From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy 18th birthday to Humanist Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 23:11:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1 (1) It is no coincidence that at the same time of year we find ourselves talking about mentoring, about gathering together in splendid, spectacularly beautiful locations (such as Victoria, British Columbia -- be there or square) and about celebrating Humanist's birthday. Eighteen today! The chronological connection is made by the conference (in 1987, in Columbia, South Carolina, the air then heavy with the intoxicating perfume of flowers) at which inspiration for Humanist came, in a meeting of disaffected support people, marginalized assistant professors and, as I recall, one senior academic. Many lives have changed radically since then, mine included. Some lives of great importance to us have ended in this time -- Elaine Nardocchio, Don Fowler, Paul Evan Peters and Antonio Zampolli come immediately to mind. But so much has improved. The Canadians (whose leadership comes as no surprise to one who lived among them for 20 years) are in process of appointing worthy people to positions actually in humanities computing, some at a senior level. In Italy much is continuing to happen in what can be regarded, if you limit computing to machines of the Turing and von Neumann sort, as the oldest tradition we have. In Australia there have been at least two international conferences in the subject, the second much larger and more diverse than the first. My own department has grown by leaps and bounds, now has MA and PhD programmes and shows every sign of getting ready to leap again. There is now a Blackwell's Companion to refer people to, a book series in the making, some books (including my own) just about to emerge and a very impressive professional journal whose only problem is too many competent submissions. There is even, as will be announced here shortly, a Text Analysis Summit about to be held. Imagine. So, we can say that it feels very good to be 18. Some academic groupings, though much larger and better funded, have sterner, less companionable gatherings and altogether less welcoming professional relations. In a recent number of Humanist, Stephen Ramsay noted that not a bad word about the ACH mentoring programme has been heard since it began. Perhaps he chose this mode of expression for the same reason that a healthy, happy person will reply to the question, "How are you?" by saying "Not bad!", rather than "Wonderful!" -- so as not to tempt fate. In any case, he puts before us an accurate picture of how welcoming and helpful the loose community of people in humanities computing actually are. Reports from those who have been mentored attest to those qualities, and some have themselves subsequently volunteered for the programme as a result. Recently one of them, whom I had mentored, wrote to me asking if I would contribute to the programme again. I said yes, delighted to see that she had moved from being a mentee to someone organizing mentors in less than two years. The question is, I suppose -- you know me, there's always going to be a question somewhere -- what do we do with the strength, vigour and good reputation the last 18 years has seen us give ourselves? Where is the central contribution to be made -- that is, the one to which we all need to be contributing, whatever our private inclinations and talents? This, it seems to me, is toward a much better understanding of how we all fit together and work together. How we all converse, more often, more effectively, with greater self-awareness. How we understand what we do *as* conversing. Of course we need to have things to say that are worth saying, but that's largely up to us individually. What's not is how saying becomes conversing. Perhaps, as editor of Humanist, it's entirely predictable that I would advocate asking how we can use what we've now got, to its best capacities, to help make the transition between saying and conversing. Not an easy one to make because of the risks involved in being open enough about the real questions that responses, some of them perhaps vehement, actually come. But sholars in the humanities write books, publish articles and give lectures in order to communicate, yes? Designers and builders of systems in humanities computing make intellectual tools for the same purpose, right? -- to communicate, one might say, ways of thinking-by-doing. Otherwise, rather than conversations on the air, we will find ourselves having turned what is new into yet another way of advancing that which is definitive, monumental and most assuredly has an IMPACT -- which, to me, sounds like a cross between a bowling alley and a graveyard. Not for me and, I suspect, not for you either. So, on this 18th birthday, I offer congratulations to us all and best wishes for an even more riskily talkative 19th year. 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: John Unsworth Subject: digital library fellows at UIUC Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:52:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 2 (2) I thought Humanist subscribers might be interested in these brief bios of the five digital library fellows who will be attending the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, next year. The bios demonstrate, I think, some of the connections between humanities computing and library and information science, particularly around digital libraries. The fellowships are funded as part of a $939,618 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to Indiana University and the University of Illinois "to create the first research-based, comprehensive master's-level and post-master's in library science (MLS) degree to educate librarians for work in digital library programs. New internships in digital library projects will be added to libraries at both institutions, and post-MLS enrollees will be required to complete an internship." A web site for the project can be found at: http://lair.indiana.edu/research/dlib/ Bios: Shane Beers of Cincinnati, Ohio will be pursuing the M.S. with an emphasis on digital libraries. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Design in 2003 from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and has worked as a graphic designer for Catt Lyon Design and Wayfinding Consultants in Cincinnati, where he has acted as a multi-purpose designer, utilizing skills in 2-D, 3- D, and environmental design. He has also been involved in web design projects for PJA/ULTRA in Boston and Warner Bros. Online in New York. He is particularly interested in digital archiving and public access to these archives. Parmit Chilana of Surrey, British Columbia will be pursuing the M.S. with an emphasis on digital libraries. She completed a BSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 2005. She has worked as a Youth_at_BC Internet/Computer Trainer at the Surrey Public Library and as a bioinformatics software developer in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at SFU. She has been active in the Women in Computing Science Society at SFU. She is particularly interested in interface design. Howard Ding will be returning to UIUC from New York to pursue the M.S. with an emphasis on digital libraries. He earned B.S. degrees in physics and mathematics summa cum laude from UIUC in 1992. He subsequently earned an M.S. in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. For the past few years he has been employed by Sabre II Trading/Ovis Corporation as the sole information technology specialist, responsible for implementing and maintaining a system to search large amounts of equity options data to assist traders in finding profitable trades. He finds the interdisciplinary nature of library and information science particularly attractive. Brian Franklin will be pursuing the M.S. with an emphasis on digital libraries. He earned a B.A. in English and History from UIUC in 1998 and has considerable experience in production management in publishing, encompassing print production, web design, and database building and maintenance for both a company and a professional society in Chicago. He also worked as a collection management assistant for Northwestern University Library. He is particularly interested in digital preservation issues. Geoffrey Ross will be building on his M.S. in library and information science from UIUC by pursuing the C.A.S. with a concentration in digital libraries. He also holds a B.A. in English literature from UIUC and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Connecticut. While at UIUC he has worked as a graduate assistant to the English Librarian, with responsibilities including collection development and reference services. He has also served as a teaching assistant for the Searching Online Information Systems course. He is particularly interested in collection development policies for digital collections. From: John Unsworth Subject: surveys? Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:53:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 3 (3) Willard, I passed your question along to Leigh Estabrook, former dean here at GSLIS and director of the Library Research Center, which does survey research, mostly for public libraries, and she said: [deleted quotation]She offered to come up with bibliographic references, but I said this was fine for starters. If you want to be in touch directly, she's leighe_at_uiuc.edu and the Library Research Center is at http:// lrc.lis.uiuc.edu/ John From: Marcus Holmes Subject: Re: 18.771 methodology of surveying? Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:54:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 4 (4) Hello Willard, A very complicated topic! Two books I would recommend that achieve precisely what you are looking for: "Survey Research Methods" by Floyd Fowler and "Questions about Questions: Inquiries into the Cognitive Bases of Surveys" by Judith Tanur I'm sure there will be other recommendations, but these should provide a good start. Best, Marcus From: "Bleck, Brad" Subject: Computers and Writing 2005 Online Conference Proposal Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:50:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 5 (5) Reviewers needed! Please distribute far and wide as appropriate! In keeping with this year's CW Online 2005 conference theme--"When Content Is No Longer King: Social Networking, Community, and Collaboration"--conference organizers invite you and other interested parties to read and respond to the proposals submitted for this year's conference. These proposals can be found at http://kairosnews.org/cwonline05/blog Should you choose to participate in this process, we ask that you consider the following suggested guidelines: --Before jumping into the response process, look at some proposals that already have comments posted and get a feel for what's being done. --Read the proposal carefully and consider what you think might be improved, extended, re-focused, clarified or otherwise revised. --We suggest avoiding a lengthy commentary or review. Instead, introduce some talking points and engage the author in a conversation about the topic. --Gradually, as the dialogue unfolds, bring in the points you'd like to see addressed. --Treat your responses as part of an ongoing dialogue with the author, your fellow respondents, and casual commentators. When possible, consider referring to previous responses. --Generally speaking, we are not looking for responses that are overly evaluative or argumentative, but rather those that encourage dialogue leading to clarification and understanding. Acceptance notifications will be going out to proposers no later than May 13. In the spirit of old-style Chicago politics, or maybe even contemporary Washington state politics, we invite you to respond early and often. Happy dialoguing and thanks for helping to make Computers and Writing Online 2005 a success! Bradley Bleck Spokane Falls CC bradb_at_spokanefalls.edu Conference Chair From: Carlos Areces Subject: ESSLLI 2006 - Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:51:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 6 (6) 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 31 July - 11 August, 2006, Malaga, Spain http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering 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. The ESSLLI 2006 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 18th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: - Logic and Language - Logic and Computation - Language and Computation PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at http://www.folli.org/submission.php All proposals should be submitted no later than ******* Friday June 17, 2005. ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Friday September 23, 2005. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. [...] From: stefansinclair_noreply_at_coch-cosh.ca Subject: Text Analysis Summit and TAPoR Portal Demonstration Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:54:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 7 (7) ************************************ Text Analysis Summit May 9-11, 2005 - McMaster University http://tada.mcmaster.ca/TAS_05/ ************************************ Dear Colleagues, McMaster University will be hosting a Text Analysis Summit from May 9th to 11th, 2005. The Summit will gather together many of the most active designers and creators of text analysis tools in an attempt to examine past failures and successes in text analysis development, formulate a strategy for future development, and establish a network of scholars that will provide the foundation for a new generation of text analysis tools to emerge. Notes from the Summit will be posted to a blog throughout the event, at the following address: http://tada.mcmaster.ca/TAS_05/ In Conjunction with the Summit there will be a demonstration of the TAPoR Portal. TAPoR is the Text Analysis Portal for Research, a CFI-funded initiative, led by Geoffrey Rockwell, to build a centralized gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. More information on TAPoR is available at http://www.tapor.ca/ This event will feature a demonstration of the current development version of the TAPoR Portal, including indications of how tool developers can leverage the features of the TAPoR Portal for their projects. Lunch and drinks will be served - please let me know by sending a message to sgsinclair [at] gmail.com if you are able to attend. Yours, Stefan Sinclair -- Dr. Stefan 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: Terry Butler Subject: CASTA 2005 - Call for Presentations Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:55:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 8 (8) Please circulate this to colleagues at your universities, and other lists or venues which would be appropriate. Thank you. Call for Presentations (CfP) CaSTA 2005 Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Digital Technologies: Tools, Methods, Solutions University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada October 3-7, 2005 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 - 1:30 Project Consultations 1:30 - 3:00 break 3:00 - 3:30 Forum 3:30 - 5:00 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 -- Terry Butler Director Research Computing Arts Resource Centre From: Willard McCarty Subject: Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:47:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 9 (9) Many here will at least want to browse the Stanford collection of the Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project, at http://standish.stanford.edu/. A highly ecclectic collection, to be sure ("System design" follows "Superstition", for example), but there are some gems, e.g. Du Cange's Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitis and John McCarthy's essays in defense of AI. We live in a world of strange (though safely virtual) bedfellows. 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: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Re: 18.771 methodology of surveying? Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:46:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 10 (10) [deleted quotation]agreed to be required for a survey ... reference books on the subject? [deleted quotation]I doubt this is exactly what you were looking for Willard, but here are some network- and internet-based discussions, which everyone might not have in their pool of readings: Kossinets, G. (2004). Effects of missing data in social networks. ArXiv.org. Ithaca, NY: 31. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0306/0306335.pdf Iyengar, S. and J. Fishkin (2003). First Online Deliberative Opinion Poll Reveals Informed Opinions on World Problems. Stanford, CA and Austin, TX, Political Communication Lab (Stanford), Center for Deliberative Polling (UTA): 3. http://pcl.stanford.edu/common/docs/research/fishkin/2003/onlinedpoll.pdf Fricker Jr, R. D. and M. Schonlau (2002). "Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Research Surveys: Evidence from the Literature." Field Methods 14(4): 347. Solomon, D. J. (2001). "Conducting Web-Based Surveys." ERIC Digest. Schonlau, M., J. Fricker, Ronald D, et al. (2001). Conducting Research Surveys via E-mail and the Web. Santa Monica, CA, RAND. Witte, J. C., L. M. Amoroso, et al. (2000). "Method and Representation in Internet-Based Survey Tools: Mobility, Community, and Cultural Identity in Survey2000." Social Science Computer Review 18(2): 179. Liberman, S. and K. B. Wolf (1997). "The flow of knowledge: Scientific contacts in formal meetings." Social Networks 19(3): 271-83. Converse, J. M. and S. Presser (1986). Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire, Sage Publications. Dijkstra, W. (1979). "Response bias in the survey interview; an approach from balance theory." Social Networks 2(3): 285-304. Regards, K Ken Cousins Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics 3114 P Tydings Hall University of Maryland, College Park T: (301) 405-6862 F: (301) 314-9690 kcousins_at_gvpt.umd.edu "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/kcousins http://augmentation.blogspot.com From: Joseph Rudman Subject: Latin quote Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:45:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 11 (11) Does anyone know the source of the following latin phrase? erratum in unum, erratum in omnes Joe Rudman From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Conference Announcement, COCH/COSH 2005 (London, ON. 29 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:41:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 12 (12) - 31 May 2005) The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities University of Western Ontario, May 29 - 31, 2005 The programme of the 2005 COCH/COSH meeting is now available at http://www.coch-cosh.ca/ocs/program.php?cf=3D1. The gathering promises three days of papers, sponsored by COCH/COSH and in conjunction with the Canadian Committee on History and Computing (CCHC), the Canadian Women's Studies Association (CWSA), the Canadian Disability Studies Association (CDSA), and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS). Plenary speakers include Willard McCarty and Jean-Claude Guédon, both of whom will accept the 2005 COCH/COSH Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities. Joint-session keynotes include Andrea Polli (CDSA and CFHSS) and Witold Kinsner (CDSA). All those associated with our 2005 meeting extend a warm invitation for you to join us. - COCH/COSH: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2005/index.htm - Congress 2005: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2005/index.htm - Registration: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2005/registration/index.htm From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: 2005 COCH/COSH Award for Outstanding Achievement, Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:42:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 13 (13) Computing in the Arts and Humanities ** 2005 COCH/COSH Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities ** It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2005 recipients of the COCH/COSH Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities. Founded in 2003, the award acknowledges those who have made significant contributions to computing in the arts and humanities whether theoretical, applied, or in the area of community building. Recipients for 2005 are Willard McCarty (King's College, London) and Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal) -- figures who are widely regarded to have made essential contributions in all three areas, locally, nationally, and internationally. Each will accept their award and lecture on their work in the plenary session of _ The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities_, the 2005 meeting of Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, 29-31 May, 2005. The presentations and lectures will take place May 30 at 8:30 AM, in UWO Ivey Building Room 2R21. All are invited to attend. Please join us in celebrating these colleagues' remarkable achievements and contributions. _____________ Award History: Initial: Elaine Nardocchio (posthumous) 2004: Paul Fortier 2004: Ian Lancashire 2005: Jean-Claude Guédon 2005: Willard McCarty _______________________ For further information: - 2005 COCH/COSH programme: http://www.coch-cosh.ca/ocs/program.php?cf=3D1 - Congress 2005: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2005/index.htm - Registration: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2005/registration/index.htm - COCH/COSH: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2005/index.htm From: John D Zuern Subject: Invitation to attend the Computers and Writing 2005 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:43:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 14 (14) Conference at Stanford On behalf of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, I am delighted to invite you to attend the fourteenth Computers and Writing Conference. The conference will take place June 16 through June 19 at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley. CW2005 will open with the Graduate Research Network, giving our graduate student colleagues the opportunity to share their research and explore new venues for the same. Conference participants have the opportunity to enroll in pre-conference workshops and discover hands-on, new techniques for incorporating technology in the classroom. As in past years, we will feature Town Hall Sessions, led by Judi Kirkpatrick, Darin Payne and John Zuern who hosted last year's conference in Hawaii. Designed to initiate discussion and prompt debate, the Town Hall Sessions will then lead us to daily panel discussions and special features. Andrea Lunsford, who will deliver the keynote address, has chosen to address the conference theme directly in her speech "Writing, Technologies, and the Fifth Canon." Our featured presentations also address the conference theme: The "Sharing Cultures" team will show us how technology can lead to truly meaningful experiences in the classroom and how it can make writing matter. Todd Taylor's prophetic "The End of Composition" will be exploring changing notions of literacy as a result of changing technologies. Presenters, including scholars from around the world and the United States, will discuss a wide range of topics, from computer gaming and its use in the classroom to the use of technology as a rhetorical choice impacting arrangement and delivery. For more information on the conference, special presentations and pre-conference workshops, please visit our website at http://CW2005.stanford.edu. For questions, please contact me at arraez_at_stanford.edu. We look forward to seeing you at Stanford in June. Corinne Arraez Chair, CW2005 -- ________________________________________________ Corinne Arraez Academic Technology Specialist Program in Writing and Rhetoric Stanford University Phone: 650.723.0360http://www.stanford.edu/people/arraez Chair, Computers and Writing 2005 Conference http://CW2005.stanford.edu From: Fairouz Kamareddine Subject: Closing deadline of conference accommodation Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:44:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 15 (15) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI 2005 ESSLLI 2005 ESSLLI 2005 ESSLLI 2005 ESSLLI 2005 ESSLLI 2005 DEADLINE FOR ACCOMMODATION ESSLLI 2005 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland August 8-19 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pleae note that the cheap accommodation in the Heriot-Watt campus conference centre can only be booked until ********15 May 2005******** Registration for ESSLLI 2004 will still be possible after this date (so if you are planning a booking your own hotel you will not be affected by this deadline). But if you want to take advantage of the cheap accommodation especially during the Edinburgh festivals, you must do so before 15 May 2005. Please note that this is a hard deadline: the local organisers cannot do anything to extend it. To register and book your accommodation go to: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ and click on the registration button. Looking forward to seeing you at ESSLLI 2005 Fairouz Kamareddine ESSLLI05 organising chair From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: May 16 Deadline for Copyright Symposium Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:44:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 16 (16) Pirates, Thieves and Innocents: Perceptions of Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium A symposium sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Property http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ June 16-17, 2005 EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS MAY 16, 2005. Register now and save $75.00. Space is limited. Some affiliation discounts apply. https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm. Jack Boeve University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 240-582-2965 jboeve_at_umuc.edu From: Naomi Standen Subject: Re: 18.756 digital microhistory Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:46:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 17 (17) [deleted quotation]Do the following count? Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, http://www.ecai.org/ Chinese Historical GIS, http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/ They don't give you individuals (yet), but the principle is the same. Locating individuals will become possible when Robert Hartwell's database of 30,000 Chinese individuals is up and running and connected to the CHGIS, thus giving options for considering data at the level of individuals, the whole of the mapped area of what is now the PRC, and several geographical levels and social groupings in between. There are already several prosopographical databases up and running, which Willard knows all about, since most of them are based at CCH! As far as I know, however, these don't yet connect to maps/GIS-type presentations. 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: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 18.765 an anatomy of threads? Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:40:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 18 (18) around the 4/5/05 "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty mentioned about 18.765 an anatomy of threads? that: [deleted quotation]not an answer, but if you haven't already make sure you also ask this question on the AoIR email list. -- cheers Adrian Miles ____________ hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog From: Gina Anzivino Subject: Transliteracies Project Conference on Online Reading, UC Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:24:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 19 (19) Santa Barbara, June17-18, 2005 [deleted quotation]Gina Anzivino Humanities Center & HumaniTech University of California, Irvine 949-824-3638 Voice 949-824-4413 Fax http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hctr/ http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/ From: Helen Ashman Subject: WDA 2005: Submission deadline approaches Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:25:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 20 (20) WDA 2005 Third International Workshop on Web Document Analysis Seoul, Korea August 28, 2005 Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2005 The deadline for submissions to WDA 2005 is fast approaching. Authors are encouraged to submit short papers related to any aspect of document analysis on the Web. We particularly welcome those already hoping to attend ICDAR 2005. Workshop Co-Chairs Matthew Hurst Ethan Munson Questions? Contact Ethan Munson at munson_at_cs.uwm.edu From: "Adel M. Alimi" Subject: ACIDCA-ICMI'2005 : Final CFP and Extended Deadline (May Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:26:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 21 (21) 31, 2005) [ Apologies for multiple postings ] EXTENDED DEADLINE : May 31, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------ International Conference on Machine Intelligence Tozeur, Tunisia, November 5-7, 2005 <http://www.acidca-icmi2005.org>http://www.acidca-icmi2005.org Pleanary sessions, invited talks, workshops, tutorials, special sessions and special events are announced on the conference web site http://www.acidca-icmi2005.org ACIDCA-ICMI'2005 will be organized into five tracks focusing on theory, implementation and applications. The tracks are: * CI : Computational Intelligence * IC : Intelligent Control * IDA : Intelligent Data Analysis * IPA : Intelligent Pattern Analysis * ISA : Intelligent Systems Architectures The venue for the ACIDCA-ICMI'2005 Conference will be Tozeur, Tunisia < http://www.tourismtunisia.com/togo/tozeur/tozeur.html >. Tozeur a prosperous town, was once, in its oases and mountains, one of the Roman outposts named "Thusuros" and a stopping point for the caravans coming from the sub Sahara to trade with the coastal cities of the Mediterranean, it now owes its fame and affluence to the stately palm and its world renowned dates - deglet nour "fingers of light". The conference will be held November 5-7, 2005 in Tozeur in south-western Tunisia accessible by the international airport of Tozeur. The remarkable architecture of Tozeur, beige sun baked bricks set in geometric patterns, Moorish arches and high vaulted ceilings and the shops offering locally woven carpets, Berber jewellery and ornaments, promise visitors another aspect of Tunisia. [...] From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.010 erratum in unum, erratum in omnes? Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:27:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 22 (22) Joe,I learned it from the Jesuits as "falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus" (and they were masters at using the technique in apologetics) -- but I cannot find the source. From: Robin Smith Subject: Re: 19.010 erratum in unum, erratum in omnes? Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:28:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 23 (23) [deleted quotation])" writes: "Humanist> Does anyone know the source of the "Humanist> following latin phrase? "Humanist> erratum in unum, erratum in omnes That would be "erratum in uno, erratum in omnibus", I would imagine. But I don't know its ultimate source. Robin Smith From: Robin Smith Subject: Re: 19.010 erratum in unum, erratum in omnes? Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:28:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 24 (24) Sorry to follow my own post, but perhaps this is a version of the legal maxim "falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus"? I don't know its parentage, but it occurs in Boswell's _Life of Johnson_; "If the maxim falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus, were to be received without qualification, the credit of Savage's narrative, as conveyed to us, would be annihilated; for it contains some assertions which, beyond a question, are not true" Robin Smith From: Willard McCarty Subject: surveying surveying Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:34:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 25 (25) Many thanks to those who sent in suggestions concerning the methodology of surveying. If there's more, please don't stop. I thought, however, that I might expose the reason for asking, as that helps to make the point that the contributions have implied. This I take to be that surveying to good effect requires more than a little thought and far more than eagerness. I have it on good authority, from someone in a position to know, that not only "of the making of many surveys there is no end" but also that their proliferation is less than helpful, and therefore annoying to those who have things they really want to get on with. I'm astonished that the makers of surveys actually expect people to respond -- just as I am amazed that the people who come to my door, here in East London, expect me to welcome their spiels, as if the thumb-twiddling had become just too boring, and yet another housing-ladder or dirty-house programme on the telly insufficient to stave off the barking. As anyone who wants responses to what they write will know, attention is a precious resource. So one really should think about what one's asking before asking, yes? I have enormous respect for people who have the knowledge and skill to do social science research well. May their tribes increase. As the Belgian demographer Guillaume Wunsch said -- this was the title of a conference paper he gave -- "God has chosen to give the easy problems to the physicists, or why demographers need theory". If you think about it for a moment, it will become obvious why getting useful information out of people about what they do and about what's driving them is *exceedingly* difficult. People are very poor informants about their own behaviours and beliefs (i.e. what their actions show that they actually believe). And it gets much more difficult when one wants to extract from people anything about where, say, development of tools for humanities computing should go. You're then asking them to imagine the future usefully, i.e. to have intelligent desires, largely without the education in crucial matters that the exercise requires. As if the history of inventions demonstrated the immediate creativeness of democracy. This is, however, to provoke some discussion, not to go on oi vey'ing. What do those here who really know about such matters have to 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.17 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:29:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 26 (26) Volume 6, Issue 16 (May 10 - May 17, 2005) VIEW Remote from Reality: The Out-of-Box Home Experience" Designer Aaron Marcus says you cannot even begin to imagine the pain of achieving high-definition pleasure. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i16_marcus.html VIEW "A Software Fix Towards Fault-Tolerant Computing" Goutam Kumar Saha describes a more cost-effective tool for application design engineers than the traditional expensive hardware fixes, or N-Version programming. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i16_saha.html From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for bids: TEI Members Meeting, 2006 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 06:49:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 27 (27) Call for Bids: TEI Members Meeting, 2006 Deadline: August 1, 2005 The annual TEI Members' Meeting takes place every year in October or November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2006. The meeting this year (2005) will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 28-29. The previous meetings have been: Baltimore, USA, October 22-23, 2004, hosted by Johns Hopkins University Nancy, France, November 7-8 2003, hosted by ATILF. Chicago, USA, October 11-12 2002, hosted by the Newberry Library and Northwestern University. Pisa, Italy, November 16-17 2001, hosted by the University of Pisa. The site of the meeting has typically alternated between Europe and North America, but that is not a fixed rule. We welcome proposals from other parts of the world, and in particular from areas where new TEI communities are arising. The meeting is a two-day event, with approximately 70-100 attendees. The first day is usually an open day with attendance open to all interested parties and an eclectic mix of presentations and discussions from invited speakers and participants. The second day is usually a closed session, restricted to TEI members and subscribers only, which includes reports on the TEI's work and the annual elections for the TEI Board and Council. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are usually also scheduled for this day. The TEI Consortium covers the direct costs in connection with the meeting, but TEI is an organisation with limited financial resources, and any contribution from the host is very welcome. Bids should be sent to info_at_tei-c.org by August 1, 2005, and should include the following information: The name of the institution(s) making the bid The name, address, email, and telephone number of the contact person A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food) An indication of what financial support, if any, the hosting institution is prepared to give (for instance, sponsoring a reception or a pre-meeting workshop; payment of travel expenses for a plenary speaker; etc.) Any other details that may be useful in assessing the bid (e.g. the presence of a conference on a related topic at the institution around the time of the meeting; the launch of a new TEI-related initiative at the institution, etc.). All bids will be reviewed by the TEI board, which makes the final decision. Thank you very much! Julia Flanders Chair, TEI Consortium Brown University From: Willard McCarty Subject: tools for imagining Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:02:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 28 (28) 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: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: FW: Scenes from the Internet revolution in scholarship: Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 06:48:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 29 (29) Willard: Humanists may be interested in this essay in THE NEW REPUBLIC. WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO SCHOLARSHIP. The Bookless Future by David A. Bell http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502&s=bell050205 The entire essay is on-line. I do have two disagreements with the author. 1. Only those items in which people are willing to invest the necessary time and money will be found by a search engine. The rest, in good Orwellian fashion, "go down the memory hole." These perforce include documents currently under copyright but for which no pay-for-use arrangement is possible. 2. Changing technologies may make the postings unreadable within a few decades. As a critic once wrote, "Every day, we burn the Library of Alexandria." I had my own experiences with this when I could not read files written in WordMarc, a word processor much beloved -- for a few years -- in Engineering. _________________________________________________ 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 <http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan> From: oupjournals-mailer_at_liontamer.stanford.edu Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for June 2005; Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 06:50:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 30 (30) Vol. 20, No. 2 Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: June 2005; Vol. 20, No. 2 URL: http://llc.oupjournals.org/content/vol20/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Computational Modern Greek Morphological Lexicon--An Efficient and Comprehensive System for Morphological Analysis and Synthesis S. D. Baldzis, S. A. Kolalas, and E. Eumeridou Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:153-187. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/153?etoc The Identification of Exemplar Change in the Wife of Bath's Prologue Using the Maximum Chi-Squared Method Heather F. Windram, Christopher J. Howe, and Matthew Spencer Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:189-204. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/189?etoc Ordering Chaos: An Integrated Guide and Online Archive of Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts Brett Barney, Mary Ellen Ducey, Andrew Jewell, Kenneth M. Price, Brian Pytlik Zillig, and Katherine L. Walter Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:205-217. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/205?etoc Talking About Violence: Clustered Participles in the Speeches of Lysias Jeff Rydberg-Cox Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:219-235. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/219?etoc Word Sense Disambiguation Using Target Language Corpus in a Machine Translation System Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah and Ali Delavar Khalafi Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:237-249. http://llc.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/237?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- Review: Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge Aida Slavic Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:251-253. Review: Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency Susan Hesemeier Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:253-255. Review: Information Architecture: Designing Information Environments for Purpose Maria Ines Cordeiro Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:256-258. Review: Language Change in English Newspaper Editorials Fiona M. Douglas Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:258-264. From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: The Googlization Of Books - Europe's Not Happy - Wired Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:47:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 31 (31) 05/11/05 The Googlization Of Books - Europe's Not Happy - Wired 05/11/05 http://www.artsjournal.com/publishing/redir/20050511-56886.html Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett New York University From: Jarom McDonald Subject: Re: 19.017 what the Internet is doing to scholarship Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:51:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 32 (32) The essay below, from The New Republic, is available by subscription only. However, if:book (a "project of The Institute for the Future of the Book") has received permission to reproduce it online for free... it can be found here: http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/04/reading_without.html Jarom McDonald Program Associate Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]NEW REPUBLIC. [deleted quotation] From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.017 what the Internet is doing to scholarship Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:51:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 33 (33) And the entire essay is pay-per-view, so its impact will be a fraction of what it would be if it were freely available. Pat Galloway From: frischer49_at_aol.com Subject: Call for Papers (deadline May 20, 2005) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:50:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 34 (34) 10th international congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies" (Workshop 10 "Archäologie & Computer" November 7th-10th , 2005 Vienna, Austria, City Hall www.stadtarchaeologie.at Dear Colleagues, I would like to send you an update for our "Call for papers", you will find it soon also on our homepage Please mind: Deadline for "CALL FOR PAPERS (200 - 300 words) - May 20th, 2005 If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me Best wishes Wolfgang Börner bor_at_gku.magwien.gv.at Past -- Present -- Future in the field of Cultural Heritage and New Technologies "The Next 10 Years of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage: Why We Need a World Virtual Heritage Center" Chair: Bernie Frischer (bernard.frischer_at_gmail.com), Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U. of Virginia (USA) Background As we look back on ten years of activity in applying the new technology of 3D computer modeling to archaeology and architectural history, we can observe great progress on many fronts. Computer modeling has become a widespread, well-understood technique. Scholars have grasped the need of publishing not only their 3D data but also the related metadata and documentation. The costs of creating and demonstrating 3D models have fallen dramatically, and today standard PCs can run models, even real-time models. As the quantity of archaeological models has increased, so, too, has the quality. Scholars have started to create animations in high-definition stereo. Real-time models are no longer just visual but sometimes include sound and even touch. Perhaps the most important achievement is that, beyond the narrow circle of digital archaeologists, cultural authorities, too, have "gotten it" and now understand the importance and utility of 3D models for documenting a site and presenting it to the public. A number of exhibitions and museums have used 3D models, and virtual heritage centers have even started to be created. The time is therefore ripe to think about the next ten years and why creation of a World Virtual Heritage Center (WVHC) would be useful and desirable. The WVHC could be a place where standards and best practices are tracked and promoted; where models of individual sites are deposited, maintained, and distributed via the Internet to users all over the world; and where changing exhibitions present work going on in this field all over the world. Moreover, the WVHC could be more a network than a "bricks and mortar" building: through partnerships with local, regional, and national virtual heritage centers, it could help work done in one corner of the world to be known and used all over the globe. This is important: unless virtual heritage is international in scope, it runs the risk of becoming less a tool to promote peace and understanding among peoples than a weapon to glamorize one culture at the expense of all others. Call for Papers We therefore invite papers on any of the following topics related to the idea of a WVHC: -reports on the use of 3D models in museums or exhibitions during the past 24 months (goals and results) -reports on planning or implementation of new local, regional, or national virtual heritage centers -the politics of 3D: the dialectic of local vs. global in the recreation of past cultures through computer technology -the features of the proposed WVHC: what would be the services and activities of such a center; why are these services and activities desirable and necessary? From: Stan Ruecker Subject: RE: 19.008 digital microhistory Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:52:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 35 (35) [deleted quotation]I would say there is no question that they count as impressive pieces of work, and thanks for drawing them to my attention. A database of 30,000 individuals also sounds like the kind of rich body of information I had in mind, although I would want to find out how much narrative text it includes. What I didn't see at a quick glance, and I may just have missed the right spots, is the placement of data in a context other than a map. I do think maps are great, but what I've been thinking about is the use of an illustration or diagram that itself conveys meaning. The Minard example is in some ways both a very simplified map and a timeline, on which there's the summary of a catastrophic narrative. By taking (or developing) some image like this, that is itself quite evocative, and using it as the basis for an interface, I would like to see if we could get interfaces that are at each level both visually arresting and informational narrative objects. Does that make sense? yrs, Stan [deleted quotation]McCarty )" ===== [deleted quotation]Bertin's [deleted quotation]purposes, [deleted quotation] From: Written By Hand--Manuscript Americana Subject: RESPONSE: "internetting scholarship" Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:03:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 36 (36) Hello, Colleagues: Author Bell writes, "Today, a scholar in South Dakota, or Shanghai, or Albania--anywhere on earth with an Internet connection--has a research library at her fingertips." This is simply not the case. An awareness of current economic and physical conditions in the case of South Dakota demonstrates internet access is not so blithely obtainable as suggested. Ditto for Shanghai and Albania. And, the "research library" is often dead-end references to unavailable sources. The problems are legion with Bell's point of view, which is familiar enough to readers of such futurists as Buckminster Fuller and Bill Gates and Jules Verne. There isn't enough time in the world to sharpen the axe for this one, but it's important to keep in mind (and take it from me as a working scholar), that technology is a tool, and not an end in itself. Just because you can give a PowerPoint presentation doesn't make it desirable. I'll never be without my computer and internet access, but I don't expect them to be anything other than what they are. Peter Christian Pehrson, Director & Archivist Written By Hand Manuscript Americana "Primary Sources in Regional History" www.writtenbyhand.com / 877.395.2047 Yale Box 206581, New Haven, Conn. 06520 USA (Specializing in scholarly handwritten material only, no printed ephemera, no autographs, no celebrity material, no scripophily, no philately.) From: Timothy Mason Subject: Re: 19.022 googlizing books, internetting scholarship Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:01:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 37 (37) [deleted quotation]files [deleted quotation]-- in [deleted quotation]WordPort ( http://www.doc-api.com/wordport.htm ) will read WordMarc files and convert them. TextWrangler (which is free) might - I've had success with it. I suspect that if you really look hard, you'll find a way into just about any file format. Best wishes Timothy Mason Universite de Paris 8 http://www.timothyjpmason.com From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:50:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 38 (38) 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: Vika Zafrin Subject: On accessing subscription-only essays Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:01:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 39 (39) A couple of people noted that the David Bell essay on TNR is available by subscription only. I too often get annoyed at sites that require me to register, regardless of whether it's free. Luckily, there's <http://www.bugmenot.com/>. It's not perfect, but it might just help. (Certainly helped me with access to The New Republic!) -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: "Philipp Budka" Subject: transdisciplinarity? Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:04:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 40 (40) Dear List, I am searching for literature on transdisciplinarity compared to interdisciplinarity (within the context of new media content production). I am grateful for any kind of info, particularly for online available articles and papers. Best, Philipp -- Philipp Budka philbu_at_gmx.net Rustengasse 5/10 A-1150 Wien, Austria http://www.philbu.net http://www.lateinamerika-studien.at -- From: Willard McCarty Subject: AHDS Newsletter Spring/Summer 2005 Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 07:33:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 41 (41) Many here are likely to be interested in the contents of the Spring/Summer 2005 issue of the newsletter published by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (U.K.), available in pdf at http://www.ahds.ac.uk/news/newsletters/spring-2005/spring-2005-newsletter.pdf (from which URL the index to all newsletters online can be derived). I can recommend the lead article by Mike Pringle, "Technology is destroying the visual arts!". 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: "Jim Marchand" Subject: The State of the Internet Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 07:32:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 42 (42) The Chicago Tribune had a poignant message the other day (05/14/05), which involves all of us. It was in the Voice of the People (Vox populi): "Cyber `junkie' gives up on relationship," by Chuck Kulig. He had, as many of my acquaintances, canceled his Internet service because of spam, adware, spyware, cookies and the like. Many of the members of the various scholarly lists on WWW tell me that they have given up precisely because of this. Kulig expresses it better than I possibly could: "I can't compete with pimply-faced nerds who sit at their computers in darkened rooms, sucking down caffeinated drinks 24/7 while they create nuisance programs that foul the digital highway." We need to do something about this, but what? From: "William Allen" Subject: RE: 19.026 files in WordMarc Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 07:33:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 43 (43) I agree. In 2005 it should be easy to transfer stuff (I'm still transferring word processing docs from XyWright (it was wonderful in its day) to Word. The real problem will come when we reach, not 2005, but 2050. Who knows? William WordPort ( http://www.doc-api.com/wordport.htm ) will read WordMarc files and convert them. TextWrangler (which is free) might - I've had success with it. I suspect that if you really look hard, you'll find a way into just about any file format. Best wishes Timothy Mason Universite de Paris 8 http://www.timothyjpmason.com From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: a new book on phonostatistics and typology Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 07:35:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 44 (44) 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=20 (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=20 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=20 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=20 "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=20 (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).=20 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=20 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=3D18.29%; T=3D0.16), rather than for the Finno-Ugric (the mean V=3D24.14%; T=3D0.47). The Uralic language unity has a greater dispersion (the mean V=3D28.31%; T=3D0.57). 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=C2 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 =3D 221.27%, T =3D 3,77). The Baltic- Finnish languages yield V =3D 185.90%, T=3D2,79). The group of Volga languages is the most compact group with V =3D143, 19, T=3D1.02). 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 =3D 193.13%, T =3D 3.77) results in the higher diffusion (V =3D198.04, T =3D 3.94). The same procedure with Yukaghir yields V =3D 199.17%; with Korean V is 199.24%, T =3D 3.88; with Japanese V is 200.51%, T =3D 3.91; Nivkhi yields V =3D 206.48%. On the contrary, Chinese has shown closer similarity with the Finno-Ugric languages: V =3D 190.01%, T =3D 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=20 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. Reviewed by Ludmila Alekseevna Shipulina From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:42:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 45 (45) Greetings: The May 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 May is Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704, courtesy of Lynne Spichiger, Juliet Jacobson, and the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association/Memorial Hall Museum. The articles include: The Museum and the Media Divide: Building and Using Digital Collections at the Instituto de Cultura Puertoriquena W. Brent Seales and George V. Landon, University of Kentucky The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, University of Missouri, Kansas City Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences Cathy A. Manduca, Ellen R. Iverson, and Sean Fox, Carleton College; and Flora McMartin, MERLOT What Readers Want: A Study of E-Fiction Usability Chrysanthi Malama, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art; Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde; and Ruth Wilson, Scotproof [...] From: No Name Available Subject: CFP: Journal of Digital Information Special Issue on Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:45:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 46 (46) Adaptive Hypermedia Journal of Digital Information jodi.tamu.edu Call for Papers Special issue on Adaptive Hypermedia http://jodi.tamu.edu/calls/adaptive_hypermedia.html 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 submission form at jodi.tamu.edu. Selecting the title or editor for this issue from the Theme or Editor drop-down box will alert the editor to your submission automatically. Before submitting please take note of the journal's Guidelines for submission: notes for authors. 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 receipt of the final version of the 5th August, 2005. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: salvation from mousey woes? Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:46:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 47 (47) A friend has written to me with the following problem: [deleted quotation]I have suggested to him that he exercise the mouse-pointer options in Windows XP (including the animation activated when you press the CTRL-key), but he would like to know if there's better. Any ideas? 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: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.027 Bell's access everywhere Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:45:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 48 (48) I echo Peter Pehrson and add: so many of the really helpful research materials available now are only available if you are part of an institution that subscribes to them; if you are a member of "the public" you at best may have access through "pay per view." This is a serious curtailment of public access as more and more things are taken out of public arenas like public libraries, but it also works for things that university libraries (the ones that allow the public to use them, that is) are increasingly funneling to their communities digitally-only. Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 19.030 state of the Internet: what is to be done? Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:43:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 49 (49) [deleted quotation]I read this article and thought: "Get a Mac." J. From: "Leo Robert Klein" Subject: Re: 19.030 state of the Internet: what is to be done? Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:44:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 50 (50) On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Marchand wrote: [deleted quotation]Frankly, I'd rather have my legs chopped off than lose my DSL connection. I agree that the current manifestation of the Internet is a scary place, what with it's "spam, adware, spyware..." The situation is hardly helped by Anti-virus software and built-in OS security that are unable to communicate to the average user in a meaningful way. This is a major problem. I also admit that I've changed the way I operate because of this. I choose software which is less vulnerable to attach and which allows me greater control over my computing environment. Others do the same. I guess what we have to do is instill in our users good online survival skills. Just hitting "ok" on everything that pops up is a sure way to Internet hell. LEO -- ------------- Leo Robert Klein www.leoklein.com From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 19.030 state of the Internet: what is to be done? Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:44:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 51 (51) [deleted quotation]We can start by abandoing crusty (and frankly distasteful) stereotypes that do nothing to illuminate what really threatens open scholarly exchange on the internet: copyright, DRM, government security and censorship, and the branding/commodification of knowledge and knowledge work (read Liu's Laws of Cool). Matt -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Michael Fraser Subject: Software Engineer, Paradigm Project (Oxford) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:44:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 52 (52) Please send any queries to the address below not to the sender. ---- Paradigm project Software Engineer Academic Related Grade 2 £22,507 - £29,128 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.paradigm.ac.uk> of the Bodleian Library and the John Rylands University Library, Manchester. 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. A grounding in web services and XML will also be required. In addition to installing, configuring and developing the above repositories and related software, the Software Engineer will be expected to 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 30th May 2005. Please quote our ref: LNS15178. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.17 Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:41:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 53 (53) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 17 (May 17 - May 24, 2005) VIEW In this issue of Ubiquity, Arun Kumar Tripathi pleads for a new ethics to deal with new technology. Tripathi is with the Department of Philosophy of Technololgy, Institute for Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany. www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i17_tripathi.html From: Alejandro Bia Subject: ACH/ALLC: Full program and early registration notice Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:35:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 54 (54) [Apologies for cross-posting] Dear Colleagues We are pleased to announce that the full schedule of presentations for ACH/ALLC 2005 is now online at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ The deadline for early-bird rates at the conference has been extended to June 2nd (the reasons for the original deadline no longer obtain). Fees for non-sponsored attendees at the pre-conference workshops/Summer Institute will also remain unchanged until then. Note, members of ACH/ALLC now qualify for the sponsor-rate at the Institute (see Registration page for details). Peter Liddell Alejandro Bia Chair, Organizing Committee Chair, Program Committee From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:39:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 55 (55) Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dtsummit/ September 28-30, 2005 University of Virginia Summit Objective: Digital tools and the underlying cyberinfrastructure=20 expand the opportunities for humanistic scholarship and education. =B7 They enable new and innovative approaches to humanistic= scholarship. =B7 They provide scholars and students deeper and more= sophisticated=20 access to cultural materials, thus changing how material can be taught and= =20 experienced. =B7 They facilitate new forms of collaboration of all those who=20 touch the digital representation of the human record. The evolving vision of a digitally enabled humanities community creates new= =20 challenges and opportunities for the tool-building and tool-using=20 communities. As these communities become more active and interactive, there= =20 is a need for a Summit that can assess the state of development of digital= =20 tools for humanities research, as well as the effectiveness of the=20 supporting and integrating cyberinfrastructure. The Summit on Digital Tools= =20 for the Humanities will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines of= =20 the humanities, such as history, literature, archeology, linguistics,=20 classics, and philosophy, and some social scientists and computer= scientists. Digital tools in the humanities are =96 for the most part =96 in their=20 infancy. They serve many purposes: analysis, creative development of new=20 material, education, presentation, as well as productivity enhancement. The= =20 Summit will address tools for textual as well as non-textual media (audio,= =20 video, 3-D and 4-D visualization), since it is important for the community= =20 to consider the collective effect of these tools and the resulting=20 collections of resources, if they are to be shared and interoperable. The Summit will address issues that derive from the state of tool design=20 and development. This includes the proliferation of new data formats;=20 effective markup language annotation; integration of multiple modes of=20 media; tool interoperability, especially when tools are shared across=20 multiple disciplines; open source for shared and evolving tools; tools with= =20 low (easily mastered by an untrained end user) and high (usable only by=20 expert personnel) thresholds of usability; data mining; representation and= =20 visualization of data in the geo-spatial framework; measurement; game=20 technology; and simulation. To attend the Summit, please submit a one page issue paper & bio via e-mail to dtsummit_at_virginia.edu by June=20 20, 2005 Participation: Participation in this Summit will be by invitation only and= =20 will be restricted to 35-50 people, depending upon funding support. Those=20 who wish to participate should submit a short =96 one page =96 issue paper= that=20 presents one idea or issue that should be discussed at the Summit. An issue= =20 paper should not present an individual=92s own project; participants will= not=20 be asked to present their own research but to participate in the Summit=92s= =20 dialogue, bringing the expertise gained from their own development and use= =20 of digital tools for research and education. Each issue paper should be=20 accompanied by a short (one-page) biography. Based on the issue papers submitted, the Organizing Committee will select a= =20 diverse group of participants from a variety of scholarly=20 fields. Participants will be asked to read a package of preparatory=20 materials that includes all accepted issue papers, so as to give everyone a= =20 common starting place for discussion and debate. Program: The Summit begins on Wednesday evening, September 28, with a=20 keynote speech and discussion. Discussions continue on Thursday and end=20 mid-afternoon Friday. Discussion topics and the structure of the sessions= =20 will be determined by the issue papers submitted by participants. Product: The Organizing Committee will produce a final report, which will= =20 give an overview of the opportunities, challenges, and recommendations=20 discussed during the Summit. It is our hope that the Summit will produce=20 charettes for new tools, as well as recommendations that can attract=20 funding sponsorship, and that new and existing interdisciplinary=20 collaborations will be facilitated by the Summit in order to build a more=20 effective community focused on the challenges of cyberinfrastructure and=20 digital tools. Location: The Summit will be held at the University of Virginia in=20 Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. Support: Local meals and lodging will be paid by the Summit=20 sponsors. Some support for travel costs is available upon request. Sponsors: The University of Virginia and the Institute for Advanced=20 Technologies in the Humanities are supporting the Summit. In addition, we= =20 have requested support from the National Science Foundation. Organizing Committee: Bernie Frischer, Director, Institute for Advanced Technologies in the=20 Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia (Summit Co-chair) John Unsworth, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and=20 Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Summit= Co-chair) Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology, University of Kansas Anita Jones, Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia Lew Lancaster, Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI),=20 University of California, Berkeley, and also President, University of the= West Geoffrey Rockwell, Director, Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR),=20 McMaster University Roy Rosenzweig, Director, Center for History and New Media, George Mason=20 University From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: NSF, NEH launch effort to digitally archive dying languages Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:36:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 56 (56) On May 5th, 2005, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced the recipients of 13 fellowships and 26 institutional grants as part of the agencies' joint Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) project-a new, multi-year effort to digitally archive at-risk languages before they become extinct. Experts estimate that almost half of the world's 6000-7000 existing languages are endangered. The DEL awards, totaling $4.4 million, will support the digital documentation of more than 70 of them. See <http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104138>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104138 for details. From: Cristina Vertan Subject: Deadline Extension -Workshop Semantic Web Technologies Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:36:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 57 (57) for MT at MT Summit X CALL FOR PAPERS !!!! DEADLINE EXTENSION !!!! *** apologize for multiple postings*** Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation Satellite Workshop at the MT Summit 2005 12 September 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 - on-line Machine Translation - 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: "Lisa L. Spangenberg" Subject: Re: 19.036 and you thought the Internet was bad.... Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:40:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 58 (58) [deleted quotation]Optical mice can behave very oddly when used on colored surfaces--I used to have a mouse pad with little sample squares of "safe" html colors and their hex codes. When the mouse was "over" a red square, it went hay wire, sometimes ca'using the cursor to appear to suffer from St. Vitus' ailment. 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: "Nico Weenink" Subject: Re: 19.036 and you thought the Internet was bad.... Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:41:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 59 (59) Willard, [deleted quotation]I had the same with my laptop, the mouse playing hide and seek. :-( Is your friend working on a Dell laptop? This is a know problem with Dell laptops, and the only thing you can do about it is to call Dell and let them replace the mouse port. Kind regards, Nico. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Spam again Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:40:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 60 (60) I did not want to clog up Humanist with talking about spam, attack-ware and the like, though it does concern us, since people are leaving the net because of it. I have two good books on spam, though I cannot recommend either of them; in fact, I can find nothing to recommend: Ken Feinstein, How to do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups & Spyware (NY: McGraw Hill-Osborne, 2004; Paul Wolfe, Charlie Scott & Mike W. Erwin, Anti-Spam Toolkit (McGraw Hill-Osborne, 2004). Both books are full of good advice. Unfortunately, there is at present no fool-proof way to prevent spam and all the others from clogging your screen, taking over your computer, etc. Humanist has already experienced the problem with over-zealous spam filters. It is wearisome. Someone offered the advice: "Get a Mac". I hope those who own Macs do not feel that they are going to be free from spam, etc. Those pimply-faced nerds attack everything. Wolfe et al. have a nice chapter on Mac anti-spam tools (Chapter XII). Happily, my university offers a fairly good spam filter service. Ahime, oh for the good old days. From: Willard McCarty Subject: information wantonly free Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:44:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 61 (61) The revolutionary slogan "Information wants to be free!" illustrates the problem Jim Marchand recently pointed to in his message about the state of the Internet: the weasel-word "information" allows us silently to slip in that for which we do not want to pay, so that the declaration of its freedom becomes, in the eyes of the slogan-crier, an "elegant statement of the obvious" (John Perry Barlow, "The Economy of Ideas", Wired 2.03, www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html). As a transcendental virtue -- having it is Good, not having it is Bad -- "information" confounds us when we encounter, as so often these days, what we'd rather not see at all. Instead of trash strengthening our moral imaginations (as Milton said), it simply befuddles us. So what now is to be done? I don't think using a Mac will do the trick, however fine those machines are. Nor, however elegant the Laws of Cool, will obedience to them serve as our unseen sewage system. There have been complaints on Humanist from the first month of its existence, way back in 1987, about infoglut, the "TOO MUCH" being, I think, really a form of "I CAN'T COPE!" This is different: 400 spam messages/day (my current rate), offering me what I'd like to believe doesn't exist, is rather different from 10 well-intentioned ones. To survive we've installed spam filters that, with delicious irony, are acting as mechanised censors. As a result one cannot depend on messages being seen nowadays, although many have yet to realize this. Who has time and stomach to go through even the most abbreviated listing of spamming messages for the occasional message that should not have been plucked out? Still, at least for me, this is a minor annoyance. What do we do, then? Do what we do as well as we possibly can. 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: Lynda Williams Subject: Literary Journals in Canada: The Next Generation Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:44:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 62 (62) Dear all, Normally I lurk. But I am proud to announce that the project I worked on with Dr. Dee Horne (English) has born fruit in the form of the book below: Literary Jounals in Canada: The Next Generation has been published by LitCan, is distributed by the Ingram Book Group, and is available through bookstores. http://litcan.unbc.ca/ The LitCan project brought together literary journal publishers from across Canada to review and summarize the status quo in digital production and other computing impacts on literary journals. Three of us at UNBC (University of Northern B.C.) were involved. Two as contributors and Dr. Horne as PI. Digital versions of my chapters are available online at http://ctl.unbc.ca/cc/onlineproduction/RESonlineproduction.htm --------------------------------------------- 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: "Written By Hand...Manuscript Americana P" Subject: QUERY: Cites for rural diaries? Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:33:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 63 (63) Hello, Colleagues: For an upcoming Newberry Library (Chicago) Seminar, I seek assistance with citations to published or unpublished sources for my paper entitled, "Rural Diaries as Expressions of Personal Spirituality." Specifically, I am interested in how rural inhabitants (whether on farms or in small towns and villages), conveyed in diaries a sense of piety, reverence, and worship through labor, domestic activities, and other forms of interaction with their social and physical environments, which were often characterized by isolation and literal connections to the land and animals on which they survived. Rural plant and animal husbandry, architecture, crops, and domestic foodways are some ancillary topics. The periods covered are 17th- through 20th centuries, the geographical focus is North America, and the language limitation is English (works translated into English would apply). I'm not including in this examination the work of tract societies or missionaries to American Natives, or established, organized urban denominations. Rural Utopian societies are included. As an example, I am aware of the Oneida Society in upstate New York, as well as Shaker communities in New Lebanon, etc. and would like to know about published or unpublished personal writings from the inhabitants. All of this is with a particular focus on the individual. Citations for existing critical and scholarly examinations of the subject are also welcomed. I'm much obliged for any assistance. Peter Christian Pehrson, Director Written by Hand Primary Source Manuscript Americana Yale Box 206581, New Haven, CT 06520 USA From: Cristina Vertan Subject: how are words "the same"? Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:36:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 64 (64) for MT at MT Summit X CALL FOR PAPERS !!!! DEADLINE EXTENSION !!!! *** apologize for multiple postings*** Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation Satellite Workshop at the MT Summit 2005 12 September 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 - on-line Machine Translation - 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: Marc Deneire Subject: introductory materials on computer-assisted translation? Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:37:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 65 (65) I am looking for introductory materials (books, articles, websites) to=20 prepare an course (undergraduates) in Computer Assisted Translation. Any=20 suggestions? Thanks, Marc Deneire ____________________________________ Marc Deneire D=E9partement d'anglais Universit=E9 Nancy2 Courriel: Marc.Deneire_at_univ-nancy2.fr http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/UFRLCE/DepAnglais =20 From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Call: World Congress on the Power of Language Date: March 6 - 10, 2006 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 66 (66) Bangkok, Thailand http://www.poweroflanguage.org/ (Information on how to register and how to send abstracts can be found in the website.) Abstract Sumission Deadline: October 31, 2005 On this very auspicious occasion, Thai people will join hands with linguists and scholars around the world to organize an international conference entitled "The Power of Language: Theory, Practice and Performance" to celebrate the 50th Birthday Anniversary of the beloved H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, a world linguist scholar, for her dedication to languages. A World Forgotten Fact: The Power of Language As the world becomes more globalized, language is unquestionably an international issue as well as a national agenda that requires attention from all. Language is a success key to social, economic, political, and cultural development. Inventions will not be utilized widely at the fullest extent; national development ideas cannot be immersed into and implemented in communities unless they are well communicated to create local understanding through appropriate languages. Conflicts and their resolutions within and among countries are examples to prove how great an impact language could bring to the world at large. The power of Language goes beyond spoken or written words. Unless we are able to really understand each other, and learn more about the world and people through language, it is not possible to have sustainable development and peace. To know the power of language is thus essential for global socio-economic, cultural and academic development, community capacity building, transfer of technology, international trade, international relations, laws and legal interactions, human relationships and people, quality of life, esthetics, and world existence. The attempt to understand each other is prerequisite if we are to live and interact in the world. Through language, when information is transferred for various purposes, what we get in addition is to understand each other. In this context, translation and interpretation are unique human ability subsuming the most effective discipline to fulfill world communication and understanding where the plethora of languages is used which is beyond one's ability to learn. Many research studies on languages have been undertaken worldwide; nevertheless, a few have been effectively put beyond practice into real performance including reaching the application in societal development. This is further confirmed by the paradox of knowledge-based society in that limited existing effective research findings have been distributed even though there are unlimited available channels. This leads to a serious deficit in communication and cultural understanding in the world today. We fully share the rationale behind the U.S. and Europe Year of Languages Projects, and further consider that language is an essential indicator of success, not only of a nation but also the whole world at large. With our intervention, support, promotion, and management as scholars, linguists, development advocates, language specialists, translators, interpreters, writers, teachers, students, all language users, the power of language would no longer be underestimated. We would like to invite multidisciplinary scholars, experts, and researchers, multidisciplinary professionals, government officials, politicians, development advocates, NGO members, private sector, academicians, educators, linguists, writers, translators, interpreters, technologists, teachers, students around the world to share knowledge, findings and experiences on this world forgotten fact. -- 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: saggion Subject: Last CPF: Summarization Workshop/RANLP 2005 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:38:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 67 (67) 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 *** Third and Last Call for Papers *** Submission: 3 June 2005 *** 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? We call for contributions on any aspect of the summarization problem, but we would like the workshop to give the research community the opportunity for discussion of the following research problems: * Crossing the language barrier: cross-lingual summarization; corpora to support this summarization enterprise; * Crossing the extractive barrier: non-extractive summarization (i.e., text abstraction); resources for capturing abstraction knowledge or expertise; * Crossing genres, domains, and media: adaptation of summarization to new genres, domains, media, and tasks. * Crossing technological barriers: integration of summarization with other NLP technologies such as Question Answering and Information Retrieval. The workshop will be organized around paper presentations, panel discussions, and one invited talk. [...] *** For any further information please contact Horacio Saggion at h.saggion_at_dcs.shef.ac.uk From: "Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI)" Subject: CFP: MICAI-2005 Artificial Intelligence, Springer LNAI: Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:39:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 68 (68) one week submission reminder and CFP 4th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MICAI 2005 November 14-18, 2005 Monterrey, Mexico www.MICAI.org/2005 Proceedings: Springer LNAI. Keynote speakers: John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Erick Cantu, Jaime Sichman; more to be announced. Submission: May 22 abstract; then full paper May 29. LAST CALL FOR PAPERS *** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS *** John McCarthy of Stanford is a pioneer of AI, creator of Lisp. Tom Mitchell of CMU is ex-President of AAAI. Erick Cantu of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Jaime Sichman of University of Sao Paulo. More speakers to be announces on webpage. [...] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (NWeSP)" Subject: CFP: NWeSP-2005 Web Services conference, IEEE: submission Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:40:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 69 (69) reminder and CFP International Conference NWeSP-2005: Next Generation Web Services Practices August 23-27, 2005, Seoul, Korea www.NWeSP.org Submission deadline: June 1. Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press, USA. WeSP authors will have publishing opportunities in several special issues. Keynote speakers: - Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California at Irvine, - Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research Division, USA, - Shim Yoon, Web Services Advance Force, Samsung, - David Du, University of Minnesota. In cooperation with: - IEEE Computer Society, - Task force on Electronic Commerce, - Technical Committee on Internet, - Technical Committee on Scaleable Computing, - The International World-Wide Web Conference Committee, IW3C2, - Microsoft, Korea. International Conference on Next generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'05) is a forum which brings together researchers and practitioners specializing on different aspects of Web based information systems. It will bring together the world's most respected authorities on semantic web, Web-based services, Web applications, Web enhanced business information systems, e-education specialists, Information security, and other Web related technologies. TOPICS: - Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design, - Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation, merging, linking, reconciliation), - Database Technologies for Web Services, - Customization, Reusability, Enhancements, - Information Security Issues, - Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance, - User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling, - Web Services Standards, - Autonomic Computing Paradigms, - Web Based e-Commerce, e-learning applications, - Grid Based Web Services. [...] From: Helen Ashman Subject: CW2005: submission dateline 25 May Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:40:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 70 (70) 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS 23-25 November 2005, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore. _http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2005_ organized by: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in cooperation with: EUROGRAPHICS, ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGWEB, SIGecom, SIGART, SIGGRAPH (Singapore) CALL FOR PAPERS Paper submission: 25 May 2005 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. The conference will have four parallel tracks including but not limited to the following topics: A1: Shared Virtual Worlds A2: Distributed Virtual Environments A3: Collaborative Design and Manufacturing B1: Information Retrieval and Information Security B2: Data Mining and Warehousing in Cyberworlds B3: HCI and Humanised Interfaces in Cyberworlds C1: Philosophy, Evolution, and Ethics of Cyberworlds C2: Business Models in Cyberworlds D1: Cyberlearning D2: Cyberculture and Cyberarts 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 full paper sessions, short presentations, panels, tutorials, cyber art exhibition, industrial seminars, and hands-on demonstrations where research groups, vendors, and artists will show the state-of-the-art in the field. There will be also 3 workshops organised in parallel with the main conference program: - 1st International Workshop on Cultural Heritage and Edutainment in Virtual Environments (CHEVE 2005) _http://www.camtech.ntu.edu.sg/cyberworlds2005/index.html_ - 2nd International Workshop on Web Computing in Cyberworlds (WCCW 2005) _http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/bwxu/chinese/main/Materials/CallForPapers/wccw2005cfp.htm_ - 2nd International Workshop on Language Understanding and Agents for Real World Interaction (LUAR 2005) _http://titech.serveftp.com/index.htm_ [...] From: Helen Ashman Subject: WDA 2005 Deadline Extension Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:41:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 71 (71) WDA 2005 Third International Workshop on Web Document Analysis Seoul Olympic Parktel, Seoul, Korea August 28, 2005 Paper submission deadline: June 5, 2005 **extended** WDA 2005 home page: http://wda2005.blogspot.com/ In response to a number of requests, the deadline for submissions to WDA 2005 has been extended to June 5, 2005. Authors are encouraged to submit short papers related to any aspect of document analysis on the Web. Because we seek to foster discussion and interaction among researchers, we encourage authors to submit papers that describe work in progress. A complete listing of possible topics can be found in the Call For Papers on the WDA 2005 home page. Description of the venue can be found on the ICDAR 2005 home page: http://image.korea.ac.kr/icdar2005/ Workshop Co-Chairs Matthew Hurst Ethan Munson From: Alexandre Enkerli Subject: Hegemonic Google? Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:28:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 72 (72) In 19.022, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett pointed to a Wired article about some European reactions to Google's digitization of books: <http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,67482,00.html>. The article mostly focuses on the old EU/US relationship, with the (stereo)typical "French connection" (as evidenced by the rather silly title: "Escargot? Oui. Google? Sacre Bleu"). Yet, there's a lot more that can be said about the risks of a Google hegemony, including from a US perspective. Google benefits from an enviable position among technology corporations. It might be perceived favorably by Cyber-geeks and newbies alike. Geeks like its roots in their culture along with the emphasis on neat technologies. Google has geek-appeal. Newbies enjoy the fact that they can lookup almost anything and get some type of result that's relatively appropriate. In terms of geek appeal, the following piece on Google's approach to innovation is quite striking: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05/19/google/index.php Especially when we compare it to Microsoft's current approach to innovation. Bazaar and Cathedral, you say? Geeks are better at ease in the Bazaar. The Cathedral resonates of Globalisation, which people associate with negative impact on society. Google's reach is extending quite rapidly (noticed the new "portal" beta in Google Labs?). Some people (including some geeks in North America and elsewhere) are wondering if Google might not transform itself into something dangerous. Yes, references to corruption through power (even in Star Wars) are quite relevant to these people. The easiest reference is, of course, Microsoft. According to those views, Google has the potential to become too big. If Google's "power" were "used for evil," the results could be quite damaging. Naive? Sure. But this perspective has an impact on how people (geeks and basic users alike) perceive Google. Google's IPO has been the target of multiple comments from different people. But perhaps the most interesting event in their recent history was the launch of Gmail. Because of Gmail's targeted advertising based on message content and given the ubiquitous cookie set by Google (which maintains such information as prior searches), several people grew scared of Google's potential for breach of privacy. Call it a "conspiracy theory" and point to the tinfoil hat, but Google's once idyllic relationship to geeks started to show signs of uneasiness. To make matters worse, Google executives had been elusive in their answers to privacy concerns and the threat of having Google actually sell some private information about Gmail users should have been addressed more directly. There's been some discussions of the issues with Gmail and Google's latest April Fool's Day spoof referred to that "public relation debacle" (as journalists probably conceived of some initial reactions to Gmail): http://www.google.com/googlegulp/faq.html Personally, I'd say that people at Google were simply naive in their approach and they probably never had malicious intentions, that the reaction about privacy concerns was aggravated by "the media," and that Google maintains a good reputation. Yet the issue of Google's perception remains slightly less settled than some might think. Compare the situation with Microsoft, which several people call the "Evil Empire" (funny how common "evil" is as an English word). Some people might be fascinated with Bill Gates (or, at least, with his virtual wealth) and some people probably see Microsoft products in a very positive light, but the company itself is rarely seen in a very positive light. The common explanation for this is that Microsoft is a near-monopoly and that it would be hard to cherish a monopoly. Yet Google's "marketshare" among search engine is quite close to that of Microsoft among desktop operating systems and Google benefits from a much better reputation. Is Google showing signs of The Hegemony? Alexandre http://dispar.blogspot.com/ From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Internet not equal WWW Re: 19.027 Bell's access everywhere Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:29:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 73 (73) Willard and Peter, As Humanist 19:27 there appeared a message from Peter Pehrson of Written By Hand. That message reached subscribers of Humanist via email distribution. And the contents of that message can be accessed subscribers and non-subscribers of Humanist via the archive housed on the World Wide Web. Furthermore, in whole or in part, the contents of the message can circulate again both by email or by hyperlink point via the WWW. I am stressing this point -- the embeddedness of the World Wide Web within / through the Internet -- to characterize qualities of the "library" at one's fingertips. Mr. Pehrson seems to imply that the imaginative universe of Mr. Bell houses a library without librarians or patrons: [deleted quotation]Where, except perhaps in a possible fictional world a la Borges, are there no missing volumes, no misplaced materials, no inaccurate catalogue entries, no misleading bibliographic references? The quality of the (immediate) retrieval is not the measure of the fingertip (or voice-activated) access. The Internet's mail protocols, its discussion lists and its news groups as well as the Web allow people to be in touch with people and ask about what they are looking for and to also provide answers. We sometimes forget that libraries are sites of connection. People, the living and the dead, engage in conversation -- and not through some dream of immedicacy. At one's finger tips is not the answer but the invitation to question. It's about reaching not grabbing. David Weinberger captures some of this ethos: We think of complex institutions and organizations as being like well-oiled machines that work reliably and almost serenely so long as their subordinate pieces perform their designated tasks. Then we go on the Web, and the pieces are so loosely joined that frequently the links don't work [...] But that's okay because the Web gets its value not from the smoothness of its overall operation but from its abundance of small nuggets that point to more small nuggets. And, most important, the Web is binding not just pages but us human beings in new ways. We are the true "small pieces" of the Web, and we are loosely joining ourselves in ways that we're still inventing. David Weinberger Small Pieces Loosely Joined (2002) preface p. x What Weinberger characterizes as novel, I see as existing in pre-electronic times. However the multiplication of cycles of re-invention offered by networked environments finds us querying the mastery of speed. Faster will not get you more and more is not better. To find, to invent, oneself takes faith, faith in the abilities of others to connect some of the pieces and in their abilities to sort, shuffle and store. One's other is a librarian. Fancy finding that figure here but as we say in French -- "a la retrouvaille" -- till next time. -- 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: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: digest ... Re: 19.041 state of the Internet: what is to Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:30:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 74 (74) be done Willard, You asked observed that [deleted quotation]To which I place an other observation: some discussion lists provide a digest format (a "chunking" of a few days worth of positings). Some users subscribe to both the digest and the "regular" read and thereby managing the adequate redundancy that helps one spot what one may have missed. It's a habit from the pre-spam epoch where the flow of information was often shaped by one's subscription habits. On another note: robot exclusion can assist in controlling the harvesting of email addresses. It also affects the automatic collection of URLs for search engines. On yet another note: is there a certain status symbol value to anti-spam efforts such as the avoidance of all mailto links or the various ways of segregating the elements of email addresses (for reassembly by some human user)? Inversely is there a certain status symbol value to the persistence of old-style email address treatment on the part of users accustomed to scanning an inbox and trusting the sys admins to balance server loads and deal with network drag? I, for one, given that I often work with dial-up connections, am more concerned by network performance than by the presence of those pesky spam messages. Weeding, watering and planting :: spam plucking, reply generation and initial postings. How does your garden grow? Given the topoi of most advertising spam (sex, pharmaceuticals, and finance), spam taps into a dream of potency. Ironically zapping or filtering spam delivers a form of potency -- keeping one's garden neat and tidy. I invite subscribers to meditate upon the gendered inflections in much anti-spam discourse. Reminds one of the politics of housework. -- 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: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 19.041 state of the Internet: what is to be done Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:30:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 75 (75) [deleted quotation]With present day's spam filtering, would it actually not be quite hard to write a message containing any 'Humanist-usefull' information in such a way that it would end up in the spam trash bin? When does a message hit the treshold? I can only imagine getting into trouble by quoting from a spam message, let's say for example when I'm studying language corruption due to spam. But other than that... Could be fun to try though? y.s., Joris van Zundert From: "FRANCOIS CROMPTON-ROBERTS" Subject: Re: 19.041 state of the Internet: what is to be done Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:31:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 76 (76) Am I the oly one to see the irony in your Post Scriptum NB, Willard? Surely if we know anything about robots it is that they are consistent. Re-sending the message will cause the spam filter to cut in again ... Best wishes, Francois C-R ----- Original Message ----- ... To survive we've installed spam filters that, with delicious irony, are acting as mechanised censors. As a result one cannot depend on messages being seen nowadays, although many have yet to realize this. Who has time and stomach to go through even the most abbreviated listing of spamming messages for the occasional message that should not have been plucked out? ... 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: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:32:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 77 (77) Information The May 15, 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 over 2,000 indexed titles. Both the Index and theBibliography 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 *Monographs Coordinator *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: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Join the Live Webcast for "Pirates, Thieves and Innocents" Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:28:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 78 (78) Announcing Open Registration for the Live Webcast Pirates, Thieves and Innocents: Perceptions of Copyright Infringement in the Digital Age Online June 16-17, 2005 A symposium sponsored by The Center for Intellectual Property http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium Due to high demand, registration for the face-to-face symposium is now closed. However, we are still committed to making the programming available. Please join us online for the symposium webcast! Visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/webcast.html for details on how you can participate remotely in this event. Visit https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm to register now. Jack Boeve University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 240-582-2965 jboeve_at_umuc.edu From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: electronic literature organization Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:32:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 79 (79) The Electronic Literature Organization is pleased to announce that their substantially upgraded website is now in place at <http://www.eliterature.org>. To help explain what "electronic literature" is and why we find it so powerful and compelling, the ELO's new site includes a showcase which features exemplary works, new and old. The five most recent showcased items are visible at the top of the main page, and everything featured to date is also accessible. An RSS feed of the showcase is available so that readers can automatically keep bookmarks to the current entry or syndicate the showcase on their own sites. News items from July 2000 to the present, along with other pages on the site, are now easily searchable, and recent news is also available by RSS. The news can also be accessed by category and by date. We hope these and other features of the site will make it easier for us to provide announcements and news that interests readers and authors. The ELO is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and to provide them with the infrastructure necessary to reach one another. -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ Please note that Gmail is currently the only reliable address for me. Please do not address mail to mgk_at_umd.edu or mk235_at_umail.umd.edu . Thanks. From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.048 new on WWW: Subject Index to Literature on Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:34:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 80 (80) Electronic Sources of Information 5/05 Remarkably awkward to use, and no search engine. From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: GWEI (Google Will Eat Itself) from Net Art News Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:27:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 81 (81) More on hegemonic Google, this from the Net Art News list (Net Art News ): Google's Last Bite Will Google morph into the next Yahoo?! With the advent of Gmail, Google Groups, Google Maps, My Google and talks of Finance, Weather, Personals and Classifieds, the once bare-bones search engine is setting its sights on information hegemony. Noticing and countering this monopolistic eventuality is an artist group in Italy with their web-based project, GWEI (Google Will Eat Itself). The project exists as a typical E-commerce website that hosts Google Ad-Sense advertisements. With every page visit the site receives, it generates revenues from Google through the ads. Since Google is a publicly traded company, the money generated from the ads on the site are then used to buy Google shares. The end goal of the project? To turn enough profit from the ads to buy shares and eventually own the web's most popular search engine. So start clicking and we'll see if the plan will work! - Jonah Brucker-Cohen http://www.gwei.org From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 19.046 hegemonic Google and the state of the Internet Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:33:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 82 (82) We have just heard a few more raindrops falling into our conversation from the storm of protests that inevitably fall into the "not invented here" category that is used so often to pooh-pooh new alternatives. Let's face it, the Internet is still a new alternative, most people using the Internet haven't been using it for even a decade. . .think of what cars, planes, telephones, televisions, calcuators and computers were like after most people had only used them for a decade. . . . However you may cut it, those who started early, either in chronological time, or early in their lives, still have a jump on those who didn't, and no matter how much ye olde boye networkes complaine about how the Internet still isn't worth anything when it comes down to it. . .the new boys and girls on the block are still heading out there at warp speed, even if many don't agree if they are going in the right direction. You aren't going to get them going in the "right direction" simply by ignoring the Internet, or telling them to, unless you want to join the Amish and other orthodoxies around the world. . .I wonder what will happen when the Pope starts sending email? All the complaints we are hearing about the Internet have been made about every new medium ever invented, from those who pooh-poohed when people moved from stone tablets to clay tablets to papyrus pages to scrolls, to cut and bound pages, to Gutenberg's Press, to steam and electric presses, to xerox machines to the Net. "Don't trust anything printed on clay tablets, papyrus, scrolls, bound pages, printed by Gutenberg's infernal machines, xerox machines or the Internet!" "You can only trust the tried and true of the past, not the wildly uncontrolled stuff of the future." Just today I received word that one of our more famous Illinois libraries is going to require fingerprint identification to log in to the Internet from the library to cut down on unrestrained access. I'm sure Kansas will be close behind. Thanks!!! So Nice To Hear From You! Michael Give FreeBooks!!! In 42 Languages!!! As of May 22, 2005 ~16,275 FreeBooks at: ~ 3,725 to go to 20,000 http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.net We are ~62% of the way from 10,000 to 20,000. We are ~25% 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 "*Internet User ~#100*" If you do not receive a prompt reply, please resend, keep resending. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 9.3 Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:33:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 83 (83) Volume 9 Number 3 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Ubiquitous service access through adapted user interfaces on multiple devices p. 123 Stina Nylander, Markus Bylund, Annika Waern User experience of communication before and during rendezvous: interim results p. 134 Martin Colbert Distributed interface bits: dynamic dialogue composition from ambient computing resources p. 142 Anthony Savidis, Constantine Stephanidis A rapid prototyping software infrastructure for user interfaces in ubiquitous augmented reality p. 169 Christian Sandor, Gudrun Klinker [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: Michael Fraser Subject: Registration Open for Digital Resources in the Humanities Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:30:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 84 (84) 2005 (fwd) *Digital Resources for the Humanities* conference (DRH 2005), 4th-7th September 2005 Lancaster University (UK) www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/ Registration for DRH 2005 is now open: see http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/registration.php. At this, the tenth DRH conference, we will 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. 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? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- 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/ _______________________________________________ HASTAC mailing list HASTAC_at_maillists.uci.edu https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/hastac From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: New Book Series: TOPICS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:31:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 85 (85) [please circulate; please excuse x-posting] New Book Series: TOPICS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce a new book series, Topics in the Digital Humanities, under the general editorship of Susan Schriebman and Ray Siemens. Series Rationale and Description: The incorporation of computational methods into the humanities does more than speed task work. Computers change the nature of tasks that can be imagined and performed. New questions can be asked, and must be asked, new research methods and tools have appeared, new methods for teaching and publication have proliferated, expectations about skills have evolved, and library purchases have shifted dramatically. Humanities computing is undergoing a redefinition of basic principles by a continuous influx of new, vibrant, and diverse communities of practitioners within and well beyond the halls of academe. These practitioners recognize the value computers add to their work, that the computer itself remains an instrument subject to continual innovation, and that competition within many disciplines requires scholars to become and remain current with what computers can do. Topics in the Digital Humanities invites manuscripts that will advance and deepen knowledge and activity in this new and innovative field. Prospectus Submission: Topics in the Digital Humanities is accepting proposals for monographs and co-authored works that directly serve the community of those engaging with humanities computing tools and methodologies. Polemics and collections of essays are not encouraged. Preparation and submission guidelines are available at http://www.press.uillinois.edu/about/acquisition.html. Proposals may be submitted to the series editors. For further information, please contact: Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean, Head of Digital Collections and 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 Ray 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 email: siemens_at_uvic.ca From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Face of Text Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:30:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 86 (86) Dear Humanists, I encourage you to see the new Media page at the Face of Text web site. We have mounted a Quicktime application with streaming video synchronized with slide images and texts of selected speakers (like Julia Flanders, Jerome McGann, Stephen Ramsay and John Unsworth) from The Face of Text conference that was held in November of 2004. http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/media.htm You can also try audio podcasts of keynote presentations. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.18 Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:33:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 87 (87) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 18 (May 24 - May 31, 2005) INTERVIEW BUILDING SMARTER: Architect and industry analyst Jerry Laiserin is a leading advocate for "building smarter" -- the application of information technology to transform the way the built environment is designed, constructed and operated. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i18_laiserin.html VIEW OFFSHORING IT SERVICES Software developer Mohan Babu is the author of the new McGraw-Hill book on Offshoring Management titled "Offshoring IT Services: A Framework for Managing Outsourced Projects." In this special piece for Ubiquity he outlines some frameworks for executing offshored projects. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i18_babu.html From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: GWEI (Google Will Eat Itself) from Net Art News Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:27:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 88 (88) More on hegemonic Google, this from the Net Art News list (Net Art News ): Google's Last Bite Will Google morph into the next Yahoo?! With the advent of Gmail, Google Groups, Google Maps, My Google and talks of Finance, Weather, Personals and Classifieds, the once bare-bones search engine is setting its sights on information hegemony. Noticing and countering this monopolistic eventuality is an artist group in Italy with their web-based project, GWEI (Google Will Eat Itself). The project exists as a typical E-commerce website that hosts Google Ad-Sense advertisements. With every page visit the site receives, it generates revenues from Google through the ads. Since Google is a publicly traded company, the money generated from the ads on the site are then used to buy Google shares. The end goal of the project? To turn enough profit from the ads to buy shares and eventually own the web's most popular search engine. So start clicking and we'll see if the plan will work! - Jonah Brucker-Cohen http://www.gwei.org From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 19.046 hegemonic Google and the state of the Internet Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:33:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 89 (89) We have just heard a few more raindrops falling into our conversation from the storm of protests that inevitably fall into the "not invented here" category that is used so often to pooh-pooh new alternatives. Let's face it, the Internet is still a new alternative, most people using the Internet haven't been using it for even a decade. . .think of what cars, planes, telephones, televisions, calcuators and computers were like after most people had only used them for a decade. . . . However you may cut it, those who started early, either in chronological time, or early in their lives, still have a jump on those who didn't, and no matter how much ye olde boye networkes complaine about how the Internet still isn't worth anything when it comes down to it. . .the new boys and girls on the block are still heading out there at warp speed, even if many don't agree if they are going in the right direction. You aren't going to get them going in the "right direction" simply by ignoring the Internet, or telling them to, unless you want to join the Amish and other orthodoxies around the world. . .I wonder what will happen when the Pope starts sending email? All the complaints we are hearing about the Internet have been made about every new medium ever invented, from those who pooh-poohed when people moved from stone tablets to clay tablets to papyrus pages to scrolls, to cut and bound pages, to Gutenberg's Press, to steam and electric presses, to xerox machines to the Net. "Don't trust anything printed on clay tablets, papyrus, scrolls, bound pages, printed by Gutenberg's infernal machines, xerox machines or the Internet!" "You can only trust the tried and true of the past, not the wildly uncontrolled stuff of the future." Just today I received word that one of our more famous Illinois libraries is going to require fingerprint identification to log in to the Internet from the library to cut down on unrestrained access. I'm sure Kansas will be close behind. Thanks!!! So Nice To Hear From You! Michael Give FreeBooks!!! In 42 Languages!!! As of May 22, 2005 ~16,275 FreeBooks at: ~ 3,725 to go to 20,000 http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.net We are ~62% of the way from 10,000 to 20,000. We are ~25% 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 "*Internet User ~#100*" If you do not receive a prompt reply, please resend, keep resending. From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Announcement: M2K 1.1 Alpha: MIREX Edition release Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 06:36:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 90 (90) Greetings colleagues: Music-to-Knowledge (M2K) Update Release It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of M2K 1.1 Alpha: MIREX Edition. This latest M2K release has undergone some significant debugging and feature enhancements including the addition of framework itineraries and modules specifically designed for each of the "contests" in the upcoming Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). A summary of key enhancements below: * Added new file input modules (InputSignals, InputSignalArrays). * Updated DEMO itineraries to use new input modules (vastly simplifying itineraries). * Added MIREX evaluator and file reader modules. * Added MIREX evaluator test itineraries and test data. * Added MIREX framework itineraries. * Updated all itineraries to be based on relative file paths (M2K itineraries should now work "out-of-the-box" on all platforms). IMPORTANT URLS: M2K Home: http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k M2K Release Page: http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k/release M2K Module and Itinerary Listing: http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k/module_listing.html MIREX Home: http://www.music-ir.org/mirexwiki Cheers, Stephen -- ********************************************************** "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: "Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror" Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 06:40:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 91 (91) Call for papers: "Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror": This thematic issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ (ISSN 1481-4374), guest edited by Sophia A. McClennen (Pennstate) and Henry James Morello (Pennstate) aims at exploring the complexity and difficulty inherent in efforts to represent humanity during moments of social terror. The editors seek papers that analyze how the politics of panic and terror associated with war, authoritarianism, fascism, empire, and globalization require the construction of an inhuman other. To what extent do torture, genocide, and other forms of violence depend on an impoverished notion of humanity? How do these forms of violent othering relate to social practices of racial profiling, patriarchy, compulsory heterosexuality, criminalizing of communities, classism, xenophobia, and other ideological structures dependent on divisive notions of social identity? And what role has cultural production played in challenging these notions? How have cultural products attempted to mediate the trauma of terror, record alternative versions of official history, and suggest alternative, egalitarian worldviews? What role does culture play in the struggle for Human Rights? And how can the scholarly methods of Comparative Cultural Studies enable interdisciplinary investigations into the relationship between politics, aesthetics, psychology, and historical crisis? The editors invite papers that take a global view of the ways that these issues have shaped the cultural landscape of the twentieth century. The volume will include the viewpoints of scholars, activists, and artists. All articles accepted for the journal will also appear in a hard-copy volume of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html . Manuscript specifics: Articles should not exceed 6000 words and they should use no end notes or footnotes. Citations follow the MLA guide for parenthetical citations and include a list of works cited. For more on CLCWeb's style guide see: http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html . About CLCWeb: Published by Purdue University Press and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, etc., CLCWeb is the only open-access, full-text, and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the comparative study of culture and literature published online. CLCWeb publishes scholarship in the widest definition of the discipline of comparative literature and culture and it combines comparative literature with cultural studies (see the journal's Aims and Objectives at http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/aims.html and Procedures of Submission at http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html ). The deadline of complete manuscripts (in an attachment via e-mail only) is 15 March 2006 to Henry James Morello at morello_at_psu.edu Announcement: 7.2 (June 2005) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374) is online now: http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu . For the table of contents of the issue link to http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb05-2/contents05-2.html . This is a thematic issue entitled "American Cultural Studies" and guest edited by Joanne Morreale and P. David Marshall, with papers on Harry Potter and Child Audience by Kara Lynn Andersen, on Chinese gay cinema by Lan Dong, on dust and the avant garde by Jake Kennedy, on reality TV by Joanne Morreale, on the hegemony of American and British music by Rebecca Romanow, on electronic participation in policy making by Rebecca J. Romsdahl, and on nation and heritage in Britain by Ryan S. Trimm. The issue also contains a selected bibliography of scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies and popular culture, compiled by Steven Totosy and Yilin Liao. Announcement: Three new volumes published in the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp : 1) Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55753-378-4 (pbk), 147 pages, $ 34.95. The papers in this volume of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working on English-Canadian literature and culture in Canada, England, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA. 2) Fojas, Camilla. Cosmopolitanism in the Americas. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55753-382-2 (pbk), 150 pages, $ 34.95. Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production in the Americas and an analysis of works by Guatemalan Enrique Gomez Carrillo, the travel writings from the Chicago World's Fair of Cuban Aurelia Castillo de Gonzalez, the Venezuelan journal Cosmopolis, and Rodo's infamous Ariel. 3) Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature. Ed. Louise O. Vasvari and Steven Totosy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55753-396-2 (pbk), 300 pages, $34.95. Written by scholars in Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, and the USA, the book is the first English-language volume of scholarship about the work of the Nobel Laureate. #################################################### From: Helen Ashman Subject: Cyberworlds 2005. Extension till 5 June 2005 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 06:35:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 92 (92) 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS 23-25 November 2005, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore. ___http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2005_ organized by: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in cooperation with: ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGWEB, SIGecom, SIGART, SIGGRAPH (Singapore), and EUROGRAPHICS By numerous requests, paper submission to the conference and three associated workshops is extended till 5 June 2005 24:00 GMT. This is the firm dateline which will not be extended any further. Those authors who already submitted papers, may use these extra 10 days to further improve them and re-upload using the URL sent to you before. Please also make sure that the papers are formatted according to the IEEE 2-column format and all the fonts are embedded. The reviewing will commence on 7 June and any corrections after this date will not be allowed. From: Julia Flanders Subject: Workshop announcement: Intensive Introduction to TEI, Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 06:37:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 93 (93) August 2005, Brown University Announcing a new workshop: Intensive Introduction to TEI August 11-13, 2005 Brown University Co-sponsored by the Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project, in conjunction with Summer and Continuing Education at Brown University http://www.stg.brown.edu/edu/tei_intro2005.html The Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project are offering a new three-day workshop on text encoding with the TEI Guidelines. This intensive hands-on introduction will cover the basics of TEI encoding, including a discussion of stylesheets and XML publication tools, project planning, and funding issues. The workshop is designed to help encoding novices get quickly up to speed on basic text encoding, with particular emphasis on the transcription of primary sources and archival materials. Archivists, librarians, digital project managers, humanities faculty and graduate students might all find this workshop a useful background for a closer engagement with text encoding theory and practice. The course will be taught by Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, and Patrick Yott. Attendees are welcome to bring materials from their own projects for discussion and practice. The course fee is $575, with low-cost accommodation available on the Brown campus. To register, or for more information, please visit the site above. Thanks! Julia Julia Flanders Women Writers Project Brown University From: Shuly Wintner Subject: ISCOL 2005: Program Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 06:38:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 94 (94) *** ISRAEL SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ISCOL2005) *** http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~bagilad/iscol/index.html In conjunction with the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL21) Butler Auditorium, Technion 22 June 2005 *** PROGRAM *** 09:30-10:00 Gathering and refreshments 10:00-10:05 Opening --- ISCOL/IATL special session on Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation of Hebrew ---- 10:05-10:30 Shlomo Yona (Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew) - A Finite-State Based Morphological Analyzer for Hebrew 10:30-10:55 Roy Bar-Haim (Bar-Ilan University) - Part-of-Speech Tagging for Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages 10:55-11:20 Meni Adler (Ben Gurion University) - A Hebrew morphological disambiguator based on an unsupervised morpheme-based stochastic model 11:20-11:45 Danny Shacham (Haifa University) - Morphological Disambiguation of Hebrew Using a Combination of Simple Classifiers --- 11:45-13:30 Lunch break --- ISCOL/IATL plenary session --- 13:30-13:35 Welcome 13:35-14:35 Invited Speaker: Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam) - Between Computational Linguistics and computation for Linguistics 14:35-15:00 Mori Rimon (Hebrew University) - Sentiment Classification: Linguistic and Non-linguistic Issues --- 15:00-15:10 Break --- ISCOL contributed talks - parallel session to IATL: --- 15:10-15:35 Orna Peleg, Zohar Eviatar, Larry Manevitz, Hananel Hazan (Haifa University) - The Disambiguation of Heterophonic and Homophonic Homographs in Hebrew: A Parallel Distributed Processing Account 15:35-16:00 Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Peretz, Ariel Kass (Machon Lev) - Abbreviation Disambiguation without Traditional NLP Methods 16:00-16:25 Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin (Tel-Aviv University), Shimon Edelman (Cornell) - Unsupervised learning of natural languages 16:25-16:50 Oren Glickman (Bar-Ilan University) - Probabilistic Textual Entailment 16:50-17:15 Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) - Unsupervised Learning of Textual Entailment Relations --- 17:15-17:30 Refreshments ---- IATL/ISCOL joint panel session: 17:30-18:00 Panel - "cooperation between theoretical and computational linguists in research and technology" Panelists: Ido Dagan, Nurit Melnik, Mori Rimon _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: "Stuart Dunn" Subject: AHRC E-Science Initiative and ICT Strategy Projects Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 06:41:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 95 (95) The AHRC is delighted to announce its new E-Science Initiative, which is being established in partnership with the UK Joint Information Systems Committee. See http://www.ahrcict.rdg.ac.uk/activities/e_science.htm The outcomes of the round of funding for the ICT Strategy Projects are also available now. See http://www.ahrcict.rdg.ac.uk/activities/strategy_projects.htm For further details of either activity, please contact the AHRC ICT Programme at the address below. ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr Stuart Dunn Programme Research Assistant AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme School of Languages and European Studies University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AA UNITED KINGDOM URL: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/ict AHRC ICT mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahrcict Tel: 0118 378 5064 Fax: 0118 378 8333 From: Charles Ess Subject: New publication from Programme for applied ethics and Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:12:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 96 (96) final workshop announcement Fellow and Sister Humanists, I hope the following will be of interest... please distribute to appropriate lists and colleagues as appropriate. -- 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/ Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 New publication from Programme for applied ethics * Publication no 6: Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society (Edited by May Thorseth and Charles Ess, 2005) 145 pages. * * This interdisciplinary anthology focuses on information technology. The authors discuss ethical and other disciplinary challenges regarding the use of technology in our multicultural and global society. The anthology contains interesting examples from different parts of the globe: the USA, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and China. The authors: Bu Wei, China (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Dag Elgesem, Norway (University of Bergen) Charles Ess, USA (Drury University, Missouri) Merete Lie, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) Knut Rolland, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) May Thorseth, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) Deborah Wheeler, USA (University of Washington) and Oxford <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ref/contents6.pdf> provides the table of contents [pdf]. The publication costs 150,- NOK and can be ordered from our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/bestill_eng.php?id=3D6> * Other publications in the publication series: * No 1 Applied Ethics in Internet Research (edited by May Thorseth, 2003), 190 pages. * * This is an international and interdisciplinary anthology, with contributions from researcher and research fellows who participated in the course "Internet and Ethics", the programme's first national graduate course. The authors discuss ethical and methodological challenges regarding internet research. Some of the central topics covered are: - Informed consent - Private vs. public sphere - Embodiment/Disembodiment - Internet cultures and scientific norms - Intellectual property - Methodological questions regarding data collection Click here <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ref/contents1.pdf> for table of contents [pdf]. The publication costs 150,- NOK and can be ordered from our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/bestill_eng.php?id=3D6> * * * The rest of our publications are in norwegian only <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/publikasjoner.php> : * #2: Anvendt etikk ved NTNU ["Applied ethics at NTNU"] * #3: Etikk og samfunnsansvar i norske =F8konomi- og ledelsesutdanninger ["Ethics and social responsibility in norwegian economy- and management education"] * #4: Globalisering og etikk ["Globalisation and ethics"] * #5: Psevdovitenskap og etikk ["Pseudoscience and ethics"] Workshop Bridging Cultures: Interdisciplinary workshop on computer ethics, culture, and ICT (June 6th-7th, 2005) We would also like to remind you of our upcoming workshop, which is closely related to the themes in this anthology. Several internationally acclaimed scholars have been invited, including Deborah Wheeler, Luciano Floridi, Charles Ess and Bernd-Carsten Stahl. See our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridging_workshop.php> for more detailed information Although the registration deadline has expired, the lectures will be open to anyone interested. Please use our online registration form <http://www.anvendt etikk.ntnu.no/wregistrer.php> if you would like to be included in the list of participants. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.19 Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:16:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 97 (97) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 19 (June 1-8, 2005) VIEW THE S-SCURVES OF SINKS, AND TECHNOLOGY Espen Andersen remains surprised that so many people can go through life in delightful ignorance. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i19_andersen.html VIEW INTRUSION PREVENTION SYSTEMS Nick Ierace, Cesar Urrutia, and Richard Bassett say that Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs) are an important component of IT systems defense, and that without this technology our data and our networks are much more susceptible to malicious activities. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i19_ierace.html From: "B. Tommie Usdin" Subject: Extreme 2005 Program Now Available Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:07:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 98 (98) --------------------------------------------------------- *********** Extreme Program Now Available ************* *********** Extreme Markup Languages 2005 ************ --------------------------------------------------------- The program for Extreme Markup Languages 2005, is now available at: http://www.extrememarkup.com EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES: Devoted to the theory and practice of markup languages from industrial, academic, and other points of view. It differs from other conferences partly in its unapologetic emphasis on technical subjects and problems on the frontiers of current practice, and partly in the participants it attracts. Extreme typically has an unusually high concentration of markup theorists, computer scientists, linguists, taxonomists, publishers, lexicographers, typographers, software developers, librarians, and other people you want to spend time with - also anarchists, curmudgeons, and deep thinkers - and a lower than average concentration of managers in need of a clue. Papers at Extreme this year discuss: new tools, markup theory, RDF, XML Schemas and schema processing, modeling XML documents, Topic Maps, TEI, DITA, Web Services, Architecture of documents and XML processing applications, XSLT and XQuery. Pre-conference tutorials are described at: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Tutorials/ Tutorial topics include: Web services (one based on SOAP & WSDL and based on REST), UNICODE, Processing XML with Prolog, the Data Format Description Language (DFDL, called "daffodil") standard, and XML design using W3C XML Schema. Registration Form: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2005/registration.asp Hotel Information: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2005/hotel.asp (Note: the Europa sells out every summer, and they will not hold the IDEAlliance/Extreme Markup 2004 block later than June 24th. Please make your hotel reservations promptly.) -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2004 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 2-6, 2004 details: http://www.idealliance.org Montreal, Canada or: http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: "Bleck, Brad" Subject: Computers and Writing Online Conference kicks off today! Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:08:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 99 (99) The 2005 Computers and Writing Online Conference kicks off today at conference host site Kairosnews.org with a paper/presentation by Charles Lowe and Dries Buytaert that examines the social aspects of Content Management Systems in general and Drupal in particular. Join us at http://kairosnews.org/cwonline05/blog and scroll down to "It's about the Community Plumbing: The Social Aspects of Content Management Systems." See what Charlie and Dries have to say and please join in the conversation (you'll need to register to comment, but it's quick and easy!). For the organizing committee, Bradley Bleck Conference Chair Spokane Falls CC From: Licia Landi Subject: European conference at the University of Cambridge, UK Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:10:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 100 (100) MEETING THE CHALLENGE European perspectives on the teaching and the learning of the Latin A conference held from 22-24 July 2005 at the University of Cambridge, UK The conference is jointly organized by: Bob Lister (University of Cambridge, UK) Licia Landi, SSIS Veneto, (University of Verona, Italy) Per Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Introduction Throughout Europe classicists are having to reinvent themselves and their subject in order to help preserve the place of the classical languages in the curriculum. The time available to study Latin in schools is being eroded; students' priorities and interests are changing; the wide-spread use of computers is creating new teaching and learning environments. The aim of this conference is to identify common issues facing Latin teachers in schools and universities and share possible solutions, particularly those making use of new technologies. The conference has three main strands: 1. A contemporary subject for the contemporary world (curriculum) What do learners in the 21st century want out of education? What does Latin offer them in terms of skills and knowledge? What arguments do we use to justify the place of Latin in the modern curriculum? To what extent does the educational, political and social context affect the case for Latin in different countries? What is the public perception of Latin among learners, employers, colleagues from other disciplines? 2. Modern courses for the modern curriculum (pedagogy) What are the principles underlying modern Latin courses? What are their teaching and learning objectives? How do they approach the teaching of syntax, accidence and vocabulary? To what extent should Latin courses incorporate aspects of cultural and historical context? What are the advantages and disadvantages of grammar-based and story-based courses? Do older learners require 'older' courses? 3. New technologies, new pedagogies (ICT) What electronic resources are available for teaching Latin language and literature? How can we exploit easily available software (such as Microsoft PowerPoint) in the classroom? To what extent can new technologies enhance teaching and learning, and create new ways of teaching and learning? How do we integrate new technologies into teaching programmes? Will new technologies transform distance learning? Acknowledgements We wish to express our gratitude to the sponsors of the conference: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics Cambridge University Press The Classical Association The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Contact Info Bob Lister University of Cambridge, UK rll20_at_cam.ac.uk Licia Landi SSIS Veneto, (University of Verona, Italy) licia.landi_at_lettere.univr.it Per Rasmussen University of Copenhagen, Denmark pmr_at_hum.ku.dk Visit the conference web page at www.egl.ku.dk/cambridge [...] From: Carlos Areces Subject: [ESSLLI 2006] Second Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:11:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 101 (101) 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 31 July - 11 August, 2006, Malaga, Spain http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SECOND CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS --------------------------------------------- (Please distribute as widely as possible) The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering 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. The ESSLLI 2006 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 18th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: - Logic and Language - Logic and Computation - Language and Computation PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at http://www.folli.org/submission.php All proposals should be submitted no later than ******* Friday June 17, 2005. ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Friday September 23, 2005. Proposers should follow the full submission guidelines privided in the full call at http://folli.loria.fr/cfp.txt while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate cannot be considered. -- Carlos Eduardo Areces INRIA Lorraine INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France phone : +33 (0)3 83 58 17 90 fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail : carlos.areces_at_loria.fr www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces visit : http://hylo.loria.fr -> The Hybrid Logic's Home Page From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Origins of words/expressions Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:13:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 102 (102) When I was an undergraduate, majoring in chemical engineering, we used to ask "What's new?" To which the answer was: "Pi over lambda." Now I am a retired linguist working on the origin of words and expressions, and I cannot remember what that is the formula for. I know we are not scientists, but does someone know? It would fit in so well in my present chapter. From: JingTao Yao Subject: Reminder: Special Issue on Web Information Fusion (Due in Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:15:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 103 (103) 3 weeks) Call for papers for a special issue of Information Fusion The International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion An Elsevier Publication On Web Information Fusion Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Belur V. Dasarathy d.belur@elsevier.com http://belur.no-ip.com http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~jtyao/IFCFP-WIF.html Guest Editors: JingTao Yao and Vijay V. Raghavan The Information Fusion Journal is planning a special issue devoted to Web Information Fusion. The World Wide Web provides a new medium for information storage, sharing, processing and distribution. The availability, accessibility and flexibility of information and tools to access information lead to new opportunities. However, there are many challenges, i.e., we have to deal with more complex tasks, and more demands for quality and productivity. The challenges of seeking the right information and learning to effectively use the existing tools are greater due to the rate of growth and diversity of information. The aim of this special issue is to provide a forum for presentation on recent advances in Web Information Fusion. It is meant to cover foundations, methodology and applications of Web information fusion, including information fusion with the Web technology and fusion of Web-based information. Soft computing approach, for instance, with its tolerant of imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation, is highly promising for the integration of diverse sources and types of Web information. Manuscripts (which should be original and not previously published or presented in a more or less similar any form under any other forum) covering novel methods and applications of Web information fusion especially with soft computing approaches are invited. Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Web Information Fusion * Novel Web Information Fusion Methods * Web Information Fusion With Soft Computing Approaches * Web Information Fusion with Classification Techniques * Web Information Fusion with Clustering Techniques * Web Mining for multi-source Data * Web-based Support Systems for Information Fusion * Information Fusion with Metasearch Engines * Fusion of Web Search Engines * Multimedia Web Data Fusion * Information Fusion on Web-Based Remote Sensing * Intelligent Agents For Multi-Source Web Information Fusion Manuscripts should be submitted electronically online at http://www.elsubmit.com/esubmit/inffus. (The corresponding author will have to create a user profile if one has not been established before at Elsevier) Simultaneously, please also send without fail an electronic copy (PDF format preferred), to the Guest Editors listed below. Guest Editors JingTao Yao Department of Computer Science University of Regina Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada jtyao_at_cs.uregina.ca Vijay V. Raghavan Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, USA raghavan_at_cacs.louisiana.edu Deadline for Submission: June 20, 2005 From: Willard McCarty Subject: COCH/COSH brief report Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 07:04:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 104 (104) Dear colleagues, Recently I attended the 2005 conference of the national Canadian organization for humanities computing, the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / le Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines, at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., http://www.coch-cosh.ca/. My sole purpose here is to report, albeit impressionistically, on the high quality of the work being done by its members and the intellectual vigour of the community they form. Together with the new academic positions established in the field, across the country from New Brunswick to British Columbia, the evidence is impressive. Much has happened in humanities computing in Canada since I left, in 1996. What struck me most forcibly was that at this conference genuine questions at the intersection of computing with the humanities were being asked, and asked well. Just a few of these from my notes. What happens to a text-based discipline, such as history, when topographic and numerical modelling become mainstream -- when we notice that our critical discourse has all along referred to numbers and spaces but not dealt systematically with how conclusions from them have been formed? What happens when imaging can no longer be avoided, and those without visual imaginations (like me) can acquire the prosthetic equivalent? What happens to the interrelations of scholars, especially in areas directly related to the country in which they work, not just when distance is no longer such a problem but when they learn to exercise the various modes of communication differentially? Collaboration, of machines and minds, resolves into a large selection of collaborative strategies. What then happens to the questions they pursue? The new forms of representation, narration and interrogation result in a rising emphasis on reasoning conjecturally, by the devising of counterfactuals. These can, of course, be merely foolish, but carefully done, they can also give the past back to itself, allowing us better to place ourselves in this or that past moment, when all the possibilities of what was then the future were unrealized. Such a boost to better historiography is quite a gift. One could try for an explanation of the growing strength in Canada by referring to the emphasis on communication across what Northrop Frye called "this almost one-dimensional country". I do think there's something to the dimensionality imposed by the geography of a place and to the qualities of imagination that each dimensionality fosters. Consider, in contrast, Europe and Australia, the latter e.g. as David Malouf has considered in his Boyer Lectures (1998, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/boyers/index/BoyersChronoIdx.htm). But I wouldn't want to press that to the point of becoming a determinism. One could speak about some national character or other, with all the usual caveats, eh? But until we understand a great deal more about how such rather blurry concepts can be made to do some useful work, I think the responsibility for what's happening in Canada will have to be borne by the individuals working there, young and not so young. Good show! Watch that space. 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: B Tommie Usdin Subject: Call for Late-breaking News: Extreme Markup Languages Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 07:02:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 105 (105) Extreme Markup Languages 2005: Call for Late-breaking News The regular (peer-reviewed) part of the Extreme 2005 program has been scheduled. As usual, we have reserved a few slots on the Extreme program for presentation of "late-breaking" material. Proposals for late-breaking presentations are due on June 24th. For details see: Call for Late-breaking News: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/latebreaking.html Conference Schedule at a Glance: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/At-A-Glance.html Pre-conference Tutorials: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Tutorials/ General information about Extreme Markup Languages: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2005/about.asp Registration: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2005/registration.asp -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2005 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 1-5, 2005 http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Montreal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: robert delius royar Subject: Origins of words/expressions "pi / lambda"? Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 07:04:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 106 (106) Thu, 2 Jun 2005 (07:21 +0100 UTC) "Jim Marchand" queried [deleted quotation] From http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=propagation%20constant propagation constant 1. n. [Geophysics] ID: 984 A property of a sinusoidal plane wave equal to twice pi divided by the wavelength. Also known as the wavenumber, the propagation constant is fundamental to the mathematical representation of wavefields. It is the spatial equivalent of angular frequency and expresses the increase in the cycle of the wave (measured in radians) per unit of distance. In nondispersive media, the wavespeed is the ratio of the angular frequency to the propagation constant. The propagation vector has magnitude equal to the propagation constant and points in the direction the wave is traveling. Waves propagating across a plane are a marvelous metaphor for constancy in the midst of change. Heraclitus "change is real" comes to mind. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University Making meaning one message at a time. From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- May 2005 Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 07:03:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 107 (107) CIT INFOBITS May 2005 No. 83 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. ...................................................................... Are Instructors Essential? Synchronous Collaboration Tools Simulation Software and Physical Collaboration Online Facilitation E-Book EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Deliberations Website Revived Recommended Reading ...................................................................... ARE INSTRUCTORS ESSENTIAL? "In the commercial sector, learner-content interaction is often seen as the only essential learning transaction, with instructors viewed as a cost rather than a necessity." With courseware software, online discussion tools, and instructional designers performing many tasks related to instruction, what is left for instructors to do? This question was recently discussed in a Sloan-C forum. In "Are Instructors Essential?" (SLOAN-C VIEW, vol. 4, issue 5, May 2005, pp. 5-6), forum participants cited many roles for instructors, including: -- Meaning makers: "explaining how and why information is important, helping learners integrate disparate content and make sense of it so that information can become 'knowledge and maybe even wisdom'" -- Growth agents: "pushing [learners] . . . 'beyond their level of comfort and into areas of improvement'" -- People builders: "instructors serve as a bridge=97in some situations, the only bridge=97between learners and the society in which they seek a place" The article is online at http://www.aln.org/publications/view/v4n5/blended4.htm. Sloan-C View: Perspectives in Quality Online Education [ISSN: 1541-2806] is published by the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C). For more information, contact: Sloan Center for OnLine Education (SCOLE), Olin College of Engineering and Babson College, Olin Way, Needham MA 02492-1245 USA; tel: 781-292-2524; fax: 781-292-2505; email: publisher@sloan-c.org; Web: http://www.sloan-c.org/. Sloan-C is a consortium of institutions and organizations committed "to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines." Sloan-C is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. ...................................................................... SYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION TOOLS "Most of us experience more satisfying interactions when we can see and hear each other in the same space and at the same time. While online interactions support flexibility and convenience, synchronicity provides for more efficient and natural interaction." In "Designing for the Virtual Interactive Classroom" (CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY, vol. 8, no. 9, May 2005, pp. 20, 22-3), Judith V. Boettcher reviews several synchronous collaboration tools used for Web or video conferencing, interactive classrooms, and screen sharing. She presents several scenarios and which tools are most appropriate for each situation. The article is online at http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=3D11046. Campus Technology [ISSN: 1089-5914] is a monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology across all areas of higher education. Subscriptions to the print version are free to qualified U.S. subscribers. For more information, contact: Campus Technology, 101communications LLC, 9121 Oakdale Ave., Suite 101, Chatsworth, CA 91311 USA; tel: 818-734-1520; fax: 818-734-1522; Web: http://www.campus-technology.com/. ...................................................................... SIMULATION SOFTWARE AND PHYSICAL COLLABORATION Laboratory dissections provide opportunities not only for subject-matter learning, but also opportunities for cooperative learning. In "Virtual Dissection and Physical Collaboration" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 10, no. 5, May 2005), Kenneth R. Fleischmann uses the example of dissection simulation software to illustrate how such educational tools can limit a student's learning experience. By focusing on human=ADcomputer interaction rather than human=ADhuman interaction, the software leaves out the socialization component that is part of traditional lab practice. Until these tools are redesigned to encourage collaboration, Fleischmann gives suggestions for adapting these tools to provide more interaction among students. The paper is available online at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_5/fleischmann/index.html. First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv_at_uic.edu; Web: http://firstmonday.dk/. For more thoughts on educational software, see also: "Next-Generation Educational Software: Why We Need It & a Research Agenda for Getting It" by Andries van Dam, Sascha Becker, and Rosemary Michelle Simpson EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 40, no. 2, March/April 2005, pp. 26-8, 30-4, 36, 38, 40 42-3 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0521.pdf ...................................................................... ONLINE FACILITATION E-BOOK "How do people make the transition to facilitating online? What have they learned about it? What issues do they struggle with? Why do they do it?" Tammy Dewar collected their "stories" and presents them in KEYBOARD VOICES: REFLECTIONS ON ONLINE FACILITATION AND COMMUNITY BUILDING (Calliope Learning, 2003). The e-book is available at no cost at http://www.calliopelearning.com/resources/papers/Keyboard.pdf, and permission is granted to distribute electronic versions in its entirety and without modification. ...................................................................... EDUCAUSE LEARNING INITIATIVE EDUCAUSE announced in May that its teaching and learning program, the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), has a new focus and a new name -- EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) -- with the mission of advancing learning through IT innovation. Programs and services include extensive online resources; member-only Web seminars; and the "7 Things You Should Know About..." publication series, which provides "concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies." For more information about ELI program themes, activities, and membership go to http://www.educause.edu/eli/. The first offering in the "7 Things You Should Know About..." series, "Social Bookmarking," addresses a "community-or social-approach to identifying and organizing information on the Web. Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks one would normally make in a Web browser to a public Web site and 'tagging' them with keywords." The paper is available online at http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=3DELI7001. 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/. ...................................................................... DELIBERATIONS WEBSITE REVIVED The "Deliberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education" website has been inactive for a couple of years. The site was recently redeveloped and moved to a new home. The website is now based in the Centre for Academic Professional Development (CAPD) at London Metropolitan University and is currently funded and fully supported by the university. Content includes extracts of published articles; case studies; articles, comments, and discussion contributed by readers; and links to related resources. For more information, contact: The Editor, Deliberations, Room 27b, London Metropolitan University, 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY United Kingdom; tel: 020-7320-3074; email: deliberations_at_londonmet.ac.uk; Web: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. Infobits subscriber Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi_at_amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de) recommends his article in a recent issue of UBIQUITY: "Reflections on Challenges to the Goal of Invisible Computing" Ubiquity: An ACM IT Magazine and Forum, vol. 6, issue 17, May 17 - May 24, 2005 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i17_tripathi.html "Some years ago, I ran across an article on the Challenges to Invisible Computing in the November issue of COMPUTER, which has inspired me to write this short essay. In this essay, I shall try to explore the challenges of invisible computing and simplify them, to make them visible for research on Ubiquitous Computing. First of all, I will discuss what ubiquitous computing is and what it is not. Then, I will attempt to refine some paramount issues of invisible computing: What are the impacts of this kind of computing in our society? What are the embedded computers and how are they of consequence to human beings?" -- Arun-Kumar Tripathi [...]=20 From: "Laura Gottesman" Subject: National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Announces New Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 07:03:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 108 (108) Program Web site Please excuse any cross-postings: The Library of Congress is pleased to announce a new Web site, http://www.loc.gov/ndnp, providing an overview and technical specifications for the development phase of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This program, a partnership between the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of all U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and digitization of select historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH grant program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories. An initial development phase will run through 2007, and will include content from 6 NEH state awardees (University of California, Riverside; University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville; University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington; New York Public Library, New York City; University of Utah, Salt Lake City; and Library of Virginia, Richmond) providing 100,000 pages each of historic material published between 1900-1910. In addition, the Library of Congress will contribute 100,000 pages from its own historic collections, representing the District of Columbia. Program information for the National Digital Newspaper Program is available from the Library of Congress's Preservation Web site: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/ . Please direct any questions regarding this Web site to the LC NDNP program contacts at: ndnptech_at_loc.gov. [deleted quotation]Laura Gottesman Reference Specialist Digital Reference Team The Library of Congress From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 109 (109) From: Willard McCarty Those who check the Humanist homepage, either at Princeton (www.princeton.edu/humanist/) or King's College London (www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/) will discover an additional feature. Thanks to Melissa Terras, who is studying us, we now have all surviving volumes of discussion in the form of plain text files. Anyone who cares to do text-analysis on the coversational habits of our lot can now do so much more easily. We all await interesting results. 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: "Simone Albonico" Subject: TEI Lite - a new book Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:17:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 110 (110) Dear Humanist members, I'm pleased to announce the publication of: Il manuale Tei Lite. Introduzione alla codifica dei testi letterari, a cura di Fabio Ciotti, Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, Milano 2005 In this book appear for the first time in print form the Italian translations of *TEI Lite. An introduction to text encoding* and of *A gentle introduction to XML*, followed by an original paper by Lou Burnard (TEI editor), and preceded by an introduction by Fabio Ciotti. Two appendices, one of wich discussing the philogical applications of TEI encoding scheme by Simone Albonico (Un. of Pavia), close the volume. The book is published under the auspices of TEI Consortium. Further information on the Bonnard publisher Web site ath the following URL: http://www.edizionibonnard.it/libro.php?idlibro=86 The book can be purchased by sending a mail order at the following address: bonnard_at_tiscalinet.it TOC of the book: Fabio Ciotti La codifica del testo, XML e la Text Encoding Initiative Introduzione alla codifica elettronica dei testi letterari I. Una semplice introduzione a XML di Lou Burnard II. TEI Lite: introduzione alla codifica dei testi di Lou Burnard e C.M. Sperberg-McQueen III. La TEI Lite dalla P4 alla P5: continuita e cambiamento di Lou Burnard Appendici I. Risorse informative e strumenti di elaborazione XML: una panoramica di Fabio Ciotti II. Sull'utilizzo della codifica TEI in filologia di Simone Albonico Bibliografia Simone Albonico albonico_at_unipv.it From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: June/July Issue of Innovate Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:14:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 111 (111) The June/July 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. James Shimabukuro opens the issue with a thought-provoking essay arguing that once advanced technologies have fully liberated us from the constraints of time and place, students will turn not to a single teacher, but to a partnership of learning advisors, paraprofessional monitors, and peer tutors to reach their academic goals. Marc Prensky contents that cell phones, which are portable, powerful, and already in the hands of millions of students, are well equipped to assist student development once educators grasp their significance as learning tools. Like cell phones, weblogs have obvious social uses and less appreciated educational applications. Drawing on pedagogical theory and personal practice, Stuart Glogoff documents the ways in which blogging can build community, enhance knowledge construction, and increase interactivity in both online and hybrid courses. New technology tools and practices are exciting on their own, but making them work within Web-based course management systems is often a challenge. Kay Wijekumar focuses on the best ways to design and conduct an online course with such constraints--and proposes software changes that would make CMSs more effective and user friendly. Lyn Barnes, Sheila Scutter, and Janette Young follow with a description of a pilot study using screen recording and compression software to reinforce key content in online courses. Ellen Cohn and Bernard Hibbitts reexamine the traditional definition of public service and question its division from teaching and research. They also argue that service can be just as valuable online as in person. David Baucus and Melissa Baucus shift our attention to the corporate world. They review the history of corporate universities--unique, quickly evolving environments dedicated to fast, effective learning--and reflect on the evolution of technological innovations that serve educational and business needs. Stephen Downes concludes the issue with a review of Connexions, a Rice University Web site where educators can create learning objects, instructors can assemble them into modules and courses, and visitors can learn from the resulting resources. 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: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 6(2) "Qualitative Inquiry: Research, Archiving, and Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:15:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 112 (112) Reuse" online Dear All, I would like to inform you that the 18th FQS Issue -- "Qualitative Inquiry: Research, Archiving, and Reuse" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt2-05-e.htm), edited by Manfred Max Bergman & Thomas Samuel Eberle -- is available online for free. As always, in addition to contributions relating to "Qualitative Inquiry: Research, Archiving, and Reuse," FQS 6(2) also provides selected single contributions and articles that belong to the FQS Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics, to FQS Interviews, FQS Reviews, and to FQS Conferences. Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck Ps: If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter to be informed monthly about new texts, conferences etc., see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/bezug-e.htm (currently distributed to 5,200 colleagues worldwide). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------ FQS 6(2) -- QUALITATIVE INQUIRY: RESEARCH, ARCHIVING, AND REUSE http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt2-05-e.htm English http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt2-05-d.htm German http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt2-05-s.htm Spanish C=E9sar A. Cisneros Puebla, Katja Mruck & Wolff-Michael Roth: Editorial: The FQS Issue on "Qualitative Inquiry: Research, Archiving, and Reuse" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-45-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-45-s.htm (Spanish full text) Thomas S. Eberle & Manfred Max Bergman (Switzerland): Introduction http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-30-e.htm Part 1: The Why and How of Qualitative Methods Thomas S. Eberle (Switzerland): Promoting Qualitative Research in Switzerland http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-31-e.htm Nigel Fielding (UK): The Resurgence, Legitimation and Institutionalization of Qualitative Methods http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-32-e.htm Veronique Mottier (Switzerland): The Interpretive Turn: History, Memory, and Storage in Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-33-e.htm Manfred Max Bergman (Switzerland) & Anthony P.M. Coxon (UK): The Quality in Qualitative Methods http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-34-e.htm Part 2: The Why and How of Archiving Qualitative Data Fran=E7oise Cribier (France): The Value of Qualitative Data and their Archiving: the French Situation http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-35-e.htm Louise Corti & Gill Backhouse (UK): Acquiring Qualitative Data for Secondary Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-36-e.htm Diane Opitz & Andreas Witzel (Germany): The Concept and Architecture of the Bremen Life Course Archive http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-37-e.htm Katja Mruck (Germany): Providing (Online) Resources and Services for Qualitative Researchers: Challenges and Potentials http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-38-e.htm Dominique Joye (Switzerland): Qualitative or Quantitative? Data Archiving in Documentation, Research and Teaching http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-39-e.htm Anthony P.M. Coxon (UK): Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data: What does the User Need? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-40-e.htm Louise Corti (UK): User Support http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-41-e.htm Single Contributions Michael Appel (Germany): The Autobiographic-Narrative Interview: The Theoretical Implications and the Analysis Procedure of a Case Study About Cultural Changes Among the Otomi-"Indians" in Mexico http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-16-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-16-s.htm (Spanish full text) Barbara B. Kawulich (USA): Participant Observation as a Data Collection Method http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-43-e.htm Udo Kelle (Germany): "Emergence" vs. "Forcing" of Empirical Data? A Crucial Problem of "Grounded Theory" Reconsidered http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-27-e.htm Milind Sathye (Australia): Supervisory Practice: A Qualitative Study http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-26-e.htm Christian Spannagel, Michaela Glaeser-Zikuda & Ulrik Schroeder (Germany): Application of Qualitative Content Analysis in User-Program Interaction Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-29-e.htm Inga Truschkat, Manuela Kaiser & Vera Reinartz (Germany): A Recipe Book Approach to Research? Practical Suggestions for Using Grounded Theory in Dissertations and Thesis Projects http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-22-d.htm Cate Watson (UK): Living the Life of the Social Inquirer: Beginning Educational Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-28-e.htm FQS Debate: Qualitative Research and Ethics Kristine Edgington & Jillian Roberts (Canada) Serving Youth with Physical Deformity in Canadian Schools: Ethical Guidelines for Non-Discriminatory Practice http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-44-e.htm FQS Interviews Barbara Zielke (Germany): The Case for Dialogue. Reply to: "Social Constructionism as Cultism," Carl Ratner, December 2004 http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-13-e.htm FQS Reviews Gonzalo Bacigalupe (USA): Focus Group Practices: Studying Conversation. Review Essay: Claudia Puchta & Jonathan Potter (2004). Focus Group Practice http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-9-e.htm Volker Barth (France, Germany): Review Note: Claudia Bruns & Tilmann Walter (Eds.) (2004). Von Lust und Schmerz. Eine Historische Anthropologie der Sexualitaet [Lust and Pain. A Historical Anthropology of Sexuality] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-6-e.htm Andrea Buehrmann (Germany): Review Note: Jochen Glaeser & Grit Laudel (2004). Experteninterviews und qualitative Inhaltsanalyse [The Expert Interview and Content Analysis] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-21-e.htm Brian Christens (USA): Review Note: Robert Neuwirth (2005). Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-8-e.htm Claudia Dreke (Germany): Review Note: Sylka Scholz (2004). Maennlichkeit erzaehlen. Lebensgeschichtliche Identitaetskonstruktionen ostdeutscher Maenner [Talking Masculinity. Biographical Constructions of Identity by East German Men] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-25-e.htm Robert B. Faux (USA): To Reveal Thy Heart Perchance to Reveal the World. Review Essay: Ronald J. Pelias (2004). A Methodology of the Heart: Evoking Academic and Daily Life http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-7-e.htm Katharina Gajdukowa (Germany): Review Note: Christof Beyer (2004). Der Erfurter Amoklauf in der Presse. Unerklaerlichkeit und die Macht der Erklaerung: Eine Diskusanalyse anhand zweier ausgewaehlter Beispiele [The Erfurt Amok Run in the Print Press. Inexplicability and the Power of Explication: A Discourse Analysis of two Selected Examples] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-11-e.htm Mary Gergen (USA): Review Note: Stephen John Hartnett (2003). Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-14-e.htm Stefanie Grosse (Germany): Review Note: Thomas Kuehn (2004). Berufsbiografie und Familiengruendung. Biografiegestaltung junger Erwachsener nach Abschluss der Berufsausbildung [Vocational Biography and Family Planning: The Shaping of the Biographies of Young Adults After Vocational Training] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-3-e.htm Heiko Grunenberg (Germany): Review Note: Jo Reichertz (2003). Die Abduktion in der qualitativen Sozialforschung [Abduction in Qualitative Social Research] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-17-e.htm Lawrence J. Hammar (Papua New Guinea): From Margins to Centers ... Hopefully. Review Essay: Judith Green & Nicki Thorogood (2004). Qualitative Methods for Health Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-4-e.htm Reinhard Kacianka (Austria): Review Note: Mathias Spohr (2003). Das gemeinsame Mass. Ansaetze zu einer allgemeinen Medientheorie [The Common Measure. Approaches to a General Media Theory] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-5-e.htm Carlos Koelbl (Germany): Review Note: Wilhelm Kempf (2003). Forschungsmethoden der Psychologie. Zwischen naturwissenschaftlichem Experiment und sozialwissenschaftlicher Hermeneutik. Band 1: Theorie und Empirie [Methods of Psychology. Between Scientific Experiment and Social Science Hermeneutics. Volume 1: Theory and Empiricism] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-18-e.htm Sina Lucia Kottmann (Germany): Karl Schloegel Reads Time in Space: Tracing Old Paths Towards New Horizons. Review Essay: Karl Schloegel (2003). Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit. Ueber Zivilisationsgeschichte und Geopolitik [In Space We Read Time. About the History of Civilization and Geopolitics] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-12-e.htm Ralf Ottermann (Germany): Qualitative Research on Prostitution in the Early '80s' Red-light Districts of Vienna. Review Essay: Roland Girtler (2004). Der Strich. Soziologie eines Milieus [Prostitution. Sociology of a Social Milieu] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-19-e.htm Mike Steffen Schaefer (Germany): Review Note: Heinz Bonfadelli (2002). Medieninhaltsforschung. Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen [Media Content Research. Foundations, Methods, Applications] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-1-e.htm Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review Note: Roland Girtler (2004). 10 Gebote der Feldforschung [The Ten Commandments of Field Study] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-10-e.htm Benjamin Stingl (Germany): Humans as Monuments. Notes on the Mediating Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. Review Essay: Jannis Androutsopoulos (Ed.) (2003). Hip-Hop: Globale Kultur - lokale Praktiken [Hip-Hop: Global Culture-Local Practices] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-23-e.htm Jaan Valsiner (USA): Review Note: Michael D. Myers & David Avison (Eds.) (2002). Qualitative Research in Information Systems http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-20-e.htm Till Westermayer (Germany): Review Note: Stefan Boeschen & Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer (Eds.) (2003). Wissenschaft in der Wissensgesellschaft [Science in a Knowledge Society] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-15-e.htm FQS Conferences Joan M. Eakin & Eric Mykhalovskiy (Canada): Conference Report, Teaching Against the Grain: The Challenges of Teaching Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences. A National Workshop on Teaching Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-42-e.htm Daniel Dominguez Figaredo & Laura Alonso Diaz (Spain): Conference Report, II Online Congress for the Observatory of the Cybersociety: Towards what Knowledge Society? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-2-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-2-s.htm (Spanish full text) Jana Klemm & Georg Glasze (Germany): Conference Report, Methodological Problems of Foucault-inspired Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences. Workshop on "Applied Discourse Analysis" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-05/05-2-24-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: Robin Smith Subject: Re: 19.068 pi/lambda Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:16:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 113 (113) On the subject of "what's new?" "pi over lambda", this is a joke based on a pun, though the form in which I usually heard it was briefer. The pun is on "new" and "nu" (i.e. the Greek letter nu, conventionally used in physics to designate the frequency of a wave. I had a mathematician friend years ago who would invariably say "Frequency" in response to "What's new?." As for pi over lambda: I'm not a physicist, but 2*pi/lambda, where lambda is the wavelength of a wave, is what is called the wave number, which is analogous to frequency. So, I'm quite sure this is the joke. Robin Smith From: "Carlos Martin-Vide" Subject: sabbatical positions: 2005-10 Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:13:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 114 (114) 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 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 - Top-level appointments for experienced researchers being on leave from their home organization. - Scholarship (rather than a work contract). - The main duty of the position 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. - The scheme is extremely competitive. 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. - Exceptional research career, with a very strong record of publications and other achievements. - There is no restriction on nationality or age. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - 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 steps: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - a full proposal (CV + research project + work plan), to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until June 17, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-10" 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. The deadline for completing the whole process is June 30, 2005. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: "Conference" Subject: CIRAS 2005, 13 - 16 December 2005, Singapore Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:14:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 115 (115) The Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 13-16 December 2005, Singapore CIRAS 2005 will be held along with the FIRA Roboworld Cup Singapore 2005 and, The FIRA Robot World Congress 2005. Call for Papers [http://ciras.nus.edu.sg] [ciras@nus.edu.sg] The contents of CIRAS 2005 proceedings will be listed in EI by Elsevier. Proceedings ISSN: 0219-131 Submission: 1 July 2005 Acceptance: 15 August 2005 Final Submission: 15 September 2005 Organized by Centre for Intelligent Control National Univ. of Singapore Co-sponsored by IEEE SMC Society S'pore Chapter IEEE R&A Society S'pore Chapter The third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2005) is planned in December 2005 in Singapore. The conference will focus on research directions that are broadly covered by the fields, Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems. The Intelligence in automation systems is increasingly becoming a key and important technology to be harnessed for enhancing productivity and economic returns. CIRAS will focus on research directions that are broadly covered by the fields, Computational Intelligence (CI), Robotics and Autonomous Systems. CIRAS is intended to provide a common platform for knowledge dissemination among researchers working in related areas. CIRAS invites submissions from all areas related to, but not limited to, Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Intelligent Control Real Time Control DNA Computing Life Sciences Fuzzy Systems Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Neural Networks (NN) Autonomous Systems Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) System Design Automation Robotics, Humanoids Sensor Fusion Sensor Networks Cooperative Robotics Robot Soccer Systems Evolutionary Robotics Evolvable Hardware Distributed Systems Embedded Systems Non-Linear Systems Educational Technology Rough Sets, Data Mining Power Systems Genetic Algorithm (GA) Evolutionary Computation (EC) Hybrid CI Algorithms Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Real Time Evolutionary Computation Evolutionary Logistics Evolutionary Systems Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit the complete manuscript in PDF format to our on-line paper registration system (http://act.ee.nus.edu.sg/ciras2005/). Submissions should be as per the LaTex and Word templates. Manuscripts are limited to six (6) A4 size pages. The front page must contain the title of the paper, full name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) and the appropriate academic field(s). The complete mailing address(es), telephone number(s), FAX number(s) and email address(es) must be provided on a separate sheet. Special Sessions CIRAS solicits special session proposals. The special sessions are intended to usher in, in-depth discussions in special areas relevant to the conference theme. The session organizers will coordinate the associated review process. The conference proceedings will include all papers from the special sessions. Special Issue of a Book Series Authors of papers with good contribution to the area of precision mechatronics and control may be invited to submit a chapter to a book under a series on the same topic published by Research Studies Press U.K. These chapters will be selected from the accepted papers for CIRAS 2005. From: Volker Doetsch Subject: 2nd CfP: WEL'05 - Workshop on e-Learning Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:18:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 116 (116) Deutsche Version: siehe unten German version: see below =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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Workshop on e-Learning (WEL'05) July 11-12, 2005, Leipzig, Germany Leipzig University of Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Natural Sciences http://lernen.htwk-leipzig.de/wel/wel05/ =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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Key Dates --------- 5/15/2005 Deadline for submissions in the categories full paper (presentation: 25 minutes), poster or system demonstration (required data: category of submission, author(s), affiliation, title and summary) 5/29/2005 Notification of acceptance 6/17/2005 Early registration deadline (No possibility to transfer the registration fee via bank account afterwards) 6/26/2005 Deadline for the printable contribution as pdf (for inclusion into the workshop-CD) 7/11,12/2005 3rd Workshop on e-Learning in Leipzig 7/31/2005 Deadline for the printable contribution as doc, rtf, ... (for inclusion into the printed proceedings) Registration ------------ The declaration of contributions and the workshop registration are exclusively handled through the prepared forms at our homepage. Also, the registration of titles of submissions (e.g. posters, system demonstrations, full papers) is only possible through these forms. Please, complete your declaration of contributions by sending a summary with a maximum length of one page (A4) via e-Mail to Volker Doetsch (doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de) or Florian Schaar (schaar_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de) and don't forget to indicate the title and the author(s) within this e-Mail! If you register for a system demonstration, please send the title of your system or project, the name of the presenter and a summary as described above. The summary may contain some screenshots in jpg or gif format. Homepage -------- http://lernen.htwk-leipzig.de/wel/wel05/ Objective and Scope of the Workshop ------------------- Evolved from project work at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and inspired by the response to the former workshops in the years 2002 and 2003, the forthcoming workshop is intended to give an interesting forum for the presentation and discussion of current developments in the field of e-learning, again. Special attention is paid to a balanced consideration of technical, didactical, and organizational aspects. These are the topic areas for submissions: -Durable Implementation of e-Learning Processes at Universities -Organizational Models -Cooperational Issues (within and between Universities) -Merging with University Informational Processes -Non-technical Support Structures -Technical Infrastructure -Overcoming Acceptance Barriers -Scenarios und Content -Didactical Aspects -Adequate Teaching and Learning Scenarios -Multimedia Design for Courses -Case Studies -Content Management -Rapid e-Learning -e-Learning Platforms -e-Learning Platforms under Technical and Conceptual View -Experiences from Everyday Use -Standardization -Cooperation of Local and Regional Platforms -Evaluation Other contributions, e.g. concerning theoretical or judicial aspects are also welcome. As a novelty, compared to the past workshops, two panel discussions are planned. The topic of one of these discussions will evolve from the ideas=20 of the interested participants. While registering, you will have the=20 opportunity to propose a topic. Lectures will be grouped in sessions by topic. At any time during the workshop, there will be no more than two sessions running in parallel. All system demonstrations and poster exhibitions will simultanously take place in a separate session. There all participants will have the opportunity to take a look at the posters and systems, and to discuss with the authors. During a poster or system demonstration the usage of the internet is possible by request. Workshop Place -------------- HTWK Leipzig 04251 Leipzig Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 145 (Lipsiusbau (Li)) (Karl-Liebknecht-Stra=DFe/Eichendorffstra=DFe) The rooms will be published at the web-pages and in the printed program of= =20 the workshop. The students' cafeteria is located in the building where the= =20 workshop takes place (Lipsiusbau). You can get Lunch there between=20 11am and 2pm (at your own expense). Additional information can be found on= =20 the web. Workshop Participation Fee -------------------------- In the case of early registration, the workshop participation fee is 15=20 Euro per person (money has to arrive until June 17th, 2005 ). Otherwise, it= =20 is 20 Euro which have to be paid at the workshop.The fee includes a=20 workshop-CD. Repayment of the workshop fee is not possible. CDs can be bought at the=20 workshop, as well. Printed proceedings are not included in the workshop=20 fee. They can be ordered at the workshop. Author Instructions ------------------- The layout of the printable contributions has to comply with the example text on our web-pages. Please send the printable version for the workshop-CD in pdf format as an=20 e-Mail to Volker D=F6tsch (doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de). The version for the printed proceedings should be in MS-Word-compatible formats (rtf, doc) and should be sent to Volker Doetsch in time, as well. The contributions must be written in German or English. Notification of Acceptance -------------------------- At May 29th, 2005, the authors will get a notice concerning the=20 consideration of their contribution via the e-Mail address supplied during= =20 the registration process. Proceedings ----------- There will be produced a workshop-CD including the contributions. The costs for the CD are part of the workshop fee. Repayment of the workshop fee is not possible. Students and members of the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences can take part in the workshop for free, but (in case of interest) they have to pay for a workshop-CD. It is possible to buy a CD at the workshop at the price of 5 Euro. The proceedings will be printed after the workshop (probably in August/September, ISSN 1610-1014) They will be delivered to several libraries. Contributions will only be included in case of their presentation at the workshop. Printed proceedings are sold at the price of 15 Euro excluding shipping and packaging. They have to be pre-ordered by sending an e-Mail to doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de. The workshop languages are German and English. Contact ------- If you have any questions concerning the workshop, please feel free to contact us: Prof. Klaus Hering HTWK Leipzig 04251 Leipzig Gustav-Freytag-Str. 42a Tel.:+49-341-3076 6445 hering_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~hering Volker D=F6tsch HTWK Leipzig 04251 Leipzig Gustav-Freytag-Str. 42a Tel.: +49-341-3076 6137 doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~doetsch Florian Schaar HTWK Leipzig/Fb IMN 04251 Leipzig Gustav-Freytag-Str. 42a Tel.: +49-341-3076 6621 schaar_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~schaar ****************************************************************************= **** German Version ****************************************************************************= **** =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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CALL FOR PAPERS 3. Workshop on e-Learning (WEL'05) Leipzig, 11.-12. Juli 2005 Hochschule f=FCr Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig (FH) Fachbereich Informatik, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften http://lernen.htwk-leipzig.de/wel/wel05/ =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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Daten/Termine ------------- 15.05.2005 Deadline zur Anmeldung von Beitr=E4gen in den Kategorien: Vortrag (25 Minuten), Poster oder Systemdemonstration (erforderliche Angaben: Beitragskategorie, Autoren, Institution, Titel und Zusammenfassung) 29.05.2005 Bekanntgabe der Beitragsannahme 17.06.2005 Ende f=FCr zeitige Teilnahmeanmeldungen (danach keine =DCberweisungsm=F6glichkeit der Teilnahmegeb=FChr) 26.06.2005 Deadline f=FCr den druckreifen Beitrag als pdf (z.B. f=FCr Paper oder Poster) 11/12.07.2005 3. Workshop on e-Learning in Leipzig 31.07.2005 Deadline f=FCr den druckreifen Beitrag als doc, rtf, usw. f=FCr den gedruckten Tagungsband Anmeldung --------- Die Einreichung von Beitr=E4gen sowie die Anmeldung zur Teilnahme am= Workshop=20 erfolgt ausschlie=DFlich =FCber die vorbereiteten Formulare unter der= Homepage=20 des Workshops. Ebenso ist die Anmeldung der Titel von Beitr=E4gen (z.B.=20 Poster, Systemdemonstrationen und Vortr=E4ge) nur =FCber das vorbereitete=20 Formular im Web m=F6glich. Vervollst=E4ndigen Sie bitte die Anmeldung eines Beitrages durch die=20 Einreichung einer Zusammenfassung im Umfang von einer A4-Seite. Die=20 Zusammenfassung senden Sie bitte per e-Mail an Volker D=F6tsch=20 (doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de) oder Florian Schaar=20 (schaar_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de). Um eine Zuordnung zur Pr=E4sentationsaanmeldun= g=20 zu erm=F6glichen, mu=DF die e-Mail auch Autornamen und Beitragstitel= enthalten. Bei der Anmeldung von Systemdemonstrationen reichen Sie bitte einen Titel=20 (z.B. Das e-Learning-System XYZ und seine Anbindung an das HIS), den Namen= =20 des/der Pr=E4sentierenden sowie eine oben beschriebene Zusammenfassung ein.= =20 Der Zusammenfassung k=F6nnen einige Snapshots im gif- oder jpg-Format=20 beigef=FCgt werden. Homepage -------- http://lernen.htwk-leipzig.de/wel/wel05/ Ziel und Schwerpunkte --------------------- Hervorgegangen aus unmittelbarer Projektarbeit an der HTWK Leipzig und=20 motiviert durch die Resonanz der beiden vorangegangenen Workshops in den=20 Jahren 2002 und 2003, soll der bevorstehende Workshop wieder ein=20 bundesweites Forum zur Pr=E4sentation und Diskussion aktueller Entwicklungen= =20 auf dem facettenreichen Gebiet des e-Learning bieten. Dabei sollen=20 technische, didaktische und organisatorische Aspekte des e-Learning=20 ausgewogen Betrachtung finden. Folgende Themengebiete stellen inhaltliche Schwerpunkte des Workshops dar: -Nachhaltige Implementierung von e-Learning-Prozessen an Hochschulen -Organisationsmodelle -Kooperationsaspekte (innnerhalb der Hochschule und zwischen Hochschulen) -Verschmelzung mit Hochschul-Informationsprozessen -Nicht-technische Support-Strukturen -Technische Infrastruktur -=DCberwindung von Akzeptanzschranken -Szenarien und Content -Didaktische Aspekte -Ad=E4quate Lehr- und Lernszenarien -Multimediales Gestalten von Lerneinheiten -Fallstudien -Erstellung, Verwaltung und Pflege von Content -Rapid e-Learning -Lernplattformen -Lernplattformen aus technischer und konzeptueller Sicht -Erfahrungen aus dem laufenden Betrieb -Standardisierung -Zusammenspiel lokaler und regionaler Plattformen -Evaluierung Dar=FCber hinausgehende Beitr=E4ge z.B. zu theoretischen Grundlagen oder=20 rechtlichen Aspekten sind ebenso willkommen. Als Novum gegen=FCber den beiden zur=FCckliegenden Workshops sind zwei Podiumsdiskussionen vorgesehen. Die Thematik einer der beiden Diskussionen= =20 soll aus dem Kreis der interessierten Teilnehmer heraus bestimmt werden.=20 Diesbez=FCglich haben Sie bei der Anmeldung die M=F6glichkeit, einen=20 Themenvorschlag einzubringen. Vortr=E4ge werden thematisch in Sessions gruppiert. Sie werden einzeln bzw.= =20 parallel in verschiedenen R=E4umen gehalten. Alle System- und Posterdemonstrationen finden in einer separaten Session gleichzeitig statt.= =20 Die Workshopteilnehmer haben dabei Gelegenheit, sich die Poster und Systeme= =20 individuell anzusehen und detaillierte Fragen zu stellen. Auf Wunsch kann=20 bei Vortr=E4gen sowie Poster- und Systemdemonstrationen das Internet genutzt= =20 werden. Tagungsort ---------- HTWK Leipzig 04251 Leipzig Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 145 (Lipsiusbau (Li)) (Karl-Liebknecht-Stra=DFe/Eichendorffstra=DFe) Die Vortragsr=E4ume werden auf den Internetseiten des Workshops bzw. im Tagungsprogramm aufgef=FChrt. Die Hochschulmensa befindet sich ebenfalls im Lipsius-Bau. Zwischen 11:00=20 Uhr und 14:00 Uhr besteht die M=F6glichkeit, in der Mensa Mittagessen zu=20 bekommen (auf eigene Kosten). N=E4here Informationen finden sie im Internet. Tagungsgeb=FChr ------------- F=FCr die Teilnahme am Workshop wird eine Tagungsgeb=FChr erhoben. Die=20 Tagungsgeb=FChr betr=E4gt bei zeitiger Anmeldung und =DCberweisung (das Geld= mu=DF=20 bis zum 17.6.2005 auf dem Workshop-Konto gutgeschrieben sein) 15,- Euro pro= =20 Person. Bei sp=E4terer Anmeldung, d.h. nach dem 17.6.2005 erfolgt die Bezahlung=20 direkt auf dem Workshop und betr=E4gt 20,- Euro. In der Tagungsgeb=FChr ist der Erhalt einer Tagungs-CD eingeschlossen. Eine= =20 R=FCckerstattung der Tagungsgeb=FChr ist nicht m=F6glich. Angeh=F6rige und Studenten der HTWK Leipzig d=FCrfen kostenlos am Workshop teilnehmen, erhalten jedoch keine kostenfreie Taguns-CD. Es besteht die M=F6glichkeit, Tagungs-CDs auf dem Workshop f=FCr 5,- Euro k=E4uflich zu erwerben (solange der Vorrat reicht). Ein gedrucker Tagungsband ist nicht in der Tagungsgeb=FChr enthalten, kann aber separat bestellt werden. Hinweise f=FCr Autoren -------------------- Das Layout der druckreifen Beitr=E4ge soll weitestgehend dem Layout des Beispieltextes entsprechen, den Sie auf den Workshopseiten im Internet finden. Die druckreife Version f=FCr die Tagungs-CD senden Sie bitte im pdf-Format termingerecht per e-Mail an Volker D=F6tsch (doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de). Die Version f=FCr den gedruckten Tagungsband senden Sie ebenfalls termingerecht an Volker D=F6tsch, allerdings nur in MS-Word-kompatibelen Formaten (Office XP), d.h. als rtf oder doc oder OpenOffice. Bekanntgabe der Beitragsannahme ------------------------------- Den Autoren wird zum oben genannten Termin der Bescheid =FCber die Annahme ihres Beitrages an die von Ihnen bei Anmeldung angegebene e-Mail-Adresse zugeschickt. Proceedings ----------- Es wird zum Workshop eine Tagungs-CD mit den Beitr=E4gen geben. In der Tagungsgeb=FChr ist der Erhalt einer Tagungs-CD eingeschlossen. Eine R=FCckerstattung der Tagungsgeb=FChr ist nicht m=F6glich. Angeh=F6rige der HTWK Leipzig d=FCrfen kostenlos am Workshop teilnehmen, erhalten jedoch keine kostenfreie Taguns-CD. Es besteht die M=F6glichkeit, Tagungs-CDs auf dem Workshop f=FCr 5,- Euro k=E4uflich zu erwerben (solange der Vorrat= reicht). Nach dem Workshop (voraussichtlich im August/September) wird der Tagungsband gedruckt. Der gedruckte Tagungsband erh=E4lt die ISSN 1610-1014= =20 und wird an verschiedene Bibliotheken gegeben. Er wird nur die Beitr=E4ge=20 enthalten, die auf dem Workshop tats=E4chlich stattgefunden haben. Gedruckte Tagungsb=E4nde werden jeweils f=FCr 15,- Euro zzgl. Porto und Verpackung abgegeben. Da die Tagungsb=E4nde nur in der notwendigen Anzahl gedruckt werden, ist eine vorherige Bestellung (per e-Mail an doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de) notwendig. Kontakt ------- Bei Fragen zum Workshop wenden Sie sich bitte an: Prof. Klaus Hering HTWK Leipzig 04251 Leipzig Gustav-Freytag-Str. 42a Tel.: 0341-3076 6445 hering_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~hering Volker D=F6tsch HTWK Leipzig 04251 Leipzig Gustav-Freytag-Str. 42a Tel.: 0341-3076 6137 doetsch_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~doetsch Florian Schaar HTWK Leipzig/Fb IMN 04251 Leipzig Gustav-Freytag-Str. 42a Tel.: 0341-3076 6621 schaar_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~schaar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail was delivered to you by event_at_in.tu-clausthal.de, what is a moderated list runned by Computational Intelligence Group of Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. All event announcements sent through this= =20 list are also listed in our conference planner at http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/index.php?id=3Dplanner. In the case of any requests, questions, or comments, do not hesitate and=20 contact event-owner_at_in.tu-clausthal.de ASAP. ****************************************************** * CIG does not take any responsibility for validity * * of content of=20 messages sent through this list. *=20 ****************************************************** Computational Intelligence Group Institute of Informatics Technical University Clausthal Germany http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/ From: "Stephen Woodruff" Subject: visual imagination/memory Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:17:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 117 (117) In a report yesterday Willard McCarty said [deleted quotation]and I stopped reading. I too have no visual imagination. I thought I was alone; perhaps I am in the extreme of it (I have a very poor visual memory too) but it made me wonder how many people have the same...affliction?...disability? I was 9 years old when I went home to tell my parents that when the teacher said "imagine you are in a room full of giant chairs" some of the other kids claimed they could really see the furniture. When I lose my partner in a crowd I make a conscious effort to remember what she was wearing, or at least what colour, so I can look for her through the people. I almost never do remember. Is there anyone else out there whose vision is normal but whose internal vision is not? Or what is normal? Should I be embarrassed to admit this? Does/should ones abilities in this affect choice of career? Stephen Woodruff, HATII George Service House, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland / UK phone +44 141 330-4508 fax +44 141 339-1119 From: Willard McCarty Subject: visual imagination and memory Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:44:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 118 (118) Stephen Woodruff surprises me by being surprised that anyone else should have little to no visual imagination, i.e. the ability to see something in the mind's eye. I had assumed that the condition -- let us not strive for an entry in the manual of diseases, say under "Visual Imagination Deprivation Syndrome (VIDS)" -- was common, since I've had it, i.e. not had one, all my life. As a young fellow I was tested for abilities, all scores off the chart (I'm sure they drew the coloured bar chart for the effect on my anxious parents) except for the "spatial relationships" score, which was nil. I had to sit the exam again for that reason, as the low score was assumed to be an error. It didn't help that during the resit my history teacher, who was invigilating, spent the time moving around the room with a fat textbook trying to swat flies, but I think that even watched over by a quieter authority I would have repeated my limp performance in space -- most of the tasks requiring me to match unfolded boxes with folded up ones. The Principal of the school called me and my parents in for a chat. We sat down nervously and were solemnly informed (I kid you not), "I'm afraid he'll never be able to be a sheet-metal worker". Naturally I didn't even try for that sort of job afterwards. Subsequently I have actually been impeded in building things, mostly bookshelves but also the sort of stuff one gets into as a dweller in houses with domestic inclinations, desire to customize and occasional need for variety in recreational activities (e.g. by turning a closet-like bedroom into a usable space by building a bunkbed with desk &c underneath). I have to draw diagram after diagram, be constantly referring to them etc. One good thing about this is that when the thing is done, it's a revelation, literally, of what I have had in mind but have been unable to see. One thing I have assumed, and continue to assume, is that visualization tools will make an enormous difference to the humanities because those who have been thus deprived of the ability to see things in the mind now suddenly can picture ideas. And those who have never thought of doing so -- those with still open minds, that is -- will be forcibly struck with what our nifty machines can do. A related effect. I have been working on the modelling of personification by recording instances of it, weighting what seem the causitive factors, iterating the process until consistency is achieved and representing the result graphically, with Excel. I realized that the visual representation, independent of the quality of the model producing it, is actually a better representation than anything we've had before -- because it does not force us to conceptualize the trope as either/or, as the old technology of capitalization does. It shows us, in the process of modelling, that personification is a matter of how sensitively one reads. Now that, I think, is something rather important. And note this well: because of the above, aesthetics, art history and art criticism suddenly come within our ken and have much to tell us. But doubtless some of you realized this almost before it happened. 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: ICT & Sustainability Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:40:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 119 (119) Dear all, I just attended the WSIS contributory conference on ICT&Creativity in Vienna (www.wsa-conference.org), and I see a lot of things now coming together for a sustainable future - based on technology, learning, and support for new ways in the business sphere. So I would like to bring to your attention the World Environment Day 2005 which is just happening today. The topic of the UNEP conference this year is "Green Cities" - which includes ICT projects for monitoring, raising awareness and creating solutions for people's livelihoods: http://www.wed2005.org/0.0.php (Those stated to attend the conference include UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, and mayors from more than 60 cities worldwide including London, Kabul, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Phnom Penh, Jakarta, Shanghai, Delhi, and Istanbul.) In addition, there is the Best Practices Database in Improving the Living Environment (UN - Habitat). Take a look at the 2004 Award Winners, you'll also find ICTs and business approaches for new forms of work included: http://www.blpnet.org/2002aw.htm Please take a look into a sustainable future! Best regards, Laurent --- Mag. Laurent Straskraba Information Society Researcher Board member of IT Business & Research in Europe http://www.itbeurope.org Information Society Representative United Nations 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: Fairouz Kamareddine Subject: Final call for ESSLLI05 registration Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:05:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 120 (120) *** Our apologies for multiple copies *** ======================================================================== || FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION BOOKING || || || || 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 FOR REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION BOOKING || || DEADLINE: 7 July 2005 || ||--------------------------------------------------------------------|| || 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 be guaranteed) || ||====================================================================|| From: "Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)" Subject: CFP: (VORTE'05) International EDOC Workshop Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:06:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 121 (121) CALL FOR PAPERS [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] International EDOC Workshop on VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2005) http://arch.cs.utwente.nl/~guizzard/VORTE05/ as part of the The 9th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference 19-23 September 2005, Enschede, The netherlands http://www.edocconference.org THEMES AND GOALS Vocabularies, ontologies and rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE is the first of what we hope will be many workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modeling, information systems, semantic web, MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and business rules to discuss the role of foundational and lightweight ontologies in the development of conceptual tools for enterprise computing. The Workshop Encourages Submissions on topics including (but not limited to) the following: * Business Vocabularies * Business Rules * Enterprise Integration and Interoperability * Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling * Vocabularies and Foundational Ontologies for Enterprise Information Systems * Enterprise Modeling and Simulation * Foundations for the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) * Enterprise Computing and the Semantic Web * Enterprise Reference Architectures * Enterprise Domain Engineering [...] From: Laurent Straskraba Subject: Webstreams from ICT&Creativity Conference in Vienna now Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:08:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 122 (122) online! Dear all, I'd like to inform you that the webstreams from the WSIS Contributing Conference on ICT&Creativity, held in Vienna from 2-3 June 2005, are now online. Thanks to the organizers of the conference and Telekom Austria as the technical facilitator, people from around the world can watch what was being discussed at this important conference which can be described as "Linking the individual in the center of sustainable development with the potential benefits of ICT". To me, this approach is the basic layer of a sustainable future: it's about empowerment and capacity building where social development is a precondition to economic development and not so much the other way round. Please find the program of the conference at www.wsa-conference.org and the streams here: http://multimedia.telekom.at/portal/programmA.asp?id=246 Best regards, Laurent Straskraba --- Mag. Laurent Straskraba Information Society Researcher Board member of IT Business & Research in Europe http://www.itbeurope.org Information Society Representative United Nations 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: George Whitesel Subject: Visual Imagination Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:06:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 123 (123) Willard: For what it may be worth, Aldous Huxley complained of much the same handicap. All the best. George whitesel_at_jsucc.jsu.edu From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.078 visual imagination and memory Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:07:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 124 (124) Willard, I used to ask my students what,if anything, they "saw" while reading a novel: the results were as varied as the students. Some claimed to se a sort of inner movie; others saw nothing at all. As far as I can tell, I sort of hear the words more than see them -- it's the sound and the syntax and the grammar and the tone that is interesting. I sort of see fuzzy and vague analogs to what is being described if I slow down long enough and try to do it. But the relationship between literature and visuals has been problematic at least as long as people have so badly misread Horace's _ut pictura poesis_. From: sramsay_at_uga.edu Subject: Re: 19.078 visual imagination and memory Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:08:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 125 (125) On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:50:19AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]If you and Stephen have "VIDS," then I surely have whatever its opposite happens to be. I have always performed dismally on standardized tests. My SAT scores were so low, I despaired of getting into college at one point, and my GRE scores (the graduate version of the SATs in the US) weren't any better. I'm sure I was excluded from the candidate list for several US graduate schools because, despite superb undergraduate grades, I was below the minimum requirement on test scores. As a schoolchild, however, my scores on differential aptitude and spatial reasoning tests placed me into the upper reaches of the 99th percentile. The conversation thankfully never occurred, but I image that the meeting between the principal and my parents would have proceeded as follows: "Well, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, our testing indicates that your son is, in all cases, a kind of imbecile, and yet he appears to be the sort of sheet-metal prodigy such as occurs only once in a generation." I find it almost impossible to do even basic arithmetic without picturing, in my mind's eye, a number line. In studying foreign languages, I have managed to succeed only by bringing to mind the actual image of the page of the textbook on which the verb paradigms are represented. Recently, I had to wade through a rather abstruse combinatorics problem for a program I was writing. My desk is still covered with pages of graph paper upon which I attempted to translate the problem into pictures and diagrams. In writing software, I find that I conceive of all algorithms and data structures as various sort of moving images that interact with one another (I'm not speaking of the interface, but of the inner workings of the program). I literally do not know any other way to work through such problems, even though I think the task would seem to most people to be distinctly non-visual. On the other hand, I have never been able to draw and I have little talent for design (I tell me students that I can teach them to make a web page do absolutely anything except look good). Stephen Woodruff's report is as baffling to me as I suspect mine is to him, and yet both he and I manage to make our way through the world. The fact that I make my living working with fairly abstract and non-visual material indicates to me that we are all very adaptive organisms who bend the world to our own peculiar way of thinking. 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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: announcing Romantic Circles' Poets on Poets Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:59:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 126 (126) Romantic Circles is delighted to announce the release of Poets on Poets, a major new audio archive edited by Tilar Mazzeo and devoted to gathering recordings of Romantic-period poems read by contemporary poets. The inaugural readings, just released, include Robert Pinsky reciting Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," as well as other recitations you can see below. In the preface to the archive, Jerome McGann reflects upon "Recitation Considered as a Fine Art." New readings will be added weekly, with over 100 forthcoming recordings by poets including Rae Armantrout, Lyn Heninian, Stephen McCaffery, Ira Sadoff, Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Charles Bernstein, Stanley Plumly, Molly Peacock, Cleopatra Mathis, and Rod Mengham. We invite you to visit Poets on Poets and download the sound file into your iPod or MP3 player. For more information about forthcoming readings/readers or to listen to the recordings just released, visit the Editions section of Romantic Circles or go to: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/poets/index.html. Neil Fraistat & Steve Jones From: "Penny Simons" Subject: New Online Edition Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:59:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 127 (127) Dear Colleague We are delighted to announce the publication of our on-line edition of 'Partonopeus de Blois', which is now available, without subscription, at the following address: { HYPERLINK "http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/" }http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/ 'Partonopeus de Blois' was one of the most popular romances composed in the 12th century, and played a key role in the development of Old French narrative literature. Analysis of the text is complicated by the fact that it exists in a number of different versions, which are difficult to study using a conventional printed edition. This project has produced an electronic resource that allows researchers to read and compare all the different versions in detail, without having to work from the original manuscripts (held in libraries from Yale to the Vatican) or microfilms. Flexible access to the full text of all the manuscripts makes it much easier for scholars to explore how and why the different versions of the poem came to be produced. This will help us to understand more clearly the ways in which medieval French texts were "edited", adapted and rewritten to suit different audiences and changing circumstances. Our on-line edition also provides searching software that will enable scholars to carry out much more sophisticated investigations of 'Partonopeus' than has been feasible hitherto, opening up the possibility of new insights into its literary technique and linguistic features as well as the development of its manuscript tradition. We hope that you will find the edition useful and will take advantage of its feedback facility to let us have your comments. Best wishes Penny Eley, Penny Simons, Catherine Hanley, Mario Longtin, Philip Shaw From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity -- New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 07:00:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 128 (128) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 20 (June 8 - 15, 2005) INTREVIEW IMMERSED IN THE FUTURE: RANDY PAUSCH ON THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION "Enrollments are down 23 percent in the computer science discipline. And at the top echelon, people aren't too bothered by it, because we will be the last to be impacted, right? But this is a huge, huge problem. And it's a huge problem for the country." Pausch is Professor, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University, and Design Director of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), a joint initiative of the School of Computer Science and the College of Fine Arts. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i20_pausch.html From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Guidance and visual imagining Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:58:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 129 (129) Willard It is worth picking up on the diversity topos sounded by Mr. Ramsay at the conclusion of the personal narrative he presented on the them of a there-but-by-the-grace-of-the-hand-of-fortune-go-I. [deleted quotation]Worth picking up because with a moments reflection one begins to see or imagine or sense that in these tales of computing humanists "adaptive organisms" are very much like "machines". For a moment, set aside the pecularities that differentiate human beings and contemplate how very much alike the disabled humanist and the stupid machine are. Machines, be they electronic or mechanical, work surprisingly and magically well when connected together -- think of the levers and wheels of the common bicycle. A pedal alone will not propel one far. A wheel without power may not even spin aimlessly in the air. Adaptive organisms work and play together not only because of their peculiar differences but also because of the rich opportunities of conveying the life experiences that those differences engender. The conveyance is the work of translation and adequate information interchange. [deleted quotation]situation of the exchanges that are facilitated by information and communication technologies), there is something puzzling to me to encounter narratives that lend themselves to an interpretation that stresses the cannot aspects of one's particular and peculiar sensory apparatus. To say or imply that "I cannot visualize" is quite different from stating the one has not learnt how or one has not been guided well in achieving greater ease in whatever mode of apprehending the world. I am very wary of personalizing what is freighted with a magnificent lode of cultural superstructures and social infrastructures. It is really worth being very precise: the rate at which one does something is not equivalent to the condition of not being able to do it. The speed of a central processing unit doesn't in every instance determine what can be calculated. To imagine and to visualize are not the same activity. A guide will ask the person struggling to imagine in visual terms questions. Often those questions avoid all and any formulation that would use the verb "to see." It is an application of the principles of dialogue. Some examples: When considering the spatality of a textual artefact, a guide might invite the observer to note the distance between one point and another. Is it large or small? In relation to what? When considering the motifs or themes present in a textual artefact, a guide might invite the observer to note what constructions cluster where. Which are paired together? Which dance apart and return? How infrequent is the mention or presence of a marker? Some guides will encourage the diagraming and drawing of pictures -- an ascesis conducted with paper and pen or with the simple generation and manipulation of lists on screen. In short visualization, like all imagining, depends upon the exercise of the powers of abstraction. Some of us do see the "cannots". Some of us remain silent when we see the "cannots". Some of us remember our own apprenticeships. Some of us remind others again of the untangling of the moments: the communication about a mental construction from the fabrication of a mental construction. And then again how very much the habits of communication inform the capabilities of fabrication. Both of which benefit enormously from the regular indulgence in counterfactuals and the story play of kindergarten... if the verbal text were like a giraffe where would the neck be, if the verbal text were like an elephant where might I find its ears, would it have tusks? No need to visualize a giant poster of typological monsters or miles of indecypherable graphics. Apply imagination. -- 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: "Jean Anderson" Subject: RE: 19.080 visual imagination Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:58:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 130 (130) If my (not very visual) memory serves me well, Francis Galton in the nineteenth century found that people were divided roughly into three categories (on a continuum, of course) of strongly visual, weakly visual and purely conceptual in their imagination and memory. So, Stephen, you are not alone. I have not found the GUIs of computers in the last decade or two entirely useful. Designers, one assumes, would usually fall into the first category and should be educated more about the other 2/3 of us. Jean ________________ Jean G. Anderson University of Glasgow STELLA, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH +44 (0)141 330 4980 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/ From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: NYU Libraries seeks a Digital Library Program, Lead Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:59:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 131 (131) Please excuse cross-posting. New York University Libraries seeks a Digital Library Program, Lead Description: Leads the design and development of NYU's digital library infrastructure, and coordinates and provides support for digital library projects. Working in close collaboration, NYU Libraries and NYU Information Technology Services (ITS) are developing an expanded strategic initiative in digital library development; this position plays a central role in building an expanded team and new capacities. Partnering with ITS eServices, this position plans and develops systems for supporting metadata management, searching support, user interface, and repository services for library digital resources. Provides technical advice and support for ongoing efforts, such as e-text and imaging services, and for project development and new digital library initiatives. Qualifications: Experience in the development of digital library services, such as digital image conversion projects, management and delivery of electronic full text, Web delivery of multi-media formats, and metadata file management. Working knowledge of image capture and delivery technologies, full text mark-up and searching methods, and database management systems; in-depth knowledge of at least one of these areas. Knowledge of HTML, and SGML or XML; experience with CGI and knowledge of one or more of the following programming languages: SQL, C, C++, Java, and Perl. Familiarity with hardware and software applications in DOS, Windows and Unix environments, including network operating systems such as Novell and Windows NT. Familiarity with library and information standards (e.g., MARC, Z39.50), library online public access catalogs, and issues and developments in digital library development. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills; ability to lead a collaborative team. Masters degree in library or related information technology area required. Salary/Benefits: Faculty status and attractive , excellent benefits package, including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. New York University Libraries: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 450,000 students and faculty and contain more than 4 million volumes. New York University is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Research Libraries Group, the Digital Library Federation; and serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium that includes three academic institutions. To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references to Ms. Janet Koztowski, Libraries Human Resources Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, (fax) 212-995-4070, or e-mail: jobs_at_library.nyu.edu. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS From: Eric Rochester Subject: Re: 19.083 visual imagination Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:58:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 132 (132) Like Steve, I'm very visually oriented. But I'm often skeptical of attempts to make things more "graphical" in computer interfaces (particularly tools like visual programming). Partially, I'm sure, this is the result of learning computers without a GUI, but also I'm aware of the limitations of thinking visually. Although certain kinds of information are best expressed graphically, and certain kinds of computer interaction are best mediated by GUIs, for flexibility and power, words (or a command line) cannot be beaten. Eric Rochester From: njovanov_at_ffzg.hr Subject: Re: visual imagination Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:00:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 133 (133) Recently I become aware how text- or verbal-oriented the internet is; I tried to identify an 15th century bookseller with a book for the emblem. Seems like a trivial task, but it isn't --- if you're just an user, not a specialist bibliographer / art historian. The same goes for music --- ever tried locating a song when you don't know the title, or the artist, or the composer (internet helps a little when the lyrics are there, *if* the lyrics are in English --- but what about remembering just a musical phrase?) Of course the vocabulary to describe colours and lines and motifs and tones exists --- but it seems not to be easily searchable (universal enough?) in the world of computing. Neven From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: CfC-Information Technology Ethics - Deadline extended Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:00:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 134 (134) CALL FOR CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: *extended to June 20, 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. For more information, please visit http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/call.html -- 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: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: Paul Robeson as Othello -- very old vinyl record Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:58:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 135 (135) Fellow Humanists: When I was an undergrad at Northwestern U. in the 1950's, our "sophomore lit." class studied Othello. I checked out from the University Library an astonishing vinyl of Paul Robeson and Uta Hagan (and others, obviously) reading Othello. I remember two lines from that recording with utmost clarity. See Act V Scene II. (The lines are not contiguous.) Emilia: "I shall speak though Hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace." Iago: " ... for there's no right nor wrong but thinking makes it so." The latter is a more concise a statement of complete moral relativism than any I have ever seen. My attempts to track down this recording to check my recollections have been fruitless. Amazon lists this for Robeson. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000AFSF/qid=1118275588/sr=8 -2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl15/103-3276522-6042227?v=glance&s=music&n=507846 but I have no idea if this is the same recording. IMDB (International Movie Data Base) lists this for Hagan. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190614/ but this seems to be an excerpt rather than the entire play. Now here is why this matters. Since I want to quote that line of Iago's in something I am writing, I checked my Random House, New York, 1944 edition of the plays. NO SUCH LINES EXIST IN THAT EDITION. I have several hypotheses to explain this conundrum. * My "utmost clarity" of recollection isn't. * Robeson, Hagan et. al. were working from a different edition. * Robeson, Hagan et. al. made some changes in the text while recording. My query is not urgent but only interesting -- to me, at least. _________________________________________________ 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: Brian Bremen Subject: Re: 19.087 Paul Robeson as Othello: which edition? Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:36:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 136 (136) Because the line is Hamlet's (Act II. scene ii): Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. Brian A. Bremen On Jun 9, 2005, at 2:03 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Brian A. Bremen Associate Professor 1 University Station, B5000 English Department The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-0195 bremen_at_curly.cc.utexas.edu Phone: 512-471-7842 Fax: 512-471-4909 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: 19.087 Paul Robeson as Othello: which edition? Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:37:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 137 (137) Interesting: Hamlet says "If it assume my noble father's person,/ I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape / And bid me hold my peace" in Act I,2; he then says "for there is nothing / either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" in Act II,2. Looks like Robeson and Hagan made a bet to introduce two lines from Hamlet into Othello and see if anyone will notice. Well, you have. A little like a student of mine three years ago, who inserted the sentence "If you find this sentence, I'll buy you lunch" somewhere in the middle of his (very boring) M.A. thesis on Jane Austen and Adam Mickiewicz. Neither I nor the two (very eminent) reviewers got free lunch. Very stupid to fall for an old trick like that. All the best, Jan Rybicki From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 19.088 visual imagination Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:35:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 138 (138) around the 9/6/05 "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty mentioned about 19.088 visual imagination that: [deleted quotation]except things like the Mac GUI are, more or less, based on a linguistic model: "I do this". In these gui's you first nominate something ("I do") and then you can perform an action upon it ("this"). This is one reason they're easy to use, because this models basic linguistic competence ("me run"), and this takes precedence over visual competence which is generally much more spatially aware than most gui's. -- cheers Adrian Miles ____________ hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 139 (139) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 140 (140) [deleted quotation] From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: Project MUSE Functionality Study Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:38:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 141 (141) APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING Dear Colleagues and Customers, Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu), a collection of 270 distinguished peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 60 not-for-profit publishers, invites your participation in a web-based survey on enhancing our functionality, interface, and navigation. The survey web site is http://muse.jhu.edu/survey. 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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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 58, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:35:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 142 (142) Version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. 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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 about 200 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 470 KB. Related Article 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. DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Visualisation and Narrative Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:36:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 143 (143) Willard In Humanist 19.091, Adrian Miles makes the point that many Graphical User Interfaces are event driven along the lines of a linguistic model. I wonder if it is not a particular linguistic model that is at play. A Euro-centric model? I ask because in the past I have found it very fruitful to meditate upon the anthropological findings of Nancy Munn. In Australian aborignial visual designs and storytelling, Nancy Munn reports [T]here is no clear distinction between actor-action and actor-object constructions, and it is convenient to link them both in one overarching figure type with a general meaning that can be stated as "actor (in relation to)-item" ("actor-item"). (Walbiri Iconography 81). http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/D6N2.HTM#munn To pick up the example supplied by Adrian, there is a visual domain that surrounds the "action kernel". A domain which must be traversed by the user. Me-mouse-screen-cursor-[location on screen] --- feedback can be returned at any of these points and through one of more of these points. We bring sets of relations to our interactions. -- 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: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: Quotation from Othello? NO! Hamlet Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:35:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 144 (144) Many thanks to Humanists who replied to my earlier posting both on- and off-line. Othello? Nope! ---------------- Emilia: "I shall speak though Hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace." Iago: " ... for there's no right nor wrong but thinking makes it so." ---------------- My friend and colleague, Dr. Rochelle Elstein of the Northwestern University Library immediately identified both quotes. Hamlet, act I, scene 2. Hor. I warr'nt it will. 244> Ham. If it assume my noble father's person, 245> I'll speak to it though hell itself should gape <= 246> And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, <= 247> If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, 248> Let it be tenable in your silence still, 249> And whatsomever else shall hap to-night, 250> Give it an understanding but no tongue. 251> I will requite your loves. So fare you well. 252> Upon the platform 'twixt aleven and twelf 253> I'll visit you. Hamlet, act 2, scene 2: 245> Ham. A goodly one, in which there are many confines, 246> wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o' th' 247> worst. 248> Ros. We think not so, my lord. 249> Ham. Why then 'tis none to you; for there is 250> nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. <= 251> To me it is a prison. 252> Ros. Why then your ambition makes it one. 'Tis 253> too narrow for your mind. 254> Ham. O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and (Source: the online version of the Riverside Shakespeare. I just did a word "near" word search.) ---------------- Thanks to Brian Bremen and Jan Rybicki. The latter commented: "Looks like Robeson and Hagan made a bet to introduce two lines from Hamlet into Othello and see if anyone will notice. Well, you have." Now THAT is an intriguing hypothesis. Of course, the parsimonious explanation is that, in my memory, I reshaped my recollection of having studied Othello. You may recall this snippet from the lecture in E.M. Forster's, "The Machine Stops." "There will come a generation ...which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine." Offsetting this tendency, fortunately, we have the accurate, available sources from computer files. In either case, I shall now have to track down the original recording. _________________________________________________ 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: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Humanities Computing Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:36:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 145 (145) [Announcement of Interest] Post-Doctoral Researcher in Humanities Computing A new one year, fixed-term appointment will become available July 1st,=20 2005, for a suitably qualified Post-Doctoral Researcher to work with the=20 University of Victoria's Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) Project,= =20 based in the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the University= =20 of Victoria. About TAPoR: TAPoR is building a unique human and computing infrastructure= =20 for text analysis across the country by establishing six regional centers=20 (UMcMaster, UMontreal, UAlberta, UNew Brunswick, UToronto, and UVictoria)=20 to form one national text analysis research portal. This portal will be a=20 gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with=20 representative texts for experimentation. The local centers will include=20 text research laboratories with best-of-breed software and full-text=20 servers that are coordinated into a vertical portal for the study of=20 electronic texts. Each center will be integrated into its local research=20 culture and, thus, some variation will exist from center to center. TAPoR at the University of Victoria=E2=80=99s HCMC has a multimedia= laboratory=20 and server infrastructure suitable for research into a variety of areas of= =20 Humanities Computing, including multimedia enrichment and acquisition, text= =20 representation and text analysis. UVic=E2=80=99s newly appointed CRC Chair= in=20 Humanities Computing, and our resident computing experts, provide guidance= =20 and expertise to the 8+ TAPoR-related research projects currently under=20 development. To learn more about UVic people and projects, see=20 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/tapor/index.htm. Suitable candidates interested in this position will bring established=20 academic research questions in an area of Humanities Computing, as well as= =20 demonstrated capability to implement solutions to those questions using the= =20 technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic. Examples of technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic are: XML, XSLT, and=20 XSL:FO encoding languages; TEI P4 and P5; XQuery; and eXist XML=20 databases. In addition, UVic TAPoR project members frequently work with=20 XHTML, JavaScript and CSS, and web-based SQL database projects using=20 PostgresSQL and mySQL. A full job announcement detailing submission requirements, deadlines, and=20 salary guidelines, will be posted shortly on the Human Resources home page= =20 at the University of Victoria. Please contact Scott Gerrity (sgerrity_at_uvic.ca or 250-721-8787), HCMC=20 Coordinator, for further information. =20 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (NWeSP)" Subject: CFP: NWeSP-2005 Web Services conference Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:34:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 146 (146) NWeSP-2005: International Conference "Next Generation Web Services Practices" August 23-27, 2005, Seoul, Korea www.NWeSP.org *** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 17. *** Published by IEEE Computer Society Press, USA. NWeSP authors will have publishing opportunities in several special issues, see below. Keynote speakers: - Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California at Irvine, - Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Research Division, USA, - Shim Yoon, Web Services Advance Force, Samsung, - David Du, University of Minnesota. In cooperation with: - IEEE Computer Society, - Task force on Electronic Commerce, - Technical Committee on Internet, - Technical Committee on Scaleable Computing, - The International World-Wide Web Conference Committee, IW3C2, - Microsoft, Korea. TOPICS: - Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design, - Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation, merging, linking, reconciliation), - Database Technologies for Web Services, - Customization, Reusability, Enhancements, - Information Security Issues, - Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance, - User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling, - Web Services Standards, - Autonomic Computing Paradigms, - Web Based e-Commerce, e-learning applications, - Grid Based Web Services. SUBMISSION: Proceedings of the conference will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submissions are received via www.NWeSP.org. Proposals to organize technical session and workshops are welcome. JOURNAL PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES: Good quality papers will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Web Services Practices. Selected papers will be considered for a special issue an "Recent trends in Web Services Prectices" in the International journal of Digital information Management(JDIM). Several other International Journal special issues are being planned and will be available in the conference web site very soon. IMPORTANT DATES (extended): June 17: Deadline for full paper submission. July 15: Notification of acceptance. July 29: Deadline for camera ready papers and registration. CONTACT: Sang Yong Han, hansy AT cau.ac.kr; Ajith Abraham, ajith.abraham AT ieee.org. For inquires about this message use Reply button. Please distribute this CFP to your colleagues and students. From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: abstract books Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 22:36:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 147 (147) Dear All, For my PhD research I plan to analyse the abstracts of both DRH and joint ALLC/ACH conferences in quest for details about the history of electronic editing in the community. Unfortunately I still lack the abstract books (or files) of DRH 97, 2003, and 2004 and of ALLC 1989 up to 1996. I'd be delighted of some of the then participants or organisers would consider lending me a copy which I will return after excerption. Please contact me off the list for further arrangements or find me on ACH/ALLC in Victoria. Thanks, Edward ================ Edward Vanhoutte Researcher University of Antwerp Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:25:55 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 148 (148) It seems to me that the discussion on visual imagination (19.091) / visualization and narrative (19.095) concerns a more basic conceptual distinction - that between symbolic / iconic / magic modes of representation and information. Personally, I tend to agree with the sentiment expressed by Gerda and Eric: a word says more than thousand pictures. 'More' meaning that the successful use of a word - be it as a command uttered, be it as an instruction or information received - demands conceptual clarity and explicitness (in an ideal world, admitted ...). By contrast, visual and spatial metaphors tend to obscure complexity and disguise their philosophical frame of reference because we perceive them as an absolute given and seldomly for what they are: ana-logical constructs. One might say that our modern GUI-laden machines and applications promote the renaissance of what Cassirer termed 'Mythisches Bewusstsein' (mythical consciousness) where the icon or graphical object, by way of a subconsciously enforced 'pars-pro-toto' relationship, no longer 'stands for' (represents) something, but hypostatically 'is' the object or action. For example, sending off this message 'is' clicking on the respective icon in my mail client. Day in, day out, the omnipresence of this and other visual metaphors invite us to regress from a symbolic to an iconic to a mythical modus operandi: we're getting dumber by the click. (Of course, you can also look at it the other way: we're foregoing the ideological absolutism of a specific symbolic convention with every click... the choice remains ours!) As for narrative and action: there 'is' no action; it's a 'Self'-serving relational construct by definition, whatever the cultural context. I guess that's why its metaphorical representation via icons tends to come so easy. Chris PS: I am writing the above a day after once again having gone through the fascinating experience of introducing a group of students raised in the post-DOS-command line era to TACT ... ******************************* Jan Christoph Meister Forschergruppe Narratologie Universit=E4t Hamburg Mail: jan-c-meister_at_uni-hamburg.de Office: +49 - 40 - 42838 4994 Cell: +49 - 0172 40 865 41 Web: www.jcmeister.de From: Michael Fraser Subject: Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:54:02 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 149 (149) The abstracts for DRH2003 are available via PKP at http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester/archives.php?id=19 (though the originating OAI server is currently unavailable). The abstracts for DRH2004 are still available from http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/speakers.php Published papers from DRH 1997-2002 are available in print via the Office for Humanities Communications at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/books.html and, for DRH2003, Literaty & Linguitic Computing (http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol19/issue3/). Best wishes, Michael --- 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/ On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: request for books of abstracts, DRH and ALLC/ACH Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:41:25 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 150 (150) In 19.097, Edward Vanhoutte wrote: [deleted quotation]edward: do you lack or do you have the 1996 ALLC/ACH-book? (I have spares) Espen From: IPSI Conferences Subject: IPSI-2005 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:20:47 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 151 (151) Dear Dr. Humanist, On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to extend a cordial invitation for you to attend one of the upcoming IPSI BgD multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary conferences. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first one will take place in the Venice, Italy: IPSI-2005 VENICE Hotel Luna Baglioni (arrival: 9 November 05 / departure: 14 November 05) New Deadlines: 25 June 05 (abstract) / 1 August 05 (full paper) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The second one will take place on the Bled lake, Slovenia: IPSI-2005 SLOVENIA Hotel Toplice (arrival: 8 December 05 / departure: 11 December 05) New Deadlines: 10 July 05 (abstract) & 1 September 05 (full paper) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The third one will take place in New York City, NY, USA: IPSI-2005 NEW YORK Hotel Beacon (arrival: 5 January 06 / departure: 8 January 06) New Deadlines: 1 August 05 (abstract) & 1 October 05 (full paper) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit. They bring together the elite of the world science; so far, we have had seven Nobel Laureates speaking at the opening ceremonies. The conferences always take place in some of the most attractive places of the world. All those who come to IPSI conferences once, always love to come back (because of the unique professional quality and the extremely creative atmosphere); lists of past participants are on the web, as well as details of future conferences. These conferences are in line with the newest recommendations of the US National Science Foundation and of the EU research sponsoring agencies, to stress multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research (M+I+T++ research). The speakers and activities at the conferences truly support this type of scientific interaction. One of the main topics of this conference is "E-education and E-business with Special Emphasis on Semantic Web and Web Datamining" Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Internet * Computer Science and Engineering * Mobile Communications/Computing for Science and Business * Management and Business Administration * Education * e-Medicine * e-Oriented Bio Engineering/Science and Molecular Engineering/Science * Environmental Protection * e-Economy * e-Law * Technology Based Art and Art to Inspire Technology Developments * Internet Psychology If you would like more information on either conference, please reply to this e-mail message. If you plan to submit an abstract and paper, please let us know immediately for planning purposes. Note that you can submit your paper also to the IPSI Transactions journal. Sincerely Yours, Prof. V. Milutinovic, Chairman, IPSI BgD Conferences From: "Humanist Discussion List (D. Gants for W. McCarty)" Subject: M4M-4 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:45:54 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 152 (152) In-Reply-To: <42B2D2D2.7060406_at_first.fhg.de> First call for papers M4M-4 (Methods for Modalities 2005) The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logics. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will feature a number of invited talks by leading scientists, research presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. We strongly encourage young researchers and students to submit papers and posters, especially for experimental and prototypical software tools which are related to modal logics. Regular papers should not exceed the length of 12 pages; short papers are up to six pages of length, and posters and tools can be presented on two pages of text. Proceedings will appear online and as a Humboldt university report. Depending on the submissions, papers may be selected to appear in a special issue of an appropriate journal. Submission is by email. Either Postscript or PDF files can be sent to m4m-4_at_first.fraunhofer.de. The workshop will take place in Berlin - Adlershof, Germany, which is one of the worlds largest science and technology areas, comprising twelve research institutes, six faculties of the Humboldt University of Berlin, and more than 370 high tech companies. It is hosted by FIRST, the Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Architecture and Software Technology, in collaboration with the computer science institute of Humboldt University. For more information and registration information, see the M4M homepage at http://m4m.loria.fr/ Deadline for submissions: September 1st, 2005 Notification: October 17, 2005 Camera ready versions: November 8, 2005 Workshop dates: December 1-2, 2005 The program committee for M4M consists of Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt University / FIRST (local organizations); Carlos Areces, INRIA Lorraine; Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine; Torben Brauner, Roskilde University; Stephane Demri, ENS de Cachan; Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano; Rajeev Gore, University of Canberra; Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester; Joost-Pieter Katoen, University of Twente; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester; and Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool. __________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Holger Schlingloff Head of the Synthesis, Validation and Testing Department Fraunhofer - Institute of Computer Architecture and Software Technology FHG-FIRST, Kekulestr 7, D-12489 Berlin, Germany Professor for Specification, Verification and Testing Theory Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-University Rudower Chaussee 25, D-12489 Berlin, Germany phone: ++49 30 6392 1907 mobile: ++49 179 5973372 fax: ++49 30 6392 1805 __________________________________________________________________ From: Subject: 3rd IEEE Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:44:10 +1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 153 (153) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test & Applications (DELTA=E2=80=9A2006) January 17-19, 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia URL: http://www.monash.edu.my/events/Delta2006 Sponsored by:=20 IEEE Computer Society (TTTC), IEEE Malaysia Section, Monash University Malaysia Objectives: The main goal of DELTA 2006 is to bring together specialists from all over the world to meet and to discuss research and engineering problems and results in the emerging area of electronic design, manufacturing, test, advanced system applications and related areas. Scope: Original contributions are sought in the wide range of the areas of electronics design, test and applications including (but are not limited to): 1. Design: Digital Devices, Components and Techniques, Analog Components and Techniques, System Architecture, Simulation and Modelling, Microprocessors and ASICs, Opto-Electronics, Power Electronics, Multi-Chip Projects, Packaging, Practical Realisation & Field Trials Emerging Technologies, Design & Re-Use= 2. Testing: System Testing, Design Verifications, Built-In Self-test Techniques, Design for Testability, Boundary Scan, Analog and Mixed-Signal Test, Fault-Tolerant and Robustness, Concurrent Checking and On-Line Testing, Measurement for Reliability and Safety Assessment, Characterisation Testing, Performance Modelling and Analysis, Sequential Circuits Test and Memory Test 3. Applications: Communications and Networking, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence systems, Instrumentation, Measurements and Control, Medical Electronics, Variable Speed Drives, Real-Time Systems, Novel Systems and Applications Multimedia, Education, Technology Transfer Special sessions: Proposals are also sought for organizing special sessions and tutorials/seminars on =E2=80=9Ehot topics=E2=80=B0 in design, test and applications. SUBMISSIONS: Prospective authors are invited to submit: 1. =C2=B7 Full paper (5 - 6 pages) or an extended abstract (2 - 4 pages) 2. =C2=B7 Affiliation and address of each author 3. =C2=B7 Contact author=E2=80=9As name, postal and e-mail address 4. =C2=B7 A short biography of the principal author All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Workshop Program Committee and the panel of reviewers =CB=86 experts in the corresponding topic areas. The acceptance/rejection of the manuscripts will be based on the results of the review. Submissions should be done electronically as PDF (preferred) or standard Postscript files. In submitting an abstract the author(s) agree that, upon acceptance, they will prepare the final manuscript in time for the inclusion into the formal IEEE Computer Society published proceedings, and will present the paper at the Workshop. An accepted paper will be published in the proceedings only if the registration form and the full-fee payment for one of the authors is received and correctly processed. Key Dates: Manuscripts submission 19 August 2005 Notification of Acceptance 26 September 2005 Submission of camera-ready manuscripts 28 October 2005 Further information: School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia, No. 2, Jalan Kolej, Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Tel: +603-5636 0600 Fax: +603-5632 9314 Email: delta2006_at_eng.monash.edu.my URL: http://www.monash.edu.my/events/Delta2006 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: ACL SIG Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:03:33 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 154 (154) Dear Friends, I wish to draw your attention to a Special Interest Group on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages which was recently established under the auspices of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). More information is available at: http://www.semitic.tk/ The activities of the SIG will be inaugurated during the ACL-2005 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, to be held in Ann Arbor, MI, on June 29th, 2005. See: http://fp.ccls.columbia.edu/~semwksp-acl05/ The Membership List of the SIG is defined by an electronic mailing list. You can join the list and set several mail and privacy options (including the option not to receive any e-mail) using the on-line interface: https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/semitic Shuly -- Shuly Wintner Dept. of Computer Science, University of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel Phone: +972 (4) 8288180 Fax: +972 (4) 8249331 shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly From: Shuly Wintner Subject: ISCOL registration Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:56:55 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 155 (155) ISCOL registration, and more details ==================================== For those who intend to attend ISCOL on Wednesday next week, please take a few minutes of your time and register at: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~bagilad/iscol/registration.html ISCOL is a free seminar, but to facilitate the organization we need to have in advance an estimation of attendance numbers. Thank you for your time, and looking forward to seeing you next week! The ISCOL-2005 organizing team Enclosed please find more details about the location of IATL and ISCOL this year, directions to Technion, and entrance/parking arrangements. See you Wednesday next week! Location ======== The ISCOL and the IATL conferences will be held in the Taub building of the Computer Science faculty, Technion. On June 22, ISCOL and the plenary sessions will be held in room 337 (third floor), while IATL will be held in room 3 (entrance floor). On June 23, IATL will be held in room 337. Entrance to the Technion and parking: ===================================== To enter the Technion it is enough to tell the guard that you have came for the conference (either ISCOL or IATL). However, we recommend to have a printout of the program, just in case. There are no special parking arrangements. There are two parking areas which are very close to the Taub building. Directions on getting to the Technion from Tel-Aviv: ==================================================== Public transportation to the Technion: 1. Take a either a bus or a train to Haifa. Get off at Merkazit Hof Hakarmel. 2. Take the Eged line 11 bus to the Technion. It leaves every 30 minutes, starting from 6:55 till 19:00. For those who are staying at the Ganey Dan Hotel, there is a bus from Merkazit Hof Hakarmel to the Carmel Center (lines 3, 133 and 9). [deleted quotation]By car: 1. Turn off the Tel Aviv/Haifa coastal Highway 2 at the first exit for Haifa (signposted Haifa South, MATAM, Tirat Hacarmel). 2. Make a left turn at the 1st traffic lights after the exit. You are now on Flieman Street. You will pass the Canyon Haifa and Castra shopping malls on your right and the Congress Center on your left. 3. Go straight through two sets of traffic lights and drive up the Carmel mountain for 3 km. Half-way up the road is renamed Weinshal and renamed again Freud Street towards the top. Near the top of the hill, drive straight through another set of traffic lights. 4. At the top of the hill, Freud St. ends with a T-junction with traffic lights. At the junction, there are two lanes for turning left, and one slip lane for turning right. As you approach these lights, stay in the center lane. At the lights, make a left turn and an immediate right turn at the next lights onto Pica Road. Mercaz Horev Shopping Center is on your immediate right. 5. Driving down Pica Road, you will drive through four sets of traffic lights. Stay in the right-hand lane as you approach the yellow Paz gas station, and exit right down the slip lane, which is signposted Nawe Sha'anan, Technion. 6. Continue straight on this road (Hankin), driving under a bridge, then move into the left lane and drive through a short tunnel. Please note: buses cannot use the tunnel, and should maintain the right lane. 7. After the underpass tunnel, move over to the right-hand lane, and turn right into Komoly Street, signposted (orange) Technion, BEFORE the upcoming traffic lights. 8. Drive up Komoly St. for about 200m and veer left through the traffic lights onto Malal St. 9. Continue straight to the Technion campus on the left hand lane entering through the main Technion gate. 10. At the traffic circle continue straight ahead. About 100m ahead you'll see the Taub building of Computer Science on your right. For more details see: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/GeneralInformation/Directions/index.html From: Adrian Miles Subject: visualization and narrative Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:17:59 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 156 (156) Around the 14/6/05 Humanist Discussion List (D. Gants for W. McCarty) mentioned about 19.098 visualization and narrative that: [deleted quotation]I mean this in the friendlist possible way, and while I take the above as the beginning point my comments are very general. I am always struck, and I guess bemused, by the textual concentrations found on this list. As any designer can describe (or any decent architect detail through their reflective iterative design process) it is a nonsense to think that a word says more than a picture, or vice versa. The terms validated above, such as "clarity" and "explicitness" presume an enormous amount about knowledge, experience, and the intersection of both. Many people are able to read visual arguments as analogical structures, they've been trained in such traditions and practices. What gets obscured (regularly) is the misunderstandings between visual and a textual frames of reference. This happens at what could be described as different levels of granularity - designers I work with are shocked when they realise that the writers they work with don't actually know how to read typography (that that ascender there expresses ideas about weight and flight that really doesn't go with what you want your words to do). Similarly the writers are shocked that the designers will spend an eternity worrying over leading, kerning and faces, when really it is just some words on a white page and it is the 'meaning' of the words that matters. At larger scales the same errors or epistemological arguments beset discussions about arguments that images might make (for example in documentary or graphic narratives) versus the 'rigour' or 'clarity' of text. It is trivial for a picture to have clarity. It is trivial for text to have clarity. Luckily though we have poetry and song, and painting and cinema. Now many seem to think that when we 'write' poetry is absent. Nonsense, though I guess if you've *never* used a pun in your writing, or alliteration, I guess it might be the case :-) (An aside, I ask my students to complete the following rhyme: "What rhymes with shop and you buy at the butchers?" they all reply "chop" (i usually repeat this to get the rhythm happening) "What do you do at a green light" "Stop" is the automatic reply. Most don't realise they would have just lost their driving licence exam. :-)) The point is simply that there is a material substrate to language which is analogical and which overrides reason and the rational ("clarity" ). It is trivial to demonstrate. It is an error to assume that text is 'safe' from this while images are 'fraught' by this, this reveals an anxiety about images that really should have no place in computing humanities but in my experience tends to dominate. As Paul Carter explores in his recent "Materialist Thinking", both text and image (and other materialist practices) are active legitimate knowledge practices and it is a tragedy (as Barbara Maria-Stafford partially describes - references below) that the distance between them is as large as it is. Stafford, Barbara Maria. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 1998 Stafford, Barbara Maria. Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 1999. -- cheers Adrian Miles ____________ hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog From: Willard Mccarty Subject: job at King's College London Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:37:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 157 (157) The following is a job advert for a post in the new AHRC ICT Methods Network based in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at King's College London. This newly commissioned Network will support the use of ICT for advanced research in the arts and humanities. It comprises a partnership of 5 institutions, jointly directed by Marilyn Deegan and Harold Short, and managed by Lorna Hughes. As many will know, the CCH is a dynamic, rapidly growing academic department and development centre in one of the UK's leading research-intensive institutions. I urge you to send this advert to anyone whom you might consider to be eligible. Although the appointment is for a fixed term, the growth of humanities computing in the UK, especially at the CCH, should allow the successful applicant to find exciting opportunities subsequent to it. All communication regarding this job should be directed to Lorna Hughes, lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk. Yours, WM ------------- Job at King's College, London AHRC ICT Methods Network Administration Centre Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) King=B9s College, London UK Senior Project Officer: Network Activities and Publications Coordinator. =80 Fixed term: 32 months (depending on the start date) =80 ALC 3 =A330363 - 35883 pa Applications are invited for a new post in the newly established AHRC ICT Methods Network Administrative Centre (NAC), based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King=B9s College London. This national initiative will promote and disseminate the use of ICT in UK arts and humanities research. The project will build a broadly based collaborative network of researchers from all humanities and arts disciplines who are working on the application of computational methods in research in the UK higher and further education community. In developing a series of activities and publications, the Network will build new modes of collaboration and facilitate multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary work. The work will be coordinated by a Network Administration Centre, which will provide centralized support for the wide variety of distributed activities and publications. This centre will be staffed by a manager, two activities coordinators, and an administrator. The AHRC ICT Methods Network will run for 3 years from April 2005. Job description Senior Project Officer: Network Activities and Publications Coordinator. The holder of this position will be responsible for the development and management of a broad programme of activities and publications to promote, support and disseminate the use of ICT for effective research in the arts and humanities, and take responsibility for overall supervision of all stages of these activities and publications, including planning, development and implementation. This will include the preparation of application procedures, contracts, budgets and evaluation plans. Proposed activities include expert seminars, workshops, conferences and postgraduate training events. All activities and publications will be developed in close consultation with the Manager and Directors of the Methods Network and with staff from a number of participating institutions, in particular the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). Applicants should have a degree in a humanities, arts or related discipline, and extensive experience of working on a collaborative basis in major research projects involving research academics and specialists in applied computing, and have experience of managing complex events and activities in an academic context. An interest and expertise in electronic publishing and its implementation, as well as expertise in the technologies associated with the development and management of content for the web, would be an advantage. Flexibility and the ability to work as part of a team are essential, as are excellent communication skills and the ability to plan and implement projects and work to deadlines. Further details about this post, and the Methods Network, can be found at the project website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/methnet/ Or by sending e-mail to lorna.Hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk Closing date for receipt of completed applications is: 27th June 2005. Interviews will take place the week commencing 4th July 2005. -- Willard Mccarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk From: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Subject: visualization and narrative Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 01:32:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 158 (158) I'd recommend the books of Edward Tufte: Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index From: Francois Lachance Subject: visualization and narrative Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:48:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 159 (159) David (for Willard) and Adrian, I have long been wondering about the prestige of vocabully [sic] or the shape of the sign in the image/word debates and discources. It is an interest that received a particular poke upon reading via ELM the latest of recent contributions to the thread on visualization and narrative. Adrian's point comes home when one rereads the previous sentence and finds a plural (contributionS) -- easy to miss while reading quickly and there is no typographical indication to emphasize the plurality whereas difficult to miss in the context of a discourse where a list of message header info associated with the messages connected to the thread are displayed. Adrian has given me, at least, a way of returning to the terms I favour: text, verbal and non-verbal. That is, a semiotic notion of text as a modular and rule-connected artefact that is accessed through a work or given instance. The adjectives "verbal" and "non-verbal" modify the noun "text". There is of course at play here a phenomenology as well as a taxonomy. There is not so obviously no guarantee that the use of these terms will create discursive interventions that reflect and model a non-hierarchal approach to the relations between the verbal and the non-verbal, i.e. there is no guarantee that the stories told will travel in both directions, no guarantee that there will not be a reduction of the notion of text to a concrete entity. Sometimes when I contemplate why for example the work of Yuri Lotman on secondary modeling systems has not had the uptake I believe it should in certain discursive formations, I turn to the history of the notion of "natural languague" and wonder how it is that "natural language" became equative with "verbal language". And I recall that the ~competition~ between word and image is often a screen for ideological contention. Ironically, I conducted a search of the Humanist archives for the string "non-vebal text" and got a 404... The machine-generated message looks and reads differently based on which browser one is using and what HTML the server sends back to the browser. [I accessed the site via Lynx and got the "404 Not Found" string as a title in the right hand corner, the "Not Found" string centred, the sentence-like string "The requested URL /Architext/AT-Humanistquery.html was not found on this server." situated like a paragraph, and white space appropriately displayed.] Good looking like good reading involves parsing: one looks for what one sees and does not see; reads for unseeable which is neither the seen nor the unseen just as the unreadable is neither the read nor the unread. The untranslated, the translated and the untranslatable. Often some folks will place the non-verbal in the position of the untranslatable, the ineffable. This could be diagrammed as a pyramid or a sink hole: verbal ---> non-verbal <--- verbal Adjust the arrows and a different set of stories emerges: verbal <--> non-verbal <--> verbal And some tiling can be envisaged or imagined <--> verbal <--> non-verbal <--> verbal <--> non-verbal <--> verbal <--> where all the granularity can blur depending upon the perspective one choose to occupy. And it is indeed the very moral question of choice of position that resurfaces whether explicitly or not in the word-and-image texts. Willy nilly what emerge are stances vis-a-vis the materiality of the body, vectors oriented vis-a-vis the embodiedness of cognition. Slight my sight and you damage my hearing. [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: "G.M.Welling" Subject: visualization and narrative Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 05:19:15 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 160 (160) I would recommend: Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past Authored by: David J. Staley dr. George M. Welling g.m.welling_at_rug.nl dep. Informatiekunde (Computing in the Humanities) University of Groningen - The Netherlands phone : +31 50 3635474 web : http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: TEI-C call for nominations Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:40:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 161 (161) The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and Council. Nominations should be sent to Matthew Zimmerman at matt_at_nyu.edu by August 1st, 2005. Elections will take place at the annual Members's Meeting in October, 2005. Self-nominations are welcome, and should include a brief statement of interest and biographical paragraph. All nominations should include an email address for the nominee and should indicate whether the nomination is for Board or Council. The TEI-C Board is the governing body for the TEI Consortium, and is responsible for its strategic and financial oversight. The TEI-C Council oversees the technical development of the TEI Guidelines. Service in either group is an opportunity to help the TEI grow and serve its members better. For more information on the Board please see: http://www.tei-c.org/ Consortium/bylaws.xml.ID=TEIby-A4 For more information on the Council please see: http://www.tei-c.org/ Consortium/bylaws.xml.ID=TEIby-A6 To see a list of current Board and Council Members see: http:// www.tei-c.org.uk/Consortium/memship.xml.ID=TEI-TEI-C TEI-C membership is NOT a requirement to serve on the Board or Council. Candidates should be familiar with the TEI and should be willing to commit time to discussion, decision-making, and TEI activities. If you have ideas about how to make the TEI stronger or can help it do a better job, nominate yourself! Or, if you know someone who you think could contribute to TEI, nominate him or her! Thank you, The TEI-C Elections Committee From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: TEI-C call for nominations (correction) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:36:13 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 162 (162) [deleted quotation]Deadline is August 1st, not August 15th. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 163 (163) From: Willard McCarty Dear colleagues: Because of the idiosyncratic and complex way in which Humanist works, my recent absence from the helm of Humanist's distribution mechanism may have resulted in postings going astray. We were fortunate to have David Gants' able help during this time, but because many postings come directly to me, and I was not able to pay much attention to my e-mail for the last few weeks, you may find that your contributions have simply vanished, or are only now appearing. Mea culpa. Please resend if any have been lost. Those I do have will follow shortly. 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: mat sept Subject: Organdi Quarterly invites Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:20:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 164 (164) submissions for OQ#8/9: détail/detail (deadline: October 31st 2005) Dear all, Organdi Quarterly (http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/) is calling for contributions for its new issue: OQ#8/9 détail/detail (31/10/2005) Détail (deadline 31/10/2005) Fidèles à leurs habitudes trans-disciplinaires, les membres d’Organdi invitent les arts plastiques et visuels, animés ou inanimés, ainsi que les sciences de tout bord, dur comme mou, temporel comme atemporel, à nous enrichir de détails à mettre en lumière ou à éteindre, de détails qui éclairent ou qui distraient, de détails à retenir ou à écarter, de détails bien à leur place ou ébranlant les convictions, ou encore tout type de détail auquel nous n’aurions pas pensé. Organdi désire traquer les occasions et/ou les raisons d’utiliser le détail comme illustration superficielle ou brique essentielle, comme élément de précision ou moyen de généralisation, comme preuve ou affabulation. Et peut-être nous aider à débusquer l’hôte invisible qui se cache dans les détails : le diable ou l’élégance ? Comme dans tous nos numéros, les contributions ne portant pas sur le thème du dossier sont également les bienvenues, et seront examinées pour les sections suivantes d’Organdi Quarterly: Courier des Lecteurs, Espace Libre (articles, interviews, documents), Ce qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de détruire, mérite d'être sauvé (articles, interviews, documents) Lire, Voire, Ecouter (critiques), Out of Frame (expositions). pour plus de détails, visitez la page: http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/submission vous pouvez également adresser vos questions par e-mail à organdi_revue_at_yahoo.com Cordialement Les éditeurs d’ Organdi Quarterly ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail (deadline 31/10/2005) Faithful to their trans-disciplinary taste, Organdi members invite artists and scientists of all kinds to enrich readers with details that should be illuminated vs. hidden, details that clarify vs. distract, details to keep vs. those put aside, details that conform in vs. those that challenge our traditional beliefs, or any other kind of detail that we haven’t thought of. Organdi is looking for occasions and/or reasons where details are used as superficial illustrations or essential elements, as elements of precision or means of generalization, as concrete evidence or pure inventions. And perhaps you can help us find what hides in details: the devil or elegance? As usual, other contributions unrelated to the theme of the issue will be considered for the following sections of Organdi Quarterly: Letters to the Editors, Espace Libre (articles, interviews, documents), Ce qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de détruire, mérite d'être sauvé (articles, interviews, documents) Books, Music, Cinema & the Arts (cultural reviews), Out of Frame (exhibitions). for more details visit our submission page at http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/submission for questions, send a mail to organdi_revue_at_yahoo.com Best regards the Editors of Organdi Quarterly From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: phylogenetics of language Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:18:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 165 (165) We have had discussions off and on on cladistics and the use of a more rigorous `mathematical' approach to reconstruction and the phylogenetics of languages. The last issue of _Language_, Vol. 81, no. 2 (June, 2005) has a well-argued and documented article, "Perfect phylogenetic networks: A new methodology for reconstructing the evolutionary history of natural languages," by Lucy Nakhleh, Don Ringe, and Tandy Warnow, pp. 382-420. I do not buy into it, since most of our concepts, such as language, dialect, idiolect, reconstructed language, etc. are ideal types rather than Aristotelian (yes/no) concepts, but it is, as I said, well done and well documented. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.22 Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:21:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 166 (166) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 22 (June 22 - 29, 2005) INTERVIEW A UBIQUITY INTERVIEW: RICHARD FIELD ON TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCE Attorney and legal consultant Richard Field says: "Technology is driving things, new invention is driving things... And business has always come up with new models to take advantage of new techniques, and the Internet is no different. Any other science area that we=B9re dealing with is no= different, in genetics, or whatever else." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i22_field.html From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- June 2005 Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:21:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 167 (167) CIT INFOBITS June 2005 No. 84 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/bitjun05.html. ...................................................................... Personal Digital Libraries eLearning and the Structure of Higher Education Institutions Principles for Supporting Cyber-Faculty Clickers in the Classroom Update on Videoconferencing Options Recommended Reading ...................................................................... PERSONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES Academics have always amassed large collections of personal research materials: journals, letters, clippings, photographs, slides, and books. Digital capturing, computer storage, and retrieval tools have made even vaster collections both possible and practical. In "Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections" (D-LIB MAGAZINE, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2005), Neil Beagrie looks at the impact that growth of personal libraries will have on individuals and the libraries in their institutions. He envisions the need for more services to help control, protect, organize, and present these materials. And he suggests that more formal networking can make personal collections a part of the larger body of materials available to researchers. The article is available online at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/beagrie/06beagrie.html. D-Lib Magazine [ISSN: 1082-9873] covers innovation and research in digital libraries. D-Lib is published, online and free of charge, eleven times a year by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). For more information, contact: D-Lib Magazine, c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives, 1895 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191 USA; tel: 703-620-8990; fax: 703-620-0913; email: dlib@cnri.reston.va.us; Web: http://www.dlib.org/. ...................................................................... ELEARNING AND THE STRUCTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS "[A]re traditional universities able to compete with other independent education providers in relation to social demands for 'life long learning' and globalised education services?" Gurmak Singh, John O'Donoghue, and Harvey Worton think that eLearning has a "fundamental impact on the structure of higher education." Online-only corporate and virtual universities compete with traditional colleges and universities for some of the same students. Even though traditional higher education institutions have the advantage of established reputations, to maintain this competitive edge, they need to incorporate more flexibility into their existing structure. In "A Study into the Effects of eLearning on Higher Education" (JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND LEARNING PRACTICE, vol. 2, issue 1, 2005), the authors outline suggestions for making these structural changes. The paper is available online at http://jutlp.uow.edu.au/2005_v02_i01/odonoghue003.html. The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice [ISSN: 1449-9789] is published bi-annually by the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources (CEDIR), University of Wollongong. For more information, contact: Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, University of Wollongong, c/o CEDIR, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; email: jutlp@uow.edu.au; Web: http://jutlp.uow.edu.au/. ...................................................................... PRINCIPLES FOR SUPPORTING CYBER-FACULTY "As colleges and universities work steadily to get full-time faculty onboard with distance learning, virtual adjuncts have eagerly stepped up to fill the void, thereby enabling institutions to respond promptly to market demand." In "Managing Virtual Adjunct Faculty: Applying the Seven Principles of Good Practice" (ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION, vol. VIII, no. II, Summer 2005), Maria Puzziferro-Schnitzer uses Chickering and Gamson's principles as a suggested framework for supporting and managing "cyber-faculty." Although Puzziferro-Schnitzer uses examples from a community college viewpoint, the principles can be applied to any institution that wants to attract and retain high quality faculty. The paper is available online at http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/summer82/schnitzer82.htm. The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration is a free, peer-reviewed quarterly published by the Distance and Distributed Education Center, The State University of West Georgia, 1600 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118 USA; Web: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/jmain11.html. See also: Chickering, Arthur W., and Gamson, Zelda F. APPLYING THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 47, Fall 1991. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc. Short summary of Chickering and Gamson's seven principles: http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm ...................................................................... CLICKERS IN THE CLASSROOM Resembling television remote control devices, clickers transmit and record responses to questions. Unlike earlier keypad student response systems, clickers can be registered to a student and used in any classroom equipped with a receiving station (which can also be portable). Using clickers, instructors can quickly poll students to ascertain their understanding and mastery of course materials. Clicker polls, unlike a show-of-hands poll, can be anonymous; the results can be quickly tabulated, recorded, and saved in a variety of formats; and students report enjoying the immediate feedback they get. For more information about using clickers in classroom settings, see "7 Things You Should Know About . . . Clickers" at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf. EDUCAUSE publishes the "7 Things You Should Know About . . ." series on emerging learning practices and technologies. 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/. See also: "No Wrong Answer: Click It" WIRED NEWS, May 14, 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67530,00.html ...................................................................... UPDATE ON VIDEOCONFERENCING OPTIONS In his brief review, "Can you see me now?" (PRESENTATIONS, vol. 19, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 38, 40-1), Stephen Regenold updates readers on videoconferencing developments that are making desktop conferencing better and easier. The article is available online at http://www.presentations.com/presentations/technology/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000964173. Presentations: Technology and Techniques for Effective Communication [ISSN 1041-9780] is published monthly by VNU Business Media, 50 S. Ninth St., Minneapolis, MN 55402 USA; tel: 612-333-0471; fax: 612-333-6526; Web: http://www.presentations.com/. ...................................................................... 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May be reproduced in any medium for non-commercial purposes. From: "dalia bojan" Subject: ISCOL 2005 presentations are available Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:24:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 168 (168) Hi, You can find the ISCOL 2005 presentations and more NLP tools and links on the following link: <http://mila.cs.technion.ac.il/website/english/events/ISCOL2005/index.html>http://mila.cs.technion.ac.il/website/english/events/ISCOL2005/index.html Enjoy, Thanks Dalia From: "Douglas Galbi" Subject: words and pictures Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:22:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 169 (169) [deleted quotation]I've actually collected real behavioral data on this issue. From about 1890 to 1995 in personal use, persons in the U.S. have spoken about 12,000 words on the telephone for each photograph they have made. See http://www.galbithink.org/sense-s6.htm#wpp1 Biologically, sound and sight are closely integrated in the living body from the earliest stages of making sense. See "Sense in Communication" at http://www.galbithink.org/lessmore.htm Douglas Galbi From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.102 visualization and narrative Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:27:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 170 (170) David (for Willard) and Adrian, I have long been wondering about the prestige of vocabully [sic] or the shape of the sign in the image/word debates and discources. It is an interest that received a particular poke upon reading via ELM the latest of recent contributions to the thread on visualization and narrative. Adrian's point comes home when one rereads the previous sentence and finds a plural (contributionS) -- easy to miss while reading quickly and there is no typographical indication to emphasize the plurality whereas difficult to miss in the context of a discourse where a list of message header info associated with the messages connected to the thread are displayed. Adrian has given me, at least, a way of returning to the terms I favour: text, verbal and non-verbal. That is, a semiotic notion of text as a modular and rule-connected artefact that is accessed through a work or given instance. The adjectives "verbal" and "non-verbal" modify the noun "text". There is of course at play here a phenomenology as well as a taxonomy. There is not so obviously no guarantee that the use of these terms will create discursive interventions that reflect and model a non-hierarchal approach to the relations between the verbal and the non-verbal, i.e. there is no guarantee that the stories told will travel in both directions, no guarantee that there will not be a reduction of the notion of text to a concrete entity. Sometimes when I contemplate why for example the work of Yuri Lotman on secondary modeling systems has not had the uptake I believe it should in certain discursive formations, I turn to the history of the notion of "natural languague" and wonder how it is that "natural language" became equative with "verbal language". And I recall that the ~competition~ between word and image is often a screen for ideological contention. Ironically, I conducted a search of the Humanist archives for the string "non-vebal text" and got a 404... The machine-generated message looks and reads differently based on which browser one is using and what HTML the server sends back to the browser. [I accessed the site via Lynx and got the "404 Not Found" string as a title in the right hand corner, the "Not Found" string centred, the sentence-like string "The requested URL /Architext/AT-Humanistquery.html was not found on this server." situated like a paragraph, and white space appropriately displayed.] Good looking like good reading involves parsing: one looks for what one sees and does not see; reads for unseeable which is neither the seen nor the unseen just as the unreadable is neither the read nor the unread. The untranslated, the translated and the untranslatable. Often some folks will place the non-verbal in the position of the untranslatable, the ineffable. This could be diagrammed as a pyramid or a sink hole: verbal ---> non-verbal <--- verbal Adjust the arrows and a different set of stories emerges: verbal <--> non-verbal <--> verbal And some tiling can be envisaged or imagined <--> verbal <--> non-verbal <--> verbal <--> non-verbal <--> verbal <--> where all the granularity can blur depending upon the perspective one choose to occupy. And it is indeed the very moral question of choice of position that resurfaces whether explicitly or not in the word-and-image texts. Willy nilly what emerge are stances vis-a-vis the materiality of the body, vectors oriented vis-a-vis the embodiedness of cognition. Slight my sight and you damage my hearing. [deleted quotation]Gerda and Eric: a [deleted quotation]successful use [deleted quotation]or information [deleted quotation]ideal world, [deleted quotation]are: ana-logical [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: John Unsworth Subject: Digital Humanities 2006: Call for Papers Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:17:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 171 (171) The joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities 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. Submissions are invited on all topics concerning humanities computing: * text analysis, corpora, language processing * IT in librarianship and documentation * computer-based research in literary, cultural and historical studies * computing applications for the arts, architecture and music * research issues such as o information design and modelling o the cultural impact of the new media * the role of humanities computing in academic curricula Submissions may be of three types: 1. Papers. The submission should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer-reviewed. 2. Poster presentations and software demonstrations. This is especially suitable for work in progress to be discussed with delegates. Poster presentations will be reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. 3. Sessions. These can be either 3-paper sessions or panel discussions on a chosen topic. Sessions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. Submissions may be in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian, but submissions in languages other than English or French are expected to provide an English summary. The firm deadline for submissions is November 14, 2006. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2006. A limited number of bursaries will be available for new scholars. A more detailed call for papers can be found on=20 the website: http://=20 www.digitalhumanities.org/en/Conferences/06/, and examples of programmes and abstracts from previous conferences can be found at: http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml. For more information please contact: * Lisa Lena Opas-H=E4nninen, Chair of the International Programme Committee lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi, or * Liliane Gallet-Blanchard, Local Organiser liliane.gallet_at_wanadoo.fr From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Digital Library Symposium 29 Sept 2005 at U of Maryland Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:19:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 172 (172) The University of Maryland Libraries is delighted to announce a digital library symposium (29 September 2005) entitled 'The Library in Bits and Bytes', an official event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the University of Maryland, College Park, and pre-symposium workshops, Introduction to XML and the TEI (27-28 September) and 'Demystifying EAD (28 September). This one-day symposium will reflect on how library practice has embraced and is challenged by digital library initiatives. Plenary speakers are: -- Deanna Marcum (Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress) speaking on 'Creating an Organizational Culture to Support Digital Library Initiatives'; -- Anne Kenney (Associate University Librarian, Cornell University Library) on 'Five Organizational Stages of Digital Preservation'; -- Paul Conway (Director, Information Technology Services, Duke University Libraries) on 'Why Is IT So Hard to Do?'; -- G. Sayeed Choudhury (Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge Center, Johns Hopkins University) on 'The Cutting Edge: The Next Generation Digital Library' The symposium will close with a panel discussion entitled 'Pattern Recognition: Trends, Forecasts, and Fragments of a Future', chaired by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, with Ben Bederson, Allison Druin, Stuart Moulthrop, and Jennifer Preece. Pre-symposium workshops (which may be registered for independently) are a two-day hands-on 'Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative (27-28 September) and a one-day (28 September) introduction to Encoded Archival Description entitled 'Demystifying EAD'. Full symposium and workshop details are available at http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/symposium Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu From: Julia Flanders Subject: Workshop: Intensive Intro to TEI, Brown University Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:20:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 173 (173) There are still a few spaces left in the intensive TEI workshop being taught this August at Brown University: August 11-13, 2005 Brown University Co-sponsored by the Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project, in conjunction with Summer and Continuing Education at Brown University http://www.stg.brown.edu/edu/tei_intro2005.html The Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project are offering a new three-day workshop on text encoding with the TEI Guidelines. This intensive hands-on introduction will cover the basics of TEI encoding, including a discussion of stylesheets and XML publication tools, project planning, and funding issues. The workshop is designed to help encoding novices get quickly up to speed on basic text encoding, with particular emphasis on the transcription of primary sources and archival materials. Archivists, librarians, digital project managers, humanities faculty and graduate students might all find this workshop a useful background for a closer engagement with text encoding theory and practice. The course will be taught by Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, and Patrick Yott. Attendees are welcome to bring materials from their own projects for discussion and practice. The course fee is $575, with low-cost accommodation available on the Brown campus. To register, or for more information, please visit the site above. Thanks! Julia Julia Flanders Women Writers Project Brown University From: Mori Rimon Subject: Talk on Machine Learning and Natural Language 7/7/05 Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:23:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 174 (174) Title: Machine Learning and the Cognitive Basis of Natural Language Speaker: Shalom Lappin, Department of Computer Science, King's College, London Time: Thursday 7/7/2005 15:00 Place: The Hebrew University, Giv'at Ram, Jerusalem Edelstein center, Levi building, room 324 Abstract: The past fifteen years have seen a massive expansion in the application of information theoretic and machine learning methods to natural language processing. This work has yielded impressive results in accuracy and coverage for engineering systems addressing a wide variety of tasks in areas like speech recognition, morphological analysis, parsing, semantic interpretation, and dialogue management. We can also consider whether the inductive learning mechanisms that these methods employ have consequences not simply for natural language engineering, but for our understanding of the cognitive basis of human language acquisition and processing. Most machine learning has used supervised learning techniques. These have limited implications for theories of human language learning, given that they require annotation of the training data with the structures and rules that are to be learned. However, recently there has been an increasing amount of promising research on unsupervised machine learning of linguistic knowledge. The results of this research suggest the computational viability of the view that general cognitive learning and projection mechanisms with limited bias in naltural language models, rather than a richly articulated language faculty may be sufficient to support language acquistion and intepretation. From: "Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)" Subject: FINAL CFP: VORTE'05 (Extended Deadline) - EDOC Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:24:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 175 (175) Workshop on Vocabulary, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise Due to many requests we have decided to extend the deadline to July, 11th. We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this announcement CALL FOR PAPERS International EDOC Workshop on VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2005) http://arch.cs.utwente.nl/~guizzard/VORTE05/ as part of the The 9th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference 19-23 September 2005, Enschede, The netherlands http://www.edocconference.org THEMES AND GOALS Vocabularies, ontologies and rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE is the first of what we hope will be many workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modeling, information systems, semantic web, MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and business rules to discuss the role of foundational and lightweight ontologies in the development of conceptual tools for enterprise computing. The Workshop Encourages Submissions on topics including (but not limited to) the following: * Business Vocabularies * Business Rules * Enterprise Integration and Interoperability * Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling * Vocabularies and Foundational Ontologies for Enterprise Information Systems * Enterprise Modeling and Simulation * Foundations for the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) * Enterprise Computing and the Semantic Web * Enterprise Reference Architectures * Enterprise Domain Engineering [...] From: lpnmr05_at_mat.unical.it Subject: LPNMR'05: Call for Participation Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:27:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 176 (176) Call for Participation 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 is 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. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: recent neglect Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:38:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 177 (177) Dear colleagues: Because of the idiosyncratic and complex way in which Humanist works, my recent absence from the helm of Humanist's distribution mechanism may have resulted in postings going astray. We were fortunate to have David Gants' able help during this time, but because many postings come directly to me, and I was not able to pay much attention to my e-mail for the last few weeks, you may find that your contributions have simply vanished, or are only now appearing. Mea culpa. Please resend if any have been lost. Those I do have should have appeared just moments ago. 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: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: Digital Document Quarterly 4(2) is now available 6d Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 07:00:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 178 (178) DDQ 4(2) is available at=20 <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_4_2.htm>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladn= ey/ddq_4_2.htm=20 This DIGITAL DOCUMENT QUARTERLY number focuses on=20 how institutions might choose digital repository=20 software=ADa potentially difficult decision since=20 there exist about 80 open source offerings and=20 about 20 commercial offerings that all seem to be=20 competently designed. The decision can be risky,=20 since an institution might become =93locked in=94 to=20 its choice by tailoring software and=20 institutional procedures that it builds on its=20 chosen repository base. Happily, a proposed=20 standard interface, Content Repository API for=20 Java=99 (JSR 170), might mitigate the risk. This=20 is a new prospect, since it seems that only one JSR 170 implementation= exists. This number also continues prior discussions of=20 epistemology with a discussion of two words whose=20 usage is fraught with strident debate:=20 =91dialectic=92 and =91scientific=92. It also expands on=20 the=20 <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_2_1.htm#_Toc36641123>DDQ=20 2(1) discussion of Russell's Paradox by reminding=20 us all that natural language permits nonsensical=20 phrases=ADthat is, phrases that mean nothing whatsoever. DDQ 4(2) includes columns about: Library Institutions vs. Preservation Technology? Preserving Dynamic Digital Objects Choosing Digital Repository Software Making Repository Software Replaceable News reports on digital storage demand=20 and capacity, and on doubtful patents Recommendations for books by Carnap,=20 Conant, and Garwin & Charpak, and The usual section on practical aspects of personal computing. Best wishes, Henry H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. HMG Consulting <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ Saratoga, California 95070 From: "B. Tommie Usdin" Subject: Humanities sessions at Extreme Markup Languages Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:58:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 179 (179) Subscribers to Humanist may be especially interested in the following activities at Extreme this year: - a tutorial on The Data Format Description Language (DFDL) will be taught by Kristoffer H. Rose of IBM at Extreme Markup Languages 2005. http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Tutorials/Rose_tutorial.html - a tutorial on XML processing in Prolog will be taught by David Dubin of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Tutorials/index.html#Dubin - Format and content: Should they be separated? Can they be? With a counterexample, by Wendell Piez, Mulberry Technologies http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/wednesday.html#Wednesday245-2 - TEI HORSEing around: Handling overlap using the Trojan Horse method by Syd Bauman, Brown University Women Writers Project http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/thursday.html#Thursday900-1a - LMNL Matters? by Paul Caton, Women Writers Project, Brown University http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/thursday.html#Thursday945-1 For information on the conference, see: http://www.extrememarkup.com/ Academic and student discounts on registration fees are available: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2005/registration.asp Cheap housing options are described in the conference WIKI at: http://extreme.xmlhack.com/Montreal_Lodgings -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2005 mailto:extreme_at_mulberrytech.com August 1-5, 2005 http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Montreal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Myth, practice, theory Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 07:00:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 180 (180) Willard, Here is a little food for thought or a nibble for the conversations between presentations at the gatherings of academic computing humanists. Shosana Felman writes in Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight Myth in Freud is not an accident of theory: it is not external to the theory, but the very vehicle of theory, a vehicle of _mediation between practice and theorization_. Of course, the obvious question is to ask after myths of humanities computing. But before launching that call I want to point to the terms "vehicle" and the slight difference between "theory" and "theorization". And so ask if a theorist is not always already an accidental tourist or it there is not a theorist in every subscriber native? -- 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: "Marie-Madeleine Martinet" Subject: Digital Humanities 2006 Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:31:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 181 (181) [The following is an update of Humanist 19.108, published on 2 July.] The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invite you to the conference Digital Humanities 2006 5-9 July, 2006 at the Sorbonne, Paris, France The joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities 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. Submissions are invited on all topics concerning humanities computing: * text analysis, corpora, language processing * IT in librarianship and documentation * computer-based research in literary, cultural and historical studies, * computing applications for the arts, architecture and music * research issues such as * information design and modelling * the cultural impact of the new media * the role of humanities computing in academic curricula Submissions may be of three types : 1. Papers. The submission should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer-reviewed. 2. Poster presentations and software demonstrations. This is especially suitable for work in progress to be discussed with delegates. Poster presentations will be reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. 3. Sessions. These can be either 3-paper sessions or panel discussions on a chosen topic. Sessions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. Submissions may be in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian, but submissions in languages other than English or French are expected to provide an English summary. The firm deadline for submissions is November 14, 2006. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2006. A limited number of bursaries will be available for young scholars. A more detailed call for papers can be found on the website: <http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr> and examples of programmes and abstracts from previous conferences can be found at: <http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml> For more information please contact: Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen Chair of the International Programme Committee lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi Liliane Gallet-Blanchard Local Organiser liliane.gallet_at_wanadoo.fr From: geoff_at_cs.miami.edu Subject: LPAR-12 Deadline Reminder Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:35:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 182 (182) LPAR-12 Montego Bay, Jamaica http://www.lpar.net/2005 2nd-6th December 2005 Reminder 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. Dates and Deadlines: + Submission of full paper abstracts 11th July + Submission of full papers 18th July + Submission of short papers 26th September Details are available on the WWW site ... http://www.lpar.net/2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jamaica ... Land of LPAR and Reggae -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ellen Degott" Subject: ESF Consultation questionnaire Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:34:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 183 (183) European Science Foundation ESF Consultation questionnaire on its instruments An essential element of the ESF mission is to serve the scientific community at large, in close cooperation with our Member Organisations. To be able to evaluate the effectiveness of its instruments in doing so, ESF highly values the view of this scientific community on the quality of its operations. For this purpose, ESF has developed a consultation questionnaire on its instruments. ESF would highly appreciate your time and effort for sharing your experiences by filling in this questionnaire. The questionnaire can be accessed via the following link: www.esf.org/questionnaire European Science Foundation, Unit for Humanities http://www.esf.org/human>http://www.esf.org/human From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS for 5/05 & announcements Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:32:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 184 (184) To whom it may concern, Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the publication of its May issue, the first of the eleventh volume. The table of contents appears below, and the journal can be accessed free online at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html We are also publishing the first of the Early Modern Literary Studies Text Series, entitled "Early Stuart Libels: an edition of poetry from manuscript sources." Ed. Alastair Bellany and Andrew McRae. Early Modern Literary Studies Text Series I (2005). <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/texts/libels/> Finally, we are pleased to announce the first winner of the annual Literature Online Prize. The 2005 Prize goes LaRue Love Sloan, for her article, "'Caparisoned like the horse': Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew", EMLS 10.2 (September, 2004) 1.1-24 http://purl.oclc.org/emls/10-2/sloacapa.htm>. Yours sincerely Sean Lawrence Assistant Editor Articles: "Set in portraiture": George Gascoigne, Queen Elizabeth, and Adapting the Royal Image. [1] Stephen Hamrick, Minnesota State University, Moorhead. "The Cittie is in an uproare": Staging London in The Booke of Sir Thomas More. [2] Tracey Hill, Bath Spa University College. "I Live With Bread Like You": Forms of Inclusion in Richard II. [3] Aaron Landau, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Elephants, Englishmen and India: Early Modern Travel Writing and the Pre-Colonial Moment. [4] M. G. Aune, North Dakota State University. Intimacy and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Religious Devotion. [5] James M. Bromley, Loyola University, Chicago. Mourning Eve, Mourning Milton in Paradise Lost. [6] Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson, University of British Columbia. Female Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish's Plays. [7] Joyce Devlin Mosher, Colorado Mountain College. Book Reviews: Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds. Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing. Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. [8] David Colclough, Queen Mary, University of London. Coursen, H. R. Shakespeare in Space: Recent Shakespeare Productions on Screen. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. [9] Sujata Iyengar, University of Georgia. Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer, eds. The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. [10] Jess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University. Woolland, Brian, ed. Jonsonians: Living Traditions. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. [11] Lucy Munro, Keele University. Longfellow, Erica. Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. [12] L. E. Semler, University of Sydney. Matthew Woodcock. Fairy in The Faerie Queene: Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. [13] Marion Gibson, University of Exeter. Theatre Reviews: All The World's a Stage, sonnets and scenes by Shakespeare and original work by Hal Cobb, Leonard Ford, and Jerry Guenthner. [14] Amy Scott-Douglass, Denison University. Dr Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe at the Liverpool Playhouse, 4th to 26th February 2005. [15] Reviewed by Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. Twelfth Night at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. [16] Kate Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. The Comedy of Errors. Presented by Northern Broadsides at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and on tour, February - June 2005. [17] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 29 March 2005. [18] Richard Wood, Sheffield Hallam University. Cambridge Shakespeare, Etcetera: Spring 2005. [19] Michael Grosvenor Myer. From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: Senior Project Officer for the Methods Network Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:42:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 185 (185) Job at King’s College, London AHRC ICT Methods Network Administration Centre Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) King’s College, London UK Senior Project Officer: Network Activities and Publications Coordinator. • Fixed term: 32 months (depending on the start date) ALC 3 £30363 - 35883 pa Applications are invited for a new post in the newly established AHRC ICT Methods Network Administrative Centre (NAC), based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College London. This national initiative will promote and disseminate the use of ICT in UK arts and humanities research. The project will build a broadly based collaborative network of researchers from all humanities and arts disciplines who are working on the application of computational methods in research in the UK higher and further education community. In developing a series of activities and publications, the Network will build new modes of collaboration and facilitate multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary work. The work will be coordinated by a Network Administration Centre, which will provide centralized support for the wide variety of distributed activities and publications. This centre will be staffed by a manager, two activities coordinators, and an administrator. The AHRC ICT Methods Network will run for 3 years from April 2005. Job description Senior Project Officer: Network Activities and Publications Coordinator. The holder of this position will be responsible for the development and management of a broad programme of activities and publications to promote, support and disseminate the use of ICT for effective research in the arts and humanities, and take responsibility for overall supervision of all stages of these activities and publications, including planning, development and implementation. This will include the preparation of application procedures, contracts, budgets and evaluation plans. Proposed activities include expert seminars, workshops, conferences and postgraduate training events. All activities and publications will be developed in close consultation with the Manager and Directors of the Methods Network and with staff from a number of participating institutions, in particular the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). Applicants should have a degree in a humanities, arts or related discipline, and extensive experience of working on a collaborative basis in major research projects involving research academics and specialists in applied computing, and have experience of managing complex events and activities in an academic context. An interest and expertise in electronic publishing and its implementation, as well as expertise in the technologies associated with the development and management of content for the web, would be an advantage. Flexibility and the ability to work as part of a team are essential, as are excellent communication skills and the ability to plan and implement projects and work to deadlines. Further details about this post, and the Methods Network, can be found at the project website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/methnet/ Or by sending e-mail to lorna.Hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk Closing date for receipt of completed applications is: 8th August 2005 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanities Beyond Digitisation, 20-1/9 Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:41:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 186 (186) Apologies for cross posting: Humanities Beyond Digitisation, 20-21 September 2005 Chancellor's Hall, University of London, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU This two-day conference, organised by the Institute of Historical Research, aims to examine the impact of digital resources on research and scholarship, addressing such questions as preservation, dissemination and sustainability, information-seeking behaviours, supply and demand, and new research opportunities (and the new skills that will be required to take advantage of them). Speakers include: Sheila Anderson (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Professor Philip Esler (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Professor Mark Greengrass (Sheffield Humanities Research Institute) Dr David McKitterick (University of Cambridge) Dr Seamus Ross (University of Glasgow) Professor Harold Short (King's College London) Registration is FREE, but places are limited. To register to attend the conference please contact Frances Bowcock (ihrpub_at_sas.ac.uk). Further information is available at <http://www.history.ac.uk/conferences/computing.html#Hums>http://www.history.ac.uk/conferences/computing.html#Hums From: "Annelies van Nispen" Subject: AHC Conference, Amsterdam 14-17th September 2005 Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:43:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 187 (187) XVIth International Conference of the Association for History and Computing Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-17th September 2005 On behalf of the organizing institutions, we would like to invite you to register for the AHC Conference. Registration is possible until 1 September. The preliminary programme is available at: http://www.ahc2005.org/en/programme You can register at: http://www.ahc2005.org/en/registration/ The XVIth Conference of the international AHC aims to bring together specialists from three broad streams: - Scholars using computers in historical and related studies (history of art, archaeology, literary studies, etc.) - Information and computing scientists working in the domain of cultural heritage and the humanities - Professionals working in cultural heritage institutes (archives, libraries, museums) who use ICT to preserve and give access to their collections The subject matter of the conference is primarily oriented at methodological issues and not restricted to one particular domain within history and the humanities. Preferably, sessions will consist of a mix of these three interest groups and fields. There will be numerous cross links between the streams. Conference Secretariat: Yamit Gutman, Annelies van Nispen and Berry Feith NIWI-KNAW P.O. Box 95 110 1090 HC Amsterdam T +31 20 4628 750 F +31 20 665 8013 E ahc_at_niwi.knaw.nl From: "Terry Butler" Subject: Final Reminder: CaSTA 2005 Call for Presentations Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:46:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 188 (188) Call for Presentations CaSTA 2005 – Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada October 3-7, 2005 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 - 1:30 Project Consultations 1:30 - 3:00 break 3:00 - 3:30 Forum 3:30 - 5:00 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 is now available on the CaSTA website: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/CASTA2005 Terry Butler Director Research Computing Arts Resource Centre <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~tbutler>www.arts.ualberta.ca/~tbutler From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.24 Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:44:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 189 (189) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 24 (July 5 - 12, 2005) VIEWS NO MOVING PARTS Data systems engineer Francis Hsu says that Software Architecture Axiom 1 is: "No Moving Parts," and argues that "if the IT industry wants to improve data reliability and lower data error rates further, whatever future systems and applications architecture we implement must consider lowering the frequency and necessity of human data inputs. In this regard, no moving parts (NMP) is the ultimate goal, but less moving parts (LMP) is the way to get there." www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i24_hsu.html From: Carlos Areces Subject: E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize Winner Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:44:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 190 (190) **************** E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize Winner ************** Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic, Language, and Information) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. The dissertations are judged on the impact they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the work, and also on its interdisciplinarity. Ideally the winning dissertation will be of interest to researchers in all three fields. The selection for the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for the year 2005 is concluded. After careful deliberation the committee has reached the following decision: - The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2005 has been awarded to Ash Asudeh from the University of Canterbury for the thesis 'Resumption as Resource Management'. (PhD awarded in the year 2004 at the Stanford University). FoLLI would like to congratulate the winner for his excellent thesis, and to thank all applicants who responded to the call for submissions and the members of the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize Committee (Anne Abeill=E9, Johan van Benthem, Veronica Dahl, Nissim Francez, Valentin Goranko, Alessandro Lenci, Ewa Orlowska, Gerald Penn, Alberto Policriti (chair), Christian Retor=E9, Rob van der Sandt, and Wolfgang Thomas) for doing a great job. An award ceremony will take place during the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 05) in Edinburgh. For further information see the ESSLLI 05 web page: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/ Finally, our thanks go to the E. W. Beth Foundation which kindly sponsors the prize. On behalf of FoLLI, Raffaella Bernardi From: Altreuter_at_mla.org Subject: job as CTO for JSTOR Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:28:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 191 (191) JSTOR Chief Technology Officer JSTOR (www.jstor.org) seeks a Chief Technology Officer to provide technical leadership and vision within this exciting, forward-thinking entrepreneurial enterprise. We strive to be rapid and innovative adapters of new technologies that can benefit the academic community in its use of information resources. The ideal candidate must have a broad awareness of new information management technologies and must be knowledgeable about technology trends and information needs affecting the academic community, and must be able to advocate and implement technology strategically in an environment of change. The CTO will be a member of JSTOR's senior management team, and will report to the Executive Director in New York. The Organization: JSTOR is a not-for-profit pioneer dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of scholarly information resources and to helping the scholarly community benefit for advances in information technology. Currently, JSTOR archives and provides access to over 500 scholarly journals in 40 academic disciplines. Researchers and students at licensed institutions access the archive via the Internet. The JSTOR database now includes more than 18 million journal pages, and is available at more than 2,400 institutions in 89 countries around the world. The archive is maintained on servers at three mirror sites. JSTOR is headquartered in New York, NY with additional offices in Ann Arbor, MI. The technical staff consisting of a development manager and several senior and junior developers is based in Ann Arbor. In pursuing its goals JSTOR takes a system-wide perspective, balancing the needs and interests of publishers, libraries, and its users. This balanced emphasis is reflected in all aspects of JSTOR's activity. JSTOR employs a small, steadily growing staff that values teamwork and a collegial spirit. The Job Description: The CTO will oversee, manage, and set the strategic direction for JSTOR's technological operations and infrastructure. This person will be responsible for effective deployment of hardware, databases, and software (whether licensed commercial products, modified open source software, or programs developed in-house) to maximize the quality of services delivered both to the JSTOR user community and for internal JSTOR operations. The CTO will be responsible for oversight and maintenance of the current system as well as for the design and implementation of future system features and overhauls. The CTO will direct the activities of a staff of 14 Junior and Senior Developers through a Development Manager based in Ann Arbor. The CTO will also determine when additional contract development staff are needed and will be responsible for acquiring contractors and assuring their accountability. In addition to its development staff, JSTOR uses the services of a shared IT service from its affiliated organization, Ithaka for networking and infrastructure support. The CTO may also determine the need for JSTOR's own technology operations staff. The CTO will be the primary liaison to that group and will monitor its activities and direct its efforts on behalf of JSTOR. Further, the CTO will be empowered to acquire software or development services externally, either from commercial entities, open source providers, or from Ithaka as needed. JSTOR has undergone significant growth over the last two years and must enhance its organizational structures, processes, and procedures to accommodate a more complex technological and software development environment. It is expected that growth will continue. . Required Skills and Experience: The CTO must demonstrate excellent leadership, communication, and management skills and should have a minimum of 10 years experience managing software development and technology infrastructure teams. Experience deploying proven software engineering methods for insuring the development of high quality software in a timely way is required. Experience working in both a small organization and a larger development team in a public server production environment is strongly preferred, as is experience managing through a period of growth. Knowledge and familiarity with higher education technology environments, interoperability approaches and open source systems is a plus. The CTO must demonstrate the capacity to work effectively both with technical staff and non-technical staff, and must have experience working with non-technical staff in the design and delivery of a software product or a database resource. The successful candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and must exhibit the capacity to motivate staff effectively in a geographically dispersed team environment. The CTO can be located in either New York or Ann Arbor but must be prepared to travel regularly between the two locations. JSTOR offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and the opportunity to grow. Qualified candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to: cto_at_jstor.org We will consider each response carefully, but only contact those individuals we feel are most qualified for the position. Relocation assistance is available for this position. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. JSTOR is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. From: Subject: CEEOL at the VII World Congress of the ICCEES Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:30:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 192 (192) Dear Mr. McCarty , We are happy to let you know that the Central and Eastern European Online Library continues to grow, adding new titles and more back issues to the existing titles. The library now offers more than 180 full text humanities and social science periodicals from Central and Eastern Europe, accessible via www.ceeol.com in digital format, and it can be used by individual clients registering for a personal user account, as well as by universities, research institutes and other corporate customers. Central and Eastern European Online Library is an electronic library where the individual readers can put together their own archive, choosing from thousands of articles, according to their current interest, without the need to subscribe to the entire library or periodical. We will be most happy to welcome you at our stand at the International Council for Central & East European Studies (ICCEES) World Congress - booth number 18 (Exhibition area ICCEES, Humboldt University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin), and present the complete service package of the C.E.E.O.L. if you plan to attend this event. Of course an online project normally should not need such a personal demonstration since everybody can evaluate it from at home. And we sincerely invite you to do so at www.ceeol.com. Yet sometimes a personal meeting can make things much easier. With our best regards, Wolfgang Klotz Cosmina Berta Bea Klotz info_at_ceeol.com http://www.ceeol.com Central and Eastern European Online Library Offenbacher Landstrasse 368 D-60599 Frankfurt am Main From: "Hardie, Andrew" Subject: Digital Resources for the Humanities 2005 : registration Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:06:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 193 (193) **Digital Resources for the Humanities** conference (DRH 2005) 4th-7th September 2005 Lancaster University, UK ( http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/ ) REGISTRATION for DRH 2005 is now open: see http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/registration.php. Registration will remain open until FRIDAY 12th AUGUST. (While we will accept late registrations, we cannot guarantee accommodation at the University for any registrations received after 12th August.) PROGRAMME ========= The keynote speakers are: -- Lou Burnard (Oxford University Computing Services, UK) -- Neil Silberman (Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation, Belgium) ***A full list of papers accepted for the conference is available*** http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/papers.php?first_letter=all . At this, the tenth DRH conference, we will 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. 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 ("cyberinfrastructure") which can facilitate collaborative research? Please address any queries about the conference to drhconf_at_lancaster.ac.uk From: Helen Ashman Subject: WWW2006 Call for Papers Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:37:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 194 (194) WWW2006 CALL FOR PAPERS The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) invite you to participate in the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006. The first international WWW conference was held in 1994 at CERN where the Web was born. Since then, the conference series has been the prime venue for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest ideas and developments about the Web. WWW2006 will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, special interest tracks, plenary sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will run before and throughout the conference. A Developers track, devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web developers, will run in parallel throughout the conference. The conference will also be running a programme of high-level, non-technical presentations for professionals in media, government, education and commerce to inform and debate the issues relating to the latest Web technology developments. See http://www2006.org/ for regular updates on conference information. WWW2006 is held in association with ACM, BCS, ECS and W3C. REFEREED PAPERS TRACK WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the web. Topics include but are not limited to: # E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science, E-Government and E-Humanities # Browsers and User Interfaces # Data Mining # Hypermedia and Multimedia # Performance, Reliability and Scalability # Pervasive Web and Mobility # Search # Security, Privacy, and Ethics # Semantic Web # Web Engineering # XML and Web Services # Industrial Practice and Experience (Alternate track) # Developing Regions (Alternate track) Detailed descriptions of each of these tracks appear at http://www2006.org/tracks/ Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. New for WWW2006: We solicit submissions of "position papers" articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. Accepted position papers will be presented at the conference and appear in the proceedings. Both "regular papers" and "position papers" are subject to the same rigorous reviewing process, but the emphasis may differ --- regular papers should present significant reproducible results while position papers may present preliminary work rich in implications for future research. All papers will be peer-reviewed by reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via http://www2006.org/. Authors of all accepted papers will be required to transfer copyright to the IW3C2. POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking research, and facilitate feedback in an informal setting. Posters are peer-reviewed. The poster area provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent web-related research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. It gives conference attendees a way to learn about innovative works in progress in a timely and informal manner. Formatting and submission requirements are available at http://www2006.org/posters/. TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders, and practitioners to explore current web R&D issues through a more focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional conference session. Participants typically present position statements and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the workshop setting. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/workshops/. PANELS Panels provide an interactive forum that will engage both panelists and the audience in lively discussion of important and often controversial issues. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/panels/. IMPORTANT DATES Conference: May 22nd-26th 2006 Submission Deadlines: Paper (regular): November 4, 2005 Paper (alternate track): November 4, 2005 Poster: February 14, 2006 Panel proposal: November 4, 2005 Tutorial/Workshop proposal: October 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification: Paper (regular): January 27, 2006 Paper (alternate track): February 10, 2006 Poster: March 21, 2006 Panel proposal: January 27, 2006 Tutorial/Workshop proposal: November 1 2005 WWW2006 COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Leslie Carr (University of Southampton, UK) Dave De Roure (University of Southampton, UK) Arun Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Mike Dahlin (University of Texas, USA) Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) TRACK VICE CHAIRS AND DEPUTY VICE CHAIRS E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science, E-Government, and E-Humanities E-Government, E-Humanities Mark Manasse (Microsoft Research, USA) Bertram Ludaescher (UC Davis/SDSC, USA) Wolfgang Nejdl Universitat Hannover, Germany) Browsers and User Interfaces Yoelle Maarek (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel) Krishna Bharat (Google) Data Mining Ramakrishnan Srikant (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay, India) Hypermedia and Multimedia Lloyd Rutledge (CWI, Netherlands) Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research, China) Performance, Reliability and Scalability Misha Rabinovich (AT&T, USA) Jeff Chase (Duke University, USA) Pervasive Web and Mobility Venkat Padmanabhan (Microsoft, USA) Jason Nieh (Columbia University, USA) Search Junghoo Cho (UCLA, USA) Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University, USA) Security, Privacy, and Ethics Ari Juels (RSA, USA) Angelos Keromytis (Columbia University, USA) Semantic Web Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Mike Uschold (Boeing) Web Engineering David Lowe (UTS, Australia) Luis Olsina (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina) XML and Web Services Mark Little (Arjuna, UK) Santosh Shrivastava (University of Newcastle, UK) Industrial Practice and Experience Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA) Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM Hursley Laboratory, UK) Developing Regions Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley, USA) Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India) TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Robin Chen (AT&T, USA) Ian Horrocks (Manchester, UK) Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) PANELS CO-CHAIRS: Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley, USA) Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo!, USA) DEVELOPER'S TRACK CHAIR Jeremy Carroll (HP Labs, UK) 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: Willard McCarty Subject: recent events in London Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:39:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 195 (195) Dear colleagues: I've received many e-mails concerning the recent terrorist attacks on the people of London. For those who are interested in following events as they unfold, I can recommend www.bbc.co.uk. But I can reassure you directly that no one connected with Humanist or humanities computing in London has as far as I know been injured. Apart from the obvious, what's remarkable about these events is the massive role all forms of (computer-mediated) communication are playing in drawing people together, uniting communities, summoning help, giving reassurance and contributing intelligence to the current investigation. Communication has, I suspect, played a very large part in helping to maintain calm and order amidst all the violence and chaos. This makes me wonder to what degree terrorism as now practiced depends on a certain level of public communication -- some, but not as much as we now have at our command. In any case, my personal thanks to everyone who has written. 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: ergonomic mouse-mat? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:58:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 196 (196) I'm seeking recommendations for an ergonomic mouse-mat, by which I mean one that gives support to the wrist while not constricting freedom of movement. It should (as I understand these things) have a white or very light-coloured surface so as to work best with a cordless optical mouse. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: job at SLAIS, University College London Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:26:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 197 (197) Research Fellow in Humanities Information School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London AHRC-funded Research Project: Log Analysis in the Arts & Humanities (LAIRAH) Applications are invited for a one year full-time post of Research Fellow in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL to work on the LAIRAH: Log Analysis in the Arts and Humanities project. This project will investigate levels of use of digital resources produced for research in the humanities. It will use the results of quantitative analysis of server log data to inform qualitative case studies of a representative sample of such projects. The results will then form part of the AHRC=92s ICT strategy review process. The post will start on 1 October 2005 and the salary will be GBP 22,507 plus 2,330 London Allowance. Applications (e-mail or hard copy) including a covering letter and CV, plus contact details of three referees, should be sent to Kerstin Michaels, Departmental Administrator, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, k.michaels_at_ucl.ac.uk. For further details please see: www.ucl.ac.uk/SLAIS/LAIRAH. Interested candidates can also contact Dr. Claire Warwick (c.warwick_at_ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 2548) or Dr. Melissa Terras (m.terras_at_ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 7206). Interviews will be held on 11 August 2005. The closing date for applications is Friday, 29 July 2005. [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: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Coverage of events in London Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:18:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 198 (198) Thanks for the update Willard. While slogging through my various listserv messages and routine blog visits this morning, I came across a link to an ABC News report, that integrates their coverage (and that of others) with GoogleEarth. I must say, it's *quite* impressive, and got my mind rolling on how this approach might be expanded in the future. Summary, with links: http://augmentation.blogspot.com/2005/07/interactive-news-maps.html Since Google Earth made its API publicly available, a number of very useful "hacks" have already appeared. Although many more have been developed for Google Maps, I strongly suspect that the trend will be towards the more feature-rich Google Earth. I've already seen hints that communities are developing that link popular photo tagging sites (e.g., Flickr) with the *.kml format, which may ultimately allow Wiki-like annotation of local maps. For example: www.myjavaserver.com/~weathermaps/weather From there, it's not a huge leap to imagine all varieties of geographically referenced knowledge communities emerging. Boggles the mind, truly. K Ken Cousins Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics 3114 P Tydings Hall University of Maryland, College Park T: (301) 405-6862 F: (301) 314-9690 kcousins_at_gvpt.umd.edu "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein <http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/kcousins>www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/kcousins http://augmentation.blogspot.com [deleted quotation]... Apart from the obvious, what's remarkable about these events is the massive role all forms of (computer-mediated) communication are playing in drawing people together, uniting communities, summoning help, giving reassurance and contributing intelligence to the current investigation. Communication has, I suspect, played a very large part in helping to maintain calm and order amidst all the violence and chaos. This makes me wonder to what degree terrorism as now practiced depends on a certain level of public communication -- some, but not as much as we now have at our command. ... From: James Cummings Subject: CFP: Digital Medievalist Sessions at Leeds 2006 Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:16:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 199 (199) Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds Digital Medievalist Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 September, 2005 The Digital Medievalist project invites abstracts to be submitted for 20 minute papers to be delivered in either of two sessions at the thirteenth International Medieval Congress which will take place in Leeds, UK, from 10-13 July 2006. Session Abstracts: Digital Medievalist General Session: Electronic Surrogates The general session investigates any use of digital technology in Medieval Studies, but especially concentrates on the formulation of best practice in digital resource creation, particularly the problems and possibilities of electronic 'surrogates' (e.g. electronic representations of primary material, including but not limited to editions, facsimiles, databases) in researching the Middle Ages. Digital Medievalist Specific Session: Text vs Data The specific session focuses on the nature of textual data in electronic editions. Are there fundamental differences between primary source text when it is seen as text and when it is seen as data (e.g. in a textual database)? What are the benefits and drawbacks of one over the other? How do the differences affect our research with electronic media? To submit proposals for either of these sessions please fill out the online form available at http://purl.org/cummings/DM-Leeds2006.html before 1 September, 2005. --James Cummings Digital Medievalist Project. www.digitalmedievalist.org (Please forward this Call-For-Papers to anyone you think might be interested). From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 19.129 ergonomic mouse-mat? Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:16:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 200 (200) Dear Willard, I think I've read in some newspaper articles a few years ago that it was found to be never wise to use a wrist support, precisely because they restrict the movement of one's wrist. This 'locking' of the wrist was compared to a pianoplayer reaching for nearby keys without actually moving his arms, but only the fingers. That would result in RSI pretty fast. Most people I know having strain problems from mousing resolved in the end to using a trackball, most of them seemed to be pretty happy with that solution. Hope this helps, y.s., Joris van Zundert From: Eric H. Subject: Re: 19.129 ergonomic mouse-mat? Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:17:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 201 (201) Dear Dr. McCarty: Have you tried a vertical mouse? Or another type of mouse design? I confess I'm still using a traditional mouse but the designs on the following sites look intruiguing: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/743d/ http://www.evoluent.com/ http://www.fentek-ind.com/ergmouse.htm Eric Homich PhD student, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto eric.homich_at_utoronto.ca From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital technologies in citizen journalism Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:36:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 202 (202) The following article from the Washington Post for Friday 8 July 2005 enlarges on my earlier note about the use of communications technologies in the recent London bombings. WM ----- Witnesses to History By Robert MacMillan The world sees London's tribulation through the eyes of Adam Stacey and the words of Matina Zoulia. Their stories of the moments following the bomb blasts that struck the city during the Thursday morning rush hour captured public attention in a way that few news stories could. In other words, citizen journalism passed the breaking-news test. Try not to lose yourself in Stacey's photograph of a frightened commuter, shot inside the crippled London Underground. Ponder Zoulia's weblog entry on the Guardian's Web site: "As I was going towards the [King's Cross station] exit there was this smell. Like burning hair. And then the people starting walking out, soot and blood on their faces. And then this woman's face. Half of it covered in blood." This is the essence of reporting -- vivid, factual accounts of history as it explodes around us. People like me spend years in J-school learning how to do it just right. We spend the subsequent years subjecting you to the mixed results. Stacey, Zoulia and hundreds of other amateur journalists, packing camera phones and an urge to blog, reminded us how simple it should be. The term "citizen journalism" is making the rounds among reporters and editors as newspapers try to keep the money rolling in while bloggers -- and their own Web sites -- raid their readership. I often hear it mentioned with the same desperate reverence that Dumbo gave his magic feather -- how it'll bring in fresh voices, followed by readers, then dollars. You might wonder how this is different from what we've seen in the past. News operations have used the contributions of impromptu reporters from Abraham Zapruder to the dozens of video camera operators who started capturing naughty police episodes in the early 1990s (think Rodney King ). Community voices have always contributed to local and national papers. Citizen journalism is different. It often covers a wide territory from soliciting arts and entertainment coverage to providing the angle on the city council budget that the cub reporter might have missed. The London attacks moved the trend to a new level. Web sites from the BBC's to the Guardian's provided eyewitness accounts, some showing up as little as an hour or two after the first bomb went off. Rather than relying on unfocused, rambling blog entries, the London papers and the Beeb ran pithy postings from the people who were there. They ran alongside the staff reporters' accounts and presumably with the same amount of editing. Nearly every U.K. news Web site this morning features similar accounts, along with forums for people to submit feedback and share their thoughts on the blasts. (See the inset above for a list of some of the more prominent news sites.) It was a different way of doing things than when citizen journalism experienced its first big story in last December's tsunami, said Dan Gillmor, a former technology columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and current proprietor of the Bayosphere citizen journalism project. The tsunami prompted bloggers to post thousands of video entries and journal-style stories that circulated the Internet in a huge swarm of unedited data. London, he said, showed how that data could be edited like traditional news and fill the gaps that the news could not. The BBC didn't just give readers and eyewitnesses the power to share their stories. It also let reporters file brief accounts of what they saw. Here is one interesting observation from Dominic Casciani: "The evening commute home from the City of London has began in a way that people have not seen before.Hundreds and hundreds of city workers are walking the length of Whitechapel Road, packing the pavements, because there is no other way they can leave their offices. The A-Z map of the capital is fast becoming ubiquitous --but it is strange to see so many Londoners carrying them, not knowing how to make their way home on foot." News outlets here in the States filed stories on the technology that allowed amateur reporters to shine: My colleague at The Washington Post, Yuki Noguchi, wrote about how the increasing amount of people using camera phones contributed to compelling amateur journalism: "Camera phones, once a novelty, now outsell digital cameras by about 4 to 1, according to analyst data. As more sophisticated phones and higher-speed networks have become available, wireless companies have recently started offering video camcorders on their phones that can nearly instantly transmit moving pictures over e-mail or onto the Internet." The Los Angeles Times filed a similar report: "The video provided an immediate and intimate look at the scene but was hardly polished or professional. That's because it was shot not with television cameras but with mobile phones -- the first widespread use of that technology in covering a major breaking news story. Loaded with features including text messaging, video games, cameras, live TV and the ability to record and transmit video through the Internet, the phones have become must-have items, especially among teens. They've been banned as voyeuristic irritants -- or worse -- at venues ranging from schools to Hollywood movie screenings. But, as they proved in London on Thursday, they can also provide a ground-level view of history. 'You forget how many people have these phones now and how much more of the first minutes of an event you're going to see,' said Chuck Lustig, director of foreign news coverage for ABC." Newsday quoted New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen as saying that the British media is several steps ahead of us in using reader contributions: "There's no comparison in what the BBC is doing and what we've seen here." With any luck, the performance of Great Britain's daily papers and their Web sites will take us beyond the blogging-versus-journalism debate. They showed us regular people keeping their wits about them in a traumatic situation, and sharing what they experienced with the rest of us. The news staffs showed that they could blend that with their professional operations. Let's hope that the next opportunity to test this relationship occurs under happier circumstances. I got on the Internet around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday to write yesterday's edition of Random Access, right around the time that news outlets were reporting that something was seriously amiss in London. Shortly after that I had an e-mail exchange with a source who I wanted to make sure was unharmed. He wrote back immediately and noted that e-mail was the only way he could communicate with his friends, noting that for the time being, the wireless phone networks were "shot to hell." Sure enough, the ripple effect of friends and relatives anxiously calling and texting one another put a huge strain on the networks. Michael Grebb reported on this for Wired.com: "'(Mobile) phones were erratic for a few hours,' said London resident Stuart Williams, an IT manager. 'Thankfully, normal phones were fine, and the Internet, of course, was fine.'" Here's more from the BBC: "To limit congestion, network operators urged those using their mobiles to keep calls as short as possible following the explosions across London. ... Shortly after the explosions, a spokeswoman for Virgin Mobile, which piggybacks on the T-Mobile network, said: 'There are so many people making calls at the moment it is taking a while for people to get through. The volume of calls has really surged.' Many of those caught up in the chaos who found that the mobile networks were down reportedly went into shops to beg the use of a phone." My source told me that some people think that in situations like this, law enforcement should ask network operators to limit availability to prevent terrorists from using cell phones. The BBC picked up on this as well, but noted some skepticism regarding this idea: "Terrorism expert Professor Michael Clarke from the International Policy Institute at King's College London, speculated that the problems might be a security measure. 'I've heard rumours that the mobile network is down, possibly shutdown,' he said. 'This could be because the MO (modus operandi) in Madrid was by setting off devices with mobile phones.' But mobile firms denied that the government had used emergency powers to shut down the networks." We've seen things like this happen before. I was in Portugal on Sept. 11, 2001, , and like so many others I found it impossible to contact people on their cell phones or land lines. When the blackout struck the Northeast power grid in August 2003, we experienced similar problems. The New York Times wrote that networks often set aside space for emergency services: "Ben Padovan, a spokesman for Vodafone, the world's largest mobile operator, said this system gives priority to callers with certain SIM cards, using a coding system called the international mobile subscriber identity, or IMSI. 'As an ordinary subscriber, under the IMSI, you would have had a lower level of service,' he said." At least they've thought this one through. [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: an historical example? Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:19:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 203 (203) I am looking for a good historical fit for a kind of person I am trying to describe: an explorer with keen ethnographic and scientific interests and abilities who was also a kind of merchant-trader, exchanging goods with those he visited. To be just right, this explorer will have had to visit many different sorts of people, though perhaps all of them in one particular part of the world. Any suggestions? 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: Daniel Gilfillan Subject: telecommunications and terrorism Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:04:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 204 (204) Dear Willard: I am equally interested in the role of telecommunications & terrorism, though I would extend your examples to the coordinated implementation of the bombings on the part of the people who set the bombs as well. This would highlight the ambivalent nature of technology in general--as taking on the positive/negative intent of the person using the technology. Dan Gilfillan, Asst. Professor Arizona State University From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Crisis and Wider Discussion Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:07:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 205 (205) Willard, Your recent comments about the role Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and social adhesion have led me to consider the use of such tools not only in the context of the attacks on the urban transit systems but also in the everyday transactions. Indeed it is quotidien practice that keeps the technical and social infrastructure ready for crisis situations. Far and not so far away, on this side of the Atlantic, the impression projected back to us was one of competence at work, images of well-coordinated response. One of the first messages to cross the Canadian news service was about communications: the telecommunications companies had not turned off their wireless signaling equipement (as a reaction to a possible mode of detonation) but that the circuits were busy due to people checking in with each other. The theme and reality of information flows was also captured in one of the televised images that was often repeated: at the boundary of a cordoned off area, a tourist with map receiving detour instructions from a police person. I highlight these mediated bits to emphasize the synchronization aspect of _network culture on the ground_. Person X receives from person Y news about person Z. Also, person X will compare notes with person W and person M, verifying global impressions with evidence from particular segments. Throughout the nodes, information is shaped for redistribution and by distribution. From the human perspective, the decision to redistribute to a portion of a network depends upon one=D5s knowledge of what may have already been distributed. This comes as no surprise to students of self-regulating systems. In light of the connection between feedback and redistribution, I want to focus for an instant on what can be described as the hum of quotidien practice. I want to focus in particular on the question of spam. Spam is a mundane irritant and yet very instructive for thinking through scenarios to avert the crisis of attacks in a networked world. Decisions about redistribution played and continue to play an important role in educating users about how to deal with an influx of unsollicited e-mail messages e.g. bouncing back. There is the tempation to mount denial of service attacks against the servers that house the sites that spammers are advertising. The risk of course is bringing down other sites housed on the server. Collateral damage. And further additions to network traffic with people asking people about sites that are down [For an example, see a recent exchange on the Text Encoding Initiative discussion list where queries were met with information about the status of a mirror site.] Obvious Lessons for Humanists: the importance of support for online mirror sites and off line replication of depositories. The not so obvious opportunity: spammer as culture jammer. Skillful spamming depends upon a timed release of messages. A single large burst has the potential of rushing back on the advertized. What if a skillful spammer acting as a culture jammer picked up the URL to a Humanities project? Furthermore, what if the messages of such a troop of skillful spammers were clearly tagged as =D2unsollicited=D3 thus enabling filtering= at the point of reception? A space for a discursive activity emerges. A niche. It=D5s less Social Darwinism than a cooperative model of how information spreads in the hothouse environment of net-culture where =D2newness=D3 is celebrated with how many people check in on the information. And if the spread of virus, worms, and internet urban legends are any indication, this kind of hacked =D2social engineering=D3 can happen with an ease far and above almost any word-of-mouth situation in human history. I=D5m just happy to be around to see if it can change even more. Paul D. Miller from _Rhythm Science_ [2004] p. 65 While it is true and even discouraging that all the main outlets are, however, controlled by the most powerful interests and consequently by the very antagonists one resists or attacks, it is alow true that a relatively mobile intellectual energy can take advantage of and, in effect, multiply the kinds of platforms available for use. [...] communities shunned by the main media, and who have at their disposal other kinds of what Swift sarcastically called oratorical machines. Think of the impressive ranged of opportunities offered by the lecture platform, the pamphlet, radio, alternative journals, occasional papers, the interview, the rally, the church pulpit, and the Internet, to name only a few. Edward W. Said from _Humanism and Democratic Criticism_ [2004] p. 132 Addendum: I was one of those that lurked, waiting for your emergence, waiting for that posting to the Humanist discussion list. That posting came floating admist the spam and other messages. I am grateful that your posting provided another opportunity to observe Humanists, computing or not, dedicated to proving in Said=D5s words that =D2it is possible to= initiate wider discussion.=D3 -- 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: Timothy Mason Subject: Re : Explorer Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:04:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 206 (206) William Dampier? (Preston & Preston's 'A Pirate of Exquisite Mind' is his biography) Maclay or Kubary - see Stocking's essay "Maclay, Kubary, Malinowski' in "The Ethnograper's Magic". Nicholas Thomas might help you. He used to be at the Australian National University, but I think he's in England now. He has an e-mail address, but I cannot recall it. Best wishes -- Timothy Mason Universite de Paris 8 http://www.timothyjpmason.com From: Virginia Knight Subject: 19.135 an historical example? (fwd) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:05:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 207 (207) More of a trader who was also an ethnographer, but how about Marco Polo? I'm sure lots of people will suggest this. Virginia Knight ---------------------- Virginia Knight, Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7154 Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7112 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight_at_bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.135 an historical example? Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:06:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 208 (208) Willard Look to Timbuktu... http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Timbuktu#Shabeni.27s_Description_of_Timbuktu Shabeni was a merchant from Tetuan who was captured and ended up in England where he told his story of how as a child of 14, around 1787, he had gone with his father to Timbuktu. A version of his story is related by James Grey Jackson in his book An Account of Timbuctoo and Hausa, 1820 Timbuktu was not only a great commerical trading centre but also one of humanistic learning. -- 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: "Michelle Laughran - History" Subject: RE: Historical Example Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:08:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 209 (209) *How about Marco Polo? From: "Borovsky, Zoe P." Subject: RE: 19.135 an historical example? Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:08:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 210 (210) dear willard, i came across Sir Joseph Banks http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/banks/banks.html by way of his account of travels to Iceland--see Islandica, vol. XVIII. Sir Joseph Banks and Iceland. By Halld=F3r Hermannsson, 1928. looks as if some of his letters are published. if you're thinking of a project, let me know and i'd love to hear more. --zoe From: Willard McCarty Subject: an historical example? Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:19:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 211 (211) I am looking for a good historical fit for a kind of person I am trying to describe: an explorer with keen ethnographic and scientific interests and abilities who was also a kind of merchant-trader, exchanging goods with those he visited. To be just right, this explorer will have had to visit many different sorts of people, though perhaps all of them in one particular part of the world. Any suggestions? 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/=20 From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: the trouble with tribbles Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:06:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 212 (212) The Chronicle recently published a truly extraordinary piece of tosh WARNING job candidates not to blog, lest hiring committees Google them to reveal political passions or midnight anxieties of the soul. It's written by a pseudonymous "Ivan Tribble." My own response to the piece is here (on my blog), together with a small call for action: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000813.html I invite Humanists to contribute. But I thought I'd reproduce here what's easily the dumbest passage in the whole artice (which saying a lot, believe me): "But the site quickly revealed that the true passion of said blogger's life was not academe at all, but the minutiae of software systems, server hardware, and other tech exotica. It's one thing to be proficient in Microsoft Office applications or HTML, but we can't afford to have our new hire ditching us to hang out in computer science after a few weeks on the job." That's what we still face in many corners of the humanities, folks: a seething cauldron of resentment, intimidation, conservatism, and condescension. Matt -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.139 the trouble with tribbles Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:40:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 213 (213) Dear Matt, At 02:22 AM 7/11/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Undoubtedly, but I wouldn't put too much stock in it. Theirs is a losing battle, and the condescension the attitude of heirs of an old family who, having squandered their inheritance, now watch the tradespeople cart the furniture, linens, silver and crystal away. Students and young academics who heed this warning will just find, in the end, that they have staked their careers and reputations on the self-serving advice of a recalcitrant insiders' group bound only by resentment, which will continue to shrink every year, whatever dominance they may still hold in hiring and tenure committees. These people can hurt their own programs and departments, but they can't stem a rising tide. They will find it more and more difficult to limit their appointments to those who fear the Computer Science department. Your blog post already put its finger on the corrective response: that a blog is not (only) about one's obsessions, but about making connections, laying the foundations of a healthy and engaged intellectual life. Of course this can be done in many ways these days, not just by blogging. Which is part of my point. It used to be that scholarly articles in respected journals on the accession lists of major libraries used to be *the* way to make an impression in scholarly circles, to alert others of your existence, to find readers, collaborators, mutual admirers. This is no longer the case. In fact, I suspect that what really bothers the old guard is that the hegemony of scholarly journals and elite monograph publication is now clearly coming to an end, and they don't know what to do, since these are the levers they know how to pull. But this demise has been inevitable ever since the object of getting published in a journal stopped being what it ought to be, and once was -- reaching readers -- and lapsed into being what it has been for some time now -- providing a line on a CV. Writers who have readers are always more vital than writers who don't. (Contact with readers is not only an effect, it is a cause of vitality.) And departments that cultivate scholars who engage with their communities will thrive and flourish, whereas those that encourage scholars to do all the work up to, but not including, really engaging with others with similar interests and concerns, by whatever good means are available -- because once the line on the CV is inscribed, the job is presumably done, and all that is left is to inscribe another -- will stagnate and retreat, eventually to be judged not worth the cost of supporting them. Come to think of it, to the extent that this latter fate has already been evident across Academia, maybe now we can see why. In turn, this highlights the best answer of all: you must continue doing what you are doing. 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To be just right, this explorer will have had to visit many different sorts of people, though perhaps all of them in one particular part of the world. Any suggestions? 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: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.135 an historical example? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:40:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 215 (215) Marco Polo? ;-) As at least the locus classicus... Pat Galloway From: Michelle Ziegler Subject: [Fwd: Heroic Age Issue 8 Available] Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:42:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 216 (216) MichelleZi_at_AOL.COM wrote: [deleted quotation]publication of Issue [deleted quotation]together and [deleted quotation]for her efforts. [deleted quotation]will have seen [deleted quotation]have moved completely to the [deleted quotation]to thank MUN [deleted quotation]also go to Dan [deleted quotation]member Deanna [deleted quotation]look. Admittedly [deleted quotation]is good to have a [deleted quotation]the site and [deleted quotation]an effort to [deleted quotation]one cannot cite a [deleted quotation]is being cited [deleted quotation] From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Index Thomisticus Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:48:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 217 (217) When Roberto Busa started his work on the Index Thomisticus, he lamented the lack of critical editions of each of the works of Thomas Aquinas on which he could base his research. Alternatively, he expressed his belief that the complete index would be of use in the matter of textual criticism. [1] Two questions arise from these early statements for which I haven't managed to find the answers in later writings: - Which texts did Busa take as input for his index, i.e. to which version of the works of Thomas Aquinas does the Index Thomisticus refer? - Which critical editions of the works of Thomas Aquinas have profited from the Index Verborum? All feedback welcome on or off the list Edward [1] Busa, Roberto (1950). Complete Index Verborum of Works of St Thomas. Speculum: a journal of medieval studies, XXV/1 (january 1950): 424-425. -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Researcher University of Antwerp Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: "Ellen Degott" Subject: Forward Looks Call for Proposals Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:47:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 218 (218) MESSAGE TO THE HUMANTIES MAILING LIST (12 July 2005) Please note that the Forward Looks Call for Proposals is now available on the ESF web site under www.esf.org (second item). European Science Foundation, Unit for Humanities, http://www.esf.org/human From: Claire Warwick Subject: events in London and CMC Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:41:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 219 (219) I read Willard's posting about the role of CMC in the aftermath of the London bombs with interest. As someone else who works in London I found it amazing how quickly messages came in from all manner of people, which caused a remarkable sense of literally global connection. In this context, if humanists are not already aware of it, they might be interested to look at http://www.werenotafraid.com/. This site uses images to capture a sense of global solidarity. It's been remarkably successful, and apparently grew out of a message sent to the site owner''s blog. It really does seem to have captured the imagination of people all over the world, ad indeed taken the humble London Transport logo to a new level of meaning. I for one find it moving and impressive, so I'd recommend a visit. Incidentally they are selling merchandise whose profits will be donated to the London bomb relief fund, so you can also help with that if you so wish. Claire From: "Conference" Subject: CIRAS 2005, 13 - 16 Dec 2005, Singapore Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:49:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 220 (220) Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 13 - 16 December 2005, Singapore ~ [ciras_at_nus.edu.sg] ~ [http://ciras.nus.edu.sg] CIRAS 2005 will be held along with the Tenth Anniversary FIRA RoboWorld Cup Singapore 2005 and, The FIRA Robot World Congress 2005 [http://fira.nus.edu.sg]. The contents of CIRAS 2005 proceedings will be listed in EI by Elsevier Proceedings ISSN: 0219-6131 Keynote Speakers: Jean-Claude Latombe, Cichocki Andrzej, Clarence W. de Silva Submission: 20 July 2005 Acceptance: 31 August 2005 Final Submission: 30 September 2005 Online submission: [http://act.ee.nus.edu.sg/ciras2005/] Organized by Centre for Intelligent Control National Univ. of Singapore Co-sponsored by IEEE SMC Society S'pore Chapter IEEE R&A Society S'pore Chapter The third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2005) is planned in December 2005 in Singapore. The conference will focus on research directions that are broadly covered by the fields, Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems. The Intelligence in automation systems is increasingly becoming a key and important technology to be harnessed for enhancing productivity and economic returns. CIRAS will focus on research directions that are broadly covered by the fields, Computational Intelligence (CI), Robotics and Autonomous Systems. CIRAS is intended to provide a common platform for knowledge dissemination among researchers working in related areas. CIRAS invites submissions from all areas related to, but not limited to, Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Intelligent Control Real Time Control DNA Computing Life Sciences Fuzzy Systems Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Neural Networks (NN) Autonomous Systems Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) System Design Automation Robotics, Humanoids Sensor Fusion Sensor Networks Cooperative Robotics Robot Soccer Systems Evolutionary Robotics Evolvable Hardware Distributed Systems Embedded Systems Non-Linear Systems Educational Technology Rough Sets, Data Mining Power Systems Genetic Algorithm (GA) Evolutionary Computation (EC) Hybrid CI Algorithms Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Real Time Evolutionary Computation Evolutionary Logistics Evolutionary Systems Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm [...] From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: conference in Paris Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:43:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 221 (221) MÉMOIRE DES TEXTES / TEXTES DE MÉMOIRE Université Paris X ­Nanterre 21 et 22 octobre 2005 Salle des Conférences Hall du Bâtiment B Vendredi 21 octobre (14h - 18h30): 14h ­ Ouverture du Colloque Claude Cazalé Bérard (Université Paris X-Nanterre, CRIX) : Mémoire des textes, textes de mémoire: un défi à l'oubli, en hommage à Paul Ricoeur. Première session : Philologie informatique, éditions électroniques, archives textuelles. Présidence : Alberto Cadioli (Università Statale di Milano) 14h 30 - Tito Orlandi (Università di Roma «La Sapienza»): Il Principe di Machiavelli tra edizione cartacea e edizione elettronica. 15h 00 ­ Pascal Collomb (EHESS, GAHOM) : Présentation du Thésaurus des Exempla du Moyen Age (THEMA). 15h 30 ­ Louis Begioni (Université Lille III) : Pour un traitement linguistiques des textes de mémoire non littéraires. Débat - Pause 16h 30 - Ubaldo Ceccoli, Clotilde Barbarulli (CNR Firenze) : La «Rivista di Filosofia scientifica», `sentinella perduta': storia e memorie nel concetto di evoluzione. 17h - Domenico Fiormonte (Roma III): Esperienze di codifica elettronica di scrittori contemporanei. 17h 30 - Gius Gargiulo (Paris X-Nanterre) : Per una narratologia informatica : programmi per scrivere sceneggiature e mondi possibili. Débat Samedi 22 octobre (9h -12h 30) Deuxième session : Les genres de la mémoire Présidence : Claude Cazalé Bérard (Université Paris X ­ Nanterre) 9h 00 - Chiara Pisacane (Université de Clermont-Ferrand) : Memoria dell'estasi: il Libro dell'esperienza di Angela da Foligno. 9h 30 ­ Nella Bensimon (Université Paris X- Nanterre) : Les lettres de Catherine de Sienne. 10h 00 ­ Danielle Bohler (Université de Bordeaux ) : Débat - Pause 11h 00 - Marìa Jesùs Lacarra (Universidad de Zaragoza) : El libro de las tres razones de don Juan Manuel y las Memorias de Leonor López de Córdoba. 11h 30 - Raul Mordenti (Università di Roma «Tor Vergata») : Memoria familiare e memoria letteraria: strategie di lotta contro il tempo e la morte. Débat Samedi 22 octobre (14h - 17h 30) Troisième session : Mémoire et histoire Présidence : Louis Van Delft (Université Paris X-Nanterre) 14h - Giorgio Longo (Université Lille III) : Épistoliers, traducteurs, imitateurs: Giovanni Verga et Georges Eekhoud. 14h 30 ­ Maurice Actis Grosso (Université Paris X ­ Nanterre) : Mémoires istriennes 15h 00 ­ Alberto Cadioli (Università Statale di Milano) : Il diario di un "archiviomane" 15h 30 ­ Sabina Ciminari (Université de Rome «La Sapienza») : Alba de Cèspedes, un témoin de son temps, entre l'Italie et la France. Débat 17h 00 Claude Cazalé Bérard : Conclusions From: Willard McCarty Subject: CCH, King's College London, in the news Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:44:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 222 (222) From Education Guardian weekly, for Tuesday, 12 July 2005: Picture this Alice Wignall Tuesday July 12, 2005 <http://www.guardian.co.uk>The Guardian The entire research team of the 3D visualisation group from the school of theatre studies at the University of Warwick is moving to the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Martin Blazeby, Drew Baker, Dr Hugh Denard and Professor Richard Beacham are packing up their software and heading to the big city. So if Londoners see a group of 3D visualisation specialists wandering around clutching A-Zs, it'd be nice if they stopped and said hello. From: Simon Tanner Subject: Web page archives - interesting legal mess Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 06:43:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 223 (223) Are internet archives covered by copyright law just like everything else - seems we may find out the court's opinion in the US. Best, Simon [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: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: Perfect phylogenetic networks Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:18:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 224 (224) "Jim Marchand" <marchand_at_uiuc.edu> We have had discussions off and on on cladistics and the use of a more rigorous `mathematical' approach to reconstruction and the phylogenetics of languages. The last issue of _Language_, Vol. 81, no. 2 (June, 2005) has a well-argued and documented article, "Perfect phylogenetic networks: A new methodology for reconstructing the evolutionary history of natural languages," by Lucy Nakhleh, Don Ringe, and Tandy Warnow, pp. 382-420. I do not buy into it, since most of our concepts, such as language, dialect, idiolect, reconstructed language, etc. are ideal types rather than Aristotelian (yes/no) concepts, but it is, as I said, well done and well documented. From: eco_at_ecocomputing.org Subject: Launch of ecoComputing Update Center Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:58:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 225 (225) Dear Friends, We are happy to announce the launch of a new computing project. ecoComputing is web-based resource to generate ideas and projects relating computing use and the environment, understood very broadly. ecoComputing currently has two related projects. A blog, the "ecoComputing Update Center," collects news stories of importance for ecological thought and especially focuses on the use of computers to benefit the environment. The blog is updated as stories happen--an excellent choice to add to your blog reader. The Update Center is located at: http://www.ecocomputing.org/wp We also have a burgeoning "Knowledge Base," a Wiki that collects materials on any scholarly topic relating to Computing and Ecology. The Knowledge Base is open to editing and participation by anyone, and we invite all of you to contribute to it and to pass the word about this project to anyone you think may be interested. The beginnings of the Knowledge Base are located at: http://www.ecocomputing.org/wiki Please visit the site often and spread the news to anyone who may want to contribute! David eco_at_ecocomputing.org From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.148 Perfect phylogenetic networks? Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:56:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 226 (226) I don't know why Yuri Tambotsev equates thinking an article was "well done" with liking the article. As a reader for scholars journals, i see lots of articles that are well done, and many that are acceptable for publication -- but I don't agree with them and/or don't like them. This does not stop me from recommending publication. From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Dartmouth Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:57:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 227 (227) A position for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in digital media with interests in one or more of the following areas: the cultures and aesthetics of digital media; electronic literature; virtual cultural production; media history and theory. Successful candidates will also contribute to the department's strengths in critical theory and interdisciplinary scholarship. Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity /affirmative action employer, is strongly committed to diversity, and encourages applications from women and minorities. Please send letter of application and CV via email to English.Department_at_dartmouth.edu postmarked no later than Tuesday, November 1, 2005. From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: July Innovate-Live Webcast Date: July 18th X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 228 (228) Time: 3:00 PM EDT [The world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ enables you to coordinate this time with your time zone if necessary.] James Shimabukuro will serve as moderator. You can participate in this webcast by typing your questions/comments in the chat area of the screen. If you would like to interact with Marc Prensky 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 this 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: Willard McCarty Subject: Cognition, Technology & Work 7.1 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:24:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 229 (229) Volume 7 Number 1 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial The ISI and the CTW p. 1 Erik Hollnagel, Pietro C. Cacciabue DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0169-8 Short Paper Process polyphonia p. 3 Johan F. Hoorn, Gerrit C. van der Veer DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0170-2 Poem Distributed cognition p. 5 Johan F. Hoorn DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0172-0 Original Article Divided attention during adaptation to visual-motor rotation in an endoscopic surgery simulator p. 6 Alison M. Tollner, Michael A. Riley, Gerald Matthews, Kevin D. Shockley DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0165-z Original Article Problem detection p. 14 Gary Klein, Rebecca Pliske, Beth Crandall, David D. Woods DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0166-y Original Article Predicting nuclear power-plant operator performance using discrete event simulation p. 29 Amy Yow, Brett Walters, Beth Plott, Ron Laughery, J Persensky DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0167-x Original Article COMUNICAR: designing a multimedia, context-aware human-machine interface for cars p. 36 F. Bellotti, A. De Gloria, R. Montanari, N. Dosio, D. Morreale DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0168-9 Original Article Creating interactive multimedia-based educational courseware: cognition in learning p. 46 Muthukumar S. L. DOI: 10.1007/s10111-004-0171-1 Original Article Towards proactive safety in design: a comparison of safety integration approaches in two design processes p. 51 C. De la Garza, E. Fadier DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0173-7 Original Article Increasing productivity through framing effects for interactive consumer choice p. 63 Jeffrey M. Stibel DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0174-6 [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 | 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: "Wayne Hanewicz" Subject: 2005 Humanities and Technology Conference Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:24:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 230 (230) Colleagues, The 2005 Humanities and Technology Conference is taking shape very well. The conference theme, "A Dialogue on Technology and Human Life: Finding Meaning and Cultivating Humanity in a 21st Century Technological World", has drawn a wide range of papers and participants. I hope you will consider attending the conference, scheduled for October 6,7,and 8, 2005, at the Snowbird Resort, Salt Lake City, Utah. Panel papers are now under review, and the detailed program will be added to the website as soon as we receive confirmations from panel members. However, perhaps you might consider leading an indepth inquiry on one of the topics that will be presented. These small, seminar-style "Dialogue Groups" are a new element for the conference, and they are intended to encourage and nourish a deeper understanding of an issue, and build productive professional networks for further work. More detail can be found on the conference website: http://WWW.UVSC.EDU/TECH/HTA/ I hope you will consider reaching out to the Humanities and Technology Association Conference as the Association reaches out to build collaborative relationships for study and research in the future. We admire the work of the Humanist Group and the principles upon which you are founded. Cordially, Dr. Wayne B. Hanewicz From: Andrew McGregor Subject: Survey of Librarian Role in Online Era Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:22:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 231 (231) ** with apologies for cross-posting ** Dear all I am conducting a survey on how developments in scholarly publishing are changing the role of the librarian. If you have a spare two minutes and are interested in completing this short survey then you can find it at: http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~ch006/survey.php The survey is quite library-centric but I am very interested in gathering input from everyone involved in scholarly publishing. The survey will be available until 1st of August 2005. I am conducting this survey for my MSc dissertation at City University, London, UK. I will make the results of the survey available to everyone who is interested as soon as is possible. Thank you for your time Andy McGregor Electronic resources project manager Library Brookes Lawley Building Institute of Cancer Research 02087224014 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in their own image? Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:20:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 232 (232) Lubomír Dolezel (Slavic, Toronto) begins his article, "Possible Worlds of Fiction and History", NLH 29.4 (1998): 785-809, with the following observation on interdisciplinarity: [deleted quotation]Let us put aside the question of an "information explosion" to focus on Dolezel's sharp observation about how disciplines typically respond to matters outside their ken that for some reason are deemed necessary or desirable to recognize. He cites literary studies, but any discipline or group of them would do. The point is that disciplines construe the world in a particular way, and that this becomes a problem when ambition drives them beyond their limits -- when, as Greg Dening says, they become cosmological. Dolezel notes that a disciplinary scholar behaving in this way is not being interdisciplinary, he or she is poaching. Interdisciplinarity is really something else. Consider the case in which an academic job is advertised by an English department for someone in the areas of digital media and literature, virtual cultural production and media history and theory. Given the very wide scope that English has taken for itself, should we say that this a job in humanities computing, or is it a job that reflects how humanities computing is typically construed by that discipline? Among the aspects of the field omitted in the advertised list is the extra-disciplinary stance and so ability to relate, for example, to French, history, music. In light of Matt Kirschenbaum's quotation from Ivan Tribble (Humanist 19.139), what happens if the occupant of the advertised position decides to build tools? It may seem churlish to question any job even close to humanities computing. But at the same time, I think, we should watch out for developments that close down possibilities better left open. How much do we value the extra-disciplinary stance? 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: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib July/August 2005 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:25:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 233 (233) Greetings: The July/August 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This tenth anniversary issue contains nine articles, reports from the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2005, 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 the July/August issue is Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL) contributed by Kizer Walker and John M. Saylor, Cornell University. The articles include: A Tenth Anniversary for D-Lib Magazine Bonita Wilson and Allison L. Powell, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Really 10 Years Old? Amy Friedlander, Shinkuro, Inc. Whence Leadership? Ronald L. Larsen, University of Pittsburgh Funding for Digital Libraries Research: Past and Present Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work William H. Mischo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library William A. Arms, Cornell University Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative Andreas Paepcke, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Rebecca Wesley, Stanford University Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building Stuart L. 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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: Subject: Baudrillard Studies Number 4 is Available Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:35:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 234 (234) The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies has posted its fourth issue (Vol 2., No. 2) July 2005 to the world wide web. IJBS is available free of charge at: www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies In Volume 2-2: Susan Sontag farewell 2 Articles by Baudrillard Giorgio Agamben and several other articles and reviews. Dr. B. Gerry Coulter 819-822-9600 ext 2570 Professor of Sociology Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Box 83 Bishop's University Lennoxville QC J1M 1Z7 Fax: 819-822-9661 (Attn: Dr. Coulter) gcoulter_at_ubishops.ca From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.26 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:35:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 235 (235) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 26 (July 19 - 26, 2005) VIEW WHY DO CURRENT GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES NOT WORK NATURALLY & HOW THEY CAN BE FIXED? Warren M Myers says, "I originally developed this idea of ring control in 2000 as a mental exercise in 'thinking outside the box'. I thought outside the box. I abandoned the box. Interface designers need to do the same thing, and come up with truly new and innovative ways of interacting with our computers." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i26_myers.html From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MBR06_China Call for Papers Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:32:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 236 (236) Deadline: February 12th, 2006 ****************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE The Second International Conference of Philosophy and Cognitive Science MBR'06_CHINA Guangzhou (Canton), China, July 3-5, 2006 Chairs: Ping Li and Lorenzo Magnani ****************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/mbr06.php or http://philosophy.zsu.edu.cn/kxzx/ ****************************************************************** MBR COMMUNITY WEB SITE http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/cpl2/ GENERAL INFORMATION From Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 July 2006 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE" will be held at Sun Yat-Sen University in the city of Guangzhou. The conference derives from a research cooperation between the Department of Philosophy of Sun Yat-Sen University and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pavia and continues the themes both of the Conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98, "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01, and "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering: Abduction, Visualization, and Simulation" MBR'04, and of "the First International Conference of Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Science, Cognition, and Consciousness", 2004. 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). Ping Li, Xiang. Chen, Zhilin Zhang, and Huaxia Zhang (eds.)(2004), Science, Cognition, and Consciousness, JiangXi People's Press, Nanchang, China. PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and medicine, 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 medicine from the following list: - model-based reasoning in scientific discovery and conceptual changes - the role of models in scientific thinking - model-based reasoning in scientific explanation - model-based medical diagnosis - model-based reasoning and traditional Chinese medicine - 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 SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS AND SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS All submitted papers will be carefully refereed. The precise format of the conference will be fixed after we have an idea of the number of accepted papers. We expect approximately 40 contributed presentations some of 40 and others of 20 minutes. There will be several invited papers of 1 hour. A selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject to additional refereeing) in a book which will constitute an advanced handbook for researchers in this area. The book will be published by an international publishing house. Moreover another selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject to additional refereeing) in special issues of suitable international journals. Authors must submit an electronic version - formatted in Microsoft Word or RTF, or PDF (in this last case please include source - DOC, TEX, etc., file) - of an extended abstract (total word count aproximately 1000-1200). The file must also contain a 300 WORD abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet. Authors must submit an electronic version - formatted in Microsoft Word or RTF, or PDF (in this last case please include source - DOC, TEX, etc., file) - of an extended abstract (total word count aproximately 1000-1200). The file must also contain a 300 WORD abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet. Not later than February 12, 2006 please send electronically the extended abstract to the Prof. Magnani at the address lmagnani_at_unipv.it (if the previous address does not work please use lmagnaniusa_at_netscape.net) AND to Prof. Li at hsslip_at_zsu.edu.cn (if the previous address does not work please use zsupingli_at_tom.com) SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS Not later than February, 28, 2006. please send electronically a two pages symposium proposal (3-5 presentations) to the Prof. Magnani at the address lmagnani_at_unipv.it (if the previous address does not work please use lmagnaniusa_at_netscape.net) AND to Prof. Li at hsslip_at_zsu.edu.cn (if the previous address does not work please use zsupingli_at_tom.com) REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE REGISTER by email hsslip_at_zsu.edu.cn AND lmagnani_at_unipv.it, fax or air mail by sending to the PROGRAM CHAIR Ping Li or Lorenzo Magnani first and last name, function, institution, full address, phone, fax and email. For information about paper submission and the program that is not available on the web sites,please contact the program chairs. [...] From: "Seow Kiam Tian (Dr)" Subject: IEEE-RAM 2006: First Call for Papers Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:33:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 237 (237) Dear fellow researchers, Appended below is the first "Call for Papers" for the IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS, AUTOMATION AND MECHATRONICS (RAM). IEEE-RAM will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 7 to 9 June, 2006. The conference flyer may be downloaded from the conference website <http://www.ntu.edu.sg/cis-ram/index.htm>http://www.ntu.edu.sg/cis-ram/index.htm. We would appreciate it very much if you could kindly also forward this email to your colleagues and all others who may be interested in attending, submitting papers to, or organizing invited sessions for this conference. With warmest regards, Kiam-Tian Seow Publicity Chair, IEEE-CIS-RAM' 06 Blk N4, #2a-32, School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Voice : (65) 67904288 Fax : (65) 67926559 E-mail: asktseow_at_ntu.edu.sg ______________________________________________________________________________________ First Call for Papers IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS, AUTOMATION AND MECHATRONICS (RAM) 7--9 JUNE, 2006 BANGKOK, THAILAND [W W W . N T U . E D U . S G / C I S - R A M / I N D E X . H T M] RAM 2006 will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS 2006). The RAM 2006 conference proceedings will be included in the EI Compendex Database. Important Dates: Paper/Special Session Proposal : 15 January 2006 Notification of Acceptance : 1 March 2006 Camera-Ready Copy and Advance Registration : 1 April 2006 Organized by IEEE R&A Singapore Chapter IEEE SMC Singapore Chapter IEEE Thailand Section OBJECTIVES: The goal of RAM 2006 is to bring together experts from the field of robotics, automation and mechatronics to discuss on the state-of-the-art and to present new research findings and perspectives of future developments with respect to the conference themes. The RAM 2006 is organized by the IEEE R&A Singapore Chapter and the IEEE Thailand Section, and is held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS 2006). The conference welcomes paper submissions from academics, researchers, engineers, and students worldwide in but not limited to the following areas: Robotics and Automation in Unstructured Environment, Personal and Service Robotics, Underwater Robotics, Medical Robots and Systems, Robotics and Automation Applications, Sensor Design, Integration, and Fusion, Computer and Robot Vision, Human-Robot Interfaces, Haptics, Teleoperation, Telerobotics, and Network Robotics, Micro/Nano, Distributed, Cellular, and Multi Robots, Biologically-Inspired Robots and Systems, Sensor Based Robotics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Modeling, Planning and Control, Kinematics, Mechanics, and Mechanism Design, Legged Robots, Wheeled Mobile Robots, Dynamics, Motion Control, Force/Impedance Control, Architecture and Programming, Methodologies for Robotics and Automation, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Petri Nets, Virtual Reality, Manufacturing System Architecture, Design, and Performance Evaluation, Computer Aided Production Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Total Quality Management, Maintenance, and Diagnostics. Paper Submission: Papers must be written in English and should describe original work. Papers should be submitted in IEEE Xplore compliant PDF files, on-line to the conference website: <http://www.ntu.edu.sg/cis-ram/index.htm>http://www.ntu.edu.sg/cis-ram/index.htm. Information for submission of IEEE Xplore compliant PDF files will be announced on the conference website soon. Invited Sessions: The conference will feature invited sessions on specialized topics of interests. The invited sessions are intended to usher in, in-depth discussions in special areas relevant to the conference theme. The session organizers will coordinate the associated review process. The conference proceedings will include all papers from the invited sessions. Prospective session organizers are encouraged to contact the Invited Sessions Chair Dr Guilin Yang, at glyang_at_SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg . ______________________________________________________________________________________ From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 19.157 in their own image? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:33:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 238 (238) Willard, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard=20 McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I am curious what you see as the markers of an "extra-disciplinary stance?" Is it "extra-disciplinary" with regard to=20 traditional humanities disciplines? Does=20 "extra-disciplinary" include humanities=20 computing? It seems to me to be a devilishly hard=20 place to reach if the requirement is to have no discipline at all. While I readily agree that the wholesale=20 imposition of a discipline, literary studies=20 being a favorite example, onto other disciplines=20 is simply wrong, it is also that case that a view=20 of any discipline is going to be from a point of=20 view. And that point of view, literary studies or=20 not, is going to carry baggage that may or may=20 not be recognized from within the discipline under view. Viewing multiple disciplines is even more=20 difficult, particularly if they are so divergent=20 as to lack a common basis for comparison. That=20 requires construction of a frame of reference=20 that supersedes the individual ones within=20 disciplines in order to say anything at all about the disciplines= collectively. While I agree that humanities computing should=20 urge good scholarship, including no poaching, I=20 am not sure it advances its cause by claiming to=20 exist outside of the "discipline based views" that lead scholars into error. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick --=20 Patrick Durusau Patrick_at_Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: "Wayne Hanewicz" Subject: Re: 19.157 in their own image? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 06:34:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 239 (239) Colleagues: Regarding WM's discussion on the relationship between interdisciplinary work and conceptualization is, as is often the case, intriguing. In spite of the difficulties, it still seems fair to say that the DIFFERENCES among the various disciplinary conceptual schemes and taxonomies are inherently valuable. These differences allow us to see things in a different light, to appreciate something that we might have otherwise overlooked had we not "tried on" the a new schema. After all, is this not why the different schemes were developed in the first place. None of this, I assume, is particularly new or controversial. However, I also agree that the drive to difference has sometimes overlooked the equally important search for sameness among the disciplines. God (or at least a Dean) forbid that we allow our differences to supply the justification for the "advocate" model seen in the legal system. In this model the differences become battle lines, and the contest is determined by more or less formal rules in an attempt to rule OUT exactly what WE must rule IN, viz., the subjective experience of individual people and their perceptions. The history of scientific inquiry is replete with reminders of how subtle can be the pressure to reify one's point of view; the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness" has been committed by too many of us in moments of frustration, discouragement, or solitary self-aggrandizement. Toward this end, I have wondered if we might work our way back from several current, and quite different, conceptual schemes (say, for example, literature and psychology, or information security and biology) to the point where we begin to see common concepts. The aim of this "conceptual backstepping" is to get us as close as the human perceptual apparatus permits to that which gives rise to the first level of concepts. This view sees various conceptual schemes as having a common root in direct human experience; this direct human experience is then conceptually organized according to different histories, disciplinary rules of knowledge, philosophies, etc. It is debatable whether a human being can actually have a "direct human experience" of anything, but that need not concern us here. What is important is that we can get closer to that experience and learn how it gives rise to different conceptual paths for further analysis and understanding. This approach assumes that concepts, and the conceptual schemes of which they are a part, are recursive in the sense that each succeeding level of concepts contains something fundamentally isomorphic to the preceeding level. Without this isomorphism, or sameness, we would not be able to grasp that one level is a variation or generation of another level. I believe that this is the source of analogy and, especially, metaphor. Others, including Hofstadter and Lakoff, suggest similar opportunities for insight. It would not be that difficult to organize an interdisciplinary team to develop a good research project that could begin to make progress in understanding the role of conceptualization in creating disciplinary boundaries as well as the fundamental connections among schemes that are seemingly unrelated. Perhaps it could be a move toward a more common interdisciplinary language. Anyone interested? WBH From: Willard McCarty Subject: new Springer books Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:10:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 240 (240) Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Applications: A Bioinspired Approach Lecture Notes in Computer Science Editor/s: Mira, José; Álvarez, José R. First International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 15-18, 2005, Proceedings, Part II 2005, XXIII, 636 p. Also available online. 3-540-26319-5 The two-volume set LNCS 3561 and LNCS 3562 constitute the refereed proceedings of the First International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2005, held in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain in June 2005. ----- Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge Editor/s: Dau, Frithjof; Mugnier, Marie-Laure; Stumme, Gerd 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2005, Kassel, Germany, July 17-22, 2005, proceedings 2005, XI, 467 p. Also available online. 3-540-27783-8 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2005, held in Kassel, Germany, in July 2005. ----- Knowledge and Information Visualization Lecture Notes in Computer Science Editor/s: Tergan, Sigmar-Olaf; Keller, Tanja Searching for Synergies 2005, VIII, 385 p. Also available online. 3-540-26921-5 This book presents current research and development work in the fields of knowledge visualization and information visualization. In addition to revised reviewed papers presented at an international workshop on Visual Artefacts for the Organization of Information and Knowledge held in Tübingen, Germany in May 2004, invited papers from leading experts are included to round off coverage of relevant aspects. ----- Classification - the Ubiquitous Challenge Editor/s: Weihs, Claus; Gaul, Wolfgang Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., University of Dortmund, March 9-11, 2004 2005, XIX, 704 p.181 illus. 3-540-25677-6 The contributions in this volume represent the latest research results in the field of Classification, Clustering, and Data Analysis. Besides the theoretical analysis, papers focus on various application fields as Archaeology, Astronomy, Bio-Sciences, Business, Electronic Data and Web, Finance and Insurance, Library Science and Linguistics, Marketing, Music Science, and Quality Assurance. ----- Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2005 Lecture Notes in Computer Science Editor/s: Lau, Rynson W.H.; Li, Qing; Cheung, Ronnie; Liu, Wenyin 4th International Conference, Hong Kong, China, July 31 - August 3, 2005, Proceedings 2005, XIV, 420 p. Also available online. 3-540-27895-8 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2005, held in  Hong Kong, China in July/August 2005. ----- Visualization in Science Education Editor/s: Gilbert, John K. 2005, XXXIX, 346 p. 1-4020-3612-4 Visualization, meaning both the perception of an object that is seen or touched and the mental imagery that is the product of that perception, is believed to be a major strategy in all thought. From: Willard McCarty Subject: beyond disciplines Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:16:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 241 (241) Patrick Durusau, in Humanist 19.162, in reply to an earlier message, responds to my phrase "extra-disciplinary stance" by asking, [deleted quotation]So much depends on the metaphors one thinks with. Looking at something from a "point of view" is a good place to start, so let's run with it. What are we looking at? If it's a tree of knowledge, then I have a problem with the fact that the branches are already grown and with the implication that a human construct, the disciplines as we currently know them, has been naturalized. If we think in what's essentially European geopolitical terms, of "turf" or of "domains" of knowledge, then without warfare there's no life other than the gypsy -- as that life is prejudicially viewed by the long-term permanent residents. My point was that the experience of doing humanities computing full-time, as one's main thing, simply does not fit disciplinarity as ordinarily constructed. If one thinks in disciplinary terms, as above, then what I and many others do is essentially invisible. In a world where disciplines are all that exists, humanities computing has to sneak in through a back door, say into an English department, and so, depending on the situation, has to configure itself in terms that its host-discipline allows. Nor would it do, really, for us, if we could, to create a new "discipline", since as disciplinarity is constructed, this would force a limiting ethnocentricity on us as lords of a ring-fenced dominion. Then we'd be the pot calling the kettle black -- as well as in a fatally weak position. We'd find ourselves excluding most of those who at present are colleagues, friends and relations. As for the baggage, for the limitations of being centred somewhere, I think of the ancient formula, "centrum ubique, circumferentia nusquam", "centre everywhere, circumference nowhere", or as Northrop Frye said in On Education, "It takes a good deal of maturity to see that every field of knowledge is the centre of all knowledge, and that it doesn't matter so much what you learn when you learn it in a structure that can expand into other structures" (1988: 10). Note especially the word "expand". Ask, how does humanities computing expand into the disciplines it encounters? 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: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: 19.165 beyond disciplines Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:54:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 242 (242) Willard, in an earlier contribution to this continuing discussion (Humanist 18.669), Ryan Deschamps made the important point -- with a view to the original meaning of the word -- that "a discipline consists of a body of (living and dead) disciples, rather than an objective body of 'knowledge.'" Therefore, it would also be quite fitting to speak of "(sub-)cultures" of knowledge about certain subject areas with respect to disciplines. Apparently, this understanding of disciplines is rather old (and antedates the actual term "discipline"), if you see my quotation from Aristotle (Humanist 17.798). It is opposed to the designation of philosophical schools as "haireseis" or "sects" or "factions" by Diogenes Laertios in his 'Lives and Teachings of the Philosophers.' Of course, we are now aware that cultures also have their conceptual and practical limitations and particular views of the world. Ryan's remarks are not without consequence with respect to the current uses and misuses of interdisciplinary or even extra-disciplinary studies. At least in regard to German universities, it could be shown that the unexplainable upsurge of "interdisciplinary" studies during the past decades coincided with drastic cutbacks of the budgets allocated for undergraduate teaching. The statement is well justified that the quality of university education has suffered significantly from this doubtful popularity of interdisciplinary studies. Currently, there is a student-to-professor ratio of up to 200 to one professor at certain university departments in Germany, as compared to twenty students to one professor in the Netherlands or in Australia. This situation is also reflected in a growing number of unemployed academics (about 3,500 only in one northern German city that is heralded as the City of Science of the Year). Of course, the specializations of these unemployed academics is of no interest at all, when it comes to relieve them from social welfare benefits. This is a vicious circle reproducing itself, and interdisciplinarity does not seem to be the answer. Of course, we could emphasize the technical or methodological aspects of the disciplines, as it was customary to differentiate disciplines by the word endings of their names. There is still a difference between "ethnology" and "ethnography", to take just one example. About twenty years ago, I proposed the terms "ethnotechnics" and "ethnopraxis" in my dissertation to open up new possibilities of study and practical work for anthropologists. So far, I have not been given the opportunity to elaborate these possibilities. Best regards, Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany The Culture and History of Science Page http://ww3.de/krech Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing & recognized disciplines? Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:53:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 243 (243) I would appreciate help in finding published lists of disciplines and disciplinary areas that are used by funding agencies, governmental or private, in evaluating grant applications, measuring the performance of higher education institutions and the like. The kind of thing I have in mind is illustrated by the following: (1) the "Units of Assessment" for the U.K. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 03 2005: 35-6), online at http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2005/03/; (2) the "Research Fields, Courses and Disciplines Classification" for the Australian Research Council, <http://www.arc.gov.au/htm/RFCD_codes.htm>www.arc.gov.au/htm/RFCD_codes.htm. I am interested in seeing how a project or department with its primary focus in humanities computing itself might be judged, by whom with what sort of disciplinary backgrounds. There are actually very few possibilities for an even remotely close fit -- library and information science being the nearest one I'm aware of. I am not expecting any guidance on what field(s) might approximate humanities computing, though official word on that would be welcome. Rather it is the fact of discrete lists of recognized areas of study that I am interested in bringing into focus. URLs for online documentation from any anglophone institution or agency anywhere in the world would be welcome. Many thanks for any help. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: beyond disciplines Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:16:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 244 (244) Patrick Durusau, in Humanist 19.162, in reply to an earlier message, responds to my phrase "extra-disciplinary stance" by asking, [deleted quotation]So much depends on the metaphors one thinks with. Looking at something from a "point of view" is a good place to start, so let's run with it. What are we looking at? If it's a tree of knowledge, then I have a problem with the fact that the branches are already grown and with the implication that a human construct, the disciplines as we currently know them, has been naturalized. If we think in what's essentially European geopolitical terms, of "turf" or of "domains" of knowledge, then without warfare there's no life other than the gypsy -- as that life is prejudicially viewed by the long-term permanent residents. My point was that the experience of doing humanities computing full-time, as one's main thing, simply does not fit disciplinarity as ordinarily constructed. If one thinks in disciplinary terms, as above, then what I and many others do is essentially invisible. In a world where disciplines are all that exists, humanities computing has to sneak in through a back door, say into an English department, and so, depending on the situation, has to configure itself in terms that its host-discipline allows. Nor would it do, really, for us, if we could, to create a new "discipline", since as disciplinarity is constructed, this would force a limiting ethnocentricity on us as lords of a ring-fenced dominion. Then we'd be the pot calling the kettle black -- as well as in a fatally weak position. We'd find ourselves excluding most of those who at present are colleagues, friends and relations. As for the baggage, for the limitations of being centred somewhere, I think of the ancient formula, "centrum ubique, circumferentia nusquam", "centre everywhere, circumference nowhere", or as Northrop Frye said in On Education, "It takes a good deal of maturity to see that every field of knowledge is the centre of all knowledge, and that it doesn't matter so much what you learn when you learn it in a structure that can expand into other structures" (1988: 10). Note especially the word "expand". Ask, how does humanities computing expand into the disciplines it encounters? 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/ Dr. B. Gerry Coulter 819-822-9600 ext 2570 Professor of Sociology Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Box 83 Bishop's University Lennoxville QC J1M 1Z7 Fax: 819-822-9661 (Attn: Dr. Coulter) gcoulter_at_ubishops.ca From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing & recognized disciplines? Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:53:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 245 (245) I would appreciate help in finding published lists of disciplines and disciplinary areas that are used by funding agencies, governmental or private, in evaluating grant applications, measuring the performance of higher education institutions and the like. The kind of thing I have in mind is illustrated by the following: (1) the "Units of Assessment" for the U.K. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 03 2005: 35-6), online at http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2005/03/; (2) the "Research Fields, Courses and Disciplines Classification" for the Australian Research Council, <http://www.arc.gov.au/htm/RFCD_codes.htm>www.arc.gov.au/htm/RFCD_codes. htm. I am interested in seeing how a project or department with its primary focus in humanities computing itself might be judged, by whom with what sort of disciplinary backgrounds. There are actually very few possibilities for an even remotely close fit -- library and information science being the nearest one I'm aware of. I am not expecting any guidance on what field(s) might approximate humanities computing, though official word on that would be welcome. Rather it is the fact of discrete lists of recognized areas of study that I am interested in bringing into focus. URLs for online documentation from any anglophone institution or agency anywhere in the world would be welcome. Many thanks for any help. 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: "Clai Rice" Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)? Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:39:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 246 (246) In response to Willard's request for taxonomies of disciplines, here is the URL of a copy of the Louisiana State Board of Regents taxonomy. This information is also available in PDF form from the LA Regents website. http://www.som.tulane.edu/researchadmin/borsf-taxonomy.htm In Louisiana humanities computing, like linguistics, would probably be in "Humanities--Other" --Clai Rice From: "Reto Speck" Subject: RE: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)? Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:40:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 247 (247) Dear Willard, The Arts and Humanities Research Council's list of subject panels and subject areas may be useful. Both are contained in the AHRC research grant application form (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/ahrb/website/images/4_96220.pdf). Best wishes, Reto Speck Arts and Humanities Data Service King's College London Tel. 020 7848 1974 [The pdf file referenced in the above is reported to be broken and beyond repair. --WM] From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)? Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:41:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 248 (248) Williard, The Social Science and Humanities (www.sshrc.ca) and Natural Science and Engineering (www.nserc.ca) granting councils of Canada divide their assessment process over a number of peer committee by discipline. The list of committees and therefore disciplinary headings is readily available on their sites (some committees assess more than one discipline). SSHRC is behind NSERC in updating the classification, having no place for cognitive science, for example. (Well, they do have a place, interdisciplinary applications, but that is a grab-bag of everything that does not fit under one of the disciplinary heads and results in assessments that are erratic and arbitrary.) Andrew -- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: "Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture", ISR 30.2, June 2005 Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:58:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 249 (249) Dear colleagues: The latest issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (30.2, June 2005), publishes the edited papers delivered in an invitational lecture series, "Digital scholarship, digital culture", held at King's College London from October 2003 to May 2004. The series was organised by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities to celebrate the humanities at King's -- to honour them in public by drawing attention to beginnings of a mutual transformation, of the humanities and of computing. Following is the list of contents: Willard McCarty, Guest editorial (pp. 97-102) Stanley N Katz, "Why technology matters: the humanities in the twenty-first century" (pp. 105-18) Michael S. Mahoney, "The histories of computing(s) (pp. 119-35) Gordon Graham, "Strange bedfellows? Information systems and the concept of the library" (pp. 137-44) Yorick Wilks, "Artificial companions" (pp. 145-52) Ian Hacking, "The Cartesian vision fulfilled: analogue bodies and digital minds" (pp. 153-66) Timothy Murray, "Curatorial in-securities: new media art and rhizomatic instability" (pp. 167-77) Jerome McGann, "Culture and technology: the way we live now, what is to be done?" (pp. 179-89). For more information on the journal, see http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr. I would be grateful if you would circulate news of this issue and of the journal itself as widely as possible. Yours, WM [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for=20 Computing in the Humanities | King's College=20 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: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.168 beyond disciplines Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:59:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 250 (250) Willard, You mentioned my intuition that "studiers" ought to consider disciples more than disciplines. Another [Patrick?] used the metaphor of "baggage" to describe the point of view of a particular discipline. I would like to adopt the "baggage" metaphor, because I think that a discipline is, in fact, the "baggage" of disciples. Or maybe, what "disciples" carry inside the baggage -- like the standard issue for a soldier -- ie. in order to be a literary critic, you need to have a good Shakespeare, a ration of the Romantic poets, and a pair of modernist socks (to protect you from the Woolfs/Wolfes). The organization of information (where, I contend, "disciplines" become separated from "disciplines") has its similarities to the study of governance & organizational design in the political sphere. There may be something here to "get at" interdisciplinarity. I'm paraphrasing most of this information from Peter Aucoin's reader on Organzational design for his students. I can get a citation if anyone wants it. Essentially, when talking about organizational design for the public sector, we refer to the 4 Ps: purpose, place, people & process. So, one creates government departments based on one of these four dimensions. Purpose-style departments exist to perform some kind of function -- for instance, a department of national defence serves to protect the country from invasion. "Place" & People departments focus on a geographical area or groups of people -- for instance, in Canada we have a department of "Veterans affairs" and "Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency." "Process" departments focus on the "how" of various government operations -- Public Works, Intergovernmental Affairs, Service Nova Scotia, etc. I think the early presumption is that disciplines will be purpose-based. For instance, a department of national defence most frequently involves the disciples of war, (ie. soldiers). And a department of Natural Resources involve natural scientists. And the history meshes as well -- if you look at the early history of Canada, most departments have been purpose-based. It is in the other Ps that you begin to get "inter or multi-disciplinarity." For instance Women's, & African Studies are popular areas of interdisciplinary research that are people and place oriented. I would argue that these categories began to grow out of political movements that developed after the second world war. I think "process" categories have begun either to take shape or have formed out of "purpose" disciplines. For instance, librarianship -- a discipline that held a purpose relating to the preservation, access and organization of information (mostly books) -- has turned into "information studies" or "library and information studies" or then more radically, into "information" or "knowledge management" and, I argue, has or will become a profession that develops methodologies for other people to preserve, organize or access their information. Other "process" disciplines would include any management discipline, computer science, the history of science and -- the "old" exception to prove my rule -- philosophy. Humanities computing, I would argue, is a "process" discipline. The problem is that purpose disciplines have been given hierarchical precedence in history in the organization of information. Thus, the "process," "people" and "place" categories have been considered only sub-headings of the purpose disciplines (ie. History, then Canadian History rather than Canada, then Canadian history). It is through this meme that your discipline has remained hyphenated and, I would suggest, the reason why you have to "enter through the back door" and remain somewhat marginalized in a purpose department. Arguably, many humanities disciplines have become process disciplines as well -- for instance, literary studies in present day is more about "how" to study a novel more than it is about the novel itself. However, humanities doesn't have the organizational problem that humanities computing has because it has its linguistic beginnings in a purpose discipline -- "to study English literature." Outside the academic world, I would argue that the "process" disciplines are very important and considered highly prestigious. A CIO often shares the same status as an Operations Manager with fewer people reporting to him/her. And since the so-called "outside" world is increasingly gaining influence in academic institutions, so are the "process" disciplines gaining influence. Except that these outside influences are fighting a culture (the university movement) that is international in scope and thousands of years old. So, in the tree of knowledge, you can bend the branches, but not the stump. The only solution to the stump is to cut the tree down and plant another one -- except this tree would probably knock out half the globe in falling! All the best! Ryan. .. From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.165 beyond disciplines Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:59:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 251 (251) Dear Willard, I think there is a deeper commonality between the perspectives offered by you and Patrick than might at first seem evident. It is true that the different metaphors suggest quite different views of the paradox of our situation. We confound the "tree of knowledge" by growing not politely, as another branch with a known address, but rather invasively, like a fungus, into every branch already there. Likewise we confound the "territories on a map" by being not a new territory but a more widespread movement, a kind of rude trans-national uprising. To the extent we believe we might not destroy the nations but complement them, or might not kill the tree but transform it, they also hint at different views of our promise. Yet whichever metaphor we use, I think many of us share the experience of how a study jealous in its narrowness and exclusivity, if one chooses to remain aware, can suddenly open to speak, by implication or overtly, to the whole world ... if only it knew how to listen. The center is indeed everywhere. So, for example, I found the topic of my own doctoral dissertation (which was firmly anchored in the disciplines of literary criticism and philology), Walter Pater's "ascesis" (and what could be narrower than the study of a single word as used in the smallish corpus of a single obscure author?), to have the broadest implications for understanding not just Pater and his period, but much more as well, about art, words, life and the mind. (It didn't hurt that Pater himself wrote about this phenomenon.) Any discipline and any subspecialization within a discipline, I think, has this potential, if worthily pursued. "The Fool who persists in his Folly becomes Wise". Or maybe this is a descent into hell, and the only way out is through. If this is the case, then the solution to our problem might not be to carve out a space for ourselves, or to insist the tree grow a new branch, or to infect the tree and kill it. Rather, if what we are doing is a discipline (but let's not speak of "we" too soon -- maybe we should speak only of you and I?), it will be made a discipline by -- by discipline. Discipline itself (and in that long-forgotten work I paraphrased Pater's "ascesis" as "aesthetic discipline", although it is much more than that) is that which is learned by its own practice, like riding a horse, playing the flute, or giving thanks five times a day. Of course in their own terms, disciplines are incommensurate. By creating themselves, they create their own worlds. But viewed in terms of one another, they are all media. This year in Victoria, Melissa Terras gave a terrific paper which was underattended enough I feel I can take the liberty of paraphrasing it. She basically showed (with "hard" data!) how whatever-you-call-it ("humanities computing"), has all the characteristics of a "discipline" except an established and widely-replicated institutional framework. Major criteria that constitute something as a discipline include such things as mythologies and culture heroes, known venues and channels of communication, higher-order social organization including cliques, pecking orders and betes noires (I interpolate into what Melissa actually said :-), mechanisms of introduction and advancement such as structured ways to participate, awards, ritual activities (banquets!) etc. etc. Not only was it a marvelous paper, but it's a marvelous world it describes. Given this and the evident vitality of it, I am trying not to be too concerned about the "discipline" thing. It's another problem that is taking care of itself. If there's a discipline, we'll practice it, and soon there will be a "discipline". They don't understand us, but that's fine -- they don't understand each other either, and in fact that's part of what makes them disciplines, so why should we sweat it? As to how far it will go before there's a "Department of Humanities Computing", that's really up to them, not us, so again, who's to worry? Like all true aspirants I will casually dismiss all problems of how to secure funding for next year, turning instead to the VR I've got running on the desktop of my own PC -- it's plenty interesting enough. Especially since at the end of the long dark tunnel, beyond all the piled up treasures and hidden portals to other worlds, I think I can see a light. Cheers, Wendell At 02:19 AM 7/22/2005, you 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: "Michel Lemaire" Subject: Dry photography? Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:56:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 252 (252) Hello, In his famous essay, «As We May Think» (1945), Vannevar Bush describes his imaginary computer, the «memex», as working with «dry photography». Being francophone, I do not know what it means. Could someone tell me what is «dry photography»? Thanks. Michel Lemaire Département des lettres françaises Université d'Ottawa mlemaire_at_uottawa.ca www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Figures in a Calculation Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:56:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 253 (253) Willard, Prompted by the recent thread on disciplines, I was going to contribute a reminder that projects, positions, and departments are other beasts besides disciplines. I was about to suggest an analogy with sports... athletes, coaches and federations. Instead, a very orthogonal comment by way of citation: Some scholars say that the Three Graces dancing in a circle in Botticelli's famous painting Primavera represent Beauty, Restraint, and Pleasure. According to Renaissance writings, these three are the graces of life. What would a modern equivalent be - technology, information, and communication? Thomas Moore Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life [1992] 278-279 A tripartite model of discipline? Would Humanities Computing be that discipline concerened with the beauty of technology, the restraint of information and the pleasure of communication? Moore's question could also lead to mapping all three, Beauty, Restraint, and Pleasure onto technology and again in turn onto information and communication. Like corners of a cube... Of course, there is a distance between such visualizations and the administrative praxis that ensure the maintance of a flow of resources to projects, positions, and departments. Its curvature maybe shorter than a straight line. -- 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: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 19.173 "dry photography"? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:39:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 254 (254) around the 26/7/05 "Humanist Discussion Group (by=20 way of Willard McCarty mentioned about 19.173 "dry photography"? that: [deleted quotation]I *think* it refers to being able to take photos without needing a wet plate or a liquid bath of some form for development of the image. Photocopiers achieve this, polaroid does, and digital cameras :-) -- cheers Adrian Miles hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog> From: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: 19.173 "dry photography"? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:39:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 255 (255) It is my understanding that this is a reference to the photocopying processes such as XEROX, i.e., a process of photographically copying with out using "wet" chemistry and hence, "dry" photography. Dennis Moser -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Re: 19.173 "dry photography"? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:40:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 256 (256) Hopefully there is a photographer on here who can correct me if I am wrong, but I think he was referring to a day when a liquid chemical was NOT needed to develop film into photographs, or "instant photography". I suppose the Polaroid instant camera is one example of it (though I think chemicals are involved). Xerox machines and fax machines (which Bush mentions) may be another. Though I guess digital cameras are the ultimate dry photography he had hoped for. From: "J.L.Rae" Subject: Research into Educational Software Development Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:43:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 257 (257) Apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleague, I would like to invite you to contribute to research being carried out at the UK Open University into Educational Software Development. This research is novel in that it is investigating the extent to which tacit practices in theatre have resonance in Educational Software Development. If you are a practitioner in the field of Educational Software, supporting any aspect of the development process e.g. Educational, Software, Design or Managerial perspectives, your views are an essential part of this research and I would ask you to contribute them via an online survey available at. http://elsa.open.ac.uk/MainEdSoftware.survey The main aim of the survey is to collect data that will verify our understanding of the factors that shape an individual's involvement in Educational Software Development processes. It will gather evidence from a wide range of people involved in these processes about issues that may affect the production of successful / 'fit for purpose' outcomes. Please feel free to forward this survey on to others who you think may also wish to contribute to this research. Any information that you supply will be treated in the strictest confidence and in accordance with the Open University's Data Protection Code of Conduct. In due course the research will be written up and will contribute to the literature in this area, at which time your anonomised views may be quoted but this will be done in a manner that will not identify you, your institution, company or affiliation. Thanking you in anticipation of your response. Jan Rae Researcher Institute of Educational Technology The Open University j.l.rae_at_open.ac.uk From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.27 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:42:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 258 (258) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 27 (July 27-August 2, 2005) INTERVIEW MICROSOFT'S FENG-HSIUNG HSU ON CHESS, CHINA, AND EDUCATION "I do play chess a little bit, but I=B9m not good at it. And I pretty much haven=B9t played chess since we played Garry Kasparov. Well, my nephew does actually force me to play him every once in a while. I won't say who wins." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i27_hsu.html From: mat sept Subject: Organdi Quarterly 8/9: secrecy/ le secret Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:44:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 259 (259) Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate where appropriate... Dear all, Organdi Quarterly invites submissions for Issue #8&9: Secrecy (deadline 31/10/2005) Could we live without secrets, and in what kind of world would we be living? From secret societies to taboos or state secrets, secrecy seems to be everywhere. Secrecy is first of all a frontier between those who know and those who want to know. Secrecy is kept and exchanged, divides and fascinates, protects as much as threatens. But can everything be said and heard, and who can it be said by and kept from? What is the cost of secrecy and do its forms and degrees vary? In other words, what is the place and the role of this mysterious and dangerous notion in human life? These are some of the questions we would like you to answer in Organdi’s new issue. As usual, other contributions unrelated to the theme of the issue will be considered for the following sections of Organdi Quarterly: Letters to the Editors, Espace Libre (articles, interviews, documents), Ce qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de détruire, mérite d'être sauvé (articles, interviews, documents) Books, Music, Cinema & the Arts (cultural reviews), Out of Frame (exhibitions). for more details visit our submission page at http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/submission Organdi Quarterly appelle à contribution pour son prochain numéro: Le Secret (deadline 31/10/2005) Pourrait-on se passer de secret, et dans quel monde vivrions-nous sans secret ? Des sociétés secrètes aux tabous en passant par les secrets d’Etat, le secret semble partout. Il est d’abord la marque d’une frontière posée entre ceux qui savent et les autres qui cherchent à savoir. Il se garde et s’échange, divise et fascine, protège autant qu’il menace. Peut-on pour tout dire et tout entendre ? Et cela avec n’importe qui ? Est-il un mal ou un bien, est-il nécessaire ? Quel est son coût, et peut-on en faire varier les formes ou les degrés ? En d’autres mots, quels sont la place et le rôle de cette notion mystérieuse et violente dans la vie des hommes? Voici quelques questions auxquelles le prochain numéro d’Organdi vous appelle à répondre. Comme dans tous nos numéros, les contributions ne portant pas sur le thème du dossier sont également les bienvenues, et seront examinées pour les sections suivantes d’Organdi Quarterly: Courrier des Lecteurs, Espace Libre (articles, interviews, documents), Ce qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de détruire, mérite d'être sauvé (articles, interviews, documents) Lire, Voire, Ecouter (critiques), Out of Frame (expositions). pour plus de détails, visitez la page: http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/submission vous pouvez également adresser vos questions par e-mail à organdi_revue_at_yahoo.com Cordialement Les éditeurs d’ Organdi Quarterly From: "Saul Fisher" Subject: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship program Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:42:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 260 (260) <> ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its new Digital Innovation Fellowship program, in support of digitally based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These fellowships, created with the generous help of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of such research with use of computing, networking, and other information technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship program is located at http://ofa.acls.org <http://ofa.acls.org/> ; applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be announced in late March 2006). This is the first national fellowship program to recognize and reward humanistic scholarship in the digital sphere, and to help establish standards for judging the quality, innovation, and utility of such research. Many scholars have been working in the humanities for years with such tools as digital research archives, new media representations of extant data, and innovative databases-and now the ACLS sees an important opportunity to start identifying and providing incentive for distinctive work, on a national basis. "Information technology can be the means for scholars to answer new and old questions that have so far resisted our curiosity and our effort. This program will support a rising generation of scholars in making exactly that kind of progress," says James O'Donnell, provost of Georgetown University, Chair of the ACLS Executive Committee of Delegates, and author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (1998). Up to five Digital Innovation Fellowships will be awarded in this competition year, for tenure beginning in 2006-2007. As this program aims to provide the means for pursuing digitally-based scholarly projects, the fellowship includes a stipend of up to $55,000 to allow an academic year's leave from teaching, as well as project funds of up to $25,000 for purposes such as access to tools and personnel for digital production, collaborative work with other scholars and with humanities or computing research centers, and the dissemination and preservation of projects. The ACLS criteria for judging applications include the project's intellectual ambitions and technological underpinnings, likely contribution as a digital scholarly work to humanistic study, satisfaction of technical requirements for a successful research project, degree and significance of preliminary work; potential for promoting teamwork and collaboration (where appropriate), and articulation with local infrastructure at the applicant's home institution. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States as of the application deadline date and must hold a Ph.D. degree conferred prior to the application deadline. However, established scholars who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify. Applications for the 2005-06 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship Program Deadline: November 10, 2005 Contact: American Council of Learned Societies, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 697-1505 E-mail: sfisher_at_acls.org Web: www.acls.org/difguide.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist searching restored Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:06:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 261 (261) Dear colleagues, For some time now, apparently, the searching facility for Humanist, from an incorrect link on the homepages www.princeton.edu/humanist and www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/, has not been working. One of you recently pointed out the problem, for which many thanks. It has now been repaired. 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: searching of Humanist improved Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:24:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 262 (262) Yesterday I announced that Humanist's searching service, Excite, had been restored. John Unsworth then pointed out that Excite was not updating its indexes and, to avoid troublesome repair of an old tool, wrote a quick but elegant application of Google for the job. I was so delighted with it that I immediately installed it. Go to www.princeton.edu/humanist/ or to www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/, click on the Search link at the top or bottom of the page and try it out. Much better! My heartfelt thanks to John for being observant and for contributing his elegantly simple fix. 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: source for proverb? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:21:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 263 (263) Does anyone here know an attributable source for the apparently modern proverb, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"? I have found attributions to Abraham Maslow, the occupational therapist, and Bernard Baruch, the entrepeneur and statesman, but none with a pointer to published writings. Thanks for any hints. 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: Elisabeth Long Subject: Re: 19.173 "dry photography"? Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:47:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 264 (264) Dry photography, like the memex machine, was more an imagined technology than an actual existing process, though Bush does cite a couple of existing technologies that were close to what he had in mind. The problem Vannevar Bush was struggling with was that his imagined memex machine needed to copy books and notes and instantly store the resulting images, but all photography at the time required some sort of wet processing in order to develop the final image and so was not practical as a technical solution for the memex. For anyone unfamiliar with 'As We May Think', it is commonly cited as the conceptual origin of hypertext and provides amazingly prescient descriptions of modern-day computing coupled with quaint ideas of how this might technically be brought about. The article is available in the archive of The Atlantic where it was first published in 1945: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush The first technology Bush cites in this regard is 'dry plate photography' which is not quite the same as dry photography. Originally, photographic plates needed to be exposed while the chemical coating was still wet which severely limited the portability of the camera. The invention of dry plate photography in which the wet part of the process occurred *after* the plate was exposed was a significant technological advance, but was still not sufficient for Bush's needs. He nevertheless cites this as indicative of the possibility that true dry photography may be the next technological advancement. The second technology that Bush cites is facsimile transmission which, amazingly enough, existed in 1945. The process was fundamentally an analog process, though the image was transmitted line by line in a manner similar to how a scanner works today. Besides the poor quality of the image, the other problem with this technology for Bush's purposes was that it produced a paper end product, whereas he wanted the resulting copy to be on microfilm (in order to compactly store the vast quantities of data that he imagined the memex would hold). The Polaroid camera, which was introduced three years after Bush wrote his article, did provide the instant development that Bush wanted, though it was not actually a dry process until the introduction of the SX-70 in 1972. Before that it consisted of a peel-apart wet process. At any rate, it would still have fallen short in that it didn't produce microfilm. Xerography was also in the works at the time that Bush was writing (it was publicly described in concept by 1948 though not brought to market until the 1960s). The etymology of the word, according to the OED is [f. XERO- + -GRAPHY, after photography.] ('xero' meaning dry, fyi) and so comes quite close to the literal meaning of what Bush was calling for (though again it problematically produced paper copies instead of film). Digital scanners/cameras are, of course, the true realization of Bush's dream - they capture faithfully, store instantly and in a format that allows reams of data be held within a small space. And they don't use any water! From: Willard McCarty Subject: wet photography used as computer storage Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:12:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 265 (265) The ongoing discussion of "dry photography" stirred my memory of a wet-photographic device used as a mass-storage medium for computing in the 1960s. This was the IBM Photostore device (IBM 1360), installed and operational for a time at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. At the time, as a young student in physics at Berkeley, I worked at the Lab in the computing centre and saw its installation and operation. We called it "chip store" because its recording medium comprised small pieces of film ("chips"), about 3-4 inches by 1 inch, stored 32 to a box. Chips were written by an electron beam, then developed in a chemical processor, washed, dried, and put back in their box for reading when the data on them was needed. All operations were performed robotically. The device was a marvel of the time. A detailed technical description may be found at http://mail2.computerhistory.org/pipermail/inforoots/2004-February/000611.html and some photographs at http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifact_main.php?tax_id=02.07.01.00. 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: robert delius royar Subject: dry photography Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:17:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 266 (266) Bush explains the process himself. Neither of the two he explains is exactly xerography, but the second of the two processes he describes is close to xerography. The Haloid company trademarked the word "Xerox" in 1948 and introduced the Xerox photocopier in 1949, but the process has a 1942 patent which is prior to the 1945 publication of Bush's "As We May Think" in the _Atlantic Monthly_. Both of Bush's examples rely on chemically treated paper. Even when he speculates about applying faster and more accurate processes to facsimile production, he refers to using "chemically treated film." The following is directly from section "II" of "As We May Think": Use chemically treated film in place of the glowing screen [he previously described 1940s television transmission], allow the apparatus to transmit one picture only rather than a succession, and a rapid camera for dry photography results. The treated film needs to be far faster in action than present examples, but it probably could be. More serious is the objection that this scheme would involve putting the film inside a vacuum chamber, for electron beams behave normally only in such a rarefied environment. This difficulty could be avoided by allowing the electron beam to play on one side of a partition, and by pressing the film against the other side, if this partition were such as to allow the electrons to go through perpendicular to its surface, and to prevent them from spreading out sideways. Such partitions, in crude form, could certainly be constructed, and they will hardly hold up the general development. Link to the Bush article http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Bushframe.html Link to a Wikipedia article on Xerography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerography -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University Making meaning one message at a time. From: Lily Diaz Subject: Re: 19.176 dry photography Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:18:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 267 (267) Hi, I agree with Dennis Moser that he was probably referring to processes which do not use chemicals, such as Xerox, and which allow for the electronic transmission of an image. More specifically, I think that he was referring to systems such as Telefax (or FAX). It turns out that, although FAX did not really come of age until the 1980's, the technology already existed and had been worked on during the mid-to-late 19th century. In 1938--As We May Think was published in 1945--the first facsimile transmission of a daily newspaper was sent out of Saint Louis. Such an experiment, through which several pages of the newspaper including photographs were sent, includes many of the variables described in Bush' scenario. Please check out this URL for more information about the event and technology used: http://www.antiqueradios.com/features/fax.shtml Regards, Lily -------------------- Lily Díaz-Kommonen Media Lab/University of Art and Design Helsinki From: Janet Temos Subject: job at Princeton Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:54:38 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 268 (268) To: Willard McCarty The Academic Services department of the Office of Information Technology has an opening for a Humanities Database Specialist with the Educational Technologies Center (ETC). Responsibilities will include the provision of technical support to faculty clients who are working on database projects, the training of graduate assistants to these projects, and the preparation and maintenance of materials that are part of existing or new projects. The Humanities Database 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 and maintaining and developing database content. ETC currently uses the Almagest multimedia database for teaching and learning, a product developed at Princeton over the last decade. The Almagest database is in the process of rapid development. Special projects for the coming year include establishing a standard data model, defining new cataloging and uploading tools, mapping data imports from a variety of formats, enabling federated searches, and extending the database to include more sophisticated text markup tools. The Humanities Database Specialist will play an important role in achieving these goals. The position will report to the Manager of Programming at ETC, but will have a high degree of freedom in undertaking and designing the intellectual content of projects. He or she will be the department liaison to Council of the Humanities at Princeton, "the locus of a broad range of interdisciplinary courses, programs and initiatives, including the creative arts, media studies and the Society of Fellows." The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. (or ABD) in a humanities discipline and a background, formal or informal, in humanities computing and/or complex database research projects. General familiarity is expected with the operating systems and architecture for both Windows and Linux platforms, scripting languages, database technologies and mark-up standards. Familiarity with data standards and authorities is expected: Princeton is participating in the development of several image data standards. Adopting standards for other file types must be part of our future plans. Core technical skills for the Humanities database specialist would include the knowledge of Oracle, Access, FileMakerPro, TMS, MoveableType, and basic web design software; database programming in SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, PERL; experience with import/export issues, XML, PHP, and knowledge of data standards as described above. Familiarity with tools used in teaching and learning, such as learning management systems (Blackboard), bibliography tools, common blog and wiki tools, and other software that enables pedagogy is expected. Applications, which should include a brief cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, and the names and contact information for three references. [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: source for proverb? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:21:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 269 (269) Does anyone here know an attributable source for the apparently modern proverb, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"? I have found attributions to Abraham Maslow, the occupational therapist, and Bernard Baruch, the entrepeneur and statesman, but none with a pointer to published writings. Thanks for any hints. 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: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: 19.183 source for a proverb? Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:34:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 270 (270) No doubt it's not the origin of the saying, but here's some good thinking about it from Abraham Kaplan, *The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science* (San Francisco: Chandler, 1964), 28-29: In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientists. I call it *the law of the instrument*, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled. To select candidates for training as pilots, one psychologist will conduct depth interviews, another will employ projective tests, a third will apply statistical techniques to questionnaire data, while a fourth will regard the problem as a "practical" one beyond the capacity of a science which cannot yet fully predict the performance of a rat in a maze. And standing apart from them all may be yet another psychologist laboring in remote majesty--as the rest see him--on a mathematical model of human learning. The law of the instrument, however, is by no means wholly pernicious in its workings. What else is a man to do when he has an idea, Peirce asks, but ride it as hard as he can, and leave it to others to hold it back within proper limits? What is objectionable is not that some techniques are pushed to the utmost, but that others, in consequence, are denied the name of science. The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently (children learn to speak a foreign language with less of an accent than adults do only because they did not know their own language so well to start with). I believe it is important that training in behavioral science encourage applications of the greatest possible range of techniques. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Jarom McDonald Subject: Re: 19.183 source for a proverb? Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:35:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 271 (271) Maslow wrote, in _The Psychology of Science_ (1966), "I suppose it is tempting, if all you have is a hammer, to treat every problem as if it were a nail" (15-16). Of course, Bernard Baruch died in 1965, so Maslow could very well have been plagiarizing Baruch. Jarom McDonald From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Re: 19.183 source for a proverb? Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:36:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 272 (272) May I contribute to the search for the proverb that the version I have heard is "If you are a hammer, everything is a nail"? I have assumed it was traditional. Joe raben From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Re: 19.182 dry and wet photography Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:36:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 273 (273) Since we are reminiscing about early contacts with the technology we now depend on, may I post a short memory of my first contact with a computer, the ENIAC in 1946. While in the Army Special Training Program at the University of Pennsylvania, learning spoken Japanese in preparation for overseas assignment in the Occupation, I responded to a call for volunteers to pose for recruiting photos to be published in national magazines. Another trainee and I reported to the Moore School, where we were posed in front of the monster that filled a large room. I was temporarily promoted to sergeant for the shoot, and pretended to be showing my friend how the machine worked. We were told that an inset would show a rocket being launched, to demonstrate how the machine was serving the nation. The implication that Army personnel were involved with the ENIAC seems to have been propaganda. Predictably, one of the vacuum tubes blew and we had to sit around while it was replaced. One of the civilian operators took the opportunity to brag about his machine, which could do arithmetic calculations as fast as hundreds of humans with pencils. He showed us the vertical rows of flashlight bulbs that lit up in succession, one column at a time, to indicate the addition of integers (n=n+1). His emphasis, properly enough, was on the arithmetic functions. Had he even hinted (with a prescience few people had at that time) that the machine could also process language, I might have been less impatient to get out of there and meet my girlfriend. When the Army recruiting ads appeared that summer in Life, Look and Time, two other Army people had replaced my friend and me. So my moment of glory (phony though it was) was snatched from me. My efforts to locate the photos, once the significance of that moment was clear to me, never produced them. But coupled with the time I spent as a civil engineering aide on the construction of the plutonium refinement plant at Hanford, Washington, in 1944, this confrontation with the early computer constitutes an interesting combined exposure (trivial as they both were) to the two major technological bombshells of our generation: atomic energy and computers. <http://www.incredimail.com/index.asp?id=96319>_____________________________________________________________________ FREE Emoticons for your email! Click Here! <http://www.incredimail.com/index.asp?id=96319> [] From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: what influences the size of the phonemic inventory? Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:13:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 274 (274) Dear Humanist colleagues, the article "Linguistic and scial typology": the Australian migrations and phoneme inventories" by Peter Trudgill in "Linguistic Typology" (ed. Frans Plank), Volume 8 - 3, 2004, page 305 - 320, is very interesting. It deals with the size of the phonemic inventory and the factors which may influence it. Since 1973 when I was a post graduate in general phonetics and phonology, this is a riddle for me. I remember I was amazed why some languages have only 3 vowels and about a hundred consonants, while others have 6 vowels and 12 consonants only? Is it not a riddle? This is indeed a challenge for linguistic typology, is it not? Peter Trudgill tried to give his answer, but may be the most interesting were the tests by several other linguists who supported Trudgill's idea (Keren Rice, p.321 - 342; John Hajek, p. 343 - 350; Barish Kabak, p.351 - 367) and those linguists who opposed Trudgill's idea with their critiques (Peter Bakker, p. 368 - 375; Vladimir Pericliev, p. 376 - 383). So, the discussion made this issue of Linguistic Typology quite interesting. I wonder if other linguists would give their opinions on this problem? I'd urge the editor-in-chief Frans Plank give the opportunity for other linguists to speak. However, my idea is a little bit different. One should take into consideration the frequency of occurrence of every phoneme in the speech chain. It is quite usual that the great inventory uses onle a small part of its total as the most frequent phonemes. I have studied 157 world languages from this point of view and came to this conclusion. When the inventory is rather small then all the phonemes have the great frequency load. May be some other modern linguists noticed it, I wonder? It is an extremely interesting promlem in general linguistics and typology. May be some less known languages of Australia or the Americas have different tendencies? Actually, in the 1960 -1970 when many languages undergone thorough phonemic counts (among them English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Finnish, Hungarian, Mansi, Mari, Karelian, Estonian, Komi, Nenets, Kazah, Kirgiz, Turkish, Chookchi, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Bolgarian, etc. etc) the languages of Australia or the Americas were never investigated by the methods of phonostattistics. In fact, the Turkic languages which had many contacts undrwent the tendency of dropping some complex phonemes. It is quite understandable since they were nomadic tribes which contacted many other peoples on their way. In my opinion, these most stable phonemes were the real phonemes of the parent proto-Turkic, or proto-Slavonic, or wider, proto-Indo-European. One should use phonostatistics before reconstructing the proto-language. However, now phonemic counts are not used in the historical reconstructions. Looking forward to hearing the opinions of those interested to my e-mail address: yutamb_at_hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Ped. University, Russia. From: Digimatter Subject: new book on Virtual Ethnicity Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:12:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 275 (275) VIRTUAL ETHNICITY: RACE, RESISTANCE & THE WORLD WIDE WEB Where is the ethnic minority presence in cyberspace? In this book, Linda Leung makes a pioneering exploration of ethnic minority presence in cyberspace. She finds that despite the apparent white, Western, male, middle class profile of cyberspace, there is significant ethnic minority activity. The work draws on the author's empirical research amongst ethnic minority women and incorporates discussion of media and web-texts from the US, Canada, Britain and Australia. This is a fascinating interdisciplinary examination of the web-participation of ethnic communities, which sheds light on how ethnic identities are articulated in cyberspace and contemporary society in both predictable and surprising ways. Available from Ashgate <http://www.ashgate.com> or Amazon <http://www.amazon.co.uk> From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: August/September Issue of Innovate Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:36:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 276 (276) The August/September 2005 of Innovate's special issue on the role of video game technology in educational settings 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. Jim Gee opens the issue with a key question: "What would a state of the art instructional video game look like?" Gee's response focuses on the commercial game Full Spectrum Warrior in order to reveal the "good theory of learning" that should inform the design of video games produced specifically for instructional purposes. In turn, David Shaffer elaborates a similar theory of situated and action-based learning with the concept of an "epistemic game," whose design integrates player interests, domain knowledge, valued professional practices, and assessment to generate motivation and deep learning. In the following article, Richard Halverson reinforces the argument that valid learning principles inform successful video games, and describes how they might be integrated in educational contexts. Melanie Zibit and David Gibson report the work in progress on simSchool--a video game that prepares teachers for the complexities of classroom management by offering a "simulated apprenticeship" that prepares teachers to practice the kind of informed decision making required for success in their profession. Kurt Squire's findings about the benefits of and obstacles to the implementation of video games in the classroom are based on his own attempt to use Civilization III in high school history classes. He argues that, rather than thinking about how to design good games for the existing K-12 educational system, we should focus our energies on how to design an educational system flexible enough to accommodate video games. In contrast, Michael Begg, David Dewhurst, and Hamish Macleod advocate a "game-informed learning" approach that would make conventional learning activities more game-like. The two medical simulations they describe immerse students in a professional identity and generate highly motivated constructivist learning. In a provocative glimpse into the future learning landscape, Joel Foreman, this issue's guest editor, interviews Clark Aldrich, described by Fortune magazine as one of the top three e-learning gurus. The interview begins with the distinction between games and simulations and concludes with Aldrich's "20 simulations" approach to the reformation of education. Stephen Downes wraps up the issue with his review of Apolyton, an exemplar site that provides both fodder for resourceful students and models for educators who want to cultivate new online learning communities. We hope that you enjoy this special issue of Innovate. Please use Innovate'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. Finally, if you wish to continue to get announcements of new issues, please subscribe to Innovate at www.innovateonline.info Subscription is free. 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.28 Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:37:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 277 (277) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 28 (August 2 - 9, 2005) VIEW TRANSIENT SOFTWARE FAULT TOLERANCE USING SINGLE-VERSION ALGORITHM Goutam Kumar Saha introduces a low-cost and unconventional technique for designing software capable of self-detection and recovery. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i28_saha.html VIEW EMBEDDED SYSTEMS IN REAL TIME APPLICATIONS, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE A.L.Suseela and V.Lalith Kumar offer a primer on the development of real-time, embedded, hybrid control software, illustrated within the problem domain of intelligent cruise control applications. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i28_embedded.html From: "Johanne Martinez - Schmitt" Subject: ESF Call for Scientific Programme Proposals Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 06:37:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 278 (278) MESSAGE TO THE ESF MAILING LIST European Science Foundation (ESF) Call for Scientific Programme Proposals The European Science Foundation is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for new Scientific Programmes. An ESF Scientific Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level. For more information see: <http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0&section=2&domain=0&genericpage=2309>http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0&section=2&domain=0&genericpage=2309 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 4 November 2005; 24;00hrs CET. From: Shoshannah Holdom Subject: Digital Resources for the Humanities 2005: Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:19:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 279 (279) additional call for posters =============================================== DRH 2005: Additional Call for Posters ** Opportunity to present late-breaking news ** =============================================== The Digital Resources for the Humanities conference (DRH 2005) is pleased to announce a late Call for Poster Presentations. We particularly welcome poster proposals showcasing work on new and ongoing projects, late-breaking results, and other recent developments in the field. The prize of a *new-model iPod* will be awarded to the best poster presentation at the conference, as voted for by conference delegates. Short abstracts (circa 250 words) should be submitted to the conference website at http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/submit.php before the 10th August. Final posters should be designed to fit within the dimensions 4 feet x 3 feet. =============================================== The AHRC Methods Network Bursaries provide funding for postgraduate students who wish to attend DRH 2005, and who have had a paper or poster accepted for presentation at the conference. For details please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/methnet/content/forms/drh_form.html =============================================== Digital Resources for the Humanities conference (DRH 2005) 4th-7th September 2005, Lancaster University, UK (http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/) For conference themes see http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/overview.php For registration see http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/registration.php. For outline programme see http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/program.php -- Dr Shoshannah Holdom Content Editor (Modern Languages) Humbul Humanities Hub Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 273 260 Fax: 01865 273 275 Email: shoshannah.holdom_at_oucs.ox.ac.uk URL: http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: job in e-publishing at the University of Pennsylvania Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:21:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 280 (280) Position Available Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image University of Pennsylvania Library The University of Pennsylvania Library is=20 presently seeking a bright, creative individual=20 with a solid background in humanities computing=20 to guide and manage its electronic publishing=20 unit, The Schoenberg Center for Text & Image (SCETI). SCETI (dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti) was=20 created in 1996 to produce virtual facsimiles of=20 rare and special materials from Penn's=20 collections. Over the years, SCETI has evolved=20 into a fully integrated electronic library=20 containing digital versions printed books,=20 manuscripts, correspondences, images, and most recently recorded sound. SCETI's projects have ranged from Shakespeare,=20 medieval Judaica, and the traditions of alchemy=20 to ancient papyri, the works of Theodore Dreiser,=20 and the spoken word. In 1998 SCETI received an=20 NEH Challenge Grant, which was successfully=20 met. SCETI collaborates on the Penn campus with=20 faculty and academic units and internationally=20 with institutions across North America and=20 beyond. The SCETI web site is a destination stop=20 for humanities scholars from around the world. Potential candidates are invited to submit a=20 letter of application which addresses the needs=20 and qualifications of the position, along with=20 their r=E9sum=E9 and the names, addresses and phone=20 numbers of three references who can address the=20 suitability of the candidate for the position=20 described, to: Robert Eash, Human Resources=20 Officer, University of Pennsylvania Library, 3420=20 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 or=20 email to: reash_at_pobox.upenn.edu . Michael Ryan Director, Rare Books & Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Library From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:18:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 281 (281) Announcing the latest issue of HJS! Hypermedia Joyce Studies vol. 6 no. 1 (2005) www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/masthead www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce/contents CONTENTS: A Eumaean Return to Style Sam Slote Aurality and Adaptation: Radioplay in Ulysses Jane A. Lewty Mind Factory: From Artifice to Intelligence Louis Armand Finnegans Wake III.3 and the Third Millennium: The Ghost of Modernisms Yet to Come John Marvin Gat-toothed Alysoun, Gaptoothed Kathleen: Sovereignty and Dentition William Sayers NB. the next issue of HJS (December/January) will be the 10th anniversary issue. HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES www.geocities.com/hypermedia_joyce From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- July 2005 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:18:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 282 (282) CIT INFOBITS July 2005 No. 85 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. ...................................................................... Creating Learning Space Scholarly Web Searching New Journal of Online Learning Games Children Play Spreadsheets in Education Internet Literacy Test Recommended Reading ...................................................................... CREATING LEARNING SPACE "Designers have traditionally studied courtyards, plazas, and hallways for usage and flow patterns. Learning space designers must now consider the instructional implications of these spaces." The theme for the latest issue of EDUCAUSE REVIEW (vol. 40, no. 4, July/August 2005) is learning space design. In addition to the articles, readers with Web connection can access an online-only section that includes "photos of various learning space design projects and podcast interviews with four learning space design experts." The complete issue is available online at http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm054.asp. EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that explores developments in information technology and education, is published by EDUCAUSE, 1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 1010, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-872-4200; fax: 202-872-4318; email: info@educause.edu; Web: http://www.educause.edu/. Articles from current and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/. ...................................................................... SCHOLARLY WEB SEARCHING "Google Scholar" -- a Google service for scholars that allows searches to be limited to academic materials (including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports) -- is not the only game in town. In "Scholarly Web Searching: Google Scholar and Scirus" (ONLINE, vol. 29, no. 4, July/August 2005), Greg R. Notess provides an overview of Google Scholar and Elsevier's Scirus, another searching resource for scholars. Unlike Google Scholar, Scirus includes regular web pages as well as journal articles. Using some sample searches, he compares the two services' search capabilities and limitations, as well as the advantages of each to scholarly researchers. The article is available online at no charge at http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul05/OnTheNet.shtml. Online [ISSN:0009-2258] is published bimonthly by Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055-8750 USA; tel: 609-654-6266; fax: 609-654-4309; email: custserv_at_infotoday.com; Web: http://www.infotoday.com/online/. A limited number of articles are freely available online to non-subscribers. ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL OF ONLINE LEARNING MERLOT has launched the JOURNAL OF ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING (JOLT), a free, peer-reviewed, online journal designed to address the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. Papers in the first issue (July 2005) include: "The Authentic Assessment Toolbox: Enhancing Student Learning through Online Faculty Development" by Jon Mueller "Physlets and Open Source Physics for Quantum Mechanics: Visualizing Quantum-mechanical Revivals" by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian "Learning Objects in Use: 'Lite' Assessment for Field Studies" by Vivian Schoner, Dawn Buzza, Kevin Harrigan, and Katrina Strampel "Beyond the Valley of the Shadow: Taking Stock of the Virginia Center for Digital History" by Elsa A. Nystrom and Justin A. Nystrom JOLT is available at http://jolt.merlot.org/. MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free and open resource and community designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Community members contribute online learning materials and peer reviews. Membership is free. For more information, go to http://www.merlot.org/. ...................................................................... GAMES CHILDREN PLAY Computer games as learning tools is emerging as a highly-debated topic. Here's a roundup of recent articles and resources that explore children's use of computer games and speculation of how games will "play out" in as educational tools. "Meet the Gamers" By Kurt Squire & Constance Steinkuehler Library Journal.com, April 15, 2005 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/ca516033.html "In the past, librarians have often been perceived as gatekeepers, arbiters of access to information. The digital cultures now emerging (with the help of technologies such as games) suggest that the days for such an institutional role are numbered." "Gaming for Librarians: An Introduction" By Heather Wilson VOYA, February 2005 http://pdfs.voya.com/VO/YA2/VOYA200502YA101.pdf "[P]eople lament the fact that teens are playing video games and not reading. They are missing the point. Gaming often requires reading, problem-solving, and critical thinking." "The Games Children Play" 30-minute video produced by School Matters http://www.teachers.tv/strandProgramme.do?strandId=6&transmissionProgrammeId=155402&r=47043 Video advocating the use of games in education, featuring interviews with Henry Jenkins, director of comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jim Gee, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Video Games and the Future of Learning" By David Williamson Shaffer, Kurt R. Squire, Richard Halverson, and James P. Gee December 2004 http://www.academiccolab.org/resources/gappspaper1.pdf "[W]e describe an approach to the design of learning environments that builds on the educational properties of games, but deeply grounds them within a theory of learning appropriate for an age marked by the power of new technologies. We argue that to understand the future of learning, we have to look beyond schools to the emerging arena of video games." ...................................................................... SPREADSHEETS IN EDUCATION Instructors have often used the spreadsheet as a educational tool since these software packages' inception. The free, online journal, SPREADSHEETS IN EDUCATION (eJSiE), provides a forum for a more formal exploration of use of the tool in instruction, with peer-reviewed papers that advance "understanding of the role that spreadsheets can play in constructivist educational contexts." In addition to the journal, the eJSiE website includes a section, "In the Classroom," that provides practical classroom activity resources, including downloadable spreadsheet models. The journal and other resources is available at http://www.sie.bond.edu.au/. Spreadsheets in Education (eJSiE) [ISSN 1448-6156] is published by the Faculty of Information Technology at Bond University, Queensland, Australia. For more information, contact: Dr Steve Sugden, eJSiE Editor-in-Chief, Bond University, Gold Coast Q 4229, Australia; tel: (07) 55953325; international tel: +617 55953325; email: ssugden_at_staff.bond.edu.au. ...................................................................... INTERNET LITERACY TEST Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nonprofit organization responsible for the SAT, GRE, GMAT, and other standardized tests, has announced a new test, the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment. Using a series of scenarios and tasks, the ICT Literacy Assessment is designed to measure a student's "ability to use critical-thinking skills to solve problems within a technological environment." For more information go to http://www.ets.org/ictliteracy/index.html. See also: "Colleges Look to Test Internet IQ" MSNBC, July 15, 2005 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8433332/ ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. My Most Memorable Teacher (or Trainer) Edited by Edward Masie The Masie Center, 2005 http://www.masie.com/teacher/ The free ebook is a compilation of over 750 contributions from colleagues around the world. The book can be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes. From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Call for Applicants: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 06:55:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 283 (283) Humanities Computing (Victoria, BC) Call for Applicants: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Humanities Computing (Victoria, BC) The University of Victoria's Humanities Computing and Media Centre is looking for a suitably-qualified Post-Doctoral Researcher to join its work as part of the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) Project for the 2005/6 academic year. Candidates interested in this position will bring established academic research questions in an area or areas of Humanities Computing to the position, will have demonstrated capability in implementing solutions to those questions using the technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic, and will be prepared to work in a cooperative, collaborative environment toward achieving goals common to the UVic TAPoR group. This position may also involve teaching and participating in curriculum development. Examples of technologies supported by TAPoR at UVic are: XML, XSLT, and XSL encoding languages; TEI P4 and P5; XQuery; and eXist XML databases. In addition, UVic TAPoR project members frequently work with XHTML, JavaScript and CSS, and web-based SQL database projects using PostgresSQL and mySQL. Salary for this position is competitive, and will be commensurate with experience. Applications including a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to Ray Siemens Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing UVic TAPoR Principle Investigator siemens[at]uvic.ca Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled. == About TAPoR: TAPoR is building a unique human and computing infrastructure for text analysis across the country by establishing six regional centers (UMcMaster, UMontreal, UAlberta, UNew Brunswick, UToronto, and UVictoria) to form one national text analysis research portal. This portal will be a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. The local centers will include text research laboratories with best-of-breed software and full-text servers that are coordinated into a vertical portal for the study of electronic texts. Each center will be integrated into its local research culture and, thus, some variation will exist from center to center. TAPoR at the University of Victoria's HCMC has a multimedia laboratory and server infrastructure suitable for research into a variety of areas of Humanities Computing, including multimedia enrichment and acquisition, text representation and text analysis. UVic's newly appointed CRC Chair in Humanities Computing, and our resident computing experts, provide guidance and expertise to the 8+ TAPoR-related research projects currently under development. To learn more about UVic people and projects, see http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/tapor/index.htm. ____________ 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: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Summer Institute special course offering: Issues in Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:25:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 284 (284) Project Planning and Management Announcing a special offering of Issues in Project Planning and Management Digital Humanities/Humanities Computing Summer Institute 22-23 August 2005 University of Victoria http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ Further to our program this past June (see=20 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/), the institute=20 is pleased to announce that it will be offering a=20 special condensed version of Issues in Project=20 Planning and Management, 22-23 August 2005. * Course Description Issues in Project Planning and Management 22-23 August 2005 Instructor: Lynne Siemens (Malaspina U-C) Effective planning and management skills become=20 increasingly important to the collaborative and=20 'team' research environments that characterise=20 the digital humanities. This offering covers the=20 basics of project planning and management, from=20 the conception of a project to its review upon=20 completion. Topics addressed include=20 establishing a project plan, setting budgets and=20 controls, managing risk, scheduling tasks, and=20 using related software tools and Internet=20 resources. Material will be covered through=20 lectures, discussions, case studies, and in-class=20 planning of projects brought to the seminar by=20 participants; essential readings will be provided in a course package. This offering is seminar-style, allowing=20 close contact with all involved in the seminar,=20 and a real opportunity for discussion, consultation, and collaboration. * Registration Fees ($ CDN) For this special condensed offering of the workshop, rates are as follows: - Those at sponsoring institutions (U Victoria, Acadia U, UBC Library and Malaspina U-C) or organizations (ACH, ALLC) $250 for faculty/staff $125 for students - Those not members of sponsoring institutions or organisations $500 for faculty/staff $250 for students * To Register To register for this especial offering, please be=20 in touch directly with Karin Armstrong, karindar_at_uvic.ca. =3D=3D=3D About the Digital Humanities/Humanities Computing Summer Institute * Mandate The institute provides an environment=20 ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance=20 skills in the new computing technologies that=20 influence the way in which those in the Arts and=20 Humanities carry out their teaching and research=20 today. The institute offers intensive=20 coursework, seminar participation, and lectures,=20 and it brings together faculty, staff, and=20 graduate student theorists, experimentalists,=20 technologists, and administrators from different=20 areas of the Arts and Humanities -- plus members=20 of the digital library, library, and archival=20 studies community, and beyond -- to share ideas=20 and methods, and to develop expertise in applying=20 advanced technologies to their teaching and research. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the=20 University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities=20 and its Humanities Computing and Media Centre,=20 and is sponsored by the University of Victoria,=20 University of British Columbia Library, Malaspina=20 University College, Acadia University, the=20 Consortium for Computing in the Humanities /=20 Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines,=20 the Association for Computers and the Humanities,=20 the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and others. * 2005 Curriculum Institute Lectures: Lorna Hughes [New York U], David Hoover [New=20 York U], Willard McCarty [King's College, London], Stan Ruecker [U Alberta], Claire Warwick=20 [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=20 Encoding Issues, Metadata, Text Transformations, and Databases (instructed by Susan Schreibman [U Maryland]=20 and Amit Kumar [U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]) [4] Multimedia: Tools and Techniques for Digital Media Projects (instructed by Aim=E9e Morrison [U Waterloo]) Advanced Consultation: [5] Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [Malaspina U-C],=20 with seminar speakers including Alan Galey [U Western Ontario], Matt Steggle [Sheffield=20 Hallam U], Claire Warwick [University College, London], Lorna Hughes [New York U], Julia=20 Flanders [Brown U], and Susan Schreibman [U Maryland]) * Website For further details -- such as the list of=20 speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration=20 form, and accommodation information -- see the=20 institute's website, at this URL: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ . ____________ R.G. Siemens English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN=20 CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1 Phone: (250) 721-7272 Fax: (250) 721-6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Call for Posters, TEI Members' meeting, Sofia Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:26:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 285 (285) The TEI Consortium is happy to announce that a poster session/tool demonstration has been added to the program of this year's members' meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 28 and 29th. The poster session will take place the morning of the second day of the meeting, Saturday, October 29th. In addition to the poster session on Saturday, some poster presenters will be offered to give a short talk about their poster at the member's meeting on Friday, October 28th during the "10 Minutes of Fame" session. The topic of a poster can be a current project you are working on using TEI encoding, a tool developed for the production or dissemination of TEI-encoded texts, or any TEI-related topic you feel would be of benefit to the community. The poster can be a traditional printed poster or a demonstration on a computer. Unfortunately the TEI cannot fund the travel, lodging, or meals for poster presenters. The local organizer can provide a flip chart and a table for each presenter but Internet access has not yet been confirmed, so keep that in mind when proposing your poster. If you wish to present a poster or tool demonstration at the members' meeting in Sofia, please send a brief proposal (500 -750 words) describing your project to the program chair (matthew.zimmerman_at_nyu.edu). Deadline for proposals is Friday, September 15th, 2005. The proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and successful applicants will be notified by September 30th, 2005 and given further information about presenting. For more information on the 2005 TEI Members' meeting, please see http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/sofia.xml Matt Zimmerman Program Chair From: ceemas05_at_conferences.hu Subject: ceemas05 call for participation Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:27:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 286 (286) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************* 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems 15-17 September 2005, Budapest, Hungary ********************************************* http://www.ceemas.org/ceemas05/index.html Co-located with The Third AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF3) http://www.agentlink.org/activities/al3-tf/tf3/ First Technical European FIPA IEEE Meeting http://www.fipa.org/activities/nextmeeting.html Co-sponsored by - European Coordinating Action for Agent-Based Computing (AgentLink III) - AITIA Informatikai Inc. Invited Speaker ================ - Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies AG, Zurich, Switzerland, Scientific Programme ================== The preliminary programme of CEEMAS 2005 is available at http://www.ceemas.org/ceemas05/program.html [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Poesis & Praxis 3.3 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:23:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 287 (287) Volume 3 Number 3 of Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Technology Assessment and Ethics of Science is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Human nature and the sciences. Current challenges in a Franco-German perspective p. 155 Felix Thiele Focus On a recent opinion of the French national bioethics committee considered in a French-German perspective p. 156 Claude Debru Focus Human nature and end-of-life decisions p. 163 Paula La Marne Focus Quality of life assessment and human dignity: against the incompatibility-assumption p. 168 Michael Quante Original Paper Quality control in academic publishing: challenges in the age of cyberscience p. 181 Michael Nentwich Original Paper Rethinking the science-policy nexus: from knowledge utilization and science technology studies to types of boundary arrangements p. 199 Robert Hoppe Forum Argumentation theory and GM foods p. 216 Miltos Ladikas, Doris Schroeder From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Acta Informatica 41.7-8 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:25:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 288 (288) Volume 41 Numbers 7-8 of Acta Informatica is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: The weakest specifunction p. 383 Yifeng Chen, J. W. Sanders The stuttering principle revisited p. 415 Antonon Kucera, Jan Strejcek Compiling quantum programs p. 435 Paolo Zuliani A comprehensive database schema integration method based on the theory of formal concepts p. 475 Ingo Schmitt, Gunter Saake [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: "McAlpine, Kenneth" Subject: Digital Heritage and Preservation 2005 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:20:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 289 (289) Inaugural International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation 2005 University of Abertay Dundee Thursday 10th November 2005 Colloquium announcement and call for papers In November, the University of Abertay Dundee in conjunction with the Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield Trust will host the Inaugural International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation in its newly-opened Cultural Centre. The colloquium will run alongside an International Exhibition of Digital Heritage and Preservation, featuring exhibits from, amongst others, the Universities of Stanford and Venice. The event will provide stimulating presentations from a broad range of cultural sectors and will give delegates the opportunity to hear presentations from five leading figures in the field. Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 31st August 2005 The colloquium committee invites proposals for papers on any area of digital heritage or preservation, and from all cultural sectors: museums, libraries, archives, archaeological monuments and sites, live performances, exhibitions and of course, the World Wide Web. In particular we welcome proposals that seek to comment on applications of digital technology to the protection of heritage resources (including the virtual recreation of lost resources), or which apply cross-disciplinary thinking to heritage and preservation. Possible topics for consideration include, but are not restricted to: Digitising cultural heritage Augmented reality Digital libraries and digital documents Virtual architecture and construction Applications of music technology to heritage preservation 3D modelling and animation Digital photography Web and audiovisual archiving Haptic interfaces and blurring the real-virtual boundary Displaying virtual and intangible exhibits Digital technology and curatorship Working models and case studies Interdisciplinary perspectives Individual presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in duration. Proposals should take the form of a title followed by an abstract of not more than 250 words. Deadline for submission is Friday 31st August 2005. Decisions will be notified in early September 2005. Finished papers for inclusion in the on-line proceedings should be 3000-4000 words in length and should be received by 15th October 2005. Proposals should be sent to: Dr. Kenny McAlpine University of Abertay Dundee Kydd Building, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HG, UK E-mail: k.mcalpine_at_abertay.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)1382 308600 Fax: +44 (0)1382 308627 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.29 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:28:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 290 (290) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 29 (August 10-16, 2005) INTERVIEW WHAT THE DORMOUSE SAID: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MARKOFF John Markoff is author of the new best-seller "What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry," and is a senior writer for The New York Times. His other books include "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" and "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i29_markoff.html From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Open Access Webliography Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:21:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 291 (291) A preprint of the article "Open Access Webliography" by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. This annotated webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that were freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm This article appears in the volume 33, no. 3 (2005) issue of Reference Services Review, which is a special issue about "the role of the reference librarian in the development, management, dissemination, and sustainability of institutional repositories." http://thesius.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2409844/cl=18/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/00907324/v33n3/contp1.htm A preprint of my "The Role of Reference Librarians in Institutional Repositories" article in this issue is also available. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/reflibir.pdf Both preprints are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Below is a list of the topics covered in the webliography: * Starting Points * Bibliographies * Debates * Directories--E-Prints, Institutional Repositories, and Technical Reports * Directories--Open Access and Free Journals * Directories and Guides--Copyright and Licensing * Directories and Guides--Open Access Publishing * Directories and Guides--Software * Disciplinary Archives * E-Serials about Open Access * Free E-Serials That Frequently Publish Open Access Articles * General Information * Mailing Lists * Organizations * Projects * Publishers and Distributors * Search Engines * Special Programs for Developing Countries * Statements * Weblogs Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: writing history of what's happening Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:01:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 292 (292) Evidence of the ability to write genuine histories of computing rather than simply annotated chronologies is a very good sign for humanities computing. Historians, like philosophers, can make anything that happens their own, but when they do, and do this well, those concerned with such happenings are given something worth celebrating -- the wherewithal to become, I'd say, more self-aware. Hence my delight in finding, in Critical Inquiry 31.4 (2005), Thomas Streeter's "The Moment of Wired" (pp. 755-79), which gives us a genuine history of the 1990s internet enthusiasms. The atmosphere of the time, Streeter writes at the end of this article, "was precisely a fusion of the desire for wealth with romantic dreams of freedom, self-expression, and the dramatic overthrow of the powers-that-be. Without the romantic visions of freedom and revolution, there would have been nothing to get excited about; there was no gold in this gold rush, no valuable raw material, just castles in the air made of projections onto immaterial digital bits; something had to make those projections seem valuable. Yet without the hope of getting rich, the enthusiasm would never have had the energy it needed to spread. Change the world, overthrow hierarchy, express yourself, and get rich; it was precisely the heady mix of all of these hopes that had such a galvanizing effect." What makes this article particularly valuable is Streeter's consideration of the relationship between this romanticism and the technology giving it substance. Citing Friedrich Kittler's book Discourse Networks, he comments that "Kittler is on the right track when... he suggests that one should understand romanticism, not as a collection of texts or a historical period, but as a way of organizing discourse through practices of writing, reading, and relating.... Kittler's Foucaultian use of the term 'technology' to describe pedagogical manuals, child-rearing practices, and the like has a useful othering effect, displacing the romantic expressive tautologies of originary nature and genius onto a materialist analysis of their conditions of possibility." This shift, with which computing has had much to do, we've seen expressed in several works on the history of the book, for example -- more generally, in the re-surfacing of awareness that common technologies *are* technologies. Indeed, it is responsible for a much increased interest in the material culture of computing. "But the shift from expression to technology", Streeter comments, "has its own risks. The problem with McCluhanism is not that it's wrong to attribute causal power to technologies; it is that technology is imagined singularly, as the secret key that unlocks complexity, as the cause of cultural change. The move in Kittler from Discourse Networks to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter -- one title suggesting an inquiry into concrete practices, the other a list of gadgets -- risks too neatly reducing behaviors and differences into generalizable epistemes that can be tidily separated into distinct, technologically caused epochs. This can be particularly troubling when, by a millennial logic of succession (from 1800/1900 to 2000), the suggestion becomes that, as computers replace previous technologies of communication, consciousness is once again being transformed in one fell swoop." He concludes: "In the case of the 1990s internet enthusiasms, it could be said that computers did not so much shape culture as the other way around. Computer networks did not create the rhetorical constructions of originary genius, of spontaneous creation-from-nowhere that functioned to promote both individuals... and the internet itself as Promethean sources of wealth and knowledge, outside of history and social determination. The images made available by Mosaic and Netscape clearly were inspirational to many, not so much because they departed from conventional forms of representation, but to a large degree because they created a sense of anticipatory projection. The role of the web browser at first was more like that of a Rorschach-like object with which to explore fantasy. And for that fantasy to take wing, conventional, written romantic tropes were required, like the studied use of informal everyday language to construct authenticity, the dissemination of narratives that constructed the internet as a place for thrilling exploration, and the crafting of rebel-artist person.... These tropes were often as not disseminated in conventional print, like Wired and Neuromancer. And that which was disseminated online was still largely made of traditional letters and words; what was important about the technology at first may not have been that it was digital but that it was narrowly accessible to the particular communities of those who did a lot of their own word processing. It was this historical accident of a shared sense of secret access, of being in the know by virtue of being fluent with a computer modem, that allowed the early online users to experience in the internet a sense of something radically new, of a break with the past. And that experience, in turn, helped distract from the sober economic and global realities that American culture spent the 1990s so energetically avoiding." 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: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 19.167 recognized disciplines (and computing)? Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:17:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 293 (293) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) skrev 22.07.2005 17:56: [deleted quotation]Willard, This is not from directly from an institution of the kind you are mentioning (although it is the result of an EU funded project), but in the chapters here it is possible to see some of the problems the ACO*HUM project had in defining disciplines and fields: http://helmer.hit.uib.no/AcoHum/book/ Espen Ore From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Digital Asset Management with Fedora Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:26:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 294 (294) http://www.llgc.org.uk/fedora_conference.htm Digital Asset Management with Fedora To be held on the 24th October 2005 Hosted by Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK DIGTAL ASSET MANAGEMENT WITH FEDORA The National Library of Wales The National Library of Wales is pleased to open registration for the Digital Asset Management with Fedora conference to be held in Aberystwyth, Wales. The aim of this meeting is to bring together those using, or thinking about using, Fedora from across Europe in order to share knowledge and experience whilst providing an environment for making connections between institutions. Provisional programme includes: * Adventures in Digital Asset Management: Fedora at the National Library of Wales * Glen Robson, The National Library of Wales Bridging Fedora and= DSpace * John Bell, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth Building Workflows That Work for a Next-Generation Institutional Repository * Angela Merchant, VTLS/ARROW Project Collaborative Working, providing an African perspective on a distributed digital library development based on Fedora and METS * Dale Peters, DISA: Digital Imaging South Africa, University of KwaZulu Natal Digital Asset Management for All * Paul Bevan, The National Library of Wales The RepoMMan Project - Automating Metadata and Workflow for Fedora * RepoMMan Team, The University of Hull Working with Fedora and METS * Lyn L=E9wis Dafis, The National Library of Wales Upcoming= Developments in the Fedora project Thornton Staples, Fedora Development Team ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simon Tanner Director, King's Digital Consultancy Services King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX tel: +44 (0)7787 691716 email: simon.tanner_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/ From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: TEI members' meeting, October 2005, Bulgaria Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:27:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 295 (295) TEI Annual Members' Meeting Sofia, Bulgaria October 28-29, 2005 http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/sofia.xml membership_at_tei-c.org This year's TEI members' meeting will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29 hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The first day of the meeting is open to all registrants and will feature invited speakers with substantive presentations related to the use and development of the TEI. The morning of the second day is open to all registrants and will consist of Special Interest Group meetings, a poster session, and tools demonstration. The afternoon of the second day is for members only and consists of the business meeting and election. Members are reminded that only designated member representatives (or proxies designated in advance of the meeting) can vote in this election. More details about the program, and information about lodging and registration are available on the TEI-C website http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/sofia.xml The TEI Consortium is happy to announce that a poster session/tool demonstration has been added to the program of this year's members' meeting. In addition to the poster session, some poster presenters will be offered to give a short talk about their poster during a "10 Minutes of Fame" session. The topic of a poster can be a current project you are working on using TEI encoding, a tool developed for the production or dissemination of TEI-encoded texts, or any TEI-related topic you feel would be of benefit to the community. The poster can be a traditional printed poster or a demonstration on a computer. If you wish to present a poster or demonstrate a tool, please send a brief proposal (500 -750 words) describing your project to the program chair (matthew.zimmerman_at_nyu.edu). Deadline for proposals is Friday, September 15th, 2005. Successful applicants will be notified by September 30th, 2005 and given further information about presenting then. We strongly encourage all members of the TEI community (TEI members and non-members alike) to attend the Members' Meeting. This year has already been full of changes and new developments--to the Guidelines, to the TEI web space, to the TEI hosts--and this year's meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss them all and consider directions for the year to come. It will also offer a chance to learn more about the work that is being done in text encoding in eastern Europe. If you'd like to attend the members-only portion of the meeting and are not part of a TEI member institution, please consider joining the TEI as a subscriber; the annual fee is US$50 per year. If you'd like to get your institution to join but don't know where to start, just email us at info_at_tei-c.org and we'll be glad to help. In addition, the local organizers have asked us to mention a related event which will be of interest to the TEI membership. Immediately before the members meeting, there will be an international conference and workshop held in Sofia on 24-27 October. The conference and workshop are being organized by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (the Institute of Bulgarian Language, the Institute of Literature, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, the Central Library of BAS) and the Program Committee consists of Prof. Vassil Raynov, Assoc. Prof. Maria Nisheva, Assoc. Prof. Dincho Krastev, Assoc. Prof. Svetla Koeva, Assoc. Prof. Nikola Ikonomov, Assoc. Prof. Anissava Miltenova (secretary). Themes of the conference include applications of information technologies in the humanities; computer processing of old and modern Slavic languages and texts; description, analysis, and edition of Slavic sources with computer tools; and electronic publishing. A workshop for specialists and researchers on computational linguistics and on the application of the TEI guidelines to electronic publishing is included in the framework of the conference. Participants are expected from more than fifteen countries in the workshop, with lecturers from the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Bulgaria, and elsewhere. For more information about the conference and workshop, please contact Anissava Miltenova at anmilten_at_bas.bg or anmilten_at_yahoo.com. We hope to see many of you in Bulgaria! Best wishes, Julia Flanders Chair, TEI Consortium Brown University Matthew Zimmerman Chair, Program Committee New York University From: Willard McCarty Subject: LNCS 3671 Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:19:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 296 (296) Volume 3671/2005 (Database and XML Technologies)=20 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now=20 available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Patterns and Types for Querying XML Documents p. 1 Giuseppe Castagna DOI: 10.1007/11547273_1 Checking Functional Dependency Satisfaction in XML p. 4 Millist W. Vincent, Jixue Liu DOI: 10.1007/11547273_2 A Theoretic Framework for Answering XPath Queries Using Views p. 18 Jian Tang, Shuigeng Zhou DOI: 10.1007/11547273_3 A Path-Based Labeling Scheme for Efficient Structural Join p. 34 Hanyu Li, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu DOI: 10.1007/11547273_4 The BIRD Numbering Scheme for XML and Tree=20 Databases -- Deciding and Reconstructing Tree=20 Relations Using Efficient Arithmetic Operations p. 49 Felix Weigel, Klaus U. Schulz, Holger Meuss DOI: 10.1007/11547273_5 Efficient Handling of Positional Predicates Within XML Query Processing p.= 68 Zografoula Vagena, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Vassilis J. Tsotras DOI: 10.1007/11547273_6 Relational Index Support for XPath Axes p. 84 Leo Yuen, Chung Keung Poon DOI: 10.1007/11547273_7 Supporting XPath Axes with Relational Databases Using a Proxy Index p. 99 Olli Luoma DOI: 10.1007/11547273_8 An Extended Preorder Index for Optimising XPath Expressions p. 114 Martin F. O=92Connor, Zohra Bellahs=E8ne, Mark Roantree DOI: 10.1007/11547273_9 XPathMark: An XPath Benchmark for the XMark Generated Data p. 129 Massimo Franceschet DOI: 10.1007/11547273_10 MemBeR: A Micro-benchmark Repository for XQuery p. 144 Loredana Afanasiev, Ioana Manolescu, Philippe Michiels DOI: 10.1007/11547273_11 Main Memory Implementations for Binary Grouping p. 162 Norman May, Guido Moerkotte DOI: 10.1007/11547273_12 Logic Wrappers and XSLT Transformations for=20 Tuples Extraction from HTML p. 177 Costin Badica, Amelia Badica DOI: 10.1007/11547273_13 Approximate Subtree Identification in=20 Heterogeneous XML Documents Collections p. 192 Ismael Sanz, Marco Mesiti, Giovanna Guerrini, Rafael Berlanga Llavori DOI: 10.1007/11547273_14 A Framework for XML-Based Integration of Data,=20 Visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain p. 207 Nathan Bales, James Brinkley, E. Sally Lee,=20 Shobhit Mathur, Christopher Re, Dan Suciu DOI: 10.1007/11547273_15 Optimizing Runtime XML Processing in Relational Databases p. 222 Eugene Kogan, Gideon Schaller, Michael Rys, Hanh Huynh Huu, Babu= Krishnaswamy DOI: 10.1007/11547273_16 Panel: Whither XML, ca. 2005? p. 237 No author given DOI: 10.1007/11547273_17 [NB: If you do not receive a reply within 24 hours please resend] Dr Willard McCarty | Senior Lecturer | Centre for=20 Computing in the Humanities | King's College=20 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: oupjournals-mailer_at_liontamer.stanford.edu Subject: Oxford Journals Humanities Archive; LLC for Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:21:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 297 (297) September 2005; Vol. 20, No. 3 *************************Announcement*************************** NEW: The Oxford Journals Humanities Archive Encompassing more than 165 years of knowledge, this new digital backfile includes important journal articles in history, music, religion, philosophy, literary studies, and linguistics. 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Buckley DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0453-9 [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: "Murphy,Bob" Subject: OCLC News: World's largest library database Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:31:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 299 (299) reaches billionth milestone World's largest library database reaches billionth milestone Worthington (Ohio) Libraries contributes historic holding in WorldCat DUBLIN, Ohio, Aug. 12, 2005. WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding library materials, now contains information about where to find 1 billion books, journals, theses and dissertations, musical scores, computer files, CDs, DVDs and other items in thousands of libraries worldwide. At 2:21:34 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, Aug. 11, Anne Slane, a cataloger at Worthington (Ohio) Libraries for 23 years, entered the 1 billionth holding in WorldCat for the book, The Monkees : The day-by-day story of the '60s TV pop sensation. By entering this holding information to the WorldCat database, Worthington Libraries shows that it owns the book so that librarians, researchers, students and other interested readers worldwide know where to find what they're looking for in a library. We're just thrilled to have reached this milestone in WorldCat, said Meribah Mansfield, Director of Worthington Libraries, in Worthington, Ohio, USA. I started library school in 1971, the same year WorldCat went online, so I feel like we've grown up together. I remember library school was all abuzz about this great new advance in technology. Now, whenever I see a new development in library technology, I think in terms of =91son of WorldCat'=ADor building on the idea of sharing resources that WorldCat began. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., the world's largest library cooperative, developed a shared cataloging service that first went online in 1971. The idea was for libraries in Ohio to share cataloging information from one central electronic database, now known as WorldCat. The OCLC shared cataloging model revolutionized the librarian's workflow and helped make it easy for library patrons to find and get the library materials they needed. What was once a database shared by libraries in Ohio, grew to a national union catalog, and today, is a global library resource used by more than 54,000 libraries in 96 countries. Through WorldCat, libraries share not only cataloging information, but library materials as well. If a library does not own a particular item a patron is looking for, that item can be located and borrowed from another library by using the ownership information on the catalog record. Today, 34 years after going online, WorldCat contains more than 61 million unique catalog records representing 1 billion items in libraries. The Bible, Mother Goose, Huckleberry Finn, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are among the top 10 titles in WorldCat, and together those 10 titles represent more than 1 million items in libraries worldwide. On the other end of the spectrum, there are many unique items cataloged in WorldCat, treasures held in only one place in the world such as a Babylonian temple receipt for cattle and sheep used in temple services around 2350 B.C., or a papyrus manuscript of an edict issued by Publius Petronicus dating from 22 B.C. The WorldCat of today is vastly different from that of 1971. Today's WorldCat technological platform makes it possible to accommodate virtually all languages, formats and scripts. It is now possible to load records of entire collections from libraries all over the world. And what was once a resource used only by libraries and librarians is now available to searchers worldwide using their favorite Web search engines. Search engines like Google and Yahoo! make these detailed library records universally available. Librarians have always recognized the value of cooperation in libraries, and WorldCat is the product of that kind of cooperative effort to serve library patrons. Thirty four years ago this month, 54 libraries in Ohio began a cooperative effort to build an online union catalog, said Betsy Wilson, Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees, and Dean of Libraries, University of Washington. Today, that cooperative effort extends to more than 54,000 libraries in 96 countries. On the occasion of the one billionth holding symbol being added to WorldCat, I would like to thank OCLC member libraries, regional service providers, networks and international distributors for their continuing commitment to OCLC's public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing library costs. Thousands of catalogers and librarians around the world have worked together these past 34 years to create, keystroke by keystroke, record by record, and symbol by symbol, a unique and valuable library resource for knowledge seekers everywhere. We have much to be proud of and much to celebrate. Passing the one billion mark in holding symbols is an impressive example of what long-term focus and collaboration can produce, said Jay Jordan, President and CEO, OCLC. As WorldCat continues to grow in depth and breadth, our new technological platform is amplifying the power of its information and holdings and facilitating resource sharing on a global scale. Groups of libraries can now access customized views of their WorldCat holdings. The database now supports Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew scripts in addition to Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Latin scripts. The general public can search WorldCat on the Open Web and be directed to specific library catalogs and holdings. Very soon libraries will start to enrich WorldCat with reviews, readers' advisories and other full text. In short, as we pass the one billion holdings mark, WorldCat will continue to become even bigger, better and more accessible. Three cheers for WorldCat and the OCLC cooperative! About WorldCat WorldCat is the world's largest bibliographic database, the merged catalogs of thousands of OCLC member libraries. Built and maintained collectively by librarians, WorldCat provides the foundation for many OCLC services. To watch the WorldCat database grow, see: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/grow.htm See the top 1000 Titles held by OCLC member libraries in WorldCat: http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/complete.htm About OCLC Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services to 54,000 libraries in 96 countries and territories. For more information, visit www.oclc.org. OCLC and WorldCat are trademarks and/or service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Translation Studies -- Call for Research Assistance Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:28:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 300 (300) Willard, A while back, there was a call issued for repors on the professional use of blogs [See Humanist 19.139 the trouble with tribbles]. I want to signal one use that is particulary noteworthy -- it involves international assistance. The author of Thanks for Not Being a Zombie points readers to the project of Khadim Al-Ali, a Ph.D. candidate from the Busra University Iraq. Not only does the blog entry point to the project, the author's web space also mirrors a copy of the questionnaire. See http://ghw.wordherders.net/archives/004610.html Khadim's prjects involves Assessing Responses of Non-Arab English Speakers to Arab / Iraqi Poetry Translated into English. -- 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: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Academic Commons Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:23:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 301 (301) Dear Humanist Friends, We are pleased to announce the first edition of ACADEMIC COMMONS. Academic Commons <http://academiccommons.org/> offers a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education. Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College <http://liberalarts.wabash.edu/>, Academic Commons publishes essays, reviews, interviews, showcases of innovative uses of technology, and vignettes that critically examine technology uses in the classroom. Academic Commons aims to share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology. We want this site to advance opportunities for collaborative design, open development, and rigorous peer critique of such resources. Academic Commons also provides a forum for academic technology projects and groups (the Developer's Kit) and a link to a new learning object referatory (LoLa). Our library archives all materials we have published and also provides links to allied organizations, mailing lists, blogs, and journals through a Professional Development Center. Highlights of our First Edition The first edition of Academic Commons features essays by Richard Lanham ("Copyright 101"), Michael Joyce ("Interspace: Our Commonly Valued Unknowing"), Patricia O'Neill and Janet Simons ("Using Technology in Learning to Speak the Language of Film"), and Michelle Glaros ("The Dangers of Just-In-Time Education"), and an interview with Gerald Graff. The issue also includes two teaching and learning "vignettes," a good handful of reviews (websites, hardware, and software) and showcases (exemplary academic web projects), and links to a variety of interesting teaching, learning, and technology projects. We've already formed a number of groups onsite and look forward to more participation. The complete Table of Contents is at http://academiccommons.org/august2005/. Contribute! We are always looking for contributions from faculty, librarians, technologists, and other stakeholders in the academic enterprise. We publish original content for which we pay a small honorarium. We also publish selected links to interesting and useful materials published elsewhere, as well as a growing collection of links to professional associations, resources, announcements and conferences organized into a Professional Development Center. Please consider playing a part in the Academic Commons! Stay Informed! Receive the Academic Commons's quarterly newsletter. If you are already a member of www.academiccommons.org <http://www.academiccommons.org/> , log onto the website and click on "My Account." Choose the Edit tab, then click on the Professional Information link. Check the box at the top of the page. If you are not already registered, join us at http://academiccommons.org/user/register. An RSS feed is available at http://academiccommons.org/rss.xml. Questions and comments can be sent to editor_at_academiccommons.org. Academic Commons Editorial Board: Founding Editors: Michael Roy, Wesleyan University, and John Ottenhoff, Alma College Managing Editor: Jennifer Curran, Wesleyan University Section Editors: Essays: David Bogen, Emerson College Reviews: Bryan Alexander, NITLE: The National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Interviews: Michael Roy, Wesleyan University Showcase: Rachel Smith, NMC: The New Media Consortium Announcements: Jennifer Curran, Wesleyan University Center for Teaching and Learning: John Ottenhoff, Alma College Developer's Kit: Peter Schilling, Amherst College Library: M. Claire Stewart, Northwestern University See http://academiccommons.org/about/current-editors for more information about our editorial board. A listing of our advisory board is at http://academiccommons.org/about/current-board-members . The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts <http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu> at Wabash College sponsors the Academic Commons. Academic Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/> . ~~~~~ John Ottenhoff Associate Provost Chair and Professor, Department of English Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 phone: 989.463.7138 fax: 989.463.7717 Editor, Center for Teaching and Learning Academic Commons http://www.academiccommons.org From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 19.198 writing history of what's happening Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:29:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 302 (302) Willard, I'd also recommend Lev Manovich's pages on "history of the present" at the start of The Language of New Media. In my own work, I've found that writing about the near-past (specifically personal computing in the 1980s) is important to illuminating the present, since renewed attention to certain archaic practices--booting programs off of floppy disks rather than a hard drive, for example--defamiliarize everyday interactions (with storage, in this case) that now seem merely natural. Matt On 8/11/05, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 19.201 professional use of blogs Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:28:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 303 (303) In case I didn't mention it the first time around ... I make professional use of a blog. It is the newsletter for the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Northern B.C. The blog is called "Thinking Out Loud". See http://ctl.unbc.ca/tol/ Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] -- Book #1 "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) and related novellas "Kath" and "Mekan'stan" http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Eighth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:30:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 304 (304) Please distribute to colleagues across the curriculum, and y'all come to South Carolina in the spring! Eighth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference May 18-20, 2006 The Conference Center & Inn at Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina http://www.clemson.edu/pearce/wac2006 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 http://www.clemson.edu/pearce/wac2006. 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 and Kathi Yancey, 864.656.3062, 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 WordsWorth2 Communications and Consulting http://wordsworth2.net 203 Grove Drive, Clemson, SC 29631-2310 ~^~ 864-654-2886 ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.203 recognized disciplines (and computing) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:20:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 305 (305) Williard, with regards to taxonomies for Governments regarding funding. I don't have one regarding funding per se, but it seems to me that the taxonomy that the Canadian Government uses to catalogue the disciplines for the public service might be useful to you. http://www.jobs.gc.ca I recommend applying for an account and tinkering with the database -- you are required to enter your degrees and then "specializations" that accord with the degree. The specializations are very interesting. For instance, librarians are located under "communications." With my interdisciplinary background, I found it quite difficult to describe myself the way I wanted to, because the taxonomy just didn't "fit" for me. I wanted information policy jobs and I got approached for communications positions. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Robert Cummings Subject: cfp on Wikis: Unsettling the Frontiers of Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:21:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 306 (306) Cyberspace (10/10/05; collection) Call for Papers Wikis are without a doubt one of the most interesting and radical of the new writing media available to the wired society, yet they also one of the most misunderstood. Many of us know of them only by encounters with "that wacky website anybody in the world can edit," the (in)famous Wikipedia, that is showing up more and more in our students' works cited lists. For others, wikis represent the incarnation of the openness, decentralization, and collaboration dreamt of by the Internet's founders. For those of us in the computers and writing community, wikis represent a fertile field for rhetorical analysis and one of the richest opportunities for teaching writing in the classroom. The time has come for an edited collection of essays on wikis entitled The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace. Editors Matt Barton and Robert Cummings would like to invite you to submit your thoughts for a volume on the theory, politics, future, and application of wikis for teachers of college composition (and beyond). These essays will be organized into the following three categories: * Theory and Politics: 12-25 page essays that discuss wiki issues from theoretical perspectives. Such essays might examine how knowledge gets constructed and legitimated in wikis, or how wiki users negotiate authorship. Do wikis liberate or erase identities? What roles, if any, should copyright laws play in the regulation of wiki discourse? Why is that the most famous wiki happens to be encyclopedic; could other types of discourse flourish in wikis? How do wikis remediate other media, old or new? What can you do with a wiki that you can't do with any other media? Should we think of wikis as related to the open source phenomenon through Commons-Based? Peer Production and, if so, does this predict how and where wikis will expand? Do wikis fundamentally alter the practice of revision? The concept of collaboration? * Applications: 8-12 page essays that examine how teachers can use wikis in the classroom. This includes assignments involving Wikipedia, but also creating new wikis specifically for classroom use. The essays here will look at practical applications as well as limitations and technological matters (How hard is it to install a wiki? What kind of support is needed? What are the differences among the many wiki servers now available? Can a classroom wiki achieve critical mass or low cost content integration? What are the ethical implications of asking students to write in a wiki where writers, other than their teachers, make editorial decisions about their text? Do contributions by student writers, as part of a class assignment, differ substantially from those offered freely by self-selecting wiki contributors?) * Lore: 6-12 page narratives that describe teachers' experience using (or reacting) to wikis in their classrooms. How have you been using wikis in your writing or teaching? What went right and what went wrong? What would you do differently next time? How have you assessed writing in wikis? We also plan to "eat our dogfood" during this project--in other words, we will be using wikis extensively to plan, draft, review, and revise the essays in our collection. All authors will share in the reviewing and editing process. We also hope to secure a publisher who will allow us to publish under a Creative Commons license rather than traditional, full-blown copyright. Our goal is to produce a volume of accessible and engaging works that will help secure wikis a prominent place in composition. Tentative Timeline: Abstracts: October 10, 2005 Abstract acceptances: October 17, 2005 Submissions Deadline: May 1, 2006 No simultaneous submissions. We also cannot accept previously published essays. Send your enquiries, queries, or abstracts to either of the co-editors: Matt Barton mdbarton_at_stcloudstate.edu (320) 308-3061 (phone) (320) 308-5524 (fax) Dept of English 720 Fourth Avenute South St. Cloud, MN 56301-3061 or Robert Cummings rec_at_uga.edu (706) 542-2103 (vox) (706) 542-2128 (fax) Dept of English University of Georgia 254 Park Hall Athens, Georgia 30602-6205 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.30 Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:38:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 307 (307) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 30 (August 17-23, 2005) VIEW NOTES ON MALWARE In his insightful "Notes on Malware," Michel Kabay says: "With the help of unethical, immoral, careless, stupid or crazy virus authors, viruses evolve in response to selection pressures, hiding themselves in new niches of the computer universe, or 'cyberspace.' Virus authors even take ideas from each other's viruses, leading to a form of primitive viral sexuality." Kabay is Associate Professor, Information Assurance & Program Director, Master of Science in Information Assurance, Division of Business & Management, Norwich University, Northfield, VT. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i30_kabay.html From: "Ellen Degott" Subject: ESF Call for Scientific Programme Proposals Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:39:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 308 (308) European Science Foundation (ESF) Call for Scientific Programme Proposals The European Science Foundation is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for new Scientific Programmes. An ESF Scientific Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level. For more information see: <http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0&section=2&domain=0&genericpage=2309>http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0&section=2&domain=0&genericpage=2309 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 4 November 2005; 24;00hrs CET. From: "Shawn Martin" Subject: Reminder: EEBO In Undergraduate Studies Essay Contest Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:31:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 309 (309) 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 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: "Ellen Degott" Subject: ESF Call for Forward Looks Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:30:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 310 (310) European Science Foundation (ESF) Call for Forward Looks The European Science Foundation is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for Forward Looks. ESF Forward Looks are an instrument which enables Europe's scientific community, in interaction with policy makers from ESF Member Organisations and other organisations, to develop medium to long-term views and analyses of future research developments with the aim of defining research agendas and priorities. The purpose of a Forward Look is to bring together in a global context scientific foresight and priority setting for research funding at national and European levels. For more information see <http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0&section=2&domain=0&genericpage=2307>http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?language=0&section=2&domain=0&genericpage=2307 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 23 September 2005 (it is envisaged that between 2 and 5 proposals will be funded within the 2005 Call). From: Willard McCarty Subject: how far collaboration? Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:42:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 311 (311) I'd like to sample once again, in a somewhat different way, what members of Humanist think about collaborative work. It seems quite clear from our experience here in London that collaborative teams, semi-hierarchically structured, work very well in the development of scholarly software tools, and that the experience which comes out of such collaboration can result in a wide range of published work, from both technical practitioners and scholars, in the form of software and discursive prose. This comes as no surprise to anyone here, I'd suppose. It's been clear for many decades reaching beyond the century-mark that scholarly teams, in quite traditional academic research projects, have produced some of the most valuable scholarship we have. Those that have worked on such projects in the past may wish that greater social equality had obtained -- equal recognition for equal work -- and so may wish to comment on the meaning of "collaboration" under such circumstances. But broadly speaking, team-work does work well, yes? Being to some degree care-less I've used Humanist for some time (as I suspect others have too) openly to aid not just my research but also the writing, trying out many half-formed ideas in order to engage the help of others in improving them. At times it's seemed almost like collaborative thinking and writing. But how promising is this practice? Why aren't more people doing it? Are there perils I have not spotted? 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: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 19.215 how far collaboration? Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:56:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 312 (312) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]I think this question is a vital one and the answers have to do with pre-existing assumptions in the academic process. Presuming it is vital to your career to be credited with your ideas in a formal publication, the fact "nothing counts" until you get to that final product is the problem. An academic process for collaboration in which incremental contributions were somehow weighted and valued as they take place, would make academic collaboration part of the business of faculty rather than a somewhat risky think tank to chat in. I believe evaluation of students suffers from a similiarly archaic paradigm rooted in the technology of publishing and the communication of ideas dating from the invention of the printing press. -- Book #1 "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) and related novellas "Kath" and "Mekan'stan" http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.215 how far collaboration? Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:56:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 313 (313) Willard Is the question really "how far"? Is it not "how often"? I ask because thre is one of your closing/exposing questions that intrigues me. Forgive the creeping in of a hermeneutics of suspicion in reformulating your question "Why aren't more people doing it?" into a perhaps more pointed asking why aren't more people admitting to doing it? Which brings me back to the question of temporality. There is the doing and then there is the acknowledging of the doing. Consider the advent and disappearance of the note of thanks to the typist in many a preface. Our notions of collaboration and appreciation are in some ways tied to the material practices shaped by the deployment of technologies both of development and reproduction (who has what toys and who knows how to play with them). It is sometimes interesting to read the rhetoric of achnowledgements with an eye to power relations -- thanks to the patron or power broker; a graceful gesture to shed the spotlight on the acolyte. And just how darn difficult it is to acknowledge collaboration outside the context of a co-signature or joint authorial attribution. Perils not spotted? Pearls, perhaps. See "The Wonderful Caddis Worm: Sculptural Work in Collaboration with Trichoptera" http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/articles/duprat/duprat.html -- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: ICHIM conference, September 2005 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:59:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 314 (314) DIGITAL CULTURE & HERITAGE www.ichim.org ICHIM 05 Digital Culture and Heritage will address issues of technology and culture: from policy to evaluation, from design through creation, management, development, research and application. ICHIM 05 will include: - Conference of formal papers ; - 4 Master classes ; - 6 Special Interest Groups meetings ; - Demonstrations and posters : institutional projects, experimental or research in collaboration ; - A Commercial exhibition hall for products, services and projects ; - A "science & arts research labs exhibition" TRANSMISSIONS presenting leading edge projects from the best laboratories in the worlds arts, science and technology : artificial intelligence, robotics, ergonomics, interactivity, virtual reality, visual arts, sound design ; - 6 Fingers : A digital animated films contest ; - A juried selection of "Digital Doctoral Dissertation" presentations. [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: Wikis, settlers, cowboys, and natives Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:56:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 315 (315) Willard, I noticed in Vol. 19. No. 208 that the call fopr papers and the title of the the proposed collection ("The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of Cyberspace") made a certain move towards the rhetoric of novelty and revolution. It almost undercuts an appeal to tradition. And I thought of the non-wikish example of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and the reader responst to James Murray's appeals for quotations, as well as the other example of a group effort "par une société de gens de lettres" the Encyclopédie (and the now multi-volunteer to translate its articles from the French to English -- see http://www.hti.umich.edu/d/did/call.html ). Furthermore, there come to mind the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Intriguing that the theme how Wikis are used in teaching composition leads to questions of readership and the sociology of knowledge. The allusion to the Wild Wild West (an American television series of the 1960s) is perhps apt since that show was a hybrid of the classic Western and the espionage thriller (See Wikipedia for an entry). I say apt because the Wikipedia encourages what some deem as the rough and tumble atmosphere of the West of legend, to wit "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it. By submitting your work you promise you wrote it yourself, or copied it from public domain resources -- this does not include most web pages." A different take on the thematics of collaboration and resistence... n'est-ce pas? -- 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: Barb Bond Subject: announcement of CaSTA 02 release Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:58:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 316 (316) I am delighted to announce that a special issue of Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (CHWP) titled "Working Papers from the First and Second Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis Research (CaSTA)" has been released to the public. Please see: <http://www2.arts.ubc.ca/chwp/Casta02/>. The collection is also being prepared for publication in a forthcoming issue of Text/Technology. This collection of papers is derived from two successive conferences, the first, in 2002, at l'Université de Montréal, Faculté de droit (which was hosted by Daniel Poulin) and the second, in 2003, at the University of Victoria's Humanities Computing and Media Centre (which was hosted by Michael Best and Peter Liddell). As Ray Siemens says in the Introduction, "the two conferences were the first two gatherings of the intentional community associated with the institutional network assembled for the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR), based at McMaster University and bringing together the leading Humanities Computing centres in Canada." He goes on to say that the collection touches "on issues associated with digitization and the representation and analysis of text, metadata issues for humanities texts, the use of humanities digital resources, the needs of the humanities community, cross-disciplinary use of texts, and well beyond," indicating the nature of the work in which members of the TAPoR community are engaged. Subjects range "from medieval paleography, Shakespeare Studies, the work of Robert Graves, and representations of marriage in early modern France; to text mining, analytical strategy and mark-up language, and principles of electronic scholarly editions; to language acquisition in infants, and linguistic corpora; and beyond." You are invited to read some thoughtful explorations of subjects pertinent to the humanities computing community. Yours truly, Barbara Bond, Editor From: Simon Harper Subject: Journal of Digital Information - Call for Papers Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:08:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 317 (317) Journal of Digital Information http://jodi.tamu.edu Call for Papers Special Issue on: Personalisation of Computing & Services Schedule Submission deadline: 22nd October, 2005 Publication Date: February 2006 Theme Submissions are sought for a special edition for the Hypermedia Systems theme of JoDI on Personalisation of Computing & Services. With the creation and expansion of adaptive computing services, there is now the capability to match a users expectations. Modern users demand services that are relevant to their personal needs - be they the needs of a consumer, an educator, or even just enhancing a simple web enquiry. Any such service will have a multitude of requirements: how are they authored; how do they interoperate; what data should be gathered and how & when should it be used; and how we represent a personal Web of data and services? Of course personalised computing is about much more than the World Wide Web; for example with ubiquitous and pervasive computing just around the corner, the requirement for an appropriate and user determined service that is mobile and international is made manifest. This special issue will describe and detail the leading research that addresses the fundamental issues in personalised computing services. Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other journals & conferences. Papers should be written in English. This special issue is interested in the Modelling, Implementation & Evaluation of the following topics: Systems - Applications: especially in the areas of e-learning, e-health, e-commerce and digital libraries - Personalised Web Services - Adaptive/dynamic authoring - Personalisation and visualisation of user interfaces Data - Standards for personalisation - Extraction and application of metadata for personalisation Issues - Interoperability between personalised systems - Evaluation of personalised frameworks & systems - Personalisation based upon the Semantic Web - Security and privacy - International use of personalised systems - Mobile and ubiquitous computing for the individual Submission Authors should submit their papers electronically using the submission form at jodi.tamu.edu. Selecting the title or editor for this issue from the Theme or Editor drop-down box will alert the editor to your submission automatically. Before submitting please take note of the journal's Guidelines for submission: notes for authors. 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 December, 2005 and they will then be able to modify their papers, with a deadline for the receipt of the final version of the 22nd December, 2005. Special Editors: Alexandra Cristea, Eindhoven University of Technology & Craig Stewart, University of Nottingham Email: a.i.cristea_at_tue.nl craig.stewart_at_nottingham.ac.uk **************************************** Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) http://www.sigweb.org From: Simon Harper Subject: AH2006 - Call for Papers Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:10:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 318 (318) **** AH2006 - Call for Papers - www.ah2006.org **** The 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006), Dublin, Ireland The 2006 International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006) will take place in the National College of Ireland in Dublin, Ireland. AH2006 will be the fourth in a very successful conference series that began in Trento, Italy (2000), with subsequent conferences held in Malaga, Spain (2002) and Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2004). The AH conferences are the premier opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based systems. Relevant submissions of substantial, original, and previously unpublished research will be invited in February 2006. In addition to its plenary scientific sesssions, the conference will include a range of related workshops and tutorials as well as a doctoral consortium and a dedicated industry track designed to bring together practitioners and users of adaptive hypermedia technology. The proceedings of AH2006 will be published by Springer Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. TOPICS OF INTEREST Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research in the many and varied aspects of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based systems, including, but not limited to: - User profiling and modeling in adaptive hypermedia and Web-based applications - Group modeling and community-based profiling on the WWW - Web-based recommender systems and recommendation strategies - Data mining for Web personalization - Personalization, meta-data and standards (XML, the Semantic Web Initiative) - Intelligent Web agents for personalization and adaptivity - Composition and management of adaptive Web services and hypermedia - Adaptive information filtering and personalized information retrieval on the Web - Personalized e-Learning and adaptive Web-based educational systems - Personalization for digital TV - Personalizing the mobile Web (PDAs, mobile phones and other handheld devices) - Personalized Web sites and e-commerce and eGovernment services - Personalization in digital libraries; personalized tourist and cultural heritage - Personalization in healthcare and public health information - Cross-platform adaptivity and personalization in ubiquitous systems - Adaptivity and personalization on the 3D Web - Adaptive multimedia content authoring and delivery - Adaptive hypermedia in ubiquitous computing environments and Smart Spaces - Privacy, trust and security in adaptive Web systems - Architectures for scalable adaptive systems - Evaluation methodologies, deployment experiences & user studies - Empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia and Web systems - Management, usability and scrutability of adaptive Web systems LOCATION Dublin is one of Europe's most vibrant, friendly and accessible cities. It exudes the style and confidence of a cosmopolitan European capital. Its lively social scene, superb dining, elegant architecture and world-class museum and literary heritage make it one of Europe's most desirable cities. AH2006 will be hosted by the National College of Ireland (in association with University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin) at its state-of-the-art new campus, located in Dublin's trendy docklands quarter, in the heart of the the city's International Financial Services Centre. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions - February 3, 2006 Notification of acceptance - March 10, 2006 Final versions due - March 31, 2006 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals - February 10, 2006 Workshops & Tutorials - June 20, 2006 Main conference: - June 21-23, 2006 [...] From: Simon Harper Subject: Joint Call for Participation: IEEE Conference on Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:11:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 319 (319) Web Services (ICWS 2005) and IEEE Conf. on Services Computing (SCC Joint Call for Participants (IEEE Joint Conference on SERVICES) =============================================================== 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) -------------------------------------------------------------- http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2005 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005) ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2005 July 12-15, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc) ***Theme: Bridge the Gap between Business Services and IT Services*** The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) is the THIRD year of ICWS focusing on Web Services. ICWS is a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of Web Services, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of Web Services computing. Some of the topics of interest include: Web Services specifications and enhancements, Web Services discovery, Web Services security, Web Services based applications, Web Services standards and technologies, Web Services applications and solutions, Web Services realizations, semantic Web Services, and other emerging technologies or solutions. The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005), which is the SECOND year of SCC, aims to the topics of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services with a new ground breaking technology suite that includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and performance management, utility/grid computing and autonomic computing. SCC 2005 has the following major research tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Grid/Utility Computing, and Business Performance Management Services and Business Integration. This year we are pleased to present an extremely strong technical program. As a potential participant, you just need to register to either SCC 2005 or ICWS 2005. Then you can attend both ICWS 2005 and SCC 2005! The online registration system is located at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2005/reg.htm. The deadline for the general participants is June 27, 2005. We accept on-site registration (with a higher registration fee). ICWS/SCC 2005 will be held at Sheraton Safari Hotel - Lake Buena Vista Florida (12205 Apopka-Vineland Road, Orlando, FL 32836). This year, we have 4 keynote speakers as follows: ### Keynote 1: XML Data Services Michael J. Carey ACM Fellow, Member of the National Academy of Engineering BEA Systems, Inc. ### Keynote 2: Web Services Composition: A Story of Models, Automata, and Logics Richard Hull Director of Network Data and Services Research Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies ### Keynote 3: Services Ecosystem George M. Galambos IBM Fellow Chief Technology Officer, IBM Global Services Canada ### Keynote 4: Five years of Software as a Service: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ephraim Feig IEEE Fellow, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer Kintera, Inc. In addition, we offer about 20 strong industry tracks from researchers and practitioners working in the frontier of Web Services in industry. Furthermore, ICWS and SCC technical program also includes poster paper session accepted from a separate submission channel enabling work-in-progress results to be shared and disseminated at the conference and 6 tutorials, reviewing the state of art in six different areas related to advances in Web Services. Specifically, four half-day tutorials and one workshop "Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes" will be held on July 11, 2005 (Monday). The other two half-day tutorials will be held on July 15, 2005 (Friday). The details are shown as follows: [deleted quotation]Enterprise Java Beans Anup Kumar [deleted quotation](ESB) and SOA Solutions Min Luo, Benjamin Goldshlager, and Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang [deleted quotation] Michael Stollberg, and Armin Haller [deleted quotation]Web Services Vladimir Tosic, and Patrick C. K. Hung [deleted quotation] Sriram Anand, Srinivas Padmanabhuni, and Jai Ganesh [deleted quotation]and Challenges Yanchun Zhang, Jian Yang, and Chengfei Liu In particular, ICWS and SCC have organized 4 outstanding panel discussions on the following topics: <<< Panel 1: Services Science: Services Innovation Research & Education Moderator: J. Leon Zhao, University of Arizona Panelists (alphabetical order): - George W. Brown (Intel) - Michael J. Carey (BEA) - Akhil Kumar (Penn State University) - James C. Spohrer (IBM) - Mohan Tanniru (University of Arizona) <<< Panel 2: Service-Based Computing Strategy & Planning by IT Professionals Moderator: Frank E. Ferrante, EIC IT Professional Magazine Panelists (alphabetical order): - Arnold Bragg (RTI International) - Ken Christensen (University of South Florida) - Wayne Clark (Cisco Systems) - Simon Liu (NIH/NLM) - Joseph Williams (Microsoft) - Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM) <<< Panel 3: Quality of Manageability of Web Services Moderator: Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Labs Panelists (alphabetical order): - Jin Hai (Huazhong University) - Geng Lin (Cisco) - Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) - Heather M. Kreger (IBM) - William Vambenepe (HP) <<< Panel 4: Experiences with Service Computing- a view from the Business World Moderator: Ephraim Feig, Kintera Inc., USA Panelists (alphabetical order): - Ali Arsanjani (IBM Global Services) - Cesar A Gonzales (IBM Fellow, IBM Research) - Zhiwei Xu (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) - Jia Zhang (BEA) Finally, ICWS and SCC also hold exhibit and demo program, and job fair (http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2005/jobfair.htm). General Chairs: - Carl K. Chang (Iowa State University, USA) - Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Industrial Track Chairs: - Ali Arsanjani (IBM Global Services, USA) - Wu Chou (Avaya Labs Research, USA) Program Committee Chairs of ICWS 2005: - Jianwen Su (U C Santa Barbara, USA) - Malu G. Castellanos (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA) Panels Chairs: - Dejan S. Milojicic (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA) - J. Leon Zhao (University of Arizona, USA) Program Committee Chairs of SCC 2005: - Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - Sandeep Purao (Pennsylvania State University, USA) - Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Publicity Chairs: - Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) - Anup Kumar (University of Louisville, USA) - Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria at Como, Italy) Tutorials Chair: Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Job Fair Chair: Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA) ==== Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: delta2006_at_eng.monash.edu.my Subject: CFP:DELTA2006, Manuscripts submission-31 August Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:13:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 320 (320) 2005 (extended deadline) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test & Applications (DELTA 2006) January 17-19, 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia URL: http://www.monash.edu.my/events/Delta2006 Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society (TTTC), IEEE Malaysia Section, Monash University Malaysia Objectives: The main goal of DELTA 2006 is to bring together specialists from all over the world to meet and to discuss research and engineering problems and results in the emerging area of electronic design, manufacturing, test, advanced system applications and related areas. Scope: Original contributions are sought in the wide range of the areas of electronics design, test and applications including (but are not limited to): 1. Design: Digital Devices, Components and Techniques, Analog Components and Techniques, System Architecture, Simulation and Modelling, Microprocessors and ASICs, Opto-Electronics, Power Electronics, Multi-Chip Projects, Packaging, Practical Realisation & Field Trials Emerging Technologies, Design & Re-Use 2. Testing: System Testing, Design Verifications, Built-In Self-test Techniques, Design for Testability, Boundary Scan, Analog and Mixed-Signal Test, Fault-Tolerant and Robustness, Concurrent Checking and On-Line Testing, Measurement for Reliability and Safety Assessment, Characterisation Testing, Performance Modelling and Analysis, Sequential Circuits Test and Memory Test 3. Applications: Communications and Networking, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence systems, Instrumentation, Measurements and Control, Medical Electronics, Variable Speed Drives, Real-Time Systems, Novel Systems and Applications Multimedia, Education, Technology Transfer Special sessions: Proposals are also sought for organizing special sessions and tutorials/seminars on hot topics in design, test and applications. [...] From: Julia Flanders Subject: Re: 19.215 how far collaboration? Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:12:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 321 (321) This is a very interesting question, and one which is usually answered from the viewpoint of "what is wrong with The Profession?" In other words, we use collaboration as the sign of professional health and its lack as indicating some malaise: anxiety about loss of property or autonomy, lack of adequate recognition and reward structure for collaborative work, disabling myths of genius, etc. I think there's certainly something to all this. However, it's also interesting to think about it from another viewpoint: why are so many people bad collaborators? While we all pay lip service to the idea that collaboration is a good thing (sort of like sharing for toddlers), we don't all work at doing it well. Some of the things I've observed (I should hasten to add, quite sincerely, in *myself* as well as others) that make collaboration difficult, and make one cautious about undertaking collaborative work: --failure to meet essential deadlines and agreed standards of quality, thereby holding up the collaborative project and jeopardizing the work the rest of the group have put into it. --mismanagement of difference of opinion: failure to signal disagreement at a stage when it can be worked out; excessive insistence on one's own approach or desires; failure to compromise and lack of creativity in arriving at useful compromises (as opposed to those which denature the project at hand) --failures of professionalism: failure to limit the emotional/personal content of exchanges in cases where that content results in conflict rather than productivity; lack of emotional maturity; failure to adhere to basic principles of politeness. What is remarkable is how many collaborative efforts survive such challenges. Some people are the natural glue that holds fragile collaborative structures together, by working extra hard to compensate for other's missed deadlines or shaky work, by yielding when others are brittle, by ignoring petty outbursts and coming back to the table. One can understand these failures as failures of socialization--i.e. many of us are raised in environments where individualism is valued and where the difficult accommodations of collective effort are not practiced (in the sense of making repeated attempts to improve). But it would be too easy to blame our upbringing and let ourselves off the hook entirely. We can do better. I hope this doesn't sound too curmudgeonly. I am in the humanities computing community because it struck me as so much more collaborative and less afflicted by the problems listed above than the community I was escaping from, so this is an affectionate rather than finger-shaking observation, and a self-diagnosis as much as anything. Best wishes, Julia [deleted quotation] From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: E-Poetry 2005 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:12:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 322 (322) E-Poetry 2005: An International Digital Poetry Festival Wednesday, 28 September - Saturday, 1 October 2005 Hosted by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC), Birkbeck College, London & the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC), State University of New York, Buffalo E-Poetry 2005 is both a conference and festival, dedicated to showcasing the best talent in digital poetry and poetics from around the world. E-Poetry combines both a high-level academic conference and workshop, examining growing trends in this young and emergent art form, with a festival of the latest and most exciting work from both established and new practitioners. The festival is scheduled to take place at Birkbeck College, University of London, with performances at the ICA, Tate Modern and other important London venues. There will be performances by numerous leading digital poets with guest appearances from major literary figures, as well as installations and exhibits throughout the week. For further information regarding the festival, go to http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2005 <http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/2005/> From: Kalina Bontcheva Subject: Call for Participation: RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:04:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 323 (323) LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP'05) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RANLP-05 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING International Conference RANLP-2005 September 21-23, 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 fifth 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. 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 September 2005). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) Robert Dale (Macquarie University) Ralph Grishman (New York University) Makoto Nagao (NICT, Tokyo) John Nerbonne (University of Groningen) Anne de Roeck (Open University) For further information on the conference programme, tutorials, and online registration form, please visit: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005 The team behind RANLP-05 ------------------------ Galia Angelova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Kalina Bontcheva University of Sheffield, UK Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair) Nicolas Nicolov Umbria Communications, Boulder, USA Nikolai Nikolov INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria From: Willard McCarty Subject: failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:49:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 324 (324) The following is quoted from the Preface by Sir Stafford Beer to Humberto R Maturana and Francisco J Varela, Autopoiesis: The Realization of the Living (1980): 64-5. [deleted quotation]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: Richard Shroyer Subject: 5th International PhD School in Formal Languages Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:16:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 325 (325) and Applications Willard, In this (should I say despairing and a bit self-congratulatory) piece from 1980, nowhere do I see the problems that are to be solved by this non-existent, metasystemic approach to knowledge. If interdisciplinarity is of no use, what are the questions to be answered by this non-attached, autonomous beast. Does the rest of the work tell us? ________ R.J. Shroyer e-mail: shroyer_at_uwo.ca From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Re: 19.224 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:17:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 326 (326) All I can say, Willard, is amen. In the 20 years I edited CHum, I strove to include articles and items from as many disciplines as possible to emphasize the concept that by struggling to figure out how computers could aid our research we had to cross the old disciplinary lines, not only into arcane fields like computer science but into nearer disciplines, so that English majors, for example, could learn from classicists or historians who were developing techniques for their own studies. How much we still lean over each other's shoulders is hard to tell now, but I look forward to reading others' comments on this provocative quote. Joe Raben From: tatjana.chorney_at_smu.ca Subject: RE: 19.224 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:17:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 327 (327) In response to the citation below--I am grateful that it was brought to attention, since it seems to articualare the greatest current malaise of the academic world. I look forward to reading more, but underlying the text is both a sort of resignation over the apparently insurmountable level of difficulty involved in actually changing something for the better, and an implicit call for a radical shift. Talk of radical shifts, however, since they mean facing the Unknown and relinquishing the Safe Harbour of Sameness, justifibly or not, usually make others very nervous, and incite responses pointing out not only the number of obstacles in the way of change, but also the positive aspects of the status quo, and the utopian, or even worse, clearly uninformed perspective of those who seek change. After all, it is very comforting to look back --instead of forward--and conclude that things have worked well for so long, and that likelinhood is, the perceived need for change will surely "blow over" as it were. Our inability to imagine a system that is essentially a-systematic as a form of organization seems to reveal the limitations of our outlook. What I am saying here is that I agree with the ideas expressed, but wonder where to take them further. One thing that strikes me in relation to the perceived impasse is that surely the defintiion of "good scholarship" would have to change in a way that responds to the "interconnectedness" informing the global world, and life in general. Part of the problem, I think, somehow lies deeply in the very foundation of disciplinary knowledge, and the possessive and passive-agressive claim that a specialist is supposed to and does lay to his/her bit of knowledge. Another part of the problem, which may be linked to the previous one, may lie in the spirit of individualism encouraged by political and social systems where competition and ownership of goods as well as ideas are promoted as a the epitome of democracy and freedom. This spirit, bent as it is on establishing boundaries between "me" and "others," "mine" and "yours," as well as between various apparently self-sustaining and apparently well-functioning systems, is generally not amenable to openinig itself up, since that would somehow mean relinquishing a grasp on a kind of power that comes with certaintly and a sense of rightful ownership. In the current climate, many disciplines implicilty and explicilty define themselves through a form of negation: they see their own identity in terms of their difference from other disciplines, rather than their similarities. So then, I guess, the new kind of academia, if it is to achieve forms of metasystemic engagement with knowledges, would need to undergo a process of change the stages of which would include a moment in time when we are all willing to profess without fear and embarassment a profound ignorance of the workings of other systems, and to feel genuine curiosity about them. This process will lead to willingness to learn about something that may be very diferent from whatever we have become used to; the process would entail having to see with open, curious and critical eyes the shortcomings of the idea of compartmentalized knowledge, its ultimate inadequacy, and, well, uselessness, for the state of the world. I am citing here, of course, my profound belief that knowledge of whatever kind must be self evidently relevant to the larger world, and that those who produce knowledge should be able without much hesitation and difficulty to explain to anyone they meet walking in the park what they do and how it matters to all. And, not for one moment do I think that this is either easy or painless. I have tried. Another part of the problem, as well as possibly part of a solution, is the equasion of knowledge primarily with content and not method. If knowledge is defined not only as content but also as method, a method which would be clearly articulated, then we would avoid having to conclude that we could't find anyone to teach a radical kind of interdiciplinarity. Interdisciplinarity fails primarily because we associate knowledge with the contents of various disciplines and our ability to cite facts or studies as a demonstration of our knowledge and expertise. No one person can ever lay claim to all systems and all knowledges. But once we stop identifying expertise with the notion of "ownership" of facts, we would focus on a method of interconnectedness, and the teaching of a method of integration, a process which would no doubt very frighteningly for most of us mean relinquishing that secret hold on power that comes from the ownership model of expertise. In short, we would have to unlearn many things about who we think we are, without being defensive, and keep an open mind. So then, perhaps, the first metasystemic step would consist of committed reflection on the nature of the system we participate in and its limitations. Examining self critically current practices would already constitute one step toward being open to Difference of various kinds and other systems, and would show willingness to incorporate and integrate new knowedges/methods into whatever one calls one's intellectual home/domain. Somehow the idea and value of specialized knowlede (an its identification with discipline-specific memorized data) has taken complete hold over institutions, and has caused us to fail to see the real value of seeing farther, of seeing beyond, and of being able to perceive--let alone practice--interconnectedness. This is a long comment, but the bit below tapped into something I had been thinking about for a while, and I would be very interested in hearing other responses. I should also say that i have only recenlty joined this discussion group, and have already had the great pleasure of reading postings that engage with exceptionally interesting issues, crucial to the humanities. The terms "humanist" and "humanities" are already hopeful, and part of the solution to the problem cited in the posting below, in that they refer to and encompasses a variety of disciplines all connected by their concern with what is relevant to being human in the broadest and most meaningful sense. TC _______________ Dr. Tatjana Chorney Department of Enlglish Saint Mary's Unievrsity Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada [deleted quotation]Signature file open error: file not found (%X00018292) From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 19.224 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:18:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 328 (328) Willard, I read the item below, this morning, not long before reading your post. Perhaps it has a bearing on the interdisciplinary challenge. If so, would have interesting implications for the supercooker-status-seeking-pressure to do with "prizes and other rewards" that increasingly define "excellence" in academic settings, as if creativity and "genius" for lack of a better word, was something as easy to quantify and measure as stock market prices. The need creativity is greatest in interdisciplinarity -- and so is the challenge of measuring success, cross-discipline. -- Book #1 "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) and related novellas "Kath" and "Mekan'stan" http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org THE QUOTE 6. Inner motivation This is the driving force to create, not for reward but for its own sake. For the enjoyment, satisfaction, challenge. Research has consistently shown that work evaluation, supervision, competition for prizes, and restricted choices in how to perform an activity--all these undermine intrinsic motivation and inhibit creativity in workers . Research on children has also supported these results. A June 25, 1994 summary article in Science News magazine (which summarizes papers and publications in various science fields) reported that, in studies with children, creativity in artwork and written stories drops significantly for children who receive or expect to receive prizes or other rewards. from http://tarakharper.com/k_creatv.htm From: "D.FILROM - CARLOS MARTIN VIDE" Subject: 5th International PhD School in Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:18:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 329 (329) Formal Languages and Applications 5th INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS 2005-2007 Rovira i Virgili University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Tarragona, Spain http://www.grlmc.com Awarded with the Mark of Quality (Mención de Calidad) by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, MCD2003-00820 Courses and professors 1st term (March-July 2006) Languages -- Alexander Okhotin, Tarragona Combinatorics on Words -- Tero Harju, Turku 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 -- Holger Petersen, Stuttgart Varieties of Formal Languages -- Jean-Éric Pin, Paris Computational Complexity -- Markus Holzer, Munich Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars -- Detlef Wotschke, Frankfurt Patterns -- Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON Infinite Words -- Juhani Karhumäki, Turku Two-Dimensional Languages -- Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima Grammars with Regulated Rewriting -- Jürgen Dassow, Magdeburg Contextual Grammars -- Carlos Martín-Vide, Tarragona Parallel Grammars -- Henning Fernau, Hertfordshire Grammar Systems -- Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, Budapest Tree Automata and Tree Languages -- Magnus Steinby, Turku Tree Transducers -- Zoltán Fülöp, Szeged Tree Adjoining Grammars -- James Rogers, Richmond IN Automata and Logic -- Franz Baader, Dresden Formal Languages and Concurrent Systems -- Jetty Kleijn, Leiden Petri Net Theory and Its Applications -- Hsu-Chun Yen, Taipeh Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation -- Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Bremen Restarting Automata -- Friedrich Otto, Kassel Decision Problems of Rational Relations -- Christian Choffrut, Paris Courses and professors 2nd term (September-December 2006) Parameterized Complexity -- Jörg Flum, Freiburg Formal Power Series -- Werner Kuich, Vienna Fuzzy Formal Languages -- Claudio Moraga, Dortmund Cellular Automata -- Martin Kutrib, Giessen DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments -- Mitsunori Ogihara, Rochester NY Splicing Systems -- Paola Bonizzoni, Milan Aqueous Computing -- Tom Head, Binghamton NY Biomolecular Nanotechnology -- Max Garzon, Memphis TN Quantum Automata -- Jozef Gruska, Brno 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 Grammatical Inference -- Colin de la Higuera, Saint-Étienne Mathematical Foundations of Learning Theory -- Satoshi Kobayashi, Tokyo Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks -- Risto Miikkulainen, Austin TX Text Retrieval: Foundations -- Maxime Crochemore, Marne-la-Vallée Text Retrieval: Applications -- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Barcelona Mathematical Evolutionary Genomics -- David Sankoff, Ottawa ON Cryptography -- Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Helsinki String Complexity -- Lucian Ilie, London ON Data Compression -- Wojciech Rytter, Warsaw Image Compression -- Jarkko Kari, Turku Algebraic Techniques in Language Theory -- Zoltán Ésik, Tarragona Topics in Asynchronous Circuit Theory -- John Brzozowski, Waterloo ON Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life -- Jozef Kelemen, Opava Automata-Theoretic Techniques for Verification and Other Decision Problems -- Oscar Ibarra, Santa Barbara CA 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 few lessons on discrete mathematics advanced pre-requisites will be offered, in order to homogenize the students' mathematical background. In order to check eligibility for the programme, 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: 1,700 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, among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas MAEC), and by the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin American citizens). Additionally, the university will have a limited amount of economic resources itself for covering the tuition fees and full-board accommodation of a few 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 pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the programme chairman: * a xerocopy of the main page of the passport, * a xerocopy of the highest university education diploma, * a 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: August 22, 2005 Pre-registration deadline: October 31, 2005 Selection of students: November 7, 2005 Starting of the 1st term: March 27, 2006 End of the 1st term: July 24, 2006 Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 4, 2006 End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 22, 2006 Defense of the research project (tentative): September 14, 2007 DEA examination (tentative): April 27, 2008 Questions and Further Information: Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín-Vide, at carlos.martin_at_urv.net Postal Address: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tàrraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391 Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391 From: "Jana Sukkarieh" Subject: Announcement and CFP: Natural Language and Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:15:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 330 (330) Knowledge Representation [Apologies for x-postings] NATURAL LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (NL-KR) Special Track at FLAIRS 2006 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Holiday Inn Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne Beach, FLORIDA, USA MAIN CONFERENCE: 11-12-13 MAY 2006 Special track web page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR Main conference web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06 PURPOSE OF THE NL-KR TRACK We believe the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Knowledge Representation (KR) communities have common goals. They are both concerned with representing knowledge and with reasoning, since the best test for the semantic capability of an NLP system is performing reasoning tasks. Having these two essential common grounds, the two communities ought to have been collaborating, to provide a well-suited representation language that covers these grounds. However, the two communities also have difficult-to-meet concerns. Mainly, the semantic representation (SR) should be expressive enough and should take the information in context into account, while the KR should be equipped with a fast reasoning process. The main objection against an SR or a KR is that they need experts to be understood. Non-experts communicate (usually) via a natural language (NL), and more or less they understand each other while performing a lot of reasoning. An essential practical value of representations is their attempt to be transparent. This will particularly be useful when/if the system provides a justification for a user or a knowledge engineer on its line of reasoning using the underlying KR (i.e. without generating back to NL). We all seem to believe that, compared to Natural Language, the existing Knowledge Representation and reasoning systems are poor. Nevertheless, for a long time, the KR community dismissed the idea that NL can be a KR. That's because NL can be very ambiguous and there are syntactic and semantic processing complexities associated with it. However, researchers in both communities have started looking at this issue again. Possibly, it has to do with the NLP community making some progress in terms of processing and handling ambiguity, the KR community realising that a lot of knowledge is already 'coded' in NL and that one should reconsider the way they handle expressivity and ambiguity. This track is an attempt to provide a forum for discussion on this front and to bridge a gap between NLP and KR. A KR in this track has a well-defined syntax, semantics and a proof theory. It should be clear what authors mean by NL-like, based on NL or benefiting from NL (if they are using one). It does not have to be a novel representation. NL-KR TRACK TOPICS For this track, we will invite submissions including, but not limited to: a. A novel NL-like KR or building on an existing one b. Reasoning systems that benefit from properties of NL to reason with NL c. Semantic representation used as a KR : compromise between expressivity and efficiency? d. More Expressive KR for NL understanding (Any compromise?) e. Any work exploring how existing representations fall short of addressing some problems involved in modelling, manipulating or reasoning (whether reasoning as used to get an interpretation for a certain utterance, exchange of utterances or what utterances follow from other utterances) with NL documents f. Representations that show how classical logics are not as efficient, transparent, expressive or where a one-step application of an inference rule require more (complex) steps in a classical environment and vice-versa; i.e. how classical logics are more powerful, etc g. Building a reasoning test collection for natural language understanding systems: any kind of reasoning (deductive, abductive, etc); for a deductive test suite see for e.g. deliverable 16 of the FraCas project (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/). Also, look at textual entailment challenges 1 and 2 <http://www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/RTE> h. Comparative results (on a common test suite or a common task) of different representations or systems that reason with NL (again any kind of reasoning). The comparison could be either for efficiency, transparency or expressivity i. Knowledge acquisition systems or techniques that benefit from properties of NL to acquire knowledge already 'coded' in NL j. Automated Reasoning, Theorem Proving and KR communities views on all this [...] From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: 2005-2006 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:15:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 331 (331) Workshop Series (lists) 2005-2006 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series. The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is pleased to host its annual asynchronous online workshop series for faculty, university counsel, librarians, instructional design and information professionals. This year's exciting lineup includes four outstanding workshops: E-Reserves and Copyright http://www.umuc/edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#ereserves October 17-October 28, 2005 Moderated by Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, Esq. 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Copyright and Academic Culture http://www.umuc/edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#copyright February 20 - March 3, 2006 Moderated by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University. WORKSHOP FORMAT: Each online workshop will last approximately two weeks, providing the participants with an in-depth understanding of core intellectual property issues facing higher education. They will include course readings, chats and online discussions. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from the workshop moderators. Please visit the web site for all course objectives: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html REGISTRATION: Register early since space is limited and in order to get the best discounts. Early registration is just $125 each (regularly $150 each); two workshops $225; three workshops $350; four workshops for only $400! A significant discount is given for full time graduate students until places are filled; please consult the website for details. To register online, visit https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm. For additional information call 240-582-2965 or visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa --Jack Boeve Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/cip From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: 19.227 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:12:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 332 (332) Willard, a metasystemic (or nondisciplinary) integration appears to me like trying to devise a universal language without taking the pains to construct the vocabulary, define the syntax and meanings and teach its application. All natural languages (and perhaps even the artficial ones, if they are taken to address themselves to some subject area or problem) developed as efforts to subject certain limited and naturally given environments to human control. Metalanguages or interlanguages seem to rest upon mental structures that were acquired in previous instructions in at least one natural language. But what is "one's intellectual home/domain" from where we could build "methods of interconnectness and integration", as Tatjana Chorney would have it in her contribution ? By definition, the scope of any discipline is limited. If we want (and need) to transcend disciplinary boundaries, we need to know more, not less, about the disciplines or "intellectual homes" involved. One suspicious circumstance about the term "interdisciplinary" is the fact that we do not seem to know when and how it was first defined or used. There is some indication that it turned up among pragmatist scholars around 1928 within the context of programs of polytechnical instruction for applied sciences. Any more precise information is highly welcome. Best regards, Dr. Hartmut Krech The Culture and History of Science Page http://ww3.de/krech From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 19.224 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:13:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 333 (333) Willard, While my sympathies lie with Beer's phrases such as "disciplinary paranoids" and "league of disciplinary paranoids," I am not so certain that we are awaiting the proscribed cure: [deleted quotation]Aren't there figures from the 20th century, such as Donald Knuth, Norbert Weiner, Noam Chomksy, Marvin Minsky, Umberto Eco, and others that one would be hard pressed to describe as "disciplinary paranoids?" That is to say that the solution is always waiting to be found by the individual scholar and not in the presence or absence of some particular structure or program in the modern university, whether it can be said to be a "league of disciplinary paranoids" or not. It seems to me that the university, conceived of as libraries and librarians, research facilities and a gathering of inquisitive minds provides all the opportunity necessary to transcend the boundaries of disciplines. Why attempt to routinize or mechanize what is at its core a personal choice to embark on a journey of discovery? 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 Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Discipline, Study, Environmental Correlate Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:14:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 334 (334) Willard, The quotation from the Stafford Beer preface provides as some subscribers to Humanist have indicated an example of the slipperiness of vocabulary shifts in the midst of making an argument. Beer ptiches the case for reform around a swirling constellation of terms. There are: "disciplines" "subjects" "[fields of] study" "basics" Be that as it may, there is a dearth of terms for "possession" in the snippet you quoted. There is the verb "to have." I suspect the play of associations with this one verb (absent a fuller treatment of the concept of "possession") gives rise to the enthymeme that the "possessor possessed." The product of schooling (the graduate) is formed by that schooling. Isn't this a tabla rasa view of students? "We" don't always view the student as a "he". We still say that a graduate must have his "basic discipline", and this he is solemnly taught - as if such a thing had a precise environmental correlate, and as if we know that God knew the difference between physics and chemistry. To posses a practice, to have been trained in a discipline, means, to my mind, to be able to recreate the conditions of practice elsewhere. There appears to be a significant dose of reproductive angst in the passage from Beer. As if all those trained in a discipline will continue to practice that discipline. It is worth recalling that Beer's brand of management cybernetics focussed more on the organisation and less on the environment. Interinstitutional arrangements escape notice. When one considers the extra muros, the displinary walls seen rather permeable. Their permeability depends upon their being walls. An horticultural view would see expertise (as opposed to "discipline") as worthy specialization whose fruits are sharable. For the fruits of expertise to be sharable they must be offered. Hoarding is of course anathema. There is room for the green grocer, the transportation engineer, the culinary stylist in such a world: offering is not a simple effortless moment in the cycles of cultivation and composting. -- 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: "James L. Morrison" Subject: The Technology Source Archives Are Now Available Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:15:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 335 (335) I am pleased to announce that we have moved TS from the Michigan Virtual University server to UNC's ibiblio server at www.technologysource.org . We are most grateful to the Health Policy and Administration Executive Master's Programs in UNC's School of Public Health for providing the funding for this move and to UNC's ibiblio library and digital archive for hosting the archives. And we certainly appreciate MVU's cooperation in this move and to their providing a pointer to the current archives in the event a person uses the old http://ts.mivu.org address to access an article. We are aware that there are some abnormalities in the archives that resulted from using some non-standard HTML characters used when publishing TS on the MVU server that do not translate well to the current database. Please send me a note if you spot any abnormalities so that we can correct them. Also, one of the artifacts of Web publishing is that links go bad. If you know of a program that detects bad links and "delinks" them, please let me know. 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: Richard Cunningham Subject: Re: 19.229 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:16:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 336 (336) Willard, I've been following the discussion on interdisciplinarity with interest, not least because I am one of the designers of a multi-disciplinary course that is part of an interdisciplinary program some of my colleagues and I are attempting to--dare I say it--institutionalize here at Acadia. I'm gratified to see that you and others are engaging with many of the same questions and concerns that engage us. And I hope it is more than simply a case of misery loving company. Two comments in the note that arrived today (19.229) prompt me to offer my own contribution to the discussion. The first was Hartmut Krech's invocation of the development of natural language as a metaphor for the development of interdisciplinarity. I immediately thought of the success of English language at adopting and integrating into its own vocabulary elements from other languages. If one were to equate, roughly, English to interdisciplinarity, Latin, German, and other languages upon which modern English is built to disciplinarity, then it would be hard to pose an historical argument against adopting interdisciplinarity. I trust we all realize that mounting a moral argument would be much easier, and indeed ought never to be overlooked. The second comment that prompts me to write is Patrick Durasau's description of the university as being "conceived of as libraries and librarians, research facilities and a gathering of inquisitive minds [that] provides all the opportunity necessary to transcend the boundaries of disciplines." This hasn't been my experience of any university at which I've had the privilege and pleasure of studying and working, and in our age of reduced circumstances, wherein all gains by any module are viewed fearfully by others as potential losses to their own status quo, the provision of opportunity to transcend disciplinary boundaries seems as distant a horizon as it ever was. Cheers, Richard http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/rcunningham/RDC.html http://hhc.acadiau.ca/ From: tatjana.chorney_at_smu.ca Subject: RE: 19.229 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:17:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 337 (337) Dear All, Responding to further comments, which I continue to read with great interest: the variety of perspectives offered through these responses--scientific/lingustic, horticulturalist, computing--illustrate a form of un-self-conscious interdisciplinarity in that they reflect how persons from varioius disciplines read and understood the citation we were given; yes, we all respond in ways that reflect mental structures associated with or acquired from previous knowledges. However, from the point of view cited by Hartmut, I see the problem. There is always a certain kind of tension between macro and micro levels, especially in an area whose macro level is not firmly defined. But, this could be a space of productivity rather than impasse. The comments in themselves seem to supply the vocabulary or the languages of metasystemic integration while participating in a new methodology (if we could agree that metasystemic integration exists, and that we participate in its formation and practice). My own comment, as a further example, due to my own personal inclinations, my educational background and the fact that I am employee of an English department (my intellectual home/domains, the areas in which and from which I practice my profession), is inflected by philosophical and pragmatic concerns, broadly understood. Again, it strikes me that being critically open to varieties of perspectives on the same issue, all of which can productively reveal an aspect of the issue, remains a positive course of action. It is my belief also, that the university, as "a gathering of inquisitive minds" should provide "all the opportunity necessary to transcend the boundaries of disciplines" as Patrick notes. And I do often try to remind others of this. Unfortunately, this is one area where we often see a gap between theory and practice--actual responsiveness to innovation or integration and actual willingness to engage with various forms of Difference, are frequently minimal, or, in some cases, non existent. I guess, what I am saying is that there is an institutional resistance that both conditions and is conditioned by indiviudal inclinations and human resistance to change in general (especially when it calls itself "change"), to which, I think, the initial citation may have reacted. TC _________________ Dr. Tatjana Chorney Department of English Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.229 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:18:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 338 (338) Francois describes having a discipline as "to be able to recreate the conditions of practice elsewhere" -- I like this definition, because practice is something that disciples do and share among each other in order to gain a sense of commonality/coordination. It highlights social activity without making the process of "discipline" sound like a pedestrian gangwar. I also acknowledge the slipperyness of words like "subject" and "discipline." The library of Congress classification system classifies "subjects," but attempts to do so by mirroring disciplines. The history of LC is quite interesting -- literally, the LC classification system is structured based on the way the Library of Congress developed over time. So, in a sense, a subject is the product of disciples -- the way of sharing. But, the more I wind the whole issue of discipline/interdiscipline in my head, the more I think there is a "problem" that is simply evading the discussion. Right now, my description sounds something like "we do not know what knowledge is anymore." I think knowledge used to be the product of disciples/disciplines, but now I am not so sure. Some of the factors that are causing change in our understanding of what knowledge is would include -- * increased individuality, * increased informality, * oral tradition being [re]legitimized, * increased recognition of cultural difference (+ globalization) * "silent" or tacit knowledge transfer being recognized * in the computer age a certain degree of silent knowledge is becoming necessary to access much non-tacit (explicit) knowledge * collaborative / connective transfer is becoming more and more important -- (and this collaborative / connective transfer may not fit into francois's definition of "discipline" since the "practice" of collaboration may be desirable precisely because it is NOT recreatable. Interdisciplinarity seems to be a way people adapt (with varying success) to "not knowing what knowledge is." In fact, maybe that should be the goal of the interdiscipline -- finding out what knowledge is, by testing what kinds of atoms will connect into compounds -- and how. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Journal of Digital Information Subject: JoDI Call for papers: Personalisation of Computing & Services Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:06:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 339 (339) Call for Papers Journal of Digital Information announces a Special Issue on Spatial Hypermedia Special issue Editors: Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University & Jim Rosenberg Submission deadline: March 3rd, 2006 Publication: June 2006 Submissions are sought for a special edition for the Hypermedia Systems theme of JoDI on Spatial Hypermedia. Spatial hypertext emerged due to the limitations of expression and communication of relationships between documents via explicit links. Since then, numerous spatial hypertext systems, applications, and analyses have been presented in the four workshops on spatial hypertext and in the spatial hypertext track at ACM Hypertext Conferences. This special issue will bring together papers on spatial hypertext theories, design, systems, applications, and experiences. Expected topics include: * Spatial hypertext systems * User experience with spatial hypertext * Spatial hypertext applications * Collaboration and spatial hypertext * Multimedia in spatial hypertext * Adaptive spatial hypertext * Integrating spatial hypertext with other hypertext frameworks and other software environments generally. * Communication and expression in spatial hypertext * Rhetoric issues posed by spatial hypertext For more details on indicative topics and submission, see the full call http://jodi.tamu.edu/calls/spatial_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: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Longevity of Optical Storage Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:07:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 340 (340) To help the National Institute of Standards and Technology develop a standard test to estimate the longevity of recordable optical media, the DVD Association and the Government Information Preservation Working Group are asking federal agencies and other organizations to answer a very brief survey concerning the longevity of optical media, Information from <http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwog/index.html>www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwog/index.html. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: myth encore: intercollaborative discipline Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:05:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 341 (341) Willard, With Humanist 19.116 (Myth, practice, theory) I mused about the stories that animate Humanities Computing and inform how computing in the humanities is done. Wendell's answer to Matt's call (19.141 the trouble with tribbles) suggested to me two mythemes that traverse many a narrative retold by many a computer in humanities. Wendell's rejoinder had two themes that one can find in many communications by computing humanists. The one theme, the importance of the quotidien, is of course easy to highlight in a discussion of blogs. However the value of the incremental and an appreciation for the small contribution that cummulate is, I believe, present in many a tale of computing in the humanities. The other theme is perhaps less persuasive pervasive. The peroration on the "coming to an end" of a particular hegmonic formation is provisional. Indeed, we are admonished: "you must continue doing what you are doing" that is encourating scholars to engage with communities. It is not the impulse to share and cultivate, nor the the value of ties to a readership, that struck me as a worth mytheme. It was the invocation of a withering away of the "old guard". I hope Wendell will forgive such a reductionist reading of an empassioned appeal but the imagery of decadence is too striking not to serve my purposes here. I too am tempted by the tone of indignation: "Theirs is a losing battle, and the condescension the attitude of heirs of an old family who, having squandered their inheritance, now watch the tradespeople cart the furniture, linens, silver and crystal away." Just desserts makes for a good story ending. But apart from the anonymous commentator in the Chronicle who are "they"? "They" are the luddite. The technophobe. Are they vanishing? Receding from the scene? Hardly. I am reminded of this by Julia Flanders who in her contribution [Humanist 19.221] to the thread on collaboration invites us to consider a more introspective turn. The project management failures, the time-sensistive and necessary interventions, that Julia identifies as crucial and personal responsibilities, are a set of skills familiar to students of social reproduction. Success in collaboration requires fruitful resistence. I am not recommending some immersion in a Jungian shadowland or a deep encounter with the technophobe-within. I want to get at a more foundational myth. In the interests of a such a journey, I have been pondering a classic expostulaton which dates back to yes, an older generation, but the sentiments survive: [A] grand reductive process begins in which culture is redesigned to meet the needs of mechanization. If we discover that a computer cannot compose absorbing music, we insist that music _does_ have an 'objective' side, and we turn that into our definition of music. If we discover that computers cannot translate normal language, then we invent a special, more rudimentary language which they can translate. If we discover that computers cannot teach as teaching in its most ideal way is done, then we redesign education so that the machine can qualify as teacher. If we discoer that computers cannot solve the basic problems of city planning -- all of which are questions of social philosophy and aesthetics -- then we redefine the meaning of 'city', call it an 'urban area,' and assume that all the problems of this entity are quantative. In this way man is replaced in all areas by the machine, not because the machine can do things 'better,' but rather because all things have been reduced to what the machine is capable of doing. Theodore Roszak "The myth of objective consciousness" _The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition pp. 230-231 [1968] Here the machine is idolized. Likewise Julia's message implies that a worship of speed which ironically tends to make project teams skimp on planning and thereby waste time. Computers are excellent at tracking multiple time lines. They can work as clocks and calendars, cycle plotters, scenario generators. Quick to chasten, Roszak invokes the image of the limited object, the _slow_ computer, the stupid machine. It would now seem nugatory to invoke the Turing commonplace that the machine is reconfigurable. Certainly not of great value to speculate upon the possible links between the fetishization of hardware (or its hype) and lure of the cachet of speed. It was Richard Cunningham in 19.231 failure of interdisciplinarity who gave me the hint that reconfigurability depends upon a plurality of machines. It is his particular reading of Patrick's forumlation that provided the hint: The second comment that prompts me to write is Patrick Durasau's description of the university as being "conceived of as libraries and librarians, research facilities and a gathering of inquisitive minds [that] provides all the opportunity necessary to transcend the boundaries of disciplines." This hasn't been my experience of any university at which I've had the privilege and pleasure of studying and working, and in our age of reduced circumstances, wherein all gains by any module are viewed fearfully by others as potential losses to their own status quo, the provision of opportunity to transcend disciplinary boundaries seems as distant a horizon as it ever was. A gathering of inquisitive minds. Experience. Or more accurately "experience of" -- the genetive. A reconfigured machine would subsitute the accusative formulation "experience at". If the university is an idea, just as the machine is an idea, then a gathering of inquisitive minds need not be a gathering in the flesh of contemporaries. Ah, the old dialogue of the dead. Another terrain of the quotidien reproductions of immanence, living with the vision that "_even the dead_ will not be safe". And we have the access to the heros of fiction such as Knecht in Hesse's Glass Bead Game or Dumbledore from the Harry Potter novels of J.K. Rowling. Indeed, the figure of wise wizard and professor obliquely tells Harry very much about the nature of discursive machines and moveable feasts when he says at the closing of a chapter: "Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are." To read "pleasure" for "chance" is but part of the story. To have the chance to be surprised by machines, to be perpetually surprized, to find the negentropic in the nugatory. Is that not a worthwhile myth to serve as a pattern for stories to come? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin Skill may be the capacity to manipulate perceptions of knowledge experience. Magic does as magic does. From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 19.229 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:05:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 342 (342) [deleted quotation]But not, perhaps, everything about each as defined by their respective authorities, exactly because any domain of study must be limited. New disciplines must shed some baggage in order to be productive--with justification, naturally. Interdisciplinarity is the customization of disciplinary boundaries. Seen in that light, it fits right in with 21st century approaches to a lot of things, from medicine to blogs. [deleted quotation]In that case, perhaps the term need to be revitalized, lest its past impede its future. [deleted quotation] -- Book #1 "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) and related novellas "Kath" and "Mekan'stan" http://www.okalrel.org lynda@okalrel.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: source for two Heidegger papers? Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:33:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 343 (343) Friends, I am looking for the text of two documents. If they can be found on the web, I would like the URL. If someone has them in digital form, I would be grateful for a copy. The documents are Martin Heidegger's famous "Apology to the Fuhrer," and his "Rektorstale." While these are often discussed and cited, I have not managed to find a copy in English. Ken Friedman ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Willard McCarty Subject: history of personal computing Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:32:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 344 (344) Those interested in the history of computing will appreciate the keynote address by Gordon Bell, "Toward a history of (personal) workstations", the paper by Stuart Card and Thomas Moran, "User Technology: From Pointing to Pondering" and others in the ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations (1986), including those by Licklider and Englebart. The collection is in the ACM Digital Library, www.acm.org/dl/, and in print under ISBN 0-89791-176-8. 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: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.234 myth encore Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:34:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 345 (345) I have suspected for many years that Francois was a Glass Bead Game Player; now we can all confess. Here is something that gives me the pleasure of surprise, computer wizards courting emergence: http://tagsonomy.com/ Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas-Austin From: Willard McCarty Subject: many taxonomies vs the massively encoded Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:04:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 346 (346) Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth S Vrba, in "Exaptation -- A Missing Term in the Science of Form", Philosophy of Biology, ed. Hull and Ruse, p. 52, write that, [deleted quotation]Does it not then follow that we must beware of cementing particular taxonomies of the world, or bits of it, into our computing systems? Of course there are taxonomies so basic to how we think over a long period of time that we cannot but structure our systems in accordance with them if they are to be useful to us. But in the shorter term, for those structures of which we are the conscious makers, it would seem to me of highest priority that we devote our attention as computing humanists to rendering our taxonomies as mutable as possible. Markup, our flavour of the decade, seems to promote an excessive tendency to cement in whatever we know how to describe. We've got to move on. But how? 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: robert delius royar Subject: Which ACM SIG to join? Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:39:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 347 (347) Wed, 31 Aug 2005 (07:45 +0100 UTC) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of...: [deleted quotation]And earlier Wed, 31 Aug 2005 (07:39 +0100 UTC) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of...: [deleted quotation]My question is which of the ACM SIGs would be most likely to focus (more than would other SIGs) on the arguments raised in the essay at http://tagsonomy.com/ ? I am considering SIGWEB and SIGART. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University Making meaning one message at a time. From: Willard McCarty Subject: recommendations for introductions to activities in Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:22:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 348 (348) computational linguistics? I would be grateful for recommendations of introductory articles or book chapters, written for the intelligent but ignorant reader, on what computational linguistics does, what it has achieved so far and what practitioners think to be its long-term objectives. I need something along these lines to give to postgrad students, to let them know what they're missing as well as what they're encountering or might encounter in their interactions with commonplace devices. Ideally I'd like to find something comprehensive, i.e. that deals with the full range of concerns, from theoretical to applied, including commercial applications 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: Juergen Dix Subject: Special Issue on Answer Set Programming (ASP) in Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:07:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 349 (349) Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Call for Papers: Special Issue on Answer Set Programming (ASP) in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence http://cig.in.tu-clausthal.de/ASP06/ * Special Issue Editors: Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany) Juergen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany) * About the Special Issue: Answer set programming (ASP) is a promising declarative programming paradigm which has proven to be successful in a variety of areas such as planning, diagnosis, configuration and space shuttle control. It emerged from deductive databases as wellas from non-monotonic reasoning. Answer sets are sets of literals representing intended models of generalized logic programs with two types of negation. They were introduced by Gelfond and Lifschitz and generalize stable models to more expressive logic programs. The basic idea underlying ASP is to represent a problem in a way such that answer sets correspond to solutions of the problem. A Working Group on ASP funded by the EC (http://wasp.unime.it/) coordinates and represents most of the work on ASP done in Europe. We invite papers describing original research advancing the state of the art in ASP. Contributions may range from theoretical foundations (e.g. language extensions, first order programs) to implementation methods (e.g. new answer set generation methods, intelligent grounding or related heuristics) and innovative applications (e.g. information extraction, agent technology,dynamic systems). In particular applications showing that ASP scales up or is competing with special-purpose techniques are welcome. * Relevant topics include the following (but are not limited to): - Foundations of ASP - Systems of ASP - Algorithms and heuristics - Language extensions (aggregates, preferences , etc.) - Integrated approaches (description logic, constraints, etc.) - ASP methodology (modularization, debugging etc.) - Planning in ASP - Knowledge representation in ASP - Innovative applications (bioinformatics, linguistics, etc.) [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Wayne Hanewicz" Subject: Humanities and Technology Conference, October 6,7,8, 2005 Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:13:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 350 (350) Dear Humanist Colleague: The 2005 Humanities and Technology Conference in Salt Lake City, October 6, 7, and 8, is drawing near. If you have not yet registered, please do so. You can register through our Conference Website (http://uvsc.edu/tech/hta/), or simply call Sandra at 801-863-8137. We will convene at the beautiful and restful Snowbird Resort just on the edge of Salt Lake City. The rooms and dining are excellent, the facilities are conducive to our work, and the Snowbird staff is anxious to make this a pleasant and memorable experience for all of us. The 2005 HTA Conference, entitled "A Dialogue on Technology and Human Life: Finding Meaning and Cultivating Humanity in a 21st Century Technological World" looks to the future of our humanity in the complex world of 21st century technology. The range of issues is wide, important, and challenging. This year we will encourage genuine dialogue among us by providing more time for small group discussion with panel members and each other. This format will carry the added value of building collegial relationships among our peers, and facilitate continuing communication throughout the years. Please also note that we are also encouraging student papers, and we will organize a panel dedicated to student presentations. This is an important step in our responsibility to prepare the next generation of principled thinkers who can lead their generation through the human issues that will characterize their world. Finally, we hope to include presentations in various art forms, including an exhibition of artistic creations by artists who work with the relationship between technology and the humanities. The full program will be added to the website in a few days pending final acceptance of papers and scheduling. For these reasons, and so many more, I hope that you will support the work of the HTA by attending the 2005 HTA Conference. Please review our Conference website at: http://uvsc.edu/tech/hta/ I look forward to seeing you at the Conference. Cordially, Dr. Wayne B. Hanewicz Conference Director 801-863-6343 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 6.32 Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:19:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 351 (351) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 32 (August 30 - September 6, 2005) VIEW THE E2B MACHINE TRANSLATION: A NEW APPROACH TO HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Goutam Kumar Saha describes a machine translator which translates English text into Bangla text with disambiguation, and which is also useful for learning Bengali or Bangla as a foreign language. At the same time the Bengali rural people who do not know the English language well can understand the English matter with the translated output. The proposed approach is a new one that uses both the rule-based and transformation-based machine translation schemes along with three level parsing approaches, and is a significant contribution towards creation of a low-cost Human Language Technology (HLT). http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i32_saha.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: many taxonomies vs the massively encoded Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:04:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 352 (352) Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth S Vrba, in "Exaptation -- A Missing Term in the Science of Form", Philosophy of Biology, ed. Hull and Ruse, p. 52, write that, [deleted quotation]concepts; they reflect (or even create) different theories >about the structure of the world. Does it not then follow that we must beware of cementing particular taxonomies of the world, or bits of it, into our computing systems? Of course there are taxonomies so basic to how we think over a long period of time that we cannot but structure our systems in accordance with them if they are to be useful to us. But in the shorter term, for those structures of which we are the conscious makers, it would seem to me of highest priority that we devote our attention as computing humanists to rendering our taxonomies as mutable as possible. Markup, our flavour of the decade, seems to promote an excessive tendency to cement in whatever we know how to describe. We've got to move on. But how? 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: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.240 many taxonomies vs the massively encoded Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:10:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 353 (353) Willard I'll bite. You wrote: [deleted quotation]Before we move on, can we move back? Just what evidence informs the perception that markup promotes seemingly or otherwise "a tendency to cement whatever we know how to describe"? If anything play with markup makes one sensitive to questions of parsing. And so inspired by parsing, here's a set of questions: What edifice is the "whatever we know how to describe" being cemented in to? I take it that it is not the describing that is being cemented. The what we describe could be a different set than the what we know how to describe? Is it possible we describe more than we know how (explicity) to describe? Why pick on markup now? -- 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: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 19.240 many taxonomies vs the massively encoded Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:10:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 354 (354) In einer eMail vom 01.09.05 08:05:12 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU: [deleted quotation]The statement looks like a computist's fallacy, it lacks a bit of historical awareness (? historisches Bewusstsein): Look at the indices of Goethe's scientific journals or at the index ior glossary n the back stuff of a sociological book from the 1950's - these means was useful in their time, and the goal of initial studies in the humanities is to prepare students to handle the gap between implied taxonomies in works from earlier time and the taxonomies in flavor today. In editing historical works it is always desirable to preserve the categorizations of their time; in preparing documents for actual use, if an index in a book is no more up to date, probably the content of the book it is also. The question then is not to build an adaptive index 'movin with time', but to write a new book with appropriate index, I mean. Yours, Herbert Wender From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: your ideas on taxonimies are profound Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:11:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 355 (355) Dear Willard, thank you very much for expressing your profound ideas on taxonimies after reading that paper on biology. Actually, language taxonimies and classifications are rather outdated, but there is no interest among the majority of linguists on these problems. In fact, many linguists are quite happy to solve minor linguistic problems. Dr. Angela Markantonio who wrote a book revising the affinity of the Uralic languages, received the negative criticism without any logical foundations. This is why, I think the discussion of her book is most welcome, but the unbiased views must be in action. From her letters to me, I understood that now is is working on ruining the family of the Indo-European languages, which also be a coloss on the weak legs. I think some natural science scholar should reconsider the language classifications since their outlook may be fresh and logical. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_hotmail.com Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.241 introductions to activities in Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:08:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 356 (356) computational linguistics? Willard, just to get started, you might have people look at a very short and somewhat restricted introduction to CL from the University of Saarland: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/what_is_cl.html From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.241 introductions to activities in Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:09:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 357 (357) computational linguistics? This presentation, from Zurich, is both longer and better (and clearer) than the Saarland page: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/CL/CL_FAQ.html Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Introspection on Influences Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:12:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 358 (358) Willard, Pat Galloway's intercollaborative play in/on/through the subject line [19.234 is re-referenced as "myth encore" ; 19.234 appeared as "failure of interdisciplinarity ; within 19.234 there is a subject line that reads "myth encore: intercollaborative discipline"] nicely illustrates the power of multiple tagging. Your "wrapping" her reference to 19.234 with the subject line "Glasperlenspielerei" in 19.237 lends a certain cachet to the move found therein. Pat's opening sentence has a suggestive form I have long suspected X of being Y, now we can all confess I suspect that the invitation to confession carries over to X who has only been and continues only to be suspected until a confession is produced. The contiguity of the sentences is most charming. I would like to suggest a game (stalling on the admission or denial of X being Y). The game is designed to focus a different entry point into a discussion about the constitution of the practices of a field or discipline. Games in the confessional mode acquire a saliency when a community, especially a community of scholars, has become if not a community of trust then a community of acknowledgement. A community that has built fora where people can share reactions along the lines of "Really?" and "Yeah!" The game takes to the form of a short quiz: What text(s) have most [influenced] your [view] of humanities computing? Substitue [influenced] and [view] with whatever terms you feel are appropriate. [My answer below.] The question is inspried by a thread on the if:book blog sponsored by The Institute for the Future of the Book where contributies were asked to name books that shaped their world view. http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/variables/three_books_that_influenced_your_worldview/index.html Kim White captures Children's books are there at the beginning, digging into our consciousness. The fact that children must, initially, be read to, illuminates something about how the book functions for humans. My son is 14 months old and he loves books. That is because his grandmother sat down with him when he was six months old and patiently read to him. She is a kindergarten teacher, so she is skilled at reading to children. She can do funny voices and such. My son doesn't know how to read, he barely has a notion of what story is, but his grandmother taught him that when you open a book and turn its pages, something magical happens-characters, voices, colors-I think this has given him a vague sense of how meaning is constructed. My son understands books as objects printed with symbols that can be translated and brought to life by a skilled reader. He likes to sit and turn the pages of his books and study the images. He has a relationship with books, but he wouldn't have that if someone hadn't taught him. My point is, even after you learn to read, the book is still part of a complex system of relationships. It is almost a matter of chance, in some ways, which books are introduced to you and opened to you by someone. A. Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines -- 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: Dino Buzzetti Subject: Re: 19.240 many taxonomies vs the massively encoded Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:08:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 359 (359) Willard, I am very glad you raise this point: [deleted quotation]Well, it would take long to answer. Let me just hint to what I have in mind. Take the title of Lynne Truss' bestseller on punctuation: (a) Eats, shoots and leaves . You may be puzzled and remove the comma to realize that we are talking about a panda, who indeed (b) Eats shoots and leaves . By reading (a) you are puzzled because you assume that the comma, actually *markup* (I spare the argument to prove it), is part of the text. And it is, actually. As it is also a metalinguistic device to assign (b) one of two possible interpretations. As soon as you do it, you assume that your diacritical sign (or tag, for that matter) is part of the text. My surmise is that markup is a diacritical sign to distinguish between alternative interpretations, or taxonomies. Just as relatively late in the history of writing, spaces have been introduced between characters to distinguish words. One tries to freeze a mobile and basically indeterminate thing such as text, but hardly: text is not self-identical , as Jerome McGann has nicely put it. My point is that we have to accept this basic fact and come to realize that markup is essentially ambiguous and indeterminate like text. And try to put this indeterminacy to good use by developing appropriate tools to deal with it. Otherwise we have to resign to markup overload and to live with fixed taxonomies. The same would apply to ontologies, now so popular, but I dare not say it too loud... Yours, -dino buzzetti -- Dino Buzzetti Department of Philosophy University of Bologna tel. +39 051 20 98357 via Zamboni, 38 fax 98355 I-40126 Bologna BO From: Eric H. Subject: Re: 19.246 many taxonomies vs the massively encoded Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:09:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 360 (360) Dear Humanists: The following article may provide some fodder for discussion (note: it's a PDF): <http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/selectedarticles/googlevsonsite.pdf> One of my first reactions to reading this is that our products should be designed by those who use the products rather than those who know the technology. This of course, is a prime theme of HCI, but still sadly lacking in practice. A good overview of classification is given in "Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences" by Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star. MIT Press, 2000. Eric Homich PhD student Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 361 (361) [deleted quotation]http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/what_is_cl.html [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 362 (362) [deleted quotation]__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From: James Cummings Subject: Digital Disasters Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:55:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 363 (363) Dear All, Based on a conversation at this year's ALLC/ACH I have been thinking of organising a panel of people to speak on the topic of 'Digital Disasters' for next year's conference (Digital Humanities 2006) in Paris. I know there have been a number of projects over the years which have had significant problems or failed outright and I think that these can help us learn how to avoid some of the same mistakes in the future. The difficulty comes when getting people to publicly own up to these problems. Personally, I'm not interested in hearing whose fault it was that something went wrong, rather how things went wrong and what lessons can be learnt from this. Have you been directly involved with a project that has failed? Are you willing to own up to the problems and talk about what you should have done differently? Do you have something useful to say about your own mistakes that will help other projects? Are you intending to go to the Digital Humanities 2006 conference in Paris? If so, send expressions of interest and a brief description of what you'd talk about to James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk before 1 October 2006. For more information on the conference see: http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/ -James -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.234 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:55:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 364 (364) Dear Francois, At 02:14 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]Caricatures can be very revealing, especially when they caricature other caricatures by doing them one better. So, okay.... [deleted quotation]Of course I forgive your using my words to start your own: I don't mind conjuring up visions of decadence if that's what it takes. :-> But I can't help but try to rebalance the argument. (Which does, I hope, nevertheless bear on the question of disciplinarity.) See, I too am a Luddite and a technophobe. I fear technology and lament the losses it brings and the disaster it sometimes threatens. Unlike some Luddites and technophobes, however, I don't imagine that all would be better if we could somehow go backwards. Earlier generations had their high technologies too, and had to face the troubles those brought along with the benefits. To me, it seems this is a great part of what it is to be human, to have language, to know ourselves, paradoxically, as both magnificently individuated creatures of stunning depth and elaboration, and yet small parts of something that goes beyond us. In the process of this realization, our technologies (which, cyborg-fashion, are hardly to be distinguished from ourselves) are both our greatest blessing, and our curse. Whales and dolphins, elephants and parrots, squid and other intelligent creatures appear to have quite a different range of concerns: fitted better to their worlds, they are untroubled by mirror-selves of their own creation. That is, I hope my Luddism is an engaged perpective, not a rejectionist one. Given this, and returning to the question at hand when I wrote those lines -- certain woes of the present-day academy -- what I think will come to an end is not an attitude, certainly not a critical attitude, towards technology. Indeed, that is what we have to foment, not reject. Nor do I even accept that the current hegemony (using your term) is one of Luddism and technophobia. These people (those who reject blogging out of hand as unworthy of a scholar's effort --- let's remember who we are talking about) are typically neither Luddites nor technophobes. They have not even gotten so far; instead, they are people who have decided that safe in their world, they have to protect it from outside encroachments, from change that comes from the world beyond -- from thinking about and responding to, in earnest, the questions posed by those changes, in whatever form they appear. Were they to do so, one might hope they would become Luddites. But they are people who have decided that *because it is on a blog*, nothing Dr Kirschenbaum or anyone can say on a blog can have relevance or be worthy of respect or citation (in a scholarly article, on a CV). This is simply willful blindness, not Luddism. Matt might happen to write a screed read on thousands of desktops, real and virtual, across the world, and it is still nothing worthy of account. It would not be nothing to a Luddite. Yet for all this, notwithstanding the occasional flight of rhetoric, I don't worry about this too much. This kind of recalcitrance won't end because of some revolutionary upheaval, but only because it is so unnecessary, and so useless. The only thing it protects is not worth protecting. (I am not, mind you, suggesting that all kinds of recalcitrance will end. Far from it: I expect academics will continue to be recalcitrant -- I depend on it. It is just this particular kind of resistance that will come to seem quaint.) And what it presumes to protect (seriousness of purpose? standards of quality? knowability, verifiability?) has already escaped out into the wild -- where indeed, academics aren't the only ones looking for it -- even accepting that it was ever really there, safe in the academy to begin with. Yes, there has been true discipline, however quietly its true adepts have gone their way. But there has also been plenty of the false kind, maintaining premises of standards and seriousness in place of the real thing. In the face of "the chance to be surprised by machines" (as you put it), while in Francoisian manner I ask you to substitute the word "discipline" for the word "chance", false disciplines that reject it without knowing it can only wither away. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: being Oxymandias Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:46:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 365 (365) As someone who spent years and funds marking up a text, I've had Oxymandian megalomaniacal moments -- "Look on my text, ye Mighty, and dispair!" Perhaps there is this difference: that the new speed of change has been such that unlike Shelley's King of Kings I can gaze on my own half-decayed monument and learn something. In Humanist 19.240 I pointed Gould's and Vrba's sentence -- that taxonomies "reflect (or even create) different theories about the structure of the world" -- toward markup. Dino Buzzetti has elegantly and quietly summed up what I meant: [deleted quotation]Some of us, with Feyerabendian passion, won't live with fixed taxonomies but war against them. But how much better (to quote something from my youth) to make love not war. So, again to the question I had in mind, clarified thanks to Dino: what tools? I envision something like a cross between textual markup and relational database design -- i.e. something designed *from the get-go* for the functionality that would appear to lie between those two kinds. I know I am dreaming, but is this a dream worth attempting to implement? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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. 19 Num. 366 (366) [deleted quotation]I don't believe that the relationship is that neat. For instance, given some paragraphs of appropriate context, the average reader may not even notice the misplaced comma. Even if you do recognize the comma, if the phrase is in context, the comma is not a tag at all -- it is a that produces italic text. Or it tags annoyance for certain copy writer types and english teachers. Personally, I very much enjoyed this review of eats, shoots and leaves: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1 A poorly placed markup could be more profound effect than a misplaced comma. Missing an end-bracket, for instance can make a real mess of text -- to the point that it is unreadable. CSS does alot to impact the aesthetics -- and therefore the readability -- of textual information. And via xml you have the descriptive information to help other objects besides the text (ie RSS feeds & search engines) somewhat organized. Markup may distinguish between interpretations, but it extends to the aesthetic -- albeit non-textual aesthetic. My impression is that it is more akin to the design and shape of a book than it is to grammar/punctuation, although it may have characteristics of both. The confusing part is that it is a jeckyl-hyde sort of thing. It looks like text (and is therefore description) when viewed with one set of spectacles, and it is mere accent to language using another. But where to take this in a way that will matter to the average reader of internet text? Here's another way at achieving meaning through something besides markup -- http://www.tenbyten.org. Cross-reference as markup? Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: Daniel Paul O'Donnell Subject: cfp: Digital Sessions at Kalamazoo 2006 Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:00:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 367 (367) The Digital Medievalist project invites submissions for two sessions at the 2006 International Congress on Medievalist Studies in Kalamazoo: Digital publication (Digital medievalist) * Paper and/or abstract submissions are invited on the topic of digital publication. We are looking in particular for discussion of tools, processes, and/or best practices, but will consider other approaches to the topic (e.g. the economics of running a wiki or commons?). What every digital medievalist should know (Digital medievalist) * Paper and/or abstract submissions are invited on the topic of basic skills and training for digital projects in medieval studies. What should medievalists know before they begin a new project? How can they find out (see also http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Kalamazoo_2006#Digital_Medievalist_Sessions) Proposals should be submitted by email before September 15th to daniel.odonnell_at_uleth.ca or digitalmedievalist_at_uleth.ca. Please use a clear subject line in your email. Daniel Paul O'Donnell Director, Digital Medievalist Project University of Lethbridge From: Willard McCarty Subject: spelling Ozymandias Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:52:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 368 (368) A member of this group has pointed out to me that I misspelled Ozymandias -- not once but (counting the adjectival form) twice. While it is true that on my QUERTY keyboard x is nearest neighbour of z, there is no excuse able to survive my own canons of care -- even the fact that, subvocalizing as I type, I *heard* /ozzymandeeahss/. Nor the fact that as I passed Basil Champney's "insufficiently manly" Shelley Memorial in University College Oxford recently (the model was a young girl, it is said), I stopped to pay my respects, despite the sentence of the critics who have compared the sculpture of the dead poet to "a slice of turbot laid out on a fishmonger's scale" (http://srv2.lycoming.edu/~lewes/shelleysites/oxford.htm). Nor is my error favoured by the ratio of "Oxymandias" to "Ozymandias" as attested by Google from online sources -- 101/21,500, or .0047. If only I had read before I clicked! Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: personified software? Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:49:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 369 (369) Recently, while preparing material on my current research for a group of classicists, I somehow thought to google for its keyword, "personification". An old, fusty, academic word, I thought -- but who knows? Well, the click of my wireless mouse then brought me a big, lengthy surprise. The word is not only popular, it is distributed across many common domains of life, including primary-school education. (To underscore the implicit moral, google whenever you can, esp when musing about a topic of interest. You never know when suddenly your world will expand in all directions -- and give you material with which to appear incredibly cool to your students. ("Man, this guy knows what's HAPPENING!") Yes, I know, or think -- saying "Man..." isn't cool -- or is it?) But to the point and question. Among the things personified is software. Personification's a hot topic, for example among those who talk about computers as "social agents", e.g. Reeves and Nass, The Media Equation. Where else should I look? What I'm looking *for* are essays, articles, books in which the authors reflect on the personification of software, the consequences of thinking in this way &c rather than simply fling the word about. Any suggestions? Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: unfailing fairness Re: 19.251 failure of interdisciplinarity Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:56:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 370 (370) Dear Wendell, Thank you for the invitation to substitute the word "discipline" for the word "chance" in a formulation about "surprise." trip to the dictionary... Initially, it, the invitation, led me to the lexicographers. Finding "disciplinarian" between "disciple" and "discipline" in an English listing, I want to cross-culturally check and found in a French listing "disciplinable". This led me to muse on the potential for punishment in relation to the phobic instance especially that of the anti-blog columnist from the Chronicle of Higher Education. distengo ... I certainly agree that such a person does not come off as a luddite. They are rather expressing phobic sentiments in a technophobic mode. Luddism is the rejection of the application of certain types of technology in certain situations. The luddite has an experience to draw upon; the technophobe, hearsay. Whatever admixtures of technophobe and luddite may be at work in any individual psyche or group thought processes, the distinction that brings the category of "experience" to the fore is perhaps key in thinking through the movement that passes in and through these positions. Fear recalled as an experience of fear finds us in the vicinity of Aristotlean catharsis. plot thickens... An eschatological vision of the false disciplines withering away plays itself out on the terrain of a dichtomous segmentation of "the wild" and the academy. In a nostalgic mode the bisected terrain leads to a grail game, the search for the locus of true discipline. In either temporal orientation, past or future, the dynamic is one more of cathexis than catharsis. remapping ... The call to subsitute "chance" and "discipline" in relation to "surprise" reminds me of the machinery of knowledge production. An individual uses their experience and a group, its history, to sift and sort. That the very experience and history is the product of sifting is only part of the story. Recognizing the operation of chance can temper the vertigo of a regressive series of meta levels. Groups and individuals shuffle. They wait. Patience is a part of discipline. Whereof surprise? Something hidden becomes (re)revealed. Surprise is a function of storing. Discipline as hoarding. Machines can be harnessed for sorting, storing, shuffling. The order here is important. The machine shuffles between what is being sorted and what is stored. And yes, there is the shuffling of what is stored and the shuffling of what is being sorted. And further, there is a meta level of shuffling the shuffling. Machines plugging into machines. Also important is the implication that storage does not in and of itself guarantee a universal and perpetual access. A discipline, false or otherwise, is a set of rules for a course of behaviour. One goes _to_ a discipline in order to go _through_. disambiguating the "it" .... And what it presumes to protect (seriousness of purpose? standards of quality? knowability, verifiability?) has already escaped out into the wild -- where indeed, academics aren't the only ones looking for it -- even accepting that it was ever really there, safe in the academy to begin with. Yes, there has been true discipline, however quietly its true adepts have gone their way. But there has also been plenty of the false kind, maintaining premises of standards and seriousness in place of the real thing. In the face of "the chance to be surprised by machines" (as you put it), while in Francoisian manner I ask you to substitute the word "discipline" for the word "chance", false disciplines that reject it without knowing it can only wither away. The machine would work differently if the eschatological and the dichotomous were not available to it for processing. It just might not work at all. A perpetually purging machine would self-destruct. Unless... In some languages, the semantic field of "discipline" cuts across the border of "education" and "breeding". I can imagine a withering away. Not sure I can train myself to utter it. Since for me, the cathetic acts as a resevoir for catharsis, it is difficult to entertain the notion that representations of experience will shrink and disappear. Well, I guess, withering does leave traces and disappearance is afterall a trick of prestidigitation rather than predestination, I'll take stock in the story of the battle between false and true disciplines, for now, holding on reserve its future liquidation. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 19.255 personified software? Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:27:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 371 (371) Willard, You might look up some of Sherry Turkle's work. She's at MIT and has written about psychology and sociology of computer since the early 1980s. Her book, The Second Self, was the one that I remember -- vaguely after all these years. I'm not sure that her work is going in the same direction you are thinking, but it would be a start. Mary Dee Mary Dee Harris Catalis, Inc. Austin, Texas Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Charles Ess Subject: Call for Papers - Special Issue of JCMC Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:26:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 372 (372) Dear Humanists, with apologies for cross-postings, please distribute to interested colleagues and appropriate lists: == Call for Papers, special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: RELIGION ON THE INTERNET: CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CONFLICT, DIALOGUE, AND TRANSFORMATION Guest editors: Charles Ess (cmess_at_drury.edu) Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Drury University Akira KAWABATA Osaka University, Japan Hiroyuki KUROSAKI Kokugakuin University, Japan IMPORTANT DATES Proposals due: October 15, 2005 Full papers due: April 15, 2006 Anticipated publication: October 2006 or January 2007 As with most other dimensions of contemporary life in industrialized societies, the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web has deeply impacted religious life, and vice-versa. Indeed, based on the number of Google hits (on August 28, 2005), "religion" (89,700,000 hits) is even more ubiquitous on the web than "sex" (75,200,000 hits). In the U.S. context, religion on the Internet has inspired a number of important treatments and studies, but as yet, relatively little scholarship has examined the interactions between religious life and the Internet from comparative, cross-cultural perspectives. Such perspectives are of compelling interest, precisely because the global reach of the Internet and the Web means that the interactions between religious life and CMC are not restricted to national/cultural boundaries. At the same time, this global reach means that scholars and researchers around the world also enjoy new opportunities for cross-cultural collaboration and research. This special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication invites analyses of the interactions between religious life and CMC technologies, with an emphasis on cultural dimensions and cross-cultural comparisons of those interactions. Suggested submission topics include: * The sacred online? Are experiences of the sacred (e.g., in Christian communion, Jewish and Muslim prayer, mediation with kami in Japanese religion, etc.), restricted to the embodied community offline, and/or are there ways of facilitating these experiences online that are recognized as legitimate by traditional authorities and communities? * Broadcast and/or interaction? There is some evidence in both the U.S. and Japan to suggest that more evangelical traditions adopt the more interactive features of CMC as part of their strategy for attracting and converting new members, while less evangelical traditions develop more static websites that archive authoritative texts and resources. Are there correlations between the "style" of faith and use of CMC? How far do these hold - or not hold - across cultures? * Religion and the Generations Religious institutions in both the U.S. and abroad consciously use the Internet to "target" young people, who are generally more comfortable with new media, while older people are often resistant to the new technologies, and may even see new media as corrupting traditional religious authority, practices, and beliefs. Are such generation gaps apparent in diverse cultures? What are the implications of such generation gaps for online religion and traditional religion? * The Generation of Religion New media offer multiple possibilities for communities of faith to construct new approaches to traditional religious practices and authorities - some of which may be seen as not simply reformist, but as revolutionary, if not "heretical." How do new media promise/threaten to construct and generate new religious practices, beliefs, etc.? Are these possibilities realized in different ways, depending on religious tradition and/or culture? * Gender and Religion: Liberation in Cyberspace? Western cyber-feminists have hoped for new forms of liberation and gender equality in cyberspace. At the same time, contemporary world religions remain largely patriarchal or masculinist. How do CMC environments facilitate and/or inhibit these processes of preservation and transformation in religious life? Are there notable differences among cultures, given that some national/cultural traditions are more gender equal than others? * Preservation and/or Transformation of Religious Authorities, Practices, Traditions? What roles do CMC technologies play in preserving and/or transforming religious authorities, practices, and traditions? How do these roles vary, if they do, from culture to culture? * Other issues The above list does not include all possible questions and approaches to cross-cultural analyses of religion online. We encourage and invite other topics appropriate to this theme. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500 words by October 15, 2005, to the Charles Ess (cmess_at_drury.edu) and Hiroyuki KUROSAKI . The proposal should indicate (a) the specific issues, topics, and/or themes that will be explored, including the specific religious traditions and culture(s) at the focus of analysis, (b) strong awareness of relevant studies and literature to be drawn upon, and (c) at least a preliminary sketch of what claims, hypotheses, etc. that the author(s) expect to confirm or disconfirm in their work. 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 is 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, 2006 Anticipated publication date for the special issue is October 2006 or January 2007. Proposals and final submissions should be e-mailed to the special issue editors Charles Ess (cmess_at_drury.edu) and Hiroyuki KUROSAKI . == 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/ Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (by Subject: Re: 19.256 spelling Ozymandias Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:27:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 373 (373) Willard, In my opinion, we reach a certain age when "spelling" seems unimportant as long as the sense is right. This leads me to think that perhaps much of our spelling has been determined by the elderly, like us, of yore :) ... o O o O o ... Dr. Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin 2, IRELAND ... o O o O o ... From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciple-disciplinarian-discipline Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:25:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 374 (374) Given his trip to the dictionary, Francois and those who have also been there will enjoy the piece by Ian Hacking, "The Complacent Disciplinarian", and other papers on the subject at http://www.interdisciplines.org/interdisciplinarity/papers/7. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Re: 19.241 introductions to activities in Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:03:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 375 (375) computational linguistics? Willard, I am not sure if it will be helpful, but you might check the last two chapters of this book I reviewed a few years ago. http://www.routledge.com/linguistics/using-comp.html On Sep 1, 2005, at 3:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]MZ _________________ Matthew Zimmerman Faculty Technology Services, NYU Tel: 212.998.3038 Fax: 212.995.4120 From: ken.friedman_at_bi.no Subject: Re: 19.256 spelling Ozymandias Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:59:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 376 (376) Dear Willard, Perhaps Ozymandias was an Oxymoron. Yours, Ken From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: MITH Fellowship for Scholars Affected by Katrina, Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:02:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 377 (377) Available Immediately PLEASE FORWARD AND DISTRIBUTE WIDELY. The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park is pleased to be able to offer an immediate residential fellowship available to any one faculty member or ABD doctoral candidate at an institution closed by Hurricane Katrina. Housed in the campus's primary research library, MITH is a community of scholars devoted to the application of new media and digital technologies to humanities scholarship and teaching. Projects have typically taken the form of electronic editions, scholarly databases, or high-end teaching materials. See examples here: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/research/index.php While colleges and universities seem to be moving very fast to accommodate displaced undergraduates, the careers of graduate students and faculty also have to be protected and tended to. We are therefore able to offer a scholar his or her personal workspace, the use of our extensive hardware and software resources, easy access to the university's library collections (and a base from which to access the unparalleled academic and cultural institutions of the DC area besides), and expert-level consulting about digital scholarship. While we regret we are unable to offer a stipend, *funding is available* for temporary relocation and some initial start-up expenses. To apply, please send a letter of inquiry describing the project to be undertaken (either new or continuing research), a CV, and contact information for three references. Application materials may be sent electronically to mith_at_umd.edu or by fax to 301-314-7111 or by post to Neil Fraistat, Acting Director, MITH, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Consideration of applications to begin immediately. Applications from women and minorities and graduate students and faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is encouraged. Neil Fraistat, Acting Director (301-405-3817) Matthew Kirschenbaum, Acting Associate Director Carl Stahmer, Acting Associate Director http://www.mith.umd.edu/ -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Acting Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 301-405-8927 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: keeping the house Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:13:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 378 (378) Recently, stirred by Google to look for a paper given at the Tuebingen conference but not subsequently published -- this does happen to worthy items -- I went to the conference link to find the following: ############################################################################= ## ######## I/O error 037 in lock on file /info/www/data/zdv/zrkinfo/tustep.ini ############################################################################= ## ############################################################################= ### ######## PROGRAMMABBRUCH: Datei geschützt oder defekt oder ????? ######## ############################################################################= ### Tell me it isn't totally geschützt oder defekt oder..., and if it is, please read the innards for me and prognosticate. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: more device-mediated citizen journalism Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:19:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 379 (379) From the Washington Post: Blogs Provide Storm Evacuees With Neighborhood-Specific News By Yuki Noguchi Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 7, 2005; D04 As the world's news media show the big picture of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, some Web sites are finding ways to provide specific information to those hungry for details about their homes and local landmarks. Brian Oberkirch's Web log (<http://slidell.weblogswork.com>http://slidell.weblogswork.com ) has become such an outlet, filled with dispatches and photos from people who ventured back into Slidell, a community four miles from the Louisiana coast he and thousands of others evacuated before Katrina blew through. "I was able to get to my apt at the Anchorage Sat 09/03/05," said one message posted yesterday. "Came in thru Eden Isles off Hwy 11 -- the beautiful white anchor at entrance is covered in about 7 ft of debris and there is only a one-lane path to enter/exit until over the little bridge." Evacuees who didn't have Internet or phone access just after the Aug. 29 hurricane are slowly regaining the ability to check in on the familiar places they left behind. They report on what happened to the local school, grocery store, church or neighbor's home. Some online dispatches include digital photos from the scene, and some feature maps superimposed on recent aerial photos of the area, such as those available on Google Earth. The Internet continues to teem with pleas for information about missing children, family members and friends. "People got scattered and are using it as a virtual rally point," Ernest Svenson, a New Orleans lawyer who evacuated to Houston with his family after the storm, said of the blog he started three years ago ( <http://www.ernietheattorney.net>http://www.ernietheattorney.net ). He's received trickles of e-mails from friends and co-workers who've been able to survey their neighborhoods and has posted them. Initially, with no access to phone or Internet service, Svenson sent text messages to a friend in Florida who posted them on the site. The availability of the Internet on the day of the storm and just afterward plummeted, according to ComScore Networks, a company that tracks Internet traffic. Online usage in New Orleans dropped by 80 percent the day of the storm and 90 percent the day after. Similarly, in the Biloxi-Gulfport area of Mississippi, Internet traffic fell by more than 75 percent on Aug. 29 and below reportable levels the following day. On Monday, with limited access to the Internet, Svenson posted parts of an e-mail from a lawyer friend who'd gone back to New Orleans: "The flooding starts about a block past Feret to Claiborne. Down at Napoleon it starts at Pascale's M. I drove in and drove down st. charles all the way to Poydras. The D-Day Museum, Ogden Center, CAC -- are all basically unscathed. There's flooding every where else." That prompted a plea for more information: "I am not clear about where exactly you said the flooding starts on Napoleon Ave. At Freret, or after if you are headed down to Claiborne? I ask because my boyfriend and I live in a house right at the corner of Freret on Napoleon, on the downtown side (on the right if you are headed up toward Claiborne). We are extremely frustrated that we cannot find any info on the state of our home." The Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi, Miss., allowed Internet users to "post damage reports" on its Web site, where one visitor asked, "Is the Father Ryan House B&B still standing? I looked at the aerial photos and really can't tell," and another posted photos of a Biloxi apartment building with its roof ripped off. The St. Bernard Parish government Web site posted hourly reports, including on the water levels in the neighborhood and statements from the local high school principal. By yesterday, Oberkirch -- who posted his own report from a weekend visit to his home -- said his Slidell blog had gotten 400,000 hits in the previous six days. One posting by another resident included a photo of a crowd lined up on a clear day in front of a building with a collapsed roof. "My dad and I went to Slidell yesterday," the accompanying message said. "As expected, the damage is everywhere . . . [We] went to Our Lady of Lourdes 10:30 mass. They held mass in the street due to the condition of the church." Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.249 many taxonomies Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:00:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 380 (380) It's markup all the way down. Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas at Austin From: Dino Buzzetti Subject: Re: 19.252 many taxonomies Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:03:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 381 (381) About markup ambiguity, Ryan Deschamps observes: [deleted quotation]Precisely, one couldn't say it better. And yes indeed, I agree that this fact won't [deleted quotation]but my concern was not so much about a human to *read* a digital text, as about a machine to *process* it. And you won't have an adequate text analysis tool unless you tackle this problem. I must admit I share Willard's dream, when he says [deleted quotation]So, as Willard goes on, "what tools" ? As to that, I agree also with his surmise: [deleted quotation]As a good point to start, I would recommend a paper by Manfred Thaller, "Text as a Datatype", at the ALLC-ACH'96 in Bergen-- apparently not yet accessible, as to now, at their website http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/allc-ach96.html . I, personally, would see the problem as the following: how to relate a structuring of the text's expression, achievable through markup, to a structuring of its content, achievable through a database--not necessarily a "relational" one? and I am dreaming about a *dynamical* way of doing it. I have tried to address this problem, although at a purely conceptual level, in the following paper http://dobc.unipv.it/dipslamm/pubtel/Atti2000/dino_buzzetti.htm which can be read also in English in _Augmenting Comprehension_, Office for Humanities Communication Publications, no. 18, see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/books.html . But it's a long way to implementation... Yours, -dino buzzetti -- Dino Buzzetti Department of Philosophy University of Bologna tel. +39 051 209 8357 via Zamboni, 38 fax 209 8355 I-40126 Bologna BO From: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Re: 19.259 personified software Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:00:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 382 (382) Willard, my apologies if I'm off base here, but isn't this what we used to call "anthropomorphism"? To be honest, I had to look up "personification," and was somewhat surprised - initially, I thought it might refer to personalization (e.g., attaching rhinestones to cell phones). Is there a subtle difference I'm not catching? It seems to be pretty much the same instinct that drives my mother to call her dog "baby." Regards, K Ken Cousins Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics 3114 P Tydings Hall University of Maryland, College Park T: (301) 405-6862 F: (301) 314-9690 kcousins_at_gvpt.umd.edu www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/kcousins http://augmentation.blogspot.com "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein From: "Franklin, Rosemary (franklra)" Subject: RE: 19.255 personified software? Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:01:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 383 (383) Dear Willard, "............. and give you material with which to appear incredibly cool to your students. ("Man, this guy knows what's HAPPENING!") Yes, I know, or think -- saying "Man..." isn't cool -- or is it?)" That should read HAPPENIN'.......for full cool effect. Best regards, Rosemary Franklin From: Robert Hirst Subject: job as Digital Publications Manager, Berkeley Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:04:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 384 (384) Digital Publications Manager Requisition: #3243 LIBRARY Main Campus-Berkeley Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. The hiring salary range is $45100 - $63100. Closing Date: Open until filled, first review 08/31/2005 Job Description: Housed in the world's largest collection of materials by and about Mark Twain, the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 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 and continues to produce award-winning print critical editions of Mark Twain's works and his private papers. It has now been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the California Digital Library and the University of California Press, to create a comprehensive electronic edition of Mark Twain's writings. Responsibilities: This position will manage the digital critical edition _Mark Twain's Writings Online_ as well as all other related digital projects for the Mark Twain Project (MTP). Management will consist of providing day-to-day leadership in the development and implementation of all aspects of digital project infrastructure and content, including but not limited to collaborating with partners, acquiring and supervising technical staff, establishing work flow and schedules, monitoring progress, assessing and allocating resources, representing MTP's interests at conferences and other meetings, and, in consultation with the General Editor and other staff, determining the overall direction and vision of the digital project. Requirements & Qualifications: Knowledge of the standards, theories, and practice of humanities computing. Knowledge of scholarly textual editing, XML, and the procedures, guidelines, and policies of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P4. Knowledge of online publishing procedures, problems, and possibilities. Understanding of the role digital humanities projects can play in scholarship and research. Extensive experience encoding scholarly humanities documents in XML (especially TEI P4). Proficiency in maintaining and working with relational databases. Excellent proofreading and copyediting skills. Preferred Quals: Advanced degree in English, humanities computing, or an allied field. Knowledge of oXygen, Visio, WordPerfect, XSL, CSS, HTML, Perl, regular expressions, and content management software. Knowledge of campus human resources and business policies. Experience in grant writing preferred. Demonstrated leadership and management skills in a rapidly growing institution. Strong multi-tasking skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, set schedules, and meet deadlines when there are many conflicting demands to be met. Demonstrated ability to grasp and solve complex problems having to do with both practical and abstract issues surrounding the creation of a digital critical edition. Willingness and ability to rapidly learn new technical and editorial skills as necessary. Outstanding ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing in an academic setting. Strong supervisorial background and ability to motivate staff, lead discussion, and mediate conflict. Demonstrated ability to be extremely detail-oriented and have an eye for error. Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively, work efficiently, work independently and with a team. Apply online at: http://jobs.berkeley.edu indicating the job code 3243. From: "pjmoran" Subject: Anthropomorphism Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:02:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 385 (385) Re: 19.259 personified software. Yes, anthropomorphism is the same phenomenon as personification, but the "hard sciences" needed to have their own terms for it. "The Humanities" terms couldn't be used in a science description--heaven forbid. Metonymy (talking about something close to the actual subject); synecdoche (talking about the part as though it is the whole); personification (speaking of something as though it is human); metaphor (implied comparison of two things); and simile (explicit comparison of two things) are all subdivisions of figurative language. Examples: Metonymy ("The White House said today"); synecdoche ("he's my right-hand man " or "I'm dating a redhead"); personification ("the trees just spoke to me"). The dfference between metonymy and synecdoche, according to one of my literature students is, "If you call your car your 'wheels,' that's synecdoche; if you call your car your 'ride,' it's metonymy.") The whole metaphorical/literal thing is fraught with idiosyncratic interpretations. I was always interested to hear my adult students say, "Man, I don't get this figurative language stuff. Do you, Baby?" Swearing they didn't understand, they used the figurative language to make themselves understood. "The eagle flies on Friday" means pay checks come out the day before Saturday. A "gig line" (buttons, belt buckle, fly of trousers) must be straight or punishment will be dealt out. Metaphorical has become generalized to refer to all figurative language, much to the chagrin of us (English teachers). Dr. Cousins' mother is speaking metonymy. Patricia J. Moran, FSU Graduate Student (ABD, Adult Education) 850-240-2460 From: "Terry Butler" Subject: CASTA 2005 - Workshops and Symposium on Text Technologies Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:04:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 386 (386) CaSTA 2005 =96 Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis=20 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada October 3-7, 2005 The fourth annual CaSTA Symposium will be held at=20 the University of Alberta October 3rd through=20 7th, 2005. We are running a series five=20 discipline-specific workshops, seminars, and=20 forums during the week. Invited experts will=20 conduct workshops, lead seminars, and provide=20 personal consultation on scholarly projects which use text technologies. CASTA meets under the auspices of TAPoR, the Text Analysis Portal for= Research. Outline of the program Linguistics - Tony McEnery - Monday, October 3rd - exploitation of XML-encoded linguistic corpora Anthropology - Andy Kolovos - Tuesday, October 4th - qualitative research methods in field work Digital Editing - Murray McGillivray - Wednesday, October 5th - digital tools for editing medieval manuscripts Information Science - Hope Olson - Thursday, October 6th - conceptual tools for textual and qualitative analysis Slavics - David Birnbaum - Friday, October 7th - introduction to XML, text transformations for literary studies Outline of each day's activities Workshop 08:30 - 10:00 break 10:00 - 10:30 Seminar 10:30 - 12:00 lunch 12:00 - 1:30 Project Consultations 1:30 - 3:00 break 3:00 - 3:30 Forum 3:30 - 5:00 More information, and online registration, is=20 available at the CASTA 2005 website: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/CASTA2005/ Terry Butler Director Research Computing Arts Resource Centre <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~tbutler>www.arts.ualberta.ca/~tbutler From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: URL Correction for August 2005 Issue Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:03:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 387 (387) Dear Infobits Readers: The correct URL for the article "Cats in the Classroom: Online Learning in Hybrid Space" which was cited in the August 2005 issue of CIT Infobits should read: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/kazmer/index.html The correction has been made in the Web version of the issue. My thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who caught my error! --carolyn -- Carolyn Kotlas, Information Resources Consultant Editor of CIT Infobits & CITations newsletters ITS Center for Instructional Technology, U of North Carolina Chapel Hill 402D Hanes Hall, CB# 3450 Email: kotlas_at_email.unc.edu Tel: 919-962-9287 "Information's pretty thin stuff, unless mixed with experience." -- Clarence Day "Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced." -- Ambrose Bierce From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 59, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:05:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 388 (388) Version 59 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,480 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version 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* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics 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 Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB 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--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (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 200 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 550 KB. Related Article 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 Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: guides to computational linguistics Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:39:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 389 (389) Thanks to everyone who suggested introductory guides to activities in computational linguistics. In the end I chose the following for the target audience of MA students from the humanities: Hajic , Jan. 2004. "Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences". In Schreibman, Siemens and Unsworth 2004: 79-87. Jurafsky, Daniel, and James H. Martin. 2000. Speech and Language Processing. An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall. Manning, Christopher D., and Hinrich Schütze. 1999. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Mitkov, Ruslan, ed. 2003. The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wilks, Yorick. "Natural Language Processing". 1996. Communications of the ACM 39, no. 1: 60-2, followed in that issue by Guthrie, Louise et al. "The Role of Lexicons in Natural Language Processing". 63-72. Wiebe, Janyce, Graeme Hirst, and Diane Horton. "Language Use in Context." 102-11. Wilks, Yorick. 1972. Grammar, Meaning and the Machine Analysis of Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. "Meaning and machines", pp. 1-8. Zampolli, Antonio. 2001. "Language resources: the current situation and opportunities for co-operation between Computational Linguistics and Humanities Computing". In New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications. Proceedings of the first seminar Computers, literature and philology, Edinburgh, 709 September 1998. Ed. Domenico Fiormonte and Jonathan Usher. Oxford: Humanities Computing Unit. Hajic, it seems to me, gives quite a good overview of everything, as a Companion author should. (Apologies for omitting the hachek on the terminal letter in his name.) Wilks is always wonderful to read; the 1972 account, coming shortly after the "black book" was published on the Machine Translation project (i.e. the ALPAC report, available online from the National Academies Press site), gives an almost eye-witness view. And if everyone in CL/NLP wrote like Manning and Schütze I might change fields. (Actually, no, I wouldn't now, but had I encountered their book long before it was written I'd have gone in a different direction....) Zampolli writes (wrote, alas!) the way someone learns to write to works at the levels of power he worked, but the plea for CL opening its eyes to us and us to it is as down-to-earth and passionate and persuasive as those things get. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Stuart Dunn" Subject: ICT Map for Arts and Humanities Research (UK) Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:00:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 390 (390) The UK has a unique range of public bodies and services providing cross- disciplinary support for the use of ICT in arts and humanities research. In collaboration with the other organizations concerned, the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council's ICT Programme has produced an 'ICT Map for Arts and Humanities Research' which provides a brief description of the main providers, with a diagram giving a simplified representation of their functions. The map is now available online at http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/ictmap. SD ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Programme Administrator AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme School of Languages and European Studies University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AA UNITED KINGDOM URL: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/ict AHRC ICT mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahrcict Tel: 0118 378 5064 Fax: 0118 378 6797 From: Willard McCarty Subject: personification and anthropomorphism in software Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:51:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 391 (391) Thanks to the several people who commented on this topic. Personification is an historically ancient subject, as some here will know better than I. So there are many views on what it is, and I suppose actually many personifications to have views about -- i.e. many works of literature (popular or otherwise) that are best discussed by shaping the conceptualization of the trope to them. The best work of criticism on the topic that I know is James J Paxson's The Poetics of Personification (Cambridge, 1994). He makes the distinction between personification *characters* (persons in the narrative) and personification *figures* (those that do not enter into the narrative, usually being too brief, sometimes almost unnoticeable). If you direct your attention to the latter kind, you'll see that anthropomorphism ("having the form of a human being") is too restrictive -- in fact even some personification characters don't qualify, e.g. in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the trees that gather around Orpheus to hear him sing -- no legs are ascribed, only movement and the ability to hear and appreciate music. (Ok, it's Orpheus who is playing, so one could argue that the trees have little choice in the matter, but even so, they're personified.) It would seem better, then, to say that while some personifications are anthropomorphic, all are anthropocentric, in the sense that they are human imaginative creations which behave more like humans than their natural counterparts. The main point, I think, is that the poet violates their ontology as we usually construct it. Microsoft Bob, his Apple cousin and the like are one sort, but as I think some contributors have pointed out, for obvious reasons the whole design effort in HCI seeks to personify software in the more generous sense of anthropocentrism. I'm interested in finding intelligent discussion of this fact -- interaction design as an imaginative act of personification. I think of the sentence early in Winograd's and Flores' *very* important book, Understanding Computers and Cognition: "We encounter the deep questions of design when we recognize that in designing tools we are designing ways of being" (1987: xi). Further suggestions most welcome. Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: funding for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:58:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 392 (392) The following piece of very good news from Martin Hodgson of the King's College London library concerning the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/): [deleted quotation]As someone who has used this online encyclopedia many times, I also can testify to its usefulness. In situations of interdisciplinary research it becomes more important than ever that we have solid introductory material in philosophy and all other subjects -- and that this material be circulated online without cost. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Dot Porter Subject: RCH Fellowship for Scholars Affected by Katrina Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:17:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 393 (393) We at the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) at the University of Kentucky are so impressed by the recent announcement that The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park (http://www.mith.umd.edu/) is offering a fellowship for scholars affected by Hurricane Katrina that we have petitioned the College of Arts and Sciences at UK to support a similar position at RCH. Please distribute this announcement to other lists and post as you see fit. A web version of the announcement is posted at http://www.rch.uky.edu/fellowship.html. Thank you, Dot Porter, Program Coordinator, RCH NOTE: The RCH website may be unavailable Friday, September 9, until the late afternoon. ***** *Announcement: Residential fellowship available for scholar displaced by Hurricane Katrina* With the support of the College of Arts & Sciences and the University of Kentucky Libraries, the newly reorganized Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, is pleased to be able to offer an immediate residential fellowship available to any one faculty member or ABD doctoral candidate at an institution closed by Hurricane Katrina. As described in our new mission statement, RCH brings together faculty and students from Engineering and the Humanities for research projects with benefits for all involved. We provide infrastructure, technical assistance, and grant writing assistance to individuals and groups who propose projects under its auspices. We also encourage and support interdisciplinary projects among individuals and groups from UK and around the world. We invite proposals from individual scholars who are currently working on a humanities computing project and require facilities to continue work OR who are in the process of starting a new project and require facilities and other assistance in getting the project off the ground. Projects through RCH have traditionally focused on image-based editing of medieval and, more recently, classical materials, however we are currently in the exciting process of branching out and investigating new topics. Any project focused on the electronic editing of or access to humanistic materials (manuscripts, rare books, artworks) would be acceptable. For more details on RCH, please visit our website at http://www.rch.uky.edu/. The fellowship includes: * Private workspace, including both PC and Macintosh workstations. * Access to our own hardware and software, and that of the Preservation and Digital Programs Division <http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/Special/> of the University of Kentucky Libraries (a list of hardware available at http://www.rch.uky.edu/index-prop.html#Fac) * An opportunity to speak through the "Wednesday Seminar" series at the Center for Computational Sciences <http://www.ccs.uky.edu/>. * Access to the RCH and Stoa.org <http://www.stoa.org> development and production servers. This includes online publication space, as well as archival storage space. * Consulting on issues of digital scholarship. Although we will probably not be able to offer a stipend, we are able to provide some funding for relocation and assistance with a search for housing. To apply, please send a letter of inquiry describing your project, a CV, and contact information for three references. Please send application materials by email to Dot Porter, the RCH Program Coordinator, at dporter_at_uky.edu , or by regular mail to: Dot Porter Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities 351 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456 Consideration of applications will begin immediately. Applications from women and minorities and graduate students and faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is encouraged. Ross Scaife and Jurek Jaromczyk, Directors http://www.rch.uky.edu/ -- *************************************** Dot Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506 dporter_at_uky.edu 859-257-9549 *************************************** From: "RAM-Verlag" Subject: Glottometrics 9, 2005 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:16:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 394 (394) Are you interested in Glottometrics 9, 2005? Then visit our web-site: www.ram-verlag.de. If you can't link directly from here, see attachement please. Glottometrics 9, 2005 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: herring_at_slis.indiana.edu Subject: CFP: The Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:16:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 395 (395) Call for Papers THE PRAGMATICS OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION Editors: Susan Herring (Indiana University, USA) Dieter Stein (Heinrich Heine University, Germany) Tuija Virtanen (Abo Akademi University, Finland) Although many aspects of computer-mediated communication (CMC) have already been addressed by scholars from a number of disciplines, the pragmatic dimensions of CMC have yet to be fully accounted for. By "pragmatic" we intend a range of phenomena from the narrower sense of presupposition and speech act conditions, to sociopragmatic aspects such as politeness and genre, all of which are concerned in some way with language use and (social) meaning. Pragmatic effects are found in CMC modes that include instant messaging, SMS, weblogs, email, web forums, and experimental and graphical virtual worlds. They are produced by adults and adolescents (and sometimes children) at an increasing rate in a rapidly growing number of languages around the world. We invite submissions for an edited book on the Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication, to be published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Suggested topics include: - Gricean maxims and implicatures - Presuppositions and indirectness - The use of greetings, openings and closings - Speech acts and performativity - Naming and referring conventions - Cohesion and coherence - Applications of politeness theory to CMC - Analysis of new genres or genre-related features - Culture-specific effects - etc. Scholars working within diverse theoretical paradigms are encouraged to submit current research that addresses computer-mediated communication from pragmatic perspectives. The overarching goal of the book is to forge ties with existing pragmatic theory as regards language use phenomena in CMC, as well as to advance theoretical understanding of pragmatics through integrating technological mediation as an explanatory variable for language use. Submission Guidelines: Potential contributors should email a 500-700 word proposal OR a complete manuscript draft if one is available (no partial drafts, please), including a title, and describing the topic, CMC data, analytical methods, and (preliminary) findings or observations, to all three editors by November 1, 2005. Complete, polished versions of accepted proposals or drafts (approximately 7000-10000 words) will be due March 30, 2006. Publication of the book is anticipated by late 2007. Submitters are kindly asked to follow the style in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (John Benjamins). In addition to referencing the pragmatics literature, potential contributors should make efforts to cite existing literature on CMC and language. Please direct inquiries and preliminary proposal ideas to the editors: Susan Herring (herring_at_indiana.edu), Dieter Stein (stein_at_phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de), or Tuija Virtanen (tuvirtan_at_abo.fi). From: "Helena Francke" Subject: Human IT 8:1 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:04:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 396 (396) Dear Humanists, A new issue of Human IT is now available at=20 <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-8/>. Most of the=20 articles are in Scandinavian languages (with=20 English abstracts), but Daniel Paul O'Donnell's=20 reflections on digital editions may be of=20 particular interest to readers of the Humanist list. Contents (all available free of charge): * Mats B. Andersson Frekventa anv=E4ndares bruk och uppfattning av webben [Frequent Users' Use and Perception of the Web] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-8/mba.pdf> * Daniel Paul O'Donnell The Ghost in the Machine: Revisiting an Old Model=20 for the Dynamic Generation of Digital Editions <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-8/dpo.pdf> * Anne Charlotte Torvatn Digitale l=E6remidler - en hjelp for minoritetsspr=E5klige elever? [Digital Textbooks - A Help for Minority Language Students?] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-8/act.pdf> * Mikael Wiberg Det framv=E4xande interaktionssamh=E4llet: En f=F6r=E4ndrad tid och plats [The Emerging Interaction Society: A Changed Time and Place] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-8/mw.pdf> Human IT is a multidisciplinary, refereed journal=20 aiming to present research and discussion on=20 digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. Kind regards, Helena Francke ************** Helena Francke 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: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Second Call for Posters--TEI Members' Meeting Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:02:34 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 397 (397) The TEI Consortium is happy to announce that a poster session/tool demonstration has been added to the program of this year's members' meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 28 and 29th. The poster session will take place the morning of the second day of the meeting, Saturday, October 29th. In addition to the poster session on Saturday, some poster presenters will be offered to give a short talk about their poster at the member's meeting on Friday, October 28th during the "10 Minutes of Fame" session. The topic of a poster can be a current project you are working on using TEI encoding, a tool developed for the production or dissemination of TEI-encoded texts, or any TEI-related topic you feel would be of benefit to the community. The poster can be a traditional printed poster or a demonstration on a computer. Unfortunately the TEI cannot fund the travel, lodging, or meals for poster presenters. The local organizer can provide a flip chart and a table for each presenter but internet access has not yet been confirmed, so keep that in mind when proposing your poster. If you wish to present a poster or tool demonstration at the members' meeting in Sofia, please send a brief proposal (500 -750 words) describing your project to the program chair (matthew.zimmerman_at_nyu.edu). Deadline for proposals is Friday, September 15th, 2005. Successful applicants will be notified by September 30th, 2005 and given further information about presenting then. For more information on the 2005 TEI Members' meeting, please see http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/sofia.xml MZ _________________ Matthew Zimmerman Faculty Technology Services, NYU Tel: 212.998.3038 Fax: 212.995.4120 From: Stefan Werner Subject: guides to computational linguistics Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:40:25 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 398 (398) [deleted quotation]- Just one more (sorry I'm late): Smith, George W. 1991. Computers and Human Language. NY NY: Oxford University Press. It is obviously not as up-to-date as Jurafsky and Martin (who also maintain a useful web site as accompanying resource) but in my experience much more accessible to people from the humanities. Best, Stefan Werner ------ Stefan Werner, PhD, Prof. in Language Technology, University of Joensuu P.O.Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland stefan.werner_at_joensuu.fi, Tel. +358-13-2514334, Fax +358-13-2514211 GnuPG keyID: 0x2A818665 ------ Please avoid sending me Word (Excel, PowerPoint, ...) binary attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: good news: funding for Stanford Encyc of Philosophy, for Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:38:48 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 399 (399) scholars affected by Katrina I'd like to emphasize the assistance we need from the community here to disseminate word of the "Katrina fellowships" being offered by MITH and RCH. Please forward copies of both, but don't rely on electronic communications, access to which is still scarce in the affected areas. If you think you know of someone who might be interested please go the extra mile to get the word to them. We need a network of *people* to make this work. Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Acting Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 301-405-8927 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak Subject: personification and anthropomorphism in software Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:37:33 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 400 (400) In-Reply-To: <000d01c5b6d9$acb26ca0$2f42153e_at_wlodek> [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation]You may find my paper of interest in this context: "1993."DBMS as a model o= f MLC". In Darski,J. & Z.Vetulani(eds). Sprache - Kommunikation - Informatik. Akten des 26. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Poznan 1991. T=FCbingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 187-94. [Linguistische Arbeiten 293] Abstract follows. WS =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 prof. Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak School of English Adam Mickiewicz University al. Niepodleglosci 4 61-874 Poznan Poland =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 tel. (48-61) 8293506 fax (48-61) 8523103 e-mail: sobkow_at_amu.edu.pl e-mail: swlodek_at_ifa.amu.edu.pl office web page: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/sobkowiak.html personal web page: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow/ =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 Data Base Management Systems (like dBase III+) contain certain meta-cognitive mechanisms parallel to those available in natural language. These are necessary to manipulate the presupposed cognitive systems: linguistic competence of speakers/hearers' in the case of language, and the data base of information in the case of DBMSs. The mechanisms are termed meta-cognitive because in either case they effect some manipulation of the existing self-contained cognitive system 'from the outside', so to speak, by a discretionary decision to apply certain controls to the system. Metalinguistic speakers' competence (MLC) has only rarely and anecdotally been subject of analysis. In this paper I concentrate on the functional parallels between some metalin- guistic phenomena and certain mechanisms of data base manipu- lation available in dBase III+. In particular, I inspect such phenomena as foreign language learning, translation, speech play, impersonation, tip-of-the-tongue states, backward speech and others. In terms of meta-cognitive functioning, there are interesting analogues of these phenomena in such mechanisms of dBase III+ as filtering, indexing, sorting, searching, relating files, string manipulation, etc. Far from being entirely unexpected, such functional parallels testify to the underlying unity of cognitive processing, and suggest that it may be profitable to consider the data base management metaphor in modelling the metalinguistic functioning of speakers/hearers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - -------=20 From: Norman Hinton Subject: spelling Ozymandias PERSONAL, I said! Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:41:02 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 401 (401) Ah, WIllard, you're too conscientious ! I should have known you'd do that.... (It is, however, one of the things that makes you so well-liked and respected.) (And I would have done the same, I am forced to admit.) From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Reminder: Text Encoding Initiative 2005 Members' Meeting Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:50:39 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 402 (402) Hello all, Just a reminder to pre-register for the TEI 2005 Members' Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria if you haven't already and are interested in attending. Pre-registration for the meeting is essential for members, subscribers, and non-members alike. Please pre-register by sending email to membership_at_tei-c.org. There is no registration fee for existing TEI subscribers, or for persons representing existing TEI member institutions (every TEI member institution is entitled to send up to two representatives free of charge), but anyone interested in the work of the TEI is very welcome to attend. Non-members and non-subscribers will be charged a 50 USD registration fee at the door, but this fee will give you subscriber benefits up to the end of 2006 as well as admission to the Members' Meeting. For more information about lodging, travel, and the program, please see: http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/sofia.html Hope to see you in Sofia! MZ _________________ Matthew Zimmerman Faculty Technology Services, NYU Tel: 212.998.3038 Fax: 212.995.4120 From: "Gants, David L" Subject: Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship Announcement Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:22:36 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 403 (403) The Bibliographical Society of America 2006 Fellowship Program Announcement The BSA invites applications for its annual short-term fellowship program, which supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Enumerative listings do not fall within the scope of this program. Fellows receive a stipend of up to $2,000 per month (for up to two months) to support travel, living, and research expenses. The program is open to applicants of any nationality or affiliation. Applications, including references, are due by midnight 1 December 2005. Application forms (in static HTML and Word formats) are available for download at www.bibsocamer.org, or they may be requested from the BSA Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 1537, Lenox Hill Station, New York, NY 10021, e-mail bsa(at)bibsocamer.org. Applications will be accepted through the post or by e-mail attachment, and any questions about the submission procedure can be directed to David Gants, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, dgants(at)unb.ca. From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Librarian for Digital Repository at University of Maryland Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:01:29 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 404 (404) Title: Librarian for Digital Repository at University of Maryland Category: Non-Tenured Faculty, Full-Time (12 Month Appointment) Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience The University of Maryland Libraries is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Librarian (Coordinator) for Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM). This position reports to the Collection Management Team Leader and is responsible for the leadership of the DRUM Team. The DRUM Coordinator may be responsible for the supervision of one .5 FTE graduate assistant. The University Libraries use DSpace for the management and accessibility of its digital repository. The collection currently consists of more than 2,500 items and averages 900 searches per month. DRUM is accessible at http://drum.umd.edu Responsibilities: The DRUM Coordinator is responsible for advancing the development of the campus digital repository and in promoting repository services to the University of Maryland campus. The coordinator provides direct user support, education, and documentation, develops new collections within the repository, and develops and implements public relations and marketing of programs in coordination with the Public Relations team. The Coordinator serves as liaison to Information Technology Division and Technical Services Division staff contributing to the service and provides training for Library staff. The DRUM Coordinator serves as an expert on institutional repositories and other open access repositories as well as copyright issues surrounding institutional repositories. Qualifications: Required: An appropriate graduate degree, which may include an ALA-accredited Master=B9s degree in Library or Information Science or a Master=B9s degree in Information Management, but other related degrees may be equally relevant. At least one year=B9s experience with digital libraries, electronic archives, institutional repositories, or an equivalent open access vehicle. Strong written and oral communication skills. Demonstrated initiative and creativity. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and to work effectively within a complex academic environment. Commitment to ongoing professional growth and development. Commitment to principles of diversity. Preferred: Knowledge of basic metadata schemas, especially Dublin core, knowledge of HTML. Teaching experience. Strong public service focus. Position is appointed to Librarian Faculty ranks. Appointment rank is based on the successful applicant=B9s experience and relevant credentials. For additional information, consult the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/APPSC.doc. Applications: For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by October 31, 2005. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send to Ray Foster, Personnel, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011. E-mail to gfernan1_at_umd.edu. Fax:301-314-9960. UM Libraries=B9 website: http://www.lib.umd.edu The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA employer. From: dgants_at_rogers.com Subject: Director of the Digital Library, Washington University Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:04:33 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 405 (405) DIRECTOR OF THE DIGITAL LIBRARY Washington University in St. Louis The Washington University Libraries invite applications for the position of Director of the Digital Library. We are looking for a creative, visionary leader to provide expertise and leadership for digital projects in the University's new efforts to develop an institutional identity in the digital environment of the 21st century. Founded in 1853, Washington University in St. Louis is an independent university that is internationally known for excellence in teaching and research and for the quality of its faculty and students. Washington University Libraries includes the John M. Olin Library and thirteen school and departmental libraries and holds over three million volumes. For information about the University and the Libraries please visit: http://www.wustl.edu <http://www.wustl.edu/> ; http://library.wustl.edu <http://library.wustl.edu/> . RESPONSIBILITIES: Directs, plans, implements, and sustains digital projects that advance institutional goals in teaching and research. Works collaboratively within the Libraries and with faculty and others in the University to develop innovative solutions for creating and managing digital content for teaching and research. Maintains a broad overview of digital activities; coordinates and oversees all project managers, including analysis of requirements, timelines, tracking and reporting progress, assessing and evaluating project success. Develops and establishes new policies; sets and implements standards. Facilitates development of projects that highlight unique strengths at Washington University, creating an integrated and cohesive collection. Stays abreast of digital developments, assesses digital activities, and serves as a consultant and liaison to library staff and the University community on digital initiatives and services. Represents the Libraries on campus, regionally, and nationally on digital issues. QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree in library and information science or master=B9s degree in a related field. Understanding of the applications of technology in scholarly teaching and research. Demonstrated ability to manage and oversee complex projects in a team environment. Experience with digital content development and digitization. Ability to work with faculty and staff in articulating and achieving goals. Ability to learn new technologies and instruct others in their use. Commitment to user-centered services. Strong analytical, interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills. APPLICATION INFORMATION: For full consideration, applicants should send a letter of application, resume, and the names of three references to: Human Resources, Washington University, Campus Box 1178, 7425 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63105. Review of applications will begin immediately. Employment eligibility verification required upon hire. Washington University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. From: C.TA. SCHMIDT Subject: i-C&P 2006 France Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:00:11 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 406 (406) CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------- i-C&P 2006 quick link COMPUTERS & PHILOSOPHY, an International Conference Le Mans University, Laval, France, 3-5 May, 2006 Chair: C.T.A. SCHMIDT Colin.Schmidt_at_univ-lemans.fr e-mail --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.iut-laval.univ-lemans.fr/i-CaP_2006/ IMPORTANT DATES (check conference url for up-to-date information) Friday November 18 th 2005 Submission deadline for extended abstracts (1000 wds.) 3-5 May 2006, Conference in Laval France GENERAL INFORMATION From Wednesday 3rd to Friday 5th May 2006 The International Conference on COMPUTERS & PHILOSOPHY will be held at Le Mans University in Laval (near Rennes, France). Overview: Those interested in the study of philosophical problems and related technological applications are encouraged to participate. Philosophical, epistemological, theological and anthropological stances on the construction and use of machines are of relevance to the conference. Within the framework of the programme, we are looking forward to the contributions of some eminent thinkers: USA Daniel DENNETT, Philosophy, Tufts USA Rodney BROOKS, Robotics, MIT Italy Lorenzo MAGNANI, Logic & Philosophy, Pavia UK Margaret BODEN, Art. Intelligence, Cognitive Sc. & Philosophy, Sussex Canada Daniel VANDERVEKEN, Logic & Language, UQTR Thailand Darryl MACER, UNESCO Reg. Adviser for Soc.& Human Sc. in Asia-Pacific UK Noel SHARKEY, Computation & Robotics, Sheffield Please see web site for full details; programme, topics, accommodation, registration as well as detailed information on plenary session talks. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS In addition to main-stream areas of research -Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotics, Cognitive Science, Computer Ethics- we are looking for cross-cultural studies on the place of machines in society, as well as the following: 1. Evolution & Technologies a.. Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Language Development b.. Information Systems and the Philosophy of Design c.. Biologically-Incorporated Intelligence; the Use of Organic Components for Robotics d.. Bio-computation, Bio-Robotics, Artificial Life & Meaning e.. Robotics (Humanoid, Cognitive, Epigenetic, "Autonomous", Service, etc.) f.. Humanoid Hosts and Guides for Museums, Galleries and Virtual Reality Environments 2. Pragmatics & Comp. Linguistics a.. Speech Acts and the Limits of Machine-embedded Use of Dialogue b.. Obstacles to Parsing (Accents, Intonations, Emotional States, etc.) c.. Relations, Reference and Communicability d.. Artificial Affectivity in (non-)Dialogical Settings e.. All Language, Meaning and Dialogue Issues 3. Minds and Intentionality a.. Evocative Objects and Presumed Intelligence a.. Personification of Artefacts b.. Other Minds Theories and Simulating Co-intentionality c.. The Mind/Body Problem in Cognitive Science d.. European Versions (and Anti-theses) of the Intentional Stance 4. Culture & Adaptability a.. All Anthropological Views on Computers and Robots b.. Context-embedded Computer Learning c.. In-class Robotic Teachers, Vulgarisation and (non-)Acceptance Issues d.. The Pros and Cons of Computer-Mediated Communication & Learning e.. Virtual Reality & Digitally-supported Personalities f.. Post-modernism and Fiction related to Machines and Individuals 5. History, Ethics & Theology a.. Issues arising from the Automation of Thought b.. Designing Users' Beliefs, Beliefs Designing Machines, Religious Deontology c.. Robo-Ethics, Moral Agents, Spirituality of Machines, Technological Souls d.. The Impacts of Intelligent Computers and Robotics on Society throughout History e.. Cognitive Epistemology or Science as Applied Technology Other a.. Transdisciplinary attempts to link Philosophy, Computing and/or Robotics b.. cf. full scientific programme and printable version of the Call for Papers at quick link For further information about the conference, please consult the i-C&P 2006 website or contact the Chair for the complete version of the Call for Papers and related information. VENUE Laval is known to be a city of character for its history, art and culture. Located on the Mayenne River in beautiful Western France (see film at http://www.lamayenne.fr/front.aspx?sectionId=3D452&publiId=3D3996&controller =3DVi= e wpublication ), it offers all the amenities of a large city while maintaining a small town feel. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE General Chair: Colin T. Schmidt, Communication, Philosophy & Cognition, Le Mans University, France Local Organisations Chair: Xavier Dubourg, Computer Science & Learning, Le Mans University & Director of the Laval Technological Institute, France Honorary Chair: Francis Jacques, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Sorbonne University, France Varol Akman, Philosophy and Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey Jean Caelen, Cognition and Interaction, CNRS/Grenoble University, France Raja Chatila, Robotics, CNRS/Toulouse University, France Nathalie Colineau, Language & Multi-modality, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Cordeschi, Computation & Communication, Salerno University, Italy Liu Gang, Information & Philosophy, Inst. of Philosophy, Chinese Acad. of Soc. Sciences, China Deborah G. Johnson, Technology and Ethics, University of Virginia, USA Fr=E9d=E9ric Kaplan, Artificial Intelligence, SONY CSL =AD Paris Nik Kasabov, Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University, New Zealand Oussama Khatib, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, USA Boicho Kokinov, Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria Felicitas Kraemer, Philosophy & Intentionality, Bielefeld University, Germany Jean Lass=E8gue, Philosophy, CNRS/Ecole Normale Sup=E9rieur Paris, France Ping Li, Cognitive Science & Philosophy of Science, Sun Yat-sen University, China Daniel Luzzati, Linguistics, Le Mans University, France M.C. Manes Gallo, Info. & Communication Sciences, Bordeaux University, France Anne Nicolle, Computer Science & Interdisciplinarity, CNRS/University of Caen, France Teresa Numerico, Communication, Salerno University, Italy James Moor, Philosophy, Dartmouth College, USA Bernard Moulin, Computer Science, Laval University, Canada Denis Vernant, Logic & Philosophy, Grenoble University, France Ming Xie, Robotics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore LOCAL CONTACT POINT E-mail: e-mail Tel +33 2 43 59 49 20 & Dr. Colin Schmidt (Chair) Computers & Philosophy, an International Conference i-C&P 2006 Computer Science Laboratory LIUM CNRS FRE 2730 Le Mans University France Phone: +33 2 43 59 49 25 Fax: +33 2 43 59 49 28 E-mail: Colin.Schmidt_at_lium.univ-lemans.fr Conference: quick link From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: Help in locating a quotation Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:51:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 407 (407) I recall a comment attributed to an early 20th Century physicist along the lines of "Science in the 20th Century is about the very large, the very small, the very fast and the very slow." I have done a rather exhaustive search of on-line quotation sites and a large number of permutations of the quote without finding a source. Can HUMANISTS point to a source for this quote? This query was originally posted as 15.527 on Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:36:58 but received no replies. I hope for better luck this time. Many thanks in advance. _________________________________________________ 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: Susan Schreibman Subject: Librarian for Digital Repository at University of Maryland Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:29:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 408 (408) Title: Librarian for Digital Repository at University of Maryland Category: Non-Tenured Faculty, Full-Time (12 Month Appointment) Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience The University of Maryland Libraries is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Librarian (Coordinator) for Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM). This position reports to the Collection Management Team Leader and is responsible for the leadership of the DRUM Team. The DRUM Coordinator may be responsible for the supervision of one .5 FTE graduate assistant. The University Libraries use DSpace for the management and accessibility of its digital repository. The collection currently consists of more than 2,500 items and averages 900 searches per month. DRUM is accessible at http://drum.umd.edu Responsibilities: The DRUM Coordinator is responsible for advancing the development of the campus digital repository and in promoting repository services to the University of Maryland campus. The coordinator provides direct user support, education, and documentation, develops new collections within the repository, and develops and implements public relations and marketing of programs in coordination with the Public Relations team. The Coordinator serves as liaison to Information Technology Division and Technical Services Division staff contributing to the service and provides training for Library staff. The DRUM Coordinator serves as an expert on institutional repositories and other open access repositories as well as copyright issues surrounding institutional repositories. Qualifications: Required: An appropriate graduate degree, which may include an ALA-accredited Master's degree in Library or Information Science or a Master's degree in Information Management, but other related degrees may be equally relevant. At least one year's experience with digital libraries, electronic archives, institutional repositories, or an equivalent open access vehicle. Strong written and oral communication skills. Demonstrated initiative and creativity. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and to work effectively within a complex academic environment. Commitment to ongoing professional growth and development. Commitment to principles of diversity. Preferred: Knowledge of basic metadata schemas, especially Dublin core, knowledge of HTML. Teaching experience. Strong public service focus. Position is appointed to Librarian Faculty ranks. Appointment rank is based on the successful applicant's experience and relevant credentials. For additional information, consult the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/APPSC.doc. Applications: For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by October 31, 2005. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send to Ray Foster, Personnel, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011. E-mail to gfernan1_at_umd.edu. Fax:301-314-9960. UM Libraries' website: http://www.lib.umd.edu The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA employer. From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.276 personification and anthropomorphism in software Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:34:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 409 (409) Dear Willard, You might want to take a look at Brenda Laurel's "Computers as Theatre" (1991) as a useful anchor-point for the consideration of the design of applications and interfaces as the fashioning of a mise-en-scene for a "drama" with "players". 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: Research Subject: Newberry Fellowships Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:25:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 410 (410) Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2006-07 The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2006-07 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, 2006; applications for most short-term fellowships are due March 1, 2006. For more information or to download application materials, visit our Web site at http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.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: CHCI [mailto:CHCI_at_fas.harvard.edu] Subject: CHCI member announcement from the Stanford Humanities Center Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:27:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 411 (411) Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:36 AM To: CHCI listserve Cc: chiyuma_at_stanford.edu [deleted quotation] From: SDH/SEMI Subject: SDH/SEMI 2006: Call for Papers Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:51:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 412 (412) The City: A Festival of Knowledge 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des Médias Interactifs The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH / SEMI) invites scholars and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2006 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, from May 29-31, 2006. The society in particular would like to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress: The City. Our understanding of what the city means as a construct is broad, and we encourage submissions that treat the city not only as an object for analysis, or as a venue for expression, but also a frame of departure for themes that are implied by the idea of the city, but not subsumed by it, themes such as synergy, complexity, diversity, collaboration, networks, the rural versus the urban, the city as both constituent and opponent of the environment, and the interaction between the local and the global. SDH also encourages submissions relating to all topics relating to the ever emerging discipline of humanities and computing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Humanities Computing as an agora for multi-disciplinary engagement * Scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination * Humanities computing and pedagogy * Computer supported collaboration using the web * Digital / Electronic copyright issues * The Future of Humanities Computing * Computing in the Fine, Performing and New Media Arts * e-Accesibility Aside from presenting a stimulating array of recent work in humanities and computing, the final day of this year’s conference will also feature a one-day symposium titled “The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Humanities and Social Sciences.” Featuring invited speakers from the sciences, social sciences and the humanities, the symposium, sponsored by the Federation of the Social Sciences and Humanities, the Society for Digital Humanities, and the Canadian Historical Association, will highlight emerging and potential applications of the computer to support research, representation and instruction. Invited speakers will address topics ranging from speech synthesis and historical linguistics to computer games and the emerging medium of augmented reality. The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation societies. There is a limited amount of funding available to support a graduate student panel. Interested applicants should inquire using the contact information listed below. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2005. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH / SEMI 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. All abstracts and questions should be sent electronically to the addresses below: John Bonnett, Conference Committee Chair, (Brock University) and Don Sinclair, Local Events Coordinator (York University): sdhsemi6_at_uvic.ca. From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: deep access to digitised cultural heritage material Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:43:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 413 (413) In his "Deep Sharing: A Case for the Federated Digital Library", EDUCAUSE Review, 38(4) (July-August 2003), p 10-11, <http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0348.pdf>, David Seaman pleaded for repositories of digitised cultural heritage material, "from which libraries can draw files into local collections for innovative reuse and rearticulation as the needs of local users dictate. (*) it would enable librarians and end-users alike to download "digital master" files as malleable objects for local recombinations, to be enriched with context from librarians or teachers, crafted for specific audiences, and unified in appearance and function. A user could download, combine, search, annotate, and wrap the results into a seamless "digital library mix" for others to experience. (- - -) [A]t present, all you can do is scrutinize that data where it resides, in formats that the creator of the content determined... [Y]ou can have a passive engagement with the content but not an active one. You cannot combine those scattered objects into something new, improved, and shaped for your local needs. (- - -) Libraries create high-quality digital masters for long-term preservation and reuse but then typically expose only one view of a f! ile to the user, in one particular search-and-display software package. This serves one typ of need but underserves others..." The benefits of such deep sharing and deep access are clear, yet we have seen few such efforts from our large, digitising memory institutions (such as archives and libraries). Why is that? I'm thinking particularly of 'end-users' seeking digitised cultural heritage material in the public domain, and to what degree they are able to have access not only to delivery formats such as JPEGS or (X)HTML, but to master files (be it image files in tiff etc., or marked up text files in e.g. TEI) of such material, without having to pay extra money for such access. It seems to be such possibilities are scarce at the moment, most digitising memory institutions making only passive display formats accessible to end-users (and a few institutions charging users wanting access to the "heavy" master file material). I understand there are both technical (bandwidth etc), administrative (the quest for control or a tradition to charge for costly colour reproductions) and, most importantly, legal reasons for this: although the original material might be in the public domain, the digitised versions of that material might be considered derivate works deserving copyright protection. This latter argument strikes me however as somewhat awkward. The digitised material, certainly when we talk about image-based strategies, tries to mimic as far as possible the original material - the greater the mimic correspondence is, the better, and the more the digitised version will fulfill its surrogate function and hopefully reduce the handling of the original material. Still it is to be regarded as a new (derivate) work of its own... Anyway, I would be most grateful for any pointers to collections of digitised cultural heritage material where users actually have free and deep access to "master files" with little or no restrictions as to the re-use of such material for e.g. scholarly purposes. Yours sincerely, Mats Dahlstrom Swedish School of Library and Information Studies From: Willard McCarty Subject: Tuebingen conference restored Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:33:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 414 (414) I am happy to report that the conference materials for the 2002 ALLC/ACH conference in Tuebingen have been restored. See http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002. My thanks to Matthias Kopp for this news. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 6.33 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:35:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 415 (415) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 33 (September 13-20, 2005) VIEW COMMUNICATIONS POLICYMAKING HISTORICAL SERIES MEMORANDUM The always-interesting communications lawyer and policy analyst Kenneth G. Robinson, publisher of the weekly TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY REVIEWM weighs in with "1965: Voting Rights, Communications & the FCC" http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i33_robinson.html BOOK REVIEWS THE MOBILE CONNECTION An excerpt from Rich Ling's "The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society" (Elsevier), a new book that explores and explains the growing scholarship on the social consequences of mobile communication. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v6i33_ling.html From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.34 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:41:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 416 (416) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 34 (September 21-27, 2005) A UBIQUITY INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS H. DAVEPORT Thomas H. Davenport, the noted knowledge management and process innovation expert, talks about his just-published "Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i34_davenport.html From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Digital Classicist Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:44:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 417 (417) Dieser Aufruf zur Beteiligung kann man auch bei der Url http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/de-index.html auf deutsch lesen | Cet appel à participation se trouve aussi en français à l'url http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/fr-index.html | Questa richiesta di partecipazione e' disponibile anche in Italiano all'indirizzo http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/it-index.html | versión español próximamente We should like to announce the creation of a new project and community, hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (KCL), applying humanities computing to the study of the ancient world. The Digital Classicist has a pilot web site at http://www.digitalclassicist.org, which, as well as serving as a placeholder for further content, sets out our aims and objectives in a preliminary manner. As you will see, key sections of the website and summaries of articles will, where possible, be translated into the major languages of European scholarship: e.g. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish etc. The project also comprises a discussion list, a Wiki, and a Blog. The project, which is committed to being ongoing and available in the long term, fills a gap in the current academic environment: there are countless important digital research projects in the classics, including many that offer advice and share tools; there are sites that discuss, host, or list such resources (the Stoa, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford, EAGLE in Rome, to name but a few); but there is no single platform for scholars and interested experts in the international and polyglot community to discuss problems, share experiences, post news and advice, and go to for help on all matters digital and classical. We shall of course work closely with other organisations and projects that are active in these areas (in particular the Stoa, and other subject communities such as the Digital Medievalist, including specialists in archaeological, historical, and geographical technologies), to avoid excessive overlap and maximise co-operation and collaboration. At this point we especially need members of the international scholarly community to contribute to the project. If you feel you could get involved in an editorial capacity, or you could recommend somebody else to do so, please do get in touch. There is no obligation that editors give up many hours of their time, of course--editorial roles are discussed in a posting at http://tinyurl.com/cpdsu . In addition we should be very grateful if you could suggest other people--especially those in non-Anglophone Europe--who might be interested in participating in this project in any way. And in any case, please spread the word, join the mailing list and get involved in the discussions as we establish this new project and community. Best regards, The Editors digitalclassicist.org -- ======================================= Gabriel BODARD Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80 ======================================= From: Susan Stuart Subject: 4th European Computing and Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:28:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 418 (418) Philosophy (E-CAP) Conference - CFP First Call for Papers =============== E-CAP 2006_at_NTNU Norway The 4th European Computing and Philosophy (E-CAP) Conference Norwegian University for Science and Technology Dragvoll Campus, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 <http://www.eu-cap.org/> Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess (Drury University / NTNU): May Thorseth (NTNU): (E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computers and Philosophy (IACAP): see for further information.) ===================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES January 27, 2006 Submission of extended abstracts March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2006 Early registration deadline June 22-24, 2006 Conference [...] From: "C.TA. SCHMIDT" Subject: i-C&P 2006 France Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:30:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 419 (419) CALL FOR PAPERS ==================================================================== i-C&P 2006 quick link COMPUTERS & PHILOSOPHY, an International Conference Le Mans University, Laval, France, 3-5 May, 2006 Chair: C.T.A. SCHMIDT Colin.Schmidt_at_univ-lemans.fr e-mail ==================================================================== http://www.iut-laval.univ-lemans.fr/i-CaP_2006/ IMPORTANT DATES (check conference url for up-to-date information) Friday November 18 th 2005 Submission deadline for extended abstracts (1000 wds.) From: Simon Harper Subject: First Call for Papers for the AH2006 Doctoral Consortium Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:32:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 420 (420) First Call for Papers for the AH2006 Doctoral Consortium VENUE: Dublin, Ireland. DATES: June 20-23, 2006 http://www.ah2006.org ********************************************************* The 2006 International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006) will take place in Dublin, Ireland. AH2006 will be the fourth in a very successful conference series that began in Trento, Italy (2000), with subsequent conferences held in Malaga, Spain (2002) and Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2004). The AH conferences are a great opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high quality research in all aspects of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based systems. This year, in addition to its plenary scientific sessions, relevant workshops/tutorials, and industry day, the conference will include a doctoral consortium. Importantly, the doctoral consortium is aimed at early stage postgraduate researchers to road test their research ideas, proposals and progress by seeking feedback from other peer researchers and experts in the field. Organisers of the AH2006 Doctoral Consortium invite submissions to this stream, and particularly encourage student researchers in year 1 and year 2 of their postgraduate programmes to participate. All papers will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the AH'2006 Doctoral Consortium sessions and extended abstracts of papers will be included in the AH'2006 proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Postgraduate authors of the selected submissions are expected to attend the conference and present their own work. They will also have priority with respect to receiving travel support from the Local Organisation Committee. [...] From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: CFP: MODELS OF PARTNERSHIP IN DIGITAL RESEARCH Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:33:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 421 (421) ---- CALL FOR PAPERS ---- MODELS OF PARTNERSHIP IN DIGITAL RESEARCH SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, 28 JUNE 2006 Incorporating computing into our work impacts some of the central tenets of humanistic endeavour, one of which being the nature of how work gets done. Research in the digital humanities is, in large part, typified by a requirement for collaboration beyond traditional boundaries, often necessitating cooperation among members of diverse communities and in other disciplines, faculties, institutions, and sectors. This one-day colloquium focuses on the nature of such collaborations and partnerships, and the groups that they involve: humanists, computing specialists, research funding agencies, publishers, others in both public and private sectors, and beyond. We welcome proposals for short papers / presentations of either 10 or 20 minutes on the theme of 'Models of Partnership in Digital Research', for a one-day colloquium at Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday 28 June 2006. The lead speaker will be Professor Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing. Other presentations already confirmed will include Dr Steve Earnshaw, Sheffield Hallam University, on his lottery-funded project for widening access to the Sheffield Flood Claims Archive (see http://extra.shu.ac.uk/sfca/ ) and Dr Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University, on EEBO and LION. We request a short (one-paragraph) abstract to be sent to the organiser, Professor Lisa Hopkins (L.M.Hopkins_at_shu.ac.uk) by 1 April 2006. From: Simon Harper Subject: 2005 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2005) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:33:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 422 (422) Registration is now open for the 2005 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2005). Register soon! Registration costs increase by US$50 on October 1, 2005. The registration site can be accessed via this link: http://www.regonline.com/28807 For the first time, ACM DocEng has two keynote speakers: Wednesday, November 2: "The Future of Documents" Tom Malloy, Adobe Systems, USA Thursday, November 3: "Engineering Information in Documents: Leaving Room for Uncertainty" Dick Bulterman, CWI, Netherlands Regards, Ethan Munson Treasurer, ACM DocEng 2005 --------------------- ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2005 Bristol, UK November 2-4, 2005 Sponsored by ACM SIGWEB and by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories With additional support from Adobe and Xerox Research Centre Europe. Web Site: http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/DocEng2005/ From: Simon Harper Subject: WWW2006 CALL FOR PAPERS: Hypermedia and Multimedia Track Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:34:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 423 (423) WWW2006 CALL FOR PAPERS The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) invite you to participate in the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006. Refereed Track: Hypermedia and Multimedia The media is not the only message. How media is composed, be it with video edits, display layouts or hyperlinks, also conveys important information, both for the end-user in final presentations, and for the author in selecting raw media for incorporation into presentations. Since its beginning, such composition has been a fundamental component of the World Wide Web. The Hypermedia and Multimedia Track of WWW2006 brings together the latest research in this field, showing how the Web continues to connect media, ideas and people. Hypermedia and multimedia research investigates how media is composed and how best to exploit this compositional structure. Primary compositional components include space, time and navigation. Here, media is both final presentations and raw source media that can end up in final presentations. Media processing starts with its capture and creation by different people with different tools. We expect it then to connect media in different formats from different locations. Finally, good cutting-edge hypermedia and multimedia should make all media available to anyone, anywhere at any time, in the means best suited for them. Potential topics for contribution to this year's track include: facilitating authoring unifying the media creation-to-presentation life cycle personalization adaptivity multi-modality use of context for capture, analysis, authoring and rendering analysis and accessing indexing and retrieval link analysis emerging hypermedia and multimedia standards mining of media and its compositional structure acquisition of media metadata (semi-)automatic presentation generation mobile and ubiquitous environments media streaming rights management computational aesthetics The conference URL is http://www2006.org/ with the CFP at http://www2006.org/cfp/ [...] From: Charles Jones Subject: CAA2006 - any Classicists planning to attend? Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:36:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 424 (424) 34th Annual Meeting and Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology CAA2006-- Fargo April 18-21, 2006 <http://www.caa2006.org/> Ramada Plaza Suites and Conference Center Fargo, North Dakota, USA The Conference Organizing Committee for CAA2006 invites you to participate in the Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). You can participate in the conference by submitting an abstract for a paper presentation, symposium, poster, workshop, or roundtable panel. Or, simply attend the conference, with its open and cordial atmosphere, to learn more about new developments in computer applications and quantitative methods, and to meet and talk with international colleagues. [...] From: Frank Keller Subject: EACL 2006 call for posters and demos Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:36:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 425 (425) EACL 2006 FIRST CALL FOR POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS 11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics April 3rd - 7th 2006 Trento, Italy http://eacl06.itc.it/ * * * Submission deadline: December 6, 2005 * * * The European Association of Computational Linguistics invites the submission of posters and system demonstrations for its 11th meeting. The areas of interest for posters and demos are the same as those mentioned in the call for full papers. POSTERS should present work in progress, project status reports, unevaluated results or system summaries (with or without demos). In the programme of the conference there will be sessions reserved for posters. Each poster will be allocated 4 pages in a companion volume in the conference proceedings. DEMONSTRATIONS should showcase implemented systems in any area of computational linguistics. Each demo will be allocated 4 pages in a companion volume in the conference proceedings. Developers should outline the design of their system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers to web sites running a demo preview will also be helpful. Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer equipment is expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so, please specify desired hardware platform, hard disk and memory capacity, operating system and other software needed in order to run the demo. If you are bringing your own laptop, you should instead request a video projector if you need one, providing details about PC type, screen resolution, etc. [...] From: "PSI06 Conference" Subject: PSI 2006: First CFP Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:40:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 426 (426) PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS 27--30 June 2006, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI06 [AIMS AND SCOPE] The conference is held to honor the 75th anniversary of academician Andrei Ershov (1931-1988) and his outstanding contributions towards advancing informatics. The first five conferences were held in 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2003, respectively, and proved to be significant international events. Andrei Ershov was one of the early Russian pioneers in the field of the theory of programming and systems programming, a founder of the Siberian Computer Science School. In 1974 he was nominated as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 1981 he received the Silver Core Award for services rendered to IFIP. Andrei Ershov's brilliant speeches were always in the focus of public attention. Especially notable was his lecture on "Aesthetic and human factor in programming" presented at the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1972. Andrei Ershov was not only an extremely gifted scientist, teacher and fighter for his ideas, but also a bright and many-sided personality. He wrote poetry, translated the works of R. Kipling and other English poets, and enjoyed playing guitar and singing. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Andrei Ershov and working with him will always remember his great vision, eminent achievements, and generous friendship. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions in computer science. For a developing science, it is important to work out consolidating ideas, concepts and models. Movement in this direction is another aim of the conference. Improvement of the contacts and exchange of ideas between researchers from the East and West are further goals. [...] From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Conference of Jennifer Slack Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:42:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 427 (427) MASTER IN "FILOSOFIA E INTERCULTURALITÀ" 2004-2005 UNIVERSITA' ROMA TRE In collaboration with the Dept. of Philosophy and the BA and MA Programme in Communication Studies ("Comunicazione nella Società della Globalizzazione") of the University of Roma Tre Giacomo Marramao Domenico Fiormonte Emanuela Fornari introduce and discuss with: Jennifer Slack (Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, Michigan Technological University) who will give a lecture on: "Cultural Studies in the United States: State of the Art" Wed 28 Sept 2005 h 17-20 Università di Roma Tre - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Via Ostiense 234, Roma - Aula Verra (ground floor) The presentation will be in English. An Italian translation of the paper will be distributed to the audience. For more info: fiormont_at_uniroma3.it; fgiardini_at_uniroma3.it web: http://host.uniroma3.it/dipartimenti/filosofia/ Biographical Sketch of J Slack Jennifer Slack works in the areas of cultural studies, communication theory, culture and technology, and culture and environment. She is active in the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association and reviews for many journals of communication and cultural studies. Positions held include book review editor of the journal Cultural Studies and President of the Philosophy of Communication Division of the International Communication Association. She is the author of Communication Technologies and Society (1984) and editor of The Ideology of the Information Age (with Fred Fejes, 1987), Thinking Geometrically (by John Waisanen, Peter Lang, 2002), and Animations (of Deleuze and Guattari) (Peter Lang, 2003). Jennifer, under the name jd slack, is a pastel painter who exhibits and sells artwork and offers workshops in pastel techniques. In addition to life as an academic and artist, Jennifer lives with her husband, Kenny Svenson, on a 40 acre farm, where they farm with work horses, keep chickens and dogs, tend a huge garden in the summer, and move a lot of snow in the winter. The Keweenaw peninsula where they live averages about 300 inches of snow a year. Her latest book "Culture and Technology. A Primer", (with J. Macgregor Wise), Peter Lang, 2005 (www.peterlangusa.com) << From genetically modified food to weapons of mass destruction, we live in an age of intense debate about technology's place in our culture. While the technologies have changed, these debates go back hundreds of years, and their assumptions have become deeply entrenched in our culture. Culture + Technology is an essential guide to the fascinating history of these debates, and offers new perspectives that give readers the tools they need to make informed decisions about the role of technology in our lives. In clear and compelling language, Slack and Wise untangle and expose the cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological advance and our myths about progress. It also looks at sources of resistance to these stories from the Luddites of the 19th century to the Unabomber in our own time. Slack and Wise help readers sift through the confusions about culture and technology that arise in their own everyday lives. This book is a must read for anyone who cares about the place of technology in our lives. It is a primer for beginners, and an invaluable resource for those who have pondered these issues before.>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte Ricercatore in Linguistica Universita' Roma Tre http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/italian/digitalvariants/ From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Intellectual Property in Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:52:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 428 (428) Academia--Online Workshops for Autumn 2005 The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is interested in advertising this nonprofit, educational workshop series for interested educators, librarians, administrators, and attorneys. 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.] ***** University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property 2005-2006 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series The Autumn 2005 lineup includes two workshops... E-Reserves and Copyright http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#ereserves October 17-October 28, 2005 Moderated by Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, Esq., Professor of Law and Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Goals: Workshop participants will: * Learn about the background of reserve collections and fair use; * Discuss the purpose and legal basis for e-reserves; * Review various guidelines for e-reserves and classroom use; * and more... Early registration--only $125--closes SEPTEMBER 30. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the University Campus: A Safe Harbor? http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#dmca November 7-November 18, 2005 Moderated by Arnold Lutzker, Esq., Senior Partner, Lutzker, Lutzker & Settlemyer, LLP Goals--Workshop participants will: *Discuss the DMCA's original intentions; *Discuss concepts of OSP and Safe Harbor; *Analyze recent DMCA judicial opinions and discuss legislative developments; *and more... Early registration--only $125--closes OCTOBER 28. REGISTRATION: Space is limited--Register now online at https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm Additional information: call 240-582-2965 or visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa --Jack Boeve Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/cip From: Marcus Holmes Subject: Re: 19.288 author of quotation? Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:57:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 429 (429) This might be of help. It's a Powerpoint presentation by a scholar at Michigan State. He attributes the quote to Sir James Jeans, a physicist. http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan/Intelligent%20Design%20Lecture%20Notes.031902.htm Marcus Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Susanna Van Sant Subject: Librarian for Digital Repository at University of Maryland Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:59:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 430 (430) Title: Librarian for Digital Repository at University of Maryland Category: Non-Tenured Faculty, Full-Time (12 Month Appointment) Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience The University of Maryland Libraries is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Librarian (Coordinator) for Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM). This position reports to the Collection Management Team Leader and is responsible for the leadership of the DRUM Team. The DRUM Coordinator may be responsible for the supervision of one .5 FTE graduate assistant. The University Libraries use DSpace for the management and accessibility of its digital repository. The collection currently consists of more than 2,500 items and averages 900 searches per month. DRUM is accessible at http://drum.umd.edu Responsibilities: The DRUM Coordinator is responsible for advancing the development of the campus digital repository and in promoting repository services to the University of Maryland campus. The coordinator provides direct user support, education, and documentation, develops new collections within the repository, and develops and implements public relations and marketing of programs in coordination with the Public Relations team. The Coordinator serves as liaison to Information Technology Division and Technical Services Division staff contributing to the service and provides training for Library staff. The DRUM Coordinator serves as an expert on institutional repositories and other open access repositories as well as copyright issues surrounding institutional repositories. Qualifications: Required: An appropriate graduate degree, which may include an ALA-accredited Master's degree in Library or Information Science or a Master's degree in Information Management, but other related degrees may be equally relevant. At least one year's experience with digital libraries, electronic archives, institutional repositories, or an equivalent open access vehicle. Strong written and oral communication skills. Demonstrated initiative and creativity. Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and to work effectively within a complex academic environment. Commitment to ongoing professional growth and development. Commitment to principles of diversity. Preferred: Knowledge of basic metadata schemas, especially Dublin core, knowledge of HTML. Teaching experience. Strong public service focus. Position is appointed to Librarian Faculty ranks. Appointment rank is based on the successful applicant's experience and relevant credentials. For additional information, consult the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/APPSC.doc. Applications: For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by October 31, 2005. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send to Ray Foster, Personnel, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011. E-mail to gfernan1_at_umd.edu. Fax:301-314-9960. UM Libraries' website: http://www.lib.umd.edu The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA employer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susanna Van Sant Interim Collection Management Team Leader University of Maryland Libraries College Park, MD 20742-7011 svansant_at_umd.edu 301.405.9117(voice) 301.405.9191(fax) From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: 19.291 deep access Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:56:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 431 (431) On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:00:05AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Hello, Mats! Some archaeological data sets have been made availible through the ARENA project [1], e.g. Danish [2] and Icelandic [3] data. 1) <http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/arena/> 2) One example:=20 <http://udgravningsarkiver.ancher.kulturhotel.dk/dankirke_download.htm> 3) One example:=20 <<http://www.fornleif.is/instarch/midlun/netverkefni/arena/gogn/hofstadir/vec=>http://www.fornleif.is/instarch/midlun/netverkefni/arena/gogn/hofstadir/vec= tor/> / 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: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Visual Computer 21.8-10 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:01:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 432 (432) Volume 21 Numbers 8-10 of The Visual Computer is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Preface p. 503 Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0349-4 Invited Paper From early draping to haute couture models: 20 years of research p. 506 Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Pascal Volino DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0347-6 Invited Paper Computer graphics ­ more than beautiful images p. 520 Hans-Peter Seidel DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0348-5 original article Generating unified model for dressed virtual humans p. 522 Seungwoo Oh, Hyungseok Kim, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Kwangyun Wohn DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0339-6 original article Key Probe: a technique for animation keyframe extraction p. 532 Ke-Sen Huang, Chun-Fa Chang, Yu-Yao Hsu, Shi-Nine Yang DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0316-0 original article Sweep-based human deformation p. 542 Dae-Eun Hyun, Seung-Hyun Yoon, Jung-Woo Chang, Joon-Kyung Seong, Myung-Soo Kim, Bert Jüttler DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0343-x original article Character animation creation using hand-drawn sketches p. 551 Bing-Yu Chen, Yutaka Ono, Tomoyuki Nishita DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0333-z original article Capturing and rendering geometry details for BTF-mapped surfaces p. 559 Jiaping Wang, Xin Tong, John Snyder, Yanyun Chen, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0318-y original article Intersection fields for interactive global illumination p. 569 Zhong Ren, Wei Hua, Lu Chen, Hujun Bao DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0329-8 original article Geocube ­ GPU accelerated real-time rendering of transparency and translucency p. 579 Bin Chan, Wenping Wang DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0312-4 original article Interactive fragment tracing p. 591 Jan Meseth, Michael Guthe, Reinhard Klein DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0322-2 original article Video completion using tracking and fragment merging p. 601 Yun-Tao Jia, Shi-Min Hu, Ralph R. Martin DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0313-3 original article Compression of multiple depth maps for IBR p. 611 Sashi Kumar Penta, P.J. Narayanan DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0337-8 original article Minimizing user intervention in registering 2D images to 3D models p. 619 Thomas Franken, Matteo Dellepiane, Fabio Ganovelli, Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Montani, Roberto Scopigno DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0309-z original article Scalable 3D video of dynamic scenes p. 629 Michael Waschbüsch, Stephan Würmlin, Daniel Cotting, Filip Sadlo, Markus Gross DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0346-7 original article Single view compositing with shadows p. 639 Xiaochun Cao, Yuping Shen, Mubarak Shah, Hassan Foroosh DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0335-x original article Mesh segmentation using feature point and core extraction p. 649 Sagi Katz, George Leifman, Ayellet Tal DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0344-9 original article Mesh segmentation driven by Gaussian curvature p. 659 Hitoshi Yamauchi, Stefan Gumhold, Rhaleb Zayer, Hans-Peter Seidel DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0319-x original article Geometry completion and detail generation by texture synthesis p. 669 Minh X. Nguyen, Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0315-1 original article Topology-preserving simplification of 2D nonmanifold meshes with embedded structures p. 679 Fabien Vivodtzev, Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Paul Le Texier DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0334-y original article Quadrilateral and tetrahedral mesh stripification using 2-factor partitioning of the dual graph p. 689 Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0336-9 original article Detail control in line drawings of 3D meshes p. 698 Kyuman Jeong, Alex Ni, Seungyong Lee, Lee Markosian DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0323-1 original article An improved scheme of an interactive finite element model for 3D soft-tissue cutting and deformation p. 707 Wen Wu, Pheng Ann Heng DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0310-6 original article Modeling cracks and fractures p. 717 Brett Desbenoit, Eric Galin, Samir Akkouche DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0317-z original article Real-time simulation of physically based on-surface flow p. 727 Y.Q. Liu, H.B. Zhu, X.H. Liu, E.H. Wu DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0314-2 original article Fast rendering of foveated volumes in wavelet-based representation p. 735 Hang Yu, Ee-Chien Chang, Zhiyong Huang, Zhijian Zheng DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0331-1 original article Volume cutout p. 745 Xiaoru Yuan, Nan Zhang, Minh X. Nguyen, Baoquan Chen DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0330-2 original article GPU-based 3D wavelet reconstruction with tileboarding p. 755 Antonio Garcia, Han-Wei Shen DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0332-0 original article Building 3D surface networks from 2D curve networks with application to anatomical modeling p. 764 Tao Ju, Joe Warren, James Carson, Gregor Eichele, Christina Thaller, Wah Chiu, Musodiq Bello, Ioannis Kakadiaris DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0321-3 original article Shell radiance texture functions p. 774 Ying Song, Yanyun Chen, Xin Tong, Stephen Lin, Jiaoying Shi, Baining Guo, Heung-Yeung Shum DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0320-4 original article Texture mapping on surfaces of arbitrary topology using norm preserving-based optimization p. 783 Shuhua Lai, Fuhua (Frank) Cheng DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0327-x original article Real-time geometric deformation displacement maps using programmable hardware p. 791 Sagi Schein, Eran Karpen, Gershon Elber DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0338-7 original article Uniform texture synthesis and texture mapping using global parameterization p. 801 Lujin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Klaus Mueller, Shing-Tung Yau DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0324-0 original article Expressive line selection by example p. 811 Eric B. Lum, Kwan-Liu Ma DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0342-y original article Interactive sketch generation p. 821 Hyung W. Kang, Wenjie He, Charles K. Chui, Uday K. Chakraborty DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0328-9 original article Fitting unorganized point clouds with active implicit B-spline curves p. 831 Zhouwang Yang, Jiansong Deng, Falai Chen DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0340-0 original article What’s in an image?: Towards the computation of the “best” view of an object p. 840 Oleg Polonsky, Giuseppe Patané, Silvia Biasotti, Craig Gotsman, Michela Spagnuolo DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0326-y original article Efficient spectral watermarking of large meshes with orthogonal basis functions p. 848 Jianhua Wu, Leif Kobbelt DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0311-5 original article Smooth spline surface generation over meshes of irregular topology p. 858 Jin Jin Zheng, Jian J. Zhang, H.J. Zhou, L.G. Shen DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0345-8 original article Semantic-oriented 3d shape retrieval using relevance feedback p. 865 George Leifman, Ron Meir, Ayellet Tal DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0341-z original article Connectivity compression in an arbitrary dimension p. 876 Sylvain Prat, Patrick Gioia, Yves Bertrand, Daniel Meneveaux DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0325-z Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: new publication: Cognition, Technology and Work 7.3 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:01:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 433 (433) Volume 7 Number 3 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Original Article Finding a way to usability: procurement of a taxi dispatch system p. 141 H. Artman, S. Zällh DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0182-6 Original Article Decision making by on-scene incident commanders in nuclear emergencies p. 156 M. T. Crichton, R. Flin, P. McGeorge DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0183-5 Original Article Modelling of cognitive activity during normal and abnormal situations using Object Petri Nets, application to a supervision system p. 167 H. Ezzedine, C. Kolski DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0184-4 Original Article Mobile phones and driving: a review of contemporary research p. 182 Ola Svenson, Christopher J. D. Patten DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0185-3 Original Article The roles of humans and computers in distributed planning for dynamic domains p. 198 Valerie L. Shalin DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0186-2 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: new publication: Personal & Ubiquitous Computing 9.5 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:02:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 434 (434) Volume 9 Number 5 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Special issue on ubiquitous mobile information and collaboration systems (UMICS) p. 261 Luciano Baresi, Schahram Dustdar, Harald Gall, Maristella Matera DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0329-0 Original Article A natural language model for managing TV-Anytime information in mobile environments p. 262 Anastasia Karanastasi, Fotis G. Kazasis, Stavros Christodoulakis DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0330-7 Original Article Updated data dissemination methods for updating old replicas in ad hoc networks p. 273 Hideki Hayashi, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0331-6 Original Article Distributed processing of reminding tasks within the mobile memory aid system, MEMOS p. 284 Andrei Voinikonis, Klaus Irmscher, Hendrik Schulze DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0332-5 Original Article Partitioning rules for orchestrating mobile information systems p. 291 Andrea Maurino, Stefano Modafferi DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0333-4 Original Article Improving the effectiveness of monitoring and control systems exploiting knowledge-based approaches p. 301 Stefania Bandini, Fabio Sartori DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0334-3 Original Article Activity-based computing: support for mobility and collaboration in ubiquitous computing p. 312 Jakob E. Bardram DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0335-2 Original Article Component-based development of Web-enabled eHome services p. 323 Michael Kirchhof, Sebastian Linz DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0336-1 Original Article Collaborative design of web service networks in a multilingual user community p. 333 Marios C. Angelides, Kurt Englmeier DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0337-0 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: new publication: Virtual Reality 8.4 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:02:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 435 (435) Volume 8 Number 4 of Virtual Reality is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Editorial p. 199 Patrick Olivier, Steven K. Feiner DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0152-6 Mixed feelings: expression of non-basic emotions in a muscle-based talking head p. 201 Irene Albrecht, Marc Schröder, Jörg Haber, Hans-Peter Seidel DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0153-5 Model­based video tracking for gestural interaction p. 213 J. -B. de la. Rivière, P. Guitton DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0154-4 Untethered gesture acquisition and recognition for virtual world manipulation p. 222 David Demirdjian, Teresa Ko, Trevor Darrell DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0155-3 A two visual systems approach to understanding voice and gestural interaction p. 231 Barry A. Po, Brian D. Fisher, Kellogg S. Booth DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0156-2 Analysis of composite gestures with a coherent probabilistic graphical model p. 242 Jason J. Corso, Guangqi Ye, Gregory D. Hager DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0157-1 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: clc announces: community memory Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:01:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 436 (436) The Center for Literary Computing at WVU announces its searchable archive of CYHIST: Community Memory, the discussion list on the History of Cyberspace. CYHIST is an oral history of cyberspace =97 of the history of computers, computer networks, and related technologies. The archive contains unique first-person recollections from people who were active in building the Internet and its precursor networks, such as Arpanet, and myriad other networks and computers, dating back to the 1940s. The purpose of the archive is to serve future and present scholars and researchers interested in the history of cyberspace. The CLC is pleased to make this archive available (with special thanks to Nick Hales). Send feedback on the project to clc_at_mail.wvu.edu. http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/cyhist/ From: Brian Hurwitz Subject: Joint Symposium, 24-25th Nov: Apothecaries, Art and Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:51:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 437 (437) Architecture: Interpreting Georgian Medicine APOTHECARIES, ART AND ARCHITECTURE: INTERPRETING GEORGIAN MEDICINE A Joint Symposium in honour of Roy Porter Thursday 24 - Friday 25 November 2005 This is a joint venture organised by the Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London and Dr Johnson's House. It is being held in honour of the late Professor Roy Porter, one of the most prolific and accessible historians of medicine, with support from the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Two full days of presentations will take place at Apothecaries' Hall in Blackfriars in the City of London, and there will be a reception at Dr Johnson's House on the evening of 24 November. An excellent programme has been put together with nearly 40 speakers from pre-eminent departments in universities, colleges, museums, archives and historical societies from all over the UK and the USA. Details of the Symposium are available online via the Society of Apothecaries' website: www.apothecaries.org where there is a link on the homepage to the Symposium page where the flyer, programme and registration form can be viewed and downloaded. Alternatively, please contact the Symposium Office, Society of Apothecaries, Apothecaries' Hall, Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EJ (email: FacultyHP_at_apothecaries.org; tel: 020 7248 6648; fax: 020 7329 3177) Brian Hurwitz Professor of Medicine and the Arts King's College London brian.hurwitz_at_kcl.ac.uk From: Simon Harper Subject: WWW2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:58:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 438 (438) ============================================================ WWW2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www2006.org/ ============================================================ The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) invites you to participate in the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006. The conference is the prime venue for dissemination of Web research and is held in association with ACM, BCS, ECS, IFIP and W3C. *** WORKSHOPS (Submission Deadline: October 1, 2005) Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders, and practitioners to explore current web R&D issues through a more focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional conference session. Participants typically present position statements and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the workshop setting. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/workshops/ . *** TUTORIALS (Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to November 1, 2005) A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/tutorials/ . *** REFEREED PAPERS (Submission Deadline: November 4, 2005) WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the web. Topics include but are not limited to # E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science, E-Government and E-Humanities # Browsers and User Interfaces # Data Mining # Hypermedia and Multimedia # Performance, Reliability and Scalability # Pervasive Web and Mobility # Search # Security, Privacy, and Ethics # Semantic Web # Web Engineering # XML and Web Services # Industrial Practice and Experience (Alternate track) # Developing Regions (Alternate track) Detailed descriptions of each of these tracks appear at http://www2006.org/tracks/ [...] From: "Jana Sukkarieh" Subject: FLAIRS 2006: Natural Language and Knowledge Representation Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:00:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 439 (439) NATURAL LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (NL-KR) Special Track at FLAIRS 2006 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Holiday Inn Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne Beach, FLORIDA, USA MAIN CONFERENCE: 11-12-13 MAY 2006 Special track web page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR Main conference web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06 PURPOSE OF THE NL-KR TRACK We believe the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Knowledge Representation (KR) communities have common goals. They are both concerned with representing knowledge and with reasoning, since the best test for the semantic capability of an NLP system is performing reasoning tasks. Having these two essential common grounds, the two communities ought to have been collaborating, to provide a well-suited representation language that covers these grounds. However, the two communities also have difficult-to-meet concerns. Mainly, the semantic representation (SR) should be expressive enough and should take the information in context into account, while the KR should be equipped with a fast reasoning process. The main objection against an SR or a KR is that they need experts to be understood. Non-experts communicate (usually) via a natural language (NL), and more or less they understand each other while performing a lot of reasoning. An essential practical value of representations is their attempt to be transparent. This will particularly be useful when/if the system provides a justification for a user or a knowledge engineer on its line of reasoning using the underlying KR (i.e. without generating back to NL). We all seem to believe that, compared to Natural Language, the existing Knowledge Representation and reasoning systems are poor. Nevertheless, for a long time, the KR community dismissed the idea that NL can be a KR. That's because NL can be very ambiguous and there are syntactic and semantic processing complexities associated with it. However, researchers in both communities have started looking at this issue again. Possibly, it has to do with the NLP community making some progress in terms of processing and handling ambiguity, the KR community realising that a lot of knowledge is already 'coded' in NL and that one should reconsider the way they handle expressivity and ambiguity. This track is an attempt to provide a forum for discussion on this front and to bridge a gap between NLP and KR. A KR in this track has a well-defined syntax, semantics and a proof theory. It should be clear what authors mean by NL-like, based on NL or benefiting from NL (if they are using one). It does not have to be a novel representation. NL-KR TRACK TOPICS For this track, we will invite submissions including, but not limited to: a. A novel NL-like KR or building on an existing one b. Reasoning systems that benefit from properties of NL to reason with NL c. Semantic representation used as a KR : compromise between expressivity and efficiency? d. More Expressive KR for NL understanding (Any compromise?) e. Any work exploring how existing representations fall short of addressing some problems involved in modelling, manipulating or reasoning (whether reasoning as used to get an interpretation for a certain utterance, exchange of utterances or what utterances follow from other utterances) with NL documents f. Representations that show how classical logics are not as efficient, transparent, expressive or where a one-step application of an inference rule require more (complex) steps in a classical environment and vice-versa; i.e. how classical logics are more powerful, etc g. Building a reasoning test collection for natural language understanding systems: any kind of reasoning (deductive, abductive, etc); for a deductive test suite see for e.g. deliverable 16 of the FraCas project (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/). Also, look at textual entailment challenges 1 and 2 <http://www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/RTE> h. Comparative results (on a common test suite or a common task) of different representations or systems that reason with NL (again any kind of reasoning). The comparison could be either for efficiency, transparency or expressivity i. Knowledge acquisition systems or techniques that benefit from properties of NL to acquire knowledge already 'coded' in NL j. Automated Reasoning, Theorem Proving and KR communities views on all this [...] From: lukasza_at_babel.ling.upenn.edu Subject: Penn Linguistics Colloquium 30 First Call for Papers Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:00:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 440 (440) The 30th Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Call for Papers The 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place February 24-26, 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Keynote address: Pauline Jacobson (Brown University): Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: Taking the Surprise out of "Complex Variables" Special session: David Embick & Rolf Noyer (Penn): Distributed Morphology Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions of work done in the Distributed Morphology framework. If you wish to be considered for the special session, please include DM in the 'keywords' field on the submission form. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions. Deadline: Abstracts are due Tuesday, November 15, 2005. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by Monday, January 16, 2006. Length: Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced. An additional page may be used for references, tables, and examples. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract. Format: 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. Submission: An online abstract submission form is available at the PLC website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc30/ 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 plc30_at_ling.upenn.edu Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc30/ 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 University of Pennsylvania. From: Adam Newcombe Subject: Contemplation and time to think Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:56:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 441 (441) Hi there, I have seldom submitted to the group but I read, with daily anticipation, the discussions every day. I'm about to give a paper on some ideas concerning the gross lack of contemplative learning time in undergraduate degree courses. My own field is design and communications, I was wondering whether anybody has some thoughts on this neglected field of human existence. The contemplative nature of problem solving and the skill of observation are decreasing in our school children. Digital communication systems and computer use in general are at the forefront of this situation. I wonder whether anybody out there has done any statistical work in this area or if anybody finds this an interesting area of exploration Sincerely Adam Adam Newcombe B.DS(hons) GC of HE Senior Lecturer Coordinator Graphics and Design School of Contemporary Arts Edith Cowan University Perth WA ph: 08 9370 6605 A.newcombe_at_ecu.edu.au From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: RE: 19.296 author of quotation: Sir James Jeans -- reply Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:51:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 442 (442) [deleted quotation]....snip.... Thanks, but that was MY presentation in a debate several years ago. I tentatively suggested that the author was Jeans, but a recent, absolutely exhaustive search by our research librarians could not find the source. As many HUMANISTS are aware, the Religious Right in the United States is pushing a repackaged Creationism called "Intelligent Design." The local newspaper has agreed to publish my letter on this subject, and the letter includes that quotation without attribution. => I leave it to Willard to decide whether to include the letter (150 words maximum), which follows. Science has three dirty little secrets which the Intelligent Design folks try to exploit. 1. It's not democratic. 2. It doesn't follow common sense. 3. It doesn't have the Staples' "Easy Button." It's not democratic because we don't get to vote on the laws of the universe, only test theories to explain them. Intelligent Design folks want to us to put evolution to a vote rather than to the test. It doesn't follow common sense, which is based on everyday experiences, because modern science deals with the very large (the universe), the very small (sub- atomics), the very fast (relativity) and the very slow (evolution). Einstein said bluntly: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Intelligent Design wants to push the "easy" button. It has its canned answer to all complex questions -- the Designer did it -- even before they are asked. Lousy science. Lousy religion. ------- NOTE: The "Staples' Easy Button" refers to a current advertising campaign in the U.S. by Staples Corporation, which sells office and computer supplies. They show a large, red button which, when pushed, solves hard arithmetic problems. http://www.staples.com/ _________________________________________________ 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: "Christine Goldbeck" Subject: Re: 19.301 Contemplation and time to think? Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:54:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 443 (443) I have a question, Adam. When you say "digital communication systems and computer use in general are at the forefront of this situation" do you mean that computers and related technology are to blame for a lack of critical thinking abilities? If so, then I am up for a discussion on this issue as I disagree with this premise. Sincerely, Christine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:14 AM [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.35 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:52:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 444 (444) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 35 (September 28-October 4, 2005) VIEW FAULT TOLERANCE THROUGH DATA ERROR RECOVERY Goutam Kumar Saha explains how a new software-implemented data error recovery scheme can be so effective in comparison to conventional Error Correction Codes (ECC) during the execution time of an application, and says: "The proposed algorithm is three times faster than the conventional software-implemented ECC and application program designers can easily implement the proposed scheme because of its simplicity while designing their fault tolerant applications at no extra hardware cost." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i35_kumar.html VIEWS MASTERING A MASTER'S DEGREE -- AND YOUR PROFESSIONAL CAREER M.E.Kabay, Director of the Norwich University MSIA program, tells students: "Don't let the locus of control lie entirely outside yourself. Use your opportunities wisely and let your graduate program be the start of what you study, not the end." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i35_kabay.html From: Mirella Lapata Subject: Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:55:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 445 (445) RESEARCH FELLOW IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Job Details Job Reference 3005069 Department Informatics Job Title Research Fellow Job Function Academic Job Type Fixed Term: 36 months Expiry Date 30-Nov-2005 Salary Scale GBP 19,460 - GBP 29,128 Job Description The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh invites applications for the post of research fellow on the project ``Statistical Models of Text-to-Text Generation and their Role in Practical Applications'', funded by the EPSRC. The project will design and implement novel algorithms and techniques for text rewriting for a number of key text-to-text generation applications. The project's aim is to develop a general modeling framework for capturing alternative ways of conveying the same information at the sentence and document level. The position is suitable for a candidate with a PhD in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related discipline. The successful applicant will have strong programming skills and experience with natural language processing techniques (e.g., language modeling, alignment methods, vector-space models, finite state methods, corpus processing, evaluation, statistical generation). Experience with lexicon acquisition and/or summarisation is also desirable. He or she will be responsible for developing and testing computational models for text rewriting, and for developing methods for the automatic construction of redundancy-rich corpora. The starting date will be 01 February 2006, or as soon as possible thereafter. Informal inquiries can be made by email to Mirella Lapata (mlap_at_inf.ed.ac.uk). Further particulars for this position can be found at: https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.furtherdetails&vacancy_ref=3005069 The closing date for applications is 30 November 2004. Please submit your application online at the URL given above or in hardcopy to the following address, quoting job reference 3005069: Ms. Avril Heron HCRC, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW United Kingdom School of Informatics _______________________________________________ Iscol mailing list Iscol_at_cs.haifa.ac.il https://cs.haifa.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/iscol From: Steven D.Krause Subject: Re: 19.304 contemplation and computing Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:15:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 446 (446) Of course, the problem of technology and "critical thinking" (or just "thinking") has been a problem for thousands of years. A key passage comes from Plato's *Phaderus* when Socrates tells the story of how the Egyptian god Theuth invented literacy (oh, and also invented "draughts and dice"-- an interesting connection with writing and reading, if you ask me), and how Thamus, also an Egyptian god, criticizes this new-fangled writing. Here's the passage I have in mind: "Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." Substitute "digital communication" for "letters" and I think you can see how these things fit together. --Steve Steven D. Krause Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature Eastern Michigan University * Ypsilanti, MI 48197 http://www.stevendkrause.com From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 19.303 author of quotation Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:57 am X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 447 (447) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: senior lectureship in humanities computing at Lancaster Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:52:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 448 (448) Dear colleagues: The following represents a significant opportunity for someone in our community to develop a new centre for humanities computing in the U.K. For those unfamiliar with the academic system here, a senior lectureship in an established (permanent) post is, say, roughly equivalent to a mid to upper level associate professorship with tenure, i.e. a senior post. Thanks to Professor Tony McEnery (http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/tony/tony.htm), Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster has a long history of involvement with corpus linguistics, and so familiarity with humanities computing. Please see that this advert is widely distributed. Yours, WM ------------------ Lancaster University Senior Lectureship in ICT for Arts & Humanities http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/vacancydets.aspx?jobid=A551 The newly formed Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Lancaster wishes to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Information and Communications Technology as applied to the humanities and arts. The appointment will be from January 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter. It is a permanent position. A Chair may be available if appropriate candidates present themselves. The appointment should be seen in the context of a longer-term aim to establish a critical mass of researchers interested in the digital humanities. The establishment of this post is the first step towards creating such a grouping. Background At least two major reports have emerged recently that signal a way forward for ICT in the humanities and arts (and social sciences). First, the AHRC Delivery Plan argues the need for greater capacity in 'grid technologies', suggesting that research is needed in locating, accessing and integrating distributed resources that take the form of text, images and sound. Humanities Computing is therefore one of the key areas flagged in the Delivery Plan. There is already an ICT Methods Network funded by AHRC (and hosted by King's College London, in which Lancaster is involved as a partner institution) which aims to preserve and provide access to digital resources and to guide new developments and advanced methodologies. We wish Lancaster to play a leading part in both the Network and in driving forward this initiative more broadly. Second, the British Academy produced in May a report on 'E-resources for research in the humanities and social sciences'. Among its recommendations are that Universities ensure that researchers have adequate access to technical support in this field and that such researchers promote the use of ICT where they can. The creation of a new Faculty at Lancaster University provides a platform whereby an initiative in this area can be actively promoted and nurtured. Further, the University is keen to capitalise on the existing research base by establishing itself as a centre of excellence in the North West for ICT in the humanities and arts. Lancaster is involved in the following activities related to Humanities Computing (classified by Department); the list is skeletal and illustrative only: Linguistics - and especially corpus linguistics, lexicography and historical linguistics; use of semantic tagging, applications to dictionary production Contemporary Arts (Music, Theatre, Art) - the use of new media in experimental performance; digital art installations, music software, computer representations of music English - applications to mediaeval theatre and manuscript studies, and to handling of material relating to Quakers in the North-West; Ruskinian materials; Chartist poetry; crime fiction History - digitising of calendar records, recent and contemporary oral history materials Institute for Cultural Research - cultural memory (oral histories) Applicants should note that, from August 2005 there is a new Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) that merges three separate Departments (Art, Music and Theatre Studies). Technical and equipment support Some dedicated technical support will be provided to the post-holder. The successful candidate will be invited to help determine, in consultation with others, the nature of this technical support and the equipment resources associated with this initiative. We have already been given an equipment grant to set up digitisation facilities. We intend that the successful candidate will develop a business plan for the use of such facilities, thereby creating an income stream to help further develop a programme of activity. Departmental affiliation The administrative location of the successful candidate will, initially, be at Faculty level. It is not presently envisaged that the candidate will be a member of an academic Department. This is to signal that the initiative is seen as a Faculty-wide one in which the post-holder helps to generate momentum across a range of potential stakeholders. Job description The successful candidate will, initially, be directly responsible to the Dean of the Faculty. Key internal contacts will be colleagues working in the host and cognate departments in the Faculty and outside, and in seeking to develop external funding the post-holder will be in close contact with other staff in the Faculty, including the Associate Dean for Research & Enterprise and the Research & Enterprise Support Officer. Externally, we expect the post-holder to develop relationships with appropriate organisations and individuals therein, both regionally and nationally. Examples include the Research Councils (notably AHRC) and regional galleries and museums. Major duties will include: Developing a research agenda, including the preparation of significant outputs for RAE2008 in an appropriate Unit of Assessment; working with others to establish new degree schemes, initially at postgraduate level, that are likely to recruit significant numbers of students; submitting applications for research funding to a range of funding agencies; liaising with external stakeholders (including museums, libraries and galleries) over their digitising needs; advising colleagues in humanities and social sciences on advanced research methods using ICT; helping to promote the use of advanced ICT throughout the University; helping to establish an international profile for Lancaster University in this field. The post-holder will have flexibility to scope the development of the initiative. In particular, we would expect the post-holder to explore the possibilities for establishing a digitising service for the wider region as a means of helping to sustain the academic programme. Person specification We seek a dynamic and committed researcher to help develop further the Faculty's interests in humanities computing. Essential requirements A PhD in a relevant research area. The precise disciplinary background of candidates matters less than a willingness to engage enthusiastically with academics from a range of disciplines, including, inter alia, English, Creative Arts (Theatre Studies, Art, Music), Linguistics, History, and Cultural Research. Evidence of the use of advanced ICT in their own research A suitable track record of published work, commensurate with an entry to an appropriate Unit of Assessment for the next Research Assessment Exercise (2008) Evidence of an ability to take a leadership role for the area of ICT in the social sciences and arts Evidence of ability to attract external research funding Experience of teaching in higher education, preferably at both undergraduate and postgraduate level Evidence of an outward looking perspective, in the sense of an ability to engage both with other Faculties at Lancaster (and the InfoLab initiative specifically), other Universities, and other public and private sector organisations. Effective personal, written and oral communication skills Desirable Experience of designing relevant programmes of study Professor Tony Gatrell Dean, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: 01524 510811 email: a.gatrell_at_lancaster.ac.uk Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Ellen Degott" Subject: EURYI Call for Programmes Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:53:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 449 (449) CALL Please note that the EURYI (European Young Investigator Awards) Call for Programmes is now available on the ESF web site under <http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?section=8&domain=0&genericpage=1879>http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?section=8&domain=0&genericpage=1879 The deadline for receipt of proposals is 30 November 2005 ********************************************************************************************* MEETING We were asked to inform you of the 4th European Biannual Meeting of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts, which is to take place in Amsterdam on 13-16 June, 2006. The deadline for proposals is 5 December, 2005. Details are to be found on the following website: <http://www.slsa.nl/>http://www.slsa.nl ********************************************************************************************* From: mattj_at_newsblip.com Subject: Re: 19.307 contemplation and computing Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:54:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 450 (450) [deleted quotation]Thamus was right. The mnemonic powers of pre-literate (as in pre-writing) societies astounds us today. Who among us can recite a three-hour epic poem? However, Thamus only looked at the costs, and not the benefits. For example, it's been argued that Western Civilization's success in science could not have occurred in a non-literate society, because observations need to be written down if they are to be trusted with the passing of time, and properly analyzed. Similarly, we today enjoy amazing benefits from being able to tap into the global Googlebrain that all Web users are collectively growing through their individual accretion of factoids and comments. But I agree with those who have said that in another decade, people will feel hopelessly lost if their Web access is taken away. Lost in the sense of feeling they are no longer themselves. It used to be only hard-charging workaholics who felt anxious without access to their email. More and more, that feeling affects everyday people; if you don't experience it, you likely know someone who does. A similar dynamic affects people's growing reliance on search engines for recalling simple facts, and the use of blogs and wikis (I like Backpackit.com) to maintain personal memory (both short-term and long-term). [deleted quotation]Quite true. Like Thamus, I lament that aspect. It's wonderful that the Web helps people to learn so much. At the same time, you never know if someone mailed you something useful/clever/obscure/intelligent because they are such an intelligent, well-educated, interesting person, or because they did a 30-second search on Google. And I do think my brain is learning to become lazy; either I'm just forgetting how to remember, or I subconsciously know I'll be able to look something up again in the future, and it gets thrown out. -Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.307 contemplation and computing Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:55:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 451 (451) As I keep saying to people: A *book* is an extremely innovative and effective information technology, given the right purposes and desire to use it. My experience is that a book does have a more contemplative appeal than does alot of other technology. But I do not necessarily think that other IT necessarily keeps people from being contemplative. I think lifestyle trends and social pressures, rather than technologies, are impacting contemplation. Technology may have a role to play on these trends, but you can't really accuse a tree of assault if you run into it head-first. Ryan. . . Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Shoshannah Holdom Subject: Internet Resources for Modern Languages from the Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:43:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 452 (452) European Day of Languages, 26th September: Humbul announces its 'Best of the Web' collection, Internet Resources for Modern Languages To mark the European Day of Languages on 26th September 2005 - a Council of Europe initiative to celebrate linguistic diversity and promote language learning - the Humbul Humanities Hub is pleased to announce the launch of its online collection, Internet Resources for Modern Languages, http://www.humbul.ac.uk/langlit-all/booklet/. Based upon a forthcoming printed guide to the best of the Web, this collection offers a taste of what's available for a range of language, literary and area studies. Humbul, http://www.humbul.ac.uk/, discovers, reviews and catalogues online resources suitable for learning, teaching and research in the humanities. The Internet Resources for Modern Languages collection samples the broad range of excellent online resources for language, literary and and area studies that already feature in Humbul's catalogue. Humbul's particular strengths lie in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese studies but our collections for Chinese, Japanese, Scandinavian and East European studies are now enjoying significant development. We welcome your feedback and comments about either the Internet Resources for Modern Languages collection or Humbul in general. Please get in touch using our feedback form http://www.humbul.ac.uk/feedback.html, or by email: info@humbul.ac.uk. We look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Shoshannah Holdom Content Editor (Modern Languages) Humbul Humanities Hub From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: contemplation and computing Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:43:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 453 (453) I am very surprised that people think computers are behind a loss of contemplative reasoning ability. There is a culprit, but it isn't computers (unless you intend "computers" to represent the whole spectrum of computer chips that make modern technology possible). The culprit seems clearly to me to be cell phones. Think about it, what distinguishes today's youth from previous generations. They have cell phones and use them continually for communication. The conversations I have overheard lead me to believe that instead of "thinking" about anything, today's cell phone generation call their friends and family instantly--avoiding "thinking" about what should be the solution by starting a discussion of it with their peers or friends. Cell phone users seem to fear NOT being on the phone. Like a long uncomfortable pause in a conversation--they fear long periods of quiet time when they would be alone with their thoughts and seek to fill that void by calling someone--if only to ask, "What are you doing? I'm on the train/bus/in the library." This "pinging" of their peers substitutes for thinking, engaging the brain in idle chatter. There was a great line in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" concerning why humans seemed to always say aloud the obvious. It ran something like this, the conclusion was that they were afraid their mouths would seize up if they weren't constantly using them. I think cell phones have given voice to that fear on a scale and with a range never before possible. Probably my next culprit would be blogs. Why ponder the answer to a question--instead just post it to your favorite blog and allow the community to debate its points. No need to form your own opinion based on days, weeks or months of independent thinking--you can just dump the question into the blog and watch others arrive at a conclusion for you. The computer information system and the growth of the Internet as a search enviornment has curtailed the time it takes to look up facts, but that merely means one CAN find out whether Iceland or Finland has colder winters a lot faster and perhaps contributes MORE to reasoning than the book resources available to previous generations would have allowed. Finding information faster doesn't decrease reasoning. It is the lack of quiet time that empties minds. But, what do I know, I'm a member of the "older generation" now. Those for whom using a phone to contact someone was itself the product of a reasoned though process, debating whether it was a sufficiently significant matter to justify disturbing their privacy. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.301 Contemplation and time to think? Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:44:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 454 (454) Hello Adam, I was struck by your use of the word "contemplative". To mind my it is not the same as "critical thinking". Indeed, the contemplative mind set suspends judgement. Although there may be an adjudicative dimensions to the high degree of sensory play at work in contemplation, it is not one of truth valuation. One decides to continue or to abort. That is the sort of decision that is quite common in the interchange between humans and computing machines. You might be interested in knowing that there are communities of practice that wed and weld contemplative methods with network interchange. I am thinking in particular the developer and users of the I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker. It is a "browser" that provides a window into a running stream of HTML markup [The stream is created by the application accessing the files through the URLs present as links in the initial file; the application can also graphically render the relations between the linked files]. Subscribers to Humanist will be able to contribute other examples from the studies in visualizing information. Not to privilege the timescapes of the eye alone, I do want to point out that the MacIntosh provide very interesting material for auditory contemplation when one used/uses the text-to-voice synthesizer on a language other than the one the application was designed to take as its base. Others may have other examples where output refreshes the status of a peripheral basis and so marks the passage of time and serves contemplation. A blinking cursor, a counter, the whir of a fan cooling hardware, white noise, from one set of devices becomes the input for an other --- as some of your respondents have indicated there is a long tradition of pairing the games of chance with the arts of transcription. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: "D.FILROM - CARLOS MARTIN VIDE" Subject: research positions 2005-11 Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:42:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 455 (455) One-two 2-year postdoctoral research positions may be available starting before July 1st, 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: 2 years. - Work contract with Social Security rights. - The main duty of the position is research, with possible doctoral supervising too. - The scheme funding the position is extremely competitive. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - PhD degree got after January 1st, 2000 (or to be got in the next 6 months). - Strong research career, with a remarkable record of publications and other achievements. - There is no restriction on nationality or age. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - Net salary amounting 1,600 euro/month approximately. - 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 + research project), to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until October 5, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-11" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Preselected candidates will be given support in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is October 15, 2005. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: "Hazel Gardiner" Subject: CHArt 2005 conference bursaries sponsored by the Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:44:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 456 (456) AHRC ICT Methods Network STUDENT BURSARIES FOR CHART 2005 The AHRB ICT Methods Network, which aims to=20 promote and develop the use of advanced ICT=20 methods in Arts and Humanities research, is=20 offering a limited number of bursaries to=20 post-graduate students who wish to attend the=20 2005 CHArt conference, THEORY AND PRACTICE, which=20 will be held on 10 and 11 November 2005 at the British Academy, London. Applications for bursaries are sought from=20 post-graduate students whose research interests=20 are grounded in areas covered by CHArt. These=20 include: the application of ICT to the study of=20 art and the history of art; new media theory and=20 new art practice; creation and curation of=20 digital scholarly and image resources including=20 those in museums, galleries or libraries, and=20 other areas which may be considered to be within CHArt's sphere of interest. The bursaries are intended to help towards=20 conference expenses. Successful applicants will=20 be able to claim funds up to a total of =A3200=20 toward the cost of conference fees, accommodation and travel. Application involves the submission of a brief=20 statement of interest (approximately 500 words)=20 outlining your current studies and research=20 interests and detailing how attending CHArt might support you in your= research. CHArt conference costs are as follows: CHArt Student Member: Two days =A360 (=A340 before 14 Oct 2005) One day =A340 (=A330 before 14 Oct 2005) Student Non-member: Two days =A380 (=A360 before 14 Oct 2005) One day =A350 (=A340 before 14 Oct 2005) To apply for a bursary please provide the following details Name: HE Institution: Department: MA course or Ph.D. title: Preferred Contact Address: Telephone: Email: Please outline your reasons for wishing to attend=20 CHArt and how this will help you in your research. (max. 500 words) If you wish to apply for a bursary please=20 register for the CHARt conference in the first=20 instance. The CHArt conference programme and=20 abstracts are available on the CHArt website=20 (www.chart.ac.uk) The conference booking form is available on the CHArt website in RTF format. CHArt is also hosting a special round-table event=20 entitled "Democratizing the Image: Creating a=20 Global Learning Community" at the Institute of=20 Contemporary Arts, as part of the conference. Please address any enquiries to Hazel Gardiner,=20 CHArt, Centre for Computing in the Humanities,=20 Kings College, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R 3DX. 020 7848 2013, hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk ........................................................ Hazel Gardiner Network Activities Coordinator AHRC ICT Methods Network Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College Kay House 7 Arundel Street WC2R 3DX 020 7848 2013 hazel.gardiner_at_kcl.ac.uk From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 19.312 contemplation and computing Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:37:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 457 (457) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Cell phones for sure. Action movies. Video game twitch-speed everything. An increaing intolerance for complexity in a more and more complex world. That's got to be scary. [deleted quotation]I disagree about blogs. I see them as attempts to make an impossible overload situation of input and analysis linear and personal. A complete change to the rules of engagement for thinking and publishing that allows people to get in a thought "in progress". Of course, the blog is no better than the blogger. [deleted quotation]That's the irony isn't it? The more access to information we have the more ignorant we become. Maybe it is too intimidating or maybe the "twitch speed" phenomenon erodes patience. [deleted quotation]Oh, yes, the disruption of privacy! I have come to loath phones while I am at home. :-) I don't always answer mine anymore. -- Lynda Williams, http://www.okalrel.org "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Cellphones & Syllogisms Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:39:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 458 (458) Willard It is tempting to counter recent comments about cell phone usage and youth with some syllogistic reasoning and indcated that that not all users exhibit the pattern associated with all youth. But to do so would be to implicitly condone the view that there is something wrong with social behaviour or with thinking processes that are anchored in social behaviour. Allow me to remind readers of the Myers Briggs classification, among others, of psychological types to reflect for a moment that the talkative outward focussed style of thinking aloud with others that characteristic trait of some cell phone users and some blog writers could be interpreted as either extraverted or introverted. And a further indulgence: Heidegger's What is Called Thinking? in J. Glenn Gray's translation asks "Can we see something that is told? We can, provided what is told is more than just the sound of words, provided the seeing is more than just the seeing with the eyes of the body." Working with computers one can perhaps find the blind spots in Heidegger's formulations. Work with computers, electronic or otherwise, brings one to a way of seeing so that which is seen is not that which is told but the telling. Indeed it is Heidegger's text itself which provides the antidote to universalist claims to panopticity: "You cannot talk of colors to the blind. But a still greater ill than blindness is delusion. Delusion believes that it sees, and that it sees in the only possible manner, even while this its belief robs it of sight." Let us look anew at the cell phone user or the blog writer. Figures of fungibility. They are like poets. Entwined with language. Soaring on the delivery: correct message to the correct person at the correct time. They flit, flirt and flame. Sight may be too coarse a sense to capture an image of the play of reading and composing and transmitting. "Poets can even smell words" writes George Steiner in After Babel. He goes on on the same page to provide a most evocative description of humans as language users and inhabitants. Please not the passing reference to digital machines: Yet all these are only naive pictures, made up of impressions, half-realized metaphors, and analogies with counters as obvious as electronics. It is very likely that the internalization of language and of languages in the human mind involves phenomena of ordered and ordering space, that temporal and spatially-distributive hierarchies are involved. But no topologies of n-dimensional spaces, no mathematical theories of knots, rings, lattices, or closed and open curvatures, no algebra of matrices can until now authorize even the most preliminary model of "language-spaces" in the central nervous system. These allow the autonomous existence of single languages while, at the same time, making possible the acquisition of other languages and the most intense degree of mutual penetration. They permit languages to recede from either the "surface" or the "centre" of immediate fluency, and then allow their return. The membranes of differentiation and of contact, the dynamics of interlingual osmosis, the constraints which preserve equilibrium between the blandnes of mere lexcial, public usage and he potentially chaotic prodigality of private invention and association, the speed and delicacy of retrieval and of discard involved in even the barest act of paraphrase or translation -- all these are of a class of intricacy and evolutionary uniqueness of which we can, at present, offer no adequate image let alone systemic analysis. Steiner then offers a footnote referencing the work of mathematician Rene Thom as the "most sophisticated attempt made so far". Can you smell in the chatter of networks an analogue of the dialogic intensity of internal babbling? The cooking smells of culture? The whisps of eros? When incensed by what you see, do you have at hand the equivalent of a nosegay, a sandalwood fan? Do remember the memories of when you last assembled with friends to listen to the incense? I thank Kiyoko Morita for having given me a concluding txt msg hito no on-kokochi ito en nari "One's mind has become elegant" is the phrase used by Lady Murasaki in The Tale of Genji to describe the outcome of listening to incense. Elegance is a virtue to mathematicians too. Poets just might favour the shabby for one. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 6(3) The State of the Art Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:36:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 459 (459) of Qualitative Research in Europe Dear All, We would like to inform you that the 19th issue of the open-access journal "Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS), edited by Hubert Knoblauch, Uwe Flick & Christoph Maeder in cooperation with Iain Lang, is available online. FQS 6(3) deals with "The State of the Art of Qualitative Research in Europe" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-05-e.htm). The contributions provide unique insights into the variety and richness of qualitative social research in Europe (without limiting the issue to a solely European perspective). As always, in addition to articles relating to "Qualitative Research in Europe," FQS 6(3) also provides selected single contributions and articles that belong to the FQS Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics, to FQS Reviews, and to FQS Conferences. Enjoy reading! Katja Mruck FQS-Editor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FQS 6(3) THE STATE OF THE ART OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EUROPE http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-05-e.htm English http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt3-05-d.htm German http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt3-05-s.htm Spanish Katja Mruck, César A. Cisneros Puebla & Robert Faux: Editorial: About Qualitative Research Centers and Peripheries http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-49-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-49-s.htm Hubert Knoblauch, Uwe Flick (Germany) & Christoph Maeder (Switzerland): Qualitative Methods in Europe: The Variety of Social Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-34-e.htm 1. General Methodological Trends in Qualitative Research Paul Atkinson (UK): Qualitative Research -- Unity and Diversity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-26-e.htm Giampietro Gobo (Italy): The Renaissance of Qualitative Methods http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-42-e.htm David Silverman (UK): Instances or Sequences? Improving the State of the Art of Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-30-e.htm 2. National Overviews: Qualitative Methods in Various European Countries in Comparison to the U.S. Johannes Angermueller (Germany): "Qualitative" Methods of Social Research in France: Reconstructing the Actor, Deconstructing the Subject http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-19-e.htm Ronald Hitzler (Germany): The Reconstruction of Meaning. Notes on German Interpretive Sociology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-45-e.htm Shalva Weil (Israel): Qualitative Methods in Israel http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-46-e.htm Attila Bruni & Giampietro Gobo (Italy): Qualitative Research in Italy http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-41-e.htm Dirk Schubotz (Northern Ireland): Beyond the Orange and the Green. The Diversification of the Qualitative Social Research Landscape in Northern Ireland http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-29-e.htm Krzysztof T. Konecki, Anna M. Kacperczyk & Lukasz T. Marcianiak (Poland): Polish Qualitative Sociology. The General Features and Development http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-27-e.htm Frane Adam & Darka Podmenik (Slovenia): Qualitative Research in a Changing Epistemic Context. The Case of a Small Social Science Community http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-40-e.htm Miguel S. Valles & Alejandro Baer (Spain): Qualitative Social Research in Spain: Past, Present, and Future. A Portrait http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-18-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-18-s.htm Thomas S. Eberle & Florian Elliker (Switzerland): A Cartography of Qualitative Research in Switzerland http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-24-e.htm Karen Henwood & Iain Lang (UK): Qualitative Social Science in the UK: A Reflexive Commentary on the "State of the Art" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-48-e.htm Uwe Flick (Germany): Qualitative Research in Sociology in Germany and the US -- State of the Art, Differences and Developments http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-23-e.htm Margarethe Kusenbach (USA): Across the Atlantic: Current Issues and Debates in US Ethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-47-e.htm 3. Innovations in Special Methods Reiner Keller (Germany): Analysing Discourse. An Approach From the Sociology of Knowledge http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-32-e.htm Hubert Knoblauch (Germany): Focused Ethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-44-e.htm Kai-Olaf Maiwald (Germany): Competence and Praxis: Sequential Analysis in German Sociology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-31-e.htm Eva Nadai & Christoph Maeder (Switzerland): Fuzzy Fields. Multi-Sited Ethnography in Sociological Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-28-e.htm Michaela Pfadenhauer (Germany): Ethnography of Scenes. Towards a Sociological Life-world Analysis of (Post-traditional) Community-building http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-43-e.htm Single Contributions Karen Cronick (Venezuela): A Rhetorical and Hermeneutic Analysis of Texts Related to Alcohol Use http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-8-e.htm http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-8-s.htm Anat Kainan, Michal Rozenberg, Miri Munk & Nurit Eilam (Israel): The Descendants of Time and the Lodgers of Space: The Life Stories of Teacher Trainees who Immigrated to Israel During the 1990s http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-10-e.htm Andrea Lauser (Germany): Locating Ethnography and Global Processes http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-7-e.htm Wiebke Lohfeld (USA): Fight for Recognition. The Portrait of the German Physician Paula TOBIAS (1886-1970). A Reconstructive Biographical Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-22-e.htm Katie MacMillan (UK): More Than Just Coding? Evaluating CAQDAS in a Discourse Analysis of News Texts http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-25-e.htm Marcello Maneri (Italy) & Jessika ter Wal (The Netherlands): The Criminalisation of Ethnic Groups: An Issue for Media Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-9-e.htm Henning van den Brink (Germany): Cooperation Relationships in Community Prevention Committees -- Neglected by Qualitative Social Research? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-20-e.htm FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics" Lisa J. Blodgett, Wanda Boyer & Emily Turk (Canada): "No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-35-e.htm Rowhea Elmesky (USA): Rethinking Qualitative Research: Research Participants as Central Researchers and Enacting Ethical Practices as Habitus http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-36-e.htm Michelle K. McGinn (Canada): Ethical and Friendly Researchers, but not Insiders: A Response to Blodgett, Boyer, and Turk http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-37-e.htm Catherine Milne (USA): On Being Authentic: A Response to "No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-38-e.htm Kathryn Scantlebury (USA): Maintaining Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies: A Quixotic Ideal? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-39-e.htm FQS Reviews Michael Appel (Germany): Review, Birgit Griese, Hedwig Rose Griesehop & Martina Schiebel (Eds.) (2004). Perspektiven qualitativer Sozialforschung. Beitraege des 1. und 2. Bremer Workshops. Werkstattberichte des INBL 14 [Perspectives of Qualitative Research. Contributions to Workshops One and Two in Bremen. Notes on the Workshops of the INBL 14] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-1-e.htm Robin M. Boylorn (USA): Review, Ina-Maria Greverus, Sharon MacDonald, Regina Romhild, Gisela Welz & Helena Wullf (Eds.) (2002). Stability Upon Shifting Ground: Review Note of Shifting Grounds: Experiments in Doing Ethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-17-e.htm Charles Lee Cole (USA): Review, Paul ten Have (2004). Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-12-e.htm Birgit Huber (Germany): No More Separation between Paid Work and Leisure? Methodological and Empirical Challenges in the Debate about Post-Fordism. Review Essay, Sabine Hess & Johannes Moser (Eds.) (2003). Kultur der Arbeit - Kultur der neuen Oekonomie. Kulturwissenschaftliche Beitraege zu neoliberalen Arbeits- und Lebenswelten [Culture of Work -- Culture of the New Economy. Cultural Studies in European Ethnology about Spheres of Working and Living in a Neo-liberal Society] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-2-e.htm Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Janet Heaton (2004). Reworking Qualitative Data http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-15-e.htm Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Mechthild Kiegelmann & Leo Guertler (Eds.) (2003). Research Questions and Matching Methods of Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-16-e.htm Ralf Ottermann (Germany): Constructivism is the Invention of a Critic. Review Essay, Heinz v. Foerster & Bernhard Poerksen (2004). Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Luegners. Gespraeche fuer Skeptiker [Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics. New York: Kluwer] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-3-e.htm Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review, Susan Geideck & Wolf-Andreas Liebert (Eds.) (2003). Sinnformeln. Linguistische und soziologische Analysen von Leitbildern, Metaphern und anderen kollektiven Orientierungsmustern [Meaning Formulas. Linguistic and Sociological Analysis of Models, Metaphors and Other Collective Patterns of Orientation] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-4-e.htm Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review, Ronald Hitzler & Jo Reichertz (Eds.) (2003). Irritierte Ordnung. Die gesellschaftliche Verarbeitung von Terror [Irritated System. The Social Processing of Terror] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-21-e.htm Kara M. Strobel (Canada): After the Aftermath: A Reply to Wolff-Michael Roth's Review of Harry F. Wolcott's "Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath" published in FQS 5(1) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-6-e.htm Wayne Thexton (UK): Review, Birgitta Qvarsell & Christoph Wulf (Eds.) (2003). Culture and Education. European Studies in Education (Volume 16) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-14-e.htm Nicole Westmarland (UK): Review, Lesley Noaks & Emma Wincup (2004). Criminological Research -- Understanding Qualitative Methods / Mark R. Pogrebin (Ed.) (2003). Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice -- Perspectives from the Field http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-13-e.htm FQS Conferences Lars Allolio-Naecke (Germany): How Much Culture is Psychology Able to Deal With? Conference Report, "The 100 Years of the German Society of Psychology" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-11-e.htm Silke-Birgitta Gahleitner & Leo Guertler (Germany): Conference Report, Fifth Annual Meeting of Qualitative Psychology: "Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction" / First meeting of the Special Interest Group No. 17 of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI): "Mixed Methodology in Psychological Research" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-33-e.htm Thomas Kuehn (Germany): The Hunt for the Nibelungen Treasure. Report BVM Conference, "Qualitative Market Research -- State of the Art and Prospects" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-05/05-3-5-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: Simon Harper Subject: Call for Chapters - Linguistic and Cultural Online Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:36:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 460 (460) Communication Issues in the Global Age Call for Chapters - Submission Deadline Nov. 15, 2005 For the Edited Collection Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age Edited by Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University, USA INTRODUCTION TO SUBJECT AREA International online access has grown rapidly in recent years with the number of global Internet users growing by almost 2.8 million in July of 2004 alone. This increased global access, however, brings with it a variety of new conditions and concerns that could markedly affect international interactions in online environments. Differences in language, cultural communication expectations, laws, and software standards are but some of the factors individuals need to consider when using online media to interact with individuals from different countries and cultures. This collection will address these issues by exploring the various aspects that could affect communication and comprehension in international online interactions. OBJECTIVE OF PROPOSED BOOK The primary objective of this text is to provide readers with in-depth information on the various linguistic, cultural, technological, legal, and other factors that affect interactions in online exchanges. Through examining such topics, this collection would help readers make more effective decisions related to the uses and design of online media when interacting with individuals from other cultures. This primary objective would also accomplish two secondary, but equally important, objectives: . The collection would provide readers with the foundational knowledge needed to communicate effectively with individuals from other countries and cultures via online media. . The collection would provide readers with the knowledge needed to create effective online materials for users (clients, students, colleagues, etc.) from other countries and cultures. AUDIENCE FOR THIS PROPOSED TEXT The primary audience for this book would include seven groups that would use this text for a variety of reasons. These audiences/groups are: . Executives, managers, and other business decision makers . Marketers, service providers, and support personnel . Researchers (both academic and corporate) studying cross-cultural discourse in online environments . Educators who teach in online learning environments . Educational administrators who manage international students participating in online programs . Administrators of international non-profit agencies RECOMMENDED TOPICS Prospective subject areas and specific topics for this publication include, but are not limited to, the following: The Growth of Global Online Access . Historical developments affecting international Internet access and developments or trends currently affecting international online access . The global digital divide and public and private projects used to expand international Internet use. Language, Culture, and Online Communication . Linguistic and other cultural communication factors affecting online exchanges . Implications linguistic or cultural communication differences could have for future developments related to online communication . English as a global language and how cultural groups use different kinds of online media Technology, Compatibility, and International Online Discourse . Technological factors that affect if, how, and when individuals from different nations use online media to locate or to exchange information . Different kinds of software and hardware/computing technology used to interact online . Effects telecommunications infrastructures of different regions have on online access in those areas Law, Policy, and International Internet Use . Legal standards or policy stances affecting how individuals in different nations use online media . Different national privacy and copyright laws affecting the nature of international online interactions . Policies of government monitoring that affect uses of online media in different nations . Policies on infrastructure developments that affect online access in different regions Markets, Economics, and International E-commerce . Economic conditions affecting how individuals in different nations use online media . Prospects of using online media to tap overseas markets . Corporate plans for expanding online access into different regions (especially developing nations) . E-marketing practices related to global audiences . International outsourcing's affects on online access in different regions . Economic factors affecting the language and design choices used when interacting online Globalization, Education, and Online Environments . Educational factors affecting online access and use in different regions . Effects of globalization on online education and enrollments in online programs . Examinations of how different educational conditions and standards uses of online media . Discussions of how online environments can improve education in different regions Perspectives on the Future of Global Cyberspace . Future development of international online access and discourse in global cyberspace . Establishing global standards for online discourse (or online legal practices) . Examining how technology developments might change the nature of international cyberspace . Discussions of what increased global online access might mean for domestic online interactions SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 200-500 words on or before November 15, 2005. In their proposal, prospective authors should clearly explain: . The purpose and the contents of their proposed chapter . How their proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal and sent chapter organization guidelines by December 15, 2005. Drafts of chapters will be due by March 15, 2006. Please send inquiries or submit material electronically (Rich Text files) to the editor at kirk.st-amant_at_ttu.edu 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 sig ==== Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: Donna Reiss Subject: teaching literature online Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:47:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 461 (461) Dear Humanists, A small group of faculty at Clemson University, South Carolina, would appreciate your help as we research classes that teach literature totally or primarily online. We're particularly interested in the sophomore surveys of American, British, and world lit that are part of many general education curricula but would welcome examples from any literature course as good models of what's possible: syllabi, assignments, anything.... If you or your colleagues who teach these classes are willing to correspond with us and/or give us links to your classes, we'd be grateful. Thanks very much, Donna ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ 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 WordsWorth2 Communications and Consulting http://wordsworth2.net 203 Grove Drive, Clemson, SC 29631-2310 ~^~ 864-654-2886 ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: ISR 30.3 Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:02:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 462 (462) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 30.3 1. ISR Editorial. Cattermole, Howard. pp. 193-193(1) 2. Mapping science: in memory of John Ziman. Midgley, Marypp. 195-197(3) 3. The Perthes geographical archive: an unplumbed resource for the history of geography. Rey, Luciennepp. 199-203(5) 4. Desiring structures: exhibiting the dendritic form. Kwint, Mariuspp. 205-221 5. Unfortunate trends in the popularisation of science. Laszlo, Pierrepp. 223-230(8) 6. Scientists and the media: the struggle for legitimacy in climate change and conservation science. Ladle, Richard. J.; Jepson, Paul; Whittaker, Robert J.pp. 231-240(10) 7. Can Psychological research on 'race' be socially responsible? Richards, Grahampp. 241-246(6) 8. Professional ethics and the 'good' of science. Chadwick, Ruth. pp. 247-256(10) 9. Who's afraid of biomedicine? Insights, fears, risks and opportunities. Sargent, Michael G. pp. 257-272(16) 10. Gods with a limited budget: putting the utility back into utilitarian health politics. Miller, Jane; Sethe, Sebastian. pp. 273-278 11.Book Reviews. pp. 279-288 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 19.312 contemplation and computing Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:37:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 463 (463) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Cell phones for sure. Action movies. Video game twitch-speed everything. An increaing intolerance for complexity in a more and more complex world. That's got to be scary. [deleted quotation]I disagree about blogs. I see them as attempts to make an impossible overload situation of input and analysis linear and personal. A complete change to the rules of engagement for thinking and publishing that allows people to get in a thought "in progress". Of course, the blog is no better than the blogger. [deleted quotation]That's the irony isn't it? The more access to information we have the more ignorant we become. Maybe it is too intimidating or maybe the "twitch speed" phenomenon erodes patience. [deleted quotation]Oh, yes, the disruption of privacy! I have come to loath phones while I am at home. :-) I don't always answer mine anymore. -- Lynda Williams, http://www.okalrel.org "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Cellphones & Syllogisms Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:39:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 464 (464) Willard It is tempting to counter recent comments about cell phone usage and youth with some syllogistic reasoning and indcated that that not all users exhibit the pattern associated with all youth. But to do so would be to implicitly condone the view that there is something wrong with social behaviour or with thinking processes that are anchored in social behaviour. Allow me to remind readers of the Myers Briggs classification, among others, of psychological types to reflect for a moment that the talkative outward focussed style of thinking aloud with others that characteristic trait of some cell phone users and some blog writers could be interpreted as either extraverted or introverted. And a further indulgence: Heidegger's What is Called Thinking? in J. Glenn Gray's translation asks "Can we see something that is told? We can, provided what is told is more than just the sound of words, provided the seeing is more than just the seeing with the eyes of the body." Working with computers one can perhaps find the blind spots in Heidegger's formulations. Work with computers, electronic or otherwise, brings one to a way of seeing so that which is seen is not that which is told but the telling. Indeed it is Heidegger's text itself which provides the antidote to universalist claims to panopticity: "You cannot talk of colors to the blind. But a still greater ill than blindness is delusion. Delusion believes that it sees, and that it sees in the only possible manner, even while this its belief robs it of sight." Let us look anew at the cell phone user or the blog writer. Figures of fungibility. They are like poets. Entwined with language. Soaring on the delivery: correct message to the correct person at the correct time. They flit, flirt and flame. Sight may be too coarse a sense to capture an image of the play of reading and composing and transmitting. "Poets can even smell words" writes George Steiner in After Babel. He goes on on the same page to provide a most evocative description of humans as language users and inhabitants. Please not the passing reference to digital machines: Yet all these are only naive pictures, made up of impressions, half-realized metaphors, and analogies with counters as obvious as electronics. It is very likely that the internalization of language and of languages in the human mind involves phenomena of ordered and ordering space, that temporal and spatially-distributive hierarchies are involved. But no topologies of n-dimensional spaces, no mathematical theories of knots, rings, lattices, or closed and open curvatures, no algebra of matrices can until now authorize even the most preliminary model of "language-spaces" in the central nervous system. These allow the autonomous existence of single languages while, at the same time, making possible the acquisition of other languages and the most intense degree of mutual penetration. They permit languages to recede from either the "surface" or the "centre" of immediate fluency, and then allow their return. The membranes of differentiation and of contact, the dynamics of interlingual osmosis, the constraints which preserve equilibrium between the blandnes of mere lexcial, public usage and he potentially chaotic prodigality of private invention and association, the speed and delicacy of retrieval and of discard involved in even the barest act of paraphrase or translation -- all these are of a class of intricacy and evolutionary uniqueness of which we can, at present, offer no adequate image let alone systemic analysis. Steiner then offers a footnote referencing the work of mathematician Rene Thom as the "most sophisticated attempt made so far". Can you smell in the chatter of networks an analogue of the dialogic intensity of internal babbling? The cooking smells of culture? The whisps of eros? When incensed by what you see, do you have at hand the equivalent of a nosegay, a sandalwood fan? Do remember the memories of when you last assembled with friends to listen to the incense? I thank Kiyoko Morita for having given me a concluding txt msg hito no on-kokochi ito en nari "One's mind has become elegant" is the phrase used by Lady Murasaki in The Tale of Genji to describe the outcome of listening to incense. Elegance is a virtue to mathematicians too. Poets just might favour the shabby for one. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:47:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 465 (465) of Information The October 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 2,157 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 *Monographs Coordinator *University of Saskatchewan Library *E-mail: marian.dworaczek_at_usask.ca *Home Page: <http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze>http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity6.36 Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:48:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 466 (466) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 36 (October 5 - 11, 2005) VIEWS INDUS: A NEW PLATFORM FOR UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING Kallol Borah began development of the Indus project at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2002. Indus demonstrates how general purpose object oriented programming languages can be extended to enable ubiquitous computing applications. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i36_borah.html From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- September 2005 Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:49:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 467 (467) CIT INFOBITS September 2005 No. 87 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. ...................................................................... Papers on the University and the Internet Academic Commons More on Games as Learning Tools Videoblogging Primer Bookseller Turns Publisher Recommended Reading ...................................................................... PAPERS ON THE UNIVERSITY AND THE INTERNET EDUCAUSE is making available online, at no cost, THE INTERNET AND THE UNIVERSITY: FORUM 2004. The book is a collection of papers from the Forum's 2004 Aspen Symposium. The papers cover three areas: technology and globalization, technology and scholarship, and technology and the brain. The book is available in PDF format at http://www.educause.edu/apps/forum/iuf04.asp. The Forum on the Internet and the University "seeks to understand how the Internet and new learning media can improve the quality and condition of learning, as well as the opportunities and risks created by rapid technological innovation and economic change." EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in Boulder, CO, and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at http://www.educause.edu/. ...................................................................... ACADEMIC COMMONS In August the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College launched the Academic Commons -- a website offering "a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education." In addition to publishing essays and reviews and showcasing innovative projects, the site also offers the Developer's Kit, an area for sharing project descriptions and pieces of code, and LoLa Exchange, which shares high-quality learning objects. The Academic Commons is available at http://www.academiccommons.org/. The mission of the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College is "to explore, test, and promote liberal arts education . . . [and] to ensure that the nature and value of liberal arts education is widely understood and to reestablish the central place of the liberal arts in higher education." For more information about the Center: email: liberalarts@wabash.edu; Web: http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/. ...................................................................... MORE ON GAMES AS LEARNING TOOLS The July 2005 issue of CIT Infobits presented a roundup of articles on computer games as learning tools ("Games Children Play," http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitjul05.html#4). For more on this topic, see the special issue of INNOVATE (vol. 1, issue 6, August/September 2005) which is devoted to the "role of video game technology in current and future educational settings." Papers include: "What Would a State of the Art Instructional Video Game Look Like?" by J. P. Gee, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Changing the Game: What Happens When Video Games Enter the Classroom?" by Kurt Squire, Assistant Professor of Educational Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Game-Informed Learning: Applying Computer Game Processes to Higher Education" by Michael Begg, David Dewhurst, and Hamish Macleod, University of Edinburgh The entire issue is available online at http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=issue&id=9. You may need to register on the Innovate website to access papers; there is no charge for registration and access. Innovate [ISSN 1552-3233] is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. Readers can comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and participate in open forums. For more information, contact James L. Morrison, Editor-in-Chief, Innovate; email: innovate_at_nova.edu; Web: http://www.innovateonline.info/. ...................................................................... VIDEOBLOGGING PRIMER The next development in blogging -- videoblogs or vlogs -- incorporates video images captured by digital cameras or camera-equipped cell phones. What implications does this type of content on education? Read "7 Things You Should Know about . . . Videoblogging" to get a quick overview of what videoblogging is, who's using it in higher education, why it's significant, and what are the downsides. The paper is available online at no cost at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7005.pdf. EDUCAUSE publishes the "7 Things You Should Know About . . ." series on a variety of emerging learning practices and technologies. To read other papers in the series, go to http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495. ...................................................................... BOOKSELLER TURNS PUBLISHER As the costs of individual papers in course packs seems to rise each semester, it will be interesting to see how Amazon's new "Amazon Shorts" venture fares. The bookseller's new online publishing project delivers short stories and essays by well-know authors to readers for $0.49 each. And purchasers can save and print the pieces "forever." Categories include biography and memoirs, fiction, mystery and thrillers, nonfiction, science, and science fiction and fantasy. While the selection is limited for now, if Amazon Shorts is successful, it could provide an inexpensive way to augment course materials. For more details, go to http://www.amazon.com/shorts/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society By Rich Ling Morgan Kaufmann, 2004 ISBN: 1558609369 "Although people complain of the mobile phone's intrusion into polite society, there are many other aspects to this phenomenon. We rely on the mobile telephone. It helps us coordinate our lives while on the run; it provides us with a sense of safety and gives us accessibility to others. We personalize the device, and in doing so we make a statement as to who we are and how we want to be seen. It is also worth noting that this transition has come quite quickly. A decade ago the mobile telephone was the symbol of yuppies, not teens. Now it has nudged and pushed its way into our everyday lives in new ways. The rise of mobile, push to talk, multimedia messages and various handheld computing devices will add a new twist to all this." The book's Introduction is available online, courtesy of Ubiquity (vol. 6, issue 33, September 13-20, 2005), at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v6i33_ling.html. From: Willard McCarty Subject: visions of a noisy, distracted world Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:56:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 468 (468) We all know from the history of the 20th Century and of this one already that civilization can go down the pan and that particular human cultures can take a serious turn for the worse. We know from our own universities that institutions of higher education can lose track of their reason for being and so lower themselves. But I think we should be cautious whenever we think we see a decline and fall in ordinary life, caused for example by mobile (cell) phones, computer games &c &c. I think we should ask, how much of this decline is in the eye (and, in general, body) of the beholder? How much is due to a hardening of the mind as well as stiffening of the joints? If (God forbid) *we* cannot have fun any more, has having fun ceased to be possible? Let us suppose, as so many of our predecessors (including Plato) have similarly concluded, that Today's Youth is going to hell in a handbasket while talking on its mobile phone. Is not our job as teachers to reach this youth where it lives and open up the possibilities for a better life by addressing its way of being? And what does this have to do with humanities computing? Much to do, I would think. Especially given the methodological nature of the subject. For a strong and broad argument, see the essay by the great anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, "'Sentimental Pessimism' and Ethnographic Experience", in Lorraine Daston, ed., Biographies of Scientific Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 158-202. An exciting book, by the way. Good to read as, in this hemisphere, winter is icumen in. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Nancy Ide Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation: Special Inaugural Issue Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:45:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 469 (469) ***** JUST PUBLISHED ***** Special Inaugural Issue LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Nancy Ide and Nicoletta Calzolari, Co-Editors-in-Chief Volume 39**, Number 1 Springer Available online at <http://www.springerlink.com>www.springerlink.com Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to the acquisition, creation, annotation, and use of language resources, together with methods for evaluation of resources, technologies, and applications. The special inaugural issue is dedicated to the memory of Antonio Zampolli, who pioneered efforts to develop and use language resources to enhance language processing. The second issue of LRE, to appear shortly, will be a special on Advanced Issues in Question Answering, edited by James Pustejovsky and Janyce Wiebe. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction to the Special Inaugural Issue -- Nancy Ide and Nicoletta Calzolari European Language Resources Association: Background, Recent Developments, and Future Perspectives -- ente Maegaard, Khalid Choukri, Nicoletta Calzolari,Jan Odijk Some of My Best Friends are Linguists -- Frederick Jelinek Developing Language Technologies with the Support of Language Resources and Evaluation Programs -- Joseph Mariani Accuracy and Suitability: New Challenges for Evaluation -- Margaret King Can We Talk? Methods for Evaluation and Training of Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Marilyn Walker Thesaurus or Logical Ontology: Which One Do We Need for Text Mining? -- Junichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou Hybrid Architectures for Machine Translation Systems -- Gregor Thurmair Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Speech as the Expression of Affect Rather Than Just Text or Language -- Nick Campbell ---------- **The volume series numbers for LRE have been retained from the journal Computers and the Humanities, which LRE replaces. From: Nancy Ide Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Language Resources and Evaluation Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:45:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 470 (470) LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION Published by Springer Editors-in-chief: Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Nicoletta Calzolari, Isitiuto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Italy Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to the acquisition, creation, annotation, management, and use of language resources, together with methods for their evaluation. Language resources include language data and descriptions used to assist and augment language processing applications, 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 tools for their acquisition, preparation, annotation, management, customization, and use. Evaluation of language resources involves=20 assessment the state- of-the-art for a given=20 technology, comparison of approaches, validation of results, benchmarking, and assessment of system usability and user satisfaction. The journal editors are soliciting submissions on any of the following topics: =B7 Methods, tools, and procedures for the creation and annotation of mono- and multi-lingual language resources =B7 Methods for knowledge extraction and acquisition =B7 Guidelines, standards, models, and best practices =B7 Multimedia and multimodal language resources, and their integration =B7 Ontologies and knowledge representation =B7 Exploitation of language resources to enhance language processing applications and sub-tasks =B7 Language resources in the context of the Semantic Web =B7 Language resources metadata =B7 Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures =B7 Resources for benchmarking and evaluation, blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation Language Resources and Evaluation is the official journal of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA),=20 sponsor of the bi- annual LREC conference. All submissions are now made on-line! For=20 information, see http:// www.springeronline.com/=20 (go to Linguistics > Computational Linguistics) or 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: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: RE: 19.321 contemplation and computing Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:46:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 471 (471) Willard wrote: ================================================================= Let us suppose, as so many of our predecessors (including Plato) have similarly concluded, that Today's Youth is going to hell in a handbasket while talking on its mobile phone. Is not our job as teachers to reach this youth where it lives and open up the possibilities for a better life by addressing its way of being? ================================================================= One of my memorable moments in academe was going as a faculty representative to an MSU Commencement at which Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame spoke. He began, "The youth are rioting in the street. They show no respect for their elders." For those of us not as adept with primary sources as Willard, Bartleby dot Com attributes it to Plato who attributes it to Socrates. http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html QUOTATION: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.\ ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277 (1953). This passage was very popular in the 1960s and its essence was used by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3, 1966, p. 16. This use prompted Malcolm S. Forbes to write an editorial on youth.-Forbes, April 15, 1966, p. 11. In that same issue, under the heading "Side Lines," pp. 5-6, is a summary of the efforts of researchers and scholars to confirm the wording of Socrates, or Plato, but without success. Evidently, the quotation is spurious. GOOGLE search says http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=408989 The quote is commonly attributed to Socrates, but apparently there is no conclusive evidence that he actually said it. The Library of Congress notes that this quote is "attributed to Socrates by Plato"... The quote may have come from Plato's Republic Book 4, where Socrates is quoted saying the following regarding things that he thinks have been neglected: "I mean such things as these: - when the young are to be silent before their elders; how they are to show respect to them by standing and making them sit; what honour is due to parents; what garments or shoes are to be worn; the mode of dressing the hair; deportment and manners in general. You would agree with me? - Yes." ...snip... Here's another one: "I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC). => I have been sustained in the Academy over the years by the (evidently false) belief that these quotes are correct. I feel like my intellectual teddy bear has just been snatched away. _________________________________________________ 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: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: 19.321 contemplation and computing Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:47:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 472 (472) In this connection I often think of a story that if memory serves (alas, what odds) Kurt Vonnegut tells, about a royal astronomer. He runs to the king to explain that the universe is ending, because the stars are going out. 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From: Jana Sukkarieh Subject: Natural Language and Knowledge Representation ( 2nd CFP) Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:05:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 474 (474) NATURAL LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (NL-KR) Special Track at FLAIRS 2006 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Holiday Inn Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne Beach, FLORIDA, USA MAIN CONFERENCE: 11-12-13 MAY 2006 Special track web page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR Main conference web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06 PURPOSE OF THE NL-KR TRACK We believe the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Knowledge Representation (KR) communities have common goals. They are both concerned with representing knowledge and with reasoning, since the best test for the semantic capability of an NLP system is performing reasoning tasks. Having these two essential common grounds, the two communities ought to have been collaborating, to provide a well-suited representation language that covers these grounds. However, the two communities also have difficult-to-meet concerns. Mainly, the semantic representation (SR) should be expressive enough and should take the information in context into account, while the KR should be equipped with a fast reasoning process. The main objection against an SR or a KR is that they need experts to be understood. Non-experts communicate (usually) via a natural language (NL), and more or less they understand each other while performing a lot of reasoning. An essential practical value of representations is their attempt to be transparent. This will particularly be useful when/if the system provides a justification for a user or a knowledge engineer on its line of reasoning using the underlying KR (i.e. without generating back to NL). We all seem to believe that, compared to Natural Language, the existing Knowledge Representation and reasoning systems are poor. Nevertheless, for a long time, the KR community dismissed the idea that NL can be a KR. That's because NL can be very ambiguous and there are syntactic and semantic processing complexities associated with it. However, researchers in both communities have started looking at this issue again. Possibly, it has to do with the NLP community making some progress in terms of processing and handling ambiguity, the KR community realising that a lot of knowledge is already 'coded' in NL and that one should reconsider the way they handle expressivity and ambiguity. This track is an attempt to provide a forum for discussion on this front and to bridge a gap between NLP and KR. A KR in this track has a well-defined syntax, semantics and a proof theory. It should be clear what authors mean by NL-like, based on NL or benefiting from NL (if they are using one). It does not have to be a novel representation. NL-KR TRACK TOPICS For this track, we will invite submissions including, but not limited to: a. A novel NL-like KR or building on an existing one b. Reasoning systems that benefit from properties of NL to reason with NL c. Semantic representation used as a KR : compromise between expressivity and efficiency? d. More Expressive KR for NL understanding (Any compromise?) e. Any work exploring how existing representations fall short of addressing some problems involved in modelling, manipulating or reasoning (whether reasoning as used to get an interpretation for a certain utterance, exchange of utterances or what utterances follow from other utterances) with NL documents f. Representations that show how classical logics are not as efficient, transparent, expressive or where a one-step application of an inference rule require more (complex) steps in a classical environment and vice-versa; i.e. how classical logics are more powerful, etc g. Building a reasoning test collection for natural language understanding systems: any kind of reasoning (deductive, abductive, etc); for a deductive test suite see for e.g. deliverable 16 of the FraCas project (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/). Also, look at textual entailment challenges 1 and 2 <http://www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/RTE> h. Comparative results (on a common test suite or a common task) of different representations or systems that reason with NL (again any kind of reasoning). The comparison could be either for efficiency, transparency or expressivity i. Knowledge acquisition systems or techniques that benefit from properties of NL to acquire knowledge already 'coded' in NL j. Automated Reasoning, Theorem Proving and KR communities views on all this [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:14:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 475 (475) Dear colleagues: I am more delighted than I can say to announce the publication of my new book, Humanities Computing (Palgrave). It has been officially published for some days now, but I was determined not to announce its existence until I had a copy of it in my hands. Now I do. Details (including a free pdf of the Introduction) are available at http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403935041. I apologise in advance for the price of the thing. I won't say it's not worth what my publisher is charging, but I do recall when several years ago I walked around for about an hour before paying $5 for C. S. Lewis, Study in Words. It was more than worth the price. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Plato on mobile phones Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:15:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 476 (476) I should have given a reference -- very uncharacteristic, if I may say so. See Republic 562b-563e. But there's still quite a bit of filtering between what Plato wrote and what we used to laugh about in the late 1960s -- those of us who *were* laughing, giggling, tumbling about &c. To be fair to ourselves, however, I suppose the point to be made is that when we talk in the genre of decline and fall, we're talking about a construct -- the world as we understand it to be, where "understand" should not be limited to the head. An extreme case is most sensitively handled in the recent German film, Der Untergang (Downfall), by Oliver Herschbiegel. It shows, among other things, that "the world as we know it" can blot out *everything* else, including parents' love for their children. At the other end of the spectrum is our mobile phone -- or, also for our crowd, what a friend once called "Internet to the pillow". (He answered e-mail all hours of day and night.) I know of one couple who sit in bed with their laptops, television going, surfing through E-Bay. But then perhaps they're still together because E-Bay gives the vision of unending promise that neither can provide the other. I wouldn't want to deny that evils are possible, minor ones embodied in devices, but I'd think that actual studies of such devices would tend heavily to qualify the original fears and to marginalize such people as the couple just referred to. Surely one of the appeals of device-caused downfall is the determinism of it: by making the unknown into an inevitable evil, we erect a shield against a far more fearful thing. But to the relevant question: what is it about our technologies and the hope and fear we wrap them in that is worth talking about in the classroom? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Steven D.Krause Subject: Re: 19.322 contemplation and computing Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:02:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 477 (477) Well, if it makes you feel any better, I know this quote is accurate: "Yes, and you have brought it about that the most promising of our young men are wasting their youth in drinking-bouts, in parties, in soft living and childish folly, to the neglect of all efforts to improve themselves; while those of grosser nature are engaged from morning until night in extremes of dissipation which in former days an honest slave would have despised. You see some of them chilling their wine at the "Nine-fountains" ; others, drinking in taverns; others, tossing dice in gambling dens; and many, hanging about the training-schools of the flute-girls." This comes from the Greek sophist/rhetorician/philosopher Isocrates' *Antidosis* and I'm pretty sure that is an "authentic" quote because it's referenced in some reliable places; for example: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text: 1999.01.0144&query=section%3D%23673&word=flute-girls I've also always understood this quote as Isocrates suggesting that the "kids today" are being distracted by sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. Incidentally, if you do a search with perseus for the term "flute girls," you'll note that this seems to have been a topic/issue for a number of ancient writers. Kind of interesting... Steven D. Krause Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature Eastern Michigan University * Ypsilanti, MI 48197 http://www.stevendkrause.com From: "D.FILROM - CARLOS MARTIN VIDE" Subject: sabbatical positions 2005-12 Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:03:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 478 (478) One/two sabbatical research positions may be available to start in the interval May 2006 - April 2007 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. REQUISITES AND DUTIES The positions will be filled in under the form of a scholarship (rather than a work contract). Spaniards working in Spain at present can not be accepted, while Spaniards working abroad can be. There is no restriction on nationality or age. The main duty of the positions is research, with possible doctoral supervising too. The scheme is extremely competitive. JOB PROFILE There are two tracks: Track A: - top-class experienced researchers having a strong record of publications and scientific achievements and being on leave from their home organization, - PhD degree awarded earlier than 2000, - not having occupied any sabbatical position in Spain since 2000, - duration: 3-12 months, - monthly salary in the interval 2,112-3,100 euros before taxes, likely in the highest part of the interval (depending on merits); notice that for the citizens of most countries a governmental agreement for avoiding double taxation will be applied, what involves that the mentioned salary will not be taxed in Spain, - travel grant of up to 3,000 euros, - health insurance coverage for the researcher and her/his family. Track B: - high-potential researchers in the first steps of their scientific career, having a remarkable record of publications and being on leave from their home organization, - PhD degree awarded later than 1999, - not having occupied any sabbatical position in Spain in the past, - duration: 9-18 months, - monthly salary in the interval 1,300-2,350 euros before taxes, likely in the highest part of the interval (depending on merits); notice that for the citizens of most countries a governmental agreement for avoiding double taxation will be applied, what involves that the mentioned salary will not be taxed in Spain, - travel grant of up to 3,000 euros, - health insurance coverage for the researcher and her/his family. 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 + research project + minor bureaucratic items), to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until October 15, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-12-A/B" (choose) in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Pre-selected candidates will be guided in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is October 31, 2005. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.37 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:20:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 479 (479) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 37 (October 12-18, 2005) INTERVIEW UBIQUITY INTERVIEW: ALAN LENTON ON GAMES Noted UK game-designer Alan Lenton talks about his award-winning multi-player game Federation and discusses the sociology and psychology of gaming. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i37_lenton.html From: "Matthew L. Jockers" Subject: Job at Stanford Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:20:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 480 (480) Stanford University's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) in conjunction with Academic Computing is currently seeking to hire an Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) to assist faculty and staff within the DLCL in basic tutorial and advanced development activities in the use of technology resources. The ATS will devise and develop technological solutions for academic needs, including researching and implementing data collection, qualitative and quantitative analysis tools to support research, developing web-based programs and databases for teaching and research, and teaching faculty and staff how to best employ technical resources. The ATS will also devote up to 8 hours/week assisting the broader academic community in using technology relevant to education within the humanities. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in one of the fields served by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages plus 3+ years' experience in academic computing and/or technology project management or equivalent. Excellent teaching, communication, interpersonal, and time/project management skills required. Experience teaching technology skills and the ability to apply technology in support of teaching and research in the humanities are essential. Additionally, candidates should be familiar with applications, resources, and techniques used in humanities teaching and research and have experience utilizing computing resources in a humanities environment. Candidates should possess expert knowledge of Mac and PC operating systems as well as facility with UNIX and experience developing web resources. Experience with database applications, digital imaging, multimedia production or specific knowledge of a programming/scripting language are also desirable. Review of Applications will begin on October 31st . For information on how to apply, please see complete position description at: http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers/acomp/ATS_DLCL.html For more on the ATS Program AT Stanford see: http://academiccomputing.stanford.edu/atsp/index.html For more on the DLCL see: http://dlcl.stanford.edu/ From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 19.326 contemplation and computing Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:17:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 481 (481) The cell phone is altering public space. While the effect upon individuals may be subjectively interpreted as leading to a new society in which continuous communication is enpowering, the effect on public space is that of a sustained irrelevant conversation. Today there is virtually a guarantee of at least one cell phone conversation in progress per subway car for the entire duration of a commute. The question is how many cell phone conversations can public space sustain before this becomes an intolerable background chatter. Just like cigarette smokers who didn't care for secondhand smoke, cell phone users themselves may begin to notice that it is hard to have a conversation amidst multiple other conversations taking place simultaneously. While audio devices for music can only be used with earphones, cell phones intrude into public space at the expense of everyone else's audio environmental quality. Is the answer that we will all have to wear earphones when outside to dampen the sound of everyone else's communications? Is a set of earphones and a music audio device the new defense against cell phones, the way sunglasses are an accepted defense against bright sunshine. Will future society regard people without earphones who ride mass transportation like travelers who forget their sunglasses when going to the beach? From: "marija dalbello" Subject: CFP: LIDA 2006, 29 May - 4 June 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:15:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 482 (482) ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Annual Course and Conference: *LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2006 *Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia 29 May =AD 4 June 2006 Inter-University Centre (http://www.iuc.hr) Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Hotel Odisej, island Mljet, Pomena, Croatia (http://www.hotelodisej.hr) Course web site: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Course email: lida_at_ffos.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 =91hot=92 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 2006 *Part* I. Cultural, social and institutional effects and place of digital libraries. Digital libraries are a world wide success, even though they are barely a decade old. Technology provides unprecedented access to a growing number of digital resources and library services. Digital libraries have spread in many fields, areas and institutions. Growth in their use is extraordinary. Numerous innovative practices have been developed and more are underway that account for this success and increased use globally. In fact, digital libraries are becoming a phenomenon with wide spread effects above and beyond libraries proper. The goal of the first part of LIDA 2006 is to explore the place and role of digital libraries in the wider realm of culture and society, as well as in the specific realm of organizations or institutions where they are housed. Of interest is to examine the effects that digital libraries have on social and cultural environment and on institutional practices. Included are role and effects of digital libraries in specific areas, such as education, science, humanities, scholarship, publishing or given disciplines and professions, and as related to specific cultural and social institutions, such as museums, academies, historical societies, or government, as well as specific institutions, such as universities, academic departments, research institutes, hospitals and the like. Contributions cover research and scholarly papers and posters. Invited are contributions (types described below) covering the following topics: * social and global aspects of digital libraries; effect of digital libraries on scholarship, education, arts, and culture in general or on specific institutions in particular * cultural, social, and institutional roles of digital libraries * contributions to these roles of innovative features, services, practices, modes of access, and structures in digital libraries * changes in cultural, social and institutional practices due to digital libraries =AD e.g. changes in education, professional practice, research, universities =85 * projects that cross digital libraries, museums, archives, and/or other institutions * studies of impact, value or significance of digital libraries * barriers and obstacles to success of digital libraries in society and institutions. *Part II. Building a digital library for children and young adults* A variety of 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. As a consequence, digital libraries are reaching out to specific audiences and providing digital resources and services geared toward that audience. Traditionally, libraries all over the globe have successfully developed and provided collections and services for children and young adults. Now they are moving in a big way to develop and provide digital library resources and services for that audience. Besides being challenging, this is a highly motivated area, with great potential and prospects, some of them already realized. The goal of the second part of LIDA 2006 is to share experiences from practice and research in development and operation of digital library resources and services specifically devoted to children and young adults. This involves existing state-of-the-art resources and services, as well s those that are on the drawing board or are contemplated for the future. On the practical side included are statements of principles and examples of best practices. On the research side, invited are examples of use of study results in areas such as literacy in information age in development of digital libraries for children and young adults. Contributions cover papers, posters, workshops and demonstrations. Contributions are invited that approach building, maintaining, and improving digital libraries for children and young adults from a number of perspectives. These include: * types of contents and services provided by digital libraries for children and young adults in public and other libraries and all schools =AD from preschools to high schools * steps in design, development, and implementation of a digital library for that audience * enabling the use of digital libraries for children and teens * student learning in libraries in the digital age; implications for information literacy * cultural heritage digital libraries in variety of institutions (museums, archives, variety of cultural institutors, government) oriented toward that audience * digital libraries and special education * experiences in establishing digital libraries in schools and public libraries in small or isolated library environments; cooperative approaches; promoting and safeguarding the library; effects in their community * library web sites for children and young adults =AD reaching out beyond the library * =93if you build will they come?=94 - needs, knowledge, skills of participant population; experiences with involving potential users =AD children, young adults, parents, teachers - in building and operating a digital library * necessary competencies and continuing education for librarians and information professionals in libraries or library services for children and young adults * evaluation of digital libraries for that audience _ _ *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-http://www.apastyle.org/index.html) style, followed, among others, by the _Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology_ (JASIST http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/jasis.html) and _Information Processing & Management_ (IP&M-http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/244/descr= iption#description). The papers will be refereed and published in /LIDA 2006 Proceedings/. 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 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 Chairs for Part II. Prof. Carol Kuhlthau. and Prof. Ross Todd. Full addresses are provided below. All submissions will be refereed. Deadlines: For papers and workshops 10 January 2006. Acceptance by 10 February 2006. For demonstrations and posters: 10 February 2006. Acceptance by 1 March 2006. Final submission for all 15 March 2006. *Invitation to institutions* We are inviting libraries, information agencies, professional organizations, publishers, and service providers to consider participation at LIDA by providing a demonstration, workshop, or exhibit about their products, services or 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 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 I: 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 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 USA Tel.: +1(732)932-7500/ extension 8222 Fax: (732)932-6916 Email: tefko_at_scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~tefko Program co-chairs for Part II: CAROL C. KUHLTHAU, PhD School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA Tel: +1(732)932-7500/ ext. 8217; Fax: +1(732)932-6916 Email: kuhlthau_at_scils.rutgers.edu ROSS TODD, PhD School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA Tel: +1(732)932-7500/ ext. 8223; Fax: +1(732)932-6916 Email: rtodd_at_scils.rutgers.edu http://scils.rutgers.edu/~rtodd GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AT THE ADDRESS OF Prof. TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC *Venues* The first part of LIDA 2006 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 29 May 2006 and post-conference workshops for 3 June 2006. 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. ************************************************* --=20 Marija Dalbello, Ph.D. 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: "Paul Spence" Subject: CLiP 2006 - First call for papers and posters Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:16:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 483 (483) =========================================================== CLiP 2006 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: 'Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world' Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, UK Thursday 29 June - Saturday 1 July 2006 http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ =========================================================== ABOUT CLiP The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference has taken place at a variety of European universities since the first conference in 1998. The initiative for the first seminar was taken by literary scholars who were not only aware of the importance of new technologies for the humanities, but also of what the humanities had contributed to the creation of digital culture in general and to the content of the Internet in particular. The discussions at CLiP conferences focus on the integration of Philology and Information Technology. In this context, 'Literature' and 'Philology' are to be understood in more general terms. 'Literature' means all sorts of texts (spoken, written, hypertext etc.), which may also contain images, sound materials, graphs etc. 'Philology' means the scholarship devoted to these texts from diverse perspectives. The theoretical and practical questions posed by the creation of digital materials and the integration of Philology and media technologies are debated. The implications for research and teaching are examined and current projects in the field are presented. This conference can best be seen as a three-day seminar, in that there are no parallel sessions, there is as coherent an academic focus as possible and the participation of young scholars is actively encouraged. One of the key objectives of CLiP is to open an independent humanities computing space specifically - although not exclusively - dedicated to the emerging humanities computing communities in the fields of study that are relevant to the Romance languages areas. CLiP conferences approach these issues from a multicultural European perspective and aim to foment international collaboration in research and teaching as a result. These discussions are part of the international debate about the discipline of Humanities Computing which is happening at the interface between the Humanities and Information Technology. The participants are also interested in the exchange of ideas, methods and techniques with scholars from outside Europe. CONFERENCE THEMES We welcome submissions that discuss any aspect of the interface between languages, literature, cultural heritage and Information Technology. Suitable topics for proposals might include: * literary and linguistic research including: * text encoding systems; * digital publishing; * digital editions; * digital philology; * text analysis; * text corpora; * linguistics, particularly corpus linguistics; * new media approaches to the field * multingualism and multiculturalism * access of cultural heritage in a multilingual environment; * theoretical and practical treatment of issues related to multilingualism and multiculturalism; * the development of standards/guidelines and generic digital approaches, particularly those appropriate to multilingual and multicultural contexts * education and training * the impact of computing on education and training from a multilingual and multicultural perspective; * the specific role of technology in languages * humanities computing as a field * critical evaluation of the role and impact of new technologies on the humanities and its wider social significance; * the role of humanities computing in fomenting interdisciplinarity; * international policies for humanities computing; * humanities computing from a global perspective SUBMISSION TYPES Submissions may be of two types: 1. Papers. Abstract submissions should be of 500-1000 words. The duration of each paper will be 20 minutes. Submissions are peer-reviewed. 2. Posters/demonstrations. These will consist of poster presentations or demonstrations of software and will also be peer-reviewed. They will typically be appropriate for those seeking to demonstrate current projects and other work in progress. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference in a central area to ensure maximum opportunity for feedback/discussion with other delegates. Proposals for posters/software demonstrations should be submitted as short abstracts of no more than 250 words. POSTER PRIZE A prize will be awarded to the best poster. BURSARIES We anticipate that a limited number of bursaries will be available for young scholars who have their paper or poster submission accepted. The deadlines for application for bursaries is January 30, 2006. LANGUAGE OF SUBMISSION Submissions may be in Spanish, Italian, German, French or English. LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION Presentations may be given in the language of the accepted abstract. If the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to facilitate comprehension. If the language is English, we strongly recommend the use of slides in one of the other languages named above. DEADLINES The deadline for paper and poster submissions is December 8, 2005. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 27, 2006 MORE DETAILS The conference website is at: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ Please see website for versions of Call for papers in other languages. From: "McAlpine, Kenneth" Subject: International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:19:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 484 (484) The University of Abertay Dundee in conjunction with the Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield Trust will host an International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation on Thursday 10 November, 2005. The colloquium is intended to explore the application of digital technologies to the fields of preservation, archiving and curatorship, and will provide stimulating presernations from a number of leading figures in the field. Alongside the colloquium will run an exhibition of representative methods for archiving and collection, and which features pieces from the Universities of Stanford, Venice and, of course, Abertay Dundee. Full details of the event may be found at www.thedigitalcurator.org. -- Dr Kenny McAlpine Lecturer in Computer Arts University of Abertay Dundee From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.328 new book: Humanities Computing (Palgrave, 2005) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:14:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 485 (485) Willard, Thank you so much for sharing your delight upon publication of your new book whose most cordial tone is to be treasured. I fail to be completely explicit in quoting this sensitive passage since I betray the pacing introduced by the type setting's line breaks: No corner of the academy or of society at large goes unaffected by the snuffing, darkening opposite: the promoter's aggressive pitch, the consumer's passive hunger and the anxiety that drives them both towards an end of thinking. With its promise of solutions, computing is at the cross-roads where they meet. So there we must be. And relentless curiosity is our brightest torch. It is however with absolute consistency in inexplicitness that I note the poetic flourish of ending the index with a reference to "_zuhanden_ [...] *" and the symbol for a wild card rather than a page number. Yes, yes it serves an indexical purpose (i.e. cross-reference to a head word). But still as a wild card there is no knowing in advance the length of the returned string. It is a lovely way of punctuating the close of a turn (but not closure of a conversation that began with ? and led to *. Congrats and all the best for garnering the reaction you seek. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Price, Dan" Subject: about the quote from Plato Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:23:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 486 (486) Hi Willard, A quick search (and by means inclusive) search on Google of various editions of Plato's Republic did not provide me with the text that used the reference numbers (562e to 563) you indicate for the quote from Plato. Can you post the quote OR indicate on the web where it can be found. Many of the references to the complete text are to the Jowett translation of 1901 which does not utilize those numbers. Thank you, --dan [My citation was in reference to the Stephanus numbering (referring to the Renaissance edn of Henri Estienne, Geneva 1578), as is conventional. The passage is in Republic VIII, and begins "And this anarchic temper, said I, my friend, must penetrate into private homes and finally enter into the very animals." (trans. Paul Shorey, from the Collected Dialogues, ed. Hamilton and Cairns, Bollingen LXXI, Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 791f.] Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Gantz Undergraduate Center ********************************************************** (800) 486 3116 ext. 1222 FAX 513 861 9026 440 E. McMillan St. Cincinnati OH 45206 <http://faculty.tui.edu/priced>http://faculty.tui.edu/priced ********************************************************** From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.322 contemplation and computing Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:25:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 487 (487) Dear Willard, The doomed-youth trope is as old as literature, probably (if literature is any indication) as old as humanity. Prof Weinshank retrieves it from Hesiod. As I recall, there are passages in Homer that amount to the same thing. I'm sympathetic to your hint that this has more to do with the changing perspectives of aging, ourselves, than it has to do with anything external. I was never so smart as when I was eighteen -- since then I've only been learning how much I still don't know. It sure *feels* smart to be eighteen. When I was eighteen, not only I but also all the other eighteen-year-olds were smart. And respectful (at least of those elders who deserved it). And mature, for our age. Now ... they are all so young! Of course, while we misattribute quotes to Socrates lamenting the failing, degenerate state of our youth, let's also remember that according to Aristophanes it was all Socrates' fault to begin with. 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 ====================================================================== Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 Morrison Subject: Developing Linguistic Corpora: a guide to good practice Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:24:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 488 (488) The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) have=20 published 'Developing Linguistic Corpora', edited by Martin Wynne of the Oxford Text Archive. This is the latest in the series of AHDS Guides to Good Practice. The printed book can be ordered online from Oxbow Books (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/) for £15 plus post and packing, and the full text is available for free online at http://ahds.ac.uk/linguistic-corpora/. In this volume, a selection of leading experts offer advice to help the reader to ensure that their corpus is well-designed and fit for the intended purpose. As John Sinclair writes in the first chapter: "A corpus is a remarkable thing, not so much because it is a collection of language text, but because of the properties that it acquires if it is well-designed and carefully-constructed." The collection includes the following chapters: * 'Corpus and text: basic principles' by John Sinclair * 'Adding linguistic annotation' by Geoffrey Leech * 'Metadata for corpus work' by Lou Burnard * 'Character encoding in corpus construction' by Tony McEnery and Richard= Xiao * 'Spoken language corpora' by Paul Thompson * 'Archiving, distribution and preservation' by Martin Wynne John Sinclair sets out ten principles for corpus design, plus a new definition of a corpus. Geoffrey Leech offers a taxonomy of types of annotations as well as clear guidelines and some provisional standards for annotation at various linguistic levels. Lou Burnard explains the different types of metadata which can be provided for a corpus, and gives examples of how these can be implemented using the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. Tony McEnery and Richard Xiao take on the tricky issue of encoding characters in languages other than English, giving an historical overview of the various solutions, leading to a discussion of how to use Unicode today in encoding corpus texts. Paul Thompson draws on his experience in developing the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus to set out the stages involved in the development and exploitation of a corpus of speech, covering data collection, transcription, markup and annotation, and access. In chapter six, Martin Wynne explains how good planning and design can help to ensure the ongoing availability and usefulness of a corpus. This and other guides in the series are available from http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/. AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics is hosted by the Oxford Text Archive, and is the repository for many freely available corpora in several languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Chinese and a variety of South Asian languages. There are also historical corpora, such as the Old English Corpus, the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts and the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts. These resources can be found via the experimental new AHDS cross-subject catalogue at http://www.ahds.ac.uk/, and at the OTA website at http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk. A listing of corpora is at http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/search/search.perl?misc=3Dcorpus. Note that some of these resources are available for immediate download and others require the user to write in for permission to download them. From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies 11.2 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:24:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 489 (489) Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the appearance of its September 2005 issue (11.2), which can be found at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html. The table of contents appears below. The journal continues to welcome articles, notes, reviews and theatre reviewers. Articles and notes should be sent to the Editor, Dr Matt Steggle (either by post at Sheffield Hallam University, Montgomery House, 32 Collegiate Crescent, Collegiate Campus, Sheffield S10 2BJ, United Kingdom, or by electronic mail at M.Steggle_at_shu.ac.uk ); offers of book reviews to the Reviews Editor, Dr James Doelman (doelmanj_at_mcmaster.ca); and offers of theatre reviews to the theatre reviews editor, Dr Roberta Barker (barkerr_at_dal.ca). Articles: Historicising Shakespeare's Richard II: Current Events, Dating, and the Sabotage of Essex. [1] Chris Fitter, Rutgers University. An Italian Werewolf in London: Lycanthropy and The Duchess of Malfi. [2] Brett D. Hirsch, University of Western Australia. "Now let my language speake": The Authorship, Rewriting, and Audience(s) of Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley. [3] Alexandra G. Bennett, Northern Illinois University. Appropriating and Attributing the Supernatural in the Early Modern Country House Poem. [4] A. D. Cousins and R. J. Webb, Macquarie University. Milton's Joban Phoenix in Samson Agonistes. [5] Sanford Budick, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Book Reviews: May, Steven W. and William A. Ringler, Jr., Eds. Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603. 3 vols. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. [6] Douglas Bruster, The University of Texas at Austin. King, Andrew. The Faerie Queene and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. [7] Joshua Phillips, University of Memphis. Fowler, Elizabeth. Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2003. [8] Jane Grogan, Pennsylvania State University. Ivic, Christopher and Grant Williams, eds. Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. [9] Anita Gilman Sherman, American University. Scott, Maria M. Re-Presenting 'Jane' Shore: Harlot and Heroine. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. [10] Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia. Dutton, Richard and Jean E. Howard, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. [11] Todd Lidh, Flagler College. Panek, Jennifer. Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. [12] Kathryn Jacobs, Texas A & M - C. Reviewing information and books received for review. Theatre Reviews: Sir Thomas More, by Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare and others. [13] Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, May 2005. Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. Cambridge Shakespeare: Summer 2005. [14] Michael Grosvenor Myer. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: wordprocessing, foul papers, genetic study? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:05:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 490 (490) A colleague offline to Humanist has forwarded me a question about the impact of wordprocessing on authorial studies, i.e. "whether email [is] cutting down collections of writers' letters. (The old effect-of-the-telephone-question). Well, not if they're saved, but I'm thinking of broader issues. Word-processing revision before saving can be lost; if saved, however much subsequently superseded, (.wbk) files can be retrieved until they fall off the end of the hard disk ie a technician can recover them. Are any writers backing up subsequently succeeded saved versions? Are they being encouraged to? (Many universities keep daily backups for you.) Are any research libraries asking for writers' hard disks?.... I knew a psychologist at the University of Kent who had a software programme to recreate the history of every keystroke. He was interested in how people learned, especially using electronic learning materials. Genetics with a vengeance. Of course, there's always what goes on in your head before you type a keystroke. I thought that the AI man in David Lodge's Thinks... rather let us down there." Comments and pointers to research are eagerly awaited. Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Computational Philosophy Laboratory - Univ. of Pavia" Subject: i-C&P 2006 France Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:16:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 491 (491) i-C&P 2006 quick link COMPUTERS & PHILOSOPHY, an International Conference Le Mans University, Laval, France, 3-5 May, 2006 Chair: C.T.A. SCHMIDT Colin.Schmidt_at_univ-lemans.fr e-mail --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.iut-laval.univ-lemans.fr/i-CaP_2006/ IMPORTANT DATES (check conference url for up-to-date information) Friday November 18 th 2005 Submission deadline for extended abstracts (1000 wds.) 3-5 May 2006, Conference in Laval France GENERAL INFORMATION [deleted quotation]COMPUTERS & PHILOSOPHY will be held at Le Mans University in Laval (near Rennes, France). Overview: Those interested in the study of philosophical problems and related technological applications are encouraged to participate. Philosophical, epistemological, theological and anthropological stances on the construction and use of machines are of relevance to the conference. Within the framework of the programme, we are looking forward to the contributions of some eminent thinkers: USA Daniel DENNETT, Philosophy, Tufts USA Rodney BROOKS, Robotics, MIT Italy Lorenzo MAGNANI, Logic & Philosophy, Pavia UK Margaret BODEN, Art. Intelligence, Cognitive Sc. & Philosophy, Sussex Canada Daniel VANDERVEKEN, Logic & Language, UQTR Thailand Darryl MACER, UNESCO Reg. Adviser for Soc.& Human Sc. in Asia-Pacific UK Noel SHARKEY, Computation & Robotics, Sheffield Please see web site for full details; programme, topics, accommodation, registration as well as detailed information on plenary session talks. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS In addition to main-stream areas of research -Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotics, Cognitive Science, Computer Ethics- we are looking for cross-cultural studies on the place of machines in society, as well as the following: 1. Evolution & Technologies a.. Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Language Development b.. Information Systems and the Philosophy of Design c.. Biologically-Incorporated Intelligence; the Use of Organic Components for Robotics d.. Bio-computation, Bio-Robotics, Artificial Life & Meaning e.. Robotics (Humanoid, Cognitive, Epigenetic, "Autonomous", Service, etc.) f.. Humanoid Hosts and Guides for Museums, Galleries and Virtual Reality Environments 2. Pragmatics & Comp. Linguistics a.. Speech Acts and the Limits of Machine-embedded Use of Dialogue b.. Obstacles to Parsing (Accents, Intonations, Emotional States, etc.) c.. Relations, Reference and Communicability d.. Artificial Affectivity in (non-)Dialogical Settings e.. All Language, Meaning and Dialogue Issues 3. Minds and Intentionality a.. Evocative Objects and Presumed Intelligence a.. Personification of Artefacts b.. Other Minds Theories and Simulating Co-intentionality c.. The Mind/Body Problem in Cognitive Science d.. European Versions (and Anti-theses) of the Intentional Stance 4. Culture & Adaptability a.. All Anthropological Views on Computers and Robots b.. Context-embedded Computer Learning c.. In-class Robotic Teachers, Vulgarisation and (non-)Acceptance Issues d.. The Pros and Cons of Computer-Mediated Communication & Learning e.. Virtual Reality & Digitally-supported Personalities f.. Post-modernism and Fiction related to Machines and Individuals 5. History, Ethics & Theology a.. Issues arising from the Automation of Thought b.. Designing Users' Beliefs, Beliefs Designing Machines, Religious Deontology c.. Robo-Ethics, Moral Agents, Spirituality of Machines, Technological Souls d.. The Impacts of Intelligent Computers and Robotics on Society throughout History e.. Cognitive Epistemology or Science as Applied Technology Other a.. Transdisciplinary attempts to link Philosophy, Computing and/or Robotics b.. cf. full scientific programme and printable version of the Call for Papers at quick link For further information about the conference, please consult the i-C&P 2006 website or contact the Chair for the complete version of the Call for Papers and related information. VENUE Laval is known to be a city of character for its history, art and culture. Located on the Mayenne River in beautiful Western France (see film at http://www.lamayenne.fr/front.aspx?sectionId=3D452&publiId=3D3996&controlle r =3DVi= e wpublication ), it offers all the amenities of a large city while maintaining a small town feel. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE General Chair: Colin T. Schmidt, Communication, Philosophy & Cognition, Le Mans University, France Local Organisations Chair: Xavier Dubourg, Computer Science & Learning, Le Mans University & Director of the Laval Technological Institute, France Honorary Chair: Francis Jacques, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Sorbonne University, France Varol Akman, Philosophy and Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey Jean Caelen, Cognition and Interaction, CNRS/Grenoble University, France Raja Chatila, Robotics, CNRS/Toulouse University, France Nathalie Colineau, Language & Multi-modality, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Cordeschi, Computation & Communication, Salerno University, Italy Liu Gang, Information & Philosophy, Inst. of Philosophy, Chinese Acad. of Soc. Sciences, China Deborah G. Johnson, Technology and Ethics, University of Virginia, USA Fr=E9d=E9ric Kaplan, Artificial Intelligence, SONY CSL =AD Paris Nik Kasabov, Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University, New Zealand Oussama Khatib, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, USA Boicho Kokinov, Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria Felicitas Kraemer, Philosophy & Intentionality, Bielefeld University, Germany Jean Lass=E8gue, Philosophy, CNRS/Ecole Normale Sup=E9rieur Paris, France Ping Li, Cognitive Science & Philosophy of Science, Sun Yat-sen University, China Daniel Luzzati, Linguistics, Le Mans University, France M.C. Manes Gallo, Info. & Communication Sciences, Bordeaux University, France Anne Nicolle, Computer Science & Interdisciplinarity, CNRS/University of Caen, France Teresa Numerico, Communication, Salerno University, Italy James Moor, Philosophy, Dartmouth College, USA Bernard Moulin, Computer Science, Laval University, Canada Denis Vernant, Logic & Philosophy, Grenoble University, France Ming Xie, Robotics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore LOCAL CONTACT POINT Tel +33 2 43 59 49 20 & Dr. Colin Schmidt (Chair) Computers & Philosophy, an International Conference i-C&P 2006 Computer Science Laboratory LIUM CNRS FRE 2730 Le Mans University France Phone: +33 2 43 59 49 25 Fax: +33 2 43 59 49 28 E-mail: Colin.Schmidt_at_lium.univ-lemans.fr Conference: quick link From: Willard McCarty Subject: overheard conversations Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:59:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 492 (492) While I do appreciate Bob Amsler's annoyance at being subjected to mobile phone conversations in public spaces -- dull conversations are worst of all -- my experiences on trains and tubes presents a more complex situation. In this country, apparently, people are somewhat more circumspect. Rarely nowadays am I nearby when a conversation happens on a mobile, and when it does, the conversation is very difficult to hear because of the noise in the tube train. (Thus a combination of admirable social mannerisms and decrepit public services comes to my rescue.) Time in Rome riding on the underground will make one immediately conscious of how restrained the people here are: we all sit minding our own business, often glumly, while the more robust Romans talk to each other volubly, enjoying themselves very much indeed, all the time -- or so a Northern visitor is apt to think. One comes back from Rome with a sigh and, while on the tube home, a vain attempt to figure out how life is more fun here, while watching people send text messages furiously. Then there are the individual situations which stick in mind and continue to entertain long after the conversation has vanished forever. On the Stansted Express, back from the airport one evening about two years ago, I sat behind of a young woman who couldn't keep off her mobile. Across from her sat a middle-aged man. She was on the phone first to a girlfriend, to discuss her boyfriend in some detail (amazing detail, in fact), then to said boyfriend, to see what he had on for the evening &c, then back to her girlfriend to discuss what she had just learned. The possibilities for gossip and negotiation exhausted, she then switched off and began discussing the boyfriend with the man sitting opposite, who by this point knew the fellow rather better than would have been possible otherwise. He did have cogent observations to make about the boyfriend, too, though it is true that neither he nor I had heard the boyfriend's side of the story. Then the train pulled into Liverpool St Station, and we departed. About two years later I am sitting in a pub in Victoria BC Canada with a Norwegian friend. I take a picture of him with my digital camera, he uses his mobile to take a picture of me. I remark that I will show the photo to friends in London when I return. He remarks, "your picture is already in Oslo." His wife knew what he was up to without exchanging a word. Computer-mediated communications result in unexpected if not also unwanted intimacies but also become modes of culturally specific behaviours. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: cellphones and SMS was [Re: 19.333 contemplation Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:00:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 493 (493) and computing] Robert's comments about the cellphone and the commute lead me observe that the cellphone is not only used for vocalized chatter. There is a significant amount of text messaging that can be observed. As well, as Robert indicates, the increased volume of more overheard conversations is compensated by some with devices designed to bath the listener in a soundscape of their own. Digital play back devices such as the iPod are of course the descendents of transitors radios, cassette tape players, CD players, all paired with suitable earphones. Deaf people and those that have learnt sign language remain unplussed by all the talk of encroachment of private space in public venues... The agora also affords the ubiquitous opportunities for chance exchanges. That said, the fee structure for telephony services (flat rate, metered, etc.) impacts how various users in various nation states choose to structure their interactions. See the commentary for Jill Walker's entry at jill/txt http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/social_software/i_shall_sms_them.html Gloss: Short Messaging Service. A wireless messaging service that permits the transmission of a short text message from and/or to a digital mobile telephone (CDMA, including CDMA 1xRTT and other CDMA-based implementations; TDMA; GSM; or ESMR) terminal, regardless of whether the transmission originates and terminates on a mobile telephone, originates on a mobile telephone and terminates on a computer, or originates on a computer and terminates on a telephone. French: SMC. www.crtc.gc.ca/dcs/eng/glossary.htm -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 19.333 contemplation and computing Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:01:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 494 (494) Gads, it's not defense, it's that we're better at multi-tasking in the universe. Television was supposed to create havoc; in the 19th-century locomotives were the cause of 'railway spine.' Cellphones or any other noise (here, fire- and police-alarms) only bother me when I'm trying to sleep; I'm often listening to several sound sources at once. - Alan From: "Patrick T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 19.333 contemplation and computing Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:01:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 495 (495) What exactly is the qualitative difference between one person talking into his cellphone on a subway car, and two people having a face-to- face conversation on a subway car, vis-a-vis "intolerable background chatter?" Are subway cars sacred spaces where never a word must be uttered? Certainly they are not in Boston. On Oct 12, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Timothy Mason Subject: Re: 19.337 contemplation and computing Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:41:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 496 (496) The cell-phone conversation is more annoying than an ordinary one, it appears (Jacob Nielsen cites the research in his news-letter, which is web-available). This seems to be because, unable to hear the other half of the conversation, the involuntary participant finds him or herself trying to fill it in. There is also the question of volume; although not all users of cell-phones speak louder than in normal conversation, many of them do. Personally, although I do find phone-calls often irritate, my own dislike of public transport stems more from having to encounter the serial sniffer/snorter - and that predates the micro-chip by many centuries. Best wishes Timothy Mason From: Duane Gran Subject: Re: 19.337 contemplation and computing Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:44:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 497 (497) Patrick raises a good question about how one-sided mobile phone conversations cause such ire whereas two-way conversations nearby don't. Andew Monk, a Psychology professor at the University of York, summarized his study on the matter in _Behaviour and Information Technology_ titled "Why are mobile phones annoying?" The full citation is: Monk, A.F., Carroll, J., Parker, S., Blythe, M. (2004) Why are mobile phones annoying? Behaviour and Information Technology, 23, 33-41. His conclusion was that people pay more attention when they only hear half of the conversation because it is jarring to our senses. Add to this the tell-tale "cell phone yell" and it is no wonder that being within ear shot of a phone conversation is quite different from regular conversations in our midst. Jacob Neilson wrote a nice summary of the study as it pertains to usability: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040412.html Duane Gran From: Timothy Mason Subject: Re: 19.337 contemplation and computing Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:42:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 498 (498) Willard, there is a programme that primary-school teachers use which follows and reconstructs the way the pupils create a text. The pedagogue can then follow the exact trail that the infant has taken in writing it. I must admit that when I first encountered this utility, it made me very thoughtful. Timothy Mason From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 19.338 wordprocessing, foul papers, genetic study? Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:43:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 499 (499) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) skrev 13.10.2005 08:19: [deleted quotation]The National Library of Norway has as one of its aims collecting manuscripts from what is considered important Norwegian authors. In 2001 there was a meeting/seminar at the NL where some living authors handed over manuscript material - some of it on floppy-disks. The deeper problems - what is kept for genetic study of texts etc. was not really discussed, but is indeed important. One modern author where some drafts etc. have been extracted from a harddisk after the author's death, is Douglas Adams: http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/salmon.html In fact there has also (it seems) been some unintended excavation of Adams' files: http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/iifx.html The meeting at the NL in Oslo, is documented in a small article in the annual report from 2001 (in Norwegian only): http://www.nb.no/content/download/1087/10209/file/arsmelding2001_2.pdf In the same annual report there is also a report from the project Paradigma where the aim is to harvest *all* Norwegian webpages. This will of course also include some mailing-list material where that is available via the web. Espen Ore National Library of Norway, Oslo From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 19.338 wordprocessing, foul papers, genetic study? Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:43:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 500 (500) Willard, A response I wrote to the original NY Times piece about writers and their "lost" email: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000848.html And a call for participation for a project that will use Subversion to archive drafts of literary work in progress: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000847.html Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Acting Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.338 wordprocessing, foul papers, genetic study? Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:45:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 501 (501) Willard, A group of my digital archives students has worked/is working with Michael Joyce's collection that is being accessioned by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. They will be publishing a paper on the process in the spring, in which they detail the digital archaeology process of recovering Mac files of many versions of (e.g.) Afternoon from old floppies, as well as preserving file-system structures, original file names, and detailed metadata on software versions used to create the files; we even persuaded the Center to retain the old floppies with their palimpsest labels, even if they become unreadable, simply because they reinforce the authenticity of the files themselves and provide evidence of authorial practice too. More recently the Center has received a DVD from Joyce that is a mirror of a hard drive as well, so the work continues. As a literature specialist I am interested in this side of the archival task, and we expect to work with the Ransom Center on other collections with other problems going forward. A lot of this is going to depend on authorial practice, but as you probably know the Ransom Center is interested especially in the creative process, so we are investigating ways to recover as much of the authorial environment as possible. Remembering that even in paper, people like Eudora Welty chose to destroy everything. Pat Galloway From: Simon Harper Subject: JODI Call for Papers: Personalisation of Computing & Services Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:46:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 502 (502) Journal of Digital Information http://jodi.tamu.edu Call for Papers Special Issue on: Personalisation of Computing & Services Schedule Submission deadline: 22nd October, 2005 Publication Date: February 2006 Theme Submissions are sought for a special edition for the Hypermedia Systems theme of JoDI on Personalisation of Computing & Services. With the creation and expansion of adaptive computing services, there is now the capability to match a user's expectations. Modern users demand services that are relevant to their personal needs - be they the needs of a consumer, an educator, or even just enhancing a simple web enquiry. Any such service will have a multitude of requirements: how are they authored; how do they interoperate; what data should be gathered and how & when should it be used; and how we represent a 'personal Web' of data and services? Of course personalised computing is about much more than the World Wide Web; for example with ubiquitous and pervasive computing just around the corner, the requirement for an appropriate and user determined service that is mobile and international is made manifest. This special issue will describe and detail the leading research that addresses the fundamental issues in personalised computing services. Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other journals & conferences. Papers should be written in English. This special issue is interested in the Modelling, Implementation & Evaluation of the following topics: Systems - Applications: especially in the areas of e-learning, e-health, e-commerce and digital libraries - Personalised Web Services - Adaptive/dynamic authoring - Personalisation and visualisation of user interfaces Data - Standards for personalisation - Extraction and application of metadata for personalisation Issues - Interoperability between personalised systems - Evaluation of personalised frameworks & systems - Personalisation based upon the Semantic Web - Security and privacy - International use of personalised systems - Mobile and ubiquitous computing for the individual Submission Authors should submit their papers electronically using the submission form at jodi.tamu.edu. Selecting the title or editor for this issue from the Theme or Editor drop-down box will alert the editor to your submission automatically. Before submitting please take note of the journal's Guidelines for submission: notes for authors. 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 December, 2005 and they will then be able to modify their papers, with a deadline for the receipt of the final version of the 22nd December, 2005. Special Editors: Alexandra Cristea, Eindhoven University of Technology & Craig Stewart, University of Nottingham Email: a.i.cristea_at_tue.nl craig.stewart_at_nottingham.ac.uk ==== Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: John Unsworth Subject: Director, Media Studies Program, UVa Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:45:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 503 (503) Director, Media Studies Program The Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia seeks a prominent scholar to provide intellectual leadership and vision and to shape a vibrant interdisciplinary undergraduate program. The successful candidate must be hirable at the associate or full professor rank with an exceptional record of scholarly publication in media studies, along with relevant experience in interdisciplinary teaching and in administering an academic program. Areas of academic specialization are open, but the Program is particularly interested in candidates with innovative scholarship and a dynamic teaching record in the following possible areas: media in a global context; critical studies in journalism; race and media; political economy of media industries; intellectual property and media; cultural studies of media; digital media studies. Professors in the Media Studies Program must be tenurable in an academic department. Desirable start date for the position is August 25, 2006. For more information about the Media Studies Program, please visit our website: www.virginia.edu/mediastudies. Inquiries can be directed to: aniko_at_virginia.edu. Review of applications begins October 15, 2005 and will continue until the position is filled. Please send a letter of application detailing scholarly, teaching, and administrative accomplishments; full CV; and names of at least three references to: Aniko Bodroghkozy, Chair, Search Committee Media Studies Program 142 Cabell Hall, P.O. Box 400866 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904-4866 The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. A demonstrated commitment to issues of diversity in pedagogy and scholarship is integral to the vision of the Media Studies Program. Therefore the search committee particularly welcomes applications from women, ethnic minorities, and other underrepresented groups. From: ELPUB 2006 Subject: ELPUB 2006 - Second Call for Papers Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:16:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 504 (504) ELPUB 2006: Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 14 to 16 June 2006, Bansko (Bulgaria) Submission deadline: November 21st 2005 http://www.elpub.net The ELPUB 2006 conference will keep the tradition=20 of the nine previous international conferences on=20 electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom=20 (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden=20 (1999), Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002),=20 Portugal (2003), Brazil (2004) and Belgium=20 (2005), which is to bring together researchers,=20 lecturers, librarians, developers, businessmen,=20 entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those=20 interested on issues regarding electronic=20 publishing in widely differing contexts. These=20 include the human, cultural, economic, social,=20 technological, legal, commercial and other=20 relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Three distinguished features of this conference=20 are: broad scope of topics which creates a unique=20 atmosphere of active exchange and learning about=20 various aspects of electronic publishing;=20 combination of general and technical tracks; and=20 a condensed procedure of submission, revision and=20 publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most recent= work. ELPUB 2006 offers a variety of activities, such=20 as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. Thus,=20 the conference attendees will benefit from: =AD The communication of scientific papers=20 specially prepared for the conference; all papers=20 are to be reviewed and accepted by the international ELPUB Programme= Committee; =AD Workshops and tutorials that aim to provide=20 opportunity for attendants to update themselves=20 in topics of high interest within this community of experts; =AD Plenary sessions that aim to summarise the=20 main ideas presented and discussed during the=20 presentation of the conference papers; =AD Panel debates on selected topics; possible=20 topics include news item publishing or new=20 methods, including Open Access, for publishing scientific literature; =AD Demonstration sessions and presentation of posters. The ELPUB 2006 keynote will be presented by Dan=20 Matei. He is a professional programmer=20 (specialised in information retrieval) and=20 director of CIMEC - Institute for Cultural Memory=20 in Bucharest. His interests in data models for=20 libraries and museums, cataloguing, digital=20 libraries, taxonomies, surrealism,=20 post-minimalist music are well-known will be=20 reflected in the keynote adress: "Worldwide=20 'communitarian' online publishing: An exercise in wishful thinking". ELPUB 2006 invites contributions for papers,=20 tutorials, workshops, posters and demonstrations on the following topics: GENERAL TRACK * Publishing models, tools, services and roles * Digital content chain / publication cycle * Open Access * Metadata use and interoperability * Semantic web * Multilingual and multimodal interfaces * Digital libraries for different user communities * Interactive TV * Electronic publishing for impaired users * Security, privacy and copyright issues * Digital preservation and access * Electronic publishing in eLearning applications * Economic dimensions of electronic publishing TECHNICAL TRACK * XML applications * Metadata encoding process (OAI-PMH, RDF, etc.) * Open source tools * Content search, analysis and retrieval * Interoperability and scalability * Textual and graphical information sources (SVG) * Ontologies and classification * Electronic publishing for mobile services * Security, preservation, quality assurance * Recommendations, guidelines, standards Please, note that the list of topics is not=20 exhaustive. Therefore, submissions on any topic=20 within the overall conference theme will be considered. AUTHOR GUIDELINES: Contributions are invited for the following categories: =AD Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) =AD Tutorial (abstract max of 1500 words) =AD Workshop (abstract max of 1500 words) =AD Poster (abstract max of 500 words) =AD Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words) Deadlines for submission in all categories: November 21st 2005 Abstracts must be submitted following the=20 instructions on the conference website=20 (http://www.elpub.net). The Programme Committee=20 will notify the authors of the acceptance of=20 submitted papers by January 15, 2006. Authors=20 then will have to submit their full papers by=20 March 1st, 2006, following specific instructions.=20 The conference proceedings will be published as a=20 book by the International Journal 'Information=20 Theories and Applications'. Selected papers will=20 be published in the journal. Posters (total=20 surface app. 1m2) and demonstration materials=20 must be brought by their authors at the=20 conference time and only abstracts will be=20 published in the conference proceedings.=20 Workshops and tutorials proposals will be=20 discussed with submitters in due course. Specialists from Albania, Belorus, Bosnia and=20 Herzegovina, FYROM, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and=20 Montenegro, and Ukraine who are interested to=20 attend the conference are encouraged to send a=20 note to Milena Dobreva (dobreva_at_math.bas.bg). The=20 organisers are applying for grants for participants from the listed= countries. Electronic versions of the contributions will be archived at: http://elpub.scix.net Conference Location: A scenic resort in the Pirin=20 Mountain area, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Conference Host: Institute of Mathematics and=20 Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences General Chair: Milena Dobreva, Institute for=20 Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria Programme Chair: Bob Martens, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna,= Austria=20 From: Shuly Wintner Subject: EACL 2006 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: on-line submission now open! Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:17:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 505 (505) EACL 2006 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics April 3rd - 7th 2006 Trento, Italy http://eacl06.itc.it/ * * * Submission deadline: November 8, 2005 * * * * * * On-line submission now open at http://eacl06.itc.it/ * * * The European Association of Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 11th Meeting. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: - phonetics, phonology and morphology; - word segmentation, tagging and chunking; - syntax, semantics and grammars; - pragmatics, discourse and dialogue; - the lexicon and ontologies; - parsing and grammatical formalisms; - generation, text planning and summarization; - language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding; - mathematical models of language; - information retrieval, text categorisation, question answering, and information extraction; - paraphrasing and textual entailment; - machine learning for natural language; - multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; - multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; - language-oriented applications, tools and resources; - evaluation methodology. Requirements Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting, including EACL-related workshops, cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the submission page. Reviewing The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs and a team of reviewers. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. [...] From: Mats_Dahlström (by way Subject: CFP for Human IT: electronic records Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:19:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 506 (506) Dear Humanist subscriber (please xqz any x-postings), CALL FOR PAPERS: ELECTRONIC RECORDS The scholarly e-journal Human IT <http://www.hb.se/bhs/humanit/> hereby invites paper submissions for a special issue on "Electronic records" scheduled for release autumn 2006. The last decades' development of ICT, changes in organizational structures and work processes, and political concerns about democracy and access to information have provided challenges for archives and record-keeping practices as well as for the foundations of archival theory. These changes have caused a need for new practices, but have also generated new research issues concerning authenticity and reliability, legality, and preservation technologies. The field has a multi-disciplinary character, including for instance archival science, informatics and law. Contributions may relate to a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to): Access to electronic records Use and users' needs Record-keeping and Electronic Governance Personal Information Management Management of hybrid systems Preservation of cultural heritage Case studies - implementation of standards, guidelines and best practices, for instance ISO 15489, Moreq, OAIS etc. Anneli Sundqvist at the Department of Information Technology and Media, Mid Sweden University, Sweden, will act as guest editor. We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of Electronic Records before March 1, 2006. 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. Submitted manuscripts can either be considered for the journal's refereed section (double blind peer review by external referees) or its open section (reviewed by the editorial board and the guest editor). Authors should specify for which section they wish their constributions to be considered. The journal web site, including author instructions and the full-texts of previous issues, is available at: http://www.hb.se/bhs/humanit/. For further information, please visit the web site or contact our guest editor Anneli Sundqvist at anneli.sundqvist_at_miun.se. Yours sincerely, Mats Dahlström, editor (Mats.Dahlstrom_at_hb.se) From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Look Listen, Cross-Modal Spaces Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:18:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 507 (507) Willard, The recent screen exchange on the ubiquity of cellphone conversations brings to mind historical antecedants: Jay Clayton "The Voice in the Machine: Hazlitt, Hardy, James" in _Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production_ (1997) [E]xploring the origins of the telegraph brings to prominence a curious struggle that has run throughout the 150 years in which there have been electric data networks. This struggle is between visual and aural scanning of signals. The telegraph was the site of a prolonged debated over the comparative advantages of =D2sound reading=D3 and of instruments that incorporated a recording apparatus for taking down message in visible form. Considering the literary examples examined in Clayton's article, readers and auditors might wish to nuance the description of reactions to what is being overheard. Compare: the interference effect of natural languages that the overhearer knows, those that the overhearer doesn't know, ring tones comprising of a recognized melody... attention catching depends upon some associative activity. The question of attention also surfaces in the parental-child dialogues about doing homework while watching television or listening to music (with or without lyrics understood by the listener). I bring these examples to the fore to tease out some performance questions: time to task, quality of output and intermittence of scanning. Reading while... writing while... driving a motor vehicle while... chewing gum and. Let us place this little bit of silliness in the backgroudnd and introduced the machine aspect to multitasking. From a Human-Computer-Interface point of view -- job control in Unix, Task Manager in Windows, the MacIntosh flash of icons and menu tracking supplemented by sound. Each poses its own cognitive threshold and is more or less adapted to users who are otherwise engaged in crossmodal processing. Perhaps subscribers to Humanist can point the way to studies or relate anecdotal evidence -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: "Alan Liu" Subject: The Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellowship in Early Modern Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:20:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 508 (508) Literature and Media Technology ~~~ Announcing the UCSB Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellowship in Early Modern Literature and Media Technology ~~~ The UC Santa Barbara English Department invites applications for the Arnhold Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship. This fellowship has a term of one year, but may be renewable for a second year. The fellowship offers recent recipients of the Ph.D. (awarded between January 1, 2003, and June 30, 2006) a unique opportunity to develop their research and teaching interests within the UCSB Early Modern Center; the UCSB Transcriptions Center for literature and the culture of information; and the UC system-wide Transliteracies Project on the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading. The fellowship is designed to attract a scholar who is not currently in a tenure track position and who works in some area of British literature 1500-1800 and directly addresses the material, technological, social, or aesthetic dimensions of literature as media. The Fellow's research, for instance, might be related to such current fields as "history of the book," "media archaeology", or the technology of literature. We welcome candidates who have an interest in the relation between early media and contemporary digital new media supported by familiarity with some branch of digital media practice, and who also contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service. The Fellow will participate in the research programs mentioned above; teach four courses, at least one of which would be a graduate research colloquium related to the fellow's research project. The position requires full-time residence at UCSB during fall, winter, and spring quarters of the academic year. Compensation includes a salary of $45,000, plus an annual research fund of $3,000. The Fellow will have full access to the Early Modern Center and Transcriptions computing labs; access to the Department's web and database servers and technical support. More information about the English Department, Early Modern Center, Transcriptions Center, and Transliteracies Project may be found at <http://www.english.ucsb.edu/> <http://emc.english.ucsb.edu>, <http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu>, and <http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu>. Applicants will be evaluated on the basis of their application materials. We will be interviewing for this fellowship at the MLA convention. Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged. This UC position carries the title of "Postdoctoral Scholar". The University of California is an EO/AA employer. To assure consideration, please mail the following in hard copy by November 18, 2005 to: Professors Patricia Fumerton and Alan Liu, Co-Chairs, Postdoctoral Fellowship Search Committee Department of English University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 1. Letter of application (with full contact information) 2. Curriculum vitae 3. Dissertation abstract (up to three pages) 4. Sample of written work (in hard copy; no longer than 35 pages total) 5. Optional: a sample of any digital or media work, in the form of print-outs of selected pages plus URL or CD-ROM 6. At least three letters of recommendation From: "Art Electronics" Subject: Last Call - Isola Virtuale / La Biennale di Venezia Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:37:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 509 (509) 51st Venice Biennial is going on! Take part in the planetary poetry project curated by Caterina Davinio! Last dead line: November 6th. La 51ma Biennale di Venezia continua! Partecipa fino al 6 novembre al progetto planetario di poesia a cura di Caterina Davinio! Virtual island - Ongoing project of the 51st Venice Biennial - June 9th - November 6th http://it.geocities.com/isoladellapoesia ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ISOLA DELLA POESIA General Curator: ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA. Light Installation by MARCO NEREO ROTELLI - San Secondo Island Isola Virtuale - On Line Event by CATERINA DAVINIO. How to participate / Come partecipare: http://it.geocities.com/isoladellapoesia/isola_virtuale.htm If server is too busy, try the alternative link: / Se la pagina non è disponibile usa il link alternativo: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cprezi/isola_virtuale.htm Upload only 1 poem, max 25 verses (please, digit the text in the guest-book without using copy and paste) / Inserisci solo 1 poesia, max 25 versi (digita il testo nel guest-book senza usare copia e incolla). Stay with us in Venice! / From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 19.337 contemplation and computing Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:36:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 510 (510) ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Sidestepping the cultural differences in (cell/mobile) phone use, what intrigues me is why this annoys us so much? When a group of people are talking loudly, it also irritates me, but nowhere near so much as when a single person is talking equally loudly on a mobile phone. This annoyance seems understandable when one is being subjected to overhearing the intimate details of gynaecological complaints or the complex financial details of some client's accounts. (Both crossing taboos about what one should talk about publicly.) I once read someone theorising that our annoyance at such conversations was because we found it awkward hearing only one side of the conversation. However, everyone I have asked that about has always said that it is just the person talking loudly. One acquaintance from Leeds routinely and loudly provides the missing half of such conversations: Phoning Person: I'm on a train Her: Really! So am I. Phoning Person: I don't know when I'll get in. Her: Well the schedule says 18:58, but we are already 10 minutes late. Phoning Person: No, I don't know what I want for supper. Her: How about aubergine, cheese and leek bake? Strangely, instead of comforting the surrounding passengers as they can now hear both parts of the conversation (or at least a fictitious version of the other side), this tends to make them *more* agitated and nervous about their travelling companions. -James -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 19.338 wordprocessing, foul papers, genetic study? (fwd) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:05:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 511 (511) A colleague offline to Humanist has forwarded me a question about the impact of wordprocessing on authorial studies, i.e. "whether email [is] cutting down collections of writers' letters. (The old effect-of-the-telephone-question). Well, not if they're saved, but I'm thinking of broader issues. Word-processing revision before saving can be lost; if saved, however much subsequently superseded, (.wbk) files can be retrieved until they fall off the end of the hard disk ie a technician can recover them. Are any writers backing up subsequently succeeded saved versions? Are they being encouraged to? (Many universities keep daily backups for you.) Are any research libraries asking for writers' hard disks?.... I knew a psychologist at the University of Kent who had a software programme to recreate the history of every keystroke. He was interested in how people learned, especially using electronic learning materials. Genetics with a vengeance. Of course, there's always what goes on in your head before you type a keystroke. I thought that the AI man in David Lodge's Thinks... rather let us down there." Comments and pointers to research are eagerly awaited. Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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/ Anthony S. Bliss Curator, Rare Books & Literary Manuscripts The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 tel: (510) 642-1839 fax: (510) 642-7589 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.38 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:38:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 512 (512) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 38 (October 19-25, 2005) VIEW "A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR EVALUATING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS." In this model created by Dr. K.V.K.K. Prasad, model, software development is viewed in two dimensions, based on the answer to the questions: (a) is it inspired by considerations of utility and value? (b) does it advance software technology? http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i38_prasad.html BOOK REVIEW "GREAT SOFTWARE DEBATES" BY ALAN M. DAVIS: In his review of Davis's book of essays, "Great Software Debates," Carl Bedingfield concludes: "The industry needs this book." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v6i38_bedingfield.html From: Journal of Digital Information Subject: JoDI Volume 6 Issue 2 Released Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:00:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 513 (513) Welcome to JoDI Volume 6 Issue 2. [See http://jodi.tamu.edu/.] This issue signals a landmark in JoDI's history since it is the first to be published on its new host at Texas A&M University. Founding Editor John Leggett has assembled a team that includes: * Scott Phillips as the Web Development Editor, * Cody Green as Lead Web Developer, * Adam Mikeal as Work Flow Specialist, * Brian Surratt as Metadata Specialist, and * Alexey Maslov as Web Developer. Of course, in welcoming you to TAMU we must also say an enormous 'Thank you' to the team at Southampton University where JoDI was hosted from its inception through to V.6(1). Hugh Davis played an important part in JoDI's early days, but it is Steve Hitchcock and Steve Harris who have nurtured the journal and helped it grow to its current position, under the benevolent eye of Founding Editor Wendy Hall. Without the work of the Southampton team and without Wendy's vision, JoDI would not exist. We must also gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press who, through the mechanism of the joint venture company Itext, funded us during the Southampton years. JoDI is an evolving entity which has changed considerably since its beginning. We look forward to continuing this development as the new team brings fresh ideas and as the themes continue to evolve. Cliff McKnight From: "Alexander Gelbukh" Subject: CFP: CICLing-2006 -- Computational Linguistics, Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:56:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 514 (514) Springer LNCS, February, Mexico -- one week reminder CICLing-2006 7th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 19-25, 2006 Mexico City, Mexico Endorsed by the ACL www.CICLing.org/2006 PUBLICATION: LNCS: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstract: October 17, late submissions can be considered; Main text: October 24, 2005 (for registered abstracts). MODALITIES: Full paper: 12 pages, short paper: 4 pages. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Nancy Ide, Rada Mihalcea, 2 more to be announced, see website. EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies, great cave and colonial city, and more. All tentative. See photos on www.CICLing.org. 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From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: call 'arts and technology' Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:58:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 515 (515) Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation]Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers From: Al Magary Subject: [Fwd: [MEDIEV-L:44348] Founder criticizes Wikipedia] Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:22:17 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 516 (516) Reply-To: MEDIEV-L_at_listproc.cc.ku.edu To: Mediev-L An article in the British Internet periodical, The Register, indicates all is not well in the Wikipedia world: Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco The Register, Tuesday 18th October 2005 03:48 GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/print.html Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and =FCberpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work. Criticism of the project from within the inner sanctum has been very rare so far, although fellow co-founder Larry Sanger, who is no longer associated with the project, pleaded with the management to improve its content by befriending, and not alienating, established sources of expertise. (i.e., people who know what they're talking about.)... [The story reviews recent criticism and concludes as follows:] One day Wikipedia may well be the most amazing reference work the world has ever seen, lauded for its quality. But to get from here to there it will need real experts and top quality writing - it won't get there by hoping that its whizzy technical processes remedy such deficiencies. In other words, it will resemble today's traditional encyclopedias far more than it does today. For now we simply welcome the candour: at least Wikipedia is officially out of QD, or the "Quality Denial" stage. -- Cheers, Al Magary From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.349 contemplation and computing Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:56:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 517 (517) Regarding the cell phone issue: Kip Williams (http://williams.socialpsychology.org/) has done some very interesting studies on Ostracism and its effect on human emotions. I wonder if a person choosing to speak on a cell phone, rather than interact with the people on the bus is a form of ostracism. Based on general social-value systems, interrupting someone on a phone is less acceptable than interrupting someone in a rather public conversation with a visible person. At least in the former case, one can find an opportunity to join in with commentary or to change the subject. YOu just can't do that to someone with a cell phone because, as discuss previously, you just can't hear what the other person is saying. So the annoyance may be partly the mystery of the "other voice," but it could also be the social slight -- the disinclusion (ostracism if you will) of "me," the non-cell user, from a social interaction (or at least the opportunity of one) -- This sends a signal that the status of the cell phone speaker is above my own and of course, my annoyance would increase exponentially the more trite I perceive the cell phone conversation to be. That I would actually want to have a conversation with the cell user would be besides the point. The point is that the cell phone removes the general control I have of my social circumstances and thus increases my anxiety. What is needed is some kind of social standard that makes it acceptable to interrupt a cell phone call. Difficult, since most of us grew up with family members telling us to "Shut up I'm on the phone!" Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: Joseph Jones Subject: ink on paper Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:58:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 518 (518) Charles Faulhaber wrote in part: At present, the only way we can hope to archive this information [writers' emails] is to print it out on bond paper and even then we don't know how long the toner will adhere to the paper. I see an even larger problem. Aren't print-on-demand books some version of toner on paper? How much better is that than a good laser printer? How good is ink sprayed on paper, or ink transferred through a photographic offset plate? In a culture that is not expecting new buildings to last, what are the expectations for ink remaining on paper (even if an infinity symbol assures the quality of the paper)? Joseph Jones http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones From: "Prof. Dr. Juergen Dix" Subject: CFP: Nonmonotonic Reasoning Workshop (NMR 2006) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:07:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 519 (519) *Eleventh International Workshop on* Non-Monotonic Reasoning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Collocated with KR 2006* in the Lake District area of the UK. 30 May to 1 June 2006. Please visit http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.hunter/nmr/ for further information. Juergen Dix and Anthony Hunter. From: sefranek_at_danka.ii.fmph.uniba.sk (Jan Sefranek) Subject: PATAT 2006: Second Call for Papers Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:08:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 520 (520) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS & DEMONSTRATIONS PATAT 2006 The 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling http://patat06.muni.cz Wednesday, 30th August - Friday, 1st September 2006 organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University International Hotel Brno Czech Republic NEWS about the conferences is available from http://patat06.muni.cz/news.= html This conference is the sixth in a series of conferences that serve as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation. For more information about the series of conferences see http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/patat/patat-index.shtml The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to): o Educational Timetabling o Transport Timetabling o Employee Timetabling and Rostering o Sports Timetabling o Complexity Issues o Distributed Timetabling Systems o Experiences o Implementations o Commercial Packages o Interactive vs Batch Timetabling o Timetable Updating o Standard Data Formats o Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems o Timetabling Research Areas, including: Constraint-Based Methods Evolutionary Computation Artificial Intelligence Graph Colouring Expert Systems Heuristic Search Knowledge Based Systems Operational Research Simulated Annealing Local Search Mathematical Programming Soft Computing Tabu Search Meta-Heuristics Hyper-Heuristics Very Large Neighborhood Search Ant Colony Methods Hybrid Methods Multi-Criteria Decision Making Fuzzy Reasoning The Featured Keynote Speakers for this conference are: Michel Gendreau (Centre de Recheche sur les Transports, Montr=E9al, Ca= nada) James Orlin (MIT, USA) Andrea Schaerf (Universita di Udine, Italy) [...] From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Re: 19.354 criticism of Wikipedia Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:09:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 521 (521) Wikipedia is not without its problems, but one problem with criticizing it by comparing it to extant professionally written encyclopedias is that it covers a vastly larger amount of stuff. Stuff that may not even make it into an Encyclopedia of Everything, but which obviously is of interest to some people. Wikipedia is hugely useful as a repository of basic information and references to more information about potentially obscure subjects. If an article in it is misleading, damage is mostly done to the person who doesn't bother to look anywhere else. And unlike encyclopedias that are edited once a year at best, once every decade or so more commonly, Wikipedia gives us an opportunity to correct mistakes immediately. [deleted quotation]...Wow. Since when are known experts the only people who "know what they're talking about", and what subjects are in question? If I want to know about l3375p34k, I'd rather ask teenage netizens with actual experience than a scholar. Again, it's a matter of what you want to know. Wikipedia is a fount of colloquial as well as academic knowledge. [deleted quotation]There are three assumptions here that I disagree with: - that "real experts" are a group delimited by some sort of officially sanctioned fame (see above); - that "[whizzy] technical processes" are inherently frivolous and unreliable (social computing, anybody? If nothing else, Wikipedia has spurred millions of volunteers to contribute, which is nigh unto impossible to do without learning something); and - that Wikipedia *should* resemble today's traditional encyclopedias. That's like looking at Michael Joyce's _afternoon_ and demanding that it be printed out. [deleted quotation]QD can be applied to its critics as well, no? Balanced critique of Wikipedia is rare. Usually it is regarded either as the kat's miau, or as complete trash. -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: James Cummings Subject: Your acquaintance from Leeds and 19.337 Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:10:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 522 (522) <James.Cummings_at_oucs.ox.ac.uk> Cummings was answering <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>, who had previously written about irritation to do with use of cell phones: ". . .nowhere near so much as when a single person is talking equally loudly on a mobile phone. This annoyance seems understandable when one is being subjected to overhearing the intimate details of gynaecological complaints or the complex financial details of some client's accounts. (Both crossing taboos about what one should talk about publicly.) I once read someone theorising that our annoyance at such conversations was because we found it awkward hearing only one side of the conversation. However, everyone I have asked that about has always said that it is just the person talking loudly. One acquaintance from Leeds routinely and loudly provides the missing half of such conversations: Phoning Person: I'm on a train Her: Really! So am I. Phoning Person: I don't know when I'll get in. Her: Well the schedule says 18:58, but we are already 10 minutes late. Phoning Person: No, I don't know what I want for supper. Her: How about aubergine, cheese and leek bake?'" From: mat sept Subject: Reminder: Organdi #8 (Secrecy) deadline 30/11/05 Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:09:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 523 (523) Dear all, We kindly remind you that Organdi Quarterly invites submissions for Issue #8: Secrecy (new deadline: 30/11/2005) Could we live without secrets, and in what kind of world would we be living? From secret societies to taboos or state secrets, secrecy seems to be everywhere. Secrecy is first of all a frontier between those who know and those who want to know. Secrecy is kept and exchanged, divides and fascinates, protects as much as threatens. But can everything be said and heard, and who can it be said by and kept from? What is the cost of secrecy and do its forms and degrees vary? In other words, what is the place and the role of this mysterious and dangerous notion in human life? These are some of the questions we would like you to answer in Organdi’s new issue. As usual, other contributions unrelated to the theme of the issue will be considered for the following sections of Organdi Quarterly: Letters to the Editors, Espace Libre (articles, interviews, documents), Ce qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de détruire, mérite d'être sauvé (articles, interviews, documents) Books, Music, Cinema & the Arts (cultural reviews), Out of Frame (exhibitions). for more details visit our submission page at http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/submission With regards The Editors of Organdi Quarterly Organdi Quarterly appelle à contribution pour son prochain numéro: Le Secret (nouveau deadline 30/11/2005) Pourrait-on se passer de secret, et dans quel monde vivrions-nous sans secret ? Des sociétés secrètes aux tabous en passant par les secrets d’Etat, le secret semble partout. Il est d’abord la marque d’une frontière posée entre ceux qui savent et les autres qui cherchent à savoir. Il se garde et s’échange, divise et fascine, protège autant qu’il menace. Peut-on pour tout dire et tout entendre ? Et cela avec n’importe qui ? Est-il un mal ou un bien, est-il nécessaire ? Quel est son coût, et peut-on en faire varier les formes ou les degrés ? En d’autres mots, quels sont la place et le rôle de cette notion mystérieuse et violente dans la vie des hommes? Voici quelques questions auxquelles le prochain numéro d’Organdi vous appelle à répondre. Comme dans tous nos numéros, les contributions ne portant pas sur le thème du dossier sont également les bienvenues, et seront examinées pour les sections suivantes d’Organdi Quarterly: Courrier des Lecteurs, Espace Libre (articles, interviews, documents), Ce qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de détruire, mérite d'être sauvé (articles, interviews, documents) Lire, Voire, Ecouter (critiques), Out of Frame (expositions). pour plus de détails, visitez la page: http://www.geocities.com/organdi_revue/submission vous pouvez également adresser vos questions par e-mail à organdi_revue_at_yahoo.com Cordialement Les éditeurs d’ Organdi Quarterly From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for submissions: Digital Humanities Quarterly Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:11:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 524 (524) Call for Submissions Digital Humanities Quarterly Submissions are invited for Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Submissions may be mailed to submissions_at_digitalhumanities.org. A web submission form will also be available soon. We welcome material on all aspects of digital media in the humanities, including humanities computing, new media, digital libraries, game studies, digital editing, pedagogy, hypertext and hypermedia, computational linguistics, markup theory, and related fields. In particular, we are interested in submissions in the following categories: --Articles representing original research in digital humanities --Editorials and opinion pieces on any aspect of digital humanities --Reviews of web resources, books, software tools, digital publications, and other relevant materials --Interactive media works including digital art, hypertext literature, criticism, and interactive experiments. A separate call for submissions is also being issued for this area. Submissions in all categories may be in traditional formats, or may be formally experimental. We welcome submissions that experiment with the rhetoric of the digital medium. We encourage the use of standards-based formats, but over time we will work to accommodate a wider range of media types and experimental functions. Submissions may be of any length. All submissions will be peer reviewed. For submission guidelines, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/guidelines/index.shtml. In particular, please note the new DHQauthor schema, a TEI-based schema for authoring, available for download together with stylesheets and documentation at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/en//DHquarterly/DownloadCentral For further information, and to contact our editors, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/. Julia Flanders Wendell Piez Melissa Terras General Editors, DHQ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Medici Archive fellowships Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:54:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 525 (525) Medici Archive Project Fellowship Program 2006-9 http://www.medici.org/positions/fellowships.html The Medici Archive Project is offering two three-year fellowships (September 15, 2006 - July 15, 2009) with 20 months of full-time document assessment and description for the Documentary Sources database in collaboration with the Project's research team onsite in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze and 10 months of independent research on a topic related to the Medici Granducal Archive, carried out in two 5-month segments in the second and third year of the fellowship period. Fellows will have the following qualifications: a completed PhD or equivalent in a humanities field relevant to 16th-18th century European history and culture; fluency in English and Italian (a knowledge of other languages is desirable); substantial research experience with original documentary material; the ability to master database programs and work in a computer environment; a personal commitment to a scholarly career involving archival research. The fellowship stipend is $36,000 per year plus an allowance for travel expenses. One fellowship is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and is offered to scholars who are United States Citizens or have been residents of the United States for three years at the time of application. The second fellowship is offered to scholars of all nationalities. The application deadline is January 31, 2006. Application details can be downloaded from <http://www.medici.org/positions/applicationdetails.pdf>Fellowship Application Instructions. The application cover sheet can be downloaded from <http://www.medici.org/positions/applicationcoversheet.pdf>Fellowship Application Cover Sheet or requested by email from fellowshipsny_at_medici.org fellowshipsny_at_medici.org FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Martin Harms Fellowship Coordinator Email: martinharms_at_earthlink.net Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Sylvain Loiseau" Subject: Digital documents and interpretation Conference Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:52:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 526 (526) International conference and summer school Albi, July 10-14th 2006 Organized within the framework of the Albi Languages and signification conferences (CALS) Digital documents and interpretation Corpora in humanities and social sciences Second announcement Corpus analysis and building are redefining the practices, or even the theories of the humanities. As these disciplines are more and more dealing with digital documents, they have to reconsider their relation to the empirical. The digitization of scientific texts also involves a reflexive return to their very development. Do these new ways of accessing documents generate new forms of knowledge construction? The new national and international initiatives (e.g. the creation of the Centre for digital scientific edition of the French CNRS, the TGE Adonis -- very large access equipment special for digital data and documents in the humanities and social sciences) may be the opportunities to build a federal project for the humanities and social sciences. Numerous communities have for a long time gotten involved in thinking on digitization and computer-assisted analysis: information sciences, but also history, sociology, linguistics, archaeology, literary studies -- non-exhausting listing of course... Therefore, the aim of the conference is to reinforce links and to encourage connections between teachers and researchers belonging to these disciplines and the communities of corpus linguistics and digital documents. Without much consideration towards ordinary objectivism, the conference will deal with the philological and hermeneutical problems corpus-based works have to handle, according to the tasks and the disciplines: for instance, genre and discourse typologies, description of semantic forms and contents, theme identification, concept characterization and evolution, form and content correlations. On the practical level, the conference will tackle the questions risen by corpus collecting, building, coding, tagging and processing and digital edition. Software demonstrations are scheduled, as well as introductions to issues specific to the concerned disciplines. Important dates Paper submissions : authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract containing references and keywords. Abstracts should be sent as attached files to LPE2_at_ext.jussieu.fr December 31, 2005: Paper submission deadline February 1, 2006 : Notification of acceptance June 1, 2006 : camera-ready copies of accepted papers Camera-ready copy should not exceed 10 pages (plus abstract). All the accepted papers will be put online before the conference. Papers should be submitted in PDF and conform to the guidelines available from http://www.revue-texto.net/Redaction/Normes/Consignes.html [...] From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: DMCA and the University Campus--10/28 early Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:12:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 527 (527) registration deadline for online workshop * Are students on your campus copying and transmitting music and copyrighted data on institutional networks? * Has your institution been served with cease & desist letters? Have you had to remove content from websites as a result of such a demand? * Do you have concerns about institutional responsibilities when contacted by a content provider? * Do you know what your rights and responsibilities are under the Digital Millennium Coppyright Act (DMCA)? * Are you aware of the exemptions within the DMCA for nonprofit libraries, archives, and educational institutions available under certain circumstances? * Do you have questions about how to promote distance education through digital technologies while maintaining an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the needs of users? * Can you make copies of a DVD owned by your library to have a back-up copy? * Do you have questions or feel befuddled by what the DMCA is and what it means for you and your institution? As part of its 2005-2006 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series, the Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College is pleased to offer some answers: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the University Campus: A Safe Harbor? http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#dmca November 7-November 18, 2005 Moderated by Arnold Lutzker, Esq. Senior Partner, Lutzker, Lutzker & Settlemyer, LLP This asynchronous online workshop is designed for faculty, university counsel, librarians, administrators, and instructional design and information professionals. COURSE GOALS--Workshop participants will: *Discuss the DMCA's original intentions to provide OSPs with liability protection; *Review DMCA history and analyze recent DMCA judicial opinions; *Discuss concepts of OSP and Safe Harbor; *Consider the universities' responsibilities as OSPs, particularly with P2P file sharing; *Discuss legislative developments and case studies demonstrating practical applications. WORKSHOP FORMAT: This two-week online workshop will provide an in-depth understanding of core intellectual property issues facing higher education. It will include course readings, chats and online discussions, and daily response and feedback from the workshop moderator. Please visit the web site for all course objectives: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#dmca REGISTRATION: Early registration--$125--closes OCTOBER 28. Register online at https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm Reserve your space now for upcoming workshops and save--two workshops for $225. Significant discounts for a limited number of full time graduate students; see the website for details. For additional information call 240-582-2965 or visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa --Jack Boeve Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/cip From: lukasza_at_babel.ling.upenn.edu Subject: Penn Linguistics Colloquium 30 - 2nd Call for Papers Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:12:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 528 (528) The 30th Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Second Call for Papers The 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place February 24-26, 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Keynote address: Pauline Jacobson (Brown University): Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: Taking the Surprise out of "Complex Variables" Special session: David Embick & Rolf Noyer (Penn): Distributed Morphology Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions of work done in the Distributed Morphology framework. The session on DM - scheduled for Friday afternoon - will feature an extended introductory lecture, followed by paper presentations and discussion. If you wish to be considered for this session, please include DM in the 'keywords' field on the submission form. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions. Deadline: Abstracts are due Tuesday, November 15, 2005. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by Monday, January 16, 2006. Length: Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced. An additional page may be used for references, tables, and examples. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract. Format: 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. Submission: An online abstract submission form is available at the PLC website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc30/ 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 plc30_at_ling.upenn.edu Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc30/ 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 University of Pennsylvania. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:14:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 529 (529) Volume 3792/2005 (Software Process Improvement) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Software Process Improvement – EuroSPI 2005 Conference p. 1 R. Messnarz, P. Abrahamsson, I. Richardson Framework of Agile Patterns p. 4 Teodora Bozheva, Maria Elisa Gallo Deploying Agile Practices in Organizations: A Case Study p. 16 Minna Pikkarainen, Outi Salo, Jari Still Pair Programming vs. Side-by-Side Programming p. 28 Jerzy R. Nawrocki, Michal Jasinski, Lukasz Olek, Barbara Lange Finding and Ranking Research Directions for Software Testing p. 39 Ossi Taipale, Kari Smolander, Heikki Kälviäinen Quality: Attitudes and Experience Within the Irish Software Industry p. 49 Brendan Keane, Ita Richardson How Things Should Not Be Done: A Real-World Horror Story of Software Engineering Process Improvement p. 59 Jarmo J. Ahonen, Hanna-Miina Sihvonen AIM – Ability Improvement Model p. 71 Jan Pries-Heje, Jørn Johansen Customer-Oriented Specification and Evaluation of IT Service Level Agreements p. 83 Wolfram Pietsch Safety Methods in Software Process Improvement p. 95 Torgrim Lauritsen, Tor Stålhane RAMALA: A Knowledge Base for Software Process Improvement p. 106 Javier Garcia, Yaser Rimawi, Maria Isabel Sánchez, Antonio Amescua A Process Based Model for Measuring Process Quality Attributes p. 118 A. Selcuk Guceglioglu, Onur Demirors Reference Model for Software Process Improvement: A Brazilian Experience p. 130 Ana Regina Rocha, Mariano Montoni, Gleison Santos, Sômulo Mafra, Sávio Figueiredo, Adriano Albuquerque, Paula Mian Using Rational Unified Process in an SME – A Case Study p. 142 Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Hans Westerheim, Finn Olav Bjørnson Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering for Supporting the ISO 15504 Assessment Process p. 151 André Rifaut Improving the Software Inspection Process p. 163 Tor Stålhane, Tanveer Husain Awan Project Web and Electronic Process Guide as Software Process Improvement p. 175 Nils Brede Moe, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Ken Rune Nilsen, Nils Jakob Villmones Forces Affecting Offshore Software Development p. 187 Miklós Biró, Péter Fehér A Framework for Improving Soft Factors in Software Development p. 202 Harald Svensson Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: oupjournals-mailer_at_liontamer.stanford.edu Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.4 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:59:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 530 (530) A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: November 2005; Vol. 20, No. 4 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/issue4/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial ----------------------------------------------------------------- Guest editor's Introduction Hugh Craig Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:381. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/4/381?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Communities of Interest: Issues in Establishing a Digital Resource on Murrinh-patha song at Wadeye (Port Keats), NT Linda Barwick, Allan Marett, Michael Walsh, Nicholas Reid, and Lysbeth Ford Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:383-397. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/383?etoc Systematic Approaches to Long Term Digital Collection Management Edmund Balnaves Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:399-413. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/399?etoc Original, Authentic, Copy: Conceptual Issues in Digital Texts Graham Barwell Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:415-424. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/415?etoc Text-encoding, Theories of the Text, and the 'Work-Site' Paul Eggert Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:425-435. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/425?etoc Who wrote Shamela? Verifying the Authorship of a Parodic Text John Burrows Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:437-450. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/437?etoc Planning an Online Encyclopedia of a Nation: The Example of Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand Jock Phillips Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:451-461. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/451?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Review ----------------------------------------------------------------- Review Willard McCarty Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:463-471. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/4/463?etoc From: Willard McCarty Subject: LNCS 3807 (2005): Web Information Systems Engineering Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:16:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 531 (531) Volume 3807/2005 (Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 20005 Workshops) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Ontology for the Selection of e-Processes p. 1 Frina Albertyn Managing Web GIS Quality p. 11 Yassine Lassoued, Omar Boucelma A Reusability Model for Portlets p. 21 Ma Ángeles Moraga, Coral Calero, Iñaki Paz, Oscar Díaz, Mario Piattini Towards Using Simulation for Enhancing Web Information Systems’ Utility p. 33 Phuong Nguyen, Sergiy Zlatkin Adaptive Multimedia Content Delivery in Ubiquitous Environments p. 43 SeungMin Rho, JeongWon Cho, EenJun Hwang Incorporating the Timeliness Quality Dimension in Internet Query Systems p. 53 Sandra F. Mendes Sampaio, Chao Dong, Pedro R. Falcone Sampaio SOAP Request Scheduling for Differentiated Quality of Service p. 63 Ching-Ming Tien, Cho-Jun Lee, Po-Wen Cheng, Ying-Dar Lin Portraying Algorithms with Leonardo Web p. 73 Vincenzo Bonifaci, Camil Demetrescu, Irene Finocchi, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Luigi Laura Multilingual Sentence Hunter p. 84 Julie Yu-Chih Liu, Jun-Lin Lin Design and Implementation of a Web-Board System for the Adaptive School Web Site Construction p. 94 Jeonghun Lee, Woochun Jun Developing Web-Based Learning Scenarios Using the IMS Learning Design: The ASK-LDT Environment p. 104 Demetrios Sampson, Pythagoras Karampiperis, Panayiotis Zervas Towards the Use of Web Services to Support the Provision of Learning Environments in Educational Modeling Languages p. 114 Manuel Caeiro-Rodríguez, Martín Llamas-Nistal, Luis Anido-Rifón A Framework for Monitoring the Unsupervised Educational Process and Adapting the Content and Activities to Students’ Needs p. 124 Iraklis Varlamis, Ioannis Apostolakis, Marianthi Karatza Web-Based Assessment Tests Supporting Learning p. 134 Sylvia Encheva, Sharil Tumin A Personalized Mobile Learning System Using Multi-agent p. 144 Jin-hee Ko, Chihoon Hur, Hanil Kim Collaborative Web-Based Nursing Practice Learning System p. 152 Woojin Paik, Nam Mi Kang, Heejung Choi, Eunmi Ham Learning Object and Dynamic E-Learning Service Technologies for Simulation-Based Medical Instruction p. 162 Stanley Y.W. Su, Gilliean Lee, Sem Lampotang Time – Space Trade-Offs in Scaling up RDF Schema Reasoning p. 172 Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Jeen Broekstra OWLIM – A Pragmatic Semantic Repository for OWL p. 182 Atanas Kiryakov, Damyan Ognyanov, Dimitar Manov Scaling the Kowari Metastore p. 193 David Wood A Method for Performing an Exhaustive Evaluation of RDF(S) Importers p. 199 Raúl García-Castro, Asunción Gómez-Pérez Towards Automatic Generation of Semantic Types in Scientific Workflows p. 207 Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludäscher A Semantic Distance Measure for Matching Web Services p. 217 Arif Bramantoro, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Maria Indrawan A Web Mining Method Based on Personal Ontology for Semi-structured RDF p. 227 Kotaro Nakayama, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio SPARQL Query Processing with Conventional Relational Database Systems p. 235 Stephen Harris, Nigel Shadbolt Scalable Instance Retrieval for the Semantic Web by Approximation p. 245 Holger Wache, Perry Groot, Heiner Stuckenschmidt Reordering Query and Rule Patterns for Query Answering in a Rete-Based Inference Engine p. 255 Murat Osman Ünalir, Tugba Özacar, Övünç Öztürk Scalable Peer-to-Peer RDF Query Algorithm p. 266 Denis Ranger, Jean-François Cloutier Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (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: 19.360 Wikipedia defended Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:53:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 532 (532) You are providing your own straw man definition of 'expert', then knocking it over. [deleted quotation]A bizarre suggestion -- don't use a reference work unless you are prepared to use other reference works. [deleted quotation] From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Re: Wikipedia Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:02:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 533 (533) Norman Hinton wrote: [deleted quotation]Or rather, don't use this reference work unless you are prepared to follow its references. Don't confuse the Wikipedia with the Encyclopedia Britannica and then complain when it isn't. The Wikipedia is a useful first stop, and some questions are answered on the first stop. Some questions are sufficiently important that I wouldn't trust the Encyclopedia Britannica or Oxford Classical Dictionary to give me a full, reliable answer: but they will give me a starting point and hopefully some references. I don't see what's bizarre about that. -- ======================================= Gabriel BODARD Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80 ======================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: imitation and independence Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:06:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 534 (534) I'd suppose that no self-aware scholar would put all of his or her weight on an entry in an encyclopedia or in any similar reference work, whatever the medium, without checking further. One goes, say, to the Oxford Latin Dictionary with a high degree of trust that one will find a trustworthy account of a word, but if a weighty argument turned on what the lexicographer wrote, one would be unwise to stop there, esp if the argument concerned, say, the degree to which the word could be used figuratively in a poetic context. One would take the advice given and consider it, but would it be wise to trust a lexicographer totally with a poetic judgement? I wouldn't, and if I were the lexicographer, I would hope that my judgement wouldn't be thus blindly trusted. For Wikipedia and all other digital tools the real issue at stake, it seems to me, is what we think they're for, individually and collectively. It seems reasonable to suppose that the print medium might consciously be deployed for uses to which it is well adapted, and that the same would happen, once we come to our senses, for the digital medium. In *Buch, Bibliothek, und geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung*, translated and adapted by John J Boll as *In Close Association: Research, Humanities, and the Library*, Bernhard Fabian argues that, "In view of the overabundance of literature and the development of new media and methods of distribution, a new hierarchical structure of publication formats seems unavoidable" (1998: 4). That seems so obviously right to me that I wonder if there's really an argument here at all. The question, it seems to me, is hierarchy with respect to what kind of difference(s), and once we have that in mind, then we start arguing about the distance on this great chain of being between one kind of publishing and the next up or down. And do we not begin by asking how the particular characteristics of the media in question help us to place each in the hierarchy? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:03:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 535 (535) http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2005/10/25/the-google-print-controversy-a-bibliography/ This bibliography presents selected electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet. It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project. Page numbers for print/electronic publications are not included unless they are mentioned in the electronic version. -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.39 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:04:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 536 (536) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 39 (October 26-November 1, 2005) INTERVIEW WILLIAM P. DUNK ON THE NEED FOR COLLABORATION In a Ubiquity interview, management consultant and futurist William P. Dunk says: "Besides the brain in one's head, there's also a brain in the gut that controls the digestive system and so forth. It's a fairly serious brain. I suspect that we're going to turn out to have more semi-brains, when we look at the body even more thoroughly, and we're going to conclude that the human system is the right model for man-made systems, because of the human system's qualities of durability, ruggedness, and resistance to attack. What collaboration is about is distributed intelligence, and I think that systems and governments and companies are all in such a degree of gridlock now that we desperately need to have broad-based intelligence coming into play everywhere." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i39_dunk.html From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Contemplation a trois Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:31:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 537 (537) Willard, Throughout the shiftings of the recent thread on observation of cellphone usuage, a thread that spun off one about attention which was delivered under the subject heading of contemplation and computing, I kept wondering why the same heading, hasn't there been a displacement in the topic. And so I entertained the contrary position, that despite the change in focus from a keyboard plus screen to a mobile device, the same theme was a current in the conversation. It was with the Wikipedia thread about the authorative value ascribed to certain sources that I began to understand the shape of the dynamic that distributes time and attention. It struck me that perhaps most of the interventions collected on Humanist so far in the cellphone thread assumed a one to one basis in the hook up of the call being overheard. Teleconferencing can of course establish links between several locations. Could it be the case that the model of teleconferencing where callers can and do experience the interruptions of people dropping in and out has influenced the modes of public cell phone use? The affordances of call display, redial, storage of numbers, all speak of a tolerance for interruption. Of course there are those that would argue that the technological affordances create the tolerance for interruption; others would claim that the tolerance shapes the technological development. The notion of a tolerance for interruption can be extended to courses of action in computing. A step by step method can be halted. There is always a lag. Obviously hardware response time and control of peripheral devices is a case in point. There is also some space to think about lag in the reiterative nature of steps. The social shape of lagging is a marker for the tolerance for contemplation as a valued form of action. There is an artistic practice that makes use of differential lag responses. Certain multimedia presentations eschew any version of the countdown which alerts the viewer that a "movie" is loading. The impatient surfer who moves on and fails to wait for the "still" image to unfold, that is to experience the sequence, misses the experience. It's an old game of patience familiar to the viewers and makers of materialist cinema and to the watchers of sunsets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen Subject: Digital Humanities 2006 (Paris) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:30:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 538 (538) CALL FOR PAPERS The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invite you to the conference Digital Humanities 2006 5-9 July, 2006 at the Sorbonne, Paris, France The joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic= Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities 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. Submissions are invited on all topics concerning digital humanities, e.g. =B7 text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning =B7 IT in librarianship and documentation =B7 computer-based research in literary, cultural and historical= studies =B7 computing applications for the arts, architecture and music =B7 research issues such as o information design and modelling o the cultural impact of the new media =B7 the role of digital humanities in academic curricula Submissions may be of three types: 1. Papers. The submission should be of 1500=20 words maximum. The duration of the paper is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer reviewed. 2. Poster presentations and software=20 demonstrations. This is especially suitable for work in progress to be discussed with delegates. Poster presentations= will be reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. 3. Sessions. These can be either 3-paper=20 sessions or panel discussions on a chosen topic. Sessions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations. Submissions may be in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian, but submissions in languages other than English or French are expected to= provide an English summary. The firm deadline for submissions is November 14, 2006. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2006. A limited= number of bursaries will be available for young scholars. A more detailed call for papers and the submission form can be found on the website: https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/ More information about the conference can be found at: http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/ and examples of= programmes and abstracts from previous conferences can be found at: http://www.ach.org/ACH_Archive.shtml For more information please contact: Lisa Lena Opas-H=E4nninen Chair of the International Programme Committee lisa.lena.opas-hanninen_at_oulu.fi Liliane Gallet-Blanchard Local Organiser liliane.gallet_at_wanadoo.fr From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Fwd: [dm-l] "Digital History: A Guide" (Cohen & Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:29:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 539 (539) Rosenzweig) free online All, I received this from Al Magary through another list and thought Humanist readers may be interested: [snip] _Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web_ by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig will be published in hardcover by the University of Pennsylvania Press in November for $28.95 but is available free on the web at http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/ It is a production of George Mason University's Center for History and New Media (CHNM), which is led by the authors. [snip] 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: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 19.364 Wikipedia Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:28:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 540 (540) On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]"QUESTION AUTHORITY!" "It is the first duty of every citizen to question authority." Ben Franklin And the multitude of material on the Internet allows us to do just that! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Paul Fortier 1939-2005 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:31:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 541 (541) Dear humanists, It is with sadness that I note that Paul Fortier passed away on October 15th. The following is a note I got from his sister. Paul Anthony Fortier (b. 1939) died on October 15, 2005 surrounded by the love of his wife Penny Gilbert, and of his four children Rose, Luc, Marc, and Jacques Fortier. The author of several books and many conference papers, he was most proud of being awarded the honour of University Distinguished Professor by the University of Manitoba in 1993. He taught in the Department of French, Spanish and Italian at the University of Manitoba, since 1979 at the rank of Professor; he was also very active in the Faculty Association. Over the years he worked on the executive of a number of societies studying computing and the humanities. At the time of his death he was director of the Centre for the Study of Aging, based at St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Simon Harper Subject: ACM Computing Reviews Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:39:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 542 (542) ACM Computing Reviews is looking to expand its coverage of current computing literature. Having published reviews by area experts for over 40 years, Computing Reviews was launched online in 2001 when the ACM partnered with Reviews.com. The online edition now publishes new reviews daily, and we would like to see the hypertext/hypermedia area receive greater exposure. Could you help us? Reviewers make a significant contribution to the computing community by applying their expertise in writing informed critiques. With Computing Reviews' readership growing worldwide, we want to make sure that developments in all areas of computing are represented. Apply to become a reviewer for Computing Reviews. A collaboration between the ACM and Reviews.com, Computing Reviews publishes reviews by area experts in monthly issues and daily online. As a reviewer, you will make a significant contribution to the computing community by using your expertise in writing informed critiques of current computing literature. To apply to become a reviewer, go to http://www.reviews.com/reviewer, then click on Become a Reviewer. Carol Wierzbicki Executive Editor ACM ==== Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: Simon Harper Subject: Third IEEE European Conference on Web Services Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:40:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 543 (543) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ECOWS 2005 Third IEEE European Conference on Web Services http://wscc.info/ecows2005/research/ Vaxjo, Sweden, 14-16 November 2005 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Services Computing. In cooperation with ACM SIGWEB. Program: ======================= Monday 14 November 2005 ======================= Tutorials and Workshops ======================== Tuesday 15 November 2005 ======================== Session 1: Composition Spheres of Visibility D. Biswas and K. Vidyasankar Towards a Distributed Service-Oriented Business Rules System F. Rosenberg and S. Dustdar Evaluating FuseJ as a Web Service Composition Language D. Suvee, B. De Fraine, M. Cibran, B. Verheecke, N. Joncheere, and W. Vanderperren Panel on "Semantic Web Services: Hype or Reality?" chaired by John Davies, BT, UK panelists: TBA Session 2: Semantics I A Cognitive Trust-Based Approach for Web Service Discovery and Selection A. Ali, S. Ludwig, and O. Rana Multiversion Concurrency Control for Large-Scale Service Directories W. Binder, I. Constantinescu, B. Faltings, and S. Spycher A Vector Space Search Engine for Web Services C. Platzer and S. Dustdar Session 3: Architecture An Architecture for Developing Aspect-Oriented Web Services S. Singh, J. Grundy, J. Hosking, and J. Sun Pattern-Based Variability Management in Web Service Development J. Jiang, A. Ruokonen, and T. Systa Creating Self-Adaptive Service Systems with Dysoa I. Bosloper, J. Siljee, J. Nijhuis, and D. Hammer A Client-Side Framework Enabling Callbacks from Web Services M. Ruth, F. Lin, and S. Tu ========================== Wednesday 16 November 2005 ========================== Session 4: Case Studies Engineering and Technology Aspects of an e-Government Architecture Based on Web Services B. Meneklis, A. Kaliontzoglou, C. Douligeris, and D. Polemi Web Services, Enterprise Digital Dashboards and Shared Data Services: A Proposed Framework J. Ganesh and S. Anand Semantic-Enabled Integration of Voice and Data Services: Telecommunication Use Case T. Vitvar and J. Viskova Session 5: Choreography Secure Choreography of Cooperating Web Services A. Bengtsson and L. Westerdahl Rethinking the Coordination Models of WS-Coordination and WS-CF F. Leymann and S. Pottinger A View-Based Approach for Tracking Composite Web Services D. Benslimane, Z. Maamar, and C. Ghedira Session 6: Diagnostics Enhancing Web Services with Diagnostic Capabilities L. Ardissono, L. Console, A. Goy, G. Petrone, C. Picardi, M. Segnan, and D. Dupre Monitoring Web Service Networks in a Model-Based Approach Y. Yan, Y. Pencole, M.-O. Cordier, and A. Grastien A Queuing Model for Service Selection of Multi-Classes QoS-Aware Web Services E. Badidi, L. Esmahi, and M. Serhani Session 7: Semantics II A Universal Service-Semantics Description Language A. Bansal, S. Kona, L. Simon, A. Mallya, G. Gupta, and T. Hite Exploring Semantic Technologies in Service Matchmaking K. Li, J. Wu, S. Deng, Y. Li, W. Shi, and Z. Wu WWW or What is Wrong with Web Services R. Krummenacher, M. Hepp, A. Polleres, C. Bussler, and D. Fensel ==== Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: device-mediated contemplation Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:26:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 544 (544) Unless I have missed something, no one in the recent discussion of the topic "contemplation and computing" has talked about contemplation. By implication the idea has been left entangled with minding one's own business, but that's not the same thing -- at least not unless "minding" and "business" are given rather special meanings. But even then, contemplation is various. There are different contemplative traditions, working in different ways, as is reflected, for example, in two senses from the OED: 1. The action of beholding, or looking at with attention and thought; 2b. Without reference to a particular object: Continued thinking, meditation, musing. (Or am I, in this second sense, reading the ideas of Soto Zen into medieval Christian tradition?) One question for us in particular, given this topic, might be: In what sense can we say that working with a computer is like other materially mediated contemplative practices? Roberto Busa has spoken of "playing solitaire" with output from the computer, before the days of interactive systems. Sir James Murray, nearly a century earlier, described more or less the same practice, resulting in the "emergence" of distinct senses of words, while manipulating readers' slips with quotations on them. Both examples would suggest that yes, the use of a computer can be a contemplative practice. Any thoughts on how this might happen with the systems we now have? Suggestive evidence for a connection between human and machine deep enough to support contemplation might be, for example, the profound disturbance at least some of us seem to experience when our machines go awry. I for one cannot rest, or not very comfortably, until I have fixed whatever has gone wrong. Similarly, when my machine is working well (as this one is now), something like a sense of good health pervades my working environment. Indeed, this feeling is almost addictive. (I do experience moments now and again, all projects for some reason or another out of reach, when I look for something to do so that I can be using my machine, rather than the other way around.) Now this compulsion to use particular artifacts is common enough when the artifacts are new, but other than computers, it does not last. That would suggest a different sort or degree of intimacy from that with, say, a new spade. Are computers alone in the category of receptive tools? How about mobile phones? Does the fact that the mobile puts you in touch with other people make it a like device -- and so, in some sense, contemplative? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: LNCS 3781 Advances in Biometric Person Authentication Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:38:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 545 (545) Volume 3781/2005 (Advances in Biometric Person Authentication) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Texture Features in Facial Image Analysis p. 1 Matti Pietikäinen, Abdenour Hadid DOI: 10.1007/11569947_1 Enhance ASMs Based on AdaBoost-Based Salient Landmarks Localization and Confidence-Constraint Shape Modeling p. 9 Zhiheng Niu, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Bingpeng Ma, Wen Gao DOI: 10.1007/11569947_2 Face Authentication Using One-Class Support Vector Machines p. 15 Manuele Bicego, Enrico Grosso, Massimo Tistarelli DOI: 10.1007/11569947_3 A Novel Illumination Normalization Method for Face Recognition p. 23 Yucong Guo, Xingming Zhang, Huangyuan Zhan, Jing Song DOI: 10.1007/11569947_4 Using Score Normalization to Solve the Score Variation Problem in Face Authentication p. 31 Fei Yang, Shiguang Shan, Bingpeng Ma, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao DOI: 10.1007/11569947_5 Gabor Feature Selection for Face Recognition Using Improved AdaBoost Learning p. 39 Linlin Shen, Li Bai, Daniel Bardsley, Yangsheng Wang DOI: 10.1007/11569947_6 An Automatic Method of Building 3D Morphable Face Model p. 50 Hui Guo, Chengming Liu, Liming Zhang DOI: 10.1007/11569947_7 Procrustes Analysis and Moore-Penrose Inverse Based Classifiers for Face Recognition p. 59 K.R. 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Tonguz DOI: 10.1007/11569947_31 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Malgorzata Sokol Subject: "Academic Identity Construction Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:42:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 546 (546) in E-Discussion Lists: A Case Study" Dear Humanists, I would like to announce the publication of my article: "Academic Identity Construction in E-Discussion Lists: A Case Study" (in: Cortese, Giuseppina and Anna Duszak (eds). Identity, Community, Discourse. English in Intercultural Settings. Linguistic Insights. Volume 18. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005). The text presents the results of my preliminary research into the linguistic means of identity construction in the Humanist discourse. Its electronic version is available at: <http://kfa.univ.szczecin.pl/AcademicIdentity.pdf>http://kfa.univ.szczecin.pl/AcademicIdentity.pdf. Comments and/or suggestions are most welcome. Best regards, Malgorzata Sokol sokol_at_univ.szczecin.pl From: Emmanuel Okyere II Subject: Re: 19.371 Wikipedia Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:39:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 547 (547) [deleted quotation]In exactly what way is this a 'bizarre suggestion'? A reference should by no means be taken as an atomic truth--it is just that, a pointer to previously published content that agrees with or sheds more light on whatever it is pointed to from--and certainly doesn't exist as an isolated dictum or preclude itself from making further references up the chain Emmanuel Okyere From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.374 contemplation and computing Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:36:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 548 (548) Willard, I can say this much about comtemplating and computing, at least: back when I was working as a programmer (the word shows how long ago it was), when I was hard at work composing programs and entering and debugging code, the world outside the monitor screen shrank and vanished. When I have been engaged in deep contemplation -- either the methods taught by the Jesuits, descended form ST. Ignatius, or the rather different Quaker (among others) methods of "centering prayer", the rest of the world disappears also. My eyes are usually closed, but there is an awareness of the outside world which lessens and goes away. Writing is similar, but not so total a disappearance -- I am usually checking notes, gazing at the ceiling while trying to think of a word, goofing off,etc. Reading can be similar but not as profound a concentration unless it's the best poetry. The relatively little time I have spent in Eastern-type meditation, I have been told by gurus,when distracted by something, to think/say "aware of (whatever)", then return to my thoughts. It works rather well,I find, and the same disappearance happens. From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies Subject: New book title from Litteraria Pragensia Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:35:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 549 (549) NEW TITLE from LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA BOOKS _____________________________________________________ SOLICITATIONS: ESSAYS ON CRITICISM & CULTURE by Louis Armand Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005 ISBN 80-239-5045-2 331pp. includes index The topics addressed in these essays range from laissez-faire economics and the state of contemporary culture, to the foundations of ethical philosophy. Commencing with an analysis of the rhetoric of "crisis," Armand poses questions of central concern to the future of criticism and the institutions of knowledge. Focusing upon the role of technology in re-shaping the structures of human experience, language and cultural practice, this collection of essays offers a broad, yet focused and sustained, critique of the legacies of modernity and beyond. Adopting the critical paradigm of solicitation, Armand demonstrates how structure is perceived through an incidence of crisis, and that these crises are pervasive in human experience. The essays included in this volume address the work of specific writers, philosophers, artists, as well as broader issues of history, futurity and the digital age. Jacques Derrida, James Joyce, Julia Kristeva, Walter Benjamin, Karl Jaspers are read alongside Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, Ted Nelson, John Dewey, as well as recent and contemporary artists such as John Cage, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Michael Dransfield and John Kinsella. http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/publications.html TO ORDER, email: IVA.SOKOLOVA_at_FF.CUNI.CZ or write to: Mgr Iva Sokolova Oddeleni Edice Philosophy Faculty, Charles University Nam. 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Sussex" Subject: Re: 19.376 Wikipedia Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:34:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 550 (550) Another angle on the Wikipedia question has to do with whether it is transparent / neutral as to culture, knowledge-base and so on. Many national encyclopaedias have detectable national biases; the Britannica changed flavour when it crossed the Atlantic; Funk and Wagnall's could not have been composed in Europe; encyclopaedias under the old Soviet Union were definitely ideologically filtered. And so on. There *is* a tendency among the reading public to genuflect before dictionaries and encyclopaedias. In my case at least, my critical distancing (Verfremdung?) is related to my competence. So I will approach dictionaries of the languages that I know with a healthy scepticism; but if it's a language that I don't know so well, I tend to be more trusting. Wikipedia here has a certain ambivalence. It isn't as structurally disciplined as regular printed sources, so one has to read it with more critical engagement. I wonder whether reading Wikipedia is a different kind of intellectual activity from reading a regular 'pedia. There *are* intermittent biases, and one needs to be alert to them. It's worth asking to what extent a wide contributor base has a smoothing function, and if so, in which cultural / knowledge-base the smoothing is occurring. -- Roland 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/index.html?page=18094&pid=19591 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: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.376 Wikipedia Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:35:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 551 (551) Well, I'll say this -- Wikipedia is so peculiar and untrustworthy that if I should be so unfortunate as to read it, I ALWAYS check its statements elsewhere. [deleted quotation]by no means be taken as an atomic truth--it is just that, a pointer to previously published content that agrees with or sheds more light on whatever it is pointed to from--and certainly doesn't exist as an isolated dictum or preclude itself from making further references up the chain From: Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza Subject: Paper: Digital goods and the concept of the Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:52:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 552 (552) commons, By Sabine Nuss Nuss, Sabine (2005) Digital goods and the concept of the commons. In Proceedings Left Forum, New York (US). Full text available as: PDF - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004855/ Abstract A lot of scholars and activists don=92t question the social form of the private good - in contrast they praise the market and the form of the private good as efficient and well installed =AD for certain goods. Accordingly, most of the advocates of the commons concept defend it only for certain goods and they justify that with a diffuse mixture of material consistence and normative claims. They ignore that under capitalist circumstances public goods are functional for the capital itself and that they are a pure social construction, so that they will be transformed in a private good as soon as its profitable for capital and as long it is not in the interest of the nation state to keep control over these goods - as it is the case in the national defense. If one wishes to withdraw goods from commodification then its better not to justify that with any material consistence but rather with a clear political statement against the social form of private goods. That requires rethinking and questioning this form, which is obviously the prevailing and seldom challenged form in which everything tends to transform, dependent on technological, legal and ideological means and dependent on the state of the art of capitalism. Keywords: Commons. Common knowledge. Digital commons. Digital goods. Public goods. Libraries. Common-pool resources. Commodification of information and knowledge. Information commons Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BC. Information in society. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BE. Information economics. ID Code: 4855 Deposited By: Muela-Meza, Zapopan Mart=EDn Deposited On: 29 October 2005 Alternative Locations: http://www.volkskunstschaffen.de/sabine_nuss/DigitalCommons_NewYork.pdf, http://www.rosalux.de/engl/articles/nuss/Digital%20Goods.htm All fields: Show all fields Lehmann, Michael (1997). "Digitalisierung und Urheberrecht." In: Lehmann, Michael (ed.) (1997). Internet- und Multimediarecht (Cyberlaw), Stuttgart, p. 27. Marx, K. (1857/58, 1953). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. p. 432. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/precapitalist/ Ostrom, Elinor and Hess, Charlotte (2001). "Artifacts, Facilities and Content: Information as a Common-pool Resource." Paper presented at the =93Conference on the Public Domain,=94 Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina, USA, November 9-11, 2001. http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/papers/ostromhes.pdf Smith, A. (1776/1976). An Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Buch V, p. 244. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/wltnt11.txt Zapopan Muela ----------------------------- v ------------------------------- "Tiranos y aut=F3cratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, el conocimiento, los libros y los peri=F3dicos son un peligro en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso de rebeld=EDa en las cabezas de sus s=FAbditos. ----------------------------- v ------------------------------- "Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads of their subjects." ----------------------------- v ------------------------------- -- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en la oscuridad. M=E9xico: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362. From: Willard McCarty Subject: currency of Web pages Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:55:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 553 (553) For those who teach students how to analyze Web pages, the example of the The Dickens Page will be welcome to illustrate the virtue of providing indication of a resource's currency -- and the attentiveness it demands. See http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: contemplation Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 554 (554) Re: 19.374 contemplation and computing ". . . world which lessens and goes away. Writing is similar, but not so total a disappearance -- I am usually checking notes, gazing at the ceiling while trying to think of a word, goofing off, etc. . . .I have been told by gurus, when [I am] distracted by something, to think/say From: "Bala Pillai" Subject: RE: 19.379 Wikipedia Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:54:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 555 (555) I find Wikipedia, and more precisely the open self-correcting flowing foundation that Wikipedia sits upon so valuable, that I am using its newest branch, Wikiversity to create a new convergent meta-university in Asia. As a contiguous and sub-ecosystem within the ecosystem that EBay's head, Meg Whitman talks about at http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=160028+20-Oct-2 005+RTRS&srch=eBay+++free+Phone+call The university's aim is to recreate and reconnect the mental soil for quantum inventiveness in Asia. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity Asia minus Japan has not produced a single quantum invention [1] since 1400 AD when before that it was responsible for nearly all of them. This big picture fact and its strategy implications don't seem to feature in empiricism-obsessed Asian academics in Asia and elsewhere. The Wikipedia way is better. It is the ultra-adaptive entrepreneurial and revolutionary edges of society where sense-making is born and reinvented. [1] Quantum invention = significant leaps in orders of problem solving from cave-man days to now eg taming of fire, domestication of rice, discovery of language, invention of wheel, paper, gunpowder, cars, computers, Internet etc cheers../bala Bala Pillai bala_at_apic.net Sydney, Australia Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995) Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency Roadmap: http://www.malaysia.net/bala-interview Profile/Vision: http://www.ryze.com/go/bala http://www.malaysia.net http://www.tamil.net http://www.singapore.net http://www.indonesia.net http://www.teleindia.com (soon) Ph: +61 2 9807 8589 IM (Yahoo/MSN): bala2pillai Some people make the world happen, more watch the world happen, most wonder what happened. From: Willard McCarty Subject: collegiality Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:23:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 556 (556) I was reminded this morning of the many virtues of collegiality that we share as members of a relatively obscure community of practice, unconnected to the sources and centres of political power. The reminder was the latest issue of Post Autistic Economics Review (http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue34/contents34.htm), which I happen to receive. In an article entitled "Whither Heterodoxy", Robert F Garnett, Jr reviews the recent history of the Post Autistic Economics movement of the turn of this century, 'when a series of petitions from young economists in France, the U.K., the U.S., and Italy... called for "a total overhaul of economics and economics teaching" to create a more open and scientific economics, guided by a philosophically principled pluralism.... The pluralistic ethos of the PAE movement struck a resonant chord with economics students and faculty around the world, giving rise to what Fullbrook describes as a "peace movement" among non-mainstream economists, an historic attempt to forge unity among dissenters who despite being "a sizable and growing minority" have long been divided into separate schools of thought.' The enthusiasm for pluralistic reform drew sharp criticism in particular from heterodox economists, such as J B Davis and P Davidson. '"Until heterodox economists unite behind a single 'general theory,' they are going to be losers"', Davidson comments. '"You cannot beat a rigid orthodoxy who despise non-pure bred Aryans (heterodox economists) with a 'let='s all share the tent guys and gals' philosophy. As the Allies found out when dealing with Hitler, it takes an 'unconditional surrender' approach and stronger [in this case, stronger logical] forces to win what -- whether you like it or not -- the other side has declared to be a war of annihilation (Davidson 2003b)." I'm as ignorant of the economic theoretical paradigms and movements as most here, but I quote from the article for the conjuring of warfare and worse. What, I wonder, do these academics think they're doing? Henry Kissinger is supposed to have said on returning from government to the quiet groves of Harvard that the fights among academics are far more vicious than those in government, since the academics have so much less to fight for. He would think that. But perhaps the elevation of ordinary life to the status of a norm (i.e. by identifying what is "normal" with what is usual) and the consequent persuasiveness of the doctrine of relevance are not such good things after all. Meanwhile, as long as we are allowed to sing harmoniously in a low key, let us do so. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: 19.380 contemplation Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:12:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 557 (557) Patricia, just let me be more precise -- you can't "make the world go away" - it just happens. If you concentrate on doing that, it will replace your meditations. But best of luck -- meditation seems sort of 60's to some, I know, but it can be immensely rewarding. From: Nancy Ide Subject: CFP: EACL 2006 Workshop Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:12:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 558 (558) EACL 2006 Workshop on Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Together April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/EACL06WS/ The EACL 2006 Workshop on Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Together will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics that will take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, italy. * TOPICS Although research on lexical ambiguity has a long history in the field of psycholinguistics, work in this area is rarely considered in debates concerned with identifying relevant sense distinctions for NLP. Recent research in the field of psycholinguistics may offer significant insight into the sense distinctions that humans readily recognize. This workshop will explore approaches to the problem of sense distinction from the viewpoint of both computational linguists and psycholinguists, in order to bring the work in each field to bear on the problem. * SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should be formatted using the EACL 2006 stylefiles with overt author and affiliation information and not exceeding 8 pages. The EACL 2006 stylefiles are available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm Please send your PDF file no later than January 6, 2006, to eacl2006_at_cs.vassar.edu. Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop are allowed; if you submit to the main session, do indicate this when you submit to the workshop. If your paper is accepted for the main session, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop upon notification by the main session. * REGISTRATION Information on registration and registration fees will be provided at the conference web page. * IMPORTANT DATES January 6, 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers January 27, 2006 - Notification of acceptance February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due April 4, 2006 - Workshop date As the schedule is extremely tight, deadline extensions are NOT possible. * PROGRAM COMMITTEE Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University (USA) (co-organizer) David Gorfein, University of Texas at Arlington (USA) Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (CA) Nancy Ide, Vassar College (USA) (co-organizer) Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex, UK Gregory Murphy, New York University (USA) James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University (USA) Philip Resnik, University of Maryland (USA) Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy (RO) Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield (UK) * FURTHER INFORMATION Workshop web page http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/EACL06WS/ Conference web page http://eacl06.itc.it/ EACL 2006 Workshops site http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/ * CONTACT INFORMATION Workshop email address: eacl2006_at_cs.vassar.edu General contact: Nancy Ide Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA email: ide_at_cs.vassar.edu tel: (+1 845) 437 5988 fax: (+1 845) 437 7498 From: Ingbert Floyd Subject: Re: 19.379 Wikipedia Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:01:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 559 (559) [deleted quotation]This is what interests me about the Wikipedia. It seems that the unreliability of the information ought to be emphasized, and that its function described as an entry-point to wider literature. While I don't think you can do this effectively on the site itself without encouraging contributers who will simply post lists of hundreds of links on a particular topic (which would be totally unhelpful), I think it is proper to do so in the meta-literature about Wikipedia. Thus, what is useful about the articles on Wikipedia is that they introduce you to vocabulary which you did not know exist (and had no good/easy/convenient way of finding before), provide some basic links to get you started on web resources, and give you enough context so that you actually have a clue how to structure a keyword search to find out more about it. The important question is, then, do the people who use wikipedia (academics and non-academics) realize that this is how the information ought to be regarded, and do they actually use it as feeder material for further searching, or do they just assume it is correct and take it at face value? If they don't bother to search further, how can the content be better structured to encourage such behavior? Or, is the information on wikipedia actually better/more reliable than the information they would otherwise find (from the other top ten Google hits, from their friends or co-workers, etc.), that despite the errors in the wikipedia data, it's actually better that they rely on that information, since they don't have the time or inclination to look any farther? The ideal of course, would be that Wikipedia would serve as a training ground for critical gathering of information. I.e., that people would get in the habit of always checking their sources because they rely on Wikipedia for most of their information, and then, when they happen to use other media to get information, they just habitually try to cross-check what they find. Wishful thinking perhaps, especially given how much time people have... I think the social question you raise is also an interesting one, but I am compelled to think of it as a question of epistimology, rather than a question of being "transparent / neutral as to culture". To me, knowledge does not exist outside of a mind. (Patterns and figures do, but they don't become symbols or hold meaning until interpreted by a mind.) And knowledge is not shared between people, it is just a particular person's assumption that the concept in their mind is identical to the concept in the person's mind they are talking to, if the same word is being used to reference the concept. And a person only becomes aware that they are making this assumption, when the other person acts/speaks in a manner that is inconsistent with what they would expect given their understanding of the concept. Thus, all a culture is (no matter what the scale you happen to be talking about), is a set of people whose use of particular words to represent concepts does not cause other people who are part of the culture to question their assumption of what the concept is that is represented by those words. Thus, the idea of being neutral to culture becomes somewhat meaningless (there is nothing besides culture--all communication happens in culture), and when thinking critically about wikipedia, the focus is more: what cultural vocabularies are supported in the Wikipedia text, does it help bridge barriers between cultural vocabularies, what is the granularity of the culture (all of western culture vs. east-coast US computer hackers), and how does this change over time as editing continues (does it become more inclusive or more exclusive, do more cultures and diverse granularities of cultures become reflected, or does it smooth over time to the largest culture possible for the language in which the article is written, etc.). I don't know, what do you think? 'Cause I have to admit that I am always surprised by just how much on Wikipedia is actually *right* and can be relied upon... Ingbert Floyd Ph.D. Student Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign [deleted quotation]And so on. [deleted quotation] -- ========================================== Check out the unofficial GSLIS Wiki: http://www.gslis.org/ Tell me what you think, if you find it useful, or if you have any ideas for how to organize it better. And if you feel comfortable doing so, I heartily encourage you to contribute content! From: Willard McCarty Subject: students using Wikipedia? Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:11:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 560 (560) Has anyone here constructed exercises in which students are asked to look further than a given Wikipedia entry and then to evaluate that entry? If so, it would be useful to hear which entries have been used, what the results have been. If my own experience as a student is any guide, students almost always have to be pushed to go further than the obvious reference sources (Cliff notes &c). I expect that our students now need to be taught an old lesson in terms of a new medium, from which they tend to expect "just the facts, m'am, just the facts". Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.365 Wikipedia Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:13:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 561 (561) Dear Willard, At 02:09 AM 10/26/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]This is so interesting. It reminds me of a very refreshing little book I read last year -- Gabriel Diaz. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2003. The problem is that the last problem you pose, "how the particular characteristics of the media in question help us to place each in the hierarchy", is impossible to discern without both distinguishing what *uses* those media may be put to (since a medium is not a static thing, but adapts to the uses of its adopters), and accordingly the manifold different hierarchies and potential hierarchies that might result, when media are put to new uses either competing with or complementing more established channels. So, not a simple "chain of being" but a network of interpenetrating networks. So for example, current trends seem to indicate that political discourse even in very conventional mainstream media is being affected by the echoings of activity in "the blogosphere" as it's been called. Even though largely out of view of the average TV watcher, debates seem to be crystallized and focused more quickly than hitherto -- can one doubt this is due to more people have more access to more evidence and more points of view, making for a broader range of impressions from which conventional wisdoms can be distilled? One can hope. I dare say this happens in smaller communities and markets as well. In fact I work in an industry that utterly depends on email and the web for the circulation of information absolutely vital to its survival ... were everyone to suddenly quit using the net, e-publishing in general (which includes e-publishing on paper, i.e., today, almost "publishing" altogether) would be set back decades. This is because progress in the last ten years has been based largely on the adoption of standards that would be impossible to promulgate at the same rate or to such good effect, were it not for these channels. 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: "Larry Swain" Subject: call for papers: The Heroic Age Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:16:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 562 (562) To: Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 3:09 PM Baghdad, Aachen, and Winchester: Early Medieval Reforms and Reformers The late eighth and ninth centuries saw cultural and intellectual revivals and renaissances that seemed to have proceeded from East to West. All are related in some way to each other, but they are seldom examined in the same context. Harun al-Rachid, Charlemagne, and Alfred all sponsored reforms in their respective societies, were in contact in some way with one another (or in Alfred's case, with Charlemagne's grandson), and may have influenced one another.The Heroic Age invites submissions exploring these three rulers, the cultural revivals that occurred under their reigns, the factors leading to those revivals, the long term results, and any possible interplay or influence. This issue will be The Heroic Age's eleventh issue and is planned for January 2007. Submissions will be received at any time, but no later than Oct. 1, 2006. For submission guidelines see www.heroicage.org, Submissions should be sent to Larry Swain, haediting_at_yahoo.com From: Peter Shillingsburg Subject: professorship and postdoc at De Montfort (UK) Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:21:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 563 (563) Two Positions in Textual Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Application forms and further details are available from The Human Resources Team, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH. Tel: 0116. 250 6433 (24 hour answerphone) Closing date for all posts: (approximately) 24 Nov. 2005. to apply online visit www.dmu.ac.uk/jobsonline (1) In the School of English, History, and Performance Studies Professor of English (Textual Studies) (Permanent post to be taken up on 1 September 2006 at the latest; salary individually negotiated with the Vice Chancellor) Applications are invited for the permanent post of Professor of English (Textual Studies). You will play a leading role in the internationally recognised work of the Centre for Textual Scholarship (formerly the Centre for Technology and the Arts) and will make a significant contribution to the already dynamic research culture of the English team (which gained a 5A in the 2001 RAE). Period of literary specialization is open, but international standing and significant recent publications in scholarly editing and textual studies or closely related fields are essential. Informal enquiries may be made to: Dr Philip Cox, Head of School of English and Performance Studies, E-mail: ptcox_at_dmu.ac.uk; Telephone: (0116) 250 6129. Please quote ref: 3871. (2) Post Doctoral Research Fellow in English (Electronic Textual Scholarship) (full-time appointment for two years) 24,352 - 37,521 pounds sterling per annum. As part of its developing research strategy for RAE 2008 and beyond, the School is seeking to make an appointment with effect from 1 January 2006 in the area Electronic Textual Editing. You will work within the Centre for Textual Scholarship, which has an international reputation for the electronic editing of literary and other texts from the medieval period onwards. The post is primarily aimed at scholars who have recently completed a PhD in English or a related discipline and who have specialist experience of electronic scholarly editing and a technical working knowledge of electronic software and the functions and uses of XML, TEI, and related electronic protocols. Programming knowledge is essential. You will be expected to engage in your own research whilst supporting the broader work of the Centre. You will also be expected to undertake a limited amount of teaching, including workshops within the CTS. Informal enquiries may be made to the Director of the Centre for Textual Studies, Professor Peter Shillingsburg E-mail: pshillingburg_at_dmu.ac.uk Please quote ref: 3873. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity6.40 Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:05:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 564 (564) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 40 (November 2-8, 2005) VIEW SOFTWARE BASED FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTING Goutam Kumar Saha explains how to design a software based fault tolerant application using microprocessor (MP), in order to tolerate the burst errors in memory. www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i40_saha.html VIEW WHY PEOPLE DON'T READ ONLINE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT Michelle Cameron offers some good advice for Internet publishers. www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i40_cameron.html From: Mark Horney Subject: Re: 19.388 Wikipedia Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:05:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 565 (565) Isn't this: [deleted quotation]pretty much what any encyclopedia is good for? Mark Horney, Ph.D. Center for Advanced Technology in Education University of Oregon mhorney_at_uoregon.edu 541-346-2679 From: Emmanuel Okyere II Subject: Re: 19.374 contemplation and computing Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:04:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 566 (566) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]The text that readily comes to mind is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow:The Psychology of Optimal Experience; "You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding..." (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060920432/002-6257134-0156856?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance) The computer, a general purpose tool, by definition finds different uses across differnt users/situations. Our psychology allows us to learn certain parts of the system, such that (through repetition) they become automatic--it is the reason we effortlessly/automatically equate the idea of moving the pointer on the screen to picking up the mouse. To be able to do useful work with the computer (and to communicate with it efficiently), we combine bits and pieces of allowed activities like that mentioned above. As with most things, there isn't always one sure way... meaning while you might take 10 steps to produce a required result, it might also be possible to do it in two ... sometimes, you can "lose yourself" and experience "flow"; when you've done this, it is likely you'll find alternative solutions/insights that you would not otherwise think about [deleted quotation]I agree with you here too; an example I can recount from my own experience, is how I feel sort of 'bulked' up when my (computer) desktop has too many files/folders on even when my email Inbox starts to bulk up; this might not be 'actual' work left to be done, but rather temporary folders/files that I create as I work from day to day, or in the case of email, mailing lists I subscribe to (such as this) that I haven't found time to read/contribute to. I certainly feel a lot 'healthier' when I've been able to clear these... I think part of this is a function of how long/often you stay with your computer, and you could probably relate this with even human relations--the more you know and like somebody, the more you are likely to stay with them--so that the more you discover, in a way, the more you want to know, and so the more you turn to depend on the machine. Thanks, Emmanuel -- Phone: +1.571.281.4622 Phone: +44.207.669.1252 (UK) Fax: +1.703.815.4702 PGP Key ID: 0x785E9DBF (subkeys.pgp.net) IRC: eokyere Skype: eokyere MSN: compubandit Y!: compubandit From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.385 collegiality Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:06:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 567 (567) Williard, Having gone through the gauntlet of economic paradigms and models, I feel I can speak a little as to how economics can get war-like, even among academics. Neophyte economists go through a process of learning economic models -- things like supply and demand, aggregate demand curves, income and consumption-side GDP forumlae and so on. These become the basis for empirical inquiry -- you may even say that this becomes the language of inquiry. THe problem is that I don't really believe economists really know what to do when their empirical data behave differently from the models that they learned. The analogy I make to this is a colonial one -- as if the English speaking economist encounters non-English data, then they frame it in terms of the model, suggest the incorporation of new dimensions, yet another greek symbol to represent a variable which confuses the heck out of anyone with less than 3 years of study in the discipline and frankly, are just impossible to teach. So what you get are students who need to learn "fundamental" models that are simple, but sketchy -- and if they want to get out of the "sketchy department" they have to learn, well, Greek. Ideologies form around the "sketchy" models, and they have serious implications for groups of people. For instance, whether you believe ala Keynes that "wages are sticky on the downward side," "ie that workers and organizations are slow in agreeing on prices that are lower than the status quo," you might argue that a "tight" monetary policy to control inflation would create excessive and prolongued hardship on the workforce. This view, in ideological terms would be highly favored by unionist ideologues who in turn, fund certain political parties and not others. The opposite view, a view purported by Monetarists, would imply controlling inflation is the primary goal for monetary policy, something that would favor business profits which would have its own ideologues. In a interdisciplinary sphere, like Public Administration or International Development, you learn just enough of this to be dangerous. And there is rarely an opportunity to explore the "true" experience of monetary policy in a society, and if you do look at some data and it doesn't quite suit model, the assumption is that you did something wrong, or that the model is imperfect, but works sufficiently to cover most situations. Another challenge for the economist who thinks his/her data has "special" characteristics is that saying the data supports x position (which will be what policy makers will be looking for) will make certain friends in certain circles and certain enemies in others. And perhaps the bigger problem is that economists make really bad anthropologists. Jane Jacob's book _Dark Age Ahead_ is an interesting study in the cross between science and policy and has definite relevance to this list, although the example here is tied to the models assumed by "traffic engineers." She cites the example from the Febrary 16 1998 issue of _Chemical & Engineering News_ of the assumption among traffic engineers who assumed via a computer model, that "closing a road causes traffice using it to move elsewhere." The empirical tests actually showed that when the road is closed 20-60% of the traffic simply vanishes. (Jacobs, Jane (2004). _Dark Age Ahead_ Random House Canada_. p. 75. So, I think there are a number of questions coming out of this. 1. What is the relationship between/among scientific models & ideologies? 2. Does IT play a role in catalysing these ideologies? 3. What is/are the academic's role(s) in mediating between models, data and the political sphere? 4. Can computing humanists play a role here? 5. How do you train the student who knows just enough to be dangerous to be critical of the standard models? Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: Sophia Katrenko Subject: ESSLLI'06 Student Session: 1st Call for Papers Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:42:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 568 (568) 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI 2006 STUDENT SESSION July 31 ­ August 11, Malaga, Spain *********** Submission deadline February 1st, 2006 ****************** We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), which will be held July 31 ­ August 11, in Malaga, Spain. We invite papers for oral and poster presentation from the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. The aim of the Student Session is to provide students with the opportunity to present their work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session invites students at any level, undergraduates as well as graduates, to submit a full paper, no longer than 7 pages (including references). Papers should be submitted with clear indication of the selected modality of presentation, i.e. oral or poster. Accepted papers will be published in the Student Session Proceedings. Papers should describe original, unpublished work, complete or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and promise. Previously published papers should not be submitted. The preferred format of submission is PDF. All submissions must be accompanied by a plain text identification page, and sent to katrenko_at_science.uva.nl. Deadline for submission: February 1st, 2006. For more information about the Student Session, and for the technical details concerning submission, please visit our website at http://www.science.uva.nl/~katrenko/stus06. You may also contact one of the chairs: Janneke Huitink Sophia Katrenko j.huitink_at_phil.ru.nl katrenko_at_science.uva.nl IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Submission: February 1st, 2006 Notification of authors: April 1st, 2006 Proceedings Deadline: May 1st, 2006 ESSLLI: July 31 ­ August 11, 2006 -- Sophia Katrenko Human Computer Studies Laboratory Informatics Institute Faculty of Science Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 419, Matrix I 1098 VA Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel.: +31 20 888 4686 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~katrenko/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: VR scholarly editions? Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:36:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 569 (569) Let us say that it were possible to construct virtually real, immersive environments, such as on the imagined holodeck of the starship Enterprise. Let's say that with such a tool, a book historian and editor of Victorian fiction were to construct a simulation of a typical environment in which, say, a gothic novel might have been read -- down to the flickering animal-fat candles, their smell, the rattling sashes, gusts of wind etc. Let's say in addition that other scholars of the period and genre not only could immerse themselves in this VR simulation but that they could also play with the parameters of the simulation, e.g. to put our imagined editor's instantiated views of the scene to the test. What would be the scholarly value of such work? Would this environment itself qualify in your mind as an "edition", or would it be a component of an edition? Is this a path down which you think we should go when it becomes possible to do such things? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Joel Elliott" Subject: Lyman Nominations Open & Upcoming Webcast (Nov 11, 2005) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:45:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 570 (570) Note: Nominations close December 15, 2005 National Humanities Center Welcomes Nominations for Information Technology Award, Webcasts Public Address by Recipient The National Humanities Center welcomes nominations for the fifth 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, the historian Roy Rosenzweig of George Mason University, and the Assyriologist and Sumerologist Robert Englund. The award carries a prize of $25,000. Nominations close on December 15, 2005. The 2005 Lyman Award recipient, John Unsworth of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give a public lecture at the Center on Friday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. His talk, "New Methods for Humanities Research," will be broadcast live over the Internet. To learn more about the Lyman Award, submit a nomination, or view Professor Unsworth's lecture, visit the Center's Web site, www.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: Ingbert Floyd Subject: Re: 19.392 Wikipedia Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:40:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 571 (571) [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation]True, but wikipedia covers so many more topics, especially many that would never make it into most encyclopedias except those designed for specialists (and often not even those), that it gives a one-stop-shopping reference for anybody to check. And to check with minimal effort. The user doesn't have to first figure out which encyclopedia has the term, whether such an encyclopedia exists, etc., all of which takes a significant amount of time and effort which the user might not have or be willing to spend. I'm not saying it's the "Kat's Miau", but it is impressive in its breadth of topics. And the usefullness of the information often does surpass much of what would be found in a typical web search (through Google, for example), which is one reason that it often ranks near the top of Google searches on somewhat specialized topics. I try to judge things based on (1) how well they work, and (2) whether a better alternative (potentially) exists. In this case, if wikipedia is used the way I specified, it works pretty well, and I am unaware of a better alternative, whether actual or potential, though I'd be more than interested to hear any ideas for a better alternative that anybody has. Ingbert P.S.: If someone is tempted to reply that Google ranks on popularity rather than quality, yes, that's true. However, popularity does seem to work (to some extent), hence why Google is currently the most used search engine. Nobody has been able to come up with a better way of automatically judging content; natural language processing has yet to work on that level. -- ========================================== Check out the unofficial GSLIS Wiki: http://www.gslis.org/ Tell me what you think, if you find it useful, or if you have any ideas for how to organize it better. And if you feel comfortable doing so, I heartily encourage you to contribute content! From: "Jochen L. Leidner" Subject: call for participants: German native speakers Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:44:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 572 (572) wanted for Wikipedia study Dear Humanist subscriber, For a scientific online experiment, I'm looking for volunteer participation from German native speakers. In this experiment, you'll be presented with random entries from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (in German), and your task is to think of (and formulate) questions that are answered in it. To participate, have a look at the attached guide, go to the Web Experiment portal http://www.language-experiments.org/ ------------------------------------ and select "Wikipedia-Studie zur Formulierung von Fragen und Antworten" ------------------------------------------------------------ [Wikipedia Study on Formulating Questions and Answers] This effort is part of the project "SmartWeb: Mobile Broadband Access to the Semantic Web" funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which aims to improve the state of the art in automatic question answering. The task is open-ended, so you can decide whether to participate for just 5 minutes or whether you donate half an hour or more to science. There's two 15 Euro (10.19 Pounds Sterling, 18.10 US$) Amazon book vouchers to be won in a price draw if you leave your email address, to reimburse you for your precious time. I'd appreciate if as many of you could participate and/or forward this to other German native speakers. Thank you all very much in advance. Regards, Jochen Leidner -- Jochen L Leidner, MA MPhil (CSTIT) http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/~s0239229/ PhD candidate School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Research Associate LSV - Speech Signal Processing Group University of the Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 573 (573) From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:47:46AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Without having more evidence than a very limited knowledge to cultures where life and death depends on well-functioning tools: Is this not similar to the almost bodily connection to a diesel engine on a small fishing boat in a storm, or to the gun for a hunter (dependent on hunting, not hunting for fun) or a soldier? So that the close computer-human link is based on the fact that the human needs the computer (it "controls" your career, to the degree that the career is based on your documents) while you do not fully understand it? Maybe the connection to a spade is closer when it cannot be replaced, and digging is really important? Regards, Øyvind Eide From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.397 VR scholarly editions? Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:46:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 574 (574) Terrific idea for a gaming environment, Willard! You don't even need VR. It's possible to do it now, if you go by the complexity of the social environments multi-user game authors are now creating--we have a PhD student who is studying them ethnographically. One participant could take on the avatar of the implied author, another the implied reader, another the real author, many others the real readers, another the editor, another the stylistic analyst, another the reception analyst....... Pat Galloway Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Re: 19.397 VR scholarly editions? Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:47:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 575 (575) All I can contribute to this discussion is a recollection of rereading a portion of Pride and Prejudice (preparing for the next day's class) by candlelight during a power outage. After many years I still recall that it was somehow a different experience from reading Austen by electric light or even daylight. How much this contributed to my scholarly understanding I cannot say, but it was a different experience. Joe Raben From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 19.397 VR scholarly editions? Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:48:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 576 (576) I think it would go down as something like a movie. If it were done by a museum or a historical society, perhaps then as a simulation. I doubt if the term "edition" would be used, other than to say such as: "This simulation was based on. . . ." Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: contemplations & collegiality & contemplations Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:39:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 577 (577) Willard, The recent thread on the ever surfacing theme of collegiality is worth linking to the question of the social practices of contemplation that has enjoyed a lively run... Michale Joyce in May 2004 gave some remarks as part of a panel at the University of Washington conference on "Information, Silence, and Sanctuary". In July 2005 they appeared on the WWW. I quote the following from his Coleridge-inspired meditations on interspace: [...] I more than ever believe that there is an increasingly compelling value in distance, silence, uncertainty, and deliberation. The shared care of the commonly-valued unknowing -- the interspace which constitutes the agenda of an art form, an academic discipline, a spiritual practice, or democratic citizenship -- offers not just commodity but comity. The latter, old-fashioned word for an atmosphere of social harmony has in its legal and policy meanings a sense of making space for the decisions and actions of another jurisdiction or nation. In a mediatized and multidisciplinary world, a space of comity, the constant readjustments, accommodations, and affordances, the measured motion among several interests, is invaluable. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.397 VR scholarly editions? Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:38:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 578 (578) Dear Willard, At 02:52 AM 11/3/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]This is a fascinating thought experiment. I wonder whether a movie version might also qualify? Note the comparison here is not to a movie version of the events narrated in the text, but of the text itself. An over-the-shoulder shot of someone reading. Pages turning at appropriate moments. The movie could show bookmarks being used to keep track of endnotes. It's particularly interesting to speculate on why this wouldn't count. I'd say such a movie would not qualify as a scholarly edition because no one would expect that we would actually read and consult it as such, or take it as evidence of anything other than what the moviemaker chose to depict (and perhaps of absurdity or absurdism). Despite showing us views of turning pages (how different from turning the pages themselves), the movie's modality of communication and interactivity is just too different from that of a book. Enter VR, you counter. Given sufficient bandwidth and fidelity to the impressions made by a book on your sensorium, the book could be represented in such a way as to make it seem not like a movie, not even like a VR, but like a book. Go ahead, turn the pages. An edition! Yet this is as much to say as: the VR becomes a suitable medium for presenting an edition of a book if the VR is sufficiently sophisticated that it becomes invisible. I would indeed accept this -- in theory -- yet cannot help but point out that it suggests that the constitutive element of a successful VR is not, then, its high fidelity, but rather that it be well enough constructed and well enough suited to the work of representation that we put it to, that we are able to suspend our consciousness of it while using it. And indeed, as some of us who used to haunt odd corners of cyberspace can attest (MOO, anyone?), this is in fact the case ... "text-based VR" being a case in point of a medium which can in fact be transparent in such a way ... and which might, in fact, support the kind of work you describe, despite its channel being very narrow. No smell-o-vision; just words on a screen. I'd accept that a copy of a book found in a MOO could be taken as an edition of that book. (Too bad MOO is a lousy medium for reading books.) This is the case with other media with similarly limited bandwidth. Even codices (or perhaps especially codices, given a nice armchair) can support such an immersion, if the narrative is fluent and the argument clear. The modality disappears; we no longer see "the text" for "the text". Then the medium comes into its own. At that point, we no longer need to represent an old familiar medium in the new one: we represent directly whatever we want to represent. And this is, in fact, the trend we see in electronic editions. 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: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.392 Wikipedia Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:39:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 579 (579) Willard, This is a bit orthogonal to the Wiki thread. It matters little how many reference works one consults. For example I found myself wondering how would a reference work could lead to an access point for a data set, gor example what are the sociological conditions that would support making available the indicaters for population change for the cities, towns, and countries listed in some geopedia. The point I am making is that time series allows one to really cook. Gay Allison, Canadian poet says it perhaps in a very computational fashion when in "The Joy of Cooking" she writes "I have gathered all the recipes / of the world in my kitchen / 500 casseroles / exotic curries from India / French fantasies for pleasure / and a diet cookbook from _Chatelaine_ / [...] What I really need now / is a stove." From the collection _Life: Still_ (1981). -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.391 contemplation, computing and learning Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:02:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 580 (580) From the "E-Learning Queen," Susan Smith Nash's blog: http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com/2005/11/fighting-intrusive-thoughts-using.html "Podcasts can be used in e-learning to combat intrusive thoughts. They can be a part of an effective self-regulatory strategy which also accommodates multiple learning styles while overcoming intrusive thoughts and the anxiety that accompanies them. As a result, academic performance can improve, while increasing self-concept and self-efficacy." Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: "Peter Ryan" Subject: CFP for Graduate Student Conference Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:51:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 581 (581) EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES Intersections 2006: A Graduate Student Creative Conference Call For Proposals (CFP) CFP DEADLINE: Friday, January 20th, 2006 Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture York University and Ryerson University Toronto, Canada March 24-26, 2006 EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 5th annual Intersections weekend Creative Conference. This year we are especially interested in discussing the significance of both new and established scapes, and their relationships with and connections to imagined and physical spaces. Edges, nodes, networks, overflows, streams: the way we imagine our world is changing. We are at a point where it is important to reflect upon and consider older connectivities established through non-electronic media, while at the same time considering the potentials of new media through emerging communication technologies. Bodies, commodities, ideas, and technologies follow an exploding number of conduits between the local and the global, around, through, and behind nations and institutions. The 2006 Intersections Conference will be the 5th annual event organized by the York/Ryerson joint Programme in Communication and Culture. After last year's successful conference concerning themes of HYBRID ENTITIES, which analyzed haphazard links, mongrel formations, and mutant compositions, we are now interested in submissions that explore intersections where steps and solutions can be actively followed in attempts to answer the many questions that arise when we try to create and influence the direction of Communications and Culture. The conference will investigate the following new spaces and modes of movement: How and by who are these flows, networks, and disjunctures created? By what paths do we move/think through them? Where is power, and how does it move? Do borders, edges, and in-between spaces exist? What happens here? Is social change or even directionality possible within a fluid and shifting environment? What metaphors and tools can we use to conceptualize the world and the future? What potential exists for scapes of resistance, or opportunities to challenge present boundaries and structures? What can we learn from the past? How can we imagine new social formations, solidarity, and subjects positions in the 21st Century? Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference welcomes submissions that take up these themes either through an academic paper presentation, an artistic expression, or an activist agenda. Details on subtopics and submission procedures follow below. We encourage all interested activists and scholars to participate and to come celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Intersections Conference!! ******************************* SUBTOPICS AND THEMES Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations that relate to the following broad themes: 1) Media and Culture Topics could include (but are not limited to) cultural consumption and production, cultures of cities, space and place, depictions of ability/disability, media democracy, media studies, popular and visual culture, subjectivity, representations of class/ethnicity/gender/race/sexualities, semiotics and linguistics. 2) 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. Also, issues of how the Internet and network society is reconfiguring social formations and subject positions will be considered as a part of this category. 3) Politics and Policy Potential areas of focus could include (but are not limited to) accessibility, citizenship, communication policy, copyright and intellectual property, cultural policy, deliberations about communication and culture and the public sphere, globalization, media ownership in Canada, questions of structure, power and agency, privacy and surveillance, sovereignty, and strategies of resistance. SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES As an expanded event, this year EMERGING SPACES will include the following formats for disseminating and discussing ideas. 1) Paper presentations - 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time for discussion to follow 2) Creative work with artist's talk - Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied by artist talk during conference 3) 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 the following address: 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: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2006. Please e-mail inquiries and submissions to: intersec_at_ryerson.ca CFP available online: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html <http://mail.arts.ryerson.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html> Presented by the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association (GSA): http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa <http://mail.arts.ryerson.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa> For more information about the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture: http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/ <http://mail.arts.ryerson.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Malachy Ryan, PhD Candidate Rogers Fellow, Communication and Culture Ryerson University From: "Jonathon Read" Subject: Student Session EACL 2006 - Deadline Extension Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:52:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 582 (582) * * * Apologies for any cross-postings * * * *** New Submission Deadline: Tuesday 15 November 2005 *** Due to popular request we are pleased to announce an extension to the deadline for submissions to the student session at EACL 2006. For further details please see the Student Workshop website. http://eacl.coli.uni-saarland.de/studentws06/ Please direct any questions to students_at_eacl.org. Sebastian Pado (Saarland University, D) Jonathon Read (University of Sussex, UK) Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, CH) From: Mary Davies Subject: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 1.2 Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:53:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 583 (583) InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies is pleased= to announce the publication of Volume 1, Issue 2! The issue is available for viewing at: http://www.interactions.gseis.ucla.edu <http://jtfadmin.bm23.com/x/trackclick.php?id= 3D18849737_fa52fcf0_83546&url http://www.interactions.gseis.ucla.edu/> Included in this message you will find our current call for papers for Volumes 2 and 3, with a deadline of January 6, 2006. Please forward as appropriate. 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In particular, we encourage submissions that: Extend conventional areas of study through critical and interdisciplinary frameworks: These areas include, but are not limited to: bilingual education, affirmative action, special education, standards and testing, teacher education, school violence, higher education, social research methodology, information retrieval, access, systems and institutions, etc. Utilize an interdisciplinary framework: Draw upon traditional fields of study (such as policy, sociology, information-seeking and retrieval, pedagogy, evaluation, psychological development, etc.) or provide insight from diverse disciplines (e.g., legal theory, ethnic studies, women's studies, technology studies, etc.). 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Send four paper copies of your submission to: InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, UCLA - Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, 2933 Mathematical Sciences Building - Box 951521, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521, United States of America Posted by Dr. Glenn Rikowski, School of Education, University of Northampton. His new web log, The Volumizer, can be viewed at: http://journals.aol.co.uk/rikowskigr/Volumizer The Volumizer focuses particularly on the critique of New Labour's education policy, paying especial attention to the business takeover of schools in England - a process that is set to gather pace with the publication of the coming White Paper. Also see: The Flow of Ideas, a web site for critical educators and information workers: http://www.flowideas.co.uk Best wishes Glenn Jane Ellis Administrator Officer to EIGER 0207 848 1923 From: Peter Liddell Subject: Paris in July 06? (Canadian grad award) Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:54:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 584 (584) This is addressed to Canadian Graduate students and anyone reading this who knows suitable candidates. Apologies for multiple postings. The Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria, announces bursary awards for Canadian graduate students presenting at the Digital Humanities 2006 conference, 5-9 July, in Paris, France. http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/ As hosts of the 2005 conference in Victoria, we wish to support a limited number of graduate students who are enrolled in Canadian universities, or who are Canadians enrolled as graduate students elsewhere, to attend the the next conference, at the Sorbonne. This is a one-time only offer, which will provide substantial assistance for travel and other direct expenses, up to a pre-defined maximum, for a limited number of candidates. The number and amounts are TBA by the adjudication committee. (Note: Reimbursement of expenses will only be against original receipts.) To apply, candidates must provide the following information by the deadline of February 28, 2006 (address below): - proof of acceptance to present at the conference (results are expected to be announced on February 13th, 2006) - proof of "Canadian affiliation" as defined above (if studying abroad, copy of proof of citizenship) - proof of current graduate student status - a brief letter of application explaining why you need the assistance and how you expect to benefit from the conference - a letter of support from your academic supervisor or equivalent academic authority who knows your work and can attest knowledgeably to the importance of your attending the conference (to be sent together with all other documentation in a sealed envelope, signed across the seal). The Deadline for submission of Abstracts to the conference Program Committee is November 14th, 2005 See: https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/ for more information. All documentation supporting applications for the UVic-HCMC bursaries should be sent in a single package, postmarked no later than February 28th, 2006, to: UVic-HCMC Digital Humanities Bursary committee Humanities Computing & Media Centre Clearihue Bldg University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P4 Canada Good Luck, and we look forward to seeing you in Paris! Peter Liddell (who, with Ray Siemens and another person TBA, will form the adjudication committee) From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.41 Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:52:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 585 (585) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 41 (November 9-15, 2005) INTERVIEW PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AT NEUMONT Neumont University co-founder and CEO Scott McKinley says the most innovative aspect of the Neumont curriculum is its focus on student projects: "Our freshmen are on project teams from the very beginning. Their first projects are simple, heavily scaffolded, and commensurate with their novice skills. By the time they enter their last three quarters, they're working on real industry projects for serious names that work with us, including IBM and Microsoft. Overall about 70 percent of our curriculum involves students being mentored on real projects." One enthusiastic admirer of the Neumont approach is ACM past president Peter Denning, who says: "Given that all universities are struggling with declining enrollments, and a total crash in enrollments of women, while Neumont is heading upward, it may be that they have found a business model that is appealing to some of those students who won't go to a regular CS department." www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v6i41_mckinley.html From: Simon Harper Subject: ACM Transactions on the Web - Call for Papers Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:37:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 586 (586) ***Call for Papers*** ACM Transactions on the Web http://www.acm.org/tweb/ The ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) is a new journal publishing refereed articles reporting the results of research on Web content, applications, use, and related enabling technologies. The Editors-in-Chief invite the submission of original, full-length papers, according to the author instructions on the TWEB website. Topics in the scope of TWEB include but are not limited to the following: Browsers and Web Interfaces Electronic Commerce Electronic Publishing Hypertext and Hypermedia Semantic Web Web Engineering Web Services and Services Computing XML In addition, papers addressing the intersection of the following broader technologies with the Web are also in scope: Accessibility Education Knowledge Management and Representation Mobility and pervasive computing Performance and scalability Searching, Indexing, Classification, Retrieval and Querying Data Analysis and Mining Security and Privacy User Interfaces Papers discussing specific Web technologies, applications, content generation and management and use are within scope. Also, papers describing novel applications of the web as well as papers on the underlying technologies are welcome. 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Trant" Subject: MW2006: Best of the Web Nominations Open Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:38:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 587 (587) Museums and the Web 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico March 22-25, 2006 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/ The tenth international conference for culture and heritage on-line Nominations are now open for the 2006 Best of the Web competition, held every year in conjunction with Museums and the Web Conference. 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/mw2006/best/nominate.html The categories are: * On-line Exhibition * E-Services or E-Commerce * Education * Innovative or Experimental Application * Museum Professional's Site * Research Site In addition, the Judges will select the Best Overall Museum Site, from all sites nominated. 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Thank you for helping us recognise the Best of the Web! jennifer and David From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Editions of VR Simulations Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:37:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 588 (588) Willard, Inspired by Wendell's labelling of your VR & the edition question as a thought experiment, I suggest taking it up from the edition rather than the VR end. I want to avoid formulating the question where a VR rendition is considered as an edition (or not) of some other rendering of a text. I want to begin with the question of 'edition' with the echo of the what-is-a-text burden still in my ears. Let us alter the thought experiment slightly. Consider large print. Intended for those with difficulty reading small print such formats are found in many community libraries. In the book trade such print runs are considered editions. The page numbering is likely to differ from the small print edition. As well the leading may be different. One however expects that when observing the object in toto that the ratio between printed characters and paper material is the same for both large and small print editions, e.g. the half-way mark for the 100 page small print is at 50 and for the 200 page large print at 100. Reading either edition produces the same logical form. An identical picture is produced in the mind. Of course my reading of War and Peace is not Wendell's, is not Willard's. A reading or an interpretation is about the traversal of a textual space. [See the work of Aarseth Espen in _Cybertext_.] What is produced by a reading or traversal is a world. We discuss worlds with each other by the exchange of pictures. Pictures too can be traversed. It is sometimes tempting to take recursive functions to be time machines. I think that was partially at play in the presentation of the VR atmospherics example. There was a past looking orientation to the framing of the VR & the edition question. There was a hermeneutics of nostalgia or at the very least an attempt to asymtopically approach an origin. An edition is a forward looking thing. It is designed to be copied. I am not sure about the temporality of a VR simulation. The performance has a presentness to it. Musical score is an edition. Recorded performance of a musical composition is potentially an edition not of the musical composition but of a performance of that musical composition. The recording can be copied. Sampled, remixed: derivative works. The question is not so much perhaps is or is not a VR embedded textual object along with the scripts and instructions for its display and playing an "edition". The question is not one of ontology. It is one of axiology. What value does an edition have in a world where textual objects are more fungible than they have been in the past. For those who think that the textual objects in an oral culture are equally fungible consider the aural limits imposed on text processing in such a culture for the storage and retrieval of the recombinable elements. Machine manipulation of text can contribute to a proliferation of =D2state= s=D3 or data objects. Which one=D5s are to be accorded lasting value? Textual manipulation of machines does contribute to a blossoming of sets of instructions not only for contributing to the proliferatin of states but also for the purging of data objects. Instructions help assess value. In one sense, they press value in. Given the play with instructions and states made possible by the encounter of machines and texts, how like a game is an edition? That is likely an ontologically misplaced question. If an edition is a textual object made to be copied, what are the games that can be played with it? Vertigo. Alea. Agon. Mimicry. A very musical set of games. How like an improvisation! Score. So, in short, a record becomes an edition when it is approached with game-like behaviour. --=20 Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 589 (589) From: Willard McCarty Some here will be interested to read of the work of Paul Otlet, "the forgotten forefather of information architecture", at <http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/forgotten_forefather_paul_otlet.php>http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/forgotten_forefather_paul_otlet.php . Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: not exactly plagiarism Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:32:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 590 (590) A recent advertising message has informed me that if I am "an engineering major forced to write a term paper for a miserable Western Lit class" I can have "Hollywood screenplay experts edit your papers" for $5 (U.S.)/page. A free T-shirt is offered to the first 50 students who sign up. I'm referred to www.sunscript.com. That page says nothing about the service to students, only to screenwriting hopefuls, but /services.html outlines the College Student Editorial Services: "This service corrects spelling, punctuation and capitalization as well as basic grammar. This service is for students who need an editor to check over their work, but who do not want their work fully restructured." So, watch out for those riveting essays with high-speed car chases, steamy bedroom scenes &c. But what about the Western Lit major who has to do a miserable engineering project? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ken Friedman Subject: Artifact - a new journal from Routledge Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:37:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 591 (591) CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Artifact - a new journal from Routledge Artifact is a new international, peer-reviewed academic journal treating the impact of computerization on design. VISION The computer has had a profound impact on the look, feel, and function of our everyday world. As a tool, the computer has become indispensable for the design professional, profoundly changing the design process. As a design material, the computer is extremely versatile, enabling intelligent objects and processes. As a medium, the computer transforms our understanding and stores our experiences. The combined impact of these forces is changing the relations between humans and our technology in unprecedented ways. Artifact does not draw an artificial line of demarcation between the virtual and the physical. It strives to illuminate the problems and possibilities in their interaction. The journal does not frame digital design as a design discipline such as industrial design or graphic communication. The unique role of the computer as tool, material, and medium, makes digital design an integrated element of almost any design project today, with designers in all fields and disciplines using digital design in some way. Artifact assumes an open position. The journal strives to promote transdisciplinary design research. It will not create or maintain disciplinary boundaries. Rather, Artifact will encourage cross- fertilization, interconnections, and crossbreeding among different scientific disciplines, the design industry, and the arts. PUBLICATION The journal appears in both a print version and a digital version. The journal is published using a 'Web first' concept. Each issue is first published on the web. The year's issues are gathered together into a full paper volume published at the end of the year. In some cases, web technology will mean that the web version supports special interactive features and links that can only appear in the print volume as illustrations and references. SUBMISSION We welcome contributions which seek to understand and reflect the different aspects and impacts of virtuality within the field of design from theoretical or applied perspectives. Artifact brings contributions in the form of academic articles, book reviews, design case post mortems, and design company profiles. To point to possible directions, we have selected themes for the first four issues of Artifact: - Volume 1, issue 1: What is an artifact? - Volume 1, issue 2: Soft artifacts. Tracing 'soft movements' in several creative domains, notably architecture and digital film. - Volume 1, issue 3: The third place? The ontological status of objects and events in computer games. - Volume 1, issue 4: Digital design processes. What impact has digital technology had on the design process? The themes are not meant to be exhaustive. We hope they will trigger ideas and encourage submissions from a range of disciplines. Deadline for the first issue of Artifact is 18 November. Articles will be published 1 March 2006. However, contributions addressing the theme of the first issue may be published on-line at a later date and appear in the print volume. Please send submissions and queries by e-mail to Ida Engholm at or to Charlie Breindahl at . Articles should be sent as attachments in Microsoft Word .doc format or as PDF files. Please send articles with a cover letter containing full author information. Articles should be prepared for double- blind review using anonymous format and full references in APA style. In addition, we welcome suggestions for design case post mortems, book reviews and designer profiles. EDITORS Charlie Breindahl External Lecturer University of Copenhagen + IT University of Copenhagen Denmark Ida Engholm Associate Professor Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark Judith Gregory Faculty of Design Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA Erik Stolterman Director, Human-Computer Interaction Design Professor of Informatics Indiana University School of Informatics USA ADVISORY BOARD Thomas Binder Director Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark Jeanette Blomberg Director of Experience Modelling Sapient Professor of Human Work Science University of Karlskrona/Ronneby Sweden David Durling Professor of Design Director of the Advanced Research Institute Middlesex University UK Lars Dybdahl Associate Professor The Department of Art History University of Copenhagen Denmark Pelle Ehn Professor School of Arts and Communication Malm=F6 University Sweden Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Norwegian School of Management and Denmark's Design School Norway and Denmark Susan M. Hagan Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Mellon University USA Marius Hartmann, Ph.D. Designer Danish Broadcasting Corporation Denmark Steve Jones Professor and Head Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago USA Klaus Krippendorff Gregory Bateson Term Professor University of Pennsylvania USA Lev Manovich Professor of Visual Arts University of California, San Diego + Director, Lab for Cultural Analysis California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology USA Bonnie Nardi Associate Professor School of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine USA Jannie Nielsen Professor Department of Informatics Copenhagen Business School Denmark Christiane Paul New Media Curator Whitney Museum of American Art New York USA Martin Pingel Technological Coordinator Denmark's Design School Denmark Sharon Poggenpohl Professor Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA Johan Redstr=F6m Research Director, studio Design G=F6teborg Interactive Institute Gothenburg Sweden Michael Schmidt Createch Director k10k and Cuban Council Denmark/USA Lisbeth Thorlacius Associate Professor Department of Communication, Journalism, and Computer Science Roskilde University Denmark Wendy Siuyi Wong Department of Design Faculty of Fine Arts York University Canada Kristoffer =C5berg Senior Interaction Designer Sony Ericsson Sweden -- From: Computational Philosophy Laboratory - University of Subject: i-CaP_2006 Call for papers Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:29:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 592 (592) CALL FOR PAPERS ___________________________________________________ COMPUTERS & PHILOSOPHY, an International Conference ___________________________________________________ Le Mans University, Laval, France, 3-5 May, 2006 Chair: C.T.A. Schmidt Conference web page: http://www.iut-laval.univ-lemans.fr/i-CaP_2006/ IMPORTANT DATES (check conference url for up-to-date information) Friday November 18 th 2005 Submission deadline for extended abstracts 3-5 May 2006, Conference in Laval France GENERAL INFORMATION From Wednesday 3rd to Friday 5th May 2006, COMPUTERS & PHILOSOPHY will be held in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence at Le Mans University in Laval (near Rennes, France). Overview: Those interested in the study of philosophical problems and related technological applications are encouraged to participate. Philosophical, epistemological, theological and anthropological stances on the construction and use of machines, computers and Robots are of relevance to the conference. Within the framework of the programme, we are looking forward to the contributions of some eminent thinkers: FRANCE Francis JACQUES Philosophy, Theology, Litterature, Sorbonne USA Daniel DENNETT, Philosophy, Tufts USA Rodney BROOKS, Robotics, MIT Italy Lorenzo MAGNANI, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, Pavia UK Margaret BODEN, Art. Intelligence, Cognitive Sc. & Philosophy, Sussex Canada Daniel VANDERVEKEN, Logic & Language, UQTR Thailand Darryl MACER, UNESCO Reg. Adviser for Soc.& Human Sc. in Asia-Pacific UK Noel SHARKEY, Computation & Robotics, Sheffield FRANCE Denis VERNANT, Logic & Philosophical Pragmatics, Grenoble SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME The increasing interaction between Philosophy and Computer Science over the past 40 years has lead to many position-taking stances in theories of mind, applied machine-embedded intelligence and cultural adaptations to the onslaught of robots in society. The chair is seeking short contributions to the body of knowledge within or about the intersection of the two fields. Is there a proper answer to the question of whether machines can think? Contemporary thought on computers and Artificial Intelligence is not the exclusive aim of the conference the birth of original forms of machine intelligence can inform us about potential human beliefs and permissibility thresholds with regards to technology -- i.e. are all communities equally-footed with respect to machines that speak? The notion of machines that have desires and beliefs, increase their own learning capabilities, develop bodily functions, play games with us, help us learn, help children or the ill to express themselves, care-give the elderly, etc. used to create heated debates. Or do they still do so? In view of these on-going investigations, comparative studies and forward-looking accounts are welcome, as well as reports on innovative uses of knowledge found at the crossroads of philosophy and intelligent machinery sciences. Breaking news in computer science that pull the philosopher towards the computationalist point of view on mind are equally encouraged; and so are proposals that show the limits of representationalist theories. The main goal of the conference is to spur on interdisciplinary dialogue between 50-80 engaging intellectuals. Potential contributors may wish to use the topics listed below for further inspiration. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS In addition to main-stream areas of research =97Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotics, Cognitive Science, Computer Ethics=97 we are looking for cross-cultural studies on the place of machines in society, as well as the following: 1. Evolution & Technologies * Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Language Development * Information Systems and the Philosophy of Design * Biologically-Incorporated Intelligence; the Use of Organic Components for Robotics * Bio-computation, Bio-Robotics, Artificial Life & Meaning * Robotics (Humanoid, Cognitive, Epigenetic, "Autonomous", Service, etc.) * Humanoid Hosts and Guides for Museums, Galleries and Virtual Reality Environments 2. Pragmatics & Comp. Linguistics * Speech Acts and the Limits of Machine-embedded Use of Dialogue * Obstacles to Parsing (Accents, Intonations, Emotional States, etc.) * Relations, Reference and Communicability * Artificial Affectivity in (non-)Dialogical Settings * Dialogical Capabilities of Machines & Philosophy of Communication * All Language, Meaning and Dialogue Issues 3. Minds and Intentionality * Evocative Objects and Presumed Intelligence * Personification of Artefacts * Other Minds Theories and Simulating Co-intentionality * The Mind/Body Problem in Cognitive Science * European Versions (and Anti-theses) of the Intentional Stance 4. Culture & Adaptability * All Anthropological Views on Computers and Robots * Context-embedded Computer Learning * In-class Robotic Teachers, Vulgarisation and (non-)Acceptance Issues * The Pros and Cons of Computer-Mediated Communication & Learning * Virtual Reality & Digitally-supported Personalities * Post-modernism and Fiction related to Machines and Individuals 5. History, Ethics & Theology * Issues arising from the Automation of Thought * Designing Users' Beliefs, Beliefs Designing Machines, Religious Deontology * Robo-Ethics, Moral Agents, Spirituality of Machines, Technological Souls * The Impacts of Intelligent Computers and Robotics on Society throughout History * Cognitive Epistemology or Science as Applied Technology 6. Other * Transdisciplinary attempts to link Philosophy, Computing and/or Robotics Please see web site for full details; programme, topics, accommodation, registration as well as a colourful poster and detailed information on plenary session talks. Conference web page: http://www.iut-laval.univ-lemans.fr/i-CaP_2006/ From: "D.FILROM - CARLOS MARTIN VIDE" Subject: junior research positions 2005-13 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:46:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 593 (593) 3/4 junior research positions may be available in October 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 - Language and automata 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 are strong enough candidates for them. GENERAL DESCRIPTION - the positions will be filled in under the form of a scholarship (rather than a work contract), - Spaniards are not eligible, - there is no other restriction on nationality, although citizens from developing countries will be prioritized, - a PhD degree is not mandatory, - the main duty of the positions is research, - some command of Spanish is welcome, - the scheme is highly competitive. JOB PROFILE - candidates born after December 15, 1970, - having graduated not earlier than October 2003, - with an excellent CV and potential for leadership, - having resided in their home country continuously since January 2005, - duration of the position: October 2006 - September 2008, - candidates should have the expectation to follow an academic career in their home country after the period in Spain. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - monthly salary amounting 1,200 euros free of taxes, - travel grant amounting 500-1,600 euros, depending on the candidate's country of origin, - health insurance coverage, not including pharmaceutics. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 steps: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - an on-line application (form + CV + research project + letters of reference), to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until November 25, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-13" in the subject line. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Pre-selected candidates will be helped in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is December 15, 2005. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: VR scholarly editions Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:45:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 594 (594) Edition --- or simulation? I was puzzled by this antinomy as soon as I read it. I believe the VR idea is important because it pushes forward certain tendencies which *are* present in, or behind, standard scholarly editions. One would say: but VR can only reconstruct, or simulate, *a* reading, not *the* reading of the text. I would reply --- does not a scholarly edition also reconstruct *a* reading? Even when it offers an authoritative version ("what an author really wrote"), is this not also just one of many possibilities? Interesting thing is, then: why do we tend to *forget* that a scholarly edition is... let's say, closely and carefully controlled, but still subjective? Also, VR edition of a text would, in essence, be a *performance* of it (or a frame for such a performance). How is a performance related to "just a text"? Think about the musical score vs. the performance of a composition. Could a performance of the Kunst der Fuge be an act of scholarship? Does a critical edition of the Kunst der Fuge without the sounds miss something? Neven Jovanovic Zagreb From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI and Society 19.3 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:41:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 595 (595) Volume 19 Number 3 of AI & Society is now=20 available on the springerlink.metapress.com web=20 site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Original Article Computer decision-support systems for public=20 argumentation: assessing deliberative legitimacy p. 203 William Rehg, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0313-2 Original Article The narrative aspect of scenario building - How=20 story telling may give people a memory of the future p. 229 Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0337-2 Open Forum Technology to facilitate ethical action: a proposed design p. 250 Douglas H. Wightman, Lucas G. Jurkovic, Yolande E. Chan DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0336-3 Open Forum Multilingual disaster information system:=20 information delivery using graphic text for mobile phones p. 265 Satoshi Hasegawa, Kumi Sato, Shohei Matsunuma, Masaru Miyao, Kohei Okamoto DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0316-7 Open Forum A conceptual framework for society-oriented decision support p. 279 Yingjie Yang, David Gillingwater, Chris Hinde DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0314-1 Open Forum The innovation system and regional growth strategy in Denmark p. 292 Sang-Chul Park, Seong-Keun Lee DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0335-4 Open Forum The variety of information society development paths in central Europe p.= 309 Hans Zon DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0317-6 Book Review Standing on the shoulders of giants. Science,=20 politics and trust: a parliamentary life. By=20 Jeremy Bray, edited by Elizabeth Bray : Elizabeth=20 Bray, 2004, ISBN 0-9546922-0-9, =A312 pbk, 302 pp p. 327 DOI: 10.1007/s00146-004-0315-0 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Fwd: Re: 19.416 new journal: Artifact Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:44:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 596 (596) Routledge lists the journal Artifact at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17493463.asp. Unfortunately the link to the digital version is at the moment broken. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Marcus Christopher Holmes Subject: new graduate student peer-reviewed journal - Call for Papers! Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:13:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 597 (597) Willard, I would like to call your attention to a new graduate student online journal: gnovis. I am the managing editor and we are soliciting papers for a special issue on digital humanities, information architecture and AI in society issues. The journal is peer-reviewed and hosted at Georgetown University in the program for Communication, Culture & Technology. It is accessible at http://gnovis.georgetown.edu. We are currently undergoing a website redesign, so excuse any intermittent broken links. We encourage graduate students to submit papers on any Humanist related topic! Faculty, please encourage your students to submit papers as well! Thanks! Marcus Holmes Georgetown University Communication, Culture & Technology Managing Editor, gnovis http://gnovis.georgetown.edu As Georgetown University's peer-reviewed journal of Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT), gnovis strives to foster innovative research and design, reward scholarly excellence, and celebrate the exploration and understanding of technology as it both shapes and is shaped by political, economic, social, and cultural actors and institutions. gnovis seeks to place disciplinary paradigms into dialogue with each other, illuminating the clarity and contradictions therein and the manner in which they are codified into our social fabric. Our Work: The Peer Review: gnovis is a peer-reviewed journal that employs a double-blind review process. Professors may nominate students' works that in order to recognize their academic achievement, intellectual rigor, and innovative transdisciplinary approach to scholarship. These articles are published as "Feature Articles". gnovis' Distinguished Peer Reviewers are those CCT students who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievement and forward-thinking scholarly work in their own studies, are able to recognize and discriminate exceptional scholarship produced by their peers, and show a commitment to furthering the values of CCT-minded scholarship in both academic and professional endeavors. The Multimedia Features: Interdisciplinary thought and research does not occur in a vacuum, nor is it strictly articulated through academic papers. As an online journal, we have the opportunity to explore the dialogue between disciplines in new and creative ways. gnovis Multimedia Feature Articles seek to move classroom learning off the page, to explore CCT-related themes as they occur in other academic and professional settings. Feature Articles recognize CCT student’s ability to extend classroom learning beyond the CCT boundaries by molding cutting-edge scholarship with multi-media journalism. Feature Article Writers participating in this initiative submitted proposals for consideration articulating their unique approach to developing these themes. Those chosen sought to reach beyond the format of a traditional printed scholarly journal and proposed a creative use of text and technology to articulate their theme. From: "PSI06 Conference" Subject: PSI 2006: 2nd CFP Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:12:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 598 (598) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS 27-30 June 2006, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI06 [AIMS AND SCOPE] The conference is held to honor the 75th anniversary of academician Andrei Ershov (1931-1988) and his outstanding contributions towards advancing informatics. The first five conferences were held in 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2003, respectively, and proved to be significant international events. Andrei Ershov was one of the early Russian pioneers in the field of the theory of programming and systems programming, a founder of the Siberian Computer Science School. In 1974 he was nominated as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 1981 he received the Silver Core Award for services rendered to IFIP. Andrei Ershov's brilliant speeches were always in the focus of public attention. Especially notable was his lecture on "Aesthetic and human factor in programming" presented at the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1972. Andrei Ershov was not only an extremely gifted scientist, teacher and fighter for his ideas, but also a bright and many-sided personality. He wrote poetry, translated the works of R. Kipling and other English poets, and enjoyed playing guitar and singing. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Andrei Ershov and working with him will always remember his great vision, eminent achievements, and generous friendship. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions in computer science. For a developing science, it is important to work out consolidating ideas, concepts and models. Movement in this direction is another aim of the conference. Improvement of the contacts and exchange of ideas between researchers from the East and West are further goals. [...] From: Bernard Frischer Subject: Directorship of VCHD, U. of Virginia Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:16:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 599 (599) DIRECTOR, Digital History University of Virginia Digital History/All Fields: The University of Virginia seeks applications and nominations for a new Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History to begin in August 2006. Tenure/tenure track; rank and field of specialization open. Founded in 1998, VCDH is an independent center in the College of Arts and Sciences charged with creating new forms of historical scholarship and with performing public outreach. Among others, the Center currently hosts projects concerned with Jamestown, the U.S. Civil War, and the Civil Rights movement. The new Director will lead professional staff and graduate and undergraduate students in developing new approaches to historical analysis made possible by digital technology. Future projects might involve mapping and spatial imaging, archaeological data and cultural artifacts, or the linking of verbal and visual sources. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate significant scholarly accomplishment in any field within history or in a related discipline; creativity in exploring the ways in which digital technology can open new modes of historical inquiry; an interest in working with and leading others; a commitment to grant writing and fund raising; and a commitment to teaching two courses per year in his or her home department. Ph.D. required. Please send a letter of interest, a c.v., and three letters of recommendation to: VCDH Search Corcoran Department of History Randall Hall, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4180 Consideration of applications will begin on December 1, 2005, and will continue until the position is filled. For more about VCDH, see: <http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/>http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu The University of Virginia is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Contact Info: Prof. Paul Halliday, Chair VCDH Search Committee Corcoran Department of History Randall Hall, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4180 e-mail: <http://ph4p@virginia.edu/>ph4p@virginia.edu Website: <http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/>http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu -- Bernard Frischer, Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, USA 22904-4115 <http://www.iath.virginia.edu>www.iath.virginia.edu office tel. +1-434-924-4527 home tel. +1-434-971-1435 US cell: +1-310-266-6935 --------------------------------- Italian cell: +39-349-473-6590 Rome tel.: +39-06-537-3951 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.42 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:14:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 600 (600) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 42 (November 16-22, 2005) VIEW Artificial and Biological Intelligence Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University says that "humans will eventually create silicon machines with minds that will slowly spread all over the world, and the entire universe will eventually become a conscious machine." www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i42_kak.html From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The November 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:15:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 601 (601) Greetings: The November 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains an opinion piece, a commentary, two articles, five conference or workshop reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month D-Lib features the Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections, with description contributed by Ed Galloway, University of Pittsburgh. The Opinion is: Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility Kenneth Hamma, J. Paul Getty Trust The Commentary is: What is a Digital Library Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL Carl Lagoze, Dean B. Krafft, and Sandy Payette, Cornell University; and Susan Jesuroga, UCAR-NSDL The articles include: Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach David S. H. Rosenthal, Thomas Robertson, Tom Lipkis, Vicky Reich, and Seth Morabito, Stanford University Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education: Lessons from Five Years of= DLESE Kim Kastens, Columbia University; Barbara DeFelice, Dartmouth College; Holly Devaul and Kathryn Ginger, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; Christopher DiLeonardo, Foothill College; Suzanne Larsen, University of Colorado; David Mogk, Montana State University; and Sharon Tahirkheli, American Geological Institute The Conference and Worskhop Reports include: NSF / NSDL Workshop on Scientific Markup Languages Laura M. Bartolo, Kent State University; Timothy W. Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sarah Giersch, Association of Research Libraries; and Michael Wright, UCAR - DLESE Program Center Report on the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: September 18 - 23, 2005, Vienna, Austria Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland HDL 2005 - the 3rd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop: Held in Conjunction with ECDL 2005 Vienna, Austria, 22 September= 2005 Patty Kostkova, City University, London; and Anne Adams, University College London Report on the 4th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop: Mapping Knowledge Organization Systems Doug Tudhope, University of Glamorgan Report on the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) Andreas Aschenbrenner, SAT Research Studio; Olaf Brandt SUB Göttingen; and Stephan Strodl, Vienna University of Technology From: Holger Schlingloff Subject: CFP: M4M-4 Program and Call for Participation Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:29:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 602 (602) Methods for Modalities - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The workshop "Methods for Modalities" (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing algorithms, verification methods and tools based on modal logic. Here the term "modal logics" is conceived broadly, including description logic, guarded fragments, conditional logic, temporal and hybrid logic, etc. This year's M4M will take place in Berlin - Adlershof, Germany. It is hosted by FIRST, the Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Architecture and Software Technology, in collaboration with the computer science institute of Humboldt University. The workshop dates are December 1st and 2nd, 2005. THIS IS IN TWO WEEKS! The conference fee of 160 Euros includes the excursion with conference dinner, which will take us at Dec 1st onto a beautiful boat cruising the illuminated nightly waterways of Germany's capital. Registration is now open at http://m4m.loria.fr/M4M4/workshop.html To encourage broad participation of young researchers, posters and system demos are still accepted for presentation. For more information, see the conference web site. See you in Berlin! The Methods For Modalities Organization Team. __________________________________________________________________ The following people have agreed to give invited lectures: François Laroussinie, ENS Cachan and CNRS. Title: Timed Modal Logics for the Verification of Real-Time Systems. Martin Lange, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Title: Temporal Logics for Non-Regular Properties Wim Martens, Hasselt University. Title: The Typechecking Problem for XML Transformations. Boris Motik, Universität Karlsruhe. Title: Description Logics and Disjunctive Datalog - More Than just a Fleeting Resemblance?. Boris Konev, University of Liverpool. Title: Theory and Practice of Theorem Proving for Monodic First-Order Temporal Logic. Uwe Scheffler, Humboldt Universität. Title: Vague is Modal and Predicate Modifying. __________________________________________________________________ The following is the list of accepted papers: Franz Baader, Carsten Lutz and Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn: Is Tractable Reasoning in Extensions of the Description Logic EL Useful in Practice? Thomas Bolander and Torben Braüner: Two Tableau-Based Decision Procedures for Hybrid Logic Davide Bresolin and Angelo Montanari: A tableau-based decision procedure for a branching-time interval temporal logic Yegor Bryukhov: Automatic proof search in logic of justified common knowledge Mika Cohen and Mads Dam: A Completeness Result for BAN Logic Massimo Franceschet and Enrico Zimuel: Modal logic and navigational XPath: an experimental comparison Regis Gascon: Verifying qualitative and quantitative properties with LTL over concrete domains Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti and Camilla Schwind: Extensions of Tableau calculi for preference-based conditional logics Johan W. Klüwer and Arild Waaler: Natural deduction for belief "at most" Mathis Kretz, Gerhard Jäger and Thomas Studer: Cut-free axiomatizations for stratified modal fixed point logic Martin Mundhenk, Thomas Schneider, Thomas Schwentick and Volker Weber: Complexity of Hybrid Logics over Transitive Frames Nicola Olivetti and Gian Luca Pozzato: KLMLean 1.0, a Theorem Prover for Logics of Default Reasoning Evangelos Tzanis: Hybrid Logic with operations on nominals Wouter van Atteveldt and Stefan Schlobach: A Modal View on Polder Politics Dirk Walther: ATEL with Common and Distributed Knowledge is ExpTime-Complete Evgeny Zolin: Query answering based on modal correspondence theory __________________________________________________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: immersion and distance Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:28:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 603 (603) I take the impossible task of the historian simultaneously to re-enact an historical moment, with total awareness of all the possibilities then open, and to remain an individual thoroughly cognizant of the present -- to be, that is, a co-conscious multiple. (See Ian Hacking's Rewriting the Soul. I take it as given that we must know what we're getting into, even if that knowledge is rather frightening.) If so, then, the ideal VR scholarly edition would do the following: (a) allow for a totally immersive experience of an historical text or a series of related texts from the same historical moment or from different ones, based on the best scholarly knowledge of the history or histories involved; (b) provide some means of reminding the exploring scholar of his or her identity of origin, or of rescuing this scholar from a *totally* immersive experience; (c) allow the parameters of historical reenactment to be changed, in order to create conjectural scenarios. In part my Star-Trekified Collingwoodian speculations are due to a mounting frustration at online presentations, esp of manuscript books. It's as if I were hungry but unable to go further than gaze at the food in the deli window. Ok, I admit this is a rather special deli -- I can actually get a shop assistant to move the food around and comment on it, show me related items etc. But I cannot get anything to eat! Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: leading-edge research at MIT Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:30:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 604 (604) Research-intensive colleagues here will experience the keenest envy at what is possible at MIT. See http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ for a truly paradigmatic bit of research. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: quotation on making Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:45:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 605 (605) The following quotation is attributed to St Bonaventure, Itinerarium mentis in Deum, by Richard Kearney, The Wake of Imagination (Hutchinson, 1988, p. 125): [deleted quotation]Before I go to the Opera omnia and start looking, let me ask if anyone here recognizes the source. I have already looked through the Itinerarium online and not found anything like the above. Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Borovsky, Zoe P." Subject: RE: 19.426 VR scholarly editions Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:54:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 606 (606) dear willard, VR is getting closer. http://www.eternalegypt.org/ try to ignore the glitz; i think the concept is intriguing. --zoe Zoe Borovsky, PhD UCLA-Center for Digital Humanities From: Willard McCarty Subject: specialization Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:00:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 607 (607) From Jacques le Goff, The Medieval Imagination, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago, 1988), p. 3: [deleted quotation]Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: 19.427 le Goff on specialization Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:40:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 608 (608) [deleted quotation]As a medievalist for some 45 years, I would say that statement is utter nonsense, and it was utter nonsense when Le Goff wrote it 17 years ago. I won't even try to point to the hundreds of books and thousands of articles which contradict Le Goff. But it is the sort of absurd overgeneralized statement I'd expect from him.. It does not even describe the work of his contemporary French medieval historians. From: Willard McCarty Subject: interesting uses of the medium Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:29:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 609 (609) I recommend to your attention the several kinds of online publication exemplified on the Open Semiotics Resource Center, www.semioticon.com. Note, for example, the Semiotics Institute Online, a structure for publication of courses on a variety of topics in semiotics. "The courses are delivered in the form of eight lectures by qualified specialists who volunteer the sharing of their knowledge in a didactic format aimed at graduate students. The instructors can be directly contacted by email by those who wish to undertake further research under their guidance. The instructors are free to decide, on a case by case basis, under what conditions they can agree to do so." Apparently a wide variety of arrangements have been made. The Semioticon Commons gathers a variety of essays by "those engaged in the production of knowledge relevant to semiotic inquiry. (A paper of mine found its way there.) The Public Journal of Semiotics is a peer-reviewed online publication. Several other outlets, gatherings and pointers are to be found. It's worth noticing that for a field like semiotics, which has no hope of and no ambition for an even vaguely bounded set of critical keywords, such a Resource Center is essential -- a fact easy to overlook in the age of Google. For semiotics, with little hope of and perhaps, among the enlightened, little ambition for departmentalization, the Center offers a practical way of conducting its life-of-the-mind. Its vision of international scholarship and means for seeing that it happens are to be warmly commended, don't you think? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: oupjournals-mailer_at_liontamer.stanford.edu Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 2005; Vol. 20, Suppl Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:45:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 610 (610) Lit Linguist Computing -- Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing has been made available: 2005; Vol. 20, Suppl URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/Suppl/index.dtl?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to the Special Issue Lorna Hughes, Gary Shawver, and Matthew Zimmerman Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:1-2. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/Suppl/1?etoc Texts into Databases: The Evolving Field of New-style Prosopography John Bradley and Harold Short Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:3-24. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/3?etoc : Re-forming Composition with XML Christy Desmet, Ron Balthazor, Robert Cummings, Nelson Hilton, Angela Mitchell, and Alexis Hart Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:25-46. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/25?etoc Chasing DTDs. The Digital Edition of the Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi Stefan Budenbender and Sabine Harwardt Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:47-57. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/47?etoc A Controlled-corpus Experiment in Authorship Identification by Cross-entropy Patrick Juola and R. Harald Baayen Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:59-67. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/59?etoc The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching, and Learning Kevin Kiernan, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Alex Dekhtyar, Dorothy Carr Porter, Kenneth Hawley, Sandeep Bodapati, and Ionut Emil Iacob Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:69-88. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/69?etoc Computational Generation of Limericks Greg Lessard and Michael Levison Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:89-105. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/89?etoc Tagging Time in Prolog: The Temporality Effect Project Jan Christoph Meister Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:107-124. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/107?etoc Cluster Analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A Comparison of Methods Hermann Moisl and Val Jones Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:125-146. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/125?etoc Ecriture feminine: Searching for an Indefinable Practice? Mark Olsen Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:147-164. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/147?etoc A Net-based Toolkit for Collaborative Editing and Publishing of Dictionaries Frank Queens and Ute Recker-Hamm Lit Linguist Computing 2005 20:165-175. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/165?etoc From: "Da Rold, Dr. O." Subject: Relational database and TEI Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:42:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 611 (611) We are almost 8 months into our project (link below) and after numerous discussions with colleagues, trials and advice from our computing centre here in Leicester, we are going to catalogue our manuscripts creating a data-capture database. Our computer centre suggested managing our data from Microsoft Access on my desk machine, but then publish it for Web access on the university SQL server. I am some how hesitant to use Access as it does not seem to have any flexibility in exporting the data, a part from SQL and XML. FileMaker Pro 8 seems to have more flexibility at this hand exporting in PDF, SQL, XML and excel. Does anybody in humanist similar experience with either/ or both software? Moreover, despite the relational database route, we would like to implement as much as possible the standard set by the TEI working group on the P5 guidelines for describing manuscripts. Does anybody know about electronic manuscript projects which are using/have used relational databases following the TEI guidelines for 'Manuscript description'? Scriptorium seems to have done it, any other similar project? If so, do you know of any related publication? I'd be very grateful for any advice, pitfall etc. Best wishes, Orietta Dr Orietta Da Rold Research Fellow English Department University of Leicester University Road LE1 7RH Tel. +44 (0)116 252 2778 e-mail: odr1_at_le.ac.uk The Production and Use of English Manuscripts http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/index.htm From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.43 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:44:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 612 (612) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 43 (November 23-29, 2005) VIEW WEB PAGE TRANSLATION In "A Novel 3-Tier XML Schematic Approach for Web Page Translation," Goutam Kumar Saha discusses how to embed syntactic, semantic and computational linguistic metadata information in the structure of an XML document and how the various markups help in Internationalization. www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i43_saha.html BOOK REVIEW LOCATION BASE SERVICES Book reviewer Keith Willet examines "Location-Based Services Fundamentals and Operation" by Axel K=FCpper and says the book prepares the reader to= speak in LBS terms in such nuance as to determine the appropriate approach to an LBS project, discuss a variety of options, determine a reasonable approach, and begin the development of a solution. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v6i43_willett.html From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Intellectual Property in Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:43:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 613 (613) Academia Online Workshops--Winter 2006 Courses University of Maryland University College The Center for Intellectual Property 2005-2006 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series The winter 2006 lineup includes two workshops... DRM in Higher Education http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#drm January 23 - February 3, 2006 Moderated by Kimberly Kelley, Ph.D., and by Clifford Lynch, Ph.D. Dr. Kelley is Associate Provost, Information and Library Services, and Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC. Dr. Lynch is Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information and the 2004-2006 Intellectual Property Scholar at the Center for Intellectual Property. GOALS--Workshop participants will: *Review the background and history of DRM; *Gain clarity on fact versus fiction in the realm of DRM; *Explore the complex issues involved in managing copyrights in higher education; *Learn about copyright policy development; *and more... Early registration--only $125--closes JANUARY 6. Copyright and Academic Culture http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#copyright February 20 - March 3, 2006 Moderated by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University. GOALS--Workshop participants will: *Review the history of copyright law and how it has interacted with culture; *Discuss the digital revolution and how it impacts the academy; *Consider varying perspectives in the debate over ownership, control, and access of material; *and more... Early registration--only $125--closes FEBRUARY 3. REGISTRATION: Register now. Space is limited. Get both workshops and save $25--2 for $225. Significant discount for full time graduate students until places are filled--see website for details. Register online at https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm. Additional information: call 240-582-2965 or visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa. ************************************************** !SAVE THE DATE! SIXTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY JUNE 14-16, 2006 UMUC INN & CONFERENCE CENTER ADELPHI, MD ************************************************** --Jack Boeve Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/cip From: "John Bonnett" Subject: 2006 SDH SEMI Call for Papers Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:43:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 614 (614) Hello everyone, As the December 15th deadline is fast approaching, I am issuing this second call for papers on behalf of the conference committee. Please send your submissions to: sdhsemi6[at]uvic[dot]ca We look forward to hearing from you. -- John Bonnett SDH/SEMI 2006: Call for Papers The City: A Festival of Knowledge 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des Médias Interactifs The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH / SEMI) invites scholars and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2006 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, from May 29-31, 2006. The society in particular would like to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress: The City. Our understanding of what the city means as a construct is broad, and we encourage submissions that treat the city not only as an object for analysis, or as a venue for expression, but also a frame of departure for themes that are implied by the idea of the city, but not subsumed by it, themes such as synergy, complexity, diversity, collaboration, networks, the rural versus the urban, the city as both constituent and opponent of the environment, and the interaction between the local and the global. SDH also encourages submissions relating to all topics relating to the ever emerging discipline of humanities and computing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * Scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination * Humanities computing and pedagogy * Computer supported collaboration using the web * Digital / Electronic copyright issues * The Future of Humanities Computing * Computing in the Fine, Performing and New Media Arts * e-Accesibility Aside from presenting a stimulating array of recent work in humanities and computing, the final day of this year’s conference will also feature a one-day symposium titled "The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Humanities and Social Sciences." Featuring invited speakers from the sciences, social sciences and the humanities, the symposium, sponsored by the Federation of the Social Sciences and Humanities, the Society for Digital Humanities, and the Canadian Historical Association, will highlight emerging and potential applications of the computer to support research, representation and instruction. Invited speakers will address topics ranging from speech synthesis and historical linguistics to computer games and the emerging medium of augmented reality. The conference will also see a number of joint sessions with several Federation societies. There is a limited amount of funding available to support a graduate student panel. Interested applicants should inquire using the contact information listed below. Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2005. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH / SEMI 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. All abstracts and questions should be sent electronically to the addresses below: John Bonnett, Conference Committee Chair, (Brock University) and Don Sinclair, Local Events Coordinator (York University): sdhsemi6[at]uvic[dot]ca From: "Boris Rotenberg, Yale ISP Visiting Fellow" Subject: Yale ISP A2K Conference - IJCLP Writing Competition Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:19:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 615 (615) CALL FOR PAPERS & WRITING COMPETITION YALE ISP CONFERENCE ON ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE (A2K), APRIL 21-23, 2006 THE YALE LAW SCHOOL INFORMATION SOCIETY PROJECT (ISP) and THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS LAW & POLICY (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their third interdisciplinary writing competition and a call for papers in conjunction with the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference taking place on April 21-23, 2006 at Yale Law School. We invite students, scholars, policy makers, activists and practitioners to submit papers for the writing competition and/or for publication by the IJCLP. CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION In the digital era, most multinational corporations and policymakers are of the view that the current trend characterised by increasing intellectual property rights and corporate control over knowledge best serve society's interests. At the same time, however, a growing number of commentators believe that widespread access to knowledge (A2K) and the preservation of a healthy knowledge commons are the real basis for sustainable human development. Nonetheless, intellectual property-based approaches continue to singlehandedly dictate global legal norms and shape national legal infrastructures. The first goal of the Yale A2K Initiative is to come up with a new analytic framework for analysing the possibly distortive effects of public policies relying exclusively on intellectual property rights. Beyond this aim, the A2K initiative seeks to support the adoption and development of alternative ways to foster greater access to knowledge in the digitally connected environment. The landmark A2K conference at Yale Law School will bring together leading thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and South, in order to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions for the next decade. This conference will be among the first to synthesize the multifaceted and interdisciplinary aspects of access to knowledge, ranging from textbooks and telecommunications access to software and medicines. The A2K Conference aims to help build an intellectual framework that will protect access to knowledge both as the basis for sustainable human development and to safeguard human rights. Key issues to be considered include, among others: - the economics of A2K in a digital environment; - A2K indexes and measurement techniques; - the limitations to A2K; - digital libraries and archives; - government investment in information production; - government procurement policies; - open source software; - the WIPO Broadcast Treaty; - access to education and scientific knowledge; - universal service in telecommunications; - the digital divide; - digital rights management; - open access journals. A full conference description will be available on the Yale ISP's A2K Initiative page at http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html. WRITING COMPETITION Submissions for the writing competition must be received by noon EST, February 15th, 2006. The author of the best paper, as well as two runners-up will be invited to present their work at a panel during the conference. The author of the winning paper will receive coverage of his/her travel to and accommodations at Yale University for the conference. Selected papers will be announced by April 1st, 2006. The authors of the award-winning papers will automatically be invited to publish their work in a special Autumn 2006 volume of the International Journal of Communications Law & Policy (http://www.ijclp.org) devoted to Access to Knowledge. JOURNAL PUBLICATION Submissions for publication must be received by noon EST, May 1st, 2006. The selection committee, composed of the editorial board of the IJCLP, and some of the Yale ISP Fellows, will review and consider all submissions for publication in the special Autumn 2006 volume of the journal, including submissions for the writing competition. Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 15th, 2006. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers may be submitted on any A2K-related issue, provided that they lie within the central focus of the IJCLP communications law & policy. All submissions should be written in English in .rtf or .pdf format. They should conform to academic citation standards, be no longer than 25,000 words, and include an abstract of up to 250 words. Submissions should be e-mailed simultaneously to the lead editors of the IJCLP, Simone Francesco Bonetti (simo.bonetti[at]tiscalinet.it) and Sudhir Krishnaswamy (krishnaswamysudhir[at]gmail.com). Inquiries may be addressed to any of the above. From: "Patrick T. Rourke" Subject: Relational database and TEI? Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:18:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 616 (616) It's hard to be sure what your requirements are without knowing for sure how ambitious your goals are. I haven't read your website very carefully, but scanning the informational pages I wasn't certain whether you wanted to catalogue bibliographical data about the MSS or actually wanted to store complete texts. Access allows export to delimited text, XML, Excel, Word, and some Paradox and dBase formats. The main reason to use Access is if you only have a few users accessing the data at one time and are dealing with relatively small datasets (in the thousands and tens of thousands of records, less than 255 fields per record, and relatively small fields - i.e., I would not put the Pearl ms in a single field in Access), if you are planning on writing your application in ASP.NET, and if you want something that can be easily migrated to Microsoft's SQL Server software. I haven't really worked with Filemaker much, but I imagine that for scalability it is similar to Access. That said, you don't want to think of a database in the same way that you think of e.g. a word processing application. In selecting a database package, any format other than text, XML, and SQL is redundant. You really do not want to be exporting data directly from a database as PDF; rather, you want to pull the data from the database via SQL and format it programmatically. Also, if you expect that more than 50 scholars will be using your database daily, most likely you will not want web pages to be driven by either Access or Filemaker. Your computing center is right to suggest an SQL server (whether Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or another full RDBMS). It sounds as though your computing center is suggesting that you use Access so that they do not have to write a customized data entry system for you to directly populate the SQL database, and so that you will not have write access to their SQL server, but rather want you to use Access as a data entry user interface and plan on importing the Access database to the SQL server themselves. The combination of Visual Studio with ASP.NET, Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft SQL Server is very popular with commercial programmers (mainly because they can develop quickly with the system; fortunately, if used conscientiously, the ASP pages will be readable with any browser on any platform), and it sounds to me as though this is what your academic computing center wants to use. That said, do not let them simply push the Microsoft paradigm without asking them to consider alternatives - e.g., a PHP-Apache-MySQL solution - and explain why they are not preferable, but accept "we have no experience with that platform" as a reasonable (if not solely sufficient) argument against alternatives. If you are only collecting bibliographical data, you should simply store that as text information in the database, and format it as TEI on export - make sure that whoever designs the database is knowledgeable of TEI bibliography standards, as the database structure will need to be compatible with the TEI markup element model. If you are going to be storing actual document text and presentation information (including alternate readings, marginalia, etc.), rather than merely standard bibiliographical data, you do want to use XML in the actual text fields. Make sure that your computing center programmers are aware that you need to be able to input TEI document fragments, in UTF-8, and how long each document fragment will be (the whole question of how to partition a document across a database table is very tough), and how many there will be. They may not have experience dealing with large, non-hierarchical, richly structured documents (most programmers rarely deal with individual text fragments longer than a blog posting), so it might help to give them a copy of a good textual critical edition with a comprehensive apparatus criticus and commentary, to give them some idea of the scale of the undertaking and the scale of the texts involved. Also show them an example of richly TEI encoded text. If you are also planning on storing images of individual MS leafs, you really have no choice: you will have to use a more robust RDBMS than Access (or, I suspect, Filemaker), even for data entry. Patrick Rourke On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:50 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cognition, Technology and Work 7.4 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:21:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 617 (617) Volume 7 Number 4 of Cognition, Technology & Work is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Poem Designers p. 213 Johan F. Hoorn DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0001-0 Original Article Lessons from the evacuation of the world trade centre, 9/11 2001 for the development of computer-based simulations p. 214 C.W. Johnson DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0009-5 Original Article Integration of task networks and cognitive user models using coloured Petri nets and its application to job design for safety and productivity p. 241 Tom Kontogiannis DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0010-z Original Article Putting 'felt-life' at the centre of human-computer interaction (HCI) p. 262 John McCarthy, Peter Wright DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0011-y Original Article An inference method of team situation awareness based on mutual awareness p. 272 Yufei Shu, Kazuo Furuta DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0012-x Original Article Expert Identity construct in analysing prerequisites for expertise development: a case study of nuclear power plant operators' on-the-job training p. 288 Maaria Nuutinen DOI: 10.1007/s10111-005-0013-9 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:23:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 618 (618) Volume 3814/2005 (Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. COMPASS2008: Multimodal, Multilingual and Crosslingual Interaction for Mobile Tourist Guide Applications p. 3 Ilhan Aslan, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Antonio Krüger, Jörg Steffen DOI: 10.1007/11590323_1 Discovering the European Heritage Through the ChiKho Educational Web Game p. 13 Francesco Bellotti, Edmondo Ferretti, Alessandro Gloria DOI: 10.1007/11590323_2 Squidball: An Experiment in Large-Scale Motion Capture and Game Design p. 23 Christoph Bregler, Clothilde Castiglia, Jessica DeVincezo, Roger Luke DuBois, Kevin Feeley, Tom Igoe, Jonathan Meyer, Michael Naimark, Alexandru Postelnicu, Michael Rabinovich, Sally Rosenthal, Katie Salen, Jeremi Sudol, Bo Wright DOI: 10.1007/11590323_3 Generating Ambient Behaviors in Computer Role-Playing Games p. 34 Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, Matthew McNaughton, Thomas Roy, Curtis Onuczko, Mike Carbonaro DOI: 10.1007/11590323_4 Telepresence Techniques for Controlling Avatar Motion in First Person Games p. 44 Henning Groenda, Fabian Nowak, Patrick Rößler, Uwe D. Hanebeck DOI: 10.1007/11590323_5 Parallel Presentations for Heterogenous User Groups - An Initial User Study p. 54 Michael Kruppa, Ilhan Aslan DOI: 10.1007/11590323_6 Performing Physical Object References with Migrating Virtual Characters p. 64 Michael Kruppa, Antonio Krüger DOI: 10.1007/11590323_7 AI-Mediated Interaction in Virtual Reality Art p. 74 Jean-luc Lugrin, Marc Cavazza, Mark Palmer, Sean Crooks DOI: 10.1007/11590323_8 Laughter Abounds in the Mouths of Computers: Investigations in Automatic Humor Recognition p. 84 Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava DOI: 10.1007/11590323_9 AmbientBrowser: Web Browser for Everyday Enrichment p. 94 Mitsuru Minakuchi, Satoshi Nakamura, Katsumi Tanaka DOI: 10.1007/11590323_10 Ambient Intelligence in Edutainment: Tangible Interaction with Life-Like Exhibit Guides p. 104 Alassane Ndiaye, Patrick Gebhard, Michael Kipp, Martin Klesen, Michael Schneider, Wolfgang Wahlster DOI: 10.1007/11590323_11 Drawings as Input for Handheld Game Computers p. 114 Mannes Poel, Job Zwiers, Anton Nijholt, Rudy Jong, Edward Krooman DOI: 10.1007/11590323_12 Let’s Come Together — Social Navigation Behaviors of Virtual and Real Humans p. 124 Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André, Michael Nischt DOI: 10.1007/11590323_13 Interacting with a Virtual Rap Dancer p. 134 Dennis Reidsma, Anton Nijholt, Rutger Rienks, Hendri Hondorp DOI: 10.1007/11590323_14 Grounding Emotions in Human-Machine Conversational Systems p. 144 Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür DOI: 10.1007/11590323_15 Water, Temperature and Proximity Sensing for a Mixed Reality Art Installation p. 155 Isaac Rudomin, Marissa Diaz, Benjamín Hernández, Daniel Rivera DOI: 10.1007/11590323_16 Geogames: A Conceptual Framework and Tool for the Design of Location-Based Games from Classic Board Games p. 164 Christoph Schlieder, Peter Kiefer, Sebastian Matyas DOI: 10.1007/11590323_17 Disjunctor Selection for One-Line Jokes p. 174 Jeff Stark, Kim Binsted, Ben Bergen DOI: 10.1007/11590323_18 Multiplayer Gaming with Mobile Phones - Enhancing User Experience with a Public Screen p. 183 Hanna Strömberg, Jaana Leikas, Riku Suomela, Veikko Ikonen, Juhani Heinilä DOI: 10.1007/11590323_19 Learning Using Augmented Reality Technology: Multiple Means of Interaction for Teaching Children the Theory of Colours p. 193 Giuliana Ucelli, Giuseppe Conti, Raffaele Amicis, Rocco Servidio DOI: 10.1007/11590323_20 Presenting in Virtual Worlds: Towards an Architecture for a 3D Presenter Explaining 2D-Presented Information p. 203 Herwin Welbergen, Anton Nijholt, Dennis Reidsma, Job Zwiers DOI: 10.1007/11590323_21 Entertainment Personalization Mechanism Through Cross-Domain User Modeling p. 215 Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci DOI: 10.1007/11590323_22 User Interview-Based Progress Evaluation of Two Successive Conversational Agent Prototypes p. 220 Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær DOI: 10.1007/11590323_23 Adding Playful Interaction to Public Spaces p. 225 Amnon Dekel, Yitzhak Simon, Hila Dar, Ezri Tarazi, Oren Rabinowitz, Yoav Sterman DOI: 10.1007/11590323_24 Report on a Museum Tour Report p. 230 Dina Goren-Bar, Michela Prete DOI: 10.1007/11590323_25 A Ubiquitous and Interactive Zoo Guide System p. 235 Helmut Hlavacs, Franziska Gelies, Daniel Blossey, Bernhard Klein DOI: 10.1007/11590323_26 Styling and Real-Time Simulation of Human Hair p. 240 Yvonne Jung, Christian Knöpfle DOI: 10.1007/11590323_27 Motivational Strategies for an Intelligent Chess Tutoring System p. 246 Bruno Lepri, Cesare Rocchi, Massimo Zancanaro DOI: 10.1007/11590323_28 Balancing Narrative Control and Autonomy for Virtual Characters in a Game Scenario p. 251 Markus Löckelt, Elsa Pecourt, Norbert Pfleger DOI: 10.1007/11590323_29 Web Content Transformed into Humorous Dialogue-Based TV-Program-Like Content p. 256 Akiyo Nadamoto, Adam Jatowt, Masaki Hayashi, Katsumi Tanaka DOI: 10.1007/11590323_30 Content Adaptation for Gradual Web Rendering p. 262 Satoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Minakuchi, Katsumi Tanaka DOI: 10.1007/11590323_31 Getting the Story Right: Making Computer-Generated Stories More Entertaining p. 267 K. Oinonen, M. Theune, A. Nijholt, D. Heylen DOI: 10.1007/11590323_32 Omnipresent Collaborative Virtual Environments for Open Inventor Applications p. 272 Jan Peciva DOI: 10.1007/11590323_33 SpatiuMedia: Interacting with Locations p. 277 Russell Savage, Ophir Tanz, Yang Cai DOI: 10.1007/11590323_34 Singing with Your Mobile: From DSP Arrays to Low-Cost Low-Power Chip Sets p. 283 Barry Vercoe DOI: 10.1007/11590323_35 Bringing Hollywood to the Driving School: Dynamic Scenario Generation in Simulations and Games p. 288 I.H.C. Wassink, E.M.A.G. van Dijk, J. Zwiers, A. Nijholt, J. Kuipers, and A.O. Brugman DOI: 10.1007/11590323_36 Webcrow: A Web-Based Crosswords Solver p. 295 Giovanni Angelini, Marco Ernandes, Marco Gori DOI: 10.1007/11590323_37 COMPASS2008: The Smart Dining Service p. 299 Ilhan Aslan, Feiyu Xu, Jörg Steffen, Hans Uszkoreit, Antonio Krüger DOI: 10.1007/11590323_38 DaFEx: Database of Facial Expressions p. 303 Alberto Battocchi, Fabio Pianesi, Dina Goren-Bar DOI: 10.1007/11590323_39 PeaceMaker: A Video Game to Teach Peace p. 307 Asi Burak, Eric Keylor, Tim Sweeney DOI: 10.1007/11590323_40 A Demonstration of the ScriptEase Approach to Ambient and Perceptive NPC Behaviors in Computer Role-Playing Games p. 311 Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, Matthew McNaughton, Thomas Roy, Curtis Onuczko, Mike Carbonaro DOI: 10.1007/11590323_41 Multi-user Multi-touch Games on DiamondTouch with the DTFlash Toolkit p. 315 Alan Esenther, Kent Wittenburg DOI: 10.1007/11590323_42 Enhancing Social Communication Through Story-Telling Among High-Functioning Children with Autism p. 320 E. Gal, D. Goren-Bar, E. Gazit, N. Bauminger, A. Cappelletti, F. Pianesi, O. Stock, M. Zancanaro, P.L. Weiss DOI: 10.1007/11590323_43 Tagsocratic: Learning Shared Concepts on the Blogosphere p. 324 D. Goren-Bar, I. Levi, C. Hayes, P. Avesani DOI: 10.1007/11590323_44 Delegation Based Multimedia Mobile Guide p. 328 Ilenia Graziola, Cesare Rocchi, Dina Goren-Bar, Fabio Pianesi, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro DOI: 10.1007/11590323_45 Personalized Multimedia Information System for Museums and Exhibitions p. 332 Jochen Martin, Christian Trummer DOI: 10.1007/11590323_46 Lets Come Together - Social Navigation Behaviors of Virtual and Real Humans p. 336 Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André, Michael Nischt DOI: 10.1007/11590323_47 Automatic Creation of Humorous Acronyms p. 337 Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava DOI: 10.1007/11590323_48 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Latin podcasting Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:18:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 619 (619) Those here into podcasting will, I am sure, be delighted to learn of the Stoa's Latin podcasting experiment, http://www.stoa.org/?p=250, where you will find instructions for plugging the relevant URL into your copy of iTunes, from which, if you wish, spoken Latin may be downloaded to your iPod, for suitably uplifting enjoyment on public transport etc. (Observer, noticing the expression of rapt concentration: "Say, what *are* you listening to?" You, delighted to be asked: "Oh, just an introduction in Latin to a podcasting experiment....") So far there's only the Prima Salutatio of 3 minutes 21 seconds, but more is promised. As someone who once listened to casette tapes of spoken ancient Greek while walking to work, I thoroughly approve of this project and eagerly await readings of Catullus, Ovid, Cicero and others. Something worthy of our Finnish colleagues! Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ross Scaife Subject: Re: 19.439 new on WWW: Latin podcasting Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:51:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 620 (620) Thanks for the plug, Willard. Your note to Humanist about our podcasting experiment came out just as we were moving the server from one machine to another, so some people may have been unable to connect. Should be fine now though, I hope. And you should now be able to see a total of 22 recordings via your RSS reader or in your iTunes. William has replaced many of the first ones we did, so you may want to delete those and download again. I'd say the best so far are the most recent Erasmus, Echo. (William du Cass=E9 and Milena Minkova) Erasmus, Abbatis et Eruditae. (William du Cass=E9 and Erika Peck) Erasmus, Adolescentis et Scorti. (William du Cass=E9 and Jessica McCormack) Vives, Prima Salutatio. (William du Cass=E9, Antoine Haaker, and Jessica McCormack) but we are learning as we go, and we appreciate any and all feedback. The RSS feed again: http://www.stoa.org/colloquia/podcasts/channel-01.xml Ross Scaife University of Kentucky On 11/24/05, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] where [deleted quotation]worthy of our Finnish colleagues! [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: portable computing Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:50:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 621 (621) In my explorations for a truly portable computer, I ran across the following, alas not yet available: the IBM Meta Pad, http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20020206_metapad.html, a prototype 9-ounce device, about the size of a 3X5-inch stack of cards 3/4-inch thick, which can serve as the heart of a desktop system as well as a handheld. My colleague Paul Vetch responded to notice of this desirable device with a page on the current state-of-the-art in wearable computing, http://wearcam.org/ieeecomputer/r2025.htm. I cannot see myself wearing a computer while hiking, but the cramped quarters of Economy-class and its bad movies would tempt me to put on the visor. (Beware of any students wearing sunglasses in class....) Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Da Rold, Dr. O." Subject: RE: 19.436 relational database and TEI Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:33:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 622 (622) Patrick, Many thanks for this information. We are not looking into publishing complete editions of texts, and thus a relational database seems the best choice. However, our level of description is extremely detailed down to each individual letter of each scribal hand. We are aiming to publish our descriptive documentation on the web site before Christmas, hoping for feed back. We will have circa 50 tables, roughly 400 fields; I am still planning the database, trying to get relationships right. We won't publish full folios, but we will be using part of images to elucidate scribal stints. It is just so different to think relational rather than hierarchical. I'll certainly take up your advice with our Computer guys. Many thanks again, Orietta From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 19.436 relational database and TEI Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:40:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 623 (623) You probably know it better than I do, but there is an article in Literary & Linguistic Computing that seems to deal with something similar: James Bradley, "Documents and Data: Modelling Materials for Humanities Research in XML and Relational Databases" http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/133 Just happy that my university is subscribed to Lit Ling C again, Neven Neven Jovanovic Department of Classical Philology University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb, Croatia From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 19.441 portable computing Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:42:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 624 (624) Your question about portable computing is most timely. David Pogue reviews Dialogue's Flybook (DVD-case size, 2.7 pounds) in today's NYTimes (free subscription required): http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/technology/circuits/24pogue.html?th&emc=th Details on the Flybook are at http://flybookstore.com/. In addition to its size it allows addition of a SIM card so you can go online via cellular instead of standard WIFI. It's also a tablet, though it doesn't (yet) run Microsoft's TabletPC operating system. In that article he also mentions the OQO (http://www.oqo.com/), one of the earliest micros, which is often paired with a virtual keyboard (http://www.itechdynamic.com/html/border25.htm) for those who don't enjoy trying to type on miniscule keypads. I don't know how well a virtual keyboard would project on the surfaces one would encounter while hiking(!). Also mentioned is the Fujitsu's Lifebook 1501D, a more standard micro. - Hope ------------ hope.greenberg_at_uvm.edu, Academic Computing, Univ. of Vermont From: Eric Haswell Subject: Re: 19.436 relational database and TEI Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:41:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 625 (625) Another option you may wish to consider for this project is a native XML database such as eXist (http://www.exist-db.org). Given the highly granular nature of the markup this could be a good fit. With a native XML database, the XML file is the database record, so you avoid all the headaches that come with having to 'shred' your data to make it fit the data-centric model of a relational database system. Just drop the XML source into the database and it is ready for querying with XPath/XQuery. Eric __________________________________ Eric Haswell University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre From: "Prof. R. Sussex" Subject: Re: 19.444 portable computing Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:24:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 626 (626) There are other angles on portability. Korea (and Japan) have high-speed phone networks. One of my doctoral students is working on how you use a phone-PDA device for language learning. You can do interactive exercises via PDA-based webpages or in communication with a central server; you can do audio and some video, at the speeds that these networks handle. You have opportunities for language learning while standing in a bus queue, while travelling, while walking to a lecture. There are fascinating questions about the effect of this time-slice learning on overall learning, and what kinds of things are leant, and how securely. The computing power of PDA-phone + server is quite considerable; the size of the screen isn't, but the interactivity is growing. And you carry it with you, even when looking at sunsets (alas). Roly Sussex -- Roland 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/index.html?page=18094&pid=19591 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: Willard McCarty Subject: *truly* portable computing Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:46:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 627 (627) The devices named by Hope Greenberg (Dialogue's Flybook; the OQO) are very tempting but too expensive and not quite what would fit into my patterns of use. For notetaking purposes, the 640X480 PDA is about as large as one would want to get. At that size a keyboard is of dubious benefit on the move (on the train or tube) and, I find, the modified handwritten script perfectly adequate. A detachable full-sized keyboard is good for times when one has a desk to sit at. A Bluetooth or other wireless mouse becomes important when one is entering text with the PDA while sitting at a desk. It's not hard to imagine a visor (like the device now available in development labs for wearable computing) providing for display in environments where one does not have to stay aware of what's happening in the immediate vicinity, say while sitting in an airplane seat. A 3D holographic projector would simply attract too much interest and draw objections from those who are already annoyed by the mobile phone. Imagine a room-full of holographic projections. So, with some additions, the following characteristics: it fits in the hand; has a very high-resolution colour display able to do well with 6-point type; has at least VGA-quality output; allows for wireless (IR, WiFi, Bluetooth) connections; interfaces with a keyboard & mouse; interfaces well with Windows XP; has capacious flash memory. Anything I am overlooking? Any recommendations? Thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: John Unsworth Subject: Job openings at NCSA Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:24:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 628 (628) There are two job openings in the Automated Learning Group (http:// alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/index) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that might be of interest to some on Humanist: Research Programmer (Specializing as a Text Mining Analyst) -- closing December 7th Overview: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has one Research Programmer (Specializing as a Text Mining Analyst) position available. This position will be responsible for the design and implementation of algorithms for the classification and mining of structured and unstructured data streams. This includes: using supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to find patterns and relationships in the data, classification, clustering, detection of anomalies, information indexing and retrieval, and data visualization and summarization. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AboutUs/Employment/10213.htm and Research Programmer (Specializing as a Machine Learning Analyst) -- closing December 13th Overview: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has one Research Programmer (Specializing as a Machine Learning Analyst) position available. This position will be responsible for the design and implementation of algorithms for the classification and mining of structured and unstructured data streams. This includes: using supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to find patterns and relationships in the data, classification, clustering, detection of anomalies, information indexing and retrieval, and data visualization and summarization. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AboutUs/Employment/10218.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: the present future of computing Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:22:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 629 (629) From Bob Frankston, "Beyond Limits", in Beyond=20 Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing,=20 ed. Denning and Metcalfe (New York: Copernicus, 1997), p. 44: "The pace of change is limited only by our ability to innovate. This pace has been accelerating because the computer itself is our key tool. As we improve computers, we increase our ability to improve them.... The computer itself will 'disappear into the woodwork'. Our challenge is to learn how to master this new arena -- one in which we are not writing programs but adding intelligence to everything around us. The limit is our ability to manage complexity. It is a world in which resiliency is more important than perfection." Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: "Prof. R. Sussex" Subject: Re: 19.444 portable computing Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:24:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 630 (630) There are other angles on portability. Korea (and Japan) have high-speed phone networks. One of my doctoral students is working on how you use a phone-PDA device for language learning. You can do interactive exercises via PDA-based webpages or in communication with a central server; you can do audio and some video, at the speeds that these networks handle. You have opportunities for language learning while standing in a bus queue, while travelling, while walking to a lecture. There are fascinating questions about the effect of this time-slice learning on overall learning, and what kinds of things are leant, and how securely. The computing power of PDA-phone + server is quite considerable; the size of the screen isn't, but the interactivity is growing. And you carry it with you, even when looking at sunsets (alas). Roly Sussex -- Roland 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/index.html?page=18094&pid=19591 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: Willard McCarty Subject: *truly* portable computing Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:46:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 631 (631) The devices named by Hope Greenberg (Dialogue's Flybook; the OQO) are very tempting but too expensive and not quite what would fit into my patterns of use. For notetaking purposes, the 640X480 PDA is about as large as one would want to get. At that size a keyboard is of dubious benefit on the move (on the train or tube) and, I find, the modified handwritten script perfectly adequate. A detachable full-sized keyboard is good for times when one has a desk to sit at. A Bluetooth or other wireless mouse becomes important when one is entering text with the PDA while sitting at a desk. It's not hard to imagine a visor (like the device now available in development labs for wearable computing) providing for display in environments where one does not have to stay aware of what's happening in the immediate vicinity, say while sitting in an airplane seat. A 3D holographic projector would simply attract too much interest and draw objections from those who are already annoyed by the mobile phone. Imagine a room-full of holographic projections. So, with some additions, the following characteristics: it fits in the hand; has a very high-resolution colour display able to do well with 6-point type; has at least VGA-quality output; allows for wireless (IR, WiFi, Bluetooth) connections; interfaces with a keyboard & mouse; interfaces well with Windows XP; has capacious flash memory. Anything I am overlooking? Any recommendations? Thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Eric Haswell <ehaswell_at_gmail.com > Subject: Re: 19.445 relational database and TEI Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:41:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 632 (632) Another option you may wish to consider for this project is a native XML database such as eXist (<http://www.exist-db.org>http://www.exist-db.org ). Given the highly granular nature of the markup this could be a good fit. With a native XML database, the XML file is the database record, so you avoid all the headaches that come with having to 'shred' your data to make it fit the data-centric model of a relational database system. Just drop the XML source into the database and it is ready for querying with XPath/XQuery. Eric __________________________________ Eric Haswell University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre -- Mr. Joris J. van Zundert (MA) Huygens Institute Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information can be found at <http://www.brandaen.org>http://www.brandaen.org A disclaimer is applicable to this e-mail, please refer to <http://www.brandaen.org/emaildisclaimer>http://www.brandaen.org/emaildisclaimer for more information From: "Patrick T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 19.448 portable computing Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:03:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 633 (633) The HP iPAQ hx4705 Pocket PC (at $599) sounds like it might meet your requirements, though I don't know if a mouse can be had for the device. It has a 4 in. 480x640 screen (in those dimensions), WiFi, Bluetooth, IRD, 80 MB file store, SD slot. There are bluetooth keyboards and IR keyboards designed for use with PDAs. Personally, I'd be more likely to look at the Sony VAIO TX610 subnotebook - if I could pay the $2000 price tag, that is. One of my colleagues has an earlier model on the same form factor, and they're quite nice, easy to type with (well, compared to my PDA, at least), and have a nice, bright screen. But they are pricier and heavier than you seem to want. From: Lynda Williams Subject: Re: 19.446 the present future of computing Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:03:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 634 (634) [deleted quotation]Mmm. Only that we haven't done a very good job, to date, of managing complexity. In fact, I believe the current decade will be looked back on with amazement by future generations who will exclaim things like "people had over 100 different password to manage?" or "and platforms became obsolete every couple years?" The psychological limits of human beings is something innovators (and I have been one of them) seem ill equiped to take into account in their breathless race to usher in the next "new thing". I do agree that the mechanics of command languages, archane "how to" instructions and the like will have to disappear into the wordwork for real progress to occur. Much as print technology took a leap forward when various schemes for measuring paper were replaced with "page 1, page 2, page 3, etc." Too much of the knowledge required to operate modern computing systems is a meaningless, trivial froth of arbitrary superficialities that resist the application of deep knowledge to achieve productivity without an extensive training period. -- Lynda Williams, http://www.okalrel.org "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy From: David Sewell Subject: Re: 19.451 relational database and TEI Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:52:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 635 (635) Joris van Zundert writes: [quoting from a Slashdot post] [deleted quotation]Slashdot readers, in my experience, are notoriously anti-XML (as well as anti humanities computing--or maybe not so much "anti" as clueless about its existence). Now that XQuery 1.0 is a Candidate Recommendation from the W3C, we are likely to see increased commitment to native XML database software. And there are already several commercial products that are robust and powerful (e.g. MarkLogic Server, which we use at UVa Press and which Oxford and Elsevier also use). It's true that they are quite expensive (we couldn't possibly have acquired it without dedicated grant money) and that the open-source offerings are still far from being production-quality. But that situation should be changing. In any case I would argue that XML is an appropriate data storage format for many archival and publishing projects in humanities computing. 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: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 19.449 the present future of computing Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:53:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 636 (636) On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]We are obviously going through what will be called the "pioneering" years of computing, and this will continue until growth rates maybe slow down enough for one generation to pass on hardware or software to the next, or until the combination of hardware and software gets to the point where nearly anyone can do nearly anything wanted in a short enough time that the continued progress is not relevent to an ordinary computer user. If you consider the "pioneering" years of railroads, cars, planes & various other technologies, you will see they also had these years, when everything was changing so quickly from year to year that your map had to be continually updated to match the territory or else it was all likely to pass you by. You will usually find this with any technologies that are not quite thoroughly operated under monopolistic power, such as the telephone until competition was allowed. Thanks!!! Happy Holidays! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Give FreeBooks!!! ~50,000 eBooks at these sites!!! 47 Languages at gutenberg.org 104 Languages at gutenberg.cc [Books listed by grade level] ~500 eBooks at http://gutenberg.net.au Via Project Gutenberg of Australia 65+ Languages at Project Gutenberg Europe http://pge.rastko.net [Project Gutenberg Europe] http://dp.rastko.net [Distributed Proofreaders Europe] As of November 27, 2005 ~17,632 FreeBooks at: http://www.gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.net [Includes Australian total] We are ~88% of the way 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: Ken Friedman Subject: Research Request: Philosophy of Design Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:52:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 637 (637) Dear Colleagues, This is a research request for articles and books on philosophy of design. This includes articles and books in which philosophers discuss issues that can be applied to design process as well as articles and books in which designers and design researchers discuss or develop a philosophy of design. In this sense, I do not restrict the call to full-formed or comprehensive philosophies, but invite also propositions and heuristic probes. Please send suggestions and comments to me off-list at I will compile all responses and post them to the list. The compilation will incorporate respoinses to an earlier research request posted to the list PhD-Design. Thank you. Ken Friedman Applicable definitions of the term, "philosophy" in "philosophy of design": Merriam-Webster's (1990: 883) defines philosophy as: "2 a : pursuit of wisdom b : a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means c : an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs 3 a : a system of philosophical concepts b : a theory underlying or regarding a sphere of activity or thought 4 a : the most general beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group ." The Oxford English Dictionary (2002: Unpaged) defines the relevant aspects of the word philosophy the same way: "1. a. (In the original and widest sense.) The love, study, or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical." To speak of a "philosophy of" is to discuss "The study of the general principles of some particular branch of knowledge, experience, or activity." OED cites this usage example, "Expressions like 'philosophy of science', 'philosophy of history', 'philosophy of government', 'philosophy of law', 'philosophy of religion', and so forth creep into the language, indicating that after scientists, historians, statesmen, jurists, priests, and the rest have said all they have to say, there is still need of a special kind of knowledge to inform us what it is all about." Webster's International Dictionary (1913: 1077) defines philosophy as "1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. When applied to any particular department of knowledge, philosophy denotes the general laws or principles under which all the subordinate phenomena or facts relating to that subject are comprehended." References Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1990. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts. OED. 2002. OED Online. Oxford English Dictionary. Ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Second edition, 1989. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. URL: http://dictionary.oed.com/ Date accessed: 2002 January 18, verified 2005 November 27. Webster's. 1913. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G & C. Merriam Co., 1913, edited by Noah Porter). ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language). Chicago: Divisions of the Humanities, University of Chicago. URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/webster.form.html Date accessed: 2002 January 18, verified 2005 November 27. -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 19.452 philosophy of design? Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:29:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 638 (638) [deleted quotation]Downton, Peter. Design Research. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004. Downton, Peter. Studies in Design Research: Ten Epistemological Pavilions. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004. Anything by Donald Norman, particularly his most recent "Emotional Design" (I think, haven't read it yet). Bruce Mau's work, particularly "Massive Change." Brenda Laurel's recent anthology (generally mediocre but Lisa Grocott's essay outstanding) "Design Research: Methods and Perspectives." The Idea of Design, ed Victor Margolin and Richard Buchanan Rosenberg, Terence. "'the Reservoir': Towards a Poetic Model of Research in Design." Proceedings of the Research into Practice Conference: Selected Papers Volume One, 2000. Vol. 1. This uses some philosophy... (these proceedings are all online, try http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/papers/wpades/ > -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] hypertext.RMIT http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/admin/briefEmail.html > From: IngentaConnect InTouch Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 30.2 and 30.4 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:02:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 639 (639) Two publication announcements from Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. (1) The special issue entitled "Digital scholarship, Digital Culture" (30.2, June 2005) is now available freely online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr. This issue contains the lectures from the series by that name, held at King's College London, during the 2003-4 academic year. Stanley N Katz, "Why scholarship matters: the humanities in the twenty-first century" Michael S Mahoney, "The histories of computing(s)" Gordon Graham, "Strange bedfellows? Information systems and the concept of a library" Yorick Wilks, "Artificial companions" Ian Hacking, "The Cartesian vision fulfilled: analogue bodies and digital minds" Timothy Murray, "Curatorial in-securities: new media art and rhizomatic instability" Jerome McGann, "Culture and technology: the way we live now, what is to be done?" (2) The latest issue, ISR 30.4, has just been published. See the above URL for abstracts of these articles: ISR Editorial Cattermole, Howard pp. 289-290(2) Various twine Riordan, Maurice pp. 291-295(5) 'Curates and bishops': on poetry residencies, radio science and first things Petrucci, Mario pp. 296-300(5) 'Cold media': the poetry of science and the science of poetry Leeder, Karen pp. 301-311(11) Flame far too hot: William Empson's non-Euclidean predicament Price, Katy pp. 312-322(11) Fractal poetics: adaptation and complexity Fulton, Alice pp. 323-330(8) Fact and artefact: poetry, science, and a few thoughts on Ian McEwan's Saturday Rees-Jones, Deryn pp. 331-340(10) Emotions and cognitions Laszlo, Pierre pp. 341-348(8) Little Hans Christian and great Hans Christian: the poet and the scientist Grum-Schwensen, Ane pp. 349-355(7) Humphry Davy, the poet Knight, David pp. 356-372(17) Book reviews pp. 373-379(7) WM From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.44 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:27:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 640 (640) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 44 (November 29-December 5, 2005) VIEW BUILD OR BUY? Rob Meyer, CEO of the Numerical Algorithms Group, wants you to be thinking clearly when you consider the component approach to development. www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i44_meyer.html VIEW COMPUTERS AND THE EMBODIED NATURE OF COMMUNICATION Examining the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Arun-Kumar Tripathi comments: "In terms of the language of embodiment, Merleau-Ponty took account of the way in which technologies may be embodied, such as the blind man's cane or the woman's feathered hat... " www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i44_tripathi.html MAILBAG In this excerpt from the Ubiquity Forums, readers comment on Subhash Kak's article "Artificial and Biological Intelligence." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/mailbag_v6i44.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: New Orleans Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:27:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 641 (641) A student here, Angelus Kocoshis, has pointed to a news item concerning the wireless network recently installed in New Orleans -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_hi_te/wireless_new_orleans. He comments that, "Though 128 is pretty slow, it's better than nothing. Perhaps the political will will exist to change the law too. Philadelphia tried to do this two years ago, and the phone and cable companies fought it tooth and nail." Are there any other examples of entire cities (or districts within cities) going wireless -- without first having to suffer destruction? Yours, WM From: Mark Olsen Subject: Re: 19.454 relational database and TEI Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:25:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 642 (642) Hi, It could be that David's assertion that Slashdot readers are notoriously anti-XML -- and even anti-humanities computing -- is correct and that they should be disregarded as such. I have, however, been seeing alot of heated discussion about XML and database theory. Have a peek at Fabian Pascal's voluminous rants as one example: http://www.dbdebunk.com/index.html I suspect that there is some substance to the complaints on both theoretical and practical grounds. PhiloLogic (the open source system for TEI and other document collections the ARTFL project is working on, http://philologic.uchicago.edu) is based on a mixed mode processing model. We use a relational database engine for object management and an indexing engine that includes a limited (X)path notation. We have so far avoided using a number of XML tools or specifications for large systems because of very significant performance issues, not to mention prohibitive cost if one looks at commercial packages. I do exect this to change over time, but some of the theoretical objections raised by Pascal and others may provide some outside limits to optimization. We *are* using XML database tools (eXist and Berkeley) for smaller, specific applications, most notably for highly dynamic and repurposable individual documents. But intensive processing of small numbers of documents as databases as a content management system would not really qualify as a "database" application in the way that XML critics would frame it. Mark From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 19.454 relational database and TEI Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:26:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 643 (643) [deleted quotation]I think, as the slashdot quote evinces, that their underlying problem is they don't conceive of XML as an appropriate way to store data. Moreover, that when they think of data they mean fairly limited barely, if at all, nested tabular data. It doesn't occur to them that people might be using it to encode full length documents, or that this is really the area from which it has arisen. I wonder what they would see as an appropriate storage format for the kinds of documents we deal with? XML (as I'm sure many here will agree) certainly has its flaws, and is not necessarily the solution which everyone is looking for, but definitely has its benefits for those who can get useful answers from interrogating documents with an arbitrary depth of nested information. [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]I'd agree, the range of support for XQuery is increasing. Some of the open source offerings, eXist being perhaps one of the best, are reaching significant levels of maturity and are production-quality to some degree. (i.e. dependent on your amount of XML or your anticipated frequency of querying.) I think it is an area people should experiment in more, if they have the time/energy/patience. I think Orietta's original question stems from the project's dependence upon the local IT support who understands RDBMS/SQL-based solutions and has no interest in XML, much less querying it. I think her desire to be able to eventually export from this database to TEI P5 manuscript descriptions is a laudable one, and her concern is to design a database that won't be too hard to convert. Those interested in this area might be want to also look at middleware such as: http://xquare.objectweb.org/bridge/index.html or an XML Database built on top of a relational database. For example, http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/xpsql/projdisplay.php built on top of postgresql. -James -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 19.454 relational database and TEI Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:33:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 644 (644) [deleted quotation]Hi all, I hesitate to follow up on this post, because=20 this has all the promise of ending up in the all=20 to familiar and seemingly inconsolable=20 do-or-don't-put-your-XML-in-a-database dichotomy. In my experience the choice depends rather on=20 solid commitment to XML for which ever reason=20 than whether it would actually be a wise choice=20 to burden your database with XML. It seems that=20 people that have a lot of XML like XML databases=20 and that people who don't=85 don't. The former tend=20 to author XML and store it for future use, the=20 latter tend to generate it when it's really=20 needed. And in all probability they're all quite=20 right given their particular goals, needs and=20 context. In any case, for the record I can't=20 resist adding the following remarks... * I don't think I really care whether=20 Slashdotters like me as a humanities computing=20 person or not. But I do value their opinion about=20 the merit of technical solutions. Their relative=20 shortsightedness of our particular domain doesn't=20 disqualify their judgments on the technical=20 aptness, applicability and quality of engineered approaches. * A W3C recommendation by itself is not proof for=20 the technical soundness of a proposed solution.=20 Rather it states that it's one of a number of=20 possible solutions to a particular problem, being=20 the preferred choice of a certain group of=20 people. That doesn't imply that the proposed=20 solution is a good solution, a solid one or even=20 a nice one. XSLT 1.0 is a W3C recommendation.=20 However, any engineer will tell you that XSLT=20 mixes the characteristics of a templating=20 language with those of a procedural language.=20 This has caused XSLT to be a limping hybrid=20 that's messy in nature and induces messy code=20 (which is hard to sustain). Unfortunately the=20 XSLT 2.0 candidate makes things worse. So yes, a=20 candidate recommendation will propagate certain=20 solutions, but that might not necessarily be a good thing. * I do very much agree that XML is an appropriate=20 data storage format for archival purposes. But=20 when it's archiving you're after, why put the=20 XML-files in a database that may prove to be the=20 future obsolete proprietary tool of some=20 commercial vendor? What happens if your grant=20 runs out and you experience vendor lock-in? If=20 it's archiving you're after, put your files in an=20 open source and open standards compliant=20 repository. A search engine will do for discovery=20 and retrieval. Less costly, sustainable maintenance. * Putting XML in a database (any database)=20 burdens the database with redundant information.=20 In essence any XML Schema is a structured data=20 model. From a purely engineering viewpoint one=20 should directly map such data models to tables,=20 fields and relations in a database. Putting XML=20 into the fields of a database is downgrading the=20 database to a file system like storage=20 environment. Moreover, putting XML in the fields=20 of a database implies a certain amount of=20 overhead of logic to retrieve the information you=20 want from the database. Additional to querying=20 the database for the field which contains the=20 appropriate piece of XML, you'll have to run an=20 XPath or XQuery to extract the relevant=20 information from the XML found in the field. In the end the question that remains, is whether=20 putting XML in a database causes in any way such=20 an added value that it merits the downsides of=20 possible vendor lock in and performance loss due=20 to the additional logic needed. In my view you=20 either want to archive XML or you want to query=20 XML. In the first case: tend to your storage=20 hardware and don't mind the database. In the=20 latter case an open source parsing solution will do. So when exactly do you need that database? y.s., Joris From: Ingbert Floyd Subject: One-day Conference by the Center for Computing in Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:32:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 645 (645) Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at UIUC Dear Colleagues, On behalf of Vernon Burton, Director of the=20 Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and=20 Social Science (CHASS) I would like to invite you=20 to participate in an all-day conference we are=20 hosting on Friday, December 9, focused on digital=20 tools. This event will be an information exchange=20 among scholars in humanities, arts, social=20 science, and computer science and will be an=20 opportunity to discuss projects that use advanced=20 visualization and/or digital tools. The conference will be held in the auditorium of=20 the National Center for Supercomputing=20 Applications (NCSA; 1205 W. Clark St., Room 1122)=20 on the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign=20 (UIUC) campus, from 9:00am=AD5:00pm CST. If you are=20 not able to attend at UIUC, you are welcome to=20 participate via the Access Grid. For information=20 on the Access Grid, see=20 http://www.accessgrid.org/ . For specifics on=20 this event, see http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=3D120= 50 . The agenda for the conference is as follows: 8:30 am Coffee and Registration 9:00 am Introduction Vernon Burton, Director, Center for Computing in=20 Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Thom H.=20 Dunning, Director, National Center for=20 Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), UIUC 9:30 am Data Mining and Visualization Tools at NCSA Donna Cox, Director, Visualization and=20 Experimental Technologies, NCSA Michael Welge,=20 Director, Automated Learning Group, NCSA 10:30 am Break 11:00 am An Overview of Digital History Scholarship William G. Thomas, III, Professor of History and=20 John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities,=20 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 12 noon Lunch 1:00 pm How the Pueblo Came to Be: Culture Change AD 900=AD1150 Stephen Plog, Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia 2:00 pm Mapping and Analysis for Spatial Social Science Luc Anselin, Faculty Excellence Professor and=20 Director, Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Department of Geography, UIUC 2:30 pm Break 3:00 pm Editorial Settlements: The William Blake Archive Morris Eaves, Professor of English, University of Rochester 4:00 pm UIUC Opportunities for Computing in=20 Humanities, Arts, and Social Science A question and answer session with=20 representatives of NCSA, Computer Science,=20 Cultural Computing Program, GSLIS, LAS, Seedbed, and the University Library. Please help us with organization by=20 pre-registering before December 6 at=20 http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/register.html or by=20 contacting us at chass_at_ncsa.uiuc.edu. For current=20 news and updates visit our website,=20 http://www.chass.uiuc.edu I hope you will be able=20 to join us for this event and look forward to your contribution. Sincerely, Ingbert Floyd RA for the Center for=20 Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science =20 From: "Da Rold, Dr. O." Subject: RE: 19.458 relational database and TEI Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:04:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 646 (646) Dear All, I have been reading your replies with much interest and even more trepidation. Although I've been working with computing and humanities for some years now, I still feel very much like a novice, thus many thanks for all the stimulating views. I should have perhaps given some background to the project. We are funded by the AHRC for five years. Since the outset of the project we decided that we should follow the keywords: longevity, accessibility and flexibility, which we are eager to implement at all stages, including the computing side of the data output. We are determined to publish on our website all our work in progress as early as June 2006. We do not want to withhold the data until the end of the project in 2010. These factors generated important considerations once we had to decide how and what we wanted to do. All AHRC funded projects have a technical appendix which gives an indication of the technical methodology for the electronic output. Our technical appendix initially proposed the use of TEI and XML for encoding and then web publication. James has summarised the situation exactly: 'I think Orietta's original question stems from the project's dependence upon the local IT support who understands RDBMS/SQL-based solutions and has no interest in XML, much less querying it. ' Our project does not have an allocated technical support developer. I am the research fellow on the project, i.e. I carry out data analysis, data management, data input, admin. etc. etc. I am certainly not worried about experimenting with technologies, but I am concerned that computing experimentation could put the output of our project in jeopardy. Therefore, in the meantime we need to rely on the help that our computer center is generously giving us. Moreover, the aim of the project is to catalogue manuscripts. Our research questions are demanding and ask for detailed descriptions, but at the same time I am perfectly aware of the standard set first by MASTER and then by the P5 TEI guidelines, which cannot be ignored. Ideally, we'd like the best from both systems: flexibility of querying to be delivered on the web and standards. (See the paper by Bradley, the reference for which was posted on the list last week. Thanks Neven, for attracting my attention to this.) The data at the end of the project, in five years, will have to be deposited with the AHDS and they seem to be quite flexible, but I can understand that from their point of view storing data in XML is the best option and some of the opinions expressed here give good reasons for this. So for the time being, I have started to develop tables and queries in Access. I followed the principles initially expressed by R.P. Bourret, 'XML and Databases', which Patrick had also clearly elucidated in his posting: 'make sure that whoever designs the database is knowledgeable of TEI bibliography standards, as the database structure will need to be compatible with the TEI markup element model'. We now have 40 tables in our database, some with more than 50 fields in them (description of single letters for each scribal hand). This should allow us to get started on the collection of the data. In the meantime I hope I'll be able to get more training in Xquery and Xpath etc., so that in five years time we may be able to have a different, if not a more sophisticated catalogue. Thank you all for the very interesting insights. Orietta From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.458 relational database and TEI Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:05:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 647 (647) Willard, and HUMANISTs, At 02:09 AM 11/30/2005, Mark Olsen wrote: [deleted quotation]Yes, there are voluminous rants to be found, and many of them are worth the provocation. There's another perspective on this, however. Coming back from XML 2005, the big annual conference for the XML industry, I note that one of the strongest overarching themes of the event was coming from the big vendors -- IBM, Oracle, Microsoft. All of them are keen on bridging the gap between traditional databases and XML processing. (Which they clearly see as a huge new thing, as the effects of the first two or three waves of XML adoption are felt within their developer communities. But that's no longer news.) While their visions are disparate in detail (well of course each has a somewhat different model as to how it is to be done ... a model appropriate to the platform-specific toolkit each is trying to peddle), they sing in unison about one thing: the differences between XML and RDBMS are being reconciled as new modeling, mapping and design methodologies come into play, "best of breed" technologies emerge and success stories are written and told. XML vs RDBMS is less and less an either/or proposition. Nor are the big developers pushing this out of utopian high-mindedness. They're doing it because they don't want to wake up in three years and find someone else eating their lunch, whether another BigCo, or some upstart they haven't heard of yet. There's a *large* market in the kind of "solution" we are talking about: a database of MS descriptions could easily be a database of market research reports, or drug trials with medical histories, or environmental impact statements, which are now collated by hand, at great expense to taxpayers, in proprietary word processing formats. Naturally it'll take some time before the second wave gets to share in these advances. You may not yet be able to query your RDBMS in XQuery, or store your XML in it "natively" and get RDBMS-style locking, validation, performance, just yet, without springing for the pricey version of the software, or without pushing out ahead of where the average IT department wants to go, or without running the risk of vendor lock-in. Though "XML export" may now make even that a thing of the past.... :-> But it's happening, so a heated discussion about XML and database theory (to which Mark refers) is happening with it. It's heated for the same reason such discussions usually are: there are lots of blind men crowding up to the elephant, and even more issuing opinions based on the distant smell of peanuts. Given all this, I'd be extremely wary of any of their prognostications. Performance doesn't compare? Wait six months. Functionalities missing? Wait six months. Yet some of the pundits are undoubtedly right, and some things may *never* be straightforward, elegant or easy. It's just impossible for the lay listener to know which of the many pundits is the correct one. Does it matter whether your mixed content is parsed at runtime, or compiled into a mini-DOM when the data is loaded? You be the judge! All of us have opinions: that's what makes us pundits. As to what Joris says about XSLT: [deleted quotation]Reading this, you'd almost think XSLT, a "limping hybrid", doesn't work. Yet there's another way to look at the exact same situation. "Any engineer" will also tell you that a Cuisinart food processor mixes the characteristics of a knife and a bowl, and is poorly applied to the proper job of either. Does that make it useless, "not necessarily a good thing"? Show me the computer language (maybe the natural language too) whose only instances are graceful, elegant and clean, and I'll show you a language that never got out of the lab. (Like the garlic-chopper I saw not long ago which made perfectly sized and shaped cubes of garlic, each one exactly 1mm across. It was on the "must go" discount shelf, but even $1.00 was too much to pay.) XSLT can be graceful, elegant and clean too when used appropriately. If it's used inappropriately, or by coders who don't know how to write it well, whose fault is that? If somebody can actually make a living fixing other people's bad XSLT code, to make it more maintainable or more easily extended to the next set of problems, that's an indication that XSLT works, not that it doesn't. 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: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 19.459 wireless cities Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:00:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 648 (648) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Willard, There's been much talk of it here in our fair city of Chicago. As one Alderman put it, "We're not tech specialists, but we know what the neighborhoods need. If you want to apply for a job at Jewel-Osco [i.e. the big supermarket chain] you have to get online. Teachers need to communicate with parents online." http://www.suntimes.com/output/krauss/cst-fin-krauss14.html While that's undeniable logic to me, I have a feeling it'll be a fight to the death with the regional phone monopoly, SBC. I'd only like to point out that 128kbs is darn slow though standard DSL around here -- provided by said phone monopoly -- is a somnolent 384kps. LEO -- ------------- Leo Robert Klein www.leoklein.com From: "liz walter" Subject: RE: 19.459 wireless cities Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:01:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 649 (649) Rio Rancho sits just north of Albuquerque here in New Mexico. It is home to a huge Intel manufacturing plant. They went wireless last year. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1699517,00.asp From: luismfernandez_at_cable.net.co Subject: Re: 19.459 wireless cities Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:02:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 650 (650) Some times it is necesary to have catastrophic results in order to force a positive change. It is sad, but it happens. In my country a complete 30,000 thousand people town had to be buried by a mass of mud and rocks to realize that it was necesary to create an agency which continuosly checks vulcano activity. Luis Fernandez From: "Bleck, Brad" Subject: RE: 19.459 wireless cities Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:02:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 651 (651) I live and teach in Spokane, Washington. For those unfamiliar with the city (pronounced Spo-can by the way), we are in the NE corner of Washington state, just south of the Canadian border and just west of the Idaho state border. The name comes from one of the several Native American tribes in the region. A couple of years back, Spokane, along with Vivato Communications, or whatever they call themselves, created the largest urban wireless hotspot at the time, some 200 square blocks. I'm not sure if it's the largest any longer; probably not. It covers most of the city downtown core and hospital district and provides two hours of daily free use to anyone with a wireless connection. There is also a large rural region, mostly wheat farms, in SE Washington, NE Oregon, and maybe the adjoining section of Idaho, that has wireless coverage. It isn't over a city, but vast fields of wheat and whatever else is being grown. Neither of these are the result of a tragedy of any sort, except maybe isolation from larger population centers. Bradley Spokane Falls CC _______________________________ From: Charles Ess Subject: second CFP - ECAP'06 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:06:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 652 (652) Dear Humanists, We apologize for multiple copies of this CFP. Please distribute widely. Second Call for Papers COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY IV European Meeting E-CAP 2006_at_NTNU Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology Dragvoll Campus, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 <http://www.eu-cap.org/> Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess (Drury University / NTNU): May Thorseth (NTNU): E-CAP 2006 is generously supported by the Programme for Applied Ethics and the Globalization Programme, NTNU. (E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computers and Philosophy (IACAP): see for further information.) IMPORTANT DATES January 27, 2006 Submission of extended abstracts March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2006 Early registration deadline June 22-24, 2006 Conference GENERAL INFORMATION From Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 June 2006 the Fourth International European Conference on COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY will be held on the Dragvoll Campus of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. PROGRAM Continuing the foci of the E-CAP conferences (beginning in Glasgow, 2002), ECAP'06 will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that has emerged over the past several decades, and continues to expand and develop as a result of the multiple interactions between philosophy and computing. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dr. Lucas Introna, Centre for the Study of Technology & Organisation Lancaster University, UK <http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/119/> Dr. Raymond Turner, Department of Computer Science University of Essex, UK <http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/turnr/> Dr. Vincent Hendricks, Department of Philosophy and Science Studies Roskilde University, Denmark <http://akira.ruc.dk/~vincent/> RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We invite papers that address all topics related to computing and philosophy, including cross- and interdisciplinary work that explores the computational turn in new ways. Hence, the following is intended to be suggestive, but not exclusive: - Philosophy of Computer Science (see <http://pcs.essex.ac.uk/ecap06/cfp.html>) - Ontology (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc) - Computational Linguistics - Global Information Infrastructures - Philosophy of Information and Information Technology (Including: Information as structure; Semantic information) - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness and Cognition - Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources & The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy and Computing - IT and Gender Research, Feminist Technoscience Studies - Information and Computing Ethics - Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation - New Models of Logic Software - "Intersections" - e.g., work at the crossroads of logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and ICT/Computing, such as Philosophy of AI - Ethical and Political Dimensions of ICTs in Globalization SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract (total word count approximately 1000 words). The file should also contain a 300 word abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet. Final papers must not exceed a total word count of 3500 words and an abstract of not more than 500 words. The submissions should be made electronically, either as PDF, rtf ,or Word format. To submit papers visit <http://www.eu-cap.org/submit> The extended abstract submission deadline is Friday 27th January 2006. For information about paper submission and the program that is not available on the conference web site (<http://www.eu-cap.org/>), please contact the Conference Co-Chairs. REGISTRATION AND FEES Registration will take place through the conference website, <http://www.eu-cap.org/> The registration fee includes the conference reception, conference lunches and coffee and tea breaks, and one ticket to the conference banquet. Discounted ("earlybird") registration fee (prior to May 5, 2006): 200 Euro Discounted registration fee - PhD students: 100 Euro Regular registration fee (after May 5, 2006): 250 Euro Regular registration fee - PhD students: 150 Euro (Masters and undergraduate students may register for the conference at no cost: a fee will be assessed, however, to cover the costs of the lunches and catering.) ACCOMMODATION To book accommodation, please visit the conference web site, <http://www.eu-cap.org/> VENUE The Dragvoll campus at NTNU offers excellent conference facilities as well a beautiful physical setting as it overlooks Trondheim and the Trondheim fjord. The city of Trondheim (Norway's ancient capital and home to the Nidaros Cathedral, the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Rhine) is easily accessible by air and rail, and is itself more than worth the visit. (Beyond city-related information provided on the conference website, start with <http://www.trondheim.com/>) thanks - and cheers! Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> 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'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 19.460 new on WWW: Ubiquity 6.44 Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:03:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 653 (653) [deleted quotation]Hi all, Anyone read this? I especially like this one: "The most obvious problems involve the accuracy and stability of the modified code." According to Meyer this applies to open source code. If code is designed by a billion dollar industry giant it's obvious that code is accurate and stable. That's why Windows never ever crashes, I guess. I'm happy that Rob straightened me out. Silly me, for thinking open source software could ever be well programmed. Of course it can't. How could it be? I never even paid for it! Greets, Joris van Zundert From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 19.456 philosophy of design Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:06:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 654 (654) Just want to mention another very current source - Make magazine by O'Reilly - about do-it-youself and design elements - I think it's brilliant (expensive though) - Alan For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, sondheim_at_panix.com, sondheim_at_gmail.com. General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org . From: "Gibson Jonathan" Subject: Event on the interdisciplinary reading of texts Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:22:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 655 (655) (Glasgow, 7 December) Teaching the Reading of Texts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives University of Glasgow, 7 December You are invited to a free event, organised by the English Subject Centre in association with the Subject Centres for History, Classics and Archaeology and for Philosophical and Religious Studies. As academics in the Humanities, we spend much of our time grappling with the meanings of texts which are often obscure, and, even, downright difficult. Texts, short and long, in their original language and in translation, play a central part in our academic practice -- and in our teaching practice. How can students, many of whom have been taught to use books rather than to read texts, and many of whom will not be devoting their studies to a single discipline, become proficient in the interpretation and understanding of these demanding materials? Three Humanities Subject Centres will be organizing a meeting at the University of Glasgow on Wednesday 7th December to discuss these issues. The topics to be considered will include teaching from translations, cross-disciplinary understanding and how to encourage student reading. The day will conclude with a round-table discussion. The meeting will commence at 10.30 for 11.00 and conclude at 16.00. Refreshments will be provided. There is no registration fee but you are asked to confirm your attendance with Marion Cochrane (m.cochrane_at_arts.gla.ac.uk). For further information, please contact Marion Cochrane or Jonathan Gibson (jonathan.gibson_at_rhul.ac.uk). From: Willard McCarty Subject: path-dependencies Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:20:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 656 (656) Allow me to draw your attention to a fine article illustrating the historically contingent development of technology. This is Paul A. David's "Clio and the Economics of QWERTY", The American Economic Review 75.2 (1985): 332-7 (in JSTOR). It is discussed in the context of computing by Paul W. Abrahams, "A World without Work", in Denning and Metcalfe, eds., Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (New York: Copernicus, 1997): 135-47. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ken Friedman Subject: Research Request: Philosophy of Design -- Full-text Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:23:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 657 (657) articles also welcome Dear Colleagues, This is a research request for articles and books on philosophy of design. This revises an earlier call. I seek citations, references, and descriptions of articles and books in which philosophers discuss issues that can be applied to design process as well as articles and books in which designers and design researchers discuss or develop a philosophy of design. Propositions and heuristic probes are welcome, along with references to full-formed or comprehensive philosophies. IMPORTANT REVISION: Several authors have been kind enough to send full articles or conference papers. If you have articles or papers you are willing to share, I will welcome them and I will include them in the compilation. Please send contributions, suggestions, and comments to: I will compile all contributions and post them to the list. I will also prepare the compilation as a small anthology in .PDF format. The anthology will include full-text articles for which permission to include has been granted. The author of each contribution will retain the copyright to his or her contribution. Thank you. -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Claire Warwick Subject: Lectureship and chair at Goldsmiths, London Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:22:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 658 (658) I've been asked to pass on some information about about jobs at Goldsmiths College London. They are advertising two lectureships and a chair in the area of computing allied to cognition, cultural studies, visual arts, drama. For more details, please see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/HZ818.html The details include an email address for further information: Robert Zimmer at r.zimmer_at_gold.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: Scylla and Charybdis Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:20:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 659 (659) A brief polemic, a pot-stirring. It seems to me that the situation Orietta Da Rold has described is not entirely dissimilar to the Homeric story of Scylla and Charybdis -- the Scylla of database design vs the Charybdis of TEI -- or the other way around, as you please. What I'd think the *researcher* should be doing is getting as clear as possible the nature of the tool that would best answer to the problem at hand -- in this case as well as mine, it seems, a tool that does not yet exist. How else, I wonder, can we progress -- i.e. imagine new tools we don't already know how to build? As long as the researcher's task is put for purposes of research in terms of commitment to this or that existing technology, the story goes not even as happily as Homer's. Of course in a grant-funded project or other timetabled affair, choices must be made, things actually done by date X, this or that achieved. Rules of the game, the cost of having the grant etc. But (let me stubbornly emphasize again) *in terms of research* the humanities computing problem here would seem to be clarifying the emergent technology, not selecting an emerged one. As long as we think of ourselves merely as "end-users" or "end-appliers" of technologies invented elsewhere, we are no better than adherents to particular trendy schools of literary criticism, philosophy or whatever. We need to get out of the Shop of Solutions, all pre-packaged and shrinkwrapped, so that we can begin to imagine what no one yet knows. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 19.464 relational database and TEI Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:21:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 660 (660) Hi all, Many thanks to Wendell for truly wise words. I fully agree. It's nice having someone finding the middle ground in an knowledgeable debate. As I'm not a native speaker of English I feel I have to stress that there's no irony intended by using the word 'wise'. Just one addition... [deleted quotation]I do have a proposition: Ruby. Nice and clean, completely OO, perfect support libraries for Humanities purposes (e.g. regexp, xml parsing, transparent high level database integration). With the advent of Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby has been extended with a highly effective framework for webdevelopment. Ruby and RoR are lean, mean, agile, effective and efficient. Moreover, they're crawling out of the lab at the speed I imagine labrats would. (Does that strike a vivid image in English? :-) y.s., Joris From: Norman Hinton Subject: [Fwd: No wonder some people are skeptical about Wikipedia!] Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:07:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 661 (661) Untrustworthy Wikipedia again: A false Wikipedia 'biography' By John Seigenthaler USA Today (at Yahoo News), Wed Nov 30, 6:50 AM ET "John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven." - Wikipedia This is a highly personal story about Internet character assassination. It could be your story. I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false, malicious "biography" that appeared under my name for 132 days on Wikipedia, the popular, online, free encyclopedia whose authors are unknown and virtually untraceable. There was more: "John Seigenthaler moved to the Soviet Union in 1971, and returned to the United States in 1984," Wikipedia said. "He started one of the country's largest public relations firms shortly thereafter." At age 78, I thought I was beyond surprise or hurt at anything negative said about me. I was wrong. One sentence in the biography was true. I was Robert Kennedy's administrative assistant in the early 1960s. I also was his pallbearer. It was mind-boggling when my son, John Seigenthaler, journalist with NBC News, phoned later to say he found the same scurrilous text on Reference.com and Answers.com. I had heard for weeks from teachers, journalists and historians about "the wonderful world of Wikipedia," where millions of people worldwide visit daily for quick reference "facts," composed and posted by people with no special expertise or knowledge - and sometimes by people with malice. At my request, executives of the three websites now have removed the false content about me. But they don't know, and can't find out, who wrote the toxic sentences. Anonymous author I phoned Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder and asked, "Do you ... have any way to know who wrote that?" "No, we don't," he said. Representatives of the other two websites said their computers are programmed to copy data verbatim from Wikipedia, never checking whether it is false or factual. Naturally, I want to unmask my "biographer." And, I am interested in letting many people know that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool. But searching cyberspace for the identity of people who post spurious information can be frustrating. I found on Wikipedia the registered IP (Internet Protocol) number of my "biographer"- 65-81-97-208. I traced it to a customer of BellSouth Internet. That company advertises a phone number to report "Abuse Issues." An electronic voice said all complaints must be e-mailed. My two e-mails were answered by identical form letters, advising me that the company would conduct an investigation but might not tell me the results. It was signed "Abuse Team." Wales, Wikipedia's founder, told me that BellSouth would not be helpful. "We have trouble with people posting abusive things over and over and over," he said. "We block their IP numbers, and they sneak in another way. So we contact the service providers, and they are not very responsive." After three weeks, hearing nothing further about the Abuse Team investigation, I phoned BellSouth's Atlanta corporate headquarters, which led to conversations between my lawyer and BellSouth's counsel. My only remote chance of getting the name, I learned, was to file a "John or Jane Doe" lawsuit against my "biographer." Major communications Internet companies are bound by federal privacy laws that protect the identity of their customers, even those who defame online. Only if a lawsuit resulted in a court subpoena would BellSouth give up the name. Little legal recourse Federal law also protects online corporations - BellSouth, AOL, MCI Wikipedia, etc. - from libel lawsuits. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996, specifically states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker." That legalese means that, unlike print and broadcast companies, online service providers cannot be sued for disseminating defamatory attacks on citizens posted by others. Recent low-profile court decisions document that Congress effectively has barred defamation in cyberspace. Wikipedia's website acknowledges that it is not responsible for inaccurate information, but Wales, in a recent C-Span interview with Brian Lamb, insisted that his website is accountable and that his community of thousands of volunteer editors (he said he has only one paid employee) corrects mistakes within minutes. My experience refutes that. My "biography" was posted May 26. On May 29, one of Wales' volunteers "edited" it only by correcting the misspelling of the word "early." For four months, Wikipedia depicted me as a suspected assassin before Wales erased it from his website's history Oct. 5. The falsehoods remained on Answers.com and Reference.com for three more weeks. In the C-Span interview, Wales said Wikipedia has "millions" of daily global visitors and is one of the world's busiest websites. His volunteer community runs the Wikipedia operation, he said. He funds his website through a non-profit foundation and estimated a 2006 budget of "about a million dollars." And so we live in a universe of new media with phenomenal opportunities for worldwide communications and research - but populated by volunteer vandals with poison-pen intellects. Congress has enabled them and protects them. When I was a child, my mother lectured me on the evils of "gossip." She held a feather pillow and said, "If I tear this open, the feathers will fly to the four winds, and I could never get them back in the pillow. That's how it is when you spread mean things about people." For me, that pillow is a metaphor for Wikipedia. John Seigenthaler, a retired journalist, founded The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. He also is a former editorial page editor at USA TODAY. From: TSD 2006 Subject: TSD 2006 - Preliminary Announcement Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:02:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 662 (662) ********************************************************* TSD 2006 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ********************************************************* Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2006) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-15 September 2006 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized 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. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, USA (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Rep Attila Ferencz, Romania Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Rep Karel Pala, Czech Rep Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimr Petkevic, Czech Rep Josef Psutka, Czech Rep James Pustejovsky, USA Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Rep Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Victor Zakharov, Russia KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Eduard Hovy, USA Louise Guthrie, GB James Pustejovsky, USA [...] From: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: cfp: Internet Research 7.0, Brisbane 28-30 sept. '06 Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:05:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 663 (663) CALL FOR PAPERS IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia 28-30 September 2006 Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006 INTERNET CONVERGENCES The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of sustaining and extending community. International and interdisciplinary teams now collaborate in new ways. Diverse cultures engage one another via CMC. These technologies relocate and refocus capital, labor and immigration, and they open up new possibilities for political, potentially democratizing, forms of discourse. Moreover, these technologies themselves converge in multiple ways, e.g. in Internet-enabled mobile phones, in Internet-based telephony, and in computers themselves as "digital appliances" that conjoin communication and multiple media forms. These technologies also facilitate fragmentations with greater disparities between the information-haves and have-nots, between winners and losers in the shifting labor and capital markets, and between individuals and communities. Additionally these technologies facilitate information filtering that reinforces, rather than dialogically challenges, narrow and extreme views. CALL FOR PAPERS Our conference theme invites papers and presentations based on empirical research, theoretical analysis and everything in between that explore the multiple ways the Internet acts in both converging and fragmenting ways - physical, cultural, technological, political, social - on local, regional, and global scales. Without limiting possible proposals, topics of interest include: - Theoretical and practical models of the Internet - Internet convergence, divergence and fragmentation - Networked flows of information, capital, labor, etc. - Migrations and diasporas online - Identity, community and global communication - Regulation and control (national and global) - Internet-based development and other economic issues - Digital art and aesthetics - Games and gaming on the Internet - The Net generation - E-Sectors, e.g. e-health, e-education, e-business We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community that address the theme of Internet Convergence. We particularly call for innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on and interrogations of the conference theme. However, we always welcome submissions on any topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet and related Internet technologies. We are equally interested in interdisciplinary proposals as well as proposals from within specific disciplines. SUBMISSIONS We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference papers, but we also encourage proposals for creative or aesthetic presentations that are distinct from a traditional written 'paper'. We welcome proposals for roundtable sessions that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates, and we also welcome organized panel proposals that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme. This year AoIR will also be using an alternative presentation format in which a dozen or so participants who wish to present a short overview of their work to stimulate debate will gather together in a plenary session involving short presentations (no more than 5 minutes) and extended discussion. All papers and presentations in this session will be reviewed in the normal manner. Further information will be available via the conference submission website. - PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 500-750 words - SHORT PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-750 words - CREATIVE OR AESTHETIC PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-750 words - PANELS - submit a 250-500 word description of the panel theme (and abstracts of the distinct papers or presentations) - ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a 250-500 word statement indicating the nature of the roundtable discussion and interaction. Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each person is invited to submit a proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. People may also propose a panel of papers or presentations, of which their personal paper or presentation must be a part. You may submit an additional paper/presentation of which you are the co-author as long as you are not presenting twice. You may submit a roundtable proposal as well. Detailed information about submission and review is available at the conference submission website http://conferences.aoir.org. All proposals must be submitted electronically through this site. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS All papers presented at the conference are eligible for publication in the Internet Research Annual, on the basis of competitive selection and review of full papers. Additionally, several publishing opportunities are expected to be available through journals, again based on peer-review of full papers. Details on the website. GRADUATE STUDENTS Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Any student paper is eligible for consideration for the AoIR graduate student award. Students wishing to be a candidate for the Student Award must also send a final paper by 31 July 2006. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Prior to the conference, there will be a limited number of pre-conference workshops which will provide participants with in- depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquires regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the Conference Chair and no later than 31 March 2006. DEADLINES Submission site available: 1 December 2005 Final date for proposal submission: 7 February 2006 Presenter notification: 21 March 2006 Final workshop submission deadline: 31 March 2006 Submission of paper for publication/student award: 31 July 2006 Submission of paper for conference archive: 30 September 2006 CONTACT INFORMATION Program Chair: Dr Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au Conference Chair: Dr Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, a.bruns_at_qut.edu.au President of AoIR: Dr Matthew Allen, Curtin University of Technology, Australia m.allen_at_curtin.edu.au Association Website: http://www.aoir.org Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org _______________________________________________ The air-l_at_listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http:// listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ jeremy hunsinger jhuns_at_vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- November 2005 Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:56:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 664 (664) CIT INFOBITS November 2005 No. 89 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. ...................................................................... World Digital Library Initiative Announced Google Scholar: One Year Later Do Employers and Students Take Online Educations Seriously? UIUC's Scholarly Communication E-Newsletter Converted to a Blog Readings in Higher Education IT Issues Recommended Reading ...................................................................... WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVE ANNOUNCED The U.S. Library of Congress, in partnership with Google, announced a plan to begin building a World Digital Library (WDL) for use by other libraries around the globe. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said that the WDL "would bring together online 'rare and unique cultural materials held in U.S. and Western repositories with those of other great cultures such as those that lie beyond Europe and involve more than 1 billion people: Chinese East Asia, Indian South Asia and the worlds of Islam stretching from Indonesia through Central and West Asia to Africa.'" For more details about the World Digital Library go to http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-250.html. Also of interest: "What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL" by Carl Lagozei, Dean B. Kraffti, Sandy Payettei, and Susan Jesurogaii D-LIB MAGAZINE, vol. 11, no. 11, November 2005 Volume 11 Number 11 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/lagoze/11lagoze.html ...................................................................... GOOGLE SCHOLAR: ONE YEAR LATER Google Scholar was launched a year ago this month as an aid to searching for scholarly literature located on the Web. Now that scholars have had time to put the service to a test, some are beginning to point out critical deficiencies and pitfalls. Criticisms include: -- it's a single search tool, and no single search tool searches the entire bibliographic universe -- it does not offer full disclosure about content (what is and is not included) in the database -- current research appears late in the database -- indexing is incomplete -- it does not provide equal coverage of all subject areas Peter Jacso provides in-depth evaluation of Google Scholar in "As We May Search -- Comparison of Major Features of the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar Citation-Based and Citation-Enhanced Databases" (CURRENT SCIENCE, v. 89, no. 10, November 25, 2005, pp. 1537-47). His article is available online at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/nov102005/1537.pdf. Librarian Joe Buenker's webpage, "Google Scholar's Impact on Libraries," includes a bibliography of critiques of Google Scholar at http://www.west.asu.edu/jbuenke/librarianship/google-scholar.html. Google Scholar is available at http://scholar.google.com/. Another article of interest: "A Risky Gamble With Google" by Siva Vaidhyanathan THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, vol. 52, issue 15, p. B7 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i15/15b00701.htm (Online access requires a subscription to the Chronicle.) ...................................................................... DO EMPLOYERS AND STUDENTS TAKE ONLINE EDUCATIONS SERIOUSLY? The research firm Eduventures recently asked about 500 corporate training managers if they thought that an online education is equal to or better than an on-campus education. Sixty-two percent felt it was, but still that "means 4 in every 10 employers are looking at online degrees with some degree of skepticism," said senior analyst Sean Gallagher. Only a third of the 500+ students surveyed agreed that the two delivery methods were of comparable value. The survey report, "Assessing Consumer Attitudes toward Online Education," is available online at http://static.wbz.viacomlocalnetworks.com/~wbz/onlineed505.pdf. For more information about Eduventures, go to http://www.eduventures.com. Also of interest: "Web-Based Learning: Factors Affecting Students' Satisfaction and Learning Experience" by Kyung-Sun Kim and Joi L. Moore FIRST MONDAY, vol. 10, no. 11, November 2005 http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_11/kim/index.html The article reports on a study that surveyed eighty-two graduate students taking a Web-based course on their learning experiences and styles. ...................................................................... UIUC'S SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION E-NEWSLETTER CONVERTED TO A BLOG ISSUES IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ceases distribution as an emailed newsletter with the November 15, 2005, issue. The purpose of the newsletter, published since August 2001 by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne Library, has been to bring to readers' attention a variety of topics that affect the current system of scholarly communication. This task will continue in a blog located at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/. The newsletter will also be available through an RSS feed. Back issues of the newsletter are available at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/administration/scholarly_communication/. ...................................................................... READINGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION IT ISSUES The article "Recommended Readings on the Top-Ten IT Issues" (EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 40, no. 6, November/December 2005, pp. 114=AD15) provides a list of recommended readings on information technology issues identified by the 2005 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. The article is available at http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0566.asp. The complete survey and a longer version of the reading list are available at http://www.educause.edu/2005SurveyResources/6323. EDUCAUSE Review [ISSN 1527-6619], a bimonthly print magazine that explores developments in information technology and education, is published by EDUCAUSE (http://www.educause.edu/). Articles from current and back issues of EDUCAUSE Review are available on the Web at http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Why People Don't Read Online and What to do About It" by Michelle Cameron UBIQUITY, vol. 6, issue 40, November 2-8, 2005 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i40_cameron.html In this brief essay, Cameron provides online writers some commonsense tips to improve the likelihood that people will read their webpages. From: Wolfgang Schibel Subject: CAMENA Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:05:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 665 (665) Dear Colleagues, thank you for posting our initial project MATEO in your Discussion Group HUMANIST (http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v12/0142.html). We should now like to introduce to you its successor: CAMENA ­ Latin Texts of the early modern period http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenahtdocs/camena.html Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) since 1999, CAMENA offers some 140.000 pages of original editions dating from 1500 to 1770. Our high quality image scans are accompanied by full-texts in most cases. A reading environment of dictionaries and handbooks of the period serves to answer questions about words, names and facts occurring in the texts. Just as MATEO, CAMENA addresses all aspects of early modern learned culture and history. The two major sections so far comprise poetry by German Neo-latin authors, and prose texts on politics and history, mostly of German origin, whereas our reference section „Thesaurus eruditionis“ is international in scope. We should appreciate very much your posting CAMENA along with MATEO. Thank you. Dr. Wolfgang Schibel Digital Library CAMENA/TERMINI schibel_at_uni-mannheim.de Attachment: More about CAMENA (in German) Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Sie haben dankenswerterweise die digitale Edition MATEO in Ihre Linkliste aufgenommen. Wir möchten Sie heute darauf hinweisen, dass MATEO eine Fortsetzung gefunden hat: CAMENA - Lateinische Texte der Frühen Neuzeit Online. http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenahtdocs/camena.html CAMENA hat inzwischen MATEO an Umfang weit übertroffen. Dank der Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft konnten wir seit 1999 lateinische Texte des Zeitraums 1500-1770 im Umfang von etwa 140.000 Seiten digitalisieren. Neben hochwertigen Bildscans früher Drucke bieten wir zumeist auch den maschinenlesbaren Volltext und zusätzliche Erschließungsmittel. Es würde uns freuen, wenn Sie neben MATEO auch die nicht minder stark benutzte digitale Bibliothek CAMENA in Ihre Linkliste aufnehmen würden. Unser Angebot ist nicht nur für Latinisten von Interesse. Es enthält grundlegende Werke frühneuzeitlicher Gelehrsamkeit und kann daher als Informationsquelle für alle Bereiche der europäischen Kultur von der Antike bis zum Ende der Herrschaft der lateinischen Sprache im 18. Jahrhundert dienen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Dr. Wolfgang Schibel Redaktion CAMENA/TERMINI schibel_at_uni-mannheim.de P.S.: Weitere Informationen zu CAMENA finden Sie im Anhang. From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: 19.470 relational database and TEI Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:54:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 666 (666) Dear Willard, [deleted quotation]yes, I could not agree more. Two short comments. First "Databases": If one looks a few years back, one of the fundamental texts on data modelling (Dionysios C. Tsichritzis and Frederick H. Lochovsky: Data Models, Englewood Cliffs, 1982, 50ff.) was built upon the assumption, that any data model could be expressed as either a set of pointer-related tables or as a graph. Well - XML is clearly a case, where a graphis a moe useful representation, than a set of tables. I'd like to emphasize, that I just mentioned data models not "databases". Emphasizing not because of terminological overprecision, but because I have the feeling, that when many people speak about the relational data model, what they actually mean is "a system which works fast and has nice input facilities". Whether a database works fast, however, has actually no relationship to the data model it is build upon, but to the indexing components it uses. And I have in the meantime the suspicion, that in about ninetyfive percent of the Humanities / Cultural Heritage projects which use Oracle as a database to access data that has been borne XMLish "because this professional relational system provides extremely fast access", what is actually meant is "because it has a fast indexing system with a robust interface". That forcing XML-structured data, where closely related junks of text are usually residing close by on the hardware, into a relational model, which is notorious for spreading everything around without any concern for the semantics of the relationships, actually is one of the slowest ways of processing these data, is than obscured by the fact that the indexing machine, indeed, works quite fast. To break out of the deadlock, one would have to shift focus a bit away from the question of "how do we markup?" to "what are the adequate underlying, abstract, data structures which we express by markup". (Data structures in the sense of implementable computer science abstractions, which are related to, but not identical, to intellectual philological / Humanities abstractions. Some readers my find the ideas on the topic interesting, I expressed in a paper available at http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/people/thaller/currentArguments/ Second "Shrinkwrapping": Shamelessly quoting myself, I have raised the point at a number or recent conferences, like this: Humanities Computer Science strengthens the position of the Humanities. Today the Humanities are frequently "consumers of information technology". I.e.: The use concepts, tools and technologies which have been developed by others. To strengthen their position within research politics it is important to make clear, that they can contribute genuinely to the further development of computer science in general, specifically with uncertain or fuzzy information, knowledge representation and decision processes and with complex textual models. The full argument can be found at http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/events/amsterdam300904/index.html (item "3. View", click on "HCS"). Best, Manfred From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.470 relational database and TEI Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:54:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 667 (667) I asked, in another List devoted to uses of computers for English, what had happened to the free-for-all, do-it-yourself spirit that I found in "humanities computing" in the 70s and 80s, and the response was that now there are already existing programs that we can use, so that the old 'entrepreneurial' approach to humanities computing was over. And that people could now get going on 'real work'. This would seem to suggest that the attitudes Willard opposes here (and I do too) have taken over. As Willard would say -- comments ? [deleted quotation] From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 19.470 relational database and TEI Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:55:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 668 (668) Dear Willard, In reply both to your latest question and to Joris's very nicely tempered response suggesting researchers investigate Ruby and Ruby-on-rails: At 01:30 AM 12/2/2005, you wrote: [deleted quotation]It is exactly in this spirit that I think we need to encourage such initiatives as Joris's (and not just polemically, but through action and the application of resources, where we have them). Ruby is indeed, to all accounts, a "sweet deal" (as one might say colloquially and not ironically :-), and when adherents of a technology are singing of sweetness rather than apologetically defending perceived ungainliness (as I was doing with XSLT), that should always be taken as a good sign. Not that someone won't do something ungainly with it eventually. But a good sign nonetheless. Yet I think you are exactly right to wonder whether this open-ended researcher's attitude is quite, erm, "affordable" by every HC project. Not only do we not want to exclude from our work those who contribute other talents and skills besides those of a Joris (how would Orietta's team get on with the suggestion that they go object-oriented?), but also (and thankfully so) we find that "clarifying the emergent technology" is itself not the only and inevitable goal. The problems Orietta faces will be there irrespective of whether she selects one technology or the other, and it is her project's contribution to the understanding of those problems (which are not simply problems of which of several emerged or emerging "solutions" she might select) that is the main point. (With you, I put "solutions" in quotes since such a solution, we also know, is really just another problem.) You yourself have often remarked on the fine edge between the tool and its use. Which tool we pick up must always remain a practical problem, even when we know that, given the right skills and machines to back us up, our selection might be different. Given how you yourself have made significant contributions to deep theoretical work in our field using tools hardly more capable than a spreadsheet, I count you among the masters who understand this. Indeed, sometimes it is the technology we had earlier considered fully "emerged" that is suddenly clarified by a new application. [deleted quotation]Well yes, though I confess (still feeling a bit of the academic exile's envy for life inside the cloisters) I'm surprised to here that "adherents of particular trendy schools" are to be so casually disparaged by us. (Not that I don't have differences with one or another trendy school. But surely it's the adherence to trendiness you react against, not the schools themselves.) Criticism of substance as mere fashion goes both ways; I doubt there's a serious subscriber to HUMANIST who hasn't been accused, at some point, of mindlessly following a trend, since that's obviously what all this computer stuff really is. Yet sometimes the difference between the glitzy mall storefront and the tinker's workshop is harder to make out than we pretend. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:20:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 669 (669) A brief polemic, a pot-stirring. It seems to me that the situation Orietta Da Rold has described is not entirely dissimilar to the Homeric story of Scylla and Charybdis -- the Scylla of database design vs the Charybdis of TEI -- or the other way around, as you please. What I'd think the *researcher* should be doing is getting as clear as possible the nature of the tool that would best answer to the problem at hand -- in this case as well as mine, it seems, a tool that does not yet exist. How else, I wonder, can we progress -- i.e. imagine new tools we don't already know how to build? As long as the researcher's task is put for purposes of research in terms of commitment to this or that existing technology, the story goes not even as happily as Homer's. Of course in a grant-funded project or other timetabled affair, choices must be made, things actually done by date X, this or that achieved. Rules of the game, the cost of having the grant etc. But (let me stubbornly emphasize again) *in terms of research* the humanities computing problem here would seem to be clarifying the emergent technology, not selecting an emerged one. As long as we think of ourselves merely as "end-users" or "end-appliers" of technologies invented elsewhere, we are no better than adherents to particular trendy schools of literary criticism, philosophy or whatever. We need to get out of the Shop of Solutions, all pre-packaged and shrinkwrapped, so that we can begin to imagine what no one yet knows. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Simone Albonico" Subject: R: 19.433 relational database and TEI? Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:01:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 670 (670) At the university of Pavia, between 2001 and 2004, we have worked at a project to catalogue Renaissance miscellaneous manuscripts containing poems (ALI-MAMIR project), in the context of several ongoing research concerning Antologie della Lirica Italiana (<http://ali.unipv.it/>); the level of description of the manuscripts required by the project is very detailed, especially where the content of the manuscript is concerned. We first started to catalogue more then 25 manuscripts with the help of an Access database (using 4 cataloguers). Then we started thinking about the integration of our data with the TEI/MASTER markup model. About this issue and the description model which we created is available the following paper (in Italian): Simone Albonico, I manoscritti miscellanei di rime quattro-cinquecenteschi. Il progetto di ricerca ALI-MAMIR (MAnoscritti MIscellanei Rinascimentali), in La lirica del Cinquecento. Seminario di studi in memoria di Cesare Bozzetti, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2004, pp. 221-250 The paper contains a XML/TEI markup model of the description of a manuscript and its content. Following the description model here developed, we started a restructuring of the Access database that we initially used. The structure of he second version of the databse was designed to allow, in a second instance, the export of all the inserted data and their remodulation inside a XML document compliant with the TEI-MASTER DTD (2003). Unfortunately, at the moment we do not have a working version of this second version of the database: the data structure is defined at a 95-99% (for a total of 45/50 tables); the import of data from the first to the second version of the database has been done, but the data must be completed (the new structure requires the integration of other data); at the end, the biggest issue was the graphical interface. In order to comply with the level of detail that we wanted to achieve (and with the huge variety of cases occurring in manuscripts) we tried to develop a software which helps the compiler (also in the view of extending the project including the contributions of other cataloguers), but we had to suspend the project (we hope only temporarily). This project of course implies the export of the data on the web, which we would do in line with other projects already done in Pavia, that is PostreSQL database and PHP interface (see the =93twin=94 project about 16th century printed anthologies: <http://rasta.unipv.it/>). If you are interested in more information or even just in an exchange of thoughts about our experience (and the problems we met), you can contact Maria Finazzi (finazzi_at_ada2.unipv.it or maria.finazzi_at_codexcoop.it). Sorry about any possible mistake in the use of the English language; do feel free to ask for clarification if something is unclear. For the sake of clarity, please find in the following the Italian version of the e-mail. Best regards Simone Albonico All'università di Pavia, nel periodo 2001-2004 abbiamo sviluppato un progetto per la schedatura di manoscritti miscellanei di rime del Rinascimento (progetto ALI-MAMIR), nell'ambito di diverse ricerche sulle Antologie della Lirica Italiana (<http://ali.unipv.it/>); il livello di descrizione dei manoscritti previsto dal progetto è molto dettagliato, soprattutto per quanto riguarda il contenuto dei manoscritti. Utilizzando un primo database Access abbiamo catalogato più di 25 manoscritti (impiegando 4 schedatori). Successivamente ci siamo posti il problema di una integrazione dei nostri dati con lo schema di marcatura TEI/MASTER. Su questa problematica e sul modello di descrizione a cui siamo arrivati alla fine esiste un contributo uscito a stampa nel 2004 (in italiano): Simone Albonico, I manoscritti miscellanei di rime quattro-cinquecenteschi. Il progetto di ricerca ALI-MAMIR (MAnoscritti MIscellanei Rinascimentali), in La lirica del Cinquecento. Seminario di studi in memoria di Cesare Bozzettti, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2004, pp. 221-250 L’articolo contiene anche un modello di marcatura XML/TEI della descrizione di un manoscritto e del suo contenuto. Sulla scorta del modello di descrizione ivi elaborato, abbiamo avviato una ristrutturazione del database Access utilizzato inizialmente, la cui struttura è stata studiata in modo tale da consentire, in un secondo tempo, l'esportazione dei dati inseriti e una loro rimodulazione all'interno di un documento XML conforme alla TEI-MASTER DTD (2003). Al momento purtroppo non disponiamo di una versione funzionante del secondo modello del database: la struttura dei dati è definita al 95-99% (per un totale di 45/50 tabelle); l'importazione dei dati dal vecchio al nuovo database e stata effettuata ma i dati vanno ancora completati (la nuova struttura richiede infatti un'integrazione); alla fine il maggior ostacolo è risultato l'interfaccia grafica. Dato il tipo di dettaglio che volevamo aggiungere (e la enorme varietà di situazioni che si presentano di fronte a materiale manoscritto) abbiamo cercato di sviluppare un sistema software che fornisse diversi aiuti al compilatore (anche per la prospettiva di allargare il progetto al contributo di altri studiosi), ma abbiamo dovuto (speriamo solo temporaneamente), lasciare il lavoro in sospeso. Il progetto prevede naturalmente un'esportazione dei dati su web, che effettueremmo con modalità già adottate a Pavia per altri progetti: database PostreSQL e interfaccia di visualizzazione in PHP (cfr. il progetto "gemello" sulle raccolte a stampa cinquecentesche: <http://rasta.unipv.it/>). Se vi interessano ulteriori informazioni o anche solo uno scambio di vedute sulla nostra esperienza (e le difficoltà incontrate) potete contattare Maria Finazzi (finazzi_at_ada2.unipv.it o maria.finazzi_at_codexcoop.it). From: Willard McCarty Subject: professorship in digital humanities at Lancaster Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:01:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 671 (671) Lancaster University Professorship (or Senior Lectureship) in Digital Humanities The newly formed Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Lancaster wishes to appoint a Professor or Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities. The appointment will be from Summer 2006 and is a permanent position. The appointment should be seen in the context of a longer-term aim to establish a critical mass of researchers interested in the digital humanities. The establishment of this post is the first step towards creating such a grouping. Background At least two major reports have emerged recently that signal a way forward for ICT in the humanities and arts (and social sciences). First, the AHRC Delivery Plan argues the need for greater capacity in 'grid technologies', suggesting that research is needed in locating, accessing and integrating distributed resources that take the form of text, images and sound. Humanities Computing is therefore one of the key areas flagged in the Delivery Plan. There is already an ICT Methods Network funded by AHRC (and hosted by King's College London, in which Lancaster is involved as a partner institution) which aims to preserve and provide access to digital resources and to guide new developments and advanced methodologies. We wish Lancaster to play a leading part in both the Network and in driving forward this initiative more broadly. Second, the British Academy produced in May 2005 a report on 'E-resources for research in the humanities and social sciences'. Among its recommendations are that Universities ensure that researchers have adequate access to technical support in this field and that such researchers promote the use of ICT where they can. The creation of a new Faculty at Lancaster University provides a platform whereby an initiative in this area can be actively promoted and nurtured. Further, the University is keen to capitalise on the existing research base by establishing itself as a centre of excellence in the North West for ICT in the humanities and arts. Lancaster is involved in the following activities related to Humanities Computing (classified by Department); the list is skeletal and illustrative only: Linguistics - and especially corpus linguistics, lexicography and historical linguistics; use of semantic tagging, applications to dictionary production Contemporary Arts (Music, Theatre, Art) - the use of new media in experimental performance; digital art installations, music software, computer representations of music English - applications to mediaeval theatre and manuscript studies, and to handling of material relating to Quakers in the North-West; Ruskinian materials; Chartist poetry; crime fiction History - digitising of calendar records, recent and contemporary oral history materials Institute for Cultural Research - cultural memory (oral histories) Technical and equipment support Some dedicated technical support will be provided to the post-holder. The successful candidate will be invited to help determine, in consultation with others, the nature of this technical support and the equipment resources associated with this initiative. We have already been given an equipment grant to set up digitisation facilities. We intend that the successful candidate will develop a plan for the use of such facilities, thereby creating an income stream (from teaching, and from external sources) to help further develop a programme of activity. Departmental affiliation The administrative location of the successful candidate will, initially, be at Faculty level. It is not immediately envisaged that the candidate will be a member of an academic Department. This is to signal that the initiative is seen as a Faculty-wide one in which the post-holder helps to generate momentum across a range of potential stakeholders. Job description The successful candidate will, initially, be directly responsible to the Dean of the Faculty. Key internal contacts will be colleagues working in the host and cognate departments in the Faculty and outside, and in seeking to develop external funding the post-holder will be in close contact with other staff in the Faculty, including the Associate Dean for Research & Enterprise and the Research & Enterprise Support Officer. Externally, we expect the post-holder to develop relationships with appropriate organisations and individuals therein, both regionally and nationally. Examples include the Research Councils (notably AHRC) and regional galleries and museums. Major duties will include: Developing a research agenda, including the preparation of significant outputs for RAE2008 in an appropriate Unit of Assessment; " working with others to establish new degree schemes, initially at postgraduate level, that are likely to recruit significant numbers of students; submitting applications for research funding to a range of funding agencies; liaising with external stakeholders (including museums, libraries and galleries) over their digitising needs; " advising colleagues in humanities and social sciences on advanced research methods using ICT; helping to promote the use of advanced ICT throughout the University; helping to establish an international profile for Lancaster University in this field. The post-holder will have flexibility to scope the development of the initiative. In particular, we would expect the post-holder to explore the possibilities for establishing a digitising service for the wider region as a means of helping to sustain the academic programme. Person specification We seek a dynamic and committed researcher to help develop further the Faculty's interests in humanities computing. Essential requirements A PhD in a relevant research area. The precise disciplinary background of candidates matters less than a willingness to engage enthusiastically with academics from a range of disciplines, including, inter alia, English, Creative Arts (Theatre Studies, Art, Music), Linguistics, History, and Cultural Research. Evidence of the use of advanced ICT, relating to the humanities or arts, in their own research A suitable track record of published work, commensurate with an entry to an appropriate Unit of Assessment for the next Research Assessment Exercise (2008) Evidence of an ability to take a leadership role for the area of ICT in the social sciences and arts. Contact: Professor Tony Gatrell Dean, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: 01524 510811 email: a.gatrell_at_lancaster.ac.uk Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Re: 19.446 the present future of computing Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:42:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 672 (672) Willard, thanks much for passing along the reference. I wholeheartedly agree. While I don't know what impact talking toasters (or other nascent applications) may ultimately have, it is clear that the increased availability (and mutability) of text has made it possible to drastically change the scope and scale of scholarly effort. Word processors are one thing; add to these the functionality of citation management software, Internet-distribution of academic (and other) texts, scanning, OCR, and full-text desktop search engines... I've only been consciously using these tools for the past 4-5 years, and they've already transformed the way I approach writing. On the research side, I've not only been able to acquire primary and secondary texts from distant sources, but using computing tools (to address a substantially larger corpus than was tractible before) have found non-trivial and unexpected patterns of language use that have helped to illuminate other research questions. Perhaps more importantly, the increased availability that electronic formats provide have facilitated a degree of transparency that I believe greatly strengthens my conclusions, both qualitative and quantitative. In other words, the impacts have been both liberating and grounding. While I am quite mindful of the limitations of these tools (e.g., streetlamp effect), I've found a huge variety of fascinating puzzles within those constraints, which computing (and other IT tools) greatly improves my ability to address systematically and transparently. Engelbart was right. K Ken Cousins Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda Department of Government and Politics 3114 P Tydings Hall University of Maryland, College Park T: (301) 405-6862 F: (301) 314-9690 kcousins_at_gvpt.umd.edu www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/kcousins http://augmentation.blogspot.com "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein [deleted quotation]Fifty Years of Computing, ed. Denning and Metcalfe (New York: Copernicus, 1997), p. 44: "The pace of change is limited only by our ability to innovate. This pace has been accelerating because the computer itself is our key tool. As we improve computers, we increase our ability to improve them.... The computer itself will 'disappear into the woodwork'. Our challenge is to learn how to master this new arena -- one in which we are not writing programs but adding intelligence to everything around us. The limit is our ability to manage complexity. It is a world in which resiliency is more important than perfection." From: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 19.470 relational database and TEI Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:29:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 673 (673) [deleted quotation]Sorry, Willard, but I don't understand your "brief polemic". Reading the initial Posting 19.433 to see what is the "case at hand" I think it was the question of an 'end-user' which tool fits best her/his situation for applying computer technology, but this seems not to be a research problem. If you think in the given case the end-user has only the choice between two evils, and you as researcher in hum.comp. can imagine an alternative tool doing better the job - what sort of improvement do you expect? Can you please define clearly what you see as the research problem at hand? what would be the evil in using relational database management? what evil in using TEI? (Botth Skylla and Charybdis would be the end of Odysseus' travel, right?) Catalogues of manuscripts were printed long before computer technology was invented, consequently this sort of Information Storing & Retrieving surely is not the problem at hand. But what else? Sincerly yours, Herbert From: Lynda Williams Subject: Relational Databases Obsolete Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:41:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 674 (674) [deleted quotation]Last week a grad student at UNBC asked me how to implement a database for her website. I wound up recommending google search. After teaching AND and OR and fields and records for over 20 years (and acquiring an M.Sc. Computation along the way, as well as a library masters with a specialization in expert system search engines) I am beginning to wonder if relational databases might be dinosaurs. At least for 90% of typical searching goals. They may continue to be useful in well-defined business settings. -- Lynda Williams, http://www.okalrel.org "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: 16.387 thinking with tools Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:44:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 675 (675) Coming back to the initial question of Willard in 16.372, I suppose that we can say. When a researcher in history of science or in sociology of science (or psychology of lscience, or discourse studies, or ...?) aims to know what's going on in an emergent discipline / field of practices / domain (take what you want) as f.e. HC, and s/he takes as base data for this research the verbal stuff stored in the Humanist archives, s/he has fairly a "research problem involving textual data", right? I seems (looking at directory "humanist/data" on site "lists.village.virginia.edu") to habe had in the years 1998 - 2002 an approach to use relational database concepts for organizing the memory of the list somehow more 'professional' as with the old-fashioned text file directories year by year? (Probably John Unsworth was experimenting with an rudimentary RDB; see f.e. flat file 'humanist.rdb'). Was it too frustrating this work envisaging Humanist-RDB? Was planned to convert the effort to an XML based technology / tool (again: take what you want, you know what I mean)? Could anyone imagine what funds would be necessary for elaborating a topic map to master this messy stuff? Or would you agree that it is fully sufficient to have the material reachable via internet with the crude text search supported by Google? (For profinling the master protagonists in the list I always found it sufficient.) Backtracking such topics as 'database vs. markup' I'm wondering that experts in the field accept a list, where the thematic self-organization known from other lists at this village (Virginia) is blocked by the governing moderator who overrides the subject lines of the contributors by his own, always beginning with the current number. Take a look at the messages 'sorted by thread', and you'll see what I mean: only the day-wise moderator-bundled messages form somewhat like a mini-thread, but the greater lines of discussion are not constitutive for thread-organizing the discourse like in other lists... I think it's enough for today, and anyhow I doubt that anyone will hear the grumbler ;-) Herbert From: "Patrick T. Rourke" Subject: Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world? Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:27:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 676 (676) [deleted quotation][I am not a lawyer, this does not constitute legal advice or opinion, but merely a layman's interpretation of information in the Siegenthaler article.] As far as BellSouth, AOL, and MCI are concerned, that's necessary and desirable: they're common carriers. Telephone companies cannot be sued for carrying slanderous communications over their lines because they are not publishers or editors, but common carriers. If the publication in question had been a scurrilous flyer someone had printed at the local copy shop on the self-serve xerox machines, would he now be complaining because he couldn't sue the owners of the copy shop for libel? If Wikipedia is seen as a common carrier, that would surprise me; Mr. Siegenthaler might have an argument there, as Wikipedia seems far more like a publisher to me than a telephone company. While I feel for Mr. Siegenthaler, it seems to me that the recourse suggested to him by the ISP is fine: a John Doe lawsuit, as recommended, with a subpoena to the ISP. (Personally, I'd also see if I could find listserv archives for assassination conspiracy discussion lists and try to search for the IP address there.) There are many, many problems with Wikipedia's editing model: but a libel victim's inability to sue the ISP of a libelous Wikipedia author is not one of them. Patrick Rourke From: "Gerry Coulter" Subject: RE: 19.474 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world? Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:30:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 677 (677) Like the rest of the world Wikipedia is a great toy Have fun Gerry From: Ken Friedman Subject: Wikipedia is prohibited in my courses. Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 06:28:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 678 (678) Friends, There is now enough serious incidents of false and defamatory information in Wikipedia biographies to warrant prohibiting this as a reference source in universities and university-level professional schools. The same is true of inaccurate or false assertions in many articles. The problem with Wikipedia is not that the Wiki system MAY develop a solid and reliable reference work, but that in the current form, it DOES NOT. It is as easy to change an article for the worse as for the better. Nearly any university student today has access to a decent library and good on-line reference texts. In addition, anyone willing to search a bit will also fine outstanding SIGNED references sources by major scholars in many fields, as well as useful albeit older versions of respected references source no longer covered by copyright. The article posted to Humanist by Norman Hinton and recent cases -- one concerning the prime minister of Norway -- leads me to conclude that Wikipedia has no way to prevent this from happening. This is made all the worse by the fact that Wikipedia is an automatic flow-through resource for other on-line sources. Wikipedia is unacceptable as a research tool. I have informed my students that they may no longer use Wikipedia as a reference or source on papers in my courses. Students and student research are an important validation mechanism for Wikipedia. If enough of us prohibit Wikipedia as a reference source in our courses, programs, and schools, the message will eventually get through. When it does, Wikipedia will find an appropriate way to monitor contributions. If they do not, the reputation of Wikipedia will sink to that of another crank web site. Yours, -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: Ingbert Floyd Subject: Re: 19.474 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:38:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 679 (679) For those interested, there is a discussion about this article and the related issues it brings up occuring on the Association of Internet Researchers list. You can view the thread here: http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2005-December/thread.html Ingbert Floyd PhD Student Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign On 12/3/05, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]responsive." [deleted quotation]-- ========================================== Check out the unofficial GSLIS Wiki: http://www.gslis.org/ Tell me what you think, if you find it useful, or if you have any ideas for how to organize it better. And if you feel comfortable doing so, I heartily encourage you to contribute content! This GSLIS is the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 19.474 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:38:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 680 (680) Greetings, [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation]While Seigenthaler has a valid complaint, consider that the performance of the so-called professional news organizations during an event like Hurricane Katrina. A good portion of the hyped coverage of chaos in New Orleans, murders in the Super Dome, looting, snipers, etc., was simply false. I have yet to see any retractions reported with the same breathless excitement of the original coverage. Nor do I expect to see any. Yes, there was looting, some shooting incidents but the professional coverage made it sound like Mogadishu on a very bad day. What I find more disturbing is the self-serving claims of "professional" publishers that presume that scholars should simply accept whatever claims they report. Even if the OED (to pick a publication that is, in my opinion, deserving of respect) reports a usage or quotation, why would anyone simply accept that without critical evaluation of the claim? Has scholarship gotten so careless that a report in a "respected" resource is simply accepted as fact? I can understand that for high school or even freshman compositions but shouldn't humanists be holding themselves to a higher standard? And if they do, shouldn't they suggest corrections to entries in Wikipedia, much as they would for a mistake found in the OED? All of which avoids the real issue, which is the chagrin of some groups who exercised a modest amount of control over what was said in particular disciplines prior to the advent of the WWW. Personally I don't find research literature to be any more uneven post-WWW than it was pre-WWW. Simply because an article appears in a respected journal does not exempt it from critical evaluation or running its citations back to their sources. And to continue that with the sources until one is satisfied with a particular statement or claim. I can't speak of averages or the experience of the average Humanist reader, but I can report that I have found substantial variance between sources and the literature (peer reviewed and otherwise) citing it. Whether a statement appears in a pricey European journal or on Wikipedia, responsibility lies with the reader to evaluate those statements. Hope everyone is at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Patrick_at_Durusau.net Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: catac_at_wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: Cultural Attitudes towards Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:39:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 681 (681) Technology and Communication (CATaC'06) 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.catacconference.org 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 co! mmunication online. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.: 10-20 pages) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results: 3-5 pages) 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 - Ethics and justice - Free/Open technology and communication - Internet research ethics - Cultural diversity and e-learning SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. 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 From: sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au Subject: Internet Research 7.0, Brisbane 28-30 September 2006 Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:40:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 682 (682) CALL FOR PAPERS IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia 28-30 September 2006 Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006 INTERNET CONVERGENCES The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of sustaining and extending community. International and interdisciplinary teams now collaborate in new ways. Diverse cultures engage one another via CMC. These technologies relocate and refocus capital, labor and immigration, and they open up new possibilities for political, potentially democratizing, forms of discourse. Moreover, these technologies themselves converge in multiple ways, e.g. in Internet-enabled mobile phones, in Internet-based telephony, and in computers themselves as "digital appliances" that conjoin communication and multiple media forms. These technologies also facilitate fragmentations with greater disparities between the information-haves and have-nots, between winners and losers in the shifting labor and capital markets, and between individuals and communities. Additionally these technologies facilitate information filter! ing that reinforces, rather than dialogically challenges, narrow and extreme views. CALL FOR PAPERS Our conference theme invites papers and presentations based on empirical research, theoretical analysis and everything in between that explore the multiple ways the Internet acts in both converging and fragmenting ways - physical, cultural, technological, political, social - on local, regional, and global scales. Without limiting possible proposals, topics of interest include: - Theoretical and practical models of the Internet - Internet convergence, divergence and fragmentation - Networked flows of information, capital, labor, etc. - Migrations and diasporas online - Identity, community and global communication - Regulation and control (national and global) - Internet-based development and other economic issues - Digital art and aesthetics - Games and gaming on the Internet - The Net generation - E-Sectors, e.g. e-health, e-education, e-business We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community that address the theme of Internet Convergence. We particularly call for innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on and interrogations of the conference theme. However, we always welcome submissions on any topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet and related Internet technologies. We are equally interested in interdisciplinary proposals as well as proposals from within specific disciplines. SUBMISSIONS We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We welcome proposals for traditional academic conference papers, but we also encourage proposals for creative or aesthetic presentations that are distinct from a traditional written 'paper'. We welcome proposals for roundtable sessions that will focus on discussion and interaction among conference delegates, and we also welcome organized panel proposals that present a coherent group of papers on a single theme. This year AoIR will also be using an alternative presentation format in which a dozen or so participants who wish to present a very short overview of their work to stimulate debate will gather together in a plenary session involving short presentations (no more than 5 minutes) and extended discussion. All papers and presentations in this session will be reviewed in the normal manner. Further information will be available via the conference submission website. - PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 500-750 words - SHORT PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-700 words - CREATIVE OR AESTHETIC PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-700 words - PANELS - submit a 250-500 word description of the panel theme and abstracts of the distinct papers or presentations - ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the roundtable discussion and interaction. Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each person is invited to submit a proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. People may also propose a panel of papers or presentations, of which their personal paper or presentation must be a part. You may submit an additional paper/presentation of which you are the co-author as long as you are not presenting twice. You may submit a roundtable proposal as well. Detailed information about submission and review is available at the conference submission website http://conferences.aoir.org. All proposals must be submitted electronically through this site. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS All papers presented at the conference are eligible for publication in the Internet Research Annual, on the basis of competitive selection and review of full papers. Additionally, several publishing opportunities are expected to be available through journals, again based on peer-review of full papers. Details on the website. GRADUATE STUDENTS Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Any student paper is eligible for consideration for the AoIR graduate student award. Students wishing to be a candidate for the Student Award must also send a final paper by 31 July 2006. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Prior to the conference, there will be a limited number of pre-conference workshops which will provide participants with in-depth, hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquires regarding pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the Conference Chair and no later than 31 March 2006. DEADLINES Final date for proposal submission: 7 February 2006 Presenter notification: 21 March 2006 Final workshop submission deadline: 31 March 2006 Submission for publication/student award: 31 July 2006 Submission for conference archive: 30 September 2006 CONTACT INFORMATION Program Chair: Dr Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au Conference Chair: Dr Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, a.bruns_at_qut.edu.au President of AoIR: Dr Matthew Allen, Curtin University of Technology, Australia m.allen_at_curtin.edu.au Association Website: http://www.aoir.org Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org From: "Rare Book School" Subject: Rare Book School 2006 Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:42:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 683 (683) RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer Sessions 2006, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special collections. In 2006, RBS courses 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 the list may find the following courses to be of particular interest: *** (L-70) Electronic Texts and Images, David Seaman :: 6-10 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. *** (L-80) Implementing Encoded Archival Description, Daniel Pitti :: 6-10 March, 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 :: 12-16 June, 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. ****************** Posted 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 Email: oldbooks_at_virginia.edu From: "UCHRI Communications" Subject: UCHRI Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:43:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 684 (684) UCHRI Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory August 14-25, 2006; UC Irvine Campus technoSpheres: FutureS of Thinking The UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites applications from scholars =96 faculty of all ranks and students =96 wishing to participate in the third annual Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT). Applications must be submitted online via the UCHRI's FASTAPPS system. Deadline: Applications are due, along with a $20.00 application fee, by February 15, 2006. Program Overview SECT is an intensive two-week summer program for graduate students and faculty from the UC system and elsewhere, as well as other scholars, professionals and public intellectuals. The Seminar brings together distinguished instructors and a group of 50-60 students to study a pressing issue or theme in contemporary critical theory, in both its "pure" and "applied" modes. SECT is neither exclusively an introductory survey course nor an advanced research seminar. Rather, it is an academy or "laboratory" where students and faculty at all levels of previous experience can study with scholars involved in important and creative theoretical thought. Truly innovative work is of necessity both fundamental and advanced, hence needs to be presented in ways that are simultaneously accessible and challenging for the widest range of scholars. Participants are encouraged to think experimentally and critically, reflecting on prevailing structures of thought while dynamically engaging intellectual inheritances and pushing for theoretical innovations. Participants in the 2006 Seminar will explore new ways of thinking about and with technology. The two-week Seminar will include paired conversations between technological innovators and experimental humanists, around the many issues that engage the human and the technological. The two-week Seminar will also include demonstrations of new technological devices, classroom applications and scholarly practices. Participants will have opportunities to engage with new digital applications in the context of small-group workshops, large-group social networking exercises and art/technology installations. The objective for SECT III is to broaden the participation of humanists in the transformation of spheres of technological experience. SECT III is being convened by Anne Balsamo in partnership with David Theo Goldberg. Conversations with: Julian Bleecker; John Seely Brown; Craig Calhoun; Lisa Cartwright; Cathy N. Davidson; Scott Fisher; Tracy Fullerton; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Katherine Hayles; Lynn Hershman; Norman Klein; Geert Lovink; Tara McPherson; Michael Naimark; Saskia Sassen; Larry Smarr Workshop Topics: Wikis; Blogging; Google Jockeying; Creative Commons; New Genres of Digital Scholarship; History of Electronic Literature; Database Narrative; Multimedia Documentary; Distributed Collaboration in the Humanities; Creation of Digital Archives Performances & Presentations: Beatriz da Costa; René Garcia, Jr.; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Lynn Hershman; Perry Hoberman; George Lewis; Michael Naimark; Simon Penny Cost Application fee: $20.00 (non-refundable) is due at the time of the online application submission. Applications will not be reviewed until the application fee is received. Registration fee: $1,750 for the SECT series. The fee includes tuition for the two-week Seminar and daily refreshments. It does not include the cost of housing or meals. Scholarships: The UCHRI will make available up to 10 scholarships for full-time registered students covering the full SECT fee. Scholarship awards will be announced by April 15, 2006. Applicants are encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions. Requirements One-page statement covering education, relevant publications (if any), background in an area of study relating to the current SECT topic, and reasons for requesting course of study; and abbreviated curriculum vitae (two pages maximum). To submit an online application, you must be registered with the FASTAPPS system. If you are not yet registered, go to http://bm23.com/x/trackclick.php?id=3D22454406_efbfee98_93513&url=3Dhttp://= www.uchri.org/main.phpxyqyxpage_idxyeyx32. If you are already registered, log in here: http://bm23.com/x/trackclick.php?id=3D22454406_efbfee98_93513&url=3Dhttp://= www.uchri.org/main.phpxyqyxpage_idxyeyx33. For further information, contact the SECT coordinator at sect_at_uci.edu> or (949) 824-8900. Program subject to change. [Slight modifications made to this message to accommodate redistribution. --WM] From: Katina Michael Subject: Final Call For Papers "Social Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:44:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 685 (685) Implications of Security Measures" Dear Invited Participant, Greetings. I am writing to invite you to submit a short paper to the forthcoming RNSA Workshop titled: "The Social Implications of Information Security Measures upon Citizens and Business". Please take a moment to visit the call for papers brochure at http://www.uow.edu.au/~katina/workshop.pdf The initial synopsis is due on the 15 December 2005, with no extensions granted. The workshop is to be held on the 29th of May 2006, at the University of Wollongong, Australia. The workshop will encompass all aspects of national security issues, the diverse range of information and communication technology responses and their respective legal and social implications. Cross-disciplinary perspectives are welcome. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in a DEST- compatible hardcopy publication. Other RNSA events can be found at http://www.secureaustralia.org/ I look forward to your submission/ participation and would very much appreciate it if you could forward this message onto your colleagues. Virtual registrations for this workshop are supported. Best wishes, Program Chair, Dr Katina Michael katina_at_uow.edu.au +61242213937 School of Information Technology and Computer Science Faculty of Informatics University of Wollongong From: Lynda Williams Subject: Make magazine Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:41:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 686 (686) Is http://makezine.com/ the URL? -- Lynda Williams, http://www.okalrel.org "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 19.477 Make magazine? Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:21:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 687 (687) It's the same - the magazine fascinates me - everything from do-it-yourself to cold fusion theory/practice to design articles. I sub[scribe]. - Alan On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: From table to graph through tale of VR scholarly editions Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:32:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 688 (688) Willard Forgive me my late arrival at the supper... You recently wrote in reference to specluation about immersive scholarly editions... In part my Star-Trekified Collingwoodian speculations are due to a mounting frustration at online presentations, esp of manuscript books. It's as if I were hungry but unable to go further than gaze at the food in the deli window. Ok, I admit this is a rather special deli -- I can actually get a shop assistant to move the food around and comment on it, show me related items etc. But I cannot get anything to eat! You have left me wondering about the mathematical sublime and its relation to hunger. The insatiable appetite of the collector is in part balanced by the exhibitionist splendor of the curator. The animal that hoards is close cousin to the animal that displays. However you theme of food leads me to inscribe the show and tell aspects of information glut within the context of the convivium. What you may be hankering for is not more to feast the eyes or quench the ears. It may well be companions to share in the bounty that you seek. The affordances built into your shop assistants may urge to to do less with more, that is stock an acquisitive fire [Aside: while using Lynx I tend to linger more than when I use other types of WWW-accessing appliances where there are "toolbars" at the top of the screen tempting one to browse and surf.]. There are folks about who through close reading do more with less :) I will no doubt ask you and the subscribers to Humanist to spend a moment and meditate upon who is invited to the feast. But before I do I want to inflect the discussion towards the question of utensils. I have been following the markup/database thread and doing some reading to serve up a side dish on the side (that's reading on the side to serve up a side dish). Out of that reading I would bring to the table a treat before a course of fasting and contemplation, that treat being Manfred Thaller's description of a "text engine". It simply makes one salivate at the thought of all the possible salads that could be created by such a "text engine" slicing and dicing texts of interest to humanists. A quick check in the pantry and the cellar indicates that the expression "text engine" once surfaced in/on Humanist in 1988 as an aside in a posting about mailer software by sebastian as an allusion ("Anyway, since alls quiet on the humanist front (rumblings of text engine guns in the distance)"), . In any event, I was wondering if some of the Humanist subscribers who may have attended some of the "tool summits" might report on any discussions about "text engines" and any discussions that touch upon the question of "tables" vs "graphs" as data models. I ask because my own foraging into the latest "tool discourse" has been intermittent. I also ask because the table | graph question relates in a metaphoric sense to the quality of the soil in which the "produits du terroir" that finds their way into the wares available via your deli market wherever it may be located to wherever you may be accessing the deli from: grapes grown in gravely soil and pototoes in nice sandy soil and mushrooms in the dark ... The beggar with the bowl may know a thing or two about soil or may be willing to learn. Sometimes it is not an invitation to the feast that one seeks but the write up in the society pages (or record in the great dialogues) of the drinking bout. Most beggars are content with being left at the gates as long as some report of the doings reaches them. Even the tale of a Barmecid feast can fill the mind's bowl. Happy feasting. Happy tool making. Happy cooking. [Though not necessarily in that order -- especially in a VR-augmented world.] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Simon Harper Subject: Job Advertisement Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:23:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 689 (689) Research Assistant Post: - Evaluation of Interface Design for Attentive Agents The Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University The Intelligent Systems Research Group in the Department of Computing at Oxford Brookes University, has recently been awarded an EU IST STREP Grant as partners in the EU Project Atgentive (Attentive Agents for Collaborative Learners) Atgentive will investigate the use of artificial agents for supporting the management of the attention of young or adult learners in the context of individual and collaborative learning environments. The agents will be designed, delivered and piloted as part of two different learning applications: (1) enhanced eLearning platform for child education in the Czech Republic (2) an advanced virtual community platform supporting knowledge exchange in knowledge communities in Sweden. The successful applicant will work closely with Dr Mary Zajicek to design and manage all aspects of the evaluation programme for the project. This work demands innovative evaluation concepts and methods and therefore provides an ideal opportunity for the successful applicant to establish themselves as an expert in the increasingly important role of systems evaluator for collaborative learning environments, and gain experience of attentive agents and software. It also provides the opportunity to work closely with researchers from several different computing disciplines in several different European countries. The post advertised at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/vacancy is for 22 months with salary: Researcher B, from 23,457 - 28,009 GBP depending on experience. If after visiting the site you have further questions please contact Dr Mary Zajicek at mzajicek_at_brookes.ac.uk Closing date: 3rd January 2006 Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 690 (690) [deleted quotation]Huh? On this basis you might as well ban the use of the entire Web, much of the popular media, and, I daresay, a significant proportion of so-called scholarly works. We are surrounded by 'lies' (or perhaps 'stories'?), many of which are much more subtle than those discovered in wikipedia. Surely, the key is (as it has perhaps always been) to provide students with the tools to undertake a critical analysis of all sources, narratives, discourses (and not least the hermeneutical baggage which lies within)? Michael --- Dr Michael Fraser Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/ From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 19.480 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:25:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 691 (691) There may be a way for Wikipedia to authenticate it's articles. That would be to require any posted information to be have a second or even third independent contributor agree to its content before the articles were made public, the way newspapers supposedly do to validate a reporter's scoops. The current model is flawed, but considering how much useful information is on Wikipedia, I'd hate to see it disappear. It is an excellent idea to suggest that students obtain independent confirmation of anything from Wikipedia through another source at this point; it might even be a good exercise to have them deliberately attempt to refute something on Wikipedia to drive the point home. It would also not seem unreasonable for Wikipedia to require its contributors to register via a confirmed email address, although given the deviousness of spammers, it is hard to believe that would prevent malicious individuals from concealing their identity some other way. From: luismfernandez_at_cable.net.co Subject: Re: 19.480 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:27:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 692 (692) Which means that anyone can defame people through=20 internet companies like that, and they=B4ll get=20 away with murder. That=B4s hideous. Luis From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Errors not limited to Wikipedia (or the absence of Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:27:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 693 (693) peer review) Willard, The New York Times on 12/6/2005 had an interesting article that demonstrates rather pointedly that errors are not limited to Wikipedia or the absence of peer review. In 1940 Dr. Freedberg discovered the bacteria that has been confirmed as the cause of stomach ulcers. Unfortunately for the millions of people who could have easily been cured of their ulcers and avoided surgery to remove part of their stomachs, he was discouraged from pursuing that line of research. The entire idea was quashed by a peer reviewed paper in 1954 that reported finding no bacteria in a large number of stomach speciments. At least until 1984 when two Australians, Dr. Barry J. Marshall and Dr. J. Robin proved the bacterial cause of ulcers. They are due to receive Nobel prices for their work next Sunday. Rather than taking Ken Friedman's approach of prohibiting Wikipedia in his courses, why not offer credit/recognition to students who submit corrections to errors in Wikipedia articles on the subjects of their research? That might tend to encourage critical evaluation of both Wikipedia as well as more conventional resources. 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 Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: Willard McCarty Subject: shouting theatre in a crowded fire Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:28:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 694 (694) It's curiously satisfying to reach the point at which the virtual world now requires the services of great legal minds. I quote Louis Michael Seidman's beautiful sentence summarizing the Holmesian idea: "The task of the law is to devise a set of incentives that will determine conduct in a fashion that produces the most good" ("Points of Intersection", 1996, p. 105). With Wikipedia's not unforeseeable troubles I think we can rest assured that we have arrived. But who is our Holmes? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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. 19 Num. 695 (695) [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] None of my profs were very accepting of any encyclopedia as a citation in a written work. Even with the more scholarly of encyclopedias (eg. Routledge), I have been countered quite proficiently (and justifiably so) for not pursuing my definitions with background work. "FFP," as my Reference Prof in library school always advised me: fit for purpose. Wikipedia is a tool to get "access" to the norms and language of a particular topic -- it is the prism through which a person can see the spectrum of an area of study. It is not a spectrometer (a tool chemist's use to understand a substance through the light it emits). Wikipedia can help the neophyte get an idea of Derrida's depth before jumping into _Disseminations_, but it won't help you swim through it. The better recourse is to encourage critical thinking of resources and to provide a certain degree of what the librarians call "information literacy" -- that is, a basic understanding of how to pursue (previously uncovered) knowledge. When I worked the reference desk, I saw too many knowledgable students wade through databases (that appeared to bias some brands of knowledge more than others by the way) searching for something on their topic, when they just simply did not understand the language of inquiry. Understanding the language is no small detail in a info search. If you are looking for how well a test produces "consistent results" and you do not understand the statistical concept of "reliability" you will not find what you are looking for in a scholarly database. I think someone ought to take a crack at a holistic model for information searches that looks at the role of a resource like wikipedia or (any world wide website for that matter) and puts it in the context of the research paper. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: mattj_at_newsblip.com Subject: Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:31:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 696 (696) Patrick wrote: [deleted quotation]I am an avid user of wikis, and I think Wikipedia is the start of something great. Well, it already is great, in certain contexts. For a range of technical topics, and as in index of pop culture, it is unmatched by any other sources. Even in many political contexts, many excellent, well-balanced articles have been collectively developed (see "Abortion"). At the same time, Wikipedia cannot be considered authoritative at this time. You can make corrections, but someone else can reverse them tomorrow. The proper attitude to take, I think, is that Wikipedia is a smart friend. This friend knows a great many things, and on most topics he's got his facts right. On a small number of topics, though, he's got some rather strange theories. If you needed to write a paper, you might talk to your smart friend to get some background on a topic, but you would hardly cite him in your bibliography. Rather, you'd use his comments as a primer, a jumping-off point for real research. In general, then, I agree with Ken that Wikipedia is unacceptable as a reference for university work. However, I would allow it for topics (such as pop culture) that are not addressable with other reference materials, provided the student acknowledged the provisional nature of the material on Wikipedia. (As a practical matter, a student should also include the specific version of an article used, which can be found on the History tab of the article. Instead of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion , one should cite it like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abortion&oldid=30351566 ) I believe advances in social software techniques (in which I have some background) will tend to lead toward articles of higher and higher quality, with less chance of backsliding. Jimmy Wales' recent decision to forbid anonymous authoring is a simple example. Seals of approval by outside authorities, attached to specific article versions, have been in discussion for some time. This would let students view Wikipedia through a filter, combining authoritative review with the collaborative power of the Wikipedia community. This can be done on top of Wikipedia now, without any approvals needed from Wales or others. If a community of scholars wanted to do this, it could be started immediately and provide a great benefit to the world. -Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle From: Joseph Jones Subject: Wikipedia Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:31:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 697 (697) Proper academics are getting in a tizzy about the evils of Wikipedia. Good information is where you find it, and so is bad. I've just been reading a new refereed article by a "major scholar" who is wrong on a verifiable point of fact (as on others elsewhere in his work.) Maybe the theoretical contributions that his field respects can stand independent of those details. Even bad information can provoke useful thoughts. Having the sense to know the difference between good and bad is the key. Is it the teacher's job to help the student develop sense, or to attempt to keep the student safe by prescribing what can be considered? Wikipedia is an experiment in open-source knowledge development. Not the first experiment that has raised the hackles of the guardians of tradition. Joseph Jones http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ontology Based Modelling in the Humanities, Hamburg, 4/06 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:25:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 698 (698) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *** apologize for multiple postings *** International Workshop "ONTOLOGY BASED MODELLING IN THE HUMANITIES" (http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/OntologyWorkshop) 7-9 April 2006, University of Hamburg In the new area of digitalized information, researchers from the humanities face a new problem: semantic data organisation. In contrast with the data processed by natural sciences, the material in most fields of humanities is mostly unstructured. The structuring of such data is a complex problem that can be solved only by formal models and languages from computer science. However the application of formal models from formal sciences (especially computing) is itself a scientific problem as humanists have their own scientific culture not only in the argumentation and meta-theories but also in their way of communication. With the development of the Semantic Web the "ontology"-concept became an important "key" for data-structuring. Some ontologies were developed also in the Humanities, but there is still no overview of what exists, which standards are used and how well the current ontologies meet the users requirements. The current workshop aims to fill this gap and act also as a discussion forum We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics: * theoretical relevant models for humanities * formal prerequisites * specific ontologies for different fields in Humanities * collaborative tools for ontology manipulation * Semantic Web technologies for preserving cultural heritage * Semi-automatic ontology extraction * Ontology development in multilingual context * Practical use of ontologies in Humanities Organisers * Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) * Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Invited Speakers: * Marin Doerr, (FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete) * Nicola Guarino (IST-CNR, Trento, Italy) Programme Committee * Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) * Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research) * Richard Deswarte (University of East Anglia) * Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) * Roberto Poli (University of Trento) * Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Important Dates: * Paper Submission 30th December 2005 * Notification of acceptance 30th January 2006 * Camera Ready Papers 28th February 2006 Submission guidelines Submissions should be A4, one-column format and should not exceed seven pages, including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12 font is preferred. The first page should contain the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and 10 lines of abstract. Continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in *PDF* format to vertaninformatik.uni-hamburg.de . Each paper will be reviewed by up to three members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding camera-ready versions -- 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 From: "Arianna Ciula" Subject: Conference DigiMed Arezzo Jan 2006 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:30:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 699 (699) *Apologies for cross-posting * Digital Philology and Medieval Texts - 19-21 January 2006 - Arezzo (Italy) The University of Siena-Arezzo (Dipartimento di Teoria e Documentazione delle Tradizioni Culturali, Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze del Testo and CISLAB), the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London and the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini of Florence have organised a forum for medievalists to discuss the principles and purposes of the critical edition produced with the support of humanities computing tools, methods and aids. For the programme e more information please visit the website of the seminar at <http://www.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/>http://www.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/ The Centre for Computing in the Humanities of King's College London is offering four bursaries (500 euros for non Italian residents and of 250 euros for Italian residents) to young scholars interested in attending the seminar. If you want to apply, please send a request and your CV to the conference office (<http://web-linux.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/htm/office.php>http://web-linux.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/htm/office.php). Registration (free) is required for the workshop only and it needs to be sent to the conference office. The seminar is part of the academic programmes of the class of Computing for the study of the ancient and medieval world (Informatica per lo studio del mondo antico e medievale), of the PhD in Textual studies (Scienze del Testo) of the University of Siena and of the Class on advanced philology of medieval Latin (Corso di Perfezionamento in Filologia Mediolatina) by SISMEL From: Willard McCarty Subject: blog & Listserv directories? Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:22:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 700 (700) I'd be grateful for recommendations of directories to blogs organized by subject area or major preoccupation. The same for Listservs, please. Thanks. WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 6.45 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:29:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 701 (701) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 45 (December 7-13, 2005) VIEW DELIC: ON DEPENDABILITY OF CORPORATE GRIDS Kemal Delic says, "Corporations today are actually virtual organizations encompassing customers, clients, partners and suppliers. Using grids to host virtual businesses (ecosystem) will pose huge financial risks. Therefore, consideration of grid dependability is a must." http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i45_delic.html VIEW THIRUNARAYANAN: "READING-GLASSES" OF THE FUTURE M.O. Thirunarayanan says that all the technology for turning reading glasses into "reading-glasses" (glasses that read) already exist. It's time for a developer to produce and market them. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i45_thiru.html From: Martin Holmes Subject: UVic Image Markup Tool release Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:10:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 702 (702) Hi there, We've just released the first version of the Image Markup Tool I've mentioned a couple of times on the TEI list. The purpose of the tool is to provide an environment within which to annotate images using a combined TEI P5 and SVG schema, without necessarily having to know much about either format. This is an open-source project under the TAPoR umbrella. The site for the tool is here: <http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/> It's a Windows application, and is essentially complete and fully usable (we're using it on two projects right now). It lacks only a help file, but it has a decent tutorial: <http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/tutorial/getting_started.htm> You can also see an example of the kind of work we've been doing with it here: <http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/tutorial/web_main_marked_up.xml> This is a markup of a screenshot of the program interface itself; you'll need to be using a Mozilla browser or Internet Explorer to see it, because it requires client-side XSLT to produce the web view. If you have a use for an image annotation tool, please give it a try and let us know what you think. This is a serious long-term project, and we'll be continuing development on it; suggestions and requests for features are very welcome. I'm posting this message to the main TEI list, the TAPoR tech list and Humanist; please feel free to repost it to any other list for which you think it will be relevant. Apologies for cross-posting. Cheers, Martin Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/ http://www.mholmes.com/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Soft Computing 10.4 Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:13:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 703 (703) Volume 10 Number 4 of Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial for special issue on “Soft Computing for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics” p. 285 David Corne, Gary Fogel, Jagath C. Rajapakse, Lipo Wang DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0485-9 Descriptor vector redesign by neuro-fuzzy analysis p. 287 J. Paetz DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0486-8 Evolutionary algorithms and de novo peptide design p. 295 I. Belda, X. Llorà, E. Giralt DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0487-7 Threading with environment-specific score by artificial neural networks p. 305 N. Jiang, W. XinyuWu, I. Mitchell DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0488-6 Bidirectional segmented-memory recurrent neural network for protein secondary structure prediction p. 315 J. Chen, N.S. Chaudhari DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0489-5 Automatic motif discovery in an enzyme database using a genetic algorithm-based approach p. 325 D. F. Tsunoda, H. S. Lopes DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0490-z Input encoding method for identifying transcription start sites in RNA polymerase II promoters by neural networks p. 331 L. S. Ho, J. C. Rajapakse DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0491-y Improving the prediction of the clinical outcome of breast cancer using evolutionary algorithms p. 338 M. Wahde, Z. Szallasi DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0492-x Fast leave-one-out evaluation for dynamic gene selection p. 346 Z. Ying, K.C. Keong DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0493-9 Gene expression time series modeling with principal component and neural network p. 351 S.I. Ao, M.K. Ng DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0494-8 Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and phylogenetic inference with multiple data sets p. 359 L. Poladian, L.S. Jermiin DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0495-7 IUI mining: human expert guidance of information theoretic network approach p. 369 S. Kooptiwoot, M. A. Salam DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0496-6 Using fuzzy set theory and scale-free network properties to relate MEDLINE terms p. 374 Jonathan D. Wren DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0497-5 An evaluation of quantum neural networks in the detection of epileptic seizures in the neonatal electroencephalogram p. 382 N.B. Karayiannis, A. Mukherjee, J.R. Glover, J.D. Frost, Jr R.A. Hrachovy, E.M. Mizrahi DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0498-4 From: Willard McCarty Subject: AI & Society Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:15:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 704 (704) Volume 20 Number 1 of AI & Society is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: This issue contains: Preface Genetic technologies and animals p. 1 Victoria Vesna DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0008-3 Introduction Genetic technologies and animals p. 3 Carol Gigliotti DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0006-5 Original Article Genetic science, animal exploitation, and the challenge for democracy p. 6 Steven Best DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0002-9 Original Article Leonardo’s choice: the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies p. 22 Carol Gigliotti DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0003-8 Original Article We have always been transgenic p. 35 Steve Baker, Carol Gigliotti DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0001-x Original Article Negotiating the hybrid: art, theory and genetic technologies p. 49 Caroline Seck Langill DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0005-6 Original Article The call of the other 0.1%: genetic aesthetics and the new Moreaus p. 63 Susan McHugh DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0007-4 Original Article Dis/integrating animals: ethical dimensions of the genetic engineering of animals for human consumption p. 82 Traci Warkentin DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0009-2 Original Article Meddling with Medusa: on genetic manipulation, art and animals p. 103 Lynda Birke DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0004-7 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 Areces Subject: 2nd Call: ESSLLI 2006 Student Session Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:08:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 705 (705) **************************************************************** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI 2006 STUDENT SESSION July 31 - August 11, Malaga, Spain ************ Submission deadline February 1st, 2006 ************ We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), which will be held on July 31 - August 11, in M=E1laga, Spain. We invite papers for oral and poster presentation from the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. The aim of the Student Session is to provide students with the opportunity to present their work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session invites students at any level, undergraduates as well as graduates, to anonymously submit a full paper, no longer than 7 pages (including references). Papers should be submitted with clear indication of the selected modality of presentation, i.e. oral or poster. Accepted papers will be published in the Student Session Proceedings. Papers should describe original, unpublished work, complete or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and promise. Previously published papers should not be submitted. As in previous years, the Student Session program committee will select the best paper in the oral session and the best paper in the poster session. The winner from each session may choose 500 euros worth of Springer books. The preferred format of submission is PDF. All submissions must be accompanied by a plain text identification page, and sent to esslli_at_science.uva.nl. Deadline for submission: February 1st, 2006. For more information about the Student Session, and for the technical details concerning submission, please visit our website at http://www.science.uva.nl/~katrenko/stus06. Important Dates: Deadline for Submission: February 1st, 2006 Notification of authors: April 1st, 2006 Proceedings Deadline: May 1st, 2006 ESSLLI: July 31 - August 11, 2006=20 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 19.484 blog & Listserv directories? Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:22:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 706 (706) I'd be grateful for recommendations of directories to blogs organized by subject area or major preoccupation. The same for Listservs, please. From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 19.484 blog & Listserv directories? Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:09:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 707 (707) ElectraPress ElectraPress is a collaborative, open-access scholarly project intended to facilitate the reimagining of academic discourse in digital environments. What's here at the moment is little more than a few electronic hammers and some virtual nails, but I hope that this site might enable the kinds of free experimentation what will produce a highly integrated collection of resources for the online publication of new scholarly projects. These resources might include -- but would hardly be limited to -- RSS feeds for scholarly blogs, repositories for digital articles, and an electronic imprint for the publication of monograph-length work of both traditional textual and newer "born digital" forms. http://www.electrapress.com/wp/ From: "Stuart Dunn" Subject: RE: 19.486 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:05:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 708 (708) (but an interesting one, vide infra) It seems that Wikipedia is now requiring users to register before they can create articles or edit the site: see http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/12/05/wikipedia.rules.ap/index.htm l. Given how easy it is to create instant and free email addresses, it's difficult to see what practical impact this will have. But it looks like a tacit admission, in the light of the Seigenthaler case, of the principle that *some* controls are needed -- this seems to undermine the whole Wikipedia model. Stuart D. ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Programme Administrator AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme School of Languages and European Studies University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AA UNITED KINGDOM URL: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/ict AHRC ICT mailing list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahrcict Tel: 0118 378 5064 Fax: 0118 378 8333 From: Dimitar Iliev Subject: Re: 19.486 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:06:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 709 (709) (but an interesting one, vide infra) Dear all, as it is now, Wikipedia neither should be taken too seriously as an authoritative reference, nor dares to have such claims. its aim has always been to offer a common space for the exchage of information among end users of Internet, and information and knowledge are very subjective and relative notions. everyone's picture of the world differs slightly from that of everybody else, and the least common denominator of very many pictures of the world is Wikipedia. it is far more valuable as a momentary snapshot of the Zeitgeist than as a reference tool. only an additional benefit of its is that one can find, among the many different statements, some that are really valuable - and that just because not all the people that contribute to Wikipedia are ill-informed and 'ill-intentioned'. I dare say that many of the Wiki articles I've come across concerning my field (Classical Studies) are a relatively good and trustworthy beginner's introduction to notions and events. if one needs to delve deeper, no article is good enough to replace years of source analysis and reasearch, but if one needs only to be introduced to the general notion that the common public today has on 'Pericles' or 'Latin poetry', Wikipedia is as good a tool as many others whose trustworthiness we take for granted. even serious scholarly research is only part of the reception of people and events past, and this holds true all the more for popular culture. in any case, I have to admit that I look with suspicion at any trends and wishes to somehow bar the free flow of information, right or wrong, flawless or not. we have always succumbed to authorities, and the right of making any kind of claim or statement has always been given to someone in a hierarchical and authoritative way. despite that, history has long proven that giving the knowldedge of how to make a weapon only to selected few hasn't prevented wars, and giving access to facts only to a chosen elite hasn't prevented slander. the point is not to impose an authority of some kind over every tool of access to information such as the Internet. the key point is the personal ethics of both end users or contributors and those who are in control. by transferring all the responsibility to authoritative figures (legal or scholarly) we'll either change nothing, or change it for the worse. Sincerely, Dimitar Iliev Ph.D. student in Classics University of Sofia Bulgaria From: Daniel Paul O'Donnell Subject: Re: 19.486 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:07:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 710 (710) (but an interesting one, vide infra) The other thing about this defamatory statement was that it was in an article on the *Kennedy Assassination*. Like anything, the Wikipedia has its strengths and weaknesses. On the weekend I looked up Thermostats <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermostat>, and the Reformation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation> for non-scholarly reasons. Guess which one had the most active talk page and disputes about neutrality? Articles on subjects attractive to nuts are always going to be less reliable on the Wikipedia... despite the efforts of the volunteers who attempt to keep those entries from spinning out of control. If a students wants to know what period the Vikings attacked England in <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age>, or something about Caedmon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dmon> (a particularly good entry, that one! ;), or what the major periods of English literature are <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Literature>, then they are probably safe enough there for starters (though not for stoppers: the English Lit. is pretty old fashioned, for example, and I bet more than one lunatic has gone through the vikings). In the case of the English lit. one, for example, I once noticed looking in the history that it had been vandalised... and corrected within 20 minutes. The point is that I use (and teach students to use) the Wikipedia as a really quick orientation to a subject, but to recognise that the analysis is of very uneven quality and that the authors range from professional scholars to cranks. Encarta is a loss leader for a business that doesn't want (or didn't want) to alienate prospective customers by challenging any of their national myths and so had different articles in different versions. Same thing really: useful for starting, but not for stopping. Information literacy is teaching people to recognise strengths and weaknesses. -d -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. These are proprietary formats and often contain viruses. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---------------------------- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Acting Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox: +1 (403) 329-2378/-2377 Fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 @caedmon/ubuntu linux 5.10 From: "Christine Goldbeck" Subject: Re: 19.486 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:08:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 711 (711) (but an interesting one, vide infra) Hi Friends: Michael, I am in total accord with your view. We need to give students the skills to critically analyze materials not eliminate Wikipedia or any other source of information. As for lies, I've seen plenty of them in primary textual resources. The happenings at Wikipedia vindicate my take on new media culture. In many ways, it is a mirror of our real-world culture. On the streets or online, a bully can be a bully, a liar can be a liar, etc ... In any event, abandoning ship is not the way to go. Education first! Sincerely, Christine From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Citation of non-definitive sources [was: Wikipedia] Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:10:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 712 (712) Is anyone else uncomfortable with the idea of telling students they can use a resource but not cite it, or equally for scholars to use a resource but not cite it? I am thinking of scholars who use http://www.tlg.uci.edu/ to find patterns and word groups in Greek texts, and then use the citations provided as though they had alsoo read the books (which presumably they have) but without mentioning that they used the TLG in the first place. Or who use http://www.pase.ac.uk/ to find information about Medieval individuals and relationships between them and other individuals and places, and then cite the primary sources but not PASE, giving the impression that they know all the primary sources intimately and don't need to use this newfangled online thing. Is it not more intellectually honest to cite both the tool you use to find your information--where the resource has actually done much of the work for you, rather than just a raw text search engine--and the primary sources of that information? Best, -- ======================================= Gabriel BODARD Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard_at_kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80 ======================================= From: Gabriel BODARD Subject: Wikipedia and the citing of resources Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:10:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 713 (713) Is anyone else uncomfortable with the idea of telling students they can use a resource but not cite it, or equally for scholars to use a resource but not cite it? I am thinking of scholars who use http://www.tlg.uci.edu/ to find patterns and word groups in Greek texts, and then use the citations provided as though they had alsoo read the books (which presumably they have) but without mentioning that they used the TLG in the first place. Or who use http://www.pase.ac.uk/ to find information about Medieval individuals and relationships between them and other individuals and places, and then cite the primary sources but not PASE, giving the impression that they know all the primary sources intimately and don't need to use this newfangled online thing. Is it not more intellectually honest to cite both the tool you use to find your information--where the resource has actually done much of the work for you, rather than just a raw text search engine--and the primary sources of that information? Ryan Deschamps From: Willard McCarty Subject: blog directories Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:43:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 714 (714) In answer to Ken Cousins' question on my interest in blogs, I am needing a directory of them for students to use in analyzing the application of the genre to academic work. I already know about Blogwise, http://www.blogwise.com/. Many thanks for suggestions. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: James Cummings Subject: Re: 19.493 blog directories Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:49:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 715 (715) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty > In answer to Ken Cousins' question on my interest in blogs, I am [deleted quotation]While not a directory the web-based RSS aggregator Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/ allows one to search for newsfeeds, blogs, and the like for it to then aggregate. Not really what you are after, but a different way to discover them. -James From: Erik Hatcher Subject: Re: 19.493 blog directories Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:48:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 716 (716) Technorati is a pretty amazing gateway to blogs: http:// www.technorati.com My good friend and co-author of the Lucene in Action book, Otis, began working there recently. He's also the creator of Simpy, http:// www.simpy.com, a very nicely done bookmarking service. Erik From: "Darren James Harkness" Subject: Blogs in Academic work Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:49:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 717 (717) Hello Dr. McCarty, If you haven't already come across her site, I would suggest Jill Walker's jilltxt.net, specifically the following entry categories: Blog Theorizing: http://jilltxt.net/index.php?cat=9 Blogs and Teaching http://jilltxt.net/index.php?cat=15 And her Bloglines feed: http://www.bloglines.com/public/lijil I would also recommend her article "Blogging Thoughts", co-written with Torill Mortensen, in which she discusses the use of blogs as an online research tool. It can be found at http://www.intermedia.uio.no/konferanser/skikt-02/docs/Researching_ICTs_in_context-Ch11-Mortensen-Walker.pdf Finally, she has an older list of research weblogs kept here: http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/txt/researchblogs.html Hope this is helpful! -- darren james harkness web guru | http://staticred.net/ "I reject your reality and substitute my own." -- Adam Savage From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 60, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:50:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 718 (718) Version 60 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,560 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version 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* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics 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 Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB 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--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (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 210 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 560 KB. Related Article 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 Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 19.492 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:49:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 719 (719) [deleted quotation]students they can use a [deleted quotation]I've argued on other lists with (mostly American, it seems) teachers who forbid the use of wikipedia in specific for research. Though this usually comes across as forbidding it to be cited, they discourage its use entirely. While yes, I'm bothered by people using a source and then not being allowed to cite it, I'm more uncomfortable with a teacher forbidding the use of any source in specific. Students should be allowed to use any source they want (including encyclopaedias, to films, to hate propaganda)...one of the things the teacher should be marking on is the student's ability to distinguish types of source material and discriminate between them. If I were a student I might want to use the Dictionary of the Middle Ages, or the New Encyclopedia of Christianity as starting points to help me understand a topic. Unless you are directly using the ideas gained from there, or quoting the work etc., then I don't think I would cite that. If it then allows you to read a much more advanced article, understand and use it, then you cite the article. If I were reading about Ancient Greek (which would be a feat for me), I would not cite the dictionary I was using to help me understand the secondary sources. If I was undertaking a linguistic analysis where the dictionary I chose was of greater import, then of course I would. Do I cite the OpenOffice Thesaurus when I use it to look up synonyms for a word, certainly not. As someone else has already said in this thread, if I did cite these derivative sources (encylopaedias generally, whether online or off), then I should be expected to be given less marks than someone who did more in-depth research. If the encyclopaedia entry led me to some research articles that then helped my work, then it is a useful tool, but not worth citing simply because of that. There are online encylopaedias (like www.literaryencyclopedia.com) which have reputable signed articles on the topics they cover. I think banning the wikipedia is even worse than the (still quite draconian and ill-advised) banning of 'any online source' that takes place in some courses. 'Protecting' students from poor sources does them a disservice. -James From: Paul Spence Subject: CLiP 2006- Final call for papers Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:50:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 720 (720) * Apologies for cross-posting * ** Please note that we have extended the Final Call for Papers to 23 December 2005** =========================================================== CLiP 2006 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: 'Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world' Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, UK Thursday 29 June - Saturday 1 July 2006 http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ =========================================================== CONFERENCE THEMES We welcome submissions that discuss any aspect of the interface between languages, literature, cultural heritage and Information Technology. See website for further details. SUBMISSION TYPES Submissions may be of two types: 1. Papers. Abstract submissions should be of 500-1000 words. The duration of each paper will be 20 minutes. Submissions are peer-reviewed. 2. Posters/demonstrations. These will consist of poster presentations or demonstrations of software and will also be peer-reviewed. They will typically be appropriate for those seeking to demonstrate current projects and other work in progress. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference in a central area to ensure maximum opportunity for feedback/discussion with other delegates. Proposals for posters/software demonstrations should be submitted as short abstracts of no more than 250 words. POSTER PRIZE A prize will be awarded to the best poster. BURSARIES We anticipate that a limited number of bursaries will be available for young scholars who have their paper or poster submission accepted. The deadlines for application for bursaries is January 30, 2006. LANGUAGE OF SUBMISSION Submissions may be in Spanish, Italian, German, French or English. LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION Presentations may be given in the language of the accepted abstract. If the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to facilitate comprehension. If the language is English, we strongly recommend the use of slides in one of the other languages named above. DEADLINES The deadline for paper and poster submissions is December 23, 2005. MORE DETAILS The conference website is at: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ Please see website for versions of Call for papers in other languages. From: timothy murray Subject: Call for Art On-Line: eco-poetics, Finger Lakes Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:51:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 721 (721) Environmental Film Festival PLEASE DISTRIBUTE eco-poetics CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Deadline: January , 2006. Deadline: January 3, 2006. The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival seeks seek finished projects of electronic art, ready to be mounted on-line, on the theme of eco-poetics. Selected artistic interventions on electronic interfaces between sustainability and environmental thought will be exhibited at The 9th Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College, March 30-April 6, 2006, and subsequently maintained in off-line form in The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University Library. eco-poetics. How might new media environments and technological flows intervene in eco-culture and eco-politics? What is the relationship between the techne of eco-poetics and the imperative of eco-politics? How do internet paradigms of speed, flow, and traffic impact notions of sustainability? Do mobile technologies and global positioning systems provide platforms for ecological activism? What about the military's utilization of ludic gaming systems for digital terror and ecological devastation? How might new media interventions offset the media blackouts of the global ecology of war and public health degradation? How can the artistic mixing of ecological and poetic materials-organic, inorganic, technological, aural, visual-create alternative and fertile environments in new media culture? Please send a description of your project, including conceptual abstract, technical format, and preview URL, to the Festival On-Line Curators, Timothy Murray, Patricia R. Zimmernann, and Tom Shevory: e-mail address: tcm1_at_cornell.edu Further information about the Finger Lakes Environmental Festival can be found at: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff -- From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal & Ubiquitous Computing 10.1 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:14:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 722 (722) Volume 10 Number 1 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Summary Guidelines and open issues in systems support for Ubicomp: reflections on UbiSys 2003 and 2004 p. 1 Adrian Friday, Manuel Roman, Christian Becker, Jalal Al-Muhtadi DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0031-x Summary Middleware for pervasive and ad hoc computing p. 4 Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon, Nitya Narasimhan, Tim Walsh DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0040-9 Original Article AMUN: an autonomic middleware for the Smart Doorplate Project p. 7 Wolfgang Trumler, Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, Theo Ungerer DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0029-4 Original Article An adaptive middleware framework for context-aware applications p. 12 Markus C. Huebscher, Julie A. McCann DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0035-6 Original article UbiqStack: a taxonomy for a ubiquitous computing software stack p. 21 Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, T. Scott Saponas, Gregory Abowd, Umakishore Ramachandran DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0036-5 Original Article EMMA: Epidemic Messaging Middleware for Ad hoc networks p. 28 Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Stephen Hailes DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0037-4 Original Article Mires: a publish/subscribe middleware for sensor networks p. 37 Eduardo Souto, Germano Guimarães, Glauco Vasconcelos, Mardoqueu Vieira, Nelson Rosa, Carlos Ferraz, Judith Kelner DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0038-3 Original Article Supporting ordering and consistency in a distributed Event Heap for Ubiquitous Computing p. 45 Oliver Storz, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0039-2 Original Article Towards self-protecting ubiquitous systems: monitoring trust-based interactions p. 50 Colin English, Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0030-y From: Willard McCarty Subject: Virtual Reality 9.1 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:15:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 723 (723) Volume 9 Number 1 of Virtual Reality is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Original Article Performance evaluation of compromised synchronization control mechanism for distributed virtual environment (DVE) p. 1 Olarn Wongwirat, Shigeyuki Ohara DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0158-0 Original Article A hybrid reality environment and its application to the study of earthquake engineering p. 17 Tara C. Hutchinson, Falko Kuester, Tung-Ju Hsieh, Rebecca Chadwick DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0001-7 Original Article Tell Me a Story p. 34 Isabel Machado, Paul Brna, Ana Paiva DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0002-6 Original Article A multi-user desktop virtual environment for teaching shop-keeping to children p. 49 Brian M. Slator, Harold Chaput, Robert Cosmano, Ben Dischinger, Christopher Imdieke, Bradley Vender DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0003-5 Original Article Efficient virtual reality design of quiet underwater shells p. 57 W. Akl, A. Baz DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0004-4 Original Article Neural network-based calibration of electromagnetic tracking systems p. 70 Volodymyr V. Kindratenko, William R. Sherman DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0005-3 Original Article OpenTracker: A flexible software design for three-dimensional interaction p. 79 Gerhard Reitmayr, Dieter Schmalstieg DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0006-2 Erratum Analysis of composite gestures with a coherent probabilistic graphical model p. 93 Jason J. Corso, Guangqi Ye, Gregory D. Hager DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0007-1 From: Willard McCarty Subject: blog directories Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:17:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 724 (724) Willard, Some of the sites at http://wordsworth2.net/writing/weblogresource.htm include directories. I developed the site for faculty at a beginners' workshop for class blogs and for our students. Best, Donna ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ 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 WordsWorth2 Communications and Consulting http://wordsworth2.net 203 Grove Drive, Clemson, SC 29631-2310 ~^~ 864-654-2886 ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ From: "Ken Cousins" Subject: Re: blog directories Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:20:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 725 (725) Willard, if you haven't been there yet, I'd recommend Crooked Timber's academic blogroll: http://crookedtimber.org/academic-blogs/ From: Wendell Piez Subject: Call for participation: DHQ-tech Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:27:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 726 (726) Call for Participation: Digital Humanities Quarterly Technical Group The new ADHO digital journal is in active development. We invite volunteers to join a group of technical advisors and contributors, offering time and expertise to the creation of innovative features for the journal interface and publication design, functionalities and maintenance. We envision activities including but not limited to the following: -- refining schemas and developing stylesheets and utilities for a "best of breed" XML content management and publication server -- developing innovative authoring, conversion and editing systems for XML and pre-XML formats -- designing and implementing knowledge representation systems such as topic maps, reference ontologies, etc. -- developing tools for specialized visualization, innovative search features, etc. -- sharing information about tools and tools configuration -- participating in broad development efforts such as internationalization -- providing general advice and assistance on technical strategy Development of the DHQ technical group will be coordinated by the Technical Editor, John Walsh (University of Indiana). In addition to features essential to the core journal functionality, we also expect to discuss projects more loosely connected with the DHQ publication system, and technologies and applications related to DHQ's formats (XML, TEI, HTML/CSS, RSS/Atom, SVG etc. etc.) that are useful in other frameworks or contexts. Participation in any of these activities will be on an entirely volunteer basis. Contributions will be credited and discussions archived. If you have skills and interest in contributing, please consider joining the dhq technical mailing list at <http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/dhq-tech>http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/dhq-tech Or read more documentation on the DHQ development wiki, at <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/en//DHquarterly/SkunkWorks>http://www.digitalhumanities.org/en//DHquarterly/SkunkWorks Please feel free to propagate this call (with apologies for duplication). Thank you! --Julia Flanders (Brown University) --Wendell Piez (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.) --Melissa Terras (University College London) --John Walsh (University of Indiana) ___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&_&__&__&&____&&_&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&_ "Thus I make my own use of the telegraph, without consulting the directors, like the sparrows, which I perceive use it extensively for a perch." -- Thoreau From: "LymanAward" Subject: Deadline for Lyman Award nominations Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:52:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 727 (727) A reminder that nominations for the Lyman Award close December 15, 2005 National Humanities Center Welcomes Nominations for Information Technology Award The National Humanities Center welcomes nominations for the fifth 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, the historian Roy Rosenzweig of George Mason University, the Assyriologist and Sumerologist Robert Englund, and John Unsworth of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award carries a prize of $25,000. Nominations close on December 15, 2005. To learn more about the Lyman Award or submit a nomination, visit the Center's Web site, www.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: mattj_at_newsblip.com Subject: Re: 19.494 Wikipedia and citation Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:51:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 728 (728) [deleted quotation]I think I mentioned this in an earlier message, but it's actually rather easy to cite, and verify, a specific version of a Wikipedia article. If the topic is Watergate, then do not merely cite the URL of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate Instead, click Wikipedia's "History" tab at the top of the page. You'll see a list of several dozen versions of the article, each with a unique URL. Just right-click the date of the top (mnost recent ) one ("13:55 12 December 2005" as of right now; wow, someone just edited it). From the pop-up menu, choose "Copy Link Location" (I 'm using Firefox), and then go to your word processor and paste in the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Watergate_scandal&oldid=31047940 If you follow this URL to check it, you'll see gray text at the top of the page which indicates the version: "Revision as of 13:55, 12 December 2005; view current revision". So it takes only an extra ten seconds for an author to cite a specific version, and no extra time for a reader to verify it. -Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle From: Simon Harper Subject: SIGIR 2006 Call for Papers Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:51:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 729 (729) SIGIR 2006 Call for Papers 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference in Research and Development in Information Retrieval August 6-11, 2006 Seattle, Washington, USA www.sigir2006.org Organized by the Information School of the University of Washington and ACM. SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. AREAS SIGIR 2006 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two or more area coordinators will guide the reviewing process. * Information Retrieval Theory and Models: User/Task-based IR theory; Formal models (Logical, Probabilistic, Vector space, Structural, Network-based, Language models etc.), Fusion/Combination. Area coordinators: Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA; Peter Bruza, DSTC, Australia. * IR Performance and Platforms: Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Mobile applications. Area coordinators: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile; Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada. * Document and Query Representation: Text content representation (Indexing), Structure-based representation, XML, Metadata, Request representation, Queries, Summarization, Natural language processing for representation. Area coordinators: Yoelle Maarek, IBM, Israel; Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands. * IR Evaluation: Test collections, Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Data collection and analysis methods. Area coordinators: Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan; Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. * User-oriented IR: Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User models, Task-based IR. Area coordinators: Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK; Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library & Information Science, DK. * Web IR and Digital Libraries: Web IR, Intranet/enterprise search, Citation and link analysis, Adversarial IR, Digital libraries, Distributed IR. Area coordinators: Andrei Broder, IBM, USA; Krishna Bharat, Google, USA; Ed Fox, Virginia Tech, USA. * Cross-language Retrieval: Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Retrieval in languages other than English, Machine translation for IR. Area coordinators: Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; Hsin-hsi Chen, National Taiwan University. * Multi-media Retrieval: Video and image retrieval, Audio and speech retrieval, Music retrieval. Area coordinators: Stefan Rüger, Imperial College, UK; Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China. * Document Tracking and Filtering: Topic detection and tracking, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Routing, Email spam. Area coordinators: James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA; John Reidl, University of Minnesota, USA. * Question Answering and Extraction: Question answering, Information extraction, Lexical acquisition. Area coordinators: Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas, USA; Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden. * Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR. Area coordinators: Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University; ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois, USA. * Text Categorization and Clustering. Area coordinators: Isabelle Moulinier, Thomson Legal and Regulatory, USA; Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!, USA. * Domain Specific IR Applications: Genomic IR, IR in software engineering, IR for chemical structures. Area coordinators: Bill Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA; Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo, CA. [...] From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: TCC Worldwide Online Conference Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:52:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 730 (730) [deleted quotation] From: Nancy Ide Subject: 2nd CFP: EACL Workshop on Making sense of sense Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:45:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 731 (731) EACL 2006 Workshop on Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Together April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/EACL06WS/ ********************** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************** The EACL 2006 Workshop on Making Sense of Sense: Bringing Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Together will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics that will take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, italy. * TOPICS Although research on lexical ambiguity has a long history in the field of psycholinguistics, work in this area is rarely considered in debates concerned with identifying relevant sense distinctions for NLP. Recent research in the field of psycholinguistics may offer significant insight into the sense distinctions that humans readily recognize. This workshop will explore approaches to the problem of sense distinction from the viewpoint of both computational linguists and psycholinguists, in order to bring the work in each field to bear on the problem. [...] From: John Unsworth Subject: Fwd: Society for Textual Scholarship, Richard Finneran Award Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:31:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 732 (732) Members of Humanist may want to contribute to this award as well: Richard had an early and abiding interest in electronic scholarship. John Begin forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: "John Bonnett" Subject: the state of literary scholarship Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:46:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 733 (733) In the current Chronicle of Higher Education Lindsay Waters presents an interesting overview of literary scholarship in the U.S. See: <http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=3ynlz6vqsby2z0cymc6gsjt2d02rwfd0>http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=3ynlz6vqsby2z0cymc6gsjt2d02rwfd0 As he describes it, criticism is divided between those who favour a poetic and aesthetic reading of texts -- where the emphasis is on affect and emotion, how the work makes us feel -- and scholars who favour a hermeneutic reading of literature, where the intent is to unmask the idea, or more precisely the ideology and politics embedded in the artifact. Two exemplars are highlighted, with Walter Benn Michaels advocating a hermeneutic reading of texts, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht favouring an aesthetic approach. To my mind, there is an interesting parallel here with recent discussions on the design of virtual environments. The aesthetic approach as characterized by Waters emphasizes the constituents of literature that support a sense of "presence" or "immersion" into the artefact at hand. The aim is not dissimilar with what one finds in HCI literature, where the stated aim is to create environments that minimize the user's perception of mediation. "Presence" is a concept that is known, understood, and promoted by HCI researchers. By contrast, archaeologists and other researchers in the historical sciences who use 3D environments tend to favour a hermeneutic approach. They are often ambivalent about virtual environments because visual representations often generate a sense of trust -- of presence -- that is not warranted. Here, scholars want to generate a sense of "Distance" from the representation at hand, to generate representations that invite interaction and deconstruction of the work at hand, not acceptance, and certainly not "presence". The expressive challenge at hand is to generate forms of expression designed to support either aspiration. Humanities scholars should play a role in this process. Why leave all the fun to computer scientists? The key question, of course, is how. Comments? John Bonnett From: Willard McCarty Subject: Wikipedia's lesson Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:44:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 734 (734) It seems to me that the most valuable lesson to come from the recent troubles with Wikipedia is not to move back into the gated community of proper vetted reference books (such as those that surround me as I write) but to deal with the pedagogical problem of critical reasoning. If, as Geoffrey Nunberg argues, authority in the online medium is primarily reflexive, made separately on the spot by the author of each page, then its validation is done on the spot, by the reader, to a degree to which most of us have not been accustomed. The Web is not a library, but most if not all of us use it as if it were one. Indeed, it might be better to talk about how the Web is transforming our idea of the library than to ghettoize it (as if we could). The reality is that it's to the Web that students now go, always first and very often only. Lecturers too, if the truth be known. I'm bothered by the terminology of "evaluating" Web-sites, as it suggests (to me only?) that a secure value-judgement can be made, one that is shared by us all, and that having been made, it settles the problem we face in the particular instance. I'd rather talk about determining what sort of knowledge a page has on offer: knowledge of what, exactly, and to what degree of reliability. I want to deal head-on with what students are in fact doing, and get them to be better at it, rather than to thunder at them for avoiding the library. I want to use the present situation for all it's worth, to exploit the valuable opportunity it presents to get at the problem of critical reasoning. Many libraries have online guides. Some of these are very useful. There's an abundance of guides to "critical thinking" (the usual phrase), e.g. Alec Fisher's Critical Thinking: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2001), Tim van Gelder's Critical Thinking on the Web (http://www.austhink.org/critical/) or Richard Paul's and Linda Elder's Critical Thinking Community site (http://www.criticalthinking.org/), which leads you to their little books, e.g. The Minature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools -- the Strunk and White of the business. Any more to be recommended? Sorting Web-sites and honing critical thinking skills interestingly blend into the question of how to do research, for which I still use Wayne Booth et al, The Craft of Research. I suspect that there's a good book at the intersection of these problems. Does it exist? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: puppets, scholars and the immersed Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:30:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 735 (735) John and Willard and company, I want to introduce into the critical edition and reading thread, a gaming perspective by quoting from what a commentator recently wrote for a thread on Jason Rhody's blog _Miscellany is The Largest Category_ "Intentionality as much as material matters." http://misc.wordherders.net/archives/005126.html I am willing to wager that experiences of presence or of distance produced by certain acts of reading are not determined by the material conditions of that reading but by the history of approaching and appropriating those conditions to produce a cognitive construct. Reading builds a world. Whether the report back from the reading (or gaming experience) is one of an immersive bathing rite or one of a shamanistic urge towards interactivity, there is in the discourse, as I read it, an assumption that the reading (play) is repeatable, that is that the buidling of the world given by a certain act of reading is complete (that is not to say that the world is complete just that the activity of building ceases and does not continue). Digital artefacts test this assumption of stable creations, cognitive constructs lifted out of temporality, both by the nature of the material conditions of reading and gaming (the oft remarked fungibility of electronic texts) and by the emerging intentionality that focuses on playing and reading as acts involved in a series not of repetition but of variation with a differance. Furthermore such experiences of it-could-be-otherwise spill over into the world surrounding the screen or output device. The charcol marks on a sheet of paper are observed not only for what they are but also for what they could be. The serial is implied in the single. It is a way of looking that predates the age of the work of art in its mechanical reproducibility but the ubiquity of such a way of looking comes with the waves of power induced by the of deployment post-industrial image reduplication and replication services. It is very difficult to approach artefacts as unique in an environment saturated by countinon in terms of the one-of. To announce something as the "only" soon leads to a more modest claim of the "first" and even that centre cannot hold for long as interest may shift to antecedents (co-cedants?). Critical editions confront the question of the multiple serial. How does a variant in one particular spot connect with other variants, which belongs with which series? Counting becomes seriously emmeshed in graphs. Again, I turn to Manfred Thaler's proposition about the nature of the objects handled by humanists: "[...] the co-existence of _n_ conceptual hierarchies in any non trivial description of a text is indeed a fundamental property of all text as handled in the humanities." In the realm of the concurrent, the universality of approaches is impossible. No one drowns by immersion; in interactivy, no one marrionettes ad infinitum. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: D-Lib Magazine 12/05 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:31:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 736 (736) Greetings: The December 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains seven articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month D-Lib features the Library of Congress Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources. The articles include: AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests Clay Shirky, New York University Harvard's Perspective on the Archive Ingest and Handling Test Stephen Abrams, Stephen Chapman, Dale Flecker, Sue Kreigsman, Julian Marinus, Gary McGath, and Robin Wendler, Harvard University The Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Johns Hopkins University Report Tim DiLauro, Mark Patton, David Reynolds, and G. Sayeed Choudhury, The Johns Hopkins University Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Old Dominion University Approach Michael L. Nelson, Johan Bollen, Giridhar Manepalli, and Rabia Haq, Old Dominion University The AIHT at Stanford University: Automated Preservation Assessment of Heterogeneous Digital Collections Richard Anderson, Hannah Frost, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, and Keith Johnson, Parallel Worlds: Online Games and Digital Information Services John Kirriemuir, Silversprite Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science: dLIST and DL-Harvest Anita Coleman and Joseph Roback, University of Arizona (Incidentally, another periodical I edit (The IEEE TCDL Bulletin http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/) has just been released this week as well. It features 31 of the posters and demonstrations from JCDL 2005.) From: Shuly Wintner Subject: University of Haifa Computer Science Colloquium Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:28:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 737 (737) University of Haifa Computer Science Colloquium *** Please note the special time and place *** You are cordially invited to attend the following talk. Time: Tuesday, December 20, 12:00 Place: Education 566 Speaker: Ingrid Zukerman, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University Title: A Probabilistic Approach to Argument Interpretation Abstract: I will describe a probabilistic argument-interpretation mechanism embedded in a conversational system. The system is implemented as a detective game, where the user explores a virtual scenario, and constructs an argument for a suspect's guilt or innocence. The interpretation mechanism receives as input an argument entered through a web interface, and produces an interpretation in terms of its underlying knowledge representation -- a Bayesian network. Our mechanism uses an anytime algorithm to propose candidate interpretations, and selects the interpretation with the highest posterior probability. The results of our evaluation are encouraging, with the system generally producing plausible interpretations of users' arguments. Bio: Ingrid Zukerman is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Monash University. She received her B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and her M.Sc. degree in Operations Research from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 1986. Since then, she has been working in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Her areas of interest are natural language processing and user modeling. -- Shuly Wintner Computer Science colloquium coordinator http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/colloq/ From: "John Bonnett" Subject: Reminder 2006 SDH Annual Conference Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:41:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 738 (738) [Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des Médias Interactifs (http://www.sdh-semi.org/) annual conference: "The City: A Festival of Knowledge", York University (Canada), 29-31 May 2006] Hello everyone. Due to a glitch in our e-mail list, we were unable to send out a final reminder for submitting paper and panel proposals for the 2006 SDH/SEMI annual conference. Given that, we've decided to extend the deadline of this first call for three more days, until December 18th. All interested potential presenters are encouraged to send their proposals to: sdhsemi6_at_uvic.ca We look forward to receiving your proposals. All the best, John Bonnett Conference Committee From: Ken Friedman Subject: The Wikipedia Story Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:27:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 739 (739) Friends, I tend to agree with Willard on Wikipedia. While I was horrified by the Seigenthaler story, I have come to suspect that these problems do not occur as often as I feared. Instead, there must perhaps be a way to improve the error-catching system. The debate on this list and others pointed to critical thinking and evaluation. I agree. In my classes, I have always emphasized these issues. The difficulty I see now is that a new system is taking hold, at least in our school, where students tend to be overloaded with shorter courses while each course contains as much work as before. This, in turn, makes it difficult to emphasize critical thinking and evaluation skills. Instead, students take short-cuts -- thus the use of a single source. The one issue where I have been puzzled is the idea that one may not use reference works at all in building a reasoned argument. I use reference works of all kinds, and I use the web (critically, to be sure) in my research. I have no problem using or citing a valued source. I don't know of the book Willard wonders about, though. Perhaps there is a gap in the literature .... For now, I am resolved to push a bit harder on the issues of critical thinking and careful writing. Despite the pressure that students feel that leads them to economize their time -- sometimes in inappropriate ways -- I don't really like the kind of heuristic that prohibits using a specific source. Thus I must reverse my view and find a way to struggle more effectively with the "how" of how to use sources and how to write. Warm wishes, Ken -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: "Bleck, Brad" Subject: Wikipedia vindicated? Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:27:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 740 (740) This from a wire service blurb in my local paper today: Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly 4 million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote in an online article published Wednesday. the finding, based on a side-by-side comparison of articles covering a broad swatch of the scientific spectrum, comes as Wikipedia faces criticism over the accuracy of some of its entries. Two weeks ago prominent journalist John Seigenthaler Sr. revealed that a Wikipedia entry that ran for four months had incorrectly named him as a longtime suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Such errors appear to be the exception rather than the rule, Nature said in Wednesday's article, which the scientific journal said was the first to compare Wikipedia to Britannica. Based on 42 articles reviewed by experts, the average scientific entry in Wikipedia contained four errors or omissions, while Britannica had three. Of eight "serious errors" the reviewers found--including misinterpretations of important concepts, four came from each source the journal reported. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of either encyclopedia, but a clear indication that both might be reasonable starting points for some work, at least at the undergrad level. Bradley Spokane Falls CC http://bleckblog.org From: Vika Zafrin Subject: Wikipedia in Nature Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:29:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 741 (741) Thought I'd pass this on, since Wikipedia has been one of our star subjects of late. From if:book, the blog of the Institute for the Future of the Book, 14dec2005: "A new and fairly authoritative voice has entered the Wikipedia debate: last week, staff members of the science magazine Nature read through a series of science articles in both Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica, and decided that Britannica -- the "gold standard" of reference, as they put it -- might not be that much more reliable..." http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/12/nature_magazine.html -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: Michael Fraser Subject: wikipedia reviewed Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:29:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 742 (742) And I will probably be adding to the list of humanist subscribers who noticed this one... "Wikipedia survives research test The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy. [more]" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm Michael From: "Paul Spence" Subject: wikipedia Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:30:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 743 (743) Interesting in light of recent discussion on the Humanist ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm P From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Wikipedia in Nature Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:00:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 744 (744) Looking at the data, I think it is important to say that while, on average, the Wikipedia articles held similar accuracy to Britannica, the quality of articles were more variable as well. That means if you cite Wikipedia alot, you will be on track most of the time. But it may also mean that one of your articles (ie. see the Mendelev example) could be way off. This makes total sense, seeing that some concepts are more controversial than others. I think in a social science or a humanity, one would have to be even more wary. But that is just more support to the call for critical thinking etc. I think it was Ken who addressed the issue of time as per assignments. That's where the librarians should play a role -- they can really save you time. A good lit review plan/strategy takes about 5 minutes, but it saves hours, maybe even days or weeks. But there isn't really anything out there these days that examines pre-research strategies/planning-- not even when I taught study skills to undergrads. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: Barbara Walden Subject: more thoughts on critical thinking Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:01:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 745 (745) Hello: Here is a response I received when I forwarded your Humanist post about Wikipedia and critical thinking (Wikipedia's lesson) to the collegial discussion group at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author is willing to have it re-posted at Humanist and elsewhere, if appropriate: ................. There are a lot of good texts out there that combine critically thinking and research - and the Booth book is one of them. Ultimately, though, it really depends on the goals of the course. I've used The Subject is Research edited by Wendy Bishop for a course that did more than the 'traditional' research paper. Elements of Argument edited by Rottenberg approaches everything (writing and research) from a Toulmin- based approach to argument and analysis. Really, most of the textbooks out there deal with these issues. Ultimately, though, it is up to the instructor to teach them and also up to the student to work at understanding. As a side note, when one looks at stages of cognitive development in terms of education, the students we see as undergraduates are often just reaching that stage where 'critical thinking' (which really is a very vague phrase) skills start to take off. Sometimes it is more important to meet students where they are rather than be disappointed by their lack of certain skills. Katy Southern University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistant - Department of English Student - Department of English (Composition and Rhetoric) & School of Library and Information Studies ............................................................................ Barbara Walden University of Wisconsin-Madison European History Librarian/ Senior Academic Librarian Doctoral Student, School of Library and Information Studies From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: time and the space of teaching Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:02:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 746 (746) Willard and Ken, I strongly suspect that the figure of the student without enough time is often the projection of the overburdened teacher. Weariness sometimes contributes to the slide from a wish to see one's students do better to a desire to do better by them. There is an alternative to giving more time. It is a great service to provide to students room of their own. Consider asynchronous access to a class blog or listserv. Some ability to upload to the WWW. A space. An invitation. Imagine if you will back channel email: talk amongst themselves. Engagement too with the wider communities of discourse if you will, imagine. There is no guarantee that critical thinking will come from such campus chatter and brief encounters. Still provision of such spaces supplement the space of the essay. What is an essay assigned to students but an invitation to construct and communicate? In some ways the essay, the single term paper, asks too little of our students. Will the day come when class sizes will again be manageable and a portfolio will be assessed? Will that portfolio contain not only the finished work but also drafts? Not only drafts but also comments on the work of peers? Not only one on one communications but also records of moderated discussions? In short, a critical thinker is a person who can ask penetrating questions, find the worthwhile in the sometimes unlikely places. A critical thinker is not just clear but also brings clarity: can move from savaging to salvage. Give them the space and they will find the time. Give yourselves the time and they will help you make the space. I recall all nighters, many of them, before the quotidien practice of writing and reading settled into habit. I do not regret them. Those professors and tutors that marked the results may not of course share the sentiments. Nonetheless, the faculty seemed to have an almost infinite patience for youth and a trust that some day, long after the completion of the degree, we would be wise enough to continue learning, make the time to read and perchance to write, but above all in every daily action, to think. You would be surprised as to how little contact was necessary to impart that gift. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: VR- and otherwise embedded texts Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:03:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 747 (747) In the thread "VR scholarly editions?" wrote Wendell Piez (05.11.05): [deleted quotation]Yes, a cheap copy of a bad Mark Twain edition surely can give a poor boy much more pleasure than a scholarly edition to a student, poor or rich. But where does this argument lead? To teaching kids how to read? To convincing students that they should read some popular edition before consulting a scholarly edition? We must distinguish between the reading experience as such and scholarly efforts to clarify a text's history. (Isn't that what we expect from an 'scholarly' edition, namely: an edition for use in the academic context?) Going back to Willard's thought experiment, perhaps one could rather call this a citation, not an edition of the work embedded in the VR context. Fundamentally speaking, it seems to be the same case when you try to identify the edition of some written work shown in a Godard film. Or to answer the question: what edition of Goethe's "Werther" was read by the protagonist in Plenzdorfs East German novel "Die neuen Leiden des jungen W."? (It is a pre-war or post-war, f.e. a GDR/Reclam Leipzig, edition? In any case it should be the second version because going back to the original 'Sturm&Drang' version comes into fashion only later on in West Germany.) The difference between film and novel is here that Godard probably not has "faked" an edition when he is showing a Dostoewsky novel, while it is easier for the book author to "fake" a text which is somehow altered. (It is of particular interest in this case that the pages of the book read in the novel are consumed in the bathroom, and that everything cited from G.'s "Werther" is (fictively, sure) transmitted only by the tapes recorded by the protagonist. By the way: in the original version, intended for transmission in the radio and printed in the literary journal "Sinn und Form", the citations all are given in capital letters without punctation, so that it is quite difficult, if not impossible to trace back this text to the book used by the author.) In conclusion for today: Reading experiences, I suppose, are not the goal of scholarly efforts in textual criticism. Scholarly editions address an academic audience, and they present a communication *about* texts: the actual 'text of the work' embodied in such an edition should then serve as a reference base for the scholarly informations about (variant) texts and contexts. Actually, I can not see the need for any another medium than the written word itself, printed on paper or shown in a screen window. A totally different question would be what could be called a 'scholarly edition' of Ridley's film "Alien" or a future VR installation when Spielberg was switching to the new medium... Best regards, Herbert From: Carlos Areces Subject: ESSLLI 2006: List of Courses Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:02:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 748 (748) 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 31 July - 11 August, 2006, Malaga, Spain http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es LIST OF ACCEPTED COURSES AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAMM ------------------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering 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. LIST OF ACCEPTED COURSES AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: Language and Computation: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week 1 * Resource-Scarce Language Engineering, by Edward Garrett (Workshop) * Introduction to Corpus Resources, Annotation and Access, by Sabine Schulte im Walde and Heike Zinsmeister (Foundational Course) * Introduction to Symbolic and Statistical NLP in Scheme, by Damir Cavar (Introductory Course) * Data-Driven Methods for Acquiring Linguistic Information, by Timothy Baldwin and Aline Villavicencio (Introductory Course) * An Empirical View on Semantic Roles Within and Across Languages, by Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado (Introductory Course) * Treebank-Based Acquisition of LFG, HPSG and CCG Resources, by Josef van Genabith, Julia Hockenmaier and Yusuke Miyao (Advanced Course) * Semantic Domains in Natural Language Processing, by Alfio Gliozzo and Carlo Strapparava (Advanced Course) Week 2 * Modelling Coherence for Generation and Dialogue Systems, by Rodger Kibble, Paul Piwek and Ielka van der Sluis (Workshop) * Computational Morphology, by Kemal Oflazer (Foundational Course) * Counting Words: An Introduction to Lexical Statistics, by Marco Baroni and Stefan Evert (Introductory Course) * Computational Semantics: Linking Language Processing to Applications, by Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger (Introductory Course) * Word Sense Disambiguation, by Rada Mihalcea (Introductory Course) * Implementing Argument Alternations, by Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Advanced Course) * Argument Structure, by Markus Egg and Valia Kordoni (Advanced Course) * Probabilistic Methods in Computational Psycholinguistics, by Roger Levy (Advanced Course) * Machine Learning and Dialogue, by James Henderson and Oliver Lemon (Advanced Course) Logic and Computation: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week 1 * Proof Theory and Deep Inference, by Alessio Guglielmi (Foundational Course) * Introduction to Automated Reasoning, by Hans De Nivelle and Peter Baumgartner (Foundational Course) * Specifying and Proving in Maude, by Manuel Clavel and Narciso Marti-Oliet (Introductory Course) * Modal Logics for Multi-Agent Systems, by Valentin Goranko and Wojciech Jamroga (Introductory Course) * Expressiveness of Temporal Logics, by Fran=E7ois Laroussinie and Nicolas Markey (Introductory Course) * The Modal Mu-Calculus, by Yde Venema (Introductory Course) * Logics for Quantum Information Flow, by Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets (Advanced Course) * Approximate Reasoning for the Semantic Web, by Pascal Hitzler, Frank van Harmelen and Holger Wache (Advanced Course) * Coalgebras, Modal Logic, Stone Duality, by Alexander Kurz (Advanced Course) Week 2 * Workshop on Logics for Resource Bounded Agents, by Natasha Alechina and Thomas =C5gotnes (Workshp) * Rationality and Knowledge, by Sergei Artemov and Rohit Parikh (Workshop) * Verification of Infinite State Systems, by Angelo Montanari and Gabriele Puppis (Introductory Course) * Proof Nets and the Identity of Proofs, by Lutz Strassburger (Introductory Course) * Semantics of Higher-Order Logic, by Chad Brown and Chris Benzmueller (Advanced Course) * Logical and Meta-Logical Frameworks, by Carsten Schuermann (Advanced Course) * Logic and Computation in Finitely Presentable Infinite Structures, by Valentin Goranko and Sasha Rubin (Advanced Course) Language and Logic: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Week 1 * Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents, by Roberta Ferrario and Nicola Guarino (Workshop) * On Logic and Language, by Raffaella Bernardi and Patrick Blackburn (Foundational Course) * Natural Language Quantifiers, by Nouwen, Rick (Introductory Course) * Working with Discourse Representation Theory, by Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos (Introductory Course) * Mereology for Linguists, by Christopher Pi=F1=F3n (Introductory Course) * From Syntactic Structures to Logical Semantics, by Christian Retor=E9 and Alexandre Dikovsky (Advanced Course) * Temporal Anaphora in Tenseless Languages, by Maria Bittner (Advanced Course) * Linear Logic, Linguistic Resource Sensitivity and Resumption, by Ash Asudeh (Advanced Course) Week 2 * Ambiguity in Anaphora, by Ron Artstein and Massimo Poesio (Workshop) * Concord Phenomena and the Syntax Semantics Interface, by Paul Dekker and Hedde Zeijlstra (Workshop) * Parsing, by Eric de la Clergerie (Foundational Course) * Proofs, Evidence, Knowledge, by Sergei Artemov (Introductory Course) * Signalling Games and Pragmatics, by Anton Benz (Introductory Course) * Higher Order Grammar, by Carl Pollard (Introductory Course) * Anaphora resolution: Theory and Practice, by Annie Zaenen (Advanced Course) * Applications and Extensions of Dynamic Semantics, by Nicholas Asher (Advanced Course) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Carlos Areces INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France phone : +33 (0)3 83 58 17 90 fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail : carlos.areces (at) loria.fr www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces Local co-chair: Manuel Diaz Area Specialists: Larry Moss and Gerhard Jaeger (Logic and Language) Valeria de Paiva and Juan Jose Moreno Navarro (Logic and Computation) Philip Miller and Anette Frank (Language and Computation) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Ernesto Pimentel (chair) FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the ESSLLI site at http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/. For this year's summer school, please see the web site at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05. From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2005 (HyLo 2006) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:03:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 749 (749) ******************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2006 (HyLo 2006) Affiliated with LICS 2006 August 11, 2006, Seattle, USA ******************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic in which it is possible to directly refer to worlds/times/states or whatever the elements of the (Kripke) model are meant to represent. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it is only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, because of the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant,and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals --- atomic symbols true at a unique point --- together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behavior of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field, therefore a theme of special interest at this HyLo workshop will be the combination of hybrid logic with other logics, the basic methodological question being "what is the best way of hybridizing a given logic?" However, submissions in all areas of hybrid logic are welcome. The workshop HyLo 2006 is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) which was held as part of FLoC 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. If you are unsure whether your work is of relevance to the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers for more information. Contact details are given below. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). [...] From: John Lavagnino Subject: Digital humanities sessions at the 2004 MLA Convention Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:50:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 750 (750) Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language Association convention in Washington, DC, starting next Tuesday. There are a number of talks on digital humanities 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/mla05/guide.html John Lavagnino From: Simon Harper Subject: HT06 Call for Papers Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:51:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 751 (751) ======================================================================== = Hypertext 2006 Call for participation ======================================================================== = Seventeenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia Tools for Supporting Social Structures 23-25 August; Odense, Denmark http://www.ht06.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Hypertext and hypermedia are technologies for supporting structured knowledge work. The Seventeenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Tools for Supporting Social Structures (HT 2006) will focus specifically on tools that help us represent, model and interact with social structures, including cultural, literary, linguistic, and other types of social structures. Recently, in fields ranging from anthropology to linguistics, there has been an increasing focus on representing complex social phenomena using networks or other structure-intensive models. HT 2006 will bring together social scientists with hypertext and hypermedia researchers who specialize in building tools to build, manipulate, and manage structure-intensive models. TOPICS ------ The special focus of HT 2006 means we especially encourage papers on structure-intensive problems and models used in social sciences, as well as papers describing possible implementation strategies and/or issues for supporting hypermedia. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * social networks and networking * novel systems and models * societal impact of Web technologies * hypermedia application design * virtual communities * hypermedia systems evaluation * hypermedia in education * blogs, wikis, and rss * literary and artistic hypermedia * web engineering * network/stratificational grammars * hypermedia service definitions [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: critical thinking and Christmas Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:45:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 752 (752) The two terms of my subject-line are related by assonance, coincidence and antonymy. But perhaps the last of these relations is mine alone, and I claim it only to demonstrate a local truth. This year the boiler is declaring its imminent intention to resign from active service, the espresso machine has finally manifested in full the consequences of its poor design and the man who sells Christmas trees seems unaccountably to have vanished from the pub car-park where, I am assured, he has appeared, with trees, every day except those when I have sought him out, and every year for every day in the days immediately preceeding Christmas for the past 10 years. Do I need critical thinking or just better luck? If thinking is simply what goes on in the head ("what are you thinking?!"), then critical thinking is a kind of it, and so we should be inquiring into what this kind is, exactly. The OED suggests the following alternatives: (1) given to adverse or unfavourable criticism, fault-finding, censorious (2) nice, exact, accurate, precise, punctual (3) skilful (4) of the nature of, or constituting a crisis (5) involving suspense or grave fear as to the issue (6) decisive, crucial (7) constituting an extreme or limiting case (8) distinguished by slight or questionable differences (and so critical to a classification system) The above would seem to sort into qualities that are at once characteristic of the situation I am in (4, 5, 6, 7) or of the mental state it tempts me to enter (1), needful under these circumstances (2, 3, 6) -- or suggesting the detached retreat from care that Christmas offers the fortunate person raised in its traditions (8). In other words, as illustrated by the current example, the marvellously flexible term "critical" seems to offer little more than a phatic buzz. Today, at last, I choose alternative 8, and so start regarding big problems as small ones, and then as merely nice distinctions which, being only nice, cause the whole infrastructure to dim into insignificance. Until early January, that is. But before I depart the virtual scene briefly to enjoy the benefits of its wisdom (and, I hope, continued heat), allow me to reflect further on the form of "critical thinking" that seems increasingly to be what humanities computing teaches. As our teaching of the subject has progressed, we have witnessed the shift from a large majority of students innocent of computing to a totality for whom the standard applications are familiar. This has, of course, been a most welcome change, as it has liberated us from having to teach the most basic skills. (I wonder, does anyone use the term "computer literacy" in urban centres any more?) To choose a single example, we may now assume that students go first to the Web for the work that they do, and that most if not nearly all of them will be able somehow to construct a credible web-page. But observation suggests that, as one contributor recently put it, they are just reaching the age at which "critical thinking" begins to kick in. So for online resources, there's one subject we have to teach. What is it, beyond the relatively straightforward checklist of reliability indicators? If "critical thinking" is simply thinking in a serious way, or perhaps simply thinking analytically, then the focus has to be on what we mean by "thinking" in the context of computing. In a wonderful essay, "'Style' for Historians and Philosophers", in his book Historical Ontology (Harvard, 2002), Ian Hacking remarks that he prefers the term "reasoning". "This is partly because thinking is too much in the head for my liking. Reasoning is done in public as well as in private: by thinking, yes, but also by talking and arguing and showing" (p. 180) -- and by manipulating things, physical things, and by metaphorical acts of construction. As technologists we're on the side of the engineers, designing against constraints over which we have no control but which in their resistance teach us. Well, let us say, for the purposes of a generous Christmas argument, that this is so, and see where it leads. It leads, I think, to a greater emphasis on making things as a means of critical or analytic reasoning, to a greater emphasis on laboratory work in humanities computing, to laboratory practices. Or, if the sciences cause you to break out in metaphorical spots, or have a metaphorical fit, then to the practices of craftsmanship, to the practitioner-scholar as end-maker. What laboratory practice does have to offer is a fair bit of intelligent historical, philosophical and sociological analysis done of it -- and certain very useful habits, such as the keeping of a notebook to record what what does while it is fresh in the mind and hand. My students now keep lab notebooks, and the practice has proven very useful indeed. After the rush up to and indulgences during the coming holidays have gone, or perhaps before they have entirely, it would be good, I think, to have some *critical* reflections on the above line of *reasoning*, with a focus on what we teach our undergraduate students. It would be useful to avoid the uncritical cant of "critical thinking", find its germ of truth, figure out what that means for us and build better curricula with it. But enough. For those members of Humanist who have been here for a while, a Christmas message from me is recognizably traditional. This year the cosmic cycles have brought Christmas and Hanukkah into very close proximity (the latter begins at sunset on the 25th), so the message can easily serve a celebratory function for a wider audience than is sometimes the case. Today is the solstice. Other events dot the multifaith calendar (www.interfaithcalendar.org) around the dying of the light and its re-emergence, though carefully, to mark the fact that it is not guaranteed by nature, not insofar as it matters to us. Allow me then once again to wish you all the very best and most joyous survival into what I hope is a new and better year, when Humanist turns 20. Not just another day, not just another year. All the best. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Re: 19.516 VR scholarly editions Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:50:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 753 (753) Dear Herbert and Wendell and Willard, The citation of a posting by Wendell [deleted quotation]And the reading of that citation in the context of the quality and accessbiilty of editions: [deleted quotation]made me want to reread Wendell's message partly because I did not recall any mentionof Mark Twain but mostly because I did read that message as leading elsewhere. In Humanist 19.402, Wendell quotes the description of the thought experiment proposed by Willard. He goes on to ask about a movie. He concludes that a series of frame displacements through a particular reading route [or even a set of reading routes] is not enough to qualify an artefact as an "edition". The modality of communication and interaction with an edition it is argued has to be close to that of a book. The modality of communication and interactivity of a book is one of transparency: the modality disappears, the medium appears invisible. As Wendell states, the criterion for success is that "it be well enough constructed and well enough suited to the work of representation that we put it to, that we are able to suspend our consciousness of it while using it." There is here a conjunction of material conditions (the constructedness of the artefact) and intentionality (the work of representation that we put it to). If I understand correctly, Wendell is arguing that good design serves us well if it draws little attention to itself. (I hope this restatement does not do injustices to the wonderfully allusive "suspend our consicousness" which is not to suuspend our disbelief.) Wendell identifies a trend in electronic editions: "we represent directly whatever we want to represent". Herbert would have us believe that such representation can be accomplished soley with verbal means. I offer one small use case that supports an interpretationof Wendells fine phrase, a use case that play on the line between representation and description. In James Joyce's _Finnegans Wake_ one comes across the neologism "fadograph". Transcribable with the letters of the English alphabet. Even without the International Phonetic Alphabet one could markup a feature system to capture the different possible pronounciations and at a stretch the suggested semantic roots in Gaelic, Portuguese or English. A sufficiently rich mark up scheme could indicate phenomena of linguistic interference (e.g. English as a second language of a Portuguese "voice" in the text). A designer might be found who might be able to find ways to minimize the intrusiveness of such an apparatus. Still, these are indirect representations (and at some points descriptions). To directly represent whatever we want to represent, we could include an audio file. English accented by Portuguese (FADO as a genre akin to the Blues)? English as inflected by an advertizing jingle (FADE-O-GRAPH)? Interesting how phonetic noise is brought into an attempt to grapple with phonological distinctions when an audio track is introduced. An other example: Ever follow along listening to the Caedmon recording of T.S. Eliot reading from _The Wasteland_ with a copy of the written text in front of you? Does Eliot's reading of his own poem count as a variant where the recording and the printed exemplar diverge? We could, following Willard's thought experiment, consider a given object in a given medium as an edition if as an edition it introduces noise. We could further consider this noise making as being zoned -- not equally distributed throughout the space of the edition, if we follow Wendell's suggestion that for successful representation of that which we wish to represent depends upon a certain suspension of consciousness (an intention) which in turn depends upon a social and material construction designed to serve those ends. I repeat the contention that a suspension of consciousness is not a suspension of disbelief. The former is a bodily reaction in which activation is suspended, held in abeyance. The latter is a cognitive decision about the status of entities, a decision to play along. A thought experiment that asks the thinker to imagine a state where a virtual similation is accepted as actual is very taxing because the actuality of the virtual similation itself impinges on the imagination and by the rules of the thought experiment must be suspended. A recursive loop is built in: suspend the suspension and suspend the supension of the supension. As Wendell reads Willard and I with him, "the book could be represented in such a way as to make it seem not like a movie, not even like a VR, but like a book. Go ahead, turn the pages. An edition!" But as Wendell pointed out there is more to an edition than turning pages. And as Herbert suggests, depending upon the audience, there may be more to the play with the parameters of simulation, play with any edition, than the example proposed by Willard "to put our imagined editor's instantiated views of the scene to the test". Reading Willard carefully through the rereading of Wendell prompted by the reading of Herbert, leads one to consdier other examples of other purposes. Is it always to test that I read an edition? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: "Donald Weinshank" Subject: Wikipedia moving toward self-monitoring Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:49:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 754 (754) Although there are many current stories on this thorny issue, I found this one from Ziff-Davis E-week to be balanced and useful. ========== http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1903728,00.asp Wikipedia Erects Accuracy Firewall By Lisa Vaas December 19, 2005 Wikipedia has implemented a new policy of using "semi-protection" on targets of frequent vandalism, such as its entries on love, beauty or George W. Bush. Semi-protection of a page prevents new registered users and all unregistered users from editing that page and is only applied if the page in question is facing a serious vandalism problem. Although news reports are calling the new policy a major revision, it is actually only a slight spin on Wikipedia's existing policy of protection. Protection gives Wikipedia administrators the ability to protect pages from being edited or images from being overwritten, except by other administrators. The move comes after complaints from John Seigenthaler Sr. regarding errors in an entry that falsely implicated the U.S. journalist and former aide to Robert Kennedy in his assassination and that of his brother, U.S. President John F. Kennedy. In an editorial published in USA Today, Seigenthaler wrote that the error had remained on Wikipedia for several months and that the anonymity of Wikipedia posters made it virtually impossible to track down its source. In the article, he described Wikipedia as a "flawed and irresponsible research tool." Even though the perpetrator of the inaccurate entry, Brian Chase, confessed and resigned from his job, the incident set off a torrent of criticism about Wikipedia's accuracy and credibility. Still, according to a recent study by the journal Nature, Wikipedia isn't particularly prone to inaccuracies. PointerClick here to read more from columnist Sean Carton about Wikipedia's limits. Nature's peer review of Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica found that among 42 entries tested, Wikipedia contained about four inaccuracies, compared with Britannica's three. Although 42 entries is a drop in the bucket when compared with the 873,231 articles on Wikipedia as of Monday, Nature concluded that inaccuracies on Wikipedia are the exception, not the rule. "The difference in accuracy was not particularly great," the journal reported. CORRECTION: This story has been corrected to indicate that Brian Chase resigned from his job. _________________________________________________ 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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.47 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:50:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 755 (755) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 47 (December 21-28, 2005) View SASAKI ON INTERNATIONALIZATION "Internationalization" is the process of making a product or its underlying technology ready for applications in various languages, cultures and regions. In his paper "From Characters to Web Services .. to Internationalization is Everywhere," Felix Sasaki of the W3C shows that internationalization is relevant for a wide range of technologies (character encoding, bidirectional text, text formatting, character processing, datatype specific issues, etc.), and gives a brief overview of some of these technologies.See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Roberto Busa Award, call for nominations Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:05:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 756 (756) ADHO - Allied Digital Humanities Associations The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) announce: The Roberto Busa Award CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2007 AWARD The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). It is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. Subsequent recipients have been Emeritus Professor John Burrows (2001), who helped to shape the application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and bridging the gap between traditional literary criticism and computer-aided stylistics, and Emeritus Professor Susan Hockey (2004), for her contribution to the establishment of the field of Humanities Computing, and for her work on computers and text. The next Busa Award will be given at the Digital Humanities 2007 conference, which will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. The Award Committee (names listed below) invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH or ALLC. Nominators should give some account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominees work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Award Committee, Lorna Hughes, at the address lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk or AHRC ICT Methods Network, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, London WC2R 3DX, UK, no later than June 1st, 2006. Members of the 2007 Award Committee Espen Ore (ALLC) Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen (ALLC) Lorna Hughes (Chair, ACH) Stefan Sinclair (ACH) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 Skundric Subject: jobs in London Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:59:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 757 (757) The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, is advertising the following two part-time positions. Please circulate this notice as widely as possible. (1) Network Development Officer - JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Part-time, 0.5FTE, 36 months. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London wishes to employ an outgoing, dynamic and organised person to initiate a programme of rapid community building under the direction of the King's Visualisation Lab. The Network will provide support for 3D visualisation activities in Arts and Humanities disciplines in UK Higher Education institutions. The Network Development Officer will establish and develop communications with projects and groups in UK HE institutions that are engaged in applying 3D visualisation approaches within Arts and Humanities disciplines. She/he will help to establish a Network Steering Group, provide the "visualisation community" with networking assistance, establish structures to foster exchange of information and skills between institutions, disseminate the work of the Network, promote discussion of key issues identified by the community and monitor Network sustainability issues. The appointee will organise scheduled meetings and assist Network members in organising conference presentations and panels. The successful applicant will have a good honours degree, experience of communications and publicity activities, excellent interpersonal, written, web-editing and administrative skills, with proven strengths in taking initiative and working independently within collaborative contexts. She/he will preferably have some knowledge and understanding of computer-aided visualisation activities in the academic, educational, cultural heritage and/or commercial sectors. Closing date for applications: 20 January 2006 Reference: E2/AAV/133/05. For further details and an application form please see the job opportunities link on http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ (2) 3D Visualisation Research Fellow- JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Part-time, 0.5FTE, 24 months The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London wishes to employ a part-time Research Fellow to assist the newly- established King's Visualisation Lab in developing a national 3D Visualisation Network in the Arts. The 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, part of the JISC Visualisation Support Network, will: build a sustainable community supporting 3D Visualisation in the Arts encourage and facilitate exchange of skills and knowledge stimulate and coordinate community-wide debate on key issues pro-actively interface with the JISC Visualisation Support Network form strategic connections between domains through a range of related, external bodies raise awareness and understanding of the Network in the JISC community and society The Network's 3D Visualisation Research Fellow will provide research- based support for the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network through a number of activities, including writing, presenting and publishing periodic reports on the research activities of the Network. The appointee will also work closely with members of the AHDS to analyse and augment aspects of the Projects and Methods Database, with a view to assisting the visualisation community to gain maximum benefit from it. A knowledge and understanding of computer-aided visualisation activities in the academic, educational, cultural heritage and/or commercial sectors is essential. In addition, the successful applicant will have a postgraduate degree, excellent research and written communication skills, extensive knowledge and experience of visualisation projects and proven strengths in working both independently and collaboratively. Closing date for applications: 20 January 2006 Reference: W1/AAV/132/05. For further details and an application form please see the job opportunities link on http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel St, London WC2R 3DX Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2684, Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 www.kcl.ac.uk/cch From: Dieter Harlfinger Subject: Digital Philology conference in Hamburg, January 20-22 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:47:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 758 (758) [please scroll down for English version] [please scroll down for English version] Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, das vorläufige Programm unserer Hamburger Konferenz "Digitale Philologie -- Probleme und Perspektiven" (20.-22. Januar 2006) ist jetzt unter <http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RV/other/projects/conference.html> verfügbar. 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Mit freundlichen Grüßen zu den Festtagen Dieter Harlfinger *** Dear colleagues, the preliminary programme for our conference "Digital philology -- problems and perspectives" (Hamburg, 20-22 January 2006) is now available at <http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RV/other/projects/conference.html>. We created an automated mailing list to distribute future information regarding the "Teuchos" centre only to those who wish to have them. To continue to receive announcements etc. from us, please send an email with the line (please insert your email address and name): subscribe teuchos-announce your_address_at_your_domain (Your full name) in the body to . You'll receive a confirmation after a few hours. All mails going through the list will have "[teuchos]" prepended to their subject line to facilitate automatic processing. We will send announcements outside of the mailing list only very sporadically in the future. Season's greetings, Dieter Harlfinger -- Prof. Dr. Dieter Harlfinger Universität Hamburg Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie Von-Melle-Park 6 D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: 040 / 42838-4770 Fax: +49 40 42838 4764 From: Norman Hinton Subject: Merry Whatevers Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:48:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 759 (759) Late, but as usual once again, let me wish everyone the joy of whatever/however you celebrate this time of year: Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, Saturnalia, Winter Break, End of Term: whatever. No lyric this year, just some excerpts from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, carefully leaving out most of the narrative sequences. Joy to all. Thay tan hym bytwene hem, wyth talkyng hym leden To chambre, to chemne', and chefly thay asken Spycez, that vnsparely men speded hom to bryng, And the wynnelych wyne therwith vche tyme. The lord lufflych aloft lepez ful ofte Mynned merthe to be made vpon mony sythez * * * * * * That most myrthe my3t meue that Crystenmas whyle --- * * * * * * Thus wyth la3ande lotez the lorde hit tayt makes For to glade Sir Gawayn with gomnez in halle That ny3t.... On the morne, as vch mon mynez that tyme That Drythen for our destyne' to de3e watz borne, Wele waxez in vche a mon in worlde for his sake; So did hit there on that day thurz daynte's mony.... Hidden agendas likely, but they knew how to celebrate. Enjoy your whatevers. From: Simon Harper Subject: Associate professor in Multimedia, UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS. Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:47:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 760 (760) JOB ADVERTISEMENT FROM UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Associate professor in Multimedia A 3-year position as associate professor with special tasks (MSO) in the area of Multimedia is available at the Department of Computer Science, starting February 1, 2006. As a minimum requirement, applicants must have documented scientific qualifications equivalent to a PhD followed by at least 2-3 years of additional research and teaching. It is assumed that the candidate will be affiliated with the department's research group within experimental computer science. The Department conducts research and teaching in theoretical as well as experimental computer science. The staff is close to 200 people, including 25 full or associate professors, and 60 PhD students. The number of M.Sc. students is approximately 500. Applications must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching qualifications and management experience, all in 4 copies (see http://www.nat.au.dk/stilling/cv for the recommended level of detail). All other material that the applicant wishes to be considered in the evaluation (publications (max 5) and other documentation of research and teaching qualifications, as well as management experience) must be enclosed in 3 copies. The Faculty refers to the Ministerial Order No. 170 of 17.03.2005 (( http://www.au.dk/da/21-05.htm) on the appointment of teaching and research staff at the universities under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Confederation of Professional Unions. Applications should be addressed to The Faculty of Science, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, Building 1520, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, and marked 212/5-137. The deadline for receipt of all applications is January 5, 2005, at 12,00= noon. For more information, please contact the head of the department Kurt Jensen (e-mail: kjensen_at_daimi.au.dk. tel: +45 8942 5612) or professor Kaj Gr=F8nb=E6k, E-mail: kgronbak_at_daimi.au.dk, tel +45 8942 5636 or consult the Web pages: http://www.daimi.au.dk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: "D.FILROM - CARLOS MARTIN VIDE" Subject: research positions 2005-14 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:47:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 761 (761) Apologies for multiple posting! Please, pass the information to whom may be interested. Thanks. ---------------------- 3 research positions may be available starting in the academic year 2006-2007 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 - Language and automata 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 are strong enough candidates for them. The scheme, which is funded by the European Commission, is highly competitive (with 5-10% of success rate last time). It includes 3 streams (IE, II, OI), which are described below. -------------------------------------------- IE GENERAL DESCRIPTION It aims at providing advanced training tailored to the researchers' individual needs with a view to adding different/complementary scientific competencies. This in order to allow them to reach or reinforce a position of professional maturity and independence or to permit them to resume their career. The duration is between 1 and 2 years. Applicant researchers should be from EU or Associated States with at least 4 years research experience or a PhD and willing to spend a mobility period working in a host institution located in another EU or Associated State, different from his/her own and from that where they have been recently active. JOB PROFILE - The position is intended to develop an advanced training + research project in collaboration with the host institute for 12-24 months. As well, some doctoral teaching and supervising is expected. - It will be filled in under the form of a work contract. - 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 got or being about to get a PhD degree by September 19, 2006 at the latest. - Being national of any of the 25 EU Member States, or of the 4 EU Associated Candidate States (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Turkey), or of the 5 EU 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: January 19, 2006). - Nationals from third countries that have resided and carried out their main activity in any EU Member State or Associated State for at least 4 of the last 5 years (reference date: January 19, 2006) are eligible, too. - 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: January 19, 2006). ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - A generous monthly living allowance depending on the researcher's experience, family situation, and sort of project (lab or non-lab), plus a travel allowance, a mobility allowance, and a contribution to other expenses (for instance, conference participation). - Health coverage will be provided by the Spanish public Social Security system. - 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 steps: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - an on-line application to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until December 31st, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-14-IE" in the subject line. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Pre-selected candidates will be guided and supported in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is January 19, 2006. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net -------------------------------------------- II GENERAL DESCRIPTION It aims at attracting top-class researchers from third countries to work and undertake research training in Europe from 1 to 2 years (incoming phase), with a view to developing mutually-beneficial research cooperation. In the case of emerging and transition economies and developing countries, the scheme may assist fellows to return to their country of origin for, typically, half the duration of the first phase (re-integration phase). JOB PROFILE - The position is intended to develop an advanced training + research project in collaboration with the host institute for 12-24 months. As well, doctoral teaching and supervising are expected. - It will be filled in under the form of a work contract. - There is no restriction on the candidate's age. - Only experienced (top-class) researchers have a real chance to succeed. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - Having got or being about to get a PhD degree by September 18, 2006 at the latest. - Not being national of any of the EU Member States or Associated States. - Nationals from third countries that have resided and carried out their main activity in any EU Member State or Associated State for at least 4 of the last 5 years (reference date: January 18, 2006) are ineligible. - Researchers from all other countries are eligible provided they have not spent more than 4 years during the previous 5 years in any of the above-mentioned EU countries. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - A generous monthly living allowance depending on the researcher's experience, family situation, and sort of project (lab or non-lab), plus a travel allowance, a mobility allowance, and a contribution to other expenses (for instance, conference participation). - Health coverage will be provided by the Spanish public Social Security system. - In the case of researchers from emerging and transition economies and developing countries, the scheme may include additional provision to assist them to return to their country of origin, with typically half the duration of the first phase. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 steps: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - an on-line application to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until December 31st, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-14-II" in the subject line. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Pre-selected candidates will be guided and supported in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is January 18, 2006. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net -------------------------------------------------- OI GENERAL DESCRIPTION It aims at reinforcing the international dimension of the career of European researchers by giving them the opportunity to be trained in a world-level third country research organisation (from 1 to 2 years), and then to apply the experience gained in a return host institution in a Member State or Associated State (typically half the duration of the first phase). It also aims at responding to the researchers' needs in terms of complementing their training in inter/multi-disciplinary research, research management skills and intersectoral mobility. JOB PROFILE - The position is intended to develop first an advanced training + research project in a world-level third country research organisation (not in any of the EU Member States or Associated States) for 12-24 months, and then to apply the experience gained to the host institute for 6-12 months. In the second phase, doctoral teaching and supervising are expected too. - It will be filled in under the form of a work contract. - There is no restriction on the candidate's age. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS - Having got or being about to get a PhD degree by September 18, 2006 at the latest. - Being national of any EU Member State or Associated State. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - A generous monthly living allowance depending on the researcher's experience, family situation, and sort of project (lab or non-lab), plus a travel allowance, a mobility allowance, and a contribution to other expenses (for instance, conference participation). - Health coverage will be provided by the Spanish public Social Security system in the second phase. EVALUATION PROCEDURE It will consist of 2 steps: - a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute, - an on-line application to be assessed externally by the funding agency. SCHEDULE Expressions of interest are welcome until December 31st, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-14-OI" in the subject line. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Pre-selected candidates will be guided and supported in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is January 18, 2006. CONTACT Carlos Martin-Vide carlos.martin_at_urv.net From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: The Creative Commons Needs Urgent Help Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:48:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 762 (762) According to Michael W. Carroll, Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law, the Creative Commons is in danger of losing its charitable status with the IRS unless it receives more donations by the end of the year. Any donation, no matter how small, will help and it will be matched. For donations at $50 or above, the CC offers buttons, stickers, and shirts (at least $75 for this item). Give at: http://creativecommons.org/support/ More information at Carroll's SOAF message. https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/2647.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm From: Simon Harper Subject: Third International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:01:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 763 (763) Web Accessibility (W4A 2006) CFP *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS* The Third International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A 2006) 'Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?' Located at the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006) May 22, 2006, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. http://www.w4a.info Keynotes ----------------------- * Sarah Horton is an instructional technology specialist at Dartmouth College and is the author of 'Access by design: A guide to universal usability for Web designers'. * Aaron Leventhal is an IBM Web accessibility architect and is the leader of the Mozilla Accessibility Project. * Dr. Rhys Lewis is Chief Scientist for Volantis Systems Ltd. and is the chair of the Device Independence Working Group (DIWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). * Donna Smillie is a senior Web accessibility consultant at the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB), UK. 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 Springer Journal - Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS). 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 'Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?'. After the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative at the World Wide Web Conference 2005 we are beginning to realise that, today, mobile Web access suffers from interoperability and usability problems that make the Web difficult to use. With the move to small screen size, low bandwidth, and different operating modalities, technology is in effect simulating the sensory and cognitive impairments experienced by disabled users within the wider population of mobile device users. In this our 3rd Workshop we ask the question: 'Is engineering, designing, and building for the mobile Web just a rehash of the same old Web accessibility problems?' We wish to bring together different communities working on similar problems to share ideas, discuss overlaps, and make the fledging mobile Web community aware of accessibility work that may have been overlooked. We ask is designing for accessibility and small screened devices really the same thing requiring the same solutions and can we work together to solve these problems? What can the Mobile Web learn from the Accessible Web and what resources created to support the Accessible Web can be used by designers in their support of the Mobile Web. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): * Advances in Mobile Web technologies; * Design and best practice to support the Mobile Web and accessibility: * Technological advances to support web accessibility; * End user tools; * Accessibility and Mobile Web guidelines, best practice, evaluation techniques, and tools; * Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios; * Innovative techniques to support accessibility; * Universally accessible graphical design approaches; * Design Perspectives; * Adapting existing web content; * Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation. [...] From: Ruth Mostern Subject: ECAI CFP Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:02:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 764 (764) ECAI is pleased to announce that the Spring 2006 meetings will be held in conjunction with the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference - Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage, April 18 21 in Fargo, North Dakota. ECAI is accepting submissions for papers within the theme Cultural Heritage and Cyber infrastructure on the following topics: 1) Exemplary cultural maps and atlases 2) Cultural atlases in teaching 3) Gazetteers and related aids 4) Metadata, Standards, and Best Practices 5) e-Scholarship / e-Science 6) Cyber infrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences 7) e-Publications 8) Virtual Reality The CAA list of conference topics include: 1. Virtual Reality Modeling 2. Simulations and Complex Modeling 3. 3D Data Capture, Manipulation, and Analysis 4. Field Applications 5. Remote Sensing 6. Mapping and Spatial Technologies (GIS and others) 7. Informatics 8. Education 9. Cultural Heritage Resources Management 10. Bio-Archaeology and Human Biological Heritage 11. Quantitative Applications 12. Archaeometry 13. Maritime Archaeology 14. Theoretical Issues Submissions relevant to ECAI topics should be sent by January 13, 2006 to Kim Carl, ECAI, kcarl_at_berkeley.edu. Submissions relevant to the CAA list, but not to ECAIs, should be submitted directly to CAA. Submission guidelines for CAA are available from the CAA conference web site, http://www.caa2006.org/. ECAI had a successful conference with CAA in the Spring 2003. We welcome this opportunity to once again meet with this diverse group of scholars. Plans to meet in Belfast were altered due to logistical problems however an ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases in Belfast is in the planning. Best wishes, Kim Carl ECAI http://ecai.org From: "TSCF-Conference Management" Subject: Blagoevgrad Seminar on Social Fragility, 16-18 June, 2006 Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:03:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 765 (765) Att: Dear Members, Colleagues and Readers, Dear Partners from diverse institutions, Obj: Call for Papers and Participation The Social Capital Foundation invites all interested persons or organizations to present a paper at its upcoming international, interdisciplinary seminar on social fragility that will be held on June 16-18, 2006, at the American University in Bulgaria, in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Definitions of social fragility, 2. Components and factors of fragility and precariousness in our societies, 3. Assessment of social fragility. Is social fragility on the rise? 4. Mutations in community links, family links and social networks, 5. Moral values and social cohesion, 6. Mental and physiological public health issues, 7. Economic precariousness and social bond, 8. Ethnic and cultural contradictions, 9. Mechanisms of the emergence of new major risks. Additionally, the THRACE project (Targeting Human Research for Anchoring Cooperative Evolutions in Europe) supported by The Social Capital Foundation will be presented at the seminar. It is an investigation on how to use social capital to favor transborder cooperation in the border regions of Europe, and to elaborate appropriate tools for doing so. For more information please go to http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/synopsis.htm. With best wishes, TSCF _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Social Capital Foundation Head Office: Ave. Eugene Castaigne 16 B - 1310 La Hulpe Tel: + 32-2-654.10.86 Fax: + 32-2-654.10.86 Website: http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: VR scholarly editions Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:04:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 766 (766) Dear all, It is important, and it perhaps should be stressed once again, that Willard chose *scholarly* editions as basis for our thought experiment in VR. In my discipline --- classical philology --- scholarly editions consist mainly of a text and its apparatus, which is a list of all variant readings an editor decided to include (from manuscripts, editions, other editors; cf. an example at http://www.flickr.com/photos/filologanoga/75537168/in/set-1640106/). It is true that editions of texts strive towards pure content, towards something that enables us to forget the form, forget everything but the "virtual reality" created by the text in our mind. But this applies, I think, to *all other* editions but scholarly ones; these, with their apparatus, strive in opposite direction. If use them seriously, i. e. as scholarly editions, they will make immersion difficult. Surely, we can concentrate on what we read "above the line", and disregard the footnotes --- but do we then really use the edition for its main purpose? A scholarly edition invites us to think about the variants (even when it favorizes one reading over all other) --- otherwise the variants would not be presented. Which means that a scholarly edition invites us to think about the phenomenology of a text, if I use the term correctly. Therefore, I would not agree with Herbert, when he writes: Reading experiences, I suppose, are not the goal of scholarly efforts in textual criticism. Scholarly editions address an academic audience, and they present a communication *about* texts: the actual 'text of the work' embodied in such an edition should then serve as a reference base for the scholarly informations about (variant) texts and contexts. Actually, I can not see the need for any another medium than the written word itself, printed on paper or shown in a screen window. I think that a VR scholarly edition presents a new avatar of "the scholarly informations about variant texts and contexts". Remember, the apparatus as we know it was formed by *constraints* of the print medium, constraints mostly in space available on a page, but also in typography (each textual variant must be *translated* from its original script, re-set into type of current edition; when Herbert says "the written word itself", he simplifies --- is this word written or printed? if printed, in what type? etc). An electronic text is not bound by such constraints. What the printed apparatus necessarily *symbolizes*, a VR edition could --- almost litteraly --- *embody*. Of course, the main stumbling block remains: all this potential leads us not to thinking about what is *in* the text, but about the text (and its contexts) itself. Is this less worthy than thinking about contents? Should this gap between texts and contents --- texts and its own VR --- be somehow closed? Could VR help *here*? Neven From: Willard McCarty Subject: (critical) thinking and button pushing Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:05:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 767 (767) In Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (Princeton, 1995), Ian Hacking takes a close look at the process by which often unquestioning practices of measurement have legitimated multiple personality and turned it into an object of knowledge. Speaking of our modern tools, he observes that, [deleted quotation]In building our marvellous tools, do we not run a similar risk in proportion to their complexity? In cases where fundamental intellectual decisions have been made at root level, then in effect hidden away by higher-level processes, this would seem clearly the case. Thus I recall an historian once remarking that she never used databases constructed by other people because she had found too many critical decisions had been made below the level of manipulation. She may have been wrong in particular instances not to have trusted good work, but it seems to me that her point is well taken. What do we do to answer it? Hacking is, however, talking more about the power of distraction than the effects of concealment or the consequences of effective inaccessibility. It is perhaps for his reason that some of us, with tongue not entirely in cheek, have praised the user-hostile interface: at least a person must think before reaching for that mouse. Again, what can we do to answer his point, made at the interface of user and computational artifact? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Hope Greenberg Subject: Book: Ambient Findability Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:11:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 768 (768) For those of you interested in how the web-world has co-opted the language of, or implemented the ideas of, taxonomies, ontologies, metadata, folksonomies, and the semantic web, there is a very accessible discussion of these in chapter 6: The Sociosemantic Web (esp. 6.2: The Social Life of Metadata) in Peter Morville, "Ambient Findability : How what we find changes who we are." (O'Reilly, September, 2005) Part of the Safari Books Online Series : http://tinyurl.com/c8564 (And for those of you who have read your Foucault, considering all these in terms of Borges' "Chinese Encyclopedia" animals list -- http://www.multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html?1 -- might make the chapter even more interesting...) - Hope -------------------- hope.greenberg_at_uvm.edu, Univ. of Vermont From: Willard McCarty Subject: Multimedia Systems 11.1 Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:12:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 769 (769) Volume 11 Number 1 of Multimedia Systems is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editor's note p. 1 Klara Nahrstedt DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0185-4 Analogies based video editing p. 3 Wei-Qi Yan, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Jun Wang DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0186-3 Regular Paper Multimedia and firewalls: a performance perspective p. 19 Utz Roedig, Jens Schmitt DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0187-2 Regular Paper An adaptive web page layout structure for small devices p. 34 Xing Xie, Chong Wang, Li-Qun Chen, Wei-Ying Ma DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0188-1 APEX: adaptive disk scheduling framework with QoS support p. 45 Ketil Lund, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0189-0 Scalable trusted online dissemination of JPEG2000 images p. 60 Robert H. Deng, Di Ma, Weizhong Shao, Yongdong Wu DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0190-7 Regular Paper CollectCast: A peer-to-peer service for media streaming p. 68 Mohamed Hefeeda, Ahsan Habib, Dongyan Xu, Bharat Bhargava, Boyan Botev DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0191-6 Regular Paper A generalized temporal context model for classifying image collections p. 82 Matthew Boutell, Jiebo Luo, Christopher Brown DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0202-7 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 L. Solleiro" Subject: Re: (critical) thinking and button pushing Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:10:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 770 (770) What would Gutenberg think of the Internet? You raise indeed a good question, that of "can we entrust our children with our knowledge?" History answers it, and reveals that Time solves all. Adoption is gradual, mistakes are commited. By my readings of past messages in this group, I understand that you fear that "ultimate empowerment", through a file and its VR, could be misachieved: the individual would miss the opportunity, and be in fact a victim of full individual visibility. Precisely, then, your question would be "can our children achieve full understanding of this knowledge, and these tools, that we're passing on?" I reckon that Humanist Computing (I dare to coin it along with you, as in this group it is a discipline) is about seeking saturation of knowledge. What you are trying to achieve is full visibility and classification of all information, through methods, formats and protocols. Was it not the objective of the encyclopedia? Isn't it said that nothing is new? Wasn't it suggested that "nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, all is transformed"? As you put in an October discussion, Purpose is what finally structures all movements. Today's Purpose is empowerment. What Nietzsche called the "will to power" : every individual masters his and hers destiny, setting goals and boundaries, reacting and adapting to environments, moving forward in a round world, living by their heart. Your discipline aims to achieve by the way of tools what all humans can achieve by the ways of the mind, and the heart: positioning. Worry not: even if we achieve, through the Internet, the use of XML and semantic classification, total transparence, in the end only the individual's (or the organization's) will to power will set one's destiny. Keep on working, as only society changes. "Einstein Deplores Use of Atom Bomb", New York Times, 8/19/46 Cheers to all, have a round 2006! Alexandre Solleiro Y2K youth PS ; [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 6.48 Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:09:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 771 (771) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 6, Issue 48 (December 28, 2005 - January 3, 2006 HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAPPY UBIQUITOUS CONVERSATIONS! Prepare for the year ahead by reviewing some of the interviews in the Ubiquity archives; hotlinks to the individual interviews will make the process painless. See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/. Soon to come are brand new interviews with RAY KURZWEIL, MICHAEL SCHRAGE, BOB KAHN, ALICE PARKER, BARRY JAMES FOLSOM, MARNEY MORRIS, and RAJESH SETTY. Happy new year! From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ontology Based Modelling in the Humanities Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:07:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 772 (772) International Workshop "ONTOLOGY BASED MODELLING IN THE HUMANITIES" (http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/OntologyWorkshop) 7-9 April 2006, University of Hamburg In the new area of digitalized information, researchers from the humanities face a new problem: semantic data organisation. In contrast with the data processed by natural sciences, the material in most fields of humanities is mostly unstructured. The structuring of such data is a complex problem that can be solved only by formal models and languages from computer science. However the application of formal models from formal sciences (especially computing) is itself a scientific problem as humanists have their own scientific culture not only in the argumentation and meta-theories but also in their way of communication. With the development of the Semantic Web the "ontology"-concept became an important "key" for data-structuring. Some ontologies were developed also in the Humanities, but there is still no overview of what exists, which standards are used and how well the current ontologies meet the users requirements. The current workshop aims to fill this gap and act also as a discussion forum We welcome original papers related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics: * theoretical relevant models for humanities * formal prerequisites * specific ontologies for different fields in Humanities * collaborative tools for ontology manipulation * Semantic Web technologies for preserving cultural heritage * Semi-automatic ontology extraction * Ontology development in multilingual context * Practical use of ontologies in Humanities Organisers * Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) * Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Invited Speakers: * Marin Doerr, (FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete) * Nicola Guarino (IST-CNR, Trento, Italy) Programme Committee * Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) * Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research) * Richard Deswarte (University of East Anglia) * Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) * Roberto Poli (University of Trento) * Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Important Dates: * Paper Submission 10th January 2006 * Notification of acceptance 5th February 2006 * Camera Ready Papers 28th February 2006 Submission guidelines Submissions should be A4, one-column format and should not exceed seven pages, including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12 font is preferred. The first page should contain the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and 10 lines of abstract. Continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in *PDF* format to vertaninformatik.uni-hamburg.de . Each paper will be reviewed by up to three members of the program committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding camera-ready versions -- 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 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ruth Mostern Subject: GIS & History at the American Historical Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:08:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 773 (773) Association Conference There will be a roundtable discussion of history and GIS at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia. Session 18, "Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and History: Aggregating Data, Connecting Places, and Analyzing Processes," Thursday, 5 January 2006, 3:00-5:00 p.m., in Washington Room A of Loews Philadelphia Hotel (p.85 of the printed program). This is a joint session with the American Association for History and Computing. The panel leading the discussion consists of Zephyr Frank (Stanford University), Anne Kelly Knowles (Middlebury College), John H. Long (The Newberry Library), Ruth Mostern (University of California at Merced), and J. B. "Jack" Owens (Idaho State University). A roundtable discussion is a relatively new AHA session format. In order to stimulate the discussion, we have taken advantage of another new AHA format: the "precirculated" paper. Each of us has written some sort of paper, dealing with one or more aspects of the use of GIS, which is available online through the AHA's meeting program, at the URL: http://www.historians.org/annual/program.cfm We hope that some of those who attend the session will read some or all of the papers beforehand and come to the discussion with comments and questions. Each of us will briefly summarize his or her paper, speaking for no more than ten minutes, and the rest of the time will be available for open discussion. You can read about our intentions in the opening section of Jack Owens' "paper," which he has also made available as a web page: http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/AHA2006.html There will also be a second session that focuses on GIS. It is entitled "Mapping the World with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)" and is part of the companion meetings of the Center for History and New Media and the Community College Humanities Association. The session will be held on Friday, 6 January, 9:30-11:00 a.m., in Room 103 of the Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown (p. 106 of the printed program). From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Jan. 6 Early Registration Deadline for Online Workshop Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:11:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 774 (774) * Are you seeking greater clarity on fact versus fiction in the realm of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in higher education? * Do you want to explore the complex issues involved in managing copyrights on campus? As part of its 2005-2006 Intellectual Property in Academia Online Workshop Series, the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is pleased to assist you in this quest: DRM in Higher Education http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#drm January 23 - February 3, 2006 Moderated by Kimberly Kelley, Ph.D., and by Clifford Lynch, Ph.D. Dr. Kelley is Assoc. Provost, ILS, and Exec. Dir. of the CIP at UMUC. Dr. Lynch is Exec. Dir. of the Coalition for Networked Information and the CIP's 2004-2006 Intellectual Property Scholar. This asynchronous online workshop is designed for instructional design and information professionals, librarians, faculty, university counsel, and administrators. WORKSHOP FORMAT: This two-week online workshop will include course readings, chats and online discussions, and daily response and feedback from the workshop moderators. Please visit the web site for all course objectives: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#dmca REGISTRATION: Early registration--only $125--closes JANUARY 6. Regular registration--$150--closes JANUARY 20. Reserve your space now at https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm For additional information call 240-582-2965 or visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa ************************************************** Register Now for the last online workshop in this series... Copyright and Academic Culture http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#copyright February 20 - March 3, 2006 Moderated by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University. REGISTRATION: Early registration--$125--closes FEBRUARY 3. Regular registration--$150--closes FEBRUARY 17. Reserve your space now at https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm For additional information call 240-582-2965 or visit http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa ************************************************** !SAVE THE DATE! SIXTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY JUNE 14-16, 2006 UMUC INN & CONFERENCE CENTER ADELPHI, MD ************************************************** --Jack Boeve Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 240-582-2965 http://www.umuc.edu/cip From: Kathlin Smith Subject: Fellowship program for humanists Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:09:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 775 (775) CLIR Announces Fellowship Program in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2006 Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists. Now in its third year, the fellowship provides new scholars in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop expertise in new forms of scholarly research and the information resources that support them, both traditional and digital, that are challenging research institutions in the changing academic landscape. The program offers fellowships to individuals who have earned their Ph.D.s in disciplines in the humanities within the past five years (or who will earn them before starting the program) and who believe that there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools. All fields in the humanities will be considered; Fellows must be in residence at a sponsoring institution for the duration of the fellowship. Applications must be postmarked by February 24, 2006. For more information about the CLIR Fellowship and application procedures, please visit <http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html.>http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Roberto Busa Award nominations Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:11:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 776 (776) ADHO - Allied Digital Humanities Associations The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) announce: The Roberto Busa Award CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2007 AWARD The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). It is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. Subsequent recipients have been Emeritus Professor John Burrows (2001), who helped to shape the application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and bridging the gap between traditional literary criticism and computer-aided stylistics, and Emeritus Professor Susan Hockey (2004), for her contribution to the establishment of the field of Humanities Computing, and for her work on computers and text. The next Busa Award will be given at the Digital Humanities 2007 conference, which will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. The Award Committee (names listed below) invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH or ALLC. Nominators should give some account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominees work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Award Committee, Lorna Hughes, at the address lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk or AHRC ICT Methods Network, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, London WC2R 3DX, UK, no later than June 1st, 2006. Members of the 2007 Award Committee Espen Ore (ALLC) Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen (ALLC) Lorna Hughes (Chair, ACH) Stefan Sinclair (ACH) Steve Ramsay (ACH) Lorna Hughes AHRC ICT Methods Network King's College, London 7 Arundel St. London WC2R 3DX e-mail: lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk phone: 020-7848-2426 web: www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Scholia and Variants Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:12:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 777 (777) Re: 19.530 VR scholarly editions I'm not sure that Neven Jovanovic meant to suggest that all scholarly editions must present a critical apparatus in order to be considered scholarly. This would seem to exclude the category of editions without a critical apparatus but produced by scholars who provide scholia. Prominent in this category are translations accompanied by notes. One of my favourites is the following passage in the translation by Lewis White Beck of Kant's _What is Enlightment?_ If we are asked, "do we now live in an _enlightened age?_" the answer is, "No," but we do live in an _age of enlightenment_. to which is appended the following note: ["Our age is, in especial degree, the age of criticism, and to criticism everything must submit" (_Critique of Pure Reason_, Preface to first edl [Smith trans.]).] I like the play of brackets :) -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: Willard McCarty Subject: a cautionary tale Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:07:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 778 (778) Daniel C. Dennett, in the hugely entertaining essay, "Memes and the exploitation of imagination" (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48.2, Spring 1990), discussing implications of Richard Dawkins' idea of memes, notes the following: [deleted quotation]Perhaps the conclusion to be drawn is not that "new media" studies has no basis whatever but rather that there are many forces at work and that sometimes one or more of them can be far more important to the outcome than any factors attributable to the medium. Is there here a cautionary tale for those of us who are professionally committed to the putatively revolutionary effects of the new medium? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Paul Oppenheimer Subject: Re: 19.531 (critical) thinking and button-pushing Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:05:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 779 (779) As Tolkien has Gandalf say, "Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves." On Dec 29, 2005, at 1:21 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 19.531 (critical) thinking and button-pushing Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:06:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 780 (780) Hi Willard, I appreciated very much your passing on Hacking's comments - which, along with yours, I find to be spot on. I would highlight two points - one from Hacking, one from you. You quote Hacking as saying [deleted quotation]At the risk of being overly general - one of the very interesting upshots of what some of us like to call the computational turn in philosophy (as an umbrella term for the multiple ways in which the emergence of computation has radically extended and transformed philosophy, at every level from classical questions of logic, ontology, epistemology, identity, ethics and politics - in part as computers both provide new models _and_ ways of modeling and testing both traditional and contemporary views) is the way in which the _limits_ of the machinery help highlight specific human capacities. A broad example would be Dreyfus's extensive critique of strong AI, one that, by drawing on phenomenological descriptions of how we as humans learn, know, and act, sharpens our appreciation for the roles of tacit knowledge (i.e., knowledge that, according to Polanyi, can _not_ be made fully articulate in formal ways), of embodiment and kinesthetic forms of knowledge (as these are - currently, at least - out of the reach of our computational devices) - and, nicely enough, judgment. Indeed (and more specifically), as many of us are already aware, judgment - especially Aristotle's notion of _phronesis_, a _practical_ capacity for ethical and political judgments that precisely requires informing and tuning through experience (including the experience of failure) - has experienced something of a renaissance in contemporary ethics. This is in part because of heightened attention to virtue ethics (both Aristotelian and feminist) more generally - but also because "judgment" at least in some forms appears to be beyond the reach of algorithmic computation. That is: especially as judgment includes the capacity to discern which _general_ principles are most appropriate to apply to the specifics of a given instance - such judgment seems necessary prior to the beginning of an algorithmic procedure, as the latter must assume as a starting point, in Aristotle's terms, specific first principles in order to make any sort of start. I would want to know more about what Hacking means by "judgment" in this context, in order to avoid equivocating. But on the face of it, his use of "judgment" squares with Aristotle's (so far as I understand it). If this is the case, then his point serves as another important articulation of the significance of judgment in human knowing and _being_ - where judgment may remain (for the time being, at least) a distinctively human capacity. (Please don't misunderstand this point. I'm no longer very interested in debating whether or not machines will ever fully replicate human beings - i.e., one of the central questions driving the now dated debates regarding AI. Briefly, I think these debates, along with other problems, misunderstood the stakes - i.e., whether or not important human dignity and ethical respect could be maintained if we are indeed reducible to mechanism. But that's another story for another day.) In any event - it is also one of the (sadly) forgotten points of recent history that Norbert Wiener's use of the term "cybernetics", to denote a self-correcting informational system comes from the Greek _cybernetes_, a steersman or pilot - where the steersman is taken up by Plato in the Republic as an analogue of _ethical_ judgment (what became _phronesis_ in Aristotle), i.e., precisely the capacity to find our way in the face of competing and conflicting demands - a judgment that is certainly prone to error, but one that is also capable of self-correction when errors are made (i.e., we learn from experience, including the experience of failure). In this light, it may not be too much of a stretch to say that Plato was the father of humanistic (specifically, ethical) cybernetics - if not quite humanities computing (smile)? You, dear Willard, then raise the second point I would like to highlight: [deleted quotation]I'm not sure what sort of answer you might think is needed here - I take your colleague's point as well, and would reinforce it by way of reference to the now classic work of Albert Borgmann (Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, 1984 - ! - as well as his more recent book, _Holding on to Reality_). One of Borgmann's central points is that contemporary technology "works" precisely by making things easier for us at a surface level (at the interface, it is fair to say) - but at the cost of an increasing complexity underneath these surfaces, so that underlying machinery becomes less and less accessible / intelligible to us. A raft of examples can be alluded to here - such as automobiles and Pirsig's motorcycle (which, in the 1970s, could still be repaired, according to Pirsig, in a zen-like way by using shims crafted on the spot from cola cans) that have now become much more efficient, long-lasting, and enjoyable to drive, but at the cost of a dependency on computational devices that take even basic repairs out of the provenance of even an accomplished shade-tree mechanic. So I'm with you when you comment: [deleted quotation]Indeed, Borgmann makes this same point in his wonderful description (_Holding on to Reality_) about building and using his first "desktop" computer in the 1970s, which was programmed by flipping switches... [deleted quotation]I'm not sure I have answers, per se - but certainly some more comments. One, along with Borgmann and others, I am deeply concerned about these sorts of consequences of contemporary technology - to perhaps exaggerate a bit, about our increased dependency on technologies we don't understand, as these foster and reinforce doing things the easy way, and thereby (it appears) render us less and less capable of taking up what is difficult and complex. If human and humane life - especially in a contemporary, democratic society - were easy, this would be no problem. But... An anecdote: not too long ago at my grocery store, grapefruit were for sale for 2 for $1.00. I picked up four (I like grapefruit, and that was a good price). Unlike all the other goodies in my basket, the grapefruit had no price code for the cashier to scan. The unfortunate young cashier at the register was literally powerless when confronted with four grapefruit. The cashier repeatedly asked the price, which I repeatedly several times. (I wasn't trying to be sadistic or malicious, but I was genuinely curious to see what would happen.) Again, 2 for $1.00. How many did I have? Four. And they're 2 for $1.00? Yes. This went on for quite some time. When it was finally clear that the cashier was unable to calculate that four grapefruit would cost $2.00, I offered the calculation, and life moved on again. Of course, I've no idea how representative, if at all, the befuddled young cashier might be of younger folk. But like Plato's _cybernetes_, the cashier serves in my mind as an example of something larger - namely, how we, in the U.S. at least, seem largely bent on making ourselves more intellectually inept as we make our lives, on a superficial level at least, more convenient - precisely through increasing dependency on ever more complex technologies. What worries me is not simply that the arithmetically illiterate will have trouble getting by in a world of money and numbers. More importantly: how will such minds be able to take up what I (and, I think, most of us who would call ourselves humanists) take to be the core concepts and questions of how to live full and meaningful human lives - including central ethical and political understandings? In particular: how will such minds be able to take up and incorporate what many of us take to be a core intuition/argument of democratic communities - that human beings are most centrally free beings; that if free beings are to remain free, they must exercise consent over those events and institutions that affect them (I'm paraphrasing Locke, Jefferson, Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King, Jr.); and so, to deny them voice and consent is to thus deny them of their core human identity as free beings? (And all that goes with that - including, from Socrates through Martin Luther King, Jr., the ability to discern the difference between just and unjust laws, and to be willing to disobey unjust laws, no matter the consequences?) In sum, I think your worries about the interface between the user and the computational artifact are, again, spot on. If I had my way ... just as I'd like to see less dependency on the computer as calculator (is it really too much to hope that a young adult can deal with 4 grapefruit @ 2 for a dollar?), I'd like to see my students less dependent on the computer (and the Internet) as researcher, writer, and communicator. How to do this, and in the right measure, is, of course, the rub. And beyond that, a larger question. While some of us may be inclined and fortunate enough to be able to play with Linux and command lines (or, gasp, even program!) rather than be restricted to point-and-click GUIs; while some of us may still insist on repairing our machines, plumbing, etc., as we can; while some of us delight in the play of the mind that comes with poetry and philosophy, along with the hard work of thinking things through - modern democracies and liberal/secular societies depend, in the end, on the hope that most of us can be philosophers and humanists enough to understand what self-governance entails, how we can meaningfully engage in democratic debate, deliberation, and choice, etc. By contrast, as Nietzsche reiterates, Plato and the Greeks famously believed that only the few were so inclined and capable. My cashier worries me - Plato, in end, may be right, however disastrous (in my view), the political consequences of that correctness will be. I hate to end on such a dark note - but I hope these comments are at least helpful in some way. Thanks, Willard, as always, for such helpful and provocative notes! Indeed: deepest thanks, and heartiest congratulations on your shepherding HUMANIST so productively and enjoyable for lo! these twenty years! And all best wishes for the new year, Yours, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> 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'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: "PSI06 Conference" Subject: PSI 2006: Final CFP Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:07:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 781 (781) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS 27-30 June 2006, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI06 [AIMS AND SCOPE] The conference is held to honor the 75th anniversary of academician Andrei Ershov (1931-1988) and his outstanding contributions towards advancing informatics. The first five conferences were held in 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2003, respectively, and proved to be significant international events. Andrei Ershov was one of the early Russian pioneers in the field of the theory of programming and systems programming, a founder of the Siberian Computer Science School. In 1974 he was nominated as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 1981 he received the Silver Core Award for services rendered to IFIP. Andrei Ershov's brilliant speeches were always in the focus of public attention. Especially notable was his lecture on "Aesthetic and human factor in programming" presented at the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1972. Andrei Ershov was not only an extremely gifted scientist, teacher and fighter for his ideas, but also a bright and many-sided personality. He wrote poetry, translated the works of R. Kipling and other English poets, and enjoyed playing guitar and singing. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Andrei Ershov and working with him will always remember his great vision, eminent achievements, and generous friendship. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions in computer science. For a developing science, it is important to work out consolidating ideas, concepts and models. Movement in this direction is another aim of the conference. Improvement of the contacts and exchange of ideas between researchers from the East and West are further goals. [...] From: Simon Harper Subject: JCDL 2006 - CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:09:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 782 (782) ***CALL FOR PAPERS*** JCDL 2006 - Opening Information Horizons June 11-15, 2006 -- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA http://www.jcdl2006.org/ Important Dates January 20, 2006 Full papers, panels, workshops and tutorial proposals due February 3, 2006 Short papers, posters and demonstrations due March 3, 2006 Acceptance notices emailed out April 7, 2006 Final versions due Welcome to JCDL 2006 The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries," including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; digital preservation and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. Paper Submission Full and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Papers must be in English with a limit of 10 pages (approximately 5000 words) for full papers and 2 pages for short papers. All papers must be original contributions (i.e., not have been previously published or currently under review for publication elsewhere). All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL conference web site, following ACM format guidelines and using the template provided. Preferred submission formats are PDF or Microsoft Word. The conference will award the Vannevar Bush Award to the best full paper. Panels, Posters, and Demonstrations Panels and posters provide opportunities to present work-in-progress, late-breaking results, or other efforts that would benefit from discussion with the community. Successful panel proposals should involve a controversial or emerging topic and articulate and entertaining panelists. Panel proposals must consist of a title, a 1-page extended abstract explaining the topic and goals of the session along with a list of titles of individual presentations and/or viewpoints and contact information for the organizer, moderator, and panelists. Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, a 1-page extended abstract, and contact information for the authors. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of panels and posters will appear in the proceedings. Demonstrations will allow attendees to have first-hand views of innovative digital libraries technology and applications and to talk informally with system developers and researchers. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, a 1-page extended abstract, and contact information for the authors. Abstracts of demonstrations will appear in the proceedings. All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL conference web site. Tutorials and Workshops Proposals for tutorials and workshops are also solicited. Tutorials are intended to present a single topic in detail over either a half-day or a full day. Tutorial proposals should include: a tutorial title; an abstract (1-2 paragraphs, to be used in conference programs); a description or topical outline of tutorial (1-2 paragraphs, to be used for evaluation); duration (half- or full-day); expected number of participants; target audience, including level of experience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); learning objectives; a brief biographical sketch of the presenter(s); and contact information for the presenter(s). Tutorial proposals should be emailed directly to the tutorial chair. For further information please contact the tutorial chair. Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest in a new or emerging issue and provide a forum for discussion and exploration. 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(at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: Lorna Hughes Subject: jobs at CCH, London Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:24:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 783 (783) Jobs at CCH, King's College London Please note: These two positions may be filled by the same or two different persons 1. Network Development Officer - JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Part-time, 0.5FTE, 36 months. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London wishes to employ an outgoing, dynamic and organised person to initiate a programme of rapid community building under the direction of the King's Visualisation Lab. The Network will provide support for 3D visualisation activities in Arts and Humanities disciplines in UK Higher Education institutions. The Network Development Officer will establish and develop communications with projects and groups in UK HE institutions that are engaged in applying 3D visualisation approaches within Arts and Humanities disciplines. She/he will help to establish a Network Steering Group, provide the "visualisation community" with networking assistance, establish structures to foster exchange of information and skills between institutions, disseminate the work of the Network, promote discussion of key issues identified by the community and monitor Network sustainability issues. The appointee will organise scheduled meetings and assist Network members in organising conference presentations and panels. The successful applicant will have a good honours degree, experience of communications and publicity activities, excellent interpersonal, written, web-editing and administrative skills, with proven strengths in taking initiative and working independently within collaborative contexts. She/he will preferably have some knowledge and understanding of computer-aided visualisation activities in the academic, educational, cultural heritage and/or commercial sectors. Closing date for applications: 20 January 2006 Reference: E2/AAV/133/05. For further details and an application form please see related <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ndo-JISC-Dec-05.doc>word document. ----- 2. 3D Visualisation Research Fellow- JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Part-time, 0.5FTE, 24 months The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London wishes to employ a part-time Research Fellow to assist the newly-established King's Visualisation Lab in developing a national 3D Visualisation Network in the Arts. The 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, part of the JISC Visualisation Support Network, will: * build a sustainable community supporting 3D Visualisation in the Arts * encourage and facilitate exchange of skills and knowledge * stimulate and coordinate community-wide debate on key issues * pro-actively interface with the JISC Visualisation Support Network * form strategic connections between domains through a range of related, external bodies * raise awareness and understanding of the Network in the JISC community and society The Network's 3D Visualisation Research Fellow will provide research-based support for the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network through a number of activities, including writing, presenting and publishing periodic reports on the research activities of the Network. The appointee will also work closely with members of the AHDS to analyse and augment aspects of the Projects and Methods Database, with a view to assisting the visualisation community to gain maximum benefit from it. A knowledge and understanding of computer-aided visualisation activities in the academic, educational, cultural heritage and/or commercial sectors is essential. In addition, the successful applicant will have a postgraduate degree, excellent research and written communication skills, extensive knowledge and experience of visualisation projects and proven strengths in working both independently and collaboratively. Closing date for applications: 20 January 2006 Reference: W1/AAV/132/05. For further details and an application form please <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/job-vacancies.html>http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/job-vacancies.html From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.538 a cautionary tale? Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:26:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 784 (784) One might mention that a good reason for poets to publish books is that many of the writers are Artists in Residence, looking for tenure, and needing "real" publications. And many of the poems have been published separately before in journals, and often the poets have been paid for them. And one of the best sources of income for poets, outside of their University salaries, is giving readings at Universities, and having books to show (and to sell in conjunction with the readings) is a large part of the process of attracting offers to read. Also, a lot of publications by contemporary poets are not expensive books, but are published in the "broadside" tradition, by presses that want to publish them in paper covers with Perfect bindings, to sell them cheaply, and those presses seem to survive on the proceeds. I think this is a lot of getting worked up over nothing, just to propose an Internet solution for a problem that may not exist. From: Willard McCarty Subject: critical thinking about critical thinking Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:23:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 785 (785) On this subject of some recent discussion, I quote from Alec Fisher, Critical Thinking: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2001) -- who on page 1 ironically demonstrates the need for what he professes to be teaching. After noting the putative failure of traditional efforts to teach critical skills indirectly, in courses dedicated to the conventional disciplinary subjects, Fisher notes that, "The result is that many teachers have become interested in teaching these skills *directly*. This is what this text aims to do. It teaches a range of *transferable* thinking skills, but it does so *explicitly* and *directly*.... they will be taught in a way that expressly aims to facilitate their transfer to other subjects and other contexts" (original emphasis). I am reminded of my hero Dr Johnson's railing against cant, i.e. "the particular language or jargon of a class.... a pet phrase, a trick of words; esp. a stock phrase that is much affected at the time, or is repeared as a matter of habit or form" (OED). "Transferable skills" is certainly one of our current pets. But what does it mean? Consider a skill, say carpentry or brick-laying. What, do you suppose, would a master carpenter think of justifying what he or she does by the claim that it is transferable? The implication seems to be that carpentry is not or cannot be valued for what it accomplishes directly, rather for how it can be used in some "other contexts" -- unspecified. One would hope that a master carpenter would have deep insights by virtue of his or her skill into the building of things and could, perhaps, adapt if wood were not to hand, though only to a limited degree. (Stone-cutting, for example, is a very different skill.) But if you're going to hire a carpenter, you'll do so for the skills in carpentry, and you would certainly look for a carpenter who actually cared about his or her particular skill and wasn't minded to be transferring it somewhere else, no? I am thinking, then, that selling what we do as "transferable" devalues it and so makes us quite vulnerable. It's always been clear, has it not, that success in the world does not require an advanced degree. (I don't suppose I'm the only one who was reminded of this fact by family members not as privileged as I was, and later by successful but less well-educated persons than I.) Perhaps it is true, as a colleague of mine at Toronto used to say, that we need to "package" ourselves so as to be attractive to those who pay for us. But it seems to me that *critical* thinking is required to keep the goods from becoming the packaging. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.534 (critical) thinking and button pushing Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:26:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 786 (786) Willard, Although I would like to take a look at how Hacking comes to his conclusion that "one enters data and presses a button" and that this has an impact on critical thinking, but I would say that his comments are somewhat overstated. Statistical packages (and I am mostly thinking about minitab and SPSS) really only do the math for a statistical process. The decision to analyse via t-test, time-series model, parametric or non-parametric etc. still depends on the user of the package. While I think there are still "critical thinking" risks, they are the same kinds of risks that one might encounter analysing Joyce's _Ulysses_ without a computer. For example, since it is very easy to conduct the tests, one might run a variety of tests and pick the ones that produce the more interesting results (this might also not be a problem!). In the same sense, one might be more likely to analyse _Ulysses_ using reader's response theorem because the book is particularly suited to a reader's response discussion. My larger critical thinking concern comes with more qualitative products like Nudist (which I have to admit I have never used myself). But again, the problems are more universal than computing packages. For example, choosing a taxomony for the organization of themes or concepts has a considerable influence on the results of the study. I also have a concern about online surveys, data collection and the like, since it is very difficult to establish a good understanding of how a survey will work in such a broad arena as the World Wide Web. In the absense of statistical software, statistical tests would have to be done by a statistician, who could, in fact, influence process more drastically than a computer. For example, a busy statistician could dictate how he/she want the information organized (to facilitate ease of calculation), and in fact could have a number of co-workers (typists, clerks, assistants, etc.) that could potentially have influence as well. Software also enables others as prone to mathematical errors (like myself) to scrutinize data and criticize accordingly. And there are plenty of mathematicians out there willing to scrutinize the tiniest numerical error in a system (they aren't very nice about it either!). This is not to say critical thinking errors do not occur. For example, through the familiar econometric Granger "causality" test, it can be shown that an increase in sales of Christmas card causes Christmas to come (not my own idea, but I do not have the citation). Also, if Hacking means to say that computing makes it so easy to do statistical analysis that researchers can be prone to choosing stats for projects that could be better analysed through qualitative means -- sure, that's a fair criticism. But, if it is so easy, why not do both? Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: Julia Flanders Subject: Re: 19.530 VR scholarly editions Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:25:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 787 (787) Although difficult to achieve in practice, for purposes of this thought experiment it's worth entertaining in theory the idea that a VR edition is immersive precisely to the degree that it can strive to represent *the entire structure of readings* that constitute the textual field of the edition. We might think of such a structure as existing in n-dimensional space; we can think of the conventional scholarly edition format as a sort of projection of that space in fewer dimensions (as a hypercube can be imperfectly represented by a line drawing in two dimensions). VR might not get us the full distance, but it might prove somewhat more capable of representing that higher dimensionality. Being truly immersed in such a structure (rather than in the diegetic narrative world of the text) would be a very different kind of experience--quintessentially scholarly, one might say--and may not really be possible for any but true scholarly idiot savants whose minds are capable of holding all that information in play at once. (Sort of like building a DOM of the text in your head.) But if it is conceivable, I suspect that only some sort of VR interface is ever likely to be represent it in practice: the book with its footnotes is no help in doing this, and even the digital edition with the plenitude of links and alternative views really just makes things a bit more convenient--it doesn't help us make that quantum leap towards a holistic view. (That is, it's a difference of degree, not of kind, from a conventional print edition.) The VR edition I'm imagining would be different in kind, because it would be attempting to represent the structure of textual variation as an immersive space, rather than as a set of points and threads from which one's own mind can imperfectly perceive structure, little by little. But it might make one's head explode! [deleted quotation]Julia Flanders From: fcty Subject: UPDATE: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes - Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:28:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 788 (788) Deadline: January 20th, 2006 UPDATE: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes - Deadline: January 20th, 2006 If you could, please post this reminder that the deadline for submitting to "Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes," the Intersections Graduate Student Creative Conference 2006, in Toronto is: Friday, January 20th, 2006. The conference is hosted by graduate students of the York/Ryerson Joint Programme in Communication and Culture. This year will also host an adjunct politics and policy workshop with the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group (TUPDiG). We encourage all graduate students interested in Communication and Culture to submit to this creative conference, especially if students have some preliminary research completed after their last term of course work! For more information about the conference please read the original call for papers below, or see our web site for details concerning abstracts and submissions to both the conference and the TUPDiG workshop: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html More announcements will follow shortly concerning keynote speakers, and other events at the conference. Our apologies for any cross posting. We look forward to seeing you at the conference from March 24-26, 2006!! Have a great new year! Sincerely, Peter Ryan Intersections Conference Chair 2006 **************************************************** EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES Intersections 2006: A Graduate Student Creative Conference Call For Proposals (CFP) CFP DEADLINE: Friday, January 20th, 2006 Web Site: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture York University and Ryerson University Toronto, Canada March 24-26, 2006 EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 5th annual Intersections weekend Creative Conference. This year we are especially interested in discussing the significance of both new and established scapes, and their relationships with and connections to imagined and physical spaces. Edges, nodes, networks, overflows, streams: the way we imagine our world is changing. We are at a point where it is important to reflect upon and consider older connectivities established through non-electronic media, while at the same time considering the potentials of new media through emerging communication technologies. Bodies, commodities, ideas, and technologies follow an exploding number of conduits between the local and the global, around, through, and behind nations and institutions. The 2006 Intersections Conference will be the 5th annual event organized by the York/Ryerson joint Programme in Communication and Culture. After last year's successful conference concerning themes of HYBRID ENTITIES, which analyzed haphazard links, mongrel formations, and mutant compositions, we are now interested in submissions that explore intersections where steps and solutions can be actively followed in attempts to answer the many questions that arise when we try to create and influence the direction of Communications and Culture. The conference will investigate the following new spaces and modes of movement: How and by whom are these flows, networks, and disjunctures created? By what paths do we move/think through them? Where is power, and how does it move? Do borders, edges, and in-between spaces exist? What happens here? Is social change or even directionality possible within a fluid and shifting environment? What metaphors and tools can we use to conceptualize the world and the future? What potential exists for scapes of resistance, or opportunities to challenge present boundaries and structures? What can we learn from the past? How can we imagine new social formations, solidarity, and subject positions in the 21st Century? Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference welcomes submissions that take up these themes either through an academic paper presentation, an artistic expression, or an activist agenda. Details on subtopics and submission procedures follow below. We encourage all interested activists and scholars to participate and to come celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Intersections Conference!! ******************************* SUBTOPICS AND THEMES Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations that relate to the following broad themes: 1) Media and Culture Topics could include (but are not limited to) cultural consumption and production, cultures of cities, space and place, depictions of ability/disability, media democracy, media studies, popular and visual culture, subjectivity, representations of class/ethnicity/gender/race/sexualities, semiotics and linguistics. 2) 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. Also, issues of how the Internet and network society is reconfiguring social formations and subject positions will be considered as a part of this category. 3) Politics and Policy Potential areas of focus could include (but are not limited to) accessibility, citizenship, communication policy, copyright and intellectual property, cultural policy, deliberations about communication and culture and the public sphere, globalization, media ownership in Canada, questions of structure, power and agency, privacy and surveillance, sovereignty, and strategies of resistance. SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES As an expanded event, this year EMERGING SPACES will include the following formats for disseminating and discussing ideas. 1) Paper presentations - 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time for discussion to follow 2) Creative work with artist?s talk - Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied by artist talk during conference 3) 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 the following address: 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: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2006. Please e-mail inquiries and submissions to: intersec_at_ryerson.ca CFP available online: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html Presented by the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association (GSA): http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa For more information about the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture: http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/ 2. Adjunct Workshop: COMMUNICATION, CULTURE, POLITICS & POLICY The Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group (TUPDiG) at the Intersections Conference For more on TUPDiG please see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tupdig/ For more on the Adjunct Workshop Call For Papers (CFP) please see: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/tupdig.html CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP): COMMUNICATION, CULTURE, POLITICS & POLICY March 2005 In conjunction with the Ryerson/York University Joint Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture, the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group invites graduate students to share their research in a special one- day workshop focusing on communications, culture, politics and policy. The workshop will be held as an adjunct session to the Communication & Culture Programme's fifth annual graduate student conference (24-26 March), to be held at Ryerson University, Toronto. The workshop's aim is to support academic experimentation and discussion, towards developing a community of inter-disciplinary scholars concerned with political and policy-related issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - analysis of historical and contemporary events and institutions - current theories and models in communications and culture studies - challenges to dominant understandings within a broad, complex field Submissions from researchers trained outside the field of communications and culture, as well as from outside politics and policy studies are encouraged. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Friday, 20 January 2006 PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORMAT The workshop will be oriented around sessions of two or three 10-15 minute paper presentations followed by questions. All interested participants are asked to submit an abstract outlining the basic themes and argument their presentation will make. Abstract should be no more than 250 words (one 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 2. Name 3. Affiliation (program and university) 4. Level and year of study (e.g., MA, 2nd year) 5. Phone number 6. E-mail address 7. Mailing address 8. A/V and other requirements (computer/projector, display materials) 9. Please e-mail inquiries and submissions to: [tupdig_at_yahoo.ca] or [intersec_at_ryerson.ca]. Presented by the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tupdig/ Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa The Call For Papers for "Intersections 2006," the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture Annual Conference is available at: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html From: "Princeton University LISTSERV Server (14.4)" Subject: job for Postdoctoral Researcher on social software Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:09:22 -0000 From: Sue Thomas X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 789 (789) advance notice *please circulate* I'm delighted to announce that I have been awarded an AHRC Speculative Research Grant for a one year project investigating the interdisciplinary applications of experimental social software to the study of narrative in digital contexts. The post is based in Leicester, UK, in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University. http://www.dmu.ac.uk and the project will be supervised by myself, Professor Sue Thomas http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/ supported by Simon Mills, who is currently devising a PGDip in Publishing & New Media at DMU. The vacancy We hope to appoint a post-doctoral research assistant with an ability to appreciate and synthesise the spirit of this proposal. S/he will probably, but not necessarily, have a first degree in a Humanities subject, but will also have a substantial understanding of the technical aspects of the project. Most importantly, they should have a proven knowledge of narrative in digital environments and in interdisciplinarity and able to demonstrate some experience of Web-based collaborative tools. The start date is under discussion but will be before June 1st 2006. The appointment is for one year. Project description The electronic environment has transformed the resources available to the academic researcher, most recently in the area of collaboration and new kinds of knowledge management. This project evaluates a selection of experimental software tools to discover whether they offer valuable unconventional opportunities to connect researchers across widely-differing disciplines and to examine how they might support innovative collaborations, such as shared bibliographical resources. The study will focus on the study of narrative within a digital context but findings are expected to be of use to a wide range of researchers. The project will include the survey and evaluation of collaborative social network tools, both qualitative and quantitative, and the creation and analysis of a database of researchers working on narrative within a digital context. Please direct any queries about the post to me at sue.thomas_at_dmu.ac.uk. You should also contact me at that address if you would like to be informed when the post is advertised. Sue Thomas Professor of New Media School of Media and Cultural Production Faculty of Humanities De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH United Kingdom +44 (0)116 207 8266 sue.thomas_at_dmu.ac.uk http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/ In development: the DMU Online MA in Creative Writing & Technology http://writing.typepad.com/cwt/ From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 790 (790) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 791 (791) [deleted quotation]Brian A. Bremen Associate Professor English Department 1 University Station, B5000 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-0195 Office: Parlin 127 email: bremen_at_curly.cc.utexas.edu Phone: 512-471-7842 Fax: 512-471-4909 From: Lynda Williams Subject: [Fwd: 19.531 (critical) thinking and button-pushing] Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:25:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 792 (792) Wouldn't it be nice if one could not use a process unless one could demonstrate understanding of it? Might our era even be catagorized as the one that put great power in naive hands? -- Lynda Williams, http://www.okalrel.org "The Courtesan Prince" (SciFi) Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy From: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 19.542 critical thinking Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:25:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 793 (793) In einer eMail vom 06.01.06 11:49:34 (MEZ)=20 Mitteleurop=E4ische Zeit schreibt willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU: [deleted quotation]Another one "pet phrase" is in my eyes "critical=20 thinking". Why "thinking" is not enough? Against this sort of cant I would re-cite Kant cited these days by Francois Lachance in the VR thread: "to make use of his [or her, sc. wo/man's] understanding without direction from another" - is this not the strict sense of "to think"? When I'm confronted with thoughts from 2 thinkers, as in the actual thread Hacking's and Deschamps's, I consider the stringency - if the arguments are 'critical' or affirmative depends from the formulation of the statement in question, isn't it? At this moment, Deschamps is convincing. Herbert send understanding understanding without direction from another From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: To plumb the skill of carpenters, to dwell, to think awhile Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:27:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 794 (794) Willard, For the carpenter as a lone worker operating a small business, contacting clients, providing estimates, delivering the promised product or service, dealing with contingencies, publicizing one's services, or equally as a member of a crew, there's more to coordinating the work than swinging a hammer or sawing a board. I don't think the import of your provocation rests in whether or not carpenters, technicians, even humanist scholars, have transferable skills. It is the advertising of such skills with which you take umbrage. Still, I want to distinguish the hiring of a carpenter to do carpentry from the hiring of a person with experience in carpentry to something other than carpentry. In the later case, the question of marketing becomes germane. Allow me to introduce Exhibit A, the categories and their descriptions from a survey to assist students in assessing their transferable skills: University of Minnesota (Duluth) http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/car/self/career_transfer_survey.html Communication the skillful expression, trasmission [sic] and interpretation of knowledge and ideas. Research & Planning the search for specific knowledge and the ability to conceptualize future needs and solutions for meeting those needs. Human Relations the use of interpersonal skills for resolving conflict, relating to and helping people. Organization, Management & Leadership The ability to supervise, direct and guide individuals and groups in the completion of tasks and fulfillment of goals. Work Survival the day-to-day skills which assist in promoting effective production and work satisfaction. Such inventories can be read as aimed at the production of complacent cogs in a machine. However, such surveys are also tools for imagining oneself elsewhere. That is but one step in producing an elsewhere nearby. My dissatisfaction with much of the discourse of transferable skills is not in the notion of the application of old learning to new contexts. It is with the privileging of the consensus-driven team-building outcomes over contestation and repudiation. Granted few rebels get hired. At least, few that would advertise their rebel streak. Somehow in the quest for employment lists of transferable skills assume a frictionless universe. The use value of friction is discounted. When there are no plumbers at hand and there is a choice between a carpenter and an accountant and you have a dripping tap - the accountant just might provide the best cost-benefit analysis and suggest waiting till there are more plumbers about. The carpenter could suggest the same. Either could have training as a humanist. In some elsewhere nearby they do. And not far away there are the packaging designers arraning for the afixing of passages from Cicero to various surfaces. -- Francois Lachance, a scholar-at-large who has sawed wood and done minor plumbing. From: "Alan Liu" Subject: RE: 19.544 VR scholarly editions Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:28:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 795 (795) One might extend this discussion in two directions, each of which alters--or redefines--the emphasis on "immersion" so that our hypothetical VR edition does not necessarily tend toward what Julia so deftly sketches as an n-dimensional variorum. (1) We might think instead in terms of augmented reality rather than virtual reality. The short videos of the Magic Book device in action at http://www.hitl.washington.edu/magicbook/ give good sense of how an AR edition might work--overlaying a physical book or environment (e.g., a museum installation) with measured, controllable supplements of information. Something like this experience also characterizes the Google Earth product on the 2D screen, where one can turn on or off layers of supplementary location information (e.g., schools, streets, etc.). It may be that "augmentation" is a more suitable paradigm in a scholarly context because it suggests an analytical, differential, and selective mode of "immersion." (2) I suggested casually at one point in my _Laws of Cool_ book that "An instructor, for example, could take students into an immersive CAVE virtual reality environment to walk the Lakes with an interactive William Wordsworth 'bot.'" In retrospect, that sentence conflates two paradigms. One might single out here the notion of a limited-purpose expert-intelligence bot, one programmed to respond in selected situations (e.g., dramatizing a pivotal moment in a novel) in such as a way as to demonstrate the constraints--historical, social, moral, cultural, etc.--under which the character acts. ("Constraints" here is informed by Brenda Laurel's theory of interface design in _Computers as Theatre_. The notion of role-playing characters in novels is informed by Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker's Ivanhoe Game, http://www.speculativecomputing.org/ivanhoe/). The paradigm of the bot places the emphasis less on immersion than on interaction, defined in this case as temporally or narratively sequenced doses of constraints able to teach (inform) about "reality" (constraint). Incidentally, Neal Stephenson's novel, _The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer_ (1995) contains as one of its central elements a fine fantasia of how an interactive, immersive "book" would work in education. [deleted quotation] From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- December 2005 Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:29:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 796 (796) CIT INFOBITS December 2005 No. 90 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 the Web version of this issue at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitdec05.html ...................................................................... Large-Scale Study of Distance Learning Effectiveness Distance Learning and Faculty Concerns Questioning the Value of Learning Technology Comparison of Scholarly Print and E-Journal Editors New Journal Covering Plagiarism in the University Community Google Launches Newsletter for Librarians Wikiversity Recommended Reading ...................................................................... LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF DISTANCE LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS The extensive literature of research in distance education relies heavily on small studies and qualitative research. Many of these studies report that delivery format produces no significant difference in student learning outcomes. In "Does Distance Learning Work? A Large Sample, Control Group Study of Student Success in Distance Learning" (E-JIST, vol. 8, no. 1), James Koch reports on a study that uses a very large distance education sample (76,866 individual student observations) compared with a control group of residential students who took the identical course at the same time from the same instructor. According to Koch, "The results indicate that gender, age, ethnic background, distance learning experience, experience with the institution providing the instruction, and measures of academic aptitude and previous academic success are statistically significant determinants of student success." The paper is available online at http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/docs/vol8_no1/fullpapers/distancelearning.htm. e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-JIST) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal published by the Distance and e-Learning Centre, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350, Australia; Web: http://www.usq.edu.au/dec/. Current and back issues of e-JIST are available at no cost at http://www.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/. See also: No Significant Difference Phenomenon website http://www.nosignificantdifference.org/ The website is a companion piece to Thomas L. Russell's book THE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE PHENOMENON, a bibliography of 355 research reports, summaries, and papers that document no significant differences in student outcomes between alternate modes of education delivery. ...................................................................... DISTANCE LEARNING AND FACULTY CONCERNS Despite the growing number of distance learning programs, faculty are often reluctant to move their courses into the online medium. In "Addressing Faculty Concerns About Distance Learning" (ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION, vol. VIII, no. IV, Winter 2005) Jennifer McLean discusses several areas that influence faculty resistance, including: the perception that technical support and training is lacking, the fear of being replaced by technology, and the absence of a clearly-understood institutional vision for distance learning. The paper is available online at http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/winter84/mclean84.htm. The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration is a free, peer-reviewed quarterly published by the Distance and Distributed Education Center, The State University of West Georgia, 1600 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118 USA; Web: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/jmain11.html. ...................................................................... QUESTIONING THE VALUE OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGY "The notion that the future of education lies firmly in learning technology, seen as a tool of undoubted magnitude and a powerful remedy for many educational ills, has penetrated deeply into the psyche not only of those involved in delivery but also of observers, including those in power within national governments." In a paper published in 1992, Gabriel Jacobs expressed his belief that hyperlink technology would be a "teaching resource that would transform passive learners into active thinkers." In "Hypermedia and Discovery Based Learning: What Value?" (AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, vol. 21, no. 3, 2005, pp. 355-66), he reconsiders his opinions, "the result being that the guarded optimism of 1992 has turned to a deep pessimism." Jacob's paper is available online at http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet21/jacobs.html. The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET) [ISSN 1449-3098 (print), ISSN 1449-5554 (online)], published three times a year, is a refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications, and related areas. Back issues are available on the Web at no cost. For more information and back issues go to http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet.html. ...................................................................... COMPARISON OF SCHOLARLY PRINT AND E-JOURNAL EDITORS Using examples from the library publishing field, Julie Banks and Carl Pracht examined the roles of editors of traditional print journals and newer electronic journals. The authors findings, reported in "Movers and Shakers in the Library Publishing World Highlight Their Roles: Interviews with Print and Electronic Journal Editors - A Comparison" (E-JASL, vol. 6 no. 3, Winter 2005), show that the two formats were "more similar than different from each other in terms of the editors' and editorial boards' roles, relationships, work loads, and utilization of peer review." The paper is available online at http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v06n03/banks_j01.htm. E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship [ISSN 1704-8532] is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship. E-JASL is published by the Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP), Athabasca, Canada. For more information, contact: Paul Haschak, Executive Editor, Board President, and Founder, Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA USA; email: phaschak@selu.edu; Web: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/. For another publishing viewpoint, see: "The Shift Away From Print" By Eileen Gifford Fenton and Roger C. Schonfeld INSIDE HIGHER ED, December 8, 2005 http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/12/08/schonfeld ...................................................................... NEW JOURNAL COVERING PLAGIARISM IN THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY The recently-launched, refereed INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EDUCATIONAL INTEGRITY [ISSN 1833-2595] intends to provide a forum to address educational integrity topics: "plagiarism, cheating, academic integrity, honour codes, teaching and learning, university governance, and student motivation." The journal, to be published two times a year, is sponsored by the University of South Australia. For more information and to read the current issue, go to http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/journals/index.php/IJEI. ...................................................................... GOOGLE LAUNCHES NEWSLETTER FOR LIBRARIANS In December Google launched a free, online publication, the GOOGLE LIBRARIAN NEWSLETTER. The newsletter was conceived at the 2005 American Libraries Association conference in Chicago as a way to answer questions raised by librarians and others who use Google for reference and research. The first issue discusses a frequently-asked question: "How does Google index the web, and, more important, how does it rank the results?" To read Google Librarian Newsletter or to subscribe to the email version, go to http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2005_12/newsletter.html. ...................................................................... WIKIVERSITY The organization that maintains the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) proposes the creation of Wikiversity, an "electronic institution of learning that will be used to test the limits of the wiki model both for developing electronic learning resources as well as for teaching and for conducting research and publishing results." Still in the initial startup phase, Wikiversity could, at the least, be an open repository for educational materials. Some Wiki board members also think it could serve as a host to online courses, which, in turn, could lead to degree-granting programs. For more information about Wikiversity, go to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to kotlas_at_email.unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "The Internet Is Broken" By David Talbot TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, December 2005/January 2006 "Over the years, as Internet applications proliferated -- wireless devices, peer-to-peer file-sharing, telephony -- companies and network engineers came up with ingenious and expedient patches, plugs, and workarounds. The result is that the originally simple communications technology has become a complex and convoluted affair. For all of the Internet's wonders, it is also difficult to manage and more fragile with each passing day." Online version of the article is in 3 parts: Part 1: http://www.technologyreview.com/infotech/wtr_16051,258,p1.html Part 2: http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16055,258,p1.html Part 3: http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_16056,258,p1.html From: Ken Friedman Subject: Cautionary tales and the poetry market Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 07:24:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 797 (797) Friends, In response toWillard's post (19.538) and Norman's (19.541), I'd like to suggest that both notes describe a problematic situation. Both descriptions have merit, but the market for poetry is a strange and specific market that work in a different way than either note suggests. It's true as Norman notes that one segment of the poetry market involves poets in residence, but these are not generally tenure-track faculty. There are poetry teachers who must publish, but they tend to be tenure-track faculty in departments of literature who also publish criticism and scholarship. There are comparatively few positions for poets who work as poets, teaching students how to write poetry, and publishing only poetry. By contrast, there are a great many more poets and small presses that publish their work. The market for these books is quite tiny and sporadic. Few bookstores sell poetry books, and most of those that do maintain small poetry sections with a few dozen titles among the tens of thousands of poetry books produced each year. Similarly, a few universities collect poetry books, mostly buying them for the special collections holdings, and these tend to focus on the work of some few presses. The rest of the market seems to function in a narrow trade among specialists or even as exchanged gifts among publisher-enthusiasts. Nevertheless, the vast majority of these presses do not survive on the proceeds. They are, for the most part, labors of love. They are subsidized by publishers who work day jobs, or even by wealthy publishers who actually pay to produce their books for markets that do not repay the costs. Publishers and editors often contribute their editorial, production, and marketing labor free. They publish books by poets who want to be published. While the poets want copies of their books, they rarely require advances or royalties. Many publishers explicitly pay no royalties: payment is in books. Others pay and advance and nothing more. There is a good reason for this. As a former general manager at Something Else Press, a distinguished small press that went defunct in 1974, the first thing the president told me is that accounting on our royalty checks would have cost more than the royalties we paid. We paid in copies. And this was a successful small press, with press runs of up to 3,000 copies of art, literature, and music books with well over 1,000 regular library purchases per book. We never did succeed in bookstores. Even though bookstores that ordered our books always sold them out, our problems was developing a good network of sales representatives who could cover the market, surveying the shelves, and reminding the stores that it was time to restock. We tried many companies and many solutions, and we never solved that problem. Since mail order never really worked for us either, our main market was university libraries, many with standing orders for all our titles. It is difficult for a tiny publisher without the kind of skills, capital, and staffing we had to aggregate a large enough standing-order market to survive, let alone succeed. Publishing is a business, and poetry publishing is the least profitable and most difficult part of that business. Even major firms that publish poetry subsidize their poetry books. They produce them for many reasons, including belief, faith, love, and prestige. Money is not among the main reasons, though a press that finds itself lucky enough to have a poet who winds the Nobel prize or another major prize will often reap a financial benefit after years of subsidy. But this also suggests why John McCarthy's idea may not work. The idea itself isn't bad. The problem is that most people don't want to read poetry. It's not that they might pay a penny for a single poem when don't want to pay fifteen dollars for a book. If people wanted to read poetry, they'd be buying the books or reading poetry in the New Yorker or even their daily newspapers. When I lived the the US three decades ago, I would watch people read magazine like the New York from time to time. I observed that they'd read some articles and nearly every cartoon -- watching their eyes and the page would make this clear. When they turned to a page with a cartoon and an article they were not reading, they'd stop, read for a moment or two, then move on. When they turned to a page with a poem and an article they were not reading, they'd move on directly. My conclusion is that there are three major markets for poetry. The largest market for poetry is among poets. The smaller market is the education market where institutions carry poetry in the curriculum for students, and where scholars work with poetry for other reasons, including research. The smallest market of all is a market in which people who do not write poetry or work with it professionally pay to consume it. The web may change the dynamics of active markets. It will not significantly change the dynamics of a market for any product people will not otherwise buy. I don't often buy poetry. When I have had reason to buy poetry, I've bought books on the web. For example, I've gone to the web in recent years to buy new translations of the Greek classics -- Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus -- by Robert Fagles, and a few collections of translations and criticism. An article in the New York Times interested me in the work of former US poet laureate Billy Collins, so I ordered a few of his books. (I observe that most of the poet laureates of the United States have been working as university professors before and since holding the position.) When I discovered that a couple of my Borges books had gone missing, I learned about a collection of his poetry and purchased it. And then there was a replacement for a lost copy of an excellent translation of the Elder Edda. That's a total of less than two dozen books in ten years out of hundreds I've bought and read, and all but four of these were updates to old title in the form of new translations or replacement copies. When you consider the fact that I represent a far more likely audience for poetry than most web users, you can see why the micro-market in poetry will not likely free up the kind of wealth that John McCarthy thinks it will. As that old poet Koholeth once said, "Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body." (Eccles. 12:12) I've always thought A. E. Houseman's comment on poetry an apt response, "... malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think:" There are many wonderful poetry resources on the web. I just can't imagine people paying to use them. Rather, like much else on the web, they form a library of resources for the already literate who might want to check a poem or a poet or find something when a book is not to hand. Yours, Ken -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 19.544 VR scholarly editions Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:47:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 798 (798) In einer eMail vom 06.01.06 schreibt Julia Flanders : [deleted quotation]While this might indeed be the feeling when you peruse some more recent scholarly editions ( e.g. volumes "7/8: gesaenge" of the famous "Frankfurter Hoelderlin-Ausgabe"), on the premise of Willard's thought experiment it should be more convenient (and certainly less painful!) to examine the same information in the VR medium. Or am I thinking in the wrong direction? I must confess: I can at best vaguely imagine a SFal 'holodeck', but I remember that in the times of Apple's hypercards/hyperstack technology a French textual scholar, Jean-Louis Lebrave, has simulated the genesis of some Heine mss. on screen. This was in principle not much different from the experiments with transparent papers overlaying each other, as recommended by editors in the 1920s to provide the users of scholarly editions with some physical experience of the hypothetical genesis of the text as explained in the critical apparatus. Coming back to the VR situation: What does an 'n-dimensional textual structure' actually imply? Are we to count for each version 1 dimension? Or would count a ms. for 2 when it shows alterations of text, the second one showing the paradigmatic resp. genetic relation of the variants inside the witness? In which ways could a VR edition in such a scenario surpass an actual comparison of different textual stages using multiple screens? I would very much appreciate if someone could help my poor imagination. With best regards and greetings for a prosperous new year, Herbert From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.548 cautionary tales and the poetry market Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:47:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 799 (799) Ken, a thoughtful and reasonable response -- I would say, though, that every department I taught in had a tenured writing faculty member, and the dept. from which I retired had three -- from a total faculty of only 12! Each of them had to teach a lit course each term, but the bulk of their work was teaching creative writing, and none of them published any 'scholarly' material: only (not an insult!) poetry and prose fiction (and the occasional play). All of them made it to full Professor. [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: getting it right Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:47:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 800 (800) For those here with concerns about scholarly accuracy and online habits, a tale to tell. Somehow, in the course of looking for material on how to do research (for a course I am designing), I came across the following quotation: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." It was in MANY places (many of them "inspirational") attributed to Aristotle, but without further detail. Dogged pursuit narrowed the field first to the Nicomachean Ethics, then to book 2, section 1 of that work. While from reading the short section I could see clearly that such sense could be made approximately from Aristotle's text, as a kind of paraphrase, that was not good enough (nor should be), so I looked further. The attribution was given by Wikiquote, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page, which listed the quotation as confirmed, from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- but wikis are not granite. Then, somewhere along the line I got a larger context, to wit: "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." Still I could not square these words exactly enough to Aristotle's text, so I started poking around in the books listed by a9.com. In one and only one book, I found what I was looking for. But the words turned out to be Will Durant's, from Story of Philosophy (rev edn, 1967, p. 61; reissue, 1991, p. 76), in which he is summarizing Aristotle's argument. The exact quotation is as follows: "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions' [Ethics, ii, 4]; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life;... for as it is not one swallow or fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy.' [Ethics, i, 7]" I should note as well that this morning I could not repeat the experiences of last night exactly and so had to look for Durant's text specifically. In other words, last night I was lucky. Had I not been.... I admit to having some sympathy with Daniel Dennett's confession, in "Memes and the exploitation of the imagination", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48.2 (1990), note 5, pp. 134f, that he persists in using an oft-quoted passage falsely attributed to Mozart "because it not only expresses but exemplifies the thesis that memes, once they exist, are independent of authors and critics alike. Historical accuracy is important (which is why I have written this footnote), but the passage so well suits my purposes that I am choosing to ignore its pedigree." On the one hand, there's pedantic fussiness, on the other sloppiness. Of course this is not a new problem. In the footnote Dennett also informs us that he found the misattribution "in Jacques Hadamard's classic study, The Psychology of Inventing in the Mathematical Field (Princeton University Press, 1949). p. 16... and first quoted it myself in 'Why the Law of Effect Will Not Go Away,' Journal of the Theory of Social Behaviour 5 (1975): 169-87, reprinted in my book, Brainstorms (MIT Press/A Bradford Book, 1978)." An old problem, but what sort of a worry? And what sort of example is this? What's the moral of the story? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.546 critical thinking Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:46:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 801 (801) Herbert, I read this comment: "Another one "pet phrase" is in my eyes "critical thinking". Why "thinking" is not enough?" and had one of those "aha!" moments. Thank you for taking my thinking back a step here. While we may speak of a fear of computer processes (like statistical software) as a potential impediment to "critical thinking" -- which, to this point, I was taking to mean evaluative, introspective, and perhaps self-reflexive as well -- I believe a missed a whole other realm of the problem in the batch. For instance, I can see how a statistical package can have serious implications on "creative" thinking, which also falls into the Kant quote previously mentioned, but in a different way. If you have a statistical package that sets your observations in the context of a pedigree of OPM (other people's math), this would have serious implications on the quality of research. It means that you may choose to run a quantitative test a) because it holds recognition in the scientific community and b) because it can be rather quickly. But maybe there is another, better way to analyse the data, without the package -- and maybe if the researcher takes a bit of time to "think for oneself" a new method can be developed. But, I wonder if there is a place out there for non-standard methods of data analysis? I mean, do you always have to reject the null hypothesis at 5% alpha to say something interesting has happened in your world? I, myself, have only dabbled in research, but I am a constant observer of phenomenon. My frustrations around the former have always been around the ritual of setting one's thoughts and ideas in the context of a scientific or philosophical tradition. It's not that I have not learned anything from a pedigree of scholarship. Nor is it that I do not wish to properly give credit to those who have thought of something before I did. It's just that I always found myself "thinking" in ways that are either peculiar, or difficult to mates in the tradition of scholarship. When forced to provide the pedigree in a literature review, I have always found my idea bounced into something that I hardly recognize as my own by the time I am finished. This may be a good thing in the end, because it doesn't hurt to hear the thoughts of others -- but it is still very frustrating. In this sense, I am glad to be finished with the world of scholarship and to be just speaking my mind in fora like these. And now for Francois' comparison of the carpenter and the accountant. I have, for a long time now, come to the conclusion that an accountant is a high-status librarian. High-status, because the information that the accountant catalogues and manages is money. While we do not often call on a librarian to organize our personal collections, there would also be a critical mass required for an accountant to be useful. Accountants and Human Resource managers are in a game of large populations and must strategize in worlds that are extremely uncertain. This is why we should not be surprised when the default setting for a managerial process does not value rebels nor the conlict and/or imagination that often comes with those guys. There are organizations out there that choose diversity as a default. I would argue, however, that the rebel hiring organization needs also a high capacity to hire and fire these rebels. So long as there are alot of organizations out there who are willing to look at rebels, this is not such a bad thing. The historical climate, however, has always had more hemlock than espresso for the local Socrates. Ryan Deschamps From: "H.M. Gladney" Subject: DDQ 4(4) is available Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:47:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 802 (802) The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 4 number 4 is available at <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_4_4.htm>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_4_4.htm It contains various short notes indicated by excerpts of its table of contents: The Class of 'Balls' Is Not Obviously the Set of Balls A Concise Dismissal of "Intelligent Design" What is "Digital Preservation"? What Does "Open Source" Mean? About Digital Preservation Costs Speculation about Faster Digital Preservation Progress Recommended reading: Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Recommended reading: The Internet is Broken The usual section on practical aspects of personal computing. The collected DDQ table of contents is available at <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq.htm Best wishes, H.M. Gladney, Ph.D. <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ HMG Consulting From: Simon Harper Subject: CFP: The 4th International Conference on Adaptive Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:17:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 803 (803) Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems The 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006) June 20- 23rd, Dublin Ireland THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS www.ah2006.org Submissions for full and short technical papers are invited on original and previously unpublished research in the many and varied aspects of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based systems. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS). In co-operation with the AIED Society (other agreements pending). Foundations & Core Technologies User profiling and modeling in adaptive hypermedia and Web-based applications Group modeling and community-based profiling on the WWW Web-based recommender systems and recommendation strategies Data mining for Web personalization Personalization, meta-data and standards (XML, the Semantic Web Initiative) Intelligent Web agents for personalization and adaptivity Composition and management of adaptive Web services and hypermedia Application Domains Adaptive information filtering and personalized information retrieval on the Web Personalized e-Learning and adaptive Web-based educational systems Adaptivity and Personalization for digital TV and 3D Web Personalizing the mobile Web (PDAs, mobile phones and other handheld devices) Personalization of Web sites, digital libraries, tourist services and cultural heritage Personalization in e-Commerce, eGovernment and Healthcare Adaptive multimedia content authoring and delivery Adaptive hypermedia in ubiquitous computing environments and Smart Spaces Practical Issues Privacy, trust and security in adaptive Web systems Architectures for scalable adaptive systems Evaluation methodologies, deployment experiences & user studies Empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia and Web systems Management, usability and scrutability of adaptive Web systems CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Carole Goble, University of Manchester Professor Judy Kay, University of Sydney Professor Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh Important Dates Paper (full & short) submissions: February 3, 2006 Doctorial Consortium paper submission February 3, 2006 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2006 Final versions due: March 31, 2006 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals due: February 10, 2006 Workshops & Tutorials: June 20, 2006 Main conference: June 21-23, 2006 Contact: Programme Chairs: Vincent.Wade_at_cs.tcd.ie and hla_at_cs.nott.ac.uk Submission categories: ---------------------- Full papers: 10 pages, 25 mins presentation, 5 mins question time. Should present original and previously unpublished mature research results. Best student paper prizes will be awarded to two best full papers with student(s) as primary author(s). The awards have a cash prize of $1000, donated by the family of Dr. James Chen, one of the pioneers of adaptive hypermedia. Short papers: 4 pages, 10 mins presentation, 5 mins question time. Should present original and unpublished ongoing research, best presented through either a short presentation, a poster, or a demonstration. Workshop papers: Same format as conference papers Doctoral consortium: 5 pages, 20 mins presentation, 10 mins question time PhD students should present their research topic and the progress of their research to get additional feedback on their ideas. ==== Simon Harper SIGWEB Information Director. (at the University of Manchester - UK) infodir_SIGWEB_at_acm.org http://www.sigweb.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: Call for papers: Literatures: From Text to Hypertext Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:24:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 804 (804) Call for papers: "Literatures: From Text to Hypertext" <http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/seminario/index.htm>, 21-23 September 2006, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, an international conference organized by CLDA: Committee on Comparative Literature in the Digital Age of the ICLA: International Comparative Literature Association and LEETHI: Literaturas Espanolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipertexto (Universidad Complutense) invite 200-word abstracts and a brief bioprofile of the author in English, French, or Spanish to Dolores Romero Lopez at and/or by 31 March 2006. Topics of the conference include the impact of hypertext and hypermedia on the study of literature; the evaluation of the presence of literatures on the world wide web; analyses of the impact of new media technology on formations of culture and on individual and social identities; theories of/on hypertext, literatures as hypertext before the arrival of the world wide web; the translation, reading, and reception of hypertext; and the pedagogical aspects of hypertext and cyber culture. For further detail consult the conference website at <http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/seminario/index.htm>. Following peer review, selected papers of the conference are planned to be published online in English in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture < <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu> and in a hard-copy volume in the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html> & <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp> and in Spanish online in LEETHI: Literaturas Espanolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipertexto <http://www.leethi.javart.net/> and in a hard-copy volume. steven totosy de zepetnek (ph.d., professor) <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html> clcweb_at_purdue.edu / steven.totosy_at_comcast.net 1-781-729-1680 (winchester at boston) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Of time and dimensions, art and craft Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:18:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 805 (805) Some loose observations... that connect in some dimensions... notes in a cantata, perhaps. Julia Flanders brings back the question of immersion and scholarly editions through the suggestion that VR might be used "to represent the entire structure of readings that constitute the textual field of the edition" and invites us to think of such a structure as existing in terms of n-dimensionality. Alan Liu suggests a shift in the discourse to considering "augmented reality" and offers the example of the Magic Book. Matt Kirschenbaum collecting further examples poses a question allusively pointing to Sherry Turkle's _Life on the Screen_. He asks: "What's immediately striking about both devices, I suppose, is their appeal to an embodied, social dimension of computing. Is this a fundamental departure from life on the screen?" http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000878.html The question, for me harkens back to Wendell Piez's intervention in the VR/Scholarly Edition thread and his recollection of the immersive quality of MUDs and MOOs. [See remarks below on immersiveness not being the same as experiencing environments in the round.] Whatever the appellation, whatever the implementation, there is in any model of simulation that reacts to changes in the behaviour(s) of the actor(s) a grappling with constraints on navigation. Julia does us a great service in reminding us that readings are other than their representations. What can be stored in an edition? How can what is stored in an edition be held in memory? How is an edition built to be performed? Ivan Illich in _In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon_ University of Chicago Press, 1993 p. 37-38 For more advanced readers, Hugh proposed a much more complex, three-dimensional ark - a space-time matrix built within the mind of the student and modeled on Noah's ark. Only a person who in early youth has been well-trained in darting back and forth through the rather simple-minded columns of _De tribus circumstantiis_, and who has already settled _historia sacra_ (which is the "narration of one's salvation") within this two-dimensional frame can follow Hugh in the construction of this advanced three-dimensional multicoloured monster memory scheme. The man who has best studied Hugh's writings on the moral and mystical ark has come to the following conclusion: 220 square feet of paper would be needed for a still readable blueprint of Hugh's ark-model of historical interrelationships. Twentieth-century medievalists, who in the great majority have never had any training in mnemotechnics, can perhaps imagine a blueprint of Hugh's ark, but they cannot recapture the experience of having such an ark in their own mind, or "be thoroughly at home with this thought and way of imagining."([Note] Hanc autem cogitationem et hunc modum imaginandi domesticum habe usitatum (De Tribus, Green p. 489, lines 24-25) [Green, William M., ed. "Hugo of St. Victor: de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum." _Speculum_ 18 (1943): 483-93.] I think Illich here fails to distinguish between witnessing a performance and having the experience of performing. I have seen scholars being at home in a corpus produce performances not marked by the easy familiarity attributable to domesticated use but by an engagement to explore and pursue. (See remarks on Robert Hollander providing a guided tour to the Dartmouth Dante Project http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0068.html ) Of course the ethos of exploration is not the same as that of (re)construction. However the demands on memory are no less daunting. 360, 180, 45, 90 degrees of immersiveness might be less in the surround and more in the connection with the projection -- the immersive quality may depend upon the impression of a breadth of possible movement --- the constraints on navigation, or in the case of MOOs, construction, not just any player can "dig" anywhere. In a collective enterprise, the very act of construction is an exploration. Upon first reading the invitation to imagine the representation and navigation n-dimensional structures, I thought of psychomotor activity, less in terms of appreciating models as various scales and more in terms of the sites of verbal inscriptions --- craning one's neck to follow an inscription round the ceiling contour of dining hall, looking down on an inscription exposed to the elements and slowly eroding, turning and turning to track the rich shifts across competing multimedia displays in some commercial centre. Pricking up one's ears for the audiobook. And the voice synthesizer. --- imagine if you will the Latin of Hugh piped out at the same time as Green's translation into English. Or one or the other rendered as subtitles (on the cinematic aspects of database see Lev Manovich _The Language of New Media_). Ofte in text analysis a frequency list can be turned into a score. Wendell did ask if a movie version might qualify for the VR scholarly edition (Humanist 19-402). Could a musical score count as an abstract representation of a textual field? I conclude with a pointer to Adrian Miles and with an invitation to consider his remarks about some new media art that "requires and forces a slowness that is if not at odds then certainly interrogates the time of art" and to consider the time of consumption as applied to the scholarly edition. http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog/archives/2006/01/09/paul-pfeiffer-at-ngv/ Perhaps, more ground in less time does not an immersive experience make. -- Francois Lachance, http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Programmer position at University of Maryland Libraries Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:30:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 806 (806) University of Maryland Libraries TITLE: Coordinator (Digital Libraries Developer) CATEGORY: Exempt Staff, Full-Time, Contract Appointment SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Minimum salary starting at $68,000. Excellent Benefits. Opportunity for an innovative and service-oriented individual to join a dynamic team environment at The University of Maryland Libraries. This new position will support the office of Digital Collections and Research (DCR) http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr, a new initiative at the University of Maryland Libraries. The success of this initiative depends on the development of a technical infrastructure that is based on open source software integrated with vendor products. The successful candidate will work as part of a team to support the creation of a framework for development and support of digital library collections and initiatives by interacting with a wide variety of individuals in the library including curators, metadata specialists, and other IT staff. This position will be jointly managed by the Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research, and Manager of Library Systems Development in the Information Technology Division (ITD). UM Libraries web site: http://www.lib.umd.edu Responsibilities: Participation in and support of Digital Library projects including work across the spectrum of services needed to support a digital library initiative (web services, repository configuration, staff administration tools, metadata crosswalking, indexing/search engine); ongoing support of existing services, as well as developing new ones; creation of technical documentation; keeping apprised of new technologies and solutions; participation in Library-wide and Campus-wide committees and teams as appropriate. Qualifications: Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. Experience/Skills: Three years relevant experience, preferably working in a digital library, digital publishing, or digital humanities environment; or a MS in Computer Science or related field and at least one year work experience (preferably in a digital library, digital publishing, tools development, or digital humanities environment). Significant experience working in a UNIX environment and demonstrated ability to program Java is required. Preferred: Experience with C/C++/XML/XSLT/SOAP/PERL/PHP/ and related technologies is highly desired. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, able to work in a team environment, and service-oriented. Applications: For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by February 10, 2006. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send to Ray Foster, Library Personnel Services, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011, or e-mail to gfernan1_at_umd.edu Fax: 301-314-9960. The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA employer. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.1 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:29:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 807 (807) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 1 (January 11 - January 17, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH RAY KURZWEIL RAY KURZWEIL SAYS THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR Ray Kurzweil, one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, futurists, and Artificial Intelligence experts, talks with Ubiquity about his best-selling new book "The Singularity is Near." Kurzweil: "We'll have sufficient hardware to recreate human intelligence pretty soon. We'll have it in a supercomputer by 2010. A thousand dollars of computation will equal the 10,000 trillion calculations per second that I estimate is necessary to emulate the human brain by 2020. The software side will take a little longer." BACK TO THE FUTURE Keep this link handy, so you can use hotlinks that will take you to any Ubiquity interviews you may have missed: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i48_ubcon.html From: Dieter Harlfinger Subject: Digital Philology conference in Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:52:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 808 (808) Hamburg, January 20-22 (update) [please scroll down for English version] Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, hiermit möchte ich Sie letztmalig auf den neuesten Stand hinsichtlich unserer Konferenz "Digitale Philologie - Probleme und Perspektiven" (Beginn: Freitag, 20. Januar 2006, 14:30 Uhr, Ende: Sonntag, 22. Januar, 13:45 Uhr) und den Workshop "Digitale Briefedition" (Freitag, 20. Januar 2006, 10-13 Uhr) aufmerksam machen. Das aktualisierte Programm finden Sie nun unter <http://www.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/events/>, in Kürze wird dort auch ein Plakat zum Download bereitgestellt. Sofern Sie über eine elektronische Mailingliste regelmäßige Informationen zu unserem Teuchos-Zentrum erhalten möchten, bitten wir um kurze Mitteilung per E-Mail. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, auch zum neuen Jahr, Dieter Harlfinger *** Dear colleagues, just a quick final update regarding our conference "Digital Philology - Problems and Perspectives", which will be held in Hamburg from Friday 20 January 2006, 2:30 p.m. until Sunday (22 Jan.) 1:45 p.m., as well as to a workshop on the digital edition of letter corpora (Friday 20 Jan. 10 a.m.-1 p.m.). The updated programme can now be found at <http://www.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/events/>, a downloadable poster will also be available shortly. If you would like to receive future messages concerning our "Teuchos" research centre through an electronic mailing list, please let us know by email. Sincerely, Dieter Harlfinger -- Prof. Dr. Dieter Harlfinger Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie Universität Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 6 20146 Hamburg Tel. 040 / 42838 - 4770 (- 4766) Fax +49 40 42838 - 4764 From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: Resource-Scarce Language Engineering Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:53:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 809 (809) 1ST CALL FOR PAPERS (9 January, 2006) Resource-Scarce Language Engineering http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/ 31 July - 4 August, 2006 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ 31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Málaga Workshop Organizer: Edward Garrett Workshop Purpose: This workshop will bring together scientists from academia and industry, as well as advanced PhD students, to present and discuss research on the theoretical and practical challenges of engineering resource-scarce languages. We intend to provide an inclusive forum for exchanging ideas on a broad range of topics in areas represented by ESSLLI, including basic text processing, speech analysis, and machine translation. Workshop Topics: Seen through one lens, "resource-scarce languages" are languages for which few digital resources exist; and thus, languages whose computerization poses unique challenges. Through another lens, "resource-scarce languages" are languages with limited financial, political, and legal resources, languages that lack the clout or global importance of the world's major languages. In spite of these challenges, resource-scarce languages and their speakers are not being ignored. Individuals, governments, and companies alike are busy developing technologies and tools to support such languages. They are driven by a variety of motivations - from the desire among academics and community activists to preserve or revitalize endangered or threatened languages - to the desire by governments to promote minority languages - to the need by other governments to detect hostile chatter in diverse tongues - to the strategy of some companies to enhance their stature in emerging markets such as China and South America. Recognizing the above trend, this workshop will serve as a forum for the discussion of academic and industrial research on resource- scarce language engineering. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - multilingual text processing and the Unicode Standard - machine translation and speech recognition with minimal training data - rapid portability of existing language technologies to new languages - the use of multilingual resources for monolingual annotation - the annotation of new language data on the basis of knowledge of related languages - coping with data of inconsistent or uneven quality or coverage In addition, there will be a shared task on a specific resource- scarce language - Tibetan (details to be announced separately). [...] From: FOCA at ESSLLI Subject: CFP: FOCA @ ESSLLI06 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:55:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 810 (810) ************************************************************************ ****************** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ ****************** Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents (FOCA) http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/ July 31 - August 4, 2006 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ July 31 - August 11, 2006 in Malaga ************************************************************************ ****************** WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Roberta Ferrario (ferrario at loa-cnr.it) Nicola Guarino (guarino at loa-cnr.it) Laurent Prevot (prevotlaurent at gmail.com) ************************************************************************ ****************** WORKSHOP PURPOSE: In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially in the dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways. On the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good solution for comparing and integrating information and thus its application to this specific domain is very promising . More precisely, an ontological analysis of the fundamental ingredients of interaction and communication will make explicit the hidden ontological assumptions underlying all these proposals. Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address issues related to the exchange of meaningful communication across autonomous entities, which can organize and use information heterogeneously. The purpose of the workshop is therefore to gather contributions that (i) take seriously into account the ontological aspects of communication and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for achieving a better semantic coordination between interacting and communicating agents. ********************************************************* WORKSHOP TOPICS We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below with a particular attention to explore the interplay between ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases. * Ontological aspects of interaction and communication - Ontological analysis of interaction and communication - Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction - Logical models for communicative acts - Primitives of interaction and communication - Formal semantics of dialogue *Semantic coordination through formal ontologies - Dialogue semantics and formal ontology - Dynamic ontology sharing - Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological alignment and semantic interoperability - Ontology evolution through communication - Concrete problems and experiences in terminological disambiguation and integration [...] From: "Shawn Martin" Subject: (put conference)CFP: Bringing Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:51:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 811 (811) Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication Call for Papers: Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the University of Michigan in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating fully searchable texts of thousands of titles printed across three hundred years and two continents of English and American history. TCP includes texts selected from three commercially produced page image collections, Early English Books Online (EEBO), available from ProQuest Information and Learning, Evans Early American Imprints (Evans), available from Newsbank-Readex and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), available from Thompson-Gale. Additionally, TCP's production has expanded to include centers at Oxford University, the University of Toronto, and the National Library of Wales. TCP cooperates directly with over a dozen international scholarly projects devoted to subjects as wide ranging as historical linguistics, literary studies, bibliographic studies, and metadata integration. Scholars and students alike, in these disciplines and many others have found often make the claim that resources like EEBO, Evans, ECCO, and the TCP have revolutionized their work and by making primary sources widely available, will "bring literature alive" (Thomas Pack, E-Content, Dec. 1999). As the TCP project reaches the halfway mark of its original goals, it seems a good time to investigate how it brings literature in all disciplines to life in this exciting conference. The conference invites papers from scholars, students (graduate and undergraduate), librarians, publishers, or other interested people in all disciplines to investigate topics such as (but not limited to): . Changes in the landscape of scholarship and pedagogy introduced by electronic resources like EEBO, Evans, ECCO, and the TCP . Examples of teaching with such resources . Examples of doing research with such resources . Use of related resources like ESTC or Early American Newspapers . The changing nature of scholarly communication . Electronic publication . Digital library development. The conference will be held September 14 - 17, 2006 in Ann Arbor, MI Deadline for paper submissions is May 15, 2006 For more information contact: Shawn Martin TCP Project Librarian 8076-B Hatcher S. 920 N. University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 975-0102 Fax: (734) 763-5080 e-mail: shawnmar_at_umich.edu Or visit the conference website http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/conference For more information about the TCP project: Visit the TCP website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp Or e-mail: tcp-info_at_umich.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shawn Martin Project Librarian Text Creation Partnership (TCP) - Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Evans Early American Imprints (Evans) - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Address: University Library Phone: (734) 936-5611 University of Michigan FAX: (734) 763-5080 8076B Hatcher South E-mail: shawnmar_at_umich.edu 920 N. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp From: ubiquity Subject: Link to Ubiquity Interview with Ray Kurzweil Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:55:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 812 (812) The hotlink to our Ubiquity Interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil, posted on January 11, 2006, is: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i01_kurzweil.html From: Liza Bermingham Subject: 3rd Biennial Open road Conference 2006 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:54:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 813 (813) HURRY AND REGISTER!!!! Vicnet , a division of the State Library of Victoria in partnership with the Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department for Victorian Communities are pleased to announce they will be hosting the 3rd Biennial Conference, Open Road 2006 Conference: Challenges and Possiblities on 6 - 7 February 2006. This is a major two day conference that you cannot miss out on if you or your organisation engages with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) consumers. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear from national and international guest speakers, Hon. Justice Marcus Einfeld AO QC Richard Ishida, World Wide Web Consortium(W3C), United Kingdom Maria Dimopoulos, MyriaD Consultants Russ Rolfe, Microsoft, USA Alexi Paspalas, BBC United Kindgom Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, The University of Melbourne The conference will address the challenges and possibliites of providing access to and development of content and web services within the multilingual environment by engaging the audience in plenary sessions, workshops and round table discussions. For a copy of the Conference Program and Registration form please visit http://openroad.net.au/conferences/2006/ Enquiries can be directed to Conference Organiser, Beata Wacek on (03) 8664 7046 or bwacek_at_slv.vic.gov.au Beata Wacek Project Officer, Vicnet State Library of Victoria Ph: 8664 7046 Email: bwacek_at_slv.vic.gov.au From: "Steven Totosy" Subject: Cfp: conference on hypertext in madrid, spain Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:58:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 814 (814) Call for papers: LEETHI: Literaturas Espanolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipertexto (Universidad Complutense) and CLDA: Committee on Comparative Literature in the Digital Age (Dolores Romero Lopez and Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, chairs) of the ICLA: International Comparative Literature Association invite abstracts of papers to be presented at the international conference "Literatures: From Text to Hypertext" http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/seminario/index.htm , 21-23 September 2006, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Topics of the conference include the impact of hypertext and hypermedia on the study of literature; the evaluation of the presence of literatures on the world wide web; analyses of the impact of new media technology on formations of culture and on individual and social identities; theories of/on hypertext, literatures as hypertext before the arrival of the world wide web; the translation, reading, and reception of hypertext; and the pedagogical aspects of hypertext and cyber culture. 200-word abstracts and a brief bioprofile are invited in English, French, or Spanish to Dolores Romero Lopez at and by 31 March 2006. For further detail consult the conference website at http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/seminario/index.htm . Following peer review, selected papers of the conference are planned to be published online in English in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu and in a hard-copy volume in the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp and in Spanish online in LEETHI: Literaturas Espanolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipertexto http://www.leethi.javart.net/ and in a hard-copy volume. with many thanks, and best, steven totosy de zepetnek (ph.d., professor) http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html clcweb_at_purdue.edu / steven.totosy_at_comcast.net 1-781-729-1680 (winchester at boston) From: "Michelle Ziegler" Subject: Fw: Reminder: Heroic Age CFPs Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:04:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 815 (815) [deleted quotation] From: Paul Jones Subject: UCHRI Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:06:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 816 (816) ***PLEASE CIRCULATE*** UCHRI Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory August 14-25, 2006; UC Irvine Campus technoSpheres: FutureS ofThinking <http://www.uchri.org/main.php?page_id=156> The UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites applications from scholars -- faculty of all ranks and students -- wishing to participate in the third annual Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT). Applications must be submitted online via the UCHRI's FASTAPPS system. Deadline: Applications are due, along with a $20.00 application fee, by February 15, 2006. Program Overview SECT is an intensive two-week summer program for graduate students and faculty from the UC system and elsewhere, as well as other scholars, professionals and public intellectuals. The Seminar brings together distinguished instructors and a group of 50-60 students to study a pressing issue or theme in contemporary critical theory, in both its "pure" and "applied" modes. SECT is neither exclusively an introductory survey course nor an advanced research seminar. Rather, it is an academy or "laboratory" where students and faculty at all levels of previous experience can study with scholars involved in important and creative theoretical thought. Truly innovative work is of necessity both fundamental and advanced, hence needs to be presented in ways that are simultaneously accessible and challenging for the widest range of scholars. Participants are encouraged to think experimentally and critically, reflecting on prevailing structures of thought while dynamically engaging intellectual inheritances and pushing for theoretical innovations. Participants in the 2006 Seminar will explore new ways of thinking about and with technology. The two-week Seminar will include paired conversations between technological innovators and experimental humanists, around the many issues that engage the human and the technological. The two-week Seminar will also include demonstrations of new technological devices, classroom applications and scholarly practices. Participants will have opportunities to engage with new digital applications in the context of small-group workshops, large-group social networking exercises and art/technology installations. The objective for SECT III is to broaden the participation of humanists in the transformation of spheres of technological experience. SECT III is being convened by Anne Balsamo in partnership with David Theo Goldberg. Conversations with: Julian Bleecker; John Seely Brown; Craig Calhoun; Lisa Cartwright; Cathy N. Davidson; Scott Fisher; Tracy Fullerton; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Katherine Hayles; Lynn Hershman; Norman Klein; Geert Lovink; Tara McPherson; Michael Naimark; Saskia Sassen; Larry Smarr Workshop Topics: Wikis; Blogging; Google Jockeying; Creative Commons; New Genres of Digital Scholarship; History of Electronic Literature; Database Narrative; Multimedia Documentary; Distributed Collaboration in the Humanities; Creation of Digital Archives Performances & Presentations: Beatriz da Costa; René Garcia, Jr.; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Lynn Hershman; Perry Hoberman; George Lewis; Michael Naimark; Simon Penny Cost Application fee: $20.00 (non-refundable) is due at the time of the online application submission. Applications will not be reviewed until the application fee is received. Registration fee: $1,750 for the SECT series. The fee includes tuition for the two-week Seminar and daily refreshments. It does not include the cost of housing or meals. Scholarships: The UCHRI will make available up to 10 scholarships for full-time registered students covering the full SECT fee. Scholarship awards will be announced by April 15, 2006. Applicants are encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions. Requirements One-page statement covering education, relevant publications (if any), background in an area of study relating to the current SECT topic, and reasons for requesting course of study; and abbreviated curriculum vitae (two pages maximum). To submit an online application, you must be registered with the FASTAPPS system. If you are not yet registered, click here. If you are already registered, log in to FASTAPPS. For further information, contact the SECT coordinator at sect_at_uci.edu or (949) 824-8900. From: "Perry Willett" Subject: Scholarship and Libraries in Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:08:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 817 (817) Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects The University of Michigan is sponsoring a symposium exploring the impact of mass digitization initiatives, March 10 and 11, 2006 in Ann Arbor MI. For more information, see the symposium website: <http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium/> What are the transformative issues and implications that emerge from mass digitization initiatives? How will initiatives such as the Google parnership with academic libraries impact libraries, universities, government, information policy, publishing, and education? What are the professional, social, and economic issues? How will we identify and respond to the challenges and opportunities to shape future directions? Please join us to discuss these vital issues. There is no registration fee, but we do require registration. More information, including the registration form and symposium schedule, and can be found at the symposium website at: <http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium/> The keynote speaker will be Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media, with closing remarks by Clifford Lynch. Panel participants include: * Alan Aldworth, Chairman, ProQuest * Barbara McFadden Allen, Director, Committee on Institutional Cooperation * Paul Courant, Professor, University of Michigan * Nancy Davenport, President, Council on Library and Information Resources * Dan Greenstein, University Librarian and Executive Director of the California Digital Library * Jean-Claude Guedon, Professor, University of Montreal * James Hilton, Associate Provost for Academic, Information and Instructional Technology Affairs and Interim University Librarian, University of Michigan * Bruce James, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Government Printing Office * Brian Kahin, Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan * Michael Keller, University Librarian, Stanford University * John King, Dean School of Information, University of Michigan * Ron Milne, Acting Director of University Library Services and Bodley=92s Librarian, Oxford * Josie Parker, Director, Ann Arbor District Library * Mark Sandler, Collection Development Officer, University of Michigan * Adam Smith, Google * Michael Spinozzi, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Borders Group, Inc. * Ed Tenner, Professor & Author, Princeton University * Hal Varian, Professor, University of California, Berkeley * Alicia Wise, Chief Executive, Publishers Licensing Society * Karin Wittenborg, University Librarian, University of Virginia * Ann Wolpert, Director of the Libraries, MIT ----------------- Perry Willett Head, Digital Library Production Service 300 Hatcher North University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205 Ph: 734-764-8074 Fax: 734-647-6897 Email: pwillett_at_umich.edu From: Nancy Ide Subject: CFP: LREC Workshop on Merging Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:09:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 818 (818) and Layering Linguistic Information CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************* MERGING AND LAYERING LINGUISTIC INFORMATION ************************************************************* To be held in conjunction with The 5th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Magazzini del Cotone Conference Centre Genoa, Italy May 23, 2006 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/MERGING-LREC2006/ ORGANIZERS Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tuebingen, Germany Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA Treebanks and other theme-specific annotation schemes, together with stand-alone resources such as syntactic and semantic lexicons, wordnets, and framenets, enable annotation of natural language at different structural levels. These resources have become crucially important for the development of data-driven approaches to NLP, human language technologies, grammar extraction, and linguistic research in general. However, most of these resources and schemes have been developed by different groups working at different sites around the world, and their design is often driven by different linguistic theories and/or application requirements. Efforts to merge resources and annotations in order to exploit the information in all of them have shown how difficult the problem of mapping categories and features reflecting a particular conceptual design can be. This workshop is designed to bring together researchers involved in the development and/or use of theme-specific annotation schemes and supporting language resources to share experiences and methodologies, in order to provide a basis for addressing the obstacles to future resource and annotation development efforts. Another goal of the workshop is to move towards agreement on linguistic annotation standards for different levels of representation; that is, frameworks that will allow (a) individual annotations to cohabit with one another (providing consistency), (b) specification components from different annotation schemas to communicate with one another, in order to refer to merged information (creating integration), (c) underspecification of annotation information at all levels (enabling incremental addition of information over the processing history), (d) maintenance of individual annotations as separate schemas for development, acquisition, and processing purposes; and (e) annotation of multi-lingual and multi-modal data. Finally, the workshop is intended to promote collaboration within the international research community on the harmonization of representations for linguistic information for use in both language resources and annotations. We invite submission of papers on topics relevant to resource and annotation formalisms, including but not limited to: - design principles and annotation schemes for theme-specific annotations and resources such as treebanks, lexicons, etc. - experiences with and methods for merging information in existing resources, including both resources of the same type (e.g. lexical/ semantic resources) and those containing linguistic information of different types (e.g., syntax, co-reference, discourse, etc.) - experiences with and methods for merging annotations for different linguistic phenomena; - the role of linguistic theories in annotation development; - representation frameworks for multi-layered linguistic annotations; - methods for and results of evaluation of annotation standards; - tools for creation and management of integrated annotation schemas; - applications of resources and theme-specific annotations in acquiring linguistic knowledge for NLP. [...] From: Nancy Ide Subject: CFP: LREC 2006 Workshop on Annotation Science Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:10:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 819 (819) CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ ************** ANNOTATION SCIENCE: STATE OF THE ART IN ENHANCING AUTOMATIC LINGUISTIC ANNOTATION ************************************************************************ ************** To be held in conjunction with The 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Magazzini del Cotone Conference Centre Genoa, Italy May 27, 2006 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/ANNOTATION-LREC2006/ The high cost of manual annotation and validation of automatically produced annotations for language data has led to the recent development of methods to enhance the quality of automatically-produced annotations via mechanisms such as machine learning. To date, there has been no international forum fully dedicated to the topic, where researchers working in different areas and different phenomena are brought together to discuss methods and results. This workshop will include papers describing current work on enhancing the results of automated annotation for linguistic phenomena and provide both an overview and assessment of the state-of-the-art. The workshop will include an introductory overview as well as a panel discussion following the paper presentations. Papers are solicited on any of the following topics: o Machine learning and other methods to enhance automatic annotation of linguistic phenomena, including segmentation and chunking; morpho- syntactic, syntactic, and discourse analysis; semantic annotation; entity and event recognition; alignment of parallel translations; annotation of dialogue, speech, gesture, and multi-modal data; etc. o Use of information from multiple linguistic levels and/or phenomena to enhance performance of automatic annotation software o Machine learning and other methods for enhancing automated knowledge acquisition (e.g, information for lexicons, ontologies, etc.) o Evaluation and comparison of techniques to enhance the accuracy of automatically-generated annotations, as well as discussion of limitations o Software systems for optimizing annotation accuracy, and methods and systems for optimizing "on the fly" annotation of web and other language data o Identification and separation of annotation that cannot be automated, to simplify annotation enhancement by human proofreaders o Identification and separation of applications that can tolerate "noisy" analysis, for which imperfect automated linguistic analysis would be appropriate [...] From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Re: 19.544 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:32:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 820 (820) Picking up the thread on scholarly editions, I would like to call attention to an article by Todd K. Bender, "Literary Texts in Electronic Storage: The Editorial Potential," published almost 30 years ago in Computers and the Humanities, 10:4 (July/August 1976), 193-199. I admired then and still do, Bender's remarkably prescient description of the manner in which the various states of a text can be simultaneously stored and displayed, and of some of the benefits to the literary critic of being able to examine them all in many aspects. His central thesis is summed up as follows: "If we are to make sophisticated analyses of style in natural language, it is evident that we must see the vocabulary of the author not as single items, but as constellations of information in sets of complex variables, which can fit easily into the physical format of electronic data" (197). Interested readers without easy access to a file of CHum can request a copy of the paper from Bender at tkbender_at_wisc.edu. From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.2 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:34:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 821 (821) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 2 (January 17 - January 23, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: SAHA ON LOW-COST FAULT-TESTING, JESAN ON INFO SECURITY LOW-COST FAULT TESTING Goutam Kumar Saha discusses techniques for low-cost testing for transient faults. He is with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in India. See: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i02_lowcost.html INFORMATION SECURITY John Peter Jesan discusses technqiues for improving information security. He is a Software Engineer / Infosec Professional working in CitiStreet, a joint venture of State Street and Citigroup companies. See: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i02_InfoSecurity.html From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The January 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:07:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 822 (822) Greetings: The January 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains a commentary, 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'. This month D-Lib features the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Galaxy of Knowledge: Art and Design. This month's Commentary is: Folksonomies: Tidying Up Tags? Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin, UKOLN The articles include: UKWAC: Building the UK's First Public Web Archive Steve Bailey, JISC and Dave Thompson, Wellcome Library Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Julie Linden, Yale University and Ann Green, Digital Life Cycle Research and Consulting Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas G. Habing, and Timothy W. Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Digital Library for Earth System Education Provides Individualized Reports for Teachers on the Effectiveness of Educational Resources in Their Own Classrooms Kim A. Kastens and Neil Holzman, Columbia University [...] From: "PSI06 Conference" Subject: PSI 2006: Deadline Extension Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:10:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 823 (823) [deleted quotation]January 31, 2006: pre-submission of short abstracts February 7, 2006: submission of extended abstracts ______________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS 27-30 June 2006, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia http://www.iis.nsk.su/PSI06 [AIMS AND SCOPE] The conference is held to honor the 75th anniversary of academician Andrei Ershov (1931-1988) and his outstanding contributions towards advancing informatics. The first five conferences were held in 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2003, respectively, and proved to be significant international events. Andrei Ershov was one of the early Russian pioneers in the field of the theory of programming and systems programming, a founder of the Siberian Computer Science School. In 1974 he was nominated as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 1981 he received the Silver Core Award for services rendered to IFIP. Andrei Ershov's brilliant speeches were always in the focus of public attention. Especially notable was his lecture on "Aesthetic and human factor in programming" presented at the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1972. Andrei Ershov was not only an extremely gifted scientist, teacher and fighter for his ideas, but also a bright and many-sided personality. He wrote poetry, translated the works of R. Kipling and other English poets, and enjoyed playing guitar and singing. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Andrei Ershov and working with him will always remember his great vision, eminent achievements, and generous friendship. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions in computer science. For a developing science, it is important to work out consolidating ideas, concepts and models. Movement in this direction is another aim of the conference. Improvement of the contacts and exchange of ideas between researchers from the East and West are further goals. [...] From: sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au Subject: Reminder - IR7 Internet Convergences - Abstracts Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:14:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 824 (824) due 7 February CALL FOR PAPERS IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia 28-30 September 2006 http://conferences.aoir.org Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006 INTERNET CONVERGENCES The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of sustaining and extending community. International and interdisciplinary teams now collaborate in new ways. Diverse cultures engage one another via CMC. These technologies relocate and refocus capital, labor and immigration, and they open up new possibilities for political, potentially democratizing, forms of discourse. Moreover, these technologies themselves converge in multiple ways, e.g. in Internet-enabled mobile phones, in Internet-based telephony, and in computers themselves as "digital appliances" that conjoin communication and multiple media forms. These technologies also facilitate fragmentations with greater disparities between the information-haves and have-nots, between winners and losers in the shifting labor and capital markets, and between individuals and communities. Additionally these technologies facilitate information filter! ing that reinforces, rather than dialogically challenges, narrow and extreme views. CALL FOR PAPERS Our conference theme invites papers and presentations based on empirical research, theoretical analysis and everything in between that explore the multiple ways the Internet acts in both converging and fragmenting ways - physical, cultural, technological, political, social - on local, regional, and global scales. Without limiting possible proposals, topics of interest include: - Theoretical and practical models of the Internet - Internet convergence, divergence and fragmentation - Networked flows of information, capital, labor, etc. - Migrations and diasporas online - Identity, community and global communication - Regulation and control (national and global) - Internet-based development and other economic issues - Digital art and aesthetics - Games and gaming on the Internet - The Net generation - E-Sectors, e.g. e-health, e-education, e-business We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community that address the theme of Internet Convergence. We particularly call for innovative, exciting, and unexpected takes on and interrogations of the conference theme. However, we always welcome submissions on any topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or aesthetic aspects of the Internet and related Internet technologies. We are equally interested in interdisciplinary proposals as well as proposals from within specific disciplines. [...] Association Website: http://www.aoir.org Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org From: catac_at_wirth.murdoch.edu.au Subject: Reminder - CATaC'06, Tartu, Estonia - Papers due 13 February Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:15:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 825 (825) 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.catacconference.org 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 co! mmunication online. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.: 10-20 pages) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results: 3-5 pages) 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 - Ethics and justice - Free/Open technology and communication - Internet research ethics - Cultural diversity and e-learning SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. 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 From: "John Bonnett" Subject: Conference on Digital Heritage Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:16:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 826 (826) ECAI is pleased to announce that the Spring 2006 meetings will be held in conjunction with the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference - Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage, April 18 21 in Fargo, North Dakota. ECAI is accepting submissions for papers within the theme Cultural Heritage and Cyber infrastructure on the following topics: 1) Exemplary cultural maps and atlases 2) Cultural atlases in teaching 3) Gazetteers and related aids 4) Metadata, Standards, and Best Practices 5) e-Scholarship / e-Science 6) Cyber infrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences 7) e-Publications 8) Virtual Reality The CAA list of conference topics include: 1. Virtual Reality Modeling 2. Simulations and Complex Modeling 3. 3D Data Capture, Manipulation, and Analysis 4. Field Applications 5. Remote Sensing 6. Mapping and Spatial Technologies (GIS and others) 7. Informatics 8. Education 9. Cultural Heritage Resources Management 10. Bio-Archaeology and Human Biological Heritage 11. Quantitative Applications 12. Archaeometry 13. Maritime Archaeology 14. Theoretical Issues Submissions relevant to ECAI topics should be sent by January 13, 2006 to Kim Carl, ECAI, kcarl_at_berkeley.edu. Submissions relevant to the CAA list, but not to ECAIs, should be submitted directly to CAA. Submission guidelines for CAA are available from the CAA conference web site, <http://www.caa2006.org/>http://www.caa2006.org/. ECAI had a successful conference with CAA in the Spring 2003. We welcome this opportunity to once again meet with this diverse group of scholars. Plans to meet in Belfast were altered due to logistical problems however an ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases in Belfast is in the planning. _________________________________________________ Dr Paul S. Ell Director The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN UK Phone| (Direct): +44 (0)28 90973408 Phone (Office): +44 (0)28 90973883 Fax: +44 (0)28 90321280 E-Mail: paul.ell_at_qub.ac.uk Web: www.qub.ac.uk/cdda ________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Members mailing list Members_at_lists.sdh-semi.org http://lists.sdh-semi.org/mailman/listinfo/members From: Willard McCarty Subject: Document Analysis Systems VII Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:12:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 827 (827) Volume 3872/2006 (Document Analysis Systems VII) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Retrieval from Document Image Collections p. 1 A. Balasubramanian, Million Meshesha, C.V. Jawahar DOI: 10.1007/11669487_1 A Semi-automatic Adaptive OCR for Digital Libraries p. 13 Sachin Rawat, K.S. Sesh Kumar, Million Meshesha, Indraneel Deb Sikdar, A. Balasubramanian, C.V. Jawahar DOI: 10.1007/11669487_2 Contribution to the Discrimination of the Medieval Manuscript Texts: Application in the Palaeography p. 25 Ikram Moalla, Frank LeBourgeois, Hubert Emptoz, Adel M. Alimi DOI: 10.1007/11669487_3 Restoring Ink Bleed-Through Degraded Document Images Using a Recursive Unsupervised Classification Technique p. 38 Drira Fadoua, Frank Le Bourgeois, Hubert Emptoz DOI: 10.1007/11669487_4 Networked Document Imaging with Normalization and Optimization p. 50 Hirobumi Nishida DOI: 10.1007/11669487_5 Gray-Scale Thinning Algorithm Using Local Min/Max Operations p. 62 Kyoung Min Kim, Buhm Lee, Nam Sup Choi, Gwan Hee Kang, Joong Jo Park, Ching Y. Suen DOI: 10.1007/11669487_6 Automated Scoring of Handwritten Essays Based on Latent Semantic Analysis p. 71 Sargur Srihari, Jim Collins, Rohini Srihari, Pavithra Babu, Harish Srinivasan DOI: 10.1007/11669487_7 Aligning Transcripts to Automatically Segmented Handwritten Manuscripts p. 84 Jamie Rothfeder, R. Manmatha, Toni M. Rath DOI: 10.1007/11669487_8 Virtual Example Synthesis Based on PCA for Off-Line Handwritten Character Recognition p. 96 Hidetoshi Miyao, Minoru Maruyama DOI: 10.1007/11669487_9 Extraction of Handwritten Text from Carbon Copy Medical Form Images p. 106 Robert Milewski, Venu Govindaraju DOI: 10.1007/11669487_10 Document Logical Structure Analysis Based on Perceptive Cycles p. 117 Yves Rangoni, Abdel Belai¨d DOI: 10.1007/11669487_11 A System for Converting PDF Documents into Structured XML Format p. 129 Hervé Déjean, Jean-Luc Meunier DOI: 10.1007/11669487_12 XCDF: A Canonical and Structured Document Format p. 141 Jean-Luc Bloechle, Maurizio Rigamonti, Karim Hadjar, Denis Lalanne, Rolf Ingold DOI: 10.1007/11669487_13 Structural Analysis of Mathematical Formulae with Verification Based on Formula Description Grammar p. 153 Seiichi Toyota, Seiichi Uchida, Masakazu Suzuki DOI: 10.1007/11669487_14 Notes on Contemporary Table Recognition p. 164 David W. Embley, Daniel Lopresti, George Nagy DOI: 10.1007/11669487_15 Handwritten Artefact Identification Method for Table Interpretation with Little Use of Previous Knowledge p. 176 Luiz Antônio Pereira Neves, João Marques de Carvalho, Jacques Facon, Flávio Bortolozzi, Sérgio Aparecido Ignácio DOI: 10.1007/11669487_16 Writer Identification for Smart Meeting Room Systems p. 186 Marcus Liwicki, Andreas Schlapbach, Horst Bunke, Samy Bengio, Johnny Mariéthoz, Jonas Richiardi DOI: 10.1007/11669487_17 Extraction and Analysis of Document Examiner Features from Vector Skeletons of Grapheme ‘th’ p. 196 Vladimir Pervouchine, Graham Leedham DOI: 10.1007/11669487_18 Segmentation of On-Line Handwritten Japanese Text Using SVM for Improving Text Recognition p. 208 Bilan Zhu, Junko Tokuno, Masaki Nakagawa DOI: 10.1007/11669487_19 Application of Bi-gram Driven Chinese Handwritten Character Segmentation for an Address Reading System p. 220 Yan Jiang, Xiaoqing Ding, Qiang Fu, Zheng Ren DOI: 10.1007/11669487_20 Language Identification in Degraded and Distorted Document Images p. 232 Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan, Weihua Huang DOI: 10.1007/11669487_21 Bangla/English Script Identification Based on Analysis of Connected Component Profiles p. 243 Lijun Zhou, Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan DOI: 10.1007/11669487_22 Script Identification from Indian Documents p. 255 Gopal Datt Joshi, Saurabh Garg, Jayanthi Sivaswamy DOI: 10.1007/11669487_23 Finding the Best-Fit Bounding-Boxes p. 268 Bo Yuan, Leong Keong Kwoh, Chew Lim Tan DOI: 10.1007/11669487_24 Towards Versatile Document Analysis Systems p. 280 Henry S. Baird, Matthew R. Casey DOI: 10.1007/11669487_25 Exploratory Analysis System for Semi-structured Engineering Logs p. 291 Michael Flaster, Bruce Hillyer, Tin Kam Ho DOI: 10.1007/11669487_26 Ground Truth for Layout Analysis Performance Evaluation p. 302 A. Antonacopoulos, D. Karatzas, D. Bridson DOI: 10.1007/11669487_27 On Benchmarking of Invoice Analysis Systems p. 312 Bertin Klein, Stefan Agne, Andreas Dengel DOI: 10.1007/11669487_28 Semi-automatic Ground Truth Generation for Chart Image Recognition p. 324 Li Yang, Weihua Huang, Chew Lim Tan DOI: 10.1007/11669487_29 Efficient Word Retrieval by Means of SOM Clustering and PCA p. 336 Simone Marinai, Stefano Faini, Emanuele Marino, Giovanni Soda DOI: 10.1007/11669487_30 The Effects of OCR Error on the Extraction of Private Information p. 348 Kazem Taghva, Russell Beckley, Jeffrey Coombs DOI: 10.1007/11669487_31 Combining Multiple Classifiers for Faster Optical Character Recognition p. 358 Kumar Chellapilla, Michael Shilman, Patrice Simard DOI: 10.1007/11669487_32 Performance Comparison of Six Algorithms for Page Segmentation p. 368 Faisal Shafait, Daniel Keysers, Thomas M. Breuel DOI: 10.1007/11669487_33 HVS Inspired System for Script Identification in Indian Multi-script Documents p. 380 Peeta Basa Pati, A.G. Ramakrishnan DOI: 10.1007/11669487_34 A Shared Fragments Analysis System for Large Collections of Web Pages p. 390 Junchang Ma, Zhimin Gu DOI: 10.1007/11669487_35 Offline Handwritten Arabic Character Segmentation with Probabilistic Model p. 402 Pingping Xiu, Liangrui Peng, Xiaoqing Ding, Hua Wang DOI: 10.1007/11669487_36 Automatic Keyword Extraction from Historical Document Images p. 413 Kengo Terasawa, Takeshi Nagasaki, Toshio Kawashima DOI: 10.1007/11669487_37 Digitizing a Million Books: Challenges for Document Analysis p. 425 K. Pramod Sankar, Vamshi Ambati, Lakshmi Pratha, C.V. Jawahar DOI: 10.1007/11669487_38 Toward File Consolidation by Document Categorization p. 437 Abdel Belaïd, André Alusse DOI: 10.1007/11669487_39 Finding Hidden Semantics of Text Tables p. 449 Saleh A. Alrashed DOI: 10.1007/11669487_40 Reconstruction of Orthogonal Polygonal Lines p. 462 Alexander Gribov, Eugene Bodansky DOI: 10.1007/11669487_41 A Multiclass Classification Framework for Document Categorization p. 474 Qi Qiang, Qinming He DOI: 10.1007/11669487_42 The Restoration of Camera Documents Through Image Segmentation p. 484 Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan DOI: 10.1007/11669487_43 Cut Digits Classification with k-NN Multi-specialist p. 496 Fernando Boto, Andoni Cortés, Clemente Rodríguez DOI: 10.1007/11669487_44 The Impact of OCR Accuracy and Feature Transformation on Automatic Text Classification p. 506 Mayo Murata, Lazaro S.P. Busagala, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura DOI: 10.1007/11669487_45 A Method for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents p. 518 Daniel Zuwala, Salvatore Tabbone DOI: 10.1007/11669487_46 Groove Extraction of Phonographic Records p. 529 Sylvain Stotzer, Ottar Johnsen, Frédéric Bapst, Rolf Ingold DOI: 10.1007/11669487_47 Use of Affine Invariants in Locally Likely Arrangement Hashing for Camera-Based Document Image Retrieval p. 541 Tomohiro Nakai, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura DOI: 10.1007/11669487_48 Robust Chinese Character Recognition by Selection of Binary-Based and Grayscale-Based Classifier p. 553 Yoshinobu Hotta, Jun Sun, Yutaka Katsuyama, Satoshi Naoi DOI: 10.1007/11669487_49 Segmentation-Driven Recognition Applied to Numerical Field Extraction from Handwritten Incoming Mail Documents p. 564 Clément Chatelain, Laurent Heutte, Thierry Paquet DOI: 10.1007/11669487_50 Performance Evaluation of Text Detection and Tracking in Video p. 576 Vasant Manohar, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Matthew Boonstra, Harish Raju, Dmitry Goldgof, Rangachar Kasturi, John Garofolo DOI: 10.1007/11669487_51 Document Analysis System for Automating Workflows p. 588 Steven J. Simske, Jordi Arnabat DOI: 10.1007/11669487_52 Automatic Assembling of Cadastral Maps Based on Generalized Hough Transformation p. 593 Fei Liu, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura DOI: 10.1007/11669487_53 A Few Steps Towards On-the-Fly Symbol Recognition with Relevance Feedback p. 604 Jan Rendek, Bart Lamiroy, Karl Tombre DOI: 10.1007/11669487_54 The Fuzzy-Spatial Descriptor for the Online Graphic Recognition: Overlapping Matrix Algorithm p. 616 Noorazrin Zakaria, Jean-Marc Ogier, Josep Llados DOI: 10.1007/11669487_55 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Ellen Degott" Subject: jobs in the Humanities Resources Unit, ESF Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:35:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 828 (828) FIRST OFFER: Position Announcement Administrative Assistant to the Standing Committee for the Humanities secretariat Mission The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 79 national research funding organisations in over 30 European countries, located in Strasbourg, France. The ESF promotes high quality science at a European level. It acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives. In this context, the Standing Committee for the Humanities is the scientific governance body for all fields of Humanities research (www.esf.org/human). The Administrative Assistant, in liaison with the SCH Management Team, ensures an efficient running of the Committee business including organisation of its meetings. Tasks and responsibilities The position involves: Preparing and organising SCH meetings Assisting in the preparation of meeting papers and writing minutes Responsibility for SCH correspondence Liaison with the Finance Unit of ESF to track budgets and process expenditure Assisting in the drafting of SCH publications and in the implementation of the communication plan Monitoring and updating SCH web pages and material for dissemination and presentations Providing information to the research community on current SCH activities and instruments (responding to email and phone queries) General clerical tasks (maintenance of an electronic and paperwork filing system) Supporting the SCH Management Team as required Profile and skills required The successful candidate should have: A high standard of spoken and written English A good standard of spoken and written French would be an advantage Several years of relevant experience in a similar position Good computer skills (Office software and web page maintenance) Good organisational, communication and interpersonal skills, including diplomacy and discretion Ability to work as part of a team and communicate effectively with colleagues Ability to work autonomously when required, in a relevant, responsible and flexible manner Commitment to deliver on tasks allocated and respond in a timely manner to deadlines Ability and willingness to undertake occasional travel within Europe Employment conditions - a full-time position is proposed for a period until October 2008, with a possible prolongation. - salary will depend on experience and skills ESF Human Resources will provide further information upon request. ********************************************************************************************* SECOND OFFER: [] Position Announcement Programme assistant Joint research programmes in the Humanities Mission The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 79 national research funding organisations in more 30 European countries, located in Strasbourg, France. ESF promotes high quality science at a European level. It acts as a catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement pan-European initiatives (http://www.esf.org). Within the ERA-Net project 'Humanities in the European Research Area' (HERA), the ESF Humanities Unit is Work Package Leader for the preparation of two joint research programme funding initiatives. The ESF Humanities Unit is looking for a programme assistant (Project Officer) for this new activity. The design of international programme and evaluation management will incorporate previous ESF experience and national research council experiences. Other HERA Work Packages, such as the one on best practices in national contexts, will provide significant input in setting up jointly agreed programme management and procedures. Under the supervision of the Work Package Leader at ESF, the Programme assistant will also be involved in negotiating national financial contributions for the research funding mechanism and exploring other channels such as the EU Framework Programme, national public R&D budgets and private resources. More information about HERA and a detailed work description of the Work Packages can be found at www.heranet.info Profile and skills The successful candidate should have: MA-degree or equivalent in the fields of humanities or social sciences a minimum of two years experience in working in an (international) scientific management environment, e.g. experience in running grant schemes knowledge of national and European research landscape and its players (national research councils, ESF, European Commission) excellentspoken and written English; working knowledge of French would be an advantage good organisational, communication and interpersonal skills, including diplomacy and discretion solid experience in using Office software willingness and ability to travel widely in Europe Employment conditions The programme assistant will be employed by the European Science Foundation and will be based in Strasbourg, France. The position is for the duration of up to 28/02/2009, starting as soon as possible. The salary will depend upon qualifications and experience. From: "St-Amant, Kirk" Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals -- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:18:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 829 (829) Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS for the Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices Editors: Pavel Zemliansky, Ph.D, James Madison University Kirk St. Amnt, Ph.D, Texas Tech University INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT AREA Online communication technologies (OCTs) are continually changing how we think about both the workplace and business interactions. More and more employees perform their job duties outside of traditional workplaces. The ability to work online offers more flexibility and responsiveness, both of which are essential for business success in the new millennium. OCTs can also enhance knowledge management (KM) by facilitating information sharing across an organization. Simultaneously, managers, workers, and educators who manage and work online or train others face new challenges and problems. These challenges include issues of corporate and employee time management, technology training, effective online communication among employees and with clients, and others. OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK The Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices will provide comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in the fields of virtual workplaces and online work. The volume will feature entries of about 5,000-7,500 words covering a wide range of topics related to the subject of online workplace environments. Successful contributions will provide definitions, explanations, and applications of various pertinent topics and issues rather than in-depth discussions of narrow subjects. The publication will help in providing researchers, scholars, students and professionals access to the latest knowledge related to online work and solving related problems and challenges. AUDIENCE FOR THE PROPOSED TEXT • Executives, managers, and other business decision makers who need to make informed choices about how their organizations can use virtual workplaces effectively • Researchers (both academic and corporate) studying virtual interactions and virtual workplace models for industry and academic • Educators and trainers who increasingly find themselves using online media to deliver teaching or training in professional practices • Administrators of public sector or other non-profit agencies who wish to incorporate virtual models and methods into their daily operations RECOMMENDED CONTENT AREAS Prospective subject areas and specific topics for this publication include, but are not limited to, the following: • Histories of Virtual Workplaces • Tools and Techniques: the Mechanisms that Make Virtual Workplaces Possible • Tips and Techniques: Practices and Perspectives for Success in Virtual Workplaces • Legalities and Confidentialities: Legal Issues, Professional Codes, and Corporate Policies as Related to the Virtual Workplace • Identity, Community, and Loyalty: Creating a Common Corporate Culture or Identity within Virtual Workplace Environments • Teaching and Training: Approaches on How to Best Train Employees to Work Successfully in Virtual Environments • Culture, Communication, and Cyberspace: International Issues Related to Virtual Workplaces in an Age of Globalization • Public vs. Private Sectors: Comparisons and Contrasts on the Uses of Virtual Workplaces by Businesses and by Government/Public Sector Organizations SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 200-500 words on or before April 30, 2006. In their proposal, prospective authors should clearly explain: • The purpose and the contents of their proposed chapter • How their proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal and sent chapter organization guidelines by May 31, 2006. Drafts of chapters will be due by August 31, 2006. Please send inquiries or submit material electronically (Rich Text files) to both editors at zemliapx_at_jmu.edu kirk.st-amant_at_ttu.edu 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 early 2008. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publications in mathematics Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:48:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 830 (830) During the twentieth century mathematics has gained a decisive role in almost all the sciences, and a globalization of the mathematical language and method has taken place. Mathematicians have applied numerical simulation more and more systematically, developing a way to emulate and sometimes even replace real experiments with a much more flexible framework using computer power. In this context, mathematicians as well as scientists from other fields have worked increasingly close together. Against this background, the Lecture Notes in Mathematics welcome texts on the numerical simulation of any natural or artificial phenomenon, texts on the formalization and numerical analysis of complex systems, of composite materials, of queues, genes, proteins, neurons, cells, images, sounds, perception, etc. Mathematicians working with formalization and simulation are eagerly invited to submit manuscripts in which they explain their methods, numerical and mathematical results and their scientific challenges to their peers and students. To provide you with a better idea of applied titles within the Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer now grants free electronic access to a selected number of LNM volumes for 2 months. Please choose as many volumes as you are interested in from the following list: Ambrosio, L., Caffarelli, L.A., Brenier, Y., Buttazzo, G., Villani, C., Caffarelli, Luis A.; Salsa, Sandro (Eds.) Optimal Transportation and Applications Vol. 1813 Anile, A.M., Allegretto, W., Ringhofer, C. (Ed.) Mathematical Problems in Semiconductor Physics Vol. 1823 Back, K., Bielecki, T.R., Hipp, C., Peng, S., Schachermayer, W., Frittelli, M; Runggaldier, W (Eds.) Stochastic Methods in Finance Vol. 1856 Benettin, Giancarlo, Henrard, Jacques, Kuksin, Sergei, Giorgilli, Antonio (Ed.) Hamiltonian Dynamics -- Theory and Applications Vol. 1861 Bielecki, T.R., Björk, T., Jeanblanc, M., Rutkowski, M., Scheinkman, J.A., Xiong, W. , Carmona, R.A.; Cinlar, E.; Ekeland, I.; Jouini, E.; Scheinkman, J.A.; Touzi, N. (Eds.) Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2003 Vol. 1847 Borisyuk, A., Ermentrout, G.B., Friedman, A., Terman, D. Tutorials in Mathematical Biosciences I Mathematical Neuroscience Vol. 1860 Bramble, James H., Cohen, Albert, Dahmen, Wolfgang, Canuto, Claudio (Ed.) Multiscale Problems and Methods in Numerical Simulations Vol. 1825 Cao, Frédéric Geometric Curve Evolution and Image Processing Vol. 1805 Ganesh, Ayalvadi, O'Connell, Neil, Wischik, Damon Big Queues Vol. 1838 Jiang Da-Quan, Qian, Min, Qian, Ming-Ping Mathematical Theory of Nonequilibrium Steady States Vol. 1833 Reichel, Wolfgang Uniqueness Theorems for Variational Problems by the Method of Transformation Groups Vol. 1841 Sneyd, James (Ed.) Tutorials in Mathematical Biosciences II Mathematical Modeling of Calcium Dynamics and Signal Transduction Vol. 1867 Teufel, Stefan Adiabatic Perturbation Theory in Quantum Dynamics Vol. 1821 Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A. Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata and Lattice Boltzmann Models. An Introduction Vol. 1725 Zhidkov, Peter E. Korteweg-de Vries and Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations: Qualitative Theory Vol. 1756 To obtain your free access, just follow these simple instructions*: Click (or copy and paste into your browser) the link below and log in with your user name and password. Then enter the SpringerToken below when prompted to begin access. Log in at: http://www.springer.com/freeLNM SpringerToken: qRr8cWhcF53cnPD Free electronic access will be available to you through the above log-in page until March 31, 2006. *If you are not yet a registered springer.com user, you just need to register before beginning. In addition to the volumes available online, applied LNM titles can be found in print editions. Examples are: Applebaum, D., Bhat, B.V.R., Kustermans, J., Lindsay, J.M., Schuermann, Michael; Franz, Uwe (Eds.) Quantum Independent Increment Processes I. From Classical Probability to Quantum Stochastic Calculus Vol. 1865 Burkard, R., Deuflhard, P., Jameson, A., Lions, J.-L., Strang, G. , Capasso, V.; Engl, H.W.; Periaux, J. (Eds.) Computational Mathematics Driven by Industrial Problems Vol. 1739 Diekmann, O., Durrett, R., Hadeler, K.-P., Maini, P., Smith, H.L. , Capasso, V.; Diekmann, O. (Eds.) Mathematics Inspired by Biology Vol. 1714 Espedal, M.S., Fasano, A., Mikelic, A., Fasano, A. (Ed.) Filtration in Porous Media and Industrial Application Vol. 1734 Fuchs, Martin, Seregin, Gregory Variational Methods for Problems from Plasticity Theory and for Generalized Newtonian Fluids Vol. 1749 Ma, Jin, Yong, Jiongmin Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and Their Applications Vol. 1702 Pytlak, Radoslaw Numerical Methods for Optimal Control Problems with State Constraints Vol. 1707 Ritter, Klaus Average-Case Analysis of Numerical Problems Vol. 1733 Ruzicka, Michael Electrorheological Fluids: Modeling and Mathematical Theory Vol. 1748 Your library surely has these books on its shelves — a good opportunity to browse them at the next occasion. Sincerely, Danielle Falanga Product Manager, Mathematics Springer www.springer.com Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: alckmar_at_cce.ufsc.br Subject: Literaturas del Texto al Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:10:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 831 (831) Hipertexto / Literatures from text to hypertext Date : Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:31:09 -0200 De : alckmar_at_cce.ufsc.br Adresse de retour :alckmar_at_cce.ufsc.br Sujet : Literaturas del Texto al Hipertexto / Literatures from text to hypertext I would ask you to take notice of this congress! Je vous prierais de prendre note de la réalisation de ce congrès! Pediria a vocês que olhassem com cuidada a notícia sobre a realização desse congresso! http://www.ucm.es/info/leethi/seminario/index.htm From: Simon Harper Subject: AH2006 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:13:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 832 (832) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH2006) June 20th - 23rd, Dublin Ireland www.ah2006.org FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ** Due Feb 3rd 2006 ** Submissions for full and short technical papers are invited on original and previously unpublished research in the many and varied aspects of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based systems. AH2006 is held co-operation with the ACM SIGWEB, ACM SIGIR, AIED Society. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS). Authors of top ranked selected papers will be invited to prepare enhanced versions for possible fast-track publication in ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB). Foundations & Core Technologies - User profiling and modeling in adaptive hypermedia and Web-based applications - Group modeling and community-based profiling on the WWW - Web-based recommender systems and recommendation strategies - Data mining for Web personalization - Personalization, meta-data and standards (XML, the Semantic Web Initiative) - Intelligent Web agents for personalization and adaptivity - Composition and management of adaptive Web services and hypermedia Application Domains - Adaptive information filtering and personalized information retrieval on the Web - Personalized e-Learning and adaptive Web-based educational systems - Adaptivity and Personalization for digital TV and 3D Web - Personalizing the mobile Web (PDAs, mobile phones and other handheld devices) - Personalization of Web sites, digital libraries, tourist services and cultural heritage Personalization in e-Commerce, eGovernment and Healthcare - Adaptive multimedia content authoring and delivery - Adaptive hypermedia in ubiquitous computing environments and Smart Spaces Practical Issues - Privacy, trust and security in adaptive Web systems - Architectures for scalable adaptive systems - Evaluation methodologies, deployment experiences & user studies - Empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia and Web systems - Management, usability and scrutability of adaptive Web systems CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Carole Goble, University of Manchester Professor Judy Kay, University of Sydney Professor Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh IMPORTANT DATES Paper (full & short) submissions: February 3, 2006 Doctorial Consortium paper submission February 3, 2006 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2006 Final versions due: March 31, 2006 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals due: February 10, 2006 Workshops & Tutorials: June 20, 2006 Main conference: June 21-23, 2006 [...] From: "Nguyen, Julia" Subject: NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture grants Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:18:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 833 (833) The Division of Education Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities seeks applications for Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers and Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for Community College Faculty to take place in the summer of 2007. These grant opportunities are part of the "We the People" initiative, which is designed to enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops bring groups of K-12 teachers or community college faculty together for intensive, one-week, residence-based workshops at or near significant American sites. Eligible applicants include museums, libraries, cultural and learned societies, state humanities councils, colleges and universities, schools and school districts. Collaborative programs are encouraged. For details about the program, some sample projects, and application guidelines, go to <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html>http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html (Workshops for School Teachers) or <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarkscc.html>http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarkscc.html (Workshops for Community College Faculty). Current Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers to be held in the summer of 2006 are described at <http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html>http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html. Workshops for community college faculty to be held in the summer of 2006 are described at <http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-college.html>http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-college.html. As always, Division of Education program officers are available to help out, whether it's to discuss your ideas or to read a draft proposal. Here are their names and contact information: 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 Judy 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 Note that the deadline is fast approaching: 15 March. Please be aware that your application must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov. Institutions must register with Grants.gov, a process which usually takes about two weeks. Information about Grants.gov is included with the application guidelines on the NEH website at the addresses listed above. 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 From: Charles Ess Subject: Reminder - CFP for ECAP'06 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:48:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 834 (834) Dear Humanists, With apologies for duplications, and request for distribution to interested colleagues / lists: The European Computers and Philosophy Conference (ECAP), held in cooperation with the International Association for Computing and Philosophy and the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), will take place in Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006. Please see the conference website for the call for papers, programme tracks and track chairs, and registration and accommodation details: www.eu-cap.org The deadline for submitting extended abstracts is January 27, 2006. There are significant reductions in fees for early-bird registrations, as well as for Phd, Masters and undergraduate students. With thanks from the ECAP'06 Coordinating and Program Committees, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> 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'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: Willard McCarty Subject: is Google a good thing? Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:11:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 835 (835) Allow me to recommend to your attention the lead article in the latest issue of the London Review of Books: John Lanchester, "The Global Id", a review of The Google Story by David Vise and The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle (LRB 28.2, 26 January 2006), http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n02/lanc01_.html. "Putting all this together", Lanchester writes in closing his review, "we reach the conclusion that, on the one hand, Google is cool. On the other hand, Google has the potential to destroy the publishing industry, the newspaper business, high street retailing and our privacy. Not that it will necessarily do any of these things, but for the first time, considered soberly, these things are technologically possible. The company is rich and determined and is not going away any time soon. They know what they are doing technologically; socially, though, they can't possibly know, and I don't think anyone else can either. These are the earliest days in a process of what may turn out to be radical change. The best historical analogy for where Google is today probably comes from the time when the railroads were being built. Everyone knew that trains and railways would change the world, but no one predicted the invention of suburbs. Google, and the increased flow of information on which it rides and from which it benefits, is the railway. I don't think we've yet seen the first suburbs." Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: James Cummings Subject: Re: 19.574 is Google a good thing? Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:32:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 836 (836) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]Willard, Similarly to Lanchester, I'm always torn when discussing Google. I too find it 'cool', and use many of their services on a daily (or near enough) basis including the search engine, but also GMail, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Local,etc. and am a faithful reader of the Google Blog.[1] I've not yet tried their SMS-based services, but can understand how price-checking with Froogle or getting addresses with Google Local might be useful when out and about. However, I have always been highly sceptical of their mission statement "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".[2] Not all information should be made universally accessible, and I for one revel in some useless information. Moreover, having the ability of organizing it implies to me that they will have some control over it. If we replace the word 'organize' with 'control' in that mission statement then it becomes scary: "to control the world's information". But because it is such a geeky company -- and now continues to intentionally market itself as such -- geeks such as me *want* to like it. So we ignore this fear and put our faith in their 'Do no evil'[3] policy, even though they've been shown to ignore/fail at this in the past. (Lanchester mentions the China site-blocking as a well-known example.) They are, perhaps, doing better at this in their recent refusals to disclose search information for a US government legal case.[4] However, even in this instance it is not only the privacy of their users but also, they admit, company trade secrets that they have a vested interest in protecting. Google sits in uneasy balance in my mind. If I examine my own searching habits, like many I'm sure, I tend to turn to them first.[5] Google used to be perceived as 'the good guy' against the evil Micro$oft...but given that google also makes billions, is this really warranted?[6] -James [1] http://labs.google.com/ often shows services they are publicly beta-testing. The google blog is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ but I use Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/ their RSS feed aggregator to read it. [2] http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html [3] Though actually, http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings.html shows that the policy really is: "You can make money without doing evil" and is number 6 on the list. Some argue that the AOL deal is another good example of them veering away from this. [4] See http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_01.php#004328 and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4630694.stm [5] Though, I do also use pop-up search 'bookmarklets' on my browser toolbar to search dictionary.com, OED, IMBD, MultiMap, Lewis&Short, and Wikipedia amongst others directly. (In addition to various local search engines and one to add a new search button for any URL which contains the search term.) [6] Of course there are other reasons not to like or use Microsoft... -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk Ask me about free long-term preservation of your electronic texts. From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.574 is Google a good thing? Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:33:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 837 (837) One simple reply: If you take the quote "Google has the potential to destroy the publishing industry, the newspaper business, high street retailing and our privacy" and substitute the name of any large corporation or government with the requisite technological savvy, it would be equally true. As we are beginning to grasp. The TREC process has been cracking issues like voice-to-text for years (solved a few years ago), and now it is working on face recognition. Who will own that? Pat Galloway From: Gerda Elata-Alster Subject: Re: 19.574 is Google a good thing? Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:33:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 838 (838) re: the company [Google] is rich and determined" Why put the blame on Google alone? Its users are as determined as Google and if they're not rich, many of them may strive to become so by a.o.using Google. For every Google destroyed (because of its perceived social perniciousness) ten will rise up. We haven't seen the first suburb yet, but isn't it exciting to think that we may be on the verge of something entirely new, something we weren't able to dream up? No inventions or their results were ever intrinsicly or universally good or bad, but any could be put to use for either - BY US!! Gerda Elata-Alster From: Melissa Terras Subject: Professional Development Workshops and Digital Humanities? Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:40:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 839 (839) Dear Humanists, In the past few years, the ACH/ALLC Annual Conference has often been preceded by a series of workshops, usually providing basic introductions to XML, TEI, and other technologies of interest to those who aim to partake in the digital humanities community. However, there has been little provision of training for academics and practitioners in the field who may like to undertake some professional development at a more advanced level. There has been some discussion within the ALLC committee as to whether it would be beneficial to the community to organise and support workshops prior to the Digital Humanities conference(s) which may be focussed at providing some kind of professional development training. These would probably be one day workshops on the day prior to the conference. Topics which have been suggested include (but are not limited to) -content management systems - digital image colour management - eXist databases/servers - visualisation and 3d visualisations - grid technologies and e-science applications in the humanities - xml, SQL and databases - gaming technologies, narratives (and theory?) - three dimensional scanning: tools, techniques and usability. Would members of the Digital Humanities community be interested in such an endeavour? Are there any topics we should be focussing on? Is the involvement of the organisation(s) in the area of professional development a good idea? If we build it, will you attend? Thanks Melissa Terras (Acting Secretary of ALLC) _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE 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/ Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ From: "Hugh Denard" Subject: Visualisation Posts at King's College, London Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:41:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 840 (840) Dear Colleagues, Please could you draw these two=20 visualisation-related posts (appended) to the=20 attention of anyone you know who might be suitably qualified. With kind regards, Hugh Denard --------------------------------- Dr Hugh Denard King=92s Visualisation Lab Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College, London Strand London WC2R 2LS, UK Tel. 020 7848 2719 <http://www.didaskalia.net>www.didaskalia.net www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk Network Development Officer - JISC 3D=20 Visualisation in the Arts Network, Part-time, 0.5FTE, 36 months The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London wishes to employ, an outgoing, dynamic and organised person to initiate a programme of rapid community building under the direction of the King's Visualisation Lab. The Network will provide support for 3D visualisation activities in Arts and Humanities disciplines in UK Higher Education institutions. The Network Development Officer will establish and develop communications with projects and groups in UK HE institutions that are engaged in applying 3D visualisation approaches within Arts and Humanities disciplines. She/he will help to establish a Network Steering Group, provide the "visualisation community" with networking assistance, establish structures to foster exchange of information and skills between institutions, disseminate the work of the Network, promote discussion of key issues identified by the community and monitor Network sustainability issues. The appointee will organise scheduled meetings and assist Network members in organising conference presentations and panels. The successful applicant will have a good honours degree, experience of communications and publicity activities, excellent interpersonal, written, web-editing and administrative skills, with proven strengths in taking initiative and working independently within collaborative contexts. She/he will preferably have some knowledge and understanding of computer-aided visualisation activities in the academic, educational, cultural heritage and/or commercial sectors. For further information and an application form see: <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/about/vacancies.html>http://www= .kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/about/vacancies.html Closing date for applications: 13 February 2006 Reference: E2/AAV/133/05 3D Visualisation Research Fellow- JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, Part-time, 0.5FTE, 24 months The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London wishes to employ, a part-time Research Fellow to assist the newly- established King's Visualisation Lab in developing a national 3D Visualisation Network in the Arts. The 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, part of the JISC Visualisation Support Network, will: =95 build a sustainable community supporting 3D Visualisation in the Arts =95 encourage and facilitate exchange of skills and knowledge =95 stimulate and coordinate community-wide debate on key issues =95 pro-actively interface with the JISC Visualisation Support Network =95 form strategic connections between domains=20 through a range of related, external bodies =95 raise awareness and understanding of the=20 Network in the JISC community and society The Network's 3D Visualisation Research Fellow will provide research- based support for the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network through a number of activities, including writing, presenting and publishing periodic reports on the research activities of the Network. The appointee will also work closely with members of the AHDS to analyse and augment aspects of the Projects and Methods Database, with a view to assisting the visualisation community to gain maximum benefit from it. A knowledge and understanding of computer-aided visualisation activities in the academic, educational, cultural heritage and/or commercial sectors is essential. In addition, the successful applicant will have a postgraduate degree, excellent research and written communication skills, extensive knowledge and experience of visualisation projects and proven strengths in working both independently and collaboratively. For further information and an application form see: <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/about/vacancies.html>http://www= .kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/about/vacancies.html Closing date for applications: 13 February 2006 Reference: W1/AAV/132/05 *These two positions may be filled by the same or two different persons.