. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1546-1 Date: September 2003 Pages: 580 pp. EURO 199.00 / USD 199.00 / GBP 126.00 (2) The Multilingual Lexicon edited by Jasone Cenoz University of the Basque Country, Victoria-Gasteiz, Spain Britta Hufeisen Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Ulrike Jessner University of Innsbruck, Austria This volume is a response both to the increasing interest in multilingual phenomena and lexical issues in language learning. It is of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in bi- and multilingualism, second and multiple language acquisition, language processing and language learning, mental lexicon, applied linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics and language teaching. Recent research on third language acquisition and trilingualism has made clear that most multilingual studies actually deal with vocabulary learning or the lexicon. So far books on the mental lexicon have mainly been concerned with two languages in contact. This book is unique because it explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. It goes beyond the use of two languages and thus concentrates on a new and developing area in linguistic research. The different perspectives included in this volume provide a link to the mainstream work on the lexicon and vocabulary acquisition and will stimulate further debate in these areas and in the study of multilingualism. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1543-7 Date: September 2003 Pages: 350 pp. EURO 133.00 / USD 146.00 / GBP 92.00 (3) Bulgarian Studies in the Philosophy of Science edited by Dimitri Ginev University of Sofia, Bulgaria BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 236 This volume attempts to provide a new articulation of issues surrounding scientific realism, scientific rationality, the epistemology of non-classical physics, the type of revolutionary changes in the development of science, the naturalization of epistemology within frameworks of cognitive science and structural linguistics, models of the information technology revolution, and reconstructions of early modern logical systems. A common denominator of the authors' positions is the rejection of the post-modern deconstruction of the "global philosophical accounts" of science's cognitive structure and dynamics. The volume takes on a dual task: it deals with major perspectives on philosophy of science "after the end of post-positivism", and it represents basic philosophical controversies in an Eastern-European society "after the end of state socialism". CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Preface; D. Ginev. Introduction; D. Ginev. * Part I: Investigations in the General Philosophy of Science. The Danger of Catching Nature in Contradiction; S. Petrov. Scientific Rationality, Decision and Choice; V. Bouzov. The Information Technology Revolution: A New, Techno-Economic Paradigm; S. Spassov. Are Bifurcations of Human Knowledge Possible? A. Petrov. * Part II: Philosophy of Physics. The Proliferation and Synthesis of Physical Theories; A. Polikarov. On Human Agency in Physics; M. Bushev. * Part III: Philosophy and Logic. Leibniz's Logical Systems: A Reconstruction; V. Sotirov. The Logic Between Two Centuries; M. Tabakov. * Part IV: Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science. Idealized Cognitive Models and Other Mental Representations; D. Genova. Philosophy of Science Meets Cognitive Science: The Categorization Debate; L. Gurova. Three Words: Hypertext and Argumentation Readings of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; S. Radev. * Part V: Philosophy of Science and the Continental Ideas. On Kant's Conception of Space and Time; A.S. Stefanov. How to Be Simultaneously an Antiessentialist and a Defender of Science's Cognitive Specificity; D. Ginev. Notes on Contributors. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1496-1 Date: August 2003 Pages: 228 pp. EURO 90.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 62.00 (4) Modelling Geographical Systems Statistical and Computational Applications edited by Barry Boots Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada Atsuyuki Okabe Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan Richard Thomas School of Geography, University of Manchester, UK GEOJOURNAL LIBRARY -- 70 This book presents a representative selection of innovative ideas currently shaping the development and testing of geographical systems models by means of statistical and computational approaches. Collectively, the contributions span all geographic scales, deal with both individuals and aggregates, and represent natural, human, and integrated spatial systems. Reflecting current concerns for relevance, each paper has an applied component relating to one or more contemporary issues. Modelling Geographical Systems is relevant to researchers, postgraduates, final-year undergraduates and professionals in the areas of quantitative geography, spatial analysis, spatial modelling, and geographical information sciences. Although not intended as a textbook, this volume would provide a useful supplementary text for courses on quantitative geography and geographical systems modelling in both human and physical geography, and GIS and geocomputation. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Preface. 1. Introduction; B. Boots, et al. Part I: Statistical Models of Spatial Systems. Section A: Spatial Statistics. 2. Geographic Patterns of Urban Residential Development; J. Lee. 3. Using Local Statistics for Boundary Characterization; B. Boots. 4. Local Spatial Interaction Modelling based on the Geographically Weighted Regression Approach; T. Nakaya. Section B: Space-Time Analysis. 5. Understanding Activity Scheduling and Rescheduling Behaviour: Theory and Numerical Illustration; Chang-Hyeon Joh, et al. 6. Geographical Model of a Self-Organizing Megalopolis with Time-Space Convergence; I. Mizuno. 7. Epidemic Modelling of HIV/AIDS Transfers between Eastern and Western Europe; P. Smith, R. Thomas. Part II: Computational Methods. Section A: Simulation Models. 8. A Spatial Microsimulation Model for Social Policy Evaluation; D. Ballas, et al. 9. Analysis of the Effect of Land Use Patterns on the Anthropogenic Energy Discharged from Air Conditioning and Hot Water Supply Using a Modified CSU Mesoscale Model; T. Watanabe, et al. 10. Generalized Thünen and Thünen-Ricardo Models for Asian Land Use; K. Konagaya. Section B: GIS Models. 11. Balancing Consensus and Conflict with a GIS-Based Multi-Participant, Multi-Criteria Decision Support Tool; R.D. Feick,G.B. Hall. 12. Grid-Based Population Distribution Estimates from Historical Japanese Topographical Maps Using GIS: Y. Arai, S. Koike. 13. GIS Modelling for Rain-Induced Debris-Flow Hazards in a Small Watershed; S. Zhao, T. Tamura. Section C: The Internet. 14. A Geographical Interpretation of Cyberspace: Preliminary Analysis on the Scaling Tendency of Information Spaces; N. Shiode. 15. On Modelling Internet Transactions as a Time-Dependent Random Walk: An Application of the Retail Aggregate Space-Time Trip (RASTT) Model; R.G.V. Baker. 16. Development of Disaster Information Network System in the Asian Region: Internet GIS for Disaster Information Management; Y. Ogawa, etal. 17. Geographical Conceptualization of Cyberplaces; M. Takeyama. Contributors. Subject Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-0821-X Date: August 2003 Pages: 368 pp. EURO 130.00 / USD 130.00 / GBP 82.00 (5) Designs 2002 Further Computational and Constructive Design Theory edited by Walter D. Wallis Dept. of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS -- 563 This volume is a sequel to the 1996 compilation, Computational andConstructive Design Theory. It contains research papers and surveys of recent research work on two closely related aspects of the study of combinatorial designs: design construction and computer-aided study of designs. Audience: This volume is suitable for researchers in the theory of combinatorial designs. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7599-5 Date: August 2003 Pages: 384 pp. EURO 171.00 / USD 190.00 / GBP 118.00 (6) Exploration of Visual Data by Xiang Sean Zhou Siemens Corporation, Princeton, NJ, USA Yong Rui Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Thomas S. Huang Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN VIDEO COMPUTING -- 7 Exploration of Visual Data presents latest research efforts in the area of content-based exploration of image and video data. The main objective is to bridge the semantic gap between high-level concepts in the human mind and low-level features extractable by the machines. The two key issues emphasized are "content-awareness" and "user-in-the-loop". The authors provide a comprehensive review on algorithms for visual feature extraction based on color, texture, shape, and structure, and techniques for incorporating such information to aid browsing, exploration, search, and streaming of image and video data. They also discuss issues related to the mixed use of textual and low-level visual features to facilitate more effective access of multimedia data. To bridge the semantic gap, significant recent research efforts have also been put on learning during user interactions, which is also known as "relevance feedback". The difficulty and challenge also come from the personalized information need of each user and a small amount of feedbacks the machine could obtain through real-time user interaction. The authors present and discuss several recently proposed classification and learning techniques that are specifically designed for this problem, with kernel- and boosting-based approaches for nonlinear extensions. Exploration of Visual Data provides state-of-the-art materials on the topics of content-based description of visual data, content-based low-bitrate video streaming, and latest asymmetric and nonlinear relevance feedback algorithms, which to date are unpublished. Exploration of Visual Data will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and graduate-level students in the areas of multimedia information systems, multimedia databases, computer vision, machine learning. CONTENTS * 1: Introduction. 1.1. Challenges. 1.2. Research Scope. 1.3. State-of-the-Art. 1.4. Outline of Book. * 2: Overview Of Visual Information Representation. 2.1. Color. 2.2. Texture. 2.3. Shape. 2.4. Spatial Layout. 2.5. Interest Points. 2.6. Image Segmentation. 2.7. Summary. * 3: Edge-based Structural Features. 3.1. Visual Feature Representation. 3.2. Edge-Based Structural Features. 3.3. Experiments and Analysis. * 4: Probabilistic Local Structure Models. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. The Proposed Modeling Scheme. 4.3. Implementation Issues. 4.4. Experiments and Discussion. 4.5. Summary and Discussion. * 5: Constructing Table-of-Content for Videos. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Related Work. 5.3. The Proposed Approach. 5.4. Determination of the Parameters. 5.5. Experimental Results. 5.6. Conclusions. * 6: Nonlinearly Sampled Video Streaming. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Problem Statement. 6.3. Frame Saliency Scoring. 6.4. Scenario and Assumptions. 6.5. Minimum Buffer Formulation. 6.6. Limited-Buffer Formulation. 6.7. Extensions and Analysis. 6.8. Experimental Evaluation. 6.9. Discussion. * 7: Relevance Feedback for Visual Data Retrieval. 7.1. The Need for User-in-the-Loop. 7.2. Problem Statement. 7.3. Overview of Existing Techniques. 7.4. Learning from Positive Feedbacks. 7.5. Adding Negative Feedbacks: Discriminant Analysis? 7.6. Biased Discriminant Analysis. 7.7. Nonlinear Extensions Using Kernel and Boosting. 7.8. Comparisons and Analysis. 7.9. Relevance Feedback on Image Tiles. * 8: Toward Unification of Keywords and Low-Level Contents. 8.1. Introduction. 8.2. Joint Querying and Relevance Feedback. 8.3. Learning Semantic Relations between Keywords. 8.4. Discussion. * 9: Future Research Directions. 9.1. Low-level and intermediate-level visual descriptors. 9.2. Learning from user interactions. 9.3. Unsupervised detection of patterns/events. 9.4. Domain-specific applications. References. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7569-3 Date: August 2003 Pages: 208 pp. EURO 113.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 78.00 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: Michael Fraser Subject: Final Call: DRH2003: registrations / posters Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 06:12:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 243 (243) DRH2003: FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND LATE-BREAKING NEWS http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003 The deadline for registering to participate in the Digital Resources for the Humanities 2003 conference is 15 August 2003. DRH (http://www.drh.org.uk/) is the major forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the digitization of our cultural heritage. It is a unique forum bringing together scholars, teachers, publishers and broadcasters, librarians, curators and archivists, and computer and information specialists. It provides an opportunity to consider the latest ideas in the creation and use of digital resources in all aspects of work in the humanities, in an informal and enjoyable atmosphere. WHERE? This year's conference will be held at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham UK, 31 Aug - 3 Sept 2003. WHAT? Conference themes include: - The impact of access to digital resources on teaching and learning - Digital libraries, archives and museums - Time-based media and multimedia studies in performing arts - Network technologies used to support international community programmes - The anticipated convergence between televisual, communication and computing media and its effect on the humanities - Knowledge representation, including visualization and simulation LATE-BREAKING NEWS This year we are also offering an extra opportunity for delegates to discuss the very latest DRH developments. There will be a special space for anyone wishing to present a poster on any topic relating to the themes of the conference. The object of this "late breaking news" call is to enable you to share ideas and discuss work in progress which has not yet reached the stage of being a formal academic paper. Space will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, but we will go on accepting proposals up to 15 August 2003. Please contact drh2003@glos.ac.uk with a brief (200 word max) description of your topic if you have something you'd like to present! THE PROGRAMME The academic programme for the conference includes over 50 refereed papers, and a range of panel discussions, as well as poster presentations. This year's plenary speakers are Meg Bellinger, formerly of OCLC and now of Yale University Library, a key figure in the world of digital preservation; Kim Veltman, Scientific Director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute and co-ordinator of a European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage; and Theodor Holm Nelson, currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham. The conference will also feature an exhibition of leading-edge products and services of relevance to the DRH communities, and a range of social activities -- including dinner at the celebrated Cheltenham Gold Cup Race Course. THE COST The conference fee of 240 pounds includes full conference attendance and all social activities. Special rates are also available for students and those wishing to attend on a daily basis. AND NOW? For further information and the online booking form visit: http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/drh2003 Lou Burnard and Peter Childs DRH2003 Programme Committee From: Willard McCarty Subject: meaning of "theory" Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 06:47:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 244 (244) In Humanist 17.163 I quoted Thomas K. Burch's caution, in "Computer modelling of theory: Explanation for the 21st Century", that the word "theory" varies significantly in meaning across the disciplines. A great deal of the literature with which I am currently involved, from the philosophy of science, uses this word in senses ranging from something like the epistemological rock on which science is founded to a formally expressed synonym for "idea". In attempting to make sense of this literature for what we do with computers, I have come to wonder if the word has any productive use whatever in the humanities. (Burch's caution perhaps cautions us not to expect a single answer for all the humanities, so perhaps I should be asking with respect to a single field, such as literary studies. But since the audience here is such an multidisciplinary one, I will leave the field unspecified.) What, then, do we gain (apart from honourific baggage) when we say that X is a *theory* of something, rather than, say, an idea of it, way of talking about it, scheme for it? For the sake of argument, let's assume I am a rather ordinary literary critic, with the usual sort of competent familiarity with and loose attachment to current ideas, whose interest is in a particular work of literature rather than in "theory" per se (whatever that means). When I begin a literary-critical study, can I be said to have or to be working under the influence of a "theory", and if so, what does that mean? If the answer is no, then am I proceeding incompetently? If I were to become explicitly aware of all the current ideas that I may have picked up along the way, in what sense would I be theoretically aware? If I subscribed to what might be called a "theory" and proceeded to do my study, how constrained would I be, and what effect on the theory or its status among current adherents would my work possibly have? If there are better questions to be asking, please ask them instead. 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@hq.acm.org Subject: Ubiquity 4.23 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 06:46:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 245 (245) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 23, Week of August 5 - August 12, 2003 In this issue: REVIEW Review: A Pattern Language for Web Usability In the world of wu the Web is a friendly and organized place. Reviewed by Carl Bedingfield http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v4i24_bedingfield.html VIEW Computer-Aided Thematic Analysis: Useful Technique for Analyzing Non-Quantitative Data A method using a computer and any program providing sort functions can help anyone trying to make sense of large amounts of qualitative information. By M. E. Kabay http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i24_kabay.html From: Mark Wolff Subject: Culler on theory Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 07:13:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 246 (246) On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 03:03 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] In his recent book "Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction," Jonathan Culler offers this succinct definition of the troublesome notion of "theory": 1. Theory is interdisciplinary -- discourse with effects outside an original discipline. 2. Theory is analytical and speculative -- an attempt to work out what is involved in what we call sex or language or writing or meaning or the subject. 3. Theory is a critique of common sense, of concepts taken as natural. 4. Theory is reflexive, thinking about thinking, enquiry into the categories we use in making sense of things, in literature and in other discursive practices. (14-15) This definition refuses disciplinary constraints on what informs scholarly inquiry. Theory is whatever helps you make sense of something in an unconventional way. Theory questions disciplinary boundaries that are taken for granted: it favors the "Why not?" instead of the "Why?" This definition differs from that of a "scientific" theory which infers why things are the way they are and then beckons researchers to try and disprove it. I think one of the difficulties here is that humanities computing brings together folks who subscribe to different ideas of what research is about. Some want to "tinker" with texts and measure what they are supposed to do while others try to "hack" texts and make them do things they weren't necessarily intended to do. [deleted quotation] Culler sympathizes with the feeling that theory is an amorphous blob that cannot be circumscribed. He observes that "the unmasterability of theory is a major cause of resistance to it [...] to admit the importance of theory is to make an open-ended commitment, to leave yourself in a position where there are always important things you don't know." Theory provokes both the desire of mastery and the recognition that mastery is impossible (16). I suppose one could complain that theory as such undermines disciplined research, in the sense of community standards and peer review. If anything goes, what's worth thinking? That question has less to do with theory per se and more to do with politics. mw -- Mark B. Wolff Modern and Classical Languages Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://users.hartwick.edu/wolffm0/ From: Han Baltussen Subject: Theory and idea Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:05:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 247 (247) Willard, Imay have misunderstood the point, but as a quick and crude reaction: one thing one could say, I suppose, is that a "theory" would include a structure of rules and assumptions, whereas an idea, though flexible, could just be that, i.e. a concept or representation in the mind. That means that a "theory" (as defined above) is more dynamic, implying certain relations and actions (e.g. hypotheses, inferences, reasonings, application of these to sets of "facts"). Awareness of current ideas would, it seems to me, not imply theory necessarily mean proceeding more competently. So as to the literary person, I would be willling to claim that not having a theory does not make one incompetent--publishing one's ideas without a theory just might be considered that in certain circles ... HB Best wishes Han --- Dr Han Baltussen Associate Lecturer Classics (CESGL) School of Humanities Adelaide University, AUSTRALIA 5005 e-mail (wk): han.baltussen@adelaide.edu.au e-mail (hm): hbaltus@ozemail.com.au tel. 8-8303-5288 fax 8-8303-5241 From: Willard McCarty Subject: on Culler on theory Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:07:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 248 (248) Thanks to Mark Wolff (in Humanist 17.186) for digging up some words on theory from Jonathan Culler, whose writings I admire. But Culler's definition-with-very-little-distinction is so inclusive that I wonder if its usefulness even comes close to counterbalancing the honorific distractions that the term "theory" brings with it. Accepting the definition (or should I call his words a description instead?) would mean that all interesting and worthy scholarly output could be called "theory" -- so that the word in effect denotes a value judgement. Perhaps the domain of theory includes everything worth doing in all disciplines. But then I'd think we'd need some new terminology to help sort different kinds of work within this all-inclusive domain, e.g. something on the nature of tragedy as a genre from something else using that understanding of the genre to explicate Lear, say. I'd think that the former would be thought of as more theoretical than the latter, however interdisciplinary, analytical, speculative, questioning of received knowledge and reflexive the latter might be. What's the problem for humanities computing? Precisely, I'd think, that a methodologically centred, computationally disciplined practice works toward a theoretical understanding of that which it works on. Method is exportable, generalizable. It, in itself, tends e.g. to be about tragedy rather than a tragedy, iambic pentameter verse rather than a particular poem in that metre. Even given the fact that a definition of "theory" suitable within the physical sciences would not benefit us except by contrast, even if the idea of generalizations about (or better, universalizations of) our phenomena are at best unreachable but positively motivating goals, I'd think we need an idea of the theoretical with more definition than Culler supplies. 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 Subject: representing Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 06:48:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 249 (249) Philip Davis, in "Keeping faith with real reality", TLS 4806 (12 May 1995), pp. 13-14, quotes John Henry Newman on the attempt at verbal representation: "No analysis is subtle and delicate enough to represent adequately the state of mind under which we believe, or the subjects of belief, as they are presented to our thoughts. The end proposed is that of delineating, or, as it were, painting what the mind sees and feels: now let us consider what it is to portray duly in form and colour things material, and we shall surely understand the difficulty, or rather the impossibility of representing the outline and character, the hues and shades, in which any intellectual view really exists in the mind, or of giving it that substance and that exactness in detail in which consists its likeness to the original, or of sufficiently marking those minute differences which attach to the same general state of mind or tone of thought as found in this or that individual respectively .... Is it not hopeless, then, to expect that the most diligent and anxious investigation can end in more than in giving some very rude description of the living mind, and its feelings, thoughts, and reasonings? (University Sermons, Sermon xiii: "Implicit and Explicit Reason") Davis then comments, "Now if this is not certainty, then it is not mere scepticism either. For although Newman describes the task of representing reality inside and out as finally 'hopeless', it is only finally and not absolutely 'hopeless'. To be very precise, it is hopeless to expect more than a very rude description. But it isn't entirely a hopeless thing to end up giving a very rude description. Nor is it hopeless to hope for something a little more than that...." Discussing Ruskin's view in Modern Painters: "The gap between representation and what it stands for itself constitutes part of the communicative power of art; the gap holds within it a silent and implicit call, which the work incorporates within its very means and limitations, a call for a bridging imaginative vision between the work and the life it recalls. Artistic realism for Ruskin does not finish life off; it is an art that precisely sites itself between art and life." So, our task is not entirely hopeless, nor should we give up on hoping for something better. And in the gap between the not-entirely-hopeless and the better-to-be-wished-for is a call we need to be hearing? 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: zuern@hawaii.edu Subject: cfp: Computers and Writing Conference Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:04:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 250 (250) Call for Proposals Computers and Writing Conference June 10-13, 2004 Honolulu, Hawai'i Submission deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 via the electronic submission form on the conference web site <http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/>. Email address: cw2004@hawaii.edu The Twentieth Computers and Writing Conference will meet in Honolulu, Hawai'i from Thursday, June 10 to Sunday, June 13, 2004, hosted by the Department of Language Arts at University of Hawai'i Kapi'olani Community College and the Department of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The conference theme, Writing in Globalization: Currents, Waves, Tides, points to the immense but sometimes unrecognized impact of globalization on the cultural, social, linguistic, and institutional contexts in which we work. Many people in the computers and writing community are incorporating perspectives on globalization into our research and teaching, trying to understand how global systems intersect with our local engagements with information technology, writing instruction, rhetoric, literary studies, distance learning initiatives, and our personal writing practices. We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and poster presentations. See the conference web site for details on formats. Presentation topics might include, but are not limited to: * Local Knowledges, Global Systems * Distance Learning in the Global Marketplace * Computers, Writing, and the Future of Work * Languages, Technologies, and Bodies * Teaching Writing and Literature in Postcolonial/Neocolonial/Imperial Contexts * English and Other Languages * Alternative Rhetorics in Emerging Networks * Diversifying Hypertext/Multimedia Theory and Practice * Writing and Visual/Spatial Design * Activist Writing in the Classroom and the World * Computers and Writing Across Disciplines * Computers and Writing Across Levels of Education * Assessment in Computers and Writing * Community Action and Community Computing * Professional Issues in Computers and Writing All proposals must be received by Wednesday, October 15, 2003. Submissions will be accepted beginning September 8, 2003, and must be sent through the conference web site at <http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004>. Program participants will be selected through an anonymous peer review process. Discussion List The local organizers will host a discussion list to keep prospective attendees up to date on conference developments. Go to <http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/discussion.html> for details on how to subscribe. Conference Program The conference will include panels, poster sessions, roundtable discussions, and town hall meetings. As in the past, the conference will partner with the Graduate Research Network, the mentoring program, and the Computers and Writing 2004 Online Conference. Attendees will also have the opportunity to visit Hawai'i-based projects and schools that are integrating writing, computing, and community service in innovative ways. Keynote Speakers * Nancy Kaplan, Director of the School of Information Arts and Technologies and Professor in the School of Communications Design, University of Baltimore * Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair, Social Sciences and Comparative Education, UCLA * Stuart Moulthrop, Professor in the School of Information Arts and Technologies and the School of Communications Design, University of Baltimore Contact Conference Hosts: Judi Kirkpatrick Department of Language Arts Kapi'olani Community College kirkpatr@hawaii.edu Darin Payne Department of English University of Hawai'i at Manoa darinp@hawaii.edu John Zuern Department of English University of Hawai'i at Manoa zuern@hawaii.edu Phone: 808.734.9331 ___________________________________________________ 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 http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zuern From: mailing@ichim.org Subject: paris -- ichim 03 -- september Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:05:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 251 (251) Le Louvre, Aug. 8th, 2003 As we approach the end of Summer, you still have time to take the most exciting and educational trip of the season... Come to ICHIM 03, the international conference for Cultural Institutions and Digital Technology, which will take place September 8-12, 2003, at Le Louvre in Paris, France! You can afford it: Air France is offering discounts on already low airfares to all ICHIM registrants. Housing for the entire week is available at the lovely Cité internationale, located just a few bus/metro stops away from Le Louvre, starting at 170 euros per person, all inclusive. Check out the ICHIM 03 website . You will find details about the conference schedule and our preliminary workshops, featuring "The Wireless Museum", a free workshop offered by Antenna Audio. Paris and ICHIM 03 await you this September! ____________________________________________ les Institutions Culturelles et le Numérique Cultural institutions and Digital Technology I C H I M 0 3 L O U V R E <http://www.ichim.org> Paris, Ecole du Louvre, 8 - 12 Sept 03 ____________________________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:39:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 252 (252) (1) Communities and Technologies edited by Marleen Huysman Dept. of Information Systems, Marketing and Logistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Etienne Wenger Volker Wulf University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital Cities, regional communities and the internet, knowledge sharing and communities, civil communities, communities and education and social capital. As a result of a very quality-oriented review process, the work reflects the best of current research and practice in the field of C&T. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * How Practice Matters: A Relational View of Knowledge Sharing; C. Østerlund, P. Carlile. * Structural Analysis of Communities of Practice: An Investigation of Job Title, Location and Management Intention; J.T. Allatta. * Episteme or practice? Differentiated Communitarian Structures in a Biology Laboratory; F. Créplet, O. Dupouët, E. Vaast. * We Can See You: A Study of Communities' Invisible People through ReachOut; V. Soroka, M. Jacovi, S. Ur. * Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations; J.R. Tyler, D.M. Wilkinson, B.A. Huberman. * Multimedia Fliers: Information Sharing With Digital Community Bulletin Boards; E.F. Churchill, L. Nelson, L. Denoue. * Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Communities; B. van den Hooff, W. Elving, J.M. Meeuwsen, C. Dumoulin. * Uses of information sources in an Internet-era firm: Online and offline; A. Quan-Haase, J. Cothrel. * Communities and other Social Structures for Knowledge Sharing - A Case Study in an Internet Consultancy Company; I. Ruuska, M. Vartiainen. * Intranets and Local Community: 'Yes, an intranet is all very well, but do we still get free beer and a barbeque?' M. Arnold, M.R. Gibbs, P. Wright. * Learning and Collaboration across Generations in a Community; M.B. Rosson, J.M. Carroll. * The African Dream - a Pan-African E-community Project; D. Biggs, C. Purnell. * The Role of Social Capital in Regional Technological Innovation: Seeing both the wood and the trees; L. Tamaschke. * Weak Ties in Networked Communities; A. Kavanaugh, D.D. Reese, J.M. Carroll, M.B. Rosson. * A Bayesian Computational Model of Social Capital in Virtual Communities; B. Kei Daniel, J.-D. Zapata-Rivera, G. McCalla. * I-DIAG: From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation; M.S. Ackerman, A. Swenson, S. Cotterill, K. DeMaagd. * The Role of Knowledge Artifacts in Innovation Management: The Case of a Chemical Compound Designer CoP; S. Bandini, E. Colombo, G. Colombo, F. Sartori, C. Simone. * Supporting an Experiment of a Community Support System: Community Analysis and Maintenance Functions in the Public Opinion Channel; T. Fukuhara, M. Chikama, T. Nishida. * Patients' Online Communities Experiences of Emergent Swedish Self-help on the Internet; U. Josefsson. * When Users Push Back: Oppositional New Media and Community; L.A. Lievrouw. * Babel in the international café: A respectful critique; B. Trayner. * Synchronizing Asynchronous Collaborative Learners; J. Lundin. * Community Support in Universities - The Drehscheibe Project; M. Koch. * Adding Connectivity and Loosing Context with ICT: Contrasting learning situations from a community of practice perspective; P. Arnold, J.D. Smith. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1611-5 Date: September 2003 Pages: 496 pp. EURO 131.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 90.00 (2) Information and Communication Technology and the Teacher of the Future edited by Carolyn Dowling Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia Kwok-Wing Lai University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand IFIP INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 260 This collection of papers presents a very comprehensive overview of the concerns and developments in the use of Information and Communication Technologies that are currently of relevance to educators and educational policy makers across the globe. While the papers in one sense incorporate wide-ranging perspectives deriving from varying national contexts, their grouping within topic areas reveals more commonalities of concern than differences. The first topic area, The Teacher of the Future as a Professional, focuses on the changing requirements for both the initial preparation and the continuing professional education of teachers. The second area, Classroom Roles of the Teacher of the Future is concerned more specifically with the way in which developments in Information and Communication Technologies are changing the way in which teachers interact with students. Finally, the section Teaching and Learning Environments of the Future examines a range of pedagogical scenarios in differing stages of development and implementation, each of which provides a special insight into how the "classroom of the future" might function. This book is one of the outcomes of the Working Conference on "ICT and the Teacher of the Future", which took place in Melbourne, Australia in January 2003 under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 3, Working Group 3.1 (Secondary Education) and Working Group 3.3 (Research). In addition to the text of the papers delivered by the three keynote speakers, the book comprises a selection of papers that have been rigorously reviewed and subsequently undergone an additional process of collaborative editing. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Melbourne 2003 Committees. Melbourne 2003 Sponsors. Preface; C.Dowling, Kwok-Wing Lai. * Section 1: Setting the Scene - The Keynote Addresses. The Teaching Profession: A Networked Profession in New Networked Environments; B. Cornu. Designing Learning Experiences: Supporting Teachers in the Process of Technology Change; B. Harper. The Teacher - A Forgotten Stakeholder? D. Watson. * Section 2: The Teacher of the Future as a Professional. ICT, National Policies, and their Impact on Schools and Teachers' Development; R.M. Bottino. Using an Educational Consensus to Reach Educational Technology Tipping Point; R. Carlsen. Path to the Future: Generative Evaluation for Simultaneous Renewal of ICT in Teacher Education and K-12 Schools; N. Davis, M. Kemis, N. Johnson. ICT and Future Teachers: Are We Preparing for E-learning? A. Jones. Developing a European Pioneer Teacher Community for School Innovation; V. Midoro, S. Bocconi, A. Martin, F. Pozzi, L. Sarti. A New Qualification and Certification for Specialist ICT Teachers; S. Schubert. In Service Teacher Development Using ICT: First Step in Lifelong Learning; J.A. Valente. Raising the Standards: ICT and the Teacher of the Future; I. Webb, T. Downes. Professional Development Needs of Teachers Managing Self-Guided Learning; W. Weber. * Reports of Focus Group Discussions: Group A- The Teacher as a Professional: Fostering Professionalism; Chair: R. Morel. Rapporteur: P. Nicholson. Group B- The Professional Teacher: Contexts, Capabilities and Competencies; Chair: S. Schubert, Rapporteur: T. Downes. * Section 3: Classroom Roles of the Teacher of the Future. Developing ICT Leadership Skills for Teachers of the Future; D. Chambers. The Effects of Attitudes, Pedagogical Practices and Teachers' Roles on the Incorporation of ICT into the School Curriculum; M. Cox. From Facilitator to Knowledge-Builder: A New Role for the Teacher of the Future; E. Hartnell-Young. Teacher Empowerment and Minimalist Design; Wing-Wah Ki, A. Ling-Sung Chung, Ho-Cheong Lam. Innovative Classroom Practices and the Teacher of the Future; N. Law. From Teacher Education to Professional Development for E-learning in an E-society; R. Morel, J.-C. Domenjoz, C. Lachat, C. Rossi. Technology Matters But Good Teachers Matter More; G. Romeo. * Reports of Focus Group Discussions: Group C- The Role of the Teacher; Chair: M. Cox. Rapporteur: S. Kennewell. Group D- The Role of Teachers: Lifelong Learners in a Community of Practice; Chair: W. Weber. Rapporteur: T. Haaksma. * Section 4: Teaching and Learning Environments of the Future. Mathematical Teaching and Learning Environment Mediated by ICT; G. Chiappini, B. Pedemonte, E. Robotti. Distant Actors on a Digital Campus, or Sharing and Crumbling Pedagogical Responsibility; H. Godinet. ICT and the Quality of Teaching: Some Hungarian Results of the OECD ICT Project; A. Kárpáti. Developing Research Models for ICT-Based Pedagogy; S. Kennewell. Technology Access: Resources Wasted in Computer Laboratories; K. Kiili. Teacher in the Mobile World; J. Multisilta, H. Keiho, H. Ketamo. Using Portable Computer Technologies to Support Learning Environments; P. Newhouse. E-Learning, ICT, and Learning Portals for Schools; F. Ruiz Tarragó. Slash 21: A New School and a New Way of Learning; H. van Dieten. * Reports of Focus Group Discussions: Group E- Teaching Environments: Key Influences and Considerations; Chair: M. Kendall. Rapporteur: J. Wibe. Group F- Knowledge Building Communities: Creating New Learning and Teaching Environments; Chair: J. Multisiltas. Rapporteur: B. Cornu. Index of Contributors. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7604-5 Date: September 2003 Pages: 322 pp. EURO 135.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 93.00 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: Alan D Corre Subject: Help requested Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:31:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 253 (253) Some years ago I bought an engraving entitled the Death of Correus. I was intrigued by it because it has my name in a Latin format, complete with the acute accent that I have on the e, which is strange in a Latin word. It shows a pile of bodies in a scene of carnage with human heads nailed to a post and arrows flying through the air from the opposing side. A martial figure wearing a helmet brandishes a sword. No one has been able to tell me who Correus is, or why his death was memorable. Can any classical scholar help? The engraving is marked Paris Exposition 1889, Gebbie and Husson photogravure. Thank you. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.25 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:29:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 254 (254) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 25, Week of August 13 - August 26, 2003 In this issue: INTERVIEW Redefining the Role of the Library Chuck Henry on how academic libraries can survive and have purpose in a fluid environment. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i25_henry.html VIEWS Public Policy, Research and Online Learning By Stephen Downes E-learning is more than a new way of doing the old thing. Its outcomes can't be measured by the traditional process. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i25_downes.html Towards Dependable Grid and Web Services By Geoffrey Fox, Shrideep Pallickara, Marlon Pierce and David Walker A proposed solution to the likely problems that will occur as service complexity increases. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i25_foxetal.html From: "Arianna Ciula" Subject: Re: 17.184 meaning of "theory"? Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:31:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 255 (255) [deleted quotation] It may seem trivial, but first of all the world "theory" implies the contraposition with the word practice; when we say a theory of something we imply an abstraction. Surely the words "idea" or "scheme" imply an abstraction as well, but the word theory means even a structured abstraction. Let say even the word "scheme" implies a structure ( a hierarchy for instance), but the word theory implies in addition an "historical" structure. It hides a sort of past, an external and an internal history. Yet, in the traditional sense a theory is usually linked to an historical evolution. If we consider the example of a literary critic (but it is valid for every discipline), the adhesion to a theory is realised using some terms, values, methodologies belonging to a specific way of making literary critic, so as to produce some hypothesis and interpretations in coherence with the favourite theory. In this sense a theory is a more or less defined system built up by other critics and by their works, a system with an external history (an authority in the extreme sense). However, a scientific work needs a theory not just as a background of knowledge and methodologies, of perspectives and concepts, but even as a new construction, a foundation for the current results. I guess that in the wide discipline of humanities computing a theory might be considered in relationship with a project. In the process of a project the theory has its own history of meanings, an internal history then. So saying X is a theory of something we gain a context: the historical context in which our theory could be a development (without any judgement of value) of one or more older theories or, in the best case, a revolution, that is to say a new theory. Arianna Ciula Dottorato in Scienze del Libro Università degli Studi di Siena From: Willard McCarty Subject: trying to talk while being spammed Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:42:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 256 (256) Dear colleagues: In recent days, perhaps for the last week or so, I have been receiving spam at the average rate of about 10 messages/hour. An efficient filter, the CoffeeCup Spam Blocker, has kept the hordes at bay, more or less. But amidst all the junk it is quite possible that messages intended for Humanist have found themselves amidst the undesirable invitations, offers and false expressions of warm and godly friendship on their way into oblivion. (I hope some corpus linguist is preparing to study this intriguing stuff. I, however, pass.) So if you have submitted a message but have not seen it published here, please resubmit and watch for its emergence. O tempora, o mores! 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: Alan D Corre Subject: re correus, wherefore art thou correus Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:31:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 257 (257) Some years ago I bought an engraving entitled the Death of Correus. I was intrigued by it because it has my name in a Latin format, complete with the acute accent that I have on the e, which is strange in a Latin word. It shows a pile of bodies in a scene of carnage with human heads nailed to a post and arrows flying through the air from the opposing side. A martial figure wearing a helmet brandishes a sword. No one has been able to tell me who Correus is, or why his death was memorable. Can any classical scholar help? The engraving is marked Paris Exposition 1889, Gebbie and Husson photogravure. Thank you. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ From: Qsums@aol.com Subject: Re: 17.192 Correus, wherefore art thou Correus? Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:39:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 258 (258) In a message dated 21/8/03 7:16:45 am, willard@lists.village.Virginia.EDU writes: [deleted quotation] You should find the story of Correus in Caesar's Gallic Wars, Book 8. Michael Farringdon Ariel Cottage, 8 Hadland terrace, West Cross, Swansea SA3 5TT, UK From: han.baltussen@adelaide.edu.au Subject: re 17.192 correus, wherefore art thou correus Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:40:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 259 (259) correus is Latin for "One indicted jointly with another person." (con - reus) no idea who the person might be HB From: "Olga Francois" Subject: IP in Academia 2003, Online Workshops Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:41:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 260 (260) ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION 2003 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa/ The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is excited to once again host its annual asynchronous online workshop series that has proven to be of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians, instructional design and information professionals! Each workshop will last approximately two weeks, providing the participants with an in-depth understanding of core intellectual property issues facing higher education. IMPLEMENTING THE T.E.A.C.H. Act October 22 - November 5, 2003 Moderated by Kenneth Crews Virtual Intellectual Property Scholar, CIP-UMUC, Associate Dean & Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) The Copyright Act of 1976 was recently amended to accommodate digital educational transmissions. The new amendment, Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 (TEACH Act), was signed into law in November, 2002 and educational institutions are grappling with whether and how to take advantage of this new law. * BALANCING ACTS: Fair Use and Digital Content November 10 - November 21, 2003 Moderated by Georgia Harper Manager, Intellectual Property Section of The University of Texas System Office of General Counsel This workshop will introduce you to the counterpart of copyright: the lawful right to use copyright protected works owned by others without their permission. The confusion faced when determining the parameters of U.S. Copyright Act fair use provisions is often compounded when facing digital content. Where does the TEACH act end and fair use begin? Or should it be stated in reverse? Gain an in-depth understanding of the fair use issues facing higher education today and learn how to address them in the company of an expert. * PREVENTING PLAGIARISM TOOLBOX February 10-February 28, 2004 Moderated by Kimberly Kelley Associate Provost and Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, University of Maryland University College Can assignments be redesigned to avoid plagiarism and foster academic integrity in online and face-to-face classrooms? What collaborative efforts between classroom faculty and librarians can assist in prevention? What resources are available to assist in managing this classroom concern? Join the participants in identifying methods for educating students about plagiarism and encouraging academic integrity in teaching and learning. These online workshops will include course readings, live chats and online discussions. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from the workshop moderators. Please visit the web site for workshop descriptions and objectives: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa/workshops.html 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- http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa For additional information call 301-985-7777 or visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ipa 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: "Ann Deville" Subject: a call for public domain stories Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:38:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 261 (261) Please accept our apologies for resending this email, but it was brought to our attention that an incorrect email address was provided within the body of the document. Public domain stories should be emailed to pk@publicknowledge.org NOT pk@publicknowledge.com. Thanks once again for your interest. *********************************************************************** Copied below are details of the collaboration between Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, and The Center for the Study of the Public Domain on a public-education campaign that will document creators' positive or negative experiences with current copyright,trademark and/or patent laws. We're interested in hearing from artists, filmmakers, musicians, computer programmers and anyone who has been hampered by restrictive intellectual property laws or assisted by the public domain. The stories will play an important role in demonstrating the need for policy change. We'd love it if you'd help us distribute the call--please forward it to anyone who may be interested, post it on appropriate mailing lists, use it in newsletters, insert it into bottles and cast them to sea or anyway you'd like. Information on how to participate is included. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you. ************************************************************************ STRUGGLES WITH IP LAW A Call for Stories in Support of a Robust Public Domain We know you've got a great story, and we want you to tell it. Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, and The Center for the Study of the Public Domain are collaborating on a public-education campaign that will highlight the struggles of creators with intellectual property law. We are collecting stories of citizens who are hampered by restrictive intellectual property laws. If you have a personal story of copyright, trademark or patent laws needlessly hindering your work and ideas, we want to hear from you. Conversely, if your work has benefited from the availability of art and information in the public domain, we want to know about it. We'd like to hear stories from artists, authors, musicians, filmmakers, computer programmers, entrepreneurs, librarians - or anyone with a personal story involving intellectual property law. Your stories are important because American copyright, trademark and patent law, grounded in Article I of the Constitution, are designed to promote individual creativity and innovation: we need to make sure they're functioning in this way. Unfortunately, the recent expansion of intellectual property laws has had the opposite effect. New laws are discouraging creativity and innovation rather than encouraging it, and stifling other important values such as freedom of speech. Longer copyright terms, the end of copyright registration requirements, stronger trademark laws and the expansion of patent eligibility are some of the changes that have spurred this trend. When intellectual property laws curtail creativity, we need to be creative in a different way by pushing for changes in the laws, ensuring that they are interpreted more narrowly, and working to change a culture in which large copyright and patent owners seek to extract large fees for even the most incidental use of their work. None of these changes will take place unless we can demonstrate that there is a need for change. Policymakers can be educated about these issues, but in order to make the case, we need your contribution. Maybe you are a filmmaker who has been told to pay a large licensing fee for a four second snippet of a copyrighted work. Or the director of a community orchestra who cannot afford to play any new music. Or maybe you're a writer who has taken the works of Margaret Mitchell, Dickens or Shakespeare and created successful derivative works. Perhaps you are an artist who has used commercial images like the Campbell's Soup can. We need your stories to embody the problems and successes of copyright, trademarks and patents for the general public. Please email your story to pk@publicknowledge.org with "Public Domain Stories" in the header. We'll present your stories to legislators, press and the general public through a website, video and other media. Please provide your name and a phone number where we can reach you during the day and tell us if you would prefer to remain anonymous when we publish your story. Your story can help others to understand how access to ideas and creativity is being locked up by needlessly restrictive new laws. Questions? Comments or suggestions? Give us a call at (202) 518-0020 or email us pk@publicknowledge.org. ******************************************************************************** Public Knowledge is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to ensure that copyright, patent, trademark and technology laws and policies promote the interests of the public. This Washington, D.C.-based group works with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, including libraries, educators, scientists, artists, musicians, journalists, consumers, programmers, civic groups and enlightened businesses, to promote certain fundamental democratic principles and cultural values - openness, access, and the capacity to create and compete - and to ensure these principles are reaffirmed in the digital age. For more information, see <http://www.publicknowledge.org>http://www.publicknowledge.org. Creative Commons, a non-profit corporation, promotes the creative re-use of intellectual works whether owned or public domain. It is sustained by the generous support of The Center for the Public Domain and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Creative Commons is based at Stanford Law School, where it shares staff, space, and inspiration with the school's Center for Internet and Society. For more information, see www.creativecommons.org. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/NINCH-ANNOUNCE/>. From: alessandro.lenci@ilc.cnr.it Subject: Antonio Zampolli 1937-2003 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:10:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 262 (262) It is with great sorrow that I report that Prof. Antonio Zampolli died in Pisa on August 22nd, in a terrible accident caused by a fire in his house. Zampolli was one of the true pioneers of the discipline of Computational Linguistics. For his activities in this field, he received world wide acknowledgement and many professional honours. His famous Pisa Summer Schools influenced the development of this new field in between linguistics and computer science. In his efforts to create a broad organizational infrastructure and empirical base for language research and technology he masterminded the founding of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and one of the successful international conference series is this area (LREC). Antonio Zampolli was full Professor of Mathematical Linguistics at the University of Pisa since 1977, and actually he has been the first professor of this discipline in Italy. In 1968 he founded the Linguistic Division of CNUCE in Pisa and became its director. In 1978 this unit was transformed into the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council (CNR). Zampolli headed this research center for 35 years and turned it into one of the leading European sites of natural language processing and a center of excellence for the Italian research in computational linguistics. Recently, Zampolli was one of the most active promoters of the new degree in "Informatica Umanistica" (Computer and Humanities) at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Pisa, where he held the course on Computational Linguistics. Professor Zampolli was Chair of the ELRA Board and of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC); Director of the Pisa International Summer School for Literary and Linguistic Computing. He was a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, member of the Steering Committee of TEI and of the ELSNET Management Board. He was former vice-president of the Association of Computing in the Humanities and past president of EURALEX. The wide range of research areas to which he contributed demonstrate the breadth of his intellectual interests. With more than 250 publications, he worked in literary and linguistic text analysis, mathematical methods in humanities, digital language resources, multimodality, standards for literary and linguistic data processing and computational lexicology/lexicography. He also played an important role in the design of modalities and strategies for international co-operation. With Antonio Zampolli's death the international scientific community also loses one of its most distinctive and vivid personalities. Antonio Zampolli will be remembered. We will all miss him a lot. Alessandro Lenci 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 [mailto:ss@huco.ualberta.ca] Subject: Canadian symposium on text analysis research (CASTA) 2003 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:31:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 263 (263) Sent: August 26, 2003 3:26 PM To: coch-cosh-l; Humanist Discussion Group; Tapor List Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research (CaSTA) University of Victoria, November 14, 2003 "Analyzing the BLOB (Binary Large OBject): Working with multimedia and textual analysis tools." The second annual CaSTA Symposium is sponsored by the TAPoR Consortium (http://www.tapor.ca/) and hosted by the University of Victoria's Humanities Computing & Media Centre (http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/). Proposals from any colleague interested in text-analysis are welcome. They should be no longer than 300 words, for either 20-minute Papers (+10 for questions/comments) or Posters - please specify - and will be reviewed by a four-person committee. Abstracts should be submitted to: casta@uvic.ca by Friday, September 26th 2003. Decisions will be announced one week later, or earlier if possible. Please forward to any colleagues who may be interested. We look forward to welcoming you to Victoria. Michael Best and Peter Liddell From: Spencer Tasker Subject: Re: 17.192 Correus, wherefore art thou Correus? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:29:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 264 (264) Alan, The answer to your question can be found in Caesar's "De bello gallico" (Gallic Wars): Book 8 Correus was a chieftain of the Bellovaci (c.51/50 BC)("who exceed all the Gauls and Belgae in military prowess") who co-led a force against the Suessiones, which were supporters of Rome. Caesar lent his aid to his allies, to cut a long story short Correus' attempt to ambush Roman foragers landed him in a well-laid trap. Needless to say his forces were worsted and "put to the rout, and having lost the greater part of their men, they fled in consternation whithersoever chance carried them; some sought the woods, others the river, but were vigorously pursued by our men and put to the sword. Yet, in the mean time, Correus, unconquered by calamity, could not be prevailed on to quit the field and take refuge in the woods, or accept our offers of quarter, but, fighting courageously and wounding several, provoked our men, elated with victory, to discharge their weapons against him."(8:19) ( http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.8.8.html ) I can only surmise that a combination of the use of the Gallic Wars in Grammar Schools around this time must have played no small part in prompting depiction of the scene - overcoming the "who, what, where" that the name of Correus provoked today. Additionally, I am tempted to speculate on the nationalistic subtext which the depiction of this Gallic hero may have carried at the Paris Exposition of 1889. FYI, Google turned up the following magic lantern slide depicting the same scene: http://www.geh.org/ar/strip50/htmlsrc/m198607110006_ful.html#topofimage Regards, - Spencer From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca Subject: re 17.179 nesting and the symposium Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:33:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 265 (265) Willard The recent discussion of the Symposium and the levels of narrative nesting has if I recollect correctly turned around the question of truth value and irony. There is an interesting set of sexual politics involved in a hermenutical move that would place a [fictional?] female figure at the kernel point of a series of nested narratives focalized through masculine perspectives. One could be tempted in an move imitative of a 1980s feminist discourse to query the penetrative focus of "nesting" and wonder about the possibilities of imaging such texts as accretions. Or agglutinative alternatives. In picking up the fine distinction introduced by Wendell Piez, one could think in proleptic terms and imagine such texts are open at both ends: a future author could have Diotima tell a story and another or the same author could take up the story of Plato writing The Symposium. Markup may be about thinking about hooks: the places where the products of interpretation may be attached to a textual representation. At least that is where I think reflection is tending to go (witness the recent [text, group] | [body, div] thread on the TEI discussion list). I am also aware of some other venues where the discussion has been taken up. For example, Vika Zafrin in a July Wordsend entry has recorded an interesting set of notes on Marie-Laure Ryan's May plenary talk at the ACH/ALLC meeting (See http://www.wordsend.org.log/archives/2003_07.html ). Particularly suggestive is the vocabulary of deep versus sprawling markup which with a tilt of the head look like different takes on granularity. This question regarding the place of sprawl and depth derives its particular suggestiveness when it is coupled with the report of Ryan's key term: stack. To understand narrative in terms of stacks of course betokens a computer term. A quick trip to the Maclopedia refreshes my memory and indeed like narratives stacks are dynamic data spaces. The stack metaphor and the computing model helps refigure the geometry of the loop (infinite nesting) in terms of variation on Turings Halting Problem. The halting problem is an example of the application of recursive function theory to problems of computability. In its classic form the problem is unsolvable. It is impossible to determine with a finite procedure if for an aribitray input a machine will halt. The problem may help encoders redescribe certain inputs. For example the infinitely nesting loop.... a woman is telling a story of a woman telling a story... may not be a "loop" but a long long long long strand with insufficiant differentiation to provide a shift in depth and trigger a halt (pause). A variation on the halting problem can then be expressed: will the machine come to a stop if fed another input? Vika Zafrin's juxtaposition of sprawl and depth is just the ticket. To produce depth, initiate sprawl. a {insert: adjective} woman is telling {insert: adverb} a story of a woman telling a story... {tempo: slow} a woman {insert: coma} is telling {tempo: more rapid} a story of a woman telling a story... Encoding, however descriptive it may be, is indeed a prescripting activity. It is also a comparative exercise. It relies on two inputs: first reading and subsequent reading. And as both Wendell and Vika in their contributions to the nesting thread attest processing, and in particular rendition, are not far from the encoders mindset. It is a variation on the old old task of parsing in to order to appropriately reading aloud. See M.B. Parkes _Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West_ (1993). Markup in a sense invites the machine/human to treat an instance as a representation of a model. A stream is marked. A before and after emerge. Another mark is made. A between emerges. Now a hierarchy can be established: before, between, after (or some other ordering of the triplet). There is also a fourth space -- the not between -- which may or may not be discontinuous depending upon the relation between before and after. Nesting, it appears would depend upon a relation of continuity of the before and after space. Metalepsis does not necessarily require such continuity. Genette's use of the term "metalepsis" signals a phenomenon that Gerald Prince characterizes as an intrusion: the intrusion of a being from one diegesis into another diegesis. I've played with the directionality of Prince's description. His syntagm moves from the "intrusion into one diegesis" to the provenance "from another diegesis". Let me quote him: "metalepsis. the intrusion into one DIEGESIS (diegese) of a being from another diegesis; the mingling of two distinct DIEGETIC LEVELS." Instead of metalepsis being an exception that needs to be explained by a tale of a collapse of levels or the transgressive passage of a being from one space to another, could not the problem be rephrased as the emergence of local ontologies? How does difference arise out of the pre-mingled? Enter the heap. Maclopedia: "If your application makes unusual demands on the stack, the stack can grow down in memory to collide with the heap. This can cause disaster as the stack frames stomp all over your application's heap." Return to the Symposium. Just how does Aristophanes's story of the origin of three sexes affect the interpretation of Socrates's story? Or Aristophanes's hiccough? Or even the intervention of Phaedrus asking Agathon not to answer the questions of Socrates (their talk threatens to derail the turn-taking speaches)? And what of the moment where Aristophanes is silenced by the arrival of Alcibiades? Is the waking of Aristodemus necessary to inscribe a witness to Socrates outlasting Aristophanes and Agathon in the drinking bout as he gets them to agree to that the genius of tragedy and comedy is the same? A hiccough, a band of revellers, a spoiled order, great quantities of wine, a collapse of distinctions, a bath. Plato is silent on the reaction of the interlocutor who asked Apollodorus to recount Socrates's speech at the banquet. But there is a magnificent LIFO (last in first out) form to the entrances and exits of characters in the dialogue -- exactly how a stack operates. But Diotima is a creature of the heap. She is a sort of memory manager relocating the beautiful blocks each in their own way. From the heap, Diotima can look past the stack to the globals and draw upon the generative power of the loop that endless strand of tape to halt and continue at will. Diotima's beauty is sublime. Infinity crashes the machine and calls upon the human to add the granularity to make the eternal manageable. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: oup@oup.co.uk Subject: toc for Literary and Linguistic Computing 18-2 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:32:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 266 (266) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: June 2003; Vol. 18, No. 2 URL: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article The Open Language Archives Community: An Infrastructure for Distributed Archiving of Language Resources Gary Simons and Steven Bird, pp. 117-128 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180117.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article Charles Brockden Brown: Quantitative Analysis and Literary Interpretation Larry L. Stewart, pp. 129-138 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180129.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article New Philology and New Phylogeny: Aspects of a Critical Electronic Edition of Wolfram's Parzival Michael Stolz, pp. 139-150 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180139.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article Witnessing Dickinson's Witnesses Lara Vetter and Jarom McDonald, pp. 151-165 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180151.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article Special Section: Reconceiving Text Analysis: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism Stephen Ramsay, pp. 167-174 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180167.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article Computer-Assisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis Stéfan Sinclair, pp. 175-184 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180175.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article Finding a Middle Ground between 'Determinism` and 'Aesthetic Indeterminacy`: a Model for Text Analysis Tools John Bradley, pp. 185-207 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180185.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article What is Text Analysis, Really? Geoffrey Rockwell, pp. 209-219 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180209.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Article Afterword Thomas N. Corns, pp. 221-223 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_02/180221.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erratum pp. 225-233 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:38:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 267 (267) (1) Content-Based Video Retrieval A Database Perspective by Milan Petkovi? Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Willem Jonker University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS -- 25 Recent advances in computing, communication, and data storage have led to an increasing number of large digital libraries publicly available on the Internet. In addition to alphanumeric data, other modalities, including video play an important role in these libraries. Ordinary techniques will not retrieve required information from the enormous mass of data stored in digital video libraries. Instead of words, a video retrieval system deals with collections of video records. Therefore, the system is confronted with the problem of video understanding. The system gathers key information from a video in order to allow users to query semantics instead of raw video data or video features. Users expect tools that automatically understand and manipulate the video content in the same structured way as a traditional database manages numeric and textual data. Consequently, content-based search and retrieval of video data becomes a challenging and important problem. This book focuses particularly on content-based video retrieval. After addressing basic concepts and techniques in the field, Content-BasedVideo Retrieval: A Database Perspective concentrates on the semantic gap problem, i.e., the problem of inferring semantics from raw video data, as the main problem of content-based video retrieval. This book identifies and proposes the integrated use of three different techniques to bridge the semantic gap, namely, spatio-temporal formalization methods, hidden Markov models, and dynamic Bayesian networks. As the problem is approached from a database perspective, the emphasis evolves from a database management system into a video database management system. This system allows a user to retrieve the desired video sequence among voluminous amounts of video data in an efficient and semantically meaningful way. This book also presents a modeling framework and a prototype of a content-based video management system that integrates the three methods and provides efficient, flexible, and scalable content-based video retrieval. The proposed approach is validated in the domain of sport videos for which some experimental results are presented. Content-Based Video Retrieval: A Database Perspective is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and electrical engineering. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7617-7 Date: August 2003 Pages: 168 pp. EURO 90.00 / USD 100.00 / GBP 62.00 (2) Trends in Logic 50 Years Studia Logica edited by Vincent F. Hendricks Dept. of Philosophy and Science Studies, University of Roskilde, Denmark Jacek Malinowski Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland TRENDS IN LOGIC -- 21 In 1953, exactly 50 years ago to this day, the first volume of StudiaLogica appeared under the auspices of The Philosophical Committee of The Polish Academy of Sciences. Now, 5 decades later the present volume is dedicated to a celebration of this 50th Anniversary of Studia Logica. The volume features a series of papers by distinguished scholars reflecting both the aim and scope of this journal for symbolic logic. The Anniversary volume offers contributions from J. van Benthem, W. Buszkowski, M.L. Dalla Chiara, M. Fitting, J.M. Font, R. Giuntini, R. Goldblatt, V. Marra, D. Mundici, R. Leporini, S.P. Odintsov, H. Ono, G. Priest, H. Wansing, V.R. Wojcicki and J. Zygmunt. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Preface. 50 Years of Studia Logica: Editorial Introduction; V.F.Hendricks, J. Malinowski. Polish Logic in Post-war Period; V.R.WF3jcicki, J. Zygmunt. Fifty Years: Changes and Constants in Logic; J. van Benthem. Generalized Matrices in Abstract Algebraic Logic; J.M. Font. Intensional Logic Beyond First Order; M. Fitting. Questions of Canonicity; R. Goldblatt. Lukasiewicz Logic and Chang's MV Algebras in Action; V. Marra, D. Mundici. Substructural Logics and Residuated Lattices: an Introduction; H. Ono. Quantum Computational Logics: A Survey; M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, R. Leporini. Inconsistent Arithmetics: Issues Technical and Philosophical; G.Priest. Inconsistency-tolerant Description Logic: Motivation and Basic Systems; S.P. Odintsov, H. Wansing. Type Logics in Grammar; W.Buszkowski. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1601-8 Date: September 2003 Pages: 392 pp. EURO 135.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00 (3) Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems edited by James Nation Dept. of Mathematics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA Irina Trofimova Collective Intelligence Lab, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada John D. Rand Dept. of Mathematics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA William Sulis Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada NATO SCIENCE SERIES: II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry -- 121 A cutting-edge survey of formal methods directed specifically at dealing with the deep mathematical problems engendered by the study of developing systems, in particular dealing with developing phase spaces, changing components, structures and functionalities, and the problem of emergence. Several papers deal with the modelling of particular experimental situations in population biology, economics and plant and muscle developments in addition to purely theoretical approaches. Novel approaches include differential inclusions and viability theory, growth tensors, archetypal dynamics, ensembles with variable structures, and complex system models. The papers represent the work of theoreticians and experimental biologists, psychologists and economists. The areas covered embrace complex systems, the development of artificial life, mathematics, computer science, biology and psychology. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1567-4 Date: September 2003 Pages: 320 pp. EURO 135.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00 Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1568-2 Date: September 2003 Pages: 320 pp. EURO 62.00 / USD 68.00 / GBP 43.00 (4) Non-Projecting Words A Case Study of Swedish Particles by Ida Toivonen Dept. of Linguistics, University ofCanterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY -- 58 Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: ACase Study on Swedish Particles develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases. Particles have long constituted a puzzle for Germanic syntax, as they exhibit properties of both morphological and syntactic constructs. Although non-projecting words have appeared in the literature before, it has gone largely unnoticed that such structures violate the basic tenets of X-bar theory. This work identifies these violations and develops a formally explicit revision of X-bar theory that can accommodate the requisite "weak" projections. The resulting theory, stated in terms of Lexical-Functional Grammar, also yields a novel classification of clitics, and it sheds new light on a range of recent theoretical proposals, including economy, multi-word constructions, and the primitives of lexical semantics. At an abstract level, we see that the modular, parallel-projection architecture of LFG is essential to the description of a variety of otherwise recalcitrant facts about non-projecting words. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1531-3 Date: September 2003 Pages: 256 pp. EURO 97.00 / USD 107.00 / GBP 67.00 (5) Molecular and Structural Archaeology: Cosmetic and Therapeutic Chemicals edited by Georges Tsoucaris Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des MusE9es de France - C.N.R.S., Paris, France Janusz Lipkowski Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland NATO SCIENCE SERIES: II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry -- 117 The book delineates the contours of molecular and structural archaeology as an emergent interdisciplinary field based on structural analysis at the molecular level and examines novel methodologies to reconstruct the synthesis and long-term transformation of materials used in antiquity. The focus of this volume is on cosmetic and therapeutic materials. As such, it casts an entirely new light on the knowledge possessed by the ancients, based on the complete identification of complex materials and preparations found in closed vessels in ancient tombs. It appears that as early as 2000 BCE the necessary technology was available to conduct wet chemical synthesis of new compounds not known as natural products. The materials as we analyze them today, of course, have their own prior history, and disentangling the effects of extreme long-term storage forms part of the puzzle, which may possibly be resolved by means of simulation experiments. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1498-8 Date: September 2003 Pages: 296 pp. EURO 108.00 / USD 199.00 / GBP 75.00 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: Hubert Dreyfus on Expertise Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:40:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 268 (268) Dear Dr. McCarty, In-relevance to the Dr. Hubert Dreyfus's reading of Phenomenology -I would like to share a paper with humanist scholars. Recently, Dr. Evan Selinger (The name of his supervisor is Prof. Don Ihde), Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA and Dr. Robert Crease, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, have written a critique of Dr. Dreyfus's Phenomenology of Skill Acquisition, as "Dreyfus on expertise: The limits of phenomenological analysis." Their article is published in the Continental Philosophy Review journal with issue 35 (3): 245-279, July 2002. [In the] abstract, [authors say] Dreyfus's model of expert skill acquisition is philosophically important because it shifts the focus on expertise away from its social and technical externalization in STS, and its relegation to the historical and psychological context of discovery in the classical philosophy of science, to universal structures of embodied cognition and affect. In doing so he explains why experts are not best described as ideologues and why their authority is not exclusively based on social networking. Moreover, by phenomenologically analyzing expertise from a first person perspective, he reveals the limitations of, and sometimes superficial treatment that comes from, investigating expertise from a third person perspective. Thus, he [Hubert Dreyfus] shows that expertise is a prime example of a subject that is essential to science but can only be fully elaborated with the aid of phenomenological tools. However, both Dreyfus's descriptive model and his normative claims are flawed due to the lack of hermeneutical sensitivity. [Authors claim] He [Hubert Dreyfus] assumes an expert's knowledge has crystallized out of contextual sensitivity plus experience, and that an expert has shed, during the training process, whatever prejudices, ideologies, hidden agendas, or other forms of cultural embeddedness, that person might have begun with. One would never imagine, from Dreyfus's account, that society could possibly be endangered by experts, only how society's expectations and actions could endanger experts. The stories of actual controversies not only shows things do not work the way Dreyfus claims, but also that it would be less salutary if they did. Such stories amount to counterexamples to Dreyfus's normative claims, and point to serious shortcomings in his arguments. If any humanist scholar would like to read the full paper on Dreyfus's critique as "Dreyfus on expertise: The limits of phenomenological analysis" -Please free to send me an e-mail. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Arun Tripathi -- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Notion of (dis)embodied Cyberspace Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:41:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 269 (269) Greetings humanist scholars, Following two worthy quotes: "Virtual Reality is a literal enactment of Cartesian ontology, cocooning a person as an isolated subject within a field of sensations and claiming that everything is there, presented to the subject." (Richard Coyne: Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor, MIT Press, 1995) "The possession of a body in space, itself part of the space to be apprehended, and that body capable of self-motion in counterplay with other bodies, is the precondition for a vision of the world." (Hans Jonas: The Phenomenon of Life, Uni. of Chicago Press, 1982) ..here are some points to question the necessity of (dis)embodiment in cyberspace.. The idea of "disembodied" is impossible in playing games (or in cyberspace) while it is essential phenomenon of embeddedness of human experience through the body in the world. One is always "in" one's body, even if one is in front of a computer screen and has the sense of soaring through a 3-dimensional virtual reality space. So, if organic body (a player or I) sitting (or playing games) there gets hungry or sleepy or dies, the "virtual" experience is going to be disturbed by state of "real" non-virtual (physical) body. In one sense is "embodied" in playing games even apart from the real organic body. If one enters a virtual reality games like the one Case enters in Neuromancer (science fiction written by William Gibson in 1984), one does have a "virtual" body that enters that space--flying, soaring, walking, turning, moving. But there is still a sense of a body, not the "real" body sitting in front of the screen, but a virtual body doing all sorts of things that maybe the meat in front of the computer can't do. So phenomenologically one has a body in playing games (or in cyberspace), though it's not the same body, phenomenologically, as the one sitting in front of the screen getting hungry or thirsty or sleepy. We don't experience "cyberspace" or "playing games" as really being "disembodied," but only as having different kinds of bodies--freer, more mobile, perhaps. But we still experience ourselves as embodied, moving in time and space, perceiving a world. Thoughts and comments are most welcome. Best Wishes, Yours Arun Tripathi -- From: jdownie@uiuc.edu Subject: Music Information Retrieval Bibliography updated Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:39:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 270 (270) Hi colleagues: Just a quick note to let you know that the Music Information Retrieval Annotated Bibliography project (aka MIRBIB) has undergone some updating and housecleaning. There are now 321 records in the collection and counting. For those new to Music IR research, we also have browsable collection of "background readings" that might prove useful to you. Special thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its support of the project. Special thanks to Karen Medina and Jordan Seymour for all their hard work. MIRBIB start page: http://music-ir.org/research_home.html Cheers, J. Stephen Downie {From the MIRBIB introductory pages} The Music Information Retrieval Bibliographies (MIRBIB) bring together items identified as being germane to Music Information Retrieval research and development. There are two collections within MIRBIB: * The "core research" bibliography * The "background readings" bibliography The first level, or "core research," bibliography brings together those papers which deal specifically with some aspect of MIR research and development. Topics include: * MIR system development * Experimentation * Use analyses * Evaluation, etc. The second level, or "background readings," bibliography contains a set of discipline-specific mini-bibliographies. Each discipline-specific mini-bibliography in the set has been created to provide access to the necessary background materials for non-expert members of the various disciplines engaged in MIR research to comprehend and evaluate the papers from each participating discipline. For example, we hope that a digital librarian can quickly find a background reading on audio signal processing that will help to make the MIR research papers that deal with signal processing techniques more understandable. This collection contains 321 documents, a total of 467 kb -- ********************************************************** "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: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Whole and natural numbers Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:16:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 271 (271) Willard, Recently in a posting to the TEI-list Lou Burnard listed some formatting systems and indicated that "some such systems numbered things starting from zero and others from one" http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308&L=tei-l&F=&S=&P=5469 I found an echo of the whole numbers/natural numbers theme. In prepping for a project, I note that Javascript begins counting with zero. Could some one explain why certain languages begin with zero and others with one? I have some vague impression that it is related to the treatment of arrays and Cartesian coordinates where the origin is represented by the pair (0,0). However my vague impression doesn't explain why certain other systems begin with 1. Would appreciate an explanation by anyone in the know. Thanks -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.26 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:16:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 272 (272) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 26, Week of August 27 - September 2, 2003 In this issue: INTERVIEW A Whole New Worldview Anthropologist Christopher Kelty on programmers, networks and information technology http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i26_kelty.html From: scaife@uky.edu Subject: Nature article: ant book deepens divide over web publishing Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:08:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 273 (273) Nature article: Ant book deepens divide over web publishing Nature 424, 985 (28 August 2003); doi:10.1038/424985a http://www.nature.com/ Ant book deepens divide over web publishing REX DALTON [SAN DIEGO] A disagreement about ants has highlighted increasing conflict between biologists and book publishers over the release of scientific monographs in print and online. Brian Fisher, an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, is pressing for permission to publish data about ant species on the Internet. Under the terms of a book deal he signed last August with Harvard University Press, he cannot put material from his forthcoming monograph online for at least four years after it is printed. The argument is just one example of the tension that is pervading several fields of systematic biology, researchers say. Many systematists want to publish their data and images on the web at the same time as they publish their monographs hefty books that can document years of research. But publishers fear that simultaneous web publishing will reduce sales of the high-cost monographs. "We are on the cusp of a renaissance in systematics," says biologist Edward Wilson of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "But we are in a transition period of one form of publishing to another." Fisher's deal with the Harvard press involves a monograph on the ants of Madagascar, where the isolated and diverse ecosystem is of special interest to systematic biologists. Fisher hopes that the book will be published next year. But Fisher also recently helped to launch AntWeb (http://www.antweb.org), a website that includes photographs of ants from Madagascar and California (see Nature 424, 242; 2003). Harvard press officials are resisting his attempts to publish much of his data online before the monograph is published, worried that it will dent the book's future sales. "I don't think the web release of material will hurt book sales; it will actually increase them," Fisher says. Other researchers cite the US National Academies Press as an example of a publisher whose free online publication of its studies boosts its print sales. =20 Correspondence shows that Harvard press disagrees, and is concerned about its ability to recover its costs in producing the monograph if AntWeb publishes much of its contents.Harvard press officials declined to comment on the dispute. "These are difficult questions," says Lynne Withey, director of the University of California Press. "People disagree about whether the web hurts or helps." Officials at the California publisher are studying 30 of their social-science and humanities books to determine the impact of online publishing on a traditional monograph. The recent publication by Harvard University Press of Wilson's book Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus also brought criticism from some quarters about the lack of immediate free web access to its contents (see Nature 424, 727; 2003). He says that the publisher is now putting the book online. Wilson thinks that the best solution is for book publishers to put monographs online 6-12 months after print publication. He says that = his latest book might be one of the last of its kind "one of the last of the great sailing ships", as he puts it, adding: "We need to work out some arrangement with publishers." 2003 Nature Publishing Group From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Correus Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:09:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 274 (274) In for a dime, in for a dollar. The various postings on the name Correus are interesting. The etymology given (con + reus `equally guilty, under joint obligation'), though it may have been that of Caesar, is wrong, since the name is doubtless of Celtic origin, Correus being an error for Corrius (fem. Corria), probably Celtic Corri, with a Latin ending. Cf. Alfred Holder, _Alt-Celtischer Sprachschatz_, vol. 1 (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1896), 1134. Since the original question concerned the name mainly, look there for other examples. Unfortunately, Holder offers no etymology. I note that Edward MacLysaght, _The Surnames of Ireland_ (Dublin: The Irish University Press, 1973), p. 59, working on (O) Corr, Corry, etc., truthfully says: "There are so many words from which this may be derived that it is impossible to make a definite statement." It could be connected with corr `crane', since the Celts were so fond of cranes, or one could push corri/ `rival king'. Everybody knows what Pseudo-Voltaire said about etymology, and the etymology of names is even more notorious. 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 Subject: on error Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:59:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 275 (275) Apparently the value of error in scientific research, the "negative knowledge" it affords, is a current topic in the philosophy of science. Indeed, getting it wrong has always seemed to me an essential part of the research that we do, especially since getting it completely right is impossible. But of course knowing that and how one is wrong is important, as is knowing how best to deal with error. See the work of Douglas Allchin on the epistemology of error; some papers are available at http://my.pclink.com/~allchin/papers/index.htm. I have also run across a reference to G. R. Evans, Getting it wrong: The Medieval epistemology of error, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 63 (Brill, 1998). A brief report on this book here in light of Allchin's papers 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 Subject: 0 and 1 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:00:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 276 (276) On the question of starting with 0 or 1, raised by Francois Lachance in Humanist 17.205, allow me to recommend Karl Menninger, Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers, trans. Paul Broneer (MIT Press, 1969) and still in print. As I recall, Meninger does a good job explaining the great intellectual achievement in the invention of zero, for example. 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: Stewart Arneil Subject: Re: 17.205 beginning with 0 or with 1? Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:00:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 277 (277) HI Francois Although I'm sure much ink has been spilled on this, it's just the difference between labelling something and counting it. All computer systems address memory by a numeric label, which might as well start at 0 (in addition there are technical reasons why it starts at 0). Some programming environments present to the user a 1-based (as opposed to a 0-based) interface, but that's strictly to accommodate the (understandable) preference of some people to start counting at 1 and then to label each item being counted with the same number. So, for example, if you have an array with no elements, the array's length will be zero (that's the count of the number of elements), and of course as there are no elements there is nothing to address. If you have an array with one element, the array's length will be 1(the count of the number of elements) and the address of that one element is typically array[0] (the label the computer uses to address that element) except in those systems that present to the programmer a 1-based interface, in which case the address of that one element is array[1]. Obviously, as a programmer you need to know which system is used by the language you're programming in. [deleted quotation] -- Stewart Arneil Head of Research and Development, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, Canada From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 17.205 beginning with 0 or with 1? Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:08:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 278 (278) Greetings, On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]One answer is that Javascript does its arrays like that because it's supposed to look like Java; and Java does that because it looks like C. Others like Pascal and Delphi start numbering with 1 because Algol did; it did that because Fortran did; and Fortran started with 1 because maths does. Others such as Lisp do `the first one' and `the rest', and avoid the issue (sneaky!). This is of course a monstrous distortion[1]. A complementary explanation is that, in languages which are `close to the machine' like C, it's natural and obvious to begin counting with the bit-pattern corresponding to the lowest number -- all bits zero, representing number zero. Fortran was intended to let people represent mathematical expressions, with arrays taking the place of indexed expressions, a_1, a_2, .... In general, humans tend to start that sort of count with 1. Mathematicians (I'm tempted to say `on the other hand') aren't so consistent, and Fortran can start numbering its arrays with any integer. [deleted quotation]Arrays representing graphical images -- the two-dimensional arrays I believe you're thinking of here -- are commonly handled in languages such as C, so the cause you're adducing here is probably in fact the effect of the language choice. So the real answer is that the way arrays are numbered (and thus where counting naturally starts in other counting contexts within a program) is indeed arbitrary, and the language designer will settle on the conventions which will most appeal to the community the language is aimed at. Best wishes, Norman [1] http://www.levenez.com/lang/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@astro.gla.ac.uk From: "Areti Damala" Subject: Interactive Media for Children Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:47:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 279 (279) INTERACTIVE MEDIA FOR CHILDREN CALL FOR PROPOSALS, PANORAMA OF INTERACTIVE SCRIPTWRITING TECHNIQUES AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS FOR CHILDREN Description Participants follow a 10 days seminar on interactive scriptwriting techniques: internationally renowned experts provide a complete panorama of the interactive scriptwriting techniques available for the development of interactive applications. Selected projects are then developed within (4) four months with the guidance of European experts and tutors. A demo of each project is presented to groups of children in fixed date presentations. The final drafts are presented to European distributors, producers, and film critics during a final presentation day (dissemination). The modules of the seminar: Module : Children’s edutainment market Module : Interactive Cinema for children Module : Creative multimedia for children Module : Real-time animation Module : Interactive narratives Module : Design with children Module : Pitching Public Scriptwriters, dialogue writers, producers, assistant producers, directors and designers with an interest in developing interactive scripts for children, independent of the media concerned (live performance, TV, games, virtual reality, multimedia). Calendar Course Start Date: 20/09/2003 Course End Date: 30/03/2004 Course Length: 10 days seminar + online follow up of 3 months, 1-2 days demonstration to the project to children, + 1-2 days for the pitching of the projects. Application Deadline: 10/09/2003 Location: Athens, Greece Participation conditions A maximum of 36 European participants, will be select on the basis of their project. We will specially stress the participation of people coming from the industry. Special attention will be given to all applicants coming from countries with a less developed audiovisual industry. Scholarships will be preferably attributed to these students. Language: English Payment Price of course: 1000 EUROs Details: Twelve scholarships will be granted. Six (6) scholarships will be granted to foreigner participants and six to Greeks. Information CAID, Center of applied Industrial design, 22A Telessilis str., Athens 11635 - Greece tel.: +30 1 7251893 fax: +301 7290013, E-mail: caid@otenet.gr Web site: www.caid.gr "The content of this project does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Community, nor does it involve any responsibility on part of the European Community" -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Areti Damala, Ìsc. Student Computer Science Department, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete tel.number (lab): ++30-81-393554, (home)++30-81-344807 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Re: 17.209 getting it wrong Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:48:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 280 (280) Le vendredi, 29 aoû 2003, à 01:32 America/Montreal, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) a écrit : [deleted quotation] Sorry, couldn't help it but is getting it completely wrong at all possible? From: kotlas@email.unc.edu Subject: CIT Infobits -- August 2003 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:46:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 281 (281) CIT INFOBITS August 2003 No. 62 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. ...................................................................... Videogames -- The Next Educational "Killer App"? Resources on Intellectual Property in Education Why Students Don't Post Blog Update Innovations in Presentations PowerPoint: Good or Evil? Recommended Reading [material deleted] RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to kotlas@email.unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. This month we have two recommendations: "An Interview with a Futurist," by T. Mack. Futures Research Quarterly 19, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 61-9. James L. Morrison, THE TECHNOLOGY SOURCE's Editor-in-Chief and Infobits subscriber, was interviewed after giving his speech, "The University is Dead! Long Live the University!" at the 2002 annual World Future Society conference. The interview is available at http://horizon.unc.edu/conferences/interview.asp. Fortnightly Mailings http://www.schmoller.net/mailings/index.html Infobits subscriber Seb Schmoller publishes this electronic newsletter, which summarizes resources and news on online learning and the Internet. Schmoller is a freelance consultant and Executive Secretary of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). ALT is a UK professional and scholarly association that promotes good practice in the use of learning technologies in education and industry and facilitates collaboration between learning technology practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. For more information about ALT, go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/index.html. [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). From: "John Humphrey" Subject: Search engines Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:46:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 282 (282) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty: I thought you and the members of the Humanist Discussion Group might find these links interesting: http://www.allsearchengines.com/ http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/ John Fredrick Humphrey, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy Xavier University of Louisiana Department of Philosophy P. O. Box 43 A. 1 Drexel Drive New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 Email: jhumphre@xula.edu Web site: http://webusers.xula.edu/jhumphre/ From: daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca Subject: cfp Kalamazoo 03 Best Practice in the Production of Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:28:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 283 (283) Digital Resources Please excuse cross postings. Call for Papers Best Practice in the Production of Digital Resources for Medievalists The 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 6-9, 2004 Medieval Institute, Walwood Hall Western Michigan University, 1903 W Michigan Ave. Kalamazoo, Michigan USA 49008-5432 Humanities computing projects can no longer be considered incunabula. Where it once was considered significant simply that scholars were willing to experiment with electronic publication, digital projects now are evaluated against much more demanding standards. It is no longer good enough that projects look good in a particular browser or on a particular operating system. Funding agencies, publishers, referees and the general reader now all expect projects to conform to international standards for markup, display, and usability. People now expect digital projects to last. This session considers one aspect of this new respect for standards: the development of guidelines for best practice in the production of digital resources for Medievalists. Papers can tackle any aspect of this general topic. Theoretical questions to be considered might include whether we should try to develop discipline-wide guidelines, whether it is possible to legislate elements such as style, encoding practice, navigation in the face of constant technological change, or, if we can, how we ought to go about defining, promulgating and enforcing them. Practical papers discussing some aspect of or proposal for best practice are also welcome. Have you developed some process or technique that you feel should be more widely adopted? Have you found problems or difficulties in existing projects or standards that need to be addressed by the community as a whole? Is there an aspect of humanities computing that current standards do not address or address poorly? Please submit abstracts (200-300 words) by September 19th to Dan O'Donnell . -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta T1K 3M4 Canada Tel: +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 e-mail: daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca Web-Page: http://home.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell The Electronic Caedmon's Hymn: http://home.uleth.ca/~caedmon From: "M. Zurat" Subject: MIT Open Course Ware Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:23:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 284 (284) Greetings Humanists, This may be of interest to some of you. As some of you all may know September marks the official launch of the MIT "OpenCourseWare" a free, open, publication of MIT Course Materials. All the courses available at this time are available at: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html Being an undergraduate student in the USA, myself, what I thought was interesting was the striking similarities between my course work and those posted at MIT. I'm not sure if that means the academe, especially that of Cognitive Science is becoming dogmatized or developing a cohesive core? I fear as a student that while more Universities make their course materials freely available online that there maybe more homogeny in the curriculum. Especially here in the States it seems that university administrations often pressure departments into the "follow the leader mentality" in their race to raise admission statistics and funds. Any thoughts? Cheers Michael Zurat From: Willard McCarty Subject: Research on Language and Computation, a new journal Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:26:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 285 (285) [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: anne.lindebjerg@aksis.uib.no Subject: information from the HIT Centre, University of Bergen Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:35:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 286 (286) Apologies for multiple postings Dear friend of the HIT Centre, We would like to inform you that the HIT Centre (Centre for Humanities Information Technologies) at the University of Bergen has been split into two research groups as of August 1st this year: · The Research Group for Text Technology · The Research Group for Language Technology The Research Group for Text Technology comprises our activities and projects connected with text encoding and editorial philology, of which the Wittgenstein Archive and our participation in the Text Encoding Initiative are the most important. The leader of the group is Associate Professor <http://www.aksis.uib.no/people/?/$present&id=79>Daniel Apollon<http://www.aksis.uib.no/people/?/$present&id=79>. Please feel free to contact him for more information. The Research Group for Language Technology comprises our activities related to language technology, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, terminology and lexicography. Many of the projects in this group are run in close collaboration with the Section for Linguistic Studies at the University of Bergen. The activities connected with our participation in ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) belong to this group as well. The leader of the group is Professor <http://www.aksis.uib.no/people/?/$present&id=28>Gjert <http://www.aksis.uib.no/people/?/$present&id=28>Kristoffersen, whom you are most welcome to contact if you have further questions. The two new groups are both immediate parts of <http://www.aksis.uib.no/>Aksis<http://www.aksis.uib.no/>, which in its turn is part of the research foundation UNIFOB AS, owned by the University of Bergen. The two other research groups that belong to Aksis are The Centre for Cultural Research (formerly The Centre for the Study of European Civilization), led by Professor <http://www.aksis.uib.no/people/?/$present&id=5>Siri Meyer<http://www.aksis.uib.no/people/?/$present&id=5> and InterMedia Bergen, led by Professor <http://www.aksis.uib.no/people/?/$present&id=33>Barbara Wasson. This means that the HIT Centre itself does not exist anymore, but most of the former activities have been transferred to the two new research groups. Yours sincerely Gjert Kristoffersen Research Director 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 Subject: Ubiquity 4.27 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:20:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 287 (287) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 27, Week of September 2 - September 9, 2003 In this issue: Ethical and Social Aspects of Biotechnology By Bernhard Irrgang The globalisation of biotechnology brings not only new economic prospects but also new risks. The development of international bio-safety guidelines is essential. Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i27_irrgang.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=270 *** The Development of a Case Study Methodology in the Information Technology (IT) Field: A Step by Step Approach By Sam Lubbe An important step any researcher should take is establishing a framework in which to conduct the research. Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i27_lubbe.pdf Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=1&threadid=271 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: Ross Scaife Subject: Demos Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:21:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 288 (288) Today we have published an enhancement to Christopher Blackwell's "Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy," available at http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home Here is the summary for the new section, Democracy in the Politics of Aristotle by Thomas R. Martin, with Neel Smith & Jennifer F. Stuart Ancient Greek democracy has regularly attracted the attention of modern political scientists as part of the discussion of the theory and practice of democratic systems of government. By far the most important ancient text for this discussion is the Politics of Aristotle. Studying what Aristotle has to say about democracy in the Politics is challenging for several reasons. First of all, his remarks on the subject are spread widely throughout this extended work. The challenge is further increased by the discursive character of Aristotle's arguments in the Politics, which for one thing mix discussions of theoretical principles for systems of government with observations about actual Greek states of Aristotle's time (and before it). Finally, there is the strong possibility that the traditionally accepted order of the eight "Books" or chapters of the Politics is not the order in which Aristotle meant his arguments to be presented. 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: ptrourke@methymna.com Subject: Suda Classic September 2003 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:22:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 289 (289) The Suda On Line, the collaborative, distributed web-based project to translate and annotate the entire text of the Suda lexicon, wishes you a happy beginning-to-the-academic-year with the latest edition of Suda Classics, highlighting recent contributions to the Suda On Line database. Since our last update in May, some 1,700 entries have been vetted, and 1,000 more translated, bringing our totals to 13,788 currently assigned to translators, 13,276 translated, and 11,700 have received at least a cursory examination by editors, out of the approximately 32,000 entries in the Suda. In the past 30 days, our most prolific contributors have been: David Whitehead (performed 307 vettings) Catharine Roth (translated 35 entries, performed 265 vettings) Elizabeth Vandiver (performed 35 vettings) Bobbiejo Winfrey (translated 32 entries,) Nicholas Fincher (translated 21 entries, performed 4 vettings) Once again I'd like to provide two example entries in this message. Our first example is a entry translated and comprehensively annotated by new contributor Alan Sommerstein, and vetted by managing editor David Whitehead: Lambda 853 Adler, on a phrase from Aristophanes' Clouds. This entry is marked as having a "high" editorial status, which means that the editor considers it appropriate for citation as a published entry. ------------------ *lusani/as patrw|/wn mega/lwn kakw=3Dn (grief-dispeller of his father's great troubles) He who dispels the griefs of his father. The word[1] is a coinage. Sophokles :[2] "May Zeus bring a return home[3] that is victorious and that ends all grief and that is free from fear[4]." Notes: A quotation from a paratragic monody by Strepsiades in Aristophanes 'Clouds (1162), rejoicing in the completion by his son Pheidippides of a course of sophistic education which should enable him to help his father cheat his pressing creditors out of their money. The monody is known to contain at least one and probably two Euripidean quotations, and elsewhere it displays some typically Euripidean stylistic features (so Angel y Espin=F3s), so it is possible that the present headword phrase is also quoted or adapted from Euripides, though its source, if any, cannot be identified. [1] viz. lusani/as "grief-dispeller". The word is also a common Athenian name (73 in LGPN ii s.v.), and Storey has suggested that it might allude to one of two contemporaries - Lysanias of Sphettos (PA 9324; LGPN 53), father of Aischines the Socratic (alphaiota 346, alphaiota 349), and Lysanias of Thorikos (PA 9312, LGPN 54), father of the cavalryman Dexileos (414/3-394/3) whose death in battle at Corinth is commemorated by a famous surviving monument. Storey thinks the reference is more likely to be to the former, Sommerstein (262) to the latter. [2] Sophokles fr. 887, from an unidentified play. It is cited because of its use of a similar coined compound, pausani/as "that ends all grief" - which is likewise a common personal name, and may carry an allusion to the Spartan regent Pausanias, the victor of Plataia (for another possible implicit comparison between Agamemnon and Pausanias in Athenian tragedy, cf. Dover 156-7). [3] sc. from the Trojan War (cf. next note). [4] Greek atrei/dan , another coinage (from tre/w "tremble"), but this time with an indisputable allusion to the Atreidai (sons of Atreus: Agamemnon and Menelaos), the leaders of the expedition against Troy. [the bibliography is available by looking up lambda,853 under Adler Number in the SOL database] ------------------ We would also like to bring to your attention this entry translated by David Whitehead and vetted by Catharine Roth, Kalanos, kappa 203 Adler: *ka/lanos (Kalanos) An Indian, from the [sc.caste of the] Brahmans.[1] That is what the Indians call every sage. It was for this man that Alexander the Macedonian, when Kalanos died after Alexander had appeared in India, provided a funeral contest, and arranged a competition between drinkers of neat wine, because of the love of wine amongst Indians. This man gave Alexander an apt reply to his every question. Notes: Alexander the Great encountered Kalanos (=3D Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographische Grundlage no.396) in the Punjab in 327 BCE, and the sage was part of the Macedonian entourage between then and his death (by suicide) in Persis three years later. The principal sources on him are Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus, and Strabo. For this wine-drinking competition, which is said to have resulted in 41 fatalities, see Chares, FGrH 125 F19; Athenaeus 437A-B; Plut. Alex.70.1. [1] On the Brahmans see generally beta 524 . [the bibliography is available by looking up lambda,853 under Adler Number in the SOL database] ------------------ On another note, one of our last Suda Classics, *tu/xh (Tyche, Tau 1232 Adler), has been revised since it was posted with an improved translation and notes incorporating contributions from Professor F. W. Walbank. The nature of the Suda On Line database system allows entries to continue to be refined throughout their lifetime, leading to ever-more-complete translations and annotations. We hope these entries have convinced you to contribute to the Suda On Line as a translator or editor. For editors, we are looking for contributors who have substantial experience with ancient or Byzantine Greek, a background in the scholarship of one of the areas covered by the Suda (classical, Byzantine, and biblical literature, history, and culture), a fluency in English, and a willingness to devote at least a few hours a month to reading and refining entries in the SOL database. For more information on the responsibilities of editors in the Suda On Line, see our editorial guidelines at http://www.stoa.org/sol/edinst.shtml As with editors, translators should be willing to provide a few hours of work a month reading and translating entries in the database. Translators should also have a facility with ancient or Byzantine Greek and with English, and knowledge of the scholarship of the areas covered by the Suda. For more information on the responsibilities of translators in the Suda On Line, see our translator guidelines at http://www.stoa.org/sol/instruct.shtml To volunteer, navigate to the SOL registration page at http://www.stoa.org/sol/sol_register.shtml . Prospective translators should provide some account of their language and academic background in their registration, while prospective editors should provide a more substantial CV covering their academic work in areas of relevance to the Suda. We encourage the participation of graduate seminars: instructors can volunteer their class as translators, and themselves as editors for their own students' work (and we won't stop you from providing a little help elsewhere if you'd like). If you'd like more information about using the Suda On Line in your course assignments, please contact the Managing Editors of the Suda On Line at sudatores@lsv.uky.edu If you would like to nominate an entry for Suda Classics, please contact the Managing Editors of the Suda On Line at sudatores@lsv.uky.edu . Thanks for your time, Patrick Rourke on behalf of the managing committee of the Suda On Line 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: corre@uwm.edu Subject: re 17.208 web publishing Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:30:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 290 (290) The wise King Solomon advised us to consider the ways of the ants and be wise, so it is appropriate that the travails of the formicologists in respect of book and web publishing should make us consider the wider issue of scholarly publication on the World Wide Web. I for one now publish the results of my researches exclusively on the Web, and make no attempt to publish in hard copy, unless I accede to the express request of a publisher to write some particular item. My reason for this is twofold. First, the materials get out much quicker, and are more widely received. Second, while it would be unfair to generalise, I feel that publishers frequently treat authors quite shabbily. Farmers seem to develop some rapport with the animals which provide them with their livelihoods, but many publishers are quite unfeeling with regard to authors. I can count half a dozen occasions when publishers have held a manuscript for an excessively long time, or completely lost it, and my impression is that other authors can tell similar horror stories. Lately publishers have developed the habit of going bankrupt, which has caused great grief on the part of young scholars relying on them to help along their tenure, and annoyance to others who have waited in vain to see their work in print. It is hardly surprising that we have not yet caught up with the changes brought about by the Web, for they are indeed great, and new technology constantly changes their nature. Publishing houses are entrenched institutions, which resist change, especially those that threaten their profits. Britannica was carried kicking and screaming into the online world. The main argument that is made against online publishing is that it undergoes no scholarly review. I question this, because I have seen so many books come out of well-regarded presses which have numerous errors, typographical and substantive. My impression is that since the cost of printing has become so high, many presses save money by dispensing with appropriate editing; and this is particularly true of university presses, since rarely do they publish bestsellers. The result is many books of questionable value, despite their supposedly being monitored. In premodern times writers of books in Hebrew would submit their manuscripts to an acknowledged authority, and request an approbation which would be published at the beginning of the book, and was often composed in a florid style. I copied this practice in my website on Lingua Franca by asking the late Professor Cyrus Cordon to write an approbation; but I do not feel that such a thing is really necessary. The motto should always be caveat emptor -- let the buyer beware. Just because something exists in printers' ink on paper, or is on the Web, it does not mean that it is of value. The user must pass his own judgment. Advances in technology are constantly improving the Web. The remarkable Acrobat software makes possible publication of works in scripts other than the Roman script without requiring the user to have any special software, other than the free Acrobat Reader which is usually bundled with most browsers these days in any case. Moreover, texts can be marked up and annotated in a way that is easy for the writer and the reader. I am using this technology for publishing annotated texts in Judeo-Arabic on my website, which would probably be prohibitively expensive to print and publish by traditional methods. Preparing a text for the Web is now quite simple, and compares favourably with the labour that must be expended to prepare a printed text. The scholar can learn simple HTML, since he probably does not need the complex bells and whistles which grace commercial websites. There are of course disadvantages to online publishing. In an article that I wrote for a printed book, I cited an article that I had published online. The editor told me that although he felt that the online article was quite relevant, the publishers had instructed him not to include any references to websites in the bibliographies. Similarly, I suggested to the near eastern editor of JAOS that he might like to have my Lingua Franca website reviewed in his journal. He put this to the editorial board, and they decided not to review websites. There are probably turf issues in decisions like this, but it is quite true that websites can be evanescent, like the valuable site on creolistics which formerly existed on the website of Stockholm University, and disappeared without notice. I found myself wondering if six months after my death an employee of Information Services at my university will find my name on the grim reapers's list, and with a few keystrokes blow away all my hard work. I raised this matter with the appropriate committee at my university, but they have been unable to come to any conclusion as to how and when material should be deleted if the author graduates, resigns or dies. I have no pat answer to these questions, which are, I know, being widely debated. But it seems to me that we must keep these issues before us, in the hope that before too long we shall find some satisfactory solutions. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Antonio Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:34:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 291 (291) Dear colleagues, The untimely and tragic death of Antonio Zampolli, reported here by Alessandro Lenci on 25 August in Humanist 17.199, has left those of us who knew him stunned and, alas, mostly silent. For those in Humanist who did not know him, I refer you to the obituaries written by Michael Sperberg-McQueen for TEI-L (http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0308&L=tei-l&P=R4864) and by Hans Uszkoreit for Language Technology World (http://www.lt-world.org/ie_index.html). I will not attempt here to do anything remotely like the same, having neither a great fund of stories about the man with which to create a vivid sense of loss nor enough familiarity within the scope of his interests and accomplishments to give a fair professional assessment of our indebtedness to him. Both the loss and the indebtedness are huge, without measure -- and the sharpest of reminders that life matters, every blessed moment of it. Thinking about Antonio for the last many days has had my memories of him on the boil, reducing them to an unclouded exhiliration of intelligence. You know, the state of mind induced by a great draught of Emily's "liquor never brewed". There are many politically powerful men and women in the world, some of whom are very smart. They do not have to talk to the likes of us, and mostly they don't. We are a breed of specialists, and mostly, it seems, we neither talk to those outside our well-defended specialities nor see the need of real conversation -- which, after all, is dangerous: it means taking the substantial risk of exposing our ignorance, and so actually learning. God forbid that we should learn, and so learn that we weren't so smart after all! If we still know why it is we do what we do, why it genuinely matters in and to the greater world, we seem largely incapable of communicating that which got us going originally, back when ideas mattered. I don't wish to be inaccurately or excessively gloomy, especially not in the midst of a celebration of Antonio's life. But I have been reminded of what we are now missing. Yesterday, amidst literal piles of quite mediocre scholarship that I have had to read in recent days (see the piles of photocopies and printouts all over the floor of my study, blocking the way to the door) I encountered an article by the extraordinarily brilliant and plain-speaking theoretical chemist Giuseppe Del Re, "Models and analogies in science", Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 6.1 (2000). Suddenly, once again, that rush from an encounter with a real mind. And so I remembered Antonio, along with Northrop Frye, and a few others. When talking with them it wasn't that they seemed so smart, and so by engaging with us made us feel we were in fit company, at last among equals. Rather it was, and always is, that in such conversations we suddenly thought better, more clearly, faster than before. Intelligence, Ludwik Fleck wrote, is a social phenomenon. I will miss our powerful ally in the corridors of the language industries, the able administrator, fine scholar and wonderfully warm-hearted friend. How fortunate his students have been. How fortunate all of us. 