From: Willard McCarty Subject: happy 17th birthday! Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 08:31:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1 (1) In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage, 2004), the protagonist and narrator, a brilliant teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome, observes that “Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life”, he says. “They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all of your time thinking about them.” (p. 15) Today the prime number in question is 17 ­ the number of years Humanist has been in existence. I do not mean to imply anything magical about the ambiguous fact of Humanist’s age ­ 17 years old but in its 18th year, and in its 17th year last year. But the idea of patterns beyond our ability to specify them is central to what we do, and a prime-numbered birthday is as good an occasion as any to notice the fact. Making the question of what might be central to our practice mathematical is also a good way to mark another step in a coming of age. As a science of pure form without content ­ was it Russell who said that mathematics is not *about* anything at all? ­ mathematics requires an extraordinary ability to think in the abstract that I, for one, do not possess. But mathematics is (as mathematicans are wont to say) “beautiful”, and more importantly for us, computation is deeply rooted in mathematical questions. So, sooner or later a computing humanist wanting to stand on solid granite needs to look into the matter, or so recently I have been telling myself. This is not to advocate a mystical foundationalism, rather to respect and discover one of the two main strands of computation’s history. It is to strive for a better answer to the question, where are we from, and what is it like there? But the mathematical, arithmetic reality that Humanist faces on this birthday is the brutal fact of the daily number of unwanted, polluting messages in the data-stream where it swims. Throughout its history members of Humanist have from time to time complained of infoglut, beginning approximately 1 month after the first message was sent out, when the medium was so new we all took it as imperative that each message be meaningful. On each occasion the rising tide provoked an innovation (Humanist's digesting was one of these) or exhortations to adjust. This time the (mis)infoglut is, obviously, beyond our ability to control, at least not satisfactorily. I have to assure people repeatedly that if a message goes astray, if they don't hear from me, it's highly unlikely to be because I've decided to ignore them, most likely that their messages have bee dragged down by obscene offers and promises from people I would never care to meet. Be that as it may, the problem for Humanist is the problem of carrying on a conversation against such a cacaphony. Permit me the perhaps unwarranted conclusion that our 17 years together attests to the value we place in this long conversation, which is as far as I am concerned what humanities computing in the end amounts to. The term "lone scholar" is these days almost a term of contempt, just as "collaboration" is so often held up as an unquestioned (and opposite) virtue, so often without the virtue-holder-upper having much of an idea what collaboration is about, when it is *really* collaboration and not just getting other people to do what you don't want to do yourself. Humanists have seldom if ever been unengaged in a slow, stately conversation that is in fact collaborative. The sociological history of knowledge teaches us that. Everything we do is for and with others, even if we hardly ever see them. But, yes, there are aspects of this normal working together that the digital medium gives us the chance to do better. Central to that is conversation -- saying things so that we may come to know, true things if we can, of course, but more importantly, truth-tending things. That's what Humanist has always been about, if I am not badly mistaken. About learning by taking risks, like how to ride a bicycle. We're always worrying ourselves about whether humanities computing has made its mark in the world and on the world. It seems to me, however, that quiet change, though harder to detect, is sometimes much better and more powerful in its effects than the noisy, obviously mark-making, position-taking kind. If during these 17 years Humanist has contributed to the world, it has done so very quietly by nature, like conversation, leaving hardly a trace. It's like teaching, whose real effects are impossible to measure and which requires considerable faith to continue doing, and so must be done for the love of it if the effects are to be good. "Do what you do only out of love." Just so. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Strand | London WC2R 2LS || +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: John Unsworth Subject: ACLS Commission, May meeting Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 06:52:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 2 (2) With generous support from Northwestern University's Office of Research and Office of Information Technology, and from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Hmanities and Social Sciences will hold its second public hearing in Evanston, Illinois, on Saturday, May 22nd, 2004. The meeting will be held from 10 am until 1 pm, in the Allen Center on the campus of Northwestern University. Maps of the campus are online at http://www.northwestern.edu/campus/maps.html. The meeting is open to the public. The closest hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, in Evanston. For more hotel information, see: http://www.hiltongardeninn.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=ORDEVGI O'Hare airport is the closest air terminal. A cab ride from O'Hare to the Evanston campus of Northwestern is about $24. In January, 2003, the National Science Foundation issued a report recommending significant changes to support greatly enhanced cyberinfrastructure to support research in science and engineering (http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/). The current ACLS commission is charged with identifying and articulating similar challenges and solutions for the humanities and social sciences, and they will be working on the following elements of their charge throughout this year: * Describe and analyze the current state of humanities and social science cyberinfrastructure * Articulate the requirements and the potential contributions of the humanities and the social sciences in developing a cyberinfrastructure for information, teaching, and research * Recommend areas of emphasis and coordination for the various agencies and institutions, public and private, that contribute to the development of this cyberinfrastructure From: Willard McCarty Subject: smart medicines? Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 07:21:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 3 (3) I would greatly appreciate references to authoritative but non-technical discussions of so-called "smart medicines", i.e. compounds consisting of DNA-encoded nano-computers that are programmable to take action depending on the environments in which they find themselves. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: smart medicines? Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 07:21:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 4 (4) I would greatly appreciate references to authoritative but non-technical discussions of so-called "smart medicines", i.e. compounds consisting of DNA-encoded nano-computers that are programmable to take action depending on the environments in which they find themselves. 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: Re: 18.003 smart medicines? Date: 7 May 2004 8:09:44 am EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 5 (5) To: humanist@Princeton.EDU Willard writes: I would greatly appreciate references to authoritative but non-technical discussions of so-called "smart medicines", i.e. compounds consisting of DNA-encoded nano-computers that are programmable to take action depending on the environments in which they find themselves. Not sure if this fits your bill, but Erowid -- the largest online repository of information on psychoactives of all kinds -- does have a Smart Drugs vault. Their definition of what a smart drug is may differ from yours, but they're worth a look. Each substance has a vault; the information in that vault will almost definitely be partly techhnical, but will contain anything they've been able to find, including submitted experience reports from people taking it, interactions, etc. http://www.erowid.org/smarts/smarts.shtml Best, -Vika -- http://www.wordsend.org/log/ [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: "LymanAward" Subject: 2004 Lyman Award Announced Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 06:53:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 6 (6) The selection committee charged with naming the 2004 recipient of the Richard W. Lyman Award has chosen Robert K. Englund, professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of California, Los Angeles, and principal investigator of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). The Richard W. Lyman Award recognizes scholars who have advanced humanistic scholarship and teaching through the innovative use of information technology. The award honors Richard W. Lyman, who was president of Stanford University from 1970-80 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980-88, and is made possible through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. Each recipient receives a prize of $25,000. For more information, see: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/lymanaward/lymanaward.htm Professor Englund will accept the Lyman Award during a ceremony at the New York Public Library on May 25 at 5:30. For more information, contact Susan Adesman, sadesman@unity.ncsu.edu or 919-549-0661. David Rice Associate Director for Communications National Humanities Center drice@unity.ncsu.edu 919.549-0661 x160 http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us [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: "Antonella D'Ascoli" Subject: JIIA "Journal for the Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:01:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 7 (7) Archaeology" Comunicato Stampa E' online dal 10 ottobre 2003 la prima testata telematica italiana di archeologia, scienze dell'antichità e scienze applicate all'archeologia. "Journal for the Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology" (<http://www.jiia.it>http://www.jiia.it) ISSN 1824-1670 Essa è segnalata e inserita nelle seguenti rassegne telematiche: Segnalazioni: <http://www.rassegna.unibo.it/riviste.html>http://www.rassegna.unibo.it/riviste.html Inserita in: The History Journals Guide <http://www.history-journals.de/journals/hjg-j00554.html>http://www.history-journals.de/journals/hjg-j00554.html http://www.history-journals.de/journals/hjg-update.html <http://www.history-journals.de/hjg-about.html>http://www.history-journals.de/hjg-about.html inserita in: Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg <http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=UBR&colors=7&lang=de¬ation=LD-LG&sc=E&lc=N>http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=UBR&colors=7&lang=de¬ation=LD-LG&sc=E&lc=N Si allega alla presente un file .pdf contenente l'indice completo dei contributi scientifici attualmente disponibili. [removed for distribution on Humanist] La rivista si avvale dei contributi scientifici offerti a titolo gratuito dagli studiosi. Nell'attesa di un cenno e di una possibile sinergia e collaborazione si ringrazia per l'attenzione A. D'Ascoli ------------------------------------ Dott.ssa D'Ascoli Antonella Direttore Responsabile di "Journal for the Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology" <http://www.jiia.it>http://www.jiia.it Via Giacomo Leopardi n.56 80044 OTTAVIANO (Napoli) Italia dascolia@tiscalinet.it Tel./Fax: 081/8280384 - 081/8278203 cell.: 333/2899783 [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: "Ray Siemens" Subject: scholarships for Digital Humanities / Humanities Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:59:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 8 (8) Computing Summer Institute [** Please respond by May 14 if you are interested **] SCHOLARSHIP SPOTS IN THE 2004 Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute University of Victoria June 25-30, 2004 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ Dear Members of the Humanities Computing Community, With good news of sponsorship for this year's summer institute, those involved in the institute are very pleased to announce that we are able to offer several scholarships for 2004. The scholarships reduce greatly the cost of registration, to $225 (CDN) for faculty and staff and $150 for graduate students for the six days of the institute and the banquet. If you would like to be considered for one of these spots, please visit the institute's website (http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/) and, after perusing the offerings, contact Ray Siemens (siemens@uvic.ca) by **May 14** with [1] a very brief bio-statement (which could include a link to a website), [2] an indication of which offering would be your first choice and (if that is unavailable) an alternate preference, and [3] a short paragraph outlining your current work, and how attending the institute would benefit that work. About the 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, Acadia University, and 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. For 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 encourage you to consider joining us, and I look forward to welcoming 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 [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@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: A not unhappy 17th BIRTHDAY Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:01:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 9 (9) Willard, I do believe you short change yourself. Modesty in the face of the mathematicians arises from on slight preposition "in" placed between "to think" and "the abstract"... [deleted quotation] Someone in the last century wrote: Abstraction transports one from the given to the possible. As abstraction moves away from an underlying reality, a putative last instance, it moves towards a form, a portable pattern, a template. Abstraction is akin to transcoding. In the succession of analytic and synthetic moments, in the movements of separation and recombination, a materialism is feasible, thought and bodily patterns readable. I am willing to venture that that writer thought about mathematicians as thinking through the abstract or with the abstract. For examples of the incarnatory power of mathematics, see the lovely illustrations and process descriptions in _Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art_ by Ivars Peterson (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) Good thing you don't possess the ability to think in the abstract. I probably enables you to think through and with the abstract. -- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: improvements and a problem Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 10 (10) Dear colleagues: Spamming invasions of Humanist have been stopped, as you know, and the archive accessible from the homepage is now being tidied up with the kind help of Shayne Brandon at IATH (Virginia). Unfortunately changes made to effect the former improvement seem to be blocking members from submitting via humanist@princeton.edu, the normal port-of-call. I am puzzled but am looking into the matter. Meanwhile posts for Humanist may be sent directly to me -- but you do need to make sure that your postings actually survive, so be watchful, please. Sorry for the continuing bother. 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: Subject: new publication: The Visual Computer 20.2-3 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:44:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 11 (11) Volume 20 Numbers 2-3 of The Visual Computer is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: A real-time terrain visualization algorithm using wavelet-based compression p. 67 Jin Kook Kim, Jong Beom Ra Animating visible speech and facial expressions p. 86 Jiyong Ma, Ronald Cole A hybrid-based texture synthesis approach p. 106 Chang-Hsing Wu, Yueh-Yi Lai, Wen-Kai Tai Constructive sculpting of heterogeneous volumetric objects using trivariate B-splines p. 130 B. Schmitt, A. Pasko, C. Schlick The Marching Intersections algorithm for merging range images p. 149 Claudio Rocchini, Paolo Cignoni, Fabio Ganovelli, Claudio Montani, Paolo Pingi, Roberto Scopigno Real-time knot-tying simulation p. 165 Joel Brown, Jean-Claude Latombe, Kevin Montgomery v2 Subdivision for quadrilateral meshes p. 180 Guiqing Li, Weiyin Ma, Hujun Bao Blending surface generation using a fast and accurate analytical solution of a fourth-order PDE with three shape control parameters p. 199 Lihua You, Jian J. Zhang, Peter Comninos DOI: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00371-004-0241-7>10.1007/s00371-004-0241-7 From: Kluwer Subject: new book, Newton and Newtonianism Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:45:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 12 (12) Newton and Newtonianism New Studies edited by James E. Force Dept. of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA Sarah Hutton School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University, London, UK ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES D'HISTOIRE DES IDEES/ INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS -- 188 This volume contains eleven essays by eminent scholars which focus on Newton's theology, his study of alchemy, the early reception of Newtonianism, and the history of Newton scholarship. It includes unique accounts of the attempts over the last quarter of the twentieth century, to publish Sir Isaac Newton's theological manuscripts, including an essay by the eminent historian of philosophy, Richard H. Popkin, regarding his involvement in this enterprise, as well as essays by Rob Iliffe and Scott Mandelbrote, the founding Editorial Directors of the Newton Manuscript Project, recently set up to publish Newton's unpublished manuscripts for the first time. The volume also features the emerging interpretations of Newton's seminal theological thought, and its relationship to his scientific work, as well as other important essays which illuminate Newton's influence upon so many of the complex and seemingly paradoxical patterns of the Enlightenment. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS * Preface; J.E. Force, S. Hutton. Introduction; M.J. Osler. * 1. The New Newtonian Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution; M.J. Osler. * 2. Plans for Publishing Newton's Religious and Alchemical Manuscripts, 1982-1998; R.H. Popkin. * 3. Digitizing Newton: The Newton Project and an Electronic Edition of Newton's Papers; R. Iliffe. * 4. Was Newton a Voluntarist? P. Harrison. * 5. Providence and Newton's Pantokrator: Natural Law, Miracles and Newtonian Science; J.E. Force. * 6. Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton's Anti-Trinitarianism; S. Mandelbrote. * 7. Prosecuting Athanasius: Protestant Forensics and the Mirrors of Persecution; R. Iliffe. * 8. Lust, Pride and Ambition: Isaac Newton and the Devil; S.D. Snobelen. * 9. Women, Science and Newtonianism: Emilie Du Châtelet Versus Francesca Algarotti; S. Hutton. * 10. Reflections on Newton's Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy; L.M. Principe. * 11. The Trouble with Newton in the Eighteenth Century; L. Stewart. * Index. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1969-6 Date: July 2004 Pages: 272 pp. EUR 96.00 / USD 106.00 / GBP 67.00 From: Patrick Rourke Subject: New (?) Book on Academia and Publishing Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:05:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 13 (13) I don't remember hearing anything about this book, so apologies if my reference (from the Harvard Bookstore) is repetitive. ENEMIES OF PROMISE: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship by Lindsay Waters Prickly Paradigm Press, $10 paperback Waters, an influential and innovative editor at Harvard University Press, has sparked a heated debate by warning that the academic system in the United States, based on the "publish or perish" dictum, is breaking down. http://hbsnews.c.topica.com/maaceJ7aa6LIpbbEYozbafpLQA/ From: Subject: Cognition, Technology & Work - New Issue Alert Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:19:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 14 (14) Volume 6 Number 2 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the SpringerLink web site at <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=TQGVLL4TEBNQ>http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=8MQEM8240N2B692Q>Track<http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=8MQEM8240N2B692Q> maintenance train operators attitudes to job, organisation and management, and their correlation with accident/incident rate p. 63 Kenji Itoh, Henning Boje Andersen, Masaki Seki <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=A2WTYGMHFGDXW0TP>Human factors and folk models p. 79 Sidney Dekker, Erik Hollnagel <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=5V8P5H9C3H1NF4C5>Making control systems visible p. 87 Qiao Liu, Keiichi Nakata, Kazuo Furuta <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=A4376862UCP751Y3>From information processing to dialogical meaning making: an experiential approach to cognitive ergonomics p. 107 John McCarthy, Peter Wright, Michael Cooke <http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=1FV39E5LHPA5C58K>Searching efficient plans for emergency rescue through simulation: the case of a metro fire p. 117 Nikos Zarboutis, Nicolas Marmaras From: Carrie Olivia Adams Subject: Arts of Transmission Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:02:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 15 (15) Critical Inquiry and the Franke Institute for the Humanities invite you to attend: ARTS OF TRANSMISSION A Discussion Conference May 21-22, 2004 This event calls together experts from a range of disciplines--literature, sociology, anthropology, science studies, filmmaking, and more--to examine relationships among ideas and cultures of communication past and present. Today, authorship, reading, the concepts of information and communication themselves--the basic terms in which we think about creative work are changing beyond recognition. This conference will bring together new perspectives able to perceive common issues extending across otherwise deep historical, theoretical, and disciplinary rifts. The University of Chicago Swift Hall, 3rd Floor auditorium, 1025 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL Please register if you would like lunch: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu For more information, please call the Franke Institute for the Humanities at 773-702-8274 ---------------------- CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FRIDAY, MAY 21 9am - 12pm I. Forms and Media Elena Esposito, Sociology, University of Urbino "The Arts of Contingency" Gregory Nagy, Classics, Harvard University "Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs from Lesbos to Alexandria" Alan Liu, English, University of Santa Barbara "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse" 1:30pm - 3:00pm II. Writing and Memory Ann Blair, History, Harvard University "Note Taking as an Art of Transmission" John Guillory, English, New York University "The Memo and Modernity" 3:30pm - 5:00pm III. Universal Languages Roger Chartier Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris "Languages, Books, and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text" Lorraine Daston, Max Plank Institute, Berlin "Type Specimens and Scientific Memory" --------------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 22 8:45am - 10:15am Institutions and Impediments I Mary Poovey, English, New York University "The Limits of the University Knowledge Project: British India and the East Indiamen" Janice Radway, Literature, Duke University "Research Universities, Periodical Publication, and the Circulation of Professional Expertise: On the Significance of Middlebrow Authority" 10:30 - 12:00 Institutions and Impediments II Peter Galison, History of Science, Physics, Harvard University "Removing Knowledge" Friedrich Kittler, Media History and Aesthetics, Humboldt University, Berlin "Universities: Wet, Hard, Soft, Harder" 1:30pm - 4:30pm (Note change in location) Film Studies Center, Cobb 306, 5811 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL The Arts of Transmitting Transmission Arts David and Judith MacDougall, Filmmakers, Australian National University, Canberra Introduction to their film Photo Wallahs Film Screening and Discussion ------------------------------------------------ Panels at the conference will address papers to be published inCritical Inquiry (Autumn 2004). [material deleted] Conference Respondents include: Danielle Allen, Classics, Committee on Social Thought, Political Science, University of Chicago Bill Brown, English, University of Chicago James Chandler, English, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago Dipesh Chakrabarty, South Asian Languages & Civilizations, History, University of Chicago Frances Ferguson, English, Johns Hopkins University Tom Gunning, Cinema and Media Studies, Art History, University of Chicago Mark Hansen, English, Princeton University Adrian Johns, History, University of Chicago Sudipta Kaviraj, Political Studies, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. Mashall Sahlins, Anthropology, University of Chicago Joel Snyder, Art History, University of Chicago Candace Vogler, Philosophy, University of Chicago David Wellbery, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago The conference organizers are James Chandler, Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor of English and director of the Franke Institute, Arnold Davidson, professor of philosophy, and Adrian Johns, professor of history, all at the University of Chicago. From: "Paul F. Schaffner" Subject: early bks/etext job (Michigan) Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:21:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 16 (16) SUBJECT: early bks/etext job (Michigan) The University of Michigan Library's electronic-text group is looking for an editor/proofreader to work on the large etext projects that it is responsible for under the aegis of the 'Text Creation Partnership,' namely the full-text components of Early English Books Online, Evans Digital Edition, and (prospectively) Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. EEBO produces structurally tagged electronic transcriptions of pre-1700 English books; Evans (just beginning) of pre-1800 American books; and ECCO (still in our future) of 18th-century English books. EEBO alone, approaching 7000 texts completed so far on the way to 25,000, is probably the largest corpus of its kind ever attempted; the three projects taken together are something quite unprecedented. The new editor will join six others similarly employed--three at Michigan, three at Oxford. The job is a modestly-waged library staff position, not a faculty position, but it does offer a chance to read extensively in early books, to use and expand subject knowledge and technical skills, and a congenial working environment. The official posting and job description can be found at: http://websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/jobnet/job_posting.php?postingnumber=037707 The official salary range (class 07) is $27,600 to $65,100, but candor compells me to say that the actual salary is likely, as usual, to fall towards the lower end of that range. The job is posted as a term appointment (through July of 06), with the possibility of extension dependent chiefly on the availability of funding. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schaffner | pfs@umich.edu | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/ 316 Hatcher Library N, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.11 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:05:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 17 (17) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 11 (May 12 - May 18, 2004) INTERVIEW Why Open Source Works Author Steven Weber looks beyond the hype on Open Source. More than a self-governing utopia, it's a practical, sustainable way of organizing and innovating. Its methods may soon be applied successfully in other sectors. Plus, a "crazy" idea for Microsoft. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i11_weber.html From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:20:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 18 (18) Information The May 1, 2004 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 1,614 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 --Boundary_(ID_QnFTAUUInFE2kh/TQ4IPVg)-- From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 53, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:19:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 19 (19) Version 53 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,100 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 (biweekly 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 170 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 470 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: Willard McCarty Subject: problem solved? Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:12:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 20 (20) Dear colleagues, Again thanks to David Sitman I think the problem of postings rejected for no *good* reason has been solved. If one of yours has been, please be assured that although it was of my doing (I twiddled the bits, mea culpa), I didn't know what I was doing, so as is so often the case, bad action was clothed in good intentions. Please try again. 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: hla@CS.NOTT.AC.UK Subject: Hypertext '04: Short Paper and poster submissions due 28 May Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 07:14:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 21 (21) 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. Key dates 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 Sofia Stamou, University of Patras Vice Chair Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University 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, 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 This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: SCI-5: Five Select Science and Technology Sites Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 07:12:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 22 (22) SCI-5: Five Select Science and Technology Sites I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest SCI-5 column in _Science & Technology Libraries_ (Haworth) titled "Ecological and Environmental Data" (see below). In addition to the citation to this column, I have also provided the associated Web address for a self-archived post-print. In addition, I have also listed my previous SCI-5 columns published earlier this year and provided their respective self-archived locations. The purpose of the SCI-5 column is to profile science and technology sites with uncommon but useful content, as well as those with innovative features and functionalities. Members of the Science and Technology Communities are invited to nominate candidates which they believe will be of interest to our colleagues for the full SCI-5 treatment [:-)] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Select Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu NOTE: '**' denotes a URL change from the published Web address. ************************************************************************************* I. "SCI-5: Ecological and Environmental Data," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 23, no. 4 (2003) [2004]: 95-104. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/EcoData.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). 1) CEED: 'Caveat Emptor' Ecological Data Repository [ http://ceed.sdsc.edu/ ] [Temporarily Off-Line?] 2) Ecological Archives (Ecological Society of America) [ http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ ] 3) Ecological Information Network (EIN) [ http://ein.nbii.gov/ ] ** 4) Environmental Data Registry (U.S. EPA) [ http://www.epa.gov/edr/ ] 5) National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse [ http://clearinghouse1.fgdc.gov/ ] ** II. "SCI-5: OAI Service Providers," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 23, no. 1 (2002) [2004]: 87-98. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAISP.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). 1) Arc: A Cross Archive Search Service [ http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ] 2) Citebase [ http://citebase.eprints.org/ ] 3) my.OAI [ http://www.myoai.com/ ] 4) Open Archives Initiative Information in Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics (Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) [ http://g118.grainger.uiuc.edu/engroai/ ] 5) SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link) [ http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/ ] NOTE: A more comprehensive review of each of these services can be found in my eProfile "Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part I: Science and Technology," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20, no. 9 (November 2003): 30-38. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-SP-I.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). III. "SCI-5: Scholar-based Initiatives in Publishing," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 22, nos. 3/4 (2002) [2004]: 181-191. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SBI.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). 1) BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher [ http://www.biomedcentral.com/ ] 2) Dspace*: Durable Digital Depository [ http://dspace.org/ ] 3) Organic Eprints [ http://orgprints.org/ ] 4) The Public Library of Science [ http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ ] 5) SPARC-The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition [ http://www.arl.org/sparc/ ] NOTE: A more comprehensive review of each of these services can be found in the following eProfiles "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part II: Science and Technology,"_ Library Hi Tech News_ 21, no. 5 (June 2004). In press. TO BE SELF-ARCHIVED at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-II.pdf . "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part III: Organizational and National Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20, no. 5 (June 2003): 15-23. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-III.pdf (accessed 14 May 2004). "Scholar-based Innovations in Publishing. Part II: Library and Professional Initiatives," _Library Hi Tech News_ 20, no. 3 (April 2003): 19-27. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ScholarBased-II.pdf (accessed 26 April 2004). IV. "SCI-5: Free International Web-based Patent Sites," _Science & Technology Libraries_ 22, nos. 1/2 (2001) [2004]: 175-185. Self-archived at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/FIP.pdf (accessed 28 April 2004). 1) [China Patent Database] [ http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/default.htm ] [Temporarily Off-Line?] 2) DEPATISnet (Germany) [ http://www.depatisnet.de/ ] 3) Industrial Property Digital Library (Japan) [ http://www.ipdl.jpo.go.jp/homepg_e.ipdl ] 4) Intellectual Property Digital Library (WIPO) [ http://ipdl.wipo.int/ ] 5) SurfIP (Singapore) [ http://www.surfip.gov.sg/sip_home.htm ] ************************************************************************************ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:16:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 23 (23) (1) Volume 8 Number 2 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. (2) The Reception of Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth Century Europe edited by Carla Rita Palmerino University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands J.M.M.H. Thijssen Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 239 This book collects contributions by some of the leading scholars working on seventeenth-century mechanics and the mechanical philosophy. Together, the articles provide a broad and accurate picture of the fortune of Galileo's theory of motion in Europe and of the various physical, mathematical, and ontological arguments that were used in favour and against it. Were Galileo's contemporaries really aware of what Westfall has described as "the incompatibility between the demands of mathematical mechanics and the needs of mechanical philosophy"? To what extent did Galileo's silence concerning the cause of free fall impede the acceptance of his theory of motion? Which methods were used, before the invention if the infinitesimal calculus, to check the validity of Galileo's laws of free fall and of parabolic motion? And what sorts of experiments were invoked in favour or against these laws? These and related questions are addressed in this volume. Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2454-1 Date: June 2004 Pages: 280 pp. EUR 99.00 / USD 109.00 / GBP 69.00 [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: dws2004robot@aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: Third International Workshop on DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:18:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 24 (24) *********************************************************************** DWS 2004 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Third International Workshop on DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS (DWS 2004) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-7 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/dws2004/ *********************************************************************** The workshop is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, as a pre-conference workshop of TSD 2004 (Text, Speech and Dialogue - http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004). The workshop is supported by EURALEX (the European Association for Lexicography). A dictionary writing system (DWS) is a piece of software for writing and producing a dictionary. It might include an editor, a database, a web interface and various management tools (for allocating work etc.) It operates with a dictionary grammar, which specifies the structure of the dictionary. The workshop follows similar successful events in Brighton, UK in 2002 and 2003. It will include hands-on experience of a leading DWS, presentation of research papers and demos. The deadline for abstracts of proposed research presentations and demos is July, 31. INTENDED AUDIENCE: * dictionary project managers * lexical database users and developers * lexicographers * students of lexicography, lexicology, computational lingusitics [material deleted] From: John Unsworth Subject: ACLS meeting in Evanston Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:18:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 25 (25) ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences PUBLIC INFORMATION-GATHERING SESSION (all are welcome) http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm Allen Center Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois May 22, 2004 10 welcome and introductions 10:15-11:30 panel one Lorcan Dempsey, head of research, OCLC Jim Grossman, vice president for research and education, Newberry Library Myron Gutmann, director, ICPSR James Hilton, associate provost, University of Michigan 11:30-11:45: break 11:45-12:45 second panel Lorna Hughes, assistant director for Humanities Computing, New York University and president, Association for Computers and the Humanities Martin Mueller, professor of classics and English, Northwestern University (Chicago Homer Project) Bill Regier, director, University of Illinois Press 12:45-1: closing discussion 1-2 lunch: All welcome; sponsored by Northwestern University From: João Leite Subject: CFP: CLIMA V - 5th International Workshop on Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:20:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 26 (26) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems ========================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CLIMA V Fifth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems September 29 and 30, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaV/index.htm Submission Deadline: June 25th (abstracts due June 20th) Co-located with JELIA'04 =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Multi-agent systems are communities of problem-solving entities that can perceive and act upon their environments to achieve their individual goals as well as joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computing. For this reason, over recent years, the agent paradigm gained popularity in many sub-fields of computer science. A full spectrum of multi-agent systems applications have been and are being developed; from search engines to educational aids to electronic commerce and trade, e-procurement, recommendation systems, simulation and routing, to cite only some. Although commonly implemented by means of imperative languages, mainly for reasons of efficiency, the agent concept has recently increased its influence in the research and development of computational logic based systems. Computational logic provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for studying syntax, semantics and procedures, for attending implementations, environments, tools, and standards, and for linking together specification and verification of properties of computational systems. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. Following the workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming affiliated with ICLP'99, the first CLIMA workshop took place in London, UK, affiliated with CL'2000. The 2001 edition of CLIMA, took place in Paphos, Cyprus, affiliated with ICLP'01. CLIMA'02 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was affiliated with ICLP'02 and part of FLOC'02. The fourth edition of the workshop, CLIMA IV, took place in Fort Lauderdale, USA, and was co-located with LPNMR-7 and SAIM'04. We solicit unpublished papers that address formal approaches to multi-agent systems. the approaches as well as being formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. relevant techniques include, but are not limited to, the following: * logical foundations of multi-agent systems * knowledge and belief representation and updates in multi-agent systems * agent and multi-agent hypothetical reasoning and learning * extensions of logic programming for multi-agent systems * nonmonotonic reasoning in multi-agent systems * theory and practice of argumentation for agent reasoning and interaction * operational semantics and execution agent models * model checking algorithms, tools, and applications for multi-agent logics * semantics of interaction and agent communication languages * distributed constraint satisfaction in multi-agent systems * temporal reasoning for multi-agent systems * modal logic approaches to multi-agent systems * logic based programming languages for multi-agent systems * distributed theorem proving for multi-agent systems * logic based implementations of multi-agent systems * decision theory for multi-agent systems * specification and verification of formal properties of agent systems [material deleted] From: Jonathan Ginzburg Subject: Catalog'04: call for participation, for demos and for Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:19:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 27 (27) project notes Call for Participation Call for Demos and Project Descriptions Catalog '04 EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) Universitat Pompeu Fabra July 19-21 2004 <http://www.upf.edu/catalog04>http://www.upf.edu/catalog04 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Catalog 2004 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 following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation: *Robin Cooper (Göteborgs Universitet) *Massimo Poesio (University of Essex) *Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University) *Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester) For the program, see the Catalog '04 website. [material deleted] From: Lily Diaz Subject: Exploring CARTA MARINA Cultural Heritage Forum Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 07:15:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 28 (28) Exploring CARTA MARINA Cultural Heritage Forum Exploring CARTA MARINA is a cultural heritage forum about Nordic heritage built around narratives represented in the CARTA MARINA, 1539. A Cultural Heritage Forum is a website (in some cases strongly linked to an actual place) concerned with some aspects of our shared cultural heritage which allows all those interested in its contents to explore, learn, interact with and add information to the site. The project is developed in the context of CIPHER, a project funded by the European Union Information Society Technologies (IST), Fifth Framework program, and has partners in Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, and the UK. Exploring CARTA MARINA contains software tools, and digital cultural heritage objects such as Digital CARTA MARINA, the first online interactive version of the Carta Marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus. 1. Visualization Tool: The project has developed its own visualization tool that allows for display and interaction with a digital facsimile of a cultural heritage object such as Carta Marina. 2. Resource Organization and Navigation Tools: The project has developed tools that allow users to process their data in such a manner to promote exploration and knowledge discovery. They can use the Automatic Description Engine (ADE) tool to process large amounts of textual data such as is found in manuscripts or in encyclopedic works into similarity clusters. Clusters themselves can reveal relationships in the data. Using the Soft Ontology Layer (SOL) they can describe or create collections of artifacts that can then be visualized using self-organizing maps technology. 3. Interpretive Materials and Content Materials: The project has sponsored development of interpretive materials that can now be used for education, or to stimulate others to create other interpretive materials. 4. Community Activities: The project has designed activities that make use of the on-line resources to create new context for use of cultural heritage in our present, every-day life, with all its advantages and problems. For example, in the autumn of 2003, a group of 11 year old children studied the monsters in Carta Marina and made use of the software tools in the Forum to create an ontology of their own version of contemporary monsters. Exploring CARTA MARINA: http://cipher.uiah.fi -- ------------------------------------------- Dr. Lily Díaz-Kommonen Acting Professor, Systems of Representation & Digital Cultural Heritage Media Lab University of Art and Design Helsinki/UIAH 135C Hämeentie SF 00560 FINLAND + 358 9 75630 338 + 358 9 75630 555 FAX + 358 40 7256925 GSM <http://sysrep.uiah.fi> <http://cipher.uiah.fi> <http://mlab.uiah.fi/mulli/e_index.html> --_-1127509072ma-- From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 5/04 (http://www.dlib.org/) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:17:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 29 (29) Greetings: The May 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This is a special issue of D-Lib Magazine about georeferencing and geospatial data, and the guest editor is Linda L. Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara. The issue contains six articles, a guest editorial, several smaller features in the '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 2004 is ECAI Iraq. The articles include: The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Review, Assessment, and Prospects Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries Greg Janee, James Frew, and Linda L. Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara Georeferencing in Historical Collections Gregory Crane, Tufts University Combining Place, Time, and Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Michael Buckland and Lewis Lancaster, University of California, Berkeley Spatial Data Infrastructures and Digital Libraries: Paths to Convergence James S. Reid, Chris Higgins, David Medyckyj-Scott, and Andrew Robson, University of Edinburgh Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections: In a Distributed Digital Library Environment Reed Beaman, Yale University; John Wieczorek, University of California, Berkeley; and Stan Blum, California Academy of Sciences From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.12 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:22:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 30 (30) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 12 (May 19 - May 25, 2004) INTERVIEW Casting a Wider Net Internet governance and policy expert George Sadowsky on using information and communication technologies to encourage economic development. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i12_sadowsky.html [material deleted] From: Bethany Nowviskie Subject: NINES website Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:15:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 31 (31) The NINES steering committee is pleased to announce a new informational website: http://www.nines.org/ NINES is a group of distinguished scholars and humanities computing experts engaged in building a "networked interface for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship." This interface is to be an online research and publishing environment for integrated, peer-reviewed editorial and critical work in nineteenth-century studies, both British and American. NINES aims to address the crisis in humanities publishing and to move the rethinking of literary and cultural studies -- in method as well as theory -- by establishing an institutionalized mechanism for new kinds of digital-based analytic and interpretive practices. The website (at http://www.nines.org/ ) lists scholars serving on our Romantic, Victorian, and Americanist editorial boards, describes exciting analytical and pedagogical tools under construction, and offers a reading list and full description of the NINES project. The site also contains information about our planned summer workshops in electronic editing (for which successful applicants will receive fellowship funding) and presents guidelines for potential NINES contributors. We invite conversation and participation, and hope you will join us in our grassroots effort to shape humanities publication and computer-assisted scholarship. On behalf of the NINES steering committee, Bethany Nowviskie Design Editor, Rossetti Archive Post-Doctoral Researcher, ARP/SpecLab http://www.speculativecomputing.org/~bpn2f From: Willard McCarty Subject: CS and humanities computing? Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:17:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 32 (32) I am making a list of the events and publications devoted to the relationship between humanities computing (or the humanities generally) and computer science -- specifically about actual or possible relationships between the disciplinary fields, including speculations about or definitions of a "humanities computer science" (or equivalent terms in other languages). Pointers to any you might know of would be very gratefully received. Many thanks. 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: "Bonnett, John" Subject: RE: 18.023 humanities computing and computer science? Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:03:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 33 (33) Journal of the Association for History and Computing http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCindex.HTM History and Computing http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/newweb/journals/Computing/ Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Ed. Orville Vernon Burton http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f01/burton.html and http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/burton/ David Staley. Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Techonology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=O9t1eVZiI M&isbn=0765610949&itm=1 Eds. Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman. History.Edu: Essays on Teaching with Technology. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=O9t1eVZiI M&isbn=0765605503&itm=1 Website -- Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities. http://carnegie.rice.edu/index.cfm From: "Bonnett, John" Subject: RE: 18.023 humanities computing and computer science? Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:04:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 34 (34) And of course, there is always the journal _Leonardo_. http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/index.html JB From: "Gino Roncaglia" Subject: humanities computing and computer science? Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:05:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 35 (35) Dear Willard, the paper 'Informatica umanistica: le ragioni di una disciplina', that I wrote in 2002 for the Italian journal 'Intersezioni', deals (albeit briefly) with the topic you mention. It is available on the web (http://www.merzweb.com/testi/saggi/informatica_umanistica.htm). All best gino roncaglia ************************************ Gino Roncaglia Universita' della Tuscia Istituto di Scienze umane <http://www.merzweb.com/> <http://www.merzlog.com/> <http://www.unitus.it/> <http://www.laterza.it/internet> ************************************* From: Willard McCarty Subject: Shakespeare Computational Stylistics Facility Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:05:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 36 (36) [deleted quotation] See http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/cllc/pcaonline/. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: CS and humanities computing? Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:17:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 37 (37) I am making a list of the events and publications devoted to the relationship between humanities computing (or the humanities generally) and computer science -- specifically about actual or possible relationships between the disciplinary fields, including speculations about or definitions of a "humanities computer science" (or equivalent terms in other languages). Pointers to any you might know of would be very gratefully received. Many thanks. 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: "Int. Center for Computational Logic" Subject: International Masters Program in COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 07:43:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 38 (38) International Masters Program in COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC The International Center for Computational Logic at the Technische Universitaet Dresden is offering a two-year study program, in English, leading to a master of science (M.Sc.) in computer science. This is a joint program with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Technische Universitaet Wien. Courses focus on logic and constraint programming, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, type theory, model theory, proof theory, equational reasoning, databases, natural language processing, planning and formal methods, among others. The tuition fees are waived. At the end of the programme a research master thesis has to be prepared. Prerequisites are a good knowledge of the basics of logic, and familiarity with mathematical reasoning. Knowledge of foundations of artificial intelligence and logic programming is desirable. It is indispensable being fluent in English; German is not necessary at all, but there are facilities for studying it if desired. A bachelor in Computer Science, or equivalent degree, is required by the beginning of courses, in October 2004. Dresden, on the river Elbe, is one of the most important art cities of Germany. The economy is growing rapidly and Dresden is a top high-tech centre. AMD built the most modern chip factory in Europe, Infineon Technologies, Siemens and many other companies invest here. The possibilities of getting a job after the master are excellent. The University is very well equipped and the teachers/students ratio is close to 1. International contacts make it easy for interested students to continue pursuing a career in research. Deadline for applications is June 15, 2004, but applications are processed as they come. To apply, please send all the relevant documents by post to the address below. Further information is on the web at <http://www.cl.inf.tu-dresden.de/compulog/>. Paper information material is available on request. Please give this message broad distribution. Sylvia Epp, secretary International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universitaet Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany Tel: [49] (351) 463-38341 Fax: [49] (351) 463-38342 email: cl-secretary@Inf.TU-Dresden.DE From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities and computer science Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:59:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 39 (39) Marjory Blumenthal (Associate Provost, Academic, Georgetown) has kindly alerted me to the following publication relevant to my search for material on the relation between computer science and the humanities: William Mitchell, Alan Inouye and Marjory Blumenthal, eds., Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity (described and provided online at www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_creativity.html). Chapter 4, "The Influence of Art and Design on Computer Science Research and Development", and a section of Chapter 6. "Schools, Colleges, and Universities", would appear to be particularly relevant. 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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.026 new on WWW: Shakespeare Computational Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 07:43:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 40 (40) Stylistics Facility What fun ! Thanks !! [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.13 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:58:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 41 (41) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 13 (May 26 - June 1, 2004) INTERVIEW Mainframes Redux Type80 Security Software, Inc. Managing Director Jerry Harding reflects on three decades of involvement with mainframe computers. Interviewed by M. E. Kabay http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i13_harding.html From: Paul Dekker Subject: ESSLLI 05, Edinburgh, 2-nd Call for Proposals Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:58:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 42 (42) 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. [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-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: "Matthew L. Jockers" Subject: Position at Stanford Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:18:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 43 (43) Academic Technology Specialist, Political Science (#004707). Range: 4P3. Posted: 01/23/2004. Description Overview: The primary goals of Stanford University - teaching, learning and research - are centered on the accumulation and distribution of information among faculty, staff and students. Because of tremendous technological advances in information science during the past few years, it is essential that Stanford University faculty make the best use of information resources, local and world-wide, in their classroom instruction and individual research. The Political Science Department is one of several schools and departments selected to participate in a project that will provide Academic Technology Specialists (ATS) to assist faculty in the development and implementation of research and teaching projects that require a combination of computer programming, data management, and statistical analysis. The ATS will be located in the Department of Political Science, and will report directly to both the Chair of the department and the Academic Technology Manager within Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR). The ATS is expected to work primarily with the faculty in the Department of Political Science and project scheduling and priorities will be established in consultation with the faculty. In addition to working with faculty in the Political Science Department, the ATS will devote up to eight hours per week in service to the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources. There the ATS will assist the broader academic community, via consulting and training, in using technology relevant to education and the social sciences. The ATS must have extensive programming and project development experience, data management skills, and knowledge of statistical applications and data analysis. He/she should be resourceful and creative in using current technologies, and demonstrate excellent organizational, instructional, and communication skills. The ATS will have a proven record of developing technology solutions and teaching others how to employ these solutions. The ATS will actively encourage and support the use of educational and research technology. He/she must have a willingness and interest in working with faculty at different levels of technical experience and expertise. Specific responsibilities include: Perform data management functions for faculty teaching and research projects. Tasks may include design , construction, manipulation, and maintenance of databases (mySQL, Oracle, Sybase, or Access), input of data, construction of data integrity checks, matching and merging of datasets, import and exporting of data in different formats, preparation of documentation, and ongoing maintenance and support. Programming of data manipulation and statistical procedures for teaching and research projects using a variety of programming languages (C/C++, Java, Perl, Python) and statistical packages. Support for software used in research and teaching, such as statistical applications (R/S+, Stata, SAS, SPSS, and specialized statistical tools), presentations (TeX/LaTeX, Powerpoint), and Web site development. Advise the department on technical matters and provide leadership in technology. Initiating ideas, implementing solutions, and finding resources. Staying abreast of technological advances; testing and integrating those that foster learning and effective communication. Provide customized technical and pedagogical solutions to integrate resources into the curricula of individual faculty. Assist faculty in writing the technology components of grant proposals. Collaborate and consult with the Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) of Green Library in order to facilitate optimal faculty and student use of their resources and services, including the Social Science Data Service and Statistical Software Support. Serving as a direct resource for, and facilitator in, gaining support and assistance with campus infrastructure applications. Consulting and collaborating with experts elsewhere in the University on statistical and data analysis applications, making effective use of established solutions and investigating new ones. Participate as a team member in Faculty Support Services in Meyer Library, providing consulting to faculty and colleagues when technical depth in subject area is needed. Qualifications: Specific requirements include: A baccalaureate degree plus at least five years experience in academic computing and technology project management or the equivalent combination of education and experience. An advanced degree is desirable. Expert knowledge of Windows, Macintosh and unix/linux environments. Experience with providing computing resources in a networked environment Prefer awareness of technological environment at Stanford. Extensive experience programming in C, C++, Java, or Fortran, and with a variety of scripting languages including Perl, Python, and (t)csh. Familiarity with developing simulations desirable. Extensive experience with design, construction, manipulation and maintenance of relational databases such as mySQL, Oracle, Sybase and Access. Experience developing data-driven Web sites. Expert knowledge of statistical applications, such as Stata, S-Plus, R, and SPSS. Demonstrated experience applying statistical applications and software for data analysis. Excellent time management and project management skills. Demonstrated experience managing projects and a complex workload, prioritizing tasks, and using good judgment in defining goals and objectives based on general strategic directions. A proven record of success in leading and implementing technology projects. Demonstrated initiative in developing short and long-term plans, and translating programmatic issues into projects. Familiarity with online resources in the social sciences, including Social Sciences Citation Index, etc. desirable. Excellent teaching, communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact effectively and tactfully in oral and written communications with members of the academic community; experience working in an environment where colleagues have diverse backgrounds and customs. SUL/AIR Acomp See http://jobs/openings/display.cgi?Job_Req=004707&JFam=NIL&JOBCODE=5018 From: Paul Dyck Faculty Subject: The Book: A Technology of the Spirit Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:18:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 44 (44) During the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, you are invited to the following exhibit on the University of Manitoba campus: The Book: A Technology of the Spirit an exhibition of Medieval and Renaissance Bibles, Prayer Books, Choir Books, and Histories from the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, St. John's College, and Canadian Mennonite University/Canadian Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives May 29 - June 27, 2004 Hours: May 29-June 6, noon - 4, Thursday June 3, noon - 8 June 10-27, Thursdays noon - 8, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays noon - 4 Opening reception Friday 28 May, 7-9 pm with Vespers sung in the Saint John's College Chapel, 5:00 PM May 31 and June 4 Gallery One One One Main Floor, FitzGerald Building School of Art, University of Manitoba Fort Garry Campus, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 Information: Robert Epp 204 474-9322 FAX: 204 474-7605 <http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/content/galleryoneoneone/Book/index.htm> Curated by Dr. Paul Dyck (Assistant Professor of English, Canadian Mennonite University) and Dr. Dietrich Bartel (Associate Professor of Music, Canadian Mennonite University) Paul Dyck From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Joseph Tabbi June 3 *The As Yet Unwritten Page: Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:17:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 45 (45) Approaching Literary Sites and Systems* [Forward this announcement] Joseph Tabbi will lead the West Virginia University Department of English Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies, from June 3-6. He will give a public lecture on "The As Yet Unwritten Page: Approaching Literary Sites and Systems" at 730p, Thursday, June 3, in the Rhododendron Room, WVU Mountainlair. A reception will follow. Information about the Summer Seminar is at <http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/summer_seminar/> Joseph Tabbi is the author of two major studies on the impact of technological and cognitive theories on contemporary American fiction: _The Postmodern Sublime_ and _Cognitive Fictions_. He is the editor of the late William Gaddis' final works: _Agape, Agape_ and _The Rush to Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings_. Tabbi also co-edited with Michael Wutz _Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology_ and is editor of The Electronic Book Review <http://www.electronicbookreview.com>. He is professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Please direct questions to Bonnie Anderson or Sandy Baldwin . From: Andrew Hawke Subject: 'Milestones' Conference - CFP Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:56:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 46 (46) 'MILESTONES' UNIVERSITY OF WALES CENTRE FOR ADVANCED WELSH AND CELTIC STUDIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested parties] http://www.aber.ac.uk/canolfangeltaidd/s/CerrigMilltir2005.html CONFERENCE THEME To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, the Centre is hosting a major international conference on the topic 'Milestones', a theme which offers an opportunity for scholars to discuss significant junctures in the development of the archaeology, histories, languages, literatures and national identity of Wales and the other Celtic countries in any period. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Vera Bowen, Catherine Charnell-White, Mary-Ann Constantine, Marian Hughes, Geraint Jenkins, John Koch, Barry Lewis, Ann Parry Owen. PLENARY SPEAKERS Jane Aaron, Barry Cunliffe, Sioned Davies, R. J. W. Evans, Dafydd Johnston, Richard Wyn Jones, Catherine McKenna, Prys Morgan, Pádraig Ó Riain, Murray Pittock, Chris Williams. SUBMISSIONS Delegates are warmly invited to submit 250-word abstracts of papers to Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH or by e-mail to gcj@aber.ac.uk. Deadline for abstracts: 16 December 2004. Both English-language and Welsh-language sectional sessions will be held, and a translation service will be provided for plenary lectures in Welsh. REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION Information regarding registration and accommodation will be mailed to delegates and anyone wishing to attend. Please contact Ms Vera Bowen, Conference Organiser, at the Centre, tel: 44 [0]1970 626717, fax: 44[0]1970 627066, e-mail: v.bowen@wales.ac.uk, and full details will be provided later on the Centre's website: www.wales.ac.uk/CAWCS. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr Ann Parry Owen University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, Wales, UK tel.: +44 (0)1970 626717 fax: +44 (0)1970 627066 e-mail: ayp@aber.ac.uk, web: www.wales.ac.uk/CAWCS From: Willard McCarty Subject: haitus Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:38:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 47 (47) Dear colleagues, Humanist will be in the capable hands of our Assistant Editor from 19 June to 5 July, then fall silent from ca 5-15 July. I'll be in mostly remote parts (where the big towns boast of how long they've had e-mail), then busy with a conference), and David Gants will be travelling as well during the latter period. It seems better to me for us all to put up with a bit of silence rather than to rejig Humanist so that postings are automatically distributed, given what automated evil is virtually afoot these days. Postings sent to the usual places will be kept, but as usual, the level of spam at my end is so great that you need to keep a sharp eye on the fate of anything you send. (I get an average of 244 messages/day, of which 90% are classified as spam.) I do not ignore e-mail from members of Humanist or deep-six it, ever. 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: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 18.029 humanities and computer science Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:39:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 48 (48) Re: Willard McCarty's question about Comp. Sci. and the humanities Do not forget special effects. Making magic via games and the movies is definitely every comp. sci. student's dream job. Although as a quest for meaning I am personally finding such things less and less fulfilling. Just as a stray thought, from someone firmly straddling both camps (witness my "fiction author" and "irregular faculty" personas below) -- "what's the desirable". That is, what's the artistic equivalent of the "deliverable". End products may be the by products. ----------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, M.Sc. Computation, M.L.S. info sci http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org (fiction) http://ctl.unbc.ca (University of Northern B.C.) From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- May 2004 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:58:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 49 (49) CIT INFOBITS May 2004 No. 71 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. ...................................................................... Multimedia Matrix for Distance Learning Distance Education and Development Current IT Issues in Higher Ed Papers on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World Information Design Blog The More Things Change, the More They . . . New Journal and a Call for Manuscripts 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: dws2004robot@aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Dictionary Writing Systems Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:33:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 50 (50) *********************************************************************** DWS 2004 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Third International Workshop on DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS (DWS 2004) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-7 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/dws2004/ *********************************************************************** The workshop is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, as a pre-conference workshop of TSD 2004 (Text, Speech and Dialogue - http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004). The workshop is supported by EURALEX (the European Association for Lexicography). A dictionary writing system (DWS) is a piece of software for writing and producing a dictionary. It might include an editor, a database, a web interface and various management tools (for allocating work etc.) It operates with a dictionary grammar, which specifies the structure of the dictionary. The workshop follows similar successful events in Brighton, UK in 2002 and 2003. It will include hands-on experience of a leading DWS, presentation of research papers and demos. The deadline for abstracts of proposed research presentations and demos is July, 31. INTENDED AUDIENCE: * dictionary project managers * lexical database users and developers * lexicographers * students of lexicography, lexicology, computational lingusitics [material deleted} From: "JELIA'04" Subject: JELIA'04 - Last Call for System Descriptions - 9th Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:34:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 51 (51) European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence LAST CALL FOR SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS 9th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence JELIA'04 System Presentations Session Lisbon, Portugal, September 27-30 http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jelia2004 Submission deadline: June 6th /------------------------------------------------------------------/ INTRODUCTION The use of logics in AI will be further advanced if implemented logical based systems receive appropriate exposure, implementation and testing methodologies are discussed by the community, and if the performance and scope of applicability of these systems are presented and compared. This way, theoretical research in the use of logics in AI will receive important feedback about its relevance and practicality, system implementers will learn about competing solutions and their performance, and AI experts working on practical applications will get software tools they need. To further promote this research, the JELIA'04 technical programme will include a special session devoted to presentations and demonstrations of implementations for solving or addressing problems of importance to all areas in the scope of JELIA. Submissions to this special session should provide a description of such a system and information on the class of problems (or application area) it is designed for, theoretical background, major features, implementation techniques, and testing methodology and experimental evaluation. PROCEEDINGS Accepted system descriptions will be published in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. All systems whose descriptions will be accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, will be demonstrated at the special session at the conference. The authors should indicate as part of their submission if any special computing support will be necessary. SUBMISSION System descriptions must be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS style, and must not exceed four (4) pages including title page, references and figures. System descriptions submission is electronic, via the conference home page . IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: June 6th,2004 Notification: June 25th, 2004 Camera Ready Copy: July 5th, 2004 CONTACT Send your questions and comments to jelia04@di.fct.unl.pt From: "MUSICNETWORK" Subject: CFP: 4th Open Workshop MUSICNETWORK, Barcelona, September Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:40:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 52 (52) 2004 This is a special communication dedicated to the next Open Workshop of the MUSICNETWORK it is also an activity of the AHG of MPEG on Symbolic Music Representation Sorry for multiple reception of this message. THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO THE 15 OF JUNE Paolo Nesi MusicNetwork -L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L--L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L- Call for Proposal, Papers, Expositions 4th Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK: Integration of Music in Multimedia Applications http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/events/Fourth_OpenWorkshop_2004/MUSICNETWORK-4th-Open-Workshop-plan-v1-2.html http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/ LOCATED AT: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 15th-16th September 2004 http://dmag.upf.es/wedelmusic2004/Documents/Location.html Co-located with WEDELMUSIC 2004 Conference: http://www.upf.edu/wedelmusic2004/ You are invited to participate at the Workshop and to contribute to the sessions. With the support of the European Commission, the MUSICNETWORK project has been created to explore the applications and integration of interactive multimedia technologies for Music, enabling inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborations and networking, bridging many important sectors, including cultural, commercial, industrial, research and academic. End users are discovering the multimedia experience, and thus, traditional music models are going to be overcome and replaced by their integration with multimedia, audiovisual and cross media. Thus the aim is to put together industry actors and innovative technology providers to help the music industry to overcome the present problems with the innovation. The theme of the 4th Open Workshop is the Integration of Music in Multimedia applications. Currently many new music-related applications are strongly impacting and attracting the market. Most of them will become more and more widespread in a short time due to users' demand. Among most addressed sectors the one presenting more notable form of integration between music and multimedia there are: -- music education (notation tools integrating multimedia, educational paradigms, tools, distance learning, mobile learning, etc.); -- music management in libraries (modeling, navigation, metadata, content description, etc., MPEG-7), -- entertainment (animation, synchronisation, etc., SMIL ); -- music and multimedia music distribution and protection (watermarking, fingerprint, MPEG-21); -- valorization of cultural heritage (modeling, restring, etc.); -- electronic consumer applications: piano keyboards with symbolic music representation and audiovisual capabilities, electronic lecterns, i-TV; -- mobile applications for education and entertainment (cellular phones, PDA, tablet PC, etc.). In the current Internet and Multimedia age other applications are strongly attracting market attention and most of them will become soon widespread in short time. The integration of symbolic music representation in MPEG could completely satisfy users' requirements for properly handling such issue into tools, allowing to integrate into a single model the powerful one of MPEG for multimedia, representation, coding and playback. The integration of symbolic music representation with MPEG or other multimedia standards will open the way for a large number of new applications and markets related to the above applications. This initiative may increase the current market for symbolic music representation, which is mainly dedicated to sheet music production. It may also open the path to creating very interesting new applications, and to increase the power and flexibility of those applications that already use both multimedia and symbolic music representation. MPEG has relevant standards in this area such as MPEG-4 for the audio visual objects, MPEG-7 for the description of audio visual content for archives, and MPEG-21 for the Digital Rights Management and distribution of digital audiovisual. At present, there is a lack of an integrated Music Notation/Representation standard with multimedia. The aim of this workshop is to make a further step towards a proper standardizing of a Music Notation/Representation Model. The MUSICNETWORK has worked very hard to create the conditions for a Call for Proposals/Technologies within MPEG with the aim of exploiting the MPEG framework for integrating Music Notation/Representation in several innovative applications. As a results an MPEG Ad Hoc Group on Symbolic Music Representation has been created, a large set of requirements and innovative applications have been identified and a call for technology can be launched. All this material can be recovered from: - http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/ - http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/W6457%20%28Draft%20CfP%20Symbolic%20Music%20Representation%29.doc To this end, the next Open Workshop of the MUSICNETWORK will be mainly focused on the integration of MUSIC and MULTIMEDIA in an effective CROSS MEDIA. Several different formats and media may share the same information and grant navigation, synchronization and stable relationships establishment. The 4th Open Workshop will be organized around the following sections. For each section we are open to receive proposals and contributions: ***Applications and Technical papers*** chairs: Jerome Barthelemy (IRCAM, Jerome.Barthelemy@ircam.fr), David Crombie (FNB, dcrombie@fnb.nl), David Fuschi (ILABS, d.fuschi@giuntilabs.it), Giuseppe Nicotra (ARCA, nicotra@dodiesis.com). The topic of interests for the Application session is wide ranging. For this section, we are going to accept papers and proposals from Experts and from Industries coming from different areas of music for finals user applications and/or innovative technologies. Proposals may be Industrial presentations of music applications or experts papers. The session will be focused on current applications, case-studies, applications scenarios, latest development, as well as future directions, innovative technologies. It includes, but not limited to the following areas: o Education, cooperative work, distance learning, mobile learning, etc. o Entertainment, consumer electronics, music and games, animation, synchronization, etc. o cultural heritage, exploitation of cultural assets, archives, museums, restoration, etc. o music distribution and protection, fingerprint, monitoring, business models, mobiles, etc. o music exploitation, economical impacts of content fruition on new media, etc. o accessibility and culture, technology for supporting accessibility, etc. o music modeling and representation, etc. These interdisciplinary domains share one common point the applications of science and technologies in Music or the applications of Music in interactive multimedia domains ***MPEG SMR, Symbolic Music Representation, Call for Technology*** Chairs: Paolo Nesi (DSI, nesi@dsi.unifi.it), Giorgio Zoia (EPFL, Giorgio.Zoia@epfl.ch). The idea of this section is to provide support to industries and groups that intent to respond at the Call for Technology of MPEG regarding the SMR http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/. The work activities in this section will be mainly devoted in making clear what MPEG forum expects in response to the CALL and what the MPEG could provide in terms of benefits and return of investment to these companies. The registration to this event is strongly suggested, and should be accompanied by a simple document including a list of possible questions or point that you are interested to see discussed during this section. The major points will be: o Presentation of the MPEG SMR Call for Technology, aims and goals o Presentations of the proponents o Open discussion to support proposers You are invited to participate at the Workshop and to contribute to the above sessions. Free registration, please do via the WWW site of the MUSICNETWORK. The registration is not mandatory but is strongly suggested, we need to set up suitable logistic support for the right number of participants. http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/ Submission of your proposal by 15th of June 2004 o To be sent at the corresponding chairs (see email addresses above), in MS-WORD or PDF formats o To be also sent at musicnetwork@dsi.unifi.it o To be submitted according to the above description with the number of pages suggested below. o To be submitted with the dates reported below Please note that all the submissions will be published on the WWW site of the MUSICNETWORK. If you don't agree on this kind of publication please inform the MUSICNETWORK in the accompanying letter to the submission. Different types of contributions are welcome: - Tutorials/Surveys (4 to 8 page of proposal) - Application and Technical Papers (2 to 10 pages) - Exposition and Demonstrations (1 page summary) - MPEG SMR Symbolic Music Representation: (a list of topics to be discussed) Important deadlines - Deadline for submission: 15 June 2004 - Paper selection results: 25 June 2004 - Full paper submission: 28 July 2004 - Workshop: 15 September 2004 As usual, the MUSICNETWORK will economically support a number of speakers according to the quality of their proposal, to the relevance of the topic proposed, etc. The selection will be operated on the basis of the proposal. In addition, the MUSICNETWORK is going to invite a given number of experts, asking them to attend the meeting to give their contribution in the above mentioned topics. The latter are a sort of keynote speakers on the Conference topics and are not in competition with the former. From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities and computer science Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:10:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 53 (53) Following Lynda Williams' suggestion in Humanist 18.029 of paying attention to "desirables" rather than "deliverables", I would like to suggest that we henceforth speak of our ideal person as the active "end-maker" rather than the passive, consumerist "end-user". 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.14 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:41:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 54 (54) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 14 (June 2 - June 8, 2004) INTERVIEW Do You Really Need That Next Upgrade? Nicholas G. Carr talks about capitalizing on the commoditization trend by spending less on technology but getting better, more reliable systems. His suggestion that CEOs step away from the cutting edge has defenders and detractors in the IT community. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i14_carr.html From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: how to get the address of J. K. Rowling? Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:03:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 55 (55) Dear HumanistList colleagues, I wonder if you could advise us? We wrote an article on the material of the book by Joan K. Rowling "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". Actually, we wrote out all the sentences with various functions of the Gerund, Participle 1 and Verbal Noun from the text. We defined 6 functions of the Gerund: 1) gerund as subject; 2) gerund as part of the predicate; 3) gerund as an attribute in preposition to noun; 4) gerund as an attribute in postposition to noun; 5) gerund as an adverb; 6) gerund as an object. Some 5 functions were defined for the Participle 1: 1) participle 1 as part of the complex object; 2) participle 1 as the part of predicate; 3) participle 1 as an attribute in preposition to noun; 4) participle 1 as an attribute in postposition to noun; 5) participle 1 as an adverb. Then, we counted the usage of the Gerund, Participle 1 and Verbal Noun in the text sample of ten thousand words. The number of occurrences of the chosen features of the text of Joan K. Rowling was compared to the number of the analogical functions of the Gerund, Participle 1 and Verbal noun of the texts of 16 British and American writers. We used the standard "chi-criterion" test to check the similarity in the frequencies of these functions. In this way the similarity between Joan K. Rowling and the 16 authers was found out. I wonder if Joan K. Rowling may be interested to know what British or American writer is most similar to her style from this point of view? Unforfunately, I do not know how to send our results to her. May be, a sort of an open letter would be all right if published in some British or American newspaper? I don't know the way out. This is why, I'm looking forward to your advice to yutamb@hotmail.com Be well, remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Pedagogical university, Novosibirsk, Russia yutamb@hotmail.com From: "B. Tommie Usdin" Subject: Extreme 2004 Program Now Available Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:01:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 56 (56) --------------------------------------------------------- *********** Extreme Program Now Available ************* *********** Extreme Markup Languages 2004 ************ --------------------------------------------------------- The program for Extreme Markup Languages 2004, is now available at: http://www.extrememarkup.com EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES: Extreme is a technical conference devoted to markup, markup languages, markup systems, markup applications, and software for manipulating and exploiting markup. Papers at Extreme this year discuss: Topic Maps; Overlap; Querying XML; RDF; XSLT; quality assurance, error correction, and error prevention in XML documents; Ontologies; XML software; and case studies from government, industry, and academia. Pre-conference tutorials are described at: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2004/tutorials.asp Registration Form: https://nt6.bnt.com/gca/extreme/2004/regform.asp Hotel Information: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2004/hotel.asp (Note: the Europa sells out every summer, and they will not hold the IDEAlliance/Extreme Markup 2004 block later than June 30th. Please make your hotel reservations promptly.) -- ====================================================================== 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: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: FOIS-2004: Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:02:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 57 (57) Semantics for Ontologies === Apologies For Multiple Copies -- Please Distribute === CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies Torino, Italy, November 3rd, 2004 <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html Held in conjunction with FOIS 2004, the International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems Featured Speakers * Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, <http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Peter.Gardenfors/>http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Peter.Gardenfors/ * Joseph Goguen, University of California at San Diego, Computer Science and Engineering, <http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/goguen/>http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/goguen/ Workshop Theme What do ontologies, as used in the semantic web and elsewhere, have to do with meaning? In particular, where do their predicates get their meanings? Semantics, no matter what formalisms are applied to it, is ultimately a cognitive phenomenon: it refers to the meaning that symbols have for human beings. It is determined by individual and cultural factors, involving a human mind aware of the conventions of a language community. Yet, the mental interpretation processes are not accessible and the conventions of information communities are rarely meaningful to agents in other communities. Ontology engineers therefore face the problem of capturing enough of the cognitive as well as the social contexts of information. However, information system ontologies typically consist of networks or hierarchies of concepts to which symbols can refer. Their axiomatizations are either self-referential or point to more abstract, rather than more meaningful symbols. So, how do the ontologies become meaningful? Cognitive semantics, in its various flavors, is asking similar questions for natural languages and symbol systems in general. It studies, among other issues, what the embodied nature of language can tell us about how we construct meanings, or what its socially situated nature says about the constraints on language use. Cognitive scientists have developed innovative and powerful notions that are potentially useful for ontologies. Among them are: * image schemas * prototypes and radial categories * basic level concepts * primes and universals * language games * metaphors and metonymies * idealized cognitive models * mental spaces and conceptual blendings * conceptual spaces * frame semantics * affordances * conceptual similarity measures. So far, there is only sparse work on information system ontologies that takes any of these notions seriously, and even less that formalizes and applies them fruitfully. This workshop will take stock of such approaches and establish a research agenda for ontology design inspired and informed by cognitive semantics. It will bring together researchers in information system or natural language semantics w ith a formal or cognitive background or both. Position Papers Anybody with an interest in the questions raised above is invited to submit a position paper. Participation at the workshop is open to all position paper authors who also register for the FOIS conference. Extended abstracts of 800 - 1500 words should be sent by Email to kuhn@uni-muenster.de on or before August 31, 2004. They will be made available on the workshop web site, unless their authors instruct us otherwise. Authors will be notified by September 15, 2004 whether their position papers have been selected for presentation during the workshop. Authors are invited to submit revised versions of their position papers to a post-workshop review process, leading to a book or journal special issue on research directions to make ontologies more meaningful. Organizers Werner Kuhn, Martin Raubal, Florian Probst, Krzysztof Janowicz Muenster Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL) Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany <http://musil.uni-muenster.de/>http://musil.uni-muenster.de/ Further information An introduction to the workshop topic with recommendations for further reading is posted at <http://musil.uni-muenster.de/documents/WhyCogLingv1.pdf>http://musil.uni-muenster.de/documents/WhyCogLingv1.pdf. It may be updated occasionally. All workshop communication will be by Email and through the workshop web site at <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html. Do not hesitate to contact kuhn@uni-muenster.de with any questions about the workshop. From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies 14 Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:02:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 58 (58) To whom it may concern, We are pleased to announce the latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies. Special Issue 14 is edited by Lisa Hopkins, Emma Rees, and Gweno Williams and consists of essays from the Fifth Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Conference. The contents are as follows: Concocting the world's olio: Margaret Cavendish and continental influence. [1] Sara H. Mendelson, McMaster University. Mad Science Beyond Flattery: The Correspondence of Margaret Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens. [2] Nadine N. W. Akkerman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Marguérite Corporaal, University of Groningen. Happy Families and Learned Ladies:Margaret Cavendish, William Cavendish, and their onstage academy debate. [3] Alexandra Bennett, Northern Illinois University. Playing with Religion: Convents, Cloisters, Martyrdom, and Vows. [4] Erna Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Fighting the Kingdom of Faction in Bell in Campo. [5] Oddvar Holmesland, Agder University College, Norway. Crime and Context in The Unnatural Tragedy. [6] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. The Intellectual and Literary Courtship of Margaret Cavendish. [7] James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University. Defects Redressed: Margaret Cavendish Aspires to Motley. [8] Lesley Peterson, University of Alberta. The City of Chance, or, Margaret Cavendish's Theory of Radical Symmetry. [9] B. R. Siegfried, Brigham Young University. "My Spirits long to wander in the Air...": Spirits and Souls in Margaret Cavendish's Fiction between Early Modern Philosophy and Cyber Theory. [10] Miriam Wallraven, Tübingen University. "I hate such an old-fashioned House": Margaret Cavendish and the search for home. [11] Alison Findlay, University of Lancaster. An Empowering Wit and an "Unnatural" Tragedy: Margaret Cavendish's Representation of the Tragic Female Voice. [12] Marguérite Corporaal, University of Groningen. Gender Subversion in the Science of Margaret Cavendish. [13] Lisa Walters, The University of Edinburgh. Review: Emma L.E. Rees. Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Genre, Exile. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. [14] James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University. Theatre Review: The Duchess Takes the Stage: An Evening of Margaret Cavendish's Plays in Performance. Margaret Cavendish Performance Project. Produced by Gweno Williams. Margaret Cavendish Society Conference, University College Chester, Saturday, July 19, 2003. [15] Alexandra Bennett, Northern Illinois University. Submission information: EMLS invites contributions of critical essays on literary topics and of interdisciplinary studies which centre on literature and literary culture in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Contributions, including critical essays and studies (which should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract), bibliographies, notices, letters, and other materials, may be submitted to the Editor by email at M.Steggle@shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to Dr Matthew Steggle, Early Modern Literary Studies, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Responses to articles, reviews, and notes appearing in this issue that are intended for the Readers' Forum may be sent to the Editor at M.Steggle@shu.ac.uk. From: Willard McCarty Subject: job in the Wellcome Centre, University College London Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:49:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 59 (59) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE An Information Resources Support Officer is sought by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. The Centre is the world’s largest research institute committed to the study of the History of Medicine. Details of the Centre may be found on <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed>www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed. A copy of the job description and personal specification can also be found there. The Centre is currently located at 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD. The postholder will be part of a two person team supporting the work of core academic staff, research fellows, students and international visitors by the provision of day to day IT support, as well as by developing and introducing new systems and software to facilitate academic research and teaching. The successful candidate will combine excellent inter personal skills with a good knowledge and experience of a range of IT software and will have experience in supporting an IT Network. The post is full time and is graded at AR 2 (currently £21,852 to £28279 plus London allowance of £2134 with possible further extension to £30,640). Salaries are currently under review and will be enhanced w.e.f. 1 August 2004. Informal enquiries about the post may be made to the Centre Administrator, Alan Shiel (a.shiel@ucl.ac.uk), telephone 020 7679 8108, to whom applications, in the form of a cv and an accompanying letter giving the names of 2 referees, should be submitted by 25 June 2004. [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: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress: Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 06:36:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 60 (60) Collection Now Online Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection, a presentation of unique items from the Library of Congress's Asian Division, is now available on the Library's Global Gateway Web site at: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/naxihtml/naxihome.html Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection features ceremonial writings of the Naxi people of China's Yunnan Province. The Library of Congress's Naxi collection is the largest outside of China, and is considered one of the finest in the world. The Naxi use a unique pictographic writing system that is similar to the ancient Egyptian and Mayan writing systems. It is the only living pictographic language in the world today. This online presentation features 185 manuscripts, a 39½ -foot funerary scroll and an annotated catalog of the entire collection. The Naxi are one of fifty-six ethnic national minorities in China. Located in the remote mountain valleys of the Yunnan province in southwest China near the Tibetan and Burmese borders, the Naxi Kingdom flourished from the eighth century until 1724, when it came under direct Chinese rule. Today the Naxi population is estimated at 295,000. The manuscripts included in this online presentation are a small sample of the 3342 total items housed in the Library of Congress's Asian Division. This is the first time that a large collection of Naxi manuscripts has been cataloged, selectively digitized, and published on the Web. The Web site also includes a special presentation of essays detailing the acquisition and development of this manuscript collection. Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection should help to increase the understanding of this unique piece of human heritage. The Library of Congress's Global Gateway Web site of international collections and links to international Web sites is available at http://international.loc.gov/. Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection may be found under the heading "Individual Digital Collections." Please direct any questions regarding this collection to the Global Gateway inquiry form at: http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-international.html. From: "Iain D. Brown" Subject: Re: 18.045 J. K. Rowling's address? Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 06:34:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 61 (61) Yuri Tambovtsev asked: [deleted quotation] I suggest you first send the results to Rowling's literary agent, Christopher Little: Christopher Little Literary Agency Eel Brook Studios 125 Moore Park Road London SW6 4PS United Kingdom He will be able to pass on the results to JK Rowling. Best wishes, Iain. -- Iain Brown iain@iainbrown.net From: sramsay@uga.edu Subject: Re: 18.045 J. K. Rowling's address? Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 06:35:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 62 (62) I won't presume to speak for Ms. Rowling, but I, for one, would love to know . . . 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: Drew Subject: Re: 18.045 J. K. Rowling's address? Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 06:35:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 63 (63) J. K. Rowling. The J stands for Joanne, not Joan. Drew Whitehead From: Ken Anderson Subject: from SIGWEB Notes - June 7, 2004 Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:52:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 64 (64) [Upcoming events from SIGWEB Notes for 7 June 2004] =========================================== Upcoming Events =========================================== Visit <http://www.sigweb.org/conferences/> for pointers to these (and other) upcoming SIGWEB sponsored and cooperating conferences: SIGIR'04, July 25th-29th, 2004: <http://www.sigir.org/sigir2004/> HT'04, August 9-13, 2004: <http://www.ht04.org/> AH'04, August 23rd-26th, 2004: <http://www.ah2004.org/> DocEng'04, October 28-30, 2004: <http://www.documentengineering.org/> ICSOC'04, November 15-18, 2004: <http://www.icsoc.org/> Paper submission for ICSOC is open until June 18th (abstracts due June 11th). =========================================== HT'04 =========================================== The program for Hypertext 2004 is coming together with three keynote speakers, Doug Engelbart (dynamic knowledge repositories), Dan Gillmor (weblog journalism), and Jim King (design of PDF), and 25 full papers (including 2 hypertexts), <http://www.ht04.org/pgmPapers.php>. Poster and demo submissions are still being accepted until June 11th, <http://www.ht04.org/cfpPosterAndDemo.php>. Many HT'04 workshops are also accepting submissions, <http://www.ht04.org/>. Student volunteer applications are being accepted until July 5th, <http://www.ht04.org/cfpStudents.php>. Finally, conference registration is now OPEN: <http://www.ht04.org/ht04registration1.php> HT'04's conference and program committees are working hard to create an exciting conference this year, including two special social events on the first and second days of the conference. We hope to see you in Santa Cruz this August! =========================================== AH'04 =========================================== On August 23-26 the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. AH2004 received 145 submissions, which has resulted in 27 accepted full papers, 18 accepted short papers and 4 doctoral consortium papers. The conference will start with a tutorial and workshop day (August 23). During the main conference there will be a poster-reception, an Industry track, an assembly of the PROLEARN network of excellence on professional learning, a doctoral consortium, and last but not least a candlelight dinner in "La Caverne", a (restaurant inside a) natural cave. AH2004 features three distinguished keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Emile Aarts from Philips Research, Dr. Candy Sidner from Mitsubishi Research (MERL) and Dr. Eric Horvitz from Microsoft Research. All information on AH2004 is available from <http://www.ah2004.org/>. Paul De Bra (general chair) Wolfgang Nejdl (program chair) [material deleted] -- Kenneth M. Anderson | Phone: 303-492-6003 Assistant Professor | Fax : 303-492-2844 Dept. of Computer Science | University of Colorado, Boulder | <http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/> From: Martin Mueller Subject: A new digital Shakespeare from Northwestern University Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:47:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 65 (65) May I draw the attention of humanists everywhere to a new electronic Shakespeare, which is accessible from the Northwestern University Library at www.library.northwestern.edu/shakespeare. The Nameless Shakespeare, as it is provisionally called, is the product of collaboration between the Perseus Project at Tufts University and Northwestern faculty and staff in Academic Technologies and the Library. The project is very much a work in progress and will become part of WordHoard, a larger project at Northwestern, which has received funding from the Mellon Foundation. The aim of the Nameless Shakespeare is to create a freely available text that fully supports the query potential of the digital surrogate. The text is derived from a scanned version of the Globe Shakespeare but has been thoroughly revised to create a text that is standardized in its spelling but reflects as closely as possible the prosodic and morphological properties of the folio or quarto copy texts. The text is tagged in a TEI-conformant manner, and in addition to its own citation scheme it carries references to the Hinman TLN numbers. It is fully lemmatized and has been parsed with the CLAWS part-of-speech tagger developed at Lancaster University and used for the British National Corpus. In the course of this summer we will add a level of semantic tagging to this text, using the USAS tagger developed by Lancaster University. The current interface for the Nameless Shakespeare is a stopgap measure while we develop the new WordHoard interface, which will let users take full advantage of this deeply tagged text. But clunky and inconsistent as the current interface may be (especially in its delivery of complex query results) it lets you do now what you cannot easily do through any other site. You can, for instance, make a list of words spoken by Ophelia in verse, or a list of words that occur only in Hamlet and Lear, adjectives in the Comedy of Errors, and so forth. At the moment the text of the Nameless Shakespeare will be accessible only through the Northwestern interface. We expect to release the text early in the fall of 2004 after we have added the level of semantic tagging and corrected many remaining errors in the part-of-speech tagging, especially in the assignment of grammatical words to such categories as adverb, conjunction, or determiner. We will be most interested in hearing from users of the Nameless Shakespeare what they would like to see in the better interface we plan to develop through WordHoard, and we will also be very grateful for error reports. Automatic tagging of textual data has an error rate on the order of 5%. Through manual corrections we have now reached a stage where we believe the error rate hovers around 1%. But in a text of some 850,000 word occurrences that still means about 10,000 wrongly assigned word occurrences. Error reports, even of individual errors, are very useful in directing attention to systemic problems. Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics Department of English Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 martinmueller@northwestern.edu 847-864-3496 From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Announcing: _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:49:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 66 (66) RSS(sm): Rich Site Services I am pleased to announce the establishment of my latest Web registry titled_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ _RSS(sm)_ is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML feeds and is available at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication [ http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA296443 ] RSS(sm) has been seeded with examples in the following groups: | ANNOUNCEMENTS | INTERNET RESOURCES GUIDES | NEW BOOKS | NEW JOURNAL ISSUES | NEWS | For each entry within a category, a link is provided to a RSS (and/or XML) link for the item, or an information page that provides a subsequent link (or more). I am greatly interested in learning about other examples of ANY and ALL RSS service(s) provided by any type of Library (academic, corporate, public, research, special, etc.) for potential inclusion in this new registry. I am particularly interested in the use of syndication services such as that provided by Amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/xs/syndicate.html/ ] for Collection Development (or other library service), as well as any that relate to other types of library services (e.g., ADMINISTRATION | ACQUISTIONS | CATALOGING | CIRCULATION | COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT | INSTRUCTION | INTERLIBRARY LOAN | ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGS | REFERENCE SERVICES | TABLE OF CONTENTS , ETC|) Regards, Gerry Gerry McKiernan Syndicated Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu The RSS(sm) registry was inspired byrecent postings to the Web4Lib e-list [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html ] From: John Unsworth Subject: ACLS Commission in NYC Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:25:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 67 (67) The ACLS Commission on cyberinfrastructure for humanities and social sciences will hold a public meeting in New York City, on Saturday, June 19th, from 10 am to 4:30 pm, in the Trustee's Room (2nd floor) of the New York Public Library, at 5th avenue and 42nd street. This meeting is open to the public, and interested members of the humanities computing community are particularly invited to attend. Should you need them, directions to the library are online, at http://www.nypl.org/research/hours/chssdir.html and a floor plan of the 2nd floor is at http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/admin/2ndfloor.html More information about the Commission, its charge, and past and future meetings can be found on the web, at: http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm Please forward to other lists, as appropriate. John Unsworth, Chair ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences cyberchair@acls.org From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases? Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:27:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 68 (68) _Use of RSS in Bibliographic/Abstract Databases_? I am greatly interested in learning of ANY and ALL bibliographic/abstract databases that offer RSS feeds. Such feeds might offer current search results, or automatic updates for a saved search strategy. I would be interested in any current operational systems, working prototypes, or projects under consideration. For examples of other library-related uses of RSS, please see my latest registry_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] BTW: Thanks to all for their nominations for _RSS(sm)_. Although still quite limited, it has nearly doubled in size from its establishment on Sunday, June 6 ! [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0406/0048.html ] Regards, Gerry McKiernan Working Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MBR04 Pavia, Extended deadline Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:26:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 69 (69) EXTENDED DEADLINE - Deadline June 20, 2004 ****************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION MBR'04 Pavia, Italy, December 16-18, 2004 ****************************************************************** 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 [material deleted] From: "CLC CLC" Subject: Multimedia Installation by Sondheim @ WVU Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:33:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 70 (70) The Paul Mesaros Gallery at the WVU Creative Arts Center hosts a multimedia installation by Alan Sondheim starting June 14 and running through August 8. Entitled "not-doing," the installation "references releasing oneself both to the information inherent in the world, and to the potential quietude at the heart of it." The Gallery is free and open to the public. Alan Sondheim is a writer and visual artist. His work has been published and exhibited internationally. Sondheim's visit to West Virginia University is part of a collaboration between WVU's Center for Literary Computing and Virtual Environments Lab. Direct questions to clc@mail.wvu.edu. From: John Unsworth Subject: Fwd: library job opening at Vesterheim Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:35:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 71 (71) Job posting: Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: RSS Bibliographies Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:32:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 72 (72) Don't know if it's on the list but on Mac OS X there's a BibTeX reference manager with some RSS capabilities: <http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/> From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: New Book Title: JoyceMedia Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:34:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 73 (73) Dear List members, A brief note to direct your attention to a new book on Joyce and hypermedia, entitled: JOYCEMEDIA ed. Louis Armand (Prague: Litteraria, 2004). 164pp. Contributors include Mark Nunes, Darren Tofts, Michael Groden, Daniel Ferrer, Marlena Corcoran, Laurent Milesi, Thomas Jackson Rice, Donald F. Theall, Dirk Van Hulle, and Alan Roughley. (<http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/joycemedia.html>http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/joycemedia.html) JoyceMedia will be launched at the forthcoming Dublin Symposium. Advance orders can be placed with Shakespeare & sons Bookstore (<http://www.shakes.cz/>www.shakes.cz) <http://uk.f251.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=info@shakes.cz>info@shakes.cz Direct online ordering will be available from June 16, or copies can be picked up at the Symposium. Other titles available from the Prague James Joyce Centre include: TECHNE: JAMES JOYCE, HYPERTEXT & TECHNOLOGY (Prague: Karolinum, 2003) NIGHT JOYCE OF A THOUSAND TIERS. PETR SKRABANEK: STUDIES IN FINNEGANS WAKE (Prague: Litteraria, 2002) <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/prague_publications.html>http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/prague_publications.html NB. there are rumours that a paperback edition of GIACOMO JOYCE: ENVOYS OF THE OTHER, eds. Clare Wallace & Louis Armand (Bethesda: Academica, 2002) is soon to be available. <http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/giacomo.html>http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/giacomo.html HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce>www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce <http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21626/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com>ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself [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: icara2004@massey.ac.nz Subject: ICARA 2004 CFP Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:52:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 74 (74) CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2004) Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand 13th-15th December 2004 http://conferences.massey.ac.nz/ICARA2004 Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, is pleased to announce that the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2004) will be on the 13th - 15th December 2004 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. ICARA 2004 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of autonomous robotics and agents. ICARA 2004 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions. All papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of a full length manuscript and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: Intelligent Control DNA Computing for autonomous agents Biorobotics, Biomechatronics Implantable sensors for Robotic Applications Artificial Intelligence in Biosystems Autonomous Systems Multi-Agent Collaborative Systems (MACS) Robotics, Humanoids Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion Cooperative Robotics Robot Soccer Systems Entertainment Robotics Human Robot Interface Distributed Intelligent Control Systems Real Time Supervisory Control Embedded Systems Educational Technology Fuzzy Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Biped and Humanoid Robots Rough Sets, Data Mining Navigation and Path Planning Genetic Algorithm (GA) Evolutionary Computation (EC) Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Real Time Evolutionary Computation Evolutionary Systems and Algorithms Vision Systems for Robotics Artificial Neural Networks in Biorobotics [material deleed] From: "Aikin, Jane" Subject: John W. Kluge Fellowship Competition Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:50:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 75 (75) The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship Competition Deadline for receipt of applications: August 15, 2004 The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library's collections and resources. The Center especially encourages humanistic and social science research. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multilingual research is particularly welcome. Eligibility: Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible. Exceptions may be made for individuals without continuous academic careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals. Tenure and Stipend. Fellowships may be held for periods from six to eleven months at a stipend of $3500 per month. Constraints of space and the desirability of accommodating the maximum number of Fellows may lead to an offer of fewer months than originally requested. Fellows may begin tenure at any time between June 1 of the year in which the Fellowship is awarded and August 1 of the year following, providing space is available. Stipends will be paid monthly, usually by electronic transfer to a bank account. Applications: All applications must be written in English. The application must include a research proposal (no longer than three single-spaced pages) and a single paragraph summary, a two-page curriculum vita which should indicate major prior scholarship, an indication of the collections at the Library of Congress that will be used for research and two letters of reference (in English) from individuals who know the quality of the applicant's scholarship. The application form and reference form may be printed from the website: <http://www.loc.gov/kluge>http://www.loc.gov/kluge Deadline: Applications (including nine collated copies) must be received at the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, by August 15, 2004. Language Certification: For applicants whose native language is not English, there must be evidence that the applicant is fluent in English so as easily to conduct research, discuss work with colleagues, and make a public presentation, although the ultimate product of the research may be written in the applicant's native language. For English speakers who seek to do research in the Library's foreign language collections, there must be evidence that they have a command of the relevant language or languages at the level requisite for serious research. Awards: Up to twelve Kluge Fellowships will be awarded annually by the Library of Congress. Awards will be announced by March 15 of the year following that in which the application is due. For further information: Contact The John W. Kluge Center, Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, LJ120, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540-4860 phone: 202-707-3302; fax: 202-707-3595 email: scholarly@loc.gov web: <http://www.loc.gov.kluge/>http://www.loc.gov.kluge From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Web Feeds from Publishers and Book Vendors? Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:55:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 76 (76) Web Feeds from Publishers and Book Vendors? I am greatly interested in learning of Any and All publishers or book vendors that provide Web feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.) for new and/or forthcoming books published or provided by the publisher or vendor. I will be happy to include each within my new registry _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS2.htm ] Regards, Gerry Gerry McKiernan Approved Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Web Feeds for E-Journal Issue Notification and Local Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:55:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 77 (77) OPAC/ILS Holdings? ____Web Feeds for E-Journal Issue Notification and Local OPAC/ILS Holdings?___ It has occurred to me that Web feeds (RSS, [ http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA296443 ], Atom [ http://www.atomenabled.org/ ], Other(s)?) hold the potential of providing not only publication notification to institutional (or individual) subscribers for current electronic journal issues, but also could serve as the mechanism by which local holdings for the e-journal could be seamlessly updated within the local OPAC/ILS. Thanks to Owen Stephens I have learned that the Library of Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, provides not only RSS feeds for all new issues of subscribed [e-]journals, but to individual e-journal titles as well. My new RSS(sm) registry includes entries each of these types of public e-journal issue feeds: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS2.htm#NewJournalIssues ] In my New World View, institutional subscribers to an e-journal could also be 'subscribed' to the associated Web feed for _each_ e-title by the publisher/vendor. Such eFeed subscriptions could be a Package Deal: a selected Feed Reader of a library's choice (e.g., Pluck [ http://www.pluck.com/ ] provided by a journal vendor (e.g., EBSCO, Swets, etc.) fully populated with the Web feeds addresses for each e-title. [There are of course, other possible scenarios; for example, a Third Party Service could serve as an Aggregator for many e-journal publishers, vendors, etc.][Do I Smell a Business Opportunity or What? [:-)]. Upon publication/release of a new e-journal issue, the local reader would be updated in its next cycle. Such entries would not only be made available through a local New Journal Issue feed similar to what is offered by Royal Holloway [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS2.htm#NewJournalIssues], but through the Magic of an XML-based Black Box, update the holdings for an e-journal in the local staff and public OPAC. [Of course, The Devil Is In The Details Here, But Hey, RSS is XML, and So the Possibilities are Possible [:->]. I would most appreciate receiving Any and All Comments about MyNewWorldView (or Other Views that this Musings might inspire). Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Black-Box Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.057 new book: JoyceMedia Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:54:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 78 (78) [deleted quotation] Which Joyce? ;-) Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: advise me on publication Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:53:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 79 (79) Dear Hunanist members, may I ask you to advise me where I can send for publication my book on the use of statistic in linguistics, especially phonology? I used some methods of statistics (e.g. standard deviation, confodance intervals, coefficient of variation, chi-square, Kolmogorov-Smirnov) to study the compactness of Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Tungus-Manchurian, Paleo-Asiatic and Indo-European language families, which include 157 world languages. I enclose in this message a short description of my book, i.e. THE BOOK BY TAMBOVTSEV, Yuri Alekseevich. "Typology of functioning of phonemes in a sound chain of Indo- European, Palaeo-Asiatic, Ural-Altaic and other world languages: compactness of subgroups, groups, families and other language taxons" This book is the addition to Tambovtsev's theories, methods and data published earlier (Tambovtsev. 1994-a; 1994-b; 2001-a; 2001-b; 2001-c). I think that linguistics needs new data to support or to reject the classical theories. More often than not, linguists argue about this or that linguistic theory (e.g. Uralic or Altaic language unities) without any new data at hand. This new book by Yuri Tambovtsev provides such new data. Speaking about applications of statistical methods in linguistics, one must agree with Chris Butler that very often only statistical techniques are relevant for some linguistic research because it is difficult otherwise to understand the language phenomenon. It is especially important in any type of linguistic study involving differences in people's linguistic behaviour or in the patterns of language itself (Wray et al., 1998: 255). Tambovtsev adds much data on phonological statistics of world languages. He is one of the very few linguists who applied phonology to stylistics and typology (Teshitelova, 1992: 157 - 181). In this book, as in the previous books, Yuri Tambovtsev considers the typology of regulation and chaos of distribution of consonant phonemes in a sound chain of world languages. In fact, Tambovtsev concentrates on variability in sound chains of world languages. Actually, he adds much to the essential parts of his theories and methods in the analysed monograph under review, especially on the phonostatistical universals of Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Indo-European ans other world languages. The author examines the homogeneity of texts in various languages from the point of view of the occurrence of phonemic groups in their sound speech chains with the help of phonological statistics. Tambovtsev also investigates the rules of a sound chain division, as well as frequency of occurrence of certain phonemic groups of consonants in the phonetic systems of various world languages. Many new languages are investigated by his method, in comparison to his previous books (Tambovtsev, 1994-a; 1994-b; 2001-a; 2001-b; 2001-c). In fact, Yuri Tambovtsev has computed phonostatistical data on the occurrence of labial, front (i.e. forelingual), palatal (mediolingual), back (velar, pharengeal and glottal), sonorant, occlusive, fricative (constrictive) and voiced consonants in speech in a great number of languages. It comprises 8 phonological features. The articulation system of these languages is also discussed in brief. There is as well a short review of ethnic history (ethnogenesis) of the nations speaking these languages. The author thinks it of great importance to analyse these language contacts during the history of their ethnic development. As far I can judge, Tambovtsev's first article in the field of phonological statistics was published in 1976. So, he has been working on the problems mentioned above for a long time, i.e. for some 30 years. Unfortunately, I cannot mention all Tambovtsev's publications since he is the author of 8 monographs and about 250 articles on language typology, phonostatistics and phonetics. His study involves the sound pictures of 156 world languages. In the book under review, Tambovtsev's conclusions are based on the data of the occurrence of the frequency of phonemes in the languages of the following families and groups: 1. Indo - European language family (the language groups: Indo - Aryan (8 languages), Iranian (4 languages) , Celtic (1 language), Italic (1 language), Romanic (5 languages) , Germanic (7 languages) , Baltic (2 languages) , Slavonic (8 languages) , genetically isolated Indo-European languages (5 languages) , artificial languages(1). 2. Ural-Altaic language community which include the Uralic and Altaic language communities: A. Uralic language community, Finno-Ugric language family, Ugric subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (5 languages), Permic subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (2 languages) , Volgaic subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (5 languages) , Balto - Finnic subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (9 languages) , Samoyedic language family (3 languages). B. Altaic language community, Turkic language family (22 languages) , Mongol language family ( 3 languages). 3. Tungus - Manchurian language family (6 languages), 4. Yenisseyic language family (1 language). 5. Caucasian language family (2 languages). 6. Palaeo - Asiatic language family (8 languages). 7. Sino - Tibetan language family (2 languages). 8. Afro - Asiatic language family (3 languages). 9. Bantu language family (2). 10. Austro -Asiatic language family (2). 11. Austronesian language family (5 languages). 12. Australian language family (6 languages). 13. The language community of American Indians (20 languages). As a linguist I often feel I must use statistical methods in my studies of the English, German and other languages. However, it is hard for a linguist to understand how to use them correctly, but at the same time in the easiest simple way. The author of the book teaches us how to do it. He does it on the example of the following methods of statistical calculation: standard quadratic deviation, variation coefficient, level of significance, confidence interval, T-criterion of Student, criterion of Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Chi- square criterion, and Euclidean distance. He also shows how to measure the statistical reliability of the linguistic results. Very often a linguist, who is a layman in linguistic statistics, may draw wrong linguistical results because his results are not statistically reliable. The book by Yuri Tambovtsev focuses not only on the mathematical statistical methods, which have been employed by him in his linguistic research, but also discusses the important problems of classification of world languages. The author touches the topics of reliability of mathematical statistical methods in linguistics. The target of his research is to compare various languages within a single family as well as languages belonging to different families and groups. For this sake, Tambovtsev has generated mean values of frequency rates of various phonemes and phonemic groups in speech. In fact, these mean values provide reliable correlation between different languages. There are several mathematical methods allowing estimations of variation of major statistical values. Tambovtsev aims to estimate regularities in usage of particular phonemes or phonemic groups in particular languages. He has chosen several methods of variability estimation and described techniques of their application to phonetic studies. In this respect, the issues of a size of a sample are important. In fact, the greater the sample, the more reliable results. One of the most important problems is the problem of the size of the portions (units) into which the text is divided. The portion should not be too small or too big. Tambovtsev correctly takes the generally accepted sample portion in phonological research, which is 1000 phonemes. Tambovtsev separates all his texts of the languages under discussion into units comprising 1000 phonemes. In statistics, the most reliable results are obtained on large samples. Thus, Tambovtsev argues that the minimum necessary sample should include not less than 30 thousand phonemes. The author has applied the method of evaluation of the mean quadratic deviation in his research among other methods estimating statistical variations. The mean quadratic deviation index is used in generating other evaluating indices. Quadratic deviation indices generated for two different texts can be compared if the sample sizes of basic texts are equal. Standard deviation data cannot be compared if the samples of texts are not equal. In cases, when the sample sizes are different, other mathematical functions should be used. Tambovtsev correctly chooses the estimation of the confidence interval, "chi-square" criterion, coefficient of variance, etc. In my opinion, it is important to provide the reader with the exact examples of how to calculate the mean quadratic deviation or standard deviation because a layman in phonostatistics, as myself, may do it in the wrong way. Yuri Tambovtsev provides us with the data on the occurrence of the labial consonants in the Old English texts: "Boewulf, Ohthere's and Wulfstan's Story, the Description of Britain, Julius Caesar", etc. He compares the use of labials in Old English to the analogical use in modern English. Variation coefficient represents another important tool in comparative linguistic research. It helps to compare incommensurable values. As it was stated above, the mean quadratic deviation characterises the degree of deviation of the frequency rate of a particular phoneme from the mean value. However, the mean quadratic deviation values do not take into account the fact that the number of labial phonemes is greater that that of the mid-lingual (palatal) phonemes. Consequently, the absolute mean index of labial sounds is considerably greater than that of the palatal ones. On the other hand, front-lingual phonemes are usually more frequent than labial. This heterogeneity of features asks for additional methods of comparison, i. e. the variation index called the "coefficient of variance". Unlike the mean quadratic deviation, the coefficient of variation allows correlation of frequency rates of those phonemes and phonemic groups, which have produced different mean values. It is possible to make the measure of variability comparable using the coefficient of variation. It can be used in linguistics in the way it is recommended by Fred Fallik and Bruce Brown for behavioural sciences (Fallik et al., 1983: 111 - 112). The coefficient of variation is used as an indicator of variation/stability of particular linguistic elements in a sample. The minimum necessary size of such samples should be not less than 30 units. The larger is the value of variation coefficient, the higher is the variability of a particular pholological feature (phonemic frequency in this case). Another important statistical notion is the significance level. In his research Yuri Tambovtsev has chosen the significance level value of 0.05, or 5%. To my mind, Tambovtsev chose it correctly since such a level of significance is usually used by the majority of researchers in linguistics and phonology. This sort of significance level (i.e. 5%) tells us that we have 95% confidence in our linguistic research. This significance level. I believe, is important in any linguistic research, but especially important for correlations carried out on small samples, i.e. in the samples less than 30 thousand phonemes. Confidence interval evaluation is closely related to other statistical procedures like estimations of the minimum necessary sample at the fixed significance level. Tambovtsev proposes to fix it always at 5%, for a layman in statistics not to break his brain over the other possible levels. Actually, it is so specific mathematical, that a linguist should not try to understand its mathematical foundation. I'm sure, if a linguist learns how operate with all necessary statistical criteria correctly, then using only one level of significance (e.g. 5%) is quite all right. The higher level of significance usually requires larger samples, and thus, much more labour, than necessary. In certain cases, I guess, one is advised to use the values of the confidence interval. The confidence interval evaluation is more reliable for phonological research since it provides us with a greater precision. The general rule is the narrower the confidence interval, the higher is the homogeneity of a parameter under discussion, i.e. a frequency parameter of a particular phonemic class or phoneme in speech. Usually, a text allows us to obtain narrower confidence intervals than the collection of phrases and words. In his book, the author correctly provides a correlation between these three important parameters: sample size and the confidence interval at the fixed significance value. Available data have shown that the greater the sample size, the lower is the confidence interval at the fixed significance level in all languages of the world, irrespective of their genetic affiliation or grammatical type. Tambovtsev has also paid attention to reliability of statistical results obtained in the course of his phonological research. He has received indices representing statistical error resulting from the fact that each sample represents only some portion of the general language aggregate. Such indices are called representation errors. The value of the representation error depends mostly on the sample size and on variation rate of a particular parameter. It is noteworthy that texts in different languages produce similar representation error, which does not depend on their morphological structures. This fact suggests a certain universal in consonant phonemic groups functioning in genetically different languages. However, I think, that Tambovtsev has applied the strictest way of estimating the representation error. On the one hand it is bad, since it requires larger samples for a fixed error (e.g. the error of 5% or less), but, on the other hand, it means that one can be surer of his linguistic result. Yuri Tambovtsev rightly mentions that many linguists who use statistics do not know that the T-test or "Student's" criterion was proposed by William Gosset, and not by some scholar called Student. "Student" was the name that William Gosset assumed as a pseudo-name. The Student's criterion is employed in cases when it is necessary to compare two mean values found for two different texts. The reliability of difference between two mean values depends on variability of involved parameters and on the sizes of the sample, for which these variables have been generated. The "student's" criterion can be applied for variables subordinating to normal dispersion. Within a sample of not less than 30 units, dispersion is considered normal. In the course of research, the "student's" criterion has been calculated for two samples of equal size of 31 thousand phonemes. On the one hand, a scientific text was compared with fiction, and on the other hand, two scientific texts were compared. The value the former is nearly four times greater than the latter. It convinces us that the "student's" criterion can be applied for the stylistic analysis of texts all right. The statistical criterion, called Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, provides researchers with mathematical method of analysis, which does not depend on the restrictions applied to statistical analyses. It concerns the following conditions: 1) Statistical analyses are carried out with independent accidental variables; 2) Aggregates of accidental variables should demonstrate close mean and dispersion values; 3) Aggregates should subordinate to the law of normal dispersion. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov criterion belongs to the so-called "robust" non- parameter methods, which are not sensitive of deviations from the standard conditions. Low values of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) criterion mean that the fluctuation of the analysed linguistic parameters is minor, that is not linguistically significant. Tambovtsev argues that the low value of K-S criterion in his research supports his hypothesis on a normal dispersion of the established eight groups of consonants within the speech sound chains. Representation of any language with the help of eight groups of consonants has served as a basis for his phono-statistical research. Tambovtsev has also employed the "chi-square" criterion in his investigations. With the aid of this criterion, he estimates differences between the empirical and expected values. If the difference is insignificant, it can be a result of accidental deviation. Otherwise, it reflects significant differences between factitious (empirical) and expected (theoretical) values of frequencies of phonemic group occurrences in speech. L. Bolshev and N. Smirnov (Bolshev et al., 1983: 166 - 171) have generated the list of maximum frequency values reflecting insignificant fluctuations of variables through the "chi-square" technique, which Tambovtsev provides on page 33. It is quite handy because usually linguists do not have books on statistics at hand. Christopher Butler recommends the chi-square test to measure the independence and association of linguistic units in various sorts of linguistic material (Butler, 1985: 118 - 126). Tambovtsev shows how to use it on the material of the occurrence of labial consonants in British and American prose (Agatha Christie, John Braine, W. S. Maugham, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, etc.). The chi-square values show that labials are distributed rather homogeniously. Tambovtsev draws the attention of the reader to calculate the degrees of freedom correctly (p.30). He also compares how similar is the distribution of labials, front, palatal, and velar consonants in Kalmyk (a Mongolian language) and Japanese (a genetically isolated language). It is not by this statistical criterion (p.31). However, the same criterion shows close similarity between the distribution of the 5 consonantal groups in Turkish and Uzbek (p.32). The T coefficient is less than 1 in 5 parameters, i.e. front, palatal, velar, sonorant and occlusive. Tambovtsev explains T coefficient as the ratio of the obtained values of chi-square and the theoretical values which can be found in the chi-square tables. It T coefficient is less than 1, the statistical results are similar p.31 - 33). It also shows great similarity between some other Turkic, Finno- Ugric, Samoyedic, Tungus-Manchurian, Slavonic, Germanic, Iranian and other Indo-European languages inside their taxons. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the issues of genetic and typological classifications of languages of the world. The author does not go into details and debates concerning inclusion of certain languages into particular genetic groups and families, or identification of a particular language as a separate language or a dialect. The major aim of the author is to provide a technique, which would allow linguists to check the rightfulness of inclusion of a particular language into a certain language group or a family. Before analysing the compactness of subgroups, groups, families and other language taxons, Tambovtsev warns the reader that the problem of the division of world languages into families has not been completely solved. For instance, it is quite necessary to discuss the problem if Turkic languages constitute a family themselves or a branch in some other family, called Altaic family. Actually, Turkic languages are considered to form a family by some linguists (e.g. Baskakov, 1966 and other Russian linguists). However, some other linguists, especially those in the West, consider Turkic languages to be a group within the Altaic family spoken in Asia Minor, Middle Asia and southern Asia (Crystal, 1992: 397; Katzner, 1986:3). The other two branches of Altaic family are Tungus- Manchurian and Mongolian. To my mind, it is more logical to consider Turkic languages a family, rather than a subgroup within Altaic family. Altaic languages should be called a super family, Sprachbund, language community or unity, since the true genetic relationship of Turkic, Tungus- Manchurian and Mongolian languages have not been proved. If one goes along this line, then all languages on the Earth may be called one family with lots of groups and branches. On the other hand, it is not productive to form separate language family consisting of one language. For instance, in 1960s Ket was considered an isolated language of Paleo-Asiatic family (Krejnovich, 1968: 453). However, now it is considered to form the so- called Yeniseyan family, though consisting of only one language with its dialects and subdialects. Summing up the modern point of view, David Crystal remarks that Yeniseyan is a family of languages generally placed within the Paleosiberian grouping, now represented by only one language - Ket, or Yenisey-Ostyak (Crystal, 1992: 424). I don't think it is wise to multiply language families like that. Other linguists (e.g. Ago Kunnap, Angela Marcantonio, etc.) question the very existence of the Uralic language family (Marcantonio, 2002). Among other language families, Tambovtsev describes the Finno-Ugric family. He argues, that this language family includes two major groups: Baltic-Finnic and Ugric groups. The author considers the theories of those linguists who identify the following four groups in the Finno-Ugric family: 1) The Baltic-Finnic group including Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Vepsian, Izhorian, Vodian, Livonian, and Saami possessing some specific features; 2) The Volga group including Erzia-Mordovian, Moksha-Mordovian, Mountain Mari, and Lawn or Meadow East Mari; 3) The Permic group comprising Udmurdian, Komi-Zyrian, and Komi- Permian; 4) The Ugric group comprising Hungarian, Manty, and Khansi. Together with the Samoyedic language family comprising the Nenets, Selkup, Nganasan, and Enets languages. The Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic are said to form the Uralic language unit. Tambovtsev argues that until present, no fore-language of this unit has been established. The languages of the Uralic unit do not form a compact unity from the point of view of dispersal and frequency of phonemic groups. With the aid of the coefficients that have been received by Tambovtsev in his studies, the author has shown that the consonant indices and the compactness (dispersion) coefficients suggest a more compact unity for Samoyedic languages family (the meanV=18.29%; T=0.16), rather than for the Finno-Ugric (the mean V=24.14%; T=0.47). The Uralic language unity has a greater dispersion (the mean V=28.31%; T=0.57). This fact has been interpreted as a support of the idea that languages of the Samoedic and Finno-Ugric family are more closely related to one another within the family, than between the families. Thus, the idea of the Uralic taxon as a language family should be either rejected or considered with caution (p.125). The Turkic language group includes Azeri, Baraba-Tatar, Bashkir, Gagauz, Karaim, Dolgan, Kazakh, Kamasin, Karakalpak, Karachai- Balkarian, Kyrgyz, Crimea-Tatar, Kumyk, Nogai, Tatar, Tofalar, Tuvin, Turkish, Turkmenian, Uzbek, Shor, and Yakut. The author argues that a Turkic fore-language can be regarded as a real basic language for all the Turkic languages. He points out that the Turkic fore-language (Ursprache) demonstrates closer relations to any of the present Turkic languages, than these languages may have between one another now. However, he did not include the Ancient Turkic into his studies because of the uncertainty in the pronunciation. The Mongolian language family includes only three languages: Buriat, Kalmyk, and Mongolian. It is the minimum possible group for statistical analysis. The Tungus-Manchurian language group includes 10 languages: Manchurian, Nanai, Negidal, Oroch, Orok, Solon, Udege, Ulchi, Evenk (Tungus), and Even. Inclusion of the Turkic, Mongolian and Tungus-Manchurian language family into one language unity represents the debatable topic in linguistics to day. The Indo-European language family seems to be the most thoroughly investigated. Major linguistic methods of investigations and comparative linguistic analysis were elaborated during the long history of studies of European languages. However, currently the major question concerning the existence of a single Indo-European fore-language has not been resolved. It is noteworthy, that many linguistic debates have been often carried out in terms of "similarity" and "linguistic distance". Yet, the terms themselves have not been clearly defined yet. Tambovtsev thinks that at the present state of understanding, modern languages represent either products of divergence or the reverse process, i.e. convergence. In historical perspective, both processes produced their impacts on development of languages. Tambovtsev agrees with those researchers who think that origin of all Indo-European languages from a single fore-language is fiction, while their co-existence and convergence in their development resulting in appearance of certain common features is a scientific fact. The noted uniformity of the Indo-European languages can be explained as a secondary, later phenomenon, and differentiating features represent the original and early characteristics of each language of this family. However, no classifications other than the genealogic one have been elaborated, Tambovtsev accepts the following classification of the Indo- European family: the Indian, the Iranian, the Baltic, the Slavonic (including Eastern, Western, and Southern Slavonic sub-groups), Germanic, Romanic, and Celtic language groups. Following Illich-Svitych, Tambovtsev believes that the Nostratic language unity can serve as a good model for linguistic investigations of various sorts, but he does not think these languages should be considered a language unity; moreover, this rather arbitrary construct is not recognised by all the linguists. The Nostratic language unity includes the following language families: Indo-European, Finno-Ugrian, Samoyedic, Turkic, Mongolian, Tungus-Manchurian, Cartvelian, and Semito-Hamitian. Tambovtsev proposes a concept of compactness for linguistic studies. He defines compactness as more or less closely related languages within language sub-groups, groups, families, etc. In other words, he attempts to measure the distance between languages within analysed taxons or clusters. The distances are measured on the basis of frequency rates of particular linguistic (phonological) characteristics. The author uses the concepts of image recognition and regards language families as a unit with more of less compact structure. In the branch of applied mathematics called pattern recognition different images of various sorts are recognised. One can consider language to be a sort of such image. Therefore, one can use the methods of pattern recognition to develop various types of classifications based on exact values of some coefficients (Zagorujko, 1999: 195 - 201). The generated index of compactness can be regarded as an indicator of an opposing process of diffusion. Values of frequency rate of particular parameter should not considerably deviate from the mean value established for a given language family or group. If the values of deviation are considerably greater than the established mean value, the given language does not belong to the language family under discussion. If majority of languages produce these deviation indices higher than the mean value, we should state that the languages under study do not form a language group but rather a set of separate languages. Tambovtsev has forwarded his hypothesis that typological similarity of languages can be tested by statistical methods resulting in generation a set of indices described above. The hypothesis holds that when a language is included into a particular language group, the generated indices of this new formation will show either a higher or lower compactness. Closely related language would increase the compactness indices and vice versa. The author illustrates this presupposition by a series of examples. Thus, he analyses frequency rates of labial consonants in the Turkic languages compared to Mongolian. The frequency of labial consonants in Mongolian is 7.52%. In the Turkic languages the relevant figures vary from 5.98% to 12.80%. The total fluctuation index is 6.28, the difference between the neighboring languages is 0.49. The Altai language has produced the lowest index of labial consonant frequency, while the Karakalpakian has shown the highest index. The Turkic languages can be classified in the following way by the labial consonant frequency indices: Karakalpakian - 12.80%; Turkish - 10.41%; Uigur - 9.83%; Azerbajanian - 9.66%; Uzbekian - 9.42%; Kumandinian - 9.22%; Baraba-Tatarian - 9.04%; Turkmenian - 8.50%; Kirgizian - 8.43%; Kazakn-Tatarian - 8.03%; Kazakhian - 7.99%; Khakassian - 7.82%; Yakutian - 6.10%, and Altaian - 5.98%. The place of the Mongolian language (7.52%) is between Khakassian and Yakutian suggesting the distribution of labial consonants is more similar in these three languages compared to other languages of the Turkic group. The Mongolian group has produced the following indices: Mongolian (7.52%), Buriatian (7.67%), and Kalmykian (6.65%). This distribution indices fall within the same range as above - from 5.98% to 12.80%, while the total fluctuation and the difference between the neighboring languages are lower (1.02 and 0.34 respectively). The Uralian language unity yields the labial frequency indices in the range of 7.71% - 13.72%, the difference between the neighboring languages is 0.30. Indices of language group compounding Mongolian and Tungus- Manchu languages are from 7.52% to 12.46%, with the mean difference between the neighboring values of 0.70. Consequently, we may infer on considerable differences in the sound chains of the Mongolian and the Tungus-Manchurian languages. On the contrary, introduction of the Mansi language belonging to the Finno-Ugrian language family, on which language Turkic and Mongolian languages did not produced considerable influence, into the Turkic languages increases the diffusion index of this group. Consequently, the Mansi language, unlike Mongolian, does not belong to the Turkic language group. Analysis of frequency rates of the front (i.e. forelingual) consonants may serve as another example of compactness of Turkic and Mongolian languages. Front-lingual consonants represent the most frequent sounds in the Turkic languages as well as in many other languages of the world. The range of frequency of front-lingual sounds in the Turkic languages varies from 32.35% to 40.24%. The overall fluctuation index is 7.89, the difference between the neighboring languages (the mean difference) is 0.564. In Mongolian, the range of frequency of front-lingual sounds is 36.57%of the total number of sounds. The mean difference for a compound group of Turkic languages and Mongolian becomes lower (0.526). The relevant figures found for the Urali languages are: frequency range 24.79% - 36.78%; the fluctuation index is 11.99; the mean difference is 0.6. Apparently, the Turkic language group is more compact than the Uralic. The Mongolian and Tungus-Manchu language families have yielded similar indices in the range of 17.31% to 36.57%; the fluctuation index is 19.26; the mean difference is 2.75.The Paleo-Asian group of languages represent still less compact group, their frequency rates varying from 20.02% to 36,74%; the fluctuation index is 16.64; the mean difference is 2.38. The author provides frequency indices on many languages and language groups. In order to show the general tendency in the distribution of speech sounds he proposes to use the general coefficients of variation resulting from adding generated indices on each group of phonemes. He also uses the T coefficient, which is generated on the basis of "chi-square" index, as a reference index. The resulting general coefficients of variation (V) allow him to form the following sequence. The Ugric language group demonstrates the highest diffusion (V = 221.27%, T = 3,77). The Baltic- Finnish languages yield V = 185.90%, T=2,79). The group of Volga languages is the most compact group with V =143, 19, T=1.02). Another interesting method of comparative analysis implies introduction of isolates Asian languages into various language families in order to establish possible relationships. Thus, introduction of the Ket language into the Finnish-Ugric family (V = 193.13%, T = 3.77) results in the higher diffusion (V =198.04, T = 3.94). The same procedure with Yukaghir yields V = 199.17%; with Korean V is 199.24%, T = 3.88; with Japanese V is 200.51%, T = 3.91; Nivkhi yields V = 206.48%. On the contrary, Chinese has shown closer similarity with the Finno-Ugric languages: V = 190.01%, T = 3.65. As a result of his investigations, Tambovtsev has come to the following conclusions: 1) Front (forelingual) and occlusive consonants are most evenly distributed within language families. 2) Voiced consonants represent the most variable feature; some languages have no category called "voiced" consonants. 3) The Mongolian language family is the most compact by the total sum of the values of the coefficient of variation based on seven major groups of phonemes (without voiced consonants) and the coefficient T. The consequence with respect to total sum of the coefficient of variation has been established as follows: the Mongolic, the Samoyedic, the Turkic, the Tungus-Manchurian, and Finno-Ugric language families. The Paleo- Asiatic language family has yielded the highest diffusion (i.e. the lowest compactness) indices and consequently can be regarded not as a language family but as a loose language unity or community. 4) The general tendency has been shown that in general a language sub-group is more compact that a group, and a group is more compact that a language family. The least compact, that is the most loose, is the language super-unity comprising all the languages of the world. 5) A collection of two language groups or two families into one unit results in a higher diffusion characteristics than the original taxons. All I can say is that the book by Yuri Tambovtsev is a solid and profound investigation in the comparative analysis of the languages of the world. The author provides many tables with indices and coefficients generated through various techniques for a great number of languages. Analysis of these data provides linguists with a method of linguistic investigations on the basis of numerical procedures. The book contains a large list of references. It is recommended to those students, who are interested in phonology, linguistical statistics and typology of world languages. I guess that at the moment, many linguists are dealing with minor linguistic problems in one language. Linguistics lacks such books, which deal with the modern classification of world languages. Tambovtsev's book may give the new material for such language classifications. Being a linguist by education, I naturally was scared to discuss statistics methods without the consultation of the specialists in mathematical statistics. I must thank for consultations and generous advice Prof. Dr. Arkadiy Shemiakin, Prof. Dr. Vadim Efimov, Prof. Dr. Leonid Frumin and Prof. Dr. Valeriy Yudin. References Bolshev et al., 1983 - Bolshev, Login Nikolaevich and Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov. Tables of Mathemetical Statistics. - Moskva: Nauka, 1983. - 416 pages. (in Russian). Butler, 1985 - Butler, Christopher. Statistics in Linguistics. - Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. - 214 pages. Fallik et al., 1983 - Fallik, Fred and Bruce Brown. Statistics for Behavioral Sciences. - Homewood, Illinois: The Dorsey Press, 1983. - 538 pages. Marcantonio, 2002 - Marcantonio, Angela. The Uralic Language Fimily: Myths and Statistics. - Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. - 335 pages. Tambovtsev, 1994 -a - Tambovtsev, Yuri. Dinamika funktsionirovanija fonem v zvukovyh tsepochkah jazykov razlichnogo stroja. [Dynamics of functioning of phonemes in the languages of different structure]. - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk University Press, 1994-a. - 133 pages. Tambovtsev, 1994-b - Tambovtsev, Yuri. Tipologija uporjadochennosti zvukovyh tsepej v jazyke. [Typology of Oderliness of Sound Chains in Language]. - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk University Press, 1994-b. - 199 pages. Tambovtsev, 2001-a - Tambovtsev, Yuri. Kompendium osnovnyh statisticheskih harakteristik funktsionirovanija soglasnyh fonem v zvukovoj tsepochke anglijskogo, nemetskogo, frantsuzkogo i drugih indoevropejskih jazykov. [A compendium of the major statistical characteristics within the paradigm of consonant phonemes functioning in the sound chains of the English, German, French, and other Indo-European languages.] - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk Classical Institute, Novosibirsk, 2001. - 129 pages. Tambovtsev, 2001-c - Tambovtsev, Yuri. Nekotorye teoreticheskie polozhenia tipologii uporiadochennosti fonem v zvukovoi tzepochke yazyka i kompendium statisticheskikh kharakteristik osnovnykh grupp soglasnykh fonem. [Theoretical concepts of typology of the order of phonemes in language sound chains and a compendium of statistical characteristics of the main groups of consonant phonemes]. - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk Classical Institute, 2001. - 130 pages. Tambovtsev, 2003 - Lingvisticheskaja taksonomija: kompaktnost' jazykovyh podgrupp, grupp i semej. [Linguistical taxonomy: coppactness of language subgruops, groups and families]. - In: Baltistika, Volume 37, # 1, (Vilnius), 2003, p. 131 - 161. Teshitelova, 1992 - Teshitelova, Marie. Quantitative Linguistics. - Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins publishing company, 1992. - 253 pages. Wray et al., 1998 - Wray, Alison; Trott, Kate and Aileen Bloomer with Shirley Reay and Chris Butler. Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language. - London and New York: Arnold, 1998. - 303 pages. Zagorujko, 1991 - Zagorujko, Nikolaj Grigorjevich. Applied Methods of Data and Knowledge Analysis [in Russian]. - Novosibirsk: Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy, 1999. - 268 pages. Yuri Tambovtsev, Dept of Linguistics and English of NPU, P. O. Box 104, Novosibirsk-123, 630123. Russia. e-mail: yutamb@hotmail.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: posting to Humanist Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:59:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 80 (80) Dear colleagues, Forgive the imperious command, please. While our capable assistant editor is running Humanist, only messages posted to humanist@princeton.edu will be handled. Please DO NOT send messages you want distributed on Humanist to me directly. Remember, there will be a lengthy hiatus for Humanist from 5-22 July while both of us are away. 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: Lorna Hughes Subject: Report on ALLC/ACH for Humanist Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:18:05 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 81 (81) Dear Willard, Greetings from beautiful (and sunny!) Gothenburg, where about 180 delegates are enjoying an excellent, interesting and stimulating ALLC/ACH conference. Our local organizer, Jan Gunnar Tingsell and his stalwart team have arranged a marvelous conference in every respect, and he is to be thanked for making everything appear so flawless. If anything has gone wrong at this conference, none of us have noticed! Humanist readers might be interested to hear in some of the conference highlights so far. We heard an excellent opening plenary session from John Nerbonne, of the University of Groningen. John's talk was on the "Data Deluge: Developments and delights", and addressed some of the questions humanists ask when they are confronted with large data sets, and the way that a technological engagement with such materials can enable scholars to answer traditions lines of humanistic enquiry in new (and often unforeseen) ways. It addressed the question that is always of interest to me, in that "how do we use technology to do the sort of things in the humanities that we have been unable to accomplish by traditional methods". This year is also a year in which the Busa award is presented. The recipient this year was Susan Hockey, who is retiring from University College, London, after a long and illustrious career in Humanities Computing. Reflecting on her experiences with many projects, institutions and colleagues in her fascinating talk, Susan emphasized that what we as a community should do is to reach out to colleagues and institutions who are not yet involved with our humanities computing community. One of the most important developments at this conference has been the closer partnership that is evolving between ACH and ALLC under the auspices of the International Federation for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (the umbrella organization formally known as ADHO). A steering committee for this group has been convened for a one-year period, and great progress has been made on collaborative initiatives and activities, including conferences and publications. The steering committee has been enthusiastically charged with taking this process forward so that formal agreements will be entered into at next year's conference. Sunday was a day off, an opportunity for some hardy souls to venture off on a bus tour to look at the rock carvings at Tanum, led by archaeologists who allowed the delegates to touch them. The rock carvings, not the archaeologists. Alas, your correspondent used the opportunity to catch up on some sleep after the conference banquet, and the inevitable discussions about text analysis and open archiving that ensued thereafter. All that remains now are wistful daydreams of next year's conference, ACH/ALLC 2005 at the University of Victoria. The local organizer, Peter Liddell, is doing a wonderful job on the pre conference preparations, and we all look forward to what I am sure will be another incredible event, both intellectually and socially. Best, Lorna From: Lorna Hutson Subject: Report on ALLC/ACH for Humanist Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:18:05 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 82 (82) Dear Willard, Greetings from beautiful (and sunny!) Gothenburg, where about 180 delegates are enjoying an excellent, interesting and stimulating ALLC/ACH conference. Our local organizer, Jan Gunnar Tingsell and his stalwart team have arranged a marvelous conference in every respect, and he is to be thanked for making everything appear so flawless. If anything has gone wrong at this conference, none of us have noticed! Humanist readers might be interested to hear in some of the conference highlights so far. We heard an excellent opening plenary session from John Nerbonne, of the University of Groningen. John's talk was on the "Data Deluge: Developments and delights", and addressed some of the questions humanists ask when they are confronted with large data sets, and the way that a technological engagement with such materials can enable scholars to answer traditions lines of humanistic enquiry in new (and often unforeseen) ways. It addressed the question that is always of interest to me, in that "how do we use technology to do the sort of things in the humanities that we have been unable to accomplish by traditional methods". This year is also a year in which the Busa award is presented. The recipient this year was Susan Hockey, who is retiring from University College, London, after a long and illustrious career in Humanities Computing. Reflecting on her experiences with many projects, institutions and colleagues in her fascinating talk, Susan emphasized that what we as a community should do is to reach out to colleagues and institutions who are not yet involved with our humanities computing community. One of the most important developments at this conference has been the closer partnership that is evolving between ACH and ALLC under the auspices of the International Federation for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (the umbrella organization formally known as ADHO). A steering committee for this group has been convened for a one-year period, and great progress has been made on collaborative initiatives and activities, including conferences and publications. The steering committee has been enthusiastically charged with taking this process forward so that formal agreements will be entered into at next year's conference. Sunday was a day off, an opportunity for some hardy souls to venture off on a bus tour to look at the rock carvings at Tanum, led by archaeologists who allowed the delegates to touch them. The rock carvings, not the archaeologists. Alas, your correspondent used the opportunity to catch up on some sleep after the conference banquet, and the inevitable discussions about text analysis and open archiving that ensued thereafter. All that remains now are wistful daydreams of next year's conference, ACH/ALLC 2005 at the University of Victoria. The local organizer, Peter Liddell, is doing a wonderful job on the pre conference preparations, and we all look forward to what I am sure will be another incredible event, both intellectually and socially. Best, Lorna From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Writing and New Media Conference Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:06:56 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 83 (83) *WRITING AND NEW MEDIA* An International Colloquium University of Roma Tre Department of Linguistics Rome, October 21-22 2004 Interest in the evolution of digital writing and new media interactions has been growing during the last few years, part of one of the most lively and promising branches of research on communication. Following its strong teaching and research interests in this emerging field the Department of Linguistics of the University of Roma Tre has decided to organize a two-days colloquium on writing and new media. The conference is divided into three sections, representing different disciplines and research perspectives: - Orality, Writing, Memory - Writing and the Professions - Writing and New Media Speakers include: Alberto Abruzzese (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza), Luisa Carrada (Editor, Finsiel), Dario Corno (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale), Paolo D'Achille (Universita' di Roma Tre), Duccio Demetrio (Universita' di Milano), Alessandro Duranti (UCLA, USA), Giampiero Gamaleri (Universita' di Roma Tre), Claudio Giovanardi (Universita' di Roma Tre), Giulio Lughi (Universita' di Torino), Franca Orletti (Universita' di Roma Tre), Antonio Perri (Universita' di Napoli), Clotilde Pontecorvo (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza), Rocco Ronchi (Universita' di L'Aquila). Conference info: mariotti@uniroma3.it Registration form available on: http://host.uniroma3.it/dipartimenti/linguistica/pgs/convegno_ott/scritmed_i t.htm Useful addresses: Scientific Co-ordinator: Prof. Franca Orletti (orletti@uniroma3.it) Organizing Committee: Giuliana Fiorentino (fiorenti@uniroma3.it) (0039) 06/54577355 Domenico Fiormonte (fiormont@uniroma3.it) (0039) 06/54577549 Laura Mariottini mariotti@uniroma3.it Melani Traini traini@uniroma3.it ----------------------------- Dipartimento di Linguistica Via Ostiense, 236 00146 Roma Fax. 06/54577344 From: "Costica Bradatan" Subject: Web editor Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:24:05 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 84 (84) CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Web editor for the H-IDEAS network http://www.h-net.org/~ideas The H-Ideas editors are seeking a qualified individual to join the H-Ideas editorial team as a web-editor. H-ideas (http://www.h-net.org/~ideas) is in process of building an ambitiou= s database of online resources in the area of intellectual history and histor= y of ideas, ranging from links to various departments/organizations in the field to e-texts and e-archives. We are therefore looking for someone who, while working in the field of intellectual history/history of ideas broadly defined, has also proven experience in web-designing and site-building/developing. Since H-Ideas is a virtual, international community of scholars, interested individuals from any nation are welcome to apply for the position. Likewise, interested individuals from any of the broad range of academic disciplines related to intellectual history or to the history of ideas are encouraged to apply. This is an excellent opportunity for graduate and postgraduate students as well as independent scholars and scholars at the beginning of their career to develop an important aspect of their CV/career profile. Qualifications for the position are: -applicants must hold an advanced degree or be Ph.D. candidates in the fina= l stage of completing their graduate degree -proven experience in web-designing and site-building -strong English language skills (fluency in other languages is welcome) -willingness and ability to make a two year commitment as web editor H-NET requires individuals to undergo a two-day computer training program and to be approved by the H-NET Council before being certified as an H-NET editor. Serving as an H-NET editor is strictly voluntary, and involves no monetary or material remuneration. The H-Ideas editorial team operates democratically and by consensus, with each editor having an equal say in th= e decision-making process. As one of H-NET's most diverse and international discussion groups, members of the H-Ideas editorial team enjoy close contac= t with scholars from around the world and from a broad range of academic disciplines. Interested individuals should submit (via e-mail or as attached MS Word documents), a cover letter, a short resume/curriculum vita (listing their relevant academic and/or editorial experience) AND a list of links to sampl= e sites they have created/maintained in the past to Costica Bradatan at: bradatc_at_muohio.edu=20 <http://mail.h-net.msu.edu/twig/index.php3?&amp;twig_session=3Da%3A8%3A%7Bs% 3= A 7%3A%22mailbox%22%3Bs%3A5%3A%22INBOX%22%3Bs%3A9%3A%22mainGroup%22%3Bs%3A1%3= A %22%2A%22%3Bs%3A9%3A%22mailGroup%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%22%2A%22%3Bs%3A13%3A%22mail_= s tartmsg%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%221%22> The search will remain open until a qualified applicant has been selected. The H-Ideas Editorial Team: Dr. Costica Bradatan Dr. Harald Braun Dr. Ray Haberski Dr. Neil Brody Miller *************************************** Costica Bradatan, PhD The Knight Institute, 101 McGraw Hall,=20 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cb277 From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 85 (85) If you are going to be at the American Library Association Annual Convention in Orlando, I urge you to attend the meeting of the Library Electronic Text Center Discussion Group, scheduled for Saturday, June 26, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 223 B of the Orange County Convention Center. (Note the shift away from our usual time slot, due to circumstances beyond our control.) The topic of discussion will be the Text Creation Partnership, a joint undertaking by a large group of American and British research libraries that represents an important new model for digital library development. The aim of this project is a common database of fully marked-up and searchable texts drawn from three commercial collections ProQuest's Early English Books Online (EEBO), Readex's Evans Digital Edition, and Thomson Gale's Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO). Together, those databases mark a sea change in the development of digital library collections, as they bring into play a vast, increasingly comprehensive corpus of the universe of book publication in the English-speaking world prior to 1800, a body of resources that is clearly an essential component of a national digital library. In pursuit of its goals, the TCP has already made significant progress in developing fruitful collaboration between the academic and commercial publishing worlds, fostering cooperation among publishers, implementing standards for textual markup, and fostering the interoperability of dispersed resources. Many new opportunities and challenges lie ahead: the prospect of a similar treatment of 19th century resources, the possibility of drawing in the work of other publishers, the need to ensure broader access to these collections, and the unending need for development of the search tools to master an increasingly large body of material. With us to discuss these developments will be Mark Sandler, collection development officer and Shawn Martin, project outreach librarian, and perhaps other members of the staff. I hope that you will be able to attend. (I also encourage you to come with suggestions for a topic for our mid-winter discussion.) Bob Scott Head, Electronic Text Service Columbia University Libraries Telephone: 212-854-7547 Email: scottr_at_columbia.edu From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 86 (86) Ref. No. 2678 The Fachbereich 08 Anglistik/Romanistik at Kassel University offers the post of a Lector for English starting 15 October 2004. The post is for an indefinite period and remuneration is according to BAT IIa within the public service tariff. Responsibilities: - Teaching English at all levels with a teaching load of 16 hours per week - Organization and evaluation of language tests and exams at all levels - Cooperation in the improvement of our language teaching programs. Qualifications: - English as native language - MA degree or equivalent diploma in a relevant field - PhD. preferred - Proven experience in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, preferably at university level - very good knowledge of German - TEFL diploma, degree in appplied linguistics, or similar qualifications. Applications in German to be sent by July 3, 2004 (postmarked). The University of Kassel strives for equal opportunity of employment of men and women and for the adjustment of existing disproportions concerning the employment of women in teaching and research positions. Qualified women are thus encouraged to apply. Handicapped candidates will be given preference, all else being equal. Applications with the usual documentation should be sent before the deadline and referring to the number stated above to the President, University of Kassel, 34109 Kassel, Germany and one copy to the Dekanat Fachbereich 08, Kassel University, Georg-Forster-Str. 3, 34127 Kassel, Germany. -- Dipl.-Angl. Frauke Zeller, B.A. Universität Kassel Georg-Forster-Str. 3 D-34127 Kassel Tel.: +49-561-804 3346 Fax: +49-561-804 3341 Email: fzeller_at_uni-kassel.de From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 87 (87) ========================================================================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS CLIMA V Fifth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems September 29 and 30, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaV/index.htm Submission Deadline: June 25th (abstracts due June 22nd) Springer LNCS Proceedings Co-located with JELIA'04 =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Multi-agent systems are communities of problem-solving entities that can perceive and act upon their environments to achieve their individual goals as well as joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computing. For this reason, over recent years, the agent paradigm gained popularity in many sub-fields of computer science. A full spectrum of multi-agent systems applications have been and are being developed; from search engines to educational aids to electronic commerce and trade, e-procurement, recommendation systems, simulation and routing, to cite only some. Although commonly implemented by means of imperative languages, mainly for reasons of efficiency, the agent concept has recently increased its influence in the research and development of computational logic based systems. Computational logic provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for studying syntax, semantics and procedures, for attending implementations, environments, tools, and standards, and for linking together specification and verification of properties of computational systems. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. Following the workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming affiliated with ICLP'99, the first CLIMA workshop took place in London, UK, affiliated with CL'2000. The 2001 edition of CLIMA, took place in Paphos, Cyprus, affiliated with ICLP'01. CLIMA'02 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was affiliated with ICLP'02 and part of FLOC'02. The fourth edition of the workshop, CLIMA IV, took place in Fort Lauderdale, USA, and was co-located with LPNMR-7 and SAIM'04. We solicit unpublished papers that address formal approaches to multi-agent systems. the approaches as well as being formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. relevant techniques include, but are not limited to, the following: * logical foundations of multi-agent systems * knowledge and belief representation and updates in multi-agent systems * agent and multi-agent hypothetical reasoning and learning * extensions of logic programming for multi-agent systems * nonmonotonic reasoning in multi-agent systems * theory and practice of argumentation for agent reasoning and interaction * operational semantics and execution agent models * model checking algorithms, tools, and applications for multi-agent logics * semantics of interaction and agent communication languages * distributed constraint satisfaction in multi-agent systems * temporal reasoning for multi-agent systems * modal logic approaches to multi-agent systems * logic based programming languages for multi-agent systems * distributed theorem proving for multi-agent systems * logic based implementations of multi-agent systems * decision theory for multi-agent systems * specification and verification of formal properties of agent systems SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Please refer to the workshop web pages for further instructions concerning the submission procedures. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of Abstracts: June 22nd, 2004 * Submission of Papers: June 25th, 2004 * Notification of Acceptance: July 30th, 2004 * Final version due: September 6th, 2004 * CLIMA IV: September 29-30th, 2004 PROCEEDINGS The post-proceedings of CLIMA will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * José Alferes, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Gerd Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany * Jürgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany * Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany * Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool, UK * James Harland, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia * Katsumi Inoue, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden * João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal * Yves Lespérance, York University, Canada * John Jules Ch. Meyer, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands * Leora Morgenstern, IBM, USA * Wojciech Penczek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland * Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK * Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA * Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK * Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Renate Schmidt, The University of Manchester, UK * Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA * Francesca Toni, Imperial College, UK * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy * Wiebe Van Der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK * Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan * Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: * João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (jleite_at_di.fct.unl.pt) * Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy (ptorroni_at_deis.unibo.it) INQUIRIES: Please send program suggestions and inquires to either of the organizers. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 88 (88) Dear Dr. McCarty. I wanted to let you know about the following recent book from The MIT Press. For more information, please visit <http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262062410/> Imitation of Life How Biology Is Inspiring Computing Nancy Forbes As computers and the tasks they perform become increasingly complex, researchers are looking to nature--as model and as metaphor--for inspiration. The organization and behavior of biological organisms present scientists with an invitation to reinvent computing for the complex tasks of the future. In Imitation of Life Nancy Forbes surveys the emerging field of biologically inspired computing, looking at some of the most impressive and influential examples of this fertile synergy. Forbes points out that the influence of biology on computing goes back to the early days of computer science--John von Neumann, the architect of the first digital computer, used the human brain as the model for his design. Inspired by von Neumann and other early visionaries, as well as by her work on the "Ultrascale Computing" project at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Forbes describes the exciting potential of these revolutionary new technologies. She identifies three strains of biologically inspired computing: the use of biology as a metaphor or inspiration for the development of algorithms; the construction of information processing systems that use biological materials or are modeled on biological processes, or both; and the effort to understand how biological organisms "compute," or process information. Forbes then shows us how current researchers are using these approaches. In successive chapters, she looks at artificial neural networks; evolutionary and genetic algorithms, which search for the "fittest" among a generation of solutions; cellular automata; artificial life--not just a simulation, but "alive" in the internal ecosystem of the computer; DNA computation, which uses the encoding capability of DNA to devise algorithms; self-assembly and its potential use in nanotechnology; amorphous computing, modeled on the kind of cooperation seen in a colony of cells or a swarm of bees; computer immune systems; bio-hardware and how bioelectronics compares to silicon; and the "computational" properties of cells. Nancy Forbes works as a science and technology analyst for the federal government. She has advanced degrees both in physics and the humanities, and has served as a contributing editor for The Industrial Physicist and Computing in Science and Engineering. 6 x 9, 176 pp., 48 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-06241-0, $25.95 ______________________ David Weininger Associate Publicist The MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617 253 2079 617 253 1709 fax http://mitpress.mit.edu -- From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 89 (89) West Virginia motion capture / sound / image / text work http://www.clc.wvu.edu/sondheim/ Welcome to the initial results of a collaboration between the writer and artist Alan Sondheim and two research centers at WVU, the Center for Literary Computing (CLC) and the Virtual Environments Lab (VEL). Sondheim visited WVU during June and July 2004 to begin initial research on a project entitled "World Premiere: The Phenomenology of the Virtual." We are pleased to present some of the video, audio, and still images resulting from this work. Other aspects of the project include an art installation and public discussions. This is a ongoing exploration: more files will be added, included commentary and theoretical writings. Sondheim produced many of these works through creative mis-use and adaption of the motion capture technologies at the VEL. Using the technology against the grain, Sondheim disrupted and re-distributed built-in assumptions about the imaging and integrity of the human body and the capture of the "real." The results are beautiful and moving, both alien and very human, enigmatic and intimate. If these are works about the liveness of technological codings and protocols, they equally work rooted in a particular place - West Virginia. Sondheim continually records his interactions and travels in and around Morgantown, and the images and sounds of West Virginia are integrated into this work. The project is as much about the very real and local as it is about the virtual, and this is its interest and intensity. Sandy Baldwin Assistant Professor of English/CLC Director ::::::::::::::::::: The selection of materials includes finished work, 'miniatures' of finished work, and raw materials. Most of the still images are 'raw,' and resonate with me; they find their way into other pieces. There are images of the July/August installation at the Paul Mesaros Gallery of West Virginia University; there are also images of the motion capture equipment at work, as well as landscape/town shots. There are two sample .bvh files which feed into the videos through Poser 4 and Poser 5 applications. The texts are my current writing, some of which is on motion capture and other relevant concerns. I wish to thank Sandy Baldwin, the two interns working with me (from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program), Terri Markle and Jorge Fuentes, as well as Frances van Scoy from the Virtual Environments Laboratory. And thank you for looking at the materials here - Alan Sondheim sondheim_at_panix.com From: Michael Fraser Subject: 16 June 1904, Dublin Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:26:19 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 90 (90) Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: --Introibo ad altare Dei. In common with hundreds of other shameless opportunists around the world we are happy to mark the 100th anniversary of the day on which James Joyce's Ulysses is set by drawing your attention to a few of the online Joycean resources catalogued in Humbul: -- The Brazen Head : a James Joyce Public House http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/ "The brazen head is a vital site for Joyce enthusiasts and scholars. It is remarkably comprehensive and its content is imaginatively presented and easy to navigate." (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=1275) -- Hypermedia Joyce studies : electronic journal of Joycean scholarship http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/ "Such topics, as Joyce and money, Joyce and Postmodernism, as well as criticisms of Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, are discussed within the volumes of Hypermedia Joyce Studies. Bibliographies are provided for those seeking further research. The Bibliography is divided into three areas: hypermedia (for those needing online editions of Joyce's work), video, and audio." (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=9211) -- James Joyce scholars' collection http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/JoyceColl/ "...makes freely available online, electronic editions of some 16 (out-of-print) studies of James Joyce. The selected works compiled in the James Joyce Scholars' Collection are considered invaluable to those who wish to study the works of perhaps the greatest novelist of the 20th century." (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=6295) -- I foresee, Mr Deasy said, that you will not remain here very long at this work. You were not born to be a teacher, I think. Perhaps I am wrong. -- A learner rather, Stephen said. And here what will you learn more? Mr Deasy shook his head. -- Who knows? he said. To learn one must be humble. -- The International James Joyce Foundation http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/organizations/ijjf/ "The International James Joyce Foundation has created this website for those interested in the writer, as well as interested in events and news about symposiums and conventions. Within this website you will find links to further James Joyce resources, upcoming events, and the James Joyce Resource Centre online." (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=10217) -- Hiberno-English archive http://www.hiberno-english.com/ "The aim of the Hiberno-English Archive is to build an archive of Hiberno-English words, phrases, sayings, and idioms, collected and collated by Professor Terence Patrick Dolan of University College Dublin." (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=10160) -- The James Joyce centre http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/ "...The site features a biography and information on places in Dublin relevant to Joyce's life. There is information on regular events, readings, conferences and festivals held by the Centre." (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=1939) and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. --- 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: John Unsworth Subject: New Director at IATH Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:31:27 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 91 (91) NEW DIRECTOR SELECTED FOR IATH The [University of Virginia] Vice President and Provost has appointed Bernard Frischer as the new Director of UVA's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, beginning in the Fall term 2004. He will also join the faculty as Professor of Classics and Art History. "It is an honor and challenge to be chosen to succeed John Unsworth, the first Director of IATH," says Frischer. "Under John's leadership, IATH established itself as the premier research center in the United States for digital humanities. It is my hope to build on the achievements of the past by helping to make digital humanities a sustainable and integral approach to humanistic research both at Virginia and at other major universities around the world." Professor Frischer is a leading scholar in the application of digital technologies to humanities research and education. He is the founder and director of the Cultural Virtual Reality Lab at UCLA, which uses three-dimensional computer modeling to reconstruct cultural heritage sites. Frischer has overseen many significant projects, including virtual recreations of the Roman Colosseum and the Roman Forum. The works of Frischer and the Lab have received international acclaim and have been featured on the Discovery Channel and in Newsweek and the New York Times. "I am drawn to virtual reality technology because it strikes me as a highly effective way to help students and scholars visualize and understand complex lost worlds such as ancient Rome," says Frischer. "In the twenty-first century, real-time 3D-computer models of cultural heritage sites will become as common in history, art history, archaeology, and classics classrooms as two-dimensional 35 mm slides were in the twentieth." Frischer's research career reflects his interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and has included studies in the literature, philosophy, art history and archeology of Greece and Rome. He is the author of four books, including Shifting Paradigms: New Approaches to Horace's Ars Poetica, and The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment. Since 1997, Frischer has directed the excavations of Horace's Villa, a project sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Archeological Superintendency for Lazio of the Italian Ministry of Culture, which will be the subject of his next book. Professor Frischer has been a faculty member in Classics at UCLA since 1976, and served as Chair of that department from 1984 to 1988. He received his BA in Classics from Wesleyan University in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Classical Philology from the University of Heidelberg in 1975. His numerous awards and honors include appointments as the Loeb Classical Research Fellow, the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Frischer's spouse, Jane Crawford, has also been appointed as a Professor to the UVA Classics Department. She comes from Loyola Marymount University, where she currently serves as Chair of the Department of Classics and Archaeology. From: Alastair Dunning Subject: Registration open for DRH 2004 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:43:59 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 92 (92) Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference 2004 (Sept. 5th - 8th) Registration for DRH 2004 is now open and the registration form, plus a provisional list of speakers, can be found at http://www.drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ DRH organises an annual conference whose goal is to bring together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources in the humanities. DRH 2004 is being hosted by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from Sunday 5th to Wednesday 8th September 2004. 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: a. Methods in humanities computing. b. Cross-sector exchange between heritage, national and local government, and education bodies. c. Broadening the humanities computing base. d. New forms of scholarly publication. In addition to refereed papers, the conference includes Posters, an Exhibition and a social programme. Please use the registration form on the website. Other enquiries should be addresses to drh_at_ncl.ac.uk Thanks The Organising Committee. From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: New List for Medievalists Working with Digital Media Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:50:23 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 93 (93) is a new mailing list intended for medievalists working with digital media. The purpose of the list is to provide a collegial form for the exchange of practical expertise in the production of digital projects. The list accepts members with all levels of expertise. This is the place to discover new techniques and approaches and help influence the development of our field. While the list is aimed primarily at scholars working in what we might call "the long middle ages" (defined very broadly as extending from late antiquity through the early renaissance), many problems discussed will be of interest to scholars working in other periods. is moderated by the editorial board of the Digital Medievalist Project: Peter Baker (Virginia), Martin Foys (Hood College), Murray McGillivray (Calgary), Daniel O¹Donnell (Lethbridge), Roberto Rosselli del Turco (Turin), and Elizabeth Solopova (Oxford). It is the first stage in the development of this Project, which, upon completion, will form a web-based "Community of Practice." The two remaining core parts of the Digital Medievalist Project, a refereed on-line journal and community resource centre will be launched this Fall. An outline of the project goals can be found at the Project web site <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org>. Subscription to is free, and open to all interested parties. Subscription information is available at <http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l>. To avoid spam, subscribers must be approved; there are no minimum requirements other than interest, however. -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_at_uleth.ca Web-Page: http://home.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell The Electronic Caedmon's Hymn: http://home.uleth.ca/~caedmon ------ End of Forwarded Message ------ End of Forwarded Message From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: Devoicing at the end of the modern and Old Greek word? Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:46:19 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 94 (94) Dear Humanist colleagues, could you tell me if voiced consonants such as "b, d, g", etc. are devoiced at the end of the Greek word into something like "p, t, k, x" etc. in modern Greek and in Old Greek? I'd like to compute the frequency of occurrence of Greek phonemes and to compare the frequencies in modern and Old Greek. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: "Lisa Charlong" Subject: Summer Seminar Series - University of New Brunswick Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:45:05 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 95 (95) Registration Reminder- 2004 SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES / University of New Brunswick / Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada / August 13-20 http://www.lib.unb.ca/courses The registration deadline for the Summer Seminar Series is approaching and there are still spaces available. The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick is offering for the eighth consecutive year a summer workshop series around issues in scholarly communication that effectively balances technical components with theoretical in a “hands-on” learning environment in state-of-the-art labs. Included are: "Fundamentals of Digital Imaging Workshop" Instructor: Marc Bragdon - Imaging Coordinator, Electronic Text Centre University of New Brunswick August 13–14 Registration limited to 15 Course fee: $275.00 (CDN) "Essentials of Electronic Publishing Workshop" Instructor: David L. Gants - Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing University of New Brunswick August 16-20 Registration limited to 20 Course Fee: $950.00 (CDN) "Intensive Introduction to Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Workshop" Instructor: Daniel Pitti - Interim Co-Director (IATH) University of Virginia August 16-20 Registration limited to 15 Course Fee: $950.00 (CDN) Visit our Summer Series Web site at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/courses for registration, workshop, and accommodation information and also for participant comments from past summers. Or, contact Susan Oliver (suoliver_at_unb.ca). Preparations are well under away and we look forward to seeing you in August. ************************** Alan Burk Director, Electronic Text Centre University of New Brunswick 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: "Ellen Potts" Subject: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) - Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:43:09 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 96 (96) 2004 Call for applications The ELDP is now inviting applications for its third funding round. Full details of the application procedure are on the website at: http://www.hrelp.org. Deadlines, according to application type, are as follows: Major Documentation Projects & Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships: Preliminary applications - 7th August, 2004; Full applications (on invitation) - 5th November, 2004 Individual Graduate Studentships & Pilot Projects: Full applications - 7th January, 2005 Field Trip Grants (projects starting between 1st April 2005 & 31st March 2006): Full applications - 7th January 2005 Field Trip Grants (projects starting between 1st June 2005 & 31st May 2006): Full applications - 28th March 2005 Please address queries to: ep21_at_soas.ac.uk From: Robin Smith Subject: Re: 18.075 Greek Advice Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:16:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 97 (97) To: Humanist Discussion Group [deleted quotation] Yuri Tambovtsev> Dear Humanist colleagues, could you tell me if Yuri Tambovtsev> voiced consonants such as "b, d, g", etc. are Yuri Tambovtsev> devoiced at the end of the Greek word into Yuri Tambovtsev> something like "p, t, k, x" etc. in modern Greek Yuri Tambovtsev> and in Old Greek? Ancient Greek words end either in a vowel or in the consonants s (sigma or the double letters xi, psi, zeta), r (rho), or n (nu), with a few exceptions in k (e.g. ek). So, the occasion simply never arises. The only comparable case I can think of even in internal composition is g (gamma) + t' (aspirated t, theta) = kh (chi), as in the aorist passive stem of legein (lekhth-). There's surely a linguist out there who can give a more informed answer about Modern Greek, but (apart from the same issue about what words can end with) there are cases in which a consonant is voiced or unvoiced depending on what follows: sigma is normally unvoiced (s) but becomes voiced (z) before mu or a voiced consonant, and consonantal upsilon (upsilon in the diphthongs eu- and au-) is 'f' before unvoiced (auto= 'afto'), 'v' before voiced (augo='avgho'). On the other hand, there are circumstances in which an unvoiced consonant becomes voiced because of what precedes it: nasal + unvoiced becomes nasal + voiced (e.g. en taxi is pronounced 'endaxi', mporo is pronounced 'boro'). From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Not-doing: talk at the CAC June 29 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:04:03 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 98 (98) Alan Sondheim will talk and lead discussion at the Paul Mesaros Gallery of the WVU Creative Arts Center at 7pm, Tuesday June 29th. The topics of the talk will range from Sondheim's installation, entitled "Not-Doing" and currently at the Mesaros Gallery through August 9, to his research project on the "phenomenology of the virtual" currently underway at WVU, to theoretical influences on his work, to more general discusison. The talk is free and open to the public. Alan Sondheim is a writer and artist currently visiting WVU, sponsored by the Center for Literary Computing and the Virtual Environments Lab. Direct questions to clc_at_mail.wvu.edu. From: "Bramson, Leon" Subject: 2005 NEH SUMMER STIPENDS AWARDS: $5,000 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:04:57 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 99 (99) June 22, 2004 The NEH Summer Stipends program received 968 applications last fall and made 142 awards for the summer of 2004. We are now making plans for the October 1, 2004 deadline. This will be the third year in which the NEH Summer Stipends program applications will be submitted online. Individuals who are interested in obtaining access to the guidelines are invited to visit the NEH Summer Stipends website at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html> The list of awards for the summer of 2004 is available on the website (Click on ³Sample Projects²). Click on ³Frequently Asked Questions² for additional information concerning the application process and the program. Questions about the program can be sent via e-mail to: stipends_at_neh.gov or via telephone: 202-606-8202. From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: PALA 2004 New York Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:05:48 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 100 (100) Registration for the 24th Annual convention of the Poetics and Linguistics Association at New York University, July 25-28 will remain open only until July 1, so register now. The conference concentrates on stylistics, cognitive metaphor, corpus linguistics, literary linguistics, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, and related fields. Plenary speakers are Mark Turner, Haj Ross, and Mick Short. Conference information is available at the conference web site: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/PALA2004/ -- 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: BODARD Gabriel Subject: Greek Advice Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:49:39 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 101 (101) In fact the reverse seems to happen in Ancient Greek (judging by the epigraphic and papyrological evidence): words like 'ek' that end in an unvoiced consonant normally may become voiced when followed by certain voiced sounds. But as Robin Smith points out, normal Greek words just don't ever end in plosive consonants ('ek' is proclitic, and so never really ends a word-unit). [deleted quotation] writes: [deleted quotation] -- ======================================= Gabriel BODARD Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Corpus Institute of Classical Studies Library Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 62 87 26 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 62 87 22 ======================================= From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: voiced fricatives and occlusives at the end of Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:50:32 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 102 (102) the Greek word Dear Humanist colleagues, summing up the answers about the occurrence of the voiced fricatives and voiced occlusives at the end of the Greek word, I must conclude that they never occur in native Greek words. It seems true also for the Old Greek (Ancient Greek). I am really looking forward to hearing from you all soon again to yutamb_at_hotmail,com The other e-mail box does not function properly. Thanking all who responded, remain yours truely and cordially indeed Yuri Tambovtsev From: "Tinkle, Theresa L" Subject: CFP: STS 2005 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:07:21 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 103 (103) Call for Papers The Society for Textual Scholarship President: W. Speed Hill, Emeritus, City University of New York Interim Executive Director: Ronald Broude Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference March 16-19, 2005, New York University Program Chair: Theresa Tinkle, University of Michigan Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2004 The Program Chair invites the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to the implications of contemporary textual scholarship: the discovery, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, and annotation of texts (be they musical, verbal, visual, etc.). The Program Chair is particularly interested in papers and panels on the following topics, aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience: [deleted quotation]Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Panels should consist of three papers. Individual proposals should include a brief abstract (one or two pages) of the proposed paper as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation of the participant. Panel proposals should include a session title, the name of a designated contact person for the session, the names, e-mail addresses, and institutional addresses and affiliations of each person involved in the session, and a one- or two-page abstract of each paper to be presented during the session. Abstracts should indicate what (if any) technological support will be requested. Such support may be limited, so please request only what is truly needed. The plenary sessions for the conference will include interdisciplinary perspectives on textual scholarship, including talks by George Bornstein, Peter Shillingsburg, Peter Robinson, Robin Schulze, John Unsworth, and Kathleen Wiell-Brandt. Inquiries and proposals should be sent to: [deleted quotation]All participants in the STS 2005 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary-Treasurer Nancy M. Goslee, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430 (ngoslee_at_utk.edu). From: Carlos Areces Subject: ESSLLI05 - Registration Closing Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:08:22 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 104 (104) ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 Registration Closing ESSLLI 2004 Nancy, France 9-20 August, 2004 ======================================================================= Please note that registration for ESSLLI 2004 will not be possible after ******** 7 July 2004 ******** 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. To check the status of your registration, go the the ESSLLI 2004 website and click on List of Participants. 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: Paul Dekker Subject: Last Call for Proposals, ESSLLI 2005, Edinburgh Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 21:14:25 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 105 (105) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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. ESSLLI-2005 will be held just after the IJCAI-05, the 19-th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, from July 30-th to August 5-th, also in Edinburgh (see "http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk"). 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 on our website while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. Further information can be found at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ (general information) http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/give-page.php?6 (call for papers) http://www.esslli.org/2005/submission.html (submission form) We welcome your submisssions! Paul Dekker Fairouz Kamareddine on behalf of the Program and the Organizing Committee From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- June 2004 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:54:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 106 (106) CIT INFOBITS June 2004 No. 72 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... The Educated Blogger What Happened to E-learning? Study of Online Teaching Workload The Age of Google 2003 Campus Desktop Computing Survey Accessible Distance Education Blog Editor's Note [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: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 6/04 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:53:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 107 (107) Greetings: The June 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, two opinion pieces, a conference report, several smaller features in the '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 2004 is the Eisenhower National Clearing House for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC). The articles include: DAFFODIL - Strategic Support for User-Oriented Access to Heterogeneous Digital Libraries Sascha Kriewel, Claus-Peter Klas, André Schaefer, Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet Norbert Lossau, Bielefeld University, Germany Implementing an Open Jurisdictional Digital Repository - the STORS Project Lloyd Sokvitne and Jan Lavelle, State Library of Tasmania The Use of Consortially Purchased Electronic Journals by the CBUC (2000-2003) Cristobal Urbano, Angel Borrego, and Antonio Cosculluela, Universitat de Barcelona; Lluis Anglada and Nuria Comellas, Consorci de Biblioteques Universitaries de Catalunya (CBUC); and Carme Cantos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra The Opinions include: Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? Donald W. King, University of Pittsburgh Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals Stevan Harnad, Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Tim Brody, Southampton University The Conference Report is: Beyond Productivity: Culture and Heritage Resources in the Digital Age John Perkins, MusInfo Consulting; David Dawson, Museums, Libraries, Archives Council (MLA); and Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network, (CHIN) [material deleted] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 54, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:54:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 108 (108) Version 54 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,150 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 (biweekly 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 175 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, 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_at_uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.20 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:55:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 109 (109) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 20 (July 14 - July 20, 2004) VIEW WHY ARE YOU STEALING THAT SOFTWARE: Piracy in South East Asia By Louis Jezsik http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i20_jezsik.html From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.18 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:56:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 110 (110) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 18 (June 30 - July 6, 2004) REVIEW Does It Matter? Judge This Book by its Cover Review by John Stuckey http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i18_stuckey-carr.html From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.17 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:57:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 111 (111) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 17 (June 23 - June 29, 2004) INTERVIEW Ann Kirschner on Marketing and Distribution of Online Learning Outside of business schools, the very word "marketing" makes most universities uncomfortable, as does the idea of students as customers. But the world of higher education is becoming increasingly competitive. Fathom, named for the double idea of comprehension and depth, was a milestone in the evolution of online learning and a prototype of where things are headed. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i17_kirschner.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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist resumed Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:10:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 112 (112) Dear colleagues, After being more or less out of reach of Humanist, sojourning in Western Australia, then at a conference in Newcastle NSW and in Sydney, I am back at my virtual desk. Should any postings to Humanist have gone awry, please send them again. Dealing with the flood of spam from shared computers in backpackers' hostels and the like was a rather uncertain affair. Apologies for any that have gone missing in the Outback. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:05:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 113 (113) (1) Volume 18 Number 3 of AI & Society is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Open Forum The influence of culture in automotive manufacturing - a Mexican-French comparison p. 242 Carlos Acosta, Rafael Sánchez, Adoración Rodríguez, Jorge León Review Article Concepts and Transformation: The International Journal of Action Research and Organisational Renewal p. 293 Richard Ennals (2) Volume 20 Number 5 of The Visual Computer is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. From curve design algorithms to the design of rigid body motions p. 279 Michael Hofer, Helmut Pottmann, Bahram Ravani Point in solid test for free-form solids defined with triangular Bézier patches p. 298 Á.L. García, J. Ruiz de Miras, F.R. Feito Painting canvas synthesis p. 314 Frédéric Drago, Norishige Chiba Feature sensitive multiscale editing on surfaces p. 329 U. Clarenz, M. Griebel, M. Rumpf, M.A. Schweitzer, A. Telea A weighted mean approach to smooth parametric representation of polygon meshes p. 344 A. Ardeshir Goshtasby (3) Volume 6 Number 4 of Knowledge and Information Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Editorial: Ontology Challenges: A Thumbnail Historical Perspective p. 375 James Geller, Yehoshua Perl, Jintae Lee Ontologies for Knowledge Management: An Information Systems Perspective p. 380 Igor Jurisica, John Mylopoulos, Eric Yu Addressing the Ontology Acquisition Bottleneck Through Reverse Ontological Engineering p. 402 Debbie Richards Ontology Evolution: Not the Same as Schema Evolution p. 428 Natalya F. Noy, Michel Klein Ontologies: How can They be Built? p. 441 Helena Sofia Pinto, João P. Martins [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Matthias Kopp Subject: 90. Kolloquium Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:57:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 114 (114) Statt einer Einladung zum 90. Kolloqium über die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen: Wegen unüberwindlicher Terminprobleme muss das für den 10. Juli 2004 geplante Kolloquium leider ausfallen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen matthias kopp [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: voiced fricatives and occlusives at the end of the Greek word Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:58:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 115 (115) Dear Humanist colleagues, summing up the answers about the occurrence of the voiced fricatives and voiced occlusives at the end of the Greek word, I must conclude that they never occur in native Greek words. It seems true also for the Old Greek (Ancient Greek). I am really looking forward to hearing from you all soon again to yutamb_at_hotmail,com The other e-mail box does not function properly. Thanking all who responded, remain yours truely and cordially indeed Yuri Tambovtsev [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Request for Proposals--Cooperative Agreements: National Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:40:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 116 (116) Digital Newspaper Program Please excuse any cross postings: The National Endowment for the Humanities: Division of Preservation and Access Request for Proposals--Cooperative Agreements for Phase One of the National Digital Newspaper Program (A Partnership between NEH and the Library off Congress) URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html Program Overview ·Award amount: up to $500,000 ·Deadline for submission: September 1, 2004 for letter of intent; October 1, 2004 for receipt of applications ·Award announcement: April 2005 ·Grant period: 2 years beginning May 2005 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the development of a test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet. An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website will direct users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections during the course of this partnership between NEH and the Library. NDNP will be implemented in several phases. After the completion of the test bed, the Endowment intends to support additional projects in all states and U.S. territories, provided that sufficient funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will be eligible for continued support to digitize pages from new decades, as the program increases its chronological span. Successful applicants for the initial developmental phase of NDNP will select newspapers published in English within their state from 1900 through 1910 and convert, primarily from microfilm, over a period of two years, a minimum of 100,000 pages into digital files, according to the technical guidelines outlined by the Library of Congress. Up to 20,000 of these pages may be drawn from previously digitized titles, provided that the content meets the selection criteria for the program. Awardees will also be expected to contribute to the evaluation by NEH and LC of the program's future selection criteria, the technical specifications and requirements of the program, and the effectiveness of NDNP's initial interface for browsing and searching newspaper pages. NDNP builds on the foundation established by an earlier NEH initiative: the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). Since 1982, the Endowment has supported a cooperative, national effort to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm American newspapers published from the 18th century to the present. NEH has funded newspaper projects in all the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. When completed in 2007, USNP will have provided bibliographic control to widely scattered newspapers and have preserved on microfilm (to consistent national standards) selected titles from this vulnerable corpus. LC has provided technical assistance for the USNP since its inception. NEH expects to award up to ten, two-year cooperative agreements (of up to $500,000 each), depending on the availability of funds. The Guidelines for the Request for Proposals are located at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html. LC's technical guidelines are found at: http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ndnp_techguide.pdf . Deadlines: * September 1, 2004: By this date, applicants must submit a letter indicating their intent to apply. The letter should list the institutions that would be partners in the project as well as any consultants from other institutions or organizations that will be involved in the project's activities. * October 1, 2004: Applications must be received by NEH. For information about the application process, contact the Division of Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or e-mail at preservation_at_neh.gov. The postal address is: National Digital Newspaper Program Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930. All questions relating to the technical guidelines should be directed to LC staff at ndnptech_at_loc.gov. To obtain a print-version of the guidelines, call 202-606-8446, send an e-mail to info_at_neh.gov, or write NEH, Office of Public Affairs, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. From: dws2004robot_at_aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Dictionary Writing Systems Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:37:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 117 (117) Please distribute this call among your colleagues *********************************************************************** DWS 2004 - THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Third International Workshop on DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS (DWS 2004) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-7 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/dws2004/ *********************************************************************** The workshop is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, as a pre-conference workshop of TSD 2004 (Text, Speech and Dialogue - http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004). The workshop is supported by EURALEX (the European Association for Lexicography). A dictionary writing system (DWS) is a piece of software for writing and producing a dictionary. It might include an editor, a database, a web interface and various management tools (for allocating work etc.) It operates with a dictionary grammar, which specifies the structure of the dictionary. The workshop follows similar successful events in Brighton, UK in 2002 and 2003. It will include hands-on experience of a leading DWS, presentation of research papers and demos. The deadline for abstracts of proposed research presentations and demos is July, 31. INTENDED AUDIENCE: * dictionary project managers * lexical database users and developers * lexicographers * students of lexicography, lexicology, computational lingusitics [material deleted] LOCATION: Brno is the the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400,000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair centre. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the south-east part of the Czech Republic. It had been the King's town since 1347 and with its six Universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also be of interest. The local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Bishops Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe and other important buildings of inter-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of Three Emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the greatest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - the town on the list of UNESCO and many others are all within an easy reach. From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI (V5i1): Future Visions of Common-Use Hypertext Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:34:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 118 (118) Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Future Visions of Common-Use Hypertext (Volume 5, issue 1, July 2004) Special issue Editors: Helen Ashman and Adam Moore, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham From the special issue editorial: "This special issue arises out of a panel held during the ACM Hypertext '03 conference. Panellists were invited to sell their vision as 'the next big thing' in hypertext, either to supplement, augment or supplant 'modern day' systems, which, let's face it, is the Web, and to consider new ways to embed their research in contexts and situations that are accessible to the majority". http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/editorial The issue includes the following papers: P. Brown, H. Brown (February 2004) Integrating Reading and Writing of Documents http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Brown/ J. Catanio, N. Nnadi, L. Zhang, M. Bieber, R. Galnares (April 2004) Ubiquitous Metainformation and the WYWWYWI Principle http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Catanio/ P. De Bra, L. Aroyo, V. Chepegin (May 2004) The Next Big Thing: Adaptive Web-Based Systems http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/DeBra/ A. Di Iorio, F. Vitali (May 2004) Writing the Web http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/DiIorio/ K. Edmonds, J. Blustein, D. Turnbull (May 2004) A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Edmonds/ S. Harper, C. Goble, S. Pettitt (April 2004) proXimity: Walking the Link http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Harper/ R. Mayans (May 2004) The Future of Mathematical Text: A Proposal for a New Internet Hypertext for Mathematics http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Mayans/ A. Moore, T. Brailsford (May 2004) Unified Hyperstructures for Bioinformatics: Escaping the Application Prison http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Moore/ P. Murray-Rust, H. Rzepa (March 2004) The Next Big Thing: From Hypermedia to Datuments http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Murray-Rust/ T. Nelson (July 2004) A Cosmology for a Different Computer Universe: Data Model, Mechanisms, Virtual Machine and Visualization Infrastructure http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Nelson/ H. Obendorf (April 2004) The Indirect Authoring Paradigm ­ Bringing Hypertext into the Web http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/Obendorf/ m. schraefel, L. Carr, D. De Roure, W. Hall (July 2004) You've Got Hypertext http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i01/schraefel/ -- 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/ From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Library of Congress Global Gateway: Lewis Carroll Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:34:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 119 (119) Scrapbook Now Online The Library of Congress's Rare Book & Special Collections Division is pleased to announce the release of a new digital collection, The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection, available on the Library's Global Gateway Web site at: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/carrollhtml/ The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook is an original scrapbook kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children's author of such titles as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). The scrapbook appears to have been kept by Carroll between the years 1855 and 1872, and contains approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings, illustrations, and photographs. These items were personally selected and arranged by Carroll, giving us insight into his interests and collecting habits. The scrapbook also includes a limited number of handwritten annotations, some presumably by Carroll himself. The scrapbook was sold after Carroll's death in 1898 to Frederic L. Huidekoper, an undergraduate at Oxford, at a sale held at the Holywell Music Rooms. The Library of Congress acquired it shortly thereafter. The online collection includes special presentations by Lewis Carroll scholar, Edward Wakeling. Mr. Wakeling has prepared an introduction to the scrapbook; a timeline of events for the years that Carroll added to his scrapbook; a timeline of Carroll's life; a list of Carroll's key works; and a portrait gallery of people whose names appear in the scrapbook. Another Carroll scholar, August Imholtz, assisted Mr. Wakeling in preparing bibliographic notes for items that appear in the scrapbook. The collection was processed with optical character recognition (OCR) software and hand-encoded in SGML to allow users to search the full text of the scrapbook for a word or phrase. This feature enhances the usefulness of the site by allowing users to search not only titles and authors, but also the full-text of items. This online presentation of the Lewis Carroll Scrapbook joins other world history collections available through the Library of Congress's Global Gateway Web site: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html . The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection may be found under the heading: "Individual Digital Collections." Please direct any questions regarding this collection to the Global Gateway inquiry form at: http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-international.html. From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 7/04 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:33:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 120 (120) Greetings: The July/August 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains a commentary, three articles, two conference reports, several smaller features in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. The Featured Collection for July/August 2004 is Earth as Art. The Commentary is: Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Research The articles include: The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe Seamus Ross, HATII and ERPANET The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Neil Beagrie, The British Library Integration of Non-OAI Resources for Federated Searching in DLIST, an Eprints Repository Anita Coleman, Paul Bracke, and S. Karthik, University of Arizona The Conference Reports are: Report on the Fourth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL): 7 - 11 June 2004, Tucson, Arizona Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore If You Build It, Will They Come? Participant Involvement in Digital Libraries Sarah Giersch, iLumina Digital Library, Eugene A. Klotz, The Math Forum @ Drexel, Flora McMartin, MERLOT, Brandon Muramatsu, University of California, Berkeley, K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, Wesley Shumar, Drexel University, and Stephen A. Weimar, The Math Forum @ Drexel 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, 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/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the July/August 2004 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 DLib-Subscribers_at_dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.21 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:35:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 121 (121) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 21 (July 21 - July 27, 2004) INTERVIEW Crafting a Revolution Aza Raskin talks about The Humane Environment, his father (inventor of the Macintosh), and challenging the status quo. This apple doesn't fall far from the tree. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i21_aza.html From: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Trento, Italy: PHD Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:39:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 122 (122) POSITION (deadline: 25 Ago 04) == Apologies For Multiple Copies - Please Circulate == PhD position at Laboratory for Applied Ontology There is an opening position in the area: "Applied Ontology and Knowledge Engineering" at the PhD program of the University of Trento, International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technology, http://dit.unitn.it. Call downloadable (both in English and in Italian) at http://ict.unitn.it/ict/admissions/calls.xml. The application deadline is August 25th, 2004. English is the official language of the program. No knowledge of Italian is required. The research activity will be hosted by the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), http://www.loa-cnr.it, part of the CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, in the framework of a cooperation with the Department of Information and Communication Technology of the University of Trento. The Laboratory for Applied Ontology has a leading reputation in the foundations of ontological analysis, knowledge representation, and conceptual modeling, and adopts a strong interdisciplinary approach that combines Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics, relying on logic as a unifying paradigm. Candidates with a background in any of such disciplines are welcome; please check the LOA web-site for more information about publications and ongoing projects. The Department of Information and Communication Technology of University of Trento has an excellent reputation, in particular in areas such as Information and Knowledge Management and Software Engineering. Please check the Doctorate School Web site http://ict.unitn.it/ict/home for more info about the University. Trento is a lovely Italian city along the Adige river in the Alps. For information on the city, the surrounding mountains and the Italian lifestyle, check the following websites: http://www.apt.trento.it/inglese/ingindex.htm http://www.trentino.to For further information on the research activity at LOA and the application process, please contact Alessandro Oltramari at oltramari_at_loa-cnr.it -- tel. +39 0461 830198 From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Virtual Reality - New Issue Alert Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:41:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 123 (123) Volume 7 Numbers 3-4 of Virtual Reality is now available on the=20 SpringerLink web site at=20 http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Special issue on 'Interacting with desktop virtual environments: Perception and=20 navigation' p. 129 Sonali S. Morar, Robert D. Macredie Navigational tools for desktop virtual environment interfaces p. 131 H. M. Sayers, S. Wilson, M. D. J. McNeill A comparison of guidance cues in desktop virtual environments p. 140 Karl E. Steiner, Lavanya Voruganti Comparing the roles of 3D representations in audio and audio-visual collaborations p. 148 Martin Hicks, Sarah Nichols, Claire O'Malley Evaluating the effects of frame of reference on spatial collaboration using desktop collaborative virtual environments p. 164 Wendy A. Schafer, Doug A. Bowman Editorial Usability issues of desktop virtual environment applications p. 175 Sonali S. Morar, Robert D. Macredie Context analysis to support development of virtual reality applications p. 177 Henriette S. M. Cramer, V. Evers, E. V. Zudilova, P. M. A. Sloot A desktop VR prototype for industrial training applications p. 187 Q. H. Wang, J. R. Li A system for desktop conceptual 3D design p. 198 Ji-Young Oh, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger Usability issues in the design of an intuitive interface for planning and simulating maintenance interventions using a virtual environment p. 212 Ang=E9lica de Antonio, Ricardo Imbert, Jaime Ram=EDrez, Xavier Ferr=E9 From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - New Issue Alert Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:42:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 124 (124) Volume 3121/2004 (Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Algorithm Design and Optimization for Sensor Systems: (Invited Talk) p. 1 Viktor K. Prasanna Algorithmic and Foundational Aspects of Sensor Systems: (Invited Talk) p. 3 Paul G. Spirakis [other specialist papers, deleted here because re-editing them for presentation on Humanist proved too long a task] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Robert Burchfield, 1923-2004 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:28:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 125 (125) Members of this group will be saddened to learn of the death of Robert Burchfield, great scholar and lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary. See http://www.oed.com/news/burchfield.html for details. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: Samoan, Hawaiian or any Oceanic language in electronic form Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:28:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 126 (126) Dear Humanist colleagues, we need Hawaiin electronic text. Samoan or any other Ocianic language electronic text. It is all right if somebody could send it as a simple txt-message like this one. Could you advise me where it is possible to try to get a text in Hawaiin or Samoan? Is the Holy Bible translated into Hawaiian? Or in Samoan? Do you know where to get an Oceanic (Samoan, Hawaiian etc.) text in the electronic form? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Yours most hopefully and sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia From: jnls.eprod_at_OUPJOURNALS.ORG Subject: ToC for Literary and Linguistic Computing 19-13 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 04:08:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 127 (127) Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: September 2004; Vol. 19, No. 3 URL: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to the Special Issue Lou Burnard and Peter Childs, p. 251 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Turning It All Upside Down . . . Imagining a distributed digital audiovisual archive Linda Barwick, pp. 253-263 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190253.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- What Characterizes Pictures and Text? Michael A. R. Biggs, pp. 265-272 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190265.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- New Technologies, New Formalisms for Historians: The 3D Virtual Buildings John Bonnett, pp. 273-287 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190273.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Modelling Features of Characters: Some Digital Ways to Look at Names in Literary Texts Karina Van-Oskam and Joris Van Zundert, pp. 289-301 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190289.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Cultural Shaping of ICTs within Academic Fields: Corpus-based Linguistics as a Case Study Jenny Fry, pp. 303-319 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190303.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Enhancing Visual Resources for Searching and Retrieval-Is Content-based Image Retrieval a Solution? Margaret E. Graham, pp. 321-333 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190321.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Visualization of Spatial Data in the Humanities Martyn Jessop, pp. 335-350 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190335.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- City Histories Revealed Suzanne Keene, pp. 351-371 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190351.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reading Room(s): Building a National Archive in Digital Spaces and Physical Places Elizabeth Losh, pp. 373-384 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190373.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Elements of Drawing Jonathan Miller and Rupert Shepherd, pp. 385-396 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190385.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Downs and Acrosses: Textual Markup on a Stroke Level Melissa Terras and Paul Robertson, pp. 397-414 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190397.sgm.abs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Resources for Practice-based Research: The New Comedy Masks Project Richard Williams, pp. 415-426 http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_19/Issue_03/190415.sgm.abs.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: contributing to the Grid? Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:49:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 128 (128) Recently I was made aware of a scheme for harnessing the power of idle machines, grid.org. "Grid.org is a single destination site for large-scale research projects powered by the United Devices grid computing solution, <http://www.ud.com/solutions/mp_global.htm>Grid MP Global. With the participation of over 2 million devices worldwide, grid.org projects like <http://grid.org//projects/cancer/>Cancer Research, <http://grid.org//projects/anthrax/>Anthrax Research, and the new <http://grid.org//projects/smallpox/>Smallpox Research Project have achieved record levels of processing speed and success." One downloads a small agent that then takes the unused cycles of one's machine for working on small segments of very large problems. This agent turns itself off and on again and runs without affecting one's ordinary uses of a machine. On a laptop, for example, it turns itself off whenever the machine is on battery-power, on again when the machine is connected to the mains. The scheme seems brilliant and a very fine idea. I would be most grateful for any words to the contrary from those who know more about what grid.org actually does. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 18.093 Oceanic language texts? Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 04:09:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 129 (129) I got the piece below at projectgutenberg.info You might want to follow the last link, as they have eBooks in ~100 languages, and many in Hawaiian. I'm forwarding this to their Executive Director, who will probably reply in a week when he returns from Japan and Korea. Michael ***Quoted Directly from projectgutenberg.info You probably want to visit one of these sites: Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org), the original Project Gutenberg. Distributed Proofreaders, where you can help proofread the next Project Gutenberg eBook. A page a day is all it takes! Distributed Proofreaders of Europe, specializing in non-English languages. Currently under development. Project Gutenberg of Australia, a treasure trove of literature. Project Gutenberg of Hawaii (pghawaii.org), a "collection of collections," currently under development. Sponsored by the World eBook Library." *** You can also access their various collections at: gutenberg.us From: Ken Friedman Subject: Bible translations on-line in Oceanic Languages Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 04:08:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 130 (130) Dear Yuri, The Bible gateway has a fair number of different language Bibles. Check http://www.biblegateway.com/languages/ Most Bible translations that appear on the site appear courtesy of the publishers and copyright holders. Tentmaker also has many translations http://www.tentmaker.org/BiblesOnline/ Some Bibles in Oceanic languages are available by searching bookstores. Others are accessible on the Web, or example Hawaiian http://baibala.olelo.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/bible Maori http://www.christianisrael.com/maori/ http://www.biblekeeper.com/maori/ Good luck in your search. It would be interesting if you were to share your complete list of translations. Best regards, Ken Re: 18.093 Oceanic language texts? -- [deleted quotation] -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Leadership and Organizational Management Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School Faculty of Art, Media, and Design Staffordshire University (Visiting) +46 (46) 53.245 Telephone email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Anastasia: important technical development Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:06:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 131 (131) Willard I don't know how much airplay or netwave the announcement of the open source availibility of the suite of Anastasia software is getting. I do know that it deserves to be discussed, demonstrated and discussed some more. The development and dare I say breakthrough combines your desideratum of an interesting question and Matt Kirschenbaum's of a novel answer. http://anastasia.sourceforge.net/anahistory.html We came to realize that these problems were expressions of a single underlying difficulty. [The proprietary software] would not let us start processing at any one point of the text, carry on to any other point of the text, and understand and process all the encoding it found between the two points. In the calendar of the Humanities Computing Year, June 24 just might be the occasion to light celebratory bonfires for more than a particular saint's birth day. I salute the humanities computing scholars, Robinson and Andrew West, who chose St. John the Baptist's day to officially make Anastasia open source. It augurs well. Do check it out... http://anastasia.sourceforge.net/index.html -- 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: "Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities" Subject: Call for Papers - 3rd Annual Hawaii International Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:07:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 132 (132) Conference on Arts and Humanities Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities January 13 - 16, 2005 Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA Submission Deadline: August 31, 2004 Sponsored by: East West Council for Education Center of Asian Pacific Studies of Peking University Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org Email address: humanities_at_hichumanities.org The 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 13 (Thursday) to January 16 (Sunday), 2005 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from the arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts and Humanities are Invited): *American Studies *Archeology *Architecture *Art *Art History *Dance *English *Ethnic Studies *Film *History *Landscape Architecture *Languages *Literature *Linguistics *Music *Performing Arts *Philosophy *Religion *Second Language Studies *Speech/Communication *Theatre *Visual Arts *Other Areas of Arts and Humanities *Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas. [material deleted] Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities P.O. Box 75036 Honolulu, HI 96836 USA Telephone: (808) 949-1456 Fax: (808) 947-2420 E-mail: humanities_at_hichumanities.org Website: www.hichumanities.org From: Baden Hughes Subject: Re: 18.095 contributing to the Grid? Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:05:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 133 (133) [deleted quotation]The grid.org model is only one example of the emergence of large scale, commodity grade, distributed computational services. There are a large class of scientific and other experiments which are either sufficiently computationally complex or data-intensive to vastly surpass the computational capacity of even high-end computational facilities available to single researchers. In this context, "utility computing" is the advocated approach - harnessing largely idle computing workstations through the use of a common middleware solution to compute problems in a massively parallel manner. John Nerbonne mentions this as a factor in his ACH/ALLC plenary this year. I recently talked about the use of such techniques at the Computing Arts 2004 Conference in Newcastle. Humanities researchers are beginning to approach the bounds of computational efficiency in a range of areas, and hence consideration of new paradigms of computation is warranted. I know of humanities grounded research in the areas of sociology, geography, art history, linguistics and musicology which are using similar types of technologies to enable the consideration of much larger scale problems that were previously able to be efficiently explored. Regards Baden From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 134 (134) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 135 (135) [deleted quotation]the [deleted quotation] From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - New Issue Alert Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:12:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 136 (136) Volume 8 Numbers 3-4 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial 2AD: The second international conference on Appliance Design, held at HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK, 11-13 May 2004 p. 145 Peter Thomas From devices to tasks: automatic task prediction for personalized appliance control p. 146 Charles L. Isbell, Olufisayo Omojokun, Jeffrey S. Pierce Supporting routine decision-making with a next-generation alarm clock p. 154 Brian M. Landry, Jeffrey S. Pierce, Charles L. Isbell The fuzzy felt ethnography-understanding the programming patterns of domestic appliances p. 161 Jennifer A. Rode, Eleanor F. Toye, Alan F. Blackwell The Ambient Horn: designing a novel audio-based learning experience p. 177 Cliff Randell, Sara Price, Yvonne Rogers, Eric Harris, Geraldine Fitzpatrick Sensible appliances: applying context-awareness to appliance design p. 184 SungWoo Kim, SangHyun Park, JungBong Lee, YoungKyu Jin, Hyun-mi Park, Amy Chung, SeungEok Choi, WooSik Choi WaterCalls: an ambient call queue for cooperation between emergency service centres p. 192 Mårten Pettersson DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0277-8 Interactive scenarios-building ubiquitous computing concepts in the spirit of participatory design p. 200 Hanna Strömberg, Valtteri Pirttilä, Veikko Ikonen Heckel's law: conclusions from the user interface design of a music appliance-the bassoon p. 208 Nigel Derrett Low-vision reading aids: reading as a pleasurable experience p. 213 Chandra M. Harrison Communication enhancer-appliances for better communication in a family p. 221 Sang-Hwan Kim, Amy Chung, Joon-Ho Ok, In-Sik Myung, Hyun Joo Kang, Joo-Kyung Woo, Mi Jeong Kim GIA: design of a gesture-based interaction photo album p. 227 YoungKyu Jin, SeungEok Choi, Amy Chung, InSik Myung, JaYeon Lee, MinChul Kim, JooKyung Woo Evolution towards smart home environments: empirical evaluation of three user interfaces p. 234 Tiiu Koskela, Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila Interactional features of a paper-based monitoring system p. 241 Hans Tap Finding a form to hold the act of queuing p. 247 Isabel Hardemo An editing tool that manages device associations in an in-home environment p. 255 Irene Mavrommati, Achilles Kameas, Panos Markopoulos Dress and Ange: coercing the address of highly personal body-centric issues p. 264 Danielle Wilde, Sophie Birkmayer Interactive and experiential design in smart textile products and applications p. 274 Sharon Baurley The Emotional Wardrobe p. 282 Lisa Stead, Petar Goulev, Caroline Evans, Ebrahim Mamdani From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: professor for english and computer philology Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:06:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 137 (137) The Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Darmstadt University of Technology has a vacancy for a Professor of English Literature (C3/W2) Prospective candidates are expected to cover the entire range of English literature in teaching and to enhance the research profile of the department in the areas of computer philology, computer linguistics, media theory and media history. Requirements: 2nd monograph ('Habilitation') or equivalent. Candidates must meet the requirements specified under § 71 HHG ('Hessisches Hochschulgesetz') Darmstadt University of Technology is an equal opportunities employer. Women and disabled candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Applications (quoting the reference number 167) including CV, certificates, list of publications, and a record of teaching and other academic activities should be addressed to: Präsidium der Technischen Universität Darmstadt Karolinenplatz 5 D-64289 Darmstadt For more information see <http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/> Our lawyers say I have to add: Spätestens zu Beginn des Jahres 2005 gilt in Hessen die Besoldungsordnung W. Die Einstellung erfolgt im außertariflichen Angestelltenverhältnis mit einer Vergütung in Anlehnung an die W-Besoldung. Diese wird zwischen Bewerber/in und Hochschulleitung verhandelt. Professorinnen und Professoren die bereits in einem Beamtenverhältnis stehen, können in einem solchen weiterbeschäftigt werden. [In short: Starting 2005 professor won't be civil servants and their payment will be following a new set of rules] ____________________________________ Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft TU Darmstadt http://www.jannidis.de ____________________________________ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.22 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:09:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 138 (138) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 22 (July 28 - August 3, 2004) VIEW Has the Microsoft of Today Become the IBM of the Late '80s? Microsoft is the chief target of accusations of unfair competition, buggy software, and general conspiracy theories. The company could learn a few tricks from an old dog like IBM. By Espen Andersen http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i22_andersen.html From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.097 Anastasia Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:44:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 139 (139) [deleted quotation]It does? ? :-) From: Susan Hockey Subject: LEADERS toolkit for online archives now available Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:45:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 140 (140) The School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, in collaboration with BookMARC of Coimbra, Portugal, is pleased to announce the availability of the LEADERS toolkit via SourceForge, http://leaders.sourceforge.net/ LEADERS is a generic toolkit that enables the creation of an online environment which integrates EAD finding aids and EAC authority records with TEI transcripts and digitized images of archival material. It is suitable for a wide variety of archives. The toolkit can be configured to search different XML elements and to display the results in a variety of formats. A demonstrator application is available via the LEADERS Project home page at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/leaders-project/. This site also includes background material on the XML applications used by LEADERS, on related projects and on research on the needs of archive users. LEADERS was funded by a Resource Enhancement award from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board. Susan Hockey **************************************************** 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_at_ucl.ac.uk **************************************************** From: James Cummings Subject: conference on digital medievalism Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:44:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 141 (141) Call For Papers: Making the Old New Again: Digital Medievalism in an Ever-Changing World The Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford, invites abstracts for 20 minute papers to be delivered in the above sponsored session at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (May 5-8, 2005). Session Abstract: This session aims to bring together medievalists working with digital projects to discuss their experiences with the every-changing and evolving nature of these resources. As increasingly more electronic research tools are created and computing technology changes, making the old resources accessible in new contexts is often extremely challenging. What do you do when your campus upgrades to a new operating system and your 'Teach Yourself Old English' software no longer functions? How do you convert electronic manuscript editions from a couple decades ago into a format so they will work with new software? Other related issues which could be included in the session include: the repurposing of older material to enable comparability in new resources, the transformation of legacy data into standards-compliant formats, the introduction of out-dated material into new online publishing frameworks, and the special challenges faced by medieval resource creation. It is hoped that this session will attract those with both negative and positive experience of data migration and resource creation, and allow them to share their experience to help medievalists work towards common goals of preservation of the digital medieval resources we already have and best practice in future resource creation. Please send abstracts (max. 500 words) for proposed papers with an even shorter summary c.v. to: James.Cummings_at_oucs.ox.ac.uk before 1 September 2004. Make sure to include complete contact information and AV requirements, and note that accepted participants must commit themselves to attend. For more information concerning this conference please see: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/ Please feel free to circulate this call for papers to anyone you think might be interested. -James --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital Medievalism (Kalamazoo) and Early Drama (Leeds) see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jamesc/cfp.html From: "Rafiq" Subject: International Conference on Information Management in a Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:45:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 142 (142) Knowledge Society {ICIM2005} - Bombay (India) Dear Professionals Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) was established in 1955 & is completing 50 years of its existence. To commemorate its Golden Jubilee year, IASLIC is hosting an International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society {ICIM2005}. The city of Mumbai {formerly Bombay} will be the venue of this International Conference scheduled for Feb.21-25, 2005. The complete details are available on http://www.icim2005.org/index.htm ICIM-2005 will focus on four themes - Knowledge Society, Information Management, Knowledge Management and Digital Libraries and is expected to be just the place to be in, amongst prominent national & international experts & delegates, meeting-sharing-deliberating & learning. Your participation is eagerly looked forward to. Should you have any queries you are most welcome to contact any one of us Warm regards Media & Publicity Committee - ICIM2005 Anita Pujari: Email: anita.pujari_at_timesgroup.com Rafiq Ansari: Email: rafiq.ansari_at_timesgroup.com [material deleted] From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- July 2004 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:47:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 143 (143) CIT INFOBITS July 2004 No. 73 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. ...................................................................... New Book of Online Education Case Studies Video on Copyright Issues Combating Cheating in Online Student Assessment Social Interaction in Online Learning Online Courses: Costs and Caps UNC-Chapel Hill CIT Launches Software Evaluation Publication The Sakai Project 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: word-counts Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:53:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 144 (144) A colleague at King's College London alerted me recently to the Wordcount site, "an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is." See http://www.wordcount.org/main.php. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "SANDRA BRADLEY" Subject: Berkeley, California meeting Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:39:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 145 (145) The next public meeting of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held on Saturday, August 21st, 2004, on the UC Berkeley campus, in the Morrison Library, located in 101 Doe (Main) Library. All are welcome. Should you need it, a campus map is available online, at <http://www.berkeley.edu/visitors/>http://www.berkeley.edu/visitors/ More information about the ACLS Commission is available at <http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm>http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm Notes from the public information-gathering meeting in New York City have been posted on the cyberinfrastructure website at the following URL: <http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_public_sessions.htm>http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_public_sessions.htm From: Michael Fraser Subject: DRH 2004 - Poster Competition and Early Bird Registration Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:49:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 146 (146) (fwd) Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference 2004 Sunday 5th to Wednesday 8th September 2004, University of Newcastle http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ This is DRH's ninth annual conference. Its goal is to bring together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources in the humanities. Speakers are from the UK and mainland Europe, North America, and Australia. 1. A poster competition is being run with the prize of a digital camera going to the best poster at the conference. Those wishing to demonstrate their projects, software, research or other aspect of digital resources in the humanities can do so by entering a poster at http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/proposals.php 2. The early bird prices for registering for the conference end on 31st July, so book now to save £25 per delegate http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ 3. The reserved accommodation we have made available online through the Newcastle-Gateshead Convention Bureau is available only until Sunday 8th August, after which it will be released back to hotels and residence offices. Note that accommodation must be booked separately from the conference registration. http://drh2004.visitnewcastlegateshead.com/ 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: a. Methods in humanities computing. b. Cross-sector exchange between heritage, national and local government, and education bodies. c. Broadening the humanities computing base. d. New forms of scholarly publication. In addition to refereed papers, the conference includes Posters, an Exhibition and a social programme. Full details of the programme on http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/programme.php To register for the conference, please use the registration form on the website: http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/registration.php Other enquiries to can be addressed to drh_at_ncl.ac.uk Thanks Geoff Hare for the Organising Committee ----------------------------------- Geoff Hare DRH 2004 Conference Administrator Email: drh_at_ncl.ac.uk University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK <http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/> From: Cajsa Baldini Subject: AATI | Literature, Pedagogy, Linguistics, Cinema, Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:46:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 147 (147) Technology, and Culture AATI @ Arizona State University Final 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 American Association of Teachers of Italian 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, poet and award-winning translator of Dante's Inferno. The American Association of Teachers of Italian, the oldest Italianist organization in the United States and Canada, invites proposals for sessions and papers on any topic related to Literature, Pedagogy, Linguistics, Cinema, Technology, Culture, and interdisciplinary Humanities in an Italian context. Extended -Deadline for Proposals: August 10, 2004 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 language teaching * Propose your own session! Guidelines for Proposals ! Papers/Presentations must not exceed 20 minutes in length (10 pages). ! Speakers should submit a 200-word (maximum) proposal plus a 50-word abstract to be included in the special AATI program. ! Participants may read only one paper and chair one session. ! Proposals for sessions on special topics are welcome. Details on speakers (affiliation, title of paper, address, telephone/fax number, e-mail, etc.). Acceptance/Rejection of Proposals ! Members of the Program Committee will select the papers and participants will be notified of its acceptance or rejection by mid August, 2004 ! If your paper has been accepted, you must deliver it yourself. A colleague may not read the paper in your absence. ! Please remember that if you cancel after the acceptance of your paper, the Committee cannot replace it with that of another colleague. Your absence from the conference program has effectively prevented another colleague from making a presentation. 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 Hotel Accommodations/Registration By special arrangement participants will be able to stay at the Marriott Courtyard and Marriott Airport Hotelfor a special rate of $89/night in a single or double room. A link to make hotel reservation is available at <http://www.aati-online.org>http://www.aati-online.org The registration fee for the Conferece will be $80 if paid before August 15, 2004 and $100 if paid after that date. The fee will cover the Conference Program, coffee and donuts breaks on Friday and Saturday and three evening receptions. Please note: AV equipment costs are very high: VCRs, slide projectors, LCD projection and computers. Please order only the equipment that is absolutely necessary for your presentation. We will ask you to share the cost of the rental of the equipment with AATI . The members of the Program Committee appreciate your adherence to the above guidelines. It will save us hours of work and will make our life easier. We look forward to hearing from you and to your help in making the 2004 AATI conference a success. Thank you. Eligibility ! Presenters must be AATI members at the time of the conference. If you are not yet a member you can initiate membership at <http://www.asu.edu/languages/aati/renewal/>http://www.asu.edu/languages/aati/renewal/. 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_at_asu.edu Website: A conference website is available at <http://asu.edu/clas/dll/aati/04/>http://asu.edu/clas/dll/aati/04/ _\\\|///_ ( ' . . ' ) ----ooO-(_)-Ooo---------------------------------- Cajsa C. Baldini Teaching Associate Arizona State University Department of English Course taught Spring 2004! <http://www.public.asu.edu/~cajsa/victoriancharacter/>http://www.public.asu.edu/~cajsa/victoriancharacter/ http://www.public.asu.edu/~cajsa The opinions expressed in this e-mail are mine, not those of Arizona State University. It is the opinion of Arizona State University that I should be writing my dissertation. From: Taller HyR Linguisticos IBERAMIA04 Subject: CFP - Workshop on Linguistic Resources for Spanish and Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:54:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 148 (148) Portuguese 04 CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Spanish and Portuguese IBERAMIA 2004 Tonantzintla, Mexico November 23, 2004 Workshop web site: http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~hrl_04/ IBERAMIA web site: http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004/ ================================================= The organizing committee of the Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Spanish and Portuguese (http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~hrl_04/) invites researchers and students related to this research area to participate with proposals and works in this event. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum in order to improve the cooperation between the iberoamerican groups interested in linguistic technology, particularly for Spanish and Portuguese languages. Within the goals of the event are the creation of joint protocols for development, evaluation, comparison and interchange of linguistic tools and resources for these languages. Interest subjects turn around the design, building and use of linguistic resources (LR) for Spanish and Portuguese, as well as tools for their recollection and analysis. Following is a brief and not restricted list of the related topics: * Guidelines, standards, specifications, models and best practices for LR * Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR * Monolingual and multilingual LR for Spanish and Portuguese * Multimodal and multimedia LR. Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) * Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial interfaces, translation, summarisation, www services, etc.) [material deleted] From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: some more world languages in need Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:55:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 149 (149) Dear Humanist colleagues, I have collected and computed 163 world languages. Now I have 163 sound pictures. I wonder if I can collect some more. I need some more to find out solid common features of the sound chains in language as an entity. May be, some American Indian or Australian will be all right since these languages were never computed to obtain the phonostatistical characteristics. I wonder if I should go to the USA or Australia to collect the texts in these unknown languages. I wonder if the USA or Australian government provides some grants for the endagered languages, which have not been written down. May be, somebody could advise me where to go to collect new linguistic material. I guess many languages, especially American Indian languages disappear at a rapid speed, which encreases with every day. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.107 new on WWW: CIT Infobits; word-counts Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:39:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 150 (150) Willard -- word #43404 is "goibniu" (just ahead of "paprika") ? I realize the corpus is from Britain, but just the same, what in the world is a "goibniu" ? I know I have never seen it in print or heard it either, and I'm getting up in years). was doing binary chops on the corpus and stumbled on it -- is it a typo ?) [Can anyone supply a definition of "goibniu" and explain its etymology? --WM] From: KriegPeter_at_aol.com Subject: New approach for humanities computing Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:38:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 151 (151) "In the classicist's view, what happens in my project appears as a kind of translation, from the richly ambiguous language of poetry into the stark simplicity of unambiguous declarative statements" (McCarty <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/essays/know/bib.html#McCarty1994>1994). Dear Willard McCarty, After reading the above statement on your website, I thought you and your discussion group might be interested to learn that we have developed a fundamentally new approach to computing beyond the Turing machine/Lambda calculus, which seems to have the potential to solve your (and not only your) problem... The key is a different representation of data: instead of storing data in cells, lists or any other containers holding the data, the Pile System represents data as distributed relations. Data exist only virtual, generated dynamically on demand, not stored and retrieved. Think of a computer game that also does not store movie frames like a DVD, yet generates n different movie variations from very little "data"... We apply a similar approach to data in general. All relations representing input as sequences and subsequences (data, relations, structures or code) are unique, eliminating any redundancy in representation. They are also interconnected in a single relation space which is fully connected and transparent. (trees, containers, structures, data are all simulations in this space only) The results are quite dramatic, as we compute relations and relations of relations etc. in a logically open, complex polylogic space wich does not necessarily require non-ambiguity... We believe that this approach could be the future of computing. You will find more on our website and we are open for evaluation and cooperation. <http://www.pilesys.com>www.pilesys.com (testable software and APIs are available under development license) sincerely, Peter Krieg Pile Systems Inc. Am Heidehof 54 14163 Berlin Germany Tel +49-30-2838 9680 Fax +49-30-2838 9689 Mob +49-171-1740 817 <http://www.pilesys.com/>www.pilesys.com From: "Kathleen Seidel" Subject: Re: 17.775 ancient Greek word formation? metaphorical autism? Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:37:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 152 (152) [Members of Humanist may recall that some time ago I made an enquiry about non-medical uses of the word "autism", as in Peter Wegner's slogan "Algorithms are autistic!" At the time I was unaware of the more generously minded perspective of the "neurodiversity" movement, the history of metaphorical uses of the word "autism", the misunderstanding of autism embedded in those uses and so the possibilities of offense. The following just arrived in response to my initial posting. I am grateful to Ms Seidel for the alert to some very interesting material. --WM] Dear Dr. McCarty, I read with interest your post to the Humanist Discussion Group which I found on the archive page: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v17/0779.html (I am not a member of the list.) May I recommend an article on this subject: Metaphors of Autism, and Autism as Metaphor: An Exploration of Representation, by Mitzi Waltz http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/hid/hid2/hid03pap/waltz%20paper.pdf I would also like to welcome you to visit http://www.neurodiversity.com, a comprehensive meta-site on all aspects of autism. It is my hope that the site will prove useful to university students and researchers, as well as to the general public. I have made a special effort to identify autobiographical accounts of spectrum-dwellers (over 230 so far), and to comprehensively scan the web for peer-reviewed journal articles on autism and related conditions and concerns. The Sociology of Disability, Language Awareness, and Offended Yet? pages include examples of the use of "autism" and "autistic" as metaphors, and of disparaging references to autistic persons in popular discourse. If you have learned of any other interesting online resources on this topic, I would love to hear of them. And if you should ever publish a paper or book on the subject, I would very much appreciate being notified of its availability. Best regards, Kathleen Seidel neurodiversity.com | honoring the variety of human wiring http://www.neurodiversity.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: interviews Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:59:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 153 (153) Humanists may be interested in the interviews with Doug Engelbart, Jim King and Dan Gillmor published on the SIGWEB site, <http://www.sigweb.org/community/interviews/>. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Luisa Bentivogli Subject: Announcement: MultiWordNet new web site Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:47:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 154 (154) We are pleased to announce the new MultiWordNet web site: http://multiwordnet.itc.it MultiWordNet is a multilingual lexical database, developed at ITC-irst, in which the Italian WordNet is strictly aligned with Princeton WordNet 1.6. The current version of MultiWordNet includes around 44,400 Italian lemmas organized into 35,400 synsets which are aligned, whenever possible, with their corresponding English Princeton synsets. The MultiWordNet database can be freely browsed through its on-line interface, and is distributed both for research and commercial use. Information on the distribution licence is available at the web site. For any further information, please write to pianta_at_itc.it Best regards, The MultiWordNet Team From: "Celine Seewald" Subject: Call for Proposals for Actions within Social Sciences and Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:01:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 155 (155) Humanities The European Science Foundation Standing Committee for the Humanities is pleased to announe the new Call for Proposals for COST Actions within Social Sciences and Humanities. Cost is an intergovernmental European framework for international co-operation between nationally-founded research activities created in 1971, governed by the COST CSO and supported by the EU Framework Programme. COST supports coordination of scientific networks (Actions) and dissemination of their results, thus enabling scientists to collaborate in a wide spectrum of activities in research and technology. COST Actions cover basic and pre-competitive research as well as activities of public utility. Scientists themselves, following the "bottom-up" principle, propose new Actions making COST an attractive forum for new and emerging topics. The COST Office, operated by the European Science Foundation (ESF), provides scientific and administrative support to the COST Technical Committees and COST Actions. The Secretariat General to the Council of the European Union provides the secretariat to the CSO. More information is available at the following address: http://cost.cordis.lu/ The COST Technical Committee of Social Sciences and Humanities invites proposals for new Actions (scientific networks). The Actions may fall within, or span, any of the disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities. Any expert of the 34 COST countries (http://cost.cordis.lu/src/whatiscost.cfm) or the cooperating country (Israel) may submit a proposal, on behalf of a group of researchers. Closing date for proposals is 1 October 2004. Proposals received after this date will be retained for later consideration under further calls. Proposer must submit an abstract (1500-2000) characters) of their proposals no later than 22 September 2004, including a title and five keywords characterising the scientific content of the proposal. More information is available at the following address: http://cost.cordis.lu/src/extranet/publish/Domain=A/Call2004Final.pdf Should you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Céline Seewald Administrative Assistant Standing Committee for the Humanities From: Alejandro Bia Subject: ACH/ALLC 2005: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 06:59:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 156 (156) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This conference announcement can be downloaded in PDF format from: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/research/congresos/ach-allc-2005_conference-announcement.pdf We apologize for possible crossed-postings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACH/ALLC 2005: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) hereby announce their 2005 Joint Conference to be held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: ACH/ALLC 2005 International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship Joint Annual Conference of the ACH and the ALLC June 15-19, 2005, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ The 17th joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) 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. We invite papers and contributions in all areas related to humanities computing and the application of advanced information technologies in humanities subjects; papers on research and on teaching are both of interest. Papers may report on new theoretical and methodological advances in any relevant field (e.g. linguistics, literature, libraries, history, archaeology, cultural studies, computer technology). The Call for Papers for the 2005 Joint ACH/ALLC Conference will be published soon (August 2004). Proposals may be of three types: papers, poster presentations, and sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). Suitable subjects for proposals include but are not limited to: - traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including (but not limited to) linguistics, text corpora, computational lexicography, natural language processing, translation studies, literary studies, text encoding, hypertext, text analysis, edition philology and statistical models; - second language acquisition; - minority, indigenous and rare languages: multilingualism, minority languages; - emerging digitization efforts: new good practices, experiences, recommendations, training; - humanities teaching; - computational models and applications related to multilingualism and multicultural issues; - the application of information technology to cultural and historical studies (including archaeology and musicology); - new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital collections; - the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering; - the application of information technology to issues related to minority cultures as well as the integration of immigrants in the dominant society; - pedagogical applications of new media within the humanities; - commercial applications of humanities computing, e.g. web technology, natural language interfaces, archival organization and accessibility; - applications in the digital arts, especially projects and installations that feature technical advances of potential interest to humanities scholars; - information design in the humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modeling; - thoughtful considerations of the cultural impact of computing and new media; - theoretical or speculative treatments of new media; - the institutional role of new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields; - the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources it develops. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press: http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/ Further information on the research and educational activities as well as on past conferences of the two associations can be found at the following Internet addresses: ACH: http://www.ach.org/ ALLC: http://www.allc.org/ The conference website, which includes information on the conference venue at the University of Victoria, can be visited at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information contact Alejandro Bia (PC Chair): alex.bia_at_ua.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (by Subject: Re: 18.113 "goibniu"? Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:03:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 157 (157) The word looks "Irish" :)) google goibniu and see. :)) Mícheál From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Re: 18.113 "goibniu"? Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:02:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 158 (158) Goibniu, from goba `to smith', was the name of the Dedanann Smith god among the ancient Irish. See the index in P. W. Joyce, A Social History of Ancient Ireland. He was sort of their Weland, but not so celebrated in song and story. From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: Goibniu (Govannon) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:05:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 159 (159) No, it makes little sense. Often a web search will so emerging trends, but Google shows fewer than 700 entries for Goibniu, and only a few of those appear scholarly (e.g. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T300011/header.html). Paprika shows over 1/2 million entries. Doesn't seem like there is evidence of Goibniu's being more popularly spoken than is paprika. Perhaps it is some artifact of the program's search or presentaion routine. I tried a number of other Celtic and Welsh deities' names; Lugh shows up at 44160 and Dylan at 15869. The other dozen or so names I tried did not show up. I will note that Celt is 59306 so that it is less used than is the Irish Smith Deity's name. Since "lough," "loughs," and "Lugh" are in the list, and in the online manuscript at ucc.ie, I suspect that the corpus may have texts that were used because they were already in TEI format. Also see the words NPFL, SWA, and OBLT. It does not appear to differentiate stems, acronyms, or abbreviations. Wed, 4 Aug 2004 (13:30 -0500 UTC) Norman Hinton wrote: [deleted quotation] -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: goibniu Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:02:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 160 (160) Please let me apologize for the derivation of Goibniu from goba `to smith'. I was in a hurry and let my OIrish get away from me. Goba means `smith', Goibniu (pronounced gwivnew) also means smith. For more information, see Gerard Murphy, Duanaire Finn, part III. Early Irish Text Society 63 (Dublin, 1953), lxxxii-lxxxiv, which will lead you to Thurneysen, Pedersen et al. On the topic of smith-gods, see Mircea Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible. Harper Torchbooks TB 1552 (NY: Harper and Row, 1971). Note that he misses Goibniu and Weland. From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: Goibniu (Govannon) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:04:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 161 (161) At least an explanation of the appearance of 'goibniu' -- among the texts used for the British National Corpora is a fantasy novel, _Wolfking_, by Bridget Wood. It appeared in 1993. There are 47 appearances of 'goibniu' in the BNC -- one is from an archaelogical source, the other 46 are from Wood's novel. It's a good example of what can happen when assembling a corpus -- I used to use on furnished by the American Heritage Dictionary, which was taken from printed sources used in junior high schools. There were several articles on Hispanic culture and society in the collection, so Hispanic words, especially proper names, turned up rather more often than one might imagine in the corpus. I think of this kind of thing as "the cost of doing business" --one can hardly search the corpus ahead of time to get rid of words ! I imagine the book was included as an example of popular fiction (it was one of a tetralogy), and no one thought of the (hopefully small) bias towards Celtic materials it might introduce. Searching the corpus for "goibniu" and then asking for information about its sources in t he corpus is something I recommend: the spread of sources for "paprika" is quite different in scope! Pardon me for running on like this -- when the Internet gods supply an occasion for talking about one's discipline, such is the result.... From: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: Metadata librarian position at U of Maryland Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:06:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 162 (162) University of Maryland Libraries TITLE: Metadata/Electronic Resources Librarian CATEGORY: Non-Tenured Faculty, Full-Time (12 Month Appointment) SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Comprehensive Benefits. The University of Maryland Libraries is looking for an innovative and dynamic individual to work in a team environment to provide access to digital collections and electronic resources. The University of Maryland, ranked 17th among national public universities, is the flagship of the 13-member University System of Maryland. For more information, visit the UM Libraries' web site: http://www.lib.umd.edu Responsibilities: As a faculty librarian, helps plan and develop digital projects for the Libraries. Applies metadata schema for digital objects and advises on digital project parameters. Coordinates provision of bibliographic control and access to digital collections. Catalogs electronic resources, and other formats as needed, to national standards. With team members and team leader, plans, develops, and implements ongoing activities, policies, and special projects. Provides leadership through active participation on teams and committees at the production group, division, and Library level and within the profession. Qualifications and Experience: · ALA-accredited Master's degree in Library or Information Science or equivalent combination of degrees and experience. · Two years relevant cataloging experience in an academic, research, or special library. · Experience with metadata standards · Familiarity in creating and/or managing digital objects in various formats Applications: For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by September 15, 2004. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send to: Ray Foster, Library Personnel, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011. Fax:301-314-9960 or email to gfernan1_at_umd.edu Full job description at: http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/ASD/LPO/LibJobs/102803.html The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA employer. From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 18.111 a new approach? Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 06:58:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 163 (163) On 04/08/2004, at 5:54 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I'd also recommend having a peek at Ted Neslon's zigzag where I believe there may be a working prototype. I saw Ted show this at Hypertext 2001 and frankly didn't understand a lot of it (I have no comp. sci background at all) but it was very much a different conception of computing and did not store data in 'files'. http://www.xanadu.com/zigzag/ cheers Adrian Miles ................................................................. hypertext.rmit || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/adrian interactive networked video || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog research blog || hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ From: Nancy Ide Subject: New Journal: LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:05:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 164 (164) *************************************************** LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION *************************************************** Editors-in-chief: Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Nicoletta Calzolari, Isitiuto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Italy Published by Springer (formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer Verlag) We are pleased to announce that as of Volume 39 for 2005, Computers and the Humanities will be changing its name to Language Resources and Evaluation. Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to the creation, annotation, and exploitation of language resources for use in language processing applications, corpus linguistics and linguistic studies generally, as well as evaluation of language processing methods and results. These areas have seen a dramatic increase in activity over the past decade, as evidenced by the growing attendance at the four Language Resources and Evaluation Conferences (LREC) held since 1998. Language resources include language data and descriptions in machine readable form used to assist and augment language processing applications and linguistic studies, such as written or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc., as well as basic software tools for their acquisition, preparation, annotation, management, customization, and use. Evaluation of language resources concerns assessing the state-of-the-art for a given technology, comparing different approaches to a given problem, assessing the availability of resources and technologies for a given application, benchmarking, and assessing system usability and user satisfaction. Articles are solicited on the following topics: Design, construction and use of Language Resources (LRs): · Guidelines, standards, specifications, models, and best practices for LRs, · Methods, tools and procedures for the acquisition, creation, annotation, management, access, distribution and use of LRs · Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modeling data) from LRs · Organizational and legal issues in the construction, distribution, access and use of LRs · Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LRs · Monolingual and multilingual LRs · Multimedia and multimodal LRs and integration of various media and modalities (speech, vision, language) · Documentation and archiving of languages, including minority and endangered languages, · Ontologies and knowledge representation · Tools and methodologies for terminology and ontology building, term extraction, and creation of specialized dictionaries · LRs for linguistic research in human-machine communication · Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, speech dictation, translation, summarization, web services, semantic web, etc.), · Exploitation of LRs in different types of interfaces (dialog systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, etc.) · Metadata descriptions of LRs · Open architectures for LRs Human Language Technologies Evaluation: · Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LRs · Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures · Benchmarking of systems, resources for benchmarking and evaluation, blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems · Evaluation in written language processing (document production and management, text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarization, question answering, etc.) · Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, spoken translation, etc.) · Evaluation of multimedia document retrieval and search systems (including detection, indexing, filtering, alert, question answering, etc) · Evaluation of multimodal systems · Moving from evaluation to standardization Language Resources and Evaluation is the official journal of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), sponsor of the bi-annual LREC conference. The first number of LRE in 2005 will be a special issue dedicated to the memory of Antonio Zampolli. For information about this new title, aims and scope, manuscript submission, and subscription, please contact the publisher: Mrs. Jolanda Voogd, Associate Publishing Editor Humanities Unit - Linguistics Springer P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-(0)78 - 6576116 (direct) Fax: +31-(0)78 - 6576350 E-mail: Jolanda.Voogd_at_springer-sbm.com From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: Goibniu (Govannon) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:03:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 165 (165) Any thoughts on why this would appear so high up (mid-point) in the corpus in question ? is it a name on everyone's lips in G.B. at present, so that it would be slightly more common than paprika ? [deleted quotation]mythology'), Govannon (Welsh) was the son of Danu and Beli or Brigid and Tuireann. He killed his nephew, Dylan, not knowing who he was. He was a smith god who created magical swords for the Tuatha de Danaan, along with Credne and Luchtainel. He was also a god of alcohol; his beer gave the drinker immortality. [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: the blind man's cane Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:01:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 166 (166) I would appreciate the help of the learned in locating Wittgenstein's use of a particular metaphor, the blind man's cane, and in identifying any early sources for it, e.g. in Stoic perception theory (in Sextus Empiricus?). As you may know, this metaphor is a favourite in discussions of perception, e.g. among the phenomenologists, such as Merleau-Ponty, in Phenomenology of Perception (1962), Jean Paul Sartre (reference?), Simone Weil (reference?) and those influenced by them, such as Michael Polanyi, in Personal Knowledge (1962). It is also found in Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972, 2000). In more recent, secondary literature it is found e.g. in Don Ihde, Instrumental Realism (1991), and Walter Vincenti, What Engineers Know (1990). Those interested in the topic may also wish to know about Arno L. Goudsmit's dissertation, Towards a negative understanding of psychotherapy (1998), online at http://www.ub.rug.nl/eldoc/dis/ppsw/a.l.goudsmit/thesis.pdf. All suggestions appreciated! 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Nico Weenink" Subject: Re: 18.112 more world languages, please Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:06:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 167 (167) Dear collegues, Recently (yesterday) Sjef Barbiers of the Meertens Institute won a European prize for his syntactic atlas of dutch dialects (see http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/publicaties/online.html for the publications list of the Meertens Institute). With the money he won, about 1,25 million Euro, he want to establish a European network. I do not know if you are interested in dialects as well, but the principles might be the same. Sjef has held interviews with more than 600 dialect speakers in 267 Dutch and Flemish places. I am not sure weather the soundfiles of the interviews are stored, or the transcriptions. But you could contact him personally. Hope this is of some help. Kind regards and good luck, Nico Weenink [deleted quotation]Australian [deleted quotation]Tambovtsev [deleted quotation] From: "Andrew Mactavish" Subject: RE: 18.115 ACH/ALLC 2005 call for papers Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:02:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 168 (168) Some of you who will be in Victoria June 15 - 19, 2005 for ACH/ALLC may be interested to know that DiGRA (the Digital Games Research Association) will be holding its second international conference in Vancouver at Simon Fraser University from June 17 - 20, 2005. This could be a great opportunity for members of both ACH/ALLC and DiGRA to share their approaches to similar sets of research concerns. See you there, Andrew -------------------------------------- Andrew Mactavish, PhD Director, Humanities Media & Computing Assistant Professor, Multimedia School of the Arts McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Phone: 1-905-525-9140 ext. 23503 Email: andrew.mactavish_at_mcmaster.ca Web: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/ [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.23 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:07:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 169 (169) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 23 (August 4 - August 10, 2004) VIEW Adaptation in Large-Scale Enterprise Systems: Research & Challenges Deep analytics technologies and the rise of the intelligent enterprise By Kemal A. Delic and Umeshwar Dayal http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i23_delic.html VIEW OakUT - C++ Unit Test Framework The OakUT framework helps users approach tests in a uniform way and provides a neat structure for the whole test suite of a system. By Vishal Kochhar http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i23_kochhar.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: John F. Nash's hope Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:29:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 170 (170) Anyone who has seen the popular movie, A Beautiful Mind, will know something of the life and work of John Forbes Nash, Jr. Allow me to direct you to the site devoted to the Nobel Prize he shared with two others, http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/. The text of the Prize Seminar is well worth reading, but here I'd like to draw your attention in particular to Nash's autobiography, to the final two paragraphs, which I quote here: [deleted quotation]Those of us here, though we may not equal Nash's powers of rational thought "in the style that is characteristic of scientists" and thankfully not his immersion in that other style of thought, can share something of his hopes for creative thought after long deviation. Those of us who are autodidacts wish of course for proper curricula, but perhaps our wanderings have some unique value. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: agaley_at_uwo.ca [mailto:agaley_at_uwo.ca] Subject: The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:30:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 171 (171) Sent: August 6, 2004 10:17 AM Conference Announcement: The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2005 Meeting of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities The University of Western Ontario, May 29 - 31, 2005 Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2005 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Particularly welcome are proposals that develop the idea of the networked citizen and the role of the Arts and Humanities in their work/lives. Further topics may include, but will not be limited to: - the web as network - the post-national citizen - humanities computing as an agora for multi-disciplinary engagement - the network and society, from an Arts and Humanities perspective - humanities computing and pedagogy - computing in the visual, musical, and performance arts - scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination - digital/electronic copyright issues - computing in multi-lingual and non-English environments - e-accessibility - ongoing humanities computing research involving materials in textual, oral/aural, visual, multi-media, and other formats - the paradoxes of standardization - humanities versus instrumental methods - the future of the humanities in computing The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation societies -- and will feature special panels designed to emphasize communication across arts and humanities disciplines with a focus on the integration of the work of the computing humanist and the broader humanities research community. There is also a limited amount of funding available to support a graduate student panel. The call for papers, including individual paper proposal submission details, will be sent out soon, but those wishing to organize panels and joint sessions should contact the organizers as soon as possible. These and any other conference inquiries may be directed to Patrick Finn, St. Mary's University-College: patrickfinn_at_shaw.ca Alan Galey, University of Western Ontario: agaley_at_uwo From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS 10.1 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:31:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 172 (172) To whom it may concern, Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the publication of its most recent issue and beginning of its tenth year of publication. The table of contents appears below, and the journal can be accessed free online at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Yours sincerely Sean Lawrence Assistant Editor Articles: A Shroud for the Mind: Ralegh's Poetic Rewriting of the Self. [1] Miri Tashma-Baum, Tel-Aviv University. "On forfeit of your selves, think nothing true": Self-Deception in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene. [2] J.A. Jackson, Hillsdale College. Does Beatrice Joanna Have a Subtext?: The Changeling on the London Stage. [3] Roberta Barker and David Nicol, Dalhousie University. Women, Children, and the Rhetoric of Milton’s Divorce Tracts. [4] Sara van den Berg, Saint Louis University. Milton’s ‘Divorcive’ Liberties: Ecclesiastical, Domestic or Private, Civil and Cosmological [5]. W. Scott Howard, Denver University. Human Nature in Republican Tradition and Paradise Lost. [6]William Walker, University of New South Wales. Roman or Revenger? The Definition and Distortion of Masculine Identity in Titus Andronicus. [7] Brecken Rose Hancock, University of New Brunswick. Book Reviews: Bryson, Michael. The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton’s Rejection of God as King. [8] Newark: U of Delaware P; London: Associated University Presses, 2004. Peter C. Herman, San Diego State University. Stock, Brian. After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text. [9] Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001. Gary Kuchar, University of Victoria. Banerjee, Pompa. Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India. [10] New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. M. G. Aune, North Dakota State University. Lehmann, Courtney, and Lisa S. Starks, eds. The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. [11] Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Associated UP, 2002. Carolyn Jess, The Queen’s University of Belfast. Meads, Chris. Banquets Set Forth: Banqueting in English Renaissance Drama. [12] Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. Hillary Nunn, University of Akron. Reviewing information, books received for review, and forthcoming reviews. Theatre Reviews: Cambridge Shakespeare, Spring 2004. [13] Reviewed by Michael Grosvenor-Myer. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, performed by Northern Broadsides at the Buxton Opera House, April 2004. [14] Reviewed by Ben Spiller, Sheffield Hallam University. Othello, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, March 2004. [15] Reviewed by Kate Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. Paradise Lost, performed at the Bristol Old Vic. [16] Reviewed by Neil Forsyth, University of Lausanne. Film Reviews: The King Is Alive. Directed by Kristian Levring, Pathé, 2000. [17] Reviewed by Carolyn Jess, The Queen's University of Belfast. Scotland, PA. Directed by Billy Morrissette. Lot 47, 2001. [18] Reviewed by Carolyn Jess, The Queen's University of Belfast. Readers' Forum: Responses to articles, reviews, and notes appearing in this issue that are intended for the Readers' Forum may be sent to the Editor at M.Steggle_at_shu.ac.uk. From: icara2004_at_massey.ac.nz Subject: ICARA 2004, extended submission deadline Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:32:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 173 (173) CALL FOR PAPERS (Submission deadline extended to 20th August) The 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2004) Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand 13th-15th December 2004 http://conferences.massey.ac.nz/ICARA2004 Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, is pleased to announce that the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2004) will be on the 13th ­ 15th December 2004 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. ICARA 2004 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of autonomous robotics and agents. ICARA 2004 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions. All papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of a full length manuscript and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. The review process will be blind and author details will not be divulged to the reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: Intelligent Control DNA Computing for autonomous agents Biorobotics, Biomechatronics Implantable sensors for Robotic Applications Artificial Intelligence in Biosystems Autonomous Systems Multi-Agent Collaborative Systems (MACS) Robotics, Humanoids Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion Cooperative Robotics Robot Soccer Systems Entertainment Robotics Human Robot Interface Distributed Intelligent Control Systems Real Time Supervisory Control Embedded Systems Educational Technology Fuzzy Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Biped and Humanoid Robots Rough Sets, Data Mining Navigation and Path Planning Genetic Algorithm (GA) Evolutionary Computation (EC) Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Real Time Evolutionary Computation Evolutionary Systems and Algorithms Vision Systems for Robotics Artificial Neural Networks in Biorobotics [material deleted] From: Charles Ess Subject: Call for Papers - Culture and Computer Mediated Communication Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:46:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 174 (174) Dear Humanists: Please pass on the following CFP to colleagues and lists as appropriate === Call for Papers, special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: CULTURE AND COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION: TOWARD NEW UNDERSTANDINGS Guest editors: Charles Ess (cmess_at_drury.edu) Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Drury University Fay Sudweeks (sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au) School of Information Technology, Murdoch University. IMPORTANT DATES Proposals due: October 1, 2004 Full papers due: April 15, 2004 Anticipated publication: January 2006 Gert Hofstede¹s oft-cited dimensions of culture, along with Edward T. Hall¹s frameworks for understanding culture and communication (including his distinctions between ³high content/low context² and ³high context/low content² cultures, and between polychronic and monochronic perceptions of time) have emerged as methodological starting points for a considerable range of empirical research into how far extant CMC technologies succeed or fail in fostering cross-cultural communication online. At the same time, these frameworks can be challenged in a variety of ways. First of all, such frameworks inherit the risks and difficulties surrounding the notion of ³culture² in general. Too often, our efforts to define cultural characteristics assume a static and largely hermetically-sealed notion of culture ­ one that is, in many instances, operationally assumed to coincide with membership in a given nation-state or group defined by a specific geographical boundary. Moreover, the efforts of cultural theorists such as Hofstede and Hall to analyze and define culture lead to generalizations that run the risk of falling into overly simple stereotypes and binary oppositions. By contrast, more careful reflection on ³culture² should reveal that whatever else we mean by the term, cultures are fluid, not static; members of different cultures constantly intermix, hybridize, and develop their own distinctive collocations of diverse cultural elements. Moreover, given the complexity of human beings and their identification with multiple cultures and subcultures, it is by no means clear how far such characterizations as ³high content/low context² and ³high context/low content² are adequate explanations of human behavior. For this special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, we invite submissions that explore (a) the utility and limits of Hall¹s and Hofstede¹s and related frameworks for CMC research, and/or (b) alternative frameworks for researching culture that explicitly seek to move beyond previously identified weaknesses and limits in Hall and Hofstede, et al., and that result in fruitful and insightful findings as regards CMC. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500 words by October 1, 2004, to the issue editors Charles Ess (cmess_at_drury.edu) and Fay Sudweeks (sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au). The proposal should indicate (a) the theoretical bases and/or earlier research results to be used in analyzing, critiquing, and moving beyond Hall¹s and related frameworks of cultural analysis, and/or (b) alternative frameworks of cultural analysis, to be used for specific empirical research whose goal is to test the fruitfulness and/or limits of these frameworks, as applied to one or more types of CMC (e.g., the Internet, the Web, and/or mobile communication). In addition, proposals should clearly indicate the data to be analyzed, the methods used, the actual or anticipated findings of the empirical analysis, and the implications of these findings ­ including how the findings may confirm and/or point to limitations of the cultural framework(s) used in the analysis. Proposals should demonstrate awareness of key references in the culture and communication debates . For potentially useful sources, prospective authors may want to review one or more publications related to the conferences on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication [CATaC], for example, Macfadyen et al. (2004); see also the CATaC website at http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/. Since JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should plan for papers that will be accessible to non-specialists, and should make their papers relevant to an interdisciplinary audience. In addition, judicious use of the multimedia possibilities of web publication are encouraged, e.g., screen shots, photos, etc. Earlier submissions and questions are welcome. Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by April 15, 2005. Anticipated publication date for the issue is January 2006. Proposals and final submissions should be e-mailed to the special issue editors Charles Ess (cmess_at_drury.edu) and Fay Sudweeks (sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au). Reference Macfadyen, L. P., Roche, J., and Doff, S. (2004). Communicating across Cultures in Cyberspace: A Bibliographical Review of Online Intercultural Communication. Hamburg: Lit-Verlag. == Thanks! 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.24 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:44:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 175 (175) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 24 (August 11 - August 17, 2004) INTERVIEW Arthur K. Cebrowski on Transformation of Defense By anticipating evolution in social, threat and technological landscapes, the Office of Force Transformation makes changes before they're needed. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i24_cebrowski.html From: François Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 18.113 "goibniu"? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:45:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 176 (176) At http://community-2.webtv.net/TerMcC/Goibniu/ we find:- Goibniu The Sword Smith of the Celtic Gods. Name: Goibniu (pronounced Go-Van-On), Goibhniu, From the Irish Gaelic goba "smith." SYMBOLS: Sword, hammer, Lance Head, Beer. IMAGE: I have been unable to find any reliable descriptions of Giobniu, though I would say it is safe to say that he would appear as a muscular essence of Celt manhood. HOLY BOOKS: Perhaps the account of the battle of Mag Tuireadh, Children of Lir, Gods & Giants, the story of the tuatha de danann by Lady Gregory and others. HOLY DAYS: Unknown. PLACE OF WORSHIP: In the smithworks, before a battle, at a feast over the beer. MAJOR TABOOS: N/A FORM OF WORSHIP: Unknown. It's possible, and perhaps probable that his name may have been invoked in the blessing of weapons. Regarded not just as weapons, but as tools there is a long tradition of Irish soldiers uttering charms and incantations over their swords prior to battle up to and beyond the Iron Age. This was in large part inspired by such tales as Ogma's sword which he took from the Formorian king Tethra, that had the power of speech and turned against any who told a lie while holding it, the Sword of Light of Draoi which had the power to both give protection and remove baneful spells, and the swords of Goibniu that always fatally hit their mark. SYNODEITIES: Gofannon; Govannon (Welsh version of Goibniu), Gaban (Legend) not a deity, he was a swordsmith of legend who according to the Polistoire Del Eglise De Christ De Caunterbyre forged the sword of Sir Gawain in 14 A.D. It is thought that the legend is a survival of Goibniu. Saint Gobinet the Roman Catholic patroness of beekeepers however is not, as some claim, a later avatar of Goibniu. Gobinet is just the feminine version of an Irish boys name. Vulcan (Roman) RELATIVES: Denu (mother), Luchtaine & Creidhne (brothers.) Details: Goibniu is the smith god who along with his two brothers Luchtaine the carpenter & Credne the bronze and goldsmith made the weapons of the Tuatha de Danann. These however were no ordinary weapons that Goibniu made. As he said to his family before they faced the Fomors. "I will replace every broken lance and sword with a new one, even though the war last seven years. And I will make the lances so well that they shall never miss their mark, or fail to kill... the fate of the fighting will be decided by my lances," While today we might be more interested in the seeming fact that Goibniu invented the defense contract. (sure kill swords and lances? Imagine the sweet deal he can demand at the end of that seven years!) The Fomors were far more impressed with the fact that even though their enemies weapons did brake in battle they and their supposed dead holder would return the next day. It was because of this that the Fomors sent Ruadan to spy on them. Engaging in the first bit of industrial espionage Ruadan sees the three brothers at work, as Goibniu forges lance-heads and sword blades in just 3 hammer blows, Luchtaine cuts lance shafts with just 3 axe blows & Credne compleats the job by fixing the heads to shafts with just thee blows of his fist! Asking for one of the lances Ruadan takes it and runs Goibniu though the middle, much to Ruadan's chagrin Goibniu turns it instead into the first example of radical piercing by plucking it out and killing Ruadan with it. Taken by his two brothers to Dianchect and his daughter, the physicians of the Tuatha de Danann, they dip him in the Spring of Healing which returns him to full productivity. This healing seems however to be more than the common miracle, due perhaps to his being brought back after being struck by a weapon that always kills and with only one blow, for in later tales we find that Goibniu is credited with the brewing of a beer that grants healing. There is also the picture of a sword as it figures on a 1-shilling postage stamp and a rather dramatic painting. Hope this helps François C-R ----- Original Message ----- Willard -- word #43404 is "goibniu" (just ahead of "paprika") ? I realize the corpus is from Britain, but just the same, what in the world is a "goibniu" ? I know I have never seen it in print or heard it either, and I'm getting up in years). was doing binary chops on the corpus and stumbled on it -- is it a typo ?) [Can anyone supply a definition of "goibniu" and explain its etymology? --WM] From: Mike Neuman Subject: Position at Georgetown Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:47:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 177 (177) Job Announcement - Please Post DIGITAL PRODUCTION SPECIALIST, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON D.C. The Georgetown University Library seeks a Digital Production Specialist to support the production, creation and maintenance of the collections and services of the Georgetown Digital Library. 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Familiarity with Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Encoded Archival Description (EAD), and the Open Archives Initiative. Superior oral and written communication with a record of substantial professional participation and accomplishment. Demonstrable skills in project management, team formation, and problem solving; excellent skills in speaking and writing. SALARY & BENEFITS $45,500 - 51,371, plus a comprehensive benefits package including 16 days/year paid leave, 13 paid holidays, medical; retirement plan; tuition assistance. HOW TO APPLY Apply online under "Computer Technology" at http://data.georgetown.edu/hr/employment_services/joblist/jobs.html. The position number is 2004-0634A. Review of applications begins immediately. Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 178 (178) From: Lisa L. Spangenberg [deleted quotation]This is less than accurate. I'm in Maine, and haven't access to the books I need, but the place to look for the etymology and similar information is The Dictionary of the Irish Language. Compact Edition. 1983. Gen. ed. E.G. Quinn. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. The other good place to check for a quick guide to other relatively easy to locate sources is MacKillop, James. Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0192801201 It definitely does mean "smith" in the sense of "metal worker" and it is Old Irish. I wonder if the corpus source included mythological retellings or fantasy literature? -- Lisa L. SpangenCeltic Studies Resources | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: Ralph Mathisen Subject: Computer Technology Conference Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:55:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 179 (179) CONFERENCE REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS: ANCIENT STUDIES -- NEW TECHNOLOGY III The third biennial conference on the topic of "Ancient Studies -- New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies" will be held December 3-5, 2004, at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. All topics relating to the use of the web, the internet, and computer technology in scholarly and pedagogical endeavors are welcome. Sample topics of interest could include (but are not limited to) 1) the digital museum; 2) the digital classroom; 3) the digital scholar; and 4) theoretical issues such as "knowledge representation". 300-word electronic abstracts dealing with these issues and with other ways in which the WEB can help to promote classical, ancient, Byzantine, and medieval studies may be directed to Ralph Mathisen, Program Chair, at ralphwm_at_uiuc.edu and ruricius_at_msn.com (snail-mail: Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801). Deadline for receipt of abstracts is August 31, 2004. Programs for previous conferences may be consulted at: http://www.roman-emperors.org/program.htm (2000 Conference) and http://tabula.rutgers.edu/conferences/ancient_studies2002/con f_program.html (2002 Conference). The website for the upcoming conference is located at http://www.cisat.jmu.edu/asnt3. Ralph W. Mathisen Department of History, University of Illinois 309 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright ST, MC-466, Urbana IL 61801 USA Phone: 217-244-2075, FAX: 217-333-2297 Director, Biographical Database for Late Antiquity Administrator: LT-ANTIQ, NUMISM-L, PROSOP-L EMAIL: ralphwm_at_uiuc.edu or ruricius_at_msn.com Society for Late Antiquity Web Site: http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc Geography of Roman Gaul Site: http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/geogmain.htm Field Site: http://www.history.uiuc.edu/areas/lateantiquity.html Ralph W. Mathisen Professor, History and Classics Director, Biographical Database for Late Antiquity Project 446K Gregory Hall Univ. of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 217-244-5249 (Office) ralphwm_at_staff.uiuc.edu From: "Dr. T.B. Rajashekar" Subject: Workshop on Institutional Repositories INDEST-NCSI Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:56:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 180 (180) Following is a brief report of the INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories, held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India during 27-29 July 2004. INDEST-NCSI Workshop on Institutional Repositories: Workshop Report A training workshop on Institutional Repositories was successfully conducted during 27-29 July 2004 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Participants from twenty-one leading academic research institutions in India were imparted training in setting up institutional e-print archives using the EPrints http://www.eprints.org/ open source software. Participating institutions included Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and National Institutes of Technology. The workshop was organized and conducted by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in association with the Digital Library Research Group, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, USA. The workshop was sponsored by the INDEST Consortium, a programme of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. The main objective of the workshop was to fulfill a recommendation of the INDEST consortium to the member institutions to set up OAI-compliant digital research archives of their research publications, following the model already set up at Indian Institute of Science (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/), and to work towards establishment of a virtual research archive using the OAI inter-operability framework. It was strongly felt that this would facilitate improved visibility and impact of research output of these organizations and supplement the existing scholarly publishing system. This initiative is an extension of the INDEST consortium's initial goal of provision of shared access to licensed e-resources like bibliographic databases and e-journals (http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/). Workshop programme and content: The workshop was conducted in a training laboratory equipped with 20 workstations with Linux Red Hat 9.0 operating system. Each participant was provided with a CD-ROM prepared by NCSI especially for the workshop. The CD-ROM consisted of EPrints (version 2.3.4) and other related software (Apache, MySQL, dependent Perl modules, etc.); presentations made in the workshop; sample documents to be used in lab sessions; and resources related to institutional repositories, metadata, and OAI. Participants used a shell scripts developed by NCSI for automating the process of installing EPrints and other required software. The workshop sessions covered the following topics: - Overview of OAI framework and introduction to OAI-PMH - Institutional repository software - features and functionality - Overview of EPrints software and EPrints-based archives - EPrints software installation and test archive set up - Document submission, moderation, search and browse - Archive configuration and customization (home page, subjects, metadata) - Automatic metadata extraction - OAI in action - harvesting demonstration using local DSPace and EPrints archives and ARC service provider set up - Repository policies, content enrichment and advocacy Workshop inauguration and valedictory: On first day morning, Prof. R.S. Sirohi, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Chairman, National Steering Committee, INDEST Consortium, inaugurated the workshop. Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, Director, Indian Institute of Science, was the Chief Guest. On third day evening, Prof. P. Balaram, Chairman, Division of Biological Science, Indian Institute of Science, and Editor of "Current Science" journal published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, chaired the valedictory session. Workshop evaluation: All the participants were successful in installing the required software and set up test e-print archives on their workstations. They also went through the document submission and approval processes. They also experimented with simple customization changes to the test archives. In a formal feedback gathered, most participants felt confident of setting up e-print archives in their institutions. Many expressed the need for further help and suggested more hands-on time in future workshops. On a scale of 1-5 (1-very poor, 5- very good), workshop content got average rating of 4.7, logistics arrangement got 4.4, and overall assessment got 4.5. A major suggestion was to make available faster machines in the training lab, compared to the slow PII machines that we made available to the participants! Workshop Website: More details about the workshop including workshop programme, presentations, resources and other related content is available at the workshop website - http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/indest-ncsi-ir/ Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012 (India) (Workshop Coordinator) E-Mail: raja_at_ncsi.iisc.ernet.in From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.130 goibniu Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:55:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 181 (181) [deleted quotation]This is less than accurate. I'm in Maine, and haven't access to the books I need, but the place to look for the etymology and similar information is The Dictionary of the Irish Language. Compact Edition. 1983. Gen. ed. E.G. Quinn. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. The other good place to check for a quick guide to other relatively easy to locate sources is MacKillop, James. Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0192801201 It definitely does mean "smith" in the sense of "metal worker" and it is Old Irish. I wonder if the corpus source included mythological retellings or fantasy literature? -- Lisa L. SpangenCeltic Studies Resources | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: Shawn Martin Subject: Reminder: EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Competition Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:45:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 182 (182) 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_at_umich.edu or by phone at (734) 936-5611 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shawn Martin Project Outreach 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_at_umich.edu 920 N. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Espen Ore Subject: Re: [DIGLIB] Library of Congress Global Gateway: Lewis Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:43:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 183 (183) Carroll Scrapbook Now Online Laura Gottesman skrev 20.07.2004 20:39: [deleted quotation]Scrapbooks may be one of the coming items on the web. At the National Library in Norway there are quite a few which we are considering. And for one of them necessary work on conservation made it necessary to dismantle the scrapbooks (a set of 13 scrapbooks), so we have made a virtual version of the original scrapbook (so far one of them) available combined with a database which allows searches for the individual objects on the pages (or on other objects - this goes through many levels). The scrapbook is available here: http://www.nb.no/baser/diriks/ (The web-pages are in Norwegian only, but it should be possible to play around with some of the features even if you don't read modern Scandinavian.) The project has been further described in Anderson, J., Alistair Dunning, and Michael Fraser (eds) "DRH 2001 and 2002", Offive for Humanities Communication Publication 16, King's College, London. Espen S. Ore National Library of Norway, Oslo From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: a book on phonostatistics and language typology Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:42:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 184 (184) Dear HumanistList colleagues, may I ask you to be so kind as to send this review either in your university colleagues, library or your friends who might be interested in this book? Or some journal for publication if you know a suitable journal? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Remain yours most hopefully Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia REVIEW ON THE BOOK BY TAMBOVTSEV, Yuri Alekseevich. "TIPOLOGIA FUNCTSIONIROVANIA FONEM V ZVUKOVOI TSEPOCHKE INDOEVROPEICKIKH, PALEOAZIATSKIKH, URALO- ALTAICKIKH I DRUGIKH YAZIKOV MIRA: COMPAKTNOST ' PODRGUP, GRUP, SEMEI I DRUGIKH YAZIKOVIKH TAKSONOV" ["Typology of functioning of phonemes in a sound chain of Indo- European, Palaeo-Asiatic, Ural-Altaic and other world languages: compactness of subgroups, groups, families and other language taxons" - Novosibirsk: Sibirskij Nezavisimyj Institut, 2003 - 143 pages.] [Novosibirsk, 630123, Ul. Severnaya 23/1. Sibirskij Nezavissimyj Institut]. Reviewed by Senior Teacher of Novosibirsk School # 180 Ludmila Alekseevna SHIPULINA The book under review is the addition to Tambovtsev's theories, methods and data published earlier (Tambovtsev. 1994-a; 1994-b; 2001-a; 2001-b; 2001-c). I think that linguistics needs new data to support or to reject the classical theories. More often than not, linguists argue about this or that linguistic theory (e.g. Uralic or Altaic language unities) without any new data at hand. This new book by Yuri Tambovtsev provides such new data. Speaking about applications of statistical methods in linguistics, one must agree with Chris Butler that very often only statistical techniques are relevant for some linguistic research because it is difficult otherwise to understand the language phenomenon. It is especially important in any type of linguistic study involving differences in people's linguistic behaviour or in the patterns of language itself (Wray et al., 1998: 255). Tambovtsev adds much data on phonological statistics of world languages. He is one of the very few linguists who applied phonology to stylistics and typology (Teshitelova, 1992: 157 - 181). In this book, as in the previous books, Yuri Tambovtsev considers the typology of regulation and chaos of distribution of consonant phonemes in a sound chain of world languages. In fact, Tambovtsev concentrates on variability in sound chains of world languages. Actually, he adds much to the essential parts of his theories and methods in the analysed monograph under review, especially on the phonostatistical universals of Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Indo-European ans other world languages. The author examines the homogeneity of texts in various languages from the point of view of the occurrence of phonemic groups in their sound speech chains with the help of phonological statistics. Tambovtsev also investigates the rules of a sound chain division, as well as frequency of occurrence of certain phonemic groups of consonants in the phonetic systems of various world languages. Many new languages are investigated by his method, in comparison to his previous books (Tambovtsev, 1994-a; 1994-b; 2001-a; 2001-b; 2001-c). In fact, Yuri Tambovtsev has computed phonostatistical data on the occurrence of labial, front (i.e. forelingual), palatal (mediolingual), back (velar, pharengeal and glottal), sonorant, occlusive, fricative (constrictive) and voiced consonants in speech in a great number of languages. It comprises 8 phonological features. The articulation system of these languages is also discussed in brief. There is as well a short review of ethnic history (ethnogenesis) of the nations speaking these languages. The author thinks it of great importance to analyse these language contacts during the history of their ethnic development. As far I can judge, Tambovtsev's first article in the field of phonological statistics was published in 1976. So, he has been working on the problems mentioned above for a long time, i.e. for some 30 years. Unfortunately, I cannot mention all Tambovtsev's publications since he is the author of 8 monographs and about 250 articles on language typology, phonostatistics and phonetics. His study involves the sound pictures of 156 world languages. In the book under review, Tambovtsev's conclusions are based on the data of the occurrence of the frequency of phonemes in the languages of the following families and groups: 1. Indo - European language family (the language groups: Indo - Aryan (8 languages), Iranian (4 languages) , Celtic (1 language), Italic (1 language), Romanic (5 languages) , Germanic (7 languages) , Baltic (2 languages) , Slavonic (8 languages) , genetically isolated Indo-European languages (5 languages) , artificial languages(1). 2. Ural-Altaic language community which include the Uralic and Altaic language communities: A. Uralic language community, Finno-Ugric language family, Ugric subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (5 languages), Permic subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (2 languages) , Volgaic subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (5 languages) , Balto - Finnic subgroup of Finno-Ugric language family (9 languages) , Samoyedic language family (3 languages). B. Altaic language community, Turkic language family (22 languages) , Mongol language family ( 3 languages). 3. Tungus - Manchurian language family (6 languages), 4. Yenisseyic language family (1 language). 5. Caucasian language family (2 languages). 6. Palaeo - Asiatic language family (8 languages). 7. Sino - Tibetan language family (2 languages). 8. Afro - Asiatic language family (3 languages). 9. Bantu language family (2). 10. Austro -Asiatic language family (2). 11. Austronesian language family (5 languages). 12. Australian language family (6 languages). 13. The language community of American Indians (20 languages). As a linguist I often feel I must use statistical methods in my studies of the English, German and other languages. However, it is hard for a linguist to understand how to use them correctly, but at the same time in the easiest simple way. The author of the book teaches us how to do it. He does it on the example of the following methods of statistical calculation: standard quadratic deviation, variation coefficient, level of significance, confidence interval, T-criterion of Student, criterion of Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Chi- square criterion, and Euclidean distance. He also shows how to measure the statistical reliability of the linguistic results. Very often a linguist, who is a layman in linguistic statistics, may draw wrong linguistical results because his results are not statistically reliable. The book by Yuri Tambovtsev focuses not only on the mathematical statistical methods, which have been employed by him in his linguistic research, but also discusses the important problems of classification of world languages. The author touches the topics of reliability of mathematical statistical methods in linguistics. The target of his research is to compare various languages within a single family as well as languages belonging to different families and groups. For this sake, Tambovtsev has generated mean values of frequency rates of various phonemes and phonemic groups in speech. In fact, these mean values provide reliable correlation between different languages. There are several mathematical methods allowing estimations of variation of major statistical values. Tambovtsev aims to estimate regularities in usage of particular phonemes or phonemic groups in particular languages. He has chosen several methods of variability estimation and described techniques of their application to phonetic studies. In this respect, the issues of a size of a sample are important. In fact, the greater the sample, the more reliable results. One of the most important problems is the problem of the size of the portions (units) into which the text is divided. The portion should not be too small or too big. Tambovtsev correctly takes the generally accepted sample portion in phonological research, which is 1000 phonemes. Tambovtsev separates all his texts of the languages under discussion into units comprising 1000 phonemes. In statistics, the most reliable results are obtained on large samples. Thus, Tambovtsev argues that the minimum necessary sample should include not less than 30 thousand phonemes. The author has applied the method of evaluation of the mean quadratic deviation in his research among other methods estimating statistical variations. The mean quadratic deviation index is used in generating other evaluating indices. Quadratic deviation indices generated for two different texts can be compared if the sample sizes of basic texts are equal. Standard deviation data cannot be compared if the samples of texts are not equal. In cases, when the sample sizes are different, other mathematical functions should be used. Tambovtsev correctly chooses the estimation of the confidence interval, "chi-square" criterion, coefficient of variance, etc. In my opinion, it is important to provide the reader with the exact examples of how to calculate the mean quadratic deviation or standard deviation because a layman in phonostatistics, as myself, may do it in the wrong way. Yuri Tambovtsev provides us with the data on the occurrence of the labial consonants in the Old English texts: "Boewulf, Ohthere's and Wulfstan's Story, the Description of Britain, Julius Caesar", etc. He compares the use of labials in Old English to the analogical use in modern English. Variation coefficient represents another important tool in comparative linguistic research. It helps to compare incommensurable values. As it was stated above, the mean quadratic deviation characterises the degree of deviation of the frequency rate of a particular phoneme from the mean value. However, the mean quadratic deviation values do not take into account the fact that the number of labial phonemes is greater that that of the mid-lingual (palatal) phonemes. Consequently, the absolute mean index of labial sounds is considerably greater than that of the palatal ones. On the other hand, front-lingual phonemes are usually more frequent than labial. This heterogeneity of features asks for additional methods of comparison, i. e. the variation index called the "coefficient of variance". Unlike the mean quadratic deviation, the coefficient of variation allows correlation of frequency rates of those phonemes and phonemic groups, which have produced different mean values. It is possible to make the measure of variability comparable using the coefficient of variation. It can be used in linguistics in the way it is recommended by Fred Fallik and Bruce Brown for behavioural sciences (Fallik et al., 1983: 111 - 112). The coefficient of variation is used as an indicator of variation/stability of particular linguistic elements in a sample. The minimum necessary size of such samples should be not less than 30 units. The larger is the value of variation coefficient, the higher is the variability of a particular pholological feature (phonemic frequency in this case). Another important statistical notion is the significance level. In his research Yuri Tambovtsev has chosen the significance level value of 0.05, or 5%. To my mind, Tambovtsev chose it correctly since such a level of significance is usually used by the majority of researchers in linguistics and phonology. This sort of significance level (i.e. 5%) tells us that we have 95% confidence in our linguistic research. This significance level. I believe, is important in any linguistic research, but especially important for correlations carried out on small samples, i.e. in the samples less than 30 thousand phonemes. Confidence interval evaluation is closely related to other statistical procedures like estimations of the minimum necessary sample at the fixed significance level. Tambovtsev proposes to fix it always at 5%, for a layman in statistics not to break his brain over the other possible levels. Actually, it is so specific mathematical, that a linguist should not try to understand its mathematical foundation. I'm sure, if a linguist learns how operate with all necessary statistical criteria correctly, then using only one level of significance (e.g. 5%) is quite all right. The higher level of significance usually requires larger samples, and thus, much more labour, than necessary. In certain cases, I guess, one is advised to use the values of the confidence interval. The confidence interval evaluation is more reliable for phonological research since it provides us with a greater precision. The general rule is the narrower the confidence interval, the higher is the homogeneity of a parameter under discussion, i.e. a frequency parameter of a particular phonemic class or phoneme in speech. Usually, a text allows us to obtain narrower confidence intervals than the collection of phrases and words. In his book, the author correctly provides a correlation between these three important parameters: sample size and the confidence interval at the fixed significance value. Available data have shown that the greater the sample size, the lower is the confidence interval at the fixed significance level in all languages of the world, irrespective of their genetic affiliation or grammatical type. Tambovtsev has also paid attention to reliability of statistical results obtained in the course of his phonological research. He has received indices representing statistical error resulting from the fact that each sample represents only some portion of the general language aggregate. Such indices are called representation errors. The value of the representation error depends mostly on the sample size and on variation rate of a particular parameter. It is noteworthy that texts in different languages produce similar representation error, which does not depend on their morphological structures. This fact suggests a certain universal in consonant phonemic groups functioning in genetically different languages. However, I think, that Tambovtsev has applied the strictest way of estimating the representation error. On the one hand it is bad, since it requires larger samples for a fixed error (e.g. the error of 5% or less), but, on the other hand, it means that one can be surer of his linguistic result. Yuri Tambovtsev rightly mentions that many linguists who use statistics do not know that the T-test or "Student's" criterion was proposed by William Gosset, and not by some scholar called Student. "Student" was the name that William Gosset assumed as a pseudo-name. The Student's criterion is employed in cases when it is necessary to compare two mean values found for two different texts. The reliability of difference between two mean values depends on variability of involved parameters and on the sizes of the sample, for which these variables have been generated. The "student's" criterion can be applied for variables subordinating to normal dispersion. Within a sample of not less than 30 units, dispersion is considered normal. In the course of research, the "student's" criterion has been calculated for two samples of equal size of 31 thousand phonemes. On the one hand, a scientific text was compared with fiction, and on the other hand, two scientific texts were compared. The value the former is nearly four times greater than the latter. It convinces us that the "student's" criterion can be applied for the stylistic analysis of texts all right. The statistical criterion, called Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, provides researchers with mathematical method of analysis, which does not depend on the restrictions applied to statistical analyses. It concerns the following conditions: 1) Statistical analyses are carried out with independent accidental variables; 2) Aggregates of accidental variables should demonstrate close mean and dispersion values; 3) Aggregates should subordinate to the law of normal dispersion. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov criterion belongs to the so-called "robust" non- parameter methods, which are not sensitive of deviations from the standard conditions. Low values of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) criterion mean that the fluctuation of the analysed linguistic parameters is minor, that is not linguistically significant. Tambovtsev argues that the low value of K-S criterion in his research supports his hypothesis on a normal dispersion of the established eight groups of consonants within the speech sound chains. Representation of any language with the help of eight groups of consonants has served as a basis for his phono-statistical research. Tambovtsev has also employed the "chi-square" criterion in his investigations. With the aid of this criterion, he estimates differences between the empirical and expected values. If the difference is insignificant, it can be a result of accidental deviation. Otherwise, it reflects significant differences between factitious (empirical) and expected (theoretical) values of frequencies of phonemic group occurrences in speech. L. Bolshev and N. Smirnov (Bolshev et al., 1983: 166 - 171) have generated the list of maximum frequency values reflecting insignificant fluctuations of variables through the "chi-square" technique, which Tambovtsev provides on page 33. It is quite handy because usually linguists do not have books on statistics at hand. Christopher Butler recommends the chi-square test to measure the independence and association of linguistic units in various sorts of linguistic material (Butler, 1985: 118 - 126). Tambovtsev shows how to use it on the material of the occurrence of labial consonants in British and American prose (Agatha Christie, John Braine, W. S. Maugham, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, etc.). The chi-square values show that labials are distributed rather homogeniously. Tambovtsev draws the attention of the reader to calculate the degrees of freedom correctly (p.30). He also compares how similar is the distribution of labials, front, palatal, and velar consonants in Kalmyk (a Mongolian language) and Japanese (a genetically isolated language). It is not by this statistical criterion (p.31). However, the same criterion shows close similarity between the distribution of the 5 consonantal groups in Turkish and Uzbek (p.32). The T coefficient is less than 1 in 5 parameters, i.e. front, palatal, velar, sonorant and occlusive. Tambovtsev explains T coefficient as the ratio of the obtained values of chi-square and the theoretical values which can be found in the chi-square tables. It T coefficient is less than 1, the statistical results are similar p.31 - 33). It also shows great similarity between some other Turkic, Finno- Ugric, Samoyedic, Tungus-Manchurian, Slavonic, Germanic, Iranian and other Indo-European languages inside their taxons. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the issues of genetic and typological classifications of languages of the world. The author does not go into details and debates concerning inclusion of certain languages into particular genetic groups and families, or identification of a particular language as a separate language or a dialect. The major aim of the author is to provide a technique, which would allow linguists to check the rightfulness of inclusion of a particular language into a certain language group or a family. Before analysing the compactness of subgroups, groups, families and other language taxons, Tambovtsev warns the reader that the problem of the division of world languages into families has not been completely solved. For instance, it is quite necessary to discuss the problem if Turkic languages constitute a family themselves or a branch in some other family, called Altaic family. Actually, Turkic languages are considered to form a family by some linguists (e.g. Baskakov, 1966 and other Russian linguists). However, some other linguists, especially those in the West, consider Turkic languages to be a group within the Altaic family spoken in Asia Minor, Middle Asia and southern Asia (Crystal, 1992: 397; Katzner, 1986:3). The other two branches of Altaic family are Tungus- Manchurian and Mongolian. To my mind, it is more logical to consider Turkic languages a family, rather than a subgroup within Altaic family. Altaic languages should be called a super family, Sprachbund, language community or unity, since the true genetic relationship of Turkic, Tungus- Manchurian and Mongolian languages have not been proved. If one goes along this line, then all languages on the Earth may be called one family with lots of groups and branches. On the other hand, it is not productive to form separate language family consisting of one language. For instance, in 1960s Ket was considered an isolated language of Paleo-Asiatic family (Krejnovich, 1968: 453). However, now it is considered to form the so- called Yeniseyan family, though consisting of only one language with its dialects and subdialects. Summing up the modern point of view, David Crystal remarks that Yeniseyan is a family of languages generally placed within the Paleosiberian grouping, now represented by only one language - Ket, or Yenisey-Ostyak (Crystal, 1992: 424). I don't think it is wise to multiply language families like that. Other linguists (e.g. Ago Kunnap, Angela Marcantonio, etc.) question the very existence of the Uralic language family (Marcantonio, 2002). Among other language families, Tambovtsev describes the Finno-Ugric family. He argues, that this language family includes two major groups: Baltic-Finnic and Ugric groups. The author considers the theories of those linguists who identify the following four groups in the Finno-Ugric family: 1) The Baltic-Finnic group including Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Vepsian, Izhorian, Vodian, Livonian, and Saami possessing some specific features; 2) The Volga group including Erzia-Mordovian, Moksha-Mordovian, Mountain Mari, and Lawn or Meadow East Mari; 3) The Permic group comprising Udmurdian, Komi-Zyrian, and Komi- Permian; 4) The Ugric group comprising Hungarian, Manty, and Khansi. Together with the Samoyedic language family comprising the Nenets, Selkup, Nganasan, and Enets languages. The Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic are said to form the Uralic language unit. Tambovtsev argues that until present, no fore-language of this unit has been established. The languages of the Uralic unit do not form a compact unity from the point of view of dispersal and frequency of phonemic groups. With the aid of the coefficients that have been received by Tambovtsev in his studies, the author has shown that the consonant indices and the compactness (dispersion) coefficients suggest a more compact unity for Samoyedic languages family (the meanV=18.29%; T=0.16), rather than for the Finno-Ugric (the mean V=24.14%; T=0.47). The Uralic language unity has a greater dispersion (the mean V=28.31%; T=0.57). This fact has been interpreted as a support of the idea that languages of the Samoedic and Finno-Ugric family are more closely related to one another within the family, than between the families. Thus, the idea of the Uralic taxon as a language family should be either rejected or considered with caution (p.125). The Turkic language group includes Azeri, Baraba-Tatar, Bashkir, Gagauz, Karaim, Dolgan, Kazakh, Kamasin, Karakalpak, Karachai- Balkarian, Kyrgyz, Crimea-Tatar, Kumyk, Nogai, Tatar, Tofalar, Tuvin, Turkish, Turkmenian, Uzbek, Shor, and Yakut. The author argues that a Turkic fore-language can be regarded as a real basic language for all the Turkic languages. He points out that the Turkic fore-language (Ursprache) demonstrates closer relations to any of the present Turkic languages, than these languages may have between one another now. However, he did not include the Ancient Turkic into his studies because of the uncertainty in the pronunciation. The Mongolian language family includes only three languages: Buriat, Kalmyk, and Mongolian. It is the minimum possible group for statistical analysis. The Tungus-Manchurian language group includes 10 languages: Manchurian, Nanai, Negidal, Oroch, Orok, Solon, Udege, Ulchi, Evenk (Tungus), and Even. Inclusion of the Turkic, Mongolian and Tungus-Manchurian language family into one language unity represents the debatable topic in linguistics to day. The Indo-European language family seems to be the most thoroughly investigated. Major linguistic methods of investigations and comparative linguistic analysis were elaborated during the long history of studies of European languages. However, currently the major question concerning the existence of a single Indo-European fore-language has not been resolved. It is noteworthy, that many linguistic debates have been often carried out in terms of "similarity" and "linguistic distance". Yet, the terms themselves have not been clearly defined yet. Tambovtsev thinks that at the present state of understanding, modern languages represent either products of divergence or the reverse process, i.e. convergence. In historical perspective, both processes produced their impacts on development of languages. Tambovtsev agrees with those researchers who think that origin of all Indo-European languages from a single fore-language is fiction, while their co-existence and convergence in their development resulting in appearance of certain common features is a scientific fact. The noted uniformity of the Indo-European languages can be explained as a secondary, later phenomenon, and differentiating features represent the original and early characteristics of each language of this family. However, no classifications other than the genealogic one have been elaborated, Tambovtsev accepts the following classification of the Indo- European family: the Indian, the Iranian, the Baltic, the Slavonic (including Eastern, Western, and Southern Slavonic sub-groups), Germanic, Romanic, and Celtic language groups. Following Illich-Svitych, Tambovtsev believes that the Nostratic language unity can serve as a good model for linguistic investigations of various sorts, but he does not think these languages should be considered a language unity; moreover, this rather arbitrary construct is not recognised by all the linguists. The Nostratic language unity includes the following language families: Indo-European, Finno-Ugrian, Samoyedic, Turkic, Mongolian, Tungus-Manchurian, Cartvelian, and Semito-Hamitian. Tambovtsev proposes a concept of compactness for linguistic studies. He defines compactness as more or less closely related languages within language sub-groups, groups, families, etc. In other words, he attempts to measure the distance between languages within analysed taxons or clusters. The distances are measured on the basis of frequency rates of particular linguistic (phonological) characteristics. The author uses the concepts of image recognition and regards language families as a unit with more of less compact structure. In the branch of applied mathematics called pattern recognition different images of various sorts are recognised. One can consider language to be a sort of such image. Therefore, one can use the methods of pattern recognition to develop various types of classifications based on exact values of some coefficients (Zagorujko, 1999: 195 - 201). The generated index of compactness can be regarded as an indicator of an opposing process of diffusion. Values of frequency rate of particular parameter should not considerably deviate from the mean value established for a given language family or group. If the values of deviation are considerably greater than the established mean value, the given language does not belong to the language family under discussion. If majority of languages produce these deviation indices higher than the mean value, we should state that the languages under study do not form a language group but rather a set of separate languages. Tambovtsev has forwarded his hypothesis that typological similarity of languages can be tested by statistical methods resulting in generation a set of indices described above. The hypothesis holds that when a language is included into a particular language group, the generated indices of this new formation will show either a higher or lower compactness. Closely related language would increase the compactness indices and vice versa. The author illustrates this presupposition by a series of examples. Thus, he analyses frequency rates of labial consonants in the Turkic languages compared to Mongolian. The frequency of labial consonants in Mongolian is 7.52%. In the Turkic languages the relevant figures vary from 5.98% to 12.80%. The total fluctuation index is 6.28, the difference between the neighboring languages is 0.49. The Altai language has produced the lowest index of labial consonant frequency, while the Karakalpakian has shown the highest index. The Turkic languages can be classified in the following way by the labial consonant frequency indices: Karakalpakian - 12.80%; Turkish - 10.41%; Uigur - 9.83%; Azerbajanian - 9.66%; Uzbekian - 9.42%; Kumandinian - 9.22%; Baraba-Tatarian - 9.04%; Turkmenian - 8.50%; Kirgizian - 8.43%; Kazakn-Tatarian - 8.03%; Kazakhian - 7.99%; Khakassian - 7.82%; Yakutian - 6.10%, and Altaian - 5.98%. The place of the Mongolian language (7.52%) is between Khakassian and Yakutian suggesting the distribution of labial consonants is more similar in these three languages compared to other languages of the Turkic group. The Mongolian group has produced the following indices: Mongolian (7.52%), Buriatian (7.67%), and Kalmykian (6.65%). This distribution indices fall within the same range as above - from 5.98% to 12.80%, while the total fluctuation and the difference between the neighboring languages are lower (1.02 and 0.34 respectively). The Uralian language unity yields the labial frequency indices in the range of 7.71% - 13.72%, the difference between the neighboring languages is 0.30. Indices of language group compounding Mongolian and Tungus- Manchu languages are from 7.52% to 12.46%, with the mean difference between the neighboring values of 0.70. Consequently, we may infer on considerable differences in the sound chains of the Mongolian and the Tungus-Manchurian languages. On the contrary, introduction of the Mansi language belonging to the Finno-Ugrian language family, on which language Turkic and Mongolian languages did not produced considerable influence, into the Turkic languages increases the diffusion index of this group. Consequently, the Mansi language, unlike Mongolian, does not belong to the Turkic language group. Analysis of frequency rates of the front (i.e. forelingual) consonants may serve as another example of compactness of Turkic and Mongolian languages. Front-lingual consonants represent the most frequent sounds in the Turkic languages as well as in many other languages of the world. The range of frequency of front-lingual sounds in the Turkic languages varies from 32.35% to 40.24%. The overall fluctuation index is 7.89, the difference between the neighboring languages (the mean difference) is 0.564. In Mongolian, the range of frequency of front-lingual sounds is 36.57%of the total number of sounds. The mean difference for a compound group of Turkic languages and Mongolian becomes lower (0.526). The relevant figures found for the Urali languages are: frequency range 24.79% - 36.78%; the fluctuation index is 11.99; the mean difference is 0.6. Apparently, the Turkic language group is more compact than the Uralic. The Mongolian and Tungus-Manchu language families have yielded similar indices in the range of 17.31% to 36.57%; the fluctuation index is 19.26; the mean difference is 2.75.The Paleo-Asian group of languages represent still less compact group, their frequency rates varying from 20.02% to 36,74%; the fluctuation index is 16.64; the mean difference is 2.38. The author provides frequency indices on many languages and language groups. In order to show the general tendency in the distribution of speech sounds he proposes to use the general coefficients of variation resulting from adding generated indices on each group of phonemes. He also uses the T coefficient, which is generated on the basis of "chi-square" index, as a reference index. The resulting general coefficients of variation (V) allow him to form the following sequence. The Ugric language group demonstrates the highest diffusion (V = 221.27%, T = 3,77). The Baltic- Finnish languages yield V = 185.90%, T=2,79). The group of Volga languages is the most compact group with V =143, 19, T=1.02). Another interesting method of comparative analysis implies introduction of isolates Asian languages into various language families in order to establish possible relationships. Thus, introduction of the Ket language into the Finnish-Ugric family (V = 193.13%, T = 3.77) results in the higher diffusion (V =198.04, T = 3.94). The same procedure with Yukaghir yields V = 199.17%; with Korean V is 199.24%, T = 3.88; with Japanese V is 200.51%, T = 3.91; Nivkhi yields V = 206.48%. On the contrary, Chinese has shown closer similarity with the Finno-Ugric languages: V = 190.01%, T = 3.65. As a result of his investigations, Tambovtsev has come to the following conclusions: 1) Front (forelingual) and occlusive consonants are most evenly distributed within language families. 2) Voiced consonants represent the most variable feature; some languages have no category called "voiced" consonants. 3) The Mongolian language family is the most compact by the total sum of the values of the coefficient of variation based on seven major groups of phonemes (without voiced consonants) and the coefficient T. The consequence with respect to total sum of the coefficient of variation has been established as follows: the Mongolic, the Samoyedic, the Turkic, the Tungus-Manchurian, and Finno-Ugric language families. The Paleo- Asiatic language family has yielded the highest diffusion (i.e. the lowest compactness) indices and consequently can be regarded not as a language family but as a loose language unity or community. 4) The general tendency has been shown that in general a language sub-group is more compact that a group, and a group is more compact that a language family. The least compact, that is the most loose, is the language super-unity comprising all the languages of the world. 5) A collection of two language groups or two families into one unit results in a higher diffusion characteristics than the original taxons. All I can say is that the book by Yuri Tambovtsev is a solid and profound investigation in the comparative analysis of the languages of the world. The author provides many tables with indices and coefficients generated through various techniques for a great number of languages. 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Reviewed by Ludmila Alekseevna Shipulina From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Software for analysis, old and new Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:44:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 185 (185) Dear humanists, The idea of writing a piece of software for import and analysis of texts is an old one, and heavily used in some areas of the humanities. A concordance program is an example of such software. I am interested in the historical development of such tools, what were the aims, how did they change, what were the results. Furthermore, my main interest is the analysis of texts in a historical context - historians have not used such software as much as (some groups of) linguists and philologists. Are any books or articles published about the history of these tools? Or are there other sources to information about this development? I am also interested in discussions on reasons why historians are less interested in using such tools than other researchers. -- / Kind regards, / Øyvind Eide, Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo | Postal adr.: P.O. Box 1123 Blindern, N-0317 OSLO, Norway \ Phone: + 47 22 85 49 82 Fax: + 47 22 85 49 83 \ http://www.dokpro.uio.no/ From: tsd2004robot_at_aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:18:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 186 (186) ###################################################################### TSD 2004 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE Masaryk University, 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). NEWS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Opening Session by Frederick Jelinek Ken Church Speech and Language Processing: Can We Use the Past to Predict the Future? James Pustejovsky & Patrick Hanks Common Sense about Word Meaning: Sense in Context Jan Odijk ScanSoft's Technologies Detailed abstracts of the invited talks can be found at http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004/, Invited Speakers. [material deleted] From: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Re: 18.136 historical development of text-analytic tools? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:16:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 187 (187) Hello Øyvind. The following might be of use to you: Min, S. (2003). Mark Lombardi: Global Networks. New York, The Drawing Center. [40] Brown, D. (2002) Going Digital and Staying Qualitative: Some Alternative Strategies for Digitizing the Qualitative Research Process. (www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-02/2-02brown-e.htm). Fielding, N. (2002). Automating the Ineffable: Qualitative software and the meaning of qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Action. T. May. London, Sage: 161-78. Fielding, N. and R. Lee (2002). "New Patterns in the Adoption and Use of Qualitative Software." Field Methods 14(2): 197-216. Gibbs, G. R., S. Friese, et al. (2002) The Use of New Technology in Qualitative Research. Introduction to Issue 3(2) of FQS. (www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-02/2-02hrsg-e.htm). Bradley, J. (2000). Tools to augment scholarly activity: an architecture to support text analysis. Informatica Umanistica: Filosofia e Risorse Digitali, Bologna, Italy. James, J. B. and A. Sørensen (2000) Archiving Longitudinal Data for Future Research: Why Qualitative Data Add to a Study's Usefulness. (www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-00/3-00jamessorensen-e.htm). Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (2000). "Prosopography and Computing: a Marriage Made in Heaven?" History & Computing 12(1): 1-10. Roberts, C. W. (2000). "A Conceptual Framework for Quantitative Text Analysis." Quality & Quantity 34(3): 259-74. Thomas, G. D. (2000). The Machine-Assisted Creation of Historical Event Data Sets: A Practical Guide. International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Borgatti, S. P. (1996) Notes on the History of Social Network Analysis. AnalyticTech.com. Internet. (Based on John Scott's Social Network Analysis: A Handbook) Raben, J. (1991). "Humanities Computing 25 Years Later." Computers and the Humanities 25(6): 341-50. Tesch, R. (1990). Qualitative research: analysis types and software tools. New York, Falmer Press. (Chapter 2: "History of Qualitative Research") [deleted quotation]I am interested in the historical development of such tools, what were the aims, how did they change, what were the results. Furthermore, my main interest is the analysis of texts in a historical context - historians have not used such software as much as (some groups of) linguists and philologists. Are any books or articles published about the history of these tools? Or are there other sources to information about this development? I am also interested in discussions on reasons why historians are less interested in using such tools than other researchers. Ken Cousins Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics 3114 C Tydings Hall University of Maryland, College Park T: (301) 405-4133 C: (301) 758-4490 F: (301) 314-7619 kcousins_at_gvpt.umd.edu "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein From: Willard McCarty Subject: history of text-analytic tools & methods Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:17:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 188 (188) Øyvind Eide, in Humanist 18.136, asks about the historical development of text-analytic tools. This is surely a topic promising one or more very fine intellectual histories. At one time I made enough of an attempt to glimpse the potential for the history of the concordance, in "Handmade, Computer-Assisted, and Electronic Concordances of Chaucer", in Computer-Assisted Chaucer Studies, ed. Ian Lancashire, CCH Working Papers 3 (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 1993): 49-65, online at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/essays/concordance/. But don't get your hopes up very far -- I had the opportunity merely to see, in the brief notes I made there, that a genuine history was possible. I'd guess that the project would be too much for a PhD dissertation, though a good beginning could be made that way. The author would probably have to be a medievalist or be able to function as one, since what since the 13C we would call the prehistory of the concordance is where the foundations were laid. Asking what the makers of it at St Jacques (Paris) thought they were doing would be essential, and the answer that would likely come back would drive one straight into the earlier history of biblical exegesis. Then there's the historiographical problem of writing the history (as opposed to the chronology) of technology -- learning to "read the machine", as Michael Mahoney says. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: the rhetoric of blogging? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:58:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 189 (189) Does anyone know of any essays on the rhetoric of blog-writing? Thanks for any suggestions. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: 18.141 rhetoric of blogging? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:28:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 190 (190) [deleted quotation]The online journal Kairos http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/ may have articles that relate to the rhetoric od blog writing. And you might look to Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology & Pedagogy http://kairosnews.org/ -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar From: Simon Tanner Subject: Re: 18.141 rhetoric of blogging? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:29:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 191 (191) There's this item: Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog Carolyn R. Miller and Dawn Shepherd, North Carolina State University http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogging_as_social_action.html Carolyn R. Miller seems to have a focus on rhetoric in the digital domain - see her publications list at: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~crm/publications.htm Genre analysis seems to be popular - google finds some very entertaining pieces on the rhetoric of diet blogs - "quasi religious" and "always positive". I also think that wiki's are starting to have a distinct impact on blogging language and rhetoric. Regards, Simon ++++++++++++ At 09:03 17/08/2004, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)7793 403542 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/ From: jim.barrett_at_humlab.umu.se Subject: Re: 18.141 rhetoric of blogging? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:29:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 192 (192) Hi Willard, Rhetoric as "a persuasive way in which one relates a theme or idea in an effort to convince." (thanks Wikipedia) as relating to blogs, perhaps could be applied to Stephanie Hendricks Masters thesis here at HUMlab (http://www.humlab.umu.se/): "The Function of Language to Facilitate and Maintain Social Networks in Research Weblogs" the entire essay can be found at: http://www.humlab.umu.se/exjobb/files/LanguageBlogs.pdf Best Wishes...Jim Barrett [deleted quotation] From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: [humanist] 18.141 rhetoric of blogging? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:30:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 193 (193) There's an essay by Carolyn Miller and Dawn Shepherd, called "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog." It's at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogging_as_social_action.html Also, on digitalmedievalist.com, a couple of years ago, Lisa Spangenberg posted an entry titled "The Rhetoric of Web Logs" (and there's other interesting stuff in her "blogging" category: http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/archive/000075.html Finally, Jill Walker has done a dissertation on blogging at the University of Bergen, and her own weblog jill/txt is a treasure trove of information. For example, in the category "blog theorising" -- http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?cat=9 -- she has quite a few interesting posts: http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?p=860 ("small-world links in academia") http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?p=845 ("paper on blogs") and many others. Enjoy. -Vika Zafrin -- http://www.wordsend.org/log/ From: "Steven D. Krause" Subject: Re: 18.141 rhetoric of blogging? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:30:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 194 (194) There's a new and potentially interesting collection of essays/blogs/etc. on the web now called "Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs." I haven't looked at it much yet, though I am assigning it for my grad class in the Fall. The web page address is: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ Hope that helps, --Steve Steven D. Krause Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature Eastern Michigan University * Ypsilanti, MI 48197 http://krause.emich.edu From: Doug Brent Subject: Re: 18.141 rhetoric of blogging? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:31:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 195 (195) Try Michael Keren, "Blogging and the Politics of Melancholy," Canadian Journal of Communication Vol 29 No 1 (2004), on line at <http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewissue.php?id=106>http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewissue.php?id=106 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/%7Edabrent>http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.141 rhetoric of blogging? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:31:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 196 (196) Williard You asked: [deleted quotation]Not essays, no, but I do have some blog entries. This one is fairly typical: http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/archive/000075.html There are a fair number of composition and rhetoric specialists using blogs as teaching tools who often post about the rhetoric of blogging; you might try http://www.kairosnews.org/ http://seblogging.cognitivearchitects.com/ Lisa -- Lisa L. SpangenCeltic Studies Resources | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: dws2004robot_at_aurora.fi.muni.cz Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Dictionary Writing Systems Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:33:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 197 (197) Please distribute this call among your colleagues *********************************************************************** DWS 2004 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Third International Workshop on DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS (DWS 2004) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-7 September 2004 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/dws2004/ *********************************************************************** The workshop is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, as a pre-conference workshop of TSD 2004 (Text, Speech and Dialogue - http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/tsd2004). The workshop is supported by EURALEX (the European Association for Lexicography). A dictionary writing system (DWS) is a piece of software for writing and producing a dictionary. It might include an editor, a database, a web interface and various management tools (for allocating work etc.) It operates with a dictionary grammar, which specifies the structure of the dictionary. The workshop follows similar successful events in Brighton, UK in 2002 and 2003. It will include hands-on experience of a leading DWS, presentation of research papers and demos. The deadline for abstracts of proposed research presentations and demos is July, 31. INTENDED AUDIENCE: * dictionary project managers * lexical database users and developers * lexicographers * students of lexicography, lexicology, computational lingusitics [material deleted] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity -- New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:33:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 198 (198) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 25 (August 18 - August 24, 2004) INTERVIEW The World Wide Blog Joichi Ito, founder of Neoteny and other Internet companies, finds that cyberspace is embracing it roots -- collaboration, community, and personal communications -- with bloggers leading the way. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i25_ito.html From: "Amy C. Smith" Subject: Ure Museum needs a programmer Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:25:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 199 (199) Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Ure/index.php Job opening: Computer programmer to work full time for 8 months (September 2004-April 2005) on a JISC funded project, 'Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives' Experience/Skills required: The ideal candidate (not yet selected) will work full time for the duration of the project. S/he will be conversant with cross-platform development techniques, especially java and the mozilla platform, and open-standards server technology; show ability to implement RDF server-side. Experience with museum data is desirable. Outline project description:The project will involve creation, piloting and testing of an e-learning and teaching design tool, Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives. This open-source plug-in portlet, compliant with global standards, will facilitate design and use of museum (and other) collections data for independent learning. The project will also develop and document an RDF vocabulary for museum website resources Please contact Amy Smith (a.c.smith_at_reading.ac.uk /tel. 01491 378 8420) for more information. From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - New Issue Alert Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:27:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 200 (200) Volume 3220/2004 (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: A Learning Environment for English for Academic Purposes Based on Adaptive Tests and Task-Based Systems p. 1 Jean P. Gon=E7alves, Sandra M. Aluisio, Leandro H.M. de Oliveira, Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. A Model for Student Knowledge Diagnosis Through Adaptive Testing p. 12 Eduardo Guzm=E1n, Ricardo Conejo A Computer-Adaptive Test That Facilitates the Modification of Previously Entered Responses: An Empirical Study p. 22 Mariana Lilley, Trevor Barker An Autonomy-Oriented System Design for Enhancement of Learner's Motivation in E-learning p. 34 Emmanuel Blanchard, Claude Frasson Inducing Optimal Emotional State for Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 45 Soumaya Chaffar, Claude Frasson Evaluating a Probabilistic Model of Student Affect p. 55 Cristina Conati, Heather Maclare Politeness in Tutoring Dialogs: "Run the Factory, That's What I'd Do" p. 67 W. Lewis Johnson, Paola Rizzo Providing Cognitive and Affective Scaffolding Through Teaching Strategies: Applying Linguistic Politeness to the Educational Context p. 77 Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Helen Pain Knowledge Representation Requirements for Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 87 Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Jim Prentzas Coherence Compilation: Applying AIED Techniques to the Reuse of Educational TV Resources p. 98 Rosemary Luckin, Joshua Underwood, Benedict du Boulay, Joe Holmberg, Hilary Tunley The Knowledge Like the Object of Interaction in an Orthopaedic Surgery-Learning Environment p. 108 Vanda Luengo, Dima Mufti-Alchawafa, Lucile Vadcard Towards Qualitative Accreditation with Cognitive Agents p. 118 Anton Minko, Guy Gouard=E9res Integrating Intelligent Agents, User Models, and Automatic Content Categorization in a Virtual Environment p. 128 C=E1ssia Trojahn dos Santos, Fernando Santos Os=F3rio EASE: Evolutional Authoring Support Environment p. 140 Lora Aroyo, Akiko Inaba, Larisa Soldatova, Riichiro Mizoguchi Selecting Theories in an Ontology-Based ITS Authoring Environment p. 150 Jacqueline Bourdeau, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Val=E9ry Psych=E9, Roger Nkambou Opening the Door to Non-programmers: Authoring Intelligent Tutor Behavior by Demonstration p. 162 Kenneth R. Koedinger, Vincent Aleven, Neil Heffernan, Bruce McLaren, Matthew Hockenberry Acquisition of the Domain Structure from Document Indexes Using Heuristic Reasoning p. 175 Mikel Larra=F1aga, Urko Rueda, Jon A. Elorriaga, Ana Arruarte Role-Based Specification of the Behaviour of an Agent for the Interactive Resolution of Mathematical Problems p. 187 Miguel A. Mora, Roberto Moriy=F3n, Francisco Saiz Lessons Learned from Authoring for Inquiry Learning: A Tale of Authoring Tool Evolution p. 197 Tom Murray, Beverly Woolf, David Marshall The Role of Domain Ontology in Knowledge Acquisition for ITSs p. 207 Pramuditha Suraweera, Antonija Mitrovic, Brent Martin Combining Heuristics and Formal Methods in a Tool for Supporting Simulation-Based Discovery Learning p. 217 Koen Veermans, Wouter R. van Joolingen Toward Tutoring Help Seeking: Applying Cognitive Modeling to Meta-cognitive Skills p. 227 Vincent Aleven, Bruce McLaren, Ido Roll, Kenneth Koedinger Why Are Algebra Word Problems Difficult? Using Tutorial Log Files and the Power Law of Learning to Select the Best Fitting Cognitive Model p. 240 Ethan A. Croteau, Neil T. Heffernan, Kenneth R. Koedinger Towards Shared Understanding of Metacognitive Skill and Facilitating Its Development p. 251 Michiko Kayashima, Akiko Inaba, Riichiro Mizoguchi Analyzing Discourse Structure to Coordinate Educational Forums p. 262 Marco Aur=E9lio Gerosa, Mariano Gomes Pimentel, Hugo Fuks, Carlos Lucena Intellectual Reputation to Find an Appropriate Person for a Role in Creation and Inheritance of Organizational Intellect p. 273 Yusuke Hayashi, Mitsuru Ikeda Learners' Roles and Predictable Educational Benefits in Collaborative Learning An Ontological Approach to Support Design and Analysis of CSCL p. 285 Akiko Inaba, Riichiro Mizoguchi Redefining the Turn-Taking Notion in Mediated Communication of Virtual Learning Communities p. 295 Pablo Reyes, Pierre Tchounikine Harnessing P2P Power in the Classroom p. 305 Julita Vassileva Analyzing On-Line Collaborative Dialogues: The OXEnTCH=CA-Chat p. 315 Ana Cl=E1udia Vieira, Lamartine Teixeira, Aline Tim=F3teo, Patr=EDcia Tedesco, Fl=E1via Barros An Autonomy-Oriented System Design for Enhancement of Learner's Motivation in E-learning p. 325 Emmanuel Blanchard, Claude Frasson Tactical Language Training System: An Interim Report p. 336 W. Lewis Johnson, Carole Beal, Anna Fowles-Winkler, Ursula Lauper, Stacy Marsella, Shrikanth Narayanan, Dimitra Papachristou, Hannes Vilhj=E1lmsson Combining Competing Language Understanding Approaches in an Intelligent Tutoring System p. 346 Pamela W. Jordan, Maxim Makatchev, Kurt VanLehn Evaluating Dialogue Schemata with the Wizard of Oz Computer-Assisted Algebra Tutor p. 358 Jung Hee Kim, Michael Glass Spoken Versus Typed Human and Computer Dialogue Tutoring p. 368 Diane J. Litman, Carolyn P. Ros=E9, Kate Forbes-Riley, Kurt VanLehn, Dumisizwe Bhembe, Scott Silliman Linguistic Markers to Improve the Assessment of Students in Mathematics: An Exploratory Study p. 380 Sylvie Normand-Assadi, Lalina Coulange, =C9lisabeth Delozanne, Brigitte Grugeon Advantages of Spoken Language Interaction in Dialogue-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 390 Heather Pon-Barry, Brady Clark, Karl Schultz, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Stanley Peters CycleTalk: Toward a Dialogue Agent That Guides Design with an Articulate Simulator p. 401 Carolyn P. Ros=E9, Cristen Torrey, Vincent Aleven, Allen Robinson Chih Wu, Kenneth Forbus DReSDeN: Towards a Trainable Tutorial Dialogue Manager to Support Negotiation Dialogues for Learning and Reflection p. 412 Carolyn P. Ros=E9, Cristen Torrey Combining Computational Models of Short Essay Grading for Conceptual Physics Problems p. 423 M.J. Ventura, D.R. Franchescetti, P. Pennumatsa, A.C. Graesser, G.T. Jackson X. Hu, Z. Cai, the Tutoring Research Group From Human to Automatic Summary Evaluation p. 432 Iraide Zipitria, Jon Ander Elorriaga, Ana Arruarte, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Tutorial Dialogue System for Self-Explanation p. 443 Vincent Aleven, Amy Ogan, Octav Popescu, Cristen Torrey, Kenneth Koedinger Student Question-Asking Patterns in an Intelligent Algebra Tutor p. 455 Lisa Anthony, Albert T. Corbett, Angela Z. Wagner, Scott M. Stevens, Kenneth R. Koedinger Web-Based Intelligent Multimedia Tutoring for High Stakes Achievement Tests p. 468 Ivon Arroyo, Carole Beal, Tom Murray, Rena Walles, Beverly P. Woolf Can Automated Questions Scaffold Children's Reading Comprehension? p. 478 Joseph E. Beck, Jack Mostow, Juliet Bey Web-Based Evaluations Showing Differential Learning for Tutorial Strategies Employed by the Ms. Lindquist Tutor p. 491 Neil T. Heffernan, Ethan A. Croteau The Impact of Why/AutoTutor on Learning and Retention of Conceptual Physics p. 501 G. Tanner Jackson, Matthew Ventura, Preeti Chewle, Art Graesser, the Tutoring Research Group ITS Evaluation in Classroom: The Case of Ambre-AWP p. 511 Sandra Nogry, St=E9phanie Jean-Daubias, Nathalie Duclosson Implicit Versus Explicit Learning of Strategies in a Non-procedural Cognitive Skill p. 521 Kurt VanLehn, Dumiszewe Bhembe, Min Chi, Collin Lynch, Kay Schulze, Robert Shelby, Linwood Taylor, Don Treacy, Anders Weinstein, Mary Wintersgill Detecting Student Misuse of Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 531 Ryan Shaun Baker, Albert T. Corbett, Kenneth R. Koedinger Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Rule Generation in Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 541 Matthew P. Jarvis, Goss Nuzzo-Jones, Neil T. Heffernan A Category-Based Self-Improving Planning Module p. 554 Roberto Legaspi, Raymund Sison, Masayuki Numao AgentX: Using Reinforcement Learning to Improve the Effectiveness of Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 564 Kimberly N. Martin, Ivon Arroyo An Intelligent Tutoring System Based on Self-Organizing Maps - Design, Implementation and Evaluation p. 573 Weber Martins, Sirlon Diniz de Carvalho Modeling the Development of Problem Solving Skills in Chemistry with a Web-Based Tutor p. 580 Ron Stevens, Amy Soller, Melanie Cooper, Marcia Sprang Pedagogical Agent Design: The Impact of Agent Realism, Gender, Ethnicity, and Instructional Role p. 592 Amy L. Baylor, Yanghee Kim Designing Empathic Agents: Adults Versus Kids p. 604 Lynne Hall, Sarah Woods, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Daniel Sobral, Ana Paiva, Dieter Wolke, Lynne Newall RMT: A Dialog-Based Research Methods Tutor With or Without a Head p. 614 Peter Wiemer-Hastings, David Allbritton, Elizabeth Arnott Using Knowledge Tracing to Measure Student Reading Proficiencies p. 624 Joseph E. Beck, June Sison The Massive User Modelling System (MUMS) p. 635 Christopher Brooks, Mike Winter, Jim Greer, Gordon McCalla An Open Learner Model for Children and Teachers: Inspecting Knowledge Level of Individuals and Peers p. 646 Susan Bull, Mark McKay Scaffolding Self-Explanation to Improve Learning in Exploratory Learning Environments. p. 656 Andrea Bunt, Cristina Conati, Kasia Muldner Metacognition in Interactive Learning Environments: The Reflection Assistant Model p. 668 Claudia Gama Predicting Learning Characteristics in a Multiple Intelligence Based Tutoring System p. 678 Declan Kelly, Brendan Tangney Alternative Views on Knowledge: Presentation of Open Learner Models p. 689 Andrew Mabbott, Susan Bull Modeling Students' Reasoning About Qualitative Physics: Heuristics for Abductive Proof Search p. 699 Maxim Makatchev, Pamela W. Jordan, Kurt VanLehn From Errors to Conceptions - An approach to Student Diagnosis p. 710 Carine Webber Discovering Intelligent Agent: A Tool for Helping Students Searching a Library p. 720 Kamal Yammine, Mohammed A. Razek, Esma A=EFmeur, Claude Frasson Developing Learning by Teaching Environments That Support Self-Regulated Learning p. 730 Gautam Biswas, Krittaya Leelawong, Kadira Belynne, Karun Viswanath, Daniel Schwartz, Joan Davis Adaptive Interface Methodology for Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 741 Gl=F3ria Curilem S., Fernando M. de Azevedo, Andr=E9a R. Barbosa Implementing Analogies in an Electronic Tutoring System p. 751 Evelyn Lulis, Martha Evens, Joel Michael Towards Adaptive Generation of Faded Examples p. 762 Erica Melis, Giorgi Goguadze A Multi-dimensional Taxonomy for Automating Hinting p. 772 Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Armin Fiedler, Helmut Horacek Inferring Unobservable Learning Variables from Students' Help Seeking Behavior p. 782 Ivon Arroyo, Tom Murray, Beverly P. Woolf, Carole Beal The Social Role of Technical Personnel in the Deployment of Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 785 Ryan Shaun Baker, Angela Z. Wagner, Albert T. Corbett, Kenneth R. Koedinger Intelligent Tools for Cooperative Learning in the Internet p. 788 Fl=E1via de Almeida Barros, F=E1bio Paragua=E7u, Andr=E9 Neves, Cleide Jane Costa A Plug-in Based Adaptive System: SAAW p. 791 Le=F4nidas de Oliveira Brand=F5, Seiji Isotani, Janine Gomes Moura Helps and Hints for Learning with Web Based Learning Systems: The Role of Instructions p. 794 Angela Brunstein, Josef F. Krems Intelligent Learning Environment for Film Reading in Screening Mammography p. 797 Joao Campos, Paul Taylor, James Soutter, Rob Procter Reuse of Collaborative Knowledge in Discussion Forums p. 800 Weiqin Chen A Module-Based Software Framework for E-learning over Internet Environment p. 803 Su-Jin Cho, Seongsoo Lee Improving Reuse and Flexibility in Multiagent Intelligent Tutoring System Development Based on the COMPOR Platform p. 806 Evandro de Barros Costa, Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, Angelo Perkusich Towards an Authoring Methodology in Large-Scale E-learning Environments on the Web p. 809 Evandro de Barros Costa, Rob=E9rio Jos=E9 R. dos Santos, Alejandro C. Frery, Guilherme Bittencourt ProPAT: A Programming ITS Based on Pedagogical Patterns p. 812 Karina Valdivia Delgado, Leliane Nunes de Barros AMANDA: An ITS for Mediating Asynchronous Group Discussions p. 815 Marco A. Eleuterio, Fl=E1vio Bortolozzi An E-learning Environment in Cardiology Domain p. 818 Ed=EDlson Ferneda, Evandro de Barros Costa, Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, Lourdes Matos Brasil, Antonio Pereira Lima Jr, Gloria Millaray Curilem Mining Data and Providing Explanation to Improve Learning in Geosimulation p. 821 Eurico Vasconcelos Filho, Vladia Pinheiro, Vasco Furtado A Web-Based Adaptive Educational System Where Adaptive Navigation Is Guided by Experience Reuse p. 824 Jean-Mathias Heraud Improving Knowledge Representation, Tutoring, and Authoring in a Component-Based ILE p. 827 Charles Hunn, Manolis Mavrikis A Novel Hybrid Intelligent Tutoring System and Its Use of Psychological Profiles and Learning Styles p. 830 Weber Martins, Francisco Ramos de Melo, Viviane Meireles, Lauro Eug=EAnio Guimar=E3es Nalini Using the Web-Based Cooperative Music Prototyping Environment CODES in Learning Situations p. 833 Evandro M. Miletto, Marcelo S. 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Heffernan A Metacognitive ACT-R Model of Students' Learning Strategies in Intelligent Tutoring Systems p. 854 Ido Roll, Ryan Shaun Baker, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth R. Koedinger Promoting Effective Help-Seeking Behavior Through Declarative Instruction p. 857 Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth Koedinger Supporting Spatial Awareness in Training on a Telemanipulator in Space p. 860 Jean Roy, Roger Nkambou, Froduald Kabanza Validating DynMap as a Mechanism to Visualize the Student's Evolution Through the Learning Process p. 864 U. Rueda, M. Larra=F1aga, J.A. Elorriaga, A. Arruarte Qualitative Reasoning in Education of Deaf Students: Scientific Education and Acquisition of Portuguese as a Second Language p. 867 Heloisa Salle, Paulo Salles, Bert Bredeweg A Qualitative Model of Daniell Cell for Chemical Education p. 870 Paulo Salles, Ricardo Gauche, Patr=EDcia Virmond Student Representation Assisting Cognitive Analysis p. 873 Antoaneta Serguieva, Tariq M. Khan An Ontology-Based Planning Navigation in Problem-Solving Oriented Learning Processes p. 877 Kazuhisa Seta, Kei Tachibana, Motohide Umano, Mitsuru Ikeda A Formal and Computerized Modeling Method of Knowledge, User, and Strategy Models in PIModel-Tutor p. 880 Jinxin Si SmartChat - An Intelligent Environment for Collaborative Discussions p. 883 Sandra de Albuquerque Siebra, Cibele da Rosa Christ, Ana Em=EDlia M. Queiroz, Patr=EDcia Azevedo Tedesco, Fl=E1via de Almeida Barros Intelligent Learning Objects: An Agent Based Approach of Learning Objects p. 886 Ricardo Azambuja Silveira, Eduardo Rodrugues Gomes, Vinicius Heidrich Pinto, Rosa Maria Vicari Using Simulated Students for Machine Learning p. 889 Regina Stathacopoulou, Maria Grigoriadou, Maria Samarakou, George D. Magoulas Towards an Analysis of How Shared Representations Are Manipulated to Mediate Online Synchronous Collaboration p. 892 Daniel D. Suthers A Methodology for the Construction of Learning Companions p. 895 Paula Torre=E3o, Marcus Aquino, Patr=EDcia Tedesco, Juliana S=E1, Anderson Correia Intelligent Learning Environment for Software Engineering Processes p. 898 Roland Yatchou, Roger Nkambou, Claude Tangha Opportunities for Model-Based Learning Systems in the Human Exploration of Space p. 901 Bill Clancey Toward Comprehensive Student Models: Modeling Meta-cognitive Skills and Affective States in ITS p. 902 Cristina Conati Having a Genuine Impact on Teaching and Learning - Today and Tomorrow p. 903 Elliot Soloway, Cathleen Norris Interactively Building a Knowledge Base for a Virtual Tutor p. 904 Liane Tarouco Ontological Engineering and ITS Research p. 905 Riichiro Mizoguchi Agents Serving Human Learning p. 906 Stefano A. Cerri Panels p. 907 No author given Workshop on Modeling Human Teaching Tactics and Strategies p. 908 Fabio Akhras (Co-chair), Ben du Boulay (Co-chair), Art Graesser, Susanne Lajoie, Rose Luckin, Natalie Person Workshop on Analyzing Student-Tutor Interaction Logs to Improve Educational Outcomes p. 909 Joseph Beck (Chair), Ryan Baker, Albert Corbett, Judy Kay, Diane Litman, Tanja Mitrovic, Steve Ritter Workshop on Grid Learning Services p. 910 Guy Gouard=E8res (Co-chair), Roger Nkambou (Co-chair), Colin Allison, Jeff Bradshaw, Rajkumar Buyya, Stefano A. Cerri, Marc Eisenstadt, Guy Gouard=E8res, Michel Liqui=E8re, Roger Nkambou, Liana Razmerita, Pierluigi Ritrovato, David de Roure, Roland Yatchou Workshop on Distance Learning Environments for Digital Graphic Representation p. 911 Ricardo Azambuja Silveira (Co-chair), Adriane Borda Almeida da Silva (Co-chair), Demetrio Arturo Ovalle Carranza, Ant=F4nio Carlos Rocha Costa, Helo=EDsa Rocha, Marcelo Payss=E9, Mary Lou Maher, Monica Fernandez, Neusa Felix, Rosa Vicari Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-learning p. 912 Lora Aroyo (Co-chair), Darina Dicheva (Co-chair), Peter Brusilovsky, Paloma Diaz, Vanja Dimitrova, Erik Duval, Jim Greer, Tsukasa Hirashima, Ulrich Hoppe, Geert-Jan Houben, Mitsuru Ikeda, Judy Kay, No firstname given Kinshuk, Erica Melis, Tanja Mitrovic, Ambj=F6rn Naeve, Ossi Nyk=E4nen, Gilbert Paquette, Simos Retalis, Demetrios Sampson, Katherine Sinitsa, Amy Soller, Steffen Staab, Julita Vassileva, Felisa Verdejo, Gerd Wagner Workshop on Social and 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Subject: Agenda for Berekely public session Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:43:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 201 (201) ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences PUBLIC INFORMATION-GATHERING SESSION Morrison Library 101 Doe Library University of California Berkeley CA Saturday, August 21, 2004 10AM-3PM 10:00-10:30 Welcome from John Unsworth and Abby Smith 10:30-11:00 Suzanne Calpestri, John H. Rowe Librarian and Director, George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, UC Berkeley and American Anthropological Association 11:00-11:30 Henry Brady, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, Survey Research Center and UC Data, UC Berkeley 11:30-12:00 Michael Buckland, Professor, School of Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley and Co-Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) 12:00-12:30 Richard Rinehart, Director of Digital Media, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and Digital Media Instructor, Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley 12:30-1:00 Lunch Break (box lunches provided) 1:00-1:30 Geoffrey Nunberg, Senior Researcher, Center of the Study of Language and Information, Consulting Full Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University 1:30-2:00 Gregory Niemeyer, Assistant Professor for Art, Technology and Culture, Departments of Art Practice and Film Studies, UC Berkeley 2:00-2:30 Daniel Greenstein, University Librarian and Director, California Digital Library, Office of the President, UC 2:30-3:00 Marc Levoy, Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University -------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this message. Subscribers may not post to the listserv. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to listadmin_at_listserv.acls.org with "unsubscribe cyberinfrastructure" -- without the quotation marks -- in the BODY of the message. From: "Helena Francke" Subject: Human IT 7:2 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:42:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 202 (202) The new issue of Human IT is now available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/. The issue includes a number of articles that I hope will be of interest to readers of Humanist. Human IT is a multidisciplinary, scholarly journal aiming to present research and discussion on digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. TOC (first three contributions in English, the following three in Swedish with English abstracts) * Harry Ludens: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a Novel and Computer Game by Anna Gunder http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/ag.pdf * Scholarly Collections on the Web: Media Reconfigurations at Play by Rune Dalgaard http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/rd.pdf * Ethics of Living Technology: Design Principles for Proactive Home Environments by Frans Mäyrä och Tere Vadén http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/fmtv.pdf * Elektroniska dokument i informationspolitisk belysning: en fråga om makt, kontroll och förhandlingar [Electronic Documents Viewed from an Information Policy Perspective: A Question of Power, Control, and Negotiations] by Veronica Johansson http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/vj.pdf * Användarundervisning inför informationssökning i yrkeslivet: en kunskapsöversikt [User Education for Information Seeking in Working Life] by Olof Sundin http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/os.pdf *Bokrecension [Book review] by Torgil Persson http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/tp.pdf ************** Helena Francke co-editor Human IT Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Borås / Göteborg University SE-501 90 Borås, Sweden phone +46 33 16 43 20 (Borås) +46 31 773 58 49 (Göteborg) cell +46 733 93 26 03 fax +46 33 16 40 05 e-mail helena.francke_at_hb.se From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI (V5i2): Information Design Models and Processes Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:42:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 203 (203) Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Information Design Models and Processes (Volume 5, issue 2, August 2004) Special issue Editor: David Lowe, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney From the special issue editorial: "Recent work has contributed to an emerging understanding of how to design the information structures that underpin the Web. While current research has often produced effective models and processes, 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. Commercial development practices are typically either ad hoc or reflect the disciplinary background of the developers without adequately understanding the unique characteristics of Web systems ­ characteristics that have significant implications for the models that we might wish to construct and the approaches which should be taken to their development. In effect, much work remains on supporting the wide adoption of emerging modelling approaches and development processes. This special issue provides a sample of work that is beginning to address some of these issues." http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i02/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: R. Calvo, J. Lee, X. Li (June 2004) Managing Content with Automatic Document Classification http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i02/Calvo/ X. Kong, L. Liu, D. Lowe (August 2004) Critical Feature Method — A Lightweight Web Maintenance Methodology for SMEs http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i02/Kong/ S. Montero, P. Díaz, I. Aedo (June 2004) AriadneTool: A Design Toolkit for Hypermedia Applications http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i02/Montero/ A. Navarro, B. Fernández-Manjón, A. Fernández-Valmayor, J. Sierra (June 2004) The PlumbingXJ Approach for Fast Prototyping of Web Applications http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i02/Navarro/ R. Tongrungrojana, D. Lowe (August 2004) WIED: A Web Modelling Language for Modelling Architectural-Level Information Flows http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i02/Tongrungrojana/ -- 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/ From: "Stephen Clark" Subject: query: the blind man's cane? Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 06:36:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 204 (204) To: Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:27 PM [deleted quotation]in [deleted quotation]an [deleted quotation]http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. [deleted quotation]http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: The WIKI as The New Age Scholarly Journal? Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 06:38:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 205 (205) Colleagues/ In my literature search about WIKIs [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis ] earlier this week, I learned of a Most Interesting Letter in BMJ titled "It's a Wiki Wiki World" [ http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/326/7395/932/a ] KEY EXCERPT "The future belongs to Lisa. Smart and articulate, she will thrive in a milieu that she manipulates so that useful information will flow towards her. By participating in her online communities and achieving status in these groups, she will be the one who knows (or at least who knows who knows) the required information. [SNIP] TAKE HOME MESSAGE Fortunately the internet has given us the answer_one_ the Wikipedia concept, which has developed as a result of the open source software model using free (wiki) software (www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine). The essential features are a revision control system, unrestricted editing of articles on the wiki by any registered member, unrestricted membership of the wiki, and the ability to fork articles (or see current versions at the same time). In addition, no copies are deleted and the newer versions of an article comprise the original article with all additions made cumulatively. This Letter was in response to a Most Entertaining and Informative article titled "Four Futures for Scientific and Medical Publishing" [ http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1472 ] that provides a profile of various publication models through the Simpson Family Characters (Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa) [WOW!] I'd appreciate ANY and ALL reactions to The Letter and/or The Article! [BUT, Don't Have a Cow, Man] [http://animatedtv.about.com/cs/faqs/a/simpsonbios_2.htm ] [:-) /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Most Entertaining and Informative Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu From: Ross Scaife Subject: icon.stoa.org -- new Stoa Image Gallery Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 06:37:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 206 (206) Stoa Image Gallery What it is... This machine, icon.stoa.org, is a dedicated image-server maintained by the Stoa Consortium for the use of scholars who would like to share, on an Open Access basis, their digital photographs and digital videos related to Classics, Classical Archaeology, and the classical tradition. To that end we have installed Gallery image-management software. "With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy." The web interface is extremely simple and includes numerous alternative methods for uploading images and videos. Even more efficient methods allow direct exports to Gallery albums from within OS X iPhoto or from a Windows XP album. Open, open, open... The Gallery software bears the GNU General Public License, and that allows us to implement it (and even modify it, as needed) without charge. In that same spirit of unfettered collaboration, we ask that any publically available images archived here carry a Creative Commons license so that others may freely reuse them for non-commercial purposes related to their teaching and research. In making this request we are following the fine example set by Kevin Glowacki for his Ancient City of Athens publication, which is entirely covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 license. Getting started... If you wish to publish images and/or video here, please contact one of the Stoa co-editors, Ross Scaife or Anne Mahoney, for a user ID and password that will permit you to log in to the system and begin setting up your album(s). We have plenty of storage space and we can get more as needed but for the sake of the audience we suggest that you exercise reasonable selectivity in what you choose to archive. What that means for a given collection you can best judge for yourself. Metadata... Note that the Gallery software allows users to search the captions and keywords so the more information you can put into those descriptions, the more likely it is that users will find the images and videos they want. The owner of any given album may add as many fields for description as he or she chooses, via the "Properties" menu. The priority for this project lies in collecting and preserving high-quality images and video with at least minimal metadata, more than in setting the bar for metadata acquisition so high that people who might otherwise contribute are put off. Where it is... You will find the gateway to the Stoa Image Gallery at http://icon.stoa.org/gallery/. Thanks! We express our continuing gratitude to the Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Kentucky for lending us a spare machine (and physical space for it), as well as offering us useful hosting services, including nightly backup. Last modified: 19 August 2004 ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html STOA: ** To unsubscribe send the message 'UNSUBscribe STOA' to LISTSERV_at_LSV.UKY.EDU with a blank subject line. ** To subscribe send the message 'SUBscribe STOA Firstname Lastname' to LISTSERV_at_LSV.UKY.EDU with a blank subject line. ** To post to the group, send your message to STOA_at_LSV.UKY.EDU ** If you have any trouble, send a message about it to the list owners at the generic address: STOA-Request_at_LSV.UKY.EDU From: Maja van der Velden Subject: South Asian Networks: Digital Diasporic Circuits Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:26:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 207 (207) South Asian Networks: Digital Diasporic Circuits Editor: Radhika Gajjala If you have work you'd like to submit for this, Please send a 500 abstract and bio to radhika_at_cyberdiva.org If you have a near complete essay - go ahead and submit that as well. thanks, radhika 1. Brief Description: This project examines issues related to South Asian transnational networks (economic, mediated, digital and so on) and diasporic circuits that are technologically mediated in various ways. Technology and its use has shaped and in turn been shaped by dominant production processes, community practices and cultural activities throughout history. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the practices of travel, communication, labor flow and economic systems fostered by modern and postmodern modes of work and play through an engagement with various digital technologies. Therefore the essays in this anthology examine various issues regarding labor, migration and globalization at the intersection of the digital and the analogue specifically in relation to South Asia and South Asian Diasporas, in an effort to show how technology, migrancy and globalization are linked to our everyday lives. Contributors thus examine (directly and indirectly) issues related to technologically mediated diasporic spaces. Issues of voice and voicelessness as well as of marginalization, ventriloquizing and Othering based on gender, race, class, sexuality and geographical location emerge as some central concerns. Problematizing both transnational and diasporic in relation to technological environments and globalization, this collection grapples with issues at such intersections. Taking seriously Gayathri Spivaks interrogation of transnational, diasporas, old and newin relation to the Gramscian subaltern (Spivak, 1997), and based in issues raised through the editors prior work in this area (see Gajjala 1998, 1999, 2000 forthcoming 2004 and Gajjala and Mamidipudi 1999) this collection engages questions that point to the contradictions that emerge when these issues are put in conversation with digitaland related technological environments. Some implicit and explicit questions are: What kind of migratory subjects emerge in transnational spaces and in digital diaspora , at the intersection of the local and the global? What regulatory fictionsand theoretical frames shape and constrain manifestations of identity formations and communities online? What literacies are demanded in the performance of cyber-bodies? What bodies are allowed embodiment through technologies? Viewed at the intersection of cultures and communities of production, what kinds of bodies produce what kinds of technologies? What are the socio-cultural transformations demanded in the name of "technological literacy" and "development"? Exploring the ontology and epistemology of "cyberspace," some of these essays raise questions regarding the impossibility of "the subaltern's" access to the socio-economic globalization manifested in cyberspace. Processes of globalization rely on a complex layering of discourses and daily practices related to information technology, digital media, lifestyles based on the celebration of globalizing consumer cultures as well as on the seemingly contradictory invoking of national culture (as defined through postcolonial bourgeoisie nation-building ideologies). Online discourses and material practices within such technological environments are a result of such complexly layered and nuanced practices in realspaces and are visibly manifested in the various online contexts. Even in these virtual environments, participants do not leave their bodies behind. Hence the virtual/real distinction sets up a false binary that cannot be substantiated when we analyze engagement with online environments. Part of what the analyses in the chapters in this book do is to try to unravel the dichotomy between the virtual and the real. Thus Economics and Culture intersect and interweave within digital spaces to produce global and local encounters, circuits and networks. Cyberculture is not simply or essentially the west or the whole world; male or female, white or black yet it is situated within unequal power relations that must be examined in detail in relation to various categories of race, caste, gender, sexuality and geography, and at various conjunctures and disjunctures. The purpose of our project is to open up theoretical considerations for continued attempts at mapping these connections between the economic, cultural, digital, local and the global. These connections can be mapped at various local/global intersections and every such contextual analysis will reveal the various ways in which these work together and contribute to the production of power relations within which discourses and practices of globalization are situated. The chapters in this proposed collection do this in a variety of ways. This is an interdisciplinary project, drawing on multiple methodologies for studying what has come to be known as digital culture. Radhika Gajjala http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik Associate Professor Dept of IPC/School of Comm Studies 315 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 419-372-0528 fax - 419-372-0202 From: Willard McCarty Subject: sexism in the vocabulary of disciplinarity Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:58:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 208 (208) I would be grateful for any pointers to discussions of the implicit sexism in the vocabulary of disciplinarity, specifically of the "hard" vs "soft" kind -- the sciences being hard, the social sciences suspiciously tender, the humanities altogether soft (and on a pedestal, worshipped but not taken seriously &c). Many thanks. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: 18.140 historical development of text-analytic tools Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:25:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 209 (209) Dear Ken, Willard, Thank you for the list of references! I have been able to collect a few of them, and they seem to give partial answers to my questions from different perspectives. While I am not going to write the history proposed by Willard, I could set up a web-page with your references and other I have collected/will collect in the future, and some remarks on the topic, if such a page does not exist today - as I suppose it does not? Kind regards, Øyvind Eide From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: 18.153 historical development of tools Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:43:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 210 (210) ... I have been able to collect a few of them, and they seem to give partial answers to my questions from different perspectives. While I am not going to write the history proposed by Willard, I could set up a web-page with your references and other I have collected/willcollect in the future, and some remarks on the topic, if such a page does not exist today - as I suppose it does not? From: "Prof. R. Sussex" Subject: Re: 18.152 sexism in the vocabulary of disciplinarity? Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:43:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 211 (211) Willard There is a kind of parallel in Hofstede's work on intercultural communication and what he calls the masculine/feminine dichotomy, whereby some cultures favour direct forthright action and others a "softer" approach. I don't like the terms, but the metaphor is being exploited in a not unrelated way. Roly Sussex -- Roly Sussex Professor of Applied Language Studies School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 AUSTRALIA University's CRICOS provider number: 00025B Office: Greenwood 434 (Building 32) Phone: +61 7 3365 6896 Fax: +61 7 3365 6799 Email: sussex_at_uq.edu.au Web: http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/profiles/sussex.html School's website: http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/ Applied linguistics website: http://www.uq.edu.au/slccs/AppliedLing/ Language Talkback ABC radio: Web: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/languagetalkback/ Audio: from http://www.abc.net.au/hobart/stories/s782293.htm ********************************************************** From: Donna Reiss Subject: Re: the rhetoric of blogging? Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:44:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 212 (212) Hello, WM, You may find some helpful resources at "Into the Blogosphere" http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ . Members of the Computers and Writing community http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/ and of the Conference on College Composition and Communication http://www.ncte.org/groups/cccc are studying the rhetoric of blogging as well as teaching with student and faculty blogs. Regards, Donna Reiss mailto:dreiss_at_wordsworth2.net WordsWorth2 Communications http://wordsworth2.net/ Associate Professor, English-Humanities Tidewater Community College (Virginia) http://onlinelearning.tcc.edu/faculty/tcreisd/ TCC e-mail: ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ [deleted quotation] From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 18.152 sexism in the vocabulary of disciplinarity? Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:06:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 213 (213) )" To: Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 4:12 AM [deleted quotation]================================== I suggest NATTERING ON THE NET and REFLECTING MEN by Dale Spender as a start. Pat Moran, FSU graduate student ==================================. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 18.152 sexism in the vocabulary of disciplinarity? Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:07:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 214 (214) Willard, I don't recall its origin, perhaps other Humanist readers will but I prefer the following description of the differences in the 'sciences:' "There are the hard sciences, and then there are the difficult ones." I prefer that continuum as opposed to the more traditional one you cite. Hope this finds you at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau_at_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: "J. Trant" Subject: Call for Papers: Museums and the Web 2005 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:08:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 215 (215) Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005 Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ Call for Papers. Deadline: September 30, 2004. You are invited to participate in Museums and the Web 2005, the international conference for culture and heritage on-line. Propose to deliver a paper, host an on-line activity, demonstrate a museum Web project, present a pre-conference workshop, lead a professional discussion forum, offer a mini-workshop, or craft a session with a distinctive presentation format suited to your subject. Topics of special interest include: Social Issues and Impact * Community Development * Uses of Museum Web Content * Museum Web Applications * Changes in Cultural Institutions * Artistic Uses of the Web Organizational Strategies * Multi-Institutional Ventures * E-commerce for Museums * Content Management * Metadata Management * Building and Managing Web Teams * Portals and Gateways Technical Questions * Multi-media and Webcasting * Development Tools and Processes * Standards and Protocols * The Semantic Web * Interfaces and Beyond Evaluation and User Studies * User Analysis and Audience Profiling * Usability Studies and Qualitative Assessment * Formative and Summative Evaluation * Methodological Investigations * Implementation Impact Studies Submit your proposal on-line at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/call.html All proposals must cite relevant URLs, explain the thesis of the proposed paper in at least a paragraph, and include full contact details (with e-mail address). Deadline: September 30, 2004. MW2005 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman & Jennifer Trant Archives & Museum Informatics MW2005 Program Committee The program for MW2005 is selected by a committee of international experts in cultural informatics. All proposals are peer-reviewed. Lorna Abungu, AFRICOM, Kenya Peter Bruce, Library and Archives of Canada, Canada Rich Cherry, Guggenhiem Museum, USA Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland Gail Durbin, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada Stefan Göbel, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany Susan Hazan, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Eero Hyvönen, University of Helsinki, Finland Paul Marty, Florida State University, USA Eiji Mizushima, Japan Science Foundation / Science Museum, Japan Kris Morrissey, Michigan State University, USA Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, Australia Angeliki Panagiotaki, Hellenic Cultural Heritage S.A., Greece Darren Peacock, University of South Australia, Australia Xavier Perrot, Le Sorbonne / Ecole du Louvre, France Ed Rodley, Museum of Science, USA Stephanie A. Stebich, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia Sarah Tinsely, Tate, United Kingdom Ron Wakkary, Simon Frazer University, Canada Bruce Williams, Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada Karen Worcman, Museum of the Person, Brazil Bruce Wyman, Denver Art Museum, For on-line proposal submission, program details and registration information see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005 -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2005_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 From: "Tom Craig" Subject: Re: 18.155 historical development of tools Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:08:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 216 (216) Hello, First post here. Having a webpage with historical development of tools and links to electronically available articles would be a very helpful resource to the field -- even if it takes a while to mature. I hope this project is a go! Good luck in the process. Best regards, Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Craig, PhD Fellow & Internet Director, International Communicology Institute http://www.communicology.org/ paradocs_at_communicology.org Associate Editor, The American Journal of Semiotics ISSN: 0277-7126 http://semiotics-ssa.com/ tajsweb_at_semiotics-ssa.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:04:04 +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Jesús A. González Bernal Subject: FIRST IBEROAMERICAN WORKSHOP ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:25:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 217 (217) SCIENTIFIC DATA ANALYSIS We apologize for the multiple reception of this message. CALL FOR PAPERS First Iberoamerican Workshop on Machine Learning for Scientific Data Analysis November 22 - 26, 2004 Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico Workshop WebSite: http://ccc.inaoep.mx/mlsda/ IBERAMIA 2004 Conference: http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004/ First Iberoamerican Workshop on Machine Learning for Scientific Data Analysis The First Iberoamerican Workshop on Machine Learning for Scientific Data Analysis will take place in conjunction with the IX Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA), hosted by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE). Topics We invite contributions that describe new learning techniques and algorithms that aid in solving the problems associated with analyzing scientific data as well as contributions describing applications in any scientific discipline. Dealing with heterogeneous data, with varying levels of noise Taking advantage of the vast amounts of unlabeled data available Taking advantage of prior scientific knowledge Selecting and creating new features efficientlyPerforming high-level learning Performing high-level learning Development of algorithms that learn from distributed data efficiently Knowledge discovery in structured domains Knowledge discovery in data streams Graph-based data mining Submission Guidelines Authors should format their papers according to the LNCS guidelines. Papers must be written in English, with a length between four and eight pages. Paper submission will be done by e-mail to the workshop e-mail address iberamia-ml_at_inaoep.mx by July 30, 2004. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in a CD containing all the papers of the "First Iberoamerican Workshop on Machine Learning for Scientific Data Analysis". Important Deadlines Paper submissions due: September 6, 2004 Notification letters sent: September 30, 2004 Camera ready copy due: October 17, 2004 From: Carlos Martin-Vide Subject: IWINAC-2005 pre-organized session: call for papers Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:27:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 218 (218) CALL FOR PAPERS The first "International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation" (IWINAC-2005) will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain), June, 15-18, 2005. [http://iwann.dia.uned.es/] This meeting, with focus on the interplay between Neuroscience and Computation, inherits the general purpose, the scope and the more biologically oriented topics of the last IWANNs (Lanzarote, Alicante, Granada and Menorca) and expands this scope to the broad and more comprehensive fields of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Engineering (KE), including the different paradigms: Symbolic, Connectionist, "Situated" or Hybrid. The Program Committee accepted the following pre-organized session in the interdisciplinary spirit of the interplay between natural and artificial computation: ********************************************************************************************************************* SESSION TITLE: Computing with Networks of Evolutionary Processors ORGANIZERS: Carlos Martin-Vide, Victor Mitrana, Jose Sempere SCOPE: A natural way to define computational models based on the interacting molecular entities seems to emerge by combining our knowledge about the behaviour and evolution of cell populations with advanced formal theories from computer science. The main goal of this session is to get answers to the following questions: - Which operations amenable to be applied to molecular entities forming a biological system can be used for designing computing networks with an underlying structure inspired from that of the biological system? - How to control the data navigating in the networks via precise protocols? - How to effectively design the networks? - What properties (computational power and efficiency, descriptional complexity, possible implementation on electronic computers as well as possible relevance for biology, linguistics, technology, etc.) do such computability models possess? - Might these models be considered as theoretical models of programmable (universal) molecular computers? - Which computations with practical importance can be carried out in this computing framework in a better way than by using a classical computer? [material deleted] From: Victoria Varga Subject: Research into gendered writing styles Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:24:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 219 (219) Hello, I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) and I received a research award for this summer. As a part of my research, I need people to fill out an online survey I created. I am researching the subject of language in gender, particularily whether or not there are gendered writing styles. I have written a computer program in Perl which labels a text as being either male or female in style based upon the number of gendered markers found in the text. The algorithm is based upon the definitions of Robin Lakoff and Dale Spender, among others, of what a feminine language style is. I will compare the results of this program with the results generated by my online survey. If you are interested in helping me collect data, you can find my survey at this address: http://vix.geeksanon.ca/survey/ It takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. Please do not use the forward, back, or reload buttons while taking the survey. Thank you very much, Vicky Varga From: Willard McCarty Subject: sexism in the vocabulary of disciplinarity Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:21:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 220 (220) My thanks to Pat Moran for the reference to Spender, Roly Sussex for the reference to Geert Hofstede's stuff and to Patrick Durusau for the remembered sentence. This sentence, about which I have asked before, is is attributed to Gregory Bateson without source by James Funaro, <http://www.icase.edu/workshops/hress01/presentations/funaro.pdf>http://www.icase.edu/workshops/hress01/presentations/funaro.<http://www.icase.edu/workshops/hress01/presentations/funaro.pdf>pdf, and by Bonnie Nardi, "Use of Ethnographic Methods in Design and Evaluation", Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, ed. Helander and Landauer (1997: 363). My question is about the cultural resonances of calling sciences "hard", not about how to avoid bad language. Meanwhile I have turned up Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1985, and Secrets of Life/Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science. New York & London: Routledge, 1992. More for the pile welcome, esp. items that deal specifically with the hard vs soft metaphors. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Re: 18.159 historical development of tools Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:23:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 221 (221) One suggestion (for which I completely lack technical skills) is that such a page could be constructed as a Wiki - this would allow the page to grow, according to the contributions of registered users. See http://wiki.org for detail on Wiki itself, and www.wikipedia.org for an example. K Ken Cousins Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics 3114 C Tydings Hall University of Maryland, College Park T: (301) 405-4133 C: (301) 758-4490 F: (301) 314-7619 kcousins_at_gvpt.umd.edu "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein From: "Donald Spaeth" Subject: Re: 18.136 historical development of text-analytic tools? Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:23:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 222 (222) Dear Ovind, You are right that historians have not made much use of textual analysis tools. I can think of only a couple of exceptions, which I have appended to the end of this email. I experimented with textual analysis tools (esp TACT) in the early 1990s, and for several years I taught TACT to undergraduate and postgraduate students. But I have now largely stopped using text analysis software, primarily because I felt unsure that my results were sufficiently robust to report to other historians. Why? There are several reasons. Variant spellings presented a technical problem, since my texts are primarily 17th century, but this is not insuperable. A larger problem was that I was not particularly interested in the specific word that was used, but in the subject of discussion and the construction of arguments. Quantitative collocation analysis produced patchy results, which I found myself validating by intuitive understanding of the text. Often understanding of an historical text comes from reading between the lines in a text, which may not be explicit. In any case, historians rarely rely on intensive analysis of single texts, but are more likely to build up a corpus of information from many different sources. In most cases, they are extracting isolated information from much larger sources. Computerate historians are most often interested in entering sources into structured databases, a task for which textual analysis tools are not designed. Literary and linguistic users of textual analysis may respond that these concerns are just as valid for their disciplines. If so, I can only fall back on the statement that historians do not make use of text analysis because it does not enable them to answer the kinds of questions they are interested in (although I note the impact of post-modernism on some recent history). Historians could use the collocation and indexing features of text analysis programs for simple text retrieval, but I am not sure that this would add enough value to make it worth doing, when other software (e.g. Asksam) works just as well. A few references: M. Olsen & L-G. Harvey, 'Computers in intellectual history', J of Interdisciplinary History 18 (1987-88): 449-64. (Uses collocation.) M. Olsen, 'The language of enlightened politics: the Societe de 1789 in the French Revolution', Computers in the Humanities 23.4-5 (Aug-Oct 1989): 357-64. P. Schöttler, 'Historians and discourse analysis', History Workshop Journal 27 (1989), 37-65. R. Garrard, 'English probate inventories and their use in studying the significance of the domestic interior', in Probate Inventories, ed. A van der Woude and A Schuurman, 55-82 (Wageningen: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis), 1980. (Suggests use of concordance software, but only preliminary report.) Donald Spaeth [deleted quotation]==================== Dr Donald Spaeth Modern History 2 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel. 0141 330 3580 Mobile 0774 982 0911 Email d.spaeth_at_history.arts.gla.ac.uk From: Maja van der Velden Subject: Interacting with Computers Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:22:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 223 (223) The Feb. 2004 issue of Interacting with Computers has as theme: Global Human Computer Systems: Cultural Determinants in Usability Edited by A.Smith and F.Yetim That issue is also the free sample issue so you can download the articles from this page without fee or registration: <http://authors.elsevier.com/redirect/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/sample/09535438>http://authors.elsevier.com/redirect/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/sample/09535438 Greetings, Maja Maja van der Velden <http://www.globalagenda.org>http://www.globalagenda.org _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.26 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:25:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 224 (224) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 26 (August 25 - August 31, 2004) INTERVIEW Log on, Learn, Earn Credits By weaving technology into the fabric of academic culture, Jon H. Larson forwards the idea that a small college can compete with larger institutions in the area of using technology for learning purposes. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i26_larson.html From: "Asialex Singapore" Subject: Call for Papers: ASIALEX 2005 Singapore - Words in Asian Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:24:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 225 (225) Cultural Contexts CALL FOR PAPERS ASIALEX 2005 Singapore : WORDS IN ASIAN CULTURAL CONTEXTS 1-3 June 2005, The M Hotel Republic of Singapore URL: <http://asialex.nus.edu.sg>http://asialex.nus.edu.sg ASIALEX 2005 will take place in Singapore from 1 ­ 3 June 2005, and is jointly organised by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. It represents the 2005 biennial conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX), and is one of the centennial celebrations of the National University of Singapore. The theme of ASIALEX2005 is "Words in Asian Cultural Contexts". The conference aims to examine the functions and representations of words, and hopes to bring together scholars of language, linguistics and literature in an interdisciplinary forum. We encourage papers that focus on a wider understanding of the word, including Asian contexts in which cultural and textual hybridity is the norm. The following strands will be covered: * lexicology and lexicography * sociolinguistics and language pedagogy * information and communications technology * literary, cultural and postcolonial studies All presentations should be given in English. Please visit our website, <http://asialex.nus.edu.sg>http://asialex.nus.edu.sg for more details, including on-line registration and abstract submission. We invite you to submit your abstract (max 250 words) as soon as possibe using the on-line facility, and in any case no later than 31 December 2004. We hope to see you in Singapore next year! Sincerely, Anne Pakir, Peter Tan, Lynn Tan, Vincent Ooi, Ismail Talib, Mark Donohue Asialex 2005 Organising Committee Email: asialex_at_nus.edu.sg From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: gender differences in the use of ing-forms Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:22:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 226 (226) Dear Humanist colleagues, we study the differences in the use of the ing-forms (Gerund, Participle 1 and Verbal Noun) in the texts of the male and female writers. We also try to find out if there is any difference in the texts of the American and British writers in this respect. The differences are studied with the help of "chi-square" criterion. It is also interesting if there is any time difference. I mean writers of the 18th, 19th, or 20th centuries. I could never find any publications in this respect. May be, you could advice me any? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: J Subject: Re: 18.163 historical development of tools Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:23:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 227 (227) [deleted quotation]One interesting case study here would be the case of the Historians of Science who did adopt the use of various tools from the computer information science area. Specifically I am refering to Eugene Garfield and others who left the study of history to start the Institute for Scientific Information and made a very successful business studying compemporary science. In part this mirrors my own experience. Last year I presented a paper at the Canadian Anual Symposium on Text analysis illustrating the use of Text analysis in the study of history, and specifically the correspondence of Charles Darwin, but have since started my own small text analysis company instead of pursuing further studies in history. So I would suggest that the historians who do take a keen interest in tools will likely move away from the study of history for financial reasons. Another reason just from personal observation is that a lot of historians avoid statistics and numbers partially because it is generally not part of the training. Finally I have the impression that where a 'hard sciences' lab would go out and get big governemnt grants to get the best softare and equipment possible. By contrast, in the humanities funding restraints mean the tools within the budget are not userfriendly enough for most historians. Highest Regards, Jonathon Driscoll iVigil Research Ottawa, Canada From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.162 metaphors of hard and soft Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:21:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 228 (228) Willard, as best I can recall, when I was an undergrad in the 50s we called Chemistry, Physics, and Biology "hard" sciences, but we never called anything a "soft" science. The opposition was between the hard sciences and the social sciences (when my future wife and I first met, I was still technically a Chem major [on my way to changing it officially to English] and she a Sociology major, so the terms came up from time to time in friendly argument). In recent years I used to tease my friends in Biology by calling it the "gooey science". And structural linguistics, when I was first learning it in the late 50s, was sometimes claimed to be a 'bridge' science, but between "hard' and "social", not "soft". I have no idea when "soft' became a term in the discourse, nor did I ever hear anyone suggest that gender had anything to do with the matter. From: "Clai Rice" Subject: RE: 18.162 metaphors of hard and soft Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:21:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 229 (229) Burton Melnick has a nice cognitive metaphor analysis of the metaphors on line at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/1999_melnick01.shtml --Clai Rice WM writes: .... More for the pile welcome, esp. [deleted quotation] From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - New Issue Alert Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:48:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 230 (230) Volume 8 Number 5 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Tangible interfaces in perspective: Guest editors' introduction p. 291 Lars Erik Holmquist, Albrecht Schmidt, Brygg Ullmer Tangible products: redressing the balance between appearance and action p.294 Tom Djajadiningrat, Stephan Wensveen, Joep Frens, Kees Overbeeke Supporting configurability in a mixed-media environment for design students p. 310 Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Michael Gervautz, Giulio Jacucci, Kresimir Matkovic, Thomas Psik, Ina Wagner From turtles to Tangible Programming Bricks: explorations in physical language design p. 326 Timothy S. McNerney On tangible user interfaces, humans and spatiality p. 338 Ehud Sharlin, Benjamin Watson, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Fumio Kishino, Yuichi Itoh A taxonomy for and analysis of tangible interfaces p. 347 Kenneth P. Fishkin The TAC paradigm: specifying tangible user interfaces p. 359 Orit Shaer, Nancy Leland, Eduardo H. Calvillo-Gamez, Robert J. K. Jacob Design Sketches Minimalism in ubiquitous interface design p. 370 Christopher R. Wren, Carson J. Reynolds 3D story cube: an interactive tangible user interface for storytelling with 3D graphics and audio p. 374 ZhiYing Zhou, Adrian David Cheok, JiunHorng Pan eMoto: emotionally engaging interaction p. 377 Petra Fagerberg, Anna St=E5hl, Kristina H=F6=F6k Tagaboo: a collaborative children's game based upon wearable RFID technology p. 382 Miriam Konkel, Vivian Leung, Brygg Ullmer, Catherine Hu ISH and the search for resonant tangible interaction p. 385 Caroline Hummels, Aadjan van der Helm From: "Alun Edwards" Subject: Resource / Reading List Software - The Reality Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:37:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 231 (231) JIBS: Resource / Reading List Software - The Reality. Thursday 9th September 2004, 10:00 - 16:30 Venue - Said Business School at the University of Oxford The workshop will bring together both major vendors from this growing marketplace and librarians who are implementing and utilising the systems. We hope that delegates will go away with an overall picture of the current state of play in this fast developing area in the e-learning landscape. The booking form is available from http://www.jibs.ac.uk/meetings/workshops/readinglist/bookingform.html Programme (tbc) 10:00 - 10:30 Registration 10:30 - 10:35 Welcome 10:35 - 11:05 Karen Reece - TALIS 11:05 - 11:35 Gary Brewerton - LORLS: An open source approach to reading/resource list management 11:35 - 12:05 Adam Morris - Sentient Discover 12:05 - 12:30 Questions 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 14:00 Christine Middleton - LORLS at the University of Nottingham 14:00 - 14:30 Alan Brine -TALIS at De Monfort University 14:30 - 15:00 Juliet Ralph - Sentient Discover at Oxford University: the story so far 15:00 - 15:30 Tea and Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 Howard Noble - Relating reading lists software to other elearning initiatives. 16:00 - 16:30 Questions and discussions The JIBS User Group is one of the major means of feedback for end-users of the UK's networked resources. It encompasses users and librarians in both the higher education (HE) and further education (FE) sector. JIBS originated as the user group for 'JIsc (assisted) Bibliographic dataserviceS' but now sees its remit as extending beyond bibliographic material to all electronic content of interest to HE and FE institutions available either via JISC's Information Environment (IE), or delivered independently by other sources. See http://www.jibs.ac.uk/ for further details. Regards Ally Alun Edwards (JIBS committee member) Humbul Humanities Hub Oxford University Computing Services alun.edwards_at_oucs.ox.ac.uk From: "MJ.Cox" Subject: WCCE 2005 - What works Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:40:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 232 (232) World Conference on Computers in Education 2005 - July - South Africa This conference (details below) may be of interest and there is still a few days left to submit abstracts for papers. This conference occurs every 5 years and has been very useful. Academics from all over the world attend and it also has workshops, focus groups etc. It covers all stages of education from 'Early learning to HE and beyond" CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IFIP WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION 40 Years of Computers in Education WHAT WORKS? The 2005 World Conference on Computers in Education will be hosted at the University of Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town, South Africa from the 4 - 7 July 2005. For 4 days, you will be able to share the knowledge and imagination of some of the greatest leaders in the field of education and technology in the magnificent settings of the Cape Wine-lands one of South Africas greatest claims to fame. To appreciate the academic and technological significance of this event, you need to consider the far-reaching effects a gathering of this magnitude is bound to have. You can participate in the setting of new standards, exploring new territories and finding better ways to educate and utilise technology. Not to mention the relationships that will be formed with over 1000 key players in the various fields from across the globe expected to attend this event. Further information about WCCE 2005 can be obtained on our web site: <http://www.wcce2005.org.za/>www.wcce2005.org.za where you will find details regarding the opportunities for speakers, exhibitors and sponsors. Alternatively, if you would like to download a pdf of the call for participation brochure, click here: <http://www.sbs.co.za/wcce2005/wcce2005_call.pdf>www.sbs.co.za/wcce2005/wcce2005_call.pdf Note the important dates for speakers: early September 2005 Submission of Abstracts 15 September 2005 Notification of Acceptance 30 September 2005 Speakers to confirm they will speak 31 January 2005 Submission of Final Paper 30 March 2005 Submission of Presentation Material Be sure not to miss out on the opportunity to participate in WCCE 2005 and complete the enquiry form on our web site now to indicate your area of interest. We look forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards Peter Waker Peter Aspinall Chairman Managing Director WCCE 2005 Organising Committee SBS Conferences Ps: please forward this to colleagues and associates whom you feel may also be interested in participating. Conference Secretariat: SBS Conferences, P O Box 1059, Bellville, 7535, South Africa Email: Registrar_at_sbs.co.za Tele: +(2721) 914 2888 Fax: +(2721) 914 2890 best wishes Margaret From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: 4th International PhD School in Formal Languages and Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:45:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 233 (233) Applications 4th INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS 2004-2006 Rovira i Virgili University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Tarragona, Spain Awarded with the Mark of Quality (Mencion de Calidad) by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, MCD2003-00820 Courses and professors 1st term (March­July 2005) Formal Languages: Foundations, Roots, Sources and Applications (Solomon Marcus, Bucharest) Languages (Zoltan Esik, Tarragona) Combinatorics on Words (Tero Harju, Turku) Varieties of Formal Languages (Jean-Eric Pin, Paris) Regular Grammars (Masami Ito, Kyoto) Context-Free Grammars (Manfred Kudlek, Hamburg) Context-Sensitive Grammars (Victor Mitrana, Tarragona) Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars (Henning Bordihn, Potsdam) Finite Automata (Sheng Yu, London ON) Pushdown Automata (Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Leiden) Turing Machines (Maurice Margenstern, Metz) Computational Complexity (Markus Holzer, Munich) Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars (Detlef Wotschke, Frankfurt) Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications (for example, in Formal Languages and Automata) (Paul Vitanyi, Amsterdam) Patterns (Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON) Infinite Words (Juhani Karhumaki, Turku) Sturmian Words (Jean Berstel, Marne-la-Vallee) Two-Dimensional Languages (Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima) Probabilistic Automata: Background, Related Topics and Generalization (Azaria Paz, Haifa) Grammars with Regulated Rewriting (Juergen Dassow, Magdeburg) Contextual Grammars (Carlos Martin-Vide, Tarragona) Parallel Grammars (Henning Fernau, Tuebingen) Grammar Systems (Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju, Budapest) Tree Automata and Tree Languages (Magnus Steinby, Turku) Tree Transducers (Zoltan Fulop, Szeged) Tree Adjoining Grammars (James Rogers, Richmond IN) Formal Languages and Concurrent Systems (Jetty Kleijn, Leiden) Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation (Hans-Joerg Kreowski, Bremen) Restarting Automata (Friedrich Otto, Kassel) Decision Problems of Rational Relations (Christian Choffrut, Paris) Courses and professors 2nd term (September­December 2005) Formal Power Series (Werner Kuich, Vienna) Fuzzy Formal Languages (Claudio Moraga, Dortmund) DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments (Mitsunori Ogihara, Rochester NY) Splicing Systems (Rani Siromoney, Chennai) Aqueous Computing (Tom Head, Binghamton NY) Cellular Automata (Giancarlo Mauri, Milan) Unification Grammars (Shuly Wintner, Haifa) Context-Free Grammar Parsing (Giorgio Satta, Padua) Probabilistic Parsing (Mark-Jan Nederhof, Groningen) Categorial Grammars (Michael Moortgat, Utrecht) Weighted Automata (Manfred Droste, Leipzig) Weighted Finite-State Transducers (Mehryar Mohri, Florham Park NJ) Grammatical Inference (Colin de la Higuera, Saint-Etienne) Mathematical Foundations of Learning Theory (Satoshi Kobayashi, Tokyo) Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks (Risto Miikkulainen, Austin TX) Stochastic Learning Automata (John Oommen, Ottawa ON) Text Retrieval: Foundations (Maxime Crochemore, Marne-la-Vallee) Text Retrieval: Applications (Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Santiago de Chile) Mathematical Evolutionary Genomics (David Sankoff, Ottawa ON) Quantum Automata (Jozef Gruska, Brno) Formal Languages and Logic (Vincenzo Manca, Verona) Codes (Fernando Guzman, Binghamton NY) Cryptography (Valtteri Niemi, Helsinki) String Complexity (Lucian Ilie, London ON) Image Compression (Jarkko Kari, Turku) Topics in Asynchronous Circuit Theory (John Brzozowski, Waterloo ON) Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life (Jozef Kelemen, Opava) Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition (Rudolf Freund, Vienna) Automata-Theoretic Techniques for Verification and Other Decision Problems (Oscar Ibarra, Santa Barbara CA) http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm Students: Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Logic or Engineering) could be accepted provided they have a good undergraduate background in discrete mathematics. At the beginning of the first term, a series of lessons on discrete mathematics advanced pre-requisites will be offered, in order to homogenize the students’ mathematical background. Before applying to the programme and in order to check eligibility, the student must be certain that the highest university degree s/he got enables her/him to be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home country. Tuition Fees: 1,867 euros in total, approximately. Dissertation: After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme will have to write and defend a research project and, later, a dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called European PhD degree (which is a standard PhD degree with an additional mark of quality). All the professors in the programme will be allowed to supervise students’ work. Funding: During the teaching semesters, funding opportunities will be provided by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science (mobility grants), by the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Becas MAE), and by the European Commission (Alban scheme, for Latin American citizens). Additionally, the university may have a very limited amount of economic resources itself for covering the tuition fees, accommodation and living expenses of a few more students. Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the PhD dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework of the host research group. Pre-Registration Procedure: In order to be pre-registered, one should post to the programme chairman: • xerocopy of the main page of the passport, • xerocopy of the highest university education diploma, • xerocopy of the academic record, • full CV, • letters of recommendation (optional), • any other document to prove background, interest and motivation (optional). Schedule: Announcement of the programme: July 31, 2004 Pre-registration deadline: October 31, 2004 Selection of students: November 5, 2004 Starting of the 1st term (tentative): March 29, 2005 End of the 1st term (tentative): July 11, 2005 Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 12, 2005 End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 23, 2005 Defense of the research project (tentative): September 16, 2006 DEA examination (tentative): March 17, 2007 Questions and Further Information: Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martin-Vide, at cmv_at_astor.urv.es Postal Address: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-559597 From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 18.167 metaphors of hard and soft Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:42:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 234 (234) [deleted quotation]In the 60's we definitely call them hard and soft, sciences and subjects, music, art, etc., were soft subjects, sociology, economics, psychology were soft sciences. . .but Woelfel went a long way to making them hard with his Galileo System. . . . Thanks!!! Nice To Hear From You! Michael Give FreeBooks!!! In 33 Languages!!! As of August 26, 2004 ~13,625 FreeBooks at: http://gutenberg.net ~1,375 to go to 15,000 We are 1/3+ of the way from 10,000 to 20,000. Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" If you do not receive a prompt reply, please resend, keep resending. From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: "Wet Sciences" (was: metaphors of hard and soft) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:46:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 235 (235) Don't know if this has been addressed (been preparing for the Fall semester) but some people use "wet sciences" to talk about biology, chemistry, biochemistry, etc. It could be as fluid as the "hard" and "soft" sciences labels (some French-speakers ironically call the latter "sciences molles" while the former are usually called "sciences pures" in French). As I understand it, "wet sciences" are those disciplines that have to do with microscopes as opposed to, say, physics and astronomy... From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 18.161 gendered writing styles? Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:41:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 236 (236) )" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:47 AM [deleted quotation] From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: TCA Review: "Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:45:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 237 (237) Journals" Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the publication of my review of "Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals" in _The Charleston Advisor_ (6:1) (July 2004): 24-31, 35-37). I'll self-archived a copy of the article at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/ProjectEuclid.pdf ] "By providing current and forthcoming access to more than 30 significant mathematical and statistics journals within a common framework, Project Euclid has clearly realized its primary goal of addressing "the unique needs of independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, professional societies, and academic libraries." Through its range of access and distribution plans and its associated varied subscription options, Project Euclid has achieved its goal of providing low cost access to its component journals." "In addition to providing free search and access to abstracts with article references, Project Euclid offers a variety of user-centered browse, search, and display functionalities ... . Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." --- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:43:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 238 (238) Colleagues/ Once again I seek the Wisdom of the Web for recommendations of governmental information services that do/could/would benefit from the addition of general or specific Web feeds (e.g., RSS, Atom, etc.). For examples of libraries that offer enhanced services, please see _RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_, one of my latest registries available at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] "_RSS(sm): Rich Site Services_ is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other types of Web feeds. RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication. In general, for each entry, the home institution library is listed, as is a hotlinked entry for the item. When available, a link to the feed, or an associated information page, is provided." For those new to Web Feeds, please See and Read Any and All items of potential interest the RSS(sm) General Bibliography at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm ] I am particularly interested in the *specific* information services offered by the following federal entities that might benefit from a WebFeed MakeOver [:-) : Library of Congress National Agricultural Library National Library of Education Defense Technical Information Center Air Force ,Army, Navy Executive Office of the President Governmental Printing Office (GPO) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) National Science Foundation (NSF) National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) (Department of Energy) Smithsonian Institution U.S. Information Agency BTW: I am aware of the Most Excellent registry edited by Ray Mathews called _RSS in Government_ at [ http://www.rssgov.com/ ] Thanks in Advance!!! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Enhanced Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." --- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: History of Tools Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:41:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 239 (239) On the subject of the history of text analysis tools, I have a short history in a paper that appeared in _Literary and Linguistic Computing_. The reference is, Rockwell, Geoffrey, "What is Text Analysis, Really?", Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 18, no. 2, 2003, p. 209-219. I have put up a preprint of the article at: http://www.geoffreyrockwell.com/publications.html The discussion in this paper is aimed at making a hermeneutical point. Rereading it, I support the call for more work on our history and techniques. I would go further and say that we need to look at our instruments as Ian Hacking would - and do what he calls historical ontology - asking about the concepts embodied in the instruments and the history of these concepts. If there is general support for the idea of a wiki on text tool history we have a wiki running for TAPoR and would be happy to set up an open web on this subject. The problem with wikis is that you need to have a group of dedicated authors who write to them, otherwise they end up abandoned construction sites in plain view of the information highway. yours, Geoffrey Rockwell McMaster University From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 240 (240) From: pjmoran Regarding the idea of hard/soft/wet sciences: (1) Isn't there a direct linguistic tie between the "wet work" (killing) from the battlefield and the television or movie versions of that killing. Rather than microscope/physics/astronomy being the norm, I'd see it as the Other in this dichotomy. Either blood (life) is involved or the activity is not wet work. This terminology either sprang out of the Vietnam War Era or just became more publicized as a result of those military personnel and reporters who dealt with the term. I believe it signals the same language acquisition/growth process that gave North Americans "We're in deep "kim shee" (kimchi) during the Korean Conflict and hundreds of baby girls named "Kim." (2) I started UN-L (NE) in 1960 and there were no not really "hard sciences" discussed in the Teachers' College then. A military wife, I didn't get back to school until six years later. The Hard Sciences term was hegemonic by then. After a year, I was out of college again (military wife). When I went back, "hard" and "soft" were common. My experience seems to mirror Michael Hart's. (3) The military wife side of my existence makes me particularly aware of the growing power and increasingly casual use of "wet work" in common parlance. (4) On a different note: as long as we are examining arbitrary and fluid barriers between disciplines, we should be alert for students and academics assigning the term "dry." (5) Last, we can't escape the feminist lens here--hard sciences were stereotypically masculine. Sociology and other of its ilk were soft sciences. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Virtual Reality 8.1 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:59:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 241 (241) Volume 8 Number 1 of Virtual Reality is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. A pseudo-immersive virtual environment-a framework for modelling sheet deformation p. 1 B. S. Mahal, D. E. R. Clark, J. E. L. Simmons Interaction with a desktop virtual environment: a 2D view into a 3D world p. 17 Eleanor Marshall, Sarah Nichols Navigation in desktop virtual environments: an evaluation and recommendations for supporting usability p. 26 Angelia Sebok, Espen Nystad, Stein Helgar Design and display of enhancing information in desktop information-rich virtual environments: challenges and techniques p. 41 Nicholas F. Polys, Doug A. Bowman Evaluating design guidelines for reducing user disorientation in a desktop virtual environment p. 55 Shamus P. Smith, Tim Marsh Fast continuous collision detection and handling for desktop virtual prototyping p. 63 Stephane Redon [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Maja van der Velden Subject: Review of CaTaC'04 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:58:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 242 (242) Henrieke Schmidt reviews the CaTaC'04 conference in Telepolis: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/konf/18168/1.html Greetings, Maja Maja van der Velden http://www.globalagenda.org From: "pjmoran" Subject: Fw: 18.172 metaphors of hard and soft -- and wet sciences Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:23:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 243 (243) Regarding the idea of hard/soft/wet sciences: (1) Isn't there a direct linguistic tie between the "wet work" (killing) from the battlefield and the television or movie versions of that killing. Rather than microscope/physics/astronomy being the norm, I'd see it as the Other in this dichotomy. Either blood (life) is involved or the activity is not wet work. This terminology either sprang out of the Vietnam War Era or just became more publicized as a result of those military personnel and reporters who dealt with the term. I believe it signals the same language acquisition/growth process that gave North Americans "We're in deep "kim shee" (kimchi) during the Korean Conflict and hundreds of baby girls named "Kim." (2) I started UN-L (NE) in 1960 and there were no not really "hard sciences" discussed in the Teachers' College then. A military wife, I didn't get back to school until six years later. The Hard Sciences term was hegemonic by then. After a year, I was out of college again (military wife). When I went back, "hard" and "soft" were common. My experience seems to mirror Michael Hart's. (3) The military wife side of my existence makes me particularly aware of the growing power and increasingly casual use of "wet work" in common parlance. (4) On a different note: as long as we are examining arbitrary and fluid barriers between disciplines, we should be alert for students and academics assigning the term "dry." (5) Last, we can't escape the feminist lens here--hard sciences were stereotypically masculine. Sociology and other of its ilk were soft sciences. From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: Sanskrit "Shriimad bhaagavatam" in elekronic form Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:28:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 244 (244) Dear Humanist colleagues, we'd like to add Sanskrit to our collection of our data of 157 world languages. We'd like to compare our data on the phonemic frequency of these 157 world languages to Sanskrit. We have noticed that more often than not, it is easier to feed some text in the computer rather than to find it elsewhere. This time we'd like to feed in the computer the First Song of the Sanskrit "Shriimad bhaagavatam". The long vowels will be shown as two vowels. What can you advise us? Will it be easier to feed the Sanskrit text or will it be easier to find it in the electronic form? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: Ralph Mathisen Subject: Internet and Antiquity -- Last Call Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:31:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 245 (245) To: ltantsoc_at_listserv.sc.edu LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ANCIENT STUDIES -- NEW TECHNOLOGY III DECEMBER 3-5, 2004 The third biennial conference on the topic of "Ancient Studies -- New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies" will be held December 3-5, 2004, at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. All topics relating to the use of the web, the internet, and computer technology in scholarly and pedagogical endeavors are welcome. Topics relating to all scholarly and pedagogical disciplines (e.g. philology, history, art history, archaeology, computer science, library science, religious studies, philosophy) as well as interdisciplinary topics are welcome Sample topics of interest could include (but are not limited to) 1) the digital museum; 2) the digital classroom; 3) the digital scholar; and 4) theoretical issues such as "knowledge representation". 300-word electronic abstracts dealing with these issues and with other ways in which the WEB can help to promote classical, ancient, Byzantine, and medieval studies may be directed to Ralph Mathisen, Program Chair, at ralphwm_at_uiuc.edu and ruricius_at_msn.com (snail-mail: Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801). Deadline for receipt of abstracts is August 31, 2004. Programs for previous conferences may be consulted at http://www.roman- emperors.org/program.htm (2000 Conference) and http://tabula.rutgers.edu/conferences/ancient_studies2002/ conf_program.html (2002 Conference). The website for the upcoming conference is located at http://www.cisat.jmu.edu/asnt3. Ralph W. Mathisen Department of History, University of Illinois 309 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright ST, MC-466, Urbana IL 61801 USA Phone: 217-244-2075, FAX: 217-333-2297 Director, Biographical Database for Late Antiquity Administrator: LT-ANTIQ, NUMISM-L, PROSOP-L EMAIL: ralphwm_at_uiuc.edu or ruricius_at_msn.com Society for Late Antiquity Web Site: http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc Geography of Roman Gaul Site: http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/geogmain.htm Field Site: http://www.history.uiuc.edu/areas/lateantiquity.html ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html STOA: ** To unsubscribe send the message 'UNSUBscribe STOA' to LISTSERV_at_LSV.UKY.EDU with a blank subject line. ** To subscribe send the message 'SUBscribe STOA Firstname Lastname' to LISTSERV_at_LSV.UKY.EDU with a blank subject line. ** To post to the group, send your message to STOA_at_LSV.UKY.EDU ** If you have any trouble, send a message about it to the list owners at the generic address: STOA-Request_at_LSV.UKY.EDU From: Ross Scaife Subject: new Nashville Parthenon pics, et cet. Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:27:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 246 (246) Ten days after it was begun, the Stoa Image Gallery at http://icon.stoa.org/ offers 1023 publicly available images in 5 top-level albums (49 albums total). Coverage includes: Nashville Parthenon (83 new images) Greece (Athens, Piraeus, sites on Crete and in the Cyclades) Italy (Rome, Paestum, Anzio, Herculaneum, Pompeii) England (Chesters, Vindolanda, Bignor, Lullingstone, Rockbourne, Silchester, Reading Museum, Littlecote, Dover, Pevensey, Chadworth, Bath) Tunisia (Carthage, Bardo Museum, Sousse Museum, Dougga, Thuburbo Majus, El Jem) Turkey (Istanbul, Troy, Ephesus, Hierapolis, Miletos, Didyma, Pergamum, Antakaya) From: Natasha Alechina Subject: call for papers Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:29:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 247 (247) JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE and INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION SPECIAL ISSUE ON GUARDED LOGICS and DECIDABLE FRAGMENTS CALL FOR PAPERS TOPIC It has been almost ten years since Andreka, van Benthem and Nemeti proved the decidability of the guarded fragment of first order logic. Given how expressive guarded quantification is, this result gave logicians a powerful tool for proving the decidability of many formalisms arising in computer science applications, and has generated extensive research into guarded quantification in logics other than first order and into various generalisations of guarded quantification. A wealth of new proof techniques has been developed as a result of this research. This special issue, based on a workshop on guarded fragments held at ESSLLI 2004 in Nancy, aims to reflect new developments in the search for decidable fragments and their applications. Topics of interest for contributions to the journal issue include, but are not limited to: generalisations of guarded quantification; new decidable fragments; complexity of guarded logics; applications of guarded logics. SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be original work, which have not been previously published in a full form and is not being under review for publication elsewhere. Please send .ps or .pdf submissions in Kluwer journal style (available at http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/) to nza_at_cs.nott.ac.uk. IMPORTANT DATES Submission : December 1, 2004 Notification : January 31, 2005 Final version : March 15, 2005 GUEST EDITOR Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK) nza_at_cs.nott.ac.uk This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.162 metaphors of hard and soft Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:21:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 248 (248) Willard, as best I can recall, when I was an undergrad in the 50s we called Chemistry, Physics, and Biology "hard" sciences, but we never called anything a "soft" science. The opposition was between the hard sciences and the social sciences (when my future wife and I first met, I was still technically a Chem major [on my way to changing it officially to English] and she a Sociology major, so the terms came up from time to time in friendly argument). In recent years I used to tease my friends in Biology by calling it the "gooey science". And structural linguistics, when I was first learning it in the late 50s, was sometimes claimed to be a 'bridge' science, but between "hard' and "social", not "soft". I have no idea when "soft' became a term in the discourse, nor did I ever hear anyone suggest that gender had anything to do with the matter. From: "Clai Rice" Subject: RE: 18.162 metaphors of hard and soft Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:21:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 249 (249) Burton Melnick has a nice cognitive metaphor analysis of the metaphors on line at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/1999_melnick01.shtml --Clai Rice WM writes: .... More for the pile welcome, esp. [deleted quotation] From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: AP-CAP 2005, deadline extended Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:27:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 250 (250) The Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference 7-9 January 2005, Bangkok, Thailand The deadline of submission to the 2nd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (AP-CAP 2005) has been extended to September 30, 2004. All areas of computing and philosophy, broadly construed, are being considered, including, but not limited to: The digital divide and its philosophical ramifications. The use of computers in the teaching of philosophy. The use of computers as research tools in philosophy. The philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence. Computer ethics. Computer aesthetics and digital arts Computers and cultures. Please visit http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html for more information. Details about how to register will be posted soon at this site. Cheers, Soraj -- Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. +66(0)22 18 47 56; Fax +66(0)22 18 47 55 ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project: http://www.asean-eu-lemlife.org/ The 2nd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html Personal: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html From: cbf_at_socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: wiki Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:28:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 251 (251) Dear Collegues, Over the last several weeks the term "wiki" has come up in several threads. I'm not familiar with it. Can someone provide a concise definition and, perhaps. several examples, in our field? Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab_at_library.berkeley.edu From: "Peter M. Scharf" Subject: Re: 18.180 advice on Sanskrit text? (fwd) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:29:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 252 (252) There are hundreds of digitized Sanskrit texts available in digitized form, any number of which could contribute to providing a phoneme count. Most are locatable at or by links at the following websites: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indnet-textarchive.html#sanskritpaliprakrit The latter in particular links to a searchable pdf of the Bhagavata purana. ************************************************** Peter M. Scharf (401) 863-2720 office Department of Classics (401) 863-2123 dept Brown University PO Box 1856 (401) 863-7484 fax Providence, RI 02912 Scharf_at_brown.edu http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/Scharf/ http://sanskritlibrary.org/ ************************************************** From: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: FOIS-2004 Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:30:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 253 (253) Semantics for Ontologies FOIS-2004 Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies === EXTENDED DEADLINE === Extended deadline for paper submissions: 15 September 2004 === ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS === Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies Torino, Italy, November 3rd, 2004 http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html Held in conjunction with FOIS 2004, the International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems Featured Speakers Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Peter.Gardenfors/ Joseph Goguen, University of California at San Diego, Computer Science and Engineering, http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/goguen/ Workshop Theme What do ontologies, as used in the semantic web and elsewhere, have to do with meaning? In particular, where do their predicates get their meanings? Semantics, no matter what formalisms are applied to it, is ultimately a cognitive phenomenon: it refers to the meaning that symbols have for human beings. It is determined by individual and cultural factors, involving a human mind aware of the conventions of a language community. Yet, the mental interpretation processes are not accessible and the conventions of information communities are rarely meaningful to agents in other communities. Ontology engineers therefore face the problem of capturing enough of the cognitive as well as the social contexts of information. However, information system ontologies typically consist of networks or hierarchies of concepts to which symbols can refer. Their axiomatizations are either self-referential or point to more abstract, rather than more meaningful symbols. So, how do the ontologies become meaningful? Cognitive semantics, in its various flavors, is asking similar questions for natural languages and symbol systems in general. It studies, among other issues, what the embodied nature of language can tell us about how we construct meanings, or what its socially situated nature says about the constraints on language use. Cognitive scientists have developed innovative and powerful notions that are potentially useful for ontologies. Among them are: image schemas prototypes and radial categories basic level concepts primes and universals language games metaphors and metonymies idealized cognitive models mental spaces and conceptual blendings conceptual spaces frame semantics affordances conceptual similarity measures. So far, there is only sparse work on information system ontologies that takes any of these notions seriously, and even less that formalizes and applies them fruitfully. This workshop will take stock of such approaches and establish a research agenda for ontology design inspired and informed by cognitive semantics. It will bring together researchers in information system or natural language semantics w ith a formal or cognitive background or both. Position Papers Anybody with an interest in the questions raised above is invited to submit a position paper. Participation at the workshop is open to all position paper authors who also register for the FOIS conference. Extended abstracts of 800 - 1500 words should be sent by Email to kuhn_at_uni-muenster.de on or before August 31, 2004. They will be made available on the workshop web site, unless their authors instruct us otherwise. Authors will be notified by September 15, 2004 whether their position papers have been selected for presentation during the workshop. Authors are invited to submit revised versions of their position papers to a post-workshop review process, leading to a book or journal special issue on research directions to make ontologies more meaningful. [material deleted] From: "Joao Leite" Subject: JELIA'04 Call For Participation Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:32:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 254 (254) Dear colleague, We would like to cordially invite you to participate in the Ninth European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA'04) to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from September 27 - 30, 2004. The deadline for early registration is September 7th. More information at: http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jelia2004 JELIA'04 will be co-located with the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA V).A special rate exists for those who register for both meetings. The technical program of JELIA'04 includes: 3 invited talks -Representing and Reasoning with Preferences by Francesca Rossi -Engineering of logics for the content-based representation of information by Franz Baader -Formal Methods in Robotics by Bernhard Nebel 52 paper presentations with sessions on -Actions and Causation -Applications (2 sessions) -Belief Revision -Complexity Issues -Description Logics -Logic Programming -LPNMR (2 sessions) -Modal, Spacial and Temporal Logics -Multi-Agent Systems (2 sessions) -Reasoning under Uncertainty -Theorem Proving 15 system demonstrations The social program includes: -a welcome drink -a social dinner -an excursion to Sintra We hope you can join this event. Best regards, Joao Leite and Jose Alferes From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:25:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 255 (255) [deleted quotation]"Wiki (pronounced "wicky" or "weeky") is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows any user to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows that content to be edited by others. The term can also refer to the collaborative software used to create such a website. Wiki (with a capital 'W') and WikiWikiWeb are sometimes used to refer to the Portland Pattern Repository, the first ever wiki. Proponents of this usage suggest using a lower-case 'w' to distinguish the generic terms discussed here. Wiki wiki comes from the Hawaiian term for "quick" or "super-fast"." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Hope this helps, Fotis Jannidis From: Philipp Reichmuth Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:26:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 256 (256) A Google search for "wiki" will reveal Wikipedia as well as a concise definition on the first page of results, as well as a large number of examples. Philipp From: What Is Wiki (http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki) Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:26:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 257 (257) [deleted quotation]For further information, start at: http://wiki.org/ Not sure what you mean by 'our field' but some good examples: Teaching Wiki, http://teachingwiki.org/ (Joe Moxley, Professor of English at the University of South Florida) LinuxQuestions.org http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Main_Page and, of course: Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Quality varies a lot, just like in traditional publishing, so readers need to evaluate what they read, on wikis and elsewhere. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau_at_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: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:27:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 258 (258) Here's a link to the page defining "wiki" in the wikipedia--so it is both a definition and an example: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki> Wiki's are on-line collaborative web sites, usually reference works, whose entries are written, edited, and maintained by the community of users. In the case of the Wikipedia, this means everybody who comes across it on the Internet. In others it can be smaller more focused groups. We will have one on the Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> when we get our website up this weekend (I hope). We'll be using it for a FAQ, to define acronyms and jargon (there's already an entry for wiki), and develop consensus on how to do things (e.g. somebody might write an entry on "metrical markup" and propose a way of encoding Old English prosody in TEI; as this was refined by others, it would become a defacto standard). The main problems with Wikis are vandalism (crazy and/or malicious people writing silly things or, as has recently begun on wikipedia, introducing deliberate minor errors into dates, etc. in already-existing entries) and incompetence (i.e. people who aren't really experts writing incorrect entries as if they were). This is probably a bigger problem on general purpose Wikis like the wikipedia than smaller ones such as ours (at least I hope it is). There are four ways of defending against this: banning offender's IP addresses (not always successful), restricting membership to a small group (some wiki-ers are ideologically opposed to this), requiring participants to sign and/or justify their contributions, using the "trace" feature found in most if not all wikis to undo the damage and restore the entry to its last good state. As you can imagine, this last option sometimes leads to wars on general interest wikis. You can imagine the fights one might have over entries on abortion or jesus, for example. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:27:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 259 (259) This might be a good time to mention WriteHere.net, a wiki-based collaborative writing project one of my students, Matt Bowen, is currently developing: <http://www.writehere.net/>http://www.writehere.net/ "<http://www.writehere.net/moin.cgi/WriteHere>WriteHere.net is a place where you can post a story, some poems, a title, a character, or anything else creative, and the community can help you edit and develop it. <http://www.writehere.net/moin.cgi/WriteHere>WriteHere.net wants to give your fiction a home. We want to give others a chance to help you write, and you a chance to help others write. We want to provide a friendly community to those who only want to read, to those who want to work on their proofing skills, to those who translate, and to literary experimenters. You don't have to contribute an original work to contribute -- we need close readers, editors, proofer, instigators, and developers as much as we need authors." Please point your own students toward this site to help it grow, or contribute yourself! Matt -- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum <http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/>http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Clare Callaghan Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:29:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 260 (260) A "wiki" is a very collaborative, freely-available database on a topic. For example, there is an 18th c. wiki, and wikipedia is becoming the free, online encyclopedia. Contributors post entries, and then subsequent contributors supplement/correct/revise the entries, sometimes to the point of entirely rewriting the entry. Anyone can contribute or revise an entry. See (and explore) www.wikipedia.com for details. Technically, wikis are really interesting. Instead of using HTML tags, person only needs to use [[]] (double square brackets) around the word/phrase that should become a link. Then the wiki software goes through all those [[]] words and generates the paths to those pages for those words, or marks the words differently if no entries yet exist for it. Yours, Clare Callaghan Managing Editor, Maryland Online Encyclopedia Lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park ~and a very long time list-lurker~ From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:28:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 261 (261) Wiki, from the Hawaiian wikiwiki or "quick" is, in general terms, a web-based writing and editing system. Typically, wikis allow readers to edit the text, so that wikis lend themselves to community projects and collaborative writing. Usually links are automatically generated by the wiki system, based on either using intercaps in words, called "camel case," or by using simple tags to indicate a link. Wikis tend to have their own much simplified versions of HTML markup, and they are very much template driven, freeing writers from some of the requirements of other kinds of web page creation. Here's a good explanations of a wiki: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp Here's a good example of a wiki project http://www.wikipedia.org You might try looking up "wiki" in the Wikipedia, a public, free, opensource wiki based encyclopedia: -- Lisa L. Spangen Instructional Technology | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/ My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.27 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:31:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 262 (262) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 27 (September 1 - September 7, 2004) VIEWS Interfaces for Staying in the Flow Computers should help us concentrate on our work, without concentrating on the computer. By Benjamin B. Bederson http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i27_bederson.html An Alternative Proposal for Privatization of Pakistan Telecommunication Co How the Government can start receiving immediate cash proceeds from the privatization of its telecommunication monopoly without waiting for a foreign strategic buyer. By Muhammad Abd al-Hameed http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i27_hameed.html From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: HJS Hypermedia Joyce Studies 5.1 Now Online Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:33:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 263 (263) Dear List Members, The Summer issue of HJS is now available online at www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contents.html HJS volume 5 issue 1 (August 2004) Letting Rip: The Primal Scene, The Veil and Excreta in Joyce and Freud Tom Mccarthy Excremental Self-Creation in Finnegans Wake Andrew Mitchell The Reprocessing of Trash in Ulysses: Recycling and (Post)Creation Valérie Bénéjam Finnegans Wake: Losing Control in Book III iii Jane Lewty Semiotic Perturbations: What the Frog's Eye tells us about Finnegans Wake Mark Nunes Writing After: Joyce, Cage ... Louis Armand HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce From: Erin Lucido Subject: Newberry Library Fellowships Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:24:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 264 (264) Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2005-06 The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2005-06 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 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 10, 2005; applications for most short-term fellowships are due March 1, 2005. For more information or to download application materials, visit our Web site at <http://www.newberry.org/nl/research/L3rfellowships.html>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_at_newberry.org or (312) 255-3666. From: Paul Jones Subject: Re: 18.185 wiki? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:28:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 265 (265) Some useful wiki links and texts: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki where wiki is defined (among other things) http://en.wikipedia.org/ possibly the most ambitious use of wiki http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WikiWay is the link to a book on wiki from Addison Wesley hope this helps ========================================================================== Paul Jones "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/ pjones_at_ibiblio.org voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 =========================================================================== From: Abraham Quintanar Subject: Re: 18.188 wiki, wiki Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:22:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 266 (266) We might want to add that Wiki has its own encoding practices and tags, even though it is written in XML. Abraham Quintanar From: Michele Barbera Subject: Call for Papers: Diagrams and Images Criticism in Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:19:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 267 (267) Mathematical Textual Traditions 6th EU-Research & Technological Development Framework Program BRICKS --- Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services Focused WORKSHOP: Diagrams and Images Criticism in Mathematical Textual Traditions Pisa (ITALY), 26th-27th November 2004 In establishing the critical text, every editor draws the rules from a system of general and shared criteria. On the other side, there are no shared criteria which underlie the process of editing mathematical diagrams. The criticism of diagrams in mathematical texts is a very complex topic requiring the contribution of quite different skill. At first, the relevance of the mathematical diagram in the text must be evaluated from a mathematical and historical point of view. Secondly, a philological approach is necessary to guide the application of critical methods in the editing of mathematical figures. Finally, the possibility of satisfying every kind of editorial needs must be compared with the tools that modern information technologies make available to the editor. The purpose of the present workshop is to collect together mathematical, philological and technical points of view in order to establish a critical method in the editing of mathematical diagrams. The workshop is strictly related to the activities of "Digital Scriptorium" --- a work package of BRICKS project aimed to establish a series of standards in the field of building electronic critical editions and, more generally, of textual criticism. The following scholars have confirmed their participation: O.Besomi, P.Crozet, J.Dhombres, F.Furlan, E.Giusti, H.Hecht, C.Maccagni, P.Radelet, R.Rashed, K.Saito, A.Sorci, B.Vitrac. WORKSHOP (PROVISIONAL) PROGRAM November, 26th (Friday) ** Presentation of BRICKS "Digital Scriptorium" ** Introduction: the problem of mathematical diagrams criticism. ** General talk dealing with the relevance of a correct critical edition of figures for the comprehension of mathematical texts. ** Case Studies. Each speaker will underline the main features of the diagram involved (from a philological and/or mathematical point of view) and explain the adopted solution. A discussion will be open after every talk in order to analyse the possibility of finding a shared methodology and models. Some interesting cases have been already foreseen: Galileo's "Saggiatore", Piero della Francesca's "Libellus de quinque corporibus", Leon Battista Alberti's "Ludi Mathematici", Euclid's "Elementa", etc. November, 27th (Saturday): ** The day will be dedicated to balance and define an essential guide grid. ********************************************************************* Workshop SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Ottavio BESOMI (Zurich) Enrico GIUSTI (Florence) Carlo MACCAGNI (Genoa) Pier Daniele NAPOLITANI (Pisa) Workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Veronica GAVAGNA Paolo MASCELLANI Pier Daniele NAPOLITANI ********************************************************************** For more informations, visit http://www.brickscommunity.org/workshop Authors are invited to submit papers to be presented in 25 minute sessions. Please address in English to: workshop_at_brickscommunity.org . Only electronic submissions accepted. An acknowledgment will be sent by Email to the corresponding Author. Deadline for the submission: September 20th, 2004 Registration deadline: October 15th, 2004 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: project management software Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:23:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 268 (268) Hello all, Might any of you suggest good project management software for Mac running OSX? I'm looking at a number of products and testing free downloads, but haven't run across anything to write home about yet. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Jennifer ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Jennifer Vinopal / jennifer.vinopal_at_nyu.edu ~ Librarian for French & Italian Language and Literature ~ Services Manager, Studio for Digital Projects and Research ~ Project Manager, Digital Library Team Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 -> v: 212.998.2522 -> f: 212.995.4583 ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() From: "Arlyn Freed" Subject: TESL-EJ request for writers and multimedia material Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:20:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 269 (269) suggestions Hello all, My name is Arlyn Freed and I am the new (as of January 2004) Media Reviews Editor for TESL-EJ, the scholarly online journal of teaching English as a second/foreign language. While there are numerous ELT-related sites on the web, TESL-EJ is a serious academic journal with a readership whose members are often in decision-making positions at their respective institutions. As Media Reviews Editor, I am always searching for reviewers of media and suggestions of media (software, video, DVD, or web-based materials) for review. Our website has over 10,000 international readers every month, so a review for our journal would be an excellent addition to your resume. To review the criteria required by media reviewers, please visit: <http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/media.html>. To see a good example of a standard review, please read the "BrainCogs" review at <http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej29/m1.html>. If you are interested in becoming a writer for the Journal, please email me at with your contact information, background experience, and areas of interest/expertise. For multimedia suggestions, please send me the title and publisher of the program. (To see if this material has already been reviewed by TESL-EJ, visit our website at <http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/index.html>, and search the "www-writing.berkeley.edu" web site using the "Search" toolbar). Thank you for your interest and best regards, Arlyn Freed Media Reviews Editor, TESL-EJ teslej_at_eslhome.com From: "Joao Leite" Subject: CLIMA V - Call for Participation Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:23:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 270 (270) Call for Participation CLIMA V Fifth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaV/index.htm September 29-30, 2004 Early Registration deadline: September 7th Co-located with JELIA'04 With support from AgentLink +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Technical Program includes: 1 invited talk - Specification and verification of multiagent systems by Alessio Lomuscio 16 paper presentations: - A Computational Model for Conversation Policies for Agent Communication by Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Brahim Chaib-draa - An Application of Global Abduction to an Information Agent which Modifies a Plan upon Failure - Preliminary Report - by Ken Satoh - Coordination between Logical Agents by Chiaki Sakama, Katsumi Inoue - Organising Software in Active Environments by Michael Fisher, Benjamin Hirsch, Chiara Ghidini, Paolo Busetta - Planning partially for situated agents by Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, Giacomo Terreni, Francesca Toni - Contextual Taxonomies by Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer - Dynamic Logic for Plan Revision in Intelligent Agents by M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Frank S. de Boer, John-Jules Ch. Meyer - Graded BDI Models for Agent Architectures. by Ana Casali, Lluís Godo, Carles Sierra - Verifying protocol conformance for logic-based communicating agents by Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martelli, Viviana Patti, Claudio Schifanella - Solving Collaborative Fuzzy Agents Problems with CLP(FD) by Susana Muñoz Hernández, Jose Manuel Gómez Pérez - Inferring Trust by Mehdi Dastani, Andreas Herzig, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert van der Torre - Declarative agent control by Antonis Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, Kostas Stathis, Francesca Toni - Metareasoning for multi-agent epistemic logics by Konstantine Arkoudas, Selmer Bringsjord - Desire-space Analysis and Action Selection for Multiple Dynamic Goals by David C. Han, K. Suzanne Barber - Dynamic Logic Programming: Various Semantics Are Equal on Acyclic Programs by Martin Homola - From logic programs updates to action description updates by José Julio Alferes, Federico Banti, Antonio Brogi 1 pannel discussion (title and moderator TBA) We hope you can join this event. Best regards, Joao Leite and Paolo Torroni From: "evanhout" Subject: Re: 18.193 project management software for Mac? Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 04:50:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 271 (271) Following recent publication might prove useful for people involved in project management: Barbara Allan, Project Management. Tools and techniques for today's ILS professional. London: Facet Publishing. 193 pp. ISBN: 1-85604-504-8 Chapter 7 of this book (Using ICT to support the project) explores and reviews project management software that is frequently used: MS Project and Prince2. More project management software reviews can be found at: - http://www.projectmagazine.com - http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/ - http://www.web-based-software.com/project/ - http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/dwfarthi/projman.htm Edward From: John Unsworth Subject: Nominations for Intellectual Freedom Award Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 04:50:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 272 (272) November 1, 2004 is the Deadline for the 2004 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award Nominations Champaign, IL--The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois seeks nominations for the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. Given annually, the award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas. Granted to those who have resisted censorship or efforts to abridge the freedom of individuals to read or view materials of their choice, the award may be in recognition of a particular action or long-term interest in, and dedication to, the cause of intellectual freedom. The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award was established in 1969 by the GSLIS faculty to honor Dean Emeritus Downs, a champion of intellectual freedom, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as director of the School. Previous winners have included June Pinnell-Stephens, Collections Services Manager for Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Mainstream Montgomery County, a Montgomery County Texas organization (2003); retired librarian Zoia Horn and Ginnie Cooper and the Multnomah County Library Board of Trustees (Portland, Oregon) (2002); high school librarian Deloris Wilson and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (2001); Nancy Garden, young adult author, and Bennett Haselton, creator of Peacefire.org (2000); Ann Symons, librarian at Juneau Douglas High School in Alaska and immediate past president of the American Library Association (1999); Mainstream Loudoun, for the group's commitment to defending the right to access information on the internet at Loudoun County (VA) Public Library (1998). Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, Connecticut, provides the honorarium to the recipient and co-hosts the reception in honor of the recipient. The reception and award ceremony for the 2004 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award will take place in January 2005 during the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Boston. Letters of nomination and documentation about the nominee should be sent by e-mail to unsworth_at_uiuc.edu with a copy to weech_at_uiuc.edu or in paper form to John Unsworth, Dean, GSLIS, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820 before November 1, 2004. Questions should be directed to Terry Weech at weech_at_uiuc.edu; More information about the award is available at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/school/downs-award.html. From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- August 2004 Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 04:47:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 273 (273) CIT INFOBITS August 2004 No. 74 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: Alejandro Bia Subject: ACH/ALLC 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: September 7, 2004 5:04:00 PM CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 274 (274) Call for Proposals and Information for Presenters ACH/ALLC 2005 17th Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) University of Victoria, (British Columbia), Canada June 15-19, 2004 The International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship IMPORTANT DATES: • October 1st, 2004: An electronic submission form will be made available at the conference website. • November 8th, 2004: Deadline for the submission of proposals for papers, poster presentations, sessions and software demos. • February 7th, 2005: Notification of acceptance for papers, poster presentations, sessions and software demos. Conference Web Site: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ I. The ACH/ALLC Conference The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and a corresponding growth in the use of information technology resources for research and teaching in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in which humanities scholars work? What are the fields of humanities scholarship that are most affected by the use of computers and computation? What new and distinct methodologies is information technology bringing to the humanities, and how are these methodologies being introduced and applied? How do we expect methodologies, and the role of the humanities scholar, to change in the future as a result of the impact of information technology? How are information technology-related developments in one discipline affecting or likely to affect those in others? What are the implications of multilingualism and multiculturalism to humanities computing? What is the role of information technology technologies in establishing multilingualism? What are the meanings and implications of these developments for languages, communities, genders and cultures, and humanities research? What is the role of individual scientific and educational tasks, joint projects, or educational and electronic library resources? How can humanities computing help in the challenge to preserve individual cultures in a multicultural environment? What is the role of humanities computing in the preservation and creation of a multilingual, multicultural heritage? 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. Now is the time to survey and assess the impact humanities computing has had and is likely to have on humanities scholarship in a multilingual, multicultural world. II. Associated Organizations ACH and ALLC are continuing to develop the associated organizations initiative, which enables professional organizations with a remit similar to that of ALLC and ACH to present their own panel sessions within the conference. We welcome proposals from such organizations for the 2005 conference, especially in areas of computing in the humanities which have not been represented, or have been poorly represented, at previous ACH/ALLC conferences (e.g., linguistics, libraries, museums, history and archival fields, to mention a few). We encourage representatives from professional organizations to consider submitting a proposal under this initiative on topics they think might be relevant to the ACH/ALLC conference audience. Such proposals will undergo a review process and should be submitted directly to the conference programme chair, Alejandro Bia, no later than the date stated as the deadline for all types of proposals (see important dates on top of this document). For more information please contact the conference programme chair, Alejandro Bia, alex.bia_at_ua.es. III. Submission topics ACH/ALLC 2005 invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals might focus on: • traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including (but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, natural language processing, linguistics, translation studies, literary studies, text analysis, edition philology and statistical models; • computational models and applications related to multilingualism and multicultural issues; • the application of information technology to issues related to minority, indigenous and rare languages; • emerging digitization efforts: new best practices, experiences, recommendations, training; • humanities teaching; • the application of information technology to cultural and historical studies (including archaeology and musicology); • new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital resources dependent on images, audio, or video; • the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering; • pedagogical applications of new media within the humanities; • applications of technology in second language acquisition; • commercial applications of humanities computing, e.g. web technology, natural language interfaces, archival organization and accessibility; • applications in the digital arts, especially projects and installations that feature technical advances of potential interest to humanities scholars; • information design in the humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modelling; • thoughtful considerations of the cultural impact of computing and new media; • theoretical or speculative treatments of new media; • the institutional role of new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields; • the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources it develops. • the institutional role of humanities computing and new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. See the important dates at the top of this document for the deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee. All submissions will be refereed. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. See below for full details on submitting proposals. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site. IV. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Swedish. Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. Poster Presentations and/or Software Demonstrations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations,which we encourage. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The poster sessions will build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster Prize As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers. V. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form found at the conference website. Please pay particular attention to the information that is required regarding each proposal. Submissions that do not contain the required information will be returned to the authors, and may not be considered at all if they are received close to the deadline. The information required for all submissions includes: TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, or session TITLE: title of paper, poster, or session KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author or contact person PHONE NUMBER: of first author or contact person If submitting a session proposal, the following information will be required for each paper: TITLE: title of paper KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author Please note the following additional information: • The order of participants provided on the form will be the order used in the final programme. • If submitting a session proposal, please enter one abstract for the whole session in the "session/paper abstract" box, noting clearly the title and author of each paper in the session. • In addition to requesting the above information, the form provides a way for proposers to upload their proposal, which must be in XML-TEI (teixlite.dtd) or plain text (ASCII/ISO 8859-1) format, plus up to 5 image files. These graphics, if uploaded, should be prepared in a manner appropriate for both on-line publication and printing in black-and-white in the conference book of abstracts. • Unfortunately, it is still true, even in this day of XML and Unicode, that publishing systems and web browsers often limit access to extended character sets. Thus, although XML-TEI format and therefore Unicode can be used for submission, please try if possible to avoid character sets that might not be viewable on reviewer's web browsers or printable by the program's printer. Examples from past conferences Those interested in seeing examples from previous conferences can consult online abstracts and programmes at: http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml The conference has previously been held at: • Göteborg University (2004) • University of Georgia (2003) • University of Tübingen (2002) • New York University (2001) • University of Glasgow, Scotland (2000) • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (1999) • Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (1998) • Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1997) • University of Bergen, Norway (1996) Because of rapid developments in the field, work of a kind not previously presented at the conference is especially welcomed. VI. Publication A book of abstracts of all papers, poster presentations and sessions will be provided to all conference participants. In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page. A special volume of the journal Literature and Linguistic Computing with selected proceedings is planned for publication after the conference; all papers submitted in publishable form before the end of the conference will be considered for this collection. The final version for publication in LLC must be in English. VII. Bursaries As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the organization will award five bursaries of 500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who have papers or posters accepted for presentation at the conference. More information about the bursary scheme is available on request from the Programme Chair. Applications must be made using the on-line form available at the ALLC website. Full details of the scheme may also be found there. VIII. Further Information Equipment Availability and Requirements Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a data projector for Windows and Macintosh OS, and an Internet connection. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers. All submissions should indicate the type of hardware and software required for presentation. Language of the Presentations Presentations can be done in the same language of the accepted abstract, but when the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to allow for a bigger audience. Location Information about British Columbia, Canada, and the hosting University of Victoria, (fees, travel, accommodation, social programme, etc.) can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ Inquiries Inquiries concerning the goals of the conference, the format or content of papers, and other topics relating to the academic programme should be addressed to the Chair of the International Programme Committee: Alejandro Bia Head of R&D, Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library Teaching: Department of Computer Languages and Information Systems (DLSI) University of Alicante, apdo. de correos 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain E-mail: alex.bia_at_ua.es Phone: +34 600948601 Fax: +34-965909326 Inquiries concerning conference registration, travel, local organization and facilities, and other aspects of the local setting should be addressed to: Peter Liddell Chair, Local Committee Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P4 Email: achallc5_at_uvic.ca IX. International Programme Committee and Local Organizers Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Programme Committee comprising (in alphabetical order): Alejandro Bia (chair) (University of Alicante, Spain) Julia Flanders (Brown University, USA) Neil Fraistat (University of Mariland, USA) Simon Horobin (University of Glasgow, UK) Joseph Jones (University of British Columbia, Canada) Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen (University of Joensuu, Findland) Concha Sanz-Miguel (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Susan Schreibman (University of Maryland, USA) Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Association for Computing Machinery, USA) The conference is hosted by the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the University of Victoria. The Chair of the local organizing committee is Peter Liddell, Academic Director of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- This document can be downloaded in PDF format from: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/research/congresos/ach-allc-2005- cfp.pdf We apologize for possible crossed-postings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- From: "Paul Oppenheimer" Subject: Women and Technology Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:11:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 275 (275) If you have not yet read this <http://www.sff.net/people/eluki/litcrit.htm>http://www.sff.net/people/eluki/litcrit.htm you might find it interesting. -- Paul Oppenheimer paul.oppenheimer_at_cox.net No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.28 Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:13:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 276 (276) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 28 (September 8 - September 14, 2004) REVIEW The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society Compact, inexpensive, and ubiquitous mobile phones both bring us together and move us apart. Review by John Stuckey http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i28_stuckey-ling.html REVIEW Community in the Digital Age Social scientists and philosophers argue the meaning of our evolving online lives. Review by Arun Kumar Tripathi http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i28_tripathi-barney.html From: Subject: cyberinfrastructure public meeting - Los Angeles, CA Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:12:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 277 (277) The ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences will hold a public information-gathering session in the Leavey Auditorium of the Leavey Library of USC, on Saturday, September 18th, 2004. There will be two sessions, one from 10 am to 12:30 pm, and one from 1:30-3:30 pm, with lunch in between. A campus map is available online, at <http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/driving_directions/index.html>http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/driving_directions/index.html. The event is free and open to the public, but we would appreciate knowing if you plan to attend, so that we can provide lunch for everyone. Please register your intention to attend with Sandra Bradley at the American Council of Learned Societies, at sbradley_at_acls.org. An agenda for this meeting will be sent out shortly. More information about the ACLS Commission is available at <http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm>http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm Notes from previous meetings are posted on the cyberinfrastructure website at the following URL: <http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_public_sessions.htm>http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_public_sessions.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: ordinary is extraordinary Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:46:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 278 (278) I would be most grateful for help locating a source or usual if not canonical form for the joke about the German Professor Ordinarius, which I learned in something like this form: "Ordinarius ist ausserordentlich; Extraordinarius ist ordentlich", "An Ordinarius is extraordinary; an Extraordinarius is ordinary". Many thanks. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Alejandro Bia Subject: ACH/ALLC 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: September 7, 2004 5:04:00 PM CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 279 (279) Call for Proposals and Information for Presenters ACH/ALLC 2005 17th Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) University of Victoria, (British Columbia), Canada June 15-19, 2004 The International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship IMPORTANT DATES: • October 1st, 2004: An electronic submission form will be made available at the conference website. • November 8th, 2004: Deadline for the submission of proposals for papers, poster presentations, sessions and software demos. • February 7th, 2005: Notification of acceptance for papers, poster presentations, sessions and software demos. Conference Web Site: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ I. The ACH/ALLC Conference The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and a corresponding growth in the use of information technology resources for research and teaching in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in which humanities scholars work? What are the fields of humanities scholarship that are most affected by the use of computers and computation? What new and distinct methodologies is information technology bringing to the humanities, and how are these methodologies being introduced and applied? How do we expect methodologies, and the role of the humanities scholar, to change in the future as a result of the impact of information technology? How are information technology-related developments in one discipline affecting or likely to affect those in others? What are the implications of multilingualism and multiculturalism to humanities computing? What is the role of information technology technologies in establishing multilingualism? What are the meanings and implications of these developments for languages, communities, genders and cultures, and humanities research? What is the role of individual scientific and educational tasks, joint projects, or educational and electronic library resources? How can humanities computing help in the challenge to preserve individual cultures in a multicultural environment? What is the role of humanities computing in the preservation and creation of a multilingual, multicultural heritage? 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. Now is the time to survey and assess the impact humanities computing has had and is likely to have on humanities scholarship in a multilingual, multicultural world. II. Associated Organizations ACH and ALLC are continuing to develop the associated organizations initiative, which enables professional organizations with a remit similar to that of ALLC and ACH to present their own panel sessions within the conference. We welcome proposals from such organizations for the 2005 conference, especially in areas of computing in the humanities which have not been represented, or have been poorly represented, at previous ACH/ALLC conferences (e.g., linguistics, libraries, museums, history and archival fields, to mention a few). We encourage representatives from professional organizations to consider submitting a proposal under this initiative on topics they think might be relevant to the ACH/ALLC conference audience. Such proposals will undergo a review process and should be submitted directly to the conference programme chair, Alejandro Bia, no later than the date stated as the deadline for all types of proposals (see important dates on top of this document). For more information please contact the conference programme chair, Alejandro Bia, alex.bia_at_ua.es. III. Submission topics ACH/ALLC 2005 invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals might focus on: • traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including (but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, natural language processing, linguistics, translation studies, literary studies, text analysis, edition philology and statistical models; • computational models and applications related to multilingualism and multicultural issues; • the application of information technology to issues related to minority, indigenous and rare languages; • emerging digitization efforts: new best practices, experiences, recommendations, training; • humanities teaching; • the application of information technology to cultural and historical studies (including archaeology and musicology); • new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital resources dependent on images, audio, or video; • the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering; • pedagogical applications of new media within the humanities; • applications of technology in second language acquisition; • commercial applications of humanities computing, e.g. web technology, natural language interfaces, archival organization and accessibility; • applications in the digital arts, especially projects and installations that feature technical advances of potential interest to humanities scholars; • information design in the humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modelling; • thoughtful considerations of the cultural impact of computing and new media; • theoretical or speculative treatments of new media; • the institutional role of new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields; • the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources it develops. • the institutional role of humanities computing and new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. See the important dates at the top of this document for the deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee. All submissions will be refereed. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. See below for full details on submitting proposals. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site. IV. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Swedish. Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. Poster Presentations and/or Software Demonstrations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations,which we encourage. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The poster sessions will build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster Prize As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers. V. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form found at the conference website. Please pay particular attention to the information that is required regarding each proposal. Submissions that do not contain the required information will be returned to the authors, and may not be considered at all if they are received close to the deadline. The information required for all submissions includes: TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, or session TITLE: title of paper, poster, or session KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author or contact person PHONE NUMBER: of first author or contact person If submitting a session proposal, the following information will be required for each paper: TITLE: title of paper KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author Please note the following additional information: • The order of participants provided on the form will be the order used in the final programme. • If submitting a session proposal, please enter one abstract for the whole session in the "session/paper abstract" box, noting clearly the title and author of each paper in the session. • In addition to requesting the above information, the form provides a way for proposers to upload their proposal, which must be in XML-TEI (teixlite.dtd) or plain text (ASCII/ISO 8859-1) format, plus up to 5 image files. These graphics, if uploaded, should be prepared in a manner appropriate for both on-line publication and printing in black-and-white in the conference book of abstracts. • Unfortunately, it is still true, even in this day of XML and Unicode, that publishing systems and web browsers often limit access to extended character sets. Thus, although XML-TEI format and therefore Unicode can be used for submission, please try if possible to avoid character sets that might not be viewable on reviewer's web browsers or printable by the program's printer. Examples from past conferences Those interested in seeing examples from previous conferences can consult online abstracts and programmes at: http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml The conference has previously been held at: • Göteborg University (2004) • University of Georgia (2003) • University of Tübingen (2002) • New York University (2001) • University of Glasgow, Scotland (2000) • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (1999) • Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (1998) • Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1997) • University of Bergen, Norway (1996) Because of rapid developments in the field, work of a kind not previously presented at the conference is especially welcomed. VI. Publication A book of abstracts of all papers, poster presentations and sessions will be provided to all conference participants. In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page. A special volume of the journal Literature and Linguistic Computing with selected proceedings is planned for publication after the conference; all papers submitted in publishable form before the end of the conference will be considered for this collection. The final version for publication in LLC must be in English. VII. Bursaries As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the organization will award five bursaries of 500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who have papers or posters accepted for presentation at the conference. More information about the bursary scheme is available on request from the Programme Chair. Applications must be made using the on-line form available at the ALLC website. Full details of the scheme may also be found there. VIII. Further Information Equipment Availability and Requirements Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a data projector for Windows and Macintosh OS, and an Internet connection. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers. All submissions should indicate the type of hardware and software required for presentation. Language of the Presentations Presentations can be done in the same language of the accepted abstract, but when the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to allow for a bigger audience. Location Information about British Columbia, Canada, and the hosting University of Victoria, (fees, travel, accommodation, social programme, etc.) can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ Inquiries Inquiries concerning the goals of the conference, the format or content of papers, and other topics relating to the academic programme should be addressed to the Chair of the International Programme Committee: Alejandro Bia Head of R&D, Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library Teaching: Department of Computer Languages and Information Systems (DLSI) University of Alicante, apdo. de correos 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain E-mail: alex.bia_at_ua.es Phone: +34 600948601 Fax: +34-965909326 Inquiries concerning conference registration, travel, local organization and facilities, and other aspects of the local setting should be addressed to: Peter Liddell Chair, Local Committee Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P4 Email: achallc5_at_uvic.ca IX. International Programme Committee and Local Organizers Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Programme Committee comprising (in alphabetical order): Alejandro Bia (chair) (University of Alicante, Spain) Julia Flanders (Brown University, USA) Neil Fraistat (University of Mariland, USA) Simon Horobin (University of Glasgow, UK) Joseph Jones (University of British Columbia, Canada) Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen (University of Joensuu, Findland) Concha Sanz-Miguel (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Susan Schreibman (University of Maryland, USA) Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Association for Computing Machinery, USA) The conference is hosted by the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the University of Victoria. The Chair of the local organizing committee is Peter Liddell, Academic Director of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- This document can be downloaded in PDF format from: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/research/congresos/ach-allc-2005- cfp.pdf We apologize for possible crossed-postings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Tim van Gelder Subject: Latest Additions to Critical Thinking On The Web (Apr-Aug) Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:21:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 280 (280) 7 Sep <http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns24631>Get it Right! Interview with Jamie Whyte, from New Scientist. If only everyone were this critical, what a better place the world would be. An entertaining interview. The segment about why there is no need to explain cricket batsmen go out on for a duck (score of zero) than any other score is a terrific little take-away. [7 Sep 04] 6 Sep <http://www.debatemapper.net/>Debate Mapper Peter Baldwin's tool for collective mapping of complex debates. "DebateMapper... is a new software application designed to help address this problem. Fully web-enabled, it allows global communities of users to collaborate in building and evaluating large-scale diagrammatic representations, termed Argument Maps, of the structure of complex controversies. Such maps can be filtered and sorted in different ways, and the basic argumentative elements evaluated by a user community. Each user can create and store Selective views reflecting different assumptions. By using recent web and database technologies, DebateMapper can support very large and complex map structures." [6 Sep 04] 22 June in Political Correctness <http://www.sydneyline.com/Home.htm>The Sydney Line If you thought there was little more to Sydney than an Opera House, try this: a website presenting chiefly the writings of that audaciously incorrect historian Keith Windschuttle, and more general an attitude or philosophy Windschuttle sees as distinctively Sydneyesque. The website also promotes the ideas and writings of the brilliant Australian philosopher David Stove. [22 June 04] in Language and Thought - Reviews <http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1>Bad Comma by Louis Menand Review of Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Truss's screed urges us to take care with our punctuation; Menand's review turns her own fussiness back on her book like a blowtorch. I haven't read the Truss book, but Menand's review makes it seem almost as poorly thought out as that other recent and appalling work, Watson's Death Sentence (see the <http://www.austhink.org/monk/watson_review.htm>review by Austhink's Paul Monk). Both books were popular hits. Readers seem to lap up intellectual slop when it is sloppily casting aspersions on the linguistic sloppiness of others. [22 June 04] 15 June in Argument Mapping <http://www.austhink.org/monk/Fenner/Fenner.htm>Enhancing our Grasp of Complex Arguments by Paul Monk and Tim van Gelder An overview of the use of argument mapping to augment our capacity to handle complex reasoning and argumentation, and to improve deliberative judgment. This paper was presented by Paul Monk as a plenary address to the <http://www.science.org.au/proceedings/fenner/>2004 Fenner Conference on the Environment, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 24 May 2004. [15 June 04] in Argument Mapping - Software <http://www.knosis.com/argutect.html>Argutect Offers basic argument mapping functionality, aimed at document production. [15 June 04] 7 June in Textbooks <http://mdm.gwu.edu/forman/DBO.pdf>Decision by Objectives by Forman and Selly (pdf file, 2.46mb) Complete textbook on decision making. Aimed at management, but the contains a lot for the general reader (or decider?). Centered on a general decision framework known as the Analytic Hierarch Process (AHP). This may not be the best textbook on decision making out there, but there is plenty of value here, and it does have the advantage of being freely downloadable. [7 June 04] 30 May in Miscellaneous and Fun <http://www.private-eye.co.uk>Pseuds Corner [This link takes you to the Private Eye website; click on Pseuds Corner on the LHS menu.] Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, includes in every issue a selection of quotes, each of which indicts its own author as a pompous twit. [30 May 2004] 10 May in Political Correctness <http://www.culturecult.com>The Culture Cult Website presenting a lifetime's worth of acerbic writings by anthropologist Roger Sandall. "The Culture Cult is about romantic primitivism­the belief that traditional ethnic cultures provide a better home for humanity, more fair, more healthy, more harmonious, than today's free and open civilization. In fact, traditional cultures usually have most of the following: domestic oppression, endemic disease, poverty, clan enmity, violence, religious intolerance, and severe artistic constraints. If you want to live a full life, then modern civilization­not romantic ethnicity­deserves your thoughtful vote." [10 May 04] 8 May in Political Correctness <http://www.nationalinterest.org/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=B2F215684DA24BFAADA5C22454C3F776&nm=Publications&type=pub&mod=Publications::Articles&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=3&aid=829C11F21B334525AC094D9C2E2DC6B8&dtxt=Winter+2003/04>Political Correctness, Or The Perils of Benevolence by Roger Kimball Essay exploring the historical and conceptual contours of political correctness, and explaining why conservatives and critical thinkers alike disdain it. A poor piece of writing - rambling, often confusing, without any strong logical architecture or narrative. Nevertheless, it contains enough by way of valuable insight to be worth struggling with. "Alas, the result is not paradise but a campaign to legislate virtue, to curtail eccentricity, to smother individuality, to barter truth for the current moral or political enthusiasm. For centuries, political philosophers have understood that the lust for equality is the enemy of freedom. That species of benevolence underwrote the tragedy of communist tyranny. The rise of political correctness has redistributed that lust over a new roster of issues: not the proletariat, but the environment, not the struggling masses, but "reproductive freedom", gay rights, the welfare state, the Third World, diversity training, and an end to racism and xenophobia. It looks, in Marx's famous mot, like history repeating itself not as tragedy but as farce." [8 May 04] 5 May in Fallacies <http://www.246.dk/38tricks.html>Thirty-eight dishonest tricks which are commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them by Robert Thouless Classic. Excerpted from Thouless' 1930 book Straight and Crooked Thinking. Example: "(25) Prestige by the use of pseudo-technical jargon (pp 116-118) Best dealt with by asking in a modest manner that the speaker should explain himself more simply." Thouless' modest description of his own offering is priceless: "Practical convenience and practical importance are the criteria I have used in this list. If we have a plague of flies in the house we buy fly-papers and not a treatise on the zoological classification of Musca domestica. This implies no sort of disrespect for zoologists; or for the value of their work as a first step in the effective control of flies. The present book bears to the treatises of logicians the relationship of fly-paper to zoological classifications." [5 May 04] 4 May in Media <http://mediamatters.org/>Media Matters for America New liberal counterpart to the <http://www.mrc.org/>Media Research Center. "Media Matters for America will document and correct conservative misinformation in each news cycle. Media Matters for America will monitor cable and broadcast news channels, print media and talk radio, as well as marginal, right-wing websites that often serve as original sources of misinformation for well-known conservative and mainstream media outlets." [4 May 04] 19 April in General Resources <http://www.decision-making.co.uk/Welcome/Publications.htm>Towards Wise Decision Making by David Arnaud and Tim LeBon A series of papers describing Progress, a procedure put together by two philosophers attempting to provide a genuinely useful framework to aid ordinary people in making wise decisions in everyday situations. These papers, and there rest of the site, are well worth a look. [19 Apr 04] 11 April in Blogs (new category) <http://www.churchofcriticalthinking.com/index.shtml>Church of Critical Thinking "Your Suspicion is Our Mission." Spreading the gospel of critical thinking. Primarily interested in separation of Church and State, but this blog covers many other topics besides, and is unusually well written. The only thing which gives me a bit of pause is that the author - a "David" - reveals so little about himself. [11 Apr 04] <http://www.fallacyfiles.org/ffweblog.html>Fallacy Files Weblog by Gary Curtis Blog associated with Curtis' excellent Fallacy Files website. [11 Apr 04] <http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/notes.php>Notes and Comment by Ophelia Benson Blog associated with <http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com>Butterflies and Wheels, which Benson edits. "Our short and pithy observations on the passing scene as it relates to the mission of Butterflies and Wheels. Woolly-headed or razor-sharp comments in the media, anti-rationalist rhetoric in books or magazines or overheard on the bus, it's all grist to our mill. And sometimes we will hold forth on the basis of no inspiration at all beyond what happens to occur to us." 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From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 9/04 Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:22:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 281 (281) Greetings: The September 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains a commentary, three articles, an opinion piece, two conference reports, the '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 September 2004 is OYEZ: US Supreme Court Multimedia, courtesy of Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University. The Commentary is: The "Rights" in Digital Rights Management by Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net The articles include: Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Moving from Theory to Practice by Friedrich Summann and Norbert Lossau, Bielefeld University Library, Germany Library Web Accessibility at Kentucky's 4-Year Degree Granting Colleges and Universities by Michael Providenti, Northern Kentucky University Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under by Roxanne Missingham, National Library of Australia The Opinion is: Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve by Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory; John Erickson, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; and Sandy Payette, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner, Cornell University The Conference Reports are: Report from the International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society (DLKC'04) by Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan 7th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2004): Distributing Knowledge Worldwide through Better Scholarly Communication, 3 - 5 June 2004, Lexington, Kentucky, USA by Suzie Allard, University of Tennessee [material deleted] From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: Summary: Project management software for Mac Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:21:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 282 (282) Hi all, Thanks to everyone who wrote to me with suggestions for project management software for the mac. We've decided to go with FastTrack. A summary of responses and my comments follow: David recommended FastTrack (http://www.aecsoftware.com/). He said that he had used "the Web-based PHProject for a while (www.phprojekt.com) but found it too clunky and stopped using it." He also added "We tried MS Project but had trouble with the learning curve, plus I can't stand having to run a major program under Virtual PC." Both David and Nicola suggested BaseCamp, which is a web-based commercial product (http://www.basecamphq.com/). Nicola says: "One project is free as a demo - more costs money, but I've been using it, and I'd say it's worth it." Lisa wrote: "To be brutally honest, there really isn't anything "to write home about." I've usually ended up using a collection of different products for different parts of the management." Fred recommended a product called Near Time Flow, which is more for project collaboration but includes some project management features: http://www.near-time.com/ Here are some of the products that I tested plus comments: - FastTrack Schedule (http://www.aecsoftware.com/): a bit of a learning curve, but once you've got it, it's pretty simple to use. Enough fields for all our data. Columns are customizable so you can see as much or as little as you like on the screen. Won't import our MSProject mpp files, but we will use an intermediary program to change mpp to mpx, which opens fine in FastTrack. - PMX (http://www.jtechsoftworks.com/): while it looked pretty good, I had trouble keeping my tasks and subtasks organized the way I wanted them, plus I had some trouble allocating resources and keeping start/end dates straight. - Intellisys (http://www.webintellisys.com/): While it seems to do basically what we'd want it to do, the thing that I really hate about this one is the GUI, and the fact that the software displays all your projects in the same window. *Way* too confusing to look at. - ConceptDraw Project (http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/project/main.php): Easy to use, but too simplistic for our needs. - Though Basecamp was recommended I didn't try it because it would become too costly over time for a subscription for just two of us. Best regards, Jennifer ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Jennifer Vinopal / jennifer.vinopal_at_nyu.edu ~ Librarian for French & Italian Language and Literature ~ Services Manager, Studio for Digital Projects and Research ~ Project Manager, Digital Library Team Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 -> v: 212.998.2522 -> f: 212.995.4583 ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - New Issue Alert Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:24:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 283 (283) Volume 3265/2004 (Machine Translation: From Real Users to Research) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Please find below the latest table of contents for your registered journal and book alert. By clicking on the URLs below you can access the abstracts for each article. If your browser does not support direct URL access, please copy and paste the selected URL to your web browser. These are your selected publications: This issue contains: Case Study: Implementing MT for the Translation of Pre-sales Marketing and Post-sales Software Deployment Documentation at Mycom International p. 1 Jeffrey Allen A Speech-to-Speech Translation System for Catalan, Spanish, and English p. 7 Victoria Arranz, Elisabet Comelles, David Farwell, Climent Nadeu, Jaume Padrell, Albert Febrer, Dorcas Alexander, Kay Peterson Multi-align: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques to Improve Alignments for Adaptable MT p. 17 Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, Nizar Habash A Modified Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Highly Scalable Example-Based Translation p. 27 Ralf D. Brown Designing a Controlled Language for the Machine Translation of Medical Protocols: The Case of English to Chinese p. 37 Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield, Xiaohong Wu Normalizing German and English Inflectional Morphology to Improve Statistical Word Alignment p. 48 Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon System Description: A Highly Interactive Speech-to-Speech Translation System p. 58 Mike Dillinger, Mark Seligman A Fluency Error Categorization Scheme to Guide Automated Machine Translation Evaluation p. 64 Debbie Elliott, Anthony Hartley, Eric Atwell Online MT Services and Real Users' Needs: An Empirical Usability Evaluation p. 74 Federico Gaspari Counting, Measuring, Ordering: Translation Problems and Solutions p. 86 Stephen Helmreich, David Farwell Feedback from the Field: The Challenge of Users in Motion p. 94 L. Hernandez, J. Turner, M. Holland The Georgetown-IBM Experiment Demonstrated in January 1954 p. 102 W. John Hutchins Pharaoh: A Beam Search Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Models p. 115 Philipp Koehn The PARS Family of Machine Translation Systems for Dutch System Description/Demonstration p. 125 Edward A. Kool, Michael S. Blekhman, Andrei Kursin, Alla Rakova Rapid MT Experience in an LCTL (Pashto) p. 130 Craig Kopris The Significance of Recall in Automatic Metrics for MT Evaluation p. 134 Alon Lavie, Kenji Sagae, Shyamsundar Jayaraman Alignment of Bilingual Named Entities in Parallel Corpora Using Statistical Model p. 144 Chun-Jen Lee, Jason S. Chang, Thomas C. Chuang Weather Report Translation Using a Translation Memory p. 154 Thomas Leplus, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme Keyword Translation from English to Chinese for Multilingual QA p. 164 Frank Lin, Teruko Mitamura Extraction of Name and Transliteration in Monolingual and Parallel Corpora p. 177 Tracy Lin, Jian-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang Error Analysis of Two Types of Grammar for the Purpose of Automatic Rule Refinement p. 187 Ariadna Font Llitj=F3s, Katharina Probst, Jaime Carbonell The Contribution of End-Users to the TransType2 Project p. 197 Elliott Macklovitch An Experiment on Japanese-Uighur Machine Translation and Its Evaluation p. 208 Muhtar Mahsut, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Kazue Sugino, Katsuhiko Toyama, Yasuyoshi Inagaki A Structurally Diverse Minimal Corpus for Eliciting Structural Mappings Between Languages p. 217 Katharina Probst, Alon Lavie Investigation of Intelligibility Judgments p. 227 Florence Reeder Interlingual Annotation for MT Development p. 236 Florence Reeder, Bonnie Dorr, David Farwell, Nizar Habash, Stephen Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Lori Levin, Teruko Mitamura, Keith Miller, Owen Rambow, Advaith Siddharthan Machine Translation of Online Product Support Articles Using a Data-Driven MT System p. 246 Stephen D. Richardson Maintenance Issues for Machine Translation Systems p. 252 Nestor Rychtyckyj Improving Domain-Specific Word Alignment with a General Bilingual Corpus p. 262 Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang A Super-Function Based Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation System for Business Users p. 272 Xin Zhao, Fuji Ren, Stefan Vo=DF From: Taller HyR Linguisticos para Espanol y Portugues Subject: Last CFP - Workshop on Linguistic Resources for Spanish Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:19:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 284 (284) and Portuguese 04 -------------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------- Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Spanish and Portuguese IBERAMIA 2004 Puebla, México Noviembre 22-23, 2004 Web Site: http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~hrl_04/ ================================================= The organizing committee of the Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Spanish and Portuguese (http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~hrl_04/) invites researchers and students related to this research area to participate with proposals and works in this event. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum in order to improve the cooperation between the iberoamerican groups interested in linguistic technology, particularly for Spanish and Portuguese languages. Within the goals of the event are the creation of joint protocols for development, evaluation, comparison and interchange of linguistic tools and resources for these languages. Interest subjects turn around the design, building and use of linguistic resources (LR) for Spanish and Portuguese, as well as tools for their recollection and analysis. Following is a brief and not restricted list of the related topics: * Guidelines, standards, specifications, models and best practices for LR * Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR * Monolingual and multilingual LR for Spanish and Portuguese * Multimodal and multimedia LR. Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) * Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial interfaces, translation, summarisation, www services, etc.) ------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ------------------- Deadline for paper submission: september 13, 2004 Notification of acceptance: september 27, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready papers: october 11, 2004 --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors should format their papers according to the LNCS guidelines. Papers may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English, with a length between four and eight pages. Paper submission will be done by e-mail to the workshop e-mail address hrl_04_at_inaoep.mx All papers received will be cross-reviewed by at least two referees in the topical area. Accepted papers will be published in a local edition. --------------------- Scientific committee --------------------- Ariadne Carvalho, UNICAMP, Brasil Sofía Galicia, FC-UNAM, México Julio Gonzalo, UNED, España Héctor Jiménez, BUAP, México Aurelio López, INAOE, México Manuel Montes, INAOE, México Lluis Padró, UPC, España Manuel Palomar, UA, España Anselmo Peñas, UNED, España Luis A. Pineda, IIMAS-UNAM, México Horacio Rodríguez, UPC, España Paolo Rosso, UPV, España Maximiliano Saiz, UA, España Grigori Sidorov, CIC-IPN, México Gerardo Sierra, INI-UNAM, México Dominique Vaufreydaz, INRIA, Francia Renata Vieira, UNISINOS, Brasil Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, USP, Brasil Jean Caelen, IMAG, Francia --------------------- Programme committee --------------------- Alexander Gelbukh, CIC-IPN, México Nuno Mamede, L2F/INESC-ID, Portugal Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima, PUCRS, Brasil Alfonso Ureña, GSI, España Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, México. From: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: FOIS-2004 (Call for Participation) Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:20:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 285 (285) APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES PLEASE, DISTRIBUTE ============================== FOIS-2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ November 4-6, 2004, Torino (Italy) Check out conference program & (early) registration details on <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ or below! Looking forward to meeting you in Torino! == == FOIS-2004 Conference Program == Wendesday, November 3 Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html Thursday, November 4 8:45-9:15 Registration and Reception 9:15-9:30 Welcome Addresses 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk: Amie L. Thomasson: Methods of Categorization 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Session 1: Categories Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly, Barry Smith: Individuals, Universals, Collections: On the Foundational Relations of Ontology Fabian Neuhaus, Pierre Grenon, Barry Smith: A Formal Theory of Substances, Qualities, and Universals Jonathan Simon: How to Be a Bicategorialist 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session 2: Perspectives Barry Smith: Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation Simon K Milton: Top-Level Ontology: The Problem with Naturalism Joseph A. Goguen: Ontology, Society, and Ontotheology 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:30 Session 3: Methodology Brandon Bennett: Relative Definability in Formal Ontologies William Andersen, Christopher Menzel: Modal Rigidity in the OntoClean Methodology Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta, Vittorio Morato, Marzia Soavi, Giuseppe Spolaore: Identity and Modality in OntoClean Klaus Lüttich, Till Mossakowski: Specification of Ontologies in CASL Friday, November 5 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk Peter Gärdenfors: How to Make the Semantic Web More Semantic 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:30 Session 4: Semantics and Cognition Martin Raubal: Formalizing Conceptual Spaces Nicholas Asher, Pascal Denis: Dynamic Typing for Lexical Semantics - A Case Study: The Genitive Construction Massimo Poesio, Abdulrahman Almuhareb: Feature-Based vs. Property-Based KR: An Empirical Perspective Olivier Bodenreider, Barry Smith, Anita Burgun: The Ontology-Epistemology Divide: A Case Study in Medical Terminology 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Social Reality Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre: An Agent-Oriented Ontology of Social Reality Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra: Core Concepts of Law: Taking Common Sense Seriously John Bateman: The Place of Language within a Foundational Ontology 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:30 Session 6: Space, Time and Causality John Bateman, Scott Farrar: Towards a Generic Foundation for Spatial Ontology Maureen Donnelly: Relative Places John Stell, Matthew West: A Four-Dimensionalist Mereotopology Jos Lehmann, Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo, Aldo Gangemi: Causality and Causation in DOLCE Saturday, November 6 9:00-10:30 Session 7: Mind and Action Roberta Ferrario, Alessandro Oltramari: Towards a Computational Ontology of Mind Walter ten Brinke, David McG. Squire, John Bigelow: Supervenience in Content-Based Image Retrieval Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Enrico Motta: An Ontological Formalization of the Planning Task 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-13:00 Session 8: Ontological Analysis Stefan Schulz, Udo Hahn: Ontological Foundations of Biological Continuants Mariano Fernández-López, Asunción Gómez-Pérez: Searching for a Time Ontology for Semantic Web Applications Mariana Casella dos Santos, James Matthew Fielding, Christoffel Dhaen, Werner Ceusters: Philosophical Scrutiny for Run-Time Support of Application Ontology Development Palash Bera, Yair Wand: Analyzing OWL Using a Philosophy-Based Ontology 13:00-13:15 Conclusion == [material deleted] From: Subject: Berkeley meeting notes and Commission and Advisors resources Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 06:03:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 286 (286) Notes from the August 21 meeting in Berkeley of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences are now available online, at the following URL: <http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_meeting_notes_august.htm>http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_meeting_notes_august.htm ***************************************************** Sandra Bradley Grants Coordinator American Council of Learned Societies 633 Third Avenue, 8th Floor New York, NY 10017-6795 Tel: (212) 697 1505 ext. 146 Fax: (212) 949 8058 Note: The ACLS employs anti-spam, anti-virus protection that deletes suspicious messages before they reach the addressee. From: Vika Zafrin Subject: New project at Brown: Virtual Humanities Lab Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 06:03:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 287 (287) Dear computing humanists, There's a new humanities computing project based at Brown University. Continuing the work of the Decameron Web and other electronic projects relevant to Early Modern Italy, with the Virtual Humanities Lab we plan to develop existing and new digital resources into an experimental model for collaborative scholarship and pedagogy. We are encoding new texts (Boccaccio's Esposizioni sulla Commedia di Dante and portions of Giovanni Villani's Croniche). We are also beginning work on a new interface, which will provide tools that will allow scholars to annotate texts online, suggest variant encodings, and of course participate in discussion using natural languages as well as code. We have started a weblog at http://brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/. Clicking on the "about" link there, and perusing the posts written so far, will tell you more about the project. We enthusiastically invite comments from any interested parties. The VHL is co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Brown University, with the participation of scholars from Rome and Bologna. -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: Videoconferencing with the Library of Congress: Programs Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:40:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 288 (288) for Researchers Videoconferencing with the Library of Congress: Programs for Researchers www.loc.gov/rr/program/videoconf/ The Library of Congress offers free, one-hour, interactive programs to acquaint researchers with the resources on the Library's Web site and how best to access them. Programs are appropriate for researchers, college/university faculty and students, librarians, and scholars engaged in studies involving local history, geography, United States history and culture, world history and culture, foreign languages, and American literature. Programs may be scheduled Monday - Friday during normal working hours, EST. Access to videoconference equipment with ISDN connectivity is required. Programs can be tailored to suit the needs of individual groups. Examples of current offerings include general interest topics such as: Introducing loc.gov; Searching loc.gov; and Saving and Displaying loc.gov's Multimedia Resources. Special interest programs include: Congress Past & Present: Searching the Early Congressional Documents and THOMAS; and Jumpstarts to Research on African Americans, Local History, Music and Dance in American History, and Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress. Contact information is available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/videoconf/formvideo.html. From: Claire Warwick Subject: research fellowship at UCL Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:40:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 289 (289) Dear Humanists, I am looking for a research fellow to work on a newly funded EPSRC project on users of digital libraries, of three years' duration. Despite the funding body, the research concentrates on humanities users. I very much hope that this will be of interest to readers of this list and perhaps their current or former Graduate students. Please feel free to contact me informally for any further information about the post. Best wishes, Claire --------------------------------- Research Fellow in Information Studies & Human­Computer Interaction Applications are invited for the post of Research Fellow in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies and the Department of Psychology, UCL, working on the User Centred Interactive Search project. The project will investigate how users of information systems develop information seeking skills and how systems can be designed to support information work, particularly by humanities users. Salary is on the RA1A scale (£21,790 to £31,458 with max starting salary of £27,150 inclusive of London Allowance). Applications (e-mail or hard copy) including a covering letter, CV and Personal Information form (the latter available at: <http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/Personal_Information.doc>http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/Personal_Information.doc), should be sent to John Draper, Departmental Administrator, Department of Psychology, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, j.draper_at_ucl.ac.uk. If applying by e-mail please submit all requested information in one .pdf file named by your surname (e.g. Smith.pdf). Further information concerning the post is on the web at: http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/annb/ucis.html, while interested candidates can also contact Dr. Claire Warwick (C.Warwick_at_ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 2548) or Dr. Ann Blandford (A.Blandford_at_ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 5288). We particularly welcome women and black and minority applicants as they are under represented at this level within University College London (s.48 of the SDA 1975/ 38 of the RRA 1976 apply). The closing date for applications is 8th October 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_at_ucl.ac.uk From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: Komi-Permian has been computed Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:39:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 290 (290) Dear Humanist colleagues, Komi-Permian has been added to our language corpora. Komi-Permian is a Finno-Ugric language spoken near the Urals. We tried hard to look for it for ten years, but failed to find it anywhere in the electronic form, so we had to feed it in our computer ourselves. It looks like it is easier very often to feed an exotic language into computer than to find it elsewhere in the electronic form. What really kills me is that the funds which try to preserve the endagered languages, do not care to put them into electronic form and to make them available on some web site. They make linguists write grammars and pay money only for the grammars. After that grammar books (on paper) are buried in some library. I wrote to these funds for the endagered languages but never received any answer if the texts should be put on some web site. It is a very strange policy. Now we have the data on the phonemic frequencies of 158 world languages. Unfortunately, our project is not supported by any university, private or government fund. This is why, our project has only 158 languages for 34 years of our studies. Komi-Zyrian which is close to Komi-Permian also needs a more intensive investigation by a computer. Can you advise me where to get electronic texts in Komi-Zyrian? Looking forward to your comments to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: "Joel Elliott" Subject: help with endnotes keyed to page numbers Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:40:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 291 (291) Could someone point me to any resources that might assist a writer manage endnotes that are keyed to page numbers? I.e., each endnote begins with an excerpt from the body of the text that is keyed to the source's page number. It occurs to me that you could perhaps automate the process by using cross-references to the page numbers of the source quote, e.g., in Microsoft Word. Are there other/better resources for managing or automating such notes? I don't recall that the program Endnote supports for this note style. It may be that others refer to this notation style with terms like "catchphrase notes" or "blind notes." It would help to know the proper term(s) for this notation style. Thanks for any suggestions, Joel Joel Elliott Technology Coordinator National Humanities Center Durham, NC 27709 joel_elliott_at_unc.edu From: John Unsworth Subject: two faculty positions at GSLIS/UIUC Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:11:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 292 (292) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Graduate School of Library and Information Science Faculty Positions The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks outstanding full-time faculty to join our unique, top-ranked program. Preference will be given to applicants with strong research and teaching credentials in (1) children's literature, youth services, and/or school media, or (2) cataloging, classification, metadata, information organization. The School will consider exceptionally strong applicants working in other areas of library and information science or related disciplines. The GSLIS faculty is highly interdisciplinary, with backgrounds in library science, communications, information science, computer science, education, English, history of science, philosophy, and sociology, and we have been the number- one-ranked School of Library and Information Science for many years. The faculty pursue a wide variety of research projects in areas such as distributed knowledge, library history, information and telecommunications policy, inquiry-based education, biodiversity informatics, youth services, children's literature, music information retrieval, digital libraries, document standards, electronic books and e-publishing, computer-supported collaborative work and collaborative learning, museum informatics, community networks, internet studies, and more. GSLIS research funding is approximately $3M per year and growing. Faculty and students are also involved in many interdisciplinary research initiatives across the campus, and are affiliated with units such as the Illinois Natural History Survey, the Beckman Institute, the Institute for Communications Research, The Computational Science and Engineering Program, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The School offers Master's of Science, a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and Doctoral programs, as well as an innovative undergraduate minor in Information Technology Studies and a new K-12 Library Information Specialist Certification Program, and we are developing programs in bioinformatics and in digital libraries. The School's unique LEEP distance education option for the Master's and CAS degrees incorporates a variety of technologies and focuses on ways to involve remote students in all aspects of professional education. The School hosts several units that support teaching, research and service. Our Information Systems Research Laboratory (ISRL) provides a state-of-the-art environment supporting research for all GSLIS faculty. The Library Research Center supports survey research and fosters a strong working relationship with the professional communities. The Center for Children's Books produces a premier review journal and has an expanding program for librarians and teachers Prairienet, a widely-known community computing network, originated in the School. Appointments made under this announcement will be effective August 16, 2005. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by January 24, 2005. Rank is open, and salary is commensurate with experience. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required though we will consider candidates who are close to completion of the doctoral degree. Information about GSLIS, its programs, and its environment can be found on the Internet at http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/. Nominations, letters of application (including a current resume and three letters of reference), or requests for further information should be sent to: Dorlene Clark, Assistant to the Dean Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820-6211 Phone: (217) 333-3281; Fax (217) 244-3302; Email: dorlene_at_uiuc.edu The UIUC is an AA-EOE. From: Laurent Straskraba Subject: UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowship Programme Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:12:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 293 (293) Hi, I thought this could be of interest for affiliates from developing countries dealing with ICT4Development research and related areas: "UNESCO is calling on young researchers with advanced degrees (M.A., M.Sc. or equivalent) in developing countries to apply to the UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowship Programme for fellowships ranging from US$ 6,000 to US$ 10,000. The amount varies according to duration and place of study. The Programme is financed by Japan through its funds in trust programme for capacity-building of human resources. The Programme is named after the late Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who was known for his commitment to furthering development. It grants a total of 20 fellowships a year to researchers in four areas: environment, intercultural dialogue, information and communication technologies, and peaceful conflict resolution. (...)" http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22149&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Best regards, Laurent Straskraba --- Mag. Laurent Straskraba Information Society Researcher http://www.icts.sbg.ac.at Information Society Representative at UN Youth & Student Association of Austria http://www.afa.at post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1) e-mail: laurent_at_straskraba.net web: http://www.straskraba.net From: "DECLAN BUTLER, NATURE" Subject: Re: Nature Web Debate on Open Access Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:13:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 294 (294) Dear Colleagues I thought I'd let you know that the Nature Web focus on access wrapped up yesterday. http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/ I've appended the final Table of Contents below. Best regards Declan Introduction Declan Butler Nature 19 March 2004 Experiments in publishing From Nature 9 September 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/34.html>The pros and cons of Open Access Kate Worlock 13 September 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/32.html>The orthodoxy of Open Access John Ewing 13 September 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/31.html>Journal publishing: what do authors want? Ian Rowlands, Dave Nicholas and Paul Huntingdon 13 September 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/30.html>What do societies do with their publishing surpluses? Christine Baldwin and Sally Morris 13 September 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/33.html>Electronic publishing models and the public good Bernard Rous 13 September 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/29.html>Britain decides 'open access' is still an open issue Declan Butler Nature From Nature 22 July 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/28.html>The best business model for scholarly journals: an economist's perspective Mark J. McCabe and Christopher M. Snyder 16 July 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/27.html>A professional society's take on access to the scientific literature Bettie Sue Masters and Judith S. Bond 8 July 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/26.html>An evidence-based assessment of the 'author pays' model Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir University of Pittsburgh/Tennessee 25 June 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/25.html>PNAS and Open Access Nicholas R. Cozzarelli University of California at Berkeley 25 June 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/24.html>The primacy of authors in achieving Open Access Peter Suber 10 June 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/23.html>Not so quiet on a Western front Daniel Greenstein University of California 28 May 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/22.html>Can 'author pays' journals compete with 'reader pays'? T.C. Bergstrom and C.T Bergstrom Universities of California, and Washington 20 May 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html>The green and the gold roads to Open Access Stevan Harnad et al. 17 May 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/20.html>Can Open Access be viable? The Institute of Physics' experience John Haynes IOP Publishing Ltd 7 May 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/19.html>Do Open Access journals have impact? James Pringle Thomson ISI 7 May 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/17.html>CrossRef launches CrossRef Search, powered By Google Ed Pentz CrossRef 29 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/18.html>Analysing the scientific literature in its online context Jon Kleinberg Cornell University 29 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/16.html>Open Access needs to get 'back to basics' Leo Waaijers SURF 23 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/15.html>Open Access ignoring lessons of dot-com bubble Marie Meyer Vertilog 22 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/14.html>Is free affordable? John B. Hawley Journal of Clinical Investigation 15 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/13.html>Open access by the article: an idea whose time has come? Thomas J. Walker University of Florida 15 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/11.html>How journals can 'realistically' boost access Ira Mellman Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Cell Biology 8 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/12.html>Experimenting with Open Access publishing Martin Richardson and Claire Saxby Oxford University Press 8 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/9.html>On being scientific about science publishing Ann Okerson Associate University Librarian,Yale University 1 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/10.html>The myth of 'unsustainable' Open Access journals Jan Velterop BioMed Central 1 April 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/8.html>Open access and learned Societies Will open access prove a blessing or a curse to learned societies? Kate Worlock EPS 25 March 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/7.html>Why electronic publishing means people will pay different prices Andrew Odlyzko Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota 25 March 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/2.html>Open access and not-for-profit publishers Sally Morris Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers 19 March 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/3.html>Open Access: yes, no, maybe Karen Hunter Elsevier 19 March 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/4.html>Universities' own electronic repositories yet to impact on Open Access Mark Ware Publishing Consultant 19 March 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/5.html>PLoS co-founder defends free dissemination of peer-reviewed journals online Patrick Brown Public Library of Science 19 March 2004 <http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/6.html>Science<http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/6.html> editor-in-chief warns of PLoS growing pains Donald Kennedy Science 19 March 2004 Declan Butler European correspondent, Nature 7 rue Guy de la Brosse 75005 Paris, France Tel: (33) 1 43 36 59 90 E-mail: d.butler_at_nature.com or d.butler_at_nature-france.com Nature: http://www.nature.com/<http://www.nature.com/nature/>nature/ From: Jeff Allen Subject: AMTA-2004: call for participation Date: September 28-October 2, 2004 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 295 (295) Location: Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA Theme: From Real Users to Research Conference website: http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2004 The fully updated conference schedule includes: * Several tracks of presentations (research papers, user case studies, etc) * A few panel sessions * A full set of practical tutorials and workshops * Registration form (registration now open) * Opportunities for exhibit booths for tool and service suppliers [materials deleted] ******************************************************** Jeff Allen Advisory Board MultiLingual Computing & Technology magazine jeff_at_multilingual.com or jeff.allen_at_free.fr http://www.multilingual.com ******************************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: effects of junk mail Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:36:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 296 (296) Yesterday, according to the efficient offices of Eudora, yielded for me a particularly large crop of messages, 386 total, but on average I receive about 250/day, with 91% filtered as junk. Yesterday I noted for the first time that I was calling someone on the telephone to see if he had actually sent a reply to my e-mail. I suspect others have been doing this for some time. A few days ago a friend remarked in an offhand way that he always deleted all messages marked as junk without checking to see if any had been wrongly identified. Now that information no longer has to want to be free but has achieved total license, despite what by the boasts typical of computer science are arguably extremely good filtering mechanisms, e-mail would appear to be sinking into the mire of human nature. What do we know about all this? Is there any end in sight for the mass distribution of lists of addresses? Is there evidence that people in significant numbers are abandoning the medium or that any particular kind of use is declining, e.g. for "mission-critical" tasks? (The membership of Humanist is at an all-time high, at 1337 souls, but then Humanist could be viewed as recreational, almost never "mission-critical" except for odd sorts like me.) Are techniques of spamming the spammers working? Informed comment on the above would be useful. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Jonathan Koomey Subject: Turning Numbers into Knowledge, now in its 2d printing, Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:14:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 297 (297) Sept. 2004 Members of the critical thinking group may find my latest book, Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving, of interest. I originally wrote the book because I kept having to explain the tricks of the trade to young analysts I was hiring at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Some of the material will be old hat to those on this email list, but I suspect large parts of the book will be useful to most on the list. It covers the basics of the scientific method, the importance of peer review, the critical distinction between facts and values, the value of informed skepticism about facts and figures, the skills needed to understand the claims of others, key tricks for doing back of the envelope calculations, the value of clear and complete documentation, and rules for making good tables and graphs. It even has a chapter describing critical thinking and why it is important. I no longer need to explain these items to young researchers and students--I can just hand people the book, which is an immense time saver. The writing style is for a more popular audience than most books of this type, with short chapters, cartoons, quotations, and other funny graphics. It is useful for managers of technical people, government and business decision makers, journalists, researchers, consultants, and members of the public who take an intelligent interest in how the world works. It's been used successfully to teach training classes at the Global Business Network, IBM, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Allegheny College, Ohio University Business College, Sonoma State University, JFK University (Orinda, CA), College of the Redwoods, DUXX Escuela de Graduados en Liderazgo Empresarial, S.C. (Mexico), and elsewhere. The book is now entering its 2d printing (Sept 2004) and is being translated into Chinese. For more details, sample chapters, and reviews, go to <http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com>http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com and <http://www.analyticspress.com/>http://www.analyticspress.com/ The Amazon.com page for the book has additional reviews. Feel free to email me with questions or comments. JGKoomey_at_numbersintoknowledge.com Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D. <http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html>http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html The table of contents follows: INTRODUCTION - THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION PART I - THINGS TO KNOW Beginner's mind Don't be intimidated Information, intention, and action Peer review and scientific discovery PART II - BE PREPARED Explore your ideology Get organized Establish a filing system Build a toolbox Put facts at your fingertips Value your time PART III - ASSESS THEIR ANALYSIS The power of critical thinking Numbers aren't everything All numbers are not created equal Question authority How guesses become facts Don't believe everything you Go back to the questions Reading tables and graphs Distinguish facts from values The uncertainty principle and the mass media PART IV - CREATE YOUR ANALYSIS Reflect Get unstuck Inquire Be a detective Create consistent comparisons Tell a good story Dig into the numbers Make a model Reuse old envelopes Use forecasts with care Hear all sides PART V - SHOW YOUR STUFF Know your audience Document, document, document Let the tables and graphs do the work Create compelling graphs and figures Create good tables Use numbers effectively in oral presentations Use the Internet CONCLUSION - CREATING THE FUTURE FURTHER READING ______________________________ Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D. Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (currently on leave) Consulting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University P.O. Box 20313 Oakland, CA 94620 510-547-7860 Work/fax 510-654-9634 Home 510-708-1970 Cell jgkoomey_at_stanford.edu numbers_at_numbersintoknowledge.com <http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com>http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com http://www.analyticspress.com/ <http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html>http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Publication Announcement: Blackwell Companion to Digital Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:19:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 298 (298) Humanities A COMPANION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES Publication Dates: USA:Nov 2004 ROW:Oct 2004 Edited By: Susan Schreibman, University of Maryland Ray Siemens, University of Victoria John Unsworth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. - A complete yet concise overview of the emerging discipline of humanities computing. - Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. - Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. - Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational problems to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. - Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion. CONTENTS Notes on contributors Foreword: Roberto Busa Introduction: Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth Part I: History: 1. The History of Humanities Computing: Susan Hockey 2. Archaeology: Nick Eiteljorg 3. Art History: Michael Greenhalgh 4. Classics: Greg Crane 5. History: Will Thomas 6. Lexicography: Russ Wooldridge 7. Linguistics: Jan Hajic 8. Literary Studies: Thomas Rommel 9. Music: Ichiro Fujinaga & Susan Weiss 10. New Media: Geoff Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish 11. Performing Arts: David Saltz 12. Philosophy and Religion: Charles Ess Part II: Principles: 13. How Computers Work: Andrea Laue 14. Classification and its structures: Michael Sperberg McQueen 15. Databases: Steve Ramsay 16. What is Already Encoded by the Text: Jerry McGann 17. Text Encoding: Allen Renear 18. Perspectives and Communities: Perry Willett 19. Models: Willard McCarty Part III: Applications: 20. Analysis and Authorship Studies: Hugh Craig 21. Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora: Nancy Ide 22. Electronic Scholarly Editing: Martha Nell Smith 23. Textual Analysis: John Burrows 24. Thematic Research Collections: Carole Palmer 25. Print Scholarship and Digital Resources: Claire Warwick 26. Digital Media and the Analysis of Film: Bob Kolker 27. Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination: Ian Lancashire 28. Multivariant Narratives: Marie-Laure Ryan 29. Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing: Johanna Drucker & Bethany Nowviskie 30. Robotic Poetics: Bill Winder Part IV: Production, Dissemination, Archiving: 31. Project Design: Daniel Pitti 32. Conversion of Primary Sources: Marilyn Deegan & Simon Tanner 33. Text Tools: John Bradley 34. Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability: Matt Kirschenbaum 35. Electronic Publishing: Michael Jensen 36. Digital Libraries in the Humanities: Howard Besser 37. Preservation: Abby Smith Index *Forthcoming Hardback 1405103213 Order Selection: * $149.00 Americas/Canada * £95.00 Rest of World * A$366.00 incl. GST Australia/New Zealand [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.127 Nash's hope Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:18:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 299 (299) Nash's hope OR the hope of Nash Willard, I am wondering if the "and" in your comments on John Forbes Nash's biography were to represent a disjunctive conjunction. Or is that "and" representing another sort of conjunction that bridges the world of the shared beliefs and practices of scientific reasoning and the world of idiosyncratic beliefs and practices of the what one may call the "disconnected-yet-searching" mind at work? quote> Those of us here, though we may not equal Nash's powers of rational thought "in the style that is characteristic of scientists" and thankfully not his immersion in that other style of thought, can share something of his hopes for creative thought after long deviation. Those of us who are autodidacts wish of course for proper curricula, but perhaps our wanderings have some unique value. His eyes searched all over the room, trying to lock onto us. I realized what a simple thing it was, to meet the gaze of another, to recognize. I realized that in the exchange of glances, that in one look back and forth you could see the unreeling of life stories, distilled into a single frank gaze, or an averting of eyes. I noticed all that because his look had none of it, because his look did not find us, did not find the wall behind us, did not find the empty space in which we stood. He was without eyes, without face, without mind. We were standing on the edge of a vast devastation. Max Grue's most jumbled ravings are derived from his less jumbled speeches using text-morphing software found in the McPoet Dadaist software package, written by the multitalented Chris Westbury. [...] The text-morphing process takes each word in an actual text and calculates which words from that text are most likely to follow. Morphing then generates a new text preserving the same word-to-word probabilities, but random otherwise. Such texts are enjoyable nonsense, but seem strangely haunted by the style and logic of the original. 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. [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Kevin Cox Subject: Cognition and Technology: Call for papers (fwd) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:00:18 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 300 (300) To: ctsoc_at_yahoogroups.com As technology advances we are witnessing changes in the nature of cognition. A wide range of issues pertaining to technology and cognition will be covered in a series of special issues of the journal Pragmatics & Cognition. We are inviting contributions to our special issues, as specified below (for full details, please see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.html ) Pragmatics & Cognition (P&C) will henceforth pay special attention to the growing interest in the relationship between technological advances and cognition ­ a field that is intimately related to the journal's basic concerns. Beginning with volume 13 (2005), Pragmatics & Cognition will contain three issues instead of the current two. Each year, one of P&C's issues will be a thematic Special Issue devoted to "Cognition and Technology" (C&T), containing invited as well as submitted refereed papers. Space will also be reserved in these thematic issues for submitted articles, discussion notes, and book reviews in the field of C&T not specifically related to the theme of the Special Issue. Each Special Issue will be co-edited by a Guest Editor and Itiel Dror, who has been appointed P&C's Associate Editor for C&T. For full details, please see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.html Special Issues 1. New Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition Editors: Marcelo Dascal and Itiel Dror 2. Distributed Cognition Editors: Stevan Harnad and Itiel Dror 3. Robotics and Cognition Editors: Pim Haselager, Maria Eunice Qumlice Gonzales, and Itiel Dror 4. Ageing, Impairment, and Technology Editors: Romola Bucks, Jonathan Cole, and Itiel Dror 5. Technologies for Cognitive Research: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects Editors: Boris Velichkovsky and Itiel Dror 6. Cognitive Development and Education in the Mirror of Technology Editors: TBA and Itiel Dror Contributions are invited to the Special Cognition and Technology Series (for full details, please see: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technology.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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: nominations for Bowers Prize Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:15:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 301 (301) The Society for Textual Scholarship solicits nominations for the 2005 Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for the best essay in textual studies first published in 2003 or 2004. Essays published in periodicals, critical books, or collections by diverse hands are eligible. If part of a longer work, the significance of the essay must be independent of that context. The Prize, which includes an honorarium, will be presented at the Society's biennial conference, to be held in New York City in March 2005. Please send nominations by November 15 to Nicholas Frankel at Dept. Of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 842005, Richmond, VA 23220. Email: nrfranke_at_vcu.edu -- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum <http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/>http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Philipp Reichmuth Subject: Re: 18.216 effects of junk mail? Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:15:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 302 (302) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) schrieb: [deleted quotation]As far as I can see, at my workplaces users are increasingly adopting to the filtering problem you described. They do this in such a way that it is no longer taken for granted that e-mail actually reaches the addressee. Two or three years ago, had I remarked that I simply did not receive a given message, I would have met with disbelief; as of now, people just nod their head and blame it on the filter. Paradoxically, for mission-critical work it is becoming increasingly common to walk over to the other office with an USB stick instead of sending files by mail. [deleted quotation]No, they are not. As far as I can see, no proactive method of spam protection is working at all, partly because a given piece of spam reveals next to nothing about the identity of the spammer. The most practical method of spam avoidance on media such as Usenet consists of disposable-address services such as Spamgourmet (http://www.spamgourmet.com). It does not work well with mailing lists, though, or with any sort of medium that has a high throughput of mail messages. Someone has put up a list of reasons by which to check why a given anti-spam solution is usually not up to the task. It's quite comprehensive: http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/02/spamsolution_re.html Philipp [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 18.216 effects of junk mail? Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:18:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 303 (303) Dear Willard, I send this to you offline because Humanist lists the e-mail of people who submit messages. Quoting me, rather than posting my message, is part of the point. Like you, I found myself overwhelmed with spam and unable to check the various mailboxes where filters put spam. I therefore decided to change my e-mail address, inform everyone I could, and then not put my new e-mail in any place or form where it could be parsed by spam spiders. Humanist, I note, now substitutes "@" with "_at_" in its archives, but I wonder if this will be enough. When we depend on e-mail communication, can we risk a smart spam hacker spending the extra 20 minutes to rewrite a spider to parse up all the e-mail addresses in the Humanist archives. Perhaps I am paranoid, but you might consider dropping the e-mail address in the "From:" line and leaving it to members to choose whether to include their e-mail at the end. This leads me to some further points: 1. We need to get into the habit of not including other people's e-mail in messages that go to public lists or on web sites (and a number of discussion lists archive to the web.) 2. I think there is a social principle here - the net of trust that we experienced in the 80s and early 90s is over. The same things that made the net so great, like the ability to cheaply distribute information from your desk, make it vulnerable to spammers. Perhaps someone has written about this? 3. I personally don't think there will be a technical fix - I think the problem is that the net is now a public space with all the advantages and disadvantages of a public space. For every better filter I saw better spammers. The ingenuity of those who play at spam should not be underestimated. 4. We may have to move to a model where we maintain multiple e-mail addresses, including disposable ones which can be given out for single-use purposes. Some of us do this by having an institutional address and lots of hotmail and now gmail addresses. I would prefer to have a service that allowed me to spawn new addresses and attach rules to them like, "only mail with the subject 'Response to Humanist Post'" should get forwarded to your real account." Do people know of such services? 5. For those of us who can't hack sendmail, changing address on a regular basis does work. I don't get spam (yet). In writing everyone in my address book to inform them of the change of address I reestablished contact with a number of friends, something we should all have to do once and while. Others have been unable to contact me (my apologies to you), and some have found ingenious ways to contact me to get the new address. 6. Our institutions are the hardest to deal with if you try to hide your address. My institution first did not want to let me have two accounts simultaneously (so I could watch the old one for a month and send notes about the address change). McMaster did relent when I explained the situation. Now I am trying to see if they will let me leave my new address off the directory (is it fair to just leave the old dead one there?). 7. Personally I would like to follow Donald Knuth, who is happy, ever since he got rid of his e-mail address in 1990. See http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html . Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell McMaster University (905) 525-9140 x 24072 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: RE: 18.216 effects of junk mail? Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:19:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 304 (304) Comment on Willard's SPAM posting: ======================= ...snip... Yesterday, according to the efficient offices of Eudora, yielded for me a particularly large crop of messages, 386 total, but on average I receive about 250/day, with 91% filtered as junk. ...snip... ======================= Humanists: The problem which Willard raises is another example of the old statistical Type I ("false positive") versus Type II ("false negative") error problem. I enjoy two-level SPAM filtering. My department uses SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.apache.org/) on UNIX boxes to analyze messages: "SpamAssassin is a mail filter which attempts to identify spam using (Bayesian) text analysis and several internet-based real-time blacklists." It "learns" in the sense that I can flag SPAM which it misses so that the program will identify it in the future. The Bayesian filtering is described at http://spamassassin.sourceforge.net/doc/sa-learn.html. On my local PC, I use iHateSpam from Sunbelt software (http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=930), a program well reviewed by PCWORLD (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22343,00.asp), and which the company updates constantly and for which it has provided outstanding support with some thorny problems. The software allows the user not only to tag mail as SPAM but to report such SPAM to the offending Open Relay servers in the hope that the people managing abuse_at_name-of-relay will be able to clamp down in some way. HOWEVER.... I constantly struggle with this Type I / Type II problem. One political listserv to which I subscribe sends me E-mail which is occasionally blocked as SPAM at the first level, and I sometimes find messages from friends and colleagues derailed in the same way. The same thing occurs from time to time with iHateSpam on my PC. All the while, I still receive SPAM messages which slip through both levels and promise to improve my finances, my medications and my anatomy. Therefore, I have to be eternally vigilant ("the price of liberty," as we all recall) not to miss false positives. Sigh. At moments like this, I flip open Genesis 8:21 "...the devisings of man's mind are evil from his youth...(JPS translation)," and that was written well before SPAMmers! _________________________________________________ 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 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: [humanist] 18.216 effects of junk mail? Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:20:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 305 (305) Willard writes: [deleted quotation]Well, the amount of paper-based junk mail in my letterbox has not diminished over the last decade. In addition, e-mail addresses are a dime a thousand, so any one "from" address might be used only once and then discarded by spammers, preventing them from being spammed back. It doesn't seem that the amount of spam out there is likely to diminish, even though it's a terrible waste of most resources involved. From what I've seen from talking at length about this with people who tend to spend their lives on the internet, the two most popular ways to cope with junk mail are: - change your e-mail address periodically (and provide a reliable way for people to find out what your address *is*, without resorting to a phone; some will go so far as to post an image of their current address to a predetermined web page) and - get your own domain name, and host it with a provider that either has spam filtering software you like, or will allow you to install your own. Sadly, these solutions might be too involved for those who don't absolutely love tinkering with their setup. There's certainly a learning curve, and a minimal amount of time that one would have to spend researching and keeping up to date on spam-blocking software. But ultimately, controlling my own has really made a difference in terms of how powerless I feel (or don't) every time I get spam in my inbox. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Alexander Gelbukh" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2005, Computational Linguistics & NLP. Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:45:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 306 (306) Mexico, February. Second CFP: CICLing-2005 6th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 13 to 19 Mexico City, Mexico www.CICLing.org/2005 (Please distribute) PUBLICATION: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10, short papers: October 20 See submission address on www.CICLing.org/2005 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ellen Riloff, Kevin Knight, Christian Boitet, one more to be announced on www.CICLing.org/2005 EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies, great cave and colonial city, and more. See photos of past events on www.CICLing.org +------------------------------------------------------ | Topics +------------------------------------------------------ Computational linguistics research: Comp. Linguistics theories and formalisms Knowledge representation Comp. morphology, syntax, semantics Discourse models Text generation Statistical methods, corpus linguistics Lexical resources Intelligent text processing and applications: Information retrieval, question answering Information extraction Text mining Document categorization and clustering Automatic summarization Natural language interfaces Spell-checking and related topics +------------------------------------------------------- | Schedule (tentative) +------------------------------------------------------- Sun 13: Excursion to ancient Indian pyramids Mon 14: Registration. Talks. Welcome party + posters Tue 15: Talks Wed 16: Excursion to Monarch Butterfly wintering site Thu 17: Talks Fri 18: Discussions. Excursion to Anthropological Museum Sat 19: Excursion to pyramids, caves, and colonial city Possible alternative excursion to the City Center on Wednesday; no guarantee yet. ==================================================== See complete CFP and contact on www.CICLing.org/2005. ==================================================== Apologies for possible repetitions. From: Willard McCarty Subject: prolixity strikes again Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:00:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 307 (307) Once upon a time the chief form of prolixity in e-mail -- "lengthiness of spoken or written matter; length of discourse; copiousness and minuteness of detail; esp. tedious or tiresome lengthiness" (OED) -- was fullsome -- "characterized by abundance, possessing or affording copious supply; abundant, plentiful, full.... Of the body, etc.: Full and plump, fat, well-grown; in a bad sense, over-grown" -- indentification of the author by institution(s), address(es) and sometimes beliefs and/or disclaimers, sometimes accompanied by ASCII art. Sometimes these would in fact be longer than the body of the message itself, but since they were added automatically, the authors would presumably not be as keenly aware of their bulk as the recipients. Or perhaps said authors were thus aware. Now prolixity seems to have afflicted the subject-line, which can these days run to 2 or sometimes more lines. I'd recommend brevity. But fearing to be thought out-of-touch with the current fashions, I'll make this an enquiry. What is your sense of the matter? 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 18.219 effects of junk mail Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:44:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 308 (308) Willard and Humanists-- This morning I came across Mark Hurst's article "Managing Incoming Email: What Every User Needs to Know." It's a 35-page report available here: http://www.goodexperience.com/reports/e-mail/ Mostly it's pretty basic, but it does give some tips for dealing with junk mail. Like many people here, Hurst departs from the premise that spam will continue to flow in, and that users don't have a choice but to learn to filter it out on many levels. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.219 effects of junk mail Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:45:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 309 (309) Willard, There is a another filtering layer to describe besides those signalled Don Weinshank in a positing to Humanits on September 16, 2003 and it just might be a way of dealing in part with the false negative/positive factor. The human reader and the interface. Most people in their reading habits will use the information contained in the "from" and "subject" fields to guide their reading. Spam has tought some readers _curiousity control_. One question arises. Does the software interface allow users to mark for deletion or does the software immediately transfer the incoming message to a delete folder? Good old ELM keeps the message to be deleted in sight with a tag ("D" for delete). GUI-based interfaces tend to make the deleted and unread disappear from the current screen. I point this out because I suspect in most households one step in dealing with paper-based post involves sorting mail for the occupants, previous and present. That is, in the non email world addresses are not so intimately connected with the subjectivity of the addressee. Part of the irritation of spam is not merely technical (network performance and mailbox overflow). It is also social. Spam tends to undermine expectations of being hailed as a person rather than a consuming unit. And taps into the very tenacious internalization of the etiquette of the response. The very existence of the noise of spam will likely strengthen back channel social networks a la six degrees of separation. Am I more likely to respond to an inquiry if it comes from a third party via a regular correspondent? Note that such inquiries would usually take the form of an invitation to do something. Inquiries in search of knowledge or know-how tend to be addresses to the distributed intelligence of lists, news groups and lately, blogs. In other words, responsibility for getting a message through is partially the responsibility of the sender. In most offices, urgent matters requiring an immediate response go through a minimum of three communication channels (phone, email, yellow sticky on the computer screen, a call to an assistant to yank the addressee out of a meeting). In the rhetoric of business communication, it has become a common question to ask: how many iterations of the message, in what form and at what intervals? BTW, from the epidemological perspective, spam watchers might have notices an increase in amounts of spam that coincides with the North American beginning of term -- an interesting Humanitites Computing project, to plot spam occurence against time and place. Erasmus would no doubt have made reference to spam in the De Copia: "Your email, having survived the filters and the competing sollicitations for my attention, arrive and gave me much pleasure..." -- 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: "Wouden A. van der" Subject: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:27:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 310 (310) The 15th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Friday, December 17, 2003 University of Leiden, The Netherlands We are happy to announce the fifteenth CLIN meeting, which will be hosted by the Leiden Centre for Linguistics (ULCL) at the University of Leiden. The language of the conference will be English. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Shalom Lappin (Department of Computer Science King's College, London) Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels (VUB) and Sony CSL Paris) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational linguistics. Authors should submit an abstract in English. The abstract should contain: - a title - your name, address, affiliation, and email address - a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines) If you send your abstract by email (to t.van.der.wouden_at_let.leidenuniv.nl), please take care of sending it as plain ASCII. If email is not possible, you can send your abstract to: CLIN 2004 Ton van der Wouden Opleiding Nederlands PO Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: October 18, 2004. Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2004. Conference: December 17, 2004. The local organization committee of this year's meeting consists of Boban Arsenijevic, Crit Cremers, Maarten Hijzelendoorn, Hilke Reckman, Michaela Poss and Ton van der Wouden. A volume with proceedings of the fourrteenth CLIN meeting (held December 19, 2003, in Antwerp) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 2004 before CLIN 2005. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English; they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time. For more information, visit: http://www.ulcl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=3&c=44&garb=0.9961508441472857&session= -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ton van der Wouden VIDI-project "Dutch as a construction language" Vakgroep Nederlands, Postbus 9515, 2300 RA Leiden tel. 071 5272130 (werk) 071 5171089 (thuis) 071 5272615 (fax) 06 50435930 (m) email vdwouden_at_let.rug.nl t.van.der.wouden_at_let.leidenuniv.nl http://www.let.rug.nl/~vdwouden homepage Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap/Linguistic Society of the Netherlands: http://www.let.rug.nl/orgs/avt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "De Beer Jennifer " Subject: RE: 18.223 prolixity or informativeness? Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:24:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 311 (311) Willard, My guess is that longer subject-lines are an attempt to circumvent spam filters, or at the very least are attempts to indicate some legitimacy of the e-mail, so that it is not confused with spam. Of course, depending on how one's e-mail client is configured, one is rarely ever able to read the entire subject-line onscreen anyway. Oddly, now that you mention it, I seem to be more prone to reading any messages with long subject lines(!) Best, Jennifer --- Jennifer De Beer Lecturer in Socio-Informatics Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-making, Information Science, Universiteit Stellenbosch University http://www.sun.ac.za/infoscience/staff_jennifer.html +27 (0)21 808 2071 (t) +27 (0)21 808 2117 (f) From: "De Beer Jennifer " Subject: RE: 18.223 prolixity or informativeness? Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:25:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 312 (312) Postscriptum: it seems, having read a posting by Francois Lachance on 'effects of junk mail', which I've not been following BTW. So, 'prolixity' in essence is an 'effect of junk mail'. Greetings, Jennifer From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 18.223 prolixity or informativeness? Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:26:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 313 (313) Hi there, At 12:05 AM 17/09/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Brief, vague subject lines are more likely to trip spam and virus filters, or be ignored by people wading through masses of spam, so I find I'm making an effort to give as much info in the subject as I can, while keeping it relatively brief. Mail with "hi" or "file", or "re your message" as the subject is very unlikely to be read nowadays. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes_at_uvic.ca martin_at_mholmes.com mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:30:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 314 (314) (1) Self and Substance in Leibniz by Marc Elliott Bobro University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 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 AND CONTRIBUTORS 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. Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-2024-4 Date: June 2004 Pages: 151 pp. EUR 67.00 / USD 74.00 / GBP 47.00 (2) Geometric Data Analysis From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis by Brigitte Le Roux Universit? Ren? Descartes, Paris, France Henry Rouanet Universit? Ren? Descartes, Paris, France "Geometric Data Analysis" (GDA) is the name suggested by P. Suppes (Stanford University) to designate the approach to Multivariate Statistics initiated by Benzecri as Correspondence Analysis, an approach that has become more and more used and appreciated over the years. This book presents the full formalization of GDA in terms of linear algebra -- the most original and far-reaching consequential feature of the approach -- and shows also how to integrate the standard statistical tools such as Analysis of Variance, including Bayesian methods. Chapter 9, Research Case Studies, is nearly a book in itself ; it presents the methodology in action on three extensive applications, one for medicine, one from political science, and one from education (data borrowed from the Stanford computer-based Educational Program for Gifted Youth ). Thus the readership of the book concerns both mathematicians interested in the applications of mathematics, and researchers willing to master an exceptionally powerful approach of statistical data analysis. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Foreword; Patrick Suppes. Preface. 1: Overview of Geometric Data Analysis. 1.1. CA of a Historical Data Set. 1.2. The Three Key Ideas of GDA. 1.3. Three Paradigms of GDA. 1.4. Historical Sketch. 1.5. Methodological Strong Points. 1.6. From Descriptive to Inductive Analysis. 1.7. Organization of the Book. 2: Correspondence Analysis (CA). 2.1. Measure vs. Variable Duality. 2.2. Measure over a Cartesian Product. 2.3. Correspondence Analysis. 2.4. Extensions and Concluding Comments. Exercises. 3: Euclidean Cloud. 3.1. Basic Statistics. 3.2. Projected Clouds. 3.3. Principle Directions. 3.4. Principle Hyperellipsoids. 3.5. Between and within Clouds. 3.6. Euclidean Classification. 3.7. Matrix Formulas. 4: Principal Component Analysis (PCA). 4.1. Biweighted PCA. 4.2. Simple PCA. 4.3. Standard PCA. 4.4. General PCA. 4.5. PCA of a Table of Measures. 4.6. Methodology of PCA. 5: Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA). 5.1. Standard MCA. 5.2. Specific MCA. 5.3. Methodology of MCA. 5.4. The Culture Example. Exercises. 6: Structured Data Analysis. 6.1. Structuring Factors. 6.2. Analysis of Comparisons. 6.3. Additive and Interation Clouds. 6.4. Related Topics. 7: Stability of a Euclidean Cloud. 7.1. Stability and Grouping. 7.2. Influence of a Group of Points. 7.3. Change of Metric. 7.4. Influence of a Variable. 7.5. Basic Theorems. 8: Inductive Data Analysis. 8.1. Influence in Multivariate Statistics. 8.2. Univariate Effects. 8.3. Combinatorial Inference. 8.4. Bayesian Data Analysis. 8.5. Inductive GDA. 8.6. Guidelines for Inductive Analysis. 9: Research Case Studies. 9.1. Parkinson Study. 9.2. French Political Space. 9.3. EPGY Study. 9.4. About Software. 10: Mathematical Bases. 10.1. Matrix Operations. 10.2. Finite-dimensional Vector Space. 10.3. Euclidean Vector Space. 10.4. Multidimensional Geometry. 10.5. Spectral Theorem. Bibliography. Index. Name Index. Symbol Index. Subject Index. Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-2235-2 Date: June 2004 Pages: 486 pp. EUR 155.00 / USD 171.00 / GBP 107.00 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: The Turns of Turing Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:09:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 315 (315) Willard, In Humanist 18.201 Paul Oppenheimer suggest subscribers might wish to read Sylvia Kelso's 1994 piece entitle The Silver Metal Imagination: Blueprints for Changing Technology in Women's SF. The piece contains a paragraph asking a set of questions. The paragraph in question is inspired by Turing's thought experiment on the imitation game. quote> Basically, an AI is a computer good enough to pass the test proposed by Alan Turing: that from another room you can't tell you're not communicating with a human. As with robots, SF has good and bad visions of such super-computers. Probably the classic bad case is HAL in Kubrick's 2001 (1968). A less famous good case is Mycroft Holmes, who helps run a revolution in Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). When AI's pass the Turing test, however, they raise all sorts of problems with, What is human? Is an AI just "a person in a box?" (bes shahar, 1991, 251). Can you be a person if you have microchips instead of cerebral lobes, and superconductors instead of synapses, and camera pickups for eyes? And what happens when you fall in love? The game is set up for the interrogator to fail when a machine is involved. Whatever gender-sex the interrogator ascibes to the machine-player, the interrogator is wrong. 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: Kevin Joel Berland Subject: Selected Readings, No. 94 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:11:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 316 (316) We are delighted to announce the publication of Selected Readings, No. 94, now available: http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr94.htm Selected Readings is an ongoing bibliography on various interdisciplinary topics of interest in the long eighteenth century. It is compiled from contributions sent in by numerous loyal volunteers (and we're always looking for more). This issue lists titles of books, articles, and weblinks in lots of areas, with special strengths in Academia, Bibliography and related pursuits, Disability Studies, Economics, English, French, German, and U.S. federal & colonial history and literature, Geography and travel writing, Historiography, History of Art, Education, Linguistics, Medicine, Music, Religion, and Sexuality; Native Americans; New France; New Spain; Philosophy; Political Thought, Theory, and Theatrical History. Cheers -- Kevin Berland for C18-L From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: Call For Participation: Style and Meaning 2004 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:10:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 317 (317) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design October 21-24 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Washington, D.C http://music.ucsd.edu/~sdubnov/style2004.htm 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 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 work has 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 complex problem of formalizing a notion of style, and developing a modeling language that supports the representation of differing styles. The goal of this symposium is to bring style researchers together to seek out common frameworks for discussion. It will provide a unique meeting ground for researchers and practitioners in all media that share the problem of formalizing a notion of style, generating discourse between diverse forms and approaches. We thus hope to move towards better understanding style in all its manifestations, with an eye to developing computational models and tools for dealing with it. To facilitate interaction among participants, the symposium will include, in addition to a number of "traditional" research paper presentations: (a) invited talks by leading figures in style research, (b) brief tutorials on work in individual media, and (c) panel discussions discussing various practical issues in research on style. INVITED SPEAKERS: Sheldon Brown, UCSD (New Media Art) Harold Cohen, Artist (Visual Arts) Eduard Hovy, USC ISI (Natural Language) Christopher Raphael, Indiana U. (Computer Music) George Stiny, MIT (Architecture) TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Cognitive Linguistics: Joseph Goguen, UCSD Computer Music: Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon Computers and Architecture: Terry Knight, MIT To register, please download the registration brochure at: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/2004/fssregistration-04.pdf Registration is also available on-line: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fssregform.html Reduced hotel rates are available until September 27 at: http://crystalcity.hyatt.com/groupbooking/arti FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact: Shlomo Argamon (co-chair), argamon_at_iit.edu Shlomo Dubnov (co-chair), sdubnov_at_ucsd.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:25:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 318 (318) Volume 8 Number 9 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: Preface p. 587 Gerard Assayag, Vittorio Cafagna, Marc Chemillier DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0383-6 On some theoretical and computational aspects of Anatol Vieru's periodic sequences p. 588 M. Andreatta, D. T. Vuza, C. Agon DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0382-7 Approximate string matching for music analysis p. 597 R. Clifford, C. Iliopoulos DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0384-5 Using Factor Oracles for Machine Improvisation p. 604 G. Assayag, S. Dubnov DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0385-4 Periodic musical sequences and Lyndon words p. 611 M. Chemillier DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0387-2 Toward a formal study of jazz chord sequences generated by Steedman's grammar p. 617 M. Chemillier DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0386-3 Syntactical and semantical aspects of Faust p. 623 Y. Orlarey, D. Fober, S. Letz DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0388-1 Musical constraint satisfaction problems solved with adaptive search p. 633 C. Truchet, P. Codognet DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0389-0 On validity in modelization of musical problems by CCP p. 641 C. Rueda, F. Valencia DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0390-7 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: andrea laue Subject: TEI workshop at UC Berkeley Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:22:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 319 (319) ADVANCED TOPICS IN TEI 4-5 November 2004 University of California, Berkeley Co-sponsored by the California Digital Library and The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley You are invited to attend a two-day workshop and symposium covering advanced topics for users of the TEI Guidelines. The primary speakers and session facilitators will be Julia Flanders, chair of the Board of Directors of the TEI Consortium, and Syd Bauman, co-editor of the TEI Guidelines. Both are from the Brown University Women Writers Project (WWP). They will lead a series of sessions designed to allow TEI-based projects to share their work, discuss common problems, learn about emerging standards, plan for future collaboration, and learn ways of improving their use of TEI. Topics of discussion will include: --emerging standards, including presentation and discussion of new TEI-based best practices developed by the California Digital Library and the Women's Writers Project --TEI Guidelines P5 --XSLT(2) as a tool for transformation, upgrade, and validation --West Coast TEI, a forum to allow participants to present their current projects and discuss how they are using TEI --common problems in TEI --funding TEI projects, including discussion of how to sustain long-term mark up projects (A confirmed program is forthcoming.) This workshop is free, but you must register in advance to attend because space is limited. Please register by October 15 by emailing your name, affiliation, address, and phone number to: Deborah W. Anderson, UC Berkeley Dept. of Linguistics (dwanders_at_pacbell.net) or Anh Bui, Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library (abui_at_library.berkeley.edu) From: Willard McCarty Subject: solitary work? Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:28:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 320 (320) Dear colleagues: I have been for some months teased by a memory of something I recall being said by a Russian poet, a woman, 20C: that poetry is work done in solitude for everyone. Can anyone help me locate the source? Do any other sources of a similar sentiment come to mind, not necessarily about poetry but about the indirect sociability of solitary work? Many thanks. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Dieter Hutter Subject: CfP: 2nd International Conference on Security in Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:16:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 321 (321) Pervasive Computing, SPC2005 Call for Papers --------------- 2nd International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, SPC2005 April 6-8, 2005 Boppard, Germany http://www.spc-conf.org Deadline: October 15, 2004 The ongoing shrinking of computing facilities to small and mobile devices like handhelds, portables or even wearable computers will enhance an ubiquitous information processing. The basic paradigm of such a pervasive computing is the combination of strongly decentralized and distributed computing with the help of diversified devices allowing for spontaneous connectivity. Computers will become invisible to the users awareness and exchange of information between devices will effectively defy users control. The objective of this conference is to develop new security concepts for complex application scenarios based on systems like handhelds, phones, smartcards, RF-chips and smart labels hand in hand with the emerging technology of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Particular topics include but are not limited to methods and technologies concerning: · the identification of risks, · the definition of security policies, and · the development of security and privacy measures especially cryptographic protocols related to the specific aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing like mobility, location based services, ad-hoc networking, resource allocation/restriction, invisibility and secure hardware/software platforms. Important Dates: Submission of papers: October 15, 2004 Notification: December 15, 2004 Camera ready copy: January 15, 2005 Conference: April, 6 - 8, 2005 Submissions: We welcome the submission of papers from the full spectrum of issues associated with security in pervasive computing. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. The accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes Series on Computer Science (LNCS). Papers should be at most 15 pages total (Springer LNCS style). The paper should start with the title, names of authors and an abstract. All papers must be submitted electronically. Details will be published on the web page of the conference http://www.spc-conf.org Location: The conference will be held at an old former monastery in Boppard, Germany. Boppard is a nice small town located in the rhine valley about one hour away from Frankfurt airport. Organisation: The conference will be organised jointly by - Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Program Committee: N. Asokan (Nokia Research), FI Michael Beigl (University of Karlsruhe), DE Sonja Buchegger (EPFL), CH Dieter Hutter (DFKI) (co program chair), DE Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories), US Paul Karger (IBM Watson Research), US Dennis Kügler (BSI), DE Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Lab), US Takashi Moriyasu (Hitachi Ltd), JP Günter Müller (University of Freiburg), DE Panos Papadimitratos (Cornell University), US Joachim Posegga (University of Hamburg), DE Yves Roudier (Institute EURECOM), FR Frank Stajano (University of Cambridge), GB Andrei Serjantov (The Free Haven Project), GB Werner Stephan (DFKI), DE Seiji Tomita (NTT Information Platform Laboratories), JP Markus Ullmann (BSI) (co program chair), DE From: David Sewell Subject: XML (TEI) Programming Job at Virginia Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:16:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 322 (322) Title: Information Technology Specialist II (Programmer/Analyst) Working Title: Programmer/Analyst and XML Designer The Electronic Imprint of the University of Virginia Press publishes new digital scholarship via the World Wide Web, with underlying data stored primarily in XML. This position will require the candidate to analyze collections of richly tagged XML documents; design, write, and modify programs to search, query, retrieve and display them; and design HTML-based interfaces to the published texts. The successful candidate will have experience in creating and editing XML documents and in using a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, schemas, XPath, XSL), as well as good familiarity with standards-compliant HTML. Experience writing XSLT programs is strongly desired. The candidate must have a demonstrated ability to learn programming skills quickly, as this position will require use of the developing XQuery language. Experience in any or all of the following areas would be assets: Web design and programming technologies (especially CSS, Javascript, Java, PHP); high-level programming languages for text manipulation (especially Perl; or Python, Ruby); humanities computing, especially the Text Encoding Initiative; database programming (especially SQL, FileMaker Pro); Unix/Linux systems, including program installation and configuration, shell programming, editors and text utilities; manipulation of digitized images. The candidate must be capable of both team and individual programming, and should have strong communication skills and the ability to document his or her work in clear written English. For application instructions, please refer to: http://as400.hrs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/db2www/jobs/ucdet.mac/details?jobcode=J05CC&jva=PV%20UPR%20J05CC%20001 For further information, please contact David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager, EI, University of Virginia Press, dsewell_at_virginia.edu. -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Email: dsewell_at_virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://www.ei.virginia.edu/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: speaking Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:28:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 323 (323) Dear colleagues, At the beginning of the teaching term, thoughts turn to public speaking and listening as well as to much sorting through files for this and that. In the process I ran across a useful essay by Paul N. Edwards (Michigan), "How to give a talk: Changing the culture of academic speaking", online at http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/acadtalk.htm. You may also wish to check out his other work, esp in the history &c of computing, listed at http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Sandhya Sundaresan Subject: The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:04:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 324 (324) The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Call for Papers The 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place FEBRUARY 25-27, 2005 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. INVITED SPEAKER: Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Gerund constructions within a universal theory of categories. *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP (New!): Anthony Kroch et al. (University of Pennsylvania): Syntactically annotated corpora: What, Why and How? *************************************************************************** SUBMISSIONS: Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions. Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced, in 11-pt. font. An additional page may be used for references and tables. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract. To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a .pdf file. If you cannot create .pdf files, you may submit a .doc, .rtf, or .txt file, and we will convert it for you. However, since phonetic fonts are not likely to output correctly, we ask that you set up a legend using standard ASCII characters. An online abstract submission form will soon be available at the PLC website, http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submissions due: November 8, 2004. Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 17, 2005. PROCEEDINGS: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Email plc29_at_ling.upenn.edu Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ Penn Linguistics Colloquium Department of Linguistics 619 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 This event is supported by funding from GSAC, the Graduate Student Association Council of the University of Pennsylvania. Best, the PLC 29 Committee From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.236 speaking well Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:03:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 325 (325) Coincidently, there's a long comment thread on my blog about advice to graduate students for giving their first conferences papers: <http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000644.html>http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000644.html I posted it just the other day and reference the same piece by Edwards, which I agree is excellent. Matt Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum <http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/>http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: The Face of Text Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:11:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 326 (326) Dear all, This is to remind you of the upcoming conference *The Face of Text* at McMaster University from November 19th to the 21st. We have extended early registration to October 8th. Topics covered include: Electronic Texts, Text Analysis, Text Visualization, and Culture and Text Technology The full list of abstracts is now up including those of the invited speakers and accepted papers. The program looks excellent. For more information see: http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/index.htm This conference is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 18.236 speaking well Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:11:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 327 (327) Greetings, On 2004 Sep 24 , at 12.30, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Might the title not be a little parochial: ``Changing the culture of humanities speaking'' might be better (if we can stretch the term to include social sciences and theology, perhaps). I can't speak for the other vices, but I'd think that in most of the rest of the academy, sitting down and reading a talk would probably be extremely attention-grabbing, through being so excitingly unorthodox. There is no claim to virtue, here. A sit-down, read, talk is largely impossible in much of the academy, since the necessary presence of equations and diagrams cannot be communicated other than visually. Thus one rather negative conclusion is that these talks persist in the humanities simply because they are possible. Edwards notes with surprise that ``Graduate students may actually learn it from their professors.'' Graduate students have little authority of their own; they can acquire authority by behaving as much like the other conferees as possible, even if this means boring their audience into submission; by the time they have enough authority to start being radical, their style is fixed. This `ecological' explanation puts the blame squarely on the community for permitting itself to be stunned by this, so that a ban on reading aloud -- changing the ecology -- would possibly change the high-status behaviour within an academic generation. Best wishes, Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: the logical and the material Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:12:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 328 (328) Allow me to recommend to your attention a beautiful, luminous article by the computer scientist R. W. Hamming, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics", American Mathematical Monthly 87.2 (Feb 1980): 81-90, accessible via JSTOR. (As some of you will know, his title is in reference to a paper by Eugene Wigner, "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13 (Feb 1960), but that's not the source of my enthusiasm.) The paper is almost entirely understandable by someone with only a sympathy for mathematics and a willingness to entertain the implicit question in his title. After reading it this evening I understood better what Northrop Frye meant when he referred to mathematics as the imaginative language of the natural sciences. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "J. Trant" Subject: Reminder: MW2005 Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2004 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:10:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 329 (329) Reminder: CALL FOR PAPERS. Deadline: September 30, 2004. Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005 Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ Proposals to deliver a peer-reviewed paper, host an on-line activity, demonstrate a museum Web project, present a pre-conference workshop, lead a professional discussion forum, offer a mini-workshop, or craft a session with a distinctive presentation format suited to your subject, are due this week. Submit your proposal on-line at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/call.html PROPOSAL REVIEW The program for MW2005 is selected by a committee of international experts in cultural informatics. All proposals are peer-reviewed. Written papers are required. The best papers appear in print in Museums and the Web 2005: selected papers from an international conference. All papers appear in on-line as part of the MW2005 site and on CD-ROM Proceedings. Past papers from all Museums and the Web conferences, since 1997, are available on-line. See http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html for links to individual years and to a combined list of speakers. [material deleted] From: Aimee Morrison Subject: Re: 18.241 speaking well Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:12:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 330 (330) hello all, i can't help but jump in here, conference presentations being something that routinely make me question my career choice. i have been to some good panels, that invigorated a project, or spurred new thinking. but most are really godawful dull. EVERYONE goes over time, and NO ONE every stops them. i'm running an ACH panel at the MLA this year, and the paperwork--from no less a personage than the MLA presiden--that threatens the breach of time protocols is as hysterical as the rules themselves are unheeded. clearly, all this is evil. nevertheless, i give prepared papers myself (reading from a script) and flatter myself that colleagues do not lie when they say i am even occasionally entertaining. [deleted quotation]i beg to differ. the humanities (at least english, my disciplinary home) is belle-lettrist in orientation. our 'diagrams' consist of syntactical elements: you draw formulas, i arrange words. the words and their order are important, and so i write it down. most of us ramble less when things are written down, too. the main problem with scripting a talk is that most people don't seem to consider them scripts, but rather pre-prints or drafts of a longer unfinished piece for publication. it seems an important point to make, but listening to a speech is different than perusing an article. you need to write less-complicated sentences. or rework them. hypothetical example article: "the movie's box office revenues, something different from later reports of world-wide, all-media slase, exceeded expectation by a factor of 10." conference: "The movie's box office revenues were 10 times larger than expected. That's box office--I'm not taking into account later overseas receipts or rental revenues or DVD sales. 10 times larger than expected." the trick, as i see it, is to remove parenthetical clauses, be more conversational, and repeat key information. i can script all of that quite easily. it's not the written paper that's evil, it's the article-read-as-a-paper that's soul-killing. [deleted quotation]hear hear. i couldn't agree more. i used to torture myself as a junior graduate student because people kept exclaiming in wonder about my clarity. i honestly thought (from available evidence) that this must mean 'simplistic' or 'stupid'. i had a brave supervisor who held me to the path of clarity. there but for the grace of god. now i have a tenure-track position, and i'll be as clear and conversational as i damn well please! :-) [deleted quotation]yay again. all of us who teach, and who require oral presentations as part of our courses ought to make good and sure we're teaching good habits (as opposed to, 'if i go10 minutes over time, professor softy will give me better grades 'cause i worked harder). and when we're panel chairs, for the love of pete, cut people off! i like to go to conferences, and when i don't understand what people are saying, i ask them to clarify. let's call a confusing spade a confusing spade. i also walk out when sessions go overtime. my brain hurts and i usually have to pee. phew. sorry to rant (well, no i'm not, not really ...) aimee ----------------- Aimee Morrison, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of English Language and Literature University of Waterloo From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.30 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:14:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 331 (331) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 30 (September 29 - October 5, 2004) VIEWS Reflecting On The Profession: Who Is The IT Professional? 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For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ You may also unsubscribe online, at https://gosling.acm.org/ubiquity_sub/unsubscribe.cfm This method allows you to unsubscribe if the address you are subscribed with is a forwarding alias. An email confirming your removal will be sent to you by email. Not an ACM Member? Take advantage of our special introductory membership offer for ACM Ubiquity subscribers at: http://campus.acm.org/public/qjubiquity/joinacm2.cfm Please share this offer with your colleagues. Available to new members only. From: Jonathan Koomey Subject: New book: Show Me the Numbers Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:13:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 332 (332) Readers of the critical thinking skills list may be interested in a new book from Analytics Press called Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few (1st edition, Sept. 2004, ISBN 0-9706019-9-9). It is the first comprehensive and practical guide devoted entirely to the graphical display of quantitative business data, and it's nicely designed and illustrated. As most on this list will know, there are a lot of examples of poor graphics resulting in bad business decisions. In this book, Few has synthesized and extended key lessons from the more theoretical work of Edward Tufte and others, as well as those from his own 20 years of experience in the business intelligence industry. For more details, go to <http://www.analyticspress.com>http://www.analyticspress.com. To buy the book, go to <http://www.analyticspress.com/buy.html>http://www.analyticspress.com/buy.html. To contact Stephen Few directly, you may email him at sfew_at_perceptualedge.com. Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D. <http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html>http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html Table of Contents for Show Me the Numbers 1. Introduction The use of tables and graphs to communicate quantitative information is commonplace in business today, yet few of us who produce them have learned the design practices that make them effective. This introductory chapter prepares the way for a journey of discovery that will enable you to become an exception to this unfortunate norm. · Purpose · Scope · Intended readers · Content · Communication style 2. Numbers Worth Knowing Quantitative information forms the core of what businesses must know to operate effectively. The current emphasis on business metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and Balanced Scorecards demonstrates the importance of numbers in business. The messages contained in numbers are communicated most effectively when you understand the fundamental characteristics and meaning of the numbers that are commonly used in business, as well as the fundamental principles of effective communication that apply specifically to quantitative information. · Quantitative relationships · Numbers that summarize · Measures of money 3. Fundamental Concepts of Tables and Graphs Tables and graphs are the two basic forms for communicating quantitative information. They have developed over time to the point where we now thoroughly understand which works best for what type of information and why. This chapter introduces tables and graphs and gives simple guidelines for selecting one form over the other. · Quantities and categories · Tables defined · When to use tables · Graphs defined · A brief history of graphs · When to use graphs 4. Fundamental Variations of Tables Tables are structured according to the nature of the information they are meant to display. This chapter breaks tables down into their fundamental variations and gives simple rules of thumb for pairing your message with the best tabular means to communicate it. · Relationships in tables · Variations in table design · Table design solutions 5. Fundamental Variations of Graphs Different types of quantitative relationships require different forms of graphs. This chapter explores the fundamental variations of graphs that correspond to different relationships, and then teams these variations with the visual components and techniques that can be used to communicate them most effectively. · Encoding values in graphs · Relationships in graphs · Graph design solutions Practice in Selecting Tables and Graphs Learning requires practice. Through practice you will reinforce what you’ve learned by embedding it more securely in your memory, and strengthen your ability to make connections between the concepts we’ve examined and their application to the real world. 6. Visual Perception and Quantitative Communication Quantitative communication, especially in the form of graphs, is predominantly visual. Thanks to science, how you see is fairly well understood, from the initial stimulus that enters your eyes to the interpretation of the information in the gray folds of your visual cortex. By understanding visual perception and its application to the communication of quantitative information in particular, you will learn what works, what doesn’t, and why. This chapter brings the principles of visual design for communication alive in ways that are practical and can be applied skillfully applied to real-world challenges. · Mechanics of sight · Attributes of preattentive processing · Application of visual attributes to design · Gestalt principles of visual perception 7. General Design for Communication Based on an understanding of visual perception, you can build a set of visual design principles, beginning with those that apply equally to tables and graphs. The primary objective of visual design is to present content to your readers in a manner that highlights what’s important, arranges it for clarity, and leads them through it in the sequence that tells the story best. · Highlight the data · Organize the data · Integrate tables, graphs, and text 8. Table Design Once you’ve determined that a table should be used to communicate your message and the type of table that will work best, you must refine your design so the table can be quickly and accurately understood and used. · Structural components of tables · Best practices of table design Practice in Table Design Nothing helps learning take root like practice. You will strengthen your developing expertise in table design by working through a few challenging real-world scenarios. 9. General Graph Design The strong visual nature of graphs requires a number of unique design practices. The volume and complexity of quantitative information that you can communicate with a single graph are astounding but only if you recognize and avoid poor design practices that undermine your message. · Visual correspondence to quantity · 2-D limit 10. Component-Level Graph Design A number of visual and textual components must work together in graphs to communicate quantitative information. If these components are out of balance or misused, the message suffers. For each component to serve its purpose effectively, you must understand its role and the design practices that enable it to fulfill its role with precision and grace. · Data component design · Support component design 11. Design Solutions for Multiple Variables Graphs can be used to tell complex stories. When designed well, graphs can combine a host of data spread across multiple variables to make a complex message accessible. When designed poorly, graphs can bury even a simple message in a cloud of visual confusion. Excellent graph design is much like excellent cooking. With a clear vision of the end result and an intimate knowledge of the ingredients, you can combine them to create a whole that nourishes and inspires. · Combining multiple units of measure · Combining multiple graphs in a series Practice in Graph Design You’ve come far in your exploration of graph design. It’s now time for some practice to pull together and reinforce all that you’ve learned. Expert graph design requires that you adapt and apply what you’ve learned to a variety of real-world communication problems. Working through a few scenarios with a clear focus on the principles of effective graph design will strengthen your expertise and your confidence as well. 12. The Interplay of Standards and Innovation When you design tables and graphs, you face a multitude of choices. Of the available alternatives, some are bad, some are good, some are best, and others are simply a matter of preference among equally good choices. By developing and following standards for the visual design of quantitative information, you can eliminate all but the best choices once and for all. Doing so dramatically reduces the time it takes to produce tables and graphs as well as the time required by your readers to make good use of them. Doing so sets your skills and creativity free to be used where they are most needed. Appendices A. Table and Graph Design at a Glance B. Recommended Reading C. Adjusting for Inflation D. Constructing Paired Bar and Correlation Bar Graphs with Microsoft Excel E. Answers to Practice in Selecting Tables and Graphs F. Answers to Practice in Table Design G. Answers to Practice in Graph Design ______________________________ Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D. Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (currently on leave) Consulting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University P.O. Box 20313 Oakland, CA 94620 510-547-7860 Work/fax 510-654-9634 Home 510-708-1970 Cell jgkoomey_at_stanford.edu numbers_at_numbersintoknowledge.com <http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com>http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com http://www.analyticspress.com/ <http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html>http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html From: amblard_at_labri.fr Subject: Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistic Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:06:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 333 (333) Apologies for multiple copies / please redistribute to whom it may concern ************************************************* L A C L 2 0 0 5 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics -- fifth international conference --- 28-29-30 avril 2005, Bordeaux (France) http://lacl.labri.fr/ CNRS - INRIA -- Universités Bordeaux 1 & 3 ************************************************* Submission deadline: monday 3 january 2005 LACL conference series ---------------------- LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The proceedings of the international conferences LACL`96 ,LACL`97, LACL`98 et LACL`2001 appeared in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014, 2099) published by Springer. Topics ------ Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural language analysis, generation or acquisition. * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms * categorial grammars * minimalist grammars * dependency grammars * tree adjoining grammars * model theoretic syntax * formal language theory for natural language processing * data-driven approaches * logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog * discourse representation theory * Montague semantics * compositionality * dynamic logic * game semantics * situation semantics * generative lexicon * applications of these models to natural language processing * software for natural language analysis * software for acquiring linguistic resources * software for natural language generation * software for information extraction * question answering and human computer interaction in natural language * evaluation * scalability [material deleted] From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.244 speaking (not so) well Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:08:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 334 (334) I find sentences that don't begin with capital letters hard to read. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.236 speaking well Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:08:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 335 (335) Willard, To invoke a computer analogy, speaking well is not only a question of software, performance is also affected by hardware. It is perhaps worth noting that the essay by Paul N. Edwards begins with a reference to sight lines: The speaker approaches the head of the room and sits down at the table. (You can't see him/her through the heads in front of you.) http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/acadtalk.htm Some of the nodding off signalled by some commentators may have very little to do with a droning delivery style and much more with ventillation of the venue. Architecture does inflect reception. Consider the racked seating of a lecture hall versus the "in the round" of a seminar room. -- 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: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 18.241 speaking well Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:08:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 336 (336) My early conference experiences were with technology conferences, education conferences, or combinations of the two. Thus, when I attended my first History conference and someone remarked that they would be "reading their paper" in the first session, I assumed they were not being literal. Silly me. I was even more surprised to find that all the presenters actually read their papers, and that the audience seemed to accept this as the norm. The Edwards piece (http://www.si.umich.edu/~pne/acadtalk.htm) is quite welcome. I would divide two of his numbers in half (based on research presented at the above-mentioned education and technology conferences where the presentations were not read!): - if using a visual aid that is all text, the "5 or7" rule works best: no more than five to seven words per line, no more than five to seven lines per screen (and never, ever, read that text word for word!) - the number of minutes in a lecture/reading after which people's attention starts to wander? 15-20 at the beginning of the lecture/reading, with increasingly shorter time spans as the session continues As Norman Gray points out, these things are not unknown and have even been well-documented, especially in education circles that explore active learning techniques. They simply have not yet filtered into all areas of the academy. - hope.greenberg_at_uvm.edu, Univ. of Vermont From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: [humanist] 18.244 speaking (not so) well Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:09:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 337 (337) Hello, list, Quoting Aimee: [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation]Hear, hear. This, along with the discussion on Matt Kirschenbaum's weblog (http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000644.html), pinpoints something that has been bothering me recently: that written text and speech are often treated as entirely separate, written papers considered nigh-impossible to read aloud. These would *seem* to be the options: - write out an entire paper, and publish it in a journal; - write a detailed outline and present your talk in "living" language, referring to the outline; - give a talk that is almost entirely oral, perhaps jotting down a thing or two on an index card. But what about writing a monologue, dramatic tension and all, and training your(my)self as a performer? That's what we're doing at that podium, no? Why should the words die, or at least hibernate, the moment they hit the paper? -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Willard McCarty Subject: speaking not so well Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:12:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 338 (338) Much of my experience accords with Aimee's. I suspect one cause is the self-promotionalism that competition for jobs has brought about, the main purpose of giving a paper seemingly often to advance oneself as an object of attention. If something of some significance to the discipline gets said clearly enough to be understood along the way, well, that's an unexpected benefit. But I have enormous sympathy for those starting out now. I see what happens at close range, and it's very hard for me to think that much good comes of the uncertainty and consequent self-doubt induced by looking into the yawning abyss year after year after year. When one begins with attention-grabbing as the principle of selection, what do we expect to happen? The tenure system exacerbates the problem quite severely. If competition for tenure is severe, as it is in some places I know of, then attention-grabbing has to make room for colleague-pleasing -- and together they form a deadly pair. Who wants to be caught being clear under such circumstances? Also in my experience, however, very senior people are by far the easiest to chair: tell them 10 minutes or whatever, and they'll speak for that amount of time, and often very much to the point. There are a few whom one has to treat with the vaudeville hook, but these are the exception. Sufficient confidence and enough security to allow for the mind to relax -- providing one has selected for worthy people passionate about the work -- are good medicine indeed. (The other side of that coin is the smug complacency of those who have it made and know they have. But I don't suppose one can do much about that, except not to defer to those who exhibit it.) All this is very much our problem because what we have to be clear about doesn't start out that way at all, and it's all so recent that to make sense of it is particularly challenging. We deal with technical fields in which bibliographic responsibility is a near-foreign concept (and for good reasons we need to understand before passing judgement). We deal with ideas so smothered by hype that intellectual weed-control is one of our major tasks. We deal with expectations so coloured by socially mistaken ideas of service that getting the chance to make the intellectual point isn't as common as it needs to be. So we need to pay particular attention to the imperative to communicate and use each opportunity well. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Rafael Alvarado Subject: Job at Princeton Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:07:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 339 (339) The Academic Services department of the Office of Information Technology has an opening for a Humanities Computing Specialist for its Humanities Computing Research Support group (HCRS). Responsibilities will include the provision of technical support to faculty projects, the training of graduate assistants to these projects, and the maintenance of the HCRS portal. The Humanities Computing Specialist will participate in meetings with faculty to learn about the needs of specific projects, and will also join in various phases of software development. Some technical writing will also be required. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. (or ABD) in a humanities discipline and a background, formal or informal, in humanities computing. General familiarity is expected with the operating systems and architecture for both Windows and Linux platforms, scripting languages, database technologies and mark-up standards. THIS IS A ONE YEAR TERM POSITION. For more information, see "http://jobs.princeton.edu/openjobs/pu_jobdesc.asp?ReqNo=04-0003756". Rafael Alvarado Manager of Humanities Computing Research Support http://www.princeton.edu/hcrs Princeton University From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI (V5i3): Digital Libraries and User Needs Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:07:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 340 (340) Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future (Volume 5, issue 3, September 2004) Special issue Editors: Anita Coleman, University of Arizona, and Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado at Boulder From the special issue editorial: "Disciplinary communities such as earth science, biology, and neuroscience are focusing on the development of library collections and services aimed at providing real time and archival data to support the conduct of science and sharing of scientific results. Within the landscape of community-based digital libraries, an enduring challenge is 'negotiating the future' with diverse community members, i.e. establishing plans and strategies to guide future library technologies, collections, and services. In this context, design and planning requires organizations to take into account the day-to-day practices of individual users, and the needs and desires of the larger community as the library strives to reflect the values and long-term vision that the participants have for their community or academic discipline as a whole. "The purpose of this special issue is to consider the spectrum of approaches being used by different libraries and service providers as they negotiate the future with their user communities. At a time when a digital information future is increasingly certain, the news about users and their consumption of information in this digital future is troubling. Statistics for the past eight years show that even while the information supply is growing, the amount consumed is barely changing, and is in fact becoming a smaller fraction of what is produced. Digital library research, HCI or information design research and individual digital library projects will all benefit from the broader theme that this special issue highlights: the building of digital libraries in cooperation with how users are affected and how their use of information can be improved and transformed by the increasing information supply that the digital library or repository makes possible. " http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: L. Bartolo, C. Lowe, L. Feng, B. Patten (August 2004) MatDL: Integrating Digital Libraries into Scientific Practice http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Bartolo/ A. Bishop, B. Bruce, K. Lunsford, M. Jones, M. Nazarova, D. Linderman, M. Won, P. Heidorn, R. Ramprakash, A. Brock (August 2004) Supporting Community Inquiry with Digital Resources http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Bishop/ K. Foulke, N. Milnor, M. Watterworth, T. Wilsted (September 2004) The Power of Partnering: The Cooperative Creation of Digital Collections http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Foulke/ M. Khoo (September 2004) The Use of Visual Artifacts in the User-Informed Development of an Educational Digital Library Collection http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Khoo/ F. McMartin (September 2004) Case study: MERLOT: A Model of User Involvement in Digital Library Design and Implementation http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/McMartin/ S. Shreeves, C. Kirkham (September 2004) Experiences of Educators Using a Portal of Aggregated Metadata http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Shreeves/ -- From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.174 history of tools Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:30:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 341 (341) Willard, As you are ever intrigued by the implications of the metaphors we use, I want to signal the one employed by Geoffrey Rockwell when he wrote: [deleted quotation]I wonder if Humanist subscribers would care to muse upon the possibilities of re-characterizing "abandoned construction sites" as "ruins" -- in the Romantic sense, places for contemplation. Geoffrey's take on the problem with wikis and the thread on modes of delivering/reading papers leads me to ask about the value of the fragment as a genre in Humanities Computing: what is sharable when and how? -- 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: beste_at_mac.com Subject: Re: 18.248 speaking (& writing) not so well Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:31:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 342 (342) Hello Willard et al: I've been following bits on the "speaking (& writing) not so well" thread and would like to add the following observations / comments: 1.0 Let us assume that in the context of an individual delivering material of one sort or another to a group, the individual doing the delivery is "teaching" and the people in the receiving group are "learning". 2.0 In consideration of what we understand to be teaching and learning styles, we would hope that the adults to whom we deliver materials in one form or another are adult learners and can therefore discriminate between pedagogic and andragogic teaching and learning styles, thereby assigning value and worth to what is delivered (i.e., "If I am an adult learner with andragogic expectations for both my processing and understanding of what is delivered, and the methods by which material is delivered, how well does the delivery [the teaching] match what we hope to be the results [the learning]?"). 3.0 In parallel with 2.0 [above], we would hope that adults who deliver materials in one form or another can also discriminate between pedagogic and andragogic teaching styles, thereby 'tuning' their delivery to the expectations and needs of those who receive what is delivered (i.e., "If I am an adult presenter and am sufficiently self-aware of any flexibility in my presentation and teaching styles and sufficiently practiced and skilled in being able to adjust my presentation and teaching styles to match the expectations and learning needs of my audience so that what I intended to present is communicated efficiently and effectively, how well does my delivery [the teaching] match the expectations and generate the desired results [the learning]?" 4.0 "Deliver materials in one form or another" opens the door to thinking about what presentation tools are used to augment an oral delivery, how well such tools are used, and whether their use is effective. Visual aids such as the use of graphics via slides, overheads (and especially today, PowerPoint or Keynote) have been and are in common use. Bob Horn's "Visual Language" and Edward Tufte's "Envisioning Information" (and his other books) explore and explicate the fundamental significance of the three-way balancing act among clear thinking, clear oral presentations, and clear visual presentations. We are reminded of the problems that surround the potential misapplication of presentation tools in Clive Thompson's item in the New York Times (Dec 14, 2003) entitled: "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb". 5.0 This raises questions about the use of presentation tools generally, and which channels are used, both consciously and unconsciously (or, intentionally and unintentionally), by an adult teacher conveying information to adult learners. For example, if PowerPoint or Keynote is employed in a presentation, are such a tool intended as the primary channel for the message(s) being transmitted, or secondary, or tertiary, or other? Over-reliance or over-emphasis on a single channel (as in the case of over-use of PowerPoint, which would then be the logical default primary channel) coupled with a matching de-emphasis of what could be useful complementary channels, can radically alter both the content of an intended message and the manner in which that message is received and interpreted. Such alterations will, by default, shape the perceived and understood value, worth and utility of whatever is presented. 6.0 This returns us to the question of what it means to be either, or both, an adult learner and adult teacher. My argument is that necessarily we are both, and that both roles have considerable responsibility for effective learning. 6.1 As an adult teacher, I am compelled to be a reflective professional who thoughtfully plans his presentations in such a way that presentation tools chosen are used well and neither over- nor under-utilized, although choosing variations in emphasis of such tools from time to time can be very effective. Content and argument must be clearly and concisely laid out and organized so that points can be readily seen, followed and understood, critical thought is encouraged, and generative questions can be raised, all the while being underscored or emphasized appropriately through the use of whatever presentation tools are used. My chosen method(s) of oral delivery must match the nature of the audience, the content and structure of what is delivered, as well as (what I hope will be) the effects of my chosen presentation tools. I must also be vigilant in my receipt of formative and summative feedback from the group receiving my presentation. If, as I hold forth, everyone is nodding off and it's not a consequence of post-lunch syndrome coupled with excessive room heat, lack of ventilation or overcrowding, then I had best be very well-prepared to appropriately adjust my tone, pacing, use of anecdotes, physical proximity, gesticulation, enunciation, and other elements to which I have 'on the fly' access. If, when all is said and done and I have clearly invited comment or feedback and there is none -- or, if I am pelted with whatever has come to hand or am stormed at the lectern -- I had best be very well prepared to graciously receive invited feedback, and make very good use of same for the improvement of future presentations. 6.2 As an adult learner, I must be prepared to receive material and information being delivered in a variety of ways. If I perceive an over-emphasis on a particular tool or channel of presentation, I must consciously adjust my sensitivities to the 'suite' of tools and channels being employed so that I can extract maximum value from the communication. By the same token I must, where appropriate, be prepared to communicate with the presenter after the presentation not only to engage with regard to content but to methods by which content was presented. If, for example, I am disturbed or frustrated by an imbalance in presentation style and / or tools, but merely applaud politely when all is said and done and do nothing to provide constructive feedback to the presenter, then I have not been a fully responsible adult learner. I expect the same critical feedback from those who receive (or endure) my presentations whether that be in a conference format, seminar room or in the lecture hall; indeed, I would be presenting only to myself if I didn't expect and welcome such feedback; and, I would deserve such isolation. We can enjoy and rely on receiving great value from adult teaching and learning. However, reliance on engineered or default single-channel presentations, or engineered or default presentation circumstances where two-way communication is minimized or does not occur, does not reflect a learning environment design that acknowledges our responsibilities as adult learners and teachers. Nor does such reliance do much to acknowledge or encourage the full potentials of what adult teaching and learning can fully encompass. Warmest regards, Bob Este University of Calgary From: Aimee Morrison Subject: position at Waterloo (English) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:31:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 343 (343) dear all, some of you may be interested to apply for the following position at the University of Waterloo in the department of english language and literature--i've appended the ad below. i'm new to uwaterloo myself, but from what i can tell so far, the rhetoric and professional writing stream into which i was hired (and for which this position advertises) is an excellent place to be if you are an english phd whose interests fall outside traditional literary bounds. it occurs to me that many computing humanists have the kind of training and interest in rhetoric asked for in the ad. find out more about the university: <http://www.uwaterloo.ca>http://www.uwaterloo.ca find out more about the department: <http://www.english.uwaterloo.ca>http://www.english.uwaterloo.ca cheers! aimee ---------------- Aimee Morrison, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of English Language and Literature University of Waterloo English Language & Literature Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. We are looking for a colleague with expertise in one or more of the following areas: History and Theory of Rhetoric; Discourse Studies; Literary Theory. Complementary strengths in any area of Literature would be welcome. The successful candidate will be offered a wide range of teaching experiences from first- through fourth-year undergraduate courses to supervision of doctoral students. In addition to undergraduate programs in Literature and in Rhetoric and Professional Writing, our department offers the only PhD of its kind in Canada: an integration of literature with study in fields of rhetoric, writing, discourse and text analysis, and digital theory and design. The normal teaching load is 2 + 3, which includes one graduate course (of the instructor's design), and semesters are 13 weeks long. The minimum starting salary for Assistant is $58, 000 and for Associate $73,000. Please visit our website at <http://english.uwaterloo.ca>http://english.uwaterloo.ca for more information. Appointment effective July 1, 2005. The University of Waterloo is a research-intensive public institution, with the largest and most successful cooperative education program in North America. Year after year, in Maclean's Magazine national rankings, Waterloo is among the two or three top comprehensive universities in the country and, for 11 years in a row, has been named "highest quality," "most innovative", and "best overall" in the national reputational survey. The university is located in a mid-sized city, one hour from Toronto, fifty minutes from Pearson International Airport. Consideration of applications will begin January 3, 2005. Please send letter, curriculum vitae, and supporting documents (graduate transcripts, writing sample), and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to: Dr. Kevin McGuirk, Chair, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON N2L 3G1. Indicate in your cover letter if you will be attending the MLA convention in Philadelphia and would like to schedule a preliminary meeting. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples and persons with disabilities. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Latour on immutable mobiles Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:53:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 344 (344) Allow me to recommend to your attention the article by Bruno Latour, "Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands", Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present 6 (1986): 1-40. (This can be a hard item to find because the journal is not all that commonly available. ISSN: 0278-1557; BL shelfmark P.861/693.) Latour in essence argues that modern scientific culture has come about as a result not of changes in the mind or human consciousness but is a product of certain conceptual tools allowing many things to be brought together simultaneously without distortion to many places. He deals principally with the printing press (citing Eisenstein's study prominently) and with perspective drawing. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Peter Liddell Subject: ACH/ALLC 2005 Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:52:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 345 (345) Dear fellow computing Humanists I'm delighted to invite you to read about next year's ACH/ALLC conference on the newly-designed website at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ Today, October 1st, marks the opening day for submissions to the Program Committee, which you can do from this website. We look forward to seeing you in our corner of paradise next June. Peter Liddell Chair, Local Organizing Committee, ACH/ALLC 2005 -- ====================== Peter G. Liddell, PhD Professor, Germanic & Russian Studies, and Academic Director, Humanities Computing & Media Centre University of Victoria PO Box 3045, VICTORIA BC V8W 3P4 Canada ====================== From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Ruins and Grottoes Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:49:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 346 (346) Following on Francois' post asking about "the value of the fragment as a genre in Humanities Computing" I would also ask if anyone knows of fragmentary web sites that were deliberately created as fragments - to be the grottoes of the Internet. The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/ is one place to find old sites. Ghost Sties has essays and images of failed web sites http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/mef.shtml. But, can anyone think of fragmentary sites like follies - designed to look like ancient ruins? Geoffrey Rockwell From: "Anna M. DiStefano" Subject: 2004 CEMERS Conference,10/22-23 Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:50:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 347 (347) Below you will find the schedule and registration form for the upcoming Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) conference, which is being organized by Dana Stewart (Romance Languages, Binghamton University). (Room numbers to be announced; check the CEMERS website the week of the conference: http://cemers.binghamton.edu/) If you have any questions, please contact: Dana Stewart (stewart_at_binghamton.edu) or Ann DiStefano (adistefa_at_binghamton.edu). “Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY) Interdisciplinary Conference, October 22-23, 2004 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2004 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-10:30 am ***********1st GROUP OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS********** a-------Medicine and Rhetoric Julie Singer Duke University “‘Sa clarté premiere’: Cataract Removal as Metaphor in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry” Kerry A. Kautzman Alfred University “Teresa de Cartagena’s Use of Medical Discourse” Victoria Rivera Princeton University “Knowledge as Cure: Miscellanies and the Spreading of Medical Concepts in Early Modern Spain” b-------Fear, Obedience, and Knowledge in Medieval Theology and Society Stephen Butler Murray Skidmore College “Beyond the Limitations of Philosophy Alone: The Fear of God as a Necessary Means of Understanding Human Nature in the Works of St. Bonaventure” Michael Vargas Fordham University “The Rehabilitation of Obedience: Administrative Science in the Fourteenth-Century Order of Preachers” Nancy McLoughlin Willamette University “Personal Narrative and the Systematization of Knowledge in the Thought of Jean Gerson” c-------Science of Images, Images of Science: Early Modern Italy Charles Carman Buffalo University “The Role of Minerva and Narcissus in Alberti’s della Pittura: Humanism and ‘Science.’” Barnaby Nygren Loyola College of Maryland “Commo vera scientia: Piero della Francesca and the Problematic Science of Perspective” Cosimo Calabrò Independent Scholar “…perche’ dall’officina di questi secretari esce piu’ fumo che vivande: Images of Charlatans, Alchemy, and Medicine in Early Modern Italy” d-------Vision and Wisdom in the Early Middle Ages Gregory Harwell Princeton University “Vision Literature and the Visual Arts in the Age of Bede” Helene Scheck SUNY Albany “Wisdom, Knowledge, and Empire in the Work of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim” e-------Sexuality and the Gendered Body in Representation Suzanne Kocher University of Louisiana at Lafayette “Gay Knights in Medieval French Fiction: Constructs of Queerness and Non-Transgression” Dora Polachek Binghamton University “Sexuality Gone Awry: Brantôme’s Dames Galantes Dilemma” Gayle Whittier Binghamton University “The Tension between the Anatomy and the Portrait in King Lear” 10:30-10:45 Coffee 10:45 Welcoming remarks: Peter Mileur, Dean of Harpur College 11:00-12:00 **********PLENARY TALK********** Carol Bier Textile Museum, Washington, D. C. “Number, Shape and the Nature of Space: Geometry and the Spatial Dimension in Islamic Art” 12:15-1:15 Lunch 1:30-3:00 **********2nd GROUP OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS********** a-------Islamic Thought and Theology Yekaterina Khachatryan Yerevan State University “The Image of Satan in Early Persian Sufi Hagiography” Mehmet Karabela McGill University “Into the Darkness: The Stagnation of Islamic Theology (1258-1850)” Gulay Yarikkaya McGill University “Ottoman Adoption of Military Science from the West: The Islamic Legitimization for the Occidentalist Reforms During the Early 18th Century” b-------Mathematics, Philosophy, and Interpretation Arielle Saiber Bowdoin College “Niccolò Tartaglia’s Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation” Sandy Macgregor Independent Scholar “Use of the Bethluisnion Alphanumeric Device to Encode Plain Text in Gaelic Poetry” Daniel Selcer Duquesne University “The Edges of Extension and the Limits of the Text: Leibniz, Materiality, and History” c-------Science in and around Dante Maria Adelaide Basile Independent Scholar “Cecco D’Ascoli vs./Dante: A Medieval ‘Querelle’” Elizabeth Drake-Boyt Florida State University “The Living Body of Dante’s Inferno” Elena Lombardi McGill University “Grammar and Physics in Paradiso II” d-------Francis Bacon: Science, Religion, and Truth Jeff Cordell University of Virginia “Error and Heresy from Adversus Haereses to The Advancement of Learning” Lauren Klein City University of New York “To Mine for Truth: The Metaphor of Mining in Francis Bacon’s Great Instauration” Dora Rice Hawthorne University of Chicago “Figuring the Fall in Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning” e-------On the Tracks of Nature: From the Bestiary to the Enlightenment Kay Etheridge Gettysburg College “Loathsome Beasts: Images of Reptiles and Amphibians in Art and Science” Marian Polhill University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras “Constructions of Gender and Class in a Late Fifteenth-Century Alemannic Pharmaceutical Bestiary” Michael D. Cunningham University of Connecticut “Letters, Fossils, and the Flood: Antonio Vallisneri’s Of marine bodies found on Mountaintops” 3:00-3:15 Break 3:15-4:45**********3rd GROUP OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS********** a-------Gender and Rhetoric in Christine de Pizan Donald Bruce University of Alberta Christine McWebb University of Waterloo “The Science of Rhetoric in the Works of Christine de Pizan: an Epistemological Inquiry” Kimberly Lucci Rutgers University “‘De femme en homme tresmuee’: (De)constructing Gender in Christine De Pizan’s La Mutacion de Fortune” b-------Science, Signs, and the Bible Laurence Erussard Hobart and William Smith Colleges “At the Intersection of Science and the Bible: Women and Snakes in Old French Arthurian Romance” Kirsten A. Fudeman, Ithaca College Mayer Gruber, Ben-Gurion University “The Semantics of ‘World’ and the Nature of God’s Kingship in Biblical and Liturgical Translations of the Middle Ages and Renaissance” Mariele Nientied Johns Hopkins University “Names of God and their Theoretical Implications” c-------Poetry and Science in Italy: 13th-15th Centuries Federica Anichini Smith College “Bodily spirits in Cavalcanti sonnet XXVIII” Heather Webb Ohio State University “The Double Gendered Heart” Simon Gilson University of Warwick “Natural Science in Cristoforo Landino’s ‘Comento sopra la Comedia’ (1481)” d-------Conceiving Nature: Lapidaries and Herbals Rosemarie Morewedge Binghamton University “The Jewel in the Imperial Crown and Duke Ernest’s Fabulous Journey to the Orient” Brigitte Buettner Smith College “Visualizing Minerals: The Case of Alfonso the Learned’s Lapidario” Jean Givens University of Connecticut “Reading the Illustrated Tractatus de herbis: Information, Images, and Communication Design” 4:45-5:00 Break 5:15-6:15 **********PLENARY TALK********** Nancy Siraisi Distinguished Professor Emeritus, History, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center “Ancient Bodies and Renaissance Physicians” 6:30-7:30 Reception sponsored by Glenn G. Bartle Library, Special Collections 7:30 Banquet, Chenango Room SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-10:30**********4th GROUP OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS********** a-------Women’s Medicine Dawn Marie Hayes Montclair State University “Pregnancy and Childbirth in Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Sources” Fiona Harris-Stoertz Lady Eaton College, Trent University “Pregnancy and Childbirth in Chivalric Literature” Orlanda S. H. Lie Utrecht University “Genre Crossing: Lyrical Interludes in a Middle Dutch Tract on Women’s Medicine” b-------Perceptions of/and Knowledge Jerry Hackett University of South Carolina “Optics as a Model of Experimental Science: Roger Bacon and his Contemporaries at the University of Paris, 1260-77” Michael W. Twomey Ithaca College “The Typological Geography of Bartholomaeus Anglicus” Steve Philips Ghent University “History of Cartography in the Low Countries: The Arab Connection” c-------Scientific and Literary Authority in Early Modern Spain Beatrice Cruz University of Puerto Rico “Gender and Scientific Authority: Huarte de San Juan’s Examen de ingenios and Oliva Sabuco’s Nueva filosofia” Fernando Castanedo Smith College “Historicizing the Sublime: Dulcinea and Dido” d-------Science and Magic in Cinquecento Italian Literature Julia M. Kisacky Baylor University “Scorned Mother and Providential Father: Magicians as Parent Figures in Moderata Fonte’s Floridoro” Suzanne Magnanini University of Colorado “Science and Fairy Tale in Gianfrancesco Straparola’s Le piacevoli notti (1551-53)” Ita MacCarthy University of Durham “Imaginary versus Material Travels in the Italian Renaissance: The Case of Orlando furioso” e-------Space, Gender, and Magic in Early Modern England Sara French Wells College “Building Gender in(to) the Elizabethan Prodigy House” Teresa Burns University of Wisconsin- Platteville “This Magickal Book, Our Globe: John Dee, Cartography, and the Architecture of Shakespearean Theaters” 10:30-10:45 Coffee 10:45-11:45 **********PLENARY TALK********** Ronald Martinez Professor of Italian Studies, Brown University “Dante’s Sphere: Authorizing Vernacular scienze in Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura” 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:15-2:45 **********5th GROUP OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS********** a-------Astronomy across Cultures Alison Cornish University of Michigan “‘Not like an Arab’: Poetry and Astronomy in the Episode of Idalogos in Boccaccio’s Filocolo” Nancy Turner University of Wisconsin-Platteville “Jewish Astronomy, Christian Thinkers, and the University of Paris in the 14th Century: The Case of Themo Judei” Catherine Eagleton The British Museum, London “Telling the Time, Knowing the Universe: What Were Astronomical Instruments Really For?” b-----Technology and Science in Renaissance English Texts Elizabeth Oldman New York University “Technocrat of Gunpowder and Cannon: Satan’s Mechanical Contrivances in Paradise Lost’s War in Heaven” Berkan Ulu Hacettepe University “The Metaphysical Science: Scientific Innovations, Discoveries, and Cultural Developments in the Poems of John Donne and Andrew Marvell” Su Fang Ng University of Oklahoma “Medieval Arabic Philosophy and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe: Early Modern English Reception of Ibn Tufail’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan” c-------Text and Image in Early Modern Italy Leatrice Mendelsohn SUNY New Paltz “Leonardo’s Mirrors: Simultaneity in Sculpture and the Spectre of Relativity” Melinda Schlitt Dickinson College “Documenting Ideas: The Sixteenth-century Notebooks of the della Volpaia Family” Barbara Wisch SUNY Cortland “Le sette chiese di Roma (1575): Topographic Impressions, Devotional Strategies” d-------Exploration and the Recognition of the Other in the Early Modern World Alexandra Cuffel University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Does this smell okay to you? Hygiene and Invented Illness in Medieval and Early Modern Christian-Muslim travelogues” Margaret Kim St. John’s University “The Humanity of the Other in the Early Modern New World” Michael Wintroub University of California “The Voyage of Thought: Translations and Exhortations” e-------Observing the Plant World: Between Art and Science John B. Friedman Kent State University Salem Emeritus Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “The Impact of the Graphic Arts on a Fifteenth-Century French Manuscript Herbal” Andrea Bubenik Queen’s University “The Plant Illustrations of Hans Weiditz from the 1530 Herbarium” Elizabeth Hyde College of New Jersey “Tilling the Fertile Ground between Art and Science: The Literature of Early Modern French Floriculture” 2:45-3:00 Coffee 3:00-4:30**********6th GROUP OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS********** a-----Androgyne versus Hermaphrodite: Particular Construction of Gender in Renaissance Italy Jacqualine J. Dyess University of North Texas “Exemplary Women?: The Concept of ‘virtù donnesca’ in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata” Rossella Pescatori UCLA “Hermaphrodite and Cabalistic Androgyne in Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi D’Amore” Sergio Costola Southwestern University “Cross-dressing and Female Masquerade in the 1509 Performance of Ludovico Ariosto’s I Suppositi” b-------Medieval Circulations and Itineraries Martha Reiner Barry University, Nova University, and Miami-Dade College “Interactive Circulations of Sexual Exchanges Across Nations, Settlements, and Families in the Pearl Poem” Karen Elaine Smyth Queen’s University of Belfast “Discovering Chaucer’s Troilus in a Different Cosmological Sphere” Ashley Bourne J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College “The immappable world of our journey”: Medieval Dream Forms in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy” c-------Knowledge and the Body in the Enlightenment Amanda Pipkin Rutgers University "‘Just as amber attracts straw through unknown forces…’: Women’s Power and Rape in the Seventeenth-Century Northern Netherlands" Zahi Zalloua Whitman College “The Ethics of Inscience in Montaigne’s ‘Of Physiognomy’” Joanna Cruickshank University of Melbourne “‘The poison boil’d in every vein’: Charles Wesley and the Suffering Body in Eighteenth-century England” d-------Christian Roots: Medieval and Renaissance Art and Science: A Roundtable Discussion on Teaching Lisa Sweet Evergreen State College Frederica Bowcutt Evergreen State College e-------Bosch and Beyond: Netherlandish Painting Przemyslaw Kisiel Cracow University of Economics “The Social World in the Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch” Laurinda Dixon Syracuse University “Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Stone Operation’: Meaning, Medicine, and Morality” Jane P. Russell Corbett Queens University “Variations on a Theme: The Alchemist and Alchemy in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting” 4:30-4:45 Break 4:45-5:45 **********PLENARY TALK********** Monica Green Professor of History, Arizona State University “Dancing Babies and Literate Midwives: Fetus-in-Utero Images in the Middle Ages” 6:30-8:30 Cocktail Reception at the home of Dana Stewart CEMERS Conference Committee: Dana Stewart, Romance Languages; Charles Burroughs, Art History; Karen Barzman, Art History ________________________________________________________________ 2004 Conference Registration Form (Please use a separate form for each registrant. This form may be reproduced.) NAME____________________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS_________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ SCHOOL/AFFILIATION_______________________________________ PHONE NO. ____________________ FAX NO. ___________________ PRESENTER: yes__ no___ STATUS: Faculty__Staff__ Student__ Other____ $_____ $60 Registration Fee ($30 Graduate Students) $_____ $11 Buffet Lunch, Friday, October 22 $_____ $20 Chicken, $25 Salmon, $20 Fettuccine Primavera - Banquet Friday, October 22 (Circle Choice) $_____ $9 Cold Cut Buffet Lunch - Saturday, October 23 All meals include beverage and dessert $_____TOTAL PAYMENT ENCLOSED Please note that there will be no meals sold at the door. Make checks payable to CEMERS Acct#50305 (U.S. currency only). Return this form by Friday, October 8 to: Anna DiStefano, CEMERS, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000. Anna M. DiStefano From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.253 Latour on immutable mobiles Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:49:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 348 (348) Willard, See also Adrian Johns' critique of Latour (and Eisenstein) in his magisterial _The Nature of the Book_ (Chicago, 1998); particularly with regard to Latour's use of Tycho Brahe. And this online piece, "The elusive origins of immutable mobiles," is an excellent companion to the debate, and includes a response from Eisenstein herself: <http://www.stanford.edu/group/STS/immutablemobile.htm>http://www.stanford.edu/group/STS/immutablemobile.htm Matt Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum <http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/>http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- September 2004 Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:51:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 349 (349) CIT INFOBITS September 2004 No. 75 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... E-Learning Policy Examples The Multimedia Paradox Study Shows Laptops in the Classroom Improve Student Learning What Do Scholarly Authors Want? New Publications for IT Professionals and Students Online Course Content Repository [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: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 18.257 online ruins and grottoes? Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:19:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 350 (350) One thing closely related - there _are_ ruins on MOOs like post-modern culture moo, projects half-started, half-finished, with the authors long gone - it's eerie running around these spaces - Media MOO is another example - If a webpage _looks like_ a ruin, it isn't. Simon Mills and I did a website - http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/lost/ - the Lost Project for trace - which was designed to look like a 'failure' or mess. But the programming for this was extensive - to a view page.. - Alan On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]recent http://www.asondheim.org/ WVU 2004 projects http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/files/ recent related to WVU http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm partial mirror at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: [humanist] 18.257 online ruins and grottoes? Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:20:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 351 (351) Dear Geoffrey, Your question about fragmentary sites reminded me of one of my favorite pieces of web writing. It's The Fall of the House of Marsha by Rob Wittig, available here: http://www.tank20.com/MARSHA/ Rob is a writer and designer, whose net art has had a long history: he was one of the organizers of the Invisible Seattle Project, and later wrote about it in a book called Invisible Rendezvous: Connections and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing. The rest of Rob's work at tank20.com is also worth a look. Yours, -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: historical development of tools Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:21:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 352 (352) Dear humanists, Thank you for all the comments and suggestions for reading! To start with the practical matters, I am very happy for Geoffrey Rockwells offer to use the TAPoR Wiki for an information/discussion web for the history of tools (Humanist 18.174). I will contact him directly and we will hopefully post an address to the Humanist when something becomes available. If this will eventually develop into a history of text analysis, by someone with more knowledge and time invest in it than me, so much the better! And if it eventually becomes a ruin, as Francois Lachance suggests in Humanist 18.252, we would probably need some virtual archaeologists? Reading through articles, among them many of the ones suggested here, it is interesting to note the two different traditions running almost independently - the philologist/SGML/TEI/concordance based tradition in the humanities on one hand, and the social science qualitative text analysis/annotation/theory building systems on the other. And never shall the twain meet, apart from some references in articles? As historians (as a group) are in both of the worlds (in Norway, at least, the history departments seems to be placed in the humanities or the social sciences depending on the founding date of the various universities), they could use tools from both the traditions. They seldom use any. Some suggestions for reasons have been put forward in the last weeks, I will comment on one of Donald Spaeths suggestions from Humanist 18.136: [deleted quotation]The use of a single base source is a common methods in many fields of research. In literary studies, this is obvious - the text studied is the object of study. As I understand, research in the social sciences often follows a similar pattern, where the source is e.g. (transcriptions of) interviews or fieldwork (notes). In history, this is usually not regarded good research. As historical research is more event oriented (trying to understand and describe an event from every angle) one have to use several (in principle, all relevant) sources of information. Thus, there have traditional been a divided group of qualitative sources, some of them in digital form, many not digital. In this source situation, using digital text analysis might be seen as giving undue weight to some sources (the digital ones), selected out of coincidence only. This might be different in the future, and it should perhaps be different for contemporary historians? It could be that some historians would be interested in theory building methods offered by social science software, but as this is usually based on annotation of the source texts, they are hard to use if e.g. 80 % of the sources are in print only. So they extract information into databases or text documents instead, with weaker links between source and analysis as a possible result. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 5(3) online -- Special Issue: FQS Interviews I Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:22:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 353 (353) Dear All, we would like to inform you that the 16th Issue of the open-access journal "Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS) is now available online. The "Special Issue: FQS Interviews I" -- edited by Guenter Mey, Cesar A. Cisneros Puebla & Robert Faux -- provides 16 interviews with researchers, who have contributed to the development and promotion of qualitative research: Ron Chenail, Aaron Cicourel, Juliet Corbin, Bob Dick, Carolyn Ellis & Art Bochner, Ken Gergen, Mary Gergen, Gerhard Kleining, Janice Morse, Maya Nadig, Ian Parker, Judith Preissle, Michael Roth & Ken Tobin, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Anselm Strauss, Hans Thomae. From the editors: "Those scholars interviewed in this issue … must be seen as being 'on the road', leading the way for the rest of us. Among our hopes is that the next generation of qualitative researchers will be educated, amused, and, most importantly, inspired by these colleagues." As always, FQS 5(3) additionally contains selected single contributions, texts, belonging to the FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics," to FQS Reviews, and to FQS Conferences. We wish hopefully stimulating readings and discussions! Katja Mruck FQS-Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FQS 5(3) -- SPECIAL ISSUE: FQS INTERVIEWS I http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-04-e.htm Cesar A. Cisneros-Puebla, Robert Faux & Guenter Mey: Qualitative Researchers--Stories Told, Storied Shared: The Storied Nature of Qualitative Research. An Introduction to the Special Issue: FQS Interviews I http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-37-e.htm "The Future Is Here; It Is Just Not Widely Distributed Yet"--Adapted from William Gibson. Ron Chenail in Conversation With Marilyn Lichtman http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-11-e.htm "I Am NOT Opposed to Quantification or Formalization or Modeling, but I Do Not Want to Pursue Quantitative Methods That Are Not Commensurate With the Research Phenomena Addressed." Aaron Cicourel in Conversation With Andreas Witzel & Guenter Mey http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-41-e.htm "To Learn to Think Conceptually." Juliet Corbin in Conversation With Cesar A. Cisneros-Puebla http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-32-e.htm "In the Pursuit of Change and Understanding." Bob Dick in Conversation With Bob Williams http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-34-e.htm Building Connections in Qualitative Research: A Conversation With Carolyn Ellis and Art Bochner, by Stacy Holman Jones http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-28-e.htm "Thoroughly Post-Modern Mary" [A Biographic Narrative Interview With Mary Gergen, by Kip Jones] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-18-e.htm "'Old-Stream' Psychology Will Disappear With the Dinosaurs!" Kenneth Gergen in Conversation With Peter Mattes and Ernst Schraube http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-27-e.htm From Commercial Market Research to Academic Teaching--an Exceptional Professional Career. Gerhard Kleining in an Interview With Harald Witt http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-40-e.htm "Do More Theoretical Work …": Janice Morse in Conversation With César A. Cisneros-Puebla http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-33-e.htm "Constructions Arise in Active Involvement: This Is Why We Are Not Just Victims Slain and Cloned to Something Colorless by the Dominant Culture in the Process of Globalizing Itself." Maya Nadig in an Interview With Wolfgang Hegener http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-36-e.htm "This World Demands our Attention." Ian Parker in Conversation with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Ernst Schraube http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-14-e.htm The Coming of Age of a Qualitative Researcher: The Impact of Qualitative Research in Education Past, Present, and Future. Judith Preissle in Conversation With Robert Faux http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-20-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth & Kenneth Tobin: Cogenerative Dialoguing and Metaloguing: Reflexivity of Processes and Genres http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-7-e.htm Expanding the Action Repertoire of Societies. Hans-Georg Soeffner in Conversation With Jo Reichertz http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-29-e.htm "Research is Hard Work, It's Always a Bit Suffering. Therefore on the Other Side it Should be Fun." Anselm Strauss in Conversation With Heiner Legewie and Barbara Schervier-Legewie http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-22-e.htm The Individual and His/Her World in the Flux of Time: History and Biography in Psychological Research. Hans Thomae in Conversation With Juergen Straub http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-6-e.htm SINGLE CONTRIBUTIONS Yeslam Al-Saggaf & Kirsty Williamson (Australia): Online Communities in Saudi Arabia: Evaluating the Impact on Culture Through Online Semi-Structured Interviews http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-24-e.htm Gui-Young Hong (USA): Becoming a "Legitimate" Ancestor: A Sociocultural Understanding of a Sonless Jamnyeo's Life Story http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-19-e.htm Karl Kollmann (Austria): The Launch of the Euro in Retrospect--Insights From an In-Depth Evaluation Study in Austria http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-30-e.htm Joan K. Langlois, Richard H. Parrish II, Ronald Rupert & Dwain Daniel (USA): A Living History--A Qualitative Study of Experienced Chiropractors Treating Visceral Conditions http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-17-e.htm Eric J. López, Loretta Salas, Elsa Arroyos-Jurado & Kathleen Chinn (USA): Current Practices in Multicultural Assessment by School Psychologists http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-23-e.htm Brian Roberts (UK): Political Activism and Narrative Analysis: The Biographical Template and The Meat Pot http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-10-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Cognitive Phenomenology: Marriage of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-12-e.htm Milind Sathye (Australia): Leadership in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-26-e.htm FQS DEBATE: "QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND ETHICS" Anne Marshall & Suzanne Batten (Canada): Researching Across Cultures: Issues of Ethics and Power http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-39-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): (Unpolitical) Political Ethics, (Ethical) Unethical Politics http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-35-e.htm FQS REVIEWS Andrea D. Buehrmann (Germany): Review Note: Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig & Wolfgang Menz (Eds.) (2002). Das Experteninterview. Theorie, Methode, Anwendung [The Expert Interview: Theory, Method and Application] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-1-e.htm Lawrence J. Hammar (Papua New Guinea): Review Note: Klaus-Peter Koepping (2002). Shattering Frames: Transgressions and Transformations in Anthropological Discourse and Practice http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-25-e.htm Dagmar Hoffmann (Germany): Review Note: Nathalie Iványi & Jo Reichertz (Eds.) (2003). Liebe (wie) im Fernsehen. Eine wissenssoziologische Analyse [Love (like) on Television. An Analysis Based on the Sociology of Knowledge] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-8-e.htm Andreas Klaerner (Germany): Review Note: Sylvia Keim (2003). "So richtig deutsch wird man nie sein ..." - Junge Migrantinnen und Migranten in Deutschland. Zwischen Integration und Ausgrenzung ["You Will Never Be Truly German ... "--Young Migrants in Germany. Between Integration and Exclusion] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-13-e.htm Anja Naumann (Germany): Review Note: Reinhard Keil-Slawik & Michael Kerres (Eds.) (2003). Wirkungen und Wirksamkeit neuer Medien in der Bildung [The Impact and Effectiveness of New Media in Education] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-2-e.htm Kathrin Ruhl (Germany): Review Note: Jane Ritchie & Jane Lewis (Eds.) (2003). Qualitative Research Practice. A Guide for Social Science Students and Researchers http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-21-e.htm Mike Steffen Schaefer (Germany): Review Note: Andreas Loesch (2001). Genomprojekt und Moderne. Soziologische Analysen des bioethischen Diskurses [Genome Project and Modernity. Sociological Analyses of the Bioethical Discourse] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-15-e.htm Wilhelm Schwendemann (Germany): Review Note: Arnulf Deppermann (2001). Gespraeche analysieren. Eine Einfuehrung [Analyzing Conversations. An introduction] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-3-e.htm Eduardo Sarquis Soares (Brazil): Talking about Challenges of Being a Teacher. Review Essay: Woff-Michael Roth (2002). Being and Becoming in the Classroom http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-5-e.htm Volker Wedekind (South Africa): Review Note: Ardra L. Cole & J. Gary Knowles (Eds.) (2001). Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-4-e.htm Martin Welker (Germany): Review Note: Marianne Englert, Eckhard Lange, Heiner Schmitt & Hans-Gerhard Stuelb (Eds.) (2002). Vernetzungen. Archivdienstleistungen in Presse, Rundfunk und Online-Medien [Cross-Linkings. Archive Services in Press, Broadcast and Online Media] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-16-e.htm FQS CONFERENCES Leo Guertler & Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner (Germany): Conference Report: Fourth Annual Meeting of Qualitative Psychology. "Areas of Qualitative Psychology--Special Focus on Design" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-31-e.htm Willy Viehoever (Germany): Conference Note: Workshop on "Discourse--Knowledge--Culture" / Workshop on http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-38-e.htm INSIDE FQS Stefan Gradmann, Katja Mruck & Maximilian Stempfhuber (Germany): Refining the Semantics of Open Access http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-04/04-3-9-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 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: "Sean Gouglas" Subject: Humanities Computing Position at the University of Alberta Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:02:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 354 (354) Hello all, The Humanities Computing programme at the University of Alberta will be hiring another full-time, tenure track professor, as we are looking to expand and enhance teaching and research in the various fields that shape our discipline. I've appended the advertisement below and I would encourage any one interested in the position to apply. Thanks, Sean W. Gouglas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of History & Classics and Humanities Computing Web: <http://www.ualberta.ca/~sgouglas>http://www.ualberta.ca/~sgouglas E-mail: sean.gouglas_at_ualberta.ca FACULTY OF ARTS The 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, 2005, in the area of Humanities Computing. This position will integrate into the existing M.A. in Humanities Computing programme, now into its fourth year. The successful applicant will be associated with an allied department in the Faculty, and some related undergraduate teaching will be expected. The M.A. programme emphasizes computing research methods and critical thinking in the liberal arts and provides students with appropriate technical skills to 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, an understanding of how these methods contribute to restructuring or transforming the disciplines, and an appreciation of the potential of these methods for revisioning applications in computer science. Graduates are qualified to bridge the territory between computer specialist and project director or manager. More information on the M.A. in Humanities Computing is available at <http://huco.ualberta.ca/>http://huco.ualberta.ca/ Applicants will present demonstrated evidence of excellence in the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of research on the application of cutting edge approaches to humanities disciplines. Principal areas of investigation may include: knowledge representation; visual communication design; new media; hypertext; text corpora; text encoding and analysis; computational linguistics; statistical models; and broad library and research-based work that focuses on significant issues of textuality; interfaces; and information browsing and retrieval. In short, applicants should be involved in work that offers innovative and substantial applications and uses for humanities computing-based teaching, research and practice. An application package, including: a letter of application; a curriculum vitae; copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts; and the names, institutional addresses and email addresses of three references who have been invited to write on the applicant's behalf, should be sent to: Dr. Rick Szostak, Associate Dean (Academic) Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5, Phone: 780-492-9132 Email: rick.szostak_at_ualberta.ca. The closing date for applications is: January 14, 2005. 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. The records arising from this competition will be managed in accordance with provisions of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP). From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: sabbatical positions Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:02:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 355 (355) A few temporary sabbatical research positions may be available starting in the interval May 2005 - March 2006 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the group is: <http://www.grlmc.com>http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm The eligible topics for them are the group's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Nanoscience and nanotechnology (in connection with biomolecular computing). - Language and speech technologies. - Language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. This list is not exhaustive, so that other connected fields might still be eligible provided there exists a strong enough candidate. All the positions will be filled in under the form of a scholarship (rather than a work contract). There are two tracks: Track A: - PhD degree obtained earlier than 1999, - not having occupied any sabbatical position in Spain since 1999, - duration: 3-12 months, - monthly salary: in the interval 2112-3100 euros, likely in the highest part of the interval (depending on merits and before taxes; for the citizens of most countries an inter-countries agreement for avoiding double taxation will be applied, what involves that in most cases the mentioned salary will not be taxed in Spain), - travel grant of up to 3000 euros, - health insurance for the researcher and her/his family. Track B: - PhD degree obtained later than 1998, - not having occupied any sabbatical position in Spain in the past, - duration: 9-18 months, - monthly salary: in the interval 1300-2350 euros, likely in the highest part of the interval (depending on merits and before taxes; for the citizens of most countries an agreement for avoiding double taxation will be applied, what involves that in most cases the mentioned salary will not be taxed in Spain), - travel grant of up to 3000 euros, - health insurance for the researcher and her/his family. Expressions of interest for any of the tracks are welcome until October 11, 2004. A preselection will be done then. The application process will take place later. Carlos Martin-Vide cmv_at_astor.urv.es From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Philosophies of Teaching and Learning (was: speaking & Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:01:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 356 (356) writing) Bob Este at Calgary posted a thoughtful examination of issues of teaching and learning styles. His post connected with issues I constantly think about this semester. Here are some clearly biased reflections on related topics. As a French-speaking Quebecker teaching in the American MidWest, I need to be acutely aware of cultural differences in not only teaching and learning styles but also basic teaching and learning philosophies. For instance, in terms of broad format, lecturing and group work seem to have different values in those two contexts: long interactive lectures seem more prominent in Quebec while in-class group work seem more prominent in Indiana. In turn, these formats relate to student and instructor responsibilities. In one context, students are expected to use a variety of their own learning strategies with regards to one specific teaching strategy (interactive lecture) while in the other, the instructor is expected to use a variety of teaching strategies so that students are led to use a variety of learning strategies. Ultimately, these points relate to the very definition of the concept of learning. Important questions on this topic include: Should all students learn the same thing? Do they need to know specific aspects of the material or should they understand broad issues of the class? Is the classroom the main location for learning? Are instructors responsible for their students' learning? Obviously, the broad philosophies behind these differences "work" equally well in their given contexts. Because one person's behaviour is probably easier to change than several people's implicit ideas, what might be most important here is for instructors to connect to their learners' expectations. But even this type of adaptation might not be so easy. Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: "Michael Gurstein" Subject: Journal of Community Informatics: Inaugural Issue Date: October 4, 2004 6:48:41 AM CEST X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 357 (357) Cc: Reply-To: mgurst_at_vcn.bc.ca The Journal of Community Informatics <http://www.ci-journal.net/>http://www.ci-journal.net/ (JoCI) is pleased to announce the online availability of its Inaugural Issue <http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php>http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php . JoCI is a peer-reviewed Open Archive on-line quarterly journal for and by the Community Informatics research community and produced under the auspices of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) <http://www.ci-research.net>http://www.ci-research.net This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members of the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through position papers, scholarly papers and other materials. The issue includes: An introduction (in part through video) to the work of K-Net, an aboriginal group in Northern Canada which is innovating in the use of ICT for education, for administration, for health and perhaps most importantly, is demonstrating the way in which ICT truly can enable AND empower communities to move beyond traditional barriers and impediments to find a new and more equitable role in the Information Society. (Beaton) A description of an ambitious current research project examining the impacts and outcomes of government support for community technology in Canada with an overall objective of providing insight toward the future of such programs and their impact on the larger society (Clement, Gurstein, Longford, Luke, Moll, and Shade) A presentation of a most important rural ICT initiative whose current success is transforming large areas of rural India (Jhunjhunwala, Ramachandran, and Bandyopadhyay) An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed Country (South Africa) as a base for a highly innovative program of CI for community transformation (Erwin and Taylor) A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might go from here by three key actors in these developments. (Menou, Delgadillo and Stoll) A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of ICT in the context of Human Capital development and giving most useful directions for future research as well as community practice towards this end. (Pigg and Crank) A most original and insightful critique of current thinking and approaches to ICT for Development (Robinson) A path breaking approach to applying an analysis drawn from the methods and insights of Social Anthropology to ICT design and development as a response to rural poverty (Salvador) A brave and insightful analysis of the opportunities and risks that are attendant to ICT in a most important but largely unknown part of the world. (Stafeev) and A document presenting the current "state of play" for a leader in supporting ICT use by women in local communities (Webb and Jones) . The second issue which will appear January 1, 2006, will consist of peer reviewed papers on "Sustainability and Community Technology" presented at the recent CIRN Prato conference <http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences>http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences on this subject. The papers will be revised and edited as per conference feedback and a second round of peer reviews. The third issue scheduled for April 1, 2006 is currently soliciting articles <http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php>http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php. The fourth issue, scheduled for July 1, 2006 has the tentative theme "Gender and Community Informatics" and will be edited by Lesle Reagen Shade of Concordia University. Each issue will include, in addition to peer reviewed articles, a Review section, documents and reports of CI significance, and commentaries on peer reviewed papers by leading CI practitioners and those with a policy interest in CI and related matters. The Editorial Board (for the Inaugural Issue) Editor-in-Chief Michael B. Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Editor: Reviews Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK Editor: Latin America and the Caribbean Michel J. Menou, France Editor: Information Systems Research Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Editor: Rural and Remote Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South Africa Editor: Layout and Design Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia Editorial Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Lishan Adam, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Carlos Afonso, Rede de Informacoes Para o Terceiro Setor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Barbara Craig, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Joan Durrance, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, USA Susana Finquelievich, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India Herbert Kubicek, University of Bremen, Germany Brian Loader, University of Teeside, Middlesborough, UK Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados Michel Menou, France Kenneth Pigg, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Madanmohan Rao, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Singapore Scott Robinson, Universidad Metropolitana, Mexico DF Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR, USA Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA Leslie Shade, Concordia University, Dept. of Communication Studies, Montreal, Canada Yero Sylla, University of Senegal, SAFEFOD, Dakar Senegal Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South Africa Victor Tischenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Peter van den Besselaar, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Review Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Brian Beaton, Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net), Sioux Lookout, ON, Canada Donald Cameron, Australia Richard Fuchs, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada Beris Gwynne, Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia Klaus Stoll, President, Fundacion Chasquinet, Ecuador Susan Webb, Community Development Foundation, London, UK _______________________________________________ incom-l mailing list incom-l_at_incommunicado.info <http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/incom-l>http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/incom-l Maja van der Velden <http://www.globalagenda.org>http://www.globalagenda.org _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.31 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:49:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 358 (358) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 31 (October 6 - October 12, 2004) INTERVIEW Frans Johansson on the Medici Effect By exploring the intersections between different disciplines and cultures, one may discover the next groundbreaking ideas. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i31_johansson.html From: David Green Subject: Knowledge Culture Bulletin. Oct 6: FCC+IMLS Broadband Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:50:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 359 (359) Symposium KNOWLEDGE CULTURE BULLETIN FCC + IMLS Sponsor Broadband Symposium Thursday October 6, 9am-4pm http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/#oct6 ************************************* Symposium, "Unleashing the Educational Power of Broadband," sponsored by the FCC and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will be held at FCC Headquarters, Washington, DC, Thursday October 6, 9am-4pm The symposium will be webcast at: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/#oct6 "Broadband offers new ways for museums and libraries - with their massive holdings, carefully curated exhibitions and experiences, trained and knowledgeable professionals, and educational programs to contribute to effective learning at home, at school and in the workplace." Dr. Robert Martin, Director, Institute for Museum and Library Services AGENDA 9:00 Welcome * Sarah E. Whitesell Associate Chief, Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis, FCC * Opening Remarks Chairman Michael K. Powell, FCC 9:10 Demonstration: The Power of Broadband in Learning * Douglas Levin Director of Education Policy, Cable in the Classroom 9:25 Remarks Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy, FCC 9:30 Remarks Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein, FCC 9:35 Panel I: Integrating Technology Into the Learning Environment * Opening Remarks Moderator Robert Martin, Ph.D., Director, IMLS Panelists: * Darryl LaGace, Director, Information Systems, Lemon Grove School District, California * Cynthia Stout, Ph.D., Curriculum Content Specialist, Jefferson County Public Schools, Colorado * Ed Vandertook, Executive Director, Mountain Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Colorado * Pam Berger, M.L.S., Library/Education Technology Consultant, DataSearch Group, Inc., New York 11:00 Break 11:10 Demonstration: Lemon Grove School District Turned On * Darryl LaGace, Director, Information Systems, Lemon Grove School District, 11:30 Remarks Commissioner Michael J. Copps 11:35 Panel II: Using Technology to Meet the Diverse Needs of Lifelong Learners Moderator: Peggy O'Brien, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Educational Programming and Services, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Panelists: * Bruce Friend, Chief Administrative Officer, Florida Virtual School * Karen Warren, Director of Information Technology, American School for the Deaf, Connecticut * David D. Reilly, Technology Coordinator, Yupiit School District, Alaska * Carla Hayden, Ph.D., Executive Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Maryland 12:50 Presentation: BellSouth Foundation 1:05 Lunch Break 2:05 Demonstration: Building Big: The Power of Convergence in Learning * Michael Connet, Director of Education, Nortel Networks Kidz Online * Joel Holland, Host of Streaming Futures, Nortel Networks Kidz Online 2:25 Panel 3: Forging Alliances and Looking Ahead Moderator: Lisa Zaina Chief Executive Officer, USAC Panelists: * Joanne Steneck, General Counsel, Maine Public Utilities Commission * Hal Gardner, Director KAN-ED, Kansas * Anthony Wilhelm, Ph.D., Director Technology Opportunities Program, NTIA * Louis Fox, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Internet2 K20 Initiative & Vice Provost, University of Washington 3:40 Demonstration: Increasing Student Achievement with Videos on Demand * Paul Thomas Vice President of Marketing and Product Development, Discovery Education 4:00pm CLOSE ______________________ David Green, Ph.D. Knowledge Culture www.knowledgeculture.com davidgreen_at_knowledgeculture.com redgen_at_mac.com 203.334.6094 Subscribe to Knowledge Culture News From: Patrick Finn [mailto:patrickfinn_at_shaw.ca] Subject: CFP: The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:51:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 360 (360) Sent: October 5, 2004 8:52 AM To: Ray Siemens Humanities (12/15/04; 05/29/05 - 05/31/05) The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/ Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2005 Meeting of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities The University of Western Ontario, May 29 - 31, 2005 Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2005 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Particularly welcome are proposals that develop the idea of the networked citizen and the role of the Arts and Humanities in their work/lives. Further topics may include, but will not be limited to: - the web as network - the post-national citizen - humanities computing as an agora for multi-disciplinary engagement - the network and society, from an Arts and Humanities perspective - humanities computing and pedagogy - computing in the visual, musical, and performance arts - scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination - digital/electronic copyright issues - computing in multi-lingual and non-English environments - e-accessibility - ongoing humanities computing research involving materials in textual, oral/aural, visual, multi-media, and other formats - the paradoxes of standardization - humanities versus instrumental methods - the future of the humanities in computing The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation societies - and will feature special panels designed to emphasize communication across arts and humanities disciplines with a focus on the integration of the work of the computing humanist and the broader humanities research community. There is a limited amount of funding available to support a graduate student panel. Interested parties should inquire through the address below. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference. Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top of the front page: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusion. Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/ Session proposals and other inquiries may be emailed directly to Patrick Finn (St. Mary's University-College) and Alan Galey (University of Western Ontario): conference_at_coch-cosh.ca From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: grammar Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:48:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 361 (361) I have just been reviewing (looking at) a scholarly book, mainly translations. It has such items as: He had him hung. I know this is bad grammar, at least from the perspective of the old days. The author seems to have the same point of view, since he says elsewhere He had him hanged. Just between you and I, am I being too finicky (or is that finicking?) when I complain about such things? Is it worth a line? From: Mats Dahlström (by way Subject: Human IT CFP: Dynamic Maps Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:18:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 362 (362) CALL FOR PAPERS: DYNAMIC MAPS Human IT is a multidisciplinary, scholarly 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 web site, including author instructions and previous issues, is available at: <http://www.hb.se/bhs/humanit/>. We have now begun designing a forthcoming thematic issue on Dynamic Maps (DM), scheduled for release during 2005, and hereby invite contributions on this topic. As a field, DM is concerned with new developments in geographical information systems, information visualization and rich, interactive computer-supported representation without foregoing the role, history and tradition of non-digital maps. Dynamic maps offer ways of synthesizing material from many sources and representing them in multi-layered and interactive representations. These representations may be used in cultural simulations, social visualization or as integrated in other media and virtual environments. They may also be used artistically, non-geographically, for surveillance or in any of a multitude of instances where spatial data is available. The field is inherently multi-disciplinary and contributors may be concerned with specific representations, modes of presentation, artistic enterprises or questions of representation, context, history and philosophy. Contributions may relate to a broad range of topics including the following: Maps as ideas Dynamic representation Social visualization Geographical Information Systems Space-time representation Cybergeography The role of scale in dynamic maps Dynamic mapping and surveillance Maps in cultural simulations Mapping virtual worlds (and virtual worlds as maps) Dynamic maps in art Non-traditional ways of representing rich, complex spatial data Patrik Svensson at HUMlab at Umea University, Sweden, will act as guest editor. We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of DM before the deadline at December 31, 2004. The special issue will primarily feature material in the journal's open section, and manuscripts accepted by the editorial board and the guest editor will be published there. Authors who wish to be considered for the refereed section should specify this and will be considered by external referees. For further information, please visit our web site at <http://www.hb.se/bhs/humanit/>, or contact our guest editor Patrik Svensson at . Yours sincerely, Mats Dahlström, co-editor Human IT, . From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Re: 18.266 complaints about grammar Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:20:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 363 (363) I have just been reviewing (looking at) a scholarly book, mainly translations. It has such items as: He had him hung. I know this is bad grammar, at least from the perspective of the old days. The author seems to have the same point of view, since he says elsewhere He had him hanged. Just between you and I, am I being too finicky (or is that finicking?) when I complain about such things? Is it worth a line? From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.266 complaints about grammar worth the candle? Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:20:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 364 (364) Jim, I agree with you -- more importantly, so does the AHD -- here is their "Usage note" for the entry 'hang (v.)' -- [deleted quotation]sense of "to put to death by hanging," as in Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary trial. A majority of the Usage Panel objects to hung used in this sense I'd say it's worth dropping a line to the author, especially since his(?) own usage seems to vary. From: Paul Bergen Subject: Job Announcement in Humanities Computing from Harvard Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:22:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 365 (365) University Senior Specialist for Instructional Computing in the Humanities More information: http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=23754 The Instructional Computing Group (ICG. See http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/) of FAS Computer Services facilitates the integration of World Wide Web and multimedia instructional resources into instruction across the curriculum in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This position provides technical and pedagogic leadership in helping faculty and course staff to integrate electronic tools and materials into their teaching, with a particular emphasis on support for the humanities disciplines. The position works closely with faculty, teaching staff, and department administrators to determine which existing instructional computing resources will meet their pedagogical needs and/or to collaborate in the design and development of new online resources where necessary. The positoin participates fully in the activities of ICG's Instructional Design and Development team, including design and implementation of training and support programs, development of instructional design plans and usability studies, production of online and print documentation for instructors and colleagues, training and support for course staff who use ICG's Instructor's Toolkit to develop course Web sites, development and integration of interactive online tools, and promotion of ICG services and resources through presentations for department and course-based groups. A graduate degree in a humanities discipline is strongly preferred. Strong candiadtes will have at least three years of Web programming and/or design experience and significant experience teaching with technology and developing Web-based instructional resources. Candiates shoud have a demonstrated record of initiative in working with college-level faculty and course staff to support instructional uses of technology in a humanities field. Excellent knowledge of HTML, Perl, CGI, Flash, and other relevant WWW technologies and programming experience is desired. Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge of user interface design, usability and accessibility standards. Outstanding written and oral communication and presentation skills and strong skills in project design and work flow management are required, as are excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills and the ability to work in and lead teams. --------------------------------- Paul F. Bergen Senior Manager, The Instructional Computing Group FAS Computer Services Harvard University --------------------------------- From: Scott Sharplin Subject: Call For Papers Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:21:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 366 (366) CALL FOR PAPERS: The World Wide Weave Fourth Annual University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Conference January 21-22, 2005, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Deadline for abstract submissions: Monday November 15, 2004 The staff and students of the M.A. in Humanities Computing programme are pleased to announce the University of Alberta.s fourth annual humanities computing graduate conference, "The World Wide Weave," to be held January 21-22, 2005 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This conference will bring together students and scholars from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives to compare their theoretical and practical findings on the intersections between humanities scholarship and 21st century computing technology. Because humanities computing is an interdisciplinary field, proposals from all arts disciplines are welcome. 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 -Cyberculture -Technology and gender -Multimedia theory -Post-humanism and the virtual body -Sociology and politics of technology Presentations will average 20 minutes. .Smart Room. technology is available; however, please specify any unusual audio/visual considerations that may arise from your presentation. 300 word abstracts must be submitted by November 15, 2004. Please email your abstract as a MS Word, RTF, or WordPerfect attachment to: sms_at_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 programme, please visit: http://huco.ualberta.ca From: Jeff Allen Subject: INFO: new language technology software/system reviews web Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:19:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 367 (367) site INFO: new language technology software/system reviews web site Dear all, A new web site has been created recently with the goal of providing information on links to existing evaluations/reviews on language technology software/systems. http://www.geocities.com/langtecheval The site is currently focused more on various translation software and systems, with some entries concerning authoring software/systems. Please feel free to send me links to other known existing software / system reviews which can be added to the site. Regards, Jeff Allen jeff.allen_at_free.fr http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs From: Ed Finegan Subject: Re: 18.266 complaints about grammar worth the candle? Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:05:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 368 (368) Just between you and I and all the rest of us, it probably ain't worth a line unless you wanna seriously tackle language variation and change. Here is the usage note from the latest Merriam-Webster collegiate: "For both transitive and intransitive senses 1b the past and past participle hung, as well as hanged, is standard. Hanged is most appropriate for official executions *he was to be hanged, cut down whilst still aliveTand his bowels torn out — Louis Allen* but hung is also used *gave orders that she should be hung — Peter Quennell*. Hung is more appropriate for less formal hangings *by morning I'll be hung in effigy — Ronald Reagan*." Ed Finegan USC College University of Southern California Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: losing it Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:07:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 369 (369) Members of Humanist will be interested in the BBC Radio 4 programme, "Losing the Past", the first part of which was broadcast Wednesday 6 Oct 9-9.30pm, with the second part to follow 13 October at the same time. Ironically, given the theme of this programme, the now vanished occasion of the first part can be recovered digitally via the BBC Website from anywhere the Web reaches, and the second part will be available from the same location in a week's time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/losing_the_past.shtml. Following is the first paragraph from the page: [deleted quotation]My thanks to my colleague Brett Lucas for drawing attention to this programme. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: get a life (at random) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:32:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 370 (370) In this part of the world, the publication of the new Dictionary of National Biography has been not only noteworthy but also on the day noted on the evening television news and throughout the day on radio. The editor-in-chief appeared behind a large pile of the many volumes containing the 50,000 biographies. As many will know, it is also online, http://www.oxforddnb.com/, though one does have to subscribe or be in an institution that has subscribed for everyone within its domain. The online version has a clickable link so that you may "get a life at random". My colleague John Lavagnino alerted me to one of the many gems: this from the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein. [deleted quotation]As he said, the dream of all PhD students! 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: Re: 18.274 losing it Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:44:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 371 (371) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I'm interested in this last set of claims, particularly about the CDs. It seems to me this is open to the same challenge Nicolson Baker made against claims that "our newspaper heritage" was crumbling away and needed to be microfilmed (and later, digitised). The average age of a CD is supposed to be twenty-years? Aren't CD's about 20 years on the market now? I'm not aware of any massive failures, so I wonder how the average lifetime was determined. I recently wrote an article discussing the experience of (ironically enough) the BBC's problems with the Domesday book, which recently was said to be "unreadable" about 15 years after it was completed (it wasn't exactly unreadable, but it is certainly no poster child for data longevity), <http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/7/ecolumn.html>. As I point out there, however, the BBC's project is not entirely comparable to contemporary projects, however, due to a fundamental shift in approach to design that came with the separation of content and presentaiton. The BBC project was a custom-made machine: data, presentation, and hardware we (almost) inextricably linked. It was made just as the international standards we now use were begining to appear, and hence to early to take advantage of their robustness. I think it would be hard to create such obsolescence in a modern standards-based project. Early webpages--even non-standard ones using, for example, the Netscape blink tag, are likely to last much longer (although, interestingly, I think ones using s are now in trouble) This is not a claim that we should wreck everything so it can be digitised. But there is a remarkable amount of hyperbole on both sides of the discussion, I suspect. [deleted quotation]programme. [deleted quotation] -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: 1. Clear writing; 2. Loss of information Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:43:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 372 (372) Willard: In the introductory computer science course I taught for many years, students here held accountable for clear exposition of the semester-end project on which they were being graded. When they complained, I reminded them of the Shannon-Weaver work on information theory. I told them that, every time I had to reread or decode a piece of unclear writing, they were, in effect, reducing the signal-to-noise ratio. ======================== "Every day, we burn the Library of Alexandria," in terms of loss of media or at least the coding scheme for their contents. I wish I were smart enough to have thought of that phrase, but I do not know the source. GOOGLE failed me on this as well. Don _________________________________________________ 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: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Candidate RSS/Web Feeds for Library Services Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:45:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 373 (373) Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning about additional candidates for either/all of my registries devoted to RSS/Web feeds for enhanced library services 1. RSS(sm): Rich Site Services [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other types of Web feeds 2. eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm] eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals is a categorized registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds. Publisher-specific and vendor Web feeds are categorized in a separate category. 3. B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds.htm ] B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs is a categorized registry of sites that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds, to compilations, directories, lists, reviews, or other relevant sources for/or about academic or scholarly books or monographic works In addition, I am also interested in learning of key publications/ Web sites/tutorials for potential inclusion in my RSS(sm) General Bibliography [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm ] BTW: I will be giving a presentation at the Library of Congress titled "Seize The Feed: Content Syndication for Enhanced Governmental Information Services" [ http://www.loc.gov/flicc/ma/2004/ma0437.pdf ] on Monday, October 18, 2004, 12- 3, [Room 139, Madison Building]. This Brown Bag presentation is co-sponsored by the FLICC Content Management Working Grou [ http://www.loc.gov/flicc/ ] and the Science, Technology, & Business Division of the Library of Congress. The presentation is Open to the Public, but Pre-Registration is *Required* [contact FLICC at 202-707-4800 (voice), 202-707-4818 (fax), FLICCFPE_at_LOC.GOV (email)] Seating is Limited [60 Max] and is available on a first-come/firstserve basis. Enjoy /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Syndicated Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: Inaugural Issue of Innovate Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:43:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 374 (374) The inaugural issue of Innovate, a peer-reviewed bimonthly e-journal featuring cutting-edge research and practice in using information technology to enhance education is now available at http://www.innovateonline.info. We invite you to do more than simply read. Use our one-button features to comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and participate in webcasts with authors in our Innovate-Live forums. Join us in exploring the best uses of this technology to improve the ways we think, learn, and live. Chris Dede starts us on that journey with expert commentary on the ever-expanding field of learning technology tools. Multi-user virtual environments and ubiquitous computing promise to do away with limits on how and where students learn; Dede translates this vision into concrete terms. Joel Foreman joins him with a focus on video game studies as both a growing academic field of study and as an open arena for pedagogical reform. Donald Norris, Jon Mason, and Paul Lefrere consider how new technologies change not only on the way we access knowledge, but also the way in which we experience it. These articles are followed by four descriptions of how information technology tools are being used now to enhance educational processes. Gilbert Valdez, Kathleen Fulton, Robert Blomeyer, Allen Glenn, and Nicole Wimmer share the results from a study that compared six different teacher education programs, focusing on how each school used technology to prepare trainees for work in high-poverty districts. Robert Wood explains how a coordinated effort in his department to offer students a variety of rich technological resources resulted in greater cohesion within the curriculum itself. Jonathan Maybaum describes a Web-authoring system that gives users the ultimate control over their sites, yet remains elegantly utile. Diane Harley, Jonathan Henke, and Michael Maher describe the benefits of online technology for large lecture courses. When you access your first article, we will ask for your name and e-mail address. You will not have to provide this information again to access additional articles as long as Innovate remains a free journal. We are actively searching for sponsors, but we need your help to secure their support. To that end, we also ask for demographic questions designed to establish a professional profile of Innovate readers. This information will be used only to compile data for potential sponsors; it will not be sold or otherwise disseminated. If you prefer not to receive promotions and announcements from potential sponsors, please check the designated box. Once again, welcome to the Innovate community. Read, learn, share. Help us define the future of education. Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists and to colleagues who want to use IT tools to advance their work. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: Research needs for digital preservation Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:46:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 375 (375) The current Digital Document Quarterly number, DDQ 3(3), is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_3.htm. This DIGITAL DOCUMENT QUARTERLY number reconsiders research questions that might guide responses to the imminent NSF 04-592 RFP, “Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation”. Readers will recall that a work group jointly sponsored by the EU and the NSF almost two years ago finished its discussions of what might be good research topics to move digital preservation from a urgent need to an imminent possibility. In today’s fast-paced technical world, two years is a long time. Significantly enhanced insights have become available. DDQ uses these to prune and refine the prior opinion of research that promises to advance the preservation agenda. Of course, my colleagues and I have been considering the prior questions, and now believe that we know in principle how to solve all the technical problems of digital preservation and that implementations of the method we describe in articles of the “Trustworthy 100-Year Digital Objects” series will ultimately prove to be complete, correct, and close to optimal. However, we cannot be completely optimistic until this TDO methodology has been inspected for errors and oversights by a skeptical scientific and engineering community. DDQ 3(3) shows where to find the “Trustworthy …” papers and invites public critical commentary. The DDQ 3(3) table of contents lists: Research Needs Reconsidered A Different View of the Research Challenges TDO Digital Preservation Progress Another Way to Make Documents Trustworthy Query: What Was New in Digital Library? LinuxWorld and Software Selection Linux Desktops and Laptops: Has Their Time Come? Home Personal Computer Reliability and news, reading recommendations, and an Appendix: Preservation Research Needs at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_3app.htm Regards, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. HMG Consulting http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ 1(408)867-5454 Saratoga, California 95070 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Text analysis Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:56:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 376 (376) More on the DNB--- this from the Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 October 2004: Speaking at last week's London launch, Keith Thomas, chair of the supervisory committee, revealed that he had run a cliche search on the collection. Thirty of the subjects turned out to be "countrymen at heart", while 71 "did not suffer fools gladly". John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at Toronto Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:54:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 377 (377) [deleted quotation]... [deleted quotation]For more information see http://www.academiccareers.com/cgi-win/JobSite/sendjob.exe/ACO/?7534. [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 18.276 loss of information Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:55:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 378 (378) At 11.08 10/10/2004 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation]i think there's more than the 20 years issue: even before 20 years from publication, your cd remains physically damaged (very serious scratch; crack; perforation; separation of the plastic layers, ... ). any of these means that the data on your cd are lost. now take a book: any physical damage doesn't damage irreparably the entire book. [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation]the standards can take into account the soft layer of the problem: data format and software able to read that format. bur even the easier format, text (html, and others, are variations about the text format) if put onto a cd can be lost if the support is physically damaged. than there's the hard layer of the problem: the support itself. take a Babylonian tablet: after so much thousand years, you need only your eyes to read it. now what if we were in the year 10472 and need to read a cd of year 2004? who knows the format physical /logical of the disc? and the format of the data? and the program able to read that data format? and the hardware able to accomplish all these tasks? maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 / +39 011 8609843 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Preservation Reflex was Re: 18.274 losing it Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:55:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 379 (379) Willard, Although an advocate for electronic access to everything and consequently good archiving/migration policies and practices, I am curious if our preservation 'reflex' is really all that appropriate? Simply because, with good archiving and migration policies, we can preserve everything that exists in electronic form, does that mean that we should undertake that as a goal? I am mindful that such classical literature as survives did so only because of chance and someone deciding it was worth the effort to preserve it. While probably not thought of at the time as such, isn't such preservation or lack thereof, a filter that has separated out the 'noise' in Greek literature for example? What will it mean as increasing numbers of resources are available electronically and we never lose any of them? I must confess to favoring the preserve everything position but suspect that is more of an emotional response than a rational one. We imagine that if more Greek drama had been preserved it would be as edifying as what was preserved. Perhaps, perhaps not. Perhaps we would be disappointed in a much larger corpus and less able to separate the gold from the dross. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau_at_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: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 18.280 loss and preservation Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:24:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 380 (380) Hi there, At 12:01 AM 12/10/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Perhaps a better analogy, though, would be to say that the CD is like a photograph of the tablet. The photograph may fade, be damaged, or be destroyed completely, but there is no limit to the number of photographs you can take. You can also scan your photograph and store it digitally, and you can then move that digital representation from one hardware medium to the next as technologies change -- in fact this is what happens when you move your data from your old computer to your new one; you may not notice it, but you could be converting it from a FAT32 format to NTFS in the process. A digital document lives in the digital realm, and it will need to have a certain amount of attention paid to it periodically to make sure it's copied to new storage locations and converted to an updated file format when necessary; but a stone tablet also needs some care and maintenance to prevent erosion or theft. The digital document has the advantage that it can be stored in many locations on many storage devices, and it can be kept backed-up automatically. Anyone who stored the only copy of an important document on a flimsy and volatile medium like a CD-ROM would be acting rather irresponsibly; we need to store data in multiple locations, and tend to it periodically to ensure its continued health, but doing this is no more of a chore than looking after a printed document, surely? Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes_at_uvic.ca martin_at_mholmes.com mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.280 loss and preservation Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:25:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 381 (381) Willard, Is it me or is there a very reductionist slant to the what if scenarios that are invoked to champion the merits or attack the deficits of any given medium of storage? The futurist scenarios whether utopian or apocalyptic seem to assume storage in single format. Preservation is not determinable by simple replication (more copies of in the same medium). Reproduction (many copies in different media) and distribution (many copies, in different or the same media, in different locations) are also at play. Take the example of the cuniform inscription. The clay media may perish in a geopolitical event accompanied by the looting of artefacts; the transcription may survive. Preservation is not only about fetischization. It's also about the labour of copying and cataloguing and reading again what has been copied and catlogued. Preservation in its social aspects is at the core about the geneology of readership. -- 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.32 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:23:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 382 (382) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 32 (October 13 - October 19, 2004) INTERVIEW Checking in with Ben Bederson By focusing on the user experience, the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab aims to improve lives through projects such as the International Children's Digital Library. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i32_bederson.html From: John Unsworth Subject: web-based text-mining and visualization Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:21:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 383 (383) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted nearly $600,000 over two years to a multi-institutional project directed by John Unsworth, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The project builds on the D2K (Data to Knowledge) software developed by Michael Welge's Automated Learning Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and it will include partners in humanities research computing at the University of Georgia, the University of Maryland, and the University of Virginia. The project will produce software for discovering, visualizing, and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in existing digital libraries and collections at Tufts University, the University of Illinois, Indiana University, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, and other institutions. "In search-and-retrieval," Unsworth says, "we pose specific queries and get back answers to those queries; by contrast, the goal of data-mining is to produce new knowledge by exposing unanticipated patterns. Over the last decade, many millions of dollars have been invested in creating digital library collections: the software tools we'll produce in this project will make those collections significantly more useful for research and teaching." Stephen Ramsay, the University of Georgia's representative on the project and a member of the UGA English Department, agrees: "literary criticism and data mining share an important common ground: both are concerned with the isolation of patterns in data. Students of literature are often trying to detect patterns of change in the language or structure of literary works. Sometimes, this search for pattern is ordered toward the demonstration of some interpretive insight, but this order is just as often reversed--we notice patterns in texts and those patterns inspire interpretive insight." Matthew Kirschenbaum, faculty member in the University of Maryland's English department and Fellow at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), says that "information visualization will be the essential scholarly genre of the 21st century. It is already commonplace in astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, engineering, environmental sciences and geology, geography, meteorology, physics, and mathematics. The basic intellectual and imaginative leap for information visualization in the humanities will be the leap from documentary to algorithmic forms of evidence. At the same time, we must understand the 'iconology' of these visual displays, their roots in long-standing traditions of image-making, cognitive design, and knowledge representation." Martha Nell Smith, Director of MITH, observes that "the cross-institutional collaboration in this initiative will help ensure that we build tools that are widely usable, that are standards-based, and that will advance the production and preservation of digital scholarship in the humanities, in all its diversity." Bernard Frischer, Director of the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) points out that "digital scholarship in the humanities requires extensive multimedia collections, and it seeks to explore and document the complex relationships among items in such collections. This, in turn, requires a close collaboration between humanists and computing specialists." Tom Horton, of the University of Virginia's Computer Science Department, will oversee a distributed software development process for this project. He notes that "developing successful software tools to work effectively in such complex situations is always a challenge, so we'll follow principles of user-centered software design in order to create data mining and visualization tools that will give scholars what they need to be effective, efficient and creative as they work with digital library materials." The Mellon Foundation provided a $56,000 planning grant for this project, in 2003. From: John Unsworth Subject: NDIIPP at UIUC Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:22:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 384 (384) U. of I. to play lead role in project to preserve digital information News Bureau, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor 217-333-2177; andreal_at_uiuc.edu 10/1/04 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been chosen as one of the lead institutions in a massive new Library of Congress project to save at-risk digital materials nationwide. The U. of I. Library and the U. of I. Graduate School of Library and Information Science will receive nearly $3 million over three years for their role in the Library of Congress preservation project, called the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. “Together with the Library of Congress, we’ll address a problem that grows more pressing every day: How do we collect, manage, preserve, and make useful the enormous amount of digital information our culture is now producing?” said John Unsworth, the dean of the U. of I. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and co-principal investigator of Illinois’ grant. Beth Sandore, associate university librarian for information technology planning and policy at Illinois, is the other co-principal investigator. Sandore sees the grant as a unique opportunity and challenge. “The public has entrusted libraries, museums and archives with the stewardship of collections and resources so that they can be used by future generations,” Sandore said. “Collecting, selecting and preserving digital information requires approaches and resources that are substantively different from those we have used traditionally. “This partnership presents a unique opportunity for us to work with a network of institutions, including our partners, other NDIIPP grantees and the Library of Congress, to develop both the methods and the technologies that will help the library community better understand how to preserve and make accessible significant digital resources for future generations.” According to Sandore, the project also provides an opportunity for information professionals with traditional library backgrounds and those with digital library expertise to work together to address these challenges. Illinois’ nationwide partners are the OCLC Online Computer Library Center in Dublin, Ohio; Tufts University’s Perseus Project; the Michigan State University Library; and an alliance of state libraries from Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Partners on the Illinois campus include WILL-AM, -FM and -TV (public radio and television stations), the Division of Management Information and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Illinois’ project more specifically will develop criteria for selecting digital material for capture and preservation, with OCLC taking the lead to build software to help automate the process. Illinois, OCLC and NCSA will jointly provide storage for the digital content collected in the project in databases called “repositories” and will test real-world problems that are encountered in the process of digital archiving. Illinois also will explore ways for libraries and repositories to share and preserve digital information existing in a wide variety of formats including Web-based government publications, historical documents and photos, sound and video recordings, Web sites and other varied digital resources that will be of historical interest to future generations. Because most digitally created materials have no physical version, these “so-called born-digital materials are at a much greater risk of either being lost and no longer available as historical resources, or of being altered, preventing future researchers from studying them in their original form,” a Library of Congress news release said, adding that “Millions of digital materials, such as Web sites mounted in the early days of the Internet, are already lost ­ either completely or in their original versions.” Illinois, along with the other partners in NDIIPP, seeks to identify methods and technologies that will help avoid losing information that is of significant historical value. The project is expected to involve a great many players and have a wide ripple effect, both within and outside the state. “In the best tradition of land-grant schools,” Unsworth said, “this project puts research and teaching to work in the service of the state and the nation.” According to Unsworth, the infrastructure that will be funded by this grant at Illinois will constitute “a unique environment for the comparative testing and published evaluation of digital library software and techniques. That environment also will be used for faculty research and for teaching students in a new advanced degree program in digital libraries.” Unsworth became dean of Illinois’ library school a year ago after serving as the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. He is a frequent speaker on topics related to digital scholarship, digital libraries and scholarly publishing. Sandore has served as associate university librarian for information technology planning and policy since 2001. Her professional experience and research focus on developing and evaluating digital libraries of cultural heritage information. Illinois is one of eight institutions leading projects under this round of NDIIPP funding. The others are the University of California, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Thirteen/WNET New York), Emory University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan and North Carolina State University Libraries. Illinois’ grant is the third highest of the participating institutions. Laura E. Campbell, who is leading the NDIIPP initiative for the Library of Congress, said that “These formal partnerships mark the beginning of a new phase of this program to raise awareness of the need for digital preservation and to take steps to capture and preserve at-risk digital content that is vital to our nation’s history.” The Library of Congress called for applications a year ago. All applications were subjected to a peer-review process administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington made the final selection. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. The U. of I. Library is the largest public university library in the world, and the U. of I. Graduate School of Library and Information Science is consistently rated among the best in the world. From: "Joel Elliott" Subject: Lyman Award Nominations Open Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:46:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 385 (385) 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. Past recipients include the literary scholar Jerome McGann of the University of Virginia and the historian Roy Rosenzweig of George Mason University. The award carries a prize of $25,000. Nominations close on January 15, 2005. The 2004 Lyman Award recipient, Robert Englund of the University of California at Los Angeles, will give a public lecture at the Center on Friday, October 22 at 8 p.m. His talk, "Would We Have Noticed the Loss of the Iraq Museum? The Case for Virtual Duplicates of Cultural Heritage Collections," will be broadcast live over the Internet. To learn more about the Lyman Award, submit a nomination, or view Professor Englund's lecture, visit the Center's Web site, http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us Joel Elliott National Humanities Center joel_elliott_at_unc.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book: Language, Knowledge, and Representation Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:49:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 386 (386) Kluwer is pleased to announce the publication of the following new book: As a result of the merger of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) and Springer-Verlag, the two companies will soon operate under the joint Springer brand and integrate their activities. Language, Knowledge, and Representation edited by Jesus M. Larrazabal Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI), University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain Luis A. Perez Miranda Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI), University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain Every two years since 1989, an international colloquium on cognitive science is held in Donostia - San Sebastian, attracting the most important researchers in that field. This volume is a collection of the invited papers to the Sixth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-99), written from a multidisciplinary, cognitive perspective, and addressing various essential topics such as self-knowledge, intention, consciousness, language use, learning and discourse. This collection reflects not only the various interdisciplinary origins and standpoints of the participating researchers, but also the richness, fruitfulness, and exciting state of research in the field of cognitive science today. A must-read for anyone interested in philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and computer science, and in the perception of these topics from the perspective of cognitive science. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Introduction. Self-Knowledge And Externalism; W. Brewer. Aunty's Argument And Armchair Knowledge; M. Davies. Emotional And Conversational Nonverbal Signals; P. Ekman. Focus In Discourse: Alternative Semantics Vs. A Representational Approach In SDRT; I. Gomez Txurruka. On Collective Intentions; K. Korta. The Plurality Of Consciousness; W. Lycan. The Role Of Unlabeled Data in Supervised Learning; T.M. Mitchell. Cognitive Neuroscience And The Unity Of The Study Of Cognition; J.M. Roy. Consciousness And Self-Knowledge; E. Sosa. Twelve Varieties Of Subjectivity: Dividing In Hopes Of Conquest; R. De Sousa. Name Index. Subject Index. Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-2057-0 Date: August 2004 Pages: 191 pp. EUR 99.00 / USD 109.00 / GBP 69.00 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Paul Sermon [mailto:P.Sermon_at_salford.ac.uk] Subject: RE: Salford ICT Awareness Post Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:01:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 387 (387) ________________________________________ THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN ADELPHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE ARTS AND SCIENCES RESEARCH ASSISTANT GRADE: R&A 1B SALARY: £19,460 - £21,640 per annum pro rata Part time 0.4 FTE Fixed term appointment for 2 years We have obtained JISC funding to deliver a 2-year joint research project with De Montfort University entitled 'ICT Awareness and Training Programme for Arts & Humanities in the UK' and require a Research Assistant to help deliver the project in Salford. The Research Assistant (O.4) will conduct research that will review the awareness of ICT provision and delivery in the Arts and Humanities across the UK: in the light of a 2.5 million investment made through the Arts and Humanities Research Board in this sector and develop an interactive road map providing access to a suite of nationally available online resources. The initial appointment will last for two years in the first instance with a start date of January 1st 2005, and the possibility to pursue a PhD and undertake further ICT related research within the Institute. Interviews will take place week commencing the 15 November 2004. For further details and an application form please visit the Personnel Division website and apply online at www.personnel.salford.ac.uk. Alternatively please call 0161 295 2122 (24 hrs) or e-mail Personnel_at_salford.ac.uk quoting reference number AAD/54. CVs will not be accepted without a completed application form. Forms to be returned by 28 October 2004. The University of Salford is committed to an inclusive approach to promoting equality and diversity. We aim to have a more diverse workforce at all levels of the institution and welcome applications from people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. NEW POST Internal Jobs.ac.uk -- Paul Sermon - Reader in Creative Technology The University of Salford | Research Centre for Art & Design Centenary Building | Peru Street | Greater Manchester M3 6EQ United Kingdom Tel. 0161 295 6149 | Fax. 0161 295 6174 http://www.paulsermon.org | p.sermon@salford.ac.uk From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.276 loss of information and clarity of expression Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:42:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 388 (388) [deleted quotation]I have cd-roms from 1989 and 1990 that are no longer readable because the layers have separated. These are professional CDs, not one-offs. I have several "one-offs," made as interim copies for various multimedia CDs in 1994 and 1995 that are also unreadable--for various reasons; layer separation, dye fades, and even fungus (much like the "laser rot" that affected certain laser disks). -- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital Medievalist Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. -- Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde Book II ll. 22-25-- From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 18.276 loss of information and clarity of expression Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:43:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 389 (389) The solution is simple. . .put the data out there for the public. This has been proposed by some if the great names in computing, and has actually been proven to work for data retention. Here is an actual example from the history of Project Gutenberg: Once I pulled an all nighter to put three eBooks up for download, carefully backing them up on three systems about 3,000 miles apart, but when I woke up I found that all 6 copies were gone. Subsequent searches failed to ever find out where they went, perhaps it was a hacker just showing off. I was disheartened to say the least, confronted with another one of those all nighters to make up for the loss, something I just was not up to at the moment. So I thought about it a while, and then sent out a message to the general Project Gutenberg lists asking if any of our people had downloaded these three books in the few minutes or few hours they had been available. Sure enough, I got my lost books back a few minutes later, and then just put them back on our three sites, being careful to save yet one more copy in a secret location. For those of you who have privacy issues, I suggest an internally secure version of the same thing, have your trusted people copy. If you don't trust anyone, you have created a serious problem for yourself, and you will have to do some backup research, and also make sure your format stays available, as was the problem in many of these situations that got so much press. If you don't put things in strange formats, and don't insist on only keeping them in locked down situations, you won't be in this situation to this degree. Thanks!!! Nice To Hear From You! Michael Give FreeBooks!!! In 39 Languages!!! As of October 09, 2004 ~14,000 FreeBooks at: ~1,000 to go to 15,000 http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.net We are 40%+ of the way from 10,000 to 20,000. Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" If you do not receive a prompt reply, please resend, keep resending. From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: October Innovate-Live Webcasts Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:26:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 390 (390) Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the October-November issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). The webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. All times are Eastern time zone. You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with your time zone. The schedule for the October Innovate-Live Webcasts is provided below. Web Publishing for the Individual, Not the Enterprise Jonathan Maybaum, author; Alan McCord, moderator Wednesday, October 13th 2:30 pm ET Effective Technology Integration in Teacher Education: A Comparative Study of Six Programs Kathleen Fulton, co-author; Gary Brown, moderator Wednesday, October 13 4:00 pm ET Experiencing Knowledge Donald Norris, co-author; Tom Longin, moderator Thursday, October 14th 4:00 pm ET Video Game Studies and the Emerging Instructional Revolution Joel Foreman, author; Denise Easton, moderator Friday, October 15 11:00 am ET Please go to the Innovate-Live Portal at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ to register for the webcasts. Finally, note that we now have the Innovate RSS feed available at http://www.innovateonline.info/innovate.rss Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: Ross Scaife Subject: Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:45:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 391 (391) Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/home This site hosts materials to accompany Penelope M. Allison, Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 42). It includes detailed documentary information on 30 Pompeian houses and their contents, consisting of 865 rooms and more than 6,000 artifacts. Note: We continue to improve this site and to correct errors, particularly in the room descriptions and artefact tables. Please advise us of any errors you see. Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion is a publication of The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities, Ross Scaife, ed. Work on the XML and XSLT in the underlying Apache Cocoon, and on the Postgresql relational database containing data about rooms, artifacts, and images, was done by Neel Smith with help from Ross Scaife, Katie Lamberto, and William du Cassé. ------------------- Archive of messages at http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/stoa.html From: Michael Fraser Subject: News from the Humbul Humanities Hub Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:45:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 392 (392) News from the Humbul Humanities Hub FEATURES on http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ We are currently highlighting topical issues in the Humanities on the home page as well as on the subject specific pages. The features include suggestions of searches and records of particular interest. Examples of recent features are 'National Poetry Day' and 'Jacques Derrida'. * To assist the ability to browse across subject areas we are beginning to group together particular types of resources. You can now access from the home page listings of AHRB projects and freely available electronic journals. THE BEST OF THE WEB - subject booklets from Humbul Humbul has published its first subject booklet: Internet Resources for English. The 16-page booklet, which details a wide range of useful online resources for English Studies, was produced in collaboration with the English Subject Centre (part of the Higher Education Academy) and with generous sponsorship from Proquest Information and Learning. The resources listed in the booklet have also been gathered on a separate webpage for easy access. Visit http://www.humbul.ac.uk/english/booklet/ to learn more about the guide or the resources therein. A similar guide for History is currently in production with further guides being planned. STAFF CHANGES Randy Metcalfe, formerly communications manager for Humbul, now performs a similar job for OSS Watch -- the JISC-funded pilot Open Source Software Advisory Service also hosted within the Research Technologies Service (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/). With the wrapping up of the Subject Portals Project (SPP) Francisco Pinto, formerly Humbul's Interoperability Officer, is now Technical Manager for two JISC Core Middleware Projects being run within the RTS -- the Shibboleth-enabled Portals and Information Environments (SPIE) Project and the Evaluation of Shibboleth and PKI for Grids (ESP-Grid) Project. See further http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/staff.html FEATURED RESOURCE: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography After 12 years in development, the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was published by Oxford University Press on September 23. The DNB, available both online and in a 60-volume print edition, describes the lives of over 50,000 people who have made an impression upon British history, society, and culture. The online version is available by subscription to individuals and institutions. Potential subscribers may request a free trial. The Humbul record for the project web page, which was first added to the catalogue in 2002, has now been updated to coincide with the publication of the new DNB and to reflect changes to the web site (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=5222). The JISC are running a consultation exercise until 23 October to establish the number of further and higher education institutions that would be interested in subscribing to the online edition (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=coll_oxdnationalbiography). We always welcome feedback, positive or negative, on the service we run. Please send us your comments at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/feedback.html 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 supported by the University of Oxford. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:21:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 393 (393) Volume 3 Numbers 1-2 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 Biodiversity p. 1 Mathias Gutmann, Kathrin Prieß DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0070-9 Focus The long-term protection of biological diversity-lessons from market ethics p. 3 J. Barkmann, R. Marggraf DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0065-6 Focus The construction of societal relationships with nature p. 22 Christoph Görg DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0066-5 Focus Preludes to a reconstructive "environmental science" p. 37 Mathias Gutmann, Michael Weingarten DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0067-4 Focus The species concept for prokaryotic microorganisms-An obstacle for describing diversity? p. 62 P. Kämpfer, R. Rosselló-Mora DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0068-3 Focus Bear ye one another's genetic burdens: the price of diversity and complexity p. 73 Michael Bölker DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0069-2 Focus Analysing biodiversity: the necessity of interdisciplinary trends in the development of ecological theory p. 83 Broder Breckling, Hauke Reuter DOI: 10.1007/s10202-004-0072-7 Original Paper Participation as a means of enhancing the legitimacy of decisions on technology? A sceptical analysis p. 106 Armin Grunwald DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0043-4 Original Paper Game theory and global environmental policy p. 123 Alfred Endres DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0059-9 Book Review Keil, G.: Handeln und Verursachen. (Philosophische Abhandlungen Vol. 79) p. 140 Carl Friedrich Gethmann DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0034-5 Book Review Gethmann-Siefert A., Mittelstraß J. (eds): Die Philosophie und die Wissenschaften. Zum Werk Oskar Beckers: Munich: Fink, 2002, 256 p, (ISBN 3-7705-3659-2) ?36.90 p. 144 Jochen Sattler DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0039-0 Book Review J. Loomis, G. Helfand: Environmental policy analysis for decision making: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Boston London, 2001, pp 329 with index (ISBN 0-7923-6500-3) ?130, GBP 80, US$120 p. 148 Stephan Lingner DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0040-7 Book Review Hans Peter Widmaier: Demokratische Sozialpolitik: Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 1999 (ISBN 3-16-147144-X) p. 152 Gerd Hanekamp DOI: 10.1007/s10202-003-0041-6 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Diane Harley Subject: Use of Digital Resources in UG Education, On-line Report Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:19:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 394 (394) Dear Willard, Our first year report, "The Use of Digital Resources in Humanities/Social Sciences Undergraduate Education," has been posted on-line at: http://digitalresourcestudy.berkeley.edu/docs.html We welcome Humanist readers' critiques and comments as we tackle the second year of the project, which includes detailed analysis of faculty survey opinion about use, nonuse and barriers to use, an on-going literature review, and classification of those resources faculty say they use. We also cordially invite faculty and graduate students to take our second online survey, which is designed to understand user preferences about the use or non-use of technology in humanities and social science undergraduate/baccalaureate teaching contexts. The study is focused on a broad range of rich media digital resources and tools (e.g., text, images, video, maps, GIS, etc.) that can come from a wide range of sources, including faculty personal collections. The survey can be found at: https://digitalresourcestudy.berkeley.edu/survey/ This research project is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Additional assistance has been provided by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Hewlett-Packard Company, the California Digital Library (CDL), and the Vice Chancellor of Research, UC Berkeley. Best, Diane ========================= Diane Harley, Ph.D. Director, Higher Education in the Digital Age Project Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) South Hall Annex, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4650 voice: 510/642-5040 fax: 510/643-6845 http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu:80/cshe/projects/university/ From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: 18.288 loss of information Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:18:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 395 (395) [deleted quotation]Exactly! This was one of the supposed, heady, early precepts of the Net, along with "information wants to be free." I've been doing something analogous with my '12hr-isbn-jpeg project' -- a continuous (10 yrs so far) photo-art sequence 'published online.' Mirrors, archives, and informal collections will outlive traditional, centrist institutional appropriation. --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://63.170.215.11:8000 --- The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<< "... easily the most venerable net-art project of all time." + + + 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:// (your-site-here!) 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_at_eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp From: "Michael L. Norton" Subject: Ancient Studies, New Technologies 3 (3-5 December 2004) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:16:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 396 (396) Conference Announcement The third biennial conference on the topic of "Ancient Studies -- New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies" will be held December 3-5, 2004, at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. As before, the papers will cover a wide variety of topics, including: * The Digital Museum; * The Digital Classroom; * The Digital Scholar * Theory, Methodology, and Ideology * Manuscripts, Collections, and Editions, and * Research Issues Further information about the conference, including the program and (soon) abstracts, can be found at: http://www.cisat.jmu.edu/asnt3 For further information, contact: Michael L. Norton Computer Science Dept. MSC 4103 James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (540) 568-2777 nortonml_at_jmu.edu About the Conference Classical, Medieval, and Byzantine scholars have long relied on academic symposia and printed media to disseminate the fruits of their research. In the last two decades, the Internet and the World Wide Web have made new forms of publication possible. Electronic journals have been founded, such as the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and the Medieval Review. Academic websites, including De Imperatoribus Romanis, Perseus, Diotima, Electronic Antiquity, ORB, Lacus Curtius, the Stoa, and the Medieval Sourcebook, provide wide audiences with primary materials, scholarly studies, and access to other resources. Search engines like Index Antiquus have been developed to help navigate the rapidly multiplying opportunities of this new medium. In spite of these advances, the Internet is just beginning to fulfill its potential as a scholarly medium. This conference will address various ways in which the World Wide Web is being, and can be, developed, in the fields of Classical, Medieval, and Byzantine studies. Participants are encouraged to use their imaginations in considering different ways in which the WEB can help to promote ancient and medieval studies. Presentations are not only of a theoretical nature, but also of a practical, "how-to", nature. /**************************************** * Michael L. Norton, Ph.D. * Computer Science Dept. * ISAT/CS #209 * MSC 4103 * James Madison University * Harrisonburg, VA 22807 * (540_568-2777 * nortonml_at_jmu.edu ***************************************/ From: dalbello_at_scils.rutgers.edu Subject: Call for Papers: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2005 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:17:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 397 (397) ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Annual Course and Conference: LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2005 Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia 30 May - 3 June 2005 Inter-University Centre (http://www.hr/iuc) Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Hotel Odisej, island Mljet, Pomena, Croatia (http://www.hotelodisej.hr) Course web site: http://www.pedos.hr/lida Course email: lida_at_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. Themes LIDA 2005 I. WHAT CAN DIGITAL LIBRARIES DO THAT TRADITIONAL CANNOT? OR DO IN ADDITION? One of the reasons for the world-wide success of digital libraries is that technologies provide unprecedented access to a growing variety of library resources and services. But another, and probably the main reason for their success, is related to the remarkable growth of their use. Digital libraries have struck a chord with users. Numerous innovative practices have been developed and more are underway that account for this success and increased use globally. The goal of the first part of LIDA 2005 is to explore and ascertain the realized capabilities and future promises of digital libraries in terms of enhanced or new services, processes, structures, and social practices, and to examine their integration with services, structures, and social functions of traditional libraries and related institutions. Invited are contributions (types described below) covering the following topics: o innovative features: services, practices, modes of access, and structures in digital libraries o advances in study of representation, organization, and preservation o treatment of non-textual resources: images, sounds, multimedia o projects that cross digital libraries, museums, archives, and/or other institutions o advances in cooperation and sharing among libraries; changes in management o evaluation measures, methods and studies; use and usability studies o social and global aspects of digital libraries; effect of digital libraries in scholarship, education, arts, culture o barriers and obstacles to use, satisfaction, and success . II. BUILDING A SMALL DIGITAL LIBRARY AND DIGITAL LIBRARY NETWORK. Not only large libraries are into digital libraries. A variety of smaller libraries (and not only libraries but other institutions and organizations of all shapes and sizes) are concerned with building or improving a digital library in their own domain, and for their users. Of course, majority of small libraries and institutions have limited resources, raising the obvious question: what can be done under restricted conditions? On the positive side, a number of digital library services may be an excellent way to extend the reach out to old and new constituencies and provide grounds for cooperation. The goal of the second part of LIDA 2005 is to share experiences from practice and research in construction and operation of small digital libraries at a variety of institutions or domains, and in related networks and infrastructures on regional, institutional, or subject basis. This particularly involves small public and school libraries, libraries that serve remote areas, regional libraries, and specialized libraries. Contributions are invited that approach building, maintaining, and improving small digital libraries and networks from a number of perspectives. These include: o types of contents and services provided by small digital libraries o steps in design, development, and implementation of a small digital library or library network o necessary technology; methods and tools for digitizing, searching and accessing o availability of "digital library in a box" software and approaches; digital library toolkits o experiences in establishing digital libraries in small or isolated library environments; cooperative approaches; safeguarding the library; effects in their community o getting up or improving your own library web site; what can be obtained free? o cultural heritage digital libraries in small institutions - libraries, museums, archives o "if you build will they come?" - needs, knowledge, skills of participant population; experiences with involving potential users in building of a digital library o necessary competencies and continuing education for librarians and information professionals in small libraries; how to reach and convince them? Types of contributions Invited are the following types of contributions: 1. Papers: research studies and reports on advances that will be presented at the conference and included on the conference Web site. Papers of up to 4000 words in length should be submitted, following the American Psychological Association (APA) style, followed, among others, by the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and Information Processing & Management (IP&M). The papers will be refereed and published in LIDA 2005 Proceedings. A selection of the best papers will be submitted for publication in the journal The International Information and Library Review. 2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. An award will be given for the Best Posters. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a short, one or two- page paper. 3. Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions. These should involve some aspect of users and use. Proposals for demonstration should provide short description and a URL address, if available. 4. Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared with workshop organizers. Proposals for workshops should include a short description, with indication of level and potential audience. Submissions should be in electronic form (as attachments to email). to Prof. Tatjana Aparac at taparac_at_ffos.hr. Inquires can also be addressed to the co-chair of the conference Prof. Tefko Saracevic and Program Chair for Part I. Prof. Christine Borgman. Full addresses are provided below. All submissions will be refereed. Deadlines: o For papers and workshops 10 January 2005. Acceptance by 10 February 2004. o For demonstrations and posters: 10 February 2005. Acceptance by 1 March 2004. o Final submission for all 15 March 2005. Invitation to institutions We are inviting libraries, information agencies, professional organizations, and service providers to consider participation at LIDA by providing a demonstration, workshop, or exhibit about their advances, or by presenting a paper or poster about their activities. Sponsorship of an event is also invited. Institutions can benefit as well: We will provide course materials and virtual tutorials to participants so that they can communicate, instruct, and transfer topics of interest to their institution. Thus, we are organizing LIDA to reach a wider audience. Organization and submission addresses Course co-directors and Program Chairs for Part II: TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Education University of Osijek Lorenza Jaegera 9, 31000 Osijek, Croatia Tel.: +385 1 6120111/231 Fax: +385 1 6156879 Email: taparac_at_ffos.hr URL: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/biblio/nastava/taparac.htm TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 U.S.A. Tel.: +1(732)932-7500/ extension 8222 Fax: (732)932-2644 Email: tefko_at_scils.rutgers.edu URL: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~tefko Program Chair for Part I: Christine L. Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair Depafrtment of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 235 GSE&IS Bldg, Box 951520 University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520, USA Tel: +1(310)825-6164; Fax: 206-4460 Email: borgman@gseis.ucla.edu URL http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/cborgman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AT THE ADDRESS OF Prof. TATJANA APARAC Venues The first part of LIDA 2005 will be held in Dubrovnik and for the second part, 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 30 May 2005 and post-conference workshops for 4 June 2005. 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/ and for Dubrovnik http://web.tzdubrovnik.hr/; travel information at 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/ and for hotel Odisej (with further information about the surroundings) see http://www.hotelodisej.hr. -- 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_at_scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello From: Lou Burnard Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: BNC Baby : new xml corpora and software]] Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:49:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 398 (398) **** BNC BABY NOW AVAILABLE ***** Oxford University's Research Technologies Service is pleased to announce availability of BNC Baby: a new sampler CD designed to demonstrate the full potential of corpus linguistics in the teaching of English language and literature. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/babyinfo.html BNC Baby contains three different XML corpora, complete with detailed linguistic analysis and fully TEI-compliant markup. It also includes the latest release of XAIRA (XML Aware Indexing and Retrieval Architecture) developed at Oxford specifically for linguistically-motivated text analysis of large XML corpora. The three corpora are: * BNC Baby: four one-million word extracts from the British National Corpus, representing informal conversation, academic prose, fiction, and newspapers. * The Unknown Shakespeare: complete works of William Shakespeare in a normalized spelling edition prepared at North Western University * The Brooklyn Corpus of Old English: sixteen major texts of Old English prose made available by the Oxford Text Archive The software included on the CD can be installed on any machine running Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP, and is supplied with built-in help and links to tutorial materials under development as part of the Xaira project. The software can also be used to index other XML- conformant corpora, of any kind and in any language. Free updates of the software will be made available through the Xaira project, the object of which is to develop an open-source platform-independent toolkit (see http://www.xaira.org for more information about Xaira) To order your copy, go to http:natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ordering.html Individual copies of the CD, including despatch by first class mail, cost 30 euros, plus VAT within the EU. For orders of ten copies or more, the unit price drops to 10 euros. Lou Burnard From: Caterina Caracciolo Subject: skimming forwards vs skimming backward Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:47:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 399 (399) Dear all, I am looking for material concerning the process of skimming a text, either when reading on-paper, or on-line. It seems to me that a forward skimming is easier to perform and more "reader-friendly" than a backward skimming, at least for those languages that are written from left to right and from top to bottom. If so, when assessing the readability of an excerpt from a text, documents starting slightly too early (with respect to the relevant part) should be preferred over documents starting slightly too late, since the latter imply a backward skimming. Obviously, not only the direction of the skimming, but also the "amount" of text to skim, have an impact on the readability of the text. Can anyone point me to studies on these issues, or let me know your opinion on them? Best, Caterina Caracciolo Informatics Institute, Uni of Amsterdam | P: +31 20 525 5355 Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam (NL) | F: +31 20 525 7490 http://www.science.uva.nl/~caterina From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Ingredients for computation : expressive drift Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:48:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 400 (400) Willard, With the passing of Jacques Derrida, I felt compelled over the last week to revisit Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's preface to _Of Gramatology_. A phrase therein caught my attention. In an ennumeration appears "[...] ingredients for the computation of the intertextuality [...]". It is the expression "ingredients for computation" that intrigues me. Would subscribers to Humanist care to comment. Is the expression traceable to a sociolect? Even if unique does it not indicate in that in some sense the prep work that assembles a collection, the ingredient selection, is always already caught up in some experience of what computation might be? I ask because I am struggling with the evolutionary schema outlined by George Ifrah in _the Universal History of Numbers_. In the first chapter under the subsection "Counting: A Human Faculty", Ifrah writes quote> The human mind, evidently, can only grasp intergers as abstractions if it has fully available to it the notion of distinct units as well as the ability to "synthesize" them. This intellectual faculty (which presupposes avove all a complete mastery of the ability to analyse, to compare and to abstract from individual differences) rests on an idea which, alongside mapping and classification, consitutes the starting point of all scientific advance. This creation of the human mind is called "hierarchy relation" or "order relation": it is the principle by which things are ordered according to their "degree of generality", from _individual_ to _kind_, to _type_, to _species_ and so on." By force of repetition and habit, the list of the names of the body-parts in their numerative order imperceptibly acquire abstract connotations, especially the first five. They slowly loose their power to suggest the actual parts of the body, becoming progressively more attached to the corresponding number, and may now be applied to any set of objects. (L. Levy-Bruhl) 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: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Technology of the book Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:50:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 401 (401) A funny clip my Danish friend sent me. Perfect for the Humanist even if you don't understand Danish. http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mz34/helpdesk.WMV From: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: FOIS-2004: LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:49:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 402 (402) APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES PLEASE, DISTRIBUTE =================================== FOIS-2004 LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =================================== International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ November 4-6, 2004, Torino (Italy) Conference Location: Conference Centre <http://www.torinoincontra.org/>Torino Incontra Via Nino Costa 8 - 10123 TORINO Tel. +39-11-557.68.00 Check out conference program & registration details on <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ or below! Looking forward to meeting you in Torino! == == FOIS-2004 Conference Program == Wendesday, November 3 Workshop on the Potential of Cognitive Semantics for Ontologies <http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html>http://fois2004.di.unito.it/workshops.html Thursday, November 4 8:45-9:15 Registration and Reception 9:15-9:30 Welcome Addresses 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk: Amie L. Thomasson: Methods of Categorization 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Session 1: Categories Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly, Barry Smith: Individuals, Universals, Collections: On the Foundational Relations of Ontology Fabian Neuhaus, Pierre Grenon, Barry Smith: A Formal Theory of Substances, Qualities, and Universals Jonathan Simon: How to Be a Bicategorialist 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session 2: Perspectives Barry Smith: Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation Simon K Milton: Top-Level Ontology: The Problem with Naturalism Joseph A. Goguen: Ontology, Society, and Ontotheology 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:30 Session 3: Methodology Brandon Bennett: Relative Definability in Formal Ontologies William Andersen, Christopher Menzel: Modal Rigidity in the OntoClean Methodology Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele Giaretta, Vittorio Morato, Marzia Soavi, Giuseppe Spolaore: Identity and Modality in OntoClean Klaus Lüttich, Till Mossakowski: Specification of Ontologies in CASL Friday, November 5 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk Peter Gärdenfors: How to Make the Semantic Web More Semantic 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:30 Session 4: Semantics and Cognition Martin Raubal: Formalizing Conceptual Spaces Nicholas Asher, Pascal Denis: Dynamic Typing for Lexical Semantics - A Case Study: The Genitive Construction Massimo Poesio, Abdulrahman Almuhareb: Feature-Based vs. Property-Based KR: An Empirical Perspective Olivier Bodenreider, Barry Smith, Anita Burgun: The Ontology-Epistemology Divide: A Case Study in Medical Terminology 12:30-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Social Reality Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre: An Agent-Oriented Ontology of Social Reality Joost Breuker, Rinke Hoekstra: Core Concepts of Law: Taking Common Sense Seriously John Bateman: The Place of Language within a Foundational Ontology 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:30 Session 6: Space, Time and Causality John Bateman, Scott Farrar: Towards a Generic Foundation for Spatial Ontology Maureen Donnelly: Relative Places John Stell, Matthew West: A Four-Dimensionalist Mereotopology Jos Lehmann, Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo, Aldo Gangemi: Causality and Causation in DOLCE Saturday, November 6 9:00-10:30 Session 7: Mind and Action Roberta Ferrario, Alessandro Oltramari: Towards a Computational Ontology of Mind Walter ten Brinke, David McG. Squire, John Bigelow: Supervenience in Content-Based Image Retrieval Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Enrico Motta: An Ontological Formalization of the Planning Task 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-13:00 Session 8: Ontological Analysis Stefan Schulz, Udo Hahn: Ontological Foundations of Biological Continuants Mariano Fernández-López, Asunción Gómez-Pérez: Searching for a Time Ontology for Semantic Web Applications Mariana Casella dos Santos, James Matthew Fielding, Christoffel Dhaen, Werner Ceusters: Philosophical Scrutiny for Run-Time Support of Application Ontology Development Palash Bera, Yair Wand: Analyzing OWL Using a Philosophy-Based Ontology 13:00-13:15 Conclusion == [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication on the Semantic Web Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:33:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 403 (403) Volume 3323/2004 (Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Semantic Web Rules: Covering the Use Cases p. 1 Mike Dean Combining Rule and Ontology Reasoners for the Semantic Web p. 6 Christine Golbreich A System for Nonmonotonic Rules on the Web p. 23 G. Antoniou, A. Bikakis, G. Wagner Rule Learning for Feature Values Extraction from HTML Product Information Sheets p. 37 Costin Badica, Amelia Badica A Defeasible Logic Reasoner for the Semantic Web p. 49 Nick Bassiliades, Grigoris Antoniou, Ioannis Vlahavas R-DEVICE: A Deductive RDF Rule Language p. 65 Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis Vlahavas Well-Founded Semantics for Description Logic Programs in the Semantic Web p. 81 Thomas Eiter, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Roman Schindlauer, Hans Tompits Defeasible Description Logics p. 98 Guido Governatori Semantic Web Reasoning with Conceptual Logic Programs p. 113 Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir Bossam: An Extended Rule Engine for OWL Inferencing p. 128 Minsu Jang, Joo-Chan Sohn Extending SWRL to Express Fully-Quantified Constraints p. 139 Craig McKenzie, Peter Gray, Alun Preece An Extension to OWL with General Rules p. 155 Jing Mei, Shengping Liu, Anbu Yue, Zuoquan Lin Combining Description Logic and Defeasible Logic for the Semantic Web p. 170 Kewen Wang, David Billington, Jeff Blee, Grigoris Antoniou Rewrite Rules as Service Integrators p. 182 Jing-Ying Chen SweetProlog: A System to Integrate Ontologies and Rules p. 188 Loredana Laera, Valentina Tamma, Trevor Bench-Capon, Giovanni Semeraro SWRLp: An XML-Based SWRL Presentation Syntax p. 194 Christopher J. Matheus XET as a Rule Language for Consistency Maintenance in UML p. 200 Nimit Pattanasri, Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama A System for Automated Agent Negotiation with Defeasible Logic-Based Strategies - Preliminary Report p. 205 Thomas Skylogiannis, Grigoris Antoniou, Nick Bassiliades [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "liz walter" Subject: RE: 18.295 the puzzling technology of the book Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:36:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 404 (404) A good help desk movie...:) Liz Walter eawalter1_at_hotmail.com 505-715-9191 [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 405 (405) [deleted quotation]Miriam Schcolnik - "A study of reading with dedicated e-readers", available from http://www.planetebook.com/downloads/schcolnik.pdf Cheers Suzana Sukovic PhD Candidate _________________________________________ The Information Program Area Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Technology, Sydney suzana.sukovic_at_uts.edu.au -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.297 skimming? expressive drift? Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:38:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 406 (406) Without reference to 'ease', I was taught 50 years ago that you do a better job proofreading backwards than forwards. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.33 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:37:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 407 (407) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 33 (October 20 - October 26, 2004) Patterns for Success Scott D. Anthony on using innovation theory to transform organizations and create the next wave of growth. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i33_anthony.html From: Jerome McGann Subject: NINES Summer Workshops posting Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:34:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 408 (408) * * * Call for Applicants * * * NINES Workshop in Digital Scholarship This is a week-long workshop for scholars undertaking digital projects in nineteenth-century British and American literary and cultural studies. The workshop will be held at the University of Virginia, 18-22 July 2005, and will provide a practical setting where scholars can work at the development of their individual projects with other scholars who have shared interests, goals, and problems to be addressed. The theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues connected to the development of digital scholarly work will focus the workshop's activities, which will be organized around and driven by the needs of the specific projects themselves. The workshops will be run by faculty and staff at U. of Virginia involved with the NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) and ARP (Applied Research in Patacriticism) projects. Additional information is available at: http://www.nines.org. Everyone accepted into the workshop will have their lodging, breakfasts, and lunches provided during the period of the workshop. There will be a workshop fee of $350. * HOW TO APPLY * Applications should not exceed two single spaced pages. They should be headed with a project title and a one-sentence description of the project. They should include as well a developed project description that addresses each of the following matters: the scholarly rationale for the project; the technical and theoretical problems that face the project and that can be addressed in the NINES workshop; the expected duration of the project, its phases, and some description of the current state of work; the digital technology used or needed by the project; and the technical support available to the scholar at his/her home institution. Send applications by January 15th to: workshops_at_nines.org * FUNDING SUPPORT * Applicants are expected to secure financial support from their home institutions. For scholars in need, some financial support (for travel and workshop fees) is available. For applicants requesting financial aid, a separate document (not to exceed one page single-spaced) should accompany the workshop application explaining why aid is needed. At 05:29 PM 10/19/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: metadata necessities was Re: 18.292 loss of information Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:37:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 409 (409) Willard, Brad Brace's hearty endorsement of Michael Hart's call for uploading [deleted quotation] raises, for me, the general question of associating metadata with digital objects and the narrower technical question of the use of comments in human-readable files. A recent discussion of a data recovery episode at jill/txt [Jill Walker's blog] http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/index.php?p=1065 leads me to ask if humanities scholars in their pedagogy stress the use of comments as a place to embed "signature" information such as names, dates and places. Comments, of course, have been exploited in other ways by some writers for the digital medium. Comments become a spot or zone of composition functioning almost like a recto/verso in invisible ink exposable with the correct technique. But I digress. Or maybe not. The invisible ink and rector/verso metaphors might prove useful in exposing students to the importance of documentation both for one's personal archives and for public distribution/harvesting. -- 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: Beryl Graham Subject: SLAB job advert please circulate... Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:45:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 410 (410) School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture Research Fellow in Fine Art (Digital Media Art) Fixed Term to 31st December 2007 £21,640 per annum You will establish, develop and run a research unit for digital media art housed within the area of Fine Art. It is expected that this will involve a programme of research/professional practice activity with researchers/artists of national and international standing. The research unit will have a focus on co-operative opportunities from within Art and Design and will also seek to work collaboratively with other institutions and artists in the UK and abroad. You will also be expected to carry out personal research within the context of the unit and to contribute to the teaching of Fine Art (2 days per week at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels). For enquiries please contact Eric Bainbridge, tel: (0191) 515 3772 or email eric.bainbridge_at_sunderland.ac.uk Ref No: ADR001/01 The University of Sunderland application form and Role Profile for these posts can be obtained by contacting the Human Resources Department on 0191 515 2057 or http://mysunderland.ac.uk/web/ services/hr/recruitment Closing Date: 12th November 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Senior Research Fellow, New Media Art School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland Tel: +44 191 515 2896 beryl.graham_at_sunderland.ac.uk CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org From: "Matthew S. Collins" Subject: Electronic Portfolios Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:47:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 411 (411) Colleagues, I am writing to ask if any of those on the Humanist list either uses or knows of those using electronic portfolios in the Humanities? Electronic portfolios are a teaching and professional tool used in many K-12 systems and on some college campuses. I am particularly interested in such portfolios as used by/for graduate students and by faculty. Thanks. -Matthew ---------------------------------------------------- Matthew S. Collins Director of Congresses Society of Biblical Literature The Luce Center 825 Houston Mill Road, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30329 404.727.3095 matthew.collins_at_sbl-site.org www.sbl-site.org --------------------------------------------------- From: John Unsworth Subject: ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:46:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 412 (412) ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences PUBLIC INFORMATION-GATHERING SESSION Harbor West Ballroom of the Pier 5 Hotel 711 Eastern Avenue Baltimore MD Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9AM-12:30PM 9-9:30 Welcome from John Unsworth and Abby Smith 9:30-10:00 James O'Donnell Provost, Georgetown University 10:30-11:00 David Greenbaum Director, the Interactive University Project, UC Berkeley 11:00-11:30 Fred Heath University Librarian, UT Austin 11:30-12:00 Pat Cossard Chair, Medieval Academy of America, Committee on Electronic Resources Subject Librarian, UMD 12:00-12:30 Bernard Frischer Professor of Art History & Classics, Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia 12:30-1:30 Lunch From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:33:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 413 (413) To whom it may concern, Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the publication of its most recent issue and beginning of its tenth year of publication. The table of contents appears below, and the journal can be accessed free online at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Yours sincerely Sean Lawrence Assistant Editor Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) Articles: "Caparisoned like the horse": Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. LaRue Love Sloan, University of Louisiana at Monroe. Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: "Reason of State" in Hamlet. Anthony DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology. Who Knows Who Knows Who's There? An Epistemology of Hamlet (Or, What Happens in the Mousetrap). Steve Roth. The Muse of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne's poetry. Paul D. Green. Book Reviews: Forsyth, Neil. The Satanic Epic. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002. Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University. Spolsky, Ellen. Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot, Hampshire; Ashgate, 2001. Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad. Stewart, Stanley. "Renaissance" Talk. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1997. Tony Williams, Sheffield Hallam University. Bergeron, David M. English Civic Pageantry, 1558-1642. Revised Edition. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2003. Kevin Curran, University College, Dublin. Curran, John E. Jr., Roman Invasions: The British History, Protestant Anti-Romanism, and the Historical Imagination in England, 1530-1660. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2002. Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. Reynolds, Bryan. Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Rebecca Nesvet, University of Gloucestershire. Theatre Reviews: Romeo and Juliet. Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. March 26 - October 8, 2004. Reviewed by Kate Wilkinson Sheffield Hallam University. Cambridge Shakespeare, Summer 2004: Cheek by Jowl's Othello at the Arts Theatre. Reviewed by Michael Grosvenor-Myer. Measure for Measure, a co-production of Theatre de Complicite and the National Theatre Company at the Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, 2004. Reviewed by David Nicol, Dalhousie University. From: "Matthew S. Collins" Subject: Electronic Portfolios Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:47:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 414 (414) Colleagues, I am writing to ask if any of those on the Humanist list either uses or knows of those using electronic portfolios in the Humanities? Electronic portfolios are a teaching and professional tool used in many K-12 systems and on some college campuses. I am particularly interested in such portfolios as used by/for graduate students and by faculty. Thanks. -Matthew ---------------------------------------------------- Matthew S. Collins Director of Congresses Society of Biblical Literature The Luce Center 825 Houston Mill Road, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30329 404.727.3095 matthew.collins_at_sbl-site.org www.sbl-site.org --------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: electronic portfolios Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:32:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 415 (415) A Google search for "electronic portfolios" turns up this Sunday morning 29,300 hits. (Less usefully, the always algorithmically entrepeneurial E-Bay comes up with this: "Discount Electronic Portfolios Check out the deals now! aff www.ebay.com".) 