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. Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i32_downes.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=1&threadid=278 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Michaelis-Menten? Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 07:05:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 396 (396) This may seem an odd query, but it's genuine enough: does anyone here know of an historical study covering the applications of the Michaelis-Menten equation across the many disciplines in which it has been applied? (For the curious, an explanation of what this is can be found at http://www.le.ac.uk/by/teach/biochemweb/tutorials/michment1.html.) Its range of applications is truly impressive, and to the outsider amazing -- all the way from enzyme kinetics to demographics. Surely this has caught the eye of an historian or two. Thanks for any leads. 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: things being various Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 06:51:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 397 (397) Thinking lately about the problems of computational modelling, I've been particularly open to being told that there's much that escapes any model, no matter how fine. The following, to which I was directed by a line quoted in a book review on the joys and profits from reading Herodotus, says particularly well what I was ready to hear. I send it along, framed by computing, in part as reassurance that although nearly everything is lost to the computational model, the modeller may actually see more as a result. Partly, of course, joys like this must simply be shared. Yours, WM Snow The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes - On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands - There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses. -- Louis MacNeice From: Michael Fraser Subject: Humbul Topic: Poetry on the Internet Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:27:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 398 (398) New Humbul Topic: Poetry on the Internet http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/poetry.html Poets and poetry lovers are well served by the Internet, whether it is collections of revered poetry from the past, or the latest criticism in an online journal. To mark National Poetry Day on 9 October James A. J. Wilson has brought together a selection of poetry-related sites in the form of a Humbul Topic, "Poetry on the Internet". The topic will remain in place after National Poetry Day. Humbul Topics gather together Internet resources found in the Humbul internet resource catalogue according to a specific humanities theme. Explore them all http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/ We welcome suggestions for further resources for inclusion within the catalogue and ideas for future 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: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: ASL & Scripting Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:27:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 399 (399) Willard, This comment on American Sign Language by Elouise Oyzon may be of interest to some of the readers of Humanist that took particular interest in the dance steps to coding thread. ASL structures things similarly to a sequence one would find in a script (understanding this is a spatial language). Time first. When. Where. (Scenario is painted). Who. (Actors, nouns introduced). What. (Then the actors do). http://www.rit.edu/~eroics/MT/WeezBlog/archives/000360.html -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Erin Lucido Subject: Newberry Library fellowships Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:33:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 400 (400) Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2004-05 The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2004-05 Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the Library. All proposed research must be appropriate to the collections of the Newberry Library. Our fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects funded by the Newberry benefit from engagement both with the materials in the Newberry's collections and with the lively community of researchers that gathers around those collections. Long-term residential fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars (and Ph.D. candidates in the case of the Kade Fellowship) for periods of six to eleven months. Applicants for postdoctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. The stipend for these fellowships is up to $40,000. Short-term residential fellowships are intended for postdoctoral scholars or Ph.D. candidates from outside of the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. Scholars whose principal residence or place of employment is within the Chicago area are not eligible. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months. The amount of the award is generally $1200 per month. Applications for long-term fellowships are due January 15, 2004; applications for most short-term fellowships are due February 15, 2004. For more information or to download application materials, visit our Web site at http://www.newberry.org/nl/research/L3rfellowships.html If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to Committee on Awards, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380. If you have questions about the fellowships program, contact research@newberry.org or (312) 255-3666. From: HuCo Conference Subject: HUCO Conference cfp Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:31:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 401 (401) Bridging Dimensions Third Annual University of Alberta Humanities Computing Conference December 4-5, 2003 University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Deadline for abstract submissions: Monday November 2, 2003 "We will burn that bridge when we come to it" -Jonathan Wolfgang von Goethe The University of Alberta's M.A. in Humanities Computing program is pleased to announce its third annual graduate conference, "Bridging Dimensions," to be held December 4-5, 2003 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This conference will bring together students and scholars exploring the exciting and interdisciplinary field of computing and the humanities. Presentations on all aspects of humanities computing are welcome and we encourage proposals from all disciplines. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Knowledge Representation -Mark-up languages -Modeling and simulation -Digitization of text, sounds, and images -Hypertext design and delivery Knowledge storage and manipulation -Metadata and learning objects -Databases -Electronic texts -Statistical methods and analysis Disciplinary Concerns -Information literacy -Computers and pedagogy -Humanities Computing as a discipline -History of computing -Electronic publishing and dissemination Technology and Epistemology -Cyber culture -Technology and gender -Multimedia theory -Post-humanism and the virtual body -Sociology and politics of technology 300 word abstracts must be submitted by October 24, 2003. Please email your abstract as a MS Word, RTF, or WordPerfect attachment to: hucoconf@huco.ualberta.ca Or send to: Humanities Computing Conference 3-5 Humanities Centre Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5 Please include your name, telephone number, email address, and your institutional and departmental affiliation. For more information about the University of Alberta's M.A. in Humanities Computing program, please visit: http://www.huco.ualberta.ca From: Sean Lawrence Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies for 9/03 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:30:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 402 (402) Early Modern Literary Studies has just published its September issue. The table of contents appears below and the journal can be accessed for free online at http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html Yours sincerely, Sean Lawrence, Assistant Editor Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Articles: The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison. [1] Magdalena Kay, University of California, Berkeley. The ''popular philosopher'': Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics. [2] Efterpi Mitsi, University of Athens. "He is turned a ballad-maker": Broadside Appropriations in Early Modern England. [3] Joshua B. Fisher, Wingate University. Monuments in Late Elizabethan Literature: A Conservatory of Vanishing Traditions. [4] J.Y. Michel, Université de Metz. "That vain Animal": Rochester's Satyr and the Theriophilic Paradox. [5] Nancy Rosenfeld, University of Haifa. Note: A Third Choice: Adam, Eve, and Abdiel. [6] Gerald Richman, Suffolk University. Reviews: Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan, eds. In Arden: Editing Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Richard Proudfoot. London: Thomson Learning, 2003. [7] Margaret Jane Kidnie, University of Western Ontario. Internet Shakespeare Editions, A Shakespeare Suite CD-Rom. [8] Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University. Peter Corbin and Douglas Sedge, eds. Thomas of Woodstock or Richard the Second, Part One. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 2002. [9] Michael Egan. Marcy L. North. The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 2003. [10] Frank Ardolino, University of Hawaii. Jonathan F.S. Post. English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth Century. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. [11] Marcus Nevitt, University of Sheffield. Theatre Reviews: Henry V. Northern Broadsides, directed by Barrie Rutter. [12] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. The Tamer Tamed. The Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Gregory Doran. [13] Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. Edward II, Shakespeare's Globe. Directed by Timothy Walker. [14] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. Shakespeare, Cambridge: Summer 2003. [15] Michael Grosvenor Myer. As You Like It, The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. [16] Katherine Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. As You Like It at Nottingham Castle. [17] Samantha Gibbs, Sheffield Hallam University. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 9/29/2003 From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress Online: American Notes: Travels in Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:30:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 403 (403) America 1750-1920 The Library of Congress announces the release on the American Memory website of American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml ). The website is comprised of 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites. All items are from the general collections of the Library of Congress. Although many of the authors represented in American Notes are not widely known, the collection includes works by major figures such as Matthew Arnold, Fredrika Bremer, William Cullen Bryant, François?René de Chateaubriand, William Cobbett, James Fenimore Cooper, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Sir Charles Lyell, William Lyon Mac! kenzie, André Michaux, Thomas Nuttall, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The narratives in American Notes therefore range from the unjustly neglected to the justly famous, and from classics of the genre to undiscovered gems. Together, they build a mosaic portrait of a young nation. 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 404 (404) this is testing mail to lists From: CCH Office Subject: Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture lecture series Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:19:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 405 (405) You are invited to a public lecture in the series: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP, DIGITAL CULTURE The first Wisbey Lecture: Stanley N. Katz, (Director, Center for Arts & Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton) Why Technology Matters: the Humanities in the 21st Century Computing and digitization are transforming not only the conditions of work for humanists, but also the ways in which humanists think and their disciplines are configured. The digital world both enables and compels new ways of thinking. And, significantly, it is just as transformative of teaching as it is of scholarship. Indeed, the most interesting thing about the new digital humanities environment may be that the distinction between teaching and scholarship is itself being eroded. The database is fast becoming the principal site of work in the humanities. 17.30 Thursday 16 October 2003 Arthur & Paula Lucas Lecture Theatre (Room 2B18) Strand Building, Strand Campus King's College London All are invited to a reception following the lecture Further information regarding this lecture series can be found at - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/03-04/index.html Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Room 11bb, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Tel: +44 20 7848 2371 Fax: +44 20 7848 2980 From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress: Luminary Lectures @ Your Library - Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:19:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 406 (406) New Season Begins Luminary Lectures @ Your Library: Dr. Michel Biezunski & Dr. Steven R. Newcomb 10/15/03 Dr. Michel Biezunski and Dr. Steven R. Newcomb will be presenting a lecture entitled, "Topic Maps: The Inventor's Perspective on Subject-based Access" at the Library of Congress on Wednesday, October 15th, from 10:00am-12:00pm** in the Pickford Theater on the 3rd floor of the Library of Congress' James Madison Building, located at First Street and Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C. Seating at this event will be limited to 64, so please allow time to arrive early. No reservations are necessary. All lectures are free and open to the public. This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet at http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/mbsn.html on the morning of the lecture, EST, and will be viewable with Real Player software. **Please note the earlier start time. Dr. Michel Biezunski and Dr. Steven R. Newcomb are the Editors of ISO/IEC 13250 and Consultants at Coolheads Consulting. Description of the lecture: Starting in 1992, Michel Biezunski and Steven R. Newcomb created, named, standardized and pioneered the application of the Topic Maps paradigm. Biezunski and Newcomb serve as co-editors of the ISO 13250 Topic Maps standard. They also co-founded TopicMaps.Org, where they co-edited the XML syntax (the "XTM Specification") that was added to the 2002 version of the standard. Perhaps the simplest way to communicate the goal of the Topic Maps Reference Model is to ask, "How can a single perspective be most easily provided for each subject, from which various independent assertions about the subject are directly available?" To put it even more briefly, "How can a master index be made from indexes that were never intended to be merged with others?" The Public Service Collections Directorate and the Content Management Working Group of FLICC of the Library of Congress are co-sponsoring this event. Other events coming in the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series this year include: "The Technology of Copyright: Digital Rights Management," Wednesday, November 19th, 10:30-12:00 noon @ the Pickford Theater, Karen Coyle, Digital Library Specialist "No Longer Under Our Control: The Nature and Role of Standards in the 21st Century Library, " Wednesday, December 3rd, 10:30-12:00 noon @ the West Dining Room, Dr. William E. Moen, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Sciences; Fellow, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, University of North Texas Please check the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library web site for more information about Dr. Michel Biezunski & Dr. Steven R. Newcomb and about this lecture series at <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>. A webcast of this lecture will be made available on this site after the event. For special assistance, please contact: Alison Morin, Library of Congress, Phone: (202) 707-1183, Email: amorin@loc.gov. From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Tuebingen Wrap-Up? Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:18:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 407 (407) Many of you will recall a plenary session at the end of the 2002 ALLC/ACH meeting in Tuebingen at which we discussed the future of humanities computing. Several panelists spoke about what they had heard during the course of the conference, and a lively discussion of "new directions" ensued. Were the "minutes" of that session ever recorded in printed form? 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: Willard McCarty Subject: memes (to "words that catch on") Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:58:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 408 (408) Further on the query in Humanist 17.283, specifically on the "meme", see Stephen Downes, "Hacking Memes", First Monday 4.10 (4 October 1999), at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_10/downes/. And further yet. Let us say that a very influential public figure, such as a rock star, were to use an expression utterly, unquestionably prohibited by the rules of transformational grammar, and suppose that it caught on, becoming part of the language. Would such a thing cause any problems for the grammar? Or is there an escape clause? Or can it be shown that the second supposition is without question impossible? 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: "evanhout" Subject: Re: 17.294 Tuebingen wrap-up in print? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:59:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 409 (409) [deleted quotation] If I'm not mistaken, the minutes will appear in Literary and Linguistic Computing. The ALLC had a notulant in the audience who recorded the debate. Could Harold Short fill me in on this one? -- Edward Vanhoutte Co-ordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie (CTB) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Reviews Editor, Literary & Linguistic Computing Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 17.294 Tuebingen wrap-up in print? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:59:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 410 (410) The ALLC/ACH 2002 Round Table on New Directions in Humanities Computing still appears to be available as streaming video (duration: 01:20:00.0) via http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002?sflag=video The video is also divided into convenient segments. Mike Humbul Humanities Hub From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 17.294 Tuebingen wrap-up in print? Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:59:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 411 (411) Steve asks: [deleted quotation]They were recorded (an interesting experiment in speed-typing on a Belgian keyboard by one accustomed to the American), but I don't believe they've been published yet. At least, I haven't seen them since I handed them off a few days after the session. -Vika -- vika@wordsend.org http://www.wordsend.org/log/ http://www.brown.edu/decameron/ From: Stéfan Sinclair (by Subject: COCH-COSH 2004: General Call For Papers Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:37:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 412 (412) Dear Colleagues, Please note that below is the general Call For Proposals to the COCH/COSH 2004 conference - many of you may have already received a CFP for Geoffrey Rockwell's panel on "Playing with Text Analysis" (http://coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp-ACCUTE.php). ************************************************************* COCH-COSH 2004 - Call For Papers (Re-)Envisioning the Digital in the Arts and Humanities U Manitoba, May 30 ­ June 1 ************************************************************* http://coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp.php Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2004 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Especially welcome are proposals that encourage us to envision ­ and revise our image ­ of the digital in our work, by documenting, exploring, and imagining the emerging or established role of computing in Arts and Humanities disciplines. Further topics may include, but will not be limited to, the following: - humanities computing figured as discipline and/or inter-discipline (via exploration or exemplification) - society and the computer, from an Arts and Humanities perspective - humanities computing and pedagogy - computing in the visual, musical, and performance arts - scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination - computing in multi-lingual and non-English environments - ongoing humanities computing research involving materials in textual, oral/aural, visual, multi-media, and other formats The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation societies ­ including ACCUTE (see http://coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp-ACCUTE.php) and the CHA/SHC's Committee on History and Computing (contact John Bonnet: John.Bonnett@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca) ­ parallel sessions with APFUCC, L'Association des Professeur(e)s de Français des Universités et Collèges Canadiens (contact Paul Fortier: fortier@cc.UManitoba.CA), and a proposed 'allied association' session with the joint international conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (contact Andrew Mactavish: andrew.mactavish@mcmaster.ca). Paper and/or session proposals can be accepted until December 15 via this URL: http://coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp.php Information on COCH-COSH and forms for membership can be found at http://coch-cosh.ca/ -- 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: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI KOS cfp: deadline extended Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:40:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 413 (413) Deadline extended: JoDI Call for Papers for a Special Issue on New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems For technical reasons it appears that the notice announcing this JoDI cfp may have been delayed, or in some cases not been delivered at all. In response to requests from authors, and after consultation with the special issue Editors, Traugott Koch and Doug Tudhope, the deadline for submissions to the issue has been extended by two weeks. Submission deadline: now 21 October 2003 Publication: January 2004 Full details of the call are at http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/newnkos.html All submissions will be subject to peer review. From: "William Dutton" Subject: Fwd: Professorships at the Oxford Internet Institute Date: Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:43:25 PM America/Detroit X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 414 (414) Dear Friends and Colleagues of the OII As you may know, the University has announced two new professorships in the OII: Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profigr.shtml Professor of Society and the Internet http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/profsocint.shtml The URLs provide further information about both professorships, but do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to know more about either post. The closing date for applications is 24 November 2003. I would greatly appreciate your help in drawing these new posts to the attention of prospective candidates. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Bill Professor William H. Dutton, Director Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles' Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk From: Ross Scaife Subject: Public Library of Science launches PLoS Biology Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:38:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 415 (415) Public Library of Science launches PLoS Biology New open-access journal will increase access to scientific research and speed scientific discovery San Francisco, Oct. 13, 2003 ­ The movement to provide free online access to results of scientific and medical research took an important step forward today with the launch of PLoS Biology ­ the first open access journal from the Public Library of Science (PLoS) publishers. The inaugural issue, available online and in print today, features peer-reviewed research articles on diverse topics--ranging from malaria genetics to elephant evolution--authored by prominent scientists from around the world. PLoS Biology is an open access publication - all of these articles are freely available via the Internet to anyone, anywhere to read, download, print, distribute and reuse, so long as proper attribution of authorship is maintained. "Scientists want their work to be seen and used," states Dr. Harold Varmus, chairman of the PLoS Board of Directors and former Director of the National Institutes of Health. "The outstanding science in the first issue of PLoS Biology shows that many scientists believe in open access and are willing to demonstrate their convictions by sending their best work to a brand-new and non-traditional journal." "Science thrives on the free flow of information," said Dr. Patrick O. Brown of Stanford University and co-Founder of PLoS, "By removing restrictions on the sharing of knowledge--ensuring that anyone, anywhere can access the latest research findings--PLoS Biology will speed the pace of scientific discovery". Scientific publishing is an industry with revenues exceeding $10 billion per year. The majority of existing journals restrict access to their current issues to individuals or institutions who have paid often hefty subscription or site-license fees. In order to make its content immediately available at no cost and with no restrictions, PLoS Biology will use a different business model. Authors of articles in PLoS Biology are asked to pay $1,500 to cover the costs of carrying out peer-review, providing editorial oversight, and managing production. In the vast majority of cases, these costs (on average less than 1% of the cost of conducting the research itself) will be borne by the funding agencies and institutions that sponsored the research. Strong support for open access publishing and the proposed business plan has come recently from the world's two largest private funders of biomedical research ­ the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. By publishing outstanding science from prominent scientists that would otherwise have appeared in leading pay-for-access journals, PLoS Biology is addressing an important cultural barrier to open access publishing. "Scientists have always strongly supported the idea of open access, but many have been reluctant to publish their best work in new open access journals that lack the prestige of established journals like Science or Nature," noted Michael B. Eisen, Ph.D. and co-founder of PLoS. "But with the outstanding papers in the first issue of PLoS Biology and the issues to follow, we believe we will have overcome this cultural obstacle. Scientists will no longer have to choose between supporting open access and advancing their careers by publishing in a prominent journal. With PLoS Biology they get both." Although PLoS Biology is using a new business model, it retains many of the features of existing scientific journals. All research submissions are subjected to a rigorous peer-review and selection process, overseen by a team of leading scientists and outstanding professional staff at PLoS. Only articles that make significant contributions to moving a field forward are published in the journal. As noted by Vivian Siegel, Ph.D., executive director of the PLoS, the promise is greater than locating research results online. "The full text searches made possible by our open-access policy will increase opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers, speed scientific discovery and potentially save lives." In addition, every primary research article will be accompanied by a synopsis of the research, written in non-technical language to ensure that readers from other disciplines or from the general public will be able to understand the nature and significance of each report. ### The Public Library of Science is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS began as a grass roots movement within the scientific community in October 2000, when more than 30,000 scientists, including 13 Nobel Laureates, endorsed a change in the current commercial, restricted-access publishing model. Increased awareness of open-access publishing and the momentum of the open-access movement are visible in the public statements of organizations as diverse as the National Institutes of Health's Council of Public Representatives, the Association of Research Libraries, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Start-up funding for PLoS publications was provided by grants from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and the Irving A. Hansen Foundation. PLoS Biology and background about PLoS can also be found at --www.plosbiology.org. Click here for a Message from the Founders: http://www.plos.org/downloads/plbi-01-01-message.pdf Click here for the inaugural Editorial: http://www.plos.org/downloads/plbi-01-01-editorial.pdf Public release date: 13-Oct-2003 Contact: Barbara Cohen bcohen@plos.org 415-624-1206 Public Library of Science From: Willard McCarty Subject: acronymic genius Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:12:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 416 (416) I suppose everyone has his or her favourite acronym. Allow me to add to the collection by means of a sentence fragment taken from Marti Hearst, Gary Kopec and Dan Brotsky, "Research in Support of Digital Libraries at Xerox PARC. Part II", D-Lib, June 1996: "The Document Image Summarization (DIMSUM) activity...." There's an entire culture in that DIMSUM. 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 4.33 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:15:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 417 (417) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 33 (October 15 - October 21, 2003) Views Visuos: A Visuo-spatial Operating Software for Knowledge Work Modular, integrated software could help knowledge workers keep track and make sense of abundant information by narrowing the cognitive load. By Dr. Clemens Lango Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i33_lango.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=1&threadid=279 From: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: Early Americas Digital Archive Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:15:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 418 (418) The <http://www.mith.umd.edu/>Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to announce the launch of the <http://www.mith2.umd.edu:8080/eada>Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA), a collection of electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. EADA is driven by an XML database that allows robust searching, either by keyword (such as author, title, period, geographical region, genre, etc.) or full text. The Archive also features a collection of links to early American texts on the Internet. EADA is freely available to the public for research and teaching purposes. It has been created by the staff of MITH under the directorship of Prof. Ralph Bauer as a long-term inter-disciplinary project committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies. EADA invites scholars from all disciplines, including graduate students, to submit their editions of early American texts for publication on its site. For further information, please visit the EADA at <http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/index.jsp>http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/index.jsp Dr Susan Schreibman Assistant Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 e-mail: sschreib@umd.edu From: Julia Flanders Subject: TEI training, Nancy, November 6 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:16:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 419 (419) TEI Training Session: Encoding Literary and Cultural Documents in TEI This training session will use a case study model to provide advice and discussion on specific topics in text encoding, based on real-world problems supplied by the participants. The session is aimed at those responsible for designing their project's encoding system. It will provide a valuable opportunity to take a focused look at a particular problem or set of problems, in a group of knowledgeable peers guided by TEI experts. Participants are expected to have some basic familiarity with the TEI. The session will focus on the encoding of literary and cultural documents, interpreted broadly. The session will last from 1 to 6 pm on Thursday, November 6. Each participant will be asked to bring a problem or encoding challenge from their own project. The session will begin with a general discussion of the topics raised, followed by focused attention to each particular case in turn. The instructors will address each participant's questions in depth and also draw comparisons among the projects represented. The goal of the session will be not only to answer the participants' specific questions, but also to place them in the context of issues such as retrieval, data interchange, and long-term project goals. Any issues that are still unresolved at the end of the session may be discussed further with the instructors via email. The session can accommodate a maximum of 16 participants representing a maximum of 8 projects, and will be led by two instructors. The instructors are Julia Flanders, Director of the Women Writers Project and Terry Catapano, a Librarian in Columbia University Libraries' Digital Program. The deadline for applications is October 20, and applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The fee for the session is $75 for TEI members and subscribers, and $125 for non-members. To apply, please send the following information to Julia_Flanders@brown.edu: --Your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number --The project you work with (a URL would be helpful) --A paragraph describing your project's work (the materials you're encoding, the audience you're serving, the aims of your encoding) --A paragraph describing the particular encoding problem or question you wish to bring to the session. --An encoded sample and a copy of your DTD, if available. From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 17.301 an acronym Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:36:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 420 (420) On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:31:06AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] Yes, I think that's true. My favorite is TWAIN. It's the standard protocol for connecting application software with image and audio acquisition sources (e.g. scanners). It stands for "Technology Without An Interesting Name." 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: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: DIMSUM Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:36:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 421 (421) Now you're making us hungry. Ah well... From: Harold Short Subject: establishment of the annual Wisbey Lecture at King's Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:32:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 422 (422) College London Wisbey Lecture in Humanities Computing King's College London King's College London has agreed that the Centre for Computing in the Humanities should establish an annual lecture in the application of computing in humanities research, to be named the Wisbey Lecture. It is so named to acknowledge the pioneering role at King's, at the University of Cambridge and internationally, of Professor Roy Wisbey, who started applying computing techniques in his own research in the 1960s and was one of the founding members of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The ALLC came into being in 1973 at a meeting held at King's (also attended by, among others, Susan Hockey, Wilhelm Ott and the late Antonio Zampolli). The first lecture in our series Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture, to be given this evening by Professor Stanley Katz (Princeton), has been designated as the first Wisbey Lecture. We are delighted that Roy and his wife Erni, along with Wilhelm and Hannelore Ott and Susan and Martin Hockey, will all be attending the lecture as guests of honour. Information about the Wisbey Lecture and the series as a whole can be found on the CCH web site, at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch. Following suggestions made on Humanist, all the lectures, including the one this evening by Stan Katz, are being recorded, and will be webcast. Harold Short Director Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London From: Julia Subject: clarification on TEI training Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:37:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 423 (423) It may not have been clear from my earlier posting that the TEI training session on November 6 is being held in conjunction with the TEI annual members' meeting, in Nancy, France. My apologies for the confusion! Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Brown University From: "Andrew Mactavish" Subject: RE: 17.304 acronyms Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:42:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 424 (424) A favourite of mine is the original acronym for PC Cards, which was PCMCIA. It was meant as an acronym for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, but an alternate meaning evolved, and one easier to remember: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms. Andrew ------------------------------ Andrew Mactavish, PhD Assistant Professor, Multimedia School of the Arts McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Phone: 1-905-525-9140 ext. 23503 Email: andrew.mactavish@mcmaster.ca Web: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/ From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI cfp: Information Design Models and Processes Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:40:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 425 (425) Call for Papers Journal of Digital Information announces a Special Issue on Information Design Models and Processes Special issue Editor: David Lowe University of Technology, Sydney Submission deadline: 15 December 2003 Publication: April 2004 Submissions are invited for a special issue of the Information Management theme of JoDI on information design models and processes. A crucial aspect of Web systems is the way in which information is utilised and managed. Recent work on areas as diverse as topic maps, information architectures, adaptation of UML, agile development methods such as extreme programming, and modelling for the semantic Web, have all contributed to an emerging understanding of how to design the information structures that underpin the Web (and of course much of this work has in turn been informed by research in areas like hypertext and HCI). Despite this the research outcomes have had questionable impact on current commercial practice - something of significant concern as Web systems mature and become an increasingly integral element of our social infrastructure. Much work remains on supporting the wide adoption of emerging modelling approaches and development processes. There are numerous unanswered questions around aspects such as: what these models ought to capture; how they relate information design to functional design; and how the design process accommodates changing client and developer understanding of information designs during the development. This special issue will focus on how this body of work might best support practical improvement to Web system development. For more details on indicative topics and submission, see the full call http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/infomodels.html All submissions will be subject to peer review. 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: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The October 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:41:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 426 (426) Greetings: The October 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are four articles, an Opinion piece by Geneva Henry (Rice University), 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 October is eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive, courtesy of Dr. Harvey Hammerman, M.D. The articles include: Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities Donald W. King and Sarah E. Aerni, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee; and Carol Hansen Montgomery, Drexel University Who Uses What? Report on a National Survey of Information Users in Colleges and Universities Deanna B. Marcum, Library of Congress; and Gerald George, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) The Digital Book: A Medial Revolution without a New Medium Volker Titel, University of Erlangen Building a Digital Library the Commons-based Peer Production Way Aaron Krowne, Virginia Tech The Opinion is: On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities Geneva Henry, Rice University [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: further on acronyms Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:15:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 427 (427) I don't have another favourite acronym, rather a question about their proliferation in certain kinds of technical academic writing (TAW). In these kinds of TAW authors often do what I have just done, in my view worse than unnecessarily, although the phenomenon is interesting. I'm wondering in particular about the subtle or not so subtle connotations of such usage. My reaction to this practice in TAW is to sense an undue reification of the referent. In other words, I sense a real difference between "technical academic writing", which is usefully ill-defined but doesn't carry any pretense of being otherwise, and "TAW", which is just as ill-defined but rhetorically suggests something well-defined, something you could almost pick up and put in your pocket. It is, of course, not surprising that a software engineer, say, should think this way. I'm not suggesting that there's anything wrong with thinking thus necessarily -- only that doing so uncritically, habitually can mislead the unwary or put off those unwilling or unable to read ironically. I don't think we really want to be read that way. Rather we want to be taken seriously, at least most of the time in professional circles, which means inter alia demonstrating awareness that the ontology of "technical academic writing" is rather different from the ontology of "TAW". Consider the linguistic evidence: unless I mean a particular piece of writing I cannot say "a technical academic writing" or "the technical academic writing" (and even if I do the phrases sound peculiar), but I can easily say "a TAW" or "the TAW". A flowchart view of the world seems highly problematic unless you can step outside it. Then it is highly useful. 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: further on theory Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 13:21:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 428 (428) In Humanist 17.184 I raised the question of what we mean by "theory" in the humanities. Allow me here to summarize the quite helpful responses, contribute words from a luminary (which in fact do not make that much of a contribution), add a brief description of a recent conference paper (which does) and ask the question again. Mark Wolff in 17.186 replied by quoting Jonathan Culler's 4-point *description* of from "Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction": [deleted quotation] subject. [deleted quotation] In 17.187 Han Baaltussen suggested 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[s] 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...." In 17.193 Arianna Ciula also pushed matters along by positing that "theory" in the humanities means a structured and historical abstraction: "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)." For humanities computing she offered the notion that it is defined in relation to a project: "In the process of a project the theory has its own history of meanings, an internal history then." In the TLS for 17 October, in his review of Terry Eagleton's After Theory (Penguin), Eric Griffiths quotes Eagleton's succinct definition, "a reasonably systematic reflection on our guiding assumptions". Although I have not yet seen After Theory, I suspect I'll be no more enlightened on the subject of what "theory" means in the humanities than Griffiths' sharply critical review leads me to expect. In his much talked about paper at ACH/ALLC 2003, "A Critique of 'Theory' in Text Encoding", Paul Caton pointed to and usefully discussed the problem I am hammering at: we use this problematic term, often implicitly if not self-consciously borrowing its sense from the sciences, without any clear or well informed idea of what we mean by it. So what do we mean by it? I am quite prepared to be told authoritatively that it really doesn't get much more precise than Culler or Eagleton makes it out to be. But I do think we need to look out for the heavy cultural baggage that comes with it. And I continue to look for good discussions of the problem. Comments or suggestions? 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: Peter Suber Subject: Guide to Institutional Repository Software Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:15:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 429 (429) OSI is pleased to announce the release of the Guide to Institutional Repository Software. The guide describes the five open source, OAI-compliant systems currently available. As many institutions are developing repositories, OSI thought it would be helpful to produce such a guide so that each institution could select the software best suited to meet its needs. Included in the guide is a brief narrative overview of each system followed by a summary of the systems technical features. The guide will be updated as additional systems are developed. To view the guide, please see: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/ best, Melissa Hagemann Open Society Institute From: Adrian Miles Subject: archives and scanners request Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:52:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 430 (430) Hi all, I am involved in writing a research grant at the moment. The project involves digitising various photographic images and other artefacts for the development of an archive. Could those with interests in this area be able to let me know: a) minimum scan specifications (resolutions, etc) that you would recommend? b) preferred hardware? While potentially funded this is a project at the 'domestic' end of the computing humanities paradigm and so we are not looking for equipment that will be needed to digitise an existing archive. Primary delivery will be only via computer screen. much thanks 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] From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 17.311 further on "theory" Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:52:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 431 (431) Will just wonder if you could specify further which criteria you are using for accepting a satisfactory definition (if that is what you are after primarily)? We could be heading for a theory of theory ... Han ;-) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 432 (432) this is testing mail to lists From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on memes Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:10:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 433 (433) See S. Blackmore. 1999. The Meme Machine. Oxford: Oxford University Press; see http://www.memes.org.uk/extracts/SBOct1998Ch1.html. Note also the site on which the extract appears, http://www.memes.org.uk/. 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: Harold Short Subject: LREC 2004 - Deadline extension for Workshop and Panel Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 06:51:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 434 (434) Proposals LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION *****PLEASE NOTE DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR WORKSHOP AND PANEL PROPOSALS TO OCTOBER, 27TH***** *********************************************************************** ***** LREC 2004 24-30 May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal Abstracts submission forms now available on-line: http://www.lrec-conf.org *********************************************************************** ***** The fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004, is organised by ELRA in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, AFNLP, ALLC, ALTA, COCOSDA and Oriental COCOSDA, EAFT, EAMT, ELSNET, ENABLER, EURALEX, GKS, GWA, IAMT, ICWLR, ISCA, LDC, ONTOWEB, TEI, and with major national and international organisations, including the Commission of the EU - Information Society DG, Unit E1 "Interfaces and Cognitionî. Co-operation with other organisations is currently being sought. *** 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 *** Abstract submission *** On-line submission forms are now available. On the LREC 2004 web pages, http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/index.php, from the 'Abstract submission' section, you can choose the appropriate submission form and submit paper, demonstration or poster abstracts. A submission form is also available on the LREC 2004 web site if you would like to propose a panel. *** Workshops *** Submission forms for workshopsí proposals are also available on-line. Pre-conference workshops will be organised on 24th and 25th May 2004, and post-conference workshops on 29th and 30th May 2004. A workshop is normally either half day or full day. The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organisational aspects (e.g. workshop call preparation and distribution, review of papers, notification of acceptance, assembling of the workshop proceedings, etc.). Proceedings will be printed for each workshop. *** Important dates *** - Submission of proposals for panels and workshops: 27th October 2003 - Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers, referenced demos: 31st October 2003 - Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals: 14th November 2003 - Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced demos: 23rd January 2004 - Final versions for the proceedings: 1st March 2004 - Conference: 26th, 27th and 28th May 2004 - Pre-conference workshops: 24th and 25th May 2004 - Post-conference workshops: 29th and 30th May 2004 The proceedings of the conference will include both oral and poster papers. ************************************************ Dr. Sara Goggi Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Area della Ricerca di Pisa San Cataldo Via Moruzzi n. 1 56124 Pisa - Italy - phone number: +39 050 3152836 fax number: +39 050 3152834 email: sara.goggi@ilc.cnr.it url: http://www.ilc.cnr.it *********************************************************************** *** Harold Short, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2739 * Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/cch From: Peter Liddell Subject: Program of CaSTA Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:12:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 435 (435) Full Details of the Program and accommodation arrangements for CaSTA, the Canadian Symposium for Text Analysis (Victoria, BC, November 14th) are now available at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/casta/pages/ The Program is full and varied, and is at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/casta/pages/program.htm Please Note: this is a no-fee conference, but we ask that you register online so that we can estimate numbers. From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: 17.313 scanning specifications? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:07:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 436 (436) This is a complex question requiring a professional detailed investigation into the sources, intentions and future of the organization. Utilizing the services of a prepress/imaging specialist is highly recommended. On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://63.170.215.11:8000 --- From: James Cummings Subject: RE: 17.313 scanning specifications? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:07:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 437 (437) You may be interested in the recommendations by the Visual Arts subject centre of the UK's Arts and Humanities Data Service. These contain guidelines on the production of digital images via scanning and other methods. It probably won't tell you anything you didn't already know, but just in case. The various guides for visual arts are available at: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/creating/guides/index.htm Hope that helps, James --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, James.Cummings@ota.ahds.ac.uk From: "Kristin Solias" Subject: RE: 17.313 scanning specifications? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:08:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 438 (438) Visual Resources professionals tend to suggest scanning at the highest possible resolution. You can always make lower resolution surrogates from a high-resolution master. For discussions of resolution and hardware, check out the archives of VRA-L (http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/vra-l.html). Postings from Susan Jane Williams on resolution should be particularly helpful. Also, in case you're interested, the VRA organization's web site is at http://www.vraweb.org/. Kristin Kristin Solias Visual Resources Curator Art Dept UMass Boston 617 287 5750 kristin.solias@umb.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: CLIR reports Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:11:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 439 (439) Humanists unaware of the publication list of the Council of Library and Information Resources (http://www.clir.org/pubs/pubs.html) should take a look. I can recommend several of the reports, e.g. Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne E. Thorin, The Digital Library: A Biography (pub109); William S. Brockman et al, Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment (pub104). Another was recently announced here: Diane M. Zorich, A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and their Sustainability Concerns (pub118). All are available online. 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: criteria for "theory" Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:09:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 440 (440) Thanks to Han Baltussen for asking the now obvious and non-trivial question, which is productive of others: what criteria might we hold up for a concept of theory in the humanities? Being from a practically orientated field, I'd say ones that define a concept which actually helps us in our work. Allow me to propose the following: (1) the concept identifies a set of behaviours and what they produce, and distinguishes both from others; (2) it explains the role of this intellectual product in our work; (3) it allows us to distinguish good from bad (or strong from weak, etc) kinds. Since we already have the relatively tractable idea of modelling (which is what computers do), and we know models by definition to be fictional, manipulatory devices, the space left over for theory would seem to make it declarative and purposefully truth-tending. Ray Siemens proposed recently in conversation that theory is that which tells us what to look for by other means. Northrop Frye used to suggest that the prime criterion for literary critical theory was intellectual fruitfulness. I'd suppose that "theory" necessarily means a statement or set of statements in language. But, given that we are talking about the humanities, the prior sentence should not be taken to imply parsimony. Indeed we should allow that a theory could comprise a narrative, should we not? But what kind? Some time ago, in a private exchange, John Burrows suggested the idea of an "anatomy", as in Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. Would that be a better term for the job? 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: theory and practice Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:09:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 441 (441) "As Freeman Dyson has pointed out, computers only really took off when they built them small and fast, shortening the iteration of design. In part this is because the underlying problem is not one of theory, but of practice. There was a theory of flight, but it did not help the Wright brothers build an airplane. Nor were bicycles designed by theory, but by trial and error; indeed, theory still cannot really explain why they work as they do." Thomas Baker, "Languages for Dublin Core", D-Lib Magazine, 12/98. 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: François Subject: Re: 17.313 scanning specifications? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:21:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 442 (442) Your very specific question raises a more general one regarding the _purpose_ of an image archive. It reminded me of a lecture given by Prof Manfred Thaller at Queen Mary (University of London) some time ago, in the mid 1990's. In it, he showed us two slides, apparently identical, of a victim of the holocaust. He then said that one was a contemporary photograph (yes, the Nazis actually photographed people before murdering them!) and the other was a digitized image of it. He went on to say that if you wanted to know what the person looked like, either image would do. However, with the original, he could zoom in on to a button of the uniform and see the manufacturer's name stamped on it, while the detail was completely lost in the second image. If you needed the picture as evidence for a prosecution of the uniform manufacturer on war crime charges, only the original would do. An extreme example... François Crompton-Roberts ----- Original Message ----- Hi all, I am involved in writing a research grant at the moment. The project involves digitising various photographic images and other artefacts for the development of an archive. Could those with interests in this area be able to let me know: a) minimum scan specifications (resolutions, etc) that you would recommend? b) preferred hardware? While potentially funded this is a project at the 'domestic' end of the computing humanities paradigm and so we are not looking for equipment that will be needed to digitise an existing archive. Primary delivery will be only via computer screen. much thanks Adrian Miles From: hla@CS.NOTT.AC.UK Subject: Call for Papers: Hypertext '04 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:20:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 443 (443) Hypertext 2004 Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia August 9-13, 2004 : Santa Cruz, California USA http://www.ht04.org/ Call for Submissions The Fifteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia will be held in Santa Cruz, California, August 9-13, 2004. The ACM Hypertext Conference is the foremost international conference on hypertext and hypermedia. It brings together scholars, researchers and practitioners from a diverse array of disciplines, united by a shared interest in innovative textual and multimedia information spaces - with emphasis on augmenting human capabilities via linking, structure, authoring, annotation and interaction. This year, in addition to the established conference themes, the conference is actively soliciting submissions at the intersections of hypermedia and Digital Libraries, Software Engineering and the Humanities. We welcome submissions on the representation, design, structuring, visualizing, navigating, and exploiting of the rich network of relationships found in these domains. Spatial hypertext (structuring information via visual cues and geometric arrangement) and ubiquitous hypermedia (in situ authoring and navigating relationships among real world objects) have recently emerged as significant research directions. They join our established themes of adaptive hypermedia, literary hypertext and systems and structures. This latter topic knits together the research themes of open hypermedia, structural computing, design and reflection. In a bold experiment, for the first time we will be accepting hypertext submissions of research results. We are keenly interested in how judicious use of nonlinear narrative and rich linking can enhance communication of research ideas. We encourage you to consider submitting your paper as a hypertext. Please see the Web site for further details about hypertext submission. We will also be operating a rolling review process. Papers and hypertexts received before the early submission deadline will receive reviewers' feedback at least a week before the final submission deadline, facilitating revised submissions where appropriate. Key dates Early submission deadline: February 4, 2004 Full papers & hypertexts: March 12, 2004 Workshop proposals: December 19, 2003 Short papers: May 28, 2004 Poster & demo abstracts: June 11, 2004 Program Themes This year we have organised the call around a number of themes. We welcome papers about all aspects of hypertext and hypermedia, even if not closely fitting one of these themes. Digital Libraries Chair John Leggett, Texas A&M University Vice Chair David Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg Information structuring plays a fundamental role in the broad range of research areas encompassed by the digital library field. The diverse collection of media that digital libraries contain, along with the variety of ways in which users interact with those resources, require flexible, dynamic, and adaptable structuring techniques. We seek contributions that explore the ways in which the rich variety of structuring facilities represented by hypermedia technology can be used to address the challenging tasks faced in the digital libraries field. Software Engineering Chair Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine Vice Chair Ken Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder Software projects produce a diverse set of highly interrelated artifacts including requirements, architectures, designs, source code, test cases, and build scripts. We are interested in research that explicitly leverage these relationships through hypertext mechanisms or capabilities, including but not limited to contributions in Web-based open source software development, software development environments, CASE tools, consistency checking, software configuration management, build management, release management, literate programming, intelligent editors, and documentation support systems. Hypertext in the Humanities Chair Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University Vice Chair Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore Theoretical and applied work in areas like computational linguistics, natural language processing, lexical semantics, cognitive psychology, computer-mediated communication, and electronic publishing have explored the advantages of coding, storing, and accessing lexical and conceptual knowledge in multi-dimensional formats. We encourage submissions in these and related areas that show how multi-dimensional structure has been used to describe, represent, and explain different types of information. Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia Chair mc schraefel, University of Southampton Individuals are, well, individual. In many scenarios, one text, one set of relationships, does not fit all readers. We seek contributions in all areas of this research theme, encompassing systems, methodologies, and user models for the adaptation, filtering and personalization of relationship-rich information spaces. Additional emphases include interaction design for adaptable or adaptive systems, adaptive and intelligent learning environments, recommender systems, reflective user models, and agent-based adaptation, as well as rigorous evaluation of such systems. Literary Hypertext Chair Jim Rosenberg Viewed broadly, hypertext permits a wide range of experimentation in literary works on non-linearity, multiple authorial viewpoints, and rhetorical structure, as well as radical entanglements of words and meaning. Papers are welcomed on a variety of topics, of which only a small sample might include: the nature of hypertextual time, cybertext/algorithmic anatomy, hypertext narratology, hypertext anti-narratology, the role of code in literary hypertext, hypertextual close reading, literary interfaces, minimalist hypertext, maximalist (sculptural) hypertext, and the nature of hypertextual genre. Ubiquitous Hypermedia Chair Kaj Gronbaek, Aarhus University Rich networks of relationships exist among physical real-world objects as well as between these objects and computerized documents. We seek contributions that explore the interface between the physical and the virtual, especially those emphasizing creation, visualization and navigation of relationships, content delivery to mobile devices, location tracking, authoring tools and methods for geospatial relationships, and innovative uses of this technology for work, play, and creative expression. Spatial Hypertext Chair Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University The relative positioning of artifacts to create new relationships and meaning has long been used by sculptors and visual artists. Spatial hypertext builds on this tradition to assign meaning and structure to units of text and media based on their visual similarity and relative geometric and temporal placement in virtual information spaces. We are interested in contributions that explore this novel information structuring technique, including new systems, user interfaces and metaphors, visualizations, methodologies, experience reports, and spatial structuring techniques. Systems and Structures Chair Niels Olof Bouvin, Aarhus University Now that the Web has entered a period of stabilization characterized by increased maturity and incremental technical improvement, we seek research on novel systems that expose possibilities far beyond the Web as we know it. We solicit contributions on innovative systems, methodologies, and taxonomies for representing and structuring intellectual work and its inter-relationships. Users of systems can range from individuals to collaborative teams, working free-form, or in defined workflows. Dimensions of interest include novel user interfaces, architectures, distribution, data models, infrastructure, standards, openness, and, generally, capabilities for augmenting creative intellectual activity. Other topics Papers about all aspects of hypertext and hypermedia are welcome, whether or not they fit one or more of the above themes. Submission categories Hypertext 2004 is seeking full papers and hypertexts, short papers, workshops, technical briefings, doctoral consortium contributions, demonstrations, and posters. Please see the Web site for further information. Conference Committee Program Co-Chairs David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham, UK hla@cs.nott.ac.uk General Chair Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz, US ejw@cs.ucsc.edu Hypertext Program Chair Simon Buckingham Shum, Open University, UK sbs@acm.org Workshops Chair Manolis Tzagarakis, Computer Technology Institute, Greeece tzagara@cti.gr Tutorials Chair Jamie Blustein, Dalhousie University, Canada jamie@cs.dal.ca Posters & Demonstrations Chair Jessica Rubart, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany rubart@ipsi.fhg.de Panels & Technical Briefings Chair Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, US bernstein@eastgate.com Doctoral Consortium Chair Leslie Carr, University of Southampton, UK lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk http://www.ht04.org/ For general enquiries please contact enquiries@ht04.org ACM approval pending From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Open Content in Humanities Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:21:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 444 (444) The academic community seems to be full of projects and ideas for opening up academic content with things like the Open Access Initiative <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/>, the Open Knowledge Initiative <http://web.mit.edu/oki/>, MIT's Open Courseware <http://ocw.mit.edu/>, the Open Textbook Project <http://otp.inlimine.org/>, and the PLoS <http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/>. But Humanities seem to be underrepresented in most of these projects. I'm sure there's a lot of projects going on to open humanistic content but is there something that has really taken off already? From: Willard McCarty Subject: priorities in publication Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:16:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 445 (445) Allow me strongly to recommend a talk by Joshua Lederberg, "Options for the Future", D-Lib Magazine (May 1996), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may96/05lederberg.html. He is writing about publication in the natural sciences, which plays by somewhat different rules than ours, but the questions he asks and many of the conclusions he draws are immediately relevant to us. We need to think with such clarity. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Malcolm Hayward" Subject: Re: 17.318 criteria for "theory" &c Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:18:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 446 (446) I think we can all concur that Willard deserves our blessings and curses for raising such interesting questions and making us think in the morning. Who has time to consider such things as the bases of theory? And who can escape trying to think through such issues once they are laid before us? That said, I was reading through Sidney's "Defense of Poesy" (to teach it today) and was struck yet once more by "Now, for the poet, he nothing affirms, and therefore never lieth. For, as I take it, to lie is to affirm that to be true which is false. So as the other artists, and especially the historian [take that, historians], can, in the cloudy knowledge of mankind, hardly escape from many lies," and so on. As with the poet, so too with the theorist, I think, for the theorist knows in the back of his/her mind that the theory is a fabrication meant to be measured not by truth values but by some level of satisfaction, related ultimately to service to the good. As to the other issue Willard raises, I wouldn't say that the theory is a narrative construction in itself; that might look too much like the affirmation of truth. Rather theories supply the organizing structures upon which narratives may be built. Perhaps must be built. Malcolm Hayward From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.318 criteria for "theory" &c Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:19:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 447 (447) Willard, Might you be searching for a space between ethic and theory? The question is suggested by a reading of Michel de Certeau's "History, Science and Fiction" which appeared in Social Science as Moral Inquiry ed. by R. Bellah et al. (1983) and reprinted in Heterologies (1986). The French historiographer writes: Differentiated and limited disciplines, which organize operations within coherent frameworks, define theoretical hypotheses, specific objects of knowledge, and scopes of investigations. The social sciences born in modern times form a set of institutions that express ethical postulates through technical operations. For me, de Certeau's essay resonnates with the often encountered tension in text encoding discussions between an ontological approach (the attempt to represent a what is there) and a more nominalist approach (documenting a reading, marking out a possible map). It seems what you are after in your quest for a theoretically-informed space is a space where a dialogue between practitioners can occur. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.321 Lederberg on priorities in publication Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:21:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 448 (448) Well, Willard,I'd start by saying that Lederburg clearly has a totally different notion of "primary literature" than we have in Lit -- I guess his is works by scientists (?) and ours is poetry, novels, drama, etc. and while he can I guess insist that his primary lit is inviolable, ours certainly is not: just compare different editions of many classic and medieval works (and later too -- see the newer Shakespeare editions) to see great differences in text, etc. Some of these differences make for major changes in interpretation -- cf recent editions of King Lear, for instance. From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 17.323 scanning specifications Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:18:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 449 (449) In the mid-1990s the resolution for affordable scanning was not great. Plus the notion that the original photograph and/or its negative will always stay viewable in the required detail is a misconception, no matter how carefully they are preserved. The cost-benefit of imaging for preservation can easily be represented graphically: X-axis time, Y-axis quality. First guarantee that both the original and the image of it are preserved optimally, which in the latter case means without loss of information but in the former case cannot. Determine the difference in quality between the image and the original. Draw a horizontal line to make a temporal graph of the unchanging image quality. Then represent the (better) quality of the original somewhere to the north of that of the image to begin with, but draw the curve charting its inevitable deliquescence over time (there is a huge literature on this). For any time after the two curves intersect, you have justified the imaging and the maintenance of the image, because the image will now be better than the original and past this point the original will get worse and worse. The main trouble with imaging projects is that they are frequently targeted at short-term goals and often have little serious commitment (or institutional capacity to make such a commitment) to the preservation of the image unchanged in quality and still viewable over the long term, long enough for the curves to cross. Pat Galloway University of Texas at Austin From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: 17.323 scanning specifications Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:18:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 450 (450) [deleted quotation] The curious thing is that a very high-resolution digitalized image can extract _more detail than the "original." If they haven't already, digital images, may soon eclipse analogue versions, as being superior and "culturally-credible." { brad brace } <<<<< bbrace@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp From: Ross Scaife Subject: Re: 17.322 "open content" in the humanities? Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:19:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 451 (451) On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 01:34 AM, Alexandre Enkerli wrote: [deleted quotation] I agree that humanists seem to be slow in jumping aboard this train, though a philosopher is running what is AFAIK the most important blog about the Open Access movement (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html ). In some cases part of the problem may be that e-materials in existing projects were acquired and/or built up in days before the importance of this issue was clear, making it harder (though not necessarily impossible) to apply the formal license retroactively. Two positive examples in Classics come to mind: Leeds International Classical Studies (a journal) http://www.doaj.org/alpha/L/link10171.tkl Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy (Chris Blackwell) http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home "The contents of the articles in DÄ“mos are licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-1.0). The scripts that drive the site are licensed under a Creative Commons License (NonCommercial-1.0)." From: "Joris van.Zundert" Subject: 17.322 "open content" in the humanities? Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:22:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 452 (452) It may be that the humanities are only just starting up. For the Dutch situation I can point you to some interesting projects: <http://www.igitur.nl/en/default.htm>http://www.igitur.nl/en/default.htm (see especially <http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?mission>http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?mission and <http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?benefits>http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?benefits), <http://www.roquade.nl>http://www.roquade.nl and <http://www.i-tor.org/en/toon>http://www.i-tor.org/en/toon. But there must be more examples out there, must there? From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Paul Ceruzzi on "History of Modern Computing" Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:27:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 453 (453) A History of Modern Computing second edition Paul E. Ceruzzi This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial product; the emergence of small systems in the late 1960s; the beginning of personal computing in the 1970s; the spread of networking after 1985; and, in a chapter written for this edition, the period 1995-2001. The new material focuses on the Microsoft antitrust suit, the rise and fall of the dot-coms, and the advent of open source software, particularly Linux. Within the chronological narrative, the book traces several overlapping threads: the evolution of the computer's internal design; the effect of economic trends and the Cold War; the long-term role of IBM as a player and as a target for upstart entrepreneurs; the growth of software from a hidden element to a major character in the story of computing; and the recurring issue of the place of information and computing in a democratic society. The focus is on the United States (though Europe and Japan enter the story at crucial points), on computing per se rather than on applications such as artificial intelligence, and on systems that were sold commercially and installed in quantities. Paul E. 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Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1644-1 Date: November 2003 Pages: 361 pp. EURO 129.00 / USD 142.00 / GBP 89.00 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: Patrick Juola Subject: Letter about the Authorship Attribution Competition Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:20:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 455 (455) Dear Colleagues, I would like to invite you all to participate in an Ad-Hoc Authorship Attribution Competition, to be held as part of the 2004 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC/ACH 2004). My hope is to establish a collection of the best techniques and methods in inferring document authorship from participants around the world. Recent years have seen a tremendous increase in interest in the problem of determining the author of a disputed or unknown document using computer-aided or even complete computer-driven analysis. We hope to bring together the users and the developers of this technology to share and to compare their methods and results. This competition will help to create a set of ``best practices'' in authorship attribution that can standardize analyses and spur the development of new and improved methods. The competition will be run using a set of specially developed corpora (of various sorts) that will be distributed ``anonymously'' to participating researchers. Researchers will be asked to submit their programs which will analyze the documents and determine who wrote each individual document. The results will be tabulated and are planned to be presented as a special session of the ALLC/ACH meeting in Goteborg, Sweden (June 11-16, 2004). Participation in this conference will be encouraged but not required. The Electronic Imprint at the University of Virginia has expressed interest in publishing an edited volume of papers and software describing the various methods. Participants in the competition will be invited to submit to this volume. Technical support for developing, testing, and standardizing software will be available from the Digital Humanities Developer's Consortium to help in the production of high quality, end-user friendly software to encourage use and reuse of the methods presented. For further details, please contact Patrick Juola at aaac@shannon.mathcs.duq.edu. More information can also be found at the competition home page at http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~juola/authorship_contest.html including status reports and progressive developments. Please pass this invitation on to any other people, groups, or mailing lists who might find it of interest. Thank you, Patrick (Juola) Math/CS Department Duquesne University 600 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15203 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Tel: +1 412 396 5685 Fax: +1 412 396 5197 Eml: juola@mathcs.duq.edu http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~juola From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Berlin Declaration on Open Access Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:19:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 456 (456) This is a report from Berlin 22 October. Today at 12:00 there will be a press release plus the text of the Berlin Declaration, a historically important step for the Open Access movements worldwide. In this Declaration, all of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries (such as France's CNRS) have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research. http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html The Berlin Declaration is just the beginning of a series of steps that the signatories will be taking to promote open access. Among these steps, the Max-Planck Society is Edoc, an open-access repository of all of the research output of the Max-Planck Institutes' many research laboratories. This is a truly remarkable concerted act of institutional self-archiving, and a superb example for the research world at large. http://edoc.mpg.de From: Willard McCarty Subject: Hinton on Lederberg on publication Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:23:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 457 (457) Norman Hinton, in Humanist 17.326, rightly points out that publication is a different affair for us in the arts and letters than Lederberg describes for the sciences. What I thought particularly relevant was his approach to electronic publication and the digital library issues that follow: begin with what one thinks to be the essential qualities and roles of publication for one's field(s) of study, then (and only then) consider what happens and could happen when it is done and housed digitally. In all too many instances, the so-called experts begin with an unexamined notion of e-publication or an equally unexamined idea of "the" digital library and then tell us what the future looks like. Unfortunately some of these experts have influence, and public policies are being made under it. I won't "name and shame", as we say in this country, but I will point to two other refreshingly intelligent pieces of work on the topic: David M. Levy and Catherine C. Marshall, "Going Digital: A Look at Assumptions Underlying Digital Libraries", Communications of the ACM 38.4 (1995): 77-84 (www.acm.org/dl/ -- to which I hope you have access); Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner, Digital futures: Strategies for the information age (London: Library Association Publishing, 2002). I also deeply appreciate Lederberg's seriousness, his concern for what he does, concern that others take it seriously and do it right. One must, as he says, be able to say about one's work, "This, at least for now, is it. Let my reputation stand or fall by what I have said here." Even if in the very next publication one changes one's mind, as I seem constantly to be doing these days. Publication venues such as Humanist provide a good means of being less serious in some ways, sometimes. But, Lederberg is more or less saying, we need a publication venue as demanding on us as the gallery is to the artist or someone's house is to the builder who renovates 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: Willard McCarty Subject: theory, phenomenology and model Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:26:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 458 (458) Geoffrey Rockwell, in Humanist 17.328, said that [deleted quotation] What I think Geoffrey is talking about is the practice of modelling, i.e. constructing and interatively perfecting a partial and manipulable representation of something for the purpose of studying it. From this it follows that a model is what results from applying a theory to a specific set of circumstances in order to see if the theory works under those circumstances and what it can tell us about them. This definition of "theory" accords with some current philosophy of science, esp the so-called "semantic view", for which see Ronald N. Giere among others. Let us say that I have a model of a phenomenon -- my current one is of personification (for which see "Depth, Markup and Modelling", CHWP A.25, http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/CHC2003/McCarty_b2.htm), comprising an Access relational database and an Excel front-end. Since constructing that model I have changed the saturation function and made a few changes in the relational database, so it isn't the same model as before, but I would assert that the new or at least significantly altered model is based on the same *theory* of personification. If pressed to say what I meant by "theory", I'd start by distinguishing whatever it is that I mean from a "phenomenology", i.e. the description of personification on which the model was immediately based, detailing the linguistic factors I say are responsible and how they combine. But I wouldn't want to call that a theory, because I'd want the theory to survive disagreements over the precise nature of these factors. Is there then room for a useful and non-trivial statement or set of statements more abstract than a phenomenology but more focused than a notion? Let me make an attempt (in the hopes of some criticism): IDEA: "Personification is caused by discernable operations of language." THEORY: "Personification takes place when the ontology of a non-human entity is perceived to be shifted to or toward the human state by predication of one or more abnormal qualities or behaviours. Two kinds may be defined: the "personification figure", a momentary anthropocentric but seldom anthropomorphic phenomenon that plays no direct role in the narrative, and the "personification character", usually a clearly anthropomorphic phenomenon that lasts long enough to have such a role. Ontological disturbance is caused by discernable linguistic factors in the immediate context aided by larger narrative phenomena including the nature of the entity in the text, in the body of literature to which the text belongs, in the culture that includes this literature or in a larger cultural tradition. These factors may be specific to the text in question in ways that are not yet understood." PHENOMENOLOGY: "For Ovid's Metamorphoses personification is caused by two kinds of factors, strong (can be found alone) and weak (always found in combination with others). The strong factors are: [here follows an enumerated list]. The weak factors are: [another list]. The effect of these factors is modified by these specific kinds of context: [a list]." MODEL: [see the software construct to which I refer above]. Actually I would call the above "theory" a proto-theoretical statement, but labelling something this unfinished a theory isn't unusual. Note that the phenomenology, if properly spelled out, would be far longer and more specific than the theory. Indeed, the above describes approximately a progression from general to specific, though the "idea" is vague and the "theory" is not. 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: Peter Robinson Subject: Caxton's Canterbury Tales online at De Montfort Date: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:03 am X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 459 (459) on CD [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: a parable of preservation Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:52:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 460 (460) Northrop Frye, in his undergraduate lecture course from which The Great Code came, once recounted the story in Jeremiah 36, in which the Lord instructs the prophet to "take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today". He gets a scribe, Baruch son of Neriah, who duly writes down what Jeremiah dictates -- probably on papyrus, Frye remarked. The scroll is read to the people. The king, Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, hears about this and sends for the scroll. Jehudi son of Nethaniah son of Shelemiah son of Cushi brings it into the king's presence and begins reading from it. "Now the king was sitting in his winter apartment (it was the ninth month), and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him. As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them into the fire in the brazier, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier." Consider, Frye said, what has been preserved: not the king or his palace or any of his works, rather the insubstantial words written on one of the least permanent materials available. There' s more to the story: "Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary Baruch son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah's dictation all the words of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them." But this serves the point I wish to make about cultural memory and its means. It would be better for us all, would it not, if we thought about digital preservation and the digital library (whatever that is) with a critical sense of irony. "Learning", Gregory Bateson remarked, "leads to an overpacked mind. By return to the unlearned and mass-produced egg, the ongoing species again and again clears its memory banks to be ready for the new." (Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press, 2002, p. 45.) 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: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 17.333 theory Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:55:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 461 (461) I very much like what Willard said this morning about personification. I think his example theory suggests two things: 1. Theories are about something underlying, something not clearly visible in the 'phenomenology' (a freighted word). Often this is something that causes or or is a contribing cause of what we observe but not always. It can also be something distinctive to that phenomenology in other ways. 2. The crucial practical role, certainly a crucial practical role, of a theory is to allow us to make predictions, i.e., to know in advance under what circumstances we will and will not encounter the target phenomenon. My two cents' worth. Andrew -- Andrew Brook, Professor of Philosophy Past-president, Canadian Philosophical Association Member, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 2217 Dunton Tower, Carleton University Ottawa ON, Canada K1S 5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Fax: 613 520-3985 Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Theory Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:22:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 462 (462) Bear with me, a script about theory. I went to see a performance last night of "Judy or What it Like To Be A Robot" by Tom Sgouros. This is a performance around questions of artificial intelligence, consciousness and scripting machines or performances. (http://www.sgouros.com/) Today I asked one of my philosophy colleagues if that performance was itself a work of philosophy to which he replied that it was not. He said it was "philosophically informed" the way a movie like the Matrix is. When pushed on this he asserted that the performance did not make assertions that could be assessed the way philosophical assertions can. In other words it did not present a theory, where a theory would be a coherent set of general assertions about some subject. Instead the actors (Tom and Judy) performed characters who made assertions (among other things.) I then pointed out that the word "theory" comes from the Greek to "view" and shares a common root with "theatre" which suggests that theories are works that stand-back in some fashion in order to present a particular type of view on the subject theorized. To this he replied that etymology isn't definition - it doesn't mean that is how we use the word today. This raised the question of whether a philosophical dialogue is a "work of philosophy" capable of presenting theory or whether philosophers like Wittgenstein can be said to present theories when they appear to be resisting theorizing (or trying to cure us of the temptation). The relevance of this story is that we need to expand the question to look not only at theory but the practices associated with theory. What does it mean to theorize? How do we do it? How do we exchange theories? Is all theory performed, even if the performance is a reading? Humanities computing brings a new set of practices to the mix. Developing a computer model of a subject of inquiry is a form of applied theorizing. It is a method or practice that humanities computing is introducing into the humanities whereby we try to formally describe in code a subject so that the computer can perform the theory as a way of testing it. Again, this is a stepping-back-to-view akin to stepping back from writing theory. The question I ask myself is whether there are inherent constraints to theories modeled as code for automata that limit what can be theorized through computing? We should ask Judy. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Theory Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:56:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 463 (463) Willard McCarty in Humanist 17.333 wrote: [deleted quotation]Willard is to kind to ascribe a coherent position to me when I was reacting to a performance. One of the directions I was headed was to assert that a computer model could be a theory the way we could say that a work of philosophy is a theory. This raises the question of what is the incarnation of a theory. Is a theory in the mind while a written work is a "statement in writing" of the theory? Where is Plato's theory of forms now? Is it in a "text", the _Republic_, which is different from a particular instance of that abstract text - namely the object on my shelf? Is it in the minds of those philosophers who have read Plato? Or is it a form to which the physical artefacts (and states of mind) are approximations? (This should remind us of the debate at the UVA ACH/ALLC about "what is a text". If we decide that certain objects called texts are theories, then I will assert that other objects like programs are also capable of being a theory. So, if I point to the _Republic_ as a theory of forms, I should be able to point to Willard's system as a theory of personification. Which brings me back to theorizing or the practice of developing theories. The second point I want to make is that we don't always build programs (code theories) based on ideas (mental theories). Sometimes we develop the theory by iteratively playing with what is at hand, be it a lump of wax, words on paper, code on a machine, or diagrams on napkins. The theory emerges in the artefact and in our minds simultaneously - or in dialogue. The artefact is interpreted during theorizing as a theory. For someone else the artefact could be a database - to Willard it is an encoded theory. This would answer respondents who point out that the artefact is just a machine not a theory. It is only a theory when treated that way, which is the most we can say about anything, including our mental states. Regarding performance and philosophy, I put the question to Tom Sgouros, the performer. His response was, "That is, in a general sense, I agree with you and don't find an important distinction between performance and philosophy, but "Judy" (as opposed to Judy) doesn't really present a consistent viewpoint on the important subjects." He continues to say that a performance could be a work of philosophy, but his show was not intended to present a consistent view and therefore he would not claim it is such a work. Likewise we might say that certain humanities computing works are philosophy (or theory) because they are intended to present a consistent view, while others are not. In playing with a model on a computer it would become a theory when the model was consistent and not just an aggregation. Yours, Geoffrey R. From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: 17.327 scanning specifications Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:53:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 464 (464) The TASI website has a collection of documents offering advice on digital imaging issues. See the section headed 'Advice' on the left of the TASI home page (http://www.tasi.ac.uk/) 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: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: reservations about preservation Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:31:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 465 (465) Willard, Is not the best irony cast as ernestness? [deleted quotation] of differentiation. Learning leads to an overpacked mind. By return to the unlearned and mass-produced egg, the ongoing species again and again clears its memory banks to be ready for the new. Note the line breaks. The suggestiveness of lines that end with "overpacked" and "mass-produced". And the telling error that would carry the game of end words to read "its new". The new is not possessed. It belongs whole to the other. In my copy of Mind and Nature on the quotation cited by Willard appears on page 53. I am glad that I was working from a different edition, it allowed me to scan an essay that I have read some time ago and relocate the passage quoted by Willard at the end of the eighth section" of the chapter entitled "Every Schoolboy Knows..." Nuance - clearing the memory banks is not the same as flushing them out completely Nuance - the ongoing species is a collective noun which includes individuals who are being born and those who have been born Nuance - the return of the ongoing species is not the return of the individual being The clearing of memory banks and the readiness for the new does not mean that the individual member of a species must necessarily give up learning and the packed mind. For Bateson, successful raids on the random allow participants in coevolution to create context. A packed mind can generate noise. It can become a random event generator. A mind unpacking itself can a teacher to the other. Madness, senility, a second childhood, are not perhaps what Bateson had in mind. Yet, he does use a line from _Lear_ to name the eight section "NOTHING WILL COME OF NOTHING" (the publisher perhaps supplying the capitalization, I don't know I don't have access to the typescript). Every schoolboy knows since the 1979 publication of Bateson's book that feminism has help us scrutinize dichotomous schemes attentively and to be sensitive to hidden, unacknowledged labour that reproduces the world. Every schoolboy knows that something doesn't quite click in the culture-nature split that is a stepping stone to Bateson's remarks on learning and unpacking: quote> In contrast with epigenesis and tautology, which constitute the worlds of replication, there is the whole realm of creativity, art, learning, and evolution, in which the ongoing processes of change _feed on the random_. The essence of epigenesis is predictable repetition; the essence of learning and evolution is exploration and change. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 51, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:56:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 466 (466) Version 51 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,000 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) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (weekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.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, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. 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Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: Open Access and its implications for the humanities Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:30:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 467 (467) Following is a collection of messages exchanged among a few people interested in the topic of "open access". At the suggestion of one of them, Stevan Harnad, I am publishing the lot here on Humanist, slightly edited to remove some irrelevant stuff. Let the discussion continue! --WM (1) [deleted quotation] (2) [From the undersigned on 24/10/03] [deleted quotation] (3) [deleted quotation] (4) [deleted quotation] rather [deleted quotation] access to [deleted quotation] aura [deleted quotation] background [deleted quotation] (5) [deleted quotation] (6) [From the undersigned on 25/10/03] [deleted quotation] (7) [deleted quotation] be the [deleted quotation] (8) [deleted quotation] (9) [from the undersigned on 25/10/03] [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: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.337 theory Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 05:31:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 468 (468) Geoffrey I [the focus is on what is doing theory] [the performative] [deleted quotation] Geoffrey II [the focus is on the whatness of theory] [the reificative] [deleted quotation] Geoffrey III [the focus is on a recursive imbrication of the question of performance with that of existence] [the historical] [deleted quotation] Lachance is tempted to suggest that theory making and theory reading are comparative exercises. The possibility of dialogue is inscribed in the very gesture of theorizing is a gesture of demarcations. One set of readers & commentators & theorizers will approach a theory from the elements to be found within the boundaries it delimits. Other subjects (readers, commentators, theorizers) will approach from a place sensitive to the repressed, occluded and unheard. quoting de Certeau and inviting subscribers to subsitute "theory" for "historiographical discourse": quote> This relating of systems to what displaces them, or metaphorically transforms them, corresponds as well to the way time appears to us and is experienced by us. From this perspective, historiographical discouse is, in itself, the struggle of reason with time, but of reason which does not renounce what it is as yet incapable of comprehending, a reason which is, in its fundamental workings, _ethical_. I am reminded that for Turing machines a state is both a description and an instruction. For a technological imagination, a picturing and a telling are tools. I'm intrigued by the possibilities of translation between picturing and telling because for me this represents a test of the analytical tools at hand. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/dolezel.htm A theory is a tool. A tool resides in intersubjective space. And that is a space that is accessed through the picture making of poesis, the staging of theatricality and the reiterations of narrative and narrations. Precisely what a computer in a networked environment is designed to do: make, move and go meta. Happy is the scholar who finds joy in theory and theory making. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 469 (469) this is testing mail to lists From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: scanning Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:48:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 470 (470) Francois' point is well taken, but things have changed. There was a time when ones scanner offered 150 dpi (dots per inch), but now we have digital cameras with many megapixels. I would not use a scanner nowadays, but rather a digital camera. With the scanner, one has always the possibility of damaging the binding, etc., whereas with a camera, one has the possibility of doing filtration in real time, seeing the result before `printing', etc. Francois' point on analog vs. digital is also good. A digital picture is like a pointilliste painting and consists of many separate (discrete) points, whereas one has a tendency to look upon film as continuous. It is not at all continuous, really, and zooming in or enlarging is likely to involve one with `grain in the negative' (breakup of the silver salts). The Nazi who took the photographs, if he used the best film and camera available (say a Leica 35 mm., with Adox KB 14 film, developed to a gamma of 7), would still have more of a grain problem than a present-day photographer with a 6 megapixel digital camera. One needs to keep the analogy of the pointilliste painting in mind. Many photographs of yesteryear were printed with a half-tone screen and (like the pictures in the Sunday newspaper) are really dpi, as you can easily determine by magnifying them. Were I the keeper of an archive and wanted to preserve a record of my holdings, I would get an SLR (single lens reflex, to avoid parallax) 6 (or more) megapixel camera (street price ca. $1000, 1K) + filters (write the camera company to see what they recommend). With a proper stand and lighting, I would make a digital photograph of each page, using the proper filter. Look at the photograph before you preserve it, with the filter over the lens; see what looks best. Record filter, time, etc. I would keep the picture in TIFF format. {In CurrentCites 14.10 (October, 2003), Roy Tennant points out: "As anyone familiar with the issue of digital preervation knows, the real problem facing those in the field is migration. That is, beinging files forward from dead file formats into formats that can be used with current software."} TIFF is not going to die. It takes up a lot of space in your storage, but that is no longer a problem. What the megapixel SLR camera bring us is the ability of a total amateur (with care) to take satisfactory archival pictures. Do not fiddle with the result, put it in storage. If you want to use a program to fiddle with the result, fine, but keep your first picture in storage. Above all, do not treat your archival pictures with non-algorithmic methods. When you take a digital photograph, an LUT (Look-up table) is generated, where each pixel has at least the form of f (x,y), where x and y are the familiar geometric location (10 over, 9 down) of the pixel and f represents the gray-level, color, whatever, the radiometric information. In general, any fiddling with the geometric information could lead to forgery, radiometric is ok, ceteris paribus. Every archive in the world ought to generate a digital record of its holdings, making it available to scholars. Let the scholars do what they will, so long as the original is kept. Every record ought to be in TIFF, 6 megapixel or more. Where artifacts are concerned and 3-D photography is needed, you are going to have to go to an expert. Field photography is another matter. I could post a bibliography. Do we still have a Humanist archive? From: Willard McCarty Subject: serious blogging Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:45:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 471 (471) Toby Dodge, in "An Iraqi in cyberspace", TLS 24 October 2003, p. 27, reviews Salam Pax, The Baghdad Blog (London: Guardian Books, 2003), which is apparently a transcript of a blog (Web log) continuing at www.dear_raed.blogspot.com. The reviewer explains very briefly the history and nature of blogs but is chiefly concerned with what "became one of the most authentic voices chronicling the build-up to war, the invasion and its chaotic aftermath. Salam Pax, in a witty, sometimes catty monologue, managed to do what the combined weight of the international media could not. Using a cheap computer and unreliable internet access, he documented the traumas and more importantly the opinions of Iraqis as they faced the uncertainty of violent regime change" and its chaotic aftermath. This is, and was, "intelligence" for free, in both senses of the word, but it was ignored, apparently. Pax documented in the build-up to war, "a population living under tyranny. Risking certain death if discovered, Pax describes the attitude of his friends and family towards the US but also to Saddam Hussein's Baathist dictatorship. For those seeking to understand Iraq, Pax's narrative, straightforward and sincere, is revealing. If decision-makers in London and Washington had taken the time to consult Pax's musings before the war, their understanding about the country they are now failing to control would have been greatly enhanced." A lively, consequential example of Web publication for our students. I wonder, is this the first example of a primary Web publication reduced to print for commercial publication? Unfortunately the review itself is not online, not yet even for subscribers. For the TLS itself see http://www.the-tls.co.uk. Curiously the reviewer doesn't ask or ward off the question of whether Salam Pax is a pseudonym ("peace" in Arabic and Latin would seem a bit of a stretch otherwise). One can understand why the fellow would take on a false name. 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: Re: Open Access and Humanities Monographs Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:46:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 472 (472) I am redirecting this ongoing exchange to the Humanist, where I think it should be transpiring. Some replies below: On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, James J. O'Donnell wrote: [deleted quotation] There is no evidence I know of in the case of monographs, just overwhelming evidence in the case of journal articles. You are right that it is merely an *assumption* that, as with journal-articles, not all would-be users of monographs have access. We can all be sure this assumption is valid , but Jim is right to ask whether it is as widespread and pressing a problem as access to the refereed journal literature is. I do not know, but I do have a hunch (and a bet): If and when the connection between access and impact is made as clear to monograph-authors as it already is to article-authors, there will be a good deal more demand for open access by monograph authors: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/bookcite.htm Books remain, however, bigger and costlier texts than articles, and are often not written solely or even primarily, for the sake of research impact but also for the sake of royalty income: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1.1 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#1.2 Harnad, S., Varian, H. & Parks, R. (2000) Academic publishing in the online era: What Will Be For-Fee And What Will Be For-Free? Culture Machine 2 (Online Journal) http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j002/Articles/art_harn.htm http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/17/00/index.html And whereas it is clear that the only essential function PostGutenberg peer-reviewed journal publishers perform is peer review, which can be funded easily out of the toll-savings, it is not clear that this is also true of monographs; nor is it clear that we can yet do without the paper edition and patina, in the case of monographs. It would be a *huge* disservice to the open-and-shut case for open-access to the refereed journal literature to co-bundle it with the more equivocal case of the monograph literature, for then we are on the slippery slope to the entire book literature, most of which is most definitely *not* interested in renouncing royalties! That is why I am keeping this discussion on Humanist and not piping it to the open-access lists that are concerned with the refereed journal literature. [deleted quotation] Yes and no. It would cut revenues, but it would also make it possible to cut costs. Moreover, if there is truth to the widespread view that the print edition is still essential for monographs, there is no reason why the open-access online-only version should not serve merely as a parallel mode of access for the have-nots, rather than a replacement for the haves. It is undeniable, though, that some risk is entailed in making texts open-access online. That is why I suggested that authors' institutions might wish to make their own calculations on the value of maximizing impact, and might subsidize the costs of hybrid publication (online edition for-free, on-paper edition for-fee) to counterbalance the risks and losses for publishers. [deleted quotation] The wake-up call about the access-problem came from libraries groaning under the yoke of rising journal costs, but it is a *great* mistake to imagine that (for the journal literature, at any rate) open-access is solely or primarily needed so as to save money for libraries or to drive down overpriced journals! For the fact is this: *Any* access-barrier is too high for give-away texts, written solely for impact, once it is no longer *necessary*. Fro as long as the toll is non-zero, there will always be would-be users whose institutions cannot afford it. We do not publish our refereed research in order to keep nonprofit publishers in business. We publish our research to maximize its impact (uptake, usage, applications, citations). In the Gutenberg era the only way we could have any impact *at all* was by reconciling ourselves to access-barriers to our give-away work, so the publishers could cover their true and irreducible costs. Today, in the online era, those costs are reducible to near-zero. (Peer-review costs are the only ones that remain, and the toll-savings will be more than enough to cover them several times over, on the input end.) This is true for journal articles: Is it true for monographs? For journal articles it is also true that no researcher, once made aware of the causal connection between access and impact) will be willing to go on knowingly subsidizing his Learned Society publisher's "good works" (funding meetings, scholarships, lobbying) with his own (i.e., the researcher's) lost impact! Let the good-works find some other way to fund themselves! Is this true of monograph authors and publishers too? I don't know. [deleted quotation] This I *know* is not the case, for here the journal-analogy is a homology: What gives the journal the tenure-value it has is the journal's track-record for its refereeing quality standards and impact factor. These are medium-independent (and of course also cost-recovery-model-independent!) and stand only to gain from maximizing access and hence impact through open access. Quality-control and certification can be paid for at the input end; no need for access barriers to assess and maintain that quality. Stevan Harnad From: "Stefan Gradmann" Subject: AW: 17.339 Open Access and its implications for the Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:46:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 473 (473) humanities Dear colleagues, Stevan's reaction ("I *completely* disagree!") has made me think and after all made me aware of a point I had a tendency to neglect until now: of course we should be very careful not to use the "online-is-nonoptimal" argument "in a self-paralyc manner" and "as a rationalization for inaction". And even though I had no intention to make it sound that way I do realize that the argument may be perceived that way, and maybe the risk of this happening is much higher among the "non-hermeneuticists and non-semioticians" :-) Seriously: we probably should remind ourselves more often of the cultural differences of reasoning among the humanists and the 'hard science' colleagues. These differences not only engender different traditions of knowledge organization and of information transfer (hence the online-is-nonoptimal argument!) but also different reading reflexes and habits. Willard has mentioned this earlier: many of us humanists tend to dislike simple truths, since these are not "interesting" and we often assume that the really "interesting" things are complicated (and some of us then make the mistake of inverting this argument and to assume that complication in itself is interesting), whereas many of the 'hard science' people to some extent seek simplification or even frankly love it. This statement is of course a simplification in itself and it should be very clear that seeking simplification does not necessarily mean being simplistic - but it eplains why Stevan's answer to our wrapped up reasoning is "a black and white distinction". I am convinced that both paradigms are needed, the 'complex' and the 'binary', the reasonings built on 'difference' and on 'identity' respectively. And we always need to remember the respective opposite more consequently: this is what Stevan's reaction has reminded me of. There is, however, a balance of power implied here, and that's where things get nasty: simplifications are quickly embraced by politicians, too, and more than often are turned into frankly simplistic constructs in that context. And these people *hate* complications, which only cost them time and energy that is needed for useful, pragmatic action (here again I am simplifying, of course) And the consequence is that in practice only the 'binary' paradigm is present and effective in the Open Access discussion context, and that the 'complex' one has huge problems to make itself heard at all - and then most often is considered 'unuseful' and quickly discarded again. And that's a pity! Kind regards from wet & cloudy Hamburg -- Stefan Gradmann ************************************************************ Dr. Stefan Gradmann / Virtuelle Campusbibliothek Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg Schlüterstr. 70, D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838 3093 Fax.: +49 (0)40 42838 3284 GSM : +49 (0)170 8352623 E-Mail: stefan.gradmann@rrz.uni-hamburg.de From: Thomas Krichel Subject: Third Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:59:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 474 (474) Announcement [crossposted] CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: "Implementing the benefits of OAI" 3rd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI3) LIBER, SPARC and SPARC-Europe, and the CERN Library are organising the third OAI workshop at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) on 12-14 February 2004. Please see further details and book online at http://info.web.cern.ch/info/OAIP/ The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was founded in 2000 to bring the benefits of open archives-compliant software to the research community and launch an international network of institutional repositories. Since OAI's founding, there have been many successful applications of the technology, and a simultaneous, widespread understanding that open archives technology is the foundation for the future of research. In the field of scholarly communication there has also been a remarkable evolution: open access journals have achieved respectability through the activities of BioMed Central and PLoS and the number of such journals is rising; scholarly societies are becoming interested in the open access model, and we have seen some society publishers adopt the open access model. The foremost granting agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. have both issued statements supporting open access. However, libraries have not yet reaped large benefits from the OAI's success. Through publishers' "big deals," more commercial journal titles than ever before are accessible, and library budgets are tightly bound to them in long-term contracts. Library customers are growing accustomed to the enormous comfort offered by the databases of those publishers and, as a consequence, switching to alternative models for scientific communication has become less and less acceptable. We want to change this. The third CERN workshop will bring together librarians and information specialists, publishers, scientists and university managers who want to bring the benefits of open archives technology and open access publishing to libraries. The conference's action-focused agenda will prioritize initiatives to be undertaken, in order to increase the impact of OAI on the process of scientific publishing. [sent on behalf of the OAI3 Organising Committee] http://info.web.cern.ch/info/OAIP/Committee.htm From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 17.342 serious blogging Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:55:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 475 (475) Greetings, On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] I don't think so. Earlier examples that spring to mind are: The Cathedral & the Bazaar : Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. by Eric S. Raymond, O'Reilly UK, 1-56592-724-9, 1999 <http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/> The New Hacker's Dictionary. Edited by Eric Raymond 2nd Ed, The MIT Press, 0-262-68069-6, 1991 <http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/> C Programming FAQs : Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Summit 3rd ed, Addison Wesley, 0-201-84519-9, 1995 <http://www.eskimo.com/%7Escs/C-faq/top.html> C++ FAQs by Cline, Lomow, and Girou, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-30983-1 <http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/> Computers and Typesetting, Volume B, TeX: the Program by Donald E. Knuth 2nd ed, Addison Wesley, 0-201-13437-3, 1980 CATB was long in circulation, and influential, before O'Reilly put it on paper in 1999. The New Hacker's Dictionary (which Willard has mentioned in Humanist before) has probably been distributed through more protocols than most of us have heard of. Its predecessors were the `Hacker's Dictionary' of 1983, and jargon.txt, which was circulating in the early 1970s. The C and C++ FAQ books are the most unequivocally technical of these. I _believe_ both are expansions of community-generated FAQs, which someone has taken and put between hard covers (surely an interesting process by itself). `TeX the program' is just the source code of TeX, formatted in the way Knuth intended, and put between covers. The source to this book is therefore exactly the TeX source code, one version or other of which has been circulating since the 70s. Of course, though the two Raymond books are arguably more concerned with society than strictly the technology, all of these are About Computers. Perhaps Salam Pax's first is to have the first book that has taken this route that is nothing to do with computing. And _that's_ a curious remark as well, since it suggests that blogs, which everyone was terribly excited about a year ago, have faded far enough into the technological background, that a transcript of one person's blog can reasonably be seen as other than a technology book. All the best, Norman -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@astro.gla.ac.uk From: Virginia Knight Subject: Re: 17.342 serious blogging Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:56:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 476 (476) Salam Pax now writes fortnightly in the Guardian on alternate Wednesdays (next instalment 29th November). He does indeed write under a nom de plume (do we need a digital-age equivalent for this phrase?) 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: "Steven D. Krause" Subject: Re: 17.342 serious blogging Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:56:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 477 (477) Willard-- You mention that this TLS article doesn't discuss in any way if "Salam Pax is a pseudonym." Does TLS article bring up the reality of Pax? I happen to think that Pax exists, but what I'm getting at is the nature of the interface is such that the convincing and "authentic" view of this first-hand account of the war in Iraq could have been written by an especially gifted teenager in Kansas, or some place/scenario like that. Just curious... --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: Patrick T Rourke Subject: Re: serious blogging Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:56:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 478 (478) Yes, Salam Pax is a pseudonym. NPR (National Public Radio, a US-government-supported - barely - but not government-controlled radio network, similar in conception to the PBS television network) had an interview with him some weeks ago. Perhaps the reviewer assumed that the pseudonym was too obvious to comment on. Certainly the Jargon File/Hacker's Dictionary (which was originally a Usenet publication, not a web publication, but was nonetheless an electronic publication in concept and execution until reduced to print, and continues to be accessed mainly in electronic form - unless you are using "primary" to refer to an historical source-text) anticipated the Salam Pax weblog by a number of years. Patrick Rourke On Oct 27, 2003, at 1:52 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.342 serious blogging Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:56:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 479 (479) [deleted quotation]I think there have (already) been quite a few examples of Web publications going to print, from mainstream to academic to underground: Salon, in fact, has a whole line of such publications: http://www.salon.com/plus/reads/index.html; the electronic journals Postmodern Culture and Bad Subjects have both published print compilations; and at the underground end of the spectrum, David Rees's Get Your War On cartoons. This may well, however, be the first example of a _blog_ to print publication, something I'm sure we're going to see a lot more of. Also only a matter of time until we see see blog-style novels, just as there were a handful of epistolary email novels a few years back. Matt Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: further reservations on preservation Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:59:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 480 (480) Let us assume for the purposes of argument that digital preservation proves impractical in the long term, let us say (if a reason is needed) for the reason that porting all the world's data from system to system, format to format, metalanguage to metalanguage, is too great a task. Not impossible, simply beyond the resources of all but the richest governments and multinational companies. What, then, would be our situation? With respect to research we would have an agile medium in which to experiment and publish freely our short-term results, and a stable, very slow-moving medium in which to communicate and document matters so important that we considered them worthy of outlasting us. Let's be honest with ourselves. What that we do really deserves to last? Some of it, yes, perhaps from some of us. I have in mind not only that a great deal of what we do is not all that valuable, not only that most if not all of what we have done is experimental, but also that the present moment is what we have, and that we are teachers. Helen Tibbo, in "Archival Perspectives on the Emerging Digital Library", Communications of the ACM 44.5 (2001): 69-70, says that in general archivists save about 5% of the original bulk of a collection; she points out that the materials handled by librarians have already been winnowed via review and publication to a significant degree. Saving everything, she argues, especially in an era of documentary abundance, means finding nothing. So, it would seem, asking how we're going to keep everything the digital medium contains is asking the wrong question. Allow me to suggest that a much better question is how to employ the media we've got for jobs for which they are well suited. 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: "Dennis Moser" Subject: Re: 17.344 scanning Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:58:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 481 (481) Hmmm. As an archivist heavily, yea verily, intimately involved in digitization work and a photographer, I feel that I should comment on some of the statements here...some of this with respectful disagreement. [deleted quotation] Uhm, for large-scale production, this isn't always the best of decisions... [deleted quotation] Depends on who is handling the works. I would want to be certain that any technician manning the scanner was competent in handling rare/fragile materials before they ever touch the materials to put them on the scanner...only common sense, really. You can see your results after scanning just as well as with a digital camera, better actually if you have a high resolution monitor on the wrokstation (and you DO have a high resolution, color corrected monitor on your scanning work station don't you?). Furthermore, just because you're using a digital camera doesn't mean that you don't require a.) competency in handling rare/fragile materials (you still have to move them around for photographing, etc.,) and b. photographic skills. [deleted quotation] True, film really only gives the impression of being continuous tone. It really is just as "pointillistic" as digital when enlarged sufficiently. [deleted quotation] Uhm, no. I'd put my money on our hypothetical Nazi, especially if s/he is using a Leica with that wonderful glass of those lenses. You might be thinking of the stereotypical image of the spy using a Minox (which uses 16mm, considerably different in its ability to capture information, htough I have seen exquisite 16" x 20" prints done from a Minox negative that defy their tiny origin...). In the hands of skilled photographer, grain can be developed in such a manner as to greatly diminish the effects, yielding a negative capable of tremendous enlargement. The fact is that the 35mm format, by default, yields a file anywhere from 18Mb to 80 Mb in size, dependent upon the particular scanner used (all over the counter, readily available machines). That magic 6 megapixel camera only yields a file of +/- 36 Mb in size. Period. More on this later... [deleted quotation] This is only true if the print was created for newpaper printing. [deleted quotation] Sorry, you might want to do some more research on this. A Nikon D100 or a Canon 10 D will cost you more than that, even with discounts available. The bodies alone are over $1000 US, and then you need good lenses, unless you already have either of those systems in place. And that only works of the lenses you have are of recent enough vintage to work with the digital bodies. If you don't have the lenses, the costs start mounting quickly. Further, for this kind of work I would strongly recommend looking at the 12Mb - 15 Mb cameras instead of the prosumer 6Mb cameras. The reason being that you will have MUCH greater resolution than with the 6Mb cameras. [deleted quotation] The DSLRs (digital single lens reflex) cameras of which we are speaking do not offer a TIFF output option. This is done in the processing software. Yes, for storage purposes, TIFF is the most desirable for these purposes. {SNIP} [deleted quotation] Er, uhm. I would hesitate to say that any total amateur is going to consistently be able to provide satisfactory archival pictures, regardles of the digital camera used. And I'm not sure what you mean by "fiddling" with the result, as well as "treating" the pictures with non-algorithmic methods. [deleted quotation] Mumbo-jumbo...there are other aspects to dealing with questions of forgery, chain of custody being one of them. I'll repeat myslef here, digital cameras do not of themselves generate TIFF files. And a 6Mb TIFF file, as a result of one of the DSLRs above, will not be of adequate resolution to use for "archival" purposes. I think there might be a misunderstanding about what that magic 6 megapixels means. In the current crop of cameras, the limits are determined by the size of the sensors used. The Canon 1D and Kodak (sorry the precise model # eludes me here) have sensors that are the same size as a 35mm film format, i.e., 24mm x 36mm. This results in a camera that produces a 12 Mb file. Let me say that again: it produces a 12Mb file. Notice I didn't say WHAT file format that is. All of the high-end Nikons and the Canon 10D, 30D, and 60D cameras produce smaller sized files (these are the "6 megapixel" cameras). Again, no comments as to WHAT KIND of file is produced. What ALL of these cameras produce is a file format referred to as RAW, as in "raw, unprocessed, uncooked." It means that you need to use software before doing anything with the files. Software such as Photoshop is presently unable to read these RAW files because they are of a PROPRIETARY nature and require PROPRIETARY software to be interpreted. Each camera manufacturer has their own software for converting these RAW files into TIFFs or JPEGs, which can then be read by Photoshop or other software tools. Of course, the situation is more complicated than that. This proprietary software applies various corrective (color balance, color temperature, sharpness, etc.,) algorithms to the base RAW files. Once this has been done, the result is a 36Mb TIFF file (or in the case of the two 12+Mb cameras, a 72Mb TIFF file) AND the original RAW file. You can see that the 72Mb TIFF file approaches the file size of the high-end scan from a film scanner (Nikon 8000 produces an 80 Mb file from 35mm film at 4000dpi), so THOSE cameras truly do rival 35mm film. Much as I love using my Canon 10D, it's still a little shy of the results of a superior 35mm slide, well-scanned (but that's only due to personal financial impediments! I simply didn't have a spare $8,000 for the 1D body!). The trick is to keep both the original, unprocessed RAW file, keep the software for processing them current and treat the file as if it were an original film negative or slide, i.e., guard it jealously and store them in conditions to guarantee their long-term viability. The TIFF file than becomse the work copy from which all else devolves. You might want to consider keeping a copy of that TIFF file in the same manner as the RAW file from which it was derived, for much the same reasons. I guess that's enough for this morning... Dennis Moser, MILS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mailto:aldus@angrek.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time" --John Stuart Mill (1806-73) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Nancy Ide Subject: AMERICAN NATIONAL CORPUS: Adjustment to Licensing Fee Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:59:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 482 (482) American National Corpus: Adjustment to Licensing Fee The Linguistic Data Consortium is pleased to announce an adjustment to the licensing fee for the American National Corpus. The original fee was intended to recover part of the funds the LDC and the ANC Consortium invested and will invest in corpus creation, CD mastering and replication, the creation and administration of the ANC agreements and the documentation and maintenance of the corpus. Given the enormous interest we have seen in the ANC in the first few days since its announcement, it seems clear that we can distribute many more copies at a much lower cost than originally predicted. Thus the licensing fee for the American National Corpus will be $75. Please also note that ANC data may be shared within the licensing organization, for example across departments within the same University. This adjustment is effective from October 21, the date "ANC First Release" was announced. From: Tim van Gelder Subject: Latest Additions to Critical Thinking On The Web Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:47:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 483 (483) 27 Oct Two from the New York Times Magazine. Available free now, but not for long: <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/magazine/26BRAINS.html>There's a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex By Clive Thompson "With the help of brain scanners, scientists are refashioning themselves as "neuromarketers." Can they finally make advertising a science?" Find out how Coca Cola's advertising really does drive your perceptions - like it or not. <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/magazine/26CANNIBALISM.html>The Most Unconventional Weapon by Daniel Berger "Soldiers in Congo are resorting to the practice of cannibalism. Mystical belief, like disease and poverty, would seem to be an unyielding African curse." Cultural relativism, anyone? [Warning - not for the faint-hearted.] 20 Oct in Email Lists and Newsletters <http://www.americancynic.com/index.html>American Cynic "The Cynic is a weekly, e-mailed distribution list sending interesting information and thought-provoking stories to intelligent, discerning readers at large. We feel that being a little bit cynical is an essential characteristic for a healthy perspective on modern life. We focus on the historical, social, political, and scientific arenas. We'll discuss the media, technology, and current events. The Cynic has been called a "thinking person's Paul Harvey", and "a riot for the sane mind". The weekly newsletter is readable in about 3 to 4 minutes..." [20 Oct 03] In Textbooks, and Statistics and Probability <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html>Introduction to Probability by Charles M. Grinstead & J. Laurie Snell An entire, 500+ page textbook on probability. Designed for use in a one-semester college course. Not the best "self-help" guide for novices, but could be a very useful resource for those who already have some familiarity with probability and are comfortable with a moderately technical treatment. [20 Oct 03] 15 Oct in Teaching <http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1014/p18s01-lehl.html>Rethinking thinking By Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor "College classes that make one think - it's a basic concept assumed as a given. But many grads walk away with a diploma yet still lack critical thinking skills. That's why some educators are asking students to close their textbooks and do a little more reflecting." [15 Oct 03] 14 Oct in Experts and Expertise - Investment Professionals <http://www.nature.com/nsu/030922/030922-6.html>Stock market traders show signs of zero intelligence by Philip Ball, in Nature Science Update A model making random decisions behaves just like a real stock market. So, what is the evidence that investment professionals' experience and (supposed) insight is helping them make better-than-random choices? [14 Oct 03] 13 Oct in Skepticism - Meta-skepticism <http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/CHRISTIA/library/doubts-napoleon.html>Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte by Richard Whately Delightful satire of the standards of evidence skeptics profess to maintain. This essay from the mid-19C displays critical thinking even as it lampoons such thinking when taken to extremes. [13 Oct 03] 7 Oct in Political Correctness - Reviews <http://www.skeptic.com/LevitPost.html>Pious Fantasies. Review of Teresi's Lost Discoveries, by Norman Levitt Scathing review of yet another bout of Western self-flagellation. Levitt has a very sharp pen, though his style can be somewhat florid. "this book is an intellectual disaster and, worse, a moral disaster. The homiletics of officially sanctioned "diversity" are glibly indifferent to the soundness of the intellectual currency and resonate with an exceedingly narrow notion of morality." [7 Oct 03] 1 Oct in Guides <http://www-ari.army.mil/Outreach/leader_3.htm>Practical Thinking by Jon Falleson, US Army (large pdf file) Overview and content of a 6 lesson, 12 hour course in critical thinking. Although developed for use by Army battle commanders, the material is sufficiently generic that this could be used for anyone wanting to understand how thinking might be improved in complex, uncertain, noisy and high-pressure situations. [1 Oct 03] 30 Sep in Statistics and Probability <http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7417/741>Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight by Gerd Gigerenzer Useful guide by Mr. "Statistics Made Simple" himself. "Bad presentation of medical statistics such as the risks associated with a particular intervention can lead to patients making poor decisions on treatment. Particularly confusing are single event probabilities, conditional probabilities (such as sensitivity and specificity), and relative risks. How can doctors improve the presentation of statistical information so that patients can make well informed decisions?" [30 Sep 03] in Experts and Expertise <http://www.ksu.edu/psych/cws/index.htm>Cochran-Weiss-Shanteau (CWS) Home Page Experts on expertise. A trove of resources, including articles, FAQ and software. Centred on a particular method of determining to what extent the experts are any good, but there is lots of more general information. [30 Sep 03] 25 Sep in Guides <http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/project/miniguide.pdf>A Mini Guide to Critical Thinking by Joe Lau (pdf file) A bit more than "mini". 26 page document surveys major topics. Clear and simple. Would be useful as a reference, for brushing up on key concepts. [25 Sep 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: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Release DALF Guidelines and DTD Version 1.0 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:58:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 484 (484) The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (Gent, Belgium) is happy to announce that version 1.0 of the DALF Guidelines for the Description and Encoding of Modern Correspondence Material and the DALF DTD have now been released. The Guidelines and DTDs can be downloaded for on-line or off-line browsing (HTML and PDF) from the DALF website: <http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/> The editors would like to thank the members of the community for their valuable input and comments on the draft version, and welcome all signs of interest in the DALF project. DALF is an acronym for "Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders". It is envisioned as a growing textbase of correspondence material which can generate different products for both academia and a wider audience, and thus provide a tool for diverse research disciplines ranging from literary criticism to historical, diachronic, synchronic, and sociolinguistic research. The input of this textbase will consist of the materials produced in separate electronic edition projects. In order to ensure maximum flexibility and (re)usability of each of the electronic editions, a formal framework is required that can guarantee uniform integration of new projects in the DALF project. The DALF project can be expected to stimulate new electronic edition projects, as well as the international debate on electronic editions of correspondence material. The DALF DTD has been specified as a customisation of the TEI DTD in the way specified in chapter 29 of the TEI P4 Guidelines. The creation of the DTD has taken into account the insights and practices presented in international projects like TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), Master (Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records), and MEP (Model Editions Partnership). The DALF guidelines (ed. by Edward Vanhoutte & Ron Van den Branden) provide a detailed documentation of the DALF specific extensions to the TEI and pointers to the TEI guidelines. Currently, several pilot projects are testing the DALF DTD, encoding thousands of modern holograph correspondence material. URLs: - DALF site: <http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/> - DALF Guidelines: <http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/dalfdoc/index.html> - DALF DTD files: <http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/dalfdoc/DTDfiles.html> The editors welcome all comments: Regards, Edward Vanhoutte -- ============= 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: Ross Scaife Subject: Re: 17.322 "open content" in the humanities? Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:02:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 485 (485) Here's a substantive complement to the current discussion of Open Access issues on this list: "Scholarly Communication and Epistemic Cultures," by Blaise Cronin, Professor of Information Science, Indiana University It was the keynote address at the very recent conference called Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations: How Tradition and Technology Are Driving Disciplinary Change http://www.arl.org/scomm/disciplines_program.html This discussion began with a question (or observation) about how OA initiatives seem a lot more common in the sciences than in the humanities. Cronin is especially good at how "the technologies of electronic publishing and disciplinary publishing regimes are co-constitutive." -- Ross Scaife From: owner-bmcr-l@brynmawr.edu Subject: BMCR webcast Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:01:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 486 (486) [Forwarded from the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, which as many here will know is one of the earliest and still one of the most fit of the Web publications we have. --WM] Dear BMCR readers: We'd like to let you know about an exciting new idea, which could expand the remit of BMCR. At Bryn Mawr College, on November 7, we are hosting a Forum entitled "Jews and Christians Reading the Bible". This will be a conversation which takes its starting point from Mark Vessey's review of David Dawson's book on Christian Figural Reading (BMCR 2002.11.16). Mark Vessey will be present; so will David Dawson and (for new blood) Rachel Havrelock. The style will be very informal, and audience participation will be warmly invited. Readers of BMCR worldwide are included in this invitation: we shall be webcasting the Forum live, and inviting questions and responses from you electronically. If the Forum is a success, we shall be looking out for subsequent reviews from which to develop, and webcast, such conversations. For further information on the Forum, and how to participate, please go to: http://www.brynmawr.edu/classicsforum. Edited clips from the proceedings will be available on the website after the event. From: Willard McCarty Subject: book recommendation Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:54:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 487 (487) Dear colleagues: Everyone concerned with publication issues (and everyone should be, no?) will be interested in and profit from reading the essays in Brian L. Hawkins and Patricia Battin, eds., The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century (Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources and the Association of American Universities, 1998). See http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub75.html for ordering information. Particularly valuable, I think, are the high-level views of universities, university libraries, publishers and other organizations and groups as components in an interrelated social system. The overviews are mostly American but mutatis mutandis very valuable for the rest of us also. In thinking and writing about scholarship, the electronic medium, the digital library, open-access publishing and so on, it's very easy not to see the interrelatedness of parts and so to miss the high probability that any change we make will have system-wide effects. Of course a mere systems analysis cannot sketch out the future for us accurately; all is contingent on historical factors we cannot control and those we cannot foresee. But the bigger pictures can, I think, help us to avoid the grosser errors, including the silliness of much punditry and slogan-driven crusades. 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: Humanist archive Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:54:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 488 (488) Jim Marchand asked in Humanist 17.344 if we still had an archive. We do, of all the messages sent, but not otherwise. See www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/humanist/ or www.princeton.edu/humanist/, from which the archived messages in volumes by year may be accessed. Actual storage is on an IATH machine in Virginia. So, Jim, please do post the bibliography. I should also add that we are currently working on the problem of the archive being invaded by commercial advertising messages, which you will find at the bottom of the archive for vol 17. A leak that needs plugging, that's all. 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: Jan Velterop Subject: RE: [Manifesto] Re: AW: Open Access and Humanities Monographs Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:55:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 489 (489) If online material is 'open' in the sense of 'free' that is of course a great step forward, but if it's only available in pdf I'd have to agree with Gradmann that that is decidedly sub-optimal to say the least, as we have really moved on with regard to the technical possibilities. Not being optimal in itself shouldn't be an excuse for not making freely available what can be made freely available by (self)archiving in open access repositories, but at the same time we shouldn't lose sight of the ultimate and patently feasible goal, 'open' access (as defined in the Berlin Declaration, the Bethesda principles, by Wellcome, PLoS, BioMed Central, and others) as opposed to merely 'free' access. It doesn't help to be sub-ambitious; 'free' will come in the wake of the open access movement, but I doubt if the reverse is true. If one really wants to use literature efficiently that often involves nowadays electronic tools to analyse, data-mine, and text-mine the material, for which it has to be in a machine-readable format. Open Access really is more than just an economical goal (although it goes without saying that being able to access literature without having to be at an institution that can afford the access tolls helps enormously). Perhaps the difference in approach between open access publishing and self-archiving, while both working in parallel to strengthen one another, is the sense of priority of a qualitative (in terms of usability) versus a quantitative one. Jan Velterop [deleted quotation] http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: monological binary positions on Re: 17.343 open access Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:57:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 490 (490) [deleted quotation] Some books are slimmer than some collections of articles and cost less. Do your cost formulas compare salary to workers at a small university press with salaries for marketing gurus associated with a large commercial publisher located in a major metropolis? Which costs paid by whom? For how long? At what point does the open toll-free access movement meet the data warehousing speed bump? [deleted quotation] I am very suspicious of anyone who would pepper their discourse with McLuhanesque periodizations such as "Gutenberg era" McLuhan's historiography of rupture was based on some pretty appalling sexual and social politics. Pre or post Gutenberg, some of us publish in refereed and non-referred fora because we are avid for intellectual exchange --- and expeirence that may be measured preceisly by an uptake of one, an uptake that may not be measured by a referenced citation but by a personal and private communication. Academic institutions could do well to remember that faculty and librarians publsh not just for other members of their professional class. Open access is not just about finessing peer review gate keeping. It is about recognizing overwork: unfair teaching loads, massively stressful publication expectations (both for reviewers who miss mistakes and for writers who are rushed and do not have the opprtunity to benefit fully from reviewers), grueling, grinding committee work. If the vision open access were less about "maximizing impact" and more about ensuring quality, I would have less to rant about :) Yes I know that Stevan Harnad's vision culminates in iin the call for the preservation of quality. It would just be nice to read that open access if proplerly implemented can provide better quality control. For example increasing the number of reviewers and/or publishing the number of reviewers that read the piece before publication. [deleted quotation] Humanists or scientists, in and outside the academy, seasoned and newly embarked, we should perhaps remind ourselves of the hard reality of administration : [deleted quotation] quoting a 1955 statement of the American Association of School Administrators: "The constituents of the process of Administration are: 1. Planning, to control the future in the direction of desired goals. 2. Allocation of human and material resources in accordance with the plan. 3. Stimulation or motivation of behavior toward desired actions. 4. Coordination of groups and operations into an integrated pattern. 5. Evaluation. " Goodman doesn't cite this with approval. He thought schools should be kept small and that administration should be minimal. He had some intersting things to say about peers too. Knowledge, information and wisdom : good trio to remember when trying to think through and imagine the soicl structures that will allow the greatest number of people to interact in a meaingful fashion with each other through the repositories they create and maintain. Access to the time to read and comment is for me the hallmark of openness. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Re: Free Access vs. Open Access Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:58:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 491 (491) Re: Free Access vs. Open Access On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jan Velterop wrote: [deleted quotation]I can only repeat that the open/free distinction is a red herring, no matter how often it is invoked formally and informally. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2956.html These matters have not been thought through rigorously; and things decided in haste have been invoked ever more solemnly without having been examined for their usefulness or even their coherence. Please, let's not lose sight of the problem, which is still there, as pressing as ever, but now being kept at a distance by yet *another* groundless, confusion-generating, and -- most important -- *inaction-encouraging* reservation. The problem -- it can never be repeated often enough, apparently -- was and is this: There are 24,000 journals publishing 2.5 million articles per year, most of them not accessible to most of their potential users worldwide because of access-tolls. This was also the problem in the paper era, but in that medium there was no solution because of the true costs and limited power of paper. (One could not diffuse paper over the airways, let alone data-mine it!) Now we are in the online era, which offers many new possibilities, including online data-mining. But the *relevant* possibility -- relative to what we do have, and what we still lack, *exactly* as we lacked it in the paper era -- is the possibility of toll-free access to the full-text online. That is what was missing then, and that very same access is missing now. So what do we do? We start to talk about this *absent* access as *not enough*, "sub-optimal," not the "ultimate goal"! This is rather like declaring (while still sitting in the total darkness): "Let there be light -- but let it not be just be the good old sunlight we've been deprived of for centuries, but voice-activated, computer-controlled, fluorescent/incandescent light, 100K Lux!" So if someone proposes: "Why don't you just open the curtains and let in the sunlight?" the reply is "It doesn't help to be sub-ambitious"! Considering the actual circumstances -- the curtains being still closed, and most of us still sitting in the dark -- it does seem rather impractical to be referring to the call to open the curtains as sub-optimal and sub-ambitious while that simple act is still not being performed, even though it could be, immediately, because people still don't understand that it can be, nor what advantages it will bring. Instead, we get ahead of ourselves, and fixate on the advantages it will *not* bring! Yet even those alleged shortfalls are spurious! (See the prior postings on this thread.) Free online access to the full text (even if only PDF!) still means being able to do *everything* one could do with paper (if one could afford the access-tolls!), including reading the printed-off version! But there is also on-screen browsing, reading and navigation, downloading, storing, forwarding, *and* the capacity to convert automatically to html or ascii for text-mining. Free-access online texts are also harvestable and harvested, invertible and indexable, hence boolean-searchable and otherwise navigable, singly and collectively. Not to mention collectible into global virtual archives like oaister, the google of the refereed research literature. Data-mining? First, let us not forget that the text of a journal article usually does not contain the empirical data on which it is based (in part because it would have been too expensive to publish all those data on paper in the paper era!), only the summary tables and analyses. So the empirical data were and still are a separate database -- one that should likewise be made freely accessible, alongside the refereed article literature, certainly, but that is a separate matter, not to be conflated with the open-access movement's first, second and third goal, which is to free access to the refereed article literature! http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/data-archiving.htm What quantitative data do appear in the text of an article are just text, like the rest of the article. Even in XML format, the problems of how to make generic data interoperable remain to be worked out, so let us not delay opening the curtains on that account either! [deleted quotation]It's not the "wake" that's the problem, but the *wait* (and, yes, it is indeed beginning to feel ever more funereal!). Since "free access" is one of the necessary conditions for fulfilling the definition of "open access", it is tautological that "free" will follow (!) "open": It "follows" it logically, as surely as "p" follows "not-not-p"! But the crucial question is *when* will we have "open"? For we can already have "free" now, if we just open the curtains! So in real-time, we can already have "free" now (by each of us immediately self-archiving, one by one, of all 2.5 million of our annual research articles), whereas to have "open" others first have to create or convert 23,500 more open-access journals, one by one. I'd rather not wait for that, to get access to the sunlight. The reverse is true? Getting free access now will reduce the probability of later getting any online text-mining powers we may be missing? I would like to see the logic of that sketched out explicitly, for I don't see it at all! Surely a free, online, full-text corpus will inspire all manner of further online optimizations sooner than sitting and waiting for them in the dark! I know Jan is not actually recommending that we wait in the dark! But the fact is that we *are* waiting in the dark, and what we really need is elucidation of the feasibility and benefits of the opening of the curtains that is within our immediate reach. It does not help to encourage our Zeno's Paralysis by suggesting that letting in the light would merely be "sub-optimal"! http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#25.Mark-Up http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#15.Readability http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#16.Graphics [deleted quotation]Please see the above on the distinction between data-mining and text-mining, the difference between article texts and their empirical data, and on the convertibility of PDF to html and ascii. (PDF is a red herring anyway, for authors with data tables can also self-archive the RTF and HTML, and eventually no doubt also a vanilla XML generated from their own word-processor version.) [deleted quotation]Please translate this into the terms of the "let there be light" analogy introduced here an intuition pump for the toll-free access that was, is, and will remain the essence of the open-access movement. "Toll-free access to the refereed literature is more than just an economic goal" Of course! And also *other* than an economic goal. It is the toll-curtains that keep us in the dark, but the light can be let in by opening the curtains on our own work without changing the overall economics: what we need and want is light, not economic-change. (It is open-access journals that offer the light through economic change.) "(although it goes without saying that being able to access the refereed literature toll-free helps enormously)" Is this not another tautology (once it has been freed of the spurious open/free distinction that I have to tried to show to be functionally empty above)? [deleted quotation]another, is [deleted quotation]Not at all. Both approaches yield *exactly* the same thing, both quantitatively and qualitatively: toll-free access to the digital full-text of all refereed journal articles online. The difference is that one approach requires the founding, funding and filling of 24,000 new open-access journals with the digital texts of the yearly 2,500,000 articles, whereas the other requires only the the founding, funding and filling of institutional eprint archives with the digital texts of the yearly 2,500,000 articles. You will find that the number, cost and difficulty of the respective founding/funding/filling steps is far lower for the one than the other, both quantitatively and qualitatively: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0025.gif Stevan Harnad NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Posted discussion to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org Dual Open-Access Strategy: BOAI-2: Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. BOAI-1: Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml [deleted quotation] From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.339 Open Access and its implications for the Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:01:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 492 (492) humanities Thank you for moving share the postings in the latest round of the "open access" the discussion with subscribers to Humanist. It appears that the question is shaping up to be about - the circulation of cultural and intellectual properties - the ability to participate in exchange and creation of such properties I like the distinction that has been drawn between "open" and "free". As I am fond of saying "there is no free lunch at the potlatch". Hence I am wary of any attempt to characterize open access as toll-free. And I believe the discussion reproduced for the benefit of the Humanist readership(and the archive) certainly turns upon the distinction of cost and expense. Has UNESCO done any analysis about the comparative patterns (if any) of the shifts in budgetary allocations between library acquistions, grants in aid of scholarly publication, travel subsidies for research leaves and support for IT infrastructure (hardware, software and human resources)? Expressed year over year as percentage of GNP? I ask because The World Summit on the Information Society will be held in two phases. The first phase of WSIS will take place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003. WSIS stakeholders are governments, international organizations, civil society entities and business sector entities. World Summit on the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/ Maybe worth reviewing once again the open access, cost recouping, benefit sharing, discussion after the declaration of principles and the plan of action are adopted. I have no idea if the notions of cost recuperatin and benefit sharing will make it into the final documents of the 2003 Geneva summit but they just might for 2005 in Tunis. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Stefan Gradmann" Subject: AW: 17.339 Open Access and its implications for the Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:02:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 493 (493) humanities Dear colleagues, Stevan's reaction ("I *completely* disagree!") has made me think and after all made me aware of a point I had a tendency to neglect until now: of course we should be very careful not to use the "online-is-nonoptimal" argument "in a self-paralyc manner" and "as a rationalization for inaction". And even though I had no intention to make it sound that way I do realize that the argument may be perceived that way, and maybe the risk of this happening is much higher among the "non-hermeneuticists and non-semioticians" :-) Seriously: we probably should remind ourselves more often of the cultural differences of reasoning among the humanists and the 'hard science' colleagues. These differences not only engender different traditions of knowledge organization and of information transfer (hence the online-is-nonoptimal argument!) but also different reading reflexes and habits. Willard has mentioned this earlier: many of us humanists tend to dislike simple truths, since these are not "interesting" and we often assume that the really "interesting" things are complicated (and some of us then make the mistake of inverting this argument and to assume that complication in itself is interesting), whereas many of the 'hard science' people to some extent seek simplification or even frankly love it. This statement is of course a simplification in itself and it should be very clear that seeking simplification does not necessarily mean being simplistic - but it eplains why Stevan's answer to our wrapped up reasoning is "a black and white distinction". I am convinced that both paradigms are needed, the 'complex' and the 'binary', the reasonings built on 'difference' and on 'identity' respectively. And we always need to remember the respective opposite more consequently: this is what Stevan's reaction has reminded me of. There is, however, a balance of power implied here, and that's where things get nasty: simplifications are quickly embraced by politicians, too, and more than often are turned into frankly simplistic constructs in that context. And these people *hate* complications, which only cost them time and energy that is needed for useful, pragmatic action (here again I am simplifying, of course) And the consequence is that in practice only the 'binary' paradigm is present and effective in the Open Access discussion context, and that the 'complex' one has huge problems to make itself heard at all - and then most often is considered 'unuseful' and quickly discarded again. And that's a pity! Kind regards from wet & cloudy Hamburg -- Stefan Gradmann ************************************************************ Dr. Stefan Gradmann / Virtuelle Campusbibliothek Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg Schlüterstr. 70, D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838 3093 Fax.: +49 (0)40 42838 3284 GSM : +49 (0)170 8352623 E-Mail: stefan.gradmann@rrz.uni-hamburg.de [deleted quotation]--- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18.06.2003 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 17.347 serious blogging Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:36:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 494 (494) Greetings, From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 495 (495) [deleted quotation] I can't help feeling they don't count, and the reason for that is that the question Willard asked -- ``is this the first example of a primary Web publication reduced to print for commercial publication?'' -- may not be precisely the most interesting one. Salon publishes high-quality journalism. It's mediated by the web rather than paper, and it therefore has to navigate slightly different freedoms and restrictions, but it still exemplifies the basic model of an organisation employing writers, building an audience, and selling the content. Similarly journals like Postmodern Culture and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (and for that matter the majority of current STM journals) are basically conventional journals that have simply switched medium, just as their predecessors arguably did when they switched from epistolary networks to the published proceedings of learned societies. Thus if they occasionally dip back into print that's hardly surprising. Perhaps, then, the interesting thing is whether the Baghdad blog or the various paper FAQs are `the first example of a primary _online_form_ reduced to print for commercial publication'. [deleted quotation] Indeed! All the best, Norman -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@astro.gla.ac.uk From: "Jessica P. Hekman" Subject: Re: 17.347 serious blogging Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:37:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 496 (496) On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Neil Gaiman published his blog (the account of the process of writing, publishing, and promoting _American Gods_ -- and, therefore, having nothing to do with computing) in _Adventures in the Dream Trade_ a year or so ago. _Adventures in the Dream Trade_ also included essays and short stories, but the bulk of it was his blog. j From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: Books in the 21st century Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:39:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 497 (497) Two items of note which I have not seen mentioned on Humanist and a comment. (1) Amazon.com has created a new searching capability for the 130,000 books in their active inventory. They have scanned and OCRed the books and now allow online visitors to search the texts of the books for any words they wish, for free. They will even retrieve and display the pages found, one at a time. This is being done by Amazon to sell more books, reasoning that providing a glimpse "Inside the Book" will promote sales rather than diminishing them. The OCR has not been corrected, the searches are simple ANDs, but it is a very impressive trove of material. (2) eBooks have recently become more of a reality with NetLibrary.com, which has on the order of 60,000 books in complete text fidelity available for libraries and individuals to purchase access rights. They have completed deals with a number of publishers, especially university presses, to put their works online and accessible from anywhere on the Internet. The effort here seems to be to create an electronic equivalent to the printed book for the purposes of sales and access. Member libraries integrate the eBooks they purchase into their electronic card catalogs. Patrons of those libraries can acquire access through signing up from a library terminal and thereafter search, browse and check-out books over the Internet anywhere after logging into their user account via NetLibrary.com. eBooks are accessible a page at a time. Browsing is for 15 minute intervals. Browsing or checking an eBook out denies access to other library patrons while that eBook copy is in use. I.e., just as with physical books, a library only has access to as many copies as they individually purchased. I can't but believe these two events, happening so close together, signal a significant turning point in the history of the book. From this point forward it is likely books will become increasingly electronic in their access--and the temptation of libraries to not acquire physical books (or to discard "old and obsolete" books) will become stronger and stronger. The danger is that out-of-print and out-of-copyright works (the so-called "orphans" of Brewster Kahle) will be lost before they become digital and that future generations of students will be unwilling to search through the undigital past, if they can find any surviving physical copies at their institutions. The only solution I can see is for the major book institutions of the world to digitize their collections to avoid a form of obsolescence comparable to having their entire physical collections placed in archival storage, accessible only to dedicated scholars for slow painstaking access. The Library of Congress needs to update its criterion for collecting print materials to require an electronic copy be made available to their collection in order to secure copyright. The perspective of those of us who grew up with physical books is to rail against a future in which someone wants to replace print with digital text--however, the perspective from the future will be to marvel at anyone who would put up with the limitations of print access and the inaccessibility of print books. Try to imagine how engravers and illustrators felt when photography came into existence and displaced their works from magazines and newspapers. At first photography in mass reproduction was crude--but it was far less expensive and time consuming to use. Today we regard photography as an art form and would probably feel cheated if the newspapers only showed illustrations of news stories and not actual photographs. From: Hope Greeenberg Subject: Re: 17.343 open access Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:40:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 498 (498) It is interesting to read this discussion during the week that Amazon.com has initiated their new "Search Inside the Book" feature. It raises many questions: is Amazon responding to an expressed need on the part of its readers? how many books do people read and how many books do people simply glean information from? how do these patterns of use determine our assumptions about the "appropriate" method of information delivery (do we always "need" paper-based text/do we always "need" searchable e-based text)? And the perennial question: how does the common student perception that "if it's not on the web it doesn't exist," combined with Amazon's bellweather-like models, shape future scholars' expectations about how information should be created and delivered? ------------- hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, University of Vermont From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Massive Scholarly Data Projects: Perspectives and Experiences Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:38:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 499 (499) Greetings! The Society of Biblical Literature Annual meeting will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 22-25, 2003. The Society of Biblical Literature and the Oriental Institute Chicago are sponsoring a joint session entitled: "Massive Scholarly Data Projects: Perspectives and Experiences." Details follow: Members of the Humanist list who will be attending the Annual Meeting of the SBL/AAR are cordially invited to attend the third annual session of the collaboration between the Society of Biblical Literature and the Oriental Institute Chicago This year's session is entitled "Massive Scholarly Data Projects: Perspectives and Experiences". Principal researchers describe their experiences with some of the largest humanities projects to date dealing with textual resources. and features reports on: *The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon *The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary *The Perseus Digital Library *APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System *Lost in a Data Sea? Navigating with Topic Maps Monday, November 24th 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Theme: Massive Scholarly Data Projects: Perspectives and Experiences Charles E. Jones, The Oriental Institute, Univ Of Chicago, Presiding Stephen Kaufman, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (20 min) [The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon will include all ancient Aramaic, is based on a compilation of all Aramaic literature and will include all modern scholarly discussion of the Aramaic language. It represents a departure from prior partial approaches to the construction of lexicons and offers the potential for data sets and approaches not previously possible] Steve Tinney, University Of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (20 min) [The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary will result in an exhaustive dictionary of the Sumerian language that will be useful for Sumerologists and non- specialists. In addition to the dictionary, the project is developing tools and datasets for the Sumerian language] Gregory Crane, Tufts University The Perseus Digital Library (20 min) [The Perseus Digital Library is in part a text collection but also offers a broad range of other relevant resources. It is evolving to offer complex interactions with a variety of source materials to a variety of audiences] Traianos Gagos, University Of Michigan APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) (20 min) [APIS is a collaborative effort to bring images of payyrological source materials directly to scholars. It currently has approximately 2,500 records with images for use by scholars] Patrick Durusau, Society Of Biblical Literature Lost in a Data Sea? Navigating with Topic Maps (20 min) [One common feature of the projects in this session is massive amounts of data and complex navigational requirements. Topic maps are demonstrated to illustrate one possible means of answering navigational needs] Each presentation is 20 minutes with a 10 minute Q&A period. All are welcome and encouraged to attend! Hope everyone is 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: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 17.351 further reservations on preservation Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:41:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 500 (500) Saying that saving everything means finding nothing is tantamount to saying that we don't anticipate that our understanding of the creation of ontologies to describe our digital objects are going to improve beyond Dewey Decimal or that our search algorithms won't improve or scale. Don't give up too soon is my motto; the 5% solution is a historically-constructed effort to make new records look like old ones: full of lacunae. Pat Galloway Archival Studies and Digital Asset Management School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.35 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:41:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 501 (501) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 35 (October 29 - November 4, 2003) VIEWS Port Wars In the not-too-distant-future, firewalls spark a battle over port regulation and ownership. By William Paul Fiefer. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i35_fiefer.html The Digital Aid Framework Technology enables humanitarian relief organizations to come closer to achieving Dunant's dream. The Digital Aid Framework shows organizations how to use technology during complex humanitarian relief operations. By Jason Sargent. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i35_sargent.html From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.355 books and their openings Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:28:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 502 (502) I have written Amazon about "search inside the book" and asked them to provide a way to turn the damn thing off -- it has lengthened my time searching by a factor of at least 5 and often more, and it has done me no good at all the first 15 times I have been forced to use it. Rail or not -- I don't want to read a book on-line unless I'm forced to. I don't like the way books look on the screen, I don't like being unable to look at the right-hand page while reading the left-hand one, or to see the bottom of the page while reading the top, etc. I also don't like the angle at which I read the screen for extended periods -- I like to lay a book flat down on a table and read under strong light. The only good thing about books online is being able to search -- and a good Index will take care of that much of the time. From: Subject: Re: 17.347 serious blogging Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:20:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 503 (503) [deleted quotation] researcher [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] [deleted quotation] From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: 17.354 serious blogging Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:23:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 504 (504) Sorry, friends, I don't understand the problem exposed by Norman Gray (17.354[1]): [deleted quotation] Before we will see an exploding discussion on nowaday writers who are publishing their _online_form_ diaries (see 17.354[2] from Jessica P. Hekman recurring to 17347[5] from Matt Kirschenbaum: "blog-style novels, just as there were a handful of epistolary email novels a few years back) it may be helpful to look back many years more. When Choderlos published his "Liaisons dangereuses", he didn't change the medium - he simulated in print the documentation of an (of course: simulated) "epistolary network". When Goethe published his "Werther", he did in principle the same, reducing the documentation of the (of course: simulated) epistolary network to one node of the network and finally - because the story reaches the death of this node-person and goes on just to the grave - building the fiction of an editor who publish the epistolarian material. When Goethe a few years later travelled with his Chief in Switzerland and wrote real-life letters to a lady at home her requesting to sample these letters, and when he later on made a redaction of these letters and published this work under the title "Briefe aus der Schweiz" - is this (similar to the case of the Bagdad blog) an example of a primary _[epistolary]_form_ reduced to print for commercial publication ? And what is the difference to the case of journals who simply switched medium ? hw From: Patrick Anderson Subject: God and the Sun? Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:19:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 505 (505) Dear Webmaster After several weeks of fruitless badgering of friends and colleagues, I am turning to your discussion group for help in identifying a putative quote from (again, I am very tentative here) a French Symbolist or Romantic poet, possibly Baudelaire, possibly not. As quoted to me in English some 7 years ago, it ran something like "God and the Sun cannot look at each other", or alternately, "God and the Sun cannot look each other in the eye". Does this ring any bells with anyone? Many thanks and good wishes to your group. Patrick Anderson London South Bank University. From: Willard McCarty Subject: reification Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:39:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 506 (506) Allow me to complain about a habit of mind that makes clear thinking more difficult for us than need be. This is the habit of writing about vague notions as if they were concrete realities. Two of the best known ones are hypertext and "the" Semantic Web. Hypertext. If, for the moment, we grant existence to "hypertext" as a bundle of related notions, then we can say that "it" is of course partially instantiated and in partial form used by millions of people every day, even as I write. But the pseudo-thing that many so-called theorists write about does not exist. Thus Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, in "Hypertext and the Next Generation" (First Monday 3.11 http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/pang/): "...hypertext, while a breathtakingly radical and even noble technology, doesn't actually exist, though hypertext theory is based on the assumption that it does. Versions of some of hypertext's features can be found in software programs like Storyspace and Intermedia, on CDs, and on the World Wide Web. But none of these is hypertext as described in the literature." "The" Semantic Web. I would have no complaint if people called it "a" semantic web and wrote subjunctively. But they don't. This case is worse because, as far as I understand this pseudo-thing, the muddle of ideas that it names is not even partially instantiated, at least not where we can take a clear look. Yet one could hardly be surprised if people started selling shares in The Semantic Web, Inc., and buying them too. For the diversity of ideas gather under the general rubric, see Catherine C. Marshall and Frank M. Shipman, "Which Semantic Web?" Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, Nottingham U.K., 2003 (www.acm.org/dl/). I am reminded yet again of the cartoon figure who walks off the end of a cliff and keeps walking until he notices that there's nothing underneath him, then plummets. Don't get me wrong: I am not arguing against having and using an imagination (which by definition makes things present to the mind that are absent or non-existent), rather against hiding the exercise of it when one is writing supposed non-fictional academic prose. Too severe? Utterly wrongheaded? 