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: marian.dworaczek@usask.ca Subject: subject index to literature on electronic sources of Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:37:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 292 (292) information The September 1, 2003 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" is available at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes 1,556 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: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM This message has been posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse any duplication. ************************************************* *Marian Dworaczek *Assistant Head, Technical Services Division *University of Saskatchewan Library *E-mail: marian.dworaczek@usask.ca *Phone: (306) 966-6016 *Fax: (306) 966-5919 *Home Page: <http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze>http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze 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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 50, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:40:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 293 (293) Version 50 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,950 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new resources) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 160 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 440 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: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm 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: Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:41:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 294 (294) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Title: Knuth, Donald E.: Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About Publisher: University of Chicago Press How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? Can mathematical notions be used to enhance one's personal understanding of the Bible? Perhaps no one is more qualified to address these questions than Knuth, whose massive contributions to computing led others to nickname him "The Father of Computer Science"--and whose religious faith led him to undertake a fascinating analysis of the Bible called the 3:16 project. For more information, see the book synopsis at <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15701.ctl> Regards, Arun 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: Ross Scaife Subject: Survey for APA Professional Affairs forum Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:36:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 295 (295) American Philological Association Professional Affairs Forum For the third presentation in the APA forum described below, we are conducting a short survey to gather some basic information. We invite all classics faculty at the ranks of instructor through full professor to take this survey, located at http://www.stoa.org/apa/ Electronic Publishing and the Classics Profession Sponsored by the APA Committee on Professional Matters Organized by Barbara F. McManus (APA Vice President for Professional Matters) and Ross Scaife This Professional Matters forum will present an overview of the most significant aspects of electronic publication for classicists. University presses and scholarly journals are facing severe economic pressures to curtail publications in the humanities at the same time as publication requirements for tenure and promotion spiral upward. As a profession, Classics has not yet formally addressed this issue despite its especially negative effect on smaller disciplines. Electronic publication offers one possible way to alleviate some of the worst effects of the crisis in scholarly publishing. Speakers will explain the potential and challenges of scholarly electronic publication with a view toward generating lively discussion with the audience. Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto, The ACLS History E-Book Project "Electronic Publication: The State of the Question" (20 mins.) Peter Suber (Earlham College), Editor of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter and the Open Access News Blog "Copyright, Control, and the Open Access Movement" (20 mins.) Jeff Rydberg-Cox (University of Missouri at Kansas City), Assistant Editor for Language & Lexicography, The Perseus Project "Electronic Publication and Academic Credentialing: where are we now and where should we be?" (20 mins.) Respondents: David Whitehead (Queen's University, Belfast) Senior Editor, The Suda On Line (10 mins.) Ross Scaife (University of Kentucky), Co-editor, The Stoa Consortium (10 mins.) From: Heather Ward Subject: Re: 17.217 MIT Open Courseware & questions on courseware Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:38:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 296 (296) This is a particularly interesting question to me because I am concerned about the opposite situation. As universities move to proprietary course software (such as Blackboard or Web CT) it will be more difficult to share with each other or to browse the web to find out how others have approached a topic. I fear we'll be constantly reinventing the wheel. There probably is a danger of homogeneity, especially in undergraduate curricula in which many of the same issues need to be covered. However, as a librarian and an instructor, I believe freely available information from our colleagues can lead to more creative curricula when we adapt materials from a variety of courses to meet our local needs. Heather Ward [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] Heather Ward hward@uoregon.edu Humanities Librarian (541)346-3047 University of Oregon Libraries (541)346-3485 Fax Eugene, OR 97403-1299 http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~hward/ From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.218 critical reflections on publishing Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:36:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 297 (297) I trust Professor Corre realizes that putting his publications entirely on the WEB means that they may disappear without a trace in a few years. From: "J. Trant" Subject: CFP: Museums and the Web 2004 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:38:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 298 (298) Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ ------------------- Call for Participation ------------------- You are invited to participate in MW2004. Deliver a paper, host an on-line activity, demonstrate a museum Web Project, present a pre-conference workshop, lead a professional forum or mini-workshop or do "something completely different". Your participation makes MW a "fantastic learning experience" and "great fun" (as described by attendees at MW2003). Make your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/call.html ------------------- Deadline ------------------- Proposals are due September 30, 2003. ------------------- Peer Review ------------------- All papers presented at MW2004 are subject to Peer Review. Edited papers will be published on the Web, and a selected group will also appear in print proceedings. ------------------- Need More Information? ------------------- Download the full Call for Participation from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/pdfs/mw2004.call.pdf Full details about MW2004 are online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ Past papers presented at the previous seven Museums and the Web meetings are available on the web, linked from http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html ------------------- Join Us! ------------------- MW2004 is the largest international gathering of cultural webmasters anywhere. If you are involved in any part of the process of making, delivering, or using culture and heritage on-line, this is the event for you. Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web 2004 mw2004@archimuse.com -- Museums and the Web Archives & Museum Informatics Co-Chairs: 158 Lee Avenue David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Toronto, Ontario http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: info@archimuse.com 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: gwc2004@aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: GWC2004 -- 3rd Call for papers Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:39:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 299 (299) 3rd Call for papers 2nd International Conference of the Global WordNet Association Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic EXTENDED DEADLINE: September, 10th 2003 ################################################################### Papers should be submitted through the form at the GWC web page (http://www.fi.muni.cz/gwc2004/) ################################################################### The Global Wordnet Association is pleased to announce the Second International Conference of the Global WordNet Association (GWC'04). The conference will be held at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), January, 20 - 23, 2004. Details about the conference can be found on the conference website: http://www.fi.muni.cz/gwc2004/ Details about the Association can be found on the GWA website: http://www.globalwordnet.org/ Topics of the GWC'2004 conference will include (but are not limited to): A. Linguistics and WordNet: a. In depth analysis of Semantic Relations, b. Theoretical definitions of word meaning, c. Necessity and Completeness issues. B. Architecture of WordNet: a. Language independent and language dependent components C. Tools and Methods for Wordnet Development: a. User and Data entry interface, organization, b. Extending and enriching wordnets D. WordNet as a lexical resource and component of NLP and MT: a. Word sense disambiguation using wordnet, b. Ontologies and WordNet, c. The Lexicon and WordNet E. Applications of WordNet: a. Information Extraction and Retrieval, b. Document Structuring and Categorization, c. Automatic Hyperlinking d. Language Teaching, e. Psycholinguistic Applications F. Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools. [material deleted] From: dwmarsha@indiana.edu Subject: cfp Kalamazoo 03: Popular Medievalism in the Late Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:40:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 300 (300) Twentieth Century Call for Papers Popular Medievalism in the Late Twentieth Century The 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 6-9, 2004 In the last 50 years medievalism has found a range of new outlets. Alongside the novels and art that have so often been the media of choice we see a continuing proliferation of films, television shows, comic books, video games, web-sites, role-playing games (of both the Dungeons & Dragons and Society for Creative Anachronism types), and other entertainment forms, such as the Excaliber Hotel and Casino and the dinner theatre of Medieval Times, that draw on medieval themes and types. This session is intended to explore these uses of the medieval as a broad- based cultural phenomenon, through papers that address some aspect of popular medievalism. The session does not favor papers on any one specific form or media, but seeks a range in order to demonstrate the ever-evolving ways in which the medieval is recycled into popular culture. Please submit abstracts with technology requirements to David Marshall by September 17 at: dwmarsha@indiana.edu _______________________________________________________________________________ David W. Marshall English Department Indiana University Ballantine Hall 442 Bloomington, IN 47405 _______________________________________________________________________________ From: Stephen Miller Subject: Re: 17.223 critical reflections on publishing Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:04:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 301 (301) [deleted quotation] A point which is further developed in: "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" by Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information ARL Bimonthly Report 226 / February 2003 http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html Stephen Miller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy Corpus Sonnenfelsgasse 19/8, A-1010 Wien, Austria. Tel. +43-1-51581-2280 Fax +43-1-51581-2339 WWW http://www.oeaw.ac.at/~litgeb/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.223 critical reflections on publishing Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:06:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 302 (302) [deleted quotation] Why? Because the Web, being virtual, is a volatile swirl of ephemera? Some kind of gaseous cloud, a self-consuming cyber-super nebula? Nonsense. The Web is not a black box, and preservation is ultimately a social rather than a technological issue. If the Professor keeps his work on an institutionally stable server and retains his own copies besides, not to mention availing himself of the services of OCLC PURL <http://www.purl.org/> his publications are no more in danger of disappearing than they are when sent to the bowels of a research library in a bound and printed journal. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: BODARD Gabriel Subject: Re: 17.223 critical reflections on publishing Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:07:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 303 (303) [deleted quotation] This is rather an alarmist statement (and I suspect its bald phrasing is deliberate and if not tongue-in-cheek then at least provocative-- however, at risk of eating a worm, I'll bite on this one ;-) If you put an article or a book up on the web with a random ISP or on a personal home page, and then never look at it again, don't update it, archive it, or otherwise make an effort to ensure its longevity, then sure, it may well disappear without trace in a few years. But this is the e-publishing equivalent of printing out your article and leaving a few copies lying around in the common room and on bulletin boards in the library for people to read. Again, it will disappear from sight and memory pretty soon. (I don't know if this is what it is implied Prof Corre is doing?) Most e-publishing sites (like the Stoa.org, for example) make solid provision to keep their publications in a standard, software independent format, archived in a variety of forms and available in the long term. There are also archiving services which serve a function analogous to that of the library in keeping a local copy of the publication and therefore making it much less likely to disappear as a result of one server or company breaking down or folding, or a platform or software system becoming obsolete, etc. Anyone who publishes on the web or in electronic format generally should be aware of such issues, and then it is unlikely that their work will disappear any time soon. But you all know that... Cheers, --------------------------------------- Gabriel BODARD Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 16 62 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80 --------------------------------------- From: pwillett@indiana.edu Subject: re 17.222 questions on courseware Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:05:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 304 (304) The US Department of Defence is leading an effort to create an open standard for courseware objects called the "Shareable Content Object Reference Model" (SCORM) Initiative. You can read about it on the XML Cover Pages at <http://xml.coverpages.org/scorm.html>. Most of this is for migration of courseware objects between systems, but it includes the hope of sharing them as well. Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University pwillett@indiana.edu [deleted quotation] From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Opening Courseware, Textbooks Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:07:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 305 (305) Heather Ward shared her worries: [deleted quotation] Good point and we should all be aware of these issues. But I'm more optimistic about what might happen. For one thing, there are recommendations for open standards for Course Management Software (CMS). Developers might eventually build open-source CMS programs using these standards and, possibly, import/export proprietary formats. Also, these proprietary CMS packages might open up as ease of transition is a major selling point. In fact, for their own sake, they could facilitate the use of open-source solutions by adopting XML formats for files that a course developer can transfer directly, at least for public material. At the same time, instructors are free to publish their material outside the scope of CMS. There are several initiatives for open content and we should see an increased amount of course material available publicly. One important thing to understand is that "courseware" such as MIT's, isn't the same thing as CMS. CMS usually has a lot of features for managing the class itself (including grades, etc.) which shouldn't be made public. MIT itself might be using a CMS system independently of its "courseware," which is basically, at this point, a repository for PDF and media files. Thus there's hope that course material will remain open despite the move toward CMS. Granted, several (most?) instructors only post their notes to the CMS. The advent of courseware repositories will need to address this by providing easy ways to repost the same material. One idea I've been toying with is that of open content textbooks. One source of this idea was my frustration with commercial textbooks. Unsurprisingly, textbooks are usually meant to cater at least minimally for the needs of the greatest number. The negative impact on education is obvious and acknowledged but usually seen as the unavoidable result of a necessary compromise. The current context of increased communication among scholars provides for better solutions. A major advantage of an open textbook would be that the instructor could tailor the course readings on the specific needs of the class. If done carefully, an open textbook could complement, supplement, and eventually replace commercial solutions. I know there are several initiatives in this direction. A common problem, though, is the same as open-source software project, namely lack of activity despite great interest. Time constraints, bureaucratic issues, and disagreement among contributions may all hinder such a project. But with the current costs of textbooks and visible frustration from instructors and students alike, such projects should find their way to the front-burner. Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: willard@mccarty.me.uk Subject: Sound Cultures 11-13 September Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 06:04:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 306 (306) PRESS RELEASE Contact: Timothy Murray, tcm1@cornell.edu, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, 607-255-2530 SOUND CULTURES: An International Workshop of Art and Theory September 11-13, 2003 Cornell University Sound Cultures: An International Workshop of Art and Theory will be held at Cornell University, September 11-13, 2003 as a joint inaugural project of The Comparative Literature Theory Project and The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library. Organized by the Archive's Curator, Professor Timothy Murray of Comparative Literature and English, the workshop will introduce its Cornell audience to influential international artists and theorists who dwell on the cultural impact of sound in an electronic and digital age. In addition to demonstrations of artistic projects in electronic music and digitally generated sound, participants will consider sound's importance in the era of visual studies, the cultural and ethnic specificity of sound fields and rhythms, the gender import of voice and spoken narrative, and the history and politics of electronic experimentations in sound. The Workshop opens on Thursday evening with the first Goldsen Archive Virtual Seminar, an on-line seminar between speakers at the Cornell Workshop and sound artists in Sydney Australia brought together by Norie Neumark, a former Fellow of The Society for the Humanities who is Professor of New Media at the University of Technology, Sydney. In a session closed to the public due to technical limitations, the Sydney artists will present and discuss their work via videostreaming with participants in Ithaca. This seminar is supported by an Innovation in Teaching with New Technology Grant awarded to Buzz Spector of the Art Department, Murray, and Thomas Hickerson of Cornell Library. This seminar will be videotaped and archived for access by Cornell users of the Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, recently established in the Kroch Library to become North America's premier collection of artwork on CD-Rom, DVD, and the internet. The Workshop opens on Friday, 1:30pm, at the A. D. White House with public presentations by Cornell Professors Timothy Murray and Timothy Campbell to be followed by a lecture presentation by Ritsu Katsumata of her work on electronic violin. Moving to Goldwin Smith D at 4:30pm, the workshop features a lecture on "The Fine Art of DJ/VJ-ing" by Art Jones, a pioneer in African-American new media and DJ culture who will be joined later that evening by Christine Hart for a free VJ/DJ performance on Friday night, 9pm, in 157 E. Sibley. The workshop reconvenes at 9:30am, Saturday, in Goldwin Smith D for presentations on digital sound installation by Daniel Warner of Hampshire College, on contemporary electronic music and sound in Japan by Andrew Deutsch of Alfred University, and on feminist installation and sound performance by artist Sarah Drury of Temple University. Afternoon sessions, from 2pm on, highlight the innovative work in electronic music and digital sound at the Paris studios of IRCAM to be presented by Gerard Assayag, the Director of its Music Representation Group. He will be followed by the innovative installation artist from the University of Buffalo, Millie Chen. The Workshop concludes with a dialogue with Ithaca College Professor Patricia Zimmermann and members of the newly formed Comparative Literature Theory Project. Participants are also invited to attend the 8:00pm performance in Barnes Hall of Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., which will feature the premier of a composition by David Borden. The workshop is hosted by The Comparative Literature Theory Project and The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library as a means of highlighting the conceptual interplay between comparative theory and digital arts which are important to these novel Cornell projects. Events are free and open to the public thanks to the generous support of the Workshop's interdisciplinary sponsors: The Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, The Society for the Humanities, Cornell Library, French Studies; and its cosponsors: Africana Studies, Department of Art, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Music, Asian American Studies, Visual Studies For further information, contact Timothy Murray, Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, tcm1@cornell.edu, 255-3530. PROGRAM: PLEASE CIRCULATE SOUND CULTURES: An International Workshop of Art and Theory September 11-13, 2003 Cornell University Hosted by The Comparative Literature Theory Project and The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library, Thursday, September 11, 7-9 pm (Invitational Seminar, Kroch Library) Inaugural Rose Goldsen Virtual Seminar with Sound Artists in Sydney, Australia Directed by Norie Neumark, University of Technology, Sydney, with Australian sound artists and theorists Jim Denley, Gail Priest, Robyn Ravlich, Ian Andrews, and Shannon O'Neill. Events on Friday, September 12 and Saturday, 13, Free and Open to the Public Friday, September 12, 1:30 Brett de Bary Director, The Society for the Humanities H. Thomas Hickerson Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Special Collections, Cornell Library Welcoming Remarks 1:45 Timothy Murray "Presenting Net Noise, CTHEORY Multimedia, Issue 4" 2:30 Moderator: Mitchell Greenberg, Department of Romance Studies Timothy Campbell, Department of Romance Studies "Wireless Bodies: The Birth of Early Radiotelegraphy." 3:15 Moderator: Grace An, Department of Romance Studies Ritsu Katsumata, Digital Musician "Dies Irae" 4:30 Moderator: Maria Fernandez, Department of History of Art Art Jones, Media and Installation artist, ITEL Media "The Fine Art of DJ/VJ-ing" 9:00 157 E. Sibley Hall Live VJ/DJ Performance with Art Jones and Christine Hart "World Domination" Saturday, September 13, Goldwin Smith D 9:30 Moderator: Byron Suber, Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance Daniel Warner, School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College "On the Conduct of Water" 10:30 Moderator: Xiaowen Chen, Department of Art Andrew Deutsch, Division of Expanded Media, Alfred University "Pre-musical and Proto-language Structures in Japanese Art 1975 -2003" 11:30 Moderator: Renate Ferro, Department of Art Sarah Drury, Department of Film & Media Arts, Temple University "Voice Interaction and Unspoken Narrative: Voicebox, Vocalalia and eVokability" 2:00 Moderator: Carol Krumhansl, Department of Psychology Gerard Assayag, Music Representation Group, Ircam-CNRS, Paris, France. "Musical Poiesis: a Sign/Signal duality" 3:00 Moderator: Buzz Spector, Department of Art Millie Chen, Department of Art, University at Buffalo, SUNY "Meat Speech" 4:30 Concluding Dialogue with the Comparative Literature Theory Project Moderator: Brett de Bary, The Society for the Humanities, Asian Studies, Comparative Literature Patricia Zimmermann, Department of Cinema and Photography and Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ithaca College Mickey Casad, Department of Comparative Literature Tsitsi Jaji, Department of Comparative Literature Barry Maxwell, Departments of Comparative Literature and American Studies 8:00 Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., Barnes Hall Sponsors: Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, The Society for the Humanities, Cornell Library, French Studies; Cosponsors: Africana Studies, Department of Art, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Music, Asian American Studies, Visual Studies For further information, contact Timothy Murray, Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, 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 www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.228 critical reflections on publishing Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 09:30:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 307 (307) Since several people have expressed surprise or disbelief to me either here or in private e-mails let me say that I have known a number of people whose on-line materials have disappeared as their institutions changed computer policies,e tc., usually without telling them. And my university wiped out 10 years of my own research files (for which, believing then in computer age PR, I had no hard copy) when it decided to change computer companies and did not bother to inform any of the faculty about it. Also, I know people whose works have been made unreachable by technological changes -- a very good example is the old CDC machines with their 60-bit variables and double precision arithmetic, while another is the change in floppies, etc. I realize the WEb dopes not use floppies but I am not willing to assume its benevolence or that of those who oversee its local manifestations. I hope that all those who trust naively in the Web and the Net never see their work disappear forever. From: Willard McCarty Subject: waterfall diagram? Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:08:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 308 (308) Among the images I have collected (without, alas, recording where I got it) is one whose origin I would like to find -- so that I can cite or reproduce it in print. I have put it online, at http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/q/waterfall-image.jpg. It is a so-called "waterfall diagram" of the process of designing a computing system. The diagram shows the derivation of a machine as operational model of a system from a real-world (physical) system through four processes: systems analysis, which generates a computational model of the real-world system without reference to specific implementation; specification and design, which generates from the previous a model in terms of specific implementation; programming, which generates a model in terms of a finite-state machine; and finally, hardware design, which generates the machine itself. Does anyone know where this diagram or similar ones might be found? For some years I have used what I've called a "layer-cake" diagram to introduce the topic of computing system design to 1st-year students -- a hardware layer, followed by a ROM layer, an OS layer, an applications layer and so forth. I assume diagrams of this kind are quite common. Pointers to them would be most welcome. 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: jserventi@neh.gov Subject: NEH Education Division grant opportunity Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:35:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 309 (309) 2003 TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES The National Endowment for the Humanities supports projects to strengthen teaching and learning in history, literature, foreign languages and cultures and other areas of the humanities in United States K-12 and college classrooms. Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development support projects that improve specific areas of humanities education through the development of new or revised curricula or instructional and learning materials. Projects are intended to serve as national models of excellence in humanities education. They must draw upon scholarship in the humanities and use scholars and teachers as advisers. NEH is especially interested in projects that offer solutions to problems frequently encountered by teachers in a particular field of the humanities. Application deadline: October 15, 2003 Funding available: up to $100,000 for curriculum development projects and up to $200,000 for materials development projects Guidelines and application forms are available from the NEH Web site at http://www.neh.gov/grants/index.html For more information about this grant opportunity, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please e-mail, write or call: Division of Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 302 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.gov TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Please see notice about delivery of US mail on the Endowment's homepage <http://www.neh.gov> From: Willard McCarty Subject: lost postings Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:49:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 310 (310) Dear colleagues, In the recent flood of spam -- perhaps, tuning the metaphor, it should be a gloppy cascade -- I know that several personal e-mails sent to me have been lost, so it seems likely that some messages sent to Humanist, and so to me, have also. Please watch carefully for the fate of your postings and report to me when they do not appear within 48 hours. I will reply to all such reports that I see; if you don't get a reply, assume that yet another loss has happened and try again. Sorry for this. I have a spam filter in place. It reports that since installation about a month ago it has caught, at this moment, 4880 bad messages. I have not kept count of those it let through which I then deleted. 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: patrick.durusau@sbl-site.org Subject: re 17.229 critical reflections on publishing Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:31:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 311 (311) Norman, Norman Hinton wrote: [deleted quotation] The record of lost data, including NASA for example (hardly a technologically challenged group), is well known. [deleted quotation] But are our options really limited to traditional publishing or to "trust naively in the Web?" The problems of data preservation/migration should hardly be surprising to anyone and solutions do exist. A search on Google for "data migration" turns up some 111,000 "hits" and the first few pages the usual suspects offering data migration services. Granted that individual scholars may not have the expertise or resources to insure data preservation/migration, but that is hardly the test is it? Individual scholars also lack the means to undertake traditional publishing, or to maintain journals beyond the span of their careers, or to undertake other large ongoing projects that span both time and distance. Yet, we all know of such efforts, many of which are undertaken by traditional academic societies. To be sure, saying data preservation/migration is quite easy and in practice a good deal more difficult. Still, I think it is a topic that academic societies, in conjunction with the library community, should discuss. Such programs should extend to preservation of data sets that are not traditionally published so as to extend the benefits of access and reuse to such materials. The nature of the electronic medium does not allow for any system to absolutely guarantee preservation, but then neither does being written on parchment or clay, as recent experience has shown. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: ptrourke@methymna.com Subject: critical reflections on publishing Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:33:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 312 (312) Computers, like all tools, are fallible. However, there are standard practices which can be used to minimize the volatility of electronic publication (and its other flaws). Dr. Hinton's description of those of us who are engaged in electronic publication as "dopes," while providing as his examples of the inefficacy of computer publishing anecdotes about people who do not take basic data protection precautions and incompetent academic computing center personnel strikes me as symptomatic of a poorly considered argument. One suspects that the naivete lies elsewhere than where he has diagnosed - not with ideas about electronic publication, but in our complacency that we have communicated the abilities and limitations of the technology widely enough for the practice to be accepted. No doubt all the data he was talking about could have been backed up to hard copy, which would remain as easy to access as any pre-electronic publication. So long as one is always careful to back all one's data up to new media and, if necessary, newer and more accessible formats, every once in a while (for vital information, I back up to a mirror drive upon creation, to CD every few months, and have migrated my backups from magnetic tape to 5 1/4 to 2 1/2 to CD - my archives go back to 1986, and I am currently shifting my main work environment to a new platform, which includes decoding all of my old documents from older proprietary formats like PFS:Write, MSWord, and WordPerfect to text and XML-based formats for ease of access in the distant future), one can avoid all of the other problems he has mentioned. More importantly, a true electronic publisher (to distinguish those who follow professional practices from those who simply think it a good idea to put some papers up on the web) provides for the easy ability for the publications it provides to be migrated to a new institution if necessary, preferably without changing their addresses (e.g., by spending the $35 a year for its own domain name; those without free hosting of course usually have to pay closer to $250 a year for the combination of hosted website and domain name, but I've found it to be a very justifiable - and deductible - expense over the years). An author should work to provide a mirror for his electronic publications, in the event that the publisher becomes insolvent. - through keeping backup copies on his own hardware and media, and even if necessary making an arrangement with a friendly colleague in another city to swap mirroring space on one another's sites or even offline hard drives. Finally, whenever possible, an electronic publisher or author should avail itself, himself, or herself of the services of caching and archiving projects like the Internet Archive (http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html#crawl_site). In an ideal world, with unlimited space and an unlimited number of dead trees, and with no expenses for the printing, binding, and maintenance of books, sure, printing a thousand copies of an article in a journal (with a well-respected imprint) on fine acid-free paper and storing it in the dry serials stacks of a thousand libraries is a less volatile way of preserving one's words than electronic publication. But the reality is that library serials budgets have been declining steadily for at least 10-15 years, that university libraries are finding the stack space taken up by paper or even film serials collections is forcing them to leave important parts of their book collections in storage and are therefore looking to switch from paper to electronic delivery, and that journals (outside the sciences, where subscription rates are so astonishingly high that a decent selection of serials rivals the personnel budget for a small academic department) are finding that their subscription base cannot afford to maintain their budgets, and that sponsors are reluctant to increase their share of the expense of publication. Meanwhile, electronic publication provides cheap distribution, easier publicity, and the ease of making and distributing backup copies. I could go on a bit, but would rather not. All of this should be fundamental to academic computing and humanities computing as disciplines, and indeed in this day and age to all academic disciplines - as fundamental as library research skills and citation practice are. An occasional "bah, humbug" from skeptical critics like Dr. Hinton are useful checks to remind practitioners not to be too complacent, and to remind them of areas where standard practices have not yet been developed or have been poorly communicated: but the criticisms raised in this case are largely issues in communicating and following those standard practices, and not limitations of the technology. Patrick Rourke co-Managing Editor, Suda On Line [deleted quotation] From: Dene Grigar Subject: Re: 17.229 critical reflections on publishing Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:34:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 313 (313) I have found these discussions about lost research interesting. The overall sentiment expressed is that the net is somehow responsible for the missing materials rather than the *human* element involved in its disappearance. I too have had online research destroyed by my university, but it was not the net that made the materials disappear but decision-makers from the ITS department and the upper administration looking for ways to "secure" the university system. Allowing faculty to run servers with open ports was not optimum. So, they closed me down. I later managed to gather my material and move them to a commercial provider where I paid $200 to host it each month. Needless to say, I own my own server now. It sits here on my home office and no university official can make policy over it. The bottom line is: it is not the net at fault most times, but the humans running pieces of the net affecting our work. Best, Dene Grigar From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.229 critical reflections on publishing Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:34:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 314 (314) Norman, Some of us trust the Internet and the WWW and all the associated resting spots of electronic ephemera to do exactly what Matt Kirshenbaum expressed as the fate of many a piece of printed matter: disappear from the horizon of collective contemplation. [deleted quotation]In some circles a distinction is drawn between the work (which includes the reading and collecting of preparatory material as well as various versions) and the text. Both works and texts tend to disappear whatever the medium in which they may be fixed. It is this propensity for disappearance that attaches a certain tenor to the attention given to an author by the passing reader. Some works disappear without comment, others garner a few remarks. Matt's point could be reformulated in the language of gambling. If a text is to reach a desired audience or grow an audience, does it have better luck online competing for attention with other similar material online than in hard copy circulating within a coterie whose attention may lack the zest of fresh enthusiasm? It is a fundamental question to ask: for whom does the scholar write? Some scholars are not writing all the time for posterity but often, even most of the time, for communities of readers -- those ever shifting formations. In some of those communities (online or not), one can be a scholar (an intelligent reader of texts and able researcher) without publishing. If recent threads on a number of Web logs are any indication, the bloggers are rediscovering in their own special fashion that to write is not the same as to publish. And to publish is not the same as to invite direct feedback to the author. Sometimes to publish is to invite quotation -- and the existence of some text has only been witnessed through "machine quotation" -- those descriptions in a search engine database. Matt is correct. Preservation is a social question. I, for one, don't mind the ephemerality. Some scholars will build monuments; others walk and talk through and around the momuments. Me, I tend a little garden bed that can be wiped out in flood or frost (and secretly hope the seeds and cutting travel as they have travelled to me). -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Jochen L. Leidner" Subject: Re: 17.230 waterfall diagram? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:36:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 315 (315) Dear Willard, The straightforward Waterfall Model process for system development was devised by W. W. Royce in 1970 [1]. There are more realistic/less simplistic models for system development, such as the Spiral Model by Boehm [2]; a high-level overview can be obtained from [3]. [There are many other models, such as the German 'V Model' or, more recently, eXtreme Programming (XP), but they are perhaps not worth mentioning in a 'Computing for the Humanities' curriculum.] Regards, Jochen [1] Royce, W. W. (1970). Managing the Development of Large Software Systems: Concepts and Techniques. Proceedings of IEEE WESCON, p. 1-9. [2] Boehm, B. W. (1988). A spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [3] Sommerville, Ian (2000). Software Engineering (6th ed.; Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education. On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty) wrote: [...] [deleted quotation] [...] -- Jochen L Leidner ICCS University of Edinburgh <http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~s0239229/> From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.230 waterfall diagram? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:36:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 316 (316) Willard, And what happens when the layered cake is replaced in your introduction by a cascading waterfall? Notwithstanding your not yet having the benefit of consultations with students, I would be curious about your speculations. Francois -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 06:28:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 317 (317) (1) Processes and Boundaries of the Mind Extending the Limit Line by Yair Neuman Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS THINKING -- How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the `reified universe' Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, Dr. Neuman is touching basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. Following the footsteps of Gregory Bateson and Valentine Volosinov, the book propagates a process-oriented theory of the mind, in a way that has never been presented before. In this context, new and creative solutions are presented for a variety of old philosophical problems such as: What is the Mind? Why do we use different signs for the same object across different cultures? and how is it possible to think on our thinking without getting into problems such as an infinite regression. Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-48121-9 Date: November 2003 Pages: 173 pp. EURO 55.00 / USD 60.50 / GBP 37.95 (2) Language, Truth and Knowledge Contributions to the Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap edited by Thomas Bonk Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany VIENNA CIRCLE INSTITUTE LIBRARY -- 2 This collection, with essays by Graham H. Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Jan Wolenski, will interest graduate students of the philosophy of language and logic, as well as professional philosophers, historians of analytic philosophy, and philosophically inclined logicians. Truth and Knowledge brings together 11 new essays that offer a wealth of insights on a number of Carnap's concerns and ideas. The volume arose out of a symposium on Carnap's work at an international conference held in Vienna in 2001. The essays are written from a variety of perspectives: * some essays aim at rebutting influential criticisms directed at Carnap's views; * others examine and assess his thought in the light of recent developments in the neurosciences; * still others are historical and describe the development of Carnap's thought; * they all shed light on the relation of this thought and different philosophical traditions. These essays form a collection that will prove a valuable resource for our understanding of the historic Carnap and the living philosophical issues with which he grappled. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1206-3 Date: September 2003 Pages: 216 pp. EURO 79.00 / USD 87.00 / GBP 55.00 (3) Applied System Simulation Methodologies and Applications edited by Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, USA Georgios I. Papadimitriou Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece This book provides state-of-the-art treatment of methodologies and applications of system simulation related to all disciplines that range from toll-plaza systems for highways and bridges, traffic light control in city planning and engineering, design of transistors, VLSI chips, and computer systems and networks to the design and optimization of the operation of aerodynamic, air traffic control, and space shuttle systems. In a series of structured and focused chapters written by leading international experts from academia, industry and government, this volume presents the fundamentals of system simulation along with the latest research results and applications. Exclusive to this volume is coverage of: * Review of the fundamentals of system modeling and simulation; * Applications of modeling and simulation to wireless networks and systems; * Applications of modeling and simulation to computer systems and networks; * Applications of modeling and simulation to city and regional planning and engineering; * Applications of modeling and simulation to military systems; * Applications of modeling and simulation to aerospace engineering; * Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems; * Simulation and modeling of ATM Systems and Networks; * Simulation of Satellite Systems; * Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Transceivers; * Simulation of Agent-Based Systems; * Simulation in Knowledge Based Systems; * Simulation of Manufacturing Systems; * Parallel and Distributed Simulation; * Verification, Validation, and Accreditation of Simulation Models. With its particular breadth and depth, Applied System Simulation is an ideal reference work for practitioners and researchers working in all areas of modeling and simulation. Given its cohesive structure, it would also serve as a textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate level courses on modeling and simulation for all disciplines. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * 1: Introduction to Applied System Simulation; M.S. Obaidat, G.I. Papadimitriou. * 2: Fundamentals of System Simulation; G.I. Papadimitriou, B. Sadoun, C. Papazoglou. * 3: Simulation of Computer System Architectures; D.N. Serpanos, M. Gambrili, D. Chaviaras. * 4: Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems Scheduling; H.D. Karatza. * 5: Modeling and Simulation of ATM Systems and Networks; M.S. Obaidat, N. Boudriga. * 6: Simulation of Wireless Networks; M.S. Obaidat, D.B. Green. * 7: Satellite System Simulation; F. Davoli, M. Marchese. * 8: Simulation in Web Data Management Systems; G.I. Papadimitriou, A.I. Vakali, G. Pallis, S. Petridou, A.S. Pomportsis. * 9: Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Transceivers; J. Leonard, A. Savla, M. Ismail. * 10: Agent- Oriented Simulation; A. Uhrmacher, W. Swartout. * 11: A Distributed Intelligent Discrete-Event Environment for Autonomous Agents Simulation; M. Jamshidi, S. Sheikh-Bahaei, J. Kitzinger, P. Sridhar, S. Xia, Y. Wang, J. Liu, E. Tunstel, Jr., M. Akbarzadeh, A. El-Osery, M. Fathi, X. Hu, B.P. Zeigler. * 12: Simulation in Health Services and Biomedicine; J.G. Anderson. * 13: Simulation in Environmental and Ecological Systems; L.A. Belfore, II. * 14: Simulation in City Planning and Engineering; B. Sadoun. * 15: Simulation of Manufacturing Systems; J.W. Fowler, A.K. Schömig. * 16: Aerospace Vehicle and Air Traffic Simulation;A.R. Pritchett, M.M. van Paassen, F.P. Wieland , E.N. Johnson. * 17: Simulation in Business Administration and Management; W. Dangelmaier, B. Mueck. * 18: Military Applications of Simulation; P.K. Davis. * 19: Simulation in Education and Training; J.P. Kincaid, R. Hamilton, R.W. Tarr, H. Sangani. * 20: Parallel and Distributed Simulation; F. Moradi, R. Ayani. * 21: Verification, Validation, and Accreditation of Simulation Models; D.K. Pace. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7603-7 Date: September 2003 Pages: 528 pp. EURO 152.00 / USD 168.00 / GBP 104.00 (4) Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science edited by Artur Rojszczak The Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Jacek Cachro The Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Gabriel Kurczewski The University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland SYNTHESE LIBRARY -- 320 Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science is a collection of outstanding contributed papers presented at the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science held in Kraków in 1999. The Congress was a follow-up to the series of meetings, initiated once by Alfred Tarski, which aimed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scientists, philosophers and logicians. The articles selected for publication in the book comply with that idea and innovatively address current issues in logic, metamathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and cognitive science, as well as philosophical problems of biology, chemistry and physics. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, logicians and scientists interested in foundational problems of their disciplines. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1645-X Date: October 2003 Pages: 406 pp. EURO 155.00 / USD 171.00 / GBP 107.00 (5) The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo by José Chabaás University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Bernard R. 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Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1572-0 Date: October 2003 Pages: 356 pp. EURO 140.00 / USD 154.00 / GBP 97.00 (6) Second Language Teaching A View from the Right Side of the Brain by Marcel Danesi University of Toronto, Canada TOPICS IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS -- 8 Second Language Teaching, A view from the Right Side of the Brain: * offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages; * provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to construct classroom activities; * evaluates methods, syllabi, approaches, etc. from the perspective of brain functioning; * illustrates how teaching can unfold with actual examples in several languages. This volume is indispensable in courses designed for language teachers, curriculum planners, and applied linguistics. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1488-0 Date: September 2003 Pages: 214 pp. EURO 90.00 / USD 86.00 / GBP 58.00 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: David Gants Subject: note from Humanist's Assistant Editor Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 06:29:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 318 (318) Greetings! As of 1 June 2003 I am the Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. My new e-mail address can be found at http://www.english.uga.edu/dgants. --d2 From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.232 critical reflections on publishing Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 06:24:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 319 (319) I don't meant to extend this, but I resent being misquoted. I never called anyone "dopes", and I hope everyone knows that. As to the distinction between text and work disappearing and between the Web and computer storage -- have none of you ever used a search engine and then gotten a 404 message ? I find it happens more and more frequently, and not just to ephemera like blogs. I'm a bit surprised at the emotional intensity of some of the notes I have received off-line about this: has the Net become the new Church ? From: Dr. Jen-Shin Hong [mailto:jshong@csie.ncnu.edu.tw] Subject: Journal of Digital Libraries - special issue Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:08:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 320 (320) Museum Museums play an important role in collecting, organizing, conserving, and exhibiting the cultural and artistic heritage of the world. With the development of digital museums, the museum collections may now be digitized and disseminated in digital form using new media and networked channels. This presents powerful opportunities to overcome the geographical or logistical obstacles that hinder people from visiting the physical sites of museums. If we consider the fact that museums normally have not more than 5% of their holdings in their exhibitions, it offers for the first time the possibility to make the total of knowledge kept in museums available to research and the interested public. Since cultural information obtains much of its relevance from thorough understanding of wider contexts and the variances of analogous phenomena in different environments, digital museums also open the vision to be able to research relevant information spread over a multitude of disparate information sources. With the objective to enable people to explore the collections for research inspiration, learning, and enjoyment, digital museums particular emphasize the mechanisms to balance the interests of documentation, education and entertainment. From this perspective, the on-going convergence of digital libraries and digital museums into integrated information spaces seems to be only at its beginning. Many issues, including intellectual, technological, legal, economic, organizational, and design concerns from the perspective of museum's applications, need to be explored. Recognizing the importance of the research in digital museum issues, The Journal of Digital Libraries is organizing a special issue on Digital Museum. The primary focus of this special issue will be on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies, as well as implementation experiences in the areas pertaining the issues in digital museums. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Information integration and knowledge environments * Information access, dissemination, and use * Identification of cultural objects in digital resources and duplicate detection * Data models, metadata models, ontologies for cultural heritage * Multimedia techniques for representation, presentation and display * Digitalization and annotation of real world artifacts * Case studies, experiences, trials, and evaluations of digital museum systems Submissions are invited from researchers and professionals examining and applying information technologies to cultural heritage, including policy makers, humanities scholars, archivists, information specialists, electronic publishers, museum curators, and educators. --Instructions for submitting manuscripts: ---------------------------------------------- Manuscripts must be written in English and should include a cover page with title, name and address (including e-mail address) of author(s), an abstract, and a list of identifying keywords. 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From: "Alexander Gelbukh" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2004 2nd CFP: Computational Linguistics, Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:12:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 321 (321) Springer LNCS, Korea ================================================================ -*!NEW!*- Deadline correction, keynote speakers, excursions, photos ================================================================ CICLing-2004 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 15 to 21, 2004 Seoul, Korea SUMMARY PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS (indexed by SCI Extended) -*!NEW!*- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, short papers: October 20 (*** 1st CFP erroneously said October 10 instead of 1 ***) -*!NEW!*- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Martin Kay, Philip Resnik, Ricardo Baeza -*!NEW!*- EXCURSIONS: Archeological sites, Royal Palaces, traditional village, and more See photos at www.CICLing.org/2004 Air ticket price from EU/US: $800 - $1000 in February URL: http://www.CICLing.org/2004 [material deleted] From: Lou Burnard Subject: TEI MEMBERS MEETING 2003 (fwd) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:44:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 322 (322) ********** TEI Members Meeting 2003 ********** The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium will hold its third annual Members' Meeting at ATILF, the nationally-funded laboratory for analysis and data processing of the French language, based at the University of Nancy, France, on the 7th and the 8th November 2003. The first day will, as usual, be an open day with attendance open to all interested parties and an eclectic mix of presentations and discussions from invited speakers and participants. Invited speakers this year include Nancy Ide, Michael Beddow, Patrick Durusau, and Vincent Quint. There will be opportunities for attendees to speak briefly about their own projects, and a "TEI Question Time" for them to ask about and provide feedback on future developments in the TEI. The meeting will run all day and will conclude with a Reception at 18:30. Full details of the programme are available on the Members web site at http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/ (non-members cannot access this site, but becoming a member or a subscriber is easy! just go to http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/ag.html) The second day will contain a business session, restricted to members and subscribers only, at which the annual elections for membership of the TEI Board and Technical Council will be held. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are also scheduled for this day: a separate announcement about these will follow in due course. A TEI training session will be organized the day before the Members Meeting, on the 6th: see separate announcement. Nancy is a noble and ancient city in the North East of France, with excellent transport links (see further http://www.ot-nancy.fr/pratique/); ATILF, formerly known as INALF, is now based at the University of Nancy and a part of CNRS, the French national research network (see further www.atilf.fr). Accomodation has been reserved at the Hotel Albert 1er-Astoria (http://www.discountparishotels.net/nancy/inter-hotel-albert-1er-astoria.htm), five minutes walk from the meeting rooms at ATILF. A special rate of 50 euro/night for B&B is available to those attending the meeting (7th and 8th Nov); those wishing to stay additional nights will also pay a discounted rate of 65 euro/night. For bookings, please contact the Hotel direct, specifying the TEI 2003 Meeting. Costs: Attendance at the meeting is free of charge for TEI subscribers. Every TEI member institution is entitled to send up to two representatives free of charge. An entrance fee of 75 euros will be charged for all others. All attendees other than invited speakers will be required to fund their own travel, accomodation, and meals. Pre-registration for the meeting is essential, for members, subscribers, and non-members alike. Please pre-register by sending email to membership@tei-c.org URL Reminders: * To join the TEI as a member or a subscriber visit http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/ag.html * For details of this years programme visit http://www.tei-c.org/Members/2003-Nancy/ See you in Nancy! **************************************************** From: tgelder@unimelb.edu.au Subject: latest additions to Critical Thinking on the Web Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 06:23:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 323 (323) Some list members have pointed out that articles on the New York Times website "expire" after some period and thereafter to read them, you need to pay a fee. It is the general policy of CTOTW to refer only to *free* resources (though some exceptions are made, for various reasons). Generally I'll be avoiding listing expiration-prone resources like NY Times articles, except where they are particularly good. In some cases I'll list them when they appear but remove them later. - TvG. 8 Sep in Cognitive Biases <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/07HAPPINESS.html?pagewanted=print&position=>The Futile Pursuit of Happiness by Jon Gertner "If Daniel Gilbert is right, then you are wrong. That is to say, if Daniel Gilbert is right, then you are wrong to believe that a new car will make you as happy as you imagine. ...That's because when it comes to predicting exactly how you will feel in the future, you are most likely wrong." Excellent discussion of systematic biases in "affective prediction". [8 Sep 03] 1 Sep in Teaching <http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/papers/Teaching_CT_Lessons.pdf>Teaching Critical Thinking: Lessons from Cognitive Science by Tim van Gelder (pdf file) Overview of what are (in my opinion) the most important lessons from cognitive science for people trying to teach critical thinking. 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From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.28 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:06:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 324 (324) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 4, Number 28, Week of September 9 - September 15 2003 In this issue: INTERVIEW The More Things Change, the More (and Less) They Stay the Same Bhaskar Chakravorti tells how the network hinders, then helps market innovation By Bhaskar Chakravorti Interview: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i28_chakravorti.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=1&threadid=272 From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 17.237 critical reflections on publishing Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:09:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 325 (325) A footnote to this discussion of electronic materials "lost" through various electronic indiscretions, etc., by various parties. I've been distressed to find that the more recent web browsers (Internet Explorer first, but now even Netscape) have eliminated access to the older "gopher" file/format technology so that people looking for the plethora of materials that we originally made available on our gopher site can no longer access them. They are still there, I'm happy to say, but we have had to create a "mirror site" to renew their general accessibility. Try gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu (mirrored now as http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher) -- if you have an older browser, you might still be able to get there. Bob -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html From: Patrick Rourke Subject: Re: critical reflections on publishing Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:09:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 326 (326) [deleted quotation]You should probably clarify the meaning of this sentence, then: [deleted quotation] From 17.229. I do not misquote. I may misconstrue, of course, and would be happy to be corrected on this matter, but my understanding was that you were referring to those who in your words "trust naively in the Web and the Net", and that this referred to those who "[put their] publications entirely on the WEB." The context of your quoted statement about "web dopes" is that of changes in media standards, and you seem to be anticipating a counter to that argument (that data is lost during changes in media) of "why would anyone use floppies anymore", and preempting with "I realize the web dopes [do] not use floppies". I suspect (from the changes in casing etc.) that your message was written in haste and without any revision. [deleted quotation]As I have already said, this is usually due to poor planning and site maintenance. The sites I maintain are either marked "draft" or their URIs are maintained indefinitely (usually with a redirect or an explanation why the page was removed). Yes, I get 404 messages from other people's sites, but I consideer 404 messages to be the enemy of the web publisher, and track them down whenever possible on my own site. [deleted quotation]My own posting at least was quite unemotional. I described your critique as presenting the symptoms of a poorly considered argument. Such poorly considered arguments are themselves usually the product of emotion. The reason for the vehemence of the response to your critiques is that your critiques are about the results of *poor practice*, and are not characteristic of the field itself. Yes, best practices are not yet widespread, but the solutions to the problems you've raised are known, and it is in part the task of a forum like this one, or of a web publisher like Ross Scaife and Anne Mahoney's Stoa Consortium, to make those practices widespread. At any rate, here is a bibliography of articles I've used on the subject at hand. They were all written by non-humanists - mostly web standards experts - but are all relevant to any kind of non-ephemeral web publishing (the last accessed date is the composition date of an unfinished paper I was writing on the subject): Berners-Lee, Tim, "Cool URIs Don't Change," /Style Guide for Online Hypertext./ *World Wide Web Consortium*, 1998. http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI, last accessed 6 February 2001 12:15 EST Nielsen, Jakob, "URL as UI," /Alertbox./ *Useit.com: Jacob Nielsen's Website,* 21 March 1999. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html, last accessed 6 February 2001 12:16 EST Nielsen, Jakob, ed., "Reader's Comments on URL as UI," Alertbox. *Useit.com: Jacob Nielsen's Website,* no date. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321_comments.html, last accessed 6 February 2001 12:16 EST Connolly, Dan, "Web Naming and Addressing Overview (URIs, URLs, ...)," W3C Architecture Domain, The World Wide Web Consortium, 2000/03/08 15:40:17, http://www.w3.org/Addressing/, last accessed 6 February 2001 12:17 EST . Lassila, Ora, and Swick, Ralph R., edd., "Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification" (W3C Recommendation REC-rdf-syntax-19990222), *The World Wide Web Consortium,* 22 February 1999. http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222, last accessed 6 February 2001 12:18 EST [archival; current version available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax]. I just now checked all of those documents for the first time in 2 years, and they are all still there. This is because they were published by web publishers who understand and followed best practices. Patrick Rourke From: mk235@umail.umd.edu Subject: Re: 17.237 critical reflections on publishing Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:10:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 327 (327) [deleted quotation]This is just to correct what I suspect is a common mis-perception: blogs are not ephemera. In fact, a blog is essentially a database. A server-side package like Movable Type affords the user a great deal of control over how content is indexed and archived. Blogged entries are therefore at least as stable as a plain vanilla Web page. Matt From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: 17.237 critical reflections on publishing Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:10:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 328 (328) On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 04:31 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]A careless misreading of a typo for 'does' started that one, see below: [deleted quotation]Keeping a Web site alive and healthy is more work and expense than most people and institutions anticipate. Nevertheless, scholars should expect that their sysadmins will maintain the integrity of the data entrusted to them. Libraries do not generally burn books to make room for new ones. You have my commiserations on a terrible experience everyone of us has had at some time or other. [deleted quotation]And have we been reduced to either theorizing the Kool-Aid or handing it out? Some replies to Norman's plaint have sought to place the blame solely on human decisions, as if these could be in some way separated from the (implicitly) infallible Net, but the medium is the mess. (Sorry couldn't resist). We cannot separate the Internet from human policies and decisions, especially since it both invites and requires human action in ways that other, physical media (print books for example) do not. The ease with which digital objects can be altered and even made to disappear invites human action. The complex infrastructure needed to maintain them requires it. Norman's experience is monstrous in more than one way. gary From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.237 critical reflections on publishing Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:11:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 329 (329) Willard and Norman [deleted quotation]Extensions and clarifications have their merit. They invite some readers to review the thread. [deleted quotation]Perhaps more frustrating than broken links via a search engine are broken links via an HTML document, especially a resource that one has authored and not revisited in a while. There is of course software that helps authors check the integrity of the links on their sites. Another element in the ethos of linking. Few, if any, persons linking to material I have uploaded advise me that they have linked. Also fewer requests for link exchange have come through of late (last three years or so). I wouldn't want to generalize from this experience. However, some subscribers to Humanist may be able to link us to some discussions about the etiquette of linking and the human dimension of link rot. [deleted quotation]I have a theory. Speed induced by what the French call "la rentree" gets inflected through national concerns (and some nations have very theocratic discourses and ideologies that celebrate individualsim). Back to school time for some is back to highly personalized political debate. See for example comments that hypothesize a recourse to ad hominem turns as a failure to imagine scenarios: http://www.vitia.org/weblog/archives/000114.html And this on the perils of projecting experience: http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/116 However, I would tend to read these bubbling conversations, including the thread spinning from Norman's remarks, as all in some way concerned with production versus work. And symptomatic of a service economy shift in the governance of the academic and educational sectors. The great question: the place and value scholarship in the lives of the people (the academic, the para-academic, the non-academic). The second great question: the struggle for social formations that truly realize the value placed on scholarship in the lives fo the people. Old questions. New answers? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: ofrancois@umuc.edu Subject: Teach and Digital Fair Use online workshops Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:58:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 330 (330) ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION 2003 UMUC Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa/ The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is excited to once again host its annual asynchronous online workshop series that has proven to be of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians, instructional design and information professionals! Each workshop will last approximately two weeks, providing the participants with an in-depth understanding of core intellectual property issues facing higher education. IMPLEMENTING THE T.E.A.C.H. Act October 22 - November 5, 2003 Moderated by Kenneth Crews Virtual Intellectual Property Scholar, CIP-UMUC, Associate Dean & Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) BALANCING ACTS: Fair Use and Digital Content November 10 - November 21, 2003 Moderated by Georgia Harper Manager, Intellectual Property Section of The University of Texas System Office of General Counsel PREVENTING PLAGIARISM TOOLBOX February 10-February 28, 2004 Moderated by Kimberly Kelley Associate Provost and Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, University of Maryland University College These online workshops will include course readings, live chats and online discussions. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from the workshop moderators. Please visit the web site for workshop descriptions and objectives: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa/workshops.html Space is limited so please register early. 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- http://www.umuc.edu/diatance/odell/cip/ipa For additional information call 301-985-7777 or visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] ------------------------------------ Olga Francois, Sr. Research Librarian Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ From: skrause@emich.edu Subject: re 17.240 critical reflections on publishing Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:54:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 331 (331) I'm sort of surprised that this link hasn't been brought up yet, so I guess I'll be the one to do it: While clearly archiving of materials on the web is a major problem, there are lots of people who are working quite hard at solving this problem. The best example is the Internet Archive, which is at http://www.archive.org/ They have a neat little feature called "The Wayback Machine" which allows you to search through their various generations of their database that reaches back to 1996. It is certainly far from perfect, but it also has a lot of web sites in it that return "404s" or significant changes from what you were expecting. And I think it's a fun interface to play around with, too. --Steve Steven D. Krause Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature 614 G Pray-Harrold Hall * Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 * http://krause.emich.edu From: norman@astro.gla.ac.uk Subject: re 17.232 critical reflections on publishing (fwd) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:56:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 332 (332) [Apologies for the loss of the following, which has just been resent. Please stay vigilant! --WM] Greetings, On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 333 (333) [deleted quotation] "secure" the [deleted quotation] And quite right too! Campus computer-services personnel need a little defending from time to time, and securing the network is probably the most important part of what they do. Amateur-maintained web servers are one of the threats to that security, and to the machines of other people on that network. By `amateur' I simply mean someone who does not spend their waking hours being paranoid about networking stacks and firebridges, which means anyone who actually has other work to do. Plagues like Sobig, Nachi and Nimda (the last of which attacked Windows web servers) mean that the spring of do-it-yourself servers is probably over. This is inconvenient or infuriating for all of us, but such policing is part of the collateral damage of such virus and worm attacks. So I'm not attacking Dene, here -- the machine she manages may be admirably robust -- but bewailing this next step in the net's arch from wilderness to goldtown to sheriff to ... silicon valley? In any case, the digital library movement is all about providing services for the folk who are producing the content. These services are not just indexing and delivery, but also the other aspects to this thread: format migration, backups, and reliably secure servers. [deleted quotation] And I hope your home machine, Sheriff Dene, is patched and firewalled with fanatical consistency: if it's attacked, broken, and used to relay spam, then that's going to affect _my_ work; now _you're_ one of the humans running pieces of the net. Best wishes, Norman (Gray) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@astro.gla.ac.uk From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.240 critical reflections on publishing Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:57:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 334 (334) Alas ! a typo for "does" that I did not notice and of course the spell checker did not query. Very sorry. You will notice, I hope, that it is not a sentence as it stands, nor do I have any idea what the phrase "Web dopes" might mean. "I realize the WEb dopes not use floppies" From: "Luigi M Bianchi" Subject: Re: 17.240 critical reflections on publishing Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:57:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 335 (335) Robert Kraft is almost right: most current browsers have stopped supporting the gopher protocol. But there are important exceptions. Mozilla, for example, which took me to <gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu> without flinching. Luigi M Bianchi Luigi M Bianchi Science and Technology Studies Room 2048 TEL Building York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J-1P3 phone: +1 (416) 736-2100 x-30104 fax: +1 (416) 736-5188 mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/ From: morrison@unc.edu Subject: September-October issue of the Technology Source Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:32:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 336 (336) INSIDE THE TECHNOLOGY SOURCE James L. Morrison interviews author and software developer Clark Aldrich, who discusses the educational potential of simulation technology. Aldrich argues that computer games have provided the foundation for new, customized forms of software that enhance learning through simulated scenarios, and that this technology will soon change the landscape of education. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=2032 ) Going wireless has appeared as the next advance on the educational horizon. But is it a practical option for teachers who conduct large lecture courses? H. Arthur Woods and Charles Chiu point such instructors toward one relatively simple but useful innovation: the wireless response pad, a tool that allows for immediate, comprehensive student feedback. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1045 ) Pamela L. Anderson-Mejías describes how a creative use of traditional print media can support online learning. To promote greater engagement with textbooks, Anderson-Mejías allowed students to choose from a list of acceptable texts, so that they did not all use the same text for the class. She then required students to compare and evaluate their sources in specialized online assignments. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1053 ) Many instructors who make the move to online teaching are concerned that this medium will undermine student engagement with each other and with the subject matter. Thomas Berner reports that, to the contrary, students in his online literature of journalism course participate much more actively in group discussions than their classroom-based counterparts. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1036 ) Most experienced online instructors would agree that they adopted the tools of the trade not in one fell swoop, but in a gradual series of stages. Grover C. Furr III describes the development of his teaching in terms of five stages, each of which led to a greater level of integration between technology, subject matter, and pedagogical goals. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1033 ) James Kilmurray argues that online education should more effectively address the needs of working adults. He proposes three major requirements to meet this goal: recognizing the distinctive characteristics of the adult learning population, instituting a shared-responsibility system of instruction, and supporting research and experimentation on Web-tailored pedagogy. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1014 ) Bonnie B. Mullinix and David McCurry provide a helpful road map for online education—-in the form of an annotated "webliography" of resource centers, professional organizations, and other sites that promote the discussion and development of technology-enhanced teaching and learning environments. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1002 ) The value of faculty development programs at many institutions is limited due to a lack of focus. How can such programs offer practical knowledge to educators and simultaneously address the larger goals of the institution? Anne Agee, Dee Ann Holisky, and Star Muir describe how their program assists faculty members in a "targeted" approach to technology training. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=1067 ) Finally, in our Spotlight Site section, Stephen Downes reviews BBC Learning, a Web site that offers extensive online resources for teachers, parents, and students of all ages, including tips on study skills, foreign language tutorials, lesson plans, specialized newsletters, and a limited (but growing) list of online courses. (See http://64.124.14.173/default.asp?show=article&id=2029 ) From: Claire Warwick Subject: Re: 17.240 critical reflections on publishing Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:21:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 337 (337) I came back from my holiday to find a great deal of interesting discussion on this thread, but I hope you will forgive me for taking it back a little to the original post, as I have read them all in one go. The original author, Professor Corre, it seems was referring to the problems of academic acceptance of scholarly publishing which takes place only in an electronic form. How fortunate Prof Corre is not to have to be part of the British academic culture of the Research Assessment Exercise. (For those happy enough not to know about this, it means that every research active academic must submit the details of their best four publications over a given period of years for periodic review of departments, the results of which determine how much government funding we receive). Despite the fact that electronic publication, or the creation or a digital resource is officially recognized by the RAE as an academic endeavour, in practice print still carries much more kudos. In the last exercise I referred to the URL of an article that I had produced in an electronic only journal, only to be advised that this was not sufficiently prestigious and please would I offer page numbers for the printed version, so that these might be photocopied and sent to the panel. Since there was no printed version I chose instead to offer a link to the long abstract of a paper given at ACH-ALLC 99. This would of course be easy to access for the reviewers. Still no good, page numbers were absent. So, driven that the journal version of the article had yet to appear I had to ask John Unsworth, the conference chair, to snail mail me a copy of the proceedings volume so that the printed version could be photocopied and sent off. This was exactly the same text as the electronic version, but despite the fact that it was clearly part of an official conference website I was advised that the authority of print would confer more gravitas on my words. The assessment panel was Library and Information Studies, so could hardly have been seen as ignorant of electronic delivery of information. This serves to demonstrate how slowly academic culture changes in response to technology, and is part of the reason, I think, why journal publishers are shy of producing content solely in electronic form, despite that fact that some libraries now have switched to electronic only journal delivery. So at least for the foreseeable suture and for British academics the option of solely producing our research in electronic form is not one that appears to be open to us, at least when one is relatively junior. As in so many things if money follows what we do, then we are nervous of bucking trends or questioning cultural norms. So despite the face that I received very interesting feedback on my article in an electronic only journal (Information Research), and despite the fact that it is run by a respected academic (Tom Wilson) I have not yet repeated the experience. Ironic, isn't it? Claire ************************************************************* Claire Warwick MA PhD Programme Director and Lecturer Electronic Communication and Publishing School of Library Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street, WC1E 6BT 020 7679 2548, c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk ************************************************************* From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Typos and Research Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:29:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 338 (338) Willard, The recent does/dopes typo uncovered through http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v17/0240.html leads me to wonder if QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards produce typos of differnt import and if touch typists are prone to making different keyboard infelicities than two finger typists. Multilingual writers? Any research? There is of course automatic text funging on MOOs of which note Katherine Parrish's work MOOLIPO http://www.meadow4.com/moolipo/ and her paper on automatic poetry generation http://www.meadow4.com/cybertext/autopres.html curious -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Narratives and Plagues Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:31:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 339 (339) Willard In Humanist 17.240, Mr. Gray traces a narrative of contamination that invokes image of the clsoure of a frontier: spring of do-it-yourself servers is probably over. [...] bewailing this next step in the net's arch from wilderness to goldtown to sheriff to ... silicon valley? http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v17/0240.html I wonder if cybernauts who have an appreciation of interoperability and cross-platform behaviour are as likely to invoke the shrinking of the wild and bemoan traffic congestion. Is there not a cycle similar to that between hardware capacity and size of software? More machines, more routes for traffic to get through a jam? More machines of the same kind, more chances of more routes being jammed? One could readily draw conclusions in favour of cyber-diversity of operating systems. Rather than a recession of the wild. At least that is one story that has been told in realiton to AIDS and safe-sex practices by analogy could apply to the machine security. BTW home users can often deploy patches more quickly than certain large scale enterprises that need to do a lot of pretesting to ensure that the patches do not cause compatability problems with mission critical applications. Small and distributed can still be beautiful. Lag or no lag. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Harold Short Subject: Antonio Zampolli Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:39:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 340 (340) Many colleagues, returning to their institutions for the new academic year, will only just be learning the terrible news of Antonio Zampolli's death. Professor Zampolli was President of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) from 1983 until his untimely passing, and was indeed one of the founding spirits who brought the Association into being in 1973. He was also a great enthusiast for collaboration, recognising and exemplifying the intrinsic inter-disciplinary nature of computing in the humanistic disciplines. He was a strong supporter of the annual joint international conferences held by the ALLC and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) beginning in Toronto in 1989, attending - and making a significant impression! - on almost all of them. He also, of course, played a major role in the setting up and funding of the Text Encoding Initiative, and of the transition of the activity 12 years later into the TEI Consortium. In our roles in the two major professional associations in humanities computing, and in the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, all three being organisations which owe a particular and great debt of gratitude to Professor Zampolli, we write to express the profound shock and sorrow of members of these organisations, feelings that will be shared by many, many other colleagues around the world. The many intellectual fields in which Antonio Zampolli was so active have lost a true and formidable champion. Obituaries written by some of those who worked closely with Antonio over the years will be placed on the ALLC, ACH and TEI web sites, and an obituary will be published in Literary and Linguistic Computing to mark his long support and encouragement of the journal. All three organisations have begun discussions on appropriate ways to pay tribute to his life and work and to establish lasting memorials to his achievements. We would be pleased to receive suggestions along these lines from any members of our communities. Harold Short Chair, ALLC and Acting Chair, TEI Consortium Board John Unsworth President, ACH and retiring Chair, TEI Consortium Board From: Willard McCarty Subject: more critical reflections Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:55:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 341 (341) While I appreciate the need for security of computing systems (as of my home, office and so on), making security the first concern does not have an encouraging history. The tighter the controls the less the liberty to do anything new, unusual, interesting. I realise that extreme control, except in a totalitarian state, is not at issue. But control calls for judgement about what to allow, and all too often those in academic computing centres who make the judgements have little understanding of the academic way of life their services are meant to support. To this day, for example, some of those in computing centres appear to assume that people do their work in offices during office hours, and so services can be controlled on the basis of IP addresses assigned to the institution in question. That simply does not fit the way academics work. Years ago, when I first heard about the Web, I made enquiries with my main institutional computing centre (where I had worked for years) about getting access to the trial Web server it had set up. I was an enthusiastic gopher architect at the time, like my friend Bob Kraft, but was feeling a bit confined by the technical limitations of gopher. Fine, my friends and former colleagues in the centre said, let's set up an account for you and we'll see what happens. Then the security man found out about this, wrote to me and asked for the fixed IP address of my office machine. I explained that as my job did not permit such playing around (I was then employed in a non-academic position), I had to work from home. These were the days of what we now quaintly call "narrowband", i.e. dial-up only, and so no fixed IP. The security man said, sorry, no fixed IP, no Web account, because we have to keep our system secure. End of conversation. Then a colleague in a very small, more hackerish computing centre in the same university found out about my interest. I don't think he had a clue as to what I wanted the account for (he was a hacker/system administrator, not an academic), but he did like to see new things used. So he set up an account for me. I tried out the Web and never looked back. I immediately began experimenting, saw enough of the academic potential and began telling everyone who would listen. If I had not had the renegade alternative, I would not have come close to the Web for some years. Since my job at the time was to keep the academics in the humanities informed about emergent possibilities etc. the delay would have been consequential. Ah, security. The only safe computer is an unplugged computer. 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: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 17.243 critical reflections on publishing Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:56:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 342 (342) At 7:00 +0100 11/9/03, "Humanist Discussion Group": [deleted quotation] I'd disagree with this in a general sort of way. The threat to security of the network is largely because a culture of pernicious computer use exists, who runs the server is irrelevant to this culture. It is perhaps an error to confuse one with the other, with the consequence that many secure 'amateur' servers within a corporate or academic culture are then taken over by a centralised IT department. My experience of this has always been negative and lead to a reduction of service, innovation, and creative culture. My experience of computer services personnel is that the integrity of the network is the most important thing to be preserved, and this leads to what I'd describe as computing's version of xenophobia. I recognise that this is of course important, but there are two basic things that even amateurs can do: run regular updates for software to ensure their systems are current, or rely on upstream security through the firewalls and packetsniffing that the IT department are running. The network is decentralised and it ought to be. cheers Adrian Miles (a very amateur server operator :-) ) -- + interactive desktop video researcher [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + research blog [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 17.244 narratives and plagues Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:57:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 343 (343) Greetings, In Humanist 17.244, Francois Lachance quoted me [deleted quotation]and described it as a `narrative of contamination'. While I can see that in the text, what I had in mind was much more of a `narrative of urbanisation', if I have to give it a label. I also don't necessarily feel this is a bad thing: as a convinced urbanite, I feel I can best enjoy the wilderness's primal peace, and the frontier's derring-do, from the vantage of a boulevard cafe terrace. Put another way, there was a certain bear-wrestling chic to macho multi-protocol mail addressing (remember when mail addresses had more punctuation than letters?), and Archie had a glow of little-house-on-the-prairie self-sufficiency; but obliged to choose between that and Google, I'd be calling for the railroads to roll right in. It is this `urbanisation' that allows online institutions to develop, obliges offline institutions to take notice of, for example, online-only work, and for the two to intersect in wranglings over how best to preserve online work when its author moves or retires in the offline world. It is `urbanisation' that makes this current batch of threads inevitable. The down-side of urbanisation is the hell that is other people. This changes the type of threats that we face, undermines community-based `policing', and requires instead the inconveniences of regulation and still-jumpy security that Dene Grigar referred to in Humanist 17.242, and after that all the anxieties of access, social power, and the oversight of regulators. Francois went on to say: [deleted quotation]I agree with Francois, here, there is a dangerous lack of diversity now (I suspect this is not quite the point Francois was making). Now we have Windows machines (in a few varieties) and, somewhat less visibly, unix varieties and Macs (varieties of which can, according to taste, be plausibly regarded as a variety of unix box or not). And that, more or less, is it. In some people's minds, `interoperable' means `_both_ versions of Internet Explorer'. Back in the days when you bought your mainframe but didn't buy an operating system (because obviously you'd want to write that for yourself), interop clearly mattered, because if you didn't abide by the standards, you couldn't talk to anyone. Even by the beginning of the nineties, when folk generally bought their OS with the machine, there was Unix, MVS, VMS, CMS, and others I've forgotten, to consider and interoperate between. Interoperability still matters now, if this urb isn't to become a one-party state, but it's a harder, more technical, argument to advance. Best wishes, Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow norman@astro.gla.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: the blind man's knowing Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:19:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 344 (344) In his remarkable and for us quite valuable book, What Engineers Know and How They Know It (Johns Hopkins, 1990), Walter G. Vincenti refers to the work of the psychologist Donald Campbell, who "has argued at length that all genuine increases in knowledge... take place by some form of a process of *blind variation and selective retention* (p. 48). He uses "blind" to refer to variations in exploratory work that are not random but which proceed with inadequate guidance. Vincenti likens the engineer-researcher (include yourself in this noble company) to a blind man with a cane walking down an unfamiliar street, not randomly, not without purpose, intelligence or direction, but blindly, learning as he can from the taps of his cane. This is us. Vincenti develops his ideas on selective retention in a concluding chapter. I will not attempt to summarize this here -- I have only had time to skim the book while travelling on the tube last night. But it strikes me as a very promising enquiry for the likes of us. He notes that the epistemology of engineering is a field in its bare infancy -- but it IS a field. A number of people within the last few decades (Don Ihde included) have been arguing that the technological disciplines make a great deal more sense if we stop thinking of them as "applied science" and start taking notice of their independence. This is company we should be keeping. 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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: The Technology Source Needs a New Publisher Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:49:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 345 (345) Dear Humanist scholars, Yesterday, on a scheduled call to discuss the 2004 publication year, Tom Schumann, MVU VP for Academic Affairs, told me that MVU, currently under a severe budget crunch that includes staff reductions, cannot publish The Technology Source past the Nov/Dec 2003 issue. Given this situation, MVU is willing to transfer ownership of the journal to a credible organization in much the same manner that UNC-Chapel Hill transferred it to MVU upon my retirement from UNC (i.e., no cost). Moreover, MVU is willing to maintain the journal on their server (with the domain name of the publishing organization) for cost if that organization wishes to do so. If we do not find a publisher, MVU will archive all issues we have published at http://ts.mivu.org so that they will continue to be available to the educational community. If you know of an organization/professional association that would be a suitable publisher, please let me know. Better yet, if you personally know someone at the organization/association that you can contact, please let them know of this situation and, if they are interested, ask them to write me. Best. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief The Technology Source http://ts.mivu.org Home Page: http://horizon.unc.edu -- From: chess Subject: Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:47:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 346 (346) International and Cross-disciplinary workshop, _Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society_ - NTNU, Trondheim, Oct. 9-10, 2003. Focussing on the multicultural and political aspects of information and communication technologies in a global society, the workshop will have three main topics: * Power, control, and information technology * Culture, gender, and information technology * Democracy, multiculturalism, and information technology The workshop is organised by the Globalisation project at NTNU, in co-operation with the Programme for Applied Ethics, NTNU and the Section for Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen. Programme and registration details: Please do pass this information along to any lists and/or colleagues that you think it might interest. -- Charles Ess Visiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Office phone: +45 38 16 89 63 Fascimile: +45 38 16 88 99 Mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.249 the blind man's knowing Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:45:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 347 (347) Willard, The researcher as individual may lead to the adoption of the blind man analogy. As you invite subscribers : [deleted quotation] I read a plural in that "us" that undermines the analogy. I'm intrigued how Donald T. Campbell's work could underwrite the move to the blind man analogy (yes, there is the use of the term _blind_). I think there is quite a leap from "blind variation" - not knowing which variation might be selected - to a disquisition on randmoness and purpose as figured by the navigation of the blind person. I think it is imperative to distinguish between the generation of variations and the selection of variations. . Campbell's work in epistemology also highlights "vicarious selectors". For relevant links, see a Campbell obituary by F. Heylighen, accessible online from Principia Cybernetica http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CAMPBEL.html If "us" is a system, then some of "us" produces variation by blind trial-and-error and some of "us" selects some of those variations for retention. Of course the "us" system can be embodied in one individual who can both play and adjudicate. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: lhomich Subject: RE: 17.249 the blind man's knowing Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:46:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 348 (348) Dear Colleagues: 'The blind man's knowing' (17.249) got me thinking about the parable of the blind men and the elephant: no one thinks to ask the elephant's opinion about being felt up by strangers. In our explorations, we can always ask what effect we are having, and proceed with careful consideration for subject and territory. Although we may be 'blind' (perhaps 'ignorant' would be a better word?), we are not senseless. Eric Homich M.A. student, Humanities Computing / English University of Alberta From: bwilson@cnri.reston.va.us Subject: September 2003 issue of D-lib magazine is now available Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:48:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 349 (349) The September 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are four articles, a report on the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003), a book review, a journal review, several smaller features in D-Lib Magazine's 'In Brief' column (including five brief ECDL 2003 workshop reports), excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. The Featured Collection for September is Digital History, courtesy of Steven Mintz, University of Houston. The articles include: The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets, Loughborough University Generation of XML Records across Multiple Metadata Standards Kimberly S. Lightle and Judy Ridgway, Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, Ohio State University The Digital Preservation of e-Prints Stephen Pinfield, University of Nottingham; and Hamish James, King's College London Aggregate Record Management in Three Clicks Terry Reese, Oregon State University Also in this issue: Report on the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2003: 17 - 22 August 2003, Trondheim, Norway Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology A review of the book "Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization" by Chaomei Chen, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., 2003 Reviewed by: Kevin Boyack, Sandia National Laboratories A review of the Palgrave Macmillan journal "Information Visualization" edited by Chaomei Chen Reviewed by: Andre Skupin, University of New Orleans From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: CLiP 2003 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:30:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 350 (350) CALL FOR PAPERS Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Italianistica COMPUTERS, LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY (VI) Florence, 4-6 December 2003 Submissions welcomed in the following areas: - Tools for accessing and using cultural heritages in multilingual environments; - Digital publishing and the development and preservation of major and minority languages; - Tools for assisted translation; - Humanities Computing curricula and networks of excellence in European universites; - Tools and techniques for multilingual on-line teaching. Deadline for submissions: September 30 Conference web site: http://lablita.dit.unifi.it/clip2003/ For any further information please feel free to contact the conference organisers: Massimo Moneglia (moneglia@unifi.it) Carlota Nicolas (carlota.nicolas@unifi.it) From: Darren Cambridge Subject: 2004 NLII Annual Meeting: Submit a Proposal Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:32:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 351 (351) ********************************************************** The NLII 2004 Annual Meeting "New Learning Ecosystems" January 25-27, 2004 The Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, California http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/nlii041/ ********************************************************** Join us at the tenth annual meeting of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) to explore the topic of new learning ecosystems. The idea of "learning ecosystems," which emerged over the past year in international conferences and forums, provides a useful way of thinking about e-learning and higher education. In biological terms, an ecosystem is the complex of a community and its environment functioning as an ecological unit. New learners, using new technologies, are creating new learning ecosystems on campus. The mobile and connected learner interacting with a blended learning environment is changing concepts of time, place, and space for higher education. CALL FOR PROPOSALS SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 3 If you are interested in presenting on this topic, we invite you to submit your proposal online at http://www.educause.edu/nlii/meetings/nlii041/program.asp PROPOSAL GUIDELINES AND KEY THEMES Meeting presentations are organized around NLII key themes. Before submitting your proposal, review the proposal guidelines for information about the key themes to understand the relevance of each theme, the relationship of NLII projects to the theme, the critical questions we encourage you to tackle with your presentation, and other projects or efforts to which you should relate your project. Learn more about the NLII key themes at http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/ [material deleted] -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren Cambridge, Ph.D. Director, Web Projects Engaged Campus in a Diverse Democracy and Carnegie Academy Campus Program EDUCAUSE NLII Fellow 2003 American Association for Higher Education One Dupont Circle, Suite 360 Washington, DC 20036-1143 (202) 293-6440 ext. 795 (office) (202) 270-5224 (mobile) Submit your proposal for the national 2004 Learning to Change Conference at http://www.aahe.org/learningtochange/. The proposal deadline is October 1. The conference is April 1-4 in at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: E_Cap2004 Italy Call for papers Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:43:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 352 (352) CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************** COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY E-CAP2004_ITALY Pavia, Italy, Collegio Ghislieri, June 3-5, 2004 ********************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra2.html ********************************************************************** ALSO NEW !! Conference MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Pavia, December 2004 http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ********************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION From Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 June 2004 (three days) the International European Conference ``COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY'' will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). GENERAL INFORMATION The Computational Philosophy Laboratory and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pavia will be hosting the European Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conference from the 3rd to the 5th of June. PROGRAM The conference will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is occurring within the discipline of Philosophy. The Programme Committee are particularly interested in submissions in Cognitive Science, Epistemology and Metaphysics. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to computing and philosophy from the following list: * Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics * Abductive reasoning, Scientific discovery, Creative processes * Internal and External Representations in Cognitive Science * Simulation, Embodiment, and Distributed Reasoning in Computational Models of Cognitive * Problem of Consciousness in PhilosophyI * New Models of Logic Software * Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources * Ethics * The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy * The Role of Computers as Tools for Philosophical Research [material deleted] For any further information do not hesitate to contact our local organizer, Elena Gandini at elena@acrossevents.com From: Michael Fraser Subject: Vacancies at the Humbul Humanities Hub/RTS Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:45:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 353 (353) The following vacancies within the Research Technologies Service are currently being advertised: * Content Editor (Modern Languages) * Systems Developer Further detail and application forms from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/ Content Editor (Modern Languages) Salary: GBP 18,265- 27,339 The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/), based within the Research Technologies Service (RTS) at Oxford University Computing Services provides an online service for the humanities as part of the national Resource Discovery Network (http://www.rdn.ac.uk/). We are looking for a Content Editor to enhance our support for the modern languages community within higher and further education. You will be responsible for identifying, evaluating and describing Web-based resources relevant for the study of modern language and linguistics subjects. You will also be negotiating similar content from external collaborators and liaising with publishers to enable access to online resources as part of a planned humanities portal. If you have a postgraduate degree in a relevant subject, a working knowledge of two or more European languages, and familiarity with using the Web for research or teaching then please get in touch with us. Experience of descriptive cataloguing would be useful and you will have excellent written and spoken communication skills. You should have a genuine enthusiasm for promoting the use of online resources, be willing to learn about new ways of accessing them, and want to join a friendly multidisciplinary team. The ability to manage deadlines and to communicate well is essential. Please obtain further details and an application form from the Personnel Office, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 01865 283289, email: recruitment@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Further details and the application form are also available via http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/ You are strongly encouraged to submit a completed application form and covering letter which details how your qualifications and experience fulfils the specified criteria in the further particulars. Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 10th October 2003. Interviews will be held after 20th October 2003. --- Post: Systems Developer Salary: GBP 18,265-£27,339 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. See http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/. We are looking for a Systems Developer to contribute technical expertise to a number of high-profile services and projects. You will be responsible for developing applications for a humanities portal and to support the Arts and Humanities Data Service Centre for Literature, Language and Linguistics. You will also participate in the activities of OSS Watch, the new Open Source Advisory Service. If you have an appropriate degree or extensive relevant experience, a working knowledge of languages or tools for developing applications for online information systems (e.g. JAVA, XML/XSLT, SOAP) and familiarity with Linux then please get in touch with us. You will also be knowledgeable about technologies and standards for resource discovery (e.g. Z39.50, RSS, OAI) and have excellent written and spoken communication skills. You should have a genuine enthusiasm for developing online services, be willing to learn about new technologies, and want to join a friendly multidisciplinary team. The ability to manage deadlines and to communicate well is essential. Please obtain further details and an application form from the Personnel Office, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 01865 283289, email: recruitment@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Further details and the application form are also available via http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/vacancies/ You are strongly encouraged to submit a completed application form and covering letter which details how your qualifications and experience fulfils the specified criteria in the further particulars. Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 10th October 2003. Interviews will be held after the 20th October 2003. --- Dr Michael Fraser Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ From: "Johanne Martinez - Schmitt" Subject: ESF NEWS - http://www.esf.org - Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:47:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 354 (354) Dear ESF web site user, This is the latest update on what's new on the European Science Foundation's web site. [www.esf.org] Eurocores - programme Coordinators The ESF has established an innovative collaborative funding mechanism within Europe to promote high quality research organised at a European level and funded by the ESF Member Organisations. The EUROCORES Scheme will be supported by the EU Sixth Framework Programme. EURYI: Call for proposals - European Young Investigator Awards The European Union Research Organisations Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS), wishing to contribute to the building of the European Research Area decided to co-ordinate some of their activities in creating the European Young Investigator (EURYI) Awards . The aim of EURYI Awards will be to enable and encourage outstanding young researchers from all over the world, to work in a European environment for the benefit of the development of European science and the building up of the next generation of leading European researchers. Opportunities for outstanding young scientists in Europe to create an independant research team In Europe, regional, national and international institutions, as well as private foundations, have become aware that we all have to take action to foster the new generation of scientists to strengthen European and national R&D and to build the European Research Area. The aim must be for Europe to be able to attract the best scientists in the world, with no restrictions as to origin or nationality. EURYI awards: A new opportunity to do science in Europe Europe has entered the competition to hire the best young scientists in the world. The European Young Investigator awards (EURYI), offered by the research organisations of 14 European countries to 25 young and outstanding scientists from any country in the world, allow to create their own team in Europe, and this in any domain of knowledge. ESF Scientific Programmes - PESC‘s Call for Outline Proposals 2003 The ESF Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences (PESC) has launched its annual Call for "outline" proposals for ESF Scientific Programmes. Proposals should address NOVEL SCIENCE in one or more of the following fields: chemistry, physics, mathematics, information sciences and technology, fundamental engineering sciences, materials sciences and engineering. Multi-disciplinary proposals based in these areas but also involving fields within the remit of other ESF Standing Committees are also welcome. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 31 October 2003. The European Science Foundation appoints Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha as new chairman of the Standing Committee for Life and Invironmental Sciences (LESC) The new LESC chair Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) Mozambique in 1945. B.Sc. (Hons) in theoretical physics in 1967. He completed his Ph.D. in solid state physics in 1972 under the supervision of Frank Nabarro, one of the world experts in dislocation theory. During 1971, he spent a year at the University of Paris (Orsay) in the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides headed by Jacques Friedel, but associated with the group of P.G. de Gennes. ESF Syllabus for Clinical Investigator Training - a recent initiative from European Science Foundation, ESF ESF wishes to introduce this Syllabus to help create a culture of scientifically knowledgeable physicians: physicians who, in view of the EU Clinical Trial Directive, would be able to critically evaluate study proposals, to conduct studies according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and to conclude and report valid data as rapid and safe as possible. The way to achieve this is through education and training, and ESF is now setting the scientific aim for this. EuroCLIMATE - Call for outline proposals Following agreement with ESF Member Organisations in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden, the European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Outline Proposals for research projects to be executed under the EUROCORES programme EuroCLIMATE. The deadline for submission of outline proposals is 31 October 2003. **NEW ONLINE PUBLICATIONS** <http://www.esf.org/publication/163/emrcsyllabus287.pdf>A European Syllabus for Training Clinical Investigators <http://www.esf.org/publication/162/ESPB22.pdf>European Science Policy Briefing N° 22 - ESF statement on the Green paper on Europe‘s Space Policy <http://www.esf.org/publication/161/ted.pdf>Towards Electronic Democracy: Internet based complex decision support (TED) <http://www.esf.org/publication/160/Comm45.pdf>ESF Communications N°45 <http://www.esf.org/publication/159/ercpositionpaper.pdf>New Structures for the support of High-Quality Research in Europe Thank you for your interest in the ESF activities From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: ALLC / ACH - 2004, 2nd Call for Papers Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:45:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 355 (355) ALLC/ACH-2004, 2nd Call for Papers. Computing and Multilingual, Multicultural Heritage 16th Joint Annual Conference of ALLC and ACH June 11-16, 2004, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden The conference website can be visited at: http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/ The 2004 conference has two aims. First, we invite papers and contributions in all areas related to humanities computing and the application of advanced information technologies in humanities subjects, including linguistics, literature, cultural and historical studies, translation studies, media studies and digital collections. Papers on research and on teaching are both of interest. Papers may report on new theoretical and methodological advances in any relevant field. Second, within this context, the conference is expected to address the increased challenges of multilingualism, an issue manifested by the further enlargement of Europe and the process of integration of nations world wide. We thus also encourage papers related to the linguistic and cultural issues of multilingual communities. It is clear that specialists in humanities computing can help achieve these aims through individual scientific and educational tasks and joint projects, as well as by making available their research base through educational and electronic library resources. We believe that responding to these new challenges will also have a fertilizing effect on humanities computing as a whole by opening up new ways and methodologies to enhance the use of computers and computation in a wide range of humanities disciplines. We welcome presentations in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. Further information on the research and educational activities as well as on past conferences of the two associations can be found at www.allc.org (ALLC) and www.ach.org (ACH). For an overview of the range of topics covered by humanities computing please refer to the journals of the Associations, Literary and Linguistic Computing (www.oup.co.uk) and Computers and the Humanities (www.kluweronline.com). -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Centre for Humanities Computing phone: +46 31 773 4553 Göteborg University fax: +46 31 773 4455 Sweden URL: http://www.hum.gu.se/hfds/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.30 -- & Th. Kuhn Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:09:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 356 (356) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 30 (September 23 - September 29, 2003) INTERVIEW The Trouble with Out-of-the-Box Thinking By Andrew Hargadon on continuity and its critical role in the innovation process Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i30_hargadon.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=1&threadid=275 [In the context of this article, members of Humanist would likely enjoy reading Thomas Kuhn's remarks on the interaction of the innovative and the traditional, in "The Essential Tension: Tradition and Innovation in Scientific Research?" in the collection of essays called The Essential Tension (Chicago, 1977): 225-39. Roughly his argument is that they need each other. As I may have written before, these essays are wonderful -- read them tonight! --WM] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: orlandi per copto Subject: Coptic data base (cmcl) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:01:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 357 (357) NEW PUBLICATION (ON LINE) - COPTIC LITERATURE AND CIVILIZATION The Electronic Database of CMCL, containing a great amount of information on the Coptic Manuscripts and Literature, with full texts, and information on the Coptic civilization at large, is now available on line: http://cmcl.let.uniroma1.it The access is reserved to the subscribers: one year, Euro 180; six month, Euro 100 -- by Casalini Libri http://digital.casalini.it/fulltext/ (You have to register, then select the publisher CIM, Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari). The Database covers the following subjects, partly in Italian, partly in English: Clavis Patrum Copticorum: list of the authors and works of the Coptic literature with information on manuscripts, content, and critical problems. Manuscripts: list of the Coptic codices either well preserved or reconstructed, especially from the Monastery of St. Shenoute, Atripe (White Monastery) Texts: electronic edition of Coptic texts with Italian translation. A full edition consists of: reproduction of the manuscripts, diplomatic edition of the manuscripts, critical edition of the text, with translation, index of the words with grammatical explanation, linguistic analysis. History of literature: chronological description of the development of the Coptic literature in 12 parts. Only parts 1, 4, 7 are currently available. Grammar: a computational grammar of Sahidic with a list of words according to the grammatical categories. Bibliography. Complete bibliography for Coptic studies. Some of the subjects are complete from the beginning of the studies: Bibbia; Gnosticismo; Apocrypha; Letteratura; Agiografia; Storia; Generalia (partially); Manoscritti (partially). The other subjects (Linguistica; Archeologia, and parts of Generalia, Manoscritti and Storia) start from 1980, and the previous titles are being added. Tito Orlandi From: Peter Liddell Subject: new info about CaSTA conference (Nov 14th) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:00:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 358 (358) Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research (CaSTA) University of Victoria, November 14, 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues For those of you planning your itinerary to the CaSTA Symposium in Victoria, we have information about excellent rates ($70 single + taxes) at our designated hotel, the Hotel Grand Pacific: http://www.hotelgrandpacific.com/ Shuttles from the airport to the hotels downtown run frequently. Please be sure to ask the hotel for the government rate, and cite the University of Victoria. The all-day conference will begin early on the 14th November. Arrival on the 13th is therefore advisable There is a high probability of a public lecture on a very closely-related topic at 7.30 that evening. Details will be posted here when confirmed. Second piece of good news: there will be no conference fee. Local directions will be provided on the conference website, along with the Program, once it has been organized. And thirdly: if you have not yet submitted your Abstract, there's still time. Here are the details once more: Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research (CaSTA) University of Victoria, November 14, 2003 "Analyzing the BLOB (Binary Large OBject): Working with multimedia and textual analysis tools." The second annual CaSTA Symposium is sponsored by the TAPoR Consortium (http://www.tapor.ca/) and hosted by the University of Victoria's Humanities Computing & Media Centre (http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/). Proposals from any colleague interested in text-analysis are welcome. They should be no longer than 300 words, for either 20-minute Papers (+10 for questions/comments) or Posters - please specify - and will be reviewed by a four-person committee. Abstracts should be submitted to: casta@uvic.ca by Friday, September 26th 2003. Decisions will be announced one week later, or earlier if possible. Please forward to any colleagues who may be interested. We look forward to welcoming you to Victoria. Michael Best and Peter Liddell From: Charles Ess / IT-U Subject: workshop on Internet research ethics Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:02:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 359 (359) Hey Willard: Sorry to trouble you again so quickly - but if you wouldn't mind passing this on to the HUMANIST list, I'd be grateful! Cheers, Charles ===== Please pass on to interested colleagues and/or appropriate lists: I'm pleased to announce a pre-conference workshop on Internet research ethics - scheduled for October 15, 2003 - as part of the Association of Internet Researchers' 4th annual conference, "Broadening the Band," in Toronto, Canada (see <http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/>). The workshop features presentations from prominent researchers and ethicists who've been at the forefront of developing online research guidelines, including AoIR and AoIR ethics committee members Elizabeth Buchanan, Jeremy Hunsinger, Michele White, Leslie Tkach Kawasaki, and Klaus Bruhn Jensen. The workshop focuses on real-world ethical issues encountered in Internet research - and ways of addressing and resolving these. Workshop participants are encouraged to contribute their particular issues and experience to the multiple opportunities for shared discussion. Please see for more information. Charles Ess Visiting Professor Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication IT-University of Copenhagen 67 Glentevej DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Denmark voice: +45 38 16 89 63 fax: +45 38 16 88 99 mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 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: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: Michele Rabkin Subject: Stallabrass on "The Aesthetics of Net Art" Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:31:36 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 360 (360) {--} please announce/distribute to students, faculty, staff, and colleagues: Tuesday, September 30, 5:15 p.m. Julian Stallabrass Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London The Aesthetics of Net Art a lecture and demonstration with responses by Greg Niemeyer Assistant Professor of Art, Technology, and Culture, Department of Art and Whitney Davis Professor of History of Art and Theory and Chair, Department of History of Art Room 308 J, History of Art/Classics Library, Third Floor, Doe University Library Sponsored by The Department of History of Art The Consortium for the Arts & Arts Research Center The Center for New Media (New Academic Initiatives) The Dean of Arts & Humanities, L & S A reception will follow Dr Stallabrass is the author of Henry Moore (with David Mitchinson) (1992), Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture (1996), Ground Control: Technology and Utopia (1997) (with Susan Buck-Morss), Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art (1999) (co-editor), High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s (1999), Locus Solus: Site, Identity, Technology in Contemporary Art (co-author), Internet Art (2001), and Paris Pictured (2002). As the quantity and range of his publication suggests, he is one of the leading historians, theorists, and critics of contemporary art, photography, and mass culture and of "digital" and "internet" art. Professors Niemeyer and Davis are Core Faculty members of the Center for New Media, UC Berkeley. Michele Rabkin Associate Director Consortium for the Arts & Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley 201 Dwinelle Annex #1054 Berkeley, CA 94720-1054 tel (510)642-4268 fax (510)642-6112 http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/ -- From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Dance Steps to Coding Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:44:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 361 (361) Willard, While recently in a book about T'ai Chi, I came across a passage that contrasted learning by the book with learning from an instructor. To whit "old dance manuals with footprints on the floor, for doing cha-cha-cha and tango. People never could learn to dance through the Arthur Murray dance books, so finally they had to pay their fee to go to the dance school." [Al Chung-liang Huang Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain (1973)] This has made me wonder how people in the humanities come to learn programing languages. I am especially wondering about the role of autodidactic practices in the acquiring of technical savy and at what moment in their apprenticeship humanits might search out spaces for show-and-tell modes of knowledge acquisition. I ask because it appears that on many technical discussion lists that reading code is practiced almost as an exquiste explication de texte. For example, one can call to mind Jeni Tennison's magistral tutorial interventions on the XSL discussion list hosted by Mulberry Technologies. Was there ever a time or a place where "reading code" was consider worthy to be in the purview of humanities computing? I raise the question not purely for the pedagogical aim but for the way histories and styles of learning shape research interests. I am persuaded that folks who have learnt to hand code HTML look under the hood and view source mark up when accessing WWW resources more often than folks who have relied on WYSISWG editors to produce HTML. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress: Wright Brothers Online Collection Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:39:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 362 (362) The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the release of the online collection of the Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers available at the American Memory Web site at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/ The online presentation of The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress, comprising about 10,121 library items or approximately 49,084 digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to them making the world's first powered, controlled, and sustained flight. Included in the collection are correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives. The Wright Brothers' letters to aviation pioneer and mentor Octave Chanute, from the Octave Chanute Papers, were also selected for this online collection. The Wright Papers span the years 1881 to 1952 but largely cover 1900 to 1940. This online presentation of the Wright Papers contains the most significant and best portions of the original collection. The Wrights' diaries and notebooks are among the most important of the papers because they record many of their glides and powered flights at Kitty Hawk and elsewhere, as well as their scientific experiments and data. Because Wilbur and Orville corresponded extensively with their family, especially their father, Bishop Milton Wright, and their sister, Katharine, the Wright family correspondence is included. Also found in the online collection are letters from many correspondents who are significant in the field of aeronautics, including Octave Chanute, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart. Charts, drawings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other materials covering the Wrights' research, work, and business pursuits were also were selected for digitization. As noted, the Wrights' letters to Octave Chanute in the Chanute Papers are also included in this online collection. Chanute, a civil engineer and aviation pioneer, was the Wrights' mentor and friend. These letters give a first-person account of their problems and progress in inventing the airplane. Among the Wright Papers acquired by the Library of Congress were 303 glass plate negatives, most taken by the Wright brothers themselves between 1896 and 1911 to document successes and failures with their new flying machines. The collection provides an excellent pictorial record of the Wright brothers' laboratory, engines, kites, gliders, powered machines, flights, and even their accidents. The collection also contains individual portraits and group pictures of the Wright brothers and their family and friends, as well as photos of their homes, other buildings, towns, and landscapes. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers and the Octave Chanute Papers are housed in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. The glass plate negatives are housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library. American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 8 million digital items from more than 120 historical collections. Please submit any questions you may have via the American Memory webform at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory2.html From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog Via E-Mail Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:44:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 363 (363) The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog is now available via the mailing list sepw@listserv.uh.edu. To subscribe, send the following message to listserv@listserv.uh.edu: SUBSCRIBE SEPW First Name Last Name Or, use the Web form at: http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sepw&A=1 A sample "issue" is below. Recently, the Weblog has been updated at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm on Mondays. ------------------------------------------------------------ Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog September 22, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------ Next Weblog update on 9/29/03. Berlind, David. "The Patent Fight That Could Disrupt the Internet [1]." ZDNet Australia, 16 September 2003: A successful suit by Eolas Technologies puts the future of Web browser plug-ins in question. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large [2] 3, no. 12 [3] (2003): Walt Crawford continues his incisive commentary on current issues, new articles worth reading, and other topics. Highly recommended. D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 9 [4] (2003): Includes "The Digital Preservation of e-Prints [5]," "Generation of XML Records Across Multiple Metadata Standards [6]," "The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-Archiving [7]," and other articles. Digital and Preservation Dispatch, 15 September 2003 [8]: E-newsletter about digitization and preservation issues from the OCLC Digitization & Preservation Online Resource Center. FreePint, 18 September 2003 [9]: Includes "Tips on Negotiating Licences for Electronic Products [10]" and other articles. Gross, Grant. "Congress Scrutinizes RIAA Tactics [11]." PCWorld.com, 17 September 2003: Discusses the Consumers, Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Act of 2003. LaMonica, Martin. "Debating Digital Media's Future [12]." CNET News.com, 18 September 2003: Summarizes events at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Digital Media in Cyberspace conference. Libraries: How They Stack Up [13]: OCLC report "provides a snapshot of the economic impact of libraries." "National Library of the Netherlands and BioMed Central Agree to Open Access Archive [14]": BioMed Central press release says that the Koninklijke Bibliotheek: "will act as an official archival agent for BioMed Central." OCLC Systems & Services [15] 19, no. 3 (2003): Includes "Digital Library Development in Brazil," "Institutional Repositories: The Library's New Role," "'NOF-Digi': Putting UK Culture Online," "A Pioneering Spirit: Using Administrative Metadata to Manage Electronic Resources," and other articles. ------------------------------------------------------------ http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm Copyright © 2003 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------ [1] http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20278616,00.htm [2] http://cites.boisestate.edu/ [3] http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ3i12.pdf [4] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/09contents.html [5] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/pinfield/09pinfield.html [6] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/lightle/09lightle.html [7] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/gadd/09gadd.html [8] http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/dispatch/15sept2003.html [9] http://www.freepint.com/issues/180903.htm?FreePint_Session=cb8f500851f0a8dc010740e4d5163c29#issue [10] http://www.freepint.com/issues/180903.htm?FreePint_Session=cb8f500851f0a8dc010740e4d5163c29#tips [11] http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112535,00.asp [12] http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5079007.html [13] http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/community/librariesstackup.pdf [14] http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=20030917 [15] http://lucia.emeraldinsight.com/vl=10106990/cl=30/nw=1/rpsv/oclc.htm Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: Susan Hockey Subject: Reminder: ISKO call for papers - deadline approaching Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:38:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 364 (364) Eighth International ISKO Conference http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isko2004/ Call for papers The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 8th International ISKO Conference (ISKO 8) in London, England, July 13th-16th 2004. The conference will be hosted by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. The theme of the conference is: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society The keynote address will be delivered by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. Papers addressing Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society from any of the following interrelated perspectives are invited: · Global Users and uses of Knowledge Organization · Theories of Knowledge and Knowledge Organization: feasibility of universal solutions · Linguistic and cultural approaches to Knowledge Organization: cross-cultural, cross-language and multilingual information retrieval · Information Policies, Management, Interoperability and Maintenance of Information Systems · Knowledge Organization in corporate information systems · Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation · Knowledge Organization of Universal and Special Systems · Knowledge Organization of non-print information: sound, image, multimedia &c. Academics, practitioners and researchers involved in knowledge organization are invited to submit abstracts of between 1500 and 2000 words by September 30th 2003 to Professor I.C. McIlwaine, Programme Chair (see contact information below). Abstracts should reflect the theme of the conference and each should indicate into which of the above categories it falls. [material deleted] From: j.corral@estia.fr Subject: VIRTUAL RETROSPECT 2003: Virtual Reality related to the Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:39:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 365 (365) archeology and the heritage enhancement Dear Sir or Madam: VIRTUAL CONCEPT 2003 is glad to welcome the 1st edition of VIRTUAL RETROSPECT which will take place on November 6th and 7th in the "Espace Bellevue" Casino in Biarritz (France). VIRTUAL RETROSPECT 2003: Virtual Reality related to the archeology and the heritage enhancement. Please find further information on VIRTUAL CONCEPT website: http://www.virtualconcept.estia.fr Moreover, we are pleased to invite you on November 6th in the afternoon to the CO2 workshop. Best regards, José-Louis CORRAL PIC ESTIA Technopole IZARBEL 64210 BIDART tel:05.59.43.84.44 fax:05.59.43.84.01 é-mail:j.corral@estia.fr From: "J. Trant" Subject: CFP: Museums and the Web 2004, Sept. 30 Deadline Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:40:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 366 (366) Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ ------------------------- Reminder Proposal Deadline ------------------------- The deadline for the Call for Proposals for Museums and the Web 2004 is September 30., 2003. We're accepting proposals for all aspects of the MW2004 program: papers, professional forums, mini-workshops, demonstrations (of web sites by Museum staff), on-line activities, and pre-conference workshops. Make your proposal using our on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/call.html ------------------- Peer Review ------------------- All proposals will be reviewed the the MW2004 Program Committee. Papers presented at MW2004 are subject to Peer Review. Edited papers will be published on the Web, and a selected group will also appear in print proceedings. ------------------- Need More Information? ------------------- Download the full Call for Participation from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/pdfs/mw2004.call.pdf Full details about MW2004 are on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ Past papers presented at the previous seven Museums and the Web meetings are available on the web, linked from http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html ------------------- Join Us! ------------------- MW2004 is the largest international gathering of cultural webmasters anywhere. If you are involved in any part of the process of making, delivering, or using culture and heritage on-line, this is the event for you. We hope to see you this spring. jennifer and David -- Museums and the Web Archives & Museum Informatics Co-Chairs: 158 Lee Avenue David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Toronto, Ontario http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 / email: info@archimuse.com From: "ICECCS 2004" Subject: CFP: IEEE Int. Conference on Complex Computer Sys, Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:41:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 367 (367) ICECCS 2004, Florence CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, IEEE ICECCS, Florence, Italy, 14-16 April, 2004 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/iceccs04 ICECCS-2004 Theme: Navigating Complexity in the e-Engineering Age As society increasingly depends on software, the size and complexity of software systems continues to grow making them more difficult to understand and evolve. Manifold dependencies between critical elements of software now drive software architectures and increasingly influence the system architecture Complexity of software systems has grown significantly, pervading several key application areas including Manufacturing, Communications, Transportation, Internet, Mobile, Healthcare, Aerospace, and Energy. These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, recently involving Internet and Intranet technologies. Inundated by temporal constraints, boundless functionalities, complex algorithms, distributed and mobile architectures, security constraints, reliability, high performance, interoperability, and the like, these complexities are further weighing down development and evolution of today's software systems and ultimately the organizations they serve. To cope with complexity, software systems are modeled or specified using multi-paradigm approaches and require instruments and tools to visualize and understand. Whether traditional, formal models or more innovative approaches are employed; these solutions are at the frontier of the software engineering. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic and government experts, from a variety of user domain and software disciplines, to examine key complexity problems and effective solution techniques. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of the interest includes long-term research, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing systems, and commercially available tools. Topic Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas includes, but are not limited to: * System and software architecture and system engineering * Tools, environments, and languages for complex systems * Formal methods and approaches to manage and control complex systems * Integration of heterogeneous technologies * Software and system development and control processes for complex systems * Human factors and collaborative aspects * Interoperability and standardization * Systems and software safety and security * Industrial automation, embedded and/or real time systems * Content production and distribution systems, mobile and multi-channel systems * Software complexity visualization * Virtual environments for managing complexity [material deleted] From: amalfi2004@rti7020.etf.bg.ac.yu Subject: Invitation to SSCCII-2004 in Amalfi, Italy, 29.1.-1.2.2004 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:42:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 368 (368) Dear Dr. Humanist I am happy to invite you to be a speaker at the VIP Scientific Forum of the International SSCCII-2004 Conference in Italy (SSCCII = Symposium of Santa Caterina on Challenges in Internet and Interdisciplinary research). Deadlines: Abstract (100 words) = October 29, 2003 Full Papers = November 19, 2003 Paper Acceptance Notification = December 3, 2003 Payment (fee and hotel) = December 24, 2003 This year SSCCII-2004 takes place from Thursday January 29 (arrival day) till Sunday February 1 (departure day), in the Italy's best coastline hotel Santa Caterina, Amalfi (source: The Leading Hotels of the World). Detailed program and all relevant information are given at the web site of the conference. The conference is limited to 60 attendees (physical capacity of the Santa Caterina hotel), and only plenary sessions will be organized. So far, many more researchers expressed an interest to come, which means that some submissions will have to be rejected. Still, new submissions are more than welcome. [material deleted] URL(SSCCII-2004 VIP Scientific Forum) => http://www.ipsi.co.yu URL(Chairman of the SSCCII-2004 VIP Scientific Forum) => http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/vm/ Sincerely yours, Prof. Dr. V. Milutinovic Chairman PS - If you like to attend other scientific non-profit conferences organized by us, please see the web (www.ipsi.co.yu). If you would like not to receive information about our conferences, please let us know. From: "Alexander Gelbukh" Subject: CFP: CICLing 2004 (Computational Linguistics) news: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:43:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 369 (369) Speech Processing keynote speaker; late submissions CICLing-2004 news: ============================================= - New keynote speaker: Nick Campbell, "Expressive Speech Processing" and tutorial with practical experience in expressive speech processing - If this made you decide to submit a paper, contact us for late submissions - Please pass the news on to relevant people Call for Papers: ============================================= CICLing-2004 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 15 to 21, 2004 Seoul, Korea www.CICLing.org PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS (indexed by SCI Extended) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, short papers: October 20 Contact us for late submissions KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Martin Kay, Philip Resnik, Ricardo Baeza, Nick Campbell EXCURSIONS: Archeological sites, Royal Palaces, traditional village, and more See photos at www.CICLing.org/2004 Air ticket price from EU/US: $800 - $1000 in February URL: http://www.CICLing.org/2004 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 17.265 dance steps to coding Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:29:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 370 (370) Here's one example of Francois's theory. I learnt Fortran from having to document other peoples' code for an archaeological analysis suite (1974); I learnt Z-80 assembly language mostly from a manual and Knuth because there was not even an operating system available when I first began to use microcomputers to do concordancing of Old French (1977); and I taught myself Snobol and Pascal (1978), the latter using the feedback from the truly wonderful University of Minnesota (mainframe) and Turbo Pascal (microcomputer) compilers. Since then I've dealt with many database languages, UNIX procedural languages, HTML, XML, PHP, and now I'm trying to learn Java. I am a true believer (some would say a bigot) that in our generation of computing humanists, those who are dependent on keeping the hood shut will have to take what vendors shove at them: we aren't yet in the place where all our problems have been so "black-boxed" that we can use standard off-the-shelf software for everything. Besides, my students have to figure out how to preserve the digital heritage, and you can't do that without knowing how it's built. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: "Sarah J. Segura" Subject: MCN2003: "Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation" Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:28:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 371 (371) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 30, 2003 Museum Computer Network <http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html>MCN2003: "Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation" Las Vegas, Nevada November 5 - 8, 2003 [deleted quotation] MCN invites you to attend the 31st annual meeting of the Museum Computer Network. <http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html>MCN2003: "Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation" takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 5 through the 8th. Workshops, Sessions and More Register online at <http://www.mcn.edu/>www.mcn.edu to participate in four days of workshops, sessions and free-form discussions delving into every aspect of cultural heritage information management. Whether you're trying to develop an Intellectual Property policy for your institution, learn about the latest imaging technology from industry leaders, or explore the possibilities of building integrated library/museum/archival systems, this is the place to be. The MCN meeting is where museum technologists go to get the information they need and build the bridges they want to other professionals in the cultural heritage arena. Learn about the new technologies available and then see them in our tightly-focused Exhibition Hall. Balancing Museum Technology and Transformation As a challenging economic year for all, especially those of us in the museum and cultural heritage sector draws to a close, we want you to join us in looking ahead to a brighter future. In keeping with our theme we've asked our contributors to look at how the technology we're busy implementing is changing the way we work, how our institutions are being transformed by those technologies and how that transformation can be managed. We're offering a program that is both diverse and comprehensive. Go Off the Wall and Online, too We know travel budgets are tight so we've teamed up with the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) to offer something special: MCN 2003 is immediately preceded by the NEDCC's <http://www.nedcc.org/owolnv/owol1.htm>"Off the Wall and Online" workshop. If you're planning to attend the NEDCC workshop, you can get MCN member rates for the MCN meeting. Register Online You can learn all about the program and more on the MCN website, including information on sessions, presenters, workshops, travel and lodging. And for the first time, you can register for the MCN meeting online using our <http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/confmain/index.html>secure form. 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From: Rare Book School Subject: EAD Etext XML courses at Rare Book School Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:29:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 372 (372) RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Winter and Early Spring Sessions 2004, 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 the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions, providing additional details about the courses offered and other information about RBS, visit our Web site at: http://www.rarebookschool.org Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School courses to be of particular interest: 13 (L-70). ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 5-9 JANUARY). 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. 24 (L-80). IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8-12 MARCH). 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. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.31 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:27:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 373 (373) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 31 (September 30 - October 6, 2003) INTERVIEW Talking with: Ben Chi of NYSERNet How the Internet began in New York State, the current state of Internet2, and the remote possibility of Internet3 Interview: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i31_chi.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=2&threadid=276 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- September 2003 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:30:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 374 (374) CIT INFOBITS September 2003 No. 63 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. ...................................................................... How Much Time Does Online Teaching Take? The Interactive Syllabus DIY Online Teaching Information Ecology Lecture Series New Internet Scout Website Recommended Reading ...................................................................... [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). From: Willard McCarty Subject: 3D Visualization of Van Diemens Land history? Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:26:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 375 (375) I am posting with permission the following query on the application of visualization techniques for the study of history. Please reply to Humanist, since Mr Newcombe has just joined. Examples of academic studies using such techniques would be keenly appreciated. 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 www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 17.265 dance steps to coding Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 05:58:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 376 (376) On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:45:50AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] I discovered programming while working as Assistant Director for the Electronic Text Center at UVA. The job was primarily administrative (make sure everyone showed up on time, got paid, and so forth). I decided to teach myself programming as way to make myself useful. That decision completely changed the direction of my scholarship. I'm now on my eighth language, and it continues to be the single most thrilling aspect of my scholarly life. Most of my work is about code -- its relation to textuality more generally, the constraints and potentials it introduces into humanistic inquiry, the idea of computation as a way of spurring us to insight. Along the way, I have also had to teach myself quite a bit about data structures, algorithms, information theory, and discrete mathematics. I am forever trying to develop relationships with people who were formally trained in these matters -- in part to correct my erroneous assumptions, but also to foster the kind of interdisciplinary dialogue upon which so much of humanities computing depends. Autodicticism can be a perilous business, though. One constantly encounters distrust from proper mathematicians and computer scientists (the only way to diffuse this distrust is to know of what you speak -- and that takes a lot of work). On the other hand, I have met a number of generous souls over the years who were willing to answer questions. Outside of a math/CS program one invariably has to sweat through it the hard way. I suppose that experience made me more self-aware as a technologist (and as a teacher), but my humanities computing courses are fundamentally designed to save people the pain of trying to figure it all out themselves. I imagine that there's an enormous amount of autodidacticism that goes on in HC. I'd love to hear about others' experiences. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Georgia email: sramsay@uga.edu web: http://cantor.english.uga.edu/ PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: lhomich Subject: RE: 17.269 visualization techniques in the study of history? Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 05:57:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 377 (377) Dear Colleague: Two resources you may find valuable are: 1) the Map History listserv (MapHist), at http://www.maphistory.info/lists.html and 2) Bethany Nowviskie's bibliography "Select Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing", in Computers and the Humanities 36: 109-131, 2002, available online at http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0010-4817 Good luck! -Eric Homich M.A. student Humanities Computing / English University ofAlberta From: david silver Subject: new reviews in cyberculture studies (october 2003) Date: 1-Oct-2003 00:07:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 378 (378) To: New reviews (found at www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include: William Gibson, Pattern Recognition. Penguin Putnam, 2003. Reviewed by Tama Leaver. Frank Schaap, The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality. Aksant Academic Publishers, 2002. Reviewed by Stephanie Bennett. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. NYU Press, 2001. Reviewed by Laura Kertz. If you or your colleagues are interested in reviewing books for RCCS, contact us directly at . As always, please feel free to forward this message. david silver From: Peter Suber Subject: Wellcome Trust report on science publishing Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 05:59:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 379 (379) REPORT HIGHLIGHTS SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CONCERNS A new report published today by the UK's leading biomedical research charity reveals that the publishing of scientific research does not operate in the interests of scientists and the public, but is instead dominated by a commercial market intent on improving its market position. Conducted by SQW the report, An economic analysis of scientific research publishing, is one of the most comprehensive analyses of its kind and provides an insight into a publishing industry which generates some £22 billion annually. The report is published by the Wellcome Trust which plans to use this as a first step in facilitating a dialogue between various players in the scientific publishing field to address the concerns which the Trust has regarding current publishing practices. The ultimate aim of this dialogue would be to develop a publishing system that meets the needs of all publishers, authors, academics and funders, and best promotes the public good of scientific work that is, disseminate research outputs to all who have an interest in them. The report reveals an extremely complex market for scientific publishing, influenced by a host of different players each with different priorities. These include: * Commercial publishers: working to secure and enhance their business position, * Not-for-profit publishers, including Learned Societies: who seek a satisfactory return on their journals in order to fulfil their broader objectives, * Libraries: who have to purchase a wide portfolio of journals to meet the needs of the academics they serve, but who do so on a limited, and sometimes decreasing, budget, * Academic researchers: whose primary concern is to disseminate their research in reputable journals, regardless of their cost and accessibility. Dr Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, said: "As a funder of research, we are committed to ensuring that the results of the science we fund are disseminated widely and are freely available to all. Unfortunately, the distribution strategies currently used by many publishers prevent this. "We want to see a system in place that supports open and unrestricted access to research outputs and we would like to encourage others to support this principle. Today's report maps out the market as it stands and we hope to use this as a way of starting a dialogue with others to join us in finding a new model for the way we publish research, and one that satisfies the needs of those involved." The report highlights the merits of electronic publishing which is already being utilised as a tool for improving the efficiency and accessibility of research findings. Although previously regarded with suspicion by academics who doubted quality control and the peer review process involved, reservations about this form of publishing are gradually decreasing. "Electronic publishing has transformed the way scientific research is communicated," said Dr Mark Walport. "Take the Human Genome Project as an example. The data from that project was made immediately available on the world-wide web and could be used by everyone free of charge. It was the absence of constraints and the ease of access that enabled us to reach vast numbers of researchers in more than 100 countries. "The model of the Human Genome Project need not be unique and it is the principle of free access that we want to champion. The fundamental point is that as a research funder we have to question whether it is right that we, and others, are in the position of having to pay to read the results of the research that we fund." Media contact: Noorece Ahmed Wellcome Trust Media Office Tel: 020 7611 8540 mailto:n.ahmed@wellcome.ac.uk Notes to editors: 1. Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, An economic analysis of scientific research publishing has been conducted by the economic development consultants SQW. 2. The full report is available on the Wellcome Trust website: www.wellcome.ac.uk 3. The Wellcome Trust’s position statement in support of open access publishing is available at: [url to follow] The Wellcome Trust is an independent, research funding charity, established under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936. The Trust's mission is to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health. From: lhomich Subject: RE: 17.271 dance steps to coding Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 05:59:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 380 (380) Dear Colleagues: I've come to humanities computing from the opposite direction to (what I imagine ) the approach that most of my Humanist colleagues have taken. I graduated with a degree in computer science in 1979 (I wrote a compiler on punch cards), then spent the following twenty years as a computer programmer, database administrator, and system designer. I began taking English courses several years ago and three years ago I became a full time student. I am now doing a Master's degree in Humanities Computing with English as my home department. I'm still learning computer languages: I started teaching myself Java this year, and I'm digging into XML and XSLT as well. During my career, I learned several languages. There were some points where time constraints restricted my learning to the point of "do this to make that happen"; I didn't have time to learn the background of why, when x is coded, then y happens. This has always made me uncomfortable; I still want to look under the hood and see what's there. Even if I don't understand exactly how the engine works, having a general idea helps me to situate myself. I've noticed that sometimes knowledge of one discipline tends to become the hammer that turns all problems into nails. I myself am guilty of cussing at those who don't behave according to the rules and algorithms that I think people should behave by. The PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair) acronym and attitude is a good example, as are the many Procrustean interfaces one encounters in dealing with computer systems. Part of the reason that I began to study English is its attention to the person and to the facets of human experience that are not amenable to algorithmic approaches. I'm encouraged by the many Human Factors and HCI programs now available, but to tell the truth, when I was a student the first time, back in the late '70s, I don't know if they would have interested me. Life experience has taught me much that autodidacticism simply cannot. Computer languages can be self-taught, but even some things as supposedly autodidactic as learning to code benefit a great deal from the experiences of others. The "interdisciplinary dialogue upon which so much of humanities computing depends" is the "show-and-tell modes of knowledge acquisition." Eric Homich M.A. Student Humanties Computing / English University of Alberta From: marija dalbello Subject: Call for papers: LIDA 2004 Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 05:58:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 381 (381) LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2004 25-29 May, 2004 Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia Conference themes: 1. Human information behavior in digital libraries 2. Competences and education for digital libraries Deadlines: For papers and workshops: 10 January 2004. Acceptance notification by 10 February 2004. For demonstrations and posters: 10 February 2004. Acceptance notification by 1 March 2004. Conference website: <http://www.pedos.hr/lida>http://www.pedos.hr/lida ================================================== We ask you to disseminate this call for papers to your colleagues. And, hope to see you at LIDA in 2004. ================================================== ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Annual Course and Conference: LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2004 Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia 25-29 May, 2004 Inter-University Centre (<http://www.hr/iuc>http://www.hr/iuc) Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Hotel Odisej, island Mljet, Pomena, Croatia (<http://www.hotelodisej.hr>http://www.hotelodisej.hr) Course web site: <http://www.pedos.hr/lida>http://www.pedos.hr/lida 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 being held in memorable locations. [material deleted] ______________________________________ Marija Dalbello Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071 Voice: 732.932.7500 / 8215 Internet: dalbello@scils.rutgers.edu <http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello>http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:00:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 382 (382) Dear Computing Humanists, Please circulate. Call for papers for a joint ACCUTE and COCH/COSH Session at the Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Manitoba in May, 2004. Playing with Text Analysis Computer assisted text analysis has been seen as an aide to traditional research techniques in textual disciplines. The idea was that computers could help us answer the questions we have always asked by automating the repetitive tasks like creating concordances to texts. Recently however there has been a shift away from using computers as servants towards more playful ways of using computers in literary research. The papers at this session will explore the intersection of literary studies and creative computing in order to survey some of the trajectories taken by humanities computing researchers and developers. All of the presentations should include both a demonstration of a tool or software toy along with a theoretical positioning of that tool/toy in the discourse around what computers can do for literary study. Proposals should be sent to Geoffrey Rockwell ( grockwel@mcmaster.ca ) by November 15th, 2003. For more information on this Call for Papers see: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp-ACCUTE.php Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Peter Suber Subject: Wellcome Trust statement on open access Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:00:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 383 (383) A position statement by the Wellcome Trust in support of open access publishing The mission of the Wellcome Trust is to "foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health." The main output of this research is new ideas and knowledge, which the Trust expects its researchers to publish in quality, peer-reviewed journals. The Trust has a fundamental interest in ensuring that neither the terms struck with researchers, nor the marketing and distribution strategies used by publishers (whether commercial, not-for-profit or academic) adversely affect the availability and accessibility of this material. With recent advances in Internet publishing, the Trust is aware that there are a number of new models for the publication of research results and will encourage initiatives that broaden the range of opportunities for quality research to be widely disseminated and freely accessed. The Wellcome Trust therefore supports open and unrestricted access to the published output of research, including the open access model (defined below), as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible. Specifically, the Trust: · welcomes the establishment of free-access, high-quality scientific journals available via the Internet; · will encourage and support the formation of such journals and/or free-access repositories for research papers; · will meet the cost of publication charges including those for online-only journals for Trust-funded research by permitting Trust researchers to use contingency funds for this purpose; · encourages researchers to maximize the opportunities to make their results available for free and, where possible, retain their copyright, as recommended by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Public Library of Science, and similar frameworks; · affirms the principle that it is the intrinsic merit of the work, and not the title of the journal in which a researcher's work is published, that should be considered in funding decisions and awarding grants. As part of its corporate planning process, the Trust will continue to keep this policy under review. Definition of open access publication1 An open access publication is one that meets the following two conditions: 1. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual (for the lifetime of the applicable copyright) right of access to, and a licence to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship2, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository). Notes: 1. An open access publication is a property of individual works, not necessarily of journals or of publishers. 2. Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now. The definition of open access publication used in this position statement is based on the definition arrived at by delegates who attended a meeting on open access publishing convened by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in July 2003. From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Active Vocabulary Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:01:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 384 (384) This is something I keep coming across, especially on the Web. A specific word used by one person starts to appear everywhere. The kind of word you know but never use, you start using in conversation after reading or hearing it. A fascinating phenomenon from many different points of view: literary, cognitive, sociolinguistic, commercial... Of course, I might notice it more because of the context but there's something to be said about words suddenly gaining frequency. And this is not just for catch-phrases and buzzwords. Even fairly neutral words may look like they tie two articles or two conversations. And they can only imply these two occurrences or spring into a meme-like epidemic propagation. Anyone working on anything like this? There's bound to be a body of literature on such subjects but what would be a quick summary of such literature? Thank you for your help. Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: ahg@servidor.unam.mx Subject: Hypothesis: shift in fundamental assumptions of Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:01:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 385 (385) cataloguing practice Dear Colleagues, Recently I wrote a short article on possible changes in the basic assumptions at work in cataloguing practice. The hypothesis I present results, in some sense, from a reflection on the application of the "clean separation of presentation and content" notion to cataloguing and metadata processing. (I believe the argument I develop may also have some interesting implications for computing and humanitites/social science research in general.) The text is available (in Spanish only) from <http://www.nongnu.org/durito/> under a Creative Commons license. Any comments on the text would be most welcome. I'm also looking for paper or electronic publishers of this text (or an English version thereof) who don't mind me continuing to distribute it via the Web. Thanks, Andrew Green ------------------------------------------------- Obtén tu correo en www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos From: "C. Perry Willett" Subject: J.M. Coetzee: Nobel laureate, computing humanist? Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:02:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 386 (386) Congratulations to J.M. Coetzee for receiving the Nobel prize in literature. There's a story on CNN today <http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/02/nobel.literature.ap/index.html> that claims Coetzee "holds a Ph.D in computer-generated language." This had me racing for biographical sources, but it doesn't seem to be true--his dissertation was on stylistics in the works of Samuel Beckett. According to a few biographical dictionaries, he did work for a year or two as a programmer at IBM in London in the early 1960s. Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University pwillett@indiana.edu From: Peter Suber Subject: Oxford-University-Press/Oxford-University-Eprint-Archive Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 06:50:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 387 (387) Partnership https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OANews/List.html For immediate release: Friday 3 October 2003 OUP supports Oxford University Library Services "Open Archives" Initiative Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce a partnership with Oxford University Library Services, (OULS) in support of the national SHERPA project. Under the terms of the agreement, OUP will provide the Systems and Electronic Resources (SERS) department of OULS with online access to articles by Oxford University-based authors published in many of the Oxford Journals from 2002. The articles will then be searchable via the OULS pilot institutional repository and available free of charge to researchers across the globe. SHERPA is a three-year project that aims to investigate the concept of institutional open archive repositories. The creation, population and management of these repositories are at the heart of the project. Oxford University is one of nine UK institutions currently taking part, and providing OULS with access to such a large mass of research will allow valuable experimentation and evaluation to take place. "I am delighted that we are the first publisher to become involved in this innovative project," commented Martin Richardson, Director of OUP's Journals Division. "Access to our online journals corpus will provide a substantial collection of high quality scholarly research across a broad range of disciplines, facilitating investigations into some key technical, economic and cultural issues surrounding the creation of institutional repositories." "It is early days for the SHERPA project at OULS," explained Frances Boyle, Electronic Resources Manager based at SERS. "Our first task is to set up a server with the eprints.org software over the coming months. The collaboration with OUP will enable us to populate the repository with quality content. This initiative will kick-start the project and will enable OULS to host a demonstrator system for the many interested stakeholders at Oxford." More detailed information about the project will be available later this year from OULS at www.eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk (please note that this link is not yet live) For further information contact: Rachel Goode, Communications Manager Journals Division, Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP Tel: +44 1865 353388 Mobile: +44 7957 491505 Email: rachel.goode@oupjournals.org www.oupjournals.org About Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP publishes over 180 journals, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organisations. For further information about the Journals Division, visit <http://www.oupjournals.org>www.oupjournals.org. About OULS The Systems and Electronic Resources Service is the IT support facility for Oxford University Library Services (including the Bodleian Library) and provider of scholarly electronic resources across all the libraries of Oxford and to academic users both on and off campus. For more than a decade, the Oxford libraries have been at the forefront of electronic provision within the UK and currently provide access to one of the largest portfolios of scholarly electronic resources, over 500 datasets and 7,000 electronic journals, in the UK. The range of material includes bibliographic, full-text, geospatial and image databases, held locally and on the internet in all subject areas. A strategic aim is to provide a "hybrid library" environment that will integrate library information services in a seamless and coherent manner to the benefit of users. For further information about OULS, visit <http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk>www.lib.ox.ac.uk. About SHERPA SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) is a three-year project funded by JISC and CURL and hosted by Nottingham University. It aims to address issues surrounding the future of scholarly communication and publishing by creating a network of open access repositories to release institutionally-produced research findings onto the web. Nine institutions have been enlisted as development partners, with more to come. SHERPA will work through the technical, managerial and cultural issues of implementing institutionally-based open access repositories (so called e-print archives) that comply with the Open Archives Initiative standard. SHERPA will also provide information and advice to other institutions thinking of implementing their own institutional repositories. For more information about SHERPA, please visit www.sherpa.ac.uk. From: Stéfan Sinclair (by Subject: Re: 17.271 dance steps to coding Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 06:37:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 388 (388) Dear Colleagues, Like Stephen Ramsay, I derive enormous pleasure from programming: it is a truly creative outlet for me. I find it thrilling to make something that may never have been made before, because either the functionality or the algorithm is unique (I'm not necessarily talking about sophisticated algorithms, the combinatorics of programming - many ways to do many things - quickly leads to an impression of originality, even for the simplest tasks). I am also an auto-didact, which certainly does present some opportunities and challenges. I often think that my lack of formal training allows me to imagine novel ways of confronting a problem, as I may be oblivious to the "right" or "usual" way of doing it. On the other hand, there's good reason why some conventions and practices are taught formally: one can waste a lot of time and effort (and the time and efforts of others subsequently), by doing things poorly. Mostly, I feel a constant sense of modesty about my code, especially when it's put before trained programmers. No matter how smug I feel about the functionality of the program (what it does for the end-user), I can't help but feel self-conscious about the actual code. I regret the fact that I seem to have less and less time to learn new techniques and languages. As a student I could almost always make time for these activities - or burrow into the night - but continuous days of programming are a rare luxury now. I know of some colleagues who are only able to reserve such blocks of time during sabbatical years. Moreover, as some of us discussed at ACH/ALLC 2003 in Athens, there's currently very little professional incentive for me to do coding rather than, say, work on a scholarly article. I think that by creating mechanisms of peer-review for software development (including the evaluation of code, documentation, functionality, etc.), we would encourage more people to develop much-needed tools for our community. (Sorry, I digress.) I think that the integration of programming into our humanities computing (or whatever we prefer to call it) curricula is essential. By teaching students to create their own tools, instead of relying exclusively on what's available, we're empowering students to imagine entirely different ways of doing things. This may not be of interest to all students, but I think all of them are likely to benefit from some familiarity with the possibilities and limitations of programming code. Then again, teaching our students to code may rob them of some of the pleasure that auto-didacts feel in creating so many of their own approaches and techniques. Or maybe there's a way for us in Humanities Computing to balance rigour where needed and flexibility where desirable... Stéfan (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: http://huco.ualberta.ca/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: dance steps Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 06:49:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 389 (389) Permit me some cane-thumping (rather than dance-stepping) on the subject of learning how to code. Permit me a bit, then some more youthful observations. Leaps of enthusiasm. My involvements with computers go back to sights of drum memory (accompanied by stories from those who had written code in which calculation of the speed of rotation of the drum and so time-to-next-instruction played a role); plug-board programming for some devices; vacuum-tube/valve computers that occupied large, intensively air-conditioned rooms; punched cards; reels of magnetic tape mounted on drives taller than I was -- you get the idea. I learned programming before there was computer science from a wizard named (I kid you not) Bill Gates, a PhD candidate in physics who had found computers more interesting than subatomic particles. Among programmers, especially systems programmers of the time, he was famous. He taught me Fortran for the CDC 6600 (at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley) and how to use a handy hardware-location statement special to that version to reach out of allocated memory and take over protected functions of the machine, in one or more of the 13 "peripheral processors". Every time the machine crashed we would get a call.... And he taught me assembly language for the CDC. It was love at first shift-left-accumulator. It was programming as craftsmanship of the kind, I suppose (but correct me if I am wrong), rarely encountered these days. Those who wrote code for the Commodore 64 and its ilk will know what I mean: how to use every last memory location, sometimes for more than one purpose simultaneously. There was a contest for some time at the Rad Lab, in the Alvarez Group: who could get an absolutely crucial, very often called routine in the OS program loader condensed down into 8 64-bit instructions so the entire thing would fit into the hardware "stack", therefore not have to be repeatedly itself loaded, therefore cause the entire OS to run much, much faster. I didn't win, but I remember the celebration for the programmer who did. Apart from entertaining memories and semi-impressive cane-thumping, the value of all that for me was a lesson I learned repeatedly in other media, such as wood (furniture-building) and ink (calligraphy) -- the disciplinary value of craftsmanship, of disciplined thinking, and something else equally as important: direct, practical confrontation with computational tractability, its implications and consequences. That last thing is absolutely central to an understanding of what we in humanities computing do. So, the problem that Chairman Mao faced: how do we instill in the upcoming generation the deep values acquired on the Long March? Not by his means.... But if we can impart that sense of craftsmanship, of skill not as something we try to bury because it is socially unacceptable in academia -- the lace cuffs and long, long-handled brush so as not to get paint on the fancy clothes -- but as a genuine badge of honour, then we will have done something really important for our students and colleagues. Skill should not be buried under a load of philosophy or some other concealment but illuminated by means of philosophy. But you have to have the skill first, the actual disciplined experience. 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: Alan D Corre Subject: Re: 17.279 dance steps to coding Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:59:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 390 (390) I really like the title of this thread. It has produced some interesting and thoughtful contributions. I became interested in computing some thirty years ago when I read of a project in Italian texts being carried out in Utrecht by Prof. Alinei. I paid him a visit, and he graciously showed me what he was doing. I thought it might help me to carry out a dictionary and chrestomathy of Judeo-Arabic texts that I was contemplating. At that time it was quite difficult for humanists to find out what the computer could do, and how to operate it. My university has a Social Science Research Facility, and they offered to help me, and I got started. I devised a transcription scheme for Judeo-Arabic, and had the good fortune to locate a student from Iraq who also knew Hebrew, and had studied computers in the Israeli army. And he was qualified for a government student help scheme which enabled me to pay him, expending only a nickel from my available funds for every dollar he received. He cheerfully and accurately entered the texts on punch cards. This all went along quite well, but I became tired of having to go to my programmer every time I needed some slight modification, so I read a pamphlet by the Research Facility about the Univac 1100 we were using and its editor, and became able to do many things without help. I lectured on this project in 1982 in Paris at a symposium on Jewish languages, and the lecture was put out (in French) with illustrations, in volume 2 of "Massorot" published by the Magnes Press of the Hebrew University a few years later. I then looked at programming languages. Fortran was opaque, and Cobol clumsy in my eyes, but Pascal came as a revelation. It was just so *beautiful*. It had a clear, logical structure, was straightforward, and was a pleasure to use. I felt somehow that it helped me to think logically. Pascal was designed for teaching students the bases of programming theory, and it does it wonderfully well. Or did. I guess it is hard to find Pascal these days. The Apple II+ came as another revelation. No longer did I have to laboriously enter programs on a clattering punch machine, hand them in at a desk, and wait an hour to find that I had made a little mistake that had to be corrected. The Apple had a beautiful Pascal using Ken Bowles' P-machine editor, and it compiled instantly to memory! Punch cards were history! I found a program in Apple Pascal in Byte magazine which made it possible to customize the character set, and I was able to create useful programs to drill my students in Hebrew in the Language Lab. Later, I became interested in the Icon programming language evolved by Ralph Griswold of Arizona, which is wonderful for text processing. It is the structured successor to Snobol-4 in which my dictionary program was written. I published a book, now long out of print, with Prentice-Hall, called "Icon Programming for Humanists." This largely showed how statistical techniques applied to texts could readily be programmed. I wrote a program which gives corresponding Gregorian/Jewish dates beginning around 3400 BCE and going up to modern times and beyond in Icon, originally for the old enormous Univac (which allowed me 128 *kilobytes* of memory) and later ported it to MSDOS. When the World Wide Web came along, I modified the program for the Web, and it is now used all over the world by historians, lawyers, and people who need to figure out the date for a barmitzvah. The Jewish calendar is quite complex, because it has six possible lengths, harmonizing the solar year and the lunar month, which is quite difficult to do, and is based on calculations made with astonishing accuracy for the time by the Athenian astronomer Meton in the fifth century BCE. Currently, I am placing Judeo-Arabic texts on the Web, which can be read in the original script without any special software, other than the Acrobat Reader, which most people have anyway. Clicking on underlined words calls up a comment or explanation. Using the computer has been a beautiful and productive dance for me, and I recommend any humanist to learn the steps. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Early Registration!: TEACH Act Online Workshop Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:59:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 391 (391) REMINDER AND INVITATION *October 8, 2003!* is the Early Registration Deadline for the first 2003 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop: IMPLEMENTING THE TEACH ACT http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa/ The first online workshop in this series, Implementing the TEACH Act, will be moderated by Kenneth Crews, Virtual Intellectual Property Scholar, CIP-UMUC and Associate Dean & Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). It will run from October 22, 2003 to November 5, 2003. 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. For additional information call 301-985-7580 or 1-800-283-6832, extension 7580 or visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa/ -Olga Francois Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] From: "David Carpenter" Subject: Distributed (on-line) learning: request for information Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:59:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 392 (392) Dear Humanists, I was recently appointed to a university task force charged with implementing a prior task force's plan for introducing "distributed learning" courses into our curriculum. This effort is driven almost enitrely by the college of business, and I am one of only two humanities types on the task force. Unfortunately, I have no prior experience with on-line teaching, and am trying to get up to speed. I have a specific request. Can anyone point me to resources on on-line or distributed learning specifically in the humanities? I'm also interested in critiques of on-line learning in our fields (I'm in religious studies, specifically history of Asian religions). It is easy to see the utility of this approach for such things as professional training of post-baccalaureate adult learners, but I (and many of my colleagues) have concerns about trying to apply this model to liberal arts undergraduates. I found one post on this topic in the archives, and this may be a stale topic for many of you, but if anyone could point me to some helpful resources for examining this matter, I'd much appreciate it. Also, if anyone knows of specific humanities courses that have been taught successfully on-line, I'd very much like to know about them. I'm open to exploring the possibilities, but I am also rather cautious. Thanks in advance for any advice. David Carpenter St. Joseph's University Philadelphia From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 17.276 queries and observations Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:00:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 393 (393) At 6:05 +0100 3/10/03, Alexandre Enkerli wrote: [deleted quotation] They're known in some communities as memes, http://www.memecentral.com/ and http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=what+is+a+meme+dawkins&btnG=Google+Search from memory (and it is an old one), Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist (?) had or has a lot to say about memes. cheers Adrian Miles -- + interactive desktop video researcher [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + research blog [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] [On memes see, for example, Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), pp. 302-9; earlier, his The Selfish Gene (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976; new edn with additional material, 1989). You may also find helpful Susan Blackmore, "Imitation and the Definition of Meme", http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/1998/vol2/blackmore_s.html. --WM] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 06:59:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 394 (394) (1) Embedded System Design edited by Peter Marwedel University of Dortmund, Germany Embedded systems can be defined as information processing systems embedded into enclosing products such as cars, telecommunication or fabrication equipment. Such systems come with a large number of common characteristics, including real-time constraints, and dependability as well as efficiency requirements. Following the success of information technology (IT) for office and workflow applications, embedded systems are considered to be the most important application area of IT during the coming years. This importance of embedded systems is so far not well reflected in many of the current curricula. Embedded System Design is intended as an aid for changing this situation. It provides the material for a first course on embedded systems, but can also be used by PhD students and professors. A key goal of this book is to provide an overview of embedded system design and to relate the most important topics in embedded system design to each other. It should help to motivate students as well as professors to put more emphasis on education in embedded systems. In order to facilitate teaching from this book, slides, exercises and other related material can be downloaded via the author's web page. Special Offer Available at a reduced price for course adoption when ordering six copies or more. Please contact Customer Services (services@wkap.nl) for further details. (Please refer to promotional code 738020 when ordering.) Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7690-8 Date: November 2003 Pages: 258 pp. EURO 104.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 71.00 (2) Connectionist Approaches in Economics and Management Sciences edited by Cédric Lesage CREREG CNRS, University of Rennes, France Marie Cottrell SAMOS MATISSE CNRS, University of Paris 1, France ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE -- 6 Since the beginning of the 1980's, many new approaches of biomimetic inspiration have been defined and developed for imitating the brain behavior, for modeling non linear phenomenon, for providing new hardware architectures, for solving hard problems. These approaches include: Neural Networks, Multilayer Perceptrons, Genetic algorithms, Cellular Automates, Self-Organizing maps, etc. They can be summarized by the word Connectionism, and consist of an interdisciplinary domain between neuroscience, cognitive science and engineering. First they were applied in computer sciences, engineering, biological models, pattern recognition, motor control, learning algorithms, etc. However, it rapidly appeared that these methods could be of great interest in the fields of Economics and Management Sciences. The main difficulty was the distance between researchers, the difference in the vocabulary used and their basic background. The main notions used by these news techniques were not familiar to the Social and Human Sciences researchers. The purpose of the book is to put these new techniques at the disposal of researchers coming from different horizons, to assess the state of the art, to identify the capability of these new algorithms, to evidence the contribution of these methods to Economics and Management Sciences. It is a privileged place to expose the know-how and to discuss new developments and problems encountered in the researches. The contributions in this book bring new confirmations of the interest of connectionist approaches for researchers in Economics and Management Sciences. The first part is dedicated to theoretical advances; the second part presents a wide range of applications. All papers contain interesting results on each subject, which would have been very difficult to show with classical techniques but which has been proven by using these connectionist non linear methods. They reflect the great diversity of connectionist approaches of which we know the reader will benefit for his(her) own research. If this study enlarges the range of analysis tools for researchers in Economics and Management we will have reached our goal of sharing our interest in these new and fascinating connectionist methods. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7535-9 Date: October 2003 Pages: 269 pp. EURO 119.00 / USD 108.00 / GBP 75.00 (3) Technological Aspects of Virtual Organizations Enabling the Intelligent Enterprise by Alea M. Fairchild Vesalius College/Vrije University Brussel, Belgium; Greiner International, Belgium Virtual organizations are frequently discussed in management texts in the context of e-business and remote working. Yet the technical infrastructure that allows individuals, groups and corporations to have virtual relationships is rarely discussed in management books, and if so, the relationship between technology and the managerial issues is glossed over, or not properly elaborated. This textbook, designed for final year undergraduates and MBA students, considers the theory and practice of virtual organizations at three levels: the individual, the group, and the corporation. The justification for this approach is that at each level one sees manifestations of different problems that have to be considered in the design and implementation of relevant tools. These problems center on how information is used or, more precisely, how it is accessed, created, communicated, and reused once again. The technology appropriate for individuals may be different from the technology for groups or corporations. Ultimately, the reader should get a better understanding of the relationship between people and technology. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1732-4 Date: October 2003 Pages: 210 pp. EURO 80.00 / USD 88.00 / GBP 55.00 (4) Public and Situated Displays Social and Interactional Aspects of Shared Display Technologies edited by Kenton O'Hara The Appliance Studio, Bristol, UK Mark Perry Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK Elizabeth Churchill Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory Inc., CA, USA Daniel Russell IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK -- 2 Public and situated display technologies can have an important impact on individual and social behaviour and present us with particular interesting new design considerations and challenges. While there is a growing body of research exploring these design considerations and social impact this work remains somewhat disparate, making it difficult to assimilate in a coherent manner. This book brings together the perspectives of key researchers in the area of public and situated display technology. The chapters detail research representing the social, technical and interactional aspects of public and situated display technologies. The underlying concern common to these chapters is how these displays can be best designed for collaboration, coordination, community building and mobility. Presenting them together allows the reader to examine everyday display activities within the context of emerging technological possibilities. Audience: This book is intended as an important foundational text for researchers and practitioners in the areas of CSCW, Ubiquitous Computing and HCI as well as a useful reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on HCI, psychology, information systems and computer science courses. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1677-8 Date: October 2003 Pages: 456 pp. EURO 124.00 / USD 136.00 / GBP 86.00 (5) Perspectives on Software Requirements edited by Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jorge Horacio Doorn Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 753 Requirements engineering is a field of knowledge concerned with the systematic process of eliciting, analyzing and modeling requirements. Requirements engineering is usually understood in relation to software system requirements, most of its principles and some of its techniques can be adapted to other problems dealing with complex sets of requirements. The engineering vision indicates that this should be a practical and well-defined process where trade-offs have to be considered to obtain the best results. Mature software development needs mature requirements engineering. This was true ten years ago when requirements engineering became an important component of the software development process. It remains true today when the pressure to deliver code on time and on budget is increasing, and the demand for higher quality software also increases. Perspectives On Software Requirements presents perspectives on several current approaches to software requirements. Each chapter addresses a specific problem where the authors summarize their experiences and results to produce well-fit and traceable requirements. Chapters highlight familiar issues with recent results and experiences, which are accompanied by chapters describing well-tuned new methods for specific domains. Perspectives On Software Requirements is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7625-8 Date: October 2003 Pages: 296 pp. EURO 122.00 / USD 135.00 / GBP 84.00 (6) Realism in Action Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences edited by Matti Sintonen University of Tampere, Finland Petri Ylikoski University of Helsinki, Finland Kaarlo Miller University of Helsinki, Finland SYNTHESE LIBRARY -- 321 Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science. Practical reason, reasons and causes in action theory, intending and trying, and folk-psychological explanation are some of the topics discussed by these leading participants. A particular emphasis is laid on trust, commitments and social institutions, on the possibility of grounding social notions in individual social attitudes, on the nature of social groups, institutions and collective intentionality, and on common belief and common knowledge. Applications to the social sciences include, e.g., a look at the Erklären-Verstehen controversy in economics, and at constructivist and realist views on archeological reconstructions of the past. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Foreword. 1: Realism, Truth, And Explanation. What Philosophers Should Know about Truth and the Slingshot; F. Stoutland. From Erklären-Verstehen to Prediction-Understanding: The Methodological Framework in Economics; W.J. Gonzalez. The Archaeological Construction of the Past: Some Realist Moderations; U.Mäki. The Backward Induction Paradox and Epistemic Logic; G.Sandu. 2: Philosophy Of Mind And Action Theory. The Scope of Motivation and the Basis of Practical Reason; R. Audi. Activity and Passivity; M. Brand. Reasons and Causes: The Case of Collingwood; R.Martin. Intending and Trying: Tuomela vs. Bratman at the Video Arcade; A. Mele. Spinoza on Causal Explanation of Action; J. Pietarinen. On the Structuralist Constraints on Explanatory Scheme of Folk Psychology; M. Kuokkanen. 3: Intentions, Trust And Social Institutions. Commitments; K. Miller. The Components of Rational Trust; M. Tuomela. Grounding We-intentions in Individual Social Attitudes; C. Castelfranchi. Social Groups, Collective Intentionality, and Anti-Hegelian Skepticism; F. Hindriks. Social Institutions; S.Miller. Common Belief and Common Knowledge; G. Meggle. Others Will Do It: Social Reality by Opportunists; P. Makela, P. Ylikoski. Science as Collective Knowledge; I. Niiniluoto. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1667-0 Date: November 2003 Pages: 286 pp. EURO 125.00 / USD 138.00 / GBP 86.00 (7) Wholes, Sums and Unities by Ariel Meirav University of Haifa, Israel PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES -- 97 According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.e. relations between the parts of a whole), and to neglect the vertical dimension (i.e. relations between the whole itself and its parts). In Wholes, Sums and Unities, Meirav formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as `Unities', and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles (such as that of Tibbles the cat). More generally he suggests that conceiving wholes as Unities offers us a new way of understanding the world in non-reductive terms. CONTENTS Preface. 1: Introduction. I. Plato's Challenge. II. Two Approaches to Wholes and Parts. III. Illustration of the Idea of a Three-Tiered Whole. IV. The Theoretical Context. V. Outline of the Argument. Part One: Wholes. 2: Concrete Comprising Entities. I. Preliminaries. II. Ways of Being One. Appendix: Plural Quantification. 3: Types of Comprising Entities. I. Collective and Distributive Classes. II. Distributive Classes and Concreteness. III. Collections. 4: Theory and Pre-theory of Wholes. I. The Pre-theoretical Conception. II. Preliminaries to a Theoretical Conception. Part Two: Sums. 5: Classical and Neoclassical Mereology. I. Principles of Classical and Neoclassical Mereology. II. Limitations of the Notion of a Classical Sum. III. Flexibility of the Notion of a Neoclassical Sum. 6: Traditional Higher Wholes as Sums. I. Organic Wholes and Gestalts. II. Features of Organic Wholes and Gestalts. III. Organic Wholes and Gestalts as Sums. 7: Criticism of the Notion of a Neoclassical Sum. I. Conditioned Sums. II. Non-unique Sums. III. Mereologically Varying Sums. 8: Sums, Collections and All the Parts. I. Inherent Limitation in the Notion of a Sum. II. Classical Sums as Identical to their Parts. Part Three: Unities. 9: A Theory of Unities. I. Introduction. II. Unities and Collections. III. Principles for a Theory of Unities. Appendix: Proofs of Theorems. 10: Further Elaborations and Applications. I. Perspectives on the Theory of Unities. II. Applying a Theory of Unities. III. The Paradox of Tibbles. Bibliography. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1660-3 Date: November 2003 Pages: 318 pp. EURO 130.00 / USD 143.00 / GBP 90.00 (8) Experts in Science and Society edited by Elke Kurz-Milcke Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Behavior, Berlin, Germany In today's complex world, we have come to rely increasingly on those who have expertise in specific areas and can bring their knowledge to bear on crucial social, political and scientific questions. Taking the viewpoint that experts are consulted when there is something important at stake for an individual, a group, or society at large, Experts in Science and Society explores what personally traits contribute to the making of an expert and how a society actually determines that a person has expertise. It covers a wide range of areas in order to be inclusive as well as to demonstrate similarities across areas. Likewise, in order to be culturally comparative, this volume includes examples and discussions of experts in different countries and even in different time periods. The topics include the roles of political experts, scientific experts, medical experts, legal experts, and more. Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47903-6 Date: December 2003 Pages: 320 pp. EURO 67.50 / USD 75.00 / GBP 46.50 (9) Rediscovering the History of Psychology Essays Inspired by the Work of Kurt Danziger edited by Adrian Brock University College Dublin, Ireland Johann Louw University of Cape Town, South Africa Willem van Hoorn University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY SERIES -- For the last 25 years, Kurt Danziger's work has been at the center of developments in history and theory of psychology. This volume makes Danziger's work the focal point of a variety of contributions representing several active areas of research. The authors are among the leading figures in history and theory of psychology from North America, Europe and South Africa, including Danziger himself. This work will serve as a point of departure for those who wish to acquaint themselves with some of the most important issues in this field. Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47906-0 Date: December 2003 Pages: 246 pp. EURO 81.00 / USD 90.00 / GBP 56.00 (10) Furthering Talk Advances in the Discursive Therapies edited by Thomas Strong University of Calgary, AB, Canada David Pare University of Ottawa, ON, Canada This significant volume brings together noted clinicians to offer practical ways of using narrative techniques in therapy. The ideas presented build upon the "first wave" of narrative thinking that has influenced the field for the past decade. A range of timely topics are covered including sections of "dialogue" with the authors to demonstrate how these therapies are carried out. Both clinicians and graduate students alike will find this book of great value. Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47907-9 Date: December 2003 Pages: 292 pp. EURO 63.00 / USD 69.95 / GBP 43.50 (11) Algorithms in Ambient Intelligence edited by Wim Verhaegh Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Emile Aarts Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Jan Korst Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands PHILIPS RESEARCH BOOK SERIES -- 2 The advent of the digital era, the Internet, and the development of fast computing devices that can access mass storage servers at high communication bandwidths, have brought within our reach the world of ambient intelligent systems. To provide users with information, communication, and entertainment at any desired place and time in an intuitive, efficient, and effective way requires quite some system intelligence that is generated by smart algorithms. The need for such algorithms, which run on digital platforms that are integrated into consumer electronics devices, has strengthened the interest in computational intelligence. This book is the outcome of a series of discussions at the Philips Symposium on Intelligent Algorithms, which was held in Eindhoven on December 2002. It contains many exciting and practical examples from this newly developing research field, which can be positioned at the intersection of computer science, discrete mathematics, and artificial intelligence. The examples include machine learning, content management, vision, speech, content augmentation, profiling, music retrieval, feature extraction, audio and video fingerprinting, resource management, multimedia servers, network scheduling, and IC design. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1757-X Date: December 2003 Pages: 354 pp. EURO 125.00 / USD 138.00 / GBP 80.00 (12) Authoring Tools for Advanced Technology Learning Environments Toward Cost-Effective Adaptive, Interactive and Intelligent Educational Software edited by Tom Murray Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA Stephen Blessing Carnegie Learning Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, USA Shaaron Ainsworth University of Nottingham, UK This edited book gives a comprehensive picture of the state of the art in authoring systems and authoring tools for advanced technology instructional systems. Issues of authoring, cost-effectiveness, interoperability and re-usability have been at the forefront in recent years in educational software in general and in the field of advanced, adaptive and intelligent educational software more specifically. This book includes descriptions of fifteen systems and research projects from almost every significant effort in the field of advanced technology authoring systems. Included, is a chapter comprising of an extensive overview of the field, summarizing the work of dozens of systems and projects and providing an analytical framework for comparing them. The book will appeal to researchers, teachers and advanced students working in the following areas: education (all levels), instructional technology and computer-based education, psychology, cognitive science and computer science. We imagine two types of readers. First are academic or industry personnel in the field of instructional software research or development. They might ask the question "what methods and designs have been used and how successful have they been?", in their efforts to build the next generation of systems. The second type of reader is the user, developer or purchaser of instructional software (advanced intelligent or otherwise) who might ask the question: "what is really available, or soon to be available, to make advanced educational software authoring cost effective?" Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1772-3 Date: December 2003 Pages: 571 pp. EURO 185.00 / USD 204.00 / GBP 128.00 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.32 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 06:53:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 395 (395) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 32 (October 8 - October 14, 2003) Views Fault Management in Mobile Computing By Goutam Kumar Saha Business people on the go need portability and mobility in their computing environments. However, such mobile environments often suffer from transient faults. This article discusses how to manage faults in order to get better availability for small wireless devices. Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i32_saha.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=2&threadid=277 ********************** The Aeffability of Knowledge Management By Stephen Downes The challenge of knowledge management, and hence of online learning, is to make it work with the complexity and richness of actual human communication. Articl