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Nico Weenink" Subject: Re: 18.306 electronic portfolios? Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:32:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 416 (416) Dear collegues, At Utrecht University there are portfolios in use by students. From what I have heard students and professors are very fond of it. It gives the students the ability to share information with other students, and professors can keep track of 'work in progress'. Also, when the student needs advice, the professor can easily look in the student's portfolio. Not only papers and such things are stored in the portfolio, also interest, profile and class information can be published. The program used is called ELPO,an abbreviation of Electronic Portfolio. The website of Utrecht University is located at http://www.uu.nl Hope this is of some help. Kind regards, Nico Weenink From: "Susan R. Boettcher" Subject: Re: 18.304 skimming Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:33:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 417 (417) The title isn't quite right; it should be _Passions, Pedagogies..._ Susan Boettcher University of Texas at Austin On 10/22/04 12:52 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation]161-177. [deleted quotation] From: "Stuart Dunn" Subject: AHRB ICT Programme Methods Network and Strategy Projects Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:25:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 418 (418) **Apologies if you receive this message more than once** The AHRB ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme is pleased to announce the contract for the ICT Methods Network, which has been awarded to King’s College London. Please visit http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2004/ahrb_launches_ict_methods_network.asp to read the press release, and for links to further information see http://www.ahrbict.rdg.ac.uk/activities/methods_network.htm. The AHRB is also pleased to announce the Call for Bids for its ICT Strategy Projects scheme. The Board has allocated a total of £1m under this scheme to fund a range of projects that will contribute to the development and / or implementation of its ICT Strategy. See http://www.ahrbict.rdg.ac.uk/activities/strategy_projects.htm for more information. An Open Meeting will be held in Central London on Friday 12th November 2004 for potential applicants. Details of this event, and the venue, will be posted to the website as soon as they are available. The ICT Programme’s website at http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/ict has been substantially redesigned, and contains much new information. Please visit the site, or contact the Programme’s office in Reading (see below), for further details of either scheme, and for more general information about the Programme. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Programme Research Assistant AHRB/ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme School of Modern Languages University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AA UNITED KINGDOM Tel: 0118 378 5064 Fax: 0118 378 8333 <http://www.ahrbict.rdg.ac.uk/>http://www.ahrbict.rdg.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:59:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 419 (419) It occurs to me that the now common practice of citing URLs in printed articles and books, usually with the date of last sight, is unnecessary. Let's say the symbol "[*]" designates an online resource that may be found quite straightforwardly, say by a Google search, from the name of whatever precedes it. I contend that, for example, this: "See the Society for the History of Technology [*]" is at least as good as if not better than this: "See the Society for the History of Technology, http://www.shot.jhu.edu/ (24/10/04)" In other words, should we not be able to assume now in at least some kinds of publications that our audience has the skills necessary to find an online resource when it is named unambiguously? 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (by Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:11:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 420 (420) On 24 Oct 2004, at 09:09, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]===================================== Not all resources with urls will last forever. It has happened to me this year that a resource has disappeared "forever". At least I knew where it was and when it was last (sited/cited/sighted). Technically, one could ask the ISP to track down the article/image/... on their backups, given a date of sighting/citing/siting/... A technological solution is given by persistent urls (purls) of resources. See <http://purl.org/> regards, Mícheál From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:13:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 421 (421) [deleted quotation]Willard, as I recall I suggested this very thing for our "Humanities Computing and Institutional Resources" list at least a year ago. :-) Matt From: Dino Buzzetti Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:14:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 422 (422) So why should we give bibliographical details when quoting from a printed book? Shouldn't we able, in most cases, to find it anyway, and sometimes even on-line? -dino buzzetti [deleted quotation] -- Dino Buzzetti Department of Philosophy University of Bologna tel. +39 051 20 98357 via Zamboni, 38 fax 98355 I-40126 Bologna BO From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:12:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 423 (423) What may strike you as unambiguous now may not be so unambiguous to either the present or future readers of your publication. Indeed, we could take your argument further and suggest that, with the growth of union catalogues and other online bibliographic databases, it should only be necessary to specify a similar abbreviated reference for printed works in the knowledge that anything worth reading will be indexed in Google or its future equivalent. Furthermore, to help mitigate against the lack of persistent URLs maybe all hypertext links on web pages should now be in the form: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Society for the History of Technology%22&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky">Society for the History of Technology? However, I don't feel so lucky. I believe references in any publication serve to provide an unambigous record of sources consulted or used by the author which enables, as far as is possible, for future readers to do likewise ("show your working out", as Maths teachers still tend to say). Whilst there may only be one Society for History of Technology appearing on the first page of Google now, who knows how many there will be in ten years time? Whilst specifying the date of access may not seem to be very helpful for readers (except to convey the implicit message, "Well, that's what the site said on 24 Oct 2004, it's not my fault if that's no longer the case."), at least it gives the potential for looking up the site on services like the Internet Archive where there's a better chance of reading what the author read. The issues are not much different from problems we still encounter when authors fail to correctly cite the particular edition of a printed work they read (maybe they just didn't know other editions with different text or pagination existed?). I'd rather we were encouraging students to provide rich citations to printed and online resources rather than suggesting that it is, and always shall be, found on Google in secula seculorum. 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_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:14:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 424 (424) Willard, Citing URLs and dates is a good practice. Electronic resources can change. A blog or a journal can migrate to be housed under a different domain name. Depending upon the speed of propagation and diligence of index updates, hits offered by a search engine may return a link which when activated results in a 404 (with or without redirect). See for example, Planned Obsolescence quote> Oops. 404. Planned Obsolescence has recently changed (1) servers, (2) URLs, (3) blogging engines, and (4) filenaming conventions. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/archive/000103.php (accessed October 24, 2004, 10:00 EDT) Citing date and sometimes time of access is useful. For example blog author Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies, Pomona College) may have, some time after 10'oclock of an autumn Sunday morning, changed in the text that I quoted above, the numbers to reflect less and order in a list and more the number of items [e.g. change servers 3x and filenaming conventions 1x]. Your expressed the desire for shorter citations in terms of the audiences skill: [deleted quotation]In terms of time available to an audience, fuller citation is preferable. In my reading, the URL and the date of access provide other information that is useful for some types of research: sociology of knowledge and networks of citation (e.g. which resources link to the cited URL); are other earlier versions of the cited resource cached and available. There is no determined "it" to find but versions to match. Even in the zero degree case of a citation to textual object that has not been modified or moved, date and time of access are interesting when compared to the other access dates and times of the other citiations in the piece that one may be reading (e.g. retracing the syntagm of reading (author accessed (and possible read) an article on Kant before one on Plato but the expository order adopted by the author places Plato first and Kant later -- a rhetorical move aht may influence the readers perusal and assessment of the argument). -- 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: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:15:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 425 (425) Hi Williard wrote: [deleted quotation]Probably, but I'd also like the URL and date, in case the resource is moved, or deleted. The date and URL makes it easier to find the resource in Internet Archive or the Google cache, and the date serves much the same purpose as the "second edition" in a printed resource citation. Lisa -- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital medievalist Instructional Technology | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/ My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:14:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 426 (426) I do agree that the citation of the date can be redundant or unnecessary in some cases. However, I reckon it will be a rather relevant bibliographical problem to discriminate between ambigous and unambigous cases, especially in a situation where advertisement and continuous changes may vary the order of results in a Google search. Moreover, how can we be sure that the procedures a research engine applies to find online resources will remain the same? Altough there is nothing surer in reporting the date fo sight, it seems to me that there is at least a principle for recognising a citation of an electronic resource as such. What we would need is probably a better method to do the same. Best, Arianna Ciula ------------------- Arianna Ciula mailto:arianna.ciula_at_kcl.ac.uk From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:15:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 427 (427) Willard wonders if we really need URLs in print and whether that practice could be replaced by an indication that a title can be searched, say through Google. A disadvantage of URLs is that many of them eventually change. We probably all resort to searching when this happens. Yet, despite being somewhat ephemeral, URLs and URIs still serve a purpose. For one thing, URLs should be unique. And there is no way to predict that the results of a Web search will remain unique. Willard's example of "Society for the History of Technology" does return the appropriate site as the first result of a Google search (using quotes), but given changes in search technology as well as the nature of the Web, who can predict that at one point, the "Finnish Society for the History of Technology"[1] might not be the first result? For what it's worth, even currently, that search returns 5,570 results in Google. An URL would provide more information and might possibly help to disambiguate the results. Not to mention that several URLs are quite informative. For instance, it might be relevant to know that the SHOT site is, at press time, hosted at "JHU" (John Hopkins) instead of UMich (Michigan) as it apparently was at another point in time. And as in publication date for author/date formats, date of access can be fairly relevant. Clearly, the best solution would in fact be URIs and DOI addresses but when these are not available, it seems that URLs are still more reliable than searches. Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) [1] http://www.ths.fi/thseng.htm or http://www.ths.fi/ From: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:16:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 428 (428) While it may be tempting to shorten the citation by NOT citing the URL and counting on Google to provide a persistent pointer to the resource, it would be a serious mistake. Google is an entrepreneurial enterprise and, while certainly a successful one SO FAR, it must still do its' own "search and discovery." The whole point of URLs is that an entity is providing a persistent locater...or that was the intent when the concept was developed with the Web by Tim Berners-Lee. The fact that the search engines have become more efficient should not be seen as an encouragement to move away from the structure that built the web and are still effective. No offense or slight intended, but to go the route of depending on Google is an intellectual sloppiness that I would hate to see take on a wider usage. The problem I see with citing URLs in printed material is that of aging links ("link-rot"), which will also occur with the search engines. To avoid this means that the creators need to take responsibility for the persistence of their creations. Libraries and archives are increasingly concerned with this issue and much work has gone into creating structures to assist scholars and users. I guess I see the Google approach as analogous to citing a printed reference by simply giving a title and saying, "as available at your local bookseller." Dennis Moser Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]printed [deleted quotation]-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mailto:aldus_at_angrek.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time" --John Stuart Mill (1806-73) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: David Sewell Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:16:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 429 (429) [deleted quotation]If I were writing an article in political science and wanted to refer to "the White House website," presumably I would have some interest in steering my reader to www.whitehouse.gov rather than www.whitehouse.org as the appropriate online resource, rather than trusting his or her ability to determine which is the authentic site and which the parody (unhelpful hint: which one offers the deadpan observation that "President George W. Bush's first term has been among the most consequential and successful in modern times"?). The special case here is generalizable. Until Internet publication is uniformly subject to versioned archiving and unambiguous standard identifiers, citing URL plus date of access is the most responsible way of documenting online sources for readers. David Sewell -- 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_at_virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://www.ei.virginia.edu/ From: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:17:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 430 (430) While I admire the instinct for brevity, unfortunately urls will still be necessary. The reason is that even monstrous efforts such as Google (with 4,285,199,774 as of today at 2:38pm) are estimated to index only 15-20% of the total number of webpages. The problem has as much to do with the "topography" of the internet, as with its explosive growth. See Barabási's "Linked" (2003) for an excellent overview of these issues. Still, I do think we could all agree to enter only "www" instead of "http://www" for webpages. K From: "Matthew S. Collins" Subject: Re: Electronic Portfolios Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:47:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 431 (431) Colleagues, I am writing to ask if any of those on the Humanist list either uses or knows of those using electronic portfolios in the Humanities? Electronic portfolios are a teaching and professional tool used in many K-12 systems and on some college campuses. I am particularly interested in such portfolios as used by/for graduate students and by faculty. Thanks. -Matthew ---------------------------------------------------- Matthew S. Collins Director of Congresses Society of Biblical Literature The Luce Center 825 Houston Mill Road, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30329 404.727.3095 matthew.collins_at_sbl-site.org www.sbl-site.org --------------------------------------------------- ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Donna Reiss mailto:dreiss_at_wordsworth2.net WordsWorth2 Communications http://wordsworth2.net/ Associate Professor, English-Humanities Tidewater Community College (Virginia) http://onlinelearning.tcc.edu/faculty/tcreisd/ TCC e-mail: ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 18.306 electronic portfolios? Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:23:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 432 (432) On 22/10/2004, at 4:03 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I suspect this is one of the terms from elearning that is going to be as problematic and ill defined as 'learning objects'. In the Media program that I'm involved in we now provide a blog for every student, they are required to use them. They are also taught very basic HTML and so the proposal/aim/hope is that by the end of their undergraduate experience they will have an online portfolio of their work. this will include video production, sound production, and academic hypermedia essays. We have only just begun this, but this content will be maintained online so that it is a portfolio of their work which can be used for assessment, promotion (of our course and of their individual abilities), and as a resource for other student cohorts. The blogs are to document their practice, and for whatever else they wish (for eg one student has initiated a 'sad' photograph series). These are e portfolios (in my book) but apparently not what most in the EdMedia community think of as e portfolios. cheers Adrian Miles +++++++++++++++++++++ http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.312 citing URLs Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:20:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 433 (433) I don't like the idea -- it reminds me of those books published in England that used to give the titles and publication dates of books, and no other information. It added significant time to finding them. I realize URLs are impermanent, but at least they can give us a start at finding the material. I'd feel very queasy about leaving such information out of a reference. From: cbf_at_socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 18.311 citing URLs unnecessary? Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:21:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 434 (434) Hi Willard, The problem is not only finding the URL but also documenting its state as of a particular date. Sites do change. The only remedy I know of is to use the Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine) to make sure that the version of the site cited (and sighted) is the same one still accessible to the reader of the artiicle. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab_at_library.berkeley.edu From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: Citing URLs is necessary Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:57:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 435 (435) URLs serve as a kind of checksum for the title of a document (a meaningful typo in a title could easily obscure the identity of the real source), or as a way to distinguish between documents with identical titles. So, no, I disagree, it is necessary to cite the URL of a reference. From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 55, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:21:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 436 (436) Version 55 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,225 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 (biweekly 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 180 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, 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_at_uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.34 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:22:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 437 (437) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 34 (October 27 - November 2, 2004) Airport Safety: A Case Study for Infrastructure Security The current implementation of do-not-fly lists and the use of documents to authenticate passenger identity won't necessarily improve airport security. By M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i34_kabay.html From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Open Archives Data Providers: Part III. Social Sciences Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:59:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 438 (438) and Humanities Colleagues/ I am pleased and proud to announce the publication and availability of the third part of my Open Archives Data Provider Trilogy: "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part III. Social Sciences and Humanities," _Library Hi Tech News_ 21 no. 7 (September/October 2004): 30-39. I have self-archived a copy of this eProfile at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-III.pdf ] In this last, but not least section, I profile the following OA Data Providers: 1. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection [ http://www.davidrumsey.com/ ] 2. Documenting the American South [ http://docsouth.unc.edu/ ] 3. Ethnologue [ http://www.ethnologue.com/ ] 4. Perseus Digital Library [ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ ] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Documented Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu From: "Mauricio" Subject: The role of critical thinking in the teaching/learning Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:18:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 439 (439) process This is a very interesting article that discusses "(1) the wide range of concepts found in the literature to define the term "critical thinking"; (2) present several models of critical thinking skills; and (3) offer some strategies for teaching and fostering critical thinking skills in the students". It is a review of literature by Phd. José Villalobos who is a active researcher and professor of the University of The Andes, Mérida-Venezuela. Reference: Villalobos, J. (2000). The role of critical thinking in the teaching/learning process. Entre Lenguas, 1 (5),5-17. to order contact: entrelen_at_ula.ve From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: IASIL 2005 + Prague James Joyce Colloquium Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:17:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 440 (440) IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague Ireland ­ A Global Village? 25-28 July 2005 <http://www.iasil.org/prague>http://www.iasil.org/prague The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures invites you to attend its 2005 conference at Charles University, Prague, in the Czech Republic. IASIL 2005 will also incorporate the 2nd Prague James Joyce Colloquium, organised through the Prague James Joyce Centre and Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University. Papers and panels are welcome on a broad range of topics including: Ireland in the media age; relations between the local and the global; national and post-national identities; Ireland in translation, translation in Ireland; modern and postmodern tendencies in Irish literature and performance; alterity and ethnicity; cultural flows, influence and intertexts in a “Globalised Ireland,” and on all aspects of the work of James Joyce. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Proposals for papers of 20 minutes duration are welcome on any aspect of the literatures of Ireland, especially those that focus on the conference theme. Proposals for panels and nominations for panel chairs are strongly encouraged. Deadline for abstracts (of approximately 200 words) and panel proposals: 15th December 2004. Proposals are now being accepted at conference_at_iasil.org VENUE Founded by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, in 1348, Charles University is among the oldest universities in Europe. IASIL 2005 will take place in the centrally located Faculty of Arts and Philosophy building. Situated on Jan Palach square on the bank of the river Vltava and facing Prague Castle, the Faculty building is in the heart of the Old Town (Stare Mesto) beside the historical Jewish quarter, and just a minutes walk from Charles Bridge. The area is plentifully supplied with restaurants and cafés. Wenceslas square, the National Theatre, the National Library, Franz Kafka’s birthplace are all within short walking distance. The venue is immediately accessed by metro, tram and bus. REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION Registration will be processed online after proposals and panels have been finalised. Accommodation will include a wide range of options from major hotels to student residences. Details will be announced by email and on the conference website at www.iasil.org. All speakers at IASIL conferences must be IASIL members for the year in which the conference takes place. Full details are on http://www.iasil.org/membership/ SOCIAL PROGRAMME We are currently arranging a social programme which will include several formal receptions, a fully catered river cruise and a final banquet. Walking tours of Prague will also be available. POST-CONFERENCE TOUR A Post-Conference tour to South Bohemia will depart on the 29th July, returning to Prague on the evening of the 30th. The itinerary will include a visit to the city of Ceske Budejovic, home of the original and only Budweiser (aka Budvar), the UNESCO protected medieval city of Cesky Krumlov and its 13th century castle, and on the following day a trip to the picturesque town of Trebon and the Cervena Lhota chateau. WEBSITE Information about all aspects of IASIL 2005 is available on the IASIL website - http://www.iasil.org/prague ORGANISERS IASIL 2005 is organised by the Centre for Irish Studies within the Department of English and American Studies at Charles University. Organising committee: Louis Armand, Ondrej Pilny, Clare Wallace. The conference is organised under the aegis of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University, and the Mayor of Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic. From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Program for the Face of Text Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:20:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 441 (441) Dear all, The full program for the Face of Text conference upcoming in November is now up at: http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/ The conference runs from Nov. 19 - 21 and will focus on text analysis and text visualization. We have a terrific roster of invited and peer-reviewed speakers. Register and come! Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell McMaster University From: Kristofer Paetau Subject: Open call to paticipate within "BoundLess" (museum) group Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:23:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 442 (442) exhibition Dear Friends, Colleagues and Amateurs of contemporary art, Check out this open call for (free) participation in the project of Jan Christensen, within the "BoundLess" group exhibition in Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway, curated by Henry Meyric Hughes. I think it's a very good project in that kind of an institutional context. Please send your material / questions directly to: jan_b_christensen_at_yahoo.com For informations about my Artinfo-l mailing list and how to unsubscribe, please have a look at the end of this mail. Best wishes, Kristofer Paetau ------------------------------- This is an open call for contributing material to a project intended for a group show in Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway, curated by Henry Meyric Hughes. The show is scheduled to open in February, 2005. I have been invited as a participating artist for the show "BoundLess", which has a theme based on the idea of artists travelling, creating networks of affiliated people and the notion that creativity is relative and subject to your meetings and subsequent inspirations. I would like to open this up further by inviting ANYBODY to submit material such as text or images - or both - which will fit on a sheet of A4 in black and white. It could be a text, an article, a drawing, a note, a photograph or whatever. Your material will be included in the show as a reproduction, without any restrictions or censorship, and I will furthermore make an effort to reproduce selected images and illustrations (blown up as posters or painted up as some sort of background decoration), as a backdrop to the show. I will even try to execute any instructions you supply, to the best of my ability. There is no limit to the number of pieces you submit, but please note that each work of art should be limited to a single sheet of paper. Please forward this email to ANYBODY you might think would find it interesting. You may credit this show as a group show, in which you participate by your involvement in this installation, though I can not guarantee that details regarding each participant will be included for additional printed matter, apart from what I will myself produce, as part of the show, which will be some sort of printed document consisting of all contributions, including credits (names only,) and, hopefully, a poster. The complete document will then be available for download as a PDF from my homepage ( http://www.janchristensen.org ). I will respond personally to every contributor with detailed information regarding the exhibition. Please note that there will not be any fees or reimbursements included for participants to this project. Please be aware that copyrights will not be respected. Popular culture is founded on appropriation. Please send ANY ideas, texts and material to me by email as soon as possible and no later than 31 December, 2004. email: jan_b_christensen_at_yahoo.com Format: DIN A4 Black and White File formats: RTF (Rich Text Format), PDF and JPEG. Dpi: 72-300 dpi Fonts: If you are using uncommon fonts for RTF and PDF documents, please include the fonts (PC) with the attachment, or simply produce the text as a 300 dpi JPEG file. I hope you find this interesting and I hope to see your contribution. Thank you in advance and sincerely yours, Jan Christensen. *** This is not spam. Please excuse any cross-mailing. *** ------------------------------- Artinfo-l is an independent, non-commercial artistic media and a communication network. The aim is to provide You with interesting visual and intellectual material in the field of contemporary art. Substantial research related to contemporary art should be made accessible and wide-spread; this is why I constantly enlarge the Artinfo-l list, in order to include more potential Amateurs of contemporary art. I apologize for cross&multiple-postings and you can of course unsubscribe: To unsubscribe automatically, please send an empty e-mail from your e-mail account to: ARTINFO-L-unsubscribe-request_at_listserv.dfn.de If this doesn't work, please reply to this mail and write UNSUBSCRIBE in the mail subject and please include any old & alternative e-mail addresses in the mail. You probably got this mail re-routed from another e-mail account and I need to find out from which account it was, in order to unsubscribe you. Thank you, Kristofer Paetau ------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt neu bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://freemail.web.de/?mc=021193 From: Erika Smith Subject: Call for Papers: COCH-COSH Graduate Panel Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:59:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 443 (443) COCH-COSH 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS: GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities is pleased to announce a new graduate student panel at this year's annual conference. The conference will take place in London, Ontario at the University of Western Ontario from May 29 - June 1, 2005. COCH-COSH is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities whose objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of, information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the betterment of post-secondary education across Canada. This year's COCH-COSH conference will feature presentations focusing on dynamic and emerging areas of research, and will engage in issues from many different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Topics for the graduate panel of this conference will include, but are not limited to, the following: - gender and technology - issues of accessibility in the digital age - digital community and interaction - new directions for (interdisciplinary) humanities scholarship - educational technology - new media and textuality - innovative (post-secondary) educational resources and curriculum - defining (or integrating) interactivity in cultural spaces - peer interaction and new technology in academia Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005. Submission Deadline: December 15, 2004. Proposals should be no longer than 500 words and conference presentations should be between 15-20 minutes. Please note: all submissions should clearly note in the body of the abstract that they are intended for the graduate panel. Session proposals and other inquiries may be emailed directly to: Patrick Finn (St. Mary's University-College) and Alan Galey (University of Western Ontario): conference_at_coch-cosh.ca Sincerely, Erika Smith COCH-COSH Graduate Panel Organizer ----------------------------------------------------- Erika Smith M.A. Candidate Humanities Computing University of Alberta From: Willard McCarty Subject: references and URLs Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:43:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 444 (444) I asked my question about URLs in a deliberately provocative way to get some help thinking about the nitty-gritty practicalities of writing for a medium in which space is often very limited. So I began to wonder if the discrepancy between current doctrine and my own habitual way of finding things online -- by means of Google and similar mechanisms, almost never by recorded URL -- was telling me something important. I began to wonder if by following that doctrine we are simply making ourselves feel comfortable, or as comfortable as we can make ourselves feel under the circumstances, rather than doing any kind of real service to our readers. The Wayback Machine works by URL and date, and so by itself strongly supports the recommended practice. I've used it, crucially to be able to cite the entire run of the Recent Science Newsletter, which was deleted without notice by George Washington University after the Center for the History of Recent Science folded. Other universities may have more enlightened policies and actually follow them, but this one incident certainly made the point for me. But still the question remains. What is a conventional bibliographic reference, really, to us? Ok, for some of us, perhaps, it is a way of boasting or satisfying some requirement, for example that in our proposals for papers we recognize other work in the field. While working on my PhD dissertation I certainly discovered a number of references that pointed to nothing. But functionally, in the ideal world of responsible scholarship, the reference is a coded set of instructions for finding an object. It may serve as a guarantee of authority, but mostly it serves the purpose of allowing the interested person to investigate further, and that is very important -- indeed sometimes more so than the argument of the work making the reference. So, as far as I am concerned, reference-making for actual use is central to scholarship. (Note the qualification, "for actual use".) For a manuscript or in certain special cases a printed book, the referenced object is identical to the object that the person making the reference actually used. Mostly, however, for a printed book this object is defined within reasonable parameters to be "the same" as the object in question, so that we can ignore the identity of the actual copy used, or even which printing of the book. Most of us would want to know which edition, because a new edition usually if not always means changes to the substance of the book. In other words, a reference in such cases is designed on the basis of the materiality of the object to which reference is made and the vicissitudes that an object of its type is likely to suffer. In making such a reference we compromise, agreeing tacitly by convention to ignore accidents or deliberate damage to individual copies. The materiality of a digital artifact is very different, the probable vicissitudes very different. So much depends on the dynamic, temporally contingent nature of the medium that a very different set of behaviours is called for. I don't think that we have considered the matter thoroughly yet. Rather our own behaviour suggests that we have made every effort to make the digital medium conform to our prior conventions, and that when difficulties arise we have ignored them -- except perhaps in what we actually do, on our own, in practice. I think this actual behaviour is a very much better guide than our beliefs or proclamations -- as long as this behaviour in turn actually supports the work we do. You wouldn't want to make a decision about where to live based on a city-dweller's opinion of life in the country. My own practice is as follows. When I see something online that I need or suspect that I might need someday, I save a copy of it immediately on my own machine, and I record all the bibliographic information I can discover about it into a bibliographic management program (Library Master, as it happens). I certainly do not rely simply on URL and date. When I read about something that I think I must have the first thing I do is to attempt finding it online. Quite often the supplied URL, if there is one, doesn't work. (That "quite often" is highly subjective so shouldn't be trusted except as a spur to care.) Almost always, however, I don't bother with the URL but go for the resource via Google or some other such thing. (I should be saying, perhaps, that I use "a google" or that "I google" the resource.) I'd say that a good 90-95% of the time I find it. When the URL is very easy to type or is simply clickable, I often google words from the title, the author's name etc. to see what else I might pick up. Sometimes what results is better than what I actually found. Once I knew a very wise man, who taught Chinese and Mongolian at Toronto. One of his favourite reference works was some Chinese encyclopedia, the title of which I have forgotten. This encyclopedia did not have an index of any kind, and of course did not have an alphabetical organization or anything like that, so finding things was somewhat of a challenge. He told me that one day he saw an advert for an index to it, done by some Western scholars for their Sinologist colleagues. He said he was about to order it but didn't. He realized then that in all the years of using this encyclopedia he had quite often found far more interesting and consequential items than those he had started out to find, and that if he had this index he would likely succumb to the convenience and seldom if ever again benefit from the serendipity of his wandering searches. It seems to me that one of the most important practical skills we can teach is how to find stuff online -- and of course how to determine what sort of knowledge it affords about what. We should beware that all the well-intentioned bumf about The Semantic Web does not cause us to defer attention to what we can now do if only we know how to do it. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Simon Tanner Subject: History Digitisation Conference Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:53:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 445 (445) [deleted quotation]++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)7793 403542 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/ From: Scott Sharplin Subject: Call for Papers: 4th annual Alberta Humanities Computing Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:56:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 446 (446) Graduate Conference The World Wide Weave Fourth Annual University of Alberta Humanities Computing Graduate Conference January 21-22, 2005, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Deadline for abstract submissions: Monday November 15, 2004 The staff and students of the M.A. in Humanities Computing programme are pleased to announce the University of Alberta.s fourth annual humanities computing graduate conference, "The World Wide Weave," to be held January 21-22, 2005 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This conference will bring together students and scholars from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives to compare their theoretical and practical findings on the intersections between humanities scholarship and 21st century computing technology. Because humanities computing is an interdisciplinary field, proposals from all arts disciplines are welcome. 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 -Cyberculture -Technology and gender -Multimedia theory -Post-humanism and the virtual body -Sociology and politics of technology Presentations will average 20 minutes. .Smart Room. technology is available; however, please specify any unusual audio/visual considerations that may arise from your presentation. 300 word abstracts must be submitted by November 15, 2004. Please email your abstract as a MS Word, RTF, or WordPerfect attachment to: sms_at_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 programme, please visit: http://huco.ualberta.ca From: Sandhya Sundaresan Subject: Penn Linguistics Colloquium 29: Last Call for Papers Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:56:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 447 (447) The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium: LAST Call for Papers *** Deadline for abstract submissions: November 8th, 2004 *** The 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place FEBRUARY 25-27, 2005 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. INVITED SPEAKER: Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Gerund constructions within a universal theory of categories. *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP (New!): "Syntactically annotated corpora: What, Why and How?" by Anthony Kroch et al. (University of Pennsylvania) *************************************************************************** SUBMISSIONS: Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions. Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced, in 11-pt. font. An additional page may be used for references and tables. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract. To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a .pdf file. If you cannot create .pdf files, you may submit a .doc, .rtf, or .txt file, and we will convert it for you. However, since phonetic fonts are not likely to output correctly, we ask that you set up a legend using standard ASCII characters. An online abstract submission form will soon be available at the PLC website, http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submissions due: November 8, 2004. Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 17, 2005. PROCEEDINGS: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Email plc29_at_ling.upenn.edu Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ Penn Linguistics Colloquium Department of Linguistics 619 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 This event is supported by funding from GSAC, the Graduate Student Association Council of the University of Pennsylvania. Best, the PLC 29 Committee From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication on multimedia information processing Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:51:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 448 (448) Volume 3333/2004 (Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2004) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: WARAJI: Foot-Driven Navigation Interfaces for Virtual Reality Applications p. 1 Salvador Barrera, Piperakis Romanos, Suguru Saito, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Nakajima Time Space Interface Using DV (Digital Video) and GPS (Global Positioning System) Technology - A Study with an Art Project "Field-Work_at_Alsace" p. 8 Masaki Fujihata Action Generation from Natural Language p. 15 Satoshi Funatsu, Tomofumi Koyama, Suguru Saito, Takenobu Tokunaga, Masayuki Nakajima Human-Scale Interaction with a Multi-projector Display and Multimodal Interfaces p. 23 Naoki Hashimoto, Jaeho Ryu, Seungzoo Jeong, Makoto Sato Entertainment Applications of Human-Scale Virtual Reality Systems p. 31 Akihiko Shirai, Kiichi Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawakita, Shoichi Hasegawa, Masayuki Nakajima, Makoto Sato Analysis and Synthesis of Latin Dance Using Motion Capture Data p. 39 Noriko Nagata, Kazutaka Okumoto, Daisuke Iwai, Felipe Toro, Seiji Inokuchi Web-Based Telepresence System Using Omni-directional Video Streams p. 45 Kazumasa Yamazawa, Tomoya Ishikawa, Tomokazu Sato, Sei Ikeda, Yutaka Nakamura, Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Hideki Sunahara, Naokazu Yokoya Wide View Surveillance System with Multiple Smart Image Sensors and Mirrors p. 53 Ryusuke Kawahara, Satoshi Shimizu, Takayuki Hamamoto Object Tracking and Identification in Video Streams with Snakes and Points p. 61 Bruno Lameyre, Valerie Gouet Using a Non-prior Training Active Feature Model p. 69 Sangjin Kim, Jinyoung Kang, Jeongho Shin, Seongwon Lee, Joonki Paik, Sangkyu Kang, Besma Abidi, Mongi Abidi An Immunological Approach to Raising Alarms in Video Surveillance p. 79 Lukman Sasmita, Wanquan Liu, Svetha Venkatesh Sat-Cam: Personal Satellite Virtual Camera p. 87 Hansung Kim, Itaru Kitahara, Kiyoshi Kogure, Norihiro Hagita, Kwanghoon Sohn A Linear Approximation Based Method for Noise-Robust and Illumination-Invariant Image Change Detection p. 95 Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Qian-Sheng Cheng, Wei-Ying Ma 3D Model Similarity Measurement with Geometric Feature Map Based on Phase-Encoded Range Image p. 103 Donghui Wang, Chenyang Cui Automatic Peak Number Detection in Image Symmetry Analysis p. 111 Jingrui He, Mingjing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Hanghang Tong, Changshui Zhang Image Matching Based on Singular Value Decomposition p. 119 Feng Zhao Image Matching Based on Scale Invariant Regions p. 127 Lei Qin, Wei Zeng, Weiqiang Wang A Method for Blocking Effect Reduction Based on Optimal Filtering p. 135 Daehee Kim, Yo-Sung Ho Novel Video Error Concealment Using Shot Boundary Detection p. 143 You-Neng Xiao, Xiang-Yang Xue, Ruo-Nan Pu, Hong Lu, Congjie Mi Using Only Long Windows in MPEG-2/4 AAC Encoding p. 151 Fu-Mau Chang, Shingchern D. You Frequency Weighting and Selective Enhancement for MPEG-4 Scalable Video Coding p. 159 Seung-Hwan Kim, Yo-Sung Ho Efficient Multiview Video Coding Based on MPEG-4 p. 167 Wenxian Yang, King Ngi Ngan, Jianfei Cai Block Matching Using Integral Frame Attributes p. 175 Viet Anh Nguyen, Yap-Peng Tan Impact of Similarity Threshold on Arbitrary Shaped Pattern Selection Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding Algorithm p. 184 Manoranjan Paul, Manzur Murshed A Study on the Quantization Scheme in H.264/AVC and Its Application to Rate Control p. 192 Siwei Ma, Wen Gao, Debin Zhao, Yan Lu An Efficient VLSI Implementation for MC Interpolation of AVS Standard p. 200 Lei Deng, Wen Gao, Ming-Zeng Hu, Zhen-Zhou Ji Fast Fractal Image Encoder Using Non-overlapped Block Classification and Simplified Isometry Testing Scheme p. 207 Youngjoon Han, Hawik Chung, Hernsoo Hahn A Fast Downsizing Video Transcoder Based on H.264/AVC Standard p. 215 Chih-Hung Li, Chung-Neng Wang, Tihao Chiang Temporal Error Concealment with Block Boundary Smoothing p. 224 Woong Il Choi, Byeungwoo Jeon Spatio-temporally Adaptive Regularization for Enhancement of Motion Compensated Wavelet Coded Video p. 232 Junghoon Jung, Hyunjong Ki, Seongwon Lee, Jeongho Shin, Jinyoung Kang, Joonki Paik ROI and FOI Algorithms for Wavelet-Based Video Compression p. 241 Chaoqiang Liu, Tao Xia, Hui Li Adaptive Distributed Source Coding for Multi-view Images p. 249 Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Michael Droese, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto Hybrid Multiple Description Video Coding Using SD/MD Switching p. 257 Il Koo Kim, Nam Ik Cho Clusters-Based Distributed Streaming Services with Fault-Tolerant Schemes p. 265 Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin Towards SMIL Document Analysis Using an Algebraic Time Net p. 273 A. Abdelli, M. Daoudi MULTFRC-LERD: An Improved Rate Control Scheme for Video Streaming over Wireless p. 282 Xiaolin Tong, Qingming Huang Multi-source Media Streaming for the Contents Distribution in a P2P Network p. 290 Sung Yong Lee, Jae Gil Lee, Chang Yeol Choi A New Feature for TV Programs: Viewer Participation Through Videoconferencing p. 298 Jukka Rauhala, Petri Vuorimaa Application Layer Multicast with Proactive Route Maintenance over Redundant Overlay Trees p. 306 Yohei Kunichika, Jiro Katto, Sakae Okubo Real-Time Rate Control Via Variable Frame Rate and Quantization Parameters p. 314 Chi-Wah Wong, Oscar C. Au, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Hong-Kwai Lam The Structure of Logically Hierarchical Cluster for the Distributed Multimedia on Demand p. 323 Xuhui Xiong, Shengsheng Yu, Jingli Zhou Image Forensics Technology for Digital Camera p. 331 Jongweon Kim, Youngbae Byun, Jonguk Choi Lossless Data Hiding Based on Histogram Modification of Difference Images p. 340 Sang-Kwang Lee, Young-Ho Suh, Yo-Sung Ho A Robust Image Watermarking Scheme to Geometrical Attacks for Embedment of Multibit Information p. 348 Jung-Soo Lee, Whoi-Yul Kim Combined Encryption and Watermarking Approaches for Scalable Multimedia Coding p. 356 Feng-Cheng Chang, Hsiang-Cheh Huang, Hsueh-Ming Hang Digital Image Watermarking Using Independent Component Analysis p. 364 Viet Thang Nguyen, Jagdish Chandra Patra Clustering-Based Image Retrieval Using Fast Exhaustive Multi-resolution Search Algorithm p. 372 Byung Cheol Song, Kang Wook Chun Robust Watermarking for Copyright Protection of 3D Polygonal Model p. 378 Wan-Hyun Cho, Myung-Eun Lee, Hyun Lim, Soon-Young Park Digital Video Scrambling Method Using Intra Prediction Mode p. 386 Jinhaeng Ahn, Hiuk Jae Shim, Byeungwoo Jeon, Inchoon Choi Watermark Re-synchronization Using Sinusoidal Signals in DT-CWT Domain p. 394 Miin-Luen Day, Suh-Yin Lee, I-Chang Jou The Undeniable Multi-signature Scheme Suitable for Joint Copyright Protection on Digital Contents p. 402 Sung-Hyun Yun, Hyung-Woo Lee A Digital Watermarking Scheme for Personal Image Authentication Using Eigenface p. 410 Chien-Hsung Chen, Long-Wen Chang Cryptanalysis of a Chaotic Neural Network Based Multimedia Encryption Scheme p. 418 Chengqing Li, Shujun Li, Dan Zhang, Guanrong Chen A Secure Steganographic Method on Wavelet Domain of Palette-Based Images p. 426 Wei Ding, Xiang-Wei Kong, Xin-Gang You, Zi-Ren Wang Mapping Energy Video Watermarking Algorithm Based on Compressed Domain p. 433 Lijun Wang, HongXun Yao, ShaoHui Liu, Wen Gao A Fragile Image Watermarking Based on Mass and Centroid p. 441 Hui Han, HongXun Yao, ShaoHui Liu, Yan Liu MPEG-21 DIA Testbed for Stereoscopic Adaptation of Digital Items p. 449 Hyunsik Sohn, Haksoo Kim, Manbae Kim An MPEG-4 Authoring System with Temporal Constraints for Interactive Scene p. 457 Heesun Kim A Method of Digital Camera Work Focused on Players and a Ball: - Toward Automatic Contents Production System of Commentary Soccer Video by Digital Shooting - p. 466 Masahito Kumano, Yasuo Ariki, Kiyoshi Tsukada Real-Time Rendering of Watercolor Effects for Virtual Environments p. 474 Su Ian Eugene Lei, Chun-Fa Chang Haptic Interaction in Realistic Multimedia Broadcasting p. 482 Jongeun Cha, Jeha Ryu, Seungjun Kim, Seongeun Eom, Byungha Ahn Object-Based Stereoscopic Conversion of MPEG-4 Encoded Data p. 491 Manbae Kim, Sanghoon Park, Youngran Cho Shared Annotation Database for Networked Wearable Augmented Reality System p. 499 Koji Makita, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya A Study on Image Electronic Money Based on Watermarking Technique p. 508 Jung-Soo Lee, Jong-Weon Kim, Kyu-Tae Kim, Jonguk Choi, Whoi-Yul Kim A Fully Automated Web-Based TV-News System p. 515 P.S. Lai, L.Y. Lai, T.C. Tseng, Y.H. Chen, Hsin-Chia Fu An Evolutionary Computing Approach for Mining of Bio-medical Images p. 523 Shashikala Tapaswi, R.C. Joshi Movie-Based Multimedia Environment for Programming and Algorithms Design p. 533 Dmitry Vazhenin, Alexander Vazhenin, Nikolay Mirenkov An Improvement Algorithm for Accessing Patterns Through Clustering in Interactive VRML Environments p. 542 Damon Shing-Min Liu, Shao-Shin Hung, Ting-Chia Kuo MPEG-4 Video Retrieval Using Video-Objects and Edge Potential Functions p. 550 Minh-Son Dao, Francesco G.B. DeNatale, Andrea Massa A Unified Framework Using Spatial Color Descriptor and Motion-Based Post Refinement for Shot Boundary Detection p. 558 Wei-Ta Chu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Sheng-Fang He, Chia-Wei Wang, Ja-Ling Wu HMM-Based Audio Keyword Generation p. 566 Min Xu, Ling-Yu Duan, Jianfei Cai, Liang-Tien Chia, Changsheng Xu, Qi Tian Video Scene Segmentation Using Sequential Change Detection p. 575 Zhenyan Li, Hong Lu, Yap-Peng Tan Feature Extraction and Evaluation Using Edge Histogram Descriptor in MPEG-7 p. 583 Chee Sun Won Automatic Synthesis of Background Music Track Data by Analysis of Video Contents p. 591 Toshio Modegi Picture Quality Improvement in Low Bit Rate Video Coding Using Block Boundary Classification and Simple Adaptive Filter p. 599 Kee-Koo Kwon, Jin-Suk Ma, Sung-Ho Im, Dong-Sun Lim Bit Position Quantization in Scalable Video Coding for Representing Detail of Image p. 607 Hideaki Kimata, Masaki Kitahara, Kazuto Kamikura, Yoshiyuki Yashima A Fast Full Search Algorithm for Multiple Reference Images p. 615 Hyun-Soo Kang, Si-Woong Lee, Kook-Yeol Yoo, Jae-Gark Choi Preprocessing of Depth and Color Information for Layered Depth Image Coding p. 622 Seung-Uk Yoon, Sung-Yeol Kim, Yo-Sung Ho Selective Motion Estimation for Fast Video Encoding p. 630 Sun Young Lee, Yong Ho Cho, Whoiyul Kim, Euee S. Jang An Efficient VLSI Architecture of the Sample Interpolation for MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile p. 639 Lei Deng, Ming-Zeng Hu, Zhen-Zhou Ji Performance Improvement of Vector Quantization by Using Threshold p. 647 Hung-Yi Chang, Pi-Chung Wang, Rong-Chang Chen, Shuo-Cheng Hu An Efficient Object Based Personal Video Coding System p. 655 Cataldo Guaragnella, Tiziana D'Orazio Multiview Video Coding Based on Global Motion Model p. 665 Xun Guo, Qingming Huang A Novel Rate-Distortion Model for Leaky Prediction Based FGS Video Coding p. 673 Jianhua Wu, Jianfei Cai JPEG Quantization Table Design for Photos with Face in Wireless Handset p. 681 Gu-Min Jeong, Jun-Ho Kang, Yong-Su Mun, Doo-Hee Jung Effective Drift Reduction Technique for Reduced Bit-Rate Video Adaptation p. 689 June-Sok Lee, Goo-Rak Kwon, Jae-Won Kim, Jae-Yong Lee, Sung-Jea Ko On Implementation of a Scalable Wallet-Size Cluster Computing System for Multimedia Applications p. 697 Liang-Teh Lee, Kuan-Ching Li, Chao-Tung Yang, Chia-Ying Tseng, Kang-Yuan Liu, Chih-Hung Hung An Adaptive LS-Based Motion Prediction Algorithm for Video Coding p. 705 Min-Cheol Hong, Myung-Sik Yoo, Ji-Hee Kim Embedded Packetization Framework for Layered Multiple Description Coding p. 713 Longshe Huo, Qingming Huang, Jianguo Xie Semi-fragile Watermarking Based on Dither Modulation p. 721 Jongweon Kim, Youngbae Byun, Jonguk Choi An Adaptive Steganography for Index-Based Images Using Codeword Grouping p. 731 Chin-Chen Chang, Piyu Tsai, Min-Hui Lin DH-LZW: Lossless Data Hiding Method in LZW Compression p. 739 Hiuk Jae Shim, Byeungwoo Jeon Blind Image Data Hiding in the Wavelet Domain p. 747 Mohsen Ashourian, Yo-Sung Ho Image Watermarking Capacity Analysis Using Hopfield Neural Network p. 755 Fan Zhang, Hongbin Zhang Efficient Algorithms in Determining JPEG-Effective Watermark Coefficients p. 763 Chih-Wei Tang, Hsueh-Ming Hang A Fragile Watermarking Based on Knapsack Problem p. 771 Hui Han, HongXun Yao, ShaoHui Liu, Yan Liu [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: AI and Society 18.4 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:58:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 449 (449) Volume 18 Number 4 of AI & Society is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Aesthetics of navigational performance in hypertext p. 297 Parthasarathi Banerjee Technology and knowledge: the affirmation of power p. 310 Simon Foley Open Forum Intelligent agents as innovations p. 364 Alexander Serenko, Brian Detlor Book Review Pamela McCorduck and A.K. Peters (eds): Machines who think: 25th anniversary update: Natick, Massachusetts, 2004, ISBN 1-56881-205-1 p. 382 Richard Ennals [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Literary Studies / Digital Humanities Research Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:55:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 450 (450) Assistantships (2005-) Literary Studies / Digital Humanities Research Assistantships (2005-) Electronic Textual Cultures Lab Department of English University of Victoria <http://www.engl.uvic.ca/> Applications are invited for several research assistantships in the newly-established Electronic Textual Cultures Lab based in the University of Victoria's Department of English, and allied with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre, in areas related to literary studies, the digital humanities, and humanities computing. The assistantships will be in [1] digitisation, [2] document encoding and transformation, [3] website development, and [4] programming. An understanding and appreciation of the field of literary studies is essential for these positions, as is proficiency with computers and an awareness of the application of computing techniques to humanities disciplines. If necessary, specific training in digitisation, encoding, and analysis as they relate to the expectations of the position is available to incumbents during the Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute (June 2005; see http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/). For these positions, the contract of employment will be for twelve hours per week, for twelve months (renewable), at standard local rates ($17.49/hour in 2004); in addition, all assistants are eligible to apply for a Graduate Tuition Fellowship of $4,400 for the year (2004 value). For more information about these positions, please contact the project supervisor: Ray Siemens English, University of Victoria PO Box 3070 STN CSC Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1 siemens_at_uvic.ca Graduate students at the University of Victoria are encouraged to apply directly to the project supervisor. A CV including details of relevant experience and the names of two people who have agreed to act as referees on your behalf should be submitted to the supervisor. Those applying to graduate studies at the University of Victoria who would like to be considered for this position should apply directly for admission into to the department to which they wish to be admitted, as well as to the project supervisor. Details of the application process for graduate studies are available at http://web.uvic.ca/gradstudies/. ____________ R.G. Siemens Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1 Phone: (250) 721-7272 Fax: (250) 721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Value of PDF File Format? Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:53:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 451 (451) Colleagues, fellow computing humanists, In a strikingly unrelated context, someone mentioned their aversion for PDF files. Given that PDF files are rather prominent in academic computing, what are your thoughts on the subject? Are PDF files a "Necessary Evil" or a "Gift to the World?" If you dislike PDF files, what are their main problems and which file format could be used to overcome these problems? If you see PDF files as a blessing, what makes them so useful? If you use PDF files, what do you do with them? Of course, issues related to the Acrobat family of PDF-processing tools are quite separate from issues related to the PDF file format. It seems that this "PDF critic" mentioned earlier was mostly complaining about Acrobat Reader. Issues related to the file format itself seem more relevant to us. Oh, and yes, several things have been written to praise or condemn PDF files. But in the context of Humanities Computing, it'd be interesting to see what PDF represents for people in our fields. Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: Maja van der Velden Subject: Surfing the web in Inuktitut Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:52:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 452 (452) [forwarded from the Catac list with thanks. --WM] Very interesting development! Here is an example of how it will work: http://www.inuitbroadcasting.ca/ Greetings, Maja OCTOBER 15, 2004 - 10:09 ET Web Networks: Technology Supports Culture - Aboriginal Languages Now Easier on the Web TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 15, 2004) - A new solution puts a Toronto firm at the forefront of implementing languages on the Web. Users can now surf the Web in Inuktitut on any computer, without extra software or special settings. "Because the syllabics issue is handled by our Web server," says Oliver Zielke of Web Networks, "the user's fonts and browser settings don't matter." Site maintenance, he says, is a snap. Webmasters can write in Inuktitut within the customized interface, push a button, and it's done. Web Networks of Toronto worked with Pirurvik Centre of Iqaluit to develop Attavik.net, an application suite that makes it easy to manage documents, directories, calendars, registrations, and online payment in the Inuit language. "The Government of Nunavut is committed," says Eva Aariak, Languages Commissioner of Nunavut, "to making Inuktitut its working language. This type of development puts that goal within reach." Ease of use and accessibility will empower Inuktitut speakers, she says, especially the young, by giving them an opportunity other language users take for granted in this computer age. "In the big picture," says Chuck Gilhuly, executive director of Nunavut Municipal Training Organization, "maintaining the viability of a language is a matter of making things functional in the language. If we had to become Web site programmers and write in code, we would have never achieved the functionality that we have, or else we would have gone broke trying to do it." The technology behind Attavik.net can be used to serve Web sites in other syllabic languages, such as Cree, Oji-cree, Naskapi, and Korean. Web Networks provides Web site services to socially committed organizations. Its clients include Amnesty International, the Conservation Council of Ontario, and the Canadian Labour Congress. More information is available at www.attavik.net and www.web.net. -30- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Web Networks Oliver Zielke CEO 1 (800) 932 - 7003 ext. 18 oliver_at_web.net or Pirurvik Centre Gavin Nesbitt (867) 979 - 4722 gnesbitt_at_pirurvik.ca Maja van der Velden http://www.globalagenda.org _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- October 2004 Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:54:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 453 (453) CIT INFOBITS October 2004 No. 76 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. ...................................................................... Meet the Millennials Rewarding Faculty Who Use TET Tools Little Evidence of Use of Creative Commons Licenses in Academe Gleason Sackmann Retires New Newsletter on IT in Higher Ed Halloween Link: Gothic Literature 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: robert delius royar Subject: Re: references and URLs Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:18:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 454 (454) Sat, 30 Oct 2004 (09:49 +0100 UTC) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of...: [deleted quotation]Wayback relies on the Alexa crawler, and on my site I have had problems with a crawler listed in Alexa's IP range snooping in areas that are dissallowed by the rules Alexa says it follows. I have also noticed that updates for this year do not seem as plentiful as for years past and that more of them are turning up "The owner of this site has disallowed search..." So, it may be that the Wayback machine is not so complete as one might expect. A crawler is just a worm that aerates more than it contaminates. They both can eat up bandwidth and slow the crawled server's responses. I believe the MLA also now blocks spiders and other crawlers. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University Making meaning one message at a time. From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 18.322 references and URLs Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:23:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 455 (455) On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation][material deleted] [deleted quotation]Only a wee bit of suprise that you made no reference to any of the previous postings written in response to your initial question ;-) Mike From: Carolyn Guertin Subject: CFP Enabling Technologies Deadline: 15 Dec 04 Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:23:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 456 (456) A joint panel from the Canadian Disability Studies Association and COCH/COSH http://www.coch-cosh.ca/ CFP: Enabling Technologies Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2004 The technological revolution has produced an explosion of new hardware, software and sensory modalities that open doors of accessibility for all kinds of users. The Canadian Disability Studies Association and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH) welcome papers that deal with accessibility issues, including alternative and inclusive technologies, interfaces, and pedagogies for the differently abled. We are interested in discussions centred on electronic assistive technologies as tools and media for the humanities. Software or hardware demonstrations are welcome, but only as a part of an inquiry into the larger issues as they affect access in the arts, social sciences and education. Possible topics might include: * assistive technologies: reading/writing software, voice output, onscreen keyboards, portable note takers, etc. * rich media resources, materials, textbooks in the classroom and online * instructional technologies * inclusive design * augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) * ergonomics * adult and geriatric education * networks * voice, eye, and neurological interfaces * mobile computing * hands-free computing * virtual prosthetics * implants * virtual exhibitions and accessible resources * enabled arts * music-based technologies * access-related textual encoding and its standards * tactile television and computing * 3D modeling, printers, tactile captions, etc. * digital textbooks, talking books, tactile animation * JAWS, cyberlink, and other softwares and their applications * enabling resources, databases, search engines, services The Canadian Disability Studies Association is a Canada-wide organization concerned with the intersections with (and within) disability and disability studies, including disability and medicine; social policy and disability; disability history; the immigrant experience and disability; law and disability; disability and queerness; disability and culture; disability in literature; feminism and disability; ethics and disability, disability and pedagogy; and disability and personal/private space. The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986. Our objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of, information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the betterment of post-secondary education across Canada. COCH/COSH participates in the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada¹s (HSSFC) annual Congress to promote humanities computing research and scholarship in Canada and internationally. Our theme for the 2005 Congress will be "The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities," and will place special emphasis on connections between humanities computing and other fields. It will take place at the University of Western Ontario from May 29-31, 2005. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted in English or French until December 15, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference. Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including email; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and major focus. Be sure to mark your submission as being for the ŒEnabling Technologies¹ Panel. Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/ Inquiries may be emailed directly to: carolyn.guertin_at_utoronto.ca (or contact made by telephone or other means below) Carolyn Guertin, PhD Senior McLuhan Fellow McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology University of Toronto 39A Queen¹s Park Crescent Toronto Canada M5S 2C3 voice: 416-928-0196 fax: 416-978-5324 email: carolyn.guertin_at_utoronto.ca -- Carolyn Guertin, PhD, Senior McLuhan Fellow McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto Email: carolyn.guertin_at_utoronto.ca; Voice: 416-928-0196 Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/ Program: http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/ Assemblage: The Women's Online New Media Gallery http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm From: Educational CyberPlayGround Subject: Gleason Sackmann Retires Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:25:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 457 (457) GLEASON SACKMANN RETIRES Carolyn Kotlas CIT INFOBITS October 2004 No. 76 ISSN 1521-9275 10/29/04 After a long career in education, Gleason Sackmann retired this year. In 1998, he was awarded the SIG/Tel Educational Telecomputing Outstanding Service Award, and in 1996, he was rated #10 on NEWSWEEK's prestigious List of "50 People Who Matter." Over the years, Sackmann moderated several important newsletters for educators: K12 NEWSLETTERS, NETWORK NEWSLETTERS, and NEW-LIST. From 1993 to 2004, he published NET-HAPPENINGS. Net-Happenings covers conference announcements, calls for papers, network resource announcements, newsletters, and network tool updates. Over 9,000 individuals currently subscribe, with many more readers through the website and mail redistribution. Net-Happenings will continue publication under the direction of Karen Ellis, founder of the Educational CyberPlayGround website. As one who has benefited from Gleason Sackmann's work over the years (including his distribution of Infobits in his publications), I would like to express my appreciation for his tremendous contribution to the educational and Internet communities. For more about CyberPlayGround and its other publications and services, see http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/index.html For more information about Gleason Sackmann, see http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/gmanbio.html For more about Net-Happenings or to subscribe, see http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.321 value of PDF? Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:18:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 458 (458) Alexandre Enkerli [deleted quotation]They have their uses. In terms of documents that are designed to be read on the screen--e-books--.pdfs are rarely designed to take advantage of the electronic features they offer (navigation, linking, indexing). In terms of printable documents, again, there are problems with the way the documents are made, particularly regarding their size, the presence of unnecessary fonts, images, etc. In other words, more often than not the files are not made correctly. I understand why (expediency and cost) journals are often just scanned as images and converted, often on the fly, to .pdfs, but it's a practice I loathe. In addition to being just plain ugly and hard to read, .pdfs are almost always not readable by the technology and devices used for screen reading. From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 18.321 value of PDF? Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:19:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 459 (459) Imho: On the pro side: - easy to produce - well documented and understood standard - preserves documents as they are in print On the negative side: - not really a web format: even compressed you get large files - not really a screen format: awkward to handle on screen - discards most or all structural information - content can't be effectively reprocessed (new layout, reorganized etc.) So most of the time pdf files are not really a good solution unless you want to document a special layout of your text. I don't think that we have anything near the ease of use pdf creators provide to encode line and page breaks in xml files while you create a print output. Fotis From: Willard McCarty Subject: pdfs Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:22:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 460 (460) I bless the provider of a pdf when this provides an image of a published article or book chapter, since that saves me a trip to the library to find the book and, if this Library is the British, the outrageous cost (20p per page, whole openings disallowed). 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Re: 18.321 value of PDF? Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:24:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 461 (461) Evil, certainly. Necessary, perhaps. I'll just list a few of the problems I see with PDF files: PDF has no validation mechanism. PDF is an attempt to mirror the limitations of print in digital format. In spite of this, PDFs may be viewable, but not printable (that is, they may have components that can be interpreted by a viewer, but not a printer). They aren't readable without specially designed software. They aren't easy to edit. I realise some of these complaints may be seen as advantages, and also that there is a movement to use PDF as an archival format, because it allows the appearance of the printed document to be preserved. In my opinion, however, PDF is best used as a presentation format only. It is reasonably adequate at that. Cheers, Hugh Cayless, Ph.D. Software Engineer Lulu (http://www.lulu.com) From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: RE: 18.321 value of PDF? Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:24:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 462 (462) I disagree that [deleted quotation]A file is only useful, only relevant at the time of creation and the time of use. It may not exist in the time between. PDF files cost to create (a program is needed) and at time of use they need a slow cumbersome program to use, they cannot easily be edited (an advantage in the commercial world, inappropriate in the academic world) and seem poorly conceived, being partly screen, partly page oriented, resulting in indices that send you to "where page 21 would be if you were using the same sized paper in your printer as the creator". PDF represents a poor solution to the need for an interchange format since it tries to do too much. I'm sure its a wonderful tool with which to do wonderful things, but everyday I want to do simple things simply and not have to build a bridge to cross a puddle, or use a 20 volume encyclopaedia to check the spelling of metaphor. Stephen Woodruff, Resource Development Officer for Modern Languages, HATII George Service House, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland / UK phone +44 141 330-4508 fax +44 141 339-1119 From: Stewart Arneil Subject: Re: 18.321 value of PDF? Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:25:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 463 (463) [deleted quotation]As I recall the PDF file format is a description of how a document looks - based on PostScript. As such it's fine for generating output. By the same token, for many research agendas how a specific document looks is not interesting at all, and PDF is not designed to retain all kinds of other information that might be of interest (say structural or semantic features), though all sorts of "add-ons" have been kludged into PDF to accommodate those kind of demands. The other feature of PDF is that it is proprietary and owned by a commercial interest. In our office we tend to create documents in XML and then apply XSLT transformations to generate PDF when needed. The XML files capture features that PDF is blind to, and PDF is given a sensible place as an output medium only. -- Stewart Arneil Head of Research and Development, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, Canada From: Carolyn Guertin Subject: call for works - TechnoFeminisms - New Cultural Mediations Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:25:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 464 (464) An exploration of feminisms and technologies by the Canadian Women¹s Studies Association and the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities (COCH/COSH) at the 2005 HSSFC¹s Annual Congress http://www.yorku.ca/cwsaacef/cwsaacef/cwsa.htm http://www.coch-cosh.ca/ Call for Works: TechnoFeminisms: New Cultural Mediations Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2004 Even before Donna Haraway identified connectivity as the key to women¹s liberation from the tyranny of patriarchal structures and the cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix identified the clitoris as the direct line to the matrix, feminist artists and critics have been searching for ways of using technology to speak outside of the expected parameters of well-behaved bodies, restrictive language and linear ideas. We seek (post)feminist art, works or performances that use technology to explore the new cultural mediations of our information age. We are looking for pieces that expand the boundaries of art, gender, bodies, interactivity, networks, media, technology and/or criticism rather than traditional academic papers. The Canadian Women's Studies Association, founded in 1982, is a bilingual, pan-Canadian, feminist association. Its members are Women's Studies faculty and students, as well as policy researchers and community activists. The goals of the CWSA are to build a Women's Studies network across Canada, and to promote Women's Studies as an interdisciplinary field within the academic community. The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines is a Canada-wide association of representatives from Canadian colleges and universities that began in 1986. Our objective is to foster communications about, and sharing of, information technology developed by Canadian institutions for the betterment of post-secondary education across Canada. COCH/COSH¹s participation in the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada¹s (HSSFC) annual Congress is designed to promote humanities computing research and scholarship across Canada and internationally. Our theme for the 2005 Congress will be "The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities," and will place special emphasis on connections between humanities computing and other fields. It will take place at the University of Western Ontario from May 29-31, 2005. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted in English or French until December 15, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference. Abstracts/proposals should include the following information: title of work/performance, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including email; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual or other equipment. Proposals should be 300 to 500 words long, and give a clear sense of what the work will involve. Please be sure to mark your submission as being for the ŒTechnoFeminisms¹ portion of the conference. Proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/ but any supporting materials (jpegs, mp3s, weblinks, etc.) and inquiries should be emailed directly to: carolyn.guertin_at_utoronto.ca Carolyn Guertin, PhD Senior McLuhan Fellow McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology University of Toronto 39A Queen¹s Park Crescent Toronto Canada M5S 2C3 voice: 416-928-0196 fax: 416-978-5324 email: carolyn.guertin_at_utoronto.ca website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/ From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 18.321 value of PDF? Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:25:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 465 (465) Hi there, At 12:48 AM 30/10/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation]I share this deep dislike of PDF. Mainly it's because this type of document by its nature mixes data and display in such a way that it's very difficult to disentangle them; this seems an awful step backwards, making the data less accessible, and imposing one particular view or layout on the reader (as opposed to XHTML, for example, which I can choose to display any way I like in my browser, using custom stylesheets, text size settings, etc., and which I can reorganize and manipulate very usefully with XSLT). PDF is really a set of printing instructions, and should only exist between your computer and your printer. Oh, and I hate the Adobe viewer even more than I hate the file format. It takes ages to start up, it's bloated, it's prone to crashing (and taking the browser down with it, if it's acting as a viewer in the browser context), and it keeps annoying me with offers of updates to programs I want even less than the viewer itself. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes_at_uvic.ca martin_at_mholmes.com mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: "Malcolm Hayward" Subject: Re: 18.326 value of PDF Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:24:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 466 (466) A word on the usefulness of PDF. As a journal editor (Studies in the Humanities), I set type in postscript, converted to PDF, and uploaded those PDF files to my printer (the "real" printer, that is, the firm that printed the journal). I then sent the PDF files of individual essays to the authors so that they could run off-prints of their articles (if they so desired), reproducing exactly the format in the printed journal. I think this mirrors what others have said: if you want/need a copy that exactly repkicates a print copy, then PDF has a use. Malcolm Hayward From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Generated PDF Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:25:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 467 (467) Insightful replies on the value of PDF files. Interestingly, several comments seem to relate more to the way PDF files are produced as opposed to the file format itself. The reason they can be distinguished is that there *are* different ways to produce PDF files and while many document creators may not use some of the most useful features of PDF files, these features still exist in the format itself... As Lisa Spangenberg notes, PDF files are often generated incorrectly and this might explain many complaints about PDF files. Not to defend PDF files too much, but it might be interesting to think about the issue in terms of the file format's potential. It does seem possible to leave aside issues related to the Acrobat family of products because the PDF file format can be adopted without any need for Acrobat software. http://www.pdfzone.com/ Granted, Adobe may not like the way things are done and has kept the PDF format fairly proprietary. Yet PDF files, like RTF files, can now be used to do things they're original designers may not have dreamed of. Stewart Arnell says: [deleted quotation]Great example! Do you happen to have files generated this way that you would be allowed to distribute? It might give people good ideas on how to generate PDF files. It seems clear that, in terms of "workflow," PDF files are only meant as an output format, whether the output is a typical screen, a handheld screen, or a printer. Some creators seem to confuse those different output options and try to generate a single file that will be interesting on-screen and will print well. These two sets of requirements are rarely compatible. One PDF-producing system which clearly distinguishes screen and printer outputs is ConTeXt, based on Donald Knuth's well-known TeX typesetting system. http://www.pragma-ade.nl/ These files can be generated directly from XML in both screen and printer formats and there is still a large amount of flexibility in how the files can be processed. In fact, the TeX environment is often used to generate interesting PDF files: http://tug.org/texshowcase/ Obviously, many of the advantages of PDF files generated through TeX has to do with TeX itself. In a way, PDF files simply let the beauty of TeX shine through. While some people are probably "nostalgic" of the time when TeX was mostly used to generate DVI and PS files, PDF files seem to have become very popular among TeX users. LaTeX is a well-known set of macros to produce structured documents in TeX. A simple but very convenient feature of the way LaTeX is used to generate PDF files is that sectioning ("Chapter," "Section," "Subsection"...) can be reproduced as a set of bookmarks in the PDF output. Obviously, links and anchors are generated directly from cross-references and such. To briefly respond to some of the criticisms. File size is often an issue because of font use. Simple documents typeset in Times may be between 6k and 25k for three-pages printable output or nine pages PowerPoint-like presentation. A 13-page document generated from Word can be 27k. Even with IPA characters and/or graphics, PDF files can be made to be relatively small. The issue of output quality (screen or print) often has more to do with the way PDF files have been made but it's true that the format itself has some imperfections in these respects. In comparison to other formats, however, PDF files are quite a step further in the direction of producing consistent output in different conditions (operating systems, screens, printers....). Hugh Cayless mentions PDF's lack of validation as a potential issue. While this is a very interesting argument, the practical implications are relatively limited. True, some PDF files contain invalid portions and this might cause an error while reading the file. These problems typically occur with PDF files that have been created through non-validating tools. When PDF files are generated through a markup or typesetting language, the source's validity is being checked and these problems are rather unlikely to happen. At least, they seem uncommon. It's still an important point and perhaps a validation mechanism can be added to some PDF-generating tools. Having said all of this, the PDF file format is not an "end-all solution" at the present time and it can clearly be improved. But this academic world in which many articles are distributed as PDF files, it might be important to think about the implication of the file format. Thank you for all the interesting replies! Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: Ylva Berglund Subject: US Presidential Election 2004: Humbul resources (fwd) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:45:00 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 468 (468) US Presidential Election 2004: Humbul resources November 2nd 2004 is the day of the US presidential election. The election has been preceded by campaigning and speculation, and will no doubt be followed by analyses and debate. While waiting for the result, why not explore some Humbul resources? Learn more about the rhetoric of the campaign, about previous elections, former presidents and American political history through some selected Humbul resources at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/topics/us_election.html From: John Lavagnino Subject: Dictionary of the History of Ideas Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:26:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 469 (469) Thanks to Ross Scaife and www.stoa.org I've learned that Virginia has this wonderful book online: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html Not to be missed! John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Judit Gervain Subject: Student Session, ESSLLI'05 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:11:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 470 (470) 1st Call for Papers: ESSLLI'05 Student Session We are pleased to announce the Student Session (StuS) of the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'05, 8-19 August, Edinburgh, <http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/)>http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/). We invite papers for oral and poster presentation from the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduate, as well as postgraduate. This year, unlike in the past, papers can be submitted for oral OR poster presentation separately. Student authors are invited to submit a full paper, not to exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Papers are to be submitted with clear indications of the selected modality of presentation, i.e. oral or poster. The submissions will be reviewed by the student session program committee and selected reviewers. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript, PDF, or plain text, although other formats will also be accepted. The paper and a separate identification page must be sent electronically to: gervain_at_sissa.it. Deadline: 15th February 2005. For more information and the technical details of the submission, see: <http://www.sissa.it/~gervain/StuS.html>http://www.sissa.it/~gervain/StuS.html or write to: gervain_at_sissa.it ========================@======================== Judit Gervain SISSA CNS via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Italy office tel: +39 040 37 87 613 mobile tel: +39 329 788 40 25 www.sissa.it/~gervain From: Willard McCarty Subject: recording angels Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:09:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 471 (471) A few months ago I wrote to a very senior and now retired academic who was the driving force behind one of the great electronic resources we have. During his active professional life he was more than just friendly to the sorts of things we do -- he actively promoted humanities computing and saw to it that infrastructure for its support was built. I wrote to him wanting to know where he had published on the construction of his resource, concerning for example the high-level design, technical features he asked for at the time, those that arose in the process of development and so on -- the sorts of things that the principal investigator of a project in earlier days could be expected to have his or her hands into. His reply was in essence that he could not remember. All that didn't seem important to record at the time. A common story, I fear. Quite a loss to a potential history of the field. We've learned our lesson since then, people are paying attention now, you may be thinking. I wonder. More than that -- I can see that we are not paying attention at least some of the time. That's a serious matter, because without an historical awareness of what we are doing and have done, we can hardly be among the humanities as one of them -- or, actually, do our job as well as it can be done. We cannot really back up all the claims we make about the revolutionary effects of computing in the humanities. We cannot go into details. The orientation to success and achievement that is part of technological culture has this seriously limiting side-effect: attention to what is happening is deflected by what must be achieved, and so the recording of the raw material for a history never happens. Nose to the grindstone we are likely not to think much about all this, or if asked, to reply not that the ends justify the means but that they make the means irrelevant. Who cares about the fumblings, the mistakes that have been made, the bugs that have crept in? What matters is that the thing, whatever it is, gets made and finally works to the satisfaction of the principal investigator. Who cares what happened when the non-technical scholar first began to talk to the humanities computing practitioner about the possibilities for research? Well, if no one does, and no one notices systematically, we then find ourselves unable when asked to substantiate claims that minds are changed, eyes opened in the process of doing what we do. Is it not better to see where you are going, even if all you're really interested in is getting there? I am beginning to think that every project or every centre that develops resources needs its resident ethnographer-historian. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 18.329 value of PDF Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:55:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 472 (472) One of the books I'm currently reviewing is O'Reilly's PDF Hacks, "100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools," by Sid Steward (this year). The book is terrific for anyone working with PDF, and shows the advantages of the medium. Unfortunately, PDF isn't transparent, and as many have pointed out, it's chunky/clunky. If you get into it, however, it becomes highly flexible. I recommend the book. Some hack titles - Copy Data from PDF Pges; Browse One PDF in Multiple Windows; Speed Up Acrobat Startup; Generate Document Keywords; Maximize PDF Portability; Get and Set PDF Metadata - and so forth. This should be required reading I think for anyone using the format. - Alan recent http://www.asondheim.org/ WVU 2004 projects http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/files/ recent related to WVU http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm partial mirror at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 18.326 value of PDF Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:10:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 473 (473) Greetings, The flurry of remarks about PDF illustrate two things: first, PDF is good at the things it was designed for, and rather poor at the things it wasn't; second, it's quite easy to misuse it and produce anti-social PDF files. If you want to produce portable printable formatted files, PDF is hard to beat. It seems to me, however, that there are a variety of ways to frustrate this portability, which others have alluded to. My experience of ways to facilitate this (and other random remarks in this rather techie of threads) include: * Embed fonts properly, and only when necessary. There's a variety of ways you can do this, but if you stick to the Standard 35 postscript fonts you don't need to embed any fonts at all. This shouldn't cramp your style unless you're a graphic designer, and if you're that, then get a book and learn how to do this properly. * If possible, don't embed fonts at all. As well as causing problems directly, embedding fonts pushes the file size way up. And don't use bitmap fonts unless you've absolutely no alternative. * If your document is likely to be read on-screen, design the layout with that in mind. That means a larger font size, a rather square `paper size', and make sure you generate bookmarks and active cross-references. With a little work here, screen-based reading of PDF files can be perfectly comfortable. Of course, such a version is hard to read on paper, so offer a screen-readable and a printable version (and you might as well offer standard and US paper sizes while you're at it). You are generating this PDF from XML or LaTeX source, aren't you? * Offer your source files as well, if that's appropriate, so that folk can use the structure there, or otherwise manipulate the content in ways they desire. * I haven't actually tried this myself, but I'd think that if you disable ligatures and kerning in the program that generates the PDF, then the result would be both easier to cut and paste, and search, and probably available to screen readers, too. * Think about graphics. If you have big graphics you'll have big PDF files. Do they have to be that big? Simple graphics can look perfectly OK at lowish resolution. If you want the PDF to be read on-screen, then 72dpi graphics are plenty. If you can use postscript vector graphics for your images, they'll take up very little space indeed. * If you want to produce a document which is editable, or preserves structure, or which is just meant to be read quickly quickly and discarded (ie, an email message...), then don't use PDF, since this is not what it's for. * Did I mention generating it from XML or LaTeX? Distilling Postscript is the other way I know of, but I'm sure there are other tools which can be used. (I'm echoing several other messages here) A PDF file without graphics and using only the Standard 35 fonts will probably come in at a factor of a few times the size of the corresponding text file. Yes, really -- it's a compact format. Finally, what are the alternatives? Word? Of course not. Postscript? Still pretty good, but it has most of the gotchas of PDF and fewer folk have readers. HTML? That's generally happily portable and cut-and-pasteable, and you can probably generate it from the same source from which you generate your PDF. XML? Massively better for some purposes, but hopeless if you simply want to simply read the document. Graphics files? Possibly best if what you're offering is facsimiles, but too much hassle otherwise. Plain text? It'll never go out of fashion, but it's not exactly easy on the eye. All the best, Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.329 value of PDF Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:11:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 474 (474) For me, the best thing about PDF is that it reproduces the type faces and layouts of the books that were scanned in. I think this is absolutely necessary for citations and other such references....one needs to be able to find the quote I use whether on-line or in a printed book. Anything else would be bad for scholarly purposes. (I know editors at journals who won't even allow citations of printed version unless they refer to the original, no matter how hard it may be to get hold of that, and no matter how easy it may be to find a later reprinting of the piece, or inclusion in an anthology. Same reason, I guess, though I find carrying the notion that far to be a bit weird.) So the idea that I can play with the text and reproduce it in a font of my choosing or in different layouts is irrelevant and not useful.... My pet peeves about PDF are only two{ it changes screens on m automatically at the end of a display instead of waiting for me to tell it what I want to do, and the page numbers in PDF don't accord with the page numbers in the original, which is most annoying, especially when the material has been scanned and cannot be searched. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.35 Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:34:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 475 (475) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 35 (November 4 - November 16, 2004) Mark Stefik on Invention and Innovation "Breakthrough" book looks at the creative cycle. How does one prepare to become an inventor? What does an "Aha!" feel like? What do repeat inventors do? http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i35_stefik.html From: Vika Zafrin Subject: academia electronica Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:33:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 476 (476) Dear Humanists, I've been doing some research for a paper, and would appreciate your feedback on some questions I have for the community. These questions are intended not only for people interested in humanities computing but also for those who find that currently available electronic resources (including weblogs as discussion tools, for example) are *not* useful to them. If you wish to pass this on to colleagues who would be amenable to answering, I'd very much appreciate it; they are welcome to respond to me directly at vika--wordsend-org (substitute all dashes with appropriate punctuation). The questions aren't in any particular order and do not have a unifying agenda; I'm trying to tackle a series of different issues. Disclosure: if some of the questions seem to imply a hidden agenda or a presumed correct answer, that is not my intention. My premise is rather uncontroversial (or is it?): the use of technology to communicate and collaborate in the humanities is spreading, but slowly. Too slowly, in my view, especially amongst the many humanists who still don't view the network or computing as a useful tool. I want to find out why, what makes people tick with regard to various forms of available communication, what puts them off. There are easy general answers -- not enough time in the day, learning curve doesn't make a particular technology worth it, the tenuous relationship of work performed on the network to tenure reviews, etc. I'd like to get some more personal and specific answers that aren't covered by the above, or even ones that contradict the above. 1. Do you use a personal weblog for your work? 1a. If yes, and you have reasons beyond the obvious (place to put my thoughts, get feedback, treat it as personal workshop), what are they? How important is the aesthetics of your weblog to you? How important is the functionality (diversity and substance of tools your weblog uses to allow/encourage participation from readers)? Whose needs are primary in considering the aesthetics and functionality of your blog: yours, or the audience's? 1b. If no _and you otherwise use computers and the internet a lot for work_, why not weblog? ("can't be bothered to learn how" is perfectly valid, as is any other reasoning) 2. Do you read others' academic weblogs? 2a. If yes, how important is the blog's aesthetic feel? (If the text is hard on your eyes, are you more likely to skip large swathes of it, regardless of your level of interest in the author's thoughts, or do you persevere?) How important is its functionality? (Do you use a syndication feed aggregator? When a particular feed chokes, do you contact the blog's author and alert them? Are you more or less likely to read a weblog that doesn't allow for comments?) 2b. If no, is there a reason for it other than lack of time? 3. Do you see generations in the evolution of humanities computing? Are there things, issues, tools that you consider to be tacit knowledge in the field generally, useful in *any* application of computing to *any* humanities subject? If you were introducing an interested colleague or student to humanities computing as a field, would you present any set of concepts and/or skills as tacit knowledge that they should acquire? What are a few items you would include in this set? 4. Do you see apprenticeship as gaining any ground in humanities computing? If so, why aren't we calling it apprenticeship? Is "research assistant" always "apprentice"? If you said yes to question 3 above, what do you see as the general trends of interaction between generations of humanities computing scholars, including students? Thanks for your thoughts. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 18.332 recording angels Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:31:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 477 (477) Willard, In 2002, I oversaw the transfer of records covering the construction of the Blake Archive to the Charles Babbage Institute, an archive at the University of Minnesota that is focused on the history of information technology. You can see the finding-aid record for the collection at: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00174.html --all printed on acid-free paper, in archive-quality boxes. John Unsworth From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.332 recording angels Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:31:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 478 (478) How about every project having its resident ethnographer-historian-archivist? We are beginning to produce digital archivists, most of whom come to us from a humanities background. Without the preservation of the records produced as well as the actions performed, the record (and the data, too) will be that much thinner. Science grants are beginning to require budgeting for permanent retention of datasets produced by the grant; we need the same focus for the humanities. Capturing the records for preservation after the project is over is often too late. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: [humanist] 18.332 recording angels Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:32:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 479 (479) Willard writes: [deleted quotation]It is! More than that: I am convinced that such ethnographic history should be constructed out in the open. As frightening and unusual as it is to put unpolished ideas out there, documenting ideas in public (in weblogs, archived versions of project documentation going back to the very beginning, etc.) needs to be done, I think. The excitement that comes with the inevitable participation in such endeavors of interested parties external to the project is well worth the risk of sounding like a fool. The momentum created by such collaboration is partly the reason for academic blogs' popularity... ...and partly, I'd say, the reason for the slow propagation of that popularity. The survey of humanities scholars conducted recently by Ray Siemens et al. (they presented their findings at ALLC/ACH 2004) led them to conclude: "...they tend to work as solitary scholars, rarely collaborating with their own graduate students and do not see the need for collaborating with other scholars." Until this mindset changes and humanists see real value in collaboration, documentation won't happen either: why document your process if you have no intention of showing the progression to others? [deleted quotation]Sounds excellent. Might the problem of finding resources for such endeavor be solved by having ethnographic histories be written collaboratively by direct participants of the project or centre in question? Only if they were genuinely interested in doing so, of course. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: "Bonnett, John" Subject: History and Computing Poster Session Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:33:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 480 (480) Dear Colleagues: The Canadian Committee on History and Computing (CCHC)and the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario are pleased to announce their joint sponsorship of the CHA's Sixth Annual Computer and Poster Demonstration Session. The session will be held at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. The committee would like to invite the participation of scholars and graduate students who are currently using information technology to support their work in history, be it in teaching or research. The session will be held May 30-31, 2005. Over the past 15 years, the CCHC has maintained a strong commitment to its mandate to promote the work of researchers and teachers interested in history and computing. In recent years, it has hosted displays highlighting projects as diverse as the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure to the 3D Virtual Buildings Project. Initiatives by the Government of Canada have also been displayed, including the National Film Board of Canada History Learning Centre, and the Department of Foreign Affair's on-line archive devoted to the history of Canada's external relations. During the session, the sponsors ask participants to bring their own laptops to display their projects or websites. Wireless internet access can be arranged. We will supply easels or dividers to display visual material. Individuals and institutions interested in participating are encouraged to write to Bill Turkel ( wturkel_at_uwo.ca ) by February 28, 2005. John Bonnett Canadian Committee on History and Computing National Research Council of Canada Bill Turkel Department of History University of Western Ontario From: "Donald Waters" Subject: RE: 18.334 recording angels Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:06:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 481 (481) Dear Professor McCarty, You wrote that "I am beginning to think that every project or every centre that develops resources needs its resident ethnographer-historian." It may be worth mentioning that JSTOR had such an individual in Roger Schonfeld. See his JSTOR: A History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). Don Waters Program Officer Scholarly Communication The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: November Innovate-Live Webcasts Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:07:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 482 (482) Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the October-November issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). The webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. All times are Eastern Time zone. You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with your time zone. The schedule for the November Innovate-Live Webcasts is provided below. Experiencing Knowledge. Donald Norris, co-author; Tom Longin, moderator Tuesday, November 9, 1:00pm ET Scaling Up: From Web-Enhanced Courses to a Web-Enhanced Curriculum Robert E. Wood, author; James Shimabukuro, moderator Wednesday, November 10th, 2:00pm ET Effective Technology Integration in Teacher Education: A Comparative Study of Six Programs Kathleen Fulton, co-author; Gary Brown, moderator Friday, November 19th, 11:00am ET The Future of Learning Technologies: An Interview with Chris Dede Chris Dede, author; James Morrison, moderator Friday, November 19th, 1:00pm, ET If you cannot attend a webcast, note that it will be archived within the features section of the article itself shortly after the webcast. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Music IR: Two new mailing lists Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:08:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 483 (483) Hi gang: As part of the "International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory" (IMIRSEL) project, I have just set up two new email lists to help facilitate communications among those involved in establishing a TREC-like evaluation programme for Music Information Retrieval and Music Digital Library researchers. Background information on the IMIRSEL project can be found at: "Toward the scientific evaluation of music information retrieval systems" http://ismir2003.ismir.net/papers/Downie.PDF LIST #1: M2K -- mirmodules_at_lists.lis.uiuc.edu This mail list is designed to facilitate communications among those using and contributing to the M2K (Music to Knowledge) subset of the D2K (Data to Knowledge) framework and toolkit. Information about D2K can be found at: http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/downloads/d2k Subscription information is available at: https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mirmodules "M2K", is the newly minted moniker for the set of MIR-specific D2K modules that are being developed jointly by the UIUC IMIRSEL project and the MIR community at large. M2K is being built to facilitate the efficient prototyping and evaluation of experimental MIR techniques and will play a pivotal role in future TREC-like MIR Evaluation eXchanges (MIREX). More about MIREX in a below. Information about the role M2K/D2K will play in the evaluation programme can be found at: "The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory: Governance, Access and Security" http://tinyurl.com/4tfrf Note: The M2K modules will be released shortly. Email me personally at jdownie_at_uiuc.edu if you are interested being notified of the official release details outside of the M2K list (i.e., you want to explore M2K but do not want to subscribe to the M2K list). The M2K modules are being designed to help with many different MIR/MDL tasks. Examples of some of the tools/functionalities that we want to build into M2K can be found at: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/tools.html LIST #2: MIREX -- evalfest_at_lists.lis.uiuc.edu This list is designed to facilitate communications among those involved in planning, executing and participating in MIREX 2005. "MIREX" (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange)* is the newly minted moniker for the TREC-like evaluation programme we as a MIR/MDL research community are setting up. This builds upon and expands the initial work recently done at the "Audio Description Contest" which took place during the 5th ISMIR Conference in Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14 2004 (http://ismir2004.ismir.net/ISMIR_Contest.html) If you are interested in MIR/MDL system evaluation issues and/or have had experience in other formal system evaluation endeavours (e.g., TREC, etc.) I would warmly welcome your participation. Subscription information is available at: https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest *Sue Manus of the Library of Congress is to be creditted with coming up with the spiffiest sounding acronym. Thanks, Sue. Cheers and thank you. J. Stephen Downie The IMIRSEL project is being supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation. -- ********************************************************** "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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 351-5037 From: Susan Hesemeier Subject: Re: 18.336 questions for the community Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:07:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 484 (484) Hi Vika, the survey instrument used for the study "Modelling the Humanities Scholar at Work" by Toms, Rockwell, Sinclair & Siemens would be helpful, as the questions appear to get at the same line of inquiry (i.e. what electronic resources are useful or not useful to the humanities scholar), and it might make it easier to collect this type of information in a survey. A paper about the study is also being presented at the TAPoR conference on November 21st: http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/abstracts.htm#toms Susan -- Susan Hesemeier, PhD Student Department of English University of Toronto s.hesemeier_at_utoronto.ca Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Reading at Risk? A Panel Discussion Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:49:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 485 (485) For anyone in the Washington DC area: READING AT RISK? A PANEL DISCUSSION Thursday, Nov. 18, 2:00-3:45, room 6137, McKeldin Library UMCP Released in July of this year, the National Endowment for the Arts' "Reading at Risk" report garnered widespread attention for its dramatic and troubling findings, chief among which were that there has been a documented 10% national decline in "literary reading" since 1982, with the drop-off even more precipitous among younger age groups. (The report is available in its entirety online at: http://www.nea.gov/pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf). These findings are surely of concern to anyone who cares about the future of reading and a literate populace. But what is reading in the current day and age? What can we learn from the history of media change, where previous moments of technological transition have been accompanied by similar expressions of anxiety and concern? Or are we truly facing an uprecedented shift in what and how and why we read? What are the implications for education? The arts? Public policy and civics? Join us on Thursday, November 18th, 2:00-3:45, in the McKeldin Library Special Events Room (#6137), University of Maryland, College Park for a discussion of this issue, featuring a number of distinguished speakers from the College Park campus and beyond: MARK BAUERLEIN, Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also Professor of English at Emory University. He has written many books and articles on American literature, history, and philosophy, and his commentaries and reviews have appeared in Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, TLS, Yale Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other national periodicals. MICHAEL COLLIER, Professor of English and Co-Director of Creative Writing at UMCP, and former Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland. Professor Collier is the author of several books and collections, and over 100 published poems. LISA GITELMAN, Associate Professor of English and Director of Media Studies at Catholic University. Professor Gitelman is the author of Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines (Stanford UP, 1999) and co-editor of New Media 1740-1915 (MIT Press, 2003). SHIRLEY LOGAN, Associate Professor of English at UMCP and former Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (the 4Cs). She is the author of We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women (Southern Illinois, 1999) and co-editor of many other books. CLIFFORD LYNCH, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. NICK MONTFORT, co-editor of the New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003) and author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interfactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2004). Currently a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, Montfort is also a highly-regarded writer of interactive fiction. The panel will be moderated by MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM, Assistant Professor of English at UMCP. It is intended to be of broad topical interest to a diverse and interdisciplinary audience. Free and open to the public; entire classes welcome. Sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the Department of English. Please contact Matt Kirschenbaum (mgk "at" umd "dot" edu) with questions. From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: ACH/ALLC 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS (EXTENDED DEADLINE: NOV 22) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:49:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 486 (486) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document can be downloaded in different formats and in several languages from: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/call.htm We apologize for possible crossed-postings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACH/ALLC 2005 - Extended deadline: November 22nd, 2004 17th Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) ----------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS ----------------------------------------------------- University of Victoria, (British Columbia), Canada June 15-19, 2004 The International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship IMPORTANT DATES: - November 22nd, 2004: Deadline for the submission of proposals for papers, poster presentations, sessions and software demos. - February 7th, 2005: Notification of acceptance for papers, poster presentations, sessions and software demos. Conference Web Site: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ ------------------------------------ I. The ACH/ALLC Conference The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and a corresponding growth in the use of information technology resources for research and teaching in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in which humanities scholars work? What are the fields of humanities scholarship that are most affected by the use of computers and computation? What new and distinct methodologies is information technology bringing to the humanities, and how are these methodologies being introduced and applied? How do we expect methodologies, and the role of the humanities scholar, to change in the future as a result of the impact of information technology? How are information technology-related developments in one discipline affecting or likely to affect those in others? What are the implications of multilingualism and multiculturalism to humanities computing? What is the role of information technology technologies in establishing multilingualism? What are the meanings and implications of these developments for languages, communities, genders and cultures, and humanities research? What is the role of individual scientific and educational tasks, joint projects, or educational and electronic library resources? How can humanities computing help in the challenge to preserve individual cultures in a multicultural environment? What is the role of humanities computing in the preservation and creation of a multilingual, multicultural heritage? 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. Now is the time to survey and assess the impact humanities computing has had and is likely to have on humanities scholarship in a multilingual, multicultural world. ------------------------------------ II. Associated Organizations ACH and ALLC are continuing to develop the associated organizations initiative, which enables professional organizations with a remit similar to that of ALLC and ACH to present their own panel sessions within the conference. We welcome proposals from such organizations for the 2005 conference, especially in areas of computing in the humanities which have not been represented, or have been poorly represented, at previous ACH/ALLC conferences (e.g., linguistics, libraries, museums, history and archival fields, to mention a few). We encourage representatives from professional organizations to consider submitting a proposal under this initiative on topics they think might be relevant to the ACH/ALLC conference audience. Such proposals will undergo a review process and should be submitted directly to the conference programme chair, Alejandro Bia, no later than the date stated as the deadline for all types of proposals (see important dates on top of this document). For more information please contact the conference programme chair, Alejandro Bia, alex.bia_at_ua.es. ------------------------------------ III. Submission topics ACH/ALLC 2005 invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals might focus on: - traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including (but not limited to)text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, natural language processing, linguistics, translation studies, literary studies, text analysis, edition philology and statistical models; - computational models and applications related to multilingualism and multicultural issues; - the application of information technology to issues related to minority, indigenous and rare languages; - emerging digitization efforts: new best practices, experiences, recommendations, training; - humanities teaching; - the application of information technology to cultural and historical studies (including archaeology and musicology); - new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital resources dependent on images, audio, or video; - the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering; - pedagogical applications of new media within the humanities; - applications of technology in second language acquisition; - commercial applications of humanities computing, e.g. web technology, natural language interfaces, archival organization and accessibility; - applications in the digital arts, especially projects and installations that feature technical advances of potential interest to humanities scholars; - information design in the humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modelling; - thoughtful considerations of the cultural impact of computing and new media; - theoretical or speculative treatments of new media; - the institutional role of new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields; - the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources it develops; - the institutional role of humanities computing and new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields. The range of topics covered by humanities computing can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. See the important dates at the top of this document for the deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee. All submissions will be refereed. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. See below for full details on submitting proposals. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site. ------------------------------------ IV. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Swedish. Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. Poster Presentations and/or Software Demonstrations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations,which we encourage. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The poster sessions will build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster Prize As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers. ------------------------------------ V. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form found at the conference website. Please pay particular attention to the information that is required regarding each proposal. Submissions that do not contain the required information will be returned to the authors, and may not be considered at all if they are received close to the deadline. The information required for all submissions includes: TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, or session TITLE: title of paper, poster, or session KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author or contact person PHONE NUMBER: of first author or contact person If submitting a session proposal, the following information will be required for each paper: TITLE: title of paper KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author Please note the following additional information: The order of participants provided on the form will be the order used in the final programme. If submitting a session proposal, please enter one abstract for the whole session in the "session/paper abstract" box, noting clearly the title and author of each paper in the session. In addition to requesting the above information, the form provides a way for proposers to upload their proposal, which must be in XML-TEI (teixlite.dtd) or plain text (ASCII/ISO 8859-1) format, plus up to 5 image files. These graphics, if uploaded, should be prepared in a manner appropriate for both on-line publication and printing in black-and-white in the conference book of abstracts. Unfortunately, it is still true, even in this day of XML and Unicode, that publishing systems and web browsers often limit access to extended character sets. Thus, although XML-TEI format and therefore Unicode can be used for submission, please try if possible to avoid character sets that might not be viewable on reviewer's web browsers or printable by the program's printer. Examples from past conferences Those interested in seeing examples from previous conferences can consult online abstracts and programmes at: http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml The conference has previously been held at: Göteborg University (2004) University of Georgia (2003) University of Tübingen (2002) New York University (2001) University of Glasgow, Scotland (2000) University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (1999) Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (1998) Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1997) University of Bergen, Norway (1996) Because of rapid developments in the field, work of a kind not previously presented at the conference is especially welcomed. ------------------------------------ VI. Publication A book of abstracts of all papers, poster presentations and sessions will be provided to all conference participants. In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page. A special volume of the journal Literature and Linguistic Computing with selected proceedings is planned for publication after the conference; all papers submitted in publishable form before the end of the conference will be considered for this collection. The final version for publication in LLC must be in English. ------------------------------------ VII. Bursaries As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the organization will award five bursaries of 500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who have papers or posters accepted for presentation at the conference. More information about the bursary scheme is available on request from the Programme Chair. Applications must be made using the on-line form available at the ALLC website. Full details of the scheme may also be found there. ------------------------------------ VIII. Further Information Equipment Availability and Requirements Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a data projector for Windows and Macintosh OS, and an Internet connection. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers. All submissions should indicate the type of hardware and software required for presentation. Language of the Presentations Presentations can be done in the same language of the accepted abstract, but when the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to allow for a bigger audience. Location Information about British Columbia, Canada, and the hosting University of Victoria, (fees, travel, accommodation, social programme, etc.) can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ Inquiries Inquiries concerning the goals of the conference, the format or content of papers, and other topics relating to the academic programme should be addressed to the Chair of the International Programme Committee: Alejandro Bia Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computing Miguel Hernández University 03202, Elche, Alicante, SPAIN E-mail: abia_at_umh.es Phone: +34 610806427 Fax: +34 966658715 Inquiries concerning conference registration, travel, local organization and facilities, and other aspects of the local setting should be addressed to: Peter Liddell Chair, Local Committee Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P4 Email: achallc5_at_uvic.ca ------------------------------------ IX. International Programme Committee and Local Organizers Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Programme Committee comprising (in alphabetical order): Alejandro Bia (chair) (Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain) Julia Flanders (Brown University, USA) Neil Fraistat (University of Mariland, USA) Simon Horobin (University of Glasgow, UK) Joseph Jones (University of British Columbia, Canada) Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen (University of Joensuu, Findland) Concha Sanz-Miguel (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Susan Schreibman (University of Maryland, USA) Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Association for Computing Machinery, USA) The conference is hosted by the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the University of Victoria. The Chair of the local organizing committee is Peter Liddell, Academic Director of the Humanities Computing and Media Centre. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ End of Message +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Lecture 11/15 at Brown: Zuern Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:07:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 487 (487) ---------Talk at Brown University------------------- Digital Literature in Research and Teaching John Zuern University of Hawai'i at Manoa Monday, November 15, 2004, 4 PM, Barus & Holley, Rm. 141 How can animated texts open up questions about critical methodologies and theories? How shall the subject matter be discussed in the classroom? John Zuern received an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. His current research is focused on digital literature and art and critical practice across media. He has published on hypertext and other electronic media in the teaching of literature and cultural studies, on computer-education, and theories of masculine identity and embodiment. His current book project on "literary motion graphics" will be produced in a fully electronic format. A reception will follow the talk at 190 Hope Street, Rm. 103. This lecture is sponsored by the Faculty Development Advisory Board From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.334 recording angels Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:07:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 488 (488) Willard, I just want to point out that your preliminary posting on the topic of ethnographic documentation may have overlooked the role of the oral historian. Post-hoc, the interview is a valuable genre. Are not some of the researchers you wish had left more documentation still living? Would they not be available for a series of interviews? Alongside the recording angels, is there room in your heaven for the stenographic seraphs or the chatty cherubim? Or a devilish interviewer? -- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: crossing the disciplinary beach Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:17:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 489 (489) Vika Zafrin, in Humanist 18.334, usefully bridges the topic of an ethnographic history of work in humanities computing to that of collaboration. The common problem she identifies is going public with ideas while they are still in formation. "As frightening and unusual as it is to put unpolished ideas out there," she comments, "documenting ideas in public... needs to be done, I think. The excitement that comes with the inevitable participation in such endeavors of interested oparties external to the project is well worth the risk of sounding like a fool." My first experience of collaboration as the senior person confirmed my fears. It was very difficult at first to expose what I thought to be half-baked ideas to the (post)graduate student I was employing and to be told they were not even half-way there yet; they were in fact plainly wrong. But we became friends, and the project turned into an exhilirating collaboration. So far, so good. But Vika goes on to quote a report by Ray Siemens et al. to the effect that humanists "tend to work as solitary scholars, rarely collaborating with their own graduate students and do not see the need for collaborating with other scholars." She goes on to comment that, "Until this mindset changes and humanists see real value in collaboration, documentation won't happen either: why document your progress if you have no intention of showing the progression to others?" While there is truth in what she says, there's an easy slide here past some genuinely interesting and significant problems we need to bring out into the open. The essential problem I see is the organic relationship between what Karen Knorr Cetina calls an "epistemic culture" and its manner of work and ways of publishing that work. The principle I want to invoke is simply put by Tony Becher and Paul Trowler in Academic Tribes and Territories : Intellectual enquiry and the culture of disciplines (2nd edn, 2001): "the ways in which particular groups of academics organize their professional lives are related in important ways to the intellectual tasks on which they are engaged." (p. 23) Scholarship is often a solitary labour not because scholars are afraid of being caught out (although they may be) but because that's the kind of work it is. This is certainly not to deny that fine opportunities for collaboration are waiting to be picked up or that scholars employed as teachers should engage with their (post)graduate students. But it certainly is to say that the myth of the "lone scholar" is potentially dangerous nonsense. A revealing question to ask as one surveys the disciplines is, Where is the real work done? or, What's the medium in which the real work is done? In some disciplines, such as the laboratory sciences, the real work is done in one place and medium, then communicated in another. In some, such as history, it may happen partly in the field (e.g. archive), partly in the synthesis that happens in writing the essays and books which follow. In many of the humanities, the field-work is important but preliminary; the real work happens in the actual writing, which by nature is solitary -- the scientific practice of multi-authored papers notwithstanding (for which see Biagioli and Galison, Scientific Authorship). The best piece of writing I know that actually makes the comparison from personal experience is Thomas Kuhn's "The Relations between the History and Philosophy of Science", in The Essential Tension (Chicago, 1977). He worked in physics, history and philosophy. I put it to you that the better way to proceed is first to understand how humanistic scholarship works in its communities of practice, then to ask how collaborative practices might fit into these communities. It's also healthy to ask, How do we want to change the way things are done? But to get a good answer, we first need to know what we're talking about. Before getting off the boat and walking across the beach to meet whomever lives beyond it, would it not be a good idea to have a clear notion of the culture one is about to encounter -- and abundant respect for its integrity? (Yes, I am thinking of Captain Cook.) 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.322 references and URLs Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:08:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 490 (490) Willard, You wrote in a posting to Humanist dated October 30, 2004 that you were induced to write a provocative missive about references about URLs because you noticed a [deleted quotation]However in that posting to Humanist dated October 30, 2004 you go on to describe not looking for things but looking for a thing and finding other things along the way. What I am stressing is that beginning with the particular search for the singular item and finding others along the way. The model is perhaps browsing in the open stacks of a library. There is also the practice of reading not just individual references but groups of references. A Boolean search on a set of references in one article or essay can lead to constellations of other essays or articles that can be said to occupy an adjacent discursive space. E.g. Who else references both Marx and Buber? My point is very simple, the search for the multiple need not be an exercise in serendipitous browsing. It can be orchestrated. To extrapolate: the electronic medium facilitates reading in terms of clusters, lists, and tables (a type of reading that was always available to the clever manipulator of index cards). References cluster. Articles tend to cite similar sources. References are listed. The order of the references within an article tell a story. They reflect a certain syntagm. Articles with similar clusters may have a different ordering. Listings of references lend themselves to tabulation. Comparative frequency lists anyone? Discursive shifts over time? To reposition the question: in your practice, what kinds of pictures do you draw? how do you visualize the textual relations? -- 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: "Ray Siemens" Subject: RE: 18.345 recording angels Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:36:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 491 (491) Dear Willard, Vika, and all HUMANISTs, I've been following this discussion with great interest, and -- with mention of the early findings of a report that a group of us (under the lead of Elaine Toms, at Dalhousie U) involved in TAPoR had carried out -- I can no longer resist adding a little, though I fear it does not take us forward. The report was my brief presentation at ALLC/ACH, offered on behalf of the research team headed by Elaine, on the early results of a survey in which a number of members of this discussion list participated (I presume). The survey asked questions centring on how humanists used electronic texts in their work, and it did treat some issues related to work habits of our group. Speaking now *not* as a member of the research team, but as my own curious person, let me say that one of the things that intrigued me most about the results to which Vika has drawn attention is that they provided partial support to an intuition I've had about this: that we, as a community, may well do a phenomenally good job of collaborating . . . but we may also do a phenomenally poor job of indentifying it (and celebrating it) as such, perhaps in large part because humanities-based disciplines do not have a tradition of tracking collaboration as do some other disciplines, perhaps in some part because of myths associated with various parts of the academy, and likely because we quite naturally enjoy this element of our work and, so, resist quantifying it in professional terminology and measureable units suitable for surveys and promotion reviews. Just a hunch, this is. Cheers, Ray From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 492 (492) [deleted quotation]Of which the prime example is David O. Edge and Michael J. Mulkay, Astronomy Transformed: The Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain (New York: Wiley, 1976). Stephen Miller From: "Prof. Franz Baader" Subject: LPAR'04: Deadline approaching Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:37:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 493 (493) Apologies for multiple copies. ------------------------------ LPAR-11 MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY March 14-18, 2005 SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING: November 22, 2004: abstracts submission November 28, 2004: paper submission http://www.lpar.net/2004/ --------------------------------------------------- The 11th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning --------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM CHAIRS Franz Baader TU Dresden Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester INVITED SPEAKERS Alexander Leitsch (TU Wien) Volker Diekert (Universität Stuttgart) Jürgen Giesl (RWTH Aachen) Igor Walukiewicz (Université Bordeaux-1) TUTORIALS by Martin Abadi (University of California at Santa Cruz) Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) WORKSHOPS on Implementations of Logic (organized by Stephan Schulz and Boris Konev) http://www.eprover.org/EVENTS/iwil-2004.html Analytic Proof Systems (organized by Matthias Baaz) IMPORTANT DATES November 22, 2004: abstracts submission November 28, 2004: paper submission January 14, 2005: notification of acceptance January 26, 2005: final versions due March 14, 2005: conference starts TOPICS include * automated reasoning * description logics * interactive theorem proving * nonmonotonic reasoning * implementations of logic * specification using logics * proof assistants * logic in artificial intelligence * program and system verification * lambda and combinatory calculi * model checking * constructive logic and type theory * rewriting and unification * computional interpretations of logic * logic programming * logical foundations of programming * constraint programming * logical aspects of concurrency * logic and databases * logic and computational complexity * modal and temporal logics * knowledge representation and reasoning * proof-carrying code * reasoning about actions * translation validation * proof planning * logic for the semantic web * effectively presented structures PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must be original and not submitted concurrently for publication to a journal or to another conference. Both "regular" papers and "experimental" papers are welcome. The first category is intended to contain new results, the second one to describe implementations of systems, to report experiments with implemented systems, or to compare implemented systems. Submitted papers should not be longer than 15 proceedings pages, that is pages formatted using the Springer LNCS Authors' Instructions. If proofs do not fit in 15 pages, add an appendix with proofs. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI series and available at the conference. WEB RESOURCES More information can be found on the LPAR-11 Web page http://www.lpar.net/2004/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Franz Baader (Technische Universität Dresden) Matthias Baaz (Technische Universität Wien) David Basin (ETH Zurich) Philippe Besnard (CNRS, Tolouse) Thomas Eiter (Technische Universität Wien) Javier Esparza (Universität Stuttgart) Marcelo Finger (Universidade de Sao Paulo ) Rajeev Gore (Australian National University) Georg Gottlob (Technische Universität Wien) Erich Grädel (RWTH AAchen) Martin Grohe (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Miki Hermann (Ecole Polytechnique) Hélène Kirchner (LORIA) Deepak Kapur (University of New Mexico) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University) Dietrich Kuske (Technische Universität Dresden) Maurizio Lenzerini (Universita di Roma) Leonid Libkin (University of Toronto) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University) Dale Miller (INRIA) Ilkka Niemelä (Helsinki University of Technology) Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universität München) Luke Ong (Oxford University) Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo) David Pym (University of Bath) Wolfgang Reif (Universität Augsburg) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa) Ralf Treinen (ENS Cachan) Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) Toby Walsh (University College Cork) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool) From: "Lisa Charlong" Subject: Summer Institute Survey Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:38:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 494 (494) The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick has offered a summer institute for the past eight years on Building Electronic Texts and Images. With the help of our Advisory Board we are currently reviewing our summer program in several areas, including course offerings. You can help us with this process by responding to our short Web survey. The primary objective of this survey is to help us plan our future course offerings and when the courses will be offered. The survey can be found at: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SummerSurvey/ If you are interested in responding, please fill out the form by November 19th. No personal or identifying information will be divulged to any person or institution outside the Electronic Text Centre. Thank you for your assistance, Alan Burk Director, Electronic Text Centre University of New Brunswick From: Barbara Limbach Subject: Request for Manuscripts on Critical Thinking Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:40:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 495 (495) I am currently seeking Manuscripts of Critical Thinking for the Academic Quarterly Exchange Online and Print journal. If you are interested, please contact me via e-mail. Thank you, Dr. Limbach ===== Dr. Barbara Limbach Home Address: 1000 Main Street 1016 Second Street Chadron, NE 69337 Crawford, NE 69339 Phone: (308) 432-6350 Phone: (308) 665-1199 E-mail: blimbach_at_csc.edu E-mail: b_limbach_at_yahoo.com Fax: (308) 432-6430 From: "SANDRA BRADLEY" Subject: ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure, Los Angeles Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:40:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 496 (496) meeting notes available Notes from the September 18th public information-gathering meeting of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Los Angeles are now available online, at the following URL: <http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_meeting_notes_september.htm>http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_meeting_notes_september.htm If you wish to read notes from previous meetings you may access them from the list of public meetings at: <http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_public_sessions.htm>http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber_public_sessions.htm From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: postdoc positions Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:39:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 497 (497) A few 2-year postdoc positions for foreigners may be available starting on October 1st, 2005 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the group is: <http://www.grlmc.com>http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm The eligible topics for them are the group's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. Other connected fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. All the positions will be filled in under the form of a scholarship (rather than a work contract). Eligibility requirements: - non-Spanish citizen, - not older than 35 on October 1st, 2005, - PhD in hand, - holding a research position in her/his home country. Economic conditions: - monthly salary of 1,200 euros (non-taxed), - travel grant in the interval 500-1,600 euros, - health insurance (not including pharmaceutical assistance), - waiving of registration fees (in case s/he registers for the group's PhD programme). Expressions of interest are welcome until December 6, 2004. A preselection will be done then. The formal application process will take place immediately after that. Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: C-SPAN Subject: New Series on C-SPAN: "Digital Future" (fwd) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:41:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 498 (498) To: dsewell_at_virginia.edu C-SPAN Special Alert! C-SPAN Exclusive! Nation's Top Thinkers on the Digital Future to Present Series of Lectures at the Library of Congress Tune In; Take Part C-SPAN will be covering the Library of Congress' new evening lecture series, "Digital Future," presenting some of the best known names in digitally networked communications. The series begins with a talk by David Weinberger, an expert on blogging, who will discuss how and in which situations blogs work and their value in children's education. The lecture airs this Monday, 6:30 - 8 pm ET, live on C-SPAN. Participate in the series by emailing questions to digital_at_loc.gov, or find more information about the series and archived video on our web site at http://www.c-span.org/congress/libraryofcongress.asp. Future lecture topics include: Monday, December 13 - Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian & director and co-founder of the Internet Archive. He will explain how and why capturing material on the Web is important, and discuss the challenges of selecting pertinent content. Monday, January 31 - Brian Cantwell Smith, dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. The title of his talk is "And Is All This Stuff Really Digital After All?" Monday, February 14 - David Levy, professor at the Information School of the University of Washington. He will discuss the shift of the experience of reading from the fixed page to digital, and the effect that has had on language. Thursday, March 3 - Lawrence Lessig, professor at Stanford Law School & founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. He will discuss digital copyright issues. Monday, March 14 - Edward Ayers, dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. He will address the implications of creating and distributing knowledge in today's digital environment. Monday, March 28 - Neil Gershenfeld, director for the Center of Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His talk is titled "From the Library of Information to the Library of Things." Series dates and times subject to change. Visit http://www.c-span.org/congress/libraryofcongress.asp for more information. Copyright 2004, National Cable Satellite Corporation From: Willard McCarty Subject: writing things down? Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:34:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 499 (499) I have a question related to the theme of recording project work and the like. It occurs to me that keeping a lab notebook while doing research with a computer might be a good idea. One notices things, they vanish and then are difficult or impossible to produce or find again. Successful strategies of investigation slip by unrecorded. Has anyone tried to keep such a notebook? Has anyone tried the idea out on students? Is there any evidence that computer-using researchers in any discipline, including CS, do such things? In the history of science, studies of lab notebooks have proven richly rewarding, particularly when what a person says he or she has done turns out not to be what the lab notebooks show. Clearly experimental scientists themselves tend to think that keeping notes of what is happening is a good idea. Indeed, equipment itself, high-level software especially, might be said to play such a recording role. But as the mind and the stubborn complexity of what we study always run ahead of whatever we have just managed to build, there will always seem to be room on the desk (or the desktop) for the notebook. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Pia Janczak Subject: Questionnaire: German Digital Libraries Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:36:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 500 (500) Diese Mitteilung ist zweisprachig verfasst, die deutsche Version finden Sie nach der englischsprachigen. 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At this point - and on behalf of the DFG - we are interested in the actual popularity of these digital libraries and the extent of use and usefulness of their content, respectively. Particularly with regard to your scientific activities, we would like to invite you to participate in our online based questionnaire.Your contribution will give us systematic feedback on the provision of digitised materials. As the content of the German digital libraries is, unsurprisingly, almost exclusively German, we have created a German questionnaire. To take part in the survey and to gain further information, please follow this link: http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/umfrageDB With best regards, Humanities Computing Science Project Team http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------- (Diese Mail versucht flaechendeckend ueber verschiedene Mailing-Listen die wissenschaftlich Arbeitenden zu erreichen. Entschuldigen Sie bitte daher einen eventuellen mehrfachen Empfang. 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Zur Umfrage sowie zu weiteren Informationen kommen Sie ueber: http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/umfrageDB/ Mit freundlichen Gruessen, das HKI-Projektteam http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de -- Pia Janczak, M.A. Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Universität zu Koeln Albertus Magnus Platz 50923 Köln Tel.: 0221-4705228 Fax.: 0221-4707737 http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de From: orlandi_at_rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 18.355 writing things down (being one's own recording Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:57:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 501 (501) angel) Yes, I tried to let my doctoral students (laureandi) do that, i.e., take notes of all they were doing, but it was a flop. Not that the idea was not good -- I maintain it is -- but it is very difficult to put in practice. It is very time consuming. This is why I myself very seldom take and keep note when I write scripts etc. Possibly the "scientists" are trained to it from boyhood ;-) We humanists organize our work differently. Nevertheless, I suggest that we try and grow our pupils behaving -- only in this case! -- as scientists. Thank you Willard for having suggested the topic. Tito ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi_at_rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39+06.4991-3936 Univ. di Roma La Sapienza Fax 39+60.4991-3945 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 Roma http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Unsworth Subject: developer's wiki Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:59:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 502 (502) From Roy Rosenzweig: ECHO TOOLS CENTER: The number of historians interested in using digital tools to facilitate their work has been rapidly expanding, as has the number of researchers developing online tools for the humanities. In order to facilitate contact between these two groups, Echo would like to announce the beta launch of its new Tools Center, an experimental, comprehensive resource for scholars interested in the nuts and bolts of online history. Just as Echo's Research Center offers a guide to thousands of history websites, the Tools Center is envisioned as a central directory of the myriad pieces of software and other tools available to contemporary historians. Built using the same open-source software that powers sites like Wikipedia, the Tools Center is a specifically collaborative resource, enabling developers to post descriptions of their products, and users to apply their own expertise to build and expand its entries. Though still in beta form, we invite both historians and software developers to visit the Tools Center at http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/ and contribute their knowledge to this growing asset to the online history community. From: "Milena Dobreva" Subject: ELPUB 2005 first call for papers Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:58:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 503 (503) -------------------- http://www.elpub.net -------------------- Dear specialists in electronic publishing and all for whom this field is of interest, On behalf of the Programme Committee, I would like to invite you to participate as a contributor to the 9th ELPUB conference that will be hosted in June 2005 by the Research Group on Document Architectures of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium's oldest and largest university. The conference will take place in the picturesque Arenberg Castle (Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium). This 9th ELPUB conference will keep the tradition of the eight 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), Portugal (2003) and Brazil (2004), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, 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, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Three distinguished features of this conference are: broad scope of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange and learning about various aspects of electronic publishing; combination of general and technical tracks; and a condensed procedure of submission, revision and publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most recent work. Elpub 2005 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. The keynote speech of ELPUB 2005 will be presented by Lou Burnard. He is co-editor of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, Assistant Director of Oxford University Computing Services and has an impressive experience in text encoding and humanities computing which play key role in electronic publishing. A special session on institutional repositories will be organised by Leslie Chan, University of Toronto at Scarborough (Canada). We think that your knowledge would be appreciated by the ELPUB delegates and therefore I would like to invite you to submit a paper, a tutorial theme or a demonstration. Papers will be reviewed by the international programme committee of the conference. Please note also the possibility to organise a workshop or present a tutorial at the conference. The call for papers with all details has been attached to this email. I would be glad to provide more information, if you need it. Welcome to ELPUB2005, Milena Dobreva Programme Chair ** With my apologies for possible double postings ** Dr. Milena Dobreva, Assoc. Prof. Head of the Department 'Digitisation of Scientific Heritage' Institute of Mathematics and Informatics bl.8, Acad. G. Bonchev St. 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria e-mail: dobreva_at_math.bas.bg Visiting researcher Center for Computational Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic From: Susan Hanf Subject: NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:57:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 504 (504) "Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps" Summer Seminar 27 June to 15 July 2005 at The Newberry Library in Chicago The Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography invites school teachers nationwide to apply for its 2005 NEH summer seminar, "Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps." This 3-week seminar led by Jim Akerman (The Newberry Library) and Jerry Danzer (Emeritus, The University of Illinois at Chicago) is designed to promote an understanding of the culture and history of cartography, to develop cartographic literacy, and to encourage effective map use in the classroom. A program of seminars based on recent scholarship in the history of cartography, hands-on workshops, and guided individual research will allow teachers to explore the relevancy of geography and historic maps to their own interests and teaching needs. The seminar sessions and workshops will serve as forums for refining and applying the skills necessary to read maps as products of science, artistic creations, rhetorical tools, storytellers, and expressions of power; and as representations of worldviews and local landscapes. Applications are encouraged from teachers of a broad range of courses and grade levels. Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $2,400 to help defray travel and housing expenses. Completed applications must be postmarked no later than Tuesday, 1 March 2005. Additional information and application materials are available at http://www.newberry.org/smith/L3rsmith.html or by contacting Susan Hanf, The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center, The Newberry Library, 60 W Walton St, Chicago IL 60610; e-mail: hanfs_at_newberry.org, phone: 312-255-3659. "Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps" is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. From: Naomi Standen Subject: Re: 18.355 writing things down (being one's own recording Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:55:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 505 (505) angel) Hi, I was going to lurk for a while before posting, but as it happens, the project I am planning specifically involves project members keeping a log. This is mostly for the substantive-research end of the project, which involves complex language-translation processes, but since the translation decisions are likely to intersect with technical issues (such as how to display our results to the user) we anticipate that our logs will also contain queries, solutions, problems, etc to do with the computing side of the project. This is sufficiently important (and evidently takes time) that I have built log-keeping time into the formal scheme of work for the project, for all participants. Log-keeping is an established translation-studies method, but it will be interesting to see how things work out with a multi-disciplinary team. There does seem to be a difference between the humanities scholar's notebook (I carry mine at all times and I bet many others do the same) and the more scientifically motivated notebook/lab book. The latter seems to concern itself much more with process - "HOW did I get here", since I wish to be able to reproduce it exactly - whereas the former seems more focused on writing down ideas - formulations, if you like - before they disappear into the ether again. Since the texts don't go away, it is, perhaps, much easier to reproduce your route through them. In this case, it is the interpretations that need to be recorded. Having said that, I have sometimes made a chain of connections through a set of texts/reference works/etc, reached a result, but then been unable to reproduce the thought processes that took me from one link in the chain to the next. If you have not merely made simple connections between texts, but have done something with them in your head - processed them - in order to take the next step, then it is much easier to forget how you got to your end result. Naomi Standen -- Dr. Naomi Standen | School of Historical Studies Lecturer in Chinese History | University of Newcastle Admissions Tutor for History | Tel: +44 191 222 6490 Fax: +44 191 222 6484 | Homepage: www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/naomi.standen From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.355 writing things down (being one's own recording Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:56:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 506 (506) angel) It might be worth noting that scientists have the real motivation in keeping lab notebooks of protecting intellectual property and guaranteeing prior art for patentable stuff, plus (in the medical field) fulfilling human subjects requirements etc. It will be more difficult to persuade humanists to do the same! Pat Galloway From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: [humanist] 18.355 writing things down (being one's Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:56:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 507 (507) own recording angel) Willard asks: [deleted quotation]I've tried, and repeatedly failed. To be honest, this is why I started blogging; I am rather bad at keeping up handwritten notes (to-do lists excluded). Besides blogging, I tend to keep my notes in an XML file, giving them idiosyncratic keywords for cross-referencing purposes. This works only to a point: the interface of what ends up being a very large text file is sub-optimal. The file branches out into many files, and although full-text search is useful, this system can still be visually difficult to follow. Tinderbox, a piece of software by Eastgate Systems (<http://eastgate.com/Tinderbox/>), has intrigued me for a while. Alas, other things have taken financial priority. Regards, -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.359 writing things down Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:25:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 508 (508) Well, I write down notes for future ideas and ideas on current projects, and when the notes are no longer useful I purposefully throw them away. I don't want them clogging up my files, and I don't really care if anyone ever knows what the notes said. I also don't write them in any orderly fashion, just on whatever little yellow pad seems to have a free page. When I want the note later I have to page through five or six yellow pads, but who cares ? Sometimes I lose them entirely, or forget about them -- it doesn't seem to matter much, because I can always go back over the ground and actually, later ideas usually seem better than earlier ones...... From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:29:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 509 (509) (1) Funology From Usability to Enjoyment edited by M.A. Blythe University of York, UK K. Overbeeke Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands A.F. Monk University of York, UK P.C. Wright University of York, UK This book reflects the move in Human Computer Interaction studies from standard usability concerns towards a wider set of problems to do with fun, enjoyment, aesthetics and the experience of use. Traditionally HCI has been concerned with work and task based applications but as digital technologies proliferate in the home fun becomes an important issue. There is an established body of knowledge and a range of techniques and methods for making products and interfaces usable, but far less is known about how to make them enjoyable. Perhaps in the future there will be a body of knowledge and a set of techniques for assessing the pleasure of interaction that will be as thorough as those that currently assess usability. This book is a first step towards that. It brings together a range of researchers from academia and industry to provide answers. Contributors include Alan Dix, Jacob Nielsen and Mary Beth Rosson as well as a number of other researchers from academia and industry. Soft cover ISBN: 1-4020-2966-7 Date: October 2004 Pages: 314 pp. EUR 69.00 / USD 89.95 / GBP 48.00 (2) Upon What Does the Turtle Stand? Rethinking Education for the Digital Age edited by Aharon Aviram Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel Janice Richardson eLuxembourg Task Force, Luxembourg The societal changes engendered by the rapid technological advances of the past century underline more than ever the crucial need to reflect on the future of our educational systems. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have completely modified our living, working, spending and leisure patterns, but do they also offer the very opportunity that we, as citizens, parents, teachers and politicians, have been seeking to ensure that children all over the world have access to an education that will enable them to become masters of their own lives? "Upon What Does the Turtle Stand?" attempts to answer this question by: examining the social aims underlying ICT integration in education; providing readers with a broad overview of the subject; underlining similarities and differences, points of accord and of conflict in implementation strategies and approaches; presenting the issue from the standpoint of highly experienced experts in the field; enabling readers to perceive more clearly the fundamental aims and values upon which "The Turtle Stands". This publication offers a wealth of information to researchers, academics, university lecturers, students, teacher trainers and trainees, educationalists and policy makers in their quest to define the rightful role of ICT in education. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Table of Contents List of Contributors vii Foreword ix Viviane Reding Prologue xi Walt Tremer Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Part One: The Globalizers ICT-in-Education Policies and Implementation in Singapore and Other Asian Countries 29 Chee-Kit Looi W.L. David Hung Confronting the Challenge of the Information and Knowledge Society in Developing Countries* 43 Najat Rochdi Part Two: The Reformists The Turtle Stands on the Basis of an Emerging Educational Paradigm 55 Willem J. Pelgrum Tjeerd Plomp Portable Computing Challenges Schooling 71 C. Paul Newhouse Thus Spake Venitia* 95 Robert Bibeau Professional Development for Teachers and Quality in School Education 123 Nikitas Kastis Literacy, or the Art of Integration 137 Janice Richardson Part Three: The Humanists Recreation 155 Daniel Deberghes* What Kind of Technologies for What Kind of Education? 161 Juana M. Sancho Policy, Practice and the 'Space' in Between 179 Rosemary Naughton Why Should Children Go to School? 193 Aharon Aviram Digital Inclusion in Brazil 223 Pedro Roberto Jacobi Towards a New Canon in Education 233 Wiktor Kulerski Terry Ryan Part Four: The Heretic Visions, Values, Technologies and Schools 243 Jim Dator About the Contributors 253 Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-2798-2 Date: September 2004 Pages: 271 pp. EUR 115.00 / USD 129.00 / GBP 80.00 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: D-Lib Subject: D-Lib Magazine for November Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:26:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 510 (510) Greetings: The November 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, one workshop report, the '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 2004 is Astronomy Picture of the Day hosted by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The articles include: Archiving and Accessing Web Pages: The Goddard Library Web Capture Process Alessandro Senserini and Robert B. Allen, University of Maryland; and Gail Hodge, Nikkia Anderson, and Daniel Smith, Jr., Information International Associates, Inc. Toward a Metadata Generation Framework: A Case Study at Johns Hopkins University Mark Patton, David Reynolds, G. Sayeed Choudhury, and Tim DiLauro, Johns Hopkins University A Web Service Interface for Creating Concept Browsing Interfaces Tamara Sumner, Faisal Ahmad, and Qianyi Gu, Universtiy of Colorado, Boulder; Francis Molina and Stedman Willard, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Michael Wright, Lynne Davis, and Sonal Bhushan, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and Greg Janee, University of California, Santa Barbara Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: The INFORM Methodology Andreas Stanescu, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. A Service-Oriented Framework for Bibliography Management Jose H. Canos, Manuel Llavador, Carlos Solis, and Enrique Ruiz, Technical University of Valencia The Workshop Report is: Report on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW): 16 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom Julien Masanès, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 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, 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/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the November 2004 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 5.36 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:27:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 511 (511) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 36 (November 17 - November 23, 2004) REVIEW The Medici Effect Where ideas collide, innovation happens Review by John Stuckey http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i36_stuckey.html TECHNOLOGY FOOTNOTE International Time Line In the days of hot type, magazine content was set in film. This writer offered "intriguing" suggestions for making publications more appealing to international audiences. By Muhammad Abd al-Hameed http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/techfoot/v5i36_alhameed.html From: sramsay_at_uga.edu Subject: Re: 18.358 developer's wiki Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:27:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 512 (512) On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:04:41AM +0000, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]First, let me say that this strikes me as a magnificent idea -- one of those things that I have heard discussed off and on for years ("Wouldn't it be great if we had a wiki for humanities software developers . . ."). But I must say that I cannot see why such a thing must bill itself as a site for "historians interested in using digital tools." It seems to me -- and certainly, the current entries bear this out -- that much of what is being discussed here is broadly applicable to humanities computing as such. It is, of course, true that literary critics or art historians will see the possibilities of, say, Flash differently, but that difference doesn't seem so profound as to warrant defining the resource so narrowly. Why not open the field so we can all play? -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Georgia email: sramsay_at_uga.edu web: http://cantor.english.uga.edu/ PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: plaintext project and list Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:31:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 513 (513) Plaintext Tools "Our writing tools write our thoughts" - Nietzsche "Access to tools." - The Whole Earth Catalog The Plaintext project is concerned with the agency and programming of writing technologies. Plaintext Tools is a listserv and portal for writers, artists, and thinkers, with the goal of creating and publishing original research, providing resources, and fostering community around the tools and methods of writing technologies. A full description of the project, as well as info on subscribing to the list, is here: http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext . Why Plaintext Tools? There is an emerging discourse and contested canon of digital media writing, art, and theory. There are conferences, special issues, exhibits, and archives of this work. Yet access and knowledge about tools is limited. Digital artist and writer Alan Sondheim points out that most computer users "work on or within graphic surfaces that are intricately connected to the programming 'beneath'; they have little idea how or why their machines work." Similarly, he argues, for "thousands of years, writers have [...] taken their tools - taken writing itself - for granted." There are significant exceptions, of course, but there is no center or organization for research and understanding the agency programming of writing technology and artistic software. At best, there are corporate enterprise or "office" tools that are worked around and through by writers, artists, and thinkers. Of course, there are artist-produced tools and add-ons, which maintain a parasitic relation to the dominant technologies. Legislations like the TCPA threaten even this relation, shutting off the computer to all but authorized users. The "proper" use of software is increasingly materialized in hardware. As a result, there is a dispersed and itinerant knowledge of how to operate with software, a bricolage or tactical knowledge of "making do." Our goal is to gather this knowledge, to create an archive of these techniques, and to project the future of digital writing, art, and theory, in terms of its agency and programming at the level of tools. Towards this end, the listserv offers a discussion space for the following: - Work arounds, recipes, anecdotes, kluges, new plugins, etc. for specific technologies. - Wish lists, projections, possibilities, etc. for future software and technologies - Legislative, industry, technical news, etc. relating to relating to the project - Announcements, calls for work, job openings, etc. dealing with the project The Plaintext wiki, online starting November 22, will allow users to add content and create links to a growing web version of the list discussion. Questions about the project or listserv can be directed to clc_at_mail.wvu.edu. From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Google Scholar Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:35:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 514 (514) So, Google is officially wading into the academic world. No longer content to be the most popular first stop for undergraduate researchers, it is now aiming at a broader academic audience. http://scholar.google.com It's currently weighted toward the scientific community but could cause some very interesting ripples all over the academic world... - Hope ------------------------ hope.greenberg_at_uvm.edu, University of Vermont From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: Innovate-Live Portal Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:34:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 515 (515) The Innovate-Live Portal ( http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ ) featuring webcasts and discussion forums, is the interactive centerpiece of Innovate. We have two Innovate-Live webcasts scheduled for Friday, November 19th: "Effective Technology Integration in Teacher Education" and "The Future of Learning Technologies." You may register for these events at the Portal. If you are not able to join us, the webcasts will be archived in their respective articles at www.innovateonline.info While at the portal, you may also register to participate in our first Innovate-Live forum, which will focus on ePortfolios. Kathryn Barker, chair of the Learning Innovations Forum and president of FuturEd Inc., is serving as forum leader and as guest editor of a special issue on ePortfolios that we will publish next year. We seek manuscripts that identify and evaluate current uses of ePortfolios or forecast their future applications in all educational sectors. We will use the forum to experiment with a process whereby participants present their manuscript ideas for discussion before formal submission and whereby participants can comment on the manuscripts that are submitted for publication consideration. If you are interested in ePortfolios or in this experiment, please join us. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: Robert Cummings Subject: Re: 18.363 developer's wiki Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:32:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 516 (516) List, Steve, et al.: To what extent can a wiki even control its own content? Sure, the site owner can specifically create controls, such as contributor registration and limited editing, but is that really a wiki? The ECHO wiki will have to face the same issues of balance that any wiki does: growing the largest user base with absolutely open access (i.e., the wikipedia model) versus editing controls which seek to increase content quality at the expense of quantity. Currently ECHO seems to be in the wikipedia vein. But, this model does have its critics: http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html The exciting aspect of a HC wiki is that it might get to have it both ways -- it might be able to remain completely open and suffer fools less than others. Its readers would be more computing literate and more likely to contribute accurately, responsibly, and perhaps even frequently to that topic. It would seem to me that a topical wiki would have a better than average chance of reaching critical mass in the HC community. Bob Cummings Ph.D. Student Department of English University of Georgia rec_at_uga.edu [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]College London [deleted quotation]Discussion Group (by way [deleted quotation]in using digital [deleted quotation]expanding, as has the [deleted quotation]humanities. In order [deleted quotation]would like to announce [deleted quotation]experimental, comprehensive [deleted quotation]of online history. [deleted quotation]-- one [deleted quotation]itself [deleted quotation]tools." It [deleted quotation]out -- [deleted quotation]applicable to [deleted quotation]literary [deleted quotation]say, Flash [deleted quotation] From: Paul Jones Subject: Re: 18.363 developer's wiki Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:32:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 517 (517) if you and the humanists would like, we can easily set up a wiki on ibiblio for you. we would ask that someone from humanist take responsibility for managing the content and behaviors etc but we would install the software and the like. we currently like mediawiki as seen running wikipedia. and of course any area of study could create and use a section of the wiki as you deem appropriate. one other thought: wikis are not necessarily for software dev or even all that good for software dev. if you are serious about software projects you might want to consider developers' environments such as collab, savannah, sourceforge, etc. this last does not preclude setting up nd using a wiki for humanists to use. let me know if we can help out. Paul ========================================================================== Paul Jones "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/ pjones_at_ibiblio.org voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 =========================================================================== From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: Re: 18.363 developer's wiki Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:33:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 518 (518) There is a wiki for developers--or at least medievalists: see . We're just getting started, but we hope to use it for 1) filing project reports (people will be able to look for others who are working on similar types of technical issues and share expertise) 2) developing a best practice guide (we have just started writing wiki chapters on things like fonts, tei, etc.) 3) a FAQ. The question "why not let everybody play" is a very good one and one we wrestled with through several grant applications. In actual practice little that goes on on DM is really completely medieval: but we figured that is a good coherent community for beginning. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> From: Lorna M Hughes Subject: Funding opportunities for ACH-ALLC 2005 Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:11:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 519 (519) Dear All, I'd like to draw your attention to this reminder and announcement of financial assistance opportunities for graduate students and young scholars at the ACH-ALLC 2005 conference at the University of Victoria. Please share this information with your students and colleagues! It's not too late for graduate students and other young scholars to think about attending the ACH-ALLC conference this year. The final deadline for the submission of abstracts is November 22nd. This year, there are several funding opportunities available, and I would encourage people to consider them: * The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing awards up to five bursaries to students and young scholars who are members of the Association and who have papers or posters accepted for presentation at the conference. Full details, and an application form, are available at the ALLC website, www.allc.org. * The Association for Computing in the Humanities is also starting a bursary program this year, and will award up to five grants to graduate students who are members of ACH and have a paper or poster presentation accepted for presentation at the conference. For more information and details of how to apply, please contact lorna.hughes_at_nyu.edu * The conference hosts, the University of Victoria, have applied for grants to support Canadian graduate students attending the conference. Preference will be given to those presenting papers or posters. From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.366 Google Scholar; Innovate-Live Portal Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:11:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 520 (520) Here's part of a note Janice Bogstad wrote on Mediev-L, the Medieval History List, about "Google Scholar" -- "Just so people don't get the wrong idea, I suggest that they try some of their favorite searches on this service. It's not very accurate and not at all comprehensive. Clunky search engine too. Please don't advertise it to colleagues or students as a legitimate research tool. We've only done spot-checks at our library and found many cases of under- or mis-reporting." From: Willard McCarty Subject: scholars and googles Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:31:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 521 (521) Some time ago, Terry Winograd had the following to say about Google: "What surprised me, which Google was part of, is that superficial search techniques over large bodies of stuff could get you what you wanted. I grew up in the AI tradition, where you have a complete conceptual model, and the information retrieval tradition, where you have complex vectors of key terms and Boolean queries. The idea that you can index billions of pages and look for a word and get what you want is quite a trick. To put it in more abstract terms, it's the power of using simple techniques over very large numbers versus doing carefully constructed systematic analysis." ("Convergence, ambient technology, and success in innovation: Talking with Terry Winograd", Ubiquity 3.23, 23-9 July 2002. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/t_winograd_1.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/t_winograd_1.html) To my mind, the emergence of Google Scholar raises the question of why we need such things, or at least why scholars need to pay these developments so much attention. Where the attention should really be, I think, is on teaching students and colleagues how to find things online with Google, A9 etc., and how to go about discovering what sort of knowledge any given Web page has to offer. In my experience students (who have, unless they are older ones, grown up surfing the Web) often cannot find what is easily discovered and haven't much of a clue how to figure out what each page has to say to them. Is part of the problem that we are still thinking in terms of the authoritative source rather than in terms of sampling and sifting? Winograd refers to getting "what you want". I'm remembering the old piece of wisdom about being careful about what you want, since you may just get it. I'm thinking that our wanting may need an imaginative overhaul. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 522 (522) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 523 (523) [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.369 Google Scholar, scholars and googles Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:37:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 524 (524) Willard, This little bit deserves elaboration... [deleted quotation]Is your observation related only to the WWW and non-WWW experience of the students in questions? Are older students just more likely to have some training in research methodology? In two analogous areas, skill in locating information is a function of an ability to scan and to compare. In the worlds of business, government and non-profit organizations, a person will come across a variety of genres and a mass of heterogenous matter. It is common practice in those domains to ask for help in locating information and _reading_ documents or _listening_. One example: Imagine assisting a person with limited eyesight whose prescription eyewear is not at hand. They check a piece of documentation for the street address for an appointment. The assistant is able to locate the information in the smaller font of the address block in the stationary. That information was visually subordinate to some other important information in the document (how to prepare for the the appointment and what to expect from a diagnostic procedure). The point of the example is not to suggest that the document needs to be redesigned (that may very well be the case). It is to suggest that the pedagogical goal of creating better researchers (able to find the correct information quickly) may depend upon inculcating an ability to multitask. Multitask in the dual sense of asking onself questions (i.e. replicating a dialogue between questor and assistant) and handling, manipulating, observing an object or a set of objects. In electronic display of information, play with scrolling, window/buffer toggling, resizing or modifying display, cropping, masking are all activities that can enhance search skill. For example, searching a document using both full word and truncated word, is analogous to other types of reframing of the point of observation. Finally a last question: are the older students also more experienced in packaging information (writing, illustrating, displaying, recording voice mail)? -- 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: Ken Friedman Subject: Google scholarship Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:38:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 525 (525) It seems to me that we must use several approaches. Google affords us a rich overview. It has been my experience that using Google as a research tool requires care and time. I've never done a serious Google search that yields truly rich results without about 2 hours of searching to allow for probes, comparison, and inquiry. Scholarship requires critical thinking based on analysis, logic, and rhetoric. Authoritative sources remain necessary for scholarship -- along with the sampling and sifting that help us to generate ideas and form research strategies. -- Ken Friedman Willard McCarthy wrote: "To my mind, the emergence of Google Scholar raises the question of why we need such things, or at least why scholars need to pay these developments so much attention. Where the attention should really be, I think, is on teaching students and colleagues how to find things online with Google, A9 etc., and how to go about discovering what sort of knowledge any given Web page has to offer. In my experience students (who have, unless they are older ones, grown up surfing the Web) often cannot find what is easily discovered and haven't much of a clue how to figure out what each page has to say to them. Is part of the problem that we are still thinking in terms of the authoritative source rather than in terms of sampling and sifting?" -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Leadership and Organization Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Google Scholar and Easy Access Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:39:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 526 (526) We probably all agree that scholar.google.com isn't an end-all solution to literature searches. It's obviously very spotty and it still requires people to understand the process of searching for information. We can (and certainly will) talk about this at length. But Google Scholar is still a neat trick. Part of it reminds one of the Citation Indexes (now on ISI's "Web of Knowledge"). When results of a search are a citation, you can in fact find some pieces that cite that source. This type of forward searching is extremely valuable for those of us who already know what we want. But what's neater is the potential for easy access. We all have our favorite online databases for scholarly sources and Google won't replace that but it does provide easier access to some sources. Of course, one still needs to be in the IP range of an institution that is subscribed to the journals found by Google (good use of VPN!). But one doesn't need costly databases to at least find information *about* the sources. The principle itself is neat and there are some possible next steps. One possibility would be if academic publishers were to see the light and finally provide open access to the material they control. Then Google Scholar would let information achieve its "desire to be free." Then Google Scholar could provide metadata about sources in a format compatible with citation solutions (RefDB, BibTeX, MARC, EndNote...). This could fulfill some of Tim Berners-Lee's dreams and prophecies. Of course, it'd be nice to have searches put sources in perspective, showing the networks of who cites whom and such. Perhaps more likely to happen, though, is a further commercialization of literature searches and the appropriation of content by those who distribute it as opposed to those who create it (publishers and databases as opposed to authors). We'll see... Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: Barbara Limbach Subject: Call for Manuscripts Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:40:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 527 (527) Request for manuscripts on Critical Thinking. Please visit my website for information regarding manuscript submission for Academic Exchange Quarterly: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/ontcrit.htm Focus: Despite the long standing tradition and popularity of the lecture format, it is very limiting when trying to develop critical thinking skills among students. Developing critical thinking skills is regarded by many educational professionals as being of primary importance. However, many educators seem to have only a vague understanding of what critical thinking is and how it can be taught. This issue will aim to address this problem by outlining what is meant by critical thinking, how it can adequately be demonstrated, why it is an important intellectual skill, and strategies for fostering critical thinking. Who May Submit: Manuscripts are sought from those whose experiences, methods, and assessments in the high school or college classroom have produced meaningful ways to teach critical thinking, whether in the traditional classroom, through on-line courses, or a combination of class meetings and web-based work. Manuscripts devoted to the challenges of imparting the nuances of critical thinking are also invited. Please identify your submission with keyword: CRITICAL Submission deadline: On-going submission requests. See Regular and Short submission deadline in Submission Procedure: http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm Dr. Barbara Limbach ===== Dr. Barbara Limbach Home Address: 1000 Main Street 1016 Second Street Chadron, NE 69337 Crawford, NE 69339 Phone: (308) 432-6350 Phone: (308) 665-1199 E-mail: blimbach_at_csc.edu E-mail: b_limbach_at_yahoo.com Fax: (308) 432-6430 From: Lorna M Hughes Subject: Re: 18.368 ACH-ALLC funding opportunities Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:57:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 528 (528) Hi All, Just to add to the message I sent out yesterday: Here is the contact information for all the funding opportunities (my message yesterday was truncated!) Lorna * The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing awards up to five bursaries to students and young scholars who are members of the Association and who have papers or posters accepted for presentation at the conference. Full details, and an application form, are available at the ALLC website, www.allc.org. * The Association for Computing in the Humanities is also starting a bursary program this year, and will award up to five grants to graduate students who are members of ACH and have a paper or poster presentation accepted for presentation at the conference. For more information and details of how to apply, please contact lorna.hughes_at_nyu.edu * The conference hosts, the University of Victoria, have applied for grants to support Canadian graduate students attending the conference. Preference will be given to those presenting papers or posters. For more information, please contact achallc5_at_uvic.ca From: Andrew Gollan Subject: Good quality page images without dismembering books Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:52:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 529 (529) Dear humanists, I'm working up a project where we want to get hold of rather a lot of good legible page images from large format books printed about 100 years ago. Are there services or equipment which can avoid the page distortions towards the spine, or correct same, that would allow us to get good enough images to consider republication on paper, web publication and OCR, without cutting these handsome volumes into pieces? These are lexica, notorious for font and size changes, foreign scripts and curious punctuation. What kind of resolution to think would be needed for reasonable quality reproduction? Are there high resolution cameras and copying stands that specifically address this kind of work? Thanks in advance, Andrew Gollan, Classics, University of Kentucky. From: Susan Hesemeier Subject: CaSTA Conference Report Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:51:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 530 (530) Report on the 3rd Annual Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis The Face of Text: Computer Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004 As a graduate of a humanities computing M.A, who still gives a different explanation every time someone asks "what is that?" when referring to my degree, I think this was a good conference to attend, and the following summary will indeed reflect my pragmatic concerns as a graduate student. Economic and job prospect apprehensions urge us to ask many questions of the field that may appear to be overly-questioning and critical on some points, such as: "How will entering this field be of benefit to me?"; "How does this field define itself, and how is it regarded by others?"; "Is its work legitimate, and how does it define legitimate work?". Because I could not find these answers quickly in a field that is still very much defining itself, I have also been quite sceptical, but I think that many of my criticisms have also been shared or addressed by members of this community, which I see as not just comprising humanities scholars, but information studies and computing science academics in an integrally collaborative entity which TAPoR has brought together at this conference. The conference theme, "The Face of Text", allowed interdisciplinary interpretation and participation from scholars working in areas related to humanities computing in general, rather than just text-analysis specifically. The closing remarks, which connected various metaphorical interpretations of the theme, reiterated this point: the need we often feel to face different communities with the type of work that computing humanists conduct. And I think this conference also demonstrates, as some members of the humanities computing community have also pointed out, that perhaps we have come of age enough to be able to withstand our own anxiety and criticism, and to use this to define and refine what it is that we do. There were many fine presentations that addressed the interdisciplinary nature of our work and sought to improve collaboration between these types of projects. The welcoming keynote by Jerome McGann exhibited the IVANHOE project and brought up many points about humanities work in general, such as that it might be helpful to not always obscure the uncertainties of projects in the essays and articles we write, and how we need to have the ability to 'play' and be creative with our projects as well. But my pragmatic POV would ask: these projects are all very nice, but do we have studies to show how useful they are, or the ways in which people are actually using them? Do they justify the money we have put into them? This is not to say that they don't, but I would like to see more reviews of a project's users, to show how these projects are actually put into practice. Other keynotes included John Unsworth on "Forms of Attention: Digital Humanities Beyond Representation", which divided humanities research computing into phases to represent how tools bear the imprint of the technological moment in which they are created: the '50s and '60s focused on tools, the '80s and '90s on primary sources, and in the 00's we are back at tools again, and perhaps our fear of saying that we work with tools has become more moderate. I found this to be a useful structure for organizing what it is that computing humanists have done, and it can certainly help with describing what it is we do now, although some may disagree with the classification of primary source and tool use over the decades. Saturday's keynotes were from Julia Flanders and John Bradley, and there were many other presentations that ranged from demonstrations of projects to ways in which we can think about and represent what it is that we do in humanities computing. I was only able to hear about Saturday's presentations second- hand, though, by talking to conference attendees during breaks on Sunday, as my childcare arrangements for Saturday had fallen through last-minute with my son's regular babysitter. But I would like to use this point to ask a few questions about the way in which we still typically organize conferences, and to express how this year's CaSTA conference organizer, Geoffrey Rockwell, deserves extra 'kudos'. When I ran into him about a month before the CaSTA conference, he offered, upon hearing that I have a five-year-old, to assist me with finding childcare for any days of the conference when this might be needed, and I didn't even have to ask for this assistance. Why is this not standard practice at conferences? We make sure that all conference attendees are able to find accommodation, food, and transportation, but do we still assume that the typical conference attendee is in possession of a partner that will take on the role of child-rearer/maid/housekeeper? The MLA has conference childcare, but it is sad to see that most if not all other conferences do not even consider the possibility that conference attendees may require care for their children or otherwise not be able to attend. I have been told by academic job-search workshops that women should hide the fact that they have children during academic job interviews, because hiring committees would not be able to find out this fact unless it is revealed to them, and it might be detrimental to the application because the committee would question whether the job candidate would be able to attend conferences/etc. Perhaps if we had childcare at conferences, this would not be such a problem? Maybe it would also help to ameliorate the 'glass ceiling' that exists for women and traditionally disadvantaged groups (as would the elimination of two-year waiting lists for family student housing and daycare at many university campuses), and in general make it easier for women to be able to have children and still pursue advanced degrees and advanced careers. For all of the spectacular presentations that were given at the conference, I am highlighting this progressive point as its most profound feature, as you would have had at least one less female head in the conference crowd if the organizer had not been sensitive to this issue. That is not to say that the presentations and conversations with conference attendees were not also impressive, and the presentations given on the final day of the conference certainly demonstrated this point. Two keynotes were given, one by Jean-Guy Meunier on "Interfacing the Text: Difficulties and Solutions", and another by Stephen Ramsay, "In Praise of Pattern". These sessions were well-attended and produced some interesting discussion in the breaks and after the closing remarks. One presentation that particularly stood out for me was the Toms/Rockwell/Sinclair/Siemens paper, "Modelling the Humanities Scholar at Work", the survey instrument from which I have previously referred to on this discussion list. What struck me on Sunday, though, was the reaction from audience-members to its findings. These ranged from distrust of the survey instrument itself to disagreement with the way in which the results were interpreted. The findings made many assessments of the humanities scholar, ranging from the fact that most of us still write single- authored works and do not collaborate with graduate students (or other scholars in general, for that matter), and that many of us also do not 'share' our tools and resources. But perhaps it is less a matter of us not wanting to share, than that we generally do not bother to 'borrow'. Although it is good to be critical of these surveys and the way in which results are interpreted, it seemed that many people disagreed with the survey's findings, whether it was because they believe this type of information cannot be easily represented in a survey, or because it is just not what we think of as representative of the computing humanist. But I think in many respects the study does 'hit the nail right on the head', and if it is true that we do not collaborate as much as we could, perhaps there are ways we could address this. Some of the other CaSTA presentations sought to address these issues as well, which is much healthier than if we pretend these issues do not exist: hearing second-hand about John Bradley's presentation, he seems to have begun to address the issue in his point, "tools that have been developed have met with few successes, and have had little uptake by the humanities computing community at large." Many projects continue to 'reinvent the wheel' at the interface level every time a new digitization is underway: on this point, I think many would concur that we could possibly be 'sharing' and borrowing quite a bit more. If we can agree that some interfaces for presenting transcriptions and images of manuscripts are effective and useful, for example, either through usability studies or an examination of the people that are actually using the resources, perhaps we could share these interfaces between projects more often so that we do not have to come up with different interfaces and text-accompaniment tools in every project. More close collaboration with colleagues from information studies and computing science can help with these usability studies, and I was also happy to see such a good mix between these groups at the conference because it gave me the opportunity to directly ask questions of researchers from other fields. I asked one professor from information studies, "Have people within your field ever heard of or used TEI?", to which I received the reply, "No, not really." On the other hand, many researchers in the humanities have not heard of learning object metadata and Dublin Core, although they certainly have heard of these within information studies. Part of having the pragmatic perspective is to also get annoyed easily at what might be seen as 'redundancy', whether it is from scholars not conducting appropriate literature reviews to build on each other's work within the same field, or not building on work that has already been conducted within other fields; others might say this surplus is necessary because of the different perspective each field and individual scholar can offer. I came to this conference with the critique, "What are we doing in this field that is so different from information studies, and why should it be conducted within the humanities and not a discipline that is more accommodating to social science research methods and dissemination venues?". But I think that if we keep bringing this mix of researchers from different disciplines together to discuss issues in this field we call 'humanities computing', it will be a healthy field of research for young academics to take on. I will certainly encourage a number of scholars from various disciplines to attend next year's conference. -- Susan Hesemeier, PhD Student Department of English University of Toronto s.hesemeier_at_utoronto.ca From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 18.369 Google Scholar, scholars and googles Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:44:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 531 (531) Norman Hinton, quoted Janice Bogstad who said, about Google Scholar: [deleted quotation]and Willard added: [deleted quotation]Yes, absolutely, good online searching skills need to be learned, and thus should probably be taught. But why should scholars pay attention to Google and why, despite its evident shortcomings, should students? Because: - students will use it, regardless,so there might as well be some guidance from skilled researchers on how best to use it; - Google, simply by throwing its considerable weight into academic searching, will have an impact on how searching is defined, structured and done; - Google has evidenced no little skill in deciphering how people conduct online searches, so, for those interested in exploring how people search, and how best to address the limitations of those kinds of searches, it is useful to pay attention to their model; - but mostly, and this crops up again and again in the adoption of new technologies and applications: Willard also mentioned "thinking in terms of the authoritative source." If humanities scholars want to shape the tools that will shape our scholarship, we need to use the tools that are provided, understand their limitations, and point those out to their creators before those tools become entrenched. We can't assume that the "authoritative source," in this case Google, will get things "right" at the outset. We can assume that something like Google Scholar may have enough of an impact to shape the way research gets done, that the way they define "right" is the way "right" will become. - Hope ------------------ hope.greenberg_at_uvm.edu, University of Vermont From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.37 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:45:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 532 (532) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 37 (November 24 - November 30, 2004) The Economics of Technology Evolution Espen Andersen on strategic IT management, European vs US management styles, and Andersen's Two Laws of the Internet. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i37_andersen.html From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.375 Google Scholar Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:01:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 533 (533) Referring to Hope's comments: I have colleagues working with Google and know that the company's curiosity about how language works and their desire to access and provide access to obscure archival materials (for example) is genuine. I expect that people had a hard time getting with Dewey's program at first, too (and oh the agony of switching to LC)--and that locked down a western conceptual structure in such a way that people are now threatened by an engine like Google that can conceivably be at least partly agnostic as to conceptual structure. Students need to be taught how to evaluate materials on the basis of context and internal evidence, wherever they come from--and maybe they'll realize how much they need that skill when they get ten thousand hits from an ill-formed request. But don't we all love open stacks for the serendipity of bad cataloging and just being forced to walk by shelves in which we think we have no interest? For some real entertainment, click on Google preferences and look at the languages in which you can search and set the interfact to display to you. A local physics student when interviewed said he set his interface for Latin "because it's kind of ironic." Go figure: unintended consequences. You can also have Klingon. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas at Austin From: Willard McCarty Subject: standing on the shoulders of giants Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:23:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 534 (534) Google Scholar has chosen as its motto, "Stand on the shoulders of giants". Since only two days ago I ran across what seems likely to be the best work on that phrase anywhere, I thought I'd pass on the reference. You never know -- you might want to quote it when discussing the way we tend to think these days. Anyhow, you should know, if this phrase grabs you, that Isaac Newton's use of it, in a letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676, is not the first. Newton didn't invent it. A.C. Crombie, in his magnificent 3-volume Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition (London: Duckworth, 1994), p. 25, n. 37, traces it back to the 12th Century, to Bernard of Chartres, as reported by John of Salisbury (who refers to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants) and relates it to William of Conches' gloss on Priscian, "quanto juniores, tanto perspicaciores". (For this phrase Google Scholar suggested I might have been intending to type "quanto juniors, tanto perspicacious".) "He said well that the moderns are able to see better than the ancients but are not wiser", Crombie 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Pia Janczak Subject: NOTE / Questionnaire: German Digital Libraries Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:24:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 535 (535) Extension of run-time: As we have learned from broad feedback, our online questionnaire regarding digital library use is being forwarded to numerous mailing lists we did not address directly. To avoid any kind of time pressure to those who have just found out/will find out about the questionnaire, we decided to extend the run-time by two another weeks. Therefore, any participation will be welcome until Dec, 12. Online questionnaire URL: http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/umfrageDB/ For further information you will find the original request here below. With best regards, Humanities Computing Science Project Team http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de ***************************************** Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) schrieb: [deleted quotation] From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: Re: 18.377 Google Scholar Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:58:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 536 (536) "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" writes: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 537 (537) : Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:23:54 +0000 : From: Willard McCarty : : : Google Scholar has chosen as its motto, "Stand on the shoulders of giants". : Since only two days ago I ran across what seems likely to be the best work : on that phrase anywhere, I thought I'd pass on the reference. You never : know -- you might want to quote it when discussing the way we tend to think : these days. Anyhow, you should know, if this phrase grabs you, that Isaac : Newton's use of it, in a letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676, is not : the first. Newton didn't invent it. A.C. Crombie, in his magnificent : 3-volume Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition (London: : Duckworth, 1994), p. 25, n. 37, traces it back to the 12th Century, to : Bernard of Chartres, as reported by John of Salisbury (who refers to dwarfs : perched on the shoulders of giants) and relates it to William of Conches' : gloss on Priscian, "quanto juniores, tanto perspicaciores". (For this : phrase Google Scholar suggested I might have been intending to type : "quanto juniors, tanto perspicacious".) "He said well that the moderns are : able to see better than the ancients but are not wiser", Crombie comments. : : Yours, : WM Surely that depends on what you mean by "best." To my mind the best such work, and surely the best work by a sociologist, is "On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript" by Robert K. Merton. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu NOTE: junger_at_pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu no longer exists From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: On the Shoulders of Giants Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:59:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 538 (538) I think we may be finding out something about google's mining techniques here, Willard. The "best work on that phrase" is Robert Merton's On the Shoulders of Giants, and I am sure that Crombie, scholar that he is, will have referred to it. It was Merton, BTW, who invented such words as otsoggery `too much use of footnotes', palimpsesting syndrome `the originator of the phrase/idea/notion is the last person one heard say it'. I always called this a wojohovitzism. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:28:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 539 (539) (1) David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898-1918) From Grundlagen der Geometrie to Grundlagen der Physik by Leo Corry Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel David Hilbert (1862-1943) was the most influential mathematician of the early twentieth century and, together with Henri Poincare, the last mathematical universalist. His main known areas of research and influence were in pure mathematics (algebra, number theory, geometry, integral equations and analysis, logic and foundations), but he was also known to have some interest in physical topics. The latter, however, was traditionally conceived as comprising only sporadic incursions into a scientific domain which was essentially foreign to his mainstream of activity and in which he only made scattered, if important, contributions. Based on an extensive use of mainly unpublished archival sources, the present book presents a totally fresh and comprehensive picture of Hilbert?s intense, original, well-informed, and highly influential involvement with physics, that spanned his entire career and that constituted a truly main focus of interest in his scientific horizon. His program for axiomatizing physical theories provides the connecting link with his research in more purely mathematical fields, especially geometry, and a unifying point of view from which to understand his physical activities in general. In particular, the now famous dialogue and interaction between Hilbert and Einstein, leading to the formulation in 1915 of the generally covariant field-equations of gravitation, is adequately explored here within the natural context of Hilbert?s overall scientific world-view. This book will be of interest to historians of physics and of mathematics, to historically-minded physicists and mathematicians, and to philosophers of science. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Preface. Acknowledgements and Credits. Introduction. 1: Late Nineteenth Century Background. 1.1. Hilbert?s Early Career. 1.1.1 Algebraic Invariants. 1.1.2 Algebraic Number Fields. 1.1.3 Deep Roots in Tradition. 1.2. Foundations of Geometry. 1.2.1 Riemann. 1.2.2 Projective Geometry. 1.2.3 Nineteenth-Century Axiomatics. 1.2.4 Pasch and the Italian School. 1.3. Foundations of Physics. 1.3.1 Kinetic Theory, Mechanistic Foundations. 1.3.2 Carl Neumann. 1.3.3 Heinrich Hertz. 1.3.4 Paul Volkmann. 1.3.5 Ludwig Boltzmann. 1.3.6 Aurel Voss. 1.4. Mathematics and Physics in Gottingen at the Turn of the Century. 1.4.1 Felix Klein. 1.4.2 The Physicists. 2: Axiomatization in Hilbert?s Early Career. 2.1. Axiomatics, Geometry and Physics in Hilbert?s Early Lectures. 2.1.1 Geometry in Konigsberg. 2.1.2 Geometry in Gottingen. 2.1.3 Mechanics in Gottingen. 2.2. Grundlagen der Geometrie. 2.2.1 Independence, Simplicity, Completeness. 2.2.2 Fundamental Theorems of Projective Geometry. 2.2.3 On the Concept of Number. 2.3. The 1900 List of Problems. 2.3.1 Foundational Problems. 2.3.2 A Context for the Sixth Problem. 2.4. Early Reactions to the Grundlagen. 3: The Axiomatic Method in Action: 1900-1905. 3.1. Foundational Concerns ? Empiricist Standpoint. 3.2. Hilbert and Physics in Gottingen circa 1905. 3.3. Axioms for Physical Theories: Hilbert?s 1905 Lectures. 3.3.1 Mechanics. 3.3.2 Thermodynamics. 3.3.3 Probability Calculus. 3.3.4 Kinetic Theory of Gases. 3.3.5 Insurance Mathematics. 3.3.6 Electrodynamics. 3.3.7 Psychophysics. 3.3.8 A post-1909 addendum. 3.4. The Axiomatization Program by 1905 ? Partial Summary. 4: Minkowski and Relativity: 1907-1909. 4.1. The Principle of Relativity. 4.2. The Basic Equations of Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies. 4.2.1 Three Meanings of "Relativity". 4.2.2 Axioms of Electrodynamics. 4.2.3 Relativity and Mechanics. 4.2.4 Relativity and Gravitation. 4.3. Space and Time. 4.3.1 Groups of Transformations. 4.3.2 Empirical Considerations. 4.3.3 Relativity and Existing Physical Theories. 4.4. Max Born, Relativity, and the Theories of the Electron. 4.4.1 Rigid Bodies. 4.5. Minkowski, Axiomatics and Relativity ? Summary. 5: Mechanical to Electromagnetic Reductionism: 1910-1914. 5.1. Lectures on Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics. 5.2. Kinetic Theory. 5.3. Radiation Theory. 5.3.1 Hilbert and Kirchhoff?s Law: 1912. 5.3.2 Reactions and Sequels: Early 1913. 5.3.3 Pringsheim?s Criticism: 1913. 5.3.4 Hilbert?s Final Version: 1914. 5.3.5 Kinetic and Radiation Theory: General Remarks. 5.4. Structure of Matter and Relativity: 1912-1914. 5.4.1 Molecular Theory of Matter - 1912-13. 5.4.2 Electron Theory: 1913. 5.4.3 Axiomatization of Physics: 1913. 5.4.4 Electromagnetic Oscillations: 1913-14. 5.5. Broadening Physical Horizons - Concluding Remarks. 6: Einstein and Mie: Two Pillars of Hilbert?s Unified Theory. 6.1. Einstein?s Way to General Relativity. 6.2. Mie?s Electromagnetic Theory of Matter. 6.2.1 First and Second Installment: Early 1912. 6.2.2 Third Installment: November 1912. 6.3. Contemporary Debates on Gravitation. 6.4. Born?s Formulation of Mie?s Theory. 6.5. The Background to Hilbert?s Unified Theory ? Summary. 7: Foundations of Physics: 1915-1916. 7.1. Einstein in Gottingen ? Summer of 1915. 7.2. Hilbert?s Unified Theory ? General Considerations. 7.3. Hilbert?s Communication to the GWG ? November 1915. 7.3.1 Axioms and Basic Assumptions. 7.3.2 The Hamiltonian Function and the Field Equations. 7.3.3 Summary and Additional Considerations. 7.4. The Hilbert-Einstein Correspondence and Einstein?s Four Communications ? November 1915. 7.5. Hilbert?s Unified Theory: First Printed Version ? March 1916. 7.6. Foundations of Physics ? Summary. 8: Hilbert and GTR: 1916-1918. 8.1. Mie?s Reaction. 8.2. Einstein?s Reaction. 8.3. Hilbert Teaches GTR ? 1916-1917. 8.4. Hilbert?s Second Communication ? December 1916. 8.5. Gottingen Debates on Energy Conservation in GTR ? 1918. 8.6. Later Talks and Writings on GTR. 8.7. Last Versions of Hilbert?s Theory. 8.8. Hilbert?s Way to GTR ? Summary and Concluding Remarks. 9: Epilogue. 9.1. Foundations of Quantum Theory. 9.2. The Culture of "Nostrification" in Gottingen. 9.3. General Relativity and Geometry. 9.4. Hilbert and Participant Histories of GTR. 9.5. Hilbert and Physics ? Concluding Remarks. Appendix 1: General Chronology of Events Mentioned in the Text. Appendix 2: Hilbert?s Gottingen Courses on Physics. Appendix 3: Seminars, Miscellaneous Lectures. 3.A. Advanced Seminars Taught by Hilbert. 3.B. Public Lectures by Hilbert. 3.C. Physical lectures at the GMG and GWG by Hilbert. 3.D. Lectures on Physical Issues at the GMG by Others. Appendix 4: Hilbert?s Physics Assistants and Doctoral Students. 4.A. Assistants for Physics. 4.B. Doctoral Students on Physical Topics. Appendix 5: Letters Quoted in the Book. Appendix 6: Items from the Hilbert Nachlass referred to in the Book. Appendix 7: Hilbert?s Axioms for Radiation Theory. References. Commonly Used Abbreviations. Published and Unpublished Sources. Index. Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-2777-X Date: November 2004 Pages: 530 pp. EUR 160.00 / USD 179.00 / GBP 111.00 (2) Information Retrieval Algorithms and Heuristics Algorithms and Heuristics by David A. Grossman Ophir Frieder Interested in how an efficient search engine works? Want to know what algorithms are used to rank resulting documents in response to user requests? The authors answer these and other key information retrieval design and implementation questions. This book is not yet another high level text. Instead, algorithms are thoroughly described, making this book ideally suited for both computer science students and practitioners who work on search-related applications. As stated in the foreword, this book provides a current, broad, and detailed overview of the field and is the only one that does so. Examples are used throughout to illustrate the algorithms. The authors explain how a query is ranked against a document collection using either a single or a combination of retrieval strategies, and how an assortment of utilities are integrated into the query processing scheme to improve these rankings. Methods for building and compressing text indexes, querying and retrieving documents in multiple languages, and using parallel or distributed processing to expedite the search are likewise described. This edition is a major expansion of the one published in 1998. Besides updating the entire book with current techniques, it includes new sections on language models, cross-language information retrieval, peer-to-peer processing, XML search, mediators, and duplicate document detection. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Retrieval Strategies 3. Retrieval Utilities 4. Cross-Language Information Retrieval 5. Efficiency 6. Integrating Structured Data and text 7. Parallel Information retrieval 8. Distributed Information retrieval 9. Summary and Future Directions References Index Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-3003-7 Date: October 2004 Pages: 352 pp. EUR 129.00 / USD 142.00 / GBP 90.00 To purchase this book, click here to visit our website's shopping cart feature. Soft cover ISBN: 1-4020-3004-5 Date: October 2004 Pages: 352 pp. EUR 34.00 / USD 38.00 / GBP 24.00 (3) Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science edited by Shahid Rahman Universite Lille 3, France John Symons University of Texas, El Paso, TX, USA Dov M. Gabbay King's College London, UK Jean Paul van Bendegem Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy. Developments in logic are especially relevant to the current situation in philosophy of science. At present, there is no single logic, single approach to semantics or well-defined conception of scientific method dominating the philosophy of science. At the same time, questions concerning linguistic, reductionist and foundationalist approaches to epistemology, the analytic and synthetic distinction as well as disputes concerning semantics and pragmatics have been illuminated by recent developments in logic. Given the power of such developments, discussions of the unity of science are even more intriguing and urgent than in the 20th century. The first title in this new series aims to explore, through extensive co-operation, new ways of achieving the integration of science in all its diversity. The present volume contains essays from some of the most important and influential philosophers in contemporary philosophy, discussing a range of topics such as philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of logic and game theoretical approaches. It will be of great interest to philosophers, computer scientists and all others interested in the scientific rationality. CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS I. Some Programmatic Comments. 1. Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science: An Encyclopedic Project in the Spirit of Neurath and Diderot; Shahid Rahman and John Symons. 2. An International Encyclopedia of the Unified Sciences translated by John Symons and Ramon Alvarado); Otto Neurath. II. Game Theory and Independence Friendly Logic as a Unifying Framework. 3. Towards a Unity of the Human Behavioral Sciences; Herbert Gintis. 4. Some Coloured Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 20th Century; Gerhard Heinzmann. 5. Logical Versus Nonlogical Concepts: An Untenable Dualism?; Jaakko Hintikka. 6. Semantic Games in Logic and Epistemology; Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen. 7. IF Logic, Game-Theoretical Semantics and New Prospects for Philosophy of Science; Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Gabriel Sandu. III. Unity and Plurality in Science and in Logic. 8. Concepts Structured through Reduction: A Structuralist Resource Illuminates the Consolidation-Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) Link; John Bickle. 9. The Unity of Science and the Unity of Being: A Sketch of a Formal Approach; C. Ulises Moulines. 10. Logical Pluralism and the Preservation of Warrant; Greg Restall. 11. In Defence of the Dog: Response to Restall; Stephen Read. 12. Normic Laws, Non-monotonic Reasoning, and the Unity of Science; Gerhard Schurz. 13. The Puzzling Role of Philosophy in Life Sciences: Bases for a Joint Program for Philosophy and History of Science; Juan Manuel Torres. 14. The Creative Growth of Mathematics; Jean Paul Van Bendegem. 15. Quantum Logic and the Unity of Science; John Woods and Kent Peacock. IV. The Logic of the Knowledge-Seeking Activities. 16. Belief Contraction, Anti-formulae and Resource Overdraft: Part II Deletion in Resource Unbounded Logics; Dov Gabbay, Odinaldo Rodrigues and John Woods. 17. Reasoning about Knowledge in Linear Logic: Modalities and Complexity; Mathieu Marion and Mehrnouche Sadrzadeh. 18. A Solution to Fitch's Paradox of Knowability; Helge Ruckert. 19. Theories of Knowledge and Ignorance; Wiebe van der Hoek, Jan Jaspars and Elias Thijsse. 20. Action-Theoretic Aspects of Theory Choice; Heinrich Wansing. 21. Some Computational Constraints in Epistemic Logic; Timothy Williamson. IV. Contributions from Non-Classical Logics. 22. The Need for Adaptive Logics in Epistemology; Diderik Batens. 23. Logics for Qualitative Reasoning; Paulo Veloso and Walter Carnielli. 24. Logic of Dynamics and Dynamics of Logic: Some Paradigm Examples; Bob Coecke, David J. Moore and Sonja Smets. 25. Complementarity and Paraconsistency; Newton C. A. Da Costa and Decio Krause. 26. Law, Logic, Rhetoric: a Procedural Model of Legal Argumentation; Arno Lodder. 27. Essentialist Metaphysics in a Scientific Framework; Ulrich Nortmann. Index. Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-2807-5 Date: October 2004 Pages: 635 pp. EUR 160.00 / USD 175.00 / GBP 111.00 (4) The Death of Argument Fallacies in Agent Based Reasoning by John Woods This book is a sequel to the classic work, Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972?1982 (1989), coauthored with Douglas Walton, and is a further major contribution to the Woods-Walton Approach to the logic of fallacious reasoning. No one disputes the formitable accomplishments of modern mathematical logic; but equally no one seriously believes that classical logic is much good for the analysis of real-life argument and reasoning, or that it is the best place in which to transact the business of fallacy theory. One of the principle innovations of the book is its adaptation of systems of logic to the particular requirements of fallacy theory. The book develops logical analyses which take into account such features of real-life cognitive agency as resource- availability and computational complexity. The book is also an invitation to interdisciplinary cooperation, linking the relevant branches of logic with computer science, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, forensic science, linguistics, (including conversational analysis and discourse analysis) and argumentation theory. Another distinctive feature of Woods? approach to fallacy theory is its recognition of the highly defeasible character of fallacy-attributions. On this view, reasoning is fallacious only in relation to the cognitive target that the reasoner seeks to hit, the standard required for its attainment, and the cognitive resources available to the reasoner. Accordingly the so-called Standard Treatment of the fallacies is seriously misconceived. Getting the fallacies right is an extremely important task for logic, indeed a central part of its mandate. It is a task much more avowed than performed. The Death of Argument is a major attempt to redress this inbalance CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Full table of contents available from Lucy.Fleet_at_springer-sbm.com Hard cover ISBN: 1-4020-2663-3 Date: November 2004 Pages: 406 pp. EUR 140.00 / USD 199.00 / GBP 97.00 [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Literary references to Alice in Scholar.Google Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:00:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 540 (540) In preparing an adult seminar on "Alice in Wonderland as a Prism for Viewing Victorian Society." I have gone through 20 screens of Scholar.Google without find a single reference to this work as a piece of literature. Has anyone found really scholarly material through this resource? Joe Raben From: Willard McCarty Subject: doctrinal metadata, digital barbarians and just plain Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:58:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 541 (541) ******** Yesterday Pat Galloway refreshingly noted that, "Dewey's program... locked down a western conceptual structure in such a way that people are now threatened by an engine like Google that can conceivably be at least partly agnostic as to conceptual structure". Should we not be a tad concerned that so many are now rushing to re-lock down our conceptual structures by means of canonical ontologies expressed in metadata? Is there reason to look hopefully to the barbarian hordes of digital babble surging toward us over yon digital hills? Also yesterday I pruned a very large list of new books from a well-known and (at least formerly) highly respected publisher so as to pass on to Humanist only relevant items. But my principle of pruning quickly changed to pragmatic weed-control. Were I an editor on whose desk proposals for publishing those books had landed, I would have binned 3/4 of them as immediately as I deleted notice of their publication, in full confidence that were I also an expert in each field, the bin-toss would have been even more vigorous. One author's strategy, for example, was to invent a new entity called the "knowledge society", assume its reality without any apparent support from social science research and then go on to write a book extolling its qualities. Alas, I find it difficult to be sanguine about the invading hordes. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.382 Literary references to Alice in Scholar.Google? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:51:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 542 (542) Now, now, oe, don't let your feelings (which I share) about this useless piece of trash display the way you feel threatened by something about agnostic conceptual structure, or some such stuff. From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.382 Literary references to Alice in Scholar.Google? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:52:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 543 (543) Joe Raben wrote: [deleted quotation]Yes. I'm writing about Sir Orfeo, an anonymous Middle English romance, in my dissertation. I've a fairly thorough bibliography, and have consulted the usual printed bibliographies, as wells as a number of online databases. I found not only a number of the journal articles and dissertations I knew of, I also found a useful and previously unknown article from a scholarly music history journal. Lisa -- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital Medievalist Celtic Studies Resources | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: Willard McCarty Subject: scholarship on Google Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:52:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 544 (544) Joe Raben's question, about scholarly material on Alice in Wonderland on Google Scholar, raises three issues that, I think, are very closely related. The first is whether one needs a streamlined Google-for-scholars at all if one exercises one's skills in searching. The second is whether scholarly interests can be defined by characteristics of the source material. The third is what we, as scholars, are expecting. I have no difficulty whatever finding, via vanilla Google, material that I would think useful were I doing a project on Alice for a critical audience. If I were to hold each resource to the highest scholarly standards, the material that I have seen would mostly fail to meet them, but I would not be expecting any such thing. I would be expecting to find clues that would eventually lead me to the good stuff, which I might find online but probably would find at least partly in a library of printed books. In other words, I think what's at issue here, as far as searching strategies are concerned, is an attitude toward the online material. This is why I tell students that the task is not to evaluate what they find but to attempt to discover what sort of knowledge it has for them and what they can do with this knowledge to get them where they need to go. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Harold Short Subject: jobs with the AHRB ICT Methods Network Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:46:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 545 (545) Humanist readers may recall the announcement some time ago of the 'ICT in Arts and Humanities Research' programme funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), directed by Professor David Robey (also the ALLC President). See http://www.ahrbict.rdg.ac.uk/ for information about this programme. Humanist has also carried news about the two main strands of the programme: the 'AHRB ICT Methods Network', which is to be hosted in the Centre for Computing in the Humanites (CCH) at King's College London, co-directed by Marilyn Deegan and Harold Short; and the 'ICT Strategy Projects' programme, recently announced in Humanist 18.307. The AHRB ICT Methods Network is now seeking to recruit two key members of staff: a Network Activities Co-ordinator; and a Publications and Dissemination Co-ordinator. Both posts are 3-year appointments at Senior Project Officer level, and will be based in CCH at King's College, starting on 1 Feb 2005 or as soon thereafter as possible. Details of the posts and the application procedure may be found at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/methnet. ---------------- Harold Short Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2739/2684 fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 www.kcl.ac.uk/cch From: Timothy Mason Subject: Re: 18.384 scholarship and Google Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:27:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 546 (546) Whatever one thinks of Google Scholar (which, by the way, is still a Beta product), one might wish to test it fully before fulminating. An instant's reflection on the terms to be used in a search for material of a literary bent on 'Alice' will turn up leads galore. Much will undoubtedly turn out to be dross, but, as any scholar knows, possession a pair of thigh-length waders is de rigeur when fishing. Best wishes -- Timothy Mason Université de Paris 8 http://perso.club-internet.fr/tmason/index.htm From: ian.lancashire_at_utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 18.384 scholarship and Google Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:28:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 547 (547) About the Scholar.Google riff ... several years ago I used Google's advanced search to explicate William Gibson's name "Ninsei" in his cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984). William Gibson models "cyberspace" (his coinage) on the look of Ninsei ('Night City'), supposedly a place in Chiba City, Japan, where the novel opens. Of course the online street maps of Chiba City, across the Bay from Tokyo, didn't show that name. I asked a colleague who taught the Japanese language at Toronto and she answered carefully, with some embarrassment (whether for me or her, I don't know), "it's not a Japanese word." Several years later, the itch having become a little enflamed in my lectures on the novel, I turned to the advanced search on Google and looked for "Ninsei" without words like "Gibson," "neuromancer," and "Case" (the hero). Ninsei popped up as a trademark name for a well-known 17th-century Japanese stoneware artist, the potter Tsuboya Seiemon. He manufactured tea jars for the tea ceremony ... appropriately enough, because Gibson's down-and-out hero Henry Dorsett Case frequents tea shops. The potter's innovation was to have introduced overglazing on clay. The images on his tea jars are astonishing, all vivid activity and colour against a dull clay background. Science-Fiction Studies took the note and my explanation that Google was the key to finding the answer. The journal editors were surprised, maybe even suspicious, to find something new about that novel in their mail. "I didn't know that .... is that somewhere in the literature?" I wasn't the only sf critic unfamiliar with great Renaissance Japanese art. Gibson's wife in Vancouver had taught English to exchange students from Chiba (a sister city) in the early 1980s, and the family learned much about Japanese culture in return. The journal editors asked me to check the Chiba City maps. When I wrote the town clerk, she replied, Oh yes, there's no such street, but we here caught the allusion in reading Neuromancer in translation. So ... I have nothing but good things to say about Google. From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.384 scholarship and Google Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:29:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 548 (548) Willard wrote: [deleted quotation]I think that's true. I'm not overly enamored of Google Scholar, but I can certainly spare the few minutes it takes to look. Sometimes I find something. And yes, there's a lot of well, crap, frankly, indexed by Google. But I'm reading an awful lot of what frankly I think of as crap in the scholarly journals and listed in standard bibliographies as well Often I'm finding nearly impenetrable prose that, after thirty or so pages, doesn't really say anything. I'm finding articles about texts written in Middle English that make me think their authors don't actually understand Middle English, and no, not just the ones who cite Chaucer in translation, rather than in Middle English. Or the articles by authors who seem to think Celtic is a synonym for "new age." To some extent I suppose scholars are meant to use our skills to winnow crap. I just wish there weren't quite so much of it. I wonder if there is a Gresham's Law for scholarship? Lisa -- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital medievalist Instructional Technology | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/ My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: google scholar Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:28:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 549 (549) I have never used scholar google, but I refuse no help. Was it not Proust who said: "Je prends mon bien par ou je le trouve" (take it where you can get it)? Of course, there is always the problem of the plagiarism now rampant. I don't visit wikis, frequent blogs, etc., but I see nothing inherently wrong with them that is not wrong with all our look-up books. Knowledge mining through the use of key-words has an inherent problem which is not likely to be gotten rid of. Exemplum (you make up the moral): I had a student who wanted to write on The Noble Savage. He went to the library to look up works on the subject and came back having found little, disappointed with such a small beginning bibliography. I told him to go look up Primitivism, and he came back immediately, saying that there was so much previous work that he needed to change subjects. I cite my favorite authority for a list of key-words for acyrologia: "Acyrologia as a Rhetorical Device and a Mode of Thought in the Poems of Ausias March," Estudis de LLengua, Literatura i Cultural Catalanes. Actes del Primer Col.loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord- America, ed. Albert Porqueras-Mayo, Spurgeon Baldwin and Jaume Marti-Olivella (Montserrat: Publicacion de l'Abadia, 1979), 181- 194. Footnote 8: 8. Some terms commonly in use in speaking of the figures of paradox are: Acyrologia, oxymoron, contradictio in adjecto, coincidentia oppositorum, mundus inversus, adynaton, impossibilium, polarity, dubitatio, duplicitas, double entendre, homo viator in bivio, anomie, vir duplex corde/animo, anomalia antinomy, antithesis, dilemma, ®logique du coeur¯, zeugma of opposites, ambivalence, conflit d'amour, incongruitas, paradoxisme, aprosdoketon, conceptismo, cultismo, contrapositio, contentio, parisose, Euphuism, Petrarchism, Gorgian figures, metaphysical, secentismo, preciosite, pointe, mannerism, Gongorism, antimetaboly, syneciosis, enantiosis, discordia concors. It will be noted that many of these terms mean exactly the same thing, whereas for several stylistic devices no terms are in common use. When you add to the problem that of what to call something in a foreign language (or rather, what a person writing in that language is likely to call something), things can get really messy. From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: Re: 18.382 Literary references to Alice in Scholar.Google? Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:29:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 550 (550) Yes. I could provide more detail if someone prefers. I'd suggest the search "alice in wonderland" Victorian society Which brings up, among other listings, "Afar All Seemed Compassed": Cosmopolitan Ethnicity in the Victorian Metropolis Monster soup: the microscope and Victorian fantasy Constructions of Childhood in Art and Media: Sexualized Innocence on the first page. Frankly, I think the problem is that those making the criticisms about this resource are forgetting three things: 1. it is a Beta 2. humanists are not its primary intended audience 3. it is entirely dependent upon the resources it has access to. If you cannot find a particle article in Google scholar, chances are that is because the journal in which it was published is not available in an online resource to which Google has obtained rights to search. Patrick Rourke On Nov 27, 2004, at 4:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Pedantry and Google Scholar Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:30:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 551 (551) Willard, It was rather fun to pass a phrase gleaned from Norman Hinton: [deleted quotation]through the Google Scholar indices. The indices currently are superb for searching citations. Interesting to learn that using the string "Willard McCarty" nets a top listing for Using TACT with Electronic Texts I Lancashire, J Bradley, W McCarty, M Stairs New York: MLA, December, 1996 with a lovely link to 10 online citations of which the first listed is Collaboration on the basis of complementary domain knowledge: Observed dialogue structures and their ... C Kneser, R Ploetzner Learning and Instruction, 2001 which is itself linked to 7 online citations [...] Try doing that with regular Google! [deleted quotation]Viewing [deleted quotation]without [deleted quotation]anyone [deleted quotation]Have people tried _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_? It's an old bibliography chestnut that the searchable title does not match the common appellation. Recently I read an abstract of a paper that Jula Flanders of Brown University was to present at a conference, The Face of Text, at McMaster University. http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/abstract.htm Unfortunately I could not attend and I do not know if the paper was delivered or how it was received if it was delivered. The note of caution in my assertions here is no doubt inspired by the title of the paper in question: "Text analysis and the probelm of pedantry". Allow me to quote the last two sentances of the abstract as it appeared November 12, 2004 on the TAPOR site. We can find some explanation for current academic resistence to these methods by examining historical debates about the role the scholar (and his devalued doppelgander, the pendant) and the kinds of literary evidence and knowledge that should inform scholarly work. The tool and research methods now being used for computer-aided literary analysis must work against the grain of this resistence and find a new way of articulating the role of the detail and the datum within literary interpretation. I stress the appearance of the masculine pronoun to refer to the scholar. And invite readers and subscribers to conduct a search using Google Scholer and the string "gender collaboration". It's an interesting exercise for anyone interested in pursuing questions of embodied gnosis and conceptual structures. For those interested in a different root try "Alice caucus". Quite the race! In short, Google Scholar is a fine tool for pursuing linkages. It may have other uses. And prizes for all. Recall that in the fictional universe of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the caucus race is ... read here: There was no `One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out `The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, `But who has won?' This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, 'EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes.' http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/books/1chpt3.htmlNovember 28, 2004 -- 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: Subject: CLaRK System V3: an XML-based System for CorporaDevelopment Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:55:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 552 (552) Dear List members, I would like to announce the third version release of the CLaRK System: an XML-based System for Corpora Development. It is available on the web page of the BulTreeBank Project: http://www.bultreebank.org/clark CLaRK is an XML-based software system for corpora development. The main aim of the system design is the minimization of human intervention during the creation of language resources. It incorporates several technologies: (1) XML technology; (2) Unicode; (3) Regular Cascade Grammars; (4) Constraints over XML Documents. The system is implemented in JAVA. A short overview of the recent changes in the implementation can be found at: http://www.bultreebank.org/clark/news.html On behalf of the CLaRK Team, Kiril Simov ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kiril Simov BulTreeBank Project Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria E-mail: kivs_at_bultreebank.org Web: http://www.bultreebank.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin Hawkins" Subject: RE: 18.373 page imaging without dismembering? Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:30:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 553 (553) I recommend consulting a digital preservation librarian in a research library. Major universities are increasingly involved in the very kind of digitization you are proposing and have hardware (such as planetary scanners) to accomplish what you need or have relationships with digitization vendors that do the work for them. Some (such as the University of Michigan) even perform digitization work for a fee for other institutions that do not have the equipment or expertise to do their own digitization. You might look at the following to get an idea of what all might be involved: http://www.umdl.umich.edu/dcs/index.html http://images.library.uiuc.edu/resources/ I'm not directly involved in this type of digitization, so there may be better resources on the topic. Kevin Hawkins [deleted quotation] From: Katharine Patterson Subject: forwarded message from the CASLL list to Humanist Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:31:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 554 (554) [deleted quotation] From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.386 scholarship and Google, and Alice Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 06:32:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 555 (555) I do want to make it clear that I use Google every day: the Advanced Search function is excellent. It's "Scholar" that I don't care to look at any more. I can find more on-line in the MLA Bib on-line, and quicker, plus many other specialist on-line bibs (on Chaucer, OE lang and lit, etc. etc.) So far at least Google Scholar seems irrelevant and untrustworthy compared to the other on-line things I use all the time. Jim, one difference between wikis and our beloved books is that our books don't get changed by persons unknown every day. And even the best blogs I know of have an unchecked, 'no time for research' aspect that keeps me far away from them. I can run off at the mouth all by myself -- I don't need to own a computer to watch other folks do it. I'd much rather get a response from one of the medievalists' Lists. From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Scholar.Google Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 06:34:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 556 (556) Patrick Rourke writes: [deleted quotation]Checking out those references, one finds, first, an article on child psychology written for doctors and with only the slightest passing mentions of Alice. The second citation requires a subscription. The third offers an abstract that mentions only artitsts, and does not mention Alice. In fact, the preponderance of articles in my earlier search seem to relate to psychiatric or other medical concerns. Whether that generalization holds I cannot determine, since almost all of the ones I clicked on either required a fee or a subscription or were in a format that was not available. A gamble of the requisite sums on the basis of a mere title is beyond the resources of the typical humanities scholar. Rourke's points 2 and 3 emphasize the limitations of this resource for serious academics. In the responses posted so far to my request for evidence that Scholar.Google is a useful tool for scholarly research, I have seen nothing yet that really responds. Joe Raben From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: December/January Issue of Innovate Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 06:34:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 557 (557) The December 2004/January 2005 issue of Innovate will be available at http://innovateonline.info one minute after midnight ET on December 1. I am distributing this announcement now because one minute after midnight on December 1 ET I will be on a heavier-than-air craft winging my way to participate in the Online Educa Berlin conference that begins later that day. :-) Innovate is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly e-journal published as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. It features creative practices and cutting-edge research on the use of information technology to enhance education. The issue begins with my interview of Bill Graves, a pioneer in information management. Graves offers insights on service, program, and course redesign strategies and explains how they can improve educational delivery while lowering institutional costs. The authors of our second article use research on adult learning to identify pedagogical strategies and practical techniques for writing instructional articles in adult online education. Verne Moreland and Herbert Bivens put their recommendations into concrete form with an alternate version of their Innovate article in prime educational format. Bruce Howerton and Nicholas Moss follow with individual articles on multimedia teaching resources at a prominent dental school. Howerton reviews the technical potential of three software programs to enliven traditional dental lectures. Moss describes his classroom use of these programs, complete with results and student reactions. Both authors provide sample multimedia materials for readers to explore. The next two articles focus on online instruction. John Sener discusses the scrutiny that online learning constantly undergoes, pointing out the problematic nature of comparing it to traditional education and arguing for a separate frame of evaluation. Mark Mabrito leads us into the heart of the online learning experience with a review of the tools, techniques, and policies he uses to enhance interaction on three fronts. The issue concludes with another interview, a conversation between board member Scott Windham and Dee Dickinson, the chief learning officer of New Horizons for Learning. Dickinson reflects on her organization's past, present, and future and points readers to its amazing array of resources. Logging on is simple--but we invite you to do more than simply read. Use the journal's one-button features to comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and participate in Innovate-Live webcasts and discussion forums. Join us in exploring the best uses of technology to improve the ways we think, learn, and live. Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists and to colleagues who want to use IT tools to advance their work. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: research questions Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 06:40:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 558 (558) I'd like to get some help thinking about the question of research in humanities computing. A great deal of the work that goes on in the field is directly concerned with the making of software objects. The question with regards to research is, are these objects *in themselves* research? This is certainly not an easy question to answer, for at least two reasons. The first is that like all other disciplinary terms that I can think of, the meaning of "research" varies from field to field, as does the recognized forms it may take. Consider, for example, research as it is known in physics, philosophy, anthropology and history. So, my question really is, what meaning can we reasonably and persuasively give to the term? I think in this case, at least, being reasonable and being persuasive are potentially two quite different things. One could say that nothing is research that is inarticulate -- about which the researcher has not been reflective (in the mode of his or her discipline) and communicative (ditto). So, if I make a fine chair, it's not research, but if having done that I write about chairs, analyzing the one I have made and comparing it to others, then I could claim to be doing research. Furthermore, if in my analysis I explicated the thinking that went into the chair, is manifested in the chair and arguably communicated by it, might I be able to say that the chair *is* research? Or is that way over the top? How about software? Software is unlike wood in that it is made of language (of a particular, formally defined sort). Therefore it cannot strictly speaking be inarticulate. If a program has been well designed, if genuine thought has gone into it, e.g. insights about processing the particular kind of data it processes, then it also bears the reflective thought that I've tentatively specified as necessary to research. But *is* it research? To be that, by the conventional measure, it has to be communicated and assessed; it has to be part of the ongoing scholarly conversation and recognized as making a contribution. In the humanities, it has to lead to further, better questions than those with which we started. In some sense it has to identify those questions if it is to be successful research. But wait. A poem is articulate and communicative but is clearly not research. Research on poetry is a different matter; its kind of discourse is different. At the beginning of the Anatomy of Criticism, Frye remarks that all art is mute, including poetry; criticism is how we talk about it, how scholars respond creatively to it. So is software like poetry, or is it like criticism? I would think the latter, because it is a way of talking analytically about the data it processes, as it were. My thoughts on the topic may be muddled, but it should be very clear to us all that the question is not an idle one. Can we have a humanities computing if the answer to this question is not, "Yes, software is (or can be) research"? If the better answer is "can be", then what must we do to make it so? 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Kirk Lowery Subject: Re: 18.389 on composition theory & tools for writing Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:35:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 559 (559) [deleted quotation]This is a sociological problem, not a technical one. Word processors and html text editors can be used to create simple text. But all that "eye candy" is just too tempting and distracting to the student/user -- I include myself in that group! I will often just open up a plain text processor to write the first draft/outline of a document, and only later import it into the appropriate tool for display. This allows me to focus upon *what* I want to say: logic before rhetoric. [deleted quotation]If I were in this situation, I would *require* students to use only a text editor: Notepad, Wordpad, emacs, vi(m), etc. Actually any programmer's editor would work just fine, and there are a plethora of them out there for all platforms and budgets. Keep content (text) creation a separate step from display: first, create text and turn that in for critique. Then give it back for the student to pretty it up for web, hardcopy, etc. Hope this helps, Kirk -- The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good. --Ogden Nash From: "Dennis Cintra Leite" Subject: RE: 18.389 on composition theory & tools for writing Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:36:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 560 (560) 1. from any Windows application to any other Window application: a) select the entire text, b) copy to clipboard, c) insert from clipboard to notepad. d) Copy again to clipboard and e) paste into whatever application you wish. 2. In Word its far simpler: a) go to File/save as.. b) choose plain text Hope this helps From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.389 on composition theory & tools for writing Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:36:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 561 (561) Russ Hunt Wrote: [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]I've encountered it. Part of the problem is that one must locate two, and possibly three, places in MS Word to turn off the autoformatting of lists and such. The places depend on the version of MS Word in question. I used to hand code about a hundred or so syllabi every quarter, so I truly feel your pain. [deleted quotation]Michael E. Cohen wrote a series of articles years ago for UCLA's Humanities Computing Center on just this issue. If you're genuinely interested, email me off list with a postal address and I'll send you a copy. Since they were done in QuarkExpress c. 1991, I'm pretty sure it's too time consuming to convert the file. [deleted quotation]On the Mac the text editor BBEdit Pro will strip out most markup up with a single click. I suspect that there's a similar text editor for Windows that does much the same thing. I know there are Perl scripts that do this. For this kind of bulk work, I came to depend on lots of automation in BBedit. I suspect that part of the problem with wrapping was an invisible bit of binary data (things like line feeds are still in MSWord files). I rely on a "zap gremlins" tool in BBEdit for just such issues. I'm sure there's something similar for Windows users. Dean Allen also has a web page that will do much of the stripping and clean up of word files, though you may need the "paid" version. http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ [deleted quotation]-- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital medievalist Instructional Technology | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/ My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 18.389 on composition theory & tools for writing Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:36:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 562 (562) Hi there, [deleted quotation]If DreamWeaver won't do it any more (it used to have a really good function for removing MSWord nonsense), then copying and pasting into Notepad is the best option. If you have students who can't create Web pages without using MSWord, then your best bet is to have them create text files with Notepad. Web browsers display text very nicely. And plain text is also markup, as we know. All those punctuation marks, capitals, carriage returns, not to mention the lexis and grammar. Lots of room for self-expression there. Cheers, Martin From: "Sharon Johnson" Subject: RE: 18.389 on composition theory & tools for writing Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:37:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 563 (563) I haven't tried it with all programs but if I want to strip out formatting I either copy and paste the document into Macromedia's Homesite (if I want to mark it up to html or xml) or copy and use the "paste special" instead of paste. You can choose "unformatted text" as a paste option. If you already have Dreamweaver, Homesite is usually bundled with it. Sharon Johnson Web Site Manager http://www.sbl-site.org Society of Biblical Literature 825 Houston Mill Road Atlanta, GA 30329 From: stefan gradmann Subject: Re: 18.389 on composition theory & tools for writing Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:38:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 564 (564) Russ, did you try OpenOffice.org (-> www.openoffice.org)? That might fix your problem: OO is pretty good at converting M$ formats and can even output plain XML if you wish. Give it a try! Best regards -- Stefan Gradmann ________________________________________________________ Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg Dr. Stefan Gradmann / Stellvertretender Direktor 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_at_rrz.uni-hamburg.de WWW: http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RRZ/S.Gradmann ________________________________________________________ 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: Judy Reynolds Subject: helpdesk translation Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:32:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 565 (565) [The following refers to the announcement of a Norwegian video on the puzzling technology of the codex in Humanist 18.298, where it was mistakenly said to be in Danish. --WM] Hi, The recent helpdesk clip posted on this list was actually in Norwegian. Finally found someone to translate it in case others on the list are interested. Judy Reynolds Library, San Jose State University http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mz34/helpdesk.WMV [deleted quotation] From: "Christine Goldbeck" Subject: Re: 18.391 what is research in humanities computing? Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:33:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 566 (566) Hi: Your question is one about which I have been thinking, although I have not considered it from the angle of software development. Nonetheless, I do see important relationships among humanities/software/research. As a scholar, an artist and a business person, I do believe that objects such as you propose can be viewed as research. For example, I am designing a hyperfiction, an artists' book and a Flash movie that uses my art, made as based on my research. With the design of each project, I have several questions that I hope audients will answer when the works are exhibited/used. This is research? Although I am making a product, an object, I am seeking answers to questions I have with regard to materiality, embodiment and media forms. Have you read Brenda Laurel's Utopian Entrepreneur? She waxes fairly prosaic on research. One of my favorite quotes from her is: "I am committed to working in the language of popular culture. Doing culture work well requires research. Our work relies on our understanding of perception, cognition, and how people construct meaning. Culture work also functions as research. We are continually informed about our time and out nature through the responses of people to the artifacts of popular culture . culture work excites the will to action. It requires means of dissemination, often found in commercial media, which after all are at the intersection of communication technologies and the market economy." (11) This is an interesting topic that I am most willing to discuss at length. Sincerely, Christine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:47 AM [deleted quotation] From: derouen_at_uga.edu Subject: Re: 18.391 what is research in humanities computing? Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:33:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 567 (567) <> I think it depends on the position from which you view the software. I can conceive of "reading" a program the way that I might read a book or a poem, querying the choices made by a particular coder and trying to determine the underlying rationale or message the code/coder imparts. I could also "read" the interactive moment with the software (some dull as dishwater and completely utilitarian, others engaging and lively). Viewing from the criticism position, the choices made by a coder/critic enact some critical evaluation of the text or the interaction, placing importance and pressure on various elements. Anita M. DeRouen Graduate Student Dept. of English The University of Georgia Athens, GA derouen_at_uga.edu ********************* "Anyone who looks at life in all its aspects will see how far the remarkable, the great, and the beautiful predominate in all things, and he will soon understand to what end we have been born." --Longinus From: "Yager, Susan [ENGL]" Subject: RE: 18.391 what is research in humanities computing? Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:34:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 568 (568) A more flexible term for this type of research in humanities computing may be "scholarship," as it can encompass traditional research, creative work, synthesis, and so on. The term has become widely used on American campuses as a way to describe intellectual work since the 1990 publication of Ernest Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered. Susan Yager Iowa State From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 18.391 what is research in humanities computing? Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:34:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 569 (569) Hi there, At 10:47 PM 30/11/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Software is methodology in action. Any process of designing, coding, testing and refining algorithms that manipulate data for a research project constitutes establishing and formalizing a methodology for the project; in that sense, it can surely be viewed as a legitimate and important part of a research, I think. Defining "software" is perhaps more complicated. Is a document made interactive with scripting "software"? Is a complex XQuery expression designed to pull data from an XML database "software"? Everything from a CSS stylesheet to an OS written in machine code could be software. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes_at_uvic.ca martin_at_mholmes.com mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: "If God is dead, all things are permissible." Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:24:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 570 (570) Humanists: The quotation, "If God is dead, all things are permissible," is cited in or another permutations so frequently in a GOOGLE search that is seems firmly established. It is always attributed a character in one of Dostoevsky's books. The only problem is that no Dostoevsky character ever makes this statement. Several years ago, a Russian-area member of the Modern Language Association posted a thorough and carefully documented report on his rereading of BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and, as I recall, other Dostoevsky novels. Unfortunately, in spite of several carefully crafted GOOGLE searches, I cannot now find his posting and hope that one of you can reply with the URL or the source. Some day, I shall post on my Web site a list of "Great Statements Never Uttered." These will include Pogo: "We have met the enemy and they are us." I have a letter from Walt Kelly explaining that Pogo never said this. Some years after his death, his estate apparently permitted the use of this quote with a picture of Pogo in observance of Earth Day. Ruskin: ""There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey." But see http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/quotation.html and several others. It would be a fascinating research project to try to understand why people misremember or unconsciously create attributions of these sorts. I could speculate that they somehow "feel right" but cannot seem to get beyond that point. _________________________________________________ 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.38 Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:38:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 571 (571) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 38 (December 1 - December 7, 2004) REVIEW Activity-Centered Design - An Ecological Approach to Designing Smart Tools and Usable Symbols With new insights to a well-documented topic, this book offers an excellent incentive and useful tools for system designers to pursue activity-centered design. Reviewed by Carl Bedingfield http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i38_bedingfield.html VIEW Reflections on the Limits of Artificial Intelligence Nature is very simple and efficient in everything she makes. We, humans, complicate things. By Alexandru Tugui http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i38_tugui.html From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Search Strings Redux Re: 18.390 scholarship and Google Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:28:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 572 (572) Joseph Raben in Humanist 18.390 scholarship and Google wrote so far to my request for evidence that Scholar.Google is a useful tool for scholarly research, I have seen nothing yet that really responds. I don't know if what follows will give satisfaction or provide evidence of a sighting of usefulness. > The question first posted in 18.382 Literary references to Alice in Scholar.Google? read: Has anyone found really scholarly material through this resource? and in its context was perhaps meant to not just refer to scholarly material in general but schalarly material relating to this particular quest: With Google Scholar, using search string "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" one does access scholarly resources. One does not however access resources or material that address the topic referenced as "Alice in Wonderland as a Prism for Viewing Victorian Society." (See Humanist 18.382). We have currently no report on the search strings that were used in the attempt to locate both real and useful scholarly material. I can report that search string "Victorian Society Alice Wonderland" does however bring items that may perhaps be of interest, of use and of real scholarly value. For example: Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003;88:545-548 Once upon a time ... E Storr and M C J Rudolf Abstract: In this, the first of two articles discussing literature for and about children, we will be considering how writing for the young has changed, reflecting different and evolving perspectives on childhood. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, March 2000, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 211-219(9) Monster soup: the microscope and Victorian fantasy Seibold-bultmann U. Abstract: The Victorian predilection for the grotesque owed more than is commonly recognised to nature's microdimension. During the heyday of natural history in Britain (c. 1820­70), the microscope revealed myriads of shapes and creatures so utterly unfamiliar that writers on the subject resorted to flamboyant prose in order to render them intelligible. This had reverberations not least for the visual arts. The metaphors chosen by authors attempting to describe the microscopic world soon developed a visual presence, with supernatural features being projected even onto illustrations in supposedly scientific contexts. At the same time, such illustrations share certain motifs and/or stylistic characteristics with fairy paintings and illustrations by artists such as Daniel Maclise (1806-70), Richard Dadd (1817-86), Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821­1901), and Arthur Hughes (1832­1915). In view of this, the fact that the golden age of British fairy painting coincided chronologically with the Victorian craze for microscopy seems to be the result of more than mere chance. If we acknowledge this, we must also ask whether, in the mid nineteenth century, points of contact between microscopy and the visual arts led to a liberation or else a limitation of fantasy. *************** [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: Haradda_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 18.396 human memory (with traces in Google's) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:30:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 573 (573) In a message dated 12/2/2004 1:18:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU writes: The quotation, "If God is dead, all things are permissible," is cited in or another permutations so frequently in a GOOGLE search that is seems firmly established. It is always attributed a character in one of Dostoevsky's books. The only problem is that no Dostoevsky character ever makes this statement. Actually the quote is by Voltaire. David Reed From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.396 human memory (with traces in Google's) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:31:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 574 (574) Re: "We have met the enemy..." My brother and I were huge Pogo fans and tended to get anything that was Pogo oriented, and I have a clear picture in my head of a closing large panel from a strip from (I think) the "I Go Pogo" book with that quote in it (I think in a thought balloon from Pogo himself) and including a group of caricatures of assorted people that Kelly regularly skewered including J. Edgar Hoover, not the more familiar 1971 polluted-swamp image (for which see below). I know that the memory can play tricks, but I also know that that has always been my source, though what I remember is "We have met the enemy and he is us." I checked the I Go Pogo website (http://www.igopogo.com/final_authority.htm), and the quote from Kelly says also: "As years passed, the final paragraph [quoted in the previous text] was reduced to "We have met the enemy and he is us," in a few strips having to do with pollution." That leads me to believe that Kelly did create other strips using it, though I suppose it could have been collaged together at a later date. This is the 1971 version printed in his strip for Earth Day (Kelly did not die until 1973 and it was drawn at least under his supervision if not by him): http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3y3t2/whmte.htm Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: "Ferguson, Joyce" Subject: NEH Summer Seminars for 2005 Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:26:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 575 (575) ANNOUNCING: Summer 2005 National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers Application Deadline: March 1, 2005 * * * 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 32 seminars and institutes offered in the summer of 2005 include the Bayeux Tapestry, religion and culture, Latin American philosophy, African cinema, the early American republic, the Vietnam War, and studies of major figures such as St. Francis of Assisi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, Eugenio María de Hostos, José Martí, William Faulkner, and Hannah Arendt. 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_at_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 $3,000 for four weeks, $3,600 for five weeks, and $4,200 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 postmark deadline is March 1. From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 18.400 human memory Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 08:30:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 576 (576) On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]You might also look in a POGO book titled something such as: "G.O. Fizzikle POGO" As I recall the "International Geophysical Year" might have been 1957-1958 or so. . .which would also coincide with the reaction to Sputnik, which was a greater motivational force than any of us ever seem to be willing to admit. Michael S. Hart From: Humanist Discussion Group= Subject: Search Strings Redux Re: 18.390 scholarship and Google Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:28:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 577 (577) Joseph Raben in Humanist 18.390 scholarship and Google wrote so far to my request for evidence that Scholar.Google is a useful tool for scholarly research, I have seen nothing yet that really responds. I don't know if what follows will give satisfaction or provide evidence of a sighting of usefulness. > The question first posted in 18.382 Literary references to Alice in Scholar.Google? read: Has anyone found really scholarly material through this resource? and in its context was perhaps meant to not just refer to scholarly material in general but schalarly material relating to this particular quest: With Google Scholar, using search string "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" one does access scholarly resources. One does not however access resources or material that address the topic referenced as "Alice in Wonderland as a Prism for Viewing Victorian Society." (See Humanist 18.382). We have currently no report on the search strings that were used in the attempt to locate both real and useful scholarly material. I can report that search string "Victorian Society Alice Wonderland" does however bring items that may perhaps be of interest, of use and of real scholarly value. For example: Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003;88:545-548 Once upon a time ... E Storr and M C J Rudolf Abstract: In this, the first of two articles discussing literature for and about children, we will be considering how writing for the young has changed, reflecting different and evolving perspectives on childhood. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, March 2000, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 211-219(9) Monster soup: the microscope and Victorian fantasy Seibold-bultmann U. Abstract: The Victorian predilection for the grotesque owed more than is commonly recognised to nature's microdimension. During the heyday of natural history in Britain (c. 1820=AD70), the microscope revealed myriads of= shapes and creatures so utterly unfamiliar that writers on the subject resorted to flamboyant prose in order to render them intelligible. This had reverberations not least for the visual arts. The metaphors chosen by authors attempting to describe the microscopic world soon developed a visual presence, with supernatural features being projected even onto illustrations in supposedly scientific contexts. At the same time, such illustrations share certain motifs and/or stylistic characteristics with fairy paintings and illustrations by artists such as Daniel Maclise (1806-70), Richard Dadd (1817-86), Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821=AD1901),= and Arthur Hughes (1832=AD1915). In view of this, the fact that the golden= age of British fairy painting coincided chronologically with the Victorian craze for microscopy seems to be the result of more than mere chance. If we acknowledge this, we must also ask whether, in the mid nineteenth century, points of contact between microscopy and the visual arts led to= a liberation or else a limitation of fantasy. *************** [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance>http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachan= ce A calendar is like a map. 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One does not however access resources or material that address the topic referenced as "Alice in Wonderland as a Prism for Viewing Victorian Society." (See > Humanist 18.382). . ." ------------ This is not from Google, but I am wondering if the article cited below is the "prism" thing being researched. . .Patricia J. Moran, Graduate Student, Adult Education COE, FSU Tallahassee, Florida 32306 (850-644-1595, % Easton). Brandser, Kristin, "Law and Literature--Alice in Legal Wonderland: A Cross-Examination of Gender, Race and Empire in Victorian Law and Literature." Harvard Women's Law Journal. 24 . (2001). ISSN 0270-1456; OCLC # 3967304 I found this in Article First. From: Bill Schipper Subject: Searching handwritten documents Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 08:27:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 579 (579) The URL below links to an article on searching scanned images of handwritten documents, developed at the University of Amherst. From that page there is also a link to an online demonstration. Bill Schipper Shortcut to: http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/7683.php File attachment: 7683.url The file attached to this email was removed because the file name is not allowed. From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Discussion of GOOGLE.scholar Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:22:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 580 (580) Fellow Humanists: Since I am somewhat of a fey mood at the moment, I hope that I do not offend anyone. I have been following the thread on GOOGLE.scholar with a some puzzlement. The various discussions remind me of a column by the American humorist, Dave Berry, some time ago. In high school, he was taught that the cause of the American Civil War (aka "The War Between the States") was slavery. His college professor derided that view and said that it was caused by the clash between Northern industrial interests and Southern agrarian ones. In graduate school.... On a more serious level, I have been fighting the anti- evolution folks for decades. They keep hammering away at poor Darwin as if [1] his were the latest thoughts on the mechanisms of evolution and [2] natural selection were the only cause of evolution (ignoring genetic drift, allopatric speciation and on and on). I keep saying, "Evolution has many causes which operate with various intensities at various times and in various environments. Asking the question. 'What is THE cause of evolution' is asking the wrong question in the first place." You can check my Web site for my latest clash with them a couple of years ago. In this light, criticizing GOOGLE.scholar misses the point. When I research a question, I search several different and overlapping data bases. I follow up on the references cited in the papers and even rely on the "serendipity effect" by browsing bookshelves on the topic. Each of these searches, including GOOGLE.scholar, turns up references I had missed elsewhere. In fact, I found a quote attributed to me - one of which I had no recollection - on the Creationism question. Since I am sure that all of us do research in the same way, I am puzzled by this entire discussion. Certainly, I would caution any student from relying on GOOGLE.scholar or any other search instrument as the sole source of information. Finally, truth in advertising compels me to tell you that Larry Page, one of GOOGLE's founders, is the son of my late colleague, Professor Carl Page, whose untimely passing still saddens my department. _________________________________________________ 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: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.390 scholarship and Google Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:24:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 581 (581) Willard, I do believe that Joseph Raben has increased the burden of proof when claiming in Humanist 18.390 scholarship and Google that [deleted quotation]The previous question posted in 18.382 Literary references to Alice in Scholar.Google? read: Has anyone found really scholarly material through this resource? The burden of proof now being how well Google Scholar is a useful tool for _his_ scholarly research... Let's see, shall we? With Google Scholar, using search string "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" one does access scholarly resources. One does not however access resources or material that address the topic referenced as "Alice in Wonderland as a Prism for Viewing Victorian Society." (See Humanist 18.382). The search string "Victorian Society Alice Wonderland" does however bring items that may perhaps be of interest. For example: Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003;88:545-548 Once upon a time ... E Storr and M C J Rudolf Abstract: In this, the first of two articles discussing literature for and about children, we will be considering how writing for the young has changed, reflecting different and evolving perspectives on childhood. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, March 2000, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 211-219(9) Monster soup: the microscope and Victorian fantasy Seibold-bultmann U. Abstract: The Victorian predilection for the grotesque owed more than is commonly recognised to nature's microdimension. During the heyday of natural history in Britain (c. 1820­70), the microscope revealed myriads of shapes and creatures so utterly unfamiliar that writers on the subject resorted to flamboyant prose in order to render them intelligible. This had reverberations not least for the visual arts. The metaphors chosen by authors attempting to describe the microscopic world soon developed a visual presence, with supernatural features being projected even onto illustrations in supposedly scientific contexts. At the same time, such illustrations share certain motifs and/or stylistic characteristics with fairy paintings and illustrations by artists such as Daniel Maclise (1806-70), Richard Dadd (1817-86), Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821­1901), and Arthur Hughes (1832­1915). In view of this, the fact that the golden age of British fairy painting coincided chronologically with the Victorian craze for microscopy seems to be the result of more than mere chance. If we acknowledge this, we must also ask whether, in the mid nineteenth century, points of contact between microscopy and the visual arts led to a liberation or else a limitation of fantasy. *************** As I have often stated, a touchstone humanist text is the De Copia by Erasmus. Very very applicable to the creation of variations on search strings. -- 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: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: Google Desktop Search Security Warning Issued Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:25:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 582 (582) Google Desktop Search Security Warning Issued http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/pcworld/20041129/tc_pcwo rld/118667 "... as it's designed now, GDS also delivers a potential security nightmare, say industry experts... GDS stores its painfully complete index in one convenient location on your hard drive with no encryption or password protection--a hacker's and worm writer's dream come true. '[GDS] puts the index of your data in a well-known place on your hard drive," says Stephen Green, principal investigator of the Advanced Search Technologies Group at Sun Microsystems. "It's only a matter of time before there is a spyware application or a worm that sends your Google index to a site somewhere.' Joe Stewart, senior security researcher at Chicago security services firm LURHQ, agrees, saying GDS's unsecured index 'lowers the bar for the expertise needed to find and compromise sensitive data.'" I highly recommend Copernic http://www.copernic.com/en/products/meta/ as a desktop search tool--will search emails and attachments and everything else in an instant. [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: cfp: Digital Medievalist Spring Conference Issue Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:40:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 583 (583) The Digital Medievalist <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> is a new, peer-reviewed, on-line journal for medievalists who use digital resources in their research and teaching. The inaugural issue will be appearing at the end of December 2004. We are now accepting submissions for our second issue, tentatively scheduled for publication in May 2005. This issue will focus on conference papers from the 2004 season (e.g. Kalamazoo, Leeds, Medieval Academy, MLA, Alicante, etc.). If you gave a paper or organised a session on a digital topic in the last year and are interested in finding a publisher, we would like to hear from you. Although we are particularly interested in conference papers for the Spring issue, we also welcome other high quality submissions. Conference papers do not need to have been delivered in sessions organised by the Digital Medievalist Project. Submission guidelines are available at the following URL: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/guidelines.cfm>. For more information, or to discuss a submission for this or any other issue of DM, please contact the general editor, Daniel Paul O'Donnell . The submission deadline for the Spring issue is March 15th, 2005. The Spring conference issue will be an annual feature of future volumes of DM. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> From: Helen Ashman Subject: Cyberworlds 2005. First CFP Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:41:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 584 (584) [ Apologies if you receive this email in multiple copies ] [ Kindly forward it to your colleagues and students ] 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23-25 November 2005, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Organized by: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in cooperation with: ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH (Singapore), SIGWEB, SIGecom, SIGART, and Eurographics Proudly supported by: SGI and Sun Microsystems Conference web-page: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cyberworlds are information worlds created on cyberspaces either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without visual design. Cyberworlds are closely related to the real world and have a serious impact on it. CW2005 will provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers from around the world to share the latest research, ideas, and developments in these fields. The conference will consist of formal paper sessions, short/poster presentations, panels, tutorials, cyber art exhibition, industrial seminars, and hands-on demonstrations where research groups, artists, and vendors will show the state-of-the-art in the field. The conference will have four parallel tracks including but not limited to the following topics: Track A: - Shared Virtual Worlds - Distributed Virtual Environments - Collaborative Design and Manufacturing Track B: - Information Retrieval and Information Security - Data Mining and Warehousing in Cyberworlds - HCI and Humanised Interfaces in Cyberworlds Track C: - Philosophy, Evolution, and Ethics of Cyberworlds - Business Models in Cyberworlds - Cyberlearning Track D: - Cyberculture and Cyberarts PUBLICATION: The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. We will accept papers up to 8 pages in length, including figures. To be included in the conference proceedings, at least one author of the accepted paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The best papers will contribute to the special issue of "The Visual Computer". We will also publish the art exhibition catalogue. IMPORTANT DATES (tentative): Abstract: 16 May 2005 (electronic submission through the conference web-page) Paper/tutorial/exhibit submission: 23 May 2005 (electronic submission through the conference web-page) Notice of Acceptance: 1 Aug 2005 Camera-ready paper: 5 Sep 2005 Author's registration: 5 Sep 2005 GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Tosiyasu L. Kunii and Seah Hock Soon PROGRAM CHAIR: Alexei Sourin INDUSTRIAL TRACK CHAIR: Tony Chan TUTORIAL CHAIR: Wolfgang Müeller-Wittig PROGRAM COMMITTEE (being formed) Arnold, David, University of Brighton Astheimer, Peter, ITI Techmedia, Glasgow Badler, Norman, University of Pennsylvania Bajaj, Chandrajit, University of Texas at Austin Bebis, George, University of Nevada Brunnett, Guido, University of Chemnitz Chan, Tony, Nanyang Tehnological University Emmanuel, Sabu, Nanyang Technological University Encarnação, José, Fraunhofer IGD Gavrilova, Marina, University of Calgary Gilbert, Arthur Lee, Nanyang Technological University Hagen, Hans, University of Kaiserslautern Hubbold, Roger, University of Manchester Iglesias, Andres, University of Cantabria Jarvis, Ray, Monash University Kim, Myoung-Hee, Ewha Womans University Klimenko, Stanislav, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Kunii, Tosiyau Laurence, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Lee, Yong Tsui, Nanyang Technological University Li, Ling, Curtin University Luciani, Annie, ICA laboratory, INPG, France Ma, Jianhua, Hosei University Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia, University of Geneva Miller, Steven, Singapore Management University Müeller-Wittig, Wolfgang, Nanyang Technological University Myszkowski, Karol, Max Planck Institute Nakajima Masayuki, Tokyo Institute of Technology Ohmori, Kenji, Hosei University Pensyl, William Russell, Nanyang Technological University Rosenblum, Larry, VR Systems and Research, Naval Research Lab Savchenko, Vladimir, Hosei University Seah, Hock Soon, Nanyang Technological University Shih, Timothy, Tamkang University Smith, Roger, Titan Systems Corporation Sourin, Alexei, Nanyang Technological University Sourina, Olga, Nanyang Technological University Straßer, Wolfgang, University of Tübingen Thalmann, Daniel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Urban, Bodo, Fraunhofer IGD Rostock Wentong, Cai, Nanyang Technological University Wyvill, Geoff, University of Otago Xu, Baowen,Southeast University Zara, Jiri, Czech Technical University Zyda, Mike, MOVES Institute Best regards CW2005 Program Chair From: Ken Friedman Subject: Google Scholars Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:42:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 585 (585) Friends, Don Weinshank's note on how we use search engines to do research hits the mark. Anyone who wants to get a good understanding on any topic is obliged to search multiple sources several times. Google offers one or two good tools among many. As the Danish designer Per Mollerup said in the title to one of his books, "Good enough is never enough." -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Leadership and Organization Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.402 scholarship and Google Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:43:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 586 (586) Using the Modern Language Association's on-line International Bibliography yields 67 hits for _Alice in Wonderland_ and 264 hits for _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. I'd say that Google Scholar is not the way to go. From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2005: Preliminary Program and Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:31:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 587 (587) Registration On-line Museums and the Web 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 13 - April 16, 2005 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ Join hundreds of your professional colleagues from around the world for the international conference devoted to culture and heritage on-line: the ninth annual Museums and the Web. ** Preliminary Program Available ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/index.html Full details of the MW2005 program are now on-line. Descriptions of 11 pre-conference workshops, over 50 papers, 25 mini-workshops and 4 professional fora, a usability lab, and the Crit Rooms will help you choose what to attend. The program for MW2005 was peer-reviewed by an International Program Committee. ** Register On-line ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/register/index.html Complete your Early Registration by December 31, 2004 and save at least $100. (Note: Registration rates are calculated based on the date payment is received.) ** Participate in MW2005 ** If you missed the deadline for paper proposals, but have a great project to showcase, you can still participate in MW2005. You have until December 31, 2004 to propose to demonstrate your Web site. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/demos/index.html Vendors of museum interactive multimedia technology, content management and design services should consider the Exhibit Hall. See the prospectus at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/exhibit/ ** Scholarships ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/scholarships/index.html Every year Archives & Museum Informatics sets aside a proportion of MW registration fees to sponsor a Scholarship Program. To be eligible you must have made a significant contribution to the development of a cultural or heritage Web site, and must demonstrate that you would not be able to attend the meeting without support. Professionals from the developing world are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition, thanks to the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), fifteen competitive scholarships to MW2005 are available specifically for Canadians. ** Thanks ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/sponsor/thanks.html Our thanks to the Government of Canada for their contributions to MW2005 through the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and Canadian Culture Online (CCO) initiatives of the Department of Canadian Heritage. ** Can't Make it? Get the Book ** http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html Selected Papers from Museums and the Web 2005 will be published in a print volume, accompanied by all papers on CD-Rom. Order your copy on-line. Past papers from all MW conferences -- since 1997 -- are available in print and on-line see http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/speakers_list.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 M2004 attendees called "a superlative conference" ... "most inspiring, most effective, most creative". We hope to see you there! jennifer and David -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2005_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 From: "Spenader J.K." Subject: CFP: Cross modular approaches to ellipsis; ESSLLI workshop Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:32:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 588 (588) Call for Papers *********************************************************************************** Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis *********************************************************************************** Workshop August 8-12, and organized as part of the 17th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) August 8-19, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland Workshop Organizers: Jennifer Spenader (j.spenader(a)gmail.com) Petra Hendriks (p.hendriks(a)let.rug.nl) Workshop Purpose The area of ellipsis resolution and generation has long been neglected in work on natural language processing, and there are few examples of systems or computational algorithms. However, the misuse or non-use of ellipsis in highly preferred contexts can make a dialogue difficult to understand similar to the way inappropriate referential expressions can impede comprehension. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to present data that give insights into the nature and function of ellipsis from a discourse perspective as well as present methods to deal with ellipsis in NLP applications. Additionally, we encourage discussion about how information from several knowledge sources (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, world knowledge) can be used to resolve and generate elliptical expressions, emphasizing approaches that draw on empirical results or have been tested in actual implementations. More specifically, we encourage contributions related to : * implemented ellipsis resolution algorithms that incorporate information from more than one linguistic module * appropriate generation of ellipsis * studies of ellipsis in dialogue and the relation of ellipsis to discourse structure * formalized treatments of ellipsis that incorporate semantic, pragmatic and discourse structural information * corpus studies of ellipitical phenomena * elicitation tasks that give insights into interpretation or generation of elliptical phenomena Submission details: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract. Submissions should not exceed 6 pages. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS, ASCII text. Please send your submission by email to j.spenader(a)gmail.com by the deadline listed below. As reviewing will be blind, please refrain from including identifying information on submitted abstracts. Instead the accompanying email should contain contact information about the author(s). The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's Program Committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The final versions will be done and latex and more information will be given later to accepted authors. 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 consecutive days in the first or second week (not yet determined) of ESSLLI. There will be two slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic. Invited speakers Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School) Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield) Important Dates Submissions: March 9, 2005 Notification: April 18, 2005 Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005 ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005 Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005 Final programme: June 22, 2005 Workshop dates: August 8-12, 2005 Program Committee Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) Oesten Dahl (Stockholm University) Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School) Jack Hoeksema (University of Groningen) Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield) Jason Merchant (University of Chicago) Mariet Theune (University of Twente) 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 made 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 accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. Further information: About ESSLLI 2005: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ About the workshop: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/giveabs.php?16 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the virtues of resistance Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 08:28:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 589 (589) A. C. Crombie, in Styles of Thinking in the European Tradition (London: Duckworth, 1994), pp. 44f, describes Galileo's championing of the moral values of the science we now call Galilean: "Thus Galileo wrote that 'being used to study in the book of nature, where things are written in only one way', he 'would not be able either to dispute any problem ad utramque partem, as in a scholastic exercise, or to maintain any conclusion not first believed or known as true'. He insisted likewise on 'the difference that there is between opinable and demonstrative doctrines; so that... it is not in the power of professors of demonstrative sciences to change opinions' at wish, for 'the demonstrated conclusions about the things of nature and of the heavens cannot be changed with the same ease as opinions about what is lawful or not in a contract, rent or exchange'. He wrote of a certain kind of philosopher that he 'thinks that philosophy is a kind of book like the Aeneid or the Odyssey, and that truth is to be searched for not in the world or in nature, but in confrontatione textuum (to use their own words)'... He excluded from scientific theory any attributions of moral or aesthetic design in nature other than such as might be found in nature itself, for: 'We must not ask nature to accommodate herself to what might seem to us the best disposition and order, but we must adapt our intellect to what she has made, certain that such is the best and not something else.'" He is describing a moral and intellectual discipline based on the resistance of the object of study to our raging passion for neat and tidy sums, I suppose one could say. It is difficult not to have great sympathy with Galileo's apparent conviction that such a way to knowledge of the world is crucial and that persuading others of its importance ranks equally with what we would now call conventional research. (Crombie notes that "Galileo devoted at least as much energy to trying to establish the identity of natural science within contemporary intellectual culture as to solving particular physical problems", p. 49.) The role of interpretation in what we take to be objects of study in the humanities is a different one, of course. But it seems to me that, with the appropriate qualifications, what we have to offer our colleagues is intellectually powerful and morally corrective in much the same way. It's difficult to get the balance right in such matters, but the case Crombie makes (in 3 volumes, totalling 2456 pages) for the intellectual style we share with Galileo and within which we differentiate our practice from his science is compelling. It compels us, I think, to consider just where we fit into it. As startling as it may be to find oneself sitting next to an intellectual giant like Galileo, might that not be where we belong? 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.39 Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:31:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 590 (590) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 39 (December 8 - December 14, 2004) INTERVIEW Michael Schrage On Innovation Looking for the great clients -- who are the true innovators http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i39_schrage.html From: Alex Koohang Subject: Knowledge & Learning Object - Journal Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:28:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 591 (591) Dear Colleague, I am writing to invite you to submit a paper to the Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects - IJKLO http://www.ijklo.org/>http://www.ijklo.org IJKLO (ISSN: Print 1552-2210, CD 1552-2229, and Online 1552-2237) is an academically peer refereed Journal. All submissions are blind refereed by three or more peers. IJKLO is published by the Informing Science Institute http://www.informingscience.org/>http://www.informingscience.org in print by subscription and its articles also appear online free of charge. The mission of the IJKLO is to provide readers around the world with the widest possible coverage of developments in knowledge and Learning Objects. IJKLO is an interdisciplinary forum that publishes high quality articles on theory, practice, innovation, and research that cover all aspects of Knowledge and Learning Objects. In addition, IJKLO provides those who submit manuscripts for publication with useful, timely feedback by making the review process constructive. IJKLO will strive to be the most authoritative journal on Knowledge and Learning Objects. For author's guideline and how to submit a paper, visit http://www.ijklo.org/submit.html>http://www.ijklo.org/submit.html For a list of suggested topics, visit http://www.ijklo.org/topics.html>http://www.ijklo.org/topics.html Please review the mission of IJKLO and submit papers only in the area of Learning Objects. Please also consider becoming a reviewer for IJKLO. To become a reviewer, visit http://www.ijklo.org/review.html>http://www.ijklo.org/review.html Please make sure to attach a two to three paragraph narrative of your professional and scholarly activities in the Comments to Chair area. Best wishes, Alex Koohang Editor-in-Chief Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects http://www.ijklo.org/>http://www.ijklo.org/ From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Call for Submissions for Book on _Usage Statistics for Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:29:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 592 (592) E-Serials_ (Haworth) Colleagues/ Please find below a Call for Submissions for book on __Usage Statistics for E-Serials_ (Haworth) posted on behalf of my colleague David Fowler (dfowler_at_iastate.edu), our Electronic Resources Coordinator NOTE: Please direct ALL queries to David (*not* me) ; Thanks! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu ****************************************************************************************************** I am editing a book for Haworth Press entitled "USAGE STATISTICS OF E-SERIALS". This book is a volume in the series "Haworth Series on Serials Librarianship and Continuing Resources". It will be a collection of essays by various library and publishing professionals such as yourself, concerning the current environment in libraries for the acquisition, development and utilization of usage statistics for e-serials. This will look at both the benefits and problems associated with the current and future state of usage statistics. I would like to invite interested people to write a paper for this collection. If you have a relevant topic in mind, please feel free to share your idea with me; Otherwise, I have prepared a list of several topics that could be relevant to this book that you may want to consider; please find this listing at the bottom of this message. We are projecting to have all manuscripts completed by the end of April 2004, so that editing and publishing tasks can be accomplished. I would be pleased and honored to have some of you contribute your thoughts to this project. Please contact me about your interest at dfowler_at_iastate.edu and also let me know if I can answer any questions for you. Sincerely, Dave Fowler OUTLINE "USAGE STATISTICS OF E-SERIALS" Edited by David C. Fowler Topic Ideas: How are e-serials usage statistics actually utilized? Evaluating the costs of paid e-journals with statistics (acquisitions, cataloging time, etc.) Evaluating the actual costs of "Free" e-journals with statistics (acquisitions, cataloging time, etc.) Strategies when confronted with usage statistics problems by vendors. How do libraries allot staff for e-serials statistics management (a survey?) Current and future trends in electronic journal statistics. Consortial arrangements for e-serials: When to use Problems and solutions in promoting e-serial usage to customers Issues with standardization of usage statistics. What are the different methods of evaluating the quality and usefulness of e-serials statistics? Interlibrary loan statistics and collection development. What is the next step in developing usage statistics? How do libraries disseminate usage statistics? Licensing and usage statistics. Deriving usage statistics from local library management software. ****************************************************************************************************** From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.409 the virtues of resistance Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:33:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 593 (593) Willard, I can agree with Galileo (and you) on everything except the notion that things are 'written in only one way' in the book of nature. I think we know better now -- though I fear some people still think that way about science. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Vine wood Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:34:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 594 (594) Willard, A text comes to mind when reflecting upon your quotation from Gallileo and relative merits of various styles of thinking in Humanist18.409 "the virtues of resistance". A concordance of the Vulgate Latin and the phrase "ad utramque partem" leads one to Ezekiel 15:4 and the passage about the outcast vine where the prophet asks about the twisted unfashionable wood: "Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of is burned. Is it meet for any work?" (KJV). Interesting the Biblical text does not go on to suggest the leaching of the ashes to make lye. I point to a resistive reading of the text and the sly movement from contemplating what can be done _to_ the object to imagining what can be done _with_ its residue. The role of rhetoric in the nature of intellectual inquiry may have nothing to do with alternating argumentation from either end as in the scholastic exercise nor, as Galileo would want, tracing a line of deduction from premises held to be true. Take for example a given sign instance. A set of glyphs or a sequence of sounds. The faith-based approach one world approach would ascribe an ontological status to the sign instance. It (is) / (is not) a word. A more skeptical and possible worlds approach would suggest that the sign instance (could be) or (could not be) a word. The modalization is a rhetorical move that shifts attention from entities to conditions: take x to be y when z. In passing, I remark that such a formula interiorizes a dialogue of collaboration. The inquirer through the anticipation of an auditor bends the rhetorical resources to the readiness to temporalize. There is a preparedness to rework the question, to generalize tentatively and specify appropriately. The operation very much like what Michael Polyani calls the principle of managebility. In the most general terms, the principle of manageability consists in devising a representation of experience which reveals new aspects of it. [...] These services of manageability to thought can all be described as taking place in three stages: 1. Primary denotation. 2. Its reorganization. 3. The reading of the result. [...] Furthermore, the process of reorganization may be taken to include the transposition of the primary denotation into another set of symbols, as when numerical observations are represented by graphs or verbal statements by equations, a process which may require considerable ingenuity. Michael Polyani. Chapter 5 "Articulation" Part Two "The Tacit Component" Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy Harper Torchbook Edition, 1964, pages 81-82 To take lye which is used to make soap as the outcome of burning the twisted wood of the dead vine is to contribute to the scouring of the household containers fit to receive the new wine. Imbibe. Misread. Transpose. In some dialogue of the dead, Ezekiel meets Confucius and Galileo meets Hawking. -- 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: Patrick Sahle Subject: Public Lecture Cologne Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:32:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 595 (595) For anyone in the Rhineland area ... Public Lecture: Claus Huitfeldt, University of Bergen, Norway Markup Languages for Complex Documents 10. Dezember 2004 Universität zu Köln, Hauptgebäude (Albertus-Magnus-Platz), Hörsaal XIb; 15:15 Uhr DissertandInnen / MagistrandInnen Kolloquium der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Informationsverarbeitung (Ph.D.Colloquium, Humanities Computer Sciences) Abstract: http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/teach/ws0405/Koll/abstractClaus.html [Patrick Sahle] ___________________________________________________________________ Universität zu Köln Historisches Seminar Albertus-Magnus-Platz 50923 Koeln Privat: Häuschensweg 2a 50827 Köln +49 - (0)221 - 2805695 Sahle_at_uni-koeln.de http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26/ From: Subject: Foundations of Natural-Language Grammar: ESSLLI2005 Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:38:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 596 (596) Workshop -=20 CALL FOR PAPERS: apologies for multiple copies Foundations of Natural-Language Grammar http://semantics.phil.kcl.ac.uk/ldsnl/ESSLLI05-Workshop-Foundations_of_Natural_Language_Grammar/index.htm August 16^th -20th, 2005 Organized as part of European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 9-20^th August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Organizers: Ruth Kempson, kempson_at_dcs.kcl.ac.uk Glyn Morrill, morrill_at_lsi.upc.es Workshop Purpose: Both logic and computation bring standards to bear on grammar formalism which raise challenges for its psychological interpretation. In recent years approaches have consolidated their methodology in ways which are sometimes similar, sometimes distinct. On the one hand, opposing views often sustain an essentially common methodology: amongst these are the disputes over the relationship between syntax and semantics within a grammar, the number of levels to be articulated in a grammar, and the nature of the mappings between them. On the other hand, in recent years, there has been growing interest across a number of theoretical frameworks in defining grammar formalisms for natural language which make available stronger forms of psychological interpretation of the formalism than is standard, giving rise to new ways of articulating the relationship between grammar formalism and natural-language data. This workshop aims to provide a forum for explicit discussion of these and other foundational issues in articulating grammar formalisms for natural language. The workshop aims to bring together not only colleagues with established work in individual research programs, but also advanced PhD students and researchers, so that both groups can present and discuss foundational issues underpinning their work with colleagues and researchers working in affiliated fields. Workshop Topics: Papers that address the following questions will in particular be encoura= ged: What are the levels of grammar? What is representation and what is derivation? How are psychological interpretations of grammar formalism to be made? What is the relation between universal grammar and grammar formalism? What is the relation between anaphora construal and grammar-internal mech= anisms? What is the relation between grammar and parser? What is the relation between grammar and dialogue? What is the relation between logic, computation and grammar? Amongst formalisms of which we would hope to have representatives are: Minimalism, TAG, HPSG, LFG, Model-theoretic syntax, Categorial grammar (TLG, TTG, CCG, pregroup), Higher Order Grammar, Dynamic Syntax, Dependency grammar. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit an abstract of not more than two pages for a contribution to the workshop. All contributions will be for 35-minute presentations with 10 minutes for discussion. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS, Word, ASCII text, TEX. Please send your submission electronically to ruth kempson at kempson_at_dcs.kcl.ac.uk by March 9^th 2005. Submissions, which should be anonymous, should be accompanied by indication in the accompanying mail message of the author(s), affiliation, and an email address for correspondence. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop=92s programme committee. Invited Speakers Marcus Kracht, UCLA, US. Stuart Shieber, Harvard, US. Workshop Programme Committee : Tim Fernando, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Hans-Martin Gaertner, ZAS, Berlin, Germany. Gerhard Jaeger, University of Bielefeld, Germany. Ruth Kempson, KCL, London, UK Marcus Kracht, UCLA, US Glyn Morrill, Universitat Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Paul Piwek, ITRI, Brighton, UK. Yoad Winter, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Important Dates: Submissions: March 9, 2005 Notification: April 18, 2005 Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005 ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005 Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005 Final programme: June 22, 2005 Workshop dates: August 16^th -20^th . 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 made 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 accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. Further Information about the workshop http://semantics.phil.kcl.ac.uk/ldsnl/ESSLLI05-Workshop-Foundations_of_Natural_Language_Grammar/index.htm Further information about ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ From: Carla Umbach Subject: CfP Discourse Domains and Information Structure Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:51:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 597 (597) CALL FOR PAPERS Discourse Domains and Information Structure http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~workshopDDIS 8 - 12th of August, 2005 workshop organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005, 8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ Workshop Organizers: Carla Umbach (University of Osnabr=FCck, carla.umbach_at_uos.de) Klaus von Heusinger (University of Stuttgart, vonHeusinger_at_ilg.uni-stuttgart.de) Workshop Purpose: The workshop will investigate the interaction between discourse domains and information structure. Discourse structure is often represented by a hierarchical structure of different discourse domains: Anaphoric accessibility crucially depends on semantic operators that create new domains (like negation), presuppositions are projected according to properties of the discourse, and the quaestio or q(estion)u(nder)d(iscussion)-approach structures a discourse into a hierarchical tree. Information structure, on the other hand, is commonly assumed to be a flat structure: the partition into backgrounded and focused information or into topic and comment. Suggested topics: * Background accessibility in hierachical discourse domains * Presuppositions as anaphors in a theory of information structure * Presuppositions, anaphoric relations, and alternative sets * Focus/background structure and embedded sentences * Topic/comment and embedding 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 consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. Invited Speakers: Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart) Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) Workshop Programme Committee (confirmed): Nick Asher (University of Texas) Peter Bosch (University of Osnabr=FCck) Daniel B=FCring (UCLA) Regine Eckardt (ZAS Berlin) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universit=E4t Berlin) Massimo Poesio (University of Essex) Submission details: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (max. 5 pages) for 45 minutes talks (30 min. presentation plus 15 min. discussion). Please send your submission electronically to both organizers carla.umbach_at_uos.de and vonHeusinger_at_ilg.uni-stuttgart.de Abstracts must be anonymous. Please use 'Abstract DDIS' as the subject header and send your abstract as an attachment (PDF, PS, word, or plain ASCII are accepted). Please include the information in (1) - (5) in the body of your message. Author Information 1. Name(s) of author(s) 2. Title of talk 3. Affiliation(s) 4. E-mail address(es) 5. Postal address(es) The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. Important Dates: Deadline for submission: March 9, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 18, 2005 Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005 ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005 Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005 Final programme: June 22, 2005 Workshop dates: August 8-12, 2005 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 made available by the ESSLLI Organisation Committee on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. Further Information: About the workshop: www.cogsci.uos.de/~workshopDDIS About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ --=20 _____________________________________________________________________ Dr. Carla Umbach Institute of Cognitive Science University of Osnabrueck Kolpingstrasse 7, D-49074 Osnabrueck, Tel: (+49 541) 969 4078 www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~cumbach From: pmryan Subject: CFP: Intersections 2005 (Graduate) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:53:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 598 (598) Hello Humanist colleagues, Amid your December research, papers, and marking comes a CFP to take note of! This is the call for proposals for a conference put on by the York/Ryerson joint programme in Communication and Culture. The conference this year is new, improved and expanded to include as many grad students as possible both in the Communication and Culture interdisciplinary field and beyond. This year we are accepting papers, creative works and poster presentations, so take a look and start thinking about submitting, whether it be something you are working on now or something you have completed already. We are excited about highlighting the range and quality of works that are a part of Communication and Culture, giving you a chance to network with your colleagues in a professional but comfortable environment. All the details are below and we are looking forward to seeing submissions soon! Happy Holidays!! All the best, Peter Ryan Conference Committee Member 2005 Communication and Culture Program Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario ****************************************** Intersections 2005: HYBRID ENTITIES Call For Proposals A Graduate Student Creative Conference Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada March 18-20, 2005 We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 4th annual Intersections event, expanded this year into a weekend Creative Conference. As scholars doing interdisciplinary work in a joint programme, we are especially interested in encountering and generating significant intersections of art, activism and academia. How can we remix resistance? What can mongrel media make possible? How does contemporary culture rework us? Which beings, theories, technologies, cultures, languages, representations and values compound into interesting hybrid entities and identities? HYBRID ENTITIES is a call for works that take up what is revealed when entities collide and the creative or transformative possibilities in interesting combinations and connections. After last year?s successful conference around themes of lag, error, breaks and gaps, our focus now turns to links, networks, compositions and new creations. We are interested in submissions that explore these intersections where names have not yet been given, where identities are still being formed and where new problems and possibilities for bridging the gaps among scholarly disciplines, and between scholars, artists and activists can be found. Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference welcomes submissions that take up these themes either through a paper presentation, an artistic expression, or an activist agenda. Details on subtopics and submission procedures follow below. ******************************* SUBTOPICS AND THEMES Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations that relate to the following broad themes: Media and Culture Topics could include (but are not limited to) subjectivity, popular and visual culture, media studies, cultural consumption and production, media democracy, representations of sexualities/race/ethnicity, gender studies, portrayals of social class, depictions of ability/disability, semiotics and linguistics, cultures of cities, space and place. Technology in Practice Submissions in this category might address (but are not limited to) questions regarding technology's emergent role in theoretical and practical debates surrounding art, authenticity, and aesthetics, negotiations of accessibility and identity, race and gender, explorations in the concepts of the cyborg, the post-human, and technoculture. Politics and Policy Potential areas of focus could include (but are not limited to) strategies of resistance, questions of structure, power and agency, deliberations about the communication and culture and the public sphere, sovereignty, accessibility, cultural policy, citizenship, globalization, copyright and intellectual property, privacy and surveillance, media ownership in Canada, communication policy. SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES As an expanded event, this year HYBRID ENTITIES will include the following formats for disseminating and discussing ideas. · Paper presentations - 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time for discussion to follow · Creative work with artist?s talk - Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied by artist talk during conference · Poster session (with possible roundtable discussion) - Presentation of materials in a poster and/or table display with discussant. If enough interest, these displays may be followed by a roundtable discussion. Although these formats are tailored to accommodate academic papers, artwork and activist contributions respectively, all participants are encouraged to apply for whatever format is most interesting or appropriate for your submission. All interested participants are asked to submit a textual abstract or artist?s statement explaining the proposed presentation in light of the conference themes, and indicate which of the above three formats the presentation would take. Abstract or statement should be no more than 250 words (approx. 1 typewritten page, double spaced) and submitted via email as an attachment in .TXT, .RTF, or Microsoft Word format. Name and contact information should not appear on this page. Please include a separate page with the following information: 1. Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract or statement 2. Name 3. Affiliation (program and university) 4. Level and year of study (ex. Master's, 2nd year) 5. Phone number 6. E-mail address 7. Mailing address 8. A/V requirements (computer/projector, film projector, VCR, stereo, turntables, etc.) 9. Other requirements (table, easel, hooks, display materials). If you have exceptional requirements for your work, please contact us to discuss feasibility. Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for adjudication, by either email or post. If sending creative works by email, please submit up to 10 jpegs sized to display onscreen or a multimedia clip with cumulative attachment size of 5mb or less. You may also direct us to an URL. Please number the pieces and put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your email if applicable. If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal well before the deadline with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return to: Intersections, c/o Graduate Communication and Culture, 3068 TEL Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3. You may send a CD, DVD, cued video or other multimedia, the duration of which does not exceed 10 minutes. Alternatively, you may send up to 10 slides or printouts of work, illustrations or diagrams. Please include a slide or media list with title, size, media, and date, and viewing instructions for your work if applicable. Please do not send original work. Deadline: MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005. Please e-mail submissions to: intersect_at_ryerson.ca For inquires and info e-mail: tanner1_at_yorku.ca CFP available online: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html Presented by the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa For more information about the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture: http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/ _______________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter M. 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Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed.** From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 18.403 human memory -- of Pogo Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:52:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 599 (599) )" To: Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 3:33 AM [deleted quotation]in [deleted quotation]group [deleted quotation]including [deleted quotation]which [deleted quotation]the [deleted quotation]paragraph [deleted quotation]he [deleted quotation]version [deleted quotation]was [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: plagarism checkers? Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:47:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 600 (600) The mushrooming of plagarism has to be a problem for everyone these days, given the services of online businesses and the presence of competently written prose freely available online. When style takes a sudden turn for the better, unacknowledged use is easy enough to detect thanks to Google and its kind. It would be useful to hear from those who know about other styles of plagarism and other ways of dealing with them with the help of computing. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publications Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:50:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 601 (601) (1) Volume 3 Number 4 of Software and Systems Modeling is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial SoSyM at three p. 255 Robert B. France, Bernhard Rumpe Guest editorial: On Modeling Object-Oriented Information Systems p. 258 Yingxu Wang, Shushma Patel A behavioral analysis and verification approach to pattern-based design composition p. 262 Jing Dong, Paulo S.C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan Supporting the reconciliation of models of object behaviour p. 273 George Spanoudakis, Hyoseob Kim Knowledge and software modeling using UML p. 294 Christine W. Chan On building location aware applications using an open platform based on the NEXUS Augmented World Model p. 303 Daniela Nicklas, Bernhard Mitschang Expert's voice Model driven architecture: Principles and practice p. 314 Alan W. Brown (2) Volume 7 Number 1 of Knowledge and Information Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Collaborative Filtering Using a Regression-Based Approach p. 1 Slobodan Vucetic, Zoran Obradovic Emergence of Cooperative Internet Server Sharing Among Internet Search Agents Caught in the n-Person Prisoner's Dilemma Game p. 23 Jae C. Oh Building Minority Language Corpora by Learning to Generate Web Search Queries p. 56 Rayid Ghani, Rosie Jones, Dunja Mladenic ENDL: A Logical Framework for Verifying Secure Transaction Protocols p. 84 Qingfeng Chen, Chengqi Zhang, Shichao Zhang Designing Triggers with Trigger-By-Example p. 110 Dongwon Lee, Wenlei Mao, Henry Chiu, Wesley W. Chu [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Medlit Subject: Medieval Forum Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:52:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 602 (602) We are pleased to announce Volume 4 of Medieval Forum. As in past volumes, the authors present a wide range of interests. We hope that you will find the articles informative and enjoyable. You are invited to give your comments to the authors and/or editors. MF is dedicated to providing a venue for the free exchange of ideas in a collegial, public forum environment. Critical essays on works from any genre or period of the medieval corpus are invited, and a humanistic orientation is encouraged. Although the focus of MF is on literature, articles from other disciplines, particularly cultural and historical, that will contribute to the study of literature are welcome. Volume 5 is anticipated in December 2005. Submissions are accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis, with the deadline of 15 September. Visit our website for guidelines: http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/. Please share this announcement with your colleagues. From: Willard McCarty Subject: text-analysis in the news Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:43:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 603 (603) On Wednesday I was startled to see a concordance program appearing on the evening news, on BBC 4 television, at the hands of a medical researcher looking into textual evidence for Iris Murdoch's decline due to Alzheimer's. What appeared was a frequency listing generated by Rob Watt's Concordance 3.0. An account of the story may be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4058605.stm. Attention to the research was provoked by an article in the OUP journal Brain: Peter Garrard, Lisa M. Maloney, John R. Hodges and Karalyn Patterson, "The effects of very early Alzheimer's disease on the characteristics of writing by a renowned author", for 1 December 2004. I quote the summary from the article: [deleted quotation]The statistics used in the analysis go further than frequency lists, but how much further they could have gone, if only they knew what some of us know, remains for those in the know to say -- perhaps here? 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.418 text-analysis in the news Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:10:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 604 (604) Willard, while they were studying Iris Murdoch's last novel, did they take into consideration changes made by copy editors and the like ? Or of that last run-through in which a publisher may try to get the author to re-write (often quickly, under extreme time pressure) to make the gathers come out right and save money ? There is no guarantee that any particular grammatical complexity is the work of the author, or even vice versa. From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.418 text-analysis in the news Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:12:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 605 (605) I wondered first why nobody at UCL working in neuroscience knew anything about ALLC or the broad range of linguistic computing activities that have been going on in various London colleges time out of mind, as it were. Then I wondered whether the "experts" were aware of the Nun Study being carried out in the US (since 1986) where the very point is that they have virtually life-long (from postulant stage) longitudinal samples of prose writing by teaching nuns (http://www.mc.uky.edu/nunnet/faq.htm) who then donate their brains for positive disgnosis after death. Google (for all its failings) tells me that many others made that latter connection at once. Pat Galloway From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- November 2004 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:08:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 606 (606) CIT INFOBITS November 2004 No. 77 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. ...................................................................... Google Scholar Report on Quality and Extent of U.S. Online Education Mentors in E-Learning Environments Computer Games and Learning E-Learning Online Presentations New Approaches to Evaluating Online Learning Top 1000 Most Widely-Held Library Books 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: "James L. Morrison" Subject: Innovate December Webcast Schedule Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:09:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 607 (607) December Innovate-Live Webcasts Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the December 2004/January 2005 issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). These webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. If you wish to participate in the webcasts, please register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate The schedule for the December Innovate-Live webcasts is provided below. Escaping the Comparison Trap: Evaluating Online Learning on Its Own Terms John Sener, author; Gary Brown, moderator Tuesday, December 14th 1:00pm ET Guidelines for Establishing Interactivity in Online Courses Mark Mabrito, author; James Shimabukuro, moderator Thursday, December 16th 2:00pm ET Designing Instructional Articles in Online Courses for Adult Learners D. Verne Morland and Herbert Bivens, authors; Maggie McVay Lynch, moderator Thursday, December 16th 4:00pm ET If you cannot attend a webcast, note that it will be archived within the features section of the article itself shortly after the webcast. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu From: Susan Hesemeier Subject: Conference Childcare Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:13:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 608 (608) I have received some inquiries about the conference childcare issue after its mention in Humanist 18.374, and the following might serve as useful information for those currently planning conferences: Major conferences: along with its information on accommodation and transportation, the MLA offers information for conference attendees requiring childcare. It employs the services of KiddieCorp, a company that since 1986 has "provided high quality programs to children of all ages at conventions, trade shows, and corporate events throughout the United States and Canada" (http://www.kiddiecorp.com). The company markets itself as a good service for conference organizers who realize that "More family-minded professionals participate when they can bring along their children". They are insured, employ trained and screened staff, and appear to be able to help with figuring out the best way to pay for the service: "A KiddieCorp program can be as simple or as elaborate as you like-- We know cost is a factor and we work with you to find the right balance of subsidy, sponsorship, and parent registration fees to make the children's program a success." The MLA even offers grad student childcare discounts!-- "The cost for regular members is $45 per day for one child and $15 per child per day for each additional child; for graduate students, $25 per day for one child and $15 per child per day for each additional child" (http://www.mla.org/convention_services#cc). I have never organized a major conference, and I have not yet attended an MLA conference, but this system looks like it might work quite well-- if anyone has first-hand experience with these types of children's programs at conferences, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Smaller conferences: there may be no attendees in need of childcare. But it might not be appropriate to assume that this will always be the case: there may be a few, and this would likely depend on the disciplinary orientation of the conference. A note about childcare should still be included in the CFP and advertisements, something along the lines of: "Should childcare be required at the conference, please inform the organizers and we will help you to find childcare". Companies such as KiddieCorp may still be helpful for smaller conferences, as they might be able to arrange for smaller numbers of children: they say, "Whether it is a week-long convention or a one night party, you can count on KiddieCorp to handle your children's program". Again, I have not experienced first-hand how these marketing slogans are played out in real-life, but I would imagine that if a conference is being held in an organizer's hometown, it might also be practical to see whether other profs' trusted friends or teenage children would like to babysit for a day, although this option would not be insured, and would require conference attendees to be comfortable leaving their children with caregivers that may not have received specialized training or screening. -- Susan Hesemeier, PhD Student Department of English University of Toronto s.hesemeier_at_utoronto.ca From: Andreas HERZIG Subject: CFP workshop on belief revision and dynamic logic Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:07:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 609 (609) *** Our apologies for multiple copies! *** CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Belief revision and dynamic logic http://www.irit.fr/~Andreas.Herzig/Esslli05 15-19 August, 2005 organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Organizers: Andreas Herzig ("herzig at irit.fr") and Hans van Ditmarsch ("hans at cs.otago.ac.nz") Workshop Purpose: In 'standard' AGM belief revision, a deductively closed theory T is revised with a formula phi, resulting in a revised theory T * phi. Typically, the negation of phi is in T and has to be 'retracted'. A fairly recent way to model belief revision is within more general theories of action and change such as dynamic logic, as sketched first in 'Two traditions in the logic of belief: bringing them together', by Segerberg (1996, and 1999). In this setting a pointed Kripke model for belief in the theory T satisfies in particular B ~phi, and a dynamic modal operator [* phi], for 'belief revision with phi', is interpreted as an epistemic state transformer [[* phi]]. In the resulting epistemic state then holds B phi. There are also other general frameworks, that have been investigated recently in AI, such as situation calculus and fluent calculus. Such dynamic (and generally epistemic) approaches allow in a natural fashion for multi-agent belief revision, for belief revision with epistemic beliefs (typically: of other agents), and provide refreshing insights on irrevocable belief revision and iterated belief revision. [material deleted] Further Information: About the workshop: http://www.irit.fr/~Andreas.Herzig/Esslli05 About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.417 plagarism checkers? Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:10:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 610 (610) [deleted quotation]My school has, at some expense, licensed turnitin.com. Instructors submit student papers, that is the file itself, via the web, through a link on a class site. The papers are returned with "plagiarized" text marked up, and a percentage indication. I'm not at all a fan for the following reasons: 1. Student's do not have to consent, nor does the school require them to. 2. Papers are generally submitted with the student's name and school ID on them. 3. Papers are stored, permanently, in the Turnitin database, and used as a base for comparing other papers, and for other Turnitin purposes, if they so wish. 4. Students have copyright on their original work; this is ignored both by my school and Turnitin. It also just seems wrong to me to use students' work without their permission--even if they are plagiarists. 5. The report flags properly quoted and cited text, for instance, literary quotations or properly documented source quotations. 6. The report is such, and the presentation of the link to submit is such, that many faculty will misinterpret and misuse the data; that is, read the percentage of unoriginal text at the top and stop there (we have faculty who teach hundreds of students in a class). 7. In my admittedly naive texts (I'm neither a statistician nor an expert in natural language parsing) all Turnitin does is match text strings, and rather long ones (I'd guess eight or nine words) against it's database of text, and the Internet. It's pretty easy to change enough text in minor ways to get by. 8. I have better luck with spotting suspicious text, using Google, Jstor, Project Muse, my own memory, and consulting with other T.A.s, and particulalry, with faculty who have been teaching the class in question for years, than with Turnitin.com. 9. As a graduate student, it seems to me, perhaps naively, that we should be able to spot plagiarism on our own, rather than engaging in mass submission of papers to a service (and there are legal ramifications of only submitting in one or two students' work from a class)? Isn't source-spotting part of what we should be able to do? Lisa -- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital medievalist Celtic Studies Resources | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com My opinions are mine |not those of the University, who is of the opinion |that I should be writing my dissertation. From: "pjmoran" Subject: Re: 18.417 plagarism checkers? Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:12:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 611 (611) Teaching English composition via the Internet, I used to check suspicious prose by cutting a chunk out of a paragraph in the middle and pasting it into a search engines. I usually used Excite. In two cases, when I wrote back to the students and told them their essays were receiving failing grades because of their plagiarism, they were shocked. The "bodacious" nature of the current student population means all instructors need to do (at least) this kind of perfunctory check. Requiring outlines, rough drafts, and incorporation of teacher's suggestions into text can cut down on the number of questionable papers. I believe the students count on our being stressed and overworked by virtue of our occupations and on our being less than competent Internet navigators by virtue of our age. They count on our not having time to check every single paper. Patricia J. Moran, Graduate Student, FSU, COE, Stone Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306. 850-243-4081. From: Scott Sadowsky Subject: Re: 18.417 plagarism checkers? Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:13:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 612 (612) On 12/10/2004 03:58 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote the following: [deleted quotation]Last semester, a student of mine handed in a very unusual paper indeed. It felt and sounded extremely unnatural, but didn't show up in Google, and obviously wasn't hers. Turns out she took a paper written in another language, passed it through an automatic translator, cleaned it up manually, and turned the resulting product in. Through back-translating and trial-and-error, I tracked down the source and the program used to translate it, but this was a far less routine job than the usual 30 seconds of googling required to detect most plagiarism. Cheers, Scott -- Scott Sadowsky Profesor, Universidad ARCIS ssadowsky_at_universidadarcis.cl http://ingles.universidadarcis.cl/ From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: FW: Last (?) word about Pogo citation Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:08:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 613 (613) A colleague, Dan Mishkin (dmishkin_at_comcast.net), who is a professional in the area of cartoons and also a longtime Pogo admirer, sent me the following in response to the earlier postings on the subject. ================================= If you want to put the lingering doubts of your correspondents to rest, you can let them know that they're correct to identify the later use of the line as a quotation (distillation, actually) of something that was said earlier; but that the earlier quotation is from Kelly himself and not from one of the characters in the strip. The original appeared in the introduction to the collection "The Pogo Papers": "There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us." ================================= _________________________________________________ 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: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.416 "Deck us all with Boston Charlie"! Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:11:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 614 (614) Oh, Deck us all, my very favorite! Pat Galloway From: Qsums_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 18.423 text-analysis in the news Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:37:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 615 (615) Either in The Guardian or on Radio 4's Today programme, one of the researchers said that they used Murdoch's handwritten manuscript (I realise I've redundancy here but wanted to make it clear). Michael Farringdon qsums_at_aol.com In a message dated 13/12/04 8:13:12 am, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU writes: [deleted quotation] From: Qsums_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 18.421 plagarism checkers Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:38:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 616 (616) I agree with Lisa L. Spangenberg that we should be able to spot plagiarism ourselves. Surely, any instructor worth her/his salt should be able to do so? On a slightly different tack, I would ask, Who is being cheated by plagiarism? Surely it is the plagiarist in the main who is cheating his/herself. Should we really be so worried by such plagiarism? It won't help much in a three-hour exam in an examination room. Michael Farringdon qsums_at_aol.com In a message dated 13/12/04 8:13:40 am, willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU writes: [deleted quotation] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 56, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:03:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 617 (617) Version 56 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,275 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 (biweekly 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 185 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. 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_at_uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.40 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:07:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 618 (618) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 40 (December 15 - December 21, 2004) INTERVIEW Pete Burke on Cybersecurity and the Law Why the People Need WWII-Type Cybersecurity Drills. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i40_burke.html From: Simon Tanner Subject: Google digital libraries Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:06:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 619 (619) From the BBC web site -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4094271.stm The libraries of five of the world's most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google. Scanned pages from books in the public domain will then be made available for search and reading online. The full libraries of Michigan and Stanford universities as well smaller collections at Harvard, Oxford and the New York Public Library are included. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)7793 403542 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/ From: Stephen Miller Subject: Re: 18.425 text-analysis in the news Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:07:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 620 (620) At 10:49 AM 12/14/2004, you wrote: [deleted quotation]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1363190,00.html is the link for the Guardian Online piece. Stephen Miller From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.426 plagarism checkers Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:04:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 621 (621) Hi Michael Farringdon qsums_at_aol.com Wrote: [deleted quotation]Well, I'm being cheated, as a reader. Plagiarists muddy the source stream. They, in effect, hijack the reputation, for good or ill, of the person they plagiarize. And I strongly suspect that successful plagiarists at the undergraduate level go on to plagiarize at the next level, either the world of work, or in graduate school. We all, unfortunately, know of faculty who have deliberately, consciously plagiarized. As a technical editor, and sometime reader for academic presses, I've seen authors who plagiarize. I find it disgusting; the presses often remind me of the over-worked student deans at college campuses who deal with student plagiarism all the time; world-weary and not at all surprised when I indicate that the author has, purposefully or not, plagiarized. Sometimes, it's truly not deliberate plagiarism. And sometimes, it is. -- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital medievalist Instructional Technology | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/ My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.426 plagarism checkers Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:04:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 622 (622) [deleted quotation]do so? This isn't vote for turnitin.com, but the longer you teach the more likely that you will get a paper that you _know_ is copied, but you can't find the source. And the prospect of looking through months of TIME or Atlantic, etc. can be daunting when it's end of semester and grades are due. [deleted quotation]Of course the writer is cheating her/himself, but plagiarism isn't the same as cheating on an exam -- it's usually a case handing in a term paper, which may count for as much os half the grade, and was written by someone else. If one grades on the curve (which I never did in all the years) then cheating hurts not only the writer but all the rest of the class. And even without a curve, a really good paper may change one's attitude towards all the other papers -- if X can do this well, why not A - W ? From: "pjmoran" Subject: Re: 18.426 plagarism checkers Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:05:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 623 (623) To Michael Farrington, regarding plagiarism: It's not that we (instructors) can't spot plagiarism--it's that we have to PROVE plagiarism or face administrative sanction and/or lawsuit. Patricia J. Moran, FSU Graduate Student, 850-243-4081 From: Richard Anderson Subject: Re: 18.426 plagarism checkers Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:06:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 624 (624) Many instructors are grading a large, or huge number of papers per semester it is a complete waste of time to grade a paper that is plagiarized. An instructor will spend a lot of time searching Google for a match because they need evidence not just a suspicion that it is plagiarism. A key element of teaching writing is teaching proper citation , a plagiarism tool detects poor citation. A student should be given access to the plagiarism tool as well as the instructor so they the student can learn this before the instructor grades the paper. Lastly, a plagiarism detecting tool should also handle online submission of a paper and have a way for the instructor to provide online feedback and grading for the paper. --Rick Anderson From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 12/04 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:32:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 625 (625) Greetings: The December 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, the '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 2004 is the Library of Congress collection: By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943. The articles include: The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay and Ben Lund, Nature Publishing Group Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library; Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University; and Carl Lagoze and Simeon Warner, Cornell University A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey A. Young, and Eric Childress, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Metadata Development in China : Research and Practice Jia Liu, Peking University, China The Conference Reports are: How Fares the Wired Museum? Report on the 32nd Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network (November 10-13, 2004) David Green, Knowledge Culture ISMIR 2004: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, October 10-14, 2004, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Michael Droettboom, Johns Hopkins 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, 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/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the December 2004 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: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI (V5i4): Social Aspects of Digital Information in Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:35:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 626 (626) Perspective Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Social Aspects of Digital Information in Perspective (Volume 5, issue 4, December 2004) Special issue Editors: Roberta Lamb and Susan Johnson, University of Hawaii, Manoa From the special issue editorial: "This special issue showcases a series of studies that are guided by the methods and perspectives of Social Informatics. This line of inquiry extends a research stream of the late Rob Kling, a pioneer in social informatics studies who strived for over 30 years to make social issues central to discussions about computing and information systems. "Within the past decade, social informatics research has grown to encompass a widening and interdisciplinary interest in studies that carefully examine the ways in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) are bound up in everyday social and organizational structures. It draws researchers who focus on the inter-relationships among people, their institutional and cultural contexts, and their uses of ICTs. This focus on 'ICT use in context' diverts some attention from the task at hand to pay more careful attention to the power relations that shape the task and the setting, as well as the roles of the social actors who use ICTs to perform their situated tasks. "For this inaugural theme issue, we were particularly interested in presenting empirical examinations of ICTs that carefully depict and theorize about the cumulative influences of local histories on ICT use, with emphasis on the everyday aspects of living with digital information in the home, in the workplace, in research labs, in public places, and other social settings. We know that for many readers the contents of this issue will be very different from the types of articles they usually find in JoDI, but we hope this will be a welcome change. We feel it is very important to present theoretically guided examinations of everyday encounters with digital information to balance the more prevalent business-centric concerns and technology-focused projections about Information Society futures. "Although the studies in this issue cover a wide range of topics, they share basic concepts that guide social informatics studies: - Digital exchanges shape and are shaped by community interaction. - History and context matter. - Shifts in identity accompany the use of new digital information technologies. - Going online precipitates unexpected social, economic and political outcomes." http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: H. Ekbia, R. Kling (October 2004) How IT Mediates Organizations: Enron and The California Energy Crisis http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i04/Ekbia/ P. McLean, S. Johnson (October 2004) How Oke-Ogun Crosses the Digital Divide - Study of a Nigerian Rural Development Project http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i04/McLean/ M. Raisinghani, A. Benoit, J. Ding, M. Gomez, K. Gupta, V. Gusila, D. Power, O. Schmedding (August 2004) Ambient Intelligence: Changing forms of human-computer interaction and their influence on people and organizational environments http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i04/Raisinghani/ K. Stam, J. Stanton, I. Guzman (October 2004) Employee Resistance to Information Technology Change in a Social Service Agency: A Membership Category Approach http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i04/Stam/ Editor's note. One further paper (Klashner) will be added to this issue and will appear in due course in the issue listing http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=5&iss=4 It will also be included in the announcement for the next issue of JoDI. -- 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/ From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: MIREX 2005 : Call for evaluation topics Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:33:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 627 (627) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MIREX 2005 2nd Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ September 11-15, 2005 London, UK ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR EVALUATION TOPICS DEADLINE January 16, 2005 The 2nd Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange will take place during the 6th ISMIR Conference in London, UK, September 11-15, 2005. The goal of this contest is to compare state-of-the-art algorithms and systems relevant for Music Information Retrieval. We aim at MIREX to represent the vast and multidisciplinary field of MIR, including symbolic, audio, and other subdisciplines. - Evaluation topics will be proposed by the participants. - Evaluation procedures and test collections will be agreed among the participants. - Partial test data will be made available to the participants for algorithm fine tuning. - Evaluation of submitted algorithms will be performed by the MIREX organizing committee. - Results will be presented during a poster and a panel session. As a first step, we are issuing a call for evaluation topics. Calls for evaluation procedures and for participation will follow. Interested individuals are encouraged to join the MIREX mailing list at https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest For more information, please see the ISMIR 2005 website at http://ismir2005.ismir.net/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SUBMISSIONS Submissions of evaluation topics should include: - a title - a short description of the problem to be addressed (data and query type, expected results), - a list of possible participants (names, email addresses, and likelihood of entering), - suggestions for evaluation procedures (metrics, listening tests, etc), - suggestions for relevant test collections (including how they might be obtained and possible copyright issues). Proposals should be submitted to J. Stephen Downie at jdownie_at_uiuc.edu (MIREX General Chair) and Emmanuel Vincent at emmanuel.vincent_at_elec.qmul.ac.uk (MIREX Local Chair) by January 16, 2005. The MIREX organizing committee will retain all proposals, score them according to their likeliness of being held and publish them on the MIREX mailing list and web site. All willing participants will have until February 20, 2005 to amend the proposals. Then the MIREX organizing committee will review the amended proposals and select the ones that will be held. We are looking forward to your contributions ! The MIREX organizing committee. List reminder: 0. ISMIR 2005 will take place in London, UK, 11-15 September 2005. 1. Please do not send HTML documents to the list 2. Please do not send attachments (pictures, Word, etc.) to the list 3. Please do not send commercial ads to the list 4. Reuse of email addresses found on the list for unsolicited mail is forbidden 5. To unsubscribe, mail to "listserv_at_ircam.fr" the following text: unsub music-ir 6. The archives of the list are at http://lists.ircam.fr/ 7. The collective web sites of the ISMIR conferences are at http://www.ismir.net/ From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2005: Best of the Web Nominations Open Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:34:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 628 (628) Museums and the Web 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 13 - April 16, 2005 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ *** Nominate Your Favourite Site for the Best of the Web 2005 *** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/ Nominations are now open for the 2005 Best of the Web competition, held every year in conjunction with Museums and the Web, the international conference about culture and heritage on-line. You are invited to nominate sites for consideration by an international panel of judges. Please use the on-line form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/nominate.html The nomination period closes January 15, 2005. ***Choose the Right Category *** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/categories.html The MW2005 Best of the Web categories are: * On-line Exhibition * E-Services * Educational Use * Innovative or Experimental Application * Museum Professional's Site * Research Site In addition, the Judges select the Best Overall Museum Site, from all sites nominated. Please review the category definitions at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/categories.html before you nominate a site using our on-line form. *** Things to Remember *** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/nominate.html This is NOT a popularity contest. You will do better with one good justification than with lots of separate nominations. * You many nominate the same part of the same site in ONLY ONE one category. * Be specific and include as precise a URL as possible, for the part of the site related to the category you have chosen. * You may nominate only one site in each category. * You may nominate sites even if you are unable to attend MW2005 * All sites will be reviewed by an international panel of judges, who will present awards at the MW2005 conference in Vancouver. * No site will be considered for a Best of the Web award if one of the judges is associated with it. *** Thanks! *** Thank you for helping us recognize the Best of the Web. We hope to see you in Vancouver. jennifer and David -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2005_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 -- __________ J. Trant jtrant_at_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: Zwarts_at_science.uva.nl, Subject: ESSLLI workshop CfP: Formal semantics and Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:36:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 629 (629) cross-linguistic data ** Our apologies for multiple copies! *** CALL FOR PAPERS Formal semantics and cross-linguistic data http://www.ru.nl/pionier/esslli/ 15-19 August 2005 organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Organizers: Helen de Hoop H.deHoop_at_let.ru.nl Joost Zwarts J.Zwarts_at_let.ru.nl Workshop Purpose: The purpose of this workshop is to strengthen the ties between formal semantic methods and theories on the one hand and data from lesser-studied languages across the world on the other hand. Both formal semantics and descriptive and typological linguistics will benefit from more interaction in this area. 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. Workshop Topics: Most formal semantic and pragmatic work is done on (Indo) European languages, especially English. Only a small, but growing, number of formal semanticists are involved in descriptive and typological linguistics involving languages from other continents and some promising work has already been done on topics such as quantification, number, tense, aspect, and modality. We think it is of utmost importance for the development of formal semantic and pragmatic theories to broaden the empirical database. In this way, linguistic typology can provide us with a new perspective on semantic and pragmatic analyses, while in addition formal accounts can offer more precise criteria for a proper treatment of semantic and pragmatic variation. For this workshop, we solicit original contributions that either apply formal semantics-pragmatics in the analysis of lesser-studied languages or in which theory formation crucially draws on data from such languages or comparison between languages. Submission details: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing an application of formal semantic methods to cross-linguistic data. Submissions should not exceed 10 pages/5000 words and be in PDF format. Please send your submission electronically to J.Zwarts_at_let.ru.nl on or before March 9, 2005. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be 18 May 2005. 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 consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic. Invited speakers Martina Faller Donka Farkas and Henriette de Swart Workshop Program Committee Veneeta Dayal Martina Faller Donka Farkas Helen de Hoop Henriette de Swart Yoad Winter Joost Zwarts Sponsored by the NWO PIONIER Project 'Case Cross-Linguistically' Important Dates: Submissions: March 9, 2005 Notification: April 18, 2005 Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005 ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005 Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005 Final programme: June 22, 2005 Workshop dates: August 15-19, 2005 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 made 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 accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant. Further Information: About the workshop: http://www.ru.nl/pionier/esslli/ About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ From: Shuly Wintner Subject: ISCOL-04: December 27th, 2004 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:35:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 630 (630) ISCOL-04 ­ Bar Ilan University http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/iscol/ ISCOL'04, the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, will take place at Bar Ilan University on Monday, December 27, 2004, 10:00-17:30. This year, we will honor Prof. Yaacov Choueka upon his retirement. The seminar will include invited talks by Prof. Dan Roth (UIUC) and Prof. Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan), presentations of recent products of the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, and scientific presentations of language processing research in Israel. Program (see abstracts on the web site) ------- 10:00-10:20 Gathering and refreshments 10:20-10:30 Opening 10:30-10:55 Hspell - the Free Hebrew Spell-Checker and Morphological Analyzer Dan Kenigsberg and Nadav Har'El 10:55-11:20 Master-Slave Dependency Model and its Application to Hebrew Understanding Yan Tsitrin 11:20-12:20 Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew: Product Presentations 12:20-13:20 Lunch (cold dairy buffet) 13:20-13:45 Summarizing Jewish Law Articles Using Genetic Algorithms Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner 13:45-14:10 Reader-based Exploration of Lexical Cohesion Beata Klebanov 14:10-15:10 Invited Talk: Learning and Inference with Structured Representations Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 15:10-15:40 Coffee break 15:40-16:05 Scaling Web Based Acquisition of Entailment Relations Idan Szpektor, Hristo Tanev, Ido Dagan and Bonaventura Coppola 16:05-16:30 Feature Generation for Text Categorization Using Hierarchical Web Knowledge Bases Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch 16:30-17:30 Honorary talk: NLP: Challenges, Problems, and Achievements; a Sober Personal Perspective Prof. Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University [material deleted] From: stefansinclair_noreply_at_coch-cosh.ca Subject: COCH-COSH 2005 Conference UPDATE Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:36:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 631 (631) [deleted quotation]UPDATE: The COCH/COSH conference committee has extended the deadline for the upcoming meeting at The University of Western Ontario by a few days to Monday, December 20th. All contributions should follow the format outlined below. The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/ Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2005 Meeting of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities The University of Western Ontario, May 29 - 31, 2005 Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2005 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Particularly welcome are proposals that develop the idea of the networked citizen and the role of the Arts and Humanities in their work/lives. Further topics may include, but will not be limited to: - the web as network - the post-national citizen - humanities computing as an agora for multi-disciplinary engagement - the network and society, from an Arts and Humanities perspective - humanities computing and pedagogy - computing in the visual, musical, and performance arts - scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination - digital/electronic copyright issues - computing in multi-lingual and non-English environments - e-accessibility - ongoing humanities computing research involving materials in textual, oral/aural, visual, multi-media, and other formats - the paradoxes of standardization - humanities versus instrumental methods - the future of the humanities in computing The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation societies - and will feature special panels designed to emphasize communication across arts and humanities disciplines with a focus on the integration of the work of the computing humanist and the broader humanities research community. There is a limited amount of funding available to support a graduate student panel. Interested parties should inquire through the address below. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until Monday, December 20, 2004. Please note that all presenters must be members of COCH/COSH at the time of the conference. Abstracts/proposals should include the following information at the top of the front page: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusion. Single-paper proposals will be accepted electronically via the conference web site: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/Congress/2005/ Session proposals and other inquiries may be emailed directly to Patrick Finn (St. Mary's University-College) and Alan Galey (University of Western Ontario): conference_at_coch-cosh.ca From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: NPR: Google's Plan Prompts a Question: What's on the Web? Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:55:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 632 (632) Colleagues/ NPR [National Public Radio, US]: Google's Plan Prompts a Question: What's on the Web? This week, the search engine Google announced plans to digitize millions of library books and make them searchable online. Are we getting closer to the day when most of the world's knowledge is a click away? [ http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5&prgDate=current ] Key Players interviewed, e.g., Michael Keller (Stanford Univesrity and High Wire Press), Brewster Kale (Internet Archive), Paul Gerhardt (BBC Creative Archive) This is a *VERY* Important episode of _Talk of the Nation_ and IMHO is a Must Hear ! [38' 10''] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan GoogleScanned Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerymck_at_iastate.edu From: andrea laue Subject: Position @ Mark Twain Project Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:54:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 633 (633) The Mark Twain Project of the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for the following position: Title: Editor Requisition: 002154 Department: LIBRARY Location: Main Campus-Berkeley Job Description: The Mark Twain Project, housed in the world's largest collection of materials by and about Mark Twain, is a scholarly edition committed to publishing all of the author's significant writings. Relying both on the research and editorial expertise of its staff and the enormous resources available in the archive (much of which was bequeathed to the University by Mark Twain's daughter), MTP has produced award-winning critical editions of Mark Twain's works and his private papers. It has now been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an electronic edition of Mark Twain's complete letters. This NEH grant project entails encoding the texts of thousands of letters as well as additional critical material in XML for eventual display and use via the World Wide Web. Responsibilities: Encode Mark Twain's letters in XML using a modified version of the Text Encoding Initiative DTD. Review encoded material for stylistic consistency and adherence to guidelines. Under supervision, contribute to the editing of Mark Twain's texts, following established editorial principles and performing proofreading, fact checking, and historical research as necessary. Assist in the overall maintenance and development of encoding guidelines by participating in discussions about unresolved issues and updating the guidelines as directed. Perform routine checking and debugging of encoded files. Assist in general archival management, including maintenance, organization, and updating of the Mark Twain Papers collection as needed. Requirements & Qualifications: Knowledge of humanities computing, scholarly textual editing, and, in particular, the procedures, guidelines, and policies of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) or a similar XML-based humanities encoding project. Proficiency in XML (including DTDs). Excellent proofreading and copyediting skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing. Demonstrated ability to understand and apply editorial theory and judgment. Ability to be extremely detail-oriented and have an eye for error. Ability to manage time effectively, work efficiently, work independently and with a team, recognize and solve problems (or know when to refer them), and meet deadlines. Preferred: Intermediate relational database skills. Knowledge of WordPerfect, XSL, CSS, HTML, Perl and regular expressions. Advanced degree in English, humanities computing, information science, or an allied field. Experience in digital publishing, textual encoding, or scholarly editing. Other: This is a temporary career position with an end date of 10/06 and the possibility of extension beyond that date. Salary: 7684C Hourly: 16.72 - 20.09 Monthly: 2910 - 3496 Annual: 34920 - 41952 Closing Date: 12/29/2004 To apply, please go to: http://jobs.berkeley.edu/. From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 18.434 radio programme on Google's bookish plans Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:18:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 634 (634) The NPR pointer listed takes you to the current days' NPR programs, which changes every day. The permanent link re: the Google broadcast ("NPR : Google's Plan Prompts a Question: What's on the Web?") is <<http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4229570>http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4229570> From: Erik Hatcher Subject: Re: 18.434 radio programme on Google's bookish plans Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:18:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 635 (635) My first post to this very interesting list! I've been lurking for a few weeks now. I'll introduce myself at the end... On Dec 17, 2004, at 4:37 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation]Another must-hear is Brewster Kahle's discussion at the Library of Congress (December 13, 2004 show): http://www.c-span.org/congress/digitalfuture.asp I've had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with Brewster. He's a wonderful person and he has realized many of his ideals already. His work is heartening and inspiring. Let me introduce myself - I have the pleasure of working with Jerry McGann at ARP - http://www.patacriticism.org. At heart I'm a developer, but in the past few years I've expanded my horizons into article and book writing, and lots of speaking gigs. Most recently and most relevantly to this list, I'm the co-author of Lucene in Action. Lucene is a very fast and scalable search engine on which many applications are being built. I have developed, though not online yet, a Lucene search interface into the Rossetti Archive and am also building, to be launched very soon, a "search inside" feature for the Lucene book itself. You can see a preview here: http://www.lucenebook.com Erik From: Roberta Astroff Subject: reference needed/ Google and libraries Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:20:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 636 (636) Hello, I would like to refer to that on-screen Scandanavian movie short showing a technical support staffer training a user in how to use the new technology of the codex. I would be greatly appreciative if someone could send me the URL. I would also like to mention, as a librarian involved in several digitizing projects, that the problems with OCR and fonts, copyright, "page-turning" softwareand patron skills with search engines have us all very skeptical about how quickly and effectively the Google lilbrary project can be effected. Roberta Roberta J. Astroff, M.L.S., Ph.D. Humanities Librarian Arts and Humanities Library 319 Pattee Library West Penn State University University Park PA 16802 rja7_at_psulias.psu.edu (814) 865-0660 From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: How natural and real language families? Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:20:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 637 (637) Dear Humanist colleages, are there many publications which prove on phonological or phonetical level that classically defined language families and other language taxons are natural and real. I mean Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Samoyedic, Tungus-Manchirian, Mongolic, Turkic, Paleo-Asiatic, Sono-Tibetan, Austronesian and other classically defined language families. It looks like some of them are not very compact from the phono-typological point of view. It seems to me that all the world linguists are quite happy with the defined language families, though the fundamentals of these definitions are rather weak and obsolete. In physics, mathemathics, chemistry, biology and other natural sciences the fundamentals of classifications are analysed and reconsidered by every generation of the scholars. Not so in linguistics. Or may be I am not aware of such critical works. I have calculated the compactness of several language families from the typological point of view and discovered that there is a great difference between them. The most compact is the Mongolic language family Its dispersion is only 10.78%, while the dispertion of the Tungus-Manchurian (18.60%) or Turkic (18.77%) language families is greater. The dispersion of Finno-Ugric (24.14%) or Indo-European (28.00%) language families is much greater. It may mean that Finno-Ugric or Indo-European families are not natural and real families, but some sort of conglomerations or Sprachbunds. Not to speak of the dispersion of the Altaic (25.97%) or Uralic (28.31%) language unities which should never be called language families if we consider a language family some more compact language taxon. In this case, only Mongolic language family seems to be natural and real. Should we consider the other language families language unities or Sprachbunds? Or what? May be some sparce language unions or language communities? Or what? Is it not the high time to define language taxons: 1) branch; 2) subgroup; 3) grpoup; 4) family; 5) unity; 6) union; 7) filia; 8) community. Any other taxons? I wish you could send me your ideas about language families and the other language taxons to my correct e-mail address yutamb_at_hotmail.com Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Your sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: TAPoRware Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:19:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 638 (638) Researchers release prototypes of tools for analyzing electronic texts http://taporware.mcmaster.ca Computing researchers in McMaster University's Faculty of Humanities, with colleagues at New York University (NYU), have just released TAPoRware 1.0 which contains three sets of tools that can be used for the analysis of text in three specific file formats: xml, html and plain text. "These are prototypes of the tools and services that will be available to researchers in Canada and around the world through the open portal that we are developing," says Geoffrey Rockwell, associate professor in the School of the Arts. "This is our second release of the tools. We have fixed some bugs found in the earlier release and we have updated our interface for the tools. We think researchers will find these tools useful." Rockwell and computing analyst and tool developer Lian Yan are looking for interested researchers to test the prototype tools and provide feedback to improve what's been developed to date and to also expand the toolbench that is being developed for users to access from a portal. (The inaugural version of the portal, which is also being developed by McMaster researchers, was released last month. See. www.tapor.ca for more information) Among the tools that have been developed for each of the various file formats are: list words, co-occurrences, collocation and tokenize tools. These tools allow researchers to manipulate, extract, and parse words and portions to examine language and word patterns, styles, forms as well as other elements of language and literature. The development of the tools and portal is part of a larger research project, the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR), funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. McMaster is the lead institution for the project which includes partners from five other universities in Canada with leading humanities computing centres: University of Victoria, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montréal and University of New Brunswick. The Information Technology Services, NYU, also contributed to the TAPoRware Tools. Individuals interested in working with Rockwell and Yan to improve and expand the tools should e-mail Yan at lyan_at_mcmaster.ca. The tools can be accessed from http://strange.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Christmas greetings Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:56:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 639 (639) Dear colleagues, Today, where I live, is the winter solstice, the darkest day. A chilly one, by the feel of it now, though no snow, at least not in this part of the country. The Christmas tree is up and decorated, hung with lights. A magical sight, with resonances in memory back to earliest childhood. If memories in some sense go further back than that (as Paul Shepard's work powerfully suggests), then perhaps along with many others I reenact the fearful, hopeful recreation of the world. Yes, yes.... But one should at least question the deep inadequacy of more economical explanations. (For a survey of the whole lot, see http://www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html.) Those not new to Humanist will recognize this as preamble to my annual, solstitial indulgence in musings about humanities computing, scholarship, life and all that. The practice began with Humanist 3.879, dated 22 December 1989, after an unplanned visit on the previous evening to Kensington Market, in Toronto, crunching through the crowded streets in the snow. With Geoffrey Rockwell, as I recall -- and at his instigation. But I digress. If a "tradition" is something one hands down as a matter of course, almost without thought, without choice, then this is not one. Too much of desire fulfilled and choice exercised, in every keystroke. But then what matters traditionally is that the handing down happens. It's a matter of deed rather than intention. So here, once again, it is. A thought-action, in words, to survey, remember -- turn the dark end of things into the next go-round in the advancing spiral. Yes, indeed, advancing. For the practice that we share, much has changed since the romp through Kensington Market, in days that were in some respects much darker than these. To my mind, nothing denotes where we are now better than the publication of A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell, 2004), for which we have Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth to thank. It marks and helps initiate a new phase in the development of humanities computing -- by bringing together many accounts of our subject in one place, in a harmonious discord of strongly individual voices and perspectives. Thus it reminds me of what Ludwik Fleck said about how a discipline creates reality through a complex of interactions among many lines of thought, like "the natural course of an excited conversation among several persons all speaking simultaneously among themselves and each clamoring to make himself heard" (Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, p. 14.) What matters is the conversation -- that it continue noisily on its way, whatever that turns out to be. There will, one hopes, be future collections that improve on this Companion. But in doing so their principal value will be to renew the snapshot it gives us so well, of our socio-intellectual "network in continuous fluctuation". What is humanities computing? I think we might now be able to answer as Fleck did: not the products of the interactions within this network but the changing network itself (78f). I am just now tidying up the last details of my own book, as it happens. Now in a position to survey the writing and consider what went into it, I am struck more forcefully by its profound indebtedness to the work of others than by anything else. "Denken ist danken", to think is to thank. Nothing has shown me more vividly how communal the most solitary and individual of our scholarly acts are, and how important it is to our communal future to recognize that fact. I would, if I could, drive that silly denotation, "lone scholar", from our vocabulary into the wilderness where it belongs, and I would make "collaboration" own up to its intimate kinship with what happens, and has always happened, between scholars and their sources. In a job interview recently a good friend of mine was asked if she was a "lone scholar" -- which was, of course, a prompting to swear allegiance to the newspeak of the day. She gave the right answer, of course, then promptly went back to her work communing with anonymous 10th-century scholars, attempting not simply to understand what they were saying to their communities of practice but also to collaborate with them in making sure that the crucial genius of a late 5th-century colleague was not lost to the world's great conversation. But enough of that driving into the wilderness! Let us rather celebrate the health of our own community of practice. It's still rather fragile, still depending too much on too few hearts continuing to beat. But it's never been in better shape, thanks to that excited conversation now given a big boost. What's next to be done? Many things, no doubt. Big on my horizon is an objective we share with a number of other people studying how knowledge is expressed in equipment, as well as made by means of it. This objective is eloquently suggested by the title of Hans-Joerg Rheinberger's recent study of molecular biology, Toward a History of Epistemic Things (Stanford, 1997). That's what we're doing, yes? Surely when we write software and/or plug bits of it together we are crafting epistemic things. But how do we read out the knowledge we have written into these things? How do we write their history? And how, then, do we teach the art of reading the machines we have made -- so that, inter alia, our colleagues can properly appreciate the intellectual qualities of our work? I am reminded, for example, of Agostino Ramelli's 16C treatise on engineering, Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588) -- published by Dover and by Scholar Press as The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli (1976) -- filled with engravings of engineering solutions, so that the ideas they manifest may be communicated. The modern edition comes with technical annotations and a technical glossary by Eugene Ferguson, who along with Walter Vincenti and some others has done much to explicate engineering as an epistemic practice of its own. I am also reminded of historian Michael Mahoney's work in raising the historiographical question, and in raising the level at which it is asked. But we need to take a look for ourselves, at what we do. Enough of work for now, however. Time for the re-creational celebrations of the season, in whatever cultural dialect you celebrate them. Almost dawn here. Time to rouse the sleeping beauty and get on with it. All the best. 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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.437 how natural and real language families? Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:57:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 640 (640) Yuri: every thing you ask for hs been defined and studied for many years. ( The concept of mathematical compactness is irrelevant,however.) I hardly know where to start recommending books: you might try pp. 29-38 of Alfred Bammesburger's _English Linguistics_ (Heidelberg: Carl Weiner, 1989) for a quick overview. A classic and extended study of the relations among Germanic languages is Prokosch's _A Comparative German Grammar_ (Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1938). The bib for the Introduction and Chapter 1 on p. 217 of _The Atlas of Languages_, a nice popular treatment by FActs on FIle, will give you a number of important books on the subjects of language development and relationships. There is enough material on this subject to keep you reading for the next 10 years or so at the least. From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- December 2004 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:57:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 641 (641) CIT INFOBITS December 2004 No. 78 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. ...................................................................... Evolving Technologies Reports Technology and Plagiarism Study Future of E-Research and Research Institutions New Technology Literacy Assessment Service Launched Conference Catch Up ...................................................................... EVOLVING TECHNOLOGIES REPORTS Educause's Evolving Technologies Committee is charged with the "identification of developing technologies and the evaluation of their impact on higher education." Annually, the Committee's work is presented in a collection of white papers. This year's reports cover digital repositories and management of Web content, learning objects, music file sharing, nomadic computing, regional networks, and spam management. You can view all the papers online at http://www.educause.edu/EvolvingTechnologiesReports/869. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. For more information, contact: Educause, 4772 Walnut Street, Suite 206, Boulder, CO 80301-2538 USA; tel: 303-449-4430; fax: 303-440-0461; email: info@educause.edu; Web: http://www.educause.edu/. ...................................................................... TECHNOLOGY AND PLAGIARISM STUDY "[I]nstructors typically fall behind their own students in degree of technological sophistication when it comes to matters of cheating. This gap in sophistication between students and their instructors is one of many pressing issues created by the rapid evolution of information technology in the university." In "Technology and Plagiarism in the University: Brief Report of a Trial in Detecting Cheating" (by Diane Johnson, et al., AACE JOURNAL, vol. 12, no. 3, 2004, pp. 281-299) the authors report on a trial set up at the University of California, Santa Barbara to test automated detection of term-paper plagiarism in a large, introductory undergraduate class. Although the study resulted in only a few detected instances of student cheating, the authors speculate that, if extrapolated to all the courses taught at UCSB each year, "in the short run the number of cases of dishonesty caught and prosecuted could easily grow by an order of magnitude were electronic techniques widely used by faculty." The report is available online at http://www.aace.org/pubs/AACEJ/dispart.cfm?paperID=24. AACE Journal [ISSN 1551-3696] is a quarterly journal published online by the Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education. Current and back issues are available at http://www.aace.org/pubs/aacej/. The AACE (founded in 1981) is an "international, educational and professional not-for profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology." For more information, contact: AACE, P.O. Box 3728, Norfolk, VA 23514 USA; tel: 757-623-7588; fax: 703-997-8760; email: info@aace.org; Web; http://www.aace.org/. ...................................................................... FUTURE OF E-RESEARCH AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS "The role of libraries . . . will shift from primarily acquiring published scholarship to a broader role of managing scholarship in collaboration with the researchers that develop and draw upon it." -- Clifford Lynch, speaking at "E-Research and Supporting Cyberinfrastructure" forum In October 2004, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) co-sponsored the forum "E-Research and Supporting Cyberinfrastructure: A Forum to Consider the Implications for Research Libraries & Research Institutions." Over 100 educators, librarians, and IT specialists from over 75 organizations met to discuss how changes in the practices of scholarship across all disciplines is affecting the scholarly communication system. Some of the issues that will challenge libraries and research institutions in the years ahead include copyright, funding, collection collaboration, and content archiving. For a report summarizing the forum see "Libraries and Changing Research Practices: A Report of the ARL/CNI Forum on E-Research and Cyberinfrastructure" (ARL BIMONTHLY REPORT 237, December 2004) at http://www.arl.org/newsltr/237/cyberinfra.html. PowerPoint slides from forum speakers are available online at http://www.arl.org/forum04/#proceedings. The Coalition for Networked Information, a program of the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, is an organization "designed to advance the transformative promise of networked information technology for the improvement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity." For more information, contact: Coalition for Networked Information, 21 Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-296-5098; fax: 202-872-0884; email: info_at_cni.org; Web: http://www.cni.org/. The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit membership organization comprising the leading research libraries in North America. "Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service." For more information, contact: Association of Research Libraries, 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-296-2296; fax: 202-872-0884; email: arlhq_at_arl.org; Web: http://www.arl.org/. ...................................................................... NEW TECHNOLOGY LITERACY ASSESSMENT SERVICE LAUNCHED In November 2004, Educational Testing Service (ETS) launched the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Literacy Assessment service. The test "measures postsecondary students' ability to define, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and communicate information in a technological environment." The first trials of the new assessment will take place at seven colleges and universities in Spring 2005. The assessment could help institutions to spot areas where incoming students need more preparation and where the college should focus its resources. You can read more about the ICT Literacy Assessment at http://www.ets.org/news/04110801.html. ETS is a non-profit organization that develops, administers, and scores a variety of tests, include the SAT, GRE, and GMAT. 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We can announce your conference on our "Calendar of World-Wide Educational Technology-Related Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events" at http://atncalendar.depts.unc.edu:8086/. While we often mention commercial products, publications, and Web sites, Infobits does not accept or reprint unsolicited advertising copy. Send your article suggestions to the editor at kotlas_at_email.unc.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2004, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Center for Instructional Technology. All rights reserved. May be reproduced in any medium for non-commercial purposes. From: John Lavagnino Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 2004 MLA Convention Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:21:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 642 (642) Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia, starting next Monday. 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/mla/mla04/guide.html John Lavagnino From: iscol-bounces_at_cs.haifa.ac.il [mailto:iscol-bounces_at_cs.haifa.ac.il] On Subject: Reminder: ISCOL-04 requires immediate registration Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:21:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 643 (643) Behalf Of Shuly Wintner Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:27 PM To: iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il ISCOL-04 ­ Bar Ilan University http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/iscol/ ISCOL'04, the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, will take place at Bar Ilan University on Monday, December 27, 2004, 10:00-17:30. This year, we will honor Prof. Yaacov Choueka upon his retirement. The seminar will include invited talks by Prof. Dan Roth (UIUC) and Prof. Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan), presentations of recent products of the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, and scientific presentations of language processing research in Israel. Program (see abstracts on the web site) ------- 10:00-10:20 Gathering and refreshments 10:20-10:30 Opening 10:30-10:55 Hspell - the Free Hebrew Spell-Checker and Morphological Analyzer Dan Kenigsberg and Nadav Har'El 10:55-11:20 Master-Slave Dependency Model and its Application to Hebrew Understanding Yan Tsitrin 11:20-12:20 Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew: Product Presentations 12:20-13:20 Lunch (cold dairy buffet) 13:20-13:45 Summarizing Jewish Law Articles Using Genetic Algorithms Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner 13:45-14:10 Reader-based Exploration of Lexical Cohesion Beata Klebanov 14:10-15:10 Invited Talk: Learning and Inference with Structured Representations Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 15:10-15:40 Coffee break 15:40-16:05 Scaling Web Based Acquisition of Entailment Relations Idan Szpektor, Hristo Tanev, Ido Dagan and Bonaventura Coppola 16:05-16:30 Feature Generation for Text Categorization Using Hierarchical Web Knowledge Bases Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch 16:30-17:30 Honorary talk: NLP: Challenges, Problems, and Achievements; a Sober Personal Perspective Prof. Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University Registration (free) ------------------- ISCOL'04 participants should register by sending an email to Sylvie Baruch, at Sylvie.Baruch_at_mail.biu.ac.il. Please use "ISCOL registration" as the message subject and write clearly in the message body your full name and affiliation, as you would like them to appear on the name tag. Your email should arrive by Tuesday, 21.12.04, at 12:00. Location and directions ----------------------- The seminar will be held at the Beck Hall, building 410. See the map at http://www.biu.ac.il/Tour/ for directions (you can press the "Event Halls" tab and click "Beck 410" in the legend to get it highlighted). The entrance to the hall is between buildings 410 and 405, at the lower level under the bridge, in front of the Pyramid cafeteria. Parking is outside the campus. When coming from the Bar Ilan interchange on Geha Highway (Highway 4) turn left at the traffic light and then keep going straight after passing the Bar Ilan main gate. The first parking lot will soon be on your left, from which there is a pedestrian gate that is quite close to the Beck Hall. If this lot is full the next parking lot is further down the road, on the right. If you have special parking needs please indicate in the registration email that you need a guest parking permit, which is closer to the hall. For any questions please contact: -------------------------------- Seminar admin: Sylvie Baruch Sylvie.Baruch_at_mail.biu.ac.il Seminar organizer: Ido Dagan Dagan_at_cs.biu.ac.il ISCOL'04 is organized by the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics at Bar Ilan, and is supported by the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew and the Ministry of Science and Technology. _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: fomi Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:21:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 644 (644) Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized and supported by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distribute systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. [material deleted] From: Helen Ashman Subject: JCDL05 CFP Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:22:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 645 (645) CALL FOR PAPERS: JCDL 2005 ========================== Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2005 Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education June 7-11, 2005 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.jcdl2005.org/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- January 27, 2005: Full articles, panel, and tutorial proposals due February 10, 2005: Short articles, posters, demonstrations, and proposals for workshops due April 5, 2005: Revision deadline for accepted articles and abstracts ABOUT JCDL --------------- The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. We welcome researchers and practitioners with broad and diverse interests including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences, humanities, and education. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of disciplines and professions involved in digital library research and practice, including computer science, information science, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. All domains - academe, government, industry, and others - are encouraged to participate as presenters or attendees. CONFERENCE THEME: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION --------------- The theme of JCDL 2005 highlights the powerful role of digital libraries as cyberinfrastructure. This cyberinfrastructure has the potential to engender the creation of new tools, research methodologies, and processes that will enable scientists and learners to investigate the natural world, the social world, and the human-built environment in new and previously unimaginable ways. As global interests in computation, information management, networking, and intelligent sensing converge, the conduct of research and education will be transformed. In addition to the digital library research topics listed above, JCDL 2005 encourages submission of technical articles that illustrate digital libraries as cyberinfrastructure. 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From: "Olga Francois" Subject: An Online Workshop: Academic Integrity & Building Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:19:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 646 (646) Community Online ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION Please join us for the second workshop in the annual online workshop series sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College. It is of interest to faculty, department chairs, deans, librarians, instructional designers and other academic professionals. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & BUILDING COMMUNITY ONLINE an online workshop http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#ai Dates: February 7 - February 18, 2005 Studies show that establishing a community of shared academic values fosters academic integrity in the classroom. But how do institutions foster these values in the online environment? Are special techniques and tools required? GOALS FOR THE COURSE: 1. Discuss the academic integrity concept and research associated with the promotion of academic integrity on campus; 2. Explore strategies for enhancing academic integrity both institutionally and in the classroom; 3. Review pedagogical strategies and technologies that can build "community" in the online classroom; 4. Identify resources that assist in policy development and revision. 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. MODERATORS: Kimberly Kelley, Ph.D., Associate Provost of Information and Library Services and Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, University of Maryland University College (http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/moderators.html#kelley) Steven W. Gilbert, Ed. M., M.B.A., President, The Teaching, Learning and Technology Group (http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/moderators.html#gilbert). REGISTRATION Early Bird Rate (on/before January 20, 2005): $125 Regular Rates (after January 20, 2005): $150 Register online! https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm Significant discounted rates are available; please see the online registration form for details! Or you may also register by phone, fax, and postal mail. ------------------------------------ Olga Francois, Sr. Research Librarian Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ 240-582-2736 [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.41 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:10:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 647 (647) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 41 (December 23 - December 31, 2004) VIEW Computing or Humanities? The growth and development of humanities computing. By Martyn Jessop http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i41_jessop.html VIEW Technologically Mediated Lifeworld Understanding the connection between science and technology is an essential step toward creating a more humane technoscience in the future. By Arun Kumar Tripathi http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v5i41_tripathy.html From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Alien Barbarians Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:39:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 648 (648) Willard, Well nigh a month I have resisted being baited by barbarian theme you set out in Humanist 18.381 where you asked Is there reason to look hopefully to the barbarian hordes of digital babble surging toward us over yon digital hills?" and you concluded that you found "it difficult to be sanguine about the invading hordes." It is tempting to set beside the figure of the barbarian who speaks not your tongue, the person of the alien who has learnt it as a second language. Strange, then, perhaps, that it is indeed that tension between igure and person, between a shape of future possibility and a form of present conditions, that keeps sounding in my re-reading who you elected to be bin-cast One author's strategy, for example, was to invent a new entity called the "knowledge society", assume its reality without any apparent support from social science research and then go on to write a book extolling its qualities. Here, I trust your nose for hype but your ear for the useable, not. The enabling fiction of an emerging knowledge society has bolstered, in some quarters, an ethos supportive of such undertakings as the involvement of indigenous peoples in values mapping in the elaboration of resource management. How people think and conceive of the sustainable, the profitable, the equitable, is of course basic to the the interactions of the respondants and interlocutors of a knowledge society -- or any society for that matter. Granted that there is nothing special about a knowledge society. I am still struggling with the values that map out of the discursive frame of the barbarian invasions onto the adventures of the neologism. The use of a noun (knowledge) as an adjective (knowledge) seems suspect in your reconstruction of events: invent, assume, go on. Which of these three points provides the breach? Which best bears the pressure? For me, it is not so much the presence of the action "to assume" in the sequence that offers cause to pause as it is its very particular position between the actions of inventing and going on. It may just be that in recalling my own experience I would place the act of assuming, of taking up, before the invention and dilation. Or it may be that I recall from other contexts simsequences that provid an alternative if abbreviated storyline to find, to come upon, to invent and then to go on, to carry forth. It must be that. Ervin Laszlo, _Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought_ (1972), provides an interesting take on what could be called "entity creation". A True scientific breakthrough comes today, in Gerard's words, "when somebody has sufficient creative imagination -- and courage to follow up, which may be even more important -- to say 'Let's look at the universe in terms of some new kinds of entities, some new kinds of units, or, what really comes to the same thing, in some new way of combining units'; because combining units gives a new unit at the superordinate level." [R.W. Gerard, "Hierarchy, Entitation, and Levels," in _Hierarchical Structures_ Whyte, Wilson and Wilson edx., New York, 1969.] And the many breakthroughs which have occurred in the recent past, and are likely to occur in the next [sic] future, come when someone looks at the universe in terms of entities which are not atomic material substances but organized functional systems, related to one another by "horizontal" interactions within their own level as well as by "vertical" interactions between different levels. I am not attempting to pose a better story beside a good story. I am trying to bring out the features of assumptions that in a praxis of verification place these entities in a zone delimited by the actions of accepting and appropriating. I wonder if what you decry in the "knowledge society" creator is not an effect of voice. Consider he humble voice of the inheritor usually accompaning a narrative of acceptance. Contrast it with the imperial voice of the appropriator. I leave you for now with the thought that perhaps a ear cocked to the "insufficiently" collaborative voice, is the partner of an eye blind to the often raid-like behaviour of interdisciplinary work -- collaborative or otherwise -- the crash into a next future. -- 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: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Spam pushing collaboration? Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:38:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 649 (649) Willard, I suspect that you are elsewise occupied with pleasanter reading than following some recent offereing in the grey literature on spam. Which is why I take this occasion to signal to you an interesting digression present in a document emanating from the Second OECD Workshop on Spam held in Busan, Korea on 8-9 September 2004. The report on the workshop is accessible via http from the server of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development by using the following URL http://www.oecd.org/sti/spam On page 12 at paragraph number 56 one can read: "To the aside complaint that e-mail is a burden for bosses who receive hundreds or thousand [sic] e-mails per week because employees see e-mail as face-time with the boss, a response was that collaboration tools make a difference. [A named-product], a Wiki knowledge management tool for example, can cut down on corporate e-mails by hundreds per day." I pretend to make no comment on the intracies involved in mapping a sociology of knowledge with business culture. However, the mention of collaborative tools in the context of email overload makes me wonder what the prerequistes of collaborative tool set might be. Basic collaborative work can be organized via shared access to a file server. Indeed with the elementary ftp skills and discipline in updating read me files or logs, a group can conduct its business entirely without email. In fact, were not such modes of collaboration de rigeur but a short while ago? Well, a decade or so ago. And, like email & spam is presently, ftp was fingered with the accusation of contributing to network drag. As Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead wrote in Chapter 7 "Remote Access Applications Telnet, FTP, Archie" in the revised 1995 edition of the Canadian Internet Handbook, " Common courtesy on the Internet suggests that you should only use FTP archives during non-working hours, in order not to cause network congestion and to avoid causing resource problems on the FTP archives that you are accessing. [...] You should also be aware that many archive sites now explicitly restrict access during normal working hours." (p. 143) Just what could that mean to all those night-hawk Humanists, "normal working hours" on a dial-up connection? -- 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: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Durability of optical discs Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:36:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 650 (650) Information on the durability of optical discs as a storage medium can be found at www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwg/, which contains a copy of "Stability Comparison of Recordable Optical Discs--A Study of Error Rates in Harsh Conditions." From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 18.447 alien barbarians Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:33:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 651 (651) Francois, Willard's post arrived in the middle too many other activities for a close reading but your post has prompted me to access the archive to look at the post again. Francois Lachance wrote: [deleted quotation]Willard said in part: ***From Humanist 18.381*** [deleted quotation]***/Humanist 18.381*** Actually I read the conclusion, [deleted quotation]to be a reference to those "rushing to re-lock down our conceptual structures by means of canonical ontologies expressed in metadata?" The point becomes somewhat muddled by the aside on weeding a book list (with abstracts?) and his disappointment with the titles that were being offered. There has been very poor work as well as very competent work on canonical ontologies but whatever Willard found on the book list, I don't think it advances his point about attempts to "re-lock down our conceptual structures...." Even assuming the highest quality work possible, the question of locking down conceptual structures is a very important one. Humanist readers may be interested in a new journal, International Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, the initial issue is available for free, see: http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4625. In that issue appears "Semantics for the Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the Powerful" by Amit Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan, and Christopher Thomas. The article is a very powerful critique of the use of description logic by the OWL family of Semantic Web languages. The flavor of the line of argument from the article can be seen from the authors' quoting W. A. Wood in their introduction as follows: *** "Over time, many people have responded to the need for increased rigor in knowledge representation by turning to first-order logic as a semantic criterion. This is distressing, since it is already clear that first-order logic is insufficient to deal with many semantic problems inherent in understanding natural language as well as the semantic requirements of a reasoning system for an intelligent agent using knowledge to interact with the world." (Woods, 2004) *** at page 3*** I think there is not only reason for concern but alarm at the barbarian hordes "rushing to re-lock down our conceptual structures by means of canonical ontologies...." The locks and chains they bear are forged with an eye towards ease of implementation in modern computer languages and the normal untidyness of most humanist discussions has no place in the ontologies they would impose. The complexity of texts studied by humanists suffered a similar assault when markup standards and software were written that insisted on avoiding what is called overlapping markup in the name of computational simplicity. Progress towards one solution for that particular need recently appeared from the University of Kentucky, Concurrent Markup Hierarchies (CMH) Resources, http://dblab.csr.uky.edu/~eiaco0/research/cmh. The software implements the GODDAG structure described some years ago by Sperberg-McQueen and Huitfeldt. Canonical ontologies, particularly those guided by computational simplicity, are a direct assault on the richness that is the human experience. I would answer Willard's question saying that the barbarian hordes are a cause for alarm. And I would add that we should not only meet them on our own grounds but that we should carry the fight into the standards bodies where much canonical ontology devilry is afoot. I hope you are enjoying the holiday season! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau_at_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: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: DDQ 3(4) on digital democracy Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:33:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 652 (652) DDQ 3(4) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_4.htm This DIGITAL DOCUMENT QUARTERLY number reminds readers of the massive trend to democratize the usage, management, and creation of information - a trend that creates a challenge for repository institutions and their professional staff members. In my view, many of them need to change their attitudes to the digital onslaught, educate themselves to use technology effectively, and manage their institutions in new ways. The alternative is that they will continue to be followers in factors that determine their own futures, rather than leaders. The Library of Congress is among the institutions in which change is needed. Early this year, I was in private communication with NDIIPP(*) senior staff at the Library of Congress, and offered help at identifying and responding to the technical issues now identified. DDQ 3(4) publishes my May 2004 letter suggesting NDIIPP technical problems that can quickly be remedied. The May offer has so far been ignored. The underlying NDIIPP management problem is failure to enlist the skills of the software engineering and computer science communities. The DDQ 3(4) table of contents includes: Democratization of Information Digital Preservation: Metadata Questioned; What We Learn from Copyright Protection; Repository-centric initiatives; NDIIPP Critique; Progress with TDO Approach News Reports and Reading Recommendations Personal Software Recommendations Delay Desktop PC Replacement if You Can! (*) NDIIPP = "Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Plan" Best wishes of the season, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. HMG Consulting http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ 1(408)867-5454 Saratoga, California 95070 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publications Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:36:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 653 (653) Volume 3381/2005 (SOFSEM 2005: Theory and Practice of Computer Science) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Discovering Treewidth p. 1 Hans L. Bodlaender From Research Prototypes to Industrial Strength Open Source Products - The ObjectWeb Experience p. 17 Emmanuel Cecchet How Hard Is It to Take a Snapshot? p. 28 Faith Ellen Fich Logical Foundations for Data Integration p. 38 Maurizio Lenzerini Recent Advances in Graph Drawing p. 41 Petra Mutzel The Hyperdatabase Network - New Middleware for Searching and Maintaining the Information Space p. 42 Hans-Jörg Schek Architecture of a Business Framework for the .NET Platform and Open Source Environments p. 47 Thomas Seidmann Progress on Crossing Number Problems p. 53 László A. Székely Greedy Differential Approximations for Min Set Cover p. 62 C. Bazgan, J. Monnot, V. Th. Paschos, F. Serrière A Methodology of Visual Modeling Language Evaluation p. 72 Anna Bobkowska Local Computations on Closed Unlabelled Edges: The Election Problem and the Naming Problem (Extended Abstract) p. 82 Jérémie Chalopin A Hierarchical Markovian Mining Approach for Favorite Navigation Patterns p. 92 Jiu Jun Chen, Ji Gao, Jun Hu, Bei Shui Liao Non-planar Orthogonal Drawings with Fixed Topology Extended Abstract p. 96 Markus Chimani, Gunnar W. Klau, René Weiskircher A Topology-Driven Approach to the Design of Web Meta-search Clustering Engines p. 106 Emilio Di Giacomo, Walter Didimo, Luca Grilli, Giuseppe Liotta Computing Upward Planar Drawings Using Switch-Regularity Heuristics p. 117 Walter Didimo Serial and Parallel Multilevel Graph Partitioning Using Fixed Centers p. 127 Kayhan Erciyes, Ali Alp, Geoffrey Marshall Two-Layer Planarization: Improving on Parameterized Algorithmics p. 137 Henning Fernau On the Stability of Approximation for Hamiltonian Path Problems p. 147 Luca Forlizzi, Juraj Hromkovic, Guido Proietti, Sebastian Seibert Robustness of Composed Timed Systems p. 157 Hacène Fouchal, Antoine Rollet, Abbas Tarhini Topology Generation for Web Communities Modeling p. 167 György Frivolt, Mária Bieliková Recursion Versus Replication in Simple Cryptographic Protocols p. 178 Hans Hüttel, Jirí Srba Modeling Data Integration with Updateable Object Views p. 188 Piotr Habela, Krzysztof Kaczmarski, Hanna Kozankiewicz, Kazimierz Subieta Fixed-Parameter Tractable Algorithms for Testing Upward Planarity p. 199 Patrick Healy, Karol Lynch Read/Write Based Fast-Path Transformation for FCFS Mutual Exclusion p. 209 Prasad Jayanti, Srdjan Petrovic, Neha Narula Adjustment of Indirect Association Rules for the Web p. 219 Przemyslaw Kazienko, Mariusz Matrejek Anonymous Communication with On-line and Off-line Onion Encoding p. 229 Marek Klonowski, Miroslaw Kutylowski, Filip Zagórski Characteristic Patterns for LTL p. 239 Antonín Kucera, Jan Strejcek Planar Straight-Line Drawing in an Grid with Angular Resolution O(1/ n) p. 250 Maciej Kurowski Modeling Nested Relationships in XML Documents Using Relational Databases p. 259 Olli Luoma RAQ: A Range-Queriable Distributed Data Structure p. 269 Hamid Nazerzadeh, Mohammad Ghodsi On Some Weighted Satisfiability and Graph Problems p. 278 Stefan Porschen On the Security and Composability of the One Time Pad p. 288 Dominik Raub, Rainer Steinwandt, Jörn Müller-Quade Lower Bounds on the OBDD Size of Graphs of Some Popular Functions p. 298 Daniel Sawitzki XML-Based Declarative Access Control p. 310 Robert Steele, William Gardner, Tharam S. Dillon, Abdelkarim Erradi VCD: A Visual Formalism for Specification of Heterogeneous Software Architectures p. 320 David Safránek, Jiri Simsa Cost-Constrained Minimum-Delay Multicasting (Extended Abstract) p. 330 Satoshi Tayu, Turki Ghazi Al-Mutairi, Shuichi Ueno Ontology-Based Inconsistency Management of Software Requirements Specifications p. 340 Xuefeng Zhu, Zhi Jin Suffix Tree Based Data Compression p. 350 Martin Senft Tier Aspect Model Based on Updatable Views p. 360 Radoslaw Adamus, Kazimierz Subieta Well-Founded Metamodeling for Model-Driven Architecture p. 364 Liliana Favre Stepwise Optimization Method for k-CNN Search for Location-Based Service p. 368 Jun Feng, Naoto Mukai, Toyohide Watanabe An Approach for Integrating Analysis Patterns and Feature Diagrams into Model Driven Architecture p. 372 Roman Filkorn, Pavol Návrat Outerplanar Crossing Numbers of 3-Row Meshes, Halin Graphs and Complete p-Partite Graphs p. 376 Radoslav Fulek, Hongmei He, Ondrej Sýkora, Imrich Vrto Fast Bit-Vector Algorithms for Approximate String Matching Under Indel Distance p. 380 Heikki Hyyrö, Yoan Pinzon, Ayumi Shinohara Feature Selection by Reordering p. 385 Marcel Jirina, Marcel Jirina Jr. A Management Scheme for the Basic Types in High Level Languages p. 390 Fritz Mayer-Lindenberg Bayesian Networks in Software Maintenance Management p. 394 Ana C.V. de Melo, Adilson de J. Sanchez A Multiagent System Aiding Information Retrieval in Internet Using Consensus Methods p. 399 Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Adam Blazowski, Michal Malowiecki Interval-Valued Data Structures and Their Application to e-Learning p. 403 Adam Niewiadomski Boolean Functions with a Low Polynomial Degree and Quantum Query Algorithms p. 408 Raitis Ozols, Rusins Freivalds, Jevgenijs Ivanovs, Elina Kalnina, Lelde Lace, Masahiro Miyakawa, Hisayuki Tatsumi, Daina Taimina Representation of Extended RBAC Model Using UML Language p. 413 Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Gilles Goncalves, Fred Hemery A Methodology for Writing Class Contracts p. 418 Nele Smeets, Eric Steegmans Volumes of 3D Drawings of Homogenous Product Graphs (Extended Abstract) p. 423 Lubomir Torok [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_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Wordcount revisited or goibniu redux Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:29:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 654 (654) Willard, Wordcount whose existence you announced to the subscribers of Humanist in posting 18.107 has proved for me one of the more interesting toys of 2004. I too like many of those who reported their play experiences to Humanist (see the Goibniu thread) hankered for an interface that provided connection to a dictionary or at least to the corpus occurences in situ. I want to know what some of the words (in some cases acronyms) meant. I wanted a context of use. Frustrated, I chalked up Wordcount as a nice implementation that unfortunately I could not access via a text-only browser. It was however in imagining an implementation of Wordcount for the visually impaired that I came to a better understanding of how to read frequency lists. Or at least one way of reading a large list. This imagining was influenced by my experience with TACT. I played with Wordcount to generate KWIC-like offerings. It was fun to look up names [of frequent contributors to Humanist] and read the the words that occurred before and after. The strings certainly provided surreal effects but more importantly it was a step to reading the frequency list with less of a focus upon the individual occurrence and more upon groupings. Memories of TACT also led me to consider the joys of ranking. Below is a ranking of gerunds related to perception and cognition. The first number indicates positing in the Wordcount listing. Concerned as I have been over the years with embodiment and mental faculties, I was curious about the relative ranking of "thinking" and "feeling". The relative ranking of "seeing," "hearing" and "touching" paints a vivid picture of the traditional hierarchy of the senses that emphases the distance of the "distance" senses from those that work in closer proximity to the objects of perception. It is also interesting to compare the ranking with the ranking generated by examining the queries submitted to Wordcount. "Feeling" requested almost twice as frequently as "thinking". "Touching" not yet or not recently. Listing from Wordcount and Querycount (as conducted Dec 30,2004) Thinking 730 4412 Feeling 753 2265 Seeing 1590 7593 Hearing 1917 18010 Listening 2220 15357 Processing 2689 8601 Computing 4241 17364 Assessing 5554 \\ Touching 5595 \\ Viewing 6301 12025 Modelling 6637 19072 Calculating 9552 19636 Observing 8152 \\ Contemplating 11739 20620 Sensing 11790 23086 Detecting 13264 \\ Pondering 21862 \\ Analyzing 35384 \\ Cognition 24468 18227 Neither "cogitate" nor "cogitating" are in the 86800 most frequent words found in the British National Corpus. Of course, this leads one to perhaps query a grammatical set such as "feel, felt, feeling" or "see, seen, sight". Revisiting the relations between lexia, words, semantic fields: it seems language is hardwired for hypertextuality. I believe at some point in 2003, Willard, you posted to Humanist some musings about interface and habitat and pointed to a 1997 article by Terry Winograd in which it was suggested that computer use was moving along a trajectory from computation to communication. Could it be that implementations such as Wordcount are contributing to bringing attention to the space between computation and communication that is the space of comparison? Between forge and crucible is the smith... many thanks to Norman Hinton for bringing anvil, tongs and hammer to Goibniu. Not likely I would have returned to Wordcount without that work. -- 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: Shuly Wintner Subject: Shlomo Argamon at the University of Haifa Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:32:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 655 (655) You are cordially invited to attend the following talk. Time: Tuesday, January 4th, 16:00 Place: University of Haifa, CRI, Education Building, 5th floor Speaker: Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology. Title: COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF MEANINGFUL STYLISTIC VARIATION. Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation]_______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: WikiBibliography Now Available Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:31:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 656 (656) WikiBibliography Now Available Colleagues/ I am pleased to announce the inauguration of a new Web bibliography titled _WikiBibliography_ . _WikiBibliography_ is devoted to significant articles, presentations, reports, as well as audio and video programs, Web sites, and other key "publications" about Wikis in general and their select applications and uses. As defined by the Wikipedia, a 'wiki' is "a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows a user to add content, * but also allows that content to be edited by anyone. The term Wiki can also refer to the collaborative software used to create such a site * Wiki (with a capital 'W') and WikiWikiWeb are sometimes used to refer specifically to the Portland Pattern Repository, the first-ever wiki. Proponents of this usage suggest using a lower-case 'w' for wikis in general. Wiki wiki comes from the Hawaiian term for 'quick' or 'super-fast'" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ]. _WiKiBibliography_ is located at: [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ] As of this evening, it contains 30 major entries, most linked to their respective full text documents. At this time, I would most appreciate learning of Any and All Other ***significant*** publications for potential inclusion in this compilation. While I am particularly interested in applications and uses of Wikis in corporations, colleges and universities, and libraries, substantial works about Wikis in general as well as applications in other organizations, are also of interest. BTW: I have identified secondary works from database searches that I will review in the coming weeks and add to _WikiBibliography_, if of value. BTW2: WikiBibliography will complement a planned registry titled _SandBox(sm)_ that will be established at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/SandBox.htm ]. [In the near future, I plan to post a call for significant corporate, educational, and/or library Wikis for potential inclusion in _SandBox(sm)_ . However, those Innovators and Early Adopters Amongst Us [:-)] who would like to nominate resources for _SandBox(sm)_ at this time are welcome to do so in response to this posting]. TIA!!! (Again) Happy New Year! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan WikiLibrarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu P.S. For those over 50 (such as myself) who enjoyed early TV serials, please click on the SandBox WikiBiliography image for several HighFlyingAdventures [:-) From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: another language in the electronic form = language of Sokotra Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:34:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 657 (657) Dear HumanistList colleagues, we cannot understand why the funds for the endangered languages do not care for the texts in these languages in the elelctronic form? Electronic form is the form of the future. It makes the texts available to all the linguists in the world. Our small group of linguists and students is still working on saving the texts of the smaller world languages in computer electronic form. This time we have fed into computer the texts of the language of Soqotra. Soqotra is spoken on the island of Soqotra, which is situated in the Arabian sea a short distance from the Horn of Africa. It belongs to the Semitic languages. We are looking forward to hearing from those who can advise us on the inventory of Soqotra phonemes from the point of articulation, that is the place of articulation and the manner of articulation of Soqotra phonemes. We are also looking forward to hearing to our correct e-mail address yutamb_at_hotmail.com from those who knows if the data on the frequency of occurrence of Sokotra speech sounds were published? If not what linguistic journal could publish our data on the frequency of occurrence of Sokotra speech sounds? The frequency of speech sounds give us a sound picture of a language which is quite different from the analogical sound picture in any other language in the world. Hope to hear from those interested to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev From: Peter Suber Subject: SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 1/2/05 Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:43:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 658 (658) Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #81 January 2, 2005 Read this issue online http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-05.htm Open access in 2004 2004 was the biggest year yet for open access. We saw important new OA policies from universities, publishers, foundations, and governments. At the same time, the volume of OA literature grew significantly, as did support for OA among researchers, policy-makers, and the public. Here's a review of the year. * If 2003 was the year when research funders decided to pay the processing fees charged by OA journals, then 2004 was the year when funders started to mandate --or consider mandating-- OA archiving for the results of the research they fund. In July, the US House of Representatives called on the NIH to mandate OA archiving, but in September NIH softened the requirement to a request. Also in July, the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee recommended that all UK government funding agencies mandate OA archiving, but in November the government refused to adopt the policy. However, the UK funding agencies themselves (RCUK) are now considering whether to do so on their own. In the wake of the US and UK recommendations, scholars, newspapers, and government agencies called on other governments to mandate OA archiving for taxpayer-funded research. Such calls have so far appeared in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, India, Japan, Norway, Scotland, and Switzerland. In October, a major study published by EPIC and Key Perspectives recommended mandated OA archiving by both public and private funding agencies. In November, the Wellcome Trust announced its decision to mandate OA archiving to all Wellcome-funded research. * Universities have also started to mandate OA archiving for their research output. Queensland University of Technology adopted a general archiving expectation in late 2003, to take effect on the first day of 2004. The University of Minho adopted an explicit mandate last month, to take effect on the first day of 2005. At least one university (so far not wishing to be identified) is considering a policy to mandate OA archiving for all research reports and publications arising from grants administered by the university. * The high profile of the US and UK recommendations made 2004 the year in which the "taxpayer argument" for OA became the single most effective argument for OA for a growing number of taxpayers and public-interest organizations. This is a textbook case of coalition-building. Just as researchers and librarians desire OA for different reasons, but can agree to work together to pursue it, in 2004 we saw groups that benefit from research, but without themselves conducing or curating research, start to use the taxpayer argument to demand OA to publicly-funded research. Now the patient-advocacy and taxpayer groups are an active, effective, and permanent part of the OA coalition. * 2004 was the year that a significant number of subscription-based journals started turning green. Many that had required case-by-case requests to permit postprint archiving changed course and gave blanket permission, in advance, for all their authors. Elsevier, Springer, and SAGE are among the major publishers to take this turn in 2004. It was also the year in which many society and non-profit publishers who refuse to refuse to go green or gold endorsed several other kinds of free online access through the DC Principles. The "new normal" is wider access than before, through author self-archiving, delayed free access from publishers, or hybrid OA models. This isn't the last stop for the train, but it's already a success. * In 2004, OA moved steadily from the periphery to the mainstream. It's still the case that only a minority of journals are OA and only a minority of new articles are OA, whether through journals or archives. But a significant majority of journals now permits OA postprint archiving. 2004 was the year in which a significant number of OA journals got ISI impact factors (which were very good, thank you). More and more funding agencies, public and private, encourage some form of OA, even if too many still limit grants to researchers who have published in the same-old set of conventional journals. More and more universities have launched OA repositories, even if very few have adopted policies to encourage or require faculty to fill them. Most researchers (in one survey) would accept an OA archiving mandate from their funding agency or employer, even if most senior faculty (in another survey) knew little or nothing about OA. Our forward strides took us further than ever in 2004, but we are still dogged by the shadow of error and confusion. Misconceptions about OA journals and OA archiving are still widespread, even among stakeholders who ought to know better. It's still true --as I've been saying for at least three years-- that the largest obstacles to OA are ignorance and misunderstanding. But we're no longer the uninvited guest at the party. OA is now a topic in any serious discussion of the large issues facing research impact, libraries, or publishing, or scholarly communication. * 2004 was the year in which we reached the kind of critical mass of OA content to attract profit-making companies. Google and Yahoo began crawling OA content, including OAI-compliant repositories, for self-interested reasons --to increase their own usefulness, hence their traffic, hence their ad revenue. Google went a lot further than this with Google Scholar and Google Print. ProQuest/Bepress and BioMed Central began selling services to universities wanting to outsource the job of launching and maintaining institutional repositories. Microtome offered the safety of print archiving for OA content. These trends should continue as the body of OA literature grows. There are unlimited opportunities for businesses to enhance the free primary literature and sell the enhancements. (There is an interesting pattern here, beyond the obvious one of an emerging market for priced products to enhance the experience of something free, like kayaks and snowshoes, sunglassses and TiVo. The history of scholarly communication in the last half-century or so shows an alternation between scholarly control and outsourcing. The pricing crisis followed the first large wave of outsourcing. Since then scholars have resolved to retake possession of scholarly communication in order to reduce prices and offer open access. Now we're see a new generation of oursourcing options emerge, this time fully compatible with OA.) * 2004 is the first year in which all the three of the major public definitions of OA (Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin, or the BBB definitions) were behind us. There were many important new OA declarations in 2004, but nearly all of them cited one or more of the BBB definitions instead of crafting new ones. This had the effect of solidifying the authority of the BBB definitions and classifying the new statements more as enlistments than new starts or commencements. We are past the stage of self-definition and well into the stage of exuberant growth. * 2004 was the year in which non-OA providers looked for ways to support free full-text searching even if they weren't ready to support free full-text reading, copying, or printing. We saw this in a range of initiatives from CrossRef Search to Google Print. (Elsevier's Scirus was an early pioneer in this category; Amazon Search-Inside-the-Book was launched in late 2003.) Conventional or non-OA publishers are experimenting with free online content as a way to increase sales. They also show that there is money to be made in standing between readers and publishers, say, with sophisticated search tools, and therefore that there are motivated entrepreneurs asking publishers to open their files, and in some cases paying them to do so. Finally, they show the continuing evolution of business models that generate revenue while giving users some kinds of content free of charge. As publishers start to accept that some kinds of free online access can increase net sales of priced editions, they will start to investigate which kinds these are. Evidence permitting, this could pave the way to fully OA books and reduce the opposition to OA archives and journals. * 2004 was the year in which the U.S. Treasury Department applied trade embargoes to editing. U.S. journals could publish articles by citizens of Iran or Cuba, but editing the articles (for example, correcting a misspelled word) added value, "traded with the enemy", and violated the embargo. In December the Department largely reversed itself, but not until it faced lawsuits from publisher groups (AAP/PSP, AAUP), author groups (PEN), and the 2003 Nobel laureate for peace. Opposing the embargo was a patch of common ground between OA proponents and non-OA publishers. (I have more details on the December news in the Top Stories section, below.) * 2004 was a breakthrough year for OA to data. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued the Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding. Groups representing patients and doctors called for OA to clinical drug trial data, and drug companies began to comply. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) announced that ICMJE member journals would not publish research articles based on unregistered drug trials. Five U.S. Senators introduced the Fair Access to Clinical Trials Act to solidify and extend these gains. A group of biologists called for OA to microarray data as a condition of publishing articles based on those data. A panel of the National Research Council looked closely at the dangers of genomic data on pathogens, and concluded that the benefits of OA outweighed the risk of misuse by terrorists. The World Conservation Congress launched the Conservation Commons to provide OA to conservation data. The U.S. government decided to provide OA to weather and GPS data. * If 2003 was the year in which many publishers shifted from belligerence to skepticism, and called for data, then 2004 was the year in which the data started to flow. There were important studies of OA journals, OA archives, OA impact, author attitudes, and publisher policies --for example, from ALPSP, ERIC and Key Perspectives, ISI, JISC, the Kaufman-Wills Group, the Open Society Institute, the Southampton Group, and the Wellcome Trust. This is gratifying and will only continue. OA topics don't have nearly the literature as, say, drug prices or the digital music industry, but we've already reached the point at which only specialists have mastered the literature on the microeconomics of OA. * However, 2004 was also the year in which some publishers chose instead to jack up the belligerence. While on one front, civility and empiricism were in the ascendant, on another front publisher nastiness and misrepresentation reached new heights. Was it desperation as the NIH public-access policy moved closer and closer to adoption? Was it an attempt to "mobilize the base" of society members who didn't know enough to see through the misrepresentations? Was it a concession that they could not attack OA itself but only a straw-man version of OA? If the mantle of "religious ideology" ever fit the OA movement, then it was thrown down long before 2004. But this year it was picked up by the handful of publishers who withdrew from debate and inquiry in order to fulminate. (The most venomous and inaccurate pieces tended to be journal editorials and newspaper op-eds without the benefit of peer review.) * Finally, the volume of OA-related news continued its rapid growth, making it more and more difficult to gather and digest. More than a year ago I had to stop tracking neighboring topics like copyright reform and academic freedom in order to focus narrowly on OA. In the middle of this year I had to stop recapitulating all the OA news of the month in the newsletter and cover only the month's top five stories. I'm already feeling pressure, even in the blog, to cover only the primary OA-related news and omit the secondary. I have to keep reminding myself that this is a sign of progress. * Postscript. For comparison, see my review of OA developments in 2003. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-04.htm#2003 Before your memory of the past year fades, have a look at my timeline. Let me know if I've omitted anything significant from the section on 2004. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm ---------- Predictions for 2005 Last year, I made 14 predictions for 2004. How did I do? I'd say that each came true at least in part --but you be the judge, since I won't take time to review them here. Predictions for 2004 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-04.htm#predictions Here are my predictions for 2005: * The NIH public-access policy will inspire similar policies in other funding agencies --in the US federal government, in US state governments, in other national governments, and in private funding agencies around the world. There won't be a domino effect, because different countries and disciplines really do face different circumstances. But the NIH policy will help change the default, or the burden of proof, and it will do a lot to spread the OA meme to researchers and policy-makers who haven't been paying much attention to date. As the policy spreads, we'll see some funding agencies go further than the NIH in promoting the public interest, or make fewer concessions to publishers, for example (1) requiring rather than merely requesting deposit in an OA repository, (2) allowing deposit in any repository that meets certain conditions, rather than requiring deposit in a central repository, (3) shortening the delay between journal publication and mandated OA, (4) lifting usage restrictions to permit more than "fair use" or "fair dealing", and (5) extending the policy beyond literature to data. * Even before the NIH policy has produced much new free online literature, we'll see at least one journal claim that the policy is causing it to lose subscribers. The claim will trigger a difficult disagreement about how much of the loss is due to the NIH policy and how much is due to the antecedent rate of attrition, rising prices, and other causes of cancellation. It will also trigger a second, deeper disagreement about how far the loss, even if attributable to the NIH policy, justifies revising the policy. * As more OA journals are launched, we'll start to see OA journals in the same research niche compete for submissions. When that happens, some will lower their processing fees, in order to undercut the competition and attract submissions. Others, especially those with higher prestige or impact, will raise their processing fees because they will find that they can do so without deterring submissions. Taking a few steps back, what this really means is that processing fees will not be closely tied to publishing costs but will float according to usage, prestige, impact, and what the market will bear. OA proponents will disagree about whether this is regrettable, because it raises fees above necessity, or desirable, because it creates a significant form of competition for submissions to replace a dysfunctional competition for subscriptions. * Subscription-based journals will continue to experiment with OA, in familiar and unfamiliar ways. We'll see many more full and partial conversions to OA, many more hybrids and variants of OA, and much more creativity in coming up with business models that pay the bills without charging for access. Some journals will try to meet the demand they perceive from authors and readers. Some will be persuaded of the viability of new models by the data emerging from earlier experiments. Some will see OA as an alternative to exclusion from the big deal. Some will be playing catch-up with other journals that offer some form of OA. Some, of course, will have more than one of these motivations. * One result of the many new OA and hybrid-OA journals will be that the converting journals will stop objecting that OA business models compromise peer review. Like existing OA journals, either they will see firsthand that the objection is untrue or they will take steps to insure that it is untrue. Journals resisting pressure to convert will continue to press the objection in order to show that they are being wronged. But they will be answered by a growing number of formerly non-OA journals and publishers, not just by traditional defenders of OA. * OA will continue to expand in well-funded fields. But new attention and effort will focus on OA in less-well-funded fields, extending the OA campaign from low-hanging fruit to higher-hanging fruit. Scholars in these fields (not just the humanities and social sciences, but some STM disciplines like field biology) will take inspiration from the fields where OA is established and growing, but will be frustrated that the policy arguments and business models do not always transfer easily. In these fields, OA archiving will make gains faster than OA journals, but even OA archiving will be impeded by society publishers who have greater weight in many of these fields than they have in the well-funded STM fields. * OA literature is a spectacular inducement for coders to create useful tools, e.g. for full-text searching, indexing, mining, summarizing, querying, linking, alerting, and other forms of processing and analysis. Conversely, useful tools optimized for OA literature create powerful incentives for authors and publishers to provide OA to their work. In the early days of OA, shortages on each side created a vicious circle that stymied progress (the small quantity of OA literature provided little incentive to develop new tools, and the dearth of powerful tools provided little incentive to make work OA). But we're rapidly approaching a critical mass of OA that will trigger a cascade of useful tools, and a critical mass of useful tools that will trigger a cascade of OA. The vicious circle is becoming virtuous. * Similarly, in the early days of OA, there was a vicious circle that aborted many OA journals: journals need prestige to attract excellent submissions, and need excellent submissions to generate prestige. But we're rapidly approaching the time when this vicious circle too will be broken. With every passing month, the general momentum for OA, the growing volume of OA content, and the conversion of already-prestigious journals to OA, is making it easier for OA journals to recruit eminent scholars to their editorial boards and to attract first-rate articles. * OA to new journal articles will vastly outpace OA to new books. But OA to sufficiently old books (books in the public domain) will start to surpass OA to sufficiently old journals (journals past the publisher's moving wall). Despite that, we'll see new progress toward OA to new books (because it triggers a net increase in sales) and OA to past journals (because it will serve the field and spread the brand without depriving publishers of significant revenue). * Journals that try to limit postprint archiving to personal home pages or institutional repositories will find that this restriction is arbitrary and unenforceable. When copies find their way elsewhere, journals will find that to be harmless, or no more harmful than what they expressly permit. Because the restriction is arbitrary and violations are harmless, some journals will lift it. Because it is unenforceable, other journals will see no harm in leaving it in place. The strategy question for journals will shift from whether wider archiving permission will undercut subscriptions to whether arbitrary archiving restrictions will deter submissions. * Very few journals, if any, will rescind their permission for postprint archiving, even if they decide that the policy harms their subscription base. One reason is that rescission will hand a competitive advantage to other journals that continue to offer this benefit to authors. Another is that postprint archiving will not threaten subscriptions until authors start to take advantage of it in large numbers. But when authors do start to take advantage of it in large numbers, then journals will not risk alienating them. * Large commercial publishers will continue to diversify through mergers and acquisitions in order to reduce their exposure to the OA challenge, or to survive a loss of profits in their journal divisions. But only publishers large enough to afford to diversify will diversify. This will help the commercial giants, not the society publishers. However, it will not directly boost their fortunes in the journal business; on the contrary, it will function as insurance against the risk that their fortunes in the journal business may decline. * OA proponents will have to cope with success. Or to be more precise, we'll have to cope with partial success. That means preventing universities from using OA as an excuse to cut library budgets. It means dealing with the fact that open-access content will co-exist with toll-access content, reducing the efficiencies of some OA models and enticing smart and energetic people on both sides to continue borderline skirmishes. It means clarifying the large and growing family of kindred forms of enhanced access. It means extending the OA campaign --beyond OA in prosperous disciplines and countries to OA in less prosperous disciplines and countries, and beyond publicly-funded research to privately-funded and unfunded research. ---------- Google's gigantic library project Just as we were digesting the impact of Google Scholar (announced November 18) we had to start digesting Google's new and much larger project to digitize at least 15 million print books for free full-text searching and, in some cases, free full-text reading (announced December 14). Five major research libraries have agreed to loan Google books for the gigantic project: Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, Oxford, and the New York Public Library (NYPL). Google says that no more libraries are on its list at the moment, but it's always willing to hear from libraries with special collections that Google might crawl. Some of the scanned books will be under copyright and some will not. When copyrighted books come up in a search, Google will display a full citation and up to three passages of text containing the searchstring. It will also link to nearby libraries where the book can be borrowed and to Amazon for users who would rather buy a copy. For public-domain books, Google will display passages of text containing the searchstring and a link to the full-text book for reading. When you reach the readable full-text, you'll find that Google does not allow downloading or printing. Moreover, early reports suggest that these readable books will be image files, not text files, and hence not searchable outside the Google index unless you do your own OCR. (Google is unlikely to offer full-text public-domain books in a more convenient form, since that would make them available for indexing in rival search engines.) To get all this content into its index, Google will digitize the volumes at its own expense. At roughly $10 per volume, 15 million books will cost it $150 million. The deal is non-exclusive, so that any other company with that kind of money could digitize the same books. Yahoo and Microsoft may be considering it; the Internet Archive is already doing something similar (more below). Google will earn money on the deal at least by bringing in new users, which will translate into greater ad revenue. It may eventually place ads in its digital copies of the scanned books, but hasn't yet decided whether to do so. Google will share ad revenue from copyrighted books with publishers. But it will not, apparently, share revenue with participating libraries. Google has applied for a patent on a method for providing "subscription-like access" to copyrighted content, which hints at another business model for covering its costs. At least at first, books will rarely come up near the top of a hit list, if only because very few other sites will link to them. Google hasn't yet announced a separate interface or relevancy algorithm for searching books, but it may have to develop at least one of them in order to attract enough book-searching traffic to repay its investment. (It already has a special syntax; throw the word "book" into a search, and the hits from scanned books will be segregated for separate viewing.) The five participating libraries will get free copies of the bits scanned from their books. All of them plan to offer enhanced access to their own patrons, for example, printing and downloading of public-domain texts, and integration into the library catalogue. A few news reports suggest that some of the libraries might provide the general public with OA to the full-texts. But so far none of the participating libraries has explicitly said that it would do so. I'm still unsure whether the Google contract even permits it. Michigan is letting Google scan all 7 million of its books, excluding only some rare books that might be damaged by the scanning process. The other libraries are only letting Google scan subsets of their collections and will open the gate further if they are happy with the experiment. Oxford and NYPL are offering only public-domain books; Stanford is offering 2 million of its 8 million volumes; and Harvard is offering only 40,000 of its 15 million volumes. Scanning Michigan's 7 million books will take about six years. If that seems like a long time, consider that the Michigan collection occupies about 132 shelf-miles of books. If Google ends up scanning the entirety of the Harvard or Stanford collection, let alone both, the job will take even longer. Books will appear in the Google index roughly as they are scanned; you won't have to wait years to see the effect on your research. This is the project that has been known in some circles as Project Ocean, ever since John Markoff used that term in the New York Times on February 1, 2004. But Google is no longer using that name and, strangely, given the project's magnitude, Google hasn't given it a new name either. It will simply be a part of Google Print --the largest part and the part extending the program from publishers to libraries. The project is not yet integrated with Google Scholar, though integration would enhance both projects. The library project is breathtaking in its scope and cost, and revolutionary in its implications. It's significant for half a dozen reasons. I'm sure other reasons will soon be apparent to everyone. * It will hugely expand the universe of free online books for reading and expand it even further for searching. Even if the project were limited to Michigan's 7 million books, it would far exceed what most libraries conceive to be a core collection. We don't know what it will do to teaching and research, let alone pleasure reading and autodidacticism. But we can be sure that removing access barriers to collections of this magnitude and utility will change basic practices. Because of its scale, this is a quantitative change that will bring qualitative changes in its wake. * While a handful of governments and corporations had the money and --I contend-- the interest to undertake this project, none had stepped up to the plate. Google was willing to spend big to make this happen, and it was willing before anyone else. If there are financial risks, copyright thickets, and logistical problems, and there undoubtedly are, Google had the courage and vision to see that risks were worth taking and the problems worth solving. (This doesn't detract from earlier digitization projects from others, some of them very large; none is this large.) * The project will give Google an unmatched critical mass of important texts for scholarly research. That will attract researchers. That will in turn increase the importance to researchers of having their content indexed by Google, through Google Scholar, CrossRef Search, or routine crawling. There are two ways to make content more visible: index it in the right tools, and draw more eyeballs to the tools that already index it. Google has long since learned the secret of doing both at once, and this project will be a huge leap forward on both fronts. * Now or soon, if you make your work OA, then Google will find it, crawl it, and add it to its index. Hence, the eyeball-attracting critical mass it is developing also operates as an incentive for authors and publishers to provide OA to their work. * This project makes copyrighted and revenue-producing books freely accessible to some degree online (at least for searching, and for reading relevant extracts) without antagonizing publishers. If free online searching and sampling increase net sales for some kinds of books --already proved for many kinds of books-- then this project will bring this fact home to many more publishers. * It's now more important than ever to protect and expand the public domain. Projects like this show vividly what is pirated from the public when the public domain is shrunk by retroactive extensions of the term of copyright. Google library project home page http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html Google press release on the library project, December 14, 2004 http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_library.html Google Print FAQ, which now covers the library project http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html Press releases from the five participating libraries: --Harvard University Library http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/041213news.html --New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/press/google.cfm --Oxford University Library http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/041214a.shtml --Stanford University Libraries http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2004/pr-google-011205.html --University of Michigan Library http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Dec04/library/index Harvard University Library's FAQ on the project http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/041213faq.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110304624758583096 The Google library project stimulated an orgy of press stories. Here' s a selection of the better accounts and comments. Barbara Quint, Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions, Information Today, December 27, 2004. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041227-2.shtml http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_26_fosblogarchive.html#a110424842501121205 John Blossom, Open Stacks: Pondering the Value of Copyrighted Content in a World of Online Archives, Commentary, December 20, 2004. http://www.shore.com/commentary/newsanal/items/2004/20041220copyright.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110372695571456552 Carolyn Said, Revolutionary chapter: Google's ambitious book-scanning plan seen as key shift in paper-based culture, San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2004. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/20/BUGROAD6QT1.DTL http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110372577690045956 Michael Gorman, Google and God's Mind, Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2004. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-nugorman17dec17,1,2263077.story http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110365375034144708 Also see this reply to Gorman: Kevin Drum, Google and the Human Spirit, Washington Monthly, December 17, 2004. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_12/005344.php http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110365375034144708 The Electronic Library, an unsigned editorial in the New York Times, December 21, 2004. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/opinion/21tue2.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110364933349229470 Barbara Quint, Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project, Information Today, December 20, 2004. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041220-2.shtml http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110357458643994979 Rory Litwin, On Google's Monetization of Libraries, Library Juice, December 17, 2004. http://libr.org/juice/issues/vol7/LJ_7.26.html#3 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110329796475841366 NPR has run two broadcasts on the project: (1) "All Things Considered" on December 14 included a Michele Norris interview with Carol Brey-Casiano, president of the American Library Association, on the Google library project, and (2) "Talk of the Nation" on December 15 focused on the Google library plan and featured guests Michael Keller, head librarian at Stanford, and Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4229570 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4227895 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110320637373090865 Peter Grier and Amanda Paulson, Google plans giant online library stack, Christian Science Monitor, December 15, 2004. http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1215/p01s02-ussc.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110314974272144117 Janice McCallum, Google Scholar Flunking Relationships 101?, Commentary (the Shore Communications blog), December 14, 2004. http://shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2004_12_01_m_archive.html#110303978628673016 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110312594436064426 Anon., Google to Digitize Library Book Holdings, Outsell Now, December 14, 2004. http://now.outsellinc.com/now/2004/12/google_to_digit.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110312537294765004 Mike Wendland, U-M's entire library to be put on Google, Detroit Free Press, December 14, 2004. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend14e_20041214.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110305562562452560 Gary Price, Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries, SearchDay, December 14, 2004. http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3447411 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110303937095799369 Stephen M. Marks, Google To Scan Library Books, Harvard Crimson, December 14, 2004. http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article505061.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110303750711027829 Anon., Harvard Libraries and Google announce pilot digitization project with potential benefits to scholars worldwide, Harvard University Gazette, December 14, 2004. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/2004/12/13-google.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110303593453933607 Scott Carlson and Jeffrey Young, Google Will Digitize and Search Millions of Books From 5 Leading Research Libraries, Chronicle of Higher Education, December 14, 2004. http://chronicle.com/free/2004/12/2004121401n.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110303389823309586 John Markoff and Edward Wyatt, Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database, New York Times, December 14, 2004. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110303158480921408 * Postscript. One day before the Google announcement, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive (IA) announced a very similar project. But just as the press began to pay attention, Google stole the spotlight and most journalists never returned to the IA story. (The IA announcement is dated December 15 but was released on December 13.) That's a shame, because the IA project is more progressive and revolutionary than the Google project. The IA project will digitize more than one million books from a dozen libraries in five countries. It's open to any library that would like to participate. It's already begun and already has 27,000 books online with another 50,000 to come in the first quarter of 2005. But above all, IA will offer full open access to the public-domain books in the collection. Like Google, IA will pay the costs of digitization itself, and it will include copyrighted books alongside public-domain books. IA will offer searching of its digital texts, even if not Google-quality searching. However, it will open its files to crawling, including Google crawling, so that we will have the best of both worlds. We should be careful when comparing the magnitude of the two projects. IA is digitizing fewer books, although a million books would have been a major news story in any other news week. But Google isn't providing full open access to any of its books. Even when Google provides free online full-text reading, it will disable printing and downloading. From the perspective of open access, therefore, the IA scale is much larger than Google's. Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/ IA Open-Access Text Archive http://www.archive.org/texts/ IA press release on the Open-Access Text Archive http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=25361 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110312395712458432 Mark Chillingworth, Internet Archive to build alternative to Google, Information World Review, December 21, 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/IWR/1160176 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110363728526238561 Guy Dixon, The Race to Digitize the Print Universe, Globe and Mail, December 15, 2004. On several large-scale Canadian digitization projects, including the IA project with the University of Toronto. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041215.wxgoogle15/BNStory/Entertainment/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110355933873227142 Anon., Internet Archive, Libraries Collaborate on Open-Access Text Archives, Library Journal, December 27, 2004. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA490132?display=NewsNews&industry=News&industryid=1986&verticalid=151 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110389729676530915 ---------- Top stories from December 2004 This is a selection of open-access developments since the last issue of the newsletter, taken from the Open Access News blog, which I write with other contributors and update daily. I give both the item URL and blog posting URL so that you can read the original story as well as what I or another blog contributor had to say about it. For other developments, the blog archive is browseable and searchable. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html Here are the top stories from December: * The NIH plan is signed by the president, moves forward. * Publishers and disease groups announce patientINFORM. * Progress continues on OA to taxpayer-funded data. * University policies advance OA. * U.S. Treasury Department lifts most of the trade embargo on scientific editing. * The NIH plan is signed by the president, moves forward. The omnibus appropriations bill, in which the NIH public access plan was one small provision, was approved by Congress on November 20 and signed by President Bush on December 8. We're now waiting for NIH to finish digesting the 6,000+ comments it received during the public comment period. When it's finished, it will release the final version of its policy and start to implement it. Insiders tell us not to expect to see the final version until the first or second week of January. I've updated my FAQ on the NIH public-access policy to reflect the steps leading up to Congressional approval and some new questions about the policy's terms and consequences. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm Here are some news stories on the NIH plan. Tom Costello's NBC News story on the NIH plan (aired November 28, 2004) now has a stable home online where you can read the transcript and replay the video. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6660340 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110314850622622124 The NIH has posted some PPT slides briefly summarizing the public comments on its public-access plan. http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/publicaccesscomments.ppt http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110311840896552905 Amanda Schaffer, Open Access: Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public? Slate, December 14, 2004. http://slate.msn.com/id/2111023/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110307063788818665 Elias Zerhouni, NIH Public Access Policy, Science Magazine, December 10, 2004. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5703/1895 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#a110263204776914616 Daithí Ó hAnluain, Calls for Open Access Challenge Academic Journals, Online Journalism Review, December 10, 2004. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/121004ohanluain/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#a110278876025296306 Dee Ann Divis, NIH moves closer to open access, United Press International, December 6, 2004. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/NIH%20moves%20closer%20to%20open%20access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#a110243597903210829 * Publishers and disease groups announce patientINFORM. A group of publishers and journal-publishing disease groups announced the Spring 2005 launch of patientINFORM, a free, online service dedicated to making original medical research intelligible to lay readers. The groups responsible for patientINFORM opposed the NIH public access plan, raising suspicions that the new initiative is designed to support an argument that the NIH plan is unnecessary and that the same needs are being met by the market. Two things are clear, however. (1) Free online high-quality medical information intelligible to lay readers is a good thing. The more, the better. (2) The NIH plan will definitely help lay readers, but its primary rationale is to help researchers who lack access through their institutions because of skyrocketing journal prices. Helping researchers helps everyone, and no amount of medical information restated for lay readers can fill the need for direct access by researchers to the peer-reviewed literature itself. patientINFORM home page http://www.patientinform.org/ patientINFORM press release, December 8, 2004 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/wc-son120904.php http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041208005420&newsLang=en http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#a110254637633916121 SPARC press release raising suspicions about the motives of the founding organizations http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/wc-son120904.php http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#a110261856360005226 Bernard Wysocki, Jr., Medical Publishers Propose Data Sharing, Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2004. http://makeashorterlink.com/?H26453E0A http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#a110262214910656555 * Progress continues on OA to taxpayer-funded data. On December 1, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) adopted an open-access and interoperability policy for taxpayer-funded weather, water, and climate data. The new policy was opposed by private, for-profit weather services, like AccuWeather. The NOAA press release, December 1, 2004 http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2348.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_11_28_fosblogarchive.html#a110212547937644565 Daniel Terdiman, Weather Data for the Masses, Wired News, December 4, 2004. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65919,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_05_fosblogarchive.html#a110233825753432088 Two weeks later, President Bush signed a new Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) policy for the United States that provides open access to GPS data for civilian users and interoperability with the GPS data generated by other countries. http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20041215/15dec2004161122.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110367709157013301 Erick Turner called for a non-OA publicly-funded drug registry at the the FDA to become OA. See his article, A Taxpayer-Funded Clinical Trials Registry and Results Database, PLoS Medicine, November 30, 2004. http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0010060 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_26_fosblogarchive.html#a110424598191861342 The ICSU published Scientific Data and Information (December 2004), a report of its Committee on Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR). http://www.icsu.org/Gestion/img/ICSU_DOC_DOWNLOAD/551_DD_FILE_PAA_Data_and_Information.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110331427056768288 UNESCO published a November 2004 update to Paul Uhlir's March 2003 report, Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15862&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110373804366491207 * University policies advance OA. The University of Minho in Portugal adopted a policy mandating that its faculty deposit their research (with a few exceptions), and that grad students deposit their theses and dissertations, in the university's open-access repository. The university also decided to sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. The new policy was adopted on December 6, 2004, and will take effect on January 1, 2005. This is the first university policy I know of with an explicit mandate for OA archiving by its faculty. The Queensland University of Technology was the pioneer on this trail, and had a similar policy in place more than a year ago. But QUT stopped one hair short of a mandate, and merely announced the expectation that faculty scholarship "is to be" on deposit in the university repository. The new Minho policy says that faculty "must" archive their publications. Kudos to the Minho rector and administration for their forthright and beneficial policy. Moreover, they adopted it for the right reason. Quoting Eloy Rodrigues' English translation of the press release: 'It's in the best interest of University of Minho...to maximise the visibility, usage and impact of the scientific output of its schools/departments and teachers/researchers.' https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1399.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110356156411239694 The University of Southampton committed itself to providing open access to the research output of the university. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1382.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110320403730508339 JISC released a supportive statement on the University of Southampton commitment to open access. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=free_access_to_university_research_news171204 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110329879885920653 The Boston College Libraries started publishing open-access journals edited by BC faculty. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1389.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110329230653363853 The University of Zurich signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. http://www.unizh.ch/index.en.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110321448993488125 The Swedish Association of Higher Education (SUHF) signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. http://www.suhf.org/pdf/Undertecknad%20berlindeklaration.pdf http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_11_28_fosblogarchive.html#a110208081435301067 The Swiss Consortium of Higher Education Libraries (Konsortium der Schweizer Hochschulbibliotheken) refused to renew ScienceDirect for 2005 because of Elsevier's high price and unacceptable conditions. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1392.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110331128587517900 * U.S. Treasury Department lifts most of the trade embargo on scientific editing. In response to lawsuits and protests from publishers and authors, the U.S. Treasury Department reversed its position on applying trade embargoes to scientific editing. Previously publishers had to apply to the government for a license to edit work by citizens of embargoed nations such as Cuba, Iran, or Sudan. But now the Treasury Department has given a blanket license, making individual applications unnecessary. Publishers and authors suing the government praised the step but will not drop their lawsuits until the government concedes that no kind of license is required for editing and that it has no power to embargo "information and informational materials". New Treasury Department policy http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/js2152.htm John Dudley Miller, OFAC reverses embargo ruling: Decision allows US publishers to edit manuscripts from Cuba, Iran, and Sudan, The Scientist, December 16, 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20041216/02/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110329639220240993 Lila Guterman, Treasury Department Removes Restrictions on U.S. Publications by Authors in Embargoed Countries, Chronicle of Higher Education, December 16, 2004. http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/12/2004121602n.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110321624499859230 Press release from the publisher and author groups suing the U.S. Treasury Department, December 15, 2004 http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041215005916&newsLang=en http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110321902810004046 ---------- Coming up later this month Here are some important OA-related events coming up in January. * January 1, 2005, Academic Commons officially launches. http://www.academiccommons.org/ * January 1, 2005, BioMed Central changes the way it calculates institutional membership fees. http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/instmembership * January 1, 2005, Science Commons (from Creative Commons) officially launches. http://science.creativecommons.org/ * January 1, 2005, the SHERPA Digital Preservation Project officially launches. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_12_fosblogarchive.html#a110339053339131544 * January 1, 2005, the year-long Company of Biologists experiment with OA would have expired. But the web site currently gives no time limit, suggesting that the "experiment" has been indefinitely extended. http://www.biologists.com/web/openaccess.html * January 1, 2005, Oxford's Nucleic Acids Research converts to a "full open access" business model. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/825.html * January 1, 2005, three journals published by the American Institute of Physics will adopt a hybrid OA model (OA at the author's choice for a $2000 fee). https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1297.html * January 1, 2005, the online edition of PNAS will include an institutional membership automatically with every institutional site license. http://www.pnas.org/subscriptions/rates2005.shtml#institutional * January 1, 2005, the UK Freedom of Information Act takes effect. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110389610709701198 * January 1, 2005, the University of Minho policy mandating OA archiving by its faculty takes effect. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_12_19_fosblogarchive.html#a110356156411239694 * January 7, 2005, BMJ will start to charge for access to "some of its content". http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7409/241 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/aboutsite/subscriptions.shtml * Notable conferences this month Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy http://advancingknowledge.com/ Washington, D.C., January 10-11, 2004 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (at least two sessions on OA) http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2005/home.htm Boston, January 14-19, 2005 --One of the OA sessions: Establishing an Institutional Repository, sponsored by LITA, Friday, January 14, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm. [no separate web site yet] --The other OA session: In the Public Interest : Open Access and Public Policy, sponsored by SPARC and ARL, Saturday, January 15, 4:00 - 5:30 pm http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala05mw/index.html One of the OA sessions at the ALA Midwinter Meeting will be In the Public Interest : Open Access and Public Policy a session sponsored by SPARC and ARL, Saturday, January 15, 4:00 - 5:30 pm http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ala05mw/index.html Open Content Licensing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons (sponsored by the Queensland University of Technology) http://www.law.qut.edu.au/about/news.jsp#ocl Brisbane, January 18-19, 2005 Rising to the Challenge: publishers' response to recent Open Access initiatives (sponsored by the PLA and ALPSP) http://www.alpsp.org/events/s250105.htm London, January 25, 2005 Institutional Repositories: Leadership, Direction and Launch http://www.eprints.org/jan2004/ Southampton, January 25-26, 2005 (These are two separate one-day workshops, the first for archive administrators and tech support staff, and the second for Pro Vice Chancellors, senior librarians, archive managers and researchers.) Everything you always wanted to know about e-journals but were afraid to ask... (sponsored by UKSG) http://www.uksg.org/events/270105.asp Coventry, January 27, 2005 * Other OA-related conferences http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm ---------- Housekeeping * I've added 15 new conferences to the conference page since the last issue. In the next few days I'll delete the second asterisk marking them and the new entries will blend into the rest of the collection. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/conf.htm * I'm now moderating every message to the SPARC Open Access Forum (SOAF), the discussion forum associated with this newsletter. Formerly, I only moderated the first message from each new subscriber. Trusted subscribers could post without moderation. We had to change this policy when spammers started spoofing the addresses of trusted subscribers. 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To read the full license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to The SPARC Open Access Newsletter. To unsubscribe, email to . Send administrative queries to . From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.449 spam pushing collaboration? Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:13:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 659 (659) Taking up after days on Francois's comment on spam leading to a move away from email: I suppose nothing much would in principle stop the Humanist list from becoming a blog to which all members could post? I wonder if it might be worth a try to experiment? (Think of the notion of having the Humanist blog pop up as your homepage.) The list is relatively trouble-free and simple (or at least Willard makes it look that way) and best of all from my point of view as an archivist, easy to archive for the long term (though a blog might be even easier), but email may not indeed be the most flexible way for all possible participants to access our discussions. Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: Robert Scott Subject: Electronic Text Centers Discussion Group at ALA Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:14:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 660 (660) If you are going to be at the Mid-Winter meeting of the American Library Association in Boston, I urge you to come to the gathering of the Electronic Text Center Discussion group, which will take place from 2:00 to 4:00 in the Copley Room of the Hilton Back Bay on Saturday, January 15, 2004. The main topic of our meeting is one that I am sure is on many of your minds . Google's recently unveiled plan for extensive digitization of material from the collections of Stanford, Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, and New York Public and the potentially revolutionary implications of that project for the electronic collection building now taking place in so many libraries across this country. I am pleased to report that Adam Smith, project manager of the Google Print program, has agreed to come to our meeting to answer our questions and to get a better sense of the hopes and possible concerns that this revolutionary project has raised in the broader Etext community. I hope that those of you who represent some of the participating libraries will also be able to attend and lend your voices to what I trust will be a very interesting discussion. If time permits, I would also like to at least begin addressing what was originally to have been the main theme of our meeting, namely, a discussion about slightly refocusing and rethinking the program of this group, and the selection of a new convener. I look forward to seeing you in Boston. Bob Scott Head, Electronic Text Service Columbia University Libraries From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: _Technology Review_: What*s Next for Google Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:44:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 661 (661) Colleagues/ An **extensive review** about Google has been published in the January 2005 issue of MIT's _Technology Review_: "What's Next for Google" Running the Web's best search engine isn't enough: Google wants to organize all digital information. That means war with Microsoft. [ http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/01/issue/ferguson0105.asp ] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Organized Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu From: Helen Ashman Subject: NRHM Call for Papers Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:45:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 662 (662) Special Issue Call for Papers: "Minority languages, multimedia and the Web" For The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2005 (2) Guest Editors: Daniel Cunliffe, University of Glamorgan, UK (djcunlif_at_glam.ac.uk) Susan Herring, Indiana University, USA (herring_at_indiana.edu) Information and communications technology, and in particular the World Wide Web, can be a double-edged sword as regards the maintenance and revitalisation of minority languages. On the one hand, minority language communities can be active shapers of these technologies, creating their own tools, adapting existing tools to local needs, and creating culturally authentic, indigenous electronic media. On the other hand, these technologies can be seen as a force for globalisation and neo-colonisation, reinforcing the existing dominance of majority languages and breaking down geographical boundaries that in the past may have protected minority language groups. Researching the effects of multimedia and the Web on minority languages is challenging, and it is not yet clear how best to utilise these technologies to maintain and revitalise minority languages. This special issue invites researchers and practitioners who are actively engaged in addressing these issues from practical or theoretical viewpoints to share their findings and experiences and to contribute to a platform for future research. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: Minority language applications: * designing, implementing and evaluating applications * measuring the impact of applications on language use * promoting indigenous production and participatory design Influence of ICTs on minority languages: * adaptation of languages to online environments, e.g., Romanisation * behaviour of minority language speakers in online environments Measuring online minority languages: * quantitative and qualitative measurement of online presence and use * content related analysis of online presence and use Strategic issues: * understanding barriers to online minority language use * integrating multimedia and the Web into language planning Article submissions should typically be no longer than 7,000 words (excluding references) and should follow the formatting guidelines in the Instructions to Authors on the NRHM web site (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp). Submissions should be sent by email to the Guest Editors, in Word, rtf or pdf format. If you have any questions concerning the scope of the call or require further information, please contact the Guest Editors. Open topic papers meeting NRHM's scope in general are also welcome (contact the Editor for further information). Submission deadline: April 30, 2005 Acceptance notification: June 30, 2005 Final manuscripts due: August 31, 2005 NRHM Editor Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope_at_glam.ac.uk Associate Editor Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif_at_glam.ac.uk NRHM is published by Taylor & Francis, see www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From: Willard McCarty Subject: indexing local machines Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:22:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 663 (663) Recently I have tried out two programs for indexing the text- and email-files on my local machines and one for cataloguing my images. This is, in effect, a query about such programs, with a long preamble on my experience so far. Like most others here, I suppose, I've accumulated sufficient amounts of texts and images to make finding what I need sometimes quite difficult. During 2003-4 I started a systematic and large-scale effort to accumulate Web-pages, PDFs and other forms of text to support my research. (The collection now stands at ca. 1/2GB -- it's small because I actually read the stuff.) At first I evolved a reasonably complex directory structure for these files, but soon I realised that I was spending significant amounts of time deciding in which of the sub-sub-subdirectories to put a newcomer and looking through the many such sub-sub-subdirectories for one I had judiciously placed somewhere not too long before. So I set up a parallel unstructured bit-bucket in which I put an identical copy of everything, with the idea of seeing which way my wind was blowing. I also adopted the practice of putting as many copies of newcomers in as many places in the highly structured collection as I thought they belonged. It took only about a month before I deleted the highly structured collection in favour of the unstructured one. Perhaps, if I had been able to replicate myself and my equipment a number of times, I might have assigned some of these imaginary selves to a cataloguing, metadata-writing party, but under the circumstances I could only find that notion amusing. Seriously, in the life of an interdisciplinary computing humanist nearly every intellectual object falls under so many distinct categories, whatever the scheme, that I cannot see any such thing working. Except, perhaps, for those who devote themselves to the scheme rather than to what it schematizes. Automatic indexing then became a priority. Eventually I gave up on Windows XP's native indexing -- the finding mechanism is too slow and clumsy. A visiting lecturer (may his tribe increase) drew my attention to X1 (www.x1.com/), which I tried out, then purchased. A friend then told me about Google's Desktop free Search (desktop.google.com/), which I tried, then discarded: what works for the Web at large does not, in my experience, work well for one's private collection. Meanwhile I picked up Google's Picasa Photo Organizer (www.google.com/downloads/), which is as good as anything I've seen. What have others done? What's been the experience? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: research positions B Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:43:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 664 (664) PLEASE, NOTICE THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE THAT WAS CIRCULATED LAST WEEK Apologies for multiple posting! Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few research positions for experienced scholars may be available starting in the academic year 2005-2006 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the group (the host institute) is: <http://www.grlmc.com>http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ELIGIBLE TOPICS The eligible topics are the group's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. JOB PROFILE - The positions are intended to develop a training + research project in two phases: 1st phase) 1-2 years staying in an organization in a third country (i.e. neither in any of the 25 European Union member states nor in any of the 4 European Union candidate states); 2nd phase) half of that time approximately staying in the host institute. - They will be filled in under the form of a work contract with the host institute. - There is no restriction on the candidate's age. - Only experienced (top-class) researchers have a real chance to succeed. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - PhD holder. - National of either any of the 25 European Union member states or of any of the 4 European Union candidate states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Turkey). ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - The size of the projects will approximately vary between euros 120,000 and 240,000, including all the concepts: researcher's salary, travel support, health insurance, etc. - The particular conditions for each contract will be the matter of an agreement by the researcher and the host institute within the format suggested by the funding agency. This will be done before the researcher's departure to the third country organization. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 3 successive stages: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a short proposal, to be evaluated by the funding agency, - a full proposal, to be evaluated by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until January 11, 2005. They should include the researcher's full CV and mention "track B" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. For the preselected candidates, the deadline for the submission of the short proposal will be January 19, 2005. Directions, advice and support will be given to them by the host institute. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.459 Humanist and blogging Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:46:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 665 (665) Pat Galloway [deleted quotation]I'm afraid it's trouble-free only because of the efforts of Willard and his compatriots. Much as I endorse, and deliberately use web logs and wikis, and would enjoy one based on Humanist, I fear the evils of blog comment spam would add an additional burden to Willard's already long list. Comment spam, even with various controls in place, is actually harder to deal with than email spam. The various solutions involving identity proof and log in would both add to Willard's tasks, and reduce the effectiveness of moving to a blog. Lisa From: Jessica Perry Hekman Subject: Re: 18.459 Humanist and blogging Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:46:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 666 (666) [deleted quotation]A blog can be on LiveJournal or not on LiveJournal. If on LiveJournal (which seems to be the default), not just anyone can post to it, but only people with LJ blogs themselves. I got an LJ account just so I could post to others' blogs (and now have an LJ blog to which I never post as a result). To get an LJ account, you have to either know someone willing to give you an invitation, or you have to pay. This might pose a difficulty to some humanist members. Beyond LJ, you can set up your own blogging system (I like MovableType and WordPress). I assume Willard would hesitate to learn how to administer a new system, though. The nice thing about LJ is you don't have to install it on your machine. I expect there are other free blogging services out there which don't have the LJ barrier to entry; maybe some people could recommend some. Personally, I'd rather read this list on a blog than by email, but I'm not sure the same is true of a majority of its readers. I hope I'm wrong! Jessica From: Ross Scaife Subject: Re: 18.459 Humanist and blogging Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:47:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 667 (667) I'd be enthusiastic about conversion of Humanist to a blog format. It would be a substantial improvement to have RSS feeds for each message, multiple registered posters, comments, links to other relevant blogs etc., searchable archives, and so forth. Ross Scaife University of Kentucky www.stoa.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: Antoinette Renouf on Web texts Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:48:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 668 (668) An Investigation of Phrasal Productivity and Creativity in Web texts Antoinette Renouf, Director of the Research and Development Unit for English Studies and Research Professor, School of English, University of Central England, Birmingham Web text, due to its size and heterogeneity, serves as a rich source of phrasal activity, spawning a range of phrasal variants built on the 'core' elements of the phrase. These variants may be literal and metaphorical. They may also be based on supposedly fixed phrases. As the volume of material on the World Wide Web soars, so this area of inquiry grows. The talk will explore some research issues, focusing on the key questions of how conventional phrases are productive and creative, determining the 'core' of a conventional phrase and investigating the boundaries of the new phrases. 1 pm, Thursday 13 January 2005 Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Seminar room, 1st floor, 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/04-05/seminar_renouf.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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Use of Digital Images -- seeking experiences re looking Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:13:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 669 (669) for the gaze Willard, Digital images and the practices involved in accessing and manipulating reproductions, may assist us in assessing the impact of words on viewing images, depth of field, the direction of the gaze, the stories pictures can and do tell. Part of realizing the technological promise resides in recording and sharing just what it is that students and researchers do with sets of images and fragments of image elements. Do you or some of the subscribers to Humanist know of recent work on the applications of digtial imaging to the analysis of graphic elements. I am particular interested in the verification of descriptions made of sight lines of depicted characters and the interpretative claims made for the described sight lines. Would anyone report on the use of such applications as the Virtual Lightbox? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 18.460 blogging Humanist Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:14:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 670 (670) On the subject of Humanist and blogs, I would like to see Humanist stay an edited and digested list, but would recommend that it also be available as a an RSS feed. I'm not sure blogs are designed for hundreds of posters and there may be people who find them hard to use. Once we have Humanist as an RSS feed it can appear as a blog and those who want to could individually craft the mix of blogs that we like to read. I for example am fond of the following humanities research blogs which would be nicely complemented by Humanist: Interesting Other Blogs: Stéfan Sinclair's scribblings and musings - http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~sgs/ jill/txt - http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/ MGK - Matthew Kirschenbaum http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/ Words' End - http://wordsend.org/ Adrian Miles' vlog - http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ grand TEXT auto - http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/ Ross Scaife: Stoa.org I am sure there are others, but these are some I try to read that I recommend to others. On a related note, as part of the TAPoR portal we are building a news engine with the following features: 1. Authorized users (or groups) can author news items (a lot like blog entries) to a "channel" 2. News from a channel can go out in a number of ways. It can appear in the news area of a users' portal account. It can be sent to a distribution list for e-mail distribution, it can appear on a web page that is designed to look like it is part of another web site (for an organization), and it can be an RSS feed. So, for example, the news that appears on the www.tapor.ca site (which is not the portal) is actually generated and stylized from the portal (and then ingested with a chron job.) We are building this on top of Cocoon and will be returning the code to the Apache foundation for those who want such news systems. If anyone wants an account on our alpha portal to experiment with such a news system, please e-mail me or Lian Yan, lyan -at- mcmaster -dot- ca. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 18.460 blogging Humanist Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:14:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 671 (671) [deleted quotation]The best ones aren't. [deleted quotation]This first point is not true. It is set by the individual livejournal user as to whether anonymous posts can be made. (I don't have an LJ account and never will, but recently posted to a friend's journal.) As with gmail invites, once one person in a sub-community has one, the rest who want accounts get them easily. But buying into an external, commercial, company's view of what blogging should be I think would go against the grain of what Willard has created. If Willard decided to take Humanist down this route, or even just experiment with it, I'd like to think it would be something under his (or an assistant's) control not a commercial company. As you suggest, MovableType and Wordpress are two of the most popular, but there are others. http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/Tools/Publishers/ [deleted quotation]I would happily read this list as email or as an RSS feed. Ross comments: [deleted quotation]Although I'm a happy reader of many RSS feeds as well, don't email lists generally allow most of these things as well? (Registered posters, comments, links to external resources, archives, etc.) -James --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: blogging Humanist Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:15:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 672 (672) I see little value and some harm in blogging humanist. I have been a member of Humanist since about 1990, and I cannot remember having any trouble posting to it. There are two kinds of lists, grosso modo, open and closed. Humanist chose from the beginning to be closed, that is, you have to be a member to post, and the list- owner decides whether to allow your post. Willard and his predecessors have done a great job in this matter, and Humanist has always been remarkable free of flame wars and the like. This does not mean that I approve of everything (nemo sine preferentia, or words to that effect). I notice that we often lean towards the History of Science, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, even Sociology of Science, Knowledge rather than Humanities. On all lists, I have noticed fewer postings and less scholarship per se. I think that this is because people have too much to do rather than deal with spam, viruses and the like. Anyway, I think Willard does a good job. Someone could start a Humanities Blog, and that might lessen his burden somewhat. From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: Re: 18.460 blogging Humanist Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:16:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 673 (673) While I'd suggest that archiving Humanist in a blog-like format would be very useful, for reasons Ross has suggested, I wonder if the quality of Humanist might be compromised without WM's editorial contributions. There is a distinct generic difference between a blog and a moderated discussion list, and it seems to me that to blog Humanist would be to make it something other than Humanist. Patrick Rourke From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: RE: 18.460 blogging Humanist Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:17:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 674 (674) [deleted quotation]Hello Pat, Thanks for bringing this up! [deleted quotation]For a most interesting discussion of the difference between LiveJournal and (regular) blogs, see danah boyd's recent blog entry at http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/01/04/the_cultural_divide_bet ween_livejournal_and_six_apart.html#004470 [danah's blog is really excellent] Myself I quite like the present format of Humanist and for instance, I am not quite sure how threading would work in a blog. I guess people commenting on an initial post might post comments but normally, comments are given a much less prominent place in blogs than in the present Humanist format. This might not be a problem but the affordances of blogs are certainly different than those of an email list. And also there is the question of what do with the historical record (Humanist list 1987-) :). Patrik Svensson HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden http://www.humlab.umu.se/patrik From: Vika Zafrin Subject: blogging - or re-listing? - Humanist Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:19:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 675 (675) Humanists, The blogging thread is an interesting one. Currently I run three weblogs, one personal, one co-authored and one work-related, all using WordPress. It would be very interesting to have Humanist become a weblog, but it would take some doing. Spam is indeed a problem, although there are increasingly great solutions. I routinely spend anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours a day on blog spam; most days it's under half an hour. Jessica Perry Hakman writes about LiveJournal: [deleted quotation]LiveJournal is indeed popular, although I'm not sure it's the default. Currently, it has about 5.5 million users. (Or maybe it's 6.5 million, recent info has been conflicting.) Free accounts have been available without an invitation code for a long while now. Whether or not to allow anonymous comments is up to the owner of each particular account, and is changeable from post to post. To originate posts in a community (multi-author blog), however, you must be a member of that community, which requires you to have a LJ account. Comment spam has not been a problem so far on LiveJournal. Today the announcement was made: Six Apart, creators of Movable Type and TypePad, has bought LiveJournal. At the moment, this does not mean anything will change; but Six Apart's M.O. has been rather different from that of the LJ folx, and so I am frankly sceptical as to how long the status quo will last. (Full disclosure: I'm one of those people that stopped using MovableType very soon after it went paid, and along with many others was rather annoyed about the way in which the whole thing was handled.) All of this said, I'd still vote for Humanist switching gears to automated list software. My favorite, and the one used by something like a dozen other lists I'm on, is mailman. Any human can subscribe; there's a confirmation email for that, and replying to it is technically automatable but hasn't been hacked yet. Only subscribed users can post to the list, and spam gets deleted by the list administrator at their leisure, until which time it's held in a queue. Archiving is automatic, and can be made public or not. I seem to remember something about the servers on which Humanist is housed being incompatible with new list software. If the list is to change form at all, my guess is that most efficient would be finding a server that could house mailman. [deleted quotation]Hm, now there's an interesting question. I'm not sure I have a preference, but that's because I read both email and weblogs every day, a lot. I suspect that more lower-case-h humanists routinely read email than routinely use weblogs, and so going somewhere that's *not* their inbox for their Humanist list fix might be a bother. Regards, -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:16:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 676 (676) Information The January 1, 2005 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 1,943 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_at_usask.ca *Phone: (306) 966-6016 *Fax: (306) 966-5919 *Home Page: <http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze>http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze From: sramsay_at_uga.edu Subject: job info Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:18:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 677 (677) Dear All, My name is Stephen Ramsay, and I am both a member of the ACH Executive Council and the Chair of the Employment Committee for the ACH. The committee maintains the ACH Jobs Database (http://maple.cc.kcl.ac.uk/ach_jobs/) -- a service intended both for job seekers and for those offering positions in humanities computing. We keep this database updated by monitoring this list, as well as a few others. It is the committee's desire to make this database as broadly reflective of the employment landscape in humanities computing as possible. We understand relevant employment in our discipline to include not only traditional academic employment, but work in libraries, museums, industry, and other fields requiring knowledge of materials and methods related to both technology and humanistic inquiry. As part of our continuing effort to make our ourselves more useful to the community we serve, we'd like to hear from the subscribers to humanist about the various sources they use for finding out about jobs -- in particular, email listservs that the members of the committee can monitor regularly for job postings. Where do you go for information about jobs? Is it the sort of thing that we could keep track of easily? You can feel free to respond directly to me offlist (sramsay{at}uga{dot}edu), but I suspect that your answers to the question might provide us all with a healthy look at the depth and breadth of our discipline, and as such, may be of general interest to readers of humanist. If you are a member of ACH and have suggestions for how the Employment Committee can better serve you, please do contact me directly. We are always interested in hearing from you. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Georgia email: sramsay_at_uga.edu web: http://cantor.english.uga.edu/ PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: Erik Hatcher Subject: Re: 18.463 indexing local machines Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:12:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 678 (678) On Jan 6, 2005, at 2:27 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Structure is so overrated! [deleted quotation]Consider Folksonomies :) http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/ folksonomies.html [deleted quotation]What was your experience with X1? [deleted quotation]I come to this party with a heavy Lucene bias. Check out my newly launched site at http://www.lucenebook.com - this is a "search inside" the book combined with a blog. I'm actively evolving it (with TODO items of integrating errata into book section search matches, and so on). There are several Lucene-based desktop search options, though admittedly I have little experience with them first hand. But here are some things to try: * Searchblox - http://www.searchblox.com (they contributed a case study to the Lucene book, so I know the most about this one) * Aduna AutoFocus - http://aduna.biz/products/autofocus/index.html * Zilverline - http://www.zilverline.org Our Lucene book free source code download comes with a simple text file indexer (it'll crawl a directory tree indexing .txt files only) which could be adapted to index other types of content. The tricks would be to also enhance to check date stamps and re-index new content and remove documents that no longer exist and integrate in various document parser for HTML, Word, PDF, etc types. Erik From: "Okyere, Emmanuel II" Subject: RE: 18.463 indexing local machines Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:16:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 679 (679) Willard, I'm yet to try X1 and I'm looking forward to when yahoo finally release it (yahoo has licensed X1 and will release a free version early this year: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2004-12-10-yahoo-des ktop-search_x.htm?csp=34) to give it a go. I have tried the MSN toolbar suite (http://beta.toolbar.msn.com/), Google Desktop and Copernic Desktop Search (http://www.copernic.com/); I like copernic best and it gives me so much flexibility in terms of what I want to index; it also plugs a search bar into the taskbar that makes it easy to search anytime and has a really nice UI. It is also free. There's a nice roundup of things here: http://slate.msn.com/id/2111643/ Cheers, - eokyere --- Emmanuel OKYERE II CTO - AKUABA, LLC Phone/Fax: 703.815.4702 PGP Key ID: 0xA7FD6168 MSN: compubandit AIM: compubndit http://www.okyere.org/ | -----Original Message----- | From: Humanist Discussion Group [mailto:humanist_at_Princeton.EDU] On Behalf | Of Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty | ) | Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:28 AM | To: humanist_at_Princeton.EDU | | | Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 463. | Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London | www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ | www.princeton.edu/humanist/ | Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu | | | | Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:22:05 +0000 | From: Willard McCarty | Subject: indexing local machines | | Recently I have tried out two programs for indexing the text- and | email-files on my local machines and one for cataloguing my images. This | is, in effect, a query about such programs, with a long preamble on my | experience so far. | | Like most others here, I suppose, I've accumulated sufficient amounts of | texts and images to make finding what I need sometimes quite difficult. | During 2003-4 I started a systematic and large-scale effort to accumulate | Web-pages, PDFs and other forms of text to support my research. (The | collection now stands at ca. 1/2GB -- it's small because I actually read | the stuff.) At first I evolved a reasonably complex directory structure | for | these files, but soon I realised that I was spending significant amounts | of | time deciding in which of the sub-sub-subdirectories to put a newcomer and | looking through the many such sub-sub-subdirectories for one I had | judiciously placed somewhere not too long before. So I set up a parallel | unstructured bit-bucket in which I put an identical copy of everything, | with the idea of seeing which way my wind was blowing. I also adopted the | practice of putting as many copies of newcomers in as many places in the | highly structured collection as I thought they belonged. | | It took only about a month before I deleted the highly structured | collection in favour of the unstructured one. Perhaps, if I had been able | to replicate myself and my equipment a number of times, I might have | assigned some of these imaginary selves to a cataloguing, metadata-writing | party, but under the circumstances I could only find that notion amusing. | Seriously, in the life of an interdisciplinary computing humanist nearly | every intellectual object falls under so many distinct categories, | whatever | the scheme, that I cannot see any such thing working. Except, perhaps, for | those who devote themselves to the scheme rather than to what it | schematizes. | | Automatic indexing then became a priority. Eventually I gave up on Windows | XP's native indexing -- the finding mechanism is too slow and clumsy. A | visiting lecturer (may his tribe increase) drew my attention to X1 | (www.x1.com/), which I tried out, then purchased. A friend then told me | about Google's Desktop free Search (desktop.google.com/), which I tried, | then discarded: what works for the Web at large does not, in my | experience, | work well for one's private collection. | | Meanwhile I picked up Google's Picasa Photo Organizer | (www.google.com/downloads/), which is as good as anything I've seen. | | What have others done? What's been the experience? | | 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London | WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || | willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: RE: 18.463 indexing local machines Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:18:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 680 (680) Dear Willard, This is a most interesting issue! Like you I find that unstructure works relatively well. I have tried several programs for indexing and searching local data. There is so much of my life in my email program that decent search facilities are vital. I have used X1 for quite some time now and I love it. I have about 90,000 email messages stored (basically all in-going and out-going messages from 1996 onwards) and a great deal of documents and other data (including 45 versions of my Ph.D. thesis). X1 makes it very easy to find information. I especially like the narrowing-down-as-you-type design of the program and the blazing speed (there is no perceivable lag). Also X1 searches everything and is able to show many file formats directly. Other programs I have tried, including 80-20, do not search headers when you do free text searches. That proves to be a problem as people do not always include their own name in the message field of emails, and name is a primary search category. Of course these indexing programs take up some resources doing the actual indexing but on my computers, it is hardly noticeable. I think my fascination with these tools is partly because I think that they make a qualitative difference. I do things now that I could not do before and I also find myself using the search program to find email that just arrived. It is a different kind of interface to email (and other data) and in my mind, it is a significant step away from the mailbox paradigm - in multiple ways I think. It is not always that easy to make the distinction between local and non-local data. Myself I tend to go for software that allows me to distribute data. For instance, I use Biblioscape to handle references and it allows me (and others if I let them) to view, edit and search my bibliographic data from any connected computer. I often take notes in my blog which is also distributed (and searchable). For instant messaging I use Trillian which allows me to store and search im conversations (logging is not totally unproblematic here of course). X1 allows me to search network drives (lab resources for instance) as well as local drives. I use del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/) to keep track and search for bookmarks (from any connected computer) - this one is rather interesting as it allows "unplanned" tagging and you can see how categories develop in your own material (rather than having decided on an ontology to start with). Moreover, you may explore how your own emergent tagging scheme coincides with that of other users. I also find the tagging process rewarding in itself. It helps me associate, connect and remember. Patrik Svensson HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden http://www.humlab.umu.se/patrik From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: RE: 18.463 indexing local machines Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:19:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 681 (681) I notice Yahoo have bought X1 (www.x1.com/) and apparently intend to offer its technology (or maybe a subset?) free early this year, so now is not a good time to buy. Stephen Woodruff From: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 18.467 blogging Humanist Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:18:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 682 (682) Hi LiveJournal (which no longer requires an invitation, and is still free), Blogger (free), MovableType (free for Humanist; must be installed on a server), TypePad, (paid only), WordPress (must be installed on a server) all support the ability to email posts to a special address, and have them automatically appear. I suspect other systems I have not used, like Drupal, also support mail to post. The posting part would thus be automatic; the blog address would be one more subscriber. They all also would automatically create RSS feeds. They also support comments, to varying degrees. Comment spam would still be a problem. There are instances of properly set up blogs, blogs who have taken the proper precautions, being hit with as many as 1,000 spam comments in an hour (sent by a script); this is a potential problem, but there are tools to cope with it. I'd just hate to burden Willard with it. Lisa -- Lisa L. Spangenberg | Digital medievalist Instructional Technology | http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/ My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.467 blogging Humanist Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:19:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 683 (683) I try to avoid all blogs whenever possible. From: Paola Bruscoli Subject: Structures and Deduction Workshop CfP - ICALP '05 Satellite Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:20:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 684 (684) ICALP Workshop-Lisbon July 16-17, 2005 STRUCTURES AND DEDUCTION The quest for the essence of proofs <http://www.prooftheory.org/sd05> This meeting is about new algebraic and geometric methods in proof theory, with the aim of expanding our ability to manipulate proofs, eliminate bureaucracy from deductive systems, and ultimately provide: 1) a satisfying answer to the problem of identity of proofs and 2) tools for improving our ability to implement logics. Stimulated by computer science, proof theory is progressing at fast pace. However, it is becoming very technical, and runs the risk of splitting into esoteric specialties. The history of science tells us that this has happened several times before, and that these centrifugal tendencies are very often countered by conceptual reunifications, which occur when one is looking at a field after having taken a few steps back. Some emerging ideas are showing their unifying potential. Deep inference's atomization of deductions simplifies and unifies the design of deduction systems; it provides unprecedented plasticity to proofs and has injected new impetus into the theory of proof nets. New proof nets, and new associated semantics, are giving surprising insight about the very subtle relationship between categories and proofs, for example in the formerly intractable case of classical logic. The field of deduction modulo, which turns out to be very much in the spirit of deep inference, decreases our dependency on the syntactic presentation of functional objects, and brings us closer to their intrinsic nature, even from the computational point of view. After studying all those trees for years we at last have the impression of looking at the forest. The core topics are organised along the axis: algebraic semantics deduction of proofs deep inference modulo game semantics operads and specification <--> structads <--> proof nets proof search calculus of deductive structures implementations proof nets This workshop aims at being a meeting point for all those who are interested in decreasing the dependency of logic from low-level syntax. The list of topics above is not exhaustive: if you feel you can contribute to the discussion along the broad lines outlined above, please submit your contribution. SUBMISSION, IMPORTANT DATES AND PUBLICATION Contributions such as work in progress, programmatic/position papers, tutorials, as well as regular papers are more than welcome. We will favor the former over regular papers that seem to us to be minor contributions, although we will definitely not reject major contributions! Submissions should be formatted with the LNCS LaTeX style, and should not exceed fifteen pages, to allow the committee to assess their merits with reasonable effort. This limit can be relaxed for the versions that will be presented at the workshop, depending on the total bulk of the accepted contributions. Contributions should be submitted electronically; details will be provided soon. submission: 15.4.2005 notification: 22.5.2005 final version: 10.6.2005 The selected papers will be made public on the web for downloads. It goes without saying that authors will be able to keep their copyrights. The issue of printed proceedings is still under discussion. INVITED SPEAKERS Martin Hyland (Cambridge) Claude or Helene Kirchner (LORIA & INRIA Lorraine, Nancy) Dale Miller (INRIA Futurs and LIX, Paris) David Pym (Bath and HP Labs) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paola Bruscoli (Dresden) Pietro Di Gianantonio (Udine) Gilles Dowek (LIX & Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) Roy Dyckhoff (St Andrews) Rajeev Gore' (NICTA and ANU, Canberra) Francois Lamarche (LORIA & INRIA Lorraine, Nancy) -- Chair Luke Ong (Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Michel Parigot (CNRS, Paris) Charles Stewart (Dresden) Thomas Streicher (Darmstadt) LOCATION Lisbon, July 16-17, 2005; the workshop is a satellite of the ICALP 2005 conference. HOW TO REGISTER A registration fee for attending the workshop will be paid to the ICALP Workshop general chair; no fee for participating in the main conference should be necessary, while participation in both conference and workshop should entitle to special discounts. Please visit the ICALP web site for up-to-date, precise information: <http://icalp05.di.fct.unl.pt> ORGANISERS Paola Bruscoli (Dresden) Francois Lamarche (LORIA & INRIA Lorraine, Nancy) -- Chair Charles Stewart (Dresden) From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Re: 18.463 indexing local machines Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:16:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 685 (685) 07:51 08.01.2005 A most interesting topic indeed! However, let me pose a trivial question: how good is an automatic indexing tool when it comes to searching for NEW information, or for information that might be available (local or distributed), but classified, contextualized and, most importantly, VERBALIZED in an unanticipated manner? It seems that clever algorithms plus enough brute force computing power have made obsolete the deeply nested systematic index structures of yonder. Having a rough idea of what your looking for is good enough to make you choose the Google over the Yahoo-directory route. However, the snag is that you can only find what you are able to represent in a string that matches or approximates something captured in the index data base. That's exactly why libraries have systematic catalogues: we can do deductive searches, starting with some generic top-level concept and then drill down to find the new and unexpected (rather than simply re-find stuff we knew we had somewhere, but just couldn't trace). To put it in a philosophical nutshell: if we decide to go the unstructured route and subscribe to what I'd like to call the 'Google paradigm' of knowledge representation then aren't we locking ourselves into the static configuration of knowledge as we have it here and now, expressed in the strings indexed by the machine? In fact, is an unsystematic index 're-presenting' knowledge in the first place? Is it not just simply defining its relational coordinates in the database, without any semantic surplus value generated that would allow us to retool and reconfigure our knowledge elements? Caveat: I haven't tried out any of the tools mentioned, so I might be completey off the track here ... Chris ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Forschergruppe Narratologie Universität Hamburg Skype: jcmeister Mail: jan-c-meister_at_uni-hamburg.de Office: +49 - 40 - 42838 4994 Cell: +49 - 0172 40 865 41 My site: www.jcmeister.de ACP: Computer Philology Working Group at Hamburg University www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de NarrNet: the Information hub for Narratologists www.narratology.net SGA: Story Generator Algorithms www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/story-generators From: Amanda French Subject: Re: indexing local machines Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:17:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 686 (686) I'm interested in the discussion about indexing local machines. On the one hand, it's a rather mundane issue that has to do with maximizing one's own quotidian productivity. On the other hand, it speaks to the larger long-term issue of record preservation and access. Will the scholar writing a biography of Willard McCarty and/or a history of humanities computing a hundred years from now be able to find and use all the important secondary material Willard has produced that exists only digitally? Traditional archivists, as we know, have evolved a system for dealing with the fact that everyone organizes their records differently. That system could be summed up as follows: Leave the records as they are as much as possible. Describe exhaustively what's there and how it's organized. The chief problem with this archival system--which produces amazingly impressive results--is that that exhaustive description is, well, exhausting. There's simply not enough time and labor available to do it properly, and as a result there are scads of unprocessed and therefore unusable material in archives ("hidden collections" is the euphemism). But there are two reasons why archivists have chosen to do it that way rather than by disassembling everyone's records and forcing them into a single rational scheme, which would almost certainly be quicker. The first reason is that it would be difficult for everyone to agree on which single scheme to use. Records could be organized by medium, genre, topic or what-have-you, and there are just too many instances of items that don't fit comfortably anywhere. Willard's "bit bin" approach solves that; if everything is simply in a big barrel titled "Willard McCarty's Stuff," that's simple and comprehensive, and tools that do the equivalent of keyword searching will be sufficient to aid a future researcher. (Although as things stand we still have to differentiate between media. Mostly you can't keyword search the _content_ of an image, audio, or video file; you can only search its filename or metadata. At least as far as I know. Though see http://speechbot.research.compaq.com/ for a description of a speech-recognition search engine in development at Hewlett-Packard.) The second reason archivists choose to maintain someone's organizational system, however, is that the way people choose to organize their records is itself a carrier of meaning--a record in itself. For myself I find it hard to imagine _not_ filing emails and documents on my local machine in as rational a system as I can manage to devise, because the very act of developing (and re-developing and re-developing) that system helps me understand what it is that I'm doing. Speaking from the mundane personal level, I'll reveal that I try to make sure that my browser bookmarks, my documents, and e-mail directories all have the same file structure; if I'm teaching a class called "Humanities Computing 101," for instance, I'd have a folder with that title in my bookmarks, e-mail, hard drive document folder. I do think that this aids me in my work, because there comes a point when that class is over and all those folders need to be retired into my archives. Without a structured filing system (not an overly byzantine one), I think I would feel hard-pressed to discern the order in my very life and work! The issues are the same with the Web; you can find things quickly but you're aware that there's an enormous underlying chaos behind it that is sometimes exhilarating and sometimes threatening. So to sum up, I'm interested to learn about this x1 program, and I might well experiment with some unstructured structures on my hard drive. But I'd also be interested to learn what basic structures you've retained, Willard--surely there are some? Amanda French (former lurker) -- Amanda L. French, Ph.D. CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow in Scholarly Information Resources Digital Library Initiatives NCSU Libraries, Box 7111 Raleigh, NC 27695-7111 Tel: 919-513-0211 Fax: 919-515-3031 Mob: 720-530-7515 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~alfrench From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: ELPUB Digital Library: Free Access to Elpub conference papers Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:18:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 687 (687) Colleagues/ I have discovered that Bob Martens of Vienna University Of Technology has created a database that provides access to all of the conference papers presented at the ELPUB [Electronic Publishing] conferences dating from 1997, the year of the first ELPUB Conference. ELPUB Digital Library is available at [ http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home ] There are a variety of search and browse options that provide FREE access to the Full Text of included papers! "The use is free of charge. Access to advanced features (article upload, creation of collections, discussion forums, ratings, reviews, etc.) is subject to **user registration** and login. [ http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/users/Add ] IMHO, many of the papers presented at previous ELPUB conferences have consistently reported cutting/bleeding edge developments in all areas of Electronic Publishing and are well worth the read. As of today, nearly 300 papers are available! BTW: The 2005 ELPUB will be held June 8-10, 2005 and will be hosted by the Research Group on Document Architectures (DocArch) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven). The conference will take place at the Arenberg Castle, a beautiful 16th-Century castle situated in an impressively green scenery in Heverlee near the city of Leuven. [ http://www.elpub.net/page.php?edi_id=317 ] The list of suggested topics for the 2005 conference is quite wide ranging [ http://www.elpub.net/page.php?edi_id=314 ] Thanks Bob for this Very Important Service !!! Regards. /Gerry Gerry McKiernan ElPub Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu From: "Sean Gouglas" Subject: Academic job in Humanities Computing - Reminder Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:19:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 688 (688) Hello all, I thought I would remind everyone that the closing date for the tenure-track position in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta is 14 January 2005. I've appended the advertisement for those who might be interested. Thanks, Sean Gouglas FACULTY OF ARTS The 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, 2005, in the area of Humanities Computing. This position will integrate into the existing M.A. in Humanities Computing programme, now into its fourth year. The successful applicant will be associated with an allied department in the Faculty, and some related undergraduate teaching will be expected. The M.A. programme emphasizes computing research methods and critical thinking in the liberal arts and provides students with appropriate technical skills to 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, an understanding of how these methods contribute to restructuring or transforming the disciplines, and an appreciation of the potential of these methods for revisioning applications in computer science. Graduates are qualified to bridge the territory between computer specialist and project director or manager. More information on the M.A. in Humanities Computing is available at <http://huco.ualberta.ca/>http://huco.ualberta.ca/ Applicants will present demonstrated evidence of excellence in the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of research on the application of cutting edge approaches to humanities disciplines. Principal areas of investigation may include: knowledge representation; visual communication design; new media; hypertext; text corpora; text encoding and analysis; computational linguistics; statistical models; and broad library and research-based work that focuses on significant issues of textuality; interfaces; and information browsing and retrieval. In short, applicants should be involved in work that offers innovative and substantial applications and uses for humanities computing-based teaching, research and practice. Salary (as per Collective Agreement) will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. An application package, including: a letter of application; a curriculum vitae; copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts; and the names, institutional addresses and email addresses of three references who have been invited to write on the applicant's behalf, should be sent to: Dr. Rick Szostak, Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5, Phone: 780-492-9132 Email: rick.szostak_at_ualberta.ca. The closing date for applications is: January 14, 2005. 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. From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.472 blogging Humanist Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:13:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 689 (689) A textbook case of media essentialism. By this logic I wouldn't read any books because some are worthless or trivial. Anyone who doubts the import of blogging should check in with Dan Rather. Matt From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 690 (690) [deleted quotation] -- Please note: mk235_at_umail.umd.edu is an UNRELIABLE address. Please change my address to * mgk_at_umd.edu * in your address books. Mail sent to mgk_at_umd.edu is currently being reflected to my Gmail account, mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com; you may send to that address too, but addressing your message to mgk_at_umd.edu will ensure that it is always forwarded to wherever I am currently receiving my mail. Thank you, and apologies for the inconvenience. -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 691 (691) | Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:16:29 +0000 | From: Jan Christoph Meister | | | 07:51 | 08.01.2005 | | A most interesting topic indeed! However, let me pose a trivial | question: how good is an automatic indexing tool when it comes to | searching for NEW information, A valid question, however I think if the information is _new_ (and I am assuming here that you had control over where it was put) then for the most part, you know where to look for it; so that searching for it, instead of just going to get it wouldn't be the right route. The other part of this, which is the more direct response to the question, is that your search results are only as good as how current your index cache is. One of the things I do with the copernic desktop search tool (www.copernic.com) is that I make sure it re-runs the indexing at 4am everyday, so that deleted/new items might be captured; I'm not really sure how successful this is, but hopefully it works quite well. | or for information that might be | available (local or distributed), but classified, contextualized and, | most importantly, VERBALIZED in an unanticipated manner? You are right. Because these tools are provided for a generic audience, there's no way they can satisfy custom/proprietary contexts _well enough_; I do think, however, that all the popular full-text search engines come close enough in approximating what you are looking for, as long as they can, to a certain degree, parse the contexts in question. | It seems that clever algorithms plus enough brute force computing | power have made obsolete the deeply nested systematic index structures | of yonder. Having a rough idea of what your looking for is good | enough to make you choose the Google over the Yahoo-directory route. | However, the snag is that you can only find what you are able to | represent in a string that matches or approximates something captured in | the index | data base. That's exactly why libraries have systematic catalogues: we | can do deductive searches, starting with some generic top-level | concept and then drill down to find the new and unexpected (rather | than simply re-find stuff we knew we had somewhere, but just couldn't | trace). To put it in a philosophical nutshell: if we decide to go the | unstructured route and subscribe to what I'd like to call the 'Google | paradigm' of knowledge representation then aren't we locking ourselves | into the static configuration of knowledge as we have it here and now, | expressed in the strings indexed by the machine? In fact, is an | unsystematic index 're-presenting' knowledge in the first place? Is it | not just simply defining its relational coordinates in the database, | without any semantic surplus value generated that would allow us to | retool and reconfigure our knowledge elements? You touch on a number of issues here and I certainly agree with you for the most part; for instance, I "doc" folders that are further broken down into subject areas I read on--"softeng" for software engineering for instance, "java" for purely java-related stuff and such; it makes my collection of documents more valuable and easy to track down. You can however see that at a certain level, the document areas begin to overlap; for instance, I could have material that could very well be put in either the "softeng" or "java" folders (and I could certainly make the argument that both folders have unique-enough reasons to co-exist). Clearly, a search tool (that indexes keywords I'm likely to use to drill down to what I'm looking for, like you mention) is invaluable here as it saves me the effort of manually looking the information, to a certain extent. The other part of this is that the "libraries have a systematic catalogues" comment is what you are trying to reproduce here; at least in part, in that the indexing tool creates a "system" for locating your records. The indexes collated are only as valuable as how much time they use in leading you to what you are looking for; so that, I am not sure of this, but you might have an inverse relationship for value and document collection size here. I want to believe that for individual use, document collection size is small enough, and the individual's domain is narrow/unique enough to make the keywords used effectively lead to what you are searching for and to make the indexes accrued worth having. Emmanuel --- Emmanuel OKYERE II CTO - AKUABA, LLC Phone/Fax: 703.815.4702 PGP Key ID: 0xA7FD6168 MSN: compubandit AIM: compubndit http://www.okyere.org/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: structured & unstructured searching Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:12:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 692 (692) In Humanist 14.484 Jan Cristoph Meister points out one strong reason for maintaining highly structured representations: "we can do deductive searches, starting with some generic top-level concept and then drill down to find the new and unexpected (rather than simply re-find stuff we knew we had somewhere, but just couldn't trace)." Certainly when searching a large collection that you've not assembled yourself, a highly structured catalogue can be invaluable. I wonder, however, whether the situation isn't rather different with your own collection, particularly if as a matter of course it contains notes you've made on the collected items. And I wonder too if the strategies for searching do not change as collections get larger -- whether there are not thresholds past which one technique becomes more valuable than another. This is, I think, a subject to be explored by experiment rather than a priori. In evaluating googling, I think we have to take care not to conceptualize what happens as a single, non-interactive query with a singular set of answers. Often when I google I begin with one character string and then modify it or scrap it and substitute another, depending on the results. Indeed, the results are very important in determining the searches that follow. Often what happens is that my ideas change as the search progresses. Some of the most valuable finds have been of things I have not started out searching for. I wouldn't ever advocate using one way of searching only. If we had done that as hunters and gatherers, we would never have survived. There are many ways to find and follow clues. But I do think that the Doctrine of Full and Perfect Englightenment through Metadata needs to be subjected to the same criterion, particularly since encoding the world's resources is an exceedingly expensive project. Again, I would think that the level of encoding is a pragmatic question rather than a principled one. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: David Sewell Subject: Re: 18.474 indexing local machines Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:12:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 693 (693) For people who store email on a Unix-ish machine where they are also able to install software, a good email indexing solution might be "mairix": http://www.rc0.org.uk/mairix/ It handles the traditional Unix mbox format as well as MH and maildir ones. There's a Debian Linux package as well as source code for rolling your own. If you're comfortable installing *nix programs and setting basic options in a configuration file, you won't have any problem getting it to work. (Caveat: don't just try to do a quickstart by editing your config file without reading the brief user documentation, which gives clear explanations of available options.) DS -- 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_at_virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 18.469 jobs in humanities computing Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:22:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 694 (694) Within the UK academic world I suspect the jobs.ac.uk service (http://www.jobs.ac.uk/) is usually the first place to look. Humanities computing-like jobs have a tendency to fall under one or more of a) the academic subject (e.g. English, History, Modern Languages etc); b) Computing; c) Librarianship. (Depending on the perception of the post by the recruiting department or institution.) The nice thing about jobs.ac.uk are the email alerting services and the RSS feeds (e.g. reproduced at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/jobfeed.html). 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: blogging, video-blogging and Jennycam? Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:34:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 695 (695) Video-blogging (vogging, or is it vlogging?) provides an obvious link from the blog to the infamous Jennycam, which has been offline for more than a year now. For the end of Jennycam, see the article in CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/10/jenni.cam.reut/, or better the piece by Terry Teachout (drama critic of the Wall Street Journal) in National Review Online, http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/teachout200312110800.asp, who notes that "most blogs are the verbal equivalent of JenniCam". He cites, disparagingly, an an attempt by John Suler, "Healthy and Pathological Internet Use", in CyberPsychology and Behavior, to make sense of the "hula-hope-type fad" of the Jennycam. But clearly there's a goldmine here of raw material for studies of many kinds, of what, as Geoffrey Nunberg says in "Farewell to the Information Age" (1996), is now bubbling to the surface after a long suppression. Any recommendations of such studies? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: v(l)ogging Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:19:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 696 (696) An addendum to the previous note. For v(l)ogging, see Adrian Miles, "Video Blogging to Vogging", http://videoblogging.info/articles/vogging/; Gerard Seenan, "Forget the bloggers, it's vloggers showing the way on the internet", Guardian Online, http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1279461,00.html. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: What to read was (Re: 18.477 blogging) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:45:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 697 (697) Willard and Matt, Allow me to requote the posting from Norman Hinton: I try to avoid all blogs whenever possible. and to record a few questions triggered by Matt's description of the statement as "[a] textbook case of media essentialism". Q1 Is there a nuance worth exploring between "avoiding" and "not reading"? An analogous example to consider: some people do not read religiously the daily newspapers but are in contact with friends who do. It is perhaps worth considering that there is a conversation conversion factor at work in the transmission of information and stories. The non-religous reader may on occassion consult the material religiously reader by others. Q2 Is "blog" to be conceptualized more by "genre" than "media"? There may be folk who do not read blogs but who will regularly access other online reasources and read them (or collect copies, as we have seen in the cases discussed in the "indexing local machines" thread)? Q3 When is a blog a blog? Does accessing an archived entry via a link returned by search engine count as reading a blog? It could be conceived as simply consulting a record. Blog reading much as does blog writing seems to entail a repeated practice. See the invocation of religious use in Q1 above. Q4 How do judgements of worth prior to reading affect what is read? How does one know that a given verbal object is trivial before one reads it? When is the inductive generalization involved in moving from some to all valid? Back to Q1. Trust. And a certain humanist civility that is willing to grant that because I do not read [science fiction, comic books, Latin odes] does not mean you should not. And an even greater self-reflexivity that is quick to grasp that the expression of one persons' preference is not necessarily an invitation to buy into those preferences. Of course in the competitive world of who gets what grant money there are those valuations of cultural capital which have very much buy-in impact. However, depending upon the discursive frame that is applied, in the context of a discussion of alternatives, the expression of a preference could appear to be a vote, or a step in exploring the variety of experiences necessary for testing consensus. [deleted quotation]Rather. Matt [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 698 (698) [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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.477 blogging Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:45:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 699 (699) [deleted quotation]People have referred me to blog after blog, and I find them self-serving, unstructured, and boring. Sorry. After a year or so you tend to quit trying. This doesn't seem to be the case with books. From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: Re: 18.463 indexing local machines Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:44:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 700 (700) Has anybody mentioned greenstone <http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library>? It is an open source digital library program that works on local machines (win only at the moment) as well as in its primary unix environment. It eats everything. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: images problems Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:47:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 701 (701) I am not sure exactly what you are looking for here, Francois, so let me just rattle along for a while. There are numerous authorities who think that we think only in words, not in images. If one thinks of the intellectual content of an image, whatever that is, and one thinks of images as digital in nature (we are using the digital computer), a good book on the optical image is Leonid Yaroslavsky and Murray Eden, Fundamentals of Digital Optics (Boston: Birkhaeuser, 1996), which discusses such things as images, holograms, interferograms, which are in reality analog in nature. We must, of course, distinguish between the image per se and the perception of the image, which is why, I suppose, you bring up such things as gaze. We need to distinguish carefully between imagery and perception. A good quick orientation is offered here by the readings in Irvin Rock, ed., The Perceptual World. Readings from Scientific American (NY: Freeman, 1990). For a general survey of image theory (somewhat confusing): Claude Cosette, Les images demaquillees. Approche scientifique de la communication par l'image, 2d ed. (Quebec: Riguil, 1985). For recent philosophizing on the screen as communicator: Nathalie Roelens & Yves Jeanneret, L'imaginaire de l'Ecran. Screen Imaginary (sic!) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004). Just moving along with the bibliography. If you are interested in visual imagery, one ought to start with R. L. Gregory, Eye and Brain. The Psychology of Seeing. World University Library (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1966). It is fearfully out of date, but it "really hits the high spots. It is exciting to read and full of fascinating material," etc. etc. You can bring it up to date by looking through David Marr's Vision. A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information. 13th printing (NY: Freeman, 1996). This is a whole science in itself; for an overview: Hua Lee and Glen Wade, Imaging Technology (NY: IEEE Press, 1985), which even contains an article on holography by Dennis Gabor himself. For more practical, less theoretical: Sally Wiener Grotta & Daniel Grotta, Digital Imaging for Visual Artists (NY: Eindcrest/McGraw- Hill, 1993). Forgive me for waxing bibliographical. For the problem of communicating in images, be they optical or otherwise, for such things as virtual reality, etc., one needs to philosophize, and philosophizing, if we communicate it, requires words. Verbum verbum non est, sed verbum. Somewhere out there, I have posted both an edition and a translation of St. Augustine's De dialectica. Worueber man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen. We live in a logocentric world, and though we speak occasionally of `communicating in images,' we don't talk much about images, and there is always the subliminal and the superliminal (`if a man's reach not exceed his grasp') to worry about. Are there thoughts which cannot be expressed? (`would that the tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me'). What does one mean when one says `image'? Forgive me, I am beginning to witter. From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: January Innovate-Live Webcast Schedule Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:47:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 702 (702) Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the December 2004/January 2005 issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). These webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. If you wish to participate in the webcasts, please register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ All times are Eastern Time zone. You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with your time zone. The schedule for the January Innovate-Live Webcasts is provided below. Incorporating a Rich Media Presentation Format into a Lecture-Based Course Structure Nick Moss, author; Alan McCord, moderator Wednesday, January 12th 1:00pm ET Strategies for Using Information Technology to Improve Institutional Performance: An Interview with William H. Graves William H. Graves, author; James Morrison, moderator Wednesday, January 12th 3:00pm ET New Horizons for Learning: An Interview with Dee Dickinson Dee Dickinson, author; Scott Windham, moderator Thursday, January 13th 2:00pm ET Beyond PowerPoint: Visual Presentation Tools for Online Learning Bruce Howerton, author; James Morrison, moderator Thursday, January 13th 4:00pm ET If you cannot attend a webcast, note that it will be archived within the features section of the article itself shortly after the webcast. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 18.480 blogging and v(l)ogging Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:11:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 703 (703) Greetings, [deleted quotation]True [deleted quotation]True [deleted quotation]Frequently. But this is the nature of people's diaries. A blog is not a carefully-structured publication, but something much more like a commonplace book which happens to be generally readable. An interesting person will at least sometimes have something interesting in their blog, and I get to look over their shoulder as they note it down for themself; more one cannot expect. It follows that it's not worth regularly slogging through a list of bookmarked blogs. Blogs are hopeless without an aggregator of some type, which can get the `headlines' from a number of blogs, so you only ever look at a small number of articles. I'm only a semi-convert to blogs: I've been using NetNewsWire for a while (for the Mac: <http://www.ranchero.com/>) and find it makes blogs interesting and occasionally useful, though I'm not convinced my life would be importantly worse without it. Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Mauricio" Subject: The role of critical thinking in the teaching/learning Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:18:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 704 (704) process This is a very interesting article that discusses "(1) the wide range of concepts found in the literature to define the term "critical thinking"; (2) present several models of critical thinking skills; and (3) offer some strategies for teaching and fostering critical thinking skills in the students". It is a review of literature by Phd. José Villalobos who is a active researcher and professor of the University of The Andes, Mérida-Venezuela. Reference: Villalobos, J. (2000). The role of critical thinking in the teaching/learning process. Entre Lenguas, 1 (5),5-17. to order contact: entrelen_at_ula.ve [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: spyware Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:14:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 705 (705) The Windows-using members of this group are likely to be interested in a new release from Microsoft, of AntiSpyware (beta 1), which from my brief trials of it would seem to root out things that several other such software leaves behind. Nasty things. It's free. See http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Katharine Patterson Subject: forwarded message from the CASLL list to Humanist Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:31:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 706 (706) [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Amritha Subject: Reminder: Online Copyright Courses Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:10:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 707 (707) (Cross-posted; please excuse duplication.) Just a reminder that Copyrightlaws.com will be offering four courses this Spring: U.S. Copyright Law Canadian and International Copyright Law Digital Licensing Online Managing Copyright Issues Further information and registration is at http://www.acteva.com/go/copyright or e-mail seminars_at_copyrightlaws.com Sincerely, Amritha amritha_at_copyrightlaws.com From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Early Registration Deadline: Academic Integrity Workshop Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:12:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 708 (708) REMINDER AND INVITATION *January 20, 2005!* is the Early Registration Deadline for the online workshop: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & BUILDING COMMUNITY ONLINE http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/ This, the second of two workshops offered in the annual workshop series, will be moderated by Kimberly Kelley, Ph.D., Associate Provost of Information and Library Services and Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, University of Maryland University College and Steven W. Gilbert, Ed. M., M.B.A., President, The TLT Group, and will run from February 7 to February 18, 2005. Don't miss out on an opportunity to learn new techniques and discuss the latest research on community building and academic integrity! This is an online, asynchronous seminar in which participants are active at times convenient to them. For additional information call 240-582-2734 or 1-800-283-6832, extension 2734 or visit our web site to register online. Workshop- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#ai Moderators- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/moderators.html Registration- https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm -Olga Francois Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Digital Future online Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:14:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 709 (709) Some here may know of the U.S. Library of Congress' "The Digital Future", a 7-part television series that began 15 November and runs until March. Those already broadcast have been archived and are online. On Monday, 31 January, Brian Cantwell Smith, now Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at Toronto, will give a talk entitled, "And Is All This Stuff Really Digital After All?" David M Levy, author of Scrolling Forward, will be speaking on 14 February. The three talks in March are by Lawrence Lessig, Ed Ayers and Neil Gershenfeld. See http://www.c-span.org/congress/digitalfuture.asp for the specifics. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 5.42 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:14:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 710 (710) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 5, Issue 42 (January 1 - January 18, 2005) INTERVIEW Mihai Nadin on Anticipatory Systems What is the difference between a falling stone and a falling cat? http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i42_nadin.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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: science fiction conference Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:13:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 711 (711) CALL FOR PAPERS THE 21ST EATON CONFERENCE THE SCIENCE FICTION MUSEUM, SEATTLE MAY 5-7, 2005 TOPIC: INVENTING THE 21ST CENTURY: Many Worlds, Many Histories Science fiction emerged in the 20th century as the literary, artistic and cinematic genre that dealt with scientific and technological advances and their relation to human institutions and aspirations. It shaped the way we see and do things, the way we dreamt of things to come. But what will be its role in the 21st century? What does a look at the SF of the last decade and events leading to it, tell us about future directions and metamorphoses of SF? In a century where the themes and icons of SF have moved from literary origins to manifestations in all areas of society and culture, what might be the future forms of SF? In other words, to paraphrase Gauguin, where is it coming from, what is it today, where is it going? The conference invites informed papers on development in SF over the last century.., both the scientific and cultural developments that have been shaping SF, and in the opposite sense, the developments in SF that have been shaping science and, more broadly, culture. Scientific areas of comparison and speculation in which discussions are most sought are as follows: medicine, biology, nanotechnology, social engineering, information science, virtual reality, space travel and terraforming, ecology and population biology, linguistics and alien communication. One key question, regardless of scientific field of speculation, is the continued role of print SF (novels and stories) in all media, including all the new multi-media and interactive forms of SF that have arisen, or may arise in the future, and how, in reverse fashion, these transformations of SF have led to reshaping of the conventional forms of narrative in recent SF novels and stories? The conference will have four sections, organized around the following areas of investigation. The Astounding Age: The Past, Present and Future of Hard SF. Under consideration here is the legacy of Astounding Stories, and the way in which Astounding Stories altered the course of SF in its 75 years of existence. Also under consideration will be how Astounding Stories influenced our scientific investigations and discoveries, if at all. From Analog to Digital and Sometimes Back Again: The SF World and Its Tomorrows. This section deals with film, television, toys, video games, architecture, product design and other manifestations of SF seen not merely as a type of writing but as a worldview. What have been the relations between non-literary forms and classical written SF? How are the new forms of SF, multimedia or otherwise, likely to influence the writing of SF? Remembrance of Things To Come: Future Histories and Alternate Histories. Examined here is the rise of future and alternate history as an SF thought experiment, and the analysis of such experiments in present and future social and cultural contexts. What purposes have future and alternate histories served? What purpose can they serve? What can be learned from them? The Frankenstein Century: The Age of Biology. Under consideration is the oft-expressed idea that the science of the new century is that of biology. Under consideration will be questions of reproduction, life extension and immortality, augmentation, and guided evolution. How will the stories of SF be influenced by the dramatic changes in actual science? We encourage potential speakers to submit an abstract of their talk in a chosen session by March 1, 2005, in order to obtain feedback on the appropriateness of their presentation. While full papers are encouraged, oral presentations, even with added video, are acceptable. Please feel free to contact either Profs. Heath or Slusser with any questions. Finished presentations should be delivered as 20-25 minutes papers (corresponding to 9-12 typewritten pages). We hope to have the best papers published in book form, as has been done in past Eaton Conferences. Presentation selection and a complete program will be announced March 28, 2005. All correspondence should be sent to either Robert Heath at heath_at_citrus.ucr.edu, or George Slusser at george.slusser_at_ucr.edu or, by mail, at Eaton Collection, Rivera Library, UC Riverside, Riverside CA 92517. Conference Coordinators: Greg Bear (SF Museum); Robert Heath (UCR); Leslie Howle (SF Museum); and George Slusser (UCR). Organizing Committee: Paul Alkon (USC), Gregory Benford (UCI), Howard Hendrix (CSU Fresno), Larry McCaffery (SDSU), Joseph Miller (USC), Toby Miller (UCR), and Eric S. Rabkin (University of Michigan). ------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin_at_umich.edu <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/>http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 18.482 imaging Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:10:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 712 (712) On the other hand, see Jacques Hadamard, The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, already decades old. It was published by Dover; Hadamard's thesis is that even the 'doing' of mathematics is essentially non-verbal, non-linguistic; there is extensive data in it, including testimony by Einstein who talks about moving grey shapes. I know when I'm programming or otherwise dealing with technical issues (which admittedly I'm fairly much a novice), I never think in terms of code - again, only in moving shapes around. The verbal/coded output comes much later in the game. - Alan nettext http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/ http://www.asondheim.org/ WVU 2004 projects: http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/ http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.482 imaging Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:11:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 713 (713) Many thanks to Jim Marchand for the equistely extensive response. Just to clarify, my intent was to canvas opinions and ideas about how digital imaging can serve content analysis. What I had in mind in particular was the what could be called the "the line of gaze" or the eye-contact (or lack thereof) between the figures depicted in an image. In the interests of brevity, I omitted the stories that led to the posing of the question. For those with time and inclination, here is a little meander through some scholarship and through some exhibition notes. The question is triggered by two encounters. Trigger The Jacquard tapestries in Freda Guttman's exhibition Notes from the 20th: _In Memoriam_ and Walter include a recontextualization of Klee's "Angelus Novus". This rendition and in the particular manner in which is mounted makes one return the ninth of Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History. The depicted angel doesn't quite look as if it's looking backwards and indeed a rereading highligths the suggestiveness of Benjamin's prose which indicates that the angel appears to be about to turn away from something. It is not just having a reproduction of the Klee painting at hand that leads to a reappraisal of the relations between the angel from the painting, the angel from the excerpt from poem by Scholem which Benjamin places as an epigraphy to the ninth thesis and the angel caught in Benjamin's storytelling whose image is taken up again by artists such as Laurie Anderson in her music. It is very much having a partition over the reproduction -- Guttman places the tapestry as the speaker screen in a refurbished radio (an older model from the period when a radios were items of furniture) -- that guides the viewer to be attentive to the position of the feet and the orientation of the eyes of the depicted figure. Just what counts as backwards is very much a question of "as though". The Other Trigger Lynne Pearce in Woman Image Text: Readings in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature suggests that the figure depicted in John Everett Millais's _Mariana_ is caught in a distinctive moment: "Mariana is presenting her body for inspection, while she gazes desirously into the eyes of the Archangel Gabriel represented in the stained glass." Curious to observe if the gaze is returned, one turns to plate three to inspect the reproduction. Inclusive. Indeed it is difficult to confirm that the figure of Mariana is indeed looking at the angel. However, one notices that plate three (_Mariana_) is situated on the right page and plate two (_Beata Beatrix_ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) on the left page of the open book and that the figures of Mariana and Beatrix by their positions as reproduced in the book might be seen to converge on the stained glass angel. He may be looking at her but is she looking at him? Reproductions in Pearce's sources are marshalled to make the claim. The article "Subliminal Dreams" by George MacBeth in _Narrative Art_ edited by John Ashbury and Thomas B. Hess provides a black and white detail of the upper left quadrant followed by a colour reproduction. The layout induces a subtle repetition: left page the b&w detail, right page the first page of the article, [turn the page] left page the colour reproduction of the full painting. The manner of the disposition of the illustrations supports the critical story that is being offered. Interestingly Pearce in introducing a quotation from Andrew Leng's article that quotes Macbeth's article fails to mention that Leng remarks upon the tone of Macbeth's "post-Freudian enthusiasm" in whose prose "[t]he erotic implications of the painting which Ruskin ignored are made abundantly if facetiously clear [...]". Leng's article is now available on the Victorian Web. In "Millais's "Mariana": Literary Painting, the Pre-Raphelite Gothic, and the Iconology of the Marian Artist", Leng draws upon how knowledge of Tennyson's poem affects the reading of the painting. In the online verision of the article there is to be found a thumbnail reproduction of the painting that is hot linked to a larger image. [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. [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: clatter after the silence Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:33:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 714 (714) Dear colleagues: At least one member of this group inferred from the long silence of Humanist that something might be seriously amiss in my corner of the world. Actually the problem was 5 time-zones away, in Virginia, where the recent move of a machine left some bits behind. Thanks to the kind, quick and skilled help of Shayne Brandon of IATH, however, the problem was fixed this evening. If anyone's to blame, I am, for failing to make noise about the apparent malfunctioning of the Virginia machine earlier than today. Anyhow, all's well. You should be receiving a clatter of messages now from the breakup of the log-jam -- unfortunately not with Humanist's name on them but mine. Yours, with best wishes for 2005, 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta ! Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:03:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 715 (715) Have a look at (mixed) reviews of Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 http://www.pcworld.com/resource/spyware/0,tk,sbx,00.asp (I find the free programs recommended by PC Magazine to work pretty well, as indicated on their website.) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1750254,00.asp http://www.pcmag.co.uk/downloads/1160410 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1749935,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX1K000 0530 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett NYU From: "Nguyen, Julia" Subject: NEH summer seminars and institutes Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:02:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 716 (716) The National Endowment for the Humanities is seeking potential project directors for seminars and institutes to be held during the summer of 2006. If you could post the announcement below to your list, we would be most appreciative. Thank you, Julia Huston Nguyen, Ph.D. Senior Program Officer Division of Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20506 (202) 606-8213 jnguyen_at_neh.gov ******************************************************************* ANNOUNCING: National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) Applications to Conduct an NEH Seminar or Institute in Summer 2006 Application Deadline: March 1, 2005. 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 28 projects for school teachers and 32 for college and university faculty in the summer of 2005. 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 2006, 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. Additionally, the director's compensation and the participants' stipends were increased last year. 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_at_neh.gov Douglas Arnold 202-606-8225 darnold_at_neh.gov Barbara Ashbrook 202-606-8388 bashbrook_at_neh.gov Sonia Feigenbaum 202-606-8490 sfeigenbaum_at_neh.gov Gary Henrickson 202-606-8241 ghenrickson_at_neh.gov Judith Jeffrey Howard 202-606-8398 jhoward_at_neh.gov Julia Nguyen 202-606-8213 jnguyen_at_neh.gov Robert Sayers 202-606-8215 rsayers_at_neh.gov From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 18.459 Humanist and blogging Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:41:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 717 (717) On 04/01/2005, at 7:25 PM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]a bad idea :-) blogs work best as individual's writing, or at best small collectives. This is their strength and why they have developed so rapidly and successfully. They are poor tools for large collaborations. I'd suggest email lists remain by far the more effective way to conduct the sorts of conversations that go on here. cheers Adrian Miles +++++++++++++++++++++ http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/ From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.484 blogging and v(l)ogging Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:42:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 718 (718) Norman Gray writes: [deleted quotation]As with any genre/format/medium, it's difficult to make general assertions about blogs and have them stick. To be sure, some blogs are like Norman's description of a commonplace book--I hope Geoffrey Rockwell doesn't mind if I suggest his as an example--but many are also conceived and written for an assumed audience (eg., the ur-blog Justin's Links). I suspect the illusion of reading over someone's shoulder is deceptive, and that bloggers are more performative in their writing than we tend to acknowledge. Matt -- Please note: mk235_at_umail.umd.edu is an UNRELIABLE address. Please change my address to * mgk_at_umd.edu * in your address books. Mail sent to mgk_at_umd.edu is currently being reflected to my Gmail account, mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com; you may send to that address too, but addressing your message to mgk_at_umd.edu will ensure that it is always forwarded to wherever I am currently receiving my mail. Thank you, and apologies for the inconvenience. -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: January 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:47:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 719 (719) Greetings: The January 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, one conference report, the '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 'Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: A Documentary History' from the Oregon State University Libraries. The articles include: Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries Sean Fox, Cathy Manduca, and Ellen Iverson, Carleton College Trend Analysis of the Digital Library Community Johan Bollen, Michael L. Nelson, Giridhar Manepalli, Giridhar Nandigam, and Suchitra Manepalli, Old Dominion University Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons, University of Rochester Transparent Format Migration of Preserved Web Content David S. H. Rosenthal, Thomas Lipkis, Thomas S. Robertson, and Seth Morabito, Stanford University The Conference Report is: Report on the 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2004): 13 - 17 December 2004, Shanghai, China Su-Shing Chen, University of Florida From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.1 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:48:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 720 (720) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 1 (January 18 - February 1, 2005) INTERVIEW Czerwinski on Vizualization Displays to the Right, Displays to the Left, Displays Everywhere. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i1czerwinski.html From: Haradda_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 18.485 computing and composition theory Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:44:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 721 (721) In a message dated 1/19/2005 3:56:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, willard.mccarty_at_KCL.AC.UK writes: [deleted quotation]I use a little program called web2text that handles just about everything. You do have to do a little clean up on the quotes and dashes in most cases. David Reed From: "Heyward Ehrlich" Subject: Re: 18.485 computing and composition theory Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:44:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 722 (722) The best way is to instruct students to use Word and Word Perfect to start out by saving all files in text mode -- no codes. The graphical word processors like Word and Word Perfect won the battle a decade ago. But plain text editors like Notepad, Textpad, BBedit, Qedit, etc, still exist. The only HTML codes that are really necessary for writing students to know are line breaks