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: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: 17.357 reservations about reservations on preservation Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:19:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 507 (507) Actually, Helen Tibbo was being quite generous in saying 5%: NARA has been quoted as only keeping about 1%. And as the good Dr. Cox has said, paraphrasing a bit, "the archivist's job is to get rid of things, not to keep them." Of course, our other job is to be able to do an intelligent appraisal of materials so that the 1%-5% that IS saved is the very best stuff... In terms of archives whose creation is the result of a records program (i.e., the "governmental" type, the "classical" definition of archives, as opposed to those archives of purely "historical" nature that are NOT the result of government actions), trying to keep everything is the HOV Express lane towards madness... Dennis Moser ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mailto:aldus@angrek.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time" --John Stuart Mill (1806-73) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: FW: Why are you so busy? How Much Information? 2003 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:21:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 508 (508) Humanists: I was fascinate by this estimate from Berkeley about the explosion in new information generated every year. I believe that I have not seen this as yet on HUMANIST. How Much Information? 2003 (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/) This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year. Newly created information is distributed in four storage media - print, film, magnetic, and optical - and seen or heard in four information flows - telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet. This study of information storage and flows analyzes the year 2002 in order to estimate the annual size of the stock of new information contained in storage media, and heard or seen each year in information flows. The study was conducted by Hal Varian and Peter Lyman of the University of California, Berkeley. _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.2539 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan From: Subject: bibliography (promised in Humanist 17.344) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:27:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 509 (509) [deleted quotation] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Participate in Standards Development! Call for Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:17:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 510 (510) International Representative Greetings! So, you want to participate in standards development but want it to be: 1. Significant? (Can you say SGML/RELAX-NG/Topic Maps?) 2. Not terribly expensive? (How does $800 compare to $1,000/$2,750/$5,000/$13,000 or more per year?) 3. Really democratic? (As opposed to everyone votes but only one vote counts?) 4. Represents the interests of the national IT industry? (As opposed to major members of the organization?) Hmmmm, sounds like you need a membership in an INCITS committee like V1! V1 is the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34. SC 34 is currently developing the next generation of markup language specifications of which RELAX-NG is an integral part, topic maps, which are now being used by the IRS and Social Security Administration and under consideration by other US governmental agencies. Websites using topic maps range from accounting to Italian opera to Japanese castles, see: http://easytopicmaps.com/index.php?page=TMDrivenSites. You may have missed the SGML bandwagon that become the standard for the US Department of Defense, aerospace industry and scientific, technical and medical publishing and other uses but here is your chance to get in on the ground floor as it were in the development of these new standards. The official call for the position of International Representative follows, written in more standards like prose. ;-) Please note that you need only be a representative of a US domiciled organization to be a member of V1 (US citizenship is not required). Membership in V1 is required for the International Representative position. For the IR position, please respond to: Jennifer T. Garner Phone: (202) 626-5737 email: jgarner@itic.org) For more information on V1 see our homepage: http://www.incits.org/tc_home/v1.htm (under revision, see our working site for more current information: http://www.incits.org/tc_home/v1htm/v1.htm) For INCITS membership information, see: http://www.incits.org/ (lower right panel on the webpage) Please feel free to contact me at: Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org if you have any questions about INCITS/V1. (I may not know the answers but do know people at INCITS who will know the answers.) Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick A second call for the position of International Representative for V1 has been issued. (see the official call below, respond to Reply to: Jennifer T. Garner Phone: (202) 626-5737 email: jgarner@itic.org) ****************Official call text******************************** 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 closed without response on July 19, 2003. This second call for volunteers to serve as International Representative of INCITS/V1 is being re-issued the the members of V1 and will close on November 29, 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. There is a rule prohibiting one individual from being appointed to two or more offices of the same committee simultaneously.] The INCITS/RD-2, Organization and Procedures of INCITS, generally describes officers' responsibilities, and a more detailed list of duties has been compiled in the INCITS/RD-8, Officers' Guide. Those willing to make this commitment must submit three written statements in support of their candidacy: 1. A one-page statement of experience, indicating the volunteer's expertise in the subgroup's program of work, voluntary standards efforts, committee experience and leadership abilities (to be forwarded to the INCITS Subgroup for an advisory ballot if there is more than one candidate). 2. A statement of management support for a three-year term on company letterhead acknowledging the additional workload, financial resources and duties required of an officer over and above that of a technical participant. The statement of management support for the three-year term is a good faith commitment, not a legal binding commitment. If future circumstances require the applicant to resign from the office before the term has been fulfilled, this will be accepted without prejudice. 3. A statement as to whether or not the candidate is a representative of a U.S. domiciled organization. Any supplemental materials will be forwarded along with the advisory ballot to INCITS, which appoints all INCITS Subgroup officers. 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 November 29, 2003. *********************end official text****************************** -- 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 511 (511) this is testing mail to lists From: Gerd Willée Subject: Re: 17.363 reification; or, a complaint Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:44:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 512 (512) willard, the problem you have showed is an excellent point, as i am confronted only too often with people like the ones you are criticizing. treating mere ideas as 'real' things (quotaion marks with respect to the radical constructivism) is an attitude which should be found in theology, but better not among scholars, all the more, as you cannot make discussions on such matters of faith. gerd willée -- Dr. Gerd Willée IKP - Universität Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn +49 (0)228 - 73 56 20 winkeladvokat - anwalt der gegenseite (ambrose bierce) From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.363 reification; or, a complaint Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:45:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 513 (513) Willard, [deleted quotation]I noticed that a term in the subject line doesn't reappear in the body of the message. That term is "reification". I don't quite understand how it connects with the question of the existence of the entities in question (hypertext, the Semantic Web). Reification is the process whereby a process is taken as an object, n'est-ce pas? Whether the process or object are in your languaage "concreate realities" or counterfactual entities is moot, no? Just what is it that makes clear thinking? You seem to imply that clear thinking is dependent upon a hesitency to take processes as objects. Are you in danger of pushing that insight to the point where reification itself is reified? Of course, clear thinking benefits from a muddle. Now that you have stirred the pot, care to enlighten us as to the context that gave rise to the complaint? What's cooking? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 17.363 reification; or, a complaint Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:45:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 514 (514) On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:39:58AM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Let us imagine a young married couple about to build their first home. "We're so excited about the house." "It has four bathrooms!" "You can see the mountains from the back bedroom." Would it make any sense for us to point out that the house (since it is not built, but only "theorized") is a "pseudo-thing?" Would we accuse them of engaging in facile vagaries for having mortgaged this "muddle of ideas" from an architect who has not really provided a "clear look" (but only an ideal representation) of what it will actually be when it is actually instantiated? Willard ends by saying that he is "not arguing against having and using an imagination (which by definition makes things present to the mind that are absent or non-existent)." However, he may be arguing against a basic property of language use. If you are aware that there is no house (just as you are aware--or should be aware--that there is neither an instantiated semantic web nor an ideal hypertextual environment), then nothing is hidden. Only a casual interloper into these matters would assert otherwise, since the literature as a whole is quite clear on the matter. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is hardly the first to point out that no extant hypertextual technology rises to the ideal that the theoretical discourse posits; it has been reiterated countless times in the literature. At this point, it's a little like pointing out to a group of geometers that triangles don't "really" exist. If one insists on exposing all of this as a baldly nefarious rhetorical tactic, then one may be compelled to admit that language itself is baldly nefarious. Such ellipses as these are not isolated language events, but ubiquitous elements of both ordinary natural language and learned discourse. 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: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 17.363 reification; or, a complaint Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:46:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 515 (515) I have noticed that most cars, televisions, stereos, etc., do not appear in real life exactly as they do in the manuals, and yet this does not seem to deter billions of people from using them every single day. I would presume the same is true of HyperText, the Web, the Internet, or even the computer, keyboard and modem I am using to send this. . . yet somehow I feel the message will arrive intact, as do the various hypertext eBooks available from Project Gutenberg. Thanks!!! So Nice To Hear From You! Michael As of October 30, ~10,167+ FreeBooks at: http://gutenberg.net Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" From: "R. Allen Shoaf" Subject: Exemplaria on Medieval Noise Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:43:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 516 (516) *** X-posted -- Apologies for duplication *** EXEMPLARIA is pleased to announce the launch on its World Wide Web site of "Medieval Noise," a Special Cluster under the Guest Editorship of Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (The George Washington University), containing the following five articles: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Guest Editor "'Kyte oute yugilment': An Introduction to Medieval Noise" Michelle R. 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Box 117310, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310 Senior Editor, EXEMPLARIA, ras@ufl.edu www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf/ FAX 352.392-0860; VOICE 352.371-7149; 352.392-6650 x 264 725 NE 6th Street, Gainesville, FL 32601-5567 ****************************************************************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:35:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 517 (517) (1) Argumentation Machines New Frontiers in Argument and Computation edited by Chris Reed University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Timothy J. Norman University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK ARGUMENTATION LIBRARY -- 9 This book represents the first coherent published work in bringing together various branches of artificial intelligence with argumentation and rhetoric, and, as such, aims to play a key role in the establishment of a new field of scholarly research. The volume not only offers in-depth assessments of existing research, but also represents a substantial advance in the state of the art, and lays out a roadmap for future work in this newly emerging cross-disciplinary field. Computer scientists, and, in particular, Artificial Intelligence researchers, have been inspired by the notions of argumentation for as almost long as the field has existed. Scholars in the philosophy of language and reasoning, and others studying language-use in the social sciences, can trace ancient roots for models of argument that are descriptive, normative, or cognitive. With both the computational and noncomputational work generating substantial fields of research, it is surprising that direct communication between the computational and non-computational sides has been relatively limited until quite recently. Though there might be any number of useful ways to identify foci for this potential interaction, this volume explores a number of places at which a concerted effort might yield rich rewards. The first is in multi-agent systems, where commitment-based models of interaction between autonomous agents offer significant advantages to agent-based systems designs, and computational models offer a means to rigorously evaluate theories of dialogue. The second is in practical reasoning, and in particular the role of supporting humans in such reasoning through the application of rich and sophisticated models of argument. The third is in law, where traditions of rhetoric and modern developments in argumentation might be expected to drive new innovation in AI & Law systems and theories. The fourth is in natural language generation, where models of rhetoric and argument structure can be put to work as operational definitions and algorithms for system design and implementation. And the fifth picks up on the importance of rhetoric across different subfields, identifying the roles that rhetorical models can play throughout AI, and considering how such application might lead to new departures for rhetoric itself. Audience: This book is of interest to academics, researchers, PhD and graduate students in philosophy of argument, logic, informal logic, critical thinking, rhetoric, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational linguistics, natural language processing, law, cognitive science and the interdisciplinary areas between these fields. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1811-8 Date: December 2003 Pages: 262 pp. EURO 104.00 / USD 114.00 / GBP 72.00 (2) Bibliographie linguistique de l'année 1999/Linguistic Bibliography for the year 1999 et compléments des années précédentes/and supplements for previous years edited by Mark Janse Hella Olbertz Sijmen Tol LINGUISTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 1999 Bibliographie Linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years (the first two volumes, covering the years 1939-1947, were published in 1949-1950), Bibliographie Linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics and related disciplines, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some fifty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 23,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie Linguistique remains the standard reference book for every student of language and linguistics. An important innovation in this fifty-second edition is the revised and much expanded classification of the languages of South America. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1716-2 Date: December 2003 Pages: 1486 pp. EURO 446.00 / USD 491.00 / GBP 308.00 (3) Ernst Mach's World Elements A Study in Natural Philosophy by Erik C. Banks THE WESTERN ONTARIO SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 68 Ernst Mach (1838-1916) was a seminal philosopher-scientist and a deserving member of the canon of major twentieth-century thinkers. Yet, despite a healthy resurgence in Mach studies, he is still widely thought to represent a simplistic positivist, even sensationalist, position that does not at all reflect the depth of Mach's interests and subtlety as a philosopher. By exploring Mach's views on science as well as philosophy, this book attempts to wrest him free from his customary association with logical positivism and to reinterpret him on his own terms as a natural philosopher and naturalist about human knowledge. Mach's development and his influences from 19th century German philosophy and science are probed in great conceptual and historical detail, and attention is paid to his unpublished Nachlaß as well as to the affinities between Mach's thought and that of other major philosopher-scientists such as Einstein, Bertrand Russell, William James, Helmholtz, Riemann, Herbart and Kant. In particular, the book strives to set forth the true nature of Mach's sensation-elements, the motivations for his critique of the concepts of space and time in physics, and the real meaning of his famous critique of metaphysics. The author's work has appeared in Synthese, Kant-Studien, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, but here these inquiries are gathered into a unified historico-critical treatment that follows Mach's conceptual development and the culmination of his work in a unique and intriguing natural philosophy. Physicists, psychologists, philosophers of science, historians of twentieth-century thought and culture, and educators will find this volume a valuable help in interpreting Mach's ideas in a context that includes philosophy and science and the bridge between them. CONTENTS Preface. Introduction. 1: The Viennese Background. 2: A New Theory Of Matter. 3: Herbart's Metaphysics. 4: Mach On Space Sensations. 5: Mach And Riemann. 6: Fechner And The Inner Side Of Nature. 7: From Sensations To World Elements. 8: The Economy Of Thought. 9: Neutral Monism From Mach To Russell. 10: Politics (And Physics) In Prague. 11: The Perpetual Motion Principle In Mechanics. 12: Machs Definitions Of Mass And Inertia. 13: The Wärmelehre. 14: Machs Late View Of Space And Natural Philosophy. Notes. References. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1662-X Date: November 2003 Pages: 304 pp. EURO 115.00 / USD 127.00 / GBP 79.00 (4) Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries Volume 30 edited by Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague, The Netherlands ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK AND LIBRARIES -- 30 The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book andLibraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description. CONTENTS Introduction. List of Periodicals. A. General Works about the History of the Printed Book and Library. B. Paper, Inks, Printing Materials. C. Calligraphy, Type, Design, Typefounding. D. Layout, Composing, Printing, Presses, Printed Books, incl. Incunabula, etc. E. Book Illustration. F. Bookbinding. G. Book Trade, Publishing. H. Bibliography, Bookcollecting. J. Libraries, Librarianship, Scholarship, Institutions. K. Legal, Economic, Social Aspects. L. Newspapers, Periodicals, Journalism. M. Relation to Secondary Subjects mainly in order of DC. Index I. Authors' Names and Anonyms. Index II. Geographical and Personal Names. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1686-7 Date: November 2003 Pages: 656 pp. EURO 270.00 / USD 297.00 / GBP 186.00 (5) Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue edited by Jan van Kuppevelt Stuttgart University, Germany Ronnie W. Smith Dept. of Computer Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY -- 22 This volume is unique in its breadth of coverage on key topics in the field from a variety of leading researchers. In one volume, readers gain exposure to several perspectives in the areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system construction; as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse structure. In this book you will find high quality articles representing current and new directions in discourse and dialogue with an emphasis on Dialogue Systems; Corpora and Corpus Tools; and Semantic and Pragmatic Modelling of Discourse and Dialogue. The majority of the articles included come from the most outstanding papers presented at the 2nd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and Dialogue held in conjunction with Eurospeech 2001. The contents are supplemented with four invited papers from internationally recognized researchers in discourse and dialogue. Audience: researchers and practitioners in dialogue and discourse processing. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1614-X Date: October 2003 Pages: 369 pp. EURO 152.00 / USD 167.00 / GBP 105.00 (6) Geophysical Applications of Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic edited by William Sandham University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Miles Leggett Jason Geosystems bv, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Preface by Fred Aminzadeh President, DGB-USA & FACT, Sugar Land, TX, USA MODERN APPROACHES IN GEOPHYSICS -- 21 This book is the first major text to encompass the wide diversity of geophysical applications of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and fuzzy logic (FZ). Each chapter, written by internationally-renowned experts in their field, represents a specific geophysical application, ranging from first-break picking and trace editing encountered in seismic exploration, through well-log lithology determination, to electromagnetic exploration and earthquake seismology. The book offers a well-balanced division of contributions from industry and academia, and includes a comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography covering all major publications in geophysical applications of ANNs and FZ. A special feature of this volume is the preface written by Professor Fred Aminzadeh, eminent authority in the field of artificial intelligence and geophysics. The enclosed CD rom contains full colour figures and searchable files, as well as short biographies of the editors. Audience: This work will serve as an ideal reference for professional geophysicists, engineers and research students, as well as a useful introductory text for those just commencing their studies. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1729-4 Date: November 2003 Pages: 348 pp. EURO 115.00 / USD 127.00 / GBP 79.00 (7) Fuzzy Logic in Management by Christer Carlsson IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Mario Fedrizzi Dept. of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, Italy Robert Fullér Dept. of Operations Research, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE -- 66 Fuzzy Logic In Management demonstrates that difficult problems and changes in the management environment can be more easily handled by bringing fuzzy logic into the practice of management. This explicit theme is developed through the book as follows: * Chapter 1, "Management and Intelligent Support Technologies", is a short survey of management leadership and what can be gained from support technologies, * Chapter 2, "Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic", provides a short introduction to fuzzy sets, fuzzy relations, the extension principle, fuzzy implications and linguistic variables, * Chapter 3, "Group Decision Support Systems", deals with group decision making, and discusses methods for supporting the consensus reaching processes, * Chapter 4, "Fuzzy Real Options for Strategic Planning", summarizes research where the fuzzy real options theory was implemented as a series of models. These models were thoroughly tested on a number of real life investments, and validated in 2001, * Chapter 5, "Soft Computing Methods for Reducing the Bullwhip Effect", summarizes research work focused on the demand fluctuations in supply chains. The program enhanced existing theoretical frameworks with fuzzy logic modeling , * Chapter 6, "Knowledge Management", outlines the collection, storing, transfer and management of knowledge using fuzzy logic. The principles are worked out in detail with software agents, * Chapter 7, "Mobile Technology Application", introduces various applications including empirical facts and how mobile technology can be supported with software agents. Implicitly the book develops themes that successful companies should use to (1) master effectiveness and quality in both the details and the whole, (2) build on and work with flexibility, and (3) support continuous learning in both the organizational and the individual level. CONTENTS * List of Figures. List of Tables. Introduction. * 1: Management and intelligent support technologies. 1. Management. 2. Decision support systems. 3. Hyper knowledge - a brief summary of experiences. 4. New information technology, intelligent systems and soft computing. 5. Some lessons for future DSS. * 2: Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic. 1. Fuzzy sets. 2. Averaging operators. * 3: Group decision support systems. 1. The arrow impossibility theorem: from classical to fuzzy approaches. 2. Consensus modeling in GDM. 3. A soft degree of concensus based on fuzzy logic with linguistic quantifiers. 4. An interactive system for concensus reaching. 5. The OCA approach to multicriteria multiperson concensus modeling. 6. Quality evaluation of elderly persons' homes using fuzzy quantifiers. 7. A decision support system for strategic planning through scenarios. 8. An artificial neural network evaluator for mortgage loan applications. 9. A linguistic approach to personnel evaluation. 10. An application to environmental policies. * 4: Fuzzy real options for strategic planning. 1. A fuzzy approach to real option valuation. 2. Nordic Telekom Inc. 3. Summary. * 5: A fuzzy approach to reducing the bullwhip effect. 1. The bullwhip effect, some additional details. 2. Fuzzy approaches to demand signal processing. 3. A hybrid soft computing platform for taming the bullwhip effect. 4. Summary. * 6: Knowledge management. 1. Introduction. 2. The current state of knowledge management research. 3. Knowledge management: a conceptual framework. 4. Knowledge management strategies. 5. Knowledge management projects. 6. Research in knowledge management - some methodology issues. 7. IT solutions to support knowledge management. * 7: Mobile technology applications. 1. Introduction. 2. Consumer survey in Finland. 3. An expert survey in Finland. 4. Acceptance of mobile commerce in Finland, Hong Kong and Singapore. 5. Mobile commerce products and services. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7695-9 Date: November 2003 Pages: 296 pp. EURO 116.00 / USD 129.00 / 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: Willard McCarty Subject: the social context (in memoriam Rob Kling 1945-2003) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:42:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 518 (518) Observations like Norman Hinton's in Humanist 17.361 I think we should take seriously, and not just because in this case I agree with his preference for the printed codex when reading in a sustained way. To a significant degree discourse about "the" electronic book (another reified pseudo-object) tends these days either to dismiss such preferences or to promise their fulfilment in some new marvel. As Geoffrey Nunberg points out in "The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction", Representations 42 (1993): 13-37, a true e-book would mean that the technology had become entirely invisible ­ and so in thrall to the prior technology (p. 18). But far more importantly, he argues, we need to pay closer attention to what is involved in the act of reading and especially to have our minds directed toward the social institutions within which this reading and related behaviours take place. For the new media, this means looking to its impact on current institutions, perhaps forming new ones. For the inherited media, it means understanding their role within them. At this point comes our indebtedness to Rob Kling, Professor of Information Systems and Information Science and Director of the Center for Social Informatics at SLIS (Indiana) until his untimely death on 15 May of this year -- "Infectiously curious, playfully serious, razor sharp, generous of spirit, and wonderfully open-minded", as his Dean, Blaise Cronin, has written. (For those who would like to catch up on what Kling managed to do with his life, his homepage is the place to go, http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/kling/.) Norman Hinton's comments brought Kling to mind through an essay by Cronin, "Scholarly Communication and Epistemic Cultures" (for which see http://www.arl.org/scomm/disciplines_program.html), which refers in several places to Kling's work in "social informatics". Here perhaps the most relevant of Kling's papers is "Not Just a Matter of Time: Field Differences and the Shaping of Electronic Media in Supporting Scientific Communication", JASIS 51.14 (2000): 1306-20 (in draft at http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/WP/wp99_02B.html), co-authored with Geoffrey McKim. The point is a simple one but seems to need repeating quite often so that we may hear ourselves think over the promotional clamourings for on-screen reading. This is, simply, that our formal scholarly output is part of a process of communication within a particular social context (or "epistemic culture", to borrow Karin Knorr Cetina's term from Cronin). Kling's social informatics directs us to look to the culture in which work is done as well as to the technological possibilities. Kling's death removes from the scene one of our most redoubtable allies in this crucial effort of looking to our own epistemic culture(s) and social context(s) when deciding how we might want them to change. Is it not less than helpful to promote a "one size fits all" approach to the reading, say, of (a) a poem by Seamus Heaney, (b) a novel by Toni Morrison, (c) a write-up of research results from a high-energy physics project, (d) a scholarly monograph in the history of ideas, (e) a book review, (f) a survey of current work in cognitive science? (One might add the books listed in the previous note :-) 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: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 17.361 books and their openings Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:46:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 519 (519) On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] I have seen the comments of a number of people who took a while to figure out how to use, or not use, Amazon's new eBook features. Usually after a few days they finally read the advanced tools instructions and are then much happier with the way things work. I must agree, that right now _I_ am not terrible happy with all the changes, and not just those at Amazon, but also at Google. [deleted quotation] flat [deleted quotation] As for those who do not like reading books online, I can only say that they most likely have simply not set up things to optimize their reading eBooks to the same degree they have when reading paper books. 1. I have found that the refresh rate, persistence, and other parameters of monitors matter quite a bit, as well as brightness and contrast, of course. 2. In addition, there are usually 16 million colors to choose from for both foreground and background. . .I have stuck with ye olde green on black, which has worked fine for me for decades. 3. Besides that, I can always use my reflective LCD screens if I don't want ANY flicker at all and if I want reflective light, as with paper books. 4. I also go through the effort of choosing a font that I like, as well as line lengths are just right for me [65-75 characters per line]. If one takes all these variables into account [there ARE more, but. . .] there are trillions of combinations available, all one has to do is try out some of the more obvious ones to be well on their way. The next generation is already carrying about 10,000 eBooks around on a single DVD that only cost ~$1 to copy, and legally, I might add, and they will hopefully never understand why so many people don't. . . . ;-) Thanks!!! So Nice To Hear From You! Michael As of October 30, ~10,166+ FreeBooks at: http://gutenberg.net Michael S. 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From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Survey Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:07:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 522 (522) Dear Humanists We are assessing the needs of the humanities research community for computing, and in particular the use of electronic text and text analysis tools. We invite humanities scholars (graduate students, faculty and researchers) to complete a short survey (about 20 minutes). The results of the survey will enable us to acquire a better understanding of the humanities' scholar research environment so that we may design better computer-based support for the scholar. Please respond even if you are not a user of e-text or text analysis tools. We really need your input! The survey is found at: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/tapor/tapor-consent.asp. Thank-you for your support! NOTE: This survey is a project of the TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) (http://www.tapor.ca) and its investigators are: Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster University), Ray Siemens (Malaspina University College), Lynne Siemens (Malaspina University College) and Stefan Sinclair, University of Alberta and Elaine Toms (University of Toronto). This survey was funded by a University of Toronto Internal SSHRC SIG. From: "Stefan Gradmann" Subject: AW: 17.363 reification; or, a complaint Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 06:49:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 523 (523) Dear Willard & others, ok, here we go: this complaint by Willard seems absolutely justified in my eyes but far too weakly uttered - and possibly inconsequently. Among the reifications we then also should have our go on even shallower metaphors such as 'digital libraries' or 'e-learning' and other related (und utterly stupid) constructs such as 'e-books' should be considered, at same time making clear (and here things get tricky) why we keep using these non-sense terms in fund raising contexts (at least I admit doing so ...), since they make the people who keep the money think that they have understood what we are doing. And that they even steer what we do. Without having understood the very essence of it (which is *questions*, not answers!) - but that doesn't matter, as long as we can feed them with these handy metaphors, grab the money and - have to invent some shiny stories at the end to sustain our credibility. But do we believe in all this? Rhethorical questions may be admitted in this forum ... And as a consequence: should we seriously invest time in such a discussion (I believe we should!) with no result visible outside our community (this would be useless!!) Kind regards again from HH & goodnight -- Stefan Gradmann ************************************************************ Dr. Stefan Gradmann / Virtuelle Campusbibliothek Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg Schlüterstr. 70, D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838 3093 Fax.: +49 (0)40 42838 3284 GSM : +49 (0)170 8352623 E-Mail: stefan.gradmann@rrz.uni-hamburg.de From: Aimée Morrison (by way Subject: RE: 17.367 reification Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 06:49:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 524 (524) dear all, another reification wrinkle. my immediate guess when seeing the words 'hypertext', 'reification', and 'complaint' as i scanned willard's email, was that the substance of said complaint would be to lament that *hypertext* is often taken to be the *reification* of postmodern theories of textuality. i've been thinking about this lately. many early and passionate promoters of computing technologies for the humanities, among them george landow as exemplary case, employed a strategy whereby computing was justified for its instantiation/embodiment/reification of french theories at that time circulating to great controversy in the academy. in this vision, hypertext is the barthesian text v. work *literalized*, a double gesture that marks the former as theoretically sound or at least relevant to the work of the humanities, and the latter as material or reified and thus incontrovertibly existing. neat trick. certainly rooted in a particular historical moment in the american academy, but still, outdated and worth taking apart, i think. this particular reification of pomotheory/hypertext does a disservice to both processes/ideas/theories/practices, as, justifying one in terms of the other in a closed circle, we do not get to debate the nature of 'hypertext' on its own evolving terms, nor to understand postmodern theories of textuality as practices rather than objects. (that is, a 'work' or a 'text' in the barthesian sense is a matter of reading practice, not instantiation in a particular book or e-text form). in short, my complaint would be the trick of using *reification* as *justification*. (to be silly and invert descartes, in this case, the maxim would be "it *is*, therefore it is worth thinking about.") but it seems this is not what willard was getting at. i'm interested in his idea of the reification problem too, but thought i'd drop this into the debate as well. cheers, aimee . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aimée Morrison Office: 4-14 Humanities Ctr. PhD Candidate, Dept. of English Phone: (780) 492-0298 University of Alberta Fax: (780) 492-8102 T6G 2E5 Email: ahm@ualberta.ca "If we examine the Lives of all the Poets, we shall find that they have all been miserable." -- Susanna Watts, c1802 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 17.367 reification Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 06:50:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 525 (525) Dear Willard: I think it might be helpful in this thread for people to go back a long way to Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD, an essential primer, especially for Humanists. His chapter on THE FALLACY OF MISPLACED CONCRETENESS deals with this issue, and thoroughly once and for all, from a mathematician, one who knows what symbols are, etc. It is a sine qua non. Poetry, if read at all these days, is something that is usually misread, and Whitehead, talking about Romantic poetry in Chapter 1, shows how this all works. Freud, of course, is another thread, but that leads elsewhere.. Koryzbski, one of the founders of Semantics in the 1st half of the 20th Century, has a vast work on this process. But most of these foundations are quite forgot, alas, jascha kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone: (310) 393-4648 Telephone/Facsimile: (530) 684-5120 http://www.home.earthlink.net/~jaschak/ http://www.jaschakessler.com/ http://www.xlibris.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: imagination vs hand-waving Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:03:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 526 (526) I like Steve Ramsay's analogy, as it summons to view a situation so full of promise that so often results in cost-overruns and disappointments. But the analogy is weak: [deleted quotation] Many young married couples have lived through this experience. The range of outcomes is well known, as is the nature of the entities "house", "bathrooms", "mountains" and "back bedroom". Seeing mountains from a back bedroom is well understood. Things may go wrong, as I suggested, but even the range of bad outcomes has been charted so many times as to be perfectly familiar. But in the case of "the" semantic web, there is widespread disagreement on what "it" might be. (Marshall and Shipman usefully discriminate three different things "it" could be.) No one can honestly claim "it" to be a familiar thing or even finite set of things. Despite that fact, many talk about "it" as if "it" were a known quantity, then go on to infer a number of other things. No such thing. There is of course the practical problem of how to motivate people, get grants and so forth. How to sell the idea. The architect wanting commissions from such fortunately well-off young couples will promote pedestrian dreams of the kind Steve has referred to. In writing grant applications we of course promise to change the world for the better, improve our national economies and so on and so forth. (I try honestly to formulate the first of these so that I can actually believe in what I am writing, but as for the rest....) All ordinary stuff, to which here I am making no objection. What I do think is wrong is the slopping over of promotional, salesman's rhetoric into what we say to each other. As I said, I've no problem with us imagining something that doesn't exist and has never existed. The basic problem I have is with pretending, to ourselves, that such a never-existent pseudo-thing like "the" semantic web is analogous to a house that hasn't yet been built. Worlds of difference. Yes, language is a complex, very human phenomenon, no doubt reflecting all our shortcomings. But the subjunctive mood works well for imagining things. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: books and their openings Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:05:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 527 (527) [deleted quotation] For readability, it's impossible to beat a 6 x 8 x 1 in. codex with boards - for instance, the I Tatti library books. I wouldn't have put the "search inside the book" feature into the Amazon basic search by default. Some things are just obvious, like not bringing a pitcher back in the seventh inning after he's struggled in the eighth, and not complicating your basic search functions at an online store in a way that will return a larger number of irrelevant results to users who don't choose to use the complex search functions. [deleted quotation] It's hard to promote a "one size fits all" approach to the same work in different contexts and with different aims. For a lexicon, electronic delivery is far more useful than for a poem. Ideally, I'd rather read Station Island in codex than on the screen. But if I were trying to find Heaney's line "the English language belongs to us now," and didn't know it was from Station Island, the electronic version would be far more helpful than any index. Is it my imagination, or is the printed concordance largely dead? Patrick Rourke From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 17.366 new books; books and their openings Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:05:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 528 (528) My apologies for not including this yesterday. A few more words about setting up for eBook reading: In addition, there are many more variables in modern lighting than most people ever consider. A quick trip or call to a lighting store finds: 1. Bulbs with increased persistence = higher persistence, which do not interfere with the refresh rates of monitors. 2. Bulbs with a variety of spectrum types. A. If I am using fluroescent lights, I get wide spectrum. Some are expensive, but GE F4OPL/AQ is a real bargain, and the ones above me here last for years, 24/7. This works particulaly well with the green letters [above]. B. There are also a wider variety of incandescent lights than one might suspect, also having wide persistence, or decreased flicker. However, GE Soft White is fine and available nearly everywhere. 3. Obviously there are multitudes of light fixtures, lamps, chandeliers, etc. Some people like multiple bulbs, and some like single bulbs. . .it's worth the effort to put in a little time finding out what's best for you. Thanks!!! So Nice To Hear From You! Michael As of October 31, ~10,175+ FreeBooks at: http://gutenberg.net Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 17.372 reification Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 08:34:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 529 (529) [deleted quotation] The house and the semantic web are not analogous. The use of the indicative mood is, I think, directly analogous. Why must "the semantic web" be aliased to a concrete thing -- or even a single idea? It's interesting to me that Marshall and Shipman, after surveying the various possibilities for a semantic web, then propose to use this information "with an eye toward possible outcomes as Semantic Web efforts move forward" (notice the caps). It seems to me that the objections Willard is making could be made of nearly any sufficiently complex construct from string theory to Marxism. There is no "it" to point to, no unified set of beliefs, no concrete behavior that unambiguously corresponds to the construct (in the case of string theory), and no entity that corresponds to the ideal (in the case of Marxism). Yet we can speak of these things and be more or less understood by our interlocutors. There are certainly many cases in which the indicative mood is used to fool people, but I think it is as often used as a shorthand among members of a bounded discourse community to signify the object of debate. When a newspaper talks about "the semantic web" to people outside the circuit of that discourse, they surely do a disservice to their readers. But that does not mean that people inside the discourse are fooling one another. 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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.369 books and their openings Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 08:36:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 530 (530) Thanks both to Patrick Rourke for his kind words and to Michael Hart for Project Gutenberg. I use it for just the kind of searching mentioned and it's a real contribution to Letters on the Net. (I'm glad to find another reader of Station Island, too!) p.s. Just bwefore i read here about 60,000 E-book orders, I read in the Times that the e-book was 'a failed experiment'. One man's Mede, another man's Persian, I guess? From: "James L. Morrisonj" Subject: Technology Source Update/Nov-Dec Issue Description Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 08:37:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 531 (531) We are proceeding with a plan to fund The Technology Source whereby partner organizations will be able to link to a version of TS on the Michigan Virtual University server that provides them with a unique domain-specific URL, their logo in place of the MVU logo (along with a statement that their organization is publishing TS in partnership with MVU), and a special section on the front page where they may insert material specific to their constituencies (e.g., announcements of new programs, calendar events, links to new service offerings, and white papers). This initiative will allow the journal to be available on multiple sites and in multiple languages. If your organization would like to be a partner publisher, please send me a note. Below is a description of the November/December 2003 issue. Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using information technology tools more effectively in their work. Also, please encourage your organizational librarians to add The Technology Source to their e-journal collections. Many thanks. Jim -- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief The Technology Source http://ts.mivu.org Home Page: http://horizon.unc.edu INSIDE THE TECHNOLOGY SOURCE Course management system upgrades are a mixed blessing: They typically introduce helpful new features, but they can also complicate the process of course revision. Jo Paoletti documents the challenges she faced as she adjusted to successive versions of her university's CMS. She concludes with an even-handed assessment of what instructors, IT support staff, and software designers can do to minimize the pain of course revision. (See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1034 ) Zane Berge and Greg Kearsley share the results of an important survey on the sustainability of distance training programs in professional organizations. According to respondents, factors that limit the long-term viability of these programs include employee turnover, limited budgets, lack of managerial involvement, and inadequate technical support. Berge and Kearsley summarize other valuable findings and suggest topics for future research. (See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2027 ) Henryk Marcinkiewicz interviews Robert Sylwester, whose research highlights the relationship between cognitive development and new trends in educational technology. Sylwester explains how an understanding of brain maturation over time can help parents and teachers find appropriate instructional strategies. He also proposes an apprenticeship model of technology instruction and touts the benefits of collaborative decision-making and reciprocal learning. (See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1048 ) Robert Sommer used to lecture with 35 mm slides and overhead transparencies, but he recently upgraded to PowerPoint slides and a digital projector. This seemed like a progressive step--until color distortion within the new system had unexpected consequences for his research on color perception and aesthetics. Sommer provides a diagnosis of the problem he faced and an account of how he bypassed it. (See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1057 ) It is not enough to possess technology skills for online teaching; faculty members must also have a comprehensive strategy of instructional design. Gail Weatherly and Randy McDonald describe how this combination is achieved in a 10-session series of workshops at their university, where the standard approach to course development keeps technology use rooted in sound pedagogical practice. The authors provide detailed workshop materials and resources. (See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=951 ) Steven Wicker and Beth Boyd outline the various programs that Wake Forest University (WFU) has sponsored to encourage its faculty to use information technology tools. The initiatives include funding for academic computing specialists and student technology advisors who work one-on-one with instructors; grant programs that give faculty members release time or summer support for technology-related projects; and opportunities to observe successful technology use at other institutions. (See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1032) When it comes to assessment in higher education, establishing a campus-wide consensus on learning outcomes, evaluation criteria, and the institutional role of technology can seem nearly impossible. Colleen Carmean knows this all too well, and she illustrates the point by frankly describing 10 obstacles that she and her colleagues faced while trying to develop transformative assessment standards for their university. (See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1056 ) -- You are currently subscribed to the Technology Source mailing list as willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=mailing. From: Elizabeth Horan Subject: job opening asst prof Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:49:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 532 (532) Deadline for applications is 26 Nov. 2003. Salary is competitive. Assistant Professor, Information Literacy Department of English Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Assistant Professor. Tenure track. Primary Specialization in Information Technology and Information Literacy. Initial teaching load is 2/2 for tenure track faculty with a significant research agenda, with opportunities to teach and mentor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Opportunities for reduced teaching loads will be based on strong enrollment in IT workshops. Duties include: teaching courses that integrate technology and information literacy skills in an English related field; assisting English Department faculty and graduate students in designing and implementing technological components in linguistics, rhetoric, writing, literature, TESL, and culture courses; making connections in research between information literacy and broader cultural concepts; being able to communicate across different disciplines. In addition to disciplinary expertise, employ expertise in information literacy and information technology. Contribute to the implementation of college-wide curricular initiatives dedicated to achieving information technology and information literacy for all undergraduate college students. Faculty recruited for this initiative will help provide leadership for the English Department to restructure degree programs and existing courses as well as to develop new courses to achieve the goals and competencies of this initiative. The English Department at ASU consists of 57 tenure track faculty, 13 lecturers, 16 instructors, 50 faculty associates, 296 graduate students, and 585 undergraduate majors. Required qualifications: Ph.D in English or related field. Strong background in the humanities or social sciences with demonstrated experience in designing and implementing technological components in English related classes. Evidence of a strong research commitment integrating information literacy and technology with broader humanites questions. Desired: Two or more of: (a) web resource development, (b) data base design and administration, (c) corpus linguistics' work, (d) textual data mining. Application deadline: 26 Nov 2003, and each month thereafter until the position is filled. Send a letter of application stating qualifications, experience, and research plans and teaching interests; a complete curriculum vita, graduate school transcripts, 3 letters of reference, and samples of research and writing (3 selected scholarly papers, book chapters, or web pages). Send to: Chair, Information Technology/Information Literacy Search Committee, Department of English, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Elizabeth Horan, Professor Department Chair, English College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University Tempe AZ 85287-0302 (480) 965-3535 (480) 965-8439 (voice) <http://www.public.asu.edu/~ehoran> This America of Ours: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/misthi.html From: Office of The Provost Subject: anti-Irish computing? Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:49:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 533 (533) Willard, For many years, I have observed that some computer systems have difficulty with apostrophes in surnames -- a common problem among Irish and Irish-decended folk. Just now, trying to sign up for online billing from a phone company, it couldn't recognize me until I deleted the apostrophe. 1. Any useful algorithm to understand when/how this will happen? 2. Any prospects of remediation? Jim O'Donnell Georgetown University From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: Extended deadline ALLC / ACH - 2004 Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 06:44:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 534 (534) ALLC/ACH 2004 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities Gšteborg University, June 11 - 16, 2004. The Organising Committee for the joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities is extending the deadline for the submission of proposals for papers, poster presentations, sessions and software demos. The new deadline is November 17, 2003. For further details of the conference please visit the conference homepage at the address: www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/ -- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: accents Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:13:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 535 (535) As far as the computing systems involved in the publication of Humanist are concerned -- at Princeton, Virginia and King's College London -- the difficulty to which Jim O'Donnell pointed is *almost* no longer. It seems that an upgrade to lists.village.virginia.edu has at last cured the problem that required my not always perfect manual intervention to preserve accented characters throughout the messages sent to Humanist. BUT, as the header of the message in Humanist 17.380, from my Dublin colleague Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh, demonstrates, we're still not quite there yet. It seems that accented names in e-mail headers come to me encoded with "quoted printable" characters. I don't think this is a fault I can correct but would be very happy to be instructed otherwise. (I've read the Eudora documentation on the topic.) As you may have guessed, I normally correct such problems by hand, but I stayed my hand this time in order to satisfy Mícheál's curiosity. Curiously the announcements of new publications sent out by Kluwer makes utter hash out of accented characters -- you'd think that an international publisher would get this one right, would you not? I correct these when I can. 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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=EDche=E1l?= Mac an Airchinnigh Subject: Re: 17.377 anti-Irish computing? Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 06:41:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 536 (536) On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 07:00 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] --- The problem lies in reliance upon algorithms that date from the age of ASCII. Not only do you have the problem of O'Donnell but also of Ó Dónaill :) Other ancient legacies are spaces in names: O Donell. [deleted quotation]--- Yes! Encourage universal movement to unicode. [deleted quotation]Mícheál PS: I wonder what my name looks like to the recipients of this posting? :) ... o O o O o ... [ , HO ] ... o O o O o ... ... o Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh o ... ... o O o O o ... [ , HO ] ... o O o O o ... From: Thierry van Steenberghe Subject: Re: 17.377 anti-Irish computing? Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 06:42:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 537 (537) The good news (well, sort of...) is that machines are not just anti-Irish: apostrophes also appear in family names in several other languages: French (like d'Artagnan, for example...), Italian, Dutch... The bad news is that problems also occur with other 'unexpected' characters: diacritics, dashes, or even spaces, like in my (Dutch sounding) name, for example. Often the uncarefully designed web forms just take the first 'word'... (or even not, when it's written with a minuscule). Computing is indeed still heavily 'marked' by its history... -- __________________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe Bruxelles / Belgium e-mail: tvs@idp-co.be __________________________________ From: Anne Mahoney Subject: Re: 17.377 anti-Irish computing? Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 06:42:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 538 (538) Fellow Irishman JOD wonders: [deleted quotation]One might try the Irish spelling: two words, the first being a long O with a fada (= acute accent) -- so, Ó Donnell. I assume that a company has to deal with a space for names like "du Lac" or "van der Meer," and it really *should* be able to deal with accents in names like "Martínez." --Anne Mahoney (or Anne Ní Gearoid, as gaeilge) Tufts University From: sarneil Subject: RE: 17.377 anti-Irish computing? Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 06:43:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 539 (539) Hi Jim If I remember correctly, in certain data encoding systems the apostrophe character is also used as an explicit delimiter around strings of text (i.e. a quotation mark) and for that reason the character was not allowed inside a quoted string. There's no way to predict what will and won't support the character as it depends on the programming environment and character encoding conventions of the host computer. The only characters which will definitely work are the upper and lower case English alphabet, the digits, the underscore and the dash. The unicode standard for character encoding distinguishes these two characters, but it might be a while before all the bits and pieces on the internet (and database systems may well be one of the last technologies to upgrade) support that character encoding system, and of course if the author includes the single quote mark where she or he meant the apostrophe, you'll have the same problem. The Unicode system will solve virtually all similar problems for people with accented characters in their names, not to mention names in Chinese, Arabic etc. Stewart Arneil University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre Half-Baked Software Inc. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 540 (540) this is testing mail to lists From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:44:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 541 (541) (1) Process Theories Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories edited by Johanna Seibt University of Aarhus, Denmark Reprinted from AXIOMATHES, 14:1-2 Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality. Yet our philosophical and scientific theories of nature and experience have traditionally prioritized concepts for static objects and structures. The essays collected here call for a review of the role of dynamic categories in the language of theories. They present old and new descriptive tools for the modelling of dynamic domains, and argue for the merits of process-based explanations in ontology, cognitive science, semiotics, linguistics, philosophy of mind, robotics, theoretical biology, music theory, and philosophy of chemistry and physics. The collection is of interest to professional researchers in any of these fields; it establishes - for the very first time - crossdisciplinary contact among recent process-based research movements and might witness a conceptual paradigm shift in the making. Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1751-0 Date: December 2003 Pages: 304 pp. EURO 49.00 / USD 54.00 / GBP 34.00 (2) Advanced Formal Verification Modern circuits may contain up to several hundred million transistors. In the meantime it has been observed that verification becomes the major bottleneck in design flows, i.e. up to 80% of the overall design costs are due to verification. This is one of the reasons why recently several methods have been proposed as alternatives to classical simulation. Simulation alone cannot guarantee sufficient coverage of the design resulting in bugs that may remain undetected. As alternatives formal verification techniques have been proposed. Instead of simulating a design the correctness is proven by formal techniques. There are many different areas where these approaches can be used, like equivalence checking, property checking or symbolic simulation. Meanwhile these methods have been successfully applied in many industrial projects and have become the state-of-the-art technique in several fields. But the deployment of the existing tools in real-world projects also showed the weaknesses and problems of formal verification techniques. This gave motivating impulses for tool developers and researchers. Advanced Formal Verification shows latest developments in the verification domain from the perspectives of the user and the developer. World leading experts describe the underlying methods of today's verification tools and describe various scenarios from industrial practice. In the first part of the book the core techniques of today's formal verification tools, like SAT and BDDs are addressed. In addition, instances known to be difficult, like multipliers, are studied. The second part gives insight in professional tools and the underlying methodology, like property checking and assertion based verification. Finally, to cope with complete system on chip designs also analog components have to be considered. In this book the state-of-the-art in many important fields of formal verification is described. Besides the description of the most recent research results, open problems and challenging research areas are addressed. Because of this, the book is intended for CAD developers and researchers in the verification domain, where formal techniques become a core technology to successful circuit and system design. Furthermore, the book is an excellent reference for users of verification tools to get a better understanding of the internal principles and by this to drive the tools to the highest performance. In this context the book is dedicated to all people in industry and academia to keep informed about the most recent developments in the field of formal verification. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7721-1 Date: January 2004 Pages: 260 pp. EURO 104.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 71.00 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 4.36 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:46:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 542 (542) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 36 (November 5 - November 11, 2003) Interview Are You a Technical Guru or an Enlightened Friend? In order to get the information security budget you need, you must be able to communicate comfortably with non-technies, says security expert Thomas J. Parenty http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i36_parenty.html From: François Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 17.380 anti-Irish computing Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:45:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 543 (543) The inanities of the automatic processing of personal information are, thankfully, too numerous and varied to list exhaustively. My favourite I encountered at a conference on electronic typesetting in the 1980s. One of the participants, the MD of a printing firm here in the UK, had filled-in the registration form with his name "Sir Peter whatever" (I forget the surname). The organisers had produced a lapel badge from this information with software which did know about Doctors and Professors but didn't know about knighthoods. So he went proudly about with a badge that read "Call me Sir"! Could we say this was being anti-British? François (the cedilla often causes problems) Crompton-Roberts (so does the hyphen on occasion). From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: anti-Irish computing Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:45:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 544 (544) I know what JO'D means. Being half-Irish and half-French, I get a double whammy of incompatibles. As Pogo says, however, the enemy is us. Many people seem to think that whatever they see on their screens is what their correspondents will see on theirs. I get messages with exclamation points for all extended ASCIIs, with =E1 (equal cap E, 1) for a acute, szet for a acute, etc. etc. At present there is little one can do, other than use SGML codes (e.g. äaut;) and hope your correspondents can global. The answer, it seems to me, is that offered by several people: Everybody (every program and every operating system) should go to Unicode, which intends to enable all writing systems. You remember that Microsoft tried that with WindowsNT. Of course, that will work only if we all adopt it. If somebody sends you a message in Japanese and you do not have Unicode, it looks like one big cussword. As Willard says, it looks like those big companies would get it right, but they have no way of determining what mail-program you are using or what systems the mail may have gone through before it got to you. Nemo sine crimine, no matter where you find him. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 545 (545) this is testing mail to lists From: Willard McCarty Subject: communicating ideas Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:51:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 546 (546) Following is an exchange begun with a query from me to John Bradley (King's College London) and Stephen Ramsay (University of Georgia) on how people who design and write software communicate ideas to each other. It seems best to us for this to become an open discussion on Humanist. Contributions most welcome! Yours, WM (1) [deleted quotation] (2) [deleted quotation] (3) [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: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: Call E-CAP2004_ITALY Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:53:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 547 (547) CALL FOR PAPERS NEW REGISTRATION/SUBMISSION POLICY!!! cf. below. ********************************************************************** COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY E-CAP2004_ITALY Pavia, Italy, Collegio Ghislieri, June 3-5, 2004 Chair: Lorenzo Magnani ********************************************************************** 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. We solicit papers that examine topics pertaining to computing and philosophy from the following list. 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 Philosophy * New Models of Logic Software * Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources * Ethics and Computers * The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy * The Role of Computers as Tools for Philosophical Research SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS The deadline for submission is 19th December 2003 - though late submissions will be considered. Authors must submit an electronic version - formatted in Microsoft Word or RTF, but also in PDF or POSTSCRIPT ( in this last case please include source - DOC, TEX, etc., file) - of an extended abstract (total word count aproximately 3500). The file must also contain a 300 WORD abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet. PPT files are also accepted. not later than December 19, 2003 Please send electronically the extended abstract to the Prof. Magnani at the address lmagnani@cc.gatech.edu (if the previous address does not work please use lorenzo.magnani@unipv.it) [material deleted] From: Michael Fraser Subject: 2003 UK Association for History and Computing conference Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:54:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 548 (548) Humbul, the Archives Hub, Maps and Plans online, and online museum resources will all be discussed at this year's Association for History and Computing conference (UK branch) to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, London on 15 November 2003. Further details about the conference and the AHC are available via http://www.ahc.ac.uk/conf2003.htm Michael --- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: owner-bmcr-l@brynmawr.edu Subject: BMCR webcast: reminder Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:56:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 549 (549) [The following is forwarded from the BMCR distribution list as an example for us all.... --WM] Dear BMCR readers: A reminder that at Bryn Mawr College, on this coming Friday, November 7, we are hosting a Forum entitled "Jews and Christians Reading the Bible". This will be a conversation which takes its starting point from Mark Vessey's review of David Dawson's book on Christian Figural Reading (BMCR 2002.11.16). Mark Vessey will be present; so will David Dawson and Rachel Havrelock. The style will be very informal, and audience participation will be warmly invited. Readers of BMCR worldwide are included in this invitation: we shall be webcasting the Forum live, and inviting questions and responses from you electronically. Please log in at 13:30 EST (18:30 GMT). We will be "streaming" earlier in the day, if you would like to test your ability to receive the webcast. This is the first time we have hosted such a venture. If the Forum is a success, we shall be looking out for subsequent reviews from which to develop, and webcast, such conversations. For further information on the Forum, and how to participate, please go to: http://www.brynmawr.edu/classicsforum. Edited clips from the proceedings will be available on the website after the event. From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 17.383 anti-Irish et al. computing Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:51:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 550 (550) For many years now, I've been advising faculty thus: 1. Adopt Unicode. 2. If you have friends and colleagues who won't adopt Unicode, then get new friends and colleagues. Since neither MS nor Apple sells any operating system without Unicode support any more, it's just a matter of time, and we've based all our projects on Unicode for several years. We just ignore complaints from diehard Netscape 4 or Win98 users. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes@uvic.ca mholmes2@compuserve.com mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 17.386 communicating software ideas? Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 08:58:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 551 (551) Willard, To what Steve and John have said, I would add that most day-to-day communication among programmers happens within a context in which an enormous amount of information is already assumed and on the table, in the form of a terminology that is relevant to (a) the programming paradigm (old-fashioned procedural, OO, declarative, declarative-functional etc.), (b) the particular programming language and environment, and (c) and the problem domain (what is the program going to *do*?). In practice these terminologies can become quite extensive and complex. Accordingly, whether it be verbal or pictorial, programmer's talk is already in a kind of ad-hoc code (or pseudo-pseudo-code, to distinguish this loose encapsulation of concepts in terms from "pseudo-code", which is a semi-formal mockup of an algorithm or process in "code-like" language), which draws its vocabulary from this mine of terms and its "grammar" from the pragmatics of the situation (e.g., we can use English, or perhaps we can use English and we also have this whiteboard, or perhaps we've agreed to formalize our design methodology with UML and have its notations and concepts to build on). So, for example, if I'm giving advice on XSLT, the first thing I have to gauge is what level the question is coming from. Given a sufficiently experienced questioner, the answer might take the form of "use a named template that calls itself recursively, chopping down the string as you go" ... when I get a puzzled look I might say "use the substring-before() function to grab the first bit you need, and then call the template again, passing the remainder back in as a parameter". (XSLT programmers will recognize that in this formulation, the words "template" and "function" have formal definitions but the word "remainder" does not. If you're not an XSLT programmer you won't know this, which is my point.) If I still get a puzzled look, then we step back again, maybe to talk about what a "template" is in XSLT (as opposed to somewhere else) and how the processing model works. This isn't fundamentally different from any disciplined discourse, I don't think; but since programmers are also always learning about something else besides programming (for example, to design a user interface for submitting conference paper proposals on line, I have to know both web technologies and something about conference paper proposals), and since the world of programming itself is so large, various and volatile, programmers (or at least the good ones) get to have quite a facility at recognizing the arbitrariness of the signifier -- how the same term can mean different things, more or less formally, in different contexts, and how you'd better get the terms straight if you want to move forward. Programmers are also constantly renegotiating definitions among themselves and with their other interlocutors. And good programming involves *naming* things well -- if the methods in Steve's spiffy new API have good names, he'll have much less explaining to do when John tries to use it. Likewise, design failures are very often due to failures to deal with precisely these challenges in communication. You say "I want it to be a radio button" and I say "I can make it a radio button", but we don't mean the same thing by "radio button". This is a trivial case, but you get the idea.... 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: Subject: CFP: Conference on Technology in the Humanities, Ithaca Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 09:01:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 552 (552) College Conference on Technology in the Humanities May 24-26, 2004 Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY CALL FOR PAPERS Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2003 (revised) Conference Web Site: http://www.ithaca.edu/htc2004/ Ithaca College will host a conference on the use of technology in the humanities on May 24-26, 2004, in Ithaca, New York. We are actively soliciting proposals for individual papers and conference sessions on any topic concerning the theory and application of technology in a humanities educational context. Conference Premise: The widespread use of digital technology has exerted a profound influence upon the humanities. Beyond the practical aspects of using technology effectively, humanities teachers and scholars also grapple with the ideological and imaginative complexities it has made possible. This conference will be an opportunity to present and discuss new ideas on technological practice and pedagogy in specific humanities disciplines, as well as the broader issues of the effect of technology upon teaching and research. Key Questions/Suggested Topics: * How does digital technology, in all of its various forms, enhance or detract from the humanities educational experience? * Does technology expand the reach and appeal of humanities disciplines, or does it obscure the core values of those disciplines? * What is the role of technology in redefining the faculty-student relationship? * Have the nature and practices of various humanities disciplines changed under the influence of technology? * How is technology facilitating cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and learning? * What technology applications for learning and teaching are being used? * How does technology influence curricular change in humanities programs? * What are the unique dynamics of using technology in the humanities classroom? * How are technology facilities being developed for use by the humanities? * What are the faculty development issues for technology in the humanities? * How are institutions assessing results and outcomes in the use of technology? * Case studies and initiatives from individual disciplines or schools. Procedure: We invite both paper and session proposals that address the topic of technology in the humanities, to be submitted no later than December 15, 2003. Proposals should be no more than 250 words in length, and should be accompanied by a current curriculum vita. Individual presentations should be limited to no more than 30 minutes. Session proposals may be 60 or 75 minutes in length, and must include the names and vitae of all participating members. Proposals and inquiries should be addressed to: Conference on Technology in the Humanities c/o Prof. Gary Wells, Conference Coordinator Ithaca College 1160 Gannett Center Ithaca, NY 14850-7275 Proposals and inquiries may also be sent via e-mail to htc2004@ithaca.edu. Conference Web site: http://www.ithaca.edu/htc2004/ From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: transcorporate Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:33:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 553 (553) Willard, The recent discussion of insider use of terminological shorthand (and some other circumstances) has led me to inquire if any of the folks conversant with the relevant grey literature mihgt be able to ascertain the emergence of a concept of "transcorporate" governance. One of the other cirmcumstances was a conversation with an IBM knowledge management consultant that turned to the "extra muros" theme in the context of enterprises participating in economic sector or industry fora. If large multinational corporations are now described as "transnationals", is there some group of thinkers exploring the texture of a "transcorporate" entities? The other circumstance that leads me to turn my thoughts thuswards is the upcoming World Summit on Information Society. Is Humanist in some sense "trans-corporate"? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000215.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: non sibi sed omnibus Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:32:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 554 (554) I am chasing words expressing a particular insight: that some practices, though done in solitude, are done for others. One such expression conjoins two others, which I think are originally separate: alis volat propriis, non sibi sed omnibus "he flies with his own wings, not for himself but for others". Another expression may be originally in English: approximately, "art is a practice done alone but for others". Help finding sources for these, even if they are proverbial, would be greatly appreciated. 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: Neven Jovanovic Subject: toti orbi et imprimis Oregoni Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:19:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 555 (555) [In response to Humanist 17.391.] Here is what a nice CD _In medias res. Lexikon lateinischer Zitate und Wendungen. Herausgegeben von Ernst Bury, 2. Ausgabe, Directmedia: Berlin, 2000 [Digitale Bibliothek Band 27: Lexikon lateinischer Zitate, S. 7086 (c) Directmedia] --- has to say: Non sibi, sed toti genitum se credidit orbi. cf. Lucanus, Bellum civile (Pharsalia) 2. 383 Nr. 444 Alis volat propriis. Motto des US-Staats Oregon [Digitale Bibliothek Band 27: Lexikon lateinischer Zitate, S. 463 (c) Directmedia] (and Lucan ad loc: hi mores, haec duri inmota Catonis secta fuit, seruare modum finemque tenere naturamque sequi patriaeque inpendere uitam nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.) --- is what you have in mind really a Stoic idea? Neven From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:20:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 556 (556) Higher Order Thinking in Science Classrooms: Students' Learning and Teachers' Professional Development by Anat Zohar School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION LIBRARY -- 22 How can educators bridge the gap between "big" ideas about teaching students to think and educational practice? This book addresses this question by a unique combination of theory, field experience and elaborate educational research. Its basic idea is to look at science instruction with regard to two sets of explicit goals: one set refers to teaching science concepts and the second set refers to teaching higher order thinking. This book tells about how thinking can be taught not only in the rare and unique conditions that are so typical of affluent experimental educational projects but also in the less privileged but much more common conditions of educational practice that most schools have to endure. It provides empirical evidence showing that students from all academic levels actually improve their thinking and their scientific knowledge following the thinking curricula, and discusses specific means for teaching higher order thinking to students with low academic achievements. The second part of the book addresses issues that pertain to teachers' professional development and to their knowledge and beliefs regarding the teaching of higher order thinking. This book is intended for a very large audience: researchers (including graduate students), curricular designers, practicing and pre-service teachers, college students, teacher educators and those interested in educational reform. Although the book is primarily about the development of thinking in science classrooms, most of it chapters may be of interest to educators from all disciplines. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1852-5 Date: January 2004 Pages: 260 pp. EURO 99.00 / USD 109.00 / GBP 63.00 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 4.37 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:17:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 557 (557) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 37 (November 12 - November 18, 2003) Views IT Services = People + Tools + Processes People add the power to a simple equation for enlightened decision-making in the IT service industry By Kemal A. Delic http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i37_delic.html Human Brain and Neural Network Behavior: A Comparison On the matter of memory, there is no comparison. Neural networks are potentially faster and more accurate than humans. By John Peter Jesan and Donald M. Lauro http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i37_jesan_lauro.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: anti-spamming Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:44:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 558 (558) An apparently clever scheme for subverting spamming can be found at http://www.hostedscripts.com/scripts/antispam.html. All it requires is a link to the page from your own. Comments? Do we have evidence that this sort of thing works? 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: Elena Pierazzo Subject: Dante's works and other linguistic and literary resources Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:47:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 559 (559) and tools from Pisa University This is to announce that The Humanities Computing research group co-ordinated by Professor Mirko Tavoni at Pisa University has just released the preliminary results of various research projects currently in progress. The results have been published on a dedicated web site (http://dante.di.unipi.it/ricerca/), where some of the research tools used in these projects can also be accessed. The aim of the main project was the production of the lemmatized and grammatically marked up corpus of Dante Alighieri's complete vernacular and Latin works. Other projects concern: * Italian literatures authors’ letters * Digital editions of librettos * Pisa and Ferrara's texts * Speech corpora * Pinocchio Game: the experience of a group of PhD students in Italian Studies based on and fitting the principles of Jerome McGann's Ivanhoe Game. All texts are XML-TEI encoded and available both for consulting (many of them as hypertexts) and linguistic querying. The user interface for managing and querying the texts is also optimized for the same encoding language. Querying is performed through the XCDE Search Engine, a tool developed at Pisa University by Professor Paolo Ferragina (http://butirro.di.unipi.it/~ferrax/xcde/xcdelib.html). Both the texts and the tools (search engine and interface) in the web site are open source and freely available for scholarly and non-commercial purposes. The site is also offered as a public resource and open laboratory for linguistic research. The laboratory, indeed, allows scholars interested in linguistic research to send their own XML-TEI encoded texts for processing by the XCDE search engine. Scholars are also free to eventually restrict text access to a specific group of users. These research projects are being carried out in the framework of the research activities of the Dept. of Italian Studies (http://www.humnet.unipi.it/ital/ ) and the advanced teaching activities of the Degree course in Humanities Computing (http://infouma.di.unipi.it). From the same web site it is also possible to access “Italian NLP”, a collection of on-line tools for the Natural Language Processing of Italian texts (http://foxdrake.ilc.cnr.it/webtools), developed by ILC- CNR (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) in collaboration with the Dept. of Linguistics (Computational Linguistics Section) of the Pisa University. The tools allow users to perform various levels of text processing, such as tokenization, lemmatization and morphological analysis, shallow parsing (chunking), dependency parsing, etc. For further information, please write to: ricercalinguistica@humnet.unipi.it. Elena Pierazzo Research Group Assistant Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Studi Italianistici From: "Seamus Ross, Director HATII" Subject: DigiCULT 5 October 2003 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:46:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 560 (560) Issue 5 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture October 2003, ISSN 1609-3941 Please welcome to the next edition in a series of e-journals from DigiCULT Heritage Informatics continues to emerge as an exciting area for both the application of new technologies and as a source for research challenges that promote innovative technological developments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An extra day in Berlin after IFLA2003 provided an opportunity to visit the Museumsinsel, one of the finest museum complexes in the world. Currently many of its buildings are undergoing extensive renovations. As on my right I passed the reopened Alte Nationalgalerie I noticed one of the buildings currently wrapped for restoration was covered by a massive poster. In the words Weltkultur beflügelt (world culture gives wings) it asks all who pass to consider the liberating power of the cultural heritage. Articles in this issue of DigiCULT.Info all show the power of new technologies in helping cultural heritage institutions in achieving their objective of improving the care, understanding and benefits of cultural heritage to individuals and society. Reflecting on the phrase Weltkultur beflügelt, we are reminded that technology is an enabler and not an end in itself. Seamus Ross -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download DigiCULT.Info Issue 5 ( Link - 1.3 MB) http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicultinfo_issue5_october_2003.pdf DigiCULT Publications offer a valuable resource of mission-critical information in the selection and use of digital technologies for Europe's heritage organisations: - Thematic Issues: results of themed expert fora - DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth technology evaluation - DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about services, studies, technologies, and activities - DigiCULT Website: info, events, links, all publications online for download [more...] http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php Comment on the Technology Watch Briefings: Each briefing for the upcoming DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports are made available for comment online. The first draft of the latest briefings The XML Family of Technologies, Technologies and New Socio-economic Business Models, and Collaboration and Virtual Communities are online. Comments and suggestions to be implemented in the final draft are cordially invited. [more...] http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php Subscribe to the Newsletter DigiCULT.Info / http://www.digicult.info/pages/subscribe.php Read and comment on the Technology Watch Briefings / http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php Submit an Event / http://www.digicult.info/pages/addevent.php (c) DigiCULT Forum 2003 / <http://www.digicult.info/>http://www.digicult.info/ Dr Seamus Ross Director Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) & Director ERPANET George Service House 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 9QQ From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 17.391 transcorporate? non _nobis_ sed omnibus? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:48:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 561 (561) An incidental further search on _non nobis sed omnibus_ turned out the following: Sed quoniam, ut praeclare scriptum est a Platone, non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici, atque, ut placet Stoicis, quae in terris gignantur, ad usum hominum omnia creari, homines autem hominum causa esse generatos, ut ipsi inter se aliis alii prodesse possent, in hoc naturam debemus ducem sequi, communes utilitates in medium adferre, mutatione officiorum, dando accipiendo, tum artibus, tum opera, tum facultatibus devincire hominum inter homines societatem. (Cic. De officiis 1,22) --- what can be of interest here even for the non-latinists is how the ideas evolve, almost independently, on their own: somebody reads _non nobis solum nati sumus_ followed by _homines autem hominum causa_ etc, and translates / transforms it in the mind into _non nobis, sed omnibus_ (perhaps contaminating this with the Lucan I quoted earlier). Are not there programmers who dream of creating programs which will evolve independently, even using for their evolution cycles spare time on various machines all over the net? neven From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: 17.397 anti-spamming measures Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 07:23:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 562 (562) On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 about 09:02 -0000 UTC Humanist Discussion Group (by way...: [deleted quotation] It is generally considered a bad thing to invent "nonsense" domain names to discourage spam. There is no assurance that those names will continue to be nonsense in all future name spaces, and in other cases they may be meningful in existing languages. That said, I have found the technique of WebPoison to be useful. It automatically generates addresses from the link scanner's own IP number or uses the localhost IP 127.0.0.1. At least then, the only machine damaged will be the scanner's. I also use a similar technique to redirect scans for potentially damaging web-server bugs (CodeRed, Nimda, formmail, &c.) by redirecting requests to those programs back to the host. Under certain circumstances of a compromised MS-IIS server, the redirection may lead that server (the one running the scan) to shut itself down--or at least that is what I have read. There used to be (and may still be) a site on the web designed to handle these redirections by scanning the computer that originated the scan, then exploiting the worm code that has infected it to instruct the machine to turn itself off (or in the least, to HALT). -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University From: Willard McCarty Subject: Mind and Society 5.3 (2002) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:55:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 563 (563) Vol 5.3 of the fine journal Mind and Society: A Journal of Cognitive and Epistemological Studies on Economics and Social Sciences (ISSN 1593-7879) has recently been published. (See http://www.fondazionerosselli.it/User.it/index.php?PAGE=Sito_it/mind_home for information on the journal and link to a table of contents for 5.3.) This is a special issue on "Scientific Discovery: Model-Based Reasoning", edited by Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian. 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: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MBR04 Call for Papers Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:06:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 564 (564) ****************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION MBR'04 Pavia, Italy, December 16-18, 2004 Chairs: Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian ****************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ****************************************************************** Paper Submission Deadline May 1st, 2004 GENERAL INFORMATION From Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 December 2004 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). The conference continues the theme of the Conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98 and "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01 The previous volumes derived from those conferences are: L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-46292-3 (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000). PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and engineering, including computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine the role of abduction, visualization, and simulation in model-based reasoning from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to model-based reasoning in science and engineering from the following list: - abduction - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning - simulative modeling - the role of diagrammatic representations - computational models of visual and simulative reasoning - causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction - visual analogy - thought experimenting - logical analyses related to model-based reasoning - manipulative reasoning - distributed model-based reasoning - embodiment in model-based reasoning - model-based reasoning and technological innovation INVITED SPEAKERS The list of the invited speakers who already accepted to give e presentation at MBR04 is available in the Conference WEB SITE http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html [material deleted] From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: COMPUTER, LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY 2003 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:08:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 565 (565) COMPUTER, LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY 2003 Florence, 4-6 December 2003 Programme Thursday 4 December 9:00 Conference Opening 9:45 Rodolfo Delmonte (Università Cà Foscari, Venice) "NLP Technologies for Feedback Generation in Language Learning" Session on e-learning Chair: Grazyna Cooper (Oxford University Computing Services) 10:30 Concha Sanz Miguel (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) "Informática Humanística tras la Declaración de Bolonia" 11:00-11:20 Coffee break 11:20 Edward Tosques (Università degli Studi di Firenze) "E-testing" 11:50 Anna Bianchi (Scuola M. "Rizzo-Alessi" Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche CNR, Genova) Fabio Mantegazza (Scuola M. S. "Milani" Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche CNR, Genova) "Un percorso didattico in rete per l'Italiano-lingua seconda" 12:20 Manuel Ortega (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) "Evolving to Ubiquitous Elearning Environments: a Collaborative Writing Scenario" 12:50-14:00 Lunch Session on digital publishing Chair: Concha Sanz Miguel (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) 14:00 Elisabeth Burr (Universität Bremen) "Multilinguismo e rete" 14:30 Patrizia Cotoneschi (Firenze University Press) "L'editoria digitale della Firenze University Press" 15:00 Antonio Rodríguez de las Heras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) "Presentación y análisis de un libro digital" 15:30 Luisa Carrer (University of Edinburgh) "Multiculturalità e risorse per la rete: la voce degli immigrati in Italia" Friday 6 December 9:00 Allen Renear (University of Illinois) "Text - From Several Points of View" Session on computational linguistic and assisted automatic translation Chair: Francisco A. Marcos-Marín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) 9:45 Eugenio Picchi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale CNR, Pisa) "Linguistic Miner" 10:15 Antonio Capani e Fancesco Robbiano (i2c Association - informatics to consumer) "HAT: Human Aided Translation" 10:45 Inés Jacob (Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao) "Gestión de traducciones mediante metadatos TEI y XLIFF" 11:15 Coffee break Session on digital philology (I) Chair: Elisabeth Burr (Universität Duisburg-Essen) 11:30 Harold Short e Paul Spence (King's College London) "La integración del patrimonio cultural, de la investigación académica, y de la tecnología: el hub de información 'Early Modern Spain' - un estudio de casos" 12:00 Francisco A. Marcos-Marín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) "Diachrony and Computational Reconstruction" 12:30 Daniele Silvi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) "Un esempio di applicazione di analisi testuale informatica: La Batracomiomachia di Giacomo Leopardi" 13:00 Rosalie Sitman Tel Aviv University "Reflections on the Use of the Online Press for Language Teaching from the Perspective of Spanish as a Foreign Language" 13:30-14:30 Lunch Session on digital philology (II) Chair: Harold Short (King's College, London) 14:30 Barry Ife (King's College, London) "La digitalización de la Conquista" 15:00 Cinzia Puscedu (University of Edinburgh) Domenico Fiormonte (Università di Roma III) "The Valerio Magrelli Genetic Machine" 15:30 Simona Casciano (Università di Roma II) "Esperimento per un'edizione diplomatico-interpretativa computerizzata dei Ricordi di Francesco Guicciardini" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte Professore a contratto di Informatica umanistica Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata / Universita' di Roma La Sapienza http://www.digitalvariants.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:11:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 566 (566) (1) Animal Bodies, Human Minds Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills by W.A. Hillix San Diego State University, CA, USA Duane Rumbaugh San Diego State University, CA, USA DEVELOPMENTS IN PRIMATOLOGY: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS -- Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few research projects. We have provided a more encompassing view of this field. We also want to reinforce what other authors, for example Jane Goodall, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Penny Patterson, Birute Galdikas, and Roger and Deborah Fouts, so passionately convey about our responsibility for our closest animal kin. This book surveys what was known, or believed about animal language throughout history and prehistory, and summarizes current knowledge and the controversy around it. The authors identify and attempt to settle most of the problems in interpreting the animal behaviours that have been observed in studies of animal language ability. Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47739-4 Date: December 2003 Pages: 224 pp. EURO 121.50 / USD 135.00 / GBP 87.00 (2) Effective Inquiry for Innovative Engineering Design From Basic Principles to Applications by Ozgur Eris Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA Designers think in a specific way that is both ubiquitous and unique, often referred to as "design thinking" or "design cognition". Effective Inquiry for Innovative Engineering Design presents empirical evidence for this claim. It demonstrates a unique attribute of design thinking by identifying and characterizing a class of questions called "Generative Design Questions". These questions are frequently asked by designers in dialog. Their use constitutes a fundamental cognitive mechanism in design thinking. Their discovery stems from another finding of the work: a conceptual duality between questions and decisions that is engraved deep within the design process. This duality challenges a view that treats designing as decision making. Decisions form the tip of the iceberg; Questions keep it afloat: * Can an effective decision making process be performed without having high quality information? * Can high quality information be acquired and generated without performing an effective inquiry process? The answer to both questions is no, and underscores the importance of our quest to better understand the role of inquiry in design. Pragmatically, Effective Inquiry for Innovative Engineering Design presents a new design thinking model. It illustrates the effective transformation of design requirements into design concepts and those concepts into design decisions and specifications as a question-driven process. The ability to leverage this cycle in operating at the necessary level of conceptual abstraction throughout the design process is a defining quality of high performance innovative design teams. CONTENTS * Preface. * 1: Introduction. 1.1. Why Study Question Asking? 1.2. Why Study Design Cognition? 1.3. Research Questions and Approach. * 2: Question Asking: A Fundamental Dimension in Design Thinking. 2.1. Contemporary Topics in Design Research. 2.2. The Question-Decision Duality. 2.3. Learning from Existing Taxonomies of Questions. * 3: Development of a Taxonomy that is Comprehensive of the Questions Asked while Designing. 3.1. Context for the Observations on the Nature of Questions Asked While Designing. 3.2. Definition of a Question. 3.3. An Argument for the Search for the "Possible" and Its Characterization as Question Categories. 3.4. Comparison of the Taxonomic Approaches. * 4: Hypothesis Generation in the Field: Shadowing the Design Team. 4.1. Grounded Principle for Hypotheses Generation. 4.2. Context of the Preliminary Observations. 4.3. Two Techniques for Capturing Design Activity in the Field and Generating Hypothesis. 4.4. Findings of the Field Research. * 5: Designing the Intervention: Differentiating Designing from Problem Solving. 5.1. Deriving Requirements for the Design Experiment. 5.2. Addressing the Requirements. 5.3. Meeting the Requirements: The Pilot Experiment. * 6: Learning from the Pilot Experiments: "Good" Questions and Discoveries. 6.1. Improving the Experimental Methodology. 6.2. Augmenting the Hypotheses: Discovery Making as another Internal Performance Metric. 6.3. Refining the Hypotheses: Characterization of a "Good" Question. 6.4. The Augmented Hypotheses. * 7: Conducting the Redesigned Experiment: Putting the Question Asking Aspect of Design Cognition under the Microscope. 7.1. Data Collection and Analysis Procedures. 7.2. Data Analysis and Results. 7.3. Revisiting the Hypotheses. * 8: Synthesizing a Question-centric Design Thinking Model. 8.1. Question Asking as a Process. 8.2. Question Asking as Creative Negotiation. 8.3. Question Asking as a Mechanism for Managing Convergent and Divergent Thinking Modes. 8.4. Implications of the Verified Hypotheses. 8.5. A Question-Centric Design Thinking Model. 8.6. Potential Applications of the Design Thinking Model. * Appendix. References. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7717-3 Date: December 2003 Pages: 168 pp. EURO 105.00 / USD 115.00 / GBP 72.00 (3) The Paradoxes of Action (Human Action, Law and Philosophy) by Daniel González Lagier University of Alicante, Spain LAW AND PHILOSOPHY LIBRARY -- 67 What is an action, and what is an omission? Are actions natural phenomena, or rather a product of our vision of the world? What is the difference between an action and a mere bodily movement? Can actions be counted? What is the role of intention for the identification of actions? Can we make mistakes in identifying our own actions? Under what conditions is it possible to impute a non-intentional action to someone? This book suggests answers, or at least presents conceptual tools for finding answers, to these and other, related questions. The author displays a sovereign command and profound understanding of the complex theoretical issues involved and offers an original approach to the analysis of action. The book is written in a very accessible style and is of interest to lawyers, legal scientists and philosophers. It will be of specific interest to specialists of action theory and non-specialists who wish to learn more about some of the principal philosophical and legal conceptions of action and the analysis of their structures. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1661-1 Date: December 2003 Pages: 146 pp. EURO 69.00 / USD 76.00 / GBP 48.00 Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 11/03 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:12:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 567 (567) Greetings: The November 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are four 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 October is George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, courtesy of Dr. Roy Rosenzweig. The articles include: New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information: The LEAF Project Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library; Hans-Jörg Lieder, Berlin State Library; Kurt Majcen and Heribert Vallant, Joanneum Research Using MPEG-21 DIDL to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library Jeroen Bekaert, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Ghent University; Patrick Hochstenbach and Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System Ronald Jantz, Rutgers University The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System Eva Müller, Uwe Klosa, Stefan Andersson, and Peter Hansson, Uppsala University, Sweden 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://dlib.anu.edu.au/ 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 November 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 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.38 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:30:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 568 (568) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 38 (November 19 - November 25, 2003) Interview The Plot Quickens New book tells the inside story of the development and innovative marketing of Intuit's automated personal finance software. Author Kathy Schroeder explains it all. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i38_schroeder.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i38_schroeder.html From: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: MITH XML/XSLT Winter School Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:30:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 569 (569) Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) TEI XML/XSLT Winter School 20-23 January 2004 University of Maryland, College Park http://www.mith.umd.edu/outreach/winter_school_04.html Please distribute. Apologies for cross posting Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to offer an XML/XSLT winter school that will take place at UM's McKeldin Library. The first two days of the workshop will introduce students to the theory and practice of text encoding using eXtensible Markup Language (XML). We will be focusing on encoding through the scheme most humanities projects utilize, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), one of the oldest and most robust text encoding schemes available. The second two-day workshop will introduce students to the practicalities of transforming XML documents through eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT). Students may register separately for Introduction to XML and the TEI (20-21 January), or the Introduction to XSLT (22-23 January). There is a discount for registering for both courses, as well as for Faculty and Staff from UM's College of Arts and Humanities and the Library. There are also a limited number of student discounts available on a first-come-first-served basis. Please see the registration form for more details. Early registration is advised as there are limited places available. Conference details can be found at http://www.mith.umd.edu/outreach/winter_school_04.html For further information, please contact Susan Schreibman Dr Susan Schreibman Assistant Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities MITH) McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 ph: 301 405 8505 fax: 301 314 7111 e-mail: sschreib@umd.edu From: Jan Engelen Subject: Invitation to participate in the Electronic Publishing Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:50:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 570 (570) Conf. ELPUB2004 -------------------- http://www.elpub.net -------------------- Dear specialists and professionals in electronic publishing, On behalf of the Programme Committee, I would like you to participate as a contributor to the 8th ELPUB conference that will be hosted in June 2004 by the Department of Information Science at the University of Brasilia (West-central Brazil), a beautiful city which is part of the world's cultural heritage. This 8th ELPUB conference will keep the tradition of the seven previous international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002) and Portugal (2003), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, developers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, scientific, technological, legal, commercial and all other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Elpub 2004 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. So, the conference will bring about opportunities for attendants to participate in a number of activities. We think that you're knowledge would be appreciated by the ELPUB delegates and therefore I repeat my invitation to submit a paper, a tutorial theme or a demonstration. Papers will be reviewed by an international team of specialists. The call for papers with all details has been attached to this email. If for any reason the attachment to this mail is not accessible, you will find it also at: http://www.docarch.be/engelen/Call_for_papers_Elpub2004_final.pdf Welcome to ELPUB2004, Jan Engelen Programme Chair ** with my apologies for possible double postings ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Jan Engelen | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | mailto:Jan.Engelen@kuleuven.ac.be Dept. Electrotechniek - ESAT | Onderzoeksgroep Documentarchitecturen | tel. : +32 (0)16 32 11 23 Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 | B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven | fax. : +32 (0)16 32 19 86 BELGIUM | or +32 (0)16 23 74 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW - server : http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/teo How to find us: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/info/route.en.shtml or try GPS: N 50°51,729 / E 4°41,166 From: "Charles Ess @ ITU" Subject: Final CFP - CATaC'04 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:52:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 571 (571) CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'04) 27 June-1 July 2004 Karlstad University, Sweden www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Conference theme: Off the shelf or from the ground up? ICTs and cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization The biennial CATaC conference series provides a continuously expanding international forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998, the second in Perth in 2000, and the third in Montreal in 2002. Beginning with our first conference in 1998, the CATaC conferences have highlighted theoretical and praxis-oriented scholarship and research from all parts of the globe, including Asia, Africa, and the Middle-East. The conferences focus especially on people and communities at the developing edges of ICT diffusion, including indigenous peoples and those outside the English-speaking world. Understanding the role of culture in how far minority and/or indigenous cultural groups may succeed - or fail - in taking up ICTs designed for a majority culture is obviously crucial to the moral and political imperative of designing ICTs in ways that will not simply reinforce such groups' marginalization. What is the role of culture in the development of ICTs "from the ground up" - beginning with the local culture and conditions - rather than assuming dominant "off the shelf" technologies are appropriate? Are the empowering potentials of ICTs successfully exploited among minority and indigenous groups, and/or do they rather engender cultural marginalization, cultural homogenization or cultural hybridization? Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: - Culture: theory and praxis - Culture and economy - Alternative models for ICT diffusion - Role of governments and activists in culture, technology and communication - ICTs and cultural hybridity - ICTs and intercultural communication - Culture, communication and e-learning Our conference themes provide a range of approaches to the questions raised. In addition, CATaC'04 will feature two particular foci, each chaired by a distinguished colleague who will oversee paper review and development of the final panels. [material deleted] From: Manuel Montes Subject: Call for papers: Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:53:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 572 (572) AWIC 2004 ******************************************************************************** Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference May 13-19, 2004 CANCUN, Mexico http://www.fismat.umich.mx/awic04 ******************************************************************************** SUMMARY PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: December 05, 2003 Acceptance Notification: February 05, 2004 Camera-Ready Papers: February 28, 2004 INVITED SPEAKERS: Social Network Analysis and the Web Prabhakar Raghavan Verity Inc. & Stanford Title to be announced Lee Giles The Pennsylvania State University ******************************************************************************** The 2004 Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of Artificial Intelligence Techniques applied to Web Based Systems, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of Artificial Intelligence Techniques, such as (but not restricted to): -Agents -Case Based Reasoning -Fuzzy Logic -Genetic Algorithms -Genetic Programming -Knowledge Management -Multivalued Logic -Neural Networks -Ontologies -Reinforcement Learning -Rough Sets -Semantic Networks Applied to the problems associated with Web Based System such as (but not restricted to): -Web Design -Conversational Systems -Electronic Commerce -Information Retrieval -Recommender Systems -Browsing and Exploration -Adaptive Web -User Profiling/Clustering -E-mail/SMS filtering -Negotiation Systems -Security, Privacy, and Trust -Web-log Mining [material deleted] From: Kluwer Subject: new book Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:54:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 573 (573) Geometric Modeling: Techniques, Applications, Systems and Tools edited by Muhammad Sarfraz King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia This book aims to provide a valuable source, which focuses on interdisciplinary methods and affiliate research in the area of Geometric Modeling and Graphics. It aims to provide the user community with a variety of Geometric Modeling techniques, applications, systems and tools necessary for various real life problems in areas such as Designing objects, Medical Visualization, Scientific Data Visualization, Archaeology, Toon Rendering, Virtual Reality, Body Simulation, etc. It also aims to collect and disseminate information from various disciplines including Curve and Surface Fitting, Geometric Algorithms, Scientific Visualization, Shape Abstraction and Modeling, Intelligent CAD Systems, Computational Geometry, Solid Modeling, Shape Analysis and Description, Medical and Industrial Applications. The major goal of this book is to stimulate views and provide a source where researchers and practitioners can find the latest developments in the field of Geometric Modeling and related practical issues. The book is useful for researchers, practicing engineers, computer scientists, and many others who seek state of the art techniques, applications, systems and tools for Geometric Modeling and Graphics. The book will be a useful source of ideas and techniques for those who seek further research and practice in the development and applications of Computer Aided Geometric Modeling. The introduction to various techniques and applications, together with the developed systems and tools, may serve to stimulate the interest of undergraduate senior students as well as graduate students in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. The book consists of twenty-two well documented chapters distributed in three sections of Geometric Modeling Techniques, Applications, Systems andTools. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1817-7 Date: December 2003 Pages: 466 pp. EURO 128.00 / USD 141.00 / GBP 88.00 From: "Douglas Galbi" Subject: name frequencies and the humanities Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:55:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 574 (574) New communication and information technologies make it much easier to compile, analyze, and share databases of names. Personal names are highly valued linguistic constructs. Moreover, since the beginning of written history, historical records have preserved names. It is worth considering analysis of names in humanistic inquiry. Consider, for example, the turmoil over Marian devotion, and, more generally, word and image in sixteenth century England. A popular response to the turmoil in sense was an astonishing change in naming: across sixteenth century England, the share of women named Mary rose from less than 1% to about 10%. This change seems to be related to the development of theatre. In an important recent work, Stephen Greenblatt argues that Shakespeare's theatre recreated a cult of the dead. However, it seems to me that the living presence so many persons continue to sense in Shakespeare's characters points in a different direction. Shakespeare, who had a mother and a grandmother named Mary, but no sisters named Mary, was undoubtedly aware of the "problem" of Mary. Appreciation for Mary in popular sense in sixteenth-century England sheds new light on Twelfth Night, and perhaps Shakespeare's theatre more generally. You can find discussion and relevant references to these aspects of Shakespeare and sixteenth-century history in Section IV of "Sense in Communication," freely available at www.galbithink.org . Table 2, p. 99, and Appendix A, pp. 175-7 document long-term historical trends in popularity of the name Mary. The discussion of Twelfth Night is in Section IV.C, pp. 100-110. For more general research on trends in given names over the past millennium, see "A New Account of Personalization and Effective Communication," also available at www.galbithink.org I would welcome your thoughts and comments on this work and its implications for understanding communication. Have you considered analyzing name frequencies as part of your work? Douglas Galbi Douglas.Galbi@fcc.gov www.galbithink.org From: Louis Janus Subject: Re: 17.407 name frequencies? Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:02:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 575 (575) [deleted quotation] I always point my Norwegian language students to the fantastic statistics and graphic representation of Norwegian first and last names, in English at http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/navn_en/. Swedes and Danes keep and similar statistics. -- ===================================================== Louis Janus Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Project Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) University of Minnesota 617 Heller Hall 271 19th Avenue So. Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA phone: 612/624-9016; fax: 612/624-7514 ------------------------------- LCTL@umn.edu ------------------------------- <http://carla.acad.umn.edu/LCTL> <http://carla.acad.umn.edu/profiles/janus-profile.html> ===================================================== From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Tools Survey Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:06:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 576 (576) Dear Humanists, A couple of weeks ago we announced the beginning of our survey of the humanities community. We have received a good response to date. If you have not responded please take a few minutes to do so soon. Survey will remain active for two more weeks. The survey is assessing the needs of the humanities research community for computing, and in particular the use of electronic text and text analysis tools. We invite humanities scholars (graduate students, faculty and researchers) to complete a short survey (about 20 minutes). The results of the survey will enable us to acquire a better understanding of the humanities' scholar research environment so that we may design better computer-based support for the scholar. Please respond even if you are not a user of e-text or text analysis tools. We really need your input! The survey is found at: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/tapor/tapor-consent.asp. Thank-you for your support! Geoffrey Rockwell From: oup@oup.co.uk Subject: ToC for Literary and Linguistic Computing 18-3 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:06:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 577 (577) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: September 2003; Vol. 18, No. 3 URL: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Two Styles in the New Testament Epistles George K. Barr, pp. 235-248 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/180235.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Towards Automatic Retrieval of Idioms in French Newspaper Corpora Liesbeth Degand and Yves Bestgen, pp. 249-259 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/180249.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Frequent Collocations and Authorial Style David L. Hoover, pp. 261-286 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/180261.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Validating the Logistic Model of Article Usage Preceding Multi-word Organization Names with the Aid of Computer Corpora Grace Y. W. Tse, pp. 287-313 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/180287.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Role of Corpora in the Study of Paradigmatic Relations; the Cases of COBUILD's Bank of English and CREA (Reference Corpus of Contemporary Spanish) Belén Labrador De La Cruz, pp. 315-330 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/180315.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Berry Dongelmans, Ad Leerintveld and Adriaan van der Weel, eds. Digital Access to Book Trade Archives: Papers of the 2001 Conference in the Hague Reviewed by Anna Sexton, pp. 331-333 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/180331.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ruslan Mitkov, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics Reviewed by Geoffrey Sampson, pp. 333-336 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_03/180333.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erratum pp. 337-339 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- November 2003 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:08:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 578 (578) CIT INFOBITS November 2003 No. 65 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. ...................................................................... IT Trends and Issues Data Deluge Online Content Design Guides Libraries and E-learning 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: Susan Hockey Subject: Launch of LEADERS demonstrator - linking finding aids and Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:23:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 579 (579) documents Launch of LEADERS demonstrator application, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London With apologies for cross-posting The LEADERS Project has developed a toolkit that delivers transcripts and images of archive documents over the Internet together with appropriate contextual material. The toolkit is built on standard methods for encoding texts (TEI), digital images (NISO Mix), finding aids (EAD) and authority records (EAC). The demonstrator application illustrates one instance of what can be done with the LEADERS toolkit. The toolkit is flexible and reusable and allows different design and functionality to be built using the same data set, or different data sets to be used with the same design and functionality. As test material, the demonstrator uses 17 documents from the George Orwell Archive and the University College London Archive both held at University College London. To view the demonstrator, visit the LEADERS Project home page (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/leaders-project) and click on the link to the demonstrator application . We welcome your comments. Project Director: Susan Hockey Project Manager: Chris Turner Project Archivist: Anna Sexton **************************************************** Susan Hockey Director of the School and Professor of Library and Information Studies School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Phone: 020 7679 2477; Fax 020 7383 0557 E-mail: s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk **************************************************** From: "Michael R. Stolz" Subject: Saint Gall Cod. 857 Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:23:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 580 (580) Dear colleagues, the famous Saint Gall Cod. 857 containing Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' and 'Willehalm', the Nibelungenlied and other important medieval German texts has been published on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains an interface with digital images showing the structure of the manuscripts (quires, scribes etc.). By a search function following the verse numbers of established editions single passages in the manuscript can be accessed. There are also electronic transcriptions of some of the texts, and of two fragments written in the same scriptorium as the Saint Gall codex. More information (unfortunately in German) can be found at: http://www.parzival.unibas.ch/ The CD-ROM can be ordered at the Saint Gall Library (Stiftsbibliothek): http://www.stiftsbibliothek.ch E-mail: stibi@stibi.ch Michael Stolz -- Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz (SNF-Förderungsprofessur) Universität Basel Deutsches Seminar Arbeitsstelle Parzival-Projekt Bernoullistr. 28 CH-4056 Basel Tel.: +41 (0) 61 267 34 03 (Universität) +41 (0) 31 921 92 81 (privat) Fax: +41 (0) 61 267 34 04 URL: http://www.germa.unibas.ch/Mediaevistik/Parzival/Vorstellung/stolz.html From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Invisible Hand(s): Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:26:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 581 (581) Self-Archiving Invisible Hand(s) Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving I am pleased to announce the publication of my recent contribution to Jekyll.comm: International Journal of Science Communication [ http://jekyll.sissa.it/jekyll_comm/home_eng.htm ] titled : "Invisible Hand(s) Quality Assurance in the Age of Author Self-Archiving," Jekyll.comm: International Journal of Science Communication no. 6 (September 2003) [ http://jekyll.sissa.it/jekyll_comm/commenti/foc06_01.ppt ] OR [http://jekyll.sissa.it/jekyll_comm/commenti/foc06_01.pdf ] [I am most grateful to Nico Pitrell for his kind invitation to submit to Jekyll.comm!] "Invisible Hand(s)" is one of four articles from the Focus section of Jekyll.comm devoted to Peer Review that also include contributions from Stevan Harnad, Marco Fabbrichesi, and Andrea Cerroni [ http://jekyll.sissa.it/jekyll_comm/focus_eng.htm ] The articles are extensions/continuations/elaborations of presentations made at the Peer Review in the Age of Open Archives held in Trieste, Italy, May 23-24, 2003 at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) (Gerry McKiernan, Stevan Harnad, Marco Fabbrichesi) or written for the Jekyll.comm feature (Andrea Cerroni). "Invisible Hand(s)" explores one of many issues related to Peer Reviewthat I address in the presentation prepared for the Trieste Workshop titled "Alternative Peer Review: Quality Management for 21st Century Scholarship" [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/APR-1.ppt ] I would be Most Grateful for Any and All Comments, Queries, Critiques, Questions, or Cosmic Insights about My World View as presented in "Invisible Hand(s)" and/or "Alternative Peer Review." Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Invisible Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Ross Scaife Subject: Pitch Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:25:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 582 (582) [Forwarded from the Stoa discussion group: an announcement of a a peer reviewed online journal in Instructional and Learning Technology. --WM] See http://pitchjournal.org/ Read at the bottom What is Pitch Journal? How Does Peer Review Work? Who Owns the Copyright? ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: link anxiety? Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:22:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 583 (583) I am wondering if anyone has written about what we might call "link anxiety" and the rhetorical preparations one might make to avoid it. I would like to find writings to use for or against the following proposition: within a scholarly argument, a link rather than a traditional citation is desirable from the author's perspective when it is to material of an evidential rather than argumentative kind. When I need for some reason to signal to the reader that another person's argument is relevant, I will tend not to want the reader to go off to that argument and engage with it, not at least right then. I would prefer, rather, to use a citation that signals the value I think the other argument has, e.g. "some think that..." (not saying who these clearly misguided individuals are); "Fish argues that..." (not saying in what book or essay, since if right it only backs up what I am saying, if wrong doesn't need to be considered, and we all know in any case what sort of thing he does); "Smith, Philological Studies in Ancient Accadian, vol. 2, pp. 361-5" (go here if you are REALLY interested, but if you absolutely needed to know, I would quote the text in full, so don't bother). Evidential material is, however, a different matter: a link into a lexicon or commentary would be fine; we all know what to expect and so are already prepared. Or is it a matter of the format of the material -- continuous prose (cite) vs brief chunks (link to)? 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 584 (584) this is testing mail to lists From: Willard McCarty Subject: online teaching and learning Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:09:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 585 (585) Humanists may be interested in Curtis J Bonk, Online Teaching in an Online World, a report published at http://www.publicationshare.com/. There are a number of other such things at the site. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: catac@wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:09:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 586 (586) Conference ------- CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'04) 27 June-1 July 2004 Karlstad University, Sweden www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Conference theme: Off the shelf or from the ground up? ICTs and cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization The biennial CATaC conference series provides a continuously expanding international forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998, the second in Perth in 2000, and the third in Montreal in 2002. Beginning with our first conference in 1998, the CATaC conferences have highlighted theoretical and praxis-oriented scholarship and research from all parts of the globe, including Asia, Africa, and the Middle-East. The conferences focus especially on people and communities at the developing edges of ICT diffusion, including indigenous peoples and those outside the English-speaking world. Understanding the role of culture in how far minority and/or indigenous cultural groups may succeed - or fail - in taking up ICTs designed for a majority culture is obviously crucial to the moral and political imperative of designing ICTs in ways that will not simply reinforce such groups' marginalization. What is the role of culture in the development of ICTs "from the ground up" - beginning with the local culture and conditions - rather than assuming dominant "off the shelf" technologies are appropriate? Are the empowering potentials of ICTs successfully exploited among minority and indigenous groups, and/or do they rather engender cultural marginalization, cultural homogenization or cultural hybridization? Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to: - Culture: theory and praxis - Culture and economy - Alternative models for ICT diffusion - Role of governments and activists in culture, technology and communication - ICTs and cultural hybridity - ICTs and intercultural communication - Culture, communication and e-learning Our conference themes provide a range of approaches to the questions raised. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Nina Wakeford, Foundation Fund Lecturer in Sociology and Social Methodology. For her DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford, Dr Wakeford studied the experiences of mature students using a sociological conception of risk. Before coming to the University of Surrey in September of 1998, she spent three years studying "Women's Experiences of Virtual Communities", funded by an ESRC Post-Doctoral grant. The last two years of this Fellowship she conducted fieldwork in and around Silicon Valley while based at the University of California, Berkeley. CATaC'04 will also feature two particular foci, each chaired by a distinguished colleague who will oversee paper review and development of the final panels. PANEL 1: The Multilingual Internet Panel Chairs: Susan Herring and Brenda Danet Expanding on their collective work, including a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (Vol. 9 (1), November, 2003 - see http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/), this thread invites papers with a specific focus on how the Internet impacts language choice and linguistic practices in traditionally non-English speaking cultural contexts. Of particular interest are situations that respond in various ways to the tension between global English dominance and local linguistic diversity, e.g., through use of English as an online lingua franca, the "localization" of global or regional linguistic influences, translation or code-switching between different languages, and strategic uses of the Internet to maintain and invigorate minority languages. Susan Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington Brenda Danet is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem PANEL 2: Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs really help worse off communities? Panel Chair: Michel Minou. CATaC'04 will likely feature some examples of "best practices" in using ICTs to aid culturally-appropriate development, especially as pursued through governmental or NGOs' projects, community informatics endeavours, etc. At the same time, however, real-world politics and realities - e.g., violent oppression, political corruption, gender and ethnic discrimination, abuse of dominant economic position, structural disasters, worst practices of all kinds and origins, etc. - can shatter the best-laid plans for using ICTs to supposedly help especially the poorest of the poor. How far can ICTs succeed in supporting culturally-appropriate development - and what appropriate answers to real-world conditions are required in order for our best efforts to realize the liberatory potentials of these technologies not be broken down? Michel Menou, has worked on the development of national information policies and systems in many countries of the Southern hemisphere since 1966. Since 1992 his work focused on the impact of information and ICT in development. He is a member of the Community Informatics Research Network and of the network of Telecentres of Latin America and Caribbean. PAPER SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Initial submissions are to be uploaded to the CATaC website according to the paper guidelines (available at the conference website). Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. There will be the opportunity for selected papers from this 2004 conference to appear in special issues of journals and a book. Papers in previous conferences have appeared in journals (Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, AI and Society, Javnost- The Public, and New Media and Society) and a book (Culture, Technology, Communication: towards an Intercultural Global Village, 2001, edited by Charles Ess with Fay Sudweeks, SUNY Press, New York). You may purchase the conference proceedings from the 2002 conference from www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac. Important Dates Full papers (10-20 pages): 12 January 2004 Short papers (3-5 pages): 26 January 2004 Notification of acceptance: end February 2004 Final formatted papers: 29 March 2004 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac@it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac@it.murdoch.edu.au CONFERENCE CO-VICE-CHAIRS Malin Sveningsson, Karlstad University, Sweden, malin.sveningsson@kau.se From: Willard McCarty Subject: gender-testing fame: LLC in the Times Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:06:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 587 (587) Results from work reported in a recent issue of LLC have attracted the attention of the Times (London) for 22 November, in a review entitled, "A question of gender: Murder she wrote, or was it he?" The LLC article in question is, Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon and Anat Rachel Shimoni, "Automatically Categorizing Written Texts by Author Gender", Literary and Linguistic Computing 17.4 (2002): 401-12 (http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_17/Issue_04/170401.sgm.abs.html). Unfortunately the article is no longer online. Some fairly-used extracts follow. The article begins by quoting from the film "As good as it gets", in which the main character Melvin Udall explains his ability to write in a woman's voice convincingly: "I think of a man and take away reason and accountability." That surely gets our attention.... The author then points to "...the single most mysterious, enduring and vexed question of dramatic writing: how do men write women convincingly? In this case a truly awful man writing a well-adjusted woman. The same question declares itself no less energetically the other way round: how do women write men? However, once we’ve started down the muddy path into this particular valley of inquiry, we soon discover ourselves mired in deeper and still more menacing questions . . . Are we, in fact, kidding ourselves about the whole gender thing? Are writers really capable of genuine sex-change in their fiction, or has the history of English literature merely been one long exercise in furtive cross-dressing?" Are we all now wondering how we can manage to get an equivalent introduction to the research we do? Koppel, Argamon and Fine 2002 is summarized as follows: "It turns out that the truth ­ the scientific truth ­ is that men are capable only of writing like men; and women only like women." Along with his colleagues, the Times author goes on to explain, Professor Koppel "has designed a computer program that is capable of reading any text of more than a thousand words written in English and telling you the author’s gender. His results, which have just been published by the Oxford University Press in the academic journal Literary and Linguistic Computing, are going profoundly to affect the study of literature around the world. In short, he has used a computer to prove once and for all that there is a fundamental and recognisable gender difference in the way we write. "Such nuances may not be visible to the reader’s eye but his program sees them sure enough (the accuracy rate is about 83 per cent). Literary scholars have spent hundreds of years manually sifting texts without finding the elusive formula that guarantees such consistent success...." Using texts from the British National Corpus, the author explains, "Bit by bit, Koppel’s team stripped out all the subject-specific words until the remaining copy could be fed back into the computer. Then, as they told the program which text was male and which female, so the team was able to construct a mathematical set of rules to ascribe to either gender. This ascribing slowly became describing. "Koppel again: 'We would look for unique elements for the women’s stuff and the same for the guys. To give you a simple example, if the computer found that women used ‘you’ a lot more than the men, then we’d give it a female weighting. After a while we got down to about 50 reliable distinguishing features. We did some more programming. We refined the model. Then we tried it out on anonymous texts. By the end we were hitting 83 per cent accuracy. “'And it’s the function words that give the game away. Not the clever or the topic-specific stuff but the ‘ands’ and the ‘ifs’ and the ‘buts’, the least significant parts of sentences. Mainly, we used individual words but also pairs and triples of consecutive parts of speech. But this program is not about grammar. Actually, the single biggest difference is that women are far more likely than men to use personal pronouns ­ ‘I ’, ‘you’, ‘she’, ‘myself’, or ‘yourself’. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to use determiners ­ ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘that’, and ‘these’ ­ as well as numbers and quantifiers like ‘more’ or ‘some’. “'And though it might feel a little eerie that people give away their gender like this, it’s actually kind of obvious ­ when we write we pay attention to the big words, not the little ones.'” "But who, I wondered, was among the mistaken 17 per cent? Koppel had kept a list. P. D. James was the first name that caught my eye. After checking her novel Devices and Desires, the computer concluded that Baroness James was a man. Likewise wrongly sexed was David Lodge’s early novel, The Picture Goers. But the one that really caught my eye was Dick Francis." The reporter interviews Baroness James, then David Lodge, who is quoted as saying, "Novels are very problematic texts because they are written in a medley of styles. And more often than not the author is trying to imitate some kind of imagined consciousness ­ male or female. Indeed, writers have always tried to imitate the distinctive characteristics of male and female discourse and we are in the habit of thinking that they have often succeeded. But perhaps these scientists believe they can prove this is an illusion. Still, I’m very surprised that this program is able to discern the gender of the real author. If you were to take ordinary first-person texts ­ letters or diaries ­ then you might, of course, expect a fairly high degree of accuracy. But that it can be done on literary novels intrigues me. This will have fascinating literary, critical and general sociological implications. That said, I’d like to see them apply it to a novelist’s attempt to imitate the opposite sex in a particular passage.” The reporter goes back to Koppel -- to discover "the program’s Achilles’ heel. When writers move into direct speech they can imitate the voice of the opposite gender much more successfully, it seemed. Not always, but often. This was something: a sort of 50 per cent rescue for novelists. But what of the long passages of prose where the novelist is pretending to be inside the mind of a character? What about, for example, the last chapter of Ulysses wherein James Joyce spends 20,000 words pretending to be the untidy consciousness of Molly Bloom ­ changing direction, interrupting, digressing. "On this, Koppel demurred. He hadn’t, he pointed out, tested the program in such a literary-specific way. In fact, he went on to explain, the whole text-recognition business is ultimately about the internet ­ that’s the impetus behind the work and the most obvious commercial application: refining search-engine accuracy, recognising disguised chatroom entrants and so on. But, he agreed, it remained rather important for English literature that such specifics were tested." 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: { brad brace } Subject: Re: 17.412 cures for link anxiety? Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:07:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 588 (588) Interesting! of course in the earlier days, visitors to your (ftp, gopher or web) site would helpfully alert you to 404 conditions, as well as perhaps suggesting improvements/alternatives to the organization/design of your Homepage (remember that wonderful term?) The anxiety I experience though, usually involves the thousands of predators who churn out many thousands of near-empty indices for cities, businesses, and o rganizations... Try a Google search for a particular physical location and you'll see much useless/disconnected schemata... perhaps this is a secondary form of spam? --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://63.170.215.11:8000 --- The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> since 1994 <<<< + + + serial ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/b/bbrace + + + eccentric ftp:// (your-site-here!) + + + continuous hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au + + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + imagery ftp://ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace News: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc alt.12hr . 12hr email subscriptions => http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html . Other | Mirror: http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html Projects | Reverse Solidus: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/ | http://bbrace.net { brad brace } <<<<< bbrace@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp From: Dave Laurie Subject: 2003 Huco Conference at U of A Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:00:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 589 (589) "Bridging Dimensions" 2003 Humanities Computing Graduate Conference Registration is not necessary and all are welcome to attend. The program can be found at: http://huco.ualberta.ca/~hucoconf/Program. Highlights include: Keynote Address December 5, 1:30 pm, Arts 141 "The Turing principle, Herculean interpretation, and James' -Varieties-" Wes Cooper, Department of Philosophy Round Table Discussion December 5, 3:30-5:00 pm, Senate Chamber, Arts 326 Panelists Include: Wes Cooper, Sean Gouglas, Aimee Morrison, Stefan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker Discussion Question: Given the history and development of computing to date, what do you think will be the single most important effect that computing will have on the Humanities in the next 50 years? Hope to see you there, Dave Laurie Joyce Tam Conference Organizers David Laurie MA - Humanities Computing dlaurie@ualberta.ca From: "Malcolm Hayward" Subject: Re: 17.415 gender-testing fame: LLC in the Times Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:02:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 590 (590) For those interested in gender testing in literature, I recently published a study in the field: Malcolm Hayward, "Are Texts Recognizably Gendered? An Experiment and Analysis." Poetics 31.2 (2003): 87-101. I took a different approach than Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon and Anat Rachel Shimoni. I wanted to see if subjects (rather than a computer) could recognize male/female authors. The idea here was that though there might be differences in male/female prose, if the differences are unrecognized by a reader, then that would seem to say something about both readers and writers. I will reprint here the abstract: "This paper describes an experiment testing the extent to which subjects can determine an author's gender when passages of prose fiction are presented anonymously. Forty 100 word passages, 20 each by male and female authors, were presented to 47 subjects. Overall, subjects identified gender correctly 61% of the time, indicating that writing may be, to some degree, recognizably gendered. Female subjects, because of a bias to select "male" as the author's gender, identified male writers correctly more often than male subjects did. Certain significant differences were found between the male and female subjects in the cues they claimed to use for their decisions. Less experienced readers were found to be as successful as or more successful than more experienced readers in identifying the author's gender." Note that the results are not as robust as the other study, 60% vs 80%, but the passage length is smaller, and we are working here with humans, who tend to get led down garden paths, make guesses based, perhaps, on extra textual features (a tendency to guess "male"), and other undetected elements. I'd interpret my study as more or less confirming the findings of Koppel and the others. Concerning the use of function words as markers, I'm not surprised, as those working in the field of linguistic forensics, I guess it should be called, such as John Burrows and David Holmes, have often found these to be the best determiners of an author's identity. When I tried to figure out what it was that led readers to correctly, or incorrectly, identify the author's gender, the results were mixed at best. But I did discover something interesting along the way. When examining the test passages, all randomly selected, I found most of them contained dialogue. For the passages by male writers, most of the dialogue was men talking to other men. For the passages by female writers, the dialogue was preponderately between men and women. I haven't yet gone back to test this further, but if the results hold true--that guys write about guys talking to guys, whereas gals write about girls talking to guys--that might explain some of the differences in the use of function words (assuming, following Tannen and others, that guy-talk differs from girl-talk and from girl-guy talk). The more I worked on the topic, the more I realized how complex the reading-writing-gender issue is. One might have guessed that genre would have a role (detective novels a male realm? for example), but that did not seem to work, and the case of Dick Francis that Koppel and the others mention confirms that. So there is a lot left to be discovered about how writers write gender--or are written by their gender--and how readers interpret that writing. Malcolm Hayward From: "Joel Elliott" Subject: Lyman Award: Call for Nominations & Lecture Announcement Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:01:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 591 (591) National Humanities Center Research Triangle Park, NC Email: nhc@ga.unc.edu Web: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us National Humanities Center Welcomes Nominations for Information Technology Award, Webcasts Public Address by Recipient The National Humanities Center welcomes nominations for the third Richard W. Lyman Award, which recognizes humanities scholars who make imaginative use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching. The 2003 Lyman Award recipient, Roy Rosenzweig of George Mason University, will give a public lecture at the Center on December 4, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. His talk, "Digitizing the Past: Possibilities and Problems," will be broadcast live over the Internet. To learn more about the Lyman Award, submit a nomination, or view Professor Rosenzweig's lecture, visit the Center's Web site, www.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: Aimée Morrison Subject: RE: 17.412 cures for link anxiety? Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 05:41:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 592 (592) hello all, your question about link anxiety, willard, brings to mind an article by rob shields on "hypertext links: the ethic of the index and its space-time effects" (full citation below). shields notes that while hypertext has much written about it as a genre, many studies (paradoxically) seem to concentrate on the static elements of hyper-texts, while he proposes a more careful examinitation of the act and the fact of the link itself. for shields, the web is not a set of objects, but rather the links between them--a relational and dialogical process composed in the process of the jump, the link, between consituent elements (150). a link, accordingly, is a liminal sign, "both a part of the text and an index caught on the threshold of departure, signalling to another page of text. It is paradoxical because it appears to be an interior gateway" (151). ultimately, shields proposes a temporal reading of the link an 'aesthetic of delay' that recognizes that "time is made palpable in the form of delay and lived inthe experience of suspece--this temporarily is as much an effect as is the illusion of spatiality on the Net" (158). obviously, a bias toward spatial reading of the net supports the tendency to consider the artifacts of the web rather than the links between them--to key to temporality is to refocus on connection and on the path that is followed. i hope i've summarized this right -- i'm working from notes rather than the text itself here. anyhow, thought it might be useful ... the full citation for this quite interesting article is: Shields, Rob. "Hypertext Links: The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects." The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory. eds. Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss. New York: Routledge, 2000. 145-60. ta! aimee . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aimée Morrison Office: 4-14 Humanities Ctr. PhD Candidate, Dept. of English Phone: (780) 492-0298 University of Alberta Fax: (780) 492-8102 T6G 2E5 Email: ahm@ualberta.ca "If we examine the Lives of all the Poets, we shall find that they have all been miserable." -- Susanna Watts, c1802 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on link anxiety Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 05:59:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 593 (593) Adrian Miles, in "Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection", Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2001 (www.acm.org/dl/ etc), in fact discusses anxiety of linking from the very helpful perspective of hypertextual writing practice on the small scale. He points usefully to Susana Pujares Tosca's "The Lyrical Quality of Links" (Hypertext 99). I admit to being wary of essentialist tendencies in both arguments. What happens to this lyrical quality, for example, when you're writing a scholarly argument with hypertext and very much need to control where attention goes and to make sure that it comes back? And don't tell me, please, simply to write well and it will come back -- writing well is in part making sure that attention is with you, hugging every turn. 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: 17.412 cures for link anxiety? Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:01:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 594 (594) Willard, Why link? How to link? Reference, allusion, citation? The questions become interesting when one consider on-screen reading where the viewer/reader can toggle between windows and therefore conduct searches on the material presented in any given document. Why link in such reading conditions becomes associated with a rhetorical impression of precision. McCarthy says... invites future readers to find the locus of the saying. In Humanist Vol XX No. YY, McCarthy asks... invites readers to consider the previous context of enunciation. In both cases, the reader as verifier comes to the fore. I think that the argument - evidence distinction in your posting turns on the question of the rhetorical relation between evidence and argument. Are you suggesting that ways of presenting evidence affect how readers will react to a given argumentation? Could we not posit a division of labour in the community of readers? Some will sift the evidence whether or not links are explicit. Others will engage with the structure of the argument. And still others will ply their way betwist and between. So back to the question of linking. Why link? To provide a record. Why provide a record? To facilitate rewriting or revisiting? This is tending towards the question of why write... -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Aimée Morrison Subject: RE: 17.419 gender-testing Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:55:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 595 (595) hello again, the link to the online prose gender-tester made the rounds of the student-list (a public email forum devoted to topics of general interest) here at the orlando project (a group, as you all undoubtedly know, writing an electronic, encoded, history of women's writing in the british isles). all the orlandians came out as he-man prose-writers. hilarious. let me just stress this is not an orlando-related research question, but that most of the team tried it out for fun. i, apparently, have a more manly prose style than isobel grundy (that is, according to the site's measures, although isobel disputes this ;->). ultimately, we all concluded that academic prose is skewed male--especially as the site was intended to analyse fiction. this insight about academic prose as a genre bearing more markers of 'maleness' than other kinds of writing, i think, we can link to malcom haward's study's finding that female readers (what about the men?) have a bias toward attributing authorship to men. i find this bias quite interesting--is this a matter of perceived expertise? perceived authority? maybe this is why academic prose skews 'manly' in the online tester. hm. anyhow, this topic has caught the attention of the lay populace: non-canadians may not have seen an opinion recent piece in the globe and mail, a national newspaper--in the style section, no less--on the issue. (regrettably, the article does not seem to be available on the paper's web site). hm. aimee . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aimée Morrison Office: 4-14 Humanities Ctr. PhD Candidate, Dept. of English Phone: (780) 492-0298 University of Alberta Fax: (780) 492-8102 T6G 2E5 Email: ahm@ualberta.ca "If we examine the Lives of all the Poets, we shall find that they have all been miserable." -- Susanna Watts, c1802 From: Stephen Clark Subject: Re: 17.419 gender-testing Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:00:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 596 (596) [deleted quotation] Dick Francis's work is written in close collaboration with his wife. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/482502.stm Stephen Clark Dept of Philosophy University of Liverpool From: Brenda Danet Subject: "The Multilingual Internet" (special issue, JCMC) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:55:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 597 (597) We are pleased to announce the publication of: Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring, Eds. (2003, November). The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication in Instant Messaging, Email and Chat. Special issue, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 9, issue 1. Table of Contents: Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring "Introduction: The Multilingual Internet" David Palfreyman and Muhamed Al-Khalil "'A Funky Language for Teenzz to Use:' Representing Gulf Arabic in Instant Messaging" Yukiko Nishimura "Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features of Casual Online Communication in Japanese" Hsi-Yao Su "The Multilingual and Multi-orthographic Taiwan-based Internet: Creative Uses of Writing Systems on College- affiliated BBSs" Dimitris Koutsogiannis and Bessie Mitsikopoulou "Greeklish and Greekness: Trends and Discourses of 'Glocalness'" Mercedes Durham "Language Choice on a Swiss Mailing List" Salvador Climent, Joaquim More, Antoni Oliver, Miriam Salvatierra, Imma Sanchez, Mariona Taule and Lluisa Vallmanya "Bilingual Newsgroups in Catalonia: A Challenge for Machine Translation" Sandi Michele de Oliveira "Breaking Conversational Norms on a Portuguese Users Network: Men as Adjudicators of Politeness?" Siriporn Panyametheekul and Susan C. Herring "Gender and Turn Allocation in a Thai Chat Room" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To access the issue, go to http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol9/issue1/. From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2004: Preliminary Program On-line Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:58:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 598 (598) Museums and the Web 2004 Arlington, VA / Washington, DC April 1 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ Join hundreds of your professional colleagues from more than thirty countries in Washington DC for the eighth annual Museums and the Web Conference. ** Preliminary Program On-line ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/index.html Full details of the MW2004 program are now on-line. Abstracts of over 50 papers, 25 mini-workshops and professional fora, the full day Usability Lab, the Crit Rooms will help you choose what to attend. Full papers will be available on-line beginning in March. ** Pre-Conference Tours - March 30 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/events/ MW2004 is preceded by 14 different tours. Join your colleagues for a close-up lok at their institutions. Make your choice after reviewing the descriptions on-line. (Space is limited in all tours.) ** Pre-Conference Workshops - March 31 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/workshops/ A dozen pre-conference workshops on March 31 provide a chance to take an in-depth look at technologies and issues that affect your Web development. Full outlines are on-line. Enrollment is limited, so sign-up early. ** Exhibit Hall ** Vendors of museum interactive multimedia technology, content management and design services will display their offerings in the MW2004 Exhibit Hall. Opening with a reception on the first night of the conference, you'll have plenty of time the next day to explore the Exhibit Hall, and find products and services that will help you build and maintain your web presence. Vendors, space is still available. See the prospectus at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/exhibit/ ** Registration On-line** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/register/index.html Register on-line to ensure your choice of workshops and tours, and to get the best rate. Early Registration ends December 31, 2003, and saves at least $100. **Can't Make it -- Get the Book** Selected Papers from Museums and the Web 2004 will be published in a print volume, accompanied by all papers on CD-Rom. Order your copy on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html ** Join Us! *** Each year, MW draws the widest range of cultural and heritage web designers, developers and users of any international event. Plan to join us at what M2003 attendees called "one of the most useful conferences I have been to in a long time", both "practical and fun". We hope to see you there! 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: Natasha Alechina Subject: CfP Workshop of guarded logics ESSLLI'04 Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:59:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 599 (599) Workshop on Guarded Logics: Proof Techniques and Applications 9 - 13 August 2004 organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2004) 9 - 20 August 2004 in Nancy. Workshop organizer: Natasha Alechina Workshop purpose It's been almost ten years since Andreka, van Benthem and Nemeti proved decidability of the guarded fragment of first order logic. Given how natural and expressive guarded quantification is, this result gave logicians a powerful tool of proving decidability of many formalisms arising in computer science applications, and generated much research into extensions of the guarded fragment to fixed point logic, transitive guards etc. A wealth of new proof techniques developed as a result. The workshop intends to bring this research together for the benefit of advanced logic and computer science PhD students interested in the area, and use a mixture of invited and contributed talks to cover both the new proof techniques and the relevance of guarded quantification for applications of logic in computer science. Workshop details Authors are invited to submit a full paper either describing their published work (which should be instructive and interesting to PhD students working in the field and appropriate for presentation at the Summer School), or new and unpublished work. Submissions should not exceed 20 pages. The following formats are accepted: pdf, ps. Please send your submission electronically to nza at cs.nott.ac.uk. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. It is likely that a selection of (revised and expanded) versions of the workshop papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information. Workshop format The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consequtive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizer will give an introduction to the topic. Workshop programme committee Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham), Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam), Erich Graedel (Aachen University), Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam), Hans de Nivelle (Max Planck Institut fur Informatik, Saarbruecken), Martin Otto (Darmstadt University of Technology), Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester). Important dates * Submissions: March 5, 2004 * Notification: April 19, 2004 * ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2004 * Preliminary programme: April 23, 2004 * Final papers for proceedings: May 15, 2004 * Final programme: June 25, 2004 * Workshop dates: August 9 - 13, 2004 Local arrangements All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants will be available by the OC on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accomodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organising committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Brown Bag CHUG Friday noon Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:56:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 600 (600) The Brown Computing and the Humanities Users Group presents Learning to Write in the Network with Weblogs Jill Walker University of Bergen, Norway Weblogs are a powerful tool for learning to write and think collaboratively in the network, but they also pose certain problems. Is it ethical to insist that students blog in public? How does one integrate networked writing into the classroom? Jill Walker has used weblogs intensively in the classroom teaching web design and digital media esthetics for the last year. She has been an enthusiastic blogger for three years, co-authored the first academic essay on weblogs with Torill Mortensen ("Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool", 2001) and wrote the definition of "Weblog" for the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. She successfully defended her PhD at the University of Bergen last week, with a dissertation on networked fictions: Fiction and Interaction: How Clicking a Mouse Can Make You Part of a Fictional World. She is currently a lecturer in the department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen. Please come and bring a lunch. Refreshments will, as usual, be available. From: Frank Keller Subject: Cogsci 2004 Call for Tutorial Proposals Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:57:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 601 (601) 26TH MEETING OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY August 5-7, 2004, Chicago, Westin River North <http://www.cogsci.northwestern.edu/cogsci2004/> CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Introduction The Tutorials program at Cognitive Science 2004 will be held on 4 August 2004. They will provide conference participants with the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills from a broad range of areas in the field of cognitive science. Tutorial topics will be presented in a taught format and are likely to range from practical guidelines to academic issues and theory. This is the fourth year that tutorials in this format will be offered. Tutorial participants will be from a wide range of the cognitive sciences, but they will be looking for insights into their own areas and summaries of other areas providing tools, techniques, and results to use in their own teaching and research. Tutorials must present tutorial material, that is, provide results that are established and to do so in an interactive format. They will tend to involve an introduction to technical skills or methods (e.g., cognitive modelling in ACT-R, statistical "causal" modelling, methods of analysing qualitative observational data). They are likely to include substantial review of material. The level of presentation can assume that the attendees have at least a first degree in a cognate area. Tutorials are welcome to assume a higher level if necessary. Tutorials about yesterday's results from your lab are strongly discouraged. Tutorials about this year's theme, The Social, Cultural and Contextual Elements of Cognition, are encouraged. [material deleted] From: Subbiah Arunachalam Subject: Open Access Side-Event at World Summit on the Information Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:59:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 602 (602) Society Here is a press release on a meeting to be held in Geneva on 11 December 2003. World Summit on the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis/ Open Access Side-Event: http://www.wsis-online.net/smsi/classes/smsi/events/smsi-events-85268/event-view?referer=/event/events-list?showall=t "A growing number of scientists worldwide are actively promoting 'open access' to the scientific literature. This means toll-free online access to the full-texts of all refereed research articles. At present, except the fraction of articles for which a suitable open-access journal already exists today (<5%), research is only accessible if the researcher's institution can afford to pay for the toll-access journal in which it is published (>95%). As a result, most of the potential users of research -- and especially those in developing countries -- are unable to access most research. This represents a great loss to both research-providers and research-users, and hence to the progress and benefits of research itself. Fortunately, the Internet and Web technologies have at last opened up the possibility for those researchers whose institutions cannot afford the toll-access version of any article to use instead the open-access version, self-archived on the author's own institutional website. The provision of open access to their own refereed research output by researchers and their institutions needs systematic worldwide promotion. We are holding a three-hour meeting on open-access provision at Geneva as a side event at WSIS. Please publicise the meeting. More important, read and write about the substantial contribution of open access to the progress and benefits of science." (For some useful information: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ ) Subbiah Arunachalam From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:03:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 603 (603) (1) Geography and Technology edited by Stanley D. Brunn Dept. of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA Susan L. Cutter Dept. of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA J.W. Harrington Jr. Dept. of Geography, University of Washington, USA This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. It recognizes the importance of technologies in the production of geographical knowledge. The original chapters presented here examine technologies that have affected geography as a discipline. Among the technologies discussed are cartography, the camera, aerial photography, computers, and other computer-related tools. The contributors address the impact of such technologies on geography and society, disciplinary inquiries into the social/technological interfaces, high-tech as well low-tech societies, and applications of technologies to the public and private sectors. Geography and Technology can be used as a textbook in geography courses and seminars investigating specific technologies and the impacts of technologies on society and policy. It will also be useful for those in the humanities, social, policy and engineering sciences, planning and development fields where technology questions are becoming of increased importance. Geography clearly has much to learn from other disciplines and fields about geography/technology linkages; others can likewise learn much from us. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1857-6 Date: March 2004 Pages: 649 pp. EURO 185.00 / USD 204.00 / GBP 128.00 (2) WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems edited by Donald G. Janelle University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Barney Warf Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA Kathy Hansen Montana State University, Bozeman, USA This volume, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Association of American Geographers, is dedicated to the idea that geographers can make substantive differences to the lives of people and to the well being of the planet that gives the discipline its name. WorldMinds provides broad exposure to a geography that is engaged with discovery, interpretation, and problem solving. Its 100 succinct chapters demonstrate the theories, methods, and data used by geographers, and exemplify the conceptual and topical richness of contemporary geography. The 150 contributing authors and co-authors address the challenges posed by issues such as globalization, regional and ethnic conflict, environmental hazards, terrorism, poverty, and sustainable development. This volume demonstrates the utility of geography as a conceptual discipline that contributes theoretically; as an applied practice that informs policy-making; and as a coherent set of methodologies to gather and analyze data about Earth and its occupants. WorldMinds is the ideal general reader to supplement textbooks in the full range of academic geography courses. In addition to geography students and instructors, it is relevant to researchers, applied geographers and policy makers. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1612-3 Date: March 2004 Pages: 660 pp. EURO 185.00 / USD 204.00 / GBP 128.00 (3) Statistical Image Processing Techniques for Noisy Images An Application-Oriented Approach by Phillipe Réfrégier Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, France François Goudail Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, France Statistical Processing Techniques for Noisy Images presents a statistical framework to design algorithms for target detection, tracking, segmentation and classification (identification). Its main goal is to provide the reader with efficient tools for developing algorithms that solve his/her own image processing applications. In particular, such topics as hypothesis test-based detection, fast active contour segmentation and algorithm design for non-conventional imaging systems are comprehensively treated, from theoretical foundations to practical implementations. With a large number of illustrations and practical examples, this book serves as an excellent textbook or reference book for senior or graduate level courses on statistical signal/image processing, as well as a reference for researchers in related fields. Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-47865-X Date: December 2003 Pages: 266 pp. EURO 115.00 / USD 127.00 / GBP 79.00 (4) Domain Theory, Logic and Computation edited by Guo-Qiang Zhang Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA J. Lawson Dept. of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA Ying Ming Liu Sichuan University, PR of China M.K. Luo Dept. of Mathematics, Sichuan University, China SEMANTICS STRUCTURES IN COMPUTATION -- 3 Domains are mathematical structures for information and approximation; they combine order-theoretic, logical, and topological ideas and provide a natural framework for modelling and reasoning about computation. The theory of domains has proved to be a useful tool for programming languages and other areas of computer science, and for applications in mathematics. Included in this proceedings volume are selected papers of original research presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Domain Theory in Chengdu, China. With authors from France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico, and China, the papers cover the latest research in these sub-areas: domains and computation, topology and convergence, domains, lattices, and continuity, and representations of domains as event and logical structures. Researchers and students in theoretical computer science should find this a valuable source of reference. The survey papers at the beginning should be of particular interest to those who wish to gain an understanding of some general ideas and techniques in this area. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Preface. Contributing authors. * 1: Playful, streamlike computation; P.-L. Curien. 1. Prologue: playing with Böhm trees. 2. Introduction. 3. Symmetric algorithms, sequential algorithms. 4. Related works. 5. Control. 6. A few more remarks. * 2: Universal types and what they are good for; J.R. Longley. 1. Universal objects. 2. ?-algebras. 3. Denotational semantics. 4. Universal types. 5. Syntax and semantics of PCF. 6. Examples of universal types. 7. Conclusions and further directions. * 3: Relational representations of hyper-continuous lattices; Xiao-Quan Xu, Ying-Ming Liu. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Regular representations of completely distributive lattices. 3. Finitely regular representations of hyper-continuous lattices. * 4: Convergence classes and spaces of partial functions; A.K. Seda, R. Heinze, P. Hitzler. 1. Introduction. 2. Convergence spaces and convergence classes. 3. Convergence classes and VDM. 4. Compactness of (X ? Y). 5. Conclusions and further work. * 5: On meet-continuous dcpos; Hui Kou, Ying-Ming Liu, Mao-Kang Luo. 1. Introduction. 2. Basic properties of meet-continuous dcpos. 3. Dcpos with the Hausdorff Lawson topology. 4. Adjunctions between quasicontinuous domains and continuous domains. 5. Scott-open filters. 6. Concluding remarks. * 6: External characterizations of continuous sL-domains; Luoshan Xu. 1. Introduction. 2. Preliminaries. 3. Continuous sL-domains and their characterizations by function spaces. 4. External characterizations by posets of ideals. * 7: Projectives and injectives in the category of quantales; Yong-Ming Li, Meng Zhou. 1. Introduction. 2. Regular projectives in the category of quantales. 3. Injective objects in the category of quantales. * 8: On minimal event and concrete data structures; F. Bracho, M. Droste, I. Meinecke. 1. Introduction. 2. Event structures, concrete data structures and their domains. 3. Congruences on prime intervals and associated structures. 4. Maximal and minimal structures. 5. Conclusion. * 9: A note on strongly finite sequent structures; D. Spreen, R. Greb. 1. Introduction. 2. Basic definitions and results. 3. Domain constructions. 4. Strongly finite sequent structures. 5. Sequent structures and preorders. 6. Constructions on preorders. 7. Conclusion. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1832-0 Date: December 2003 Pages: 208 pp. EURO 90.