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 "