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to make paragraph breaks with normal line wrapping. You need a text editor that understands carriage returns. If your browser can display these Word files use "Save as" text to create plain files. Or you can define the file on the screen (CTRL-A) and then copy (CTRL-C) and paste (CTRL-V) to a another text file. Either way removes the formatting. Yes, I agree that the situation is maddening. Heyward Ehrlich ehrlich_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Dept of English, Rutgers University, Newark NJ From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 18.485 computing and composition theory Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:45:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 723 (723) Hi there, OpenOffice.org has an excellent word-processor in it which saves and loads HTML, and its HTML is nice and clean (in fact, in the v2 beta you can get now, it's XHTML). It can also read and write Word docs. And it's free. There's no reason to use MS Office nowadays. Cheers, Martin At 02:14 PM 19/01/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes_at_uvic.ca martin_at_mholmes.com mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: Adrian Miles Subject: publishing Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:43:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 724 (724) Dear List This is probably a delicate matter, and I imagine I might even be indiscreet. But here goes anyway. I am writing an essay that is to be included in an academic anthology. It is to be published by a North American academic press. I am receiving no financial recompense for my contribution. However, the contract for publication arrived this morning and contains: "Author does hereby grant and assign to [publisher] the entire literary property and all rights of whatsoever kind in the Contribution, and every part thereof, in the entire world, and agrees that the copyright may be taken and held in the name of [publisher]." It also explicitly says I can never receive anything for my contribution, but I am allowed to republish it in an anthology that is wholly and only my own work. My question come problem: 1. I don't agree nor intend to sign over my copyright for the entire universe, for all media, forever. Frankly the gall of such a request leaves me rather speechless. but being somewhat a junior in these realms: 2. is this par for the course? 3. I would expect a scientist to disagree strongly with such a contract, and as an online scholar with an awareness of the value of archives I have no intention of letting some publisher assume that they could happily repackage my work for whatever other contexts may be appropriate one day (or next week). 4. this issue isn't money, though frankly if they want copyright in perpetuity then I would expect a financial incentive. It is simply the principle that this is my work and I'm happy to grant copyright for this anthology, possibly including new editions and possible translations, but that's it. Any words of wisdom? Tales of woe? Or am I merely naive? -- cheers Adrian Miles ____________ hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog From: "Simone Albonico" Subject: Workshop at the University of Pavia, Italy Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:59:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 725 (725) A workshop on "Historical and philological studies and new technologies. Researches in progress" will take place on January 27th-28th 2005 at the Universita degli Studi di Pavia (Italy). Schedule and information about the workshop at the address: http://dobc.unipv.it/dipslamm/seminario2005/. The workshop is promoted by the Dipartimento di Scienza della Letteratura e dell'Arte medievale e moderna, in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Geografiche "Carlo M. Cipolla". For further information contact: albonico_at_unipv.it Nei giorni 27 e 28 gennaio 2005 si svolgera presso l'Universita degli Studi di Pavia un incontro dedicato a "Gli studi storico-filologici e le nuove tecnologie. Ricerche in corso". Programma del convegno e altre informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo http://dobc.unipv.it/dipslamm/seminario2005/. L'incontro e promosso dal Dipartimento di Scienza della Letteratura e dell'Arte medievale e moderna, in collaborazione col Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Geografiche "Carlo M. Cipolla".> Simone Albonico Dipartimento SLAMM Universita degli Studi di Pavia albonico_at_unipv.it From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Talk 1/20: Matt Zimmermanon on TEI tools Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:01:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 726 (726) The Computing in the Humanities User Group presents: Tools for Analysis and Presentataion for XML and TEI Texts Matt Zimmerman Humanities Computing Group NYU Thursday, January 20, 3:30 pm STG conference room, Grad Center, Tower E Matt will show and discuss software for presenting and for analyzing texts encoding in XML using the TEI guidelines, (http://www.tei-c.org) drawing on his knowledge as the head of the TEI Presentation tools group, and his own experience creating digital projects in the humanities at NYU. Matthew Zimmerman works for New York University's Humanities Computing Group. While at NYU Matthew has acted as a consultant to several encoding projects such as The Public Writings of Margaret Sanger, The Clerk's Tale, and James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo. He is the convener of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium's Presentation Tools special interest group and has most recently been elected to the board of directors of the TEI Consortium. His academic background is in Renaissance literature, History of English, and Humanities Computing. Directions to the STG Conference Room may be found at: http://www.stg.brown.edu/contact/stg_directions.html From: gardent_at_gallieni.loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Subject: CFP SEMDIAL Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:50:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 727 (727) Second Call for Papers DIALOR'05 NINTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) LORIA, Universite de Nancy I Nancy, France June 9-11 2005 Deadline: March 1st, 2005 Dialor'05 will be the ninth 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 Nancy, is a great place to visit. INVITED SPEAKERS: Justine CASSELL, Northwestern University (USA) Gerhard JAEGER, University of Bielefeld (Germany) Arthur GRAESSER, University of Memphis (USA) 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; for more information see the following.] Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include: (see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ ) MunDial'97 (Munich) (http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html) Twendial'98 (Twente) (http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html) Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam) (http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/) Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg) (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog) Bidialog'01 (Bielefeld) (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG) EDILOG'02 (Edinburgh) (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/) DIABRUCK 2003 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ CATALOG'04 (Barcelona) http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/ From: "Iman Hafiz Poernomo" Subject: Constructive Logic for Automated Software Engineering (CLASE) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:52:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 728 (728) CALL FOR PAPERS Constructive Logic for Automated Software Engineering (CLASE 2005) http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/clase/ Satellite event of ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh, 3rd April 2005 Scope This workshop will provide an avenue for work that extends traditional methods that derive from constructive logic for synthesizing complex software. After more than 30 years of research, program synthesis using constructive logic constitutes a mature field with an established theory and set of best practices. Recent years have seen an interest in providing analogous results to other logical systems and programming languages. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of constructive logic and its methods to automated software engineering technology. This workshop will provide an avenue for work that extends traditional methods that derive from constructive logic for synthesizing complex software. Software engineering is concerned with processes and techniques for analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software systems. Automated software engineering is concerned with computational techniques to automate these tasks (at least partially) in order to aid reliability, trustworthiness and productivity of code and of the engineering process itself. The application of constructive logic to small-scale functional program synthesis is well known. One pervasive idea is that the constructive content of a proof of a formula can be transformed into a functional program that satisfies the formula when the latter is regarded as a specification. Such work, based upon the Curry-Howard isomorphism and higher-order type theory, constitutes the area referred to as the proofs-as-programs paradigm. [material deleted] From: "Manfred Sailer" Subject: ESSLLI Workshop on Challenges & Alternatives to Strict Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:53:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 729 (729) Compositionality T First Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Emprical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives to Strict Compositionality URL: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/ August 8-12, 2005 organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Purpose: Compositionality has been a key methodological theme in natural language semantics. Recently, a number of innovative systems for combinatorial semantics have been proposed which seem not to obey compositionality at first sight. Such systems are based on unification, underspecification, linear logic or categorial grammar, to name the most prominent research areas. The motivation behind these systems is often computational, but the mechanisms they employ also provide new insights and analytical alternatives for outstanding problems in the combinatorial semantics of natural languages. These include scope ambiguities, multiple exponents of semantic operators, cohesion, ellipsis, coordination, and modifier attachment ambiguities. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers whose interests lie in empirical issues or logic. It will give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI. We wish to invite papers discussing linguistic data which pose a challenge to compositionality as well as papers presenting new mechanisms for defining a compositional semantics which can address well-known challenges in innovative ways. [material deleted] About the workshop: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/ About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ From: Paul Dekker Subject: ESSLLI 05, Edinburgh, Call for Proposals Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:54:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 730 (730) 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>. [material deleted] From: Ruth Kempson Subject: ESSLLI2005 workshop Second Call : Foundations of Natural Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:55:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 731 (731) Language Grammar SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS: apologies for multiple copies Foundations of Natural-Language Grammar http://semantics.phil.kcl.ac.uk/ldsnl/ESSLLI05-Workshop-Foundations_of_Natural_Language_Grammar/index.htm August 16th -20th, 2005 Organized as part of European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 9-20^th August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Organizers: Ruth Kempson, kempson_at_dcs.kcl.ac.uk Glyn Morrill, morrill_at_lsi.upc.es Workshop Purpose: Both logic and computation bring standards to bear on grammar formalism which raise challenges for its psychological interpretation. In recent years approaches have consolidated their methodology in ways which are sometimes similar, sometimes distinct. On the one hand, opposing views often sustain an essentially common methodology: amongst these are the disputes over the relationship between syntax and semantics within a grammar, the number of levels to be articulated in a grammar, and the nature of the mappings between them. On the other hand, in recent years, there has been growing interest across a number of theoretical frameworks in defining grammar formalisms for natural language which make available stronger forms of psychological interpretation of the formalism than is standard, giving rise to new ways of articulating the relationship between grammar formalism and natural-language data. This workshop aims to provide a forum for explicit discussion of these and other foundational issues in articulating grammar formalisms for natural language. The workshop aims to bring together not only colleagues with established work in individual research programs, but also advanced PhD students and researchers, so that both groups can present and discuss foundational issues underpinning their work with colleagues and researchers working in affiliated fields. [material deleted] From: saggion Subject: CFP: RANLP 2005 Workshop in Summarization Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:56:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 732 (732) Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research Workshop to be help in conjunction with *** RANLP 2005 *** Borovets - Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005 *** 24th of September 2005 *** First Call for Papers An abstract or summary is a text of a recognisable genre with a very specific purpose: to give the reader an exact and concise knowledge of the contents of a source document. In most cases, summaries are written by humans, but nowadays, the overwhelming quantity of information and the need to access the essential content of documents accurately to satisfy users' demands has made of Automatic Text Summarization a major research field. Most summarization solutions developed today perform sentence extraction, a useful, yet sometimes inadequate technique. In order to move from the sentence extraction paradigm to a more challenging, semantically and linguistically motivated 'abstracting' paradigm, significant linguistic (i.e., lexicons, grammars, etc.) as well as non-linguistic knowledge (i.e., ontologies, scripts, etc.) will be required. Some 'abstracting' problems like 'headline generation', have been recently addressed using language models that rely on little semantic information, what are the limits of these approaches when trying to generate multi-sentence discourses? What tools are there to support 'text abstraction'? What type of natural language generation techniques are appropriate in this context? Are general purpose natural language generation systems appropriate in this task? Professional abstractors play a mayor role in dissemination of information through abstract writing, and their work has many times inspired research on automatic text summarization, they are certainly one of the keys in the understanding of the summarization process. Therefore, what tools are there to support Computer-Assisted Summarization and more specifically how these tools can be used to capture 'professional summarization' knowledge? In a multi-lingual context, summaries are useful instruments in overcoming the language barrier: cross-lingual summaries help users assess the relevance of the source, before deciding to obtain a good human translation of the source. This topic is particularly important in a context where the relevant information only exists in a language different from that of the user. What techniques are there to attack this new and challenging issue? What corpora would be appropriate for the study of this task? The ``news'' has been a traditional concern of summarization research, but we have seen, in the past few years, an increasing interest for summarization applications on technical and scientific texts, patient records, sport events, legal texts, educative material, e-mails, web pages, etc. The question then, is how to adapt summarization algorithms to new domains and genres. Machine learning algorithms over superficial features have been used in the past to decide upon a number of indicators of content relevance, but when the feature space is huge or when more ``linguistically'' motivated features are required, and as a consequence the data sparseness problem appears, what learning tools are more appropriate for training our summarization algorithms? What types of models should be learned (e.g., macrostructures, scripts, thematic structures, etc.)? Text summarization, information retrieval, and question answering support humans in gathering vital information in everyday activities. How these tools can be effectively integrated in practical applications? and how such applications can be evaluated in a practical context? [material deleted] From: Shuly Wintner Subject: FG-MOL 2005: Call for Papers Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:56:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 733 (733) FG-MOL 2005: http://www.formalgrammar.tk The 10th conference on Formal Grammar and The 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language Collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ Edinburgh, Scotland, 5-7 August 2005 Sponsored by The Association for the Mathematics of Language (ACL SigMoL) Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems/Human Communication Research Centre , University of Edinburgh The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Call for Papers Background FG-MOL 2005 is the 10th conference on Formal Grammar and the 9th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, to be held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 2005 in Edinburgh. Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003) and Nancy (2004). MoL meetings are organized biennially by the Association for Mathematics of Language, which is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics. This is the second time the two events are held in tandem, following the success of FG-MOL 2001. Aims and Scope FG-MOL provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, * formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * logical aspects of linguistic structure; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * learnability of formal grammar; * integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar; * mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis. Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks. [material deleted] From: "Spenader J.K." Subject: Second-CFP: Cross modular approaches to ellipsis: ESSLLI Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:58:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 734 (734) workshop Second Call for Papers *********************************************************************************** Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis *********************************************************************************** Workshop August 8-12, and organized as part of the 17th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) August 8-19, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland Workshop Organizers: Jennifer Spenader (j.spenader(a)gmail.com) Petra Hendriks (p.hendriks(a)let.rug.nl) Workshop Purpose The area of ellipsis resolution and generation has long been neglected in work on natural language processing, and there are few examples of systems or computational algorithms. However, the misuse or non-use of ellipsis in highly preferred contexts can make a dialogue difficult to understand similar to the way inappropriate referential expressions can impede comprehension. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to present data that give insights into the nature and function of ellipsis from a discourse perspective as well as present methods to deal with ellipsis in NLP applications. Additionally, we encourage discussion about how information from several knowledge sources (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, world knowledge) can be used to resolve and generate elliptical expressions, emphasizing approaches that draw on empirical results or have been tested in actual implementations. [material deleted] Further information: About the workshop: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~spenader/Ellipsis_Workshop.html About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05 From: Terry Butler Subject: Conference on Leopardi Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:59:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 735 (735) [deleted quotation]Terry Butler Director, Research Computing Arts Resource Centre www.arts.ualberta.ca/~tbutler From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: RE: 18.499 computing and composition Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 736 (736) ON CLEANING UP HTML FILES David Reed wrote: --------------------------------------------- In a message dated 1/19/2005 3:56:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, willard.mccarty_at_KCL.AC.UK writes: [deleted quotation]I use a little program called web2text that handles just about everything. You do have to do a little clean up on the quotes and dashes in most cases. David Reed --------------------------------------------- One simple approach is to save WORD files as RTF (Rich Text Format). This strips out most of the junk, and I then import the RTF file into FrontPage, for example. _________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank Professor Emeritus Comp. Sci. & Eng. 1520 Sherwood Ave., East Lansing MI 48823-1885 Ph. 517.337.1545 FAX 517.337.1665 http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publications Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:06:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 737 (737) (1) Volume 8 Number 1 of Computing and Visualization in Science is now=20 available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Regular article The NumLab numerical laboratory for computation and visualisation p. 1 J. Maubach, A. Telea DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0142-3 Regular article A study of motion recognition from video sequences p. 19 Xiang Yu, Simon X. Yang DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0143-2 Regular article Cross-diffusion controlled particle dissolution in metallic alloys p. 27 F.J. Vermolen, C. Vuik, S. van der Zwaag DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0144-1 Regular article On a modular architecture for finite element systems. I. Sequential=20 codes p. 35 Krzysztof Banas DOI: 10.1007/s00791-004-0145-0 (2) Volume 9 Number 1 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on= =20 the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Original Article A memory aid with remote communication using distributed technology p. 1 Andrea Szymkowiak, Kenny Morrison, Peter Gregor, Prveen Shah, Jonathan J.=20 Evans, Barbara A. Wilson DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0259-x Original Article The design of the SensVest p. 6 James F. Knight, Anthony Schwirtz, Fotis Psomadelis, Chris Baber, Huw W.=20 Bristow, Theodoros N. Arvanitis DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0269-8 Original Article On location models for ubiquitous computing p. 20 Christian Becker, Frank D=FCrr DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0270-2 Original Article Spatial metaphors for a speech-based mobile city guide service p. 32 Mark Howell, Steve Love, Mark Turner DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0271-1 Original Article TimeSpace: activity-based temporal visualisation of personal information=20 spaces p. 46 Aparna Krishnan, Steve Jones DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0291-x [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London=20 WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: research positions 2005-3 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:01:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 738 (738) Apologies for multiple posting! Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few research positions may be available starting in the interval November 2005 - October 2006 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the group (the host institute) is: <http://www.grlmc.com>http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ELIGIBLE TOPICS The eligible topics are the group's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. JOB PROFILE - The positions are intended to develop an advanced training + research project in collaboration with the host institute during 12-24 months. - They will be filled in under the form of either a work contract or a scholarship. - There is no restriction on the candidate's age. - Though there is no particular preference, candidates in the first decade of their research career are encouraged to apply. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - Having at least 4 years of postgraduate research experience or having got a PhD degree by October 16, 2005 at the latest. - Being national of one of the 25 European Union member states or of one of the 4 European Union associated candidate states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Turkey) or of one of the 5 European Union associated states (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland), who has not resided and carried out her/his main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the last 3 years (reference date: February 16, 2005). - Spaniards are ineligible unless they have resided and carried out their main activity in a third country for at least 4 of the last 5 years (reference date: February 16, 2005). ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - They include: a generous monthly salary depending on the researcher's experience, family situation, and sort of project (lab or non-lab), plus a travel and mobility grant, and a health insurance. - Candidates from developing countries or emerging/transition economies will be eligible later for a reintegration grant in their home country for half the time they spent in Spain. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 stages: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a proposal, to be evaluated by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until January 30, 2005. They should include the researcher's full CV and mention "2005-3" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. For the preselected candidates, the deadline for the submission of the proposal will be February 16, 2005. Directions, advice and support will be given to them by the host institute. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: Helen Ashman Subject: JCDL 2005: Announcing Keynote Speakers, Conference Updates Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:03:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 739 (739) --------------------------------------------------------------- The following people have been selected to deliver keynote addresses to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2005: Hector Garcia-Molina, Ph.D. Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Deanna Marcum, Ph.D. Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress Guy (Bud) Tribble, M.D.-Ph.D. Vice President of Software Technology, Apple Their expertise in disciplines critical to a national cyberinfrastructure will provide a context for and further the dialog about the role of digital libraries in an evolving framework of computation, information management, networking, and intelligent sensing. Reach more about each speaker at the conference website: www.jcdl2005.org --------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Electronic paper submission is open - January 27, 2005: Submission deadline for full papers, panels, and tutorials - February 10, 2005: Submission deadline for short papers, workshops, demonstrations, and posters - April 18, 2005: Advance registration opens online --------------------------------------------------------------- Note to international attendees If you need a letter of invitation to accompany your visa request, please contact Ginger Ignatoff directly at ACM (Ignatoff_at_hq.acm.org). --------------------------------------------------------------- Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2005 Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education June 7-11, 2005 Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.jcdl2005.org/ Contact: info_at_jcdl2005.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is (digital) culture? Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:59:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 740 (740) My question proceeds from a need to understand what I am currently and officially doing, that is, teaching and professing "the digital humanities", which would seem to me to be a form of "digital culture". If digital culture is the right phrase, then I am thinking that it is a kind of culture, and so I come to ask, What is culture? I would be very grateful for pointers to essays & books that have taken up the question of what culture is. Please assume I know nothing whatever about this, if you would, and suggest what I might read in order to grasp current thinking about the nature of culture. I would prefer writings that actually address the question rather than simply use the term in a discussion of some variety of it. Many thanks. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Adrian Miles Subject: publishing Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:43:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 741 (741) Dear List This is probably a delicate matter, and I imagine I might even be indiscreet. But here goes anyway. I am writing an essay that is to be included in an academic anthology. It is to be published by a North American academic press. I am receiving no financial recompense for my contribution. However, the contract for publication arrived this morning and contains: "Author does hereby grant and assign to [publisher] the entire literary property and all rights of whatsoever kind in the Contribution, and every part thereof, in the entire world, and agrees that the copyright may be taken and held in the name of [publisher]." It also explicitly says I can never receive anything for my contribution, but I am allowed to republish it in an anthology that is wholly and only my own work. My question come problem: 1. I don't agree nor intend to sign over my copyright for the entire universe, for all media, forever. Frankly the gall of such a request leaves me rather speechless. but being somewhat a junior in these realms: 2. is this par for the course? 3. I would expect a scientist to disagree strongly with such a contract, and as an online scholar with an awareness of the value of archives I have no intention of letting some publisher assume that they could happily repackage my work for whatever other contexts may be appropriate one day (or next week). 4. this issue isn't money, though frankly if they want copyright in perpetuity then I would expect a financial incentive. It is simply the principle that this is my work and I'm happy to grant copyright for this anthology, possibly including new editions and possible translations, but that's it. Any words of wisdom? Tales of woe? Or am I merely naive? -- cheers Adrian Miles ____________ hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.504 author's rights? Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:55:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 742 (742) Mr. Miles, all I can tell you from personal experience is that I have written articles that were published in 'scholarly journals' which were later reprinted by commercial publishing firms (which presumably got money for the anthologies in which they appeared) and if any money changed hands, it all went ot the scholarly journal, none of it to me. Once when I asked an editor of such a journal he said that of course I would want the enterprise of scholarship to continue, so I should be glad to see such payments made to help scholarly journals. Most of us get 'paid' for such publication by promotions, pay raises, tenure, etc. in our professions. Faculty (humanities faculty, at least) who want to make money from their writings generally have to write text books. From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 18.504 author's rights? Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:56:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 743 (743) I've found most publishers to be flexible, and willing to adapt to reasonable revisions requested by author or editor. My advice, in descending order of importance (sort of), is: 1. Never give away your right to hold the copyright. 2. Never give away your right to your electronic version and subsequent revisions (many publishers still don't think of this sort of "publication"). 3. If for some reason, you must give over print copyright, specify conditions under which you automatically recover it -- e.g. if the book goes out of print for three years or more, or if the publisher acts contrary to the contract. 4. If for some reason you must give over electronic rights, specify for how long (e.g. 3 years), and what sort of uses are permissible (e.g. CD-ROM, internet). 5. Specify that if the publisher creates or authorizes a situation in which additional profit is realized by the republication, translation, reuse, etc., of your work, you receive an appropriate percentage of that profit. Basically, don't give up your rights to your work except possibly for a limited time and under strict controls. And be very aware of the actual and potential value of controlling electronic publication as well as print publication. Bob Kraft -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 kraft_at_ccat.sas.upenn.edu http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html From: Stewart Arneil Subject: Re: 18.504 author's rights? Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:00:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 744 (744) Hi As for "galling request": The publisher can ask for whatever terms they want, just as you can. It's a negotiation to arrive at mutually acceptable terms, or agree to go separate ways. As for "par for the course": The new technologies of distribution have caused publishers to reconsider terms for intellectual property rights, and my impression is that the nobody is sure what's reasonable. I'm not surprised to see a publisher claiming everything they can, but by the same token different publishers will offer different terms. You're position is clearly in conflict with the publisher's position, so you'll either need to find another publisher or both you and your publisher will have to compromise. As for the "am I naive": I'm assuming from your email address that you are an employee. The vast majority of salaried people producing material (including scientists) have virtually no rights over, let alone own, what they produce -- their employers or contractees do. Academics in academic institutions are the exception. The new technologies of distribution have also caused academic institutions to reconsider terms for intellectual property rights. I think it is to some degree naive to assume that you can accept pay from somebody for work and then you have complete control over that work and they have none. Your contract with your employer presumably spells out terms. Those terms may constrain what you are able to agree to with a publisher. [deleted quotation]-- Stewart Arneil Head of Research and Development, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, Canada From: "Milena Dobreva" Subject: ElPub 2005: workshops; deadline extended to 31 January Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:32:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 745 (745) Dear colleague, The 9th ICCC conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub 2005) which will be held in Leuven, Belgium, 8-10 June 2004, will offer the following workshops on 8 June. The workshops will be organised in two parallel tracks, one of them on institutional repositories (workshops 4-6). 1. Investigating e-Publishing Trends Prof. Dr. Caroline Pauwels, SMIT/Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Dr. Myriam Diocaretz, European Centre for Digital Communication/Infonomics, The Netherlands 2. Electronic publishing of mathematics Prof. Dr. Bernd Wegner, Technical University Berlin, Germany, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Milena Dobreva, IMI-BAS, Bulgaria 3. Enterprise Information Architecture for Cultural Institutions Paul Kahn, Kahn+Associates, France 4. Implementing and Filling Institutional Repositories Leslie Chan, Rea Devakos, Gabriela Mircea, University of Toronto, Canada 5. elpub.scix.net Assoc.-Prof.Dr. Bob Martens, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 6. Integrated tools for electronic publishing of academic contents Dr. Susanna Mornati, CILEA, Italy The call for papers is still open until January 31, please visit the website www.elpub.net for more details. Yours truly, Milena Dobreva, ElPub Program Committee Chair ***Please accept my excuses for cross-posting From: No Name Available Subject: Hypertext '05: Call for Papers Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:33:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 746 (746) CFP - HYPERTEXT 2005 Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia http://www.ht05.org/ The 16th International ACM Conference on "Hypertext and Hypermedia: Concepts and Tools for Supporting Knowledge Workers" will be held in Salzburg, Austria, on 6-9 September 2005. Following in the footsteps of early hypertext pioneers, the conference invites original contributions on concepts, methodologies and tools for supporting knowledge workers. HT 2005 invites scholars, researchers and practitioners from all disciplines to participate in this event and exchange ideas, theories and experiences regarding the use of hypermedia to augment the capabilities of knowledge workers. TOPICS In addition to interdisciplinary work describing the application of hypermedia concepts and technologies in other fields, HT 2005 encourages submissions that address broad topics, especially concerning one or more of the following themes: Hypermedia in Digital Libraries Hypermedia in the Humanities Hypermedia and Information Retrieval Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia Hypermedia Engineering Literary Hypermedia Ubiquitous and Physical Hypermedia Spatial Hypermedia Time and Synchronisation in Hypermedia Hypermedia Systems and Structures [material deleted] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Mouse Cursor Pointer Wrapping Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:31:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 747 (747) Willard, There has been a recent discussion on the Text Encoding Initiative discussion list about the merits of Emacs. In one of the postings there someone made reference to a report of observations. Part of that may merit the attention of subscribers to Humanist. Richard Wareham has an interesting piece housed at OSNews about his practical experience in introducing adult learners to computers. Worth reading just to consider the role of the mouse: The mouse was avoided initially. The command line is one-dimensional with a single point of concentration: the cursor. The vertical axis of the screen is always time and provides the newbie with a constant reminder of what they did along with a record to show their instructor when they have problems. Introducing a mouse causes the vertical axis to be both time and space depending on the nature of the program running. Also the users must get used to using a mouse, not easy for a new user let me assure you. Richard Wareham The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface? 2004 http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=6282 True as the mouse hurdle may be, something discomfits me in the description or rather unproblematized ascription of either time or space to any axis in the visual display. I recall certain augmented typwriters that allowed users to input before the keys hit the paper (and to backspace over mistakes before the keys hit the paper). The viewing field did not permit multiple lines. The input was displayed as one continuous line. The recollection of those machines makes me wonder about word wrapping -- the automatic movement of the cursor to the next line of the visual display. In the language of the typewriter patten, a line feed followed by a carriage return. Visually a line Break being also a simple line feed and not necessarily a line feed followed by carriage return. How a line break initiated by a keyboard command ["return"] behaves in the computer world of the euro languages is influenced by the model of left justified text. And word wrap is not the same as automating the insertion of EOLs (see for example wrapmargin setting in vi). I think Richard Wareham's essay points towards not so much mastering the mouse or the arrows on the keypad. It suggests perhaps that the first step is recognizing the curosr as a point of power. And distinguishing the cursor from a pointer is a crucial step in mastering mouse movements. It further suggests that an interface could be developed (and perhaps has been by creators of adaptive technology) where the pointer contolled from the keyboard in ways similar to expanding the point of power through set mark and variations thereof which usually provide feedback to the user via reverse video or its GUI equivalent, highlighted text. Do any of the subscribers to Humanist have any thoughts about the history of line breaking/word wrapping and what linkages there may be between that history and the history of how mouse behaviour came to map: selecting (via a pointer) onto double click, roll, click simply moving a cursor to a pointer position onto roll, click Something is eluding me. It may be in the shape or nature of a prompt /homes/lachance % -- 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: Patrick T Rourke Subject: Re: computing and composition theory Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:34:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 748 (748) I'm afraid that Word processors were always intended to be display editors, not text editors. Open up an old WordPerfect 5 file in your favorite hex editor. The markup is not human readable. Word processors were designed to create good-looking documents on paper, not on the screen. If you want comprehensible markup, you need to use a professional tool like FrameMaker. For your purposes, though, I'd recommend that students type everything in TextEdit, Notepad, or an email program. Besides, when one is learning composition, it is helpful to be deprived of the typographical niceties that distract us from more a rigorous prose style, such as italics and bold text and pagination. (I mention email because most email clients have a spell-checker.) You might want to try HTMLTidy for cleaning up Microsoft's HTML output; it's integrated in many text editors, including HTML-Kit for Windows. It won't get everything, but it will clean things somewhat. There's also a tool in many versions of Word that will output somewhat cleaner HTML. The missing line break problem sounds like a cross-platform issue. On Jan 19, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Patrick T Rourke Subject: Re: antispy software Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:33:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 749 (749) I've had a serious problem with Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 returning a false positive on the Acton Keylogger because our system management software includes unzdll.dll, a decompression library, which is also found in the keylogger. It also treated some network management software on my own computer as possibly "viral", but recognized it for what it was; the same with VNC. Use with caution; when they call it a beta, they mean it. It's worthwhile to try, though. Just make sure that you investigate some of the identifications it makes. Patrick Rourke On Jan 20, 2005, at 3:05 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Re: 18.508 what is (digital) culture? Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:31:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 750 (750) In asking about "digital culture," Willard solicits references on the=20 notion of "culture." Though the query may seem simple enough, it's likely to open a can of worms= =20 in certain contexts. At least, it would do so with cultural anthropologists= =20 who (still) specify their approaches by devising their own definitions of=20 the concept of culture. Rather early in the game, Kroeber and Kluckhohn=20 were able to publish a survey of dozens of those definitions. The situation= =20 hasn't become much easier for the casual reader of works in cultural=20 anthropology. Obviously, it might also open a can of worms with people familiar with (or= =20 involved in) "Cultural Studies," for whom defining culture is also a common= =20 activity. In this situation, the likely advice is to use a specialized encyclopedia.= =20 Here's one such thing (available both in print and through NetLibrary): Barnard, Alan and Jonathan Spencer (1988) Encyclopedia of Social and=20 Cultural Anthropology London: New York Routledge ISBN: 041509996X / 0203458036 The important issues and references to classical works defining culture=20 (including E. B. Tylor's /Primitive Culture/ (1871) and Kroeber and=20 Kluckhohn's /Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions/=20 (1952)) are clearly exposed in the entry on "Culture," pages 136=AD142. Interestingly, this entry (in a mostly British encyclopedia) does talk=20 about the reluctance of British anthropologists toward the concept of= culture. Does this help? Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW= =20 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: Ross Scaife Subject: Re: 18.511 author's rights Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:34:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 751 (751) [deleted quotation]Many thanks for these interesting links. When I follow the first one, for books, I see at the end under point 9 "Don't allow the existence of electronic and print-on-demand editions to render your book in print." I can understand the first part of this easily enough, an electronic edition being indeed different from a book, but why are authors also being advised to reject print-on-demand methods for their work? I ask because I am embarking on this very option right now, for a collection of peer-reviewed conference proceedings. We intend to publish the proceedings at the Stoa site so that readers may freely read online and/or print out each of the contributions, but we will also gather them all together and offer them as a very reasonably-priced book using the on-demand model via lulu.com. That way authors can correctly assert that their scholarship has ben peer-reviewed, they can say they have contributed a chapter to a book, they retain 100% of their rights, and readers have a full range of choices, from desultory browsing to having a tangible book in their hands on their shelf, if they so desire. I don't see the downside to this approach, and it seems to resolve many problems. Ross Scaife From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: RE: 18.516 author's rights Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:43:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 752 (752) [deleted quotation]for their work? I ask because I am embarking on this very option right now, for a collection of peer-reviewed conference proceedings. We intend to publish the proceedings at the Stoa site so that readers may freely read online and/or print out each of the contributions, but we will also gather them all together and offer them as a very reasonably-priced book using the on-demand model via lulu.com. That way authors can correctly assert that their scholarship has been peer-reviewed, they can say they have contributed a chapter to a book, they retain 100% of their rights, and readers have a full range of choices, from desultory browsing to having a tangible book in their hands on their shelf, if they so desire. I don't see the downside to this approach, and it seems to resolve many problems. Ross Scaife [deleted quotation]I do not know their reasoning, but would surmise that they want to protect an author's efforts to publish in book form, publish in paperback, and keep books in print. This is becoming much more of an issue as publishers of academic books opt to print fewer copies (as few as 350 is not uncommon), hardcover only, and at a high price. This limits the printed book to library sales. It may therefore be preferable to protect the print edition and for the publisher to invest more in its success, which would be undermined by a print-on-demand option, at least during the first few years of a book's life. An electronic edition is another animal. In the case you describe the print-on-demand option seems like a good idea, given the specialized nature of the publication and how you envision it being accessed. Although the Authors Guild is thinking more of the trade market than academic books, academics need to take heed. Does anyone have any experience with a publication that appears in one or more of these forms--physical book, electronic book, print-on-demand book? What are the economic and other implications for authors? Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Power of Plain Text Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:42:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 753 (753) Colleagues, Russ Hunt described some of the problems that students in composition might have with word processing and HTML formatting. Patrick Rourke and others (including yours truly) have offered plain text and/or email messages as alternatives to word processing and/or HTML formats. This discussion leads to interesting ideas about the power of plain text. Even without any formatting niceties (especially bold and italics), a text can be well-structured and correctly presented. Email messages, for instance, fit an interesting genre. The message header and contextual data are quite informative. For instance, in the context of a class assignment, the timestamp of a message can be very meaningful. The structure of replies in a thread is usually represented by some typographical device, often by series of '>' characters to designate the "level" of reply (reply of a reply of a reply). This structure of dialogue formatting is very specific and certainly has an impact on our conception of verbal communication. "Citation" formatting represents an easy and fast way to provide as much context as possible while leaving this context easy to ignore. Mailreaders which represent levels of reply in different colours make the task of reading a thread much easier. Of course, email messages can be sent in different formats, including HTML and RTF. But plain text certainly remains the dominant format for most email messages. Even messages sent in HTML or RTF rarely take advantage of formatting features not available in plain text. For email messages, plain text is almost as powerful as other formats. It is also much more compatible than any other format. But email messages represent a very specific genre with a unique structure. For actual compositions, it might be necessary to use additional formatting devices to represent other dimensions of text such as structure and emphasis. Interestingly enough, several of these formatting devices are available through simple markup of plain text documents. Some of these include conventions such as surrounding text with '*' to represent emphasis/boldface or using a single line to represent a section title. Some of these conventions are well-established and are supported by word processors. It might be a matter of opinion but text using these conventions might in fact be easier to read than the word processing version because the markers set clearer bounds than changes in typeface or text style. Obviously, these conventions are rather limited but they do serve most purposes for typical texts. Text markup can be taken to the next step without resorting to a complex formatting language. Among the many features of Wiki systems are simple markup methods. Unfortunately, these methods aren't standardized across different systems but they all serve the purpose of making formatting easy. http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TextFormattingRules http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/HowToUseWiki Similar systems exist for forum and email formatting, including BBCode and Markdown: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/faq.php?mode=bbcode http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics All of these markup systems are meant as easy methods to produce (X)HTML or other formatted text. Yet markup principles can apply to text which will be kept in the plain text domain. Obviously, plain text can easily be edited in text editors, which often have more features than word processors. Line numbers, word count, syntax colouring, timestamps, customizable keyboard shortcuts, balanced parentheses, automatic indentation, complex sorting, regular expression searches, incremental searches, access to scripts, etc. Given the power of plain text and these editing features, it seems that a good text editor is often a better choice over a word processor. Granted, several text editors are seen purely as "geek tools" and are "not for the faint of heart" (emacs and vi). But other text editors are more user-friendly than most word processors. In some cases, the boundary between word processors and text editors has been blurred to such an extent that the old concept of word processing seems antiquated. Also, most programs use text editing in one way or another and a dedicated application is often superfluous. On Mac OS X, for instance, all applications using the Cocoa framework share many editing features, including a common spell-checker (which can check spelling as you type) and customizable modules ("Services") allowing users to change capitalization, insert timestamps, or find selected text in a thesaurus. These features render word processors unnecessary for most common tasks. People who type email messages in Microsoft Word miss out on the power of plain text. Convincing students to use plain text as much as possible isn't merely a way to prevent file incompatibilities. It's a way to get them to think about text in a new way. Now, the next step will be to have them use outliners... ;-) Alex Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: Erik Hatcher Subject: Re: 18.515 mouse, editing and composition Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:47:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 754 (754) On Jan 22, 2005, at 4:41 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Some related reading... A fascinating read is "In the beginning was the command-line": http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html And Jef Raskin's Humane Interface work is interesting: http://humane.sourceforge.net/home/ And a screenshot of THE here: http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/screen_shot.html Erik From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 18.508 what is (digital) culture? Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:45:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 755 (755) Cher HUMANISTs, In addition to the excellent bibliographic suggestions offered by Alexandre Enkerli, let me add the following comments and suggestions. The last I saw any reference to it, the number of published definitions of "culture" run into the 100's (at least 160+). Part of this diversity, as Terry Eagleton helpfully explains in his _The Idea of Culture_, reflects the history of the term, as matched only by "nature" with regards to the range and variety of meanings attached to it. It is almost always easier to point out the deficits of such definitions, especially as they are taken up in CMC literature: these deficits at least correct initial assumptions that we and/or our students may carry around. These were helpfully summarized at CATaC'04 with regard to HCI literature as follows: Culture is taken for granted. BUT: There is no exhaustive definition for culture, so we have to choose our definition. Culture is not defined explicitly. THIS MEANS: We should always state clearly our suppositions of culture (or the suppositions of the theories and models we are using) and recognise their effects on our study. Culture is limited to national cultures. BUT: It is good to remember that culture does not exist at national level only. At least we should avoid assuming that there is one national culture for every country. Cultures are seen as coherent wholes. BUT: We should give up the idea that cultures are isolated wholes or that we could draw strict borders between them. Culture is seen in the role of maintenance (CE: what I call the "lump" theory of culture - i.e., as something singular, coherent, unchanging, and consistent: such notions, as postcolonial scholars remind us with particular force, are not simply false, but also work to justify exploitation of others whose "culture" is seen as fixed - and inferior). BUT: Culture is capable of both resistance and transformation. [From: Kampurri, Minna and Markku Tukainen. 2004. Culture in Human-Computer Interaction Studies: A survey of ideas and definitions. In F. Sudweeks and C. Ess (eds.), Proceedings: Cultural Attitudes Towards Communication and Technology 2004, 43-57. Murdoch, Western Australia: Murdoch University.] That said, Clifford Geertz is frequently cited (beginning with The Interpretation of Cultures, 1973), as is the work of Hall, Hannerz, and Hofstede: Hall, Edward. 1976. Beyond Culture. New York: Anchor Books. Hannerz, Ulf. 1992. Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning. New York: Columbia University Press. Hofstede, Geert. 1980. Culture=B9s Consequences: International Differences= in Work-related Values. Beverly Hills: Sage. ______. 1983. National cultures in four dimensions. International Studies of Management and Organization 13, 52-60. ______. 1984. The Cultural Relativity of the Quality of Life Concept. Academy of Management Review 9, 389-98. ______. 1991. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. London: McGraw-Hill. Hofstede, G. and Bond, M.H. 1988. The Confucius Connection: From Cultural Roots to Economic Growth. Organizational Dynamics 16 (4), 5-21. It must be quickly added, however, that these latter frameworks have come under increasingly criticism (Fay Sudweeks and I are co-editing a special issue on this topic - stay tuned!). (Fons Trompenaars and his colleagues have also been prolific, with a specific focus on business culture and profitability.) More broadly, Leah Macfadyen and her colleagues have recently published what is by far the most complete bibliography on culture and CMC: Macfadyen, L. P., Roche, J. and Doff, S. 2004. Communicating across Cultures in Cyberspace: A Bibliographical Review of Online Intercultural Communication. Hamburg: Lit-Verlag. Last but by no means least: some basic postcolonialist literature: Anzald=FAa, Gloria. 1987. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books. Bhabha, Homi K. 1994. The Location of Culture. London and New York: Routledge. Gajjala, Radhika. 2004. Cyberethnography: Reading South Asian Diasporas in Kyra Marie Landzelius <http://publications.uu.se/journals/1402-229X/113.pdf> (ed), Going Native on the Net: Indigenous Cyberactivism and Virtual Diasporas over the World Wide Web. London: Routledge. Singh, Amritjit and Peter Schmidt (eds.). 2000. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Magdaleno, Jana Sequoya. 2000. =B3How (!) Is an Indian? A Contest of= Stories, Round 2,=B2 In Singh and Schmidt (eds), 279-299. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1988. Can the Subaltern Speak? In Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, pp. 271-313. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ______. 1999. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. that's about all I know... Cheers and all best wishes, 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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.518 what culture is Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:04:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 756 (756) Out of date though it may be in some circles, I still refer questions of this sort to Raymond Williams, _Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society_. He has several pages specifically on 'culture' that are quite helpful. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Cross-Platform Praxis was Re: 18.485 computing and Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:03:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 757 (757) composition theory Russ Hunt via Katharine Patterson inveighs against Microsoft Word. Two points: I think it was pedagogically unwise to agree to take on for the student the reformating. I also think it is worth thinking of the software package as a suite of tools. From the days when translation facitities in Wordprocessing packages were poor, some of us learnt the value of the Save As features. It is possible from Microsoft Word to save a file as "Text Only" and "Text Only with Line Breaks". Files saved in such a fashion can then be published to the WWW without HTML markup. One of the most elegant tools for dealing with line breaks is to be found in Tom Bender's Tex-Edit. It provides for Quick Modify of end of line codes between Mac Unix and DOS formats. It's shareware and at last viewing of the shareware terms, very generous in accpeting 10 dollars US or the equivalent in stamps. Let us return to the point about thinking of software packages as suites of tools. To do so is to approach the help menu features as a romp through a tool box looking for what might be useful. To do so is also to approach the vast resources of the WWW in a similar fashion. Such minimal patience is rewarded amply. Such smart behaviour can be passed on to those we mentor and teach. Someone doesn't deliver appropriate cross-platform versions? Get them to check out the help menus. Invite the group to help the student. Simple constructivist pedaogy: communicate, collaborate, create. Personal political note: I have dealt for a long time and in many ways with the ravages of unwanted epidemics that I would rather not wish a plague on anyone. Especially if they be homeless without the shelfter afforded by house mates. Still I'm glad that Russ wrote and that Katharine forwarded -- it is interesting to see what gets past the flame war filters of the moderator. [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Re: 18.517 author's rights Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:03:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 758 (758) There are a number of examples I can think of where authors offer free electronic versions of their work as well as publishing through traditional print channels. The first one I remember seeing was Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java book, which is published by Prentice-Hall, but is also available for download free (http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/). Larry Lessig and Cory Doctorow are other examples I've seen. The general consensus by these authors seems to be that the free downloads actually boost sales of the printed versions. Given that the tools for reading electronic books still don't have as good a form-factor as printed books, I imagine this will be true for some time yet. Not to mention that books indexed by the search engines are more likely to be found by potential readers. Full disclosure: I've worked for Lulu for about six months now. We do have (and are gradually acquiring more) academic books. We're different from some of the POD and self-publishing operations out there in that we don't take any payment up front for publishing, have no minimum required number to buy, and don't have any interest in taking rights away from authors. We offer high-quality printing at a reasonable price while giving the author complete control over the process. We also offer simultaneous electronic versions, Creative Commons or other licensing, etc. This option isn't for everyone, obviously. But I can envision a few scenarios in which academic publishing in this style can be successful. This first is the model the Stoa is trying, where an organization is providing peer review and editorial assistance and is using us as the printing/fulfillment solution. Another model is one where the author doesn't particularly care about getting credit from the establishment and just wants to make (e.g.) a textbook available to their students and anyone else who's interested at a reasonable price. For example, one of our authors publishes a Cisco networking manual (http://www.lulu.com/content/72105). Both volumes bound together can be had for $25.00. You're not going to be able to do that kind of thing for that price through a traditional publisher. A third model might be an organization acquiring the rights to out of print works and republishing them through us. Sorry if this sounds like an advertisement, but I think it's relevant to the discussion and besides, I'm on the programming side of the operation, so I'm pretty terrible at marketing anyway. Solutions like Lulu's will work well in circumstances where a traditional publisher wouldn't be willing to support the book sufficiently or where the author wants to retain full control of the book. Best, Hugh /** * Hugh A. Cayless, Ph.D. * Software Engineer, Lulu.com */ On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.522 cross-platform praxis Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:25:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 759 (759) In reviewing the Russ Hunt case and the mention of the Save As functionality in Microsoft Word for subsequently publishing files to the World Wide Web as either HTML or text, I neglected the problem from the direction initially stated by Mr. Hunt. Saving material from the WWW in a manageable format. Check the browser, it may have the same functionality that exists in Microsoft's other produce -- Internet Explorer: Save As. And there is also the "Paste Special" functionality in the Windows suite of produces which allows a user to copy a piece from a WWW browser and paste it into a Microsoft Word file or a Powerpoint file with the choice of format. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Adrian Miles Subject: CFP: blogtalk Sydney Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:25:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 760 (760) In light of recent conversations here about blogs, the conference announcement below may be of interest: Call for Papers BlogTalk Downunder Sydney, 20 & 21 May, 2005 An official call for papers that address any of the conference themes, but not restricted to these, is announced. Papers are welcomed from academics or practitioners across all levels and disciplines. Early career researchers and students are also encouraged to submit abstracts for papers. Suggested conference themes: Weblogs in education Weblogs in language & literacy Weblog application tools / software Weblogs in organisations Weblogs as a medium: genres, styles, aesthetics, discourse etc Weblogs in social studies Weblogs in journalism Weblogs in cultural studies Weblogs in political arenas Weblogs & technologies - RSS, graph theory, network mapping Weblogs and knowledge management Emergent trends - including moblogging, audio-blogging, vlogs Future issues Abstracts of no more than 500 words are required in Word format - emailed to: Anne.Bartlett-Bragg_at_uts.edu.au Please include: Your name Position Institution or Organisation email contact URL (if relevant) Acknowledgement will be sent via email within 48 hours of receipt. Key Dates: Submission of abstracts 31 January, 2005 Paper acceptance 28 February, 2005 Final versions of papers 31 March, 2005 Final Papers: Final papers are due by 31 March, 2005. A maximum of 3,000 words. Paper presentations will be a maximum of 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion. All papers accepted will be blind refereed by 3 people and eligible for DEST. Workshop Sessions: Submissions to conduct a half-day (3 hour) workshop are also welcomed. A detailed outline, including objectives and topics to be covered, will be reviewed by the organising committee. Participant attendance will be at additional cost to conference registration. Costs of the workshop and fees will be negotiated with presenters. -- cheers Adrian Miles ____________ hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog From: Lorna Hughes Subject: DRH 2005: First announcement and CFP Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:26:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 761 (761) **** First Announcement and call for proposals: DRH 2005 **** DRH 2005: Digital Resources for the Humanities University of Lancaster, UK 4th - 8th September 2005 IMPORTANT DATES: * 31st January 2005: proposals can be submitted via the electronic submission form at the conference website. * 28th February, 2005: Deadline for submission of abstracts * 15th April, 2005: Notification of acceptance of papers, sessions, posters and workshops * April 2005: Registration opens * May 2005: Provisional programme announced. Conference Web Site: http://www.drh.org.uk The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a major forum bringing together scholars, postgraduate students, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, use, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities. At this, the tenth DRH conference, we plan to encourage papers and sessions that focus on critical evaluation of the use of digital resources in the arts and humanities. What has the impact really been? What kinds of methodologies are being used? What are the assumptions that underlie our work? How do we know that the work that we accomplish is truly new and innovative? How does technology change the way that we work? The Conference will also address some of the key emerging themes and strategic issues that engagement with ICT is bringing to scholarly research in the arts and humanities, with a particular focus on advanced research methods. The kinds of questions that we would like to see addressed might include the following: what sort of research does ICT in the arts and humanities enable researchers to do that could not be done before at all? Does this enable 'old' research to be done in a significantly new way? In what ways does the technology serve the scholarship? Similarly, what are the key aspects of virtual research environments ("cyberinfrasture") which can facilitate collaborative research? Proposals for individual papers, sessions, workshops and posters are invited, and the abstract submission system at the conference website will be accepting proposals from January 31st, 2005. Types of presentation for which proposals are invited: Papers Proposals for papers should be no less than 750 words. Papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the proposed session topic, and include abstracts of no less than 750 words for each paper. The session organizer must also indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. Poster Presentations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. Posters presentations may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress. There should be no difference in quality between poster presentations and papers, and both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will once again award a prize for the best poster presentation. The Local Organising Committee is headed by Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster. Please contact the local organizers with any questions about registration or conference arrangements at Lancaster: drhconf_at_lancaster.ac.uk The chair of the Programme Committee is Lorna Hughes, Assistant Director for Humanities Computing, New York University. Please contact the Programme Chair with any questions about submitting abstracts, or about the reviewing process: (Lorna.Hughes_at_nyu.edu). Please visit http://www.drh.org.uk for regularly updated details about the conference and, for information on how to submit proposals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 18.511 author's rights Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:22:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 762 (762) around the 21/1/05 Stewart Arneil mentioned about 18.511 author's rights that: [deleted quotation]thanks for all the helpful comments, which pretty much indicated to me what I expected and will do. Regarding the above. In my university there is a general understanding that individuals own the rights to things like published essays, books and the like. the university is only serious about IP if we are talking patents, etc. This is not an informal arrangement but the case. Also some Northern European universities that I am familiar with also regard staff as owning IP of their work. In my institution's case we also assume and grant full IP to students of all their work, this is also the case in the other universities with which I have some experience. -- cheers Adrian Miles ____________ hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: RE: 18.516 author's rights Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:43:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 763 (763) [deleted quotation]methods for their work? I ask because I am embarking on this very option right now, for a collection of peer-reviewed conference proceedings. We intend to publish the proceedings at the Stoa site so that readers may freely read online and/or print out each of the contributions, but we will also gather them all together and offer them as a very reasonably-priced book using the on-demand model via lulu.com. That way authors can correctly assert that their scholarship has been peer-reviewed, they can say they have contributed a chapter to a book, they retain 100% of their rights, and readers have a full range of choices, from desultory browsing to having a tangible book in their hands on their shelf, if they so desire. I don't see the downside to this approach, and it seems to resolve many problems. Ross Scaife [deleted quotation]I do not know their reasoning, but would surmise that they want to protect an author's efforts to publish in book form, publish in paperback, and keep books in print. This is becoming much more of an issue as publishers of academic books opt to print fewer copies (as few as 350 is not uncommon), hardcover only, and at a high price. This limits the printed book to library sales. It may therefore be preferable to protect the print edition and for the publisher to invest more in its success, which would be undermined by a print-on-demand option, at least during the first few years of a book's life. An electronic edition is another animal. In the case you describe the print-on-demand option seems like a good idea, given the specialized nature of the publication and how you envision it being accessed. Although the Authors Guild is thinking more of the trade market than academic books, academics need to take heed. Does anyone have any experience with a publication that appears in one or more of these forms--physical book, electronic book, print-on-demand book? What are the economic and other implications for authors? Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett From: Kevin Hawkins Subject: Re: author's rights Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:23:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 764 (764) Those interested in negotiating rights for journal articles might also look at: http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/copyres.html Kevin Hawkins From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 18.517 author's rights Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:24:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 765 (765) Dear Humanists Group... I believe we are living through a period of culture clash over the whole digital vs. print vs. print on demand method of publishing. You won't find any one, universally acceptable answer. My rule of thumb for those who ask is to reply with a question: "What do you want to achieve most? Be read and accessible to those who want to access your work? Or publish via a venue that you know to frown on POD or online alternatives?" Without personal goals and targetted publishers clearly in sight, there is simply no way to answer the question of what is or is not right to do anymore. You might be interested in some of the papers recently done in connection with these questions by the LitCan project, managed by principle researcher Dr. Dee Horne. (This was in the realm of Literary Publishing but many of the ideas apply across the specturem.) ----------------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, M.Sc. Computation, M.L.S. info sci http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org (fiction) http://ctl.unbc.ca (University of Northern B.C.) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.517 author's rights Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:24:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 766 (766) I heard a presentation by Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press, who said that their print-on-demand program had been very successful (here's a Chronicle article from a couple of uears ago when it was getting started: http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i29/29b00701.htm), and the effect is just that the author continues to get a trickle of royalties instead of having the book go totally out of print; I guess where it might be a problem is if the contract required a press to keep a book in print for some period of time or to return copyright to the author if and when the book went out of print--presumably you could insist contractually that p-o-d doesn't meet that requirement. For examples like that cited, small-demand meeting proceedings, the method would seem ideal as long as the authors are in charge--in the paper world already, short-run presses emerged to do just that sort of thing, but were obviously less efficient. What we don't know, really, is what better efficiency in the market will mean: as penniless academics we have all benefited by remaindering, which has even led in some cases to the revival and recognition of an overlooked work years after publication (and claims for p-o-d are that it will have the same effect). Taking the float out of such "systems" always has unintended consequences, not always good even if authors are able to retain control. Pat Galloway From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Arundel Manuscripts Collection, 19 Feb. Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:55:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 767 (767) On Saturday, 19 February, the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of London, is holding a one-day conference on the work of the Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (DigCIM) Project, British Library, www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/. This conference features the illuminated manuscripts in the collection of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1586-1646). A complete programme, with titles of papers and speakers, is at www.sas.ac.uk/ies/centre/DigCIM/conferences.htm. Note that the final event, a Postgraduate Research Training Forum on the Research possibilities of Illuminated Manuscript Digitization, is specifically designed to appeal to postgraduate students with any combination of interests in medieval studies, manuscript studies, digitization and humanities computing. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Helen Ashman Subject: AIRWeb Workshops (WWW '05) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:24:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 768 (768) AIRWeb '05 First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web 10 May 2005 - Chiba, Japan At the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/ OVERVIEW The attraction of hundreds of millions of web searches per day provides significant incentive to content providers to do whatever necessary to rank highly in search engine results. The use of techniques that push rankings higher than they belong is often called spamming a search engine. Such methods typically include textual as well as link-based techniques. Like e-mail spam, search engine spam is a form of adversarial information retrieval; the conflicting goals of accurate results of search providers and high positioning by content providers provides an interesting and real-world environment to study techniques in optimization, obfuscation, and reverse engineering, in addition to the application of information retrieval and classification. The workshop solicits technical papers and synopses of research in progress on any aspect of adversarial information retrieval on the Web. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - search engine spam and optimization, - crawling the web without detection, - link-bombing, - reverse engineering of ranking algorithms, - advertisement blocking, and - web content filtering. Papers addressing higher-level concerns (e.g., whether 'open' algorithms can succeed in an adversarial environment, whether permanent solutions are possible, etc.) are also welcome. [material deleted] From: icst2005_at_massey.ac.nz Subject: CFP: International Conference on Sensing Technologies Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:25:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 769 (769) International Conference on Sensing Technologies November 21-23, 2005 Palmerston North, New Zealand http://icst.massey.ac.nz/ Call for Papers The Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, is= =20 pleased to announce that the International Conference on Sensing Technology= =20 (ICST 2005) will be held on the 21st =AD 23rd November 2005 in Palmerston=20 North, New Zealand. ICST 2005 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers,=20 scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present=20 their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the= =20 area of sensing technology. ICST 2005 will include keynote addresses by=20 eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions. All=20 papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of a full length manuscript and=20 acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. The review= =20 process will be double blind and author details will not be divulged to the= =20 reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.= =20 Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following: Vision Sensing Sensors Signal Processing Sensors and Actuators Sensors Phenomena and Modelling Sensors Characterization Smart Sensors and Sensor Fusion Electromagnetics Sensors Chemical and Gas Sensors Physical Sensors Electronic Nose Technology Biological Sensors Electro-optic Sensors and Systems Mechanical sensors (inertial, pressure, and tactile) Nano Sensors Acoustic, Noise and Vibration Sensors Optical Sensors (radiation sensors, optoelectronic/photonic sensors,=20 and fibres) Lab-on chip Sensor Arrays Intelligent sensing Telemetering Online monitoring Applications of Sensors (automotive, medical, environmental monitoring,= =20 consumer, alarm and security, military, nautical, aeronautical and space=20 sensor systems, robotics, and automation) Solid State Sensors Internet-based and other Remote Data Acquisition [material deleted]=20 From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.523 author's rights Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:23:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 770 (770) Duncan Campbell wrote: [deleted quotation]I am a bit puzzled by the claim that Print on Demand is a "relatively expensive option". What drives the cost of conversion? Labour? Acquiring scanning technology? Housing the files? Order fulfillment: billing? Order fulfillment: handling? Surely such costs are recuperated in the pricing model. Quite apart from the business point of view, there is a societal cost. If Print on Demand forms of publishing encourage the greater circulation of the products of publicly funded or even privately endowed institutions of higher learning does that not result in some form of wider support for the work of those institutions, support that will eventually translate into funds. Quite apart fromt the institutional view, the greater the circulation of cultural capital is a prerequiste for the meaningful investement in human capital. I know I've shifted the ground from "expense" to "cost." I do so to make the point that avoiding expense sometimes has costs elsewhere. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: LC: American Memory Collection: September 11, 2001, Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:26:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 771 (771) Documentary Project The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center announces a new presentation: The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project, available on the Library's American Memory Web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/. This presentation captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger and insecurity are common themes expressed in the sound and video recordings, written narratives, poetry, photographs and drawings that comprise this online presentation. The day after the attacks, the American Folklife Center called upon the nation's folklorists and ethnographers to collect, record and document America's reaction. This project is modeled on a similar initiative, conducted sixty years earlier, when folklorist Alan Lomax was serving as "assistant in charge" of the Archive of American Folk Song. On December 8, 1941, Lomax sent a telegram urging folklorists around the United States to collect and record man-on-the-street reactions to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by the United States. These field recordings were sent to the Library of Congress where they were used in a series of radio programs that were distributed to schools and radio stations around the country. This unique documentary collection is still housed at the American Folklife Center and is featured in the American Memory collection: After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/. The online presentation includes almost 170 audio and video interviews, 41 graphic materials (photographs and drawings), and 21 written narratives and poems. The complete collection, available at the American Folklife Center Reading Room, comprises about 800 audio and video interviews, 421 graphic materials, as well as news clippings, written narratives, and artifacts. The voices of men and women from many cultural, occupational, and ethnic backgrounds are represented. Some of the interviews are from people who were in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during the attacks. The majority of the interviews, however, are from other parts of the country-from those who first heard the news on television or radio, and from teachers, friends, family, and other members of their communities. In all, materials were received from 27 states and a U.S. military base in Naples, Italy. 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. Please direct any questions you may have using the American Folklife Center Web form available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-folklife2.html Laura Gottesman Reference Specialist Digital Reference Team The Library of Congress From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.2 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:26:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 772 (772) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 2 (January 25 - February 1, 2005) VIEW The Visions of Technics Technical progress lies first within the instrumental range and requires a pragmatic & utilitarian justification. By Bernhard Irrgang, Dresden University of Technology http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i2_irrgang.html VIEW What Makes Users Unhappy: Share-Point Team Services Web Server Security Computer & Internet Security is very important but sometimes it is so confusing and frustrating that it makes users very unhappy -- to a point where the system is so secure that it cannot be used by its most legitimate users, like system administrators. By Avi Rushinek and Sara Rushinek, University of Miami http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i2_rushinek.html REVIEW Time and Time Again A Review Of Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams" By John Stuckey, Washington & Lee University http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v6i2_stuckey.html From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.523 author's rights Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:23:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 773 (773) Duncan Campbell wrote: [deleted quotation]rightly, I am a bit puzzled by the claim that Print on Demand is a "relatively expensive option". What drives the cost of conversion? Labour? Acquiring scanning technology? Housing the files? Order fulfillment: billing? Order fulfillment: handling? Surely such costs are recuperated in the pricing model. Quite apart from the business point of view, there is a societal cost. If Print on Demand forms of publishing encourage the greater circulation of the products of publicly funded or even privately endowed institutions of higher learning does that not result in some form of wider support for the work of those institutions, support that will eventually translate into funds. Quite apart fromt the institutional view, the greater the circulation of cultural capital is a prerequiste for the meaningful investement in human capital. I know I've shifted the ground from "expense" to "cost." I do so to make the point that avoiding expense sometimes has costs elsewhere. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Failure of Plain Text (18.519 editing and composition) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:56:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 774 (774) Restricting text to plain text is to accept the notion of text as=20 implemented in the ASCII-Code as a reasonable theory of text. But the=20 ASCII-Code is nothing but a historical and technical randomness and=20 completely arbitrary. To say "text is what can be expressed in the=20 ASCII-Code" is one of the least reasonable theories of text I can think of. [deleted quotation]text can be well-structured and correctly presented. ** Bold and italics are (in a reasonable usage of textual media) no=20 "formatting niceties" but textual imformation channels. How can meaningful= =20 bold or italic formatting "correctly presented" in ASCII? Only by=20 translating these information channels to the expressive codeset of the=20 ASCII-Code. But can we be sure to have a "correct representation" in this=20 act of translation? [... parts skipped] ** of course markup can be used to carry (nearly) all further textual=20 information which is not supported by the ASCII-Code. But a distinction=20 between "text" and "markup" as a distinction between "content/text itself"= =20 and "form/structure (of text)" doesn't work. The borderline in this=20 technology runs between "character data" and "markup". The "text" comprises= =20 both. [deleted quotation]=20 way to prevent file incompatibilities. It's a way to get them to think=20 about text in a new way. ** In a fatal way. In a way which is determined by the coincidence of a=20 technical standard. I used to think that technology is out there to=20 implement our way of thinking (of text for instance). But here it is just=20 the other way round. Text is here defined as all the codes (signs) and=20 textual modes which are supported by ASCII (or UNICODE) - but for purely=20 technical and historical reasons (think of the 7-bit-limitation and the=20 adoption of the predecessor technology: the typewriter). I wouldn't like my= =20 students to think of text in such a technology-dependent,=20 pseudo-linguistic, reductionist way. Patrick Patrick Sahle University of Cologne Humanities Computing (Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche=20 Informationsverarbeitung) Albertus-Magnus-Platz D - 50923 Koeln Privat: H=E4uschensweg 2a D - 50827 K=F6ln +49 - (0)221 - 2805695 Sahle_at_uni-koeln.de http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26/ From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Updated CFP for Internet Research 6 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:56:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 775 (775) Call for Papers - IR 6.0: INTERNET GENERATIONS International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Chicago, Illinois, USA October 5 - 9, 2005 Workshops: October 5, 2005 AoIR conference: October 6 - 9, 2005 Deadline for submission of abstracts s: February 15, 2005. SUBMISSION SITE http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=3 INTERNET GENERATIONS The Internet has been a rapidly evolving phenomenon, so much so that we may talk about generations of the Internet. With everything moving faster in 'Internet time,' we have arguably spanned many technological Internet generations within a single human generation: from the birth of computing to the first online communications; from the beginnings of email to the enriched worlds of chat, virtual worlds and mobile text messaging; from the workplace to home and school; from optional to all-but-mandatory; and from mainframe to desktop to laptop to mobile devices. We can also talk about contextual Internet generations, from the early pioneers who count themselves among those communicating online before the 1980s; to the early adopters of the 1980s in university and proprietary systems; to latecomers finding the need to adopt computing and technology use as part of their daily work; to the current and coming generations that will not know a time without a computer in the household, a mobile phone in their hand, and a lap- or palmtop and an MP3 player an essential part of their daily wear. This massive change in technologies, and in work and social practices suggests many avenues of interest for Internet research. CALL FOR PAPERS We call for papers from a wide perspective of disciplines, methodologies, and communities. We invite papers that address the theme of Internet Generations including TOPICS such as: - Histories of the Internet: human, social, technical, and/or cultural stories and histories - Internet use by generation, e.g., by era of technology, by children and seniors, or by age of user, etc. - Individual, group, organizational, or community use, adoption, or diffusion of the Internet and its practices - Development in use of languages, new vocabularies, social roles, rules, and etiquette - Societal impacts of and on the Internet and its evolution - Perspectives on the Internet and social change in a changing world - Internet expansion across divides, borders, nationalities, etc. - Mapping the course of Internet connectivity - Prospects for the future: Next generation Internet We invite submissions for papers, panels, and demonstrations of work on topics related to the conference theme of Internet Generations. Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address the conference theme. We particularly call for innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on the conference theme. We also welcome submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet beyond the conference theme. In all cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members. [material deleted] From: "Prof. Dr. Juergen Dix" Subject: CFP: ProMAS@ AAMAS 2005 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:58:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 776 (776) Call for Papers ================= Third international Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'05) <http://www.cs.uu.nl/ProMAS/> ProMAS'05 is a satellite workshop at AAMAS 2005 Utrecht University, The Netherlands <http://www.aamas2005.nl/> Even though the contributions of the multi-agent systems (MAS) community can make a significant impact in the development of open distributed systems, the techniques resulting from such contributions will only be widely adopted when suitable programming languages and tools are available. Furthermore, such languages and tools must incorporate those techniques in a principled but practical way, so as to support the ever more complex task of professional programmers, in particular when the systems have to operate in dynamic environments. The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the practical programming issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. In its two previous editions, ProMAS constituted an invaluable occasion bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design of programming languages and tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop promotes the discussion and exchange of ideas concerning the techniques, concepts, requirements, and principles that are important for multi-agent programming technology. We encourage the submission of proposals for programming languages and tools that provide specific programming constructs to facilitate the implementation of the essential concepts used in multi-agent system analysis and specifications (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. Further, we are particularly interested in approaches or applications that show clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry. Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Programming Languages for multi-agent systems - Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming - Theoretical and practical aspects of multi-agent programming - Computational complexity of MAS - Semantics for multi-agent programming languages - High-level executable multi-agent specification languages - Algorithms, techniques, or protocols for multi-agent issues (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation) - Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming - Implementation of social and organisational aspects of MAS - Formal methods for specification and verification of MAS - Verification tools for implementations of MAS - Agent development tools and platforms - Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming - Interoperability and standards for MAS - Programming mobile agents - Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment - Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS - Application areas for multi-agent programming languages - Applications using legacy systems - Programming MAS for Grid-based applications - Programming MAS for the Semantic Web - Deployed (industrial-strength) MAS - Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing MAS languages and tools [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: material culture of humanities computing Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:37:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 777 (777) I'd appreciate some help thinking through what seems to me a central problem of humanities computing -- its material culture, and how this comes to be communicated and known. Many of us spend our time crafting objects of knowledge -- "epistemic things", as they've been called in science studies. The literature on this topic is current and growing, e.g. Lorraine Daston, ed., Biographies of Scientific Objects (Chicago, 2000); Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube (Stanford, 1997). This literature is related to the wider topic of material culture, whose discussion is much older. But so far consideration of software objects is minimal. Michael Mahoney has discussed the historiographic problem for computing and for technology. I think we need to take up this topic and consider it from our own perspective -- for political as well as intellectual reasons. Let's take the normal case for the field: collaborative design, construction and publication of a digital tool or resource in the humanities. It seems quite clear to me that the resulting object is an epistemic thing, product of intellectual work and so a piece of research, and that it needs to be considered along with all the other products that universities identify as their central work. It also seems clear to me that at its achievable best, collaborative work involving humanities computing is inseparably so -- that in those cases it is misleading if not entirely false to talk about techie bits as opposed to scholarly bits. Nevertheless, the partial detachment of means from ends that makes humanities computing possible and that is implicit in computing more generally requires that in reflecting on these objects we extract the specifically humanities computing aspects of them. Furthermore, for the field to progress as well as possible, such reflection, in the form of written prose, is imperative. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.532 failure of plain text Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:37:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 778 (778) Why do we get messages (like the one this responds to) in which every line ends with "=20" ? I never read them -- it's too intrusive. From: "William Cole" Subject: Re: 18.480 blogging and v(l)ogging Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:38:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 779 (779) Perhaps it is foolhardy to reopen controversy two weeks after the fact. Nevertheless, On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:52:19 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty) wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 780 (780) [deleted quotation]All I can say is that people have referred you to the wrong blogs. I will grant the "unstructured" label, but I would say that it is one of the attractions of blogging (especially for the bloggers themselves) that one is free from the imperative to be unified, focused, and rigorously structured in the manner of, for example, a scholarly journal article. One could go further and argue that the absence of explicit structure allows for the discernment of emergent structure. Few, if any, blogs are completely random; they reflect the interests, however disparate, of the author, that is, the 'structure' of the author's thought. In addition, many blogs employ some sort of categorizing function that separates the possibly chaotic flow of the main blog into different "channels" if you will, which might be read as more coherent blogs in their own right. As for self-serving and boring, no doubt many blogs deserve one or both of those epithets (the same could be said for books, films, and popular music). But there are a good number that do not. Jill Walker , Mark Bernstein <http://markbernstein.org/>, Matthew Kirschenbaum <http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/>, and Adrian Miles <http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog/>, to name a few from my personal "essentials" list, are serious, I dare say, important scholars/ researchers in the overlapping fields of hypertext, digital media and electronic textuality, and I have found their blogs to be significant stimuli for my own thoughts on those subjects. Excellence in blogging is by no means restricted to new media theorists, though: Jeff Angus's Management by Baseball <http://cmdr-scott.blogspot.com/> provides insightful commentary on management and corporate culture through the lens of current events in baseball; Michael Feldman's Dowbrigade News <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/> provides satiric commentary on news and politics; currently in hibernation, during the run-up to the presidential election Andrew Tanenbaum's Electoral Vote Predictor converted aggregated polling data into a daily electoral map, and in the process offered much insight into polling methodologies and the statistical techniques that go into the polling process; the now-defunct Invisible Adjunct <http://invisibleadjunct.com/> offered rigorous yet also humane critique of the academic labor system; and if nothing else, there is a Pepys' Diary <http://www.pepysdiary.com/>, a day-by-day transcription of Samuel Pepys's diaries into blog format (as of today, it has reached January 27, 1661/62). The above are personal, subjective picks of blogs *I* find interesting enough to come back to day after day. Others may well find some or all of these candidates less than compelling. But I hope that in the range of examples offered, one can at least see a refutation of the popular complaint that blogs are hopelessly self-absorbed ramblings of no interest to anyone beyond the author and perhaps his or her immediate friends or family. There is a great deal of serious, intelligent, creative, and informative writing being done by bloggers, and I think that body of work deserves something more than a blanket dismissal. Cheers, Bill Cole -- William Cole Instructional Technology Director, College of Education Morehead State University 407 Ginger Hall || (606) 783-9326 http://people.moreheadstate.edu/fs/w.cole/ From: "Dr. David Harrison" Subject: Word/Text/HTML processors. Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:33:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 781 (781) All, Defaulting to a commercial product by Microsoft, Adobe or anyone else is hardly best practice when there are acceptable alternatives and leaves one open to the planned obsolesence of file formats and to the hidden delights of macro viruses and other malware. For text, unicode-capable (.txt) text editors exist (if you need more than ASCII), and rich text format (.rtf) is cross platform. Windows comes with a free word processor (WordPad) which is good enough to write a novel with, never mind a simple essay. NoteTab Light is a good freeware HTML editor <http://www.notetab.com>, although NotePad (free in Windows) accounts for a large number of webpages and entire websites. If you want to put text on the web, you only need to teach a few basic bits of mark-up. It is easy to expect DTP luxury when your software is bloated with features, but I'm sure we can all get by with simpler software if we try. However pretty you want it to look, it's what you say that matters. The medium is not the message, but the context. Best wishes, David. From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 18.532 !@! more failure of plain text Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:34:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 782 (782) The Failure of Plain Text has been announced repeatedly for well over a decade now, but I notice it has little to do with reality. If there were much truth in this, I would be receiving the major portion of my email in .pdf, .html, and other markup formats. Not to mention that our Project Gutenberg .pdf and .html files would be downloaded more often than their .txt counterparts. I recall the Library of Congress eText Workshop from the early 1990's [1993?] refusing to even mention that plain text existed. This "Workshop" turned out to be simply a propaganda tool for various markup languages, much as other government officials are now reporting their jobs were as such propaganda tools. BUT. . .in the end the laugh was on them!!! They released the proceedings ONLY as a .pdf file, hoping to stack the response deck with pro-pdf people, the only people who could read it, and then invited the general audiences of several of the listservers I was on to engage in conversation about the workshop. HOWEVER. . .not a single reply came in to any listserv group. Not one. . . . It is simply too difficult to cut and paste from a .pdf file into an email reply concerning the .pdf file. People are still trying similar things today, and failing as demonstrably today as they did over 10 years ago. .pdf is still being proposed in every session of Congress as the official document format for all government documents, and is still failing, since "Portable Document Format" [PDF] seems to be exactly what it isn't. Meanwhile, there are 100,000 plain text eBooks out there for use in nearly any hardware/software combination, search engine, word processor, email, text reader, editing program, etc., and Project Gutenberg, that failed producer of eBooks from the pre-history of the Internet has produced and distributed as many eBooks as anyone. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, along with the Internet Archive, the Million Book Project, the Online Books Page, and the Internet Public Library, are all a guarantee that "the failure of plain text" will continue long into the future. Michael S. Hart Give FreeBooks!!! In 39 Languages!!! As of January 27, 2005 ~15,180 FreeBooks at: ~ 4,820 to go to 20,000 http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.net We are ~52% of the way from 10,000 to 20,000. We are ~4% of the way from 15,000 to 20,000. Now even more PG eBooks In 104 Languages!!! http://gutenberg.cc http://gutenberg.us Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Coordinator^M "*Internet User ~#100*" From: Willard McCarty Subject: a plain text story Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:36:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 783 (783) Once, in the late 1980s, I was at a conference in Toronto whose audience was largely bilingual, French and English. During this conference a young assistant professor (from Ohio, as I recall) gave a paper about a text-based system he had devised. Explaining how this system had been crafted -- in those days memory was precious, so one had to be quite clever -- he noted that since accented characters were unnecessary, his system did everything with a 7-bit byte. When he said this, I noticed a strong but silent reaction from a couple of senior Francophone scholars in the back of the room. One of them told me later that the two of them had tossed a coin to decide who was going to respond. After the speaker finished, the Francophone who had won the toss stood up, praised the cleverness of the speaker and suggested, in the manner of a helpful comment, that since we really didn't need to distinguish minuscules from majuscules, the system could actually be designed to use a 6-bit byte. In fact, he went on, since, really, punctuation marks could be done away with, all could be accomplished with 5 bits. Then he proposed we eliminate the vowels, and so on. Gradually there were titters of laughter, and finally applause and open delight at the wit of the assassination. A wonderful reductio ad absurdum. What happened to the poor speaker I cannot say. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 18.535 why do we get "=20"? Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:56:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 784 (784) Greetings, [deleted quotation]Was this intentionally sly wit? These sequences attest that plain text is more complicated than one might expect. The sequences indicate that the original message was sent in MIME's `quoted-printable' encoding. MIME is the way that more structured email messages are sent: when you send an attachment, it's MIME that specifies how that extra file is encoded within the fundamentally ASCII medium of a mail message. If there are any non-ASCII characters in a message you send -- most commonly accented characters -- then your mail client may decide to send them verbatim, with a warning in the mail headers that it has done so; or it may encode them into pure-ASCII, again with a suitable indication in the headers. This latter is probably unnecessary these days, but commendably conservative. Quoted-printable encoding is a fairly light encoding, which replaces all `problematic' characters with '=' plus a two-digit (hex) number. Line-ending spaces count as problematic in this context, so are replaced by =20, since the space character is number 20 (hex) in ASCII. When this is finally displayed by your mailer, it sees the header indicating the encoding, undoes it, and displays what was originally injected into the system. What happened with the message Norman refers to is that, somewhere, a program ignored the extra descriptive headers when it shouldn't have, or failed to add them when it should have. I suspect that some mail clients send quoted-printable mail when they don't have to, or send it without the correct headers. Thus this still, I think, counts as `plain text' in the sense that there is no _markup_ enhancing the text. The encoding we're seeing is an accidental part of the message rather than substantial, since it's a detail of the mechanism which, through an error, has become visible. Possibly fancifully, it's analogous to a book with signatures bound out of order, or uncut. Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.536 plain text Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:56:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 785 (785) The "death of plain text" is like "the death of the novel" or "the death of theater" or "the death of scholarly meetings" -- it just doesn't happen. And listening to the forecasts gets very tiresome after a decade or two. (I recall the idea being bruited about at CHum meetings as long ago as the late 70s or early 80s, with almost precisely the same declarations made.) If anything replaces plain text, Unicode is the best bet, it seems to me -- and there are no signs it will happen anytime soon, if ever. From: "Eric H." Subject: re: plain text and LaTeX Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:57:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 786 (786) Hello all: Speaking of plain text, I've been wondering whether people in the humanities community are aware of LaTeX? (More at http://www.latex-project.org/ ) LaTeX is a document preparation system that is free, and available for Windows, Mac, and Unix (I'm not sure about Linux). It is not, however, WYSIWYG, but instead uses markup commands. Has anyone used LaTeX? If so, I would be interested in your experiences with it, as well as experiences and opinions on WYSIWYG vs. markup-based text editors. Thanks, Eric Homich PhD student, Faculty of Information Systems University of Toronto eric.homich_at_utoronto.ca From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 18.536 plain text Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:58:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 787 (787) Interesting that those contrary to plain text resorted to the "reductio ad absurdum fallacy" and "assassination by wit," rather than actually adressing the differences at hand in any kind of rational manner. BTW, that particular argument was already part of our history before that meeting. Obviously, when I started Project Gutenberg in 1971, we were using 6-bit ASCII, CAPS only, limited punctuation, symbols, etc. However, when 7-bit ASCII became available, we quickly remade the ALL CAPS files, which was labor intensive, but since there weren't that many files, and since they weren't that long in those days, it was certainly feasible. Equally, when 8-bit ASCII came along, Project Gutenberg started to make files available in both 7-bit and 8-bit ASCII, so those who could only read-write 7-bit characters could still do eBook volunteers work, and receive the results as well, and also, the 8-bit readers-writers could work with a greater number of ASCII accented characters, symbols, etc., including those for French, Greek, etc. However, the movement beyond 8-bit ASCII has, as mentioned, not be as smoothly implemented, and various markup schemes tried to take over the world, each in their own ways: each with its own claims to success. . .but the overall identity of post-8-bit is obviously still in serious doubt, other than HTML. While Project Gutenberg is presenting eBooks in a wider variety of formats than is generally available elsewhere, we are in the process to making eBooks in a format that allows us to deliver, on demand, eBooks translated into nearly every non-proprietary, freely readable format. However this will take a while, and there is little guarantee a file in any of these formats will be all that useful, 3 decades down the road, even though our original 6-bit ASCII files could still be read, in CAPS, on most of today's computers. . .with a possible exception of HTML, which might last a long time. At this time, Project Gutenberg still receives enough emails of thank you notes for plain text, from those who use audioreaders and those who are visually impaired, to those who simply are as grateful as can be for eBooks that they can read, search, quote and generally use as they please in virtually any program their hearts and minds desire, without being forced into an unlimited cycle of "upgrades" that often tend to be "downgrades." It's not that plain text offers EVERYTHING. . .it's just that a plain text file offers over 99% of what most authors wrote in a library of books currently freely available for download. How much more effort is it worth to get from 99% to 99.5% ??? For some, it's worth the moon and the stars, while for others a plain text eBook provides all they ever wanted. It all depends on your target audience. . . . My target audience is "everyman." Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 18.533 blogging and v(l)ogging Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:02:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 788 (788) Since this thread has re-opened... There was an interesting piece on BBC online recently about the use of blogs for teaching and learning: "Academics give lessons on blogs" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4194669.stm Which especially refers to the effort Wwrwick University have been putting into providing institutional support for blogs (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/) 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: Sandhya Sundaresan Subject: Penn Linguistics Colloquium Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:01:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 789 (789) Dear Colleagues: The 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place February 25-27 at the University of Pennsylvania's Jon M. Huntsman Hall. Keynote address: Mark Baker (Rutgers University), on: Gerund constructions within a universal theory of categories (Title TBA) The PLC 29 program includes sessions on syntax, semantics/pragmatics, computational linguistics, morphology/syntax, the syntax/semantics interface, phonetics/phonology, historical syntax and sociolinguistics. For a complete list of talks with links to abstracts, please visit: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc29/schedule.html **************************************************************************************** For the first time, this year's PLC will host a workshop by Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini, and Beth Randall. Its title will be: "Syntactically Annotated Corpora: What, Why and How?" **************************************************************************************** The preregistration deadline is Friday, February 11. To preregister, visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/registration/register.php, fill out the online form, and mail your payment ($15 students/$20 nonstudents) to Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania 619 Williams Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305. Onsite registration will cost an additional $5. For further information, please visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC or email plc29_at_ling.upenn.edu. We're looking forward to seeing you at PLC 29! -The PLC 29 Organizing Committee ----------------------------------------------------- This event is supported by funding from the Graduate Student Association Council of the University of Pennsylvania. From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: Innovate Special Issue on Video Games and Learning Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:58:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 790 (790) This is a call for papers to be published in a special issue on video games and learning. Clark Aldrich, James Gee, Marc Prensky, Seymour Papert and many others have argued that the designers of video game technologies are blazing the path that instructional technology will eventually follow. Imagine 3D learning worlds (in stand-alone and multi-student online versions) programmed to identify students' skill levels and learning styles, build accelerated learning paths, bring the students into a "flow" state, and monitor and continuously assess their performance. As video games become ever more advanced and video game development and research programs make their way into the nation's universities, we must think seriously about this vision. How close are we to realizing the dream? What advanced research projects are underway? What social or market dynamics will enable the positive synthesis of video game technology and education? These are some of the questions well worth tryin! g to answer in a special issue of Innovate. Professor Joel Foreman, George Mason University, is the guest editor for this issue, scheduled for June/July publication. Please follow our submission guidelines at http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=submit and send your manuscript to him at jforeman_at_gmu.edu Submissions deadline is March 15, 2005. Professor Foreman will also lead an Innovate-Live Forum on video games and learning, which will be initiated with an Innovate-Live webcast on February 4, 2004, at 2:00 pm. Details of how you can participate in this forum and webcast are available at our Innovate-Live portal hosted by our partner, ULiveandLearn, at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ Best. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.534 material culture of humanities computing? Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:59:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 791 (791) John U. will probably beat me to it, but the best example of "material culture" in humanities computing that I know are the blake-proj listserv archives, containing by now (I'm sure) well over 10,000 messages documenting the project's decisions and transactions, major and minor. Fascinating reading. Hard copy of these are on deposit for posterity at the Babbage Institute (http://www.cbi.umn.edu/). [deleted quotation]What's the full reference for Mahoney? Willard, you should look into the still very nascent literature on software studies. I've collected some starting points here (on my blog ;-) http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000083.html http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000122.html Matt -- Please note: mk235_at_umail.umd.edu is an UNRELIABLE address. Please change my address to * mgk_at_umd.edu * in your address books. Mail sent to mgk_at_umd.edu is currently being reflected to my Gmail account, mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com; you may send to that address too, but addressing your message to mgk_at_umd.edu will ensure that it is always forwarded to wherever I am currently receiving my mail. Thank you, and apologies for the inconvenience. -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: 18.534 material culture of humanities computing? Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:00:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 792 (792) Willard, it strikes me that if we lived in a calligraphic culture, the partial detachment of means and ends would occur with writing letters home as well. Whenever the tool is subject to variation (either development of the tool [Flash version X, harpsichord --> piano] or of the skill in using the tool [writing in a second language] or in the applications that the tool allows [b&w or color photography?]), the practices that involve that tool potentially involve focus on the tool rather than only on what the tool is doing. The act of typing is more or less transparent; the act of datamining isn't. The question arises, are there aspects of humanities computing (like datamining) that may never achieve transparency and others (like relying on a readability score) that may? When should we strive to maintain some focus on the tool and when should we not? The answers are different for different audiences: learners, users, tool-makers. Or so it seems to me. Best regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin_at_umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Economics of Reviews Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:01:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 793 (793) Willard, Your discussion of material culture in computing science reminds me of a passing thought I had when looking at a flash animation portal called newgrounds. http://www.newgrounds.com -- (be warned, some [but not all] of the content is notoriously uncensored and juvenile). It seems to me that pseudo-economies of humanistic activity ("leisure," perhaps) are occuring, and are certainly not being recorded as GDP. Artists/Animators provide value to consumers by submitting their material to the portal and consumers, in turn, "pay" them with their scored reviews -- the more satisfied they are, the better. Higher scores motivate artists to supply more animations to the portal, and higher quality animations compel consumers to view more often and review higher. The system administrator, in part, plays the role of providing "public goods" such as webspace and bandwidth support. So, perhaps the internet is now producing its own pseudo economies, and with it, its own set of "virtual" rewards and punishments, separate from the "real" world. In that sense, this could be a significant part of the "culture" that develops in internet communities -- mutual dependence creates norms that develop into culture. Is there any body of academic information that approaches this problem? It seems to me that some sort of ethnography could be very helpful to uncover how "utility" develops on the virtual end -- which, in turn, could serve as a strong argument contravening or modifying utilitarianism for human welfare. Just a thought (or collection of them). Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Thoughts on Writing (was: Plain Text) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:38:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 794 (794) [Disclaimer: I mostly work on dynamic *oral* traditions and think of writing as only a specific mode of language transmission.] Fascinating thread. A few precisions on my previous mail and some random thoughts. Apologies for the randomness. As was probably clear from my message, by "Plain Text" I mean any type of human-readable computer file format for textual content, including markup formats. I was encouraged by messages here and elsewhere to think about minimal markup requirements. Hence the reflections on WikiEdit etc. PDFs, though "text" instead of binary, aren't in this category of "Plain Text" as the content isn't "human-readable." Unless I'm wrong (entirely possible), it's not really a markup specification as, like PostScript, it mostly contains processing instructions, not structural markup. The original idea behind my post was to find a pedagogically-sound solution to Russ Hunt's problem with HTML files. I stand by my claim that minimal markup can be of more use than HTML for most of our students. I also encourage him and others to think about what our students actually *do* with text. As "Patrick" said, text comprises both markup data and character data. Willard's anecdote on a fellow French-Canadian's reaction to the elimination of "accented characters" (including, I assume, c-cedilla and such) carries this point forward. Capital letters *are* markup. So is punctuation. The history of typography has a lot to say about this and what we're witnessing now is another major step in the history of "writing." Parallels abound in music transcription and notation. Current computer technologies (a major theme on this list) do encourage us to think of text in new ways. Not to *limit* text. To expand it. In fact, thinking of simplistic compression algorithms may help in the discussion. What *is* the minimal information requirements for text? As we all know, text is extremely redundant in terms of pure information processing. Thinking of "Plain Text" (ASCII or other encodings) might work: we need "character data" and "markup data." (There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between "markup data" and metadata.) We use different methods to separate this type of data from "character data" but we still use parts of the same character set. This practice is the basis of some technical issues, certainly, but we can think of this in the abstract. For instance, capital letters and periods mostly delimit sentences and if it weren't for exceptions (in English: title case, the pronoun "I," etc.), other markup methods could be used to represent sentence boundaries, making Plain Text more regular. Then, capital letters could be used for word internal markup (as in WikiNames and other MixedCase practices). In other words, capital letters and periods serve a similar purpose as parentheses (and brackets, etc.). Character data can itself be reduced, and we certainly all have note-taking practices (fewer vowels, for one thing) which considerably reduce the number of characters we need to type. While some may frown upon these practices when used in more formal communication, they certainly have an impact on the way *people* think of text. Current computer users probably write on average much more than scribes of old. The "intrinsic quality" of their writing isn't the issue, nor is the "intrinsic quality" of what they read. People *do* read and write. Our goal could be to understand how they do it. Instructors in composition are now acknowledging these "new methods" of writing and may more easily help their students think of different sets of rules for different forms of writing. The fact is that many computer users (including a lot of our students) are adopting new writing practices. Abbreviations and acronyms are now commonplace. While partisans of prescriptive grammars may frown upon them, they serve a purpose. Some abbreviations are "loss-less" as they can readily be converted back to "normal writing" by spelling them out. But many acronyms have come to mean more than what their characters stand for. Granted, they go with the increasing informality of computer-mediated communication. But they represent a major shift in the way people think of text. And yes, I do include smileys/smilies/emoticons in this. Creative uses of the ASCII set are part of the current changes in writing. A mention on "accented characters" and similar elements. As a French-speaker, the impossibility to use them (on several mailing-lists as well as on some other communication systems) does change my own writing practices. Say I need to write a short message in French using a keyboard which makes accented characters inconvenient to type. I'll probably choose words which don't contain accented characters (difficult for past participles) and the tone of my message will be significantly altered. I'm certainly not the only one who does this and it probably has an impact on how writing is perceived. Contrary to punctuation and capital letters, accented characters are *not* markup, at least not structural markup (they may work for morphological and syntactic markup, though). They simply *work* as other elements in the character set and do not typically represent meta-data. While Unicode dramatically increases the size of a "Plain Text" file, it's probably as compressible as ASCII. There are several practical issues here. Word processors have had a tremendous impact (very negative, IMHO) on the way people think of computer text. This impact was largely carried over to HTML and other formats. Of course, HTML could have been used for structured text, to a certain extent, but many users have difficulty understanding the potential of computer texts. It's still significant that HTML is independent from page and screen. It has forced people to think of labeled sections instead of page numbers. Nice! If one fully separates written form and content, there could be new ways to write. LaTeX is a clear example of the separation of form and content. (To answer Eric Homich, yes, LaTeX works on Linux and there are some good TeX editors based on Linux, including LyX). LaTeX has kept challenging the idea of "word processors" and WYSIWYG. XML formats for textual content are also on that side of the equation. But the revolution hasn't happened yet. It's coming, though. Whether it's through a specific format (possibly XML-based like DocBook, OPML, RSS, TEI...) or through changes in the way people *write* is uncertain at this point. For instance typing notes may be quite efficient with special methods and tools. Some tools are available already but they are relatively rare and somewhat inconvenient to use. Still, shouldn't it be "natural" to be able to type notes directly in a lossless shorthand and have them automatically expanded into standard orthography? Food for thought? Alex Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: Willard McCarty Subject: material culture: self-awareness with respect to media Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:43:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 795 (795) Eric Rabkin, in Humanist 18.540, comments that, [deleted quotation]These are good questions. Clearly the sudden self-conscious in the use of tools, techniques, media and the like is and possibly always has been a transitory phenomenon. For a brief time, one pays attention to the qualities of the object. Then knowledge of it becomes tacit: you "attend from" it to other things. Then it becomes part of the furniture. Until, that is, something goes wrong or from some other cause (such as the predeliction to take pleasure in the qualities of objects) the object again comes into focus as itself. My bicycle, now defunct, was like that -- once a fine instrument for riding, at times almost alive. Frequently I noticed and took pleasure in its qualities. My sofa is like that too -- beautifully designed and constructed (by someone I know). Theorizing about the process described here is found in phenomenology, e.g. Michael Polanyi's "tacit knowing". It also takes place in computing, e.g. in my use of a whole bundle of technologies at this moment. But isn't it the case that computing makes a genuine difference, that in this respect at least it is genuinely new? The universality and plasticity of computing mean that as an epistemic device it offers and so leads us into unlimited making of things. Does it not thereby throw a light, hereafter difficult to ignore, on knowing as a process of making and remaking? Is it not then the case that means become a permanent question permanently in the forefront of our awareness? Or at minimum an option of new urgency and stubborn persistence? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lecture Notes on Computer Science: E-Government Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:29:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 796 (796) Volume 3416/2005 (E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy) of Lecture=20 Notes in Computer Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at= =20 http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy p. 1 Ann Macintosh, Andy McKay-Hubbard, Danae Shell Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation p. 13 Lasse Berntzen, Marte Winsvold Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation? p. 25 Renate Steinmann, Alenka Krek, Thomas Blaschke Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland p. 36 Jean-Loup Chappelet, Pierre Kilchenmann "Public Budget Dialogue" - An Innovative Approach to E-Participation p. 48 Stefanie Roeder, Annika Poppenborg, Susanne Michaelis, Oliver M=E4rker,=20 Stefan Ren=E9 Salz Enhancing e-Democracy Via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on=20 China's Experience p. 57 Ling Lan Third Way e-Government: The Case for Local Devolution p. 70 Ailsa Kolsaker "Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital=20 Divide" p. 81 Enrico Ferro, Marco Cantamessa, Emilio Paolucci e-Citizen: Why Waiting for the Governments? p. 91 Armando Rech Filho A Zero Knowledge Proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with=20 Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections p. 100 Tassos Dimitriou, Dimitris Foteinakis A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-Polling p. 112 Danilo Bruschi, Igor Nai Fovino, Andrea Lanzi Model Driven Security for Inter-organizational Workflows in=20 e-Government p. 122 Ruth Breu, Michael Hafner, Barbara Weber, Andrea Novak e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the ' SIAP' Parliamentary=20 Management System p. 134 Carmen Costilla, Juan P. Palacios, Jos=E9 Cremades, Jorge Vila No (e-)Democracy Without (e-)Knowledge p. 147 Giovanni M. Sacco Towards a Semantically-Driven Software Engineering Environment for=20 eGovernment p. 157 Dimitris Apostolou, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Tomas Pariente Lobo, Barbara=20 Thoenssen Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in=20 e-Government p. 169 Jeffrey Gortmaker, Marijn Janssen, Ren=E9 W. Wagenaar A Distributed Architecture for Supporting e-Government Cooperative=20 Processes p. 181 Mariangela Contenti, Massimo Mecella, Alessandro Termini, Roberto Baldoni eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation p. 193 Elena Mugellini, Maria Chiara Pettenati, Omar Abou Khaled, Franco Pirri Towards Building E-Government on the Grid p. 205 Ying Li, Minglu Li, Yue Chen Applying the ISO RM-ODP Standard in E-Government p. 213 B. Meneklis, A. Kaliontzoglou, D. Polemi, C. Douligeris Quixote: Supporting Group Decisions Through the Web p. 225 J.A. Rubio, D. Rios Insua, J. Rios, E. Fernandez UNICAP: Efficient Decision Support for Academic Resource and Capacity=20 Management p. 235 Svetlana Vinnik, Marc H. Scholl A Methodology Framework for Calculating the Cost of e-Government=20 Services p. 247 Elias A. Hadzilias Good Practice in e-Government: Management over Methods? p. 257 Lee Anthony Eddowes Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web p. 268 J. Rios, D. Rios Insua, E. Fernandez, J.A. Rivero On the Transition to an Open Source Solution for Desktop Office=20 Automation p. 277 Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Paolo Zuliani, Giancarlo Succi Public eProcurement in Action: Policies, Practices and Technologies p. 286 Catherine Hardy, Susan P. Williams An Integrated Approach in Healthcare e-Procurement: The Case-Study of the=20 ASL of Viterbo p. 298 Tommaso Federici [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London=20 WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Judit Gervain Subject: ESSLLI'05 Student Session: Final Call for Papers and Posters Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:24:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 797 (797) Final Call for Papers: ESSLLI'05 Student Session We are pleased to announce the Student Session (StuS) of the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'05, 8-19 August, Edinburgh, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/). We invite papers for oral and poster presentation from the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduate, as well as postgraduate. This year, unlike in the past, papers can be submitted for oral OR poster presentation separately. Student authors are invited to submit a full paper, not to exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Papers are to be submitted with clear indications of the selected modality of presentation, i.e. oral or poster. The submissions will be reviewed by the student session program committee and selected reviewers. Importantly and unlike in pervious years, oral presentations and posters will be reviewed, ranked and chosen for acceptance separately. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript, PDF, or plain text, although other formats will also be accepted. The paper and a separate identification page must be sent electronically to: gervain_at_sissa.it. Deadline: 15th February 2005. For more information and the technical details of the submission, see: http://www.sissa.it/~gervain/StuS.html or write to: gervain@sissa.it ========================@======================== Judit Gervain office: via dell'Orologio 6., 2nd floor Trieste Italy postal address: SISSA CNS via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Italy office tel: +39 040 37 87 613 mobile tel: +39 329 788 40 25 www.sissa.it/~gervain From: Juergen Dix Subject: Third International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:25:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 798 (798) Systems Call for Papers ================= Third International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS'05) <http://www.cs.uu.nl/ProMAS/> ProMAS'05 is a satellite workshop at AAMAS 2005 Utrecht University, The Netherlands <http://www.aamas2005.nl/> Even though the contributions of the multi-agent systems (MAS) community can make a significant impact in the development of open distributed systems, the techniques resulting from such contributions will only be widely adopted when suitable programming languages and tools are available. Furthermore, such languages and tools must incorporate those techniques in a principled but practical way, so as to support the ever more complex task of professional programmers, in particular when the systems have to operate in dynamic environments. The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the practical programming issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. In its two previous editions, ProMAS constituted an invaluable occasion bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry to discuss issues on the design of programming languages and tools for multi-agent systems. In particular, the workshop promotes the discussion and exchange of ideas concerning the techniques, concepts, requirements, and principles that are important for multi-agent programming technology. We encourage the submission of proposals for programming languages and tools that provide specific programming constructs to facilitate the implementation of the essential concepts used in multi-agent system analysis and specifications (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. Further, we are particularly interested in approaches or applications that show clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry. [material deleted] From: Vika Zafrin Subject: What is knowledge? Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:31:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 799 (799) I wasn't *actually* going to start another thread, but this quote from Bruce Horn (the programmer behind the Mac Finder) seems perfect: "...[D]ata is not information, which is not knowledge, which is not wisdom." I wonder whether practicing humanities computing has changed people's perceptions with regard to the distinctions among these terms. Has it changed yours? What *are* the distinctions? My own answer isn't quite formulated. I'm unclear, for example, on the difference between data and information, and on whether one can talk about a generalized difference between information and knowledge, without referring to one or more specific cases. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.543 thoughts on writing (plain text) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:26:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 800 (800) Not really -- such constructs are extremely common in medieval Latin -- hundreds are well known to medievalists. This is not at all a new development. [deleted quotation] From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: 18.542 material culture of humanities computing Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:27:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 801 (801) Dear Willard, You write that "The universality and plasticity of computing mean that as an epistemic device it offers and so leads us into unlimited making of things. Does it not thereby throw a light, hereafter difficult to ignore, on knowing as a process of making and remaking?" Your comments about computing thus being always conscious (as opposed to Polanyi's "tacit") seem to me to reflect your thoughtful approach to computing rather than the generality of users. I believe people in most behaviors, and even in computing, seek, even if only unconsciously, a useful thoughtlessness, some so that their lives are felt to be less complex and some so that they can build on the accepted foundation to examine new concerns, but in all cases so that life feels more manageable. This thoughtlessness, as Polanyi indicates with his example of the blind man feeling the sidewalk with his cane rather than feeling the cane, is useful. Now put a pencil into someone's hand. I am always amazed at people who can just pick one up and draw something that looks good; I can't. But my lab class students are often amazed to see me just "pick up" Powerpoint and create not only objects but animations with about the same tacit thoughtlessness that I can write prose with a pencil. Of course, if I choose to make a beautiful animation, I focus on it and the tool ceases to be tacit, just as I need to focus on my handwriting if I expect anyone else to read it. It seems to me that some aspects of humanities computing do become tacit. When I run simple update queries (e.g., computing the age of authors at the time of publication of their works), I don't consciously think about how databases function at all; I merely find the right fields and make the right calculation, as I would if I were trying to estimate the cost of a trip (ground, air, hotel, then addition; I don't ask how addition works). By way of parallel, language itself strikes me as the archetypal general purpose tool, one that certainty can claim a role in constructing the world, but most of us most of the time ("Hi, how are you?" "Fine, thanks. And you?") use it tacitly, transparently. When we don't, we're often beings critics or artists, which is fine. But not the constant practice of most people. Or so it seems to me. Best wishes, Eric ------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin_at_umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 18.542 material culture of humanities computing Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:30:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 802 (802) Hi Willard, You write: [deleted quotation]persistence? Based on this description, "computing" seems to be equivalent to "language." Perhaps using technology bundles can be likened in this case to using a particular language, or an instance of using any language. In other words, computing as a generalized process and the use of computing are distinguished. What we do with computing, with language or with any other epistemic tool, is create and preserve knowledge. (My working definition is "the entirety of human memory of the species' experience" -- but that's another thread, isn't it?) Any expression of language is a physical instantiation of knowledge: speech is composed of soundwaves, etc. Following this analogy, any human-readable expression of computing is an instantiation. Tthis seems to ring true both with regard to software and with regard to files. Whenever I open Firefox, I see a unique instantiation of the program; likewise, although the Blake Archive's data may be stored on a specific server, every time I load it in my browser I see an instantiation. In your original post, you write: "It also seems clear to me that at its achievable best, collaborative work involving humanities computing is inseparably so -- that in those cases it is misleading if not entirely false to talk about techie bits as opposed to scholarly bits. Nevertheless, the partial detachment of means from ends that makes humanities computing possible and that is implicit in computing more generally requires that in reflecting on these objects we extract the specifically humanities computing aspects of them." Here's where my analogy falls apart. Much like other kinds of evolution, the evolution of language proceeds according to no rules in particular, which is why you can't teach a language without talking about how people use it. Software in general, and humanities computing software in particular, also evolves -- but its evoluiton is enacted quite consciously, based on usage. I think separating "techie" from "scholarly" would annihilate the field: the point is precisely that humanists involved in HC learn how to use and create technology, and people who have come to HC from the techie side are more or less forced to learn some things about scholarship in the humanities. In order to extract specifically humanities computing aspects of software, wouldn't we first need to know who built it, how, and why, and how it's used? I could, theoretically, come up with a program identical in both form and functionality to someone else's, but built for entirely different reasons and using different processes and resources. If I understand you correctly, these differences would affect which the elements of the program could be called "humanities computing." (To bring it back full circle, in using a textbook it is helpful to know its authors' biases, and reading the Divine Comedy is more fulfilling if you know about the details of Dante's political exile.) If no information is available about the author and all you have is the software, I suppose it could be a useful exercise to attempt to separate its potential humanities computing uses from the set of all possible uses. But that would be speculation about how the field might evolve, until there was some data about how the software was *actually* used. I guess, what I'm arriving at is: writing theory of the sort you propose is equivalent to attempting to predict the future, with whatever degree of success. It's like trying to predict what a particular word will mean two hundred years from now. Have eighteenth-century linguists actually done that, I wonder? It would be interesting to see if they were right. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Lynda Williams Subject: published twice or more Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:25:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 803 (803) [deleted quotation]My web story, "Going Back Out", was picked up by an online journal after being published on my own website, simply because I put a creative commons license on it. The same story was published in print in the conference proceedings for "A Little Rebellion", a tribute to a social activist named Bridget Moran, at my home institution. A small example, with no $ associated, but indicative of the idea that some stories OUGHT to be published in more than one place to increase their exposure. In this case, the story is intended as an inspiration one for anyone daunted by "bigger fish" when pursuing his or her goals, and as an ambassador for my science fiction series. The more ways it gets used the better. There is no more open solution than creative commons. My novels, in the same series, are published via the traditional, slow and painful methods by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy in Calgary, AB and novellas in the same series are published via Windstorm Creative, an alternative publisher in Seattle. Each publishing approach is very different, but each serves different goals. For the novel series, the goal is to be the flag ship, and relate the saga. Novellas and the anthologies I am doing with votary authors through Windstorm allow me to engage people in a creative way and share the joy, promotion and thinking about life that goes into the whole project. It allows me to express myself as an author in ways that do not begin and end with the bottom line. My own experience is, in large part, the source of my belief that people must know what the mission of a piece of writing is, before they can make sensible decisions about how it should be managed as a piece of IP. What is the right solution for one purpose, is the completely wrong solution for another. ------------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, M.Sc. Computation, M.L.S. info sci http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org (fiction) http://ctl.unbc.ca (University of Northern B.C.) From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Acronyms in Latin Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:19:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 804 (804) [deleted quotation]development. Good point. But don't these acronymic practices represent a shift in the way acronyms are conceived through mainstream culture? From: fomi Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:25:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 805 (805) Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized and supported by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distributed systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. [material deleted] From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: research positions 2005-4 Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:20:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 806 (806) Apologies for multiple posting! Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few positions may be available starting in the Fall-Winter 2005 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the group (the host institute) is: <http://www.grlmc.com>http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ELIGIBLE TOPICS The eligible topics are the group's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. JOB PROFILE - Between 12 and 36 months long. - The positions are intended for top-level appointments, i.e. to attract world-class researchers. - Very experienced researchers are sought with outstanding past achievements in teaching and research. - Teaching at PhD level, research and student supervising are all expected. - The research subject should be of a leading edge and/or multidisciplinary nature. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - There is no restriction on nationality or age, with the following two exceptions: (i) Spaniards are ineligible unless they have resided for at least 4 of the last 5 years outside the European Union. (ii) Non-Spaniards having resided in Spain for at least 4 of the last 5 years are ineligible. - Candidates must be working at present outside the European 25 Member States, Associated Candidate States (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey) or Associated States (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland), and can not have resided for more than 1 year of the last 3 years in Spain. - Although there is no particular preference, European citizens working outside Europe at present are encouraged to apply. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - The financial size of a position (all included: salary, travel and mobility expenses, research management and overheads, equipment) will be in the interval 260,000-700,000 euros. The relations between the holder and the host institute will be governed by a specific agreement. - The holder will be hired under a work contract. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 stages: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a full proposal, to be evaluated by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until February 7, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-4" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. For the preselected candidates, the deadline for the submission of the full proposal will be February 16, 2005. Directions, advice and support will be given to them by the host institute. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: Dino Buzzetti Subject: Re: 18.543 thoughts on writing (plain text) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:22:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 807 (807) Alexandre Enkerli wrote: [deleted quotation]I am not so sure. Take this: Le texte r=E9cite... Le texte r=E9cit=E9... Isn't there a structural difference here? Well, it depends on how you define structure, but I would take it to comprise also logical structure, or form. In my opinion every diacritical sign can be thought of as markup. -dino buzzetti --=20 Dino Buzzetti Department of Philosophy University of Bologna tel. +39 051 20 98357 via Zamboni, 38 fax 98355 I-40126 Bologna BO From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 18.546 knowledge, wisdom, data, information? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:21:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 808 (808) Vika Zafrin wrote: [deleted quotation]wisdom." [deleted quotation]To my knowledge (smile), this distinction is relatively old and commonplace - Frank Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit, used it in her "epistemology" of rock-n-roll (with the last, not surprisingly, at the top). I'm tempted to think that computing has changed people's perceptions - in the direction of what O'Leary and Brasher in their 1996 essay have identified as a form of Gnosticism: == One issue raised in computer-mediated communication that we find particularly troubling is the extent to which the new media reduce all discourse to information. This can result in a contemporary analogue of Gnosticism, the mystical quest for the knowledge that saves. Physicist Heinz Pagels puts the problem succinctly: Some intellectual prophets have declared the end of the age of knowledge and the beginning of the age of information. Information tends to drive out knowledge. Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge has semantic value. What we want is knowledge, but what we often get is information. It is a sign of the times that many people cannot tell the difference between information and knowledge, not to mention wisdom, which even knowledge tends to drive out. (1988, 49) If our traditions cannot keep knowledge and wisdom alive, these distinctions will disappear as all is reduced to information. The cyborg's spiritual quest would become an endless search for the information that saves-a quest doomed to failure, an endless and eternally restless manipulation of signs and numbers that, like the search for the philosopher's stone, can never produce the gold or the semantic value that we seek. When the ambitious dream described by Richard Lanham in The Electronic Word is realized, and the whole record of human culture is digitized and available on computer databases connected to each other by a global web, our spiritual crisis will remain and even intensify, for we will be forced to confront the fact that no electronic alchemy can turn information into knowledge, or into the wisdom that will teach us how to live. == Pagels, Heinz. 1988. The Dreams of Reason. New York: Simon and Schuster. Cited in O'Leary and Brasher, The Unknown God of the Internet: Religious Communication from the Ancient Agora to the Virtual Forum, in Ess (ed.) Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication (Albany, NY: SUNY Press), 262. == I think both Pagels and O'Leary and Brasher are spot on here. Whether humanities computing would help people at least recognize and, if supported by critical reflection, sustain these distinctions, I've no idea. As for defining the distinctions, fairly simple, if operational definitions can be offered for initial discussion: data - bits (1/0s) as recognized and manipulated by computational devices. information - data organized into both basic and complex units (e.g., the boiling point of water is 100 degrees centigrade.) knowledge - (human) awareness of units of information and their interconnections, as these build into larger conceptual complexes (e.g., in physics, ranging from the formula for gravitational attraction to a possible grant theory of everything) wisdom - _praxis_ informed knowledge of how to live well / appropriately as a human being in a human / natural community. For the philosophical community that has emerged in the past 15 years or so around the Computers and Philosophy conferences, originally in North America but now more spread about the planet (the 2nd Asian-Pacific CAP conference was held this month in Bangkok, for example), much of this is discussed in terms of a "computational turn" in philosophy, which in part means a focus on how computation and the new venues / experiences / interactions made possible by computing technologies helps / forces philosophers to re-examine old questions and raise new ones. Broadly speaking, there is some consensus among this group (so far) that "wisdom" would include an Aristotelian sense of _phronesis_ or "practical wisdom" - a sense of wisdom that is apparently fairly cross-cultural, for example, as it at least resonates with notions of wisdom found in Confucian thought, some African traditions, etc. The discussion gets even more interesting in the work of Luciano Floridi (Wolfson College, Oxford), whose information ontology turns traditional philosophical ontology upside down and takes information as the basic building block of reality. For his part, Hubert Dreyfus, in _On the Internet_ (2001) argues from a phenomenological perspective that the most important kinds of human knowledge and wisdom (also in the Aristotelian sense) can only be gained through embodied experience with other embodied human beings - a point made earlier by Albert Borgmann in his _Holding on to Reality_ (1999), also from a phenomenological perspective. I can provide further discussion and references of these points if anyone is still reading and interested (smile). Hope this helps! cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: 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: robert delius royar Subject: Re: 18.546 knowledge, wisdom, data, information? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:23:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 809 (809) Tue, 1 Feb 2005 (06:31 +0000) Vika Zafrin wrote [deleted quotation]The original is much less pedestrian: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best. - Frank Zappa "Packard Goose" Finder is down right catered to the pathetic. -Chris Millar -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University Making meaning one message at a time. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.546 knowledge, wisdom, data, information? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:23:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 810 (810) Vika and Willard "Skill is the perception of knowledge." What happens when skill is added to the data-information-knowledge triad? The succession is less a pyramind and indeed less a succession when one takes into account the material practices of intellectual transactions. Nikhil Sharma has a short piece on the origin of the DIKW hierarchy in the Knowledgement Management literature with a nod to T.S. Eliot via Harlan Cleveland. http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~nsharma/dikw_origin.htm Sharma also points to informant-supplied reference to the work of Milan Zeleny: Zeleny builds the DIKW hierarchy by equating Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom to "know-nothing", "know-what", "know-how" and "know-why" respectively. If one understands that skill is at play and perception encounters and parses unending semiosis, then one is likely to invert the positioning of "information" and "data" Information is from the world in its materiality (the "hyle" of the phenomenologists). Data is that which is given. What was in formation now has form (and continues to be informing). As tempting as it is to map Knowledge onto the ability to break with the power of analysis the given data and Wisdom onto the synthetic capability to rearrange data into new formations, I want to abandon the metaphysical securities of know how and know why. I also for obvious reasons don't want to eleveate the synthetic over the analytic. Skill is a treasure that rests upon being open to other ways how and certainly the wisest people I know never ask why. They observe. They communicate what they observe. Ah perception and communication -- activities that the Knowlege Management literature recognizes as belonging to the purview of social capital. Such very fragile social capital. So very easy to erode. So very easy to restore in communities and societies that have the wisdom to pass on the knowledge that information precedes data. And dares not to fetishize information in its merely electronic form. "Skill is the communication of wisdom." -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Naomi Standen Subject: Re: 18.546 knowledge, wisdom, data, information? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:24:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 811 (811) [deleted quotation]To my mind the distinctions in the sequence above are of increasing interpretation and connectedness (which may well be the same thing). The further along the list you go, the more *meaning* the output conveys, at least potentially, to others (that it has meaning to people outside the creator seems an important element here). I, too, had not added data to my list as something distinct from information, but I can see how one usefully could do so, and it is using computers that has led me to think about the difference. How about this for starters, noting, along the way, the difficulty of vocabulary, at least for someone who doesn't make a habit of reading the theory of these things: Data consists of very basic statements about perceptions of what is "out there", ranging from isolated notes that on this day this person sold this cow for this many beans, up to series of population statistics. Processing has happened in each case (of course), but the range varies considerably from unselfconscious writing down (or speaking or other form of recording) of something as someone perceived it to have happened, to more or less sophisticated (re)arrangement of material culled from one or more sources. Information is a first stage of making meaning from such data. Information is data made use of, typically in forming some kind of statement that goes beyond the data itself. Hence, "Jack received five beans for his cow, which goes to show he didn't understand the value of cows or beans, or the urgency of the situation he and his mother were in." Or: the population statistics for China between 1400 and 1800 show a quadrupling. The statement about Jack's economic sense gives meaning to an otherwise random report, and the calculation of the population rise in China suggests that these numbers are significant, at least to the person making the statement. To me, information of this type implies a need for explanation rather than being the explanation in and of itself. It suggests that something about what is being reported is not how you might expect if working from some kind of more or less Platonic or otherwise idealised model of the world. Information like this is what you use when you construct more or less conscious or deliberate arguments (which is, yes, the other way round from something that needs explanation, but there's surely a dialectical relationship between the two). In using it in this way you process it a bit from when it was just data and thereby add (your) meaning to it. Knowledge, it seems to me (and doubtless epistemologists will laugh at my simplicity), may be less a thing than a process. (Perhaps information is a process, or beginning to be a process, too). Knowledge is what you end up with after you have processed information for yourself, and some large or small portion of it has made meaning for you. In other words, you have *used* the information for your own purposes, which is likely to involve combining some understanding of the presenter's intent with whatever you bring to the information and the argument within which it made sense (meaning) for the presenter. You have internalised something (even if only for the duration of an exam... :-) ) and you are changed as a result. Your knowledge, or knowing, changes continually as new things (information, data, experience) get added to the mix. Knowledge is about setting information within a network of everything else you have available to make meaning about the world, or some particular bit of it that you're focused on right then. Wisdom is a whole other level, but I'm not sure I can describe it as accurately as I'd like. When I was at school I got laughed at when I said I thought that history was about wisdom, but actually, I still believe it, although now I wouldn't claim that this goal was exclusive to history (except when I'm being a real disciplinary partisan!) I meant then that it wasn't enough to just make sense of things for oneself (that is, to make knowledge), although that is essential, but that that knowledge had to find some kind of practical form, as in knowing what to say, how to respond, in order to achieve a (not the) best outcome in the circumstances. Perhaps wisdom is knowledge in action. Perhaps it's what happens when your knowledge (or your knowing, perhaps) is sufficiently internalised that it begins to affect not just *what* you can say about something in terms of your understanding of that thing (that would be knowledge), but what you *do* about it and *how* you do that thing. Wisdom, perhaps, is when the changes wrought in you by the knowledge (or meanings) that you have made actually get put into practice in the world you inhabit. All the complexity of the connections you have made between the information and data available to you can be focused onto an awareness and understanding that goes beyond the here and now (although it may well be applied there) and enables you to produce a right action. I think I've just said the same thing at least twice, but there you go, that's what happens when you think on-screen. Of course I don't claim any primacy for this explanation, which is merely my own first, and doubtless naive, effort, but I'm glad of the question that sparked me to think about this, and await other answers with interest. Naomi Standen -- Dr. Naomi Standen | School of Historical Studies, Armstrong Building Lecturer in Chinese History | University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU Admissions Tutor for History | Tel: +44 191 222 6490 Fax: +44 191 222 6484 | Homepage: www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/naomi.standen From: Erik Hatcher Subject: Re: 18.546 knowledge, wisdom, data, information? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:24:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 812 (812) On Feb 1, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]And to give that quote some historical perspective, he borrowed it from Frank Zappa: "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST." Erik From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.3 Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:26:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 813 (813) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 3 (February 2 - February 9, 2005) INTERVIEW Ken Sevcik on Performance Evaluation The Origin of Queueing Network Models A Ubiquity Interview with Ken Sevcik of the University of Toronto http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i3_sevcik.html From: No Name Available Subject: CFP: New Technologies for Personalized Information Access Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:44:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 814 (814) ****************************** - PIA 2005 - ****************************** Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access at User Modeling 2005 July 25, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK http://irgroup.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/pia2005/ Call for Papers Information access is one of the hottest topics of information society and it has become even more important since the advent of the Web. On one side, our society relies more and more on information, both for professional and personal goals. Information is nowadays considered as one of the most valuable and strategic goods: knowing the right information, at the right moment, as soon as it is available is a "must" for all of us. On the other side, the amount of available information, especially on the Web and in modern Digital Libraries, is tremendously increasing over time. In this context, the importance and role of user modeling and personalized information access are increasing. Equipped with user modeling tools capable of comprehending specific user information needs, new retrieval tools will be able to effectively filter out irrelevant information, to rank information in the most suitable way, to compare the contents of different documents, to personalize information presentation, and to adequately tailor man-machine interaction. The new challenges motivated a range of new technologies for personalized information access within all information access paradigms =AD from classic =93ad-hoc=94 information retrieval to information filtering, browsing, and visualization. New creative ideas emerged in a number of old and new research communities including user modeling, machine learning, adaptive hypermedia, digital libraries, semantic Web, human-computer interaction, and information visualization. The goals of the workshop are to intensify the exchange of innovative ideas between the different research communities involved, to provide an overview of current activities in the area of personalized information access, and to point out connections between them. The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on ontologies, computational linguistics, user modeling and profiling, user adaptive interfaces, digital libraries, and their combination. [material deleted]=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: call for updates: Institutional Models for Humanities Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:07:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 815 (815) Computing This is a call for updates to "Institutional Models for Humanities Computing", whose first iteration was published in Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.3 (2003): 465-89, and is online at www.allc.org/imhc/. As far as we know, it is the only world-wide register of its kind. Originally compiled by Matt Kirschenbaum and Willard McCarty, its aim was to record, in an emergent structure, the various institutional forms that humanities computing takes in the world. LLC first planned to issue the listing yearly, but we have found that institutions do not change fast enough to justify a yearly update. Two years later, however, it seems time to make another broad survey, change the links that need to be changed, record shifts of emphasis, creation of new programmes -- and, of course, new institutional units. Our goal for the new edition of IMHC is to provoke discussion of the institutional networks and structures in which computing humanists work by offering several different organizational schemes in the web listing. We are therefore calling not only for updates and additions to entries, but also for suggestions as to the relevant categories under which humanities computing programs and units usefully fall. Please contact us with changes and suggestions. Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia, bethany AT virginia.edu) Willard McCarty (King's College London) [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Other kinds of windows Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:10:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 816 (816) Willard, When you are working at a computer station or with a laptop are there windows near by? I ask, and invite subscribers to Humanist to contemplate the question, because Geoffrey Rockwell has recently uploaded some pictures of "learning spaces". His accompanying commentary is a paean to light: natural light streaming to illuminate the niches where folks gather. Very enlightening as to the material practices made available to higher education by the built environment. See http://strange.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/weblog/notes/000711.html -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: February/March Issue of Innovation Now Available Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:11:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 817 (817) The February/March 2005 issue of Innovate is now available at http://innovateonline.info Innovate is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly e-journal published as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. It features creative practices and cutting-edge research on the use of information technology to enhance education. We open the issue with a conversation between two Innovate board members. Elizabeth Hawthorne interviews Seng Chee Tan, who works for the National Institute of Education in Singapore. Tan describes the IT masterplans that generously supply public schools there with hardware and software, teachers with technology training that emphasizes sound pedagogy, and students with an incredible range of learning resources. June Brown, Jan Bryan, and Ted Brown follow with an article on the expanding concept of literacy in the 21st century. Global, visual, information, and digital literacy--all are crucial in this era of connectivity. The authors highlight technology tools and resources that can help modern students sustain the classical Greek ideal of a community of literates. Librarians are crucial to student literacy, as Lesley Farmer reminds us. She examines two administrative roles that will dominate K-12 libraries by 2015: school library media specialist and cybrarian. Tom Peters takes us away from school settings to the world of online public libraries. In an interview with me, he discusses LibraryCity--an ambitious effort to make thousands of e-books available to an interactive global readership. We all know that information and communication technologies have measurable effects on teaching and learning. Bruce Ingraham argues that ICT could also change traditional scholarly discourse. In a thoughtful analysis, Ingraham suggests how the academic community might create, disseminate, and evaluate scholarship in multimedia forms. Technologically savvy scholars are a unique resource for their academic departments. Colleen Reilly enumerates the benefits of having "faculty peers" conduct workshops and support technology use among their colleagues. This kind of work can be part of routine faculty tasks, Reilly says--and it should count in tenure and promotion considerations. Nikki Finlay would be an admirable faculty peer for teaching colleagues how to use mimio boardCast. Based on experiences in her online and on-campus macroeconomics courses, Finlay touts the software as a useful graphing tool and lists its advantages over similar programs. Joseph Ugoretz identifies an unlikely source for productive learning in online classes: digression in asynchronous discussions. According to Ugoretz, digression can lead to far-reaching, active learning experiences that may prove even more valuable than the intended dialogue. Our final offering is the first column in a new series by Stephen Downes. In "Places to Go," Downes will review Web sites that promote and/or exemplify creative uses of IT in teaching and learning. His first choice is IncSub, a site dedicated to open-source content management systems and learning support tools. Logging on is simple--but we invite you to do more than simply read. Use the journal's one-button features to comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, easily obtain related articles, and participate in Innovate-Live webcasts and discussion forums. Join us in exploring the best uses of technology to improve the ways we think, learn, and live. Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists and to colleagues who want to use IT tools to advance their work. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: B. C. Smith on what is digital Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:42:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 818 (818) On Monday, Brian Cantwell Smith gave a talk for the Library of Congress series, The Digital Future, entitled, "And is this stuff really digital after all?", on the meaning of "digital" and its implications for the present and future of computing. The talk is archived at http://www.c-span.org/congress/digitalfuture.asp and is well worth the time and trouble that watching and listening to such an event on one's computer implies. Smith has written a couple of things that I regard as essential reading: (1) "The Limits of Correctness in Computers." In Computers, Ethics & Social Values. Ed. Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Nissenbaum. 456-69. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995 (available from the ACM Digital Library in its original form, published in 1985), in which he makes a strong argument for the essential role of modelling in computing systems; and (2) "Foundations of Computing." In Computationalism: New Directions. Ed. Matthias Scheutz. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2002 (available now from http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/readings/foundations%20of%20computing.pdf), in which he takes up among other things the problem of formality). Smith is a bit of an intellectual renegade, whose work does not quite fit into any of the usual categories, and perhaps for that reason tends to have an interesting and irregular publishing history. His book, On the Origin of Objects, I've found less successful than (2), which as he says is distilled from a series of books whose metaphysical territory is introduced by Origin. In the recent talk he mentions other work that he's written but not published because he says that he doesn't fully understand the subject. There's a real sense of struggle in his work, but to be imaginatively present at this struggle is in my experience worth more than many finished and polished books on philosophical aspects of computing and the territory beyond. I sometimes wish he'd be less restrained. Anyhow, do seek out and listen to the talk. If you know the fellow, put pressure on him to publish it. This from his Feyerabendian conclusion, jotted down in my notes: [deleted quotation]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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 18.553 knowledge, wisdom, data, information - addendum Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:08:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 819 (819) Dear HUMANISTS, first of all, my thanks to everyone else who commented on this topic (including the correction of my flagging memory - Zappa, eh, not Moon Unit? oh well...) Speaking of faulty memory - the remarks further reminded me that T.S. Elliot used a similar distinction in his "Choruses from the Rock" (sometime in the 1930s, I think): The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit. O perpetual revolution of configured stars, O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons, O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying! The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. -- T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from the Rock" FWIW: I used this poem in conjunction with Dreyfus' taxonomy of knowledge, as developed in his _On the Internet_ - one in turn that draws on Kierkegaard, including the distinctions between the ethical and religious spheres. Roughly, Dreyfus argues that knowledge, and certainly wisdom (in the sense of _phronesis_) are part of the ethical and religious spheres (in contrast with the aesthetic sphere) - and involve a move from the skills of handling information to the skills of handling knowledge. T.S. Elliot as a forerunner of humanities computing? On that happy thought... 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: "Franklin, Rosemary (franklra)" Subject: RE: 18.553 knowledge, wisdom, data, information Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:09:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 820 (820) I believe Menken said: "knowledge without wisdom is like an ass bearing books". Perhaps that could be expanded to say: data without information is like an ass bearing books without knowledge? Cheers, Rosemary Franklin From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: 18.553 knowledge, wisdom, data, information Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:09:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 821 (821) Wed, 2 Feb 2005 (06:24 -0000 UTC) Naomi Standen wrote [deleted quotation]I believe by this point we are already facing information. Data is ineffable. As soon as we describe a datum, we have have poesis. I am not certain that language can be data except as it be analyzed in some elemental form. Even then, I admit I do not know what it is I mean by that. I cannot conceive of letters and certainly not words that do not spontaneously convert into information as soon as I become aware of them, even in languages I do not read. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University Making meaning one message at a time. From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.550 acronyms (was plain text) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:43:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 822 (822) I don't quite know what you mean. Acronyms used as words were very common in 20th century English well before the invention of computers -- Cf. the WW II ones WAAC, SNAFU. COMSUBPAC, CIC, USAF, etc. There were plenty more, from business, advertising -- I recall people drinking "ojay" well before the football player/ accused was born -- and one branch of in-laws never pronounced the words "toilet paper". They thought it was impolite and called it "teepee" instead. I don't think computers have changed the acronym situation one whit. [deleted quotation] From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Re: 18.543 thoughts on representing (text) [was: thoughts Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:43:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 823 (823) on writing (plain text)] [I (*) comment on Alexandre Enkerli (>), Mon, 31 Jan 2005; sorry for the=20 arbitrary selection of issues] [deleted quotation]writing as only a specific mode of language transmission.] * [I mostly work on historical documents and think of writing as a mostly=20 autonomous system to language (in the sense of speech). The following is=20 restricted to the "representation" of already existing texts.] [deleted quotation]of human-readable computer file format for textual content, including=20 markup formats. * Oh! The definitions I was thinking of were something like "only=20 ASCII-characters (in no modified usage)" or "what is left when you strip=20 off all markup". I agree, this would leave all problems to the notion of=20 "markup". To me even the wikipedia-definition is somwhat unclear: "plain=20 text files are files with generally a one-to-one correspondence between the= =20 bytes and ordinary readable characters such as letters and digits". But=20 what does "ordinary readable" means in this case? Is the "<"-sign in an xml= =20 file to be ordinarily read? Or is it to be read in an extraordinary way? I= =20 think the latter holds true. Thus I would say, that a marked up text (in=20 the sense of XML) is not a plain text. But this leads to the wider=20 questions ... [deleted quotation]Willard's anecdote on a fellow French-Canadian's reaction to the=20 elimination of "accented characters" (including, I assume, c-cedilla and=20 such) carries this point forward. Capital letters *are* markup. So is=20 punctuation. The history of typography has a lot to say about this and what= =20 we're witnessing now is another major step in the history of=20 "writing." Parallels abound in music transcription and notation. Current=20 computer technologies (a major theme on this list) do encourage us to think= =20 of text in new ways. Not to *limit* text. To expand it. In fact, thinking of simplistic compression algorithms may help in the=20 discussion. What *is* the minimal information requirements for text? As we= =20 all know, text is extremely redundant in terms of pure information=20 processing. Thinking of "Plain Text" (ASCII or other encodings) might work:= =20 we need "character data" and "markup data." (There doesn't seem to be a=20 significant difference between "markup data" and metadata.) We use=20 different methods to separate this type of data from "character data" but=20 we still use parts of the same character set. This practice is the basis of= =20 some technical issues, certainly, but we can think of this in the abstract. [...] Character data can itself be reduced, and we certainly all have note-taking= =20 practices (fewer vowels, for one thing) which considerably reduce the=20 number of characters we need to type. While some may frown upon these=20 practices when used in more formal communication, they certainly have an=20 impact on the way *people* think of text. Current computer users probably=20 write on average much more than scribes of old. The "intrinsic quality" of= =20 their writing isn't the issue, nor is the "intrinsic quality" of what they= =20 read. People *do* read and write. Our goal could be to understand how they= =20 do it. Instructors in composition are now acknowledging these "new methods"= =20 of writing and may more easily help their students think of different sets= =20 of rules for different forms of writing. * I mostly agree to these points. Text can be represented by a mixture of=20 character data and markup data. The problem is: which markup do you need to= =20 represent a (given) text properly? Some people say, that the distinction=20 between upper and lower case is markup, some call the punctuation system=20 markup, some even call spaces markup. [and just today Dino Buzzetti called= =20 every diacritical sign markup] If you strip off all these kinds of markup=20 you obviously get a plain text which is nearly unreadable (in the=20 communicative sense and function of text). And you don't get a reasonable=20 theory of text. A reasonable theory of text would have to define up to=20 which extent (which kind of) markup has to be used to represent (a certain= =20 already existing) text. [deleted quotation]=20 to write. LaTeX is a clear example of the separation of form and content.=20 [...] LaTeX has kept challenging the idea of "word processors" and WYSIWYG.= =20 XML formats for textual content are also on that side of the equation. But= =20 the revolution hasn't happened yet. It's coming, though. Whether it's=20 through a specific format (possibly XML-based like DocBook, OPML, RSS,=20 TEI...) or through changes in the way people *write* is uncertain at this= point * The concept of separation of form and content may work for "writing"=20 (where you are free to base your wrinting on this distinction). But what=20 about "representing" text from historical media (like printed books)? Form= =20 "is" content in the sense that it conveys meaning. But that's nothing more= =20 than a truism because it would lead to the unrealistic demand to recode=20 every visual (and material) aspect of a given document. Obviously we still= =20 need a sound theory of text which draws a line between those aspects of=20 text which have to be recoded to guarantee the identity of the text and=20 those aspects which can be ignored (I still try to work out that theory).=20 This is somewhat complicated because it has to include factors like the=20 historical conditions of text production (including social, discursive and= =20 technical circumstances), the kind (genre) of text to be represented and=20 the (intended) audience of a text representation. *[I now start to comment on a mail by Michael Hart, Sat, 29 Jan - Re:=20 18.536 plain text] * From a text-theoretical point of view Project Gutenberg seems to be=20 rather easy to describe: The texts in the project are the result of the application of a perception= =20 filter. the project is not about "representing the text" but on=20 "representing the text as can be seen through the filtering glass of the=20 ASCII-Code". The texts in the project are "performances" of the originals=20 according to a certain theory of text: "Text is what can be expressed by=20 the ASCII code, everything else is not essential to the text and can be=20 ignored without damage to the identity of the text". Maybe it simply cannot be better said than in the words of Michael Hart: [deleted quotation]text file offers over 99% of what most authors wrote in a library of books currently freely available for download. How much more effort is it worth to get from 99% to 99.5% ??? For some, it's worth the moon and the stars, while for others a plain text eBook provides all they ever wanted. * There are books which can be represented by using nothing but the ASCII=20 code and you (or a certain reader) still have the impression to read the=20 same book (the same text) as in the original document. But there are others= =20 too. Think of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" (with its greek passages,= =20 black pages, "filling characters", textual ornaments, drawings, font=20 changes etc.). Some readers will still be satisfied with the ASCII=20 representation (depending on their theory of text) which ignore all of=20 these features (like the ASCII-Tristram-Shandy in Project Gutenberg, text=20 no. 1079). But others (like me) would say: the text in Project Gutenberg=20 misses everything which is crucial for this text (work). If I read the=20 Project Gutenberg version of this text I will miss everything which really= =20 constitutes the work (most of it - but not all - is in the html-version of= =20 Project Gutenberg 1079 which really isn't bad). This is not a criticism on Project Gutenberg! There are readings (ways of=20 reading) and analytical attitudes within which the texts still "work" as=20 substitutes for the original documents. But in a more global theory of text= =20 we would have to say that these electronic plain texts are not the "text"=20 itself (whatever that is!) but merely "extracts" according to a certain=20 filtering tool (or perception): the ASCII code. Back to Laurence Sterne: as author he used a variety of media/communication= =20 channels to express his thoughts as "text". Project Gutenberg ('s=20 ASCII-Version) is (and has to be) blind to most of them. It's not blind to= =20 those channels which are supported by the ASCII code: alphabetic characters= =20 and some other characters which some people would call markup (more=20 precisely: some of the textual signs which some people call markup are=20 supported by the ASCII code because they can be represented (often:=20 simulated) as characters in the sense of the ASCII code). But Project=20 Gutenberg ignores all the other textual information channels which where=20 consciously used by the author to express his "text". The idea of "text identity" (in the electronic representation of text) can= =20 be based on (1) authorial intention, (2) readers reception or (3) a wider=20 theory of text which includes not only these two positions but also other=20 aspects of text and textuality. Project Gutenberg and plain text fail the=20 first and the latter approach but maybe partially fulfill (as Michael Hart= =20 says with 99% of the readers) the second - depending on the text theory of= =20 the reader. Patrick Sahle University of Cologne Humanities Computing (Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche=20 Informationsverarbeitung) Albertus-Magnus-Platz 50923 K=F6ln From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 18.555 thoughts on writing (plain text) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:44:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 824 (824) At 01:33 AM 2/2/2005, Dino Buzzetti wrote: [deleted quotation]I agree with this, but mainly because it points to how the text/markup distinction is itself questionable, drawing a line that can be usefully challenged. Is not markup also text? Isn't text, in a sense, also markup? Which came first? When a hunter in the wilderness reads the tracks of his quarry, is he reading a text, or markup? Isn't a sign itself, in the structuralist view, a form of markup, a representation "in line" of something "out of line"? This question isn't meant to try to dissolve the distinction, merely to note that it's relative. As Prof Buzzetti says, "it depends on how you define structure". What has form at one layer may be formless in the view of the next one up or down. A digital processor may have to work at several of these levels: there is the bitstream, which may include "markup" such as checksums or compression encodings. There is the stream of characters derived from those bits, which from one point of view is merely a sequence of alphanumerics, but from another (a parser) can be distinguished between unreserved characters and markup delimiters. There is the sequence of "tags" and "text" (note that a binary encoding may skip this stage, which is one reason we don't like most WYWSIWYG). There is the abstract model we derive from this sequence, be that a series of parser events, or a higher-order model such as "the tree" in XML systems. There may be yet other higher-order models that we derive from such bare abstractions, once we have provided semantics to tags such as and . Study, for example, the manuscripts of a working playwright, and it becomes hard to say with any certainty what's text and what's markup. Revisions scrawled in the margins? Stage directions, blocking notes, lists of props? (Like property lists appearing in comments in a programmer's code.) The text/markup distinction is useful -- even invaluable, if one wants to construct a hierarchy from data to information to knowledge to whatever comes next -- each layer of the stack providing the next one down with the context it needs to be more than it is in itself -- but it can also appear to be fairly arbitrary. This doesn't mean that mixing up our layers is a good idea. It just means that considering what's text and what's markup may present a kind of uncertainty principle: we decide, for the purposes of the layer we are working at, what's text and what's text-that-is-more-than-text (more because it is less), like a diacritical mark. All metadata is someone else's data. Best regards, Wendell Piez ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_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: material + cultural Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:57:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 825 (825) I've been arguing that computing affords us a partial or qualified detachment of means from ends, and that this is effected by a strong tendency for us to attend to these means because they offer the opportunity for unlimited constructions. In Humanist 18.545 Eric Rabkin points out that "people in most behaviors, and even in computing, seek, even if only unconsciously, a useful thoughtlessness, some so that their lives are felt to be less complex and some so that they can build on the accepted foundation to examine new concerns, but in all cases so that life feels more manageable." True enough, and computing accommodates this tendency in the numerous manifestations of computer-as-appliance, or "ubiquitous computing", for which Donald Norman and others argue. But there are other computings, and that is my point. Let's accept the proposition that some of us all of the time, and all of us some of the time, do not want to think about what we're doing, with machines, with anything. People of this sort, and people in this mode, are simply "users". Let's accept as normal Polanyi's phenomenological "see-saw" of attending from something, such as a hammer, so that we can attend to something else, such as a nail, until for some reason, such as missing the nail, we attend to the hammer, make an adjustment (a different grip, choose a lighter or heavier hammer) and go back to attending from it to the nail. Utterly commonplace. Nothing special about computing in particular here. But all things being equal, how we behave with respect to the tool is then a question of its stability or fixity and of our conception of what we're doing. I'm arguing that computing, when this is realized as a scheme for indefinitely many devices, or when its extraordinary capability for change from one form of a device to another form is uppermost, is special among tools. I'm arguing that its universal nature is not going to go away, so that computing will not disappear into the background completely, become only part of the furniture &c -- and that this is what's most important about it for us as self-aware scholars (when we manage to be that). In the same Humanist, Vika Zafrin concludes from some of what I was saying that "'computing' seems to be equivalent to language". Since making computers do things involves the writing and implementing of artificial languages, this is an appealing analogy. But the crucial difference is that computing acts directly on the world and has being in the world. Thus Timothy Colburn, in Philosophy and Computer Science (2000), says that computing is a machine made of language. This dual, mind/body-like aspect of computing becomes important to consider when we're attempting to "read" or assess or otherwise understand a computational object, such as a particular database or other crafted piece of software. I said that the qualified detachment of means from ends implies that for the first time, or to an unprecedented degree, we can extract or abstract from the whole object the method(s) that it implements, and that in collaborative work this allows the technical practitioner not only to take credit for what he or she has done but also to reflect on it and so to communicate explicitly what may otherwise go unnoticed. I said or implied that it is very important we do this sort of reflective work. Consider as an analogy the building of a house, in which the architect, plumber, carpenter, brick-layer, stone-mason, plasterer, electrician and perhaps more collaborate. Let's say the house is experimental, non-standard. Afterwards, for the better building of houses, the interaction of these individuals needs to be known, to the degree it can from being there at the time (when this is possible), and otherwise from reading the result as an architectural historian would. It's very important for the building to be credited to all who made it possible, but for the better understanding of building, the recording and the reading must be done. Vika says I am trying to predict the future because the meaning of the object will change over time, and so what is read out will change. To some degree this is true. We write histories of the kind we need for our own purposes. But the writing of history as distinct from fiction happens out of the attempt, which we continue to think partially successful, to re-enact a past that we did not create. The software objects we collaborate to make, like all objects, remain stubbornly themselves independently of the theories we have about them. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- January 2005 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:58:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 826 (826) CIT INFOBITS January 2005 No. 79 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. ...................................................................... Turning Learning Over to Students Student Perceptions in Web-Based Courses Copyright and Learning Will the Web Change Standards for Literature Reviews? Technology and Postsecondary Education Access Report 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: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Disruptive Scholarship Blog Launched Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:59:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 827 (827) Colleagues/ I am pleased to inform you of the creation of a New Blog devoted to the theme of my Wiki-based alternative authoring/review/publishing model I call 'Disruptive Scholarship' The Disruptive Scholarship blog is located at [ http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com ] The Disruptive Scholarship model is sketched in the first posting to the blog. I Welcome Any and All Comments on MyPosting(s) and Look Forward to Exploring the Future of Scholarly Communication, Review, and Publishing. [Of course, the Disruptive Scholarship Blog will in time be replaced by the Disruptive Scholarship Wiki :-)] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Disruptive Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 6(1) "Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data" online Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:00:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 828 (828) Dear All, I would like to inform you that the 17th FQS Issue -- "Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-05-e.htm) -- is available online. FQS 6(1), edited by Louise Corti, Andreas Witzel & Libby Bishop, is dedicated to a topic we already dealt with in the first year of FQS: FQS 1(3) -- Text . Archive . Re-Analysis (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-00-e.htm) -- was an overdue attempt to draw attention to the subject of qualitative archiving, data protection, and secondary analysis. More than four years later, FQS 6(1) indicates the important progress in the field of secondary analyses, but also the necessity for further discussion. Many researchers are not sufficiently informed about possible methods and technical means for archiving and secondary analysis. In most countries qualitative data and resource centers do still not exist to support researchers -- the British Qualidata (http://www.qualidata.essex.ac.uk/), participating in editing FQS 1(3) as well as FQS 6(1) -- is still a prominent forerunner. Also the methodological implications of secondary analyses need to be discussed in more details. This refers to questions of anonymization, confidentiality and ethics as well as to valid, creative and resource saving ways of how to ask "new questions from the old data." Hopefully this new FQS issue will deliver additional insights and arouse further discussions. As with previous issues, in addition to contributions relating to "secondary analysis," FQS 6(1) also provides articles that belong to various FQS rubrics: The FQS Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics, which began in 2004, received ten contributions from American and Canadian researchers. Furthermore, FQS 6(1) contains three articles, belonging to the FQS Debate on Quality of Qualitative Research, and nine new review notes and review essays. We wish hopefully stimulating readings and discussions! Katja Mruck FQS-Editor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------ A) FQS 6(1) -- SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF QUALITATIVE DATA http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-05-e.htm Katja Mruck: Editorial: The FQS Issue on "Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-48-e.htm Louise Corti (UK), Andreas Witzel (Germany) & Libby Bishop (UK): On the Potentials and Problems of Secondary Analysis. An Introduction to the FQS Special Issue on Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-49-e.htm 1. Issues of Context Harry van den Berg (The Netherlands): Reanalyzing Qualitative Interviews from Different Angles: The Risk of Decontextualization and Other Problems of Sharing Qualitative Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-30-e.htm Val Gillies & Rosalind Edwards (UK): Secondary Analysis in Exploring Family and Social Change: Addressing the Issue of Context http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-44-e.htm Jo-Anne Kelder (Australia): Using Someone Else's Data: Problems, Pragmatics and Provisions http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-39-e.htm 2. Approaches to Re-use: Asking New Questions of Old Data Mike Savage (UK): Revisiting Classic Qualitative Studies http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-31-e.htm David Kynaston (UK): The Uses of Sociology for Real-time History http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-45-e.htm Joanna Bornat (UK): Recycling the Evidence: Different Approaches to the Reanalysis of Gerontological Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-42-e.htm Magda Dargentas & Dominique Le Roux (France): Potentials and Limits of Secondary Analysis in a Specific Applied Context: The Case of EDF-Verbatim http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-40-e.htm Petra Notz (Germany): Secondary Qualitative Analysis of Interviews. A Method Used for Gaining Insight Into the Work/Life Balance of Middle Managers in Germany http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-34-e.htm Irena Medjedovic & Andreas Witzel (Germany): Secondary Analysis of Interviews: Using Codes and Theoretical Concepts From the Primary Study http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-46-e.htm Mike Weed (UK): "Meta Interpretation": A Method for the Interpretive Synthesis of Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-37-e.htm Louise Corti & Libby Bishop (UK): Strategies in Teaching Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-47-e.htm 3. Procedures for Archiving Qualitative Data: Confidentiality and Technical Issues Diane Opitz & Reiner Mauer (Germany): Experiences With Secondary Use of Qualitative Data -- First Results of a Survey Carried out in the Context of a Feasibility Study Concerning Archiving and Secondary Use of Interview Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-43-e.htm Denise Thomson, Lana Bzdel, Karen Golden-Biddle, Trish Reay & Carole A. Estabrooks (Canada): Central Questions of Anonymization: A Case Study of Secondary Use of Qualitative Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-29-e.htm Henning Paetzold (Germany): Secondary Analysis of Audio Data. Technical Procedures for Virtual Anonymization and Pseudonymization http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-24-e.htm Stefan Hauptmann (Germany): Structuring Audio Data With a "C-TOC". An Example for Analysing Raw Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-33-e.htm Heiner Legewie, Nico de Abreu, Hans-Liudger Dienel, Dieter Muench, Thomas Muhr & Thomas Ringmayr (Germany): Secondary Analysis of Database-Stored Qualitative Data: QUESSY as Interface Between QDA and RDBMS Systems http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-35-e.htm SINGLE CONTRIBUTIONS Emily Abbey & Jaan Valsiner (USA): Emergence of Meanings Through Ambivalence http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-23-e.htm Antonio Bol=EDvar Bot=EDa, Manuel Fern=E1ndez Cruz & Enriqueta Molina Ruiz (Spain): Researching Teachers' Professional Identity: A Sequential Triangulation http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-12-e.htm Barbara Braeutigam & Gerhard Danzer (Germany): "Meanwhile I'm a Convinced 'Psychosomat'" -- Case-Study of a Young Female Adult With Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 and Severe Anorexia http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-36-e.htm Andrea D. Buehrmann (Germany): The Emerging of the Entrepreneurial Self and Its Current Hegemony. Some Basic Reflections on How to Analyze the Formation and Transformation of Modern Forms of Subjectivity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-16-e.htm Nikhilesh Dholakia (USA) & Piyush Kumar Sinha (India): Observations on Observation in India's Dynamic Urban Markets http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-13-e.htm Rainer Diriwaechter, Jaan Valsiner & Christine Sauck (USA): Microgenesis in Making Sense of Oneself: Constructive Recycling of Personality Inventory Items http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-11-e.htm Georgina Kelly, Jeanette A. Lawrence & Agnes E. Dodds (Australia): Women's Developmental Experiences of Living with Type 1 Diabetes http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-22-e.htm Tilmann Walter (Germany): The Early Homosexual Self Between Autobiography and Medical Commentary http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-10-e.htm FQS DEBATE: QUALITY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Uwe Laucken (Germany): "Does Free Will Exist?" Options for Making "Free Will," "Free Decision," and "Free Action" Objects of Psychological Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-8-e.htm Mike Metcalfe (Australia): Empirics as Comparisons http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-27-e.htm Mike Metcalfe (Australia): Generalisation: Learning Across Epistemologies http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-17-e.htm FQS DEBATE: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND ETHICS Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Ethics as Social Practice: Introducing the Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-9-e.htm Robert Anthony (Canada): Consistency of Ethics Review http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-5-e.htm Linda Coupal (Canada): Practitioner-Research and the Regulation of Research Ethics: The Challenge of Individual, Organizational, and Social Interests http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-6-e.htm SungWon Hwang & Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Ethics in Research on Learning: Dialectics of Praxis and Praxeology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-19-e.htm Mary H. Maguire (Canada): What if You Talked to Me? I Could Be Interesting! Ethical Research Considerations in Engaging with Bilingual / Multilingual Child Participants in Human Inquiry http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-4-e.htm Catherine Milne (USA): Overseeing Research: Ethics and the Institutional Review Board http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-41-e.htm Stacy Olitsky & John Weather (USA): Working with Students as Researchers: Ethical Issues of a Participatory Process http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-38-e.htm Ted Riecken, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Frank Conibear, Corrine Michel & Janet Riecken (Canada): Connecting, Speaking, Listening: Toward an Ethics of Voice with/in Participatory Action Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-26-e.htm Kathryn Scantlebury (USA): Learning From Flyy Girls: Feminist Research Ethics in Urban Schools http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-32-e.htm Beth A. Wassell & Ian Stith (USA): Becoming Research Collaborators in Urban Classrooms: Ethical Considerations, Contradictions and New Understandings http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-18-e.htm FQS REVIEWS Graciela Cort=E9s Camarillo (Mexico): Review Note: Dennis Beach, Tuula Gordon & Elina Lahelma (Eds.) (2003). Democratic Education: Ethnographic Challenges http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-20-e.htm Nicola Doering (Germany): Review Note: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (2004). Love Online. Emotions on the Internet http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-14-e.htm Torsten Junge (Germany): Review Note: Petra Fosen-Schlichtinger (2002). Ueber die gesellschaftspolitische Bedeutung von Praenataldiagnostik und kuenstlicher Befruchtung als Teile moderner Reproduktionstechnologien unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung familiensoziologischer Aspekte, ihrer medizinischen Dimension und der Bedeutung des Themas Behinderung als soziales Phaenomen [The Social and Political Importance of Prenatal Diagnoses and in vitro Fertilization -- Their Sociological Aspects for Families, Their Medical Importance and the Meaning of Disabilities as a Social Phenomenon] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-7-e.htm Iain Lang (UK): Review Note: Valerie J. Janesick (2004). "Stretching" EXERCISES for Qualitative Researchers http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-1-e.htm Thomas Link (Austria): The Multiple Roles and Functions of Evaluation in the Context of E-Learning Programs. Review Essay: Dorothee M. Meister, Sigmar-Olaf Tergan & Peter Zentel (Eds.) (2004). Evaluation von E-Learning. Zielrichtungen, methodologische Aspekte, Zukunftsperspektiven [Evaluation of E-Learning Programs. Goals, Methodology, and Future Directions] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-25-e.htm Sabina Misoch (Germany): My_Site.de -- Webpages as Media of Self-Presentation. Review Essay: Jamshid Makhfi (2002). Medienkultur. Eine qualitative und quantitative Analyse von Webpages [Media Culture. A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Webpages] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-21-e.htm Werner Schneider (Germany): Discourse "Makes" Reality -- A Discourse Analysis About Translating Medical Briefings. Review Essay: Bernd Meyer (2004). Dolmetschen im medizinischen Aufklaerungsgespraech. Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung zur Wissensvermittlung im mehrsprachigen Krankenhaus [Translating Briefings for Informed Consent. A Discourse Analysis About Knowledge Transfer in the Multilingual Hospital] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-3-e.htm Maaja Vadi (Estonia): Who and in What Ways Can Collaborate in Organizational Research? Review Essay: Niclas Adler, A. B. (Rami) Shani & Alexander Styhre (Eds.) (2004). Collaborative Research in Organizations. Foundations for Learning, Change, and Theoretical Development http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-2-e.htm Martin Wysterski (Germany): Review Note: Paul-Thomas Kandzia & Thomas Ottmann (2003). E-Learning fuer die Hochschule. Erfolgreiche Ansaetze fuer ein flexibleres Studium [E-Learning in Universities. A Successful Approach for a Flexible Study] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-15-e.htm FQS INTERVIEWS Carl Ratner (USA): Social Constructionism as Cultism. Comments on: "'Old-Stream' Psychology Will Disappear With the Dinosaurs!" Kenneth Gergen in Conversation With Peter Mattes and Ernst Schraube http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-28-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 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: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: 18.559 knowledge, wisdom, data, information Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:59:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 829 (829) Willard and Charles, At Matt Kirschenbaum's blog entry http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000747.html there are some comments about the quotation from T.S. Eliot Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The exchange there hints that a close reading might point towards metaphysical considerations. I was wondering if Charles Ess might be so kind as to point readers to where he discusses the Eliot poem in the context of the taxonomy outlined by Dreyfus in _On the Internet_. It might help inform the discussions of some of us who are not so sure that is wise to elevate (capitalize) Life over living. Furthermore, the comments recorded at Matt's blog touch upon the dynamics of the diectic "we" as it travels from the setting of a speech by the chorus in the pagent play _The Rock_ to less-contextualized and more generic quotation from the works of T.S. Eliot. The very way in which the text has circulated exemplifies the case that information loss/preservation colours interpretation. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 18.561 other kinds of windows? Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:01:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 830 (830) [deleted quotation]Of course nothing is universal. Being near-sighted, I am prone to "floaters" in my vision which are aggravated by strong natural light--very distracting while one is working. So I prefer gloom. Matt -- Please note: mk235_at_umail.umd.edu is an UNRELIABLE address. Please change my address to * mgk_at_umd.edu * in your address books. Mail sent to mgk_at_umd.edu is currently being reflected to my Gmail account, mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com; you may send to that address too, but addressing your message to mgk_at_umd.edu will ensure that it is always forwarded to wherever I am currently receiving my mail. Thank you, and apologies for the inconvenience. -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "Int. Center for Computational Logic" Subject: International M.Sc. Program in COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:10:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 831 (831) International M.Sc. Program in COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC The International Center for Computational Logic at the Technische Universitaet Dresden is offering a two-year study program, in English, leading to a master of science (M.Sc.) in computer science. This is part of the European Master's Program in Computational Logic, a distributed study program funded by the EU within Erasmus Mundus jointly run by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, the Technische Universitaet Dresden, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and the Technische Universitaet Wien. Courses focus on logic and constraint programming, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, type theory, model theory, proof theory, equational reasoning, databases, natural language processing, planning and formal methods, among others. At the end of the programme a research master thesis has to be prepared. Prerequisites are a good knowledge of the basics of logic, and familiarity with mathematical reasoning. Knowledge of foundations of artificial intelligence and declarative programming is desirable. It is indispensable being fluent in English; German is not necessary at all, but there are facilities for studying it if desired. A bachelor in Computer Science, or equivalent degree, is required by the beginning of courses, in October 2005. Dresden, on the river Elbe, is one of the most important art cities of Germany. The economy is growing rapidly and Dresden is a top high-tech centre. AMD built the most modern chip factory in Europe, Infineon Technologies, Siemens and many other companies invest here. The possibilities of getting a job after the master are excellent. The University is very well equipped and the teachers/students ratio is close to 1. International contacts make it easy for interested students to continue pursuing a career in research. Deadline for applications is June 15, 2005, but applications are processed as they come. To apply, please send all the relevant documents by post to the address below. Further information is on the web at www.computational-logic.org including information about possible scholarships. Paper information material is available on request. Please give this message broad distribution. Sylvia Epp, secretary International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universitaet Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany Tel: [49] (351) 463-38341 Fax: [49] (351) 463-38342 email: cl-secretary_at_Inf.TU-Dresden.DE From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Phonological Interpretation (Acronyms, Markup) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:07:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 832 (832) One way in which "Internet acronyms" are *conceived* differently from the=20 usual acronyms is that they aren't necessarily linked to a phonological=20 representation and, in fact, are often used without direct connection to=20 the string of words their initials originally referred to. In fact, most of= =20 them aren't lexicalized per se but stand for a broader concept than what=20 the string means. "IMHO" isn't just a way to say "In My Humble Opinion," it= =20 represents a way to negotiate the value of an argument. At least, these=20 acronyms (along with "emoticons" and abbreviated style) are a significant=20 part of "digital culture" (remember that one?), which revolves around=20 *written* communication. Yes, the lexicalization of "snafu" is a similar *process* but the type of=20 word "snafu" is seems, to me, to be remarkably different from "IMHO,"=20 "AFAIK," "IIRC," "YMMV," or "IANAL." While "SNAFU" has (AFAIK) a military=20 origin, its use in colloquial speech has little or no military connotation.= =20 The same might happen with "Internet acronyms" but I, for one, have yet to= =20 hear some of them *pronounced* in oral communication. In fact, they're=20 phonologically ambivalent as people are unclear whether they should spell=20 them out or pronounce them as words. Even "URL," which is semantically=20 uncomplicated as opposed to the other acronyms, is officially spelled out=20 but often pronounced as a word. Its phonological status isn't clear. An argument there, challengeable as it is, is that the fact that people now= =20 write a lot on the Internet is accompanied with a further separation of=20 text and speech. Acronymed, abbreviatied, smilied IM writing styles are=20 tied to their medium. Contrary to many ideas about writing, they're as=20 time-based as speech but not unlike "graphic poetry" and other creative=20 uses of the written domain, they imply elements (e.g. emoticons) which=20 can't really be transmitted into the oral domain. A similar argument might be used in this distinction between metadata and=20 "character data." Most theories current in linguistics department would=20 stop at the sentence level and give primacy to spoken language. Linguists,= =20 as opposed to scholars in other "language sciences," limit their subject to= =20 the well-known levels of analysis from phonology to syntax via morphology=20 (semantics might be left out in some of these theories). In languages using= =20 writing systems based on the representation of phonemes (i.e. an=20 "alphabet"), the non-metadata content *could* be defined as those=20 characters which contribute to a lexeme's pronunciation. This goes with the= =20 perspective that the primary content is the one which can be analyzed=20 through sentence-level grammars. A challengeable perspective but one which= =20 certainly had an influence on computer science. The IPA has no capital letters or punctuation. It only represents phones=20 (though it's used to represent phonemes) which have, by themselves, no=20 metadata value. A minimal writing system for computer-mediated=20 communication could have IPA characters for phonemes (more significant than= =20 phones) and other characters (punctuation, numbers, whitespace...) for=20 metadata. The distinction is artificial in the abstract but couldn't it=20 work concretely? The advantages of distinguishing metadata from "lexical content" are in=20 terms of computer processing. As a summary of responses to Dino Buzzetti, diacritics have an impact on=20 phonological value ('=E9' or "ai" for /e/, '=E7' or "s" for /s/) while a= coma=20 originally had a prosodic value and may now have a purely structural value.= =20 Simplistic? Possibly. But perhaps simplification is in order when trying to= =20 redefine text through its computer representations. Sincerely yours, Alex Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW= =20 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: "Michelle van den Berk" Subject: XVIth AHC Conference: call for papers Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:08:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 833 (833) Call for papers XVIth International Conference of the Association for History and Computing Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-17th September 2005 http://www.ahc2005.org Extended deadline for submissions of title and abstract: 1st March 2005 (200-250 words) Deadline for submissions of full papers: 1st May 2005 (6-8 pages A4) Panel and paper proposals are now being invited for the XVIth international conference of the Association for History and Computing. The conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-17th September 2005. All accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at the conference. A selection of the proceedings will be considered for publication in international journals after the conference. Summary papers, PowerPoint demonstrations, etc. will only be available on the conference web site. There will be a number of poster sessions for demonstrations of software and other applications. Proposals may be made for either complete sessions or for individual papers. Suggested topics are listed below. Suggested formats for full panels include three 20-minute papers or a round table format. Other innovative format proposals will be considered. Proposals for complete panels should also include a chair. A panel may include a formal comment or question and response with the audience. All proposals must include a title and an abstract for each paper, along with a brief vita for each participant. Please be sure to indicate which member of the panel will serve as the contact person for future correspondence. Please include the name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address for each participant. All paper proposals are subject to peer review prior to being accepted. [material deleted] From: "Rare Book School" Subject: Rare Book School 2005 Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:09:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 834 (834) RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer Sessions 2005, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special collections. Classes will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA; at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore; and at the Freer/Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC. 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 Humanist may find the following Rare Book School courses to be of particular interest: L-70 Electronic Texts and Images David Seaman :: 7-11 March, University of Virginia 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. Details about previous versions of this course are available online. Some experience with HTML is a prerequisite for admission to the course. This course will provide a wide-ranging and practical exploration of electronic texts and related technologies. It is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at librarians and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, or teaching purposes. Drawing on the experience and resources available at the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center, the course will cover the following areas: how to create archival-quality etexts, including digital image facsimiles; the necessity of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for etext development and use; the implications of XML; text analysis software; and the management and use of Web-based SGML text databases. As a focus for our study of etexts, the class will create an electronic version of an archival document, mark its structure with SGML ("TEI") tagging, create digital images of sample pages and illustrations, produce a hypertext version, and make the results available on the Internet. David Seaman became Director of the <http://www.diglib.org/>Digital Library Federation in 2002. He was the founding director of the internationally-known <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu>Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia. L-80 Implementing Encoded Archival Description Daniel Pitti :: 6-10 June, University of Virginia Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized machine-readable descriptive 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 XML encoding techniques in part using examples selected from among their own institutions' finding aids. Other topics covered include: the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of XML authoring tools; the conversion of existing finding aids; publishing finding aids; funding sources for EAD projects; and integration of EAD into existing archival processing. This course will introduce the application of Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Version 2002, to the encoding of archive and manuscript library finding aids. Though aimed primarily at archivists who process and describe collections in finding aids, it will also be useful to repository administrators contemplating the implementation of EAD, and to technologists working in repositories. Topics include: the history of EAD and its theoretical and technological foundations; an introduction to Extensible Markup Language (XML), including authoring and network publishing tools; the structure and semantics of EAD; use of software tools to create and publish finding aids; conversion techniques and methodologies, and templates for the creation of new finding aids; and the integration and management of EAD in an archive or library. L-85 Publishing EAD Finding Aids Daniel Pitti :: 25-29 July, University of Virginia This course will introduce students to standards and software used for publishing Extensible Markup Language (XML) encoded documents, with a focus on EAD encoded finding aids. It is aimed at systems support personnel in archives, libraries, and museums, or self-supporting archivists, librarians, and museum staff who would like an introduction to EAD publishing technology and methods. The course will focus on writing stylesheets using Extensible Stylesheet Language-Transformation (XSLT), but will also cover Web server technology, available software for indexing and searching XML encoded information, and use of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Formatting Objects to produce printed finding aids. Topics include: in-depth introduction to the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL); authoring of stylesheets using the XSLT language, focusing on XML to XML, and XML to HTML transformations; use of multiple stylesheets and frames; survery and functional evaluation of available indexing and searching software; use of XSL Transformation and Formatting Objects to produce PostScript, PDF, RTF, and other printable encodings; survey and functional evaluation of XSL and XSLT software. The course will conclude with a discussion of management and administrative issues presented by Web publishing. Daniel Pitti became Project Director at the University of Virginia's <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu>Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in 1997, before which he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative. ****************** Posted by Nathaniel Adams on behalf of Rare Book School Rare Book School 114 Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103 Phone: 434-924-8851 Fax: 434-924-8824 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Software and Systems Modeling 4.1 Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:12:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 835 (835) Volume 4 Number 1 of Software and Systems Modeling is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Domain specific modeling p. 1 Robert France, Bernhard Rumpe DOI: 10.1007/s10270-005-0078-1 Expert's voice UML - the Good, the Bad or the Ugly? Perspectives from a panel of experts p. 4 Brian Henderson-Sellers DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0076-8 Regular papers Formal verification of software source code through semi-automatic modeling p. 14 Cindy Eisner DOI: 10.1007/s10270-003-0042-x Regular Paper The KeY tool: Integrating object oriented design and formal verification p. 32 Wolfgang Ahrendt, Thomas Baar, Bernhard Beckert, Richard Bubel, Martin Giese, Reiner H=E4hnle, Wolfram Menzel, Wojciech Mostowski, Andreas Roth, Steffen Schlager, Peter H. Schmitt DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0058-x Regular Paper An approach for reverse engineering of design patterns p. 55 Ilka Philippow, Detlef Streitferdt, Matthias Riebisch, Sebastian Naumann DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0059-9 Regular Paper From scenarios to code: An air traffic control case study p. 71 Jon Whittle, Richard Kwan, Jyoti Saboo DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0067-9 Regular Paper A reference framework for process-oriented software development organizations p. 94 Jo=E3o M. Fernandes, Francisco J. Duarte DOI: 10.1007/s10270-004-0063-0 [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London=20 WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.567 Phonological Interpretation (Acronyms, Markup) Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:06:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 836 (836) Well, I broke my rule of not reading notes in which each line ends with "=20": but I must say I disagree with most of your suggestions. Your characterization of linguists who proceed only from phonology to morphology etc. may have been correct in the days of structural linguistics, but those days are long gone -- some 40 years into the past. You distinctions between "Internet acronyms" and other acronyms don't make a great deal of sense: if acronyms ae not formed from the initial letters of words, they are not acronyms. And it makes little difference how they are pronounced. BTW (as they say), I don't know what this means: [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.560 acronyms, text, writing Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:07:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 837 (837) Willard, Where is the "natural" in language? What is ever "plain" about text? Those intervening in the "plain text" thread might wish to examine Chapter 7 "Foreign Languages and Non-Roman Text" of Rusty Harold's _XML Bible_ . The chapter provides an excellent set of definitions and examples for the terms: script, character set, fonts and glyph. I underline to the title of the chapter and also recall that ASCII is an acronym marking the intersection of a technological development and a particular geo-political formation. Some of the "plain text" thread has appeared to be putatively about the superiority of one character set over another -- with all the examples being in the same script, i.e. Roman. It is a pity that Rusty's chapter was not entitled: "Languages Other Than English and Non-Roman Scripts". However, Rusty's book does not reproduced the commonly encountered English use of "ASCII" as a synonym for "text" or the evenly more common synedoche of using "text" to mean "ASCII". [...]As you learned in Chapter 6, an XML document is divided into text and binary entities. Each text entity has an encoding. If the encoding is not explicitly specified in the entity's definition, then the defalut is UTF-8 --- a compressed form of Unicode which leaves pure ASCII text unchanged. Thus XML files that contain nothing but the common ASCII characters may be edited with tools that are unaware of the complications of dealing with multi-byte character sets like Unicode. p. 169 In Chapter 6, Rusty's book distinguishes "text" and "binary" entities, not on the basis of type of encoding (ASCII vs Unicode) but on the basis of data type: XML documents are made up of storage unites called entitites. Each entity contains either text or binary data, never both. Text data is comprised of characters. Binary data is used for images and applets and the like. p. 134 Bytes that represent characters; bytes that represent other things than characters. Still that binary/text pair. Where did it come from? Many subscribers to Humanist will recall that many ftp applications with GUI interfaces offer radio buttons so that users mchoose between "binary" and "text". With a command line interface, the user input is "A" or "B" --- ASCII or binary. Many other subscribers to Humanist will recall "BinHex". But how comes it to be that there is an appellation of binary and non-binary files when both are composed of bits? Ah, the intersection of naming and counting. A binary file uses all eight of the bits in it; in a non-binary file, the top bit is set to zero.Maclopedia, "Encoding Files" Use and behaviour influence naming. Yes there are non-binary files that do not start out as ASCII: converted from 8-bit (binary) to 7-bit (non-binary) "to encode any type of file, including word processing, graphics, spreadsheets, and software applications." Readers of manuals will find the shipping of such converted non-binary filesreferenced as "text-compatible transmission". And so I invite readers to consult the computing dictionary of their choice and look up the following terms: byte word text My particular favourite is the entry for "text" at Free Online Dictionary of Computing http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html 1. Executable code, especially a "pure code" portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking operating system. Compare English. 