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 62.00 Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Alessio Lomuscio Subject: LCMAS04 CFP Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:00:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 604 (604) Call for Papers LCMAS04 An ESSLLI04 Workshop on Logic and Communication in Multi-Agent Systems http://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/lcmas04.html The workshop, this year in its second edition, aims at bringing together graduate students and researchers interested in topics related to the use of formal tools when applied to modelling, specifying, verifying, and reasoning about multi-agent systems in which communication and updating play a crucial role. Specifically, the workshop aims at providing a forum for discussing technical issues that arise with formalisms (epistemic, temporal, dynamic and authentication logics and tools) inspired by the needs of modelling information exchanges in multi-agent systems. The workshop will be held within the context of ESSLLI04, the 2004 edition of the European Summer School on Logic Language and Computation, to be held in Nancy in August 2004. [material deleted] From: David Hoover Subject: PALA 2004 Call for Papers Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:00:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 605 (605) PALA, The Poetics and Linguistics Association (http://www.pala.ac.uk/), one of the oldest and most successful international organizations dedicated to the study of stylistics and related fields, is holding its 24th annual conference, its first in North America, at New York University, July 25-28, 2004. The full call for papers can be found at the conference web site at http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/PALA2004/. The theme is "Prospect & Retrospect": the first PALA conference in the "new world" will focus on both old and new "worlds" of poetics and linguistics. We invite abstracts and proposals for panel discussions and workshops in the following and related areas of interest: stylistics, narratology, literariness, literary linguistics, stylistics and pedagogy, critical discourse analysis, gender and writing, literary translation studies, linguistics and philosophy, metaphor, cognition, cognitive poetics, pragmatics, text-linguistics, corpus linguistics, text world theory, corpus stylistics, and statistical stylistics. Deadline: January 30, 2003 -- David L. Hoover, Assoc. Chair & Webmaster NYU Eng. Dept., 212-998-8832 http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Nothing, not even moonshine, goes to the head quicker than saving democracy with other people's money." --Ellen Glasgow, _They Stooped to Folly_ (1929) From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Another Friday event: Scholarly Publishing 3pm Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:01:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 606 (606) The following event, which will be of great interest to CHUG attendees, is part of the monthly Wayland Collegiuum Seminar on Computing and the Future of the Humanities, organized by Prof. Massimo Riva. There will be a two hour seminar, beginning with the talk. I am including The Ecology of Scholarly Communication Wendell Piez Mulberry Technology, Inc Friday, Dec. 5, 3pm STG Conference Room, Grad Center, Tower E Wendell Piez is one of the deep thinkers of the humanities computing community, with a philosophical and critical interest in text markup, information design, and the ecology of scholarly communication. He has an academic background in Classics and English, and works as a markup consultant while publishing and contributing extensively to ongoing debates in humanities computing. The readings for this session are as follows: Jason Epstein, "Reading: The Digital Future" at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14318 and Joel Felix, "L'Affaire PMC: The Postmodern Culture-Johns Hopkins University Press Conversation" at http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_essay&essay_id=felixima In addition, for those who are interested in a more searching and technical analysis of current publication technologies, have a look at the following article Wendell Piez, "Beyond the Descriptive/Procedural Distinction", http://www.piez.org/wendell/papers/beyonddistinction.pdf From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: indexing links, delinking anxieties Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:01:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 607 (607) Willard, Some more observations on links, citations, references and the invitiations to guide readerly attention. If I am authoring in TEI I can "link" and I can "point" and I can "refer". The mark-up language helps me as author distinguish between these activities. A element is -naked-. It registers the target. A element allows some text to be associated with a pointer. A element offers the opportunity of encoding associations among elements or passages. If I am authoring in HTML I have the anchor element whose attributes can be used to encode a hypertext reference (href) or a fragment identifier (name). I signal the dual nature of the HTML anchor element: used to mark a spot with a fragment identifier; used to point to a resource or some spot within a given resource. When you are authoring a text, depending upon the software and its settings, a URL might automatically be registered as an HTML anchor element with an href attribute whose value will be the URL. Certain email software will read a URL in a similar manner, treating it as a clickable hot spot. Some authors depend upon browser navigation features for returning reader attention back to a text body after a detour to a footnote. Others provide a hot spot to facilitate the move from the note to the text body. Given that certain files will be viewed in conditions where the operating system tightly couples email processing, WWW browsing and wordprocessing, the question mutates. To guide reader attention is not only a matter of offering readers explicit clickable hotspots. As such hotspots may be generated by software accessing and rendering a file, the author is faced with a decision of where/when to provide URLs. This is a bit of a meander to get at the implied either/or --- that flight/fight stress response that I read in your statement of "link anxiety". Would not the solution for the anxious author be to use anchors and links and pointers. That is, to segment the text that one is writing in areas and in one of those areas list references to the relevant URLs. The references would point to both the resource identified by the URL and to the area(s) of the text where the referenced URL would be applicable. For example, a reference to a specific number of a specific volume of Humanist could be recorded in such a listing and its applicability to one, two, or more spots in the text body could also be recorded. Such a mode of composition would be most marvellous for extended prose where such a cross between index and list of sources would serve as a map of the piece. Give the reader a chance to renavigate the piece. They just might accept the invitation. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: Hypertext + James Joyce Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:02:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 608 (608) For you interest, recently published by Charles University Press in Prague is TECHNE: JAMES JOYCE, HYPERTEXT & TECHNOLOGY, by Louis Armand (cf. <http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/techne.html>www.geocities.com/louis_armand/techne.html for more details)--the first full-length study of Joyce and Hypertext (among other things). Also, forthcoming, a volume entitled JoyceMedia, edited also by Armand, with essays on Joycean hypertext, hypermedia and genetics--inlcuding contributions by Donald Theall, Tom Rice, Darren Tofts, Daniel Ferrer, Michael Groden ... (Feb. 2004: Litteraria Pragensia--for information contact Ondrej Pilny, pilny@ff.cuni.cz) HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce>www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce <http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://download.yahoo.com/dl/intl/ymsgruk.exe>Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to <http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://messenger.promotions.yahoo.com/rwuk>WIN Robbie Williams "Live At Knebworth DVD" From: "Prof. Shlomo Argamon" Subject: RE: 17.423 gender-testing Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:03:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 609 (609) Hello, all. I must say it's rather gratifying that our study is receiving so much (mostly positive) attention. I would be very interested also, Malcolm, to read your _Poetics_ article - could you send me a copy? In our author-gender study, as in other authorship studies, there are a number of factors that can complicate matters considerably. One, which Dr. Hayward alluded to, is the issue of dialogue, whose lexicogrammatical properties differ from those of narrative text; this can produce a confounding effect similar to that of genre (about which more below). For example, in preparation for a piece on our work for NPR radio, they gave us a couple of "anonymous" short documents to analyze. One of them had a very high percentage of dialogue (it was a man and woman discussing their relationship). Initial results showed the piece as slightly female. When we used instead a model that ignored pronouns (a simple corrective for the dialogue), the piece came up as strongly male, and indeed it was an excerpt from Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants". Another issue that Dr. Hayward raised is the issue of the length of the passages - the mean length of passages in our study was about 30,000 words, much longer than the texts that he studied. Clearly, the longer the text, the more feasible it is to tease out slight statistical differences in lexicogrammar (if such exist). Something we are starting to look at in our lab, actually, is how to effectively deal (automatically) with stylistic issues in short documents. Regarding the on-line implementation(s) of our system mentioned by Ms. Morrison, I should make a few comments as well. First, the system that is available on line uses a simplified model, so its accuracy is not expected to be as great as that of our research system. More significantly, the model that it uses is based on fiction writing, so genre differences will be a confounding effect. In fact, we found in our study a strong correlation between the maleness (femaleness) of textual features and their nonfiction-ness (fiction-ness). Thus I would have expected male-skewed results from a test of academic writing even by women. The link between such results and "how people perceive gender in text" is not at all clear, and more precise results relating the lexicogrammar of a text with how it is perceived will be needed. I am very interested in discussing this topic more - the links between lexicogrammar, gender, genre, and how text is perceived are very relevant, I believe, to developing an "information age criticism", bridging the gap between the "Two Cultures". -Shlomo- Shlomo Argamon, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: 312-567-5289 Fax: 312-567-5067 From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: New Age Navigation: Innovative e-Journal Interfaces Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:05:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 610 (610) _New Age Navigation: Innovative E-Journal Interfaces_ I am pleased to announce the formal publication of my latest Magnum Opus [:-) "New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals" _The Serials Librarian_ 45(2)(2003): 87-123 ABSTRACT. While it is typical for electronic journals to offer conventional search features similar to those provided by electronic databases, a select number of e-journals have also made available higher-level access options as well. In this article, we review several novel technologies and implementations that creatively exploit the inherent potential of the digital environment to further facilitate use of e-collections. We conclude with speculation on the functionalities of a next-generation e-journal interface that are likely to emerge in the near future. A offprint/preprint copy of the article is available at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.pdf ] The article served as the basis of a presentation I gave at the _Internet Librarian 2003 Conference_ [ http://www.infotoday.com/il2003/] in Monterey, California in early November. [BTW: A *Most* Excellent Conference] [ http://www.infotoday.com/il2003/presentations/default.htm ] The conference version of my presentation is available at [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAgeIL.ppt ] [*********1.6 MB FILE****************************] and the Director's Cut [:-) at [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.ppt ] **********[LARGE FILE 3.4 MB]****************** As Aways, I'd appreciate Any and All comments, queries, critiques, questions, or Cosmic Insights relating to the themes of Such Musings {:-) . Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New Age Librarian Iowa State University Ames AI 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know. Donald Rumsfeld -Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing [http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/ ] From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Request for expansion Re: 17.427 gender-testing Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:04:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 611 (611) Willard, I wonder if Professor Argamon or others would care to elaborate on the notion of an "information age criticism": [deleted quotation] relevant, I [deleted quotation] Whose two cultures? Grammatical gender is marked differently in different languages. And not all societies map social gender onto grammatical gender. Likewise perceptions and constructions of a science-art divide (I think this is the intended reference of the two cultures) vary greatly depending upon discursive contexts. What does it say about the model at play when the researcher strips out the count of pronouns and thereby ascribes the text to male-authorship? What studies bolster the link between female-authorship and pronoun peppering? How extensive and valid is the empirical data that informs the assertions made by the model? The sampling on gender-based linguistic analysis needs to account for such factors as socio-economic status, age, first-language, inheritance of language patterns from gender of the primary language teacher, production context of the utterances (e.g. gender of the interlocutors). If the model can begin to account for the sociolects and the ideolects of speakers and writers, the number crunching analyses might be put to good use in terms of gender-testing not only the sociosexualization of the writers but also that of the intended readers: M to M M to F F to M F to F And that whole dynamic shifts when moving from a one-to-one to a one-to-many: M to M&M M to M&F When the phenomenon of split addresse is observed and taken into account the unicity, especially the gendered uniformity of the author may no longer cohere. Who is a question that bears reflection in the context of where, when and with whom. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Philippe Schlenker Subject: Workshop-Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:06:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 612 (612) CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/ESSLLI04.html organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2004) http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ 16-20 August, 2004 in Nancy Workshop Organizers: Ed Keenan, UCLA (ekeenan@ucla.edu) Philippe Schlenker, UCLA & IJN (schlenke@ucla.edu) Workshop Purpose: Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints on anaphora, was originally conceived in syntactic terms as a set of conditions on the distribution of indices (Chomsky 1983). Thus Condition A stated that anaphors are locally bound (*John/i thinks that himself/i is clever); Condition B stated that Pronominals are locally free (*He/i likes him/i), and Condition C required that R-expressions be free (*He/i thinks that John/i is clever). But other researchers have attempted to derive these constraints from lexical semantics or the interpretative procedure rather than the syntax. Some add a semantic component to a syntactic core (e.g. Reinhart 1983, Heim 1993, Fox 2000, Buring 2002), but others are more radically semantic (e.g. works by Jacobson, Keenan, Barker & Shan, Butler). The workshop, which is intended for advanced PhD students and researchers, will provide a forum to compare and assess these diverse proposals. We welcome proposals for 45mn contributions (30mn presentation + 15mn discussion), which should be specific, explicit and semantically informed. We list below some possible topics, though the list is not exhaustive. [material deleted] From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: informal CFP: tools development and literary theory Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:06:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 613 (613) Dear HUMANISTs, I'd like to propose a panel for the 2004 MLA conference (Dec. 27-30, Philadelphia) that would explore elements of the literary studies community's reaction to computer tool development (text analysis, &c.) -- particularly how theorists might perceive the development of tools as an activity that supports, tests, models, expands upon, &c, their work. Please be in touch with me, off-list and before Christmas, if you might be interested in participating in such a panel. Cheers, Ray _____________ R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 335/120. Phone: (250)753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 740-6459. siemensr@mala.bc.ca http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 17.425 new book on Joyce and hypertext Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:05:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 614 (614) I opened the link recommended in this message: [deleted quotation] <http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/techne.html>www.geocities.com/louis_armand/techne.html [deleted quotation] and I was inundated by windows popping up here and there, which I could cancel only after much time. This is absolutely not correct, in my opinion. 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: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: "Baa baa black sheep" Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:28:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 615 (615) Willard: For no particular reason, I began to wonder about the old nursery rhyme, http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/b001.html Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Nursery Rhyme Written By: Unknown Copyright Unknown Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full. One for the master, One for the dame, And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane. Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full. Assuming that all such nursery rhymes have some historical origin, I did a fairly extensive GOOGLE search and turned up only one even plausible explanation. http://allsands.com/History/Objects/historynursery_nu_gn.htm "As you can see, almost every nursery rhyme has a story behind it. Humpty Dumpty was actually King Richard III, and the famous farmer's wife from the Three Blind Mice was supposedly Queen Mary I. Baa Baa Black Sheep was about taxation, and The Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe was referring to the British Empire trying to control its colonies." However, the writer does not give any citations which support these interpretations. The curious thing is that "black sheep of the family" is a well known expression with a highly negative denotation. http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/66250.html Meaning A worthless or disgraced member of the family. Origin Shepherds used to dislike black sheep as their fleeces were worth less than those of white sheep. Warning: old joke ahead. 'Why do black sheep eat less than white ones?'. 'There aren't as many of them.' This only compounds the mystery. I have the hunch that "black sheep" refers to some historical scoundrel and that the "master," the "dame" and the "little boy" were three figures who were being "paid off" by the scoundrel. NOTE: The forgoing is purely uninformed speculation. I do not have ready access to THE ANNOTATED MOTHER GOOSE (http://www.parent-to-be.com/Annotated_Mother_Goose_0517029596.html) and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517029596/002-4540340-7353617 ?v=glance. I did a quick search of Bettleheim's, THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT, but turned up nothing. Perhaps I should, in the felicitous words of my students, "get a life," but curiosity is getting the better of me. (NOTE: It also killed the cat. http://www.goenglish.com/CuriosityKilledTheCat.asp_) djw _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.2539 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: gender-testing Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:27:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 616 (616) [deleted quotation] C. P. Snow's. From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 17.430 gender-testing Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:27:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 617 (617) A possible line of inquiry regarding dialogue and gender: do not avoid, or try to neutralize, dialogue. Instead, analyze what linguistic features male writers use to represent female speech ("how men write women"), and what do female writers do to represent the same, etc. One thinks about Ovid writing in a female voice... The results perhaps won't be so exhilarating as solving a real whodunit (and they said the Author was dead!), but we could learn a lot about conventions, stereotypes, prejudices, and the like, in a language, or at least in certain discursive practices. Neven From: Willard McCarty Subject: data not doomed Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:16:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 618 (618) Humanists will be interested in a recent newspaper article, Simson Garfinkel, "The Myth of Doomed Data", MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, 5 December 2003. This article has been reprinted from Technology Review and can be read online, at http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel120303.asp?p=1. Citing the famous Domesday Project, Garfinkel quotes an article in The Observer to the effect that although data assembled to report the state of the U.K. in 1986 was now unreadable, the original Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, had no such difficulty. He notes that, "This ironic death of Domesday has been taken as a rallying cry for an increasingly vocal group of computer scientists and archivists who argue that we are in danger of losing our cultural heritage -- or at least that part of our cultural heritage that we have been foolish enough to commit to electronic storage devices." He then comments, "There's just one problem with this reasoning: it's wrong." The Domesday data has been copied from the original videodiscs and now runs on an emulator. "The real lesson of the Domesday Project", he argues, "is that nonstandard file formats carry a huge hidden cost. Because high-quality image and video compression hadn't been invented yet in 1986, the BBC saved a tremendous amount of money by putting the Domesday Project on a pair of videodiscs rather than stamping the data onto perhaps a hundred CD-ROMs. But those savings must now be cast against the real cost borne by those who must migrate the data into a modern format. "Indeed, for every Domesday Project that has lost its data to proprietary equipment and file formats, it is easy to point to another project for which information created decades ago is still available. The Internet "Request For Comment" (RFC) series, started back in the 1970s, is readable on practically every computer on the planet today because the RFCs were stored in plain ASCII text. Similarly, you can download images sent back from the Voyager space probes 30 years ago and view them on your PC because NASA stored those pictures as bitmaps -- pixel-by-pixel copies of the images without any compression whatsoever. Some argue that it's impossible to look into the future and determine which of today's formats will survive and which will go the way of the VP 415. Poppycock! As a society we have a very good understanding of what will make one file format endure while another one is likely to perish. The key to survival is openness and documentation." He cites PDF and JPEG as examples. "What about the physical media itself? he asks. "Although there are many examples of tapes and floppy disks being unreadable five or 10 years after they are created, there are many counterexamples as well. Generally speaking, people who make an effort to preserve digital documents have no problem doing so.... "Electronic archivists do have a significant challenge facing them: computer systems make it easy to put a tremendous amount of information in a single place. If you aren't careful, it's easy to lose all of this information at once. And today's computer systems are so tremendously reliable that fewer and fewer users are properly backing up their data; people just don't remember the bad old days when a computer might fail at a moment's notice. "But on the whole, I think that electronic records are far more stable, more durable, and more likely to last than their paper equivalents. The technical problems are largely solved.... What's needed now is a plan to make long-term electronic archival services available to the masses." 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: 17.431 taking exception to pop-ups Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:24:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 619 (619) Tito & Willard, How many subscribers to Humanist use Lynx or a similar browser? No pop ups. Do other browsers have a feautre that allows users to turn off Javascript recognition and thus avoid the popup popping? Second question: how many subscribers house work on such free hosting services as Geocities? What arrangements do institutions have to provide WWW hosting services to what could be termed "electronic fellows"? Likewise it is worth noting that some subscribers participate via free email providers. Interesting that window control crosses a line with some readers. -- the Task Manager in a Micorsoft Windows platform allows a user to shut down an application and all the associated windows with a few clicks or tabs through a dialogue box invoked by Control+Alt+Del. Mac users have a less tortuous Command+Q route. In both cases the History cache of the browser then helps the user return to the surf trail they had blazed. I would be interested in reading stories about irritations that became learning experiences. [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: "Jitka Horcickova" Subject: RE: 17.431 taking exception to pop-ups Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:26:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 620 (620) Dear Mr. Orlandi, I also think that pop ups are not correct, but why don't you try the fantastic google toolbar, it blocks all the popups, yet you have the option to allow them when needed ;-) Just go to www.google.com and you will see the link at the bottom of the page. I would advice you to download the bar in English as it has the additional option AutoFill which fills automatically any form with the data you gave it. Jitka Horcickova Uni Cattolica Brescia, Italy From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 17.431 taking exception to pop-ups Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:26:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 621 (621) Well, no, it's not, as you put it "correct," nor desirable, but since hosting a web site can be expensive, increasingly scholars are turning to "free" hosting services who present ads. Geocities is one such service. There are browsers, like Mozilla, and Safari (for those using Mac OS X) which prohibit most such "pop-ups" as well as inexpensive and free software which performs much the same service. This might be an opportunity for some academic institution to offer to host the Joyce conference site pro bono. Lisa L. Spangenberg From: Humanist Subject: FW: pop-up windows Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:25:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 622 (622) I have received two responses to my protest against pop-up windows. One from David Harrison mentions a possible defence: [deleted quotation]The other, from Stewart Arneil, makes some comment: [deleted quotation]I think of a different solution, i.e. that pages of academic interest be hosted by academic, that is university, servers, whose pages are without unnecessary pop-ups and free of charge. At least this is my experience. Responsibles should be encouraged to be broadminded about the "afference" of research results to their institution, in case such research does not directly depend on one of their departments etc. On the other hand, researchers should be alerted on the fact that their pages should be as austere and simple as the normal printed academic books. The Humanist community might be interested. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------ End of Forwarded Message From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 623 (623) Hello all, There is little doubt that the danger posed by unstable digital formats has been exagerated, especially in the popular mind. So too has the celebration of older physical forms been built upon a number of unexamined assumptions. Those of us working in the field of bibliography and book history are familiar with how frequently books disappear altogether. D. F. McKenzie points to just one of many cases in "Printing and Publishing 1557-1700: Constraints on the London Book Trades," published in *The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. IV* (2003). He cites "Thomas Dyche's *Guide to the English tongue*, printed by Charles Ackers in thrity-three editions and some 275,000 copies between 1733 and 1749. Only five copies from those editions are known to be extant: a survival rate of one in 55,000" (p. 560). Lest one dismiss this and other example as phenomena that occur only in past centuries, try to find a Seattle telephone book from the Reagan years..... Dave Gants From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: 17.433 baa baa black sheep? Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:57:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 624 (624) I don't have _The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes_ handy, but I found an online source (http://www.cuc.ac.jp/~m2ishige/englit/Nursery.doc) that cited it, concerning "Baa baa black sheep," thus: "In the wool trade the division of the bags is said to refer to the export tax on wool imposed in 1275. (DNR)" _____ Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-6330 (dept) 3243 Angell Hall 734-764-2553 (direct) Dept of English 734-763-3128 (fax) Univ of Michigan esrabkin@umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 http://www.umich.edu/~esrabkin [Editorial PS: Has anyone tried the numerous books put together by Iona and Peter Opie? --WM] From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:52:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 625 (625) On 07/12/2003, at 8:49 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] Minor correction. They are not hosted free of charge. Bandwidth is always paid for by someone. Here at RMIT it is at the local (department level). It used to be at the university level. At the moment the department and the university are sanguine about bandwidth for legitimate purposes (a conference I ran got slashdotted and we managed I think 5Gg of downloads in a couple of days), but very aggressive if they think it is mp3s and so on. I agree that content should be hosted by us in the academy while this situation is the case. Personally I host some content for others, and regularly invite people to use the server I control for their projects. Many people seem not to realise that while server space, commercial, free, or institutional, is cheap, bandwidth is not. It is bandwidth that we in the institutions can provide. So, if there are any electronic scholars out there, get in touch. I have an electronic scholar's proposal ready and waiting! cheers Adrian Miles ................................................................. hypertext.rmit || hypertext.rmit.edu.au interactive networked video || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog research blog || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:53:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 626 (626) [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation] The first need seems me to be an evaluation if the new site presents the stuff worth to be printed in "normal printed academic books" resp. hosted by 'academic institutions'. Are comments from the JJ research community already available? Herbert Wender From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:53:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 627 (627) I use Netscape 7.1 as my browser-- it has a pop-up blocker, and I have not seen a single pop-up in 6 months. From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Re: 17.436 digital preservation Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:54:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 628 (628) [Disclaimer: I'm really not an archivist. Just thinking out loud.] Interesting quote from Garfinkel's article: "Not all digital material is worth preserving—most, in fact, is not. But Domesday was worth preserving and, as a result, it has been." At first, the two statements seem quite insightful. The first part seems to be a common principle for archivists and we're not talking about preserving all of the spam we receive. The second part implies that worthy data may be transfered to current formats as time goes on. File formats need not be forward compatible as long as they're open and easy to migrate to newer formats. So far, so good. (Especially if you add the obvious requirement that the format should be lossless and ensures some redundancy.) But isn't there an assumption about the inherent worthiness of specific documents? Not to philosophize but how can we know now what will be relevant data in the future? Sure, large costly projects should ensure that their data should be preserved. But isn't there still a risk that the more information we have exclusively in digital form, the more likely it is that we might lose interesting historical data? I'm really not a doom-sayer against digital preservation. In fact, I find reassuring the amount of consideration this issue has deserved recently. By talking about these issues, we can avoid past mistakes and effectively preserve important data. But by using an archeological frame of mind, we'd say that someone's junk might become somebody else's data, after a while... Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: dgants@rogers.com Subject: Re: 17.436, Digital Preservation Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:55:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 629 (629) Hello all, There is little doubt that the danger posed by unstable digital formats has been exagerated, especially in the popular mind. So too has the celebration of older physical forms been built upon a number of unexamined assumptions. Those of us working in the field of bibliography and book history are familiar with how frequently books disappear altogether. D. F. McKenzie points to just one of many cases in "Printing and Publishing 1557-1700: Constraints on the London Book Trades," published in *The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Vol. IV* (2003). He cites "Thomas Dyche's *Guide to the English tongue*, printed by Charles Ackers in thrity-three editions and some 275,000 copies between 1733 and 1749. Only five copies from those editions are known to be extant: a survival rate of one in 55,000" (p. 560). Lest one dismiss this and other example as phenomena that occur only in past centuries, try to find a Seattle telephone book from the Reagan years..... Dave Gants From: Norman Hinton Subject: RE: 17.436 digital preservation Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 13:02:17 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 630 (630) One might respond, Willard, that the reason that Domesday Book data has not been lost is that it was not originally put on a computer.... From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: From Linking to Gender Bending Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:10:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 631 (631) Willard, Elm has a wonderful feature... if I am too naysaying in a polemical reply or posting, I speed over the saving of the temporary file before the email is sent off thereby obliging me should I desire to reconsider a more constructive contribution to reconstruct the intended message. This is one such reconstruction. However it still seems a little tart in spots and I beg your indulgence and the forbearance of our readers especially in the passage below dealing with the rereporting of research results. [Note that my naysaying can of virago or of macho tone rarely in a hermaphroditic writing moment can I sustain the virulance of polemic. *wink* 17.415 Dec. 1 First there was Willard pointing to a (London) Times report on an article that appeared in Literary and Linguistic Computing. (The article residing behind a password protected site and I not being near a library with issues of the Journal at hand or license to access the online journal…) Only have Willard's excerpts to go on. 17.419 Dec. 2 Malcolm Hayward posts abstract from a paper he authored and the very significant observation that gender identification depends upon who is writing/speaking to whom about what (girls talking to girls about girls; boys talking to girls about girls, etc. etc.) 17.423 Dec. 3 Aimee Morrison raises, in passing, the issue of lay and expert audiences interpreting the results of gender-identification research. Stephen Clark raises further information about a particular case, although does not explicitly pose the question of collaboration: could two male authors collaborating together achieve a score for female authorship? Both postings call into question the sociological basis of gender ascriptions to the products of discursive behaviour. Is academic writing per se masculine? Is collaborative work per se feminine? 17.427 Dec. 4 Professor Argamon writes: "I am very interested in discussing this topic more - the links between lexicogrammar, gender, genre, and how text is perceived are very relevant, I believe, to developing an "information age criticism", bridging the gap between the "Two Cultures". " 17.430 Dec. 5 Francois Lachance reiterates Malcolm Hayward's call to be sensitive to context: "Who is a question that bears reflection in the context of where, when and with whom." As well, Lachance asks about ownership of the "Two Cultures" 17.434 Dec. 7 Patrick T Rourke points to C.P. Snow. Neven Jovanovic makes the plea for dialogue Dec. 7 Lachance tries to be witty and ask a double question: who's or whose C.P.Snow? [The original posting that has thankful died in the ether had a long diatribe to the effect that Snow's formulation was itself routed in sexual politics and an ahistorical appropriation of it…. blah blah blah] Lachance does a search of the Humanist archive. Nets some very interesting exchanges on the culture bridging theme. Most interesting is this one… http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v03/0321.html In that set of messages from Volume 3, Willard writes about the "eros of proof" and alludes to a passage in Homer's Odyssey. Methinks that the one who kicked off this thread tying us to the mast with a quasi-Siren* call should find the means and ways of retrieving the article in LLC and inform subscribers on if the article informs its readers on what grounds the ascriptions of gender were made. The tallying of the markers may be correct. Does the paper discuss the basis on which markers get to mark gender? It appears that neither the excerpts cited by Willard nor the summary that Willard gave to the Times piece give any indication that the interpretative basis was substantiated by verified scientific inquiry. Sampling. Sampling. Sampling. I am not asking for a regression to some putative foundation. I am asking for care in reporting. And even greater care in rereporting. Many of the messages on this thread, if accessed as single elements and not as a series, would lead a casual reader to the belief that the writers actually endorsed some of the under-specified premises about gender ascription (it's desirability and possibility). I find it very ironic that the thread on gender-testing was weaving its way into the Humanist archive in close temporal proximity of the linking anxiety thread where the distinction between argument and evidence was foregrounded. It strikes me that yes indeed "information age criticism" needs to bridge some gaps: between the question and that which provokes the question. Aside provoked by thinking of a culture of the question facing a culture of the assertion in a culture of the narrative: "What if the dimensions were not irremediably set in opposition? What if one considered sequence and figure to collaborate? One would face a machine. Every description as a state of being (configuration) possesses indexes translatable into questions for configuration's transformation (sequence). The nucleus of a narrative would be a description plus a question." http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S4E.HTM * There are reading practices that let us entertain the Sirens and the Heroic Hero without identifying with either. O Helmsman! my helmsman our fearful trip continues -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Info-age criticism and gender-testing Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:14:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 632 (632) [deleted quotation] As was already noted, this was a reference to C.P. Snow's notion of the Two Cultures of Science and Humanities. For an idea of what I meant, please see volume 2 (if I recall correctly) of Literary and Linguistic Computing from this past year (2003). When I have more time than I do now, I'll expand a bit more on my own vague ideas on how algorithmic text analysis might contribute to textual criticism. [deleted quotation] Quite right, which is why our work does not equate the two. I recommend (of course! :-) our papers on the topic, some of which are available at http://www.lingcog.iit.edu/. [deleted quotation] True enough, but the distinction between "stripping away all meanings but the ones that everyone (rational) can agree on" and "generating meanings that connect disparate parts of existence for at least some people" is fairly strong, and makes the attempt to use algorithmics for deep humanities work rather difficult. (Even if my summary of the divide here is over-simplified itself.) [deleted quotation] This was not the issue here. Pronouns were ignored, and then all other features were re-evaluated, with the resultant new model evaluated again on the data, achieving only slightly less accuracy than the model with the pronouns. [deleted quotation] Our study covered published work in modern British English taken from the BNC. The corpus was, of necessity, not as large as I would have liked, but it was large enough to evidently glean some reasonable (and likely robust) results. [deleted quotation] One of the points of our study was to show that even with a very amorphous "intended reader", sex-linked language effects show up. I would *love* to have a large corpus that was stratified in all the ways that you suggest. Heck, give me a million dollars, and I'll build one myself! (Corpus construction is, of course, a major bottleneck here.) [deleted quotation] If I understand your point here correctly, I must disagree, since we showed that the gendered identity of the author does in fact inhere in texts published for a wide audience, in a variety of genders. Please read our papers; I would be most interested in your comments thereon. [deleted quotation] This is nearly tautological these days, but the empirical evidence does not quite fit. Perhaps authors of different genders have different (composite, vague, amorphous) imagined readers in mind, even when writing for a broad audience? I don't know, and it would not be that easy to really find out, I think. Cheers! -Shlomo- Shlomo Argamon, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: 312-567-5289 Fax: 312-567-5067 From: vika zafrin Subject: Addition to MLA ACH session Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:48:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 633 (633) To: Dear Humanists, I am pleased to announce an addition to ACH session "Electronic Theory and Criticism" at this year's MLA in San Diego. Thom Swiss, of University of Iowa, has graciously agreed to be a respondent to the papers. The full details of the session are below; we hope to see you there! Please pass this information on to people you think may be interested. Saturday, 27 December 8. Electronic Theory and Criticism 3:30-4:45 p.m., Cunningham A, Manchester Grand Hyatt Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Presiding: Vika Zafrin, Brown Univ. 1. "Show, Not Tell: The Value of New Media Scholarship," Cheryl E. Ball, Michigan Technological Univ. 2. "The Simultaneous South: An Electronic, Multilinear Approach to Borges's 'The South,'" Marjorie Luesebrink, Irvine Valley Coll., CA Respondent: Thomas Swiss, Univ. of Iowa. -- vika@wordsend.org http://wordsend.org/log/ From: Natasha Piper Subject: ePrints UK Bath Workshop Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:13:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 634 (634) * Apologies for cross-posting * Dear All, In 2004 the ePrints UK Project (<http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/>http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/) will be running a series of 5 workshops around the UK that will provide an introduction to eprints and institutional repositories and the issues surrounding them. These workshops will be aimed at HE/FE librarians, information systems staff and academics and will be free to attend. The first workshop will be held at the University of Bath on Friday 6th February 2004. Further details of the programme are available at: <http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/bath/>http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/bath/ You can register for the event at: <http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/bath/bookingform.html>http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/bath/bookingform.html Any questions on the event please contact Natasha Piper (n.piper@ukoln.ac.uk). The ePrints UK project is developing a series of national, discipline-focused services through which the higher and further education community can access the collective output of e-print papers available from compliant Open Archive repositories, particularly those provided by UK universities and colleges. Regards Marieke ******************* Marieke Guy Subject Portals Project Manager and ePrints UK Project Manager UKOLN, University of Bath, BA2 7AY Email: M.Guy@ukoln.ac.uk Phone: 01225 385105 From: "The Technology Source" Subject: Techology Source Author Forums Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:17:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 635 (635) Dear Colleague: The following Technology Source Author Forums are scheduled for Thursday, December 11. These forums are offered in collaboration with ULiveandLearn, an e-learning company that uses a technology to allow participants to interact directly with TS authors via their desktops. You may sign up to participate in any of these free webchats by going to <http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=246>http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=246 and clicking on the SIGN UP NOW button. 11:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M. ET: Zane L. Berge, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Greg Kearsley, independent consultant, will discuss the results of their study focusing on factors that limit the long-term viability of distance training programs. Read the associated article at <http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2027>http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2027 12:00 P.M. - 12:45 P.M. ET: Drawn by the convenience of PowerPoint, Robert Sommer, now professor emeritus at the University of California-Davis, replaced his 35 mm slides and transparencies with digital slides. He will discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly lessons he learned in this process. Read the associated article at <http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1057>http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1057 1:00 P.M. - 1:45 P.M. ET: Establishing a campus-wide consensus on learning outcomes, evaluation criteria, and the institutional role of technology seems nearly impossible. Colleen Carmean, Arizona State University West, will discuss the obstacles she and her colleagues faced while trying to develop transformative assessment standards for their institution. Read the associated article at <http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1056>http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1056 We hope that you can join us. If not, an archive of each discussion will be available--via the "webchat" button on the options menu within the article--a few hours after the webcast ends. Jim James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief The Technology Source <http://ts.mivu.org>http://ts.mivu.org Home Page: <http://horizon.unc.edu%20>http://horizon.unc.edu Note: Please do not reply directly to this e-mail. If you do not want to receive announcements in the future, go to <http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=mailing>http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=mailing From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: FW: Re Techne / reply to T Orlandi Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:24:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 636 (636) To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Dear Mr Orlandi and Humanist list members, In response to Mr Orlandi's post (below) regarding the link for TECHNE: JAMES JOYCE, HYPERTEXT & TECHNOLOGY which I sent to the list last week--I must say that I am unaware of any possible problem with multiple windows launching as a consequence of linking to the authhor's website www.geocities.com/louis_armand/techne.html <http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/techne.html> The site is a conventional geocities free site with a single, small, pop-up advertisement. Whilst I am sorry for any difficulty encountered by Mr Orlandi, I should not wish those who may have an interest in this book to be discouraged from viewing the site--which contains basic ordering & bibliographical details, as well as an extract from the book's preface. If anyone, however, does encounter problems of the variety described by Mr Orlandi, I suggest they direct their concerns directly to Yahoo! Geocities. Regards, Louis Armand From: Stewart Arneil Subject: Re: 17.435 taking exception to pop-ups Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:16:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 637 (637) [deleted quotation] It seems to me we should be careful about claims like this, for at least two reasons: 1) The normal printed academic book is anything but an austere and simple artefact, it just seems that way to people who are adept at using them. There has been endless ink (real and virtual) spilled on the difficulties of "simply reproducing" a book in an electronic format. 2) Simply reproducing a book electronically probably isn't a good idea. Each technology has its strengths and weaknesses in terms of what it can do, and how best to do it. I wouldn't want to judge an online resource by the standards used for a book any more than I'd judge a book by the standards appropriate to oral epics. -- Stewart Arneil Head of Research and Development, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, Canada From: Steve Hitchcock Subject: Re: UN meeting urged to back open access science Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:16:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 638 (638) [deleted quotation] I recommend this article as an excellent insight into the politics affecting open access at a high level. Anyone who has followed the efforts of the working group on scientific information to get open access on to the agenda of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and explicitly into the Declaration of Principles, can only applaud the remarkable progress and persistence shown by Francis Muguet and his colleagues, and wish them luck at this week's meeting. http://www.wsis-si.org/si-wg.html Steve Hitchcock IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Email: sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865 From: MADCT Subject: Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:12:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 639 (639) You are invited to a public lecture in the series: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP, DIGITAL CULTURE Yorick Wilks, (Professor of Computer Science, University of Sheffield) 'Companions: Explorations in Machine Personality' What kind and level of personality should be in a machine agent so as to be acceptable to a human user, more particularly to one who may fear technology and have no experience of it? The Tamagotchi phenomenon showed that a simple, indeed trivial, machine could cause millions to treat it as if it had a personality and to feel guilty if they failed to "feed" it. The core of this question is the psychology of the attribution of human characteristics to artefacts, a quite different matter from the philosophical question of whether artefacts can reasonably be said to possess such properties. What levels of responsibility and legal attribution for responsibility can we expect or desire from entities like web agents in the near future? We might well soon find the courts deciding that a machine could be responsible, to a limited degree, in the sense that a domestic animal can be responsible for its behaviour, whereas ferae naturae, like tigers, never are in common law, no matter what they do, and only their owners remain responsible for their acts. Dogs have some form of character in law, good or bad, and it may become possible, or even necessary, to view the actions of Companions in this way before very long. 17.30 Thursday 11th December 2003 Arthur & Paula Lucas Lecture Theatre (Room 2B18) Strand Building, Strand Campus King's College London All are invited to a reception following the lecture Further information regarding this lecture series can be found at - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/03-04/index.html Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Room 11bb, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Tel: +44 20 7848 2371 Fax: +44 20 7848 2980 From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.436 digital preservation Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:56:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 640 (640) I must confess that i quite disagree with the assumptions underlaying the article of S. Garfinkel. I can make a clear example. He states: "Take, for example, the electrical standard (sometimes called IDE, now called ATA) that’s used by the disk drives in most PCs. Developed in the 1980s, the ATA interface has been significantly enhanced over the past 20 years. Yet with rare exceptions, you can take a hard disk drive from the late 1980s or early 1990s, plug it into a modern desktop computer, and read the files that the disk contains" "The Internet “Request For Comment” (RFC) series, started back in the 1970s, is readable on practically every computer on the planet today because the RFCs were stored in plain ASCII text." "Music CDs and CD-ROMs created in the 1980s are still readable on today’s DVD drives. When the next generation of optical storage comes out, it’s likely to be backwards compatible as well. A disk drive unable to read old CDs would not be commercially viable." on the large time scale of historical preservation the "past 20 years" are no more than an instant. we need (would need) 'something' allowing us to 'read' the digital data not after 20 years, but after 200, or 500 years. what will a future scholar need in 2345 a.d. to read an HD of today? he will need a mix of hardware and software which is simply likely to be not available at all. i think that it is clear for everyone that the advantage and usefulness of the ascii format for the data is of very small importance compared to the problem of having in 2345 a.d. a machine able to read an HD of today. on the contrary, to read today an engraved stone on 500 years ago we need only some 'hardware independent software': we need to know the language used by the inscriptions and the graphical conventions used with the 'stone medium' (ligatures, abbreviations, ...) it's possible that the paper is unfortunately still the best medium to preserve our cultural heritage and to transmit it to the people of the near or far future. or we could envision a future of digital scriptoria with people endlessly copying data from one outdated source into many up to date copies. how much will be lost in this endless process is clear for everyone, i think. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 17.439 digital preservation Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:13:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 641 (641) I've been putting eBook on the Internet since 1971, and 99.9% of them can still be downloaded from hundreds or even thousands of sites in easy to read formats from gutenberg.net, even after 30 years of the Computer Revolution. For example, a recent Google search for Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare, received ~12,500 hits. It's not likely that these files are going to be hard to use in the near future, as virtually every desktop and laptop has multiple programs that read them just fine, and also allow you to pick your own fonts, etc. These eBooks have always been available for Unlimited Distribution free of charge. There should be ~11,000 of them by then end of the 2003 production year. *** For immediate release INVENTOR OF THE EBOOK SPEAKS IN BAY AREA DEC 10-11 In 1971, Michael S. Hart invented the eBook by typing the United States Declaration of Independence on a mainframe computer. This was the start of Project Gutenberg, an ambitious effort to create a free public library of 10,000 electronic books or eBooks. In October 2003, Project Gutenberg added the 10,000th eBook to it's collection, The Magna Carta. Not content to rest, Hart announced a new goal: "We want to grow the collection to one million free eBooks, and distribute them to one billion people, for a total of one quadrillion eBooks to be given away by the end of the year 2015." Prof. Hart will give two presentations in the San Francisco area this week, outlining his plans for the future, as well as reflecting on the past and present state of eBooks. Both will feature CDs and DVDs with thousands of eBooks, free for duplication or redistribution. - Wednesday December 10 7:00 pm at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio of San Francisco. - Thursday December 11 7:00 pm at the Berkeley Public Library. Both talks are free, and open to the public and members of the press. Prof. Hart will also be taping television appearances, and participating in a Project Gutenberg capacity building conference hosted at the Internet Archive over the weekend. Prof. Hart will discuss his invention of the eBook, and explain why he does not believe that simple scans or raw OCR (optical character recognition) output are true eBooks. He will explain advantages of eBooks over paper books, and show how a rich and vibrant public domain is the best possible path to creating greater opportunities for literacy. ABOUT PROJECT GUTENBERG Project Gutenberg's mission is to break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy, by creating and distributing free eBooks. During 2003, an average of over 80 new eBooks per week have been created, with the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. The collection includes dozens of file formats, and 21 different languages, with over 46,000 files in 110 gigabytes. Project Gutenberg seeks to include all of the world's great literature, in all languages. Volunteers choose books that interest them, and work to turn books into eBooks by scanning or typing, then proofreading and preparing the final eBook. 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Prof. Hart will be available for telephone interviews and personal appearances while in San Francisco. From there, he will be visiting Hawaii, then Europe in February for scheduled presentations to UNESCO and other EU bodies, to encourage placing national literatures online and resisting copyright extension. Reach the PGLAF business office at (801) 596 1887. Project Gutenberg is on the Internet at: http://gutenberg.net The Project Gutenberg collection is hosted by iBiblio, the Public's Library at http://ibiblio.org, and mirrored (copied) around the world. The easiest way to help contribute to a Project Gutenberg eBook is to help proofread raw OCR output, a page at a time, at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net For information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, and how to donate, see: http://gutenberg.net/fundraising Thanks!!! I'm changing ISPs now, so my replies may not be as quick as usual. If you don't get a reply in two weeks, please resend. Michael Happy Holidays!!! Give eBooks!!! As of December 07, ~10,660 FreeBooks at: http://gutenberg.net ~9,330 to go to 20,000 Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" From: "Olivia C. Williamson" Subject: Re: 17.439 digital preservation Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:14:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 642 (642) [deleted quotation] Well, my parents probably have one....but is depending on packrats an adequate preservation strategy? ----------------------------------------- Olivia C. Williamson Stanford Graduate Fellow Management Science and Engineering Terman 429A, Stanford CA 94305 olivia@stanford.edu From: Stephen Clark Subject: Fwd: Re: 17.433 baa baa black sheep? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:15:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 643 (643) According to the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, edds. Peter & Iona Opie (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1951), p.88 "In the wool trade the division of the bags is said to refer to the export tax on wool imposed in 1295". The first citation they give is to Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book in 1744. -- Stephen Clark Dept of Philosophy University of Liverpool From: Willard McCarty Subject: basic techniques? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:06:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 644 (644) I'm trying at the moment to think my way through what we might denote as the basic techniques and activities of humanities computing. To help matters along, I offer the following list: (1) textual sorting and gathering: concording, collocation, retrieval (2) numerical analysis or statistics, including basic frequency lists (3) database design, construction and modelling (4) encoding (5) imaging, image analysis & manipulation (6) communication and publishing The above assumes more or less finished tools in hand. If we do not make such an assumption, then we could include: (7) tool-design and building (8) interaction design (Terry Winograd's term) But the above also assumes knowledge of what situations and people require. If we subtract that assumption, then we could include: (9) social informatics (Rob Kling's term) (10) philosophical thinking What does not belong? What have I left out? Comments 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: gwc2004mm@aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: GWC 2004 Call for Participation Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:04:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 645 (645) ################################################################### CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd International Conference of the Global WordNet Association Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic January, 20 - 23, 2004 ################################################################### 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: ---------------------------------- 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] Please watch the Conference www site for further information and announcements. WordNet EuroWordNet Global Wordnet Association ACL-SIGLEX From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.41 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:17:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 646 (646) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 41 (December 10 - December 16, 2003) REVIEW Spinning the Semantic Web Reviewed by Carl Bedingfield Are you looking for a method for managing Web data in a useful and orderly format? Your search is over. This handbook is both a good introduction for the metadata neophyte and a useful reference for the semantically hip. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v4i41_bedingfield.html VIEW The University of DVD Universities and training organizations increasingly use technology to record and distribute original material, bringing on a new class of technological and legal issues. By Avi Rushinek and Sara Rushinek http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i41_rushinek.html From: "Dr. David Harrison" Subject: FW: Pop-ups netiquette. Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:59:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 647 (647) To: dgants@rogers.com Common netiquette on the issue of links to sites that have pop-ups is usually to stick something like "(Pop-Ups)" after the link. Some sites have multiple pop-ups, others have animated gifs taken from third party servers that specialise in that sort of thing. These can take a while to pull, especially when they hail from an outsourced third-party server, and then longer to download if the user has a dial-up connection. A slow advertising pop-up can look like a Java/JavaScript window opening, and the latter can be disguised as the former. AFAIK, GeoCities pop-ups are harmless (but annoying). Online, small annoyances and delays seems to be more annoying than they probably are. Surf-rage? Cheers, David. ------ End of Forwarded Message From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI: new issue (V4i3, December 2003) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:33:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 648 (648) A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION (Volume 4, issue 3, December 2003) We are preparing two special issues of JoDI to be announced soon. Prior to those issues we have some important peer-reviewed papers on other topics to bring to your attention, covering digital libraries, usability, and an award-winning paper from the ACM Hypertext 2003 conference. D. Deniman, T. Sumner, L. Davis, S. Bhushan, J. Fox Merging Metadata and Content-Based Retrieval http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i03/Deniman/ Y. Jacobs Reimer, S. Douglas Implementation Challenges Associated with Developing a Web-based E-notebook http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i03/JacobsReimer/ R. Lempel, E. Amitay, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, A. Soffer The Connectivity Sonar: Detecting Site Functionality by Structural Patterns http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i03/Lempel/ The next issue of JoDI (V4i4) will focus on Future Visions of Common-Use Hypertext From: "Ferguson, Joyce" Subject: NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:35:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 649 (649) ANNOUNCING: Summer 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers Application Deadline: March 1, 2004 * * * Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports a variety of study opportunities in the humanities for faculty who teach American undergraduates. Seminars and institutes are national, residential, and rigorous. Designed to strengthen the quality of humanities teaching and scholarship, they are led by some of the nation's outstanding scholars and take place at major colleges and universities and archival facilities across the United States and abroad. Topics considered among the 20 seminars and institutes offered in the summer of 2004 include the "Just War" tradition, opera, Aramaic studies, the Seven Deadly Sins, Islamic history and culture, popular cartography, and major figures such as Aristotle, Calvin, Shakespeare, and Dickens. For a complete list of both seminars and institutes, go to the NEH Web site, or phone (202/606-8463), or e-mail (sem-inst@neh.gov). http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html The listings contain seminar and institute titles and the means to contact each director. Prospective applicants can request information from as many seminar and institute directors as they wish but may apply to only two NEH summer offerings. In response to a request for information, seminar and institute directors will send a letter describing the content, logistics, expectations, and conditions of that project. Each letter will be accompanied by application instructions as well as information about the program's costs. Participants receive from the National Endowment for the Humanities a stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute. Stipends are $2,800 for four weeks, $3,250 for five weeks, and $3,700 for six weeks and are intended to help cover travel costs and living expenses, as well as books and miscellaneous expenses. Requests for information and completed applications should NOT be directed to the National Endowment for the Humanities; they should be addressed to the individual projects as found in the listings. The application deadline is March 1. From: tsd2004robot@aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: FW: TSD 2004 Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:12:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 650 (650) To: humanist@lists01.PRINCETON.EDU Seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2004) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/ The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2004 conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and information extraction; text/topic summarization; machine translation semantic networks and ontologies; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software; facial animation; visual speech synthesis. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [material deleted] From: Doug Brent Subject: Re: 17.448 taking exception to popups Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:31:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 651 (651) ... and of course, some forms of ad-ware infest the user's computer and cause irrelevant pop-ups that have nothing to do with, and are not the fault of, the site being browsed. Lavasoft offers "ad-aware" free at <http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware>http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware. It will clean annoyances like this out of one's computer. Doug Brent -- Dr. Doug Brent Associate Dean (Academic) Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Voice: (403) 220-5458 Fax: (403) 282-6716 <http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent>http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 17.420 link anxiety Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:25:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 652 (652) On 02/12/2003, at 5:18 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: Adrian Miles, in "Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection", Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2001 (www.acm.org/dl/ etc), in fact discusses anxiety of linking from the very helpful perspective of hypertextual writing practice on the small scale. He points usefully to Susana Pujares Tosca's "The Lyrical Quality of Links" (Hypertext 99). I admit to being wary of essentialist tendencies in both arguments. What happens to this lyrical quality, for example, when you're writing a scholarly argument with hypertext and very much need to control where attention goes and to make sure that it comes back? And don't tell me, please, simply to write well and it will come back -- writing well is in part making sure that attention is with you, hugging every turn. belated engagement... :) I've also written about this in Miles, Adrian. "Realism and a General Economy of the Link." Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall.5 (2001). which you should be able to find at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall01/miles/index.html It is also touched on, though from quite a different manner, in Miles, Adrian. "Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 13.2 July (1999): 217-26. which you should be able to find at: http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/cinema_paradigms/ cinematic_paradigms.txt Yes, I'm very interested in the ontological status of the link in hypertext. In answer to the question of control, well there isn't much you can do. This is something that Mark Bernstein has regularly addressed in his various papers on hypertext patterns and gardens. For example where Mark might discuss gardening as a model for a hypertext he also includes how a link might delight, much as turning a corner to an unexpected vista might delight. In my own practice my understanding of links is very much from a speech act theory perspective, though that is distilled through an idiosyncratic use of some French poststructuralism. Links have a force that is non or extra linguistic and you can make all the rules you like around them but this can't exhaust this force. I'd argue that the rules keep popping up about how to use links because of their intrinsic excess (you don't need to spend a lot of time making rules for things that are, if you like, sedate). So I think of links as being contextually sensitive, and you can't saturate a context (any context) sufficiently to ensure that the intention of the link can be guaranteed. I also think that links effect 'qualitative' changes in the relations between parts, which is something that linear writing can't do (though that is probably an ambitious claim). Having said all that, they're minor claims in an even more minor corner of a minor discipline. :-) cheers Adrian Miles ................................................................. hypertext.rmit || hypertext.rmit.edu.au interactive networked video || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog research blog || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ From: Kirk Lowery Subject: Re: 17.449 basic techniques? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:29:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 653 (653) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] denote as [deleted quotation] [snip] [deleted quotation] How about linguistic/literary tagging/analysis for texts, or, more generally, adding meta-data to text? I'm thinking NLP tools/techniques here. Where would search engines fit? I'm thinking of textually oriented search engines, e.g., http://emdros.org. Do these fit already in one of your categories? Best wishes, Kirk -- Kirk E. Lowery, Ph.D. Director, Westminster Hebrew Institute Adjunct Professor of Old Testament Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia Theorie ist, wenn man alles weiss und nichts klappt. Praxis ist, wenn alles klappt und keiner weiss warum. Bei uns sind Theorie und Praxis vereint: nichts klappt und keiner weiss warum! From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 17.449 basic techniques? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:29:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 654 (654) On 12/12/2003, at 1:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]1. anything to do with time based media (sound, music, moving image)? 2. possibly anything to do with media that originated electronically (digitally), for example the sorts of tools that are attached to blogs these days (thinks like technorati, blogdex, etc), and blogs themselves, ought to be an object of study 3. possibly anything to do with media that originated electronically (digitally) that is image based, for example flash work (as opposed to using Flash to represent the outcomes of a prior analysis). cheers Adrian Miles ................................................................. hypertext.rmit || hypertext.rmit.edu.au interactive networked video || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog research blog || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Re: 17.449 basic techniques? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:30:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 655 (655) Willard, Depending on your goals for such a list, it might be either expanded or streamlined. Are you looking for a way to define Humanities Computing (HC) through techniques or are you developing an exhaustive repertoire of what humanists can do with computers? Item #1 in your list ("Textual sorting and gathering") seems to comprise a large number of techniques typical of HC while #4 "Encoding" might seem too general and would in fact include "textual gathering." An alternate list could come from the classification of techniques based on inputs and outputs. Ultimately, we mostly use computers to "process" digital (numerical) data. These ideas are present in your list but could be specified in a different way. Some in-/outputs are "offline" and link HC with the rest of the academic world. A simplified model would be from "real-world" to "theory" with "raw data," "digital data," and "processed data" as intermediate steps. The computer isn't a mysterious black box but the ins and outs do determine a lot of what's being done inside it. One method to build a list of HC techniques could be to ask humanists about their computer use and then group these activities in specific techniques, only some of which are specific to HC. Texts, images, and sounds are the three types of objects HC can process most directly. Outputs include different types of "processed data" in general (numerical or otherwise) as well as texts, images, and sounds for presentation (class or conference lecture, inclusion in article), reproduction, and resynthesis. Data processing includes digitization, transcoding, visualization, summarization, and many different types of "analysis" (qualitative or quantitative...). By thinking about the overall process, we may rethink our approach to computing in general while defining HC in terms even a "non-humanistic" computer scientists can understand... ;-) Thank you very much for your post. These issues really are fascinating. Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: David Sewell Subject: Re: 17.449 basic techniques? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:31:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 656 (656) On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]1B. text editing (single-file and batch) and programmatic manipulation Or however you want to word it; something that expresses the ability to do sophisticated editing and transformation of text files both one at a time and in batch operations, using both dedicated editors (general-purpose text editors, programmers' editors, and/or specialized tools like XML editors) and programming languages. -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://www.ei.virginia.edu/ From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 17.449 basic techniques? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:32:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 657 (657) Hi there, I think I would include "teaching" in your list. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes@uvic.ca martin@mholmes.com mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: Re: 17.449 basic techniques? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:33:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 658 (658) Hello, Study of information needs and behaviour is left out. It is partially covered by several other categories but I feel that it deserves a place on its own. Cheers 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: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 17.420 link anxiety Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:25:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 659 (659) On 02/12/2003, at 5:18 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: Adrian Miles, in "Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection", Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2001 (www.acm.org/dl/ etc), in fact discusses anxiety of linking from the very helpful perspective of hypertextual writing practice on the small scale. He points usefully to Susana Pujares Tosca's "The Lyrical Quality of Links" (Hypertext 99). I admit to being wary of essentialist tendencies in both arguments. What happens to this lyrical quality, for example, when you're writing a scholarly argument with hypertext and very much need to control where attention goes and to make sure that it comes back? And don't tell me, please, simply to write well and it will come back -- writing well is in part making sure that attention is with you, hugging every turn. belated engagement... :) I've also written about this in Miles, Adrian. "Realism and a General Economy of the Link." Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall.5 (2001). which you should be able to find at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall01/miles/index.html It is also touched on, though from quite a different manner, in Miles, Adrian. "Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 13.2 July (1999): 217-26. which you should be able to find at: http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/cinema_paradigms/ cinematic_paradigms.txt Yes, I'm very interested in the ontological status of the link in hypertext. In answer to the question of control, well there isn't much you can do. This is something that Mark Bernstein has regularly addressed in his various papers on hypertext patterns and gardens. For example where Mark might discuss gardening as a model for a hypertext he also includes how a link might delight, much as turning a corner to an unexpected vista might delight. In my own practice my understanding of links is very much from a speech act theory perspective, though that is distilled through an idiosyncratic use of some French poststructuralism. Links have a force that is non or extra linguistic and you can make all the rules you like around them but this can't exhaust this force. I'd argue that the rules keep popping up about how to use links because of their intrinsic excess (you don't need to spend a lot of time making rules for things that are, if you like, sedate). So I think of links as being contextually sensitive, and you can't saturate a context (any context) sufficiently to ensure that the intention of the link can be guaranteed. I also think that links effect 'qualitative' changes in the relations between parts, which is something that linear writing can't do (though that is probably an ambitious claim). Having said all that, they're minor claims in an even more minor corner of a minor discipline. :-) cheers Adrian Miles ................................................................. hypertext.rmit || hypertext.rmit.edu.au interactive networked video || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog research blog || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 17.444 digital preservation Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:25:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 660 (660) I have tried to address the major issues of digital preservation in my article "Preservation of Digital Objects," in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 38, which has just appeared. They are, alas, much more complicated theoretically and technologically and fraught with political concerns than anyone who has not been tasked with building a digital archives can imagine. Pat Galloway From: Willard McCarty Subject: lost messages Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:33:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 661 (661) This is to remind Humanists that submitted messages which do not appear most likely have been lost in the mess of spam I receive. On average I receive about 240 messages/day, of which I would guess somewhere between 90% and 95% are spam. These are segregated automatically by two different filters such that I can review them all, but the probability of overlooking a genuine message amidst the mess is very high. Apologies to all concerned. Once again, you should never assume that I have judged your message unworthy, rather that the horde of the unworthy has swept it into its foul embrace. 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: Claire Warwick Subject: Re: 17.454 taking exception to popups Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:24:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 662 (662) I completely agree with those who are annoyed with popups, but there is a relatively easy solution. Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) has popup blocking software built into the latest release of its browser. I have this as my default browser and it works very well for me. In case anyone is worried about using a late release which might be buggy, I have usually found them to be pretty stable in regular use. Claire ************************************************************* Dr Claire Warwick 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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 52, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:23:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 663 (663) Version 52 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,050 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) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (weekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 165 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 460 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, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies 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, E-Prints, and OAI* 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 From: Robin Smith Subject: Re: 17.459 taking exception to popups Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:08:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 664 (664) On the subject of popup ads: I assume readers of this list are aware that popups only work because browsers allow them to, so the easiest way to prevent them is to configure the browser so as not to give the popups the necessary support (for instance, by disallowing the opening of new windows by javascript, by not allowing images to open in new windows (or at least not if the image being fetched is not from the same host as the page it's included in), etc. There are plenty of browsers that allow the needed flexibility in configuration: Mozilla (and its relatives) Konqueror, Opera to name a few. However, as I understand it (and I'm going on hearsay since I haven't used a Microsoft system in about three years), Internet Explorer doesn't have the needed flexibility in configuration, probably because it's as much a vehicle for the distribution of advertising as it is a web browser. A web browser that lets you shut down popups is like a TV that lets you turn off commercials; *you* might like to have such a TV, but commercial broadcasters wouldn't like that at all. I do most of my web browsing with lynx (and with cookies only by confirmation). I miss the eye candy that way, but on the other hand it's enormously faster (especially over a slow link) and in most cases gives me the text information I actually want (it's astonishing how little real information many web sites contain, apart from the decorations: rather like Powerpoint presentations, actually). Allowing cookies only by explicit confirmation can be a bit of an annoyance if a site wants to set, say, fifty cookies (and there are plenty that try to set ten or more). But do you really want all that being dropped onto your disk without your knowledge? From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: E-Cap2004_Italy deadline extension Jan 7 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:07:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 665 (665) CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION: NEW DEADLINE JAN 7, 2004 (1000 words abstract or PPT file) SEE BELOW! ********************************************************************** COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY E-CAP2004_ITALY Pavia, Italy, Collegio Ghislieri, June 3-5, 2004 Chair: Lorenzo Magnani ********************************************************************** 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. We solicit papers that examine topics pertaining to computing and philosophy from the following list. 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 Philosophy * New Models of Logic Software * Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources * Ethics and Computers * The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy * The Role of Computers as Tools for Philosophical Research [material deleted] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 666 (666) this is testing mail to lists From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 667 (667) this is testing mail to lists From: Spencer Tasker Subject: Re: 17.444 digital preservation Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:24:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 668 (668) Maurizio Lana correctly identified some of the false assumptions of the Garfinkel article, however, there are a couple of points which I should like to add. The first of these is the potential for preservation of documents "in the cloud" - not quite Julian of Norwich's "Cloud of Unknowing", but not too far off. Given an informational environment characterised by pervasive internetworking, the global distribution and caching of data and the abstraction of the hardware from the services which rely upon it (servers are upgraded and hardware changes transparently as far as we mere users are concerned) it is not difficult to imagine that data can persist in a state of abstraction from any underlying mechanism. On the other hand, as Maurizio also pointed out, 20 years are a but a drop in the bucket and it does take faith of Kierkegaardian proportions to assume that any particular datum which we now possess in electronic will still be available in 500 years. - Spencer Tasker ________________________________________________________ Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ________________________________________________________ From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: Reminder - COCH-COSH 2004: Call For Papers Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:24:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 669 (669) Dear Colleagues, A reminder accompanied by some good news: the CFP for COCH-COSH 2004 has been extended until December 19th (Friday of this week). ************************************************************* COCH-COSH 2004 - Call For Papers (Re-)Envisioning the Digital in the Arts and Humanities U Manitoba, May 30 ­ June 1 ************************************************************* http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp.php Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2004 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Especially welcome are proposals that encourage us to envision ­ and revise our image ­ of the digital in our work, by documenting, exploring, and imagining the emerging or established role of computing in Arts and Humanities disciplines. Further topics may include, but will not be limited to, the following: - humanities computing figured as discipline and/or inter-discipline (via exploration or exemplification) - society and the computer, from an Arts and Humanities perspective - humanities computing and pedagogy - computing in the visual, musical, and performance arts - scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination - computing in multi-lingual and non-English environments - ongoing humanities computing research involving materials in textual, oral/aural, visual, multi-media, and other formats The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation societies ­ including ACCUTE (see http://coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp-ACCUTE.php) and the CHA/SHC's Committee on History and Computing (contact John Bonnet: John.Bonnett@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca) ­ parallel sessions with APFUCC, L'Association des Professeur(e)s de Français des Universities et Colleges Canadiens (contact Paul Fortier: fortier@cc.UManitoba.CA), and a proposed 'allied association' session with the joint international conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (contact Andrew Mactavish: andrew.mactavish@mcmaster.ca). Paper and/or session proposals can be accepted until December 19 via this URL: http://coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2004/cfp.php Information on COCH-COSH and forms for membership can be found at http://coch-cosh.ca/ -- 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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.465 digital preservation Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:18:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 670 (670) [deleted quotation] [ . . . ] [deleted quotation] There's often a kind of lop-sided materiality that holds sway in discussions of digital preservation: on the one hand we're quick to point out how all the ugly realities of computing--the warts and blemishes of hardware, software, and standards--conspire against the notion of preserving anything digital; yet on the other hand, counter-examples based on the preservation of printed artifacts tend to come in form of idealized abstractions. "I can still read an Old English manuscript." Well yes, because its been kept in a climate-controlled vault with access restricted to credentialled scholars. 500 years is an awfully long time, no matter what the medium. Will the acid-free book on the library shelf exist 500 years from now? Probably, if the thought experiment consists in imagining that book in a vacuum. But think of everything that's being assumed here, starting with the ongoing stability and homogeneity of "the library" as a cultural institution. Assuming that "the library" is still recognizable as such in a few centuries, however, it's worth pointing out that when we want to find the acid-free book we will do so via electronic (or maybe quantum) records. For some this becomes the occasion, a la Nicholson Baker, for insisting on the importance of keeping the card catalogs around; I prefer to think of it as a reminder of what preservation really is. We're not dealing with a print vs. digital dichotomy here, any more than we really were a decade ago when we liked to talk about the death of the book and whatnot. We're dealing with a media _ecology_ that's in a constant state of flux, with relations between different media shifting and redefined through the advent of new material technologies. Any sustainable approach to preservation, I would argue, starts with that larger ecology, not with one specific medium or format. Matt Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 12/03 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:17:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 671 (671) Greetings: The December 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are three articles, a report of the ISMIR 2003 conference, 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 December is Joseph Mussulman's collection, Discovering Lewis and Clark(R). The articles include: Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; and Stephen R. Lawrence, University of Colorado NEP: Current Awareness Service of the RePEc Digital Library Heting Chu and Thomas Krichel, Long Island University Open Archives Data Service Prototype and Automated Subject Indexing Using D-Lib(R) Archive Content As a Testbed Larry Mongin, Yueyu Fu, and Javed Mostafa, Indiana University The conference report is: Report on the 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2003: 26 - 30 October 2003, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Brad Eden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The book review is: Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians By Priscilla Caplan, American Library Association Editions, April 2003 Reviewed by: Stuart Sutton, University of Washington 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://dlib.anu.edu.au/ 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 December 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 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.42 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:19:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 672 (672) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 42 (December 17 - December 23, 2003) INTERVIEW Making Policy in a Moore's Law World The accelerated rate of scientific discovery and technological innovation makes it difficult to keep up with the pace of change. What do policymakers know of nanotechnology and genetic modification? David Rejeski helps government agencies anticipate emerging technological issues. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i42_rejeski.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted (c)2003 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org. For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ From: Bart Geurts Subject: 1st CfP ESSLLI workshop "Implicature and conversational Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:16:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 673 (673) meaning" CALL FOR PAPERS Implicature and conversational meaning http://www.phil.kun.nl/implicatures 16-20 August, Nancy organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2004 (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9-20 August, 2004 in Nancy Workshop Organizers: Bart Geurts (bart.geurts@phil.kun.nl) Rob van der Sandt (rob@phil.kun.nl) Workshop Purpose: The central notion that dominated linguistic pragmatics since the early seventies is Grice's notion of conversational implicature. It is based on the insight that, by means of general principles of rational communication, we may convey more with the use of a sentence than just its conventional meaning. What is actually conveyed depends on the utterance situation, the linguistic context, and the goals and preferences of the interlocutors. Hence, what is actually meant may deviate in various ways from what is literally said. Over the last few years there is a renewed interest in Gricean pragmatics from different theoretical perspectives. This comprises work in a dynamic framework, non-monotonic reasoning, and optimality and game theoretic approaches. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit a 2-page abstract before March 5, 2004. The following formats are accepted: pdf, (plain) latex, and rtf. Please send your submission electronically to: bart.geurts@phil.kun.nl Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop?s programme committee, which consists of Reinhard Blutner (Amsterdam), Gennaro Chierchia (Milan), Larry Horn (Yale), Francois Recanati (Paris), and the organisers. Local Arrangements: All workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will be the same as the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Important Dates: Submissions: March 5, 2004 Notification: April 19, 2004 ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2004 Preliminary programme: April 23, 2004 Final programme: June 25, 2004 Workshop: August 16-20, 2004 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "information" Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:02:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 674 (674) Many here, I suspect, will be interested in the following comprehensive survey and analysis of the notoriously difficult term "information": Rafael Capurro and Birger Hjørland, "The Concept of Information", in B. Cronin, ed., Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 37 (2002): 343-411 (draft version at http://www.capurro.de/infoconcept.html). (Praise be to those who "self-archive" their papers in this fashion!) Unfortunately Capurro and Hjørland miss my favourite discussion of this term, Geoffrey Nunberg, "Farewell to the information age", in G. Nunberg, ed., The Future of the Book (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996): 103-38 (draft version at http://ecot.rice.edu/~Tony.Gorry/NunbergFarewell.pdf). But they do consider the humanities at some length and capture a great deal in their broad sweep. Capurro has the charming suggestion of a new term, "angeletics" (cognate with "angel"), for the science of messages; see his article on the subject at http://www.capurro.de/angeletics.html. 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: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.465 digital preservation Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:18:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 675 (675) At 12.14 16/12/2003, Spencer Tasker wrote: [deleted quotation] [...] I too would like to add something to the discussion, and would like to point all of the humanists who can read in italian to the following article: "attenti, col digitale non si tramanda" (something like "beware, what's digital can't be left as a legacy"), http://www.apogeonline.com/webzine/2003/12/11/01/200312110101, coming from the newsletter "apogeonline", and written by Paolo Attivissimo (www.attivissimo.org). He points out that while one could think of rebuilding from scratch an old grammophone, and actually do it, the same is not true for - say - an old Sinclair Z80, or any piece of electronic hardware, after the stop of the industrial flow which produced it. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:56:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 676 (676) Literature" "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature" "An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good" [ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml ] I am pleased to inform you that my chapter on "Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature" written for a volume on _E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities _ (edited by David C. Fowler. New York : Haworth Information Press, 2004) has been officially published [http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/sampletext/4879.pdf] Chapter 10. Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature 197 Budapest Open Access Initiative 197 New Generation Journals 199 Self-Archiving 200 EPrints 201 Open Archives Initiative 206 Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 208 Roles and Responsibilities of Self-Archiving 212 "The Future of Ideas" 215 FROM THE CONCLUSION: Whether the self-archiving model becomes the new paradigm for scholarly publishing as envisioned by its proponents will depend not only on improved archiving and retrieval software and systems but also, and more importantly, on the degree to which all stakeholders endorse and embrace its potential as a viable and sustainable publishing alternative. I have self-archived the article at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Open.pdf Season's Greetings! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Open Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." [ http://www.sric.org/voices/2003/v4n2/ ] From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- December 2003 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:55:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 677 (677) CIT INFOBITS December 2003 No. 66 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... Does Information Technology Matter to Higher Ed? Guides for Online Teaching Important Website Properties Digital Reads Book Describes Best Practices for Distance Learning EDUCAUSE 2003 Resources Online CIT Conference Calendar Upgraded/Moved 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: "Johanne Martinez - Schmitt" Subject: ESF NEWS - http://www.esf.org - Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:12:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 678 (678) The European Science Foundation (ESF) welcomes the suggestion of creating a new funding mechanism for supporting European research in the form of a European Research Council - <http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0\ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=73>http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0\ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=73 Call for Applications - LINKECOL Final Conference - Palma de Mallorca, May 2004 In order to mark the end of the ESF Programme on Linking Community and Ecosystem Ecology (LINKECOL), a final conference entitled “Linking community and ecosystem ecology: recent advances and future challenges”, will take place on 18-21 May 2004 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. <http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&activity=1&domain=3&article=91&page=986>http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&activity=1&domain=3&article=91&page=986 Colin Renfrew awarded European Latsis Prize 2003 The European Science Foundation awarded this year’s European Latsis Prize to Colin Renfrew, Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, for his exceptional contributions to European Prehistory. The prize ceremony took place at the Hotel Hilton in Strasbourg, France. <http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0§ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=72>http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0\ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=72 Outcome of the 2003 Call for ESF Exploratory Workshops The ESF will be funding a total of fifty-two exploratory workshops in 2004, across all scientific disciplines <http://www.esf.org/medias/section_5/95/FullListofworkshopsfundedin2004.pdf>http://www.esf.org/medias/section_5/95/FullListofworkshopsfundedin2004.pdf ESF appoints John Marks as Director of Science and Strategy The European Science Foundation has appointed John Marks as Director of Science and Strategy. Marks will oversee the direction and coordination of all scientific and strategic development at ESF. <http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0§ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=70>http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0\ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=70 EUROCORES on Science of Protein Production for Functional and Structural Analysis (EuroSCOPE) Following agreement with ESF Member Organisations in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, and Spain, the European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Outline Proposals for research projects to be undertaken within a EUROCORES on the Science of Protein Production for Functional and Structural Analysis (EuroSCOPE). <http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&article=356&domain=2&activity=7>http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&article=356&domain=2&activity=7 *** NEW ONLINE PUBLICATIONS *** Annual Report 2002 <http://www.esf.org/publication/165/Annualreport2002.pdf>http://www.esf.org/publication/165/Annualreport2002.pdf Food-Web Modelling for Ecological Assessment of Terrestrial Pollution (EcolMAT) - An ESF programme <http://www.esf.org/publication/169/Ecolmat.pdf>http://www.esf.org/publication/169/Ecolmat.pdf From Natural Philosophy to Science (NPHS) - An ESF programme <http://www.esf.org/publication/168/nphs.pdf>http://www.esf.org/publication/168/nphs.pdf Opportunities for outstanding young scientists in Europe to create an independant research team <http://www.esf.org/publication/167/OpportunitiesFinal.pdf>http://www.esf.org/publication/167/OpportunitiesFinal.pdf ESF Consortium for Ocean Drilling (ECOD) - White Paper <http://www.esf.org/publication/166/ECOD.pdf>http://www.esf.org/publication/166/ECOD.pdf Thank you for your interest in the ESF activities - With good wishes for Christmas and the New Year Johanne From: Francisco Subject: workshop on linguistic creativity Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:11:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 679 (679) Call For Papers: LREC 2004 Workshop on Language Resources for Linguistic Creativity A half-day workshop held as part of LREC 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal (24th-30th May). Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal Schedule: Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2004 Acceptance Notification: March 17th, 2004 Workshop held: May 29th, 2004 (afternoon) Research Context: Linguistic creativity is a decidedly knowledge-hungry process. Metaphors, poems and jokes, to name just three archetypal forms of linguistic creativity, can all be meaningfully studied by limiting our analysis to certain sub-types with rigid forms (such as X is Y metaphors, Petrarchian sonnets, light-bulb jokes, etc.), but the form is merely the vehicle through which the substance is conveyed, and this substance is essentially unlimited. A light-bulb joke is funny not because of its form but because of the concepts it employs; a metaphor is meaningful not because it juxtaposes two different concepts to achieve a frisson of semantic tension, but because the juxtaposition reveals something deep about the relationship between those concepts; and a poem is not creative merely because it rhymes, but because it tells us something about the world in a way that is striking and original. Creative language thus requires a mastery of both form and substance, inasmuch as a linguistically creative system must not only discover innovative language artefacts (metaphors, analogies, poems, stories, jokes, riddles, etc.) but must express these artefacts in a way that respects the constraints imposed by the form. Constraints on form usually constitute a closed system and are thus the easiest to encode, but constraints on substance are essentially open-ended. Thus, while it is feasible that systems can be given their knowledge about form via hand-coding, of grammars, lexicons and so forth, it is not clear that hand-coding offers a scalable solution to the problem of substance in producing anything more than toy systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in linguistic creativity, to consider how questions of conceptual substance can be framed, advanced, resolved or reformulated in terms of existing (or anticipated) language resources. For instance, can existing lexical systems like WordNet, or general ontologies like CYC or Mikrokosmos, be used to provide conceptual substance to linguistically creative systems? If so, to what extent are these systems creative? What new structures can be mined from these resources to enable linguistic creativity? Can text-mining over large corpora or the World Wide Web yield the structures needed to drive linguistic creativity. Are there databases or case-bases available that have been, or can be, instrumental in driving linguistic creativity, in generating metaphors, analogies, poems, jokes, riddles and so on? We welcome thought-provoking papers on the computational treatment of any aspect of linguistic creativity. We especially welcome papers that address the role of language resources, such as dictionaries, ontologies, databases, case-bases and corpora, in creative language processing. Topics of discussion can include, but are not limited to, the following: Metaphor processing (comprehension and generation) Analogical reasoning (comprehension, generation, use in argumentation, etc.) Poetry generation Jokes and humour comprehension/generation Natural Language Generation Story/Plot Generation Puzzles and word-game generation Natural Language for Games Theories of Linguistic Creativity Ontology creation, boot-strapping and/or augmentation Submission: Authors should submit an abstract of between 500 ­ 1000 words to the following address: Tony.Veale@UCD.ie Submission emails should have a subject header that states “LREC Creativity Workshop” Workshop Program Committee: Tony Veale, Dept. of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Amílcar Cardoso, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Polo II, Portugal. Francisco Câmara Pereira, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Polo II, Portugal. Pablo Gervás, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Programación Facultad de Informática Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Costs: The workshop registration fee is 50 EURO for participants in the main LREC conference and 85 EURO for all others. Please visit the official LREC website at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/index.php From: Kluwer Subject: new book Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:14:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 680 (680) Les recherches philosophiques du jeune Heidegger by Philippe Quesne Académie de Créteil, France PHAENOMENOLOGICA -- 171 Ce travail est parti de la prise au sérieux de la philosophie "comme connaissance", à la différence de la connaissance scientifique, ou encore de la connaissance logique, par laquelle la philosophie formalise la connaissance scientifique, et se prive d'examiner son propre caractère de connaissance. Cette recherche n'a été possible qu'à partir des cours de jeunesse de Heidegger (1919-1922), qui peuvent être considérés comme les Recherches philosophiques de Heidegger, à la différence des Recherches logiques de Husserl par rapport auxquelles elles se conçoivent. Il s'agit pour Heidegger de montrer qu'on ne peut partir du jugement, qui est prédication et position, pour analyser la connaissance philosophique, mais de la question, et plus particulièrement de la question exemplaire "Gibt es... ?". A partir de la question, une méthode de la connaissance philosophique est envisageable que Heidegger caractérise comme "indication formelle". Le but de Heidegger est, au moyen de la question, d'analyser la connaissance philosophique comme purconnaître, autrement dit, de rétrocéder du "connaître quelque chose au sujet de quelque chose", qui est le propre de la prédication, au "connaître quelque chose" : la pensée n'est plus un acte objectivant, mais un vécu au sens propre, qui peut s'analyser phénoménologiquement. Cette méthode phénoménologique d'appréhension de la pensée ne peut être décrite à fond qu'à la condition d'être confrontée à toutes les notions des Recherches logiques de Husserl, sur quoi elle se fonde. Que font les philosophes quand ils font de la philosophie? Voient-ils, argumentent-ils, découvrent-ils, inventent-ils? Qu'est-ce qu'un argument philosophique, une intuition philosophique, une découverte philosophique? Faire de la philosophie, c'est, dans le sillage des Recherches philosophiques de Heidegger, chercher à savoir comment en faire, pour éviter, en croyant en faire, de faire autre chose. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1671-9 Date: November 2003 Pages: 300 pp. EURO 115.00 / USD 127.00 / GBP 79.00 From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Subject: Re: 17.470 digital preservation Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:10:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 681 (681) On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 08:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] This provokes me ... strongly ... as a Computer Scientist! The industrial flow is irrelevant to the reconstruction of the Sinclair Z80 or anything else of a similar sort as long as the "blueprints" (hardware, software) exist. Those individuals who still produce "hand-crafted computers" could build ... But more importantly, we can *emulate* machines such as the Sinclair Z80, if we want to! By "emulate" we mean to run a Virtual computing system on another computing system. For example, it is common for a Mac to run windows and unix software today! regards, Mícheál ... o O o O o ... USUK WAR ON UN ... o O o O o ... Dr. Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Department of Computer Science University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin 2, Ireland mailto:mmaa@cs.tcd.ie mailto:Micheal.MacanAirchinnigh@cs.tcd.ie ---- : -- : ---- "Please kindly take note that electronic mail to, from or within Trinity College Dublin, may be the subject of a request under the Freedom of Information Act." ---- : -- : ---- From: Ross Scaife Subject: New: "Colloquia familiaria: a selection" Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:12:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 682 (682) "Colloquia familiaria: a selection" is a digital archive consisting of several colloquia by Erasmus with introductory essays, interpretive questions, notes, as well as a brief discussion of current standards in electronic publication. Created by Jennifer Nelson, a University of Kentucky graduate student in Classics and Library and Information Science, this publication was intended to serve a number of purposes: first and foremost, we wanted to introduce intermediate Latin students to Erasmus' colloquia. Beyond that, the goal was to showcase TEI-XML as a text-encoding practice that can increase the likelihood of long-term preservation of digital documents in the humanities, and that can accommodate the high standards of resource description found in library MARC (machine-readable cataloging) records. At present, this collection includes an excerpt from the initial "Formulae," plus "A Lesson in Manners," "The Girl with No Interest in Marriage," "Inns," and "The Abbot and the Learned Lady". We do invite submissions, however, as we hope that this archive will continue to grow through the contributions of other Erasmus enthusiasts. This project was completed under the editorial supervision of Jane Phillips and Ross Scaife (Classics, University of Kentucky), with additional technical advising from Joseph B. Miller (Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky). All of these materials reside in a single TEI-conformant XML file whose presentation on the web in HTML format has been effected via TEI-XSL (release 3.0). http://www.stoa.org/colloquia/ http://www.tei-c.org/ From: "Seamus Ross, Director HATII" Subject: DigiCULT.Info 6 (12/2003) Released Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:14:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 683 (683) Issue 6 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture December 2003, ISSN 1609-3941 This is a rich issue of DigiCULT.Info covering topics in such areas as digitisation, asset management and publication, virtual reality, documentation, digital preservation, and the development of the knowledge society. We are pleased to announce the addition of two new sections in this Issue, "Action in the Preservation of Memory" featuring the National Library of Australia's activities as part of PANDORA Australia's Web Archive; and "News from DigiCULT's Regional Correspondents". All of us at DigiCULT wish you and your family all the best for the festive season, and look forward to welcoming you back in 2004 with all the latest news and information from the Cultural Heritage Sector of Europe and beyond. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:21:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 684 (684) I would very much appreciate recommendations of books or articles you regard as fundamental to an understanding of each of the following disciplines or discipinary groups: Philosophy History Social sciences (including at least sociology, anthropology and economics) Linguistics Cultural studies Performance studies Literary studies Computer science In each case I am interested only in works that address an intelligent but possibly ignorant audience. My guess is that the job could only be done by a leading figure of the day, e.g. in the case of anthropology, Clifford Geertz. I am asking the questions: what is each discipline all about? how does it construct the world? what does it have to offer? I am interested quite specifically in what each has to offer us in humanities computing, but I'd rather not eliminate any possibilities at the moment. If you think I have forgotten a discipline or group for which such a book or article exists, please let me know. Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 17.477 fundamental books? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:02:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 685 (685) Willard, In the case of philosophy, I very much doubt that there is such a thing as an overall survey. That is because the 'discipline' (using that word in the loosest of senses) encompasses everything from mathematical logic to biomedical ethics and Derrida to Confucius to Dan Dennett. Most philosophers are more closely connected to nonphilosophers in cognate areas (political phils to political theorists, phils of mind to cognitive scientists) than to most of their fellow philosophers. Indeed, a chunk of my CPA Pres Add was devoted to just this issue. The slides are available at: www.acpcpa.ca Click the link to publications. Andrew -- Andrew Brook, Professor of Philosophy Past-president, Canadian Philosophical Association Member, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 2217 Dunton Tower, Carleton University Ottawa ON, Canada K1S 5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Fax: 613 520-3985 Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: fundamental books? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:04:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 686 (686) [deleted quotation]Geoffrey Finch, *How to Study Linguistics* [deleted quotation]Joseph Gibaldi, *Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures* Both of these are basically student guides for graduate students, which may not be exactly what you had in mind. Patrick Rourke From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.477 fundamental books? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:03:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 687 (687) Willard, For art history: Gombrich's Art and Illusion. Matt Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: fundamental books? Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:21:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 688 (688) I would very much appreciate recommendations of books or articles you regard as fundamental to an understanding of each of the following disciplines or discipinary groups: Philosophy History Social sciences (including at least sociology, anthropology and economics) Linguistics Cultural studies Performance studies Literary studies Computer science In each case I am interested only in works that address an intelligent but possibly ignorant audience. My guess is that the job could only be done by a leading figure of the day, e.g. in the case of anthropology, Clifford Geertz. I am asking the questions: what is each discipline all about? how does it construct the world? what does it have to offer? I am interested quite specifically in what each has to offer us in humanities computing, but I'd rather not eliminate any possibilities at the moment. If you think I have forgotten a discipline or group for which such a book or article exists, please let me know. Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Timothy Mason Subject: Re: 17.477 fundamental books? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:04:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 689 (689) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]For sociology, would Anthony Gidden's "Sociology" not fit the bill? For anthropology, the choice is difficult, but Marvin Harris's "The Rise of Anthropological Theory" is worth looking at. For an anti-dote, Mary Douglas's 'Purity and Danger' can be recommended - along with virtually anything by Michael Taussig. "Mimesis and Alterity" is to be particularly recommended. For linguistics, one cannot do better than Pinker's "The Language Instinct" - after which, you may visit my set of links to non-Chomskyan linguistic sites to get the other point of view. That's at http://perso.club-internet.fr/tmason/WebPages/LangTeach/CounterChomsky.htm Best wishes Timothy Mason Université de Paris 8 From: Carolyn Rude Subject: RE: 17.477 fundamental books? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:05:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 690 (690) More disciplines that might have something to contribute to humanities computing: Science and Technology Studies Composition and Professional Communication (usually administered in English departments but with their own set of disciplinary questions, often involving technology) Carolyn Rude Dept of English, 323 Shanks Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 Carolyn.Rude@vt.edu 540 231 8396 fax 540 231 5692 From: "Charles Ess @ ITU" Subject: deadlines for CATaC'04 extended Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:06:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 691 (691) Please distribute to interested colleagues and appropriate listservs: Deadlines for CATaC'04 have been extended! In order to create a greater equality between general submissions and those intended for the two specific panels (one co-chaired by Susan Herring and Brenda Danet, and the second chaired by Michel Minou), we have decided to push back the deadline for _all_ submissions to CATaC'04 as follows: All papers (full - 10-20 formatted pages, short - 3-5 formatted pages) due: 1 February 2004. Please also note that _short papers_ (_not_ extended abstracts) are now required for the Herring and Danet panel on the Multi-lingual Internet. These changes are noted on the updated website, With all best wishes for happy holidays, Charles Ess Fay Sudweeks Co-chairs, CATaC'04 From: "Olga Francois" Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Colleges, Code and Copyright Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:07:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 692 (692) -------------------------------------------------- Abstract Deadline: February 9, 2004 ----------------------------------- A CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html To be presented at the Center for Intellectual Property 2004 Annual Symposium Titled Colleges, Code and Copyright: The impact of digital networks and technological controls on copyright and the dissemination of information in higher education June 10-11, 2004 * Adelphi, Maryland http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html Topic Areas: Potential authors are encouraged to submit papers that address one of the main topic tracks of the conference. Special attention will be given to those papers focusing on Track II topics. Authors may submit papers on alternative topics provided they are compatible with either of the main track topics listed below: Track I - Framing the Issues or, Track II - Possible Solutions Please see the web site for potential subtopics and Submission Guidelines: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html Important Dates: Abstract Deadline- February 9, 2004 Notification of Acceptance- March 1, 2004 Symposium Date- June 10-11, 2004 For questions concerning the Call for Papers and the upcoming symposium, please contact: Olga Francois, 301-985-6426 or ofrancois@umuc.edu. Please see the web site for more details: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:06:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 693 (693) Humanists will be interested in the following two new books, both German Habilitationsschriften published in English: Jan Christoph Meister, Computing Action: A Narratological Approach (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003). [deleted quotation] (See the listing at http://www.degruyter.com/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110176289-1&l=E.) Jörg R. J. Schirra, Variations and Application Conditions for the Data Type "Image": The Foundation of Computational Visualistics (2003, at http://www.computervisualistik.de/~schirra/Work/Projects/Habilitation/). 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: grammatical knowledge Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:06:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 694 (694) In our thinking about what sort of knowledge should be taught under the rubric of humanities computing, the following might prove useful. It is a review of a book on the decline in the teaching of grammar with a strong argument for the importance of grammatical knowledge. If, as some have said, computing is (or could be) the "new Latin", then how do we teach it in that spirit, i.e. so that it confers the attested benefits of formal training in Latin for those who do not emerge as classicists? In particular I am thinking of arguments for and against teaching programming as a basic skill independent of whether higher-level tools are deemed sufficient. The same dilemma can be observed in teaching students how to make Web pages: hand-code the HTML or use a high-level tool that does it all for them? Note in the following the argument that grammar should not be taught because it takes time away from more valuable subjects for instruction. We face much the same problem in attempting to teach programming: the time this takes is significant -- at minimum a semester and very likely a year, which in a minor programme is very difficult to justify. If what we fundamentally teach undergraduates is "how to think" -- rather than how to use MS Excel, for example -- then perhaps the cognitive benefits of programming outweigh the skill-acquisition benefits of applications courses. Yours, WM [deleted quotation] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Stan Ruecker Subject: RE: 17.478 fundamental books Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:36:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 695 (695) Hi Willard, It occurs to me that you might be looking here not necessarily for books that provide a survey, but rather for books that are in some way seminal or key to understanding an area. An example I have in mind for interface design theory (my own field) is Winograd and Flores. (1987). Understanding Computers and Cognition. I'd recommend this to any academic reader interested in thinking about interfaces. In visual communication design (not on your list, yet), I would similarly suggest Frascara. (1997). User-centred Graphic Design. But perhaps you were hoping for something more recent, or I've got the idea wrong entirely. yrs, Stan **************************** Stan Ruecker, PhD Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow Humanities Computing 200 Arts University of Alberta "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: Willard McCarty Subject: times of gatherings and celebrations Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:38:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 696 (696) Dear colleagues, Tonight is the longest of the year, today the shortest. Perhaps because I am still relatively new to this country, at this latitude, and live in a part of an old city whose buildings were built from bricks dark with age, I'm more than a little apt for appreciation of the gloom that characterizes winter here. Every one of these last 7 years in London winter has surprised me, who was schooled to expect bitter bright cold days and nights. I am speaking of a physical gloom, not a psychological one, though the one could become the other very easily, given less happy circumstances. This year is very special for me, in that I am spending it entirely by writing, with the occasional bout of reading to support gaps in the fortifications. Hence my experience of gloom and the absurdly rapid return of night take a writerly form. Yesterday, as I was sending off notice to Humanist of two relevant Habilitationsschriften, I thought, that's it, I'll call what I am writing now my Hibernationsschrift! Qualifications out of a long sleep for the long sleep.... Yes, yes, I really should explain, for the benefit of those among the 1258 subscribers whose time in Humanist does not include a previous occasion like this one. Every year since 1987, with a 5-year hiatus, I've sent out an all-inclusive solstitial greeting of good cheer to everyone, in which self-indulgently I allow myself to conform mentally to the cultural stereotype of jolly generosity with which I was raised, the scholar Santa, as it were. Christmas is in 3 days, Kwanza the day after, the solstice (a.k.a. Yule) and Tohji-taisai today, Chanukah already in progress, Bodhi Day past by a couple of weeks -- and others important to many, which I am too ignorant to know of. A dark time in which we celebrate the light. Like the boy on the hill above Rio, in the movie Black Orpheus, at sunrise, playing the old guitar he has just inherited, to make sure the sun will come up? Something of that darkly informs the cooking, wrapping, gathering, eating and raising of glasses, perhaps. In this run-up to Christmas I have been thinking appropriately about the social aspects of what we do, in particular meditating on the phrase "lone scholar" (yes, as I sit alone in my study, writing). If my ear for linguistic usage is working reliably, then what I hear when people use this phrase tends toward something like a denegration -- an implicit assignment of the traditional mode of humanistic scholarship to "the dustbin of history" (Trotsky to the Menscheviks at the Second All-Russian Congress of the Soviets, 25 October 1917). I have no problem whatever with collaboration -- a fine thing, in my own experience one of the best. What bothers me, rather, is the promotion of a model of practice without understanding its relation to the native "epistemic culture" (Karin Knorr Cetina's term). As Thomas Kuhn suggested many years ago in a strongly autobiographical account of work in physics, history and philosophy, not only the way people work but what they recognize as valid work and where they think that it happens differ from one epistemic culture to another. In the humanities the locus of work is more or less in the writing -- in contrast, say, to physics or computer science, where the write-up tends to report on the work, not be it. Indeed, unless the work were external to the writing, invested in manipulation of objects, it would seem difficult to imagine the kind of authorship-by-committee that Peter Galison describes in "The Collective Author" (Scientific Authorship, ed. Biagioli and Galison, Routledge 2003, pp. 332ff). My point here is not merely that in the epistemic culture(s) of the humanities, the solitary nature of much of the work we do is integral to the kind of work it is. At the same time, this work is intensely social. One realizes the social aspect whenever questions of audience arise: how important it is to understand whom one is addressing, what they know, how they need and expect to be addressed -- how important it is actually *to communicate*. (This is an especially challenging matter for an intrinsically interdisciplinary field such as ours.) We see the social nature of our work in citations to other scholarship, less obviously but no less powerfully in the ideas we inherit, chunks of code we borrow or depend on and so forth. It is attested profoundly in the acknowledgements given in the leading footnotes to papers and in that special section of books where authors detail their indebtedness. In my own experience, the question of audience has been central, peer-review both demanding and very positive, in all but one or two cases leaving me with strong gratitude to my reviewers. Recently, for example, I submitted a paper that ventured deep into territory not my own. One of the reviewers turned out clearly to be a leading authority in the field (the authority was obvious in the writing), who responded in a detailed and lengthy critique from which I learned a great deal. There was, I suspect, a full day's worth of work or more in that review. Where else, how else could one get such devoted and intelligent attention? Perhaps the most intensely social experience of scholarship, however, comes in the writing of a book, which in my case is far closer to the speaking of a multitude to itself than to a lone voice addressing a vast crowd. The experience is almost orchestral and certainly one of a vast socio-intellectual resonance. It is one of participation in a long, slowly unfolding conversation. Then there's Humanist and its kind, to which in the last 17-18 years so-called lone scholars have flocked in droves. Some here will remember when we were told that computers would lead to the massive isolation of individuals from each other, everyone in front of a screen, no one face-to-face. Then people began to wonder why computer labs were so popular among those who had their own machines. Now people like Terry Winograd are telling us not only that computers are about communicating rather than alphanumeric crunching but that the metaphor of the "interface" (that which is between a person and his or her machine) is all wrong, that it should be replaced by another, the "habitat" ("From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design", in Peter Denning and Robert Metcalfe, eds., Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 149-162, online at http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/acm97.html). I suppose one could argue in the manner of Geoffrey Nunberg that our party-animal nature, long constricted by professional modes of communication, is now allowed its rampant freedom -- that although we were highly social lone scholars before, now we are even more so. And perhaps that's a good place to stop so that preparations for the more local parties may proceed unfettered by this global chit-chat. The sun is now midway in its travels across the rooftops opposite me, and I am still writing. Certain foodstuffs need to be procured before the sky is dark again, and there are large chunks of someone else's book to read and comment on. So I'm off, with heartiest possible greetings and the very best wishes to everyone for a fine social time of it. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 697 (697) this is testing mail to lists From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.43 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:36:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 698 (698) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 43 (December 24, 2003 - January 6, 2004) INTERVIEW Stuart Russell on the Future of Artificial Intelligence AI may not take over the world but it will provide new and powerful tools. Smart microwave ovens? No big deal. Full-size humanoid robots that walk, climb stairs, open and close doors, and pick things up? Now that gets our attention. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i43_russell.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i43_russell.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: translation from Russian? Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:36:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 699 (699) A friend in Russia with some English is looking for a standard translation of the term "Doktorskij sovet". On his behalf I'd be grateful for suggestions. 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: Jonathan Ginzburg Subject: CATALOG '04: first CFP Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:35:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 700 (700) First Call for Papers CATALOG'04 EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona June 19-21 2004 (Apologies for Multiple Postings) Workshop URL: <http://www.upf.edu/catalog04>http://www.upf.edu/catalog04 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Catalog'04 will be the eighth 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 Dial/Log conferences are always stimulating and fun and Barcelona, which will host ACL 2004 immediately following Catalog'04, is a great place to visit. Barcelona will also host, during the summer of 2004, its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events, exhibits, and performances (<http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/>http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/). So mark your calendar now. INVITED SPEAKERS: Massimo Poesio (University of Essex), Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester), Two other speakers to be announced We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: - models of common ground/mutual belief in communication - modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models and turn-taking - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - reference in dialogues - ellipsis resolution in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - interpretation of questions and answers - nonlinguistic interaction in communication - natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - multimodal dialogue systems - dialogue management in practical implementations - categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora - designing and evaluating dialogue systems [material deleted] From: Declerck Subject: ESSLLI 2004 Workshop CfP: NLP for Multimedia Applications Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:35:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 701 (701) CALL FOR PAPERS NLP for Multimedia Applications http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/esslli04.htm 16-20 August, Nancy organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2004 (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9-20 August, 2004 in Nancy Workshop Organizers: Thierry Declerck (declerck@dfki.deb) Elisabeth André (andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de) Workshop Purpose: The Workshop aims to provide a discussion platform between advanced PhD students and researchers, who are interested in the topics typically addressed at ESSLLI, and possible multimedia applications involving research results from Language Processing. The submissions should not necessarily describe achieved work, but can present advanced ideas on how to combine NLP and Multimedia applications. Workshop Topics: The workshop will explore some issues on the role natural language processing (NLP) can play within the increasing number of multimedia (MM) applications that more and more are influencing our everyday life. Multimodality can be addressed as well, as long as multimedia aspects are considered. Main questions to be addressed will be: - How to integrate multimedia input including natural language (spoken or written); - How to combine natural language with other media in order to generate high quality multimedia output; - How to make use of NL for efficient access to MM archives, Including interactive retrieval; - Multimedia segmentation, indexing, summarization, and presentation; - Multimedia and multimodal interaction; - How to extend multilingual NLP applications (like Question Answering etc) into a multi-source and multimedia setting; - Representation (and reasoning about) of multimedia/multimodal discourse and context The workshop will also investigate the type of formalisms and standards to be used for this integration task. Contributions on basic research and on running or achieved projects dealing with the topics are welcome. Papers addressing one or more of the following topics are also welcome, but there should be some clear possible relationships to NLP, including logical issues: MPEG, multimedia/multimodal content, coding schemes, metadata, knowledge representation for multimedia content (multimedia ontologies), semantic annotation of multimedia content or search, retrieval and Web applications. [material deleted] From: John Lavagnino Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 2003 MLA Convention Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:37:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 702 (702) Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language Association convention in San Diego, starting today. There are a number of talks on humanities computing and related subjects at the MLA, and to help those interested in finding them, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide to these talks, based on the convention program. It is available at: http://www.ach.org/mla03/guide.html John Lavagnino From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 703 (703) this is testing mail to lists From: Willard McCarty Subject: best wishes for 2004 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:43:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 704 (704) Dear colleagues, Permit me a bit of a story. This morning, in pursuit of animated diagramming software called "The Brain" (www.thebrain.com), I ran into two remarkable sites: a neuroimaging primer, The Whole Brain Atlas, done in collaboration between Harvard and MIT (www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html); and a popular animated exposition, The Secret Life of the Brain, done by the U.S. Public Broadcasting System (www.pbs.org/wnet/brain). One does not need to have had, respectively, brain surgery and children to appreciate these sites, but it does help to be aware of what we knew and could do a generation ago. It might also help to have a child on your lap while viewing them; I don't, but then I have no trouble and much pleasure both in reverting to childhood and summoning warm memories of parenthood at a moment's notice :-).... I have been thinking recently of what figures such as Jacob Bronowski and Simon Schama have done via television for science and history, respectively. These two came to mind some time ago, when I was finishing off a chapter of my book and needed an example or two of how a modern-day, digitally savvy scholar might respond in what seems to me a very interesting situation recorded by the mid 20C classicist E. R. Dodds in his commentary on Euripides' play, The Bacchae (Clarendon Press 1944; 2nd edn 1960). In the commentary to lines 661-2 ("Where the white snow's glistening falls never lose their grip"), Dodds begins by discussing the meteorological problem created by a literal interpretation: "If this means, as some suppose, that it never stops snowing on Cithaeron, the exaggeration is monstrous", he writes. But -- here's the significant moment -- he then offers this parenthetical comment: "(I found none when I climbed the mountain in April)." The fact of this distinguished Oxford don climbing the sacred mountain himself, to be at the site where the Dionysiac ritual took place, where in the story Pentheus was dismembered by the maenads (including his mother and auntie), tells such a story as to be mightily arresting. What could a Schama or Bronowski do now with that moment in a digital commentary? So I return to the wonder of it all (which was the point of mentioning my encounters with the brain), i.e. to those moments when a life of highly specialized research is fulfilled, energized and made powerfully communicable by intersection with common humanity. Allow me to offer a New Year's resolution: not to give up anything, such as chocolate or the quest for true love, but to embrace and elaborate the applications of computing machinery to bridge, as Dodds did in his way, the private and the public. Happy New Year! 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: best wishes for 2004 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:43:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 705 (705) Dear colleagues, Permit me a bit of a story. This morning, in pursuit of animated diagramming software called "The Brain" (www.thebrain.com), I ran into two remarkable sites: a neuroimaging primer, The Whole Brain Atlas, done in collaboration between Harvard and MIT (www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html); and a popular animated exposition, The Secret Life of the Brain, done by the U.S. Public Broadcasting System (www.pbs.org/wnet/brain). One does not need to have had, respectively, brain surgery and children to appreciate these sites, but it does help to be aware of what we knew and could do a generation ago. It might also help to have a child on your lap while viewing them; I don't, but then I have no trouble and much pleasure both in reverting to childhood and summoning warm memories of parenthood at a moment's notice :-).... I have been thinking recently of what figures such as Jacob Bronowski and Simon Schama have done via television for science and history, respectively. These two came to mind some time ago, when I was finishing off a chapter of my book and needed an example or two of how a modern-day, digitally savvy scholar might respond in what seems to me a very interesting situation recorded by the mid 20C classicist E. R. Dodds in his commentary on Euripides' play, The Bacchae (Clarendon Press 1944; 2nd edn 1960). In the commentary to lines 661-2 ("Where the white snow's glistening falls never lose their grip"), Dodds begins by discussing the meteorological problem created by a literal interpretation: "If this means, as some suppose, that it never stops snowing on Cithaeron, the exaggeration is monstrous", he writes. But -- here's the significant moment -- he then offers this parenthetical comment: "(I found none when I climbed the mountain in April)." The fact of this distinguished Oxford don climbing the sacred mountain himself, to be at the site where the Dionysiac ritual took place, where in the story Pentheus was dismembered by the maenads (including his mother and auntie), tells such a story as to be mightily arresting. What could a Schama or Bronowski do now with that moment in a digital commentary? So I return to the wonder of it all (which was the point of mentioning my encounters with the brain), i.e. to those moments when a life of highly specialized research is fulfilled, energized and made powerfully communicable by intersection with common humanity. Allow me to offer a New Year's resolution: not to give up anything, such as chocolate or the quest for true love, but to embrace and elaborate the applications of computing machinery to bridge, as Dodds did in his way, the private and the public. Happy New Year! 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 706 (706) this is testing mail to lists From: Willard McCarty Subject: best wishes for 2004 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:43:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 707 (707) Dear colleagues, Permit me a bit of a story. This morning, in pursuit of animated diagramming software called "The Brain" (www.thebrain.com), I ran into two remarkable sites: a neuroimaging primer, The Whole Brain Atlas, done in collaboration between Harvard and MIT (www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html); and a popular animated exposition, The Secret Life of the Brain, done by the U.S. Public Broadcasting System (www.pbs.org/wnet/brain). One does not need to have had, respectively, brain surgery and children to appreciate these sites, but it does help to be aware of what we knew and could do a generation ago. It might also help to have a child on your lap while viewing them; I don't, but then I have no trouble and much pleasure both in reverting to childhood and summoning warm memories of parenthood at a moment's notice :-).... I have been thinking recently of what figures such as Jacob Bronowski and Simon Schama have done via television for science and history, respectively. These two came to mind some time ago, when I was finishing off a chapter of my book and needed an example or two of how a modern-day, digitally savvy scholar might respond in what seems to me a very interesting situation recorded by the mid 20C classicist E. R. Dodds in his commentary on Euripides' play, The Bacchae (Clarendon Press 1944; 2nd edn 1960). In the commentary to lines 661-2 ("Where the white snow's glistening falls never lose their grip"), Dodds begins by discussing the meteorological problem created by a literal interpretation: "If this means, as some suppose, that it never stops snowing on Cithaeron, the exaggeration is monstrous", he writes. But -- here's the significant moment -- he then offers this parenthetical comment: "(I found none when I climbed the mountain in April)." The fact of this distinguished Oxford don climbing the sacred mountain himself, to be at the site where the Dionysiac ritual took place, where in the story Pentheus was dismembered by the maenads (including his mother and auntie), tells such a story as to be mightily arresting. What could a Schama or Bronowski do now with that moment in a digital commentary? So I return to the wonder of it all (which was the point of mentioning my encounters with the brain), i.e. to those moments when a life of highly specialized research is fulfilled, energized and made powerfully communicable by intersection with common humanity. Allow me to offer a New Year's resolution: not to give up anything, such as chocolate or the quest for true love, but to embrace and elaborate the applications of computing machinery to bridge, as Dodds did in his way, the private and the public. Happy New Year! 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: 17.486 translation from Russian? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:44:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 708 (708) Medical advice? Doctor's orders? Something like that. On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] suggestions. [deleted quotation] Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ From: Toma Tasovac Subject: Re: 17.486 translation from Russian? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:45:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 709 (709) I'd say: dissertation committee All best, Toma From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 17.486 translation from Russian? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:44:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 710 (710) Willard, I'm told the elementary translation is "Doctor's advice". Anything less basic would depend on context... Best wishes, Mike From: Kevin Hawkins Subject: Re: translation from Russian? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:44:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 711 (711) While I'm not a native speaker, I would go with "doctoral committee". Translating academic ranks across national boundaries gets difficult. I suggest your friend ask the folks on SEELANGS if he needs something more precise: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ . From: Willard McCarty Subject: ironies of the productivity claim Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:05:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 712 (712) The following is to alert you (if you need alerting) to an important book that, although it's been around for nearly a decade, I have just stumbled on: Thomas K. Landauer, The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1995). Attached below is a snippet from an insightful review article, "Virtual Machines, Virtual Infrastructures: The New Historiography of Information Technology", by P. N. Edwards, which appeared in Isis (1998) but is available online, under Book Reviews, at http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/. (And while you're there, see also his "Think Piece" under Columns and Editorials.) [deleted quotation] Now if productivity is not the point of computing (as would seem rather obvious for academic work), then what is? 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: "Ask the Philosopher" Subject: Re: 17.512 Dijkstra's challenge Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:43:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 713 (713) On November 19, 2000, for the "Communications of the ACM",Edsger Dijkstra (11 May 1930 -- 6 August 2002) put forward the following observation about the central challenge of computing that seems to acknowledge the great failure of computer science: "I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it", has not been met. On the contrary, most of our systems are much more complicated than can be considered healthy, and are too messy and chaotic to be used in comfort and confidence..You see, while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery, we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces. We simply do not know yet the limits of disentaglement. We do not know yet whether intrinsic intricacy can be distinguished from accidental intricacy. We do not know yet whether trade-offs will be possible. We do not know yet whether we can invent for intricacy a meaningful concept about which we can prove theorems that help. To put it bluntly, we simply do not know yet what we should be talking about.." Sheldon Richmond From: Willard McCarty Subject: a more complex responsibility Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:45:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 714 (714) In his 1970 Turing Lecture, "Form and Content in Computer Science" (Journal of the ACM 17.2, April 1970, pp. 197-215), Marvin Minsky makes a number of very strong criticisms of computer science, chiefly what he then thought to be its unhealthy preoccupation with form over content. His focus is important to consider, for it (I think) indicates the basis for a deeper alliance between CS and humanities computing than is usually proposed -- deeper than simply the common use of formal methods. But here I'd like to go deeper still via his remarks on the responsibility of the computer scientist in education as a whole. Forgive me for quoting his remarks at length. The essence of the matter is in the first paragraph of the relevant section (pp. 204f): [deleted quotation] What this amounts to is the idea that in teaching our subject we are fundamentally engaged in teaching our students how to learn and think about the world. Minsky lists a number of statements typical of the view he had developed with Seymour Papert: [deleted quotation] cases. [deleted quotation] In other words, computational modelling provides us with a most powerful means of education. [deleted quotation] One can enjoy Minsky's typical strong-AI bravado without taking it as necessary for us to profit from his early insight into a "more complex responsibility" -- and mighty engine to power a broader social role. There's hubris and truth in his concluding sentence: [deleted quotation] 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: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.502 ironies of the productivity claim Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:43:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 715 (715) At 10.13 06/01/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] about the matter of "automation phase (roughly 1960-1972) and decision support phase (1973-present)": as far as i know the history of computers-in-use is clearly marked from its origin by a cybernetic approach: the complexity of problems grows every day, and with it also grows the urgency for the solutions to these problems. this all starts in the sixties with the work of J.C.R. Licklider (see "Man-computer symbiosis"; you can find it online courtesy of Digital Equipment Corp. and R. Taylor: go to http://memex.org/licklider.pdf) and D. Engelbart ("By “augmenting human intellect” we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. Increased capability in this respect is taken to mean a mixture of the following: more-rapid comprehension, better comprehension, the possibility of gaining a useful degree of comprehension in a situation that previously was too complex, speedier solutions, better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to problems that before seemed insoluble." [italics are mine] citation from "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework"; you can find it online in various places, go for example to http://www.liquidinformation.org/engelbart/62_paper_full.pdf) the more one studies the history and evolution of "computers-in-use", the more it clearly appears how much, up to these days, the development and evolution of personal computing is linked / bounded to ideas and concepts of the type summarily sketched with the above references. on the academical and practical side of the problem: "if productivity is not the point of computing (as would seem rather obvious for academic work), then what is?" i would like first to recall a sort of exemplum fictum: concordance production. in the field of literary and textual studies, concordances are a basic tool. once ago producing the concordance of a great / big work (say Vergil's Aeneis) required the full life of a scholar. now you can produce in few minutes the concordance of any text available in digital format (yes, this statement has to be taken with care, not always it is completely true; nevertheless it is useful). after that i would like to recall two typical situations of those who study texts: - you can use a computer tool for the study of texts to serendipically wander through the (digital) text to see if something interesting surfaces and catches your attention. at that point you (start to) have an hypothesis to test, with that same computer tool and/or traditional (non computer-based) tools. - when you study a text, it frequently happens that you have before yourself many theorically possible paths of analysis, and you know that only some of them will lead to a meaningful end. to discover the ones leading to a meaningful end you must/can test their assumptions against the text. if you have your texts in digital format and one or more computer tools suitable to the task, you can rapidly check which paths of analysis result to be void of meaning. more rapidly than if you didn't had the computer tools. in other words, i see part of "the point of computing" in some sort of aid to hypothesis generation and to hypothesis testing. or, to say the same in other words, with other nuances ("a text speaks only to those who ask it valid questions"), an aid to questions asking and to the search for valid answers to those questions. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Ross Scaife Subject: Etana-Abzu News Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:43:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 716 (716) Announcing a new list ETANA-Abzu-news We are pleased to announce the availability of a new mailing list that will serve to inform the public of developments at ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives, and of additions to Abzu, ETANA's guide to the ancient Near East on-line. Instructions for adding your address to the list can be found at: https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ETANA-Abzu-news The ETANA project seeks to serve as a model of how a discipline-specific content site in ancient Near Eastern Studies can be constructed to become the dominant site for that discipline. ETANA will take a leadership role in developing standards specific to this discipline, test altruistic funding models, utilize OpenArchive metadata standards and create discipline-specific harvest engines to work with these metadata. ETANA will create a structure whereby scholarship can be accessible from data capture to finished scholarship on a single site. It will host data capture and access, core texts and born-digital publications in an environment of rights management, appropriate levels of peer review, and archival permanence. ETANA encompasses the primary portal in ancient Near Eastern Studies: Abzu, and the multiple rich image databases being created in the discipline. Scholarship is enhanced by technological innovations that facilitate communication and expedite the efficient sharing of research and ideas. No less than other disciplines, the study of the ancient Near East promises to be enriched significantly by the development of a singular, far-reaching resource for research that will be widely accessible to professionals and amateurs alike. To that end, ETANA brings together a consortium of universities and academic societies in order to develop and maintain a comprehensive, unified Internet site for the study of the ancient Near East. ETANA is a cooperative project of: American Oriental Society | American Schools of Oriental Research | Case Western Reserve University | Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State | Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago | Society of Biblical Literature | Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University | Vanderbilt University | Virginia Polytechnic and State University Support for ETANA has been provided by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (8/00 to 2/02, 6/01 to 8/02) and the National Science Foundation (Continuing grant IIS-0325579). Please forward this announcement wherever it may be useful. -Chuck Jones- for the ETANA team -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Charles Ellwood Jones Research Associate - Bibliographer The Oriental Institute - Chicago 1155 E. 58th St. Chicago IL 60637-1569 USA Voice (773) 702-9537 Fax (773) 702-9853 ce-jones@uchicago.edu http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Research_Arch.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: Philippe Schlenker Subject: Workshop-Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:21:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 717 (717) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/ESSLLI04.html organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2004) http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ 16-20 August, 2004 in Nancy Workshop Organizers: Ed Keenan, UCLA (ekeenan@ucla.edu) Philippe Schlenker, UCLA & IJN (schlenke@ucla.edu) Workshop Purpose: Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints on anaphora, was originally conceived in syntactic terms as a set of conditions on the distribution of indices (Chomsky 1983). Thus Condition A stated that anaphors are locally bound (*John/i thinks that himself/i is clever); Condition B stated that Pronominals are locally free (*He/i likes him/i), and Condition C required that R-expressions be free (*He/i thinks that John/i is clever). But other researchers have attempted to derive these constraints from lexical semantics or the interpretative procedure rather than the syntax. Some add a semantic component to a syntactic core (e.g. Reinhart 1983, Heim 1993, Fox 2000, Buring 2002), but others are more radically semantic (e.g. works by Jacobson, Keenan, Barker & Shan, Butler). The workshop, which is intended for advanced PhD students and researchers, will provide a forum to compare and assess these diverse proposals. We welcome proposals for 45mn contributions (30mn presentation + 15mn discussion), which should be specific, explicit and semantically informed. We list below some possible topics, though the list is not exhaustive. Possible Workshop Topics: -Semantic analyses of standard Binding Conditions -Arguments pro or contra semantic approaches to Binding Theory -Reflexivity -Relation between logophors and anaphors -Relation between deixis and anaphora -Cross-linguistic variation in binding conditions [material deleted] From: Alessandro Oltramari Subject: OntoLex 2004 - Second and final call for paper Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:20:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 718 (718) SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop OntoLex 2004: Ontologies and Lexical Resources in Distributed Environments <http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2004.html>http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2004.html Centro Cultural de Belem LISBON, Portugal 29th may 2004 In Association with 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2004 <http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/index.php>http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/index.php Main conference 26-27-28 May 2004 Motivations and aim The use of ontological knowledge in language technology applications goes a long way back. Recently, however, the project of turning the World Wide Web into a machine understandable resource to access digital information (the so-called Semantic Web) has stimulated a renewed interest in ontologies. In several recent workshops and conferences, researchers have investigated their nature and application potential for knowledge management, information retrieval and extraction, information exchange in agent-based systems as well as dialogue systems. Attention is being drawn to new aspects of ontology research such as ontology coordination and mapping ­ aspects that are particularly relevant for distributed environments such as Knowledge Grid and Semantic web. In fact the annotation of web resources in agreement with concepts and relations as defined in ontologies, is useful for establishing a conceptual support for knowledge communication. From this perspective, lexicographers, lexical semanticists and ontologists are joining forces to build innovative systems for integrating ontological knowledge with lexical and semantic resources. Important examples of this interaction are the recent works on the conceptual analysis of WordNet (one of the first lexical knowledge bases), and the wide use of upper ontologies in innovative international projects like EuroWordNet, SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet. WordNet was designed and built entirely by psychologists, linguists, and lexicographers. Nevertheless, there are obvious parallels with ontologies, especially in the kinds of structuring relations used (taxonomical links, meronymy or part-of, etc.), and indeed WordNet has for years attracted the attention of philosophers and ontologists. In this context, the distinction between conceptual (possibly axiomatic) ontologies and lexical ontologies (which contain both linguistic and ontological information) has become more and more central in the field. In this workshop we want to discuss ontologies as resources per se, as well as for what concerns the relation between ontological knowledge and language. This relation can be investigated from a number of different angles, for example what differences and similarities there are between ontologies and more traditional lexical resources such as dictionaries and wordnets; how ontologies can be extracted from language corpora; what role language plays in the definition and mapping of ontologies; and finally, how ontologies can be used to treat language in language technology applications ­ in particular applications for distributed environments. Topics to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Design principles and methodologies for upper-level ontologies and semantic lexical resources • Evaluation, comparison, mapping and integration of ontologies and lexical resources • Applications of ontologies and semantic lexical resources in LT applications (e.g. QA, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation) • Role of semantic lexical resources in ontology learning • Methods to derive ontological knowledge from text • Methods to annotate text with reference to an ontology • Ontology-based query expansion techniques • Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources • Ontologies and ontology mapping in multi-lingual applications • Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation Two discussions will be organised around the following topics: • Filling the gap between axiomatic and linguistic ontologies • The role of lexical resources in the Semantic Web and the Knowledge Grid Reasons of interest A new scientific community is growing around this largely interdisciplinary area: following the spirit of the previous two OntoLex workshops, this workshop aims at being an important meeting point for researchers involved in the fields of lexical resources and ontologies, favouring the exchange of scientific experiences and proposing new directions of inquiry. This year, the workshop particularly welcomes contributions from researchers that are investigating the application of ontologies and lexical resources in distributed environments such as Knowledge Grid and Semantic Web. Important dates • 4th December 2003: Call for papers and demonstrations • 30 January 2004: Deadline for paper submission • 5 March 2004: Acceptance notifications and preliminary program • 29 March 2004: Deadline final version of accepted papers • 29 May 2004: Workshop [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Studying Literature by Numbers Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:22:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 719 (719) Humanists may be interested in an article in today's New York Times, Emily Eakin, "Studying Literature by Numbers". The link to the story is below; if you're not already signed up to the NYT service, you'll need to do that first. Yours, WM [deleted quotation] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Subject: Library of Congress American Memory: The Zora Neale Hurston Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:21:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 720 (720) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book: Close Reading New Media Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:17:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 721 (721) [deleted quotation] close analysis to [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: 17.519 studying literature by the numbers Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:18:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 722 (722) On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:34:10AM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] Franco Moretti has been quite a force in literary criticism these many years, and I'm very excited about his recent (computationally assisted) work. I wonder if the programming committee for the next ALLC/ACH conference would consider inviting him to give a plenary address? 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: Willard McCarty Subject: Dictionary of Newfoundland English Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:18:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 723 (723) Those with an interest in the English language cannot but help be interested in the magnificent Dictionary of Newfoundland English, which so charmed me when I first saw it that I obtained a copy on the spot (which was not many hundreds of yards from the publisher's office). But I am even happier to report that virtuality has triumphed thanks to some far-sighted folk, who have put the Dictionary online, at http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/. Enjoy. 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: Subject: AI & Society - New Issue Alert Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:07:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 724 (724) Volume 18 Number 1 of AI & Society is now available on the SpringerLink web site at <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=KERQJA6BW30T>. This issue contains: Editorial Action research­a European dimension p. 1 Francesco Garibaldo, Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen Original Article Ethics, science, and the mechanisation of the world picture p. 7 Howard Rosenbrock Original Article Action research­Scandinavian experiences p. 21 Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen Original Article Some reflections on the epistemological fundaments of an Italian action-research experience p. 44 F. Garibaldo, E. Rebecchi Open Forum Intelligent advertising p. 68 Richard Adams Book review Ulf Hashagen, Reinhard Keil-Slawik and Arthur L. Norberg (eds): History of computing: software issues: Springer, 2002, 283pp, ISBN 3-540-42664-7 p. 82 Richard Ennals Book review Rae Earnshaw and John Vince (eds): Intelligent agents for mobile and virtual media: Springer, 2002, ISBN 1-85233-556-4, 197pp p. 84 Richard Ennals Erratum Knowledge in co-action: social intelligence in collaborative design activity p. 86 Satinder P. Gill, Jan Borchers From: Kluwer Subject: new book: Truth, Rationality, Cognition, and Music Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:08:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 725 (725) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Truth, Rationality, Cognition, and Music edited by Kepa Korta ILCLI, The University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain Jesús M. Larrazabal University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES -- 102 The International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, held in Donostia - San Sebastián every two years since 1989, is one of the main regular meeting points for a diversity of researchers in this exciting multi-disciplinary area of inquiry. This volume brings together some of the most important contributions to that colloquium. Besides the various interdisciplinary origins and standpoints of the participating researchers, the volume also reflects the richness, fruitfulness, and great miscellany of research in cognitive science today. In Truth,Rationality, Cognition, and Music, a wide variety of topics that are crucial to human beings, are addressed from a cognitive perspective by some of the world's leading scientists. Philosophers, linguists, logicians, psychologists, musicians, and anyone interested in what cognitive science has to say about these topics, should not miss it. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Preface; K. Korta, J.M. Larrazabal. * 1. Cognitive Science and David Hume's Science of the Mind; J. Biro. * 2. Truth and Meaning; S. Soames. * 3. Truth and Borderline Cases; T. Williamson. * 4. Meaning Finitism and Truth; M. Kusch. * 5. Subjective Experience and External World; M. Liz. * 6. The Explanatory Relevance of Psychological Properties; M. Sabatés. * 7. Epistemology and Cognitive Theorizing; J. Esquerro, F. Martínez-Manrique. * 8. Music, Language and Cognition: Which doesn't Belong? P. Kivy. * 9. Music and Knowledge; L. Addis. * 10. Event Coreference and Discourse Relations; L. Danlos, B. Gaiffe. * 11. Rationality in Context; J.F. Morales. * 12. Individual and Collective Rationality in a Social Framework; L.A. Pérez Miranda. * Acknowledgements. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1912-2 Date: February 2004 Pages: 260 pp. EURO 120.00 / USD 132.00 / GBP 83.00 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP: Computing/Theorizing/Communicating (MLA 2004) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:09:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 726 (726) CFP: Computing/Theorizing/Communicating How do we, both consciously and unconsciously, shape our tools and vice versa? The Computer Studies in Language and Literature Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association invites papers for the 2004 MLA Conference (Philadelphia, 27-30 Dec) on the subject of the causal relationship between computing tools and research and/or pedagogy. More specifically, we seek papers that explore impacts of computing tools (e.g., databases, text analysis software, multimedia, etc.) on theorizing research, teaching, and communication between language and literature researchers, students, and the wider community. The arenas of application might include, but are not necessarily limited to, literary, composition, rhetoric, film, archival, stylistic, or linguistic studies. We especially hope to encourage the submission of abstracts that recognize and explore the ways in which the tools shape the discipline and/or theory. Abstracts by 1 Mar; Donald E. Hardy (Don.Hardy@Colostate.edu) _____________ 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: "Steven Gartside" Subject: CFP: The Politics of Cultural Memory (Manchester/UK, 5-6 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:12:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 727 (727) ---------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The Politics of Cultural Memory A conference to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University 5 - 6 November 2004 The Conference is part of a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Location, Memory and Visuality (MIRIAD, Faculty of Art and Design) and the Cultural Memory and Ethics Research Project (Dept. of English). The Conference theme is designed to enable productive dialogue across a range of disciplines including: Art and Design History; Cultural Studies; English; Documentary and Film Studies; Fine Art; Geography; History; Photography; Sociology, Visual Culture. The Conference will focus on the dialogue between history, memory and its varied forms of representation. It will address the different ways that cultural texts represent the past in the present and in doing so serve a range of political and cultural purposes. This conference seeks discussion on the particularities of cultural memory, both in its theory and practice, and their political ramifications. With this in mind, the conference invites discussion on a wide range of different forms, practices and theories of cultural remembrance but has a strong although not exclusive interest in the relation between memory, place and visuality. The conference hopes to encourage a dialogue between theorists and practitioners of cultural memory. Potential themes include relationship between memory and: Remembering/Forgetting Archives, Museums, Memorials and Monuments Landscapes, Mapping and Geography Colonial / Post-colonial Art and Photography Media and Cinema Architecture, Space and Place Theories of Trauma Performances, Rituals and Parades National Identity Haunting and Spectrality Law, Litigation and Justice Post-Communism / Post-Fascism The Conference organisers are keen to receive abstracts for papers/presentations from researchers and practitioners. Deadline: 16th April 2004. Abstracts of 400 words (approx) should be sent to: Dr. Steven Gartside, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cavendish North Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BG. E : s.gartside@mmu.ac.uk --- From: John Lavagnino Subject: Project Officer position, University of London Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:07:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 728 (728) The Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, is seeking to appoint a Project Officer to work part-time at .4 (two days per week) as part of the team, under the supervision of the Project Directors, Dr Michelle Brown and Professor David Ganz, producing a digitally illustrated catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the British Library's western manuscript collections. The successful candidate will work in the Department of Western Manuscripts at the British Library with original manuscript materials, creating descriptions with bibliographies and accompanying digital images. The post is offered part-time at .4 (2 days per week: preferably Tuesdays and Wednesdays). The appointment will be made from 1 March 2004, or thereabouts, for a minimum term of one year in the first instance. Deadline for applications is 28 January 2004; for full details on the position and on applying see http://www.sas.ac.uk/Ies/centre/Project%20Officer.htm John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de Subject: RE: 17.522 studying literature by the numbers Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:10:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 729 (729) this is about moretti's studying literature by numbers: it is rather interesting to discover how a fully-developed and established approach in the study of literature and culture finds itself reinvented. the so-called "empirische literaturwissenschaft" (in my terminology, in english, the "systemic and empirical study of literature") of the siegen school of siegfried j. schmidt and others has been pursuing what moretti appears to have come up as new. i guess in this case there is no theory travel although i know moretti is aware of the large corpus of the empirische literaturwissenschaft (take a look at this selected bibliography <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/sysbib97.html> or this <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/sysbib95.html>). and indeed, it is a good idea to give moretti and his recent work more exposure in order to domesticate the empirical (and systemic) approach in the anglo-american landscape of literature and culture scholarship. although i do wish moretti would acknowledge the existence of the approach elsewhere: let's not reinwent the wheel.... -- steven totosy, boston and the university of halle-wittenberg editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> & From: Willard McCarty Subject: possible research project in linguistics Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:13:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 730 (730) Possibly everyone here has noticed the ingenious way in which subject lines are constructed in an attempt to avoid detection by anti-spamming software. Surely there's a very interesting research project here. I was moved to think of this by some in the latest batch of spam: From the subtle lasts longer than víagra and the quaint evocation of the simplicity of yesteryear (when lower-case letters were not available) FROM MRS JULIANA MBULUKU to the tiresomely obvious Slashed prices on V-I-A-G-R-A!! the use of homophonic misspelling Aa, ddullt movie stars Ceecrut for fame ! yte and elaborate mix of otiose and semi-homographic symbols Have meds?Valï(u)m, V|@gra, X(a)n@x, Som@ Di3t Pills Many M3ds POShVg with something I first thought an appeal to the cryptographically inclined Á¤º¸)´ëÇѹα¹ ¹«·á»çÀÌÆ® ÃÑÁýÇÕ (which turned out only to be what happened to a line in Japanese) ... and of course Sick of S(P_A*M yet Willard? To which the reaction need not be given. 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: Ross Scaife Subject: Creative Commons: The boundaries of intellectual property Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:10:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 731 (731) Creative Commons: The boundaries of intellectual property By Dwight Deugo The October 2003 OOPSLA conference featured an opening keynote by Stanford University's Larry Lessig that provided attendees with an inspiring talk outlining the boundaries of protection intellectual property should set. Lessig argued that today's current extremism defeats these limits, creating an environment where creativity is increasingly constrained. He then described Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/), a non-profit corporation founded on the notion that some people may not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them. Did you know that everything you create, be it a Web page, doodle, scribble, code or music, is automatically considered copyrighted material -- whether you include the copyright symbol or not? I can only speak for Canada and the U.S., but it wouldn't surprise me if this were the case all over the world. This means that, by default, no one can use your work without asking. However, at Creative Commons: "We believe there is an unmet demand for an easy yet reliable way to tell the world 'Some rights reserved' or even 'No rights reserved.' Many people have long since concluded that all-out copyright doesn't help them gain the exposure and widespread distribution they want. Many entrepreneurs and artists have come to prefer relying on innovative business models rather than full-fledged copyright to secure a return on their creative investment. Still others get fulfillment from contributing to and participating in an intellectual commons. For whatever reasons, it is clear that many citizens of the Internet want to share their work -- and the power to reuse, modify, and distribute their work -- with others on generous terms. Creative Commons intends to help people express this preference for sharing by offering the world a set of licenses on our Website, at no charge." The problem is that there is no easy way to announce that you intend to enforce only some of your rights, or none at all. At the same time -- and again, because the copyright notice is optional -- people who want to copy and reuse creative works have no reliable way to identify works available for such uses. Creative Commons wants to provide tools that solve both problems: a set of free public licenses strong enough to withstand a court's scrutiny and simple enough for non-lawyers to use, but yet sophisticated enough to be identified by various Web applications. Creative Commons offers a set of copyright licenses free of charge. You can use these licenses to help tell the world that your copyrighted works are free for sharing -- but with certain conditions. For example, if you don't mind people copying and distributing your source code as long as they give you credit, there is a license that helps you say so. If you want the world to use an application you built, but don't want them to profit off it without asking, there are licenses to express that preference. At the Creative Commons' Web site, you can find licensing tools that enable you to mix and match such preferences from a menu of the following options: * Attribution -- Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only if they give you credit. * Noncommercial -- Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for non-commercial purposes. * No Derivative Works -- Permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it. * Share Alike -- Permit others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. Once you've made your choice, you'll get the appropriate license expressed in three ways: 1. Commons Deed -- a simple, plain-language summary of the license, complete with relevant icons. 