* From: lachance_at_origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: CAD, VR and the tools of scholarly editions Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:43:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 841 (841) Willard, Your VR thought experiment persisently tugs... Lucy Suchman in "Agencies in Technology Design: Feminist Reconfigurations" describes the work of an engineer using the tools of computer assisted design. I think what she describes is relevant to the VR edition thread pursued a while ago on Humanist. It is a sociological way of describing an historical agent at play with tools of the trade. While CAD might be held up as an exemplar of the abstract representation of concrete things, for the practicing engineer the story is more complex. Rather than stand in place of the specific locales - roadways, natural features, built environments, people and politics - of a project, the CAD system connects the experienced engineer sitting at her worktable to those things, at the same time that they exceed the system's representational capacities. The engineer knows the project through a multiplicity of documents, discussions, extended excursions to the project site, embodied labors and accountabilities, and the textual, graphical and symbolic inscriptions of the interface are read in relation to these heterogeneous forms of embodied knowing. Immersed in her work, the CAD interface becomes for the engineer a simulacrum of the site, not in the sense of a substitute for it, but rather of a place in which to work, with its own specific materialities, constraints and possibilities. While lacking any claims to embodiment, affect or sociality in its own right, the CAD interface-in-use is, I would argue, a powerful site of expanded, sociomaterial agency. It suggests a figure of technological agency not in the form of machinic operations conducted independently of the human, but in the form of a particular configuration, a specifically enacted site of extended, heterogeneously constituted human/nonhuman capacities for thought and action. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/papers/suchman-agenciestechnodesign.pdf It is worth isolating and emphasising a key sentence: "The engineer knows the project through a multiplicity of documents, discussions, extended excursions to the project site, embodied labors and accountabilities, and the textual, graphical and symbolic inscriptions of the interface are read in relation to these heterogeneous forms of embodied knowing." What is known comes from experience; what is read is related to the experience. This leads me to ask if the satisfactory design of the tools translates into the creation of a point through which accumulated experience is brought to bear upon a set of materials --- this is a bit different than the last question (i.e. are we seeking to cover more ground in less time) I left suspended in the twist and ply of this thread. The tool is less a vehicle and more a point of entry, port or junction. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin ~~~ to be surprised by machines: wistly and sometimes wistfully From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.3 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:42:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 842 (842) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 3 (January 24 - January 30, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO OF PLATO LEARNING In this issue we present at interview with Michael Morache, who is CEO of PLATO Learning Inc. The company describes itself as "the leading provider of personalized instruction and standards-driven assessment and accountability." Go to: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i03_morache.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i03_morache.html From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 19.577 Google Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:29:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 843 (843) Re: Google censoring results in China. Readers may be interested in seeing http://blog.outer-court.com/censored/, which shows screenshots of the differences between searches on certain phrases from inside and outside china. Of course, you can see the differences for yourself if after a search you add &meta=3Dcr%3DcountryCN to the URL. Interestingly, you also get different results if you compare the UK and CAnada. However (copied verbatim from the URL above), Google claims not to censor its results: "Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results. To learn more about Google's search technology, please visit ..." Google's full help entry on "Principles - Does Google censor search results?" (January 26, 2006). "Google is committed to providing easy access to as much information as possible. For Internet users in China, Google remains the only major search engine that does not censor any web pages." The Google Team, September 2004 (in a reply on why Google News self-censors some sources). Food for thought, -James From: Charles Ess Subject: ECAP'06 submission deadline extended Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:28:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 844 (844) Dear Humanists, with the usual apologies for duplications and cross-postings - please note that the submission deadline for ECAP'06 (the European Computers and Philosophy Conference) has been pushed back one week - to 3. February 2006. For more information, please see the conference website, www.eu-cap.org Please pass this information on to interested colleagues and/or appropriate mailing lists. Thanks in advance, and cheers - Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> 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'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: "Jochen L. Leidner" Subject: Re: 19.582 Google Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:05:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 845 (845) Hi, Google also censors French, German, ..., indices, as do all other search engines, if only for legal reasons (as saying certain things is a crime in Germany, for instance Holocaust denial). Have a look at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2360351.stm [deleted quotation]It might still be on their pages, but their PR people have meanwhile resorted to a more shaky argumentation, namely that providing the Chinese people with no search at all would do more harm. Even without empirical evidence, it is obvious that everbody has an agenda, and uses all possible means available to them to achieve it. That's why you shouldn't rely on one search engine, and, by the same token, you shouldn't read only one newspaper. Note that some try even to clean their historic record: in the recent "Meehangate" or "Wikigate" scandal, it has been uncovered that US goverment employees worked on systematically influencing the content of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org (with >1,000 politician bios modified): http://digg.com/technology/More_than_1000_wikipedia_alterations_by_US_Representative_Staffers Regards, Jochen -- Jochen L Leidner School of Informatics University of Edinburgh http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~s0239229 From: Pat Galloway Subject: Re: 19.579 VR scholarly editions Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:06:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 846 (846) Francois said in re Lucy Suchman's observations about CAD systems: This leads me to ask if the satisfactory design of the tools translates into the creation of a point through which accumulated experience is brought to bear upon a set of materials I find what I take to be Suchman's source, Pickering's Mangle of Practice about the concept of "material agency," to be about just this point. Pat Galloway From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 7(1) "Learning About Risk" online Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:04:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 847 (847) Dear All, I would like to inform you that the 20th FQS Issue -- "Learning About Risk" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-06-e.htm), edited by Jens O. Zinn & Peter Taylor-Gooby -- is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm for former issues). As always, in addition to articles relating to "Learning About Risk" FQS 7(1) also provides selected single contributions, an article that belongs to the FQS Debate on "Ethnography of the Career Politics," as well as articles belonging to FQS Interviews and FQS Reviews. All the best, Katja Mruck ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FQS 7(1) LEARNING ABOUT RISK http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-06-e.htm English http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt1-06-d.htm German http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt1-06-s.htm Spanish Jens O. Zinn & Peter Taylor-Gooby (UK): Introduction: Learning about Risk http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-24-e.htm Identity, Everyday Life and Social Inequality David Abbott, Deborah Quilgars & Anwen Jones (UK): The Impact of Social and Cultural Difference in Relation to Job Loss and Financial Planning: Reflections on the Risk Society http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-16-e.htm Andy Alaszewski, Helen Alaszewski & Jonathan Potter (UK): Risk, Uncertainty and Life Threatening Trauma: Analysing Stroke Survivor's Accounts of Life After Stroke http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-18-e.htm Noel Smith, Andreas Cebulla, Lynne Cox & Abigail Davies (UK): Risk Perception and the Presentation of Self: Reflections from Fieldwork on Risk http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-9-e.htm Thilo Boeck, Jennie Fleming & Hazel Kemshall (UK): The Context of Risk Decisions: Does Social Capital Make a Difference? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-17-e.htm Elaine Sharland (UK): Young People, Risk Taking and Risk Making: Perspectives for Social Work http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-23-e.htm Risk-communication, Media, Discourse Lesley Hoggart (UK): Young Women, Sexual Behaviour and Sexual Decision-Making http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-28-e.htm Rob Flynn, Paul Bellaby & Miriam Ricci (UK): Risk Perception of an Emergent Technology: The Case of Hydrogen Energy http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-19-e.htm Joanne Warner (UK): Community Care and the Location and Governance of Risk in Mental Health http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-31-e.htm Government, Regulation and Risk Peter Lunt, Sonia Livingstone, Tanika Kelay & Laura Miller (UK): Approaches to Risk and Consumer Policy in Financial Service Regulation in the UK http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-32-e.htm Johannes Simons & Anne Katrin Lensch (Germany): How to Encourage Individual Contributions to Reduce Food Borne Risks http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-15-e.htm Theorising Risk Matt Twyman, Clare Harries & Nigel Harvey (UK): Learning to Use and Assess Advice about Risk http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-22-e.htm Jonathan Jackson, Nick Allum & George Gaskell (UK): Bridging Levels of Analysis in Risk Perception Research: The Case of the Fear of Crime http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-20-e.htm Andreas Klinke (UK) & Ortwin Renn (Germany): Systemic Risks: A New Challenge for Risk Management http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-33-e.htm Viviane Seigneur (France): The Problems of the Defining the Risk: The Case of Mountaineering http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-14-e.htm Nigel Harvey, Matt Twyman & Clare Harries (UK): Making Decisions for other People: The Problem of Judging Acceptable Levels of Risk http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-26-e.htm Jens O. Zinn (UK): Risk, Affect and Emotion http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-29-e.htm Jens O. Zinn (UK): Recent Developments in Sociological Risk Theory http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-30-e.htm Single Contributions Erica Burman (UK): Engendering Development: Some Methodological Perspectives on Child Labour http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-1-e.htm Eduardo A. Arturo Capomassi (Ecuador): Children's Rights in the Western Positivistic Model of Knowledge Production http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-25-e.htm Rainer Diaz-Bone (Germany): Developing Foucault's Discourse Analytic Methodology http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-6-e.htm Rainer Diriwaechter & Jaan Valsiner (USA): Qualitative Developmental Research Methods in their Historical and Epistemological Contexts http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-8-e.htm Anat Kainan, Michal Rozenberg & Miri Munk (Israel): Change and Preservation in Life Stories of Bedouin Students http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-7-e.htm Heidi Keller & Carolin Demuth (Germany): Further Explorations of the "Western Mind". Euro-American and German Mothers' and Grandmothers' Ethnotheories http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-5-e.htm Florian Kohlbacher (Germany): The Use of Qualitative Content Analysis in Case Study Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-21-e.htm Ines Langemeyer (Germany): Contradictions in Expansive Learning: Towards a Critical Analysis of Self-dependent Forms of Learning in Relation to Contemporary Socio-technological http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-12-e.htm Uwe Maier (Germany): Ways and Problems of an Integrated Curriculum in German Secondary Schools http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-3-e.htm Stefanie Vavti (Austria): "We are Kanaltaler!"-Regional and local identities in the quadrolingual Valcanale in Italy http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-34-e.htm FQS Debate: "Ethnography of the Career Politics" Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Textbooks on Qualitative Research and Method/Methodology: Toward a Praxis of Method http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-11-e.htm FQS Interviews Carl Ratner (USA): Epistemological, Social, and Political Conundrums in Social Constructionism http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-4-e.htm Barbara Zielke (Germany): Not "Anything Goes." A Critical Assessment of Constructionism and Its Misinterpretation. A Comment on Carl Ratner's "Epistemological, Social, and Political Constructionism" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-27-e.htm FQS Reviews Andrea D. Buehrmann (Germany): Review Matthias Grundmann & Raphael Beer (Eds.) (2004). Subjekttheorien interdisziplinaer. Diskussionsbeitraege aus Sozialwissenschaften, Philosophie und Neurowissenschaften [Cross-disciplinary Theories of the Subject. Discussions in Social Science, Philosophy and Neuroscience] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-2-e.htm Thomas Link (Austria): Review Christine Feil, Regina Decker & Christoph Gieger (2004). Wie entdecken Kinder das Internet? [How Do Children Discover the Internet?] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-10-e.htm Albert K. Petersheim (Germany): Review Jan Schmidt (2005). Der virtuelle lokale Raum. Zur Institutionalisierung lokal bezogener Online-Nutzungsepisoden [The Virtual Local Space. To Institutionalize Regionally Oriented Online User Episodes] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-13-e.htm Juergen Rausch (Switzerland): Review David Lohmann (2003). Das Bielefelder Diakonie-Management-Modell [The Bielefeld Deaconry Management Model] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-06/06-1-35-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: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.4 Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:07:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 848 (848) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 4 (January 31 - February 6, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: DATA MANAGEMENT; RACIST ATTACKS * Zakaria Maamar of Zayed University in Dubai explains the Messenger Project, which aims at managing data between distributed UDDI registries and integrates users and software agents into what is referred to as messengers. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i04_maamar.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i04_maamar.html * Bhumika Ghimire writes from Nepal about racist attacks on call center workers in Asia. <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i04_ghimire.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i04_ghimire.html From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: the use of labial consonants in American Indian languages Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:06:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 849 (849) Dear HumanistList colleagues, I have computed the sentences from the works of Richard Rhodes of the University of Michigan (Some aspect of Ojibwa discourse; Metaphor and extention in Ojibwa; Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary). The results of the calculating of the frequency of occurrence of the Ojibwa labial consonants in the speech sound chain show a great value = 17.14%. Actually, it is more than in the other American Indian languages that I calculated.In fact, it is much greater than in the other American INdian languages which I computed. Compare the frequency of occurrences of labial consonants in percent to all the phonemes in the speech chain: 1. Iquito 4.83% 2. Piratapuyo 6.56% 3. Mam 7.33% 4. Totonac 7.38% 5. Kadiweu 7.74% 6. Capanahua 8.04% 7. Quawasquar 9.05% 8. Secoya 9.29% 9. Inga 9.89% 10. Cofan 10.02% 11. Pocomchi 10.83% 12. Quechua 11.40% 13. Nahuatl 11.73% 14. Siriano 11.18% 15. Sayula popoluca 12.34% 16. Kajwa 12.75% 17. Guarani 12.92% 18. Guambiano 14.50% 19. Sweet Grass Cree 15.15% 20. Ojibwa 17.14% 21. Apinaye 17.40% ----- I wonder if you could share your ideas and comments about the use of labial consonants in these American Indian languages. I guess it may be interesting for some linguistic journal. Could you advise me where I can send my article on the use of labials? Could you please send me the e-mail addresses of the editors of these journals? Looking forward to heaing from you soon to my new email addtess yutamb_at_mail.ru Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia From: dis_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:08:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 850 (850) Systems - Deadline Extended ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - Collective Intelligence and its Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE workshop on distributed intelligent systems as collective robotics, agent-based manufacturing and agent-based coalition formation and their applications Location: PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 15-16, 2006 Deadline extension: ------------------- The hard deadline for paper submissions has been extended to February 13, 2006. Paper submission: ----------------- The paper submission form is accessible by means of a link "Paper Submission Form" at http://www.action-m.com/dis2006/submission_form.php or directly at http://agents.felk.cvut.cz/conferences/dis2006/REG-paper/. The extended submission deadline is February 13, 2006. For paper formating, please, use 2-column IEEE style. Formating guidelines are available at: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/publications/cps&file=cps_forms.xml&xsl=generic.xsl& Deadlines: ---------- Submission of manuscripts (up to 6 pages in 2 col. IEEE format)... February 13, 2006 Author notification................................................... March 5, 2006 Final manuscript submission........................................... April 5, 2006 Early registration at reduced fee...................................... May 15, 2006 IEEE DIS 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems.......... June 15-16, 2006 Prospective authors are expected to submit original work related to one or more of the following tracks: TRACK A: Collective Robotics and Human/Robot Interaction TRACK B: Industrial Applications of Distributed and Agent-Based Systems TRACK C: Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations For details, please, see http://www.action-m.com/dis2006. Contacts: --------- Scientific issues: V. Marik, dis_at_labe.felk.cvut.cz Local arrangements (registration, accommodation and social program): M. Zeithamlova, milena_at_action-m.com http://www.action-m.com/dis2006 http://www.diplomatpraha.cz _______________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: attending from and attending to the digital Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:44:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 851 (851) Let me put a proposition to you that I will shortly be arguing for, to see what you think of it. It begins with Michael Polanyi's argument for the place of tacit knowledge in our use of things, including but not limited to tools. Like other phenomenologists, he argues that when we use a thing skillfully, we attend *from* it to the object of attention, as a blind person, in his or her use of a stick, navigates along city streets without giving a thought to the stick. But then, for whatever reason (such as an unexpected hole in the path, or a failure of a tool), the prosthetically augmented person must attend *to* the prosthesis, do something about the failure or whatever, until attending from becomes possible again. This cycle or "see-saw", as Polanyi says, happens in the context of a perfective cycle, such as the development of a tool, and is responsible for the improvements. My notion is that new media studies has a strong relation to the former part of the phenomenological cycle, the (synthetic) attending from, while that which we often call humanities computing has a strong relation to the latter part, the (analytic) attending to. Those who, such as Brian Cantwell Smith, argue that we build on but ignore the digitality of our computing tools, or like Chris Chesher, that the digital computer is dead, belong primarily with the former. Those who, like me most of the time, who argue for very close attention to the digitality of these tools, to their Turing Machine-ness, belong primarily to the latter. But I, in a more magnanimous mode, now want to argue that as the two parts of the phenomenological cycle are the yin and the yang of productive work, or simply of relation to the world, the two great halves of our field belong together -- that in fact each is becoming inconceivable without the other. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Miki Hermann Subject: LPAR 2006 call for papers Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:45:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 852 (852) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LPAR-13 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006 13th-17th November 2006 Call For Papers The 13th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-13) will be held 13th-17th November 2006, at the Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 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-13 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-13 will be published by the conference. [...] From: DrWender_at_aol.com Subject: Re: 19.587 IEEE workshop on distributed intelligence systems Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:00:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 853 (853) In einer eMail vom 01.02.06 09:50:53 (MEZ)=20 Mitteleurop=E4ische Zeit schreibt willard_at_LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU: [deleted quotation]Nice correction in the subject line of 19.587. Or is there no difference between, say,=20 intelligence agencies and intelligent agencies? ;-) hw From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 19.583 Google Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:46:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 854 (854) At 08.10 01/02/2006, jochen wrote: [deleted quotation]going to the above URL i saw that the article is partly based onto the research conducted by Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. you can find some of their work at these URLs: Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/ Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/ Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/ Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/saudiarabia/ the extent of the censoring activity is awesome, "Google or not Google". i was sad and discouraged after reading those pages by Zittrain and Edelman. but at the same time we can - through their research, and through the Internet - know all this, speak of it on the base of documented evidence; and we can save and print on paper those web pages in order to remember. we are in debt to the censored people all over the world and we, who can't do nearly anything for them directly, can partly pay our debt remembering what happened to them. too much pathos? but what about too little? maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Virtual Reality 9.2-3 Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:49:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 855 (855) Volume 9 Numbers 2-3 of Virtual Reality is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Editorial: design of haptic user-interfaces and applications p. 95 Steven Wall, Stephen Brewster DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0018-y Original Article Communication in a networked haptic virtual environment for temporal bone surgery training p. 97 Matthew A. Hutchins, Duncan R. Stevenson, Chris Gunn, Alexander Krumpholz, Tony Adriaansen, Brian Pyman, Stephen O’Leary DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0015-1 Original Article Supporting visually impaired children with software agents in a multimodal learning environment p. 108 Rami Saarinen, Janne Järvi, Roope Raisamo, Eva Tuominen, Marjatta Kangassalo, Kari Peltola, Jouni Salo DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0011-5 Original Article Stroke-based modeling and haptic skill display for Chinese calligraphy simulation system p. 118 Daniel Wang, Yuru Zhang, Chong Yao DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0012-4 Original Article A novel multimodal interface for improving visually impaired people’s web accessibility p. 133 Wai Yu, Ravi Kuber, Emma Murphy, Philip Strain, Graham McAllister DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0009-z Original Article Mediated social touch: a review of current research and future directions p. 149 Antal Haans, Wijnand IJsselsteijn DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0014-2 Original Article A haptic interface for computer-integrated endoscopic surgery and training p. 160 M. Tavakoli, R. V. Patel, M. Moallem DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0017-z Original Article Guidelines for haptic interpersonal communication applications: an exploration of foot interaction styles p. 177 A.F. Rovers, H.A. van Essen DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0016-0 Original Article Haptic modeling in the conceptual phases of product design p. 192 M. Bordegoni, U. Cugini DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0013-3 Original Article Wearable vibrotactile systems for virtual contact and information display p. 203 Robert W. Lindeman, Yasuyuki Yanagida, Haruo Noma, Kenichi Hosaka DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0010-6 From: "Springer Alerting" Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 10.2-3 Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:55:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 856 (856) Volume 10 Numbers 2-3 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Editorial Special issue of personal and ubiquitous computing: papers from 3AD­the second international conference on appliance design p. 55 Peter Thomas DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0027-6 Original Article Is automation automatically a good thing? p. 56 Nigel Derrett DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0001-3 Original Article The video window: my life with a ludic system p. 60 William W. Gaver DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0002-2 Original Article Digital Selves: Devices for intimate communications between homes p. 66 Konstantinos Grivas DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0003-1 Original Article Affective is effective: how information appliances can mediate relationships within communities and increase one’s social effectiveness p. 77 Ruth Kikin-Gil DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0004-0 Original Article The friend locator: supporting visitors at large-scale events p. 84 Sarah Olofsson, Veronica Carlsson, Jessica Sjölander DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0005-z Original Article Appliances for whom? Considering place p. 90 Jennifer A. Rode DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0006-y Original Article Creative connections: user, designer, context, and tools p. 95 Pieter Jan Stappers DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0024-9 Original Article Some Kind of Analogtivity: anti-simulation through design p. 101 Jamie Billing, Tracy Cordingley DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0008-9 Original Article BuddyBeads: techno-jewelry for non-verbal communication within teenager girls groups p. 106 Ruth Kikin-Gil DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0015-x Original Article Method to analyze user behavior in home environment p. 110 Tae Seung Ha, Ji Hong Jung, Sung Yong Oh DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0016-9 Original Article Taking clues from the world outside: navigating interactive panoramas p. 122 Aldo Hoeben, Pieter Jan Stappers DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0017-8 Original Article The PhotoMirror appliance: affective awareness in the hallway p. 128 Panos Markopoulos, Bert Bongers, Erik van Alphen, Jasper Dekker, Wouter van Dijk, Sebastiaan Messemaker, Joep van Poppel, Bram van der Vlist, Dirk Volman, Gilles van Wanrooij DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0007-x Original Article Comparing end-user and intelligent remote control interface generation p. 136 Olufisayo Omojokun, Jeffrey S. Pierce, Charles L. Isbell, Prasun Dewan DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0019-6 Original Article Material light: exploring expressive materials p. 144 Daniel Saakes DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0021-z Original Article Re-using users: co-create and co-evaluate p. 148 Froukje Sleeswijk Visser, Victor Visser DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0023-x Original Article A cube to learn: a tangible user interface for the design of a learning appliance p. 153 Lucia Terrenghi, Matthias Kranz, Paul Holleis, Albrecht Schmidt DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0025-8 Original Article The value of storyboards in the product design process p. 159 Corrie van der Lelie DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0026-7 Original Article MusicCube: a physical experience with digital music p. 163 Miguel Bruns Alonso, David V. Keyson DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0009-8 Original Article Interactive lounge: an interdisciplinary approach to the design of a gestural interaction device p. 166 Duan Varan, Andrew Turk, Sam Bucolo, Deb Polson, Margot Brereton, Jared Donovan, Kim Montgomery, Gael McIndoe DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0010-2 Original Article Phymail Box: an information appliance that checks and prints only important emails p. 170 Giovanni Cannata DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0011-1 Original Article PAWS: Personal Action Wireless Sensor p. 173 Thomas Dowad DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0012-0 Original Article A rich user interface for a digital camera p. 177 Joep Frens DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0013-z Original Article The Light-Wall: tangible user interfaces for learning systems thinking p. 181 Erez Kikin-Gil DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0014-y Original Article Cabinet: merging designers’ digital and physical collections of visual materials p. 183 A. Ianus Keller, Aldo Hoeben, Aadjan van der Helm DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0018-7 Original Article DiamondHelp: a new interaction design for networked home appliances p. 187 Charles Rich, Candace Sidner, Neal Lesh, Andrew Garland, Shane Booth, Markus Chimani DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0020-0 Original Article Network alarm clock (The 3AD International Design Competition) p. 191 Albrecht Schmidt DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0022-y From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for submissions: Digital Humanities Quarterly Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:47:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 857 (857) Submissions are invited for Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Submissions may be mailed to submissions_at_digitalhumanities.org. A web submission form will also be available soon. We welcome material on all aspects of digital media in the humanities, including humanities computing, new media, digital libraries, game studies, digital editing, pedagogy, hypertext and hypermedia, computational linguistics, markup theory, and related fields. Submissions are invited in the following categories: --Articles representing original research in digital humanities --Editorials and opinion pieces on any aspect of digital humanities --Reviews of web resources, books, software tools, digital publications, and other relevant materials --Interactive media works including digital art, hypertext literature, criticism, and interactive experiments. A separate detailed call for interactive submissions is also available; see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/en//DHquarterly/InteractivemediaCall Submissions in all categories may be in traditional formats, or may be formally experimental. We welcome submissions that experiment with the rhetoric of the digital medium. We encourage the use of standards-based formats, but over time we will work to accommodate a wider range of media types and experimental functions. Submissions may be of any length. All submissions will be peer reviewed. For submission guidelines, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/guidelines/index.html. For further information, and to contact our editors, please visit the DHQ web site at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for reviewers: Digital Humanities Quarterly Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:47:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 858 (858) Digital Humanities Quarterly is still seeking reviewers and welcomes your participation! Our thanks to all those who have already expressed a willingness to review. We are glad of reviewers in all areas of expertise, including: --digital libraries --humanities computing --languages and language learning --corpus linguistics --new media --literature and literary theory --art and art history --museum and cultural heritage areas of specialization --hypertext, hypermedia, interactive fiction and art and, in short, any field related to the scholarship and practice of digital humanities. To sign up as a reviewer, please send the following information to submissions_at_digitalhumanities.org: Your name and email address Your institutional affiliation and country The languages you're able to review in The areas of specialization you're interested in reviewing in How regularly you would be willing to review Thank you! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor, DHQ Brown University From: Francois Lachance Subject: re: 19.588 attending from and attending to the digital Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:44:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 859 (859) Willard, My reading is not as extensive as your own. Could you please give a reference for the passage where Polyani frames a person's relation to tools as attention in vectoral terms as "to" and "from". I ask because in _Personal Knowldege_ the terminology is of "focal and subsidiary awareness". Where does Polyani reframe awareness in terms of attention? Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin From: Subject: digital visibility Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:29:25 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 860 (860) Dear Humanists, The following query is a result of our research on the LAIRAH project, (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/LAIRAH/) as part of which we are doing a study on how humanities scholars find digital resources on the web. We have found that resources may be more or less difficult to find, but the question of how to define a resource that is hard to find as opposed to easy to find is not immediately evident. We know of course of research by Nielson and the general agreement that information should be no more that three clicks away from arriving at a website. However, we are finding it relatively difficult to find academic literature on the subject of how hard a resource has to be to find to effectively render it invisible. When will a user generally give up browsing a site, such as a university library or departmental website, and conclude nothing is to be found? We would like to know if anyone has performed user tests to determine when users give up, and therefore how to define when a resource is hard to find. If any humanists can point us towards studies that have looked at this area we would be very grateful. Thanks in advance, Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras and the LAIRAH team. -- 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 website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/claire-warwick/ From: Sue Thomas Subject: Vacancy for a Research Fellow in social Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:13:51 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 861 (861) software and narrative Our successful AHRC application has created an opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher for a project entitled 'Interdisciplinary applications of experimental social software to the study of narrative in digital contexts', led by Professor Sue Thomas. This one year post is jointly based in the Institute of Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. You will have a major role in the survey and evaluation of collaborative social software tools and their application to people-to-people models of transdisciplinary knowledge-sharing in relation to narratives in a digital context. You will have a PhD (or have recently submitted your doctorate) and you will probably, but not necessarily, have a first degree in a Humanities subject. You will have a proven knowledge of narrative in digital environments and experience of managing web-based collaborative tools. A substantial understanding of the technical aspects of the project, including knowledge of HTML, databases, data collection and analysis skills, are a requirement of the post. Closing date for applications 17th March 2006. Interviews for the post will take place on Monday 10th April with a preferred start date of 22nd May 2006 Obtain further details and apply online at http://www.jobs-dmu.co.uk/academicmoreinfo.asp?JID=1009 Informal enquiries can by made to Professor Sue Thomas on sue.thomas_at_dmu.ac.uk or +44(0)116 2078266 US-based enquirers can meet Prof Thomas for an informal discussion at ETech http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ in San Diego 6-9 March or at SXSW Interactive http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/ in Austin 10-14 March 2006. Please email sue.thomas_at_dmu.ac.uk to arrange. Related links Institute of Creative Technologies http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk Writing and the Digital Life http://writing.typepad.com Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media http://writing.typepad.com/cwt/ NLab http://www.narrativelab.org Sue Thomas Professor of New Media School of Media and Cultural Production Faculty of Humanities De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH United Kingdom +44 (0)116 207 8266 sue.thomas_at_dmu.ac.uk http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/ From: Subject: open-source text tool from UVic Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:28:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 862 (862) Hi there, [Apologies for cross-posting -- this is going to the tei, tapor-tech and humanist lists.] We've recently had to rescue some very old linguistics data, which was stored in a combination of Lexware and DOS WordPerfect files, by converting it to Unicode. Non-ascii characters were represented in the data by nasty sequences of control characters used to switch between obsolete character-sets and long-gone fonts in WordPerfect. In order to convert the data, we had to create and test a huge sequence of search-and-replace operations which would find these strings and replace them with the correct Unicode codepoints for IPA characters. To make this process easier for ourselves, we've created a Windows app called Transformer, which enables you to create, organize and test sequences of search/replace operations (including regular expressions), then run them in batch mode on a set of files. We're releasing it as open-source under the MPL 1.1, and the site for it is here: <http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/transformer/> It shares some of its code base with the Image Markup Tool which was released in alpha in December; this tool is further along in its development, and is officially a beta, with only a few enhancements planned before the final release. Please check it out if you have a need for something like this, and feel free to cross-post this announcement to any other lists. All the best, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes_at_uvic.ca) Half-Baked Software, Inc. (mholmes_at_halfbakedsoftware.com) martin_at_mholmes.com From: Subject: 1.0 Release of the collation tool Juxta Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:31:30 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 863 (863) Our development group ARP (Applied Research in Patacriticism: www.patacriticism.org) is today releasing the 1.0 version of Juxta. Anyone interested in online critical editing, whether theoretically or practically or both, will probably want to look at the tool and perhaps try it out. Juxta is an open source cross platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses of a single textual work. The tool allows one to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or remove witness texts, to switch the base text at will, and to annotate the comparisons and save the results. Juxta comes with several kinds of analytic visualizations. The basic collation gives a split frame comparison of a base text and a witness text along with a display of the digital images from which the base text is derived. Juxta provides a heat map of all textual variants and allows the user to locate at the level of any textual unit all witness variations from the base text. A histogram of the collations is particularly useful for long documents. It displays the density of all variation from the base text and serves as a useful finding aid for specific variants. Juxta can also output a lemmatized schedule in html of the textual variants in any set of comparisons. This release of the tool comes with demonstration examples from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Shakespeare, and Walter Pater. We've set up a blog for commentary and exchange: http://www.patacriticism.org/juxta/ We're keen to support a user community around the software and to hear from you about both its successes and deficiencies. You can download the installer from the following site: http://www.patacriticism.org/juxta/download/ You may want to consult the following help page, which includes a link to our user manual: http://www.patacriticism.org/juxta/help/ Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. You can write to me or, even better, to the following: tecnologies_at_nines.org Jerome McGann From: Ray Siemens Subject: Doctoral Reading Lists in Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:13:33 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 864 (864) and the Digital Humanities Dear Fellow HUMANISTs, My department and faculty are moving toward offering specialisations of several kinds in humanities computing and the digital humanities, including graduate coursework and PhD-level candidacy in the area. We're now exploring the possibility of setting a standard reading-list framework for doctoral candidacy exams, and I write to ask if any in our group with experience in this might like to share some of their gleanings. Ideally, I'd like to be able to bring to my local colleagues, most of whom will not have a background in the area, both a sense of why it is important (from a variety of perspectives) to provide such a reading list and what similar readings lists at other institutions look like. I'd welcome any and all thoughts and examplary lists! All best wishes, Ray ____________ 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: Carlos Areces Subject: Rationality and Knowledge CFP Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:20:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 865 (865) CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Rationality and Knowledge August 7-11, 2006 www.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~sartemov/rkw Workshop organized as part of European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ July 31 - August 11, 2006 in Malaga, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Organizers: Sergei Artemov and Rohit Parikh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Purpose: The workshop on rationality and knowledge intends to bring together young researchers from a wide variety of fields - including Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, Distributed Computing, Economics and Game Theory, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and Psychology, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * semantic models for knowledge, for belief, and for uncertainty * epistemic logic * logics of knowledge and action * formal analysis of games * belief revision * logics of proofs and justification * the role of knowledge in general information flow * voting and social choice * social software * fair division. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission details: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing original work. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS, ASCII text. Please send your submission electronically by RKworkshop_at_gmail.com by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be available on the workshop website. A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of a leading Journal in this area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 or 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: * Submissions: March 8, 2006 * Notification: April 21, 2006 * Preliminary programme: April 24, 2006 * ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2006 * Final papers for proceedings: May 17, 2006 * Final programme: June 21, 2006 * Workshop dates: August 7-11, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Speakers: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam/Stanford) Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Programme Committee: * Sergei Artemov (New York) * Alexandru Baltag (Oxford) * Steven Brams (New York) * Adam Brandenburger (New York) * Melvin Fitting (New York) * Valentin Goranko (Johannesburg) * Joseph Halpern (Ithaca) * Vincent Hendricks (Roskilde) * Barteld Kooi (Groningen) * David Makinson (London) * Yoram Moses (Haifa) * Larry Moss (Indiana) * Elena Nogina (New York) * Rohit Parikh (New York) * Krister Segerberg (Uppsala) * Rineke Vergbugge (Groningen) * Renata Wasserman (Sao Paulo) * Tatiana Yavorskaya (Moscow) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: www.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~sartemov/rkw About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ From: Alan Liu Subject: PhD Reading Lists Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:00:38 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 866 (866) Our English department at UC Santa Barbara created a reading list on "Literature and Theory of Technology / Media / Information" some years ago for graduate students taking their MA-level exam (they choose 3 out of a possible 11 fields to be examined in). The field reading list was designed to complement the various digital humanities/new media projects in our department that students work for as RAs or TAs. By design, we made the list a wide-focus one (technology, media, and information). Needless to say, the list would be different if it had been created today (we will need to update it very soon), if it had been designed solely around the ideas of digital humanities or new media, or if we had decided to examine in the practical technology and encoding sides of the field (as opposed to accommodating that training in our projects). However, I must say that the wide focus of the list has been very satisfying intellectually--asking our students, for example, to read in the "history of the book" and "new media" fields simultaneously. http://www.english.ucsb.edu/grad/handbook/reading-lists-11.asp From: B Tommie Usdin Subject: CFP: Extreme Markup Languages 2006 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:52:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 867 (867) Montreal in August: what could be better? Great food, great coffee, and a funky hotel full of markup geeks! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES 2006 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, storage and retrieval, the things you wish you could do in XML so much that you're thinking of creating your own markup system. At Extreme, markup enthusiasts gather each year to trade in ideas, not to convince management to buy new stuff. Extreme actively seeks controversy, not just the same old applications. WHEN: August 7-11, 2006 WHERE: Montr=E9al, Canada SPONSOR: IDEAlliance TO PARTICIPATE Looking for a theory to apply? Got one to market? Want a cause to support for your next open-source project? Got a good implementation story to tell? Have a new approach to handling overlapping markup or to treating non-XML data as if it were XML? Any opinions on the future of XML or one of the XML-related specifications? Do you make real demands of markup technology? Do you have an approach to modeling, creation, manipulation, or display of markup? If you do, we want to hear from you at Extreme! HOW: Submit full papers in XML to extreme_at_mulberrytech.com. Guidelines, schemas, DTDs, and details at http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Apply to the Peer Review panel according to the instructions at= : http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Peer/ReviewAppForm.html Submit tutorial proposals according to the instructions at: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/tutorialcall.html SCHEDULE: Peer Review Applications Due March 5, 2006 Tutorial Proposals Due March 24, 2006 Paper Submissions Due April 7, 2006 Speakers Notified May 12, 2006 Revised Papers Due June 25, 2006 Tutorials August 7, 2006 Conference August 8 - 11, 2006 QUESTIONS: Email to extreme_at_mulberrytech.com or call Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631 MORE INFORMATION as available: http://www.extrememarkup.com/ PROCEEDINGS of previous EXTREME MARKUP Conferences: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/ -- =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=3 D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin_at_mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in XML and SGML =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=3 D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 19.591 Google Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:04:26 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 868 (868) Maurizio, [deleted quotation] I would not advocate forgetting the various current and past outrages and offenses against humanity, but remembering doesn't seem to have prevented their repetition. And were I in a similar situation, I rather doubt that being remembered by others would be of much comfort. So, rather than spending time remembering or being concerned, why not take more direct action? Surely there are world class hackers at the various universities where most of the Humanist subscribers reside. The software and hardware used by the Chinese government couldn't be any better than that offered by most vendors. Rather than writing trivial viruses to annoy millions of users, why shouldn't they try to do something that is a real benefit to others? Perhaps graduate seminars on breaking censorship firewalls, free software to avoid them (perhaps embedded in commercial/free software) or academic prizes for the same? Very little change is accomplished with remembering or concern. A good deal may be accomplished by action. As individuals we may lack the skills to take action ourselves, but we certainly could seek out and support those who do. 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 Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: Tore Torngren Subject: Position as Scholarly Communications and Publishing Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:00:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 869 (869) Manager, Lund University Libraries A position as Scholarly Communications and Publishing Manager at Lund University Libraries, Head Office, is open for application. The position is full time, 36 months, with possibility of prolongation. Start of employment is spring 2006, according to agreement. The closing date for application is March 31 2006. Further information: http://www3.lu.se/info/lediga/admin/document/x426.pdf <http://www3.lu.se/info/lediga/admin/document/x426.pdf> Tore Torngren Assistant Director of Libraries Lund University E-mail: Tore.Torngren_at_lub.lu.se From: David Zeitlyn Subject: PhD Studentships at Kent Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:00:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 870 (870) PhD Studentships at Kent: Documentation of Endangered Languages and Cultures Two PhD studentships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council are offered, one in Anthropology and one in Linguistics, as part of a larger project to study and document endangered languages and cultures in the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland. The linguistics PhD will undertake the primary linguistic documentation of two endangered languages, the Anthropologist will focus on the cultural ecology of language loss among the same groups. The linguist will decide on and collect a representative corpus of language material for documentation for two languages, at different stages with respect to endangerment and attrition. The anthropologist will study the cultural dimensions of language use and the interplay of ethnic identity and language. Applicants must have completed a first or upper second class honours degree or its equivalent, and/or a Masters degree, in Anthropology or Linguistics by the starting date. No prior experience of research in Africa is necessary. Starting date: 1st September 2006 (possibly earlier) To be eligible for funding, you must also fulfil AHRC requirements: EU citizens will be eligible for a full award as long as they have been resident in the UK for the previous three years. An EU Citizen who does not fulfil the residency condition will be eligible for a fees only award. Applications (including the receipt of references) must be received by 10 April 2006; interviews will be held week beginning 22 May 2006. For more information see http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/AHRC_Languages/index.html and http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/gradapply.html (for online application forms) Contact Bruce Connell: B.A.Connell_at_kent.ac.uk or David Zeitlyn: D.Zeitlyn_at_kent.ac.uk -- Dr David Zeitlyn, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/dz/ (personal) http:/www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/ http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/gradapply.html (online application forms) From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Hacktivists and Google Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:06:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 871 (871) Willard, Humanist readers may be interested in an article that appeared in today's Wall Street Journal (13 Feb. 2006), entitled "Chinese Censors of Internet Face "Hacktivists" in U.S." It appears in the print edition and the online version (if you have a subscription to the online version). The article mentions that Congress may be about to revive a bill to establish an Office of Global Internet Freedom. The bill is short on specifics, but you can review it online at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.05524: If government interest grows, so could funding that may be of interests to Humanist readers. 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 Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Drummer Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:01:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 872 (872) Is there anyone out there who can point me at the original text from 1952 in which GWA Drummer (b. 1909), a British engineer at the UK Royal Radar Establishment, came up with the original idea of a monolithic integrated circuit when he wrote: =8CWith the advent of the transistor and the work in semiconductors generally, it seems now possible to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires.=B9 That block could be made, according to Drummer, of =8Cof layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying materials=B9. (cited in Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Advanced information on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2000, p.6 <http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/files/newspics/DOC_2003213142945_104967873852 _phyadv00.pdf>) As we all know, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce later fought over the ownership of the original idea of the silicon chip. Best, Edward --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Edward Vanhoutte Independent Researcher Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: Subject: 19.610 Google Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:09:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 873 (873) On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:18:47PM -0400, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of David Gants) wrote: [deleted quotation]Speaking as someone who most definitely posesses the skills to take down a Chinese firewall . . . Let's be careful here. It's astonishing how many U.S. laws I need to break in order to do this. In fact, the minute I start, I've already broken the terms of service of my internet provider (possibly exposing myself to a lawsuit). Since I'm obviously not going to launch an attack that's traceable to me, I'm going to need to go "own" someone else's server as a dodge. Am I to understand that your organization, Patrick, has no trouble with me illegally gaining access to their servers? Because otherwise, I'm probably going to install a rootkit on your machine and destroy your logs. It's for a good cause, after all. Of course, there are other good causes. Maybe you want to fight globalization or corporate America. Maybe you don't like people who patent software. Maybe you don't like organized religion. Or the war in Iraq. Or Danish newspapers. One thing is for sure. You better believe in your cause, because hacking can land you in jail, whether your hat is white or black. There are plenty of people in federal prison right now who went to jail despite having caused no damage to anyone's systems or data -- they just gained "unlawful access." And many of them went to jail before there was a Department of Homeland Security declaring "hacking" to be one of the top five greatest threats to national security in the US. Am I appalled by what's going on in China? Yes I am. And I do believe in action -- even the kind that can land you in jail. But everyone should be clear about the enormous risks involved with doing this kind of thing. It's about far more than knowing how to do it. You also have to understand thoroughly the dire consequences that can result from your actions. 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: Joris van Zundert Subject: China Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:00:31 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 874 (874) Patrick, I think this may be of interest to you (if you've not already read it): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060213.gtnetcops13/BNSt ory/Technology// y.s., Joris From: Subject: China Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:01:38 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 875 (875) Two summers ago, while visiting my son in Beijing, I saw some of the new China. In an under-city shopping mall in Xian (state-city of the first emperor, and now a UNESCO world-heritage site of the Terracotta Warriors), I rode up an escalator behind a slight man about my age (early 60s), but he was dressed out of the 1980s, with tidy, well-worn green jacket and pants, as if transported unceremoniously from the years of the Cultural Revolution. In bewildered dignity, he looked around at barely-clothed manikins and customers buying anything that would make them even more attractive. Music, bright lights, rich clothes, glittering wares from the world, surrounded him. I thought, sympathetically, as he slippered down an aisle awash with luxury: "He has met his former enemy in a social mirror." The human-rights concerns in recent Humanist messages about freeing Internet access in China are, in part, indignant that the Chinese might lack a full, intimate access to how the West manifests itself online. The West, however, is not news to the wired Chinese: its middle classes, in Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai (in my personal experience), are beginning to live a western dream, of sorts. Restrictions on access to information on Google in China will also limit its own internal political debate. Yet, is that a concern that anyone but the Chinese should have? Of course, it's a concern that we have ourselves about our own access to information in America and Europe. Consider the abysmal state of public information that accompanied decisions by the US and Britain to occupy Baghdad, and by Canada to police Kandahar. The notion that an army of idealistic hackers should liberate the intensely cell-phoned, hugely-online Chinese citizenry from a lack of information reveals a blindsidedness that Robert Fisk describes in "The Great War for Civilization" and that reminds me of Hero Protagonist in Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash." However, the belief that anyone should defend anyone's human rights, anywhere, however those rights are conceived, has real standing in the liberal West. Former Professor of the Practice of Human Rights at Harvard, Michael Ignatieff, argues in "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror" (2004) that governments, facing terrorism, can violate human rights in their very defence. In 2004 he supported harsh police interrogation, stopping short of permanently harmful torture. The plight of the Kurds, for him, justified the invasion of Iraq. He's understandably disappointed in results so far ... but has now returned to Canada, where he sits as an MP for my own riding, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, in the federal parliament in Ottawa, where his education will continue. Countries or individuals who defy international law in order to defend human rights in another free nation-state exhibit "empire-lite" ambitions. Am I qualified to be an information cop in my brother's house if I can't protect freedom of information in my own house? Are we giving comfort to third-world hackers who might want to bring down the firewalls protecting information held by financial institutions like Visa, by government agencies, and by hospitals? If interested in helping China, consider the plight of its farmers (the majority of its population), utterly unwesternized, and often ill able to buy the food they must sell. Consider how worried Oxfam is by how US-subsidized cotton exports, defying WTO practice, have undercut and impoverished China's cotton farmers. For pity's sake, if you will, see http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/trade/bp83_china_cotton.htm Ian Lancashire From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Drummer Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:02:23 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 876 (876) In the meantime I found some more information about Geoffrey W.A. Dummer's (and not Drummer) 1952 paper mentioning integrated circuits in Wolff (1978)[1]: "It came in the closing paragraphs of an invited paper on radar component reliability presenten at the annual electronic components sumposium in Washington, D.C." (p. 45) Does anyone know of the proceedings of this conference? Best, Edward --------------- [1] Wolff, Michael (1976). The Genesis of the integrated circuit. How a pair of U.S innovators brought into reality a concept that was on many minds. IEEE Spectrum, August: 45-53. -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Independent Researcher Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.6 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:23:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 877 (877) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 6 (February 14 - February 20, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: LARRY BERNSTEIN ON SOFTWARE RELIABILITY & SOFTWARE SIZING THEORY Larry Berstein, Industry Research Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, writes: "The performance of new systems capabilities for government agencies and industry are often examined using simulators. The simulators provide insight into how the new capabilities will perform. The simulators shed little light on reliability, complexity and other software engineering aspects of the proposed changes. The correlation between the complexities of the proposed capabilities with that of an earlier system can be used to bound the trustworthiness, possible schedule and potential costs for implementing the new capability. I call this the Lambda Protocol. It combines software reliability with software sizing theory. With performance, reliability, schedule and cost-estimates in hand, system and software engineers can make essential engineering tradeoffs as they set a course of action." See Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 6 (February 14, 2006 - February 20, 2006) <<http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i06_bernstein.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i06_bernstein.html From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The February 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:23:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 878 (878) Greetings: The February 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains a commentary, five articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month D-Lib features the Lilly Library at Indiana University. This month's Commentary is: Facilitating Scholarly Communication in African Studies Titia van der Werf-Davelaar, African Studies Centre, Leiden The articles include: ADL-R: The First Instance of a CORDRA Registry Henry Jerez, Giridhar Manepalli, Christophe Blanchi, and Laurence W. Lannom, Corporation for National Research Intiatives FeDCOR: An Institutional CORDRA Registry Giridhar Manepalli and Henry Jerez, Corporation for National Research Initiatives; and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive William Y. Arms, Selcuk Aya, Pavel Dmitriev, Blazej Kot, Ruth Mitchell, and Lucia Walle, Cornell University Observed Web Robot Behavior on Decaying Web Subsites Joan A. Smith, Frank McCown, and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors Perspective Esther Hoorn, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law and Maurits van der Graaf, Pleiade Management & Consultancy From: FOCA at ESSLLI Subject: FOCA_at_ESSLLI CFP: deadline approaching! Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:25:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 879 (879) Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents (FOCA) http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/ July 31 - August 4, 2006 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ July 31 - August 11, 2006 in Malaga ************************************************************************ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Roberta Ferrario (ferrario at loa-cnr.it) Nicola Guarino (guarino at loa-cnr.it) Laurent Prevot (prevotlaurent at gmail.com) ************************************************************************ WORKSHOP PURPOSE: In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially in the dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways. On the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good solution for comparing and integrating information and thus its application to this specific domain is very promising . More precisely, an ontological analysis of the fundamental ingredients of interaction and communication will make explicit the hidden ontological assumptions underlying all these proposals. Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address issues related to the exchange of meaningful communication across autonomous entities, which can organize and use information heterogeneously. The purpose of the workshop is therefore to gather contributions that (i) take seriously into account the ontological aspects of communication and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for achieving a better semantic coordination between interacting and communicating agents. ********************************************************* WORKSHOP TOPICS We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below with a particular attention to explore the interplay between ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases. * Ontological aspects of interaction and communication - Ontological analysis of interaction and communication - Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction - Logical models for communicative acts - Primitives of interaction and communication - Formal semantics of dialogue *Semantic coordination through formal ontologies - Dialogue semantics and formal ontology - Dynamic ontology sharing - Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological alignment and semantic interoperability - Ontology evolution through communication - Concrete problems and experiences in terminological disambiguation and integration [...] From: Charles Ess Subject: new issue on computer games and ethics Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:22:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 880 (880) Dear Humanists, I'm pleased to announce the publication of a new special issue: please pass this on to interested colleagues. The latest Issue of the International Review of Information Ethics focuses on E-Games. Guest Editors Elizabeth Buchanan and Charles Ess have compiled an issue that builds up a collection of philosophically and empirically robust articles and is now available free of charge at www.i-r-i-e.net. E-games command our attention, in part as they have inspired moral panics among worried parents and politicians, who are concerned (and in some measure, with good reason) with e-games built around violence (including sexual violence) and bloodshed. But e-games are of compelling interest as the ethical questions they evoke are far more complex than simple "good / bad" dualities in the popular press would suggest. They represent some of the most sophisticated utilizations of the potentials of computing and network technologies -- and both their stand-alone and online versions implicate a complex array of ethical questions that include issues of individual and community responsibilities, cross-cultural interactions, etc., alongside central philosophical questions concerning reality and its construction in human experience, human nature and play, and, ultimately, the nature of the good life, both individually and in community. About the Guest Editors: Elizabeth A. Buchanan is Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Elizabeth's research focuses on information ethics, research methods and research ethics in general, and Internet research ethics in particular. She is the editor of Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies (2003) as well as numerous publications, and is currently Chair of the Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Working Group. Charles Ess is Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri, USA; he is further affiliated (as a Professor II) with the Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, and teaches this year as an Erasmus Mundus scholar at NTNU and University of Linkoping, Sweden. He has served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar (University of Trier, Germany) and Guest Professor at the IT-University of Denmark. His recent publications include editing a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology devoted to conceptions of privacy and data privacy protection in Asia, and (with co-editor Fay Sudweeks) a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on Culture and CMC. About the Journal: The International Review of Information Ethics is the official journal of the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE). It envisions an international as well as intercultural discussion focusing on the ethical impacts of information technology on human practices and thinking, social interaction, other areas of science and research and the society itself. The journal seeks to be a general forum for ethical scholarship in this area. It seeks to publish the best available scientific works concerned twice a year in an online edition. The International Review of Information Ethics is available free of charge at: http://www.i-r-i-e.net For more Information regarding the ICIE, visit: http://icie.zkm.de thanks! Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> 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'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3894 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:27:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 881 (881) Volume 3894/2006 (Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2006) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Life-Inspired Systems and Their Quality-Driven Design p. 1 Lech Józwiak DOI: 10.1007/11682127_1 The Robustness of Resource Allocations in Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems p. 17 Vladimir Shestak, Howard Jay Siegel, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Shoukat Ali DOI: 10.1007/11682127_2 FingerMouse -- A Button Size Visual Hand Tracking and Segmentation Device p. 31 Patrick de la Hamette, Gerhard Tröster DOI: 10.1007/11682127_3 An Ad-Hoc Wireless Network Architecture for Face-to-Face Mobile Collaborative Applications p. 42 Gustavo Zurita, Miguel Nussbaum DOI: 10.1007/11682127_4 Background Data Acquisition and Carrying: The BlueDACS Project p. 56 Thomas Wieland, Martin Fenne, Benjamin Stöcker DOI: 10.1007/11682127_5 Prototypical Implementation of Location-Aware Services Based on Super-Distributed RFID Tags p. 69 Jürgen Bohn DOI: 10.1007/11682127_6 Combined Resource and Context Model for QoS-Aware Mobile Middleware p. 84 Sten Lundesgaard Amundsen, Frank Eliassen DOI: 10.1007/11682127_7 Distributed Modular Toolbox for Multi-modal Context Recognition p. 99 David Bannach, Kai Kunze, Paul Lukowicz, Oliver Amft DOI: 10.1007/11682127_8 Dynamic Dictionary-Based Data Compression for Level-1 Caches p. 114 Georgios Keramidas, Konstantinos Aisopos, Stefanos Kaxiras DOI: 10.1007/11682127_9 A Case for Dual-Mapping One-Way Caches p. 130 Arul Sandeep Gade, Yul Chu DOI: 10.1007/11682127_10 Cache Write-Back Schemes for Embedded Destructive-Read DRAM p. 145 Haakon Dybdahl, Marius Grannæs, Lasse Natvig DOI: 10.1007/11682127_11 A Processor Architecture with Effective Memory System for Sort-Last Parallel Rendering p. 160 Woo-Chan Park, Duk-Ki Yoon, Kil-Whan Lee, Il-San Kim, Kyung-Su Kim, Won-Jong Lee, Tack-Don Han, Sung-Bong Yang DOI: 10.1007/11682127_12 Controller Synthesis for Mapping Partitioned Programs on Array Architectures p. 176 Hritam Dutta, Frank Hannig, Jürgen Teich DOI: 10.1007/11682127_13 M2E: A Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Function Extension for RISC-Based Extensible Processors p. 191 Xiaoyong Chen, Douglas L. Maskell DOI: 10.1007/11682127_14 An Operating System Infrastructure for Fault-Tolerant Reconfigurable Networks p. 202 Dirk Koch, Thilo Streichert, Steffen Dittrich, Christian Strengert, Christian D. Haubelt, Jürgen Teich DOI: 10.1007/11682127_15 Architectural Tradeoffs in Wearable Systems p. 217 Nagendra Bhargava Bharatula, Urs Anliker, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Tröster DOI: 10.1007/11682127_16 Do Trace Cache, Value Prediction and Prefetching Improve SMT Throughput? p. 232 Chen-Yong Cher, Il Park, T.N. VijayKumar DOI: 10.1007/11682127_17 Scalable and Partitionable Asynchronous Arbiter for Micro-threaded Chip Multiprocessors p. 252 Nabil Hasasneh, Ian Bell, Chris Jesshope DOI: 10.1007/11682127_18 GigaNetIC – A Scalable Embedded On-Chip Multiprocessor Architecture for Network Applications p. 268 Jörg-Christian Niemann, Christoph Puttmann, Mario Porrmann, Ulrich Rückert DOI: 10.1007/11682127_19 Efficient System-on-Chip Energy Management with a Segmented Bloom Filter p. 283 Mrinmoy Ghosh, Emre Özer, Stuart Biles, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee DOI: 10.1007/11682127_20 Estimating Energy Consumption for an MPSoC Architectural Exploration p. 298 Rabie Ben Atitallah, Smail Niar, Alain Greiner, Samy Meftali, Jean Luc Dekeyser DOI: 10.1007/11682127_21 An Energy Consumption Model for an Embedded Java Virtual Machine p. 311 Sébastien Lafond, Johan Lilius DOI: 10.1007/11682127_22 PASCOM: Power Model for Supercomputers p. 326 Arrvindh Shriraman, Nagarajan Venkateswaran, Niranjan Soundararajan DOI: 10.1007/11682127_23 Power-Aware Collective Tree Exploration p. 341 Miroslaw Dynia, Miroslaw Korzeniowski, Christian Schindelhauer DOI: 10.1007/11682127_24 Biologically-Inspired Optimization of Circuit Performance and Leakage: A Comparative Study p. 352 Ralf Salomon, Frank Sill DOI: 10.1007/11682127_25 A Synchronous Multicast Application for Asymmetric Intra-campus Networks: Definition, Analysis and Evaluation p. 367 Pilar Manzanares-Lopez, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse, Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja, Joan Garcia-Haro DOI: 10.1007/11682127_26 A Real-Time MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks: Virtual TDMA for Sensors (VTS) p. 382 Esteban Egea-López, Javier Vales-Alonso, Alejandro S. Martínez-Sala, Joan García-Haro, Pablo Pavón-Mariño, M. Victoria Bueno-Delgado DOI: 10.1007/11682127_27 An Effective Video Streaming Method for Video on Demand Services in Vertical Handoff p. 397 Jae-Won Kim, Hye-Soo Kim, Jae-Woong Yun, Sung-Jea Ko DOI: 10.1007/11682127_28 A High-Throughput System Architecture for Deep Packet Filtering in Network Intrusion Prevention p. 407 Dae Y. Kim, Sunil Kim, Lynn Choi, Hyogon Kim DOI: 10.1007/11682127_29 A Hierarchical Key Management Approach for Secure Multicast p. 422 Jian Wang, Miodrag J. Mihaljevic, Lein Harn, Hideki Imai DOI: 10.1007/11682127_30 A Cache Design for a Security Architecture for Microprocessors (SAM) p. 435 Jörg Platte, Edwin Naroska, Kai Grundmann DOI: 10.1007/11682127_31 Constraint-Based Deployment of Distributed Components in a Dynamic Network p. 450 Didier Hoareau, Yves Mahéo DOI: 10.1007/11682127_32 Comparative Analysis of Ad-Hoc Networks Oriented to Collaborative Activities p. 465 Sebastián Echeverría, Raúl Santelices, Miguel Nussbaum DOI: 10.1007/11682127_33 Fault Tolerant Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks p. 480 Soyoung Hwang, Yunju Baek DOI: 10.1007/11682127_34 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: "LIN, Jian-Zhong (English)" Subject: Call for Authors Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:16:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 882 (882) CALL FOR AUTHORS Western Literary Studies: Traditions, Trends, and Topics is a collection of essays on literature in North America and Western Europe. The co-editors are seeking chapter authors from scholars and advanced Ph.D. students who are able to present an overview of scholarship in the chosen topic. All critical approaches are welcome. The book has been tentatively scheduled for publication by Peking University Press at the end of 2006. Chapter authors must be able to send the final draft to the co-editors by July 15, 2006. Because the readership is Chinese graduate and undergraduate students in literature majors, the book will be published in Chinese. Interested potential authors who lack proficiency in Chinese may team up with a colleague with an excellent command of the Chinese language. Available chapters are: 1. What is Literature? (assigned) 2. Literary Genres (assigned) 3. Religion and Literature 4. Philosophy and Literature 5. Politics and Literature 6. Race, Ethnicity, and Literature 7. Gender, Sexuality, and Literature 8. Science and Technology and Literature 9. Language and Literature (assigned) 10. War Literature 11. Film, Television, Other Media, and Literature 12. Literary Education 13. Comparative Literature 14. Diaspora Literature 15. Literary Theories For detailed information, please send-- as soon as possible -- a curriculum vita (no longer than 3 pages) and a narrative description of your specialty (300 words) in both Chinese and English to: Jian-Zhong Lin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English Department of English Eastern Connecticut State University 83 Windham Street Willimantic, CT 06226 (860) 465-4547 From: Dimitar Iliev Subject: Re: 19.612 Google Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:24:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 883 (883) [deleted quotation]with the risk of being accused that I am too naive, too radical or two enthusiastic, I'd say that current legislation concerning access to data should be fought. including by breaking it. as long as damage isn't caused to any particular individual (a real entity, and not an abstract one as a country or an institution), the good cause justifies the means. the right to oppose unjust rules and regulations and choose not follow them is the foundation stone of modern democracy. technically, people that fought against segregation and racial laws also took illegal actions. From: "Joseph Raben" Subject: Looking for Qian Feng Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:35:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 884 (884) Do you by any chance have a current address for Qian Feng, last heard of at FH Salzburg, or do you have any idea of where I could find help in locating him? The Salzburg website seems not to have any faculty directory. All the best, Joe From: "Jochen L. Leidner" Subject: Re: 19.610 Google Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:26:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 885 (885) On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of David Gants) wrote: [deleted quotation]There are certainly people capable of doing this, but I do not think it is wise to advocate criminal activities that amount to (cyber-) terrorism. What _is_ possible that allows to anonymise messages so that the source can be guaranteed not to be determined in the network, those are used by political dissenters -- and paedophiles alike -- such as Freenet designed by former MSc student Ian Clark from Edinburgh, which is now widely deployed. What is _not_ possible is to forget about the law and just turn grad students into Cyberwarfare activists. In a democracy, such things are left to the executive branch of the system, and it should be the signpost of a democratic society that it uses only democratic means, even against those who do not themselves subscribe to democracy. A democracy that turns itself toward terrorist methods would not be worth having. Regards, Jochen -- Jochen L Leidner leidner_at_acm.org School of Informatics Jochen.Leidner_at_ed.ac.uk University of Edinburgh www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/~s0239229 From: "Bernard Frischer" Subject: IATH Job Announcement Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:28:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 886 (886) Title: Information Technology Specialist II (Advanced Programmer/Analyst) Working Title: Multi Media Designer Posting #: RS IATH J05DC 001 Code: J05DC Position #: R1268 Salary Range: $ 37,869.00 to $ 47,720.00Pay Band: 5 Date Posted: 2006-02-17 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Consideration: Applicants Who Applied 2005-11-17 Through the Posting Period Will Be Considered for This Position Job Type: Salaried Full TimeShift: Day Department: Inst for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Location: Charlottesville Notes: Job Open to the General Public Criteria: Provides multimedia content and CAD model design and creation, in addition to media and modeling research and development, all in support of the Institute's mission to assist humanists in the application of advanced technology to research and scholarly communication. Candidates should have capabilities with several computer-modeling packages for the design and creation of 3D models. An understanding of methods to create animations from both 3D models and 2D image collections. Familiarity with packages to manipulate multimedia content. An understanding of GIS data formats to effect migration and adaptation of such data into multimedia content. Understand design issues for graphical user interfaces and the technologies for internet enabled interaction with models, media and databases. Description: Design, develop, maintain and enhance complex computer and related manual systems. Exercise wide latitude in assessing needs and determining alternatives. May supervise subordinate programmers as project leader. To be competitive, applicants should have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and considerable programming experience. Some project leader, or supervisory experience. Contact: <http://www.hrs.virginia.edu/staffing/applyclas.html>http://www.hrs.virginia.edu/staffing/applyclas.html From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: Resource-Scarce Language Engineering Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:28:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 887 (887) 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS (20 February, 2006) Resource-Scarce Language Engineering http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/ 31 July - 4 August, 2006 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ 31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Malaga Workshop Organizer: Edward Garrett Workshop Purpose: This workshop will bring together scientists from academia and industry, as well as advanced PhD students, to present and discuss research on the theoretical and practical challenges of engineering resource-scarce languages. We intend to provide an inclusive forum for exchanging ideas on a broad range of topics in areas represented by ESSLLI, including basic text processing, speech analysis, and machine translation. Workshop Topics: Seen through one lens, "resource-scarce languages" are languages for which few digital resources exist; and thus, languages whose computerization poses unique challenges. Through another lens, "resource-scarce languages" are languages with limited financial, political, and legal resources, languages that lack the clout or global importance of the world's major languages. In spite of these challenges, resource-scarce languages and their speakers are not being ignored. Individuals, governments, and companies alike are busy developing technologies and tools to support such languages. They are driven by a variety of motivations - from the desire among academics and community activists to preserve or revitalize endangered or threatened languages - to the desire by governments to promote minority languages - to the need by other governments to detect hostile chatter in diverse tongues - to the strategy of some companies to enhance their stature in emerging markets such as China and South America. Recognizing the above trend, this workshop will serve as a forum for the discussion of academic and industrial research on resource- scarce language engineering. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - multilingual text processing and the Unicode Standard - machine translation and speech recognition with minimal training data - rapid portability of existing language technologies to new languages - the use of multilingual resources for monolingual annotation - the annotation of new language data on the basis of knowledge of related languages - coping with data of inconsistent or uneven quality or coverage In addition, there will be a shared task on a specific resource- scarce language - Tibetan (details to be announced separately). [...] From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: Workshop Concord Phenomena and the Syntax Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:29:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 888 (888) Semantics Interface LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline March 1, 2006 Workshop Concord Phenomena and the Syntax Semantics Interface http://www.heddezeijlstra.nl/cpssi.htm August 7 -- 11, 2006 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ 31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Malaga, Spain *Concord Phenomena* In natural languages a functional operation can be manifested more than once in the morphosyntax of one sentence. Most notable are the phenomena of negative concord (where several negative elements contribute to one negation) and sequence of tense phenomena, where the same happens in the temporal domain. Similar observations can be made regarding the domain of mood, case-agreement, multiple Wh, and conditional sentences. On a general and intuitive level, the similarities are striking. *Thematic Questions* These phenomena have each been studied in various domains, from both an empirical and a theoretical point of view. With this workshop we want to solicit contributions which approach the phenomena from a general, cross-categorial perspective: across the various domains, theoretical, and typological as well. Thematic questions: What should be the logical form of those constructions? To what extent (at what cost) does it allow for a compositional treatment? How similar and how general are the phenomena really? What do these phenomena tell us about the model of grammar? More details can be found on our website. Deadline for submissions: March 1, by email to either one of the organizers mentioned below. With kind regards, Paul Dekker (p.j.e.dekker_at_uva.nl) Hedde Zeijlstra (hedde.zeijlstra_at_uni-tuebingen.de) ----------------------------------------- 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_at_uva.nl http://staff.science.uva.nl/~pdekker/ From: "UCHRI Communications" Subject: technoSpheres: FutureS of Thinking - Summer 2006 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:34:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 889 (889) SEMINAR IN EXPERIMENTAL CRITICAL THEORY (SECT) http://flatiron.sdsc.edu/projects/sect/main.php technoSpheres: FutureS of Thinking The UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites applications from innovative, creative thinkers and scholars -- faculty of all ranks, students and IT intellectuals -- to participate in the third annual Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT). Join world-renowned technology, humanities, arts and social science theorists for SECT III. Event Date: August 14-25, 2006 Event Location: UC Irvine Campus Application Deadline: March 15, 2006 Program Overview Participants in the 2006 Seminar will explore new ways of thinking about and with technology. The Seminar will include paired conversations between cutting edge technological innovators and experimental humanists, artists and social scientists, around the many issues that engage the human and the technological. The Seminar will also include demonstrations of new technological devices, their applications and scholarly practices. Participants will have opportunities to engage with new digital applications in the context of small-group workshops, large-group social networking exercises and art/technology installations. FEATURING - Craig Calhoun: President, Social Science Research Council. Social Science Professor, New York University. Katherine Hayles: English Professor, UCLA. Author, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Geert Lovink: Media theorist and activist. Co-founder of the international mailing list Nettime and The Digital City. Member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge. Larry Smarr: Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology CAL(IT)2 and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Anne Balsamo, Director of Academic Programs, USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy; Professor, Interactive Media and Gender Studies; and Founding Partner, Onomy Labs -- in partnership with sect_at_uci.edu or (949) 824-8900. Program subject to change | Graphic: Christine A. Aschan 307 Administration, Irvine, California 92697-3350 (949) 824 8900 =95 Fax: (949) 824-2115 sect_at_uci.edu [...] From: "LymanAward" Subject: Richard W. Lyman Award 2006 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:36:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 890 (890) Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:12 PM The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce that Willard McCarty, Reader in Humanities Computing at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, is the recipient of the 2006 Richard W. Lyman Award. Professor McCarty will accept the award in a ceremony at the New York Public Library on Wednesday, May 17, at 5 p.m. The Center is grateful to everyone who has made nominations for the award over the past five years, and to each of the nominees for taking part in the process. We invite each of you to join us in May to celebrate Professor McCarty, as well as all the individuals and teams who are making contributions to humanities scholarship and teaching through innovative work in information technology. For more on Willard McCarty, visit: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/staff/wlm/index.html For more on the Lyman Award and previous recipients, visit: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/lymanaward/lymanaward.htm For more information, or to RSVP your intention to attend the 2006 Lyman Award presentation, please call or email Sarah Payne: 919-549-0661 spayne_at_nhc.rtp.nc.us David Rice Director of Communications National Humanities Center drice_at_unity.ncsu.edu 919.549-0661 x160 www.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.7 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:30:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 891 (891) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue (February 21 - February 27, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: SETTY ON MANAGEMENT, PFEIFFER ON USABILITY * RAJESH SETTY ON MANAGEMENT In a Ubiquity interview, Rajesh Setty, author of the new book "Beyond Code," notes that "everyone in his or her life will get several leadership moments, though these leadership moments won't come packaged as leadership moments. But he or she will have to be ready for this moment, because it's there to be recognized and grabbed and held on to. But because such moments do not come as clearly labeled packages, it's so easy to miss them. So always be ready for them and seize on them when you have the chance. Doing that will distinguish you from the crowd and make you into a recognized leader." See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i07_setty.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i07_setty.html * ANDREAS PFEIFFER ON "THE AGE OF USER EXPERIENCE" Consultant Andreas Pfeiffer, author of the highly regarded "Pfeiffer Report," says: "Welcome to the Age of User Experience: As Apple's iPod shows, success in technology has less and less to do with features, and more and more with ease of use." See <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i07_pfeiffer.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i07_pfeiffer.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 7 (February 21, 2006 - February 27, 2006) <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 61, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:35:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 892 (892) Version 61 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,610 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version 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* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* 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* Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB 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--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 215 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 570 KB. Related Article 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 Libraries E-Mail: cbailey_at_digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others) From: Journal of Digital Information Subject: JoDI Volume 6 Issue 3 Now Online Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:36:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 893 (893) The Journal of Digital Information is proud to announce the release of volume 6 issue 3 containing the following articles: - Metadata and Data Quality Problems in the Digital Library by Jeffrey Beall - The INVENT framework: Examining the role of information visualization in the reconceptualization of digital libraries by Karl V. Fast and Kamran Sedig - A Model-driven Method for the Design and Deployment of Web-based Document Management Systems by Federica Paganelli and Maria Chiara Pettenati These articles and many more may be found on the Journal of Digital Information's website, http://jodi.tamu.edu. For those of you that were expecting the publication of the Adaptive Hypermedia special issue, we have pushed this issue's publication to volume 6 issue 4 due to time constraints with the review process. The JoDI Team From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.623 Richard W. Lyman Award 2006 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:07:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 894 (894) I am completely awestruck! How could they give out such a prize like this? Actually, the truth is I'm surprised that the award hasn't been given to Willard for the past 5 years straight. Congratulations on a prize well-deserved. And thanks for your past (and continued) dedication to research in Humanities computing and to this list in general. May the accolades be met with equal quantities of food, refreshment and envy from the rest of us! :) Ryan. . . Quoting "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" : [deleted quotation]Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA Expected 2005 From: Dimitar Iliev Subject: Re: 19.621 Google Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:02:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 895 (895) [deleted quotation]The watermark of democracy from Antiquity onwards has always been that the abstract general principles of what law and justice are and should be stand above any paricular law. This gives the citizens the right to rebel when the particular laws dont work according to the general principles of democracy and justice. Now, legislation that makes possible for those in power to control what information the citizens receive, but doesn't make possible for the citizens to have access to all the information they want unless they're ready to be imprisoned for that, is by no means a democratic legislation. and thus should be fought. Breaking censorship and gaining access to levels of information that the authorities claim should be inaccessible for the common public does not (at least not always) amount to terrorism. We should be careful in using this commonly misused term. terrorism is hurting innocent people for causes, just or unjust, they have nothing to do with (see the London and Madrid bombings). Breaking Internet censorship virtually hurts nobody. Best regards, Dimitar Iliev phD student in classics University of Sofia Bulgaria ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://mm.music.gbg.bg/ From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 19.621 Google Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:03:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 896 (896) Jochen, Lest David Gants be associated with the post you find objectionable, let me point out that I was the author of that post. David had to forward it because I had used the incorrect address for the Humanist list. [deleted quotation]Criminal activities? In whose eyes? The US State Department is starting an activity with the same goal. Oh, I had not read your entire post. That must be the criminals in the executive branch of the US government. [deleted quotation]I wonder how effective democracy would have been in opposing any of the fascist regimes of the 20th century? [deleted quotation]Then none of the current examples of democracy are worth having. All of them have engaged in terrorist activities. Note that modern terrorists learned the lesson about attacking civilian populations from historical terrorist organizations, i.e., traditional military forces. Rather than simply attacking those who might be morally responsible for some action, it is always the civilian populations who suffer from sanctions, deprivation of tax revenues, or military adventures. I feel certain that civilian populations who suffered from any of the military adventures of the 20th century felt terrorized. The definition of terrorism that should be given is: Not in my interest. During the civil rights movement the government did not have the "T" word so it called protesters anarchists. Again, the definition was: Not in my interest. Granted that the partial success of that movement has been enshrined in contemporary culture and is no longer questioned, well, other than by Senator Lott, but aberrations do happen even in "democracies." Self interest is served by obedience to unjust laws while waiting upon them to change by whatever means. But that is of little comfort to those suffering under those laws. 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 Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! From: Sean and Karine Lawrence Subject: EMLS 11.2 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:50:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 897 (897) To whom it may concern: Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the appearance of its September 2005 issue (11.2), which can be found at http://purl.org/emls The table of contents follows, below the submission information. Yours truly, Sean Lawrence. 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_at_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. Submissions should be sent either as email attachments, preferably in Rich Text Format or Word format, or by diskette. Hard-copy submissions are acceptable, but will not be returned. All submissions must follow the current MLA Handbook. A document outlining the representation of non-ASCII characters is available on-site or by request. Reviews and materials for review should be sent to the Associate Editor (Reviews), James Doelman, at jdoelman_at_uwo.ca or by regular mail to Brescia University College, 1285 Western Road, London, Ont., Canada N6G 1H2. (EMLS gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Brescia University College for this.) Please note that all unsolicited materials sent to EMLS for the purposes of review must be plainly marked with the word "Donation" on the front of the mailing cover. For more information regarding submission of materials, send a message to our Assistant Editor, Sean Lawrence, at seanlawrence_at_writeme.com. Early Modern Literary Studies 11.3 (January, 2006) Articles: Shakespeare as Poet or Playwright?: The Player’s Speech in Hamlet. [2] Jason Gleckman, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Poisoned Ears and Parental Advice in Hamlet. [3] Reina Green, Mount Saint Vincent University. A Son Less Than Kind: Iconography, Interpolation,and Masculinity in Branagh’s Hamlet. [4] L. Monique Pittman, Andrews University. Another Look at ‘Amyntor’s Grove’: Pastoral and Patronage in Lovelace’s Poem. [5] Dosia Reichardt, James Cook University, Cairns. Genre’s “Phantastical Garb”: The Fashion of Form in Margaret Cavendish’s Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life. [6] Emily Smith, Emory University. Reviews: Cristina León Alfar. Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Associated University Presses, 2003. [7] Reviewed by Rebecca Nesvet, University of Gloucestershire. David Colclough. Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. [8] Reviewed by Cyndia Susan Clegg, Pepperdine University. John K. Hale. Milton as Multilingual: Selected Essays, 1982-2004.Otago: Otago Studies in English, 2005. [9] Reviewed by Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University. David Hume of Godscroft. The British Union: A Critical Edition and Translation of David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae. Ed. and trans. Paul J. McGinnis and Arthur H. Williamson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. [10] Reviewed by Christopher Ivic, SUNY, Potsdam. Carol Thomas Neely. Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2004. [11] Adam H. Kitzes, University of North Dakota. David Lindley. Shakespeare at Stratford: The Tempest. London: Thomson Learning, 2003. [12] Katherine Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. Lina Bolzoni. The Gallery of Memory: Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press. Trans. Jeremy Parzen. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001. [13] Peter Kanelos, University of San Diego. Dorothea Heitsch and Jean-François Vallée, eds. Printed Voices: The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2004. [14] Robert W. Haynes, Texas A&M International University. Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews. Theatre reviews: Theatre in ‘Season’: Stratford and the Globe in 2005. [15] Reviewed by Neil Forsyth, University of Lausanne. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine. Presented at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre, October 2005. [16] Reviewed by Siobhan Keenan, De Montfort University. William Shakespeare, Richard II at the Old Vic theatre, London. 12th November 2005. [17] Reviewed by Katherine Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, presented by the Globe Theatre Company at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 26 October - 6 November 2005. [18] Reviewed by Kristina Caton, North Dakota State University, and M. G. Aune, North Dakota State University. John Webster,The Duchess of Malfi. Presented by Apricot Theatre Company on tour to London, York, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 1 July - 30 August 2004. [19] Reviewed by Thomas Larque, University of Kent. Cambridge Shakespeare, Autumn 2005. [20] Reviewed by Michael Grosvenor Myer. From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: 19.626 Google Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:46:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 898 (898) What everyone seems to miss in this discussion is that democracy means government by the people. If the people elect a government that not only aproves of torture but makes systematic use of it or if said government puts human beings in jail for years without a trial and then the selfsame people proceed to reelect this government for another four year term does not make it less of a democracy. The same can be said of governments elected by the majority of its people in places like Iran, Palestine and anywhere else the US of A disaproves of. professor dennis cintra leite (retired) From: Computational Philosophy Laboratory - University of Subject: MBR06_CHINA Last Call for Papers Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:45:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 899 (899) EXTENDED DEADLINE - Deadline March 1, 2006 ****************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE The Second International Conference of Philosophy and Cognitive Science MBR'06_CHINA Guangzhou (Canton), China, July 3-5, 2006 Chairs: Ping Li and Lorenzo Magnani http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/mbr06.php or http://philosophy.zsu.edu.cn/kxzx/ ****************************************************************** CALL FOR SYMPOSIA ALREADY ACCEPTED MBR in Engineering and Robotic Systems http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/mbr06.php ****************************************************************** MBR COMMUNITY WEB SITE http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/cpl2/ ****************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION From Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 July 2006 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE" will be held at Sun Yat-Sen University in the city of Guangzhou. The conference derives from a research cooperation between the Department of Philosophy of Sun Yat-Sen University and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pavia and continues the themes both of the Conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98, "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01, and "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering: Abduction, Visualization, and Simulation" MBR'04, and of "the First International Conference of Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Science, Cognition, and Consciousness", 2004. 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). Ping Li, Xiang. Chen, Zhilin Zhang, and Huaxia Zhang (eds.)(2004), Science, Cognition, and Consciousness, JiangXi People's Press, Nanchang, China. PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and medicine, 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 medicine from the following list: - model-based reasoning in scientific discovery and conceptual changes - the role of models in scientific and technological thinking - model-based reasoning in scientific explanation - model-based medical diagnosis - model-based reasoning and traditional Chinese medicine - model-based reasoning in engineering and robotics - model-based reasoning and technological artefacts - 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 [...] From: geoff_at_cs.miami.edu Subject: Logic and Reasoning Workshop CFP Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:47:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 900 (900) - Reminder ... Reminder ... Reminder ... Reminder ... Reminder ... Reminder ... The CSR 2006 Workshop on Logic for Automated Reasoning and Automated Reasoning for Logic (LARARL) will be held 7th June 2006 as part of The International Computer Science Symposium in Russia St Petersburg, Russia, 8th - 12th June 2006 Submission deadline - 6th March 2006 Invited speaker - John Slaney Workshop orgainzers - Boris Konev & Geoff Sutcliffe This workshop will bring together practioners and researchers who are concerned with the logics that underlie automated reasoning, and the use of automated reasoning to investgate logics and their applications. Reasoning in all forms (automated, interactive, etc) and all logics (classical, non-classical, all orders, etc) is of interest to the workshop. The workshop will be divided into two tracks: Logic for Automated Reasoning + Properties of logic that make them suitable for automated reasoning + New logics for which automated reasoning is possible + Reasoning calculi and inference rules for logics + System descriptions of implementations of logical calculi + Translations of and between logics to permit automated reasoning + Applications of logic for automated reasoning Automated Reasoning for Logic + Investigations of axiomatizations of logics + Proof search and guidance for reasoning about logics + System descriptions specialized towards reasoning about logics + Experimental results from automated reasoning about logics + Challenge problems in logic for automated reasoning + Encoding application problems as logic problems + Applications of automated reasoning for logic Submission of papers for presentation at the workshop, and proposals for system and application demonstrations at the workshop, are now invited. Submissions will be reviewed, and a balanced program of high-quality contributions will be selected. There is a 20 page limit. Full details of the workshop and submission requirements are on the WWW page ... http://www.cs.miami.edu/~geoff/Conferences/LARARL/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Dates for 2006 TEI-C Members' Meeting Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:49:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 901 (901) ------------------------------------------------ 2006 Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Members' Meeting October 27-28, 2006 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.tei-c.org ------------------------------------------------ The 2006 TEI-C Members' Meeting will take place October 27 and 28th in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The gathering is hosted by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at University of Victoria and will be held at the Hotel Grand Pacific in Victoria http://www.hotelgrandpacific.com/ . The TEI-C has secured favorable room rates if you choose to stay there as well. As in past years the first day of the meeting will consist of a program of invited speakers. The second day will consist of a poster session, special interest group meetings, and the TEI-C business meeting at which our annual elections take place. The meeting is free of charge for institutional members and subscribers, but attendance is open to anyone. The meeting fee charged to non-members and non-subscribers entitles you to subscriber benefits for the remainder of the calendar year. More information including a Call for Posters, a Call for Nominations, and a Call for Registration will follow in the next months, but, in the meantime, mark your calendar for this exciting event. If you have any questions please direct your email to info_at_tei-c.org MZ _________________ Matthew Zimmerman Chair Text Encoding Initiative Consortium From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Announcing the 2006 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:48:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 902 (902) [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Announcing the 2006 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 19-23, 2006 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and is sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Malaspina University-College, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures: Alan Galey (Western U), Sheila Petty (U Regina), David Gants (U New Brunswick), Christian Vandendorpe (U Ottawa), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Dominic Forrest (UQAM), Edrex Fontanilla (Brown U) and Matthew Zimmerman (NYU). 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 Doug Stetar 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 Edrex Fontanilla [Brown U]) Advanced consultations: [5] Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [Malaspina U-C], with seminar speakers including John Lutz [U Victoria], Claire Warwick [University College, London], Alan Galey [Western U], Susan Schreibman [U Maryland], Scott Gerrity [U Victoria], Julia Flanders [Brown U], Stan Ruecker [U Alberta], and Ray Siemens [U Victoria] and Claire Carlin [U Victoria]). [6] Contexts, Pragmatics and Theory of E-Books (led by Ray Siemens [U Victoria], Teresa Dobson [U British Columbia], and Stan Ruecker [U Alberta]). [7] Digital Humanities Databases, Overview and Evaluation (led by Mark Olsen [U Chicago]) * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Standard registration fees for the institute are $1100 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Late fees will apply as of April 30th. * 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: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Announcing Scholarships to the Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:49:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 903 (903) 2006 Digital Humanities Summer Institute [Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Announcing Scholarships for the 2006 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 19-23, 2006 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ * Scholarships We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes possible the offering of a limited number of scholarship subsidized spots in the 2006 Summer Institute. These will be awarded to scholars in the digital humanities, both students and professionals. The application deadline is March 31st. Applicants will be informed of their success before April 7th. * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and is sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Malaspina University-College, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures: Alan Galey (Western U), Sheila Petty (U Regina), David Gants (U New Brunswick), Christian Vandendorpe (U Ottawa), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Dominic Forrest (UQAM), Edrex Fontanilla (Brown U) and Matthew Zimmerman (NYU). 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 Doug Stetar 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 Edrex Fontanilla [Brown U]) Advanced consultations: [5] Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [Malaspina U-C], with seminar speakers including John Lutz [U Victoria], Claire Warwick [University College, London], Alan Galey [Western U], Susan Schreibman [U Maryland], Scott Gerrity [U Victoria], Julia Flanders [Brown U], Stan Ruecker [U Alberta], and Ray Siemens [U Victoria] and Claire Carlin [U Victoria]). [6] Contexts, Pragmatics and Theory of E-Books (led by Ray Siemens [U Victoria], Teresa Dobson [U British Columbia], and Stan Ruecker [U Alberta]). [7] Digital Humanities Databases, Overview and Evaluation (led by Mark Olsen [U Chicago]) * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Standard registration fees for the institute are $1100 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Late fees will apply as of April 30th. * 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: Willard McCarty Subject: ACH 2006 election results Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:47:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 904 (904) Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce the results from the ACH 2006 Elections: * President: Lorna Hughes * Vice-President: David Hoover * ACH Executive Council: - Neil Fraistat - Susan Schreibman - Claire Warwick - Matthew Zimmerman Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve - and thanks also to all who voted. Finally, thanks to the nominations committee (Ray Siemens, Alan Galey, Steve Ramsay, Nancy Kushigian, Chuck Bush) for preparing such a strong slate that produced *very* close results. 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 (ACH Executive Secretary) -- [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: TSH-333, Communication Studies & Multimedia Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Dimitar Iliev Subject: Re: 19.630 Google Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:54:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 905 (905) [deleted quotation]let us not start a debate over the Middle East and the controversial intervention of the US there. the point is completely different. the point is that 'democracy' is a term defining the way a government acts towards its citizens, and not (or rather not only) a way a government is elected. firstly, fair elections don't justify all the actions of a government after it has been elected. fair and democratic elections are a process of delegating rights *only* under certain conditions and terms of use. Nixon won fair and democratic elections,but abused the rights delegated to him - see Watergate. not to mention Hitler, who also won completely fair and democratic elections and then brought all of Europe to ruins. secondly, as a citizen of a former Communist country, I can give a detailed account on how "spontaneous" demostrations, "fair" elections and "free" expression of people's will were organized by the authorities some 20 years ago. it is naive to always take those at a face value. Best regads, Dimitar Iliev PhD candidate in Classics University of Sofia Bulgaria ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://mm.music.gbg.bg/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: life in a conjectural world Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:53:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 906 (906) Let us posit a world W* such that any act of naming N is immediately taken to denote the existence of a corresponding object O. (Those who like symbolic notation might write, W*: N --> O.) Unlike the prelapsarian Adamic world, however, O does not actually exist outside of language, however many times N is executed. Unlike a poetic act of naming, which in our wilder moments we may take to denote something that exists in another world, everyone in W* talks and acts not only as if O existed but also as if the attributes of O could actually be defined. (Hence W*: N --> O(a1, a2, a3,...,an), where each a is such an attribute.) Yet when queried, no one is able to produce any persuasive evidence of these attributes. Much handwaving follows. Pressing the point will only get one into trouble. W* has been intersecting with our world for a very long time, of course. Hans Christen Andersen's version of the story everyone will know (http://hca.gilead.org.il/emperor.html will help to refresh the memory of anyone who has not had children around in a while). I wonder, however, if the constructivism that computing gives such a wind to, in combination with the hype surrounding our beloved machine and the need of many in academia to distract funders if not the general public from the fact that scholarship means a long, hard and uncertain slog, does not make W* a particularly attractive escape route from reality for us? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Peter Liddell Subject: UVic-HCMC Canadian Graduate scholarships for ALLC/ACH 2006 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:36:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 907 (907) In view of the delay in announcing the acceptances for the Paris conference, we have extended the deadline for submitting applications to March 7th, one week later than originally stipulated. Hard (paper) copies of the application and supporting documentation is preferred, postmarked no later than the new deadline. Peter Liddell The guidelines are as follows: [deleted quotation] From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2006: Papers on-line Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:55:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 908 (908) Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate Museums and the Web 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA March 22-25, 2006 http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/ the 10th annual international gathering of the best in culture and heritage on the Web ** MW2006 Papers: Now On-line ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/speakers/index.html Papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2006 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/index.html for details. ** Pre-Register for MW2006: March 10, 2006 Deadline ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/register/index.html Register for MW2006 before March 10, 2006 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 Albuquerque ** Join us for the tenth annual Museums and the Web, described by attendees at MW2005 as " very friendly conference," full of "rich content + collegial enthusiasm", in a city that's celebrating its 300th anniversary. We're looking forward to another great review (and critique) of the state of the Web in arts, culture and heritage, and a fun anniversary celebration. jennifer and David -- Jennifer Trant and David Bearman Co-Chairs: Museums and the Web 2006 produced by March 22-25, 2006, Albuquerque, NM Archives & Museum Informatics http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/ 158 Lee Avenue email: mw2006_at_archimuse.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada phone +1 416 691 2516 / fax +1 416 352-6025 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication LNCS 3915/2006 (Knowledge Discovery Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:57:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 909 (909) from XML Documents) Volume 3915/2006 (Knowledge Discovery from XML Documents) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Opportunities for XML Data Mining in Modern Applications, or XML Data Mining: Where Is the Ore? p. 1 Stephane Bressan, Anthony Tung, Yang Rui DOI: 10.1007/11730262_1 Capturing Semantics in XML Documents p. 2 Tok Wang Ling DOI: 10.1007/11730262_2 Mining Changes from Versions of Dynamic XML Documents p. 3 Laura Irina Rusu, Wenny Rahayu, David Taniar DOI: 10.1007/11730262_3 XML Document Clustering by Independent Component Analysis p. 13 Tong Wang, Da-Xin Liu, Xuan-Zuo Lin DOI: 10.1007/11730262_4 Discovering Multi Terms and Co-hyponymy from XHTML Documents with XTREEM p. 22 Marko Brunzel, Myra Spiliopoulou DOI: 10.1007/11730262_5 Classification of XSLT-Generated Web Documents with Support Vector Machines p. 33 Atakan Kurt, Engin Tozal DOI: 10.1007/11730262_6 Machine Learning Models: Combining Evidence of Similarity for XML Schema Matching p. 43 Tran Hong-Minh, Dan Smith DOI: 10.1007/11730262_7 Information Retrieval from Distributed Semistructured Documents Using Metadata Interface p. 54 Guija Choe, Young-Kwang Nam, Joseph Goguen, Guilian Wang DOI: 10.1007/11730262_8 Using Ontologies for Semantic Query Optimization of XML Database p. 64 Wei Sun, Da-Xin Liu DOI: 10.1007/11730262_9 The Expressive Language ALCNHR+K(D) for Knowledge Reasoning p. 74 Nizamuddin Channa, Shanping Li DOI: 10.1007/11730262_10 A New Scheme to Fingerprint XML Data p. 85 Fei Guo, Jianmin Wang, Zhihao Zhang, Deyi Li DOI: 10.1007/11730262_11 A Novel Labeling Scheme for Secure Broadcasting of XML Data p. 95 Min-Jeong Kim, Hye-Kyeong Ko, SangKeun Lee DOI: 10.1007/11730262_12 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Jeremy Hunsinger Subject: CFP: Learning Inquiry - new journal Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:27:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 910 (910) Apologies for cross-posting Call for papers Learning Inquiry A new journal from Springer Editors: Jason Nolan and Jeremy Hunsinger email: editors_at_learning-inquiry.info Learning Inquiry is a refereed scholarly journal, devoted to establishing the area of "learning" as a focus for transdisciplinary study. The journal is a forum centered on learning that remains open to varied objects of inquiry, including machine, human, plant and animal learning as well as the processes of learning in business, government, and the professions, both in formal and informal environments. This journal is of importance to those interested in learning, understanding its contexts, and anticipating its future. The journal will also present special issues that identify the central areas of learning inquiry to provide focus for future research. Learning Inquiry strikes a balance between presenting innovative research and documenting current knowledge to foster a scholarly dialogue on learning that is independent of domain and methodological restrictions. Editorial Board of Learning Inquiry David Berliner, Arizona State University, USA Megan Boler, University of Toronto, Canada Erik De Corte, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Kattie Embree, Columbia University, USA Charles Ess, Drury University, USA & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech, USA Henry Giroux, McMaster University, Canada Mimi Ito, University of Southern California, USA & Keio University, Japan Cushla Kapitzke, University of Queensland, Australia Heinz Mandl, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand Penina Mlama, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Nuria Oliver, Microsoft, USA Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, USA Ingvar Sigurgeirsson, Iceland University of Education, Iceland Joel Weiss, University of Toronto, Canada Submit Your Research to Learning Inquiry http://submit.learning-inquiry.info Learning Inquiry is currently accepting manuscripts through our fully web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Manuscripts should be submitted at http://submit.learning- inquiry.info . Manuscripts should be written for an audience that is general in scope, and submissions can include essays, research articles, forums, and review articles that document the state of knowledge and recent developments in the field. Visit http:// springer.com/journal/11519 for further information and to sign up for information alerts about upcoming issues of Learning Inquiry. ISSN 1558-2973 (print version) I ISSN 1558-2981 (electronic version) Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: 19.634 Google Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:16:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 911 (911) I agree that this discussion has escaped the bounds of Humanist's usual sphere of interests. I do not wish to belabour the point but the "point" I'm trying to make is that the term democracy means government by the people. If you want to talk about a government that respects human rights or is generally "nice" to its citizens don't use the term "democracy" use "liberal" or "approved by US government inspectors" or anything else that comes to mind, but not "democracy" for this term has its own meaning and this meaning does not include "human rights" or "niceness" in general. dennis cintra leite On 2/28/06, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] means [deleted quotation] From: "Jack Boeve" Subject: Symposium: Copyright at a Crossroads Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:26:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 912 (912) ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION 6th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium Hosted by The Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College June 14-16, 2006 UMUC Inn and Conference Center Adelphi, MD The debate over the mass digitization and global availability of information has raged anew ever since late 2004 when Google publicly launched its ambitious plans to digitize and index the massive library collections of Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library. Even as the Google Print Library Project has garnered the attention and applause of millions of consumers and educators, it has drawn the ire-and litigation-of the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. Yahoo has likewise entered the fray with its own project to digitize and make available for online searching millions of books from the University of California, the University of Toronto, the National Archives of England, and the European Archive. A joint effort with these and several other archives and technology companies, the Open Content Alliance hopes to avoid much of the controversy in which Google has been embroiled by digitizing only works in the public domain unless copyright holders give explicit permission otherwise. From the sidewalk to the library, from the cubicle to the boardroom, and the classroom to the courtroom, everyone has an interest and a stake in how we as a society will answer the complex questions of copyright, piracy, fair use, ownership, access, distribution, compensation, and control that confront us every time we click our way along the information superhighway. * How will higher education morph in coming years-and how has it already changed-as digital archives are built and expanded upon our campuses? * What will be the parameters and responsibilities of scholarship as the academy becomes ever more digital and digitized? * How might our relationships to our disciplines, repositories of knowledge, diverse media providers, and even each other alter as the waves of digital content multiply, swell, and flow through the academy? The symposium begins on June 14th with the keynote address, "The Googlization of Culture." This special program features scholar and author Siva Vaidhyanathan of New York University. The presentation will be followed by a discussion involving industry experts: * Alan Davidson, Google; * Allan Adler, Association of American Publishers; and * Jon Band, an attorney representing various library organizations and interests. The first day of the symposium additionally gives attendees the opportunity to participate in one of two intensive pre-conference seminars: * Copyright 101 - Arnold Lutzker, Senior Partner, Lutzker, Lutzker & Settlemyer, LLP * E-Reserves Policy - Donna Ferullo, Director, University Copyright Office, Purdue University For detailed information our 6th Annual Symposium including the complete schedule and registration information please click on the following link: http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium. We look forward to seeing you. Feel free to contact us should you have any questions. Thank you. Center for Intellectual Property University of Maryland University College 3501 University Boulevard East Adelphi, Maryland 20783 Phone: 240.582.2803 cip_at_umuc.edu From: wrs06_at_redstar.cs.pdx.edu Subject: WRS06 2nd call for paper Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:27:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 913 (913) WRS06 The Sixth International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~antoy/wrs06/ The Seattle Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Seattle, Washington, August 11, 2006 Scope The workshop intends to promote and stimulate international research and collaboration in the area of evaluation strategies. It encourages the presentation of new directions,developments and results as well as surveys and tutorials on existing knowledge in this area. Reduction strategies study which subexpression(s) of an expression should be selected for evaluation and which rule(s) should be applied. These choices affect fundamental properties of a computation such as laziness, strictness, completeness and need to name a few. For this reason some programming languages, e.g., Elan, Maude, *OBJ* and Stratego, allow the explicit definition of the evaluation strategy, whereas other languages,e.g., Clean, Curry, and Haskell, allow its modification. Strategies pose challenging theoretical problems and play an important role in practical tools such as theorem provers, model checkers and programming languages. In implementations of languages, strategies bridge the gap between operational principles, e.g., graph and term rewriting,narrowing and lambda-calculus, and semantics, e.g., normalization, computation of values and head-normalization. The previous editions of the workshop were: WRS 2001 (Utrecht, The Netherlands),WRS 2002 (Copenhagen, Denmark), WRS 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WRS 2004 (Aachen, Germany), and WRS 2005 (Nara, Japan). See also the WRS permanent page at http://www.dsic.upv.es/~wrs/ Important Dates Abstract Submission: May 8, 2006 Paper Submission: May 15, 2006 Author Notification: June 12, 2006 Camera-Ready: July 10, 2006 Conference: Aug 11, 2006 Program Committee Sergio Antoy, (chair) Portland State University Santiago Escobar, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen Bernhard Gramlich, Technische Universitat Wien Ralf Laemmel, Microsoft Corp. Salvador Lucas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Mizuhito Ogawa, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Jaco van de Pol, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Topics Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * theoretical foundations for the definition and semantic description of reduction strategies * strategies in different frameworks such as term rewriting, graph rewriting, infinitary rewriting, lambda calculi, higher order rewriting, conditional rewriting, rewriting with built-ins, narrowing, constraint solving, etc. * application of strategies to equational, functional, functional-logic programming languages * properties of reduction strategies and corresponding computations, e.g., completeness, computability, decidability, complexity, optimality, normalization, cofinality, fairness, perpetuality, context-freedom, need, laziness, eagerness, strictness * interrelations, combinations and applications of reduction under different strategies, e.g., evaluation mechanisms in programming languages, equivalence conditions for fundamental properties like termination and confluence, applications in modularity analysis, connections between strategies of different frameworks,etc. * program analysis and other semantics-based optimization techniques dealing with reduction strategies * rewrite systems, tools, implementations with flexible or programmable strategies as an essential concept or ingredient * specification of reduction strategies in real languages strategies suitable to software engineering problems and applications tutorials and systems related to evaluation strategies Submissions Submissions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The page limit for regular papers is 13 pages in Springer Verlag LNCS style. Surveys and tutorials maybe longer. Use the WRS06 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system, to submit abstracts, papers and to update a previous submission. Publication Informal proceedings of accepted contributions will be available on-line. A hard copy will be distributed at the workshop to registered participants. Authors of selected contributions will be invited to submit a revised version, after the workshop, for inclusion in a collection. We anticipate the publication of formal proceedings in the Elsevier ENTCS series. Invited Speakers Talks will be given at joint sessions with RULE by: * Dick Kieburtz, OHSU/OGI School of Science & Engineering * Claude Kirchner, INRIA & LORIA Contact Sergio Antoy, antoy_at_cs.pdx.edu. From: IngentaConnect InTouch Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews vol. 31 no. 1 (March 2006) Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:24:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 914 (914) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews vol. 31 no. 1 (March 2006) ISR Editorial Cattermole, Howard pp. 1-1(1) No drugs in an age of plenty: urging governments to redress the balance Torreele, Els pp. 3-8(6) Fertility, mortality and disease Pollock, Stephen pp. 9-18(10) New spaces of biological commodification: the dynamics of trade in genetic resources and 'bioinformation' Parry, Bronwyn pp. 19-31(13) The geography of Darwinism Livingstone, David N. pp. 32-41(10) Cultivating science and planting beauty: the spaces of display in Cambridge's botanical gardens Johnson, Nuala C. pp. 42-57(16) Science at sea: charting the Gulf Stream in the late Enlightenment Withers, Charles W.J. pp. 58-76(19) Alchemical culture and poetry in early modern England Ball, Philip pp. 77-92(16) Book Reviews pp. 93-96(4) From: "Helena Francke" Subject: Human IT 8:2 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:25:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 915 (915) Dear all, [sorry for any x-posting] a new issue of Human IT (all in English this time) is now available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-8/ The issue is partly a follow-up to a digital humanities conference held at the university of Umeå, Sweden in 2005. Apart from a conference report in the editorial, the issue offers two peer reviewed articles based on talks at the conference, as well as a third article in the open section. The following texts are included: * Editorial: Towards a Digital Humanities Base. <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-8/index.htm#Ledare> * Lena Karlsson: "Acts of Reading Diary Weblogs". [refereed section] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-8/lk.pdf> What is a diary blog and how do its readers engage with it? What are the similarities and differences between writing and reading a traditional, private paper diary, and an open, online diary blog - or is reading a diary blog perhaps more akin to watching a TV soap opera? * Eva Kingsepp: "Immersive Historicity in World War II Digital Games". [refereed section] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-8/ek.pdf> Digital World War II games enable users to reenact history while being able to change its outcome. How do such games simulate and represent the historical reality of WWII (if ever there was one), and how do they enable user immersion? * Dong-Hee Shin: "Information Technology for Community Development: Broadband Public Networks". [open section] <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-8/dhs.pdf> Who gets to have a say as major changes occur in the technological infrastructural landscape, and how do different actors' and stakeholders' perspectives and preferences match one another? The implementation of broadband public networks in the US forms the basis for a critical SCOT analysis. Human IT is a multidisciplinary, refereed and open access journal aiming to present research and discussion on digital media as communicative, aesthetic, and ludic instruments. Best regards, Mats ************** Mats Dahlstrom editor Human IT Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Boras / Gothenburg University SE-501 90 Boras, Sweden e-mail mats.dahlstrom_at_hb.se From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.8 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:26:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 916 (916) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 8 February 28, 2006 - March 6, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: A NEW INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SCHRAGE Michael Schrage is an internationally known author and consultant, co-director of the MIT Media Lab's E-Markets Initiative, and a senior adviser to MIT's Security Studies Program. He advises organizations on the economics of innovation through rapid experimentation, simulation and digital design. This is his second Ubiquity Interview. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 8 (March 1, 2006 - March 8, 2006 <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i08_schrage.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i08_schrage.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 8 (February 28, 2006 - March 6, 2006) <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Poiesis & Praxis 4.1 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:29:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 917 (917) Volume 4 Number 1 of Poiesis & Praxis: International Journal of Technology Assessment and Ethics of Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial IT and society: one theory to rule them all? p. 1 Bernd Lutterbeck DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0014-z Focus Technology paternalism -- wider implications of ubiquitous computing p. 6 Sarah Spiekermann, Frank Pallas DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0010-3 Focus Rebound effects of progress in information technology p. 19 Lorenz M. Hilty, Andreas Köhler, Fabian Von Schéele, Rainer Zah, Thomas Ruddy DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0011-2 Focus Commodification, information, value and profit p. 39 Peter Fleissner DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0007-y Focus The institutionalization of Open Source p. 54 Robert A. Gehring DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0012-1 Book Review Pablo C. Benítez-Ponce: Essays on the economics of forestry-based carbon mitigation p. 74 Stephan Lingner DOI: 10.1007/s10202-005-0004-1 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 Visual Computer 22.2 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:12:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 918 (918) Volume 22 Number 2 of The Visual Computer is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Guest editorial Guest editorial p. 69 Deok-Soo Kim, In-Kwon Lee, Dani Lischinski, Ayellet Tal DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0366-y Special issue paper Low damped cloth simulation p. 70 Seungwoo Oh, Junghyun Ahn, Kwangyun Wohn DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0367-x Special issue paper Rapid pairwise intersection tests using programmable GPUs p. 80 Yoo-Joo Choi, Young J. Kim, Myoung-Hee Kim DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0368-9 Special issue paper Haptic interaction and volume modeling techniques for realistic dental simulation p. 90 Laehyun Kim, Se Hyung Park DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0369-8 Special issue paper Mesh analysis using geodesic mean-shift p. 99 Ariel Shamir, Lior Shapira, Daniel Cohen-Or DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0370-2 Special issue paper Perspective silhouette of a general swept volume p. 109 Joon-Kyung Seong, Ku-Jin Kim, Myung-Soo Kim, Gershon Elber DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0371-1 original article Domain connected graph: the skeleton of a closed 3D shape for animation p. 117 Fu-Che Wu, Wan-Chun Ma, Rung-Huei Liang, Bing-Yu Chen, Ming Ouhyoung DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0357-4 original article Punctuated simplification of man-made objects p. 136 Justin Jang, Peter Wonka, William Ribarsky, Christopher D. Shaw DOI: 10.1007/s00371-005-0355-6 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 2006 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:10:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 919 (919) CIT INFOBITS February 2006 No. 92 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning'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 on the Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitfeb06.html. ...................................................................... The Evolution of an Online Course Tips for Using Laptops in the Classroom Scholarly Journal on Plagiarism Some Non-English-Language Resources Open Access and Libraries Recommended Reading ...................................................................... THE EVOLUTION OF AN ONLINE COURSE "Like all learners, new online instructors need hands-on experience, feedback, and ongoing support to become comfortable and proficient in the virtual classroom. It is unrealistic to expect even the most self-motivated, creatively pedagogical, and technically inclined instructor to fly solo after just a few hours of training." In "Uniting Technology and Pedagogy: The Evolution of an Online Teaching Certification Course" (EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006), Bonnie Riedinger and Paul Rosenberg explain how and why a certification course for online teaching was moved out of the classroom and into an online environment. The authors note from this experience that the online environment presents an "opportunity for instructors to examine their pedagogical habits." The complete article is available online at http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0616.asp?bhcp=1. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, The IT Practitioner's Journal [ISSN 1528-5324] is published by EDUCAUSE, 4772 Walnut Street, Suite 206, Boulder, CO 80301-2538 USA. Current and past issues are available online at http://www.educause.edu/eq/. See also: "The Myth about Online Course Development: 'A Faculty Member Can Individually Develop and Deliver an Effective Online Course'" by Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 41, no. 1, January/February 2006 http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0617.asp ...................................................................... TIPS FOR USING LAPTOPS IN THE CLASSROOM For tips on how to make your students' laptop computers part of their learning activities, see "14 Good Ideas from Liesel Knaack for Using Laptops in the Classroom" (SIDEBARS, January 2006). Knaack is a professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology where every student gets an IBM Thinkpad on their first day of class to use throughout their studies at the University. The article is online at http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/06january/on-the-side-1.htm. SideBars [ISSN 1718-3685] is published by the Learning Resources Unit of the British Columbia Institute of Technology [http://www.lru.bcit.ca/]. "Founded in December 2001, SideBars provides useful information and news items for instructors, course developers, educational technologists, and anyone else who has an interest in distributed learning in its various manifestations." Current and back issues are available at http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/. Email subscriptions are available at no cost at http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/subcribe.html. Editor's note: My thanks to the editors of SideBars for designating CIT Infobits as one of the "Friends of sidebars" on their website. ...................................................................... SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ON PLAGIARISM In January the University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office launched a refereed online journal, PLAGIARY. The purpose of the journal is "to bring together the various strands of scholarship which already exist on the subject, and to create a forum for discussion across disciplinary boundaries." Papers in the first issues include: -- "The Google Library Project: Both Sides of the Story" -- "Copy This! A Historical Perspective On the Use of the Photocopier in Art" -- "A Million Little Pieces of Shame" Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification [ISSN 1559-3096] is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet at http://www.plagiary.org/. For more information contact: John P. Lesko, Editor, Department of English, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI 48710 USA; tel: 989-964-2067; fax: 989-790-7638; email: jplesko_at_svsu.edu. ...................................................................... SOME NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE RESOURCES Since Infobits reaches subscribers all over the world, we welcome information about resources in other languages besides English. This month, we present these: USE http://munin.bui.haw-hamburg.de/amoll/use/ "USE: Usability Engineering fur E-Learning" is an online document produced by the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Department of Information. The document, written in German, shows how to involve students when planning and designing an e-learning website. STICEF http://sticef.univ-lemans.fr/ "STICEF: Sciences and Technologies Information and Communication for Education and Training" presents research "undertaken in the field of communication and information technologies in the service of human training." Papers are in French, but English abstracts are available. Recent papers include: -- "Reusing Available (educational) Software developed by CAL (Computer Assisted Learning) Researchers?" -- "Effet d'un feedback informatif sur la prise de notes dans un environnement d'apprentissage informatise'" Editor's note: Machine translation certainly has its limitations; however, in order to decide if the text is relevant to your needs, sometimes you need a "quick and dirty" translation of a web page into your preferred language. In these cases, try Google's translation tools at http://www.google.com/language_tools. A 2005 evaluation of machine translation systems conducted by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) rated Google's tool best overall. The NIST report is online at http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/mt05eval_official_results_release_20050801_v3.html. For more on machine translation see Seb Schmoller's June 2005 FORTNIGHTLY MAILING article, "Combining human with machine translation." http://www.schmoller.net/mailings/20050612.shtml#1 ...................................................................... OPEN ACCESS AND LIBRARIES "Open Access and Libraries," by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., compiler of the "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" [http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html], will appear this year in ELECTRONIC RESOURCES LIBRARIANS: THE HUMAN ELEMENT OF THE DIGITAL INFORMATION AGE (edited by Mark Jacobs; Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006). According to Bailey, the paper "takes an in-depth look at the open access movement with special attention to the perceived meaning of the term 'open access' within it, the use of Creative Commons Licenses, and real-world access distinctions between different types of open access materials." The preprint, which does not reflect any editorial changes that may be made, is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/OALibraries2.pdf. For more information about Creative Commons licenses, see http://creativecommons.org/. Another recent paper on libraries: "Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination" by Jerry D. Campbell "For most people, including academicians, the library--in its most basic function as a source of information--has become overwhelmingly a virtual destination." EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 41, no. 1, January/February 2006, p. 16ff. http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0610.asp ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "An Interview with Rajesh Setty, Author of the New Book BEYOND CODE" UBIQUITY, vol. 7, issue 07, February 21-27, 2006 http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i07_setty.html Rajesh Setty is the author of the book "Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps!" He refers to code because the examples in his book are aimed mainly at technology professionals caught up in the world of coding. However, you don't have to be a programmer to apply the examples to your own work environment. Setty notes that "everyone in his or her life will get several leadership moments, though these leadership moments won't come packaged as leadership moments. But he or she will have to be ready for this moment, because it's there to be recognized and grabbed and held on to. But because such moments do not come as clearly labeled packages, it's so easy to miss them. So always be ready for them and seize on them when you have the chance. Doing that will distinguish you from the crowd and make you into a recognized leader." Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! New York: SelectBooks, 2005 ISBN: 1-59079-102-9 http://www.selectbooks.com/t_code.html From: Ken Friedman Subject: Third call --- Wonderground --- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:04:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 920 (920) Design Research Society International Conference 2006 Wonderground! Design Research Society International Conference 2006 Lisbon, Portugal -- Third Call for Papers - Deadline March 31 Wonderground - the 2006 Design Research Society International Conference invites full papers of up to 6,000 words and working papers of up to 2,000 words. There is a specific call for contributions to the research exhibition. We welcome papers in all areas of design research. -- Conference Web Site http://www.iade.pt/drs2006/ -- DEADLINE: 2006 March 31. Responding to requests for an extended deadline, we changed the deadline to March 31. We will continue to accept papers until April 5. We will begin the review process for each paper as it arrives to ensure a prompt reply for those who need it. Digital submission: Authors must submit papers in digital form. Submission address: Please submit papers to the Content Management Coordinator "Martim Lapa" martim.lapa_at_iade.pt When sending your paper to Mr. Lapa, please send a copy [Cc:] to the Content Management Secretary "Elisabete Perfeito" eperfeito_at_iade.pt Language: Papers must be written in English. References, format, and style: Conference papers should follow the Publoication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition. Please visit the conference web site for full details. Authors can download a good short guide at URL: http://www.docstyles.com/ Length: Full papers should be up to 6000 words plus illustrations. Working papers should be up to 2000 words plus illustrations. Refereeing: A large, international scientific committee ensures expert review for all fields. No referee will review more than three papers. Authors will receive careful and reflective comments. The Wonderground review process will "help authors in" rather than "keep authors out." -- Short Guidelines Members of the scientific committee have prepared two short guidelines to help authors write papers that enable readers to understand and use their work. These are not rules, but suggestions or checklists covering the key features of a conference paper. Full Papers The full paper format runs up to 6,000 words. We encourage submissions from all fields of design research. We welcome papers representing all perspectives and research methods. These guidelines are intended to help authors At the top of the full paper, write a self-contained abstract of up to 200 words that outlines your aims, scope, and conclusions. Then, give up to five keywords that describe the working paper. In the paper, 1) Introduce the subject and state the goals of the paper. 2) Identify the issues you will consider and give some background. 3) Describe your approach to the issues you will address. 4) Describe the circumstances in which you conducted your work. 5) Describe what you actually did and describe the tools you used. 6) Describe your findings or conclusions and explain how they support your goals. 7) Indicate what you learned or accomplished and suggest future work in your area of interest. 8) Provide a bibliography containing all the references cited in the text. Working papers: The 2000-word length working paper format allows researchers to present work in progress in a convenient way while making a rich enough argument to deserve conference presentation. A working paper should contain several features of a full paper. At the top of the working paper, write a self-contained abstract of up to 200 words that outlines your aims, scope, and conclusions. Then, give up to five keywords that describe the working paper. In the working paper, 1) State the theme of the paper. 2) Promise a contribution. 3) Provide evidence for the argument that you will present to reach the conclusion. 4) State the structure of the argument and show how you will develop it. 5) Show how the evidence and the argument will lead to a contribution. Evidence may include summaries of empirical work as well as discussion from the literature. 6) Provide a selected reference list to supports the working paper in the same way that a full reference list supports a full paper. Language advice English is the conference language. Please remember that English is a second or third language for many of our authors and readers. We encourage authors to write in a direct, comfortable style for clear, understandable papers. -- Information update service: If you are submitting a paper or exhibit to Wonderground, please join our JISCmail information list to receive updates and conference information. To join please go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DRS-CONFERENCE-CONTRIBUTORS.html From: Brad Nickerson Subject: Call for papers, CaSTA 2006 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:05:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 921 (921) Fellow researchers: My apologies if you receive this call for papers notice more than once. This year's Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis conference is being held at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Papers are being accepted until March 15, 2006, and we hope you will consider submitting a paper in one of the following areas: =B7Text analysis from a Humanities Computing perspective =B7Interface Design and usability issues =B7Applying Computer Science research to textual questions The CaSTA Program Committee invites submissions that focus on the ways in which researchers mine, manipulate and use electronic texts, where "texts" are understood in a broad sense to extend to and include multimedia. The complete call for papers and submission guidelines are at http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/ Co-sponsors include the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Society for Digital Humanities and the Association for Computing Machinery. It would be much appreciated if you could forward this message on to others you think might be interested in submitting a paper to CaSTA 2006. Regards, Brad Nickerson CaSTA 2006 Co-Chair From: "Dmitry Epstein" Subject: Digital Divide Minitrack - HICSS-40 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:07:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 922 (922) CALL FOR PAPERS for the Digital Divide minitrack Forty Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40) January 3-6, 2007 Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu>http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Digital divide plays an important role in last years’ discourse in theory and practice as well. Starting in the 90’s by focusing on infrastructures divides between the ‘have’ and ‘have-not’ and continuing in the following years to other dimensions of the divide such as skill, usage, governmental and communal support and more… The mini-track calls for papers that study the digital divide in different levels, methods and perspectives. Levels of the digital divide such as: international, national, local, sector, communal, and also individual. Subjects related to the digital divide that are in the scope of this mini-track but not limited to: · Socio-demographic factors– gender, age, education, income, ethnic diversity, race diversity, language diversity, religiosity · Social and governmental support – for example the use of supportive initiatives, policy and applications to bridge the gap, or how society and communities impact e-Inclusion · Conceptualization and theory of digital divide · Comparative and local analysis of policy · Use – skills, frequency and time, locus, autonomy of use, what do users do online and for what purpose · Access and technology – infrastructure factors · Affordability · Accessibility focusing mainly in populations with special needs · Measurements index – e-readiness, DiDix and more MINITRACK CHAIR: Karine Barzilai-Nahon Assistant Professor The Information School University of Washington Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, Tel- (206) 685-6668 Email - karineb_at_u.washington.edu Website - <http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb>www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstract Authors may contact Minitrack Chair for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15 Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (<http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu>www.hicss.hawaii.edu). Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15 Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 Authors submit Final Version of papers to the Peer Review System web site. The Digital Divide minitrack is part of the Digital Media: Content and Communication Track Chaired by Michael Shepherd (shepherd_at_cs.dal.ca) ------------------------------------------------------------- Karine Barzilai-Nahon From: Miki Hermann Subject: LPAR 2006, 2nd Call For Papers Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:08:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 923 (923) LPAR-13 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/ 13th-17th November 2006 2nd Call For Papers The 13th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-13) will be held 13th-17th November 2006, at the Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of interest include: + automated reasoning + propositional reasoning + interactive theorem proving + description logics + software verification + hardware verification + software testing + logic and ontologies + proof assistants + network and protocol verification + proof planning + nonmonotonic reasoning + proof checking + constructive logic and type theory + rewriting and unification + lambda and combinatory calculi + logic programming + knowledge representation and reasoning + modal and temporal logics + 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 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-13 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-13 will be published by the conference. From: TSD 2006 Subject: TSD 2006 - Second Call for Papers Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:09:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 924 (924) ********************************************************* TSD 2006 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2006) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-15 September 2006 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized 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. VENUE: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: March 15 2006 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2006 ............ Submission of papers Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] From: { brad brace } Subject: The 12hr ISBN-JPEG Project Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:28:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 925 (925) _ |__ __| | /_ |__ \| | | __| | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ __ | | | | | | __/ | |/ /_| | | | | _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<< _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| -_ | | | |__ ___ | | ) | |__ _ __ You begin to sense the byshadows that stretch from the awe of global dominance. How the intersecting systems help pull us apart, leaving us vague, drained, docile, soft in our inner discourse, willing to be shaped, to be overwhelmed -- easy retreats, half beliefs. Works of art are complex formal interventions within discursive traditions and their myriad filiations. These interventions are defined precisely by their incomparable capacity to trace the dynamics of historical process in paradoxical gestures of simultaneously prognostic and mnemonic temporalities. _ | __ \ (_) | | _| |__) | __ ___ _ ___ ___| |_ |_ ___/ '__/ _ \| |/ _ \/ __| __| |_| _ |_| \___/| |\___|\___|\__| _ _/ | _ |__/ [deleted quotation] A `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from { brad brace }. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves no privilege to any center. The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project ----------------------------- since 1994 Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events... A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the Net. An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone... [ see http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/books.txt ] KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered, de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless and venerable... >> Multi-faceted miscegnation: oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate... >> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative, poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless... >> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, exciting, entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, expansive... Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em, trade `em, print `em, even publish them... Here`s how: ~ Set www-links to -> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html -> http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html -> http://bbrace.net/12hr.html -> http://noemata.net/12hr/ Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher... ~ Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.eskimo.com /u/b/bbrace Download from -> hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au Download from -> ftp://bjornmag:Sobject@kunst.no/12hr/ * Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg ~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the server address nearest you: ftpmail_at_ccc.uba.ar ftpmail_at_cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail_at_ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail_at_ftp.Dartmouth.edu ftpmail_at_ieunet.ie ftpmail_at_src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail_at_archie.inesc.pt ftpmail_at_ftp.sun.ac.za ftpmail_at_ftp.sunet.se ftpmail_at_ftp.luth.se ftpmail_at_NCTUCCCA.edu.tw ftpmail_at_oak.oakland.edu ftpmail_at_sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail_at_decwrl.dec.com ftpmail_at_census.gov bitftp_at_plearn.bitnet bitftp_at_dearn.bitnet bitftp_at_vm.gmd.de bitftp_at_plearn.edu.pl bitftp_at_pucc.princeton.edu bitftp_at_pucc.bitnet ** ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too! The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg Average size of images is only 45K. ~ Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories: src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/mirror ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups: alt.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc * * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups! (There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent, PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews) ~ ~ This interminable, relentless sequence of posted imagery began in earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over three decades in the making. Each 12-hour posting is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection, interruption, and assimilation. ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural projects and sources. ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and occasional commentary related to this project has been established at topica.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg -- The image was to make nothing visible but their connection with one another by space and air, yet each surrounded by the unique aura that disengages every deeply seen image from the world of irrelevant relationships and calls forth a tremor of astonishment at its fateful necessity. Thus from artworks of dead masters, over-life-size strangeness whose names we do not know and do not wish to know, look out at us enigmatically as symbols of all being. -- This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones or extended-black quadtones. Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books. Contributions and requests for 12hr-email-subscriptions, can also be made at http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html, or by mailed cheque/check: $5/mo $50/yr. Institutions must pay for any images retained longer than 12 hours. -- ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or translate these images. [http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/ pictures-faq.html] -- (c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: use of labials in Haida is the least so far found Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:29:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 926 (926) Dear Humanist List colleagues, I have computed the Haida Indian texts. I came across a new encounter in my detective story of investigating the occurrence of labial consonants in AmerIndian texts. It has the lowest use of labials - 1.70% only. As I said earlier I expected the labial consonants to have a very small share of the Cocopa speech sound chain since there are only 3 labials in Cocopa [p, w, m]. So, I thought that they would take only 4% or 5% like in Navaho (4.15%) or Iquito (4.83%). To my great surprise the Cocopa labials take 18.69%, i.e. like Odjibwa (17.14%) or Apinaye (17.40%). Therefore, Cocopa has one of the highest concentration of labial consonants in its speech sound chain. However in Haida the same 3 labials give only 1.70% in the Haida speech sound chain. It is the smallest use of labials I found in 168 world languages. I wonder, if it is a typological similarity or it shows some genetical relatedness? I wonder who can tell me why Haida uses so little labials? I guess that the great typological difference in the use of labials can speak for the great genetical difference in AmerIndian languages. Looking forward to hearing from you to my new email address yutamb_at_mail.ru Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia yutamb_at_mail.ru From: Shuly Wintner Subject: University of Haifa Computer Science Colloquium Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:30:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 927 (927) University of Haifa Computer Science Colloquium You are cordially invited to attend the following talk. Time: Wednesday, March 15th, 14:00 Place: Jacobs Building room 303 Speaker: Oren Etzioni, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Google Abstract: For the last quarter century (measured in person years), the KnowItAll project has focused on accumulating massive amounts of information from the Web by utilizing domain-independent, fully automated techniques. If successful, this effort has the potential to address the long-standing "Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck" in Artificial Intelligence, and enable a new generation of search engines that extract and synthesize information from text to answer complex user queries. This talk will describe the evolution of the KnowItAll family of systems (or is it Intelligent Design?) culminating in TextRunner---a program that has extracted over 1,000,000,000 "facts" from the Web without breaking a sweat. -- Shuly Wintner Computer Science colloquium coordinator http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/colloq/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities, Arts and Social Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:34:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 928 (928) Sciences a Summer Institute CI-HASS "UCHRI Communications" Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences a Summer Institute (CI-HASS) The comprehensive infrastructure needed to capitalize on dramatic advances in information technology has been termed cyberinfrastructure. Cyberinfrastructure integrates hardware for computing, data and networks, digitally-enabled sensors, observatories and experimental facilities, and an interoperable suite of software and middleware services and tools. Investments in interdisciplinary academic teams and cyberinfrastructure professionals with broad expertise in content production and technology systems is essential to exploit the full power of cyberinfrastructure to create, disseminate, and preserve data, information, and knowledge. The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) invite applications from scholars, faculty, graduate students and IT intellectuals of all ranks to participate in a hands-on workshop designed to introduce humanists, artists and social scientists to commonly used and emergent information technology tools and resources. Event Date: July 24-28, 2006 Event Location: UC San Diego Campus Application Deadline: June 1, 2006 Event Cost: $350 before May 1, 2006 | $550 after May 1, 2006 Registration Fee Includes: Instruction | Lodging | Three Meals Each Day Program Overview The Institute is an intensive one-week summer program for faculty, scholars, graduate students, professionals and public intellectuals. The Institute will host 40-50 distinguished participants in a "laboratory" where together they can engage important and creative thought and application. Workshops will include conversations with cutting edge technological innovators, humanists, artists and social scientists; they involve demonstrations of new technological devices, and their applications as well as scholarly practices. Participants will have opportunities to familiarize themselves with new digital applications in the context of small working groups. Workshops Topics: Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure | Cyberservices | High-Performance Computing & Storage | Networks | Grid Computing | Portals & Gateways | Knowledge & Semantic Systems | Large Scale Data & Databases | Visualization | Virtual Research Environments Note: Program subject to change 307 Administration, Irvine, California 92697-3350 (858) 534-5020 -- Fax: (949) 824-2115 -- cihass_at_uci.edu =A92004 UC Regents Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7=20 Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44=20 (0)20 7848-2784 fax: -2980 ||=20 willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/=20 From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.9 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:29:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 929 (929) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 9 March 6, 2006 - March 13, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: FAULT TOLERANCE IN WEB SERVICES Goutam Kumar Saha explains how to design a fault tolerant web application that relies on an affordable redundancy in data and function using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The proposed approach relies on a Single-Version fault tolerance model without using multiple versions or the N-Version fault tolerance model. The work aims to design a more dependable and reliable Web Service system at no extra cost on multiple versions. Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 9 (March 7, 2006 - March 13, 2006) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i09_webservices.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: state of the art of portability? Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:05:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 930 (930) This is a gadgeteer-scholar's query, so you may wish to turn away now. I have recently acquired a lovely handheld PocketPC-type machine with wireless and Bluetooth capabilities (a Dell Axim x51v). Apart from the fact that Windows Mobile 2005 (a.k.a. 5.0) has more bugs than my former flat in Toronto, and so requires soft-resetting quite often, I am very pleased. But there are two technical problems I am seeking a solution for. I can only be patient with the OS. Both these problems have to do with wireless connectivity. The first problem arises because I go back and forth between a wireless service that hands out IP and DNS numbers and one that uses a fixed IP. It is heavily tiresome to keep entering the fixed IP and DNS numbers, as you can imagine. Once upon a time, back in the less advanced days of Windows Mobile 2003, software existed to stand between the wireless management software and the device management software -- the wonderful little program HPC NetProfile -- to allow a variety of configurations to be specified once and for all time -- until upgrade of the OS curiously rendered NetProfile impervious to all attempts to register it, including many attempts done with the kind cooperation of the vendor, PhatWare. So the trial version expired and I had to abandon it. Question: does anyone know (a) if there's anything like NetProfile for Windows Mobile 2005? or (b) how to fix the problem of being unable to get a program under this OS to accept a valid registration code? The second problem is with wireless reception. The handheld seems to require quite a strong signal to be able to connect -- much stronger on the average than a laptop. I assume that the problem is merely the size of the antenna. Has anyone produced an attachable antenna for handhelds -- attachable via the CompactFlash or Secure Digital memory slots (as would have to be the case)? Many thanks for all suggestions. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Hartmut Krech Subject: UM offers photo software for free Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:30:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 931 (931) The University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory issued a press release yesterday that may be of interest to subscribers of HUMANIST-L. It can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1235 Best, Hartmut [Note also DateLens, available for free from the HCIL, http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/datelens/. --WM] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new Springer books Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:47:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 932 (932) [The following is a selection from a list of new books sent to me by Springer. For those interested in modelling, note esp that Atocha Aliseda's book, Abductive Reasoning, has finally been published. --WM] Large-Scale Scientific Computing Lecture Notes in Computer Science Editor/s: Lirkov, Ivan; Margenov, Svetozar; Wasniewski, Jerzy 5th International Conference, LSSC 2005, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 6-10, 2005, Revised Papers 2006, XIV, 704 p. Also available online. 3-540-31994-8 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2005, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria in June 2005. ...More Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Perspective Editor/s: Clarke, Karen; Hardstone, Gillian; Rouncefield, Mark; Sommerville, Ian 2006, XXV, 221 p. 1-4020-4257-4 This book encapsulates some work done in the DIRC project concerned with trust and responsibility in socio-technical systems. It brings together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to produce a socio-technical systems perspective on the issues surrounding trust in technology in complex settings. ...More Computing Methodologies Abductive Reasoning Aliseda, Atocha Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation 2006, XVI, 225 p. 1-4020-3906-9 Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications. ...More Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape Editor/s: Maicher, Lutz; Park, Jack First International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2005, Leipzig, Germany, October 6-7, 2005, Revised Selected Papers 2006, VIII, 281 p. Also available online. 3-540-32527-1 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2005, held in Leipzig, Germany in October 2005. ...More Computers and Games Lecture Notes in Computer Science Editor/s: Herik, H. Jaap van den; Björnsson, Yngvi; Netanyahu, Nathan S. 4th International Conference, CG 2004, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 5-7, 2004. Revised Papers 2006, XIV, 333 p. Also available online. 3-540-32488-7 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2004, held in Ramat-Gan, Israel, in July 2004, and co-located with the 12th World Computer Chess Championship and the 9th Computer Olympiad. ...More Data Mining Editor/s: Williams, Graham J.; Simoff, Simeon J. Theory, Methodology, Techniques, and Applications 2006, XI, 331 p. Also available online. 3-540-32547-6 This volume provides a snapshot of the current state of the art in data mining, presenting it both in terms of technical developments and industrial applications. ...More Fuzzy Database Modeling of Imprecise and Uncertain Engineering Information Ma, Zongmin 2006, XV, 210 p. Also available online. 3-540-30675-7 This book presents recent advances for imprecise and uncertain engineering information from the point of view of fuzzy database modeling. The topics include fuzzy conceptual data modeling of engineering information, conversion of the fuzzy conceptual models, and database implementation of the fuzzy conceptual data models. ...More Fuzzy Logic and Applications Editor/s: Bloch, Isabelle; Petrosino, Alfredo; Tettamanzi, Andrea G.B. 6th International Workshop, WILF 2005, Crema, Italy, September 15-17, 2005, Revised Selected Papers 2006, XIV, 438 p. 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This volume offers an overview of a variety of applications of IT in the field of LSP. ...More Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Monica Gavrila Subject: Ontology Workshop Hamburg - registration is Open Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:45:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 933 (933) (Online Registration from Monday) *** apologize for multiple postings **** International Workshop ONTOLOGY BASED MODELLING IN THE HUMANITIES 7-9 April 2006, University of Hamburg http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/OntologyWorkshop In the new area of digitalized information, researchers from the humanities face a new problem: semantic data organization. In contrast with the data processed by natural sciences, the material in most fields of humanities is mostly unstructured. The structuring of such data is a complex problem that can be solved only by formal models and languages from computer science. However the application of formal models from formal sciences (especially computing) is itself a scientific problem as humanists have their own scientific culture not only in the argumentation and meta-theories but also in their way of communication. With the development of the Semantic Web the ontology-concept became an important key for data-structuring. Some ontologies were developed also in the Humanities, but there is still no overview of what exists, which standards are used and how well the current ontologies meet the users requirements. The current workshop aims to fill this gap and act also as a discussion forum Papers related to one or more of the following topics will be presented: - theoretical relevant models for humanities - formal prerequisites - specific ontologies for different fields in Humanities - collaborative tools for ontology manipulation - Semantic Web technologies for preserving cultural heritage - Semi-automatic ontology extraction - Ontology development in multilingual context - Practical use of ontologies in Humanities Organizers Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Invited Speakers: Marin Doerr, (FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete) Nicola Guarino (ITC, Tento, Italy) We welcome participation of researchers from all fields related with the topic of the Workshop. A registration formular can be found at: http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/OntologyWorkshop Starting from Monday, 13.03.2006, an Online registration will be possible at the same address. In case there are problems with the online form, please use the pdf file. Thank you for understanding From: Bob Subject: Calls for Submissions: The Best of Technology Writing 2006 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:47:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 934 (934) Dear Fellow Humanists: Please see the following announcement about a new series from digitalculturebooks, a new imprint of U Michigan Press. Thanks, Bob Cummings University of Georgia The Best of Technology Writing 2006. Taking a cue from the open-source movement, we're asking readers to nominate their favorite tech-oriented articles, essays, and blog posts from the previous year. The competition is open to any and every technology topic--biotech, information technology, gadgetry, tech policy, Silicon Valley, and software engineering are all fair game. But the pieces that have the best chances of inclusion in the anthology will conform to these three simple guidelines: 1. They'll be engagingly written for a mass audience; if the article requires a doctorate to appreciate, it's probably not up our alley. Preference will be given to narrative features and profiles, "Big Think" op-eds that make sense, investigative journalism, sharp art and design criticism, intelligent policy analysis, and heartfelt personal essays. 2. They'll be no longer than 5,000 words. 3. They'll explore how technological progress is reshaping our world. For more information: http://www.digitalculture.org/ From: Miki Hermann Subject: 3rd CFP LPAR 2006, Phnom Penh Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:48:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 935 (935) LPAR-13 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/ 13th-17th November 2006 2nd Call For Papers The 13th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-13) will be held 13th-17th November 2006, at the Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of interest include: + automated reasoning + propositional reasoning + interactive theorem proving + description logics + software verification + hardware verification + software testing + logic and ontologies + proof assistants + network and protocol verification + proof planning + nonmonotonic reasoning + proof checking + constructive logic and type theory + rewriting and unification + lambda and combinatory calculi + logic programming + knowledge representation and reasoning + modal and temporal logics + 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 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-13 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-13 will be published by the conference. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Transactions on Computational Systems Biology IV Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:21:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 936 (936) Volume 3939/2006 (Transactions on Computational Systems Biology IV) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. This issue contains: Scientific Foundation for Global Computing p. 1 Robin Milner DOI: 10.1007/11732488_1 Interdisciplinary Innovation in International Initiatives p. 14 John C. Wooley DOI: 10.1007/11732488_2 A Grand Challenge for Converging Sciences p. 38 Ronan Sleep DOI: 10.1007/11732488_3 Applying Computer Science Research to Biodiversity Informatics: Some Experiences and Lessons p. 44 Andrew C. Jones DOI: 10.1007/11732488_4 e-Science and the VL-e Approach p. 58 L.O. (Bob) Hertzberger DOI: 10.1007/11732488_5 From Syntax to Semantics in Systems Biology Towards Automated Reasoning Tools p. 68 Fran=E7ois Fages DOI: 10.1007/11732488_6 SYMBIONIC: A European Initiative on the Systems Biology of the Neuronal Cell p. 71 Ivan Arisi, Paola Roncaglia, Vittorio Rosato, Antonino Cattaneo DOI: 10.1007/11732488_7 A Biological Approach to Autonomic Communication Systems p. 76 Iacopo Carreras, Imrich Chlamtac, Francesco De Pellegrini, Csaba Kiraly, Daniele Miorandi, Hagen Woesner DOI: 10.1007/11732488_8 The Twilight of the Despotic Digital Civilization p. 83 Michel Riguidel DOI: 10.1007/11732488_9 A Compositional Approach to the Stochastic Dynamics of Gene Networks p. 99 Ralf Blossey, Luca Cardelli, Andrew Phillips DOI: 10.1007/11732488_10 A Weighted Profile Based Method for Protein-RNA Interacting Residue Prediction p. 123 Euna Jeong, Satoru Miyano DOI: 10.1007/11732488_11 From: Willard McCarty Subject: timeo Danaos et nova loquentes Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:19:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 937 (937) This begins as an enquiry about the proper home, and so baggage, of the phrase "grand challenge", which I have now twice encountered in writings connected with humanities computing. As far as I can determine, its proper home, i.e. where its implications are not so strange, is either automobile racing or computer science, i.e. fields in which winning or solving is how success gets measured. It's one of those things we could call a shibboleth -- not by the pronunciation but by the mere uttering thereof a foreigner betrays him- or herself. Or more accurately, what may be betrayed is insensitivity to a phenomenon of language by which borrowed words and expressions bring with them, like a lingering smell (as of smoke from a pub), something of what they meant in their former environment. J.R. Firth famously declared that, "you shall know a word by the company it keeps" (A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory, 1930-55, ed. Palmer 1968, p. 179) -- or in this case, kept but a short time ago. Adopt a new word or phrase at your peril? It's not that verbal borrowing is wrong or necessarily perilous. What else is a new field like ours to do? We need ways of talking about our experience, which in part is experience with computing, an experimental instrument &c. New fields, it seems, have always reached for terminology from elsewhere. Rather the caution is against opening the gates to an apparently beneficial object without seeing what it's about, and then, as in the story, going to sleep. So, please look around for the phrase "grand challenge" and similar such newcomers and report back, if you will, in what prose they have bedded down, what work they seem to be up to. Comments about this sort of thing? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: a review on the ancient Olmecs? Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:45:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 938 (938) [forwarded from Prof. Dr. Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia] Dear colleagues of the Humanist List, please advise me where can one publish a review on the ancient Olmecs? Which archaeological or ethnographic journal can consider for publication my review on the Olmecs? I've written a short review on the book on the ancient American Indian Olmec culture, published in Russian. Can you advise me where to publish it? Could you advise me some useful emails? Do you know the e-mail addresses of the European or American editors of journals on archaelogy or ethnography, that is, if you cannot publish it? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_mail.ru Remain yours sincerely Prof. Dr. Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia REVIEW ON THE BOOK: TABAREV, Andrei Vladimirovich. Drevnie Olmeki (Ancient Olmecs: History and Problems of Investigation). - Novosibirsk: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SBRAS Press, 2005. - 143 pages. ISBN 5-7803-0138-7 (Press of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentev prospect 17, Novosibirsk-90, 630090, Russia). The author of the book, Prof. Dr. Andrei Vladimirovich Tabarev, is a well-known archeologist in Russia and the USA. He is the head leading researcher of the stone age in the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His ideas on the development the ancient American cultures are supported by his American colleagues. The foreword of the book on the ancient Olmecs is written by Dr. Michael D. Coe, Professor Emeritus of Yale University (USA). He recommends the book by Andrei V. Tabarev as one of the best about the Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica. It is prepared and published with the support of the Foundation for the Advancement of the Mesoamerica Studies of the USA. Unfortunately, it is rather seldom that the publications of Russian scholars are supported by American funds. Therefore many of them remain unpublished. It is interesting to note that in some of his other publications A. V. Tabarev gives parallels between the traditions of the Siberian peoples and those of the American Indians (e.g. Tabarev, 2004; Borodovsky and Tabarev, 2005). The publication of this book in Russian may allow to compare the strange animal style of the art of the Siberian peoples (Mansi, Hanty, Ket, Oroch, Orok, Hakas, Altai-Kizhi, etc.) with that of the ancient Olmec sculptures showing the strange beings who combine feline features with those of humans. The Siberian peoples also combine the animal features with human features. In this case, we can think of the theory of the famous Russian archeologist Aleksei Pavlovich Okladnikov, who put forward the hypothesis in 1938 that the American Indians came to America from Siberia some ten thousand years ago by the Bering ice bridge (Okladnikov, 1938). Consequently, they brought their arts and languages. The articulatory base of every language is very conservative, therefore they preserved their articulation habits which can be seen through the data on the frequency of occurrence of phonemes in the speech sound chain in a language. We computed 22 of the languages of the Americas and received the frequency of the phonemic occurrence in speech (Tambovtsev, 2001). After that we used the methods of mathematical linguistics to compare the data on Siberian languages to those of the American Indian languages (Tambovtsev, 2003). The results obtained were quite interesting. The publication of the material on the ancient Olmecs may stimulate the comparisons of different sorts. It may help us to understand the link between the peoples of Siberia and American Indians. Andrei V. Tabarev gives much material for thinking when he discusses in detail the previous (p.21 -60) and contemporary (p.61 - 62) stages of the research of the Olmecs. The author gives the full list of the Russian investigators of the Olmec culture (D. D. Belyaev, G. G. Ershova, V. I. Gulyaev, A. A. Sidorov, R. V. Kinzhalov, Yu. V. Knorozov, V. M. Masson, etc.). For many linguists and myself it would be interesting to state what language did the Olmecs speak. Was it different or similar to the known American Indian languages? Or at least how did it sound? In this case, ancient Egyptian is luckier than the language of the Olmecs. Due to the parallel texts in ancient Egyptian and Old Greek we can see how it was pronounced. The publication of this book in Russian is very important since American studies are not widely spread in Russia. It is the first book for the students of archeology and ethnography of this sort in Russian. The book has an extensive list of literature on archeology and ethnology. It is recommended as the text book for the university students of archeology and ethnography. REFERENCES Borodovsky and Tabarev, 2005 - Borodovsky, A. P. and Tabarev A. V. Scalping in North America and Western Siberia: the archaelogical evidence. - IN: Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Euroasia, # 1 (21), 2005, p. 87 - 96. Okladnikov, 1938 - OKLADNIKOV, Aleksej Pavlovich. Arheologicheskie dannye o drevnejshej istorii Pribajkal'ja. [ Archaeological data on the ancient history of the Baikal area]. - In: Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, #1 (2), 1938, p. 224 - 260. Tabarev, 2004 - TABAREV, Andrei Vladimorovich. Indejtsy severnoj Ameriki [Indians of the North America]. - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk Pedagogical University, 2004. - 35 pages. Tambovtsev, 2001 - TAMBOVTSEV, Yuri Alekseevich. Nekotorye teoreticheskie polozhenija tipologii uporjadochennosti fonem v zvukovoj tsepochke jazyka i kompendium statisticheskih harakteristik osnovnyh grupp soglasnyh fonem. [Some theoretical foundations of typology of the orderliness of phonemes in the language sound chain and the compendium of the statisticak characteristics of the basic consonantal groups]. - Novosibirsk: Novosibirskij klassicheskij institut. 2001. -130 pages. Tambovtsev, 2003 - TAMBOVTSEV, Yuri Alekseevich. Tipologija funktsionirovanija fonem v zvukovoj tsepochke indoevropejskih, paleoaziatskih, uralo-altaiskih i drugih jazykov mira: kompaktnost' podgrupp, grupp, semej i drugih jazykovyh taksonov. [Typology of functioning of phonemes in the language sound chain of Indo-European, Paleo-Asiatic, Uralo-Altaic, and other world languages: compactness of the subgroups, groups, families and other language taxa]. - Novosibirsk: Sibirskij nezavisimyj institut, 2003. - 143 pages. Reviewed by Prof. Dr.Yuri Tambovtsev, Dept of English and Linguistics of KF-NPU, P.O. Box 104, Novosibirsk-123, 630123. yutamb_at_mail.ru Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Milena Dobreva" Subject: ElPub conference Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:39:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 939 (939) *** Apologies for cross-postings *** It is a pleasure to invite you to ELPUB 2006, the 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing "Digital spectrum:Integrating Technology and Culture", which will be held in Bansko, Bulgaria, on 14-16 June 2006. As the ElPub 2006 conference is growing closer, abstracts of all papers and posters to be presented are already available on <http://www.elpub.net/>http://www.elpub.net). Please note that the 2006 conference is the 10th anniversary of ELPUB and will be closed with a Special Session, offering views for the future of Electronic Publishing. The conference is part of the events by which the National Commission of the Republic of Bulgaria for UNESCO celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bulgaria's admission to the Organisation. *** Early registration with reduced fees is open until April 1st *** With kind regards Milena Dobreva (General Chair) & Bob Martens (Program Chair) From: Erik Hatcher Subject: Re: 19.652 a "grand challenge" Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:40:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 940 (940) On Mar 14, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]My only, modern, reference to the phrase comes from the US DARPA "Grand Challenge": <http://www.darpa.mil/GRANDCHALLENGE/> Defined as such: "DARPA Grand Challenge Created in response to a Congressional and DoD mandate, DARPA Grand Challenge is a field test intended to accelerate research and development in autonomous ground vehicles that will help save American lives on the battlefield. The Grand Challenge brings together individuals and organizations from industry, the R&D community, government, the armed services, academia, students, backyard inventors, and automotive enthusiasts in the pursuit of a technological challenge." We've had a top notch local contender to the Grand Challenge: <http://www.teamjefferson.com/> Erik From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 19.652 a "grand challenge" Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:43:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 941 (941) Dear Willard, In a birthday post to Humanist in 2001 (May 10) you called for us to "send Humanist a birthday present in the form of a question or statement concerning humanities computing..." I picked up on this in an article that can be found in preprint form on the web at (http:// www.geoffreyrockwell.com/publications/Mimes.Mermaids.pdf) to suggest the following sequence of questions: Question 1: What are the great questions in humanities computing. (We should start with reflection.) Question 2.1 Can machines generate interpretations of texts? Question 2.2: Can machines generate aides to interpretation? At the inaugural meeting of the Text Analysis Developers Alliance (http://tada.mcmaster.ca or http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/) you will see discussion of challenges. I'm not sure who voiced it, but a paradigmatic challenge that wove itself into our conversations was whether a computer could detect irony in literature. At the Digital Tools Summit held at the University of Virginia we identified a set of tool-related challenges including: - Time, Space and Uncertainty (http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/ index.php?title=Time%2C_Space%2C_Uncertainty) - Interpretation (http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php? title=Digital_Tools_Summit_-_Interpretation) - Collaboration (http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php? title=Collaboration) - Exploration of Resources (http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/ index.php?title=Digital_Tools_Summit_-_Exploration_of_Resources) All these suggestions have to do with tools and text analysis. I look forward to reading of other challenges. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell On 14-Mar-06, at 2:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.10 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:41:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 942 (942) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 10 March 14, 2006 - March 20, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: THE EMERGING FUTURE OF COMPLEXITY SCIENCES Offering a meta model that roadmaps the future, Kemal A. Delix, a lab scientist with Hewlett-Packard, and Ralph Dum, a physicist with the European Commission, say that complexity research will never become a single, encompassing theory-of-everything, or an independent discipline. It will thrive at the border between disciplines and in particular by interacting with engineering (thus approaching the "science of the artificial" that Herbert Simon was promoting) and it will surely create several seed technologies. 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Working in a team-based environment, this position will research, evaluate, test and recommend various methodologies, standards, and software used in the creation of digital collections and their long-term preservation; maintain best practice documentation for all areas of digitization; provide expertise to others in the creation of digital collections; participate in grant writing and training initiatives. Qualifications: Required: ALA-accredited master's degree in library or information science or a master's degree in a relevant disciplinary area. Minimum two years of relevant experience in a digital library or digital humanities center or initiative. Demonstrated experience of successfully bringing digital projects in a library or humanities setting to completion. Professional familiarity with current trends in the conversion of analog to digital resources, born-digital resources, as well as the long-term management and preservation of digital objects. 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Preferred: Experience working on open source software projects and tools development; demonstrated experience with PhP, JSP, XSLT, XPath, Schema. Position is appointed to Librarian Faculty ranks. Appointment rank is based on the successful applicant's experience and relevant credentials. For additional information, consult the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/APPSC.doc. Applications: For full consideration, submit cover letter, resume, and names/addresses of three references by April 17, 2006. Applications accepted until position is filled. Send to Jane Williams, Personnel, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011. E-mail to gfernan1_at_umd.edu. Fax: 301-314-9960. UM Libraries' website: http://www.lib.umd.edu. The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA employer. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib_at_umd.edu From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 19.652 a "grand challenge" Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:29:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 944 (944) I think the expression could be used in any field. It would refer a long-standing problem which has not been solved, but for which a solution has been sought by many advanced practioners of the field and for which most practitioners in the field believe there is a solution. Humanities might consider something like decipherment of unknown languages to be a "grand challenge" or the attribution of unknown works of literature or art or the identification of unknown subjects of portraits to be "grand challenges". The field that may have first used the concept may have been mathematics. Great mathematicians have occasionally posed lists of unsolved problems that they consider worthy. In these cases it may be the "grand" refers to the grandness of the mathematician posing the unsolved problems as much as to the problems itself. Certainly art has solved a number of "grand challenges" in its past. The development of "perspective" in artworks, for example, would seem to have been a "grand challenge" whether it was stated or not. That then may be the remaining element of a "grand challenge". It has to be issued by an appropriately distinguished individual or organization to acquire its standing as a challenge. Only individuals or organizations with "grand" status can issue "grand challenges". If a novice asks a question, it does not pose a "grand challenge" From: Stefan Gradmann Subject: Re: 19.652 a "grand challenge" Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:39:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 945 (945) Dear Willard, one of the 'proper homes' of this "grand challenge" phrase in the field of digital humanities of course is the draft ACLS report on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences at http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/acls-ci-public.pdf, which you probably are very familiar with. I personally consider the phrase as problematic - even though I am one of the internationals advisors of the report -, as are other aspects of the report as well, which on the other hand contains quite some *very* useful elements and of course can by no means considered as the 'last word' in the field (and doesn't claim to be that). 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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ________________________________________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: time-line of the Internet Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:29:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 946 (946) For a quite interesting graphical time-line of the Internet, its technologies and their applications, see Richard Giles' blog at http://www.richardgiles.net/blog/archives/2004/10/corporate_blogg.html; the images are also to be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgiles/97090901/in/set-72057594061155746/. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 March 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:30:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 947 (947) Greetings: The March 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This is a special issue on the theme of "Digital Library Evolution" with guest editor, Gregory Crane, Tufts University. The issue contains six articles, a 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'. This month, in conjunction with the special theme of this month's issue, D-Lib features the Perseus Digital Library 19th-Century American Collection. The articles include: What Do You Do with a Million Books? Gregory Crane, Tufts University Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Wolfgang Schibel, University of Mannheim, and Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, University of Missouri - Kansas City From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections Daniel J. Cohen, George Mason University Document Recognition for a Million Books G. Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro, Robert Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Droettboom, Hillcrest Labs; and Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University Debabelizing Libraries: Machine Translation by and for Digital Collections David A. Smith, Johns Hopkins University Text, Information, Knowledge and the Evolving Record of Humanity Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University The Conference Report is: WebWise 2006 Inspiring Discovery - Unlocking Collections: Conference Report Stuart L. Weibel, OCLC Research From: "Brian Opie" Subject: topic maps Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:41:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 948 (948) The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, which is the publisher of an electronic edition (work in progress) of New Zealand's first poet, William Golder, is now using a topic map to store and map relationships among the data it derives from the texts it has digitised. Currently this topic map covers mostly simple bibliographic concepts: works, divisions of a work, authorship, publication, and the like. For this it uses an ontology derived in part from the CIDOC CRM ( http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/ ). For the purposes of literary criticism, an entirely new set of relationships, as well as entities to relate, is required. A snippet of text may exemplify the author's treatment of a particular concept, or show the influence of one or more other authors, works, moods or the like. Has anyone formalised a set of these entities and relationships, in a way that will facilitate interpretation and is amenable to use in a topic map? Brian Opie Dr Brian Opie School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600 Wellington New Zealand tel. 64 4 463 6812 fax. 64 4 463 5148 From: Neven =?iso-8859-2?Q?Jovanovi=E6?= Subject: Melville's fluid text edition Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:45:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 949 (949) Dear all, has anyone been using, or exploring, the "Herman Melville's Typee: Fluid Text Edition" by John Bryant (http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8100/melville/default.xqy; "access to it [must be bought] at rates that range from $195 for an independent scholar to $545 for a university library" --- Jennifer Howard, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 17, 2006: http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=b8s1y8jt41x698bs783ltrft36w8mnpz)? What do you think about it? Neven From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca Subject: TCC 2006 ONLINE CONFERENCE, April 18-20, 2006 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:36:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 950 (950) TCC 2006 ONLINE CONFERENCE, April 18-20, 2006: Now Open for Registration Voyaging into a new decade! TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 18-20, 2006 Pre-Conference Dates: April 4-6, 2006 "TECHNOLOGY REMIX: WHAT DO STUDENTS SAY?" Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu The TCC voyage continues. Over the past 10 years, much has changed, and some things have not. Where will we go in the next ten, how will we employ technology and address change, and most importantly, how will students benefit from all of this? Students are increasingly proficient in using online technologies and will require little further IT training in college. They will demand greater use of technology in teaching and learning. Educators must increasingly use technology to gain their attention and accommodate their learning styles and preferences. (ECAR, Students and Information Technology, 2005) Blogs, wikis, taggin', mp3 players, online music, podcasts, AJAX, to name a few, have evolved considerably in the past year. Companies have incorporated blog watching into their PR and marketing operations. Universities are providing open content. Programmers are producing open source software. How can educators benefit from these changes? What is the new remix among students, technology and learning? What do students say? THEME. TCC 2006 will present papers and presentations that explore this remix of new information sources and emerging technologies as it impacts the learner in colleges and universities worldwide. Topics may include the usees and benefits of information technology for student learning in areas such as: * Online, hybrid, or blended learning * Distance learning and mobile learning * Student orientation and preparation * Factors that lead to student success * Implementing technology in learning centered environments * E-portfolios and other online assessment tools * Emerging technologies for teaching and learning (blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc) * Open content and open source * Multimedia resources and delivery * Building and sustaining learning communities * Using technology to enhance communication between faculty and students * Online student services (tutoring, advising, payments, etc) * Facilitating institutional change with technology * Professional development for faculty and staff * Global learning or international education * Gender equity, the Digital Divide, and access for everyone * Educational technology use in Asia & the Pacific, Europe, South America, and Africa. TCC or "Technology, Colleges and Community" is a worldwide conference conducted entirely online. It is designed for university and college practitioners to share expertise, experiences and knowledge relevant to the use of information technology in learning, teaching as well as related academic services to university and college students worldwide. You may participate from the comfort of your home, office or anywhere you happen to be. Broadband access is recommended but not required. KEYNOTE PRESENTERS Jill Walker, Department of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway Tim Lauer, Principal, Meriwether Lewis, Elementary School, Portland, OR USA Will Richardson, Webblog-ed and Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications, Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington, NJ USA. REGISTRATION For registration or to view a tentative schedule and list of presentations see the conference homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Multimedia Systems 11.3 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:44:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 951 (951) Volume 11 Number 3 of Multimedia Systems is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Introduction to multimedia system technologies for educational tools p. 201 Scott Acton, Fumio Kishino, Ryohei Nakatsu, Jinshan Tang, Matthias Rauterberg DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0001-1 Regular Paper Towards integrating semantics of multi-media resources and processes in e-Learning p. 203 Weihong Huang, Emmanuel Eze, David Webster DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0009-6 Regular Paper Poster3D: a system for three-dimensional authoring and presentation in immersive virtual environments p. 216 Noritaka Osawa, Sangtae Kim DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0002-0 Regular Paper Context aware guidance for multimedia authoring: harmonizing domain and discourse knowledge p. 226 Kateryna Falkovych, Frank Nack DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0003-z Regular Paper Multimedia displays for conceptual discovery: information seeking with strand maps p. 236 Kirsten R. Butcher, Sonal Bhushan, Tamara Sumner DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0004-y Regular Paper Content-based adaptive compression of educational videos using phase correlation techniques p. 249 Ankush Mittal, Sumit Gupta, Sourabh Jain, Ankur Jain DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0022-4 Regular Paper An object-based image retrieval system for digital libraries p. 260 Sridhar R. Avula, Jinshan Tang, Scott T. Acton DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0010-8 Regular Paper Perceived quality of multimedia educational content: A cognitive style approach p. 271 Gheorghita Ghinea, Sherry Y. Chen DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0007-8 Regular Paper Tunes on the table p. 280 Rodney Berry, Mao Makino, Naoto Hikawa, Masami Suzuki, Naomi Inoue DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0008-7 Regular Paper A platform for virtual collaboration spaces and educational communities: the case of EVE p. 290 Ch. Bouras, E. Giannaka, A. Panagopoulos, Th. Tsiatsos DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0005-x Regular Paper Forms and theories of communication: from multimedia to Kansei Mediation p. 304 Ryohei Nakatsu, Matthias Rauterberg, Ben Salem DOI: 10.1007/s00530-005-0006-9 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: nominations for The Best of Technology Writing 2006 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:32:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 952 (952) The University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library are collaborating to produce The Best of Technology Writing 2006. This is the first book in digitalculturebooks, a collaborative series of online and print publications in the area of contemporary media and communication studies. Taking a cue from the open-source movement, we're asking readers to nominate their favorite tech-oriented articles, essays, and blog posts from the previous year. The competition is open to any and every technology topic--biotech, information technology, gadgetry, tech policy, Silicon Valley, and software engineering are all fair game. But the pieces that have the best chances of inclusion in the anthology will conform to these three simple guidelines: 1. They'll be engagingly written for a mass audience; if the article requires a doctorate to appreciate, it's probably not up our alley. Preference will be given to narrative features and profiles, "Big Think" op-eds that make sense, investigative journalism, sharp art and design criticism, intelligent policy analysis, and heartfelt personal essays. 2. They'll be no longer than 5,000 words. 3. They'll explore how technological progress is reshaping our world. Other Info -- Nominations must have been published between January and December, 2005. -- The deadline for submissions is 3.31.06. -- The Best of Technology 2006 will be published in Fall 2006 by digitalculturebooks, a new imprint of the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library and the University of Michigan Press. -- It will be available in book form and on-line. -- The Best of Technology Writing 2006 will include an introduction by award-winning journalist Brendan I. Koerner. Koerner is a contributing editor for Wired, a columnist for both The New York Times and Slate, and a fellow at the New America Foundation. His first book will be published by Henry Holt & Company in 2008. Please submit your nominations at http://www.digitalculture.org. We'd like the nomination process to be as broad as possible, so please share this information with interested friends and colleagues. Questions about the nomination process should be directed to digital-culture_at_umich.edu. Thanks in advance for any help you can give us in terms of nominations and spreading the word. Maria S. Bonn Director, Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan, University Library From: "Princeton University LISTSERV Subject: NEH Fellowships, 2006-2007 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:33:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 953 (953) NEH Fellowships, 2006-2007 Application Deadline: May 1, 2006 The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the competition for Fellowships for 2006-2007. These Fellowships provide opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced research in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges or universities or of primary or secondary schools. Scholars and writers working independently, in institutions such as museums, libraries, and historical associations, or in institutions with no connection to the humanities, also are eligible to apply. NEH Fellowships projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public understanding of the humanities. Award recipients usually produce scholarly articles, a book-length treatment of a broad topic, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, databases, or some other scholarly tool. TENURE AND STIPENDS: Fellowship tenure is six months to one year. A stipend of $40,000 will be awarded to those holding fellowships for nine months to twelve months. A stipend of $24,000 will be awarded to those holding fellowships for six months to eight months. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants should be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Persons seeking support for work leading to a degree are not eligible to apply, nor are active candidates for degrees. Those who have successfully defended their dissertations and are waiting for the diploma are eligible if they submit a letter from the dean of the school attesting to that fact. APPLICATION FORMS AND INFORMATION: are available at <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html> Telephone: 202-606-8200 E-mail inquiries: fellowships_at_neh.gov From: "Vika Zafrin" Subject: Call for Participation: Virtual Humanities Lab Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:36:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 954 (954) Dear colleague / Caro collega, Please pass this on to interested students and peers working in Italian Studies, medieval history and any other related fields. La preghiamo di distribuire questo annuncio agli studenti, dottorandi e colleghi potenzialmente interessati. N.B.: La versione italiana di questo annuncio segue quella inglese. -Massimo Riva, VHL Principal Investigator Vika Zafrin, VHL Project Director ===== The Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL) at Brown University is seeking online collaborators to participate in verifying indexes generated from Giovanni Boccaccio's Esposizioni sopra la Comedìa di Dante and Giovanni Villani's Cronica Fiorentina. Participants may be qualified graduate and undergraduate students and/or their instructors. Reading knowledge of Italian and the desire to do some literary/historical research is required. Group work as well as individual work is welcomed. Participation in this endeavor, while rewarding in itself, also provides excellent training in the fields of medieval Italian studies, history, humanities computing and philology. Further information is available at: http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/help/guidelines_indexing.pdf General information about the project, as well as its texts and indexes, can be accessed from http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/ We hope you will join us in this exciting venture. ===== Il Laboratorio per le Scienze Umane Virtuali (Virtual Humanities Lab) della Brown University ricerca collaboratori a distanza (dottorandi, ricercatori o docenti) disponibili a verificare l'accuratezza degli indici dei seguenti testi generati su codifica xml: Giovanni Boccaccio, Esposizioni sopra la Comedìa di Dante; Giovanni Villani, Cronica Fiorentina. Si offre la possibilità di contribuire attivamente ad una comunità di formazione e ricerca, all'intersezione degli studi storico-filologico-letterari e dell'informatica umanistica. Per ulteriori informazioni sul progetto: http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/ http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/help/guidelines_indexing.pdf -- 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: gtaylor_at_english.fsu.edu Subject: Humanities computing job advertisement Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:44:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 955 (955) As part of a cluster of senior hires in the history of text technologies, we are seeking a specialist in humanities computing and new technology approaches to the study of English literary texts. Salaries competitive at both the national and international level. Ph.D. required. Although we would prefer to appoint at the level of tenured associate professor, we will consider qualified applicants at any rank. Normally tenure requires one published book, but "book" may be defined unconventionally in this case. Preference will be given to candidates who specialize in medieval or early modern texts, but given the small candidate pool we will happily consider applicants who work in any field of literature in English (including applicants interested in the impact of other languages and literatures upon English). The English department already hosts several journals, and has recently hired several specialists in new technologies; we already have a certificate program in Editing and Publishing, and are building a new interdisciplinary doctoral program in the transnational History of Text Technologies. The search will begin immediately and continue until the post is filled. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. Please email applications or enquiries, including a c.v. and the email addresses of at least three references, to Professor Gary Taylor, gtaylor_at_english.fsu.edu Dr. Gary Taylor George Matthew Edgar Professor of English Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580 Fax: (850)644-0811 Office: (850)645-6474 Home: (850)339-4134 (cell) gtaylor_at_english.fsu.edu From: Jerome McGann Subject: research scientist for the NINES Project (Virginia) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:47:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 956 (956) The University of Virginia's Department of Media Studies is seeking applications for a Research Scientist with a doctoral degree in English Literature and demonstrated proficiency in humanities computing, including prior postdoctoral experience in software design for research and pedagogy and a record of publication and presentation in humanities computing fields. The position requires theoretical and practical application of specialized knowledge in the areas of interface design, social software, textual editing and bibliography, and the design and use of new media such as electronic games for teaching and research. The ideal candidate will be familiar with Open Archives and NINES approaches to the aggregation and presentation of online resources. Practical experience as a user of ARP tools Juxta, IVANHOE, and Collex is crucial. Experience in online editing and in designing interfaces for digital archives would be helpful, as would familiarity with the field of nineteenth-century literature, British or American. The Research Scientist will be primarily responsible for ongoing design direction and implementation of ARP's Collex project, and will collaborate in continuing technical planning and design for NINES, Juxta, and IVANHOE. This will require familiarity with Java, Ruby on Rails, RDF and semantic web technologies, TEI markup, XML/XSLT, and CSS. In addition, the Research Scientist will conduct original research in folksonomy, faceted browsing, and social software and direct the work a dedicated programmer on the Collex and NINES projects. The Research Scientist will produce technical reports, white papers, and software demos and be responsible for communicating ARP's findings and products to the scholarly community. This includes design and maintenance of ARP's web presence. Finally, the Research Scientist will be called on to teach digital editing and the design of online archives to humanities faculty in summer workshops. Desirable start date for the position is 1 June 2006. For more information about the projects and work involved, please visit our website at www.nines.org. Inquiries can be directed to: jjm2f_at_virginia.edu. Review of applications begins 8 April 2006 and will continue until the position is filled. Please send a letter of application detailing scholarly, teaching, and administrative accomplishments; full CV; and names of at least three references to: Professor Jerome McGann, The Rossetti Archive, Alderman Library 529, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22904. EOAA Statement for Organization The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. A demonstrated commitment to issues of diversity in pedagogy and scholarship is integral to the vision of the Media Studies Program. Therefore the search committee particularly welcomes applications from women, ethnic minorities, and other underrepresented groups. From: "Paul Spence" Subject: New jobs at CCH, King's College London Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:48:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 957 (957) ** Apologies for Cross Posting ** Two jobs in the XML team at CCH, King's College London The Centre for Computing in the Humanities is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. In its latter capacity, it is involved as technical research partner in a wide range of humanities projects that draw on a number of different technologies. In many of these, the underlying data is stored primarily in XML and then published electronically via the World Wide Web. It is often necessary to produce print editions from the source data, or to merge XML data with image-based or database materials. CCH is seeking applicants for the following positions within this activity: ------------------------------------------------- 1. Research Fellow, XML Publication Strategies Full-time, 12 months Closing date for applications: 11 April 2006 Reference: W2/AAV/25/06 The successful candidate to this position would be required to analyse collections of richly tagged XML documents; to design, write and modify programs to search, query, retrieve and display them; and to collaborate in the creation of integrated HTML-based interfaces to publish them. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is essential, as is familiarity with standards-compliant HTML/XHTML and CSS. Awareness of emerging XML technologies (XSLT 2.0, XQuery and Schemas) is highly desirable. Proven experience in creating dynamic XML-based applications using technologies such as Cocoon would be a *significant* advantage. We are looking for someone with a proven ability to learn programming skills quickly, who can work both independently and within a team environment. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. Experience in any or all of the following areas would be useful: Web design and programming technologies (Java, Javascript); high-level programming languages for text manipulation (especially Perl); database programming (SQL); Unix/Linux systems, shell programming; editors and text utilities; management of digitised images. This appointment is on the RFII scale, currently ranging from =A327,929 to =A336,959 per annum plus of =A32,323 London Allowance. ------------------------------------------------- 2. Project Research Officer Full-time, 6 months Closing date for applications: 28 March 2006 Reference: W1/AAV/24/06 CCH is looking for someone to assist with the technical development work in research projects. We are looking for someone with experience of editing XML; experience in marking up documents using the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines; and with XSLT programming. Also, a thorough grounding in developing well-structured web sites, being proficient in HTML and XHTML. The successful candidate will have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences, and of working with a multi-skilled technical development team. She/he will be working as part of the CCH project group, and will need to be able to work effectively as part of the team, as well as independently. She/he must have a bachelor degree in an appropriate discipline, and a postgraduate or specialist qualification is desirable. This appointment is on the RA1A scale, currently ranging from =A320,044 to =A330,002 per annum plus of =A32,323 London Allowance. ------------------------------------------------- For further details and application forms please see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex =3D4096 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex =3D4095 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Virtual Piazzas (Piazzi?) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:48:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 958 (958) ***Also posted to dm-l_at_uleth.ca*** At Kalamazoo last year, I heard a discussion of a project that was planning to use an virtual commons--i.e. a place where users could contribute to the development of the project through shared annotation, textual development, and the like (I think they actually described it as a piazza. As I understood the idea, and in discussion at the Digital Medievalist business meeting a couple of people mentioned similar proposal, the idea was to build what we might now think of as adding wiki-like capabilities to a larger, unified, scholarly project. Does anybody know of any scholarly projects that have actually implemented such virtual piazza-type interaction? I'm interested in projects that allows arbitrary users to contribute to the content, either with or without refereeing. -d -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor and Acting Chair Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 :@caedmon/ubuntu From: David Sewell Subject: Re: Melville's fluid text edition? Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:45:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 959 (959) Neven Jovanovic asks in HUMANIST Vol. 19, No. 663: [deleted quotation]As a member of the team responsible for mounting John Bryant's edition, I can't very well respond to the last question, but would just note a couple of things: * The URL given in the CHRONICLE piece is obsolete. The one above will work, or simply go to http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ for access to the digital publications. * If anyone discovers problems or outright errors/bugs, please send me a note directly (dsewell_at_virginia.edu), and depending on whether it's a technical or a substantive issue, we'll address it at the Press or forward it to the editor. Finally, this might be a good time to as HUMANIST subscribers to weigh in on a more general issue that I hear lurking behind the phrase "[must be bought]", namely, the economics of scholarly publishing on the Internet. Traditionally, most scholarship available on the Web, apart from online journals, has been freely available. The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (www.iath.virginia.edu), for example, has been distributing scholarly projects this way for over a decade. On the other hand, UVa Press's Electronic Imprint grew from a grant proposal co-authored by IATH pioneer John Unsworth, who believed that for digital scholarship to thrive it would need a sound business model, and part of EI's mission has been to explore such models. Consider that a roundabout way of saying "I, too, wish our stuff could be free (as in 'free beer')"; but I'd note that behind the "Typee" edition lies not only John Bryant's years of work with the manuscript, but also roughly six months of full-time work by programmers and editors, or (conservatively) about 2-3 times as much investment as one would expect for an equivalent printed book. (And to the extent that digital scholarly projects are unique, they do not lead to much in the way of economy of scale as more are added; that is one reason why Rotunda has decided to focus on digital editions of existing print documentary editions, because the wheel doesn't have to be reinvented every time a new project is added.) DS -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press From: Ken Friedman Subject: amazon.com does text-statistics Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:51:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 960 (960) Ideas & Trends Book, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Words Article Tools By NOAM COHEN Published: March 19, 2006, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/weekinreview/19cohen.html WHO would compare "The Story of Babar" to the prize-winning novel "Everything Is Illuminated"? Who would call James Joyce's "Ulysses," the bane of many an undergrad, a work for a seventh grader? With the aid of software at Amazon.com known as Text Stats, anyone can make such comparisons, which are based on the crudest sort of computer analysis of a book: how many big words there are, and how long the sentences run. Such simple statistical scrutiny has been around for decades - used to determine a book's appropriateness for a certain grade level, among other things. But software like Amazon's automates the process, and the Internet lets anyone see the results. To what end? ask some literary scholars, who see such techniques as little more than superficial gimmicks. But others say they are a tool to gain insight into the authorship of and influences on a text, whether the work of Bob Dylan, Shakespeare or your average high school student. When Amazon gets the right from a publisher to let readers "search inside" a book, Text Stats tallies the average length of a sentence and amasses little piles for each word used. (Or big piles, as in the case of the King James Bible, for example, where the count for "loin" is 1,548; "behold," 1,426; and "lord" 7,082.) The software then ranks a book for clarity and ease of reading on a variety of indexes. For example, "The Story of Babar" has a Flesch-Kincaid Index score of 6.1 (sixth-grade level), the same as "Everything Is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Their "fogginess" quotients, an index similar to Flesch-Kincaid, are very close, too, though the Foer book is slightly less clear - 8 percent of its words are "complex," compared with 7 percent for "Babar." Text Stats also produces concordances, lists of the 100 most-used words in a book. It is no surprise that the ratings made by computers, and the connections between books that they reveal, are often bizarre, since the software is not concerned with meaning and context and is unaffected by subjective factors like author reputation. "It's machine reading; it is the kind of reading no one person can do," said Ben Marcus, director of the graduate fiction program at Columbia University and a novelist whose works are not accessible to Amazon's computers. "I think it is really fascinating, anything that takes us closer to a text, that makes us aware that it is put together to create an illusion." The flaw is obvious, too. "The computer doesn't recognize how sentences relate to each other," he said. "Gertrude Stein or Beckett may write in elementary sentences, but they take such huge leaps between them." But that thickheadedness can be useful, some scholars say. In "Alice in Wonderland," for example, a statistical study can "place this text against a large collection of 19th-century fiction to see which other works it resembles on a stylistic basis - what genre does it fit best, judging, say, from patterns of use of very common words?" Hugh Craig, who teaches at the University of Newcastle in Australia, wrote in an e-mail message. "But it would be essential to do the reading and analysis in the normal way as well, to see what it is that makes the patterns." Richard Abrams of the University of Southern Maine said that he could get the big picture of a writer from statistical analysis. In preparing for a seminar on Mr. Dylan's lyrics, he said, he found it useful to consult a concordance of the 10 most used words in the lyrics, which included, he said, "babe" and "dark." "For someone who had Dylan on the brain, there was an absolute sense of familiarity," he said. "You knew you were looking at a Dylan favorite word list, it showed Dylan as a Romantic." Still, statistical analysis like this can bring to mind the reported critique of Mozart by the Austrian emperor Josef II: "too many notes." Helen Vendler, the Shakespeare critic at Harvard, had not heard of Text Stats but speculated that "people will get bored by it - especially if it insults your intelligence by saying 'Ulysses' is at seventh-grade level." Likewise, she said a "concordance is not particularly interesting reading." Amazon says it likes Text Stats because it keeps readers at the site longer comparing and contrasting books. "It is definitely a feature that we view as having a 'sticky' aspect," said Brian Williams, the senior product manager in charge of the Text Stats functions at Amazon. Mr. Williams said he had heard complaints about the rating of "Ulysses" but explained that Text Stats was "just one tool." He said he had read blog postings from authors discussing their score, always tongue and cheek. "It should be tongue and cheek," he said. From: Elli Mylonas Subject: It's back! E-fest 2006-this week! Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:16:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 961 (961) This is an annual event, and great fun to attend. On March 22 and 23, the Brown University Literary Arts Program will present E-Fest 2006, a celebration of new digital literary art. There will be showbizz-style performances of new work each night, starting promptly at 8 p.m., in the McCormack Family Theater at 70 Brown St. (entrance off Fones Alley, across from the Literary Arts building), and symposia all day Thursday in the McKinney Conference Room of the Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer St. Among the literary hypermedia artists performing are Stuart Moulthrop, Judd Morrissey, Aya Karpinska, Rob Kendall, Scott Rettberg, Nick Montfort, Jim Carpenter, Braxton Soderman, and others. Most of the performers are also participating in the Thursday panels, along with Wendy Chun, George Landow, Lutz Hamel, Gale Nelson, Edrex Fontanilla, and Mike Magee. Symposia topics: 10 a.m. Memory and Real Time. 2 p.m. Noulipo: Recombinant Poetics. 3:45 p.m.: The Game of Fiction. Visit the website at http://www.arras.net/brown_efest_2006/. All events are free and open to the public. Robert Coover Program in Literary Arts - Box 1923 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401.863.1152 For information about Brown's E-Fest 2006, 22-23 March, see: http://www.arras.net/brown_efest_2006/ From: "Bernard Merialdo" Subject: Symposium on Digital Semantic Content across Cultures Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:52:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 962 (962) Paris, 4-5 May, 2006 Symposium on Digital Semantic Content across Cultures C2RMF, le Louvre, Paris, France 4-5 May, 2006 Symposium Overview The objective of the seminar is to discuss the digitalization, archiving, and retrieval of our cultural heritage in all its forms, to deal with the development of methods of compilation and indexation, and to present, in the form of illustrative examples, cultural and recreational services available to citizens (and consumers) including access to contents in different languages from foreign cultures. The symposium is intended for researchers, practioners, and students on culture domains, museums, archives, libraries, and information and communication technologies (ICT). In particular, research, applications, and directions for future co-operation between French and Finnish cultural organizations, research groups, and companies in the field of cultural content and ICT will be discussed. Programme The symposium programme is available at the following address: http://www.seco.tkk.fi/events/2006/2006-05-04-websemantique/ProgrammeWebSem2 006-03-13.pdf Registration The registration application is available at: https://www.seco.tkk.fi/events/2006/2006-05-04-websemantique/enrollment/ Registration is free, but seats are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Summer School: Neural Networks Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:22:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 963 (963) in Classification, Regression and Data Mining SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006 NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 3-7, 2006, ISEP - Porto, Portugal http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2006@isep.ipp.pt GENERAL INFORMATION The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (PROVISIONAL) • Carlos Soares (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economy, University of Porto, Portugal) • Christopher Bishop (Professor, Assistant Director, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K.) • Danilo Mandic (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, U.K.) • Fernando Sereno (Adjunct Professor, School of Education, Porto Polythecnic Institute, Portugal) • Joaquim Marques de Sá (Associate Professor, Dept. Electr. and Comp. Engineering, Fac. of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal) • Luís Alexandre (Assistant Professor, Beira Interior University, Portugal) • Mark Embrecht (Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI Troy, New York, U.S.A.) • Noelia Sánchez Maroño (Assistant Professor, Coruna University, Spain) • Paulo Cortez (Assistant Professor, University of Minho, Portugal) • Robert Legenstein (Assistant Professor, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria) • Steve Gunn (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, U.K.) COURSE CONTENTS Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely Spiking Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Modular Neural Networks and Data Mining using NN. Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. Official language is English. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are available at the school webpage (http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt) IMPORTANT DEADLINES Early Registration: 15 May 2006 Hotel booking: 15 June 2006 Summer School: 3-7 July 2006 All participants are required to register prior to the start of the School - until the June 15 - even if you choose to pay the late registration fee at the registration desk. Please note that only a LIMITED number of participants can be accepted. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: reflections on the academic life Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:38:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 964 (964) Many here, I suspect, will enjoy the following introductory remarks to Ellsworth Faris' survey of "the history of reflective thinking on the subject of personality", in "Of Psychological Elements", The American Journal of Sociology 42.2 (September 1936): 159-76. Reading this is for me part of an exercise to enlarge the context into which Jerry Fodor's The Modularity of Mind (MIT Press, 1983) is set, and Fodor's little book is in turn part of the context for the intersection of cognitive science and computing. In any case, the following may be useful and enjoyable to you. (As to its language, note the date of composition.) [deleted quotation]For those interested in the main subject of the article, I can recommend it highly -- although on the subject of faculty psychology (Fodor's area), it blurs over separable takes on this ancient idea, which, as Fodor argues, deserves rescuing. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "information" in communications theory and in philosophy Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:43:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 965 (965) Those here for whom the idea of information is of interest will likely want to read the following article: Fred Dretske, "The explanatory role of information", Philosophical Transactions: Physical Sciences and Engineering, vol 349, no 1689, special issue entitled "Artificial Intelligence and the Mind: New Breakthroughs or Dead Ends?" (15 October 1994): 59-70 [in JSTOR]. Dretske's brilliant exposition is followed by snippets of discussion involving Andy Clark, Yorick Wilks, Daniel Dennett, R. Chrisley and L. J. Cohen. Of everything I have seen so far (an important qualification), this provides the clearest explanation of the concept of information in communications theory and the only philosophical bridge between the technical sense of this term and issues in the philosophy of mind directly relevant to humanities computing. I would be most grateful to know about other writings of this kind. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ubiquity7.11 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:45:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 966 (966) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 11 March 21, 2006 - March 27,2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: KAK ON QUANTUM COMPUTERS, ANDERSEN ON MATHEMATICS IN HIGH SCHOOL KAK: ON THE REALIZABILITY OF QUANTUM COMPUTERS When we go from single and entangled pairs of particles to groups of particles as in various methods of quantum computing, the question of the physical realizability of the mathematical model become a serious issue. The issue of realizability is the focus of this paper by Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University.http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i11_quantumcomputers.html ANDERSEN: WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE MATH IN HIGH SCHOOL An article by Espen Andersen of the Norwegian School of Management encourages students to choose math as a major subject in high school -- not just in preparation for higher education but because having math up to maximum high school level is important in all walks of life. The article has already appeared in Aftenposten, a large Norwegian newspaper, and has been widely praised in Europe. See http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i11_math.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 11 (March 21, 2006 - March 27, 2006) From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.670 reflections on the academic life Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:44:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 967 (967) Willard, your note reminds me of a famous passage in To the Lighthouse, where Woolf's Mr Ramsay is comporting the history of metaphysics, and his own place in it, to traversing the alphabet: ".... if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like the alphabet is ranged in twenty-six letters all in order, then his splendid mind had one by one, firmly and accurately, until it had reached, say, the letter Q. He reached Q. Very few people in the whole of England ever reach Q.... ....But after Q? What comes next? After Q there are a number of letters the last of which is scarcely visible to mortal eyes, but glimmers red in the distance. Z is only reached once by one man in a generation. Still, if he could reach R it would be something. Here at least was Q. He dug his heels in at Q. Q he was sure of. Q he could demonstrate. If Q then is Q--R--." Needless to say, he never gets to R. From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 19.673 new on WWW: Ubiquity 7.11 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 968 (968) On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]You should take math in high school because it is the only subject in which a student can visibly and demonstrably defeat the instructor when there are differences of opinion, simply because you can PROVE you are right. Do not get me wrong here, not all instructors, even at advanced university levels, are willing to admit you are right, even when you write a proof out for all to see and they cannot poke a hole in it. However, math is the first place you can usually demonstrate instructors in schools are often wrong, it's just that you can rarely, if ever, win, where the "soft subject" are concerned, there is too much subjectivity. As much as instructors tell you they want you to be better at subjects than they are, they still freak out and get defensive when you do it. Just look at Einstein for a 100 year old example, and Craig Venter for more current events. [DNA] Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg From: Willard McCarty Subject: Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:45:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 969 (969) SUBJECT: CaSTA 2006 paper deadline now April 7, 2006 The deadline for submitting papers for review to the 2006 Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) conference has been extended to April 7, 2006. CaSTA 2006 will be held at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, and promises to be an exciting event with five invited speakers, four pre-conference workshops and interesting papers discussing the interdisciplinary nature of text analysis research. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to submit a paper on one of the following (or related) areas: .Text analysis from a Humanities Computing perspective .Interface Design and usability issues .Applying Computer Science research to textual questions The CaSTA Program Committee invites submissions that focus on the ways in which researchers mine, manipulate and use electronic texts, where "texts" are understood in a broad sense to extend to and include multimedia. The complete call for papers and submission guidelines are at http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/ Co-sponsors include the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Society for Digital Humanities and the Association for Computing Machinery (in cooperation). It would be much appreciated if you could forward this message on to others you think might be interested in submitting a paper to CaSTA 2006. Regards, Brad Nickerson CaSTA 2006 Co-Chair -- ***************************************** Susan Oliver Program Coordinator - CaSTA 2006 UNB Libraries PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Phone: (506) 452-6103 Fax: (506) 453-4595 email: suoliver_at_unb.ca ****************************************** Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Cristina Vertan Subject: Reminder: Ontology modelling in humanities- Final Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:46:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 970 (970) Programme and Registration *** apologize for multiple postings **** International Workshop "ONTOLOGY BASED MODELLING IN THE HUMANITIES" 7-9 April 2006, University of Hamburg http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/OntologyWorkshop **** REGISTRATION POSSIBLE UNTIL 30.03.2005 ****** In the new area of digitalized information, researchers from the humanities face a new problem: semantic data organisation. In contrast with the data processed by natural sciences, the material in most fields of humanities is mostly unstructured. The structuring of such data is a complex problem that can be solved only by formal models and languages from computer science. However the application of formal models from formal sciences (especially computing) is itself a scientific problem as humanists have their own scientific culture not only in the argumentation and meta-theories but also in their way of communication. With the development of the Semantic Web the ?ontology?-concept became an important ?key? for data-structuring. Some ontologies were developed also in the Humanities, but there is still no overview of what exists, which standards are used and how well the current ontologies meet the users requirements. Final Programme (http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/SeSion1) =============== Friday 07.04.2006 Sesion 1: Ontologies in the Humanities * 11:00-11:30 Robert C. Kahlert, Jennifer Sullivan, "Ontologies: A wishlist for the humanities" * 11:30 - 12:00 Tobias Blanke, Stuart Dunn, "Mindshare and ontologies-eScience in the Humanities" * 12:00 - 12:30 Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh, Kalina Sotirova, "Digital Multiculture in Practice" Student Session * 15:30 - 16:00 - Natalia Burciu, "Ontology of legal terms" * 16:00 -16:30 - Ivona Profire, "RDF and Topic Maps" Saturday 08.04.2006 Sesion 2: Application of Ontologies in humanities * 10:30 - 11:00 - Andrea d'Andrea , "A preliminary Ontology-based model applied to the descriptive/interpretative of archaeological excavation" * 11:00 - 11:30 - Paolo de Luca, Federica Dentamaro et.al., "An approach for the re-usability of cultural heritage knowledge - towards a CORE ontology Sesion 3: Formal models * 11:30 -12:00 - Robert C. Kahlert, Jenifer Sullivan, "Microtheories" * 12:00 - 12:30 - Cristina Vertan, "Modelling Ontologies with OWL" Sesion 4: Lexicons and Ontologies * 14:00 - 14:30 - Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, "Ontology-based Lexicon and Semantic Annotation" * 14:30 - 15:00 - Serge Yablonsky, "Russioan Computational Lexicon: from Wordnet to Ontology" * 15:00 -15:30 - Cristina Vertan, Walther v. Hahn, "Multilingual issues in ontology design" ==================== Organisers Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg) Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) Invited Speakers: Marin Doerr, (FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete) Nicola Guarino (ITC, Tento, Italy) We welcome participation of researchers from all fields related with the topic of the Workshop. -- 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: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.676 the advantages of studying mathematics Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:39:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 971 (971) OK -- This quote shows a lack of business math skills. "Choose math because you will make more money. Winners of American Idol and other "celebrities" may make money, but only a tiny number of people have enough celebrity to make money, and most of them get stale after a few years. Then it is back to school, or to less rewarding careers ("Would you like fries with that?"). If you skip auditions and the sports channels and instead do your homework -- especially math -- you can go on to get an education that will get you a well-paid job. Much more than what pop singers and sports stars make -- perhaps not right away, but certainly if you look at averages and calculate it over a lifetime." I've heard this argument used by supporters of the NHL (ice) hockey players to justify their high wages. The argument goes, "since they have such a short period of time to make money, they have to get a whole wack of money as early as possible." Well, if you do the math and follow future value formulas, having 10 million right away, is much, much, MUCH better than having 10 million over 20 years. Thus, even if the American Idol winner bombs out after 5 years, he/she will still be doing better than your average Mathematician who has to work his/her life away until retirement. This is a nit-pick of course, considering a) most of us are not talented/attractive/self-loathing enough to be American Idol winners and b) music talent is helped immensely by a knowledge of mathematics. Ryan (practising his vocal chords). . . Ryan Deschamps From: Willard McCarty Subject: mathematics and us Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:44:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 972 (972) Frustration might be defined as not being able to have or to do what you desire to have or do. I've found mathematics frustrating because I fell in love with it at an early age, worked hard enough at it to be encouraged in some quite substantial ways, but on meeting a real mathematician, first when I was 16 (he was 15, and the focus of much attention from nearby professors), then another some years later as an undergraduate (he was the same age, able to do at the speed of writing what took me all week), I realized that my road would never go there, no matter how hard I tried. But now, in a wrestling match with computing, I've found that having some appreciation of mathematics is really unavoidable -- but also that there are mathematicians out there who spend no little effort in writing about their passion for the likes of me. One of these, as perhaps I've said before, is Solomon Feferman (Stanford), whose papers can be downloaded. (May all of us specialists be like him in this regard at least.) C. W. Kilmister's little book, Language, Logic and Mathematics (English Universities Press, 1967), is very helpful, though its road does get steep after a bit. A much more recent attempt in a worthy OUP series, Very Short Introductions, is Timothy Gowers' Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction. It entices me from a nearby bookshelf, but I have yet to read it. And then there's Richard Hamming, more of an engineer, I suppose, but with a profound understanding of maths. His paper, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics", American Mathematical Monthly 87.2 (Feb 1980): 81-90, available via JSTOR -- what does one say? Should be required reading? Yes, it should, but that doesn't express the joy and exhiliration from reading it. I was led to Hamming by Mike Mahoney, historian of technology and of computing at Princeton, who is at home with mathematics and whose papers help build a bridge for us between humanities computing and mathematics. A remark by Northrop Frye many years ago, that mathematics is the imaginative language of the natural sciences as poetry is of the humanities, eventually got me to go looking for a comprehensible expression of the mathematical imagination, hence to David Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vossen, Geometry and the Imagination (Anschauliche Geometrie). You may be familiar with how mathematicians use the word "beautiful". This is a beautiful book. Below I reproduce a brief parable told by Edsger Dijkstra, one of the greats in computer science, which in his typical style helps to make the distinction between how programmers think and how mathematicians think. And this helps in turn make the point that although computing and mathematics are closely related, computing has grown from its roots in a rather different direction. Yours, WM A Parable Edsger W.Dijkstra, sometime in 1973 from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd05xx/EWD594.PDF Years ago a railway company was erected and one of its directors -- probably the commercial bloke -- discovered that the initial investments could be reduced significantly if only fifty percent of the cars would be equipped with a toilet, and, therefore, so was decided. Shortly after the company had started its operations, however, complaints about the toilets came pouring in. An investigation was carried out and revealed that the obvious thing had happened: despite its youth the company was already suffering from internal communication problems, for the director's decision on the toilets had not been transmitted to the shunting yard, where all cars were treated as equivalent, and, as a result, sometimes trains were composed with hardly any toilets at all. In order to solve the problem, a bit of information was associated with each car, telling whether it was a car with or without a toilet, and the shunting yard was instructed to compose trains with the numbers of cars of both types as equal as possible. It was a complication for the shunting yard, but, once it had been solved, the people responsible for the shunting procedures were quite proud that they could manage it. When the new shunting procedures had been made effective, however, complaints about the toilets continued. A new investigation was carried out and then it transpired that, although in each train about half the cars had indeed toilets, sometimes trains were composed with nearly all toilets in one half of the train. In order to remedy the situation, new instructions were issued, prescribing that cars with and cars without toilets should alternate. This was a move severe complication for the shunting people, but after some initial grumbling, eventually they managed. Complaints, however, continued and the reason turned out to be that, as the cars with toilets had their toilet at one of their ends, the distance between two successive toilets in the train could still be nearly three car lengths, and for mothers with children in urgent need -- and perhaps even luggage piled up in the corridors -- this still could lead to disasters. As a result, the cars with toilets got another bit of information attached to them, making them into directed objects, and the new instructions were, that in each train the cars with toilets should have the same orientation. This time, the new instructions for the shunting yard were received with less than enthusiasm, for the number of turntables was hardly sufficient; to be quite fair to the shunting people we must even admit that according to all reasonable standards, the number of turntables was insufficient, and it was only by virtue of the most cunning ingenuity, that they could just manage. With all toilets equally spaced along the train the company felt confident that now everything was alright, but passengers continued to complain: although no passenger was more than a car length away from the nearest toilet, passengers (in urgent need) did not know in which direction to start their stumbling itinerary along the corridor! To solve this problem, arrows saying "TOILET" were fixed in all corridors, thereby also making the other half of the cars into directed objects that should be properly oriented by the shunting procedure. When the new instruction reached the shunting yard, they created an atmosphere ranging from despair to revolt: it just couldn't be done! At that critical moment a man whose name has been forgotten and shall never be traced, made the following observation. When each car with a toilet was coupled, from now until eternity, at its toileted end with a car without a toilet, from then onwards the shunting yard, instead of dealing with N directed cars of two types, could deal with N/2 identical units that, to all intents and purposes, could be regarded as symmetrical. And this observation solved all shunting problems at the modest price of, firstly sticking to trains with an even number of cars only -- the few additional cars needed for that could be paid out of the initial savings effected by the commercial bloke! -- and, secondly, slightly cheating with regard to the equal spacing of the toilets. But, after all, who cares about the last three feet? Although at the time that this story took place, mankind was not blessed yet with automatic computers, our anonymous man who found this solution deserves to be called the world's first competent programmer. I have told the above story to different audiences. Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point. Platasnstreat 5 prof.dr.Edsger W. Dijkstra NL-4565 NUENEN Burroughs Research Fellow The Netherlands Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 7.12 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:40:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 973 (973) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 12 March 28, 2006 - April 3, 2006 AN INTERVIEW WITH DOUG KAYE Doug Kaye founded IT Conversations (www.itconversations.com) in May of 2003, 16 months before the first podcasts came on the scene. He is the executive producer of IT Conversations and CEO of The Conversations Network (www.conversationsnetwork.org) a new international not-for-profit podcasting network capturing and producing spoken-word events on a wide variety of topics. Visit http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v7i12_dougkaye.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: call for papers: Models of Partnership in Digital Research Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:38:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 974 (974) CALL FOR PAPERS MODELS OF PARTNERSHIP IN DIGITAL RESEARCH SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, 28 JUNE 2006 We welcome proposals for short papers / presentations of either 10 or 20 minutes on the theme of 'Models of Partnership in Digital Research', for a one-day colloquium at Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday 28 June 2006, from 10-4. The lead speaker will be Professor Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria, Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities Computing. Other presentations already confirmed will include Dr Steve Earnshaw, Sheffield Hallam University, on his lottery-funded project for widening access to the Sheffield Flood Claims Archive (see http://extra.shu.ac.uk/sfca/ ) and Dr Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University, on EEBO and LION. We request a short (one-paragraph) abstract to be sent to the organiser, Professor Lisa Hopkins (L.M.Hopkins_at_shu.ac.uk) by 1 May 2006. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: drawbacks of publishing on scientific journals (search for) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:26:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 975 (975) dear humanists, i need your help, if possible, to find some posts which appeared quite in the past (2 or 3 years?) about a vexata quaestio: the researcher must publish to live (publish or perish) but s/he is forced to publish using a medium - the scientific journal - which by its nature doesn't allow a circulation of the results of the research so wide as the researcher could/would like. if i remember well, there was a main post, followed by a good number of replies and comments. can anyone help me to find those posts? with many thanks in advance maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università del Piemonte Orientale a Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: "Arianna Ciula" Subject: CLiP 2006 NOW OPEN FOR EARLY REGISTRATION Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:27:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 976 (976) * Apologies for cross-posting * =========================================================== CLiP 2006 NOW OPEN FOR EARLY REGISTRATION The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: 'Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world' Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, UK Thursday 29 June - Saturday 1 July 2006 <http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/>http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ =========================================================== ABOUT CLiP The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference has taken place at a variety of European universities since the first conference in 1998. The initiative for the first seminar was taken by literary scholars who were not only aware of the importance of new technologies for the humanities, but also of what the humanities had contributed to the creation of digital culture in general and to the content of the Internet in particular. This year the host organization will be the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College London, UK. The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference focuses on the integration of Philology and Information Technology relevant to humanities computing communities involved in the study of Romance languages. The academic issues and projects are approached from a multicultural European perspective, so as to foment international collaboration in research and teaching. This conference can best be seen as a three-day seminar, in that there are no parallel sessions, there is as coherent an academic focus as possible and the participation of young scholars is actively encouraged. EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE Early registration with reduced fees is open until May 29, 2006. More details and registration form at: <http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/registration/registration.html>http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/registration/registration.html From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: The Canterbury Tales Project in Birmingham Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:19:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 977 (977) Dear everyone Following the move of the Canterbury Tales Project website to Birmingham, we have rebuilt the whole site. It is now at http://www.canterburytalesproject.org/index.html We have taken the opportunity to add far more content to the site. Among other things, this now includes: 1. The full text of all articles in both numbers of the Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers. It is almost impossible to buy these volumes now so this should be useful to all 2. Links to working web sample views of two of our major publications, the Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile and the Miller's Tale on CD-ROM, and to the whole of the Caxton's Canterbury Tales publication 3. The full text of many articles from our electronic publications, and from other publications 4. Among other things: following recent discussions, readers on this list might be interested in the full text of the key transcription guidelines, included here in two versions. All comments welcome! Best wishes Barbara Bordalejo and Peter Robinson 30 March 2006 Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson_at_bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: Medieval Forum invites submissions Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:52:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 978 (978) Medieval Forum is now inviting submissions for its sixth 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 6 is anticipated in December 2006. 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. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: an idle fantasy Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:51:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 979 (979) Imagine the following allegorical map. 1. Running from the bottom of the map approximately to the middle of it is a major thoroughfare. Its original name was The Road of Concordance-Based Text-Analysis, or simply Text-Analysis Road. It was originally laid out, paved and settled by an adventurous band of Literary Scholars, who gave it that name. Nowadays, however, all of the houses and shops along this street are owned by Corpus Linguists and their families -- a prosperous, interesting lot, most of whom have no knowledge whatever of the history of this road. Few reminders are left, as most of the old street signs are gone, replaced by those that read, Corpus Linguistics Street. The Scholars run tour buses up the street, or road, to show their youths what has been done, and mutter about how they, as future Literary Scholars, could settle in alongside the Corpus Linguists, but the youths' minds are elsewhere, and besides, it's quite evident that the promise once felt by the Scholars has not materialized for literary studies. Cane-thumping is even less persuasive than the old promise. 2. At the top, the road forks. One branch, Markup Avenue, is where the action really starts, though one quickly leaves the quiet, sedate territory of Academia for the polyglot vigour of a mixed neighbourhood where academics and commercial blokes mingle. At the top of the map, one sees The Commercial World looming. Although insults are occasionally exchanged, it's clear that good things are happening as a result of this mingling. Nevertheless, some of the Scholars assert, this Avenue leads in the Wrong Drection., straight into the boring industrial park known as Implementation Estates. 3. Also from the fork in the road proceeds a very steep, at times unpaved path veering off at a sharp angle. Not many are able to climb it, but those who do, report back that the few who populate the mostly isolated cabins along it are doing very interesting work. Some say that this work fulfills the old Scholars' dream of a Northwest Passage. Others point to the small white crosses along the path where the unfit have perished. Some of the stories in circulation are clearly incredible, but these are mostly if not wholly told by those who only pretend to have made the climb. This is the Statistical Analysis Trail. 4. Also back where the road diverges, there's evidently another way to go, obviously from the traffic and bustle a very prosperous way, but the gate blocking easy entrance is heavily guarded, and only those with the right credentials are allowed in. This is the Computational Linguistics Boulevard. There's widespread doubt among the Literary Scholars that anything which happens there has any meaning whatever for them, though envy for the obvious level of funding is universal. But then these Scholars have not been very good at learning other ways. The Wise say, "look to what the computational linguists are doing, and learn; you don't have to share their faith to benefit from their accomplishments." They quote the Brahma-siddhi of Mandanamisra, "Knowledge requires that there is a means, not that the means is a final truth…. for there is knowledge of the truth even through a belief which is false." 4. The Wise also say that other directions than are marked out on the map are possible. "The map is not the territory!" they proclaim. But then, weary from wisdom, they doze off. It's left to those lone explorers in the field to say where these unmarked ways are. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Sarah Davenport Subject: CCH studentship for the PhD in Digital Humanities Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:26:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 980 (980) The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, is very pleased to announce the availability of a studentship for its PhD in Digital Humanities, to commence October 2006. Applications must be received by 7 April, so almost immediate action is required. If you know someone who might be interested, please see that he or she receives a copy of this message as soon as possible. Application is a two-stage process, as follows: 1. Candidates must first commence application to the PhD in Digital Humanities. This may be done online. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/pg/apply.html for information and the form. 2. They must then apply for the Studentship itself. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/gsstdship.html for information and the form. The studentships will provide funding for a minimum of three years, subject to satisfactory progress, to cover tuition fees at the home level and a stipend of 14,300 GBP for the first year, increasing in line with national stipend levels in subsequent years. All applications received will be acknowledged and candidates will be notified of the College's decision by early May 2006. The CCH would appreciate a brief note of intent to apply, to Sarah Davenport, sarah dot davenport at kcl dot ac dot uk. (Confirmation of receipt will be sent.) In this note please indicate your area of interest, and please send along a c.v. if you have one. As part of the application process we ask for a preliminary research proposal, but this need not be done until after the official application forms have been submitted. The PhD in Digital Humanities itself began in Autumn 2005. For information on the degree itself, please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/pg/courses/phd.html. ****************************************** Sarah Davenport Postgraduate Programme Administrator Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel Street London, WC2R 3DX Tel : +44 (0)20 7848 2371 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 www.kcl.ac.uk/cch From: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Text Analysis as a literary clock Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:47:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 981 (981) Hello fellow Humanists, As someone whose education is too broad to be important, but just sophisticated enuogh to make me dangerous, I thought I would share my own dream of text analysis in hopes that someone would think of stealing it for their own benefit (I am a public librarian with very little time to do "tight" research). It seems to me that text analysis has been used mostly as a map for particular works or groups of works -- a way of outlining the major features of a text and project significant themes or habits of an author or group. This should not be surprising, since (I believe) most of us have the continued suspended belief that a book/text is, as Northrop Frye would say, "Frozen in Time" -- meaning that the entire situation is static, unchangable. Obviously, this is not the case, since it takes time to read and write a text, particularly one the size of a novel. And, paragraphs and chapters are not all written or even conceived in the order they are read. I think Derrida's _Disseminations_ uses the example of a "preface" which is read before a work, even though the author writes it _last_ (you cannot comment on your work until it is finished). Other cases include authors who have a beginning and an end at the start of their writing and use the rest of their time trying to fill in the gaps. With Web-based technologies such as wikis, blogs etc. we may be more aware of process over product than in previous times -- but humanists appear doomed to treat the study of _Ulysses_ as if it appeared out of Joyce's hat on one day in 1922. It seems that a combination of text analysis and time-series statistics could be a useful tool to "clock" out the writing process of individual or groups of authors, philosophers or thinkers. It would take an extremely detailed examination of the authors' journals to determine which works were written when (or perhaps a less perfect methodology would be to use someone who wrote in serials such as Dickens or Trollope). Then you map out major tropes per time period (weekly, monthly, annually?) and perhaps run tests to correlate these to external stimulae (stock market? coal/wheat/coffee prices? birth/death/crime rates? funding for arts?), tag it for personal events and perhaps even look for seasonal trends (more or less depressed in december?). This could be an interesting way to examine the impact of environment on artistic process (if there is one) and perhaps could lead to some new areas of understanding about the philosophy of aesthetics and design (does art come from God/imagination or are good art "habits" formed by social circumstances). Anyway, just an idea for anyone interested in a post-doc or PhD from you friendly neighbourhood public librarian! Best of luck! Ryan Deschamps MPA/MLIS From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 19.684 an idle fantasy Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:47:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 982 (982) Willard, I guess I've traveled all of those roads and trails at one time or another, and they are all fun to traverse -- you left out CAI Turnpike (Computer Assisted Instruction), which I guess some folks will say belongs on another map altogether. Let me put out a no doubt ignorable plea for more hardy souls to explore Statistical Analysis Trail. All you need to get started is a very good friend who is a statistician, if you haven't had your own course of instruction... From: Willard McCarty Subject: Virtual Reality 9.4 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:49:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 983 (983) Volume 9 Number 4 of Virtual Reality is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Original Article Virtual reality design techniques for web-based historical reconstructions p. 215 Kevin Badni DOI: 10.1007/s10055-005-0008-0 Original Article Subjective performance p. 226 Karsten Bormann DOI: 10.1007/s10055-006-0019-5 Original Article The contribution of virtual reality to research on sensory feedback in remote control p. 234 Barry Richardson, Mark Symmons, Dianne Wuillemin DOI: 10.1007/s10055-006-0020-z Original Article Identification of real objects under conditions similar to those in haptic displays: providing spatially distributed information at the contact areas is more important than increasing the number of areas p. 243 Gunnar Jansson, Linda Monaci DOI: 10.1007/s10055-006-0021-y Original Article Freshly squeezed touch into bits: towards the development of a haptic design palette p. 250 Simone Gumtau DOI: 10.1007/s10055-006-0022-x Original Article Linking GIS with real-time visualisation for exploration of landscape changes in rural community workshops p. 260 Christian Stock, Ian D. Bishop From: Willard McCarty Subject: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 10.4 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:50:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 984 (984) Volume 10 Number 4 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Theme issue on interactive mobile information access p. 193 Fabio Crestani, Mark Dunlop, Matt Jones, Steve Jones, Stefano Mizzaro DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0042-7 Original Article From ethnography on infrastructure management to initial user feedback on PlaceMemo p. 195 Mattias Esbjörnsson DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0041-8 Original Article Supporting information access in a hospital ward by a context-aware mobile electronic patient record p. 205 Mikael B. Skov, Rune Th. Høegh DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0049-0 Original Article Marked-up maps: combining paper maps and electronic information resources p. 215 Derek Reilly, Malcolm Rodgers, Ritchie Argue, Mike Nunes, Kori Inkpen DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0043-6 Original Article Using ubiquitous computing in interactive mobile marketing p. 227 Stan Kurkovsky, Karthik Harihar DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0044-5 Original Article Acoustic environment as an indicator of social and physical context p. 241 Dan Smith, Ling Ma, Nick Ryan DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0045-4 Original Article Reality mining: sensing complex social systems p. 255 Nathan Eagle, Alex (Sandy) Pentland DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0046-3 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Software and Systems Modeling 5.1 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:51:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 985 (985) Volume 5 Number 1 of Software and Systems Modeling is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Editorial Modeling the Complex Living World p. 1 Robert France, Bernhard Rumpe DOI: 10.1007/s10270-006-0008-x Expert's voice Expert' voice: The BabyUML discipline of programming: (where a Program =data + Communication +Algorithms) p. 3 Trygve Reenskaug DOI: 10.1007/s10270-006-0005-0 Regular Paper Partitioning of perfect synchroneous reactive specifications to distributed processors using µ-charts p. 13 Peter Scholz DOI: 10.1007/s10270-005-0094-1 Regular Paper Exploiting practical limitations of UML diagrams for model validation and execution p. 26 Friedrich Steimann, Heribert Vollmer DOI: 10.1007/s10270-005-0097-y Regular Paper A functional size measurement method for object-oriented conceptual schemas: design and evaluation issues p. 48 Silvia Abrahão, Geert Poels, Oscar Pastor DOI: 10.1007/s10270-005-0098-x Regular Paper A powertype-based metamodelling framework p. 72 Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Brian Henderson-Sellers DOI: 10.1007/s10270-005-0099-9 Regular Paper Protocol modelling: A modelling approach that supports reusable behavioural abstractions p. 91 Ashley McNeile, Nicholas Simons DOI: 10.1007/s10270-005-0100-7 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Northwestern University announces WordHoard Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:18:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 986 (986) Academic Technologies and the Library at Northwestern University are happy to announce the release of WordHoard at <http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu>http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu. Named after an Old English phrase for the verbal treasure unlocked by a wise speaker, WordHoard is an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged literary texts. It applies to highly canonical literary texts the insights and techniques of corpus linguistics, that is to say, the empirical and computer-assisted study of large bodies of written texts or transcribed speech. In the WordHoard environment, such texts are tagged by morphological, lexical, prosodic, and narratological criteria. They are mediated through a digital page or user interface that lets scholarly but non-technical users explore the greatly increased query potential of textual data kept in such a form. The development of WordHoard has been supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The current release includes the remains of Early Greek epic in Greek and translation, all of Chaucer and Shakespeare, and Spenser's Faerie Queene. The texts have been tagged by morphosyntactic, lexical, prosodic, and narratological criteria. The English texts have been tagged according to a common scheme that enables users to compare Chaucer with Spenser or Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives. WordHoard may be seen as a textbase with an unusually flexible set of concordance features. Much attention has been paid to a user interface that allows for the side-by-display of arbitrarily chosen passages in the same field of vision. Concordance searches may quickly be grouped and regrouped by various criteria, including speaker gender or prosodic status in the case of Shakespeare. Every word occurrence in the texts is a link that can be activated to display in a GetInfo window all the information the text may be said to know about all forms of the word in that location. This is very useful for texts that have much orthographic or morphological variety, such as Spenser or Chaucer, not to speak of Homer or Hesiod: for any given word in the text the reader is a second away from a table that shows all the spellings of all the forms of that word sorted by frequency, thus giving an immediate overview of actual usage. WordHoard includes a statistical engine that supports a variety of procedures common in Natural Language Processing. For example, users can look for words that are disproportionately common or rare in Shakespeare's comedies when compared with the tragedies or all of Shakespeare. The current release includes precompiled work sets for analysis. In later releases, users will be able to configure sets for their own purposes. WordHoard also includes an annotation module. In the current release, this module supports the display of the Iliad scholia as true textual marginalia. Later releases will support user annotation not only of particular locations in a text but of words wherever they occur. A prototype of WordHoard with user generated annotation is in operation at Northwestern, but it will require additional security feature before it can be released. WordHoard is a Java Web Start/Swing application. It requires a broadband connection and will not work over a modem. Many operations in WordHoard involve extensive shuttling between the client and the server. WordHoard will therefore generally be quite a bit faster in on-campus environments, where information moves at the same speed in both directions, than in off-campus environments where download speeds are between five and times as fast as upload speeds. General network traffic and the complexity of queries or size of result sets also are important variables. We will be very interested in getting feedback from users about how the application works in different environments. WordHoard has a Send Error Report in its File Menu. This was designed to point out errors in the tagging, but it can be used just as effectively for general comments. You may also send email to martinmueller_at_northwestern.edu. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Formal Ontology in Information Systems Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:22:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 987 (987) 2nd Call for Papers FOIS-2006 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems http://www.formalontology.org/ Electronic abstracts: May 1, 2006 Final submissions: May 5, 2006 Papers should be submitted electronically at: http://www.softconf.com/start/FOIS06/. ________________________________ Conference Description Since ancient times, ontology, the analysis and categorisation of what exists, has been fundamental to philosophical enquiry. But, until recently, ontology has been seen as an abstract, purely theoretical discipline, far removed from the practical applications of science. However, with the increasing use of sophisticated computerised information systems, solving problems of an ontological nature is now key to the effective use of technologies supporting a wide range of human activities. The ship of Theseus and the tail of Tibbles the cat are no longer merely amusing puzzles. We employ databases and software applications to deal with everything from ships and ship building to anatomy and amputations. When we design a computer to take stock of a ship yard or check that all goes well at the veterinary hospital, we need to ensure that our system operates in a consistent and reliable way even when manipulating information that involves subtle issues of semantics and identity. So, whereas ontologists may once have shied away from practical problems, now the practicalities of achieving cohesion in an information-based society demand that attention must be paid to ontology. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realise that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention is now being focused on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages used to represent information. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And, as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realisation that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of formal ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of information systems. Reciprocally, research in the information sciences raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations. The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified effort towards solving the problems of ontology, with an eye to both theoretical issues and concrete applications. Program Chairs Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds, UK) brandon_at_comp.leeds.ac.uk Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA and Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) fellbaum_at_clarity.princeton.edu Conference Chair Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) guarino_at_loa-cnr.it Local Chair Bill Andersen (Ontology Works, USA) andersen_at_ontologyworks.com Publicity Chair Leo Obrst (The MITRE Corporation, USA) lobrst_at_mitre.org ________________________________ Topics We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entity: particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents, abstracta vs. concreta, dependent vs. independent, natural vs. artificial * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Identity and change * Formal comparison among ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...) * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...) * Ontology of mental reality (mental attitudes, emotions, ...) * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, ...) * Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...) * Ontology and natural language semantics, ontology and cognition, ontology and epistemology, semiotics Methodologies and Applications * Top-level vs. application ontologies * Role of reference ontologies; Ontology integration and alignment * Ontology-driven information systems design * Requirements engineering * Knowledge engineering * Knowledge management and organization * Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling * Computational lexica; Terminology * Information retrieval; Question-answering * Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing * Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, ... [...] _____________________________________________ Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics lobrst_at_mitre.org Center for Innovative Computing & Informatics Voice: 703-983-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S H305 Fax: 703-983-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Matthew Jockers Subject: Re: 19.687 text-analytic fantasies and realities Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:55:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 988 (988) Ryan, What you are asking for is exactly what I have been working on for several years now. At last year's meeting of the ACH/ALLC (Uvic) I presented some preliminary results in my paper titled "A Macro-Economic Model for Literary Research." I am especially interested in time-series analysis (the ties to macroeconomics are obvious here) and in looking for possible correlations between literary productivity, style, etc. and market, social, historical and geographical forces. I've got three chapters in a book ms done, and next year I will be in residence at the Stanford Humanities Center completing the manuscript and rewriting a tool set I developed to support this work. The original tools I developed in php, but now I'm working in Java and tweaking the XTF text archiving application so that I have the power of Lucene indexing on the backside. More important to your own interests and to those of other list members, --while at the Humanities center next year I'll be running a workshop titled "Literary Studies and the Digital Library: Beyond Search and Access" in which I'll bring together scholars, librarians, content vendors, and developers for discussions about these sort of subjects--how can we leverage all of the digital content coming on line for new sorts of research? My plan is to make these meetings public via web cast and/or video conf. At the very least as pod casts. As soon as the details are available, I'll post to the list. In the meantime, thanks for posting the suggestion--it reconfirms the sanity of my project. Matt -- Matthew L. Jockers Stanford University From: Pat Galloway Subject: Text Analysis as a literary clock Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:55:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 989 (989) Why not just instrument an author experimentally and "watch" her composing digitally? It would certainly be worth a single experiment with a willing author. The main problem would be preserving the resulting files and logs in a functional state long enough to analyze them, and even that could be achieved if the author in question could be persuaded to use an open-source writing platform. Though you'd also need to bring in the world and record the author's online activities during the same time in doing research, browsing, etc. as well. Away back in the early 1980s I was curious about how writers' practice would change as they moved from typewriter to computer, and I had an agreement from someone now very well-known to be instrumented down to the keystroke--but the folks who were giving the grants from Apple Computer that I applied for just weren't interested. Ah, lost opportunities. But this idea from Ryan Deschamps could be very workable and maybe even fundable... Pat Galloway From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS 7(2) online -- Special Issue: FQS Reviews IV Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:54:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 990 (990) Dear All, We are pleased to be able to inform you that the 21st issue of the journal "Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS) is available online. The "Special Issue: FQS Reviews IV" is edited by Guenter Mey, Kip Jones & Iain Lang. In addition to more than 30 reviews and review essays, FQS 7(2) also provides a single contribution, 8 articles that belong to the FQS Debate on "Qualitative Research and Ethics," as well as articles belonging to FQS Interviews and FQS Conferences. FQS is an open-access journal, so all articles are available for free. To access FQS 7(2), use the tables of content at http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt2-06-e.htm (English), http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt2-06-d.htm (German), http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt2-06-s.htm (Spanish), or access the respective article by clicking the links provided below. All the best, Katja Mruck FQS Editor Ps: Use http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/bezug-e.htm if you are interested to receive our newsletter (currently sent to about 6,100 colleagues): We will inform you once a month about new FQS articles available online, about conferences and web sites, useful for qualitative researchers, and about open access news. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------ FQS 7(2) Special Issue: FQS Reviews IV Guenter Mey, Katja Mruck, Daniel Dom=EDnguez Figaredo & Iain Lang: Editorial http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-36-e.htm (English) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-36-s.htm (Spanish) Kip Jones (UK): Editorial Note: The Book Review as "Performance" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-27-e.htm Guenter Mey (Germany): The Internet as "Scholarly Review Resource". Further Considerations about E-Reviewing on the Occasion of the "Special Issue: FQS Book Reviews IV" http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-42-e.htm Leen Beyers (USA): Review: Jane Elliot (2005). Using Narrative in Social Research. Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-19-e.htm Matthias Cat=F3n (Germany): Review: Henry E. Brady & David Collier (Eds.) (2004). Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-30-e.htm Brian Christens & Paul W. Speer (USA): Tyranny/Transformation: Power and Paradox in Participatory Development. Review Essay: Bill Cooke & Uma Kothari (Eds.) (2001). Participation: The New Tyranny? / Samuel Hickey & Giles Mohan (Eds.) (2004). Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation? http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-22-e.htm Michael Dick (Germany): The Repertory Grid Interview as a Method of Cooperative Research. Review Essay: Martin Fromm (2004). Introduction to the Repertory Grid Interview / Martin Fromm & Andreas Bacher (2003-2004). GridSuite 2.1.0 Software for Conducting and Analysing Repertory Grid Interviews http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-6-e.htm Una Dirks (Germany): How Critical Discourse Analysis Faces the Challenge of Interpretive Explanations from a Micro- and Macro-theoretical Perspective. Review Essay: Gilbert Weiss & Ruth Wodak (Eds.) (2003). Critical Discourse Analysis. Theory and Interdisciplinarity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-26-e.htm Nicola Doering (Germany): Review: Ingrid Miethe, Claudia Kajatin & Jana Pohl (Eds.) (2004). Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Ost und West. Biografische Perspektiven [Gender Constructions in East and West. Biographical Perspectives] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-35-e.htm Daniel Dom=EDnguez Figaredo (Spain): Educational Ethnography beyond Scholarly Ethnography. Transferring Meanings to Cyberspace. Review Essay: Honorio M. Velasco Maillo, F. Javier Garc=EDa Casta=F1o & =C1ngel= D=EDaz de Rada (Eds.) (2003). Lecturas de antropolog=EDa para educadores. El =E1mbito de la antropolog=EDa de la educaci=F3n y de la etnograf=EDa escolar [Readings on Anthropology for Educating. The Field of Educational Anthropology and Scholar Ethnography] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-2-e.htm (English) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-2-s.htm (Spanish) Dirk Ducar (Germany): Review: Gerrit Herlyn & Thomas Overdick (Eds.) (2003). Kassettengeschichten. Von Menschen und ihren Mixtapes [Cassette Stories. Men and Their Mix Tapes] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-14-e.htm Megan K. Foley (USA): Dialogue and Power in Parent-Child Communication. Review Essay: Michelle A. Miller-Day (2004). Communication among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters: A Qualitative Study of Maternal Relationships http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-12-e.htm Mary Gergen (USA): Review: Lesa Lockford (2004). Performing Femininity: Rewriting Gender Identity http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-13-e.htm Stefanie Grosse (Germany): Review: Bruno Hildenbrand (2005). Fallrekonstruktive Familienforschung. Anleitungen fuer die Praxis [Case Reconstruction in Family Research. Guidance for Practice] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-9-e.htm Paul ten Have (The Netherlands): Conversation Analysis Versus Other Approaches to Discourse. Review Essay: Robin Wooffitt (2005). Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-3-e.htm Christine Holmberg (USA): Review: Judith Green & Nicki Thorogood (2004). Qualitative Methods for Health Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-7-e.htm Anne Klein (Germany): Review: Walburga Freitag (2005). Contergan. Eine genealogische Studie des Zusammenhangs wissenschaftlicher Diskurse und biographischer Erfahrungen [Contergan. A Genealogical Study on Scientific Discourse and Biography] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-15-e.htm Katja Koch (Germany): Appendix II, Review: Norbert Dittmar (2004). Transkription. Ein Leitfaden mit Aufgaben fuer Studenten, Forscher und Laien [Transcription-A Guide for Students, Researchers and Laymen] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-33-d.htm Iain Lang (UK): Review: Melissa Hardy & Alan Bryman (Eds.) (2004). Handbook of Data Analysis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-20-e.htm Heiner Legewie (Germany): Review: Joerg Struebing (2004). Grounded Theory. Zur sozialtheoretischen und epistemologischen Fundierung des Verfahrens der empirisch begruendeten Theoriebildung [Grounded Theory: Its Social-theoretical and Epistemological Foundation] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-1-e.htm Mary H. Maguire (Canada): Autoethnography: Answerability/Responsibility in Authoring Self and Others in the Social Sciences/Humanities. Review Essay: Carolyn Ellis (2004). The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-16-e.htm Robert L. Miller (UK): Review: Lyn Richards (2005). Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide. http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-24-e.htm Albert K. Petersheim (Germany): Review: Patricia Arnold (2003). Kooperatives telematisches Lernen aus der Perspektive der Lernenden - Qualitative Analyse einer Community of Practice im Fernstudium [Cooperative Telematic Learning from the Perspective of the Learner: Qualitative Analysis of a Community of Practice in Distance Learning] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-32-e.htm Constantinos N. Phellas (Cyprus): Review: Keith F. Punch (2005). Introduction to Social Research-Quantitative & Qualitative Approaches http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-4-e.htm Rudolf Schmitt (Germany): Review: Irit Kupferberg & David Green (2005). Troubled Talk. Metaphorical Negotiation in Problem Discourse http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-5-e.htm Gerold Scholz (Germany): Learning through Researching in Teacher Training. Review Essay: Arbeitskreis Interpretationswerkstatt PH Freiburg (Ed.) (2004). Studieren und Forschen. Qualitative Methoden in der LehrerInnenbildung [Interpretation Workshop at Freiburg Teacher Training College (Eds.). Studying and Researching: Qualitative Methods of Teacher-Training] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-31-e.htm Wilhelm Schwendemann (Germany): Review: Cornelia Schweppe (Ed.) (2003). Qualitative Forschung in der Sozialpaedagogik [Qualitative Research in Social Pedagogy] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-8-e.htm Andrea Stoeckl (UK): Ethnography, Travel Writing and the Self: Reflections on Socially Robust Knowledge and the Authorial Ego. Review Essay: Laurel Richardson & Ernest Lockridge (2004). Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-11-e.htm Kara M. Strobel (Canada): Portrait of an Ethnographic Artist. Review Essay: Harry F. Wolcott (2005). The Art of Fieldwork http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-43-e.htm Angela Tillmann (Germany): Review: Johanna Mutzl (2005). "Die Macht von Dreien ..." Medienhexen und moderne Fangemeinschaften. Bedeutungskonstruktionen im Internet ["Three's Power"-Media Witches and Modern Fan Communities. The Construction of Meaning on the Internet] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-28-e.htm Jaan Valsiner (USA): "Open Access" and its Social Context: New Colonialism in the Making? Review Essay: Katja Mruck & Gudrun Gersmann (Eds.) (2004). New Media in the Humanities. Electronic Publishing and Open Access: Current State and Future Perspectives http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-23-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Comment: Thinking About Open Access-Concretely http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-29-e.htm Hella von Unger (Germany): Working With and Against the Concepts of "Race" and "Ethnicity": Research Dilemmas and Tools. Review Essay: Yasmin Gunaratnam (2003). Researching "Race" and Ethnicity: Methods, Knowledge and Power http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-21-e.htm Harald Weilnboeck (Germany): On the Long and Stony Road of Approaching Empirically and Clinically Based Studies on Literature and Psycho-Trauma. Review Essay: Hannes Fricke (2004). Das hoert nicht auf. Trauma, Literatur und Empathie [This Never Ends: Psycho-Trauma, Literature and Empathy] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-25-e.htm Till Westermayer (Germany): Review: Karl H. Hoerning & Julia Reuter (Eds.) (2004). Doing Culture. Neue Positionen zum Verhaeltnis von Kultur und sozialer Praxis [Doing Culture. New Positions On the Culture-Practice Relation] http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-10-e.htm Single Contributions Amrei C. Joerchel (Austria): A Qualitative Study of Multicultural Identities: Three Cases of London's Inner-City Children http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-18-e.htm FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics" Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Editorial: Responsibility, Solidarity, and Ethics in Cogenerative Dialogue as Research Methods http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-45-e.htm Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Collective Responsibility and Solidarity: Toward a Body-Centered Ethics http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-37-e.htm Ian Stith & Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada): Who Gets to Ask the Questions: The Ethics in/of Cogenerative Dialogue Praxis http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-38-e.htm Christopher Emdin & Ed Lehner (USA): Situating Cogenerative Dialogue in a Cosmopolitan Ethic http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-39-e.htm Kathryn Scantlebury & Sarah-Kate LaVan (USA): Re-visioning Cogenerative Dialogues as Feminist Pedagogy|Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-41-e.htm Mijung Kim (Canada): Enactive and Collective Ethics through Cogenerative Dialogue http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-40-e.htm Ian Stith (Canada), Kathryn Scantlebury, Sarah-Kate LaVan, Christopher Emdin, Ed Lehner (USA) & Mijung Kim (Canada): The Ethics of Cogenerative Dialogue: A Cogenerative Dialogue http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-44-e.htm Sabi Redwood & Les Todres (UK): Exploring the Ethical Imagination: Conversation as Practice Versus Committee as Gatekeeper http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-34-e.htm FQS Interviews Juergen van Oorschot & Lars Allolio-Naecke (Germany): Against the Luxury of Misunderstanding. Revisiting the Debate between Carl Ratner and Barbara Zielke on an Interview with Kenneth J. Gergen and his Theory of Social Constructionism http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-17-e.htm FQS Conferences Holger von der Lippe (Germany): On Snowflakes and Gardens: Multiple Methods in the Field of Psychological Research on Identity Development. Conference Essay http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-06/06-2-46-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=20 From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- March 2006 Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:56:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 991 (991) CIT INFOBITS March 2006 No. 91 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning'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 the Web version of this issue at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmar06.html. ...................................................................... New Campus Copyright Guide Accommodating Technologies in Learning Space Design Information Literacy for All Free Access to Some For-Fee Articles New Digital Humanities Journal Beyond E-Learning Recommended Reading ...................................................................... NEW CAMPUS COPYRIGHT GUIDE "Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations" is a new booklet on copyright written especially for higher education communities. The guide was developed by representatives of the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Association of American University Presses, and the Association of American Publishers with the objective of producing a document that conveys these groups' "common understanding regarding the basic meaning and practical significance of copyright for the higher education community." The booklet is available online at http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/Campus_Copyright.pdf. See also: "Faculty, Copyright Law and Online Course Materials" by Phyllis C. Sweeney ONLINE JOURNAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING ADMINISTRATION vol. IX, no. I, Spring 2006 http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring91/sweeney91.htm ...................................................................... ACCOMMODATING TECHNOLOGIES IN LEARNING SPACE DESIGN We may teach and learn in virtual spaces, but, as physical beings, we can't escape real space. We can, however, improve upon it. That is the premise for "Designing Spaces for Effective Learning: A Guide to 21st Century Learning Space Design," a publication launched this month at the JISC Conference 2006. Using case studies and architects' floor plans, the publication explores "the relationship between learning technologies and innovative examples of physical space design." The guide is available on the Web at no cost at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISClearningspaces.pdf. The JISC conference is sponsored by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a strategic advisory committee working on behalf of the funding bodies for further and higher education in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. For more information on JISC, see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/. ...................................................................... INFORMATION LITERACY FOR ALL "Information Literacy lies at the core of lifelong learning. It empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion of all nations." "Information for All," the final report of the High-Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning, held November 6-9, 2005, in Alexandria, Egypt, was released this month. The report challenges organizations to move from the idea of "Information for All" to that of "Information Literacy for All" because information literacy is "crucial to issues of economic development, health, citizenship and quality of life." The complete report, which includes the Colloquium's planned next steps for implementing its recommendations, is available online at http://www.ifla.org/III/wsis/High-Level-Colloquium.pdf. The High-Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning was sponsored by: -- the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) http://www.unesco.org/ -- National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL) http://www.infolit.org/ -- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) http://www.ifla.org/ ...................................................................... FREE ACCESS TO SOME FOR-FEE ARTICLES Congoo, a search engine launched this month and partnered with Google, gives registered users free online access to a selection of publications that normally required a subscription or a pay-per-view fee to read. After downloading the Congoo plug-in and registering, users can get access to "between four and 15 articles per month per publisher." Publications available include the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, Financial Times, BusinessWire, Editor & Publisher, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and other major U.S. newspapers. Congoo is available at http://www.congoo.com/. Critics of Congoo note that many public libraries, such as the San Francisco Public Library (http://www.sfpl.org/sfplonline/dbcategories.htm), also offer free access to subscription databases. And your own college and university library may also have online subscriptions that you can access at no additional fee. See also: "Internet Technology--Going Beyond Google" by Tom Warger UNIVERSITY BUSINESS, August 2005 http://www.universitybusiness.com/page.cfm?p=906 ...................................................................... NEW DIGITAL HUMANITIES JOURNAL DIGITAL HUMANITIES QUARTERLY (DHQ) will begin publication this month. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, DHQ is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Content will include scholarly articles, opinion pieces, reviews, and a blog with guest commentators. New materials will be added to the website as available, with quarterly announcements marking each new issue. The journal will be available at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/index.html. The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is an umbrella organization made up of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH). For more information, see the ADHO website at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/. ...................................................................... BEYOND E-LEARNING "Just when we thought we had e-learning all figured out, it's changing again. After years of experimentation and the irrational exuberance that characterized the late 1990s, we find our views of e-learning more sober and realistic." In "What Lies Beyond E-Learning?" (LEARNING CIRCUITS, March 2006), Marc J. Rosenberg suggests that over the next few years we will see six transformations in the field of e-learning: 1. E-learning will become more than "e-training." 2. E-learning will move to the workplace. 3. Blended learning will be redefined. 4. E-learning will be less course-centric and more knowledge-centric. 5. E-learning will adapt differently to different levels of mastery. 6. Technology will become a secondary issue. This article, online at http://www.learningcircuits.org/2006/March/rosenberg.htm, is based on Rosenberg's book, BEYOND E-LEARNING: APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE. (Pfeiffer, 2005; ISBN: 0787977578). For more information about the book and a sample chapter, go to http://www.pfeiffer.com/WileyCDA/PfeifferTitle/productCd-0787977578.html. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. 21st Century Information Fluency Project Sponsored by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/challenge Infobits reader Sam Eneman recommended this website, which he recently learned about at a conference. He reports that he found the exercises were very valuable in helping him hone his Internet search skills. From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Talk 4/13, 14: Steve Ramsay Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:55:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 992 (992) The Computing in the Humanities Users' Group presents Humanizing Computerized Literary Criticism Stephen Ramsay Department of English University of Georgia 3:30, Friday April 14 STG Conference Room Graduate Center, Tower E The emerging field of "digital humanities" is still grappling with its dual intellectual roots in the humanities and computational sciences. Its central questions still revolve around the relationship between computational processes and textual interpretation: do they intersect, compete, cohere at all? Computation comes to us, along with the cultural burden of science, as an activity associated with the inexorable calculus of fact and truth. As humanists, we usually regard computation itself as occupying the realm of objectivity and fact, although the results of computation may form the basis for interpretation and subjective evaluation. This talk probes this pairing, considering texts as various as ancient Sumerian tablets and the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and examining the computational, analytical, and interpretive strategies we bring to the encounter. Ramsay suggests that even computational processes, at least in those areas of interest to the humanist, are already rife with the subjective--and indeed, that computation itself is not only an interpretive act, but one that requires the perspectives and contexts of humanities scholarship. Stephen Ramsay is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He specializes in the computational analysis and visualization of literary texts, and is one of the co-investigators for The Nora Project <http://www.noraproject.org>. He has written a number of software systems for humanistic inquiry, and is currently the lead developer of Tamarind -- an automatic XML preprocessor and corpus builder for scholarly text analysis. He has lectured widely on subjects related to text analysis theory and software design for the humanities. This talk is organized by the Scholarly Technology Group at CIS. For more information, contact stg_info_at_brown.edu or see http:// www.stg.brown.edu From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.13 Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:56:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 993 (993) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 13 April 3, 2006 - April 10, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: AN INTELLIGENT APPROACH TO PARSING TEXT Goutam Saha demonstrates how a proposed parser identifies the part of speech (POS) of lexicons in the sentences of a particular language (in this case Bengali, or Bangla) as well as providing semantic information. A parser is used in machine translation (MT) for identifying the part of speech in a sentence -- and can be considered an intelligent parser if it handles semantics as well as POS identification. The aim of the rule-based intelligent Bangla parser described in this article is to ease the task of handling semantic issues in the subsequent stages in machine translation. Visit http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i13_parsing.html lUbiquity Volume 7, Issue 13 (April 3, 2006 - April 10, 2006) From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 19.691 text-analytic fantasies and realities Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:51:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 994 (994) At 08.00 04/04/2006, Pat Galloway wrote: [deleted quotation]the Logitech IO2 digital pen=20 (<http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=3Dproducts/features/digitalwriting&c=>http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=3Dproducts/features/digitalwriting&c= rid=3D1545&countryid=3D10&languageid=3D5)=20 could be a tool to use or is it too simple and/or awkward? maurizio Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Universit=E0 del Piemonte Orientale a= Vercelli via Manzoni 8, I-13100 Vercelli +39 347 7370925 From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 995 (995) [deleted quotation]Matt: Did you have any specific econometric tests in mind? Granger? Chou? [deleted quotation]I will be looking for this, thank you. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 996 (996) [deleted quotation]Better yet, could you convince authors to work on their own personal wiki? That way we could track the edits and the final product at the same time. But this would not capture notes, cuts and paste to the website etc. I bet Margaret Atwood would go for this. [deleted quotation]Well go for it, and let me know how it goes (and how I can help!) Ryan. .. Ryan Deschamps MLIS/MPA From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 19.684 an idle fantasy Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:53:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 997 (997) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) skrev 31.03.2006 12:02: [deleted quotation]Willard, This is an intriguing model. I would like to see this map drawn, and maybe one could place suggested addition into the drawing. Are you making any (digital ) sketches? Espen From: Matt Jensen Subject: Re: text-analytic fantasies and realities Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:54:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 998 (998) Matt Jockers wrote: [deleted quotation]Can you please send me a copy? I've done work related to temporal issues, on the visualization of complex timelines; look for my upcoming "Semantic Timeline Tools for History and Criticism"* at Digital Humanities 2006. Cheers, Matt Jensen NewsBlip Seattle * https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/viewabstract.php?id=120 From: Katina Michael Subject: Social Implications Workshop (free for academics) Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:29:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 999 (999) Dear Invited Delegate, The RNSA Workshop on the Social Implications of Information Security Measures is being held on the 29th May 2006 at the University of Wollongong. For more details about the workshop please visit: http://www.secureaustralia.org/WorkshopsAndShortCourses/WorkshopsAndShortCourses.php http://www.homelandsecurity.org.au/events.html To register please go to: https://anchor.net.au/secure/homelandsecurity.org.au/ahs/register.php?id=60 Please note, for academic members there is no cost for the workshop; for non-academic members there is a fee of $200. After registering you will receive an automated reply with further details. I encourage your postgraduate students who are doing research in the area to especially attend. Best wishes, Katina Michael Program Chair +61242213937 PS Please book early as there are limited spaces for this workshop. We also need attendance details for catering purposes and the publication of the workshop proceedings. Please do not register if you are unsure about your availability on 29/05/06. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Mind and Society Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:11:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1000 (1000) This is to alert you (perhaps for the second time, I forget) to a very interesting journal, Mind and Society, whose publication was recently taken up by Springer Verlag. The entry in Springer's catalogue is under economics, but this categorization should be taken in the broadest sense of the word "economics". The description goes as follows: [deleted quotation]Mind and Society is currently designated as "free economics journal of the month", so you can read a number of recent articles. Go to http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,,4-165-70-36836270-0,00.html, click on "Online version available". Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "RAM-Verlag" Subject: Glottometrics 10 & 11, 2005 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:14:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1001 (1001) Are you interested in Glottometrics 10 or 11, 2005? Then visit our web-site: www.ram-verlag.de. If you can't link directly from here, see attachement please. Glottometrics 10 or 11, 2005 are 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: Willard McCarty Subject: an actual allegorical map? Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:28:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1002 (1002) To Espen Ore's question, of whether I am inclined to sketch an actual map to correspond to the allegorical vision I described for an intellectual landscape, the answer is no -- I lack the talent. But I sincerely hope that someone here will be inspired to draw such a map and make it generally available. Some here will know that Harold Short and I developed a map for all of the digital humanities. It has proven *very* effective in talks around the world to illustrate what we're going on about. A more specialised map, perhaps like my Bunyanesque vision (http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bunyan/pilgrim.i.html), would do similar good for many of us scholarly pilgrims. My thanks to Hugh Craig for reminding me of my indebtedness to Bunyan. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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. 19 Num. 1003 (1003) [deleted quotation]I've collected several dozen participants for a "creative versioning" project that would work by having writers check their documents in and out of a CVS: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000847.html Just have to find the time to get it all set up. Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Acting Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: Arianna Ciula Subject: CLiP 2006 EARLY REGISTRATION OPEN Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:58:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1004 (1004) * Apologies for cross-posting * =========================================================== CLiP 2006 NOW OPEN FOR EARLY REGISTRATION The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: 'Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world' Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, UK Thursday 29 June - Saturday 1 July 2006 <http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/>http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ =========================================================== ABOUT CLiP The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference has taken place at a variety of European universities since the first conference in 1998. The initiative for the first seminar was taken by literary scholars who were not only aware of the importance of new technologies for the humanities, but also of what the humanities had contributed to the creation of digital culture in general and to the content of the Internet in particular. This year the host organization will be the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College London, UK. The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference focuses on the integration of Philology and Information Technology relevant to humanities computing communities involved in the study of Romance languages. The academic issues and projects are approached from a multicultural European perspective, so as to foment international collaboration in research and teaching. This conference can best be seen as a three-day seminar, in that there are no parallel sessions, there is as coherent an academic focus as possible and the participation of young scholars is actively encouraged. EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE Early registration with reduced fees is open until May 29, 2006. More details and registration form at: <http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/registration/registration.html>http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/registration/registration.html From: news_at_lists.ulrls.lon.ac.uk Subject: Electronic resources for manuscript studies Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:27:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1005 (1005) Thinking about a dissertation on manuscripts or palaeography? Are you a medievalist interested to see what manuscripts might mean for your work? You are invited to an introductory session on electronic resources for manuscript studies. 11.30am-12.30pm Tuesday 25th April (and repeated at the same time on Wednesday 26th April) in the Seminar Room behind the Palaeography Room Please sign up at the desk in the Palaeography Room." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alun Ford Manuscript Studies Librarian Senate House Library, University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU (p) +44 20 7862 8475 (f) +44 20 7862 8480 From: "Ray Siemens" Subject: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA, Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:28:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1006 (1006) 22-24 March 2007) CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference Miami, 22-24 March 2007 For the past six 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 2007 RSA meeting (Miami, 22-24 March 2007), 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 papers, panels, deminstrations, and/or workshop presentations that 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 Chair, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto, Scarborough From: Kenneth M Price Subject: Nebraska Digital Workshop Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:22:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1007 (1007) First Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) University of Nebraska-Lincoln September 22-23, 2006 The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the first annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on September 22-23, 2006 and seeks proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in digital humanities. Workshop Goals The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early-career scholars in the field of digital humanities, including but not limited to, English, History, and Modern Languages, to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Under the auspices of the CDRH research faculty and staff-a group that includes CDHR Co-Directors Kenneth M. Price and Katherine L. Walter, Brett Barney, Andrew Jewell, Brian Pytlik Zillig, Douglas Seefeldt, William G. Thomas, III, and Judellen Thornton-J=E4ringe-the Nebraska Digital Workshop will offer opportunities to discuss the potential of humanities computing, present examples of successful projects created at the CDRH, offer a new tools workshop, share strategies for developing administrative and institutional support for digital humanities scholarship at the applicants' home institutions, and share external funding and grant-writing tips. The Workshop ultimately endeavors to foster a network of digital scholars who will come together across disciplinary boundaries at the workshop, and who in the future will advance humanities computing and help define the state of digital scholarship. For information on the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and faculty/staff biographies, see http://cdrh.unl.edu. The Workshop will supplement its roster by bringing two nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to Lincoln to participate and work with the scholars whose work is selected for presentation. This year, the Workshop coincides with the Department of History's third annual Pauley Symposium on the topic "History in the Digital Age," a gathering of top digital historians that will include: Abdul Alkalimat, University of Toledo; Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia; Peter Bol, Harvard University; Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara; John Lutz, University of Victoria; Patrick Manning, Northeastern University; Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University; Jan Reiff, University of California, Los Angeles; Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University and Robert Schwartz, Mt. Holyoke College. Two of these digital humanists will participate in the Workshop. Travel, Lodging and Honoraria The CDRH will pay for travel and lodging expenses and scholars will receive an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop. Workshop participants will also be invited to all of the Pauley Symposium "History in the Digital Age" events. Selection Criteria Applicants are encouraged to submit a three-page narrative abstract for an approximately 30-minute presentation of their digital project along with files of, or links to, any digital elements, electronic text, analytical tools, or multimedia visualizations already created. Applicants who are earlier in the production phase of their digital project may also submit descriptive text that explains their plans for such digital materials. Selection criteria include: the significance of the project in primary disciplinary field, elements of technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach to the subject. To Apply Applicants are asked to send a proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk to William G. Thomas, III, Chair, Nebraska Digital Workshop Committee, via email attachment at wgt_at_unl.edu or via surface mail at 615 Oldfather Hall, UNL, Lincoln NE 68588-0327. Deadline The deadline for applications is May 1, 2006. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new books Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:31:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1008 (1008) New books published by Springer Verlag: Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design II 9th International Conference, CSCWD 2005, Coventry, UK, May 24-26, 2005, Revised Selected Papers Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3865 Shen, W.; Chao, K.-M.; Lin, Z.; Barthès, J.-P.A.; James, A. (Eds.) 2006, XII, 659 p., Softcover ISBN: 3-540-32969-2 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2005, held in Coventry, UK, in May 2005. The 65 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions during at least two rounds of reviewing and improvement. They contain expanded versions of the papers presented at the conference and are organized in topical sections on CSCW techniques and methods, Grids and Web services, agents and multi-agent systems, ontology and knowledge management, collaborative design and manufacturing, enterprise collaboration, workflows, and other related approaches and applications. Wittgenstein, Language and Information: "Back to the Rough Ground!" Series: Information Science and Knowledge Management, Vol. 10 Blair, David 2006, XIV, 358 p., Hardcover ISBN: 1-4020-4112-8 This book is an extension of the discussions presented in Blair’s 1990 book Language and Representation in Information Retrieval, which was selected as the "Best Information Science Book of the Year" by the American Society for Information Science (ASIS). That work stated that the Philosophy of Language had the best theory for understanding meaning in language, and within the Philosophy of Language, the work of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was found to be most perceptive. The success of that book provided an incentive to look more deeply into Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, and how it can help us to understand how to represent the intellectual content of information. This is what the current title does, and by using this theory it creates a firm foundation for future Information Retrieval research. The work consists of four related parts. Firstly, a brief overview of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language and its relevance to information systems. Secondly, a detailed explanation of Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of language and mind. Thirdly, an extended discussion of the relevance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information systems, especially those systems which rely on retrieval based on some representation of the intellectual content of that information. And, fourthly, a series of detailed footnotes which cite the sources of the numerous quotations and provide some discussion of the related issues that the text inspires. Experimental Research in Evolutionary Computation The New Experimentalism Series: Natural Computing Series Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas 2006, XIV, 214 p. 66 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 3-540-32026-1 Experimentation is necessary -- a purely theoretical approach is not reasonable. The new experimentalism, a development in the modern philosophy of science, considers that an experiment can have a life of its own. It provides a statistical methodology to learn from experiments, where the experimenter should distinguish between statistical significance and scientific meaning. This book introduces the new experimentalism in evolutionary computation, providing tools to understand algorithms and programs and their interaction with optimization problems. The book develops and applies statistical techniques to analyze and compare modern search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization. Treating optimization runs as experiments, the author offers methods for solving complex real-world problems that involve optimization via simulation, and he describes successful applications in engineering and industrial control projects. The book bridges the gap between theory and experiment by providing a self-contained experimental methodology and many examples, so it is suitable for practitioners and researchers and also for lecturers and students. It summarizes results from the author's consulting to industry and his experience teaching university courses and conducting tutorials at international conferences. The book will be supported online with downloads and exercises. Knowledge Discovery from XML Documents First International Workshop, KDXD 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006, Proceedings Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3915 Nayak, Richi; Zaki, Mohammed J. (Eds.) 2006, VIII, 105 p., Softcover ISBN: 3-540-33180-8 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from XML Documents, KDXD 2006, held in Singapore in conjunction with the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006). The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML data mining methods of classification, clustering and association; XML data reasoning and querying methods, query optimization; and on XML data applications of transportation and security. Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "R. Allen Shoaf" Subject: EXEMPLARIA announces a special Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:21:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1009 (1009) cluster of essays on "Movie Medievalism" The Publisher, Editors, and Advisers of EXEMPLARIA take pleasure in announcing a Special Cluster of essays on "Movie Medievalism," guest-edited by the newest member of the EXEMPLARIA Advisory Board, Richard Burt, of the University of Florida, and by Nikolas Haydock, of the University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez. The cluster is scheduled to appear in EXEMPLARIA 18.2 in the fall of 2006 and is available online as a digital preprint at the following URL: http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/movie/FP.htm Permission is hereby granted to copy and to cite the essays for any non-commercial purpose with full acknowledgment of EXEMPLARIA's copyright in them. Acknowledgment of the digital version of the Cluster should take the following form: EXEMPLARIA Special Cluster: "Movie Medievalism" Author's Name Essay's Title EXEMPLARIA: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Volume 18.2 (2006) Accessible at: (complete URL of the individual essay) Problems in, difficulties with, or suggestions about the website should be directed to the Editors of EXEMPLARIA through one of the e-mail links provided on the various pages of the Cluster. The Cluster will remain on-line throughout the remainder of calendar 2006 and will from time to time be updated as the guest-editors and/or authors deem appropriate. Please feel free to circulate this announcement to any e-list the members of which may be interested in the topic. Thank you, R. Allen Shoaf, Alumni Professor of English 1990-93 Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities 1982-1983 & 1999-2000 University of Florida, P.O. Box 117310, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310 Co-founding Editor, /EXEMPLARIA/, ras_at_ufl.edu http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf/ FAX 352.374-2473; VOICE 352.371-7149 (Home); 352.392-6650 x 264 (Office); 352.317-0247 (Cell) 725 NE 6th Street, Gainesville, FL 32601-5567 From: Charles Ess Subject: postdocs - University of Twente Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:48:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1010 (1010) - Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media Dear Humanists, with apologies for cross-postings and duplications - on behalf of Philip Brey, director of the project, please pass on the following to interested scholars and researchers - The Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, is looking for Three Postdocs Three full-time Postdoc positions for a period of three years for the project Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media. Towards a Philosophy of Human-Media Relations About the Overall Project All three Postdoc positions are part of a prestigious and exciting international research project titled Evaluating the Cultural Quality of New Media. This five-year project, which will include five researchers and will involve collaboration with leading international scholars and research centres, has as its aim to develop a framework for better normative analyses of new media and new media culture, especially in relation to their contribution to the quality of life (“the good lifeâ€) and the quality of society. Project leader is Dr. Philip Brey (PhD, UC San Diego). He will be working on the project almost full-time. The project will be part of a new international Centre of Excellence in Ethics and Technology of the departments of philosophy of Twente University, Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology. Postdoc Project 1 - The Quality of Virtual Environments and Tools This subproject aims to perform a philosophical analysis of the implications of ever increasing virtualization for the quality of life and of society. Virtualization is defined as the digital production of interactive structures, whether graphical or symbolic, that mirror things and events in the physical world. What are the implications of this process for moral and social identity, embodiment, and conceptions of reality, and how can these implications be normatively evaluated? Postdoc Project 2 ­ The Quality of Computer-Mediated Practice This subproject focuses on computer-mediated social practices in friendships, love relationships, and community life. Increasingly, the social world is held together by electronic networks. More and more, communication, social relationships, and community formation take place over such networks. The aim of the project is to perform a philosophical analysis of the implications of this trend for the quality of life and of society. Postdoc Project 3 ­ The Quality of Digital Information This subproject focuses on the changed value of information after the digital revolution. It will analyze various conceptions of the value of information, including liberal conceptions that emphasize its role in enhancing autonomy, communitarian conceptions that relate it to the well-being of communities and society, and culturalist conceptions that emphasize the aesthetic, moral or spiritual value of information. It will then analyze positive and negative appraisals of the impact of the Internet and other digital media relative to these ideals. Profile For all three projects: A PhD degree or equivalent degree in philosophy. Consideration will also be given to candidates with a multidisciplinary PhD degree on a topic relevant to the project and some background in philosophy. Demonstrable interest in philosophical issues relating to information technology and new media. Good analytical skills. Good communication skills in English, in writing as well as orally. Creativity, open-mindedness, and ability to develop new ideas. For project 1: Preferred areas of specialization: ethics, social and political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind. For project 2: Preferred areas of specialization: social and political philosophy, ethics. For project 3: Preferred areas of specialization: social and political philosophy, ethics, epistemology. Offer For all three projects: A three-year full-time Postdoc position starting August 15th, 2006. The gross salary depends on experience and qualifications and will be in between € 3,024 and € 4,140.- per month (between € 39,554.- 4.- and € 54,151.- per annum including vacation pay). All three positions come with a budget of up to € 10,000,- for travel and conference attendance. Information and application A description of the overall project, the three subprojects and a FAQ can be retrieved from http://www.ceptes.nl/vici. Applicants are advised to read these texts carefully before applying. The project leader, dr. Philip Brey (e-mail: p.a.e.brey_at_utwente.nl ), will be happy to answer questions about the project. Your application should contain the following documents: a letter of application which explains your interest in the position at some length and explains your qualifications; a curriculum vitae which includes the names and email address/telephone number of at least two academic references; an abstract and table of contents of your dissertation; at least one chapter from your dissertation; and two academic publications (if available). You application can be sent by e-mail (preferred) or by normal post to dr. ir. J.F.C. Verberne (e-mail: pz-gw_at_gw.utwente.nl), managing director of the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands. Vacancy number 06/043, Please mention the project number. Your application should be in by May 26. Job interviews will be held between June 1 and 14 (travel expenses will be paid). == Thanks in advance for your help! Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> 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'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: "Scuola di Robotica" Subject: About Roboethics Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:47:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1011 (1011) Dear Madames, Sirs, I am writing you on behalf of the non-profit association "School of Robotics". We would like to introduce you our activity in the Roboethics domain. We just concluded a Euron Roboethics Project called Roboethics Atelier, a workshop of a week with scientists from the Robotics side and Humanities: www.roboethics.org. If you are interested in our activities, please, let us know. We would be glad to collaborate with your Institution, exchange ideas and contributions in this new and exciting field. I thank you for your attention. Kindest Regards. Emanuele Micheli From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.14 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:49:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1012 (1012) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 14 April 11, 2006 - April 17, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: TELECOM PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF LINEAR AND PLANAR ARRAYS There are four basic factors that influence the performances of array patches antennas: spacing between patches, number of patches in the array, amplitude distribution, and excitation phase. This paper, focused on the excitation phase, was prepared by A. Latif and A. Oulad-Said of the Laboratory of Electronics and Instrumentation, Marrakech, Morroco and by A. Ait Ouahman, Royal School of Air, Microwaves and Telecommunications Laboratory, Marrakech, Morocco. Visit http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i14_latif.htm lUbiquity Volume 7, Issue 14 (April 11, 2006 - April 17, 2006) From: Willard McCarty Subject: Call for nominations, 2007 Roberto Busa Award Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:10:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1013 (1013) ADHO - Allied Digital Humanities Associations The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) announce: The Roberto Busa Award CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2007 AWARD The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). It is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. Subsequent recipients have been Emeritus Professor John Burrows (2001), who helped to shape the application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and bridging the gap between traditional literary criticism and computer-aided stylistics, and Emeritus Professor Susan Hockey (2004), for her contribution to the establishment of the field of Humanities Computing, and for her work on computers and text. The next Busa Award will be given at the Digital Humanities 2007 conference, which will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. The Award Committee (names listed below) invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH or ALLC. Nominators should give some account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominees work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Award Committee, Lorna Hughes, at the address lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk or AHRC ICT Methods Network, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, London WC2R 3DX, UK, no later than June 1st, 2006. Members of the 2007 Award Committee Espen Ore (ALLC) Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen (ALLC) Lorna Hughes (Chair, ACH) Stefan Sinclair (ACH) Steve Ramsay (ACH) Lorna Hughes AHRC ICT Methods Network King's College, London 7 Arundel St. London WC2R 3DX e-mail: lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk phone: 020-7848-2426 web: www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk From: Paul Buitelaar Subject: Final CFP -- ACL/COLING Workshop on Ontology Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:12:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1014 (1014) Learning and Population (OLP2) Final Call for Papers ** Deadline Extension: April 20th, 2006 (12 pm GMT) ** ** Electronic Submission: http://www.softconf.com/acl/W5-COLINGACL2006/submit.html ** 2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge (OLP2) Workshop at COLING/ACL 2006 http://olp.dfki.de/olp2/olp2_cfp.htm July 22nd, 2006 Sydney, Australia Supported By SmartWeb (http://www.smartweb-projekt.de/) Topic and Motivation An ontology is an explicit and formal specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest. Ontologies formalize the intensional aspects of a domain, whereas the extensional part is provided by a knowledge base that contains assertions about instances of concepts and relations as defined by the ontology. The process of defining and instantiating a knowledge base is referred to as knowledge markup or ontology population, whereas (semi-)automatic support in ontology development is usually referred to as ontology learning. Ontologies have been broadly used in knowledge management applications, including Semantic Web applications and research. In recent years, ontologies have regained interest also within the NLP community, specifically in such applications as information extraction, text mining and question answering. However, as ontology development is a tedious and costly process there has been an equally growing interest in the automatic learning of ontologies. Much of this work has been focused on textual data as human language is a primary mode of knowledge transfer. In this way, textual data provide both a resource for the ontology learning process as well as an application medium for developed ontologies. Automatic methods for text-based ontology learning and population have developed over recent years, but it is difficult to compare approaches and results. In the 1st Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population (at ECAI 2004, Spain: http://olp.dfki.de/ecai04/cfp.htm) we addressed this issue through an emphasis on the evaluation aspects of the reported work. In the context of the 2nd workshop we intend to continue this emphasis by providing a common data set for participants to work with, consisting of an ontology and document collection in the football (soccer) domain and a corresponding automatically extracted knowledge base. Participants will be free to use this or other data, but are encouraged to (also) use the OLP2 data set (http://www.dfki.de/sw-lt/olp2_dataset/) for their experiments in order to better compare results with other participants. An additional topic we intend to address at this workshop is the relation between NLP and ontology development, the communities of which are working on similar topics but using different terminology. As this leads to a confound communication, the potential for interdisciplinary work becomes much less pronounced. We therefore intend the workshop to contribute to an enhanced interdisciplinary understanding of tasks, methods and evaluations. Areas of Interest To provide a clear focus we request novel work on: - Concept formation on the basis of text - Learning concept hierarchies / non-taxonomic relations / rules / axioms from text - Named-Entity Recognition with respect to an ontology - Ontology-based information extraction - Ontology learning for IE, IR, MT, QA - Gold standard and task-based evaluation of ontology learning, e.g. in IE, IR, MT, QA Important Dates April 20th Submission Deadline May 17th Notification June 2nd Camera-ready Version July 22nd Workshop Submission Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Papers must be submitted no later than April 20, 2006 (12 pm GMT) under: <>http://www.softconf.com/acl/W5-COLINGACL2006/submit.html Organizing Committee Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Germany Philipp Cimiano - AIFB, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany Berenike Loos - European Media Lab, Germany Program Committee Eneko Agirre - Basque Country University, Spain Enrique Alfonseca - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles - IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Timothy Baldwin - University of Melbourne, Australia Roberto Basili - Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Johan Bos - Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Christopher Brewster - University of Sheffield, UK Massimiliano Ciaramita - LOA-ISTC, Italy Nigel Collier - National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ido Dagan - Bar Ilan University, Israel Eric Gausier - XEROX XRCE, France Asuncion Gomez-Perez - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Marko Grobelnik - Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Siegfried Handschuh - DERI Galway, Ireland Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel, Germany Eduard Hovy - USC, Information Sciences Institute, USA Vipul Kashyap - Partners HealthCare System, USA Bernardo Magnini - ITC-IRST, Italy Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield, UK Adeline Nazarenko - LIPN-Universite Paris-Nord, France Claire Nedellec - MIG, INRA, France George Paliouras - NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Patrick Pantel - USC, Information Sciences Institute, USA Robert Porzel - European Media Lab, Germany Marie-Laure Reinberger - Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Marta Sabou - Knowledge Media Institute, UK Michael Sintek - DFKI, Germany Peter Spyns - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Steffen Staab - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Vojtech Svatek - University of Economics, Prague, Czech Rep. Paola Velardi - Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Dominic Widdows - MAYA Design, USA Workshop Registration All workshop participants must register for COLING/ACL 2006 (http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au/) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1015 (1015) From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ******************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Hybrid Logic 2006 (HyLo 2006) Affiliated with LICS 2006 August 11, 2006, Seattle, USA ******************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic in which it is possible to directly refer to worlds/times/states or whatever the elements of the (Kripke) model are meant to represent. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it is only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, because of the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant,and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals --- atomic symbols true at a unique point --- together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behavior of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau, resolution, and natural deduction in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is not available in orthodox modal logic. Hybrid logic is now a mature field, therefore a theme of special interest at this HyLo workshop will be the combination of hybrid logic with other logics, the basic methodological question being "what is the best way of hybridizing a given logic?" However, submissions in all areas of hybrid logic are welcome. The workshop HyLo 2006 is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. The workshop continues a series of previous workshops on hybrid logic, for example the LICS-affiliated HyLo 2002 (http://floc02.diku.dk/HYLO) which was held as part of FLoC 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. If you are unsure whether your work is of relevance to the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers for more information. Contact details are given below. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage (http://hylo.loria.fr/). INVITED SPEAKERS: Patrick Blackburn (INRIA Lorraine, France) Valeria de Paiva (PARC, USA) Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester, UK) [...] From: Carlos Areces Subject: CFP: 2nd International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:06:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1016 (1016) ******************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic 26-30 September 2006, Salamanca (Spain) ******************************************************************* Submission of Papers: May 15, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: July 3, 2006 Web: http://logicae.usal.es/SICTTL AIMS AND SCOPE: Most of us share the feeling that the teaching of an interdisciplinary field spanning logic, linguistics and computer science should be available in such a way that will facilitate further interdisciplinary research. Nevertheless, we are aware that the needs are different in those fields of study which have already been stablished. The overall concern is in the teaching of logic, but with special regard in addressing innovations and the systematization of educational activity. We believe that the role of logic in the shaping of the epistemology of this XXI creature should be crucial; Information technology is rapidly changing the world we live in, and logic is helping us to produce, distribute and process information, as well as to understand how coded information can modify people's state of knowlege. At the University of Salamanca the First International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic took place in June 2000. A number of logicians from different countries in Europe, the US and South America gathered there to focus on education on the interfaces between philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, computer science and related disciplines. The organizing committee invites you to take part in the Second International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic, which will be held in Salamanca on September 26-30, 2006. There will be lectures, discussion sessions, round tables and software demonstrations. You are kindly invited to take active part in these sessions and to exhibit your teaching or professional software. We invite submission of papers on all aspects of teaching logics, including the following main topics: 1. Issues, Means and Objectives in Teaching Logic. 2. Teaching the Role of Logic in Science and Humanities. 3. Teaching Logic Research in a Postgraduate Programme. 4. Software for Teaching Logic and Reasoning. 5. e-Learning Logic: Resources and Challenges. PROGRAM: We have already arrange the following plenary sessions: Johan van Benthem: What Should Every Student Know About Logic? Rethinking the Core Curriculum. University of Amsterdam. Holland Wilfrid Hodges. Mathematical Writing. Quen Mary College. U.K. Patrick Blackburn. Representation and Inference for Natural Language. INRIA Lorraine. France. Hans van Ditmarsh. 10 Years of "logic software and logic education". University of Otago. New Zealand Dick de Jongh, Carlos Mart=EDn Vide, Felip Manya, Raymundo Morado, Angel Nepomuceno, Huberto Marraud, Di=F3genes Rosales, Concepci=F3n Mart=EDnez, Enrique Caorsi, Francisco Salguero, Carlos Oller, Tulio Olmos, Antonia Huertas, Enrique Alonso, Carmen Cadena and others are also planing to give talks. [...]=20 From: "Claire Rustat-Flinton" Subject: Calls for Outline Proposals for Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:04:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1017 (1017) ESF EUROCORES Pro grammes Inventing Europe and TECT Dear colleagues, I am happy to inform you that ESF has launched two more Calls for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) under the following EUROCORES Programmes: - "TECT - The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading", a multidisciplinary programme of interest for researchers in human, social, life and natural sciences. The development of this EUROCORES Programme has been supported by SCH (Humanities), SCSS (Social Sciences) and LESC (Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences). -"Inventing Europe - Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present The Calls have been published on the ESF website at http://www.esf.org/tect and http://www.esf.org/inventingeurope respectively. Best regards Dr. Ruediger Klein EUROCORES Programme Coordinator European Science Foundation (ESF) 1, quai Lezay-Marnésia F - 67080 Strasbourg cedex France Tel.: +33 (0)388 76 71 04 Fax: +33 (0)388 37 05 32 E-mail: rklein_at_esf.org From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: NEW BOOKS by L. Magnani et al., Proceedings of ECAP2004_ITALY Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:04:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1018 (1018) 1) L. MAGNANI (ed), Computing and Philosophy, http://www.internetbookshop.it/ser/serdsp.asp?shop=1&c=IKBOID0IJW1QS Associated International Academic Publishers (Scientific Director: Lorenzo Magnani), Pavia, 2006. ISBN 88-89659-02-5, € 21.60. Authors: M. Bazire, P. Brézillon, J. Burian, B. Cambon de Lavalette, W. A. Cameron, L. Celi, L. De Carli, G. Dodig-Crnkovic, S. Franchi, D. Gadia, A. Lacaste, C Leproux, Th. Lindof, D. Marini, L. Marini- Lumer, S. Mildeova, S. Poitrenaud, A. Riegler, C. T. Schmidt, C. Tabet, C. Tijus, S. Trausan-Matu, M. Weinstein. 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BANK REFERENCES: Associated International Academic Publishing Company Srl IBAN: IT20H0690611301000000043280 -- Lorenzo Magnani Director, Computational Philosophy Laboratory <http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/> Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, 510275 Guangzhou (Canton), P.R.China Chair (with Li Ping) of the Conference MBR06-CHINA Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/mbr06.php July 2006 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for posters and demonstrations: TEI Members Meeting 2006 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:14:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1019 (1019) Call for Posters and Demonstrations TEI Annual Members Meeting University of Victoria, Canada October 27-28, 2006 Deadline for submission of proposals: May 29, 2006 The TEI Consortium is happy to announce that a poster session/tool demonstration will again be included in the program of this year's TEI Members' Meeting in Victoria, Canada on October 27 and 28th, 2006. The poster session will take place the morning of the second day of the meeting, Saturday, October 28th. In addition to the poster session on Saturday, some poster presenters will be offered the opportunity to give a short talk about their poster at the members' meeting on Friday, October 27th. The topic of a poster can be a current project you are working on using TEI encoding, a tool developed for the production or dissemination of TEI-encoded texts, or any TEI-related topic you feel would be of benefit to the community. The poster can be a traditional printed poster or a demonstration on a computer. Unfortunately the TEI cannot fund the travel, lodging, or meals for poster presenters. The local organizer can provide a flip chart and a table for each presenter, and wireless internet access will be available. If you wish to present a poster or tool demonstration at the members' meeting in Victoria, please send a brief proposal (500-750 words) describing your project to: info_at_tei-c.org Deadline for proposals is May 29, 2006. The proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and successful applicants will be notified by June 19 and given further information about presenting. From: Willard McCarty Subject: why the (digital) humanities need the (digital) arts Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:03:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1020 (1020) Having just had a privileged look at the Digital Humanities conference programme, I have in mind a session-title I saw there, "Why the Digital Humanities Need the Digital Arts". I have no idea what is to be said at the session, but I'm certainly inclined to think that the speakers are onto something quite important. The divorcement of the humanities from the arts, painfully evident in some departments of art history, for example, is an inheritance we can well do without. The historical training of engineers as artists (in the Renaissance), the history of technology and (I'd guess) the experience of programming all point toward common elements of a potential community of practice that is, or will be, stronger for becoming a self-recognized community. "The craft of research" is far more than the title of a worthy volume by Booth et al -- it's an alert to the craftsmanship of research, in the humanities and elsewhere, and to truths about how it is to be taught as well as practiced. It may be in the disposition of some only to sit and think -- for those who do this well, more power to their theoretical elbow -- but for us how we know what we know is a matter of method, and so of methodology that never wanders away to set up house on its own. This community of practice, I keep thinking and saying, has far more in common with the experimental sciences, with their equipment and laboratories, than it has differences. (These differences are very important, but it's impossible to see them clearly without first seeing the commonalities.) Computing in the laboratory, studio and study alerts us to deeper ties. Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Stuart Dunn Subject: Re: 19.708 why the (digital) humanities need the Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:20:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1021 (1021) (digital) arts Dear Willard and all, I agree that the (re)unification of the digital arts and digital humanities is very significant and interesting area, and one which I sincerely hope will also be addressed by this year's DRHA conference at Dartington Hall in September (see http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/about/index.asp). Various fields of the humanities are becoming ever more visual - reconstruction, visualization, the significance of space and how spatial data translates from the real to the binary worlds - are areas of Venn-style overlap with the creative and performing arts, and the directions in which the research is leading the technology in both are, I think, concepts which can no longer be viewed separately. Take Access Grid. The performing arts (especially in the US, in collaboration with Internet2) been pushing the technological envelope of AG in directions which the physical sciences, which developed the methods and the toolkit, have not. The need for camera angles and microphones that preserve the sensitivities of the performance, the reduction of multicast latency to avoid disrupting music and dance rhythms, and the provision of 'immersive' AG environments to integrate performers and data with the 'virtual venue' are all issues which are being very successfully addressed by the AG performance communities. Surely these are areas which humanities research teams with complex visual data and people to integrate from distributed locations will interested in? And vice versa. NB: This year, DRHA is a new name: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts. Makes you think... Best wishes, Stuart On 14 Apr 2006, at 10:09, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote: [deleted quotation]Dr Stuart Dunn Research Associate JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX Tel 0207 848 2709 Fax 0207 848 2980 www.ahessc.ac.uk From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 19.708 why the (digital) humanities need the Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:35:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1022 (1022) (digital) arts Dear Willard, I think I am one of the people talking on the digital humanities and arts. A document that I find useful thinking through the intersection of creative practices and information technology is _Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity_ which is online at: http://newton.nap.edu/html/beyond_productivity/ This report nicely discusses some of the challenges including preconceptions and differences in funding. In my experience one of the challenges when humanists and artists collaborate is coordinating research practices and outcomes. Humanists value the dialogue that takes place in symposia, meetings, conferences and so on. For us talk is work while for many artists talk is time away from the studio where the work happens. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 19.713 why the (digital) humanities need the Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:36:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1023 (1023) (digital) arts This subject reminds me of a comic I saw last month of "The Ultimate Solution" to eBooks It showed a new generation looking through an empty monitor case. . . . at a plain paper book. . . . Whye shoulde a newe medium conforme to ye olde standardes??? There is way too much effort being made to enforce ye olde standards and way too little effort being made to bring all the CONTENT to all, regardless of what font, format, layout, etc. With this new medium, everyone should be able to choose their own, use their own favorite formats and fonts, not yours. 86,600,000 Google hits for: "ebook" OR "ebooks" OR "e-books" OR "e-book". and only 75,700,000 for "bomb" OR "bombs". Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg [...] From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" Subject: RE: 19.713 why the (digital) humanities need the Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:37:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1024 (1024) (digital) arts At our regional campus, we're nudging our way around this essential question, trying to get a better hold of how the digital moves across, under, through the humanities and the arts. We're doing courses on the digital university and public humanities, forming a new media working group, thinking about the intermediality of the arts, and, as Willard suggests, re-thinking classroom space into a kind of design space for collaboratories, performance research. Just to say I hope to hear more! Best, Gray Gray Kochhar-Lindgren,PhD Interim Coordinator Center for University Studies and Programs Faculty: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington, Bothell [...] From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" Subject: sound pictures of world languages Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:39:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1025 (1025) Dear Humanist colleagues, it is 33 years after I entered the post graduate studies. It is 30 years after my first article was published. After that I published 330 articles and 6 books. I have computed the sound pictures of 157 world languages. Unfortunately, there are many more languages in the world which phonemic frequency of occurrence was never computed. I guess it is important to find out how one language differs from the other by the phonemic frequencies in their speech sound chains. They are as different as the faces of people, It is possible to compare the sound pictures of languages and draw some typological conclusions. However, it looks that nobody cares. I never received any e-mail message which would support my studies on the frequncy of occurrence of speech sounds in different languages. It is strange for me why American Indian, African or Australian aboriginal languages were never studied from this point of view. I wonder if I should celebrate the publication of my first article or I should regret that I went into linguistics. It looks that the Natural Sciences are appreciated by the society much more than linguistics. It is very sad for me. I wonder if you can explain why it is so. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb_at_mail.ru Remain yours most sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3955/2006: Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:43:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1026 (1026) Advances in Artificial Intelligence Volume 3955/2006 (Advances in Artificial Intelligence) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Planning with Stochastic Petri-Nets and Neural Nets p. 1 Nikolaos Bourbakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_1 Data Mining Using Fractals and Power Laws p. 2 Christos Faloutsos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_2 Voice Activity Detection Using Generalized Gamma Distribution p. 3 George Almpanidis, Constantine Kotropoulos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_3 A Framework for Uniform Development of Intelligent Virtual Agents p. 13 George Anastassakis, Themis Panayiotopoulos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_4 A Mixture Model Based Markov Random Field for Discovering Patterns in Sequences p. 25 Konstantinos Blekas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_5 An Efficient Hardware Implementation for AI Applications p. 35 Alexandros Dimopoulos, Christos Pavlatos, Ioannis Panagopoulos, George Papakonstantinou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_6 Handling Knowledge-Based Decision Making Issues in Collaborative Settings: An Integrated Approach p. 46 Christina E. Evangelou, Nikos Karacapilidis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_7 Market Clearing Price Forecasting in Deregulated Electricity Markets Using Adaptively Trained Neural Networks p. 56 Pavlos S. Georgilakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_8 Adaptive-Partitioning-Based Stochastic Optimization Algorithm and Its Application to Fuzzy Control Design p. 67 Chang-Wook Han, Jung-Il Park DOI: 10.1007/11752912_9 Fuzzy Granulation-Based Cascade Fuzzy Neural Networks Optimized by GA-RSL p. 77 Chang-Wook Han, Jung-Il Park DOI: 10.1007/11752912_10 Using Self-similarity Matrices for Structure Mining on News Video p. 87 Arne Jacobs DOI: 10.1007/11752912_11 Spam Detection Using Character N-Grams p. 95 Ioannis Kanaris, Konstantinos Kanaris, Efstathios Stamatatos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_12 Improved Wind Power Forecasting Using a Combined Neuro-fuzzy and Artificial Neural Network Model p. 105 Yiannis A. Katsigiannis, Antonis G. Tsikalakis, Pavlos S. Georgilakis, Nikos D. Hatziargyriou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_13 A Long-Term Profit Seeking Strategy for Continuous Double Auctions in a Trading Agent Competition p. 116 Dionisis Kehagias, Panos Toulis, Pericles Mitkas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_14 A Robust Agent Design for Dynamic SCM Environments p. 127 Ioannis Kontogounis, Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Pericles A. Mitkas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_15 A Novel Updating Scheme for Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing p. 137 Constantine Kotropoulos, Athanasios Papaioannou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_16 Local Additive Regression of Decision Stumps p. 148 Sotiris B. Kotsiantis, Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Panayiotis E. Pintelas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_17 Mining Time Series with Mine Time p. 158 Lefteris Koumakis, Vassilis Moustakis, Alexandros Kanterakis, George Potamias DOI: 10.1007/11752912_18 Behaviour Flexibility in Dynamic and Unpredictable Environments: The ICagent Approach p. 169 Vangelis Kourakos-Mavromichalis, George Vouros DOI: 10.1007/11752912_19 Investigation of Decision Trees (DTs) Parameters for Power System Voltage Stability Enhancement p. 181 Eirini A. Leonidaki, Nikos D. Hatziargyriou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_20 An Improved Hybrid Genetic Clustering Algorithm p. 192 Yongguo Liu, Jun Peng, Kefei Chen, Yi Zhang DOI: 10.1007/11752912_21 A Greek Named-Entity Recognizer That Uses Support Vector Machines and Active Learning p. 203 Georgios Lucarelli, Ion Androutsopoulos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_22 Intelligent Segmentation and Classification of Pigmented Skin Lesions in Dermatological Images p. 214 Ilias Maglogiannis, Elias Zafiropoulos, Christos Kyranoudis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_23 Modelling Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms by Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution p. 224 Michail Maniadakis, Panos Trahanias DOI: 10.1007/11752912_24 Bayesian Feature Construction p. 235 Manolis Maragoudakis, Nikos Fakotakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_25 Musical Instrument Recognition and Classification Using Time Encoded Signal Processing and Fast Artificial Neural Networks p. 246 Giorgos Mazarakis, Panagiotis Tzevelekos, Georgios Kouroupetroglou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_26 O-DEVICE: An Object-Oriented Knowledge Base System for OWL Ontologies p. 256 Georgios Meditskos, Nick Bassiliades DOI: 10.1007/11752912_27 Abduction for Extending Incomplete Information Sources p. 267 Carlo Meghini, Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_28 Post Supervised Based Learning of Feature Weight Values p. 279 Vassilis S. Moustakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_29 Recognition of Greek Phonemes Using Support Vector Machines p. 290 Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Panagiotis Zervas, Nikos Fakotakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_30 Ensemble Pruning Using Reinforcement Learning p. 301 Ioannis Partalas, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Ioannis Katakis, Ioannis Vlahavas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_31 Mining Bilingual Lexical Equivalences Out of Parallel Corpora p. 311 Stelios Piperidis, Ioannis Harlas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_32 Feed-Forward Neural Networks Using Hermite Polynomial Activation Functions p. 323 Gerasimos G. Rigatos, Spyros G. Tzafestas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_33 A Distributed Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Computing Optimal Coalition Structures p. 334 Chattrakul Sombattheera, Aditya Ghose DOI: 10.1007/11752912_34 Pattern Matching-Based System for Machine Translation (MT) p. 345 George Tambouratzis, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Vassiliki Spilioti, Marina Vassiliou, Olga Yannoutsou, Stella Markantonatou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_35 Bayesian Metanetwork for Context-Sensitive Feature Relevance p. 356 Vagan Terziyan DOI: 10.1007/11752912_36 Prediction of Translation Initiation Sites Using Classifier Selection p. 367 George Tzanis, Ioannis Vlahavas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_37 Improving Neural Network Based Option Price Forecasting p. 378 Vasilios S. Tzastoudis, Nikos S. Thomaidis, George D. Dounias DOI: 10.1007/11752912_38 Large Scale Multikernel RVM for Object Detection p. 389 Dimitris Tzikas, Aristidis Likas, Nikolas Galatsanos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_39 Extraction of Salient Contours in Color Images p. 400 Vassilios Vonikakis, Ioannis Andreadis, Antonios Gasteratos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_40 Dynamic Security Assessment and Load Shedding Schemes Using Self Organized Maps and Decision Trees p. 411 Emmanouil M. Voumvoulakis, Nikolaos D. Hatziargyriou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_41 Towards Automatic Synthesis of Educational Resources Through Automated Planning p. 421 Dimitris Vrakas, Fotis Kokkoras, Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis Vlahavas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_42 Towards Capturing and Enhancing Entertainment in Computer Games p. 432 Georgios N. Yannakakis, John Hallam DOI: 10.1007/11752912_43 Employing Fujisaki's Intonation Model Parameters for Emotion Recognition p. 443 Panagiotis Zervas, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis, George Kokkinakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_44 Detection of Vocal Fold Paralysis and Edema Using Linear Discriminant Classifiers p. 454 Euthymius Ziogas, Constantine Kotropoulos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_45 An Artificial Neural Network for the Selection of Winding Material in Power Transformers p. 465 Eleftherios I. Amoiralis, Pavlos S. Georgilakis, Alkiviadis T. Gioulekas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_46 Biomedical Literature Mining for Text Classification and Construction of Gene Networks p. 469 Despoina Antonakaki, Alexandros Kanterakis, George Potamias DOI: 10.1007/11752912_47 Towards Representational Autonomy of Agents in Artificial Environments p. 474 Argyris Arnellos, Spyros Vosinakis, Thomas Spyrou, John Darzentas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_48 Combining Credibility in a Source Sensitive Argumentation System p. 478 Chee Fon Chang, Peter Harvey, Aditya Ghose DOI: 10.1007/11752912_49 An Environment for Constructing and Exploring Visual Models of Logic Propositions by Young Students p. 482 Christos Fidas, Panagiotis Politis, Vassilis Komis, Nikolaos Avouris DOI: 10.1007/11752912_50 Bridging Ontology Evolution and Belief Change p. 486 Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_51 A Holistic Methodology for Keyword Search in Historical Typewritten Documents p. 490 Basilis Gatos, Thomas Konidaris, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Perantonis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_52 Color Features for Image Fingerprinting p. 494 Marios A. Gavrielides, Elena Sikudova, Dimitris Spachos, Ioannis Pitas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_53 Neural Recognition and Genetic Features Selection for Robust Detection of E-Mail Spam p. 498 Dimitris Gavrilis, Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Evangelos Dermatas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_54 Violence Content Classification Using Audio Features p. 502 Theodoros Giannakopoulos, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Andreas Aristidou, Sergios Theodoridis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_55 An Analysis of Linear Weight Updating Algorithms for Text Classification p. 508 Aggelos Gkiokas, Iason Demiros, Stelios Piperidis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_56 On Small Data Sets Revealing Big Differences p. 512 Thanasis Hadzilacos, Dimitris Kalles, Christos Pierrakeas, Michalis Xenos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_57 A Significance-Based Graph Model for Clustering Web Documents p. 516 Argyris Kalogeratos, Aristidis Likas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_58 Supporting Clinico-Genomic Knowledge Discovery: A Multi-strategy Data Mining Process p. 520 Alexandros Kanterakis, George Potamias DOI: 10.1007/11752912_59 SHARE-ODS: An Ontology Data Service for Search and Rescue Operations p. 525 Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Georgios Paliouras, Symeon Chatzinotas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_60 Graphical Representation of Defeasible Logic Rules Using Digraphs p. 529 Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades DOI: 10.1007/11752912_61 An Efficient Peer to Peer Image Retrieval Technique Using Content Addressable Networks p. 534 Spyros Kotoulas, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Leonidas Kotoulas, Ioannis Andreadis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_62 Predicting Fraudulent Financial Statements with Machine Learning Techniques p. 538 Sotiris Kotsiantis, Euaggelos Koumanakos, Dimitris Tzelepis, Vasilis Tampakas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_63 Discrimination of Benign from Malignant Breast Lesions Using Statistical Classifiers p. 543 Konstantinos Koutroumbas, Abraham Pouliakis, Tatiana Mona Megalopoulou, John Georgoulakis, Anna-Eva Giachnaki, Petros Karakitsos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_64 Comparison of Data Fusion Techniques for Robot Navigation p. 547 Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Antonios Gasteratos, Angelos Amanatiadis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_65 On Improving Mobile Robot Motion Control p. 551 Michail G. Lagoudakis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_66 Consistency of the Matching Predicate p. 555 Dimitris Magos, Ioannis Mourtos, Leonidas Pitsoulis DOI: 10.1007/11752912_67 Intrusion Detection Using Emergent Self-organizing Maps p. 559 Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Christos Douligeris DOI: 10.1007/11752912_68 Mapping Fundamental Business Process Modelling Language to OWL-S p. 563 Gayathri Nadarajan, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger DOI: 10.1007/11752912_69 Modeling Perceived Value of Color in Web Sites p. 567 Eleftherios Papachristos, Nikolaos Tselios, Nikolaos Avouris DOI: 10.1007/11752912_70 Introducing Interval Analysis in Fuzzy Cognitive Map Framework p. 571 Elpiniki Papageorgiou, Chrysostomos Stylios, Peter Groumpos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_71 Discovering Ontologies for e-Learning Platforms p. 576 Christos Papatheodorou, Alexandra Vassiliou DOI: 10.1007/11752912_72 Exploiting Group Thinking in Organization-Oriented Programming p. 580 Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George Vouros DOI: 10.1007/11752912_73 Multimodal Continuous Recognition System for Greek Sign Language Using Various Grammars p. 584 Paschaloudi N. Vassilia, Margaritis G. Konstantinos DOI: 10.1007/11752912_74 An Alternative Suggestion for Vision-Language Integration in Intelligent Agents p. 588 Katerina Pastra DOI: 10.1007/11752912_75 Specification of Reconfigurable MAS: A Hybrid Formal Approach p. 592 Ioanna Stamatopoulou, Petros Kefalas, Marian Gheorghe DOI: 10.1007/11752912_76 An Intelligent Statistical Arbitrage Trading System p. 596 Nikos S. Thomaidis, Nick Kondakis, George D. Dounias DOI: 10.1007/11752912_77 Revising Faceted Taxonomies and CTCA Expressions p. 600 Yannis Tzitzikas DOI: 10.1007/11752912_78 Neighboring Feature Clustering p. 605 Zhifeng Wang, Wei Zheng, Yuhang Wang, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Justin D. Pearlman DOI: 10.1007/11752912_79 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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 April 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:38:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1027 (1027) Greetings: The April 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains an opinion piece, two commentaries, three articles, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month D-Lib features the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Universities Space Research Association. The Opinion is: Coming Together around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms Paul Miller, Talis The Commentaries are: Librarians and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Impact of Mandatory Policies on ETD Acquisition Arthur Sale, University of Tasmania The articles include: Identifier Interoperability: A Report on Two Recent ISO Activities Norman Paskin, Tertius Ltd Investing in Value: A Perspective on Digital Preservation James Currall and Peter McKinney, University of Glasgow The Development of a Local Thesaurus to Improve Access to the Anthropological Collections of the American Museum of Natural History Kevin L. De Vorsey, Christina Elson, Nina P. Gregorev and John Hansen, American Museum of Natural History From: John Nerbonne Subject: Rosalind Franklin Fellowships, Groningen Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:49:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1028 (1028) [The Rosalind Franklin Fellowships (Groningen, Netherlands) are named after the scientist at King's College London whose X-ray studies were crucial to solving its structure. (Her story is a very compelling one; see, for example, http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html.) The purpose of these fellowships is to promote the participation of women in Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences. This from the Groningen website (http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/rff/index): [deleted quotation]For information on humanities computing at Groningen, see the contributor's web-page, cited below. --WM] The competition for these fellowships will be fierce, and expectations are high, but they lead to a full professorship, and include a bit of funding to get research going. So please encourage very bright women to apply! Rosalind Franklin Fellowships are tenure track positions for women which including supplemental financing for one graduate student project, and which may lead to full professorships. Applications from candidates with research specializations which complement faculty strengths are especially welcome. -- J.Nerbonne j.nerbonne_at_rug.nl Alfa-informatica, U.Groningen +31 50 363 58 15 Box 716 FAX +31 50 363 68 55 NL 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands www.let.rug.nl/nerbonne From: Willard McCarty Subject: the arts of humanities computing, criticism of software Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:37:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1029 (1029) Geoffrey Rockwell writes in Humanist 19.714 that, [deleted quotation]Traditionally the humanities function to bridge the inarticulate reality of imaginative production to the social world of talk. Their function is communicative. So it seems to me that just as criticism is needed to fulfill the communicative function of literature or the visual arts, so we need a criticism of software -- a writing not so much *about* as "from" -- a kind of translation. This is a very challenging situation that software developers, project designers and the like need to address. But how to do it? Need? Imagine a situation in which there were no art historians, literary critics, philosophers of art and so on. Yes, we'd be rid of much foolishness, but we'd also be rid of the good stuff as well. Imagine a situation in which all we had was "I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like". How far away from this situation are we with software? Consider the intellectual energy currently being invested in software. How well is that human effort being served by existing discourse? How to do it? Criticism means a critical language in which to interpret, with which to communicate. Software is language-like, but so is poetry, which (as Northrop Frye has pointed out) is as dumb as statues, needs criticism as much as they do. We have critical languages for poetry and statues; we know how to talk them into meaning for us. But what is the critical language of software? Some say it has to be a mathematical language, though we don't yet have the mathematics. What do the makers say? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Utility Ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.15 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:38:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1030 (1030) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 15 April 18, 2006 - April 24, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: Electronic Scanning in Space of the Planar Array of Four Patch Antennas The rectangular patch antenna is set to play a significant role in the development of the next-generation wireless communication systems. The purpose of this report is to provide the design of the rectangular patch antenna system by studying the performance of patch antenna arrays, and to achieve the electronic scanning in space of the radiation patterns by a four rectangular patch antennas plan array. The paper was prepared by A. Latif and A. Oulad-Said of the Laboratory of Electronics and Instrumentation, Marrakech, Morroco and by A. Ait Ouahman, Royal School of Air, Microwaves and Telecommunications Laboratory, Marrakech, Morocco. Visit http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i15_latif.html lUbiquity Volume 7, Issue 14 (April 11, 2006 - April 17, 2006) From: "Douglas Galbi" Subject: why the (digital) humanities need the (digital) arts Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:41:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1031 (1031) Gumbrecht's book, The Production of Presence, emphasizes that artistic humanities can offer aesthetic experiences that complement the contemporary hermeneutic obsession of the arts and humanities. For a review, see http://www.galbithink.org/gumbrecht.htm From: Mícheál Mac_an_Airchinnigh (by Subject: Re: 19.718 the arts of Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:46:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1032 (1032) humanities computing, the criticism of software Some immodest thoughts: To talk about "software" is like talking about "literature". The "big" pieces of software are ... well ... far far beyond any kind of "literature". I speak of course of the kind of "software" that goes by the name of "operating systems" (OS) where hundreds of people are involved. Similar "BIG-SIZE" "software" is found in Air-Traffic Control, Databases, ... and so on. Let us talk about software on the size of the a) great epic poetry or b) the tiny little haiku ? Here, you will find in the "literature" an astonishing amount of the aesthetics associated with the software. === Must put on my shoes and socks now ... and so on ... and return to this with concrete aesthetics later. kind regards, Mícheál ... o O o O o ... Dr. Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin 2, IRELAND ... o O o O o ... From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Use and Users of Digital Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:45:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1033 (1033) Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education [From Diane Harley ] We are please to announce the posting of our final report: Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences Copies of the report are available at: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/digitalresourcestudy/report/ Generous funding for this multi-year project was provided by the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Additional support was provided by CITRIS, Hewlett-Packard, CDL, and UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor of Research. Authors: Diane Harley, Ph.D., Principal Investigator; Jonathan Henke, Shannon Lawrence, Ian Miller, Irene Perciali, Ph.D., and David Nasatir, Ph.D. The purpose of our research was to 1) map the universe of digital resources available to a subset of undergraduate educators in the humanities and social sciences, and 2) investigate how and if available digital resources are actually being used in undergraduate teaching environments. We employed multiple methods, including surveys and focus groups. Our definition of digital resources is intentionally broad and includes rich media objects (e.g., maps, video, images, etc.) as well as text. Contents: * Executive Summary * Introduction and Rationale for the Project * Understanding the Humanities/Social Science Digital Resource Landscape and Where Users Fit Into It * How Are Digital Resources Being Used Among Diverse Communities? * Faculty Discussion Groups and Faculty Survey * Transaction Log Analysis and Website Surveys * Why Study Users? * Interviews with Digital Resource Providers * Site Owners and User Researchers Meeting * Conclusions * Bibliography * Appendices Diane Harley, Ph.D. Director, Higher Education in the Digital Age Project Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley http://cshe.berkeley.edu/people/dharley.htm Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Ryan Deschamps Subject: Re: 19.721 why the (digital) humanities need the Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:16:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1034 (1034) (digital) arts Willard, The discussion of the importance of digital arts and digital humanities is coinciding with a discussion I am having among community groups about how to effectively translate a project or community "experience" to the digital world. http://www.envisionhalifax.ca/civicspace/?q=node/49 It highlights a problem for the community development world that wants conversations to happen at a local level and at the same time be available to a global community. It seems to me that documentation of a project or success story is not enough, to complete the community engagement process. I should point out that this discussion is occuring in both digital and non-digital forms, and by providing the link above, I am only giving the visitor a glimpse into what is going on in our lunch and coffee meetings. My argument is that design team ought to begin with the humanitarian "experience" and work into their computing ways of emulating that experience with the experience of "surfing the web." From a humanist perspective, the analogy I like to use is that of _the Symposium_. Plato cannot offer us his own real-life experience of drinking, carousing and coming to agreement with with Socrates on the issue of love, so he does his best to make the reading of _the Symposium_ emulate the experience of philosophy. Examples of this would include -- using the "dialogue" form to indicate multiple understanding, making Socrates go second-last, using framed narrative to suggest Socrates' speech has life beyond the party, having Alcibiades affirm in action what Socrates spoke in theory and so-on. In a way, the action and details of the symposium are a way of turning the reader toward a philosophical epiphany, much like the epiphany that probably happened during Plato's many conversations with Socrates. So, in conclusion -- with digital artists, humanities computing have the opportunity not only to bring great philosophy to the world, but also great "epiphanies." These epiphanies, in turn could create the motivation for users of well-designed sites to seek epiphanies from whereever those sorts of things come in the real world. There may be other things digital artists can help humanists emulate as well -- things like "belonging," or "achievement/success" or "knowing" or "happiness" -- which, in a sense, are the sorts of things great texts try to do. Ryan. . . Ryan Deschamps From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Research/Creation in the Arts Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:16:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1035 (1035) Dear Willard, Two comments on the arts of computing. 1. I think a place to start with the critique of software is with the critique of entertainment software rather than utilitarian software. Computer games, for example, lend themselves more easily to the traditions of critique we know. This is not a new idea, games studies and new media colleagues have been doing that for at least a decade. That is not to say that the critique of utilitarian software isn't also interesting, but it is often constrained by the patterns of consumption of such software. People don't buy a word processor because they think of it as an aesthetic object and therefore it will be harder to engage them in such discussions. (Having written that I realize that often I am swayed by the design of laptops and software ... perhaps "productivity" software is more of a fashion industry than I think.) 2. An interesting thread that has institutional support in the UK and Canada is the idea of Research/Creation as a hybrid form of practice that integrates social science/humanities research practices with arts creative practices. SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) has run two rounds of their pilot Research/Creation Grants in the Fine Arts. (http://www.sshrc.ca/web/ apply/program_descriptions/fine_arts_e.asp) This is aimed at university artists (including curators, dance faculty, theatre faculty, architecture faculty, and music faculty) whose practices don't fit either the mandate of traditional SSHRC programs or the programs for "pure" artists. I take it that the idea of Research/ Creation was borrowed from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK which now seems to be using the wording "practice-led research". My point is that there seems to be an emerging hybrid area where creative practices and interpretative practices are woven together in interesting ways. I can think of examples, but I haven't seen a good discussion yet of this. (I have ordered Brenda Laurel's edited book "Design Research: Methods and Perspectives" in the hopes that it will provide some ideas.) Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" Subject: Liu and Tabbi at Maryland Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:17:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1036 (1036) [Apropos of the thread on digital humanities and digital art; anyone in the area is welcome . . . MGK] Following a very successful day of discussion on the digital humanities MITH hosted earlier this semester with Johanna Drucker and Jerome McGann, please join us for a morning of discussion on electronic literature. In preparation for the Electronic Literature Organization's impending move to MITH (www.eliterature.org), two of the ELO's directors, ALAN LIU (Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara) and JOE TABBI (Professor of English, University of Illinois Chicago) will visit to present talks on the preservation and collecting of electronic literature, as well as a new curriculum (at Santa Barbara) to support its teaching. The talks will take place from 9:30-12:00 on Friday, April 28 in the McKeldin Special Events room (#6137). The schedule will be as follows: * ALAN LIU, "Preserving Electronic Literature" (9:30-10:00) * JOSEPH TABBI, "The Directory of Electronic Literature" (10:00-10:30) * Discussion with Liu and Tabbi (10:30-11:00) * Break (11:00-11:15) * ALAN LIU, "The University of California Transliteracies Project: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading" (11:15-12:00) ALAN LIU, Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, is one of the most accomplished theorists in the digital humanities today. He is the initiator of numerous digital projects, including the Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp), the earliest and still the largest humanities portal on the Web. His most recent book is _The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information_ (University of Chicago Press, 2004). JOE TABBI, Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago, is the author most recently of _Cognitive Fictions_ (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and is the founding editor of _ebr_ or the _electronic book review_ (http://www.electronicbookreview.com/), which has evolved into an essential hub for writing and scholarship on new media and electronic literature. Coming up @MITH, *Tuesday* May 2, 11:00-12:00 : A discussion with SCOTT McCLOUD, internationally renowned author of _Understanding Comics_ and _Reinventing Comics_. The discussion is an opportunity to meet him and discuss his work in a roundtable setting. McCloud will give the English department's Petrou Lecture that afternoon, at 3:30 in SQH 1120, entitled "Comics as Storytelling." (This is the second of a two-part Petrou lecture series on New Media Storytelling--author and artist Shelley Jackson visited earlier in the semester.) View MITH's complete Spring Speakers Schedule here: http://mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_spring_2006.pdf Contact: Neil Fraistat, Acting Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith_at_umd.edu, 5-5896). -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor of English Acting Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: sramsay_at_uga.edu Subject: Re: 19.718 the arts of humanities computing, the Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:17:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1037 (1037) criticism of software On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:52:28AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation]This reminds of something Willard wrote in an article a few years ago, in which he urged us to "ask in the context of computing what can (and must) be known of our artefacts, how we know what we know about them and how new knowledge is made." It seems to me that there are several registers at which we might speak of software. Much work has been devoted to the analysis of digital interfaces, and that is certainly one way to construct a language (perhaps one that tries to do for digital interfaces what Christopher Alexander's *A Pattern Language* did for architecture, and later for object-oriented design). Software engineering is another register, and it has its own critical vocabulary (as well as competing schools). There is a mathematical language that underlies computation, though "mathematics" is too broad a term. "Discrete mathematics" comes closer to the mark, though I don't think it's a critical vocabulary in the way that these others are. It describes the ways and means of discrete structures, and it lies at the root of computation, but it's a descriptive vocabulary. One does not reason about algorithms in the same way that one reasons about a work of art (or even the "design" of a system). What fascinates me, though, is the way all software development and design converges upon certain fundamental structures and methods. I can think of few things in computing that are more beautiful than the eval loop in Lisp, the quicksort algorithm, the Boids algorithm from AL . . . And in my teaching, I find myself wanting to go beyond the particulars of languages, operating systems, interfaces, and frameworks into these fundamental matters. But how does one approach these as a humanist? Perhaps this is a non-question (or worse, a category error), but I suspect there might be a critical vocabulary for software that can exist alongside the more practical vocabularies of how to do x in polynomial time. After all, most of the terms we use to describe, say, English prosody, are descriptive in nature. How, then, does this vocabulary (dumb as statues) arrange itself into critical discourse? What's the difference between pointing to enjambment or metonymy and doing literary criticism? 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: "InSciT2006 Conference" Subject: InSciT2006 Updates Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:47:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1038 (1038) Second Call for Papers and Conference Updates I International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006 Mérida, SPAIN, October 25th-28th, 2006 http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/ Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: May 15th, 2006 Dear colleague, In addition to the features informed in the CFP, InSciT2006 is pleased to announce some relevant news about the conference, including new keynote speaker, workshops, journal special issues and accommodation arrangements. Please read it through to know more…. PLENARY SPEAKERS (confirmed) Dr. Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA. JASIS&T Editor. Lecture: Intelligent Methods in Models of Text Information Retrieval: Implications for Society Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Scietometrics Co-Editor (Title to be announced) Dr. Felix de Moya Anegón, University of Granada, SPAIN. Main researcher of SCImago Research Group. (Title to be announced) Dr. Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, Editor of Information Visualization, USA. Lecture: Visual analysis of concept change and information diffusion CONTRIBUTIONS Incoming contributions are following a good rate, acceptance letters have started to be sent. A 400 papers proceedings book is expected to be distributed among the attendees. In addition to regular papers, it is also possible to submit proposals to the half-day International Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge, led by Dr. Chaomei Chen and to the full-day Specialized Session on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life Sciences, led by Dr. A. Fazel Famili. More info: http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/submit.htm http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm WORKSHOPS / SESSIONS InSciT2006 is pleased to announce the inclusion of one workshop and one specialized session into the conference scientific program. Both sessions have been set up in order to extend the conference target audience, as reaching the widest range of research communities is one of the major goals of the conference. Find below full details about these new and exciting tracks of InSciT2006. -- International Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/inscit2006workshop October 26th (half-day workshop) -- Specialized Session on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life Sciences: Current Trends and Future Directions October 27th (full-day session) http://www.insatc.es/inscit2006/workshops.htm THEMES Major topics include the following, for a comprehensive list of topics covered by InSciT2006 visit: http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/topics.htm Information Retrieval Digital Libraries Hypertext and Hypermedia Systems Metadata Electronic Publishing Knowledge and Information Management Science and Information Mapping Data Mining Human-Computer interaction Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing Information Visualization Social Networks Databases CONFERENCE PUBLICATION - PROCEEDINGS All accepted papers presented at InSciT2006, both in the regular tracks and specialized sessions and workshops will be published as book chapters in the Conference Proceedings Book, which will be jointly edited by the University of Extremadura and the Open Institute of Knowledge. The title of the publication is expected to be "Current Research in Information Sciences and Technologies. Multidisciplinary approaches to global information systems" and it will contain an International Serial Book Number (ISBN). INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS SPECIAL ISSUES Confirmed journals: (being updated) http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/publication.htm -- Information Visualization. Published by Palgrave Macmillan Journals. ISSN: 1473-8716 5-7 selected papers of the Workshop on Visual Analytics of the Evolution and Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge will form a special issue of this journal. -- The International Information and Library Review Published by Elsevier. ISSN: 1057-2317 A selection of high quality papers presented in InSciT2006 will undergo an extension and revision process to become journal articles of a IILR special issue. At this moment is also being considered to produce a special issue of Information Sciences, published by Elsevier. ISSN: 0020-0255 ACCOMMODATION InSciT2006 has agreed with Rural Plan (a local travel agency) an accommodation service available for the conference attendees. Please, note that through this service a wide hotel category range is provided in order to adapt the offer to the widest range of budgets. Thus, from five-stars hotels to two-stars and hostels are offered through the conference organization. All hotels showed have been checked for a standard of quality. http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/accommodation.htm Thank you in advance and do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestion or inquiry. We would also appreciate it if you could disseminate this Call for Papers within your Department or Institution. Dr. Vicente Guerrero Bote InSciT2006 Conference Chairman University of Extremadura http://alcazaba.unex.es/~vicente Borja Gonzalez InSciT2006 Secretariat http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/secretariat.htm Email: inscit2006_at_instac.es From: "Kiril Simov" Subject: Workshop on Natural Language Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:08:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1039 (1039) Processing for Metadata Extraction - Call for Paper Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction (NLP4ME 2006) http://www.bultreebank.org/NLP4ME2006/ Workshop to be held on September 12th as part of the AIMSA 2006 Conference Varna, September 13-15, 2006 http://www.aimsaconference.org Workshop Motivation and Aims In spite of the massive amount of work in the last years in the area of Semantic Web, the problem of the creation of semantically annotated electronic content is still one of the main bottlenecks for the Semantic Web technology. A key technology, which is employed to overcome this problem is Natural Language Processing, because most of the content of the web is still textual. Any support for automatic and semi-automatic extraction, elicitation of metadata to such content will be of great assistance to the authors and users of the web content. The workshop aims at being a forum for researchers to present their work in the area of semantic annotation, key word extraction, practical compositional semantics etc. It will provide an opportunity to present and discuss original methods for identification of metadata in text, semantic annotation of text, dealing with multilingual content, interconnecting metadata with ontologies, etc. Topics of interest are connected with, but not limited to the following suggestions: - standards for metadata - extraction of metadata from texts - metadata and ontologies - extraction of concepts and keyphrases from text - metadata in a multilingual environment Important dates Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 20th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 24th June 2006 Final version of paper: 30th July 2006 Workshop: 12th September 2006 Invited Speaker Paul Buitelaar, DFKI Submissions Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Extended abstracts (maximum 1500 words, plain-text format) should be sent to: Petya Osenova Email: petya_at_bultreebank.org [...] From: fomi Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:18:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1040 (1040) Industry - Second International Workshop FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Second International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi December 14-15, 2006 University of Trento ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Trento - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi ******************************************************** Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI 2006). Description =========== FOMI aims to become an international forum where researchers in different disciplines and practitioners of various industry sectors meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. It is nowadays widely understood that the semantic dimension and model driven approaches play an important role not only in research fields but also in networked economy. In particular, it has emerged that semantic based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. Namely, 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 worldwide organization. The business world also 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. 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. In all these fields, a new emerging trend is to evaluate the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. A typical example of this is the evaluation of the benefits that huge organizations can obtain by implementing ontology based systems. 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; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprize modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology effectiveness; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - 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; - ontologies and e-government. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** [...] From: f.sudweeks_at_murdoch.edu.au Subject: Cultural Attitudes towards Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:19:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1041 (1041) Technology and Communication Conference CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fifth International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'06) 28 June - 1 July 2006, Tartu, Estonia Website: www.catacconference.org Conference theme: Neither global village nor homogenizing commodification: Diverse cultural, ethnic, gender and economic environments The biennial CATaC conference series provides a continuously expanding international forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This fifth conference is hosted by Tartu University in Tartu, Estonia. Tartu, known as the "city of good thoughts", is situated 180km south of the country's capital, Tallinn. PROGRAM Presenters from 20 countries will provide a rich and exciting Program. Examples of plenaries and special sessions include: cultural diversity, technology and information transfer, culture and online education, youth and mobile technologies, and issues in indigenous and minority languages, gender and identity, and ethics and justice. The conference includes multiple opportunities for discussions that will provide initial syntheses and future directions for research and publication. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr Marju Lauristin, Professor of Social Communication, University of Tartu, Estonia. Dr. Lauristin has more than 70 academic publications. Her most recent publications include Baltic Media in Transition and The Challenge of the Russian Minority: Emerging Multicultural Democracy in Estonia. Dr Lauristin has served as a member of the Estonian Parliament from 1990-1995 and again 1999-2003. During this time, she also served as the Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia from 1992-1994. CONFERENCE DINNER The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 29 June at the Atlantis Restaurant overlooking the Emajogi River. The dinner is preceded by a one-hour cruise on the river. REGISTRATION The discounted conference registration fee, until 21 April, is USD350 (or USD270 for full-time students). The registration fee includes technical sessions, proceedings, shuttle bus between Tallinn and Tartu, reception, lunches, morning and afternoon coffees, boat cruise, conference dinner and closing cocktails. See the registration form on the conference website for more information and REGISTER NOW. CO-CHAIRS Professor Charles Ess Drury University, USA Tel: 1-417-873-7230; Fax: 1-417-873-7435 catac_at_it.murdoch.edu.au Dr Fay Sudweeks Murdoch University, Australia Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941 From: Ken Friedman Subject: IPSI conferences and publications Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:14:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1042 (1042) [The following is an interchange between Ken Friedman, a member of Humanist, and V. Milutinovic, on the subject of the IPSI "multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary" conferences (http://internetconferences.net/), which have been advertised on Humanist, most recently in 19.101. --WM] Dear Dr. Milutinovic, Having been a publisher, I stand by my assertions regarding the financial implications of your project. The cost of administering the review process cannot consume the amounts of money you raise, particularly not in today's digital information environment. As a scholar, I disagree with the notion that 12 reviews is better 2 or 3. Scientists do wish for a response to their work. That is the purpose of the conference. The purpose of the review is to ensure a conference presentation of reasonable quality. Either way, IPSI is NOT a non-profit organization. It is a profit-making firm. Your web site states that "IPSI Belgrade Ltd. is a company jointly founded by German and Serbian capital, formed in March 2003. Capital from USA and Japan was added later. Its primary field is the development of new technologies and software engineering in multimedia, visualization, information processing, management and representation, networking and intelligent Internet, but we also work in hardware engineering." Even if this were non-profit, it would be possible for you as an academic entrepreneur to run an extremely profitable non-profit enterprise. The fact that your books are audited does not change this fact. It could just as well mean that your organization allows you to earn a high salary for your entrepreneurial work while enjoying the travel opportunities to the locations you select for conferences. Given the differences in cost of living and weighted currency between Yugoslavia and Europe, my guess is that this is possible while supporting a number of assistants and supporting your organization through the "internal taxes" that most universities and many non-profits claim on the funding their scientists and institutes generate. This internal tax constitutes an increasingly important part of university and non-profit funding around the world, and organizations recognize the value of scholars who can raise the funds that pay these internal taxes. In this way, a non-profit institution can legitimately raise and spend the kind of money that would appear as profit in a normal business enterprise. Of course, salaries and expenses are costs in profit-making businesses as well as in non-profit enterprises, so -- in theory -- you could be earning a massive salary within a non-profit enterprise, all legitimate and still non-profit. As long as your organization approves the budget, the finance department must also accept it. Since you are bringing hard currency into Yugoslavia while supporting assistants, local printers, and the like, I should imagine that the state finance department approves of your project in every respect. Reviewing the travel arrangements and planning process required for so many conferences -- 28 conferences in 2 years! -- in so many locations, I would imagine that there are also many ways for your travel partners to reward your initiative outside Yugoslavia in ways that are not subject to state audit. I do not suggest that this is the case, but I do assert that this would be possible in ways that are in each case legal under local law while remaining invisible to your organization and to the finance department. It is also possible that the Euro-to-dinar flow of conference fees paid in at the typical 1=89 interbank exchange rate (as of this morning) is so valuable that no one would mind if you were to earn supplementary fees outside Yugoslavia. Again, I do not suggest that you do, but it is possible and there might be no objection at your organization or the ministry were a successful academic entrepreneur to do so. As it is, however, IPSI is a joint capital corporation. You are its founding CEO and therefore -- presumably -- a major shareholder. It is impossible to claim that a venture of this magnitude that works as a conference management organization to manages 28 conferences in a two-year period is non-profit in a normal sense of the word. Especially not when the entire business is organized as a joint capital corporation with foreign ownership as well as the local control that is typical of most non-profit organizations. Having organized many conferences over the past several decades, I cannot see how you can be involved in the scientific issues or scholarly agenda of so many conferences at one time. This suggests to me that you are the chairman of a conference management and publishing firm rather than the chairman of any one conference in a scientific sense. As I wrote to Willard, you are apparently a hard-working and widely published scholar in your life as a professor at the University of Belgrade, but you seem to be an entrepreneurial manager and shareholder at IPSI. It is IPSI and not the University of Belgrade that is organizing these conferences, and that means they function in the framework of a profit-making company. If this were not true, in fact, your shareholders and investors would not likely permit you to use the vast resources and time required to organize 28 conferences in two years. My analysis of the venture and its profitable implications suggests, instead, that this is a major revenue stream for IPSI, and -- for IPSI -- it should be. This must also be a highly desirable enterprise in the Yugoslavian national economy. Any organization that transacts as much money as you must be transacting on an annual basis through a public activity is probably of great interest to the finance department, since this kind of money provides a major inflow to the economy of strong currency and significant tax revenue to the state. What I cannot see is how this serves a legitimate scholarly or scientific purpose in a world where most major organizations (or their divisions) manage no more than one scientific conference a year. 28 conferences and all those proceedings volumes must have some other purpose. Since IPSI is a capital corporation rather than a non-profit organization, it is fair to conclude that this purpose is profit. There is nothing illegal about earning a profit: I simply do not see how this venture serves scientific or scholarly goals. Yours, Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Center for Design Research Denmark's Design School +47 46.41.06.76 Tlf NSM +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no p.s. since you have written to several of us regarding a public conversation on the Humanist list, I am copying this to the editor of Humanist. [deleted quotation]for serious [deleted quotation]a business. [deleted quotation]Imagine that one [deleted quotation]over-length [deleted quotation]4,400 Euros in [deleted quotation]surcharge for each [deleted quotation]would take in [deleted quotation]working person [deleted quotation]widely cited [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1043 (1043) [deleted quotation]for > publishing on internet research Dear Willard ("Dr. [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1044 (1044) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1045 (1045) [deleted quotation] -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Center for Design Research Denmark's Design School +47 46.41.06.76 Tlf NSM +47 33.40.10.95 Tlf Privat email: ken.friedman_at_bi.no From: "Beagrie, Neil" Subject: Scholarly Communications public lecture at UCL on 26/4/06 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:11:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1046 (1046) A reminder about the upcoming public lecture series at UCL: All welcome! Podcasts and powerpoints from the lectures will be made available in due course on the SLAIS website (<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/>www.slais.ucl<http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/>.ac.uk/) Abstracts for the lectures on Wednesday 26th April and further details below C21st Curation: access and service delivery Astrid Wissenburg Director of Communications, Economic and Social Research Council Scholarly communications and the role of research funders Research funders provide mcuh of the support leading to the creation and use of many scholarly communications activities (publications, data, conferences, etc) through its research and training funding. They also have an interest in a healthy scholarly communications infrastructure to support their researchers. The Research Councils UK (RCUK) started considering its strategies regarding supporting scholarly communications in 2004, across the many disciplines the 8 individual research councils cover. Two specific areas are under active consideration: (1) publishing of journals and conference proceedings (2) creation, sharing and reuse of research data. The presentation will describe the many challenges and opportunities encountered by the research councils whilst exploring these areas, with specific examples from the Economic and Social Research Council's ongoing activities. David Brown, Head of Scholarly Communications, The British Library SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION We are living in turbulent times. In comparison with the comparatively tranquil period of the last century, scholarly communications is experiencing major changes in busines models, paradigms, technology, products and services and user requirements. Under the formal, print-based communication system, journals became the icon for informimg the global research community of new developments, and when the existing infrastructure in support of journals began to creak under the 'serials' crisis, journal publishers adapted by introducing Big Deals and libraries formed consortia. But essentially the print paradigm remained inviolate. That is until the Internet and the world wide web introduced new technological options which promised speedier, more efficient and in some cases more equitable distribution of the information relating to society's research efforts. Open access, in all its form, challenged during the past five or so years the business model which had sustained commercial and learned society publishers so well. Increased interest in access to raw data arose as the Intenert allowed and fostered the exchange of vast amounts of data between worldwide 'collaboratories'. The Semantic Web became a rallying cry for some pundits operating at the frontiers of web developments. More recently, the hierarchical structure of even the semantic web school of thought has been put to the test by the emergence of a new form of scholarly communication built around social publishing, social bookmarking and a general networking of researchers all outside the traditional journal publication system. This movement has spawned Connotea, flickr, del.icio.us, mySpace, blogniscient, lulu, wikipedia, etc. These are essentially part of the free movement and genearte a new sense of community. Though its origins may lie in the fields of information, news, entertainment, they have spilled over to the scholarly and academic community particularly in the US. The result has been the emergence of new stakeholders 'from the edge' who are offering ambient findability within the morass of new data, information and sources which has become such a significant feature of scholarly communication. Supporting all these developments the challenge of accessing, storing and maintaining these new forms and new sources in a way which enables the 'minutes of science' to be effectively recorded becomes a crucial issue. Public Lecture Series 26 April - 11 May 2006 University College London School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Chadwick Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London WC1 Following the highly successful inaugural series of C21st Curation public lectures last year, The University College London School of Library, Archives, and Information Studies is pleased to announce details of a second series of public lectures for 2006. The lectures by eight leading speakers, will be open to students, professionals and general public and will be held in the Chadwick lecture theatre in University College London, from 6.00 -7.15pm. Each event will be followed by a reception sponsored by Tessella, to which speakers and the audience are invited. The dates, sessions, and speakers, in the series will be: 26 April 2006 Scholarly Communication David Brown (British Library) and Astrid Wissenburg (ESRC) 3 May 2006 Digital Resources in the Humanities Prof Susan Hockey (UCL) and Suzanne Keene (Institute of Archaeology) 10 May 2006 Service Delivery in National Institutions Natalie Ceeney (The National Archives) and Jemima Rellie (Tate) 17 May 2006 Curation and Access for Scientific Data Neil Beagrie (British Library/JISC) and Prof. Michael Wadsworth (UCL) Please advertise the lecture series widely amongst professional organisations in the museums, library, archive, scientific research,information and academic sectors, current staff, students, and interested individuals. Background We wish to raise awareness and interest in digital curation amongst current students, professionals, and the general public though this series of high profile public lectures. The future of an Information Society and the knowledge economy will be built around electronic access to information. The enormous benefits of electronic information and resources for innovation and communication are already being realised in schools, universities, homes, business, industry, and government. A growing and significant part of the record and culture of the UK is now in digital form. The lives of staff working in our institutions, current students, and private individuals will increasingly be impacted by these trends and associated issues. 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The British Library does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. ************************************************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: analytic to empathic Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:10:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1047 (1047) In the "Diary" column for the London Review of Books 28.8 (20 April 2006): 36-7, MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle ruminates on her research into the relation between people and machines, especially into the question of how we now tend to regard them: not whether we think they are alive but, in the early 21st Century, what kind of life our actions suggest we regard them as having. Her focus is "Tamagotchi love" -- the emotion owners of these and other such devices express toward what Turkle calls "relational artefacts". There is much of interest in the topic, but with the ongoing discussion about humanities computing and the arts in mind, I want to focus on a particular aspect of it. In her column, Turkle recalls two encounters with children twenty years apart: [deleted quotation]At the core of the argument I have been making for some time now is Deborah's brilliant observation. There you go, I say to myself -- a whole career built from something so obvious a child could see it, and did, just about the time I came to the same conclusion. My version of it was that what's most remarkable for the humanities about computing is that having put representations of cultural artefacts into the computer, we come to see them differently. Perhaps, then, I may be excused for wondering whether once again a child, Turkle's Fara, has got the jump on us by observing mutatis mutandis that the computer is not so much an external thing into which we shove our representations, rather that "it's like something that's part of you... kind of like another person". Fara's remark suggests that what we should be looking to is not so much, or not exclusively, the analytic but the empathic relation between the artist/craftsman and the production of his or her hands. Two of the lectures in "Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture" (Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 30.2, 2005), Yorick Wilks' "Artificial companions" and Ian Hacking's "The Cartesian vision fulfilled: analogue bodies and digital minds", are relevant here. They're available at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr. At the end of his contribution to Humanist 19.723, Steve Ramsay asks, "How, then, does this vocabulary [of software criticism] (dumb as statues) arrange itself into critical discourse? What's the difference between pointing to enjambment or metonymy and doing literary criticism?" In general, what happens in the training of a literary critic, as he or she moves from enjambment-pointing and the like to having the voice we listen to? What does this tell us about our situation? My answer would be to pull out Northrop Frye's The Educated Imagination (Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1963; rpt Toronto: Anansi Press, www.anansi.ca), and then to ask, what is an educated imagination of computing? Comments? Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: 19.723 the digital humanities and the digital arts Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:11:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1048 (1048) The humanities need the arts and vice versa, and we all need both. Whether they are digital or not is (you'll pardon my saying so in here) irrelevant. From: Shuly Wintner Subject: ISCOL-06: Call for Presentations Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:09:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1049 (1049) General information ISCOL 2006, the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, will be held at the University of Haifa on Thursday, June 29th, 2006. See http://cl.haifa.ac.il/iscol06/index.shtml We invite presentations of 20 minutes (plus 5 minutes discussion) about original recent work on any topic in computational linguistics/ natural language processing. Invited speaker Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Title TBA Submission instructions One-page abstracts, in plain text (ASCII) or PDF only (NO Word documents, please), should be sent to shuly_at_cs.haifa.ac.il. Submissions should include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as the title. No more that two submissions per author are allowed. Deadline for submission Please submit your abstract before May 14th, 2006. Program Committee Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University Michael Elhadad, Ben Gurion University Alon Itai, Technion Tsuguya Sasaki, Bar Ilan University Yoad Winter, Technion Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (organizer) Acknowledgments The Seminar is supported by The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Toward Computational Models of Literary Analysis Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:10:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1050 (1050) Many members of this group will be interested in a workshop scheduled to take place on 22 May, "Toward Computational Models of Literary Analysis". The workshop "aims to gather studies, achievements and experiences from scholars belonging to different schools (literary studies, linguistics, computing technologies, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction) in order to survey, compare and assess currently independent research enterprises whose focus is narrative and literary text analysis". See http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/basili/LREC2006/TowardsCompModels.html for more information and the programme of papers. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Miki Hermann Subject: LPAR 2006 (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), Last CFP Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:11:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1051 (1051) LPAR-13 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/ 13th-17th November 2006 Last Call For Papers The 13th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR-13) will be held 13th-17th November 2006, at the Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of interest include: + automated reasoning + propositional reasoning + interactive theorem proving + description logics + software verification + hardware verification + software testing + logic and ontologies + proof assistants + network and protocol verification + proof planning + nonmonotonic reasoning + proof checking + constructive logic and type theory + rewriting and unification + lambda and combinatory calculi + logic programming + knowledge representation and reasoning + modal and temporal logics + 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 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-13 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-13 will be published by the conference. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Formal Ontology in Information Systems Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:13:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1052 (1052) Final Call for Papers FOIS-2006 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems http://www.formalontology.org/ <http://www.formalontology.org/> Electronic abstracts: May 1, 2006 Final submissions: May 5, 2006 Papers should be submitted electronically at: http://www.softconf.com/start/FOIS06/. VISIT Web site for latest news! ________________________________ Conference Description Since ancient times, ontology, the analysis and categorisation of what exists, has been fundamental to philosophical enquiry. But, until recently, ontology has been seen as an abstract, purely theoretical discipline, far removed from the practical applications of science. However, with the increasing use of sophisticated computerised information systems, solving problems of an ontological nature is now key to the effective use of technologies supporting a wide range of human activities. The ship of Theseus and the tail of Tibbles the cat are no longer merely amusing puzzles. We employ databases and software applications to deal with everything from ships and ship building to anatomy and amputations. When we design a computer to take stock of a ship yard or check that all goes well at the veterinary hospital, we need to ensure that our system operates in a consistent and reliable way even when manipulating information that involves subtle issues of semantics and identity. So, whereas ontologists may once have shied away from practical problems, now the practicalities of achieving cohesion in an information-based society demand that attention must be paid to ontology. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realise that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention is now being focused on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages used to represent information. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And, as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realisation that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of formal ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of information systems. Reciprocally, research in the information sciences raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations. The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified effort towards solving the problems of ontology, with an eye to both theoretical issues and concrete applications. [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Shuly Wintner Subject: Workshop on Large-scale Grammar Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:14:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1053 (1053) Development and Grammar Engineering Large-scale Grammar Development and Grammar Engineering Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation University of Haifa, Israel, 25-28 June, 2006 http://www.cl.haifa.ac.il/workshop/index.shtml Linguistically motivated approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP) in recent years have made significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of analysis and efficiency of processing. However, large-scale grammar development still could benefit from improvements in grammar engineering. The Workshop is intended as a forum for discussing ongoing work in declarative, constraint- and resource-based approaches, informed by linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in particular address issues of grammar engineering and modularity. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - grammar development and grammar engineering - modularity in grammar design - grammar debugging, validation and evaluation - mathematical and computational foundations of grammar engineering - scalability of grammars and grammar processing frameworks - cross-lingual and multilingual grammar development - parallel grammars and meta-grammars - the utility of linguistically informed grammars for NLP applications - the interactions between linguistic theory and NLP - using corpora for grammar development The Workshop welcomes works on a variety of natural languages and in a variety of frameworks and linguistic theories. It is intended to serve as a meeting where researchers working on different aspects of grammar development can exchange ideas, report on recent and on-going work and discuss future directions. The format of the Workshop is deliberately informal: it will include oral presentations, both invited and contributed, but will leave ample time for informal discussions, demonstrations and brainstorming. The Workshop provides an opportunity to present the current state-of-the-art, as well as future needs and directions. Complete works as well as work in progress are equally welcome for presentation. To encourage interaction and collaboration, an extensive social program is planned, including a welcome reception, a banquet and a one-day guided tour. [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: 18TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:15:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1054 (1054) LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 ESSLLI 2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 18TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION July 31 - August 11, 2006 Malaga, Spain (Extended Early registration deadline: May 14, 2006) ESSLLI 2006 is organized by the Software Engineering Group of the University of Malaga, under the auspices of FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. 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. The 18th edition of ESSLLI is offering 48 courses, organized into three interdisciplinary areas (Language & Computation, Language & Logic, and Logic & Computation), at a variety of levels (foundational, introductory, advanced), as well as seven workshops. All the information may be found at: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es 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 a student session is being also organized, with the aim of providing 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. If you are interested in presenting a paper to any of the ESSLLI workshops, you can access to their call for papers through the following link http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es. The early (extended) registration deadline is May 14, 2006. Ernesto Pimentel Local Organizing Committee Chair University of Malaga esslli2006_at_lcc.uma.es Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: INFORMATION FUSION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:18:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1055 (1055) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / PRE-REGISTRATION The 12th ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication INFORMATION FUSION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS hosted by the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 3 - 14 July 2006 http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/ELSNET06 Information Fusion is an everyday necessity in complex speech and language systems although it is rarely noticed as such. Systems in this area are always composed of individual components which need to co-operate towards a common goal. The reason for such modularisation is obvious: due to the many different layers and knowledge sources usually involved, system components need to be developed independently by different people with different areas and degrees of specialization. Moreover, there might be the option or even the necessity to train such components on vastly different kinds of data sets. Often it is the case that a range of solution alternatives exists for one and the same processing task, each of them providing a partial and unreliable but perhaps complementary contribution to the overall behaviour of the system. Here, the problem arises of how to achieve a synergy between such competitive approaches, even for tasks where the desired processing result is no longer a trivial one. Since all available solutions for speech and language processing are approximations to a conveyed ideal, system design has to account for the inherent uncertainty of processing results on all levels. this makes system integration a problem of information fusion, which can be considered as solved in some cases but it is still an open research issue in others: for speech recognition the contributions of the acoustic models and the language model need to be adjusted properly, whereas in translation a target sentence has to be composed of partial structures produced by e.g. an example-based component and a deep-linguistic one. Other examples can be taken from more ambitious task like the integration of acoustic (speech and noise) and visual data (lip movements, hand gestures and facial expressions) in complex multimodal environments. It is always astonishing to notice, how little effort humans spend to integrate the available information from such a diversity of sources. Even more, multimodal information processing in many cases leads to a facilitatory effect in the sense that using evidence from a range of sensory channels is faster than relying on a single one. This, obviously, is contrary to the behaviour of all the techniques we currently have at our disposal when designing a complex speech and language system. Therefore, the summer school will depart from a survey of phenomena and mechanisms for information fusion. It continues with studying various approaches for sensor-data fusion in technical systems, like robots. Finally it will investigate the issue of information fusion from the perspective of a range of speech and language processing tasks, namely speech recognition and spoken language systems machine translation distributed and multilingual information systems parsing multimodal speech and language systems How different these application areas might look, the underlying principles of and the approaches towards information fusion seem to be comparable if not even highly similar. It is the goal of the summer school to highlight such similarities and to inspire the cross-disciplinary transfer of ideas and solutions COURSES Information fusion for command and control, Pontus Svenson (FOI Stockholm, Sweden) Audio visual speech recognition, Rainer Stiefelhagen (University Karlsruhe, Germany) XML integration of natural language processing components, Ulrich Schäfer, (DFKI, Germany) Hybrid Parsing, Kilian Forth and Wolfgang Menzel (University of Hamburg, Germany) Ontologies for information fusion, Luciano Serafini, (ITC-IRST Trento, Italy) Syntax semantics integration in HPSG, Valia Kordoni, (DFKI Germany) Hybrid approaches in machine translation, Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway) Ensemble based architectures, to be announced Information fusion in multi-document summarization, to be announced Courses will have the duration of one week. Some of them will include practical exercises [...] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Multimedia Systems 11.4 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:20:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1056 (1056) Volume 11 Number 4 of Multimedia Systems is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Introduction Editors' Note p. 313 DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0035-z Regular Paper Scalable representation of vector descriptors p. 315 Dong-Gyu Sim, Hae-Kwang Kim DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0011-7 Regular Paper An MPEG-7 scheme for semantic content modelling and filtering of digital video p. 320 Marios C. Angelides, Harry Agius DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0012-6 Regular Paper Exploring statistical correlations for image retrieval p. 340 Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Xing Li DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0013-5 Regular paper Extracting semantic concepts from images: a decisive feature pattern mining approach p. 352 Wei Wang, Aidong Zhang DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0029-x Regular Paper Context-aware support in structured documents for interactive-TV p. 367 Rudinei Goularte, Maria da Graça C. Pimentel, Edson dos Santos Moreira DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0014-4 Regular Paper Analysis of a CDN-P2P hybrid architecture for cost-effective streaming media distribution p. 383 Dongyan Xu, Sunil Suresh Kulkarni, Catherine Rosenberg, Heung-Keung Chai DOI: 10.1007/s00530-006-0015-3 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: Re: 19.718 the criticism of software Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:15:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1057 (1057) Willard et al., If "software" is interpreted as concrete manifestations, and not absolutely, one rhetorical procedure immediately comes to mind: comparation. There are several programs intended to do, well, about the same (e. g. Juxta and Versioning Machine): what do they deliver? What we can, or cannot, do with them? When to (take the trouble to learn to) use one, and when another? I begin to wonder, is this a too simple answer to Willard's question... But I have another one, of my own. I know where to look for criticism of books; where to look for criticism of (humanities) software? (As opposed to reports on conceptualizing and building the programs...) Neven From: Natasha Smith Subject: Position announcement: Head of the Carolina Digital Library Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:18:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1058 (1058) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a skilled and energetic person to lead the Carolina Digital Library which includes significant efforts in institutional repositories, shared resources and objects as well as scientific databases and collections. The Head of the Carolina Digital Library will have the opportunity to lead in the creation of a major new library department composed of three units: the award-winning Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/), and two new units, Digital Publishing, and Digital Production Services. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, the successful candidate will develop and lead a strategic digital library program that advances innovation in collections, services, scholarly communication, preservation, and education. The successful candidate will demonstrate vision, creativity, commitment to continuous service improvement, integration of access technologies for seamless presentation to users, and provide leadership to the digital library community. The new department will be instrumental in the Library's investigation and application of emerging digital library technologies For more information, see the entire job posting... http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/epa/carolina_digital_library.html From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.16 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:11:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1059 (1059) This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 7, Issue 16 April 25, 2006 - May 1, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: CORPORATE RENEWAL ENGINES Kemal A. Delic writes: "Hypothetical corporate business is organized so that the mature products or services (first wave) are making the bulk of the corporate profit (double digit range) and grows modestly (single digit). Next wave is a growing business (strong double digit growth) while maintaining profitability (single digit). The future may critically depend on the third wave having no revenue objectives nor bringing profit while spawning critical, inventive technologies. Globalization following the spread of Internet is hinting at the several ways of organizing those three waves into orchestrated business whole." To read this paper, Visit <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i16_delic.html>http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i16_delic.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 16 (April 25, 2006 - May 1 2006) From: Willard McCarty Subject: computer science, the humanities and humanities computing Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:08:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1060 (1060) Since the early 1970s there have been a number of speculations about a relationship between computer science and the humanities, e.g. by Jean-Claude Gardin, Nancy Ide, Christian Koch, Robert Oakman, Tito Orlandi, Manfred Thaller and others. In the US, the National Research Council has sponsored two major reports that touch on the possibilities, Computing the Future (1992) and Beyond Productivity (2003), and a Roundtable Meeting (1997) which resulted in Computing and the Humanities (1998), published by the American Council of Learned Societies. The US National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) held a Building Blocks Workshop in 2003, again to explore the relationship. In Europe the British Library has published Interpretation in the Humanities: Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, ed. Richard Ennals and Jean-Claude Gardin (1990) and the Advanced Computing in the Humanities (ACO*HUM) project has produced the book Computing in Humanities Education: A European Perspective (1999) identifying the basis for what in several European languages is more easily called a humanities computing "science". My own book, Humanities Computing (Palgrave, 2005), has a chapter that explores computer science in order to clarify the relationship with humanities computing. This year, the US Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences is concluding its work -- a draft report is now in circulation; unlike the earlier US reports, its focus is on what the humanities can gain, a relationship with CS is mentioned (by my count, 5 times). Later this year, at the University of New Brunswick, the Canadian Symposium for Text Analysis (CaSTA -- not to be confused, as Google does, with supermodel Laetitia Casta) is holding a conference dedicated to the topic, with an unsurprising emphasis on textual computing: Breadth of Text: A Joint Computer Science and Humanities Computing Conference, at the University of New Brunswick. Significant, I think, is the fact that at the CaSTA conference this October, members of the concluding panel (which includes me) have been asked to make provocative statements as to our perceptions of how the two research areas can inform each other. Apparently a question-mark remains the most prominent aspect of the putative relationship. This note has two purposes. My first purpose is to ask you kindly to supply references to any discussions of this relationship that I have somehow overlooked. Indeed, if you think from looking at this list that I am asking the wrong question, please say so. My second purpose is to urge anyone involved in collaborations between computer scientists and humanists, including humanities computing practitioners, to write about what is happening or has recently happened, or to attract those who will analyze and theorize the collaborations, e.g. PhD students from the social sciences. If you are in possession of unpublished writings on the topic and are willing to send them to me, then I would be very grateful. In addition to the above, that is, I am in the process of cataloguing a number of untheorized but very interesting collaborations of computer scientists, scholars in the humanities and humanities computing practitioners, so that my own speculations will be better informed. The question I am asking is, I think, a bit different, more of a philosophical enquiry. It is, rather, that given the basic tendencies and inclinations both of computer science and of the humanities, what kinds of developments might actually be worth pursuing? Raiding parties from CS are to be expected but from my point of view not very interesting. I want to know about new ways of thinking and working that may be of long-term value to us. Thanks very much for any suggestions. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: new publication: Mind Factory Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:35:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1061 (1061) ***NEW TITLE AVAILABLE from LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA*** www.litterariapragensia.com MIND FACTORY ed. Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-104-0. (paperback) 340pp. Published: December 2005 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/mind_factory.html Price: =80 15.00 (not including postage) CONTENTS Slavoj Zizek The De-Sublimated Object of Post-Ideology Ben Goertzel Quantum Minds Ivan Havel At Home in Vesm=EDr Louis Armand Affective Intelligence & the Human Hypothesis Donald F. Theall From the Cyberglobal Chaosmos to the Gutenberg Galaxy Arthur Bradley The Letter Giveth Simon Critchley & Tom McCarthy Universal Shylockery Darren Tofts Mind Games McKenzie Wark Allegorithm Gregory L. Ulmer Choramancy: A User=92s Guide Andrew Mitchell Torture & Photography Arthur & Marilouise Kroker Cloner Zoe Beloff Natalija A. & Eva C. Jane Lewty Syntonic Desire Mind Factory explores a mosaic of ideas and practices currently surrounding the question of cognition, mind, literacy, autopoiesis and tele-technologies, and how these define a contemporary "human condition." Essays included in this volume address a range of subjects from the Abu Ghraib torture photographs, brain implants and behavioural control, to the possibility of quantum minds and machine intelligence, to the technicity of faith, sintonic desire, ideoplastic materialisation and psychic geographies. Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. ______________________________________________________________________ HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Willard McCarty seminar at Umea University (Sweden) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:24:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1062 (1062) I am happy to announce that Willard McCarty will visit HUMlab at Ume=E5 University in Sweden this week. On Thursday, April 27, there will be an open seminar in the lab: [April 27, 1.15 pm CET] Humanities Computing: The Plural Community of Method Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King=92s College The seminar will be streamed live. The link to the (realmedia) stream will be posted in the below blog entry on Thursday. The seminar will also be archived and provided both as a stream and mp3 file. Live interaction will be afforded through a chat room and a Skype channel (Skype channel experimental). Links to all these resources will be posted on the HUMlab blog (http://blog.humlab.umu.se/2006/04/willard_mccarty_in_humlab.html) by Thursday morning. Next seminar in the HUMlab seminar series in English will be [May 23, 1.15 CET] Technology as a Medium: Artist as a Consumer Sachiko Hayashi http://www.e-garde.net/ Archived streams (in English) can be found here: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/streams.html. All welcome! Patrik Svensson HUMlab, Ume=E5 University http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: call for papers: Image (&) Narrative on the digital archive Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:54:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1063 (1063) [From Jan Baetens ] Dear Humanist, I would like to post the following call for papers: Image (&) Narrative (www.imageandnarrative.be), a peer reviewed, online journal published by the University of Leuven (Belgium), is inviting submissions for a special issue on: The Digital Archive In human societies memory is organized in two basic forms: material forms (tablets, paintings, books, etc.) on the one hand and immaterial forms (oral history, dances, songs, etc.) on the other hand. These forms represent two organizing principles that function in different ways. While material forms of memory are fixed, immaterial ways of remembering are fluid. Tablets, paintings, texts, & are affirmative and stable, while conversations, oral traditions, ... have a more ambiguous or dialogic' character. Especially in western societies, the first organizing principle has gained more authority. Material memory' has laid the foundation of modern bureaucracy and of every industrial or post-industrial company. Contracts and laws are the most evident examples of material memory' which guarantee the relative stability necessary for every modern organization. In this context, the classical archive often functions as a library of proof' on which societies can always rely when appointments are discussed, rules are violated or facts are disputed. In other words, the classical archive as a reservoir of material memory is one of the crucial foundations that have made modern society & modern. The introduction of digital databases transforms the way Western societies use their archives. The most visible result of digitization is of course the fact that the classical archive, once digitized, becomes a more fluid one. Although it may not become as instable as conversations, oral history or urban legends, the possibility of permanent transformation is real. As soon as new data enter a networked archive, the database can reorganize itself just as oral legends transform over time when the storyteller or the audience changes. At least we can say that the digital archive is a strange hybrid between material and immaterial memory machines. But in the digital era classical' archives do not disappear. Just as the paperless' office has proven a fiction (utopian or dystopian, following the sources), the world of archives is not one-dimensional. Classical and digital archives coexist, not always pacifically, their respective logics, areas and scopes interact, and their users have to switch permanently from one type of archive to another. Deadline for submissions: 1st of November 2006 Please contact: jan.baetens_at_arts.kuleuven.be rudi.laermans_at_soc.kuleuven.be pascal.gielen_at_soc.kuleuven.be Jan Baetens Instituut voor Culturele Studies & Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography and Visual Studies http://www.culturelestudies.be http://www.lievengevaertcentre.be Faculteit Letteren K.U.Leuven Blijde Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven tel: 32 (0)16 32 48 46, fax: 32 (0)16 32 50 68 Les Impressions Nouvelles http://www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: John Unsworth Subject: Endowed chair in digital humanities Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:59:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1064 (1064) ENDOWED CHAIR: DIGITAL HUMANITIES Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the creation of a senior position in the Digital Humanities for a newly endowed Chair in innovative fields. The successful applicant should be committed to inter-disciplinary collaboration, technological innovation, and creating curricular links within the Humanities and across divisions. The position offers the opportunity to define a new area of research and teaching, building on Dartmouth's existing strengths in the Humanities and Computing. The field of research and teaching is open; we seek candidates with practical and/or theoretical expertise in one or several of the following disciplines in the Arts and the Humanities: visual arts, screen studies, new media, performance arts, music and sound, film, TV/Video, and literature. Expertise in computer hardware and/or software will be welcome but is not essential. The role of the Chair in Digital Humanities is intended to be broad in scope, potentially incorporating current or future initiatives in cyber-culture and the creation, performance, and critical study of digital arts, including a consideration of the socio-political and theoretical implications of new artistic technologies. The endowment for this Chair provides additional funds for projects involving research and teaching in the Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will be located in a single Dartmouth department or program, or jointly appointed to one or more departments or programs. Considerable flexibility exists regarding joint appointments, which may cross departmental or even divisional boundaries. One of the most diverse institutions of higher education in New England, Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer and has a strong commitment to diversity. In that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of people, including women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, and veterans. The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications after October 1, 2006. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Please send letter of application, CV, and the names of three references to: Gerd Gemunden Chair, Search Committee in Digital Humanities Dept. of German Studies 6084 Dartmouth Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 USA From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 62, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:52:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1065 (1065) Version 62 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,680 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version 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 Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* 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 Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB 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--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 220 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 580 KB. Related Article 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 Libraries E-Mail: cbailey_at_digital-scholarship.com Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others) From: tatjana.chorney_at_smu.ca Subject: RE: 19.731 computer science, the humanities and Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:55:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1066 (1066) humanities computing? Hi Willlard, You raise an issue that has been of interest to me in the past few years. Without wishing to toot my own horn, I have done some work on the potential of interactive reading fostered by the hypermedia to change the way that material in the humanities is being taught. In particular, thus far I've been focusing on the similarities between interactive reading in the Renaissance (through examples in MSS) and the kind of reading that can be and is done in hypertext. There is a brief bit on this subject appearing in the December 2005 issue of Academiccommons.org; there is also a longer essay, unpublished. I am also happy to say that I longer project I proposed late last year on a similar topic--interactive reading and integrative learning in the humanities of the global age-- has just been funded by the government here (Canada), which hopefully signals an interest in this kind of work... Best regards, Tatjana Chorney Assistant Professor Department of English Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS Canada [deleted quotation]relationship. [deleted quotation]Signature file open error: file not found (%X00018292) From: Willard McCarty Subject: workshop on ontology Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:58:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1067 (1067) - OnToContent 2006 - Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise -With two tracks on eHealth and Human Resources- ******************************************************************** *** Proceedings published by Springer LNCS <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html> *** *** Invited Speaker: To be announced *** *** Submission Deadline: June 30, 2006 *** *** Topics: Ontology Content, Evaluation, standardization *** *** Enterprise, eHealth, Human Resources *** *** http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent06 *** ******************************************************************** In conjunction of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '06) 3-4 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France This workshop is organized by the Ontology Outreach Authority OOA (Knowledge Web NoE). The OOA is devoted to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, thereby promoting and providing outreach for verifiable quality ontological content. Current trends within the Semantic Web research are mainly concerned with technological issues, such as language capabilities, inference services, etc. Yet less attention has been given to ontology content and its quality.This workshop aims to focus on content issues, such as methodologies and tools concerned with modeling good ontologies, approaches to ontology content evaluation, quality measures, ontology content management (e.g. metadata,libraries, and registration), ontology documentation, etc. The workshop also aims to give a special attention to ontology content issues in two industrial sectors: human resources and employment, and healthcare and life sciences. We welcome papers and (past/planned) project descriptions that discuss ontology modeling and evaluation aspects, particularly: * Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied in industry. * Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice, or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention. * Business experience and case studies specifying requirements, challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in industry. Workshop Structure ================ The workshop consists of three tracks: Ontology Evaluation, Ontologies in Human Resources and Employment, and ontologies in Healthcare and life sciences: Methods and tools for ontology evaluation: * Ontological evaluation. * Logical evaluation. * Usability/usefulness evaluation. * Ontology compliance to standards. * Ontology standardization and recommendation scenarios. * Ontology metadata, and libraries. * Ontology documentation. * Ontology registration and certification. * Ontology interoperability. * Consensus reaching. * Business cases studies. Ontologies in Human Resources * Modeling and representation of: Jobs, CVs, Competencies, Skills, Employees, People, Organizations, Social Events, etc. * HR upper level concepts. * Semantics of HR-XML. * Semantic metadata for HR applications. * Semantics in job matching. * Semantics in learning technologies. * Multilinguality in human resources ontologies. * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation. Ontologies for Healthcare and Life sciences * Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics. * Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc. * Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies. * Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange. * Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies. * Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies. * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation Submissions ============ We invite (A) research papers describing original studies of no more than 12 pages; (B) Position papers presenting opinions or work in progress of no more than 6 pages; and (C) Business experience and case studies of no more than 8 pages. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. Each paper will be reviewed by at least one expert from academia, and at least one expert from industry. The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The paper submission site is located at: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ontocontent/2006/papers Important Dates ============ * June 23, 2006 : Abstract Submission Deadline * June 30, 2006: Paper Submission Deadline * August 10, 2006 : Acceptance Notification * August 20, 2006 : Final Version Due * November 3-4, 2006: Workshop [...] Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "William Cole" Subject: Re: 19.732 the criticism of software: where to look for it? Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:09:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1068 (1068) Humanists: Regarding the "criticism of software," I would agree that there is precious little that goes beyond what Willard refers to in 19.718 as the "I know what I like" school. One exception, which I think would fall into the coparatist approach suggested by Neven Jovanovic, is Ted Goranson's column 'About This Particular Outliner' in the online journal About This Particular Macintosh (full archive: <<http://www.atpm.com/Back/>http://www.atpm.com/Back/ atpo.shtml>. Over the past 2 1/2 years, Goranson has been conducting what amounts to a genre study of outlining software (an area that has significant overlap with other activities like concept mapping, project/ task management, and personal information management), beginning with a series of columns surveying the history, features, use patterns and interface conventions and moving on into 'close readings' of single applications, side-by-side comparisons, and examinations of particular 'problems' (text styling, data exchange, etc.) within the field. Goranson specifically avoids summing up these columns into the numeric rating or 'buying advice' blurb common to software reviews. Instead, he is really exploring how software design decisions facilitate or impede different kinds of work. The October 2005 article comparing TAO and OmniOutliner <http://www.atpm.com/11.10/atpo.shtml> looks at these two applications as embodying different philosophies of design. Of OmniOutliner, he writes: [deleted quotation]By contrast, [deleted quotation]Concluding [deleted quotation]I'm not sure if this is really what Willard was thinking of when he posed the original question, but I think ATPO provides at least one example of what intelligent software criticism might look like, and it is a model I wish were more broadly imitated. -- 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: Stéfan Sinclair (by way Subject: XTeXT Workshop (May 8th, McMaster University) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:08:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1069 (1069) Dear Colleagues, I'm very pleased to announce a TAPoR-sponsored technical workshop on developing applications with XTeXT, an XML-aware search and retrieval system. XTeXT is available within TAPoR for fast search and analysis operations on text repositories; it can also be integrated into other applications. When: May 8th 10am-4pm Where: TSH 202, McMaster University Instructor: Rob Good (http://isagn.com/xtext.htm) More information on the workshop below. If you're interested, please respond to me (St=E9fan Sinclair) directly at my regular email address, which starts with my user handle "sgs" and uses the domain name "mcmaster.ca". Space in the workshop is limited. For more information on TAPoR, please see http://tapor.ca/ *** XTeXT Workshop *** XTeXT is an XML aware search and retrieval system which also supports development of web applications designed to access the XML in various custom ways. The core search technology underlying XTeXT is designed to be scalable and to run efficiently on regular hardware. This allows XTeXT to search gigabytes of XML and return results quickly. The applications can be used from a web browser and a webservice interface is also available. Output templates written in XSL are used to handle layout and presentation of the user interface, or reformatting of webservice results. The workshop will provide a hands-on opportunity to build repositories and applications within an individual XTeXT installation. Participants will have access to a server where an XTeXT installation has already been set up and is ready to use. From there we will do the following: - login and set up a browser and shells for further use - edit existing methods in sample applications and add new methods - design, create and extend new applications - create and use Repositories and Application Servers - use Repositories to index and search texts - create XSL templates for applications - use GCL (XTeXT's internal query language) to enhance searches For completeness we will also cover downloading and installing XTeXT for the first time. Some familiarity with web browsers, ssh clients, shell/command line environments, a text editor, Perl, XML and programming concepts will be needed. XTeXT is written in Perl and runs under GNU/Linux on Intel compatible hardware. It also makes extensive use of existing open source tools. It is under ongoing development funded by custom development, licensing, maintenance and support fees. -- [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: TSH 333, McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2 http://stefansinclair.name/ From: "Sloan-C ALN Conference" Subject: Sloan-C ALN Conf. - Call for Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:13:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1070 (1070) Papers Deadline Approaching: April 30th, 2006 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching: April 30, 2006 We wanted to remind you that the deadline is quickly approaching for submitting proposals for the 12th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN): "The Power of Online Learning: Realizing the Vision." The conference strongly encourages proposals that reflect the implications for the field of specific e-learning experience and practices. Last year's conference attracted over 700 participants to more than 120 presentations, as well as exhibits, pre- conference workshops, keynote and plenary addresses, and variety of other special events. Proposals must be submitted by April 30, 2006. Program Tracks: The Power of Online Learning: Realizing the Vision Learning Effectiveness Emerging Learning Environments Student Services Faculty Development and Support Intersections - Creating Opportunities & Partnerships For complete details on online submission of proposals, visit our Website at www.aln.ucf.edu For more information and to register visit our website (www.aln.ucf.edu), call 1-866-232-5834 (Toll Free), 407-882-0260 or email aln_at_mail.ucf.edu. Sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in conjunction with The University of Central Florida, University of Massachusetts Lowell, SCOLE & American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) From: "Edward Vanhoutte" Subject: IBM and the humanities Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:10:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1071 (1071) For some time now I've been trying to trace down a copy of the IBM applications manual 'Introduction to Computers in the Humanities' (GE20-0382-0) which was used in some computer courses for humanists in the 1970s. Up to now I have been unsuccessful to find a copy of that manual in libraries or through the second hand book market, even to the extent that I start doubting the existence of this book. I hope the readership of Humanist can help me in tracking down a surviving copy, or supply me with a copy. Please contact me off-list. Edward -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Independent Researcher Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing University of Antwerp - CDE Dept. of Literature Universiteitsplein 1 b-2610 Wilrijk Belgium edward dot vanhoutte at kantl dot be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/staff/edward.htm From: owner-corpora_at_lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora_at_lists.uib.no] On Subject: FW: [Corpora-List] Information Extraction from Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:14:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1072 (1072) Behalf Of S Givon Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:15 AM To: corpora_at_uib.no Test Data Dear all, My name is Sharon Givon and I'm an MSc student in the Speech & Language Processing program at the University of Edinburgh. My dissertation project deals with extracting information from fiction (with Amazon.com): central characters, relationships between them and main story events. Unfortunately, no annotated corpus is available for that purpose, and this is where I need your help. If you are willing to help, you will find in the attached link a list of very famous books. If you think you are familiar enough with a story (either from reading the book or watching the film), please click on its link to fill in some information about it. You will be asked to fill in names of central characters, relationships between them and short description of main events. If you need to refresh your memory you can use the links to the actual book texts. Collecting this information is crucial to my project and will hopefully be useful for more researchers. I would extremely appreciate it if you dedicated a few minutes to it. Do not feel like you have to fill in information for the whole list of titles: a few books would be great but even one book would be well appreciated. Here is the link: http://sgivon.tripod.com/Index.html Feel free to email me with questions or comments. Regards, Sharon. From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 19.731 computer science, the humanities and Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:30:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1073 (1073) humanities computing? Hi Willard, just briefly - we're headed into final exams, etc. Always profit (enormously) from your postings like this, and I think the literature you cite is very helpful indeed. And, of course, I'm always happy to see you raise a philosophical question (smile). What I think I would gently point out - in my view, one of the most exciting and interesting intersections between the humanities and CS is the emerging discussion regarding (a) not simply Information and Computing Ethics - a discussion that expands as the ethics of Information affects anyone who deals with information, starting with librarians but then expanding to any human being who touches a keyboard - hence, these are exciting times indeed as philosophical / applied ethics dialogues with our colleagues in CS, but also library science, etc. in collaborative efforts to develop, articulate, and then teach ICE - primarily to CS students, but certainly to anyone engaged with information. (the bibliography in this domain is already huge - but a relatively new area is the ethics of computer games: see (ahem) <http://www.i-r-i-e.net/current_issue.htm>) But also (b) as this dialogue becomes increasingly cross- and intercultural. So I (ahem) recently edited a special issue of _Ethics and Information Technology_ on "Lost in Translation"?: Intercultural Dialogues on Privacy and Information Ethics (Introduction to Special Issue on Privacy and Data Privacy Protection in Asia) Volume 7, Issue 1 (March 2005), Pages: 1 - 6. 2005 (see <http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1104606&type=issue&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFI D=74916460&CFTOKEN=49357291> for the full table of contents - i.e., contributions from Japan, China, Thailand, and "the West") and I'm working on a co-edited volume with Soraj Hongladarom on _Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives_. Idea Publishing, 2006. As well, the Uehiro and Carnegie foundations sponsored a conference last December in Oxford on "Information Ethics: Agents, Artifacts and New Cultural Perspectives." A number of us - including the really big guns: Deborah Johnson, James Moor, Terrell Ward Bynum, Luciano Floridi, Rafael Capurro - along with our Japanese counterparts (and yours truly) - were invited, and the resulting papers will appear in a special issue of _Ethics and Information Technology_. Finally, as you know, my work in Norway is focused on "bridging cultures" - starting with the humanities and CS, and my project this coming year will be to expand on initial collaborations with colleagues in applied ethics and CS in building "ethics modules" for insertion in CS courses. A lot going on, and I'm sorry that my ethical focus seems to have cut me off from a lot of other things going on in the digital humanities - but, at least thanks to you and HUMANIST, I maintain some sort of clue as to what is going on... hope this is helpful - as always, comments and questions welcome. g'luck in the meantime, and best wishes, - charles [deleted quotation]relationship. [deleted quotation]Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> 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'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 From: "R. Allen Shoaf" Subject: Special Issue of EXEMPLARIA in Honor of Sheila Delany Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:27:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1074 (1074) The Publisher, Editors, and Advisers of EXEMPLARIA announce a special issue in honor of Sheila Delany, to celebrate her distinguished career in Medieval Studies. Guest-edited by Lynn Arner (University of Pittsburgh), this collection is scheduled to appear as a special issue of EXEMPLARIA in the fall of 2006 (to be shipped gratis to all subscribers of record) and is available online as a digital preprint at the following URL: http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/SD/ Permission is hereby granted to copy and to cite the essays in this collection for any non-commercial purpose with full acknowledgment of EXEMPLARIA's copyright in them. Acknowledgment of the digital version of the issue should take the following form: Author's Name Essay's Title EXEMPLARIA: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Special Issue: In Honor of Sheila Delany Accessible at: (complete URL of the individual essay) Problems in, difficulties with, or suggestions about the website should be directed to the Editors of EXEMPLARIA through one of the e-mail links provided on the various pages of the site. The site will remain on-line throughout the remainder of calendar 2006 and will from time to time be updated as the guest-editor and/or authors deem appropriate. Please feel free to circulate this announcement to any e-list the members of which may be interested in the issue. Thank you, R. Allen Shoaf, Alumni Professor of English 1990-93 Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities 1982-1983 & 1999-2000 University of Florida, P.O. Box 117310, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310 Co-founding Editor, /EXEMPLARIA/, ras_at_ufl.edu http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf/ FAX 352.374-2473; VOICE 352.371-7149 (Home); 352.392-6650 x 264 (Office); 352.317-0247 (Cell) 725 NE 6th Street, Gainesville, FL 32601-5567 From: Antonella D'Ascoli Subject: JIIA Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:28:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1075 (1075) 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' http:// www.jiia.it JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) http://eprints.jiia.it/ The "Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology" (Acronym: JIIA) is an online serial publication on archaeology, antiquity sciences and archaeological applied sciences. It is interdisciplinary and concentrates particularly on the problems of interculturality in the ancient world. It uses scientific contributions offered freely by scholars from the university and scientific research world and organises the open- access dissemination of the research results. The JIIA is registered with the Court of Frosinone, Italy, entry no. 303/2003, has been a member of the USPI (Italian Periodical Press Union) since 2003, has been allocated International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 1824-1670 by the National Italian ISSN Centre and is protected by Italian copyright law as a collective work. The JIIA was formed (on the 10th of October 2003) solely on personal initiative, is non-profit, and is supported and protected by the constitution of a Scientific Council and a Committee of Honour (2005). As from 2005 the JIIA is a peer reviewed journal. The online peer review procedure will lead to an "open access and collaborative archaeological network". Primary data and accompanying metadata inflow is into the ADR (Archaeological Disciplinary Repository), based on a EPRINTS installation (OAI compliant): the first archaeological disciplinary repository in the world, modelled on the open access archives protocol, guaranteeing metadata harvesting and thus the high visibility and widespread international dissemination of the research. Registration with Open Access Initiative guarantees unconditional compliance to the philosophy and ethics of the open access archives movement: http://www.eprints.org/software/archives/ http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/ The works donated by scholars and authorised for publication on the JIIA remain the property of their respective authors together with all moral and patrimonial rights; permission for publication of the images accompanying the scientific articles, for scientific purposes, is granted by their respective owners. ____ JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) http://eprints.jiia.it/ Latest Additions: Browse Person, Year, Subject: Author: Ouzoulias Pierre Title:L'économie agraire de la Gaule:aperçus historiographiques et perspectives archéologiques Abstract: Agricultural economics of Gaule: historiographic outlines and archaeological prospects The prime objective of this work is to subject to an examination some around concepts whose Gallo-Roman rural archaeology was gradually built. Without seeking exhaustiveness, this historiographic analysis is organized around some topics which were selected because they preserve a relative topicality and that they explain current orientations of the discipline. Thus, an attention was paid to the exchanges which marked, with XVIIIe and XIXe c., the emergence of the economic analysis and the rise of a new agrarian history of Rome and of Gaule. It appeared that the questions relating to the consequences of the conquest of Gaule and its invasion at the end of Antiquity were indissociable debates on the State, the origin of the European nations, the individual in the company and the direction of the history. Lastly, this study was the occasion to wonder about the conditions of emergence of Gallo-Roman archaeology and to think of its epistemological relationship with the historical discipline.The final chapter is devoted to a theoretical analysis of the operation of the family small-scale farming and agricultural company, in particular by identifying the constraints that the use of the labour imposes to them. It is proposed to give up the traditional vision which tends to regard the villa and the family exploitation as the representatives of two antagonistic modes of the development of the grounds to promote an archaeology anxious to apprehend overall the campaigns while trying to restore their variety and to include/ understand the multiple interactions which bind their various components. Best regards Antonella D'Ascoli ______________ Antonella D'Ascoli Direttore Responsabile di JIIA & ADR 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' URL: http://www.jiia.it & 'Archaeological Disciplinary Repository' JIIA Eprints Repository (Open Access Repository) URL: http://eprints.jiia.it/ Address: Via Giacomo Leopardi n.56 80044 - Ottaviano (NA) - Italy tel. +39 (0)81 8278203 tel. fax +39 (0)81 8280384 cell. 333 2899783 Skype: dascoli1957 e-mail: dascolia_at_tiscalinet.it e-mail: dascoli1957_at_gmail.com From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: Call for bids, TEI-C 2007 Members' Meeting Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:26:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1076 (1076) Call for Bids: TEI-C Members Meeting, 2007 Deadline: June 15, 2006 The TEI-C Annual Members' Meeting takes place every year in October or November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2007. The meeting this year (2006) will take place in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on October 27-28. The previous meetings have been: Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2005, hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Baltimore, USA, October 22-23, 2004, hosted by Johns Hopkins University Nancy, France, November 7-8 2003, hosted by ATILF. Chicago, USA, October 11-12 2002, hosted by the Newberry Library and Northwestern University. Pisa, Italy, November 16-17 2001, hosted by the University of Pisa. The site of the meeting has typically alternated between Europe and North America, but that is not a fixed rule. We welcome proposals from other parts of the world, and in particular from areas where new TEI communities are arising. The meeting is a two day event, the first day open to all interested parties with an eclectic mix of invited and peer-reviewed presentations, including a poster and demonstration session. The second day is restricted to TEI members and subscribers only, which includes reports on the TEI's work and the annual elections for the TEI Board and Council. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are usually also scheduled for this day. 2007 will also mark the 20th anniversary of the TEI, so we would like to include some special events at the meeting to mark this occasion. Below is a list of the minimum and ideal requirements to host the annual meeting: Rooms needed * minimum: one large room for two days to seat entire meeting group (~75-100 people); four small rooms on the second day for SIGs (~10 people each); one large open room on second day for poster/demo session; one small meeting room on the third day for board meeting (~15 people); space for coffee breaks. * ideal: one large room for two days to seat entire meeting group (~75-100 people); six or more small rooms on the third day for SIGs; one large open room on second day for poster/demo session which is the same as or near to the space for coffee breaks Equipment needed * minimum: data projector in main room; internet access in main room; power for a dozen computers in poster session room; whiteboard or equivalent in smaller meeting rooms * ideal: the above plus internet access in poster session room, data projectors and internet in smaller meeting rooms Food needed * Coffee breaks: there should be morning and afternoon coffee breaks each day, and also coffee available at the start of each day unless there is coffee available for purchase very nearby * Lunch: typically lunch is not provided unless no adequate eating options are available within easy walking distance. * Reception: there should be a reception at the end of the first day; it will typically be sponsored by a vendor or by some other organization who receives publicity in exchange Funding for the annual meeting usually comes from three sources, the TEI-C budget (travel, room and board for invited speakers), the local hosting institution (typically in the donation of space, equipment, and technical support for the meeting), and from corporate sponsors (typically for coffee breaks and receptions). Bids should be sent to info_at_tei-c.org by June 15, 2006, and should include the following information: The name of the institution(s) making the bid The name, address, email, and telephone number of the contact person A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food, lodging) A description of what financial support, if any, the hosting institution is prepared to give (for instance, funding for a reception, for coffee breaks, for a pre-meeting workshop, for speaker travel expenses; free meeting rooms and equipment; etc.). Any other details that may be useful in assessing the bid (e.g. the presence of a conference on a related topic at the institution around the time of the meeting; the launch of a new TEI-related initiative at the institution, etc.). All bids will be reviewed by the TEI board, which makes the final decision. Thank you very much! Matthew Zimmerman Chair, TEI Consortium New York University From: Mustafa Jarrar Subject: OnToContent 2006, Ontology Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:29:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1077 (1077) Content and Evaluation in Enterprise Workshop, (Submission, June 30), call1 - OnToContent 2006 - Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise -With two tracks on eHealth and Human Resources- ******************************************************************** *** Proceedings published by Springer LNCS *** *** Invited Speaker: To be announced *** *** Submission Deadline: June 30, 2006 *** *** Topics: Ontology Content, Evaluation, standardization *** *** Enterprise, eHealth, Human Resources *** *** http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent06 *** ******************************************************************** In conjunction of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '06) 3-4 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France This workshop is organized by the Ontology Outreach Authority OOA (Knowledge Web NoE). The OOA is devoted to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, thereby promoting and providing outreach for verifiable quality ontological content. Current trends within the Semantic Web research are mainly concerned with technological issues, such as language capabilities, inference services, etc. Yet less attention has been given to ontology content and its quality.This workshop aims to focus on content issues, such as methodologies and tools concerned with modeling good ontologies, approaches to ontology content evaluation, quality measures, ontology content management (e.g. metadata,libraries, and registration), ontology documentation, etc. The workshop also aims to give a special attention to ontology content issues in two industrial sectors: human resources and employment, and healthcare and life sciences. We welcome papers and (past/planned) project descriptions that discuss ontology modeling and evaluation aspects, particularly: * Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied in industry. * Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice, or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention. * Business experience and case studies specifying requirements, challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in industry. Workshop Structure ================ The workshop consists of three tracks: Ontology Evaluation, Ontologies in Human Resources and Employment, and ontologies in Healthcare and life sciences: Methods and tools for ontology evaluation: * Ontological evaluation. * Logical evaluation. * Usability/usefulness evaluation. * Ontology compliance to standards. * Ontology standardization and recommendation scenarios. * Ontology metadata, and libraries. * Ontology documentation. * Ontology registration and certification. * Ontology interoperability. * Consensus reaching. * Business cases studies. Ontologies in Human Resources * Modeling and representation of: Jobs, CVs, Competencies, Skills, Employees, People, Organizations, Social Events, etc. * HR upper level concepts. * Semantics of HR-XML. * Semantic metadata for HR applications. * Semantics in job matching. * Semantics in learning technologies. * Multilinguality in human resources ontologies. * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation. Ontologies for Healthcare and Life sciences * Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics. * Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc. * Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies. * Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange. * Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies. * Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies. * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation [...] From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Talk 12:30 5/4: Priani on Digital Journals Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:31:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1078 (1078) The Computers in the Humanities Users' Group presents Multiple Forms and Multiple Languages. Editing the Revista Digital Universitaria Ernesto Priani Saiso Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 12:30, Thursday May 4 STG Conference Room Grad Center, Tower E [Ernesto Priani Saisó has a PHD in Philosophy from UNAM, where he teaches Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, and Ethics. He is the author of three books on Renaissance thought, magic and hermeticism. He is the editor of the Revista Digital Universitaria and produces radio commentaries called Ráfagas de pensamiento (Gusts of Thought) for Radio UNAM]. Please feel free to come and bring your lunch. As usual, there will be cookies. From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:23:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1079 (1079) of Information The May 1, 2006 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 2,300 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 *Monographs Coordinator *University of Saskatchewan Library *E-mail: marian.dworaczek_at_usask.ca *Home Page: <http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze>http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 7.17 Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:25:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1080 (1080) Volume 7, Issue 17 May 2, 2006 - May 8, 2006 UBIQUITY ALERT: FOCUSING ON 802.16 2001 MAC Layer QoS This paper focuses on the standard air interface for fixed broadband wireless access systems. It explains the importance of QoS and its parameter set; defines types of services supported by this standard; explores the main entity of the MAC layer used for transportation that is service flow and how the QoS metric is associated with it, as well as the relationship of service class and service flow. It further explains the authorization model and two phase activation. In the end it explains dynamic service flow and dynamic service messages in detail. Bashir Hayat, Raheel Mansoor, and Abdul Nasir, associated with the University of Peshawar in Pakistan. Go to http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v7i17_hayat.html Ubiquity Volume 7, Issue 17 ( May 1 2006 - May 8, 2006) From: Willard McCarty Subject: Joyce Media, 2nd edn Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:27:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1081 (1081) Available online from LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA www.litterariapragensia.com JOYCE MEDIA (2nd edition) James Joyce, Hypermedia & Textual Genetics ed. Louis Armand ISBN 80-239-2266-1 (paperback). 175pp. Published: June 2004/May 2006 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/jmedia.html Price: EUR 12.00, USD$17.00 (not including postage) Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: "Shawn Martin" Subject: Reminder: TCP Conference Deadline May 15 Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:24:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1082 (1082) Just a reminder that the deadline for submissions to the Text Creation Partnership Conference: Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication is May 15 (original call below) Please send an abstract of around 250 words to tcpconf_at_umich.edu, or view the website at http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/conference or e-mail me shawnmar_at_umich.edu for more information. Hopefully I'll look forward to seeing some of you in September. Thanks, Shawn Call for Papers: Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the University of Michigan in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating fully searchable texts of thousands of titles printed across three hundred years and two continents of English and American history. TCP includes texts selected from three commercially produced page image collections, Early English Books Online (EEBO), available from ProQuest Information and Learning, Evans Early American Imprints (Evans), available from Newsbank-Readex and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), available from Thomson-Gale. Additionally, TCP's production has expanded to include centers at Oxford University, the University of Toronto, and the National Library of Wales. TCP cooperates directly with over a dozen international scholarly projects devoted to subjects as wide ranging as historical linguistics, literary studies, bibliographic studies, and metadata integration. Scholars and students alike, in these disciplines and many others have found often make the claim that resources like EEBO, Evans, ECCO, and the TCP have revolutionized their work and by making primary sources widely available, will "bring literature alive" (Thomas Pack, E-Content, Dec. 1999). As the TCP project reaches the halfway mark of its original goals, it seems a good time to investigate how it brings literature in all disciplines to life in this exciting conference. The conference invites papers from scholars, students (graduate and undergraduate), librarians, publishers, or other interested people in all disciplines to investigate topics such as (but not limited to): . Changes in the landscape of scholarship and pedagogy introduced by electronic resources like EEBO, Evans, ECCO, and the TCP . Examples of teaching with such resources . Examples of doing research with such resources . Use of related resources like ESTC or Early American Newspapers . The changing nature of scholarly communication . Electronic publication . Digital library development. The conference will be held September 14 - 17, 2006 in Ann Arbor, MI Deadline for paper submissions is May 15, 2006 For more information contact: Shawn Martin TCP Project Librarian 8076-B Hatcher S. 920 N. University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 936-5611 Fax: (734) 763-5080 e-mail: shawnmar_at_umich.edu Or visit the conference website http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/conference For more information about the TCP project: Visit the TCP website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp Or e-mail: tcp-info_at_umich.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shawn Martin Project Librarian Text Creation Partnership (TCP) - Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Evans Early American Imprints (Evans) - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Address: University Library Phone: (734) 936-5611 University of Michigan FAX: (734) 763-5080 8076B Hatcher South E-mail: shawnmar_at_umich.edu 920 N. University Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp From: Charles Ess Subject: call for participation - ECAP'06 Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:26:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1083 (1083) COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY E-CAP 2006_at_NTNU Norway Norwegian University for Science and Technology Dragvoll Campus, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess (Drury University / NTNU): May Thorseth (NTNU): http://ntnu.no/events/ecap06 E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, www.iacap.org). E-CAP is organized in cooperation with the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) E-CAP is the premier European venue for current research, reflection, and lively discussion of all aspects of the "computational turn" that has emerged over the past several decades, and continues to expand and develop as a result of the multiple interactions between philosophy and computing. The "culture" of E-CAP, like its sister CAP conferences in North America and Asia-Pacific, discourages paper reading - and stresses instead the presentation of ideas and lively discussion, along with informal networking. On behalf of the Program Committee and presenting authors, we invite your participation in ECAP'06. IMPORTANT DATES May 5, 2006 Early registration deadline June 22-24, 2006 Conference The Program (see includes: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS A leading figure in the computational turn will open each day of the conference: Dr. Raymond Turner, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK Dr. Lucas Introna, Centre for the Study of Technology & Organisation, Lancaster University, UK Dr. Vincent Hendricks, Dept. of Philosophy and Science Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark PROGRAM TRACKS Papers selected for presentation are organized as follows: - Information and Computing Ethics: Chair - Philip Brey (University of Twente) - Ontology (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc): Chair - Luciano Floridi (Oxford University) - Philosophy of Computer Science: Chairs - Amnon Eden and Raymond Turner (University of Essex) - Philosophy of Information and Information Technology: Chair - Lars-G=F6ran Johansson (University of Uppsala) - Ethical and Political Dimensions of ICTs in Globalization: Chairs - May Thorseth and Charles Ess - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness: Chair - Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow) - "Intersections" (between logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and ICT/Computing, such as Philosophy of AI): Chair: Chris Dobbyn (Open University) - Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources & The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy and Computing: Chair - Teresa Numerico (University of Salerno) - IT and Gender Research, Feminist Technoscience Studies: Chair - Alison Adam (University of Salford) - Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation: Chair - Colin Allen (Indiana University) Additional program details may be found on our website. REGISTRATION FEES before / after 6 May 2006: Standard: EURO 200 / 250 (all the activities of the Conference, Reception included) Phd Students: EURO 100 / 150 Students: Free Secure registration is available on conference web site. ACCOMMODATION To book accommodation, please visit the conference web site VENUE The NTNU campus at Dragvoll offers excellent conference facilities as well a beautiful physical setting as it overlooks Trondheim and the Trondheim fjord. The city of Trondheim (Norway's ancient capital and home to the Nidaros Cathedral, the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Rhine) is easily accessible by air and rail, and is itself more than worth the visit. We look forward to welcoming you to Trondheim! - Charles Ess - May Thorseth - Johnny Søraker From: Julia Flanders Subject: Workshop announcement: Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 06:27:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1084 (1084) Intensive Introduction to TEI, August 2006, Brown University Workshop Announcement: Intensive Introduction to TEI August 10-12, 2006 Brown University Co-sponsored by the Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project, in conjunction with Summer and Continuing Education at Brown University http://www.stg.brown.edu/edu/tei_intro2006.html The Scholarly Technology Group and the Women Writers Project are once again offering a three-day workshop on text encoding with the TEI Guidelines. This intensive hands-on introduction will cover the basics of TEI encoding, including a discussion of stylesheets and XML publication tools, project planning, and funding issues. The workshop is designed to help encoding novices get quickly up to speed on basic text encoding, with particular emphasis on the transcription of primary sources and archival materials. Archivists, librarians, digital project managers, humanities faculty and graduate students will all find this workshop a useful background for a closer engagement with text encoding theory and practice. The course will be taught by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman. Attendees are encouraged to bring materials from their own projects for discussion and practice. Deadline for registration is July 14. The course fee is $425 ($475 after June 25), with low-cost accommodation available on the Brown campus. To register, and for more information, please visit the site above. Thanks! Julia Julia Flanders Women Writers Project Brown University From: Miki Hermann Subject: LPAR 2006 (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), DEADLINE EXTENSION Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:26:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1085 (1085) LPAR-13 Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~hermann/LPAR2006/ 13th-17th November 2006 Deadline Extension: + Submission of full paper abstracts 7th May + Submission of full papers 14th May Questions related to submission may be sent to the program chairs, Miki Hermann and Andrei Voronkov. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cambodia ... Land of LPAR and Pagodas -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shlomo Argamon Subject: CFP: Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:27:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1086 (1086) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice SIGIR 2006 Workshop Seattle, August 10, 2006 http://www.lingcog.iit.edu/style2006 style2006_at_sics.se Recent years have seen an increased attention to various aspects of automatic analysis and extraction of stylistic aspects of natural language texts. Style may be roughly defined as the 'manner' in which something is expressed, as opposed to the 'content' of a message. Modelling, representing, explaining, and utilizing variation in the manner of expression is the business of stylistic analysis. This workshop follows four previous successful exploratory events on stylistic analysis and will focus on the practical craft of stylistic analysis in natural language texts. THIS YEAR: BRING A DEMO! Potentially useful applications of stylistic analysis abound, including systems for genre-based information retrieval, authorship attribution, plagiarism detection, context-sensitive text or speech generation systems, organizing and retrieving documents based on their writing style, attitude, or sentiment, quality or appropriateness filters for messaging systems, detecting abusive or threatening language, and more. This year, participants are expected to bring with them a method for applying stylistic analysis to information access tasks. Before lunch, methods will be discussed in session; after lunch, demonstrated in practice. DISCUSSION QUESTION Participants should address the following key challenge question in their participation proposals: * WHAT IS A MEANINGFUL "KILLER APP" FOR STYLISTIC TEXT ANALYSIS? * and consider the following questions for discussion in session: 1. How does style relate to other forms of non-topical textual variation? 2. What features are best for different style analysis tasks? 3. Is cross-lingual or 'universal' style analysis possible, and if so, how? 4. How might we develop useful shared resources for moving style research forward? SUBMISSION FORMAT Send us a statement (in PDF) of up to five pages describing your research or application with a short description (and screenshots if possible) of the demonstration you plan to show. At the workshop we will discuss and decide on an appropriate forum for a more permanent record of the proceedings. If you would like a speaking slot in the discussion session, you should indicate this in your statement of interest. ORGANIZERS Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute for Computer Science, Sweden Ozlem Uzuner, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA http://www.lingcog.iit.edu/style2006 style2006_at_sics.se IMPORTANT DATES Expression of interest to participate now! Submission of participation proposals June 1 Notification of acceptance June 14 Program published June 20 Workshop August 10 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Second Call for Posters: TEI Annual Meeting, 2006 Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:28:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1087 (1087) Second call: Posters and Demonstrations TEI Annual Members Meeting University of Victoria, Canada October 27-28, 2006 Deadline for submission of proposals: May 29, 2006 The TEI Consortium is happy to announce that a poster session/tool demonstration will again be included in the program of this year's TEI Members' Meeting in Victoria, Canada on October 27 and 28th, 2006. The poster session will take place the morning of the second day of the meeting, Saturday, October 28th. In addition to the poster session on Saturday, some poster presenters will be offered the opportunity to give a short talk about their poster at the members' meeting on Friday, October 27th. The topic of a poster can be a current project you are working on using TEI encoding, a tool developed for the production or dissemination of TEI-encoded texts, or any TEI-related topic you feel would be of benefit to the community. The poster can be a traditional printed poster or a demonstration on a computer. Unfortunately the TEI cannot fund the travel, lodging, or meals for poster presenters. The local organizer can provide a flip chart and a table for each presenter, and wireless internet access will be available. If you wish to present a poster or tool demonstration at the members' meeting in Victoria, please send a brief proposal (500-750 words) describing your project to: info_at_tei-c.org Deadline for proposals is May 29, 2006. The proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and successful applicants will be notified by June 19 and given further information about presenting. From: "Carolyn Kotlas" Subject: CIT Infobits -- April 2006 Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:27:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1088 (1088) CIT INFOBITS April 2006 No. 92 ISSN 1521-9275 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning'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 on the Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitapr06.html. ...................................................................... Podcasting Legal Guide Introduction to Screencasting Worldwide Digital Trends Resources for Reshaping Scholarly Communication Working Smarter with Mobile Devices Recommended Reading ...................................................................... PODCASTING LEGAL GUIDE Podcasting is a tool that allows instructors to give students access to audio or video files on their iPods or computers. As podcasting activity increases, so do the questions of legal rights and liabilities. Creative Commons has just released "Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution," "a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting." The guide covers copyright, publicity rights, and trademark issues related to content that you acquire or create. Information is also provided on licensing your podcast. The guide is available online at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works. For more information go to http://creativecommons.org/. Other related resources: Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Legal Guide for Bloggers" http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/ "New Campus Copyright Guide" CIT Infobits, March 2006 http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmar06.html#1 ...................................................................... INTRODUCTION TO SCREENCASTING The latest entry in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's "7 Things You Should Know About . . ." series covers screencasting. "Screencasts can be thought of as video podcasts. They provide a simple means to extend rich course content to anyone who might benefit from the material but cannot attend a presentation." The paper answers such questions as "What is it?" "Who is doing it?" "How does it work?" and "What are the implications for teaching and learning?" To read "7 Things You Should Know About . . . Screencasting" go to http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI7012. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) publishes the "7 Things You Should Know About . . ." series on a variety of emerging learning practices and technologies. Previous topics covered in the series include blogs, wikis, remote instrumentation, grid computing, and virtual meetings. To read other papers in the series, go to http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495. "ELI is a strategic initiative of EDUCAUSE. While EDUCAUSE serves those interested in advancing higher education through technology, ELI specifically explores innovative technologies and practices that advance learning." For more information, go to http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=86. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in Boulder, CO and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at http://www.educause.edu. ...................................................................... WORLDWIDE DIGITAL TRENDS "Truly a World Wide Web: Globe Going Digital 2005 Pew Global Attitudes Survey" is the latest in Pew's reports on "a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day." The report compares data collected in 2002 and 2005 from thirteen countries. Dramatic increases in computer usage were seen in Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, India, and Poland. In many countries the increase was greatest among people over 50 years old. There is still a gender disparity in computer usage: "men use computers more than women in 14 of 16 countries surveyed; only in Canada and Lebanon do the genders share the same amount of computer activity." In all countries, increased computer usage is related to higher education and income levels. The complete report is available online at http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=251. The Pew Global Attitudes Project is directed by the Pew Research Center, "a nonpartisan 'fact tank' that provides information on the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world." For more information, contact Pew Research Center, 1615 L Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-419-4350; fax: 202-419-4399; Web: http://pewresearch.org/. ...................................................................... RESOURCES FOR RESHAPING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ". . . the crisis in the scholarly communication system not only threatens the well being of libraries, but also it threatens our academic faculty's ability to do world-class research. With current technologies, we now have, for the first time in history, the tools necessary to effect change ourselves. We must do everything in our power to change the current scholarly communication system and promote open access to scholarly articles." Paul G. Haschak's webliography provides resources to help effect this change. "Reshaping the World of Scholarly Communication -- Open Access and the Free Online Scholarship Movement: Open Access Statements, Proposals, Declarations, Principles, Strategies, Organizations, Projects, Campaigns, Initiatives, and Related Items -- A Webliography" (E-JASL, vol. 7, no. 1, spring 2006) is available online at http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v07n01/haschak_p01.htm. E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship [ISSN 1704-8532] is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship. E-JASL is published by the Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP), Athabasca, Canada. For more information, contact: Paul Haschak, Executive Editor, Board President, and Founder, Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA USA; email: phaschak@selu.edu; Web: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/. ...................................................................... WORKING SMARTER WITH MOBILE DEVICES "Many scholars are suspicious of the use of mobile ICT [information and communication technology] as encroachments on individuals' lives and autonomy. Some worry, for instance, about the degree to which mobile phones have forced their way into public spaces where privacy and silence were once the norm." The authors of "The New Mobile Scholar and the Effective Use of Information and Communication Technology" (by David B. Bills et al., FIRST MONDAY, vol. 11, no. 4, April 2006) "see little to be gained by the failure or refusal of social scientists to take full advantage of these emerging tools. . . . [Their] view is that technology should be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible, and that it should be a means to an end (doing better work) rather than an end in itself." The paper provides a brief primer on wireless technology, along with discussion of USB technology, PDAs, handheld scanning devices, and other mobile tools. The goal is to explain to scholars how to seamlessly integrate all these devices so that they can concentrate on research and scholarship and not be overwhelmed by the individual technology pieces. The paper is available online at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/bills/index.html. First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv_at_uic.edu; Web: http://firstmonday.dk/. ...................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "The Effect of Communication Medium on Research Participation Decisions" by Thomas Chesney JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, vol. 11, no. 3, 2006 http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/chesney.html Abstract "Students are often used in research as research subjects or to validate/pilot questionnaires. It is known that response rates to requests to participate in research projects vary as a function of a number of factors. This research brief examines the effect of the communication medium on response rate by comparing an oral request for participation with an email request. Email and oral communication, specifically public oral communication, are the two easiest and presumably most common approaches faculty members have to access students to request their participation in research. Results show that an impersonal email to a mailing list is the worst way researchers can approach students to request participation, with there being no difference between making the request by personalized email or orally." ...................................................................... To Subscribe CIT INFOBITS is published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Information Technology Services Center for Instructional Technology. The CIT supports the interests of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill who are using technology in their instruction and research. Services include both consultation on appropriate uses and technical support. To subscribe to INFOBITS, send email to listserv_at_unc.edu with the following message: SUBSCRIBE INFOBITS firstname lastname substituting your own first and last names. 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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 2006, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology. All rights reserved. May be reproduced in any medium for non-commercial purposes. From: Willard McCarty Subject: being methodical? Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:23:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1089 (1089) I would be very grateful to know about essays, treatises and the like on the subject of method, especially ones prior to computing as we know it, though historical studies since then would be most welcome. I know about Coleridge's and Descartes' treatises on method. I'm also collecting books and essays on how to do research (in any field whatever); recommendations here would be welcome as well. (I'm aware I've asked this question before, but repeating things is a good idea in forums like this one.) For this latter genre I have the following: Richard D Altick, The Art of Literary Research Howard S Becker, Tricks of the Trade Wayne C Booth et al, The Craft of Research Jane E Miller, Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers Richard W Hamming, You and Your Research Paul N Edwards, How to Read a Book W C Schluter, How To Do Research Work Many thanks. Yours, WM Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:25:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1090 (1090) 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 Jacques Bertin's 1977 notion of three levels of information: the overall, the intermediate, and the element. 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. I'll attach a Figure 1 in a jpeg. [I'm unable to figure out how to post this jpeg along with the words given here; I suggest a note to Stan Ruecker if you want to see it. --WM] 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 [deleted quotation]McCarty )" ===== [deleted quotation]**************************** Stan Ruecker, PhD Assistant Professor Humanities Computing Dept of English and Film Studies University of Alberta Edmonton AB CANADA From: Lorna Hughes Subject: 2nd call for nominations, 2007 Busa Award Date: 12 April 2006 11:15:27 BDT X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1091 (1091) To: humanist_at_Princeton.EDU ADHO - Allied Digital Humanities Associations The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) announce: The Roberto Busa Award CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2007 AWARD The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). It is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. Subsequent recipients have been Emeritus Professor John Burrows (2001), who helped to shape the application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and bridging the gap between traditional literary criticism and computer-aided stylistics, and Emeritus Professor Susan Hockey (2004), for her contribution to the establishment of the field of Humanities Computing, and for her work on computers and text. The next Busa Award will be given at the Digital Humanities 2007 conference, which will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. The Award Committee (names listed below) invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH or ALLC. Nominators should give some account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominees work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Award Committee, Lorna Hughes, at the address lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk or AHRC ICT Methods Network, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, London WC2R 3DX, UK, no later than June 1st, 2006. Members of the 2007 Award Committee Espen Ore (ALLC) Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen (ALLC) Lorna Hughes (Chair, ACH) Stefan Sinclair (ACH) Steve Ramsay (ACH) Lorna Hughes AHRC ICT Methods Network King's College, London 7 Arundel St. London WC2R 3DX e-mail: lorna.hughes_at_kcl.ac.uk phone: 020-7848-2426 web: www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: new book: Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 07:01:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1092 (1092) Volume 3979/2006 (Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction) of Lecture Notes in Computer Science is now available on the springerlink.metapress.com web site at http://springerlink.metapress.com. Robust Face Alignment Based on Hierarchical Classifier Network p. 1 Li Zhang, Haizhou Ai, Shihong Lao DOI: 10.1007/11754336_1 EigenExpress Approach in Recognition of Facial Expression Using GPU p. 12 Qi Wu, Mingli Song, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen DOI: 10.1007/11754336_2 Face Representation Method Using Pixel-to-Vertex Map (PVM) for 3D Model Based Face Recognition p. 21 Taehwa Hong, Hagbae Kim, Hyeonjoon Moon, Yongguk Kim, Jongweon Lee, Seungbin Moon DOI: 10.1007/11754336_3 Robust Head Tracking with Particles Based on Multiple Cues Fusion p. 29 Yuan Li, Haizhou Ai, Chang Huang, Shihong Lao DOI: 10.1007/11754336_4 Vision-Based Interpretation of Hand Gestures for Remote Control of a Computer Mouse p. 40 Antonis A. Argyros, Manolis I.A. Lourakis DOI: 10.1007/11754336_5 Computing Emotion Awareness Through Facial Electromyography p. 52 Egon L. van den Broek, Marleen H. Schut, Joyce H.D.M. Westerink, Jan van Herk, Kees Tuinenbreijer DOI: 10.1007/11754336_6 Silhouette-Based Method for Object Classification and Human Action Recognition in Video p. 64 Yigithan Dedeoglu, B. Ugur Töreyin, Ugur Güdükbay, A. Enis Çetin DOI: 10.1007/11754336_7 Voice Activity Detection Using Wavelet-Based Multiresolution Spectrum and Support Vector Machines and Audio Mixing Algorithm p. 78 Wei Xue, Sidan Du, Chengzhi Fang, Yingxian Ye DOI: 10.1007/11754336_8 Action Recognition in Broadcast Tennis Video Using Optical Flow and Support Vector Machine p. 89 Guangyu Zhu, Changsheng Xu, Wen Gao, Qingming Huang DOI: 10.1007/11754336_9 FaceMouse: A Human-Computer Interface for Tetraplegic People p. 99 Emanuele Perini, Simone Soria, Andrea Prati, Rita Cucchiara DOI: 10.1007/11754336_10 Object Retrieval by Query with Sensibility Based on the KANSEI-Vocabulary Scale p. 109 Sunkyoung Baek, Myunggwon Hwang, Miyoung Cho, Chang Choi, Pankoo Kim DOI: 10.1007/11754336_11 Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | 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: 19.753 less is more? a note on interface design Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:25:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1093 (1093) [...] 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. I'll attach a Figure 1 in a jpeg. [I'm unable to figure out how to post this jpeg along with the words given here; I suggest a note to Stan Ruecker if you want to see it. --WM] [...] From: Shuly Wintner Subject: University of Haifa Computer Science Colloquium Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 06:56:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1094 (1094) University of Haifa Computer Science Colloquium You are cordially invited to attend the following talk. Time: Wednesday, May 10th, 14:00 Place: Jacobs Building room 303 Speaker: Shalom Lappin, Department of Philosophy, King's College London Title: Expressive Completeness and Computational Efficiency for Underspecified Scope Representations Abstract: The tension between expressive power and computational tractability poses an acute problem for theories of underspecified semantic representation. In previous work we have presented an account of underspecified scope representations within Property Theory with Curry Typing (PTCT), an intensional first-order theory for natural language semantics. Here we show how filters applied to the underspecified-scope terms of PTCT permit both expressive completeness and the reduction of computational complexity in a significant class of non-worst case scenarios. Joint work with Chris Fox. -- Shuly Wintner Computer Science colloquium coordinator http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/colloq/ From: "Gray Kochhar-Lindgren" Subject: methods Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 06:59:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 19 Num. 1095 (1095) Hi Willard, There are all those books about "Writing about Art." See Amazon. Cheers, Gray Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD Interim Coordinator Center for University Studies and Programs University of Washington, Bothell