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary ASCII or EBCDIC representation (see flat ASCII). "Those are text files; you can review them using the editor." These two contradictory senses confuse hackers too. http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=text&action= Accessed: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:42:16 GMT The reference to "English": http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?English Accessed: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:42:26 GMT The hint for the above was given by Wendell's implicit invitation to examine how programers speak/spoke about code: [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]I don't know if Wendell knows, remembers, or cares for the lyrics of a Marianne Faithfull ... What are you fighting for ? It's not my security. It's just an old war, Not even a cold war, Dont say it in russian, Dont say it in german. Say it in broken english, Say it in broken english. My political point is that to build a world where access is improved is to envisage a world where humans help each other and to cherish the eternal need for translation, conversion, compression, retrieval and performance. To recognize the essential fungibility of the digital (not just the electronic digital), is to appreciate the role of the human. People are part of the network too. They are integral agents for preparing and directing output to devices for braille, print, voice synthesis or even machine translation of natural languages like broken english and spanglish and pidgin ... -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: ACH 2005 Election Results Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:43:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 838 (838) Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce the results from the ACH 2005 Election and the new members of the ACH Executive Council: David Hoover John Lavagnino Allen Renear Melissa Terras Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve - and thanks also to all who voted. The ACH is the Association for Computing in the Humanities and, like the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), has Humanist and the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing as its official publications. For more information on the ACH please see: http://www.ach.org/ Yours, Stéfan [Please do not reply to this message as I use this address for communication that is susceptible to spambots. My regular email address starts with my user handle sgs and uses the domain name mcmaster.ca] -- Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, Multimedia, McMaster University Phone: 905.525.9140 x23930; Fax: 905.527.6793 Address: SOTA, TSH-414, McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~sgs/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: bytes briques hierarchy Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:43:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 839 (839) Willard, Inspired bythe recent thread musing on the appellations of ASCII and "plain text" I ask, "What is a byte?". As would happen I have a textual occurence in mind. In _Computers, Writing, Rhetoric and Literature_ Volume 3, John Slatin in "La Zambinella Meets the Cyborg: Barthes, S/Z, and Print-Based Literary Studies" has produced a section called <> where a paragraph encapsulates some skepticism about the adequacy of the English translation from the French: The word byte has to do with the way data is encoded for the computer: a byte consists of 8 bits, or binary digits, and effectively represents the minimum amount of space in memory necessary to store a single piece of information such as the letter S or the numeral 107, which as it happens is the numerical value assigned to the capital S by the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII. Barthes seems to be using the word byte in a slightly unusual way, however-- or perhaps it isn't Barthes but his American translator, Richard Miller. The word Miller translates as byte is brique. It does not appear in any French dictionary that I can locate as an equivalent for byte; the closest I have been able to get is a definition listed as archaic by Robert, in which a brique corresponds to a million old francs. This could work metonymically, so that a million old francs corresponds to a million bytes. But Claude Levy, a French colleague who attended the seminar from which S/Z emerged and who heard a much earlier version of this chapter in 1992, suggested that byte might well have been a mistake on Miller's part, that brique carries with it the sense of a building block that would correspond more closely to Barthes' references to subroutines and "sections of program" (Claude Levy, personal communication, 10 April 1992). http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/cwrl/v3n1/zambinella/john2.html Accessed: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 00:48:48 GMT Slotin goes on to indicate that "Barthes is careful to specify "computer terminology" as authorizing his usage. That is indeed Miller's translation of cybernetique. First question: How common was the use of the term "brique" in the discursive domaine of cybernetics in French during the 1960s? I am in the process of attempting to locate a copy of L. Couffignal _La Cybernetique_ "Que sais-je?" No. 638 [1963] in the hopes of perhaps finding an instance apart from Barthes of the use of the term "brique". Second question: What meanings were in circulation round the early 1970s for the term "byte"? I recall leafing through an old edition of the Penguin Dictionary of Computing and looking up the term "byte" and that its meaning was compounded of two elements: what it was (a sequence) and what it did (instructed). Perhaps, I thought, the rendering of the French "brique" by the English "byte" was a felicitous rendering since the Barthesian text does equate a byte or brique to a piece of a program inserted in a machine [un morceau de programme insere dans la machine]. Unfortunately when I returned to the second hand bookstore where I had been browsing, the volume had found another home. Even more unfortunate is the fact that none of the libraries in my vicinity contain in their collection a copy. However they do contain other dictionaries and with similar definitions if not dates of attestation: byte: a group of adjacent bits, such as 4, 6, or 8 bits, operating as a unit. For example a 6-bit byte may be used to specify a letter of the alphabet, and an 8-bit byte may be used to specify an instruction or an _address_. Normally shorter than a _word_. A.J. Meadows et al. _Dictionary of Computing and Information Technology, 3rd edition, London: Kogan Page, 1987 ***** Something very interesting happens to one when one adopts a view of the byte as unit characterized by adjacency or sequence and endowed with an indexical power to point or direct and runs that view through an old debate. I'm sorry I missed one public disputation in particular. I am more sorry that I have not been able to read any accounts of the event beyond the position statements provided in advance for : What is text? A debate on the philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities computing research Allen Renear, Jerome McGann, Susan Hockey (Chair and organiser) ACHALLC Conference, University of Virginia, Thursday 10 June 1999 One of the position statements makes the following claim for poetry: The other position statement makes the strong claim that renditional features are not parts of texts, and therefore not proper locations for textual meaning I find myself after a little Barthesian excursion in the realm of briques and bytes asking: What is a hierarchy? And how is it related to rendition? (Partly because elsewhere I spent a lot of time asking what is a machine?) Great ghosts of Heidegger! Etymology proves very instructive. "Hierarchy" is dervived from the Greek meaning rule of the hierarch. The hierarch was "an official of ancient Greece who had charge of the votive offerings in a temple." [Funk and Wagnalls] "Votive" etymologically brings us into the ambit of vows and votes. Of course order is hierarchical. Order is composed of a series of vows or votes. All order, whether or not a single governing hierarchy is imposed. All order, including orchestrated chaos. Recursivity is impossible without hierarchy. Without bits there would be no bytes. Without machines there would be no bits. The materiality of the machine counts. Rendition matters. The disposition of mind too. If bits are viewed as vows/votes and bytes as hierarchical (in the sense that certain votes need to be counted before others for sense to emerge), can the model be scaled up to other textual instances, not only the recursive but also the involutive? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.4 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:12:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 840 (840) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 4 (February 9 - February 15, 2005) INTERVIEW Anita McGahan on Industry Evolution Why Some Breakthrough Ideas Never Pay Off http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i4_mcgahan.html From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 18.564 knowledge, wisdom, data, information Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:48:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 841 (841) Francois et al [deleted quotation]Francois wrote: [deleted quotation] might [deleted quotation] wise [deleted quotation]At the risk of violating all sorts of copyright laws - a sketchy document is available at http://www.drury.edu/ess/notesondreyfus.html Here I do not, unfortunately, make explicit the links between Dreyfus' taxonomy and Eliot's poem. But most of the document is devoted to clarifying for my students what Kierkegaard and Dreyfus mean vis-a-vis knowledge gained through the web and the Net; I then hope that my students will be able to see the implict connections between Kierkegaard and Dreyfus on the one hand, and Eliot on the other. As I hope these notes help clarify - by all means, by drawing on Kierkegaard's taxonomy of knowledge (aesthetic / ethical / religious), Dreyfus' taxonomy indeed heads us in the direction of the metaphysical, though not necessarily religious. Briefly, the religious stage of human wisdom and existence for Kierkegaard involves a level of commitment and risk not found in the aesthetic and ethical stages. As Dreyfus puts it, our most important commitments "are neither the ones that I arbitrarily choose nor the ones that I am obliged to keep because of my social role. Rather, these special commitments are experienced as grabbing my whole being. When I respond to such a summons by making an unconditional commitment, this commitment determines who I am and what will be the significant issue for me for the rest of my life. Political and religious movements can grab us in this way as can love relationships and, for certain people, such vocations as the law or music." (19) In my view, this indeed helps to inform discussions concerning what sorts of knowledge - and correlative existential / religious engagements and wisdom - may be needed for full and humane lives. [deleted quotation]Very interesting point! Thanks! Hope this helps, 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: Willard McCarty Subject: information Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:12:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 842 (842) One problem identified in this thread of discussion is understanding the confused and confusing tangle of meanings (and less-than-meanings) evoked by the word "information". I take a run at the problem in my forthcoming book and won't reproduce the argument here. But it's worth pointing out that in discussions involving one or more of such keywords, one really has to begin by pulling each word apart and examining the swarm of meanings before making an argument involving it. Perhaps, as in the case of "knowledge", all one can do is to point toward a whole area of discussion -- for "knowledge" it's obviously philosophy, or begins there. But in some cases, such as "information", hammer-blows of excavation are required. "Information" would make a great topic for a dissertation in a philological-philosophical humanities computing. The trail begins with at least the following: Bateson, Gregory. 2000/1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Rev. edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. See pp. 315, 408-9. Capurro, Rafael and Birger Hjorland. 2002. "The Concept of Information". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 37: 343-411. http//www.capurro.de/infoconcept.html. Nunberg, Geoffrey. 1996. "Farewell to the Information Age". In The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 103-38. ecot.rice.edu/~Tony.Gorry/NunbergFarewell.pdf. Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver. 1949. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press. See Weaver's warning that, "[t]he word information is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In particular, information must not be confused with meaning" (p. 8); see Bateson for what it does mean. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Helen Ashman Subject: WWW2005: 2nd International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:40:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 843 (843) Web Accessibility *CALL FOR PAPERS* W4A 2005 2nd International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility ------------------------------------------------------------------------- at the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference 10-14 May 2004, in Chiba, Japan. http://w4a.man.ac.uk Keynotes ----------------------- Chieko Asakawa (IBM) Wendy Chisholm (W3C) Eric Meyer (Complex Spiral) Invited Speakers ----------------------- Paul Bohman (WebAIM) Shane Anderson (WebAIM) Publications ----------------------- * The workshop proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be available at the ACM Digital Library. * Selected papers will be invited to submit a revised version for consideration for a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering. These papers will go through an additional reviewing process to ensure quality. Topics and Content --------------------- We invite submissions for W4A 2004 addressing our current theme of 'Engineering Accessible Design'. Previous engineering approaches seem to have precluded the engineering of accessible systems. This is plainly unsatisfactory. Designers, authors, and technologist are at present playing 'catch-up' with a continually moving target in an attempt to retrofit systems. In-fact engineering accessible interfaces is as important as their functionality's and should be an indivisible part of the development. We should be engineering accessibility as part of the development and not as afterthought or because government restrictions and civil law requires us to. Our workshop will bringing together a cross section of the web design and engineering communities; to report on developments, discuss the issues, and suggest cross-pollinated solutions Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): - Technological advances to support web accessibility. - End user tools for accessibility. - Accessibility guidelines, evaluation techniques, and tools. - Engineering adaptive applications and graphics. - Tools and techniques enabling authors to engineer accessible layout / content including internationalisation. - Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios. - Innovative engineering techniques to support accessibility. - Universally accessible graphical design approaches. - Design Perspectives. - Engineering transcoding techniques. - Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation. [material deleted] From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.574 knowledge, wisdom, data, information Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:39:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 844 (844) Willard, for whatever it's worth -- in 1957 a student filed a lawsuit against Columbia University saying that it had promised to impart wisdom to its students and that he, graduating, had not become wise. The courts threw the suit out on the grounds that one could expect universities to impart knowledge, but not wisdom. (See the NYT archives for 1957-59) From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.574 knowledge, wisdom, data, information Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:39:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 845 (845) Willard, Reading Dreyfus reading Kierkegaard through the kindly shared notes of Charles Ess has led be to consider some of the tropes that raise the question of the place of pleasure in human enterprise. Dreyfus begins his excursus with Kierdegaard's essay _The Present Age_ wherein the Revolutionary Age filled with passion and action is contrasted with the Present Age of reflection flitting between indolence and brief bouts of enthusiasm. When he goes on to invoke Habermas (_The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere_), a curious slippage occurs. He moves from a focus on the Public Sphere to a concern with Public Opinion. It is a rhetorical move akin to the fall from grace traced in the slide from the action-filled and committed Revolutionary Age to the lackadaisical Present Age. I want to underline that move operated by Dreyfus. It begins with the Public Sphere which is a place of exchange. It ends with Public Opinion which is the result of polling. The agents are made passive if not pacified. Dreyfus envisages the visitor to the worlds of the Internet as a consumer. Not as an author. Or as creator. A closer reading of Kierkegaard nets a very different relation between the public and the particular. In a key passage Kierkegaard explains what a Public is. The translation cited by Dreyfus: A public is neither a nation, nor a generation, nor a community, nor a society, nor these particular ;men, for all thses are only what they are through the concrete; no single person who belong to the Public makes a real commitment Emphasis by Dreyfus http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/html/paper_kierkegaard.html The passage from the translation by Alexander Dru (1962) The public is not a people, it is not a generation, it is not a simultaneity, it is not a community, it is not a society, it is not an association, it is not those particular men over there, because all these exist because they are concrete and real; however, no single individual who belongs to the public has any real commitment; some times during the day he belongs to the public, namely, in those times in which he is nothing; in those times that he is a particular person, he does not belong to the public. http://www.historyguide.org/europe/present_age.html English has lovely idioms to redescribe the situation: sometimes anybody is a somebody and at anytime somebody can be taken as an anybody. Seems far from the considerations of Humanities Computing? But observe the moral freight laid upon the movement between the abstract public and the concrete particular. At stake in Dreyfus's reading of Kierkegaard is a celebration of pain and mastery. He claims: "Studies of skill acquisition have shown that, unless the outcome matters and unless the person developing the skill is willing to accept the pain that comes from failure and the elation that comes with success, the learner will be stuck at the level of competence and never achieve mastery." A few sentences before this passage devoted to the movement from competence to mastery, the description is not marked by a rhetoric of pleasure or pain: "Learning a skill requires interpreting the situation as being of a sort that requires a certain action, taking that action, and learning from the results." Why is acquiring competence pain-neutral and mastery not? If we allow for a dialectical relation between the public and the particular, then the image of the dog (the gossip purveyors of the tabloid press) with which Kierkegaard ends his essay deserves to be carried to a bloody conceit of pack behaviour: tabloids will feed upon tabloids. The Public may be abstract but it is not uniform. The Press is but one of its dogs. And even that Press can experience ticks and fleas. And find human companions that groom, feed and exercise. Where I really disagree with Dreyfus is over his reading of the ubiquity of the Net making any local stand seem irrelevant. If anything the Net, especially in the latest wifi incarnations of access nodes, has demonstrated time and time again that otium and negotium, the activities of the amateur and the professional, are ever so enfolded. The local is very punctual. The particular may emerge in the public at any moment. What this might mean for an ethics of humanities computing can be read in the archive of the postings to Humanist: particular questions and results brought to public scrutiny to enliven further research off list and more questions to be distributed again. Count the times that some of the inspiration came from the press and the internet at large. I am willing to wager anybody a very big unconditioned commitment that somebody found the whole cycle of continuous learning to be a pleasure and continues to derive both ethical and aesthetic pleasure from the religious doggedness of the moderator and the subscribers. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: WWW-VL HISTORY CENTRAL CATALOGUE moved Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:44:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 846 (846) Information about the history web portal WWW VL History Central catalogue at vlib.iue.it. As you may have already known, the year 2004 was a crucial year for the WWW-VL HISTORY CENTRAL CATALOGUE created in 1993-1994 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Its former maintainer and creator, Prof. Lynn H. Nelson, retired in March 2004. Our ongoing work and goals continue to follow what this web history pioneer decided to inaugurate more than ten years ago: to maintain a high standard history portal as part of the oldest web project founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the WWW Virtual library, http://vlib.org with the VLIB main history section at http://vlib.org/History. Hundreds of web pages belonging to the History Central catalogue were moved from Lawrence, Kansas, in the USA to Florence in Italy at the EUI (European University Institute). The new "physical" location of such a non-commercial virtual project is now in Italy, Europe, at the European University Institute (EUI in English, IUE in Italian), a postgraduate and post-doctoral European and International university in the social sciences, law and history (http://www.iue.it). Our main task was first to have the server able to receive all the contributions of the different editors and secondly, to promote with new collaborators and, especially I hope, with new "institutional" collaborators, through the world, the all WWW VL History Network. In this sense, if all the persons and the institutions which promised in 2004 to maintain, edit and promote single History Virtual Libraries, will firmly confirm their wish to contribute to the project, we will continue to grow and develop our non-commercial activities widely like our predecessors. Currently we are many editors [http://vlib.iue.it/history/about/maintainers.html] and many others accepted recently to become maintainers of single VL and join our important partners like the History Journals Guide (http://www.history-journals.de/) or the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam which is editing the WWW-VL Women History, (http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivalink.html), the WWW-VL Labor History http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/) or the NEHA ()Netherlands Economic History Archives) which is editing the WWW-VL Economic and Business history (http://www.neha.nl/w3vl/) or the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine in London which is maintaining the MedHist, the WWW-VL Medicine History (http://medhist.ac.uk/) etc.. Recently, the WWW-VL European Integration History Index was inaugurated as a joint project between the CVCE (Centre Virtuel pour l'Histoire de l'Europe) in Luxembourg, (www.ena.lu) and the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence, Italy (http://www.iue.it/ECArchives/); WWW-VL History of the Classical World is maintained at the Bologna University, Italy; very soon a new index for Financial and Banking history will be created at the EABH, European Association for Banking History in Frankfurt, [http://www.bankinghistory.de/], a WWW-VL medieval history index will be edited by the University of Naples and Palermo, etc.. What remains after 11 years of a non-profit existence based on volunteer work of single librarians still our main aim, is to serve the web community recruiting new maintainers locally at the EUI in Florence and remotely, where editors are keeping their VL as part of the History Network divided in 4 broad categories: 1.Research - 2.Topics - 3.Countries - 4.Eras. If you feel you would like to dedicate some time to a Virtual Library in History, please just write to us (serge.noiret_at_iue.it; imartin_at_iue.it) and become part of our worldwide community of virtual librarians. Indeed, several libraries at vlib.iue.it are asking for a new maintainer (http://vlib.iue.it/history/about/without-maintainers.html) and we accept contribution if they are stable, non commercial, well informed and good historical contribution in all historical fields. You have only to follow very few general rules and criteria's (http://vlib.iue.it/history/about/about.html). Web ranking are placing quite high the WWW Virtual Library as a whole; some history virtual libraries belonging to the project (have a look in Google for History United States, European Integration History, Iraq History, Search Engines History, History Spain or History Italy, History Russia, etc..). Our most important Index and most visited one is the United States History Index with his many editors coordinated by Georges Laughead Jr. from the Kansas Heritage Group, (http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/) At the moment, looking for a so general term like "history" in Yahoo will take you to the 12th listed position. This mean also that contributing to this old, stable and well know worldwide project is a good -even if indirect- contribution for the visibility on the web, of your own scientific institution and your own capacity of offering to the world wide community a research and teaching tool for the web. With all my best wishes Serge Noiret Co-Maintainer of the WWW-VL History Central Catalogue at [http://vlib.iue.it/] History Information Specialist PhD. in Contemporary History European University Institute Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9 50016 SAN DOMENICO (FI) - Italia Tel.: +39-0554685-348 ~ Fax +39-0554685-283 CV: [http://www.iue.it/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html] From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2005 Regular Registration Ends Feb. 15, 2005 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:30:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 847 (847) Museums and the Web 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 13 - April 16, 2005 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ Join hundreds of your professional colleagues from around the world for the international conference devoted to culture and heritage on-line: the ninth annual Museums and the Web. ** Regular Registration Ends February 15, 2005 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/register/index.html Don't miss a chance for a discounted registration fee. 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From: "Hana Krautwurmova" Subject: HoloMAS 2005 - Call for papers Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:31:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 849 (849) HoloMAS 2005 2nd International Conference on Industrial Applications Of Holonic And Multi-agent Systems 22-24 August 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark http://gerstner.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS/2005/ in conjunction with DEXA 2005 events www.dexa.org =========================================================== ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Holonic and multi-agent systems provide a novel paradigm for managing, modelling and supporting complex systems. This concept has proved to be successful in number of industrial domains such as manufacturing, resource allocation and production planning, air traffic. The conference aims to bring together researchers active in the area of holonic and multi-agent systems together with key engineers and industrial decision makers to share their views and experience in design, development and applying holonic and multi-agent systems for industrial problems. The conference will be prepared in cooperation with the EU Network of Excellence I*PROMS and AgentLink - European Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing. Due to increasing interest from research and industry, HoloMAS have been converted to a conference in 2003 (held in Prague) after a successful series of HoloMAS workshops (London 2000, Munich 2001, Aux-en-Provance 2002). Unlike many other events this conference is neither purely theoretical or purely industrial meeting. We encourage submissions of papers that present an industrial exploitation of fundamental research concepts, or presentation of algorithms and techniques with clearly specified potentials of an early industry adoption. The papers will be rigorously reviewed and assessed according to the research quality, maturity of the presented research results and the relevance to the conference. All accepted conference papers will be published in the conference proceedings in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series by Springer Verlag. [material deleted] From: "Douglas Galbi" Subject: information in action Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:29:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 850 (850) Consider this question: how much new information is created each year? Peter Lyman and Hal Varian have collected some interest data and done some useful analysis on this question. See http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/ A different sort of question is: how much information is incorporated into normal routines of everyday life? I've tried to examine this question by looking at long-term trends in the frequency distribution of given names. See http://www.galbithink.org/names/agnames.htm These are two rather different perspectives on information. The difference might be analogized to the difference between the size of the library and the size of the vocabulary that persons use in daily life. Douglas Galbi From: Simon Tanner Subject: Analytical Survey of Digital Libraries in Culture Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:43:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 851 (851) *** Apologies for cross posting *** I am working on an analytical survey looking into the current and future technologies and applications for digital libraries / resource management technologies for cultural organisations. I am interested in including ethical, social, pedagogical, organizational and economic aspects as well as their impact on learning, cultural and scientific activities. This work is being done on behalf of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. If you have a project or publication which you think might be relevant for inclusion in my report then please send me details. If you would like to discuss or offer your thoughts upon these issues or this work then please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Simon ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)7793 403542 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/ From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 18.577 knowledge, wisdom, data, information Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:36:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 852 (852) Cher HUMANISTs, as a follow-up on the thread on data, information, etc. Willard has most helpfully suggested that someone write a Ph.D. on these topics - excellent idea! For that someone, I would add 2.5 references to the excellent bibliography Willard contributed on 9. February. 1. Luciano Floridi has a chapter in his Blackwell's Guide to the Philosophy of Information, titled, appropriately enough, "Information": http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/blackwell/chapters/chapter5.pdf 2. Floridi has more recently argued for a specific view about the relation between data and information in an article titled "Is Information Meaningful Data?", that can be downloaded at http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/pdf/iimd.pdf 2.5 Finally, I've put up a modest documentation of a panel on Information Ethics held last August as part of the Computers and Philosophy Conference (CAP) at Carnegie Mellon, in which Floridi, Terrell Ward Bynum, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Wallace Kohler, Kay Mathiesen, and May Thorseth represented their perspectives on information ethics and helped collectively develop something of a cognitive map of the relationships between information ethics and other disciplines both within and beyond the boundaries of philosophy. <http://www.drury.edu/ess/CAP04/cap04infoethics.html> This map and overview will grow and change, of course, most immediately as we pursue conversations with colleagues in Asia regarding expectations of privacy and emerging data privacy protection guidelines - but as I note there, participation and dialogue with many other geographical and cultural domains of the globe are needed as well. Nonetheless, I hope this is at least a useful sketch and initial orientation for those interested in especially philosophical approaches to information ethics and allied issues. Now, will somebody please write that dissertation? (smile) cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: 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: Manfred Sailer Subject: Last CFP: ESSLLI Workshop on Challenges & Alternatives to Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:37:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 853 (853) Strict Compositionality Final for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives to Strict Compositionality URL: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/ August 8-12, 2005 organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Purpose Compositionality has been a key methodological theme in natural language semantics. Recently, a number of innovative systems for combinatorial semantics have been proposed which seem not to obey compositionality at first sight. Such systems are based on unification, underspecification, linear logic or categorial grammar, to name the most prominent research areas. The motivation behind these systems is often computational, but the mechanisms they employ also provide new insights and analytical alternatives for outstanding problems in the combinatorial semantics of natural languages. These include scope ambiguities, multiple exponents of semantic operators, cohesion, ellipsis, coordination, and modifier attachment ambiguities. The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers whose interests lie in empirical issues or logic. It will give them the opportunity to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI. We wish to invite papers discussing linguistic data which pose a challenge to compositionality as well as papers presenting new mechanisms for defining a compositional semantics which can address well-known challenges in innovative ways. Workshop Topics Topics for submission may include but are not limited to: * presentations of certain empirical phenomena which seem to challenge strict compositionality. Empirical papers should point out precisely why the discussed phenomenon poses analytical problems. * presentations of semantic formalisms. This type of presentation should stress the potential usefulness of the proposal for the analysis of empirical challenges. * papers which combine the empirical and formal aspects directly. [material deleted] From: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: LOAIT Workshop (Call for Papers) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:38:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 854 (854) CALL FOR PAPERS LOAIT Workshop Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top June 6, 2005 Bologna, Italy held in conjunction with ICAIL-05 http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/ == LOAIT Description In the last few years Legal Informatics (the study of methods for automating the treatment of legal information) has been significantly influenced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches. For instance, Machine Learning techniques have successfully been applied to problems of legal documents classification, legal information retrieval, legal knowledge discovery and extraction. As the use of these techniques becomes more widespread it also becomes clearer how to enhance their performances. One way of doing this is to employ structured (domain) knowledge in order to reduce complexity and support correct reasoning. Legal Ontologies are playing a crucial role in providing such knowledge at various levels of specificity and formality. The LOAIT workshop aims at offering an overview of theories and well-founded applications that combine Legal Ontologies and AI techniques. Similarly to past events organized in conjunction with ICAIL-97, Jurix 2001 and ICAIL-03 the LOAIT workshop will constitute a valuable opportunity for researchers and practitioners in AI, AI&Law, Legal Ontologies and related fields to discuss problems, exchange information and compare perspectives. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems, case studies or research trends related to one or more of the topics of interest listed below. Submitted papers will be refereed by two experts based on originality, significance and technical soundness. ==== [material deleted] From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: February Innovate-Live Webcasts Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:58:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 855 (855) Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the February/March 2005 issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). These webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. If you wish to participate in the webcasts, please register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ All times are Eastern Time zone. You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with your time zone. The schedule for the February Innovate-Live Webcasts is provided below. Teaching by Example: A Case for Peer Workshops about Pedagogy and Technology Colleen Reilly, author; Gary Brown, moderator February 16th, 12:00pm ET The K-12 Cybrary at Work Lesley Farmer, author; James Shimabukuro, moderator February 16th, 2:00pm ET The Future of the Digital Library: An Interview with Tom Peters Tom Peters, author; James Morrison, moderator February 17th, 3:00pm ET "Two Roads Diverged in a Wood": Productive Digression in Asynchronous Discussion Joseph Ugoretz, author; Alan McCord, moderator February 22nd, 12:00pm ET As you know, if you register for the February webcasts, you can participate by typing your questions/comments in the chat area of the screen. If you would like to interact with the author using audio, you can do so but you will need to have the proper equipment and training to use the Macromedia Breeze conferencing program. Please go to http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ for details. If you cannot attend a webcast, note that it will be archived within the features section of the article itself shortly after the webcast. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu From: "Hepu Deng" Subject: ICNC'05-FSKD'05 Call for Papers/Special Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:53:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 856 (856) Sessions/Sponsorship: Changsha China ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'05) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 - 29 August 2005, Changsha, China ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Home Page: http://www.xtu.edu.cn/nc2005 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elpwang/nc2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** Submission Deadline: 15 March 2005 *** CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL SESSIONS, AND SPONSORSHIP The ICNC=A1 05-FSKD=A1 05 will feature the most up-to-date research results in computational algorithms inspired from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical systems. It is an exciting and emerging inter- disciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. The joint conferences will also promote cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to either conference will entitle a participant to the proceedings and technical sessions of both conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to some attractions in Changsha. Specific areas include, but are not limited to neural computation, evolutionary computation, quantum computation, DNA computation, chemical computation, information processing in cells and tissues, molecular computation, computation with words, fuzzy computation, granular computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, ants colony, artificial immune systems, etc., with applications to knowledge discovery, finance, operations research, and more. [...]=20 From: Judit Gervain Subject: ESSLLI'05 StuS: Deadline extended until 22nd February 2005 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:54:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 857 (857) DEADLINE EXTENSION: 22ND FEBRUARY 2005 Call for Papers: ESSLLI'05 Student Session We are pleased to announce the Student Session (StuS) of the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'05, 8-19 August, Edinburgh, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/). We invite papers for oral and poster presentation from the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduate, as well as postgraduate. This year, unlike in the past, papers can be submitted for oral OR poster presentation separately. Student authors are invited to submit a full paper, not to exceed 7 pages of length exclusive of references. Papers are to be submitted with clear indications of the selected modality of presentation, i.e. oral or poster. The submissions will be reviewed by the student session program committee and selected reviewers. The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript, PDF, or plain text, although other formats will also be accepted. The paper and a separate identification page must be sent electronically to: gervain_at_sissa.it. Deadline: 22nd February 2005. For more information and the technical details of the submission, see: http://www.sissa.it/~gervain/StuS.html or write to: gervain@sissa.it ========================@======================== Judit Gervain office: via dell'Orologio 6., 2nd floor Trieste Italy postal address: SISSA CNS via Beirut 2-4 34014 Trieste Italy office tel: +39 040 37 87 613 mobile tel: +39 329 788 40 25 www.sissa.it/~gervain From: "Zwarts, Joost" Subject: ESSLLI Workshop: Formal semantics and cross-linguistic data Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:57:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 858 (858) THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS Formal semantics and cross-linguistic data http://www.ru.nl/pionier/esslli/ 15-19 August 2005 organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Organizers: Helen de Hoop H.deHoop_at_let.ru.nl Joost Zwarts J.Zwarts_at_let.ru.nl Workshop Purpose: The purpose of this workshop is to strengthen the ties between formal semantic methods and theories on the one hand and data from lesser-studied languages across the world on the other hand. Both formal semantics and descriptive and typological linguistics will benefit from more interaction in this area. 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. Workshop Topics: Most formal semantic and pragmatic work is done on (Indo) European languages, especially English. Only a small, but growing, number of formal semanticists are involved in descriptive and typological linguistics involving languages from other continents and some promising work has already been done on topics such as quantification, number, tense, aspect, and modality. We think it is of utmost importance for the development of formal semantic and pragmatic theories to broaden the empirical database. In this way, linguistic typology can provide us with a new perspective on semantic and pragmatic analyses, while in addition formal accounts can offer more precise criteria for a proper treatment of semantic and pragmatic variation. For this workshop, we solicit original contributions that either apply formal semantics-pragmatics in the analysis of lesser-studied languages or in which theory formation crucially draws on data from such languages or comparison between languages. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI & Society 19.1 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:59:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 859 (859) Volume 19 Number 1 of AI & Society is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Understanding mediated communication: the social intelligence design (SID) approach p. 1 R Fruchter, T Nishida, D Rosenberg DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0297-y Analytical Approaches Degrees of engagement in interactive workspaces p. 8 Renate Fruchter DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0298-x Analytical Approaches Interaction spaces in computer-mediated communication p. 22 Duska Rosenberg, S. Foley, M. Lievonen, S. Kammas, M. J. Crisp DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0299-9 Analytical Approaches The right story at the right time: Towards a tacit knowledge resource for (student) designers p. 34 W. Mike Martin, Ann Heylighen, Humberto Cavallin DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0300-7 Analytical Approaches Dialogue organisation in argumentative debates p. 48 Jeanne Cornillon, Duska Rosenberg DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0309-y Applications in Online Communities S-Conart: an interaction method that facilitates concept articulation in shopping online p. 65 Hiroko Shoji, Koichi Hori DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0301-6 Applications in Online Communities The dynamism of 2channel p. 84 Naohiro Matsumura, Asako Miura, Yasufumi Shibanai, Yukio Ohsawa, Toyoaki Nishida DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0302-5 Applications in Online Communities Social intelligence design in online chat communication: a psychological study on the effects of "congestion" p. 93 Asako Miura, Kazumitsu Shinohara DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0303-4 Applications in Online Communities Informational humidity model: explanation of dual modes of community for social intelligence design p. 110 Shintaro Azechi DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0304-3 [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The February 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:51:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 860 (860) Greetings: The February 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, the '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 'Silk Road Seattle' courtesy of Daniel Waugh at the University of Washingon. The articles include: SRW/U with OAI: Expected and Unexpected Synergies Robert Sanderson, University of Liverpool; and Jeffrey Young and Ralph LeVan, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives Baden Hughes and Amol Kamat, University of Melbourne Concepts and a Design for Fair Use and Privacy in DRM Pasi Tyrvainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland The eXtensible Past : XML as a Means for Access to Historical Datasets and a Strategy for Digital Preservation Annelies van Nispen, Rutger Kramer and Rene van Horik, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services [...] From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.5 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:56:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 861 (861) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 5 (February 16 - February 22, 2005) INTERVIEW Ken Robinson on Telecom Policy Loose Confederations of Warring Tribes: An interview with Washington communications attorney Kenneth G. Robinson, editor and publisher of Telecommunications Policy Review http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i5_robinson.html VIEW A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies The bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College, Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characteristics. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i5_simoneli.html From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: sabbatical positions 2005-5 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:51:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 862 (862) Apologies for multiple posting! Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few sabbatical positions may be available in 2006-2007 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the the host institute is: <http://www.grlmc.com>http://www.grlmc.com or http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ELIGIBLE TOPICS The eligible topics are the institute's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Bioinformatics. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition. - Computational neuroscience. Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. JOB PROFILE - Top-level appointments for experienced researchers being on leave from their home organization. - The main duty of the job is research, with possible supervising and doctoral teaching too. - 3-12 months long. - To start in 2006 and to be developed in the period January 1st, 2006 - October 31st, 2007. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - The positions can be filled in only by scholars that occupy a full/associate professorship at their home organization. - PhD degree got earlier than 2000. - There is no restriction on nationality or age. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - This will be a scholarship (not a work contract). - Salary in the interval 1,500-3,000 euro/month (most probably, not less than 2,500 euros). - Travel grant. - Healt insurance coverage will be provided exceptionally to those scholars that don't have one from their home country. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 stages: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a full proposal (CV + research project + work plan), to be evaluated externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until March 6, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-5" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Preselected candidates will be given appropriate support in the application process by the host institute. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: "Simonetta Simi" Subject: Church slavonic OCR Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:56:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 863 (863) Dera Sirs, I need church slavonic/old church slavonic language to support by OCR. Could you, kindly, give me some information? Where and How can I find this software? Thanks for halping me, Best Regards, Simonetta Simi From: Ruth Kempson Subject: ESSLLI2005 Workshop: FINAL CALL Foundations of Natural Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:55:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 864 (864) Language Grammar FINAL CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS: apologies for multiple copies Please also note correction in dates advertised to: August 15th-19th Foundations of Natural-Language Grammar http://semantics.phil.kcl.ac.uk/ldsnl/ESSLLI05-Workshop-Foundations_of_Natural_Language_Grammar/index.htm August 15th -19th, 2005 Organized as part of European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 8-19th August, 2005 in Edinburgh Workshop Organizers: Ruth Kempson, kempson_at_dcs.kcl.ac.uk Glyn Morrill, morrill_at_lsi.upc.es Workshop Purpose: Both logic and computation bring standards to bear on grammar formalism which raise challenges for its psychological interpretation. In recent years approaches have consolidated their methodology in ways which are sometimes similar, sometimes distinct. On the one hand, opposing views often sustain an essentially common methodology: amongst these are the disputes over the relationship between syntax and semantics within a grammar, the number of levels to be articulated in a grammar, and the nature of the mappings between them. On the other hand, in recent years, there has been growing interest across a number of theoretical frameworks in defining grammar formalisms for natural language which make available stronger forms of psychological interpretation of the formalism than is standard, giving rise to new ways of articulating the relationship between grammar formalism and natural-language data. This workshop aims to provide a forum for explicit discussion of these and other foundational issues in articulating grammar formalisms for natural language. The workshop aims to bring together not only colleagues with established work in individual research programs, but also advanced PhD students and researchers, so that both groups can present and discuss foundational issues underpinning their work with colleagues and researchers working in affiliated fields. Workshop Topics: Papers that address the following questions will in particular be encouraged: What are the levels of grammar? What is representation and what is derivation? How are psychological interpretations of grammar formalism to be made? What is the relation between universal grammar and grammar formalism? What is the relation between anaphora construal and grammar-internal mechanisms? What is the relation between grammar and parser? What is the relation between grammar and dialogue? What is the relation between logic, computation and grammar? Amongst formalisms of which we would hope to have representatives are: Minimalism, TAG, HPSG, LFG, Model-theoretic syntax, Categorial grammar (TLG, TTG, CCG, pregroup), Higher Order Grammar, Dynamic Syntax, Dependency grammar. [...] From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Fwd: Call for IPSI Transactions Special Issues in 2005/6; Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:05:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 865 (865) c/ka Dear colleagues: Anyone who can shed light on the practice of charging authors for publishing submissions please comment on the following. This would seem different from requiring a subvention for a book, since (a) the author is expected to pay, and (b) a journal article would, I'd think, be unlikely to be supported by a funding body. In the following case, the number of reviewers also seems rather high. Yours, 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: OCR of Church Slavic Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:07:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 866 (866) On the problem of OCR for Church Slavic, you did not mention what alphabet you were speaking of. Anyway, HUMANIST has had many discussions of OCR software, and you could look in the archives. I have had a great deal of success training OmniPage (from ScanSoft). If you do not want to train, everyone speaks of the Russian PrimaPage (Primax) well, as also I.R.I.S. (ReadIris), touted by Hewlitt-Packard. It will depend on the nature and clarity of your print; we determined long ago that you cannot OCR manuscripts or handwriting. From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 57, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:53:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 867 (867) Version 57 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,325 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 (biweekly 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 190 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 450 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_at_uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: Nancy Ide Subject: New ANC website, with frequency information Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:15:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 868 (868) The American National Corpus has a new website, available at the same address as before: http://AmericanNationalCorpus.org. The new site includes the following: - downloadable files containing frequency, bigram and trigram data for the ANC 1st release data - means for those who would like to contribute texts to be included in the ANC to upload the files - request for contributions of annotations of the ANC data -full instructions on using the BNC's XAIRA software with the ANC We have also set up a discussion list, anc-discuss. Instructions on how to join are available on the website. Comments welcome! ======================================================= Nancy Ide Professor of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA Tel: +1 845 437-5988 Fax: +1 845 437-7498 ide_at_cs.vassar.edu Chercheur Associe Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS Campus Scientifique - BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 83 59 20 47 Fax: +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 ide_at_loria.fr ======================================================= From: Carlos Areces Subject: Beth Dissertation Prize - Call for Submissions Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:16:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 869 (869) E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: call for submissions. Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association of Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information.=20 Submissions are invited for 2005. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2004. The dissertations will be judged on= the impact they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the= =20 work, and also on the interdisciplinarity of the work. Ideally the winning=20 dissertation will be of interest to researchers in all three fields. Who qualifies: Those who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2004.= =20 There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university=20 where the Ph.D. was granted. However, after a careful consideration, FoLLI has=20 decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Prize: The prize consists of =B7 a certificate =B7 an invitation to present the thesis during ESSLLI 05 =B7 a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. =B7 fee waive for ESSLLI 05 attendance =B7 the possibility to publish the thesis (or a revised version of it) in= the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on= this series will be posted on the FoLLI site soon.) How to submit: We only accept electronic submissions. The following=20 documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations= =20 are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis=20 supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and=20 significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from= a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded=20 the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to beth_award_at_dimi.uniud.it= =20 . Hard copy submissions are not admitted. If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not receive a notification from us within three working days, please write to policriti_at_dimi.uniud.it or folli_at_inf.unibz.it * Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2005. Notification of Decision: June 30, 2005. The prize will be officially assigned to the winner at ESSLLI'05 (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/), the 17th European Summer School in=20 Logic, Language, and Information, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9-19,= =20 2005. Prize winner will be expected to attend the ceremony and to give a=20 presentation of her/his Ph.D. dissertation at ESSLLI?05. Committee =B7 Anne Abeill=E9 (Universit=E9 Paris 7) =B7 Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) =B7 Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University) =B7 Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) =B7 Valentin Goranko (University of Johannesburg) =B7 Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) =B7 Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland) =B7 Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) =B7 Alberto Policriti (chair) (Universit=E0 di Udine) =B7 Christian Retor=E9 (Universit=E9 Bordeaux 1 ) =B7 Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) =B7 Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) From: Ken Friedman Subject: Re: 18.594 paying for PROFITABLE publishing on internet Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:14:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 870 (870) research Dear Willard, This is strange to me for many reasons. I can't understand why one would need 12 (twelve!) reviewers. Top journals in most fields get by with two or three. But IF one has 12 reviewers, acceptance by 6 is even more strange. To me, this suggests a cursory gate-keeping process with thumbs-up, thumbs-down acceptance rather than serious reviewer comments and editorial engagement. If this is so, it would substitute quantitative review voting for serious engagement as a misguided proxy for rigor. IPSI itself is not an academic organization, however. It is a business. Check out the IPSI web site: http://www.ipsi.co.yu/ What doesn't seem appropriate is the paper fees and page fees they seem to charge. At 400 Euros for a 6-page paper, with 100 Euros surcharge for each extra page, IPSI may find publishing transactions a profitable enterprise. I located IPSI Transactions on the IPSI web site at: http://internetjournals.net/ So far, the only transactions seem to be produced by .pdf. One wonders, therefore, what expenses require these kinds of paper fees and page fees The first issue of IPSI Transactions of Advanced Research carries 11 papers. So does the first issue of IPSI Transactions on Internet Research. A simple calculation shows what the support fees mean. Imagine that one were to run 11 6-page papers with, say, an average of 2 pages over-length each. At 400 Euros per paper, authors would pay a total of 4,400 Euros in support fees. Estimating another 22 pages at 100 Euros surcharge for each extra page, the surcharge would total 2,200. The publishers would take in 6,600 Euros per issue. The two issues I found have a monthly publication date (Both are January 2005). If IPSI produces one issue per month, twelve months a year of two periodicals, using the calculations I suggest, they would realize an income of 158,400 per year, nearly all of it profit. And that explains the fees. They are also in the conference business: http://www.internetconferences.net/ They are holding 12 (twelve again!) conferences in 2005, all at scenic travel locations. A suspicious mind might wonder whether an organization such as this is actually running a travel business to profit from conference fees and site arrangement on conferences that allow speakers to claim travel support from their schools and companies. If you download the conference abstract books, you find an odd mix of themes and topics. Whatever the reason for these conferences, the spectrum of interests within each conference makes me wonder what common interest links those who attend at any one of the twelve locations. Whatever the reason for running twelve conferences, I know of no scholarly or scientific organization that runs twelve full conferences a year. There's plenty of work involved in running one serious conference, and the work is serious enough that most organizations shift chairs at each conference. Even so, Veljko Milutinovic seems to be a hard working person with a huge load of books and articles to his credit -- some widely cited -- so he might thrive on this kind of workload. Then again, if I could earn that kind of money IPSI earns publishing transactions and chairing conferences, I suppose I'd thrive on the workload, too. Yours, Ken [deleted quotation] -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Leadership and Organization Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School +47 06600 Tlf NSM +47 67.55.73.23 Tlf Office +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Kevin Hawkins Subject: Re: 18.594 paying for publishing on internet research Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:14:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 871 (871) Dear Willard ("Dr. Humanist"): Some of those involved in studying the financial crisis in scholarly communication propose the "'author pays' model" to cope with the exponentially rising cost of scholarly literature. If you search on this phrase, you'll find references to this disucssion. Kevin From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.594 paying for publishing on internet research Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:14:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 872 (872) Willard (aka "Dr. Humanist") Good Lord ! I'd tell them where to shove it. As Walter Ong used to say "There's always some place else to publish something". From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.594 paying for publishing on internet research Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:15:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 873 (873) This payment for publishing is one of the open-access models, that championed by the Public Library of Science, whereby the author's grant funds ($1500 per article with PLoS, which does no other cost-recovery) pay for keeping the online journals online and available to the public (peer reviewers get credit toward publishing their own stuff). Scientists can in fact get funding to place their articles online because of the requirement that they disseminate their work widely, and the cost under this model is less than the page charges they already pay for paper journals. Of course scientists have been posting preprints online for a long time, but if their institution has a repository that guarantees persistence, then the institution pays. Open access isn't after all free, and there are several models for publishing online AND keeping the publication available in perpetuity, which is the puzzle piece you must have if you are to have a scholarly literature. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Royalty Free Standards Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:19:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 874 (874) Willard, I thought Humanist readers would be interested in a "Call to Action in OASIS" that was recently by Lawrence Rosen: http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:9543:eipghffcblnbhjiggalm By way of background, OASIS is a standards organization that is responsible for the Open Office XML Format, DocBook, ebXML and a host of other standards. At issue is whether standards being developed at OASIS are to be RF (royalty free) or some more restricted basis. The basis on which a technical committee will develop a standard is part of its original charter. The policy can be found at: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php I am not unsympathetic to the position that all standards should be royalty free or what I suspect to be the underlying agenda that would like to disallow software patents altogether. Since my opinions about property run fairly close to those of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, that is not surprising. But after thinking about this latest "call to action" I was surprised at one possible outcome of of such a senario, that is all RF standards and no software patents. Granted that those who currently squat on ideas via the patent system would no longer be parasites on innovation and development, but would that be the only result? All of the major software houses support R&D departments to develop new software or techniques. What if they had access to the work product of 100,000 developers? Or 500,000 developers? Or even higher numbers? In part driven by simply giving away development tools and other support? Granted they would have to winnow a lot of chaff to find the really good software, but then that happens fairly quickly in the OSS community anyway. Suppose an individual developer writes a new software routine, clearly superior to any similar work. But unlike Microsoft, IBM, Sun, HP, etc., they lack the resources to incoporate it into a product, offer training or 24 x 7 support if they did, or to even market the product. Who wins from OSS? Ironically it includes the same interests who are in active opposition to it. They are the only players that corporations, governments and even the average user can or will rely upon for products, training and support. Some interests would lose cash flow in the short term if suddenly all patents were to go away but that is a bogeyman used by IP lawyers (the ones advocating patents) to frighten their clients into unreasonable and in the long term, counter-productive positions. Planning for and supporting an orderly transition to a completely RF environment for standards and software development will benefit those most who are in a position to take full advantage of it. What is good for OSS is good for commercial interests as well. I wonder what Proudhon would say about that situation? Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau_at_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: Gary Shawver Subject: simple text analysis/art installation Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:18:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 875 (875) Those of us interested in the visualization of textual information may find 10x10 <http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html> worth a look. 10x10 is an hourly visualization of world events featuring the simple text analysis of RSS headlines along with the display of news photos accompanying these stories. Gary From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity -- New Issue Alert! Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:20:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 876 (876) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 6 (February 23 - March 1, 2005) INTERVIEW LEONARD AND SWAP ON 'DEEP SMARTS' "The first issue that any organization has to face is the identification of the deep smarts." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i6_leonard.html From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.597 paying for publishing Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:12:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 877 (877) Ken Friedman's research seems to suggest that someone has figured out how to cash in on the "author pays" model; but they aren't alone, because there are lots of trade associations in the Information/Communication/Technology field that really do the same thing--it's just that in the past they have always produced printed proceedings of low circulation, which has made scholars who participated, ever anxious about citation rate these days, uneasy as citation rates for online publications have begun to soar. Hence they will all presumably be moving to this model, and it will require research like Ken's to ferret them out. Pat Galloway From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.597 paying for publishing Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:13:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 878 (878) I've read some at least mildly approving remarks about pay-for-it-yourself publishing, and I must say it still sounds like good old vanity presses no matter how momentarily prestigious the vehicle may seem. How do we know they don't accept as long as you pony up the cash ? (Of course they will say they don't!) From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.594 paying for publishing on internet research Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:17:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 879 (879) Willard, IPSI's publication model offers an interesting case study for those interested in the sociology of knowledge. The structure of the reviewing process has an impact on citation practice. It is almost the social networking model (friends connecting to friends) applied to research and publication. See: http://internetjournals.net/reviewing_process.html In addition to the paid professional internal review, the following types of external reviews are also done (will be done): External IPSI BgD review: 4 reviews by people who attended the IPSI BgD conferences in the past. External PEER review: 4 reviews by others who submitted their paper to the same journal. External review: 4 reviews by those who are referenced in your paper. Each paper must have at least 10 references. Papers without at least 10 references will be returned to the sender. We provide the minimum of 6 review. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Amanda French Subject: scam Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:18:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 880 (880) I'm certain it's an e-mail scam and a vanity press for vain scholars. I get suspicious invitations to attend conferences in my inbox these days, too. People have figured out that there's money to be made from scholarly publishing, unfortunately. Amanda -- Amanda L. French, Ph.D. CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow in Scholarly Information Resources Digital Library Initiatives NCSU Libraries, Box 7111 Raleigh, NC 27695-7111 Tel: 919-513-0211 Fax: 919-515-3031 Mob: 720-530-7515 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~alfrench From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: RE: 18.600 paying for publishing Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:58:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 881 (881) The following note from Stephen Woodruff raises the question of the degree to which Humanist postings are falsely being identified as heavily preserved tinned meat of dubious origins. Are there practical means on offer for a group such as Humanist to exchange e-mail without running this risk? Yours, 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Patrick Durusau Subject: CiteULike Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:52:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 882 (882) Willard, I just happened across CiteULike, http://www.citeulike.org this morning and thought it would be of interest to Humanist readers. Operating out of Manchester University, the site offers a bookmarklet that enables a user to find an article online and then to post it to their 'library' at the site. Not a simple bookmark but the usual citation. The libraries of users are viewable by others and there is a 'watch' feature that allows one to follow the citations that are being gathered by others in related fields. There are a number of other features that distinguish this from social bookmark sharing sites. Most of the present citations are to scientific and medical literature but no technical reason by hamanists could not use the site for online articles they find worthy of note. I am going to be trying the site out and would be interested in what others think about the site. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau_at_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: Matteo Baldoni Subject: DALT 2005: second call for papers Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:01:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 883 (883) [deleted quotation]Dear Colleague, you might be interested in the following call for papers and web site: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ue/DALT-2005/ [Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies] Best regards, Matteo, Ulle, Andrea, and Paolo -- Dr. Matteo Baldoni Dipartimento di Informatica | Universita` degli Studi di Torino | Tel. +39 011 6706756 C.so Svizzera, 185 | Fax. +39 011 751603 I-10149 Torino (Italy) | URL http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Panayiotis Zaphiris Subject: Call for Book Chapters Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:50:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 884 (884) Design and Evaluation [Apologies for Cross-posting] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/web-book.html Submission Deadline: March 31, 2005 Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation A book edited by: Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris, Centre for HCI Design, City University, London, UK Dr. Sri Kurniawan, School of Informatics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Overall Objectives of the Book ------------------------------ The objective of this book is to look at the topic of Web design in a new direction. The majority of existing books on this topic have been focusing primarily on the technical dimensions (programming languages, hardware and software needs) of Web design. Few books touch on the user aspect of Web design and interaction. In addition, this book will try to provide an academic/research direction to Web usability. Because humans are an important participant in Web interaction and a significant factor contributing to successful Web design is user involvement throughout the design and evaluation processes, there is a need for a unified view of the user-related topics that surround Web design. This book will point out that beyond the technical aspects of Web design, we need to systematically take into account human interaction and activity, and the completely renewed social and cultural environments that Web environments and interfaces are calling for and technologies are now capable of delivering. The general goal is to discuss the basis of a broad framework for the development and management of Web environments, enriched with contributions from domains as diverse as Web design, information systems, psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, e-learning and many others. The Target Audience ------------------- University educators and educators in general; university administrators; researchers; lecturers of HCI and user-centred design; Web system managers; instructional designers; general audience with an interest in HCI and Web design. This book will be structured in such a way so that it can act as a core textbook in HCI and Web development courses. Recommended Topics ------------------ Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: * Introduction: Introduction to HCI and User-Centred Design and their application to Web design * Humans as Web Users: human abilities and limitations (cognitive, perceptual, motor) and their effect on efficient use of the Web; cognitive psychology and its application to Web design * Analysis: Query-based techniques (interviews, focus groups, surveys) and Web design; Task Analysis, users, context and requirements and their application to Web design; Personas * Design: Conceptual and detailed Web design; Prototyping (paper/electronic) as used in Web design; Screen design; Information architecture; Design of user-friendly Web navigation schemes and features; Web Accessibility and Web design for people with special needs; Participatory design and other innovative design approaches in Web design; Dialogue design * Evaluation: Usability evaluation; Expert (heuristic) evaluation; Web accessibility evaluation * Special Topics: Interaction styles and their applicability to the Web; Information visualization on the Web; Computer mediated communication and the Web; The future of HCI and the Web SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 31, 2005, up to 2 page proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 30, 2005 and be sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 31, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed through a blind reviewing process. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, and Idea Group Reference Imprints. Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Centre for HCI Design, City University London, EC1V 0HB UK e-mail: zaphiri_at_soi.city.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859 or Dr. Sri Kurniawan University of Manchester Manchester, UK e-mail: s.kurniawan_at_manchester.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)161 306 3324 end forwarded message -- Philipp Budka philbu_at_gmx.net Rustengasse 5/10 A-1150 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net http://www.lateinamerika-studien.at -- Lassen Sie Ihren Gedanken freien Lauf... z.B. per FreeSMS GMX bietet bis zu 100 FreeSMS/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.605 avoiding heavily preserved tinned meat of Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:48:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 885 (885) dubious origins? Willard, when my ISP put in a spam filter, most List serve came through fine except Medieval-L -- and I still have t o go every day to make sure I have not lost notes from that List. I'm pretty sure it's a function of (a)how the List identifies itself and (b) how the filter is set up to detect the sender(s). When I asked my ISP if they could change their filter routine they got rather huffy about it. The longer the filter runs, the fewer Mediev-l notes get intercepted, but every day I find a few. Apparently nothing can be done about it -- just read your Spam filter list carefully every day, and make sure you mark ()if you can) both to accept this message and to accept all future messages from the individual who sent it (this does not, alas, seem to work when the List is given as the individual sender). A friend who runs another List told me that dealing with Spam filters is more trouble than dealing with Spam.... From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.605 avoiding heavily preserved tinned meat of Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:48:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 886 (886) dubious origins? Presumably this is due to my email address's having been mined out of listservs (like Humanist) amd used as a spoofed source of said preserved substance. I'd say mea culpa except that it could happen to any of us. Apologies to Glasgow but I don't reckon I should stop posting? Pat Galloway From: "pjmoran" Subject: Re: "spam," Vol. 18, No. 605. Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:49:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 887 (887) Vol. 18, No. 605. You asked, "Are there practical means on offer for a group such as Humanist to exchange e-mail without running this risk?" I don't think so. One academic's prime rib is another academic's spam. With automatic controls and buzzwords governing the spread of intellectual nutrition, the receiving party is in the ascendancy. Even the string "h u m a n" could trigger a spam notification. Here in the "Bible Belt" of the US, the word "human" is often suspect. Christian fundamentalists seem to consider it a red flag, signaling a religious humanism (as an ethical code that "violates tenets of Christianity"). Lest you believe I am overstating, I offer this example. One local high school teacher was told that a certain female student would not be taking the decision-making portion of the course in question. Her father had come to school and said, "My daughter will not be making decisions. I will make her decisions for her until she is married. Then her husband will consult the Bible and make the decisions." There is a continuum between short-sighted religious conservatives and liberal "anarchy." I can easily see where some comments in the Humanist could be blocked as spam. Patricia J. Moran, Ph.D. Candidate, Florida State University From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: spam Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:49:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 888 (888) I don't think there is any answer, Willard. It is so imperative that we get rid of spam (I receive about 200 a day) that we must risk losing some real mail. It is going to get worse, and today's newspapers are full of the problem. Perhaps each of us who receives Humanist through a university hook-up could inform the university that the filter should avoid Humanist. Noise filters are always uncertain. I am afraid that this, the necessity of avoiding phishers and the like, etc. is going to get much worse. Que faire? From: "Stuart Dunn" Subject: RE: 18.605 avoiding heavily preserved tinned meat of Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:50:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 889 (889) dubious origins? My university IT service allows you to "whitelist" certain email addresses or domains. For example I could whitelist "humanist_at_princeton.edu" or just "Princeton.edu" (I haven't had to), and any mail sent to me from that address or domain respectively would automatically bypass the heavily preserved tinned meat filter. I would be surprised if other institutions don't have similar arrangements. Best wishes, Stuart ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Programme Research Assistant AHRB ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme School of Modern Languages University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AA UNITED KINGDOM URL: http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/ict AHRB ICT mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahrbict Tel: 0118 378 5064 Fax: 0118 378 8333 From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: Feb issue of HJS now online Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:53:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 890 (890) Announcing Hypermedia Joyce Studies 5.2 (Feb. 2005) <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contents.html>www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contents.html ______________________________________________________ HJS volume 5, issue 2 (february 2005) CONTENTS <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/editorial6.html>Editorial Notes 2005 Prague Joyce Colloquium * The James Joyce Scholars' Collection * International James Joyce Foundation Fact-Finding Panel on the Practices of the Estate of James Joyce * 2005 North American James Joyce Conference * Polyoptical Cyclops * The Ninth Annual Trieste Joyce School * Some Recent Joyce Publications Joyce and the Post-Epiphanic <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/norris.html>Andrew Norri s Joyce's Reverse Advertisement for Himself in Finnegans Wake <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/brivic2.html>Sheldon Brivic "The River Ever Runs, & Anna Calls": A Joyce-Deleuzian Billet Deux <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/baumann.html>Andrew E. Baumann Para-Baroque Conceptual Intersections & Interventions: Finnegans Wake, Gravity's Rainbow and the Writing of the Disaster <http://www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/roraback2.html>Erik Roraback From: Medlit Subject: Medieval Forum/Call for Submissions Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:54:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 891 (891) MF news: We are pleased to announce that Medieval Forum articles are being indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Also, the journal has been selected by Johns Hopkins and Stanford universities to participate in the LOCKSS project, a system for archiving electronic journals. Medieval Forum is now inviting submissions for its fifth volume. MF is an electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in Medieval English Literature, dedicated to providing a venue for the free exchange of ideas in a collegial, public forum environment. Critical essays on works from any genre or period of the medieval corpus are invited, and a humanistic orientation is encouraged. Although the focus of MF is on literature, articles from other disciplines, particularly cultural and historical, that will contribute to the study of literature are welcome. Book reviews are also invited. Volume 5 is anticipated in December 2005. Submissions are accepted and evaluated on an ongoing basis, with the deadline of 15 September. Visit our website for guidelines: http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/. Please share this announcement with your colleagues. From: Stephen Miller Subject: Re: 18.606 new on WWW: CiteULike Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:56:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 892 (892) [deleted quotation]Hamanists? Humanists who do not read spam? Stephen Miller From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Modes of Approach to Work Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:58:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 893 (893) Willard, Often you have posed the question of what kinds of tools are appropriate to what kinds of work we may be engaged in. And it is that question that bounced from the page when I read the following passage from Bruce Rogers _The Centaur Types_ (Chicago 1949 rpt. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1996) p. 6 These designs [...] were put into the hands of John Cumming of Worchester for the cutting of the punches. Cumming was the best punch cutter of his day. He was a retired athlete and oarsman, with great clumsy-looking hands; but the way he could handle a minute graving tool was a marvel. He was also a marvellous potato masher, as I discovered when I once lunched at his home. I suppose he enjoyed the relaxation of wielding a larger and freer implement than the graver. Is there an equivalent to potato mashing in the world of humanities computing? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Mats_Dahlstr=F6m=22?= Subject: CFP: Critical studies in classification and indexing Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:51:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 894 (894) CALL FOR PAPERS 16th ASIS&T SIG-CR Classification Research Workshop, 2005 Saturday October 29, 2005 What knowledge organization does and how it does it: Critical Studies in and of Classification and Indexing Keynote speech: "An Institutional Perspective on Knowledge Organization - Implications for theoretical development" Joacim Hansson, Associate Professor, PhD, The Swedish School of Library and Information Studies, University College of Bor=E5s, Sweden. Much classification research, and knowledge organization research in general, has tended to be concerned with rules, principles, standards or techniques; that is, with prescriptive issues. This workshop will focus on descriptive issues. In a world where people are more in touch with systems of organized knowledge than ever before, such systems play a vital social, political and cultural role in our professional and everyday-life activities as they mediate, shape and are shaped by forms of social organization. Knowledge organization research must therefore be concerned with producing understandings and reflections of the role of systems of organized knowledge in human activities in order to inform research and users, perceived as active social and cultural agents, of those systems. This workshop will critically examine knowledge organization in action, that is, how, why and by and for whom knowledge organization operate. It is of critical importance that the knowledge organization research community investigates such issues as they influence on how users employ systems of knowledge organization, how they perceive them and what they expect of them. Thus, the understandings and reflections produced by knowledge organization research should be used to explain and reveal to users what systems of knowledge organization mediate, whose discourses speak and do not. We are in particular interested in papers that address, but are not limited to, the following themes: * Historical analyses of classification & indexing systems o E.g. analyzing the arguments, politics & motivation behind classification & indexing systems o Conditions of possibilities of knowledge organization * Theoretical & empirical studies of knowledge organization systems in action o E.g. in industry, science, politics, law, business, religion o But NOT papers purely reporting a research project or an empirical study * How is a given subject field represented in a given classification system o E.g. how is fiction described & outlined in Dewey, Bliss or UDC * Classification & indexing as social action o E.g. how do classification & indexing act in human activities and for whom * Genre theory and its connection to classification and indexing o The role of document forms in classification and indexing o The relationship between genre systems, activity systems and knowledge organization * Critical theory and its connection to classification and indexing o E.g. is knowledge organization reproducing or opposing dominant ideologies or discourses and in what way(s) * Social theory and its connection to classification and indexing o E.g. how do we understand and describe knowledge organization activity in light of particular social theories * Activity theory and its connection to classification and indexing o E.g. knowledge organization as a human activity o E.g. knowledge organization as tool o E.g. knowledge organization as mediation Accepted papers are to be presented at the workshop and will be published in Advances in Classification Research. Important dates Deadline full papers: May 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2005 Deadline revised paper: September 1, 2005 Send papers to Jack Andersen, jan_at_db.dk Chair: Jack Andersen, Assistant Professor, PhD, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark [...] From: "Claire Rustat-Flinton" Subject: ESF Exploratory Workshops - 2005 Call for Proposals Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:52:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 895 (895) ESF Exploratory Workshops - 2005 Call for Proposals Each year, The European Science Foundation (ESF) supports approximately 50 Exploratory Workshops across all scientific domains. The focus of the scheme is on workshops aiming to explore an emerging and/or innovative field of research or research infrastructure. Successful proposals will be expected to demonstrate the potential to open up new directions in research or new domains. They should also show potential for initiating follow-up research activities and/or developing future collaborative actions. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged. ESF Exploratory Workshops awards are intended for small, interactive and output-oriented gatherings of maximum 30 participants and up to a maximum value of 15000 Euros. Awards are for workshops to be held in the calendar year 2006 (1 January - 31 December). Deadline for the receipt of proposals: 1 May 2005 (midnight) Full details at <http://www.esf.org/workshops>http://www.esf.org/workshops. _________________________________________ Valerie Allspach-Kiechel Administrator, ESF Exploratory Workshops European Science Foundation 1, quai Lezay-Marn=E9sia BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg Cedex, France Tel:+33 (0)388 76 71 36 Fax:+33 (0)388 37 05 32 vallspach_at_esf.org <http://www.esf.org/workshops>http://www.esf.org/workshops From: Lorna Hughes Subject: DRH extension of deadline Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:53:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 896 (896) **** Second Announcement and call for proposals: DRH 2005 **** ****Submission deadline extended! New Deadline: 31st March, 2005**** DRH 2005: Digital Resources for the Humanities University of Lancaster, UK 4th - 7th September 2005 IMPORTANT DATES: * 31st March, 2005: Deadline for submission of abstracts * April, 2005: Notification of acceptance of papers, sessions, posters and workshops * April 2005: Registration opens * May 2005: Provisional programme announced. Conference Web Site: http://www.drh.org.uk Proposals can be submitted via the electronic submission form at the conference website. The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a major forum bringing together scholars, postgraduate students, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, use, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities. At this, the tenth DRH conference, we plan to encourage papers and sessions that focus on critical evaluation of the use of digital resources in the arts and humanities. What has the impact really been? What kinds of methodologies are being used? What are the assumptions that underlie our work? How do we know that the work that we accomplish is truly new and innovative? How does technology change the way that we work? The Conference will also address some of the key emerging themes and strategic issues that engagement with ICT is bringing to scholarly research in the arts and humanities, with a particular focus on advanced research methods. The kinds of questions that we would like to see addressed might include the following: what sort of research does ICT in the arts and humanities enable researchers to do that could not be done before at all? Does this enable 'old' research to be done in a significantly new way? In what ways does the technology serve the scholarship? Similarly, what are the key aspects of virtual research environments ("cyberinfrasture") which can facilitate collaborative research? Proposals for individual papers, sessions, workshops and posters are invited, and the abstract submission system at the conference website will be accepting proposals from January 31st, 2005. Types of presentation for which proposals are invited: Papers Proposals for papers should be no less than 750 words. Papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the proposed session topic, and include abstracts of no less than 750 words for each paper. The session organizer must also indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. Poster Presentations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. Posters presentations may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress. There should be no difference in quality between poster presentations and papers, and both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will once again award a prize for the best poster presentation. The Local Organising Committee is headed by Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster. Please contact the local organizers with any questions about registration or conference arrangements at Lancaster: drhconf_at_lancaster.ac.uk The chair of the Programme Committee is Lorna Hughes, Assistant Director for Humanities Computing, New York University. Please contact the Programme Chair with any questions about submitting abstracts, or about the reviewing process: (Lorna.Hughes_at_nyu.edu). Please visit http://www.drh.org.uk for regularly updated details about the conference and, for information on how to submit proposals. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes_at_NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Information Technology Services Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "RAM-Verlag" Subject: Glottometrics 8, 2004 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:17:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 897 (897) Are you interested in Glottometrics 8, 2004? Then visit our web-site: www.ram-verlag.de. Glottometrics 8, 2004 is available as: Printed edition: 25,00 EUR plus PP CD edition: 10,00 EUR plus PP PDF-file (download from internet www.ram-verlag.de): 5,00 EUR. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Tel.: +49 2351 973070 Fax: +49 2351 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag_at_t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.608 hamanism and ham-fistedness Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:15:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 898 (898) Willard, Would it not be the case that not a day after sending you that little quotation from Bruce Rogers I found an example for the analogy of a potato masher? Google and its ilk are potato mashers. The following are much finer tools: del.icio.us http://www.del.icio.us/ is what I would call an instantiation of a semantic web that calls upon the power of linking. The listings at del.icio.us are particular apt for retrieving focused technical information. See for example what crops up under CSS and compare with what a search engine would return. And then there is ... fac.etio.us http://www.siderean.com/delicious/facetious.jsp Faceted classification assigns a set of parameters (facets) to the objects it's classifying and then lets users sort them using the facets in any order. Many-to-many blog http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/02/17/facetious.php Of course tip of the hat to Patrick Durusau for pointing out CiteULike in Humanist 18.606 which reminded me of other social bookmark manager. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Alejandro Bia Subject: Preliminary Conference Programme, now available Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:09:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 899 (899) Dear Colleagues, The list of accepted presentations and their titles for the ACH-ALLC 2005 conference is now available at the conference website: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ The full Program and Schedule of presentations, with Abstracts, should be available in April (we will notify these lists when they are). We are very enthusiastic about the quality and variety of the Program that is going to be offered - in the conference proper, and in the pre-conference Humanities Computing Institute. The program of workshops and presenters for the Institute is available at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ A single Registration page for both events is available online at the ACH-ALLC 2005 website (above). Looking forward to meeting you in Victoria in June. Peter Liddell Chair, Organizing Committee ACH/ALLC 2005 pgl_at_uvic.ca Alejandro Bia Chair, Program Committee ACH/ALLC 2005 abia_at_umh.es From: Renaud Marlet Subject: 2nd CFP - Student session - LACL 2005 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:17:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 900 (900) 2nd Call for papers ***************************************************** Student Session - LACL'2005 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics ***************************************************** Deadline : March 15, 2005 LACL'2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. *** STUDENT SESSION *** For the first time, LACL'2005 will feature a student session. Students (not having defended yet their PhD thesis or defending it in 2005) are invited to submit short papers (2 or 3 pages) on the same topics as LACL. Submitted papers may present only partial but promising work. This student session offers a good opportunity for students to acquaint themselves with the world of research : digest writing exercise, feedback from the program committee, oral presentation exercise, feedback from LACL attendants. Students whose articles will be selected for the student session will benefit from reduced registration fees for the LACL conference. *** PAPER SELECTION *** Submitted articles will be reviewed by a program committee made of a a group of experienced researcher as well as a group of chosen PhD students. Each article will be reviewed by at least one experienced researcher and one of these PhD students. [....] *** MORE DETAILS *** http://lacl.labri.fr/student_session From: Willard McCarty Subject: Multimedia Systems 10.3 Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:59:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 901 (901) Volume 10 Number 3 of Multimedia Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Editor's Note p. 181 Klara Nahrstedt DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0149-0 Toward better retrieval and presentation by exploring cross-media correlations p. 183 Wei-Ta Chu, Herng-Yow Chen DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0150-7 Quality-based I/O resource managementfor multimedia document database servers p. 199 M. Farrukh Khan, Halima Ghafoor, Shahab Baqai, M. Naeem Ayyaz, Sohail Sheikh DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0151-6 A global timestamp-based approach to enhanced data consistency and fairness in collaborative virtual environments p. 220 Sung-Jin Kim, Falko Kuester, K. H. (Kane) Kim DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0153-4 Hybrid and forward error correction transmission techniques for unreliable transport of 3D geometry p. 230 Zhihua Chen, J. Fritz Barnes, Bobby Bodenheimer DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0154-3 Multimedia layout adaptation through grammatical specifications p. 245 Kang Zhang, Jun Kong, Meikang Qiu, Guang-Lei Song DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0155-2 Video text detection and segmentation for optical character recognition p. 261 Chong-Wah Ngo, Chi-Kwong Chan DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0157-0 [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- February 2005 Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:02:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 902 (902) CIT INFOBITS February 2005 No. 80 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. ...................................................................... Scholarly Communications Convocation Library of Congress's Digital Future Series Encouraging Faculty Adoption of Technology for Teaching What Leads to Achieving Success in Distance Education? Making the Case for a Wiki 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). From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.7 Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:06:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 903 (903) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 7 (March 1 - March 8, 2005) Interview Microsoft's Hong-Jiang Zhang: The Process of Product Innovation "If you're working on actual products you can't say that 90 percent is good enough and just move to something else." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i7_zhang.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [...] For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/> > From: Carlos Areces Subject: Beth Dissertation Price - Last Call for Submissions Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:01:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 904 (904) E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize: Last Call for Submissions. Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association of Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information.=20 Submissions are invited for 2005. The prize will be awarded to the best dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. in the year 2004. The dissertations will be judged on= the impact they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the= =20 work, and also on the interdisciplinarity of the work. Ideally the winning=20 dissertation will be of interest to researchers in all three fields. Who qualifies: Those who were awarded a Ph.D. degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2004.= =20 There is no restriction on the nationality of the candidate or the university=20 where the Ph.D. was granted. However, after a careful consideration, FoLLI has=20 decided to accept only dissertations written in English. Prize: The prize consists of =B7 a certificate =B7 an invitation to present the thesis during ESSLLI 05 =B7 a donation of 2500 euros provided by the E. W. Beth Foundation. =B7 fee waive for ESSLLI 05 attendance =B7 the possibility to publish the thesis (or a revised version of it) in= the new series of books in Logic, Language and Information to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of LNCS or LNCS/LNAI. (Further information on= this series will be posted on the FoLLI site soon.) How to submit: We only accept electronic submissions. The following=20 documents are required: 1. the thesis in pdf or ps format (doc/rtf not accepted); 2. a ten page abstract of the dissertation in ascii or pdf format; 3. a letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor. Self-nominations= =20 are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis=20 supervisor. The letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and=20 significance of the dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded; 4. two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from= a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded=20 the Ph.D. degree. All documents must be submitted electronically to beth_award_at_dimi.uniud.it= =20 . Hard copy submissions are not admitted. If you experience any problems with the email submission or do not receive a notification from us within three working days, please write to policriti_at_dimi.uniud.it or folli_at_inf.unibz.it * Important dates: Deadline for Submissions: March 15, 2005. Notification of Decision: June 30, 2005. The prize will be officially assigned to the winner at ESSLLI'05 (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/), the 17th European Summer School in=20 Logic, Language, and Information, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9-19,= =20 2005. Prize winner will be expected to attend the ceremony and to give a=20 presentation of her/his Ph.D. dissertation at ESSLLI?05. Committee =B7 Anne Abeill=E9 (Universit=E9 Paris 7) =B7 Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) =B7 Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University) =B7 Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa) =B7 Valentin Goranko (University of Johannesburg) =B7 Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) =B7 Ewa Orlowska (Institute of Telecommunications, Poland) =B7 Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) =B7 Alberto Policriti (chair) (Universit=E0 di Udine) =B7 Christian Retor=E9 (Universit=E9 Bordeaux 1 ) =B7 Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) =B7 Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen) From: Michael Fraser Subject: Virtual Research Environment Opportunities at Oxford Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:03:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 905 (905) The full advert for the posts below is available at http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/ (Closing date: 18 March 2005) Opportunities to Develop Oxford's Virtual Research Environment Oxford University has been awarded significant funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to develop infrastructure and tools for the next generation of collaborative research environments. We are seeking enthusiastic individuals with excellent technical development and project management skills to contribute to the following Virtual Research Environment (VRE) projects over the next two years: * Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities (BVREH). * VRE for the Integrative Biology Research Consortium (IB VRE); * Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator (Sakai VRE); Departments participating in these projects include the Computing Laboratory, the Humanities Division, and the Research Technologies Service (RTS). See further http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/ --- Project Manager (Humanities Division) RS1A Point 5, GBP23,643 You will be responsible for project management throughout the duration of the Humanities VRE project and the detailed conduct of the user survey that forms its initial stage. You will have broad experience in the Humanities Computing sector, an understanding of the techniques and technologies used, strong analytical skills, and the ability to write reports with clarity and to meet deadlines. --- --- Technical Support Officer (Humanities Division) RS1A Point 5, GBP23,643 You will be responsible for technical services and support for the Humanities VRE project and for the evaluation and implementation of demonstrator components for a Humanities VRE. You will be responsible for the online presentation of the project. You will also have Java programming skills and a familiarity with standards for portlets and portal frameworks. --- --- First Research Assistant (Computing Laboratory) RS1A, GBP19,460 - 29,128 You will work on the user requirements analysis, usability and interface design, and system testing and validation. You will have excellent communication skills, proven technical experience, and a demonstrable understanding of usability and user interface design issues. --- --- Second Research Assistant (Computing Laboratory) RS1A, GBP19,460 - 29,128 You will work closely on incorporation of the IB component toolkit into the VRE, and acquisition and integration of resource layer tools into the VRE. You will have several years' development experience, and, in particular, have demonstrable experience of developing applications for online information systems, including familiarity with XML and SOAP. --- --- Senior Systems Developer (RTS, IB VRE) Senior Systems Developer (RTS, Sakai VRE) RS2, GBP27,116 - 35,883 You will be responsible for the management, development and implementation of technical services for the IB VRE or the Sakai VRE projects. For both posts you will be an accomplished Java programmer with a deep understanding of standards for portlets and portal frameworks. We hope you have some familiarity with computation grids or developing and integrating the latest standards-based tools for access management or resource discovery. --- The closing date for all the above posts is 18 March 2005. Interviews will be held in the second half of April 2005. For further details of all these posts including the application procedures, please visit http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/ The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer. --- 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 906 (906) From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 615. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu Dear colleagues: Many of you will have seen the editors' statement in CHum 38.4 (2004) that after 38 years of continuous publication the journal is being terminated and that a new journal, Language Resources and Evaluation, is to replace it. After a brief chronology of the field, from Joseph Raben's founding act in 1966 to now, they conclude with the following statement: "For most of its history, the diversity of disciplines and methodologies represented in CHum's articles enabled cross-fertilization of ideas which was highly valued by the community. However, as computer use in the humanities has come to span an increasingly broad range of activities, and as computational methodologies evolve and become more sophisticated and specialized, it has become more and more difficult to retain that diversity and at the same time provide enough articles relevant to a particular area of interest." (p. iii) Possibly a reader constrained by circumstance or inclination to know only the output and outlook of CHum in recent years would be untroubled by the mixture of nostalgia, faint regret and all-to-eager acquiescence to the supposed inevitable that accompanies, like a fleeting aroma, the brisk turn to the pastures new of Language Resources and Evaluation. Otherwise, I suspect, the reaction will be astonishment in proportion to the reader's awareness of what has been happening throughout humanities computing world-wide. The irony couldn't be sharper. CHum's astonishing denial of a future for humanities computing comes in the same year as the Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities. In that same year, and more so in this one, CHum's sister journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, has remained several issues behind in its ability to publish the high-quality, refereed articles CHum's editors profess to be unable to find. One suspects, from these and many other sources of evidence, that their difficulty lies elsewhere. Reading chronologically through CHum from the beginning is a salutory experience, especially for the first 25 years or so. One gains enormous admiration and respect for Raben's pioneering efforts, for the combination of energy, determination, deep insight and, above all, vision. CHum's current editors are quite right that humanities computing has developed to a remarkable extent since then, but the early history of the journal demonstrates without question that any evolutionary tale of growth from narrow beginnings to a broad and diversified present is badly wrong. If anything, the development of CHum since then suggests rather the opposite -- a narrowing down from the breadth of humanistic interests, across the full range of disciplines, to a sharp focus on material often closer to computational linguistics than anything else -- and often too technical for all but the specialist to read. This narrowing does not reflect the field. Witness, again, the Blackwell's Companion, which puts between two covers a much deepened, considerably more sophisticated survey of approximately the same territory that Raben and his colleagues stumbled upon back in 1966. Fortunately humanities computing is now robust enough to survive the demise of CHum. If, as I like to say, "computers and the humanities" denotes an historical phase of doubtful juxtaposition, "computing in the humanities" a transitional phase of incorporation and "humanities computing" the state of full and healthy assimilation, then it is indeed time for CHum to be going. At the same time it is not good for such a healthy and vigorous field to have only one major international journal. There is not just room for another to be started. We should regard starting *at least* one new journal as a project of highest priority for the next two to three years. There can be no doubt that already sufficient submissions of sufficiently high-quality work exist to support at least two such journals. CHum may be gone, but the intellectual spirit that created and sustained it for so many years is more vigorous than ever. Thank you, Joe. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Yasmeen Ariff" Subject: Call for Applications - Internet Governance Capacity Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:01:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 907 (907) Building Programme Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme Call for Applications DiploFoundation, in cooperation with the Secretariat of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)= and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), is currently accepting applications for the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme. This programme aims at improving Internet Governance (IG) related knowledge and skills for participants from developing countries. The programme, which will last from March 14 to June 30, 2005, consists of= an online course, individual and collaborative online research, and capacity building fellowships. Fellowships, which will be awarded to the most successful participants in the programme, will include one month placements at the Secretariat of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) in Geneva and participation at WGIG and other Internet Governance related meeting. The programme will facilitate community building among participants from different national, cultural and professional backgrounds. The application deadline for this programme is March 10, 2005. For further= information and to apply online, please visit the <http://www.diplomacy.edu/IG/>Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme website. Yasmeen Ariff DiploFoundation 4th Floor, Regional Building Regional Road Msida MSD 13 MALTA Tel: +356 21 333323 Fax: +356 21 315574 <http://www.diplomacy.edu>http://www.diplomacy.edu From: vertan_at_informatik.uni-hamburg.de Subject: Call for papers: Workshop at MT-summit 2005 Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:03:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 908 (908) Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation Satellite Workshop at the MT Summit 2005 [http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/MTSWK05/WebHome] By its aim to implement a semantic structure behind the content of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web activities recently attracted a large, significant and specialized research community consisting of computer scientists, computational linguists, logicians, knowledge and ontology specialists, programmers, e-commerce, etc. Semantic Web needs human language technology and human language technology will highly benefit from the Semantic Web. However until now, research was directed more to the first issue. Techniques from human language technology were used to add meaning to the Web data and to make it usable for automatic processing. The second issue, i.e. the use of the new Semantic Web Technologies for improvement of natural language applications was neglected. The development of ontologies for the Semantic Web, their search mechanisms, and the standard formal (e.g. RDF) annotation of large pieces of data on the web, are of high value for monolingual and multilingual natural language (web)-applications The current workshop focuses on this topic, more exactly on the implications of such semantic web technologies on machine translation, which is a representative sub-field of natural language processing. It is well-known that multilinguality is one of the main challenges of Semantic Web. The annotation mechanisms and the development of ontologies and search procedures aim at retrieving relevant information independently of the language in which it was produced. On the other hand, Semantic Web activities will have major impact on natural language applications based on training on large pieces of corpora Example-based machine translation is a relevant example: Up to now the training is done on parallel aligned corpora, in the best case, additionally annotated with syntactic information. However, big reliable parallel corpora are available only for a few language pairs and domains. In the absence of such corpora, the Web is the best source for parallel aligned corpora. Aligned via RDF(S) annotations, the web can be exploited as a multilingual corpus. Moreover, this annotation will provide the semantic information attached to the respective texts. This strategy can have significant implications on example based machine translation. Knowledge based machine translation is another technique which can benefit from Semantic Web activities. Until now KB-MT systems were based mainly on the development of domain-dependent ontologies and on mapping the source language onto the target language via these ontologies. It was proved that KBMT can be very successful when applied to restricted domains, but encounters severe problems with translations of general texts. The Semantic Web activities (will) provide a large amount of ontologies in various domains and bridges between these ontologies. In this new context, KBMT could become a powerful mechanism for on-line machine translation. The goal of the workshop is twofold: - to discuss the implications of semantic web-technologies for machine translation, namely on example based and knowledge-based machine translation, - to contrast the two main technologies of Semantic Web: topic maps and RDFS in machine translation of on-line texts. We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to following topics - semantic web annotations for multilingual corpora - use of semantic web annotations for corpus based machine translation - integration of semantic information in example based machine translation - use of semantic web ontologies for machine translation - semantic web and on-line translation tools - integration of semantic web technologies in CAT tools. We also encourage demonstrations of developed tools. Submissions for a demonstration session should include a 2 page demo-note describing the system-architecture and performance as well as technical requirements. [...] From: "Philipp Budka" Subject: 2005 International Symposium on WIKIS Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 909 (909) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2005 International Symposium on Wikis Oct 17-18, 2005, San Diego, California, U.S.A. Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2005 http://www.wikisym.org OVERVIEW The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of the symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. We are honored to announce that Ward Cunningham, the inventor and host of the original WikiWikiWeb, will present the opening keynote talk at WikiSym 2005. Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to WikiSym 2005! We are seeking submissions for * research papers * practitioner reports * demonstrations * workshops * panels Research paper and practitioner report submissions are due April 29, 2005 Workshop, and panel submissions are due April 8, 2005 Demonstration submissions are due July 1, 2005 [deleted quotation]Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to: * wikis as social software * wiki user behavior, user dynamics * wiki user experiences, usability * wiki implementation experiences and technology * wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse * wiki scalability, social and technical * domain-specific/special-purpose wikis [...] From: lpnmr05.publicity_at_mat.unical.it Subject: LPNMR'05: Call for Papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 910 (910) Call for Papers 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'05) Diamante, Cosenza, Italy September 5-8, 2005 http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ LPNMR'05 is the eighth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Seven previous meetings were held in Washington, D.C., (1991), in Lisbon, Portugal (1993), in Lexington, Kentucky (1995), in Dagstuhl, Germany (1997), in El Paso, Texas (1999), in Vienna, Austria (2001), and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2004). LPNMR'05 will be organized by the Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria (Italy), and will be co-located with the INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration. AIMS AND SCOPE -------------- LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass these theoretical and exprimental studies that lead to the construction of practical systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on nonmonotonic aspects of logic programming and knowledge representation. We particularly encourage papers on application of LPNMR techniques to build significant applications. [...] From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 18.615 Computers and the Humanities 1966-2004 Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:09:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 911 (911) one couldn't say it in more clear and precise and passionate way: At 09.20 05/03/2005 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation]maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universit=E0 del Piemonte Orientale a= Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 / +39 011 8609843 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/2005 From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.615 Computers and the Humanities 1966-2004 Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:10:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 912 (912) I couldn't agree more with Willard's observations about the demise of CHum. This time, however, let us not be constrained by paper publication; can we call for Willard to appoint a committee to investigate digital-only possibilities? I volunteer to serve on such a committee. Open-source systems for handling digital-only journal workflow (including peer review) and publication are available in plenty, and even JSTOR is beginning to develop an archiving capability for digital versions of publications. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 18.615 Computers and the Humanities 1966-2004 Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:09:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 913 (913) The demise of CHum is perhaps not too susprising given that the high subscription rate but low rate of return for the ACH led the ACH to end its relationship with Kluwer and opt instead for Literary and Linguistic Computing as its journal of choice (where a far more benficial relationship between publisher and subject associations exist). This change hasn't stopped Kluwer (or should that now be Springer) still trying to extract a subscription fee from me on the basis that I subscribed to CHum two years ago. Since you mention the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities, I'd be interested to know why this work is priced so highly at 95 pounds ($150). Don't Blackwells expect to sell many copies? (A self-fulfilling prophecy, surely!) Yes, certainly push for another international peer-reviewed humanities computing journal but can it be broad in its scholarship and open in its access and dissemination? (It is an aspiration of the ACH to take the lead on the publication of an online journal.) 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: "Wayne Hanewicz" Subject: Call for Papers: 2005 Humanities and Technology Conference Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:15:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 914 (914) Colleagues: The 2005 Humanities and Technology Conference will be held at the Snowbird Resort (an absolutely beautiful area in the mountains), Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6,7, and 8. The Theme of the Conference is "A Dislogue on Technology and Human Life: Finding Meaning and Cultivating Humanity in a 21st Century Technologcial World." The Conference is presented by Utah State University's Departments of Technology Management, Philosophy and Humanities, and the Center for the Study of Ethics. We are soliciting abstracts on the following areas: The Human Dimensions and Implications of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics The Relevance and Meaning of Quantum Physical Concepts and Phenomena Digital Identity and the Information Society The Computer's Impact on Art, Music and Performance How Technology Alters Our Understanding of Ourselves The Future of Spirituality in the Information Age The Link Between Science and Technology Gender and Technology The Changing Role of the Arts and Humanities in a Technological Society The Nature of a "Good Education" in the 21st Century Transgenic Art The Role of Technology in Creating and Sustaining Global Justice and Equality The Translation and Communication of Scientific and Technological Innovation The Notion of "Progress" Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and the Notion of "Self" We will be organized in small discussion groups to support genuine dialogue among participants. We will also include a special section for student papers. Submit abstracts (no more than 300 words) no later than April 30, 2005 to HTA_at_UVSC.EDU. Final selected papers due July 1, 2005. Send questions to Dr. Wayne B. Hanewicz, Conference Coordinator, at hanewiwa_at_uvsc.edu. A full Conference Announcement will be published by April 1, 2005. Judging from our e-discussions, it seems to me that several of you have an interest in examining these questions. I hope that you will consider attending this event. It is one of the few such events that will create an evironment for serious conversation and dialogue among small groups of knowledgeable and seriously interested people. Dr. Wayne B. Hanewicz Conference Coordinator 801-863-6343 From: Henrike Schmidt Subject: Workshop Russian-cyberspace.org - Cultural identity Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:16:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 915 (915) performances on the Russian Internet Dear colleagues, we are organizing a workshop Russian-cyberspace.org - Cultural identity performances on the Russian Internet in Bochum (Germany) on March, 22th. We will be glad if anyone of you is interested to participate. For the programme please visit our website: <http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/seminars/RUB2005/workshop_ak= tuell.pdf>http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/seminars/RUB2005/wo= rkshop_aktuell.pdf Papers and presentations of the workshop participants will be published on the website at the beginning of April. Best regards Henrike Schmidt --= Dr. Henrike Schmidt Lotman-Institut fuer russische und sowjetische Kultur Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum GB 8 / 152 Universitaetsstrasse 150 44780 Bochum Germany Tel.: + 49 - (0)234 - 32 23 371 Tel.: + 49 - (0)40 - 481856 henrike.schmidt_at_ruhr-uni-bochum.de http://www.russian-cyberspace.org <http://www.livejournal.com/users/russ_cyberspace>http://www.livejournal.com= /users/russ_cyberspace From: John Unsworth Subject: acls commission requests your input Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:16:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 916 (916) [posted for Roy Rosenzweig]: Have digital resources and tools affected your research? I am a member of the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities & Social Sciences (http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm) and we are looking for examples of how digital resources and tools have changed, are changing, and might change how historians and other scholars are doing their research. For example, are you using (or have you used) online resources (e.g., ProQuest Historical Newspapers, American Memory, Making of America, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, or other smaller collections) and tools in a dissertation, book, or article? We are particularly interested in examples of where digital resources and tools are allowing you to do research (and to learn things) that you couldn't have done ten or twenty years ago. The examples need not be grand scale; they could be ways that you learned very specific things that were important to your work. We would also, of course, be interested in barriers or problems, e.g., "that resource is great, but if only I had this other resource" of "if only I could access it in this other way." Please email me at roy_at_gmu.edu with your examples or you can fill out an online survey form at http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/573/ thanks, Roy Rosenzweig, Director, Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu) From: Gianluca Miscione Subject: Fwd: My (Gianluca's) book - "On the Net Boundaries" Date: February 26, 2005 7:02:36 PM CET X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 917 (917) To: maja_at_xs4all.nl Reply-To: gianluca.miscione_at_soc.unitn.it SUMMARY MY WORK draws an analytical trajectory through some of the main topics related to the Internet. The guiding line of the work is discursive, but not speculative. Indeed the relation with empirical reality is based on theoretical sampling (all main positions are supported by addressing cases). The overall sensibility for this matter is rooted in readings of French post-structuralists, in research activities in sociology of communication, in a work as a journalist, and in a "culture" lived personally. Being skeptical about the reclaimed autonomy/independence of the 'cyberspace', I focused my attention on its relations with existing communicative, social and power relations. My aim was to highlight how infosphere is mutually interweaved with 'offline' world. In order to do that, each chapter is focused on an specific aspect and related boundaries are addressed. HOW THE WORK IS ORGANIZED Chapter 1 Technocratic reductionism is criticized for the impossibility to create a perfect language to represent reality or to communicate universally. The irrationality of any language does not permit to automate it, and then embed it into technologies. Chapter 2 Semiotics show that signs do not mirror reality but construct it on the social level, characterized by own rules (different from physical ones). Then, the discussion of net.art (2.1.1), hypertexts (2.2.1), intertextuality (2.2.2), interfaces (2.2.3) and 'cybergeographies' ( 2.3) is relevant to describe main characteristics of this space made up of signs. Chapter 3 Paying attention to real uses of the Internet allows to reflect on the fact that many projects and ideas theoretically possible failed because of unexpected social inertia (misleading perceptions, divergent routines, lack of trust). Scarce success of city-networks (3.1) and Semantic Web (=A7 3.2) are two examples of the risk to assume a rational conception of ICT implementations, forgetting social construction of reality. Based on those three chapters, the second part arguments the centrality of social aspects in understanding communication and power on the Internet. Chapter 4 How is a place where communication is content and place of social relations? How is experience organized there? Why are those social phenomena rather than produced by an aggregation of individuals? Assuming that if people believe something is real, it will be real in its consequences (Thomas' theorem, 4.4), it is possible (and actual) to construct imagined and shared places. Intersubjectivity of meanings and weak context in CMC, emphasize the social construction of virtual spaces, of any kind. The need of constructed and shared social contexts brings together constructivism and pragmatism (4.4.3). Chapter 5 On the political level, are we in a distributed situation in which nobody and nothing is fundamental for the system to work? Does the lack of political frontiers -that bond people to political decisions- pulverize a legitimated debate and decision place? Contemporary social fragmentation is represented and supported by the Internet. Indeed many issues arisen from the Internet go towards wider individual independence and group autonomy. Consequently, the Internet is more like an arena than an agora. Chapter 6 The conclusion is that the Internet is an extension of reality -not a representation- with particular rules and dynamics. Exclusion from it has the paradoxical effect to produce silence, usually unperceived. MAIN POINTS About power and policies on the Internet, I accept a relational conception of power which is based on the attention to how actions are affected, not only commanded (5). Indeed the ease to create groups and to escape national boundaries, and laws (5.1) do not allow to apply power categories which rely on a sovereign power (Locke, 5.4). Autonomy and privacy claims deal with that reality (5.1). On the other hand, fluidity of social phenomena on the Internet does not mean that power is not applicable: servers, data organizations, controls embedded into technologies, laws that only expert users can go around are ways to control users. Public sphere (5.1.1), free speech (5.1.2.), and copyright (5.2) have to deal with the described reality, which does not fit with usual dichotomy private/public. More generally autonomy claims tend to weaken a public and homogeneous public sphere. Democracy is interpreted more as liberty than as distribution of power (5.3). Another relevant dualism is nomos/techn=E9. Since Industrial Revolution laws and technology prospect diverse futures: (in continental philosophy) laws are expression and support for politics as "volont=E9 g=E9n=E9rale", technologies promote social automation and technocracy. About this particular intersection, it is proposed an analysis of the hackers' phenomenon ( 5.3.2. this part has been published on a academic journal). Opensources and freesoftware (5.2.2.1) cases are addressed for their relevance in circulation of information on the Internet (or in the digital age). Those movements, which generated similar activities for contents in general (5.2.2.2), propose a conception of knowledge which can be produce profit without reducing its public utility. WITH THIS WORK I WANT TO highlight the boundaries of information society, as far as it assumes the autonomy of cyberspace without dealing with existing social and power relations. I find this understanding needed to analyze further and design future activities and policies about the infosphere. Finally this trajectory explains my interest and perspective on development issues, where basic and common assumption about knowledge society cannot be taken for granted. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduzione PARTE I 1. Automatismi 1.1. Automatismi tecnici 1.1.1. Un ritorno all'orizzontalit=E0 originaria della Rete 1.2. Automatismi sociali 2. Rappresentazione, palco e non specchio 2.1. I discorsi dell'arte 2.1.1. Arte in azione, fra produzione e critica 2.2. Metacomunicazione 2.2.1. Il fallimento degli ipertesti 2.2.2. La stratificazione letta dall'intertestualit=E0 2.2.3. Il senso esteso dell'interfaccia 2.2.4. La progettazione, attuale fulcro della produzione comunicativa 2.3. Morfologia dell'ambiente Internet 2.3.1. Immaginare e disegnare l'immateriale: un mondo di mappe concettuali 3. Usi, fra consuetudine e saper fare 3.1. Un esempio dalle reti civiche 3.2 Pratiche e Semantic Web, limiti di un'idea di CMC 3.2.1. Spazi informativi omogenei 3.2.2. Cos'=E8 il Semantic Web 3.2.3. Semantica, ontologie, Semantic Web 3.2.4. I problemi che il Semantic Web prospetta di risolvere 3.2.5. Costituire spazi omogenei di informazione 3.2.6. Modello sotteso di comunicazione, i limiti del progetto 3.2.7. Campi di possibilit=E0 3.2.8. I limiti degli spazi omogenei di informazione 3.2.9. Organizzare la variet=E0, a priori o a posteriori 3.2.10. Comunic-azione, istituzioni e pratiche 3.2.11. Implementazione della dimensione sociale della comunicazione PARTE II 4. Dalla dimensione sociale all'azione 4.1. Intelligenza collettiva, l'utopia della mente sociale 4.2. Comunicare, fra pensare e fare 4.3. La prevalenza del sociale sul mentale 4.3.1. Comunit=E0 virtuali, province finite di significato 4.4. Definizione della situazione in ambiti reciprocamente costruiti 4.4.1. Un quadro teorico che eccede le scienze sociali 4.4.2. La mediologia, il focus sui media 4.4.3. Convergenza in Rete di costruttivismo sociale e pragmatismo 4.4.4. Dalla competenza all'azione 5. Potere in Rete, fra agora e arena 5.1. Autonomia, riservatezza e libert=E0 di espressione 5.1.1. Pubblico e privato, pubblico e segreto 5.1.2. Libert=E0 di parola 5.2. Distribuzione sociale della conoscenza 5.2.1. Finitezza e scarsit=E0, nuovi spazi ed economia 5.2.2. Aspetti dell'economia della conoscenza 5.2.2.1. Free Software e Opensource 5.2.2.2. Opencontent e Creative Commons 5.3. Conflitti e peculiarit=E0 sollevate 5.3.1. Progetti anarchici, esiti mercantili 5.3.2. h4(K3rZ e Information Warfare 5.3.2.1. Chi sono gli hacker 5.3.2.2. Organizzazione per gruppi e attivit=E0 bellicose 5.3.2.3. Matura un'etica mentre l'informazione diviene fulcro della societ =E0 5.3.2.4. Le tre anime dell'hacking 5.3.2.5. Divergenza fra natura della Rete, consuetudini e leggi 5.3.2.6. Un livello macro: le ciberguerre 5.3.2.7. Un medium aperto: humus per ecosistemi fortemente intrecciati 5.4. Limiti della politica 6. Rete fra dialogo, ragione e realt=E0 6.1. Dai limiti al silenzio 6.1.1. L'azione =E8 il limite dell'interpretazione 6.1.2. Rete come rappresentazione ed estensione del reale 6.1.3. Silenzio Bibliografia Maja van der Velden Oslo, Norway <http://www.globalagenda.org>http://www.globalagenda.org _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: Maja van der Velden Subject: Design for Civil Society / Technology and Social Action Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:18:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 918 (918) FYI, some work I am participating in: A special issue of Interacting with Computers - Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 1-120 (January 2005) - on Design for Civil Society, edited by Steve Walker and Andy Dearden, is available full text online as a complementary issue. Yu can read the articles online, download them or send them in pdf format. This issue has also a contribution by CaTac-er Daniel Cunliffe! A follow-up on this is a project called Technology and Social Action (see <http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org>http://www.technologyandsocialacti on.org ): "a project to foster dialogue and collaboration between activists in social movements, voluntary and community organisations and technology designers. We are committed to supporting communities of practice exploring effective ways of using technology to support social action, and of ensuring that technological innovation responds to social priorities. Greetings, Maja The (very unhandy) link to the Design for Civil Society issue is: <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=3DIssueURL&_tockey=3D%23TOC%235644 %232005%23999829998%23549345%23FLA%23Volume_17,_Issue_1,_Pages_1-120_(Januar y_2005)%2BMDesign_for_Civil_Society%2BMEdited_by_S._Walker_and_A._Dearden&_a uth=3Dy&view=3Dc&_acct=3DC000050221&_version=3D1&_urlVersion=3D0&_userid=3D1 0&md5=3D59c069dfff5e2e729975cf03dfead78b>http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc e?_ob=3DIssueURL&_tockey=3D%23TOC%235644%232005%23999829998%23549345%23FLA%2 3Volume_17,_Issue_1,_Pages_1-120_(January_2005)%2BMDesign_for_Civil_Society% 2BMEdited_by_S._Walker_and_A._Dearden&_auth=3Dy&view=3Dc&_acct=3DC000050221& _version=3D1&_urlVersion=3D0&_userid=3D10&md5=3D59c069dfff5e2e729975cf03dfea d78b It has the following articles: 1. Inside Front Cover Page CO2 2. Designing for civil society =95 EDITORIAL Pages 1-8 Steve Walker and Andy Dearden 3. Participating in civil society: the case of networked communities ARTICLE Pages 9-33 Andrea Kavanaugh, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Debbie D. Reese and Than T. Zin 4. Net neighbours: adapting HCI methods to cross the digital divide ARTICLE Pages 35-56 Mark Blythe and Andrew Monk 5. Fairtrade.com versus Fairtrade.org=97how Fairtrade organisations use the Internet =95 ARTICLE Pages 57-83 Dorothea Kleine 6. Online design for bilingual civil society: a Welsh perspective ARTICLE Pages 85-104 Daniel Cunliffe and Dilwyn Roberts-Young 7. Programming for cognitive justice: Towards an ethical framework for democratic code ARTICLE Pages 105-120 Maja van der Velden Maja van der Velden Oslo, Norway <http://www.globalagenda.org>http://www.globalagenda.org http://blogger.xs4all.nl/maja _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: 18.619 Computers and the Humanities 1966-2004 Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:12:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 919 (919) As editor of a new humanities computing on-line journal due anyway now <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>, I'm a big believer in this kind of initiative. My question would be whether there is a way of combining forces in some capacity. We are (slowly) trying to set up a "how to be a humanities computing scholar wiki" at our site. The TEI is about to set up an XSLT exchange. Several of us are setting up or running on-line journals. I wonder if there isn't a way on improving on the old, semi-competitive, scholarly publication model. My great fear is that we will end up with multiple attempts at people reinventing methods of helping people avoid reinventing the wheel. There are several competing (and incompatible) tools projects out there. I'd like to see us do a better job of coordinating efforts. Anyway. To the extent that I can help out, I'd be interested. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: CHum Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:13:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 920 (920) Thanks, Willard, for those very fine words. At this distance from the events, they are very acceptable compensation for the long years of rewriting articles, overseeing their refereeing, consulting with authors, negotiating with publishers (especially after 1974, when the financial backing disappeared and I had to give up being my own publisher), organizing conferences, starting up ACH, and traipsing around the world to spread the word about humanities computing. Those activities were the perspiration beneath the inspiration that you commend. I would ask you to change only the word "stumbled" at the end. My commitment to this endeavor was fully intentional, based on the discovery in 1964 that there were many others who believed in using computers for literary and other humanistic research. At the conference on literary data processing organized by IBM at Yorktown Heights, several hundred of us reported on our initial attempts. Mine was based on my eureka moment two years ealier in the Reading Room of the British Museum while I was attempting to invent a system for managing the verbal correspondences between Milton and Shelley that I was discovering at a great rate but was unable to organize. Back in the States, I took the problem to the linguistics group at Yorktown and was shown the mammoth computers installed there at that time. Like Henry Adams confronting the dynamo at the Columbian Exposition, I saw there the modern equivalent of the medieval cathedral, the emotional engine of our culture. When IBM called us together to report on our pioneering efforts, I determined to keep that group in touch and to create CHum. Getting IBM, NSF and various foundations to supply the startup cash and recruiting the individuals who lent their aid to the endeavor took up substantial amounts of time and effort (no email then), but as you attest, we did some noble things. When the history of that era is written, there will be places for Ted Nelson and the cancept of hypertext, Sue Hockey and her commitment to enabling a generation to feel confortable with the monster machines, and many others whose accomplishments may stand out more prominently from a longer perspective. I hope that the first decades of CHum will be counted among those accomplishments. From: Mats Dahlström Subject: on the Blackwell anthology Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:13:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 921 (921) In #18.619, Michael Fraser wrote: "Since you mention the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities, I'd be interested to know why this work is priced so highly at 95 pounds ($150). Don't Blackwells expect to sell many copies? (A self-fulfilling prophecy, surely!)" I second that. And does anyone know whether a (much less expensive) paperback edition is planned of this anthology? It's an excellent collection of texts, many of which are and will be well suited as required or recommended reading in new media courses for some years to come, not least due to its broad coverage on many different digitisation and new media matters. For instance, for our two upcoming courses on digitisation this year, we might have included the entire anthology in the syllabi, but stopped short as we noticed the price tag. It just seems too heavy a financial burden to put on our students. Mats Dahlstrom From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity - New Issue Alert Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:14:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 922 (922) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 8 (March 8 - 15, 2005) View Just Right: Rethinking the How and Why of Technology Instruction Mary Burns says: "Instruction should go well beyond a skill focus to one that connects technology use with the actual aims of curriculum and learning outcomes" View Science and Engineering of Large-Scale Complex Systems A short note by Kemal Delic on the science of hybrid systems Book Excerpt An Excerpt from the new book "Rapid Contextual Design" by Karen Holtzblatt, Jessamyn Burns Wendell, and Shelly Woods "Today companies want to infuse more user data into their processes. But if we analyze the =B3right=B2 way to do customer-centered design for any= project we may be dismayed at the time and resources it takes. And, companies are also resistant to changing their own development processes. So what to do?" From: Willard McCarty Subject: making shorter links? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:07:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 923 (923) I've just stumbled on makeashorterlink.com, which promises to provide "a simple service - when you find a page on the web whose address is too long to paste into an email or other document, you can use our free service to generate a shorter, simpler address". The only disadvantage I can see, apart from adding yet another dependency to the chain, is that the URL will not tell you directly where you are going. But then a hideously long and complex URL isn't perspicuous either. Any experience with this service? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Portals and journals Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:05:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 924 (924) I've been thinking more about the ACH/CHum issue since last night. I wonder if some kind of portal or meta site might not be the most useful thing. It is not quite a replacement for CHum, but it may still fill that need for a general outlet by packaging together material from more specialised sources. We started the digitalmedievalist up because we felt so many of us were reinventing wheels. Since then, I've discovered--of course--that many others are tackling the same problem. Now the problem is becoming discovering who is helping solve the difficulty of finding out what everybody is up to (reminds me of a sign my father once saw on a hoarding in Halifax: Uniters of the world! Work!). A CHum/Humanist/ACH portal that linked through to the various journals, sites, organisations, etc. would be a tremendous asset. Certainly in the case of the on-line journals we would end up with a kind of metajournal: a site that had the contents of HumanIT, ZfComputerphilologie, dare I say DM, and (ultimately one might hope for) L&LC and the new CHum would be a very useful place. The TEI project list is already a useful site. But an actively edited portal would be superb. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: David Hoover Wed, Mar 16 4pm Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:13:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 925 (925) The Computers and the Humanities Users Group [Brown University] presents What are Electronic Texts Good For? David L. Hoover, Department of English, NYU 4pm, Wednesday, March 16 STG Conference Room Ground Floor, Grad Center, Tower E The Brown Women Writers Project and many other archives, text collections, and web sites clearly demonstrate one of the most valuable uses of electronic texts, but I want to concentrate on some techniques and approaches that make more active use of the manipulability of electronic texts. Text analysis, corpus analysis, authorship attribution, and statistical approaches to style are not new, but they have not yet had a very great impact on mainstream humanities disciplines, largely because of recent trends in literary theory and linguistics. The continued rapid increase in the availability of electronic literary texts, and the recent availability of huge natural language corpora provide an opportunity for reinvigorating and rehabilitating these and other techniques that take full advantage of the characteristics of electronic texts. It seems time to return to the text, specifically the electronic, computable text, to see what corpora, text-analysis, statistical stylistics, and authorship attribution can reveal about meaning and style. Over the past twenty years, I've been using electronic texts in an expanding variety of ways, from computing Anglo-Saxon metrical patterns to applying authorship attribution tools to the analysis of style variation within a literary text. My recent work combines many of these techniques. For example, doing text-analysis on large electronic corpora provides norms against which to evaluate the style of a single text or author. Using highly automated text-analysis tools and multivariate authorhsip attribution methods on specially created corpora and has lead to innovations in authorship attribution and to new questions about its theoretical bases. And applying these same tecnhiques to variations within the style of a single author or a single text have suggested modifications in authorship attribution tools that help to clarify how these tools can both correctly attribute all of an author's texts and at the same time clearly differentiate the styles of single texts, sections of texts, characters, or narrators within that author's texts. Finally, the easy and infinite revisability of electronic texts can be put to a constructive, if very simple use: altering a literary text is often the most effective way of understanding it. From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Re: 18.627 making shorter links? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:04:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 926 (926) People often use this one: http://tinyurl.com/ Yes, the URL is then quite cryptic and the system isn't more permanent than other things on the Web, but it works well on mailing-lists when someone wants to send a temporary link. From: Baden Hughes Subject: Re: 18.627 making shorter links? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:04:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 927 (927) www.tinyurl.com seems to be more popular, at least in the circles I frequent. not to mention durable resolvers like purl.org, which serve a related purpose, and can be used for simplification. there's a risk, and that is that the redirector style services won't actually tell you anything about your ultimate destination, and also that the redirectors may become fragile as end content moves around. Baden From: Bob Subject: Make a Shorter Link Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:05:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 928 (928) Hi Willard, et al. I've been using this service for about a year; first found it when I received an e-mail with a link on it. It seems to work just as advertised, and I don't know why it's not more prevalent, since there is always a need to chop down the length of some urls to make them more manageable. I suppose it invites us to think about the next step, perhaps the ability to author your own link short cuts with a right click as long as you can host them on a server? Yours, Bob Cummings From: David Sitman Subject: Re: 18.627 making shorter links? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:06:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 929 (929) Dear Willard, I have used that service successfully, but the one that seems to be most popular in my Internet circles is: http://tinyurl.com/ One important factor in these shortened links is longevity, and I have a bit more faith in tinyurl in this respect. [...] Best regards, David From: Marcus Holmes Subject: Re: 18.627 making shorter links? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:07:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 930 (930) Willard, There are a variety of these services out there. I use tinyurl.com which works quite well. No disadvantage to using them that I can see except for the fact that they may expire after a given amount of time (and therefore probably should not serve as links on a website. Cheers, Marcus From: Michael Hancher Subject: Re: 18.627 making shorter links? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:07:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 931 (931) Willard, Recently a librarian drew my attention to OCLC's PURL Service (<http://purl.oclc.org/>http://purl.oclc.org/), which I haven't used, but which gives detailed information about the process. Also a commercial site, <http://tinyurl.com/>TinyURL.com. Michael -- Michael Hancher Professor and Chair, Department of English College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota 207 Lind Hall 207 Church Street SE Minneapolis MN 55455 612-625-3363; fax 612-624-8228 <http://english.cla.umn.edu>http://english.cla.umn.edu http://mh.cla.umn.edu From: Robin Cover Subject: shorter links Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:08:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 932 (932) Hi Willard. In desperation, I sometimes use tinyurl.com (http://tinyurl.com/), as in the newsletter entry below. The risk (obviously) is that the company providing the service will (1) go defunct, breaking all the links, (2) get bought by a bad company that will hold you hostage to a demand for money ("or your links will break), or (3) change the redirects to point at different objects, e.g., porn. You can probably think of additional bad outcomes. Robin ------------------------ Beyond the Big (c): Copyright Becomes "No Right To Copy" The Editors, Scientific American Congress, sometimes at the behest of media companies, has erected immense barriers to derivative works by extending repeatedly both the length and the scope of copyright protection. A copyright holder no longer has to register a new work. Any blog, poet's sonnet or even a child's crayoned drawing now receives copyright automatically. Copyright in its current form fails to strike a balance between the extremes [and] overly strong property rights can threaten the Internet as a medium capable of fostering dynamic interchange of ideas. Nascent communities of artists, scientists and nonprofits want some way to share and rework one another's intellectual output without the enormous legal burdens that come with increasingly draconian rights management. The entertainment industry has been largely silent on this issue -- its idea of innovation having been the launching of lawsuits against 10-year-olds to punish music pirating. In this environment, the introduction of Creative Commons's middle path of "some rights reserved" is surely a welcome arrival. http://tinyurl.com/6xtdr See also the summary: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-07-a.html#ScientificAmerican 24 chars for 99 chars -- From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 18.626 CHum, ACH, portals and journals Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:06:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 933 (933) [deleted quotation]I think this a good idea and would be a very good service to all interested in this field. The problem is that we all are busy with running our journals, but maybe we can setup a portal which more or less runs by its own. A while ago we built a portal to German online journals and their reviews <http://www.lirez.de>. But there all journals have to fill in the metadata by hand. Nowadays we could use rss feeds and the portal could aggregate them. Fotis Jannidis ___________________________________________ Jahrbuch fuer Computerphilologie <http://www.computerphilologie.de> From: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: LOAIT Workshop (Last Call for Papers) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:43:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 934 (934) ---------------------------------------------------------- --- Apologies for Multiple Postings - Please Circulate --- ---------------------------------------------------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS LOAIT Workshop Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques <http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top>http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/= loait.html#top June 6, 2005 Bologna, Italy held in conjunction with ICAIL-05 <http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/>http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/ =3D=3D LOAIT Description In the last few years Legal Informatics (the study of methods for automating the treatment of legal information) has been significantly influenced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches. For instance, Machine Learning techniques have successfully been applied to problems of legal documents classification, legal information retrieval, legal knowledge discovery and extraction. As the use of these techniques becomes more widespread it also becomes clearer how to enhance their performances. One way of doing this is to employ structured (domain) knowledge in order to reduce complexity and support correct reasoning. Legal Ontologies are playing a crucial role in providing such knowledge at various levels of specificity and formality. The LOAIT workshop aims at offering an overview of theories and well-founded applications that combine Legal Ontologies and AI techniques. Similarly to past events organized in conjunction with ICAIL-97, Jurix 2001 and ICAIL-03 the LOAIT workshop will constitute a valuable opportunity for researchers and practitioners in AI, AI&Law, Legal Ontologies and related fields to discuss problems, exchange information and compare perspectives. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems, case studies or research trends related to one or more of the topics of interest listed below. Submitted papers will be refereed by two experts based on originality, significance and technical soundness. =3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D LOAIT Topics of Interest Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: Legal Ontologies and Natural Language Processing Legal Ontologies and Machine Learning for classification tasks Legal Ontologies for text categorization Legal Ontologies and the Semantic Web Legal knowledge discovery and organization by AI approaches Ontologies and legal standard modelling languages Ontologies of property rights, persons and organizations, legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc. Ontological views on models of legal reasoning (e.g. regulatory compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc.) Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies Engineering of regulatory ontologies (e.g. conceptual analysis, representation, modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc.) Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory ontologies (e.g. legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval systems, e-government or e-commerce applications) Modeling legal norms, concepts, rules, cases, principles, values and procedures, methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems =3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D LOAIT Important Dates March 25, 2005: Paper submission April 25, 2005: Notification of acceptance May 10, 2005: Camera-ready paper June 6, 2005: Workshop =3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D LOAIT Submission & Registration Details Paper length: max. 14 pages Paper electronic submission: manuscript must be submitted in PS or PDF format at=20 <http://vortex.uvt.nl/icail05ws/>http://vortex.uvt.nl/icail05ws/ (create=20 your account, select "Submit Paper" and choose "LOAIT Workshop") Paper camera ready format: instructions for camera ready papers to be announced on=20 <http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/loait.html#top>http://www.ittig.cnr.it/loait/= loait.html#top Registration details on=20 <http://www.wogli.unibo.it/icail05/?page_name=3Dreg>http://www.wogli.unibo.i= t/icail05/?page_name=3Dreg =3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D LOAIT Organizers Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Rome, Italy Jos Lehmann jos.lehmann_at_istc.cnr.it Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR) Florence, Italy Maria Angela Biasiotti biasiotti_at_ittig.cnr.it Enrico Francesconi francesconi_at_ittig.cnr.it Maria Teresa Sagri sagri_at_ittig.cnr.it =3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D LOAIT Program Committee Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain Guido Boella, Universita' di Torino, Italy Daniele Bourcier, University of Paris, France Joost Breuker, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands Pompeu Casanovas, Department of Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Guiraude Lame, Responsable des syst=E8mes d'information juridique, Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne & Ecole CERSA, Universit=E9 Paris 2, France Laurens Mommers, Leiden University, The Netherlands Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy Daniela Tiscornia, Institute of Legal Information Theories and Techniques (ITTIG-CNR), Italy Andre Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, United States of America Radboud Winkels, Leibniz Center for Law (UvA), The Netherlands =3D=3D=3D=3D From: Willard McCarty Subject: biological engineering Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:42:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 935 (935) Dr Hugh Denard (Warwick) has drawn my attention to an article in the Guardian that in turn alerts us all to the new field of biological engineering. See http://tinyurl.com/4eqn8, or if that doesn't last, search www.guardian.co.uk archive for "From the cells up" (10 March 2005). It seems that MIT (in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not also Boston, as in the Guardian article) has created a new undergraduate programme in this field -- apparently an unusual thing for MIT to do. So there's reason to pay attention to a field that promises "to make better drugs, extract minerals from rocks, convert sunlight to hydrogen, and even design entirely new organisms that behave in pre-programmed ways... even programme the DNA of an organism so that it grows into your next home". An organic life-style? What seems considerably closer is the manufacture of microelectronic circuitry by growing it: viruses engineered so that they "express proteins and interact with the right organic and metal compounds to then turn them into long thin wires or rings". But what seems of considerably greater interest to the researchers is making new sites for information processing. According to Drew Endy, an assistant professor and "one of the subject's leading lights" (lucky man!), "The point of using biological [engineering] to do information processing isn't in order to replace your laptop computer... Instead, we can use biology-based computing to implement modest amounts of memory and logic in places where we don't have any - like the cells in your liver." That's engineering biology. What interests me even more might be called biologizing engineering, or perhaps simply "computers and organisms". See Michael Mahoney's and Angela Creager's course at Princeton, History 598, http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ehos/h598/h598f04.html. See esp the collected papers of Warren McCulloch, in Embodiments of Mind (1988), with the great forward by Jerome Lettvin. McCulloch would have been a good ally. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: John Unsworth to give the Wisbey Lecture Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:31:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 936 (936) The 2nd Biennial Wisbey Lecture, Seminar in Humanities Computing, Centre for Computing in the Humanities and School of Humanities, King's College London "PUBLIC NETWORKS, VERNACULAR COMPUTING" John Unsworth Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) 5.30pm, Wednesday 23 March 2005 Room 3B20, Strand Building The internet and the world-wide web emerged from universities and scientific research centers in the 1970s and the 1990s, respectively. A decade later, the force of innovation seems to be coming from outside, rather than inside, the university: some of that innovation is technical in nature, but much of it has to do with new forms of communication, new genres, new uses of the technology. These are areas in which the humanities should have a great deal to contribute, yet our humanities programs and departments remain blissfully ignorant of the changed world around them. What will be the consequences of continued refusal to acknowledge the vitality and the impact of vernacular computing? All are invited to a drinks reception following the lecture. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/04-05/seminar_unsworth.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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 937 (937) From: Gants, David L Hello all, A rather drastic budget cut accompanied by the promise of more to come has prompted our department to look for ways to save money. One obvious target is the amount we spend on paper, toner cartridges, and photocopy charges to print materials for public circulation--Undergraduates Handbooks, Style Manuals, etc. As you might imagine, many in our department are firmly attached to their little books composed of landscape-printed 8-1/2 x 11 sheets that have been quired, folded in folio, and stapled together saddle-style. I'm afraid that without some solid alternatives, the discussion over electronic options will quickly descend into dueling anecdotes and never accomplish anything. Have any faithful readers of Humanist tried a similar move to electronic publication? Do you have examples of successful models that I might present to the committee charged with revamping our documents? I can mock-up some prototypes on my own, but as the resident "computer guy," my contributions are viewed as biased testimony. It would help a great deal if I could demonstrate that other departments have survived the move with bookish sensibilities intact. Thanks as always for your advice, Dave Gants ________________________________________________________________ David L. Gants *** Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing --- English Dept: 506.458.7401 (VOX) ** 506.453.5069 (FAX) --- --- Etext Centre: 506.447.3461 (VOX) ** 506.453.4595 (FAX) --- --- University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB * E3B 5A3 --- From: Ken Friedman Subject: Re: Advice on Shift to Electronic Publication Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:32:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 938 (938) Dear David, The Norwegian School of Management has shifted all of its course descriptions, rule books, etc., to the web. People do print material out from time to time, but my guess is that the great savings comes from people who use selected sections only or people who would grab copies and never read them. Seems to work well. Best regards, Ken [deleted quotation] -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Leadership and Organization Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School +47 06600 Tlf NSM +47 67.55.73.23 Tlf Office +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: Invitation to Master Classes in Textual Studies Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:35:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 939 (939) Dear Friends, Peter Robinson and I would like to invite you to our Second Annual Master Classes in Textual Studies to be held at De Montfort University in Liecester on April 21 and 22. An 11 a.m. lecture will be followed by a seminar from 2 to 5 on each day. On Thursday the lecture will be given by James McLaverty from Keele University and author of POPE'S PRINTER, JOHN WRIGHT and POPE, PRINT AND MEANING, and editor of THE PROSE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT (in progress). On Friday the lecture will be given by H T M (Dick) van Vliet, editor of works by J. H. Leopold (7 vols) and by Louis Couperus (50 vols) and author of ART NOUVEAU BINDINGS OF THE WORKS OF LOUIS COUPERUS. This event is designed for anyone with a serious interest in textual issues relating to bibliography, scholarly editing, textual criticism, and history of the book. Graduate students and professors and all such are alike welcome. Attendance is free; meals and accommodation dutch; but please if possible let me know that you can come. Surprise appearances will be welcome. Last year, to inaugurate the series, J C C (Jim) Mays and Hans Walter Gabler were our master teachers. Needless to say the lectures were stimulating and informative. The seminars in the afternoon tended to get out of control in the best possible way as questioners and new topics crowded out the planned events. The discussions were as good as any I've witnessed at conferences and seminars anywhere. Peter Shillingsburg pshillingsburg_at_dmu.ac.uk English Department De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester, LE1 9BH From: "Johanne Martinez - Schmitt" Subject: Euroscience Open Forum 2006 launches call for proposals Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:31:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 940 (940) The 2nd Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) will take place July 15th-19th 2006 in Munich, Germany. Scientists, journalists and experts in politics, industry and research can now submit proposals for scientific sessions and outreach activities online at www.esof2006.org until June 15th 2005. The organisers of ESOF2006 now welcome contributions to the Forum's programme. The call for proposals is open from March 15th until June 15th 2005. Proposals for scientific sessions and outreach activities can be submitted online at www.esof2006.org. To stimulate inspiring submissions, 18 broad themes have been selected. These themes highlight current developments in research and science policy and set the framework for an outstanding conference. ESOF is a pan-European scientific meeting staged to provide an interdisciplinary forum for open dialogue, debate and discussion as well as showcase European achievements right across the scientific spectrum. Through ESOF, researchers and scientists, as well as journalists and the general public are provided with an adequate platform for exchanging views and discussing the challenges and consequences of scientific developments around the world. ESOF was successfully launched in Stockholm, Sweden in 2004. It attracted 1800 visitors from 67 countries. Founder of ESOF is the Organisation Euroscience, a grass-roots scientific organisation founded in 1997 with over 2,000 members in 40 countries. In order to promote dialogue between science and society, ESOF2006 will be jointly held with the Wissenschaftssommer (German national science week) in Munich. The Wissenschaftssommer is organised annually by Wissenschaft im Dialog, an initiative of the Stifterverband fuer die Deutsche Wissenschaft and other German science-funding organisations. In its work ESOF2006 is supported by a number of committees. The Steering Committee is chaired by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl, General Director of the Deutsches Museum Muenchen, where ESOF2006 will be held. Host of the conference is Wissenschaft im Dialog. ESOF2006 is to date generously supported by two initiating partners; the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Stifterverband fuer die Deutsche Wissenschaft. Contact international: Effrosyni Chelioti Press & Marketing Officer ESOF 2006 Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH Markgrafenstrasse 37 D-10117 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30 20 67 29 96 Fax: +49 (0)30 20 64 92 05 Mob.:+49 (0)173 6433010 Email: effrosyni.chelioti_at_w-i-d.de Contact national: Caroline Wichmann Presse- und Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH Markgrafenstrasse 37 D-10117 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30 20 64 92 04 Fax: +49 (0)30 20 64 92 05 Email: caroline.wichmann_at_w-i-d.de Mob.: +49 (0)173 2152044 From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 18.630 making shorter links Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:30:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 941 (941) Willard, A number of people have rightly suggested www.tinyurl.com as a good method to make shorter links. I'd like to add my voice to that crowd of people. One of the benefits that may have escaped people is the browser integration possible with tinyurl.com. In my preferred browser of firefox there is an extension which exists that means that if I right-click on any page, one of the context menu options is to "Create a tinyurl for this page". If I right-click on a link I get offered the ability to create a tinyurl for that link. I do not visibly visit the tinyurl website (the browser does that all for me) and it automatically copies it to the clipboard. This firefox extension makes it extremely easy to pass on links to pages that interest you, as long as you don't care about the link being permanent. More information about this firefox extension is available at: http://tinyurl.com/3wucu which I suppose is better than: https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0%20&os=ALL&category=Miscellaneous&id=126 Just thought I'd pass on that useful extension. -James -- Ask me about free long-term preservation of your electronic texts! Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.630 making shorter links Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:34:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 942 (942) One other observation: even a dead original link has some historical validity, but once you begin referring to virtual links all you make clear (maybe) is that you used a go-between; and it's not clear whether you can use that address to find pages through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, even though they may be preserved there. All of which is historical data about how people used the Web, of course, though maybe not what you had in mind. I think it might be worth contemplating whether the self-indulgence of nearly infinite filenames on our personal computing devices has led to this state of affairs, as much as has poor information architecture in site design.... :-\ Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: COSTA LEITE Alexandre Subject: School of Logic - Montreux - Switzerland Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:27:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 943 (943) FIRST WORLD SCHOOL ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC Montreux - Switzerland, March 26-30, 2005 This unique event includes 21 tutorials on general techniques for the study= =20 of logics. Note that 12 tutorials will be fully available during the Easter= =20 week-end, Saturday 26th - Sunday 27 th - Monday 28th. The second series of= =20 9 tutorials will be given on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th. See the detailed programme on the website www.uni-log.org LIST OF THE 21 TUTORIALS 1. Combination of Logics - Carlos Caleiro - IST, Portugal 2. Introduction to Universal Logic - Jean-Yves Beziau - SNF, Switzerland 3. Abstract Model Theory - Marta Garcia-Matos - Helsinki, Finland 4. Tableaux Systems - Andreas Herzig - IRIT, France 5. Many-Valued Semantics - Walter Carnielli & Juliana Bueno - UNICAMP,= Brazil 6. Abstract Proof Theory - Luiz Carlos Pereira & Ana Teresa Martins - PUC/UFC, Brazil 7. Adaptive Logics - Diderik Batens & Joke Meheus - Ghent, Belgium 8. Kripke Structures - Darko Sarenac - Stanford, US 9. Category Theory and Logic - Andrei Rodin - ENS, Paris 10. Consequence Operators - Piotr Wojtylak - Katowice, Poland 11. Multiple-Conclusion Logics - Jo=E3o Marcos - IST, Portugal 12. Nonmonotonic Logics - David Makinson - King's College, London 13. Abstract Algebraic Logic - Josep Maria Font - Barcelona,Spain 14. Substructural Logics - Francesco Paoli - Cagliari, Italy 15. Universal Computation - Roberto Lins - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 16. Labelled Deductive Systems - Luca Vigano - ETH, Zurich 17. Logics and Games - Jacques Duparc - Lausanne, Switzerland 18. Combinatory Logic and Lambda Calculus - Henri Volken - Lausanne,=20 Switzerland 19. Universal Algebra for Logics - Joanna Grygiel - Czestochowa, Poland 20. Fuzzy Logics - Petr H=E1jek and Petr Cintula - Academy of Sciences,= Prague 21. Logics for semistructured data - Maarten Marx - Amsterdam, The= Netherlands The School will be followed by the FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC Montreux - Switzerland, March 31- April 3, 2005 Featuring 14 invited spakers (A.Avron, D.Batens, J.Czelakowski, K.Dosen,=20 M.Dunn, D.Gabbay, R.Jansana, A.Koslow, V.de Paiva, K.Segerberg, J.Vaananen,= V.Vasyukov, Y.Venema, plus a mysterious secret speaker), and more that 120 contributed talks. A contest will also happen during this event. See details at www.uni-log.org ************************************************************************ Regular registration fees: Congress only or School only: CHF 280 / USD 250 / Euro 190 Congress + School: CHF 380 / USD 330 / Euro 260 Reduced fees for students or people from countries with low currencies: Half of the School (26-27-28 or 29-30): CHF 75 / USD 60 / Euro 50 School: CHF 150 / USD 130 / Euro 100 Congress: CHF 150 / USD 130 / Euro 100 Congress + School: CHF 200 / USD 180 / Euro 140 From: lpnmr05.publicity_at_MAT.UNICAL.IT Subject: LPNMR'05: Submission Deadline Approaching Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:33:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 944 (944) Call for Papers 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'05) Diamante, Cosenza, Italy September 5-8, 2005 http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ LPNMR'05 is the eighth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Seven previous meetings were held in Washington, D.C., (1991), in Lisbon, Portugal (1993), in Lexington, Kentucky (1995), in Dagstuhl, Germany (1997), in El Paso, Texas (1999), in Vienna, Austria (2001), and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2004). LPNMR'05 will be organized by the Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria (Italy), and will be co-located with the INFOMIX Workshop on Data Integration. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (to be verified). AIMS AND SCOPE -------------- LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation of logic based programming languages and database systems, and researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass these theoretical and exprimental studies that lead to the construction of practical systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on nonmonotonic aspects of logic programming and knowledge representation. We particularly encourage papers on application of LPNMR techniques to build significant applications. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: 1. Development and mathematical studies of logical systems with nonmonotonic entailment relations: - Semantics of new and existing languages; - Relationships between formalisms; - Complexity and expressive power; - Development of inference algorithms and search heuristics for LPNMR systems; - Extensions of ''classical'' LPNMR languages by new logical connectives and new inference capabilities such as abduction, reasoning by cases, etc; - Updates and other operations on LPNMR systems; - Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: - system descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; - LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR systems: - LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, software engineering, decision making, and other domains; - Applications of LPNMR languages in Data Integration and Exchange systems; - Methodology of representing knowledge in LPNMR languages: theory and practice; - Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; - Embedded LPNMR systems: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. [...] From: Paola Bruscoli Subject: Structures and Deduction Workshop 2nd cfp - ICALP'05 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:34:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 945 (945) Satellite (ICALP Workshop-Lisbon July 16-17, 2005) STRUCTURES AND DEDUCTION The quest for the essence of proofs http://www.prooftheory.org/sd05 Submissions page is now open! http://www.easychair.org/SD05/submit/ This meeting is about new algebraic and geometric methods in proof theory, with the aim of expanding our ability to manipulate proofs, eliminate bureaucracy from deductive systems, and ultimately provide: 1) a satisfying answer to the problem of identity of proofs and 2) tools for improving our ability to implement logics. Stimulated by computer science, proof theory is progressing at fast pace. However, it is becoming very technical, and runs the risk of splitting into esoteric specialties. The history of science tells us that this has happened several times before, and that these centrifugal tendencies are very often countered by conceptual reunifications, which occur when one is looking at a field after having taken a few steps back. Some emerging ideas are showing their unifying potential. Deep inference's atomization of deductions simplifies and unifies the design of deduction systems; it provides unprecedented plasticity to proofs and has injected new impetus into the theory of proof nets. New proof nets, and new associated semantics, are giving surprising insight about the very subtle relationship between categories and proofs, for example in the formerly intractable case of classical logic. The field of deduction modulo, which turns out to be very much in the spirit of deep inference, decreases our dependency on the syntactic presentation of functional objects, and brings us closer to their intrinsic nature, even from the computational point of view. After studying all those trees for years we at last have the impression of looking at the forest. The core topics are organised along the axis: algebraic semantics deduction of proofs deep inference modulo game semantics operads and specification <--> structads <--> proof nets proof search calculus of deductive structures implementations proof nets This workshop aims at being a meeting point for all those who are interested in decreasing the dependency of logic from low-level syntax. The list of topics above is not exhaustive: if you feel you can contribute to the discussion along the broad lines outlined above, please submit your contribution. [...] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Example of Exemplary Use of E-technologies Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:28:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 946 (946) Willard, Spurred on by the announcement of John Unsworth's upcoming talk, I am sharing one example where "the vitality and the impact of vernacular computing" are acknowledged. It highlights that in some cases ignoring and refusing to engage with the technologies that have emerged is a high stakes game. Ethel B. Gardner, a Simon Fraser University assistant professor of education is developing an electronic master-apprentice language-learning program. Three Sto:lo Nation elders will be the program's first masters, helping its first apprentices - six Sto:lo teachers in training - become fluent in their mother tongue: Sto:lo Halq'emeylem. The apprentices speak the language but need to become highly fluent to teach in an ideal language immersion setting. With only four Sto:lo Nation elders left who are fully fluent in Sto:lo Halq'emeylem, the ancient tongue is on the critically endangered list of aboriginal languages. Ms. Gardner is a well-known expert on aboriginal language renewal. The program uses computer-assisted instruction, web-based writing and teaching tools, and audio/video web communication techniques. See http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/archives/sfunews03100501.html -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The March 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:23:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 947 (947) Greetings: The March 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, the '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 'The Maine Music Box' courtesy of the Folger Library at the University of Maine. The articles include: The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program: New Projects from Fiscal Year 2004 Lee L. Zia, National Science Foundation NSDL MatDL: Exploring Digital Library Roles Laura M. Bartolo and Cathy S. Lowe, Kent State University; Donald R. Sadoway and Adam C. Powell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan OCLC Research Publications Repository Shirley Hyatt and Jeffrey A. Young, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc Renewing the Information Infrastructure of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek Theo van Veen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek The conference reports include: Issues in Federating Repositories: A Report on the First International CORDRA(TM) Workshop Wilbert Kraan, UK Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS); and Jon Mason, education.au limited The Implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access: Report on the Berlin 3 Meeting Held 28 February - 1 March 2005, Southampton, UK Stevan Harnad, Universite du Quebec a Montreal [...] From: Charles Ess Subject: Graduate course - announcement and request Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:54:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 948 (948) Dear Humanists, I'm pleased to announce an interdisciplinary graduate course and workshop, titled "Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and ICT". Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway: May 23rd- June 1, 2005 (A companion workshop (Humanists invited!), featuring contributions from Luciano Floridi (Oxford) Deborah Wheeler (O.I.I. / University of Bergen) May Thorseth (Applied Ethics Programme, NTNU) Bernd Carsten Stahl (Computer Science and Engineering, De Montfort University), and Knut Rolland (Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU) will pursue the themes of the graduate course as described at <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php>. More information on the workshop will appear shortly.) One, I'd appreciate your calling attention to the graduate course to any M.A. and/or Ph.D. students you may know of who would find it of interest and value. Two - you will see that a central theme in the course is exploring the humanities (represented primarily by applied ethics and philosophy) and computer / information science as cultures - in hopes of fostering further dialogue and collaboration, in part, by way of exploring how far the lessons of intercultural communication may helpfully analogize for such interdisciplinary dialogue. I'm looking for some short accessible pieces that would work well for the graduate students that explore these respective disciplines and the issues surrounding interdisciplinary dialogue. The classic, of course, is C.P. Snow's essay - but as valuable as it is, I'm looking for more contemporary essays, including ones that directly address the disciplines of computer and information science as cultures. Any suggestions along these lines would be gratefully received and happily acknowledged. With all best wishes, and cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: 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: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: structure and culture: the uptake on technology in the Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:54:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 949 (949) humanities Willard, The provocative summary of John Unsworth's upcoming lecture at King's reverberates with passages from Helen Burgess, Jeanne Hamming and Robert Markley, "The Dialogics of New Media: Video, Visualization and Narrative in _Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars_" in Eloquent Images (2003) p 68 Treating _Red Planet_ as the equivalent of a book and, for the designers, a creative work influenced our decision to seek an academic publisher rather than a commercial purveyor of software or textbooks. In turn, the dialogic form of multimedia redefined the ways in which we came to think about "scholarship" and publication credit. Earlier in their account (p. 67), the authors are reference the reward system at play: [...] the dominant models for hypertext educational materials were commercial e-undertakings, we were faced with the question of whether a scholarly DVD-ROM could appeal to audeinces beyond specialists in planetary astronomy and critics of science fiction and still claim the cultural capital of a refereed publication. The combination of both structure and culture is striking. The article is well worth reading. The authors go on to make some keen observations on class configurations. They suggest that biases held by both humanists and designers reinforce and reinscribe of divisions such as "form and content, media and message, hired help and 'authors'". It is a lovely way to preface a salutory recognition of the power of collaboration: "After much discussion, we found that we had to adopt the semiotics of both print and multimedia to accommodate the four primary and three secondary authors on a colophon page, as well as a more detailed and elaborate credits page to indicated the kinds of contributions made to content and information architecture by the authors and other individuals." (p 69). Fostering a culture of appreciation is a familar practice to those long acquainted with the work of community development and peace movement organising inspired by the Society of Friends. It is also a well consecrated genre: the encomium. Of course, folly too can be praised. For the sake of form, I just have to share my delight in the example I found. "This colophon was written by Linley Dolby." -- final line of the copious colophon to _SVG Essentials_ by J. David Eisenberg [2002]. I wonder if there was "much discussion" in that commerical environment about who gets recognized how. I still get a kick out of the the names that appear when launching Photoshop. If you own a licensed copy and have spent the time to view the roll of the credits you might have been pleasantly surprised by the last name that appears in the sequence as well as touched by the humour and sensitivity of the company that name keeps. [Spoiler: The Adobe sequence ends by thanking the licensed user by name. The user is in the good company of the goddes of the tenth floor and the other goddess of the tenth floor.] I conclude these scattered observations with a note of thanks to Matt Kirschenbaum, one of the contributors to Eloquent Images, who courageously posted a blog entry about a less than flattering review of the book and thus brought the book to my attention and now to yours. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin 2005 Year of Comparative Connections. DIA: Comparative connections? LOGZ: Connection, first. Comparison, next. DIA: Check. Comparable ways of connecting. LOGZ: Selection outcomes, first. Comparative Connections, next. From: Lorna M Hughes Subject: Re: 18.638 advice on shifting to e-publication Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:57:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 950 (950) David, If your School has a Course Management System of some sort in place (such as Blackboard), it is a great tool to "package" course readings and other teaching materials all in one place for the students and faculty. I use it for all my course readings now, and it works very well. And as the system is restricted to students who are actually taking the course, our University considers that the system adequately protects the copyright of the materials that we are user, so that's one less thing to worry about... best, Lorna From: "Rabkin, Eric" Subject: RE: Advice on Shift to Electronic Publication Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:57:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 951 (951) I'm the resident computer guy, too, so my views about electronic publication may also be suspect, but I hope not. I offer three points that may be worth consideration in the budget discussion. (1) Much of the discussion shouldn't be about budget but about the utility of electronic publication. Most people prefer printed, bound books to electronic texts, but not for everything. (a) Documents that are susceptible to significant change are better in electronic form. This covers everything from personnel policies to lists of recommended reading on syllabi. We are implementing a policy in our arts and science college that will require every section of every course to have at least a minimal course web site for many reasons but one of those is that key documents like the syllabus can be revised at need during the semester. The University's Standard Practice Guide also is online for similar reasons. (b) Documents that one wants to study are often better in electronic form because they can be searched, text-manipulated, etc. (c) Documents that one wants to share (for purposes of annotation, collaboration, and so on) are often better in electronic form. In short, one needn't talk about replacing paper with electrons but in which cases to provide electrons and whether or not those cases could do without paper. (2) If we are talking about budgets, we need to ask about the total budget environment. At the University of Michigan, the basic computing package each member of the community (student, staff, and faculty) receives includes a certain number of pages printed. If my department made documents available in electronic form only while knowing that the use of those documents was likely to impel students to print them, once the basic printing allowance were exceeded, the costs would simply shift from the department to the students. One can entertain that possibility, but one ought to do so thoughtfully. An alternative that arises immediately is to increase the printing allowance. But, at least at U-M, that means providing more funds from the central administration. Those funds have to come from somewhere and might arguably straiten the provision of funds to the college and hence to the department. (3) The provision of electronic documents has a ong-term virtue independent of budget discussions. Those who get used to accessing online materials seem to come more easily to posting them. Faculty who begin to post mandated syllabi soon find that the automatic links available to their reserve lists are too easy to post, too, not to enrich those syllabi. If there are digital tools our colleagues have yet to exploit in part because they don't see the online environment as where they do their real work, making part of their teaching better by electronic means may lead to trying out those new tools. At least, that's the bet w're making at Michigan. Best wishes, Eric ------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin_at_umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: research positions 2005-7 (Juan de la Cierva) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:52:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 952 (952) [deleted quotation]30, [deleted quotation]the [deleted quotation]process [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: care-less, bad style Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:57:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 953 (953) Pat Galloway, in Humanist 18.639, referring to the obscenely long URLs that have led to the intermediating services for making shorter links, wonders [deleted quotation]I confess that I depend rather a lot these days on the ability to make long filenames, especially for the many articles I have in digital form. For example, if I capture an article in pdf by Doug Baldwin and Johannes A. G. M. Koomen, "Using Scientific Experiments in Early Computer Science Laboratories", I will store it as [deleted quotation]and the file of notes I make on it will be called [deleted quotation]But I do make an effort to keep these things as short as possible, and that's the inclination that I think is lacking. So often I observe that many of our colleagues have little to no sense of craftsmanship, as I think of it, in how they do what they do. Perhaps they have a highly developed sense of elegance and simplicity in other parts of their lives, but when it comes to computing, this sense deserts them. In some cases I suspect it is because a person does not believe that the things of computing matter. In other cases, I suspect their lack of concern is for communicating what they know -- the disease of the specialist. In my tyrannical world-as-it-should-be, everyone will not only have to study Latin and programming, they will also have to serve an apprenticeship with a master craftsman! 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Harold Short Subject: fraudulent conferences Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:56:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 954 (954) [deleted quotation]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: Helen Ashman Subject: CFP: JCDL 2005 First Doctoral Consortium Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:56:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 955 (955) [deleted quotation]This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From: "marilyn.deegan" Subject: Publish Ahead of Print for LLC Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:04:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 956 (956) Dear Colleagues Could I draw your attention to a new feature that has just been implemented by Oxford University Press for the publication of Literary and Linguistic Computing? We have moved to a Publish Ahead of Print model, which means that as soon as a paper has been accepted and has been through the OUP editing process, and authors have seen the proofs, it is published online. This means that the paper is available much earlier. Have a look at <http://llc.oupjournals.org/papbyrecent.dtl>http://llc.oupjournals.org/papbyrecent.dtl. Comments are welcome, and should be sent direct to me rather than posted to the list. Best Marilyn Dr Marilyn Deegan Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Director of Research Development Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London The Strand London WC2R 2LS Phone 07940 570228 Fax 020 7848 2980 Email marilyn.deegan_at_kcl.ac.uk From: oupjournals-mailer_at_LIONTAMER.STANFORD.EDU Subject: LLC news Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:06:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 957 (957) *************************Announcement********************** Literary and Linguistic Computing ADVANCE ACCESS Accelerated Online Publication With the Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access, manuscripts are copyedited, typeset and published online before the print copy is available. This means that increased speed of publication is achieved without any loss of quality. Bookmark http://www.llc.oupjournals.org/papbyrecent.shtml and visit every month to see the most up-to-date list of papers. Advantages for subscribers: -Read the very latest research online without waiting for a printed copy of the journal Advantages for authors: -Accelerated publication means that your paper can start receiving citations faster than ever before *************************Announcement********************** Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: March 2005; Vol. 20, No. 1 URL: http://llc.oupjournals.org/content/vol20/issue1/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editorials ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial Marilyn Deegan Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:1-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction Laszlo Hunyadi Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:3-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Address ----------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Address Sture Allen Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:5-6. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Living with Google: Perspectives on Humanities Computing and Digital Libraries: Busa Award Lecture, June 2004 Susan Hockey Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:7-24. Computational Contributions to the Humanities John Nerbonne Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:25-40. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/25?etoc Reading the Readers: Modelling Complex Humanities Processes to Build Cognitive Systems Melissa Terras Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:41-59. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/41?etoc What's in a Name? Contextualizing the Document Concept1 Helena Francke Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:61-69. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/61?etoc The Application of a Geographical Information System to the Creation of a Cultural Heritage Digital Resource Martyn Jessop Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:71-90. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/71?etoc Named Entity Recognition for the Mainland Scandinavian Languages Janne Bondi Johannessen, Kristin Hagen, Asne Haaland, Andra Bjork Jonsdottir, Anders Noklestad, Dimitris Kokkinakis, Paul Meurer, Eckhard Bick, and Dorte Haltrup Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:91-102. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/91?etoc Unification of XML Documents with Concurrent Markup Andreas Witt, Daniela Goecke, Felix Sasaki, and Harald Lungen Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:103-116. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/103?etoc : A Repository Management System for TEI Documents Amit Kumar, Susan Schreibman, Stewart Arneil, Martin Holmes, Alejandro Bia, and John Walsh Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:117-132. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/117?etoc Documents and Data: Modelling Materials for Humanities Research in XML and Relational Databases John Bradley Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:133-151. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/133?etoc From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2005: Papers on-line Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:50:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 958 (958) Museums and the Web 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 13 - April 16, 2005 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ The international conference for culture and heritage on-line! MW2005 Papers: Now On-line http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/speakers/index.html Papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2005 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any highlighted title in an Abstract to view the full paper text. (All papers will be available on-line before the meeting.) A printed volume of Selected Papers - including a CD of all submissions - is also available; see http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/new.html for details. Closing Plenary: Converging Culture Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/abstracts/prg_295000686.html Ian Wilson, as National Librarian and Archivist of Canada, is the first person to hold the joint national responsibility for both archives and libraries. He will address the real, apparent, and possible convergences of cultural repositories and programmes and explore the challenges that face us in the very near future. Hotel Space: Still Available http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/local/index.html There is still some space at the MW2005 conference hotel. Make your reservations on-line before March 23, 2005 to receive the MW rate. Use the form linked from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/local/index.html Pre-Register: April 5, 2005 Deadline http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/register/index.html Register for MW2005 before April 5, 2005 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 In Vancouver Join us for the ninth annual Museums and the Web, described by an attendee at MW2004 as "probably my all-time favorite conference." 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 -- David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2005 April 13-16, 2005, Vancouver BC Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2005_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Announcing Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:51:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 959 (959) ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION 5th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Pirates, Thieves and Innocents: Perceptions of Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age June 16-17, 2005 Hosted by the University of Maryland University College and being held at the UMUC Inn and Conference Center in Adelphi, MD The 2005 CIP Symposium will explore a few of the various ways in which individuals and organizations think and talk about copyright infringement in our digital age and what actions they take based upon those perceptions. The symposium will focus on issues relevant to the higher education community and the delivery of quality copyrighted content. Facilitating our exploration, discussion, and reflection will be representatives from the academy, library, law, corporation, nonprofit organization, technology sector, and Capitol Hill. Topics to be addressed by speakers and panelists will include: -The Impact of Copyright Law and Policy on Academic Culture -Regulatory Copyright: How Will Universities be Affected? -P2P File Sharing: Pirates or Revolutionaries? -Culture and Copyright: A Creative Clash? -Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age: What Universities Need to Know -The Copyright Legislative Landscape -Responses to Copyright Infringement at University Campuses: Best Practices Participants will include: Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information); Jonathan Band (Morrison & Foerster LLP); Robert Brauneis (George Washington University Law School); Jon Baumgarten (Proskauer Rose LLP); Mark Luker (Educause); Patrick Ross (Progress & Freedom Foundation); Gigi Sohn (Public Knowledge); Siva Vaidhyanathan (New York University); Alec French (Office of Congressman Howard L. Berman). Register early since space is limited. Early registration (before May 16, 2005) is $275. Regular registration is $350. Please visit the website for details and other affiliation discounts. For more information and to register online, visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium. Jack Boeve University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 240-582-2736 jboeve_at_umuc.edu From: Shuly Wintner Subject: FG-MOL 2005: Final Call for Papers Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:52:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 960 (960) FG-MOL 2005: The 10th conference on Formal Grammar and The 9th Meeting on Mathematics of Language Collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Edinburgh, Scotland, 5-7 August 2005 http://www.formalgrammar.tk/ Deadline for paper submission: April 1st, 2005 Call for Papers Background FG-MOL 2005 is the 10th conference on Formal Grammar and the 9th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, to be held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 2005 in Edinburgh. Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003) and Nancy (2004). MoL meetings are organized biennially by the Association for Mathematics of Language, which is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics. This is the second time the two events are held in tandem, following the success of FG-MOL 2001. Aims and Scope FG-MOL provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, o formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; o model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; o logical aspects of linguistic structure; o constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; o learnability of formal grammar; o integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar; o foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar; o mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis. Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks. [...] http://www.formalgrammar.tk/ From: "Adel M. Alimi" Subject: ACIDCA-ICMI'2005 : Call for Special Sessions Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:53:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 961 (961) SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS DEADLINE: April 1, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Conference on Machine Intelligence Tozeur, Tunisia, November 5-7, 2005 <http://www.acidca-icmi2005.org>http://www.acidca-icmi2005.org Interested attendees are encouraged to propose special sessions, which consist of 5 papers that provide a focused discussion on a wide variety of new, innovative, and emerging topics of interest to the Machine Intelligence community including (see the website for a detailed list): * CI : Computational Intelligence * IC : Intelligent Control * IDA : Intelligent Data Analysis * IPA : Intelligent Pattern Analysis * ISA : Intelligent Systems Architectures Each special session proposal must include the session title, description, and organizers. Special session proposals should be e-mailed to chairs_at_acidca-icmi2005.org by April 1, 2005. Proposals should be no longer than 3 pages and should include: (a) the title of the proposed special session, (b) the name of the organizer(s) (including contact information), (c) a 1-2 paragraph description of the relevant background/expertise of the organizer(s). The acceptance of special session proposals will be based on: their relevance to the conference, their relevance to related topics of interest, and/or the expertise and background of the organizers. The special sessions chairs will be responsible for coordinating reviews for each submitted paper by assigning them reviewers selected from the reviewer list supplied by the session organizer. Session organizers are also encouraged to issue a call for papers for their special sessions. After the review process, the program chairs will work with each session organizer to determine the final composition of their special session. By June 30, 2005, the special session chairs will send acceptance/rejection notices to the authors of papers submitted to the special sessions. Special session organizers are expected to ensure that all camera-ready versions are submitted by July 31, 2005 and that each accepted paper is presented at the conference. Special Sessions Important Dates: April 1, 2005 Deadline for submission of special session proposals. April 11, 2005 Preliminary notification of the acceptance or rejection of special session proposals May 31, 2005 Deadline for submission of special session papers (full papers only). June 30, 2005 Paper acceptance/rejection notification July 31, 2005 Camera ready papers due (electronically) Best regards. Adel M. Alimi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Senior Member HDR, PhD, Eng., Associate Professor REGIM: REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines <http://www.REGIM.net>http://www.REGIM.net University of Sfax, National School of Engineers Department of Electrical Engineering BP W, Sfax, 3038, Tunisia Address: Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe, B.P. 120, Sfax, 3049, Tunisia Tel.: +216-74-274-088 GSM: +216-98-66-76-82 Fax.: +216-74-275-595 email: Adel.Alimi_at_ieee.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Filenames, PDFs, Sloppiness Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:54:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 962 (962) Willard describes his file names, e.g.: [deleted quotation]and [deleted quotation]Interestingly, there's been a discussion on "filing" academic PDFs (i.e., scholarly articles retrieved online in PDF format) on the Ars Technica Macintoshian Achaia: <http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x? a=tpc&f=8300945231&m=377001889631> <http://tinyurl.com/6nx5p> While it focused on software solutions to the problem of classifying and retrieving references and citations, the simpler solutions revolved around filenames and the typical practice was to use an "author date (keyword)" format. Most of these answers came from hard/life/wet sciences and there's been a few mentions of the differences with the Humanities. As we all know, improvements in computer technologies (clock speed but also the "lifting" of limitations such as filename length) haven't really increased our average efficiency for the most common tasks like text editing and document filing. Part of it has to do with sloppy programming, "feature bloat," etc. Clearly, this has benefitted the computer industry as it has convinced a lot of us that we constantly need "better" machines (faster processor, more hard-disk space, more memory, bigger screen, more features...). And we are encouraged to do as if there weren't any limit in speed, memory, or screen real estate. Filenames are a trickier issue. Some of us who internalized limitations from different OSes (Unix, MacOS, Win16) probably still use "conservative" filenames. In fact, those of us who use the command-line and/or (La)TeX probably refrain from spaces in filenames, even though spaces are allowed in many contemporary OSes. Patterns of computer use are fascinating. Anyone knows of a recent study of filename patterns? I remember reading one (I think it was called /What's in a Name/) but it might be fairly old and filenames have clearly changed recently. Personally, I tend to mix letters (lower- and uppercase) and numbers to separate portions of a filename. EnkerliCV.pdf (CV, in English) EnkerliFcs.pdf (French CV) EnkerliFcs15mar2k5.tex (source for French CV, March 15, 2005) E105s2k5/e105mtg14n.tex (source for lesson plan (Notes) for Meeting 14 of E105, Spring 2005) E105s2k5/e105qz2seq.pdf (PDF of Short Essay Questions for Quiz 2 in E105, Spring 2005) Refs/Maxwell2k3 (text of Heather Maxwell's "Divas of the Wassoulou Sound: Transformations in the Matrix of Cultural Production, Globalization, and Identity") Consistent use of a well-planned directory structure might also help. In that case, I really *should* have: CVs/French/2005/ Enkerli.tex Enkerli.pdf Courses/IUSB/S2k5/E105/ mtg14n.tex qz2seq.pdf But we're all lazy in different ways. From: ken.friedman_at_bi.no Subject: File Names Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:58:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 963 (963) Friends, The problem of file names poses many issues. For myself, I have solved it by using the last name of the author or first author only, then the year, and the the first word or two of the title. For example Friedman 2005 File .pdf Sometimes, if I have a load of items in a category, I also use a category abbreviation, f.ex., if I were collecting a series of articles on the hermeneutics of files, I might have Friedman 2005 File Herm .pdf Yours, Ken Friedman From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.647 long URLs, long filenames, care-lessness and Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:00:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 964 (964) bad style One teeny problem that many of us encounter is that filenames with spaces in them are not welcome except in specific proprietary venues; as an archivist striving for machine independence, I have to put some kind of wrapper around such a file if I want to preserve it unchanged. This is the reason that older mainframe geeks put underlines between the words and lots of UNIX/Linux folk run words together to make filenames. Something of a sectarian issue in the short term, but not sub specie aeternitatis. Pat Galloway From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: The Technology Source Unavailable After March 31, 2005 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:01:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 965 (965) As you may know, The Technology Source (http://ts.mivu.org) has been archived at MVU since the November/December 2003 issue. Several days ago, I noticed that TS was no longer available on the MVU web site (http://mivu.org/) and asked one of our board members who had worked at MVU to inquire why. To make a long story short, I received a note that TS had been down because of a technical problem, but was back up; it just was not linked to the MVU site. After more inquiry, I received a letter from Kirby Milton, the chief technology officer at MVU, saying that MVU receives no tangible benefit for continuing to host TS and yet has real costs in doing so. He concluded: "MVU has decided to discontinue the hosting of TS at the end of March, unless someone externally steps up and provides us with the $400 per month of hosting fees. We are open to a month-to-month agreement, with monthly hosting fees paid one month in advance. Absent any interested parties to fund the continuance, we will take the servers off line on April 1st. The content rights will remain available for purchase after we backup and then remove the database content from our servers in early April." The purpose of this note is to alert you that TS will no longer be available on the Internet after March 31, 2005 unless MVU finds a sponsor or sponsors willing to pay $4,800 annually to continue to host TS on their servers or pay MVU for the content and the costs involved with moving that content to their server. If you know of an individual or organization willing to do this, please ask them to contact Kirby Milton (kmilton at mivu dot org) immediately. The copyright provisions of TS are that any article may be distributed freely for educational purposes. If you have linked to a TS article from your or from your organization's web site, I suggest that you acquire it before March 31 and post it on your server. Please forward this note to colleagues who may have linked to a TS article on their websites. Best. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, The Technology Source http://ts.mivu.org Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Re: 18.642 fraudulent conferences; a genuine one: JCDL Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:00:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 966 (966) 2005 First Doctoral Consortium The post about the fraudulent conferences piqued my interests so I sent off an email to the CLEE at UT Austin to inquire about the conference and referred them to the experiment by the man in New Zealand who submitted phony papers. I received this response: Hi Matthew: The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Lifelong Engineering Education did enter into a sponsor role with the CCCT conference beginning in 2004. One of the key organizers - Dr. William Lesso who is serving as the Honorary Chair for 2005 - was a prominent faculty member of the College of Engineering for many years and is now considered Professor Emeritus. This annual conference was held in Orlando, Florida until 2004 when it moved to Austin, Texas. The conference continues to thrive with registrations exceeding 300 last year. I appreciate the website you shared detailing concerns with the Call for Papers process. I'm sharing the information with the conference organizers so they can be sure to address any issues with the process. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. Thanks! Jamie Jamie Puryear Sr. Marketing Manager The University of Texas at Austin Top 10 College of Engineering Center for Lifelong Engineering Education 512.232.5550 * jpuryear_at_mail.utexas.edu www.UTclee.org It all seems a bit fishy. Matthew From: "Helena Francke" Subject: Human IT 7:3 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:55:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 967 (967) Dear Humanists, The new issue of Human IT is now available on the Web at=20 http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/. The issue this time includes a number of articles that I hope will be of=20 interest to readers of Humanist. The theme is Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Machine Learning. This= =20 fairly technical area is introduced by guest editor Ulf Johansson in an=20 editorial that starts and ends in a concert with the German group=20 Kraftwerk. The three articles that follow all show different aspects of how= =20 artificial intelligence can be used and improved: in order to interpret=20 ancient Roman stylus tablets, to make the computer-controlled actors in=20 computer games more similar to those controlled by humans, and to=20 facilitate predictability in data mining. The issue also contains two=20 contributions in Swedish, one on libraries' Web based user education and an= =20 interview with Henry Jenkins, professor at MIT. Human IT is a multidisciplinary, scholarly journal aiming to present=20 research and discussion on digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and=20 ludic instruments. Contents (all available free of charge): * From Ding to =DCberding: An Introduction to the Artificial Intelligence= =20 Issue Theme by guest editor Ulf Johansson <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/> * Image and Interpretation: Using Artificial Intelligence to Read Ancient= =20 Roman Texts by Melissa Terras & Paul Robertson <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/mtpr.pdf> * Synthetic Players: A Quest for Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games by Jouni Smed & Harri Hakonen <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/jshh.pdf> * Predicting the Benefit of Rule Extraction: A Novel Component in Data= Mining by Tuve L=F6fstr=F6m & Ulf Johansson <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/tluj.pdf> * Webbaserad anv=E4ndarundervisning: Ett forum f=F6r f=F6rhandlingar om=20 bibliotekariers professionella expertis [Web Based User Education] by Olof Sundin <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/os.pdf> * Fanfiktion, datorspel och till=E4mpad humaniora [Fan Fiction, Computer= =20 Games, and Applied Humanities] by Patrik Svensson <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-7/ps.pdf> Kind regards, Helena Francke ************** Helena Francke co-editor Human IT Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Bor=E5s / G=F6teborg University SE-501 90 Bor=E5s, Sweden e-mail helena.francke_at_hb.se From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) Toolkit Alpha Release 1.0 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:56:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 968 (968) The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is proud to announce the official release of its M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) Alpha 1.0 toolkit. M2K is an open-sourced Java-based framework designed to allow Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) researchers to rapidly prototype, share and scientifically evaluate their sophisticated MIR and MDL techniques. M2K builds upon and extends the D2K/T2K datamining framework developed by the Automated Learning Group (ALG) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). M2K Alpha 1.0 downloads, installation requirements & instructions, and a wide range of documentation, can be found via: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k M2K Alpha 1.0 is currently strongest in audio-based approaches to MIR/MDL tasks. I would like to encourage all MIR/MDL researchers with interests in symbol-based and metadata-based techniques to join in and help us extend the functionality of M2K. We plan to demonstrate M2K at: 2005 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Conference 2005 ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference 2005 Association for Computers and the Humanities/Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Conference We also are planning two M2K workshops: For European/UK researchers: 15-16 April, Goldsmiths College, London For North American researchers: May or June, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The M2K and IMIRSEL projects are supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation (Grants No. IIS-0340597 and No. IIS-0327371). Cheers, J. Stephen Downie Project Principal Investigator -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox](217) 351-5037 [Voicemail] (217) 265-5018 M2K Project Home: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k From: Maida Pacheco Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.9 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:58:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 969 (969) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 9 (March 15 - March 22, 2005) View PCs in the Classroom & Open Book Exams By Evan Golub, Human Interaction lab, University of Maryland "What are the motivations behind giving an open-book/open-notes exam? Does giving free access to all of the resources of the Internet conflict with these motivations?" View Taking Information Technology To The Heart Of India By V. Lalith Kumar, A.L.Suseela, and Akashdeep Aharma "Today we truly live in a global village, but it is a village with elite information 'haves' and many information 'have-nots.' With the new technologies available to us we have an opportunity to change this." From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: ICT and Cultures Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:52:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 970 (970) Charles Ess (and other Humanists), I recall that Edgar Schein's book _Organizational Culture and Leadership_ has a chapter that examines the shared assumptions of IT-type managers versus CEOs in large organizations that might be helpful for your purposes. Typical of a management book, its language is a bit "rah rah," but for this sort of tome, I find the research is very solid and Schein's conclusions quite on the mark. I would also say that the book is a classic for those interested in Organizational Culture in general. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: analog & digital :: definitions and debates Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:54:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 971 (971) http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/AnalogDigital Analog & Digital. We think we live in a digital age, but what is the digital? We think our lives and bodies are analog, but what is the analog? These distinctions shape us and our world, from the cell phones we talk on to the weight and sensation of our experience, yet there is little concensus when it comes to the analog & digital. We propose a collaborative exploration, definition, and debate about the analog & digital using the plain_text zwiki (zope wiki) at the West Virginia University's Center for Literary Computing. We've already posted a provocative and important essay on the topic by writer and internet philosopher Alan Sondheim. We welcome your responses, either following Sondheim's essay or striking off in new directions. Follow this link to access the zwiki: http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/AnalogDigital From: John Unsworth Subject: full text of Electronic Textual Editing available online Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:57:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 972 (972) The complete text of the forthcoming MLA volume, Electronic Textual Editing, co-sponsored by the Text Encoding Initiative and the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, is now available for free, on the redesigned TEI web site, at: http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/ The volume's contents include: 1. Prefatory material 1. Foreword: G. Thomas Tanselle (Columbia University & John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation) 2. Editors' introduction: Lou Burnard (Oxford University & Text Encoding Initiative); Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Notre Dame University & Committee on Scholarly Editions ; John Unsworth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Committee on Scholarly Editions & Text Encoding Initiative). 2. Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions 1. Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions: From the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions 2. Guiding Questions for Vettors of Print and Electronic Editions : Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association 3. Annotated Bibliography: Key Works in the Theory of Textual Editing: Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 3. Principles 1. Principles: Burnard, O'Keeffe, Unsworth 4. Sources and Orientations 1. Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon: Dino Buzzetti (Universita di Bologna) and Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) 2. The Canterbury Tales and other Medieval Texts: Peter Robinson, De Montfort University 3. Documentary Editing: Bob Rosenberg (Edison Papers Project, Rutgers University) 4. The Poem and the Network: Editing Poetry Electronically: Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland) and Steven Jones (Loyola University, Chicago) (Romantic Circles) 5. Drama Case Study: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson: David Gants (University of New Brunswick) 6. The Women Writers Project: A Digital Anthology: Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project, Brown University) 7. Authorial Translation: The Case of Samuel Beckett's Stirrings Still / Soubresauts: Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium 8. Prose Fiction and Modern Manuscripts: Limitations and Possibilities of Text-Encoding for Electronic Editions: Edward Vanhoutte (Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie(Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies): Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Belgium) 9. Philosophy Case Study: Claus Huitfeldt, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen 10. Electronic religious texts: the Gospel of John: D.C. Parker (Centre for the Editing of Texts in Religion, University of Birmingham, UK) 11. Multimedia Body Plans: A Self-Assessment: Morris Eaves (University of Rochester) 12. Epigraphy: Anne Mahoney, Perseus Project & Stoa Consortium Tufts University 5. Practices and Procedures 1. Effective Methods of Producing Machine-Readable Text from Manuscript and Print Sources: Eileen Gifford Fenton (JSTOR) and Hoyt N. Duggan (University of Virginia) 2. Levels of transcription: M. J. Driscoll (University of Copenhagen) 3. Digital Facsimiles in Editing: Kevin Kiernan (Electronic Beowulf, University of Kentucky) 4. Authenticating electronic editions: Phill Berrie, Paul Eggert, Chris Tiffin, and Graham Barwell (Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales; University of Queensland; University of Woollongong) 5. Document Management and File Naming: Greg Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts University) 6. Writing Systems and Character Representation: Christian Wittern (Kyoto University) 7. How and Why to Formalize your Markup: Patrick Durusau (Society of Biblical Literature and Emory University) 8. Storage, Retrieval, and Rendering: Sebastian Rahtz (Research Technologies Service, Oxford University) 9. When not to use TEI: John Lavagnino (King's College, London) 10. Moving a Print-Based Editorial Project into Electronic Form: Hans-Walter Gabler (Institut fuer Englische Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen) 11. Rights and Permissions in an Electronic Edition: Mary Case (Office of Scholarly Communication, Association of Research Libraries) and David Green (National Initiative of Networked Cultural Heritage) 12. Collection and Preservation of an Electronic Edition: Marilyn Deegan (King's College London) From: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: 18.649 no long term without cash: Technology Source Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:55:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 973 (973) I find this message extremely disturbing, considering that TS was being hosted by state-supported "virtual" university. Yes, I understand that MVU is NOT a "state" university, but rather, it has operates with the good will of the State of Michigan. But that REALLY doesn't change the fact that they are pulling the plug on this resource. One of the distrubing aspects of this is the impermanence...did MVU PLAN for the long-term care and preservation of the digital resources that had been created and that they were hosting? Hard to believe that they did...I have seen far too many digitization projects moulder away as the bodies that implemented them failed to plan for their long-term support. Better to say up front that the project will go away after a certain date than to do something like this. If there is someone out there who can do something about this, they might look at this new resource: http://ourmedia.org/ ...it's new, so they are suffering some pretty serious traffic right now. But it's free and they say they want things to be as permanent as can be made. My $1.00 US (rates are up due to inflation!) Dennis Moser Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]{SNIP} [deleted quotation] -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mailto:aldus_at_angrek.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time" --John Stuart Mill (1806-73) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Willard McCarty Subject: solitude and industry Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:28:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 974 (974) In her biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind (Faber and Faber, 1998), Sylvia Nasar describes the early experiences of Solomon Lefschetz, the fellow who created Princeton as the post-Goettingen centre for mathematics and who brought Nash there. Lefschetz "spent nearly a decade in obscure teaching posts in Nebraska and Kansas. After days of backbreaking teaching, he wrote a series of brilliant, original, and highly influential papers that eventually resulted in a 'call' from Princeton. 'My years in the West with total hermetic isolation played in my development the role of "a job in a lighthouse" which Einstein would have every young scientist assume so that he may develop his own ideas in his own way." (p. 59) Once at Princeton Lefschetz became the highly social and socializing centre of a society of mathematicians, including staff, graduate students and the odd undergraduate, that met every day for tea. But he knew his own mind by then. A long time ago I worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, a big science establishment where large teams of physicists, nuclear chemists, engineers and so forth worked with masses of data, programmers and other support staff. I worked for a time for Willy Chinowsky, who like many physicists felt, at least some of the time, trapped in a structure that would not allow them that "job in a lighthouse" which Einstein recommended. By that time the way of doing nuclear physics required such a structure, to support the industrial-scale processing, with industrial-scale equipment, of large numbers of photographs of interactions in order to find "golden events" that would show this or that about the problem under investigation. But, Chinowsky felt, something very important had been lost in the process. By that time, partially also as a consequence of what the Manhattan Project produced, the demand from physics students at Berkeley to work "on the Hill" had started to go into steep decline. Members of LRL staff had to go down the Hill, to potential students, to persuade them that working there was what they wanted to do. Recently I attended a course for PhD supervisors held locally. All the attendees except for me were medics and biomedical researchers. Perhaps the most useful thing I learned was how differently such people design, think of and conduct PhD training. Their model (if my experience is indicative) is highly regemented, quite industrial, very cut-and-dried. The experience reminded me strongly of complaints a senior doctor friend of mine used to voice about medical training, though he was speaking about the N American MD degree, and of comments my personal physician in Toronto used to make whenever I visited him: about the soullessness of his practice, of his need for more than technique to see him and his mortally ill patients through, to some sort of understanding and peace. Doctors in many places continue to earn handsome salaries, so medical schools are still crammed full, but there's still a problem to think about. The question I keep circling back to is, what do we desire for the field we are building? John Unsworth reminded me yesterday that it's not only a question of desire: there are tools, and they help us to open doors on new landscapes of possibilities. Yet these tools are human inventions, and so expressions of desire -- instruments to which we give some sort of semi-independent life. So, how we think about what we do, what we think it's for, is formative. Where we begin, and begin again and again, is, I would suppose, with the humanities rather than with the tools -- when (or is it if) that distinction can be made. The question is, what do we regard as primary? What do we privilege when (minute by minute) a choice must be made? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Shifting to e-Publication Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:28:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 975 (975) Thanks to everyone who forwarded their experiences with moving to electronic distribution of administrative and teaching documents. If I might strain the patience of Humanist readers further, I wonder if I could inquire about examples of a specific mode of publishing, i.e. simultaneous multi-media distribution. What we'd like to build are undergraduate and graduate handbooks that reside in a single set of files but which can be used in two distinct modes: as the source for a standard on-line hypertext resource, and as the source for a print-ready document users will direct to their local printers. These two versions should be similar in design and layout so that an advisor holding the printed copy can help a student using the hypertext version without any confusion. I'm not asking about the mechanics of how to do this--we have a number of talented faculty and staff up here who can make it happen. Rather, I'd like to know of sites where this already takes place and to which I can point my colleagues. Thanks in advance, Dave Gants From: Clare Callaghan Subject: Re: 18.657 no long term without the cash Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:25:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 976 (976) Having just lost a job because there was inadequate planning on the development of a digital resource, I am compelled to move beyond my usual lurker status and respond to the comments below of Dennis Moser. You're right, better to say upfront that the project has a limited lifespan. However, no one wants to say that. And probably that is because no one wants to imagine the day the funding might be gone. However, especially with projects intended to be run on public funds (and particularly now, when public funds are so tight) there is no permanence. Administrations change, funding priorities change, so once a project is an accepted part of the landscape and no longer "new," "innovative," or "groundbreaking," the costs of the project are seen most readily. Why don't project implementors anticipate the day the project will have to be self-sustaining? My recent experience has shown that the people responsible for establishing digital humanities projects are more concerned with planning the development of the projects than the funding of them. It is more amusing for most to plan content development than to write grant requests. And, the implementors think, surely the projects will be adopted by powerful political figures and get annual allocations, or by individual academic departments and receive monies there, or by some other well-connected organizations. After all, the implementors know how useful the projects will be, so they assume permanent, long-term, dedicated funding will simply manifest itself. This is faulty optimism, this is poor planning, but it does not seem likely to change until the expectations for digital projects change. Who wants to submit a grant or budget request that says "I plan to build a digital resource with a working life of five years"? Grantmakers will be unlikely to provide money because they like projects with both long-term and demonstrable outcomes. Academic departments will be leery of funding such short-term projects--how will they ensure they keep the money once the projects are over? Therefore, the project implementors will be unlikely to plan specific life spans. Willard's next post asks about our desires for digital projects. I'd like to add to that: what are our expectations for digital projects? When we make the choices he references, with what kind of expectations do we make them? Regards, Clare Callaghan cm_2_at_mac.com [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] From: "Dr. Allison Muri" Subject: Re: 18.657 no long term without the cash Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:26:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 977 (977) This is a pretty clear example of the dangers and pitfalls of giving your data to companies that use proprietory databases, elaborate systems, and authoritative language to ensnare content. As the message from James L. Morrison suggested, I wrote to Kirby Milton to say there are much more reasonably priced webhosting solutions available. Kirby Milton wrote back to explain "The Technology Source is a a sophisticated application that creates its Web page content on the fly from a complex SQL 2000 enterprise clustered database. I know exactly what is involved in hosting the journal as I managed the whole process of building it, as well as managing our data center. It requires five servers, and a portion of our redundant firewalls, load balancers, routers, switches, and back up enterprise. there is also significant bandwidth associated with hosting these archives. ...Everyone likes the journal as long as they can access it for free. Sadly, there are real costs associated with the continuance of the archives, and with no matching source of revenue we have made a business decision to take it off line. " Predominantly text-based articles, however, do not take up much bandwidth at all. The structures being described here (5 servers, for example, firewalls, load balancers, routers, switches, backup etc.) are required for an entire organization or webhosting company not just a single journal. Many companies that do webhosting roll these hardware costs into much smaller hosting prices (the server I use, housed at the University of Saskatchewan's Innovation Place, charges $9 per month for unlimited space, ftp, multimple redunded OC3 carriers, web stats, web mail). $15 per month allows you to host a site with MySQL database, phpMyAdmin, and php. The point is that these latter systems, unlike Microsoft's expensive SQL 2000, are open source, freely available solutions to publishing with web databases. Once your data or articles are put into a corporation's architecture, you risk not "owning" your own stuff any more. Your text seems to be held hostage in the software that displays it. Hopefully TS can negotiate to get its own data returned as a database file. I'm not sure why, in any event, TS even needs to house these articles in a database. There are many other, and much better options to house this journal affordably. Dr. Allison Muri Department of English University of Saskatchewan <http://headlesschicken.ca>http://headlesschicken.ca From: "Dr. Allison Muri" Subject: Re: 18.649 no long term without cash: Technology Source Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:27:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 978 (978) What's perhaps most disturbing about this message is the clear conflict between the editor's understanding of ownership of the content, and MVU's understanding of it: [deleted quotation]versus: [deleted quotation]--------------------------- Allison Muri Department of English University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK http://headlesschicken.ca From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Lexicom workshop Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:24:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 979 (979) LEXICOM'05 5th Annual Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing, to be held in Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. June 10th-14th 2005 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2005/ Led by the Lexicography MasterClass: Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell, Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop, where seminars on theoretical issues alternate with practical sessions at the computer, working in small groups, each person with his/her own computer. Topics we cover 1. designing and building text corpora 2. software for analyzing corpus data 3. designing and using dictionary databases 4. Frame Semantics and its application to lexicography 5. corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual information 6. writing entries for dictionaries & lexicons The workshop also includes two 'master classes': one in advanced corpus-based lexicography (including bilingual entries) and the other in lexical computing. Who the course is for The workshop is suitable for people with a background in one or more of the following: 1. lexicography 2. linguistics 3. computational linguistics 4. computer support for dictionary projects 5. translation 6. terminologists The cost has been kept as low as possible, with discounted rates for full-time students and for participants from East European countries and regions with currency conversion problems. Places are limited and early registration is advised. Registrations received before the end of April carry a discounted fee. Michael Rundell, Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff The Lexicography MasterClass ==================================================== Adam Kilgarriff Lexicography MasterClass http://lexmasterclass.com Lexical Computing Ltd http://sketchengine.co.uk University of Sussex mailto:adam_at_lexmasterclass.com +44 (0)1273 705773 ==================================================== From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: M2K European/UK Workshop, registration information Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:29:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 980 (980) Hi colleagues: Please find below the OFFICIAL M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) European/United Kingdom Workshop announcement. It is also available in HTML at http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k_uk_workshop.html . Do check the HTML version as more specifics emerge concerning special local accommodations. Do note the dates: things are going to happen quickly so please RSVP as soon as possible. LAB LEADERS: I am keen to have as many European/UK labs represented as possible. Cheers, Stephen PS: North American Colleagues: we are working on similar workshop to be held Mid May/Early June at UIUC (Champaign). Please drop me a personal note if you are interested. *****************WORKSHOP INFORMATION************* Dates: Friday, 15 April 2005 - Saturday, 16 April 2005 Location: Goldsmiths College, University of London For instructions on getting to Goldsmiths: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ Workshop Goals: This two-day workshop is designed to bring together the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL; http://music-ir.org/evaluation) M2K (Music-to-Knowledge; http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k) development team with select Music Information Retrieval/Music Digital Library researchers/students from the UK and other European countries with three major goals in mind: 1. to demonstrate and train participants in the use of M2K as a rapid prototyping system and how to use it as both a general development environment and as the submission mechanism for the upcoming MIREX contests; 2. to allow key researchers and their students to provide feedback to the IMIRSEL M2K developers to correct and enhance the M2K system; and, 3. to allow the assembled participants to draw up an M2K module/functionality "wishlist" with the outcome that participants take on specific development responsibilities of new modules/functionalities (i.e., distribute development and assistance across the community in the open-source tradition). NOTA BENE: M2K, in its current Alpha configuration, is predominantly an audio-based toolset: I would like to encourage the particpation of researchers and students who have expertise in symbol-based and meta-data-based approaches to MIR/MDL research. Workshop Size: Due to space limitations, we expect the workshop size will be limited to 30 participants. Accommodations: Watch this space for information on potentially low-cost, local accommodations. Registration Costs: This workshop has NO registration fee. Application Procedure: Send email to J. Stephen Downie (jdownie AT uiuc.edu): Subject line: EUROPEAN/UK M2K WORKSHOP Message body: 1. Name: 2. Email: 3. Institution: 4. Home Location: (Indicate UK or EURO)(see below for reason) 5. Supervisor/Lab Leader Name: (if applicable) 6. Supervisor/Lab Leader Email: (if applicable) 7. Plans to participate in MIREX 2005: (Yes/No/Possible (with BRIEF comment)) 8. Participation in past/upcoming ISMIRs: (Be BRIEF) 9. Subsidy Need: (Give BRIEF comment about your NEED for subsidy. Please give a best estimate of mininum subsidy required (for example, transportation cost estimates)). 10. Need for Accommodations: (Please let us know if you will need access to Goldsmiths residence accomodations) 11. Willingness to share accommodation: (Yes/No and gender info if YES) Possible Participant Subsidies: For UK-based Young Researchers (PhD students and similar): You can apply for travel & accommodation funding from the Digital Music Research Network (www.dmrn.org). For application forms and information on how to apply, see http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/funding/. Please send the DMRN Travel Support forms to Theresa Willis at the address given on the form: DO NOT send to J. Stephen Downie or to Goldsmiths. For Non-UK, European-based (and Senior UK-based) participants: Prof. J. Stephen Downie will be administering funds from a special National Science Foundation M2K workshop grant. Subsidies will be re-imbursed after the workshop to the agreed-upon amount after submission of receipts to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. NOTA BENE: For larger labs, I would appreciate it very much if participants from larger labs attempt to do a bit of pre-co-ordination of applications, especially if subsidies are being requested (see below). A brief email to J. Stephen Downie from the lab leader would be greatly appreciated as I try to distribute my Non-UK European funds in the best manner possible. Select participants will be subsidized to attend according the following heuristic: 1. Demonstration of need (i.e., unavailability of/limitations to funds from local sources) 2. Participation of home lab in active development and evaluation work (e.g., plan to participate in MIREX 2005; have been active in M2K discussions and development, etc.) 3. Broadening representation of the research labs (i.e., distributing funds in such a way as to maximize the number of labs represented (this done in the spirit that at as many labs as possible can have at least one member who can in turn pass on their M2K knowledge to their lab)) Special Thanks: Prof. Geraint Wiggins, Goldsmiths College Tim Crawford, Goldsmiths College Prof. Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary College J. Stephen Downie 23 March 2005 From: maxime ambard Subject: LACL: Call For participation Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:30:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 981 (981) Apologies for multiple copies / please redistribute ************************************************** L A C L 2 0 0 5 Fifth International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics --- 28-29-30 april 2005, Bordeaux (France) http://lacl.labri.fr/ CNRS - INRIA - University of Bordeaux 1 & 3 ************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION LACL conference series ---------------------- LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. Student Session ---------------------- A student session will be organize. For more informations, see our web site http://lacl.labri.fr/student_session Registration ------------ Registration for LACL 2005 is open. You can access the registration form from the LACL website http://lacl.labri.fr/registration.html [...] From: PInar Yolum Subject: CFP: The 20th International Symposium on Computer and Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:31:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 982 (982) Information Sciences (ISCIS'05) Apologies for multiple postings. The paper submission system is now open at http://iscis-reg.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/iscis05reg/submit.html. Please note that the proceedings of the symposium will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'05) 20th Anniversary Conference of the ISCIS Series Celebrating the 60th Birthday of the Founder of ISCIS, Prof. Erol Gelenbe October 26-28, 2005 Istanbul, Turkey Organized by Department of Computer Engineering Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Web site: http://iscis05.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We kindly invite you to submit papers for the twentieth of the ISCIS series of conferences that bring together computer scientists and engineers from around the world. This year's conference will be held in Istanbul. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Computational Intelligence Computer Architecture Computer Graphics Computer Networks Databases Information Retrieval Internet and Multimedia Operating Systems Parallel and Distributed Computing Performance Evaluation Programming Languages and Algorithms Security and Cryptography Software Engineering Theory of Computing This year we especially welcome papers in the areas of e-commerce (including web services and service-oriented computing, auctions, reputation and recommender systems, personalization and privacy, mobile commerce), multi-agent systems (including agent coordination and cooperation, agent communication, agent networks, agents and complex systems, trust and reputation, agents on the web, multi-agent simulation and modeling, industrial agent applications), satellite networks (including architectures, simulation and modeling, on-board processing and switching, internet services over satellite, advances in coding, modulation schemes, satellite security), and sensor networks (including deployment, localization, synchronization, link characteristics, MAC protocols and routing, capacity and lifetime optimization, security). There will be invited talks and tutorials given by leading researchers in these fields. [...] From: cristina p Subject: CALL, and teaching content in a computer-enhanced classroom Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:49:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 983 (983) Dear listmembers I was wondering if anyone can give me any advice about testing for content, i.e. literature, philosophy, in a computer-enhanced classroom. I teach Italian language and literature -- often in very large classrooms -- and the problem with using computers for testing is that commercial programs can only correct handle close-ended questions, at least as far as I know. Has any of you experimented with open-ended questions and computers? How do you all deal with correcting them? Thank you for any advice. Prof. Cristina Perissinotto University of Ottawa __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From: Michael Fraser Subject: **REMINDER** DRH2005 - second CFP and announcment of Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:50:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 984 (984) extension (fwd) Please note that the deadline for submitting papers to DRH2005 is 31 March 2005. DRH 2005: Digital Resources for the Humanities University of Lancaster, UK 4th - 7th September 2005 IMPORTANT DATES: * 31st March, 2005: Deadline for submission of abstracts * April, 2005: Notification of acceptance of papers, sessions, posters and workshops * April 2005: Registration opens * May 2005: Provisional programme announced. Conference Web Site: http://www.drh.org.uk/ Proposals can be submitted via the electronic submission form at the conference website. The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a major forum bringing together scholars, postgraduate students, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, use, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities. At this, the tenth DRH conference, we plan to encourage papers and sessions that focus on critical evaluation of the use of digital resources in the arts and humanities. What has the impact really been? What kinds of methodologies are being used? What are the assumptions that underlie our work? How do we know that the work that we accomplish is truly new and innovative? How does technology change the way that we work? The Conference will also address some of the key emerging themes and strategic issues that engagement with ICT is bringing to scholarly research in the arts and humanities, with a particular focus on advanced research methods. The kinds of questions that we would like to see addressed might include the following: what sort of research does ICT in the arts and humanities enable researchers to do that could not be done before at all? Does this enable 'old' research to be done in a significantly new way? In what ways does the technology serve the scholarship? Similarly, what are the key aspects of virtual research environments ("cyberinfrasture") which can facilitate collaborative research? Proposals for individual papers, sessions, workshops and posters are invited, and the abstract submission system at the conference website will be accepting proposals from January 31st, 2005. Types of presentation for which proposals are invited: Papers Proposals for papers should be no fewer than 750 words. Papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the proposed session topic, and include abstracts of no fewer than 750 words for each paper. The session organizer must also indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. Poster Presentations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. Posters presentations may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress. There should be no difference in quality between poster presentations and papers, and both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will once again award a prize for the best poster presentation. The Local Organising Committee is headed by Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster. Please contact the local organizers with any questions about registration or conference arrangements at Lancaster: drhconf_at_lancaster.ac.uk The chair of the Programme Committee is Lorna Hughes, Assistant Director for Humanities Computing, New York University. Please contact the Programme Chair with any questions about submitting abstracts, or about the reviewing process: (Lorna.Hughes_at_nyu.edu). Please visit http://www.drh.org.uk for regularly updated details about the conference and, for information on how to submit proposals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: interdisciplinary isn't poaching Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:16:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 985 (985) For those here who are interested in the problem of interdisciplinarity -- what the word means when not taken simply as an unexamined, transcendental virtue -- I can recommend an article by Reed Way Dasenbrock, "Toward a Common Market: Arenas of Cooperation in Literary Studies", in Profession 2004: 63-73, and earlier in ADE Bulletin 136 (Winter 2004): 18-24 and thankfully also http://www.ade.org/ade/bulletin/N136/136018.htm. (My thanks to John Lavagnino for putting a copy of this article into my hands.) Dasenbrock argues persuasively that what people in literary studies, principally English, take to be interdisciplinarity is not; rather, it's poaching of materials from other disciplines for purposes defined by the discipline of the poacher, with no attempt whatever -- nor (which is much worse) awareness of the need -- to understand how people in other disciplines understand and work with these materials. Here is the nub of the matter. Speaking to the increasingly marginalized cohort of literary studies people, he suggests that, "One key to understanding the peculiar place literary studies occupies in the contemporary university is to be found in the way we consider ourselves to be highly interdisciplinary, while by the standards of the other disciplines to which we think we are connected we don't seem interdisciplinary at all. What divides us here is not just content, though I do think and have argued elsewhere that the reflexive commitment of literary theory to postmodern theories does inhibit useful connections to other disciplines.... We conceive of the form of interdisciplinary activity quite differently. For literary studies, interdisciplinarity is above all a matter of what one studies and what one writes about; for others it is a matter of how one works and whom one works with. What the rest of the university defines as successful interdisciplinarity is the ability to work constructively on a joint project with members of a different administrative unit and disciplinary tradition." As people concerned with how research is done, and as people whose fons et origo is in working with others, we are well prepared to help here. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: No Discipline is an Island Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:50:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 986 (986) We can certainly expect thoughtful discussions on interdisciplinarity here. Some random personal thoughts on Dasenbrock's article. Well, it was food for thought with "nutritional" value. The critique of pseudo-interdisciplinarity is quite fun to read though not necessarily ground-breaking. After all, these issues have been discussed for quite a while. And literary studies aren't alone in this lack of true interdisciplinarity. Still, nice to read. Because it's easier, I'll focus on criticizing Dasenbrock. A relatively minor point. Dasenbrock's "anti-anti-disciplinary" position is intriguing but not developed very explicitly. Those of us who do in fact wish for disciplinary boundaries to finally collapse aren't offered very convincing arguments as to why these boundaries should remain. As one is explicitly encouraged to associate Dasenbrock's position to that of a Dean, it's easy to perceive a struggle between Dasenbrock the dean and Dasenbrock the champion of boundary-crossing. I was reminded of an anecdote by anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Anthony Seeger at the 1998 meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. When asked to become dean at a given institution, he declined, saying that he didn't believe in disciplinary boundaries. Can't recall the exact details. So maybe there's something about becoming a dean and losing one's perspective on knowledge. About half of Dasenbrock's piece revolves around one specific example of a possible collaboration between English and Spanish faculty to focus on Latina/o literature. Using geographic arguments related to the culture importance of diversity in the Southwest, Dasenbrock (English faculty and CAS dean at UNM; a similar piece was presented in Utah) asks us to follow specific guidelines for interdisciplinary work. So in opposition to the theoretical reappropriation of outside ideas by literary scholars, Dasenbrock proposes a bi-departmental team-taught course on a specific literary genre. Such an approach might be "buzzword-compliant" and help "market" a specific course (or even a program) to administrators, but it has very little to do with true interdisciplinarity, in my humble opinion. Or maybe we should define our terms. Interdisciplinary work still requires the existence of specific disciplinary "spaces." But isn't true interdisciplinary supposed to make boundaries irrelevant, instead of reinforcing them? In this day and age, can we really afford to remain in such tiny pigeonholes that anything we do needs to be defined by the disciplines to which we "belong?" Don't we need a "peripheral vision" of knowledge? Shouldn't a "holistic perspective" on education be our goal? I read Dasenbrock's coming back from our faculty meeting: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Indiana University South Bend, a mid-size regional campus of the "IU system." Perhaps unsurprisingly, the topic of interdisciplinarity came up during the meeting (while talking about requirements for the general education program). A colleague suggested Julie Klein's work as a basis to understand the difference between inter- and multi-disciplinarity. As it so happens, our faculty meetings are very positive experiences. Extremely collegial and friendly. Genuine laughter. Very efficient discussions. In fact, we lengthily applauded our dean this morning for his ongoing good work. Perhaps not a common experience for most of you, but certainly a pleasant one. Contrary to the situation described by Dasenbrock, Foreign Languages, English, or Sociology and Anthropology are not in any way problem departments. In fact, some of the clearest interdisciplinary work involves faculty from these three departments in connection with the rest of the campus. Our dean is a mathematician. So, a wonderful context for the type of work which extends beyond disciplinary boundaries. Those boundaries still exist but are seen as less important than our common goal: knowledge and its transmission. We're talking about true "liberal education" here. Including "liberal sciences." A broad approach which links scholars in organic, fluid, contingent ways. Just one example of how it might work. The whole campus decides on a yearly theme. The one for the next academic year is "The Mutable Body" and people are thinking of different activities to connect to this theme. "Wet scientists" may as easily connect to this theme as humanists and social scientists. Some connections are direct and explicit, others are more indirect. But people are encouraged to join in a campus-wide conversation (not just a dialogue). As different people on campus are linked to different networks, plans are being made to bring people from other institutions under that broad theme. I don't want to offer this as a success story. I just can't help but noticing that Dasenbrock is tied to a very rigid system where even fellow literary scholars need to be asked explicitly before they can connect to each other so they can work on a specific literary tradition. From the perspective of a French-Canadian ethnomusicologist and cultural/linguistic anthropologist, Dasenbrock's approach sounds in fact quite insular. If this is the direction in which we are going, we're evacuating interdisciplinarity for the profit of new turf wars. Alex Alex Enkerli, Teaching Fellow, Visiting Lecturer Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indiana University South Bend, DW 2269 1700 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN 46634-7111 Office: (574)520-4102 Fax: (574)520-5031 (to: Enkerli, Anthropology) From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.664 interdisciplinary isn't poaching Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:51:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 987 (987) First of all, I would never include in a definition of 'interdisciplinarity' something so miserable as an "administrative unit". and I can point to lots and lots of work in medieval literature which shows deep and substantial knowledge of work in other fields. However, we in English do indeed snap up trifles from here and there. And on occasion we get them wrong. Staying in my own part of the woods for an example, I am appalled to see how many of my colleagues casually use the term "feudal system" while medieval historians are busy getting rid of the term forever and showing how useless and meaningless it is. It requires work to stay up in other disciplines. (On the other hand, I often have more fun going to the history, art, philosophy, etc. sessions at medieval conferences rather than staying in my own field and hearing someone do warmed over Chaucer criticism for the umpteenth time) We're probably do it wrong part of the time, but limiting the term to actual working with others seems wrong -- what is publication for if I can't sit down and read it ? But making the term mean working in groups with grant money and administrators and all that irrelevant stuff seems to me to demean the term instead of define it. From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.10 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:51:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 988 (988) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 10 (March 24 - April 4, 2005) Interview Joseph Konstan on Human-Computer Interaction Recommender Systems, Collaboration, and Social Good From: Willard McCarty Subject: examining with computers Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:33:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 989 (989) Cristina Perissinotto, in Humanist 18.622, asks for reflections on using computers for examining students. At the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, we've been doing just that, quite successfully, for longer than I have been here. The practice certainly requires special preparations and management. The greatest problem is, as one would expect, irretrevable loss of a student's work due to human or machine error. With proper precautions this is in fact rare, very rare, but the consequences are so serious that even with many years' experience one must take all precautions and warn students appropriately. People who are rattled are apt for trouble. A broken pencil is easily fixed with no loss of previous work and little loss of time; a suddenly blank screen or frozen machine may allow no response whatever, with loss of everything to that point, other than to start again on a different machine. (One must always have to hand more machines than students for that reason.) If students are new to exams on machines, or new to the subject, a mock exam is a good idea. We run students through last year's exam under realistic conditions. Frequent backing-up is an obvious move, but students need to be told to do it. Once the exam is over, saving work must be carefully done, supervised and managed. For the last several years we have had students upload their results via specially designed FTP and save it on a floppy disc, and not rarely we find ourselves resorting to the floppy to recover a file that somehow did not get uploaded. On a couple of occasions I recall rushing back to the exam room to search the hard disc of the machine used by a student to find a missing piece. Invigilating the exam is likely to be somewhat more labour-intensive than without the machines. You certainly do need someone there who is technically adept, able to help students when they get into trouble and to give them good advice on how to stay out of it (chiefly not to panic and start pressing buttons). Then there's e-mail and the Web to account for. If the exam is closed-Web as well as closed-book, an eagle's eye is needed; few exams can be sensibly conducted if students are e-mailing each other during them. I would, in other words, recommend engaging the help of a technically knowledgeable person in working through all the scenarios that one can imagine. Someone who has conducted exams in physical science laboratories could have many useful bits of advice to offer. So could a colleague in computer science, where students can be very, very adept in breaking the rules. I wish that as a student, esp a doctoral candidate writing my prelims, I had written them on a computer, and I strongly suspect that my examiners would have preferred laser-printed pages to the handwritten ones that they got. And I had by that point years of training and practice in Italic calligraphy. All this (except for my handwriting) is obvious. It's only to say that however demanding the use of computers for exams may be, the rewards are such that the effort is more than adequately compensated. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Laurent Straskraba Subject: Inventor of the term "Digital Divide"? Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:52:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 990 (990) Hi, I read about the first time using the term "Digital Divide" it was in NTIA documents of 1994. Here is a reference: http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/politics/pinkett.html Morino Institute says it was Larry Irving (3rd paragraph): http://www.morino.org/divides/bio_irving.htm BUT Larry Irving said it was not him who invented the term, he just used it a lot in high-level policy circles. So he was credited for popularizing it with politicians, but he did not invent it. He said he has no idea where it came from. Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital Divide"? --- Mag. Laurent Straskraba Information Society Researcher post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1) e-mail: laurent_at_straskraba.net web: http://www.straskraba.net --- From: "Borovsky, Zoe" Subject: RE: 18.622 using computers in examinations for open-ended Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:46:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 991 (991) questio ns? Dear Cristina, you may be interested in this project: http://www.weblas.ucla.edu/ The PI, Prof. Lyle Bachman (Applied Linguistics) UCLA, has developed a system for testing/grading open-ended questions as part of the on-line placement test for English as a second language. Much work goes into preparing the tests and training those who write the questions and develop scoring rubrics. ultimately, Prof. Bachman believes this leads to more accurate results on high-volume tests. it's an interesting project. there is contact info on the site. Zoe Borovsky, PhD UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Disciplines are an illusion? Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:48:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 992 (992) As a soon graduating student, my understanding of the world is still through directive inquiry, so my familiarity of the literature on interdisciplinarity is somewhat weak (ie. I have to write case studies on General Electric, when I'd much rather be reading about the philosophy of social science, or indeed of the world of language arts). It seems to me that the library world, beginning with the likes of Dewey, has provided us with the "gift" of an objectified understanding of "discipline." It is generally assumed that subjects like "medicine" or "art" are things that exists outside the human beings who practice or study such subjects. However, is there any body of literature that explores the notion of "discipline" from the concept of "disciple?" It seems to me that anthropologists/humanists might _begin_ with from the premise that "medicine" is the _culture_ of rather than the _matter_ or _subject_ of inquiry. I mean that a discipline consists of a body of (living and dead) disciples, rather than an objective body of "knowledge." And becoming a practitioner of a discipline occurs from a love and desire to emulate pre-established or historical disciples (masters like Schweitzer, Pasteur for instance?) rather than a love of the knowledge itself. Then, an "interdiscipline" should be a form of cross-cultural communication rather than the use of one subject area by someone who studies another subject area. The groupings of books categorized into LC subject headings could also be seen as the artifacts of societies, including the basic assumptions, language and values of the practitioners. These cultures develop in "communities of practice" that accumulate largely within and among universities, although sometimes extend to other areas of society (business, government, volunteer-sector). These ideas may be a bit trite, but they address the problem of the so-called language-arts "interdisciplinarian" thinking he/she is being interdisciplinary simply because he/she uses supply and demand, mathematical theory or an understanding of the biosphere in his/her work. A true "interdisciplinarian" ought to be a kind of anthropologist, understanding his/her own assumptions and constructing the ethnography of the cross discipline before engaging in any kind of synthesis of the material. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: "Shawn Martin" Subject: EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Contest Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:31:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 993 (993) EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Contest Deadline: 10-31-2005 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. Grand prize winners will also have the opportunity to publish their work in _Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History_ 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_at_umich.edu or by phone at (734) 936-5611 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shawn Martin Project Outreach 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_at_umich.edu 920 N. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carlos Areces Subject: ESSLLI 2005 - Registration now Open! Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:30:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 994 (994) ESSLLI 2005 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information The annual summer school of FoLLI, the Association for Logic, Language and Information. Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland 8-19 August, 2005 -------------------------- |REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN| -------------------------- Go to http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ and follow the registration page at: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/give-page.php?17 (Note, this is during the Edinburgh famous international festival, so accommodation must be reserved promptly to guarantee accommodation). The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students, researchers and IT professionals interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI courses cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. Foundational courses aim to provide truly introductory courses into a field. The courses presuppose absolutely no background knowledge. In particular, they should be accessible to people from other disciplines. Introductory courses are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques, and to allow experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Advanced courses are intended to enable participants to acquire more specialized knowledge about topics they are already familiar with. Workshops are intended to encourage collaboration and the cross-fertilization of ideas by stimulating in-depth discussion of issues which are at the forefront of current research in the field. In these workshops, students and researchers can give presentations of their research. In addition to courses and workshops there are evening lectures, a student session and a number of satellite events (to be announced later). The aim of the student session is to provide Masters and PhD students with an opportunity to present their own work to a professional audience, thereby getting informed feedback on their own results. Unlike workshops, the student session is not tied to any specific theme. Looking forward to seeing you at ESSLLI 2005 in beautiful Edinburgh during the impressive Edinburgh international festival (see http://www.eif.co.uk/festival2005/) Fairouz Kamareddine (ESSLLI 2005 organising chair) and FOLLI (the Association for Logic, Language and Information) From: Shuly Wintner Subject: ISCOL-2005 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:16:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 995 (995) **************************************************** **************************************************** *** *** *** ISCOL-2005 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS *** *** *** *** Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics *** *** Wednesday, 22 June 2005 *** *** Technion, Haifa, Israel *** *** *** *** Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2005 *** *** *** *** http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~bagilad/iscol *** *** *** **************************************************** **************************************************** The next Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics will take place at the Technion on Wednesday, June 22, 2005. The invited speaker will be Khalil Sima'an (ILLC, Amsterdam University). This time ISCOL will be in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL). We hope that this will create a special opportunity for theoretical and computational linguists to exchange ideas and learn about each other's work. ISCOL this year will include a special session on morphological analysis and disambiguation of Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic. For this session and the general seminar, we invite presentations of 20 minutes (plus 5 minutes discussion) about original recent work on any topic in computational linguistics/natural language processing. One-page abstracts in any common text format (ascii,pdf,ps,doc,rtf) can be sent by email with subject "ISCOL" to: bagilad_at_cs.technion.ac.il *** Deadline: 30 April 2005 *** In your message please mention: - name - affiliation - title of talk - an indication whether or not your talk is intended for the special session on morphological analysis and disambiguation _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: Willard McCarty Subject: effects of discovery Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:17:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 996 (996) I have a question to pose based on a book I have been reading. Please be patient while I explain what the book's about. The question will come eventually :-) -- and the book is, I am convinced, very important for anyone interested in questions of taxonomy (for example, all those text-encoders and metadata experts). The book is Scott Atran's Cognitive foundations of natural history: Towards an anthropology of science (Cambridge, 1990). In it he makes a strong argument for commonsense knowledge in the sorting out of living things. You may be aware that commonsense has suffered a great deal in popular learned opinion for some time. As he puts it, "Having so long combatted the ethnocentric view of Western thought as innate or inevitable, anthropologists had largely come to renounce all appeal to nativism as scientifically absurd and ideologically pernicious. But in philosophy, psychology and linguistics the argument over universals of human cognition was being vigorously pursued. A new nativism arose free of those simple-minded presuppositions that most anthropologists had rightly disowned." (p. ix) In 1975 Atran (Margaret Mead's student), curious about the apparent contradiction, organized a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget that you may have heard about. He emerged from it thinking that Chomsky was, in the main, right and Piaget wrong: there are innate structures, and they do seem to be very deep. Atran argues from an abundance of scholarly research that people all over the world classify living creatures with quite an astonishing uniformity of result. From this uniformity, which he examines in great detail, he concludes that within its realm of competence, folkbiological knowledge is not only adequate but is also the initiator and cooperative partner of scientific biology. "In short, folkbiological life-forms [e.g. trees] partition the everyday world of human experience with local flora in ways that are 'natural' to the human mind as it partakes of the activities of ordinary life. Even scientists employ them, as do we all, when there is no longer direct concern with the extraordinary, nonphenomenal problems of minute and vastly extended stretches of space and time." (p. 41) The folkbiological categories, he writes, "thus constitute the fundamental setting for humankind's ordinary apprehension of the local flora and fauna." What's really interesting (at least to me, at the moment) is what happened historically -- and happens in such situations generally? -- when folkbiological taxonomy collided with experience of a much wider, more complex world in the age of exploration. Because of this encounter, folktaxonomy proved "to be inadequate for comprehending the living world at large. After the Renaissance, the ordinary bounds of sense were transcended. The complete embedding of the whole array of generic-speciemes [e.g. oak trees] within life-forms [e.g. trees], which so thoroughly construed the local ecology morphologically, lost much of its relevance. It is not that this first echelon of common sense falsely apprehended the world; it simply did not have the wherewithal to deal with nonphenomenal problems bound to horizons of an altogether different order. "All the same, it was common sense itself which, having reached the limits of its first line of understanding, thereby evinced recognition that a problem existed for science to treat. Crucial, perhaps, to that recognition was an awareness that science could draw its initial means of tackling the problem by appealing to the secondary echelon. In fact, it was the attempt to constitute a determinate series of local fragments that inaugurated the 'natural method' (in botany first, then zoology) that lasted from Linnaeus to de Jussieu and beyond." (45f) My question is this: in what sense, if at all, can we say that because of computing we are now with respect to our artifacts of study in much the same analytical situation? Is it plausible that we might be? If so, is there evidence that our folkcritical ideas (e.g. about literary genres, historical events, prosopographical patterns or musical sequences), confronting the much larger array of source material than has been possible before, show themselves to be inadequate and thus force us to think in terms of altogether different structures? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- March 2005 Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:43:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 997 (997) CIT INFOBITS March 2005 No. 81 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. Read this issue on the Web: http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmar05.html ...................................................................... How Much Time Does Online Teaching Take? A Case Study New EDUCAUSE E-Book on the Net Generation Effective E-Learning Design Technology and Student Writing Computers in the Classroom and Open Book Exams 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). [...] From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: April/May Issue of Innovate Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:48:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 998 (998) The April/May 2005 issue of Innovate is now available at http://www.innovateonline.info Innovate is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly e-journal published as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. It features creative practices and cutting-edge research on the use of information technology to enhance education. We open the issue with an important query from Glenn Russell: What are the effects of distance in time and space on affective relationships between teachers and students? Distancing lessens sensitivity to the emotional states of others and can prevent educators from responding to students' boredom, frustration, low motivation, or anxiety. Russell argues that high-bandwidth synchronous communication, including visual and aural feedback, can help educators better understand their students' needs. Joel Foreman and Roy Jenkins focus on one technology that may alleviate the distancing effect. Web conferencing systems (Webcons) include live audio and video while providing the conveniences that educators have come to expect from course management systems. Foreman and Jenkins enumerate the activities that Webcons make possible and discuss the financial resources required to bring them to the online classroom. Susan LaCour describes a future in which portal systems provide students with personalized information; integrated platforms offer campus-wide resources in a central online location; and ePortfolios give prospective employers and institutions a complete portrait of a student's learning history. These technologies enable students to take charge of their own learning, thereby increasing their potential for personal and professional success. David Gibson describes the Semantic Web's (SW) redefinition of the Internet. The SW is not merely a medium for accessing and sharing textual information; it enables the dynamic interoperability of programs across the Web. By unobtrusively gathering data related to a user's online activities, the SW can provide personalized learning resources, guidance, and evaluation, acting as a virtual teacher that is uniquely responsive to the needs of its student. The next two articles provide pedagogical tips and techniques for making online learning more engaging for students and more rewarding for instructors. Tisha Bender shows educators several online applications for role playing, situating the time-tested technique in a virtual theater where students collaboratively apply their knowledge and experiences, and then critically analyze their own performances. Cleborne Maddux, Rhoda Cummings, Leping Liu, and John Newman follow with a practical, step-by-step guide to creating a well-organized online course. Their suggestions are particularly appropriate for colleagues who are developing a Web-based course for the first time. Ed Klonoski presents a creative solution to the ubiquitous budgetary woes that frequently block technology purchases. Klonoski outlines Connecticut's recent acquisition of a statewide learning management system and provides tips on how multiple institutions can collaborate on purchasing arrangements that, in the end, will save them thousands of dollars on sophisticated software. Finally, in his "Places to Go" column, Stephen Downes introduces readers to the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery-an online repository that contains more than 270,000 images from the library's archives. The Gallery offers users convenient browsing capabilities as well as background information on each image and bibliographic listings for further research. Other libraries have launched similar sites, paving the way for archival exploration at the click of a mouse. Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists and to colleagues who want to use IT tools to advance their work. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: beta version of teiPublisher available Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:51:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 999 (999) We are delighted to announce a beta release of teiPublisher, an extensible, modular and configurable xml-based repository. teiPublisher was developed to bridge the gap between having a collection of structured documents that are posted on the Web as static HTML or XML pages, and having a functional digital repository. This is being done by providing the tools to manage an XML-based repository which will make available, search, and browse documents encoded according to any XML DTD. teiPublisher was designed to provide the administrative tools to help repository administrators with limited technical knowledge manage their digital collections. Building on Lucene, an indexing tool, and the native XML database eXist the application provides a range of administrative functions crucial to maintaining a web-assessable digital repository. For more information about teiPublisher, as well as download instructions, please visit our website http://teipublisher.sf.net/ As this is a beta release of the software, we are especially interested in your feedback (detailed instructions for feedback can be found on our download page). This is an open source project hosted by SourceForge. On behalf of the teiPublisher development team, Amit Kumar Susan Schreibman John Walsh Stewart Arneil Martin Holmes ____________________________________________ Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean, Head of Digital Collections & Research University of Maryland Libraries McKeldin Library University of Maryland, College Park, 20742 phone: 301 314 0358 fax: 301 314 9408 email: sschreib_at_umd.edu From: ceemas05_at_conferences.hu Subject: CEEMAS 05 submission deadline approaching Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:45:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1000 (1000) [4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems] Dear Colleague, This is to remind you that the paper submission deadline of CEEMAS`05 is approaching: 8 April 2005. For paper submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.ceemas.org/ceemas05 Also, we are pleased to inform you that: - A limited number of Agentlink grant is available to student presenters to encourage student participation. For further details and the application form, please visit our web site. - The 3. Agentlink Technical Forum (TFG) will be held in Budapest in conjunction with CEEMAS`05. Details on the Forum will be available at http://www.agentlink.org Should you need further information, please contact the Secretariat. With best regards, Ms. Magdolna Zsivnovszki --------------------------------------- CEEMAS05 Secretariat Conference Department, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI) H-1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17, Hungary Tel.: +36-1-209-6001, +36-1-279-6188 Fax: +36-1-386-9378 e-mail: ceemas05_at_conferences.hu URL: http://www.ceemas.org/ceemas05 From: geoff_at_cs.miami.edu Subject: LPAR-12 in Jamaica Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:47:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1001 (1001) LPAR-12 Montego Bay, Jamaica http://www.lpar.net/2005 2nd-6th December 2005 Call For Papers The 12th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-12) will be held 2nd-6th December 2005, at the Wexford Hotel, Montego Bay, Jamaica. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of interest include: + automated reasoning + propositional reasoning + interactive theorem proving + description logics + proof assistants + modal and temporal logics + proof planning + nonmonotonic reasoning + proof checking + constructive logic and type theory + rewriting and unification + lambda and combinatory calculi + software and hardware verification + logic programming + network and protocol verification + constraint programming + systems specification and synthesis + logical foundations of programming + model checking + computational interpretations of logic + proof-carrying code + logic and computational complexity + logic and databases + logic in artificial intelligence + reasoning over ontologies + knowledge representation and reasoning + reasoning for the semantic web + reasoning about actions Full and short papers are welcome. Full papers may be either regular papers containing new results, or experimental papers describing implementations or evaluations of systems. Short papers may describe work in progress or provide system descriptions. Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. The full paper proceedings of LPAR-12 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI series. Authors of accepted full papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The short paper proceedings of LPAR-12 will be published by the conference. [...] From: lpnmr05.publicity_at_mat.unical.it Subject: LPNMR'05: Call for Systems and Applications Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:48:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1002 (1002) Call for Systems and Applications 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'05) Diamante/Cosenza, Italy September 5-8, 2005 http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ As part of the technical program of LPNMR'05, we plan a special session devoted to presentations and demonstrations of LPNMR systems and LPNMR applications. Accepted contributions will be published as part of the regular conference proceedings in the Springer "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series (with a limit of four to five pages). System descriptions should provide information on the theoretical background, features, and possibly implementation techniques, experimental evaluation, programming methodology and availability. Application descriptions should refer to concrete applications of LPNMR and describe design choices and decisions, interesting implementation issues, techniques, and methodology, experimental evaluation and availability. [...] From: "Christine Goldbeck" Subject: Re: 18.669 disciplines are an illusion? Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:46:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1003 (1003) I concur with your view "a true interdisciplinarian" ought to be a kind of anthropologist, understanding his/her own assumptions and constructing the ethnography of the cross discipline before engaging in anykind of synthesis of the material." I have found that to cross the boundaries successfully, a critical knowledge of the humanistic history of the disciplines I practice is paramount to my work. With a strong grounding, we are able to move beyond the borders and to unite the artistic and scientific diciplines that we have kept separate for far too long. Such is what I have gleaned from my studies and my practice in print writing, photography, electronic story and imaging. The program in which I am enrolled, the Master of Fine Arts-Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College in Vermont, encourages practitioners to focus on the artist and communities involved in the process of practicing/viewing interdisciplinarity. Perhaps, this is why I was so drawn to your statement as quoted above. One thing I have found is that writers are far more cynical of crossing boundaries and marrying mediums than are visual artists. On a simple level, crossing boundaries and practicing interdisciplinary is a matter of "thinking outside the box." Sincerely, Christine www.christinegoldbeck.com www.minecountry.com From: "Cunliffe D J (Comp)" Subject: "Minority languages, multimedia and the Web" Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:46:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1004 (1004) Special Issue Call for Papers: "Minority languages, multimedia and the Web" Submission deadline: April 30, 2005 For The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2005 (2) Guest Editors: Daniel Cunliffe, University of Glamorgan, UK (djcunlif_at_glam.ac.uk) Susan Herring, Indiana University, USA (herring_at_indiana.edu) Information and communications technology, and in particular the World Wide= =20 Web, can be a double-edged sword as regards the maintenance and=20 revitalisation of minority languages. On the one hand, minority language=20 communities can be active shapers of these technologies, creating their own= =20 tools, adapting existing tools to local needs, and creating culturally=20 authentic, indigenous electronic media. On the other hand, these=20 technologies can be seen as a force for globalisation and neo-colonisation,= =20 reinforcing the existing dominance of majority languages and breaking down= =20 geographical boundaries that in the past may have protected minority=20 language groups. Researching the effects of multimedia and the Web on minority languages is= =20 challenging, and it is not yet clear how best to utilise these technologies= =20 to maintain and revitalise minority languages. This special issue invites=20 researchers and practitioners who are actively engaged in addressing these= =20 issues from practical or theoretical viewpoints to share their findings and= =20 experiences and to contribute to a platform for future research. Relevant=20 topics include, but are not limited to: Minority language applications: =95 designing, implementing and evaluating applications =95 measuring the=20 impact of applications on language use =95 promoting indigenous production= =20 and participatory design Influence of ICTs on minority languages: =95 adaptation of languages to online environments, e.g., Romanisation =95= =20 behaviour of minority language speakers in online environments Measuring online minority languages: =95 quantitative and qualitative measurement of online presence and use =95= =20 content related analysis of online presence and use Strategic issues: =95 understanding barriers to online minority language use =95 integrating= =20 multimedia and the Web into language planning Article submissions should typically be no longer than 7,000 words=20 (excluding references) and should follow the formatting guidelines in the=20 Instructions to Authors on the NRHM web site=20 (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titl= es/13614568.asp).=20 Submissions should be sent by email to the Guest Editors, in Word, rtf or=20 pdf format. If you have any questions concerning the scope of the call or=20 require further information, please contact the Guest Editors. Open topic=20 papers meeting NRHM's scope in general are also welcome (contact the Editor= =20 for further information). Submission deadline: April 30, 2005 Acceptance notification: June 30, 2005 Final manuscripts due: August 31, 2005 NRHM Editor Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope_at_glam.ac.uk Associate Editor Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif_at_glam.ac.uk NRHM is published by= =20 Taylor & Francis, see=20 www.tandf.co.uk/journals/title= s/13614568.asp=20 _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:50:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1005 (1005) Institute (U Victoria, June 11-14, 2005) I've attached, below, an announcement for the 2005 Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute. Please forward it to interested colleagues and students (and please, also, excuse any x-posting). On behalf of all those involved in the institute, I invite you to consider joining us in the week before the ACH/ALLC conference in Victoria! With all best wishes, Ray Siemens Director *** Announcing the 2004 Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 11-14, 2005 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ *** * Mandate The institute provides 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 offers 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. This year the summer institute is pleased to associate itself with the 2005 ACH/ALLC Conference taking place at the University of Victoria June 15-18. The Institute workshops will take place immediately before the ACH/ALLC Conference, and our staff are working closely with the conference planners to provide a unique array of course offerings and special sessions. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities and its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and is sponsored by the University of Victoria, University of British Columbia Library, Malaspina University College, Acadia University, the Consortium for Computing in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures: Lorna Hughes [New York U], David Hoover [New York U], Willard McCarty [King's College, London], Stan Ruecker [U Alberta], Claire Warwick [University College, London], John Unsworth [U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign] Introductory offerings: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U] and Syd Bauman [Brown U]) [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Marshall Soules and CDHI staff [Malaspina U-C]) Intermediate offerings: [3] Intermediate Encoding: Advanced TEI Encoding Issues, Metadata, Text Transformations, and Databases (instructed by Susan Schreibman [U Maryland] and Amit Kumar [U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]) [4] Multimedia: Tools and Techniques for Digital Media Projects (instructed by Aimee Morrison [U Waterloo]) Advanced Consultations: [5] Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [Malaspina U-C], with seminar speakers including Alan Galey [U Western Ontario], Matt Steggle [Sheffield Hallam U], Claire Warwick [University College, London], Lorna Hughes [New York U], Julia Flanders [Brown U], and Susan Schreibman [U Maryland]) * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Standard registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $450 for students. * 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/ . From: David B. Rice, Subject: 2005 Lyman Award Recipient Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:49:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1006 (1006) Director of Communications National Humanities Center Email: drice_at_unity.ncsu.edu (919) 549-0661 The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce that John M. Unsworth is the fourth winner of the Richard W. Lyman Award. A committee of scholars selected him for his critical efforts to make it possible for others to do rich and original work in the humanities that draws on the best of current technology and the best of current scholarship. As the first director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (www.iath.virginia.edu/index.html) at the University of Virginia, Unsworth helped foster and sustain the much-honored "The Valley of the Shadow," "The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive," and "The William Blake Archive," among many digital humanities research projects. As the organizer and chair of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, Unsworth helped develop international and interdisciplinary standards to represent literary and linguistic texts for online research, teaching, and preservation. He continues his work to shape the way scholars, universities, libraries, and archives will conduct, represent, and preserve humanities scholarship in the future as chair of the Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences. Unsworth has published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, and he co-founded, in 1990, Postmodern Culture (http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html), the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities. In 2003, Unsworth (http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/) became dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Unsworth will receive the Lyman Award in a presentation at the Newberry Library in Chicago on May 10 at 5:30 p.m. Each of you should receive an invitation in the next two weeks. If you do not receive one, if you want more information about the event, or if you plan to be in Chicago on May 10 and would like to join us in honoring John, please contact Sarah Payne at 919-549-0661 or spayne_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us Thanks once again to everyone who took the time to nominate so many worthy candidates, and to the nominees who took the time to provide us with information and gather letters of reference. We will seek nominations this fall for the fifth (and final) Lyman Award, and we hope that everyone will take part again. From: "Richard Gartner" Subject: PARADIGM Project Software Engineer Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:50:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1007 (1007) PARADIGM Project Software Engineer Academic Related Grade 2 =A322,507 - =A329,128 p.a. including 38 days annual leave (13 fixed) Fixed term contract until December 2006 Web oriented developer needed to provide assistance to the PARADIGM project <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=3Dproject_daepp>. The project is to develop best practices and solutions for the collection and preservation of private papers in digital form. It is expected that the project will make use of the Dspace and Fedora digital repositories and the successful applicant will be comfortable with their core technologies of Java and SQL. In addition to installing, configuring and developing the above repositories and related software, the Software Engineer will be expected to maintain the project website and investigate other software packages as needed. Good communication skills are essential. The postholder must be able to liaise effectively with non-technical colleagues, and will be required to participate in the dissemination of the project's findings by producing technical and end-user documentation, contributing to a Workbook on Digital Private Papers, and giving presentations on technical aspects of the project. Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from: http://www.sers.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ or from Sarah Connor, Systems and Electronic Resources Service, SERS Building, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES; (Tel: 01865 280040; E-mail: sarah.connor_at_sers.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for completed application forms is 18 April 2005. It is expected that interviews will take place the week beginning 25 April 2005. From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 18.674 effects of discovery? Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:00:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1008 (1008) Well, of course. This is happening in archival science, where what once seemed real theory is now seen (in the light of digital objects) as paper-centric practice. This is a pretty Goedelian observation overall... Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: [humanist] 18.674 effects of discovery? Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:01:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1009 (1009) Hi Willard, You write: [deleted quotation]With regard to literary studies (but perhaps this is more generally applicable), yes, I think it is. Further, it seems that our situation isn't the first time since the Renaissance that this has happened. It was through one of your posts, I think, that I discovered Michael Mahoney's writing about Henry Ford and his approach to machines.* It makes sense Ford's innovative approach-cum-business-model** came so late in the industrial revolution: machines themselves seemed to give him ideas. First they had to be constructed, then they (and his own powers of observation) informed Ford of the utilitarian possibilities. Classification systems are utilitarian, yet literary studies have been historically based largely on emotional response. (Wonder if I'm opening up a can of worms with that one. I take it as a given, but don't actually know whether there's a consensus with regard to objectivity in literary criticism.) Now that we have computation available, we're finding it useful to look at larger bodies of artifacts than before. Some corpora are bound to include artifacts originally created in different mediums, and new classification schemes are bound to arise from this. * http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/brevard.htm and other writings linked from his home page ** If I understand it correctly, it can be summarized as putting together tinkering with machines on one hand, and an awareness of who will use your product, how and why on the other. [deleted quotation]I think it's a matter of individual approach and of time. Eventually, yes, the fields of humanities are bound to be forced to think in different structures. But before that happens, humanities computing must become a more substantial presence in the daily lives of individual researchers. This is part of the reason for which I'm so excited for the VHL* texts to show people our code (any day now) and let them look at it, think about it, play with it. Insights will surely arise out of that process, and will lead to new ways of thinking: we've already proven it to ourselves on a small scale, it just has to propagate. *See URL below. [optim|ideal]istically, -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Self-Plagiarism Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:00:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1010 (1010) Willard, I thought Humanist readers would be interested in a recent treatment of the problem of self-plagiarism as a update to Irving Hexham's 1992 post to the Humanist: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v05/0795.html Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science, Christian Collberg and Stehpen Kobourov, Communications of the ACM, volume 48, number 4, 88-94. The authors define the following terminology for self-plagiarism: ********************** Textual reuse: Incorporating text/images/or other material from previously published work. (By "published work" we mean articles published in refereed conferences and journals where copyright is assigned to someone other than the author.) Semantic reuse: Incorporating ideas from previously published work. Blatant reuse: Incorporating texts or ideas frompreviously published work in such a way that the two works are virtually indistinguishable. Selective reuse: Incorporating bits and pieces from previously published work. Incidental reuse: Incorporating texts or ideas not directly related to the new ideas presented in the paper (such as related work sections, motivating examples, among others). Reuse by cryptomnesia [4]: Incorporating texts or ideas from previously published work while unaware of the existence of that work. Opaque reuse: Incorporating texts or ideas from previously published work without acknowledging the existence of that work. Advocacy reuse: Incorporating texts or ideas from previously published work when writing to a community different from that in which the original work was published. at page 91 ****************************** The authors have created software, SPlaT (Self-Plagirism Tool), available at: http://splat.cs.arizona.edu, to assist in their investigation of the incidence of self-plagarism. I have not installed the software (yet) but can easily imagine using it in reviewer mode while acting as a peer reviewer for markup conferences. The article concludes with a number of questions as to what can and should be done, as well as who would be responsible for taking action to prevent self-plagiarism. If humanists are going to be concerned with "classic" plagiarim by students, it seems to me that self-plagiarism deserves equal concern. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature Patrick.Durusau_at_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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: upcoming talk Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:59:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1011 (1011) For anyone in the vicinity of Philadelphia: I'm speaking at the History of Material Texts workshop at the University of Pennsylvania next week (Monday, April 4, at 5:15 in the Penn Humanities Forum). Here's the abstract for my talk, based on material from my forthcoming book, _Mechanisms_: "Every Contact Leaves a Trace": Computers Forensics and Electronic Textuality "Every contact leaves a trace" was the dictum propagated by Edmond Locard, police inspector of Lyons and pioneer of modern forensic science. This talk will explore what the emerging field of computer forensics--most recently in the news with the capture of the confessed "BTK killer" using evidence obtained from a floppy disk--has to tell us about electronic textuality, particularly the now well-turned question of the materiality of electronic documents. Legally a computer file is a form of *physical* evidence. I will suggest that the nature of forensic evidence and the field's applied techniques ask us to reconsider many chestnuts about electronic writing--its presumed ephemerality, for example, or the postmodern concept of the simulacrum--copies without originals. The talk will illustrate the concept of "forensic readings" of electronic literature, while also drawing parallels to more traditional forms of bibliography and textual criticism--considering what these venerable fields, the most sophisticated branches of media studies I know, have to offer the digital word. Matthew Kirschenbaum -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Fairouz Kamareddine Subject: DEADLINE FOR ESSLLI 05 CHEAP REGISTRATION APPROACHING Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:14:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1012 (1012) ESSLLI 2005, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information The annual summer school of FoLLI, the Association for Logic, Language and Information. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland 8-19 August, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |THREE WEEKS LEFT TO THE CLOSING DOWN OF CHEAP REGISTRATION REGISTRATION| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION PROCEDURE ON LINE AT: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/give-page.php?17 (Note, this is during the Edinburgh famous international festivals, http://www.eventful-edinburgh.com/ so accommodation must be reserved promptly to guarantee accommodation). Fairouz Kamareddine (ESSLLI 2005 organising chair) and FOLLI (the Association for Logic, Language and Information) From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 18.677 self-plagarism Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:13:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1013 (1013) Willard, Note that the word 'plagiarism' is spelled no less than three different ways in this message -- in addition to the correct way, it is also spelled 'plagarism' and 'plagirism'! -- Andrew Brook, Professor of Philosophy Director, Institute of Cognitive Science 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: Elli Mylonas Subject: CHUG talk: Noon 4/8 Anthony Lioi Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:13:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1014 (1014) The Computers and the Humanities Users Group presents "Isis 2.0: Humanities Computing and the Hope of a Digital Ecology" Anthony Lioi Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and the Women's Studies Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology Noon, Friday, April 8 STG Conference Room Ground Floor, Grad Center, Tower E Does humanities computing contain a model of human-machine interaction that can address patterns of pathological technophobia and naive technophilia in contemporary American culture? How can we articulate a philosophy of digital texuality which incorporates the machine into social and natural ecologies? This talk situates humanities computing in a context of violently spiraling technophilia and technophobia. In contrast to models of the machine as perfect servant or secret master, humanities computing perhaps embodies a third model--a literal information ecology, the machine as organism in a biotechnic community--with important consequences for the codex-based humanities and contemporary machine-culture in general. Examples will be multiplied. We will be taking the speaker to lunch after the talk and plan to continue, the conversation. Please join us if you are free. If not, please don't hesitate to bring your lunch to the talk! you are free, From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Online Journal Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:40:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1015 (1015) There has been discussion on Humanist around the need for an online journal in digital humanities. The Publications Committee of the joint organization being established by ALLC and ACH (and others) has proposed that a first joint venture should be a free online journal for the community. If you are interested in participating in such a venture or have an opinion about how it should be done, please write me at georock (at) mcmaster (dot) ca. Geoffrey Rockwell georock (at) mcmaster (dot) ca From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Copyright Symposium Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:48:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1016 (1016) The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is interested in advertising this nonprofit, educational symposium for interested educators, administrators, attorneys and librarians. We would greatly appreciate your posting the message below to your listserv or promoting this opportunity within your networks. Thank you. _______________ [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION Pirates, Thieves and Innocents: Perceptions of Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium June 16-17, 2005 HOSTED by the Center for Intellectual Property and being held at the UMUC Inn and Conference Center in Adelphi, MD THEME: The 2005 CIP Symposium will explore the various ways in which individuals and organizations think and talk about copyright infringement in our digital age and what actions they take based upon those perceptions. The symposium will focus on issues relevant to the higher education community and the delivery of third-party copyrighted content. Facilitating our exploration, discussion, and reflection will be representatives from the academy, library, law, corporation, nonprofit organization, technology sector, and Capitol Hill. TOPICS to be addressed by speakers and panelists will include: -The Impact of Copyright Law and Policy on Academic Culture -Regulatory Copyright: How Will Universities be Affected? -P2P File Sharing: Pirates or Revolutionaries? -Culture and Copyright: A Creative Clash? -Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age: What Universities Need to Know -The Copyright Legislative Landscape -Responses to Copyright Infringement at University Campuses: Best Practices PARTICIPANTS will include: Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information); Jonathan Band (Morrison & Foerster LLP); Robert Brauneis (George Washington University Law School); Jon Baumgarten (Proskauer Rose LLP); Mark Luker (Educause); Patrick Ross (Progress & Freedom Foundation); Gigi Sohn (Public Knowledge); Siva Vaidhyanathan (New York University); Alec French (Office of Congressman Howard L. Berman). REGISTER early since space is limited. Early registration (before May 16, 2005) is $275. Regular registration is $350. Please visit the website for details and other affiliation discounts valued at $50. MORE INFORMATION/REGISTRATION available at http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium. Jack Boeve University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 240-582-2736 jboeve_at_umuc.edu From: "Jan Engelen" Subject: Electronic Publishing: invitation to the 9th ELPUB Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:48:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1017 (1017) conference (8-10 June 2005) TEST2 Leuven (Belgium), April 4, 2005 Dear expert in Electronic Publishing, We would like to invite you to a unique international event in the field of= =20 Electronic Document handling and publication, the "9th International=20 Conference on Electronic Publishing". The conference will be organised by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven=20 (Belgium) from 8-10 June 2005. Internet based registration is now open at: http://www.elpub.net . This 9th ELPUB conference will keep the tradition going of the eight=20 previous international conferences on electronic publishing, which is to=20 bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, businessmen,= =20 entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested on issues regarding= =20 electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. The wide range of=20 participants will guarantee an exchange of experiences, investigation=20 results and opinions. Participants to ELPUB2005 will be updated on the state of art in Electronic= =20 Publishing through more than 40 high-level contributions and some twenty=20 demonstrations and poster presentations. The conference "ELPUB 2005 - From Author to Reader: Challenges for the=20 Digital Content Chain" will be hosted by the Research Group on Document=20 Architectures of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium's oldest and=20 largest university. 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From: Ken Friedman Subject: Journal of Research Practice Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:51:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1019 (1019) New Trans-disciplinary Journal Launched Journal of Research Practice (JRP) DP Dash, PhD Xavier Institute of Management Xavier Square Bhubaneswar 751013 INDIA Email: professor_dash_at_yahoo.co.uk Homepage: http://www.ximb.ac.in/~dpdash/ A diverse group of academic scholars, research students, and=20 research-inclined professionals have come together to launch a new=20 peer-reviewed electronic journal to supplement various initiatives to build= =20 research capacities around the world. The inaugural issue of the Journal of= =20 Research Practice: Innovations and Challenges in Multiple Domains (JRP) is= =20 available at http://jrp.icaap.org/ in an Open Access mode, i.e., full-text access is available to everyone,=20 free of charge. The journal seeks to (a) connect research-inclined persons working in=20 different disciplinary, institutional, and practical contexts and (b)=20 through this, extend the practice of research to progressively newer=20 territories. Both these aims are expected to facilitate the wider purposes= =20 of promoting research education around the world and innovative forms of=20 research in different socially relevant areas. JRP is published by the International Consortium for the Advancement in=20 Academic Publication, ICAAP, which is a research and development=20 organisation devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly=20 communication. ICAAP is a prominent facilitator of the Open Access movement= =20 today. It is located at Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta. Free access to JRP has been made possible through institutional=20 sponsorship. The current sponsors of the journal are: Center for Science in Society, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA Lugano Summer School of Systems Design, University of Italian Switzerland,= =20 SWITZERLAND Nokia Research Center, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, CHILE Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, INDIA The editorial board comprises two editors, supported by a multidisciplinary= =20 team. The editors are: DP Dash (the author of this article) and H=E9ctor R.= =20 Ponce (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Administraci=F3n y=20 Econom=EDa, Santiago, CHILE). The editorial team is fairly international in= =20 character, representing countries such as Australia, Canada, Chile,=20 Denmark, Finland, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand,=20 Norway, Switzerland, UK, and USA. Here is a list of the articles published in the inaugural issue (Volume 1,= =20 Issue 1, 2005); these articles are available freely on the JRP Web site: Journey of Research Practice (DP Dash and H=E9ctor R. Ponce) Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revising= =20 (Paul Grobstein) The Acquisition of High Quality Experience (Gerard de Zeeuw) "Why Did We Have the Partition?" The Making of a Research Interest (Satish= =20 Saberwal) Digital Video as Research Practice: Methodology for the Millennium (Wesley= =20 Shrum, Ricardo Duque, and Timothy Brown) Playful Collaborative Exploration: New Research Practice in Participatory=20 Design (Martin Johansson and Per Linde) Investigating the Research Approaches for Examining Technology Adoption=20 Issues (Jyoti Choudrie and Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi) On Borges' Amnesia and Talmudic Understanding: Reviving Ancient Traditions= =20 in Re-Search (Zvi Bekerman and Yair Neuman) Logic of Leadership Research: A Reflective Review of Geeks & Geezers by=20 Bennis and Thomas (DP Dash) Can Nature Teach us Good Research Practice? A Critical Look at Frederic=20 Vester's Bio-Cybernetic Systems Approach (Werner Ulrich) The optimistic vision of this journal is presented in the editorial article= =20 by Dash and Ponce: The title of this journal may look surprising to some readers. There may=20 even be a legitimate doubt as to whether the journal would take-off at all,= =20 the title being so broad and unspecific. On the contrary, to be more=20 optimistic, the journal could meet a long-felt need, i.e., that of bringing= =20 researchers, and various forms of organised inquiry, into fruitful=20 connections with each other, without the restrictions imposed by formal=20 disciplinary boundaries. This whole enterprise is a testimony to the wonders of the digital=20 communication technology that has promoted cooperation at such a global=20 scale. Every research-oriented individual and institution, and every=20 research student working anywhere in the world is invited to explore=20 "fruitful connections" with this initiative. _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.11 Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:02:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1020 (1020) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 11 (April 5 - April 12, 2005) View In Defense Of Cheating Donald A. Norman wants to see a reordering of academic priorities. Let us the debate continue! From: toc.alerts_at_ingenta.com Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews vol. 30 no. 1 (January Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:01:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1021 (1021) 2005) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews January 2005 30.1:1-1(1) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr ISR Editorial A Pugwash quartet Harris, Jack Gaia: nice is not enough Turney, Jon The credibility of scientific expertise in a culture of suspicion Barnes, Barry Country stories: the use of oral histories of the countryside to challenge the sciences of the past and future Harvey, David; Riley, Mark Writing the region: Jonathan Couch and the Cornish fauna Naylor, Simon Cathedral studies: insight or hindsight? Smith, Norman A.F. Ancient technology and computer aided design: olive oil production in southern Spain Rojas-Sola, Jose Ignacio Evolution as context-driven actualisation of potential: toward an interdisciplinary theory of change of state Gabora, Liane; Aerts, Diederik Book Reviews From: blmcpeek21 Subject: RE: 18.687 is it plagiarism if it's plagarism or plagirism? Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:47:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1022 (1022) For an interesting story on plagiarism, see http://www.aweekofkindness.com/blog/archives/the_laura_k_krishna_saga/000029.html. From: "Weiqun Wang" Subject: call for posters--corpus linguistics 2005 Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:39:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1023 (1023) CALL FOR POSTERS Deadline: April 30th, 2005 Corpus Linguistics 2005 Birmingham, July 15th-17th www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference <http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference> Registration Open: www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference/registrationFormCL2005.htm Organisers: University of Birmingham and University of Lancaster The organisers invite the submission of POSTER proposals for the conference Corpus Linguistics 2005, to be held at the University of Birmingham 15-17 July 2005. This is the third biennial conference in the Corpus Linguistics series but the first to be held at the University of Birmingham. It follows on from the successful predecessors held at the University of Lancaster in 2001 and 2003. We invite posters on corpus-based/corpus-driven research including, but not limited, to the following areas: - Phraseology - Critical Discourse Analysis - Translation - Pedagogical applications of corpora - Corpora, dictionaries and grammar - Corpus compilation - Software development The poster proposals should be sent in electronic form to Weiqun Wang by April 30th , 2005 to the following e-mail address: w.wang.2_at_bham.ac.uk . Authors will be notified whether their posters are accepted by May 29th, 2005. The proposals will be reviewed by the following organising and programme committees: The Organising Committee: Susan Hunston, Birmingham Pernilla Danielsson, Birmingham Tony McEnery, Lancaster Paul Rayson, Lancaster The Programme Committee Karin Aijmer, G=F6teborg, Michael Barlow, New Zeeland Silvia Bernardini, FORLI Marina Bondi, Modena Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana Ruta Marcinkeviciene, Kaunas Rosamund Moon, Birmingham Daniel Ridings, Oslo John Sinclair, Firenze Wolfgang Teubert, Birmingham Martin Wynne, Oxford [...] From: ceemas05_at_conferences.hu Subject: CEEMAS05 paper submission deadline extended Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:40:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1024 (1024) Dear Colleague, As we received many requests, I am pleased to inform you that the CEEMAS`05 full paper submission deadline is extended until 15 April 2005. Submission guidelines are available at www.ceemas.org/ceemas05 Best regards, Magdolna Zsivnovszki CEEMAS05 Secretariat Conference Department, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI) H-1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17, Hungary Tel.: +36-1-209-6001, +36-1-279-6188 Fax: +36-1-386-9378 e-mail: ceemas05_at_conferences.hu From: "Claire Rustat-Flinton" Subject: Head of Unit for the Humanities Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:41:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1025 (1025) Position Announcement: Head of Unit for the Humanities ESF is inviting applications for the position of Head of the Standing=20 Committee for Humanities Unit. The SCH Unit is one of five science Units=20 dealing with the various domains of science in ESF. Applications by 30=20 April 2005. Details available at=20 http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=3D0&section=3D8&domain=3D0&g= enericpage=3D2232 Claire Rustat-Flinton Administrative Assistant Standing Committee for the Humanities European Science Foundation 1 quai Lezay Marn=E9sia BP 90015 67080 Strasbourg cedex tel: +33 (0)3 88 76 71 79 Fax: +33 (0)3 88 37 05 32 From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Question regarding your conference? Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:42:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1026 (1026) [deleted quotation] a [deleted quotation] was [deleted quotation] a [deleted quotation] any [deleted quotation] Technical [deleted quotation] unnoticed [deleted quotation] because [deleted quotation] abstract [deleted quotation] (1987, [deleted quotation] Review, [deleted quotation] legitimate [deleted quotation] process. [deleted quotation] in [deleted quotation] based [deleted quotation] by [deleted quotation] by [deleted quotation] journals, [deleted quotation] From: "Johanne Martinez - Schmitt" Subject: ESF NEWS - http://www.esf.org - ESF NEWS - Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:41:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1027 (1027) Dear ESF web site user, Here is the latest update on what's new on the European Science Foundation's web site. If you cannot read this email please refer directly to the ESF website: <http://www.esf.org/>http://www.esf.org <http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0&section=2&domain=0&genericpage=2241> European Latsis Prize - Nomination of candidates for 2005 The Prize, of a value of 100 000 Swiss Francs, is presented each year by the Latsis Foundation at the ESF Annual Assembly to a scientist or research group in recognition of outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of European research. The research field for the 2005 Prize is: Nano-Engineering - Deadline 15 June 2005 <http://bepar.antibes.inra.fr/>BEPAR Summer School - Call for Applications BEPAR announces its first Summer School entitled Behavioural Ecology approach of biological control programmes, which will be held in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, on 15-19 August 2005. Applications from students are now invited. Deadline 15 June 2005. <http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?section=10&language=0&genericpage=2231>Call for Proposals: ESF/EMBO Symposia 2006 and 2007 A Call for Proposals is now open for up to five Symposia, co-sponsored by ESF and EMBO, which will take place in each of calendar years 2006 and 2007. The Call is addressed to leading European scientists for Symposia to take place in Europe. The deadlines for Proposals are as follows: 2006 Symposia: 10 May 2005 (midnight CET) - 2007 Symposia: 1 October 2005 (midnight CET) <http://www.esf.org/esf_redirect.php?section=8&domain=0&genericpage=2232>Position Announcement: Head of Unit for the Humanities ESF is inviting applications for the position of Head of the Standing Committee for Humanities Unit. The SCH Unit is one of five science Units dealing with the various domains of science in ESF. Applications by 30 April 2005 <http://www.holivar2006.org/>HOLIVAR 2006 - Open Science Meeting, 12-15 June 2006, London, United Kingdom The ESF Programme on Holocene Climate Variability (HOLIVAR) is organising its Final Open Science Meeting, which will take place in London, United Kingdom on 12-15 June 2006. Pre-registration is now open. <http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?domain=1&activity=7&article=513&page=1276&chapter=0>Call for proposals in Fundamentals of NanoElectronics (FoNE) Following agreement with funding bodies from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom, the European Science Foundation is launching a Call for Outline Proposals for collaborative research projects to be undertaken within the EUROCORES programme FoNE. The programme includes national research funding and a European networking component. Proposals are sought for collaborative research projects. Deadline 15 May 2005. <http://www.esof2006.org/>New Research. New Technology. New Thinking: Euroscience Open Forum 2006 launches call for proposals The 2nd Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) will take place July 15th-19th 2006 in Munich, Germany. Scientists, journalists and experts in politics, industry and research can now submit proposals for scientific sessions and outreach activities online at www.esof2006.org until June 15th 2005. Press release output From: Pia Janczak Subject: Questionnaire: German Digital Libraries (Final Report) Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:43:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1028 (1028) Dear subscribers, Some time ago several subscribers of this list participated in a questionnary concerning digitalisation activities by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The final report of these studies was approved on march, 3 by the DFGs commission of libraries and is available from their website as http://www.dfg.de/forschungsfoerderung/wissenschaftliche_infrastruktur/lis/download/retro_digitalisierung_eval_050406.pdf Thanks a lot for your participation! With best regards, Humanities Computing Science Project Team http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de -- Pia Janczak, M.A. Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Universitaet zu Koeln Albertus Magnus Platz 50923 Koeln Tel.: 0221-4705228 Fax.: 0221-4707737 http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de From: Helen Ashman Subject: NRHM Call Reminder: Minority languages, multimedia and Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:39:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1029 (1029) the Web Minority languages, multimedia and the Web - Special Issue Call Reminder Submission deadline: April 30, 2005 For The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 2005 (2) Guest Editors: Daniel Cunliffe, University of Glamorgan, UK (djcunlif_at_glam.ac.uk) Susan Herring, Indiana University, USA (herring_at_indiana.edu) Information and communications technology, and in particular the World Wide Web, can be a double-edged sword as regards the maintenance and revitalisation of minority languages. On the one hand, minority language communities can be active shapers of these technologies, creating their own tools, adapting existing tools to local needs, and creating culturally authentic, indigenous electronic media. On the other hand, these technologies can be seen as a force for globalisation and neo-colonisation, reinforcing the existing dominance of majority languages and breaking down geographical boundaries that in the past may have protected minority language groups. Researching the effects of multimedia and the Web on minority languages is challenging, and it is not yet clear how best to utilise these technologies to maintain and revitalise minority languages. This special issue invites researchers and practitioners who are actively engaged in addressing these issues from practical or theoretical viewpoints to share their findings and experiences and to contribute to a platform for future research. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: Minority language applications: * designing, implementing and evaluating applications * measuring the impact of applications on language use * promoting indigenous production and participatory design Influence of ICTs on minority languages: * adaptation of languages to online environments, e.g., Romanisation * behaviour of minority language speakers in online environments Measuring online minority languages: * quantitative and qualitative measurement of online presence and use * content related analysis of online presence and use Strategic issues: * understanding barriers to online minority language use * integrating multimedia and the Web into language planning Article submissions should typically be no longer than 7,000 words (excluding references) and should follow the formatting guidelines in the Instructions to Authors on the NRHM web site (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp). Submissions should be sent by email to the Guest Editors, in Word, rtf or pdf format. If you have any questions concerning the scope of the call or require further information, please contact the Guest Editors. Open topic papers meeting NRHM's scope in general are also welcome (contact the Editor for further information). Submission deadline: April 30, 2005 Acceptance notification: June 30, 2005 Final manuscripts due: August 31, 2005 NRHM Editor Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope_at_glam.ac.uk Associate Editor Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif_at_glam.ac.uk NRHM is published by Taylor & Francis, see www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp From: Willard McCarty Subject: Soft Computing 9.5 Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:45:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1030 (1030) Volume 9 Number 5 of Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations,=20 Methodologies and Applications is now available on the SpringerLink web=20 site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Editorial for the special issue: Soft Computing for Spatial Data=20 Analysis p. 325 Marco Painho, Vincenzo Lois Focus Exploring spatial data through computational intelligence: a joint=20 perspective p. 326 Marco Painho, Athanasios Vasilakos, Fernando Bacao, Witold Pedrycz Focus Granular neural networks for land use classification p. 332 Athanassios Vasilakos, Demetris Stathakis Focus Applying genetic algorithms to zone design p. 341 Fernando Ba=E7=E3o, Victor Lobo, Marco Painho Focus Neuro-computing based short range prediction of some meteorological=20 parameters during the pre-monsoon season p. 349 Sutapa Chaudhuri, Surajit Chattopadhyay Focus Virtual reality: The non-temporal cartographic animation and the urban=20 (large) scale projects p. 355 G. Sidiropoulos, V Pappas, A. Vasilakos Focus Representation of spatial data in an OODB using roughand fuzzy set=20 modeling p. 364 T. Beaubouef, F. E. Petry Geo-spatial data mining in the analysis of a demographic database p. 374 M. Yasmina Santos, L. Alfredo Amaral The complete linkage clustering algorithm revisited p. 385 P. Dawyndt, H. De Meyer, B. De Baets Automatic training of a min-max neural network for function approximation=20 by using a second feed forward network p. 393 R. K. Brouwer A new gaussian noise filter based on interval type-2 fuzzy logic=20 systems p. 398 S.T. Wang, F.L. Chung, Y.Y. Li, D.W. Hu, X.S. Wu [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London=20 WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an exam question Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:19:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1031 (1031) [This being the season for exams in the U.K., you will, I hope, forgive the format of this provocation to discussion. The statement originates in a paper given by Robert Whalen (N Michigan) at a recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, in Cambridge.] "Tagging is a subspecies of critical reading". Discuss. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Donna Reiss Subject: Invitation: 8th International Writing Across the Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:33:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1032 (1032) Curriculum Conference Eighth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference May 18-20, 2006 The Conference Center & Inn at Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina Proposal Deadline: September 26, 2005. We are delighted to announce the Eighth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. We encourage proposals from all disciplines and from cross-disciplinary teams on a wide range of topics of interest to faculty, graduate students, and administrators at two- and four-year colleges. These topics include: -- WAC: Writing Across the Curriculum -- WID: Writing in the Disciplines -- CAC: Communication Across the Curriculum, which includes oral, visual, digital, and written communication -- ECAC: Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. We invite proposals of five session types: individual presentations; full panels; roundtable sessions; poster sessions; and pre-conference workshops. In addition, we invite submission of proposals in the following broad categories: Theme A: Teaching: Using WAC, WID, CAC, or ECAC in Teaching Disciplinary Courses Theme B: Research, History, Theory, and Contemporary Practice Theme C: Program Design, Implementation, Administration, Outreach, and Assessment Theme D: WAC, CAC, and Technology Theme E: The Politics of WAC Theme F: Cross Thematic and Other Related Topics For program proposal forms and additional conference information, please see our website . Please also feel free to contact the conference planners at wac2006-L_at_clemson.edu or fax, 864.656.1846. You may also contact the conference co-directors: Art Young (864.656.3062) or Kathi Yancey (864.656.5394), Department of English, 616 Strode Tower, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0523. ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ Donna Reiss dreiss at wordsworth2.net Department of English, Clemson University, dreiss at clemson.edu http://www.clemson.edu/~dreiss Professor Emeritus, English-Humanities, Tidewater Community College http://www.tcc.edu/faculty/webpages/dreiss/ WordsWorth2 Communications and Consulting http://wordsworth2.net 203 Grove Drive, Clemson, SC 29631-2310 ~^~ 864-654-2886 ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ From: Helen Ashman Subject: DocEng submissions are now open Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:35:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1033 (1033) Submissions are now being accepted for the 2005 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. The deadlines for full papers, panel proposals, and Tutorials are fast approaching. For most submissions (except tutorial proposals) DocEng 2005 is using the JEMS system (formerly EDAS) hosted by the Brazilian Computer Society. Full papers and panel proposals may be submitted using the JEMS/EDAS pages for "ACM DocEng 2005 FULL PAPERS" at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=160 Tutorial proposals may be submitted by e-mail to the DocEng 2005 Tutorials Chair, George Thiruvathukal (gthiruv_at_luc.edu). Deadlines are: April 29: Registration of author information and abstracts for full papers and panel proposals on JEMS/EDAS May 6: Submission of full papers and panel proposals to JEMS/EDAS May 6: Submission of tutorial proposals via e-mail More information can be found on the DocEng 2005 Web site at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/DocEng2005/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 18.699 an exam question: counter-question Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:34:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1034 (1034) Dear Examiner Willard, If tagging is a subspecies, what is a species of critical reading? [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin Skill may be the capacity to manipulate perceptions of knowledge. Magic is. From: Stewart Arneil Subject: Re: 18.699 an exam question Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:34:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1035 (1035) Hi Willard [deleted quotation]My first reaction was "With my understandings of the terms, I'd say critical reading is a subspecies of tagging" but that might not be a very strategic response in the context of an exam question. -- Stewart Arneil Head of Research and Development, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, Canada From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 18.699 an exam question Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:34:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1036 (1036) I'm just tagging up the abstracts for the ACH/ALLC conference in June. I've got through about 100 documents so far, and it's quite remarkable how little I end up knowing about the content of the document after marking it up. I'm very aware of its structure and hierarchy, consistency in style, punctuation, and so on, and I'm especially aware of the size of the bibliography (which is complicated and tedious to tag, so every item registers as a small pain). But as far as reading critically goes, absolutely not. We are working extremely quickly under a looming deadline, so that has a lot to do with it. And after tagging, the documents are proofed again by both the authors and the academic editors, so it's not as if the results aren't getting a critical reading. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes_at_uvic.ca martin_at_mholmes.com mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: Shuly Wintner Subject: Job posting Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:35:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1037 (1037) The Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew is looking for: ******************************************************** * * * A Chief Software Engineer and a Part-Time Programmer * * * ******************************************************** . Chief Software Engineer: The job includes management of the software tools in the center, developing tools and standards for processing Hebrew, working with Hebrew data and administrating the website of the knowledge center. Background in NLP and experience with PERL, Java and XML - are advantageous. . Part-Time Programmer: The job includes mapping PDF files of a large Hebrew corpus into text files. Experience with various text formats (ps,pdf etc.) is an advantage. *** For both jobs please write Yoad Winter , and mention "KC job" in the subject. The website of the Knowledge Center: http://www.mila.cs.technion.ac.il/ _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: research positions 2005-8 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:40:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1038 (1038) A few permanent senior research positions may be available starting in 2005-2006 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). The web site of the host institute is: http://www.grlmc.com ELIGIBLE TOPICS The eligible topics are the institute's current or future research directions: - Formal language theory and its applications. - Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology. - Bioinformatics. - Language and speech technologies. - Formal theories of language acquisition and evolutionary linguistics. - Computational neuroscience. Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them. JOB PROFILE - Duration: permanent, subjected to periodical evaluation of outcomes. - Work contract with all Social Security rights. - The main duty of the position is research, with possible supervising and doctoral teaching too. - The scheme funding the position is extremely competitive. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - PhD degree got before May 6, 2001. - Experience at a foreign institute for at least 4 years. - Exceptional research career, with a very strong record of publications and other achievements. - Great leadership capacity. - There is no restriction on nationality or age. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - Salary at the level of a Full Professor in the Spanish university system. - Full public health insurance coverage. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 steps: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a full proposal (application form + CV + letters of reference + letter of acceptance by the host institute), to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until April 23, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-8" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Preselected candidates will be given full support in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is May 6, 2005. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: CfC - Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:46:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1039 (1039) CALL FOR CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: May 31, 2005 Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives A book edited by Dr. Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and Prof. Charles Ess, Drury University, USA Introduction Despite the profound disparities of various digital divides, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their products continue their dramatic expansion throughout the entire world. Both the global reach of the Internet and the forces of globalization more broadly are increasingly expanding the use of ICTs in non-Western countries - so much so, for example, that there are now as many users of the Internet in Asia and the Pacific Rim countries as in North America. Nonetheless, discussions of and scholarship devoted to Information Ethics in non-western countries are comparatively recent; likewise, discussions of and scholarship devoted to cross-cultural approaches to Information Ethics, especially across East-West boundaries, are only in their beginning stages. Hence, there is an urgent need for investigations into what the non-Western intellectual traditions have to say on the various issues in information ethics. The Overall Objective of the Book The book is aimed at: 1) introducing the relevant dimensions of cultures into the deliberations on computer and information ethics; 2) contributing to ongoing discussions on information ethics and to gathering the best research on the field; 3) equipping practitioners, policy makers and various stakeholders in information and computer ethics with a heightened sensitivity to cultural concerns; and 4) stimulating further discussion and research on the role of cultures in issues in information and computer ethics. The Target Audience Professionals and researchers working in the field of philosophy, cross-cultural studies and information and knowledge management in various disciplines, e.g. library, information and communication sciences, administrative sciences and management, education, adult education, sociology, computer science, information technology. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives and policy makers concerned with information ethics in cross-cultural settings. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: *Comparative perspectives on issues such as privacy, data privacy protection, intellectual property rights, the digital divide, etc. *Theoretical investigations - including philosophical perspectives - of information ethics and culture. *Religious perspectives on information ethics issues - Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, and others, including relevant contrasts with Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and/or indigenous traditions and their correlative impacts on information ethics issues. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 31, 2005 a 2-5 page proposal clearly explaining the topics, approaches, and central claims/conclusions of the proposed chapter, including, where relevant, important bibliographic references. (The editors welcome e-mail inquiries about potential proposals, questions for clarification, etc., prior to the May 31st deadline.) Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 30, 2005 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are due to the first editor by September 30, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints, in 2006. Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Dr. Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. +66(0)2218-4756; Fax +66(0)2218-4755 Email: hsoraj_at_chula.ac.th -- Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. +66(0)22 18 47 56; Fax +66(0)22 18 47 55 ASEAN-EU LEMLIFE Project: http://www.asean-eu-lemlife.org/ The 2nd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html Personal: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 18.701 exam question Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:48:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1040 (1040) Martin writes: [deleted quotation]Having edited several issues of an online journal, I feel your pain. But your message makes it apparent that there are different kinds of tagging: what you do when working on conference abstracts seems to be different from what a literary scholar might do when, say, tagging a poem for themes. Off the top of my head, I'd put it this way: "Tagging, when used as an annotation tool, is necessarily part of a critical reading process." This immediately gets in trouble, since what you're doing with the abstracts is also annotation. So we'd need to distinguish among kinds of annotation. All of this makes me think that Willard's original proposal is an excellent exam question! It practically begs for a multifaceted response. It's also a trick question, since it invites discussion rather than the One Correct Answer. If the students have been actively practicing critical exposition throughout the seminar, the question is a fair one. If they haven't, it might need to be rephrased to indicate that they aren't expected to come up with a single answer. Or are they? -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.12 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:47:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1041 (1041) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 12 (April 12 - April 19, 2005) Interview Cerf's Up Again! -- A New Ubiquity Interview with Vint Cerf "I suppose you could say that it was a lot nicer when we were a more homogeneous community and all we cared about was research. On the other hand, I was a very strong supporter of commercializing the Internet system, as far back as 1988, because in the absence of doing that it wouldn't spread very far, and I felt strongly that it was important for Internet to be more widely accessible." [...] For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ From: Gerry Mckiernan Subject: Candidates for SandBox(sm): Wiki Applications and Uses Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:36:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1042 (1042) Candidates for _SandBox(sm): Wiki Applications and Uses_ Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of Any and All Wiki applications and uses implemented in * Corporations * Education * Government * Libraries * Research Environments for inclusion in my recently- established registry titled _SandBox(sm)_ . _SandBox(sm)_ is located at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/SandBox.htm ] and is currently UnderConstruction. BTW: I Googled a number of months ago, and will do so again, but would prefer recommendations from my WorldWideWeb colleagues as well. In addition to the application and use of wikis in the institutions/organization noted, I am also interested in their application in/for novel venues (e.g., conferences, directories, etc.). I am also interested in learning of additional key/significant literature for potential inclusion in my WikiBibliography. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ] P.S. Of course, in time, there will be a Wiki to allow uses to contribute, but it's not yet available [:-(] but StayTuned [:-)] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck_at_iastate.edu http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: seminar in Rome Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:41:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1043 (1043) "NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, COMUNICAZIONE E SAPERI UMANISTICI" 21 April 2005 University of Roma Tre, Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia Via Ostiense 236 - Rome, Italy One-day seminar organized by: 'Collegio didattico in Scienze della Comunicazione', University of Roma Tre in association with: Dipartimento di Italianistica Dipartimento di Studi sul Mondo Antico Associazione Giuseppe Gigliozzi Seminar sponsor: Expert System (www.expertsystem.it) PROGRAMME First session: *L'incontro fra informatica e discipline umanistiche* (Chair: Roberto Pujia) 9.15. Michele Abrusci (Universita' Roma Tre), "Informatica, logica, didattica: alcune riflessioni" 9.45. Tito Orlandi (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza"), "Informatica e cultura umanistica" 10.15. Gino Roncaglia (Universita' della Tuscia), "Informatica umanistica: problemi di metodo" 10.45. Roberto Maragliano (Universita' Roma Tre), "Informatica e didattica" 11.15. Raul Mordenti (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata), "L'informatica e il testo letterario" 11.45. Mario Ricciardi (Politecnico di Torino), "Dalle tecnologie alle culture" 12.15 Massimo Riva (Brown University), "Informatica umanistica: tra edizioni digitali e (nuove) arti letterarie" 12.45. Teresa Numerico (Universita' di Salerno), "Memoria e logica: due modelli di organizzazione della conoscenza nel Web" 13.15. DISCUSSION 13.30-15.00. LUNCH Second session: *Projects, applications, researches* (Chair: Domenico Fiormonte) 15.00. Expert System, "Sistemi automatici per l'analisi e la classificazione dei contenuti testuali" 15.30. Igino Domanin (Universita' Statale di Milano), "Pratiche teoriche e tecnologie comunicative. Come il dispositivo trasforma l'orizzonte epistemico" 16.00. Tiziana Mancinelli - Alessia Scacchi (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza), "Metodi, Modelli e Strumenti nell'analisi automatica del testo letterario" 16.30 Monica L'Erario (Universita' Roma Tre), "Unicode per la codifica dei testi antichi" 17.00-17.15. COFFE BREAK 17.15. Federico Boschetti (Universita' di Venezia), "Creazione e uso di _Treebanks_ per lo studio di testi classici" 17.45. Daniele Silvi (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata), "I sogni nella macchina. Un'applicazione dell'analisi del testo in campo psicopatologico" 18.15. Ilaria Pagani (Universita' Roma Tre), "Il paradosso della valorizzazione: mezzi multimediali al servizio dei beni culturali" ********************************************************* For more info: Domenico Fiormonte (fiormont_at_uniroma3.it) From: Helen Ashman Subject: CFP: 4th European NKOS WORKSHOP at ECDL 2005, September Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:43:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1044 (1044) 22, Vienna Call for Presentations and Participation 4th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop ECDL2005 September 22 Vienna Mapping Knowledge Organisation Systems: User-centred Strategies An NKOS Workshop will take place on September 22nd, as part of ECDL 2005 in Vienna. Proposals are invited for presentations (20 minutes) on work or projects related to the themes of the workshop or to NKOS more generally. Presentations from the Workshop may be selected for consideration in a forthcoming (early 2006) NKOS special issue of the journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. Please email proposals (approx 500 words including aims, methods, main findings) by June 20 to Douglas Tudhope. Advance indication that you intend to submit would be helpful. Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and notification of acceptance will be given by July 15. After the workshop, copies of presentations will be made available on this website. For full details visit the workshop website: http://www2.db.dk/nkos2005/ The workshop aims to address key challenges for KOS posed by the overlapping themes of * User-centred design issues * Mapping between different KOS * KOS representations and service protocols However other topics can also be proposed. See below for indicative list of topics and provisional schedule. Main Contact: Douglas Tudhope, Hypermedia Research Unit, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK Email: dstudhope_at_glam.ac.uk http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/dstudhope Co-organiser: Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Aalborg Branch, Aalborg, Denmark E-mail: mln_at_db.dk http://www2.db.dk/mln/ Background Knowledge Organization Systems, such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical databases, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri, attempt to model the underlying semantic structure of a domain for the purposes of retrieval. New networked KOS services and applications are emerging and we have the opportunity to draw on a number of technologies that can be combined to yield new solutions. The workshop aims to address the following key themes: * User-centred design issues - User-centred design strategies for KOS. How to develop understandable and thorough descriptions of concepts and terms? How to show and explain relationships? The challenge is to find the appropriate level of explanation, clarity and conciseness. * Mapping between different KOS - How to achieve semantic interoperability? Cross-browsing and cross-searching between distributed KOS services. Mapping between terms, classes, systems and types of KOS. Innovative visualization methods to support KOS development and mapping. * KOS representations and service protocols - A basic infrastructure is needed to provide protocols for networked, programmatic access to a variety of vocabularies for different end users and applications. These require standard representations in formats such as RDF/XML. What is the appropriate granularity of base services to apply in evolving Web/Grid environments? Other topics for presentations can also be proposed. Program committee Hanne Albrechtsen, Ris? National Laboratory, Denmark Stella Dextre Clarke, Luke House, Wantage, United Kingdom Ron Davies, Information Consultant, Brussels, Belgium Lois Delcambre, Computer Science Department, Portland State University, USA Martin Doerr, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece Traugott Koch, Knowledge Technologies Group, Lund University, Sweden Alistair Miles, CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research, USA Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA From: PInar Yolum Subject: CFP: The 20th International Symposium on Computer and Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:45:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1045 (1045) Information Sciences (ISCIS'05) (fwd) *********Apologies for multiple postings. Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline has been extended to April 29th. The paper submission system is open at http://iscis-reg.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/iscis05reg/submit.html. Please note that the proceedings of the symposium will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'05) 20th Anniversary Conference of the ISCIS Series Celebrating the 60th Birthday of the Founder of ISCIS, Prof. Erol Gelenbe October 26-28, 2005 Istanbul, Turkey Organized by Department of Computer Engineering Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Web site: http://iscis05.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We kindly invite you to submit papers for the twentieth of the ISCIS series of conferences that bring together computer scientists and engineers from around the world. This year~Rs conference will be held in Istanbul. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Computational Intelligence Computer Architecture Computer Graphics Computer Networks Databases Information Retrieval Internet and Multimedia Operating Systems Parallel and Distributed Computing Performance Evaluation Programming Languages and Algorithms Security and Cryptography Software Engineering Theory of Computing This year we especially welcome papers in the areas of e-commerce (including web services and service-oriented computing, auctions, reputation and recommender systems, personalization and privacy, mobile commerce), multi-agent systems (including agent coordination and cooperation, agent communication, agent networks, agents and complex systems, trust and reputation, agents on the web, multi-agent simulation and modeling, industrial agent applications), satellite networks (including architectures, simulation and modeling, on-board processing and switching, internet services over satellite, advances in coding, modulation schemes, satellite security), and sensor networks (including deployment, localization, synchronization, link characteristics, MAC protocols and routing, capacity and lifetime optimization, security). There will be invited talks and tutorials given by leading researchers in these fields. [...] From: Mark Olsen Subject: Re: 18.695 more on possibly dubious conferences Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:42:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1046 (1046) Hi, I just came across a handy site for all of you who wish to attend conferences coordinated by Professor Callaos without working too hard: SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ It would appear that one of the two generated papers was accepted to WMSCI 2005. The enterprising students at MIT are requesting donations in order to attend the conference and present a "completely randomly-generated talk". Source code and lots of great examples are available. Alan Sokal would surely approve. :-) M From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 18.707 wiki-applications? Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:41:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1047 (1047) You might want to check out: http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/ "Plaintext_Tools Zwiki Plaintext is concerned with the agency and programming of writing technologies. This zwiki (zope wiki) is for discussion of: * Theory and poetics of tools and codes. The analog and the digital. * Work arounds, recipes, anecdotes, kluges, new plugins, etc. for specific technologies. * Wish lists, projections, possibilities, etc. for future software and technologies * Legislative, industry, technical news, etc. relating to relating to the project * Announcements, calls for work, job openings, etc. dealing with the project" - This is out of the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia Uni- versity (Morgantown); the Wiki was created by Sandy Baldwin, and contains a great deal of information and theory on codework, analog/digital, etc. I've been a major contributor. - Alan On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]http://www.asondheim.org/ nettext http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/ WVU 2004 projects: http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/ http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm Sampler CD or DVD available; books available (available online): Vel (Blazevox) The Wayward (Vox) Sophia (Writers Forum) .echo (Alt-X) From: njovanov_at_ffzg.hr Subject: 18.701 exam question Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:43:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1048 (1048) "Tagging is a subspecies of critical reading". Discuss. This is precisely what I tried to show (not in an exam, but in a PhD thesis), segmenting and tagging a (100.000 words long, Latin, and religious) prose text with a set of stylistic values (TEI "seg" element with "ana" fields); the set evolved during reading, and reflects how I "learned the style" of the text. The counter-arguments of my mentor were: 1) what if somebody else tagged the same text completely differently? 2) could the "level of detail" I decided on for a prose text (how deep markup should be) be applied to poetry? Re 1, I believe that precisely the differences of two "critical readings", when they are made much more explicit --- and, shall we say, falsifiable --- by markup, or computer modelling, enable us to discuss what style, and the perception of it, really is. Why did you mark _this_, and _here_, when I marked _that_, and _there_? Re 2, my mentor seems to be right. Reading another text would result in another set of values --- reading poetry would mean that these values would be *very* different. (My main technical problem was, by the way, how to process the segments that were nested, and the segments where the "ana" fields from the TEI scheme had multiple values; also, I wished I knew more about statistics...) (For the time being, the marked-up text --- and its tags --- can be seen at http://www.ffzg.hr/~njovanov/stilistika/e.html and http://www.ffzg.hr/~njovanov/stilistika/ unfortunately, mainly in Latin and Croatian...) Yours, Neven Jovanovic From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 18.701 exam question Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:43:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1049 (1049) Willard and HUMANIST: I think Martin Holmes' response to this question is very illuminating. My first reaction to the exam question was to say "yes, of course, etc.", except that Martin has reminded me that most of the time, it simply isn't so. If your markup pallet is clean and you can use any markup you like -- perhaps in an exploratory mode (first mark up, then decide how to process), maybe the work of markup verges on critical reading. The *design of a tag set* (or markup scheme) definitely has something in common with critical reading, in the analytic and synthetic interpretation it requires. But most markup schemes used in the real world, as in Martin's case, have already been designed when they are applied (the tag set is a given; the "reader" cannot extend it at will) and merely have to be "fit" to the content (or perhaps the content needs to be dressed in the markup to make it presentable). Applying such markup is not so much critical reading as it is a strategic and focused reduction of the task of reading to the minimum needed to accomplish particular interpretive operations (to be inscribed in markup for later retrieval). We might similarly ask "is the operation of a linotype a subspecies of critical reading" -- although interestingly, the answer may still be a qualified "yes". (I guess linotype operators had to decide where to put the hyphens didn't they?) Cheers, Wendell At 02:45 AM 4/12/2005, Martin Holmes wrote: [deleted quotation]====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_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: Charles Ess Subject: Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and ICT Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:01:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1050 (1050) Dear Humanists, With apologies for duplications - please pass this on to any graduate students and/or faculty who might be interested in either the course and/or the workshop. Thanks in advance! Interdisciplinary Graduate Course Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and ICT Place: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Time: May 23rd - 27th 2005 Lecturer: Charles Ess, distinguished research professor at Interdisciplinary Studies at Drury University, USA and professor II at NTNU (Globalization and Program for Applied Ethics). Course overview The graduate course "Bridging cultures" takes up many of the central ethical challenges that arise in conjunction with information and communication technologies. The title "Bridging cultures" is intended to signify problems regarding the relation between cultural diversity and global information technologies, as well as the bridging of humanistic and scientific disciplines. The course will primarily focus on three interrelated aspects: 1. Developing a basic "ethical toolkit" that will provide participants with a range of terms and approaches to ethical analysis and decision-making with regard to common issues in computer and information sciences. This includes notions of professional responsibilities of programmers, HCI designers, etc. 2. Disclosing how cultural values and communicative preferences are embedded in the design and implementation of Computer-mediated Communication technologies. Here we will explore a basic set of conceptual tools for analysing various dimensions of cultural values and communicative preferences, in order to develop guidelines for "best practices" in design and implementation of Information and Communication Technologies. 3. Examining how the cultures of the humanities and the sciences, including computer and information sciences, as academic disciplines may be bridged, thereby bringing ethics together with computer and information science. Our hope here is to build bridges between these disciplines that will foster further interdisciplinary collaboration. Deadline for registration is May 6th, 2005. Go to the Programme for Applied Ethics' website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> for more detailed information, including schedule, reading list and electronic registration. We would also like to inform you that in addition to the graduate course, a workshop on related topics will be held at NTNU on june 6th-7th (and possibly 8th), 2005. Confirmed speakers are Charles Ess, Luciano Floridi, Deborah Wheeler, May Thorseth, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Johnny S=F8raker, Dag Elgesem and Knut Rolland. 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: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: Fwd: 18.710 exam question Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:02:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1051 (1051) Hi there, At 08:52 AM 14/04/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]This is something we've argued about at length during workshops on markup for faculty members. Markup constitutes a theory of the text. Even my surface-level markup of the ACH/ALLC abstracts makes various claims that are open to question -- for example, I've tagged the names of software programs as title level="m", making them equivalent to other publications at the monograph level. (I'm primarily a software developer...). Among faculty members new to the concept of tagging, we frequently encounter the belief that it is some kind of mechanical operation best done by "hired help", and is somehow beneath them. Nothing could be further from the truth, especially in the case of deep or detailed tagging. If you are, for instance, tagging the metrical structure of a poem (perhaps dividing it into feet, and classifying the feet according to some set of conventions -- iambic, trochaic, etc.), then even with the most metrically regular poetry, there is vast room for disagreement over any given line. But that's the point -- tagging forces us to be specific about our theoretical claims, opening them up to discussion and rebuttal; this is the very heart of humanities teaching and research. It often seems, though, that some fear this explicitness, because exposing their claims in such a rigorous and (as Neven suggests) falsifiable manner lays them open to more criticism than would be the case with a discursive prose argument, where difficult areas can be fudged and bets hedged. [deleted quotation]Here's another little example emerging from the ACH/ALLC abstracts, which will be a familiar problem for anyone using TEI regularly: Many of the papers came in to us as word-processor documents. full of style attributes like italics and quotes. For the sake of editorial consistency across the document, we have tried to convert styles to descriptive tags, in particular using the tags "term" (for technical terms, "soCalled" (for scare quotes and similar types of authorial "distancing", "emph" (emphasis) and "mentioned" (for words or phrases mentioned rather than used, as for example in a linguistic context). Sometimes it can be quite difficult to categorize specific instances, but usually it's fairly straightforward. Now, we are currently producing PDF output with the "soCalled" tag rendered with single quotes, and the others in italics (double quotes are reserved for quotations or article titles). This means that some authors submitted something in double quotes, but they see it styled in single quotes because (according to me) it's a "soCalled". This "feels wrong" to them; they "meant" double quotes, and single quotes is somehow different. If pushed, they'll usually agree that their intention was an instance of "soCalled"; they'll also agree that it's OK for a house style to render such things in single quotes; nevertheless, they feel somehow misrepresented. The tagging forces us to make claims about authorial intention explicit, and (in many cases) reveals new levels of complexity in the text, and interesting discrepancies between an author's perceived intention and the reader's apprehension. Now back to the tagging grind... Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes_at_uvic.ca martin_at_mholmes.com mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Award Program for Digital Theses and Dissertations Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:56:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1052 (1052) A forward from John Hagen of West Virginia University: Dear Colleagues, The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is pleased to announce the annual awards program to acknowledge the creative and administrative efforts of those in the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation community. This program has been established with financial support from Adobe Systems. Anyone - faculty, students, administrators and librarians - affiliated with an NDLTD member, is eligible for consideration! The awards recognize students who have created exemplary ETDs that demonstrate new dimensions of scholarship that can be explored through ETDs as well as individuals who have made a significant contribution to the worldwide ETD movement. Details about criteria and the process for nominations are available online from the ETD 2005 Symposium Web site at http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/awards.html. Awards include: 1) Innovative ETD Award: Includes PDF and Open formats 2) Innovative Learning through ETDs Award 3) ETD Leadership Award Nominations (or any questions about the award program) should be sent to ETD Awards Committee Chair John Hagen (West Virginia University) at John.Hagen_at_mail.wvu.edu by May 15, 2005. Sandy Baldwin West Virginia University Assistant Professor of English 359 Stansbury Hall 304-293-3107x33452 Director of the Center for Literary Computing 203 Armstrong Hall 304-293-3871 charles.baldwin_at_mail.wvu.edu www.clc.wvu.edu From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine April 2005 Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:56:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1053 (1053) Greetings: The April 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, the '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 'IMAGES: Seeing the Invisible' courtesy of William Lewis and James L. Burch, Southwest Research Institute. The articles include: Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Overview Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund and Joanna Scott, Nature Publishing Group Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study - Connotea Ben Lund, Tony Hammond and Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing Group; and Martin Flack, NeoReality, Inc. Initial Experiences in Developing a Chronologically Organized Digital Library for Continuing Education in Biodefense Donna M. D'Alessandro, MD and Michael P. D'Alessandro, MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Survey of the Providers of Electronic Publications Holding Contracts with Spanish University Libraries Blanca Rodriguez Bravo and Maria Luisa Alvite Diez, University of Leon From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: April Innovate-Live Webcast Schedule Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:58:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1054 (1054) Innovate-Live webcasts offer an opportunity to synchronously interact with the authors of the articles in the April/May 2005 issue of Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info). These webcasts are produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn. If you wish to participate in the webcasts, please register at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ All times are Eastern Time zone. You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate the time with your time zone. The schedule for the April Innovate-Live Webcasts is provided below. Full-Featured Web Conferencing Systems Joel Foreman and Roy Jenkins, authors Denise Easton, moderator April 18 2005 12:00PM Network-Based Learning and Assessment Applications on the Semantic Web David Gibson, author Alan McCord, moderator April 18, 2005 3:00PM The Distancing Question in Online Education Glenn Russell, author Maggie Lynch, moderator April 27, 2005 7:00PM As you know, if you register for the April webcasts, you can participate by typing your questions/comments in the chat area of the screen. If you would like to interact with the author using audio, you can do so but you will need to have the proper equipment and training to use the Macromedia Breeze conferencing program. Please go to http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ for details. If you cannot attend a webcast, note that it will be archived within the features section of the article itself shortly after the webcast. Many thanks. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu From: No Name Available Subject: CFP: Journal of Digital Information Special Issue on Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:59:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1055 (1055) Adaptive Hypermedia Call for Papers Special issue on Adaptive Hypermedia Special issue Editors: Paul De Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology & Tim Brailsford, University of Nottingham. Email: debra_at_win.tue.nl or tim.brailsford_at_nottingham.ac.uk Schedule * Submission deadline: 3 June 2005 * Publication date: September 2005 Theme Submissions are sought for a special edition for the Hypermedia Systems theme of JoDI on Adaptive Hypermedia. In recent years there has been extensive research on adaptation and personalisation in hypermedia, and such systems are starting to make an impact upon mainstream web design. Users have disparate expectations, backgrounds and requirements and adaptive hypermedia systems are those that build a profile of the user and then deliver content that is appropriate for these needs (rather than the more traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach of the web). It is hoped that papers in this special issue will describe work that addresses some of the fundamental issues of adaptive hypermedia as well as describing real-world applications of this technology. Topics are likely to include (but are not restricted to) the following: * Applications of adaptive systems - especially in the areas of e-learning, e-health, e-commerce and digital libraries. * Standards and interoperability for adaptive hypermedia systems, and for user models. * Metadata for adaptive hypermedia. * Agents for adaptive hypermedia. * Adaptive information retrieval. * User interfaces for adaptive hypermedia, and the visualisation of adaptation. * Authoring for adaptive hypermedia systems. * User modelling for adaptive hypermedia systems. * Adaptation for the semantic web. * Evaluation of adaptive systems, and of user models. * Adaptive systems for mobile and ubiquitous computing * Security and privacy aspects of adaptive systems We expressly invite authors of papers presented at workshops associated with the AH2004 conference to submit extended versions of their work. Please note - the reuse of text and illustrations published in the AH2004 workshop proceedings (although not the main conference proceedings) is permitted without prior authorization. Submission Authors should submit their papers electronically using the <http://jodi.tamu.edu/form.php>submission form. 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 <http://jodi.tamu.edu/sec.php?content=submit>Guidelines for submission: notes for authors. There is no fixed length for submissions, but papers should be self-contained. Authors are encouraged to leverage the online nature of JoDI in developing submissions that optimally illustrate the issues raised in papers. Authors who wish to submit a paper with unusual features are requested to contact the Special issue Editors prior to submission. All submissions will be subject to peer review. Authors of accepted papers will be notified in July, 2005 and they will then be able to modify their papers, with a deadline for the reciept of the final version of the 5th August, 2005. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From: Melissa Terras Subject: Nomenclature Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:59:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1056 (1056) Dear Willard and all, I've being doing some reading around the field of "Humanities Computing" and I would like to ask members of Humanist about what they feel certain names for our "discipline" imply. There seems to be various ways of referring to what we do - both in teaching, and research: Humanities Computing, Computing in the Humanities, Digital Humanities, Humanities Informatics, Cultural and Heritage Informatics, Digital Resources in the Humanities, Digital Resources for the Humanities, Literary and Linguistic Computing, etc. I would like to explain what the wordings of these different names suggest to me, and ask members of Humanist what their thoughts are, which they prefer to use to describe what they do, and if there are any that I have missed. Humanities Computing: A complex juxtaposition of two distinct (and wide) academic fields, which is almost an oxymoron, but makes a researcher in the area appear to be straddling across two fields equally. This can raise problems when trying to pigeonhole where the discipline fits (which is important for teaching programs, and for funding streams?) but nevertheless, gives the impression of an equality between the two, whilst being Computing specifically applied to the Humanities. Because it is also two academic terms, it seems to imply that this is a field of academic research, and less geared towards the heritage industry or wider world? Computing in the Humanities: similar to Humanities Computing, although this seems to be a little reduced in its strength, given that it only refers to computing that is happening within the humanities (whilst the above term could imply any computational technique which may be applied to the humanities?) Digital Humanities: By removing the "computing" element, and replacing this with digital, it seems to me to remove the process or techniques of manipulating digital objects, and suggests that this is scholarship in the Humanities which merely relies on digitised objects, or on making things digital. It seems less strong a term than Humanities Computing to me, as it implies that you do less with the digital objects: I see digital as being slightly pejorative in this sense. Is this just me? Humanities Informatics: Again, this has removed computing and focused on informatics which is the management of information and thus meaning that this is the management of Humanities data, and/or information. Is this a less strong term? Or a more focussed one? Informatics also covers management and storage of information -but is it a wide enough computational term to embrace the type of research that goes on under our weirdly shaped umbrella? Would certain types of "Humanities Computing" be "Humanities Informatics", and some not? is it a specialism? Cultural and Heritage Informatics: By not mentioning Humanities or Computing, this to me disassociates from any academic field and seems to be more applied in its focus within the Cultural and Heritage Industry. This may be an applying for funding thing as it gives the air of being more practical and focussed than just general terms. A political term for our field, to be used in certain funding situations, or to explain how it can be applied? Digital Resources in the Humanities: Suggests that the people involved are solely interesting in creating resources for the humanities - which may imply they are not using advanced computational techniques to manipulate them (or is this just a bias?) Are we only about the creation of resources, or about the use, manipulation, development, and theorising about them too? Digital Resources for the Humanities: Similar to the Digital Resources in the Humanities, but there is something different in that in/for distinction. "In" would imply to me that the producers are working within the confines of the Humanities, "For" suggests that it is anyone making digital data producing, in this case, a resource that can be used in the Humanities - or do I read too much into it? Literary and Linguistic Computing: A term used historically which now doesn't encompass all that the wonderful world of using computing in the arts and humanities can offer. Am I reading too much into the language used in these terms -or are my hunches applicable? Do readers of Humanist have a favoured term? Do we even need a term that covers all that we do to define ourselves, or are we happy with these amorphous labels? I would be interested in hearing what anyone had to say. Best Melissa _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ From: "Bleck, Brad" Subject: Computers and Writing Online 2005 Conference CFP Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:55:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1057 (1057) Computers and Writing Online 2005 is now inviting proposals for this year's online conference. Complete details can be found at http://kairosnews.org/cwonline05/cfp. General details below. Bradley Bleck Conference Chair Spokane Falls CC --- When Content Is No Longer King: Social Networking, Community, and Collaboration David Reed explains that in the early stages of a network's formation and growth, that "content is king," that there are a "a small number of sources (publishers or makers) of content that every user selects from" (qtd in Rheingold Smart Mobs 61). As the network scales, "group-forming networks" occur, and the value of the network increases exponentially in relationship of the number of users, otherwise known as Reed's Law, privileging the social interaction over content. We can see this change in network valuation in today's Internet. The increased valuing of social interaction in large scale networks is reflected in the new technologies that place emphasis on social communication and community over content. These technologies, often dubbed "social software" are applications that, as Clay Shirky explains, "support group interaction." We invite proposals from scholars, graduate students and others who have an interest in computers and writing and social interactions and are working on projects in gestation, in progress, near completion, or at any stage in between, whether a thesis or dissertation, article, book project, or just want to preview and fine-tune your conference presentation for Computers and Writing Conference hosted by Stanford University. This is a unique opportunity for extended discussion of your ideas before heading to Palo Alto. Conference organizers are particularly interested in presentations that address, but are not limited to, the following concerns: --Internet "social software" technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS, social networks (orkut and friendster), and social bookmarking (del.icio.us). --Mobile technologies such as wi-fi and smart phones. --More traditional social, community communication spaces of email, discussion forums, newsgroups, listservs, and MOO's. As an acknowledgment of the value of social networks in creating discourse of and about scholarly work, CWOnline 2005 will follow a submission process using weblogs whereby participants will submit abstract proposals for public review and feedback within the Kairosnews site. Final versions of presentations will be made available online on Kairosnews (http://kairosnews.org). Interested presenters should present a 150-250 word abstract by midnight April 30. Abstracts must be submitted to CW Online 2005 at http://kairosnews.org/cwonline05/home. Not only will presentations receive feedback from conference organizers, but presenters are encouraged to invite colleagues to provide feedback and to expect feedback from people who are responding out of the goodness of their hearts. Presenters are expected to respond to the feedback provided by organizers and "informal" reviewers as a condition of being accepted as presenters. Final presentations should either be posted to the CW Online blog space, or a link to the presentation should be posted in the blog with a brief explanation of what the materials covers. From: Maja van der Velden Subject: Incommunicado 05 - Amsterdam 15-17 June Date: June 15 (Public Event), June 16-17 (Working Conference) X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1058 (1058) Location: De Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands Organization: Institute of Network Cultures (INC), Waag Society, Sarai. Concept: Geert Lovink & Soenke Zehle For your submissions, or more information on program, participants, and registration, contact the INC. This is a call for contributions for TWO publications, a pre-conference reader with short texts (ca. 2,000 words) to be published in June 2005 and a post-conference publication with longer texts (up to ca. 5,000 words) to be presented in cooperation with HIVOS at the WSIS PrepCom3 in September 2005. Deliberately broad, the call intends to encourage contributions that critically engage the overarching conference theme of accountability and representation in an emerging global info-politics. For detailed descriptions of specific issue areas, see below. On all topics listed, we welcome case studies and original research as well as analysis and commentary. Please email complete submissions to (pre-conference essays by May 30 2005, post-conference essays by July 15). We also encourage participants interested in presenting case studies etc. in one of the open sessions to contact the INC to register specifically for such a session (see online conference program for details). Incommunicado 05: From Info-Development to Info-Politics Incommunicado 05 is a two-day working conference that will attempt to offer a critical survey of the current state of 'info-development', most recently known by its catchy acronym 'ICT4D'. Not too long ago, most computer networks and ICT expertise were located in the North, and info-development seemed to be a rather technical matter of knowledge and technology transfer from North to South. While still popular, the assumption of a 'digital divide' that follows this familiar cartography of development has turned out to be too simple. Instead, a more complex map of actors, networked in a global info-politics, is emerging. Different actors continue to promote different - and competing - visions of 'info-development'. States with emerging info-economies like Brazil, China, and India form south-south alliances that challenge our sense of what 'development' is all about. New grassroot efforts are calling into question the entire regime of intellectual property rights (IPR) and access restrictions on which commercial info-development is based. Commons- or open-source-oriented organizations across the world are more likely to receive support from southern than from northern states, and these coalitions are already challenging northern states on their self-serving commitment to IPR and their dominance of key info-political organizations. Actors no longer follow the simple schema of state, market, or civil society, but engage in cross-sectoral alliances. Following the crisis of older top-down approaches to development, corporations and aid donors are increasingly bypassing states and international agencies to work directly with smaller non-governmental actors. While national and international development agencies now have to defend their activity against their neoliberal critics, info-NGOs participating in public-private partnerships and info-capitalist ventures suddenly find themselves in the midst of a heated controversy over their new role as junior partner of states and corporations. Long considered a marginal policy field dominated by technology experts, info-development is embroiled in a full-fledged info-politics, negotiated in terms of corporate accountability, state transformation, and the role of an international civil society in the creation of a new world information order. NGOs in Info-Development We have become used to thinking of NGOs as 'natural' development actors. But their presence is itself indicative of a fundamental transformation of an originally state-centered development regime, and their growing influence raises difficult issues regarding their relationship to state and corporate actors, but also regarding their self-perception as representatives of civic and grassroots interests. Why should they sit at a table with governments and international agencies, and who is marginalized by such a (multistakeholder) dynamic of 'inclusion' dominated by NGOs? After WSIS: Exploring Multistakeholderism For some, the 2003-5 UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is just another moment in an ongoing series of inter-governmental jamborees, glamorizing disciplinary visions of global ICT governance to distract from other info-political struggles. For others, WSIS revives 'tricontinentalist' hopes for a New International Information and Communication Order whose emphasis on 'civil society actors' may even signal the transformation of a system of inter-governmental organizations. Either way, WSIS continues to encourage the articulation of agendas, positions, and stakes in a new politics of communication and information. Following the effort to actively involve civil society actors in WSIS activities, the idea of an emergent 'multistakeholderism' is already considered one of the key WSIS outcomes, yet many are sobered by what appears to be the consensualist minimalism of incorporating critical positions in ever more encompassing final statements and action plans. Info-Corporations at the United Nations The controversial agreement between Microsoft and the UNDP, issued at a time when open source software is emerging as serious non-proprietary alternative within ICT4D, is just one in a series of public-private partnerships (PPP) between corporations and the UN. As the UN reaches out to Cisco, HP, or Microsoft, many argue that these cooperations are simply an expansion of the PPP approach to international organizations, and should be assessed on their respective terms. Others suggest, however, that these developments are indicative of a much more fundamental transformation of the UN and its member organizations, and point to the sobering outcome of the almost-no-strings-attached Global Compact, widely criticized as multilateral collusion in corporate 'bluewashing', the Cardoso Panel on UN-Civil Society Relations and its controversial definition of civil society, or the ongoing controversy over a new set of international standards for corporate accountability. WIPO and the Friends of Development As the international info-economy has come to revolve around intellectual property rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has asserted its status as a key player in matters of info-development. Overseeing the implementation of international IPR regulations, the little-known agency has been calling for an expansion of the dominant IPR regime and generally supports euro-american strategies of bypassing multilateral negotiations through an aggressive 'TRIPS-Plus' bilateralism. But recently, the agency has been targeted by a global campaign, lead by a group of southern states, to change its limited agenda. Aid & Info-Development after 9-11 What is the status of aid in the promotion of ICT4D, and how have ICT4D actors responded to the politicization and securitization of aid, including the sale of security and surveillance technologies in the name of info-development? To what extent does info-development overlap with new info-infrastructures in the field of humanitarian aid (ICT4Peace)? Are global trade justice campaigns a response to classic development schemes? ICT4D and the Critique of Development The critique of development and its institutional arrangements - of its conceptual apparatus as well as the economic and social policies implemented in its name - has always been both a theoretical project and the agenda of a multitude of 'subaltern' social movements. Yet much work in ICT4D shows little awareness of or interest in the history of such development critique. Instead, techno-determinist perspectives have become hegemonic, and even many activists believe that ICT will lead to progress and eventually contribute to poverty reduction. Have development scepticism and the multiplicity of alternative visions it created simply been forgotten? Or have they been actively muted to disconnect current struggles in the area of communication and information from this history, adding legitimacy to new strategies of 'pre-emptive' development that are based on an ever-closer alliance between the politics of aid, development, and security? Are analyses based on the assumption that the internet and its promise of connectivity are 'inherently good' already transcending existing power analyses of global media and communication structures? How can we reflect on the booming ICT-for-Development industry beyond best practice suggestions? New Axes of Info-Capitalism We are witnessing a shift from in the techno-cultural development of the web, from an essentially post-industrialist euro-american affair to a more complexly mapped post-third-worldist network, where new south-south alliances are already upsetting our commonsensical definitions of info-development. Examples include the surprising extent to which a 'multilateral' version of internet governance has been able to muster support, the 'tropicalization' (Gilberto Gil) of open source approaches, and new alliances on the politics of ipr (WIPO Development Agenda). Info-development, that is, has ceased to be a matter of technology transfer and has become a major terrain for the renegotiation of some of the faultlines of geopolitical conflict - with a new set of actors. While the question remains whether such a 'tricontinentalist' shift really affects established dependencies on 'northern' donors, it's certainly time for a first assessment of the agenda and impact of some of the new players and their alliances. FLOSS in ICT4D Pushed by a growing transnational coalition of NGOs and a few allies inside the multilateral system, open source software has moved from margin to center in ICT4D visions of peer-to-peer networks and open knowledge initiatives. But while OSS and its apparent promise of an alternative non-proprietary concept of collaborative creation continues to have much counter-cultural cachet, its idiom can easily be used to support the 'liberalization' of telco markets and cuts in educational subsidies. What is the current status of OSS as idiom and infrastructural alternative within ICT4D? Accountability and the Critique of Representation The decade-long controversy inside the 'NGO community' on issues of accountabilty is also affecting actors in ICT4D. The singularity of network environments and the particular brand of info-politics it has facilitated suggest, however, that common approaches to 'accountability' cannot simply be transferred into the context of the post-representative politics of network(ed) cultures. So beyond embracing stakeholder consultation and participation, what is ICT4D's original contribution to one of the core concepts in the renewal of development as a project? The New Info-Politics of Rights After the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the bilateral order, the discourse of human rights has become an important 'placeholder' for agendas of social change and transformation that are no longer articulated in 'third worldist' or 'tricontinentalist' terms. In the field of communication and information, major NGOs and their network 'campaigns' have also decided to approach WSIS-related issues by calling for 'new rights', paralleling other trends toward a juridification of info-politics more generally. Nuts and Bolts of Internet Governance One of the few areas where WSIS is likely to produce concrete results is internet governance (IG). The IG controversy revolves around the limits of the current regime of root server control (ICANN/US) and possible alternatives, but it is also significant because it signals the repoliticization of a key domain of a technocratic internet culture that long considered itself to be above the fray of ordinary info-politics. Media & Migration Some of the organizations active in the WSIS process lost their accreditation because participants used their visa to say goodby to Africa. Widely reported, the anecdote suggests that media and migration form a nexus that is nevertheless rarely explored in the context of ICT4D. _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac_at_philo.at http://philo.at/mailman/listinfo/catac From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies 3/06 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:56:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1059 (1059) CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA, San Francisco, 23-25 March 2006) For the past five years, the RSA program has featured a number of sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. At the 2006 RSA meeting (San Francisco, March 23-25), several sessions will continue to follow this interest across several key projects, through a number of thematic touchstones, and in several emerging areas. For these sessions, we seek proposals in the following general areas, and beyond: a) new technology and research (individual or group projects) b) new technology and teaching (individual or group projects) c) new technology and publication (e.g. from the vantage point of authors, traditional and non-traditional publishers) Proposals for workshop presentations or papers which focus on these issues and others are welcome. Please send proposals before May 15 to siemens_at_uvic.ca. Ray Siemens English, CRC Humanities Computing, University of Victoria and William R. Bowen Director, CRRS, University of Toronto __________ R.G. Siemens English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1 Phone: (250) 721-7272 Fax: (250) 721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ From: Yoad Winter Subject: ISCOL-2005 deadline is April 30 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:57:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1060 (1060) *** ISCOL-2005 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS *** *** *** *** Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics *** *** Wednesday, 22 June 2005 *** *** Technion, Haifa, Israel *** *** *** *** Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2005 *** *** *** *** http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~bagilad/iscol *** *** *** **************************************************** **************************************************** The next Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics will take place at the Technion on Wednesday, June 22, 2005. The invited speaker will be Khalil Sima'an (ILLC, Amsterdam University). This time ISCOL will be in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL). We hope that this will create a special opportunity for theoretical and computational linguists to exchange ideas and learn about each other's work. ISCOL this year will include a special session on morphological analysis and disambiguation of Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic. [...] From: Sofia Pinto Subject: CFP: BAOSW - Building and Applying Ontologies for the Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:58:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1061 (1061) Semantic Web Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D December 2005 Covilh=E3 =AD Portugal http://baosw.epia05.di.ubi.pt held in conjunction with 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence sponsored by APPIA, the Portuguese Association of AI http://epia05.di.ubi.pt Ontologies promise a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and application systems. Therefore, they have emerged as an important research area since the 1990=92s. Ontologies are= used for different purposes (natural language processing, e-commerce, e-learning, knowledge management, semantic web, information retrieval, etc) by different research communities (knowledge engineering, database, software engineering, etc). The emergence of the Semantic Web has marked another stage in the evolution= of the ontology field. According to Berners-Lee, the Semantic Web is an= extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning,= better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. This cooperation can= be achieved by using shared knowledge-components. Therefore ontologies have= become a key instrument in developing the Semantic Web. They interweave human understanding of symbols with their machine processability. This workshop addresses the problems of building and applying ontologies in= the Semantic Web and other areas listed below, as well as the theoretical and practical challenges arising from these applications. We invite= contributions to enhance the state-of-the-art of creating, managing and using ontologies. Topics of Interest: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Ontology Engineering: =95 methodologies =95 capture and learning =95 evaluation =95 management =95 evolution =95 ontology learning Semantic Interoperability =95 composition and modularity =95 combining, merging, mapping and alignment =95 translating and transforming =95 ontology language interoperability Ontologies for Information Sharing =95 ontology-based Information integration =95 mediators and brokers =95 agents and ontologies Ontology Applications =95 semantic web =95 knowledge management =95 e-commerce, e-government, e-learning and e-science =95 information retrieval =95 p2p networks =95 web services =95 annotation [...]=20 From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: discussion on the hierarchy of language taxons Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:13:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1062 (1062) Dear Humanist colleagues, In my opinion hierarchy of the language subgroups, groups, families and other language taxons is one of the most global, central, important and leading in linguistics. However, linguistics journals do not bother to publish the articles on this burning question.This is why, I'd like to ask you to share with me your opinion on the hierarchy of the language taxons. Or may be, you know a journal which could publish my article on the most global, central, important and leading problem of linguistics? That is the burden of the upper class journal. I noticed that monor and special linguistic journals do not bother to publish articles on general problems of linguistics. In my opinion, we should discuss the most general and burning linguistic issues online. There are some problems which can only be solved and are to be solved by the community of world linguists. It could be done with the help of a discussion online or in some linguistic journal. I think that linguistics lacks a strict, proper and unambiguous definition of the hierarchy of the sets of languages, which are usually called language branches, subgroups, groups and families. In other words, linguistics lacks the establishment of the strict, proper and unanimously accepted ordered series of language taxons. In my mind, this series hierarchy should begin with the smallest language taxon (like "a branch of languages") and the biggest one (like "a community of languages"). Thus, we can propose to discuss in your journal the hierarchy of the language taxons. By the smallest language taxon we mean the language taxon, which includes the least number of languages. The languages in this taxon must be closely connected or related either genetically, or typologically. It is quite logical to begin with the notion of a branch since it is the smallest language taxon. Actually, the smallest is the tightest and the most compact language taxon. Therefore, the biggest language taxon ("community of languages") may be the loosest or the least compact one. In fact, we propose to define the following ordered series: branch; subgroup; group; family; unity; phylum; union; community. Let us see how interested the world linguists are in establishing good order in linguistics. Are there any volunteers to discuss the hierarchy of language taxons? If so, please, share your opinions with us sending your e-mails to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Remain yours most sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: 18.718 nomenclature? Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:59:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1063 (1063) <m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk > Dear Willard and all, I've being doing some reading around the field of "Humanities Computing" and I would like to ask members of Humanist about what they feel certain names for our "discipline" imply. There seems to be various ways of referring to what we do - both in teaching, and research: Humanities Computing, Computing in the Humanities, Digital Humanities, Humanities Informatics, Cultural and Heritage Informatics, Digital Resources in the Humanities, Digital Resources for the Humanities, Literary and Linguistic Computing, etc. I would like to explain what the wordings of these different names suggest to me, and ask members of Humanist what their thoughts are, which they prefer to use to describe what they do, and if there are any that I have missed. Humanities Computing: A complex juxtaposition of two distinct (and wide) academic fields, which is almost an oxymoron, but makes a researcher in the area appear to be straddling across two fields equally. This can raise problems when trying to pigeonhole where the discipline fits (which is important for teaching programs, and for funding streams?) but nevertheless, gives the impression of an equality between the two, whilst being Computing specifically applied to the Humanities. Because it is also two academic terms, it seems to imply that this is a field of academic research, and less geared towards the heritage industry or wider world? Computing in the Humanities: similar to Humanities Computing, although this seems to be a little reduced in its strength, given that it only refers to computing that is happening within the humanities (whilst the above term could imply any computational technique which may be applied to the humanities?) Digital Humanities: By removing the "computing" element, and replacing this with digital, it seems to me to remove the process or techniques of manipulating digital objects, and suggests that this is scholarship in the Humanities which merely relies on digitised objects, or on making things digital. It seems less strong a term than Humanities Computing to me, as it implies that you do less with the digital objects: I see digital as being slightly pejorative in this sense. Is thiX-Virus-Scs just me? Humanities Informatics: Again, this has removed computing and focused on informatics which is the management of information and thus meaning that this is the management of Humanities data, and/or information. Is this a less strong term? Or a more focussed one? Informatics also covers management and storage of information -but is it a wide enough computational term to embrace the type of research that goes on under our weirdly shaped umbrella? Would certain types of "Humanities Computing" be "Humanities Informatics", and some not? is it a specialism? Cultural and Heritage Informatics: By not mentioning Humanities or Computing, this to me disassociates from any academic field and seems to be more applied in its focus within the Cultural and Heritage Industry. This may be an applying for funding thing as it gives the air of being more practical and focussed than just general terms. A political term for our field, to be used in certain funding situations, or to explain how it can be applied? Digital Resources in the Humanities: Suggests that the people involved are solely interesting in creating resources for the humanities - which may imply they are not using advanced computational techniques to manipulate them (or is this just a bias?) Are we only about the creation of resources, or about the use, manipulation, development, and theorising about them too? Digital Resources for the Humanities: Similar to the Digital Resources in the Humanities, but there is something different in that in/for distinction. "In" would imply to me that the producers are working within the confines of the Humanities, "For" suggests that it is anyone making digital data producing, in this case, a resource that can be used in the Humanities - or do I read too much into it? Literary and Linguistic Computing: A term used historically which now doesn't encompass all that the wonderful world of using computing in the arts and humanities can offer. Am I reading too much into the language used in these terms -or are my hunches applicable? Do readers of Humanist have a favoured term? Do we even need a term that covers all that we do to define ourselves, or are we happy with these amorphous labels? I would be interested in hearing what anyone had to say. Best Melissa _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk Web: <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/>http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: less is more Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:11:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1064 (1064) This note gets to a question I asked some time ago concerning the disciplinary, epistemic effects of ever-expanding access to ever greater volumes of data. To ask the revised version of this question, inspired by historian Carlo Ginzburg, I need to quote at some length from his essay, "Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible", in the latest issue of Critical Inquiry, 31 (Spring 2005): 665-83. I quote from the beginning and end: [deleted quotation]Greater volume of cultural data challenges our conclusions reached on the basis of the smaller amounts we were able to survey before digital media. (Please twist the tail of this statement if you wish.) The question is how to meet the challenge. One way is exemplified by statistical approaches to masses of literary and linguistic data and by the methods of corpus linguistics -- to tackle the volume head-on. Auerbach's focus on Ansatzpunkte, taken up by Ginzburg, suggests another, and, as he says, a complementary one: [deleted quotation]The literary critic (to pick the kind I know best) is not inclined to choose a poem at random, but, it seems to me, the methodology translates: small, minutely focused study of individual works -- but study that (to echo the Psalms) raises its eyes to the expanding horizons, whence cometh our help. A a powerful and powerfully appealing way forward? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: ubiquity Subject: ACM Ubiquity 6.13 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:12:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1065 (1065) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 13 (April 19 - April 26, 2005) VIEW Software Architecture and Plato's Ideal Types: How Minds Store and Use Symbols Francis Hsu says that Plato's Ideal Types helps explain not only how our minds work, but perhaps also how computer software should work. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i13_hsu.html From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Digital Medievalist (DM) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:50:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1066 (1066) [Apologies for cross posting] I am pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of DM (The Digital Medievalist), a new peer-reviewed on-line journal for technology and medieval studies: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm> In this issue: *Guyda ARMSTRONG and Vika ZAFRIN, Towards the electronic Esposizioni: the challenges of the online commentary <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=1> * Arianna CIULA, Digital palaeography: using the digital representation of medieval script to support palaeographic analysis <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=2> * Hoyt N. DUGGAN with a contribution by Eugene W. LYMAN, A Progress Report on The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=3> *Jonathan GREEN, Opening the Illustrated Incunable Short Title Catalog on CD-ROM: an end-user's approach to an essential database <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=4> *Kevin KIERNAN, The source of the Napier fragment of Alfred's Boethius <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=5> *Peter ROBINSON, Current issues in making digital editions of medieval texts or, do electronic scholarly editions have a future? <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=6> * Kathryn WYMER, Why Universal Accessibility Should Matter to the Digital Medievalist <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=7> Currently DM is published two times per year. The next issue will be published in November 2005. For information on forthcoming articles and future themes, please see the issue leader, <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=9>. Submission guidelines are available at <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=8>. The address for editorial correspondence is . -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> From: Amritha Subject: Editorial - Copyright Ownership in Blogs Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:19:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1067 (1067) (Cross-posted; please excuse duplication.) The Editorial by Lesley Ellen Harris in Volume 2005, Issue 1, The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter, deals with copyright ownership in blogs - it is reproduced below. For further information on this print newsletter, see www.copyrightlaws.com . Sincerely, Amritha amritha_at_copyrightslaws.com Editorial - Copyright Ownership in Blogs The Internet continually forces us to test the application and flexibility of current copyright law to new modes of communications and media. The Internet has already spawned debate and lawsuits about hyper-linking, P2P file sharing, and the removal of copyright management information and technological protections. A newer Internet activity, blogging resulting in Weblogs, is now being discussed in the copyright arena. A blog is basically a stream of consciousness discussion available to the public at large. Individuals keep these blogs on every topic imaginable. Blogs are original material, and once they are fixed in some form, saved digitally or in a print out, they are protected by copyright in most countries around the world. In fact, they would be protected for 50 to 70 years after an author's death - much beyond the life of any blog itself. Blogs are becoming more popular amongst professionals, and certain employees are even encouraged to create blogs based on their work. This raises interesting issues concerning copyright ownership in the blogs. If an organization requires blogging as part of the duties of an individual, it is likely that the employer owns the content in the blog, just like the employer owns other copyright-protected works created by that employee in the course of employment. However, if the blog is initiated by an individual though it may discuss work-related issues, outside the scope of his employment, who owns the content in the blog? This is comparable to the situation where a professor writes a book related to, but outside the duties, of his instruction. This is often a gray issue in the academic world. University policies that specifically deal with such issues can help clarify the situation. Also, a professor approaching his university prior to writing the book, may be able to clarify the situation, prior to a confrontation. Many companies have yet to develop Weblog Policies, similar to their other integral policies. Thus, employees who discuss work-related activities are generally held to the rule of "good taste" in their discussions, and of course, not spewing any confidential information. As is the case with many Internet-related activities, would a written Weblog Policy contradict the free flowing nature of information in a blog, and perhaps weaken the effectiveness of these blogs? With ownership comes the issue of who may authorize reproduction of the content in a blog. Generally, only the owner may authorize others to reproduce a work. Would this be an organization or an individual? Or should the whole notion of obtaining permission in relation to blog content be mute, since the whole point of the blog is for as many people as possible to access and read it? The blogs by Sun Microsystem employees at blogs.sun.com take what I call a compromise position. These blogs are subject to a Creative Commons License. Thus, the blogs are protected by copyright, however the rights are conveniently set out in a hyper-linked license and are broader than those rights attached to most copyright-protected works. To date, there are no lawsuits relating to ownership, reproduction or re-distribution of the content of blogs. This in itself may be helpful for organizations and individuals who are determining "policies" in this area. And for those bloggers who want their content read as widely as possible, they are free to put a statement on their blogs to the effect that the content may be freely used without permission. From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 18.720 nomenclature Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:51:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1068 (1068) [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation]Indeed. subject + informatics seems quite common (I've seen references to it with respect to archaeology, chemistry, healthcare -- though it is primarily used in medical sciences). An even more popular prefix is 'computational', occurences of which we can find across all kinds of subject areas (as in computational linguistics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, archaeology, sociology etc). So on this basis I would conclude that most subjects have somewhere a computer-related aspect to their discipline but differ in how they describe it (which brings us back to Melissa's original query). 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: Kevin Hawkins (6) Subject: more on dubious conferences Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:49:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1069 (1069) I'll reserve judgment on whether that upcoming conference in Orlando is legimitate, but this latest news certainly won't help their image: http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/21/academic.hoax.ap/index.html Kevin From: Willard McCarty Subject: why scamming conferences work Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:49:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1070 (1070) In the article referred to by Kevin Hawkins, "MIT prank paper accepted for publication", the author quotes Jeremy Stribling, one of the MIT students, who points to something that really does need more attention than the possibility of fraud. He notes that, [deleted quotation]In other words, the real problem here is a combination of the conditions of work in the academy and the personal standards of academics. At the risk of seeming to have the cane of self-important but fearful old age and to be thumping it, I do think there's a moral tale to be told: of a generation (or generations) of academics who along with many others have lost sight of what academia is for. This is not to blame them, or to blame only them. Fingers can certainly be pointed at targets higher up. The question is, what do we do about it -- and because we are here, that question is better phrased, what can we do with humanities computing to improve the situation? The key, I think, is to communicate what we know in such a fashion that we will be understood far outside our domains of specialization. A subsidiary lesson of the MIT students' prank is pointed by the weasely jargon lubricating their success. This jargon is indeed invited by the title of the conference: the Ninth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Surely an invitation to puffery, or at least a title that carnival professors will take to be just that. In any case, it's not what we need to be doing. Let me suggest that one of the things we need to be doing, perhaps the most important thing of all, is to be coming up with answers to the question, how is computing an agent in the quest for a more meaningful life -- rather than, say, a higher salary? I'm not one to deny an offer of a higher salary (yes, please), but there are choices. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Baden Hughes Subject: Re: 18.721 hierarchy of language taxons? Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:49:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1071 (1071) The question of language classifications, relations and taxonomies is not as understudied or published as your correspondent might believe. It is true that these matters are of some considerable debate in the linguistics community and consensus has not emerged as to the fine grained scientific divisions which some parties seek to impose on the language relation/classification context. There are many people working on various aspects of this problem in the historical and comparative linguistics domain, and various proposals circulating. Consensus is that language complexity is probably not easily reduced to a closed set of categories as is the case in a range of other sciences. As to publishing the paper referred to, I cannot comment on the suitability of it per se for any particular journal, but there are many to choose from in linguistics generally, and reviewing is usually quite rigorous. In any case, non-acceptance for publication doesn't necessarily imply that the ideas in any given paper are not valid, and reviewer comments will reveal areas which could be addressed to mould the manuscript into more acceptable forms. Baden [deleted quotation] From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:15:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1072 (1072) LEXICOM'05 5th Annual Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing, to be held in Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. June 10th-14th 2005 http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2005/ Led by the Lexicography MasterClass: Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell, Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop, where seminars on theoretical issues alternate with practical sessions at the computer, working in small groups, each person with his/her own computer. Topics we cover 1. designing and building text corpora 2. software for analyzing corpus data 3. designing and using dictionary databases 4. Frame Semantics and its application to lexicography 5. corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual information 6. writing entries for dictionaries & lexicons The workshop also includes two 'master classes': one in advanced corpus-based lexicography (including bilingual entries) and the other in lexical computing. Who the course is for The workshop is suitable for people with a background in one or more of the following: 1. lexicography 2. linguistics 3. computational linguistics 4. computer support for dictionary projects 5. translation 6. terminologists The cost has been kept as low as possible, with discounted rates for full-time students and for participants from East European countries and regions with currency conversion problems. Places are limited and early registration is advised. Registrations received before the end of April carry a discounted fee. Michael Rundell, Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff The Lexicography MasterClass ==================================================== Adam Kilgarriff Lexicography MasterClass http://lexmasterclass.com Lexical Computing Ltd http://sketchengine.co.uk University of Sussex mailto:adam_at_lexmasterclass.com +44 (0)1273 705773 ==================================================== From: maxime amblard Subject: Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:51:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1073 (1073) L A C L 2 0 0 5 Fifth International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics --- 28-29-30 april 2005, Bordeaux (France) http://lacl.labri.fr/ CNRS - INRIA - University of Bordeaux 1 & 3 ************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION LACL conference series ---------------------- LACL-2005 is the 5th edition of a series of international conferences on logical and formal methods in computational linguistics. It addresses in particular the use of proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the implementation of natural language processing software relying on such models. [...] From: Journal of Digital Information Subject: JoDI has a new home Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:21:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1074 (1074) Dear JoDI reader, As of 20 April 2005, JoDI has a new home. Please change your bookmarks to point to: http://jodi.tamu.edu/ As a reader, you shouldn't notice any difference but if you do, be sure to let us know. Thanks for your continued support, Cliff McKnight Editor in Chief, JoDI From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.725 more on dubious conferences Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:23:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1075 (1075) The random-generated paper (which, by the way, was probably done at a site mentioned here a couple of weeks ago) reminds me that in the old PLATO days (70's and 80's, for those who came in late), there was a "Chomsky generator". You went there and pressed a key and hey presto! you got some 20-30 lines of pseudo-linguistics made up of phrases from Chomsky and/or phrases that were rather like Chomsky. Sometimes the passage seemed to make a kind of sense (I'd say "but then, so did Chomsky" had he not been canonized). From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 18.725 more on dubious conferences Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:24:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1076 (1076) Willard, [deleted quotation]It seems that you've provided the key to answering your question regarding how to deal with events (and individuals) that propagate a negative view of academe. The ivory-tower image is certainly aided by excessive use of jargon. Add to this the human and non-human elements of the system that encourage pursuit of CV padding at the expense of actual research, and the academy doesn't seem like a nice place to be. For many, it isn't. I'm sure all of us have encountered people who are trudging miserably through teaching and research, unwilling or afraid to get out. One common reason for this unwillingness (and it often starts before the doctoral defense) is the belief that they aren't employable anywhere else. That may be true in individual cases, but in general it's a damaging self-image to have, damaging both to the individual and to the profession. (I'm surely generalizing. Please take with a grain of salt; although from what I've read and heard, the generalizations about self-doubt among academics are mostly true.) Communicating clearly outside of our domains of specialization, coupled with excitement and love for what we do (the same stuff we periodically dig up to remind ourselves why we're still here), would be great. It would benefit not only interdisciplinary conversation, but conversation among... people. Up to a certain point of complexity, a physicist could explain to me what she's working on, and it will be interesting, although physics is far outside of my sphere of competency. Perhaps wording ourselves in a way that invites conversation with non-academics might be precisely the magic TNT that will blow up the ivory tower itself, but not the cultural goldmine inside it? -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an example of what I was calling for Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:49:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1077 (1077) Co-incidentally, or perhaps not, a book arrived in the post yesterday that perfectly illustrates the sort of intelligent outreach that I was calling for: David Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vossen, Geometry and the Imagination, transl. from the original Anschauliche Geometrie (1932) by P. Nemenyi.Those of you who know a bit about the history of mathematics will recognize the name of the first author as one of the greatest mathematicians of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and one of the mathematical grandfathers of computing. It is truly a beautiful, luminous book. Allow me to quote from Hilbert's preface: [deleted quotation]My particular interest in the book is, perhaps, not what Hilbert andCohn-Vossen intended -- rather to come to a direct appreciation, if possible, of how the mathematical imagination works, so as to get some purchase on how an imagination of computing might work. If it is correct to say that mathematics is the imaginative language of the natural sciences, then this should be an especially fruitful place to begin. Other examples would be most welcome. 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=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London=20 WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Multimedia Systems 10.4 Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:26:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1078 (1078) Volume 10 Number 4 of Multimedia Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editor's Note p. 273 Klara Nahrstedt Layered coding vs. multiple descriptions for video streaming over multiple paths p. 275 J. Chakareski, S. Han, B. Girod Packaging models for the storage and distribution of complex digital objectsin archival information systems: a review of MPEG-21 DID principles p. 286 Jeroen Bekaert, Emiel De Kooning, Rik Van de Walle Video server scheduling using random early request migration p. 302 Yinqing Zhao, C.-C. Jay Kuo A structured learning framework for content-based image indexing and visual query p. 317 Joo-Hwee Lim, Jesse S. Jin Unsupervised speaker segmentation and tracking in real-time audio content analysis p. 332 Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang Caption analysis and recognition for building video indexing systems p. 344 Fu Chang, Guey-Ching Chen, Chin-Chin Lin, Wen-Hsiung Lin [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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: maurizio lana Subject: meaning of impact factor Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:22:19 +0100I don't know nor understand X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1079 (1079) many thanks for your help. maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universit=E0 del Piemonte Orientale a= Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 / +39 011 8609843 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 18.720 nomenclature Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:22:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1080 (1080) Greetings, [deleted quotation]The situation isn't necessarily qualitatively different in the physical sciences Joris mentions. Though using machines and writing software is pervasive, anyone who gets too interested in computing is perceived as flirting with grave professional -- and moral -- danger. [deleted quotation]There are quite a few `Computational X' sub-displines in the physical sciences. I can think of Computational Chemistry (smells without the mess, where you do your chemistry by direct simulation of molecular bonds using quantum mechanics), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD: modelling air or fluid flow without plasticene and wind tunnels), and Computational Cosmology (working round the irritatingly single status of our universe, and seeing what other alternatives might possibly exist). In a separate category, I think, are Lattice QCD (particle theory done by direct simulation rather than analytical approximation) and possibly Solar System Dynamics (the production and use of ephemerides which, unlike the other ones, doesn't require spectacular machines). The three Computational-X disciplines can be linked, since in each case the computing aspect is not the centrally interesting bit, and though the techniques involved are specialised and sophisticated, the technique is no more than that, a technique for researching chemistry, fluid mechanics or cosmology, done by a particular type of chemist, engineer or cosmologist. For Lattice QCD and for some aspects of the ephemeris work, on the other hand, the calculational technique is itself the object of the research. For example, I was once subjected to a set of lectures on Lattice QCD, which was deemed Good For Me even though I was unlikely ever to do such a calculation for myself; I do not, however, have the first idea how to simulate a molecule from first principles, and nor does anyone think I ought to have, as part of my general education. Joris mentioned Bioinformatics -- this is different again. Unlike each of the topics above, bioinformatics is of interest to computer scientists: they're pleased to have the right sort of problem to tax their shiny new ideas, and the geneticists are reluctantly coming round to the idea that someone may have a better approach to their problem than they have come up with themselves. Melissa Terras listed a few possible terms, with interesting shades of distinction between them. But here's another one: what would Computational Humanities look like? It's humanistic research that you do when you happen to have been given a week of supercomputer time. An example of that might, for example, be the task of generating some monster concordance of the entirety of Google's corpus (presuming this were somehow useful). That would throw up all sorts of technical problems, from normalisation and tagging of the sources, down to the boring complications of cramming the work into only a terabyte of physical memory. These would probably be fascinating to the pale souls doing the actual work, but be neither the point not seen as much worth reporting. This is possibly closest to Melissa's `Computing in the Humanities', with the vaguely pejorative connotations she detects in `Digital Humanities'. `Cultural and Heritage Informatics', in Melissa's construction, is the one that sounds most like Bioinformatics to me, inasmuch as it is an example of some mutual backscratching. the Bio- and the -Informatics people are happy to have found each other, and are having a great time helping each other along the road, but it's not a long term thing and I myself doubt that a new, independent, discipline is emerging here (hmmm, Bioinformatics as Brief Encounter; see also <http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cfg.442>). Last week (from 18.699) Willard's exam question prompted a number of responses. These were very various, but they were fairly uniformly not (just) about theories of critical reading, and they weren't (just) about {SG,X}ML, but seemed instead to be responses about reading texts in general informed by a particular intellectual background, and particular obsessions. They're also interesting and productive outside the field of `Humanities Computing'. None of this goes against the grain of what others have said here before on many occasions. But to return to Joris's original point, it seems to me that what is important is not whether `the heavy use of computation and computing in these disciplines is simply [...] accepted as part of the discipline's standard instrumentation' -- since the Humanities' reliance on word processors is arguably different from this only in degree. Lattice QCD is something rather distinct from the Computational-X fields, and is a case where we don't simply see computers shovelled in, facilitating a pre-existing set of research questions, but instead see a new set of generally-interesting ideas emerge. Significantly, I think, in the term `Lattice QCD' there is _no_ explicit mention of computation, even though novel mechanical and mathematical calculational techniques are at the very heart of what it is about. So I have no suggestions for a better term for `Humanities Computing', or improvements on any of Melissa's terms, but I can predict that if a new room does have to be built in the academy, it won't have `comput-' or `info-' anywhere on the nameplate. Best wishes, Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk From: Charles Ess Subject: cfp: special issue on games and ethics Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:28:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1081 (1081) CFP -- special issue of IRIE on e-games. - Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2005 - Notification of acceptance to authors: August 15, 2005 - Deadline for full chapters: September 30, 2005 - Publication: December, 2005 The Ethics of E-Games Call for Papers - IRIE, Vol. 2/2005 International Review of Information Ethics. Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2005 Introduction Computer-based or e-games, in both standalone and networked incarnations (including "Massive Multiplayer Online Games" or MMOGs), represent one of the most popular -- and an economically profitable -- uses of ICTs and CMC in the contemporary world. Such games not only simulate a range of human social interactions, from building (perhaps utopian) societies to historical and fantasy warfare of every age: the games further occasion and catalyze a range of human interactions that rightly inspire research from a variety of disciplines and specialties. Especially violent games (e.g., Quake, Doom, Grand Theft Auto III, and others) have generated some critical discussion, ranging from "moral panics" in popular media to social science investigations into possible effects and consequences of participating in such games. But e-games represent a relatively neglected subject in Information Ethics. At the same time, however, if broader discussion of e-games is to include responsible and informed ethical reflection, much more critical reflection from the various perspectives of Information Ethics upon the multiple dimensions of e-games and game-playing is needed. Hence this special issue of IRIE calls for such critical ethical reflection. Possible Topics and Questions 1. The Rules -- and thus Ethics -- of Play While much has been written about potential psychological and social consequences of e-games, very little academic research has focused on the ethics of e-games. The ethical questions and issues here, however, are many -- for example: A. What ethics -- if any -- may be expected of gamers (e.g., honesty, fairness, respect, integrity - see: Code of Ethics http://investors.egames.com/ethics.asp)? B. On the contrary, is it ethically justified to suspend such ethical expectations within specific games (e.g., Grand Theft Auto III) -- precisely because these are "just a game," i.e., a kind of psychological and/or social exercise that, like Carneval and other traditional events that temporarily invert prevailing social norms, may have cathartic and/or other beneficent effects? C. Are there ethical norms to be expected of game designers -- e.g., avoiding designs that intentionally or inadvertently reinforce questionable (if not dangerous and unethical) stereotypes regarding gender, ethnic and national identities, etc.? Or is anything justified as long as it sells in the marketplace? D. How do different cultures shape and shade these ethical questions and responses? For example, are concerns with illicit sexuality in games primarily only an issue for U.S. (puritanical) parents, while European parents are more concerned about violence, while parents in Asian countries are concerned about 8A? Do different cultures understand the role of games differently -- and thus, the ethical questions and ways of responding to these questions in different ways? E. Additional questions / issues? 2. Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care E-games, especially in their online versions, bring together participants from around the globe. A specific approach to the ethics of e-Games invokes virtue ethics -- e.g., in Aristotelian and/or Confucian traditions -- to ask the question, what human excellences and potentials are fostered by our playing such games (e.g., Coleman 2001)? Contemporary feminist ethics, including an ethics of care (e.g., as developed by Nel Noddings) would also raise critical questions regarding what we learn and develop -- specifically, what capacities for caring, if any -- as we play such games. What would such ethical analyses suggest to us regarding contemporary games? Are these analyses legitimate to use -- and/or do they beg several questions regarding the nature of games, gamers, and game-playing? [Coleman, Kari. 2001. Android Arete: Toward a Virtue Ethic for Computational Agents, Ethics and Information Technology, 3 (4): 247-265.] 3. Social Dimensions The larger social impacts of computing and information technologies are one set of consequences that are ethically relevant to design and use of ICTs -- and thus are of importance in Information Ethics. Many negative consequences of game-playing are thematic of both popular and scholarly literature, e.g., concerns with encouraging violence, potential addiction, and other anti-social impacts. At the same time, however, at least some games may be argued to have ethical and social value as they enhance social and other sorts of skills, serve as an attractor in e-learning environments, etc. What can reliable research in fact tell us regarding these impacts -- both positive and negative? And: given the best available research on these impacts -- what ethical conclusions (if any) may be drawn regarding the production and consumption of e-games? 4. Gender, Culture It is not hard to find examples in especially the more popular e-games of gender and cultural stereotypes -- stereotypes that are ethically reprehensible insofar as they ideologically justify a range of inequalities and the violation of basic human rights. If certain games only work to reinforce prevailing "masculinist" stereotypes regarding how to be male; and if certain games teach us to see "the Other" (whether as a female and/or as a member of a cultural/ethnic identity different from our own) as naturally inferior, the legitimate target of violence, etc. -- then a strong ethical case against such games could be made. On the other hand, gamers may be perfectly aware that "this is just a game" -- i.e., they may well approach such stereotypes with a distance and irony that helps diffuse rather than reinforce them. Moreover, not all games work by presuming such gender and/or cultural stereotypes. And finally, a growing community of women gamers directly challenge these stereotypes about games. Are there games and ways of playing games that help us explore our identities as gendered beings in positive and fruitful ways, rather than simply playing off and thus reinforcing stereotypes that may be questionable, if not oppressive? Are there games and ways of playing games that in fact help us overcome ethnocentrism and come to see "the Other" in ways that teach us to respect the irreducible differences that define diverse gender and cultural identities -- perhaps even teach us to communicate more effectively across these differences? 5. None of the Above We do not imagine that this initial list of suggestions exhausts all possible topics and approaches to ethical reflection on e-Games. On the contrary, we encourage interested authors to propose additional frameworks, questions, ethical and analytical approaches, etc., that will add to our insight regarding ethics and e-Games. The Rules of the Game Potential authors are asked to provide an extended abstract (max. 1.500 words) by 30. June 2005. The abstract should be written in the mother tongue of the author. An English translation of this abstract has to be included, if the chosen language is not English or German. The IJIE will publish accepted articles (3000 words or 20,000 letters including blanks) in German, English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. For further details see the submission guidelines <http://ijie.zkm.de/About#submissionguidelines> . The abstracts will be selected by the guest editors, Dr. Charles Ess and Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan. Authors will be notified by 15. August 2005. Deadline for the final article (according to IRIE format guide) is 30. September 2005. All submissions will be subject to peer review. Therefore the acceptance of an extended abstract by the members of the editorial board does not imply the publication of the final text unless the article passed the peer review. For more information about the journal see: www.ijie.org <http://www.ijie.org/> A list of documents, which potential authors might find useful, can be requested by e-mail. Members of the ICIE will get a copy of the list via the ICIE mailing list. Contact Please send queries and proposals to guest editors, Dr. Charles Ess: Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan: thanks! 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: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Dubious Research and Academia Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:28:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1082 (1082) Through the topic of dubious research, we came to touch several topics which have to do with academia as a whole. Yes, we do have a responsibility, especially in Humanities and Social Sciences, to make our work intelligible to a broad audience. Interdisciplinarity, in our case, should be quite easy as we use a lot of concepts that people use every day. It's interesting, though, that alternatives to the "Publish or Perish" principle aren't discussed more specifically. After all, if the method to achieve CV-padding relies on specialized jargon, the impetus behind CV-padding is the need to prove one's worth. As we all know, some academics do extremely useful work yet rarely publish in peer-reviewed journal. Typically, especially in the US, they either achieved tenure before the "Publish or Perish" principle became too powerful, or they work at an institution upon which other academics look= down. Seriously, a large part of the problem might be the lack of "good jobs" in academia (though things are getting easier in some places) but at least a small part of the problem is due to condescending attitudes on the part of some people. Non-academics tend to rely on the prestige of well-known institutions as if ideas came from prestige. Academics play into the same notion. Sophisticated use of language has an obvious effect on the perception of prestige. Those of us who spend most of their writing in a second language are judged first and foremost by our capacity to use that language long before our ideas are heard. This works across disciplines. A social scientist who doesn't prove her knowledge of the humanistic canon will probably be perceived as naive by humanists even if her ideas are sound and telling. Granted, academia has changed quite a bit in the last thirty years. Those of us who began our training during that period of change are easily surprised by some attitudes held back from a prior era. And, at one point, there will be alternatives to publication in peer-reviewed journals. Or, at the very least, peer-reviewed journals will have more to do with the "review by academic peers" than with the prestige afforded a given publication. One can hope. Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: Ken Friedman Subject: A gloomy thought Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:29:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1083 (1083) Dear Willard, Like others on the list, I have reviewed papers for many conferences that consider themselves (or hope to consider themselves) serious rather than dubious. After reviewing papers and then seeing final selections, it sometimes seems to me that good, well written papers are rejected by the consensus of referees. In contrast, some paper that get through look much like the papers generated by a phrase engine. As one of those old-time comics would have said, "Go figure." Clear writing is a virtue. One great virtue of clear writing is that we ourselves must understand what we are writing to express ourselves well enough for others to understand what we mean. The trick of the computerized paper generator is that it resembles the writing of human phrase generators who use jargon. The algebra of jargon is dangerous precisely because human beings can manipulate it to shape seemingly meaningful sentences that they do not themselves understand. One may wonder where there is a significant difference between electromechanical and human phrase generators. -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Leadership and Organization Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School +47 06600 Tlf NSM +47 67.55.73.23 Tlf Office +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Julia Flanders Subject: seeking source of Pollard quote Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:29:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1084 (1084) Is there among the readers of Humanist anyone who can help me identify the source of a quotation from A. W. Pollard? I remember it being something along the lines of "Editions may be as alike as peas, but not as alike as buttons". Does this ring any bells with anyone? Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Brown University From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 18.733 how is impact measured? Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:30:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1085 (1085) A strange version of this happened to a good friend of mine. Early in his career he had always signed his name one way -- let's say "John A. Smith". But later he realized he liked his middle name better, so he started signing himself "J. Albert Smith -- and as he gradually came to be known in the profession as "Albert", his latest articles were all signed "Albert Smith". Well his work was very tightly interlinked,and he often cited his earlier articles. Sure enough someone used software to find 'the most commonly cited writers' in the field, and by golly, he was three of them. [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: impact Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:42:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1086 (1086) Maurizio Lana, in Humanist 18.733, asks about the measuring of the impact of scholarly work. Unfortunately his note was rudely reformatted, for which I apologise. Probably my fault. It is perhaps not very helpful to argue against the very idea of "impact", but the metaphor does bother me. It suggests such analogues as bowling pins impacted by a heavy ball, or one automobile hitting another, doing damage all around. (True, academics do cherish violent thoughts about each other sometimes, and the idea of denting another's mind may have a certain appeal, but still....) "Impact" leads me to a state of positive longing for the old astrological idea of influence, which in its mysticism carries much of the unknowable and the puzzling, and does so with a good gentleness. No dents, simply a certain sympathy, expressed as a changed behaviour, often without recognition that any change has occurred. Is it not typical in the humanities for the work of one scholar powerfully to influence another but require and so receive very little if any explicit recognition? I speak as someone who has deliberately cultivated an intensely referential style (massive bibliographies, many footnotes, numerous "as X has said"s), but still I'd not want to endorse an automatically calculated ranking of those most influential on my own work. I suppose over the very long haul the statistics would tell a true story, but then that story would need to be interpreted -- and that's the rub. Indeed, the metrics seem to be part of an effort to automate influence, which is to say, to automate meaning. Ah yes, we recognize the beast now, don't we? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Wesley N. Raabe" Subject: Re: 18.736 measuring and questioning impact Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:22:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1087 (1087) Using sources like the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, perhaps a researcher could differentiate between those scholars who are frequently cited because they are all part of a clique and those who are frequently cited because widely influential beyond their clique. One could easily be mislead on accident, as Norman Hinton demonstrates. Add name changes that follow marriages and divorces to personal idiosyncrasies, and I assume that many scholars would have more than one identity. The researcher could also be foiled by Randall McCleod in the MLA International Bibliography, whose appearance under a variety of spellings (as the Renaissance writers he discusses do: Shakespeare, Shakspear, Shakspeare) is a serious point that frustrates enumerative bibliographies. Wesley (N.?) Raabe Ph.D. Candidate Department of English University of Virginia From: "Charles Ess" Subject: a non-dubious conference CFP... CATaC'06 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:21:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1088 (1088) Dear Humanists, Please distribute as appropriate, and with apologies for cross-posting... CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'06) 28 June - 1 July 2006 University of Tartu, Estonia <http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac Conference theme: Neither Global Village nor Homogenizing Commodification: Diverse Cultural, Ethnic, Gender and Economic Environments 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). 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 1990s' hopes for an "electronic global village" have largely been shunted aside by the Internet's explosive diffusion. This diffusion was well described by Marx - all that is solid melts into air - and was predicted by postmodernists. The diffusion of CMC technologies quickly led to many and diverse internets. A single "Internet", whose identity and characteristics might be examined as a single unity, has not materialised. An initially culturally and gender homogenous Internet came more and more to resemble an urban metropolis. Along the way, in the commercialization of the Internet and the Web, "cultural diversity" gets watered down and exchanges strong diversity for a homogenous interchangeability. Such diversity thereby becomes commodified and serves a global capitalism that tends to foster cultural homogenization. CATaC'06 continues our focus on the intersections of culture, technology, and communication, beginning with an emphasis on continued critique of the assumptions, categories, methodologies, and theories frequently used to analyse these. At the same time, CATaC'06 takes up our characteristic focus on ethics and justice in the design and deployment of CMC technologies. We particularly focus on developing countries facilitated by "on the ground" approaches in the work of NGOs, governmental agencies, etc., in ways that preserve and foster cultural identity and diversity. By simultaneously critiquing and perhaps complexifying our theories and assumptions, on the one hand, and featuring "best practices" approaches to CMC in development work, on the other hand, CATaC'06 aims towards a middle ground between a putative "global village" and homogenizing commodification. Such middle ground fosters cultural diversity, economic and social development, and more successful cross-cultural communication online. 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 isn't 'culture' anymore - The Internet isn't the 'Internet' anymore - Gender, culture, empowerment and CMC - CMC and cultural diversity - Internet research ethics - Ethics and justice - Cultural diversity and e-learning (For elaboration on these themes, please see the more complete CFP on the conference website.) Our conference themes provide a range of approaches to the questions raised. SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. 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. Full papers (10-20 formatted pages) - 13 February 2006 Short papers (3-5 formatted pages) - 20 February 2006 Workshop submissions - 20 February 2006 Notification of acceptance - mid March 2006 Final formatted papers - 29 March 2006 There will be the opportunity for selected papers from this 2006 conference to appear in special issues of journals. 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 and 2004 conference from www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au PROGRAM CHAIR Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria CONFERENCE CO-VICE-CHAIRS Pille Runnel, Tartu University, Estonia Pille Vengerfeldt, Tartu University, Estonia == Thanks! and cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA voice: (1) 417-873-7230 fax: (1) 417-873-7435 homepage: www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html "The world can provide for everyone's needs - but not for everyone's greed." - Gandhi From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 18.735 dubious conferences and gloomy thoughts Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:40:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1089 (1089) Alexandre Enkerli writes, on a slight tangent from his main point about alternatives to Publish-or-Perish: [deleted quotation]Is it safe to assume that many Humanist readers would like to live in a utopian world of academic polymaths? This discussion has certainly been hinting at that. If we do strive for such a world, consciously or not, we'll go through a phase (or maybe arrive at a stable point) where it will become acceptable, even expected, that a social scientist will be encouraged to provide input on humanistic topics while at the same time missing some part of the relevant canon. In this case, the conversation might continue indefinitely, new information being given to the social scientist (by humanists who can express themselves flawlessly, of course), and the original thoughts revised by both parties in collaboration. The difference between this utopia and the present state of affairs is only the default attitude towards someone from "outside" whose thoughts may well be worth considering. I'd like that. It might make progress, by which I mean the advancement of new ideas along a specific axis, slower; but that will be an illusion. In this imagined reality, the structure of the knowledge network will move away from hierarchical and towards rhizomatic, The major fields of knowledge will be more tightly interwoven, better reflecting the world we live in. -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Perceptions of Copyright Infringement -- A Symposium Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:36:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1090 (1090) SYMPOSIUM on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Pirates, Thieves and Innocents: Perceptions of Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium June 16-17, 2005 THEME: Exploring the ways in which we think and talk about copyright infringement in our digital age; focusing on issues relevant to the higher education community and the delivery of third-party copyrighted content. REGISTRATION: Early registration ends May 16, 2005. Space is limited. https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm. Some affiliation discounts apply. AGENDA: Visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/agenda.html to see the topics to be addressed by our speakers and panelists who are experts in their fields. ROSTER: Speakers/panelists are available at http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/speakers.html. ENTERTAINMENT: DC After Dark Tour -- Have dinner in DC and then see some of the city's monuments and memorials. Details at: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/DC_After_Dark.html. SPONSOR: the Center for Intellectual Property http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ Jack Boeve University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 240-582-2736 jboeve_at_umuc.edu From: kanvik Subject: Call for Presentations: CaSTA 2005 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:38:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1091 (1091) Call for Presentations CaSTA 2005 -- Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Digital Technologies: Tools, Methods, Solutions University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada October 3-7, 2005 http://tapor.ualberta.ca/CASTA2005 The fourth annual CaSTA Symposium will be held at the University of Alberta October 3rd through 7th, 2005. The event will: - bring together scholars from diverse disciplines, whose work shares common approaches in text encoding, knowledge management, and digital approaches to scholarly communication - be a forum for discussion of best practices, and sharing of insights, tools and approaches in these fields - provide hands-on, practical workshop and discussion activities for scholars considering or underway with projects of this type To achieve these goals, we are running a series of discipline-specific workshops, seminars, and forums during the week. Invited experts will conduct workshops, lead seminars, and provide personal consultation on scholarly projects which use text encoding and text transformation technologies. Outline of Each Day's Activities Workshop 08:30 10:00 break 10:00 10:30 Seminar 10:30 12:00 lunch 12:00 01:30 Project Consultations 01:30 03:00 break 03:00 03:30 Forum 03:30 05:00 This is a Call for Presentations for graduate students working in one for these disciplines (or related areas): - linguistics - anthropology - information science - digital editing - scholarly editions on the web Suitable subjects for presentations include (but are not strictly limited to): - text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, natural language processing, linguistics, translation studies, literary studies, text analysis, digital editions - information design in the humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modelling Formats The presentations may be in either one of these formats: Poster A poster taking up no more than 6' x 4' (2m x 1.2m). Demonstration A demonstration of a computer-based research approach, software program, or website. A scheduled block of time will allocated each day for poster presentations; presenters will have an opportunity to discuss their work with colleagues and answer questions. The posters will remain on display throughout the conference, if the presenter wishes it. The software demonstrations will also be scheduled for a specific time period each day; the presenter will have about 15 minutes to make their presentation, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and comment. Submissions will be refereed. Participating graduate students will have the opportunity to sign up for workshops, symposia, personal consultations and forums with invited experts from a number of fields. How to submit a proposal Prepare a short abstract (about 350 - 500 words) which describes your research proposal. Please make clear how your research uses or addresses issues relating to text encoding, knowledge management, or digital approaches in the humanities. Please send your proposal to: CASTA2005_at_mail.arts.ualberta.ca In addition to the abstract, please indicate your technical requirements (if you are proposing a software demonstration): are you bringing your own computer (what is its make and operating system?); do you wish us to provide a computer (Macintosh, PC, or Unix? specific operating system required? specific software required? what version? CD-ROM or DVD player needed? audio? resolution requirements?) Deadline The deadline for submissions is: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 We hope to be able to response to the accepted applicants by: Thursday, July 28, 2005 For more information, or questions, contact: CASTA2005_at_mail.arts.ualberta.ca Financial Support A small number of travel bursaries are available, which will cover the cost of travel to and from Edmonton, for graduate students whose proposals are judged to be the best. Registration Registration for the conference will be available on the CaSTA website: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/CASTA2005 in early May, 2005. From: Journal of Digital Information Subject: JoDI on adaptive hypermedia Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:37:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1092 (1092) Call for Papers Journal of Digital Information announces a Special Issue on Adaptive Hypermedia Special issue Editors: Paul De Bra, Eindhover University and Tim Brailsford University of Nottingham. Submission deadline: 3 June 2005 Publication: September 2005 Submissions are sought for a special edition for the Hypermedia Systems theme of JoDI on Adaptive Hypermedia. In recent years there has been extensive research on adaptation and personalisation in hypermedia, and such systems are starting to make an impact upon mainstream web design. Users have disparate expectations, backgrounds and requirements and adaptive hypermedia systems are those that build a profile of the user and then deliver content that is appropriate for these needs (rather than the more traditional "one-size-fits-all approac" of the web). It is hoped that papers in this special issue will describe work that addresses some of the fundamental issues of adaptive hypermedia as well as describing real-world applications of this technology. For more details on indicative topics and submission, see the full call http://jodi.tamu.edu/calls/adaptive_hypermedia.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 Texas A&M University Libraries. http://jodi.tamu.edu/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: being Leibniz or talking about it? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:10:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1093 (1093) Vika Zafrin, in Humanist 18.741, extracts and highlights Alexandre Enkerli's point that humanities computing appears to require the impossible from us: that we all become omni-competent polymaths. As a field defined by its interdisciplinary perspective on all the humanities, given mandate to converse intelligently with them all and to engage with their work on a rather deep level, his point seems inescapable. A very few of us may like to have a go at being Leibniz (a polymath if there ever was one), but even if a few (*very* few) emerge from the attempt with reputations intact, the model is clearly not sustainable. We don't want a field with one or two wizards in it -- snake-oil salesmen more like -- and everyone else hiding behind rocks. A far better way forward, I think, is the one Vika talks about. We can, and perhaps should, rail against the blinkered view of the world that disciplinary specialization enforces, but the practical question remains: what do we, can we, do about the situation? The only response that makes sense to me might be called the Braveheart solution -- minus the gory ending, and with all in the ragtag crowd bravehearts. (A pause while you envision the scene....) It seems to me that we need to move our idea of competence from the individual to the group and that this actually can be done by making conversations, such as this one and many others on Humanist, a top priority in our professional lives. Of course one cannot put into one's c.v. something like the following.... 2005. "being Leibniz or talking about it?". Humanist 18.745, replying to Humanist 18.741 and replied to by Humanist 18.749, 753, 761. For one thing, the contribution could be utter tripe. Rather, time spent like this is, in the idiom of the day, an investment in our common future. But perhaps more significantly, this move toward the group -- by autonomous individuals, bravehearts all -- can be made by changing how we regard our publications, and so how we use the mechanisms of publication. The core idea is not to make Humanist like Critical Inquiry, even less like one of the books by one of its distinguished authors, rather to make our articles and books more like Humanist. To write them, with all our strength, as competently as we are able, but to regard them as contributions to a long conversation ("Of shoes -- and ships -- and ceiling wax -- / Of cabbages -- and kings -- / And why the sea is boiling hot -- / And whether pigs have wings"). Not like monuments against time. The poem does go on, I know: [deleted quotation]and, you may recall the Oysters get eaten! But then, time is short, contra the Carpenter's patience. Too utopian? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Zeitgeist metrics Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:13:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1094 (1094) Some of you may know that Google gives us a week-by-week, month-by-month and, since 2001, a year-by-year portrait of the wired Zeitgeist, at http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html. I suppose nothing shown by the face of this ghost, uttered by this oracle, measures our distance, or at least mine, from the central concerns of our online world -- where it's happening, man -- than the consistently high ranking of Britney Spears. I take it (as a matter of something closer to pride than shame) that out of the 10 top queries for the week ending 18 April, [deleted quotation]I recognize only 3 without question, am in doubt about 2 and haven't a clue as to the remainder. So much for ignorance on our, or perhaps just my, side. How about ignorance on the other? It is said that in England now a large percentage of the young think that Churchill is a dog who sells insurance. (Only those who live here will laugh knowingly; everyone else has to infer that there's such a commercial, but will get the point.) It is said that in Ireland many university students cannot say what event Easter celebrates. If (as I believe) one cannot understand historical literature of the West, and therefore its culture, without knowledge of the Bible, what sort of a cultural fix are we really in? Is the truth in Raymond Williams' fine and stirring phrase, "culture is ordinary", enough to see us through? Now here is something to test our resolve to communicate with the world at large! We must do it, but how? Or must we? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: research positions 2005-9 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:07:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1095 (1095) [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.14 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:08:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1096 (1096) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 14 (April 26 - May 3, 2005) VIEW MANPOWER RETENTION IN IT: AN OXYMORON? Sunil Tadwalkar and Manjira Sen urge you to think of retention of people a business goal rather than a damage control measure. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i14_tadwalkar.html From: caterina Subject: e-publishing? Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:53:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1097 (1097) Dear all, Can anyone point me at studies or statistics concerning the number of scholar/scientific publications in digital format published yearly? In particular, I am interested in: - the general trend over the last 5 - 10 years or so - trends across different disciplines and/or different types of publications (journals, articles, handbooks, ...) - parallel between publications only electronic - electronic & on paper Cheers, Caterina From: "Claire Rustat-Flinton" Subject: EUROCORES Theme Proposals Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:56:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1098 (1098) Dear colleagues, [Please refer to] the Call for EUROCORES themes which has now been published on the ESF website at www.esf.org/eurocores. You will find that the new EUROCORES Scheme, approved by the ESF Governing Council, includes a competition between proposals from all fields of science, including Humanities. An especially appointed EUROCORES Committee, composed of leading scientists in all fields, will select proposals on the basis of a ranked lists submitted by the Chairs of Standing Committees. In order to make sure this Call attracts as many good theme proposals from the Humanities as possible, please circulate the attached Call widely in the scientific community of the Humanities in your country and, beyond your country, in your own scientific discipline. I have been informed that ESF plans to publish the Call in the next weeks in "Nature, "Science" and "Times Higher Education". The Call has also been sent to the research councils for circulation - but you will appreciate that in some cases a more targeted circulation may be useful for SCH researchers. If you have any questions regarding the Call for EUROCORES Themes, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best regards Dr. Ruediger Klein EUROCORES Programme Coordinator European Science Foundation 1, quai Lezay-Marnésia F-67080 Strasbourg cedex France Phone: +33 (0)388 767-104 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 18.744 Zeitgeist metrics Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:13:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1099 (1099) <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk > Some of you may know that Google gives us a week-by-week, month-by-month and, since 2001, a year-by-year portrait of the wired Zeitgeist, at <http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html>http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html. I suppose nothing shown by the face of this ghost, uttered by this oracle, measures our distance, or at least mine, from the central concerns of our online world -- where it's happening, man -- than the consistently high ranking of Britney Spears. I take it (as a matter of something closer to pride than shame) that out of the 10 top queries for the week ending 18 April, [deleted quotation]I recognize only 3 without question, am in doubt about 2 and haven't a clue as to the remainder. So much for ignorance on our, or perhaps just my, side. How about ignorance on the other? It is said that in England now a large percentage of the young think that Churchill is a dog who sells insurance. (Only those who live here will laugh knowingly; everyone else has to infer that there's such a commercial, but will get the point.) It is said that in Ireland many university students cannot say what event Easter celebrates. If (as I believe) one cannot understand historical literature of the West, and therefore its culture, without knowledge of the Bible, what sort of a cultural fix are we really in? Is the truth in Raymond Williams' fine and stirring phrase, "culture is ordinary", enough to see us through? Now here is something to test our resolve to communicate with the world at large! We must do it, but how? Or must we? 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ -- Paul Oppenheimer From: Steven D.Krause Subject: Re: 18.744 Zeitgeist metrics Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:57:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1100 (1100) Actually, I think some of these "top 10" are kind of interesting, and even if it lists things we don't necessarily know a lot about, I think it says something about the diversity of people who use google: [deleted quotation]You've probably heard of this; it just took place. [deleted quotation]There was just a remake of this movie; I'm told it was awful. [deleted quotation]Well, Madonna supposedly likes her, and Madonna lives in the UK, so.... [deleted quotation]A "model" who I'd never heard of before this; incidentally, a lot of these photos say "FHM" on them, which I thought was a British publication.... [deleted quotation]American rap artist; I think he had a new album come out. [deleted quotation]Internal Revenue Service, the tax collectors in the US. Federal taxes were due April 15. [deleted quotation]I'm sure you've heard of him; he said he's going to retire after one more Tour de France.... These last three are the weirdest of the lot: [deleted quotation]This is just a car; why it's this high up on the list is kind of a mystery to me. [deleted quotation]This is the "ultimate fighting championship," sort of a real life *Fight Club* kind of deal that's on TV in the US once in a while. Icky. [deleted quotation]Apparently, a whale and a dolphin mated and thus the "wholphin" was born. Strange. I understand your fear of the "loss of culture" Willard; though that is, as Talking Heads told us, "same as it ever was." The youth have always corrupted the culture-- the culture of "the old," that is. There's a passage in one of the writings of an ancient Greek rhetorician (the name escapes me now) in which he complains bitterly about the youth of his day 2500 years ago, teenagers more interested in cooling their wine in the fountains and flirting with the flute girls. In the long-run, I don't think that Churchill and Easter have to worry a whole lot about their space in the large canon of culture, while I am pretty sure that, in 20 years time, Britney Spears and the Amityville Horror will be long gone. Conversely, this list seems to me to represents at least one view of what "popular culture" on the web looks like. 6 out of these 10 have something to do with sports or entertainment; throw in the search on the Pontiac and on Vida Guerra, and I think you have a pretty good argument that, while the Internet is much more diverse than it used to be, it is still dominated by 15-30 American men. At least this week. --Steve Steven D. Krause Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature Eastern Michigan University * Ypsilanti, MI 48197 http://krause.emich.edu From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: On becoming "T-Shaped" Computing Humanists Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:58:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1101 (1101) There exists an interesting case study that pertains to the discussion of becoming a "polymath" and the ideas and importance of developing "go-to" people for expertise in the particulars of a discipline. McKinsey & Company:Managing Knowledge and Learning in Bartlett, C., Ghoshal, S. & Birkinshaw, J. _Transnational Management: texts, cases and readings in cross-border management_ pps. 484. Broadly, the issue is that McKinsey found so much success and so much demand for their consultation services that their consultants became "generalists" to the point that they were often not very helpful in addressing particular client needs. The solution was a knowledge management system, that involved encouraging consultants to publish, posted journals and a metaphor that described the goal of "t-shaped" consultation. Meaning that the consultant should have a good general understanding of all areas of management, but at the same time develop an expertise in one. That way, when the company had a "go-to" person for each subject. This, of course, goes back to an earlier topic that addressed the idea of disciplinarity and my argument that "expertise" should have more to do with the "expert" than it does with the "expertise." In practical terms, it reminds me that as a library intern, I would tell many graduate students in interdisciplinary courses to forgo the database for a while -- hit the encyclopedias to find the "experts" in the field and then steal citiations until they have a good understanding of what the "classic" writers are. Then you use the database to fill in the gaps. So, going back to the dubious journal problem -- I don't think we can stop this problem, but we can develop communities that can understand the "whos" of humanities computing, and advise others of the same. Ryan. .. Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation]Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 18.743 beyond being dubious and gloomy Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:58:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1102 (1102) Dear Willard and HUMANIST, I almost answered your latest post replying to Vika, as I had almost replied to Vika, but then decided to forbear. Mainly because I didn't want to sound snarky. You write, "The core idea is not to make Humanist like Critical Inquiry, even less like one of the books by one of its distinguished authors, rather to make our articles and books more like Humanist." I nod appreciatively; and yet the controversialist in my brain wants to reply, "What, you want to cooperate, collaborate, exchange with others with other backgrounds and disciplinary perspectives? And remind me again, what's stopping you?" See, in some worlds this Utopia is already happening. They're not perfect worlds (which one is, on this earth?), but if you go to a venue like Extreme Markup Languages I think you'll find exactly that kind of community of curious and open-minded intellectuals. Whether academic or not, these are all people who value such a community's "collective polymathia" enough to make sometimes extraordinary efforts and sacrifices to be a part of it. Nor do I have any doubt that this kind of thing is also happening elsewhere. (Actually -- I happen to know it's happening in your corner too. Maybe I should regard your exhortations as that of a coach shouting at us to do more, when we are already running faster and leaping higher than anyone ever has ... but we sure do sound unsatisfied don't we?) Then I come across a HUMANIST post referring to an article in ACM Ubiquity, wherein I discover that the main problem facing companies in the IT sector is (surprise!) employee retention. That is, contrary to the notion that this Brave New World is one where workers are interchangeable parts, commodities to be switched in and out as soon as an offshore vendor offers replacement units at a better price point, it turns out that our complicated machines are all stitched and held together with threads and glue of human know-how. And know-how is a most precious stuff, whose great price is due to the fact that no one has yet figured out how to automate its ongoing maintenance ("human resource management" systems notwithstanding), to say nothing of its production. So, in that article Tadwalkar and Sen write http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i14_tadwalkar.html [deleted quotation]In other words, the IT industry is founded and sustained by human culture, and by particular cultures' respective abilities to make room for and nurture their members (whether that be at the level of the team, the corporation, the department, professional society or what have you). This strikes me as echoing the gloomy doubt you want to go beyond. In the smaller world of "Humanities Computing" we also rediscover how important is the human element: our most plaintive laments are not concerned with the progress of our research, but with those less tangible problems of how and with whom we communicate. (Ten years ago we wanted to know how to make our SGML into HTML, and how to participate in meaningful dialogue with our non-computing peers. We are no longer asking the first question.) "Recognition is what one seeks. And fairness is what one demands." Likewise, consider what is happening as many of our electronic projects begin to show their age, and we find (as is also being discovered in industry) that non-proprietary encoding standards such as XML and HTML are not in themselves enough to guarantee an online project's accessibility in perpetuity, if (say) we have to move it to a new server, while the original architect is long gone and never did leave very good notes. What do we have to fall back on in such a case besides human know-how? (And why didn't we treat her better when we had her?) Consequently we discover that our problems, and their remedies, are not so new and different. Far from making the human element obsolete, these complicated machines depend on it. If this comes as news to us, I submit that it's not because we don't understand and recognize how deeply enmeshed in each other are society and technology. Rather, I think the blind spot is much closer to home, in that humanities disciplines have long been constituted, and structured institutionally (as has been observed many times on HUMANIST), as preserves for solitary scholars, while our work shows more than ever how dependent we are on the various talents of many. Accordingly, nominal and actual qualifications for the work are at variance, and incentives and rewards go badly out of synch with what we actually need from each other (with fake conference papers and fake conferences at which to deliver them being a result). If we can resolve *that* stress, it will ease many of our pains along with it. So I applaud your "Braveheart solution", and acknowledge that we have nothing to lose but our shackles and chains. On the other hand, I protest, all around us (if we only look) we see the will, ingenuity, know-how. The siege may be long, but Everyman-as-hero is already standing with us. Regards, Wendell Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_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: "James L. Morrison" Subject: The Technology Source Archives Are Under Construction Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:08:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1103 (1103) I am delighted to announce that The Technology Source (TS) archives will be available to the Internet community courtesy of the UNC School of Public Health Executive Master's Programs in Health Policy and Administration, which has funded the reprogramming of TS content on UNC's ibiblio server. As you may know, ibiblio is billed as "the public's library and digital archive," and is one of the largest conservatories of freely available information on the Internet (see the "About" page at http://www.ibiblio.org/about.html ). What you may not know is that UNC's School of Public Health Executive Master's Programs in Health Policy and Administration is one of the first programs in the country to offer distance education degrees in health administration and, therefore, has supported online education and using information technology tools to enhance the educational process for years. As Jim Porto, the program's director, told me when authorizing funding for this project, "The Technology Source has been a valuable source of information on topics relevant to our delivery of distance education courses. We hated to see the rich archive of articles no longer available to researchers and practitioners. As strong advocates of maintaining open access to knowledge stores, we felt it important that we take action to preserve the archive. We are confident that our modest investment will yield rewards for a long time to come." It is clear that electronic journals represent a large part of the future of academic journals because these publications enhance the professional communication process using the same tools that we urge educators to take advantage of in schools, but it is also obvious that e-journals are fragile and can quickly disappear into cyberspace. A movement is growing, however, whereby colleges and universities are becoming publishers of open-source academic e-journals, which, hopefully, will allow them to have more stability. We are certainly grateful to Paul Jones, who directs ibiblio, and to Jim Porto and his colleagues in public health for their foresight (and funds!) in ensuring that TS remains available to the community. We have a draft template of the archives posted on ibiblio at www.technologysource.org and hope to have the reprogrammed ejournal, complete with search engine and "read related" features, available mid-summer at this address. I was deeply touched by the 400 plus letters I received in response to my announcement that the Michigan Virtual University (MVU) was no longer able to host the TS archives. I was unable to respond to every letter, but please know that all were appreciated. Also know that MVU has posted a pointer from the www.ts.mivu.org address to the ibiblio site, so the some 13,000 or so web sites that had links to TS are no longer broken links. Best. Jim ---- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief, Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the innovate mailing list as willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://horizon.unc.edu/innovate/. From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 18.749 beyond being dubious and gloomy Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:11:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1104 (1104) Hello, Wendell! You write: [deleted quotation]I guess I had taken it as a given that the "collaboration is good" message was sort of preaching to the choir, on Humanist. But hadn't the discussion started as one about academe as a whole, whose mindstate on this (as you've pointed out) is markedly different from that of humanities computing? Maybe I was projecting. :) But yes, to be clear: realizing that this may mean different things for readers of this list, the pain I want to ease is that of The System. Specifically, the view of the humanist as a solitary scholar has two damaging effects. It makes questioning the humanities' usefulness to society easy: an individual scholar is easier to dismiss than a group of collaborators. Perhaps more importantly, the assumption of solitude (and the career-related interpersonal politics that follows close behind) is such a pervasive view that it has become the truth. Hence all the dire warnings to graduate-students-to-be: don't go into it unless you can't imagine doing anything else. Graduate school in the humanities will kill your love for the subject. Worse: when you do achieve the coveted goal, your troubles are just beginning. And on and on, endless rants about the tenure system, the cut-throat before and the complacency after, bitterness etc. Perhaps I misspoke when using the word "polymath". In science fiction terms, when it comes to preserving our cultural essence, computing and the network are moving us towards a hive mind. Having a less hierarchical and more distributed network of knowledge containers (which is not to imply that all of the nodes would have an *equal* amount of knowledge) would make it less important who has which bits. But it would make it crucial for us to be able to communicate with each other much more effectively than we can get away with now. Hopefully, such an approach to storing knowledge would encourage us to re-juggle the ways in which we communicate it, and make it easier to advance in a collective understanding of who we are. You're right, this is well under way in humanities computing. The relevant conferences, and the Humanist list, are a breath of fresh air in this regard. I hope to see this trend seep further into the humanities as a whole. With luck, humanities computing projects that facilitate interdisciplinary communication will have a large-scale, formal effect on the institution. Eventually. Head in the clouds, -Vika -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA (401)863-3984 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 18.750 Zeitgeist metrics Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:10:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1105 (1105) Paul, Paul Oppenheimer writes: [deleted quotation]Is your concern over the lack of a common culture or the lack of the common culture you would prefer? If a majority of the population suffers from mathematical and scientific illiteracy but is familiar with the TV shows Seinfeld and Friends, is your complaint that you don't care for the common culture as it exists? Do the writings of the framers of the US Constitution reflect a "common culture" of the time or was the common culture mathematical and scientific illiteracy and the equivalent of Seinfeld and Friends? Could it be the notion of a "common culture" is a fiction that has arisen from a largely silent historical record? Does anyone seriously think the Hebrew Bible represents the uniform religious practice of a culture, when it spends so much time condemning departures from that practice? Why condemn transgressions if they are not in fact occurring? How prevalent those transgressions were, the historical record does not say. Could it be that those transgressions were the "common culture" and the record that survives is a condemnation of that culture? There may be a lack of a "common culture" but perhaps that has always been the case. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Patrick_at_Durusau.net 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: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 18.744 Zeitgeist metrics Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:10:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1106 (1106) This message struck a chord with me. Everywhere I see people intimidated by "success" and confusing it with value and quality. It is more accurately matched with popularity, and while there are many excellent things that are also popular .. there's also google's list of top searches. My personal response is this. I am going to stop apologizing for not being a best selling author or a world famous academic or rich or mind-stunningly beautiful or whatever other silly expectation people instantly foist upon any claim to any sort of achievement. And I am going to shameless promote myself as better than many of best sellers, at last in the authorly field. Because I have every right to disagree with the taste of the people whose choices in culture are accurately reflected by what grocery stories put out in their magazine racks at the checkout counter. And so do intelligent readers everywhere. That's my small act of rebellion. Share yours! ----------------------------------------------- Lynda Williams, M.Sc. Computation, M.L.S. info sci http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org (fiction) http://ctl.unbc.ca (University of Northern B.C.) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: tools for imagining Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:02:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1107 (1107) In The Work of the Imagination (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), Paul L. Harris argues for development of imaginative capacities as the significant turning point in our species. Palaeolithic cave-art is his introductory example, children's early fantasy-life his focus. Citing the tools of homo sapiens, he argues that, [deleted quotation]In children, he goes on to say, [deleted quotation]Indeed, let us look to our tools. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Stan Ruecker Subject: RE: 18.719 less is more? Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 07:51:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1108 (1108) Hi Willard, I'm afraid this may be a bit of a tangent, but your comments on the value of creating and studying microhistories brings to mind some ideas for computer interfaces that I've been considering for the last couple of years. My thought was that we could profitably examine Bertin's notion of three levels of information: the overall, the intermediate, and the element (Bertin, Jacques. (1977). Graphics and Graphic Information Processing. Trans. William J. Berg and Paul Scott. Berlin: Walter de Gruter & Co., 1981). If we look then at something like Minard's classic diagram of Napoleon's ill-fated march into Russia, we see it in its current form as an overall representation. There is a thick line of troops at the start, and a trickle coming back. Here is a URL to the jpeg: http://www.ualberta.ca/~sruecker/Minard-Napolean-3-ways.jpg But surely we now have information collections that could allow us to see the same image with an intermediate level of information superimposed. The next two figures in the jpeg show two alternative scenarios, where the red line represents hypothetical numbers of officers. Did they die off quickly, or were they the principal survivors? The story is quite different in each of the scenarios, and there are of course other possibilities. To be meaningful, this representation would need to access an appropriately complex digital collection, which these don't. At the elementary level, I imagine a diagram like this serving as an interface to a collection of microhistories, so the reader could choose a single military unit or individual soldier and access the available history. I guess what I'm doing is advocating for the creation and study of this kind of zoomable interface, which has meaning at all three of Bertin's level. It would also be important to create further tools to allow different ways of configuring the diagram/interface for different purposes, based on the kinds of information the (hypothetical) collection provides. yrs, Stan **************************** Stan Ruecker, PhD Assistant Professor Humanities Computing Dept of English and Film Studies University of Alberta Edmonton AB CANADA From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: textuality and forensics paper available Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 07:47:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1109 (1109) A copy of the paper I delivered earlier this month at Penn's History of Material Texts workshop is now available on my blog. "'Every Contact Leaves a Trace': Computer Forensics and Electronic Textuality": http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000785.html Comments appreciated. Matt -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Rbrtptrck_at_aol.com Subject: Seeking material on South African theatre 1970s-1980s Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 07:50:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1110 (1110) [I am circulating this request despite the fact that it has nothing directly to do with humanities computing because those assembled here may be able to help. Please write directly to Mr Patrick. --WM] ^^^^^^^^^ I am an American playwright. Several of my plays KENNEDY'S CHILDREN T-SHIRTS MY CUP RANNETH OVER were produced in South Africa during the 1970's and 1980's. A couple were produced at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, i believe, and a couple at The Space in Cape Town. I believe one was also produced in Durban, probably in the late 1970s or early 1980's. I am writing my memoirs, and I am seeking photographs, posters, et cetera, of these productions. Is there a Theatre Web-Group, Bulletin Board, Chat Site, or any such thing on which I can post a request for people who might have such material to contact me? I would appreciate any information you can give me. Robert Patrick #211 1837 N. Alexandria Ave. L. A. CA 90027 (323) 661-4737 rbrtptrck_at_aol.com IM: rbrtptrck ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) North American Workshop Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 07:44:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1111 (1111) M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) North American Workshop http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k_na_workshop.html Dates: Friday, 3 June 2005 - Saturday, 4 June 2005 Location: Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Workshop Goals: This two-day workshop is designed to bring together the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) development team with select Music Information Retrieval (MIR)/Music Digital Library (MDL) researchers/students from North American countries (though all others are welcomed to join us) with three major goals in mind: 1. to demonstrate and train participants in the use of M2K as a rapid prototyping system and to provide instruction on how to use M2K as both a general development environment and as the submission mechanism for the upcoming MIREX contests; 2. to allow key researchers and their students to provide feedback to the IMIRSEL M2K developers to correct and enhance the M2K system; and, 3. to allow the assembled participants to draw up an M2K module/functionality "wishlist" with the outcome that participants take on specific development responsibilities of new modules/functionalities (i.e., distribute development and assistance across the community in the open-source tradition). NOTA BENE: M2K, in its current Alpha configuration, is predominantly an audio-based toolset: I would like to STRONGLY encourage the participation of researchers and students who have expertise in symbol-based and metadata-based approaches to MIR/MDL research. IMIRSEL URL: http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/ M2K URL: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k MIREX URL: http://www.music-ir.org/mirexwiki/ [...] -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox](217) 351-5037 [Voicemail] (217) 265-5018 M2K Project Home: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k From: Subject: CFP: Workshop on Exploring Syntactically Annotated Corpora Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 07:46:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1112 (1112) Exploring Syntactically Annotated Corpora Workshop to be held on July 14th CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2005 University of Birmingham, 14-17 July http://www.bultreebank.org/ESyntAC/ Workshop motivation and aims A lot of syntactically annotated corpora have been created recently for various languages. Therefore, the question of applicability and usefulness of such resources seems to have become of big importance. Syntactically annotated corpora can be viewed in two ways: 1) as a reliable base for resource creation: further annotation (for example, semantic and discourse annotation); automatic extraction of linguistic knowledge (grammar and lexicon extraction; creation of automatic parsing tools etc.) and environment for testing tools.; 2) as a base for navigation and search: query languages and support engines. We envisage a one-day workshop and 10-12 presentations. Topics of interest: - creation of resources on top of syntactic corpora; - various kinds of knowledge extraction; - creation and testing of parsing tools; - search languages; - symbolic and subsymbolic methods for syntactic corpora exploration; - software systems for management and accessibility to syntactically annotated corpora; - various applications of syntactic corpora. [...] From: "Bleck, Brad" Subject: CW Online 2005 Proposal deadline looming Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 07:46:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1113 (1113) Just a reminder to all who are considering submitting a proposal to Computers and Writing Online 2005 that the deadline of May 2 is looming. For more information, please visit our conference cfp site at <http://kairosnews.org/cwonline05/cfp>http://kairosnews.org/cwonline05/cfp. Not only will you find the cfp, but links to all online conference materials. We look forward to all submissions and hope you will share this reminder with anyone you think interested. Conference organizers will be glad to answer any questions you have off list, on-list (user discretion advised) or via the CW Online 2005 list at cwonline05_at_kairosnews.org, which requires registration. Listserv registration info can be found at <http://kairosnews.org/mailman/listinfo/cwonline05_kairosnews.org>http://kairosnews.org/mailman/listinfo/cwonline05_kairosnews.org. Bradley Bleck Conference Chair bradb_at_spokanefalls.edu From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Culture is Popular (was: Zeitgeist metrics) Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 06:59:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1114 (1114) [Disclaimer: I'm a cultural anthropologist. Our concept of culture is quite broad but rather specific.] About Oppenheimer's notion of a "common culture," I must admit that the very thought scares me a great deal. Culture, to me (or, to us, anthropologists), is supposed to be diverse, open, and dynamic (not to mention "learned, symbolic, integrated, all-encompassing, and shared"). A "common culture" sounds quite Orwellian. "And all day, and all night, and everything is just blue, like him, inside and outside" Steve's insightful points and quick analysis of that week's zeitgeist reminds me of this NYT article on the 2002 Google Zeitgeist: <http://tinyurl.com/b8qs7>. In that article, some patterns were described, including peaks in popularity for the group Las Ketchup. Fascinating. In fact, the statistics themselves include a graph on the Las Ketchup phenomenon: <http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2002.html>. The one for 2003 also has some graphs about SARS, Iraq, and Roland Garros: <http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2003.html>. The world is still diverse. The hegemonic mold, whether it may be corporate, intellectual, or traditional, leaks as much as a grammar. Alexandre http://dispar.blogspot.com/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: networked and solitaire Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 07:00:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1115 (1115) Willard In Humanist 18.752, Vika takes up Wendell's invocation of the topos of the solitary scholar. I would like to emphasize the "preserve" in what she quotes. The object of Wendell's discourse is not so much persons as spaces: [deleted quotation]preserves [deleted quotation]dependent we [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] Vika goes on to make the plea for greater communication. Somehow the discourse has shifted from collaboration to communication. I think there is some advantage in considering how the spaces for solitary reflection and experimentation inform the shape of collaborative environments, institutional preserves open to sharing privilege. It is an insufficiency of solitary space for thought that hampers the academy and the disciplines in the communicative enterpise posited by Vika and others. This is not just a baby and bath water situation. It is about being aware of what you berate -- you may be undermining core values that sustain not institutions but civilizations. What will garner the social capital to support the institutions not only of higher learning but educational institutions offering to all, regardless of merit, ability or wealth, opportunities to participate in collective intellectual and cultural life? A counter-intuitive, perhaps, response is to boldly suggest that what the academy, including the discipline of humanities computing, requires is more space for the solitary practice of thinking and tinkering. In such spaces Tyche sometimes has a role equal to that of Techne. Innovation: Essays by Leading Canadian Researchers Ed. by James Downey and Lois Claxton Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2002 p. 15 While researchers may use highly sophisticated machines, they themselves are subject to the same vagaries of chance experience as the rest of us. Their discoveries are often a unique and unpredictable mix of curiousity, circumstance, skill, and personal reflection. If you knock the image of that solitary scholar at play, you risk destroying the chances of enlarging the preserve or at least making it more permeable. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin Skill may be the capacity to manipulate perceptions of knowledge. Magic is. From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 18.752 beyond being dubious and gloomy Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 07:01:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1116 (1116) Hi Vika, At 02:15 AM 4/29/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Oh no, I think I'm only guilty of bringing us around in circles. Part of my difficulty is I can hardly presume to know, judge or compare. I hear and acknowledge that there may be differences in the approaches of humanities depts vs others, but have no especial first-hand knowledge of it, and can hardly speak even of humanities programs these days. (As you know I haven't had an academic job since 1997.) But I think what's at issue here is not simply to rehearse the theme, Collaboration is Good. Rather, it's to recognize and envision *how* a new discipline can approach these questions, as part of the examination of how HC relates to the humanities. The narrower question of structuring and rewarding collaborative work is perhaps an instance of the general problem of relating or "fitting" HC to (say) English, area/cultural studies, History, Italian, Pre-Socratic Greek Philosophy, Post-structuralist Literary Critical Theory, Classical Chinese, or any other sector or subsector of whatever the "humanities" are. And not merely theoretically, but in very practical ways. [deleted quotation]Thankfully I can breathe easy -- there are many things I miss about the academy, but what you describe isn't among them. The question to me is, if not this, then, what? if the assumption is that you do it alone, or you're not doing anything at all, how to undo that assumption? Somehow the scope and scale of other kinds of contribution have to be made visible and accountable. There are of course pioneers of HC who have Done It Alone. (Many of them read this list, and if only they were accorded more of the honor they deserve, we might not have such a problem, since these rare people do understand.) But I think there's good reason to think that going forward, HC will have to adapt itself increasingly to more of a collaborative model. That there can be a very effective and powerful "core collaboration" between a scholar and another person -- call it Lead Developer if you like -- has actually been recognized for some time within HC: Susan Hockey, for example, has reflected on this. I am thinking of more far-flung projects as well, but it might have been Susan who first alerted me (we're talking mid-90s) to how the Developer role (we had no name for it) is a *different thing* from the role of the scholar, making its own demands and constituting a very special kind of contribution. (The primary job requirement for this job was/is listening and communicating skills -- but that's too much to go into here.) And how the most successful projects are often based on a relationship of mutual trust and understanding between these lead collaborators, both of whom have sufficient understanding of the other ("cross-over" knowledge, if you like -- the mutual cultivation of which is part of the fun) to be able to respect fully the contribution of the other. The developer learned about early Classical epigraphy (say) while the scholar was learning about how digital media work. Part of what this implies is that what the developer brings is recognized as having an *intellectual* dimension -- which of course it has. The danger of this kind of arrangement goes a bit beyond ordinary collaborations, because the skills required to do the development work (including but not limited to "programming", and increasingly, perhaps, not even demanding much if any "programming" at all, per se) are far afield and remote from what Humanists are commonly called on to do (what does a student of 20th-century French cinema know from MIME-types?). So they are often regarded as being rather magical and scary, or alternatively discounted for being somehow menial and undemanding, just button-pushing. On the contrary, such a collaboration works well when prejudices and misconceptions about the unknown are set aside, challenging the ego but opening the mind ... another reason those of us who have been "bit by the bug" of such work like it so much. It's a refreshing change from living entirely in the stacks (mind you, I love the stacks) and receiving only mystified looks from your friends when you try to explain the strange flowers you are dutifully cultivating in your brain. (FWIW it's precisely because this kind of exchange can itself be valuable that there is a market for certain kinds of technical consulting in the private sector. Not every corporation, government agency or non-profit is as well-prepared even as are academics to enter into such exchanges -- but those who do can find it an extremely worthwhile investment.) Accordingly, I think we have happened on a central question when we wonder whether mainstream humanities will become more, or less, open to collaborative models of work. Many HC projects have been initiated by scholars in a more-or-less traditional mode, who bring on a developer or even build teams of developers to contribute on the technical side. Typically the scholar is a tenured professor who commands some measure of resources, while the developer is a hot-shot grad student living on a shoestring; in any case many of these are very fine projects, yet it is readily apparent how they fit relatively well into the "solitary scholar" system, as such a hierarchy is not very unlike other kinds of mini-hierarchies (sometimes called "fiefdoms" or even little "empires" -- or just, TAships) that routinely spring up within the university system. Thus, scholar/developer is masked as a more traditional master/apprentice relation -- something the institution already knows how to support, at least up to a point. Sadly, however (and like all such), this arrangement can have a dark side, as the technical work can be taken for granted and the very creative people who do it (who are nevertheless dependents economically and institutionally) are discounted and patronized (in the sense that they may be praised, but not rewarded -- see http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/ps-pbc042705.php for a discussion of similar lapses of fairness along gender lines) -- or at any rate sidelined when the money runs out. Many readers could tell stories about this kind of thing -- and would acknowledge, I think, how even in the best of cases it goes only one step towards the more equitable and mutually-supportive collaborative framework we are trying to envision. Thus the best indicator of progress may be watching where you young super-developers, who are not really Lone Wolf pioneers but rather masters in collaboration, will find work in the years going forward. Will you find places in the academy where your work and contributions are understood, valued, and rewarded with advancement and first-class status? Or will your choices be limited to either the few hotly-contested jobs secured by entering the (increasingly marginal) paper-based publish-and-perish cycle (where you compete also with peers who are non-technical), or jobs with uncertain security, marginal compensation (especially in comparison to market rates for your skills) and poorly defined (yet still considerable) responsibilities -- or will you leave the academy altogether, and discover, as I have, that no, one's intellectual life is not over? What would a far-seeing dean or provost do when confronted with this situation, I wonder? In what department does the Chair of Humanities Computing sit, and how will the work be structured, if not in the old invidious way, so that full credit can be granted for the intellectual work of development as well as, and in tandem with, an HC project's purely scholarly contribution? I suppose a program or department could be set up in which what I've called "development", the programming, meta- and para-programming (by which I mean all the design and organizational work as well as the more persnickety aspects of production and operation), could be recognized, encouraged, framed and formalized, even while "Humanities Computing" continues to be regarded as the *fusion* of this contribution with more properly "scholarly" work whatever you consider that to be (whether history, literary criticism, linguistics or what have you). The center of gravity here is probably digital electronic media, not Humanities Computing as such. But maybe neither of these is best thought of without the other. [deleted quotation]I share the sentiment -- but I don't anticipate the hive mind. There will be broader distribution (there already is, and it considerably overlaps the boundaries of the academy), but nodes will differentiate not only by how much they know, but also what they know and how they work with it. There will be differences in style as well as substance, and more of a range of choices and available directions -- with the result that sometimes it will matter more, not less, who has which bits. A hive mind works as one, and has an even texture. This will be very bumpy, and in layers. To intertwist this theme into the "Brittany" thread, culture will not be lost in this unkempt carnival of collaboration. It will just be contested -- as it always has been. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez_at_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: Medlit Subject: Medieval Forum/Call for Submissions Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:16:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1117 (1117) Medieval Forum is now inviting submissions for its fifth volume. MF is an electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in Medieval English Literature, dedicated to providing a venue for the free exchange of ideas in a collegial, public forum environment. Critical essays on works from any genre or period of the medieval corpus are invited, and a humanistic orientation is encouraged. Although the focus of MF is on literature, articles from other disciplines, particularly cultural and historical, that will contribute to the study of literature are welcome. Book reviews are also invited. Volume 5 is anticipated in December 2005. Submissions are accepted and evaluated on an ongoing basis, with the deadline of 15 September. Visit our website for guidelines: http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/. Please share this announcement with your colleagues. From: "J. Trant" Subject: Announcing the MW2005 Best of the Web winners Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:15:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1118 (1118) ** Museums and the Web 2005 ** ** Best of the Web Awards ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/ Winners announced in Vancouver, April 15, 2005. Recognizing achievement in cultural and heritage Web site design, a committee of museum professionals selects the Best of the Web each year. See the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/ for full details about the competition, the judges, and the judging criteria. Congratulations to the following sites: _Best Educational Use_ Making the Modern World Online - Stories about the lives we've made http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/maths/06.TU.02/ Institution: The Science Museum, (London, UK) Judges' Comments Learning Modules are an exemplary illustration of what a museum can do with its collections to support specific educational usages for the K-12 educational system. Two of the most compelling aspects of education are the notion of relationships and theory/application. This site addresses both in an elegant manner. _Best On-line Exhibition_ Cycles: African Life Through Art http://www.ima-art.org/cycles/ Institution: Indianapolis Museum of Art Judges' Comments: The design of this online exhibit is a piece of art itself. Beautiful and fun to explore. ... A highly visually appealing and thought provoking site which provides a rich user experience through interactivity, text and images. A particular highlight is the 'context' link that a user can click on when viewing an object. The graphic elements also nicely enhance the content and navigational options available to the user. Honorable Mention Raid on Deerfield http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum Institution: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) / Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield Judges' Comments: ...raises the bar for historical interpretation online. The site models the value of the whole that derives from a consideration of multiple perspectives. The designers have cast a magical spell that draws the user into another place, another time, another world where one finds truth painted in many shades of grey. _Best E-Services Site_ Seminars on Science http://learn.amnh.org Institution: American Museum of Natural History Judges' Comments The human touch in the interface gives nice feeling that the seminar is tutored ... by real humans and that the learner is interacting with real people. _Best Innovative or Experimental Application_ Eternal Egypt http://www.eternalegypt.org Institutions: Egyptian Government: The Supreme Council of Antiquities and Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and IBM Corporation Judges' Comments An arresting site. Visually appealing and quite innovative. Good execution of multiple pathways towards making discoveries about Egypt, including multiple languages and collaboration with like-minded institutions. Text -to-speech feature lends itself nicely to those with visual restrictions, and for ESL candidates, but computerized voice effect can become monotonous ... _Best Museum Professional's Site_ ASTC (Association of Science - Technology Centers) http://www.astc.org Institution: Association of Science - Technology Centers Judges' Comments ... covers the gamut of basics -- references, publications, articles, and such. With the addition of the online workshops, ASTC shows itself to be responsive to the field and willing to be innovative. _Best Research Site_ Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Judges' Comments ... an excellent site for a range of audiences, including researchers.... considerably expanded and geographical and time coverage is much more comprehensive than a year ago. Good content depth (in a variety of formats, e.g. multimedia) and opportunities for drilling down, as well as relevant interactive features to enrich user experience.... a great balance of content and visuals and alternative exploratory routes for both the serendipitous and more serious researcher. beautifully done, easy to use, visually engaging, and intuitive. I didn't even need to read any directions -- the user interface was easy to grasp and use ... _Best Overall Museum Web Site_ Making the Modern World Online - Stories about the lives we've made http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/ Institution: The Science Museum, (London, UK) Judges' Comments "Making the Modern World" is a robust demonstration of how museum artifacts can be offered online to engage audiences in an innovative learning experience. ... a highly interactive site that gives the user many options for shaping their experience and makes good use of new technologies (I especially liked the use of rich media). It is deep and provides interdisciplinary learning. I was fascinated and could have stayed for hours just poking around and exploring. Great site. Funducational and very informative. Something for everyone! The whole family will be fighting for computer time! Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you to all who participated. A full list of sites nominated, is available at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/best/list.html A call for nominations for the Best of the Web 2006 will appear in the fall of 2005. Best wishes, jennifer -- __________ J. Trant jtrant_at_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: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Anatomy of Threads Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:10:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1119 (1119) [Sorry for the newbie question. Didn't look it up yet and there probably are tons of studies on this.] Would Humanists have good leads on the study of mailing-list threads? Mailing-lists of any type (academic, technical, "popular"...) really seem to follow interesting patterns. Threads constitute a collaborative form of writing, usually follow a non-narrative structure, are defined by collaboration, and may easily be studied online. There could be (and have probably been) interesting studies of these forms of writing. For instance, when does a message become "OT?" There could be an interesting use of performance theory here. How do specific members of the list influence the usual style of writing? Notions of semantic associations and formality might be relevant. Even distinctions between public and private lists would be interesting as people seem to adopt different writing strategies in each case. Again, sorry for the naive question. Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University From: Cristina Vertan Subject: 2nd CALL Workshop Semantic Web Technologies Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:13:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1120 (1120) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *** apologize for multiple postings*** Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation Satellite Workshop at the MT Summit 2005 By its aim to implement a semantic structure behind the content of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web activities recently attracted a large, significant and specialized research community consisting of computer scientists, computational linguists, logicians, knowledge and ontology specialists, programmers, e-commerce, etc. Semantic Web needs human language technology and human language technology will highly benefit from the Semantic Web. However until now, research was directed more to the first issue. Techniques from human language technology were used to add meaning to the Web data and to make it usable for automatic processing. The second issue, i.e. the use of the new Semantic Web Technologies for improvement of natural language applications was neglected. The development of ontologies for the Semantic Web, their search mechanisms, and the standard formal (e.g. RDF) annotation of large pieces of data on the web, are of high value for monolingual and multilingual natural language (web)-applications The current workshop focuses on this topic, more exactly on the implications of such semantic web technologies on machine translation, which is a representative sub-field of natural language processing. It is well-known that multilinguality is one of the main challenges of Semantic Web. The annotation mechanisms and the development of ontologies and search procedures aim at retrieving relevant information independently of the language in which it was produced. On the other hand, Semantic Web activities will have major impact on natural language applications based on training on large pieces of corpora Example-based machine translation is a relevant example: Up to now the training is done on parallel aligned corpora, in the best case, additionally annotated with syntactic information. However, big reliable parallel corpora are available only for a few language pairs and domains. In the absence of such corpora, the Web is the best source for parallel aligned corpora. Aligned via RDF(S) annotations, the web can be exploited as a multilingual corpus. Moreover, this annotation will provide the semantic information attached to the respective texts. This strategy can have significant implications on example based machine translation. Knowledge based machine translation is another technique which can benefit from Semantic Web activities. Until now KB-MT systems were based mainly on the development of domain-dependent ontologies and on mapping the source language onto the target language via these ontologies. It was proved that KBMT can be very successful when applied to restricted domains, but encounters severe problems with translations of general texts. The Semantic Web activities (will) provide a large amount of ontologies in various domains and bridges between these ontologies. In this new context, KBMT could become a powerful mechanism for on-line machine translation. The goal of the workshop is twofold: - to discuss the implications of semantic web-technologies for machine translation, namely on example based and knowledge-based machine translation, - to contrast the two main technologies of Semantic Web: topic maps and RDFS in machine translation of on-line texts. We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to following topics - semantic web annotations for multilingual corpora - use of semantic web annotations for corpus based machine translation - integration of semantic information in example based machine translation - use of semantic web ontologies for machine translation - semantic web and on-line translation tools - integration of semantic web technologies in CAT tools. We also encourage demonstrations of developed tools. Submissions for a demonstration session should include a 2 page demo-note describing the system-architecture and performance as well as technical requirements. [...] Dr. Cristina Vertan Natural Language Systems Division Computer Science Department University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 22527 Hamburg GERMANY Tel. 040 428 83 2519 Fax 040 428 83 2515 http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~~cri From: Helen Ashman Subject: DocEng 2005: Paper/Panel deadlines extended Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:14:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1121 (1121) ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2005 HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK November 2-4, 2005 *** Deadlines extended *** The submission deadlines for full papers and panel proposals has been extended by two weeks. These deadlines are now: Paper/Proposal registration (w/ short abstracts): May 13, 2005 Paper/Proposal upload: May 20, 2005 The direct link for submission, using the JEMS system maintained by the Brazilian Computer Society, is: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=160 The symposium Web site is: http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/DocEng2005/ Peter King, Program Chair Anthony Wiley, Conference Chair From: Nicolas Nicolov Subject: CFP: Recent Advances in NLP -- Submissions due: May 23, 2005 Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:17:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1122 (1122) CALL FOR PAPERS RANLP-05 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING International Conference RANLP-2005 21-23 Sep 2005 Borovets, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005 Supported by the European Commission as a Marie Curie Large Conference, contract MLCF-CT-2004-013233. Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP), we are pleased to announce the 5th RANLP conference to be held this year. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. Volumes with selected and revised papers from the conference are traditionally published by John Benjamins Publishing (Amsterdam/Philadelphia) in the "Current Issues in Linguistic Theories" series (CILT volumes 136, 189, 260). There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference will be preceded by tutorials (18-20 September 2005). For the first time, post-conference workshops will be held (24 Sep'05). ====== TOPICS ====== We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation memory systems, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question answering; textual entailment; visualisation; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. [...] From: Martyn Jessop Subject: Re: 18.756 digital microhistory Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:16:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1123 (1123) Willard, I've also been thinking along similar lines to Stan Ruecker and have found some possible ways forward. I've worked with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) on and off for a few years and have I believe that they have great potential value if you stop thinking of them having anything to do with maps or geography. What a GIS 'really' is is a means of constructing diagrams from assorted graphical elements (shapes, lines, symbols, text and images) that are stored in a database. Many of those graphical elements are also generated from numeric data. The GIS interface allows the user to determine the precise nature of the information displayed. The applications of this approach go way beyond plotting maps. Useful tools are also built into a GIS. Methods of changing the content that is displayed at different levels of zoom are available and have great potential. All the functionality to do what Stan suggests is there. It all sounds wonderful but the drawback is that GIS software is unwieldy and has an enormous amount of features that are of little or no interest to us and is phenomenally expensive. What I am doing at King's in CCH is trying to tease out the concepts and methods that are useful and build them into our projects as and when I can. Ideally I'd like to build a general purpose humanities diagramming utility but as always its a question of money and time. Regards Martyn Jessop ---------------------- Martyn Jessop Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS email: martyn.jessop_at_kcl.ac.uk Phone: 0171-848-2470 Fax: 0171-848-2980 From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI and Society 19.2 Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:21:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1124 (1124) Volume 19 Number 2 of AI & Society is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: The open agent society as a platform for the user-friendly information society p. 123 Jeremy Pitt Systems engineering methodologies, tacit knowledge and communities of practice p. 159 Larry Stapleton, David Smith, Fiona Murphy The national and regional innovation systems in Finland: from the path dependency to the path creation approach p. 180 Sang-Chul Park, Seong-Keun Lee Re-Joyceing Engineers p. 196 Mike Cooley Book Review David N. Snowden, Elizabeth F. Churchill and Emmanuel Frecon (eds): Inhabited information spaces: living with your data CSCW series: Springer 2004, ISBN 1-85233-728-1 p. 199 Richard Ennals From: stefansinclair_noreply_at_coch-cosh.ca Subject: Multimedia position at McMaster Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:31:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1125 (1125) [deleted quotation] From: "Jos Lehmann" Subject: WORM 2005 Workshop (Call for Papers) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:30:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1126 (1126) CALL FOR PAPERS WORM 2005 The 3rd International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_2005.htm 31 Oct-4 Nov 2005 Larnaca, Cyprus part of OTM05 OnTheMove Federated Conferences http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ == WORM 2005 Description In many application areas (such as e-commerce, e-government, content standardization, legal information systems etc.), the modeling of regulatory and legal knowledge is critical. Modeling and deploying regulatory knowledge has some specifics that differentiate it out from other kinds of knowledge modeling: reasoning methods and application scenarios, the legal weight (/order) of regulations, parsing legal texts require special semantic patterns, the sensitivity in cross-border regulations, etc. This workshop aims at bringing together academics, researchers, professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues involved in modeling regulatory ontologies. Regulatory ontologies typically involve the description of rules and regulations within the social world. In particular, we seek original contributions on (but not limited to) the following issues of interest: - Engineering of regulatory ontologies: conceptual analysis, representation, modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc. - Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies - Models of legal reasoning (from ontological viewpoint): regulatory compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc. - Sensitivity on and harmonization of regulations - Regulatory metadata and content standardization (e.g. legal-XML/LeXML, ADR/ODR-XML,...) - Regulatory ontologies of: property rights, persons and organizations, legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc. - Task models for socially regulated activities - Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory ontologies in legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval, e-governments, e-commerce - Automated extraction of Information from regulatory documents [...] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- April 2005 Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:29:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1127 (1127) CIT INFOBITS April 2005 No. 82 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. You can read this issue of CIT Infobits on the Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitapr05.html. ...................................................................... Teaching, Teaching Technologies, and Views of Knowledge Laptops in the Classroom New E-Journal on Learning and Evaluation In Defense of Cheating Read Email, Lose IQ Points? New Weblog on Scholarly Electronic Publishing Recommended Reading [...] From: sramsay_at_uga.edu Subject: ACH mentors (and mentees!) Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:31:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1128 (1128) Colleagues, My name is Stephen Ramsay, and I am the current Chair of the ACH Jobs Committee. The ACH has for the last few years offered a number of services related to professional development in our discipline. One of the most popular of these activities has been our mentoring program, which pairs graduate students and job seekers with prospective employers and people with experience in particular fields. Mentoring relationships are deliberately informal. Mentees usually contact the committee, who in turn suggests a possible mentor from a list of people willing to serve in this capacity. The mentee then contacts the mentor, and a friendly email chat ensues. Whenever possible, mentors and mentees are encouraged to meet with one another at conferences and other professional gatherings -- in particular, at the ACH/ALLC meetings (where we often have job-related activities planned). We have yet to hear a negative word about this program. Mentees consistently report being impressed by our good will (and good advice); mentors tell us that they find the experience affirming and fulfilling in every way. If you are interested in serving as a mentor (or finding one), please contact me directly (sramsay{at}uga{dot}edu). Our discipline is a diverse one, and it's important that we have a pool of mentors with a broad range of experiences and expertise (teaching, research, libraries, and industry). Interested mentees need not be "on the market" to participate. We will have a number of job and mentoring related activities at this year's ACH/ALLC meeting -- including an informal info. session and get together for job seekers. We also hope everyone will participate in our ever popular color code system for mentors and mentees (more on that soon). And finally, if you are looking to fill a position right now, you may wish to contact the Committee. Our own participation in the program has given us a very good sense of the talent pool, and we may be able to help you find just the right person for the job. Thanks, Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Georgia email: sramsay_at_uga.edu web: http://cantor.english.uga.edu/ PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: Willard McCarty Subject: surveys? Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 10:35:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 18 Num. 1129 (1129) It would be generally useful, I suppose, if someone in the virtual here would briefly sketch out what is generally agreed to be required for a survey, under what conditions, to yield better than unsystematic, anecdotal evidence -- i.e. to be worth anyone's time to complete? Are there reference books on the subject? Many thanks. 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 | Kay House, 7 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 || willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/