2. Legal Code -- the fine print that you need to be sure the license will stand up in court. 3. Digital Code -- a machine-readable translation of the license that helps search engines and other applications to identify your work by its terms of use. Creative Commons will help you dedicate your work to the pool of unregulated creativity known as the public domain, where nothing is owned and all is permitted. In other words, it will help you to declare "No rights reserved." As Creative Commons puts it, the world is full of extremes: "Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control -- a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which 'all rights reserved' (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy -- a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation -- once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally -- have become endangered species." However, Creative Commons is working to create a balance: "We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them -- to declare 'some rights reserved.' Thus, a single goal unites Creative Commons' current and future projects: to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules." As you might have guessed, portions of this column are based on text from the Creative Commons Web site and licensed under a Creative Commons License that states the condition of attribution, which I just did. It's that easy! Copyright 2003 101communications LLC. See our Privacy Policy. ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html STOA: ** To unsubscribe send the message 'UNSUBscribe STOA' to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU with a blank subject line. ** To subscribe send the message 'SUBscribe STOA Firstname Lastname' to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU with a blank subject line. ** To post to the group, send your message to STOA@LSV.UKY.EDU ** If you have any trouble, send a message about it to the list owners at the generic address: STOA-Request@LSV.UKY.EDU From: Melissa Hagemann Subject: Release of updated Guide to Institutional Repository Software Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:08:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 732 (732) OSI is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of the Guide to Institutional Repository Software. The guide has been updated to include two additional systems: ARNO and Fedora. In addition, the new guide reflects comments and suggestions received following the release of the first edition. OSI intends to update the guide on a regular basis. Once again, OSI is grateful to the author of the guide, Raym Crow of the Chain Bridge Group, as well as the developers of the software systems for working with us to produce the guide. To view the guide, please see: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/ Melissa Hagemann, Program Manager Open Access Project Open Society Institute From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.45 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:11:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 733 (733) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 45 (January 13 - 19, 2003) VIEW Emotional Design Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability go hand-in-hand in good design. By Donald A. Norman http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i45_norman.html INTERVIEW Making Sense of Common Sense Knowledge Benjamin Kuipers on using commonsense reasoning to make useful conclusions, or, finding gold nuggets in a pan of sand. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i45_kuipers.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:26:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 734 (734) This is first notice of two books I have just received but not yet had a chance to peruse in any detail: Volker Deubel and Klaus H. Kiefer, eds., MedienBildung im Umbruch: Lehren und Lernen im Kontext der Neuen Medien. Schrift und Bild im Bewegung 6. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-89528-377-0. 17 essays, in German and English, with lengthy introduction, on the numerous possibilities and consequences of the new media with respect to academic teaching, study and knowledge. [deleted quotation] See http://www.aisthesis.de/, Autoren, Volker, Deubel. Domenico Fiormonte, Scrittura e filologia nell'era digitale. Nuova Didattica, Arte e letteratura. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2003. ISBN 88-339-5713-6. A monograph providing a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the phenomenon of digital textuality affecting students and researchers in the humanities. [deleted quotation] See http://www.bollatiboringhieri.it/scheda.php?codice=57136. More detailed and knowledgeable commentary on these books, as well as notice of others, 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: new issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:27:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 735 (735) Several here will, I think, be interested in the contents of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 28.4 (December 2003), whose table of contents and abstracts may be browsed online at http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/maney/isr. The homepage of the journal is at http://www.iom3.org/journals/isr/isrhome.htm. The articles in 28.4 are as follows: 1. Editorial, Cattermole H. 2. Weapons of mass destruction, Harris J. 3. Science, meaning, and metaphysics: a tribute to Wolfhart Pannenberg, Clayton P. 4. Theology and psychology: an essay review on Fraser Watts, Albright C.R. 5. Where the science­religion dialogue is going wrong, Haas P.J. 6. Spirituality in science education: studying the environment, Solomon J. 7. The origins of A Scientific Theology, McGrath A.E. 8. Inquiry and performance: analogies and identities between the arts and the sciences, Crease R.P. 9. Virtual objects: the endof the real?, Swade D. 10. Justus von Liebig, FRS: creator of the world's first scientific research laboratory, Michaelis A.R. 11. Privacy: what's different now?, Jones K.S. 12. An analysis of the present system of scientific publishing: what's wrong and where to go from here, Greenbaum D.; Lim J.; Gerstein M. 13. Book reviews 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: Spam and Subject Fields Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:22:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 736 (736) As can be expected, developers of anti-spam filter are finding ways to catch these modified titles and there were recent articles on the subject in Wired, I believe. There was something to the effect that such weird titles alert the human users that the message is in fact spam, thus defeating the purpose of the spam in the first place (if there is in fact a purpose to spam). Coincidentally (or not), there was a piece this Tuesday on random words in spam messages: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61886,00.html While early anti-spam developers relied on relatively crude grep-like filters, it seems recent anti-spam software might use more elaborate forms of NLP. A related issue, though, is that as non-spammers we may now run into the same problems as spammers: we now need to design the subject lines for our legitimate message in such a way that the message will be recognized as legitimate. Often this can mean the avoidance of certain words such as the word "spam" itself. Of course, this precaution is meant for the human receiver of our message as we can be fairly confident that anti-spam filters aren't crude enough to label our message as spam based on the subject line alone. Interestingly, this is more of an issue with messages sent to people with whom we haven't established contact yet. At the other end of the spectrum, it shouldn't be an issue in an ongoing email exchange, such as is the case here. Surely, some scholars are working on the indexicality involved in email exchanges and have more thoughtful comments on the subject than I. All I can do is sing: "We dine well here in Camelot We eat ham and jam and spam alot" Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: "Musicnetwork" Subject: 3rd Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK, Munich, March 2004 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:45:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 737 (737) Call for Contribution 3rd MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop MPEG AHG on Music Notation Requirements 13-14 of March 2004, Munich, Germany http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/ahg-mn-65-66.html http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/MUSICNETWORK-OW-March-2004-Description-v1-4-clean.htm located at: Technische Universität München, Germany: http://www.mpeg-68.de/location.php The Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK is at its third edition. The modeling of music notation/representation is a complex problem. Music representation can be used for several different purposes: entertainment, music education, infotainment, music archiving and retrieval, music querying, music production, music profiling, etc. In the current Internet and Multimedia age many other applications are strongly getting the market attention and most of them will become more diffuse of the present applications in short time. End users have discovered the multimedia experience, and thus, the traditional music models are going to be replaced by their integration with multimedia, audio visual, cross media. At present, there is a lack of Music Notation/Representation standard integrated with multimedia. The aim of this workshop is to make a further step to arrive at standardizing a Music Notation/Representation Model and Decoder integrated into the MPEG environment, that presently can be regarded as the most active and powerful set of standard formats for multimedia consumers. This 3rd Open Workshop is collocated with the MPEG meeting which starts its activities in the same location the following Monday. This MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop is mainly focused at the standardization activities of MPEG and in particular on the work performed by the AHG (Ad Hoc Group) on Music Notation Requirements: http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/ahg-mn-65-66.html The Open Workshop is organized in three different activities or sub-workshops. The contributions to the mentioned activities have to be proposed with a short summary within the 31st of January, 2004. The workshop goal is to arrive at finalizing a call for technology in the MPEG standardization committee on the basis of the work performed by the AHG and in the Open Workshop. The technical proposals received will be discussed for their presentation and finalization at the workshop. [material deleted] From: Natasha Bishop Subject: ePrints UK Workshop Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:45:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 738 (738) Dear All, The ePrints UK Project (<http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/>http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/) will be running a series of 5 workshops around the UK that will provide an introduction to eprints and institutional repositories and the issues surrounding them. These workshops will be aimed at HE/FE librarians, information systems staff and academics and will be free to attend. You may have seen mailings about the first two workshops to be held at Bath and Oxford in February and March, both workshops are now full. We are now pleased to offer two more workshops at Edinburgh and Nottingham: Edinburgh - Friday 14th May 2004 - Brenda Moon Suite in the Library at Edinburgh University <http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/edinburgh/>http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/edinburgh/ Nottingham - Monday 24th May 2004 - Postgrad medical centre at Nottingham University <http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/nottingham/>http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/workshops/nottingham/ Any questions on the event please contact Natasha Piper (n.piper@ukoln.ac.uk) or Sarah Smith (s.smith@ukoln.ac.uk). The ePrints UK project is developing a series of national, discipline-focused services through which the higher and further education community can access the collective output of e-print papers available from compliant Open Archive repositories, particularly those provided by UK universities and colleges. Regards Marieke Natasha Bishop (nee Piper) Events and Marketing Manager UKOLN Bath BA2 7AY +44 (0) 1225 38 6256 <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk>www.ukoln.ac.uk n.bishop@ukoln.ac.uk From: Nelleke Oostdijk Subject: 2nd CfP: LREC workshop on Compiling and Processing Spoken Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:47:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 739 (739) Language Corpora 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on COMPILING AND PROCESSING SPOKEN LANGUAGE CORPORA http://lands.let.kun.nl/CPSLC/ Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal 24th May 2004 Workshop to be held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004) Main conference: 26-27-28 May 2004 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/ Aim The aim of the workshop is to bring together people working on the development (compilation and processing) of spoken language corpora.* The workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to exchange views and share experiences. Moreover, the workshop is instrumental in taking stock of and evaluating the present state-of-the-art. The workshop thus aims to contribute to the development of a future roadmap that will guide the development of standards, tools, etc. for use with spoken language corpora. *The term 'spoken language corpora' is used here to distinguish such corpora from speech corpora or speech databases: speech corpora are collections of spoken data that are typically recorded for specific purposes by specific users (speech corpora/databases such as SpeechDat Car that are used for developing consumer applications). Usually such databases lack the richness of linguistic annations that is pursued for spoken language corpora. Background and motivation Despite the wide experience gained in the compilation of written language corpora, working with spoken language data is not immediately straightforward as spoken language involves many novel aspects that need to be taken care of. The fact that spoken language is transient is sometimes offered as an explanation for why it is more difficult to collect spoken data than it is to compile a corpus of written data. However, it is not just the capturing of data that is anything but trivial. Once the (audio) data have been collected and stored, the next step is to produce some kind of transcript (whether orthographic or phonetic). Further annotations such as POS tagging, lemmatisation, syntactic annotation, and prosodic annotation may then build upon this transcription. Among the problems encountered in the processing of spoken language data are the following: * There is as yet little experience with the large scale transcription of spoken language data. Procedures and guidelines must be developed, and tools implemented. * Well-established practices that have originated from working on written language corpora do not hold up when trying to cope with the idiosyncracies of the spoken language. This is true for all levels of linguistic annotation. Annotation schemes need to be reconsidered and tools must be adapted. * In so far as standards have emerged (eg CES), they need to be adapted in order to be able to cater for the needs of spoken language corpora. * By their very nature, spoken language corpora bring together speech and language technologists and linguists from various backgrounds. Ideally, such corpora should address the needs of all these different user groups. Often, however, there is a conflict of interest. For example, the quality of recordings of spontaneous conversations in noisy environments although highly interesting and worthwhile from a linguistic perspective will prove too poor to be of any use to someone doing research into speech recognition. Workshop topics Topics of interest include orthographic transcription, phonetic transcription, prosodic annotation, segmentation, POS tagging and lemmatisation, parsing, and discourse analysis. Contributions on the development and implementation of standards or guidelines for spoken language corpora (annotation schemes, meta-data descriptions) are also invited, as are contributions describing software for the exploitation of spoken language corpora. [material deleted] From: Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC Subject: Preventing Plagiarism Toolbox: an online workshop Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:48:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 740 (740) [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] PREVENTING PLAGIARISM TOOLBOX an online workshop February 10-February 28, 2004 http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ipa/ This workshop will be 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. Goals for the workshop: * Discuss academic integrity resources for faculty, librarians, and administrators * Explore resources that assist in assignment redesign * Explore collaborative efforts between course instructors and support services * Explore online instruction resources for students including methods of teaching paraphrasing, documentation, and critical thinking * Review detection methods and resources * Identify resources that assist in policy development and revision * Discuss assessment and the course syllabi as a preventative measure Participants receive daily responses 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. Early Registration is $125; Regular $150. 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/odell/cip/ipa ------------------------------------ Olga Francois, Sr. Research Librarian Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/ From: "Ferguson, Joyce" Subject: NEH Announces Opportunities to Conduct Seminars and Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:43:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 741 (741) Institutes ANNOUNCING: National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) Applications to Conduct an NEH Seminar or Institute in Summer 2005 Application Deadline: March 1, 2004. Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports faculty development through residential seminars and institutes. These projects are designed to provide teachers from across the nation with the opportunity for intensive study of important texts and topics in the humanities. Seminars and institutes are intended to foster excellent teaching by encouraging collegial discussion of humanities topics within close-knit scholarly communities. They also promote active scholarship in the humanities in ways suited to teachers at all levels from grade school through college. Now is the time to draft a proposal to direct a seminar or institute, or to contact a colleague whom you think might be interested in developing a project. The NEH is supporting 31 projects for school teachers and 20 for college and university faculty in the summer of 2004. You may find lists of these projects on the NEH website at <http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html>http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html (school teachers) and <http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html>http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html (college and university teachers). If you or your colleagues would like to apply to offer a seminar or institute in 2005, please be in touch with one of the NEH program staff listed below to discuss your application. Program staff can answer questions, discuss current program emphases, provide samples of successful applications, and comment on an informal draft. Staff can help anticipate questions that are likely to arise in the review process. The application guidelines can be found on the NEH website at <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html>http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html. Please note that these new guidelines offer the opportunity to conduct seminars and institutes that may be as short as two or three weeks. If you have any questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to call on the staff at the NEH Division of Education Programs. For general questions, call Joyce Ferguson at 202-606-8463 or Jean Hughes at 202-606-8471, or contact one of the program officers listed below. We look forward to working with you. Thomas Adams 202-606-8396 tadams@neh.gov Douglas Arnold 202-606-8225 darnold@neh.gov Barbara Ashbrook 202-606-8388 bashbrook@neh.gov Sonia Feigenbaum 202-606-8490 sfeigenbaum@neh.gov Gary Henrickson 202-606-8241 ghenrickson@neh.gov Judith Jeffrey Howard 202-606-8398 jhoward@neh.gov Robert Sayers 202-606-8215 rsayers@neh.gov From: Aimée Morrison Subject: RE: 17.528 possible research project? Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:40:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 742 (742) [deleted quotation] i have two immediate reactions to these, from a sholarly-interest perspective (my obviously first reaction, because i get these too, is extreme annoyance followed by deep concern for all the man-type person out there now made prey to whole new kinds of anxieties under the constant barrage of notices of implied inadequacy ...) 1. the semi-homographic symbols remind me of the kinds of mistakes that OCR programs make: typographical confusion based on the machine's poor comprehension of english mixed in with its good comprehension of visual resemblance. in OCR, this is an undesirable kind of mixup. 1.a. (the flip side) but what's really neat is that it's human-legible as its original, ungarbled form: valium, viagra, xanax, diet pills, etc. the intended form is quite obvious to human reader, who have high error-toleration. 2. the homophonic and homographic constructions play on the multisensory nature of human reading practices, a kind of aural/visual synestheticism we must now recognize as part and parcel of the reading process. in an odd way, this is computer-perplexing poetry, an encoded form of language meant to use dumb machines to send complex illicit messages to human receivers. neat, in a way. 2.a. also, isn't this, in a way, a kind of poetic form? it plays on the seen and the heard at the same time, mashing visual stimulus ('@' for 'a', or '|' for 'l') with aural stimulus ('ceecrut') that requires non-trivial decoding -- but a non-trivial decoding that is near immediate, because we do not invest a lot of time decoding our spam (unless we're in the market for diet pills or penis patches or the digital oeuvre of paris hilton). apparently, we're all much more sophisticated readers than we thought. huh. interesting for those of us who teach poetry, i think. thanks for starting the conversation, willard. best, aimée . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aimée Morrison Office: 4-14 Humanities Ctr. PhD Candidate, Dept. of English Phone: (780) 492-0298 University of Alberta Fax: (780) 492-8102 T6G 2E5 Email: ahm@ualberta.ca "If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets." ---- Irving Layton From: Jessica Perry Hekman Subject: Re: 17.532 spam and subject fields Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:40:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 743 (743) [deleted quotation] Actually, I have seen people have problems sending mail to mailing lists with "spam" in the subject line (or other trigger words): sometimes the mailing list server tags the message as spam and rejects it; sometimes list members' mail servers do the same. On at least one list I'm on, it's a fairly frequent annoyance. j From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 1/04 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:41:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 744 (744) Greetings: The January 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are two articles, an opinion piece, a report of the ICADL 2003 conference, 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 January is the NASA JPL Mars Exploration Rover Mission web site. The articles include: Library Periodicals Expenses: Comparison of Non-Subscription Costs of Print and Electronic Formats on a Life-Cycle Basis Roger C. Schonfeld, Ithaka.; Donald W. King, University of Pittsburgh; Ann Okerson, Yale University; and Eileen Gifford Fenton, JSTOR The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles Jonas Holmstrom, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland The Opinion Piece is: Identifiers and Identification Systems: An Informational Look at Policies and Roles from a Library Perspective Giuseppe Vitiello, Istituto Superiore de Sanita The conference report is: Report on the 6th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2003): 8 - 11 December 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: HJS Back Issues--links Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:42:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 745 (745) HJS volume 4, issue 2 (december 2003-january 2004) <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/editorial4.html>Editorial Note Transformations of the Book in Joyce's Dream Vision of Digiculture <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/theall4.html>Donald F. Theall Problems of Annotation in a Digital Ulysses <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/groden.html>Michael Groden From Hypertext to Vortext / Notes on Materiality & Language <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/armand4.html>Louis Armand The Protean Text of Ulysses and Why All Editions Are Equally >Definitive< <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/phillips.html>George Micajah Phillips Time, Space, and Consciousness in James Joyce's Ulysses <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/anyfanti.html>Alexandra Anyfanti Calligraphic Joyce II <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/amos2.html>Robert Amos <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/notices.html>Notices Bibliography of Joyce Media [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_jjht.html>Hypertext] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_video.html>Video] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_audio.html>Audio] <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contributors.html>Notes on Contributors HJS volume 4, issue 1 (july, 2003) <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/editorial3.html>Editorial Note Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/critchley_mccarthy.html>Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy "Artistic Authority, Interpretation and Economic Power: Joyce's Finnegans Wake" <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/roraback.html>Erik S. Roraback Books of Sand: James Joyce & the Inventionsof Hypertext <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/armand3.html>Louis Armand The Adultery of Wisdom in Giacomo Joyce <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/brivic.html>Sheldon Brivic Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/skrabanek2.html>Petr Skrabanek Calligraphic Joyce <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/amos.html>Robert Amos Reviews: "Invisibility Is Not At All To My Liking:" Gemma O'Connor's SigNORA JOYCE, A Play About the Life of Nora Barnacle Joyce <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/headrick.html>Charlotte J. Headrick <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/notices.html>Notices Bibliography of Joyce Media [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_ht.html>Hypertext] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_video.html>Video] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_audio.html>Audio] <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contributors.html>Notes on Contributors HJS volume 3, issue 2 (january, 2003) <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/editorial2.html>Editorial Note From the Cyberglobal Chaosmos to the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Prehistory of Cyberelectronic Language(s) <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/theall3.html>Donald F. Theall Taking Tips from Taxil: An Edition with Translation and Commentary of Chapters I-V of Léo Taxil's La Vie De Jésus, For Use By Students Of Joyce's Ulysses <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/downing.html>Gregory M. Downing Music and Meaning in the Italian Translations of James Joyce's Lyrics <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/parks.html>Gerald Parks Bloom & The Ice Game <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/cronin.html>MTC Cronin FOCUS ON GIACOMO JOYCE Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Other Joyce <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/armand2.html>Louis Armand On Not Coming to Terms with Giacomo Joyce <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/senn2.html>Fritz Senn Apology in Another's Hand: Giacomo Joyce: Who? <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/mer.html>M.E. Roughley "Ghosts In The Mirror": Perception And The Visual In Giacomo Joyce <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/wallace.html>Clare Wallace <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/notices.html>Notices Bibliography of Joyce Media [<http://biblio_ht/>Hypertext] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_video.html>Video] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_audio.html>Audio] <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contributors.html>Notes on Contributors HJS volume 3, issue 1 (june, 2002) <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/editorial.html>Editorial Note Feydeau's Republic <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/nolan.html>Kevin Nolan From Symptom to Machine: James Joyce & the Perversions of the Textual Apparatus <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/armand.html>Louis Armand From Hypertext to Codework <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/wark.html>McKenzie Wark "a retrospective sort of arrangement": Ulysses & the Poetics of Hypertextuality <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/tofts2.html>Darren Tofts Joyce's Practice of Intertextuality: The Anticipation of Hypermedia and Its Implications for Textual Analysis of Finnegans Wake <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/theall2.html>Donald F. Theall Joyce in Exile <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/skrabanek.html>Petr Skrabanek "Snow is general": Newspaper Weather Forecasting and 'The Dead' <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/donovan.html>Stephen Donovan <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/notices.html>Notices Bibliography of Joyce Media [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_ht.html>Hypertext] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_video.html>Video] [<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/biblio_audio.html>Audio] <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contributors.html>Notes on Contributors HJS <http://www.2street.com/hjs/contents.html>Volume 2, Number 1 (1999) Blue Notes: From Joyce to Jarman <http://www.2street.com/hjs/herr/index.html>Cheryl Herr The Closing Word of Finnegans Wake <http://www.2street.com/hjs/leblanc/index.html>Jim LeBlanc Music After Joyce: The Post-Serial Avant-Garde <http://www.2street.com/hjs/murphy/index.html>Timothy S. 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Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! <http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html>Download Messenger Now From: "ISIC2004" Subject: Final Call for papers: 19th IEEE International Symposium Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:10:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 746 (746) on Intelligent Control The 2004 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT CONTROL September 2-4, 2004 The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan The IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) is an annual event sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society. The theme of ISIC'04 is "bio-modeling, bio-control, and bio-inspired systems." <http://www.mk.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/isic04/>http://www.mk.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/isic04/ Professor Graham C. Goodwin and Professor Bijoy K. Ghosh have kindly agreed to give the keynote speeches at the gathering, which is held in conjunction with CCA/CACSD'04. The conference program committee solicits high-quality papers containing original contributions in all areas of theory and applications of intelligent control. REGULAR PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically (PDF or Postcript format) through the following web site: <http://www.paperplaza.net/>http://www.paperplaza.net/ For more information, please contact the Program Chair, Tariq Samad (tariq.samad@honeywell.com). INVITED SESSIONS The Program Committee also solicits proposals for invited sessions within the technical scope of the conference. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the web <http://www.paperplaza.net/>http://www.paperplaza.net/. For more information, please contact the Invited Session Chair, Chun-Yi Su (cysu@me.concordia.ca). BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD A US$1,000 prize will be awarded for the best student paper for each conference. Only full paper submissions whose first author is a student are eligible for consideration for this award. The student must (1) be a member of IEEE Control Systems Society, (2) be the first author and primary developer of the idea, and (3) have done the work as part of an academic degree program. A brief letter from the student's academic advisor nominating a submission for a Best Student Paper award should reach the corresponding Program Chair before the deadline for paper submission. The nomination should verify that the criteria noted above are met. IMPORTANT DATES January 31, 2004 Regular Papers, Invited Session & Workshop Proposals April 15, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection May 15, 2004 Final Camera-Ready Papers Sam Ge, General Chair, E-mail: elegesz@nus.edu.sg Tariq Samad, Program Chair, E-mail: tariq.samad@honeywell.com On behalf of the Organizing Committee From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: Spam trivia Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:01:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 747 (747) Bit of trivia ... Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett New York University From: Willard McCarty Subject: spahm peotry Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:07:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 748 (748) Aimée Morrison's leap from anger, annoyance and anxiety to poetry I also made earlier this morning, when going through my usual catch I spotted a message from the undoubtedly pseudonymous "Jennifer Joyce" . You will not be surprised to learn that the body of the message did not develop the imagery of flight or of inflammation, but there were other rewards: [deleted quotation] (Note, Aimée, that both male-type and female-type persons are accommodated.) But among the many questions: what establishes the context that so speeds our decoding of such messages? (Imagine encountering "Sill no luck enrgailng it?" on a flier put through one's postal slot or as the title of a book.) What role does the strikingly unusual subject-line play? Perhaps none at all, if one hangs out with poets. How rapidly we have become trained. By the way: I have, using the same method, altered one of the words in the above message. Can you see which one it is? For a fair bit more on this subject, including the urban legendry, see the blog "Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey: Linguistics, philosophy, and politics" for 16 September 2003, at http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000227.html 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: sociology Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:08:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 749 (749) Some here will be interested in the online guide to the study of sociology, SocioSite, http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/. Opinions and comments 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: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress: "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:09:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 750 (750) Former Slaves Tell Their Stories" The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center is pleased to announce the release of a new online collection: Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories, available on the Library's American Memory Web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml. Voices from the Days of Slavery features audio recordings made of people who had experienced slavery first-hand, providing the unique opportunity to listen to them describe their lives in their own voices. These interviews conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable ex-slaves, people born between 1823 and the early 1860s. Several of those interviewed were centenarians, the oldest being 130 at the time of the interview. The almost seven hours of recordings were made in nine Southern states and provide an important glimpse of what life was like for slaves and then newly freed persons. The former slaves discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, how slaves were coerced, their families, and, of course, freedom. As part of their testimony, several of the ex-slaves sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. This presentation complements other American Memory collections, most notably Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html, which contains transcripts of over 2,300 interviews with ex-slaves. However, unlike the written transcripts, which sometimes represented collectors' interpretations rather than verbatim reproductions, these recordings present the actual interview and thereby provide the unique experience of hearing the ex-slaves' voices with their various inflections and regional dialects. In addition to the recordings and transcripts, Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories also includes biographies of many of the interviewers, a special presentation called Faces and Voices from the Collection, and a Related Resources section. The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to "preserve and present American folklife" through programs of research, documentation, archival presentation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, public programs, and training. The Center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established in 1928 and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world. 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 using the American Memory web form at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory2.html Laura Gottesman Digital Reference Specialist The Library of Congress From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: summary of new book: Scrittura e filologia Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:29:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 751 (751) [Following the announcement of Domenico Fiormonte's new book in Humanist 17.531, I contacted him and requested a detailed summary, which he has provided below. Authors' notices of publication are of course welcome on Humanist, summaries such as this one even more so, especially in the case of books whose original language is not English. --WM] ------------------------------- "Scrittura e filologia nell'era digitale" [Writing and philology in the digital age] is a theoretical and historical introduction to digital textuality. The book is the result of seven years of research conducted in Italy, Spain, UK and the US, and originates from my PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh (2001). In consequence of my studies in the UK and US, I was able to include a substantial amount of Anglo-American research. The volume is divided in two main parts, with a Conclusion and an Appendix: "Scriptures and technology" (chapters 1-3), and "Towards a digital philology" (chapters 4-6). The Appendix, "Digital resources for philological studies", is an abridged version of "E-Philology". This is a new section of the Digital Variants web site, where you'll find more than 100 resources (web sites, software, CD-ROMs, etc.) on digital philology listed and annotated. See www.selc.ed.ac.uk/italian/digitalvariants/philology/philologyhome.htm. (Work on this site is still in progress. When the English version is ready, I will announce it on Humanist.) The fist part of the book centres on a critical account of the history of electronic writing, given in chapter 2. It is introduced by a summary of the role of technical artifacts in the construction and development of written cultures (ch. 1) and followed by an analysis of the most known and used forms and structures of digital textuality (ch. 3). Especially chapter 1 is not as ambitious as it sounds -- I have tried only to offer a bibliographic map of the complex interdisciplinary roots of studies in the influence of technology on knowledge. The second part of the book focuses on and explicates the cross- fertilization among the fields of cognitive psychology, textual criticism and humanities computing. In chapters 4 and 5 I deal controversially with issues related to the digital representation and preservation of documents. (More about them in a moment.) In chapter 6 I present the teaching experiments and philological tools developed in Edinburgh from 1997 to present day; these are now available on the DV web site. Let me try briefly to summarize some of the main arguments in the second part. I grew up within the Roman school of Informatica Umanistica, and my interest lies in the material and genetic aspects of the text. At the University of Rome "La Sapienza" all of us have since our intellectual infancy been deeply affected by Italian contemporary textual criticism, especially that of Gianfranco Contini and Cesare Segre. (Probably Contini, well beyond his enormous scholarly merits, has been the most influential Italian academic after Benedetto Croce.) Segre's linguistic structuralism and Contini's "critica delle varianti" constitute the theoretical background of many Italian computing humanists. The prestige of these intellectuals established in Italy the lasting dominance of philology on any other humanistic discipline. This is a key factor, in my opinion, for understanding the importance in Italy of the studies on the digital representation of the text ("la codifica"). However, I think that as a result of SGML/XML disputes, visual, material and compositional features of writing have been largely overlooked (with two big exceptions: Giorgio Raimondo Cardona, linguist and anthropologist, and Armando Petrucci, our greatest palaeographer). I was therefore greatly encouraged when few years ago I read the number of CHUM dedicated to image-based humanities computing. In my book I support the idea that we should reground electronic philology and liberate ourselves from what I dare to define as the 'information retrieval bias'. (See, among others, Jerome McGann's ideas and the French school of "genèse du texte".) Before building our tools, we should start considering the text not just a structural and informational entity, but also a semiotic and 'dialogic' object. What I have been trying to explain to my markup-oriented friends is that these models have not only theoretical but also political and cultural consequences. If we look at national and internationally funded projects, we see that SGML/XML is the dominating technical and theoretical paradigm for constructing all major textual repositories. But can there exist a textual criticism and bibliography independent of historical, material and cultural forms? Besides, can we consider any textual phenomenon independent from the language in which it is expressed? These are some of the issues debated in "Scrittura e filologia nell'era digitale". I don't know how many Humanist members read Italian, but I hope that some of the people whose research I discussed in my book will have time to comment on it. The publisher generously agreed to send about 40 copies of the volume to foreign scholars. I really hope that this effort will produce at least one or -- God forgive my *hybris* -- two reviews in languages other than Italian. People interested in reviewing the book, can contact the publisher at: bollatiboringhieri@stilema-to.it Web page: http://www.bollatiboringhieri.it/ Thanks for your interest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte Professore a contratto di Informatica umanistica Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata / Universita' di Roma La Sapienza http://www.digitalvariants.org From: Humanist Subject: CFP: Digital Preservation and Electronic Scholarly Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:32:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 752 (752) Editions (MLA '04) CFP: Digital Preservation and Electronic Scholarly Editions Modern Language Association Annual Convention Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2004 The promise of electronic scholarly editing brings with it the responsibility of long-term digital preservation. While librarians and archivists have struggled with this problem for a number of years, bibliographers and editors have been slower to take up the challenge. Other than a brief mention of the "preservation form" in section 1.E of the MLA Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Edition and scattered references to the Text Encoding Initiative on project Web sites, little work has been done within the editing community to develop procedures for ensuring their efforts will survive changes in digital technologies. The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites papers for the 2004 Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia. In particular we seek proposals from individual editors, project teams and electronic publishers currently grappling with the complex issues of long-term preservation. How are you negotiating the synchronic demands of delivery deadlines and software restrictions with the diachronic pitfalls of maintaining access over many decades? If multiple-archives increase survivability, how are you dealing with data integrity? Are you also archiving the interim working documents, correspondence and editorial manuals generated as part of your project, and if so, how are they integrated with the finished edition? What preservation needs come into play when the goal is to publish in multiple formats (print and digital)? Please submit a one-page abstract by 1 March 2004 to David L. Gants (non-bots please translate the "(at)" into conventional form). Information about previous ACH sessions at the MLA can be found at <http://www.ach.org/mla03/index.html>. From: Willard McCarty Subject: rupture, continuing openness and an end to the 'liberal' Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:54:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 753 (753) Geoffrey Rockwell, in "Multimedia: Is it a Discipline?", Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 4 (2002): 59-70 (http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/ejournal.html, Artikel), writes that, "Ironically, in making a discipline in our image through formal curricula we are engendering practitioners that may close the discipline to those like us who took the self-study road. Therein lies a rupture." (p. 63). Apart from preliminary responses of mitigation that Rockwell notes, I can see two others to that rupture. The first is the selfless response, or what might be called the not-worthy-to-tie-the-shoelaces gambit. For those of us that have taken the road described above, this has much to recommend it. In us it would help engender good mental health. It would also (not to put to fine a point on the matter) issue an appropriately bracing challenge to the practitioners thus engendered. The second response, however, seems better to me: to resist or stitch up the rupture, to keep the self-study road open. I would argue against the formation of yet another discipline, with its (inevitable?) fall into the "blinding clarity" of intense specialization, if only for that reason. I am reminded of the article by Peter Berger, "Sociology: A Disinvitation?", Society 30.1 (1992): 12-18, with its damning diagnosis of the malaise into which he charges the discipline as having fallen: parochialism, triviality, rationalism, ideology. Whereas, he notes, the askers of the big questions, such as Weber and Durkheim, could once (in John Wesley’s words) say that “the world is my parish”, few could now. Disciplinary security can be deadly. I am also reminded of "The Course of the Particulars: Humanities in the University of the Twenty-First Century", an essay by Pauline Yu (recently elected President of the American Council of Learned Societies), in which she discusses alternatives: [deleted quotation] (http://www.acls.org/op40.htm) It would also provide an opportunity to rework another mental structure that stands in our way, what Rockwell calls the "unexamined hierarchy of value" that opposes the 'liberal' to the 'servile' arts: [deleted quotation] 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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.538 sapm and sbjucet fleids (from Humanist, honest) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:32:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 754 (754) The world's second shortest poem in English was about the meat in a can, but it applies nicely now: Spam? Damn. From: Roberto Basili Subject: CfP: LREC04 Workshop on "Beyond Named Entity Recognition Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:37:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 755 (755) Semantic labelling for NLP tasks" SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Beyond Named Entity Recognition Semantic labelling for NLP tasks URL: http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/ws_lrec04/ Centro Cultural de Belem LISBON, Portugal 25th may 2004 In Association with 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2004 Main conference 26-27-28 May 2004 Motivation and Aims Although it is generally assumed that improvements in language processing will be made through the integration of linguistic information and statistical techniques, the reality is that language is very diverse and looking for specific patterns of words that repeat enough to be statistically significant tends not to be a very fruitful task: sequences longer than three words are not generally repeated often enough to be statistically significant. At the same time, the identification of named entities: Names, dates, places, organizations etc., has proved to be avery useful preliminary task in many natural language processing systems are interested in pursuing approaches which extend this notion by identifying and labeling other semantic information in a text, in such as way as to allow repeatable semantic patterns to emerge. Our interest is in attacking the data sparseness problem by exploring ways to collapse (semantically) related phrases which are expressed by different word sequences. As this seems closely related to previously proposed class-based language models (see for example Brown et al. 90 in Computational Linguistics), it is distinguished because the empirical notion of classes used in the previous work (e.g. classes made up of collocationally similar words) are replaced by semantically justified sets. Notice how Name Entity (NE) tagging and Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) represent, in terms of granularity and representational complexity, two extremes of a single general problem: semantic disambiguation. Semantic disambiguation serves thus the purpose of improving the generalization power of statistical models. One of the questions here is how to determine a suitable level of clustering (for NE identification and for WSD) that would lead to high accuracy and to performance improvement by obtained statistical models. Reason of Interest It is to be noticed that a set of independent research work focused recently on the statistical treatment of semantic phenomena (e.g. WordNet navigation as a stochastic process, as studied in Light and Abney or in Ciaramita & Johnson) highly correlates with the research program proposed above. The workshop will represent a forum where experience from lexical semantics and statistical learning will be presented and fruitful discussion among researchers in both fields will be promoted. The workshop is expected to attract researchers and practitioners from a range of areas as well as developers of large scale semantic resources who are interested in effective methods of semantic labeling. Topics (to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to) * Methods for lexical - semantic annotation of corpora * Methods and Standards for lexical semantic representation of dictionary information * Lexico-semantic taxonomies * Existing sources of classification: dictionaries, thesauri and computerized ontologies * Corpus-driven methods for semantic disambiguation * Feature selection for semantic disambiguation * Lexico-semantic tagging of very large corpora * Algorithms and methods for disambiguation of semantic phenomena * Statistical learning models and their applications to semantic labeling * Computational learning frameworks for Natural Language Learning * Semi-supervised and unsupervised statistical semantic disambiguation * Evaluation of semantic disambiguation Workshop format The workshop will be a half-day event with position statements from invited speakers (half an hour each) with two hours for 4-6 presentations of scientific papers. Submissions are intended to present works in progress and more completed works which fall within the scope defined by the topics listed above. A final 1 hour open discussion among all the workshop participants will be moderated by the organizers. In order to stimulate an interesting general discussion each member of the program committee will be invited to submit a position statement of max. 1000 words. [material deleted] From: Laure Vieu Subject: FOIS 2004 Call for Papers Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:38:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 756 (756) **** FOIS 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS **** International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems http://www.fois.org November 4-6, 2004, Torino (Italy) Conference Description ---------------------- Just as ontology developed over the centuries as part of philosophy, so in recent years ontology has become intertwined with the development of the information sciences. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention has started to focus on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages in terms of which information is represented. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realization that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of Formal Ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of Information Systems. Reciprocally, research in the information science raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations. The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified ontological analysis effort. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as papers dealing with concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. Invited Speakers ----------------- Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden Amie Thomasson, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, USA Deadlines and Further Information --------------------------------- Abstracts: May 3, 2004 Final submissions: May 7, 2004 Acceptance Notification: June 25, 2004 Submission of camera-ready paper: July 30, 2004 Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference. Submission is a two-step procedure: first abstracts, then full papers. Submitted papers must not exceed 5000 words (including bibliography). Abstracts should be less than 300 words. Electronic submission via the website is strongly preferred; if unavailable, submission via email or postal mail is possible. For details see: http://www.fois.org or contact one of the program chairs. [material deleted] From: ai_group Subject: CFPs: Evolutionary Scheduling Session in CEC 2004 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:38:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 757 (757) ***** Evolutionary Scheduling Session in CEC 2004 ***** The 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, co-sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Society, the Evolutionary Programming Society, and the IEE, will be held in Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19-23, 2004. (http://cec2004.org/home.html). The Evolutionary Scheduling Session in CEC 2004 will cover all aspects of evolutionary scheduling and related issues. It hopes to attract a balance of applied and theoretical papers from across the evolutionary computing and meta-heuristic research communities. Typical examples of such problems include rostering, machine scheduling, timetabling, vehicle routing, resource assignment, planning, etc. More information regarding the Evolutionary Scheduling Session is available at http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/. The paper submission schedule is as follows: Submission of papers: 31 January 2004 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 February 2004 Camera-ready paper: 1 March 2004 Format of the paper can be obtained from http://cec2004.org/home.html. All papers will be peer-reviewed following the same procedure as regular papers submitted to CEC 2004. Evolutionary Scheduling Session Co-Organizers: Prof. Edmund K. Burke Dr Kay Chen Tan Dr Graham Kendall From: Willard McCarty Subject: CS and humanities computing Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:50:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 758 (758) Many here may know that during the last few decades much ink and toner and many pixels have been deployed within computer science in an ongoing identity crisis. Although in some ways intellectually barren -- one can readily sympathize with the let's-just-get-on-with-it reaction -- it is useful to understand the tensions and tendencies within CS, for they are much like our own. It is also quite salutory and head-clearing to resolve what may seem a monolith into a complex variety of interrelated activities. As William A. Wulf has said, "One of the wonderful things about this discipline we call computer science -- and I call it computer science only because everyone else does -- is that it spans an enormous intellectual distance, going all the way from very theoretical and abstract mathematics to very crafty application programming" (Ubiquity 1.28, 2000, http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/w_wulf_1.html). As you may know, those who have thought about how to construe these activities as part of a single field have in the past tended to put them under the rubrics of the (physical) sciences, mathematics and engineering. Sometimes the grouping has been simpler (science and engineering only), sometimes more elaborate (adding in information theory as a close cousin to mathematics). More recently some in CS have broadened the field considerably, e.g. by including "interaction design", which requires (if I understand these matters) that a large social science component be added to the mix. The picture is more complicated than this, of course, but my point is the evidently cohesible *plurality*. Given this plurality, it would seem to me that a term such as "humanities computer science" is rather problematic. There are at least two problems I can see for those of us outside CS. First it is easy for us silently to assume that we know the meaning of the term "computer science". We are apt to take the term at its word, as denoting another one of the "sciences" (and so among the sources of "real knowledge"), and so for it to serve the same mind-numbing honourific function that (at least in English) the term "science" so often serves, e.g. in "management science". In thus honouring what is happening in the humanities, its application to them is likely to deprive them of their own honour by implying that the real thing takes place elsewhere and is then merely *applied* to the humanities, where it has thus and such an "impact". As I suspect all engineers know only too well, the appellation "applied" can be profoundly misleading, since the central problems in such a field may be only tangentially related to the imported knowledge, and the field itself has many other sources of knowledge unique to itself. See Wulf's interview for more on this topic. The second problem is harder and more subtle. Given his or her inclination to construe CS as having a singular essence, an outsider is especially apt to construe "computer science" as if it were reducible to one of its subfields. In historical terms, that is, he or she construes a particular essence, then constructs a history to match, suppressing the other histories in the process. For example, the theoretician, wanting "the" computer to be an engine of logic, writes it into the history of logic-engines, dating back at least to Raymond Lull, perhaps (as John Sowa does). This then becomes demonstrably what the machine has *really* been about all along. To take quite a different example, a more socially inclined person may argue that "the" computer is no longer a device that calculates but an "interaction machine" which forms part of a social environment; a prominent ancestor to this computer is the telephone. Terry Winograd argues in this direction. Another may argue similarly that "the" computer is now prominently and is increasingly destined to be an appliance, invisible and ubiquitous; the very word "appliance" tells you what its history will look like. And so forth and so on. The universality of the fundamental Turing Machine design means, I take it, that there may be no strict limit to the number of "the" computers possible. The error here I take to be the exclusivity in the essentialist argument. There is no "the" computer. So what possible could "humanities computer science" be? What in balance is the benefit from taking on this potentially confusing label? Epistemologically what becomes of knowing by means of a computer when it is used to help us understand the data of the humanities? What computer do we have then? As a mightily refreshing antidote and guide to "our young and slightly paranoid discipline", as he calls his own, allow me to recommend something else by Wulf, a very brief opinion-piece entitled, "Are We Scientists or Engineers?", ACM Computing Surveys 27.1 (March 1995): 55-7, which he has put online at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~wulf/documents/sci.or.eng. "It might be more comfortable to define ourselves by analogy to the establishment," he observes in closing -- and he means the physical sciences cum mathematics, viewed as outsiders do, as a unitary method for research -- "but what we do is too important to be limited by that. Let's kick the inferiority complex and find our own way, define our own paradigms. Let's adopt the applicable best.... Let's be inclusive rather than exclusive. Let's build even more bridges to other disciplines and to industry; let's amplify the special strengths of each." 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: new places of knowledge? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:40:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 759 (759) In "Locality and Worldliness", Thomas Bender (NYU), commenting on the social fix universities are now in, says the following: [deleted quotation] The essay may be found online, at http://www.acls.org/op40ben.htm. 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: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Wired on Unsolicited Mail Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:38:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 760 (760) I'm sure everybody saw it, but just in case, Wired is running a story on how antispam filters may modify email communication: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,61945,00.html Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: rddescha Subject: RE: 17.543 the world's second shortest poem in English Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:39:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 761 (761) I challenge this with my own poem! me? gee. Ryan. . . :) [deleted quotation] McCarty )" ===== [deleted quotation] Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Candidate -- Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:30:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 762 (762) (1) Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz by Jaap Maat University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands THE NEW SYNTHESE HISTORICAL LIBRARY -- 54 This book gives a clear and thorough description of three fascinating linguistic projects that were carried out in the seventeenth century: the philosophical languages of George Dalgarno (1661) and John Wilkins (1668), as well as the work of Leibniz in this area. These projects combined practical purposes, such as improving communication, with profound theoretical insights concerning the representation of knowledge and the nature of language. 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Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7524-3 Date: February 2004 Pages: 296 pp. EURO 100.00 / USD 109.00 / GBP 69.00 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: Manfred Thaller Subject: humanities computer science Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:18:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 763 (763) Dear Willard, Well, yes. I think I should start with a very small item of background information, as the understanding of my reply to your statements on "humanities computer science" may be enhanced by a bit of contextual information. I myself have for some time been engaged in various rather technically oriented developments in the field of computer supported projects in the Humanities. Since a few years I hold a professorship with the totally untranslatable designation of "Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung", which I would much prefer to be called "Geisteswissenschaftliche Fachinformatik" in the first place, which in turn I render in English as "Humanities Computer Science". Whether this is the only professorship of its type I do not know, but whatsoever you call it, there are relatively few around which implement a CS / Humanities study program going all the way from the [German functional equivalent of a] BA right through to a PhD program. And we DO assume that our students are at least as close to "true CS" as other applied CS types of study; rather extensive programming projects being actually the main reasons from dropping out from the curriculum, though, as I should clarify, this is an ARTS FACULTY professorship. While in earlier years a not infrequent participant in ALLC / ACH type events - and at some stage president of the than in Europe highly visible Association for History and Computing - I have in recent years insisted quite forcefully, that the model which is implemented by the professorship quoted above, and indeed the whole paradigm I try to follow, cannot be meaningfully subsumed under the heading of "Humanities Computing", but requires the definition of something provisionally called "Humanities Computer Science". For the benefit of my students I have invited Willard to a seminar last summer, where we held a kind of medieval disputatio in front of the students about whether or not such a discipline like "Humanities Computer Science" actually exists, can exist, what it may mean etc. I hope that does not read too vain, but somehow I thought the argument which I am taking up with Willard's recent comments on " ... it would seem to me that a term such as "humanities computer science" is rather problematic ..." may be more transparent, if it is clear that it is part of a discussion ongoing for some time, though not exactly publicly. From background to substance: I totally agree, that CS is an extremely broad field; I cannot resist the temptation, however, to point out that, if that was sufficient to exclude it from being a potential subject of a specialisation looking at it from a specific knowledge domain, just about all fields of scholarship which claim any significance for "the Humanities" (CHum comes to mind) would be unapproachable as well, as "the Humanities" are themselves at least as broad and heterogeneous as CS. So, if we talk about the relationship between two very diverse areas, we should first give the definitions each of us is using. In my arguments - along with the German and much of the French and Italian tradition in Europe - "the Humanities" include more or less all of what the old "philosophical faculty" used to teach: literature, linguistics, history, archaeology and all aspects of discussing the arts, just short of the actual production or performance of art. Similarly, when I talk about "Computer Science", I have to explain, that this is a translation of the German term "Informatik". At first look that term is just as shifting as the one which Willard describes (the homepage of the German "Gesellschaft für Informatik" (= Association of CS) actually refuses to give a precise definition of the term, pointing explicitly at the constantly changing focus and increasing scope). But in actual usage it is possibly slightly more focused, by implying a much clearer separation from hardware (which is engineering) - and by its very name a closeness to the handling of "information". Indeed, most CS persons which I am aware of - and that also applies to the larger world - would probably subscribe to one or the other variety of the definition of CS as "the study of the representation of information on computing machinery and the ways in which these representations can be processed". Actually I do doubt that there exist very many curricula even remotely related to CS, which do not include a quite extensive module on "data structures and algorithms" right at the beginning of the course of study. Different curricula may indeed lead from these "data structures and algorithms" into totally different directions: You can mathematically prove an algorithm as optimal, even if it is totally pointless from the point of view of an applicability. You can study ways and means of embedding knowledge about the properties of data structures into the architecture of larger systems. You can study ways and means of building software tools which make the workings of an algorithm opaque when concentrating a user interface. But: Very few subfields of CS are not aware of these two concepts. In any case - petitio principium: the CS I am talking about is the "study of the representation of information on computing machinery and the ways in which these representations can be processed". If we accept this as a non trivial subset of the possible meanings of CS, a "Humanities Computer Science" defines itself as the study of those structures needed for the representation of information and those methods of processing them, which are (a) indigenous to the Humanities (in the sense of "specific for their knowledge domain"), (b) and / or so far away from the mainstream of CS, that they are not being studied there, (c) and / or require a background in the Humanities to understand the specific properties of such information. Which, of course, to be meaningful, requires the Humanities to handle information which fits the bill. Now, in my opinion such information does exist - which in itself would need a much larger treatment, but for brevity's sake let me just state that the following properties of information: - vagueness, - ambiguity, - context sensitivity, - incompleteness and a few others are all incomparably more prevalent in the Humanities than in the knowledge domains which CS has been applied to traditionally. Some of them ARE studied by CS: Every time I listen to one of those cultural critics who tell us, why the "digital principle" allegedly changes our whole world, as computers understand only 'true' or 'false', I engage in little day dreams of asking them to write ten thousand times "There is such a field as fuzzy reasoning and I will not open my mouth again until I have read at least an introductory text into the not quite so trivial parts of CS". But none of that is even remotely close to what we would need to process Humanities information in slightly more advanced ways. Others are totally neglected: It is quite clear, that certain aspects of "time" in cultural systems simply cannot be handled by our current ideas on how to implement time. (Yes, some of these are purely notational - but along a line of increasing complexity we land at charming concepts like "cyclical time" where you simply cannot glue a paperback to the existing data structures any more, but have to start from scratch.) And in some cases it is painfully clear, that the separation of CS knowledge and Humanities knowledge hurts. Just once in a while I am dreaming what could have been done with the money Getty has burned for the production of thesauruses over the last decade or so, if those programs would not have been defined by art historians who believed what IT personel told them, which did not understand the question in the first place. So, Humanities Computer Science consists of the chasing of very remote ideals, which have no relevance at all for the production of the results which we need day by day? Well, my colleague in archaeology who finds it quite attractive that we supply a steady stream of students who have taken courses about abstract CS principles, have taken their archaology courses, too, and are therefore quite useful as research assistants would not see it quite that way. (And that together with the courses on C++ programming they are also trained in familiarising themselves quickly with new types of application software does not hurt either.) Willard has asked, whether a field of common interest between "CS" and "the Humanities" could be defined. In an abstract way I think I have given some examples of why I think the answer is clearly "yes". But I have given the preceding excuse for not engaging in the totally futile, as a very obvious corollary to Willard's statement could be added in response to the argument above. "Still, given that what Manfred says may be right", it would run, "still: Why do we need somebody studying that set of problems within a Humanities setting? Should we not simply wait until CS discovers that area and focuses more closely upon it?" The reason I raise this unasked question is, that my answers to it are close to the heart of my own reasons, why I do not see myself as part of the current field of "Humanities Computing" any more and try to champion the notion of a "Humanities Computer Science". The difference being is - leaving all anecdotal references aside - that in Humanities Computing as it stands today there is a tacit and sometimes vocal assumption, that there is a body of secure knowledge, produced by CS, which just needs to be applied to the Humanities to lead to wonderful results. This point of view turns Humanities scholars into consumers of knowledge produced by others. My understanding of CS as a field, which is currently amalgamating implicit ways to handle information taken from various knowledge domains and defining itself by the experience, precludes me from assuming that "something is out there, which we just have to adapt". I do not know, what these these new paradigms of handling information will ultimately lead to and whether they will be called CS: But influencing these paradigms seems to me to be of vital importance for all fields of study, if they want to keep their status. Humanities who bring their abilities to handle specific types of information into such an emerging field of study and contribute to the emerging body of knowledge on how to handle that information, will in my opinion be taken incomparably more serious than Humanities which just consume what "CS" has produced (shrink-wrapped by Microsoft afterwards). You have to admit that it is a bit absurd: The Humanities have over the centuries developed a pretty good knowledge on how to orient themselves in bodies of contradictory, ambigous, suspicious and more generally chaotic data. The WWW can be described as the transition from clean and well defined sets of information towards a body of contradictory, ambigous, suspicious and more generally chaotic data. But 99.99 % of all the decisions about the WWW are taken by people carefully trained to handle clear, unambigous, reliable and more generally well ordered information. And the current generation of Humanities researchers relies on those champions of a clear, unambigous, reliable and more generally well ordered world to rediscover much of what they themselves know since quite some time. One of the most hilarious jokes in the development of information over the last fifteen years needs to be retold. The notion of hypertext is one deeply rooted in the Humanities. It was designed with the notion in mind, that a text is a changing body of information and much of the impetus behind the original thinking about hypertexts was inspired by the wish to model a text in precisely that way. To have all the versions in which it existed present and to have the possibility to see how the argument developed miniscule modification after miniscule modification. Well, of course that would have been much to challenging actually to implement by Humanities researchers ... so out of the notion of a hypertext the current notion of the content of the WWW was derived; by a group of people who were geniuses in programming but had all the naivety about texts which is inherent in most hard science people. The result? Many wise men (and women) complain that "information technology" destroys the historicity of texts, keeping only the last version and loosing all the former versions. Is it not really amusing? The final product does exactly the opposite thing of the original intellectual design - but, fortunately, nobody in the Humanities needed to get his or her hands dirty. We just had to wait what a science dominated IT did to our original concepts. Which, in my opinion, is exactly what we get, when we rely on an anonymous type of "CS" to produce solutions, which we than have "just to adapt to our knowledge domain". Or, to take up Willard's final quote: "Let's build even more bridges to other disciplines and to industry; let's amplify the special strengths of each." A bridge needs two heads; on the various beaches of scientia many are there who are ready to construct them. If we are not willing or able to build our own bridgeheads, the bridges might never reach our shores. Comments? Yours, Manfred From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Job at McMaster Date: 2004/01/19 Mon PM 02:37:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 764 (764) To: Humanist Dear fellow Humanists, Please bring the following job ad to the attention of any suitable candidates: The Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Electronic Texts and Text Analysis, commencing July 1, 2004. Minimum annual salary at the Assistant Professor rank will be $49,861 as of July 1, 2004. The successful candidate will be appointed to the Multimedia Program in the School of the Arts and, if suitable, to one of the following Departments: English, French, or Modern Languages and Linguistics. The successful candidate should demonstrate the ability to teach courses about electronic texts and text programming. Candidates should demonstrate research strength in the area of electronic textuality and computer-assisted text analysis. Expertise in computational linguistics or electronic scholarly editions will be an asset. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline in the humanities and have experience with research computing projects in the humanities. McMaster has a successful program in Multimedia, a new program in Communication Studies and is developing a graduate program in the area of Multimedia, Technology and Culture. McMaster is also the lead institution on a CFI funded Text Analysis Portal for Research project and is the host of the peer reviewed journal Text Technology. For further information, please consult www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~macmedia/. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to these learning and research activities where appropriate. Please forward applications, three letters of reference to Dr. Hayden Maginnis, by February 28, 2004, Togo Salmon Hall 414, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M2. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents will be given priority. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Alan Sondheim Subject: short poem Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:28:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 765 (765) Aram Saroyan, in the 60s, produced a number of one-word poems including lighght and eyeye = he also produced a book of blank pages. There is a lot of precedent for this. - Alan http://www.asondheim.org/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/.nikuko http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm finger sondheim@panix.com From: Julia Flanders Subject: Re: 17.542 rupture, continuing openness and an end to the Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:11:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 766 (766) 'liberal' I think Willard is absolutely right, that keeping open the "self-study" route is essential--not just because such a route will continue to be a source of creative, intelligent influx to the humanities computing community, but also because it reminds us to evaluate things (and people) by looking at their merits rather than through the codified symbology of credentials. In the back of my mind I have the "crisis in scholarly publishing" which seems to me in many ways to be founded on precisely this problem: the displacement of critical evaluation onto a system (e.g. peer review) and away from some more direct interaction ("I read this book and found it useful/rubbish/astute but of limited impact/etc."). While the basic idea behind the system makes sense (you find out what qualified peers think), we're now in a situation where the system has been reified to the point where its habits and usages matter more, have more momentum and significance, than the underlying purposes being accomplished. I can see why in the well-established disciplines this has happened and may even be necessary, but our community isn't yet at that point: we can cast our nets widely and assess the significance of what we find for ourselves; we can hire people who have all sorts of experience and different forms of education; we're lucky to be in this position still. Even though we may find it desirable and useful to design educational programs that formalize what we know and cultivate a new generation of colleagues, we should make sure that we don't start mistaking those programs for The Way. Best wishes, Julia At 9:02 AM +0000 1/19/04, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Personal Experiences in the Paradigm Shift of Textuality Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:27:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 767 (767) A (mediated = medialized) text is a machine or a user interface that “behaves” in a certain way. So we expect the texts we face to behave in a certain way. There is always ONE text technology that sets the standard. Which socializes our notion of a text as the normal behaviour of that text. Actually we are on the threshold of a new shift, undergoing continuing technical (= mental) socialization. I experienced my own “conversion”/”passover” when I visited an italian restaurant some days ago. Looking at the menu, my friend said: “I don’t know what I’m going to eat, but it should be something with cream sauce. I will have to read all the lists of ingredients”. And I thought: “yeah, that’s strange. The menu doesn’t behave as it should. You can not press a Ctrl-F-Key and look for ‘cream’ in all the dishes. The text doesn’t highlight all occurrences of ‘cream’. The text doesn’t answer to my questions. This isn’t a normal text, it’s not interactive, it doesn’t communicate. It’s a dead thing.” To me, at that moment, it seemed to be an outdated, old-fashioned kind of text, an antiquarian text, as from an archive. Surely the printed-book-people had a similar experience for hundreds of years, when they encountered manuscripts. They surely often will have thought: this isn’t a normal text. It’s too hard to decipher and where is the table of contents which directs me into the book and to some certain page numbers? Where are the headlines and footnotes? Why is it so inconvenient to use this kind of text? Maybe some decades from now I will sit in an italian restaurant with my son. And I will hear him talk to some menu: “What pasta with cream do you have to offer?”, expecting it to answer in a clearly audible voice ­ and never even thinking about being forced to “read” a menu. What will be left to say about "textuality" then? Comments? From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Tribute to Zampolli from Joe Raben Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:04:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 768 (768) To Michael Sperberg-McQueen’s reminiscence of Antonio Zampolli, I would like to add my own memories of this important leader in the effort to establish humanities computing during the early decades. He and I first met in 1968, when I was able to travel to Europe for the first time after establishing Computers and the Humanities two years before. There were as yet no regular conferences devoted to humanities computing or sections of other organizations at which computing humanists could exchange information or even learn of each other’s existence. Since the meeting at which I was to organize the Association for Computers and the Humanities was still about a decade in the future, and no simple means existed yet to establish communication among the scattered pioneering humanists who were experimenting with the monstrous and clumsy new computers, I recognized the importance of reaching out to comrades in Europe whose experience might guide us and for whom we might in turn provide useful guidance. Antonio Zampolli turned out to be one of the most important contacts I was able to establish. The Directory of Scholars Active that I published in CHum had contributed to establishing the international links which I felt were essential to the acceptance and progress of this pioneering mode of studying the liberal arts. From what I was able to glean from this resource, I knew that I had to visit three major European initiatives: Louis Delatte’s laboratory for the statistical analysis of text in Liège, Belgium; Paul Imbs’ monumental Trésor de la langue française at Nancy, France’s attempt to do for French language studies what the OED had done for English; and the Index Thomisticus, Roberto Busa’s (perhaps unwitting) implementation of Theodore Nelson’s ground-breaking concept of hypertext in linking all the works of Thomas Aquinas to their sources and intellectual descendants. Fr. Busa had been at the event that apparently inaugurated formally what has become humanities computing, the Conference on Literary Data Processing organized under the sponsorship of IBM at Yorktown Heights in 1964. As the star of that show, however, he had been effectively sequestered from the lesser personalities who were invited to describe their KWIC concordances and other efforts to harness the so-called “electronic brains” to the needs of literary research. My visit to Pisa, to learn more about the man and his project, would lead me to Zampolli, his disciple. With characteristic Italian charm, both teacher and student welcomed me for hours of chat about our mutual interests. I was invited to Busa’s establishment, where his colleagues, incongruously using IBM keypunches, were copying medieval texts with the same industry that their forebears had devoted to manual copying in the age of Aquinas. Zampolli, using only our single mutual language at that time, college French, took me to Florence to visit the offices of the Italian electronic dictionary project. During the hours he was otherwise obligated, he was extraordinarily generous in lending me his car so I could explore Lucca and the Tuscan region. My chief memory of our discussions during the days I spent with him was Zampolli’s particular eagerness that I use CHum to further the cause of establishing standards for encoding text. To him, my chief advice was that he utilize the support he had obtained from the Italian government to organize a summer school for humanities computing. With whatever help I could offer from the American side and later as a member of his faculty, this facility came into being two years later, and again two more years after. It brought together a good assortment of activists, such as the computational linguist David Hays from the US. That summer school was at the time the only substantial attempt to spread knowledge of humanities computing to a wider and younger audience. Among the students, for example, was Joachim Neuhaus from Germany, whose name Zampolli delighted in translating as Casanova. The formal classes, the relaxing hours at the nearby shore, the group dinners -- all contributed to cementing professional friendships that have endured for many years. Feeling like me that international links were essential, Zampolli made many visits to the States (and almost everywhere else). On those occasions he was often a guest at my home. Among the memories my family cherish is his delight at seeing my young children drink their milk through long twisted plastic tubes, “crazy straws.” As soon as he saw them, we had to dash off to the local novelty shop and acquire a stock for his family in Italy. His other delight was corn on the cob, of which he apparently could never get enough. On one visit, we plied him with about a dozen ears. After finishing them off, he said (his English had developed very quickly): “That was fine. I had a dozen at lunch.” He then took a sackful of them with him on the plane home to Italy. He was also a regular visitor to conferences organized in the Netherlands, England, and elsewhere in Europe. He was a regular participant in the conferences organized by ACH and in the series on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences for which I was able to enlist the organizing talents of various colleagues around the country. Wherever I was invited in Europe, I learned to expect his famous smile. He embraced all who shared his enthusiasm. His contributions as an active scholar and teacher are widely known. I hope that these details of his human side contribute to perpetuating his memory. From: cis_ram2004 Subject: CFPs: IEEE CONFERENCE ON CYBERNETICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:44:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 769 (769) ============================================= IEEE CONFERENCE ON CYBERNETICS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (CIS) ============================================= December 1 - 3, 2004, Singapore http://cis-ram.nus.edu.sg Organized by: IEEE SMC Singapore Chapter IEEE R&A Singapore Chapter Supported by: Centre for Intelligent Control, NUS Centre for Intelligent Machines, NTU CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The goal of the CIS 2004 is to bring together experts from the field of cybernetics and intelligent systems to discuss on the state-of-the-art and to present new research findings and perspectives of future developments with respect to the conference themes. The CIS 2004 is organized by the IEEE SMC Singapore Chapter, and is hold in together with the IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 2004). The conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide in but not limited to the following areas: Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks (NN), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Evolutionary Computation (EC), Hybrid CI Algorithms, DNA Computing, Evolutionary Logistics, Evolutionary Systems, Adaptive Computing Systems, Data Mining and Management, Decision Support Systems, Informatics, Environmental Systems, Expert and Knowledge Base Systems, Human/Computer Interaction, Human/Machine Systems, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Information Assurance and Security, Intelligent Communications, Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Internet/Electronic Commerce, Knowledge Acquisition and Engineering, Manufacturing Systems, Optimization, Pattern Recognition, Quality/Reliability & Systems Engineering, Service Systems and Organizations, Socio-Technical Systems Design, Autonomous Systems, etc. [material deleted] From: "W.N. Martin" Subject: Seminar possibly of interest Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:54:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 770 (770) Seminar announcement: Title: Constructing Media as a Context for Teaching Computing and Motivating Women and Non-Majors Speaker: Mark Guzdial College of Computing/GVU Georgia Tech Day: Monday, February 2, 2004 Time: 3:30pm Room: Olsson Hall 009 Abstract: To address the high rates of failure among women and non-majors in introductory computer science classes, we developed a CS1 course centered around media and communications. Introduction to Media Computation introduces programming and computing ideas through students programming image filters, splicing and reversing sounds, implementing digital video special effects, building Web searching tools, and writing programs that generate text. We support the course with a textbook (available now through Pearson), a programming environment (for Python), and a collaborative website on which students can share their media creations. In the two semesters that the course has been offered, over 400 students have taken the course, 2/3 of whom were female, with a WDF rate of 12%. Students report that they find the course relevant and creative, with a rich social context. The course and components of it are currently being tested in two and four year schools outside of Georgia Tech. In this talk, I describe the course, our evaluation, and our future directions, including a second course, a CS minor, and a pathway into the CS major through media computation. Bio:Dr. Mark Guzdial is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing/GVU at Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Collaborative Software Laboratory. His research focuses on the creation and evaluation of collaborative Dynabooks: Learning through exploring and constructing multimedia in a collaborative setting. His lab developed and supports CoWeb/Swiki, one of the most popular of the WikiWikiWeb implementations. He is the author and co-editor of two books on Squeak, a language designed for multimedia and learning. He is just completing a book on introducing programming in a media context with collaborative infrastructure. He is on the editorial boards of "Interactive Learning Environments" and "Journal of the Learning Sciences." From: "Price, Dan" Subject: about link anxiety--one more item, perhaps Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:53:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 771 (771) Willard, Happened to be looking at some previously unopened Humanist mail, and began to follow the trail about link anxiety. Interesting material as it gets to some of the nature of the new technology can do. At any rate, noticed in perhaps your initial line the following, I will tend not to want the reader to go off to that argument and engage with it, not at least right then. Isn't that the point of the new technology? That the reader is in control of the text, much more so than previously. Previously the reader of course was always free to browse and to put down the text in order to follow the note, if he or she choose. But now the reader is so much freer to do that than previously. --dan Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Gantz Undergraduate Center ********************************************************** (513) 861 6400 ext. 1222 (800) 486 3116 ext. 1222 440 E. 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I 'm looking for a list of new technologically most used internet resources in the studying and analyzing of humanities and literature. Also articles, opinions, reviews, methods, way of looking forward this new "science". Can anyone give me a hand? Best regards From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 17.552 rupture and the "self-study" route Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:45:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 773 (773) Willard, Sometimes I see threads converge, but rarely if ever like this. I'd like here to respond to three threads at once. In '17.549 humanities computer science', Prof Thaller laments [deleted quotation] Meanwhile, Julia Flanders writes in '17.552 rupture and the "self-study" route': [deleted quotation] ... [deleted quotation] A position with which I can agree with whole-heartedly, while recognizing the paradox in it. This when you have just cited (in '17.546 new places of knowledge?') a very interesting and provocative 1997 essay by Thomas Bender, in which he writes (in part) [deleted quotation] This really strikes home since I have found myself in exactly this kind of place, on the outside of the academy yet with no lack of opportunities to help "develop [new] knowledge". What a friend of mine in these realms names the "internetwork topology" has something to do with this (and as a freelancing electronic text specialist in the financial industry, and a student of Homeric poetry, he is an exemplar of the type): being on the outside no longer means the isolation that it used to; and if I have no research library as such, I have something scholars in earlier ages would hardly have dared imagine for themselves. But what Flanders and Thaller have each warned about and pointed to, on the other side, also has a great deal to do with it: the institutionalization of certain boundaries within academic discourse that sap our power to contribute meaningfully from within those structures -- whether because we have no scope or mandate to reach beyond the settled, known and approved ("How can I 'develop new knowledge' if I have to get tenure?") or, if we plunge ahead nonetheless, when we face the inevitable questions of authority or relevance (what does a humanist know of computers, or a computer scientist know about sign systems?). Thus, ironically, because academics seek authority and relevance among your/our peers, you/we cede authority and relevance in the larger sphere. In this light, the consumeristic mindset that Prof Thaller complains of -- humanities specialists may "use" computers, but can't and shouldn't seek to contribute to their development -- is a symptom of the problem as well as a cause. And Julia, to follow on, warns that formalizing our own discourses may tend to worsen the situation, not improve it. This seems like a dire predicament, with all of us on either side of the cloister walls wishing we were on the other: I yearn for an academic calendar, a research library, a conference budget and students and colleagues -- effectively, a "department"! -- to help me whet my brain, even while my academic friends envy my freedom to chart my own intellectual course without having to answer to departments and committees. Yet across these walls, what happens? We chafe at the difficulties ... and yet we make advances with astonishing speed. Consider, as Prof Thaller does, the web. He fairly derides it as an impoverished, stunted form of hypertext, and remarks on the irony of a hypertext medium being so widespread without even gesturing towards one of the classic desiderata of hypertext, namely revision tracking. Yet for all its weaknesses, the web demonstrates vividly how powerful is the combination of the academic spirit of inquiry with the extra-academic attitudes of "can do" and "less is more" ... a combination found perhaps only in odd niches, inside and outside the academy (when he prototyped the web, Tim Berners-Lee was at CERN, but he was not researching nuclear physics), but potentially explosive where it occurs. And in its turn the web is, what? Markup technologies, which themselves were developed not by computer scientists but by ... by readers of this list, among others, people largely on the fringes and boundaries, who understood very well the relevance of the humanities to computing and computing to the humanities, even while those in more established positions were blinkered by settled notions of who was supposed to know what. Does this represent failure? Is it failure even if the innovators fail to get tenure? I don't think so -- or if it is a failure, it is a failure only of the institutions, academic and corporate, that cannot hold onto their best, while the boundary-crossers move on to something else. Bender's essay, which I recommend to all (at http://www.acls.org/op40ben.htm), has much to say about reasons for and possible remedies of the current academic malaise. But meeting the transgressors at conferences like ALLC/ACH, or Extreme, or hiding in the corners at MLA or XML 200x (now a tradeshow for an entire new industry), and hearing their passions and preoccupations -- which don't have much to do with institutional politics -- sometimes I wonder if our uneasy in-betweenness is not an enviable golden age after all. Best regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: DrWender@AOL.COM Subject: Re: 17.553 paradigm shift of textuality Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:49:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 774 (774) In einer eMail vom 21.01.04 10:08:15 (MEZ) Mitteleuropaische Zeit schreibt willard@lists.village.virginia.edu: [deleted quotation] This said under " I can't dispute the feelings. But I would debate the presupposition: Is the later on dreamed 'answering menu' an example for some "Paradigm Shift of Textuality"? Patrick Sahle mentions new features of text presentation in Gutenberg era for sake to demonstrate an earlier (the last before the one now?) 'paradigm shift'. I will take a simpler example (but for non-germans perhaps it is to explain: DER SPIEGEL and FOCUS are both weekly newspapers, the first most people will known as best reputated since the early fifties in 20th century, the latter founded I think 40 years later). The newcoming product has taken advantage from the new desktop publishing facilities and the new production possibilities in the publishing industry: It was coming with a 'modern design', with highlighting essentials, term explanations in the margins, an overall simpler writing style but in a somewhat 'vivid' outfit, esp. compared to the impression in the old-fashioned SPIEGEL with his famous own language, heavily rhetorical uploaded. (Apologies for my dictionary's English...) Look at an early print of Luther Bible, look at the glosses i.e. by Montaigne. You'll find the 'new' features of FOCUS as old ones. And vice versa: Go to your favorite pizzeria where you know the pizza chef since a lot of years, ask him for a meal with cream - his answer isn't it text, and isn't it like highlighting the asked topics in his menu standard text? (Are you really waiting for the speaking laptop in a McDonald's restaurant where you will go with your son?) But beyond the pizzeria example: What is meant with "paradigm shift of textuality"? Herbert Wender From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 17.549 humanities computer science Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:57:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 775 (775) I'm personally grateful to Manfred for articulating the basis for his fine programme in Cologne at such length. He raises a number of issues worth chewing on, but for now I'd like to concentrate on two in particular. The first is raised, again, by the terminology he uses as this is rendered into English. I apologise for a rather linguistically specific point, which would I suspect need to be argued very differently in each of the several other languages our diverse community speaks. Forgive me also for the repetition of something I've said before, possibly more than once :-). But I do have a strong objection to use of the word "science" in English for exactly the reason John Searle cites in Minds, Brains and Science (Penguin, 1984), p. 11. Commenting on the three main words in his title, he notes the inadequacy of the vocabulary we have for discussing the related problems, objecting first to "mind" and then taking up our word: [deleted quotation] What does it matter? At least two ways I can think of. First, practically it matters because of the need for university administrations, funding agencies and colleagues to categorize activities, e.g. to find the right sort of person to judge whether they are being well done -- or should be done at all. Second, the cultural power of the word is so great that it inhibits clear thinking, as Searle complains. In the sub-genre of computer science literature devoted to agonizing over whether CS is a discipline and if so where its allegiances lie, one commonly finds otherwise very bright (but as Bill Wulf says, slightly paranoid) people lunging for the physical sciences as if they were a singular monolith with a unitary epistemological method. Because they aren't and (as is now commonly recognized) there is no such unitary method, the effort is wasted, and besides it directs attention away from the important matters in CS. In brief, I am arguing that (a) words have meaning, (b) it's important to get the right one for the job and (c) "science" does us more harm than good. Now for the second, related point. Manfred says, [deleted quotation] I could not agree more strongly that once knowledge is treated as a commodity, like just so much breakfast cereal, the game has been lost. (See Terry Winograd's identical criticism, ironically applied to mainstream AI research, in "Thinking Machines: Can There Be? Are We?", in The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, ed. James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna, Berkeley, 1991, pp. 198-223.) I join Manfred in condemning the tacit or vocal assumption he identifies. But it does not follow that programmes and research "in Humanities Computing as it stands today" necessarily make that assumption. Our programmes at King's College London, which are in humanities computing, do not, for example. I think Manfred is making a good point but that it is confused by an oversight. What is being overlooked is the crucial element of critical, self-aware application of standard tools. (To return to the breakfast cereal metaphor, our parents could criticize us not merely for playing with our food but more seriously for encouraging all the other kids to do the same!) Pedagogically there's good reason, especially at the undergraduate level, to teach students how to use the standard tools critically and intelligently. In a crowded programme there's only so much time. There are other practical considerations as well. I think Manfred's quite right that there's a danger here, however: the danger of falling into bad habits -- to say nothing of missing things because of inferior tools. Training and experience with building the tools is or should be central to what we do. But humanities computing can be a broad church, with many ways. 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: the strict and the loose Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:55:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 776 (776) Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago, 1972): 75, makes the following observation: “…whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition; whenever we start insisting too hard upon ‘operationalism’ or symbolic logic or any other of these very essential systems of tramlines, we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.” I'm inclined to think that this is exactly what computers do for us loose-thinking types: give us a strictness with which to reveal what lies between (or beyond) the strict and the loose. 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 Subject: Ubiquity 4.46 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:31:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 777 (777) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 46 (January 21 - 27, 2003) VIEW 2004: The Turning Point An overview of some of the issues that will change the way we use the Internet By Stephen Downes http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i46_downes.html From: hla@CS.NOTT.AC.UK Subject: Early submission deadline for papers: Hypertext '04 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:41:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 778 (778) Just a quick reminder that the Early submission deadline for full papers for Hypertext '04 is February 4th, 2004. The online submission software is now ready for your submission and you can find it at the "Submit papers" link at the top of the website's papers CFP. The CFP is reproduced below. We look forward to receiving your paper! Hypertext 2004 Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia August 9-13, 2004 : Santa Cruz, California USA http://www.ht04.org/ Call for Submissions The Fifteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia will be held in Santa Cruz, California, August 9-13, 2004. The ACM Hypertext Conference is the foremost international conference on hypertext and hypermedia. It brings together scholars, researchers and practitioners from a diverse array of disciplines, united by a shared interest in innovative textual and multimedia information spaces - with emphasis on augmenting human capabilities via linking, structure, authoring, annotation and interaction. This year, in addition to the established conference themes, the conference is actively soliciting submissions at the intersections of hypermedia and Digital Libraries, Software Engineering and the Humanities. We welcome submissions on the representation, design, structuring, visualizing, navigating, and exploiting of the rich network of relationships found in these domains. Spatial hypertext (structuring information via visual cues and geometric arrangement) and ubiquitous hypermedia (in situ authoring and navigating relationships among real world objects) have recently emerged as significant research directions. They join our established themes of adaptive hypermedia, literary hypertext and systems and structures. This latter topic knits together the research themes of open hypermedia, structural computing, design and reflection. In a bold experiment, for the first time we will be accepting hypertext submissions of research results. We are keenly interested in how judicious use of nonlinear narrative and rich linking can enhance communication of research ideas. We encourage you to consider submitting your paper as a hypertext. Please see the Web site for further details about hypertext submission. We will also be operating a rolling review process. Papers and hypertexts received before the early submission deadline will receive reviewers' feedback at least a week before the final submission deadline, facilitating revised submissions where appropriate. Key dates Early submission deadline: February 4, 2004 Full papers & hypertexts: March 12, 2004 Short papers: May 28, 2004 Poster & demo abstracts: June 11, 2004 [material deleted] From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 17.549 humanities computer science Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:40:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 779 (779) I am not totally convinced by the concept of the "Humanities Computer Science" because it seems to me to outline a discipline which is so large that nobody can really handle it anymore. Nonetheless I think that many remarks by Manfred Thaller on the tension between computer scientist and vague information rather hit the mark. Just to give another example: XML has been developed to mark up the structure in not highly structured data (in comparison to the stuff they put into relational databases) but the query language XQuery seems to be much more modeled after SQL than after information retrieval concepts used in the WWW (ranking of hits etc.). Fotis ____________________________________ Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft TU Darmstadt http://www.jannidis.de ____________________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: fuzzy = spiky? Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:40:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 780 (780) I wonder if someone here would give a brief explanation of fuzzy logic (mentioned by Manfred Thaller in his note) as a *model* of human reasoning, i.e. a method that approximates but is significantly distinct from how we think? 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: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Re: 17.559 the strict and the loose Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:32:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 781 (781) [Bateson said:] [deleted quotation] [Willard added:] [deleted quotation] It's been a while since I've read /Steps/ but I think this strict/loose distinction has more to do with cognitive processes "within the individual" rather than an interaction between rigid and free-flowing ideas. To put it another way, though, it's likely true that computing humanists are expert at both types of thought processes. So are a lot of other people but in the case of computer-oriented scholars in the Humanities, the tool does have an impact on the methods. While not co-extensive with the loose/tight distinction, the oft-mentioned distinction between qualitative and quantitative methods does offer a parallel. Computers are incredibly good at statistics and other approaches to quantitative analysis. Unsurprisingly, humanists and other scholars using computers have often tried to apply quantitative methods to their research. But computers may also do wonders with qualitative data as long as the main analysis is carried by the user. And this is probably where computing humanists have shined the most. A reason might be because humanists are typically used to connecting dots outside the "box" drawn by preconceived ideas on form. So in the case of computers, humanists come with a background which enables them to see computers as more than what they are in the eyes other people. Some might call that "imagination" and it surely has something to do with Bateson's "loose" thinking. It clearly relates to Lévi-Strauss' "bricolage" and "pensée sauvage" (as "wild thinking" more than as "wild pansy"), albeit tangentially. But after all, what can humanists do if they will not go on tangents? Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 17.559 the strict and the loose Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:33:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 782 (782) Willard, I am disposed to disagree with Bateson, though everything hangs on what he means by 'loose'. I am disposed to disagree because without a lot of highly regimented formalism, one cannot think complex thoughts at all. What I have in mind is language and specifically synthax. This is a point that Chomsky has made over an over. Try to be creative about nuclear physics without using a language! Far from rule-governed structures restricting freedom, rule-governed structures of certain kinds are necessary for certain freedoms even to exist. Andrew -- Andrew Brook, Professor of Philosophy Past-president, Canadian Philosophical Association Member, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 2217 Dunton Tower, Carleton University Ottawa ON, Canada K1S 5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Fax: 613 520-3985 Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook From: Susan Hesemeier Subject: Re: 17.555 cybernetics conference; seminar on women and Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:42:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 783 (783) non-majors in CS [deleted quotation] I am interested in whether there are studies that verify the claim stated below (i.e. that women have a high rate of failure in introductory computer science classes). Susan -- Susan Hesemeier, PhD Student Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto http://individual.utoronto.ca/hesemeier/ Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 784 (784) [deleted quotation] From: "Joel Elliott" Subject: Lyman Award: Deadline Extension for Nominations Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:34:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 785 (785) National Humanities Center Research Triangle Park, NC Email: nhc@ga.unc.edu Web: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us National Humanities Center Extends Deadline for Information Technology Award Nominations The National Humanities Center has extended the deadline for nominations for the third Richard W. Lyman Award through February 15, 2004. The Lyman Award recognizes humanities scholars who make imaginative use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching, and carries a prize of $25,000. To learn more about the Lyman Award or to submit a nomination, visit the Center's Web site, www.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: catac@wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: Reminder - CATaC'04 papers due 1 February 2004 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:10:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 786 (786) Dear Colleague Just 6 days to the CATaC'04 deadline for paper submission. This is a reminder that full, short and panel papers are due on 1 February. Please check the conference website for details - www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/. We look forward to receiving your submission and hope to see you in Karlstad. Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess Co-chairs, CATaC'04 Fourth International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION 27 June-1 July 2004, Karlstad University, Sweden catac@it.murdoch.edu.au From: Subject: Update: Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:13:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 787 (787) New York, July [deleted quotation] From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.558 rupture, shifts & humanities computer science Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:26:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 788 (788) Another excellent resume of the label science is found in Raymond Williams's _Keywords_. He too makes the point about the difficulty posed by translation into English of the cognate "science" from other Euro-languages. In reading his account which among other topic treats of the distincition between of _experiment_ and _experience_ and the Art - Science pair in relation to Mechanical and Liberal Arts, I am wanting to propose as sub-branch of the field: charletonantics. Throughout the humanities-science discourse as it has been pursued on Humanist the dramatic tension is between the the practitioner and the theoretician. I think it is important to recognize that the tension gets a neat twist with the appearance of a third figure: the charleton. It is, I suggest around the trope of the inauthentic that the question about the investment of time, energy and resources raises itself. The imposter, the one pretending to pass as a savant, is familiar figure from pre-electronic computing days. The Sophists though much maligned give the philosopher grist. If as teachers we train students (and keep ourselves fit) by the methodical art of asking questions and asking questions about questions (or in the sight-focused terminology of theory: observe, compare and judge), we constantly make use of the imposter, the charleton, the trickster and the chatter, buzz and discourse they engender. At times do we play the fool? Waste and want not. The amateur fears not waste. The professional perpetually fears the taint. Well not, perpetually. I exagerate. And it certainly is a slide to conflate an amateur and a trickster. I keep sensing bubbling up in the science-humanities question a set of counter-claims between leisure and industry (especially in those asides to institutional arrangements and administrators). Industry or leisure: which is to be the motor of knowledge production? I think that there is an implied narrative in invoking the "production of knowledge". That narrative sets the agents (scientist and humanist) in competition with each other. That narrative assumes that the production of knowledge moves from a state of no knowledge to one of knowledge. The dream of ex nihilio creation. The ghost of an ahistorical moment. If the "production of knowledge" is figured in local evolutionary and collaborative terms much like good husbandry that cultivates biodiversity through constant experimentation then both humanist and scientist can thrive on the babel of waste and administrators will mind the compost. Yes, the science and art of management belongs somewhere in the practice of HC or HCS. Spin doctors and marketers of applied rhetoric: they after all do observe, compare and judge. The best professors I have known have combined the roles of teacher, researcher and impressario. Their best students do too. So do their worst. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: Reply Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:26:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 789 (789) Dear Willard, Wendell Piez quotes Julia Flanders when he writes in commenting about, among others, the CSH thread: [deleted quotation] It may come as a surprise, but I agree with them. However, I have to add two points: (a) Interdisciplinarity means by definition, that people do things which have not been done before. As you cannot codify the unknown, a codification of "the Field" or "the Way" in a narrow definition, simply destroys the flexibility with which it is possible to react to new situations. However, I have some difficulties seeing that danger at the moment as particularly large. One of the problems of the totally self-taught approach is that the discussion about computer applications in the Humanities shows a really deplorable lack of abstract methodological discussion; "lightening ones mind" by embracing wholeheartedly a specific technology may be very useful for an individual project, but is rather damaging for the community as a whole in the long run. Example 1: I consider Jean-Claude Gardin one of the most stimulating writers in what I understand as HCS. While his writings never have been without contradictions, and I most certainly do not endorse all of his ideas myself, his "Le Calcul et la raison", Paris, 1991, e.g., presents a complete and consistent methodological position what IT should do for the Humanities. Formulated at the height of the "expert system" wave, it actually presents quite a few positions which could easily be reformulated today in terms of the discussions about the usefulness of ontologies - which, keeping in mind, what became of the AI wave of the later eighties, might actually lead to a more realistic estimate of what the semantic web wave can or can not accomplish. ... As far as I notice, those parts of the CH community which are interested in the SemWeb are currently reliving some of the discussions which were going on in the expert systems era. Example 2: The earliest reasonably easily accessible overview over C. in a section of the Humanities which I am aware of, is the book on the "Wartenstein Conference" of 1962, edited by Dell Hymnes: The Use of Computers in Anthropology, London, 1965. In his editor's preface he describes as the major methodological decision to be taken, whether "the computer" should primarily be used as a tool for technical tasks or for the methodological improvement of the Humanities. Some time later Padre Busa has a very clear opinion on that: "In this field one should not use the computer primarily for speeding up the operation, nor for minimising the work of the researchers. It would not be reasonable to use the computer just to obtain the same results as before, having the same qualities as before, but more rapidly and with less human effort... [T]he use of computers in the Humanities has as its principal aim the enhancement of the quality, depth and extension of research and not merely the lessening of human effort and time." p. 89 in the context of: Roberto Busa: The Annals of Humanities Computing: The Index Thomisticus, in: Computers and the Humanities 14 (1980), 83-90. Honestly: Can anybody show a process, by which from such individual contributions over a time frame of four decades a well ordered cross-referential discussion has been arising, out of which the CHum community has been developing trusted terms of reference which allow statements about the applicability / usefulness of a particular new technology? So I would propose, that a professionalisation of "the field" has to provide a framework, within which somebody discovering a new way of applying technology to the Humanities can build on the experiences of the history of such attempts. Otherwise, if everyone has to start from scratch, we simply cannot get beyond a certain point. (b) However, WHAT does form a discipline? Fotis Jannidis writes: [deleted quotation] Well, I have the feeling that this is one of the points which have lead me away from what I see as the reality of CH. To make me look even worse, let me give a non-exclusive list of what a follower of HCS should in my opinion be aware of: - Data base theory and applications to a degree, where he / she can design and evaluate data base driven research. - AI to the degree to implement / evaluate simulation studies. - Empirical methods sufficiently well, to understand about the potential of statistical tools in content driven projects as well as in areas, where they become technically meaningful. - Image processing and its potential for handling cultural objects as well as written documents. - Markup and its relationships to other ways to structure data. - Handling of geographical information, to the degree of understanding what difficulties exist in the application of GIS techniques to material with a temporal depth. - Simulation techniques. No, nobody has to be able to make meaningful and original contributions in all of these fields. A researcher of English studies is not normally expected to publish on the grammar of Chaucer with the same frequency as on the continuities and changes in the reception of literature represented by the popularity of the Gothic novel. Nor would I expect a HCS researcher to contribute to all of the above. If he or she specialises in one field, fine; as long as she or he is aware of what is going on in the other fields and understands the developments there sufficiently well to recognise parallels when they become apparent. (Which they do surprisingly frequently, in my opinion.) If somebody specialises in one such field and proclaims a formal curriculum in "HC", which than consists of one of the fields above and creates the impression among the students that this constitutes "the Field" ... sorry, the world's best specialist for the first 50 lines of the twelfth song of the Ilias is not my most favourite concept of classical studies, though it can be observed in the real world. And I have to admit, that there are examples of HC courses which for me come sufficiently close to this concept, that I insist on following a paradigm, which does not follow any such "focusing". [ The AHC has in its days developed a model of different levels for the implementation of curricula. Of course, a single course which trains students in any of the above for the benefit of a specific discipline, is a valuable addition to the curriculum of that discipline. It should in my opinion not try to create the impression, that it constitutes a specific "field", however. ] Finally, you yourself write: "But humanities computing can be a broad church, with many ways." Yes, this is exactly what I am concerned with, that it SHOULD be a very varied field. But for that, in my opinion we do not only need individual curricula, definitions and models which stand isolatedly side by side, but the common frame of reference I started from in this mail, which in my opinion is described by a HCS as described earlier. A frame of reference which provides the self-taught with a framework into which they can fit their own discoveries (and help them not to have to re-discover other things); a frame of reference, which really lets us build on what the last age cohort of specialists has discovered and a frame of reference, which (sorry, Fotis) is intentionally as broad as possible, to bring one's own interests into perspective. I very much like the notion of a broad church; much less so that of a multitude of chapels distributed over the landscape, each of which is convinced, that it holds the true cross and therefore does not really listen to what is preached in the others. And somehow I have a deep suspicion about which metaphor is a better approximation of the reality of CH in toto today. "Science": I understand your feelings very much, but we DO face a translation problem there. The largest chunk of what I understand to be the meaning of "the Humanities" in the English speaking community is called in German "Literaturwissenschaften" (= literary sciences); and even worse, the closest approximation to the term as a whole are the "Geisteswissenschaften" (= Hm. 'Sciences of the reasoning mind', maybe?) So, while I certainly share your apathy against overly self confidential hard science people, I still do have difficulties of recognising the full impact of the connotations of C"S". C"S" as in 'Computer Studies', maybe, for an abstract knowledge domain, within witch 'Computing' stands for an applied branch, as a (degree bearing) 'Russian translator' is an applicant of some of what 'Russian studies' are about? Yours, Manfred From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: KWIC Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:34:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 790 (790) I was so pleased to see the name of one of my heroes, Joe Raben. He once said, BTW, in speaking of concordances: "The very technology that has made possible more and better concordances will very soon be responsible for their death." "The Death of the Handmade Concordance," Scholarly Publishing 1 (1969), p. 69. Too bad this prediction hasn't yet come true (I am at this moment reviewing a recently-published KWIC concordance). I have yet to meet anyone who uses a KWIC concordance, though I can see making one (they are quick and easy) while working on a text. Concordances themselves are hard enough to use, even if done by Cruden or Lane Cooper, but a KWIC concordance ... I wonder how many people out there even use concordances of any type, e. g. the Shakespeare Concordance. I just conducted a scientific survey by asking all those I encountered in our Foreign Language Building, and found that none of them did, and that 10 out of the 12 I met did not know exactly what one was (all of professorial rank). From: Don Nugent Subject: Re: 17.433 baa baa black sheep Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:36:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 791 (791) Check the web site at the URL address: http://www.sca.org.au/bacchus_wood/origins_of_nursery_rhymes.html From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: strict and loose Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:27:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 792 (792) Speaking of strict and loose thinking, computer thinking and humanities thinking, it will of course depend on what one means by strict, but I do not think that computer thinking is stricter in any sense than humanities thinking (I speak loosely here). For the most part, computers depend upon a bi-valued system and on algorithms, whereas the humanities tend towards multi-valued logic and epieikeia. Most programs which deal with humanities stuff are required to be `loose', in that they have to deal with complicated concepts as if they could be reduced to yes-no statements. Most concepts in the humanities are at best `ideal types', to use Weber's term, and can at best be treated by multi-valued systems. Positivism, symbolic logic, Boolean logic, set theory, and the like, require a naive look at the world, so we have had to develop naive set theory, fuzzy set theory, even Bayesian probabilities to handle the real world. Back to the humanities, even our terminology (chiasm, metaphor, ode, battle, war, victory) is hard to be certain about, and studies of things like style are notoriously difficult by computer. I remember an article I once read entitled "How to talk to your programmer." As my own programmer, I have always found it hard to talk to myself about programmable problems, even things like concordances (lemmatize?, if so, how?, what is a homograph?, even what and when is a word? etc.). If we want to do humanities computing, we have to loosen up, be less strict, take what we can. Applying an algorithm to epieikeia (St. Thomas) is hard. From: "Michel Lemaire" Subject: Re: 17.559 the strict and the loose Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:28:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 793 (793) Hello, Working in a literature department, I am surprised to see how few professors or post-graduate students use computer as a research tool. For most, computer is still a new kind of typewriter or a new way to send circulars. And this opposition between loose and strict thinking may be the answer. Researchers in literature seem to me to be afraid of the strictness that computer requires, and afraid of losing what they would call their independence of thought and could be the looseness of their thinking. I wonder if people in other literature departments have the same feeling. Michel Lemaire Département des lettres françaises Université d'Ottawa mlemaire@uottawa.ca www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe From: Anders Klitgaard Subject: Re: 17.557 Shakespeare et al. and the new "science"? Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:14:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 794 (794) Have you tried SHAKSPER, the international electronic conference (http://www.shaksper.net/)? You can start out by searching the archives, but to ask your question you will need to join the group. Best regards Anders --- "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Douglas Galbi" Subject: Shakespeare and the Internet (was R: humanities computer Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:15:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 795 (795) science Computers and the Internet enable much more efficient development, analysis, and sharing of databases. Because humanities and literature generally includes named persons, databases of names provide a valuable resource for understanding humanities and literature. I (humbly) suggest that a new discovery about a dramatic change in the frequency of the use of the name Mary across sixteenth-century England provides key insights into Shakespeare's theatre. See Section IV, pp. 82-112, of "Sense in Communication," available at http://www.galbithink.org Regards, Douglas Galbi From: Susan Hesemeier Subject: women in computer science Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:33:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 796 (796) In regards to my post yesterday about women in introductory computer science classes, and relating to recent discussions about the role of the email subject line, I just wanted to add that the subject line created by Humanist for my posting may not accurately reflect its context (and as subject lines act as a sort of 'first impression' for the content, I thought I would create one below that is more in line with the intent of my post :-). My original subject line was "Fwd: Re: 17.555 cybernetics conference; seminar on women and non-majors in CS", which was probably changed because it was so long (oops-- I should have made my own shorter subject line-- I am new to posting on Humanist :-). I was wondering whether the claim that there are "high rates of failure among women and non-majors in introductory computer science classes" could be verified by credible studies, as this seemed to be quite a strong assertion that differed from my own subjective view of how women perform in computing science courses. So rather than 'Women in Computer Science?' as my subject line, I probably would have included the same word content but without the question mark. Do women really have a high rate of failure in introductory computer science classes? Susan -- Susan Hesemeier, PhD Student Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto http://individual.utoronto.ca/hesemeier/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:28:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 797 (797) (1) Integrated Image and Graphics Technologies edited by David D. Zhang Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PR of China Mohamed Kamel Dept. of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada George Baciu Dept. of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PR of China THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 762 Image technology is a continually evolving field with various applications such as image processing and analysis, biometrics, pattern recognition, object tracking, remote sensing, medicine diagnoses and multimedia. Significant progress has been made in the level of interest in image morphology, neural networks, full color image processing, image data compression, image recognition, and knowledge -based image analysis systems. Computer graphics has been mainly driven by engineering design processes and has established itself as a dominating methodology in computer aided design (CAD). Subsequently, computer graphics has found applications in information visualization, computer art, digital entertainment, user interfaces, visual programming, scientific visualization, education and training. Traditionally, the image technology and the computer graphics technology have subsumed slightly different goals. In computer graphics, computers are used to create pictures, animations and simulations. The image technology, on the other hand, consists of techniques and methodologies that modify or interpret existing pictures. Integrated Image and Graphics Technologies attempts to enhance the access points to both introductory and advanced material in this area, and to facilitate the reader with a comprehensive reference for the study of integrated technologies, systems of image and graphics conveniently and effectively. This edited volume will provide a collection of fifteen contributed chapters by experts, containing tutorial articles and new material describing in a unified way, the basic concepts, theories, characteristic features of the technology and the integration of image and graphics technologies, with recent developments and significant applications. Integrated Image and Graphics Technologies 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. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Preface. * 1: Introduction; D. Zhang, M. Kamel, G. Baciu. 1.1. Image and Graphics Technologies. 1.2. Integrated Technologies. 1.3. Book Perspective. * 2: Transforming 3D Mesh Surfaces into Images by Parameterization; Jingqi Yan, Pengfei Shi,D. Zhang. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Chart Parameterization. 2.3. Transforming Meshes Into Images. 2.4. Applications. 2.5. Conclusion. * 3: 3D Modeling Based on Attributed Hypergraphs; Li Rong, A.K.C. Wong. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Attributed Hypergraph Representation (AHR). 3.3. 3D Object Modeling Using AHR and AH Operators. 3.4. Augmented Reality Using AHR. 3.5. Experiments of Modeling and Augmented Reality. 3.6. Conclusions. * 4: Visibility Culling for Interactive Dynamic Scenes; G. Baciu, Ki-Wan Kwok. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Overview. 4.3. Ray Parameterization. 4.4. Visibility within a Vertical Directional Plane. 4.5. Visibility Culling on Static Objects. 4.6. Dynamic Scene Occlusion Culling. 4.7. Conclusion. * 5: Image-Based Collision Detection; G. Baciu, Wingo Sai-Keung Wong. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Simulation Space. 5.3. Object Space vs. Image Space Collision Detection. 5.4. Ray Casting. 5.5. Rendering Passes. 5.6. Interference Region. 5.7. Optimal MOR's. * 6: Fourier Processing in the Graphics Pipeline; E. Angel, K. Moreland. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Convolution. 6.3. Hardware Implementation. 6.4. The Fourier Transform. 6.5. Vertex and Fragment Programming. 6.6. Using the GPU for the FFT. 6.7. Examples. 6.8. Conclusions. * 7: Transformation Image into Graphics; Zonghua Zhang, Xiang Peng, D. Zhang. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Overviews. 7.3. An Example System Based on Fringe Projection. 7.4. Experimental Results. 7.5. Conclusion Remarks and Future Work. * 8: An Introduction to Image-Based Rendering; Heung Yeung Shum, Yin Li, Sing Bing Kang. 8.1. Introduction. 8.2. Rendering with No Geometry. 8.3. Rendering with Implicit Geometry. 8.4. Rendering with Explicit Geometry. 8.5. Trade-off between Images and Geometry. 8.6. Rendering with Layered Geometry. 8.7. Discussions. * 9: Image-Based Relighting: Representation and Compression; Tien-Tsin Wong and Pheng-Ann Heng. 9.1. Introduction. 9.2. Computational Model. 9.3. Sampling. 9.4. Relighting. 9.5. Intra-Pixel Compression. 9.6. Inter-Pixel Compression. 9.7. Inter-Channel Compression. 9.8. Overall Evaluation. 9.9. Conclusions and Future Directions. * 10: Construction of Complex Environments from a Set of Depth Images; Enhua Wu, Yanci Zhang, Xuehui Liu. 10.1. Introduction. 10.2. Typical Algorithms. 10.3. Framework of Hybrid Modeling. 10.4. Pick up of Valid Samples. 10.5. Hybrid Representation. 10.6. Real Time Rendering. 10.7. Summary and Conclusions. * 11: Quadratic Surface Reconstruction from Multiple Views Using SQP; Rubin Gong, Gang Xu. 11.1. Introduction. 11.2. Formulation. 11.3. Sequential Quadratic Programming. 11.4. Outline of the Method. 11.5. Experimental Results. 11.6. Summary and Conclusions. * 12: Photo-Realistic Conversation Agent; Bo Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Baining Guo. 12.1. Introduction. 12.2. E-Partner System Architecture. 12.3. Facial Animation. 12.4. Geometry-driven Expression Synthesis. 12.5. Conclusion and Future Work. * 13: 3D Seismic Volume Visualizatio; Chunyu Ma, J. Rokne. 13.1. Introduction. 13.2. Seismic Exploration. 13.3. Visualizing Volume Data and Computer Graphics. 13.4. Conclusion. * 14: Graphical Representation of Fingerprint Images; Jie Zhou, D. Zhang, Jinwei Gu, Nannan Wu. 14.1. Introduction. 14.2. Minutiae-based Representation Fingerprint. 14.3. Modeling Orientation Fields. 14.4. Generation of Synthetic Fingerprint Images. 14.5. Complete Representation of Fingerprints. 14.6. Summary. * 15: Image Based Modeling and Analysis of Textile Materials; Jinlian Hu, Binjie Xin. 15.1. Introduction. 15.2. Modeling of Fabric Pilling. 15.3. Modeling of Polar Fleece Fabric Appearance. 15.4. Modeling of Fabric Wrinkling. 15.5. Summary and Conclusions. * 16: Virtual Product Presentation Based on Images and Graphics; Zhigeng Pan, Mingmin Zhang, Tian Chen. 16.1. Introduction. 16.2. Related Work. 16.3. Image-based Virtual Presentation of Products. 16.4. Graphics-based Virtual Presentation of Products. 16.5. Summary and Conclusions. * 17: 3D Imaging and Applications; Xiaoyi Jiang, H. Bieri. 17.1. Introduction. 17.2. 3D Imaging Principles. 17.3. 3D Sensors. 17.4. Data Fusion. 17.5. Model Generation. 17.6. Other Related Topics. 17.7. Applications. 17.8. Conclusions. * 18: Range Image Segmentation Using Local Approximation of Scan Lines with Application to CAD Model Acquisition; I. Khalifa, M. Moussa, M. Kamel. 18.1. Introduction. 18.2. Range Image Segmentation. 18.3. CAD Model Building. 18.4. Experimental Results. 18.5. Conclusion and Future Work. * 19: Shape-Based Image Retrieval Applied to Trademark Images; O. El Badawy, M. Kamel. 19.1. Introduction. 19.2. Overview of Current Methods. 19.3. Shape Analysis. 19.4. Shape Retrieval Architecture. 19.5. Experimental Results. 19.6. Conclusion and Future Work. * 20: Multi-Resolution Image Registration Using Multi-Class Hausdorff Fraction; H. Salem Alhichri, M. Kamel. 20.1. Introduction. 20.2. Hausdorff Fraction. 20.3. Transformation Space. 20.4. Multi-resolution Image Registration. 20.5. Multi-class Hausdorff Fraction. 20.6. 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Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1914-9 Date: March 2004 Pages: 290 pp. EURO 110.00 / USD 121.00 / GBP 70.00 (7) Die Ontologie Franz Brentanos by Arkadiusz Chrudzimski Universität Zielona Góra, Polen und Universität Salzburg, Österreich PHAENOMENOLOGICA -- 172 Die Ontologie Franz Brentanos: * is the first monograph to present the entire development of Brentano's ontology; * is based, for the most part, on Brentano's unpublished manuscripts; * presents Brentano's ontology of mind and of intentionality which are crucial to the understanding of later developments in Husserl and Meinong; * includes introductory chapters on general ontological topics and on Aristotle's metaphysics; * makes extensive use of the tools of contemporary analytic ontology. This volume is for philosophers interested in Austrian Philosophy, Ontology, Theory of Intentionality and Phenomenology. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1859-2 Date: March 2004 Pages: 230 pp. EURO 95.00 / USD 105.00 / GBP 66.00 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: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.568 KWIC Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:15:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 798 (798) At 09.43 27/01/2004, Jim Marchand wrote: [deleted quotation] i think that a (kwic) concordance is really useful in order to deeply study a given text or corpus, only if it is a computer concordance (say: digital text + concordancing software). This way one can test one after another many ideas and hypotheses about the text, and also discover something not apparent when reading sequentially (for those of you who understand my argument, a simple KWIC concordance for "turchini" in the "Avventure di Pinocchio" shows not only the well known "Fata dai capelli turchini", but also a quite unknown "Bambina dai capelli turchini". The Bambina reveals to be the Fata; and the "bambina" is called by pinocchio "sorellina", while the "Fata" il called "mamma". so with a concordance we quickly discover that Pinocchio has an imaginary family where his sorellina is also his mother... and here the field opens to further studies... maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.568 the KWIC and the sheep Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:20:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 799 (799) Jim -- First, I agree completely about Joe Raben and I was equally happy to see his name. I don't like KWIC, but I use a Chaucer concordance about once a month, and it was very helpful in getting together a paper I read at the medieval Institute last year. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Using Concordances Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:21:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 800 (800) Willard, Jim Marchand writes: [deleted quotation] Interesting survey, albeit somewhat informal. ;-) While not use of a "published" concordance, I find it helpful to create KWIC concordances of drafts of technology standards. The use of terms and concepts are supposed to be consistent. Using a KWIC concordance helps me avoid correcting (unintentional/unaware correcting) usage to what I "know" to be the proper usage, despite the actual language of the text. It may also be that the presentation provided by a KWIC concordance forces me as a reader to attend more closely to the text and to not complete thoughts and sentences with my own expectations, based on prior drafts or general thinking in a particular area. After enough drafts, at least I tend to skim through the familiar looking for something new. With a KWIC concordance there is a greater chance I will closely compare the old and the new, and perhaps learn something about both. Hope everyone is 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: Ross Scaife Subject: Chronicle story and colloquy on open access Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:22:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 801 (801) from Peter Suber: Lila Guterman, The Promise and Peril of 'Open Access', Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2004 (accessible even to non-subscribers). http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i21/21a01001.htm A major overview of OA, its progress, its critics, and its future. Excerpt: "The good guys, in the eyes of many scientists and librarians, are the revolutionaries offering an alternative to the publishing status quo. They are creating online journals that charge no subscription fees. These agitators for change want to rescue librarians from the tyranny of prohibitively costly journals -- upwards of $20,000 per year -- and to empower researchers who, because of the expense, often have difficulty keeping up with new developments in their fields. Instead of charging subscription fees, the new online journals require the authors to pay, charging fees that range from $500 to $1,500 -- a small sum compared with, say, most biomedical-research grants from the National Institutes of Health." This Thursday, January 29, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm Eastern time, the Chronicle will host a live online colloquy on open access. I will be the guest and answer questions posed by online readers. The colloquy is open to non-subscribers, and readers may start posting questions at any time. If you can't monitor the colloquy in real time, the Chronicle will publish a transcript afterwards. ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html From: Ross Scaife Subject: Liberation Technology Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:25:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 802 (802) From the issue dated January 30, 2004 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i21/21b01601.htm The Next Wave: Liberation Technology In everything from course management to big enterprise systems, universities must choose between monopolies and the open approach BY JOHN M. UNSWORTH If the nineties were the e-decade (e-com-merce, e-business, e-publishing, eBay, E*Trade, etc.), the aughties are the o-decade (open source, open systems, open standards, open access, open archives, open everything). This trend, now unfolding with special force in higher education, reasserts an ideology, a meme, that has a continuous tradition traceable all the way back to the beginning of networked computing (in fact, as far back as Thomas Jefferson's famous defense of the principle that "ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe"). Call this meme Liberation Technology. It has recently been adopted by some venerable institutions -- not only by some of the great public and private universities, but also by major private foundations -- and it means business. Since the beginning of Internet time and before, Liberation Technology has been intertwined with and opposed to another ideology. Call it Command and Control. You see Command and Control at work in the military roots of the Internet, in the Recording Industry Association of America's prosecution of file-sharing college students, and in Microsoft's doubly possessive and oddly revealing slogan ("your potential, our passion"). Liberation Technology wants to keep information free; Command and Control wants to make the Internet safe for private property. To be sure, not all proprietary operations oppose open inquiry, but the key to the business success of open-source products like Linux is that they allow people to make money by selling them, without allowing the seller exclusive control. Especially with information goods, the notion of nonexclusive commercial rights is key. In the Early Days of the Web, Public Good vs. Property Rights By the early 1990s, the Internet was expanding rapidly, going from one thousand hosts in 1984 to one million in 1992, and new, more sophisticated applications were appearing, like Gopher (1991) and the World Wide Web (the first Web server in the United States was set up in 1991, with Mosaic, the first graphical Web browser for personal computers, coming along in 1993). Throughout the 1990s, university faculty members and students outside of computer science were gradually becoming aware of the existence of the Internet, largely because of the Web; so was the rest of the world, for the same reason. In retrospect, it's difficult to comprehend the rapidity with which the Web went from an obscure science experiment to a fact of daily life, but it took only about three years. By late 1994, the World Wide Web Consortium was founded to take over managing Web protocols and their development and to ensure that the Web would remain a nonproprietary public good. In 1996, the consortium presented the first draft of XML (Extensible Markup Language, the encoding format that is now used for exchanging text and many other kinds of data on the Web); the official draft of XML 1.0 was presented in 1998. In distinct contrast to that ethos, with its focus on the public good, an aggressive campaign began in the late 1990s to expand the property rights of "content providers," in legislation like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (both passed in 1998) and in case law arising out of the Recording Industry Association of America's suit against Napster in 2000. Mixed in there was the Microsoft antitrust case, initiated in 1998 under the Clinton administration, first decided against Microsoft, overturned on appeal, and eventually settled, quite favorably for Microsoft, by the Bush administration in 2001. Against that backdrop, during the 1990s all over the United States universities became big IT consumers, not just in computer science or in the sciences, but increasingly in all disciplines, on every part of campus, for all kinds of services. As they came to rely more, and more broadly, on networked information in teaching, research, and administration, universities turned away from the strategy of meeting their own specialized needs with homegrown software and began to license more commercial products. They also began to be seen, for the first time, as a profitable market for commercial IT products and services. WebCT and Blackboard, for example, both appeared on the scene in 1997 and over the next few years they signed up hundreds of university clients for "e learning" systems to put courses online, do grading online, accept homework assignments online, etc. On the administrative side, beginning in the mid-1990s, enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) systems from vendors like PeopleSoft and Oracle -- for managing payroll, student records, human resources, purchasing, etc. -- began to find a market in universities, partly built on the fear that Y2K would wreak havoc on older, usually homegrown, systems that had hitherto been performing those functions, often successfully, often for years. Universities also got caught up in the Internet bubble -- that combination of greed, optimism, and willful ignorance of history that led us to believe that information technology would create a permanent bull market. In the heady days at the turn of the millennium, Columbia University, to take only one of many possible examples, plowed millions into launching Fathom, a for-profit online content provider for e-learning, confident that such a foray into the commercial sector would turn a handsome profit for the stakeholders, which included not just Columbia, but the London School of Economics and Political Science, the New York Public Library, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and others. Some time in 2000, though, the pendulum started swinging the other way, beginning, perhaps, in reaction to failures such as Fathom's. In his annual report for 2000-2001, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles M. Vest, succinctly articulated a return to the original ideology of the Net when he announced MIT's OpenCourseWare project to make primary materials of its courses available online -- free. As he noted, "inherent to the Internet and the Web is a force for openness and opportunity that should be the bedrock of its use by universities." Vest's report is not the source of the trend that is now unfolding, but it is certainly a document that crystallizes a historical moment. It is significant for another reason, too: It is emblematic of what's changed in this iteration of Liberation Technology. Course Management, Portals, and Enterprise Systems This time around, the ideas are being advanced not by ragtag communitarians, but by major institutions, with substantial backing not just from MIT, but from a number of other universities as well, and not just from universities, but from corporations, foundations, and government agencies at home and abroad. In MIT's case, support comes from the institution itself and also from two major private foundations, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. On a first visit, the MIT site for OCW looks a little longer on structure than substance. If you dip at random into courses, you may see mostly syllabi, perhaps some exercises, and a list of assigned readings, but not the readings themselves (leading you to wonder how the effort is going to provide new educational opportunities in the developing world, as claimed). But on further investigation, you'll find that some courses have the complete text of every lecture (in PDF), and others have full-length videos of every lecture (at three different resolutions for slow, medium, and fast connections). At that point, MIT's claim to be the first open-source university begins to seem more plausible. MIT can't give away the readings in its courses -- in most cases, textbooks and articles that come from commercial publishers -- but it can give away the intellectual property created by its own faculty members, and that's what it's doing. As with the open-source-software movement from which it drew inspiration, it permits the reuse, modification, and redistribution of content. Unlike open-source software, however, it prohibits doing any of those things for commercial purposes. That distinction is important, and it is key to understanding the doctrinal differences among open-source sects. Beginning in the early '80s, the innovation of the open-source-software movement was to argue that users should have the freedom to modify source code, but could sell the results, as long as the source code for the modified version was available for modification. Those terms are codified in theGNU Public License. Since then, other variants of open-source licensing have emerged. MIT's materials in OCW are covered by a different, newer copyright, developed by the Creative Commons project, an effort led by Lawrence Lessig, who set up Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, with support from Hewlett, Stanford and Harvard Universities' law schools, and others (including the philanthropic group Center for the Public Domain). The Creative Commons license allows copying and redistribution, but also allows the content creator a set of options with respect to attribution, commercial use, and modification of the work. The Creative Commons license is inspired by GNU, but also informed by a somewhat broader perspective, in that it is intended to cover creative work other than software. Though legal variants of open-source licenses do exist, at a technical level, open systems require that everyone who designs or modifies the systems does so under the same set of rules. In the case of online courseware, content, and tools, the IMS Global Learning Consortium is providing some important common ground on which to coordinate a very broad range of specifications. One of the partners in that effort is another "open" entity, called the Open Knowledge Initiative, or OKI. That effort, financed by the Mellon foundation, is based at MIT with Stanford as a principal partner and supported by a number of major universities. It describes itself as "an open and extensible architecture that specifies how the components of an educational software environment communicate with each other and with other enterprise systems." The goal is to liberate universities from having to choose a single software solution for managing online instruction and/or online components of classroom instruction. The result would be greater portability of content, greater flexibility in choosing and assembling elements of a learning-management system, and a shift in the balance of power between the client (the university) and the software vendor, in favor of the client. Universities -- or open-source developers at large -- could choose to produce and share their own modules for things like calendars, gradebooks, etc. Commercial vendors could also continue to build and sell proprietary solutions that adhered to the architectural specification (and that, therefore, allowed users to unplug some of the vendor's modules and plug in some of their own, or some from another vendor). That speaks directly to the practice of monopolistic "bundling" that was at the heart of the antitrust case against Microsoft. As with any standard, success will depend on whether both vendors and users buy into it. That is not yet a certainty with OKI, but in May 2002 Blackboard announced its intention to adopt the OKI architecture. In October 2002 OKI announced that it had joined in an informal consortium with other "leading organizations developing specifications for e-learning technology in higher education ... to coordinate strategy and conduct common activities." While the OKI project aims at specifying an architecture for online learning systems, and MIT's OCW is focused on content for such systems, another open-source effort, the Sakai Project, focuses on educational software tools. According to the Sakai Web site, the project hopes to "demonstrate the compelling economics of 'software code mobility' for higher education, and it will provide a clear road map for others to become part of an open-source community." Sakai is a collaboration among Indiana University, MIT, Michigan, and Stanford, which will begin using its tools in 2004. Another partner in Sakai is the open-source project uPortal. A number of other universities (in the United States and abroad) and for-profit companies (Sun Microsystems, SCT, Interactive Business Solutions) are involved in developing uPortal. Once again, the Mellon foundation is helping to support the project. Portals can do more than integrate news and weather, or library and course information. They can also integrate the administrative-computing functions of the university, such as student records, payroll and human resources, and purchasing. Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, one of the corporate sponsors of uPortal is SCT, a company whose interests could be threatened, or at least significantly reoriented, if uPortal achieves the success for which it seems destined. SCT provides a "solution" called Banner, one of those enterprise-resource-planning products mentioned above. Over the past few years, universities have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire, customize, and make the transition to such systems, often with very mixed results. The university that now employs me, and the one I worked at last, are both in the throes of such a transition, probably too far in to get out, but probably wishing they could. Admittedly, it's a huge undertaking to retool an entire university's administrative-computing infrastructure and workflow, and it requires long-range planning and commitments. An institution makes those plans and commitments based on the best choices available at the time: Several years ago, when decisions were being made at the Universities of Illinois and Virginia, there were no plausible open-source/open-standards ERP alternatives, so the universities bought into monolithic proprietary systems. Now alternatives are beginning to come into view. It will be years before the current generation of university ERP adopters can switch to open-source alternatives, but their experience will certainly help to make the case for such alternatives as they emerge. Toward a New Model of Scholarly Communication There are a number of other pressing IT challenges facing higher education, and at or near the top of the list are digital libraries (or, more generally, data repositories). Those could include data held in an institution's library (licensed or locally produced scholarly information), data held outside the library (by an office of management information, for example), and/or data published by a university press. The case for institutional repositories is laid out convincingly in an article by Clifford A. Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, published in the February 2003 newsletter of the Association of Research Libraries. Lynch argues that "an institutional repository is a recognition that the intellectual life and scholarship of our universities will increasingly be represented, documented, and shared in digital form, and that a primary responsibility of our universities is to exercise stewardship over these riches: both to make them available and to preserve them." There are a number of noteworthy "open" initiatives in this area as well, and familiar institutions and financial supporters. Four very different, possibly complementary, open-source frameworks for institutional repositories and/or digital libraries are MIT's DSpace(supported by Hewlett-Packard), the Cornell/Virginia Fedora Project (supported by the Mellon foundation), EPrints (supported by the National Science Foundation and Britain's Joint Information Systems Committee), and Greenstone (produced by the University of Waikato, in New Zealand, and developed and distributed in cooperation with Unesco and Human Info NGO). Beyond the individual repository, there is the problem of federated collections, and how to search across repositories, a dream long held in digital libraries. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is a project aimed at achieving that goal, by developing and maintaining standards to facilitate sharing information. Currently, there are 134 registered OAI repositories, and you can see a nice working example of sample searches across many of them on the Web site for the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University. The EPrints software mentioned above is the self-archiving component of a larger project on open access, supported by the Soros Foundation and marching under the banner of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, whose purpose is "to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet" -- either by institutional self-archiving of articles that also appear in for-fee journals, or by authors publishing in open-access (free) journals. In the American Scientist Open Access Forum (moderated by Southampton University's Stevan Harnard), there is a lively, long-running, and unresolved debate on what open access means. That debate has been attracting considerable attention around the world, both within and beyond the academy. The efforts to promote open access to scholarly research, to build interoperable digital libraries, and to create institutional repositories coincide with the broadening university revolt against the monopolistic bundling strategy of Elsevier, in which university libraries are required to subscribe to packages of titles and are locked into multiyear subscriptions. Faculty members and libraries at Cornell University, Harvard, North Carolina State University, the University of California system, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have all rejected those tactics in the last year. University-press publishers have a golden opportunity here to distinguish themselves from commercial publishers and join with libraries and scholars to create a new model of scholarly communication. To seize the opportunity, though, university presses will require more capital, cooperation, and creativity than they seem to be able to muster. The Battle for the Desktop Journals, repositories, portals, and ERP systems are the macro end of IT in higher education; at the micro end is the individual user's desktop environment. The desktop has been Microsoft territory for years, but open-source projects are cropping up here as well. In September 2003 25 universities joined with Mellon to provide funds for Chandler, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Outlook. Chandler is (or will be) a desktop application for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, combining e-mail, calendars, address books, instant messaging, and file sharing. It's being produced by Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation, and it has two subtypes: a personal version called Canoga, due out in the fall of 2004, and a version called Westwood that is specifically aimed at higher education, due out in the fall of 2005. What Chandler brings into focus is the battle for the desktop between Microsoft and the open-source community. Microsoft has already seen a serious challenge to its server market from Linux, but it still has a lock on the desktop, in spite of a much-improved Macintosh operating system and the persistence of efforts like OpenOffice, which provide an open-source alternative to Microsoft's word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Kapor estimates that it will be 2007 before Linux makes significant inroads here. Still, Microsoft is clearly already worried about its dominance, as one can see from a series of leaked Microsoft memos on how to combat Linux, available in annotated form on the open-source Web site. More immediately, there are some noteworthy open-source developments in the collaborative creation of content. One is a courseware project from Rice University called Connexions, which converts "raw knowledge" into self-contained modules of information and places them in commons, to be used, reused, updated, and adapted. It is designed to highlight the nonlinear "connexions" among concepts both within the same course and, more important, across courses and disciplines. It is open source and based on open standards (XML), and has support from the Hewlett foundation. Another, simpler and more general-purpose collaborative tool that's become quite popular in the last couple of years is Wiki, a Web-based platform for collaboration that comes in a variety of open-source incarnations. Perhaps the most robust and widely used isTWiki. Using any Web browser, you can directly edit any Wiki page, add links automatically, group pages, search pages, attach files, track revisions, control access at the individual or group level, and so on. TWiki, which is just one type of Wiki, has hundreds, probably thousands, of installations, not only in higher education, but in corporate intranets at places like Disney, British Telecom, Motorola, SAP, and others. Combined with something like LionShare, Wikis could provide a powerful tool for collaboration in academe, one that could change teaching, project management, the work of professional societies, and many other activities. LionShare (another Mellon-financed project) is essentially peer-to-peer networking with authentication. Peer-to-peer networking is the technology underlying demonized post-Napster software like KaZaA, but it also has less well-known applications in things like videoconferencing. LionShare's addition of authentication makes it legitimate for a broad range of applications in institutional settings. Choice and Compatibility With Commercial Software The university-based open-source projects described here have in common two key characteristics: unbundling and interoperability. Those strategies are inherent to open-source software development, but have also proved compatible with commercial software development. They are hostile only to monopolistic practices. Unbundling and interoperability are important because they provide choice and flexibility. Instead of being locked into a single application or suite of applications from a single vendor, you can choose to mix different applications to achieve the best performance for your particular purposes, at the best price. For the end user, that means that you can use a word processor from one place, a collaboration tool from another, an e-mail client and an address book from somewhere else, and exchange data among all of them using open standards to which all adhere. At the other end of the spectrum, in administrative computing or digital libraries, it means that you can use a database engine from one vendor, a portal kit from someone else, a Wiki for managing projects and discussions. When something better comes along for one of those functions, you can swap out that piece, rather than waiting until the whole system is intolerably outdated, and then undergoing vast, enterprisewide transition from one monolithic system to another. On a broader level, what's noteworthy in the various threads of the trend assembled here is the concerted efforts of a handful of private foundations, working with public (and some private) universities, to promote self-determination in higher education's use and development of information technology. Most of the examples I've cited have been supported by two foundations, Hewlett and Mellon. Both foundations give to things other than higher education and, within higher education, both give to things other than IT projects. Yet they clearly are having substantial impact on the information infrastructure of the 21st-century university, and the projects they are helping get under way will liberate it from Information Property monopolies and IT monocultures. They've achieved those results by emphasizing long-term sustainability of projects and by adopting and promoting the open-source ethos of shared goals, shared work, and shared results. Open-source methodology has already spread well beyond software development: In the world at large, the Human Genome Project is a famous example. Over the coming decade we're certain to see this new mode of production locked in mortal combat with older methods and the legal and ideological commitments that they entail. It will be interesting to see whether, at this critical juncture, the university comes down on the side of freely shared ideas. With a little help from its friends, it just might. John M. Unsworth is dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is departing president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and is chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies' 2004 Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. OPEN EVERYTHING: ONLINE RESOURCES The following projects, articles, and other electronic sources are listed in the order in which they are discussed in the accompanying article. MIT OpenCourseWare Home page: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html GNU General Public License Home page: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Creative Commons Home page: http://creativecommons.org IMS Global Learning Consortium Home page: http://imsglobal.org Open Knowledge Initiative Home page: http://web.mit.edu/oki The Sakai Project Home page: http://www.sakaiproject.org/sakaiproject uPortal Home page: http://www.uportal.org DSpace Federation Home page: http://www.dspace.org The Fedora Project Home page: http://www.fedora.info EPrints.org Home page: http://www.eprints.org Greenstone Digital Library Software Home page: http://greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library Open Archives Initiative Home page: http://www.openarchives.org The Perseus Digital Library Home page: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu Sample search of Open Archive Initiative repositories: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/oai.ann.html Budapest Open Access Initiative Home page: http://soros.org/openaccess American Scientist Open Access Forum Moderated discussion: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci Open Source Applications Foundation Home page: http://www.osafoundation.org Open Source Initiative Locked Microsoft documents available: http://www.opensource.org/halloween Connexions Home page: http://cnx.rice.edu TWiki Home page: http://twiki.org LionShare Home page: http://lionshare.its.psu.edu/main http://chronicle.com Section: The Chronicle Review Volume 50, Issue 21, Page B16 Copyright © 2004 by The Chronicle of Higher Education ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html From: R. A. Cantrell Subject: Date: Friday, 23 Jan 2004 10:42:37 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 803 (803) "Science"? [deleted quotation] internet [deleted quotation] internet [deleted quotation] this [deleted quotation] You've hit upon a happy phrase "New Science." It may be a few years coming, but Stephen Wolfram's "New Kind of Science," will, I think, have a staggering impact on stylometrics and other quantitative analytical approaches to Shakespeare (inter alia). From: Ward Elliott Subject: RE: SHK 15.0170 Shakespeare et al. and the New Date: Friday, 23 Jan 2004 18:54:12 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 804 (804) "Science"? I can't tell whom I'm supposed to respond to on this, so shall just hit the reply button. Rob Valenza and I have experimented several times over the years testing various student groups' powers to guess authorship by intuition alone. In 2002, as if in anticipation of the many warnings we have since gotten from Shaksperians to ditch our unseemly crunching and counting and get back to reading, we tested a class of 12 Claremont McKenna College undergraduates with a selection of 28 sonnet-length passages, half by Shakespeare, half not. As individuals, the students were all over the place, doing, on average, modestly better than chance, which would be around 50%. Half of the students, however, did much better than chance, getting 70-79% of the ascriptions correct. Moreover, as a group, the whole class guessed better than the best of its individual Golden Ears, better, in fact, than the aggregated vote of all six of its Golden Ears. Some accuracy rates: Worst individual: 54% correct Best individual 79% correct 6 best combined 84% correct All 12 combined 89% correct 18 of the group's 25 successful identifications (72%) were by lopsided votes, 8-4 or higher. How does this accuracy compare with that of our best quantitative tests? "Far higher" would be a persuasive answer for such short, Sonnet-length samples. All of our quantitative tests are sensitive to sample length because longer samples average out more variance than shorter ones, giving us tighter ranges and higher discrimination for long samples than for short. Most of the samples we used in our Golden Ear test have no more than 150 words, far shorter than any for which we have dared to validate any of our quantitative tests. For comparison, our current estimated composite accuracy rates for longer, single-authored passages look something like this: Text Shakespeare Non-Shakespeare Whole plays 100% 100% Poems, 3000 words 100% 100% Play Verse, 3000 wd 95% 100% Poems 750 words 93% 71% Play Verse 750 words 97% 75% Poems, 470 words 92% 73% These figures say that 470-word passages are at or below the rock bottom of our comfort zone, with a combined accuracy of around 83% -- yet our students, in aggregate, have achieved accuracy of 89% on pure intuition. It's true that, by itself, these results would not be quite enough to validate CMC students' intuition by the same rules that we use to validate computer tests. Because we rely on negative evidence ("silver bullets"), our accuracy requirements have been asymmetrical. We have looked for much higher accuracy - normally 95% or better -- in saying "could-be" to Shakespeare than in saying "couldn't be" to non-Shakespeare, on the reasoning that, if you test by primarily by negatives, false negatives are much more damaging to your case than false positives, and you should keep them to a minimum. Unfortunately for us, the tested class got only 82% of their Shakespeare passages right, far too many false negatives to make up for their phenomenal accuracy of 96% with non-Shakespeare passages. We wish it had been the other way around. Moreover, while it is conceivable that using longer passages would raise our Golden-Ear accuracy (though many of our lit colleagues doubt it), it's hard to imagine that we could ever get test-takers to sit still for a test with, say, 28 3,000-word passages instead of 28 100+word passages. Such a test would be equal in length to Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and The Comedy of Errors combined and would take more than a day just to read, let alone analyze, in entirety. In general, the longer the passages, the fewer can be tested without performing miracles of motivation. From this perspective, Golden-Ear testing may be almost as impractical for wholesale testing of long passages as computers are for testing short passages. These points aside, our pilot study still seems to us an impressive performance by undergraduates and an impressive clue as to what might be done with more and better panelists. What if, instead of a dozen undergraduates, it were every interested SHAKSPERian? Or every interested SHAKSPERian who scores above a certain level on a standardized Golden-Ear test, whichever produces the best combination of aggregation and selection? Such analysis is screaming to be done on the net, and it might well cast new light on authorship questions left unanswered by computers and individual "sniff-testing." To make it work, we, or someone else, would have to put a Golden-Ear test on line for a group like Shaksper and do some analysis of the results. Last year, with quite a bit of trial and error, we managed to get our test up and running on the net, and Weston Thompson, CMC's web editor, is now working on ways to record the results for analysis. When it's ready to go, SHAKSPERians will be among the first to know, and will be invited to give our test, and their Golden Ears, a trial run. We hope it will be sooner, rather than later. In the meantime, if someone is looking for innovative uses of the web for teaching and learning more about Shakespeare, we've got one on the way. Yours, Ward Elliott _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook, editor@shaksper.net The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ From: "Mazzali-Lurati Sabrina" Subject: RIF: 17.557 Shakespeare et al. and the new "science"? Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:19:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 805 (805) Hello. In my Ph.D. thesis I studied hypertextual transpositions, that is, hypermedial applications devoted to the presentation of given "classical" literary works. I considered some concrete examples, which appear to be good resources for the study of literature through new technologies. They constitute only a very restricted sample of such kind of applications, but I provide their references hoping that this can help Max Burani. Websites or CD-Roms presenting Shakespeare's plays: Webscuola ­ Amleto.. ­ Available at <http://212.216.182.159/risorse/amleto//>. Hamlet on the Ramparts ­ MIT. ­ Available at http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/>. BBC Shakespeare on CD-ROM. Macbeth. ­ London: BBC Education: HarperCollins, coop. 1995. Macbeth. ­ The Voyager Company, cop. 1994. William Shakespeare's Macbeth ­ Bride Digital Classsic. Bride Media International, cop. 1999. Midsummer Night's Dream ­ Lingo.uib, Universitetet i Bergen. Available at <http://cmc.uib.no/dream/index.html>. BBC Shakespeare on CD-ROM. A midsummer night's dream. ­London: BBC Education: HarperCollins, cop. 1996. Interactive Shakespeare. ­ Available at <http://www.holycrooss.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/ <http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/> >. William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet ­ Bride Digital Classiic. Bride Media International, cop. 1999. Websites or CD-Roms devoted to other literary works: Dartmouth Dante Project. ­ Available at <http://dciswww.dartmoutth.edu:50080/?&&&7&s <http://dciswww.dartmouth.edu:50080/?&&&7&s> >. The Decameron Web. ­ Available at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/> >. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. ­ Available at <<http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver <http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver> >. The World of Dante. ­ Available at <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante/ <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante/> >. Princeton Dante Project. ­ Available at <http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/indexx.html <http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/index.html> >. La Divina Commedia: [Inferno]: un viaggio interattivo alla scoperta del capolavoro dantesco. ­ Milano: Rizzolii New Media, cop. 2001. ILTweb Digital Dante. ­ Available at <http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/>. Webscuola LâInferno dantesco. ­ Available at <http://webscuoola.tin.it/risorse/inferno/index.htm <http://webscuola.tin.it/risorse/inferno/index.htm> >. The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. A Hypertext Edition by Steven E. Jones. ­ Available at <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions//mws/lastman/index.html <http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/mws/lastman/index.html> >. Odissea ­ Milano: Rizzoli New Media, cop. 2001. The Electronic Canterbury Tales. ­ Available at <http://cwolf.uaa.alaska.edu/~afdtk/ECT__Main.htm <http://cwolf.uaa.alaska.edu/~afdtk/ECT_Main.htm> >. Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature ­ The Seminars. ­ Available at <http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/> >. Other resources: Eastgate. ­ Available at <http://www.eastgate.com >. Il Narratore. ­ Available at <http://www.ilnarratore.com <http://www.ilnarratore.com/> >. MagillOnLiterature [electronic resource] [Ipswich, MA]: EBSCO Industries, c2001. ­ Available at http://search.epnet.com/> >. The Perseus Digital Library. ­ Available at <http://www.persseus.tufts.edu/ <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/> >. Representative Poetry on-line. ­ Available at <http://www.llibrary.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html <http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html> >. Social Studies School Services. ­ Available at <http://www.socialstudies..com/ <http://www.socialstudies.com/> >. Voice of the Shuttle. ­ Available at <http://vos.ucsb.edu/ <http://voos.ucsb.edu/> >. Websites created and managed by George P. Landow. ­ Available at <http://www.landow.com/ >. Sabrina Mazzali-Lurati Institute for Linguistics and Semiotics School of Communication Sciences Universita della Svizzera italiana Via G. Buffi 13 CH-6900 Lugano sabrina.mazzali-lurati@lu.unisi.ch From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 17.569 strict and loose Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:21:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 806 (806) On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:43:32AM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] I'm intrigued. Do you have the cite for "How to Talk to Your Programmer"? 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: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: Versioning Machine 2.0 release Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:31:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 807 (807) Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is delighted to announce the 2.0 release of the Versioning Machine http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/ver-mach/ The Versioning Machine is software tool designed by a team of programmers, designers, and literary scholars for displaying and comparing multiple versions of texts. The display environment seeks not only to provide for features traditionally found in codex-based critical editions, such as annotation and introductory material, but to take advantage of opportunities of electronic publishing, 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. VM 2.0 has significant improvements over the previous release. Previously it was only possible to encode texts according to TEI's parallel segmentation method. It is now possible to encode each witness as a separate document instance. However, not all of the VM's features work using this method. VM 2.0 also has enhanced image display features. Previously it was only possible to view one image at a time. The Image applet now allows users to view all the images in a witness set together. In addition, all VM features now work in Netscape 7.0 for PC. And lastly, we have provided users with a VM Installer based on lzPack to make the installation process easier. We welcome your comments and feedback on this product From: Willard McCarty Subject: common ground Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:33:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 808 (808) I quote the concluding paragraphs from "The Science of Design", in Herbert A Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd edn (MIT Press, 2001), pp. 137f: [deleted quotation] 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: oracular pronouncements Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:32:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 809 (809) In one tradition at least, oracles tell you something that requires much pondering to understand, something enigmatic. Perhaps the medium is difficult to read, e.g. the ancient Chinese oracle bone -- a suitable piece of bone, such as the scapula of a sheep, inscribed with a question, held up to a fire so that it would crack, the manner of which would be read as the answer to the question (see e.g. http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/uclib/bones/ob01.htm for an example). In a sense, however, such things are straightforward: they simply *are* difficult to read; they do not deceive in this regard. Quite different, however, are the oracular pronouncements of our own futurologists. Glancing recently into the valuable collection of essays, Beyond Calculation: the next 50 years of computing, ed. Peter J. Denning and Robert M. Metcalfe (Springer, 1997), I read the following: [deleted quotation] And so it goes, on the level of the film "Just Imagine", which in 1930 depicted the 1980s, "with a ludicrous Mars mission to a planet of dancing girls ruled by a fat man who never leaves his throne. People have numbers rather than names.... People gulp food pills and cross streets on overhead crossways" (http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/timeline1940.html#30sFilms) -- and behave in the style of silly folks of the 1930s, of course. It's not very challenging to send up this sort of thing, though one does wonder if with respect to computing we should not have learned better by now. At the same time, as with "Just Imagine", the result does tell us a fair bit about the world of the futurologist -- chiefly, perhaps, the limitations of his or her imagination. Geoffrey Nunberg puts it well at the beginning of his essay, "Farewell to the Information Age" (in print in The Future of the Book, ed. Nunberg, Berkeley, 1996): [deleted quotation] (See http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/farewell.pdf) Ah, "a determined act of imagination" -- territory we should feel at home in. So, then, what sort of a world do we want humans to be living in? 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: "Jitka" Subject: R: 17.557 Shakespeare et al. and the new "science"? Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:30:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 810 (810) There's an amazing site on Shakespeare's Sonnets called "The amazing web site of Shakespeare's sonnets" maintained by a mysterious but very competent Mr. Will : http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/ The sonnets and the commentaries are accompanied by beautiful reproductions of pieces of art, yet the site is still very fast. Jitka Horcickova From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2004: Jeffrey Zeldman plenary Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:14:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 811 (811) Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ ** Announcing the MW2004 Opening Plenary Speaker: ** ** Jeffrey Zeldman on Designing with Web Standards ** ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ ** Jeffrey Zeldman is among the best-known web designers in the world and the author of numerous articles and two books, notably Designing With Web Standards (New Riders Press, 2003). He publishes A List Apart Magazine and is the founder and creative chief of Happy Cog Studios. In 1998 Zeldman co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition of web designers and developers that helped end the browser wars by persuading Microsoft and Netscape to support the same technologies in their browsers. He'll open MW2004, April 1, 2004, on the topic of Designing with Web Standards. ** Best of the Web 2004: Nominations Close January 31, 2004 ** ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/best/ ** January 31, 2004 is the last day to nominate your favourite site for the Best of the Web awards. Each year, a group of museum and Web professionals reviews nominated sites, and recognises the best in web design in culture and heritage. This is not a popularity contest. Judges review all sites, and select the best in the categories: On-line Exhibition, E-Services Site, Educational Use, Innovative or Experimental Application, Museum Professional's Site, and Research Site. In addition, the Judges select the Best Overall Museum Web site for MW2004. The awards will be presented at the conference, April 2, 2004. ** Can't Make It? Get the Book ** http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html Once again,Selected Papers from Museums and the Web will be published in printed form, accompanied by a CD-ROM of all papers presented at the conference. Papers will also be published on the Web. If you can't make it to the conference, get your copy of the Selected Papers. We hope to see you @ MW2004. 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: mw2004@archimuse.com From: "Stefan Gradmann" Subject: 17.567 humanities computer science: semiotic turn! Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:18:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 812 (812) After following this thread (17.567 humanities computer science) for quite a while I would like to add one specific point (while basically sharing most of Manfred Thaller's ideas): In the section headed [deleted quotation] A "non-exclusive list" is given of fields of competence requested for HCS related work. No objection here - but at least one element is lacking in this list that seems over-focussed on the 'CS' aspect while including no specific 'H' competence. This is where I would like to suggest an additional item, which may add to the constituent elements of HCS. When trying to conceive _specific_ aspects of HCS as opposed to CS (in terms of 'hard science' CS) one of the most obvious aspects are the different information models underlying scientific discourse in the humanities and the sciences respectively. The prevailing semiotic model in the latter is rather simple: it conceives the relation between sign and information (or between discourse and 'results') as a relation of carrier/container and content (or sometimes one of pointer and object). Information can be transposed from one container to another in this model without loosing substance. The information model in the humanities is much more complex and - even though mostly unaware of it - very much rooted in the very complexity of the process of 'signifiance' structuralist and post-structuralist semiotics have made us discover. Without going any further here it should be clear that the complex and interwoven relation of discursive practice and core scientific work in the humanities would suffer a lot when organized along functional principles of CS that are rooted in the simple 'carrier-content' information model of hard science. And this is why I strongly advocate including a good background in semiotic theory among the core fields HCS scholars should be well aware of: this enables them to better grasp the truly specific aspect of HCS: the important point is that our field is about a way of dealing with signs and 'meaning' that differs substantially from the semiotic paradigm of the 'hard' sciences. And without awareness of this aspect not many useful insights will come from HCS. Whether we consider it a discipline or not. ************************************************************ Dr. Stefan Gradmann / Virtuelle Campusbibliothek Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg Schlüterstr. 70, D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838 3093 Fax.: +49 (0)40 42838 6270 GSM : +49 (0)170 8352623 E-Mail: stefan.gradmann@rrz.uni-hamburg.de ________________________________________________________ Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities computer science Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:48:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 813 (813) In response to Manfred Thaller's generous contribution in Humanist 17.567, allow me to make a couple of comments. Whether one agrees with Manfred's choice of the "framework" metaphor (connoting a rigid structure, of wood or metal, that isolates, encloses and so defines the framed object), it's hard to disagree with the proposition that humanities computing would gain from greater definition and more of a consensus than it currently seems to have. It just may be time, yes again, to consider summoning all and sundry for a discussion of curricula, especially now that we have a number of healthy programmes up and running. Were such a discussion to happen, face to face, it would not, I think, lack for the equivalent of the heat and pressure required for making diamonds from carbon. As many have observed in similar circumstances, curriculum lies at the heart of the disciplinary question. Manfred's "non-exclusive list of what a follower of HCS should... be aware of" is a good place to begin. I would certainly not strike anything from that list, indeed would likely add more of the same. But other lists are possible. Indeed my own would begin with thorough training at the undergraduate if not also (post)graduate levels in one of the older disciplines of the humanities -- it would not, I think, matter a great deal which one -- supplemented by the following: (1) basic issues in the history and philosophy of science and technology, including engineering; (2) historiography and ethnography; (3) qualitative and quantitative analysis in the social sciences; (4) basics of cognitive science, including psychology; (5) fundamentals of linguistics, esp. corpus linguistics; (6) material culture (bibliographic, archaeological, art historical) (7) literary studies The basis for such a broad scope can be (and, as I write and you read, is now being) laid by a suitable survey course at the undergraduate level at some institutions I know of -- Reed College, as my alma mater, leaps immediately to mind. Such a course can, of course, give only a brief taste of each disciplinary perspective and historical period on which it touches, but no one should underestimate the value of letting a student know what is there to be studied properly, if and when the desire arises to do so. In discussions of the engineering curriculum, for example, it has been noted that requirements for professional certification are so demanding of time that a student can do nothing else, and perhaps not even what is required -- unless professional training is pushed into the (post)graduate years. In other words, when we think of curriculum we should have both undergraduate and (post)graduate years in mind, reserving the latter for the specialized training, which can take several branches, the choice for which is grounded in the earlier period. Some technical training at the undergraduate level is, of course, highly desirable, but given that we speak of the humanities here, a greater emphasis on them is hardly mistaken. The other point I wish to make in response to Manfred's note is his complaint that we do not have and have not seen "a well ordered cross-referential discussion" during the last four decades. If I read this complaint rightly, it echoes with the often voiced complaint of our tendency to "reinvent the wheel". This is not the place to repeat an analysis of why it is so difficult in such a multi- and cross-disciplinary field to find out about much less stay on top of work going on in the several languages in which it is articulated, and sometimes primarily articulated in things rather than in words. We are all, to varying degrees, guilty of ignoring or forgetting about foundational work. But in some measure the notion of this "well ordered cross-referential discussion" is illusory if we take it to mean a normative state characteristic of the proper disciplines. We would do well to be more like the older disciplines of the humanities in this regard, but even they are far more chaotic than one tends to imagine. We also need to realize, I think, that in an evolving field identifying particular works of scholarship (such as Gardin's) as foundational is a recurrent act of interpretation by which we say what we think we are doing. The more insecure we are the more we will indulge in promoting particular heroes as having "done it". All this amounts to a recognition that we don't yet know how to write the history of what we're doing -- but that's a huge topic for another time. Let me end with a story. During an MA year, studying English literature, I took a course in literary criticism from a very learned former student of Cleanth Brooks. He assigned us all a paper in which we had to do a New-Critical analysis of some poem by Donne, I think it was. Bubbling over with ideas, I went to him to talk them over. At every turn in the conversation he would say something to the effect of, "interesting, but that's the X heresy", or "what you're really trying to say is...". (That night I dreamt of attempting to get across a field consisting almost entirely of deep pits between which my task was to walk. I kept falling in.) In any case, by the end of the conversation, I had no ideas left at all. Yes, I DID learn something, a meta-something! Years later, while writing my PhD dissertation on Milton's Paradise Lost, I studiously avoided all Milton criticism until my ideas were fully formed and most of the dissertation written. I then went on a binge of reading the criticism -- only to discover (you will not be surprised to learn) that, no, no one had done "it" before, that there were many points of contact with the argument I had developed, and it was no trouble to fit my work into what had been said. I had learned what I had in me to say. The notion that our kind of knowledge accumulates is highly problematic at best. Somewhere Northrop Frye, referring to the use of information retrieval to find the topics of completed dissertations, joked that a student who discovered his or her proposed topic in the database 16,437 times would have solid proof that it was a worthy one and so should proceed in complete confidence. 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: "Jim Marchand" Subject: KWIC again Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:16:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 814 (814) The difference between a KWIC concordance and a concordance is important. A KWIC concordance requires no thought. What it does is to offer the keyword and an automatic context. Usually one halves 80, inserts the keyword in the middle and then prints out the `context'; this is usually sufficient, though the work, as Patrick points out, is left to the user. Since Norm mentions Chaucer and I know he uses Tatlock and Kennedy, it might be useful to compare that with A Complete Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Akio Oizumi & Kunihiro Miki, vol. 6, A Concordance to Boece (Hildesheim: Olms, 1991), the latter being a KWIC concordance (random): T & K, Bo. 3. m.9. 870-5: Thow knyttest togidere the mene soule. O & M: III m 9 25 the watris. Thow / knyttest togidere the mene soule of treble / kynde moevynge alle. Note that you have to chop off _the watris_, which goes with `ploungid in the watris'. You have to worry about the construction ending with alle ( = + `thingis'), etc., whereas T & K give you the construction, no more, no less. As Patrick points out, a KWIC concordance is handy and easy to make. I use them all the time when I am editing something, but I don't want to pass my problems off on the reader. I don't think that undoctored KWIC concordances ought to be published. They ARE quick, especially with our fast machines. If I had a King James on my hard disk in proper format, I could give you a KWIC concordance in no time; I could use it for all kinds of things. Note, however (I apologize for inevitable miscounts): WEPT: Joh 11: 35: o him, Lord, come and see. Jesus *** wept ***. Then said the Jews, Behold how h. As you see, a KWIC concordance, which requires no thought, offers a lot of noise and many sources of errors, and requires hard work on the part of the customer. From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Oracles of the Future Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:13:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 815 (815) Interesting thought-bait. And there are, as always, many issues at stake. One is an obvious distinction between approaches to the future. Most likely, the Chinese "oracle bone" (and other similarly sibylline methods) share with Western Science Fiction literature most of the well-known limits of prognostication. Yet, enigmas do not impose limits on imagination. The difference in precision might relate to different views of time as some systems put more value on precise dates and features of The Future while others focus on specific outcomes of specific actions. Time depth and qualitative/quantitative views of time are distinct axes of this opposition. In fact, divination systems (Peek 1991) often summon conscious efforts to both know and change the future while futuristic ideas are closer to "wishful thinking" and musings on what might come. This distinction may relate to a difference in beliefs but it also implies different conceptions of agency. There might be a middle-ground in the way the Global Business Network (Garreau 1994) elaborates possible scenarios of the future and then lets users decide which scenario they prefer, taking measures for it to come true. Thus, possibly, oracles of the future will use sophisticated methods of "scenario planning," coupled with acephalous social networks, to allow for increased diversity to shape the future in unthinkable ways. References: Peek, Philip M. (ed.) 1991 /African Divination Systems: Ways Of Knowing/ Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Garreau, Joel (1994) /Conspiracy of Heretics/ Wired 2(11), November 1994 <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.11/gbn.html> Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.553 paradigm shift of textuality (fwd) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:58:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 816 (816) [The following apparently went astray. Apologies to all. --WM] [deleted quotation] Textuality [deleted quotation] text. [deleted quotation] ago. [deleted quotation] text, [deleted quotation] left [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 17.578 how to talk to one's programmer? Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:52 AM X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 817 (817) [deleted quotation] From: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de (RAM-Verlag) Subject: Glottometrics 6, 2003 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:17:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 818 (818) Interested in "Glottometrics 6, 2003"? 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 6, 2003 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-Verlag From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 17.580 Herbert Simon on common ground Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:12:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 819 (819) Main comment here is in relation to: We are importing and exporting from one [deleted quotation] -- since I'm not sure how "serial" would be defined here. Certainly there isn't a clock-module singularity in the brain, and we can walk and talk at the same time without job queueing. The mind is hardly linear. As far as the rest goes - I think this is related to subsumption architecture in robotics - with which I'm in agreement - that an environment can be considered part and parcel of the mind itself. See the work of Merlin Donald, etc. - Alan http://www.asondheim.org/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/.nikuko http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm finger sondheim@panix.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: infoglut Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:58:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 820 (820) The following from Herbert A. Simon, "Rationality as Process and as Product of Thought", American Economic Review 68.2 (1978): 1-16, is likely to strike a chord with most of us these days: [deleted quotation] This would seem to support Geoffrey Nunberg's idea that "information" (i.e. the idea or, as he says, the impression of it) is essentially a product of the age we've left behind. 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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.585 KWIC Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:56:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 821 (821) Jim's right - -I use Tatlock and Kennedy,which was first published in 1927, and it's in hard copy, the way I prefer it. [deleted quotation] Right, and that's what I want. I usually know the passage anyhow once I see the phrase, and it's not at all hard to look it up. From: Willard McCarty Subject: KWIC, history and aesthetics Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:57:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 822 (822) The discussion of KWIC and concordancing has reminded me of a dormant project of mine, which is to find a young scholar, who would likely need to be a medievalist or begin as one, to write an intellectual history of the concordance. This would make a *wonderful* book if properly done. Rouse & Rouse have provided a few good articles on the invention of the concordance in the late 12C or early 13C; Brian Stock has done some fundamental work related to the topic; there are a pile of articles, parts of books etc from the early years of computer-generated concordances; some here are likely to know of other bits and pieces. But we need all of this stuff together, with a rooting of the invention in the typological habit of mind. Tall order, indeed, but don't such tall orders make the scholar's life worth living? When such a history got to the KWIC (invented in 1954, as I recall, by a chap named Luhn), the argument would need to partake of aesthetics. It's only natural for the literary scholar to bristle at the brutality of the KWIC's severing of lines in mid-word on either side, but that very brutality and centering of the lines at the target word redirected attention from syntactic units to verbal environments, and so the "span". There's much of interest to be said, I expect, about the intellectual power of visual design in this beautifully simple case. Yours, WM PS If someone tells me the book has been written, and is able to cite it, I will rejoice! 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: "maxburani" Subject: humanities computer science Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:55:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 823 (823) Does anyone know whether a list of the most important sites about evaluating internet resources for the humanities exists? I'm searchin' whatever about Shakespeare and internet world Best regards From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT Infobits -- January 2004 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:53:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 824 (824) CIT INFOBITS January 2004 No. 67 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. ...................................................................... Roundup of Articles Predicting IT Trends Guide to Conducting Surveys Online Higher Ed Effective Security Practices Guide Released ERIC Clearinghouses Close Recommended Reading Infobits Subscribers -- Where Are We in 2004? [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: Michael Fraser Subject: DRH2005: Final call to host DRH2005 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:31:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 825 (825) This is a final call for expressions of interest to host Digital Resources for the Humanities 2005 conference http://www.drh.org.uk/ Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) is an annual conference held in the British Isles and attracting an international audience. The conference was founded in 1996. The DRH conference is a major conference for bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources in the Humanities. The conference promotes the creation, management, dissemination, use and preservation of high quality humanities digital resources. The term 'humanities' in this context has a wide definition which encompasses the work of the cultural industries, epitomised by museums, galleries, archives, and heritage management; as well as subjects like art, design, architecture, film, radio, television, performance, music, dance, literary and linguistic studies, history, archaeology, religion and classics. The DRH Standing Committee warmly invites proposals to host the DRH conference in 2005. Previous hosts of DRH have found running the conference very rewarding and have also found that it can be an opportunity to alert their own institution to the growing range of activity in this area as well as having the potential to raise the international profile of their own institution within the broad communities served by the conference. An initial expression of interest should be submitted to the Chair of the DRH Standing Committee (mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk) by 20 Feb 2004. In the meantime please feel free to discuss any aspect of the conference and to indicate your intention to submit an expression of interest. Further information is available via http://www.drh.org.uk/ or directly from http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/drh/drh2005-cfh.html DRH2004 will take place at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 5-8 September 2004. DRH2003 was organised by the University of Gloucestershire. Michael Fraser Chair, DRH Standing Committee From: Willard McCarty Subject: lost messages! Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:16:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 826 (826) A fault somewhere in the ragbag collection of systems used by Humanist is causing messages sent to Humanist to be deleted before I get them. (I just saw the knife go in but did not see the face of the assailant.) Please be attentive: if a message you send does not appear the very next day at the latest, assume it has been lost in this way and re-send it directly to me. Once again my apologies for incompetent software. 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: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 17.594 evaluating Internet resources for the humanities? Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:31:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 827 (827) [deleted quotation] evaluating [deleted quotation] You might want to have a look at the Resource Discovery Network's Virtual Training Suite which has a series of online tutorials all about evaluating Web resources - the humanities ones are listed at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/ In addition, Humbul's cataloguing guidelines include some pointers to starting points for evaluating web sites - http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/catalogue.html#evaluating and our collection development policy might be of interest as an example of how this process can be formalised (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/colldev.html) There's also just under a 100 sites chosen for inclusion in Humbul with something to do with Shakespeare (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/search/search2.php?keyword=shakespeare). Suggestions for others are always welcome. Michael --- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: where in the dichotomy? Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:32:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 828 (828) Summarizing the contents of The New Media Reader, ed. Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort (MIT Press, 2003; see http://www.newmediareader.com/), Janet H. Murray, in "Inventing the Medium", characterizes a "two-cultures" dichotomy separating humanists and engineers: [deleted quotation] Of course this is a rough and synthetic division of views, but a highly stimulating one, it seems to me. I find myself largely (though not entirely) siding with the engineers, and wondering if Murray has been entirely fair to the humanists. It does seem to me that humanities computing looks both ways, if both are fairly represented. But her formulation of the import of computing, which lets us "focus on the things that baffle and unhinge us so that we can think about them in a systematic way", seems just right. Comments? The New Media Reader, by the way, has much to recommend it as a whole. 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: Kluwer Subject: new book Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:58:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 829 (829) Writing and Learning in the Science Classroom by Carolyn S. Wallace The University of Georgia, Athens, USA Brian Hand Iowa State University, Ames, USA Vaughan Prain LaTrobe University, Bendigo, Vic., Australia SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION LIBRARY -- 23 This volume is of interest to science educators, graduate students, and classroom teachers. The book will also be an important addition to any scholarly library focusing on science education, science literacy, and writing. This book is unique in that it synthesizes the research of the three leading researchers in the field of writing to learn science: Carolyn S. Wallace, Brian Hand, and Vaughan Prain. It includes a comprehensive review of salient literature in the field, detailed reports of the authors' own research studies, and current and future issues on writing in science. The book is the first to definitely answer the question, "Does writing improve science learning?". Further, it provides evidence for some of the mechanisms through which learning occurs. It combines both theory and practice in a unique way. Although primarily a tool for research, classroom teachers will also find many practical suggestions for using writing in the science classroom. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2017-1 Date: March 2004 Pages: 160 pp. EURO 95.00 / USD 105.00 / GBP 66.00 From: "Matthias Kopp" Subject: 90. Kolloquium Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:58:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 830 (830) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- I N F O R M A T I O N zum 90. Kolloquium über die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen Diese Kolloquien sollen einerseits dem Erfahrungs- und Meinungsaustausch dienen, andererseits einführende Information darüber geben, welche Hilfestellung die EDV dem Geisteswissenschaftler bieten kann. Jede(r) Interessierte ist willkommen. Das für den 7. Februar geplante Kolloquium muss wegen unvorhersehbarer kurzfristiger Verhinderung von Prof. Martin-D. Gleßgen leider ausfallen. Der Termin für das 90. Kolloquium verschiebt sich damit auf (voraussichtlich) Samstag, den 10. Juli 2004. Die ursprünglich geplanten Themen finden Sie unter http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/kolloq-nxt.html Zeit: Samstag, 10. Juli 2004, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Wächterstraße 76 (EG) Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 89. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot89.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: Julia Flanders Subject: Re: 17.599 where in the dichotomy? Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:54:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 831 (831) One thing that strikes me powerfully in the account of humanism here is that it groups together (both implicitly and explicitly) several very different kinds of thinkers. The term "humanists" in the quotation seems to refer to "those who practice the disciplines which are termed 'the humanities'" rather than "those who believe in humanism" which I would argue is an entirely different thing. Within the humanities disciplines there are strong and important currents which are quite critical of the notion of "humanism" (e.g. much of post-structuralism, certain types of Marxism and feminism, etc.). Once we're taking note of those internal differences, it seems to me that the relationship between engineers and humanists becomes more complex and more interesting. Engineers are often quite "humanistic" in the more specific sense described above, in that they are less willing than some humanities-types to be critical of the epistemologies that underly our ideas of measurement, observation, tool-building, etc. And some within the humanities are, like the engineers, willing to be either optimistic about Where Things are Tending (because of progressive beliefs about the human spirit) or pessimistic (because of a feeling that things are in a decline because of a loss of cultural certainties)--while on the other hand the non-humanistic humanities types or "counter-humanists" on the contrary are apt to be either pessimistic (because they have no such beliefs about the human spirit) or optimistic (because they can see the loss of cultural certainties as a step in the right direction). I think in general that "humanities computing" tends to fall very much on the "humanism" side of things, with its beliefs that increasing access to information and improving the quality of that information will generally make things better, improve our understanding of the textual world, etc. One does see counter-humanism (particularly in related fields like new media) but it often stops short--it explores and suggests, but the arguments are not fundamentally counter-humanist (in the sense that they soften the blow before it lands). I'm thinking of things like Murray's _Hamlet on the Holodeck_, Hayles' _How We Became Post-Human_, even parts of Landow's _Hypertext_. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that even discussions like the ongoing "What is text really" line of thought (most recently extended by Allen Renear and Paul Caton's exchange at ACH2003) are powerfully, if subtly, "humanistic" in ways that constrain their direction of ultimate outcome. It would be really interesting to see what would happen if the humanities computing community were infiltrated by some hard-core counter-humanists from the humanities disciplines--wouldn't a little Foucault shake things up? It would certainly shed a different light on phrases like "wreck of ideologies...failed promises of print...horrifying trajectory of the rationalist arrow...slipping away of meaning...intellectual predicament". Best wishes, Julia [deleted quotation] ... [deleted quotation] From: Jonathon Driscoll Subject: RE: 17.593 KWIC Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:54:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 832 (832) An intellectual history of the concordance sounds quite interesting. As a recent graduate from King's College, Halifax, with a keen interest in text analysis methods as well as medieval history I am curious. My combined honous BA is in Histoy, and History of Science and Technology. I did some work using commercial software to analyze five years of Charles Darwin's Correspondence. At some point I want to continue on doing masters and this is the sort of project that interests me. That said my latin is non existant at present which makes studing medieval texts rather difficult. If there are any projects going on in the history or philosophy of science that might have some work for a potential grad student with a passion for computer assisted text analysis I am out here. Jonathon Driscoll From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 833 (833) [deleted quotation] From: Tim Seid Subject: Announcing Digital Quaker Collection Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:59:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 834 (834) Digital Quaker Collection http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/ DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The texts are encoded in XML according to TEI guidelines. We've created an interface for searching and browsing that uses the Lucene and eXist search engines and the SAXON XSLT Processor. The DQC web site contains a description of the project and a complete bibliography of works. Earlham School of Religion is a Christian theological seminary in the Quaker tradition located in Richmond, Indiana. ---------- Timothy W. Seid, Ph.D. Project Director, Digital Quaker Collection Associate Dean of Distributed Learning, ESR Access Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, IN 47374 765-983-1588 From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 5(1) online Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:56:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 835 (835) Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Fprum: Qualitative Social Research Dear All, The 14th issue of the on-line journal FQS -- "Special Issue: FQS Reviews III" -- is now available at http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-04-e.htm. FQS 5(1) is edited by Guenter Mey and Kip Jones and deals with topics like "Qualitative Methodology and Methods," "Body, Culture, Identity," "Online-Research, New Media," and "Theoretical Perspectives." As always, in addition to the contributions belonging to FQS Reviews, selected single contributions, some articles on the ongoing FQS Debate "Doing Successful Research in the Social Sciences," and some recent conference reports are also available. All in all, 39 articles created FQS 5(1) with contributions from authors from eight countries and various disciplines. Some of the authors being experienced representatives from their field, such as Barney G. Glaser, Christian Lueders, Alexander von Plato, Wolf-Michael Roth, Jaan Valsiner and Tom Wengraf, and some who recently began their academic career. We wish hopefully stimulating readings and discussions! Katja Mruck, FQS Editor Ps: If you are interested to comment on a review note or review essay, already published (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/book-reviews/exis-reviews-e.htm), or if you like to review a book (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/book-reviews/review-liste-e.htm), please contact Guenter Mey (mey@gp.tu-berlin.de). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FQS 5(1) -- SPECIAL ISSUE: FQS REVIEWS III Editorial "Special Issue: FQS Reviews III" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04editorial-e.htm Guenter Mey: Editorial Note FQS Reviews: Editorial Work is "Communication Work" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04mey-e.htm FQS REVIEWS: METHODOLOGY AND METHODS Dirk Ducar (Germany): Review Note, Udo Kuckartz (1999). Computergestuetzte Analyse qualitativer Daten. Eine Einfuehrung in die Methoden und Arbeitstechniken [Computer Aided Analysis of Qualitative Data: An Introduction to Methods and Techniques] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-ducar-e.htm Maximilian C. Forte (Canada): Review Note, Robert V. Kemper & Anya Peterson Royce (Eds.) (2002). Chronicling Cultures: Long-term Field Research in Anthropology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-forte-e.htm Susanne Friese (Germany): Review Note, Margaret A. Morrison, Eric Haley, Kim Bartel Sheehan & Ronal E. Taylor (2002). Using Qualitative Research in Advertising: Strategies, Techniques, and Applications / Shay Sayre (2001). Qualitative Methods for Marketplace Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-friese-e.htm Stefanie Grosse (Germany): Review Note, Guenter Burkart & Juergen Wolf (Eds.) (2002). Lebenszeiten. Erkundungen zur Soziologie der Generationen [Life Course. Investigation Into the Sociology of Generations] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-grosse-e.htm Mechthild Kiegelmann (Germany): Review Note, Melanie Mauthner, Maxine Birch, Julie Jessop & Tina Miller (Eds.) (2002). Ethics in Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-kiegelmann-e.htm Iain Lang (UK): Review Note, Janice M. Morse & Lyn Richards (2002). Readme First for a User's Guide to Qualitative Methods http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-lang-e.htm Yew-Jin Lee (Canada): Documents in Action: How to Follow Scientists of Society. Review Essay: Lindsay Prior (2003). Using Documents in Social Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-lee-e.htm Christian Lueders (Germany): Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics -- or, the Long and Winding Road from the Theory of Practice to the Everyday Practice of Evaluation Research. Review Essay: Thomas A. Schwandt (2002). Evaluation Practice Reconsidered (Conterpoints - Studies in Postmodern Theory of Education, Vol. 211) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-lueders-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Autobiography as Scientific Text: A Dialectical Approach to the Role of Experience. Review Essay: Harry F. Wolcott (2002). Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-roth-e.htm Tom Wengraf (UK): Paradigm Wars Around Interview Methodologies: Constructionism and Postmodernism "on tap" or "on top"? Review Essay: James Holstein & Jaber Gubrium (Eds.) (2003). Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns / Jaber Gubrium & James Holstein (Eds.) (2003). Postmodern Interviewing http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-wengraf-e.htm Till Westermayer (Germany) Beyond Things: A Cultural Theory of Flexible Practice. Review Essay: Karl H. Hoerning (2001). Experten des Alltags. Die Wiederentdeckung des praktischen Wissens [Experts of Everyday Life. The Re-discovery of Practical Knowledge] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-westermayer-e.htm FQS REVIEWS: BODY / CULTURE / IDENTITY Johannes Angermueller (Germany): Review Note, Rainer Diaz-Bone (2002). Kulturwelt, Diskurs und Lebensstil [Cultural World, Discourse and Life Style] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-angermueller-e.htm Una Dirks (Germany): Chances and Obstacles of an "Understanding Explaining" Illustrated by Linguistic and Cultural Studies' Approaches to Auto-/Biographies. Review Essay: Rita Franceschini (Ed.) (2001). Biographie und Interkulturalitaet. Diskurs und Lebenspraxis [Biography and Multiculturalism. Discourse and Life Styles] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-dirks-e.htm Robert Gugutzer (Germany): Comment on Thorsten Berndt: "To Go to the Body." Advances in Phenomenological-sociological Identity Theory, published in FQS 4(3) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-gugutzer-e.htm Dagmar Hoffmann & Soeren Bott (Germany): Review Note, Ursula Pasero & Anja Gottburgsen (Eds.) (2002). Wie natuerlich ist Geschlecht? Gender und die Konstruktion von Natur und Technik [How Obvious is Sex? Gender and the Construction of Nature and Technology] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-hoffmannbott-e.htm Katja Koch (Germany): Review Note, Tarek Badawia (2002). "Der dritte Stuhl" - Eine Grounded-Theory-Studie zum kreativen Umgang bildungserfolgreicher Immigrantenjugendlicher mit kultureller Differenz ["The Third Chair" -- How Immigrant Young People with a High Educational Achievement Develop a Strategy to Creatively Handle Cultural Differences. A Study Based on Grounded Theory] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-koch-e.htm Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review Note, Ronald Hitzler, Thomas Bucher & Arne Niederbacher (2001). Leben in Szenen. Formen jugendlicher Vergemeinschaftung heute [Living in Scenes. Forms of Youth Communities] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-spetsmann-e.htm FQS REVIEWS: ONLINE-RESEARCH / NEW MEDIA Christian Carls (Germany): Review Note, Christian Stegbauer (2001). Grenzen virtueller Gemeinschaft - Strukturen internetbasierter Kommunikationsforen [Boundaries of Virtual Communities -- Structures of Internet-based Communication Fora] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-carls-e.htm Nicola Doering (Germany): Review Note, Oliver Maerker & Matthias Trénel (Eds.) (2003). Online-Mediation. Neue Medien in der Konfliktvermittlung - mit Beispielen aus Politik und Wirtschaft [Online-Mediation. New Media in Conflict Resolution -- with Examples from Politics and Industry] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-doering-e.htm Anja Kassel (Germany): Review Note, Katja Bett & Joachim Wedekind (Eds.) (2003). Lernplattformen in der Praxis [Learning Platforms in Practice] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-kassel-e.htm Gerald Kral (Austria): Review Note, Nicola Doering (2003). Sozialpsychologie des Internet. Die Bedeutung des Internet fuer Kommunikationsprozesse, Identitaeten, soziale Beziehungen und Gruppen (2., vollstaendig ueberarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage) [Social Psychology of the Internet. The Importance of the Internet for Communication Processes, Identities, Social Relationships and Groups, 2nd revised and expanded edition] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-kral-e.htm Jakob Marti (Switzerland): Review Note, Elmar Stahl (2001). Hyper - Text - Schreiben [Writing Hypertext] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-marti-e.htm FQS REVIEWS: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Daniel Osterwalder (Switzerland): Review Note, Claudia Rademacher & Peter Wiechens (Eds.) (2000). Verstehen und Kritik. Soziologische Suchbewegungen nach dem Ende der Gewissheiten. Festschrift fuer Rolf Eickelpasch [Understanding and Critique. Sociological Enquiries After the End of Certainties. Festschrift for Rolf Eickelpasch] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-osterwalder-e.htm Christian Swertz (Germany): Review Note, Theodor M. Bardmann & Alexander Lamprecht (1999). Systemtheorie verstehen [Understanding System Theory] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04review-swertz-e.htm SINGLE CONTRIBUTIONS Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick (Guyana): Auto-Interviewing, Auto-Ethnography and Critical Incident Methodology for Eliciting Self-Conceptualised Worldview http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04boufoy-e.htm Barney G. Glaser (USA): "Naturalist Inquiry" and Grounded Theory http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04glaser-e.htm Amrei C. Joerchel (Germany) & Jaan Valsiner (USA): Making Decisions About Taking Medicines: A Social Coordination Process http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04joerchelvalsiner-e.htm Hiltrud Krey (Germany): The Problem of Controlling One's Emotions in Nursing Education. An Examination of How to Deal With the Feelings of Disgust Among 3rd Year Nursing Students http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04krey-e.htm Yew Jin Lee & Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Making a Scientist: Discursive "Doing" of Identity and Self-Presentation During Research Interviews http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04leeroth-e.htm Alexander von Plato (Germany): History and Psychology -- Oral History and Psychoanalysis. Development of a Problematic Relationship. Outline and Literature Survey http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04plato-e.htm David Poveda, Manuel Palomares-Valera & Ana Cano (Spain): Putting School in Its Place: A Narrative Analysis of the Educational Memories of Late Adult and Elder People http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04povedaetal-e.htm Tom Wengraf (UK): Boundaries and Relationships in Homelessness Work: Lola, an Agency Manager http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04wengraf-e.htm FQS DEBATE: "DOING SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES -- ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE CAREER POLITICS OF AN OCCUPATIONAL GROUP" Wolff-Michael Roth: The Reflexive Nature of Reading as Ethnographic Practice: Editorial Note http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04ed-debate2-e.htm Graham Badley (UK): Reading an Academic Journal is Like Doing Ethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04badley-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Vagaries and Politics of Funding: Beyond "I Told You So" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04roth-e.htm FQS CONFERENCES Vanessa May (UK): Public and Private Narratives. Essay: Conference on Narrative, Ideology and Myth http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04tagung-may-e.htm Irina Roncaglia (UK): Analyzing Recorded Interviews: Making Sense of Oral History, Conference Note http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04tagung-roncaglia-e.htm Janina Soehn (Germany): Rechtsextremismusforschung - aktuelle Tendenzen empirischer Untersuchungen [Research on Right-wing Extremism -- Latest Trends in Empirical Studies], Conference Note http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04tagung-soehn-e.htm -- FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) English -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm German -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm Spanish -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm Online-Portal: http://www.qualitative-forschung.de/ NetzWerkstatt: http://www.methodenbegleitung.de/ Please sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html From: Ross Scaife Subject: TAPoRware Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:01:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 836 (836) A beta version of the TAPoRware text analysis tools are available to brave souls who would like to try them or install them. See: http://cheiron.mcmaster.ca/~taporware You can try these tools off our server or you can download them, install them and try them from your system. They operate on XML, HTML and plain texts that you upload or that are elsewhere on the web. There is minimal help and no tutorial at the moment - we are working on more. We would welcome partners who want to help develop these tools or test them. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Chuck Bush Subject: ACH Election announcement Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:57:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 837 (837) New Officers Announced for ACH Five respected members of the Humanities Computing community have been elected to serve in the leadership of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Lorna Hughes, from New York University, will serve as President of the Association, succeeding John Unsworth. Prof. Hughes has been a member of the ACH Executive Council and was local host for the ACH/ALLC conference at NYU in 2001. Julia Flanders has been re-elected as ACH Vice President. She is part of the Women Writers Project at Brown University and spearheaded the ACH Mentoring Service and Jobs Database. The ACH Executive Council welcomes three new members to serve through 2007. Ray Siemens, Professor of English at Malaspina University in Canada, moves to the Council from serving as ACH Executive Secretary. He is joined by another Canadian, Stéfan Sinclair, from the University of Alberta, where he is co-director of the UofA Masters of Arts in Humanities Computing program. The third new member of the Executive Council is Stephen Ramsay, an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities Computing at the University of Georgia. ACH members will honor out-going president John Unsworth at a general meeting in connection with the ALLC/ACH international conference in June. Geoffrey Rockwell, Wendell Piez and Matt Kirschenbaum will also be recognized, having completed their terms on the Executive Council. From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: Moblogging Jokkmokk 2004 Feb 5-7 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:00:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 838 (838) Humanist readers might be interested in the blogging of a major Northern Scandinavian cultural event. On Wednesday, Feb 4, HUMlab at Umeå University in Sweden will send a team of four bloggers to the annual 399th winter festival/market in Jokkmokk in the North of Sweden (70 kms north of the Artic circle). They will live blog this event until late Saturday evening/night. The Jokkmokk winter market is a big cultural manifestation, meeting place and commercial space. The first market was arranged in 1605 as a result of a Royal Decree (for tax purposes mainly). The market has a very clear Sámi heritage/presence and a grassroot cultural setting. Last year approximately 30,000 people visited. We are interested in exploring the affordances of the blog medium (not least doing live, mobile and alternative multimedia/multitechnology blogging) in this cultural context. The severe conditions up there will certainly make the technology a bit of a challenge. We will set up a wireless network with about 7-10 access points/repeaters (hopefully) and we will use laptops, mobile phones, tablet pcs, cameras, video cameras, gps, pda:s etc. The finale will be a concert on Saturday night when one of the blog team members actually performs on the stage (he is a didgeridoo player - and he will /possibly/ be blogging while playing). The concert will be live streamed and narrated in the blog by the whole team (and outsiders participating). It is all about telling an interesting multi-perspective story, exploring new technology/media and allowing sharing, exchange and outside participation. The narrative construction draws upon elements of art installation, documentary film, diary and the genre of road movie. Questions that will be addressed include the conventions of the blog as a medium, the affordances of live moblogging, the relation of space and time, multi-author blogging and network writing, and the interrelation of different types of expression (text, sms, voice, gps, pictures, film, chat, voice chat etc.) Web address: http://www.humlab.umu.se/jokkmokk2004/ Blog: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/jokkmokk2004/ Map: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/europe/sweden/sweden.htm The blog is still under construction and it will be started for real when the team starts the six-hour drive North from Umeå Wednesday evening (CET). We hope that some of you will be interested in following this adventure! HUMlab is a meeting place for the humanities and information technology at Umeå University in the North of Sweden. Patrik Patrik Svensson HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden http://www.humlab.umu.se/patrik/ http://blog.humlab.umu.se/patrik/ From: Michael Fraser Subject: New Humbul Topic: The Renaissance of Witchcraft Studies Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:58:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 839 (839) New Humbul Topic: The Renaissance of Witchcraft Studies http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/witchcraft.html The academic study of witchcraft has blossomed, particularly among social historians. Most undergraduate history courses now include at least one component on the subject of early modern witchcraft. The historical record of accusations of, and trials for, witchcraft allow the exploration of a myriad of issues such as: family relations; community conflict; elite and popular divisions; gender relations; manuscript and textual studies; confessional and political debate; and changing concepts of demonology and iconography. Wanda Wyporska has brought together a range of resources across this field of study revealing how the Internet can help the student or researcher of witchcraft studies. 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: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 17.602 humanities, humanism, engineering & humanities Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 08:28:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 840 (840) computing Hi Julia, At 04:12 AM 2/3/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] I'm glad you foregrounded this issue. It's often struck me as a problematic one, and it's not a trivial point, but in fact the source of a great deal of confusion both among us, and among those who observe us from the next yard over and figure out where we're trying to go with this. (Sadly, I can report personally of how I have sometimes been faced, when trying to engage with someone unacquainted with HC, with the implicit notion that because I work with computers therefore I must be the "old kind" of "humanist", uninterested in and untouched by post-structuralism and the last 35 years of critique, as if working with computers meant that one mothballed oneself and tucked oneself away in the closet with the woolens.... I don't know how to account for this, but there it is.) The thing about the humanistic tradition at its best, however, is that like any strong and sustainable tradition, it contains within itself the seeds of its own renewal, through a basic commitment to *thinking for oneself*. I think of Buddhism, for example, where it's often made explicit that if you just mouth the Master's words it's not enlightenment at all: you have to realize the teachings in yourself, firing them in the crucible of experience and burning up all the inessentials that only "adorn" them but don't have anything to do with their essence. Similarly I have also wondered whether bishops and hierarchs, when among themselves around the dinner table, don't permit each other their heresies, in some sort of recognition that the divine does speak through the downtrodden. Given this, I wonder whether there isn't actually another reason for the relative absence in our discourses of "counter-humanistic" arguments (using your term) -- which of course may be deeply humanistic despite (because of) their critique of humanistic verities -- having to do not with the fertility of the field for the work, or perceived lack thereof (a perception I think you and I agree is mistaken: the field is very fertile), but rather with deeper stresses and questions about what kind of work is worth doing. Is theory and meta-commentary (whether criticism of criticism or flights into epistemology) a sufficient good in and of itself to be worth the energy given to it? (At the end of the day, if your day is spent standing on a soapbox urging the masses to revolt, but they do nothing, has it been well spent? How about after several weeks?) While the contemporary humanities seem built on the premise that theory and the meta-meta are not only worth doing, but are the only thing worth doing (they get you tenure), nevertheless I think there's actually quite a bit of discontent with this status quo, as both invidious (theories come and go and come again with new labels, but there's only so much attention at one time to go around, so this privileging makes for a "star system" whose effects are not all to the good), and ultimately at variance with other values besides the intellect for its own sake, indeed necessary complements to it. The solution to this stress, in my mind, ought to be simple, though complex institutional reasons may make it hard to realize in practice: it has eight letters, starts with a "T" and ends with "eaching". :-> (Fire the theory, that is, in teaching's hot crucible of experience.) Given how hard it is to realize this solution in any systematic way, however, we scholars may find ourselves -- even those of us who are not actually intellectual throwbacks, but having been indelibly impressed with the post-modern critique, can in no way buy into naive ideologies of "progress" or any other certitude imported from a less reflective discipline -- looking, albeit skeptically, for some kind of work that promises a new synthesis between Word and Meaning. In short, I wonder how many of us "computing humanists" are not, in some measure at least, refugees from the Culture Wars. If this is the case, it might help explain why we have such difficulty articulating a One True Way of our own. 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 ====================================================================== 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 4.48 Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 08:27:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 841 (841) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 48 (February 4 - 10, 2004) INTERVIEW The Great Principles of Computing Peter Denning teaches students at the Naval Postgraduate School how to develop strategic, big-picture thinking about the field of computing. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i48_denning.html 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: technical woes with Humanist Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 09:05:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 842 (842) Dear Colleagues, For the interim it would be best if you would send all messages intended for Humanist to me directly, to willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk. Technical problems are vexing Humanist at the moment, with the result that, I fear, messages are simply being sent into the aether. One of these problems may be with Eudora, the client software I use, or may be Eudora's reaction to certain forms of spam sent from the server at Virginia. Let me describe the problem in case any of you know the solution. Everyone else is advised to avert his or her gaze. The symptom of the problem is an error message in Eudora saying that some file or other in Eudora's spool directory for the account cannot be found. This message refuses to go away until I exit the program altogether, with the result that all messages in the spool directory, in the form of .tmp files, are deleted. Strangely, this symptom occurs only with messages from the Virginia account, not at all with my King's account, which gets its share of spam. Many apologies for the effects of broken-down software. 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: Subject: Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:45:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 843 (843) and Applications Volume 8 Number 4 of Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, published by Springer Verlag, is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. The table of contents follows: Research on advanced soft computing and its applications p. 239 V. Novák, I. Perfilieva, H. T. Nguyen, V. Kreinovich Deduction from conditional knowledge p. 247 D. Bamber, I. R. Goodman, H. T. Nguyen Fuzzy logic deduction with crisp observations p. 256 A. Dvorák, V. Novák Varieties generated by T-norms p. 264 M. Gehrke, C. Walker, E. Walker On the optimal choice of quality metric in image compression: a soft computing approach p. 268 O. Kosheleva Towards more realistic (e.g., non-associative) “and”- and “or”-operations in fuzzy logic p. 274 V. Kreinovich Intensional theory of granular computing p. 281 V. Novák Normal forms in BL and L? algebras of functions p. 291 I. Perfilieva Categories of fuzzy sets p. 299 C. L. Walker From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: new book (+ HCS) Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:50:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 844 (844) For those interested, just published: I modelli nella ricerca archeologica. Il ruolo dell'informatica. (Convegno Internazionale, 23-24 novembre 2000) = Contributi del Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare, n. 107. Roma, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2003. 202 p., ISBN 88-218-0900-5, Euro 15.- The authors of the contributions are: J.-Cl. Gardin, A. Guidi, P. Moscati, F. D'Andria, G. Azzena, A.-M. Giumier-Sorbets, A. Bietti, M.P. Guermandi, T. Orlandi, F. Djindjian. The Conference is the second step in the progress of a research about Humanities Computing (or Humanities Computer Science) patronized by the Centro Linceo. The first Conference was held in 1998 and published in 1999, also in the Series of the Centro Linceo: Il ruolo del modello nella scienza e nel sapere = Contributi... n. 100, 219 p. -- I take the liberty of making two remarks, referring to the recent discussion on Humanities Computer Science (Humanist 17.545 etc.): 1) The signalled books being mainly in Italian, nobody as usual will read them, let alone evaluate and discuss the ideas proposed. Mark that modelling etc. is fashionable today in HC(S), but was it in 1999? I have already tried to point out this bad situation, but I want to add: it sound reasonable that an HC(S) scholar should know the humanistic culture "at large", and not only one branch of it. Well, do HC(S) fellow scholars believe that it is possible to have a good idea of humanistic culture without reading one line of Italian? Granted, the cultural position of Italy is irrelevant after some decennies, but -- santo cielo -- its literature has taught something to the others for a few centuries, and you cannot really know it without knowing Italian! 2) And speaking of humanistic culture at large, it also sounds reasonable that if a really transverse discipline HC(S) exists, the scholars who want to cultivate it should study (and publish in) not only one branch of it. I happened to write articles trying to show the influence of CS in the field of philology, literature, archaeology, and history; the experience has been interesting, but rather discouraging. Are there others? 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: "Olga Francois" Subject: Colleges, Code and Copyright: cfp deadline: February 9, 2004 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:47:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 845 (845) [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] -------------------------------------------------- Abstract Deadline: February 9, 2004 ----------------------------------- A CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html To be presented at the Center for Intellectual Property 2004 Annual Symposium Titled Colleges, Code and Copyright: The impact of digital networks and technological controls on copyright and the dissemination of information in higher education June 10-11, 2004 * Adelphi, Maryland http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html Topic Areas: Potential authors are encouraged to submit papers that address one of the main topic tracks of the conference. Special attention will be given to those papers focusing on Track II topics. Authors may submit papers on alternative topics provided they are compatible with either of the main track topics listed below: Track I - Framing the Issues or, Track II - Possible Solutions Please see the web site for potential subtopics and Submission Guidelines: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html Important Dates: Abstract Deadline- February 9, 2004 Notification of Acceptance- March 1, 2004 Symposium Date- June 10-11, 2004 For questions concerning the Call for Papers and the upcoming symposium, please contact: Olga Francois, 301-985-6426 or ofrancois@umuc.edu. Please see the web site for more details: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/cpapers.html From: Alastair Dunning Subject: Digital Resources in the Humanities 2004 - Call for Proposals Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:08:44 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 846 (846) CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DRH 2004 **** Deadline: March 15th 2004 **** DRH 2004: Digital Resources for the Humanities University of Newcastle, UK Sunday 5th September ­ Wednesday 8th September 2004 Conference URL - http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a major forum bringing together scholars, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities. The 2004 Conference aims to address some of the key emerging themes and strategic issues that engagement with ICT is bringing to humanities computing and scholarly research. Themes for 2004 include: · Methods in humanities computing · Cross-sector exchange between heritage, national and local government, and education bodies · Broadening the humanities computing base · New forms of scholarly publication Proposals for individual papers and full sessions addressing these themes are invited. Proposers should indicate which of the themes their papers will seek to address. DRH also has a tradition of supporting and encouraging new scholars and as such will be showcasing postgraduate research. Postgraduates are invited to submit proposals for short papers of approximately 15 minutes duration Please visit the website at http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ for full details of the conference and how to submit proposals. Email enquiries are also welcome at drh@ncl.ac.uk From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.599 where in the dichotomy? Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:53:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 847 (847) Has anyone compared Murray's humanist-engineer trope with the two cultures of Snow? In Murray's case what is striking is perhaps not the dichotomy but the apocalyptic undertone i.e. the world is in a mess. One wonders if a similar vision of doom does not animated Snow's dualistic division. I tend to favour the categories/syndromes put forth by Jane Jacobs in her _Systems of Survival_. Her witty and thoughtful dialogue proposes two classes of symbiotic actants: traders and guardians. And the careful reader will find that the whole world of interaction is not merely collapsed in these two syndromes. Jacobs points the transcending [undersending?] place of art and love. In terms of civil society and poltical processes, I am not suggesting a remapping of humanist to trader and engineer to guardian or vice versa. I think greater benefit is gained from examining how various actants 1) inform 2) focus 3) delimit choices At a certain level of abstraction this is what citizens do. It is what participants in a discursive community do. It is what professionals concerned with the governance of a discipline do. Sometimes blurring helps refocus. Simple methods applied and reapplied can often betray the bias of prefacing contents... Turing: engineer? humanist? Papert: engineer? humanist? Stallman: engineer? humanist? Question: just how did the second half of the twentieth century come to have a single intellectual predicament? Some of us look to that time period not as one where meaning slips away but where meaing becomes overdetermined. Whether we lived through them or not, we remember the social movements that focus attention on how the personal is political. We are keenly aware that any interaction be it between humanist and engineer can play to the gallery and are very wary about embracing dichotomies. We can and do go "meta" as Jerome Bruner says. We are digital with a temporal rigour [ Yes / No :: now / not now ] and hip to the narratives, grand and otherwise, that such a squaring can generate. Ironic that theme of forking paths is heighlighted in the very first selection (from Borges) in the New Media Reader but its wisdom escapes the preface: the digital is not alien to the non-electrical. Murray's counters can conduct us in different fashion round the square -- Mess : Not Mess :: humanist : engineer Mess : Not Mess :: engineer : humanist Of course, as Fredric Jamesons reminds us, the telling of the tale is sensitive to initial conditions. It would be fun to re-create the Turing test: can you tell from a given excerpt if a passage is from a humanist or an engineer? Turing's 1950 expression of the Imitation Game revolved around the identification of gender. Does a passage as quoted below belong to the humnist disciplines of rhetoric and grammar or to computer science? It is one of my favourite passages in Anderw Hodges's biography of Turing: quote> From the first point of view, it was natural to think of the configuration as the machine's _internal state_ something to be inferred from its different responses to different stimuli, rather as in behaviourist psychology. From the second point of view, however, it was natural to think of the configuration as a written instruction, and the table as a list of instructions, telling the machine what to do. The machine could be thought as obeying one _instruction_, and then moving to another instruction. The universal machine could then be pictured as reading and decoding the instructions placed upon the tape. Alan Turing himself did not stick to his original abstract term "configuration", but later described machines quite freely in terms of "states" and "instructions", according to the interpretation he had in mind. From: Jennie Eldridge Subject: Scholarships for UK students to study at postgraduate Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:48:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 848 (848) level in the Commonwealth FOR THE ATTENTION OF STUDENTS WISHING TO STUDY OVERSEAS AT POSTGRADUATE LEVEL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please see below for information regarding postgraduate scholarships available to UK citizens wishing to study overseas within the Commonwealth. COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS IN 2004/5: AUSTRALIA, GHANA*, MALTA*, NEW ZEALAND & SOUTH AFRICA - Administered by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (please contact the ACU for further details) Up to twelve Commonwealth scholarships are available to British citizens for postgraduate study in the above countries from October 2004 (for those marked *) or early 2005 under the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. Awards are tenable as follows: Australia - IDP Scholarships: - Macquarie University (PhD) - University of New England (12mth Research Masters) - University of Sydney (18mth Masters) - IDP Scholarship in Sport-related studies tenable at any Australian university offering postgraduate courses in the area. Ghana: - University of Cape Coast - University for Development Studies - University of Education, Winneba - University of Ghana - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi Malta: - University of Malta New Zealand: - University of Auckland - University of Canterbury - Lincoln University - Massey University - University of Otago - Victoria University of Wellington - University of Waikato South Africa: - University of Natal For full information on the length of scholarships offered, eligibility and to download application forms, please go to our web site www.csfp-online.org or write to us at CSFP Outward, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, Association of Commonwealth Universities, 36 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PF Closing date for applications: 31 March 2004 * Scholarships are also available for postgraduate study in Canada, India, the West Indies and other Commonwealth countries. The deadline for these countries is normally the end of October* From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:49:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 849 (849) Greetings from the Center for Intellectual Property! Below you will find the announcement for the Mellon Research Fellow. Please feel free to either forward to interested parties or post this message to your listserv or newsletter. Thank you, Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, University of Maryland University College ----------------------------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MELLON POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at University of Maryland University College announces a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with a stipend. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the position is for a recent PH.D. who is pursuing research on topics related to encryption, intellectual property, and dissemination and protection of digital information. The position will be directly involved with the Center's research project on digital rights management (DRM) systems, higher education, and intellectual property rights. Responsibilities include: - Developing, testing, and analyzing research projects based on application expertise and interest; - Aiding in the development of a survey instrument, testing the instrument and disseminating the instrument; - Writing narrative summaries of the research results, and related tasks under the supervision of the project directors; - Conducting background research; - Developing and implementing an evaluation plan and preparing progress reports as needed for the Mellon Foundation and UMUC's executive officers; - Studying, testing, and maintaining accurate data on DRM systems identified as relevant and/or best practice systems from research results obtained through national studies; - Designing and implementing training activities, both face-to-face and online in intellectual property and digital rights management; - Teaching one course per year, either face-to-face or online, and publishing in peer-reviewed publications related to the focus of the Center's research activities; and - Performing other job-related duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS: Successful applicant will have a Ph.D. degree (Or be ABD) in computer science or a closely related field; will have excellent oral and written communication skills; have demonstrated experience in research and statistical analysis (SPSS preferred); and have experience in completing and publishing research results. Applicants must submit with application materials a three to five (3-5) page essay discussing their purpose in pursuing this postdoctoral fellowship and how their discipline expertise works symbiotically with the research conducted by the CIP postdoctoral researcher. POSITION AVAILABLE: Immediately. This is a 2-year appointment. SALARY: $42,000 Stipend TO APPLY: Submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, names of three professional references, a copy of any significant publication, essay, along with salary history for last three positions to: Candidate Search - Postdoctoral Researcher (I000481) Office of Distance Education and Lifelong Learning (ODELL) University of Maryland University College 3501 University Boulevard East Adephi, MD 20783 Or email all materials to: hrjobs@umuc.edu Please contact with necessary information by February 14, 2004. From: carolyn guertin Subject: metaresources for academics Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:46:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 850 (850) Dear Humanists: I am on a quest for online metaresources for academics. Can you direct me to directories for resources for listserves or other materials of use to academics either specific to a field or general to the profession? I am particularly interested in sites that might help new academics promote themselves and their work. Many thanks, Carolyn ___________________________________________________ Carolyn Guertin, PhD, Academic Technologies for Learning TELUS Centre, University of Alberta, Canada Email: carolyn.guertin@ualberta.ca; Tel: 780-492-7270 Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/ ATL: http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/ Assemblage, The Online Women's New Media Gallery, at trAce: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.cfm From: Erika S Subject: WWR online magazine Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 07:49:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 851 (851) Hello, Along with Dr. Patricia Demers and the Canada Research Chair studio team at Univeristy of Alberta, I'm looking for submissions to our online magazine "Women Writing and Reading": http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/wwr/ I also encourage everyone who visits the site to participate in our online forums. Items for discussion might include (but are not limited to): - the relationship between women and (digital/virtual/online) textuality or (textual) representation - what women in English-language communities read and write - the circumstances that condition what women could and can write and read - the relationship between women's reading and writing - patterns of women's reading and writing within and across communities, historical periods, and cultures Best, Erika Smith MA Humanities Computing, Specialization English University of Alberta __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html From: George Whitesel Subject: Re: 17.615 metaresources for academics? Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 07:51:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 852 (852) Carolyn: I can't help but would like to imp on your wing. Please publish your results in all their glory to the list. Thanks! George "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Alessio Lomuscio Subject: LCMAS@ESSLLI Final CFP Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 07:49:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 853 (853) Final Call for Papers LCMAS04 An ESSLLI04 Workshop on Logic and Communication in Multi-Agent Systems http://www.win.tue.nl/%7Eevink/lcmas04.html NEW: PUBLICATION DETAILS - SEE BELOW The workshop, this year in its second edition, aims at bringing together graduate students and researchers interested in topics related to the use of formal tools when applied to modelling, specifying, verifying, and reasoning about multi-agent systems in which communication and updating play a crucial role. Specifically, the workshop aims at providing a forum for discussing technical issues that arise with formalisms (epistemic, temporal, dynamic and authentication logics and tools) inspired by the needs of modelling information exchanges in multi-agent systems. The workshop will be held within the context of ESSLLI04, the 2004 edition of the European Summer School on Logic Language and Computation, to be held in Nancy in August 2004. WORKSHOP SPECIFIC THEMES Particular focus of attention will be given to papers relating to the following specific themes: * Dynamics of epistemic positions: Combinations of epistemic logic and temporal logic (and related semantical issues) resulting from communicative acts, such as message passing, broadcasting, etc. Modelling of epistemic updates, and refinements following communicative acts. * Communication protocols: Semantics for communications processes in multi-agent systems. Formal dependencies between communication protocols and intensional (e.g., epistemic) properties of the agents. Using CSP and CCP for agent-communication. * Security and authorisation: Logics (deontic logic, BAN logic, etc.) for security and authorisation, where the assumption that the other agents in the network are cooperative, or at least not hostile, is dropped. Semantics for authorisation logics that are general and complete, or languages that are strong enough to prove that certain occasions (intruders entering the network, unwanted eavesdropping) do not occur. * Semantics of speech acts: Logical semantics of speech acts and institutional communication. Semantics of agent communication languages and their relationship to speech acts. Logics for planning speech acts. Relationships between speech act theory and belief revision & epistemic updates. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION About ESSLLI-2004: http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ About the workshop: http://www.win.tue.nl/%7Eevink/lcmas04.html From: "Helen Tibbo" Subject: Digitization Management Workshop Early Registration Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 07:52:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 854 (854) Ending Soon For anyone contemplating a digitization project or managing digital heritage collections…. I am pleased to announce that for the third year, the School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, will host the Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals workshop, this year May 16-21. This is a great week of hard work and community building that brings students together with instructors from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke University. The curriculum will be significantly revised this year to reflect new developments, technologies, media, and issues. Come join us in Chapel Hill the third week of May! Early Registration ends February 15th and slots are filling quickly so register early. Cost information, course details and an online registration form can be found at <http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/>http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/. See more below too! -Helen *************************** Digitization for Cultural and Heritage Professionals 2004 The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in conjunction with the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, Rice University’s Fondren Library, and Duke University Libraries, is pleased to announce the fifth Digitization for Cultural and Heritage Professionals course, May 16 - May 21, 2004. The course ran at Rice University, Houston in 2000 and 2001 and in UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002 and 2003. Full information, course details, and an online registration form can be found on the SILS web pages at: <http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/>http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/. With a new curriculum for 2004, this one-week intensive course will consist of lectures; seminars; lab-based practicals (offering both guided tuition, as well as an opportunity for individual practice) and visits to the UNC and Duke University libraries. The teaching team includes Drs. Seamus Ross and Ian Anderson from Glasgow, Dr. Helen Tibbo from UNC-CH, and Dr. Paul Conway from Duke University. Enrollment is limited, so please register early to confirm a place. COSTS, REGISTRATION, AND DEADLINES. Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch, afternoon coffee breaks, and two dinners. Accommodations are not included): - Advanced booking price: $700 (if a place is booked and the course fees are paid by February 15th, 2004). - Normal price: $800 (if a place is booked and the course fees are paid after February 15, 2004) Please use the web page to register online at: <http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/>http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/ or for registration questions, contact: Ms. Lara Bailey School of Information and Library Science Manning Hall CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Phone: 919.962.8366 Fax: 919.962.8071 ljbailey@email.unc.edu For course content questions, contact: Dr. Helen R. Tibbo School of Information and Library Science Manning Hall CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Phone: 919.962.8063 Fax: 919.962.8071 Tibbo@ils.unc.edu Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Professor School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 tibbo@ils.unc.edu Tel: 919.962.8063 Fax: 919.962.8071 From: "ICECCS 2004" Subject: Conference and Worshop on Complex Computer Systems Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 07:53:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 855 (855) IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, IEEE ICECCS, Florence, Italy, 14-16 April, 2004 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/iceccs04 _°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_ Workshop on Software and Complex Systems, WSCS 14th April 2004 , Florence , Italy This workshop will concentrate on how Software Technologies and Distributed Systems can help in the design and management of complex systems, linking industrial and academic partners, research and application. organised by: - European Commission, DG INFSO D3, INFSO, Software Technologies and Distributed Systems. - DISIT-DSI, Distributed Systems and Internet Technology, Department of Systems and Informatics, University of Florence http://www.dsi.unifi.it/iceccs04/ec-workshop.htm Chaired by: José-Luis Fernández-Villacañas, Paolo Nesi, Alessandro Fantechi _°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_ Topic 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 _°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_°_ From: Methods for Modalities Subject: ESSLLI 2004: Preliminary Announcement Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 07:53:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 856 (856) ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 Preliminary Announcement ESSLLI 2004 Nancy, France 9-20 August, 2004 ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004, the 16th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information will be held in Nancy, France 9-20 August, 2004. It is being hosted by LORIA (the Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications) and will be held on the Campus Scientifique of the University of Nancy 1 (University Henri Poincare). ESSLLI is the annual summer school of FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. Like previous ESSLLIs, ESSLLI 2004 will offer a two week program of foundational lectures, introductory lectures, advanced lectures, and workshops. All in all, 48 lectures and workshops will be offered. You can find more information, including a timetable, at the ESSLLI 2004 website: http://esslli2004.loria.fr Registration for ESSLLI 2004 is not yet open, but on this website you will already find preliminary information about registration, accomodation and prices. An email announcement will be sent around when registation opens. We look forward to seeing you in Nancy this August! Carlos Areces, Patrick Blackburn (for the organising committee) Helene Kirchner (Director of Loria) ======================================================================= From: Natasha Alechina Subject: CfP Workshop of guarded logics ESSLLI'04 Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 07:55:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 857 (857) WORKSHOP ON GUARDED LOGICS: PROOF TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS 9 - 13 August 2004 organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2004) (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9 - 20 August 2004 in Nancy. Workshop organizer: Natasha Alechina Workshop purpose It's been almost ten years since Andreka, van Benthem and Nemeti proved decidability of the guarded fragment of first order logic. Given how natural and expressive guarded quantification is, this result gave logicians a powerful tool of proving decidability of many formalisms arising in computer science applications, and generated much research into extensions of the guarded fragment to fixed point logic, transitive guards etc. A wealth of new proof techniques developed as a result. The workshop intends to bring this research together for the benefit of advanced logic and computer science PhD students interested in the area, and use a mixture of invited and contributed talks to cover both the new proof techniques and the relevance of guarded quantification for applications of logic in computer science. Workshop details [material deleted] About ESSLLI-2004: http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ About the workshop: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~nza/GF04/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: our provincialism Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:36:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 858 (858) Tito Orlandi, in Humanist 17.611, has rightly complained about a very old problem in our new field: that we whose native tongue is the current lingua franca (note that expression, please) remain largely trapped within the bounds defined by language. Referring to the ongoing debate about humanities computing science vs humanities computing, he asks, does "it sound reasonable that an HC(S) scholar should know the humanistic culture 'at large', and not only one branch of it"? This is, of course, a rhetorical question, but one that needs asking, and asking again and again. But I wonder, in practical terms what can be done about it, given the academic resources we have? We can all imagine the alternatives and sort through them. What is utterly unacceptable, I would suppose, is a dismissal of the problem. One of the problems, that is. A more vexing consequence of Babel is the untranslatability of linguistic cultural idioms, including the academic. It is a possibility, is it not, that work done in one academic culture may simply not be relevant to work on the same topic in another because the assumptions, means and terminology are too different -- i.e. that there are really two topics, not one? In philosophy, for example, we know the difficulties of bridging Anglo-American and Continental European traditions -- take the case of Heidegger, for example. Yes, this is a special case, given Heidegger's intimate play with untranslatable aspects of the German language, but they are only the beginning of the problem, for which see George Steiner's masterful struggle to come to terms with Heidegger in his book of that name. (Note that Steiner is completely fluent in English, German and French at minimum.) More controversial, I suppose, are the difficulties posed by the many attempts to bridge Anglo-American and French literary critical traditions. The French mathematician and philosopher of science Pierre Duhem infamously distinguished between French and English ways of thought in La Théorie physique (1914) when he proposed two corresponding kinds of scientific mind and so two kinds of theory: abstract and systematic (French, clearly) vs. the sort that relies on mechanical models. Even if he was only pointing to the way people think they think, their persistence in thinking that way is strong. Furthermore, quite apart from the worthy question and constant source of guilt for a great many of us, how we cure the plague of monolingualism, the idea that knowledge is some sort of permanent stuff that one can accumulate, and that therefore topics can be "done" once and for all, needs a sharp look. If they cannot, then what are we doing? 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: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 17.618 linguistic and cultural provincialism Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:27:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 859 (859) )" To: Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:52 AM [deleted quotation] lingua [deleted quotation] again. [deleted quotation] dismissal [deleted quotation] It [deleted quotation] are [deleted quotation] traditions [deleted quotation] French [deleted quotation] abstract [deleted quotation] the [deleted quotation] needs [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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: translating translatability Re: 17.618 linguistic and Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:28:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 860 (860) cultural provincialism Untranslatability "of" does not translate into untranslatablity "to" [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] academic. It [deleted quotation] there are [deleted quotation] traditions .... Is this a problem? Can we not imagine a world of collaboration and discussion between scholars whether they be academics or not? I am always fond of observing that the "translation" is in some locus between the "translated" and the "translating". As such, access to a "translation" is only partial and contingent. [A "translation" is hypertextual in very much similar ways that hyperspace is multidimensional.] What communities of readers can emerge from the sharing of discourse about the translating and the translated? Note how the nexus of knowledge can be handled by the mediating instance of the translator. The translator may fumble with both the translated (source) and the translating (target). Other readers can provide insight, nuance and clarification. Without the fumble there is no dialogue. Just when does "our" provincialism become "hour" provincialism? There is time for the work to be done if the work to be done is not construed as the erection of individual monuments. There is a rise and fall is implied by the image of Babel. Find another foundation myth and the variety of human languages is not seen as vexing. The image of Babel does not give me a notion of time zones unless I stretch into the Biblical context some sense of shift work.. Nimrod on Hong Kong time :) -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic 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: science, technology and modern culture Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:25:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 861 (861) In a trenchant article in the American Journal of Sociology 11.5 (1906): 585-609, "The Place of Science in Modern Civilization", economist and social commentator Thorstein Veblen wrote that "science gives its tone to modern culture.... Seen in certain lights, tested by certain standards, [our culture] is doubtless better [as a result]; by other standards, worse. But the fact remains that the current cultural scheme, in its maturest growth, is of that complexion... That such is the case seems to be due chiefly to the ubiquitous presence of the machine technology and its creations in the life of modern communities. And so long as the machine process continues to hold a dominant place as a disciplinary factor in modern culture, so long must the spiritual and intellectual life of this cultural era maintain the character which the machine process gives it." (608f) Science and humanities scholarship are not natural adversaries, he argues, as both are fundamentally motivated by disinterested inquiry, or what he charmingly calls "idle curiosity"; in fact this idle curiosity (i.e., unfettered imagination) gives science many of the same qualities of mind as the myth-maker's. The greater gulf is between idle curiosity and the pragmatic drive to getting things done. This drive, manifested in machine technology, is in fact, he argues further, culturally primary to science, giving it its hold on us and its particular character. (Note how different this perspective is from that of the argument from "applied" science.) Now my question. Note that Veblen was writing in 1906, barely less than a century ago, when "modern" machines were things of iron and steel, dramatically visible and responsible for dramatic changes in daily life. (The railroad had not long before transformed the village in which I live from a relatively wealthy place of 5,000 souls, from which it was not practical to make a daily journey into central London, to a busy working-class suburb of 50,000, whose income was directly dependent on the daily commute.) If the human craft of technology articulates and shapes our predominant form of life, then what happens to science operating in a world where the machines are so very different? What of this science's relation to us? And if Veblen is right about the priority of techne to logos, then how do we need to think about our machines? Veblen's article is in JSTOR; more about the man (better known for his book, The Theory of the Leisure Class) at http://www.mnc.net/norway/veblen.html and elsewhere. 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: Stephen Clark Subject: machines and culture Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:19:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 862 (862) Dear Willard I wrote on this topic in Tools, Machines and Marvels: Roger Fellowes, ed., Philosophy and Technology (Cambridge University Press 1995), 159-76, and in From Biosphere to Technosphere: Ends and Means 6.2001, pp.3-21. In the first I made use of Spengler's distinction between Faustian and Magian culture, suggesting that we were moving into a Magian phase: we can no longer grasp in detail how our machines work, any more than how biological systems work (I mean that we cannot follow through the manifold biochemical synergies that lead from fertilized cell to adult even though we believe that biochemistry explains it all, and we can't disentangle the multiply patched programs on which our world depends). The effect is that our machines feel increasingly like 'living things', and are controlled - like demons of old - by words. -- Stephen Clark Dept of Philosophy University of Liverpool [The above is in reference to Humanist 17.620; the Ends and Means article, to which Clark refers, is archived at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/endsandmeans/vol5no2/index.shtml.] From: Willard McCarty Subject: our provincialism Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:36:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 863 (863) Tito Orlandi, in Humanist 17.611, has rightly complained about a very old problem in our new field: that we whose native tongue is the current lingua franca (note that expression, please) remain largely trapped within the bounds defined by language. Referring to the ongoing debate about humanities computing science vs humanities computing, he asks, does "it sound reasonable that an HC(S) scholar should know the humanistic culture 'at large', and not only one branch of it"? This is, of course, a rhetorical question, but one that needs asking, and asking again and again. But I wonder, in practical terms what can be done about it, given the academic resources we have? We can all imagine the alternatives and sort through them. What is utterly unacceptable, I would suppose, is a dismissal of the problem. One of the problems, that is. A more vexing consequence of Babel is the untranslatability of linguistic cultural idioms, including the academic. It is a possibility, is it not, that work done in one academic culture may simply not be relevant to work on the same topic in another because the assumptions, means and terminology are too different -- i.e. that there are really two topics, not one? In philosophy, for example, we know the difficulties of bridging Anglo-American and Continental European traditions -- take the case of Heidegger, for example. Yes, this is a special case, given Heidegger's intimate play with untranslatable aspects of the German language, but they are only the beginning of the problem, for which see George Steiner's masterful struggle to come to terms with Heidegger in his book of that name. (Note that Steiner is completely fluent in English, German and French at minimum.) More controversial, I suppose, are the difficulties posed by the many attempts to bridge Anglo-American and French literary critical traditions. The French mathematician and philosopher of science Pierre Duhem infamously distinguished between French and English ways of thought in La Théorie physique (1914) when he proposed two corresponding kinds of scientific mind and so two kinds of theory: abstract and systematic (French, clearly) vs. the sort that relies on mechanical models. Even if he was only pointing to the way people think they think, their persistence in thinking that way is strong. Furthermore, quite apart from the worthy question and constant source of guilt for a great many of us, how we cure the plague of monolingualism, the idea that knowledge is some sort of permanent stuff that one can accumulate, and that therefore topics can be "done" once and for all, needs a sharp look. If they cannot, then what are we doing? 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: "WEDELMUSIC" Subject: CFP: Int. Conf. on WEB Delivering of Music, WEDELMUSIC 2004 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:44:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 864 (864) Call for Papers 4th International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, WEDELMUSIC 2004 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 13th-15th September 2004 http://www.upf.edu/wedelmusic2004/ http://www.wedelmusic.org/ Content distribution is presently not anymore limited to music and is becoming more cross media oriented. New distribution models for old and new content formats are opening new paths: i-TV, mobile phones, PDAs, etc. The development of the Internet technologies introduces strong impact on system architectures and business processes. New national and international regulations, policies and market evolution are constraining the distribution mechanisms. Novel distribution models, development and application of pervasive computing and multimedia strongly influence this multi- disciplinary field. The need of content control and monitoring is demanding effective Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions integrated with sustainable business and transaction models. These technologies impact on the production and modelling of cross media content. WEDELMUSIC-2004 aims to explore these major topics in cross media field, to address novel approaches for distributing content to larger audiences, providing wider access and encouraging broader participation. The impact of these developments on cultural heritage is also considered, together with their availability to people with limited access to content. The conference is open to all the enabling technologies behind these problems. We are promoting discussion and interaction among researchers, practitioners, developers, final users, technology transfer experts, and project managers. [material deleted] 4th Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 14th-16th September 2004 More details and the call for contribution will appear on: http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org After the 3rd Open Workshop as described in the following section The access is free of charge, supported by the European Commission. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Call for Contribution 3rd Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK, Munich, March 2004 MPEG AHG on Music Notation Requirements 13-14 of March 2004, Munich, Germany http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/MUSICNETWORK-OW-March-2004-Description-v1-4-clean.htm http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/ahg-mn-65-66.html located at: Technische Universität München, Germany: http://www.mpeg-68.de/location.php The Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK is at its third edition. The modeling ofmusic notation/representation is a complex problem. Music representation can be used for several different purposes: entertainment, music education, infotainment, music archiving and retrieval, music querying, music production, music profiling, etc. In the current Internet and Multimedia age many other applications are strongly getting the market attention and most of them will become more diffuse of the present applications in short time. End users have discovered the multimedia experience, and thus, the traditional music models are going to be replaced by their integration with multimedia, audio visual, cross media. At present, there is a lack of Music Notation/Representation standard integrated with multimedia. The aim of this workshop is to make a further step to arrive at standardizing a Music Notation/Representation Model and Decoder integrated into the MPEG environment, that presently can be regarded as the most active and powerful set of standard formats for multimedia consumers. The topics of the workshop are related mainly focused on: --Music Notation/Representation requirements --Music Protection and Distribution --Music Description and its usage on Archive Query Please Contribute with your work on the above topics, for details see the www site of the workshop. The access is be free of charge, supported by the European Commission. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 4th Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 14th-16th September 2004 More details and the call for contribution will appear on: http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org after the 3rd Open Workshop as described in the following section The access is be free of charge, supported by the European COmmission. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2004: Regular Registration Ends Feb. 15, 2004 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:45:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 865 (865) Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ the international conference about culture and heritage on-line. ** MW2004 Program ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/sessions/ MW2004 will open with a keynote address from Jeffery Zeldman, internationally known author of "Designing with Web Standards", and close with a plenary session featuring Peter Samis, of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on "Making Sense of Modern Art at Five." Parallel sessions, museum project demonstrations, dozens of commercial exhibits, full-day and half-day pre-conference workshops, and one-hour mini-workshops combine with a day-long usability lab, a design "Crit Room", and the Best of the Web awards to round out the program. ** Save Money: Regular Registration ends February 15, 2004 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/register/ Sunday February 15 is the last day for Regular Registration Rates for Museums and the Web 2004. Be sure of your choice of workshop and tour by registering soon. Registration Rates are calculated based on the *date payment is received*. Use a credit card and register on-line by February 15, 2004, to be sure you get the regular rate. If you can't make this date, you can still register on-line or on-site at higher rates. [material deleted] From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 17.618 linguistic and cultural provincialism Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:28:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 866 (866) We should be conscious that the problem Tito Orlandi raises has serious consequences for the reviewing of proposals to our conferences, as well. Even if we cannot overcome the plague of monolingualism in just a few days, we need to do something very urgently about people in our field be- coming more aware of these cultural and scholarly differences. At the sa- me time, people who work in our field but whose native language is not the present lingua franca need to get more involved in our scholarly organisations. Elisabeth Burr At 08:52 07.02.2004 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] PD Dr. Elisabeth Burr Fachbereich 10 Frankoromanistik und Italoromanistik Sprachwissenschaft Universität Bremen Bibliothekstraße 28359 Bremen Tel. +49 421 218-8236 elisabeth.burr@uni-bremen.de elisabeth.burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/homepages/burr.htm From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: 17.622 linguistic and cultural provincialism Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:28:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 867 (867) In einer eMail vom 09.02.04 23:55:27 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU: [deleted quotation] Yet I can't say in English "disjunkte Zerlegung" without the help of a specialized dictionary, actually not knowing if "disjunctive decomposition" - a combination of the 2 word to word translations in my pocket dictionnary - means the same as the german term (ein Begriff der Mengenlehre - a term from set theory). After consultation of http://dict.leo.org I'm in doubt if not 'disjoint dissection' would be better? hw From: Willard McCarty Subject: Query about OCR for Ancient Greek Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:35:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 868 (868) Dear colleagues: Following a query from someone faced with scanning a mixture of Italian and ancient Greek. She mentions software packages I have not heard of, which I take to be a sign of some progress at the technical end of things, or at least more variety of choice. If you have advice for Ms Gritti, please send it directly to her as well as to Humanist. It is time we revisited this topic! Yours, WM [deleted quotation] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: n.thieberger@LINGUISTICS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU Subject: theoretical shift Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:46:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 869 (869) I am a field linguist and my recently submitted PhD dissertation was a grammar of a previously undescribed language which included an audio corpus of some 18 hours of linked text and media. Most of the 840-odd example sentences are playable, as are seven example texts. This work arises out of the discussion on language documentation that has been receiving some coverage in the past few years. Reflecting on the process of presenting this data I consider that there is a distinct shift in the authority of a grammar written with citable audio sources compared to a grammar in which sentences are provided with no source. When a corpus is citable it can be used as the basis for any claims made about the grammar of the language. The data is given in a form that can be accessed by others and so can be used to test claims and to provide additional analysis that may no have been considered in the analytical work. This may appear to be a common scientific method, but it is not one that has been followed by many linguists. I am writing to this list to ask about sources on the (paradigm?) shift associated with new technological advances, especially the presentation of primary data for testing claims, and the shift in authority towards the data rather than the analyst. Thanks Nick Thieberger -- Project Manager PARADISEC Pacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures http://www.paradisec.org.au nickt@paradisec.org.au Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics University of Melbourne Vic 3010 Australia Ph 61 (0)3 8344 5185 From: oup@OUP.CO.UK Subject: ToC for Literary and Linguistic Computing 18-4 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:37:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 870 (870) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: November 2003; Vol. 18, No. 4 URL: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_04/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Multivariate Analysis and the Study of Style Variation David L. 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Beiträge des Internationalen Kolloquiums an der Universität Trier, 8-9 Oktober 2001 Reviewed by Dieter Köhler, pp. 498-500 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_18/Issue_04/180498.sgm.abs.html For the latest tables of contents of other journals in your area visit:- http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/tocmail/ For advance details of appropriate new books (including details of special offers) visit:- http://www.oup.co.uk/emailnews/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book on epistemology Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:49:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 871 (871) --=====================_81841437==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB11665550567X3040516X301619Xwillard.mccarty%4= 0kcl.ac.uk>Handbook=20 of Epistemology edited by I. Niiniluoto Matti Sintonen University of Tampere, Finland Jan Wole=C5=84ski Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland 4e0cc71.jpg The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook, all by leading experts in the=20 field, provide the most extensive treatment of various epistemological=20 problems, supplemented by a historical account of this field. The entries=20 are self-contained and substantial contributions to topics such as the=20 sources of knowledge and belief, knowledge acquisition, and truth and=20 justification. There are extensive essays on knowledge in specific fields:= =20 the sciences, mathematics, the humanities and the social sciences,=20 religion, and language. Special attention is paid to current discussions on= =20 evolutionary epistemology, relativism, the relation between epistemology=20 and cognitive science, sociology of knowledge, epistemic logic, knowledge=20 and art, and feminist epistemology. 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The papers are to appear 1) as a thematic issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu>, a peer-reviewed, full-text, and public-access journal published by Purdue University Press and 2) in a hard-copy collected volume in the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp> & <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>. The publications are a project following a conference held at the University of Halle-Wittenberg 5 February 2004 "Atlantic Europe or a Partnership Apart? / Europa in Atlantica: Partnerschaft im Kontinentaldrift?" <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/atlanticeuropeconference04.html>. Thematics: Historically, the process of European unification has been supported and furthered in large measures by the USA since the 1950s and Germany, in particular, has been a beneficiary in this process. The US-American support of European unification and its process allowed for and often aided the transformation of long-established historical reservations into new and working partnerships between cultures and countries within Europe and between Europe and the USA. About Iraq, the USA on the one hand and France and Germany on the other hand demonstrated differences in opinion and action. The question presents itself as to whether and in what measure Europe would need US-American support and involvement in its process of unification, including such within the context of international and global affairs. Papers selected represent multi- and inter-disciplinary analysis and discussion of transatlantic cooperation and partnership between countries and cultures of the European Union and the USA in order to respond to issues of current import constructively. The length of a paper is 5000 words, in the MLA: Modern Language Association of America format with parenthetical sources and a works cited (but no footnotes or end notes): for CLCWeb's style guide link to <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html>, for the CCS-Purdue series style guide link to <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>; when quoting text other than English, quotes are presented in English translation with the text of the source language following the English translation. A 200-word abstract of the paper and a biographical abstract are also required: please see examples of papers for the format of the abstract and the biographical abstract in CLCWeb. Submission of papers is electronically only, in word by attachment to or by 31 December 2004. From: Ross Scaife Subject: full text for 320 items in Diotima bibliographic database Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:47:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 873 (873) http://www.stoa.org/dio-bin/diobib?jstor The bibliography at the Diotima site now links directly to full text versions of 320 pertinent articles, accessible from the 1188 U.S. institutions and 720 international institutions with which JSTOR currently has distribution agreements (for some perspectives on this system see Friend below), drawn from the following participating journals: American Journal of Archaeology through 1998 American Journal of Philology through 1995 Classical Philology through 1998 Classical Quarterly through 1998 Classical Review through 1998 Greece & Rome through 1998 Harvard Studies in Classical Philology through 1999 Journal of Hellenic Studies through 1998 Journal of Roman Studies through 1998 TAPA through 2000 ** Frederick J. Friend, Looking from the Past to the Future http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get- document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020010 From: Elli Mylonas Subject: E-fest next week Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:13:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 874 (874) This is sponsored by the The Brown University Program in Literary Arts and The Cave Writing Workshop, and it looks great! If you can't attend during the day, there are 2 evening presentations. E-FEST 2004 Readings, Symposia, Performances February 17-19 *Free and Open to the Public Brown University Program in Literary Arts will present E-Fest 2004, a celebration of electronic literary art February 17-19. The program will feature readings by John Cayley, Stephanie Strickland, Talan Memmott, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Brian Kim Stefans, Aya Karpinska, Alan Sondheim and more. The program will open with an overview of electronic writing activities at Brown University, including readings by Talan Memmott and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, with a special performance by Thalia Field and Jamie Jewett. Wednesday's program includes panels and discussions with artists and theorists in the field including George Landow, Roberto Simanowski, and Alan Sondheim. An evening reading will feature John Cayley, Stephanie Strickland, Brian Kim Stefans, and Aya Karpinksa. Thursday will feature artist demos, the introduction of new books on digital media. ________ *Tuesday, Feb. 17* _7:30 PM WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: LITERARY HYPERMEDIA AT BROWN McCormack Family Theater [70 Brown Street] Readings and Performances by Talan Memmott, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, William Gillespie, Thalia Field and Jamie Jewett ________ *Wednesday, Feb.18* _10:00 AM - 5:00PM -- Inn at Brown [101 Thayer Street] SYMPOSIA, POSITIONS AND PROVOCATIONS, THEORY/PRACTICE ROUNDTABLE 1000AM-1130AM Poetics Panel Inn at Brown University [101 Thayer Street] chair: Noah Wardrip-Fruin Stephanie Strickland Retuning Time and Space in Digital Media Talan Memmott Identity to Adentity: Network Phenomenology and the Poetics of Being Online 100-230PM Positions and Provocations Inn at Brown University [101 Thayer Street] chair: Wendy Chun Roberto Simanowski - Justifying the Spectacle George Landow - Is Hypertext Fiction Possible? Alan Sondheim - New Media Bytes the Dust Noah Wardrip-Fruin - Hypertext - It's not what you link Edrex Fontanilla 330-500PM Theory/Practice Roundtable Inn at Brown University [101 Thayer Street] moderator: Talan Memmott John Cayley, Aya Karpinska, George Landow, Roberto Simanowski, Stephanie Strickland, Alan Sondheim, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Brian Kim Stefans _7:30PM DIGITAL POETRY SPECTACULAR McCormack Family Theater [70 Brown Street] Readings by Stephanie Strickland, John Cayley, Aya Karpinska, Brian Kim Stefans ________ *Thursday, Feb. 19* _100-230PM ARTIST DEMOS Grad. Ctr. Tower E - 123 [92 Thayer Street] Alan Sondheim Aya Karpinska Brian Kim Stefans _330-500PM NEW BOOKS ON DIGITAL MEDIA Grad Ctr. Tower E - STG [92 Thayer Street] Noah Wardrip-Fruin/Pat Harrigan -- First Person Nick Montfort -- Twisty Little Passages Alex Galloway -- Protocols: How Control Exists After Decentralization For more information on this event, call Literary Arts at 401.863.3260 or visit the website at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/Writing/ Sponsored by The Brown University Program in Literary Arts The Cave Writing Workshop From: Patrick Durusau Subject: OCR and Ancient Greek Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:12:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 875 (875) Willard, Willard McCarthy wrote: [deleted quotation] topic! On the issue of text recognition, "Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically: How Lazy Cryptographers Do AI" which appeared in Communications of the ACM, Volume 47, Number 2, pp. 57-60, by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, and John Langford, should be of interest to Humanist readers. Images that contain deliberately distorted text, CAPCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), that can be read by a human reader but not easily by computer are described with examples. Solving the problem of recognizing distorted text is directly relevant to OCR of damged or poorly reproduced texts. One effort at a solution cited by the authors is: "Recognizing objects in adversarial clutter: Breaking a Visual CAPTCHA." Mori, G. and Malik, J., Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2003. (Also available at: www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mori/research/ papers/mori_cvpr03.pdf. Like the phrase "adversarial clutter." Certainly describes how I feel about the stray marks and distortions that seem to trouble OCR programs. 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: "Dominique GONNET" Subject: RE: 17.625 OCR for Greek? sources on the paradigm shift? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:11:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 876 (876) Merci à Elena Gritti pour ses indications. C'est une invitation à aller voir du côté de "FineReader 7.0, and the last releases of Omnipage Pro". Quant à Anagnostis 4.0, nous avons réussi à utiliser la version test avec des résultats intéressants à Sources Chrétiennes, alors qu'à la MOM, je ne sais pourquoi, ça n'avait pas marché. Nous espérons qu'Anagnostis ou un autre meilleur OCR de grec ancien pourra être acquis par la MOM. Amitiés. Dominique Gonnet - 06 15 11 12 36 dominique.gonnet@mom.fr CNRS UMR 5189 « Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques » Institut des Sources Chrétiennes 29 Rue du Plat - 69002 Lyon Tél. 04 72 77 73 53 - Fax 04 78 92 90 11 -----Message d'origine----- De : Marjorie Burghart [mailto:marjorie.burghart@online.fr] Envoyé : mar. 10 février 2004 10:54 À : Pierre.Philippe@mom.fr; Laurence Darmezin; dominique.gonnet@mom.fr Objet : Fw: 17.625 OCR for Greek? sources on the paradigm shift? From: Erika S Subject: Women Writing and Reading online Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:13:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 877 (877) Hello, The Canada Research Chair Humanities Computing Studio at the University of Alberta is pleased to announce the launch of "Women Writing and Reading," a site dedicated to an integrated and collaborative Program for Study of Women Writing and Reading that creates connections between different communities (http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/wwr/). WWR is currently looking for submissions to its online magazine that concern (but are not limited to) some of the following topics: - What did and do women in English-language communities read and write? - What circumstances condition what they could and can write and read? - What has been and is the relationship between women's reading and writing? - What patterns of women's reading and writing can be seen within and across communities, historical periods, and cultures? Please visit the site for more information on the WWR magazine, and to participate on WWR's online discussion forums. Best, Erika ===== "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."— Albert Camus --------------------------- Erika Smith M.A. Humanities Computing, specialization English University of Alberta __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html From: Damien Doherty Subject: Hacking on the Cartesian vision, KCL, 19 Feb. Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:32:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 878 (878) You are invited to a public lecture in the series: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP, DIGITAL CULTURE Ian Hacking, (Chaire de philosophie et histoire des concepts scientifiques, Collège de France, and University Professor, Philosophy, Toronto). "The Cartesian Vision Fulfilled: Analog Bodies and Digital Minds" Current intellectual wisdom, abetted by philosophers of all stripes, teaches that the Cartesian philosophy is both wrong and dead. This wisdom will be overtaken by events. Present and future technologies - ranging from organ transplants to information coding, will increasingly make us revert to Descartes's picture of two absolutely distinct types of domains, the mental and the physical, which nevertheless constantly interact. We as humans are constituted in both domains, and also must inhabit them. This is less a matter of facts - for what a person is, is never simply a matter of fact - than of how we will come to conceive of ourselves in the light of the facts that will press in upon us. 17.30 Thursday 19th February 2004 Arthur & Paula Lucas Lecture Theatre (Room 2B18) Strand Building, Strand Campus King’s College London All are invited to a reception following the lecture Further information regarding this lecture series can be found at - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/03-04/index.html Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London T: +44 (0)20 7848 1237 F: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 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: Computing/Theorizing/Communicating (MLA 2004) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:09:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 879 (879) CFP: Computing/Theorizing/Communicating How do we, both consciously and unconsciously, shape our tools and vice versa? The Computer Studies in Language and Literature Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association invites papers for the 2004 MLA Conference (Philadelphia, 27-30 Dec) on the subject of the causal relationship between computing tools and research and/or pedagogy. More specifically, we seek papers that explore impacts of computing tools (e.g., databases, text analysis software, multimedia, etc.) on theorizing research, teaching, and communication between language and literature researchers, students, and the wider community. The arenas of application might include, but are not necessarily limited to, literary, composition, rhetoric, film, archival, stylistic, or linguistic studies. We especially hope to encourage the submission of abstracts that recognize and explore the ways in which the tools shape the discipline and/or theory. Abstracts by 1 Mar; Donald E. Hardy (Don.Hardy@Colostate.edu) From: DrWender@AOL.COM Subject: Re: 17.631 OCR and ancient Greek Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:07:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 880 (880) In einer eMail vom 11.02.04 09:48:35 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt willard@lists.village.Virginia.EDU forwarding an email from Patrick Durusau: [deleted quotation] Maybe there is a great jump in OCR technology. But I'm in doubt. I remember the day advancing from an older matrix based OCR program to a Kurtzweil Reader with implemented 'intelligent' features. In the effort to produce sense, the "poorly reproduced" word "König" (king; with bad recognizable ö) was not read "Konig" but "Honig" (honey). The correction by human post-processing was easier with 'diplomatic' OCR, before introducing 'intelligent' methods... How context-sensitive the OCR procedures are nowadays? Herbert Wender From: Frank Ritchel Ames Subject: New Unicode Hebrew Font for Biblical Studies Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:08:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 881 (881) Academic writers and those who publish books on the ancient world and the Bible can now use a Hebrew font that is visually pleasing on computer screen and printed page, and facilitates the exchange of texts between computers, thanks to the joint efforts of the Society of Biblical Literature, SBL Font Foundation, and Tiro Typeworks. Until now, texts composed with a Hebrew alphabet were not easily transferred from one computer to another, or would read well on screen but not on paper‹-annoyances familiar to those in the publishing world. The solution was to design a more readable font in Unicode, a text encoding standard that assigns a unique universal code for each character and works across diverse computer platforms. The distinctive typeface of SBL Hebrew, designed in a Sephardic style, renders consonants, vowel points, and accent marks accurately and reads well on screen and in print. The SBL plans to release Unicode fonts for Greek and Latin later this year, with other ancient languages to follow. The complete series will include all symbols needed to produce critical editions of biblical and related texts. The SBL Hebrew font is provided without cost to individuals for non-profit use and is available online at www.sbl-site.org. Commercial use of the font is reserved for members of the SBL Font Foundation. Membership is open to publishers, academic societies, Bible societies, and anyone who supports the development of Unicode fonts for biblical scholarship. Current members include the American Bible Society, largest Bible society in the world (www.americanbible.org); American Schools of Oriental Research, supporter of archeological research in the Near East for more than a century (www.asor.org); Baker Academic, publisher of textbooks, reference works, and scholarly books (www.bakeracademic.com); Brill Academic Publishers, offering books and journals of scholarly distinction in biblical studies and other fields (www.brill.nl); German Bible Society, leading publisher of critical editions of Hebrew and Greek Bibles (www.dbg.de); and Logos Research Systems, largest developer of Bible software in the world, now offering more than 3,000 electronic study resources (www.logos.com). Information about becoming a member of the SBL Font Foundation is available from Kent Richards, SBL Executive Director (kent.richards@sbl-site.org). The Society of Biblical Literature, a member of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Association of American University Presses, is located on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and is an academic organization that fosters biblical scholarship through conferences, publishing, and technology initiatives. Tiro Typeworks, an independent digital type foundry located in Vancouver, Canada, specializes in custom development of multilingual fonts for scholarship and international communications. Contacts: Patrick Durusau Society of Biblical Literature 404-727-2337 patrick.durusau@sbl-site.org John Hudson Tiro Typeworks 604-669-4884 tiro@tiro.com From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 17.620 science, technology and modern culture Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:07:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 882 (882) I believe the major difference between Veblen's view and our current reality is that he saw machines, which we would have to qualify as "mechanical machines", as the dominant force driving change. For his time this was true enough, but he could not have forseen the way in which "mechanical machines" would fundamentally change the character of other disciplines such chemistry, biology and medicine. Given access to mechanical machinery, chemistry began discovering new substances and new manufacturing processes. Electrical components usable for generating and receiving radio waves were a product of chemistry. The silicon chip a product of chemistry and manufacturing machines built to tolerances never before imagined. Both of these developments, the "communication machine" and the "information machine" were beyond Veblen's perspective since they didn't alter the economics of labor, they extended the sensory reach of the human mind. While negative effects of communication and information processing do exist, it is harder to argue that things would be far better without their changes to our lives. We could perhaps argue that "information machines" are beginning to displace human mental work, but if anything this displacement seems to replace drudgery with more creative work. The typing pool, a room filled with slaves to the mechanical machine typewriter, have been displaced by individuals working with their own word processors in a far less structured environment. Human workers enslaved by the Henry Ford assembly line are now displaced by true robots doing the same work. I guess one could argue more successfully that "information machines" have started a disturbing dehumanization of society itself (whereas mechanical machines only dehumanized the workers in factories). By displacing person-to-person interactions by automated phone answering systems, displacing bank tellers by ATMs, etc. we have contributed to less human contact in our daily lives. From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.625 sources on the paradigm shift? Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:08:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 883 (883) At 09.58 10/02/2004, n.thieberger@LINGUISTICS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU wrote: [deleted quotation] i think that what n. thieberger says is very important. in a completely different field (textual studies) i have been thinking the same things. once there was the authority of the scholar who, mainly on the base of his 'genius' (i use the term 'genius' very seriously) and occasionally on the base of textual evidence, defined and stated an authoritative interpretation of a given text, problem, passage, author, theme. these days we have, i think, the tools (text retrieval programs, in broad sense; and concordance programs, specifically) which allow us to study many texts, passages, authors, themes, on the base of a complete textual evidence. the researcher who studies using these tools can - if she/he want - show the listeners all the evidences supporting his interpretation. this causes a shift from the authority of the scholar to the evidence which the researcher offers to the peers, the colleagues. given the evidence of the textual passages, any other researcher can verify how well the interpretation fits the data. and this way also in the textual studies we can approach that component of the scientific method which is the falsification: one can discuss a given interpretation on the base of those same passages which should support it, and eventually show its weakness. the textual studies can't be simply equated to other hard science fields (mathematics, astronomy, and also - in different degree - physics, chemistry, ...) but we need that an interpretation be accompanied by the complete data which should support/show/demonstrate its quality. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: "Steven Smith" Subject: Texas A&M Book History Workshop Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:39:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 884 (884) There are still a few spaces left in the third annual Book History at A&M Workshop, scheduled for May 23-28, 2004, at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University. This five-day workshop provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to and survey of the history of books and printing. It is intended for librarians, archivists, students, teachers, collectors, private individuals and others who work in areas related to or who have an interest in the subject. The workshop also hosts a series of evening lectures on bookish topics. Speakers in this year's series include: Al Brilliant, Margaret Ezell, Thomas F. Staley, David B. Gracy, and Ron Tyler. To register or learn more about the workshop, go to: http://lib-oldweb.tamu.edu/cushing/bookhistory/2004.html. From: DrWender@aol.com Subject: Re: 17.638 sources on the paradigm shift Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:46:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 885 (885) In einer eMail vom 12.02.04 09:27:16 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt willard@LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU: (i.e. Maurizio Lana) [deleted quotation] I agree completely. But we must be aware that the primary data is image data - at least in the field of usual literary studies. A good example is the Versioning Machine announced earlier in this list: The image of the testimony allows to check up the transcription and markup results. What will say "a corpus is citable" (Thieberger in the initial posting) in this case? Do we need a common referencing system to connect images and (scholarly) text? With kind regards, Herbert Wender From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: New Theory Journal Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:37:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 886 (886) The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (On The Internet) may be viewed at: www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/ Gerry Dr. B. Gerry Coulter 819-822-9600 ext 2570 Associate Professor Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Box 83 Bishop's University Lennoxville QC J1M 1Z7 Fax: 819-822-9661 (Attn: Dr. Coulter) gcoulter@ubishops.ca From: "W.N. Martin" Subject: Call for projects for new journal Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:51:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 887 (887) Summer Fellowship Call for Projects Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular The Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication is pleased to announce a Fellowship program for summer 2004 to foster innovative research for its new electronic publishing venture, Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular. Vectors is a new, international electronic journal dedicated to expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and transitional media. Vectors brings together visionary scholars with cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic research, focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social and cultural relations. Vectors will adhere to the highest standards of quality in a strenuously reviewed format. The journal is edited by Tara McPherson and Steve Anderson and guided by the collective knowledge of a prestigious international board. About the Fellowships · Vectors Fellowships will be awarded to up to six individuals or teams of collaborators in the early to mid- stages of development of a scholarly multimedia project related to the themes of Evidence or Mobility. Completed projects will be included in the first two issues of the journal beginning in fall 2004. Vectors will feature next-generation multimedia work, moving far beyond the ‘text with image’ format of most online scholarly publications. Fall 2004: Evidence · The first issue of the journal will be devoted to a broad reconsideration of the notion of Evidence and its multiple transformations in contemporary scholarship and digital culture. Spring 2004: Mobility · The second issue will be devoted to exploring the shifting concepts and practices of Mobility in contemporary culture, creatively limning the possibilities and limits of such a concept for understanding 21st century life. About the Awards All fellowship recipients will participate in a one-week residency June 21-25, 2004 at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in Los Angeles, where they will have access to the IML’s state of the art, Mac-based production facilities. Fellows will have continuing access to work in collaboration with world-class designers and the IML’s technical support and programming team throughout the project’s development. The residency will include colloquia and working sessions where participants will have the chance to develop project foundations and collectively engage relevant issues in scholarly multimedia. Applicants need not be proficient with new media authoring; however, evidence of successful collaboration and scholarly innovation is desirable. Fellowship awards will include an honorarium of $2000 for each participant or team of collaborators, in addition to travel and accommodation expenses. About the Proposals We are seeking project proposals that creatively address issues related to the first two themes of Evidence and Mobility. While the format of the journal is meant to explore innovative forms of multimedia scholarship, we are not necessarily looking for projects that are about new media. Rather, we are interested in the various ways that new media suggest a transformation of scholarship, art and communication practices and their relevance to everyday life in an unevenly mediated world. Applicants are encouraged to think beyond the computer screen to consider possibilities created by the proliferation of wireless technology, handheld devices, alternative exhibition venues, etc. Fellows will also have the possibility to imagine scholarly applications for newly developing technologies through productive collaborations with scientists and engineers. Projects may translate existing scholarly work or be entirely conceived for new media. We are particularly interested in work that re-imagines the role of the user and seeks to reach broader publics while creatively exploring the value of collaboration and interactivity. Proposals should include the following: · Title of project and a one-sentence description · A 3-5 page description of the project concept, goals and outcome (this description should address questions of audience, innovative uses of interactivity, address and form, as well the project’s contribution to the field of multimedia scholarship and to contemporary scholarship more generally) · Brief biography of each applicant, including relevant qualifications and experience for this fellowship · Full CV for each applicant · Anticipated required resources (design, technical, hardware, software, exhibition, etc.) · Projected timeline · Sample media if available (CD, DVD, VHS (any standard), or NTSC Mini-DV); for electronic submissions, URLs are preferred but still images may be sent as e-mail attachments if necessary) Please submit to: Vectors Summer Fellowships Institute for Multimedia Literacy 746 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089 e-mail: vectors@annenberg.edu Priority will be given to applications received by March 12, 2004. Fellowship recipients will be notified in mid-April. Additional Information For additional information about the Vectors Summer Fellowship Program, please consult our informational website at http://www.iml.annenberg.edu/vectors . Questions may be directed to Associate Editor Steve Anderson, sanderson@annenberg.edu . From: "Stella Di Fazio" Subject: Oxford Computational Linguistics Group website Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:49:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 888 (888) Does anyone know what happened to the Oxford Computational Linguistics Group' web site? The URL I visited months ago ( http://www.clg.ox.ac.uk/) seems to be no more active. Thanks in advance Stella From: Willard McCarty Subject: OCR FAQ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:21:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 889 (889) A member of Humanist has written to me privately with a question he's embarrassed to ask of such experts as we all are :-) -- namely, for the beginner, what is the best option for adding OCR capabilities? This question, or one very much like it, surfaces here from time to time, but since the technology is quite imperfect and developing all the time, it's a good question to be asking. So, if you will, please recommend both hardware and software. My own and quite strong recommendation is for the C-Pen (http://www.cpen.com/), a handheld device that works brilliantly for scanning relatively small amounts of printed text. I have the 600C model, which I have been using for well over a year. Typically what I do is to scan in passages from books I am reading and taking notes from, then beam the results to my handheld device (Sony Clie) or laptop (Thinkpad X31) for inclusion into a notes file. I use it in the libraries I visit and, significantly, at home in preference to a desktop scanner with OCR software. It is in fact faster and more convenient than the desktop arrangement, cheaper to purchase as well, though it doesn't do images. The OCR error rate is acceptable, sometimes 0%, but I would guess more like 1-2% on average. In any case, errors don't matter that much for notes and are easy to correct in any case. It has, in its own minor way, *changed my life*, or at least my note-taking habits. I would in fact challenge the actual utility of the more extensive and expensive option except for rather major text-scanning operations. Comments and other recommendations, please. 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: Shawn Martin Subject: EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Contest Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:55:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 890 (890) EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Contest Deadline: 10-31-2004 Prize: Grand Prize: $1,000 First Prize: $750 Second Prize: $500 2 Honorable Mentions: $200 The EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Competition Committee is seeking undergraduate research papers that rely on research conducted via the Early English Books Online collection of primary texts. Essays may reflect the approach of any number of academic disciplines history, literary studies, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, and more or they may be interdisciplinary in nature. The chief requirement is that each paper draws substantial evidence from the works included in EEBO. EEBO will contain page images of 125,000 books listed in the Pollard and Redgrave, Wing, and Thomason Tracts catalogs. With its substantial coverage of printed material found in England between 1473 and 1700, EEBO provides rich research possibilities for students interested in a wide variety of topics in early modern studies. For more information about the Undergraduate essay contest, please view http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo/edu/edu_essay.html. For more information about the project, please visit http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo/ You can also contact Shawn Martin, Project Outreach Librarian by e-mail at shawnmar@umich.edu or by phone at (734) 936-5611 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shawn Martin Project Librarian Text Creation Partnership (TCP) - Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Evans Early American Imprints (Evans) - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Address: University Library Phone: (734) 936-5611 University of Michigan FAX: (734) 763-5080 8076B Hatcher South E-mail: shawnmar@umich.edu 920 N. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:53:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 891 (891) From Springer Verlag: (1) Volume 2992 Volume 2992/2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=4X0UV15F8MCP>http://springerlink.metapress.com. 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Schraagen Epilogue <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=P32P9VMQCMQT1GDX>What do we need presence for? p. 60 Loretta Anania DOI: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10111-003-0147-6>10.1007/s10111-003-0147-6 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 Baldwin" Subject: "The Future of the Page," June 3-6, Summer Seminar @ WVU Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:54:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 892 (892) with Joseph Tabbi 2004 Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies The Department of English, the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and West Virginia University present the 2004 Summer Seminar: "The Future of the Page" Seminar Leader: Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago June 3-6, 2004 Morgantown, West Virginia More information available at <http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/summer_seminar/>http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/summer_seminar/ or email Bonnie Anderson at banders@wvu.edu From: Carlos Areces Subject: ESSLLI 04: Registration Open Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:06:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 893 (893) ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 Call for Registration ESSLLI 2004 Nancy, France 9-20 August, 2004 ======================================================================= Registration for ESSLLI 2004, the 16th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, is now open. To register go to: http://esslli2004.loria.fr click on the registration button, fill out the online form, print out the result, and fax (or surface-mail) it in. As well as registering, you can use the same form to reserve student accomodation and book lunch tickets (the lunch menu is available on the ESSLLI 2004 website). Please note: we can only guarantee 360 student accomodation places, and these will be distributed on a first-come-first-served basis. Also, please note that the deadline for early registration is May 1st 2004. We look forward to seeing you in Nancy this August! Carlos Areces, Patrick Blackburn (for the organising committee) Helene Kirchner (Director of Loria) ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ======================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: history of 20C mathematics? Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:07:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 894 (894) I am in need of recommendations for a history of 20C mathematics, esp from Hilbert through Gödel to Turing and von Neumann; it would also be useful to read about how Mr Turing's machine (as Richard Feynman calls it) has affected mathematics since. I'm interested in a philosophical view of this history, but it's important to me to get the facts straight, e.g. which important papers were published when. I'd like to understand which of Hilbert's famous problems proved important to this particular history and why. At the same time I'd rejoice in a view sufficiently strong to risk a few sentences that sum up the gist of how Hilbert's project ran aground, why and what this tells us about computing. Constance Reid's Hilbert is, as she says, more of a poetic celebration of mathematics (and German academic culture of the period) than a real history; frustratingly it gives few references, for example. I need a more scholarly poem! Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Paul =?iso-8859-1?Q?Egr=E9?= Subject: Deadline extension : ESSLLI'04 Student Session Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:46:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 895 (895) !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologize if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI-2004 STUDENT SESSION *DEADLINE EXTENSION* 9-20 August 2004, Nancy, France *** ENTENDED DEADLINE : March 1, 2004 *** http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 16th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2004), which will be held in Nancy from August 9-20, 2004. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2004 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This ninth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the previous editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 5 to 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. All the accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2004 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. [material deleted] Paul Egr paulegre@magic.fr IHPST / Université Paris 1 / Institut Nicod Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et Techniques 13, rue du Four 75006 Paris, FRANCE telephone number: + (33) (0)1 43 54 60 36 fax number: + (33) (0)1 44 07 16 49 From: "Friedrich Heberlein" Subject: Re: History of Mathematics Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:43:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 896 (896) A colleague of mine suggests: "From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics", Jaako Hintikka, ed., 1995 "The Limits of Mathematics", Gregory J. Chaitin, 1998 "Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematicals Sciences", 2 Vols., Ivor Grattan-Guinness, ed, 1994 "Moderne-Sprache-Mathematik", Herbert Mehrtens, 1990 "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid", Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1979 "Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times", Morris Kline, 1972. Regards, Fritz Heberlein -- Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor Seminar für Klassische Philologie, KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Universitaetsallee 1 D-85071 Eichstaett / Bayern From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: 20th C. Math Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:44:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 897 (897) Everything, as is always is true in history, is quite out of date, Willard, but I would start with: 1. Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, ed. Ivor Grattan-Guinness. 2 vols. (London: Routledge, 1994). 2. A somewhat shorter history, by the same author: The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences: the rainbow of mathematics (NY: Norton, 1998). 817 pp. 3. Also good: Carl B. Boyer, A History of Mathematics, 2d ed. (NY: Wiley, 1989). 762 pp. If these are not suitable, there is a good deal available through the internet: 1. http://archives.math.utk.edu from the University of Tennessee is very useful and has a section on the history of math. 2. http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/math/singleindex.html from Goettingen is also good, and you can search it by using the American Math Society's subject classification. These will lead you to various databases, though there are printed collections which are perhaps better. My (and everybody's) favorite is James R. Newman, ed., The World of Mathematics. 4 vols. (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1956). Turing is found 2099-2123, surrounded by von Neumann and Shannon. One often found the computer called a Turing machine, though I would think Shannon would have a better call on being called its inventor. If anyone wants early and medieval math, he will need to look also at Smith, Heath, et al. From: "Luigi M Bianchi" Subject: Re: 17.647 history of 20C mathematics? Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:44:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 898 (898) Dear Willard, as a very modest starting point, you may want to look at "From Hollerith to Turing" <http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/nats1700/lecture09.html> and/or "The Turning Point" <http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/sts3700b/lecture14a.html> These are two lectures I prepared for a couple of courses I teach: "Computers, Information and Society" and "History of Computing and Information Technology," respectively. They are simple outlines, but I hope they may be of some use. Best regards, 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 at yorku dot ca http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/ From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.647 history of 20C mathematics? Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:45:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 899 (899) Willard, I'm sure you know Douglas R. Hofstadter's majestic Gödel, Escher, Bach (which I'm currently in the thick of); for a somewhat lighter touch try Martin Davis, The Universal Computer. Matt Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "S.A.Rae" Subject: RE: 17.647 history of 20C mathematics? Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:45:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 900 (900) Willard, you requests that "it would also be useful to read about how Mr Turing's machine (as Richard Feynman calls it) has affected mathematics since. I'm interested in a philosophical view of this history, but it's important to me to get the facts straight, e.g. which important papers were published when." While doing some work last year in our Maths & Computing faculty I was kindly given a copy of one of a set of four volumes - the Collected Works of A. M. Turing - by the editor of the third in the series: "Mechanical Intelligence". With the other titles in the series: Pure Mathematics; Mathematical Logic; and Morphogenesis, this collection sought to bring together all of Turing's 'mature scientific work' with some brief editorial comments. The books were published by North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers in 1992. The Collected Works of A. M. Turing (4 volumes): Pure Mathematics - edited by J. L. Britton Mathematical Logic - edited by R. O. Gandy and C. E. M. Yates Mechanical Intelligence - edited by D. C. Ince, ISBN 0-444-88058-5 Morphogenesis - edited by P. T. Saunders North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers 1992. The Mechanical Intelligence volume that I have includes Turing's paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (originally published in MIND - a quarterly review of Psychology and Philosophy, October 1950, Vol. LIX, No.236) that contains a description of what has become known as the Turing Test of Machine Intelligence - a method of answering the question "can machines think?". They might be of some help in your quest. Simon Simon Rae Programme on Learner Use of Media (PLUM), IET, The Open University MILTON KEYNES, MK7 6AA. UK 01908 654650 mailto:s.a.rae@open.ac.uk http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/s.a.rae/personal.html <http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/s.a.rae/personal.html> Experimental BLOG page: http://plums-of-iet.blogspot.com/ <http://plums-of-iet.blogspot.com/> From: Willard McCarty Subject: Teaching in the Community Colleges conference Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:15:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 901 (901) [deleted quotation] [material deleted] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: modelling workflow and design Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:14:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 902 (902) In his keynote address to the 1994 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (online at http://cne.gmu.edu/pjd/PUBS/15level.pdf), Peter J. Denning interestingly notes the close historical relationship between conceptions of human work and the design of computing systems. He begins, not surprisingly, with Frederick Taylor's late 19C principle of "scientific management" of factory workers, which sought, successfully, to transfer the knowledge of skilled workers into the design of manufacturing processes. Henry Ford's production line is perhaps the best known manifestation, but a great deal of (post)modern life has been most profoundly affected by Taylor's ideas. Denning discusses in particular the development of operating systems against the background (and sometimes foreground) of the conceptions of human labour they reflect. He notes that the old ideas are no longer sufficient to support how we now conceive of how we do what we do. In particular he cites the work of Fernando Flores, colleague of Terry Winograd's and co-author of Understanding Computers and Cognition (1986), whose ideas clearly remain deeply indebted to Heideggerian phenomenology, like it or not :-). He argues that, [deleted quotation] None of this is surprising, really -- we all know that our inner and outer lives are in cahoots with each other. But even if Denning's prediction is off by a few years -- is it? -- there surely can be few stronger arguments in support of a humanities computing to help us understand and respond to the immediate social urgency implied here. 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: new books Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:52:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 903 (903) (1) Self and Substance in Leibniz by Marc Elliott Bobro University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA We are omniscient but confused, says Leibniz. He also says that we live in the best of all possible worlds, yet do not causally interact. So what are we? Leibniz is known for many things, including the ideality of space and time, calculus, plans for a universal language, theodicy, and ecumenism. But he is not known for his ideas on the self and personal identity. This book shows that Leibniz offers an original, internally coherent theory of personal identity, a theory that stands on its own even next to Locke's contemporaneous and more famous version. This book will appeal not only to students of Leibniz's thought but also to philosophers and psychologists interested in methodological problems in understanding or formulating theories of self and personal identity. CONTENTS * Introduction. * 1. Am I Essentially a Person? * 2. What Makes Me a Person? * 3. What Makes Me the Same Person? * 4. Could Thinking Machines be Moral Agents? * 5. Why Bodies? * 6. What Makes my Survival Meaningful? * Conclusion. * Appendix A: On Hume. * Appendix B: On Kant's Paralogisms. * Bibliography. * Index of Proper Names. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2024-4 Date: April 2004 Pages: 152 pp. EURO 67.00 / USD 74.00 / GBP 47.00 (2) Collaborative Networked Organizations A research agenda for emerging business models edited by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos New University of Lisbon, Portugal Hamideh Afsarmanesh University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands The emerging paradigm of collaborative networked organizations (CNOs), or simply collaborative networks, represents a dynamic and multidisciplinary research and development area for which a number of research results are available from many international and national projects. A large number of practical application experiments and pilot cases also provide evidence on what works and what still remains as a challenge for CNOs. The fast evolution of information and communication technologies and in particular the so-called Internet technologies, also represents an important motivator for the emergence of new forms of collaboration. There is, however, an urgent need to start more consolidated and holistic research strategies to support proper developments in this area. This book includes a comprehensive set of recommendations from the multi-disciplines involved in CNOs, towards the establishment of a research agenda for emerging collaborative networks. These recommendations are the result of a 30-month initiative, the THINKcreative project, involving more than 250 experts and visionaries from academia, research, and industry. Collaborative Networked Organizations provides valuable elements for research strategy planners, decision-makers at research funding organizations, group leaders in research institutions, and heads of research departments in companies interested in research and innovative development activities in the area of e-business and collaborative networks. Furthermore, the book can also provide valuable direction to PhD advisors and PhD students to focus their research themes. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Foreword. Preface. * 1: Introduction. 1.1. Towards Next Business Models. 1.2. Some Basic Concepts. * 2: New Collaborative Forms. 2.1. Overview. 2.2. VO In Industry: State Of The Art; S. Alexakis, B. Kölmel, T. Heep. 2.3. Virtual Organising Scenarios; B.R. Katzy, H. Loeh, Chunyan Zhang. 2.4. Emerging collaborative forms; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, E. Banahan, J. Pinho de Sousa, F. Sturm, H. Afsarmanesh, J. Barata, J. Playfoot, V. Tschammer. * 3: Global and Regional Research Agendas. 3.1. Overview. 3.2. Targeting major new trends; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, A. Abreu. 3.3. Challenges of Collaborative Networks in Europe; H. Afsarmanesh, V. Mařík, L.M. Camarinha-Matos. 3.4. A challenge towards VO in Japanese industry: Industrial Cluster; T. Kaihara. 3.5. Collaborative networks in Australia - Challenges and recommendations; L. Nemes, J. Mo. 3.6. A Brazilian observatory on global and collaborative networked organizations; R.J. Rabelo, A.A. Pereira-Klen. 3.7. Some American research concerns on VO; H.T. Goranson. * 4: Human, Societal, and Organizational Aspects. 4.1. Overview. 4.2. Socio-organizational challenges in the creative economy; E. Banahan, J. Playfoot. 4.3. Towards Strategic Management in Collaborative network structures; F. Sturm, J. Kemp, R. van Wendel de Joode. 4.4. Collaborative knowledge networks; S. Evans, N. Roth. 4.5. Performance measurement and added value of networks; S. Evans, N. Roth, F. Sturm. 4.6. Ethical and moral issues facing the virtual organization; S. Hawkins. * 5: Information And Communication Technology Factors. 5.1. Overview. 5.2. Support infrastructures for new collaborative forms; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh. 5.3. Agent technology; V. Mařík, M. PÄ›chouÄek. 5.4. ON emerging technologies for VO; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, V. Tschammer, H. Afsarmanesh. * 6: Foundations and Modeling. 6.1. Overview. 6.2. Emerging behavior in complex collaborative networks; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh. 6.3. Formal modeling methods for collaborative networks; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh. 6.4. Agent technology for virtual organizations; V. Mařík, M. PÄ›chouÄek. 6.5. Modeling social aspects of collaborative networks; A. Lucas Soares, J. Pinho de Sousa. 6.6. The organizational semiotics normative paradigm; J. Filipe. * 7: An Example Roadmap. 7.1. A roadmapping methodology for strategic research on VO; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh. 7.2. A strategic roadmap for advanced Virtual organizations; L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, H. Löh, F. Sturm, M. Ollus. * Annexes: A.1. Authors and contributors. A.2. Method of work in thinkcreative project. * Subject Index. Author Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7823-4 Date: March 2004 Pages: 346 pp. EURO 128.00 / USD 140.00 / GBP 89.00 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: what were they thinking? Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:19:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 904 (904) In his useful essay, "Software as Science -- Science as Software", in History of Computing: Software Issues (Springer, 2002), historian Michael Mahoney asks a very interesting question of computer science that we could well ask of our own field. Perhaps, if you are old enough :-), you have some answers. Mahoney asks what drew people to computing and what baggage did they bring with them: [deleted quotation] (p. 28) What did philologists, historians, musicologists, literary critics, linguists and all the rest -- all these and more turned up in the pages of the early issues of CHum -- see in the computer that attracted them? What was the nature of the ideational baggage they brought that motivated them and that shaped the early applications of the tool, indeed defined the tool for them? How did those of us who are old enough, and were flogging the use of computers at the time, appeal to the curious masses? What did we observe at the time? 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: "P. Kaszubski" Subject: 2nd CfP: Workshop Assessing the potential of corpora Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:28:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 905 (905) Workshop on "Assessing the potential of corpora" May 20, from 9 am Organised by Przemys³aw Kaszubski (Poznañ) as part of 35th Poznañ Linguistic Meeting (http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/plm/index.htm) Deadline for abstract submission: 15 March -------------- The primary goal of the workshop is to convene a forum of users of corpora, from Poland and beyond, willing to exchange opinions on the feasibility and practicality of corpus-based methods in linguistic study, language teaching, and other applications. Part 1 will feature presentations (30 minutes + 10-minute discussion, or slightly less if time disallows ). Part 2 will comprise an open panel discussion, introduced by our special guest, Prof. Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld), who will give an overview of corpora and corpus-based linguistics against the background of other advanced language technologies of today. Among the topics proposed so far: Automatic phonetic annotation of corpora for EFL purposes Prof. W³odzimierz Sobkowiak (AMU Poznañ); Corpora in MA linguistic courses: what's wrong with teaching linguistics in Poland Prof. Tadeusz Piotrowski (University of Wroc³aw); A search tool for corpora with positional tagsets and ambiguities Dr Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences); On unsupervised grammar induction from untagged corpora Prof. Damir Cavar (& Giancarlo Schrementi, Joshua Herring, Toshikazu Ikuta) (Indiana University) Studying metaphor with the BNC Dr. Ma³gorzata Fabiszak (AMU Poznañ); Corpora for the teaching of translation Maciej Machniewski (AMU Poznañ); Corpus-based teaching of English syntax Dr. Pawe³ Scheffler (AMU Poznañ); Web concordancing and EFL writing Dr. Przemys³aw Kaszubski (AMU Poznañ). and more... (altogether about 10 presentations are planned) --------------- We hope to publish all contributions in a special edition of Poznañ Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. (http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/psicl/) Abstracts of 250-300 words should be e-mailed by March 15 to: Przemek Kaszubski (kprzemek@ifa.amu.edu.pl) Participants are required to register for the PLM2004 conference at http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/plm/index.htm. ======================================= Dr Przemyslaw Kaszubski t: +48 61 8293515 e: przemka@amu.edu.pl w: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/kaszubski.html SEARCH PICLE LEARNER CORPUS ONLINE: http://main.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/picle.html COMPREHENSIVE CORPORA BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://main.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/welcome.html#Corpbibl IFA WRITING COURSES PAGE: http://main.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/IFA_writing/ifawrit.htm School of English (IFA) Adam Mickiewicz University Al. Niepodleglosci 4 61-874 Poznan t: +48 61 8293506 f: +48 61 8523103 w: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa ======================================= From: Philippe Schlenker Subject: Workshop-Semantic Approaches to Binding Theories Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:29:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 906 (906) *LAST CALL FOR PAPERS* Workshop: Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/ESSLLI04.html organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2004) http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ 16-20 August, 2004 in Nancy Workshop Organizers: Ed Keenan, UCLA (ekeenan @ ucla. edu) Philippe Schlenker, UCLA & IJN (schlenke @ ucla. edu) Workshop Purpose: Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints on anaphora, was originally conceived in syntactic terms as a set of conditions on the distribution of indices (Chomsky 1983). Thus Condition A stated that anaphors are locally bound (*John/i thinks that himself/i is clever); Condition B stated that Pronominals are locally free (*He/i likes him/i), and Condition C required that R-expressions be free (*He/i thinks that John/i is clever). But other researchers have attempted to derive these constraints from lexical semantics or the interpretative procedure rather than the syntax. Some add a semantic component to a syntactic core (e.g. Reinhart 1983, Heim 1993, Fox 2000, Buring 2002), but others are more radically semantic (e.g. works by Jacobson, Keenan, Barker & Shan, Butler). The workshop, which is intended for advanced PhD students and researchers, will provide a forum to compare and assess these diverse proposals. We welcome proposals for 45mn contributions (30mn presentation + 15mn discussion), which should be specific, explicit and semantically informed. We list below some possible topics, though the list is not exhaustive. [material deleted] From: Anne Mahoney Subject: Re: 17.647 history of 20C mathematics? Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:25:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 907 (907) Willard -- No one has yet mentioned "The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and their Solvers," by Ben Yandell (A. K. Peters: 2002). It addresses precisely your questions, about the influence of Hilbert's problems on 20th-c. mathematics. Another book on the subject came out at the same time, Jeremy Gray's "The Hilbert Challenge" (Oxford: 2000), but I have not read it. Both are reviewed together in Notices of the AMS for September 2002; see http://www.ams.org/notices/200208/rev-blank.pdf for the review. Hilbert's address was re-printed (in English) on its centenary in Bull. AMS 37 (2000), 407-436; it's available on line at http://www.ams.org. I'm not sure I'd agree that "Hilbert's project ran aground" -- it's just that the safe harbor wasn't where he thought it was. The goal was to systematize all of mathematics. In a very strict sense this isn't possible (that's Gödel's theorem), but this result in itself is already a form of systematization. Model theory, then, is about what you can do in the spaces opened up by the incompleteness theorem. Take a model of Euclid's first 4 postulates, but with a different version of the 5th; what do you get? Is it interesting? Does it correspond to anything in the real world? Yes, in fact -- and there's 20th c. geometry for you. (Well, roughly.) --Anne Mahoney Tufts University From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 17.653 what were they (you) thinking? Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:27:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 908 (908) Dear Willard, good question. I remember quite well what attracted me to the computer: dissatisfaction with linguistic research. We had so many models of language (system / competence / variation, you name it) but knew nothing about use. To find out more I had done a "corpus"-based research into the usage of ten- ses of French and Spanish newspapers. I put corpus between quotation marks because my corpus consisted in printed editions, my concordance was made up of phrases copied onto punch cards (do you remember the hand held "computers" with a long needle to go through the holes?) and my statistics were based on ex- haustive but manually conducted counts. The tediousness, the fear of imprecision, the none repeatability and, perhaps most important of all, the impossibility to ask questions which only turned up once your close look at the material had allowed for more insight, was one thing I was very unhappy about. The other was the vagueness of research results as they appeared in scholarly publications and the impossibility to control them. In those days (I think they have not ended yet completely) you could read that at the basis of the research there were 100s of newspaper pages, all the editions of a certain year or even of several years. Very impressive, also frightening (How could one human count all the occur- rencies of a phenomenon in all this material in a relatively short time?). And it was not good enough. Elisabeth At 11:25 17.02.2004, Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] PD Dr. Elisabeth Burr Fachbereich 10 - GW 2 B 3430 Frankoromanistik und Italoromanistik Sprachwissenschaft Universität Bremen Bibliothekstraße 28359 Bremen Tel. +49 421 218-8236 elisabeth.burr@uni-bremen.de http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/homepages/burr.htm From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 2/04 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:26:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 909 (909) Greetings: The February 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are three articles, an opinion piece, 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 February is How Everyday Things Are Made. The articles include: Using MPEG-21 DIP and NISO OpenURL for the Dynamic Dissemination of Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library Jeroen Bekaert, Lyudmila Balakireva, Patrick Hochstenbach, and Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory Search and Retrieval in The European Library: A New Approach Theo van Veen, Koninklije Bibliotheek; and Bill Oldroyd, British Library Supporting Member Collaboration in the Math Tools Digital Library: A Formative User Study Nicole Shechtman, Mark Chung, and Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International The Opinion Piece is: Fair Publisher Pricing, Confidentiality Clauses and a Proposal to Even the Economic Playing Field Philip M. Davis, Cornell University [material deleted] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 4.50 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:30:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 910 (910) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 4, Issue 50 (February 18 - 24, 2004) INTERVIEW Esther Dyson . . . In Focus Venture capitalist Esther Dyson is the chairman of EDventure Holdings, which publishes the influential monthly computer-industry newsletter Release 1.0 as well as the blog Release 4.0. The company also organizes the high-profile technology conference PC (Platforms for Communications) Forum, March 21-23, 2004. In this interview, she discusses her current interests, many to be covered at PC Forum. They include her investments, how to stop spam, outsourcing, and the overall high-tech industry environment. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i50_dyson.html From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 17.656 what they (you) were thinking OR how did I get Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:53:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 911 (911) involved in all this? [deleted quotation] pages of [deleted quotation] tool [deleted quotation] the use [deleted quotation] Since I've been asked (yesterday!) to write an autobiographical retrospective on all this, why not start here? I knew, somewhat vaguely, about the use of computers in Father Busa's Aquinas project because my office mate, a Patristics scholar named Robert Evans, was taking a computing course and occasionally mentioned such things as he shuffled his stacks of IBM cards. This would have been in the early 1970s (he died unexpectedly in 1974). When at a meeting of the steering committee of the newly formed International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) in 1970 or soon thereafter, the question of creating a new lexicon of "Septuagint" Greek was discussed, I offered the opinion that this would be a good project for the use of computers. Bad move. The presiding officer, John Wevers, commissioned me to look into the possibilities, which I gradually did with the help of then graduate students Jack Abercrombie and Bill Adler. Emanuel Tov (Hebrew University) was appointed editor of the desired lexicon, and I began to work with him on creating concordance type tools to facilitate the lexical work. By 1978, a small feasability grant from the NEH was obtained to explore the possibility of getting the Greek Jewish scriptural materials (LXX/OG) into electronic form, with an eye to creating "Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies" (CATSS) and after that came further funding, including support from David Packard (IBYCUS Computer System) and the Packard Foundation as well as major NEH grants. The Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT) was founded at the University of Pennsylvania, with Jack Abercrombie as technical director, and the associated Septuagint project developed in three directions under the co-directorship of Emanuel Tov (Hebrew University) and myself -- Morphologically Analyzed text (David Packard had created the basic program for automatic analysis, and the team at UPenn did verification and correction of the data), Parallel Hebrew // Greek text (using programs created by Jack Abercrombie, plus lots of massaging by Emanuel Tov's team in Jerusalem), and the Greek Textual Variants module (still underway here at UPenn -- reliable scanning of printed Greek has been a major problem!). Along the way, we discovered that lots of other things could be done with texts and computers, of course, and we discovered that lots of people with various interests and motivations were anxious to obtain the tools as well as to learn the technology, but in outline, this is how it all began. Bob Kraft (now Emeritus) Faculty director of CCAT, co-director of CATSS -- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: informatics Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:54:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 912 (912) Several here will likely be interested in the encyclopedia article "Informatics" by Michael Fourman (Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh), written for the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science, at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/online/0139.pdf. 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: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MBR04 Call for Papers Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:30:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 913 (913) MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION MBR'04 Pavia, Italy, December 16-18, 2004 Chairs: Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian ****************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ****************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION From Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 December 2004 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). The conference continues the theme of the Conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98 and "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01 The previous volumes derived from those conferences are: L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-46292-3 (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000). PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and engineering, including computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine the role of abduction, visualization, and simulation in model-based reasoning from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to model-based reasoning in science and engineering from the following list: - abduction - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning - simulative modeling - the role of diagrammatic representations - computational models of visual and simulative reasoning - causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction - visual analogy - thought experimenting - logical analyses related to model-based reasoning - manipulative reasoning - distributed model-based reasoning - embodiment in model-based reasoning - model-based reasoning and technological innovation INVITED SPEAKERS The list of the invited speakers who already accepted to give e presentation at MBR04 is available in the Conference WEB SITE http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html [material deleted] From: hla@CS.NOTT.AC.UK Subject: Final submission deadline for papers: Hypertext '04 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:31:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 914 (914) Just a quick reminder that the Final submission deadline for full papers for Hypertext '04 is March 12th, 2004. The online submission software is now ready for your submission and you can find it at the "Submit papers" link at the top of the website's papers CFP. The CFP is reproduced below. We look forward to receiving your paper! Helen Ashman and Dave de Roure, Programme Chairs. Hypertext 2004 Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia August 9-13, 2004 : Santa Cruz, California USA http://www.ht04.org/ Call for Submissions The Fifteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia will be held in Santa Cruz, California, August 9-13, 2004. The ACM Hypertext Conference is the foremost international conference on hypertext and hypermedia. It brings together scholars, researchers and practitioners from a diverse array of disciplines, united by a shared interest in innovative textual and multimedia information spaces - with emphasis on augmenting human capabilities via linking, structure, authoring, annotation and interaction. This year, in addition to the established conference themes, the conference is actively soliciting submissions at the intersections of hypermedia and Digital Libraries, Software Engineering and the Humanities. We welcome submissions on the representation, design, structuring, visualizing, navigating, and exploiting of the rich network of relationships found in these domains. Spatial hypertext (structuring information via visual cues and geometric arrangement) and ubiquitous hypermedia (in situ authoring and navigating relationships among real world objects) have recently emerged as significant research directions. They join our established themes of adaptive hypermedia, literary hypertext and systems and structures. This latter topic knits together the research themes of open hypermedia, structural computing, design and reflection. In a bold experiment, for the first time we will be accepting hypertext submissions of research results. We are keenly interested in how judicious use of nonlinear narrative and rich linking can enhance communication of research ideas. We encourage you to consider submitting your paper as a hypertext. Please see the Web site for further details about hypertext submission. We will also be operating a rolling review process. Papers and hypertexts received before the early submission deadline will receive reviewers' feedback at least a week before the final submission deadline, facilitating revised submissions where appropriate. Key dates Full papers & hypertexts: March 12, 2004 Short papers: May 28, 2004 Poster & demo abstracts: June 11, 2004 [material deleted] http://www.ht04.org/ For general enquiries please contact enquiries@ht04.org ACM approval pending From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Virtual Lightbox 2.0 released Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:06:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 915 (915) We are pleased to announce the release of the Virtual Lightbox 2.0. Written in Java, the Lightbox is an inline browser applet for image comparison and manipulation. Users can import images into the applet's display area, arrange them in any configuration simply by clicking and dragging, magnify them, and apply basic image processing. The Lightbox will be of potential interest to anyone presenting images on the Web in a context where active comparison--what John Unsworth calls a "scholarly primitive"--is desirable: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/lightbox/ New features in version 2.0 include: compatability with Macintosh OS X; the ability to save and re-open the contents of the applet in any state; the ability to add images from a local file system to the applet's current display; mouseover captions for the images; improved behaviors for image movement; and numerous other small fixes and enhancements. The Virtual Lightbox is both free and open source, available under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License. It has been developed with the ongoing support of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Feedback and comments welcome: lightbox-feedback@mith2.umd.edu Matthew Kirschenbaum and Amit Kumar From: marija dalbello Subject: LIDA 2004 Conference and Course Announcement Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:06:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 916 (916) INVITATION TO ATTEND Annual Course and Conference: LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2004 Themes: Human Information Behaviour & Competences for Digital Libraries 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. LIDA is 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. The conference includes papers, posters, workshops, demonstrations, and a tutorial. I. HUMAN INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES The first part of LIDA 2004 covers research-based treatments of the ways in which people conceptualize their information needs, solve problems and seek answers to questions through information and how they use information, all in the context of digital libraries. Invited speakers include: Tefko Saracevic (Rutgers U, USA), Ching-chih Chen (Simmons College, USA), and Paul Sturges (Loughborough U, UK). Papers will be presented by speakers from Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Khazaghstan, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK, United Arab Emirates, and USA. II. COMPETENCES AND EDUCATION FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES The second part of LIDA 2004 is focused on education for digital libraries, and even more broadly on professional responses to human information behavior, for which we are using the term 'competences.'.Invited speakers are Sheila Webber (Sheffield U, UK), Gwynneth Evans (Media Awareness Network, Ottawa, Canada), Tina Theis (Information and Management Consultant, Manchester, UK), and Raymond van Dran (Syracuse U, USA), and John Feather (Loughborough U, UK). Papers will be presented by speakers from Croatia, Finland, Germany, Slovenia, Ukraine, UK, United Arab Emirates, and USA. WORKSHOPS Five pre- and post-conference workshops are offered: A. Chris Armstrong, Ray Lonsdale (U of Aberysthwyth, Wales, UK) Digital Books for Digital Libraries: Issues Surrounding the Collection and Management of e-Books B. Katriina Byström (U College of Boras, Sweden), Preben Hansen (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) The Role of Digital Libraries in Work Task Performance by Professionals C. Lynne Rudasill, JoAnn Jacoby (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill., USA) Website Design and Evaluation: A Hands-On Workshop D. Marija Dalbello (Rutgers U, USA) Historian as User of the Internet Archive: Historical Record on the Web, from "Way-back" in 1996 E. Audrone Glosiene (Vilnius U, Vilnius, Lithuania) Universities, Continuing Professional Education and Life Long Learning: How do We Fit in? F. Ross Todd (Rutgers U, USA) Digital Library Services for Children: 13,000 Students Tell Their Story. OTHER EVENTS LIDA 2004 includes a special occasion: An Afternoon with Eugene Garfield (founder, ISI, USA) as a Guest of Honor. It also includes a poster session with wine and cheese and a DIALOG tutorial especially for students. ORGANIZATION Course co-directors and Program chairs for part I are: Tatjana Aparac, Ph.D. Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia (taparac@pedos.hr) and Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ U.S.A.(tefko@scils.rutgers.edu). Program Chair for Part II is Professor Paul Sturges, Department of Information Science. Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK (r.p.sturges@lboro.ac.uk). REGISTRATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION To register please visit LIDA site: <http://knjiga.pedos.hr/lida>http://knjiga.pedos.hr/lida. The site also contains details about the program, and information about the program committee, accommodations, travel, and other items of interest. VENUES The first part of LIDA, 24-26 May 2004, will be held in Dubrovnik and for the second part, 27-29 May 2004, the conference will move to island Mljet, less than a two-hour ride from Dubrovnik on a fast catamaran. Pre-conference workshops are planned for 24 May 2004 and post-conference workshops for 29 May 2004. Dubrovnik, Croatia is among the unique cities in the world, recognized as one of the World Cultural Heritage sites by UNESCO. It is a walled city, preserved as it existed in medieval times. A beautiful natural location on the Adriatic Sea, a lavish architecture of squares, palaces, and churches, small, intriguing hill-hugging streets, pedestrian-only traffic within the walls, outings to the enchanting near-by islands - all these and more combine to make Dubrovnik one of the most popular destinations in Europe. For Croatia see <http://www.croatia.hr>http://www.croatia.hr and for Dubrovnik <http://web.tzdubrovnik.hr>http://web.tzdubrovnik.hr; travel information at <http://www.dubrovnik-online.com>http://www.dubrovnik-online.com. Mljet is one of the most enchanting islands in the Adriatic, a sea that abounds with beautiful islands to start with. Hotel Odisej is in a small harbor. Near the hotel is the entrance to Mljet National Park with lush vegetation surrounding three inland lakes, a small island with a monastery in the middle lake, paths for walking, and spots for swimming in the blue and green sea. For Mljet National Park see <http://www.np-mljet.hr>http://www.np-mljet.hr and for hotel Odisej (with further information about the surroundings) see <http://www.hotelodisej.hr>http://www.hotelodisej.hr. ______________________________________ Marija Dalbello, Ph.D. NJ-ASIST Chair 2003/2004 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: "Sheffer, Hadass" Subject: Woodrow Wilson Practicum Grants Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:46:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 917 (917) To: "Sheffer, Hadass" Greetings, The Woodrow Wilson Foundation believes that the PhD, as a powerful professional credential, deserves a broader scope of influence in the world outside the academy. The Foundation's Humanities at Work and Responsive PhD initiatives aim to create a new generation of scholar-citizens who contribute their expertise and skills to addressing current social and cultural issues. We encourage doctoral students to explore ways in which their scholarship connects to the mission and activities of non-academic organizations. Practicum Grants provide $2,000 towards related expenses for doctoral students in the humanities who have developed such an internship for themselves. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation is pleased to announce the next round of competition of its Humanities at Work Practicum Grants for doctoral students in the humanities. A description of the Practicum Grants program, the current RFP and application guidelines, and examples of past grants are posted at www.woodrow.org/phd. The deadline for applications is April 2, 2004, and grantees will be announced by mid-May, 2004. I would appreciate your help in circulating this announcement to faculty and students at your institution, and through other networks that you consider relevant. Thanks in advance, Hadass Sheffer Director of Fellowship Programs The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 5 Vaughn Drive, Suite 300, Princeton, NJ 08543 609.452.7007 x159 609.452-0066 (fax) sheffer@woodrow.org www.woodrow.org From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Re: 17.624 linguistic and cultural provincialism - the Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:05:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 918 (918) booster shot [deleted quotation] I couldn't agree more. I think we have been raising the problem at regular intervals, namely every two years, see Vol. 15, No. 560 and Vol. 13, No. 45. (perhaps we are facing here a clinic phenomenon quite common in allergic [multilingual?] bodies: I think in English they call it "booster shot" ?). I discussed the issue of the representation of non-Anglo-American languages and cultures within ACH/ALLC organisations in a paper translated in English (at my own expenses). This paper was originally published in the collection in memoriam of Giuseppe Gigliozzi (see Vol. 15, No. 473). I circulated the paper ("The international debate on humanities computing: education, technology and the primacy of languages") among foreign friends and colleagues for comments, but except for two or three benevolent souls genuinely interested in the issue of multilingualism and multiculturalism, the paper received a cold welcome (or no response at all, which, translated in my very narrow mediterrenean cultural code, is even worse). Was the paper that bad? I don't think so. (For a confutation see: www.selc.ed.ac.uk/italian/digitalvariants/fiormonte/primacy04.pdf) Anyways, I decided to give up the idea of submitting it either to CHUM and LLC. And probably, instead of keep complaining, when the right moment will come, I will just forget to renewal my membership. Not because I think these are bad or useless organizations, but because they represent -- legitimally -- a specific geographic, linguistic, cultural, and -- why not -- *rhetorical* context. I am happy to see that especially the ALLC is now opening its doors to the outer world. But honestly I don't see why the ALLC should be interested in giving up its Anglo-Saxon majority: they have worked hard for years and there is no reason why the organization should revolutionize its core structure, as well as abandon its traditional scientific objectives -- for example the concentration on TEI-XML enterprises and projects, which are clearly identified as the main source of external scientific legitimation and financial investements. After all, as I keep saying since the first CLiP conference, I believe the non-English speaking HC(S) community is strong enough to build an independent Association. In my opinion, it would be much more fruitful for all to engage in negotiations and discussions between peer associations instead of trying to change an existent and solid structure from the inside. (My political preference has always gone to the Maoistic doctrine of the "hundred flowers" as opposed to the Gramscian "cultural hegemony"... ;-)) But as for this and Orlandi's complaints, I think we can look at the problem also from a different side. There are -- at least -- two types of provincialisms: the "in search of legitimation" type, and the "ignoramus" type. In the last ten years, having lived, studied and worked in four different coutries, I had the privilege to observe, and unfortunately be affected by both types of virus. Well, guess what? Time is passed, and I realised that this a specular battle, fought with the weapons of frustration on one side, and guilty feelings on the other side. Of course I still believe in the noble and useful practice of inter-linguistic and inter-cultural dialogue, but I don't think that we, the "culturally discriminated", should bother at all. Let's just liberate ourselves from the chains of the hegelian Master- Bondsman relationship. Tito: our work is relevant or not regardless if our Anglo-American colleagues and friends read it. There are other circuits of "legitimation", and more can be built. The most important thing is to keep the good work. The rest -- attention, recognition, genuine cultural exchange, etc. -- will follow, soor or later. Generally speaking, it is also likely that in the next fifty years or so the linguistic, financial and cultural dominance of the English speaking world will be seen for what really is: [in Emmanuel Todd's words] "not the solution, but the problem". Domenico Fiormonte From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:30:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 919 (919) (1) Seeing, Thinking and Knowing Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought edited by Arturo Carsetti University of Rome `Tor Vergata', Italy THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY A: -- 38 The world perceived at the visual level is constituted not by objects or static forms, but by processes appearing imbued with meaning. As G. Kanizsa stated, at the visual level the line per se does not exist: only the line which enters, goes behind, divides, etc., a line evolving according to a precise holistic context, in comparison with which function and meaning are indissolubly interlinked. Just as the meaning of words is connected with a universe of highly-dynamic functions and functional processes which operate syntheses, cancellations, integrations, etc. (a universe which can only be described in terms of symbolic dynamics), in the same way, at the level of vision, we must continuously unravel and construct schemata; we must assimilate and make ourselves available for selection by the co-ordinated information penetrating from external Reality. Lastly, we must interrelate all this with the internal selection mechanisms through a precise "jouney" into the regions of intensionality. obIn accordance with these intuitions, we may directly consider, from the more general point of view of contemporary Self-organisation theory, the network of meaningful programs living at the level of neural systems as a complex one which articulates and develops, functionally, within a "coupled universe" characterised by the existence of a double selection: external and internal, the latter regarding the universe of meaning. This network gradually posits itself as the basis for the emergence of natural and meaningful forms and the simultaneous, if indirect, surfacing of an "I-subject-": as the basic instrument, in other words, for the perception of real and meaningful processes, of "objects" possessing meaning, aims, intentions, etc.: above all, of biological objects possessing an inner plan and linked to the progressive expression of a specific cognitive action. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2080-5 Date: March 2004 Pages: 360 pp. EURO 140.00 / USD 154.00 / GBP 97.00 (2) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis edited by William W. Cooper University of Texas at Austin, USA Lawrence M. Seiford Dept. of Industrial & Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Joe Zhu Dept. of Management, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE -- 71 Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide variety of activities in many contexts worldwide. DEA's "data-oriented" approach has been widely used in evaluating the efficiency and productivity of many different kinds of entities engaged in many different kinds of activities in many different contexts. DEA opens up possibilities for use in cases which have been resistant to other approaches because of the complex and often unknown nature of the relationships between their many activities. In addition, DEA is used to provide new insights into activities and entities that have previously been evaluated by other methods. This Handbook has been developed as a comprehensive reference for reseachers, students and practitioners. It reflects the state-of-the-art in Data Envelopment Analysis. It also represents a milestone in the progression of a continuously advancing methodology. which has extensive utility. Written by experts - who are the major research contributors to the topics covered - the Handbook is organized in three sections. The first section is a comprehensive examination of the basic DEA models and DEA extensions. The second section consists of a collection of coverages by persons experienced in applications to the areas of banking, education, sports, retailing, health care, etc. The final section is a review of current DEA software technology. Special Offer Pre-publication offer valid until 30 June 2004: EUR 110.00/USD 120.00/GBP 76.00 (Please refer to promotional code 738020 when ordering.) CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Preface; W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. * 1. Data Envelopment Analysis: History, Models and Interpretations; W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. * 2. Returns to Scale in DEA: R.D. Banker, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. * 3. Sensitivity Analysis in DEA: W.W. Cooper, Shanling Li, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. * 4. Incorporating Value Judgments in DEA: E. Thanassoulis, M.C. Portela, R. Allen. * 5. Distance Functions with Applications to DEA; R. F=C3=A4re, S. Grosskopf, G. Whittaker. * 6. Qualitative Data in DEA; W.D. Cook. * 7. Congestion: Its Identification and Management with DEA; W.W. Cooper, Honghui Deng, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu. * 8. Malmquist Productivity Index: Efficiency Change Over Time; K. Tone. * 9. Chance Constrained DEA: W.W. Cooper, Zhimin Huang, S.X. Li. * 10. 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Author Index. Subject Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7797-1 Date: March 2004 Pages: 608 pp. EURO 154.00 / USD 169.00 / GBP 107.00 (3) Professional Learning: Gaps and Transitions on the Way from Novice to Expert edited by Henny P.A. Boshuizen Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, The Netherlands Rainer Bromme Westf=C3=A4lische Weilhelms-Universit=C3=A4t, M=C3=BCnster, Germany 4554f084.jpg <http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB12170556255X3097909X310411Xwillard.mccarty%40kcl.ac.uk>INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION -- 2 This book explores the teaching and training of, and learning by professionals prior to and during their professional life. It covers the development of expertise from novice status to high levels in a number of different domains and stages. The main idea of the book is that the path that leads through school and/or university to professional life comprises a process of continually transforming the repertoire of knowledge and skills that make up one's expertise. 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Although promoted as a promising approach for over thirty years, it has only been in the past few years that the theory and algorithms have developed to the point of providing useful solutions to old and new problems in image processing. Markov random fields are a multidimensional extension of Markov chains, but the generalization is complicated by the lack of a natural ordering of pixels in multidimensional spaces. Hidden Markov fields are a natural generalization of the hidden Markov models that have proved essential to the development of modern speech recognition, but again the multidimensional nature of the signals makes them inherently more complicated to handle. This added complexity contributed to the long time required for the development of successful methods and applications. This book collects together a variety of successful approaches to a complete and useful characterization of multidimensional Markov and hidden Markov models along with applications to image analysis. 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Hardbound ISBN: 0-306-48192-8 Date: March 2004 Pages: 180 pp. EURO 84.00 / USD 92.00 / GBP 58.00 From: Ileana Comorovski Subject: CFP Workshop on questions Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:44:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 920 (920) 2nd Call for Papers (submission deadline modified: MARCH 15) Workshop: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions August 9-13, 2004 http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/ESSLLI_Questions.html Organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI), August 9-20, 2004 in Nancy, France http://esslli2004.loria.fr Workshop organizers: - Ileana Comorovski, Université Nancy 2 (comorovski@univ-nancy2.fr) - Manfred Krifka, Humboldt-Universität & Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin (krifka@zas.gwz-berlin.de) Workshop Purpose: The investigation of questions has deepened our understanding of syntax (e.g. the constraints on syntactic dependencies), of semantics (e.g., the representation of non-declarative information) and of pragmatics (e.g., the nature of speech acts). However, researchers often took little notice of research on questions (and answers) in adjacent fields. For example, syntacticians interested in multiple constituent questions were unaware of the interpretation of different types of multiple questions, and semanticists disregarded important pragmatic factors like speaker bias. This workshop tries to bring together researchers that transcend such boundaries. The goal is to gain not only a more profound understanding of questions, but of the interaction of syntax, semantics and pragmatics in general. [material deleted] From: Julia Flanders Subject: conference on electronic theses and dissertations Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:48:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 921 (921) Conference: ETD 2004: June 3-5, 2004, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY The Seventh International Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) will emphasize support for creators of scholarly electronic documents in any discipline, building ETD initiatives that create value for universities, students and faculty, and encouraging collaborative efforts among institutions. ETD 2004 is organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) initiative, an open federation of 174 member universities and supporting organizations, including research institutions and private companies, that supports the authoring, usability, and dissemination of ETDs worldwide. NDLTD's goal is to improve graduate education and access to research by encouraging students to produce electronic documents, use digital libraries, and understand publishing issues. Session topics will include: Shaping the future of scholarly communication; unique issues about ETDs for different disciplines; administrators and ETDs: the challenges and the rewards for the university and the university community; training and supporting scholarly electronic document authors; ETDs and open access, intellectual property rights, digital rights management, and fair use entitlements; and multimedia issues for the presentation of scholarly material. For more information, see www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/welcome.html From: tsd2004robot@aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: TSD 2004 2nd Call for Papers Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:50:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 922 (922) Please distribute this call among your colleagues TSD 2004 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2004) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/ The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2004 conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and information extraction; text/topic summarization; machine translation semantic networks and ontologies; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software; facial animation; visual speech synthesis. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [material deleted] From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: provincialism e dintorni Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:24:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 923 (923) Encouraged by the observations of Willard (Our provincialism, 17:618), Elizabeth (Linguistic and cultural provincialism, 17:624), and Domenico (Id., 17:664), I take the liberty to make a gloss on my communication (New book + HCS, 17:611), which raised those observations. What I tried to express was _not_ a renewed complaint because Anglo-American HC scholars do not read and discuss papers in Italian; but rather I wanted to ask whether ignorance of Italian was _compatible with the claim to be Humanities Computing Scholars_ at all. It was a provocation; and the reasoning was perhaps rather tortuous; but here it is: [deleted quotation] and Humanities; and Humanities is _not_, e.g., English literature or Chinese history, but also a humanistic way to study the individual brances] [deleted quotation] you, Sirs, but Italians (those who spoke and wrote Italian, because a Nation there was not) have invented Humanities; and if you think you can be a humanities scholar without reading some Italian, you are far off the mark. And all your blessed ancestors, especially in England, were quite conscious of this, and generally read and spoke fluently Italian.] And now, apriti cielo! OK, I am prepared for the worst. But then, two final remarks: 1) There was another paragraph after that, which I dare not reproduce, which was still more provocative, but nobody discussed it. 2) Domenico, I fear it is not true that "There are other circuits of "legitimation" [beside Anglo-American faculties], and more can be built." Just as Italians were in XIV-XVIII cent., now is the turn of A-A, and I want their (informed) judgment, for good or worse. Graecia capta feros victores cepit... Cos ha tolto l'uno all'altro Guido la gloria della lingua e forse nato... I could detail all this with possibly interesting remarks, but suffice it for today. Statevi 'bbuoni (this is Neapolitan), Tito ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39+06.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39+60.4991-3945 00185 Roma http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.1 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:51:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 924 (924) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 1 (February 25 - March 2, 2004) VIEW Epistemologically Multiple Actor-Centered Systems: or, EMACS at work! History shows how communal sharing and problem-solving strengthen software functionality and innovation. By Yuwei Lin Article: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i1_lin.html Forum: http://campus.acm.org/forums/ubiquity/messageview.cfm?catid=1&threadid=306 From: Willard McCarty Subject: unfulfilled expectations Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:42:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 925 (925) Those here will likely be interested in a recent piece by Edward L Ayers and Charles M Grisham, "Why it has not paid off as we had hoped (yet)", in the Educause Review 38.6 (November/December 2003), at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm03/erm0361.asp. More or less the same has been said for some time now about the early promise of AI, though with more focus on what machines would shortly be doing than, as in the Ayers and Grisham piece, with what people should be doing with machines. Charles Taylor wrote in Philosophy and the Human Sciences (vol 2 of Philosophical Papers, Cambridge, 1985, p. 1) of AI as of behavioural psychology that "either these inadequate theories avoid the interesting questions, or they show themselves up and have to expend more and more energy in defense". I'd say, never mind looking for percentages of adopters and virtually swelling virtual classrooms. Rather. let us ask, what are the interesting questions? If we want to get our colleagues engaged, that, it seems to me, is the way to do 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: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 17.667 provincialism e dintorni Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:18:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 926 (926) I am Italian, but I'm afraid I don't agree with the main stream of this debate. First of all, I think it's always risky to put one culture in front of the other and to mention it as the best one. This is valid for the Italian Humanism (of which I recognise all the greatness and value) as for everything else. I recognise the predominance of lingua franca is irritable sometimes. On the other hand, I believe the reply is not the forced knowledge of another language. A language is a way of thinking, is a trap and is a treasure. Fortunately, we are human and not machines and our code is not written once for ever. Secondly I think every linguistic and hence cultural approach is able to contribute to the humanities computing field in different ways. It's this variety that makes enjoyable and fruitful the exchange between scholars, theories and experimentations. It may seem a demagogical declaration, but it's not. What, I think, it doesn't have to lack in a humanities computing community is the desire and the effort to communicate one to each other the results of his/her own research, the desire and the effort to explain and to listen to, and, when possible, the consequent ability to refer to other works (hopefully accomplished in different lingual environments) even when in contradiction in his/her own works. I totally agree then that an important task of our associations should be to encourage this process and to facilitate it. It doesn't mean to cancel the differences, but to make them talk, argue, fight and, in some cases, reconcile. Yours, Arianna Ciula Universita' degli Studi di Siena ---------------------- Arianna Ciula arianna.ciula@kcl.ac.uk From: David Green Subject: Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:25:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 927 (927) Vernacular Summer Fellowship Call for Projects Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular The Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication is pleased to announce a fellowship program for summer 2004 to foster innovative research for its new electronic publishing venture, Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular. Vectors is a new, international electronic journal dedicated to expanding the potentials of academic publication via emergent and transitional media. Vectors brings together visionary scholars with cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic research, focusing on the ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social and cultural relations. Vectors will adhere to the highest standards of quality in a strenuously reviewed format. The journal is edited by Tara McPherson and Steve Anderson and guided by the collective knowledge of a prestigious international board. About the Fellowships Vectors Fellowships will be awarded to up to six individuals or teams of collaborators in the early-to-mid stages of development of a scholarly multimedia project related to the themes of Evidence or Mobility. Completed projects will be included in the first two issues of the journal beginning in fall 2004. Vectors will feature next-generation multimedia work, moving far beyond the “text with image” format of most online scholarly publications. Fall 2004: Evidence The first issue of the journal will be devoted to a broad reconsideration of the notion of Evidence and its multiple transformations in contemporary scholarship and digital culture. Spring 2005: Mobility The second issue will be devoted to exploring the shifting concepts and practices of Mobility in contemporary culture, creatively limning the possibilities and limits of such a concept for understanding 21st century life. About the Awards All fellowship recipients will participate in a one-week residency June 21-25, 2004, at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in Los Angeles, where they will have access to the IML’s state-of-the-art, Mac-based production facilities. Fellows will have continuing access to work in collaboration with world-class designers and the IML’s technical support and programming team throughout the project’s development. The residency will include colloquia and working sessions where participants will have the chance to develop project foundations and collectively engage relevant issues in scholarly multimedia. Applicants need not be proficient with new media authoring; however, evidence of successful collaboration and scholarly innovation is desirable. Fellowship awards will include an honorarium of $2,000 for each participant or team of collaborators, in addition to travel and accommodation expenses. About the Proposals We are seeking project proposals that creatively address issues related to the first two themes of Evidence and Mobility. While the format of the journal is meant to explore innovative forms of multimedia scholarship, we are not necessarily looking for projects that are about new media. Rather, we are interested in the various ways that new media suggest a transformation of scholarship, art and communication practices and their relevance to everyday life in an unevenly mediated world. Applicants are encouraged to think beyond the computer screen to consider possibilities created by the proliferation of wireless technology, handheld devices, alternative exhibition venues, etc. Fellows will also have the possibility to imagine scholarly applications for newly developing technologies through productive collaborations with scientists and engineers. Projects may translate existing scholarly work or be entirely conceived for new media. We are particularly interested in work that re-imagines the role of the user and seeks to reach broader publics while creatively exploring the value of collaboration and interactivity. Proposals should include the following: · Title of project and a one-sentence description · A 3-5 page description of the project concept, goals and outcome. (This description should address questions of audience, innovative uses of interactivity, address and form, as well the project’s contribution to the field of multimedia scholarship and to contemporary scholarship more generally.) · Brief biography of each applicant, including relevant qualifications and experience for this fellowship · Full CV for each applicant · Anticipated required resources (design, technical, hardware, software, exhibition, etc.) · Projected timeline · Sample media if available (CD, DVD, VHS of any standard, or NTSC Mini-DV); for electronic submissions, URLs are preferred but still images may be sent as e-mail attachments if necessary. Please submit to: Vectors Summer Fellowships Institute for Multimedia Literacy 746 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089 e-mail:vectors@annenberg.edu Priority will be given to applications received by March 12, 2004. Fellowship recipients will be notified in mid-April. Additional Information For additional information about the Vectors Summer Fellowship Program, please consult our informational Web site athttp://www.iml.annenberg.edu/vectors. Questions may be directed to Associate Editor Steve Anderson,mailto:sanderson@annenberg.edua. ______________________ David Green davidlgreen@sbcglobal.net redgen@mac.com 203.334.6094 203.520.9155 (cell) 170 Brooklawn Terrace Fairfield, CT 06825 From: Aimée Morrison [mailto:aimee.morrison@ualberta.ca] Subject: Material Electronic Text (04/15/04; MLA 2004) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:26:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 928 (928) Sent: February 25, 2004 3:35 PM Material Electronic Text: MLA 2004 This MLA panel sponsored by the Association for Computers in the Humanities seeks to offer papers devoted to a consideration of the materiality of the electronic text, broadly understood. Through the 1980s and 1990s, much of the work on hypertext trumpeted the immateriality of the electronic text: it was freed from the constraints of book form, limited library shelves, tight publishing budgets, and geographical distance. The electronic text slipped the surly bonds of earth. Papers are invited that will re-consider the materiality of the electronic text in various ways, a critical turn in the study of digital textualities that N. Katherine Hayles recently called 'the new materialism.' Possible topics include but are not limited to: * electronic archives * archiving electronics * digital representation of textual artifacts * textual representation of digital artifacts * materialities specific to digital texts * access to and preservation of electronic texts * data formats and obsolescence Discussion of particular projects is welcome, as are papers proposing a more theorectical or historical focus. Please send 200 word abstracts (in the body of an email) by 15 March 2004 to Aimée Morrison at aimee.morrison@ualberta.ca. . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Aimée Morrison 4-14 Humanities Ctr. Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of English, U of A Orlando Project (780) 492-0298 "Most of the thesis could have been done by an appropriately programmed computer in a matter of seconds." -- Northrop Frye, "Literary and Mechanical Models." From: Jonathan Ginzburg Subject: CATALOG'04: 2nd CFP Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:27:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 929 (929) Second Call for Papers CATALOG'04 EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona July 19-21 2004 (Apologies for Multiple Postings) Workshop URL: <http://www.upf.edu/catalog04>http://www.upf.edu/catalog04 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Catalog'04 will be the eighth 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 Dial/Log conferences are always stimulating and fun and Barcelona, which will host ACL 2004 immediately following Catalog'04, is a great place to visit. Barcelona will also host, during the summer of 2004, its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events, exhibits, and performances (<http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/>http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/). So mark your calendar now. INVITED SPEAKERS: Robin Cooper (Göteborgs Universitet) Massimo Poesio (University of Essex), Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University) Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester), We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: - models of common ground/mutual belief in communication - modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models and turn-taking - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - reference in dialogues - ellipsis resolution in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - interpretation of questions and answers - nonlinguistic interaction in communication - natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - multimodal dialogue systems - dialogue management in practical implementations - categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora - designing and evaluating dialogue systems [material deleted] From: Silvia Hansen-Schirra Subject: Call for Papers: LINC-04 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:28:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 930 (930) ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-04) A workshop to be held at COLING-04 the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Geneva, 29 August 2004 http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc04 ORGANIZED BY: Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Saarland University, Saarbrücken) Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo & CSLI, Stanford University) Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University & DFKI, Saarbrücken) TOPIC AND MOTIVATION: Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly important role for machine learning, evaluation, psycholinguistics as well as theoretical linguistics. Many research groups are engaged in the creation of corpus resources annotated with morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse information for a variety of languages. We aim to bring together these activities in order to identify and disseminate best practice in the development and utilization of linguistically interpreted corpora. The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results with resprect to the annotation, conversion and exploitation of corpora taking into account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of language technology and research. We invite submissions of papers constituting substantial, original, and unpublished work on all aspects of linguistically interpreted corpora, including, but not limited to: - creation of practical annotation schemes - efficient annotation techniques - automation of corpus annotation - tools supporting corpus conversions - validation including consistency checking of corpora - browsing corpora and searching for instances of linguistic phenomena - relating actual annotation to contemporary linguistic theory - interpretation of quantitative results - use of annotated corpora in the automated induction of linguistic knowledge Rob Malouf, Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages at San Diego State University, will be our keynote speaker. [material deleted] From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Kirschenbaum on Extreme Inscription Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:29:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 931 (931) WASHINGTON AREA GROUP FOR PRINT CULTURE STUDIES WAGPCS meets the first Friday of every month from 3:30 to 5:00 pm in the Woodrow Wilson Room (LJ-113), in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. (The Wilson Room is on the 1st floor, off the Great Hall (map). The Library is located between First and Second Streets, SE in the District of Columbia. Nearest Metro Station for the Blue and Orange Line is Capitol South and for the Red Line is Union Station. March 5, 2004 Meeting "Extreme Inscription: New Media, Magnetic Media, and the Limits of Writing" by Professor Matt Kirschenbaum Department of English, University of Maryland From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 932 (932) (1) Mathematicians as Enquirers Learning about Learning Mathematics by Leone Burton School of Education, The University of Birmingham, UK MATHEMATICS EDUCATION LIBRARY -- 34 This volume reports on an empirical study with 70 research mathematicians, 35 females and 35 males. The purpose of the study was to explore how these mathematicians came to know mathematics and to match their descriptions against a theoretical model of coming to know mathematics derived from the literature of the history, philosophy and sociology of science and mathematics. The assumption underlying the research was that, when researching, mathematicians are learning and, consequently, their experiences are valid for less sophisticated learners in classrooms. The study provided major surprises particularly with respect to the mathematical thinking of the mathematicians and to the ways in which they organised their practices. It also contradicted long-standing stereotypes. This book applies the learning from the study to learning and teaching mathematics. It offers a rationale, based on the practices of research mathematicians, to support and encourage recent school-based developments in the learning of mathematics through enquiry. The book will be of interest to mathematicians, mathematics educators, teacher educators (mathematics), and higher degree students of mathematics education. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7853-6 Date: April 2004 Pages: 264 pp. EURO 96.00 / USD 105.00 / GBP 67.00 Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-7859-5 Date: April 2004 Pages: 264 pp. EURO 46.00 / USD 50.00 / GBP 32.00 (2) Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age Sustainable for All in a Changing World edited by Tom J. van Weert Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands Mike Kendall Northamptonshire County Council, Northampton, UK IFIP INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 137 This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in Lifelong Learning supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In this overview, the following issues are discussed: * Changing environments, * What is Lifelong Learning? * Who are the learners? * Characteristics of learning environments, * Sustainability of learning environments, * Learning communities, * Role of educational institutions, * Role of ICT. Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age contains reviewed papers by invited authors, as well as a comprehensive report with resource materials produced by a Focus Group of invited participants in the Lifelong Learning Working Track at the e-Train conference, "E-Training Practices for Professional Organizations". The conference was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Technical Committee 3 (Education), and was held in Pori, Finland in July 2003. Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age will help both decision makers and educational designers to deal with the issues connected with Lifelong Learning. Solutions will have to be unique for each culture and each country, but this book will certainly inform and should considerably assist decision-making and problem resolution. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7842-0 Date: March 2004 Pages: 278 pp. EURO 128.00 / USD 140.00 / GBP 89.00 (3) What We Know About CSCL And Implementing It In Higher Education edited by Jan-Willem Strijbos Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands Paul A. Kirschner Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands Rob L. Martens Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING SERIES -- 3 This book is the first that presents an overview of the main topics involved in the study and implementation of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) from a learning viewpoint. It is also one of the few - or the only one - that does this from a research and practical instructional design perspective. Too many books begin with the medium and/or the environments used for CSCL, as if you would write a book on building a house by focusing almost primarily on hammers, saws and screwdrivers. The main topics are clustered in four sections that are derived from reverse ordering the CSCL acronym, because CSCL is all about learning through collaboration that is supported by computers. Although CSCL is increasingly advocated in higher education, specific CSCL implementations - i.e. something more than proving technology without a well developed educational rationale - are uncommon in higher education. The topics covered in this book, each including a review and several examples of current best practices in higher education, can stimulate 'informed' implementation of CSCL in higher education. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7779-3 Date: March 2004 Pages: 280 pp. EURO 100.00 / USD 109.00 / GBP 69.00 (4) Advances in Research on Networked Learning edited by Peter Goodyear Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Sheena Banks University of Sheffield, UK Vivien Hodgson Dept. of Management Learning, University of Lancaster, UK David McConnell Networked Learning Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING SERIES -- 4 Networked learning is learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to promote connections: between one learner and other learners; between learners and tutors; between a learning community and its learning resources. Networked learning is an area which has great practical and theoretical importance. It is a rapidly growing area of educational practice, particularly in higher education and the corporate sector. This volume brings together some of the best research in the field, and uses it to signpost some directions for future work. The papers in this collection represent a major contribution to our collective sense of recent progress in research on networked learning. In addition, they serve to highlight some of the largest or most important gaps in our understanding of students' perspectives on networked learning, patterns of interaction and online discourse, and the role of contextual factors. The range of topics and methods addressed in these papers attests to the vitality of this important field of work. More significant yet is the complex understanding of the field that they combine to create. In combination, they help explain some of the key relationships between teachers' and learners' intentions and experiences, the affordances of text-based communications technologies and processes of informed and intelligent educational change. This volume will prove very valuable to researchers and teachers working in (higher) education and corporate education. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7841-2 Date: March 2004 Pages: 225 pp. EURO 95.00 / USD 104.00 / GBP 66.00 (5) Networked Information Technologies Diffusion and Adoption edited by Jan Damsgaard Dept. of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark Helle Zinner Henriksen Dept. of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark IFIP INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 138 Software systems that used to be relatively autonomous entities such as e.g. accounting systems, order-entry systems etc. are now interlinked in large networks comprising extensive information infrastructures. What earlier used to be stand-alone proprietary systems are now for the most part replaced by more or less standardized interdependent systems that form large networks of production and use. Organizations have to make decisions about what office suite to purchase? The easiest option is to continuously upgrade the existing office suite to the latest version, but the battle between WordPerfect and Microsoft Word demonstrated that the choice is not obvious. What instant messenger network to join for global communication? Preferably the one most colleagues and friends use; AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, and ICQ represent three satisfactory, but disjunctive alternatives. Similarly organizations abandon their portfolio of homegrown IT systems and replace them with a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Several ERP alternatives exist on the market, but which is the right one for you? The argumentation and rationale behind these considerations are obviously related to the technological and social networks we are embedded in, but it is not always easy to specify how. Networked Information Technologies: Diffusion and Adoption offers contributions from academics and practitioners who study networked information systems from a diffusion and adoption point of view. Themes related to the conceptualisation of diffusion and adoption of networked information systems are discussed along with studies of the diffusion of networked information systems in public sector institutions and private businesses. This volume contains the edited proceedings of the IFIP Conference on The Diffusion and Adoption of Networked Information Technologies, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.6 and held in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2003. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7815-3 Date: March 2004 Pages: 232 pp. EURO 132.00 / USD 145.00 / GBP 92.00 Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20= =20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk=20 www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: food for thought Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:36:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 933 (933) In his marvellous essay, "Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm", in Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989), 96­125, historian Carlo Ginzburg traces a modern habit of mind, clearly active on the analytical side of humanities computing, to the hunt. (Forgive this very crude summary of his deft and complex argument.) Although, as he says, to “decipher” or “read” animal tracks may be solely metaphoric, whatever that might mean, perhaps they indicate an historical process that culminated in the invention of writing and resurfaced e.g. in the modern discipline of semiotics, famously in the novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and in history itself. Semiotics, he notes, is included in a constellation of disciplines with a common feature: “an attitude oriented toward the analysis of specific cases which could be reconstructed only through traces, symptoms, and clues.” In this we perceive “what may be the oldest act in the intellectual history of the human race: the hunter squatting on the ground, studying the tracks of his quarry.” Consider that when you are gazing at your KWIC listing or database output :-). Another in the same vein. The ecologist Paul Shepard (d. 1996), in The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (Washington DC: Island Press, 1996), directs his attention across the vast stretches of time during which human awareness and intelligence developed, especially in the formative rhythms of eating and being eaten. [deleted quotation] (pp. 39-40) Speculative, certainly; outrageously so, perhaps. But when, for example in Herbert Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd edn, MIT Press, 1996), one encounters an argument that reduces the complexity we sense in human intelligence to the adaptive behaviour of a physical symbol system, asking the big questions becomes hard to avoid. And part of our brief, I would think, given the central role we bestow on artificial systems whose design as well as role are based on constructions of intelligence. Big brains such as we have, Shepard notes, are biologically expensive and risky: "Flexibility in behavior and a capacity for imagining reality do not usually outweigh the disadvantages of making bad decisions and the time learning takes. Flexible behavior puts a huge array of choices before the individual with the proportional likelihood for terminal error. Brains are especially vulnerable to developmental impairment due to malnutrition, disease, traumatic experience, and injury,and they require large amounts of energy and investment of parental care and protection for a long time. The range of psychopathology increases with brain complexity". There are other, safer, well-attested ways for animals to adapt to their environments (p. 17). So, as always with our computational applications, what is omitted in the system-design is where the research interest lies. But the perilously seductive pull, equally from the behaviouristic side and from the naturalistic, gives us the sharpest, clearest form of our philosophical research question. This is Charles Taylor's: "What tempts people to adopt a poorer theory of self?" (Philosophy and the Human Sciences, p. 4). Permit me the beginnings of an answer, a bit of practical advice lettered on an outside wall of a South Dublin pub: "If you're tired, have a Guinness". 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: logical and human thinking Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:06:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 934 (934) In The Idea of a Social Science (2nd edn., Routledge, 1990), pp. 125f, Peter Winch has the following to say about a common reaction to logical formalisms: [deleted quotation] The same of course carries over into the apparent strangeness of computational formalisms as means of expressing the relations among cultural objects: however unlike, the unlikeness of these formalisms is of our making, therefore unlike only in particular respects, i.e. not utterly, absolutely foreign. The difference, then, is more like the difference between a Labrador and a Terrier than between a cat and a chisel -- i.e. capable of telling us something significant about the compared things. 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: Subject: Third CFP: Combining Shallow and Deep Processing for NLP Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:56:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 935 (935) (ESSLLI 2004) [deleted quotation] [material deleted] [deleted quotation] From: "WEDELMUSIC" Subject: Int. Conf. on WEB Delivering of Music, WEDELMUSIC 2004, Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:02:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 936 (936) Barcelona, Spain The topics of this e-mail are: Call for Papers, submission deadline: 20th March 2004 4th International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, WEDELMUSIC 2004 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 13th-15th September 2004 Call for participation 3rd Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK, Munich, March 2004 MPEG AHG on Music Notation Requirements 13-14 of March 2004, Munich, Germany Announcement of co-location of 4th Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 14th-16th September 2004 Cheers, Paolo Nesi, Jaime Delgado, Kia Ng -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Call for Papers 4th International Conference on Web Delivering of Music, WEDELMUSIC 2004 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 13th-15th September 2004 http://www.upf.edu/wedelmusic2004/ http://www.wedelmusic.org/ Content distribution is presently not anymore limited to music and is becoming more cross media oriented. New distribution models for old and new content formats are opening new paths: i-TV, mobile phones, PDAs, etc. The development of the Internet technologies introduces strong impact on system architectures and business processes. New national and international regulations, policies and market evolution are constraining the distribution mechanisms. Novel distribution models, development and application of pervasive computing and multimedia strongly influence this multi- disciplinary field. The need of content control and monitoring is demanding effective Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions integrated with sustainable business and transaction models. These technologies impact on the production and modelling of cross media content. WEDELMUSIC-2004 aims to explore these major topics in cross media field, to address novel approaches for distributing content to larger audiences, providing wider access and encouraging broader participation. The impact of these developments on cultural heritage is also considered, together with their availability to people with limited access to content. The conference is open to all the enabling technologies behind these problems. We are promoting discussion and interaction among researchers, practitioners, developers, final users, technology transfer experts, and project managers. Topics Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: --Protection formats and tools for music --Transaction models for delivering music, Business models for publishers --Copyright ownership protection --Digital Rights Management --High quality Audio Coding --Watermarking techniques for various media types --Formats and models for distribution --Music manipulation and analysis, transcoding, etc.. --Music and tools for impaired people - Braille --Publishers and distributors servers --Cross media delivery on multi-channel systems, mobile, i-TV, PDAs, Internet, etc. --Automatic cross media content production --MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 --Viewing and listening tools for music --Music editing and manipulation --Music education techniques --Content based retrieval --Conversion and digital adaptation aspects, techniques and tools --Music imaging, music sheet digitalisation, --Solutions for cultural heritage valorisation see for other topics the web site. Research Papers Papers should describe original and significant work in the research and practice of the main topics listed above. Research case studies, applications and experiments are particularly welcome. Papers should be limited to approx. 2000-5000 words (8 pages) in length. Of the accepted paper, 8 pages will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings book will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Industrial Papers Proposals for papers and reports of Applications and Tools are also welcome. These may consist of experiences from actual utilisation of tools or industrial practice and models. Proposals will be reviewed by the Industrial members of the Program Committee. Papers should be limited to approx. 1000-2500 words (4 pages) in length. Of the accepted paper, 4 pages will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions All submissions and proposals should be written in English following the IEEE format and submitted in PDF format via email to wedelmusic04-submission@altair.upf.edu by 20 March 2004. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 4th Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 14th-16th September 2004 More details and the call for contribution will appear on: http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org After the 3rd Open Workshop as described in the following section The access is free of charge, supported by the European Commission. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Call for PARTICIPATION 3rd Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK, Munich, March 2004 MPEG AHG on Music Notation Requirements 13-14 of March 2004, Munich, Germany http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/MUSICNETWORK-OW-March-2004-Description-v1-4-clean.htm http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/mpeg/ahg-mn-65-66.html located at: Technische Universität München, Germany: http://www.mpeg-68.de/location.php The Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK is at its third edition. The modeling ofmusic notation/representation is a complex problem. Music representation can be used for several different purposes: entertainment, music education, infotainment, music archiving and retrieval, music querying, music production, music profiling, etc. In the current Internet and Multimedia age many other applications are strongly getting the market attention and most of them will become more diffuse of the present applications in short time. End users have discovered the multimedia experience, and thus, the traditional music models are going to be replaced by their integration with multimedia, audio visual, cross media. At present, there is a lack of Music Notation/Representation standard integrated with multimedia. The aim of this workshop is to make a further step to arrive at standardizing a Music Notation/Representation Model and Decoder integrated into the MPEG environment, that presently can be regarded as the most active and powerful set of standard formats for multimedia consumers. The topics of the workshop are related mainly focused on: --Music Notation/Representation requirements --Music Protection and Distribution --Music Description and its usage on Archive Query Please Contribute with your work on the above topics, for details see the www site of the workshop. The access is be free of charge, supported by the European Commission. PLEASE MAKE THE REGISTRATION ON THE WWW OF THE MUSICNETWORK. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. 4th Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 14th-16th September 2004 More details and the call for contribution will appear on: http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org after the 3rd Open Workshop as described in the following section The access is be free of charge, supported by the European COmmission. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. From: Igor Kramberger Subject: Re: food for thought Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:57:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 937 (937) Hi to all: Willard asked for comments to his posting about this subject. I would suggest to read the novel *Galapagos*, written by Kurt Vonnegut. Respectfully, -- Igor ----- kramberger@uni-mb.si From: Rabow Ingegerd Subject: 2nd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication. Reminder Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:17:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 938 (938) Welcome to NCSC2004 - the Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication. Lund, Sweden, April 26-28, 2004. http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004/ Following up the success of the First Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, Lund University Libraries are proud to announce the Second Nordic Conference. The theme of the 2004 conference is "Towards a new publishing environment". Since the last conference, held in October 2002, many interesting developments have taken place with direct consequences for publishers, researchers and libraries. What implications will a new model for scholarly communication have for publishers and for funding authorities? How will the mechanisms for quality control and peer review work in a new publishing environment and how will the issue of intellectual property rights be managed? In order to discuss, present and analyze the problems and challenges that arise within scholarly communication Lund University Libraries invite scholars, publishers, vendors, editors, librarians and other interested parties to the Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication 26 - 28 April 2004. The conference will take place every second year and aims to be an important contribution to the discussion and to the development within the Nordic countries. For further information please contact Henrik Åslund at Lund University Libraries Head Office Email: Henrik.Aslund@lub.lu.se Phone: +46 46 222 93 33 More detailed information about the conference at http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2004/ Please note: The last date for booking hotel rooms at the conference rate is March 8 The last day for registration is March 31 From: "Wayne Miller" Subject: CFP: Society for Literature & Science Annual Meeting Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:18:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 939 (939) Call For Papers Society for Literature & Science Annual Meeting 2004 With the cooperation of Duke University and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke Durham, NC October 14 - 17, 2004 http://www.law.duke.edu/sls/2004/ Plenary address by Karla Holloway, William R. Kenan Professor of English and African American Studies and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Duke University Guest scholar sessions by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke, and by Donna Haraway, Professor of History of Consciousness at University of California at Santa Cruz. SLS fosters the interdisciplinary study of the relations among literature and language, the arts, and science, medicine, and technology and includes among its members scholars of literature, art, and science as well as writers, artists, and scientists. All proposals addressing the interaction of art or literature with science, medicine or technology, including new media, are welcome. Individuals may submit abstracts for individual papers (150 words) as well as proposals for panels, which are usually composed of 3-4 speakers plus discussion in a 1-1/2 hour session. Sessions involving speakers and/or respondents that transcend disciplinary boundaries are particularly welcome. DUE DATE FOR ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS: MAY 1, 2004 Please submit abstract/proposal via the form on the website or by e-mail to both Eve Keller (ekeller@fordham.edu) and Wayne Miller (wmiller@law.duke..edu) Wayne Miller Director, Educational Technologies Duke University School of Law (919) 613-7243 Fax: (919) 613-7237 wmiller@law.duke.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: mathematics and computation Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:28:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 940 (940) My thanks to several people who made suggestions in answer to my question about the history of 20C mathematics in its relation to computing. After checking out most of the sources recommended and straying into others, I'd like to draw your attention to the following, in case my quest is of more general interest: 1. Martin Davis, The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing (New York: W W Norton, 2000). Of all of the books I examined, this is the closest to what I was hoping to find: clearly written, non-technical and quite insightful at key points. It emphasizes one of the histories of computing, as the title suggests, namely the mathematical-logical, and more or less ends the story with Turing's own end. The story it tells hangs together by a combination of biographical and intellectual themes, but these are very well balanced. Readings from it would suit advanced undergraduate and (post)graduate students in the humanities quite well. (Anecdotal aside. The basic historiographical problem with any account like this emerged in a Freudian typo a few minutes ago. I was recommending the book to a young, very bright and eager nephew; I typed, The Universal Computer: The Road from Turing to Leibniz!.... I am not implying a criticism of Davis's fine account, rather the point that it is only one of the histories, the one you get when you take "the" computer to be in essence defined by what Turing did.) 2. David Hilbert, "Axiomatic Thought" (1918), in William Ewald, ed., From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics. Volume II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. This paper is entirely non-technical and a very fine example of how Hilbert thought about mathematical thinking. It provides an illuminating definition of the meaning of the word "theory" in mathematics and best of all a very clear statement of his axiomatic method. The editor's prefatory comments on the mistaken notion that Hilbert was simply a "formalist" are quite helpful. One of course needs reference to other papers by Hilbert, including the famous 1900 address, which is online. 3. Kurt Gödel, "The Modern development of the foundations of mathematics in the light of philosophy", denoted as Gödel 1961/?, in Unpublished essays and lectures, vol. III of the Collected Works, ed. Solomon Feferman et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), with a very helpful preface by Dagfinn Føllesdal (pp. 364-72); the essay itself in English is online at http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/at/godel.htm. This, it seems, was an address that he wrote but never delivered. In it he talks about Hilbert's Program, how he thinks it failed and he charts what he regards as the most promising "middle way" forward -- which is through Husserlian phenomenology to deepen the abstract concepts on which mechanical, formalist schemes are founded. The project to deepen foundations he shares, of course, with Hilbert and many others; what is especially valuable here is the pointer into phenomenology (on which Føllesdal comments at length). The result of the deepening is brought out by Davis, p. 124: "For any specific given formalism there are mathematical questions that will transcend it. On the other hand, in principle, each such question leads to a more powerful system which enables the resolution of that question. One envisions hierarchies of ever more powerful systems each making it possible to decide questions left undecidable by weaker systems." This is immediately recognizable as the perfective cycle of modelling. But I am left full of questions about the phenomenology! There are a number of other, I suppose obvious, items, such as Turing's 1936 paper and von Neumann's First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945), although these are well covered in Davis' book, which does an excellent job of connecting Turing's work to von Neumann's. But lest this somehow seem a claim of first discovery within our small circle, allow me to note that Tito Orlandi has been insisting on the importance of the mathematical topics for many years. 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: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2004 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:16:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 941 (941) CIT INFOBITS February 2004 No. 68 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... 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From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.2 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:17:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 942 (942) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 2 (March 3-9, 2004) INTERVIEW Correct by Design Jesse Poore suggests a revolution in programming -- holding software developers to the same level of rigor of training and workmanship as other professionals, developing software that's correct by design, and constraining the release of software-intensive products until they are scientifically certified as fit for use. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i2_poore.html From: Terry Butler Subject: Call for Papers - CASTA 04 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:09:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 943 (943) The Face of Text Computer Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities CALL for Papers "The Face of Text" will be a three day conference November 19th - November 21st, 2004 hosted by McMaster University. This conference will be the third CaSTA (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) conference organized and sponsored by the TAPoR project (Text Analysis Portal for Research). (Information about last year's conference is at <http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/casta/pages/abstracts.htm>http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/casta/pages/abstracts.htm ). The TAPoR project, funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and provincial and university partners, is a network of six Canadian universities which are building the human and computing infrastructure to facilitate sophisticated representation and manipulation of textual objects. The resources and tools developed will be delivered via a portal. (See <http://www.tapor.ca/>www.tapor.ca ). The CaSTA Program Committee invites submissions that focus on the ways in which scholars and students use digital texts, including digital texts with rich multimedia components. Barriers to effective exploitation of texts are also of interest. The field of enquiry embraces computer science, information science, new media and the humanities. We welcome papers on interface, research methodology, hermeneutics and documentation, and demonstrations of innovative solutions. Some of the questions we hope will be addressed are: * How do scholars use digital textual resources? What are some of the barriers to effective use at this time? * How is electronic text changing the way that humanities scholarship is conducted? * What research methodologies can be automated or assisted by computing? * Can computers assist us in the interpretation of text? * How can computers assist us visualizing electronic texts? * What are the best practices in documentation and provision of help systems for text tools? * What models are there for interfaces to research text analysis systems? * How can text systems support multilingual texts and communities? * How can text analysis research benefit and learn from applied text systems in fields like law and medicine? Presentations are invited in three categories: papers ­ 30 minutes short presentations ­ 15 minutes e-posters ­ demonstrations of software or posters Submitters proposing a paper must send an abstract (for a paper, of about 500 words; for short presentations and e-posters, about 350 words); please include the author's name(s), affiliation, and contact information. Please indicate your computing requirements (data projector, computers, network connection, etc.). Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers. We have funding to support travel and accommodation for a limited number of Canadian graduate students. Invited speakers include: Jerome McGann, John Unsworth, John Bradley, Julia Flanders, Jean-Guy Meunier, and Steve Ramsay. Submissions should be sent to the Program Committee at: casta04@mail.arts.ualberta.ca Submissions should either be in the body of the e-mail message or point to a web resource. Submissions are due August 15th, 2004. The Program Committee expects to respond by September 20th, 2004. This conference has been made possible by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology program. CaSTA 2004: The Face of Text Programme Committee: Geoffrey Rockwell, Conference Chair Terry Butler, Programme Chair Peter Liddell, Stéfan Sinclair, and Elaine Toms -- Programme Committee From: MERLOTConference@merlot.org Subject: MERLOT International Conference - Call for Proposals Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:06:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 944 (944) MERLOT -- the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Announces the: 2004 MERLOT International Conference Online Resources: Sharing the Future CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Submission Deadline: March 15, 2004 *** _______________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT LINKS 1. Submission Information: Deadline, March 15, 2004 Call for Presentations: http://conference.merlot.org/ 2. General Conference Information: http://conference.merlot.org/ 3. Registration Information: Available March 1, 2004 4. Hotel and Travel Information: http://conference.merlot.org/conference/2004/travel_and_accommodations.php INVITATION Hosted by the California Virtual Campus (http://www.cvc.edu), and the California State University (http://www.calstate.edu), the MERLOT International Conference will be held at the Hilton Costa Mesa in southern California, August 4 - 6, 2004. The Conference provides forums for learning about shared content, peer reviews, learning objects, standards, and online communities. We welcome participation by the entire international higher education community. MERLOT is endorsed by NLII/EDUCAUSE, and partially sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Individuals are not required to be affiliated with a MERLOT institution to attend or present at the conference. Nor do presentations need to address MERLOT specifically. Presentations from those engaged in the faculty development issues surrounding the MERLOT collection, use and evaluation of digital learning materials in the context of other projects are encouraged and welcomed. The conference themes are geared toward the following audiences: * Faculty * Instructional Designers * Provosts, Deans, Department Chairs * Technical Support Specialists * Librarians * Faculty Development Professionals * Members of Professional Organizations * MERLOT Users & Potential Partners * Authors of Digital Learning Materials * Student Services Professionals [material deleted] From: Philippe Schlenker Subject: Binding Workshop-EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 26th Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:07:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 945 (945) EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 26, 2004 Workshop: Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/ESSLLI04.html organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2004) http://esslli2004.loria.fr/ 16-20 August, 2004 in Nancy Workshop Organizers: Ed Keenan, UCLA (ekeenan @ ucla. edu) Philippe Schlenker, UCLA & IJN (schlenke @ ucla. edu) Workshop Purpose: Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints on anaphora, was originally conceived in syntactic terms as a set of conditions on the distribution of indices (Chomsky 1983). Thus Condition A stated that anaphors are locally bound (*John/i thinks that himself/i is clever); Condition B stated that Pronominals are locally free (*He/i likes him/i), and Condition C required that R-expressions be free (*He/i thinks that John/i is clever). But other researchers have attempted to derive these constraints from lexical semantics or the interpretative procedure rather than the syntax. Some add a semantic component to a syntactic core (e.g. Reinhart 1983, Heim 1993, Fox 2000, Buring 2002), but others are more radically semantic (e.g. works by Jacobson, Keenan, Barker & Shan, Butler). The workshop, which is intended for advanced PhD students and researchers, will provide a forum to compare and assess these diverse proposals. We welcome proposals for 45mn contributions (30mn presentation + 15mn discussion), which should be specific, explicit and semantically informed. We list below some possible topics, though the list is not exhaustive. Possible Workshop Topics: -Semantic analyses of standard Binding Conditions -Arguments pro or contra semantic approaches to Binding Theory -Reflexivity -Relation between logophors and anaphors -Relation between deixis and anaphora -Cross-linguistic variation in binding conditions [material deleted] From: jnls.cust.serv@OUPJOURNALS.ORG Subject: ToC for Literary and Linguistic Computing 19-1 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:05:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 946 (946) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: April 2004; Vol. 19, No. 1 URL: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial Marilyn Degand, p. 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Scholarly Editing - Some Northern European Approaches Mats Dahlström, Espen S. Ore and Edward Vanhoutte, pp. 3-8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- An Introduction to the TEI and the TEI Consortium Edward Vanhoutte, pp. 9-16 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190009.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- How Reproductive is a Scholarly Edition? Mats Dahlström, pp. 17-33 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190017.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monkey Business-or What is an Edition? Espen S. Ore, pp. 35-44 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190035.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Presentational and Representational Issues in Correspondence Reconstruction and Sorting Edward Vanhoutte and Ron Van Den Branden, pp. 45-54 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190045.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Philology Meets Text Encoding in the New Scholarly Edition of Henrik Ibsen`s Writings Hilde Bøe, Jon Gunnar Jørgensen and Stine Brenna Taugbøl, pp. 55-71 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190055.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Parallel Views: Multi-level Encoding of Medieval Nordic Primary Sources Odd Einar Haugen, pp. 73-91 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190073.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Computing Medieval Primary Sources from the Vadstena Monastery: Arguments for the Primary Source Text Karl G. Johansson, pp. 93-105 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190093.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Medieval Manuscripts, Hypertext and Reading. Visions of Digital Editions Jonas Carlquist, pp. 105-118 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190105.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial Theory and Practice in Flanders and the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Bert Van Raemdonck and Edward Vanhoutte, pp. 119-127 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190119.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Gunnar Jørgensen, Tone Modalsli, Espen S. Ore and Vigdis Ystad, eds. The Nordic Network for Textual Critics: Conferences on Editorial Philology Reviewed by Charlotte Wallberg, pp. 129-134 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190129.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Lars Burman and Barbro Ståhle Sjönell, eds. Text och tradition. Om textedering och kanonbildning [Text and Tradition. On Text Editing and the Creation of a Literary Canon] Reviewed by Mats Dahlström, pp. 134-137 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190134.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stoicheff, Muri and Deshaye, et al., eds. The Sound and the Fury: A Hypertext Edition Reviewed by Vincent Neyt, pp. 137-143 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_01/190137.sgm.abs.html From: Sean Lawrence Subject: Issue 9.1 of EMLS is now available Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:08:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 947 (947) To whom it may concern, Issue 9.3 of Early Modern Literary Studies is now available on-line at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html This special issue, entitled Monitoring Electronic Shakespeare, is guest edited by Michael Best and Eric Rasmussen. Articles: Introduction: A Booth at the Fair. [1] Michael Best, University of Victoria. @ the Table of the Great: Hospitable Editing and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project. [2] Patrick Finn, St. Mary's College, Calgary. Playing with Wench-like Words: Copia and Surplus in the Internet Shakespeare Edition of Cymbeline. [3] Jennifer C. Forsyth, Oregon State University. Dizzying the Arithmetic of Memory: Shakespearean Documents as Text, Image, and Code. [4] Alan Galey, University of Western Ontario. Redefining the Role of the Editor for the Electronic Medium: A New Internet Shakespeare Edition of Edward III. [5] Sonia Massai, King's College London. The Very Large Textual Object: A Prosthetic Reading of Shakespeare. [6] Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore, Strathclyde University and Carnegie Mellon University. Gilded monuments and living records: A note on critical editions in print and online. [7] Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada, Reno. Reviews: James Ellison. George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002. [8] Bernadette Andrea, University of Texas at San Antonio. Lukas Erne. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. [9] Steve Roth. Nora Johnson. The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. [10] Ben Spiller, Sheffield Hallam University. William Kerrigan. Shakespeare's Promises. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. [11] Danielle Clarke, University College, Dublin. James Sharpe, General Editor, Richard Golden, Consulting Editor; and Marion Gibson, Malcolm Gaskill, and Peter Elmer, Volume Editors. English Witchcraft 1560-1736. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2003. [12] Helen Ostovich, McMaster University. Marsha S. Robinson. Writing the Reformation: Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002. Ramie Targoff. Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001. [13] Timothy Rosendale, Southern Methodist University. Anthony Miller. Roman Triumphs and Early Modern English Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. [14] Kevin Curran, University College, Dublin. Theatre reviews: Measure for Measure, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Summer 2003. [15] Richard Wood, Sheffield Hallam University. The Taming of the Shrew by the RSC at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, March- November 2003. [16] Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. Cambridge: Autumn 2003. [17] Michael Grosvenor Myer. EMLS (ISSN 1201-2459) is published three times a year for the on-line academic community by agreement with, and with the support of, Sheffield Hallam University's Department of English; it was founded in the Department of English, University of British Columbia, and was published from there until 1997, and thereafter at the University of Alberta until 1998. We invite submissions on all areas of early modern literature. E-mail can be sent to seanlawrence@writeme.com. Hardcopy correspondence may be sent directly to the editor, at the following address: Dr Matthew Steggle Early Modern Literary Studies School of Cultural Studies Sheffield Hallam University Collegiate Crescent Campus Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Fax: 0114 225 4403 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new Springer publications Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:04:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 948 (948) (1) Volume 8 Number 1 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Original Article A framework for contextual mediation in mobile and ubiquitous computing applied to the context-aware adaptation of maps p. 1 Dan Chalmers, Naranker Dulay, Morris Sloman DOI: 10.1007/s00779-003-0255-6 Original Article What we talk about when we talk about context p. 19 Paul Dourish DOI: 10.1007/s00779-003-0253-8 Original Article Evolving a pervasive IT infrastructure: a technology integration approach p. 31 Puneet Gupta, Deependra Moitra DOI: 10.1007/s00779-003-0254-7 Original Article Mobile access to real-time information—the case of autonomous stock brokering p. 42 Stina Nylander, Markus Bylund, Magnus Boman DOI: 10.1007/s00779-003-0257-4 Original Article An address assignment for the automatic configuration of mobile ad hoc networks p. 47 Abhishek Prakash Tayal, L. M. Patnaik DOI: 10.1007/s00779-003-0256-5 Original Article Using keyphrases as search result surrogates on small screen devices p. 55 Steve Jones, Matt Jones, Shaleen Deo DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0258-y (2) Volume 6 Numbers 2-3 of Computing and Visualization in Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Editorial: Special Issues on Biomedical and Bioengineering Computing p. 37 A. Quarteroni, A. Sequeira DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0121-0 Regular article Hydrodynamical modelling and multidimensional approximation of estuarian river flows p. 39 M. Amara, D. Capatina-Papaghiuc, D. Trujillo DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0106-z Regular article Vorticity­velocity­pressure formulation for Navier­Stokes equations p. 47 Mohamed Amara, Daniela Capatina-Papaghiuc, Eliseo Chacón-Vera, David Trujillo DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0107-y Regular article A note on B-stability of splitting methods p. 53 A. Araújo DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0108-x Regular article The use of splitting methods in the numerical simulation of reacting flows p. 59 A. Araújo, J.A. Ferreira, P. de Oliveira, F. Patrício, P. Rosa DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0109-9 Regular article Mathematical model and numerical simulation of the liquid fluidization of polydisperse solid particle mixtures p. 67 S. Berres, R. Bürger, E.M. Tory DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0110-3 Regular article On the consistency of the Rational Large Eddy Simulation model p. 75 Luigi C. Berselli, Carlo R. Grisanti DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0111-2 Regular article Monotone difference approximations for the simulation of clarifier-thickener units p. 83 R. Bürger, K.H. Karlsen, N.H. Risebro, J.D. Towers DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0112-1 Regular article Convergence analysis of a subdomain iterative method for the finite element approximation of the coupling of Stokes and Darcy equations p. 93 Marco Discacciati, Alfio Quarteroni DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0113-0 Regular article A fast preconditioner for the incompressible Navier Stokes Equations p. 105 Alain Gauthier, Fausto Saleri, Alessandro Veneziani DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0114-z Regular article Progress in adjoint error correction for integral functionals p. 113 Michael B. Giles, Niles Pierce, Endre Süli DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0115-y Regular article Modeling fractured and faulted regions: Local grid refinement methods for implicit solvers p. 123 Erlend Oian, Izaskun Garrido, Mohamed Chaib, Gunnar E. Fladmark, Magne S. Espedal DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0116-x Regular article TVD, WENO and blended BDF discretizations for Asian options p. 131 C.W. Oosterlee, J.C. Frisch, F.J. Gaspar DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0117-9 Regular article On numerical simulation of flow through oil filters p. 139 Oleg Iliev, Vsevolod Laptev DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0118-8 Regular article Reduced-basis output bounds for approximately parametrized elliptic coercive partial differential equations p. 147 C. Prud’homme, A.T. Patera DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0119-7 Regular article MooNMD ­ a program package based on mapped finite element methods p. 163 Volker John, Gunar Matthies DOI: 10.1007/s00791-003-0120-1 (3) Volume 2993 Volume 2993/2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Lazy Rectangular Hybrid Automata p. 1 Manindra Agrawal, P.S. Thiagarajan Affine Hybrid Systems p. 16 Aaron D. Ames, Shankar Sastry Abstraction by Projection and Application to Multi-affine Systems p. 32 Eugene Asarin, Thao Dang Observability of Switched Linear Systems p. 48 Mohamed Babaali, Magnus Egerstedt Inference Methods for Autonomous Stochastic Linear Hybrid Systems p. 64 Hamsa Balakrishnan, Inseok Hwang, Jung Soon Jang, Claire J. Tomlin Synthesis for Idle Speed Control of an Automotive Engine p. 80 Andrea Balluchi, Federico Di Natale, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Jan H. van Schuppen Network Congestion Alleviation Using Adjoint Hybrid Control: Application to Highways p. 95 Alexandre M. Bayen, Robin L. Raffard, Claire J. Tomlin Understanding the Bacterial Stringent Response Using Reachability Analysis of Hybrid Systems p. 111 Calin Belta, Peter Finin, Luc C.G.J.M. Habets, Ádám M. Halász, Marcin Imielinski, R. Vijay Kumar, Harvey Rubin A SAT-Based Hybrid Solver for Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems p. 126 Alberto Bemporad, Nicolò Giorgetti Incremental Search Methods for Reachability Analysis of Continuous and Hybrid Systems p. 142 Amit Bhatia, Emilio Frazzoli Discrete and Hybrid Nonholonomy p. 157 Antonio Bicchi, Alessia Marigo, Benedetto Piccoli Approximations of the Rate of Growth of Switched Linear Systems p. 173 Vincent D. Blondel, Yurii Nesterov, Jacques Theys The Hybrid Guaranteed Capture Basin Algorithm in Economics p. 187 Noël Bonneuil, Patrick Saint-Pierre Staying Alive as Cheaply as Possible p. 203 Patricia Bouyer, Ed Brinksma, Kim G. Larsen On O-Minimal Hybrid Systems p. 219 Thomas Brihaye, Christian Michaux, Cédric Rivière, Christophe Troestler Extended Stochastic Hybrid Systems and Their Reachability Problem p. 234 Manuela L. Bujorianu On the Controllability of Bimodal Piecewise Linear Systems p. 250 M.K. Çamlibel, W.P.M.H. Heemels, J.M. 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Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers W5: The Five W’s of the World Wide Web p. 27 Massimo Marchiori A Case for Evidence-Aware Distributed Reputation Systems: Overcoming the Limitations of Plausibility Considerations p. 33 Philipp Obreiter Enhanced Reputation Mechanism for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks p. 48 Jinshan Liu, Valérie Issarny Pinocchio: Incentives for Honest Participation in Distributed Trust Management p. 63 Alberto Fernandes, Evangelos Kotsovinos, Sven Östring, Boris Dragovic History-Based Signature or How to Trust Anonymous Documents p. 78 Laurent Bussard, Refik Molva, Yves Roudier Trading Privacy for Trust p. 93 Jean-Marc Seigneur, Christian Damsgaard Jensen Supporting Privacy in Decentralized Additive Reputation Systems p. 108 Elan Pavlov, Jeffrey S. 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Dimitrakos, D. Mac Randal Deploying Trust Policies on the Semantic Web p. 369 Brian Matthews, Theo Dimitrakos (6) Volume 2998 Volume 2998/2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: A Brief Survey of Quantum Programming Languages p. 1 Peter Selinger Analysis of Synchronous and Asynchronous Cellular Automata Using Abstraction by Temporal Logic p. 7 Masami Hagiya, Koichi Takahashi, Mitsuharu Yamamoto, Takahiro Sato Twelf and Delphin: Logic and Functional Programming in a Meta-logical Framework p. 22 Carsten Schürmann Online Justification for Tabled Logic Programs p. 24 Giridhar Pemmasani, Hai-Feng Guo, Yifei Dong, C.R. Ramakrishnan, I.V. Ramakrishnan Constructive Intensional Negation p. 39 Susana Muñoz-Hernández, Julio Mariño, Juan José Moreno-Navarro Analysing Definitional Trees: Looking for Determinism p. 55 Pascual Julián Iranzo, Christian Villamizar Lamus $\mathcal{DDT}$: a Declarative Debugging Tool for Functional-Logic Languages p. 70 Rafael Caballero, Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo LIX: an Effective Self-applicable Partial Evaluator for Prolog p. 85 Stephen-John Craig, Michael Leuschel Multivariant Non-failure Analysis via Standard Abstract Interpretation p. 100 Francisco Bueno, Pedro López-García, Manuel Hermenegildo Set-Sharing Is Not Always Redundant for Pair-Sharing p. 117 Francisco Bueno, Maria Garcia de la Banda Backward Pair Sharing Analysis p. 132 Lunjin Lu, Andy King Implementing Natural Rewriting and Narrowing Efficiently p. 147 Santiago Escobar Complete Axiomatization of an Algebraic Construction of Graphs p. 163 Mizuhito Ogawa Sub-Birkhoff p. 180 Vincent van Oostrom Relaxing the Value Restriction p. 196 Jacques Garrigue Rigid Mixin Modules p. 214 Tom Hirschowitz Semantics of Linear Continuation-Passing in Call-by-Name p. 229 Masahito Hasegawa A Direct Proof of Strong Normalization for an Extended Herbelin’s Calculus p. 244 Kentaro Kikuchi Normalization by Evaluation for ? ?2 p. 260 Thorsten Altenkirch, Tarmo Uustalu Basic Pattern Matching Calculi: a Fresh View on Matching Failure p. 276 Wolfram Kahl Derivation of Deterministic Inverse Programs Based on LR Parsing p. 291 Robert Glück, Masahiko Kawabe 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: what is complexity? Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:37:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 949 (949) I would be grateful for recommendations of books and papers on the topic of "complexity". As you may know, this is a term commonly used in discussions in or near computer science and the natural sciences to describe objects whose organization thwarts ordinary analytic methods -- that is, a great many things in the world. Hence something called "complexity theory". But unfortunately though not surprisingly complexity isn't simple. "In general, we seem to associate complexity with anything we find difficut to understand" (Robert Flood and Ewart Carson, Dealing with Complexity, 1993). Not only that, in fact much worse, is the tendency for apparently serious people in scientific discussions to wave the term about as if its meaning were perfectly clear and consensually well defined. Which it isn't. Actually my ironic view of the academic world does not permit me such simplicity. What I really think is that the term is often waved about to deflect us from attempting to understand what the author has just identified for or excluded from discussion and doesn't understand very well him- or herself. Since many if not nearly all of the scholarly objects we are concerned with might be called complex, at least by ordinary people in an intuitive way, there would seem some chance that the body of work going on under the rubric in question would be relevant to us. Most of the literature on complexity itself is, however, not easy for the outsider to understand, sometimes for good reason. So once again I am looking for an Olympian who can explain it to me in simple language. One such is Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel laureate in physics, formerly at Caltech, now at the Santa Fe Institute (http://www.santafe.edu/), which would seem a *very* interesting place. In the journal Complexity 1.1 (1995) he published a fine piece, "What is complexity?" (http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/mgm/complexity.html), which very briefly summarizes material from his book, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (New York: W H Freeman, 1994). This is exactly the sort of stuff I am looking for. It would be very good to have more of it, from other perspectives, e.g. engineering. It would be very good to have some clear sentences from an Olympian about what people now think, in 2004, about the topic. Any suggestions? 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: { brad brace } Subject: 12hr update Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:51:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 950 (950) _ |__ __| | /_ |__ \| | | __| | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ __ | | | | | | __/ | |/ /_| | | | | _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> extended since 1994 <<<< "... easily the most venerable net-art project of all time." _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| -_ | | | |__ ___ | | ) | |__ _ __ _ | __ \ (_) | | | __| | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| _| |__) | __ ___ _ ___ ___| |_ |_ ___/ '__/ _ \| |/ _ \/ __| __| |_| _ |_| \___/| |\___|\___|\__| _ _/ | _ |__/ [deleted quotation] `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves no privilege to any center. The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project ----------------------------- began December 30, 1994 Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events... A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the Net. An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone... [ see http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/books.txt ] KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered, de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless... [deleted quotation] poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless... [deleted quotation] entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, expansive... Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em, trade `em, print `em, even publish them... Here`s how: ~ Set www-links to -> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html -> http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html -> http://bbrace.net/12hr.html Look for the 12-hr-icon. 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The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg Average size of images is only 45K. * Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror * ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups: alt.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc * * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups! (There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent, PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews) ~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years` worth of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection, interruption, and assimilation. ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural projects and sources. ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and occasional commentary related to this project has been established at topica.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg -- This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones or extended-black quadtones. Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books. Contributions and requests for 12hr-email-subscriptions, can also be made at http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html, or by mailed cheque/check: $50/mo $500/yr. Art-institutions must pay for any images retained longer than 12 hours. -- ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or translate these images. [http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/pictures -faq.html] -- (c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new Springer books Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:45:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 951 (951) (1) Volume 6 Number 2 of Knowledge and Information Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: An Intelligent Information System for Organizing Online Text Documents p. 125 Han-joon Kim, Sang-goo Lee DOI: 10.1007/s10115-003-0103-z Mining Navigation Patterns Using a Sequence Alignment Method p. 150 Birgit Hay, Geert Wets, Koen Vanhoof DOI: 10.1007/s10115-003-0109-6 Collective Mining of Bayesian Networks from Distributed Heterogeneous Data p. 164 R. Chen, K. Sivakumar, H. Kargupta DOI: 10.1007/s10115-003-0107-8 Learning Feature Weights from Customer Return-Set Selections p. 188 L. Karl Branting DOI: 10.1007/s10115-003-0110-0 WAR: Weighted Association Rules for Item Intensities p. 203 Wei Wang, Jiong Yang, Philip Yu DOI: 10.1007/s10115-003-0108-7 Discovering and Analyzing World Wide Web Collections p. 230 Sougata Mukherjea DOI: 10.1007/s10115-003-0112-y (2) Volume 2999 Volume 2999/2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: SLAM and Static Driver Verifier: Technology Transfer of Formal Methods inside Microsoft p. 1 Thomas Ball, Byron Cook, Vladimir Levin, Sriram K. Rajamani Design Verification for Control Engineering p. 21 Richard J. Boulton, Hanne Gottliebsen, Ruth Hardy, Tom Kelsey, Ursula Martin Integrating Model Checking and Theorem Proving in a Reflective Functional Language p. 36 Tom Melham A Tutorial Introduction to Designs in Unifying Theories of Programming p. 40 Jim Woodcock, Ana Cavalcanti An Integration of Program Analysis and Automated Theorem Proving p. 67 Bill J. Ellis, Andrew Ireland Verifying Controlled Components p. 87 Steve Schneider, Helen Treharne Efficient CSP Z Data Abstraction p. 108 Adalberto Farias, Alexandre Mota, Augusto Sampaio State/Event-Based Software Model Checking p. 128 Sagar Chaki, Edmund M. Clarke, Joël Ouaknine, Natasha Sharygina, Nishant Sinha Formalising Behaviour Trees with CSP p. 148 Kirsten Winter Generating MSCs from an Integrated Formal Specification Language p. 168 Jin Song Dong, Shengchao Qin, Jun Sun UML to B: Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Models p. 187 K. Lano, D. Clark, K. Androutsopoulos Software Verification with Integrated Data Type Refinement for Integer Arithmetic p. 207 Bernhard Beckert, Steffen Schlager Constituent Elements of a Correctness-Preserving UML Design Approach p. 227 Tiberiu Seceleanu, Juha Plosila Relating Data Independent Trace Checks in CSP with UNITY Reachability under a Normality Assumption p. 247 Xu Wang, A.W. Roscoe, R.S. Lazic Linking CSP-OZ with UML and Java: A Case Study p. 267 Michael Möller, Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog, Holger Rasch, Heike Wehrheim Object-Oriented Modelling with High-Level Modular Petri Nets p. 287 Cécile Bui Thanh, Hanna Klaudel Specification and Verification of Synchronizing Concurrent Objects p. 307 Gabriel Ciobanu, Dorel Lucanu Understanding Object-Z Operations as Generalised Substitutions p. 328 Steve Dunne Embeddings of Hybrid Automata in Process Algebra p. 343 Tim A.C. Willemse An Optimal Approach to Hardware/Software Partitioning for Synchronous Model p. 363 Pu Geguang, Dang Van Hung, He Jifeng, Wang Yi A Many-Valued Logic with Imperative Semantics for Incremental Specification of Timed Models p. 382 Ana Fernández Vilas, José J. Pazos Arias, Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, Alberto Gil Solla, Jorge García Duque Integrating Temporal Logics p. 402 Yifeng Chen, Zhiming Liu Integration of Specification Languages Using Viewpoints p. 421 Marius C. Bujorianu Integrating Formal Methods by Unifying Abstractions p. 441 Raymond Boute Formally Justifying User-Centred Design Rules: A Case Study on Post-completion Errors p. 461 Paul Curzon, Ann Blandford Using UML Sequence Diagrams as the Basis for a Formal Test Description Language p. 481 Simon Pickin, Jean-Marc Jézéquel Viewpoint-Based Testing of Concurrent Components p. 501 Luke Wildman, Roger Duke, Paul Strooper A Method for Compiling and Executing Expressive Assertions p. 521 F.J. Galán Morillo, J.M. Cañete Valdeón 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 Rude Subject: RE: 17.686 what is complexity? Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:46:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 952 (952) Ken Baake's book, Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science (SUNY UP 2003), is based on his study at the Santa Fe Institute, where he spent some time immersed in the culture and in conversation with the scientists about how they use metaphor in developing and explaining new concepts and discoveries. One chapter, "'Complexity': An Etymology Leading to a Discussion of Whether it is a Metaphor or Something Else," addresses complexity theory directly, but the concept permeates the book. Ken's writing is accessible, and he is himself a polymath, with degrees in economics, rhetoric, and literature as well as good knowledge of music, mathematics, science, and engineering. He brings all of this together elegantly in his book. Carolyn Carolyn Rude Dept of English, 323 Shanks Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 Carolyn.Rude@vt.edu 540 231 8396 fax 540 231 5692 From: Serena Fenton Subject: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:50:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 953 (953) A truly wonderful book (an explanation of why the modern architecture movement is so dull): Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi Paperback: 136 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x 8.57 x 11.07 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York; 2nd edition (July 15, 2002) ISBN: 0870702823 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870702823/ One reader's response: "Architects can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral language of orthodox Modern [!] architecture. I like elements which are hybrid rather than "pure," compromising rather than "clean," distorted rather than "straightforward," ambiguous rather than "articulated," perverse as well as impersonal, boring as well as "interesting," conventional rather than "designed," accommodating rather than excluding, redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well as innovating, inconsistent and equivocal rather than direct and clear. I am for messy vitality over obvious unity. I include the non sequitur and proclaim the duality. I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function. I prefer "both-and" to "either-or," black and white, and sometimes gray, to black or white. A valid architecture evokes many levels of meaning and combinations of focus: its space and its elements become readable and workable in several ways at once." http://www.liquidsquid.com/modernism/mod/0297/0097.html -- ¤ º ° ` ° º ¤ ø , ¸ ¸ , ø ¤ º ° ` ° º ¤ ø ¤ º ° ` ° º ¤ ø , ¸ ¸ , ø ¤ Serena Fenton http://layersofmeaning.org/ fents@ibiblio.org http://www.ibiblio.org/fents/ ¤ º ° ` ° º ¤ ø , ¸ ¸ , ø ¤ º ° ` ° º ¤ ø ¤ º ° ` ° º ¤ ø , ¸ ¸ , ø ¤ From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 17.686 what is complexity? Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:51:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 954 (954) On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:41:01AM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]It's been awhile, but I remember enjoying M. Mitchell Waldrop's *Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos* (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992). It's a highly anecdotal account of the early work of the Santa Fe Institute, but along the way, it manages to unfold some of the key insights of complexity theory. General reader material, but informative. In pursuing this, you want to look for books that deal with emergence and artificial life -- cognate fields that have become increasingly important in the study of complexity. 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: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: FOIS-2004 (Call For Papers) Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:48:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 955 (955) ==== Call for Papers FOIS-2004 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems <http://www.fois.org>http://www.fois.org November 4-6, 2004, Torino (Italy) == Just as ontology developed over the centuries as part of philosophy, so in recent years ontology has become intertwined with the development of the information sciences. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention has started to focus on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages in terms of which information is represented. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realization that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of Formal Ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of Information Systems. Reciprocally, research in the information science raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations. The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified ontological analysis effort. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as papers dealing with concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. == Invited Speakers Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden Amie Thomasson, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, USA == Deadlines and Further Information Abstracts due May 3, 2004 Final submissions May 7, 2004 Acceptance Notification: June 25, 2004 Submission of camera-ready paper: July 30, 2004 Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference. Submission is a two-step procedure: first abstracts, then full papers. Submitted papers must not exceed 5000 words (including bibliography). Abstracts should be less than 300 words. Electronic submission via the website is strongly preferred; if unavailable, submission via email or postal mail is possible. For details see: <http://www.fois.org>http://www.fois.org == [material deleted] From: Luis Villaseñor-Pineda Subject: Call for papers: IBERAMIA 2004 Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 07:49:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 956 (956) IBERAMIA 2004 9TH Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence Puebla, Mexico November 22-26, 2004 Contact: iberamia2004@inaoep.mx Web Site: http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004 ======================================================== IBERAMIA is the international forum where the Ibero-american AI community meet together for presenting and discussing the research and development carried out in South and Central America countries, Spain, and Portugal. The IX Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA) will take place at Puebla, Mexico, hosted by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica (INAOE), from November 22-26, 2004. IBERAMIA is supported by the Ibero-American societies of AI AEPIA - Asociacion Espanola para Inteligencia Artificial APPIA - Associaçao Portuguesa para Inteligencia Artificial SBC - Sociedade Brasileira de Computaçao, Brazil SMIA - Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial The first IBERAMIA conference was held in 1988 at Barcelona. Since then IBERAMIA has been the forum to debate research and development on AI in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Following Barcelona IBERAMIA conferences were held every two years Morelia 1990( Mexico), La Habana 1992 (Cuba), Caracas 1994 (Venezuela), Cholula 1996 (Mexico), Lisboa 1998 (Portugal), Sao Paolo 2000 (Brazil), and Sevilla 2002 (Spain). In these sixteen years, the goals of IBERAMIA have been to strengthen the relationship among the AI research groups of the Ibero-American community, to create the appropriate conditions for researchers to disseminate their research work and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. [material deleted] Contact: iberamia2004@inaoep.mx Web Site: http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004 From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: beginnings-endings of the word in world languages Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 08:11:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 957 (957) Dear Humanist Discussion Group colleagues, I'm studying the frequency of occurrence of sounds (phonemes) at the beginning and end of the word in different world languages now. I wonder if you can tell me who studies it and where it is published. In many Turkic languages the frequency of some groups of consonants and vowels is quite different at the beginning and end of the word. So far, I have studied Turkish, Tatar-Baraba, Tatar-Kazan', Uyghur, Jukut, Bashkir and Turkmen. I'm going to compare their data to the languages of TUngus-Manchurian and Mongolian family. All of them to Japanese and Korean or Chinese. I wonder if the data on the languages mentioned above have been published? Looking forward to hearing from you to yutamb@hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely and hopefully Yuri Tambovtsev From: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: ALLC/ACH Pre-Conference Workshops Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:17:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 958 (958) ACH/ALLC 2004 XML/XSLT Workshops Center for Humanities Computing Göteborg University Göteborg, Sweden 9-11 June 2004 http://www.mith.umd.edu/outreach/ach2004/index.html Please distribute. Apologies for cross posting Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to offer XML/XSLT workshops as a pre-conference activity of the 2004 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. The workshops are aimed at people in the humanities, libraries, museums, and archives who wish to learn how to create digital archives using eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and its sister technology, eXtensible stylesheet language (XSLT) used for transforming XML documents to HTML, PDF, or other XML documents. The first day of the workshop will introduce students to the theory and practice of text encoding using eXtensible Markup Language (XML). We will be focusing on encoding through the scheme most humanities projects utilize, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), one of the oldest and most robust text encoding schemes available. The second workshop (one and one half days) will introduce students to the practicalities of transforming XML documents through eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT). Students may register separately for Introduction to XML and the TEI (9 June), or the Introduction to XSLT (10-11 June). There are a limited number of student discounts available on a first-come-first-served basis. Please see the registration form for more details. Early registration is advised as there are limited places available. Workshop details can be found at http://www.mith.umd.edu/outreach/ach2004/index.html For further information, please contact Susan Schreibman Dr Susan Schreibman Assistant Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 ph: 301 405 8505 fax: 301 314 7111 e-mail: sschreib@umd.edu From: Seth Johnson Subject: Call to Assembly: Internet Commons Congress 2004 Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:18:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 959 (959) New Yorkers for Fair Use Call to General Assembly ------------------------------------------------- Internet Commons Congress 2004 March 24-25, 2004, Outside Washington, DC Scheduled Sessions/Participants: http://www.internationalunity.org/schedule.html http://www.internationalunity.org http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc Please forward this call to any other concerned parties you might know. Please visit the above links to register to attend and join in the fight to preserve the Internet commons. Today our commons is under attack. The attack is wide and pervasive. Even our right to own and use computers inside our homes and offices, is under attack. The time has come to assemble and declare our rights. We call upon advocates and organizers, authors and cow-orkers, readers and singers, politicians and students, grandmothers and children of all ages, and all who support the right of free human beings to the free dissemination and use of information rendered to the commons for the benefit of the public, to join us at the Internet Commons Congress outside Washington DC on March 24 and 25, 2004. We live in a time of vibrant prospects and shameful travesties, brought on as we confront the implications of a new and broader and greater empowerment in furtherance of our common wealth and in engagement in our common governance. Today we possess: - The Internet: the means to disseminate and make use of published information flexibly and powerfully, on a worldwide scale - Computers: tools to process, select, combine, analyze and synthesize information at the digital and logical level, and - Logical Freedom: the power to devise means of applying these tools through the free use and expression of logic in code But today we also confront: - attempts to create irrational and wildly artificial legal and regulatory trammels on new conventions, such as VoIP, in order to keep control of the world's communication channels in the hands of old oligopolies, monopolies, and tyrannical governments - an intransigent U.S. Federal Communications Commission, arrogating to itself an unprecedented authority to declare exclusive rights policy and to regulate the design of digital devices on that basis - consolidated mass media and entrenched communications monopolies that subvert principles of the public interest with the willing concurrence of complaisant regulators and legislators - elected representatives who have made plain their intention to enact a new exclusive right to factual information in databases - forceful attempts in Europe to subvert the law banning patents on software, by patent establishment professionals and the large companies they serve - specious arguments by public servants and privileged contractors for the supposed reliability of "new voting technology" - attempts by the Bio-Medical Cartel and others to seize the fruits of logical, biological, medical, and pharmaceutical researches carried out at publically financed institutions of science and learning - an already well advanced and well funded plan to impose a redesign of home computer hardware so that running software that you choose would be made impractical, and analyzing and processing information in the manner you choose would be made impossible; the new design, backed by laws such as the DMCA, would result in the emplacement of wiretap and remote control hardware and supporting software in every new low cost home computer sold in 2006 - massive ongoing and systematic violations of contract law and antitrust law and consumer protection law by Microsoft and its partners, by means of which most home users are left with no choice but to run Microsoft operating systems: most people are not offered any choice of operating system at point of sale of the hardware, and are therefore induced to employ systems that are difficult to use and easily parasitized, systems that are indeed so bad because Microsoft need not compete - a hundred million dollar campaign of barratry and red-baiting conducted by SCO, acting as agent for the convicted monopolist Microsoft, to induce businesses and individuals to steer away from exercising free control of their logic devices, away in particular from GNU/Linux operating systems; the assault led by SCO is only one of many of similar scale All these issues and more are part of a broad struggle by all the people, we who treasure our freedom and who wish to remain free to use our Net and our computers in all the ways that are both fit and just. We call all ready advocates and concerned constituencies to assemble at the Internet Commons Congress this March 24 and 25, 2004. Here we will forge a bond in our common cause of information freedom, detail our missions and callings and summon each other to join in common cause. Please click here for details regarding venue, schedule, logistics: http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc/ Registration for attendance is free: http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc/reg.xhtml Those in attendance will issue calls for action, as shall we. We call all free citizens to join the struggle against englobulation of our Commons and our computers by the loose association and alliance of cartels, oligopolies, monopolies, and parts of governments, that seek to keep or take control of all the communications systems of the world. At the moment New Yorkers for Fair Use knows of a few efforts which we will forward at the Congress: - Continued Actions for Refunds: We hope to prepare materials to move the FTC, Congress of the USA folk, the Federal antitrust team, and the judge in the Microsoft case to consider effective action on the basis of gross violations of both the 1994/1995 consent decree, and the recent conviction of Microsoft. This effort needs several score affidavits dealing with anti-competitive practices at point of sale of low cost computer hardware. - Education of Regulators and Legislators and Attorneys about Home Computer Hardware: We will explain and demonstrate the boot process today on untrammeled hardware and what the boot process would be like on Palladiated hardware, that is, hardware with hard DRM. - Procurement Policy Education and Action: We seek to collect and analyze the grossly inequitable policies and procedures by which vendors of source secret softwares keep their special privileged position in the machine rooms and desktops of government agencies. - Education of Regulators and Legislators and Judges about the Net: We will explain the fundamental principles which, for more than thirty years, have supported the psychic and moral and legal and engineering foundations of our Net. A popularly reported on issue directly connected with these principles is the "issue of Voice Over Internet Protocol". These four actions have been mentioned because organizations, tribes, and individuals from New York City have recently been working on these four efforts. We know that other efforts will also be carried forward at the Internet Commons Congress. Come and help! -- New Yorkers for Fair Use http://www.nyfairuse.org [CC] Counter-copyright: http://realmeasures.dyndns.org/cc I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or distribution of this incidentally recorded communication. Original authorship should be attributed reasonably, but only so far as such an expectation might hold for usual practice in ordinary social discourse to which one holds no claim of exclusive rights. From: "Bonnett, John" Subject: RE: 17.686 what is complexity? Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:15:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 960 (960) Aside from Mitchell Waldrop's _Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos_, which is very good introduction to the topic, I would recommend Alicia Juarrero's _Dynamics in Action : Intentional Behaviour as a Complex System_. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). John Holland's writings on complexity can be a little daunting, but are also worth a read. See: John Holland, Emergence: From Chaos to Order (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1998) and John Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1995) All the best, John Bonnett John Bonnett, Ph.D. Research Officer Institute for Information Technology National Research Council of Canada 46 Dineen Drive Fredericton, NB E3B-9W4 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on Hilbert's Program and Gödel's reflections Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:14:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 961 (961) Those who have some interest in 20C mathematics relevant to computing will be interested in a fine and reasonably non-technical essay by Solomon Feferman (Stanford), "Deciding the Undecidable: Wrestling with Hilbert's Problems", in his book In the Light of Logic (Oxford, 1998), pp. 3-27, of which a draft is online at http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/deciding.pdf. There are several other items of interest in his online collection, at http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers.html. There would appear to be very little available on Gödel's interest in phenomenology, at least within the English-speaking world. Are other worlds richer in this regard? I recently ran across a useful piece by Richard Tieszen, "Kurt Gödel and Phenomenology", Philosophy of Science 59.2 (1992), pp. 176-94 (on JSTOR), but this is prior to publication of Gödel's Nachlass, in the Unpublished Essays and Lectures (Oxford, 2001), which I reported on earlier. It would seem to me that the philosophical implications of the failure of Hilbert's Program (at least, as the cautious say, in the terms in which it was originally set out) and speculations on the road ahead, including Gödel's, could be quite significant for us. Further suggestions most welcome. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Declerck Subject: 2nd call for papers for the NLP and Multimedia ESSLLI Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:06:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 962 (962) Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended deadlines: 22nd March) NLP for Multimedia Applications http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/esslli04.htm 16-20 August, Nancy organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2004 (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9-20 August, 2004 in Nancy Workshop Organizers: Thierry Declerck (declerck@dfki.deb) Elisabeth André (andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de) Workshop Purpose: The Workshop aims to provide a discussion platform between advanced PhD students and researchers, who are interested in the topics typically addressed at ESSLLI, and possible multimedia applications involving research results from Language Processing. The submissions should not necessarily describe achieved work, but can present advanced ideas on how to combine NLP and Multimedia applications. Workshop Topics: The workshop will explore some issues on the role natural language processing (NLP) can play within the increasing number of multimedia (MM) applications that more and more are influencing our everyday life. Multimodality can be addressed as well, as long as multimedia aspects are considered. Main questions to be addressed will be: - How to integrate multimedia input including natural language (spoken or written); - How to combine natural language with other media in order to generate high quality multimedia output; - How to make use of NL for efficient access to MM archives, Including interactive retrieval; - Multimedia segmentation, indexing, summarization, and presentation; - Multimedia and multimodal interaction; - How to extend multilingual NLP applications (like Question Answering etc) into a multi-source and multimedia setting; - Representation (and reasoning about) of multimedia/multimodal discourse and context The workshop will also investigate the type of formalisms and standards to be used for this integration task. Contributions on basic research and on running or achieved projects dealing with the topics are welcome. Papers addressing one or more of the following topics are also welcome, but there should be some clear possible relationships to NLP, including logical issues: MPEG, multimedia/multimodal content, coding schemes, metadata, knowledge representation for multimedia content (multimedia ontologies), semantic annotation of multimedia content or search, retrieval and Web applications. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: hypertext and related conferences Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:08:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 963 (963) From ACM SIGWEB Notes, 9 March 2004, the following conferences related to hypertext and the Web: [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: "Celine Seewald" Subject: ESF news Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:05:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 964 (964) Please find below the European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) latest news: A) The 2004 Call for proposals for Exploratory Workshops has now been launched: ESF Exploratory Workshops are viewed by the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) as a useful instrument for identifying emerging fields requiring action at a European level. Exploratory Workshops are aimed at helping European research teams to exchange knowledge, establish new links and to explore the possibilities of developing future collaborative actions. The 2004 Call for Proposals is for workshops to be held between 1 January-31 December 2005. Applications should be submitted as an attachment to EW-proposals@esf.org by 1 May 2004. More information is available at the following address: <http://www.esf.org/workshops>http://www.esf.org/workshops B) Travel Grants are offered in the framework of two ESF Scientific Programmes: **The ESF Scientific Programme on Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) invites applications for two types of travel grants: (1) grants for short visits of up to 15 days, to attend workshops and cross-team conferences of the NHIST programme and/or to do research, and (2) grants for longer research stays of up to 6 months to contribute to the NHIST programme or one of its teams. For the research topics please see the NHIST website at the address below. Applications should be submitted in electronic form to the Programme Coordinator by 15 April 2004. More information is available at the following address: <http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&activity=1&domain=4&article=363&page=1054>http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&activity=1&domain=4&article=363&page=1054 **The ESF Scientific Programme on From Natural Philosophy to Science offers grants to enable junior scholars, both at the doctoral and postdoctoral level to attend one of the programme's workshops and thus meet scholars who are active in their own field. Applications should be submitted in electronic form to the Programme Coordinator no later than three months before the workshop. More information is available at the following addresses: <http://www.phil.kun.nl/center/esf/applications.htm>http://www.phil.kun.nl/center/esf/applications.htm http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&domain=4&activity=1&article=334&page=965 C) A Summer School on The Impact of the Humanities on the Development of European Science will take place on 10-15 June 2004 at the Instituto Veneto, Venice, Italy. Applicants must be under thirty-five and can be either doctoral students in History of Science and Philosophy, postdoctoral fellows or assistant professors. Applications should be sent as attached documents to Ms. Carole Mabrouk (humanities@esf.org) by 15 April 2004. More information is available at the following address: <http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0§ion=2&domain=4&genericpage=1979>http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0§ion=2&domain=4&genericpage=1979 Should you wish to have further information on the SCH activities, you to visit our web site (<http://www.esf.org/human>http://www.esf.org/human). Should you wish to be removed from the humanities e-list, please do not hesitate to inform me (cseewald@esf.org). Should you know someone who would be interested in receiving information from the ESF, I would be pleased to include him/her to the Humanities e-list. Please feel free to circulate this message to anyone who might have an interest in it. Best regards, Céline Seewald Administrative assistant Standing Committee for the Humanities and Social Sciences 1, quai Lesay Marnésia BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex tel: +33 3.88.76.71.58 fax: +33 3 88.37.05.32 e-mail: cseewald@esf.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 17.691 studies of beginnings & endings of words? Date: Sunday, March 07, 2004 2:18 AM X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 965 (965) [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.3 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:07:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 966 (966) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 3 (March 10 - March 16, 2004) Interview Roger Brent and the Alpha Project The work of a multidisciplinary genomic research lab in Berkeley may yield big changes in drug therapy and medicine. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i3_brent.html From: Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - New Issue Alert Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:00:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 967 (967) Volume 3009 Volume 3009/2004 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available.... This issue contains: A Model for the Implementation of Software Process Improvement: An Empirical Study p. 1 Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi, Bernard Wong Does Use of Development Model Affect Estimation Accuracy and Bias? p. 17 Kjetil Moløkken, Anette C. Lien, Magne Jørgensen, Sinan S. Tanilkan, Hans Gallis, Siw E. Hove Managing Software Process Improvement (SPI) through Statistical Process Control (SPC) p. 30 Teresa Baldassarre, Nicola Boffoli, Danilo Caivano, Giuseppe Visaggio Towards Hypotheses on Creativity in Software Development p. 47 Mingyang Gu, Xin Tong Using Software Inspection as a Catalyst for SPI in a Small Company p. 62 Lasse Harjumaa, Ilkka Tervonen, Pekka Vuorio Comparing Global (Multi-site) SPI Program Activities to SPI Program Models p. 76 Atte Kinnula, Marianne Kinnula Starting SPI from Software Configuration Management: A Fast Approach for an Organization to Realize the Benefits of SPI p. 92 Kunihiko Ikeda, Yasuyuki Akamatsu Evaluating the Calmness of Ubiquitous Applications p. 105 Jukka Riekki, Pekka Isomursu, Minna Isomursu Quality Attributes in Mobile Web Application Development p. 120 Axel Spriestersbach, Thomas Springer Introducing Quality System in Small and Medium Enterprises: An Experience Report p. 131 Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Giovanni Capasso, Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Corrado A. Visaggio Definition and Empirical Validation of Metrics for Software Process Models p. 146 Félix García, Francisco Ruiz, Mario Piattini Multiview Framework for Goal Oriented Measurement Plan Design p. 159 Pasquale Ardimento, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Giuseppe Visaggio Eliminating Over-Confidence in Software Development Effort Estimates p. 174 Magne Jørgensen, Kjetil Moløkken Measuring the Object-Oriented Properties in Small Sized C++ Programs ­ An Empirical Investigation p. 185 S. Kanmani, V. Rhymend Uthariaraj, V. Sankaranarayanan, P. Thambidurai An Empirical Investigation on the Impact of Training-by-Examples on Inspection Performance p. 203 Atiq Chowdhury, Lesley Pek Wee Land Refactoring Support Based on Code Clone Analysis p. 220 Yoshiki Higo, Toshihiro Kamiya, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue Introducing the Next Generation of Software Inspection Tools p. 234 Henrik Hedberg Intelligent Support for Software Release Planning p. 248 No First Name Given Amandeep, Günther Ruhe, Mark Stanford An Empirical Evaluation of Predicting Runaway Software Projects Using Bayesian Classification p. 263 Osamu Mizuno, Takanari Hamasaki, Yasunari Takagi, Tohru Kikuno Effort Estimation Based on Collaborative Filtering p. 274 Naoki Ohsugi, Masateru Tsunoda, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto Effective Software Project Management Education through Simulation Models: An Externally Replicated Experiment p. 287 D. Rodríguez, M. Satpathy, D. Pfahl Software Engineering Research Strategy: Combining Experimental and Explorative Research (EER) p. 302 Markku Oivo, Pasi Kuvaja, Petri Pulli, Jouni Similä Automatic Measurement at Nokia Mobile Phones: A Case of SDL Based Software Development p. 318 Minna Pikkarainen, Matias Vierimaa, Hannu Tanner, Raija Suikki Using a Reference Application with Design Patterns to Produce Industrial Software p. 333 Marek Vokác, Oluf Jensen Using RUP for Process-Oriented Organisations p. 348 João M. Fernandes, Francisco J. Duarte Web-Based System Development: Status in the Norwegian IT Organizations p. 363 Jianyun Zhou, Tor Stålhane Achieving CMMI Level 2 with Enhanced Extreme Programming Approach p. 378 Tuomo Kähkönen, Pekka Abrahamsson Usability Assessment of an Extreme Programming Project: Close Co-operation with the Customer Does Not Equal to Good Usability p. 393 Timo Jokela, Pekka Abrahamsson Empirical Evaluation of Agile Software Development: The Controlled Case Study Approach p. 408 Outi Salo, Pekka Abrahamsson Good-Enough Software Process in Nokia p. 424 Kari Känsälä An Ideal Process Model for Agile Methods p. 431 Marcello Visconti, Curtis R. Cook Experimental Development of a Prototype for Mobile Environmental Information Systems (MEIS) p. 442 Ari Keronen, Mauri Myllyaho, Pasi Alatalo, Markku Oivo, Harri Antikainen, Jarmo Rusanen Selecting CMMI Appraisal Classes Based on Maturity and Openness p. 457 Stig Larsson, Fredrik Ekdahl Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: A BOOTSTRAP Example p. 471 Pasi Ojala Assessing the State of Software Documentation Practices p. 485 Marcello Visconti, Curtis R. Cook Requirements Prioritization Challenges in Practice p. 497 Laura Lehtola, Marjo Kauppinen, Sari Kujala A Requirement Elicitation Method in Collaborative Software Development Community p. 509 Masatoshi Shimakage, Atsuo Hazeyama Development of a Normative Package for Safety-Critical Software Using Formal Regulatory Requirements p. 523 Sergiy A. Vilkomir, Aditya K. Ghose A Study of Developer Attitude to Component Reuse in Three IT Companies p. 538 Jingyue Li, Reidar Conradi, Parastoo Mohagheghi, Odd Are Sæhle, Øivind Wang, Erlend Naalsund, Ole Anders Walseth Managing COTS Components Using a Six Sigma-Based Process p. 553 Alejandra Cechich, Mario Piattini Using Dynamic Modeling and Simulation to Improve the COTS Software Process p. 568 Mercedes Ruiz, Isabel Ramos, Miguel Toro From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:59:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 968 (968) [Please forward to interested colleagues and students / please excuse x-posting.] *** Announcing the 2004 Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 25-30, 2004 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ *** * Mandate The mandate of the institute is to provide an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in the new computing technologies that influence the way in which those in the Arts and Humanities carry out their teaching and research today. The institute will take place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures, and it will bring together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts and Humanities -- plus members of the digital library, library, and archival studies community, and beyond -- to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to their teaching and research. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by UVic's Faculty of Humanities and its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and is sponsored also by Malaspina U-C, the Consortium for Computing in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Image, Text, Sound and Technology Strategic Research Grant program, and others. * Curriculum Introductory offerings include: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U], with Barbara Bond [U Victoria]), and [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Marshall Soules and CDHI staff [Malaspina U-C]). Intermediate offerings include: [3] Computer-Assisted Textual Analysis (instructed by Stéfan Sinclair [U Alberta], with Matt Jockers [Stanford U]), [4] Intermediate Encoding: Advanced TEI Encoding Issues, Metadata, Text Transformations, and Databases (instructed by Susan Schreibman [U Maryland], with Amit Kumar [U Maryland]), and [5] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments (instructed by Aimée Morrison [U Waterloo] and Stan Ruecker [U Alberta]). Advanced Consultations include: [6] Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management (seminar leaders include Ian Lancashire [U Toronto], John Willinsky [U British Columbia], Geoffrey Rockwell [McMaster U], Susan Schreibman [U Maryland], and Julia Flanders [Brown U]; facilitated by Ray Siemens [Malaspina U-C]), and [7] Curriculum Development (seminar leaders include Michael Best [U Victoria], Geoffrey Rockwell [McMaster U], Stéfan Sinclair [U Alberta], and Aimée Morrison [U Waterloo]; facilitated by Ray Siemens [Malaspina U-C]). * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Standard registration fees for the six days of the institute will be $950 for faculty and staff, and $450 for students, if booked before April 30; fees are slightly more if booked after that date, and are reduced for members of sponsoring institutions. * Website For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and accommodation information -- see the institute's website, at this URL: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ . ---- On behalf of all those involved in the institute, I invite you to consider joining us, and anticipate welcoming you to the institute this summer. With all best wishes, Ray Siemens Director _____________ 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: catac@wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: CATAC'04 Registration Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:39:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 969 (969) *** SAVE and Register Early by 16 April 2004 *** International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'04) 27 June - 1 July 2004, Karlstad, Sweden Conference theme: Off the shelf or from the ground up? ICTs and cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization Website: www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ The biennial CATaC conference series continues to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Understanding the role of culture in how far minority and/or indigenous cultural groups may succeed - or fail - in taking up ICTs designed for a majority culture is obviously crucial to the moral and political imperative of designing ICTs in ways that will not simply reinforce such groups' marginalization. What is the role of culture in the development of ICTs "from the ground up" - beginning with the local culture and conditions - rather than assuming dominant "off the shelf" technologies are appropriate? Are the empowering potentials of ICTs successfully exploited among minority and indigenous groups, and/or do they rather engender cultural marginalization, cultural homogenization or cultural hybridization? REGISTRATION Until 16 April 2004, the conference registration fee is USD375 with further discounts for authors (one author discount fee per paper), reviewers and full-time students. After 16 April, each fee type will increase by USD50. Registration fees include technical sessions, panels, conference dinner and transport, reception, print proceedings, lunches, morning and afternoon coffees. See the registration form on the conference website for more information and REGISTER NOW. CONTACTS Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435 Fay Sudweeks Senior Lecturer School of Information Technology Murdoch University Murdoch WA 6150 Australia Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941 From: John Unsworth Subject: Faculty-Administrative Job opening at UIUC Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:27:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 970 (970) Associate Dean for Information Technology & Research Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) seeks to fill the Associate Dean for Information Technology & Research (ADITR) position. This position reports directly to the Dean of GSLIS; the Dean reports to the Provost. The ADITR is a regular, full-time (100% FTE), 12-month academic professional position. The successful candidate must also have administrative experience in a university, business or government setting and evidence of a strong program of scholarly research with credentials necessary to gain full professorial status.. The ADITR provides proactive administrative oversight of the School's information technology programs, policies and staff. Specific duties include: STAFF MANAGEMENT - Chair regular staff meetings (agenda set in consultation with IT staff liaison); set priorities for IT staff; prioritize, schedule, staff and oversee IT projects; review IT staff performance. POLICY - Identify areas where GSLIS needs new or improved policies with respect to IT staff, services, infrastructure, use etc.; communicate existing policies to faculty, staff, and students; enforce existing policies; coordinate GSLIS policies with campus policies, wherever possible and appropriate; advocate for GSLIS interests in campus-level IT policy offices and committees (e.g., ITAB). EVALUATION AND PLANNING - Evaluate adequacy of current IT systems, services, and staffing with respect to the teaching, research, and public engagement missions of GSLIS; propose to the Dean short-term and long-term plans to maintain, improve, or alter IT systems, services, and staffing in order to better serve the teaching, research, and public engagement missions of GSLIS. RESEARCH - Oversee independently budgeted research centers within GSLIS, including Prairienet, the Library Research Center (including Information Researchers), and the Center for Childrens' Books; work to link these centers to funded faculty research projects, student internships, teaching, and service to the University and the community; work with faculty and the GSLIS research administration officer to ensure that IT components of grant proposals are reviewed and approved before submission; ensure compliance with IRB and other University, State, and Federal regulations; work with development staff to identify, disseminate, and cultivate opportunities for IT-related research funding. BUDGET, PURCHASING, LICENSES - Provide the Dean with a budget for information technology maintenance, upgrades, and replacements at the beginning of each fiscal year; work with the School's Staff Clerk to assure that budget targets are met; specify and track all computer-related purchases so that they fall within the fiscal-year budget; provide periodic spending reports to the Staff Clerk and Dean during the fiscal year; work with the Staff Clerk to find the best prices for all purchases, or the most cost-effective means of reaching any technological goals; oversee the purchase of all GSLIS software to ensure license compliance and, through educational discounts or quantity purchasing to keep costs as low as possible; maintain copies of all licenses, license keys, and serial numbers. CITES CONTACT FOR - Hard cases from systems, user services, applications development, or instructional technology; high-level and long-range planning; early awareness of pending developments. Minimum qualification: Doctoral degree required. Preferred/desirable qualifications: Strong analytical skills, good communication skills, the ability to deal with the public and customers in a positive manner; a working knowledge of advancements in technology, and of office practices and procedures. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by Monday, April 5, 2004. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after the closing date. The proposed start date is April 21, 2004 or as soon as possible after the closing date. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Information about GSLIS, its programs, and its environment can be found on the internet at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/. To apply, send letter of application, complete resume, and three letters of reference by mail, fax or e-mail to: Dorlene Clark, Assistant to the Dean Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois 501 East Daniel Street, MC-493 Champaign, IL 61820-6211 Phone: (217)333-3281; Fax: (217)244-3302, E-mail: dorlene@uiuc.edu The UIUC is an AA-EOE From: Willard McCarty Subject: a remarkable story Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:05:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 971 (971) The most remarkable story of E. Gene Smith's preservation of Tibetan literature is told in the latest Times Literary Supplement, no. 5267 for 12 March 2004, in the Commentary column, p. 13. Smith, a Utah-born Mormon who traces his lineage back to the brother of the prophet Joseph Smith, was converted to Buddhism by a Tibetan scholar and lama Deshung Rinpoche on his visit to the U.S. in 1960. Smith then began the studies necessary to read and interpret the Tibetan canon (becoming in time perhaps the greatest Western scholar of Tibetan literature). Sometime later the lama suggested he go to India to locate and publish most important works of Tibetan literature before they were lost forever. This became his life's work. He eventually collected over 12,000 books of poetry, medicine, history, biography and principally Buddhist religious texts, spanning 10 centuries and comprising the largest collection in the West if not the world. Until 2001 this collection was housed in his 6-room duplex in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the books covering every surface and floor in every room but the kitchen; his bed was wedged between bookshelves. Then in 2001, after 40 years of collecting, he found two angels, Shelley and Donald Rubin, who have founded perhaps the largest museum of Himalayan art in the West and have allotted ample space to Smith's Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Tibet is a land with an extraordinary scholarly tradition dating back to the 7th century. Much of the literature exists only in the form of highly perishable manuscripts and block-printed books, on strips of mulberry-husk paper, bound together by straps of cloth. The centuries have taken their toll; so also did the Chinese invasion. Without Smith's efforts much of not all of what is now in safe hands would have been lost completely. Smith estimates that scholars now have about 10% of what once existed, 80% of what was well known. Little of this has been translated, so the culture remains largely inaccessible to the West. Given the importance of this literature not only in itself but for the transmission of Buddhism from India through China to Japan, and from Japan to the West, much already of great interest to many people is to be learned from this collection. The collection is going digital, at www.tbrc.org, where over 7,000 authors and 20,000 book titles are already to be found. The ambition is to put all of Tibetan literature online. The author of the article, Cynthia Haven, stresses the importance of online publication for the rescuing and preservation of cultural treasures such as the Tibetan canon. "If all that exists in Tibetan literature is online and downloadable, it becomes virtually indestructible -- unlike the fragile, ethereal tangkas that line the walls around Smith's offices, where electronic reproduction can give only a whiff of the original." I hope she is right about this virtual indestructibility. Comments? Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: memories Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:26:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 972 (972) A friend of mine, sociologist of the networked world who teaches at Toronto, has written a highly entertaining chronicle of his experiences with computers, in the form of a time-line, for the Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction. It is online, at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/, under Memories, "HCI - A Personal Timeline". Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 17.703 a remarkable story Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 973 (973) A remarkable story indeed! Perhaps the work is now financially OK but clearly it was done on the thinnest of shoestrings for years. If it is still financially tight, this would be a wonderful project for computer-using humanists who have a bit of extra money to rally around. I for one would be glad to kick in some money, indeed a few hundred of the appropriate bits of money. Gene Smith is a candidate for sainthood. Is there some big (and preferably rich) UN or other award for which he could be nominated? Andrew -- Andrew Brook, Professor of Philosophy Past-president, Canadian Philosophical Association Member, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 2217 Dunton Tower, Carleton University Ottawa ON, Canada K1S 5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Fax: 613 520-3985 Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook From: "jkirk" Subject: Re: 17.703 a remarkable story (fwd) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 974 (974) Dear Dr. McCarty, This is fantastically good news. As a producer of an electronic document (a CDROM based on many years of research), I just want to respond briefly on the electronics question since you asked for comment. As you are at a computer center, you probably already know all this and much more, but I'll proceed anyway, for what it is or is not worth. Internet databases are only as safe as the systems maintaining them, which can be downed by a variety of incidents: hackers, loss of electric power for one reason or another, and transient difficulties with a server to name the main issues. I would recommend that all digitised material also be put on DVDs or CDs for backup storage. In other words, all databases must have backup systems in place. This however requires annual checkups of the disks, as material on disks can get corrupted for unknown reasons. If these are also electronic, these have to be carefully maintained; and also organised to be re-done due to changes/updates in software unless the central facility agrees to maintain the software versions used for the disks indefinitely. Many important libraries are wrestling with these questions today. I view putting this database on the web as helpful to scholars but not as a necessarily improved method of preservation. Sincerely Joanna Kirkpatrick ==================================================== [deleted quotation]12 [deleted quotation]his [deleted quotation]but [deleted quotation]40 [deleted quotation]not [deleted quotation]online [deleted quotation]as [deleted quotation] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 17.703 a remarkable story Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:23:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 975 (975) Willard, [deleted quotation]I don't think that a single electronic copy provides any "virtual indestructibility" at all. A program similar to LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), http://lockss.standford.edu, last noted on this list, Humanist Vol.13: 13.0449, does. LOCKSS is highly automated software that assists libraries in archiving web based journals. LOCKSS creates a cache of content that is validated against other caches to monitor local corruption and correction if it does occur. Developing a LOCKSS program for images of biblical manuscripts and electronic texts based upon those images (substitute other digital content of your choice) would require serious re-thinking of ownership, access, cost of maintenance, coordination and other issues. But, if images of manuscripts and electronic texts based thereon are to survive, not just for 20 years, or 100 years, but for spans over which "stable" governments rise and fall, something similar to LOCKSS is going to be a necessity. It makes only a little sense to have textual witnesses preserved in just a few complete film copies. Any number of natural or artificial disasters could easily destroy both the originals and all extant copies. On the other hand, if all of the textual witnesses to the Bible were imaged and transcribed into electronic form and that content was mirrored by a program like LOCKSS by libraries, research institutions, individual scholars (probably only parts of interest), the probable survival rate of those materials would increase greatly. Still no absolute certainty of preservation but a far better chance of survival than such materials have at present. A variety of projects are exploring preservation of digital content, Stanford Digital Library Technologies, http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/, Cedars: curl exemplars in digital archives, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/(ended in 2002), and I am certain there are others. The Cedars project demonstrated with its access control to resources, we are a long way from the seamless replication of digital resources represented by LOCKSS. What is required now is organizational leadership to address the harder social questions of ownership, access, privilege and similar issues, which currently impede the use of preservation strategies such as LOCKSS. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: "for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth" Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:32:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 976 (976) Dear colleagues: Apparently there are devices external to a given machine that can fake an address of origin. The following message attests to such a device. Since this message did not, as far as I can tell, circulate on Humanist itself, the problem is not corruption of any of the machines involved in its distribution. I am sorry for this sort of clutter and so now find myself apologizing on behalf not of incompetent software, as so many times before, but of software used for evil purposes. With so much of the not-good about in the world, and some of it far more immediate and serious than anything like spam, use of the word "evil" may seem a bit strong. But if such spam should cause our conversation to diminish or cease, as it might for some, then evil will have been done, and so I think Professor Weinshank's reference to Genesis 8:21 is just right. As my very strange career has developed, it seems to have assumed a shape or purpose, and that purpose seems to be helping to keep a conversation about humanities computing alive. In fact I would go so far as to claim that the whole of the scholarly form of life is all about the larger "long conversation" (to borrow a phrase from the poet David Jones) -- rather than, for example, being right. So I very much hope that you will not be deterred, indeed spurred on to talk more, here. Yours, WM [deleted quotation] [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 977 (977) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 978 (978) [deleted quotation] which [deleted quotation] power for [deleted quotation] disks, [deleted quotation] facility [deleted quotation] 5267 for [deleted quotation] Mormon who [deleted quotation] read [deleted quotation] suggested [deleted quotation] work. 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Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Greetings: The March 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are three articles, a commentary, 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 March is "Cosmic Evolution" from Tufts University. The articles include: The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation Catherine Ayre and Adrienne Muir, Loughborough University The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program: New Projects in Fiscal Year 2003 Lee L. Zia, National Science Foundation A Developing Search Service: Heterogeneous Resources Integration and Retrieval System Lin Fang, Central China Normal University The Commentary is: The World Meets the Internet Patrice A. Lyons, Law Offices of Patrice Lyons, Chartered [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Alastair Dunning Subject: Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:41:36 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 981 (981) CALL FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED: DRH 2004 **** Extended Deadline: April 16th 2004 **** DRH 2004: Digital Resources for the Humanities University of Newcastle, UK Sunday 5th September ­ Wednesday 8th September 2004 Conference URL - http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ Although many excellent proposals have been submitted, the deadline for proposals to DRH has been extended until April 16th 2004. Please visit the website at http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk for full details of the conference and its themes and how to submit proposals. Email enquiries are also welcome at drh@ncl.ac.uk Postgraduates should be aware that the Arts and Humanities Data Service and the Association for History and Computing are offering a limited number of bursaries to postgraduates giving papers at the conference. ** Information for those who have submitted already ** Owing to some technical gremlins, there may have been some problems with a small number of the submissions already received. If you did *not* receive an email on submission of your proposal, please could you contact drh@ncl.ac.uk to clarify that your paper has been received. Those that have received an email need not do anything. drh@ncl.ac.uk http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 982 (982) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 711. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu *New Technologies and Renaissance Studies* Special Sessions at the 2004 Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Thursday and Friday, April 1-2, 2004 Grand Hyatt Hotel (42nd Street), New York, NY For the fourth consecutive year, the RSA program will feature a number of sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. This year's contributions follow this interest across several key projects (among them the Internet Shakespeare Editions, the Rulers of Venice, WorldArts, and the EEBO Text Creation Partnership), through a number of thematic touchstones (scholarly editing, document encoding, computer-assisted analysis, and access), and in several emerging areas of inquiry (active reading, teaching with DVD technology, and beyond). This year's sessions are outlined below. ******* We invite you to join us and, also, to be in touch with the organisers (before April 30, 2004) if you are interested in being involved in similar sessions at the RSA 2005 meeting, April 7-9 in Cambridge, UK. ******* *Organisers - William R. Bowen (U Toronto; Chair of Electronic Media, RSA), william.bowen@utoronto.ca - Raymond G. Siemens (Malaspina U-C), siemensr@mala.bc.ca * Thursday, April 01, 2004: Graduate Centre, CUNY, Rm C205 - 8:45-10:15: The Influence of New Technologies on Renaissance Studies Chairs: William R. Bowen, Victoria College (U Toronto), Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C) This session explores important trends of the past, current, and future influence of new technologies on Renaissance studies. Brief presentations by panelists who have carried out exemplary work integrating computing with disciplinary practice, will be followed by a respondent's comments and panel- and seminar-style discussion. Presenters: Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill U), David Gants (U New Brunswick), Eileen Gardner (ACLS, Italica Press Inc.), Peter Lukehart (National Gallery), Ronald G. Musto (ACLS, Italica Press Inc.), and Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins U). - 10:30-12:00: The Database and the Archive: Rulers of Venice 1300-1524 Chair & Respondent: Benjamin G. Kohl (Vassar C) - Monique E. O'Connell (Stanford U): Administrators of Empire: A Collective Portrait - Andrea Mozzato (U Venice): Problems and Possibilies of Constructing a Research Database: The Venetian Case - Claudia Salmini (Archivio di Stato di Venezia): The Evolution of a Project: Historical and Research Perspectives - 1:45-3:15: Literary Text Encoding and Analysis of Italian and English Works Chair: Patrick Finn (St. Mary's C) - Sergio Bozzola (U Padova): The Archivio Metrico Italiano (AMI) and the Methodological Implications of New Computerized Research on the Study of Sixteenth-Century Poetry - Barbara Bond (U Victoria): A Moving Target: The Challenge of Representing the Shifting Situations of Early Modern Scribal Practice - Stephanie F. Thomas (Sheffield Hallam U): Active Reading: Designing a Tool for Analyzing Variants in King Lear - 3:30-5:00: Applications for Teaching and Research Chair: Matthew Steggle (Sheffield Hallam U) - Marc S. Geisler (Western Washington U): Appropriating the 'Hollywood' DVD Interface for the Classroom - Richard Cunningham and Jessica Slights (Acadia U): Renaissance Studies and The Humanities Hypermedia Centre @ Acadia University - Winnie Chan (U Virginia): Les Trois Riches Heures de Douglas H. Gordon: The Gordon Collection's Three Books of Hours in a Digital Context * Friday, April 02, 2004: Graduate Centre, CUNY, Rm C205 - 8:45-10:15: Early Music, Hypertext, and Image Chair: Richard Cunningham (Acadia U) - Danielle Trudeau (San Jose State U): A Copyright-Cleared Image Resource for Renaissance Studies, worldart.sjsu.edu - Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody Institute) and Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill U): From Manuscript to Printing Press to Computer Chip: Studying Early Music in Digital Format (or into the 21st Century) - John Ottenhoff (Alma C): Hypertext, Intertext, Useful Text? Anne Lock and Psalm 51: An Experiment in Intertextuality - 10:30-12:00: Electronic Publication Chair: William R. Bowen (U Toronto) - Matthew Steggle (Sheffield Hallam U): Early Modern Literary Studies and the Stigma of Print - Shawn Jeremy Martin (U Michigan, EEBO-TCP): The Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBOBTCP): A New Model for Private/Public Cooperation and an Invaluable Resource for Early Modern Scholarship - 1:45-3:15: Electronic Editions and Studies I, Shakespeare Chair: Raymond G. Siemens (Malaspina U-C) - Michael Best (U Victoria): 'Visibly Charactered': Binary objects as Text in the Internet Shakespeare Editions - Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde U) and Michael Witmore (Carnegie Mellon U): The Very Large Textual Object II: Computing Shakespeare's Genres - 3:30-5:00: Electronic Editions and Studies II, Shakespeare and Herbert Chair: Barbara Bond, University of Victoria - Patrick Finn (St. Mary's C): Shakespeare 2.0: or, 'An Editor, A Theorist and a Programmer Walk Into a Bard...' - Robert Whalen (Northern Michigan U): Building the Electronic Temple _____________ 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 [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 983 (983) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 712 . Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Apologies to all recipients of Humanist for less than the usual service. Software at the Virginia end of our operations has ceased to work with no known date for repair. Meanwhile I will be manually doing what this software normally does, as a result of which messages will arrive as if from me personally rather than from Humanist. There may also be less grouping of messages than normal. Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 984 (984) This message was originally submitted by mike.fraser@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ---------------- Message requiring your approval (102 lines) ------------------ Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 713 . Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Since today happens to be St Patrick's Day and because I was reviewing some Humbul records anyway here is a fairly random selection of web sites catalogued in Humbul's database with some relevance to Irish Studies. The URL of the site itself is listed together with a link to the descriptive record in Humbul. AHRB centre for Scottish and Irish studies "... main research projects are The Diaspora Programme, The Languages of Scotland and Ireland Programme and the Literatures of Scotland and Ireland Programme ..." http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ahrbciss/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=4242 BBC : Giota Beag (A wee bit! a beginner's course in Irish) "... fifteen week course in Irish designed for the beginner, and which can be used in conjunction with BBC broadcasts. All of the broadcasts can be heard via Real Audio ..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/blas/learners/index.shtml http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=7670 The brazen head : James Joyce "... a vital site for Joyce enthusiasts and scholars. It is remarkably comprehensive and its content is imaginatively presented and easy to navigate ..." http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=1275 CELT corpus of electronic texts "... an excellent scholarly site, still growing, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Old Norse, Anglo-Norman French, and English) ..." http://www.ucc.ie/celt/index.html http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=339 Electronic Irish resource dataset (Princess Grace Irish library (Monaco)) "... biographical and bibliographical information for about 4,500 Irish writers and serial publications ..." http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=10216 Hiberno-English archive "... archive of Hiberno-English words, phrases, sayings, and idioms, collected and collated by Professor Terence Patrick Dolan of University College Dublin ..." http://www.hiberno-english.com/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=10160 History from headstones (Irish Gravestone inscriptions) "... a database of 55,000 gravestone inscriptions and transcripts from 800 graveyards in Northern Ireland ..." http://www.historyfromheadstones.com/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=6115 Irish diaspora studies "... Featured on the site are debates, which cover subjects like the Irish Famine, study guides, with topics such as the Orange Order, the Irish in South America, and the Irish in Britain, and a number of reviews of recent scholarship ..." http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=8235 Irish Resources in the Humanities "... database-driven gateway which provides information about online resources relating to Irish and Celtic studies ...." http://www.irith.org/index.jsp http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=6272 Irish script on screen (digital manuscript images) "... aim is to produce digital images of Irish manuscripts and make them available online with comprehensive commentaries ...." http://www.isos.dcu.ie/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=3368 The women's history project - sources for women's history in Ireland "... The collection of nearly 100,000 items was gathered from 14,000 collections between October of 1997 and August of 2001 ..." http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wh/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=10144 More from http://www.humbul.ac.uk/search/search.php?keyword=irish Mike --- Dr Michael Fraser Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service & Head of Humbul Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: Michael Fraser Subject: "Future of the Humanities" conference, Oxford Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:33:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 985 (985) There are still places available at the Future of the Humanities conference in Oxford this week, should anyone be interested (free for students and 20 pounds for everyone else and there's two ICT sessions!). Michael European Humanities Research Centre Director: Professor Martin McLaughlin, Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES Friday & Saturday, 19-20 March 2004 Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh's College http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/events/future.html The conference will assess the changes that have taken place in the Humanities in the last thirty-five years and will consider the future of the Humanities in the 21st century. The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) organized the first such conference in 1968 as part of its fiftieth anniversary celebrations. The European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford is presenting this follow-up conference in conjunction with the MHRA and other relevant bodies. PROGRAMME FRIDAY 19 MARCH 2004 9:00-9.30 am Registration: Main Hall, Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh's College 9:30-9.35 am Welcome: Martin McLaughlin (Director, EHRC), Catriona Kelly (Co-Director) 9.35-10:30 am Humanities and the Modern University Malcolm Bowie (Cambridge) and Martin McLaughlin (EHRC), Introduction Ludmilla Jordanova (Cambridge), Defining the Humanities Annie Cot (Sorbonne), Humanities and the Sorbonne 10.30-11:00 am: Coffee and Tea 11:00-12:30 pm ICT in the Humanities: Session I David Robey (AHRB), The Arts and Humanities and the Wider Landscape of Research in the UK Alan Bowman (Oxford), ITC and the Study of Ancient Documents Marilyn Deegan (Kings College London), Digital Scholarship and the Future of Humanities 12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch 2:00-3:00 pm ICT in the Humanities: Session II Michael Fraser (Oxford), The Development of Online Resource Discovery Services for the Humanities Robert McNamee (Oxford), The Electronic Enlightenment 3:00-4:00 pm Humanities and Europe: Session I Edward Acton (UEA), European Identity and where the Humanities have gone wrong Oswyn Murray (Oxford), The role of humanities in cultural resistance: 20th and 21st centuries 4:00-4:30 pm: Coffee and Tea 4:30-5:30 pm Humanities and Europe: Session II Joseph Sherman (Oriental Studies), Yiddish and the European Literary Tradition Alexis Tadié (Maison Française d'Oxford) 5:30-6:30 pm Keynote Address John Frow (Edinburgh), The Future of the Humanities 6:30-7:30 pm Reception SATURDAY 20 MARCH 2004 8.45 am: Registration 9:00-10.30 am Humanities and National Bodies Michael Jubb (AHRB), The Role of the AHRB Peter Brown (British Academy), The British Academy and the Support of Research Malcolm Cook (MHRA), The Role of the MHRA 10.30-11:00 am: Coffee and Tea 11:00-12:30 pm The Humanities and Outreach Christopher Brown (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Humanities and the Museum Valentine Cunningham (Oxford), Out of Bounds? Bill Swainson (Bloomsbury Publishing), The Humanities and General Publishing 12:30-1:00 pm Round Table Discussion There will be a registration fee of 20 pounds (conference sessions on 19 and 20 March, conference pack and Friday lunch included). Students are free (lunch vouchers available) and other concessions are available for those attending only one of the two days (12 pounds Friday only, 8 pounds Saturday only). Those wishing to attend are welcome to register and pay on the day, but are asked to send an email in advance to Avery.Willis@ehrc.ox.ac.uk if possible. From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: open source software for managing link collections? Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:32:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 986 (986) Dear colleagues, I am looking for a program which allows me to manage a collection of links for a website. The software should run on a server and produce webpages (either on the fly or after an update) sorting links by category and including a short description of each link. Entries should be added by a web interface. The software should be written in Perl, php or Java and should be open source. Does anybody know of such a tool? Thanks in advance for your help, Fotis Jannidis ____________________________________ Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft TU Darmstadt http://www.jannidis.de ____________________________________ [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: open source software for managing link collections? Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:32:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 987 (987) Dear colleagues, I am looking for a program which allows me to manage a collection of links for a website. The software should run on a server and produce webpages (either on the fly or after an update) sorting links by category and including a short description of each link. Entries should be added by a web interface. The software should be written in Perl, php or Java and should be open source. Does anybody know of such a tool? Thanks in advance for your help, Fotis Jannidis ____________________________________ Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft TU Darmstadt http://www.jannidis.de ____________________________________ [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress and National Library of Brazil Launch Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:34:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 988 (988) Joint Web Site Library of Congress and National Library of Brazil Launch Joint Web Site Dedicated to U.S.- Brazil Interactions Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and President of the National Library of Brazil Foundation Pedro Correa do Lago have launched a collaborative Web site that explores the historical similarities and contrasts, ethnic diversity and interactions between Brazil and the United States. "The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures," part of the Library of Congress's Global Gateway collaborative digital library initiative [http://international.loc.gov/intldl/find/digital_collaborations.html], includes some 9,800 images from the rare book, manuscript, map, print and photographic collections of the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil. The site represents the first phase of a continuing project by the National Library of Brazil and the Library of Congress that is being carried out under a cooperative agreement signed by Billington and Correa a do Lago. The site can be accessed at http://international.loc.gov/intldl/brhtml/. The project focuses on five main themes related to the history of Brazil and its interactions with the United States: "Historical Foundations," "Ethnic Diversity," Culture and Literature, "Mutual Impressions" and "Biodiversity. " Among the items available on the site in digital form are letters by President Thomas Jefferson about Brazil's independence movement, illustrations of 19th century Brazil by the French artist Jean Baptiste Debret, drawings by Maria Graham, Lady Calcott, documents relating to the reigns of the Emperors Pedro I and Pedro II, 18th century maps, and the text of "O Guarani," Brazil's earliest heroic poem. "The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures" is bilingual, in English and Portuguese, and is intended for use in schools and libraries and by the general public in both countries and around the world. The project grew out of a visit to Brazil in 1999 by Librarian of Congress Billington and subsequent discussions between the two libraries about the numerous parallels in the histories of the two largest countries in the Americas. Support for the project was provided by the Vitae Foundation of Sao Paulo, Brazil, directed by José Mindlin, and the Library of Congress. "The United States and Brazil" is part of the Library's Global Gateway initiative of digital library collaborations with leading libraries and cultural institutions from around the world. Other Global Gateway projects are underway or planned with libraries in Russia, Spain, Egypt, France, and Japan. The Library of Congress, founded April 24, 1800, is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. It preserves a collection of 128 million items * more than two thirds of which are in media other than books. These include the largest map and film and television collections in the world. In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the Library serves all Americans through its popular web site (www.loc.gov) and in its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill. The National Library of Brazil is the largest in Latin America. It was founded in 1808 with the collections of the Portuguese Royal Library. It preserves a collection of approximately 9 million items, including books, stamps, illustrations, manuscripts, maps and audiovisual materials. Its Web site is at www.bn.br. Questions? Please contact the Library of Congress's Global Gateway Project Team using the web form available at: http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-international.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New Sun Program for Education: Free resources, analysis, and best practices on technology in Education and Research. 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Any questions can be directed to one of the list moderators. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 989 (989) this is testing mail to lists From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 990 (990) this is testing mail to lists From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 991 (991) this is testing mail to lists From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 992 (992) this is testing mail to lists From: sramsay@uga.edu Subject: Re: 17.817 what's needed Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:06:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 993 (993) On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:13:15AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] Matt anticipates objections to his query on the grounds that it proposes a far too positivistic vision of the use of computers. I believe it does, but I would rather object to the question by pointing to the (I think) profound disparity between the sort of discourse prompted by the use of scanning electron microscopes and the sort of discourse that sustains humanistic inquiry. I am rather at a loss, for example, to answer Matt's question using the last few years of Shakespeare studies or literary theory as the object of such questioning. Wisdom overturned? Problems solved? Well, in a manner of speaking, I suppose, but not at all in the way that SEMs overturn wisdom and solve problems. Here are the last two paragraphs of a paper I wrote examining the output of a text analytical tool I wrote for studying stage dynamics: -- clip -- The confluence was technically visible in the previous graphs, but this one draws our attention to its singularity: Antony and Cleopatra share not only Alexandria, but the two liminal locations moving away from Rome; and besides these, another uncertain location ``outside Alexandria.'' At first unaware of the status of the battle, Antony briefly exits the scene for a better view (``Where yond pine does stand / I shall discover all'' (4.12.1--2). Like "Taenarum," this scene is a site of extraordinary confusion and rupture. Here Antony witnesses his own men going over to Caesar's army and subsequently accuses Cleopatra (who appears but offers no response) of betrayal. *Antony and Cleopatra* reveals itself as a play in which the tragic pattern of apparent reality yielding to the unseen forces of actuality is enacted not merely among characters moving within the local circumstances of a minor court, but in a series of events occurring on the grand stage of human history. The stable knowledge that precipitates the tragic awareness of fragility and contingency is located not merely in the psyche of the main characters (who are neither driven to madness nor paralyzed by inaction), but in the larger sweep of cultures and kingdoms. *Antony and Cleopatra*, which is both a history play and a tragedy, is in this view a play about the tragic undercurrent of history itself. -- clip -- I am not all sure that I have created "new knowledge" with this trajectory. I suspect I have not, but instead provided a new platform with which to examine some old knowledge. I am not at all sure that I have solved a "problem," if we mean by that some sort of communally shared bit of puzzlement. Like most critics, I think I have (rhetorically speaking) both created and solved a problem that didn't really exist in that sense. Have I overturned any wisdom? I certainly feel wiser. I am trying to make others feel this way as well by displaying the path of my investigations in rigorous terms. I am honestly not beset by the anxiety which I think I hear in Matt's post, because I am not beset by this anxiety as it relates to the humanities more generally. Perhaps others feel differently? For my part, I would rather ask: Has anyone done anything interesting lately? I think the answer is "yes." 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: Willard McCarty Subject: making trouble Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:07:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 994 (994) Matt Kirschenbaum, in Humanist 17.817, has effectively stirred the pot by asking if humanities computing has solved any problems recently. Can we point "to actual cases where a problem has been solved, a question has been answered, received wisdom has been overturned, or new things have been learned"? I think we can be morally certain that practitioners have solved numerous problems and answered questions of the technical sort, i.e. that problems of the kind that by nature can be solved have been solved, questions answered to which the proper response is an answer. Received wisdom overturned? That's easy: I hereby overturn the received wisdom that humanities computing succeeds if and only if it solves problems and answers questions, and I do this by pointing out that as a practice within and of the humanities its central concern is to problematize, to answer questions with better questions. Indeed, as Don Fowler said, its duty is not to solve problems but to make them worse. Of course as a technical practice it fulfills this duty by solving numerous problems en route -- one cannot uncover interesting, worthy problems by means of software unless the software is effectively designed and actually functions. But that is hardly the end of the matter. How about learning new things? I'd say, pick up the latest issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing or Computers and the Humanities. Perhaps not every article will show you something new, but I suspect nearly all of them will. Problematizing and posing better questions? I'd say, go to the same source -- or wait about a year until my book is published, then read it :-). One of the central problems we face -- I certainly hope we can solve this one -- is to remind people that in the humanities WE REMOVE OBSTRUCTIONS TO QUESTIONING, "for questioning is the piety of thought", as Heidegger said. Or take George Steiner's word for it: "The font of genuine thought is astonishment, astonishment at and before being. Its unfolding is that careful translation of astonishment into action which is questioning." (Heidegger, 1978, p. 56) Or if you prefer humour, read David Lodge's Changing Places, esp. for Morris Zapp's great ambition to write the commentary of commentaries on Jane Austen, the definitive study, such that once it is published all reading of, writing on, study of Austen will cease because all possible questions concerning her works will have been answered, all problems solved. Ok, one could go on and on in this vein, making fun and worrying Charles Taylor's poignant question, "What tempts people to adopt a poorer theory of self?" (Philosophy and the Human Sciences, p. 4) But if our purpose is to generate better questions from poorer ones, then what question should we be asking? I suppose something of the form "what have you done for me lately?" might be a starting point. What are we doing for the world that is of some value to it, and what sort of value is this? Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: "JELIA'04" Subject: JELIA'04 - 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Date: 2004/04/23 Fri AM 05:03:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 995 (995) CALL FOR PAPERS 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence JELIA'04 Lisbon, Portugal, September 27-30 http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jelia2004 Submission deadline: May 9th (abstracts due May 6th) /------------------------------------------------------------------/ INTRODUCTION Logics have, for many years, laid claim to providing a formal basis for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence. With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies and logic-based systems today, this claim is stronger than ever. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journées Européennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle - JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organised biennially, with English as official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Previous meetings took place in Roscoff, France (1988), Amsterdam, Netherlands (1990), Berlin, Germany (1992), York, U.K. (1994), Évora, Portugal (1996), Dagstuhl, Germany (1998), Málaga, Spain (2000) and Cosenza, Italy (2002). The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, has turned JELIA into a major biennial forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to artificial intelligence. AIM AND SCOPE The aim of the 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, JELIA'04, is to bring together active researchers interested in all aspects concerning the use of logics in artificial intelligence to discuss current research, results, problems and applications of both a theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of Logics in AI. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: -Abductive and inductive reasoning -Applications of logic-based systems -Automated reasoning and theorem proving -Computational complexity and expressiveness in AI -Description logics -Foundations of logic programming and knowledge-based systems -Hybrid reasoning systems -Knowledge representation and reasoning -Logic based AI systems -Logic based applications to the Semantic Web -Logic based planning and diagnosis -Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning -Logics and multi-agent systems -Logics in machine learning -Modal, temporal, spacial and hybrid logics -Non-classical logics -Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision and updates -Reasoning about actions, causal reasoning and causation -Uncertain and probabilistic reasoning [material deleted] From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MBR04 extended deadline June 13, 2004 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:56:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 996 (996) EXTENDED DEADLINE - Deadline June 13, 2004 ****************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION MBR'04 Pavia, Italy, December 16-18, 2004 Chairs: Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian ****************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ****************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION From Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 December 2004 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). The conference continues the theme of the Conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98 and "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01 The previous volumes derived from those conferences are: L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-46292-3 (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000). PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and engineering, including computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine the role of abduction, visualization, and simulation in model-based reasoning from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to model-based reasoning in science and engineering from the following list: - abduction - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning - simulative modeling - the role of diagrammatic representations - computational models of visual and simulative reasoning - causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction - visual analogy - thought experimenting - logical analyses related to model-based reasoning - manipulative reasoning - distributed model-based reasoning - embodiment in model-based reasoning - model-based reasoning and technological innovation INVITES SPEAKERS WHO ALREADY ACCEPTED TO GIVE A PRESENTATION AT MBR'04 - Atocha Aliseda, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, MEXICO - Lawrence W. Barsalou,Department of Psychology,Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA - Diderik Batens, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, BELGIUM - Walter Carnielli, CLEHC State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil - Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, Department of Computer and Information Sience, Columbus, OH, USA. - Kenneth D. Forbus, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Education, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA - Dov Gabbay, Department of Computer Science, King's College, London, UK - David Gooding, Science Studies Centre, Department of Psychology University of Bath, Bath, UK - Mary Hegarty, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA - Theo A.F. Kuipers, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen, NETHERLANDS - Michael Leyton, DIMACS, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA - Li Ping, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P.R.CHINA - Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY and Baruch College, The City University of New York, New York, USA - Nancy J. Nersessian, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA - Claudio Pizzi, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, ITALY - Qiming Yu, Department of Philosophy, Central University for Nationalities, Bejing, P.R. CHINA - Friedrich Steinle, Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin, GERMANY - John Woods, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Department of Computer Science, King's College, London, UK - Andrea Woody, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA [material deleted] From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress American Memory: Spalding Base Ball Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:05:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 997 (997) Guides, 1889-1939 The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the release of a new online collection "Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939." The collection is available on the Library's American Memory Web site at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/. "Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939" comprises a historic selection of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide and the Official Indoor Base Ball Guide. The collection reproduces 35 of the guides, which were published by the Spalding Athletic Company in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide was perhaps the premier publication of its day for the game of baseball. It featured editorials from baseball writers on the state of the game, statistics, photographs, and analysis of the previous season for all the Major League teams and for many of the so-called minor leagues across the nation. The Library of Congress has more than one thousand of these guides, believed to be the largest collection held by any institution. A small sample is offered here in "Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939"; in the future, the entire collection may be digitized and made available on this Web site. The twenty Official Indoor Baseball Guides and fifteen Spalding's Official Base Ball Guides currently presented are examples of the annual guides described above. More information about the content of this collection is available at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/spaldingintro.html American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Its more than 120 collections range from the papers of the U.S. presidents, Civil War photographs and early films of Thomas Edison to papers documenting the women's suffrage and civil rights movements, Jazz Age photographs and the first baseball cards. The collections contain over 8 million items from the Library of Congress and other major repositories. Please direct any questions to American Memory's "Ask A Librarian" web form: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory2.html From: "portal" Subject: indexicals Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:57:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 998 (998) We are beginning to describe a model of innovation expression as a type of memetic expression with substructural elements being aggregated under certain sets of constraints. Scholars are invited to contribute to this discussion, as it develops. The founders of the BCNGroup.org and the ontologystream have developed a model regarding the emergence of innovation and the constraints on its adoption. Ontologystream is in a unique position to outsource management, which we are prepared to do, and get to the business of bringing HIP (Human-centric Information Production) technology that is informed deeply by social science. Our hope is that the National need for this new capability will offset the entrenchment that characterize part of the constraints that this new bead game on Innovation Adoption will address. http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/techInnovation/home.htm Please forward this to those whom you wish. Dr. Paul S. Prueitt Research Professor The George Washington University Founder and Director, (1992) BCNGroup.org Founder and CEO, (2000) OntologyStream Inc Founder, (2003) dataRenewal Inc Founder, (2004) InOrb Technologies Inc Knowledge Scientist Cell: 703-981-2676 paul@ontologystream.com From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 17.819 what's needed Date: 2004/04/23 Fri PM 01:26:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 999 (999) I am sympathetic to Steve Ramsay's point that computers allow us to see things we might not have seen without them. The problem, though, is getting through to non-Humanities computing specialists who do not know our methods. I put off a few people who read my dissertation because I used quantitative methods to identify a semantic field for the titles of adventure novels published in France in the nineteenth century. The methodology was not that hard: I assembled a sample of all the titles of novels by a group of authors who specialized in the adventure novel, generated a word list and then looked at the frequency of the words in that list. Eight authors produced over 600 distinct titles, and as paratext the titles could be seen to share common themes about what adventure was about. I didn't think I was that unconventional in my approach because Claude Duchet was doing the same thing without computers in 1971. I put off my readers because I used tables and statistical measures instead of what we might call purely qualitative interpretation. I feel that I learned something about adventure novels, but I may be very alone in that feeling. A lot of people are not prepared to think about literature analyzed with a computer. Steve says he and others who use computers are making valuable discoveries, and I would agree. Willard claims that computers open up new methods of inquiry and problematize the humanities, creating more questions than answers, and I would agree with this as well. But I like a lot of people on this list already sing in the choir, so preaching to ourselves may make us feel better but won't necessarily bring in any new believers. Williard brings up the question of value: "What are we doing for the world that is of some value to it, and what sort of value is this?" The problem with value is that you have to inculcate it, you can't simply declare it and expect others to buy in. Inculcation (or indoctrination) takes time. I don't know if anything new is needed, except maybe patience and persistence in what we're already doing. A century ago the Humanities were synonymous with what we now call Classics. The Modern Language Association of America was founded in 1883 to promote the study and teaching of modern literature which was at best a poor cousin to Classical studies. Nowadays when people talk about the Humanities they often mean modern and classical literature. Perhaps in another 100 years the Humanities will necessarily include computers and the annual ALLC-ACH conference will be the required job market everyone attends. mw -- Mark B. Wolff Modern and Classical Languages Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://users.hartwick.edu/wolffm0/ From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 17.817 what's needed Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:58:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1000 (1000) There is probably a simple solution to this net frustration -- I just haven't taken time to research the problem. I find that in many instances my first court of appeal for information these days is google.com, whether checking my spelling (it's amazing how many people misspell genealogy!), or looking for vaguely recalled folksong lyrics, or for images of manuscripts and papyri. What frustrates me is the inability to limit the context in which target terms are found -- e.g. find "Frank" and "Smith" within a line of each other, or within the same delimited block (e.g. paragraph). So searches may get thousands of hits, when a restricted area search could provide the desired information quickly and effectively. I also do web genealogy, where this problem is especially obvious. So, if there are alternative web searchers that do what I want, please tell me. If not, this is something sorely needed. 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: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: C-Phil Online Course Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:54:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1001 (1001) 13:57 23.04.2004 ---------- C-Phil Online ---------------------------------------- The Literary Computing Group at Hamburg University is proud to announce the activation of its E-Learning course "C-Phil Online". Course topic: Introduction into Literary Computing Course language: German Course contents: Module I = Introduction and Theory Module II = Text MarkUp Module III = Computer Aided Text Analysis Module IV = Textual Modelling (in preparation) The course is open to a limited number of users. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/html/online.html ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Forschergruppe Narratologie und Arbeitsstelle Computerphilologie Universität Hamburg NarrNet - the Information hub for Narratologists: www.narratology.net C-Phil - Literary Computing at Hamburg University www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de My site: www.jcmeister.de Mail: mail@jcmeister.de Office: +49 - 40 - 42838 4994 Cell: +49 - 0172 40 865 41 From: "chk" Subject: Inexpensive short-term academic lodging in N. Germany sought Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:06:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1002 (1002) Inexpensive short-term academic lodging in N. Germany sought Long, long time reader of HUMANIST, and recently retired emeritus professor at Oberlin College in Ohio is looking for a bit of information on the possibility of short-term community academic or research lodging of some kind in northern Germany for a period of about three weeks or perhaps longer beginning about the first week of June. The point of this projected German trip is, if possible, to find inexpensive lodging (like a dorm room) among a group of German-speaking academics, or some such, where there would be the possibility to speak a good deal of German with tolerant German-speakers (to improve my German speaking ability), do a bit of writing, and use as a base of operations to travel around. One of my sons, in his mid-twenties, would be with me for maybe 10 days. I have no idea whether this is a utopian idea, a realistic possibility, or an extraordinarily uninformed thought. Any information on the subject would be greatly appreciated. Either a note to the list or to me personally would do it. Many thanks! - Christian Koch christian.koch@oberlin.edu From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: I wish I could get Aramaic texts in Latin lettrs Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:07:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1003 (1003) Dear Humanist List Members, I wonder if many of you saw the modern film about Jesus Christ who speaks Aramaic in this film. I wonder if it is possible to find the script of this film in Aramaic but by Latin letters? Or may be other Aramaic texts in Latin letters? I'd like to compute the frequency of occurrences of Aramaic phonemes, especially its sound structure at the beginning (Anlaut) and the end (Auslaut) of the Aramaic word. Or may be, you know of such counts? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb@hotmail.com From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 17.823 what's needed Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:07:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1004 (1004) For the kind of search that Bob Kraft is talking about, perhaps grep would be useful. Look at http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ From: Kluwer Subject: new book: New Developments in Parsing Technology Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:10:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1005 (1005) New Developments in Parsing Technology edited by Harry Bunt Tilburg University, The Netherlands John Carroll University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Giorgio Satta University of Padua, Italy TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY -- 23 Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools and the software to parse automatically. Parsing is a central area of research in the automatic processing of human language. Parsers are being used in many application areas, for example question answering, extraction of information from text, speech recognition and understanding, and machine translation. New developments in parsing technology are thus widely applicable. This book contains contributions from many of today's leading researchers in the area of natural language parsing technology. The contributors describe their most recent work and a diverse range of techniques and results. This collection provides an excellent picture of the current state of affairs in this area. This volume is the third in a line of such collections, and its breadth of coverage should make it suitable both as an overview of the current state of the field for graduate students, and as a reference for established researchers. This volume is of specific interest to researchers, advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and teachers in the following areas: Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Language Engineering, Information Science, and Cognitive Science. It will also be of interest to designers, developers, and advanced users of natural language processing software and systems, including applications such as machine translation, information extraction, spoken dialogue, multimodal human-computer interaction, text mining, and semantic web technology. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Preface. * 1: Developments in Parsing Technology: From Theory to Application; H. Bunt, J. Carroll, G. Satta. 1. Introduction. 2. About this book. * 2: Parameter Estimation for Statistical Parsing Models: Theory and Practice of Distribution-Free Methods; M. Collins. 1. Introduction. 2. Linear Models. 3. Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars. 4. Statistical Learning Theory. 5. Convergence Bounds for Finite Sets of Hypotheses. 6. Convergence Bounds for Hyperplane Classifiers. 7. Application of Margin Analysis to Parsing. 8. Algorithms. 9. Discussion. 10. Conclusions. * 3: High Precision Extraction of Grammatical Relations; J. Carroll, T. Briscoe. 1. Introduction. 2. The Analysis System. 3. Empirical Results. 4. Conclusions and Further Work. * 4: Automated Extraction of TAGs from the Penn Treebank; J. Chen, K.V. Shanker. 1. Introduction. 2. Tree Extraction Procedure. 3. Evaluation. 4. Extended Extracted Grammars. 5. Related Work. 6. Conclusions. * 5: Computing the Most Probable Parse for a Discontinuous Phrase-Structure Grammar; O. Plaehn. 1. Introduction. 2. Discontinuous Phrase-Structure Grammar. 3. The Parsing Algorithm. 4. Computing the Most Probable Parse. 5. Experiments. 6. Conclusion and Future Work. * 6: A Neural Network Parser that Handles Sparse Data; J. Henderson. 1. Introduction. 2. Simple Synchrony Networks. 3. A Probabilistic Parser for SSNs. 4. Estimating the Probabilities with a Simple Synchrony Network. 5. Generalizing from Sparse Data. 6. Conclusion. * 7: An Efficient LR Parser Generator for Tree-Adjoining Grammars; C.A. Prolo. 1. Introduction. 2. TAGS. 3. On Some Degenerate LR Models for TAGS. 4. Proposed Algorithm. 5. Implementation. 6. Example. 7. Some Properties Of the Algorithms. 8. Evaluation. 9. Conclusions. * 8: Relating Tabular Parsing Algorithms for LIG and TAG; M.A. Alonso, E. de la Clergerie, V.J. Díaz, M. Vilares. 1. Introduction. 2. Tree-Adjoining Grammars. 3. Linear Indexed Grammars. 4. Bottom-up Parsing Algorithms. 5. Barley-like Parsing Algorithms. 6. Barley-like Parsing Algorithms Preserving the Correct Prefix Property. 7. Bidirectional Parsing. 8. Specialized TAG parsers. 9. Conclusion. * 9: Improved Left-Corner Chart Parsing for Large Context-Free Grammars; R.C. Moore. 1. Introduction. 2. Evaluating Parsing Algorithms. 3. Terminology and Notation. 4. Test Grammars. 5. Left-Corner Parsing Algorithms and Refinements. 6. Grammar Transformations. 7. Extracting Parses from the Chart. 8. Comparison to Other Algorithms. 9. Conclusions. * 10: On Two Classes of Feature Paths in Large-Scale Unification Grammars; L. Ciortuz. 1. Introduction. 2. Compiling the Quick Check Filter. 3. Generalised Rule Reduction. 4. Conclusion. * 11: A Context-Free Superset Approximation of Unification-Based Grammars; B. Kiefer, H.-U. Krieger. 1. Introduction. 2. Basic Inventory. 3. Approximation as Fixpoint Construction. 4. The Basic Algorithm. 5. Implementation Issues and Optimizations. 6. Revisiting the Fixpoint Construction. 7. Three Grammars. 8. Disambiguation of UBGs via Probabilistic Approximations. * 12: A Recognizer for Minimalist Languages; H. Harkema. 1. Introduction. 2. Minimalist Grammars. 3. Specification of the Recognizer. 4. Correctness. 5. Complexity Results. 6. Conclusions and Future Work. * 13: Range Concatenation Grammars; P. Boullier. 1. Introduction. 2. Positive Range Concatenation Grammars. 3. Negative Range Concatenation Grammars. 4. A Parsing Algorithm for RCGs. 5. Closure Properties and Modularity. 6. Conclusion. * 14: Grammar Induction by MDL-Based Distributional Classification; Yikun Guo, Fuliang Weng, Lide Wu. 1. Introduction. 2. Grammar Induction with the MDL Principle. 3. Induction Strategies. 4. MDL Induction by Dynamic Distributional Classification (DCC). 5. Comparison and Conclusion. Appendix. * 15: Optimal Ambiguity Packing in Context-Free Parsers with Interleaved Unification; A. Lavie, C. Penstein Rosé. 1. Introduction. 2. Ambiguity Packing in Context Free Parsing. 3. The Rule Prioritization Heuristic. 4. Empirical Evaluations and Discussion. 5. Conclusions and Future Directions. * 16: Robust Data-Oriented Spoken Language Understanding; K. Sima'an. 1. Introduction. 2. Brief Overview of OVIS. 3. OP vs. Tree-Gram. 4. Application to the OVIS Domain. 5. Conclusions. * 17: SOUP: A Parser for Real-World Spontaneous Speech; M. Gavaldà . 1. Introduction. 2. Grammar Representation. 3. Sketch of the Parsing Algorithm. 4. Performance. 5. Key Features. 6. Conclusion. * 18: Parsing and Hypergraphs; D. Klein, C.D. Manning. 1. Introduction. 2. Hypergraphs and Parsing. 3. Viterbi Parsing Algorithm. 4. Analysis. 5. Conclusion. Appendix. * 19: Measure for Measure: Towards Increased Component Comparability and Exchange; S. Oepen, U. Callmeier. 1. Competence & Performance Profiling. 2. Strong Empiricism: A Few Examples. 3. PET - Synthesizing Current Best Practice. 4. Quantifying Progress. 5. Multi-Dimensional Performance Profiling. 6. Conclusion - Recent Developments. * Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2293-X Date: June 2004 Pages: 216 pp. EUR 139.00 / USD 153.00 / GBP 96.00 From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.813 what's needed; pedagogical use of text-analysis Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:07:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1006 (1006) [deleted quotation] teaching [deleted quotation] comments on [deleted quotation] exercise [deleted quotation] can turn [deleted quotation] example [deleted quotation] have me [deleted quotation] lines? [deleted quotation] students [deleted quotation] another [deleted quotation] comparative [deleted quotation] switching [deleted quotation] is all [deleted quotation] computing [deleted quotation] rush them [deleted quotation] is to do, [deleted quotation] they've [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance A calendar is like a map. And just as maps have insets, calendars in the 21st century might have 'moments' expressed in flat local time fanning out into "great circles" expressed in earth revolution time. From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.823 what's needed Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:08:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1007 (1007) I appreciate the several, patient responses to my admittedly tendentious question. FWIW, I've posted a version of it on my blog, and I'd be happy to see discussion and comment there as well: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000472.html Let me see if I can address some of the points people have made and clarify my own thinking. I read Literary and Linguistic Computing too, but I'm not satisfied that all we need to do is look there, or to the closing paragraphs of our latest article, to gauge the impact of our field. Note that I wrote "impact," not value or worth. Since the early 1990s (and earlier) many of us have committed time, money, and less tangible forms of professional capital to the construction of (to adopt a phrase) digital resources in the humanities. I think anyone who does this work quickly moves beyond any residual positivism and arrives at the realization that the process is what's most compelling about the activity--this is what I take it to mean to imagine what we don't know, or to quote from some pretty awful music I used to listen to by a certain Canadian rock trio, "the point of the journey is not to arrive." Fine. But I don't for a moment believe anyone who has ever spent time on a schema, ontology, or taxonomy, to say nothing of the long hours of encoding, imaging, or worrying over the placement of a button on an interface hasn't conceived of an ideal user who comes to their resource, accesses the materials, and then uses them as the basis for a piece of scholarship that could not have otherwise been written. Nor do I buy the notion that what we do in humanities computing is so rarefied that it can't be held accountable to what are, after all, some fairly conventional criteria for scholarship: "a problem solved, a question answered, received wisdom overturned, or new things learned." (Nor do I accept, incidentally, that the kind of knowledge gleaned from a scanning electron microscope is purely of the preceding nature. To create a binary between the two seems to me to essentialize both humanities and sciences in mutually unproductive ways.) Steve says we would do better to ask, "what have we done that's interesting?" I submit that being interesting is the easy part; we're all pretty interesting after our own fashion, but I would rather ask at what point does "interest" pass into something that circulates macroscopically in a scholarly economy of citation and influence? In such a way that others have to stand up (or sit down) and take notice of an insight? I note that I'm not alone in this assessment: in an abstract of a talk delivered last week here at Maryland, John Bradley writes: "Digital Libraries seemed like a great thing for Humanities scholarship when they were first proposed. Why, then, do they seem to have had relatively little impact on how humanists do their scholarship?" The rhetorical presumption behind my post is not that such cases don't exist (gotcha, the emperor has no clothes) but rather that we would do well, if for no other reason than eminently practically ones of funding, outreach, recruitment, tenure, and promotion, to be able to point to some influential discoveries. I can think of a few examples off the top of my head: Kevin Kiernan's imaging work on the Beowulf manuscript; Will Thomas and Ed Ayers's work on American slavery, based on data compiled for their Valley of the Shadow project. I would like to hear of others, and perhaps think in terms of collectively assembling a casebook of digital humanities scholarship. One last point: in so far as there is a latent tension between positivism and empiricism in what I've been writing what I'm ultimately aiming for is the latter. I _do_ believe empiricism has its place in the humanities--and humanities computing. Indeed, I believe empiricism is under-theorized and under-taught. There's a fascinating exchange on Blake's color printing processes in recent issues of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly that would make rich reading material for a graduate research methods course. Call it a strategic essentialism or local knowledge if you prefer: but what can digital resources contribute to a debate over the state of empirical knowledge in the humanities? Matt Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 17.825 what's needed Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:08:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1008 (1008) [deleted quotation]To the best of my knowledge (and the information provided on the grep page), grep is not a web searcher like google.com and several others, but searches known files. If I'm wrong, and grep can be used to search the entire web for words or phrases that occur near each other (e.g. within two lines of each other), please elaborate! I don't see it in the introductory information. 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: Gary Wells Subject: Call to Attend: Technology in the Humanities, Ithaca College Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:09:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1009 (1009) CALL TO ATTEND Conference on Technology in the Humanities May 24-26, 2004 Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY Early Registration Deadline: May 10, 2003 Conference program and on-line registration form can be found at the conference web site: http://www.ithaca.edu/htc2004/ Registration questions may be sent to cess@ithaca.edu. Other inquiries may be sent to htc2004@ithaca.edu. The widespread use of digital technology has exerted a profound influence upon the humanities. Beyond the practical aspects of using technology effectively, humanities teachers and scholars also grapple with the ideological and imaginative complexities it has made possible. This conference will be an opportunity to present and discuss new ideas on technological practice and pedagogy in specific humanities disciplines, as well as the broader issues of the effect of technology upon teaching and research. Featured Speakers: Dr. Larry Johnson, CEO, New Media Consortium Dr. Vernon Burton, Associate Director Humanities and Social Sciences , National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), UIUC From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: invitation international colloquium Manuscript-Variant-Genese Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:08:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1010 (1010) Manuscript - Variant - Genese Internationa(a)l Colloquium Wednesday May 12th 2004 Erasmushuis, K.U. Leuven Faculteit Letteren, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven - Belgium Info: http://www.kantl.be/ctb/event/2004/variant.htm Please register with: Prof. dr. Marcel De Smedt [Organisatie/Organisers] -Prof. dr. Marcel De Smedt, K.U. Leuven, Faculteit Letteren, Departement Literatuurwetenschap -Edward Vanhoutte, Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie (CTB) - KANTL [Introduction] The study of manuscripts and variants, and of the genesis of a literary work, is a central point of attention in modern editorial theory and practice. Nowadays, not only the French 'critique génétique' concentrates on the study of manuscripts of modern authors; more and more, the German and the Anglo-American schools of scholarly editing take into account holograph variants and the study of variation between print editions of a literary work. As for the presentation of editorial scholarship, electronic scholarly editions have become true alternatives for scholarly editions in print. This one day colloquium will address the study of holograph texts, of manuscript variants and variation between several print editions. The study of the genesis of a literary work is not only of great importance for the constitution of a reliable author's text, but also enhances a better understanding and interpretation of the work. Dutch will be spoken during the morning session, the afternoon session will be English only. [Programma/Programme] 10u. Ontvangst met koffie en/of thee/Morning coffee & tea 10u.30 Opening 10u.40 Van handschrift tot druk en vermeerderde herdrukken. De wordingsgeschiedenis van Firmin van Heckes Verzen (1912) / Gedichten (1925/1936) Yves T'Sjoen, Vakgroep Nederlandse Letterkunde, U Gent 11u.10 Stijn Streuvels' Levensbloesem. Receptie als onderdeel van de ontstaansgeschiedenis Marcel De Smedt, K.U. Leuven 11u.40 Korte pauze/Short break 11u.50 De kunst van het schrappen. De tekstgeschiedenis van Simon Vestdijks Terug tot Ina Damman HTM Van Vliet (NL) 12u.20 Minnehandel of Liebesspiel. De genese van de Duitse vertalingen van Stijn Streuvels' werken aan de hand van de briefwisseling met zijn Duitstalige uitgevers Joke Debusschere, Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - KANTL 13u. Lunch 14u.15 From le mot juste to What Is the Word. Genetic variants in Samuel Beckett's works Dirk Van Hulle, Universiteit Antwerpen 14u.45 The text as a product and as a process Domenico Fiormonte, Universita di Roma (I) 15u.20 Korte pauze/Short break 15u.30 Variants and Variables. Digital endeavours to disclose genetic variation Edward Vanhoutte, Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - KANTL 16u. How watching Vanity Fair grow affects reading it Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University (UK) 16u.40 Afsluiting en Receptie/Closing and Drinks reception [Details] Locatie/Venue: Erasmushuis K.U. Leuven-Faculteit Letteren Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 - 3000 Leuven Datum/Date: 12 mei 2004, 10u.-17u.00 Deelname/Participation: Free Aanmelden/Registration: Marcel De Smedt K.U. Leuven Faculteit Letteren Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 3000 Leuven email: marcel.desmedt@arts.kuleuven.ac.be Lunch: Lunch is available from the student restaurant. Delegates who wish to join in, please let us know on registration. Lunch is paid on the day proper. Organisatie/Organisers: Prof. dr. Marcel De Smedt, K.U. Leuven, Faculteit Letteren, Departement Literatuurwetenschap Edward Vanhoutte, Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie (CTB) - KANTL -- ================ 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 edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: "Peter Shillingsburg" Subject: Master-Classes in Textual Criticism Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:09:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1011 (1011) Peter Robinson and Peter Shillingsburg wish to invite you and one or more of your students to our jointly hosted two-day Master-Classes in Textual Criticism. Hans Walter Gabler and J C C Mays are our Master Teachers for the occasion. Each will give a morning lecture and conduct an afternoon symposium. Dates: May 20 and 21 (Thursday and Friday) Place: DeMontfort University, Leicester Hours: 11 am and 2pm each day Fee: Free but meals and lodging are not provided Please indicate your intention to come by emailing Peter Shillingsburg at pshillingsburg@dmu.ac.uk See attached Poster Visit our web site: www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/ests/masterclasses Please bring this opportunity to the attention of appropriate students or colleagues we might have missed. [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: "Eric F. Van de Velde" Subject: SSP Conference discusses Institutional Repositories Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:06:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1012 (1012) Of potential interest to this list: I'll be moderating a panel session at the upcoming conference of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. The session is titled "University Libraries: The New Players in Scholarly Publishing". The speakers are: - Maria Bonn, Director, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library - Catherine Candee, Director of Scholarly Communication Initiatives, California Digital Library - Teresa Eling, Director of Electronic Publishing, Cornell University Library - Eric F. Van de Velde, Director of Library Information Technology, California Institute of Technology The conference is held from June 2nd until June 4th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA. This session will take place on Friday, June 4th, from 8:45am until 10:15am. (Concurrent session 3C) --Eric Van de Velde. [See http://www.sspnet.org/.] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.10 Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:04:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1013 (1013) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 10 (May 5 - May 11, 2004) VIEW Norwich University Graduate Portal: Establishing Community for Online Students By M. E. Kabay http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i10_kabay.html Ubiquitous Conversations (100 Reasons You Should Be Reading Ubiquity) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/reflections/ubiquitous%20convos.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: summaries of ongoing work Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:09:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1014 (1014) In attempting to figure out how humanities computing relates to this or that field of study I find myself most indebted to summaries and overviews written by leading scholars for an intelligent audience of non-specialists. Such things are very hard to write but invaluable if well done. Recently I came across an announcement of a series intended for the purpose. I pass along the following in case someone here is inclined to attempt such a book. Other publishers are of course welcome to inform us of similarly relevant opportunities, don't you think? [deleted quotation] study. [deleted quotation] See http://www.palgrave.com/advances.htm for more. Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Classics@ Volume 2 now online Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:00:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1015 (1015) http://www.chs.harvard.edu/classicsat/issue_2/ Classics @ The Electronic Journal of the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University Volume 02, 2004. Christopher Blackwell, Ross Scaife, edd. Contents Greg Nagy, "Preface". Christopher Blackwell and Ross Scaife, "Introduction: CHS Summer Workshop on Technology." Deborah Anderson, "Preliminary Guidelines to Using Unicode for Greek." Michael Arnush, "The Epigraphic Database for Athenian Democracy (EDAD)." Christopher W. Blackwell, "Demos: Challenges and Lessons." Sandra Boero-Imwinkelried, "Vicus Unquentarius: Perfume, Epigraphy, and XML." Hugh A. Cayless, "Directory Services for Classical Informatics." Susan Guettel Cole, "From GML to XML." Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott, "As Many Homers As You Please: an On-line Multitext of Homer." Rebecca Frost Davis, "Collaborative Classics: Technology and the Small Liberal Arts College." Michael Jones, "Making electronic publication easier, faster, and more powerful with Hydra, a drag-and-drop TEI publishing environment." Martin Mueller, "Of Digital Serendipity and the Homeric Scholia." Bruce Robertson, "Improving Ancient History Online with Heml." Neel Smith, "TextServer: Toward a Protocol for Describing Libraries." Lenny Muellner, "CHS Publishing Program and Goals." [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Re: 17.829 what's needed Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:10:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1016 (1016) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1017 (1017) [deleted quotation] Perhaps something like WebCorp, developed at the Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES) at the University of Liverpool, comes a little closer to what Bob is seeking: "How is WebCorp different from search engines? Search engines, such as Google and AltaVista, are designed to retrieve information from the World Wide Web. They use complex techniques to index the Web and return the documents from their indices which are most relevant for the user's request. WebCorp is designed to retrieve linguistic data from the Web: concordance lines showing the context in which the user's search term occurs. In response to a user query, standard search engines return a list of URLs (page addresses), along with a description of or some text from each page to help the user decide which pages are most useful. To view the pages, the user must click on each of the links individually." - http://webcorp.org.uk/guide/howworks.html Plenty of options available, including collocation, pattern matching and wordlist generation. Unfortunately, it currently appears to be undergoing maintenance so getting results is very slow. Mike --- Dr Michael Fraser Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service & Head of Humbul Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: matchmaking Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:55:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1018 (1018) There are two questions that seem to have become entangled in Matt Kirschenbaum's latest on the question of "what's needed?" One is whether work in humanities computing is worth doing. The second is whether it gets noticed and rewarded. To deal with the latter I suppose one needs to deal in the coin that has buying power "in a scholarly economy of citation and influence", as Matt says. Hence the violent metaphors of "impact" and "overturning", the problematic notions of solving problems and answering questions. But I would hope that we remain aware of what we're doing, and that means being clear to ourselves what is indicated by the language we use and what relationship that has to the humanities, properly so called. Then we won't forget the first question. "Impact" belongs to what one might call The Billiard Ball Theory of history, suggesting that historical actors are inert objects hit by some event, idea or whatever. What bothers me here is the assumed passiveness. Are we playing a participatory game or are we simply wanting to smack our colleagues with big, impressive achievements so that they won't ever forget who we are? It really does matter which of these you think you're doing, whether or not said colleagues ever feel the blow. I agree that if one makes a tool primarily for others to use and they don't use it there are questions one needs to ask, but even there "impact" is a misleading metaphor. If we build it and they don't come, perhaps we've been thinking too much about impact. "Overturning" does happen sometimes, and certainly we do not want simply to receive knowledge, like some canned ontology from an AI factory. We want rather to be de-ontologizing. But I am not at all sure that setting out to overturn the current government of ideas is the right objective. What actually motivates good scholarship? How does it come about? Are we after (dangerously to use a dangerous term) the truth, or are we after being revolutionaries, and so being noticed? Perhaps it doesn't matter, as long as we do the work. The notions of solving problems and answering questions are problematic because they can so easily be mistaken for the goal of work in the humanities rather than a means. Of course we want to solve problems, such as getting a particular piece of software to work, but that's a means to some end or other. Is Ovid's use of personification a problem that one solves? What's the most common open-class word in the works of Jane Austen is a question that one may need answered, but a scholar will want to get it answered in order to ask better, more interesting questions -- or it isn't scholarship that he or she is doing. One thing I think Matt is saying agrees with Leibniz's wonderful articulation of an objective he shared with us: "Theoreticos Empiricis felici connubio zu conjungiren", as he said in a characteristic mixture of Latin and German, "to join theorists and empirics in a happy marriage" (quoted by Peter Burke, Social History of Knowledge, p. 17). So I repeat Matt's question using Leibniz's connubial metaphor: what can we do to further the romance? Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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 Ess Subject: forthcoming book Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:38:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1019 (1019) Dear Humanists: I hope the following will be of interest to at least some of us, e.g., with regard to * notions of literacy and critical thinking, and the possible impacts on these notions resulting from shifting from print to electronic culture; * various hermeneutical traditions and their relation to manuscript, book, and electronic media; and * the shape and cultural roles of humanistic traditions and disciplines - including logic and critical thinking, and the role of the Reader, the Scholar, and the Librarian (Eep Talstra) - vis-a-vis changes in media brought about by the emergence of computers and computer networks. +++ Please post and distribute as appropriate. Apologies for duplications and cross-postings - Forthcoming book announcement. Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, edited by Charles Ess. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2004) Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media collects contemporary scholarship to address the question: What does critical thinking about the Bible - e.g., as applied in Jewish and Christian traditions of interpretation, theology, and our very understanding of what "Scripture" means - "look like" as the Bible (_the_ Book of the age of print) is transmediated from print to electronic formats? This volume, the first of its kind, is made up of contributions originally developed for a conference sponsored by the American Bible Society. Contributors represent a wide diversity of religious traditions and academic disciplines--philosophy, biblical studies, theology, feminism, aesthetics, communication theory, and media studies. Ess's Introduction summarizes the individual chapters and then develops their broader significance for contemporary debates regarding media, postmodernism, and the possible relationships between faith and reason. Table of Contents: Introduction: Critical Thinking, Biblical Texts, and Faith and Reason in the Age of New Media Keynote Address: Reasoned Judgment and Revelation: The Relation of Critical Thinking and Bible Study - Peter Facione Critical Thinking Within Biblical Texts: Bible Reading and Critical Thinking - Christof Hardmeier Critical Thinking for Ordinary Believers - Byron Eubanks Three Contemporary Perspectives on Critical Thinking and the Bible Let the Reader Understand: Biblically Disciplined Thought in Light of the Interrogative Model of Reasoning -Susan and Jim Bachman Critical Thinking in the Black Church - Isaac Mwase Women's Feminist Critical Thinking about the Bible - Elizabeth Dodson Gray Postmodern Perspectives Reading Scripture as Critical-thinking Christians in a Postmodern Era - James Voelz McLuhan and a Critical Electronic Ethos: Contexts in Collision or Harmony - Donald Colhour Hearing the Hum in a Wired World: Preliminary Musings on Virtual Reality and Evangelical Education - Ben Witherington Voices of Caution Images Have Consequences: The Impact of the Visual on the Word - Terry Lindvall Reading and Critical Thinking: Pentecostal Traditions vis-á-vis New Media - Michael Palmer Middle Grounds Bible Study, Critical Thinking and Post-Critical Thought: Cultural Considerations - Phil Mullins Bible Reading between History and Industry - Eep Talstra Prayer and the Internet - Kate Lindemann Contributors; Index. 348 pages. Available early summer. ISBN 0-7618-2863-X Paper $38.00 ISBN 0-7618-2862-1 Cloth $65.00 The book may be pre-ordered by calling UPA Customer Service at 1-800-462-6420. +++ Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: 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: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de (RAM-Verlag) Subject: Glottometrics 7, 2004 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:59:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1020 (1020) Interested in "Glottometrics 7, 2004"? 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 7, 2004 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-Verlag From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:36:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1021 (1021) Volume 8 Number 6 of Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications and Volume 9 Number 6 of Multimedia Systems are now available on the SpringerLink web site at <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=201PK61LJAEE>http://springerlink.metapress.com. [Unfortunately the notices from Springer Verlag came in garbled form, so I cannot reproduce the contents here. --WM] [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Ubiquity 5.9 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:59:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1022 (1022) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 9 (April 28 - May 4, 2004) VIEW Your (un)Reasonable Expectations for Privacy While law enforcement adapts to the challenges of the electronic era, expectations of privacy diminish. By Eric Salveggio http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i9_salveggio.html REVIEW Rethinking Rights and Regulations -- Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies Like it or not, as users of new technologies we are playing the telecommunication game by an increasingly complicated set of rules. Reviewed by Carl Bedingfield http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i9_bedingfield.html [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Mats_Dahlstr=F6m=22?= Subject: Human IT # 7.1 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:58:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1023 (1023) Human IT has just released issue 1, volume 7, on the web. This is a peer reviewed, web only-journal, published by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the UC of Boras. <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-7/index.htm> Contents: * Editorial * "Revolution or Remediation? A Study of Electronic Scholarly Editions on the Web" by Lina Karlsson and Linda Malm * "Human Factors and IT Competitive Value" by Alfonso Vargas, M. Jesús Hernández and Sebastián Bruque * "What Has Literature to Offer Computer Science?" by Mark Dougherty Yours sinc., Mats Dahlstrom and Helena Francke, editors. From: "Lisa Charlong" Subject: Summer Seminar Series at the University of New Brunswick Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:01:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1024 (1024) Announcing the Eighth Summer Seminar Series at the University of New Brunswick/ Fredericton/ New Brunswick/ Canada/ August 13-20, 2004 For the past seven years, the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick has offered a highly successful summer institute, “Creating Electronic Texts and Images- a Practical exploration of the Research, Preservation and Pedagogical uses of Electronic Text and Images”. This year the Centre is pleased to announce an expanded offering of two one-week workshops, “Essentials of Electronic Publishing” with David Gants, and “Intensive Introduction to Encoded Archival Description” with Daniel Pitti. There will also be a two-day workshop “Fundamentals of Digital Imaging” with Marc Bragdon. The workshops are designed to effectively balance technical components with theoretical and practical “hands-on” learning opportunities in state-of-the-art facilities. Participants gain a greater understanding of the latest techniques, tools and standards while expanding their communities of practice. Essentials of Electronic Publishing Workshop Instructor: David L. Gants Aug. 16-20 Registration limited to 20 David Gants, http://www.unb.ca/research/research_chair/grants.htm works in the fields of English and Humanities Computing, with special interests in textual and editorial theory, the history of the book, and Renaissance English literature. As Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, he is working to develop a new generation of digital publications that incorporate the power of hypermedia and computer networks to investigate textual culture. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will introduce students to the essential elements of electronic publishing. Topics to be covered include: Principals of transcription and editing The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Basic data structuring Using XML HTML/SGML to XML conversion Cascading Stylesheets XSL transformations This course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who are planning to develop digital projects; for scholars who are creating Web-based resources as part of their teaching and research; and for publishers who are looking to move publications to the Internet. The teaching method will emphasize hands-on learning and deal with a variety of source materials ranging from letters and journals to essays and articles. Course participants will learn to create a set of on-line digital objects, while making extensive use of the TEI Guidelines and mark-up resources: transcribing the source document, planning the textual structure, marking up the resource, building stylesheets and XSL transformations, and finally publishing the completed work on the Web. As well, the course seeks to inform the creation of digital resources with an awareness of the long tradition of books and printing. This will include readings and lectures on textual scholarship and printing history. Finally, there will be a half-day mini-workshop on creating and manipulating digital images to accompany the electronic texts. Intensive Introduction to Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Workshop Instructor: Daniel Pitti Aug. 16-20 Registration limited to 15 Daniel Pitti, (http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~dvp4c/), is currently Interim Co-Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia. He has been involved in the development of EAD, as the chief technical editor, since it’s beginning in 1993. Daniel is a member of the EAD Working Group of the Society of American Archivists. He has taught introductory and advanced courses in the Rare Book School (Virginia) and around the world since 1997. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an established international standard for the XML-based encoding of archival description. This course will provide an intensive, hands-on introduction to Encoding Archival Description. Topics to be covered include: Overview XML and XSLT Overview of XML editing and publishing tools History and Current Status of EAD EAD Semantics and Structure Guided encoding of a typical finding aid Encoding of students' finding aids Conversion techniques Organization and funding models for archival description projects and programs This course is primarily aimed at archivists and manuscript librarians who would like an intensive introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on component. Repository administrators contemplating the implementation of EAD and technologists working in repositories will also find the course useful. Lecture and discussion topics will include: an introduction to Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Stylesheet Language-Transformations (XSLT); use of software tools to create and publish finding aids; the history of EAD, focusing on its theoretical and technological foundations; the current status of EAD and related standards development activities, including Encoded Archival Context (EAC) and Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS); in-depth introduction to the structure and semantics of EAD; use of software tools to create and publish finding aids; conversion techniques and methodologies; and the integration and management of EAD in an archive or library, including funding and organizational models. The class will jointly encode and publish a finding aid that will illustrate a wide variety of essential EAD and XML concepts. Students will also encode and publish one of their own finding aids. Fundamentals of Digital Imaging Workshop Instructor: Marc Bragdon August 13­14 Registration limited to 15 Marc Bragdon is Electronic Services Librarian with the University of New Brunswick Libraries Electronic Text Centre. Marc plays a lead role in the ongoing development of digital preservation strategies for UNB Libraries that incorporate international standards in digital imaging and information exchange as well as associated networked indexing and search/retrieval applications. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, the instructor will introduce workshop participants to the practical considerations of creating a digital imaging environment as well as developing and maintaining production workflows. Theory covered in the workshop will be firmly grounded in practice so that participants leave with a strong sense of where to begin in setting up a custom digital imaging operation that meets the highest standards for preserving and making accessible heritage resources. ************************************************************** ******** * COURSE PREREQUISITES: This year’s Summer Seminar Series suggests that participants have some experience with the Web and an elementary understanding of HTML or XML. For the EAD workshop, applicants should have, at a minimum, a basic knowledge of archival descriptive practices and experience using word-processing software with a graphical user interface. FACILITIES: The workshops will be held in two state-of-the-art research and teaching lab facilities in the Harriet Irving Library on the UNB campus. A Windows PC will be available for each participant in a comfortable air-conditioned environment. REGISTRATION FEES / HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS: Registration before July 15 is $950.00 (CDN) for either five-day workshop and $275.00 (CDN) the two-day workshop. Late registration fees are $1,050.00 (CDN) for the five-day workshops and $300.00 for the two-day workshop. Tuition includes taxes; all course fees, nutritional breaks and lunches. Tuition does NOT include cost of accommodations. BEGINNING May 7, Workshop Registration and additional details will be available at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2004/ The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in picturesque downtown Fredericton is offering special room rates at $109.00 plus tax (Canadian) for single occupancy. Participants will be responsible for making their own reservations at (506) 455-3371 or 1-866-444-1946. Rooms are reserved under UNB Libraries and must be booked by July 20 to ENSURE RATE AND AVAILABILITY. Additional accommodations are available at the City of Fredericton tourism webpage: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/eccom04.asp SPECIAL EVENTS FOR AUGUST 16-20 WORKSHOPS ONLY: 1. Tour and dinner at King’s Landing Historical Settlement ­ Sunday afternoon, August 15 (http://www.kingslanding.nb.ca/englishhome.htm) 2. Barbeque (beef & lobster) ­ Wednesday evening, August 18 3. Friday Farewell Dinner ­ August 20 Please note that modest additional charges will apply to some of above special events. FURTHER INFORMATION: Please contact Susan Oliver (suoliver@unb.ca) OR Lori Tozer at 506-452-6325 Information on prior institutes is available at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2003/summerinstitute.html ------- End of forwarded message -------Lisa Charlong Assistant Director Electronic Text Centre University of New Brunswick Libraries Fredericton NB 506-447-3458 FAX: 506-453-4595 *************** "I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system." *************** From: ksco2004@labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: Call for Participation: KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR COALITION Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:40:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1025 (1025) OPERATION 2004 Last Announcement - Call for Participation: Third International Conference on KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR COALITION OPERATIONS KSCO-2004 26th and 28th October 2004 http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ksco/ksco-2004.html Held at Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, Fl. http://www.ihmc.us/ IMPORTANT DATES: Expression of Interest: Now Submission of contribution: April 30, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2 Request for invitation to participate: June 30, 2004 Notification of invitation: July 31, 2004 Camera-ready submission: July 31, 2004 CONTACT: Michal Pechoucek, program chairman ksco2004@labe.felk.cvut.cz KSCO - Knowledge Systems For Coalition Operations is an international working group exploring research in Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations. Biennially, KSCO organizes a technical conference where practitioners and key decision makers in coalition operations management meet and discuss with researchers from areas of knowledge-based systems, planning and multi-agent systems, exchange experience and ideas, share inspiration and suggest novel concepts. It can also lead to joint project proposals. After very successful events in Edinburgh, UK and Toulouse, France the KSCO conference in 2004 will be organized at IHMC, Pensacola, Florida. KSCO 2004 welcomes submission of original research papers from the areas of knowledge-based systems, coalition formation and multi-agent systems related to coalition operations management. We will review theoretical, experimental, methodological papers as well as case studies, prototype evaluations and application reports. KSCO organizers particularly encourage submission of reports presenting larger coalition related national and international project and programmes. AREAS OF CONFERENCE: Suggested topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: * innovative theory and techniques for coalition formation * requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning and operations * knowledge-based approaches to command and control * knowledge-based approaches to coalition logistics * applications and requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning * knowledge-based approaches to Operations-Other-Than-War * multi-agent systems and the concept of agency in coalitions * tools and techniques for knowledge-based simulation and modeling of coalition operations * security and maintenance of private information or knowledge in coalition operations * autonomous vs. centrally managed coalition operations * mobility, agile and autonomous computing in coalition operation * complexity issues and scalability in coalition operations * deployed systems, case studies Participation will be by invitation of the organizing committee and there will be a limited number of attendees to encourage a productive exchange of ideas between those involved. The interested authors shall submit either long (8 pages in the proceedings) or short (4 pages in the proceedings) papers describing the work on knowledge systems for coalition operations. Short papers are particularly suitable for project/programmes introduction, descriptions of demonstrations and prototypes. The IEEE Intelligent Systems editorial board has agreed to consider the best KSCO-2004 papers for publication. The KSCO programme committee will invite the authors of the best papers to submit them to the full review process of IEEE Intelligent Systems. For formatting instruction see http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coalition/ksco/ksco-2004/KSCO-TEMPLATES.ZIP Please, submitt the paper (either short or full) by April 30, 2004 to ksco2004@labe.felk.cvut.cz From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" Subject: CFP: Declarative Methods in Intelligent Information Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:00:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1026 (1026) Processing --------------------------------------------------------- Declarative Methods in Intelligent Information Processing --------------------------------------------------------- "Declarative Methods in Intelligent Information Processing" is one of the 8 workshops forming the "Tenth International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory" to be held in February 7-11, 2005 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain). The proceedings with extended papers will be published in the LNCS series of Springer Verlag after the conference. More information is available at http://www.ciber.ulpgc.es/iuctc/spain/eurocast/workshop.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics * Modelling and verification of communication protocols * Concurrent and distributed computing * Design patterns for distributed aplications * Formal verification * Document classification and search * Extraction/retrieval of information * Question answering * Interfaces. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Commitee Chairman: J. L. Freire (Univ. of Coruna, Spain) The final International Program Committee will be included in the next Call. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for Extended Abstracts: An extended two pages abstract, including references in English with indication of the workshop of the intended contribution must be sent by e-mail before October, 31, 2004 to the Organizing Commitee contact Alexis Quesada, aquesada@dis.ulpgc.es For the extended abstract, you must follow instructions in Information for LNCS Authors Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 1, 2004. It is anticipated that the final selected full papers will be published in line with previous Eurocast meetings (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science No 410, No 585, No 763, No 1030, No 1333, No 1798, No 2178 and No 2809). Full papers for publication are required before April 30, 2005. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates * Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2004 * Notification of Acceptance: December 1, 2004 * Full papers deadline (LNCS): April 30, 2005 From: Paul Dekker Subject: ESSLLI 05, Edinburgh, Call for Proposals Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:02:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1027 (1027) Seventeenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2005 August 8--19, 2005, Edinburgh, U.K. CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The Seventeenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information will be held at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The Summer Schools focus 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-2005 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2005 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 17-th 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 Besides courses and workshops the Student Session will be held again. Contributions for the Student Session will be solicited in a separate call. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at <http://www.esslli.org/2005/submission.html>. All proposals should be submitted no later than Thursday July 15, 2004. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Wednesday September 15, 2004. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or maximally 2 lecturers. They typically consist of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course). Each session lasts 90 minutes. Courses are given on three levels. FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that are germane to the area of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if available). ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in some detail. TIMETABLE for the Submission of Course Proposals Jul 15, 2004: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2004: Notification Nov 15, 2004: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s) information, course description and prerequisites Jun 1, 2005: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. A workshop centers around a specific theme and the organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in the first session. A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop). Sessions are normally 90 minutes. Workshop organizers are responsible for the program of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers. Each organizer will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2004. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. TIMETABLE for the Submission of Workshop Proposals: Jul 15, 2004: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2004: Notification Nov 15, 2004: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers (by ESSLLI PC chair) Dec 1, 2004: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call for Papers Mar 15, 2005: Deadline for Papers (suggested) May 1, 2005: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) May 15, 2005: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Program Jun 1, 2005: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop notes Jun 1, 2005: Deadline for Final Workshop Program FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: Course and workshop proposals can be submitted at <http://www.esslli.org/2005/submission.html>. You will be required to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer; where possible, please include phone and fax numbers) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation? name only one) * Description (in at most 150 words, describe the proposed contents and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation. The guidelines for funding and reimbursement are as follows. For each workshop and for each one week course, one lecturer/organizer will be reimbursed for his/her travel expenses (economy/APEX only) and his/her accomodation for the duration of the one week course/workshop (plus the weekend preceding or following the course, so as to enable the purchase of reasonably priced plane tickets). Lecturers/organizers of one week courses/workshops are entitled to attend the entire two-week summer school without having to pay registration fees; their accommodation will only be paid for for a single week, though. In case a course is taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is paid to cover travel and accommodation expenses. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. In exceptional cases, a course may last two weeks instead of a single week; for the purpose of reimbursements, a two week course counts as two one week courses, which means that up to two lecturers can get their travel expenses refunded (economy/APEX only), and either two lecturers can each get one week of accommodation or a single lecturer gets the full two weeks of accommodation refunded. Two week workshops are not an option. Please allow us to underline that the organizers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School; however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organizing Committee. Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Edinburgh. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Paul Dekker Attn: ESSLLI-2005 Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 NL-1012 CP, Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)20 5254541 Email: P.J.E.Dekker@uva.nl Local co-chair: Joe Wells (jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk) Language and Logic: Josef Van Genabith (josef@computing.dcu.ie) Christian Retoré (retore@labri.fr) Logic and Computation: Diego Calvanese (calvanese@inf.unibz.it) Wiebe van der Hoek (WiebevanderHoek@csc.liv.ac.uk) Language and Computation: Giorgio Satta (satta@dei.unipd.it) Bonnie Webber (bonnie@inf.ed.ac.uk) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Fairouz Kamareddine (chair, fairouz@macs.hw.ac.uk) 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-2004 at <http://esslli2004.loria.fr/>. ----------------------------------------- Paul Dekker -- ILLC/Department of Philosophy -- University of Amsterdam -- Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 -- NL-1012 CP Amsterdam -- The Netherlands -- tel: +31 20 5254541 / fax: +31 20 5254503 -- email: p.j.e.dekker@uva.nl http://remote.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/ From: Jeff Allen Subject: CONF: final call for proposals: AMTA-2004 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:39:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1028 (1028) AMTA-2004 - Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA September 28-October 2, 2004 - 6th biennial Conference of The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas Theme: From Real Users to Research http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2004 There's still time to submit for User Studies: May 15 2004 deadline. The previous conference in this series (AMTA 2002) took up the theme "From Research to Real Users'' which asked participants to explore why the research conducted on machine translation doesn't seem to be moving to the marketplace. The past two years have seen the beginnings of change in this, as some research groups with data-driven translation systems are commercializing their work, and rule-based machine translation systems are introducing data-driven techniques to the mix in their products. For this conference, we reverse the question, and take as our theme user needs and explore how or whether market requirements are feeding into research programs. Issues to be addressed: * system customizability, memory requirements, and other issues affecting commercial adoption * integration and customization work * general advances in quality (including: inherent limits on achievable quality? and varying quality by application?) * How are people using MT today? [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 06:59:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1029 (1029) (1) Volume 8 Number 6 of Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Recent advances in exploratory data analysis with neuro-fuzzy methods p. 381 R. Kruse, A. Klose Neuro-fuzzy learning with symbolic and numeric data p. 383 D. D. Nauck Fynesse: An architecture for integrating prior knowledge in autonomously learning agents p. 397 R. Schoknecht, M. Spott, M. Riedmiller Stability of hierarchical fuzzy systems generated by Neuro-Fuzzy p. 409 R. Saad, S. K. Halgamuge Extracting fuzzy classification rules from partially labeled data p. 417 A. Klose Approximation of dynamic systems using recurrent neuro-fuzzy techniques p. 428 A. N=FCrnberger Nonsmooth training of fuzzy neural networks p. 443 C. Eitzinger (2) Volume 9 Number 6 of Multimedia Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web site This issue contains: Editorial Editors Note p. 491 Klara Nahrstedt ARTiFACIAL: Automated Reverse Turing test using FACIAL features p. 493 Yong Rui, Zicheng Liu Periodic broadcasting with VBR-encoded video p. 503 Martin Reisslein, Despina Saparilla, Keith W. Ross Adaptive rate control for streaming flows over the Internet p. 517 Luigi A. Grieco, Saverio Mascolo Editorial Note Special Issue on Multimedia Document Management Systems p. 533 Ashfaq Khokhar, Arif Ghafoor Relevance feedback techniques in the MARS image retrieval system p. 535 Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Sharad Mehrotra Robust content-based image indexing using contextual clues and automatic pseudofeedback p. 548 Y. Alp Aslandogan, Clement T. Yu, Ravishankar Mysore, Bo Liu Multireference object pose retrieval with volume feedback p. 561 Alireza Nasiri Avanaki, Babak Hamidzadeh, Faouzi Kossentini VDBMS: A testbed facility for research in video database benchmarking p. 575 Walid Aref, Ann Christine Catlin, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Jianping Fan, Moustafa Hammad, Ihab Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk, Sunil Prabhakar, Yi-Cheng Tu, Xingquan Zhu Multimodal detection of highlights for multimedia content p. 586 Serhan Dagtas, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb Erratum Personal orchestra: a real-time audio/video system for interactive conducting p. 594 Jan Borchers, Eric Lee, Wolfgang Samminger, Max M=FChlh=E4user (3) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning edited by Jos P. van Leeuwen Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, Building & Planning, The Netherlands Harry J.P. Timmermans Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, Building & Planning, The Netherlands The International conference on Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning is organised bi-annually by the Eindhoven University of Technology. This volume contains a selection of papers from the seventh conference that was held at De Ruwenberg Castle in Sint-Michiels Gestel, The Netherlands, from 2 to 5 July, 2004. Traditionally, the DDSS conferences aim to be a platform for both starting and experienced researchers who focus on the development and application of computer support in the areas of urban planning and architectural design. This results in an interesting mix of well-established research projects and first explorations. It also leads to a very valuable cross-over of theories, methods, and technologies for support systems in the two different areas, architecture and urban planning. This volume contains 22 peer reviewed papers from this year's conference that are organised into five sections: * Applications of Artificial Intelligence, * Visualisation fro Design and Decision Support, * Simulation and Agent Technology, * Design Research and Design Support Systems, * Geographical Information Systems. Together, these papers provide an excellent overview of the latest results in research and development of design and decision support systems in architecture and urban planning. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2408-8 Date: June 2004 Pages: 375 pp. EUR 145.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 101.00 (4) Flexible Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Structures, Learning and Performance Evaluation by Leszek Rutkowski Dept. of Computer Engineering, Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 771 Flexible Neuro-Fuzzy Systems is the first professional literature about the new class of powerful, flexible fuzzy systems. The author incorporates various flexibility parameters to the construction of neuro-fuzzy systems. This approach dramatically improves their performance, allowing the systems to perfectly represent the pattern encoded in data. Flexible Neuro-Fuzzy Systems is the only book that proposes a flexible approach to fuzzy modeling and fills the gap in existing literature. This book introduces new fuzzy systems which outperform previous approaches to system modeling and classification, and has the following features: * Provides a framework for unification, construction and development of neuro-fuzzy systems; * Presents complete algorithms in a systematic and structured fashion, facilitating understanding and implementation, * Covers not only advanced topics but also fundamentals of fuzzy sets, * Includes problems and exercises following each chapter, * Illustrates the results on a wide variety of simulations, * Provides tools for possible applications in business and economics, medicine and bioengineering, automatic control, robotics and civil engineering. Flexible Neuro-Fuzzy Systems 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. CONTENTS * Foreword. * 1. Introduction. * 2. Elements Of The Theory Of Fuzzy Sets. * 3. Fuzzy Inference Systems. * 4. Flexibility In Fuzzy Systems. * 5. Flexible Or-Type Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. * 6. Flexible Compromise And-Type Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. * 7. Flexible Mamdani-Type Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. * 8. Flexible Logical-Type Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. * 9. Performance Comparison Of Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. * Appendix. * Bibliography. * Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-8042-5 Date: May 2004 Pages: 296 pp. EUR 114.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 79.00 (5) Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling Approaches to Image Retrieval by Yixin Chen Dept. of Computer Science and The Research Institute for Children, University of New Orleans, LA, USA Jia Li The Pennsylvania State University, USA James Z. Wang School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, USA THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL -- 14 In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas sharing a vision of intelligent agents. Far beyond Web searching, image indexing and retrieval can potentially be applied to many other areas, including biomedicine, space science, biometric identification, digital libraries, the military, education, commerce, culture and entertainment. Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling Approaches to ImageRetrieval describes several approaches of integrating machine learning and statistical modeling into an image retrieval and indexing system that demonstrates promising results. The topics of this book reflect authors' experiences of machine learning and statistical modeling based image indexing and retrieval. This book contains detailed references for further reading and research in this field as well. Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling Approaches to ImageRetrieval 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: 1-4020-8034-4 Date: May 2004 Pages: 200 pp. EUR 83.00 / USD 91.00 / GBP 58.00 (6) Speech and Human-Machine Dialog by Wolfgang Minker Dept. of Human-Machine Communication, LIMSI-CNRS, France Samir Bennacef Vecsys, Courtaboeuf, France THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 770 Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These systems are of special interest for interactive applications, and they integrate several technologies including speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog management and speech synthesis. Due to the conjunction of several factors throughout the past few years, humans are significantly changing their behavior vis-=C3 -vis machines. In particular, the use of speech technologies will become normal in the professional domain, and in everyday life. The performance of speech recognition components has also significantly improved. This book includes various examples that illustrate the different functionalities of the dialog model in a representative application for train travel information retrieval (train time tables, prices and ticket reservation). Speech and Human-Machine Dialog 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. CONTENTS * Preface. * 1. Introduction. 1. Language. 2. Dialog And Computer. 3. Human-Machine Spoken Language Dialog. 4. Spoken Language Dialog System. 5. Projects And Research Applications. * 2. Robust Spoken Language Understanding. 1. Introduction. 2. Case Grammar Formalism. 3. Case Grammar In The Limsi-L'atis System. 4. Conclusion. * 3. Spoken Language Dialog Modeling. 1. Introduction. 2. Task Modeling. 3. Human-Machine Spoken Language Dialog Modeling. 4. Dialog System Example. 5. Conclusion. * 4. Conclusion. * References. Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-8036-0 Date: May 2004 Pages: 104 pp. EUR 87.00 / USD 95.00 / GBP 61.00 (7) Artificial Intelligence in Logic Design edited by Svetlana N. Yanushkevich University of Calgary, AB, Canada THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 766 Reprinted from ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW, 20:3-4 There are three outstanding points of this book. First: for the first time, a collective point of view on the role of artificial intelligence paradigm in logic design is introduced. Second, the book reveals new horizons of logic design tools on the technologies of the near future. Finally, the contributors of the book are twenty recognizable leaders in the field from the seven research centres. The chapters of the book have been carefully reviewed by equally qualified experts. All contributors are experienced in practical electronic design and in teaching engineering courses. Thus, the book's style is accessible to graduate students, practical engineers and researchers. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2052-X Date: May [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 From: Willard McCarty Subject: first miscreant caught Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:24:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1030 (1030) Members of this list, who must be among the most patient souls in the virtual world, will be gratified to learn that the approach recommended by David Sitman has just now resulted in the elimination of the first attempted act of spamming since it was put in place. Mazel tov, as he might say. Humanist's archives at Virginia are still in somewhat of a mess, badly formatted, with spammed messages cluttering up volume 17. Attention will be paid to the problems here as time and resources of other kinds permit. You may be relieved to discover (as I recently did) that a separate and better formatted archive, though still cluttered, is accessible from lists.princeton.edu, under Public Lists, beginning with January 1989. The Virginia archive, from www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/humanist/ has items from the beginning in May 1987. So, we continue. Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Humanities Computing seminar, Brown, May 7-8 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:01:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1031 (1031) Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to a seminar titled "Online Resources for the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives." It will take place at Brown University (Providence, RI, USA) on May 7 and 8, 2004. This will be the final event of Brown's Wayland Collegium Faculty Seminar on Computing and the Future of the Humanities. The program is available at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/hcseminar-may04.html In addition to presentations by eleven scholars from various Italian universities, we will also have presentations by Gregory Crane (Tufts University, Perseus Project), Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster University, Project TAPoR) and Allen Renear (formerly director of Brown's Scholarly Technology Group, now at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). The seminar will be officially bilingual; for the presentations in Italian, English-language abstracts and outlines are being made available on the Web site. Simultaneous translation will likewise be available when needed, during discussion. There is no charge for attending the seminar and participating in discussion. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Vika Zafrin (vika@wordsend.org). We look forward to a fascinating discussion. -- http://www.wordsend.org/log/ From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- April 2004 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:37:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1032 (1032) CIT INFOBITS April 2004 No. 70 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. ...................................................................... A University Is Not a Business, Or Is It? Does "Backchanneling" Compete With or Complement Lectures/Speeches? Online Teaching Experiences Recommended Reading ...................................................................... INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). If you have problems subscribing or want to send suggestions for future issues, contact the editor, Carolyn Kotlas, at kotlas@email.unc.edu. [portions of the original message have been deleted] From: Claire Warwick Subject: professorship at University College London Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:06:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1033 (1033) Dear Humanists, Please find below the advertisement for the Chair and Director of the School of Library Archive and Information Studies at UCL. As many of you will know, this is presently held by Susan Hockey, which is proof that this is not just a post for a librarian, it is simply that this is the title of the chair. As you will see, for simplicity one name (that of Rob Miller) has been given for informal contact. However, I am also part of the panel which is making the appointment, so if anyone who already knows me would rather discuss it with me, I am very happy to do so, either by email, phone or in person. Best wishes, Claire -------------------------------------------------------- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Chair of Library and Information Studies and Director of the School UCL invites applications for the Chair of Library and Information Studies in our School of Library, Archive and Information Studies. It is envisaged that the successful candidate will also be appointed to the post of the Director of the School, for an initial period of five years. The post will become vacant due to the retirement of Professor Susan Hockey, the present Director. The successful applicant will be a researcher of high international standing, and will have the relevant managerial skills and experience to lead this forward looking, interdisciplinary department. He or she will also be expected to participate in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The salary is negotiable on the professorial scale. Further particulars concerning both the post and the School are available on the UCL website at http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/chair/. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Rob Miller on 020 7679 2107 (international: +44 20 7679 2107), email: rsm@ucl.ac.uk. Applications (10 copies for UK-based candidates, one copy for overseas candidates), including a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three referees (including at least one referee based outside the candidate's country of residence) and details of current salary, should be addressed to the Provost and President of UCL and sent to the Director of Academic Services, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. We particularly welcome women and black and ethnic minority applicants as they are under represented at this level within University College London (Section 48 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975/38 of the Race Relations Act 1976 apply). The closing date for applications is Friday 14 May 2004. It is intended that interviews for the post will be held on Tuesday 22 June 2004. ************************************************************* Claire Warwick MA PhD Programme Director and Lecturer Electronic Communication and Publishing School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Phone: 020 7679 2548, email: c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (by Subject: Re: more on the spamming Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:07:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1034 (1034) On 3 May 2004, at 23:26, Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] Hence, in some "real" sense Willard is subject to deliberate or accidental "identity theft" in the e-world. The purpose of the real person behind such attacks is precisely to rely on the trustworthiness of someone such as Willard etc to betray that very trust vis-a-vis another. Mícheál ... o O o O o ... Dr. Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin 2, IRELAND ... o O o O o ... From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: Urgent reassurance about viral spam on Humanist Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:08:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1035 (1035) Willard, On Mon, 3 May 2004, Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] A common technique that spammers use is to work through a list of email addresses, sending spam to each address on the list, with the from address forged to be the previous (or next, or some other) address on the list. That means that the fake sender is the one who gets the bounce message, or the blame. The annoyance caused to the putative senders by the subsequent bounces, or indeed the subsequent annoyed emails, is now termed `collateral spam' (which is grimly comic, I suppose). This also explains why we sometimes seem to get such spam from vaguely familar folk, more often than we might expect. Spammers apparently work through lists of related emails, such as subscriber lists, I think in order to slightly increase the chance that folk will open a message (uncertain), or that it will get through spam blocks. Thus it is because it is probably quite likely that your address and Humanist's are adjacent on such a list, that spam was sent to the Humanist list with you as its putative sender. I'd think it would be _very_ unlikely to be any sort of virus. Sender addresses are absolutely trivial to fake in email, and it's only because people never did this, in gentler times, that listservs were ever written to take the sender address as a reasonable authority. [deleted quotation] I don't know of the technicalities of listservs, but the only ways of avoiding this in principle (using an extra non-publicised address, authentication based on your particular machine, cryptographic signing) are probably more trouble than they're really worth. If Humanist gets the occasional spam, well, it prompts us to give thanks for the small amount it gets in comparison to other lists. But then there's the big archival question: do you expunge them from the list archive or not...? .... All the best, Norman -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@astro.gla.ac.uk From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: Re: more on the spamming Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:08:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1036 (1036) Sorry to contradict, but in this specific case, it IS going out through the listserv, at least in some cases, as one can see from the headers from one of the messages reproduced below. Of course, the listserv is merely acting as a vehicle, and is conveniently deleting the offensive content in the process of forwarding it. What seems to be happening on this occasion is that the infected computer, which has both the submission email address on it and Dr. McCarty's email address, has spoofed the latter as the sender and the former as the recipient. I'm tempted to think that the btcentralplus computer listed last in the headers is the immediate source of the e-mails, but I've only been successful at this kind of tracking within a local area network. Patrick Rourke From willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk Sun May 2 21:36:32 2004 Received: from Princeton.EDU ([128.112.129.75]) by ams.ftl.affinity.com with ESMTP id <313136-3659>; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:13:14 -0400 Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i430Binb018004; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:11:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU (lists01.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.193]) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i42NbkbF022652; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:11:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU by LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 3920790 for humanist@LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:10:43 -0400 Received: from lists01.Princeton.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i430AgPB015272 for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:10:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lists.Princeton.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by lists01.Princeton.EDU (SAVSMTP 3.1.3.37) with SMTP id M2004050220104103084 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 20:10:41 -0400 Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice01.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.75]) by lists.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i430Af8F015269 for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:10:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from postoffice01.Princeton.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i430AMdY017336 for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:10:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Princeton.EDU ([128.112.129.75]) by postoffice01.Princeton.EDU (SAVSMTP 3.1.3.37) with SMTP id M2004050220104116239 for ; Sun, 02 May 2004 20:10:41 -0400 Received: from saravanan.org (host217-44-128-32.range217-44.btcentralplus.com [217.44.128.32]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i430Acnc017443 for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 20:10:38 -0400 (EDT) From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: Urgent reassurance about viral spam on Humanist Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:09:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1037 (1037) Perhaps Listserv, similar to majordomo, supports password protected moderation. That is how I prevent spam on a majordomo list I moderate. Any outgoing postings from the list must first clear through me. I get a number of dummied up messages intended for the list for approval. I am on a list (WPA-L) out of Arizona State University which uses LISTSERV. One of the administrators of that list might be able to help you. Try Barry Maid . WPA-L was swamped by viruses and spam a year or so ago until he and David Schwalm (the other administrator) made some changes in that list's configuration. r. royar -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University Kill UGLY Corporate Radio From: Robin Smith Subject: Re: more on the spamming Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:10:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1038 (1038) I assume that you're aware of this, but just in case: virtually nothing about an email message can be trusted, since virtually all the details indicating its source are easily forged. The 'from:' and 'reply-to:' lines are trivial. At one time, the information in the envelope portion of the header (the 'received trace') was a little more trustworthy, since it is supplied by the various relays that hand on a message: each relay reproduces the 'received' trace on the message as it gets it, adds its own line indicating where it got it from and when, and sends it on to the next relay. However, relays are designed to trust the information they get, so a reliable relay that gets a message with forged information will simply transmit that forged information reliably. So, you can only trust the 'received' trace back as far as the last relay in the line that was actually reliable. The reason this is now a particular problem with spam is that spammers often set up their own mail relays (this is also true of worms: they often include an SMTP relay in their code, and of course they lie about who they are and about where they're relaying a message from). If a lying relay connects to a reliable one, the reliable one can tell what the liar's real IP address is, but it can't verify anything else in the message). So, there's just nothing about a message that you can trust. Even if your computer, and indeed every computer at your institution, were instantly transported to the next galaxy or ground to a fine powder, there will still probably be messages roaming about the Internet for years pretending to be from you, or from Humanist. In addition (as you must know very well by now), worms and spammers plug in all sorts of things as forged addresses, including both things they just make up and things they find lying around (worms typically ransack the computers they infest for email addresses and plug these in to the various fields of messages they send). It's for reasons like these that those of us who manage mail servers have generally stopped sending messages back in response to worm-infested messages: it's a total waste of time, since the apparent sender of the message is usually some unaffected third party (I use FreeBSD as my operating system, and I still get annoying messages from email scanners configured to send back these well-intentioned but pointless warnings that "a virus has infected my system"). Robin Smith From: catac@wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: Keynote Speaker and Program - CATaC'04 Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:00:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1039 (1039) Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce that Nina Wakeford (Director of the Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography (INCITE) research centre in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK) will present the keynote address opening this year's conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Culture (CATaC'04). Professor Wakeford's address is entitled "Technology and Mobility at the Margins". The program for CATaC'04 further includes presenters from 28 countries focusing on six major themes: 1. Culture: theory and praxis 2. ICTs and intercultural communication 3. ICTs and cultural hybridity 4. Culture and economy 5. Governments and activists in culture, technology and communication 6. Culture, communication, and e-learning as well as several themed sessions. The program also includes two panels, each chaired and shaped by distinguished colleagues: 1. The Multilingual Internet - chairs, Susan Herring and Brenda Danet 2. Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs really help worse off communities? - chair, Michel Menou CATaC'04 will take place 27 June - 1 July 2004, in the "city of the sun" - Karlstad, Sweden - right after Midsummer celebrations on June 25-26. For additional information regarding the conference, including complete program, accommodation, registration, and travel information, please see the conference website, www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/. On behalf of our local co-chairs, Malin Sveningsson, Ylva Hard af Segerstad, and Robert Burnett, we hope you will be able to join us in Karlstad. Please feel free to address any additional questions to: Charles Ess Drury University Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435 catac@it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks Murdoch University Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941 catac@it.murdoch.edu.au From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Fwd: May 7, 8 International Seminar Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:01:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1040 (1040) [deleted quotation] From: "Int. Center for Computational Logic" Subject: ICCL Summer School 2004 - Final Call Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:02:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1041 (1041) ICCL Summer School 2004 Proof Theory and Automated Theorem Proving ------------------------------------------ PCC Workshop 2004 ------------------------------- Technische Universitaet Dresden June 14-25, 2004 <http://www.iccl.tu-dresden.de/events/SA-2004> Call for Participation ---------------------- This two-week meeting consists of two integrated parts, a summer school and a workshop, aimed at graduate students and researchers. The themes for the summer school are proof theory and automated theorem proving, the workshop is about proof, computation and complexity. As in the summer schools at TU Dresden in 2002 and 2003 and in the previous editions of the PCC workshop, people from distinct but communicating communities will gather in an informal and friendly atmosphere. We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. We request registration before May 10, 2004; please send an email to , making sure you include a very brief bio (5-10 lines) stating your experience, interests, home page (if available), etc. It will be possible for some students to present their work: please indicate in your application if you would like to do so and give us some information about your proposed talk. We will select applicants in case of excessive demand. A limited number of grants covering all expenses is available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs and they should be sent together with the registration. We will provide assistance in finding an accommodation in Dresden. Week 1, June 14-17: courses on Term Rewriting Systems Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Deep Inference and the Calculus of Structures Alessio Guglielmi (TU Dresden) Game Semantics and Its Applications C.-H. L. 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This symposium will focus on these and other issues that affect the delivery of quality, copyrighted content in higher education, including: - The impact of the rising costs of scholarly materials - Peer-to-peer file sharing over university networks - The impact of digital rights management systems - Current legislation impacting copyright and higher education - Other provocative topics pertinent to the symposium subject Nationally recognized experts and scholars will discuss these issues during the two day program. For more information about speakers and the symposium agenda please review the following URLs: SPEAKERS http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/speakers.html AGENDA http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/agenda.html Early registration ends *May 10, 2004*. You may register online or you may register by phone by calling 301-985-7777 or 1-800-283-6832, extension 7777. For additional information, please call or visit our web site. Sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College. [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] From: Stéfan Sinclair (by Subject: Fwd: CARL/ABRC "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?" Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:04:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1044 (1044) Dear Colleagues, A session of possible interest for those of you who will be at Congress in Winnipeg: poster: http://www.carl-abrc.ca//graphics/heretoday.jpg programme: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/meetings/2004/congressprog-e.pdf [deleted quotation] -- 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: "Friedrich Heberlein" Subject: Re: 17.782 what is typology? Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:36:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1045 (1045) [deleted quotation] scholars understand typology. You might want to have a look into one of the recent overviews, which include, e.g., W. Croft, (2003), Typology and Universals. Cambridge. and, closer to your subject, T. Givón T. (2002), Bio-Linguistics: The Santa Barbara Lectures. Amsterdam. (A comprehensive review by Marina Rusakova, St Petersburg, is available at the Linguist Web page). Fritz Heberlein -- Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor Seminar für Klassische Philologie, KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Universitaetsallee 1 D-85071 Eichstaett / Bayern From: Willard McCarty Subject: deferral and dismissal Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:57:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1046 (1046) This is in response to Alexandre Enkerli's musings on "Real Soon Now" and the future in Humanist 17.783. He notes the paradoxical sense of futurity with respect to computing and so the need to distinguish between blowing the whistle on postponement and refusing to accept technological progress. I don't think we need to spend any time on the Real Soon Now promises of advertising, though adverts do try to appeal to what people want, and these wants are shared by the likes of us. But the paradox that Alexandre points to does get interesting when it surfaces in the literature we spend our time with. Take the literature of AI, for example. I have noticed two common rhetorical moves there whenever the failure of the strong AI project becomes the subject: dismissal and deferral. Either the failure to perform as promised is dismissed as unimportant, or the promise is deferred to a future date -- "Who cares?" or "Real Soon Now!,". A variant on the former is to dismiss the perspective from which the questioner is speaking, which can be done in a variety of strengths and styles, from outright contempt to the admirably subtle recognition that something has been said but is too insignificant to engage with, as if noticing for a brief moment the buzzing of some tiny insect that has flown into the room. I used to see this happening some years ago whenever I discussed ideas on humanities computing with a friend of mine in CS -- a slight, momentary change in his facial expression before his eyes glazed over. For a high-powered example of both dismissal and deferral see Allen Newell, "Metaphors for Mind, Theories of Mind: Should the Humanities Mind?", in James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna, eds., The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991): 158-197. Terry Winograd's following piece, "Thinking Machines: Can There Be? Are We?", makes a great antidote. Recognizing the failure of the promise is crucial -- I would say the sine qua non for understanding the promise and making it flower for us. It is to recognize that the horizon is what it is because it cannot be reached, ever, and that the failure to reach it illuminates the energizing and creative difference between what we have and what we hope for, between what we can compute and what we somehow know but cannot compute. On the one hand, we have Turing's result to show us that computability has meaning and can infer that aspects of cultural artifacts will never be computable. On the other hand, we know from experience and observation that great things can be done. Is it not true that neither hand has much meaning without the other? Comments? Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Camille Paglia on image Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:17:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1047 (1047) (from the Explorator newsletter) Begin forwarded message: Camille Paglia has an interesting essay on the changing nature of the 'image' in modern culture: http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12923 "The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of culture. Technology, like Kubrick's rogue computer, HAL, is the companionable servant turned ruthless master. The ironically self-referential or overtly politicized and jargon-ridden paradigms of higher education, far from helping the young to cope or develop, have worsened their vertigo and free fall." From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: job at Princeton Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:16:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1048 (1048) Dear All, A job posting of interest: Director of the Educational Technologies Center (ETC), Princeton University http://jobs.princeton.edu/openjobs/pu_jobdesc.asp?ReqNo=04-0003523. Responsibilities The successful candidate will serve as Director for the operations of the Educational Technologies Center (ETC). He/She reports to the Director of Academic Services in the Office of Information Technology. The Director of ETC has primary responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the Educational Technologies Center, supervising a staff of approximately fifteen, overseeing projects and exercising budgetary control. The center produces visualization tools for teaching. It supports the Learning Management System (Blackboard), and a multimedia database used in teaching. The staff includes both programmers and designers. ETC produces a number of simultaneous software development projects. The candidate must be knowledgeable of trends in academic IT, and also able to interact well with scholars and faculty members. ETC's Director serves as the primary liaison to other groups within and outside of OIT, and plays a key role in faculty consultation, training, and advising with regard to the use of technology in teaching. Requirements The job requires close contact with faculty members. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong managerial skills, and experience working in a college or university environment are essential. An advanced degree (Ph.D. strongly preferred) in an appropriate field and familiarity with the goals and mission of IT in higher education is desired. At least three years experience in distance education, instructional design, and/or web-based and database teaching applications. Geoffrey Rockwell From: e.schmidt-ihn@t-online.de (Dr. Eberhard Schmidt-Ihn) Subject: Re: 14.0036 applause for argumenta ad risum Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:15:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1049 (1049) Madam, Sir, reference is made to 12.0366 argumenta ad risum (25.Jan 1999). "Cui bono?" is not the "so what" argument but instead it is a problem solving question. "Cui bono" means "who has a benefit" from something (a crime e.g.), and answering this question can lead to the perpetrator (in case of a crime), per hoc quod a perpetrator always aimes at his benefit. Eberhard Schmidt-Ihn From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.7 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 06:49:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1050 (1050) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 7 (April 14 - April 20, 2004) VIEW On Writing in a Graduate Program By M. E. Kabay Say what you mean, mean what you say, and always respect your interlocutors. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i7_kabay.html VIEW The Neural Approach to Pattern Recognition By John Peter Jesan Artificial neural networks could surpass the capabilities of conventional computer-based pattern recognition systems. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i7_jesan.html From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.792 Camille Paglia on image Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 06:47:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1051 (1051) To bad Frontpagemag.com doesn't record the reaction/impressions of the youth people to her very short speech (expanded for frontpagemag.com publicatin). Or for that matter responses from young people who were not present at York Univeristy in 2002. Paglia's bemoaning is an old trope. It's rehashing does a disservice to those who are prepared to age gracefully and credit youth with a modicum of intelligence, verve and gusto. quote> Interest in and patience with long, complex books and poems have alarmingly diminished not only among college students but college faculty in the U.S. It is difficult to imagine American students today, even at elite universities, gathering impromptu at midnight for a passionate discussion of big, challenging literary works like Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov—a scene I witnessed in a recreation room strewn with rock albums at my college dormitory in upstate New York in 1965. http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html Furthermore time zones and ICTs give a new meaning to all nighter... As one commentator writes at jill/txt: Let us take the example of the Armistice - November 11 at 11 o'clock. A occasion marked according to local time. It becomes possible through the technologies of presence to imagine the marking of a world experience through a series of 12 before and 12 after. Television is alleged to have reduced attention spans. The Internet, expanded? Folded in each hour is a day. Ditto for the minute. Ditto for the second. A calendar is like a map. And just as maps have insets, calendars in the 21st century might have "moments" expressed in local time and "windows" expressed in global time. http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/world/patterns_thankfully_disrupted.html [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Charles Ess Subject: CATaC 2004 correction Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:13:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1052 (1052) [Note the following correction for the CATaC 2004 conference announcement in Humanist 17.786] In the REGISTRATION section, delete the last sentence - i.e.: [deleted quotation] (The student fee _does_ include the dinner and transport.) Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: 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: Jan Tozicka Subject: Call for Participation: KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR COALITION Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:12:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1053 (1053) OPERATIONS Second Announcement - Call for Participation: Third International Conference on KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR COALITION OPERATIONS KSCO-2004 26th and 28th October 2004 http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ksco/ksco-2004.html Held at Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, Fl. http://www.ihmc.us/ IMPORTANT DATES: Expression of Interest: Now Submission of contribution: April 30, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2 Request for invitation to participate: June 30, 2004 Notification of invitation: July 31, 2004 Camera-ready submission: July 31, 2004 CONTACT: Michal Pechoucek, program chairman ksco2004@labe.felk.cvut.cz KSCO - Knowledge Systems For Coalition Operations is an international working group exploring research in Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations. Biennially, KSCO organizes a technical conference where practitioners and key decision makers in coalition operations management meet and discuss with researchers from areas of knowledge-based systems, planning and multi-agent systems, exchange experience and ideas, share inspiration and suggest novel concepts. It can also lead to joint project proposals. After very successful events in Edinburgh, UK and Toulouse, France the KSCO conference in 2004 will be organized at IHMC, Pensacola, Florida. KSCO 2004 welcomes submission of original research papers from the areas of knowledge-based systems, coalition formation and multi-agent systems related to coalition operations management. We will review theoretical, experimental, methodological papers as well as case studies, prototype evaluations and application reports. KSCO organizers particularly encourage submission of reports presenting larger coalition related national and international project and programmes. AREAS OF CONFERENCE: Suggested topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: * innovative theory and techniques for coalition formation * requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning and operations * knowledge-based approaches to command and control * knowledge-based approaches to coalition logistics * applications and requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning * knowledge-based approaches to Operations-Other-Than-War * multi-agent systems and the concept of agency in coalitions * tools and techniques for knowledge-based simulation and modeling of coalition operations * security and maintenance of private information or knowledge in coalition operations * autonomous vs. centrally managed coalition operations * mobility, agile and autonomous computing in coalition operation * complexity issues and scalability in coalition operations * deployed systems, case studies Participation will be by invitation of the organizing committee and there will be a limited number of attendees to encourage a productive exchange of ideas between those involved. The interested authors shall submit either long (8 pages in the proceedings) or short (4 pages in the proceedings) papers describing the work on knowledge systems for coalition operations. Short papers are particularly suitable for project/programmes introduction, descriptions of demonstrations and prototypes. The IEEE Intelligent Systems editorial board has agreed to consider the best KSCO-2004 papers for publication. The KSCO programme committee will invite the authors of the best papers to submit them to the full review process of IEEE Intelligent Systems. For formatting instruction see http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coalition/ksco/ksco-2004/KSCO-TEMPLATES.ZIP Please, submitt the paper (either short or full) by April 30, 2004 to ksco2004@labe.felk.cvut.cz From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)" Subject: Symposium on Linguistics in Cuba, 2005 Date: ________________ X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1054 (1054) Signature: ___________ -------------------------------------------- Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Calle 8 Nr. 206 entre 7 y 9 Vista Alegre. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. C.P. 90400 Telefonos: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141 Correo Electronico: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Frye on disciplinarity Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:31:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1055 (1055) At one time or another I have quoted Northrop Frye from memory to the effect that each discipline is the centre of all knowledge -- the most generous view I know on what disciplines can be. This is, I think, important enough a reference to get both right and complete. It is as follows: "It takes a good deal of maturity to see that every field of knowledge is the centre of all knowledge, and that it doesn't matter so much what you learn when you learn it in a structure that can expand into other structures." Northrop Frye, "The Beginning of the Word". Ontario Council of Teachers Keynote Address, 30 October 1980. Indirections 6 (Winter 1981). Reprinted in Northrop Frye, On Education. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1988, pp. 9-21. The quotation occurs on p. 10. Among the many other utterances to which this could be connected is the old definition of God, "centre everywhere, circumference nowhere", which (along with the rest of literature in many languages) Frye would have had in mind. In any case it is very close to a divine view of what education is all about. Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: 17.796 Frye on disciplinarity Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:51:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1056 (1056) Willard, the Frye statement you are quoting may be contrasted with Aristotle's famous beginning words from his "On the Parts of Animals": "Every systematic science [theoría kaì méthodos], the humblest and the noblest alike, seems to admit of two distinct kinds of proficiency; one of which may be properly called scientific knowledge of the subject [èpistéme toû prágmatos kalôs], while the other is a kind of educational acquaintance [paideía] with it. For an educated man [pepaideuménos] should be able to form a fair off-hand judgement as to the goodness or badness of the method used by a professor in his exposition. To be educated is in fact to be able to do this; and even the man of universal education we deem to be such in virtue of his having this ability. It will, however, of course, be understood that we only ascribe universal education to one who in his own individual person is thus critical in all or nearly all branches of knowledge, and not to one who has a like ability merely in some special subject. For it is possible for a man to have this competence in some one branch of knowledge without having it in all." (Bekk. 639 a; tr. William Ogle; original Greek wording added by myself; Internet Classics Archive; http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/parts_animals.1.i.html) This view is supported by two other statements from Aristotle's "On the Generation of Animals" where he says that any "logical proof" is "empty" as long as it is not grounded in a factual knowledge of the subject at hand (Bekk. 747 b and 748 a). It must be noted that these words derive from the inventor of scientific logics. It seems to be a very productive confrontation between specific disciplinary knowledge and universal education that you make. Thank you for the reference. Best regards, Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany The Culture and History of Science and the Humanities http://ww3.de/krech Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] follows: [deleted quotation] From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Call for Participants Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:51:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1057 (1057) Call for Participation (for detailed information see: http://textologies.mcmaster.ca/ Textologies: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Multimedia Technologies, Ethics and Culture will be held at McMaster University on October 14-16 2004. This event will bring together researchers involved in McMaster's new interdisciplinary initiative in Technology and Culture with other leading scholars on innovative multimedia technologies, ethics and cultural theory from other universities. The workshop will be organized around the following presentations; responses, discussants and working groups will be invited for each. Proposed Program 1) Thursday, October 14: ìAre Humans Obsolete? Post-Humanism and Technology-Related Interdisciplinary Research,î Langdon Winner, Professor of Political Science and Center for Cultural Design, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2) Friday, October 15: ìInformation and Reality: IT and the Human Condition,îArthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, University of Victoria. 3) Friday, October 15: ìCritical Theory, Technology and Culture,î Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, Simon Fraser University. 4) Saturday, October 16: ìVisual Poetics and Digital Technology,î Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of Media Studies and English, University of Virginia. 5) Saturday, October 16: ìDigital Directions in the Humanities,î Martha Nell Smith, Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland. Practical Details The workshop is being funded by SSHRC and therefore registration costs, all lunches and a Friday evening dinner, will be included for invited participants. Publication will be sought for the workshop proceedings, including invited presentations and responses. If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please send a short C.V. and a statement of your interest in relation to your areas of research and/or teaching via email (kroekert@mcmaster.ca or andrew.mactavish@mcmaster.ca) before May 15 2004. Limited spaces have been reserved for graduate students, who are also invited to reply. Invitations will be issued in late May. For more details, please visit the Textologies web site at: http://textologies.mcmaster.ca/ Program Committee: Travis Kroeker, Religious Studies Andrew Mactavish, Multimedia McMaster University Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what's needed? Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:00:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1058 (1058) A question that resurfaces from time to time is, "what needs to be done in humanities computing?" I'd like to ask that question again, if for no other reason than insights and the populations that have them change. If, say, you could direct a large group of competent people to go forth and accomplish a number of tasks, or you could persuade everyone to adopt a particular way of working that would have benefit to many, what tasks or new habits would you list? Then please list them, and send your list to Humanist. I'd like to see a lists of varying length and level of detail as well as content, from as many different perspectives as possible. If, for example, one item of desire were "create new tools!" (that's an old one, to be sure), the it would be helpful to know which tools, for what kind of work; if another item were "put more good stuff online", then what subject area, and for what purposes. If an item were recommendation of a practice, such as "let penultimate versions of published works be put online", then it would be useful to know whether you'd want to include books (say, your own book), and if not, why not. Someone recently noticed that in the history of the field most attention used to be paid to the application of analytic tools but that with the popularity of the Web all that one hears about is what's online or what should be. Has analysis been utterly usurped by communication? It might be helpful to imagine a complete collection of texts, images, sounds of a world-wide digital library into existence, for example, then ask yourself, what then? Some folks imagine a (though they say "the") "semantic" web, which I gather expresses the desire for a resource that deals with what you want or need rather than with matching character-strings, even cleverly, as Google does. In examples of what this might be, or at least the ones I have heard about, a life full of appointments and errands is imagined -- exactly the kind of life I try to avoid having, so such a "semantic" web would have no meaning for me, or at least a meaning I would put well down toward the bottom of any list. What would make a finding and arranging aid semantically welcome to me would privately track my information-seeking behaviour, then present to me a filtered, prioritized list of the kinds of things that my history shows I tend to go for, and another such list that shows the kinds of things that I haven't gone for, filtered and prioritized by comparison with the mass behaviour. What about analysis? Tools for sorting and classifying are still very poor. I have yet to see nothing remotely as sophisticated as Notecards, which inspired HyperCard. I've heard and read similar things said about FRESS. So I actually use Excel in loose combination with Word and Windows Explorer but with a keen sense that the world could be better for notetaking and arranging. Part of the problem here may be simply screen-size; I do dream from time to time about having a 3-dimensional holographic projection device or other virtual reality environment within which I could arrange notes spatially -- a method that, as various people have noted, goes back at least as far as Sir James Murray. But what about deeper kinds of analysis -- of texts, images, sounds? And for humanities computing itself? I would say a genuine history, as opposed to a mere chronology of firsts, is badly needed, and along with that, an ethnography of current practice so that we might know what we do and what it does for us. Comments? Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 17.744 MonoConc (Pro), with thoughts on teaching Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:19:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1059 (1059) Willard, I want to pick up the thread of learning objectives and the pedagogical use of tools for textual analysis. I think your comments on MonoConc relate to a blog entry by Matt Kirschenbaum about the exercise set by Douglas Hofstadter in the early pages of Godel, Escher, Bach. See http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000339.html Matt invites readers to consider why Hofstadter introduces his discussion of the Mechanical, Intelligent, and Unmode with what can turn out to be a frustrataing exercise. That invitation raises similar questions about the value of learning by doing that your MonoConc example embodies. For some reason, the example put forward by Matt and your example have me wondering if certain teachers complement the exploration of the application with the exploration of the objects of study. Does anyone teaching humanities computing set up exercises along the following lines? Present a class with a given distribution and then invite students to discover if the given distribution is replicated in an analysis of different versions of a text. Repeat the exercise with one set of students introducing a typo in one version (or altering it in some form); another group of students is assigned the task of determining if the comparative analysis picks up the change. Repeat with the student groups switching tasks. [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: CFP: AAAI Fall Symposium on Style and Meaning Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:23:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1060 (1060) AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium Series STYLE AND MEANING IN LANGUAGE, ART, MUSIC, AND DESIGN October 21-24 in Washington, D.C In recent years a growing number of researchers working in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer graphics, computer music, and multimedia have begun to explicitly address issues of 'style' or connotative semantics in their work. While it is still difficult to precisely characterize these concepts satisfactorily (we know it when we see it), common denominators of much of this work are: an emphasis on manner rather than topic, a focus on affective aspects of expression and understanding, and a search for 'dense' representations of meaning in which elements simultaneously symbolize multiple layers of meaning at once. Recent areas of research in this vein have included forensic authorship attribution, information retrieval based on document genre or affect, composition of new music in a given composer's style, rendering animation in different motion styles, analyzing architectural styles for function and affect, and much 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. However, due to the widely varying technical requirements of work in different media, little communication has traditionally existed between different 'style researchers'. The goal of this symposium is to bring such individuals together, to seek out common languages and frameworks for discussion, as well as to establish a shared set of stylistic tasks, which can be used as a testbed for extending and generalizing stylistic work. THE CHALLENGE While much work remains in developing shared formalisms for research on style and connotation, we outlined a set of questions, which are more-or-less common to work in all various media. These "challenge questions" will serve as foci for the symposium, but should not limit presentation/discussion of other relevant work: · Is there a general theory for style, which cuts across all kinds of human intellectual behavior? What is the relation between style and other content (e.g. informational) in the work you will be reporting at the symposium? · Is there a general theoretical structure for the context that informs style and connotation that can be applied usefully in disparate media? Are there lessons in work you will be reporting at the symposium that are generalizable across media and genre? · In operational terms, what are useful models and effective algorithms of the process of learning and producing style, and how can such models inform our understanding of stylistic features in the resulting work? In the work you will be reporting at the symposium - can the models and algorithms be used for both understanding style and generating style? · Is style at the forefront of people's understanding the medium and discourse in the community you have worked with? How is style explicitly discussed or implicitly understood? How are stylistic distinctions learnt and transmitted to others within the community of recipients? In the work you are presenting, how is style understood by the intended audience? · How can we usefully model the social context of a work, as a resource for understanding its style, its meaning, and its effect? Does the work you report take the context and effect of style outside the medium itself into account? · What are the processes affecting stylistic diffusion among members of a discourse community? What properties of the social context may affect the transmission or evolution of distinctive styles? How is the work you are presenting affected by understanding the social networks in which style is embedded? SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage submissions from researchers working in all media. Particularly, in addition to academic researchers, we are interested in presentations or demonstrations by practitioners and artists using computational methods in their own work. Potential participants are invited to submit research papers, posters abstracts, demonstration, performance, or exhibition proposals, and panel discussion proposals on computational aspects of style modeling and related areas, before May 3, 2004. Papers should not exceed 8 pages in length and should be submitted by email to style2004@music.ucsd.edu. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA (co-chair) Shlomo Dubnov, Univestiry of California San Diego, USA (co-chair) Julie Jupp, The University of Sydney, Australia (co-chair) Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon, USA Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Rivka Oxman, Technion, Israel Mine Ozkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA James Shanahan, Clairvoyance Corporation, USA From: Carlos Areces Subject: ESSLLI 2004 - Deadline for Early Registration 1st of May Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:01:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1061 (1061) ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 Deadline for Early Registration ******** 1 May 2004 ******** ESSLLI 2004 Nancy, France 9-20 August, 2004 ======================================================================= This is a reminder that the deadline for early registration for ESSLLI 2004, the 16th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is ******** 1 May 2004 ******** To qualify for the lower registration fee, you have to register before this date. To register go to: http://esslli2004.loria.fr click on the registration button, fill out the online form, print out the result, and fax (or surface-mail) it in. As well as registering, you can use the same form to reserve student accommodation and book lunch tickets (the lunch menu is available on the ESSLLI 2004 website). Once again, are happy to announce that the evening lecturers at ESSLLI 2004 will be: Elisabeth Andre Gerard Huet Karen Sparck Jones Vladimir Lifschitz In addition, the site now contains information about travel to Nancy, and tourist information about Nancy. Please note: we can only guarantee 360 student accommodation places, and these will be distributed on a first-come-first-served basis. We look forward to seeing you in Nancy this August! Carlos Areces, Patrick Blackburn (for the Organising committee) Helene Kirchner (Director of Loria) ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ======================================================================= From: Subject: Virtual Reality - New Issue Alert Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:02:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1062 (1062) Volume 7 Number 2 of Virtual Reality is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Online First publication p. 65 Daniel Ballin, Rae E. Earnshaw, Robert D. Macredie, John A. Vince, Christiane S. Notarmarco DOI: 10.1007/s10055-004-0122-4 Original Article Mediating the expression of emotion in educational collaborative virtual environments: an experimental study p. 66 Marc Fabri, David Moore, Dave Hobbs DOI: 10.1007/s10055-003-0116-7 Original Article A CAVE-like environment as a tool for full-size train design p. 82 Francisco J. Seron, Diego Gutierrez, Juan A. Magallon, Emilio J. Sobreviela, Jose A. Gutierrez DOI: 10.1007/s10055-003-0117-6 Original Article The implementation and evaluation of a virtual haptic back p. 94 Kerry L. Holland, Robert L. Williams, Robert R. Conatser, John N. Howell, Dennis L. Cade DOI: 10.1007/s10055-003-0118-5 Original Article Flexible bones for the haptic prototyping of deformable objects p. 103 Robert L. Blanding, George M. Turkiyyah DOI: 10.1007/s10055-003-0119-4 Original Article The use of force feedback and auditory cues for performance of an assembly task in an immersive virtual environment p. 112 Gregory W. Edwards, Woodrow Barfield, Maury A. Nussbaum DOI: 10.1007/s10055-004-0120-6 Original Article Real exhibitions in a virtual museum p. 120 G. Lepouras, A. Katifori, C. Vassilakis, D. Charitos DOI: 10.1007/s10055-004-0121-5 From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.802 what's needed?: email management; multiple Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:20:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1063 (1063) format infos management At 10.11 18/04/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] here are my first thoughts. 1) email management some facts: i keep my email. i keep any piece of mail received (except for spam ...). from my point of view email is an archive in the old sense of the term. the live email i have goes back to the years 1997, 1996; in the archival CDs the frozen email goes back even more. but: we haven't an efficient way to manage the messages. the filters with their static connection to folders in order to sorting the mail aren't the best way to accomplish the task. we would need, i think, tools allowing to have contemporary, multiple, dynamic views of the mail archive (what one now obtains with the folders). these contemporary multiple dynamic views should defined on the basis of date, sender, subject, content, without being constrained to pre-define the specific words triggering the filter/view. this could be accomplished through the bayesian filters doing so well (in my experience) with the spam. the bayesian filter could function the usual way, ordering the messages: not in order to trash them but in order to sort them according the content. 2) management of multiple infos in multiple formats usually about a given subject of interest (say: digital preservation) one would like to keep together doc and pdf document, email messages, images, URL as bookmarks, web pages, and some of these materials could also be part of other collections/subjects. we now have only two very poor tools: folders and "Windows shortcuts". two main problems: as we know it's very difficult to keep together - say - an internet bookmark and a file; and - as always - we could like to have the same file in many collections, but we don't like to have as many copies of the file as the collections: because of the space wasted, and because if the file is something we are working on, at every stage of its evolution/redaction we'd re-copy it into every collection... i know of a very interesting feature of NTFS file systems, called "hard link" (if you have the file A in the folder F1, you can create for A an hard link B in the folder F2; if you back up the folder F2, the file A, through the hard link B is backed up!! the same thing doesn't happen if you back up a folder containing shortcuts; "furthermore, hard links, as system-level shortcuts, always point to the right target file-no matter if you rename or move it [http://www.hlm.inc.ru/]) which could be interesting but I wasn't able to find for it any decent suggestion of use, and some security warnings exist about a vulnerability created by hard links. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: "Paul Edward Oppenheimer" Subject: Re: 17.802 what's needed? Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:19:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1064 (1064) The first thing I would say is that everyone might want to look at and possibly emulate the practices of the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, which has done pioneering work in producing a document that is both dynamic and authoritative/definitive. [Full disclosure: The Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a colleague, co-author, and very good friend of mine.] The second thing I would say is that it ought to be immeasurably easier and cheaper to transfer text from a piece of paper or a book to a text file than it is now. Further responses will be forthcoming. Paul Edward Oppenheimer Engineering Research Center Mississippi State University From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.802 what's needed?: email management; multiple Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:20:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1065 (1065) format infos management At 10.11 18/04/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] here are my first thoughts. 1) email management some facts: i keep my email. i keep any piece of mail received (except for spam ...). from my point of view email is an archive in the old sense of the term. the live email i have goes back to the years 1997, 1996; in the archival CDs the frozen email goes back even more. but: we haven't an efficient way to manage the messages. the filters with their static connection to folders in order to sorting the mail aren't the best way to accomplish the task. we would need, i think, tools allowing to have contemporary, multiple, dynamic views of the mail archive (what one now obtains with the folders). these contemporary multiple dynamic views should defined on the basis of date, sender, subject, content, without being constrained to pre-define the specific words triggering the filter/view. this could be accomplished through the bayesian filters doing so well (in my experience) with the spam. the bayesian filter could function the usual way, ordering the messages: not in order to trash them but in order to sort them according the content. 2) management of multiple infos in multiple formats usually about a given subject of interest (say: digital preservation) one would like to keep together doc and pdf document, email messages, images, URL as bookmarks, web pages, and some of these materials could also be part of other collections/subjects. we now have only two very poor tools: folders and "Windows shortcuts". two main problems: as we know it's very difficult to keep together - say - an internet bookmark and a file; and - as always - we could like to have the same file in many collections, but we don't like to have as many copies of the file as the collections: because of the space wasted, and because if the file is something we are working on, at every stage of its evolution/redaction we'd re-copy it into every collection... i know of a very interesting feature of NTFS file systems, called "hard link" (if you have the file A in the folder F1, you can create for A an hard link B in the folder F2; if you back up the folder F2, the file A, through the hard link B is backed up!! the same thing doesn't happen if you back up a folder containing shortcuts; "furthermore, hard links, as system-level shortcuts, always point to the right target file-no matter if you rename or move it [http://www.hlm.inc.ru/]) which could be interesting but I wasn't able to find for it any decent suggestion of use, and some security warnings exist about a vulnerability created by hard links. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: ALLC/ACH-2004 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:26:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1066 (1066) Please, register to the ALLC/ACH-2004 conference as soon as possible. Later it might be difficult to find any accommodations. The early registration fee is extended to May 2. [See http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/.] Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Local Organiser From: Hugh Craig Subject: Computing Arts 2004 @ Newcastle Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:36:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1067 (1067) Computing Arts 2004 @ Newcastle: Discipline, Medium, Continuum. Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-9 July 2004 www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/cllc/ca2004/ Registrations are now invited for this conference, which covers a broad range of humanities computing endeavours. Invited speakers are Willard McCarty (known to all on this list!), Jock Philips of Te Ara: the online Encyclopedia of New Zealand and Alessio Cavallaro of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Conference themes are humanities computing as a discipline, online knowledge gateways, and new media. The venue is a hotel close to city, harbour and beaches. There are some shared sessions with the Australian Historical Association annual meeting, to be held in Newcastle in the same week. The main conference is 8-9 July; on 7 July there will be workshops on Geographical Information Systems and on using digital audio-visual media in research. The host for the conference is the Newcastle Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the conference is sponsored by the Australian e-Humanities Network. Early Bird registrations before May 31. More details, and a registration form, at www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/cllc/ca2004/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: publishing in an electronic age Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:26:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1068 (1068) In pursuit of a particular geographical metaphor, the archipelago, I bumped into www.archipelago.org, and so into a talk given by its founding editor, Katherine McNamara, "Institutional Memory and the Prospect of Publishing", at www.archipelago.org/KMlibrarytalk.pdf. This is, I think, something that many here will find worthy. Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.802 what's needed?: email management; multiple Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:20:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1069 (1069) format infos management At 10.11 18/04/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] here are my first thoughts. 1) email management some facts: i keep my email. i keep any piece of mail received (except for spam ...). from my point of view email is an archive in the old sense of the term. the live email i have goes back to the years 1997, 1996; in the archival CDs the frozen email goes back even more. but: we haven't an efficient way to manage the messages. the filters with their static connection to folders in order to sorting the mail aren't the best way to accomplish the task. we would need, i think, tools allowing to have contemporary, multiple, dynamic views of the mail archive (what one now obtains with the folders). these contemporary multiple dynamic views should defined on the basis of date, sender, subject, content, without being constrained to pre-define the specific words triggering the filter/view. this could be accomplished through the bayesian filters doing so well (in my experience) with the spam. the bayesian filter could function the usual way, ordering the messages: not in order to trash them but in order to sort them according the content. 2) management of multiple infos in multiple formats usually about a given subject of interest (say: digital preservation) one would like to keep together doc and pdf document, email messages, images, URL as bookmarks, web pages, and some of these materials could also be part of other collections/subjects. we now have only two very poor tools: folders and "Windows shortcuts". two main problems: as we know it's very difficult to keep together - say - an internet bookmark and a file; and - as always - we could like to have the same file in many collections, but we don't like to have as many copies of the file as the collections: because of the space wasted, and because if the file is something we are working on, at every stage of its evolution/redaction we'd re-copy it into every collection... i know of a very interesting feature of NTFS file systems, called "hard link" (if you have the file A in the folder F1, you can create for A an hard link B in the folder F2; if you back up the folder F2, the file A, through the hard link B is backed up!! the same thing doesn't happen if you back up a folder containing shortcuts; "furthermore, hard links, as system-level shortcuts, always point to the right target file-no matter if you rename or move it [http://www.hlm.inc.ru/]) which could be interesting but I wasn't able to find for it any decent suggestion of use, and some security warnings exist about a vulnerability created by hard links. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: "Paul Edward Oppenheimer" Subject: Re: 17.802 what's needed? Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:19:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1070 (1070) The first thing I would say is that everyone might want to look at and possibly emulate the practices of the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, which has done pioneering work in producing a document that is both dynamic and authoritative/definitive. [Full disclosure: The Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a colleague, co-author, and very good friend of mine.] The second thing I would say is that it ought to be immeasurably easier and cheaper to transfer text from a piece of paper or a book to a text file than it is now. Further responses will be forthcoming. Paul Edward Oppenheimer Engineering Research Center Mississippi State University From: Michael Fraser Subject: ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:41:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1071 (1071) (fwd) [deleted quotation] From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: April 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:50:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1072 (1072) Greetings: The April 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. In this issue there are four articles, an opinion piece, a full-length report on the 3rd OAI Workshop (by Chris Awre, JISC), three 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 April is the "Collaborative Digitization Project (CDP)" with a description by Nancy Allen, CDP. The articles include: Virtual Remote Control: Building a Preservation Risk Management Toolbox for Web Resources by Nancy Y. McGovern, Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, William R. Kehoe, and Ellie Buckley, Cornell University Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity by Brian F. Lavoie, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Continuing Education, Libraries and the Internet (CELI) Project: Narrowing the Skills Gap in Southern African University Libraries by Paiki Muswazi, University of Swaziland nestor: Network of Expertise in Long-term STOrage of Digital Resources - A Digital Preservation Initiative for Germany by Susanne Dobratz, Humboldt-University, Berlin and Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library The Opinion is: The Return on Investment of Electronic Journals - It Is a Matter of Time by Jonas Holstrom, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 17.802 what's needed? Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:06:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1073 (1073) Willard asks "what's needed." I would like to see this community able to document some specific instances of new knowledge that has been created as a direct result of access to text analysis or digital resources in the humanities. By this I don't just mean generic statements like, "with the advent of the Blake Archive I can compare images from dozens of his different illuminated books." I also don't mean linguistic computing, where such successes are well known and documented. For those working in text anaylsis, electronic editing, digital libraries, and related fields: are we able to point to actual cases where a problem has been solved, a question has been answered, received wisdom has been overturned, or new things have been learned? In the same way we can point to new knowledge that has come from the advent of the Hinman collator or the scanning electron microscope. Positivistic? Maybe, but it strikes me that this community has done a very good job in articulating the ways in which humanities computing is capable of raising questions; time to see whether we're also any good at answering them? Matt Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.813 what's needed; pedagogical use of text-analysis Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:07:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1074 (1074) At 07.48 21/04/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation] the "ad hoc attribution contest" of Patrick Juola seems to address all of these suggestions. it would be interesting to hear Patrick explain if and how did he have them in mind. by the way he comes from the the dept. of mathematics and computer science of the duquesne university. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: RE: 17.813 what's needed? Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:07:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1075 (1075) Briefly, on this general topic, I would like to personally urge those of you interested in this issue and with something to say to submit abstracts, position papers, or full articles to the AAAI Symposium that I am co-chairing this October on style-related issues in computing (the CFP was recently posted here). Most/many attendees will likely come mainly from a computing perspective, so people from a more "humanity-centric" perspective will be particularly welcome, to improve the relevance of the meeting. If there are any questions about this, please do not hesitate to email me directly. Shlomo Argamon --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.664 / Virus Database: 427 - Release Date: 4/21/2004 From: John Unsworth Subject: Cyberinfrastructure for humanities and social science Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:05:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1076 (1076) The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm (At the URL above, you can subscribe to a one-way, spam-free email list for updates and announcements concerning the meetings and other work of the Commission. Input from the community represented by Humanist is particularly relevant to the Commission described below, and may be sent to: cyberchair@acls.org) The Charge to the Commission As scholars in the humanities and social sciences use digital tools and technologies with increasing sophistication and innovation, they are transforming their practices of collaboration and communication. New forms of scholarship, criticism, and creativity proliferate in arts and letters and in the social sciences, resulting in significant new works accessible and meaningful only in digital form. Many technology-driven projects in these areas have become enormously complex and at the same time indispensable for teaching and research. For their part, scientists and engineers no longer see digital technologies merely as tools enhancing established research methodologies, but as a force creating environments that enable the creation of new knowledge. The recent National Science Foundation report, "Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure," argues for large-scale investments across all disciplines to develop the shared technology infrastructure that will support ever-greater capacities. Those capacities would include the development and deployment of new tools; the rapid adoption of best practices; interoperability; the ability to invoke services over the network; secure sharing of facilities; long-term storage of and access to important data; and ready availability of expertise and assistance. The needs of humanists and scientists converge in this emerging cyberinfrastructure. As the importance of technology-enabled innovation grows across all fields, scholars are increasingly dependent on sophisticated systems for the creation, curation, and preservation of information. They are also dependent on a policy, economic, and legal environment that encourages appropriate and unimpeded access to both digital information and digital tools. It is crucial for the humanities and the social sciences to join scientists and engineers in defining and building this infrastructure so that it meets the needs and incorporates the contributions of humanists and social scientists. ACLS is sponsoring a national commission to investigate and report on these issues. The Commission will operate throughout 2004, and is charged to: I. Describe and analyze the current state of humanities and social science cyberinfrastructure II. Articulate the requirements and the potential contributions of the humanities and the social sciences in developing a cyberinfrastructure for information, teaching, and research III. Recommend areas of emphasis and coordination for the various agencies and institutions, public and private, that contribute to the development of this cyberinfrastructure Among the questions to be explored in pursuing these three goals are: I. Describe and analyze the current state of humanities and social science cyberinfrastructure. 1. What can be generalized from the already significant digital projects in the humanities and social sciences? Which humanities and social science communities are most active and why? Of those that are not, which might soon, easily and/or profitably, engage more deeply with digital technology? How have those scholars developed computing applications to accomplish their scholarly and expressive goals? Where have they failed to do so, and what can be learned from those failures? 2. What new intellectual strategies, critical methods, and creative practices are emerging in response to technical applications in the humanities? To what extent are disciplines in the humanities transforming themselves through the use of computing and networking technologies? What are the implications of that transformation? 3. What organizations and structures have empowered or impeded the digital humanities? What are examples of successful and durable collaboration between technologists and humanities scholars? Where and how are people being trained to support and engage in such collaborations? What has been the role of libraries, archives, and publishers in these projects? II. Articulate the requirements and the potential contributions of the humanities and the social sciences in developing a national cyberinfrastructure for information, teaching, and research. 1. What are the "grand challenge" problems for the humanities and social sciences in the coming decade? Are they tractable to computation? Do they require cyberinfrastructure in some other way? 2. What technological developments can we predict that will have special impact in the humanities and social sciences in the near future? 3. Which are the most important functionalities necessary for new research and development in cyberinfrastructure generally? What kinds of humanities or social science problems are theoretically difficult or expressively complex, or challenge our ability to formulate a computable problem in some other way? What kinds of humanities or social science problems are computationally intensive, require especially high bandwidth, or present resource challenges in other ways? 4. What are the barriers that confront humanities and social science users who wish to take advantage of state-of-the-art computational, storage, networking, and visualization resources in their research? What can be done to remove these barriers? 5. What impact will the availability of high-performance infrastructure have on enabling cross-disciplinary research? What will high-performance infrastructure mean for the broader social impact of humanities and social sciences? 6. What can be done to improve education and outreach activities in the computer-science and engineering community to broaden access to high-end computing? How can computing expertise in the humanities and social sciences themselves be increased? III. Recommend areas of emphasis and coordination for the various agencies and institutions, public and private, that contribute to the development of humanities cyberinfrastructure. 1. What investments in cyberinfrastructure are likely to have the greatest impact on scholarship in the humanities and social sciences? 2. What research infrastructure should be coupled with cyberinfrastructure? 3. How can private and public funding agencies coordinate their efforts and cooperate with universities, research libraries, disciplinary organizations, and others to maximize the benefits of cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences? 4. How should new investments in infrastructure and technologies be administered so as to include the humanities? The Scope of Work and Method Over the course of 2004, the commission will investigate the questions raised above, and others as they become relevant, by: * inviting expert testimony in public meetings, in writing, or in personal interviews; * examining and documenting ongoing practices and projects; * administering a web-based survey; * reading broadly in recent literature on scholarly publishing, libraries and archives, intellectual property, and other relevant topics; * consulting with foundations and funding agencies. The commission will hold a number of public forums designed to encourage thoughtful, wide-ranging reflection among stakeholder communities: 1. Monday, April 27th (at the annual meeting of the Research Libraries Group) 2. Saturday, May 22nd, Chicago 3. Saturday, June 19th, New York 4. Saturday, August 21st, Berkeley 5. Saturday, September 18th, Los Angeles 6. Saturday, October 9th, Houston 7. Tuesday, October 26th, Baltimore (at the Digital Library Federation's Fall Forum) The Commission expects to publish its findings and recommendations early in 2005. Commission Members: Paul Courant Provost & Professor of Economics University of Michigan Sarah Fraser Associate Professor and Chair Art History, Northwestern University Mike Goodchild Director, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science Professor, Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Margaret Hedstrom Associate Professor, School of Information University of Michigan Charles Henry Vice President and Chief Information Officer Rice University Peter B. Kaufman Director of Strategic Initiatives, Innodata Isogen President, Intelligent Television Jerome McGann John Stewart Bryan Professor English, University of Virginia Roy Rosenzweig Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor History, George Mason University John Unsworth (Chair) Dean and Professor Grad School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Bruce Zuckerman Professor, School of Religion Director, Archaeological Research Collection University of Southern California Advisors to the Commission: Dan Atkins Professor, School of Information Director, Alliance for Community Technology University of Michigan James Herbert Senior NSF/NEH Advisor National Science Foundation Clifford Lynch, Director Coalition for Networked Information Deanna Marcum Associate Librarian for Library Services Library of Congress Harold Short Director, Center for Computing in the Humanities King's College, London Steve Wheatley Vice-President, American Council of Learned Societies Senior Editor: Abby Smith Director of Programs Council on Library and Information Resources Washington, DC From: Kluwer Subject: new book on communications Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:09:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1077 (1077) Digital Communities in a Networked Society e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government edited by Manuel J. Mendes Universidade Católica de Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil Reima Suomi Dept. of Management, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland Carlos Passos CenPRA/MCT, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Sao Paulo, Brazil IFIP INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING -- 139 Digital Communities in a Networked Society: e-Commerce, e-Business ande-Government deals with the accelerating evolution in the computerization of society. This evolution, or should we call it a revolution, is dominantly driven by the Internet, and documented by the novelties introduced, year by year, by Information and Communication Technologies. The application fields of those technologies are expanding constantly, transferring high benefits for the users - human beings (clients, consumers, citizens) and organizations. In Electronic Business, enterprises build production networks and proceed to expressive reorganization of their internal activities. And in Electronic Government, still in its infancy, practically all nations in the world - rich or poor - search for the way to use ICT to reach efficiency and to eliminate old problems such as corruption. It is not yet possible to foresee the impacts for the citizen but, for sure, the old democracy is being reshaped. The book contains recent results of research and development in the areas of: * E-government, * Business models of e-applications, * Innovative structures in the internet, * Auctions and e-payment, * Future aspects of communication, * Internet and the web, * Advanced platforms and grid computing, * Cooperation and integration, * Modeling and construction of e-services. Digital Communities in a NetworkedSociety: e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government comprises the papers, contributions and ideas discussed during the 3rd I3E Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in September 2003 in Guaruja, São Paulo, Brazil. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Foreword. Preface. * Section 1: E-Government. 1. E-Government - A Roadmap For Progress; R. Traunmüller, M. Wimmer. 2. Reducing Normative And Informative Asymmetries In Fiscal Management For Local Administrations; M. Carducci, M.A. Bochicchio, A. Longo. * Section 2: Business Models Of E-Applications. 3. Who Are The Internet Content Providers? C.C. Krueger, P.M.C. Swatman. 4. Net Market Makers In The Australian B2B E-Space. M. Singh. 5. The Success Strategies For Hybrid Business Model; S. Vatanasakdakul, E.L. Boon Kiat, J. Cooper. * Section 3: Innovative Structures In The Internet. 6. Influence Of Electronic Business Technologies On Supply Chain Transformations; W. Cellary, S. Strykowski. 7. Product Platforms For The Media Industry; L. Koehler, M. Anding, T. Hess. 8. Dynamic Management Of Business Service Quality In Collaborative Commerce Systems; B. Roberts, A. Svirskas. 9. Software For The Changing E-Business; M. Alaranta, T. Valtonen, J. Isoaho. * Section 4: Auctions And E-Payment. 10. Dynamic ROI Calculations For E-Commerce Systems; M. Amberg, M. Hirschmeier. 11. μP: A Micropayment System; P.A.L. Mindlin, C.M. Schweitzer, T.C.M.B. Carvalho, W.V. Ruggiero. 12. Electronic Auctions In Finland; V.K. Tuunainen, M. Rossi, J. Puhakainen. * Section 5: Future Aspects Of Communication. 13. I-Centric Communications; R. Popescu-Zeletin, S. Arbanowski, S. Steglich. 14. A Communication Framework Towards Flexible Associations Of Businesses In Evolving Environments; H. Ludolph, G. Babin, P. Kropf. 15. Introducing New Business Models In Provision Of QOS Networks; B.D. Jerman-Blažic. * Section 6: Internet And The Web. 16. The Semantic Web; R. Studer, S. Agarwal, R. Volz. 17. Web Personalization Based On User's Trade-Offs; M. Martins, I. Garaffa, M. Kling. 18. XML Alone Is Not Sufficient For Effective Web EDI; F.G. Beckenkamp, W. Pree. 19. Institutional Websites Personalization Using Macro And Micro User Profiles; P.S. Rodrigues Lima, M.S. Pimenta. * Section 7: Advanced Platforms And Grid Computing. 20. The Grid: An Enabling Infrastructure For Future E-Business, E-Commerce And E-Government Applications; F. Silva, H. Senger. 21. Inter-Organizational E-Services Accounting Management On Computational Grids; F. Arcieri, F. Fioravanti, E. Nardelli, M. Talamo. 22. A Web Services Provider; J.-P. Bahsoun, B. Chebaro, S. Tawbi. 23. Using Metamodels To Promote Data Integration In An E-Government Application Scenario; A. Figueiredo, A. Kamada, L. Damasceno, M. Mendes, M. Rodrigues. * Section 8: Cooperation And Integration Of E-Services. 24. A Service Oriented Approach To Interorganisational Cooperation; C. Zirpins, W. Lamersdorf, G. Piccinelli. 25. A Data And Event Oriented Workflow Process Definition Meta Model Coherent With The UML Profile For Edoc Systems; J. Soto Mejía. 26. XML-Based E-Contracting; M. Merz. 27. ICT Support For Evolving Harmonization Of International Alliances; R.M. Lee, E.D. Campillo. 28. Modeling Framework For E-Business Systems; M.M. Narasipuram. * Section 9: Modeling And Construction Of E-Services. 29. Reference Models For Advanced E-Services; C.A. Vissers, M.M. Lankhorst, R.J. Slagter. 30. Mapping "Enterprise Business Architecture" To "Information Systems Framework"; A. Yamaguchi, M. Suzuki, M. Kataoka. 31. A COTS-Oriented Process For Constructing Adaptable E-Government Services; C. Ncube. 32. Analysis Of The Relation Between Service Parameters For Service Level Management And System Utilization; M. Akatsu, S. Konno, N. Komoda. 33. Use Of Models And Modelling Techniques For Service Development; L. Ferreira Pires, M. Van Sinderen, C. Guareis Farias, J.P. Almeida. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7795-5 Date: April 2004 Pages: 472 pp. EUR 164.00 / USD 180.00 / GBP 114.00 From: Sean Lawrence Subject: New special issue of EMLS Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:43:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1078 (1078) To whom it may concern, The latest special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies has just been posted at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlsframes.html Editted by Gabriel Egan, this issue is dedicated to "Computer Modelling of Performance Spaces". Illustrations for certain of the articles require a virtual reality modelling language plug-in for a web-browser. Yours sincerely, Sean Lawrence, Assistant Editor. Contents of EMLS Special Issue 13 (April 2004): Editor's introduction. Gabriel Egan, Shakespeare's Globe and King's College London. A report on Virtual Reality (VR) in theatre history research: Creating a spatial context for performance. [2] Christie Carson, Royal Holloway University of London. Modelling the anatomy theatre and the indoor hall theatre: Dissection on the stages of early modern London. [3] Christian Billing, University of Hull. Reconstructing Shakespeare's second Globe using 'Computer Aided Design' (CAD) tools. [4] Tim Fitzpatrick, University of Sydney. The 1599 Globe and its modern replica: Virtual Reality modelling of the archaeological and pictorial evidence. [5] Gabriel Egan, Shakespeare's Globe and King's College London. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.662 / Virus Database: 425 - Release Date: 4/20/2004 From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 17.802 what's needed? Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:40:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1079 (1079) Three things come to mind as having served well in other fields and which could be applied to humanities computing. The first is from mathematics, namely the creation of a series of "grand challenges" to the members of the discipline. A Grand Challenge is a problem which typically has a simple description and which has eluded a satisfactory and definitive answer for generations of practitioners of a discipline. The quest in humanities computing would be to state what could become grand challenges, perhaps to computationally determine authorship of famous unknown works, or to translate an unknown language using computational tools, etc. The second is from computational linguistics and information retrieval, namely to host "competitions" in which software competitors attempt to solve a hard problem in which evaluation of competing systems has proven difficult to assess. Computational Linguistics and information retrieval were handed this paradigm by their funding agencies, which were faced with numerous competing software systems which all claimed to address problems such as the extraction of facts from text, the disambiguation of word meanings, etc. These tasks are ones in which there exists a number of software systems each of which show promise, but which have never be applied under similar circumstances to the same body of data so they could be compared for the quality of their output. The competitions are typically administared by an impartial (non-competing agency) such as the National Bureau of Standards or an international committee of representatives from academia, who devise the competition's rules, develop a special set of data to be used by the competitors and associate with this data the answer protocols which will be used to judge the results. Typically, the data is judged by humans and those judgements are used to evaluate the output of the participant's computer programs. There is usually a training period for competitors, in which data is released upon which the participants can practice,, and then a release of the test corpus with a deadline for responses. At the end, a report/proceedings is prepared by the organizers with submissions/papers by the participants. The event is then held again annually for a few years in the hopes that improvements in the methodologies will result in improved software. The third method is from computer science and computational linguistics, namely to produce standards for the field. Standards include things such as recommendations for the field's academic course content and for sets of courses to be included in Masters and Doctoral Degree programs. They also have included the publishing of algorithms for standard techniques in the field and the establishment of a dictionary of terminology for the field. In the humanities there are some standards, such as those the Text Encoding Initiative provided, but these apply to text markup and not software. Any field which emphasizes computers could presumably also have standards for computer software. From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 17.804 pedagogical use of text-analysis tools Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:43:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1080 (1080) )" To: Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:39 PM [deleted quotation] that's [deleted quotation] past [deleted quotation] the [deleted quotation] mostly [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Kretzschmar awarded a chair in the humanities at UGA Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:06:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1081 (1081) Following is a press-release from the University of Georgia announcing the award of the Harry and Jane Willson Professorship in the Humanities to Bill Kretzschmar, long-time member of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. The full text is at http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/040421willsongift.shtml. WM [deleted quotation] [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: Cajsa Baldini Subject: Computing Italianists and Other Technological Angles on Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:24:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1082 (1082) Italian Language & Culture [See http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/aati/04/main.htm or http://www.aati-online.org] AATI in Tempe, Arizona Arizona State University Call for Papers and Sessions Literature, Pedagogy, Linguistics, Cinema, Technology, and Culture October 14-15-16, 2004 (Thursday-Friday-Saturday) The Annual National and International Convention of the AATI will be held in Tempe, Arizona this year. Opening remarks will be addressed by the Honorable Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona, and the keynote address will be delivered by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. The American Association of Teachers of Italian, the oldest Italianist organization in the United States and Canada, invites proposals for special sessions on all topics related to technology and computing in an Italian context. Deadline for Proposals and information about special sessions: July 15, 2004 Possible session topics could include, but are not limited to: * Intertextuality and Hypertext projects in Italian * Humanities Computing and Italian Linguistics * Digitizing the Italian Canon * Using Technology in the Italian Classroom * Developing Instructional Software for Italian * Propose your own session! [material deleted] Chairs of Sessions ! Colleagues wishing to Chair a session should complete the "Call for Papers" form and forward it to me following the same procedure as if it were a proposal for a paper. The form is available here: <http://www.asu.edu/languages/aati/04/aati_paper.PDF>http://www.asu.edu/languages/aati/04/aati_paper.PDF [material deleted] Mail or E-mail proposals to: Professor Pier Raimondo Baldini President, AATI Department of Languages and Literatures Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 Tel./Fax. (480) 775-2670 e-mail: pbaldini@asu.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cajsa C. Baldini Graduate Computing Specialist Arizona State University Department of English Workshop Schedule Spring 2004! <http://www.asu.edu/english/workshops/>http://www.asu.edu/english/workshops/ ,-._,-. \/)"(\/ "Three things are certain: (_o_) Death, taxes, and lost data. / \/) Guess which has occurred..." || ||) oo-oo From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2004: Best of the Web Winners Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:25:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1083 (1083) Apologies for any duplication; please forward as appropriate. ---------- We're delighted to announce the Best of the Web Award winners for 2004, as presented at the Museums and the Web conference in Alexandria, Virginia. Each year, nominations are solicited from the Museum community and nominated sites are evaluated by a committee of peers. Full details including the list of judges, category definitions, judges' comments and a list of finalists in each category can be found on the Museums and the Web conference site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/best/ The MW2004 Best of the Web are: * Best On-line Exhibition Lewis & Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org organized by the Missouri Historical Society, Saint Louis, MI, USA * Best E-Services Site mnartists.org http://mnartists.org a project of The McKnight Foundation and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA * Best Museum Web Site Supporting Educational Use World Myths and Legends in Art http://www.artsMIA.org/world-myths/ Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA * Best Innovative or Experimental Application You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving http://www.plimoth.org/olc/ Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA, USA * Best Museum Professional's Site Global Museum http://www.globalmuseum.org "the brainchild of Roger Smith", Global Museum International, New Zealand * Best Museum Research Site Tate Online http://www.tate.org.uk Tate, London ,UK * Best Overall Museum Web site Conservation Central (Smithsonian's National Zoo) http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral Friends of the National Zoo, Washington,DC Nominations for the Best of the Web 2005 will open in the Fall of 2004. Museums and the Web 2005 will be held April 13-17, 2005 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Best wishes, jennifer -- __________ J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __________ From: "Olga Francois" Subject: 2004 Annual Copyright Symposium! Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:25:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1084 (1084) COLLEGES, CODE AND COPYRIGHT June 10-11, 2004 Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland University College Adelphi, Maryland http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/ * * * Sponsored by the The Center for Intellectual Property KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information WHO SHOULD ATTEND: University Provosts * College and University Faculty * College and University Librarians * Distance Learning Librarians and Information Professionals * Academic and Intellectual Property Attorneys * Directors and Managers of Distance Learning Programs * Knowledge Management Leaders * Information Technology Managers * Web-based Training Specialists * E-commerce Directors * Instructional Designers * Deans and Directors of College & University Academic and Professional Programs Presenters and panelist also include: ~ Miriam M. Nisbet, Legislative Counsel, American Library Association ~ Bryan Pfaffenberger, Professor, Technology, Culture, and Communication (TCC), University of Virginia ~ Mark A. Luker, Vice President, EDUCAUSE ~ Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, External Relations ARL and Assistant Director for Public Programs for SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ~ Matt Jackson, Assistant Professor of Communications, College of Communications Penn State University ~ David E. Green, Vice President and Counsel, Technology and New Media, Motion Picture Association of America ~ David Lombard Harrison, Associate Vice President for Legal Affairs, University of North Carolina ~ Kenneth Saloman, Dow, Lohnes, & Albertson, PLLC ~ Donna Ferullo, Dir., University Copyright Office, Purdue University ~ Keith Winstein, Graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Please see the web site for a complete listing of speakers: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/speakers.html PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Higher education institutions are facing complex issues involved in the use of campus computer networks, the delivery of scholarly materials to faculty and students, and securing information disseminated on campus. This symposium will focus on these and other issues that affect the delivery of quality, copyrighted content in higher education, including: - The impact of the rising costs of scholarly materials - Peer-to-peer file sharing over university networks - The impact of digital rights management systems - Current legislation impacting copyright and higher education - Other provocative topics pertinent to the symposium subject The symposium has a two-day format that will frame the pertinent issues on the first day then present and discuss possible solutions the second day. REGISTRATION: Early registration ends May 10, 2004. For additional information call 301-985-7777 OR visit our Web site at http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/ [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: ALLC/ACH-2004 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:26:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1085 (1085) Please, register to the ALLC/ACH-2004 conference as soon as possible. Later it might be difficult to find any accommodations. The early registration fee is extended to May 2. [See http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/.] Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Local Organiser From: "Steven Smith" Subject: Workshop: 3-D Gaskell (and souvenir pressman's hat) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:10:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1086 (1086) PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS-POSTING There is still space available in the 3rd annual Book History Workshop at Texas A&M University. The workshop was aptly described by one of last year's participants as "3-D Gaskell"--Gaskell being Philip Gaskell's New Introduction to Bibliography. The workshop provides an introduction to the history of books and printing with an emphasis on hand press era printing (so it's really only Gaskell up to page 185). Workshop participants learn about and experience hand press era printing and its allied technologies--type founding, printing, paper making, binding, illustration, and ink making. The workshop runs a series of evening lectures from notable scholars on bookish topics. For more information on the workshop or to register online, go to: http://lib-oldweb.tamu.edu/cushing/bookhistory/2004.html And for those who are still reading, the workshop results in several wonderful take-homes--see for example, the Texas A&M pressman's hat, which in addition to keeping one's hair out of the press makes a darn good Tchotchke, and a pretty decent coaster holder to boot: http://lib-oldweb.tamu.edu/cushing/bookhistory/coaster.htm The example shown derives from the workshop's major printing project, an exact type facsimile reproduction of a duodecimo pamphlet imposed for work and turn: http://lib-oldweb.tamu.edu/cushing/bookhistory/project.htm A complete report on the 2003 workshop is available at: http://lib-oldweb.tamu.edu/cushing/bookhistory/2003photos.htm From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: ALLC/ACH-2004: Early registration deadline Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:58:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1087 (1087) We want to remind you of the early registration deadline. The lodging pre-reservation is valid through April 15th. There might be difficulties to find hotel rooms after that because of another big conference and a Paul McCartney performance on Saturday 12/6 at the football arena. [See http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004/ for more information.] -- 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1088 (1088) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1089 (1089) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1090 (1090) [deleted quotation] From: Susan Hockey Subject: Conference on Knowledge Organization and Digital Resources Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:44:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1091 (1091) The 8th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will be hosted by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London on 13 to 16 July 2004. The theme of the conference is: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society, and the keynote address will be delivered by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. This conference brings together experts in conventional and new methodologies for the classification of knowledge and the construction of ontologies and taxonomies, and examines how these techniques can be used for access and retrieval of digital collections. For further information on the programme and to register online, please go to: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isko2004/index.htm Delegates registering before 15 May 2004 can take advantage of the early booking discount. A day rate is available for those wishing to attend only part of the conference. Please direct enquiries to isko2004@ucl.ac.uk, phone +44 (0)20 7679 2107 **************************************************** Susan Hockey Director of the School and Professor of Library and Information Studies School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Phone: 020 7679 2477; Fax 020 7383 0557 E-mail: s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk **************************************************** From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.5 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:11:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1092 (1092) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 5 (March 31 - April 6, 2004) VIEW Technology Benefiting Humanity By Jim Fruchterman Memo to the new generation of tech philanthropists: Apply the same intellect and discipline to your philanthropy as you employ in business. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i5_fruchterman.html From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: i need the e-mail addresses Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 07:52:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1093 (1093) Dear Humanist colleagues, I have written a review on a very interesting, but controversial book by M. Zakiev on the origin of the Tatars. I guess it should be sent to some ethnographic journal. However, being a linguist, I don't know any ethnographic journals. May I ask you to be so kind as to send me the e-mail address of the ethnographic journals? Looking forward to hearing from you to yutamb@hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: Joel Goldfield Subject: Re: 17.761 a brief history of humanities computing, 1964-70 Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 09:32:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1094 (1094) In response to Joe Raben's surprise, condensed history of humanities computing, whose efforts I have swung into and out of over the past 23 years, one additional word of comment: Wow! Sincerely, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 17.761 a brief history of humanities computing, 1964-70 Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 09:32:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1095 (1095) Reply to a message: Forwarded from Joe Raben, joeraben@cox.net At the end of this massive tribute from Joe Raben to his friends colleagues and other cohorts in humanities computing, he requsts data on other unmentioned project that might have gone under. Contrary to all the pundits' prolific predictions, Project Gutenberg not only did not go under, but has continued it's spectactular growth on a logarithmic curve in excess of Moore's Law, as in this graph: MO OctNovDec-JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec-JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug 2003/2003--2004/2004/2004/2004/2004/2004/2004--/2005/2005/2005/2005/2005 12K>03/04 Mar 24, 2004 12K 11.5K>02/04 Feb 25, 2004 11.5K 11K>01/04 Jan 14, 2004 11K 10.5K>11/03 Nov 26, 2003 10.5K MO OctNovDec-JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec-JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug MON 2003/2003--2004/2004/2004/2004/2004/2004/2004--/2005/2005/2005/2005/2005 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ##### *Please note the graph above is in MONTHS, while the graph below is in YEARS!* YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^#### 10K>10/03 10K 9,500>9/03 9,500 9,000>8/03 9,000 8,500>7/03 8,500 8,000>5/03 8,000 7,500>3/03 7,500 7,000>1/03 7,000 6,500>12/02 6,500 6,000 >9/02 6,000 5,500 >7/02 5,500 5,000 >4/02 5,000 4,500 >2/02 4,500 4,000>10/01 4,000 3,500 >5/01 3,500 3,000 >12/00 3,000 2,500 > 8/00 2,500 2,000 >12/99 2,000 1,500 >10/98 1,500 1,000 >8/97 1,000 500 >4/96 500 100 >12/93 << 12/90 10 YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^#### In addition, Project Gutenberg added its 30th language, Romanian, this week, and is about to announce a new site with over 100 languages represented. A month ago, Project Gutenberg of Europe released its first 100 eBooks, an plans to present eLibraries in over 50 languages. Project Gutenberg of Australia has already released nearly 350 eBooks. Project Gutenbergs of Canada and Luxembourg are opening soon, with new entries from all the European Union nations expected in the near future. If the growth rate listed above continues for only one more decade, Project Gutenberg will be offering over one million books by 2014, and the next step will be to translate these million eBooks into 100 different languages. By the time this is all complete, perhaps by Project Gutenberg's 50th Anniversary in 2021, we hope to provide 10 million eBooks from all over the world, and present them in 100 languages, for a total 1 billion, and we hope to distribute these to 1 billion readers, 15% of thw world population. Thanks!!! Always Nice To Hear From You! Michael Give eBooks!!! In 30 Languages!!! As of April 03, 2004 ~12,160 FreeBooks at: http://gutenberg.net ~7,840 to go to 20,000 We are ~1/5 of the way from 10,000 to 20,000. Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" From: Peter Suber Subject: April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 07:53:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1096 (1096) * Announcement [cross-posted] * I just mailed the April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month, it catalogs the wave of recent university actions against high journal prices and reflects on the DC Principles for Free Access to Science. April issue http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-04.htm How to subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter and discussion forum http://www.arl.org/sparc/soa/index.html The archive of back issues is open to non-subscribers http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter ---------- Peter Suber Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter Editor, Open Access News blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/ peter.suber@earlham.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: a brief history of humanities computing, 1964-70 Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 07:49:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1097 (1097) [Forwarded from Joe Raben, joeraben@cox.net] In response to a request from Willard to inform him of the areas of concentration that attracted the early computing humanists, I have written a brief history of the years 1964-1970. From the perspective of more than a generation, this early activity presents several distinctive characteristics. Foremost is the pervasive sense expressed by the participants that they were venturing into unknown territory with promises of both unimagined rewards and dangers. These concerns are apparently balanced by a hope that new challenges will produce new satisfactions, that the existing types of scholarship require a shaking up which only the introduction of new technology can achieve. Perhaps the most valuable contribution they made was to establish then, when computers were thought of almost exclusively as arithmetic machines, that this new technology could also be used for processing words, more complex and elusive than numbers. It may be no exaggeration to say that a major part of what computers do today in every aspect of information technology owes a debt to these hardy individuals who saw the verbal dimension of computing. Years before we had organized the Association for Computers and the Humanities or the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, before an Internet facilitated the rapid, simple and relatively free communication on which so much of the activity depends today, before Humanist facilitated easy linkups with fellows around the globe, before databases of text supported wide-ranging and innovative analyses, and obviously before the invention of the desktop computer that ties almost every scholar in the industrialized world to unimagined computing power, the pioneers whose work is discussed here went forth, cautiously but bravely, into territory that today has become familiar and largely recognized as legitimate. Some knowledge of their accomplishments may serve to guide those who have followed. For data on that period, the primary sources are the Author-Subject Index to Computers and the Humanities (New York: Pergamon Press, 1967) and Joseph Raben, ed., Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities: A Directory of Scholars Active (New York: Pergamon Press, 1977). Additional resources include Susan Hockey, A Guide to Computer Applications in theHumanities (London: Duckworth and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980) and Robert L. Oakman, Computer Methods for Literary Research (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1980; 2nd ed., Athens, Ga.: Univ. of Georgia Press). Hockey's book is particularly useful for projects in Britain and Europe; Oakman is comparably knowledgeable about those in North America. Unlike the self-reported information in the Index and the Directory, however, these two surveys attempt to define the investigators' intent, sometimes not quite reaching the mark. Discussing my own effort to identify verbal associations between Milton and Shelley, for example, Hockey assumed (wrongly) that I had used concordances, and Oakman saw the project as interesting from a computer science perspective but did not consider the literary implications. The Directory of Scholars Active is a compilation of data accumulated during the first years of CHum, and was only partially designed to become a historical record. While its central function was to provide suggestions for fellow explorers in the field (instructors in many countries reported presenting it to students to stimulate ideas for new projects), many active scholars are known to have been neglectful or even unwilling to record their work. A substantial number entered information that was later recognized to be based more on hope than determination. These two resources nevertheless constitute the best record we have of the attitudes and expectations of the surprisingly large body of scholars who recognized in the primitive computers of that era a potential tool for solving not only long-standing problems, such as authorship, but also new problems suggested by the machine's capabilities, now made available to those who enjoyed access to a university computer or one accessible at some nearby industrial or commercial facility. Of major consideration in attempting even a cursory survey of this type is the important fact that Computers and the Humanities was created to support individuals embarking on the then-hazardous exploration of computer-assisted humanities research. Those individuals, many of them untenured beginners in the academic game of musical chairs, sometimes even graduate students seeking permission to submit a computer-assisted concordance as a dissertation, ran two risks: first, that they would be accused of doing nothing since the computer did all the work or, conversely, that they were embarking on expenditures of time and energy that would produce no results of any value. The articles published in CHum, therefore, and recorded in the Index to the first five volumes often represent aspiration and defiance rather than the record of accomplishment expected today in scholarly reporting. A prime function of the journal (which was intentionally designed to resemble any conventional academic journal) was to provide the offprints that candidates for academic rewards could deposit on the desks of the chairpersons and deans who made these crucial decisions. In establishing their credibility, a cardinal rule was impartial and transparent refereeing by their peers, who could be located for that purpose through the growing files of the Directory. This refereeing activity itself was a mechanism for keeping the growing community aware of new developments, even those that were not deemed worthy of publication. To clarify the authors’ intentions and achievements. much editorial effort had to go into rewriting substantial portions of those articles, especially those of writers whose native language was not English but who chose to use that medium of communication. The long-term goal of the two publishing ventures, the Index and the Directory (the latter appearing in regular updates in the journal and in the book-length accumulation), was to lend further credibility to those disparate efforts in North America and Europe and to increase the exchange of ideas, procedures and data among that steadily growing band of pioneers. The appearance of this information in book format reinforced our effort in organizing the international conferences that periodically brought members of the community into closer contact. The success of this editing and publishing endeavor in generating academic respectability for such a totally innovative methodology can be measured in the number of individuals known to me whose success in achieving tenure was based on an article published in CHum. One of these, involved in the development of instructional software, later became the editor of the journal. In the tenure decision of another, who concentrated on statistical analysis of literature, her chair actually called to find out from me whether "this was an authentic journal." In both of the primary sources for this report, the Author-Subject Index to Computers and the Humanities and Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities: A Directory of Scholars Active, the predominant activity recorded is the compilation of concordances. Once IBM had bundled its KWIC (KeyWord In Context) program with the mainframes it was selling to universities (and other customers), the idea caught on very rapidly that this software (the term was very new and catchy at the time) could not only create useful Indexes of the titles of scientific papers (its prime function) but also organize the elements of a demarcated body of text, even fiction, drama and poetry. For the first time humanists were able, systematically and easily (they hoped) to reorganize large bodies of text in nonlinear fashion to reveal aspects of written art that had hitherto been essentially hidden. Imaginations flew wild. Why not a whole series of concordances to the major Victorian British poets? Why not concordances not only to major European poets (Goethe, Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Racine, Schiller) but also to prose playwrights (Ibsen, Beckett) and other prose writers (Celine, Hawthorne, La Rochefoucauld, Livy, Montaigne, Rabelais)? Why not a unified concordance to several poets of a limited period, such as the sonneteers of the English Renaissance? Why not a multidimensional concordance to Paradise Lost, broken down into miniconcordances for each speaker (including the narrator), and indications of the locales and other information that might illuminate Milton's craft and art? Why not concord all of Milton’s prose? Why not concord the vocal texts of Bach’s compositions? Why not a series of concordances to all the prose fiction of Faulkner, with a grand accumulation at the end, a compendium of a significant artist's total literary vocabulary? Why ignore undeciphered Minoan linear texts, Hittite cuneiform or Egyptian papyri? Why not a movement to draw attention to Russian poets, who were largely engaged in surreptitious anti-government propaganda, by publishing concordances to their poetry that the Communist publishing houses would never consider? Although handmade and conventionally printed concordances had been available literally for centuries, their invention dating to the Renaissance interest in biblical studies, the new computer-based concordances (with each word's immediate environment and a citation) as well as verbal indices (just words and citations) provided opportunities for expanded and increasingly sophisticated research tools. For the first time, computer-generated and -printed concordances could presumably enhance the status of their subjects and reveal aspects of their art hitherto unrecognizable. A series of concordances to the works of Joseph Conrad as described in the Directory suggests some of the broadened scope envisioned: To produce Index concordances to the complete corpus of Conrad's prose and to develop statistical profiles of his lexicon for each work and for the corpus as a whole; to demonstrate the usefulness of microfiche for concordances whose bulk would argue against book format publication; to reduce the cost of concordances to users; to prepare books for a computer-collated edition of Conrad. Another eager young scholar saw in the computer a means to create a research tool of great use to a limited number of colleagues: [deleted quotation] Other prophets of the new scholarly age foresaw such future advantages as parallel concordances to similar works, the addition of "related works" to a Bible concordance, and in anticipation of the coming interest in text databases, "copies of the paper tapes [being] delivered to the American Philological Association's data bank." The likelihood that paper tape readers would soon be found only in museums did not, apparently, dampen the enthusiasm of this convert to the religion of computer research in the humanities. The range of subjects and methods is startling and satisfying. Towering over all this activity, in both conception and execution, is the Index Thomisticus of Roberto Busa, a superconcordance initiated on Index cards before World War II and consummated in a series of both published books and CD-ROMs as the technology provided more and more appropriate sustenance for this monumental analytic tool for a major thinker as well as his sources and followers. In the academic world, moreover, with much less support, other efforts brought out the imaginative and creative energies of innovators. To induce the clunky chain printers of the time to produce obsolete characters for Anglo-Saxon poetry, to reproduce the undeciphered script of the extinct Minoan culture, even to simulate the diacritics of French, Italian, Spanish and German plus the minor European languages--all these technical problems drew the humanists into realms (and subterranean computer centers) where nothing in their training or experience had led them before. Unlike their tradition-minded colleagues, they had to master a technology so new that even its practitioners were largely of most of it. For the first time, humanists were confronted with the technical infrastructure of their institutions. Sometimes they were welcomed for providing additional breadth to the computer centers' service; at other times and even in the same places, they were turned away because their projects placed unusual and unacceptable burdens on the facilities for input, processing and output. In almost every instance they learned that the glamour of computer-assisted literary scholarship was greatly outweighed by the drudgery of implementing it. Some sense of that technical drudgery facing these early computer humanists is reflected in this description of processing punch-card input for Jess Bessinger's "Computer-Based Concordance to the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records": [deleted quotation] Anyone who has been tortured by a keypunch, a machine never designed for the entry of running text and on which an error--even in the last column-required that the entire card be repunched, can appreciate the implicit bravery in that simple operation number 2. (Bessinger and a few other leaders of that time were already secure in their professorships. Their commitment to the new technology may have contributed to its growing acceptance and respectability as a legitimate academic activity.) A major development of this melding of technology with humanistic interest was the new effort to generate concordances to the works of minor figures who would not in the past have justified the tedious procedure based on hand-copied slips. The numerous entries in the Index and the Directory include such lesser literary figures as Yeats, Henry Adams, Kafka, O'Neill, Seneca, Baudelaire, the Beowulf poet, Hopkins, Patmore, Sidney, Keats, Swift and Wordsworth. In addition, there were expanded developments in other significant directions. A new concordance to Shakespeare used the spellings of his original publications. Works composed in non-Latin alphabets (for example, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew) were transliterated. The computer's ability to manipulate text was exploited to produce reverse alphabetization where a study of word-terminals was thought to illuminate morphological or semantic elements. In particular, the computer's superiority as a counting machine drew substantial attention. In 1946, in my own first acquaintance with a computer, the ENIAC at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania, that monster with vacuum tubes was praised to me only for its speed at simple arithmetic; it was running a program to calculate rocket trajectories, which I was told would have required decades with the previously available equipment. Since the machines were being marketed then, to industry and commerce as well as universities, as high-speed number crunchers, it seemed natural for many compilers of concordances to include counts of various components, sometimes the number of each word's occurrences and its percentage of the total body of text. Frequency counts are reported for such standard authors as Byron, Camus, Corneille, Dante, Gide, Roethke and Seneca. Broader efforts encompass Dutch classical authors, German texts, Greek and Latin, Italian folklore and poetry, Semitic languages and Swedish newspapers. This counting function became the basis for efforts to develop a computer stylistics. Such concepts were embodied in, for example, a project entitled "Statische Linguistiche dell'Italiano." It would incorporate (in part): [deleted quotation] Another program, of more limited scope, is to be designed, in "addition to literal counts on explicit language phenomena at the lexemic level, [to] . . . store expectations as to certain syntactic and semantic pattern norms. Content analysis includes both hand-Indexing and automatic recognition," An attempt to categorize the stylistic differences and similarities between Gerard Manley Hopkins and Dylan Thomas would "count thirty variables (. . . phrase and clause types, parts of speech, instances of alliteration, etc.) and tabulating; use of multiple correlation coefficients; analysis of results." Among other objectifiable elements of literature these enthusiasts offered "mean sentence length, relative frequency of certain strings of characters or rhetorical figures, etc." Or: "structural patterns that vary in scope from the phrase to the entire performance." Or: "word, clause, and sentence lengths, a surface-structure grammatical code, and vocabulary distribution." Or: "to convert the orthographic to a phonetic text and scan for patterns on assonance, alliteration, rime, and other features associated with pre-semantic verse patterning. Also to consider larger structures on the semantic level such as collocation of verbal imagery." A more specialized area of this effort is authorship attribution. Most appropriately, in view of the concordance's early invention as a mechanism to resolve problems with biblical texts, several projects took aim at the traditional questions of who wrote the Pentateuch and whether the Book of Isaiah had one or several authors. At the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, this second problem was considered in the light of such criteria as "sentence length, word length, frequencies of parts of speech, text entropy, 'special vocabulary,' facultative particles, vocabulary eccentricity and richness, etc." From Utah came a report of a project which ambitiously performed "statistical comparisons, based on several hundred stylistic variables consisting of approximately seventy types of literary elements, . . . between the book of Isaiah and other books from the Old Testament. Inter-text variation was compared with intra-text variation using distribution-free methods of statistical analysis to avoid mistakes commonly made by style researchers who have used statistical procedures." Neither report mentions whether the texts used were in Hebrew or English. Similar efforts were made in connection with the authorship of the Odyssey. Other authorship studies focused on Homer and on Diderot's Encyclopedie. Occasional projects concentrated on the mechanics of computer sorting. Philip H. Smith, Lewis Sawin and Susan Hockey produced concordance programs that were intended for wider use; Hockey's was commercially published by the Oxford University Press. Four listed endeavors, one each for German and Old French, and two for Dutch, sorted their entries in reverse, in order to group suffixes for further analysis. Several major projects used concordances as the basis for dictionaries. Notable among these are historical or specialized dictionaries, such as the Trésor de la langue française, the French rival to the British OED; the Historical Dictionary of the Italian Language of the Accademia della Crusca; the Dictionary of American Regional English; and various more specialized dictionaries of Old Spanish, Old Scots, and Old Dutch, plus the intellectual lexicon of Europe. The ancient problem of collating texts, particularly those that had been hand-copied before the invention of printing, was the goal of several attempts. Related activities pushed the boundaries of "humanistic" computing. Many were linguistically oriented, especially those could more properly be classified within realms that are not usually considered humanistic. Associations of this type could, in my judgment, only enrich the disciplines at both ends of the intellectual exchange. A concordance to Calvin or Freud would introduce a new component into the study of those texts, while humanists might well learn new methods and insights by seeing their new tool applied to unfamiliar materials. (The Freud concordance, for example, raised the question of whether it was appropriate to use an English translation as the base text. Bruno Bettelheim had pointed out that, for instance, there would be a significant distinction between the responses of German readers who saw Mädchen as neuter, represented by the pronoun es, and English readers who saw girl as she.) A major question, new to humanistic studies, was whether samples (standard in more scientistic research) could be valid in the analysis of literary texts. Perhaps of greatest interest, now that we contemplate that scene from the perspective of almost two generations past, is the number of significantly missing elements. The leadership of major academic institutions, for example, is strikingly absent. Except for an occasional association with Cambridge or Chicago, the overwhelming majority of reporting scholars are affiliated with less-prestigious universities. This phenomenon may be the topic of some future study. Government support, per se, also seems to be notable by its absence. My own efforts to identify computer-related projects financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities bore fruit only during a brief period when one staff member was induced to search the records and inform me; her departure from the NEH ended any interest there in publicizing such work. No systematic encouragement of computer research, on the national or state level, appears in the record. Most unfortunate, again from my own perspective, is the absence from all these reports of the name of Theodore F. Nelson and his epoch-making concept of hypertext. His recognition that all texts are linked to all others in an almost infinity of associations--verbal, thematic, imagistic--has served for many of the commercially successful search programs that attract increasing millions to the computer as an information retrieval tool, but humanists seem to have been (and perhaps still may be) ignorant of his contribution. For this, Nelson himself is partly to blame, since he records no effort to reach out to the humanities community. Ironically, he seems to have driven often past Queens College, where for 20 years I edited and published Computers and the Humanities, without ever knowing that our activity would have benefited from knowledge of his work. The one time I heard him lecture, in Los Angeles, he chose not to refer, even in passing, to his own theories. Perhaps now, as humanities computing has gained acceptance throughout the academic community, with humanities support personnel attached to most computer centers, more attention will be paid to the theoretical infrastructure that must strengthen forthcoming melding of technological text manipulation with humanistic understanding. A major residue of these early activities, even those that did not progress past the early stages, is the large quantity of machine- readable text accumulated and sometimes preserved. While there are disappointing stories of investigators returning from leave to discover that their laboriously input texts had been erased, there are complementary tales of large databases designed from the start and distributed as research tools for computer-oriented humanists. The Brown University Standard Corpus of Edited American English was compiled by Henry Kucera and W. Nelson Francis with the specific intention that it serve as a measure for other frequency studies. It became the model for other corpora of greater magnitude and sophistication. Theodore Brunner conceived and executed the design of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae to provide an exhaustive library of texts for the language that was the lingua franca of the entire Mediterranean basin until the end of the sixth century C.E. On that pattern, David W. Packard is directing a parallel effort for Latin. Similar projects have been designed for Chinese and Modern English. Two of these pioneering efforts sought to organize information about resource materials for humanistic research. One encompassed "structured abstracts describing Bodleian Library medieval manuscript photograph holdings (18,000 color transparencies) and retrieval of catalog and fifteen separate indices, including three devoted to iconography." An especially interesting project is the London Stage Data Bank, an early computerization of an extant multivolume compilation of the programs from the four licensed London theaters during the 140 years after they were reopened when the Cromwell interregnum ended. Various indices and the then-novel online access provided opportunities to trace the careers of both actors and playwrights in a manner that could support close understanding of the social and economic factors controlling this major institution. Under Ben Schneider's supervision, this project grew into one of the very first efforts to create an online database for research on the history of the popular entertainment that both reflected and generated much of the intellectual ambiance of that period of English history. Schneider's account of his effort in Adventures in Computerland constitutes a prime resource for those interested in tracing the history of our subdiscipline. As for the projects that fell along the way, the reasons for their demise are several and predictable. For many early enthusiasts, the actuality sometimes proved too burdensome, especially when the output generated seemed spawned by the sorcerer's apprentice that could not be stopped. Often basic questions could not be answered satisfactorily, such as how to encode nonstandard materials, or whether to reduce texts to their lemmatized forms or process them in their original aspects. The absence of dependable optical character recognition machines required laborious input, a burden on scholars without grants or input skills. Lack of support and even overt antagonism from administrators (I was advised once by my department chair to switch from the English department to computer science, "where [I] belonged") must have dampened the ardor of many insecure, untenured young faculty. The rapid succession of new computers, which would not run the older software, as well as the deaths of programming languages like SNOBOL and PL/I, would also prove discouraging, while industry was eager to recruit, at much better salaries, many people with even a smattering of computer expertise. Since few investigators have been likely to report failure or abandonment of their projects, it would be very useful for anyone with information on these and other projects of the period to report them to Humanist. Likewise, information on projects not included in the Index or the Directory would be helpful in filling out our picture of that period. Such information can be sent to me at joeraben@cox.net and will be included in any updates of this report that is justified by new information. [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: sustainability? Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 07:39:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1098 (1098) To the extent I hear what urban planners are talking about these days, I've noticed the term "sustainability". This, it seems to me, bespeaks more wisdom than "innovation". Sustainability concerns should also be high on the agenda of those who deal with electronic resources. Beyond the technical questions (which are hard ones, to be sure) is the one I'd like to raise here: how do we keep things such as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy going financially and editorially? Let us for the purposes of argument grant that this is a resource without which a significant number of philosophers, their students and others would suffer. Let's say it's a must-have. Who, then, makes sure it continues? Who makes sure that the editor is replaced when the current one goes off to do something else? Do we hit up our hard-pressed libraries for the cash? Do we want funding agencies to decide whether and how an academic resource continues? Consider, for example, an essential resource in Middle Eastern studies. A proposal for you to challenge. Returning to the example of philosophy, organizations representing this discipline through the national academies world-wide, take charge. Even if the Stanford Encyclopedia were not good (which it is), let us say that some such resources reach the level of quality at which they really should be a product of the disciplines to which they belong. Is it reasonable to consider that somehow the collective members of these disciplines could see that they are not lost? Comments? Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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 -- March 2004 Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 07:01:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1099 (1099) CIT INFOBITS March 2004 No. 69 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. 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From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress American Memory collection: A Civil Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 07:01:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1100 (1100) War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the release of the online collection A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers, available on the Library's American Memory Web site at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/. A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment documents the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Comprising 164 library items, or 359 digital images, this online presentation includes correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865. The letters feature details of the regiment's movements, accounts of military engagements, and descriptions of the daily life of soldiers and their views of the war. Forty-six of the letters are also made available in transcription. This collection offers a look into the lives of a Union soldier and his family during the Civil War. The selected letters lend insight into the wartime dynamics of the Reynolds family. Their words reveal how family members in Reynolds's regiment looked after him, announced his capture, and gave advice. The letters also describe the daily life of a Union soldier, touching on such topics as food, clothing and shelter, health, and punishment. Finally, the selected correspondence provides a unique perspective on the Civil War. Soldiers' feelings and views on slavery and the election of 1864 can be found here. Correspondents also wrote of news about specific events of the war, as in Reynolds's account of President Lincoln. American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Its more than 120 collections range from the papers of the U.S. presidents, Civil War photographs and early films of Thomas Edison to papers documenting the women's suffrage and civil rights movements, Jazz Age photographs and the first baseball cards. The collections contain over 8 million items from the Library of Congress and other major repositories. Please submit any questions you may have about the Reynolds Papers or American Memory in general using the web form available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory2.html. From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Broad History of HC? Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 07:06:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1101 (1101) Joe Raben's fascinating first-person account of the development of Humanities Computing reveals interesting trends and provides some of us (especially junior scholars like myself), with much needed insight into the field's historiography. To oversimplify, the pattern seems to have gone from biblical studies to machine-readable texts made in order to do concordances which in turn were incorporated into broader database designs. But for those of us who weren't in touch with these developments, it's rather difficult to put these things in context. Several questions come to mind. Wasn't there anything done with computers in the Humanities without textual content? Was literature the only field benefitting from computer use? What were the deeper roots of HC? What happened between 1970 and 1993, when the Internet really exploded through the Web? How did computer scientists in general became interested in Humanities (if they ever did)? What were the first humanistic projects using computing itself as their main research topic? These may all sound exceedingly naive but a thorough understanding of the field's development may not be as common as one would wish. Thank you in advance for your help. Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: Willard McCarty Subject: anecdotal contributions to a history Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:41:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1102 (1102) The computer scientist R. W. Hamming, writing about what mattered to him in the history of computing, entitled an article, "We Would Know What They Thought When They Did It", in A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century: A Collection of Essays, ed. N. Metropolis and J. Howlett (New York: Academic Press, 1980), pp. 3-18. Looking at what passes for a history of computing he notes the radical inadequacy of what we still tend to get, namely a history of firsts, then asks about its next stage, an intellectual history: what sort of history of ideas do we want? "We wish to learn how to do great things ourselves rather than merely to recall what others have done.... We want to grasp the idea of creation itself, so that we can learn to create for ourselves." Hence his title, and the question that motivates the sort of history we also need: what were people thinking they were doing back then? What were they after -- not in our terms but in theirs? Much of what I noticed, especially from the late 1970s on, was a mixture of pragmatics, late-blooming positivism and something else, which I'll call discovery. First the pragmatics. Humanists, as Northrop Frye remarked somewhere, have as a social group always been rather good at mastering whatever helpful technology offered itself; they could see the advantages. So could the people I worked with as a graduate student at Toronto. Production of editorial objects, such as editions, was to many at that end of things obviously to be helped. Partly this was driven by financial necessity -- achieving a goal that would not be funded or would cost too much -- partly as I recall by the desire to control a complex, error-prone process, to get this process into one's own hands, do things folks at the press might not understand or get right -- and be able to feel one's way along. Computing obviously benefitted the craft of editing and encouraged its inventive side. It brought to the surface those who were inclined to get their ideas from masses of data and those who were committed to providing reference works, such as concordances, dictionaries and prosopographies, and so had to manage masses. My own first efforts (apart from wordprocessing) were to manage bibliographic resources with a database program simply so that I could find what I had laborously recorded. My numerous dusty boxes of 3X5 cards had turned into a graveyard for notes. But almost the first thing I then undertook was to do research that involved a massive amount of correlation -- putting together a synoptic account of the story of Theseus. Exactly when controlling the situation I was in became enlarging what I could do I cannot say, but I suspect there was a large overlap. So, I conclude, computing clearly had immediate appeal to those for whom the humanities have always meant direct, immediate encounter with cultural artifacts, for whom the motto could be (with apologies to William Carlos Williams), "no ideas but from data". Now for the positivism. Coming to the humanities from the sciences, as I did, and having spent years as a programmer in a physics research lab (various assembler languages, Fortran), I was rather sensitive to the false hopes of charmed humanists and to how the projected image of computing drew forth all sorts of rather strange attitudes toward the cultural artifacts of study. Crudely, I summarize this as, "At last we'll be able to prove X" (where X is a product of the imagination, such as an historical conjecture or literary-critical theory. I defer to David Lodge's Morris Zapp for further expression of this attitude). In addition, those of us born gadgeteers were prone to be dazzled by the machinery, which as Peter Galison says, is very romantic. I recall, for example, encountering the Xerox Star for the first time, and it was love at first sight, from which fortunately I awakened. (The design was impressive to be sure; what dealing with the company entailed was unmittigated disaster, unless you were a computer science department with a great deal of money, programming talent and pull.) Related to the positivism and supporting it was as usual the promotional rhetoric of computing, marketed chiefly as "productivity" tools. But on the ground the discrepancy between the promise and the reality was great. The journalist Jerry Pournelle called it the "Real Soon Now" syndrome. (To see what's happened to Jerry, go to http://www.jerrypournelle.com/ -- where he blogs!) The only sane way to cope, it seemed to me, was to blow the whistle on all that and ask about consequences: supposing the continual failure of computing to deliver what we wanted were due to something intrinsic, what would that be? The essence of an answer had been around for a long time, on the logico-mathematical side of computing, but perhaps not in a recognizable form. In any case, my point is that the frustrations were worth paying attention to, not just the gains in data-management. All this became real and immediate for me at the point at which, in a research project I was directing, I realized that the questions being raised of my source material (Ovid's Metamorphoses) by the attempt to computerize it for conventional purposes were far more interesting than the conventional questions I began by asking. These new questions came precisely from the cases that wouldn't fit whatever scheme I imposed -- and Ovid being Ovid, the elusiveness was clearly the whole point. So I abandoned the original purpose of the project (to support a conventional literary study) and joined the person I had employed to help me in asking the questions he was having to face. (I should note that he was a classicist but had more programming and editorial talent than I did.) That is when humanities computing as a research subject fully emerged for me. Allow me to put it to you that examining such moments in detail would turn out to be a profoundly interesting and important exercise in writing history. Comments? Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: 17.764 a brief history of humanities computing Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:41:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1103 (1103) My apologies, if I had downloaded from the latest version of the Project Gutenberg graph this morning, I would have included: We should also add that the quality of the Project Gutenberg eBooks has been increasing over the same period, in terms of initial accuracy, format options and continuous error correction. In addition, Project Gutenberg now provides eBooks in 30 languages, with Project Gutenberg of Europe targeting over 50, and Project Gutenberg II offering 104 languages. And would reflect a correction of the typo on the last line. Michael From: Peter Liddell Subject: Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 07:15:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1104 (1104) The official announcement of UVic's Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, Dr. Raymond Siemens has finally been made! Ray will be a member of the Department of English starting July 1. The press release reads as follows: UVic's Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, Dr. Raymond Siemens: Siemens is looking for new ways to adapt books, newspapers, magazines and journal articles to the electronic medium. "More than half of the people who live in developed countries get information of this sort directly from the Internet," says Siemens. "It took us over a thousand years to understand the medium of print; today, we understand almost intuitively how to access, navigate, and read print materials. But electronic text is only several decades old, and the World Wide Web even younger. While it is true that, over the past few decades, we have found good ways to create, access, navigate, and read electronic textual materials, it is also true to say that we do not yet fully understand the best ways that we might treat these materials. It is early days, yet, for the electronic text." Siemens' work will help create new computing tools for data-harvesting, textual content analysis, document encoding application and conversion, and communication processes. As well as his research, Siemens will teach a course on Shakespeare and a course that traces the evolution of books from 2,000 years ago to the present. Currently, he is a lecturer in the English department at Malaspina University-College and a visiting senior research fellow at the centre for computing in the humanities at King's College, London. Siemens will arrive at UVic in July. These UVic chairs are among 137 such positions at 38 universities across Canada -representing an investment of $138.3 million-being announced today. UVic now has 20 Canada Research Chairs. "This investment builds additional research leadership in priority areas at UVic and further enhances the university's position as a major research centre in the province and the country," says UVic Vice-President Research Dr. Martin Taylor. "The work our chairholders are doing in universities throughout the country plays a key role in making Canada a better place to live," says Minister of Industry Lucienne Robillard. "Congratulations to all the new Canada Research Chairs." And welcome Ray to the Faculty of Humanities at UVic! ******************************************* Andrew Rippin Dean, Faculty of Humanities University of Victoria Clearihue Building Room C 305 mailto:arippin@uvic.ca web page: http://www.rippin.org phone (250) 472-5056 fax (250) 721-7059 ******************************************* From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 17.759 sustainability? Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:43:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1105 (1105) Willard, [deleted quotation] Leaving aside the "technical questions" as you suggest in your post, I think to focus on the sustainability of any single resource, even one as fine as the Stanford Encyclopedia, represents too narrow a view to answer the question of sustainability. Certainly, like academic journals, such a resource could be "adopted" by a professional organization and provided either as a member benefit or on a subscription model, if not both. Depending upon its degree of importance to the profession, it could become a "must have" resource. But what of the other "must have" resources in the field? To pick titles at random, what of "The Review of Metaphysics," "The Journal of Philosophy," and the "European Journal of Philosophy?" Don't they also deserve consideration for sustainability? So long as these "must have" resources are maintained separately, they are all more vulnerable to shifting interest in and support from a smallish pool of supporters. Libraries, for example, have only limited funds with which to support any number of "must have" resources. Each of which duplicates, to some degree, the costs of the others. I think the question should be: How do we sustain all of the resources that are "must have" in an entire field of study? That widens the field of stake holders to include publishers, distributors, professional societies, libraries, academic departments and individual scholars. Motives for participation will vary and any plan will serve some better than others. The question is finding a balance that serves most of them well enough that a critical mass of support can be maintained over time. Not at all sure how one would resolve the various and sometimes conflicting interests of the various stakeholders and perhaps those resolutions would vary from case to case. But the gain from such resolutions is a larger group with varying interests in particular resources, sustaining a group of resources as a whole. 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: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 17.765 a quotation from Gregory Bateson Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:42:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1106 (1106) At 10.42 04/04/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] did you try to write him at jafunaro@CABRILLO.EDU? at http://www.transhumanism.org/pipermail/wta-espanol/2003-December/000077.html i found a message form him dated December 4, 2003, referring to a conference (CONTACT 2004) to be held in the year 2004. the above message should mean that he hasn't vanished utterly maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: John Byron Subject: Re: 17.765 a quotation from Gregory Bateson Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:42:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1107 (1107) Hi WIllard, Don't know, but it's a beauty - I'd also be keen to be able to reference it properly. Nardi and Schiano may be easier to find that Funaro - they use the same line in a presentation online at hci.stanford.edu/cs377/nardi-schiano/CS377d.020404.pdf (although they may simply have ripped it off from the other source). Wunsch is also lovely. I have a meeting with the Aust Academy of Science tomorrow when I will try it out... Cheers, John. On Sunday, April 4, 2004, at 06:42 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] John Byron Executive Director The Australian Academy of the Humanities tel +61 2 6125 9860 fax +61 2 6248 6287 mob 0410 557 157 3 Liversidge Street, ANU campus, Canberra GPO Box 93, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia www.humanities.org.au From: Nancy Ide Subject: CFP: ACL-2004 workshop extended deadline: NLPXML-2004 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 07:14:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1108 (1108) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Extended submission deadline: *** 12 April 2004 *** ACL 2004 WORKSHOP RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology: 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004) 25 July 2004, Barcelona In conjunction with the 42nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (http://www.acl2004.org) Workshop home page: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML-2004/ Overview While XML is fully accepted within the NLP community as the main standard for data representation, especially for purposes of interchange and software interoperability, the use of Semantic Web technologies--including RDF (Resource Definition Framework), RDFS (RDF Schema), and OWL (Ontology Web Language)--for NLP applications remains relatively limited. However, the combination of XML, RDF/RDFS and OWL provides an overall architecture for NLP resources of all kinds whose implications are still being worked out within the NLP community. The goal of this workshop is two-fold: (1) to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of practical applications of RDF, RDFS and OWL in language technology (including resource and software development, applications, tools, etc.); and (2) to clarify the respective roles of XML, RDF/RDFS and OWL in NLP applications and resources, in relation to the growth of the Semantic Web. NLPXML-2004 is intended not only for those already using Semantic Web technologies, but also members of the NLP community who seek a fuller understanding of the motivations and implications of XML/RDF/RDFS/OWL, the Semantic Web, and related standards for the field. Therefore, we plan to include at least one invited presentation that covers in some depth the Semantic Web technologies and attempts to identify the interactions among various activities (resource creation and annotation, application development, etc.) as well as the potential interactions between the various Semantic Web layers in relation to language technology. This workshop will be the fourth in a series, following on from the first NLPXML Workshop held at NLPRS 2001 in Tokyo, the second at COLING 2002 in Taipei, and the third at EACL 2003 in Budapest. [material deleted] From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Ancient Greek word formation Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:55:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1109 (1109) Dear list members, the influence of programming languages upon the shape of human reasoning has repeatedly been the subject of discussions on this list. I am interested in possible forerunners to this interrelationship between language morphology and scientific conceptualization. How has the formation of new philosophical terms in ancient Greek been furthered by the availability of suffixes like -eia, -ika, -tor, -mat etc. ? I will be grateful for any references to secondary literature from the field of classical Greek philology as well as on the interrelationship between language and scientific terminology at large. Thank you in advance. Best, Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany The Culture and History of Science and the Humanities http://ww3.de/krech From: Willard McCarty Subject: metaphorical autism? Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1110 (1110) The entry for "autism" (mod. Latin, autismus) in the OED defines it as, "A condition in which a person is morbidly self-absorbed and out of contact with reality"; all the illustrative quotations attest to a clinical meaning, from the first, [deleted quotation] The word is used metaphorically, however, e.g. by the computer scientist Peter Wegner (Brown), who in a number of places argues that, "algorithms are autistic" (see e.g. http://jeffsutherland.com/papers/wegacm.pdf); and by a group of delightfully renegade economists in the "post-autistic economics network" (http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/news.htm), among the members of which the term is attested in Spanish and French. As the editor of the Post-Autistic Economics News says, the 1941 Webster's definition, "Absorption in phantasy to the exclusion of interest in reality" is "a perfect fit for the current state of economics". He claims that from childhood he knew the term in the metaphorical rather than medical sense. Wegner's line of argument roughly coincides with Terry Winograd's, for what the latter calls "interaction design". Wegner says basically that the Turing Machine model of computing is transcended by the interaction machine model, quoting Alan Perlis's term, "Turing Tar-pit". (See the 54th of Perlis's Epigrams, "Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy", http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html; those here who are not American may not detect the implicit reference to the La Brea Tar Pits, for which see http://www.tarpits.org/.) Since at least for us the really interesting bits of computing happen when the machine interacts with the world, Wegner's use of autism is relevant here. Can anyone shed light on the non-medical occurrences of the word, e.g. on other domains of application? Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] 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: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 17.749 posting Humbul resources Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:07:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1111 (1111) Dear Colleagues: The problem with simply posting materials to Humbul is that only a very small number of scholars know about it and consult it on a regular basis. The solution is to make sure that these materials are adequately copied on one of the large international bibliographic utilities, such as RLIN or OCLC. They have to become part of the standard information stream in order to be available for scholarly use. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] here, The [deleted quotation] of the [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.6 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:00:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1112 (1112) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 6 (April 7 - April 13, 2004) INTERVIEW Changing Lives Through Technology David Nagel, CEO of PalmSource, talks about his work at NASA, Apple and AT&T, and gives examples of success and failure in human factors design. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i6_nagel.html From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)" Subject: CFP: ACL-2004 workshop extended deadline: NLPXML-2004 Date: ________________ X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1113 (1113) Signature: ___________ -------------------------------------------- Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Calle 8 Nr. 206 entre 7 y 9 Vista Alegre. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. C.P. 90400 Telefonos: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141 Correo Electronico: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu From: Willard McCarty Subject: a quotation from Bateson Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 09:33:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1114 (1114) Someone named Jim Funaro (who seems to have vanished utterly) attributed the following useful sentence to Gregory Bateson: "There are the hard sciences, and then there are the difficult sciences." (See http://www.icase.edu/workshops/hress01/presentations/funaro.pdf for the reference.) Can anyone point me to chapter and verse? Allow me to offer and bestow a reward in anticipation: the title of a paper by Guillaume Wunsch (Louvain), "God has chosen to give the easy problems to the physicists, or why demographers need theory", found online at http://www.un.org/popin/confcon/milan/plen6.html. Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Alun Edwards Subject: Re: 17.772 a brief history of humanities computing Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 06:55:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1115 (1115) At Humbul we have followed this thread with intense interest. Humbul does indeed have a Humanities Computing top-level subject, http://www.humbul.ac.uk/humanities-it/ , which we could be your first port of call, both for searching for resources or for suggesting new resources for Humbul to catalogue. There is a Suggest a Resource link on every page in Humbul. Humbul will catalogue any online humanities computing resources that comply with our collections development policy and I would like to suggest that we would draw together records around a topical theme like the history of humanities computing, (for recent examples take a look at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/ ). Humbul topics can take different forms but they share the common goal of drawing connections between resources - often connections that no single search on Humbul could replicate. With regards, Alun Alun Edwards Information Officer Humbul Humanities Hub Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Email: alun.edwards@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Tel: 01865 283 347 Fax: 01865 273 275 URL: http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ On 06/04/2004, Robert Kraft wrote [deleted quotation] well as [deleted quotation] From: RJOHARA@iris.uncg.edu Subject: Trees of history bibliography Date: 23 Apr 1993 14:16:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1116 (1116) WORKING INTERDISCIPLINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY: 'TREES OF HISTORY' IN SYSTEMATICS, HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, AND STEMMATICS. Version of February 1993. Compiled by Robert J. O'Hara, Center for Critical Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27412-5001, U.S.A. (Email: RJOHARA@UNCG.bitnet or RJOHARA@iris.uncg.edu.) Suggestions for additions, deletions, and corrections are very welcome; my own field is systematics, so that is the area in which this list is most reliable. My object here is not to create an exhaustive bibliography, but rather a bibliography that will help advanced students in any one of these fields get a good sense of what has gone on and is going on in the other fields, with special reference to theory. Studies of particular biological taxa, language families, or manuscript traditions that do not have a theoretical or historical emphasis are generally excluded from this list. Asterisks indicate works that may be particularly useful to beginners. This bibliography may be freely distributed in print or electronically as long as the references and this header remain intact. 1. Interdisciplinary Works 2. General and Theoretical Works - Systematics 3. General and Theoretical Works - Historical Linguistics 4. General and Theoretical Works - Stemmatics 5. Historical Works - Systematics 6. Historical Works - Historical Linguistics 7. Historical Works - Stemmatics 8. Trees of History Elsewhere 9. Miscellaneous Works on Evolution in Relation to Other Fields 1. INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKS =Hoenigswald, Henry M., & Linda F. Wiener, eds. 1987. Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. [The most important single interdisciplinary collection, with papers on all three subjects.] =Lee, Arthur. 1989. Numerical taxonomy revisited: John Griffith, cladistic analysis and St. Augustine's Quaestiones in Heptateuchum. Studia Patristica, 20:24-32. [Application of cladistic techniques to a stemmatic problem.] =Robinson, Peter M. W., & Robert J. O'Hara. In press. Cladistic analysis of an Old Norse Manuscript tradition. Research in Humanities Computing. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Application of systematic techniques to a stemmatic problem.] 4. GENERAL AND THEORETICAL WORKS - STEMMATICS Clark, A. C. 1918. The Descent of Manuscripts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Colwell, Ernest Cadman. 1947. Genealogical method: its achievements and limitations. Journal of Biblical Literature, 66:109-133. Dawe, R. D. 1964. The Collation and Investigation of Manuscripts of Aeschylus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [On the limitations of stemmatics.] Greg, W. W. 1927. The Calculus of Variants: an Essay on Textual Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Greg, W. W. 1930. Recent theories of textual criticism. Modern Philology, 28:401-404. [Reply to Shepard (1930).] [Griesbach. 1796. Prolegomena to his second edition of the New Testament. (Establishes the principle of lectio difficilior, and other rules, fide Shepard 1930.)] Kleinlogel, Alexander. 1968. Das Stemmaproblem. Philologus, 112:63-82. Maas, Paul. 1958. Textual Criticism. (Translated from the German by Barbara Flower.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Quentin, Henri. 1926. Essais de Critique Textuelle. Paris: Picard. Reeve, M. D. 1986. Stemmatic method: 'qualcosa che non funziona'? The Role of the Book in Medieval Culture (Proceedings of the Oxford International Symposium, 1982, edited by Peter Ganz), 1:57-69. Bibliologia, vol. 3. Brepols, Turnhout. *Reynolds, Leighton D., ed. 1983. Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. *Reynolds, Leighton D., & N. G. Wilson. 1991. Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Reviews: Possanza, M. 1991. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2:431-438.] Shepard, William P. 1930. Recent theories of textual criticism. Modern Philology, 28:129-141. [Critique of Quentin (1926) and Greg (1927); see Greg (1930) for a response.] =Weitzman, Michael. 1985. The analysis of open traditions. Studies in Bibliography, 38:82-120. [A substantial discussion of how to reconstruct the history of contaminated manuscript traditions.] =Weitzman, Michael. 1987. The evolution of manuscript traditions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 150:287-308. [Develops a statistical model of the process of manuscript descent.] West, M. L. 1973. Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique. Stuttgart. Whitehead, F., & C. E. Pickford. 1951. The two-branch stemma. Bulletin Bibliographique de la Societe Internationale Arthurienne\Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society, 3:83-90. Zuntz, G. 1965. An Inquiry into the Transmission of the Plays of Euripides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 7. HISTORICAL WORKS - STEMMATICS Holm, Gosta. 1972. Carl Johan Schlyter and textual scholarship. Saga och Sed (Kungliga Gustav Adolf Akademiens Aarsbok), 1972:48-80. [Reproduces Schlyter's stemma of legal texts (earliest known) from 1827.] Prete, Sesto. 1969. Observations on the History of Textual Criticism in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. Collegeville, Minnesota: St. John's University Press. [A lecture given in the series "Medieval and Renaissance Studies" at St. John's College.] Timpanaro, Sebastiano. 1981. La Genesi del Methodo del Lachmann, third edition. Padua. //end// From: "Lorenzo Magnani" Subject: MBR04 Last Call for Papers Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 07:52:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1117 (1117) LAST CALL - Deadline May 1st, 2004 ****************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION MBR'04 Pavia, Italy, December 16-18, 2004 Chairs: Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian ****************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ****************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION [deleted quotation] International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). The conference continues the theme of the Conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98 and "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01 The previous volumes derived from those conferences are: L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-46292-3 (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000). PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and engineering, including computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine the role of abduction, visualization, and simulation in model-based reasoning from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to model-based reasoning in science and engineering from the following list: - abduction - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning - simulative modeling - the role of diagrammatic representations - computational models of visual and simulative reasoning - causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction - visual analogy - thought experimenting - logical analyses related to model-based reasoning - manipulative reasoning - distributed model-based reasoning - embodiment in model-based reasoning - model-based reasoning and technological innovation INVITES SPEAKERS WHO ALREADY ACCEPTED TO GIVE A PRESENTATION AT MBR'04 - Atocha Aliseda, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, MEXICO - Lawrence W. Barsalou,Department of Psychology,Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA - Diderik Batens, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, BELGIUM - Walter Carnielli, CLEHC State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil - Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, Department of Computer and Information Sience, Columbus, OH, USA. - Kenneth D. Forbus, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Education, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA - Dov Gabbay, Department of Computer Science, King's College, London, UK - David Gooding, Science Studies Centre, Department of Psychology University of Bath, Bath, UK - Mary Hegarty, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA - Theo A.F. Kuipers, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen, NETHERLANDS - Michael Leyton, DIMACS, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA - Li Ping, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P.R.CHINA - Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY and Baruch College, The City University of New York, New York, USA - Nancy J. Nersessian, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA - Claudio Pizzi, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, ITALY - Qiming Yu, Department of Philosophy, Central University for Nationalities, Bejing, P.R. CHINA - Friedrich Steinle, Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin, GERMANY - John Woods, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Department of Computer Science, King's College, London, UK - Andrea Woody, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA [material deleted] From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: RSN and Future Orientation Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 06:53:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1118 (1118) Willard, To explore broader implications of the "Real Soon Now" principle you mentioned in connection to positivism in HC. Sorry if it's inappropriate and takes away anyone's "precious free time": http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/Real-Soon-Now.html To exacerbate a dichotomy, while the stereotypical humanist is thought to be a Luddite "living in the past," our passion for technology often translates into a tendency to only "live in the future" with the possible effect of waiting for great things to happen instead of focusing on the task at hand. This extreme formulation is meant to emphasize values, not incompatibilities as, we all know, computer-savvy humanists easily navigate between those extreme. Still, the orientation to the future relates to other aspects of HC. A common thread both in historical and current comments is the capacity, on the part of some people, to imagine what could be done. Some scholars, and Joe Raben's history mentioned several of them, are really good at envisioning possibilities and may ask technologists to develop specific products to fit these possibilities. Of course, this capacity relates to innovation and "outside-the box" thinking but as this ability is highly valued, some of us may constantly wait for the next big thing. It might be a personal thing but dreaming of "what could be" sometimes makes it hard to "live in the now." From: Cristina Varisco Subject: e-learning for German language Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:07:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1119 (1119) I am a graduating student and I am looking for e-learning used for the "learning" and teaching of the German language. I know that it is more likely to find the English language, but I thought you can help me in finding something. I will then examin the software used to make it. My "thesis paper" is about computer linguistic, that's is why I subscribed to "Humanist". Thank you Cristina Varisco krissy_var@yahoo.it From: Willard McCarty Subject: doing the ethnography Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:11:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1120 (1120) In the application of computing to research in the humanities, it is often said that minds change as a result. After all the silt, twigs, sand and pebbles of the dawn-of-a-new-consciousness sort have been washed away, nuggets of gold remain. Scholars whom one trusts attest to their minds having been changed -- and not so much about computing in isolation as about their own fields of study. Anyone who has done such research will not find their statements at all difficult to believe. But one must move on from belief, at least we must, to the details. So how is this done? It seems obvious to me that ethnographic studies need to be done of work in collaborative humanities computing projects to get at the details of this claimed and believed metanoia. *How* are minds changed? In what *particulars*? What *exactly* tends to induce the change? Is this a permanent flip, a phase in a flip-flop or the making of a new mind that co-exists alongside the old one, creating a useful double vision? What are we leaving behind, making obscure by passing over the cognitive digital threshold? And so on. Comments? Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: Sonarant consonant tendencies in Turkic languages Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:11:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1121 (1121) Dear Humanist colleagues, I have computed several Turkic languages (among them Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Bashkir, Jakut, Shor, Altaj-Kizhi, Azeri, Tuvinian, etc.). I discovered that by the Chi-squire criterion the sonorant consonants occur at the end of the word (Auslaut) more than at the beginning of the word (Anlaut). It is usually several times greater. I wonder if it is the same in other world languages? I mean if the tendency of the greater occurence of sonorants at the end of the word is usual for other language families. I plan to verify it on the texts of the Tungus-Manchurian, Paleo-Asiatic, Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric language families. I am writing an article on the use of the sonorant consonants at the beginning and end of the word in Turkic and the other languages. please, advise me in what journal I may get it published. Looking to hearing from you to yutamb@hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev yutamb@hotmail.com From: catac@wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: CATAC'04 Registration and Information Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:35:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1122 (1122) *** SAVE and Register Early by 16 April 2004 *** International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'04) 27 June - 1 July 2004, Karlstad, Sweden Conference theme: Off the shelf or from the ground up? ICTs and cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization Website: www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ ------------------------------------------------------- This biennial CATaC conference series provides a continuously expanding international forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). PROGRAM An exciting program has been arranged, including presenters from Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, UK and USA. See the conference website for paper details. Ample time is allowed for open discussions at the end of each session. The conference concludes with a workshop. PANELS CATaC'04 will also feature two particular foci, each chaired by a distinguished colleague who will oversee paper review and development of the final panels. PANEL 1: The Multilingual Internet Panel Chairs: Susan Herring and Brenda Danet This panel focuses on how the Internet impacts language choice and linguistic practices in traditionally non-English speaking cultural contexts. PANEL 2: Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs really help worse off communities? Panel Chair: Michel Menou This panel focuses on how far ICTs can succeed in supporting culturally-appropriate development, and what appropriate answers to real-world conditions are required in order for our best efforts to realize the liberatory potentials of these technologies not be broken down. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Nina Wakeford, University of Surrey, UK ACCOMMODATION Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel, Ibis Hotel and Savoy Hotel. CONFERENCE DINNER The conference dinner will be held on Tuesday 29 June, in the restaurant at Rottneros Park (http://www.rottnerospark.se/). The Park is one of the most beautiful flower and sculpture parks in Scandinavia. Rottneros Park is approximately a 1.5 hour drive from Karlstad. REGISTRATION Until 16 April, the conference registration fee is USD375 with further discounts for authors (one author discount fee per paper), reviewers, and full-time students. After 16 April, each fee type will increase by USD50. The registration fee includes technical sessions, panels, workshop, conference dinner and transport, reception, proceedings, lunches, morning and afternoon coffees. Student registration fee excludes the conference dinner and transport. See the registration form on the conference website for more information and REGISTER NOW. CONTACTS Charles Ess Drury University Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435 catac@it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks Murdoch University Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941 catac@it.murdoch.edu.au From: "Edward N.Zalta" Subject: the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:57:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1123 (1123) [Dear colleagues: Please give the following your most careful attention. --WM] The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A Funding Plan to Keep It Free Library and Academic Community Action * The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/ (SEP) is one of the most significant and visible humanities projects on the world wide web, serving millions of pages annually to readers worldwide (see http://plato.stanford.edu/info.html#access). The SEP has achieved its current status by its special combination of advanced digital technology and rigorous academic peer review. Our digital workflow technology not only allows us to manage over 825 authors and 90 subject editors at a minimal cost, but also organizes the SEP as a "dynamic reference work". In a dynamic reference work, the authors are given the means to keep their entries up-to-date, and all entries and updates are refereed before publication on the web. The entries produced for the SEP are in-depth, scholarly pieces which cover a variety of philosophical topics from war and voluntary euthanasia to Nietzsche and Rorty. The scope ranges from issues traditionally discussed by European and American philosophers, and we are working to expand our listings in the areas of African, Arabic and Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, and Judaic philosophy. These entries are of broad interest, not just to philosophers but to anyone seeking a humanistic perspective on issues that are important to the human condition. The success of the SEP has been made possible by the volunteer efforts of an internationally distinguished board of subject editors http://plato.stanford.edu/board.html and authors who are among the top experts in their fields. * The SEP has been freely accessible since September 1995 because of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. However, this money will end in September 2005. So the SEP is embarking upon a fund-raising plan on which we partner with library consortia to raise money both from libraries and from private donors. We hope to raise enough money in 3 years to operate off the interest. See our Open Letter to Professional Philosophers: http://plato.stanford.edu/fundraising/colleagues.html However, the SEP is being read by academics in a variety of departments. You can get a sense of how widely the SEP is being read at your institution by examining: http://leibniz.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/library/usage.cgi * The largest group of library consortia, the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), has released, and circulated among its members, a "Global Call to Action" in support of the SEP fund-raising plan. It endorses the fund-raising plan that we have developed and asks libraries to make fund-raising pledges. This Call has been endorsed by Rick Johnson, the Director of SPARC. Copies of the document may be obtained at http://plato.stanford.edu/fundraising/ICOLC-Call.pdf Note that the funding plan asks for only 3 one-year contributions (positioned as either "subscriptions" or a "contributions to the SEP endowment") which thereby earn a lifetime of free access. The plan also suggests that the libraries and academic departments might need to combine resources during that time. Please consider whether your department can play a small role in helping the library at your institution participate in the funding plan. Suggested contributions have been set to account for the fact that some libraries may not participate. * We shall endeavor to keep the SEP completely free and open access during our fund-raising drive, but if the free-rider problem undermines our fund-raising plan, we may have to reconsider. From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: Tar pit (was: metaphorical autism?) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:10:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1124 (1124) In 17.775 Willard wrote--- [deleted quotation] I think the work that actually brought the tar-pit comparison into computer science is actually the classic book by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Addison-Wesley, 1975). Chapter 1 is called "The Tar Pit", and has a frontispiece depicting the La Brea Tar Pits; in the copy I bought in the early 1980s this is on the front cover too. Chapter 1 starts like this: No scene from prehistory is quite so vivid as that of the mortal struggles of great beasts in the tar pits. In the mind's eye one sees dinosaurs, mammoths, and sabertoothed tigers struggling against the grip of the tar. The fiercer the struggle, the more entangling the tar, and no beast is so strong or so skillful but that he ultimately sinks. Large-system programming has over the past decade been such a tar pit, and many great and powerful beasts have thrashed violently in it. Most have emerged with running systems---few have met goals, schedules, and budgets. Large and small, massive or wiry, team after team has become entangled in the tar. No one thing seems to cause the difficulty---any particular paw can be pulled away. But the accumulation of simultaneous and interacting factors brings slower and slower motion. Everyone seems to have been surprised by the stickiness of the problem, and it is hard to discern the nature of it. But we must try to understand it if we are to solve it. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: "Yager, Susan F [ENGL]" Subject: RE: 17.775 ancient Greek word formation? metaphorical autism? Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:10:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1125 (1125) I am writing in response to the entry "posted Wednesday, April 7, from which I quote: "...Can anyone shed light on the non-medical occurrences of the word [autism], e.g. on other domains of application?" I have seen this word used to mean something like "willfully unaware" in a discussion of politics, but cannot find the source. I did find this reference to technology in a quick Lexis search: Electronic News October 27, 2003 NPC: Universities Create Smart Devices for Connected Future By Jessica Davis "But the connections to the world are inadequate," he said, such as sensors, actuators and displays/user interfaces. "We are autistic in this way with an enormous amount of intelligence but not very good connections to the world." However, I am writing as the parent of a high-functioning autistic boy, to urge you NOT to use this word in a metaphorical way, especially since such metaphors perpetuate the early twentieth-century idea of autism as a form of schizophrenia. Autism is now recognized as a spectrum of disorders. Some people with autism may be unaware of their surroundings or lacking "very good connections to the world," but many thousands are not; yet they are autistic. My request to you is not based on identity politics or social/political "sensitivity." It is based on the fact that "autistic" does not now, probably never did, correspond to the idea that the metaphors are trying to convey. This perhaps needs no greater proof than the fact that my son laughed at the post when he saw it this morning (though he agreed with me that use of "autistic" metaphorically was also insulting). This evening he asked whether I had written to you about this, saying, "Aren't you going to tell them about ME?" And so I have done so. Sincerely, Susan Yager Assoc. Professor, English Iowa State University Ames, IA From: "W.N. Martin" Subject: ISIS position vacancy (fwd) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:13:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1126 (1126) POSITION VACANCY INFORMATION SCIENCE + INFORMATION STUDIES (ISIS) Duke University is seeking an Administrative Manager to serve as the administrative director of Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), a groundbreaking interdisciplinary program that studies and creates new information technologies and analyzes their impact on art, culture, science, commerce, society, and the environment. Under the direction of faculty directors and assisted by the Program Coordinator, the administrative director will have wide-ranging duties, including: day-to-day administration of ISIS, supervision of ISIS staff and student employees; long-range development and fundraising efforts including preparation of grant proposals; management of budget; coordination of initiatives and collaboration with other Duke programs, as well as with other universities, institutions, and corporations; advisement and mentoring of ISIS certificate program students; development of an electronic information network; coordination and publicizing of events; and representation of ISIS on relevant committees. Applicants must have post-baccalaureate training in a field relevant to ISIS, with an interdisciplinary background in technology, business, arts, and/or critical/cultural studies. Other required experience and skills: record of previous grant-writing and fundraising experience; at least two years administrative management experience in an academic, nonprofit, or corporate setting; some college teaching and advising; a sophisticated knowledge of new media and information technologies; and interpersonal skills to work collegially with administrators, faculty, students, staff and community representatives. The ISIS program reports to the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies. Duke University offers a comprehensive benefits package and salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. An application package consisting of a resume, cover letter outlining qualifications, salary requirements, and a list of five professional references is required for consideration. All application materials received by 7 May 2004 will be guaranteed consideration. Email applications and nominations to Katie Watchman (katie.watchman@duke.edu). Please include "ISIS Administrative Director" in the subject line. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: word final tendencies Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:08:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1127 (1127) Speaking of the way words end in various languages. Among the Germanic languages, both Gothic and German change voiced obstruents to voiceless obstruents in word-final position (as does also Russian, for example), whereas on the other hand Italian usually insists on vowels in final position. This makes it hard to generalize. Caruso said it was why he could not sing in German. A good general guide to the use of statistics in the study of languages: Michael P. Oakes, Statistics for Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998). From: Subject: AI & Society - New Issue Alert Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:35:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1128 (1128) Volume 18 Number 2 of AI & Society is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Original Article Action research through a European perspectivebased on Scandinavian and Italian traditions p. 87 Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen, Francesco Garibaldo DOI: 10.1007/s00146-003-0276-8 Entrepreneurial capabilities: Is entrepreneurship action research in disguise? p. 100 Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen, Thorkild Nielsen DOI: 10.1007/s00146-003-0270-1 Original Article Action research in user-centred product development p. 113 Eva Brandt DOI: 10.1007/s00146-003-0271-0 Original Article From action to learningthe systematisation of alternative consulting experiences p. 134 Ren Victor Valqui Vidal DOI: 10.1007/s00146-003-0267-9 Original Article A changing society and problems of method: a politically committed research type p. 149 Vittorio Capecchi DOI: 10.1007/s00146-003-0274-x Open Forum The history of an Italian action research experience p. 175 Giulia Mancini, Francesca Sbordone DOI: 10.1007/s00146-003-0275-9 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: TCC 2004 ONLINE CONFERENCE April 20-22, (fwd) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:07:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1129 (1129) Willard, As a tangent to the sustainability thread and a bit of promo for an online conference, I note that "non-traditional" is receiving some political credance in some quarters... [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Silvia Hansen-Schirra Subject: Final Call for Papers: LINC-04 Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:11:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1130 (1130) ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-04) A workshop to be held at COLING-04 the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Geneva, 29 August 2004 http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc04 ORGANIZED BY: Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Saarland University, Saarbrücken) Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo & CSLI, Stanford University) Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University & DFKI, Saarbrücken) TOPIC AND MOTIVATION: Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly important role for machine learning, evaluation, psycholinguistics as well as theoretical linguistics. Many research groups are engaged in the creation of corpus resources annotated with morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse information for a variety of languages. We aim to bring together these activities in order to identify and disseminate best practice in the development and utilization of linguistically interpreted corpora. The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results with resprect to the annotation, conversion and exploitation of corpora taking into account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of language technology and research. We invite submissions of papers constituting substantial, original, and unpublished work on all aspects of linguistically interpreted corpora, including, but not limited to: - creation of practical annotation schemes - efficient annotation techniques - automation of corpus annotation - tools supporting corpus conversions - validation including consistency checking of corpora - browsing corpora and searching for instances of linguistic phenomena - relating actual annotation to contemporary linguistic theory - interpretation of quantitative results - use of annotated corpora in the automated induction of linguistic knowledge Rob Malouf, Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages at San Diego State University, will be our keynote speaker. [material deleted] From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:12:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1131 (1131) Institute (U Victoria, June 25-30, 2004) [Please forward to interested colleagues and students / please excuse x-posting.] April 30 Early Registration Deadline for the 2004 Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 25-30, 2004 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ The Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in the new computing technologies, over a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities and its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and is co-sponsored by the University of Victoria, Malaspina University-College. It is supported also by the Consortium for Computing in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Image, Text, Sound and Technology Strategic Research Grant program, and others. Curriculum offerings are: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and Their Application [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and Their Application [3] Computer-Assisted Textual Analysis [4] Intermediate Encoding: Advanced TEI Encoding Issues, Metadata, Text Transformations, and Databases [5] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments [6] Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management [7] Curriculum Development Before April 30, registration fees for the six days of the institute will be $950 (CDN) for faculty and staff, and $450 for students; fees are reduced for members of sponsoring institutions. For further details, see the institute's website, at this URL: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ . On behalf of all those involved in the institute, I welcome you to consider joining us, and I look forward to seeing you this summer. With all best wishes, Ray Siemens Director ____________ 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: jnls.cust.serv@oupjournals.org Subject: ToC for Literary and Linguistic Computing 19-2 Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:09:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1132 (1132) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: June 2004; Vol. 19, No. 2 URL: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Frequency and Function of Characters Used in the Bangla Text Corpus Niladri Sekhar Dash, pp. 145-159 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/190145.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- As It Almost Was: Historiography of Recent Things Willard McCarty, pp. 161-180 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/190161.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- King John Divided Thomas Merriam, pp. 181-195 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/190181.sgm.abs.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern Greek Language-Part 1: Diglossia in Stylistic Analysis George Tambouratzis, Stella Markantonatou, Nikolaos Hairetakis, Marina Vassiliou, George Carayannis and Dimitrios Tambouratzis, pp. 197-220 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/190197.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Discriminating the Registers and Styles in the Modern Greek Language-Part 2: Extending the Feature Vector to Optimize Author Discrimination George Tambouratzis, Stella Markantonatou, Nikolaos Hairetakis, Marina Vassiliou, George Carayannis and Dimitrios Tambouratzis, pp. 221-242 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/190221.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Hockey, ed. Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Principles and Practice Reviewed by Ron Van Den Branden, pp. 243-246 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/190243.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- John Simpson, ed. The Oxford English Dictionary Online Reviewed by Christian Kay and Irené Wotherspoon, pp. 246-249 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_02/190246.sgm.abs.html From: Maurizio Lana Subject: where in the world is Michael Barlow? Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:25:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1133 (1133) Dear fellows humanists, I exchanged some messages last months with Michael Barlow, author of MonoconcPro (which is a very interesting concordance program), in order to make my Department to buy the software. The fact is that it is more than 1 month (February, 11) that I'm not able to get in touch with him. Does anyone of you know Michael Barlow and how can I get in touch with him? Many thanks maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: "Fay Sudweeks" Subject: Conference on Qualitative Research in IT Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:24:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1134 (1134) First Call for papers - QualIT2004 - The Way Forward November 24-26, 2004 ? Brisbane Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You are invited to participate in the first International Conference on Qualitative Research in IT & IT in Qualitative Research in the Southern Hemisphere, which will be held at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia on November 24-26, 2004. QualIT2004 - The Way Forward - will attract qualitative researchers concerned with the analysis, design, development, application, usability and evaluation of information systems and information technologies. Research papers are invited in the areas of information technology, information systems, software engineering, business, social and health informatics. Papers which critique and evaluate qualitative research software, and new and innovative methods in qualitative research in the above areas are particularly welcome. Specific tracks include (but are not limited to): - Human Computer Interaction - Socio technical aspects of IT - IS Implementation - Software engineering - Knowledge management - Enterprise Resource Planning - Emerging technologies - Usability & User Centred Design - Gender issues in IT - E-health - Innovative qualitative studies - Strategic use of qualitative software tools - Methodological issues in qualitative research and the role, use and challenges of qualitative software tools in any of the above areas. Researchers are also invited to propose a discussion panel. Papers are sought from researchers carrying out qualitative research employing methods such as: action research, case studies, ethnography, grounded theory within the disciplines of IT and IS, and using software tools expressly for the qualitative researcher. Confirmed keynote speakers ------------------------------------- Michael Myers, Professor of Information Systems at the University of Auckland Business School Dr. Tom Richards, designer of NUD*ISTand NVivo; founder and Chief Scientist of QSR International. Important Dates --------------------- - 1 July 2004 - Deadline for ALL electronic submissions - 1 September 2004 - Notification of acceptance - 1 October 2004 - Deadline for early-bird registration - 1 October 2004 - Deadline for electronic submission of camera-ready papers - 1 November 2004 - Deadline for registration Location ----------- Brisbane is Australia's third largest city and the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is a lively, cosmopolitan city and is just 45 minutes from Gold Coast beaches and pristine rainforests in the hinterland. With its near-perfect climate year-round, Brisbane comes as a pleasant surprise to most visitors. The city is surrounded by some of the state's major tourist destinations, and there are plenty of options for day trips. Paper Submission ---------------------- Full papers will be peer-reviewed (E1 Standard) by national and/or international experts. The proceedings will be published with an ISBN number and will be available to non-attendees. Registration --------------- (Not including conference dinner - price TBA) Early-bird - AUD$300 After early-bird - AUD$400 Student - AUD$200 Contact ---------- Any enquiries can be sent to conference organisers at cit-qualit@griffith.edu.au Program Chairs -------------------- Liisa von Hellens - School of Computing and Information Technology Jenine Beekhuyzen - School of Computing and Information Technology From: tsd2004robot@aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: TSD 2004: deadline extension Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:27:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1135 (1135) Please distribute this call among your colleagues Because of many requests for deadline extension, it has been shifted to March 29, 2004. ************************************************************* Seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2004) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/ The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2004 conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and information extraction; text/topic summarization; machine translation semantic networks and ontologies; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software; facial animation; visual speech synthesis. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [material deleted] From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: what is typology? Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 06:55:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1136 (1136) Dear Humanist colleagues, I deal with comparing the sound pictures of world languages. I have studied so far 156 world languages from the point of view of occurrence of phonemes in their sound chains. I guess it can be called the typological study. This is why, I'm particularly interested how linguists and other scholars understand typology. Can one call my study the "comparative typology"? What is typology as it is? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb@hotmail.com Remain yours most sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev yutamb@hotmail.com From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:35:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1137 (1137) _New and Old Articles About Innovative Information Systems_ I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of self-archived copies of two of my SCI-5 columns devoted to Innovative Information Systems: "New Age E-Journals, Indexes, and Services," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, 2001 [2003], pp. 223-233. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EJIS.pdf] "Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing," Science & Technology Libraries, Vol. 22, No. 3/4, 2002 [2003], pp. 181-191 [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf ] **************************************************************************** I am also pleased to announce the availability of self-archived copies of previously published articles that profile other Innovative Information Systems, etc: "eCONF: The SLAC Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 18 No. 5, 2001, pp. 16-23. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/eCONF.pdf ABSTRACT To promote the publication and expedite the availability of conference proceedings, an experimental archive titled eConf has been established under the auspices of the SLAC Technical Information Services department. At this time, the eConf archive is limited to proceedings in high-energy physics and related fields. The archive presently contains the conference papers of two proceedings: the 19th International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies (LP 99) and 20th International Linac Conference. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/ **************************************************************************** "EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology," Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 20, No. 1, January/February 2003, 30-36. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EnergyFiles.pdf ABSTRACT The targeted audience for EnergyFiles is end users and organizations having a need for energy-related scientific and technical information. Anticipated primary users include researchers, scientists, project managers, program, managers, academic (educators and students), and associated information professionals. NOTE: Review of previous version of interface and system http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/ ************************************************************************** "Library Database Advisors - Emerging Innovative Augmented Digital Library Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 4, May 2002, pp. 27-33. "Why should we make our users hunt down the best resource for a given information need and learn how to use its particular options for searching? Why not provide them with a simple way to get started?" || Roy Tennant || http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LDBA.pdf **************************************************************************** "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News Vol. 19, No. 7, August 2002, pp. 31-43. "* [A] paperless system would significantly reduce delays in all aspects of the dissemination cycle. The composition process itself should be speeded up and so should the whole interaction among writers, publishers, and referees." || F. W. Lancaster || [Lancaster, F.W., Toward Paperless Information Systems ( Academic Press: New York, NY, 1978), 127.] http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PeerSoft.pdf **************************************************************************** And BTW: For the Irish amongst us, as well as those who wish they were [:-)]: Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan New and Old Irish Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "You should never wear your best [green] trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty." With Apologies to Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI (V4i4): New Applications of Knowledge Organization Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:09:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1138 (1138) Systems Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems (Volume 4, issue 4, March 2004) Special issue Editors: Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, and Traugott Koch, Lund University From the special issue editorial: "Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (KOS), such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical databases, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri, model the underlying semantic structure of a domain. Embodied as Web-based services, they can facilitate resource discovery and retrieval. They act as semantic road maps and make possible a common orientation by indexers and future users (whether human or machine). "New networked KOS services and applications are emerging and we are reaching the stage where we might begin to exploit common representations and protocols for distributed use. We are not yet in this situation. However, we have the opportunity to draw on a number of technologies that can be combined to yield new solutions. "The papers published here are concerned with various types of KOS, discuss various standards issues and span the information lifecycle" http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: C. Binding, D. Tudhope (February 2004) KOS at your Service: Programmatic Access to Knowledge Organisation Systems http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Binding/ T. Smith, M. Zeng (January 2004) Building Semantic Tools for Concept-based Learning Spaces http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Smith/ D. Soergel, B. Lauser, A. Liang, F. Fisseha (March 2004) Reengineering Thesauri for New Applications: The AGROVOC Example http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Soergel/ K. Veltman (March 2003) Towards a Semantic Web for Culture http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Veltman/ D. Vizine-Goetz, C. Hickey, A. Houghton, R. Thompson (March 2004) Vocabulary Mapping for Terminology Services http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Vizine-Goetz/ -- The Journal of Digital Information is a peer reviewed 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/ If you do not wish to continue receiving these messages, you can unsubscribe from JoDI by putting your email address into the form on this page http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/register.php3 and pressing the button 'Remove me from list'. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.4 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:10:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1139 (1139) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 4 (March 17 - March 23, 2004) VIEWS Calm Technologies in a Multimedia World In an ideal world, computers will blend into the landscape, will inform but not overburden you with information, and make you aware of them only when you need them. By Alexandru Tugui http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i4_tugui.html ********** The Death of the Art of Writing: Myth or Reality? When it comes to writing, the next generation is all thumbs. By Victor Tiong Kung Ming http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i4_ming.html From: ssolow@mindspring.com Subject: HERODOTUS PROJECT (photography/history web site} Date: March 19, 2004 10:34:06 AM EST X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1140 (1140) To: "scaife@uky.edu" Dear Sir: I would like to inform you about our project and we hope that you can add a link to us on your web site. http://www.losttrails.com is an educational multi-media web site and our main activity is the 'Herodotus Project'. The Herodotus project is a free serialized new translation of Herodotus along with extensive photography of the locations and artifacts mentioned in the book so that a student of history can explore the text visually while reading it. This project aims to eventually have as complete a pictorial record as possible of the sites mentioned by Herodotus. This is a multi-year effort which is only realizable on the internet. We update the website monthly with newly translated text and a photographic essay of a site mentioned by Herodotus. Sincerely, Shane Solow www.losttrails.com www.herodotusproject.org P.S. our translation of Herodotus has recently been reviewed by Straussian.net and can be viewed here: http://www2.bc.edu/~wilsonop/reviews.html From: "D'Alessio Marianna" Subject: computing_english_dictionary Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:21:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1141 (1141) Dear list members, I am an italian student who is working at her thesis in Humanities Computing at the University "La Sapienza", Rome. I'm searching for a computing english dictionary (.txt). Could You please help me? I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Marianna D'Alessio E-Mail: marianna-d@tiscali.it From: Michael Fraser Subject: "Future of the Humanities" conference, Oxford Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:33:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1142 (1142) There are still places available at the Future of the Humanities conference in Oxford this week, should anyone be interested (free for students and 20 pounds for everyone else and there's two ICT sessions!). Michael European Humanities Research Centre Director: Professor Martin McLaughlin, Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES Friday & Saturday, 19-20 March 2004 Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh's College http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/events/future.html The conference will assess the changes that have taken place in the Humanities in the last thirty-five years and will consider the future of the Humanities in the 21st century. The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) organized the first such conference in 1968 as part of its fiftieth anniversary celebrations. The European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford is presenting this follow-up conference in conjunction with the MHRA and other relevant bodies. PROGRAMME FRIDAY 19 MARCH 2004 9:00-9.30 am Registration: Main Hall, Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh's College 9:30-9.35 am Welcome: Martin McLaughlin (Director, EHRC), Catriona Kelly (Co-Director) 9.35-10:30 am Humanities and the Modern University Malcolm Bowie (Cambridge) and Martin McLaughlin (EHRC), Introduction Ludmilla Jordanova (Cambridge), Defining the Humanities Annie Cot (Sorbonne), Humanities and the Sorbonne 10.30-11:00 am: Coffee and Tea 11:00-12:30 pm ICT in the Humanities: Session I David Robey (AHRB), The Arts and Humanities and the Wider Landscape of Research in the UK Alan Bowman (Oxford), ITC and the Study of Ancient Documents Marilyn Deegan (Kings College London), Digital Scholarship and the Future of Humanities 12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch 2:00-3:00 pm ICT in the Humanities: Session II Michael Fraser (Oxford), The Development of Online Resource Discovery Services for the Humanities Robert McNamee (Oxford), The Electronic Enlightenment 3:00-4:00 pm Humanities and Europe: Session I Edward Acton (UEA), European Identity and where the Humanities have gone wrong Oswyn Murray (Oxford), The role of humanities in cultural resistance: 20th and 21st centuries 4:00-4:30 pm: Coffee and Tea 4:30-5:30 pm Humanities and Europe: Session II Joseph Sherman (Oriental Studies), Yiddish and the European Literary Tradition Alexis Tadié (Maison Française d'Oxford) 5:30-6:30 pm Keynote Address John Frow (Edinburgh), The Future of the Humanities 6:30-7:30 pm Reception SATURDAY 20 MARCH 2004 8.45 am: Registration 9:00-10.30 am Humanities and National Bodies Michael Jubb (AHRB), The Role of the AHRB Peter Brown (British Academy), The British Academy and the Support of Research Malcolm Cook (MHRA), The Role of the MHRA 10.30-11:00 am: Coffee and Tea 11:00-12:30 pm The Humanities and Outreach Christopher Brown (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Humanities and the Museum Valentine Cunningham (Oxford), Out of Bounds? Bill Swainson (Bloomsbury Publishing), The Humanities and General Publishing 12:30-1:00 pm Round Table Discussion There will be a registration fee of 20 pounds (conference sessions on 19 and 20 March, conference pack and Friday lunch included). Students are free (lunch vouchers available) and other concessions are available for those attending only one of the two days (12 pounds Friday only, 8 pounds Saturday only). Those wishing to attend are welcome to register and pay on the day, but are asked to send an email in advance to Avery.Willis@ehrc.ox.ac.uk if possible. From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: The Future of the Page, June 3-6, Seminar with Joseph Tabbi Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:06:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1143 (1143) Please Announce: 2004 Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies The Department of English, the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and West Virginia University present the 2004 Summer Seminar: "The Future of the Page" Seminar Leader: Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago June 3-6, 2004 Morgantown, West Virginia More information available at http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/summer_seminar/ or email Bonnie Anderson at banders@wvu.edu From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2004: Papers on-line Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:08:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1144 (1144) Museums and the Web 2004 Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA March 31 - April 3, 2004 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/ The international conference for culture and heritage on-line! * MW2004 PAPERS: now on-line * * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/speakers/index.html * The papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2004 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any highlighted title in an Abstract to find the full paper text. A printed volume of selected papers is also available; see http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/new.html for details. * HOTEL SPACE STILL AVAILABLE * * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/local/index.html * You can still get a reservation at the MW2004 conference hotel,. Crystal Gateway Marriott 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 Phone: +1 703 920 3230 Fax: +1 703 271 5212 http://www.marriott.com/wasgw (group code wamwama) Rate extended until TODAY -- March, 19, 2004 * PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSES: March 24, 2003 * * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/register/index.html * Register for MW2004 before March 24, 2003 to take advantage of the reduced pre- registration rate. You can also register on-site. Download the PDF Registration Form from the web site before you come. * SEE YOU SOON * Join us , for the eighth annual Museums and the Web, described by an attendee at MW2003 as "one of the most useful conference I have been to in a long time." We're looking forward to another great review (and critique) of the state of the Web in arts, culture and heritage. Safe travels! jennifer and David MW2004 Co-Chairs: David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics -- 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: Kim Nayyer Subject: Reminder: Digital Licensing Online Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:08:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1145 (1145) Just a reminder that the online course on Digital Licensing begins on April 12, 2004. Further information is at http://www.acteva.com/go/copyright or email seminars@copyrightlaws.com. The course is being taught by Lesley Ellen Harris, author of Licensing Digital Content (ALA Editions.) Lesley is also the author of Canadian Copyright Law and is teaching an online course based on this book. This course begins May 10, 2004. See: http://www.acteva.com/go/copyright or email seminars@copyrightlaws.com. Kim Nayyer kim@copyrightlaws.com ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca From: Joseph Wilson Subject: Re: 17.724 where in the world is Michael Barlow? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:29:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1146 (1146) Barlow is in the Linguistics Dept. at Rice University in Houston. If he doesn't respond to barlow@rice.edu, consult the department: ling@rice.edu Joseph Wilson Prof. emeritus of German, Rice Univ. 2236 Camelback Rd. Winchester, TX 78945 979-242-3745 jwilson@rice.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:34:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1147 (1147) (1) Volume 3 Number 1 of Software and Systems Modeling is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial In search of effective design abstractions p. 1 DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0052-3 Experts voice UML 3.0 and the future of modeling p. 4 DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0051-4 Regular papers OCL 1.4/5 vs. 2.0 Expressions Formal semantics and expressiveness p. 9 DOI: 10.1007/s10270-003-0035-9 Regular paper Formalization of UML state machines using temporal logic p. 31 DOI: 10.1007/s10270-003-0029-7 Regular paper Nesting in Euler Diagrams: syntax, semantics and construction p. 55 DOI: 10.1007/s10270-003-0036-8 Regular paper The OsMoSys approach to multi-formalism modeling of systems (2) International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms edited by Marco Ceccarelli Dipartmento di Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Territorio, University of Cassino, Italy The HMM2004 International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is the second event of a series that started in 2000 as the main activity of the IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of MMS, Mechanism and Machine Science. The aim of the HMM Symposium is to be a forum to exchange views, opinions, and experiences on the history of MMS from technical viewpoints in order to track the past but also to look at future developments in MMS. These Proceedings contain about 30 papers by authors from all around the world. The papers cover the wide range of the history of mechanical engineering. and particularly the history of MMS. The contributions address mainly technical aspects of historical developments of machines and mechanisms. The history of the IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science, is also outlined through the historical activities of its Commissions. Original sources are referenced in the papers so that these Proceedings can be also considered a kind of handbook on the history of machines and mechanisms. This book is of interest to researchers, graduate students and engineers specializing or addressing attention to history of science and technology, and particularly on history of MMS. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2203-4 Date: May 2004 Pages: 406 pp. EUR 150.00 / USD 165.00 / GBP 104.00 (3) Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce edited by Clare-Marie Karat IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA Jan O. Blom Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland John Karat IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION SERIES -- 5 How do you design personalized user experiences that delight and provide value to the customers of an eCommerce site? Personalization does not guarantee high quality user experience: a personalized user experience has the best chance of success if it is developed using a set of best practices in HCI. In this book 35 experts from academia, industry and government focus on issues in the design of personalized web sites. The topics range from the design and evaluation of user interfaces and tools to information architecture and computer programming related to commercial web sites. The book covers four main areas: * Theoretical, Conceptual, and Architectural Frameworks of Personalization, * Research on the Design and Evaluation of Personalized User Experiences in Different Domains, * Approaches to personalization Through Recommender Systems, * Lessons Learned and Future Research Questions. This book will be a valuable tool in helping the reader to understand the range of factors to take into consideration in designing and building a personalized user experience. The authors of each of the chapters identify possibilities and alert the reader to issues that can be addressed in the beginning of a project by taking a 'big picture' view of designing personalized user interfaces. For anyone working or studying in the field of HCI, information architecture or eCommerce, this book will provide a solid foundation of knowledge and prepare for the challenges ahead. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2147-X Date: April 2004 Pages: 360 pp. EUR 113.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 78.00 (4) Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Problematics, Promise, and Practice edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, USA Arjen E.J. Wals Wageningen University, The Netherlands Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They must be able to deal with conflicting norms and values, uncertain outcomes and futures, and a changing knowledge base. At the same time they will need to be able to contextualize knowledge in an increasingly globalized society. This book provides a variety of valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek to integrate sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is not only explored as both an outcome and a process of learning, but as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation. The book raises the various problematics related to this inchoate field and provides an intellectual history and critical assessment of the prospects for institutionalizing sustainability in higher education. Special Offer Pre-publication offer (hardbound edition) valid until 31 March 2004: EUR 90.00/USD 99.00/GBP 63.00 Pre-publication offer (paperback edition) valid until 31 March 2004: EUR 34.00/USD 38.00/GBP 24.00 (Please refer to promotional code 738020 when ordering.) 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Guenthner Zentrum fuer Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Muenchen, Germany HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC, *SECOND EDITION* -- 11 The first edition of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic (four volumes) was published in the period 1983-1989 and has proven to be an invaluable reference work to both students and researchers in formal philosophy, language and logic. The second edition of the Handbook is intended to comprise some 18 volumes and will provide a very up-to-date authoritative, in-depth coverage of all major topics in philosophical logic and its applications in many cutting-edge fields relating to computer science, language, argumentation, etc. The volumes will no longer be as topic-oriented as with the first edition because of the way the subject has evolved over the last 15 years or so. However the volumes will follow some natural groupings of chapters. Audience: Students and researchers whose work or interests involve philosophical logic and its applications. Special Offer A special 15% discount on list prices applies when placing a standing/continuation order for all 18 volumes in this series (Please refer to promotional code 738020 when ordering.) CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Editorial Preface; D.M. Gabbay. * Modal Logic and Self-Reference; C. Smory=C5=84ski. * Diagonalization in Logic and Mathematics; D. Jacquette. * Semantics and the Liar Paradox; A. Visser. * The Logic of Fiction; J. Woods, P. Alward. * Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1966-1 Date: March 2004 Pages: 338 pp. EUR 129.00 / USD 142.00 / GBP 89.00 From: ai_group Subject: PPSN VIII !!!! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: 16 April 2004 !!!! Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:27:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1148 (1148) CALL FOR PAPERS (!!!! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: 16 April 2004 !!!!) and BEST PAPER AWARDS The Eighth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), 18-22 September 2004, Birmingham, UK http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/ppsn04 The International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) has been one of the most respected high-quality international conferences in Natural Computation since 1990. Its eighth biennial conference (PPSN VIII) will be held in the heart of England --- Birmingham, UK --- on 18-22 September 2004. Natural computation is the study of computational systems that use ideas and get inspiration from natural systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical and social systems. It is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field in which a range of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. PPSN VIII will showcase a wide range of topics in natural computation including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Quantum Computation, Molecular Computation, Neural Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organising Systems, Emergent Behaviours, Machine Perception, and Applications to Real World Problems. The conference emphasises original theories and novel applications of natural computation. Researchers, practitioners, and students from academia and industry are invited to submit their original papers to this conference. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:27:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1149 (1149) (1) Volume 6 Number 4 of Computing and Visualization in Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Editorial: ALGORITMY 2002 conference p. 171 Karol Mikula DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0122-7 Regular article Flux-based methods of characteristics for coupled transport equations in porous media p. 173 Peter Frolkovic DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0126-3 Regular article On the application of the P 1 mod element to incompressible flow problems p. 185 Petr Knobloch DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0127-2 Regular article Morphological image sequence processing p. 197 Karol Mikula, Tobias Preusser, Martin Rumpf DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0129-0 Regular article Computational and qualitative aspects of evolution of curves driven by curvature and external force p. 211 Karol Mikula, Daniel evcovic DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0131-6 Regular article Supercomputing: What have we learned from the TOP500 Project? p. 227 Erich Strohmaier, Hans W. Meuer DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0132-5 (2) Volume 2 Numbers 2-3 of Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Technology Assessment and Ethics of Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial The institution of the new Focus section in Poeisis & Praxis p. 89 Carl Friedrich Gethmann DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0060-y Editorial Ethical inquiry and (health) technology assessment: the social shaping perspective p. 91 DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0058-x Focus Foreword p. 93 H. David Banta DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0044-3 Focus Introduction p. 97 Wija Oortwijn, Rob Reuzel, Michael Decker DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0045-2 Focus Integrating ethical enquiry and health technology assessment: limits and opportunities for efficiency and equity p. 103 Pedro Gallo DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0048-z Focus Interactive technology assessment of paediatric cochlear implantation p. 119 Rob Reuzel DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0052-3 Focus The role of ethics in interdisciplinary technology assessment p. 139 Michael Decker DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0047-0 Focus Health technology assessment between our health care system and our health: Exploring the potential of reflexive HTA p. 157 John Grin DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0049-y Focus The normative basis of (health) technology assessment and the role of ethical expertise p. 175 Armin Grunwald DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0050-5 Focus Health technology assessment: trying to bring empirical and ethical inquiry together p. 195 G. J. van der Wilt DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0053-2 Focus Biomedical and bioethical issues in Parliamentary TA and in Health Technology Assessment p. 207 Leonhard Hennen DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0051-4 Focus Social shaping of technology in TA and HTA p. 221 Christian Clausen, Yutaka Yoshinaka DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0046-1 Focus Ethics and HTA: some lessons and challenges for the future p. 247 Rob Reuzel, Wija Oortwijn, Michael Decker, Christian Clausen, Pedro Gallo, John Grin, Armin Grunwald, Leo Hennen, Gert Jan van der Wilt, Yutaka Yoshinaka DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0054-1 [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: 17.729 dictionaries of computing in English Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:42:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1150 (1150) You can get some immediate definitions, etc. about computing terms from www.whatis.com From: George Whitesel Subject: Re: 17.725 dictionary of computing in English? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:28:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1151 (1151) Marianna: You will get better advice than mine, but here goes: try the major on-line English language catalogues, such as Library of Congress, Harvard, MIT etc.; search by key-word (computer and dictionary etc.); see what titles come up. Next go to the internet listings of these schools and search under the heading computer science. There are several "dictionaries" on line. You will probably prefer the top-of-the-line print dictionaries but the electronic ones may help. Special dictionaries of terms may be issued by companies to cover what they do in their work. See also publishers listings and Professors' course listings, especially required books . Best of luck. George whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] Computing [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: online English dictionaries of computing Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:28:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1152 (1152) In answer to Marianna D'Alessio's question in Humanist 17.725, I'd suggest the Free Online Dictionary of Computing, FOLDOC, at http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/, run by Imperial College London; the Jargon File at http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/. Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: cllt-bounces@mailman.rice.edu Subject: Michael Barlow is in New Zealand Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:21:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1153 (1153) [mailto:cllt-bounces@mailman.rice.edu]On Behalf Of Michael Barlow (FOA_DALSL) Sent: 08 February 2004 03:03 To: 'cllt@mailman.rice.edu' Hi All, I moved to New Zealand! I resigned from Rice University and have taken up an Assoc. Prof. position in the Dept of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland. The university is letting me hold a permanent 6-month position here and so I'll be in Auckland from January until the end of June each year. This arrangement gives me some flexibility for writing, as well as for travelling, giving talks, workshops etc. for second half of the year when I will be based in Houston. I am looking into the possibility of getting a round-the-world airline ticket, which would allow me to visit a variety of places later on in the year. Send me email (personally, not via the list) if you'd like to explore possibilities for a visit to your institution. At some point the CLLT list will also move to Auckland. I first have to talk to the IT people here about setting up a listserv. I will send email later concerning the new address and procedures. Michael From: Willard McCarty Subject: why (among several reasons) Michael Barlow can't get lost Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:31:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1154 (1154) For those of you unfamiliar with MonoConc, a bit of explanation as to why Michael Barlow cannot be allowed to disappear from the scene, however beautiful his new surroundings and enviable his arrangements. Not everyone will agree with me about this, but then some discussion on the topic would be useful for everyone who cares about text-analysis. I am particularly fond of Michael's creation, MonoConc, because it offers everything one needs to teach the essentials of text-analysis from a corpus linguistics perspective, it does what it does very quickly, it does not require huge amounts of disk space AND it can be mastered by an attentive undergraduate in 5-10 minutes. Certainly there are functions that I value which it does not have and other packages do, but for the basics and for teaching purposes I have not found a piece of software to match it. Disagreements welcome, as always. Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Fwd: perception of Germanic languages Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:34:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1155 (1155) Dear colleagues: I forward this because, although the objective has nothing whatever to do with humanities computing, the means toward it does. I suppose that members of the Linguist List would be able to say how common such an effort at data collection is nowadays -- that would be interesting to hear about. This particular one strikes me as quite well designed. Gone are the days, I suppose, when a dialectologist tramped around through village after village, heavy tape-recorder in the rucksack, asking people he encountered to listen and react or to speak his sentences into a microphone. Or are they? [I use the masculine singular pronoun because I am thinking of a particular individual, a PhD candidate from Heidelberg, who taught me advanced German. He was the only one, in all the years I studied this language, who insisted we learn how to speak the language properly. He forced us all to say, "Im Sueden war die Linie bereits zurueckgedraengt worden", again and again and again until he was satisfied. And he played us the tape-recorded sentences, most of which were to my ears totally incomprehensible. What a treat!] Yours, WM [deleted quotation] purposes. [deleted quotation] [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: low-life online Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:43:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1156 (1156) Many here will share my joy at discovering, thanks to a colleague here, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834, http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/, "A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court." Truly a treasure-trove of misery. Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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 Burk" Subject: CORRECTION- Summer Institute - Creating Electronic Texts Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:27:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1157 (1157) - David Seaman This past week a spurious e-mail announcing a Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick, Creating Electronic Texts with David Seaman, was sent out to a number of lists. In order to clear up any confusion that may have arisen from this incident I would like to announce that the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick will be offering this summer as part of its Summer Seminar Series two one week courses, running concurrently, the week of August 16 (2004). The first is Essentials of Electronic Publishing, covering Principles of transcription and editing; the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI); Basic data structuring; Using XML; HTML/SGML to XML conversion; Cascading Stylesheets; and XSL transformations. This hands-on course will be taught by David Gants, a Canada Research Chair in Humanities computing at the University of New Brunswick. The second course will be an introduction to EAD publishing technology and methods, another hands-on course. Daniel Pitti will be the instructor. Daniel was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative and is currently Interim Co-Director of IATH (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) at the University of New Brunswick. More information on these new course offerings will be sent out within the next two weeks. For information about past Text Centre Institutes, see: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2003/index.html Alan Burk Director, Electronic Text Centre University of New Brunswick From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Extreme Markup Languages 2004 Call for Participation Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:28:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1158 (1158) Montreal in August: what could be better? Great food, great coffee, and a funky hotel full of markup geeks! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES 2004 Extreme is a technical conference devoted to markup, markup languages, markup systems, markup applications, and software for manipulating and exploiting markup. WHEN: August 2-6, 2004 WHERE: Montréal, Canada SPONSOR: IDEAlliance TO PARTICIPATE HOW: Submit full papers in XML or SGML to: extreme@mulberrytech.com. Guidelines, DTDs, and details at http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme SCHEDULE: Paper Submissions Due April 16, 2004 Speakers Notified May 28, 2004 Revised Papers Due June 25, 2004 Tutorials August 2, 2004 Conference August 3 - 6, 2004 QUESTIONS: Email to extreme@mulberrytech.com or call Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631 MORE INFORMATION as available: http://www.extrememarkup.com/ -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2004 mailto:extreme@mulberrytech.com August 2-6, 2004 details: http://www.idealliance.org Montreal, Canada or: http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: Gina Anzivino Subject: Conference on Fine Print: Publishing in the Shadow of Big Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:28:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1159 (1159) Media Fine Print: Publishing in the Shadow of Big Media, May 19-21, 2004 at UC Irvine Organized by the Humanities Center, HumaniTech, and the UC Irvine Libraries As our attention turns toward what will be one of the most consequential presidential campaigns in decades, we gather to ask how book and journal publishing matters. Trade presses continue to undergo significant transformations, as beleaguered houses cling precariously to the thin black margins that keep them afloat within larger and more profitable corporations. Many have had to moderate their tones, pander to their readers, and downsize their offerings. Likewise the hard-hitting, New Journalistic "long form" of magazine and journal reporting gives way to the pseudo-cerebral sound bite, to the judiciously executed balancing acts of those ever in need of more readers. Thus the range of opinion available to a national audience consistently shrinks -- like the endangered public domain itself -- before the steady advance of Big Media. We gather to ask what is to be done. This conference will combine daily presentations and round tables from different sectors of this diverse industry. Discussions will be facilitated by UCI faculty from the School of Humanities. Keynote Speakers: Fireside Chat with David Halberstam, May 19 7:30 p.m. Beckman Center Auditorium Victor Navasky, May 20 3:30 p.m. UCI Student Center Lawrence Lessig, May 20 7:30 p.m. UCI Student Center Michael Wolff, May 21 5:00 p.m. UCI Student Center Round Table Speakers: Douglas Armato, Aimee Bender, Marshall Brown, Catherine Candee, Kassahun Checole, Tom Christie, Catherine Gallagher, Dilip Gaonkar, Glen David Gold, Michael Grossberg, Bret Israel, Jackson Lears, Randy Martin, Aileen McHugh, Maile Meloy, W.J.T. Mitchell, Sina Najafi, Kit Rachlis, Susan Reynolds, Mike Sager, Paul Saint-Amour, Ben Schwarz, Felicity Scott, Barry Siegel, R.J. Smith, Will Swaim, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Steve Wasserman, Ken Wissoker, Lynne Withey, George Wolfe, and Geoffrey Wolff. In anticipation of Fine Print, David Remnick will be speaking on May 14 at 8:00 p.m. in HIB 100. This event is free and open to the public. For an up-to-date schedule of events, visit the conference website: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fineprint. For more information, email hctr@uci.edu or call 949-824-3638. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, HumaniTech, the UC Irvine Libraries, Department of English & Comparative Literature, International Center for Writing & Translation, Department of History, EBSCO Information Services, The Nora Folkenflik Memorial Fund and UC Humanities Research Institute. Gina Anzivino Humanities Center & HumaniTech 175 Humanities Instructional Building Irvine, CA 92697-3375 Phone: 949-824-3638 Fax: 949-824-4413 Gina Anzivino Humanities Center & HumaniTech 175 Humanities Instructional Building Irvine, CA 92697-3375 Phone: 949-824-3638 Fax: 949-824-4413 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Mats_Dahlstr=F6m=22?= Subject: CFP: Human IT 7:3 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:23:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1160 (1160) Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence vol 7:3 CALL FOR PAPERS Human IT is a multidisciplinary, refereed e-journal dedicated to research and discussion about digital media as communicative, aesthetic and ludological instruments. It is published by the Centre for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science, which is a joint initiative by the departments at the University College of Boras, Sweden. Human IT publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. Contributions in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and English are accepted, and up to this point the journal has had a predominantly Scandinavian scope. However, an increasing part of the material is written in English and reaches an international audience. The journal is available at: <http://www.hb.se/bhs/humanit/> Vol. 7:3 will feature contributions dealing with Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to, the following topics: Foundations Machine Learning Soft Computing Knowledge Engineering Intelligent Agents Ethics and Social Implications of AI Natural Language Processing Computer Games Data Mining Applications Ulf Johansson at the Department of Business and Informatics at the University College of Boras will act as guest editor. We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of Artificial Intelligence before the deadline on May 31, 2004. For further information, please visit our web site at http://www.hb.se/bhs/humanit/, or contact our guest editor Ulf Johansson, ulf.johansson@hb.se, phone: +46-33-16 44 89, fax: +46-33-16 40 07. ************** Mats Dahlstrom co-editor Human IT Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Boras / University of Gothenburg SE-501 90 Boras, Sweden phone +46 33 16 44 21 fax +46 33 16 40 05 e-mail mats.dahlstrom@hb.se From: "Johanne Martinez - Schmitt" Subject: ESF NEWS - http://www.esf.org - ESF NEWS - Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:30:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1161 (1161) Dear ESF web site user, Here is the latest update on what's new on the European Science Foundation's web site. [Please see the ESF Web site for URLs.] European Latsis Prize - Nomination of candidates for 2004 The European Science Foundation invites nominations for the European Latsis prize 2004. The prize is given for outstanding and innovative contributions within a selected research field and it has a value of 100.000 Swiss Francs. The research field for the 2004 Latsis prize is "Bioinformatics" -= Deadline 15 June 2004 Call for Applications - Summer School on "The Impact of the Humanities on the Development of European Science" The purpose of this summer school is to show how the humanities and the sciences have interacted in a creative way since the Scientific Revolution, and how that fruitful dialogue is carried out at the present time. A number of cases will be examined, and ways of enhancing the dialogue will be outlined and discussed. Research funding opportunities in the field of EuroSTELLS Following agreement with a group of funding agencies from Europe, the European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Proposals for research projects to be undertaken within a EUROCORES programme on the Development of a Stem Cell Tool Box (EuroSTELLS). The programme is expected to run for a minimum of five years and includes national research funding and a European networking component. 2004 Call for Proposals for workshops Each year, ESF supports approximately 50 Exploratory Workshops across all scientific domains to allow scientists and scholars to explore novel ideas at the European level. The 2004 Call for Proposals for workshops to be held between 1 January-31 December 2005 is now available. The deadline for submitting proposals is 1 May 2004 Call for Expression of Interest: Investigating Life in Extreme Environments ESF's Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences together with ESF's Expert Committees (EMB, EPB, ESSC) are jointly issuing a call for Expression of Interest within the topic "Investigating Life in Extreme Environments". The main purpose of this call is the identification of key challenging topics from any discipline in this area and investigate the best ways to explore them. Expression of Interest should be submitted by March 23, 2004. Call for Travel Grants Scientific Programme on Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Europe (NHIST) Call for proposals European Collaborative Research Projects in the Social Sciences (2001-2004) *** NEW ONLINE PUBLCATIONS *** Food-Web Modelling for Ecological Assessment of Terrestrial Pollution (EcolMAT) - An ESF programme From Natural Philosophy to Science (NPHS) - An ESF programme Opportunities for outstanding young scientists in Europe to create an independant research team ESF Consortium for Ocean Drilling (ECOD) - White Paper ---oo---oo----=F4=F4---->oo<----=F4=F4----oo----oo---- Mrs. Johanne Martinez - Schmitt webmaster and information officer Communication and Information Unit European Science Foundation 1, Quai Lezay-Marn=E9sia BP 90015 F- 67080 Strasbourg Cedex <http://www.esf.org>http://www.esf.org From: Norman Hinton Subject: FW: 17.736 dictionaries of computing in English Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:42:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1162 (1162) You can get some immediate definitions, etc. about computing terms from www.whatis.com From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Colleges, Code and Copyright, June 10-11, 2004 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:30:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1163 (1163) ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is hosting its 2004 symposium titled * * * COLLEGES, CODE AND COPYRIGHT The impact of digital networks and technological controls on copyright and the dissemination of information in higher education June 10-11, 2004 Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi, Maryland http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/ KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information Presenters and panelist also include: ~ Miriam M. Nisbet, Legislative Counsel, American Library Association ~ Bryan Pfaffenberger, Professor, Technology, Culture, and Communication (TCC), University of Virginia ~ Mark A. Luker, Vice President, EDUCAUSE ~ Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, External Relations ARL and Assistant Director for Public Programs for SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ~ Matt Jackson, Assistant Professor of Communications, College of Communications Penn State University ~ David E. Green, Vice President and Counsel, Technology and New Media, Motion Picture Association of America ~ David Lombard Harrison, Associate Vice President for Legal Affairs, University of North Carolina ~ Kenneth Saloman, Dow, Lohnes, & Albertson, PLLC ~ Donna Ferullo, Dir., University Copyright Office, Purdue University ~ Keith Winstein, Graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Please see the web site for a complete listing of speakers: http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/speakers.html PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Higher education institutions are facing complex issues involved in the use of campus computer networks, the delivery of scholarly materials to faculty and students, and securing information disseminated on campus. This symposium will focus on these and other issues that affect the delivery of quality, copyrighted content in higher education, including: - The impact of the rising costs of scholarly materials - Peer-to-peer file sharing over university networks - The impact of digital rights management systems - Current legislation impacting copyright and higher education - Other provocative topics pertinent to the symposium subject The symposium has a two-day format that will frame the pertinent issues on the first day then present and discuss possible solutions the second day. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: University provosts, deans, program directors, faculty, counsel, and librarians; University Provosts * College and University Faculty * College and University Librarians * Distance Learning Librarians and Information Professionals * Academic and Intellectual Property Attorneys * Directors and Managers of Distance Learning Programs * Knowledge Management Leaders * Information Technology Managers * Web-based Training Specialists * E-commerce Directors * Instructional Designers * Deans and Directors of College & University Academic and Professional Programs REGISTRATION: Please register early since space is very limited. Early registration ends May 10, 2004. For additional information call 301-985-7777 OR visit our Web site at http://www.umuc.edu/odell/cip/symposium/ [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] From: Luis Villaseñor-Pineda (by way Subject: CFP - IBERAMIA'04 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:31:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1164 (1164) IBERAMIA 2004 9TH Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence Puebla, Mexico November 22-26, 2004 Contact: iberamia2004@inaoep.mx Web Site: http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004 ======================================================== IBERAMIA is the international forum where the Ibero-american AI community meet together for presenting and discussing the research and development carried out in South and Central America countries, Spain, and Portugal. The IX Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA) will take place at Puebla, Mexico, hosted by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica (INAOE), from November 22-26, 2004. IBERAMIA is supported by the Ibero-American societies of AI AEPIA - Asociacion Espanola para Inteligencia Artificial APPIA - Associaçao Portuguesa para Inteligencia Artificial SBC - Sociedade Brasileira de Computaçao, Brazil SMIA - Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial The first IBERAMIA conference was held in 1988 at Barcelona. Since then IBERAMIA has been the forum to debate research and development on AI in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Following Barcelona IBERAMIA conferences were held every two years Morelia 1990( Mexico), La Habana 1992 (Cuba), Caracas 1994 (Venezuela), Cholula 1996 (Mexico), Lisboa 1998 (Portugal), Sao Paolo 2000 (Brazil), and Sevilla 2002 (Spain). In these sixteen years, the goals of IBERAMIA have been to strengthen the relationship among the AI research groups of the Ibero-American community, to create the appropriate conditions for researchers to disseminate their research work and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. The conference will be structured along two main modules: . workshops track . paper track The workshops track is composed of working sessions devoted to the most important areas of AI research in Ibero-American countries. Papers submitted to this workshops track may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English; they will be reviewed and published in a local edition. The paper track is composed of invited talks and paper presentations from all over the world, covering all topics listed above. Proceedings of this paper track will be published in Springer Verlag's LNCS/LNAI series. ------------------- CONFERENCE TOPICS ------------------- IBERAMIA 2004 topics include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Engineering and Case Based Reasoning. * Planning and Scheduling. * Distributed AI and Multi-Agent Systems. * AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. * Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition. * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. * Natural Language Processing. * Robotics. * Computer Vision. * Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems. * Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. * Foundations (philosophy, mathematics, logic etc.). [material deleted] From: Stéfan Sinclair (by Subject: humanities computing job at the University of Alberta Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:14:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1165 (1165) Dear Colleagues, I'm very pleased to say that the M.A. in Humanities Computing programme at the University of Alberta is thriving and that we're now seeking applications for another full-time tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor. Your help in distributing the job announcement below as widely as possible would be much appreciated (especially to any individuals you know who may be interested). ################################################### TENURE-TRACK POSITION IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ################################################### The Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, invites applications for a full-time continuing position, at the Assistant Professor level, commencing July 1, 2004, in the area of humanities computing. This position will integrate into the existing M.A. in Humanities Computing programme, now into its third year; some undergraduate teaching will also be expected. The M.A. programme emphasizes computing research methods in the liberal arts and critical thinking and provides students with appropriate technical skills that equip them well either for further study or for careers in information management. Students in this programme develop a firm grasp of the fundamental principles of computing methods in the humanities and its ability to restructure or transform the disciplines, as well as an appreciation of its potential for revisioning applications in computer science. Graduates are qualified to work across the interface between computer specialist and project director or manager. More information on the M.A. in Humanities Computing is available at http://huco.ualberta.ca/ Applicants will present demonstrated evidence of work on the application of cutting edge tools and approaches to humanities disciplines; on some of the more traditionally defined applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including text encoding, knowledge representation, visual design, new media, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; broad library and research-based work that focuses on significant issues of textuality and information retrieval; and tools-focused work that offers innovative and substantial applications and uses for humanities-based teaching and research throughout the academic and research worlds. Letters of application, including a curriculum vitae, copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and the names, institutional addresses and email addresses of three referees who have been invited to write on the applicant's behalf, should be sent to: Dr. Rick Szostak, Associate Dean (Interdisciplinary and International Studies) Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5 780-492-9132 (rick.szostak@ualberta.ca) The closing date for applications is: May 7, 2004. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are 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. -- 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: herbert van de sompel Subject: Carl Lagoze receives 2004 Kilgour Award Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:15:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1166 (1166) Please join me in congratulating Carl Lagoze on receiving the 2004 Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. More information at http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litaresources/litascholarships/04fred.htm . Herbert Van de Sompel digital library research & prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library + 1 (505) 667 1267 / http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/ From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 17.737 new on WWW: records of the Old Bailey Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:32:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1167 (1167) [deleted quotation] We've actually had this catalogued in Humbul since March 2003 (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=6010). This is no criticism of anyone, except perhaps Humbul, but we'd welcome suggestions of the best ways to alert humanities people to the stuff that gets catalogued in Humbul each week. We maintain RSS newsfeeds, for example, and an email-based alerting services (for which you need to register) but are there other things we should be considering? We could, for example, think about posting a brief list of recently catalogued resources to humanist once a week? Best wishes, Mike --- Dr Michael Fraser Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service & Head of Humbul Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/ http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: MonoConc features was Re: 17.734 Michael Barlow found, Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:56:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1168 (1168) with reasons why this matters Willard, Could you please elaborate? A listing of the features would be nice. I should restate that as "functions" and not deviate from the proposed topic. [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] And a bit more light on teh "teaching purposes" might also help guide discussion. Thanks -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Wondering if... mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic From: Norman Hinton Subject: concordances Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:56:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1169 (1169) WIllard, I'm very interested in your recommendation of MonoConc. I went to the site and it looked very good -- but so did MonoConc Pro. Do you have any feelings abut one over the other ? And also -- for several years now I have used SCP - the Simple Concordance Program, freeware by Alan Reed. Have you ever used it ? If so, how would you compare it to MonoConc ? I know you're busy but if you have a minute to answer, I'd really appreciate it. From: Willard McCarty Subject: MonoConc Pro Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:59:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1170 (1170) I've been asked to elaborate on my recommendation of MonoConc Pro (I said MonoConc but meant the Pro version) as to its features &c. My very positive opinion of the program, however, has little to do with features per se. These are not exactly minimal, but there are other programs considerably more sophisticated in that regard. MonoConc I've found excellent as a quick means of getting to what I take to be the essential, basic mechanics of analyzing corpora: produce a KWIC; sort to the left, sort to the right -- one word, two words, three words from the target etc.; produce frequency statistics for the target word and for collocations. One can do things with tags, but I never mention that to students during the use of MonoConc. Tag-recognition was an add-on to MonoConc, I think, but in any case the intention is to get them to recognize that such analysis gets you so far with certain kinds of questions but not further. Then you need to consider how encoding can extend the range of analysis &c. Or, to put the matter another way, the questions of corpus linguistics and those of literary analysis overlap but are not coincident. MonoConc is very easy to learn -- as I said, 5 to 10 minutes is all that's required. The students I've had tend to come to humanities computing believing that it's about pushing buttons. So I've tried to rush them past the push-button interface to problems of interpretation. The more sophisticated-in-features this interface is, the harder that is to do, the more they take what they see as a harder problem of the kind they've mostly already mastered rather than a new sort of problem entirely. (It's no wonder they're the way they are. A colleague recently showed me a handout his son had been given in a maths class in school. It showed a standard geometrical diagram of a triangle with formulae for sine, cosine and tangent, more or less as decoration, then the sentence: "To get sin(x), press SIN on your calculator; to get cos(x), press COS; to get tan(x), press TAN." Apparently there was little by way of actual mathematics given in the class for which this handout was support.) Would it match the experience of others to say that the more computing is taught in the schools, the more difficult it becomes to get students into a humanities computing course so that they can understand what the fuss is about? Yours, WM [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: "Heberlein, Friedrich" Subject: Re: 17.741 an interesting survey Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:57:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1171 (1171) [deleted quotation] Are they? You might want to have a look at, e.g., http://www.bnbt.de/~tr1526/ Fritz Heberlein -- Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor Seminar f. Klassische Philologie, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt / Bayern D-85071 Eichstaett From: "Simon LeFranc" Subject: development of American English usage Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:29:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1172 (1172) I am looking for projects or archives (especially digital) that document the development of American English in (approximately) 1780-1840, particularly with regard to: the first truly "American" grammars and dictionaries competing 18th and 19th c. grammars and grammarians competing approaches to teaching grammar and usage prescriptivists vs. descriptivists (and who won) In addition, I suppose the American idiom began its emergence with the first settlers, but I am curious: when did American educators stop looking to England for language authority and rule-setting? If you are aware of such projects, I would be grateful if you would post them. Christine From: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de (RAM-Verlag) Subject: Glottometrics 7, 2004 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:57:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1173 (1173) Interested in "Glottometrics 7, 2004"? Then visit our web-site: www.ram-verlag.de and look at the contents including abstracts. If you can't link directly from here, see attachment, please. [Attachment deleted -- WM] Glottometrics 7, 2004 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-Verlag From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:09:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1174 (1174) (1) CMOS Imagers From Phototransduction to Image Processing edited by Orly Yadid-Pecht Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel Ralph Etienne-Cummings Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA This is the first book published on CMOS imagers. It covers the full chain, starting from the basic concepts of photo transduction, and continues with pixel and system examples of CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS) imagers. CMOS Imagers: From Phototransduction to Image Processing contains six contributed chapters. The first three detail the basic concepts of photo transduction, modeling, evaluation, and optimization of APS. The last three continue with the description of APS design issues using a bottom-up strategy, starting from pixels and finishing with image processing systems. Various focal-plane image processing alternatives to either improve imaging or to extract visual information are presented. The book closes with a discussion of a completely non-traditional method for image noise suppression. Targeted audiences for this work are people interested in imaging, whether from the academic, the industrial or the scientific arena. All students, engineers and technical workers interested in understanding more about the physics, the design and the potential of CMOS imagers are invited to read the book. Each chapter can also be read independently. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7961-3 Date: May 2004 Pages: 250 pp. EUR 114.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 79.00 (2) Audiophotography: Bringing photos to life with sounds by David M. Frohlich Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK -- 3 There are many practitioner books on different branches and styles of photography (e.g. landscape, studio, American, etc). Some of these even cover digital photography, as it exists today. However, there are very few research books on the meaning and practice of domestic photography, and almost none on the potential impact of digital technology on this important and widespread behaviour. Audiophotography combines a detailed 'user studies' approach to photography, with consumers' own critiques of new media content they have generated themselves. It is therefore a new book about domestic photography and its possible transformation with digital technology. Although it focusses on the role of sound in photography, it does so in relation to a new theory of photography which is tested and refined by empirical research. Such work is timely because of current interest in new media forms and the wide variety of new photography and video products and services emerging in the consumer market. It defines a new media type, audiophotos, and how it works, and should help readers to understand the possible benefits of other innovations in the digital photography industry. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2209-3 Date: May 2004 Pages: 242 pp. EUR 160.00 / USD 176.00 / GBP 111.00 [Note: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend.] 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 17 Num. 1175 (1175) this is testing mail to lists